skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One relevant story for the political developments anticipated this year is that the Conservative party in the UK banned onshore wind for a decade in England at a time when it was the cheapest energy source available and that fact has been entirely memory holed from the conversation.

I saw a cool dataviz from an energy company the other day which very, very clearly shows no wind power being generated onshore in England while turbines on all sides are spinning.

https://bsky.app/profile/robhawkes.bsky.social/post/3liowjqe...

Amazingly the story was "wind power being wasted, we need more transmission to England".

This is all during an energy crisis and talk of people being priced out of heating their homes and it simply doesn't get mentioned. I saw one nerdy blog post on the 22 Billion cost of it:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutting-the-green-crap-...

So I have no faith that in the even worse political climate of the US that any economic damage done to the US will be acknowledged.
The French are the European experts on social violence (and I am French)...

In fact OP's comment somewhat shows the often noxious atmosphere in France. Here in the UK I see Teslas everywhere and people don't say or do anything (maybe they comment on the neighbour's new Tesla at home but they are polite in public in a very British way, and criminal damage is a serious crime...) In France I can believe that a Tesla owner may fear that their car will be vandalised or that some random people might throw insults at them in the street if Tesla is labeled the wrong way...

Edit: TBH, I wouldn't even say that there is a low tolerance for fascism because historically and to this day, economic interventionism, strong state, strong leader, political violence, tendency towards authoritarism, social conservatism have been big part of the culture. That is balanced by a tendency towards anarchism at the same time...
I'd argue that, as horrible as that was, it wasn't as centered in one person as famous and important as Musk. Like buying phones we know were perhaps made by people treated like slaves in China, versus buying something that is represented by one famous person that wants to bring back slavery.
At some point I tried scripts aiming to disable daemons and firewall blocking MacOS stuff phoning home constantly (especially since I use no iCloud stuff) to make my system run a little leaner. But macOS is just such a complicated blackbox I just forgot about it... :(
https://www.whatcar.com/news/most-reliable-cars/n27337 and here the Model Y is in the top 10 most reliable.

It's as if all these news articles are useless...

Tesla sales down as new Model Y being released, big surprise
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What about the activism in your comment? I don't own a Tesla but why would you care about what I do with my money?
I would like to have stickers of Elon doing his nazi salutes, that I could put on Teslas I see in the streets.
I feel somewhat vindicated seeing no pro-Elon comments here anymore (or very few). I've been saying since 2017 that he's crooked and full of sh*t, when he engaged in union-busting while describing himself as a "socialist". Now that he's overtly showing his incompetency, stupidity and rancid ideas to the world, people see him for what he always was. A failed father abandoning his children, a pathetic man cheating at video games to seek attention, a mediocre self-serving neonazi.
Not previous user, but as an Italian I am genuinely worried about how powerful and dangerous Elon is. The man effectively controls a good bunch of the telecom and space capabilities of the most powerful country in the world and its allies.

I want to have nothing to do with any of his businesses, socials, services and I'm extremely worried about doge and his presence in the US administration.

The person completely lacks any empathy, it's a full blown sociopath. His politics are just a reflection of his deep psychological malaise.
To me, people who ever said or believed 'vote with your wallet' or 'consumers made their choice' then complained about boycott or people not buying/threatening not to buy specific brands are hypocritical (and those unaware of how hypocritical they are are just idiots, because it's obvious).
I'm surprised they're still not much worse than other, long established companies. Modern EVs are newish tech, TESLA is a newish company and the Model 3 is built to be "cheap".

And the TÜV's HU is a very thorough checkup. Failing it is easily caused by neglecting regular maintenance or careless driving. If you absolutely need to pass your test, befriend your local DEKRA guy, let him have a short look, and get your HU done early.
At least you could buy a VW from 1945 on and not finance the Nazi war machine.

But before that? You were a clear collaborator.
> EV is not a high-tech product

EV doesn't have to be a high-tech product, although you need some fairly high tech stuff in the charger and BMS; the problem with modern cars is (1) protectionist questionable tech mandates like backup cameras and tyre pressure sensors and "phone home in event of crash" which inflate the BOM and (2) the need to add "features" to inflate the margin, like complicated dashboard computers and subscription heated seats.

This is why average Chinese drivers are picking up huge numbers of moderately priced EVs that the West is preventing from being sold.
I haven't been able to do direct comparisons but they most likely have very similar performance. The major bottleneck with Electro at the moment (which will certainly be addressed on Electro (internal) v5.0 aka Electro Next) is the reliance on Tauri & WebView2.

As soon as I can port over core functionality to a custom desktop renderer things will go from being 10x faster (currently) to 1000x faster (the end goal).

