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But I rarely see an analyst speak about Tesla's impressive record in building safe cars.

Tesla's car safety features are not a major selling point compared to its EV features, and moreover are generally features common to EVs (i.e., additional crumple zones, floor rigidity).

Tesla's autopilot still struggles to identify white trucks against a blue sky, and highway dividers, and can't seem to tell when the driver is asleep and has his hands off the wheel. So crash safety features take a back page to known dangers of Tesla cars that make Teslas more likely to crash than other vehicles.

Especially when there are car manufacturers who try to hide flaws which can lead to catastrophic malfunction or had been caught with cheat devices for emissions test.

Literally every newspaper and news organization in the US and Europe covered the VW emissions scandal. People went to prison over it. Billions of dollars in fines were paid. The stock price was downgraded by analysts for months. Ford and GM's stock prices are also down significantly despite near-record profits due to missteps in the sedan market. Analysts aren't biased against Tesla, they're biased against any company mis-executing.
Tangential to the topic, but does AirBnB operate under any regulations? When I was in Seattle, my apartment building ended up adding an explicit clause in the lease saying you couldn’t rent a property and turn it around into an AirBnB or any kind of room share for temporary or short term stays.

The legal framework wasn’t there (this is 2016 I’m describing), and so I wonder why go public now. Get a more solid footing and then lobby for regulation to drown out other start ups?
Kind of a tangent...

Here in San Francisco they recent built a large condos-and-University-campus neighborhood at the Eastern edge of the city. The thing is, the whole area is subject to nearly constant high winds (blowing from the West, where you find the Pacific Ocean.) All the trees that were planted for it are now bent over, and there are some areas where it's hard to walk.

It blows my mind that the whole thing was planned out and built without regard to this basic condition of the site.

In general, we have to start thinking out all the loops and side-effects of our designs, or we wind up living in a constructed hell.
That like saying that the porn industry is being subsidized for the costs of divorce
It used to be very common to see, it's probably just me, but I've not seen anyone chew gum in a few years - except those on nicotine gum. So I figured it has perhaps fallen out of favour, obviously it's still sold, so yes someone is chewing it.
"This pie chart, extracted from Webhose Cyber data, shows the subject matter of discussions in three leading imageboards: 8chan, 4chan, and endchan."
I liked the pie chart that comes right after, pretty cool, it's like they can tell the site DNA by looking over the different threads.
From my experience, dark web can be anywhere ... saw it in gaming chat platforms or even portals that nobody will believe.
I truly believe that the *chans are part of the extremist's hotbeds and I know for sure there are more out there more anonymous and well hidden.
Rumors recently mentioned around Zeronet and Telegram.
Yeah, there's also the benefits you get from longer exposures and the ability to swap lenses. I carry an Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 and Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6, which gives me a massive focal length range to play with in a relatively small package.

For a hobbyist like me M43 is great and won't be replaced by a cell phone any time soon. And as much as I'd like an A7iii I can't justify the extra cost and lens size for what I do.
While I largely agree with you, decades on it seems that if the message factors down to "quick, everybody stop doing stuff", it's hard to get political traction.

Every step in the right direction is a good one. Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Legally speaking you have to declare imported drives and pay taxes on them.
Could you find one economist that would say that an unpriced externality is not a subsidy?

This isn't a tortured analogy, it isn't an unconventional use of the term, these things are economically equivalent.

Most people don't know the word "externality," so using a less precise term that they do know is not in any way deceptive.
Making laws is one thing, enforcing them is a completely different story. The government has no chance to survive and should make their time.
Ecommerce is very mature and stable thanks to WooCommerce, which is now owned by Automattic. Granted, most implementations include customizations that make maintenance and bug fixing a headache, but that isn't the fault of WP or WC, it's the fault of the developers who hack away without documentation or regard for maintainability.
Amazon orders 100k Rivian electric delivery vans to go green
Thanks that’s good information. I still have a concern in that it appears this is a controlled pressure (it’s not a sudden violent impact), if it is a sudden violent impact then it’s not expressed that way to me.

Metal gives and then fails. Glass gives minimally, and depending on tempering, can fail very, very quickly.
In a way, yes.

The problem is, as you start donating more money to almost any organisation they start doing things that straddle the boundary of allowing you to audit that your money is being used efficiently, making use of your expertise, stroking your ego, polishing your public image, and soliciting further donations.

For example, inviting you to receptions with free drinks, providing chances for you to meet the people you're supporting, giving you tours where your guide tells everyone you visit how very powerful important you are, asking your opinion on proposed initiatives and so on - right up to naming buildings after you.

