skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the disconnect is maybe just in the title: Lucid is obviously just trying to be the next Mercedes. Duh, of course they don't make a cheap car (how much did Lucid pay for this ad in the WSJ?); but their competitors kind of do. Tesla literally told their shareholders during the most recent earnings call that "more affordable models are coming in the first half of 2025". Jim Farley has spoken on how one of the reasons Ford's EVs are still rather expensive is because they clean-roomed much of the assembly for them to better compete with Tesla, so while ICE cars have a century of process optimization behind them, their EVs aren't at that same level... yet.

Its just clickbait paid by Lucid to make their $90,000 cars seem reasonable because, well geeze, no one is making cheap EVs anyone. Wrong: Everyone is trying to, and its very obvious that this is direction the market needs to go in (just look at the depreciation on modern Teslas, new cars cannot compete with what is happening in the used market).
That's really surprising. Any idea if it was Confluence self-hosted vs cloud?

We have a pretty substantial Confluence Cloud and don't see the "search doesn't work" problem. Tangent: we have people who browse, and people who search, and ne'er the twain shall meet, but that's a different problem in page structure, conventions, tags, whatever.
They used their metrics to confirm the regression, and flame graphs to see where the cpu was spending its time. That’s performance tuning basics and anyone who is familiar with profiling code should be able to find the slow spots.

I’ve been doing Ruby for a decade and the matches? method immediately stood out to me. Methods doing any kind of comparison/regex or looping usually end up causing problems. Nokigiri was walking a tree of child nodes and doing a string comparison. I’ve seen people write themselves similar problems with methods like any? includes?, excludes?, etc. Par for the course.
But they maybe subject to that de minimis rules that the US used to block technology that uses some of theirs inside. Right now is 25% of the tech inside that trigger export rules IIRC
Record changes in git and then git bisect issues, maybe?

Without change capture, solid regression testing, or observability, it seems difficult to manage these changes. I’d like to how others are managing these kinds of changes to readily troubleshoot them, without lots of regression testing or observability, if anyone has successes to share.
Maybe not for them
What's the "right editor" for SQL?

"Correct technological choice": I think relational algebra style APIs (a la Polars) are the "correct technological choice" here. SQL is just a tool to express relational algebra, and I'm not sure it's a good one.
Take 400mg Magnesium Glycinate and be careful what you wish for.
There are some externalities that may prevent that, such as large tariffs. Countries are wary of the effects on employment.
The Nissan Versa currently starts around $17k, and I see a lot of those on the road. The Mitsubishi Mirage is similarly priced but I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. I rented a Kia Soul a few years ago and thought it was perfectly fine.

But with so few options, like the parent, I'm planning to keep my current car (a 2008 Prius) indefinitely, just paying for repairs as needed until parts are unavailable or nobody is willing to do the work.

My worry is that US automakers have all but abandoned the compact and midsize economy car segments, and I don't know what tariffs will mean for the Japanese and Korean automakers that do cover these segments. But see my other comment about the pendulum swinging back and forth.
There was never a text mode in macos until version 10.
I enjoy road trips far more since getting an EV. It's nice paying half as much or less in fuel costs.

Tesla's charging network is excellent, and I'm glad it's opening to all EVs on the market. I used a third party charger once and the horrible user experience made sure I never will again.
To make it even less of an issue, I'm sure Tim Cook enough money to just buy two of them and keep the other one charging at all times. What I don't know, is if Tim Cook is one of those people that needs to have things plugged in all the time even if they don't need to.

The psychological aspect that's not discussed about the mouse port on the bottom is that some people get anxious about a battery running down. So even if it's a once a month, and just do it when it tells you to and take a 15 minute break, the problem with the port on the bottom is that there's a battery that will eventually run out and psychologically, not being able to charge it while using it just feels wrong, no matter how much that's not a real problem. It's an emotion and marketing is all about playing on people's emotions. BMW doesn't sell a car with a V10 that makes 577 horsepower, they sell the ultimate driving machine. Apple knows this better than most consumer products companies so it's just weird for them to stick to their butterfly keyboards, er, guns like that.
While he did say that, its worth pointing out that Tesla also said that more affordable options will be available in 2025H1 [1]. Given Musk's statement, what I think Tesla means by this is more affordable trims of existing models.

I don't think its reasonable to read Musk's statement as "the Model 2 isn't happening". Its more accurate to read it as "it might cost more than $25,000".

[1] https://fortune.com/2024/10/24/tesla-model-2-affordable-car-...
If preloading is the goal, would hidden/off-screen loading be an option for images?
Is campsite related at all to 37 signals or basecamp? I feel like it being a ruby shop and being named campsite is a little uninspired if not.
Like the services control panel that’s still 30% white space, a useless “extended” tab and doesn’t save any of the location or style data. It’s the best.
I'd be interested to know if any actual SWAT operations happened from these calls. I know that it does happen sometimes.
Same. I always marvel at how my phone can decode a badly lit, blurry, 1/4 out of frame QR code as quickly as it does.
The trend to exclude CarPlay and/or Android Auto really is awful.

