skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timeline is even longer (and with such good cause). It also took till March 2023 to specify federal requirements for a charger! That's not a bad thing, it's not unreasonable at all. We didn't have any open systems for charging until then! There were no federal standards for what to build or how to stay or fall out of compliance! Before you start paying people to build chargers, you have to have some direction for what to build, have to make it better than the free for all of unreliable chargers that had hindered confidence & adoption so badly!

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/28/2023-03...

Folks act so salty about this all, such snark. But in my view so much was smartly done. There's so many layers of problems that needed to be tackled for consumers to actually get success, and it felt like these were gone through slowly carefully over time to make something useful and helpful.

For example, the charging standards require a certain amount of availability. Otherwise, folks might build some crappy chargers, not maintain them, and still claim money.

Folks have had all kinds of issues with chargers being not in service. Or fully used! One of the big requirements that took a while to hammer out was that chargers neede to live report their status: how many chargers are there, at what power outputs, at this location, and which are in use & what capacity is remaining? So you can get to the charger you are aiming for and have some real hope of charging up!

It's been just under two years since the standards got made. They're good, important standards, that insure this money was going to be for public benefit, that it really would tackle the problem. It is unsurprising as hell to me that there's not a ton of deployments yet!

For a "hacker news" site, I would expect a more reasonable set of expectations about product development lifecycle. Simply manufacturing compatible chargers is gonna take at least a year, in all probability. Site planning can somewhat happen in parallel, but going through the state to get the fed money is going to be a bit complex, especially at first. This stuff just takes time! The pool of money was mostly unspent, and I expect over time, as roll outs ramped up, the difficulty & costs would have been going down.

The political appetite & cycle is so contrary to the actual pace of the world some time. Sometimes we have to be willing to let good things take time to happen. It all felt so with-cause to me.
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> Brain-draining the world is really the key to cementing American Hegemony in a post-Cold War world.

One of the keys. Others are the USD as the defacto world reserve currency, the ability to project military might anywhere, and the US's ability to keep other countries from growing their militaries too much (making the other items in this list easier to manage). The US is quickly throwing all this away though.
TBF, I strayed quite far from “normal” keyboard as well [1]: I use a 36 key split (15+3 for each hand); Dvorak layout; all special symbols are on L2; return, escape, tab, and space are on the thumb clusters (along with backspace and language switcher); modifiers are on the home row. All this ensures no finger ever has to travel more than one key away from its resting position. I’m quite happy with this setup and am working on a thinner and more polished version of my keyboard. To each their own, I guess.

[1]: Writing the GP comment I was cautious not to be that rando who goes “you’re doing it all wrong! you gotta reconfigure your whole system and your brain!” to a stranger, so I limited myself to the, IMHO, bare minimum advice. ;)
They have nuclear weapons and a massive army/navy. They sure can pressure Brazil to not mess with them.
Brendan Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript and the former CTO of Mozilla.

While I don't support Prop 8 personally, I don't think we should judge technical products on political opinions of their author. You may think it's funny to advocate for bans and boycotts, until the other side does it too and we get a world split in 2 (or more).
I responded to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263416

Essentially, yes those other comments are linked to politics. All things could be extrapolated to politics. That doesn't mean we should directly talk about the political aspects, otherwise it drowns out curious discussion
>If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians?

No - but you will easily become more educated in math than most people. 99.9% of people couldn't tell you the difference between a derivative and a integral.

It's not about becoming an expert. You don't need to be the best in the world to be usefully good at something.
If you watched the address, it was clearly a side mouth joke towards the democrats. rolleyes
"You only need to floss the teeth you intend to keep." —my incredible dentist
Not true at the PhD level
> communication is utterly meaningless.

Well, at least to some extent. I mean, changing the inner state of an AI (as they are being built today) certainly is, because it does not affect other beings. However, the interaction might change your inner state. Like looking at an AI-generated image and finding it beautiful or awful. Similarly, talking to Miles or Maya might let you feel certain emotions.

I think that part can be very meaningful, but I also agree that current AI is built to not carry its emotional state into the world outside of the direct interaction.
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The core idea was to work with a commercial TV broadcaster in to embed the codes in certain ads, or have it as part of a TV show - so the "listener" would need an active app to handle it.