Needless to say, cashing a check you get from Jeffrey Epstein in the mail might be OK - but if you've built the Jeffrey Epstein Building you've got a PR problem right now.
All of you who are commenting on how it's unfair that this bill will mean most green cards over the next few years will go to Indians, how is it fair that Indians currently have an 50+ year queue for a green card?
As a personal anecdote, one of my reports (at a FAANG company) has a double Masters (CS and Math) from a top 5 US school, and is a star performer, and without this bill, he has no hope of getting a green card during his working lifetime. He says that he will leave the US if the situation doesn't change in the next few years.
The 4K comment was likely in refrence to streaming providers like Netflix, etc. which don't offer 4K content playback on devives which are not deemed to be adequately locked down, which is a typically a stipulation of their content licensing agreements.
At the Top SaaS Companies, Most Co-Founders Are Not Equal (and That’s OK)
This book was a tremendous influence on me as a young professional programmer. I still quote from it regularly. ("SELECT isn't broken!")
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Amazon Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2040
Yeah... I consider it an error of youth that I’m now stuck with.
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A lot of prominent bloggers and tech news sites, including John Gruber, The Verge, and many others, got advance devices to review. This is normal, and not unique to Apple. They also get Pixels and Galaxies in advance.
Absolutely not. Massive corporations (including many that are state-owned) being allowed to dump MASSIVE amounts of CO2 (etc) into the air that we humans need to breathe completely for free is not anything like the reductionist view of humans breathing air as an externality. For one thing, humans are fed ultimately by photosynthesis, which exactly compensates for the oxygen we breathe and CO2 we exhale.

But fossil fuels, on the other hand, are massive stores of an atmospheric state tens or hundreds of millions of years before humans existed. CO2 levels were so high, the modern human physiology isn't well suited, and your mental state would be as if you were in a stuffy room. The sun even was slightly dimmer at the time, it was so far ago.

And secondly, the amount of oxygen humans need and CO2 we expel is about two orders of magnitude less than that of burning of fossil fuels. To make that comparison is extreme dishonesty.

Requiring companies to pay for the externalities they foist on others is not "wholesale curtailment of liberties." In fact, companies levying those externalities on us without paying for it is stealing, i.e. the wholesale curtailment of the liberty of everyone on the planet. You have it exactly backwards.
Sounds like yet another over-zealous prosecutor hell bent on putting non-violent [and non-criminals] behind bars.
I find it mesmerizing that people on this thread have a problem with the criticism of a highly influential person upon their death. I mean were people bound to say only positive things when Augusto Pinochet and Robert Mugabe dusted off?

Obviously I don't think T Boone shares the legacy of violent dictators but my point is that those clutching their pearls here trying to categorically separate themselves from those who speak ill of the dead are not separate at all. They either don't believe what Pickens did was all that bad or they don't believe he did bad things. On their spectrum of "posthumous criticism" Pickens lies on the positive side of their personal threshold.
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Edit: sorry, misunderstood.
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While not networked to the national police I expect that many commercial security cameras do have facial recognition to identify suspected thieves and VIPs along with tracking movement habits through the store which is shared with advertisers and product manufactures to justify cost for higher profile shelf space.
Some homeschoolers say "When we worry about socialization for our kids, we grab them, drag them into the bathroom, and beat them up for their lunch money".

That is, socialization in the public school system very much has a downside.
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Exactly. Obviously we can't expect Bezos to meaningfully address climate change outside the bounds of people buying as much shit as possible whether they need it or not or whether they need it delivered next day or not.

But it would be nice if the overton window at least included the idea of rethinking how we consume. To the point where Bezos' plan could be considered for what it is.
Dylan, I was wondering if you could share your process for going from chapter text files to a full ebook? This looks like a really approachable way to writing a book. Is the conversion something scripted or is it a more involved process?
It's a kind of FOMO - you want to keep reading more posts or watch until the end of the video. Rarely you'll find something wonderful, often you get nothing out of it. That's how Skinner boxes work: if you got a reward 100% of the time, it's less addictive, and even with diminishing gains, people still stay addicted.

Going cold turkey works very well. It's about as easy as quitting caffeine. And because the gains are, in reality, really low, it's hard to get back in.

Another option is to simply break impulse. Allow yourself social media on certain periods of the day, or if it's really urgent, force yourself to wait about 10 minutes. That makes it a bit harder to build up a habit of browsing when you want to procrastinate. This is also similar to why the Pomodoro technique works.
This is quite interesting. I assume there are 3rd party alternatives for most of the essential Google apps which lets you access the google service like Gmail or YouTube
Perhaps people are keen to cash in before regulation catches up with them more widely?
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We know that it can't not.
Note: this quote is from Tesla, not the IIHS.