Not only is there a high risk of notoriously underpowered head units becoming increasingly laggy over time with updates, there’s also the risk of the automaker deciding that shipping new updates for your only slightly old EV is too much of a cost to bear and dropping support, making the head unit slowly become more and more useless over time as apps stop running.

CarPlay/Android Auto is an excellent hedge against both of those scenarios, even if one prefers the onboard experience. It never hurts to have an escape hatch.
> skeptical how much better modern hardware will fare in deep space conditions

Why? Deep space radiation is only 4x the dosage compared to LEO. Starlink satellites use modern tech and they've spent >10,000 collective years in space since we launched more than 2 of them. The whole "modern electronics are more fragile" issue is overblown. The CPUs are tiny and easy to shield. The MMICs use huge features that you can see with a normal microscope.
it's nice to have an explanation. for me, I just wanted to quickly make them. Googling led to ad covered sites and "register to use" site. Found a few on GitHub but they had other issues so threw together my own using a well designed library I'd used before. took about 15 minutes

https://greggman.github.io/qr-code/

might add more options but in truth I don't think most users need the options
Clearly they should have used QNX for the installer so it would have fit on a single floppy.
> Or, we could decide that parameterized methods do not, in fact, implement interfaces, but then it's much less clear why we need methods at all. If we disregard interfaces, any parameterized method can be implemented as a parameterized function.

What? Methods are not needed if not for implementing an interface?

Anyway, functions could also be implementing interfaces, some languages allow that.

I swear the go docs read like a cult.
They cannot stop listening.

If the US desires so they can block software technology and laser technology for exports to ASML using de minimis rules (which doesn't bother if the end product uses less than 25% of US tech), in that sense, they send that number to 0% and a fight broke up

Hopefully they won't and the human race can advance further
I'm not sure why people still need tape storage or hybrid SSD and tape storage, is it because of banking financial transactions recording requirements since the SSD storage now has similar or better storage capacity?

The reported storage size for the hybrid MED is 72TB and Micron now has 60 TB for single SSD drive [1].

Huawei has even higher storage capacity with reported 128 TB in a single SSD drive [2].

[1] Micron launches 60TB PCIe gen5 SSD with 12GB/s read speeds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122434

[2] Huawei unveils its OceanStor A800 AI-specific storage solution; announces 128TB high-capacity SSD:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/huawei-unveils-it...
Or denial/rejection is natural defense reaction for people who feel threatened.
The difficulty then will be figuring out if the proof is relevant to what you want, or simply a proof of 1=1 in disguise.
I don't see the world in that way. I think that if you really want a change you should go and fight or be a political incumbent to influence on an outcome.
This is one of those features that I suspect would be incredibly useful for some of my applications but I just can’t quite see it yet. Maybe a page of real world examples might help, if anyone has any?

This page got me a bit closer I think: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/c/contain/
> As much as I hate it, I think Confluence is the right choice for startups

Confluence is so bad it reminds of that meme: "I expected nothing and I am still dissapointed".

It's so bad I would be happy to use github wiki over it, even if my employer wasn't using github for version control.
The alignment was important in that it allowed Voyager 2 to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in a single mission using gravity assists. The final velocity of Voyager could be matched in other ways, but not exceeded by so much that a probe could catch up to the Voyagers any time soon.
Swatting people has gotten people killed… by swat
I think fascination with apocalypse is the fear of our individual mortality combined with the fear of missing out.
Last time they navigated thru Trump. The last ASML book (April 2024) said the Biden administration was able to reinstate a united front to recover from Trump's mishaps:

"The Trump administration spelled chaos for the National Security Council: key figures abruptly departed, and a large amount of people were dismissed. Under the Biden administration, however, the staff expanded to more than 350 people, all united in orchestrating the plan to halt China’s advance and boost the American chip industry with billions in state aid. The NSC also ensured that the relevant departments adhered to the established strategy. Geopolitics demands discipline, not a cackling henhouse. Even before he was sworn in, Joe Biden pulled out all the diplomatic stops to coordinate export restrictions with allies. America started playing chess on several boards at once. In the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), a strategic dialogue between the EU and the US, discussions included export restrictions and stimulus plans for the domestic chip industry."
This is a pretty common propaganda pattern. Pointing to a massive group of people, throwing them all together under one label (in this case, 'climate deniers', in other cases 'vaccine deniers', etc.) even though the people in the group have a massive range in their opinions and beliefs, and then point out some small subset of the group that are the craziest/weirdest/most "wrong" members in the group, and straw manning them as representative of the entire group.
You are conflating belief systems and behavioral patterns. Christianity is a belief system populated by folks who follow Christ as Lord. Full stop.

