skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10% of my time is 4-8 hours a week. And I'm writing up those requirements, tests, etc. someplace, so I've got hands on keyboard far more than 10% of my time (usually in a vi). Seems like a good opportunity to optimize. I made my choice...not because I 'like it', but because I've been doing it both ways since the 80s and this works.

In the end, tho, you don't understand the argument, don't know the tools (know enough to get stuff done doesn't count), haven't walked in the shoes, but you're absolutely certain all us vi/emacs users are wrong. I mean, I've heard this pissing contest since the Win3 days, so I don't expect much intellectual rigor, but most people who feel the need to "well ackshually" keyboard jockeys at lest take the time to google up something like AskTogs infamous "I spent $50m to prove mice are faster" (for Apple, trying to push the Macintosh, with none of the research ever published AFAIK) to 'prove' how deluded we are. There is actual published research out there covering not just speed but ergonomics and accuracy; it's pretty inconclusive all things considered, and very dependent on the use case the researchers decide to examine, so really easy to cherry pick so you get to win arguments on the internet.
This is just "tax incidence isn't real".

If you want to go that far, you could argue that almost every dollar in circulation eventually goes through the tax system at some point, so taxation is nearly 100%! Of course, this is nonsense that doesn't tell you anything useful.
> Continuing the senseless partisan drive of the 20 years does.

I think what the government is going through right now is wrapping up the last political system. The idea that Democrats and Republicans just need to learn how to work together is just wrong. The parties are being destroyed, and I think we should all cheer that. They were built to address the issues of the 20th century, and neither party in the current form is ready to address 21st century issues. I think AI, Climate change, world demographic changes around the world (ie: low birthrates) is going to seriously alter everything about our world from geopolitics, to economy, even social issues.

The democrats are stuck in supporting the new deal bureaucracy and the post ww2 order. That's over, it's crumbling right now, and i'm not going to try and defend any of it personally. It's just obsolete. The old Republican party your dad probably supported is dead too, that died a while ago. The new Republican party seems to be an alliance of people who just really want to cheer the crumbling of the old system (MAGA) and the first emergence of what politics in the 21st century is going to look like (the tech alliance).

Democrats would be smart to understand it's a new century we have new threats, new challenges, and need new institutions.... and this IS NOT a once in a lifetime opportunity to fix our government. This is the first draft of our new political system, and they have a choice to participate in shaping it, but they will need to get votes, and to get votes they need to stop stalking about obsolete ideas.
> It won't be an elected Democrat though.

the pendulum swings back and forth. i don't see that changing
I can tell you 100% my toddler gets extremely frustrated when he can't do something by himself. And it wasn't a brusque development, babies get frustrated when they want to turn on the side and can't. Also, they're extremely joyful when they finally manage to do it on their own, and they'll do it constantly.

> doubt they even know what agency is

I doubt some people know what epicaricacy is, but they do it anyway.
e.g. count people watching TV for pay-per-view billing, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076335
This post is about the USA, right?
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It's what rich people say lol. Don't tax us, we'll pass it on. Don't tax us we'll move states. Don't tax us we'll move countries. Don't tax us we'll pay CPAs to cheat taxes anyway. Don't tax us we refuse to pay them.

Why do people believe rich people again?
Mostly a boundary effect of where the lines are drawn and where the Black people live. Anyway the time of "voting blue" has passed.
This seems high to me. Assuming single, 100k salary, and the standard deduction.

* ~14k in federal income tax
* ~6k in state income tax (varies by state)
* ~6k for social security
* ~3k for property tax (varies by location and property value)
* ~1k for medicare

That's 34%. It's hard to imagine another 46% on sales tax, tariffs, usage tax, car tag, etc. You could argue for another 7k (7%) in second order payroll taxes, but I don't know what you could consider a "third-order" tax. Please enlighten me.
That indeed, is the biggest factor that hinders EV adoption today. People who bought electric cars 5 years ago, are massive bagholders today. And that could repeat with those buying today.