It's marketing speak and isn't supported by anything in the IIHS's actual public announcement on their most recent vehicle safety ratings. Tesla has received flak in the past for misstating the results of IIHS and NHTSA testing.
I thought they were sometimes prorated? I suppose that depends on the company policy though!
Which part exactly is it that is used to justify genocide? And how?

This response suggests to me it is quite likely you haven't read it.
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we can't "electric van" our way out of the climate crisis because it makes too little of a dent over too long of a timescale. bezos' plan is far too weak to even be worth media coverage.

mediocre quarter-measure plans like this one will keep us moving at full steam towards catastrophe. if bezos wanted to put a dent in climate change genuinely, he'd take the path of least resistance: subsidize a meaty discount on goods that emit the least CO2 during their production and use as measured by a third party authority. this would create a virtuous economic cycle of manufacturers competing for lower emissions.

instead, he's found a way to accomplish little other than self-enrichment while appearing to make an effort. well, bravo. bezos is well on the way to being the richest man on an uninhabitable rock of a planet.
"Your logic is right, but I doubt the exact number you used." is very far from saying an analogy is "tortured". It's an agreement that the analogy is correct.
Don't forget Toyota and the saga of the mysterious acceleration.

IIRC, Toyota was eventually successfully sued because they did not follow industry best practices in developing the sw for the ECU. Any idea if Tesla's software is following, say, ISO26262?
Reduce reuse recycle. It’s greenest and most efficient to eliminate unneeded consumption first. Then reuse through repair, buying used, hand me downs. Then comes investing in green machinery. Finally there’s recycling to recover raw materials.
"... effectively impossible to buy a new dumb tv unless you get the kind of commercial ones meant for installation on walls in commercial buildings ..."

Which is great news - they are fantastic displays, they last forever, and they behave just like a very big computer monitor.

NEC commercial displays (P461, for instance) are not expensive. I highly recommend you look into it.
I'm using a private API (_AXUIElementGetWindow), so the App Store is a no go. I'll see if I can get away without it.

If it's any comfort, I'm getting the app notarized by Apple ATM.
We mostly are.

The difference is that I don't object to the terminology, just it's intentionally deceptive application.
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You think the archtype of the edgy, rebelious youth is fictional? If you were too far removed from those groups of kids in high school, perhaps you should spend some time on 4chan.

>No. Banning Nazi content won't suddenly make it appealing to young people.

It absolutely does, because edginess is appealing to many teenagers/young adults. Not only that, but laws to this effect against blanket "hate speech" are regularly used by white supremacists and the like as evidence of, for example, Jewish people using laws to unfairly elevate themselves with the priveleges of a protected class while simultaneously suppressing thought that can lead to dissent.

Holocaust denial laws lead to increased suspicion with the justification that scepticism is banned to preserve a false narrative and prevent the lie from being discovered. It's easy to see how preposterous this is while the atrocity is relatively fresh in our collective consciousness, but what happens in 10, 20, 30 years when all survivors have been dead for some time and people rightly start to wonder why investigation of an event is illegal?

This is a weird form of puritanical censorship and the unintented consequences to society are far worse than any imagined benefits. You have no right to control thought in your image.

Edit: also, your hyperbolic mention of incest and necrophilia doesn't quite support your claims, as sexual arousal is quite strongly linked with taboo for many people, as evidenced by the wealth of voyeur, BDSM, and even incest pornography. It seems like these kinds of authoritarian proposals tend to come from sheltered minds.
Yep. Someone has his or her eye on a higher office.
> I believe the arm is designed to be supported by the horse's head, while appearing to be free.

There's still a big gap between the shoulder and hand where the blasted stone will need to support itself. Also the finger is a thin bit of stone.

> I wouldn't say it will never be completed, but perhaps the main thing separating this from, say, Mount Rushmore is the subject matter.

Interestingly Mount Rushmore was also never completed. The design also included the presidents upper torsos.
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Your answer for #2 doesn't really answer the question. How is "as often as possible" calculated? How is it determined if a website is relevant or not?
> If you consider tracking an anonymous identifier for the purposes of better marketing "spying" then I think that's a stretch

If information about me or my machines is being collected without my express informed consent, that counts as spying.

Also "anonymous identifier" is a bit of an oxymoron. If the identifier is unique, then anonymity is not part of the equation.
I think you need to give citations on those net carbon claims, because that's hard to believe.
This book is in my opinion the most important book for professional software developers. It teaches you the craft.
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I mean - less consumption is a topic even bigger than Amazon. The US economy has consumption as its very foundation. It’s not clear what we would turn to.

Step 1 is to do what you’re doing now but in a more sustainable way. Remember, our current state is we are debating whether we even ought to make change in the first place.

