skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard process inefficiencies in their current manufacturing pipeline held as a criticism against Tesla. But while it's less ideal than having all the inefficiencies worked out already, I consider this _promising_. They have produced S&X at around 25% gross margin up until now, IIRC. If there is still relatively low-hanging fruit to be picked, that is another line of defense against being undercut by the competition.

As long as a significant part of that gross margin can be put back into capital expenditures (developing new vehicles and infrastructure, developing more manufacturing capacity), things are looking bright for continued EV development and adoption regardless of what the incumbent manufacturers are up to.
Thank you. I kept looking at Canakit and other sites.

Buyapi.ca seems a bit better. I specced a 2GB, heat sinks, a case. Totals CAD $95 (13% tax and $11 shipping).

My frustration is probably a combination of:

- I get to listen to US prices being advertised all the time. "$45 for a 2GB!" and my brain loves to not do the conversion from USD to CAD. This is a longer rant for another time.

- 13% freedom tax

- Amazon has spoiled me with free shipping so $11 has some sticker price shock to ship a little box.
Something to keep in mind - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D
> But I do not have cancer.

From my limited understanding, cancer comes from an unlucky combination of particular kinds of cell damages. Based on that, I'd say we all have some level of cancer-inclination that is non-zero and increasing in susceptibility. I wouldn't consider cancer a boolean.

But that's a great point. What impact does this have on those factors that lead to cancer?
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> Audiobooks just don't work for me, I would continuously zone out.

Try listening with an increased playback speed. Make it slow enough that you can still comprehend the book, but fast enough that it requires constant attention to do so.
I read this book more than 10 years ago as a teenager. My big takeaway: try to defer responsibility to something other than yourself or other people and you suddenly have a lot of room to say things that you otherwise could not say.
Source? I've had this happen to me once, but it was due to a battery fault (in the 12V battery amusingly, not the main battery that powers the car) stemming from some arse in a Jeep that hit me the week prior. Tesla sent a "ranger" out who fixed it in my garage in a few hours.

Try that with your toyota!
I'm not clear on what Whittaker's role was with regard to the Chinese project, but the final straw appears to have been her protest regarding the composition of the AI ethics panel.

How is an outside ethics panel going to affect their working conditions? The people on the panel don't have any say on employees' pay, promotions, disciplinary actions, assignments, or anything else that might affect their working conditions.

The idea was to have some people from outside the company look at the tech and its potential hazards and provide some input on the ethics of developing and deploying it. People inside the company said, No, we don't want that particular viewpoint to have a seat at the table on this outside committee. The ethics panel had nothing at all to do with their working conditions.
Looks like my sarcasm didn't go thru.
But nothing Google has done in these cases is illegal. The protestors just didn't like it, so that shouldn't be protected actions.
But Teslas also have the highest customer satisfaction: https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...

Even if reliability is statistically poor there must be something about the particulars that keeps them afloat. Perhaps the non-essentials are unreliable or perhaps Tesla is able to succeed by cutting corners on things that have been traditionally important but aren't actually important to consumers.
Thanks! I'll check those out. It would be amazing if someone had put together a piece that tied this all together.
The helicopter gets so close to the racers! Wouldn't the wind from the blades affect the riders?
Why only consider automated extortion, and not automated data analysis for good? For example, looking for patterns of systemic discrimination or racism that could easily be explained away as coincidence when looking at only a single incident, but is blatant when taken in aggregate? Or automated searches for suspected corruption or bribery?

I think the bias should be in favor of transparency. Automated information gathering can be used to protect the public as well as for harm.
I'm pretty sure the 4GB boards have not been shipping yet. Most places only have the 2GB right now and not even the 1.
Assuming that's true, couldn't that maybe be because exonerating evidence precludes the need for a pending investigation, whereas unclear or damning evidence requires further investigation to build a proper case before the whole thing goes to trial?

Our legal system is intentionally biased towards "innocent until proven guilty", so it generally makes sense to not release evidence of criminal activity prior to the case being brought to trial. The same obviously doesn't apply to evidence of innocence, especially if that evidence is strong enough that it likely means the case will never make it to trial in the first place.
For reference purposes, a shell of [evacuated] silica aerogel exactly 3 cm thick, around the entire planet, is about 4e12 m^3 and 4e12 kg.

That's 1/369th the mass of Deimos.
The expression refers to having enough money to not be beholden in the future, not just the present.