If it had all gone off well, the eventual plan was to have it be used on a live show where users could also interact. We had some prototypes ready with a native app - but then the Brexit referendum happened - and our company had a couple of clients pull out of upcoming projects - and the company got shuttered.
Ok, but taking two years to come up with a big document of standards while Tesla was able to just do all that by themselves and then build more chargers for less is kind of the issue. I appreciate that it's not easy, but the not-easiness is the problem.
Ah, that picture brings back memories - I used to have a successor of that machine in the mid nineties (PS/1000), it looked almost the same, except the handle was rounded and the power button was blue (a big blue button). And the CPU was IBM's very own "Blue Lightning" 486SX clone (75 MHz, but no FPU). It ran Doom great, but had to pass on Quake, which required an FPU for its polygon-based 3D graphics.
I'm not very good at dinensional analysis, but both 'units' and Wolfram Alpha agree that Nm and Wh are interchangeable.
This was the basis for IEEE-1275 Open Firmware, which nobody uses any more but was the standard for SPARC, PowerPC, and post-PowerPC POWER. It’s where device trees came from and frankly is how everything should be booting these days, not u-boot or UEFI or custom secure boot chains (which are entirely possible with Open Firmware too).

There are BSD, GPL, and other Open Source variants of Open Firmware you can get and fool around with today and if you’re building a new product you should still consider whether an Open Firmware would work for you versus one of its inferior successors.
I remember reading an article somewhere which explained why this was an impractical issue. I forget the details, but I think issues like weight, ending up with a battery pack that doesn’t hold its charge well, etc. were all big concerns. Weight seems like it would be a huge problem given that the battery is the largest component of the EV drive train and it’s usually kept along the floor of the EV for weight distribution.
There's a time window for downvoting, once it has expired nobody can do it. I don't remember what the period is, maybe 12 hours.
It’s not perfect, but I’ve found wezterms multiplexer quite good for this: https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html
Oil would be pretty much the same. Ag would be a chaotic disaster. The subsidies for ag were written in blood based on the need to smooth the natural forces of extreme cyclic market fluctuations that affect all inelastic commodities.

But a society cannot afford those cycles to play out for their food supply. Prices need to be stable and we need a slight oversupply of staples to be robust rather than perfectly efficient.

I’m not saying the subsidies are perfectly dialed in and that there’s no waste or pork. But some are very very necessary.
> ~60% of capital cost

As far as I can tell there is no source provided for the number. Nor is there are source for the stall cost.

Tesla almost certainly has the lowest stall cost on the market, while consistently providing higher uptime and reliability. I want to see numbers based on them. It is no secret that the other charging stall manufacturers are incompetent (terribly reliability and uptime), so it wouldn't surprise me if their hardware was designed poorly AND terribly high in cost.

According to a bid in Texas, Tesla's cost per stall was about 20% of competing companies. So is the cost a problem when the charger is designed correctly, or only when not?
OK, well it hasn't been MY experience at all, hosting your own legit email with a 100% score on mail-tester, SPF, DKIM and DMARC does NOT work fine because Microsoft still ends up marking all your emails as spam, so maybe you could consider your experience is not universal and just because it happens to work with your IP addresses doesn't mean that's the case for everyone else? Jeez...
Is there any universe where we go the electric route instead of gasoline back then? I imagine the range was nothing
A battery can weigh up to half a ton. Because of the weight, you want to keep it at a low position in the car. That is not easy to swap. By contrast consider that you charge your car. For a daily commute, the most practical is to charge it on your driveway or at the office. In my case that means I only have to consider public charging on vacations and longer weekend trips. Now this means my net travel speed is lower then. But I can adjust to that.
Nice to hear! I will definitely give it a go now. It was on my list.
Okay, so the US government gouges its on people by charging them tariffs. And Canada retaliates by gouging its people.

It's like they believe Trump's theory of tariffs.

"We're going to make Americans pay to do business here! Yeah!"
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I don't think economics itself has gone wrong -- I think the US economy in particular has done a poor job of distributing the wealth it has created.

Ironically, that has created a populist backlash that has vaulted even worse economic ideas into power.

Anyone read "Capitalism in the 21st Century"? It's long and dense, but it does make some excellent, well-supported points about the structure of an economy that explains the current situation very well with historical antecedents.

This won't do it justice, but: inequality always increases, by definition, if the returns on capital outstrip the overall growth in the economy. (Think through that if it's not obvious; it's literally a mathematical truth.) The book argues that history is a series of long, slow accretions of wealth, with increasing inequality, until some shock (usually a violent revolution) overthrows the old system, resets inequality, and the cycle starts again. The latter half of the 20th century, for the US, was one notable exception: growth outstripped returns to capital, so the benefits of that growth were widely shared: inequality decreased. That trend ended in the ~1980s, and the widening inequality gap has fueled unrest.