Not a problem per se - it indicates a good thing: EVs are getting better and cheaper, quickly. But still doesn't help how badly it hits the owners' pockets.
Knowing the tricks that come with your location are a big deal. I'm in a minor salt part of the US, so I don't often have to worry about pre-treating a fastener on our daily drivers. If it gets to the point that I'm breaking out the torch, I'm working on an outlier.
> and the cost to charge was $0.68/kWh.

What in the world. In December, southern Norway had similar electricity prices for two hours, and caused enough of an uproar that the government is still trying to live it down.
I was a kid but I remember Brazil had huge tariffs on electronics to "protect the national industry". That actually set the country back a decade. I remember people talking about the "new" 386 processor in 1995-ish (it started mass production in 1986).

That's not even remotely comparable to the US situation but it gives me pause when countries enact tariffs to protect anything.
Reasonable question but I think people are just burnt out by the Silicon Valley pricing model that has proliferated everywhere.

* Most consumers now swallow a live service model and associated costs that they don’t want

* Most consumers now swallow the costs of west coast tech culture: cost of living, esoteric architectural choices, fad driven development, and hobby driven development

* Most owners of software businesses expect to get rich in a relatively short time frame

* Software is absurdly high margin if built effectively and distributed at (effectively) zero cost. Where do consumers ever see these savings when cost outpaces inflation?

* Record profits and layoffs being recorded by the broader industry

And specifically to the point of productivity tools inherently justifying nearly any price, this argument is fundamentally flawed because productivity is only measurable if it can be strictly defined and good luck with that one. Salespeople have made billions hawking that fallacy and people eat it up because American work culture fetishizes productivity.

This isn’t a critique of OP I really went down a rabbit hole exploring and appreciating this project and hope it succeeds.

The underlying business model of software is dystopian when compared to what it could be if everyone didn’t bind happiness to being cartoonishly wealthy in Menlo Park.
About as well thought out as the Laffer curve.
It's also insane. Outside of a few smaller, undeveloped nations, there aren't any countries that derive a substantial portion of their revenues via tariffs.
IMHO elective cars don't make sense to buy unless you can charge it at home almost always.
Coal is now the third largest energy source in the US behind nuclear and natural gas. Solar accounts for 60% of added capacity. It’s just wrong to say that rare earth mining has more impact than energy production. And the grid needs shifting, so what? It needs to be updated anyway.
There's always the handbrake.
Down with Determinants by Sheldon Axler (1994) [pdf]
> Are these even well thought out economic strategies?

Have any of Trump/Musk's actions in the past month seemed particularly well thought-out? It's sharp-elbowed bullying by people who will never see any consequences for their actions.
There are a lot of semi-consumable ICE components that these comparisons often omit: mass airflow sensors, oxygen sensors, gaskets/seals, emissions components, starter batteries. These often cost in the $100-500 range/ea and the labor to replace them is at minimum $100/hr in my locality.
At least pertaining to vinyls, this seems to mostly discuss practical and technical aspects, but misses the more "ceremonial" aspect which in my opinion explains its popularity. Buying a physical record requires some intent and choice which you don't have in a spotify catalogue of millions of tracks. And playing a record has this physical action aspect a lot of people cherish: I enjoy it because it feels like a treat I set up for myself.
LLMs are used to launder code under GPL and AGPL and strip its users of their rights.

When I publish something under those copyleft licenses, my users have the right to see and modify the code. They even have that right if somebody else builds on top of my work. With LLMs, proprietary products based on my copyleft code are being written and used right now and my users have no rights at all, in fact, they don't even have a way to find out they are my users.

Imagine I ~~stole~~ got my hands on code from the top 5 tech companies and then made an autocompleter that looks at function signatures the programmer writes and autocompletes the function by picking a matching function from that corpus. I'd get sued and rightfully so.