There is a big difference between having enough money to quit one's job for a year or two (and good for you!) and having enough money to quit working forever.
One issue is that while internal behaviors may mirror the situation isn't that comparable. Starting a new government in competition with your own another's borders is generally known sedition. Governments are defined by their monopoly on the use of force. Not so for even large corporations.
Car fleet operators find Teslas are not commercially viable because they have too many defects and the repair time is too slow:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27725/tesla-fleet-company-stru...
1. is a bit presumptuous though if you’re going to jump to the conclusion that they’ll never be happy and that this would be a continuous issue after the enacted change that they were protesting for. It’s a rather baseless assumption if the only thing to go off of was an organized protest with well-defined ethical motivations. Unless there’s evidence of rabble rousing intention, it seems that 1. is unreasonable.

With that said, I have not followed this closely. For all I know, that evidence does exist and/or Google leadership has chosen not make said evidence publicly available.
In addition to being somewhat condescending, your language seems to imply that an employee is never justified in questioning their company.

For instance, you've said "why people feel" instead of "why this person felt." Additionally, you're broadly referring to "companies" and not just "Google."

Whether or not protesting was the correct course of action in this particular case, I'm not sure. But please don't broadly imply that all whistle-blowers are entitled reward-seekers.
> Is it compatible with 100% of the code that the current DMD release is compatible with?

For practical purposes: yes. We use DMD for development and LDC for release builds, and it works really well in tandem.
Dont buy the official case. They will run hot.

Get one off amazon that has a fan. - "Acrylic case for raspberry pi 4"

edit - well it might not matter actually, I'd rather not spread false concern.
Pioneers are seldom welcomed with open arms and often made into pariahs. Not picking a side here, just stating a fact.

The fact is also such that most pioneers would not end up having chosen a better direction than status quo.

The harder some people try and toe the line, the harder some other people will try to rebel, and then the system starts trending more towards extremes.
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I doubt these vehicles made it onto the road with the half fixes, they most likely just used the tape to allow the vehicle to move down the line then when the parts were available replaced them before customer delivery. This is probably not apparent and not explained to the untrustworthly assembly line worker.
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Not my experience. Performance is pretty equal for me, always a bit laggy.
They already are. At least a dozen third parties have access to most material aspects of your care.

Public 911 recordings are essential as they are the a key way to evaluate the performance of the public safety services. Dispatch is public as well and should remain that way.
I deeply feel both sides of this.

* If I were receiving domestic violence and in fear of my life, how would I feel calling emergency services knowing my screams for help in one of my most vulnerable states in life would later be public?

* If I suspected I could be vulnerable to domestic violence, how inspired might I be to make the same type of call once hearing another person's similar emergency call?

Two sides of a coin to consider.
No that's correct. OP is talking bs.
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I think very few Americans would agree with you (maybe the far left?). But I lived in the South for awhile and I don't know a single person there than believes certain rights should be inalienable. Even the most hard core libertarians believe in inalienable rights. You should hear what they believe with guns. I'm not trying to get into a capitalism vs socialism debate, but just like there's no "true" socialist there's really no "true" capitalism. In fact I'd doubt the Scottish exist at all. It's always the middle area. But because we live in the middle area, just like with democracy, it is us who decide where we are in that. Not the system itself. The system is what we make of it and how we use or abuse it. I guarantee you that if you talk to almost any American they will agree with you that the system is broken and needs fixing. But as long as we quibble about who's a real Scotsman we can't work together to fix it.

TLDR: don't blame the Scottish, they don't even exist.
Doesn't this make it unrepairable though? (Honest question - I don't own a MacBook)
I do broadcast production for $JOB (as the other person put it) as well. While satellite transmission sounds a bit old, it is proven and widely understood in the industry, if you can get the signal 'on the bird', someone else can get it down. Meaning, the downlink facility at the broadcaster's operations center, other networks, etc.

[edit]Communication between aircraft is a mix of RF and microwave, likely.[/edit] With regards to the camera helo -> relay helo -> fixed wing -> truck workflow, it's likely based on the ability for the camera helos not being able to 'see' the fixed wing aircraft. For instance, since the tour goes into mountainous areas, the camera helos may go down into a valley or be occluded from the fixed wing air craft at various points in time. Using the relay helo allows the fixed wing to fly a less complex flight plan, reducing potential issues with its link to the trucks.

