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I cannot imagine the product teams that designed the Audi e-tron or the Mercedes EQC having sat down and said, "Let's build a car to compete with Tesla." What they created did not attempt to meet Tesla's strengths.

Tesla understands that the thing that new EV owners really want is to feel secure (read: range and chargers so they're not stranded) and to have their newfangled electric cars feel "futuristic" (read: spartan interior, big touchscreen, autopilot, OTA software updates).

Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes, et. al think that new EV owners want the same driving experience they had in their gas cars, only with an electric drivetrain. So they made their cars heavier in their pursuit of making the cars quiet, which they accomplished quite well. They preserved much of the body styling at the expense of drag because they assumed customers would want that brand identity. They targeted the "non power users," in that they held back a significant chunk of the battery from the consumer (~20% for the e-tron) so that consumers in hot climates couldn't wreck the battery by habitually charging all the way to 100% and letting the pack sit like that, which destroys lithium ion battery chemistry.

Tesla on the other hand spent their complexity budget for the Model 3 on extracting as much range as possible with as little expense as they could. As a result, the car is significantly lighter, and anyone who owns a Model 3 can attest to the fact that there's a lot of road noise. This is immediately solvable with heavier materials, but Tesla understands that the first batch of Model 3 owners strongly prefer the range over the creature comfort. And that the first batch of Model 3 owners are less likely to wreck their battery packs by habitually letting them sit overcharged for long periods of time. So they can expose the full battery packs to the consumer and get that 20% range boost over competitors who hold that back from the consumer.

2020/2021 is starting to get interesting with the Ford Mach E, the Volvo Polestar 2, the LEAF Plus, the second-year Hyundai Kona Electric and Kia Niro Electric, and the updated Bolt, together with the very rapidly expanding Electrify America rapid charging network. Tesla will continue to optimize for range and will likely keep a "stats lead" on the competition, but as range anxiety starts to be alleviated the second generation of EV converts may shift their demands away from range and toward other characteristics of the vehicle such as the interior and road noise isolation. It will be interesting to see where that goes.
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I'm hoping it's less itch-provoking as well. I can't lie on grass without irritating my skin like crazy.
Kaiser varies significantly based on which center you end up in. I've heard very good things about the Redwood City location and very bad things about Santa Clara. There're probably similar variations among its other hospitals. YMMV.

I've been on various Anthem PPOs of varying quality (Google's covered basically everything with zero copay or deductible, their individual plan wouldn't even cover my PCP, my wife's plan was in the middle but getting progressively worse). There's a convenience/flexibility tradeoff. With Kaiser you know that they'll take care of you but you don't have a lot of flexibility or recourse if your particular needs don't meet what they offer. With a PPO you have a lot of flexibility to choose the best providers available, but you have to fight with the health insurance company for a lot of things, and the administrative hassles can be a huge burden.
If you work on a team, then I'd say the change in attitude was more visible in the teams productivity that you own.

If you work solo, then I'd guess your manager just liked to see you more outgoing, since it gives the appearance that you enjoy working there and aren't looking for a job somewhere else.
In Zig they do; here is an example: https://clbin.com/HlJ0X

Output:

Test [1/1] test "bit field access"...
*align(:3:1) u3
All 1 tests passed.

Zig's pointer type has optional metadata to describe alignment, sub-byte offset, and SIMD vector element index. This generally makes things just work, and you'll get a compile error if you expected an unadorned aligned pointer. If I were to swap:

- fn deref(ptr: var) u3 {
+ fn deref(ptr: *u3) u3 {

Then I'd get:

test.zig:13:23: error: expected type '*u3', found '*align(:3:1) u3'
assert(deref(&data.b) == 2);
^
Shadows in the Vineyard [0] has a chapter about this for the benefit of anybody interested in reading about the incident.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774145-shadows-in-the-...
WINE/Proton are not emulators.
Ah - you are right. Thanks for catching the misinterpretation on my end.
Wow. Thanks.

I guess that Enrich isn't expecting any other potential sources to trust him.

And if the New York Times has supported Enrich's behavior, it damages their journalistic integrity.
> If you want performance reviews to actually matter, allow people to set goals that do not always benefit the company. Understand your employees have many different interests and give them space to explore those interests.

I gotta confess, I'm very deeply confused by this.

The company's goal is to develop their staff in ways that benefit the business the company is engaging in, because the purpose of the company is to be successful in that business.

If I'm operating a company that produces bread, no, I'm not going to help you develop your skills in woodworking. Why would I? If you really want to learn professional woodworking, develop those skills on your own time and then go get a job as a woodworker.

Or, accept you work for a company that needs people with skills related to baking bread, and develop your skills accordingly.