I'm currently trying to balance Electro with: university final year, job applications, 2 other OSS projects I contribute to, and a friends' business website so these features will most likely take many months to get through.
I'm hoping the eyes Electro has gained from this announcement will bring in some talent who know more about lower level image viewer functionality than I do so that they can help guide the project towards the ultimate performance-first tech stack!
> Counter point: Light indicators are ugly and usually unnecessary

And if you really must have an ugly and un-necessary light indicator, Apple have an answer for that....

Do not charge off USB-C, instead buy an Apple magsafe charger. That comes with a little indicator light on the end of the cord.

Alternatively, if you are charging off USB-C all you have to do on a powered mac is to look at the battery indicator in the menu bar.
As someone who lived in the sud-ouest during the yellow vests protests, "very very low tolerance for social violence" is...not my general impression of the French people.

(Low tolerance for fascism, yes, obviously. But "social violence" is pretty much what passes for entertainment on a Saturday morning)
And Canada, which has, as I recall, a one hundred percent tariff on something like a BYD or any other car made in China, even if they did submit them for federal road safety compliance testing.
Please tell that to European countries buying F35.
I did not claim he never said it. I’m claiming that it was an obvious lie. If words are the only thing that matters when judging a persons intentions, then that must apply to every person equally or else you’re objectively biased. But you already know that.
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People who skip the regular maintenance either don't understand the outsized impact it will have on long term reliability and the eventual costs, or they do but they have more pressing matters to address with that money.

> In general the inspection is not even attempted if there is something to fix.

Where I live in Central/Western Europe the sheer number of cars which can't possibly drive in legal conditions (rolling chimney stack exhaust or stadium light headlights) astonishes me. They get the "all green" at the inspection regardless of what needs to be fixed.
whole research article linked at the bottom
https://www.supermemo.com/wp-content/uploads/CSEDU_2025_238_...
Signal has implemented too. https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

"Post quantum" or "quantum resistance" are common terms used to describe crypto that is harder to crack by quantum computers. I don't see any snake oil here.
It's nice. But. Where is Q5? Our CEO said we need one.
It looks like Tesla is entering the "find out" part of the FAFO equation.
>getting me from A to B safely and cheaply

And how do you expect that to be true when Elon, through his political power, has all regulators under his thumb?
It's not mentioned in the article, but the EU imposed tariffs on Chinese made EVs at the end of October.

Tesla had a 7.8% tariff imposed. BMW's are at 20.7%.

Most Teslas sold in the EU last year were imported from China.

Both companies are fighting it in court.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/27/tesla-tak...
> cars are a trivial part of CO2 emissions

Sadly this isn't true. Not to mention the particulates which VW defrauded everyone about.

VW need to stop their engine division running the company and get with the affordable EV programme.
That flavor of "illness" isn't special at all, it's very normal. Behold any boycott pretty much ever.
And on top of that - there is a lot of good competent competition now, gone are the times were the Model 3 was pretty much undisputed king of cheap-ish EVs. The only thing they really still have going for them is the Supercharger network, but honestly fewer people seem to care than you'd think.
Classic market segmentation.
And yet you felt the need to inject that viewpoint into a thread where everyone is pointing out their own personal preferences and not telling others what to buy.
Brought to you by the same guy who got up on a stage and told the major X advertisers "go fuck yourself".
Ioniq is so fucking amazing. It's also always the top EV seller ex. Tesla.

It's the best parts of Tesla mixed with the best qualities of Korean manufacturing.

Volkswagen's ID5s are also very good since last year. Many of the software woes seems to be fixed.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think you need to construct an argument of ill intent/deceit to explain Tesla's actions and marketing. Nothing Tesla has done is in conflict with the strategy laid out at the beginning which was to first sell expensive cars, and then selling increasingly cheaper cars.

FSD is not in the strategy to frame it as a tech company, but to make use of software margins. If you can sell a car that cost 30k to manufacture for 40k instead of 35k because it has software on it, that greatly improves your margins because the software doesn't have manufacturing cost beyond the initial R&D.

There's a lot about Elon to dislike, but his business ideas are sound. At the same time I fully believe his behavior is going to run Tesla into the ground which will be a real shame. He really took the incredible amount of goodwill they got for being the first to make a car that could be both cheaper and better for the environment in the face of both established car companies and the oil industry, and he just flushed all that goodwill down the shitter.

Tesla's saving grace would be to produce cars at a competitive price point, I think money always trumps politics, and with tariffs on Chinese imports that might be achieved, but they'd still be losing the European market and any extra margin they might have gotten from their previously good reputation.
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Yes. But: The map does not reflect polulation density. (Which is rather low)
Ah, the irony of suggesting anyone who isn't thoughtlessly consuming is an "NPC"

You’re not going to guilt anyone into buying a Tesla.
Not everyone Posts critisism at Starbucks.

And yes people care. They can't always care to different reasons but doing something is better than nothing.

