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Trashing returns of perfectly good products is unfortunately nothing new. I had a friend who worked at a transfer station in the early 2000s that got sent returns from PetSmart. The return reason was written on a label. Some stuff was defective of course, but others, it was some trivial reason like the customer didn't like the color. The item was in otherwise perfect condition and going to the landfill. I name PetSmart only because my friend was on the lookout for pet stuff; it would be no surprise if other retailers had the same policy.
And there are lawsuits quite regularly too: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1099200_nissan-leaf-bat...
The cool thing about EVs is that they have an instantaneous power meter in them, so there really is no need to speculate.

The following numbers roughly correspond to my 2017 Model S: At 30mph the car consumes approximately 200Wh/mi (6kW or 8hp) and at 70mph approximately 300Wh/mi (21kW / 28hp). This is the power required to maintain these velocities against all external factors, and therefore is exactly equal to the power required to tow the vehicle at these speeds.

If you have regen set to normal, the car will supply up to 50kW / 67hp through regen. TBH I don't know exactly what the minimum speed to achieve full 50kW is, but I am reasonably confident that the car will do it at 30mph since the tires have more than 10 times the required grip to do it.

Towing at 30mph = 56kW / 75hp, 89% charging efficiency, equivalent to a ~2000lb trailer
Towing at 70mph = 71kW / 95hp, 70% charging efficiency, equivalent to a ~2500lb trailer

The trailer weight estimates are roughly basaed average of engine power / towing capacity figures for medium duty pickups. The tow vehicle to do this safely in my estimation should have a 250hp power plant or larger.

The biggest flaw with the linked article is that it's not necessary to go 70mph to achieve the maximum charge rate from regen, and indeed it is less efficient to do so.
But they'll sell at a higher volume and be able to reinvest in R&D. Boston Dynamics needed constant injection of capital.
Love that episode, but I don't think this would work at all. Attaching a kite to that vehicle would only slow it down.
You could try Wireshark. Its primary focus is analyzing network packets, but it does support a few file formats and ELF is one.
Counterfeit, recalled, hazardous, unlicensed, etc items can all be "new". And need to be destroyed.

The article is heavy on implication and light on facts.

They are destroying things for a reason, which isn't given. It could be a bad reason of course, but probably isn't.
Yes, but to make that work you must do it for every change you want to make, even the most trivial. Find a typo while you're working on something else? You can't just fix it. You have to branch, edit, cherry pick, commit, and then push to make sure someone else doesn't find and fix the same typo. It's damned annoying because it would be so simple to fix: just tweak the diff algorithm to check if the conflicts are identical and auto-merge them if they are. How hard can that be?
> This is the ultimate human-in-the-loop based AI you can ever have.

Where do you see AI in the article?
Ours did the same thing, although we generally vote on which friday it will be for the upcoming month - people often choose to line it up with another stat holiday to make 4 day weekends. I agree that the empathy part of this really means a lot to people.

I'm really curious how long we'll keep that in place, especially after re-opening the physical offices.
This has been the case in PC VR for years. The Valve Index has a combined 4.6 MP at up to 144hz, with reprojection and motion smoothing so that the image still updates with head movement even if the application hitches. Or now you can get the Vive Pro 2 with 12 MP at 120hz. Or wireless oculus quest 2 with 7 MP at 120hz. The novelty would be a clear screen, or forward facing cameras, and a useful AR overlay.
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Take a break, travel, refresh, and then start looking for another job that gets you excited again.
Let's hope it won't be locked up behind AMI BIOS, Intel's UEFI or ME firmware.
I was on the verge of failing Distributed Systems senior year of college
Less commercialized for sure, and certainly not being entirely consumed by predatory data gathering tactics. Also, I can recall in the early 2000's being enamored with the idea of cheap, unlimited, and ubiquitous high-speed wireless replacing all terrestrial infrastructure. Sadly, ISPs have colluded to ensure that never becomes a reality. I guess I'm just mad at commercialization overall?
I think the number-one thing that determines how quickly you burn out is if you have hobbies or not. Everyone who I know that stayed consistently passionate about their primary field always had other stuff to come home to. If you focus all of your energy on one topic for a prolonged period of time, you'll certainly drive yourself into a rut. Find something else you're passionate about, and turn it into a hobby. Or maybe use this as an opportunity to learn that one thing that you've always been curious about. The world is your oyster!
I wish the standard would have adopted your proof of concept! I don't think you will get a lot of support here though, privacy skepticism regarding COVID seems to be met with downvote brigades.
What about infection? There many transmissible diseases amongst animal species.
I know this is a little weird, but everyone I know in downtown Austin (where bumble has their offices) had a marked increase in despair/depressive symptoms with the summer jump in heat.