Finally, having all of this operated by professionals who have many years of experience is required for live production. You just can't tolerate any outages, so things like drones, etc, which require longer iteration cycles for updates in flight plan, etc become less of an option.
You forgot to mention what you use them for. My pi3 is inside a Lego case with no fan. I watch videos with it, use it as a git repo host and share files from it and have never had a problem. I never turn it off. But perhaps if it was compiling or something I'd need to worry.
The problem is lawyers not privacy. The 911 operators and the state obviously don't want sued.
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Indeed. I can't help thinking that the fact that some piece of tech makes a qualitative change like this means that there's some fundamental flaw somewhere with the way we associate a person with a public record or identifier. But I'm not really sure what that flaw is, or what to do about it.
macOS has DTrace, a powerful tool created within Solaris and later implemented both in macOS and FreeBSD.
This is a fair response.
You can influence change from the outside. And in tech where talent acquisition is a fierce game, employees leaving due to ethics would be the greatest show of force.
I haven't heard the label stoichiocrat[1] before, and Google search only finds this HN page. Do you know if many others share these views, and if they've ever been implemented?

It's easiest to think of rules in a black and white, opt-in or opt-out way, and I hadn't considered the probabilistic option.

[1] Without knowing the words, I think you mean "stochiocrat", which would be related to "stochastic" and probabilistic. Google found one result for this, but it didn't provide good context; I think it was referring to how Venetian Doges were elected [2]. "Stoichiocrat" would be more related to "stoichiometery", coming from a Greek word that can mean "element".

[2] https://theumlaut.com/mechanism-design-in-the-venetian-repub...
I am just counting on them not personalising my search results based on whatever data about me they have access to.

If they don't personalise then they essentially don't "color my world view".

I know google has a similar option, but I think some of us have stopped trusting them.
Explaining it is an uninteresting answer to an unasked question. The reason whistleblowers *(edit: or protestors) are protected is because everybody already understands why. Justifying it interesting.

It's obvious why you would fire someone for trying to start a union, or for turning down your sexual advances.
The screen is essential in Teslas. The screens have a high failure rate because they're not built to be automotive grade. Tesla went with industrial grade screens and they're not robust enough.
> The temperatures you listed are close to freezing (sometimes below freezing).

None of the temperatures listed were close to or below freezing. Freezing is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest temperature I mentioned was 42F which is 10 degrees above freezing.

> Are you sure working in a tent at those temps is "pleasant"?

I listed the min and max temperatures as well as the the average min and max temperatures for a reason. The average min temperature is 7 degrees warmer than the min and both would occur overnight.

Is the tent a 24 hour operation? If not then it's unlikely that workers would have to endure the "freezing" 42F weather at all.
This is true! A good article about this:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bicycles-bad-roads-det...
Certainly there’s a monopoly when the professor can mandate that you buy only their book from only once provider. :-)
Not really, because those are actually hate campaigns against men. Plenty of people would prefer their emploers to stay out of such shenanigans.
This is one of those expectedly fascinating reads.

If you haven't, I recommend seeking out the opportunity to go for a helicopter ride or to try your hand at one. They're really interesting aircraft. One of the tidbits I got is that they're far safer in normal operation than the numbers suggest, because they're often flown into the most challenging rescue situations where nothing else will do.

I remember watching the first US Grand Prix in Austin a few years back, and the commentators were specifically talking about how great the helicopter pilot was. I happened to be there for the race, but as it was my first F1 race, I didn't know if all the pilots got that low and aggressive, or if this was unique.

Another tidbit that sadly sticks in my mind is hearing about ex-Vietnam pilots flying over New Zealand while sharpshooters culled (invasive, non-native) deer.
Can't click any links/buttons on mobile (Android). Not exactly instilling confidence
Looking at the paper, I count 45 doctors and editors from across the world, who you've associated with what you regard as a 3rd rate website. It may be such but it behoves you to show that it is, by providing at least some credible evidence aside from the meaningless throwaway '3rd rate'.
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In the case of CockroachDB (a distributed database), it has the same wire-level protocol as Postgresql. So if your programming language has a Postgresql driver (and it likely does), then you can also talk to a CDB database as well.

The SQL dialects are not the same, though they are similar, so you will have to go through your code to see if you need to fix anything. Moving the data itself over is fairly straight-forward:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/migrate-from-postg...
Being objective about it would be the press paying the same amount of attention to it as equivalent mistakes of other car companies, which is none. Minor Tesla quality issues seem to get press on par with the VW diesel scandal.
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"Can we get a static analysis tool?"
"No we already have a static analysis tool at home"

Static Analysis Tool At Home:
sbcl --load
I actually think organizing a walkout is something you do if you don't want to leave. I mean, if they were really just fed up, they could have just left like you said. I think these people (as a couple have said publicly) really did want to help change Google for the better because they love at least some parts of it.
So, just to point out - the person is talking about badmouthing, you are talking about whistleblowing.

These are not the same thing at all.

In the US, talking about improving working conditions is also protected, but it's also not whistleblowing, either.

As a lawyer, i can tell you a lot of people badly misunderstand what "protected concerted activity" covers. It is not about your individual complaints. Explicitly not.