What LLM companies are doing is exactly the same, just a bit more capable and it mixes the code just a bit more thoroughly to mask the origin.
Isn't drowning one of the few things that babies instinctually fear?
It’s not, ladwp is ~20 cents per. Sounds like you used their charger and was taken for a ride, hah hah.
I have owned two different Teslas since 2020 and the only maintenance I have had to perform is new tires, tire rotation and adding wiper fluid.
Charging prices are not the same as electricity prices.

They’re pricing it at what the market will bear for charging. They’re recouping costs of building and running the charging station. Property and operational costs in CA are very high.
Do you think it was stupid or premeditated ?
Aurornis gets to the point; there is a substantial cost (demand charges), from the utility, to ask for 200-400kw of current on demand when you plug in. Tesla uses Megapack batteries at some of their stations (Electrify America as well, using Tesla battereis) to "peak shave," whereby the batteries slowly charge, and then they blend output with utility power so the current demand peak is not so brutal when vehicles request fast DC charging.

Renewable generated power is cheap, power delivery, control, and orchestration is not so much.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/eliminating-demand-charges-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/ppgbxx/megapac...

https://electrek.co/2020/09/17/tesla-batteries-60-electrify-...

https://media.electrifyamerica.com/releases/48
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Sorry, I meant why the person you responded to meant that.

I cannot imagine it would affect anything so soon, and am unsure how it will affect anything. But certainly too soon.
>No; from what I understand,

Then it's your understanding that needs adjustment. Advanced chips nearly all come from Taiwan. You can't have a laptop without a CPU.

Sourcing as much as they can from the US is admirable but the real power is who manufactures the advanced chips not the chassis or peripheral parts.
Is there any way to convert digital TV signals to analog?
Tons of homes in the US are kept vacant, either because landlord( companie)s want higher rents that what's achievable by renters in the market, or because property is a reliable asset to hold that will increase value.
My conclusion from reading The PayPal Wars was exactly that. That PayPal succeeded despite Musk.

As for all that government efficiency BS; it is just to swap to oligarchy. I mean, the name DOGE gives it away. DOGE was the first memecoin, entirely and openly being bullshit, yet it succeeded despite of that.

Meanwhile: not good emotional connection with father like the rest of these so-called strongmen (Trump, Putin, ...), and from a rich position of influence as child. Ie. he never was white trash, with his father having been part of pro-apartheid movement (a fight lost but which is meaningful for a young Elon). Furthermore, I am not convinced his drugs usage, in the end, serves him.
Yes. Why do get these replies on HN that seem to only consider the most shallow, surface details? It could well be that xAI wins the AI race by betting on hardware first and foremost - new ideas are quickly copied by everyone, but a compute edge is hard to match.
That isn't the price of electricity, it was the cost of using the charging point.
charging near peak times impacts the price, especially in that area
As soon as burn cash and govt subsidies run out, with lithium and electricity demand rising, EVs will be far more expensive to operate.
A. Do you believe that they are not researching and developing ways to improve the grid for an increase in demand from EVs?

B. Coal has massively been replaced by Natural Gas. Regardless emissions outside of cities is better than emissions inside cities. There are growing alternatives that are either carbon neutral or produce no greenhouse gasses to generate electricity.

C. How is mining material worse for the environment if it lowers the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted?
Now if I can just remember where I put my glass ball that told me who was how productive....
> people who identified as goths were inspired mostly by American artists

My peers and I certainly were not. It was mostly or entirely inspired by UK artists.

Later waves may be different, there might indeed be people inspired by Vision Video, Twin Tribes and Boy Harsher (all current US). Or by the German scene.
> However, in 2023, MPEG LA was acquired by Via-LA, and everything changed. When I reached out to Via-LA in late 2024 to confirm FFmpegKit’s position under their terms, I received no response.

The real reason. Greedy bastards, and the risk of your business being set on fire by greedy bastards, even if they don't have a right to anything - they can still threaten to waste your time and money and offer a shakedown instead.