Or, alternatively, convince me why your becoming a skilled woodworker is good for my bakery business.

That said: If the company wants skilled bread bakers, they should be providing the time, space, and resources to allow their staff to develop those skills during their time at work. They should not expect people to continue to develop those skills outside of work. That's your time to use as you see fit, including picking up those woodworking skills if that's what's really important to you.
That term sheets are not binding is technically correct (the best kind of correct, I'm told). But it should be so reputationally bad that it should only happen among third tier players and wannabes who don't have reliable limiteds.
> Are these for more than 40 hours a week?

No

> Is silicon valley really that expensive?

Yes yes yes oh my god yes. Rent eats most of the difference. 300$/mo for a parking space, etc. However, non-local things (like amazon purchases) are the same price everywhere, so you still have lots of purchasing power for those things.

> Or are they literally giving college grads enough money to retire by 35?

Only if you play it right. If you have a high-earning spouse or are willing to live with multiple roommates into your thirties, have no kids, rent an apartment, and live modestly + save diligently. Want to live alone and get food and drinks with your friends every day? That will seriously handicap any strides towards financial independence until you're nearing the 300k range, and even then it takes you from "rocketship bank account" down to "really great life". Very much a first world problem, but if the goal is "retire at 35", the distinction matters.
10-18 hours a week or 10AM - 6PM work schedule?
When I applied 5 months ago, you said you "only hire people which are already living in the Netherlands". Is that still the case?
I don't want to go back to an archipelego of incompatible networks; at one point we were struggling to cross the WWW, BBS, CompuServ and AOL divides.

It's different than the modern era of different and incompatible messenger software; at least Discord and Slack route packets on the same network.
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Yeah, that sounds horrible... if it is anything like Nextdoor, there will be three posts a day about "There was a black guy sitting in his car!"
Does up-leveling happen too? If you were senior or staff at Google, can you get a Principal job at a smaller growth company?
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>One could even make a decent claim that (barring some truly ancient hardware between input, CPU, and monitor / audio circuits) it's impossible.

I think that's only if we ignore monitor refresh rates. Most of us are maxed at 60 FPS which with a lot of hand waving is equivalent to ~17 ms latency. It's relatively easy to get a network with latency better than that. If you can achieve the rendering + data round trip in under 17 ms you're going to be functionally equivalent to a local computer.
> It wasn't until the mechanical lawnmower that the grass lawns became entirely useless. Grass is ruminant food, and ruminants are meat.

But ruminants were never a part of the American suburban lawn the way they were in old world villages and wealthy estates. American lawns are almost completely post lawn-mower.

The American suburban lawn is an explicitly visual copy by the post-war working class of the luxuries previously available only to the upper classes of both American and European societies, minus the undesirable aspects like manure.

The new resistance to lawns is occurring in places where the post-war fantasy of pseudo aristocratic life for the working class is breaking down, for either economic or environmental reasons.
They could be entirely legitimate, potentially profitable companies, and still not be worth half their current alleged valuation. I am not familiar with either, I'm not saying this is the case, just saying they could be entirely legit from one point of view, and still not a good investment.
> They require ridiculous access to personal information like location [2].

I know I'm late on this, but both Android and iOS require location permission to get any access to WiFi scans or AP MAC address data. Sonos software scans to discover new devices, and that scan requires those permissions. If you can get a list of nearby APs, you can use the skyhook database to discern location. Thus, location permission is required in order to setup new devices.
My context:

The United States of America is a poorly designed political science experiment. It provides no means to peacefully revoke consent to be governed. There's no peaceful way out of the experiment, and so it violates a standard ethical norm for science experiments.

I seek the death/transformation of any science experiment not allowing for peacefully revoking consent to participate in said experiment.

Note: if revocation of consent leads to forceful removal from the country, I consider this to be a response that is not peaceful.
>Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need.

This is true and fully agreed. Home reactors are not really feasible or even a good idea.

>Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology.

Plants are expensive due to the regulation and insurance making them that way. Safety with nuclear is obviously paramount, but political and social pressure has expanded a lot of the requirements to quite a high degree. Additionally, renewable are also subsidized quite a lot and are not always viable in all locales. Storage tech is good for all forms of power generation.

>Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global electricity generation in the late 90’s but has fallen to 10% in 2019.

Nuclear also has a lot of fearmongering and red tape around it. Plants are reaching their EOL and in many cases new ones are not being built due to the cost of getting through all the red tape (getting approval from the feds down to local government, dealing with inevitable NIMBY lawsuits, etc). Renewables are the future, but we aren't fully in the future yet.
Have you ever introduced yourself to a stricter dotted line?