See, e.g., https://www.employerlaborrelations.com/2019/04/30/nlrb-publi...

"Charging Party 2 posted a 23-minute live video on Facebook during work hours and while in uniform talking about the discipline for wearing improper shoes and the confidentiality provision in the disciplinary notice, referencing the wage-and-hour lawsuits, making crude and disparaging jokes and comments about a supervisor, and stating that by asking Charging Party 2 to sign something interfering with free speech, the conduct of the company’s officials was “against the United States Constitution and you need to be shot on sight.”

As far as i can discern, hacker news would consider this protected because it complains, somewhere, about their working condition, and was in fact done as a direct response to being disciplined.

However, NLRB says

"The Division of Advice found that although Charging Party 2 referred to subjects in the video that could have been relevant to employees’ mutual aid or protection, the comments were entirely individual complaints and there was no indication that Charging Party 2 was speaking for other employees or seeking to act in concert with others.
...
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(They found it okay to fire this person)

In fact, the company had filed defamation lawsuits against the charging parties over the facebook videos, and the NLRB found that was okay too, because they weren't for protected activity.
Normalization of deviance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770562
4) Expand into horizontals/verticals

5) Financial engineering (e.g., open a finance / lending business)

6) Acquire competitors / complementary businesses that are also profitable.

7) Make leveraged investments using stakeholder capital (e.g., take on low interest debt, and invest in things with a higher expected return)

8) Regulatory capture (eliminate taxes, regulations, competitors — the latter two can boost the stock even if they have no actual impact on the business)

I’m probably missing countless other ways businesses can increase shareholder earnings.
Isn't it maybe because it does not?
I used to watch it for the landscape views, but I felt somewhat decadent doing so.
If you watch the Volkswagen IDR record breaking videos some of the helicopters have trouble keeping up with the unexpected speed of the car, particularly when there was tree coverage. People in the YouTube comments were complaining but it looked like a very difficult job.
All pollutants are existential threats to humans. As a matter of fact, that's a very large part of the reason we call them "pollutants". You're saying that CO2 can affect more humans, which is likely true. But whether you kill 100000 or 100000000, you're still killing. And though pollutants could kill 100000 or 100000000, to date there has not been such massive losses attributed to pollutants. (Dropping radioactive nuclear warheads on cities doesn't count, because we meant to kill those people.)

Also, pumped hydro is not geographically dependent. Where are people parroting that idea from? You dig a cylinder into the bedrock, water proof it and fill it with water. There's a piston at the top that lowers slowly over time, thus providing the flow back into the top of the cylinder for power.

Finally, every energy plant has enormous impacts on local ecosystems. Do you want to save the squirrels, or the humans? If you want to save both, Wind+Water is unquestionably the best system to build. But it's enormously expensive. (Ask the average civil engineer how much drilling the pylons for an average skyscraper costs. Yeah, this would cost even more and you'd be drilling pylon equivalents for 20 skyscrapers at the same time.) So people instead use the cheapest system to build, which is Wind+LNG.
The Raspberry Pi 4 no longer has incremental thermal throttling and was capable of running under "normal" desktop usage loads without active cooling.

Under benchmarking cooling was required to stay under the 80deg C throttle limit.

Article referenced:
https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b...
So use your credits before you cancel? Also why do you need to buy more credits? You can buy audio books directly for $ once you exhausted the credits. I use credits for audio books that cost more than the price of a credit and $ for audio books that cost less.
Agreed. And the elephant in the room: All major space programs worldwide are an integral part of their respective country’s defense program. And were from inception.

India lives in a dangerous neighborhood, and protecting its citizens is by far the #1 priority of its government. The space program will always be well funded as a result.
That was an awesome summary and a good example of the value of bug bounty programs.
Los Angeles has mostly inspection based fare enforcement and it looks like ~5% evasion rate. Doesn't seem too bad for higher throughput.

http://metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachments/94807457-8593-4...
Need not be that expensive. Lots of the preparation and training can be done on the ground, even outside simulators.

Let’s say 10 top pilots, each a year’s wages, additional costs for flying, etc. 10 to 20 million euro?

The TdF doesn’t sell tickets, but the organizer makes a healthy profit (https://inrng.com/2017/11/amaury-sport-accounts-finances/, of which likely half or thereabouts from the Tour de France.

(aside: ASO is a for-profit, and looks at the short term, to the detriment of the ever more popular women’s cycling. Earlier this year, they decided to move down two major women’s races (Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège) from the top flight level because they didn’t want to spend the money on broadcasting them that the international cycling union requires for top flight races (https://www.outsideonline.com/2397117/aso-bumps-marquee-wome...) )