This Kumbaya Collective you describe is a behavioral pattern that many folks take part in. Some of them may happen to be Christian, others may not.

But to observe that some Christians are part of the Kumbaya Collective and then go on to imply that being part of the collective is a “simple form” of Christianity is a categorical error.

Behaviour does not imply Faith.
Unfortunately it seems that every online explanation of QR codes always leaves out the Reed-Solomon error code calculation. The author here describes it as “long, tedious, and not very interesting”, but since everyone seems to think that, it is now very hard to find.
IIRC the US has some ass-backwards fuel economy laws that mean it's essentially illegal to produce small cars.

Also there's enough demand for high-margin cars to max out available production capacity, and would you want to be making major investments in ICE car production right now?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-teenager-pleads-gu...
MM could be better in many ways but for me touch scrolling is non-negotiable. It's a must-have feature I haven't seen in any other mouse.
Exceptions have been a mistake, the alternative are Result types, a concept which predates go.
Because there's no incentive to. The invisible hand of the free market only encourages a race to the bottom when the incentives are aligned. With the ridiculously high capex required to become an automaker these days, why would someone come in, just to make $3,000 per car, in a saturated market, chock full of regulations, to make money on the bottom end of a market where existing manufacturers can easily just undercut you the second you get any traction in the market.

Manufacturers make more money off selling luxury cars. The poors can just buy used luxury cars for all they care. We see the same problem with housing and luxury vs spartan options. The spartan option exists, but only begrudgingly so.
A 2025 Toyota Corolla hybrid is ~ $25k
This particular feature doesn’t rely on network connectivity or lack thereof.

Here’s some info about how some spyware works:

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/commercial-spyware/50813/
For an app being in the early stages the feature list is solid. Good work! love these lovingly crafted apps
Even preceding the tech stack decision, many devs err when they misunderstand what they are writing. GMail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc. are apps, if you don't need that level of interactivity, it's probably just a crud app (AirBnB, Craigslist, ecommerce, etc.) and you'd be fine with more a mostly server-side framework.
gorm just takes a pointer of your type and does reflection magic. It's worse than generica, I agree, but you don't get []any.
It's not a small amount of water by any means and it's just one of the various polluting factors in its production. The average young american buys an average 10 shirts per year and this number keeps increasing.

One of the biggest disasters ever, the draining of the sea of Aral (back then shared across 7 countries) has been caused by the insane water needs of cotton farming in Uzbekistan.

So yes, not only the water there has been lost forever, and millions have been impacted in their health, livelihood, farming, etc, and all for what? Shoving $5 t-shirts for the fast fashion industry?

The cotton industry is actually very harmful for the planet, not just in central asia, but those are the many insanely huge problems that people don't want to talk about, because got forbid we stop shoving our closets with low quality junk fast fashion that we quickly forget exists.

And all of this goes back to my point. Consuming stuff is toxic for the planet, the easiest way to curb the evil impact we have on it is to at least try to understand how we could easily curb it with limiting our everyday actions.

Not only you can substitute beef for pork, pork for poultry many times and have a positive effect, you can also decide to buy better clothes that fit you better and last longer. And many other things.
- "Models say X is happening."

- "Well, isn't there this specific problem with the model?"

- "It doesn't matter, because X is happening"

Not sure the line of logic follows there.
I was founding engineer at a start-up tackling similar problems, albeit using 2014-2022 tech. Email me off-list and I’d be happy to talk through some experiences!
You can one-click deploy on DigitalOcean for $10/month

Am I the only person left who simply has a web server? Untar Mediawiki, edit a few config variables, run an established database script, and off you go. Maybe I'm wildly out of touch, but I don't see why everything has to be a container or a monthly paid service around here.

I get it for something like an email server, where misconfiguration could lead to your server being a zombie, but I don't get it for something like a wiki.
We need laws that ban these junk fees. Any advertised price should be one I can get when I walk in.

I cannot get the car without registration. I cannot get the car without 'destination' fee.

Bake it into the price.
I found a probably unintended use in making it easy to ensure clipping worked right.

The intended use of course is ensuring that the content in container does not need complex compositing outside its rectangle.
The biggest downside of a plugin hybrid is the complexity and therefore higher service costs, likely shorter lifetime etc. You have all the maintenance requirements of a regular ICE vehicle and an electric motor + battery on top of that. Also the full electric range is likely much lower than an electric only vehicle so running costs would be higher.

Some EVs have full charge range that's not much less than a full tank of gas on an ICE at this point - the range is really a non issue for a lot of people.