How about one where the letters aren't in your language?
..the book.

It's about not being in the wrong place at the wrong time only when you're losing. Otherwise it's being not intentionally menacing.

Way, way about making sure you can know who the other is. And then about sleep.
On the licensing front, one thing that has really helped me is adding a script to my build / CI process that scans every package I'm dependent on for a LICENSE / COPYING / etc. file and then runs through a set of dumb fingerprints to match on different licenses for a combined whitelist / blacklist approach. Packages with no recognized license file or license are rejected. Then it spits the licences out into a map[string]string in a file where the Go package maps to the license string which gets served up on its own HTTPS endpoint to keep in compliance with copyright notice requirements.

In case it's useful to anyone else, here's an older copy of it: https://gist.github.com/robmccoll/240317eceb73e3f4e29ea662e3...
We have that, although not very granular, in the Netherlands:
‪https://www.luchtmeetnet.nl/metingen/locatie/Groningen-Europ...

Check the values (eg BM2.5) around new years eve due to fireworks...
Single-party voting is not necessarily irrational. A vote is a compromise. In a democracy, you need a majority to achieve anything, and with many options available, it's going to be rare for any single option to pass 50%. You get things done by making bargains with other voters. And those bargains have to be durable over time: I'll vote for your thing today if you'll vote for my thing tomorrow.

A party is a semi-formalized way of acknowledging those long-term bargains. They are sets of people with overlapping concerns -- sometimes distantly overlapping, where A and B have things in common, as do B and C, but A and C barely recognize each other. But if you can't get A, B, and C all to work together, none of them get what they want.

And in the worst case for them, X, Y, and Z achieve what they want instead -- positions that A, B, and C all agree are bad. The party that behaves with unity will get things that some of its members want and all members can live with. The party that has people opt out every time they disagree will achieve less-than-nothing.

The point is that a party can be a rational long-term decision even if it seems in conflict with short-term interests.
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At least it is private by default now...but the point stands.
Amazon drives deeper into cars with new Alexa partners, Echo Auto expansion
Ask HN: Are there any good, privacy-respecting health/activity trackers?
Now that we're in January and many of us will be thinking of our health, I wondered if Hacker News readers have some recommendations for health/fitness tracking hardware like heart rate monitors, step counters, etc., ideally in watch form that respect privacy.

I've looked devices from Fitbit, Polar, TERMINICE, etc. but I don't like the idea of hardware that requires a closed source app to access or visualise your data. The risk that they sell, use your data against you or lose your data in a breach is too high. Ideally I'd like something that logs health parameters then lets you transfer it over a LAN/Bluetooth to a computer for further analysis. Other functionality like GPS tracking, music etc. is a plus.
Considering that the regulations are there to help websites getting rid of their addiction to personal details, it seems fitting!
There appears to be some kind of smear campaign waged against Samsung by its foundry competitor TSMC at national level. Not sure about this insecurity or fake rivalry by Taiwanese tech companies who see Samsung as a major threat (https://phys.org/news/2013-04-taiwan-tech-industry-samsung.h...), but according to Reuters:

ASML rejects Samsung's involvement in IP theft case with rival, APRIL 17, 2019,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-spying-samsu...

Samsung invested heavily in both companies XTAL and ASML (and owned at least 5% of the company at one point). Further, Samsung was never in semi-equipment/chemical business -- that's simply not their core competence.
I don't think that what Yossi said is even correct, much less an accurate representation of Moore's point of view.
"Why I wouldn't need the fastest and only take a faster solution?”

Nobody needs “fastest”. “Fast enough” always is sufficient.

Also, I don’t think anybody has the money to pay for ‘fastest’ for any significant algorithm. CPUs are just too complex to be able to categorically claim “this is the fastest possible”.

There likely also is a point where you aren’t willing to pay for ‘yet a bit faster’. You may want to pay $1,000,000 to double your speed, and $10,000,000 to do that again, but at some moment, the price for a 1% speed increase will be too high for you, and that isn’t even the end game, which is “give us loads of money and we’ll see what we can do to get any speed increase”.
From your link:

>NAM report concluded that BIR costs totaled $361 billion in 2009—about $466 billion in current dollars

>12.3 percent of spending on private insurance; and 3.5 percent of public program spending, including Medicare and Medicaid

So a difference of 8.8%. A savings of 41 Billion. So we'll add it to the 106 bil for removing insurance. And we're at 147 Billion. Or 4% total.