And the book points out that we've seen this show before. I think we're in the "history repeating itself as farce" phase, though.
> using opt-in customer metadata to improve their own free product, without distributing it to any third party at all.

Explain how that qualifies under California's law. The requirement that data be shared to another business or third party seems pretty explicit.
> Over the course of the Biden-Harris Administration, the number of publicly available EV chargers more than doubled. With approximately 1,000 new public chargers being added each week, there are over 200,000 publicly available charging ports.

The trick being played here is counting all charging stations in the US and pretending they're part of the IRA's funding.
'demoralization' is a good word to describe the mental state of imperial citizen

social being determines social consciousness, but social consciousness often lags behind social being.

when the empire was falling, its citizens still indulged in the eternal victories of the past. by the time they realized the empire's glory was irretrievable, it was usually already fallen.

this lagging may cause some consequences.

for instance, overconfident imperial citizens may try to contain rivals and prevent the empire's fall through various ways, tariffs, sanctions, or wars, the worst case

imperial citizens think a lot when they see this:

> In addition, we had and have military bases in Japan. This is not the same situation.

imperial policymakers may be rational, or may not be
I wonder if Gödel’s incompleteness can somehow map to the map vs. territory distinction.

The impossibility to exhaustively and precisely put humanity in words, like the impossibility to have provably correct and complete model of reality, is like the impossibility to have a fully precise map.

The biggest danger is elevating the newly created map to the position of your new, much more simplistic, territory that supersedes the original one, with all of its quirks and fidelity.
Interesting. Does revoking all funding for Ukraine equate to "walking it back"?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-hitting-b...
On this note, I used to make android apps on the oldest slowest phone I could find. Was always complimented how snappy my apps felt since most users had a modern phone
i am not making a browser but this guy is. you are downloading it on your machine, running your entire digital life via this guy. Even if the code is open source, have you actually read through everything to see if there is a backdoor of some kind. Bank accounts, ids, crypto wallet keys, just imagine all the things that are going through this person. If the guy is a good actor, no worries. Think of your course of action if the guy turns out to be a bad actor. You wouldn't even know who to sue
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
Yes, with https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd it's frequently possible.

(I've contributed to it. Very useful tool.)
> Nope. The lightning current won't go through the battery, it'll just melt the conductors in the charging cable.

This strikes me as a direct consequence of galvanic isolation provided by isolation link stage in prevailing architectures, something the article proposes to eliminate.

I'm struggling to imagine how a magnitude of surge energy sufficient to "melt the conductors in the charging cable" while directly coupled to a charger and without galvanic isolation leaves an EV's battery unscathed in such an event. What exactly isolates/protects the battery again?
I think I disagree, specifically because geohot does security. Security is fundamentally about finding the difference between what people wish or think is true, and what is actually true on a mechanical physical real and actionable level. That involves deep analysis skills and disregarding common consensuses in order to rebuild how things actually work from the ground up.

Questioning establishment dogma is largely forbidden, no matter what your establishment is, so it's absolutely worth considering outsider assessments.

Wars test base assumptions. It seems obvious that in a war, ability to take things out of the ground, turn them into bullets/drones/etc, and then get them to the front line is what matters, not what the stock market says, and not claims made with the backing of a military (such as how much the US dollar is worth, or who owns what IP).

I don't necessarily agree with his conclusions, although I understand where they come from.
Realistically, this is a pipe dream. China has had a few that are trying this NIO being the most well known.

To me, it's not really viable. The 3 main problems are - The extra costs in a vehicle to allow swapping within say 5 minutes is non-trivial. The physical space required to house X number of batteries ready, X number swap ready is a lot at any moderate volume. Last, Batteries are not universal and now you're constricting either the design of all cars or you have to go to a specific swap station that houses your battery, related to the physical space. I would not accept a battery w/ less volume.

Time will tell if I'm wrong; NIO might do it, but I'm a naysayer for sure.
Sure it will work. Even before I discovered this method (which is simple), I was using four spaces typed manually, for indentation in Python, for years.

Maybe it is you who "will not work".

Did you try it before commenting? I already said it works fine.
Jesus.

On top of your analysis of commands that might flag conflicting commands, shouldn't we also be analyzing the radar to make sure there aren't any obviously conflicting paths?

I saw your comment about pilot intentionality being the major time-saver but in a situation like the Potomac River crash, the intentionality and knowledge may have been a unintentional headfake for a system like yours i.e "Yes I see the CRJ".