The larger shift to less consumption overall isn’t something we can achieve in 5 years. It’s more of a marathon that’ll take 20-30 years.
Right, my comment probably made it sound like I'm more in favor of a free market than I am. The point I was making that what we have now has so many deep flaws that it's likely that a free market would still be better, and a lot of the price stupidity you describe can be traced back to regulation encumbrance. Also note that I'm assuming some level of baseline regulation on the order of other industries, just as single-payer would still have some market characteristics (like choosing doctors etc).
Historically there's been a lot of anti-foreign bias and discrimination from US workers and companies, which in part goes under the heading of "cultural fit." But I've often wondered about it going in the opposite direction too. In an office where most of the workers have come from the same country (outside the US), is there ever a bias against US based, English-only speaking workers?
Not everybody on HN is in Silicon Valley, just FYI.
> Specifically, the article talks about how parsing JS is more costly than JSON - this cost will apply to the protobuf library which certainly far exceeds 10KB.

I would suggest reading the links I posted. The minimal protobuf library, which is suitable for working with static decoding, is 6.5KB [1]. Again, you're right that the size of the protobuf library will be an important factor in dictating the scale at which it's more effective than JSON parsing but your sense of the factors is off - a light protobuf library doesn't reach 10kB let alone "far exceeds 10KB".

Furthermore, if your pages use the protobuf library already for other uses like decoding and encoding RPC messages then loading and parsing the protobuf library is basically free - you're going to be doing this anyway.

1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs#installation
Tech is the same as it ever was, trying to convince yourself otherwise is rewriting history.
Sounds fascinating. Please tell us more.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. That number needs to come way down if we want to step back from the brink of destroying the planet. The sooner people realize this, the more likely we can find a solution before we make the damage irreversible (to the extent that it isn't already, since extict species will never come back).
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The lack of perspective and basic reasoning on this is staggering.

> shitty wages, hours, and work environment.

A "shitty" wage is better than being unemployed and making 0k. Perhaps not if we were talking about at or near minimum wage. But we're not. We're talking nearly double the median income of the location in question and well beyond the poverty line.

If there were really this untapped market of native talent to replace H1-B imports, that are on average making $80k (actually $100k for tech), then that immense pool of workers can settle for $70k, $60k, $50k, $40k, $30k... and why wouldn't these companies take them at some low price between $100k and minimum wage? Why would these companies insist on hiring H1-Bs at a $100k a head if there was this large population of native, qualified, unemployed workers making $0 that would be lucky to get a measly $40k (to throw a number on it).

"Legions of smart lawyers" also sounds expensive. You don't need a legion of smart lawyers to hire from this large, unemployed, qualified, bonafide American talent pool that you insist exists.

The mental gymnastics H1-B paranoiacs go through does not fail to impress. During the first dot-com bust and post-recession at least it had a whiff of plausibility. But tech employment is at all time highs, it's beyond ludicrous.

And another thing that doesn't add up, the average for non H1-Bs in that pdf was close to $200k. And the unemployment rate in Texas is lower than the national average which is already low. In tech heavy cities like Austin it is even lower (near 2%!). So I have seen no strong evidence that H1-Bs are pushing American tech workers out of the middle class, the opposite in fact.

If you really know someone in tech that is unemployed and making nothing, then either they are not qualified or they have some other limitation making them unemployable. There are plenty of job listings at all levels across the US that are not open to H1-B sponsorship and some that are open just to US citizens (and do not require an existing clearance). Scapegoating H1-B programs in this economy isn't even offensive, it's just sad.
Yep. With California’s for all its environmentally table pounding, I still can’t get from LA to Palm Springs by train.
I have experience with the same setup - quarterly goals split between project goals and some training/process improvement type goals.

Most of the time it seems people just write down what they should be doing anyways, which defeats the purpose! In school "bonus" always meant going above the regular work (not that I am advocating tying additional money based on working more than your normal job - that seems like it would negatively effect morale over time!)
The company has been around for 10 years without shipping a product. To me the bigger question is whether you'll ever be able to buy one. By contrast, Tesla started in 2003 and shipped the Roadster in 2008 and the Model S in 2012.
I'm so glad I'm not alone in this.

I never even bothered to learn Bash properly because even that's difficult, and I figured it'd be "good mental money after bad". And, now that Python ships with all distros, I feel even less need to.

I do like Bash's range syntax though:

for i in {0..5} ; do echo $i ; done

Like Ruby's. It's so nice! D: I lament Python's lack of it.
Wait, what is Sonos doing that am I missing?
I was a huge fan of Kimono as well. You can't edit an API for now but we will add this feature in the next release.
> For example, imagine you build the plainest possible website, with static content. Do you want WordPress to run PHP on the web server every time someone visits a page? Of course not. But unless you install a caching plugin, that’s the situation you’re in.

Or, and maybe I'm being crazy here: don't use Wordpress if all you need is a static site?