Even if we use the other estimate they mention. You're still looking at less than a 6% savings.
Yes it’s the PTU. If the noise is in the parking with engines stopped it maybe the yellow electric pump, used to open and close the cargo doors.
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Well, not really. Look back at the salary levels from the levels.fyi PDF. Most people downleveled from senior will end up one or two levels up from new grad. That puts you below the numbers from my comment, but not by a whole lot! And after one promotion you'll be at or exceeding my present situation.

I am much closer to the floor (new grad) than I am to the ceiling, as far as FAANG salaries are concerned.
>If your spouse does something that drives you nuts, do you bottle that resentment up and save it for later (too late) or do you have the open and honest conversation to get through it early?

Of course not, I wait until the end of the year, compose a 360 analysis using feedback from 5 of her peers, and we work through her KPIs together.

Come on, this isn't about ego, if you had the social interaction of a "performance review" in any other setting, people would think you're a psychopath.

Coming away from these meetings with positive feelings seems more like Stockholm syndrome than anything else.
I think mice could easily be used to infect hardware because my Razer mouse tries to install some crapware occasionally.

I think I have only seen it in Windows but I don't know if that means linux cannot arbitrarily execute files hosted on a mouse, or if Razer skips the install because it has no compatible crapware.
Nuclear professional here. It is true that economics for electricity-only plants have historically struggled to compete with conventional sources, actually below closer to 800 MWe.

The Small Modular Reactor hypothesis is that economies of mass production could conceptually be built that overpower economies of scale. The small reactors of the past, including the ML-1 truck-mounted military microreactor were 10x too expensive even for the military in remote areas. Just building a few small reactors is a losing proposition. If you can get them to "go viral" before they've achieved economic parity, then there's a chance. That will only happen if you successfully market their 24/7 very-low-carbon, very-low land, very-low raw material footprints.

I think for climage change purposes, we should focus on getting costs down on 500-1000 MWe plants. If it takes another round of small prototype non-LWR reactors to get there, then so be it. But large stations are what will displace most of the 84% of the world's energy that is fossil fueled.

Regarding the competition, low-cost fracked natural gas has been deadly to nuclear. I don't think most people realize that fracked natural gas, while great in the deadly air pollution department, is just as bad as coal in the climate change department (when you factor in the methane leaks from wells and pipelines). So if markets can price carbon emissions, natural gas can be ruled out. If not, natural gas will continue to drive nuclear plants to closure and then replace them.

Extremely cheap renewables are a friendly competition to nuclear in that if they're successful, the goals of the nuclear proponents are met: clean, plentiful, cheap energy 24/7. At the moment, the major issues of land use, raw material use, and intermittency are not causing much trouble for renewables. But as they scale up they may encounter more difficulties. All energy sources experience new troubles and regulations as they scale. Coal got scrubbers and filters (doubling+ capital costs), nuclear got the NRC, solar in California recently ran into NIMBY in San Bernardino county desert. Will that continue to get worse? Or are the positive attributes of renewables so good that people will continue to embrace at scale? I honestly don't know. I keep working on nuclear because it's a good high-density resource.

TL;DR: Include carbon-free as valuable in markets and nuclear would do great.
> 4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch.

That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves.

Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence?

Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?

Why would you surrender your home, not only your safe haven in life but also your gateway to low effort exploration of your surroundings to wide-spanning AI surveillance and automated purge of any nuisance?

Maybe I am just weird or out of touch but I can absolutely not get in my head how people surrender to such a dull dystopia based on an apparent fetish for weaponized gossip and abnormal levels of fear of petty crimes...
Trump again... Jees, I thought partnerships like US and the EU would survive a long time.

But 4 more years of Trump could truelly by a disaster for our political/economic relationship ( source: I know someone deeply involved with these things, I live 50 km's of Brussels)

I know HN doesn't like politics, but it's insane that I haven't seen any opinions or protests against Trump here. It's like everyone is following Fox news ( I don't mean the last sentence though, a matter of speech) and is ignorant about his abuse of position for personal gain. It's the president and people should worry about how America's foreign image is falling like never before.

And I'm talking from a standpoint from a long political/economic ally.

Trump has 1 communist leader as a friend, that should be troubling, no?

Edit: if downvote. Please state why you don't agree.
Thanks for the link.

Users outside of Germany already use it. I think I will participate. For some time I was thinking about an amateur network of air pollution sensors, that seems to be it. Is there something with more reach in Europe or at least Poland (where I'm at)?
Universally? Or just on the OSes you're familiar with?

It may be useful to explore why they teach those techniques before passing judgement on a whole ecosystem of educational material.
FYI, using `local foo=$(some-command)` does not actually make the variable local.

main() {
local count=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
echo $count
foo
}

foo() {
echo $count
}

main

prints:

2282
2282