But good for you being condescending and making it clear that you don't do anything.
Berlin shouldn't be a surprise, because the Kebap Sandwich was invented here (at least according to some sources: https://berlinexperiences.com/was-the-doner-kebab-invented-i...)

Before that, Kebap was a dish served on a plate, taken in a seated manner.
> if you remove the "bad/bad" restaurant there is a correlation that appears, but it is due to the collider bias.

This sounds like the correlation appears because of you throwing away some data, but the way I see it, that correlation is real - you're not removing the bad/bad restaurants, the market is.

I've been reading up on collider bias on Wiki and pondering the examples[0] - restaurants, dating, celebrities - and the way I see it, the biased statistics is still true for whoever is doing the classification (person visiting fast-food restaurants, or looking for a date), and if their selection (taste) generalizes, it might also carry over to the general population.

I feel the restaurant example from Wiki, with its associated image below, is worth discussing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox#/media/Fil...

"An illustration of Berkson's Paradox. The top graph represents the actual distribution, in which a positive correlation between quality of burgers and fries is observed. However, an individual who does not eat at any location where both are bad observes only the distribution on the bottom graph, which appears to show a negative correlation."

This feels wrong to me. Why is the regression line nearly horizontal when, eyeballing the graph, a nearly vertical one would fit better and capture an even stronger positive correlation between qualities of hamburgers and fries? In fact, I'm tempted to even throw away the leftmost and rightmost points on the lower panel as outliers.

Anyway, this example assumes the bad/bad restaurants are not visited by the subject - however, if we take your scenario where bad/bad restaurants quickly go out of business, then it's the market that creates the correlation between those two hypothetically independent qualities, so as long as we're talking real world and not some imaginary spherical restaurants in frictionless vacuum, it would be fair to say the correlation exists (and that the causal mechanism behind it is market selection).

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Isn’t GLONASS in geostationary orbit like NAVSTAR/GPS? This would be a fixed orbital distance from Earth.

You may be thinking of highly-elliptical molniya/lightning orbits (1), which enabled state TV broadcasts for high-lat places in Siberia.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
Huh? Rerank is always a boost on top of retrieval. So regardless of the chunking method or model you use, reranking with a good model will always result in higher MRR.
And improvements in embedding models also will never solve the problem of merging lexical and vector search results. Rank/score fusion are flawed since both are hardly comparable and boosting only works sometimes. Whereas rerankers generally do a pretty good job at this.
Performance is indeed the biggest issue here. Rerankers are slow as hell and simply not feasible for some use cases.
As Ben Franklin wrote "the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."
Well because you can remove all of this for the inspection and then put it back on after, even if we ignore straight up bribery to pass the test, which still exists in places. It should be the job of the road enforcement teams to find these people, stop them and impound the car until it's brought back to a road worthy condition. And there are some European countries which are very good at this and if you drive with some wonky car that is clearly not compliant you will be stopped, and some where such enforcement is almost non existent.
It goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds!
Generally when this is done _well_, you'll end up with multiple ISPs who'll compete on price, so they're essentially selling a commodity product with generally fairly low margins. For instance, a somewhat similar scheme in Ireland (NBI, a state-funded thing which builds FTTH in rural areas where it would not be economical for the other FTTH infra owners to build) has _56_ ISPs currently providing service on its infra (though some of these are regional).

Like, this isn't an exciting new idea; similar things have been widely used all over the world for rural broadband for years. The US is maybe a bit unusual in that the local monopolies were in some cases never really broken, so this is going maybe a bit less rural than would be typical. In many countries the local monopolies (Charter and Verizon, from the article) would be required to allow other ISPs to use their infra at a controlled price.
Yes it is sad, but the stakes are too high to ignore. I don't know where you live but in Europe most people are very disappointed in recent actions by the US. Any decision, from small to large, now should factor in if it benefits Europe or the US. It is a matter of being reciprocal.
It's called silent complicity, have you read the "First, they came for" poem?
It's really surprising to see that in HN.

I personally fucking love rockets and what he did. But for the past years made me hate the man.

My guess is that most people here are center-right wing, or at least a majority of HN isn't left-leaning.

It's surprising he managed to make even that audience hate him
DDR is not a proper Germany, cant count them
Others have mentioned protocol ossification which is indeed the primary reason. A secondary reason is that QUIC fuses TLS so its latency is further reduced by one RTT. For high latency networks, the difference is palpable.
This seems like maybe all the tech bro's should have also hired some some farmers. Even to consult.

Seems like a lot of self inflicted wounds.
So not an indicator that these farming techniques 'wont work' but more 'these guys can't manage a project'.
Nah, it's even funnier than that. It's majority owned by Farage the guy Elon wanted to oust, with Tice holding the rest, because as you say he's a money man whose pet project is giving Farage power.