I drive an EV with a comparably low range (~130 miles) and I can still count on one hand the number of times I've needed to drive further than that in one trip - on those occasions other than my lunch/dinner stop being limited to places with a charging station nothing really changed compared to when I drove an ICE. The rest of the time I get to plug it in in my garage overnight instead of having to stop at petrol stations, which is a nice albeit minor convenience increase.
There's no way to sell a good, cheap car without also cannibalizing your high margin sales and the dealers wouldn't want to sell it anyway. The vast majority of vehicle cost goes to:

1) amortizing the assembly line and upfront platform design costs

2) the raw materials of the basic car components, e.g. power train, chassis, and body

3) getting the car into consumer hands (distribution fees, taxes, advertising, dealership margin, etc).

Everything else like labor and upgraded trims works out to a relatively small percentage of the overall price, often under 20%.

Since you can't make enough impact by cutting amenities, you have to cut one of the listed things. You mostly can't build things more efficiently than major manufacturers do (though Tesla is quite good here), so that's out. You can't shave 50% off the basic materials costs because you run into basic FMVSS issues. Kia's strategy is to get as close to this line as they can though. That means you need to cut from the third category. No company wants don't want to cut their own margin, so that's out. Manufacturers can't work around the dealers by law, so they need to keep some dealer margin. Manufacturers can't stop advertising because the advertising department has significant political power and can get anyone proposing that fired. Manufacturers can't avoid taxes for consumers either.

The only real paths to cheaper cars involve opening the market to competitors that aren't limited like this, for instance foreign companies that don't need dealers and are okay accepting lower margins and not advertising.
That's the one! Sorry I took the acronym for granted!
Because demand isn't the issue. The issue is a new car that isn't a budget brand is increasingly a luxury option in the United States, because, and say it with me...

Wages have been stagnant in the United States for nearly 50 years.

Every economic stat right now points to this as the core issue. Consumers are squeezed more on every last good and service, tons of services are now only available via subscriptions which inherently cost more, and despite the economy supposedly (and, actually) booming in a lot of ways, that doesn't hardly at all make it's way down to the workers either via higher wages, or via cheaper products.

This is a complicated situation that doesn't lend itself well to comments but a number of the bigger datapoints include an employment market that favored employers for the majority of the time since the 70's, the ongoing slandering not to mention outright interference on the part of employers against labor organizing, "inflation" that when you scratch the surface is just companies charging more because they can, the ongoing consolidation of enterprise resulting in monolithic companies that own dozens of brands of the same product, none of which truly compete on price, on and on and on.

There are a ton of good reasons for Americans to be broke, and a number of prominent economists have been ringing alarm bells for decades now that all of these things coming together is going to stall the economy cold and send us into the... by my count, fourth once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis I've experienced.
I'm 100% with you.

Dodge has the 2025 ramcharger which has amazing specs! 690 mile range, 14,000lb towing capacity, 663 hp, etc. etc.

I've got reservations about dodge, and reservations about the first year of the model from any manufactuerer. Otherwise, I'd gladly shell out 70k+ and my left nut to get one.

I really wish more manufacturers would go this direction. I've got no interest in 100% EV, because I do things with my truck that simply are not feasible with any EV model, mostly due to range. The problem is, I do just enough truck stuff with really tough requirements that I don't want a non-truck without serious range. Yet, I still go to work in an office a few days a week and would love to use plug-in charge to do so.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/former-missouri-state-t...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/former-florissant-polic...
That's not really how this kind of thing works... As long as they can demonstrate that an older person directed them to make the call, then generally that older person will still have criminal responsibility.
The Voyagers weren't exactly cheap, but by NASA standards they were made on a shoestring budget because all the money at the time was being diverted to development of the space shuttle.
Everything is just assembly!
And brakes. My brake pads rarely touch my rotors.

Not only does this (and the things you pointed out) reduce the cost of maintenance, it saves on trips to get them done, and the headaches of the pressure most put on you to get things done you don’t need, just so they can make even more money off of you.

Also, EVs on the highway (when hybrids are using the ICE) are much quieter, and have more torque.

The only downsides I have noticed are:

- Higher up front cost (though I don’t think hybrids are much cheaper)

- Heavier = more frequent tire changes (again, not sure hybrids are much better)

- Range for long road trips, resulting in having to pause for long charges, and having to plan your route in advance (definitely not a problem for hybrids)
The recent interest in UAP phenomena goes well past the news media and has resulted in multiple Congressional hearings and an entirely new DoD office. You’re absolutely right that disinformation and internal confusion are all good explanations for what’s going on now; with that said, if the historical explanation was “the US military covering up its own test aircraft by discrediting witnesses with UFO rumors” it’s a little hard to explain the sudden shift in strategy.
Does the photo recognition attempt to carb count what it sees? Is that even possible? My son is a T1D and he still struggles with carb counting.