I've never used FFmpegKit (I've mostly just used the command-line, or indirectly via yt-dlp and Handbrake) but just hearing about it now, the maintainer sounds like an awesome person who really went above and beyond to support free software, so hooray for them! I bet it was useful for thousands of other projects, and those people are all grateful too.
DeepSeek expands business scope in potential shift towards monetization
VPN providers might be much more trustworthy than other ISPs.
Early models of the AppleCD CD-ROM drive used caddies! Our Mac LCs at school had them. They were, indeed, very cool.

https://i0.wp.com/www.aventure-apple.com/blog/wp-content/upl...
The normal approach is to go through the agency’s programs, look at each one’s performance, and to cancel the things that aren’t working out.

Among other things, that gets rid of stuff that’s dominated by low performers.

Firing only the people that can find another job or that were recently hired does the opposite, which is why this is both illegal and unprecedentedly stupid.
The christian religious right in the US seems to care for people far less than Jesus asked of them.
Intelligence is not a guarantee against getting drawn in by evil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_ideologues .
If you have multiple individuals sitting on top of $100+ billion, then they aren't paying plenty.

Especially given the things that these individuals often do with their wealth.
Markup is not the same as margin. Inputs would have to be free for 100% margin.
They’re making more profit in absolute dollars, but the return on investment (ROI) is the same. ROI is what matters because investors trade cash for shares and seek a return on that cash.

For example, if you invest $1,000 and earn $100, your ROI is 10%. But if you invest $10,000 and earn $200, your ROI is only 2%, even though the dollar return is higher. Investors focus on percentage returns because they invest different amounts and receive profits proportional to their ownership.

Investors prefer higher percentage returns, even if the dollar amounts are smaller. For example, making ten separate investments that each return a smaller dollar amount but a higher percentage would be more attractive than one large investment with a lower ROI.

Lower ROI also comes with an opportunity cost. Capital tied up in a low-return investment can't be used for higher-return opportunities. Investors aim to allocate their money where it can generate the best possible return relative to the risk, rather than just chasing higher dollar profits.

In the example above Acer had to risk more capital and got the same percentage return on that capital.
receipts, please
Yep. I rent and for me that makes EVs not an option. I do see two people in my parking garage have plug in hybrids and charge from 120 volt outlets. I don't know if they actually have permission to use the outlets.
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You're saying I'm paying my landlord's taxes? And also Chipotle's? I'll bet my boss' taxes come out of my paycheck, too!

Those slippery bastards.
Yes, they are likely making more per unit, but less profit in aggregate, since the increase in price means they will likely sell less laptops than before. The aggregate loss in value here is known as dead-weight loss.
Because mind cannot feel.
Why do you assume their costs are going up the same percentage? It's not clear from the linked article, but maybe their costs per your example are going up 12% from 500 to 600, and they're only raising prices by 10% to 1100 to keep the same margin.

Of course I doubt this would actually be the case (because capitalism), but that's the one of the assumptions you're missing in your example.
It's not going to be from this unless it's forced upon us by the federal government. All the other companies are ahead and aren't just going to stop.
> EVs typically require 30% less maintenance than their ICE counterparts. In terms of cost

followed by

> Consumer Reports conducted a comprehensive survey... their findings confirm that BEVs and PHEVs typically incur maintenance costs that are approximately half that of ICE vehicles over the first 200,000 miles.

Those numbers seem at odds with each other.

Anecdotally, after 20k miles with a Tesla Model Y, the only maintenance required so far has been windshield wiper fluid.
> they just pass all their income taxes onto the poor in the form of price increases.

The rich don't pay income taxes. They have capital gains.

Corporations pay taxes on income. If you don't charge corporations income tax, then you have to charge workers even more income tax to make up the difference. I guess that's better for "the poor" somehow?

> if you include second- and third-order taxes.

This is a phoney concept.

> Your rent could be $1000 instead of $2000 if your landlord's income wasn't taxed so much.