Also, even Farage's most implacable opponents would concede that he's by far the most effective campaigning MP in the UK, as well as an avid Trump supporter, so dumping him would be a hilarious own goal if it was even possible especially when it's dumping him for not endorsing a football hooligan. It would also be history repeating itself since Farage's old party went from winning elections to being a complete irrelevance when Farage "retired" and the hooligans joined...
Wild to post that second part underneath "don't support China".
Ask HN: iCloud or Google Photos? What do you use and why?
I'm in apple ecosystem, but my friends and family are mixed use, most of them leaning towards Google.

I kind of dislike the fact that Google uses pictures to train their models, but I can't discard the usefulness of being able to share (and participate) in the photos ecosystem with my family and friends.

iCloud is nice for solo use, but useless in terms of sharing with others, especially outside Apple ecosystem (and inside the ecosystem, its a pain as well).

Both are terrible at taking out the data. Apple requires using custom made tools, or exporting/downloading chunks (in case the entire photo library does not fit the disk). Google has Google Takeout which dumps the photos and the metadata in separate files, requiring a 3rd party tool to merge them back (been there, done that, not fun).

Self hosted options are too much hassle. They require maintaining them and are not available "on-the-go", unless one decides to setup VPN, meaning more maintenance. And good luck convincing family members to use your home-baked solution.

Between the two major clouds, what do you use and what would you recommend: iCloud photos or Google Photos?

Ignore backups for now, obviously both require a 3-2-1 backup solution to be complete and fail-proof.
NATO will have to rethink that as well if they consider the US an unreliable partner.

Hopefully, this insanity ends in four years.
Instead of "Clean Code" I'd really suggest people read either

- Code Complete
- The Pragmatic Programmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
My go to joke on this is: "Oh, so it was USAID that was buying all the Teslas"
Gerald Ratner's speech [0] was supposed to be a case study, not an aspiration.

> After the speech, the value of the Ratner group plummeted by around £500 million, which very nearly resulted in the group's collapse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner#Career
Yes sir, FirmwareBurner sir!

What better person to take advice from than one who refers to his fellows as NPCs with special mental illnesses.
I'm always amazed at how many stars these glorified `list.txt` repos get
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I miss Sparky’s.
I honestly and unironically think that our EV(a Volkswagen e-UP) is what most buyers actually want, but what manufacturers aren't making. It's simple, everything inside is using normal analogue dials including the one for battery level, it gets ~150-180 miles of range out of its 36kWh battery(even Tesla doesn't do those kinds of efficiency numbers), it doesn't have satnav just a factory holder for your phone.......that's all you need. You get in, turn(!!!) the key and go. It works day in and day out. No software updates, no phantom braking, no beeping at you because it read a sign wrong....it's what an EV(and I'd argue - any car) should be. Obviously package it in a larger body for people who need the space(eGolf exists and uses exact same EV drivetrain), but yeah stop cramming EVs with every gadget under the sun, most people don't want it and they certainly don't want to be paying for it.
> Who else has had to deal with idiots who froth at the mouth when you exceed an 80 line character margin?

Honestly, no better indication of a very mediocre developer
> I know many Tesla owners here that are considering selling the car because they are also afraid of the car dropping even further in price because too many people will want to sell it.

I know some who are considering selling the car because they are afraid of what other people will think knowing they drive a Tesla.
In Ireland car licenses start with the year of manufacture, so if your license starts dates it from 2020 or after, that excuse isn't too convincing.
I can imagine there are folks that do their day job at the Space Force and come home to load up KSP to blow off some steam.
Just a reminder:
People supporting Elon do not typically post here or on reddit. Do not fall into illusions that DOGE team is loosing support.
Sorry "UK Artists" but that itself is copyright infringement of a work by John Cage
Beside the person of Elon himself, there is another thing too: Tesla cars are old. Yesterday's design with yesterday's features. There hasn't been a new Tesla since what... a decade? Sure, Cybertruck exists, but that's not really comparable to a Tesla 3 for example, in its function, target customers and price...
Very cool. VLC's AI subtitles are still in preview.
Example? I was drunk for the entire administration. I don’t doubt he said some stupid shit, but I doubt he then doubled down and escalated consistently afterwards, with unquestioning support from his constituents.
I'm very annoyed by this; if Europe is serious about the EV transition and the ban on new ICE sales, it should not be putting trade barriers in front of cheap EVs!
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Is it? Because the login link they present on their page navigating from fidelity.com

https://digital.fidelity.com/prgw/digital/login/full-page

works just fine. My guess is you bookmarked a deprecated link and, in your excitement for internet cred, didn't bother actually checking what the true issue was.
Real question: what is "SV"? I missed the anachronym ref.
To put it simply: this is not adequately explained by stupidity.