Maybe it's 80-20 for you, with the Potomac situation being especially rare.
I thought we had already gone through this with Carnap and Logical Positivism.
Given the reality of Google's own TOS, privacy policies and history of privacy violations, I'm not seeing a reason to pass up switching to a browser where the most effective ad blocking will continue to work (even on YouTube).
I can confirm this. A Brother HL-L3270CDW color laser worked fine with third-party toner at first, but would not recognize it after a firmware upgrade. I tried three different sets of cartridges, including different brands - none were recognized, and there's no way to revert to a previous firmware version.

That was the last Brother color printer I'll buy, unless they go back to accepting generic toner.
> They also might want to consider that the sales could potentially be later determined to have been part of an illegal liquidation of a government agency - or even treason - and find themselves with nothing.

You really think that’s going to happen with the current SCOTUS majority? Even if a lower court ruled that way, you think the Roberts court is going to uphold it? And absent radical schemes like “court packing”, conservatives have got SCOTUS locked up for years, even decades, to come
Maybe you should prototype and get an investor?
Well it's patented and Tesla doesn't own the patent. But that aside, you trade a different set of problems, specifically what happens if the pack that is put into your car is damaged and as a result of that damage catches fire when it is discharging? That isn't something that happens with gasoline.

I keep hoping flow batteries can overcome their issues as replacing depleted electrolyte with charged electrolyte is much more like 'refueling' in the current sense of the word.
This. Maybe then upgrade to 240V and some standard-issue EVSEs.

And no need to invent new ways to charge people – paid parking is a solved problem. Just set out a section for EVs (and EVs only).
It's hard to know what would have happened had I stayed. Mozilla had a number of late layoffs, some cut good people, none helped. Cutting earlier could have helped more.

The "NGO" die was cast in 2003 when we spun out of AOL as a 501c3. I didn't get a say in that decision. It went poorly after the big Google default search revenue share turned on and the IRS reneged on their promise that we could take the $$$ tax-free as "sponsorship income".

This led to a battle where we ended up paying some back taxes, but contrary to the San Jose IRS agent's position, we did not have to go "be like Opera" and drop the 501c3. We rather used the typical (hospitals, universities, sports teams do it) non-profit parent of taxable for-profit subsidiary structure, with a trademark license fee kicked up to the parent.

The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board.

I think looking back that the nonprofit spinout from AOL was a mistake. It didn't focus on either technical excellence or pure do-gooding. It was an uneasy mix of both, neither fish nor fowl.

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.
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So, the iceberg only has a tip, right? Everything under the surface is "second order effects" and unimportant. We should have the intelligence of a 5 year old and do as we are told.
He's applying the same game plan in Gaza. He'll give Israel weapons and look the other way as they clear it out, and then he wants the US to profit. The US has done this before in Iran and various Central American banana republics, leading to the terrorism and migrant crises we still have today, but helping aggressors set up illegitimate governments was becoming more and more unfashionable until Trump came along.
> Nothing personal or valuable leaves your computer. Maybe the location queries, but I expect they are anonymized.

You said "That data doesn't leave the user's computer". It does. You may not consider it personal or valuable and may trust Mozilla's anonymization to be sufficient, but well-written privacy laws rightly do not grant Mozilla (or anyone less trustworthy than Mozilla) that kind of wiggle room.
Good one...?

If you gotta hand the neoreactionaries something, they sure have an unprecedented sense of humor.
I work for an international company, we talk.

Check your own resources / circle. It's pretty easy to verify.

Ps. Don't argue against the dictator https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0q184n7qnjo

Many don't seem to realize that removing bureaucracy and installing loyalists is exactly how a dictator becomes a dictator

And that's exactly what Trump is doing.

Eg. 6 january, it's really not that hard to see that Trump wants to cling to power and just earn an insane amount of money ( Trump coin, Melaniacoin, ... ), ignoring court orders, ... ( It's project 2025 and happening for weeks)

Claiming to have won the previous elections, with no proof

Do you have any proof that he isn't? Everything seems to support my opinion that Trump wants to be a dictator. He literally said so himself.

"I'll be a dictator for one day", we're currently 6 weeks in.
>evident

evidence, voice typing error.
exploring and sharing personal/retro looking websites
I love finding and exploring retro looking websites and often take motivation from them to change my own. I especially enjoy when they have blogs about weird things written in a candid, albeit often unprofessional way.

Here is my website along with a few others I have collected that I enjoy the content or layout of:

- https://danieljones.au
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150206041743/https://www.asty.org/cmatrix/
- https://aibohack.com/
- https://www.hugi.scene.org/
- https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
- http://www.doshaven.eu/

Post your own site or collection of sites you've enjoyed in a retro style