More likely your rent would stay $2000 and your landlord would keep more of it.
To me, the question is: if it's true that a bunch of lifers are wasting people's hard-earned tax money by being there, therefore management have not done a good job over a long period of time, also taking salaries to do so, then what do you do about it?
Given this analysis it sounds like the sweet spot is getting a used-but-still good EV. EVs suffer from extraordinary loss in resale value, almost on the scale of luxury vehicles. This actually works out though, if you can get something like an old Nissan LEAF for approximately $10k or so. The aggressive devaluation in price tips the scales of this analysis -- but of course not everyone can go and get a good deal on a used EV. (and of course, they need to have a place to charge it at home.)
I'm not talking about specific rich individuals (e.g. top 1000). I'm talking about rich people in general, e.g. top 10% furthermore I am only talking about income tax, which is why I gave my context link.
As a consumer, I'm just happy that base models are improving again after a ~quarter or more of relative stagnation (last big base model drop was Sonnet v2 in October). Many use cases can't use o1, r1, or o3[-mini] due to the additional reasoning latency.
Your BodyFactory example isn't even functionally the same as the quoted code snippet. Nowhere is the Body::fixed(rendered) equivalent seen, for example.
They aren’t superior in the most important way, which is the security and privacy.
This is a better analysis than most.

Most analyses by Consumer Reports etc try to compare 5 year costs. But when you try and do that, your answer becomes dominated by the trade-in value of a 5 year old EV vs a 5 year old ICE. That's a really hard, highly political task.

Lifetime cost eliminates that and gets down to true costs.

The 5 year value of the car shouldn't be in the calculations IMO. It has no impact on lifetime costs -- since it's subtracted from the costs of the original owner and added to the costs of the second zero, netting to 0.

Also, people buying 5 year old cars tend to be more cost sensitive than those buying new cars. The value of a used car is primarily in the cost savings, so as consumers become more familiar with the costs & benefits of EV's, the trade in value should converge on a price which makes lifetime cost analysis and 5 year cost tradeoff analysis give similar answers.
This is complete FUD.

Even when charging on pure fossil fuels, generating in large plants with efficient turbines and delivering it to efficient electric motors is more efficient than pumping, refining, and delivering gasoline to millions of tiny piston engines.

But we don't charge on pure fossil fuels. The grid is increasingly powered by renewables and nuclear, which are less harmful to the environment than fossil fuels. Anthropogenic climate change could lead to mass catastrophe if we don't get it under control; it's already costing us billions and killing people worldwide.

And while our electric grid couldn't handle everyone switching to electric vehicles over night, the transition takes time, and we can invest in grid improvements as energy demand moves towards greater electric usage due vehicles.
None of which explains this massive waste of money for zero gain.
You also don’t need to own a home to charge a car where you live.

I met an uber driver who drove a Tesla Model 3 and they charged at an apartment tower garage.

The best part for them was the landlord offered it for free, no electricity charge.

I also know someone who just ran an extension cord out to their parking spot in their apartment.

It really isn’t that hard to imagine a situation where street parking has overnight charging infrastructure. Streets where people live already have electricity running to all of them.
Plenty of people who most Americans would consider "rich" pay income tax.

Edit: Uh oh, downvoted by people who apparently think either people who earn $300k - $1MM+ aren't "rich" or that they don't pay income taxes. Lol.
Indeed, undermining elections in Europe and other free societies is bad too. Doing so might ruin any business and other longstanding relations you have with those countries!
I use mine as if it's an infinitely patient, relatively competent junior/medior level developer that I constantly give small chunks of programming to do (typically a function at a time), and occasionally consult on architecture/design/other things.

I don't use integrated coding tools, so my workflow isn't super fast, but that's not what I'm really aiming for - more that I want to save my brain's energy from low level drudgy boilerplate or integration code, so I can focus it on the more important decisions and keep business-side context in my head.

It's been a huge help for me this way across multiple projects in multiple domains.
as adoption of EV rises in society, there will be a time point, after that time, ICEs depreciate faster than EV

the rapidly iterating EV market will severely impact the used car market