In my experience that's been true every year (and I normally try to leave the city for August) but especially this summer post pandemic, post icepocalypse.

I wonder if that's part of it.
yep, that's right. Or rather, origin and master are just two parameters given to pull/fetch/push to describe a target while origin/master is just the local name for, as you say, the locally cached ref.

Comparing against that locally cached ref is also what git uses to tell you how far behind/ahead of the upstream you are in `git status` or whatever. Fetch and push are the only git commands that actually talk to a remote (at the "user level" of the command set anyways, those are also composed of lower level commands).
Congratulations on your book! I am fortunate enough to know quite a few languages, so I decided to pick one for all my needs and it seemed Python fit them. Then I recently read on HN "Why Python is not the Language of the Future"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562931

The arguments put forth seemed weak, but wondered what you thought
Wouldn't this likely be using asymmetric encryption though? In that case obtaining the public key from a stolen receiver would only let you read the high-precision P(Y) signals – you couldn't spoof them since you still don't have the private key.
Move to a different city.
Take an extended break.
I’ve seen both these ideas work for me in the past.

Other ideas (ymmv):
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Thanks for the explanation, now I get the remarks better.
If they're journalists then are they really internet trolls?
This is completely unacceptable. This is like your fully-purchased electric vehicle refusing to start anymore unless you pay $300/month.
Or Intel is more popular and attracting more attack research.

I think both are true.
pretty sure that they're talking about giving an EXTRA week of time off on top of whatever normal PTO/vaction time they have.
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I was about five years into being a game developer when this happened to me. I took two years off and went to film school.
That assumes that your employees:

1. Know how they feel

2. Can translate that into numbers accurately.
> CRT encourages kids to engage in paint-swatch racialism

No, it doesn't; paint-swatch racialism is solidly embedded in American culture, abd CRT is quite distant from it. Not, again, that anyone is actually teaching CRT to kids.

It’s true that “CRT” is the label to which the American Right has attached their longstanding slander against the anti-racist elements of the left, that by opposing institutional racism that favors whites they paint whites as racist based on their race, but the Right changing the label they attach that lie to doesn't make it either the broader lie or the new association true.

> If your ideology leads you to hurt children, then your ideology must be wrong.

Well, yes, that's among the many reasons why a reflexive defense of white supremacy that leads you to invent a whole false narrative around Critical Race Theory to justify mandated teaching of whitewashed history to children is wrong, sure.

> I don't care if that isn't "real" CRT.

You should care, because caring about being lied to about that would tell you to look behind the lie and see that CRT has been around for decades, no one has tried to teach it to kids, no has proposed teaching it to kids, and there's been no change in that or anything adjacent to it recently that could explain any of the things which have been blamed on it. The only thing that has changed connected to CRT is that in the last year, the American Right, out of the blue and with little connection to reality, adopted it as a label to which they attached the same lins which the anti-anti-racist segment of the Right has used against contemport anti-racists for generations (even before CRT existed).

And that might lead you to consider the actual causes of the tensions you see, rather than the self-serving narrative of a political faction that has had strategic leverage of disaffected White racist as a central strategy since...well, just a little earlier than CRT was first developed.
I think they meant "wasn't* as keen" - in context the sentence as-is doesn't make sense.
Can you clarify? Why would Product Hunt be more appropriate?
Why is this a federal issue at all? Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue.
Then why specify a field in the format for "targeted diseases"?
> a stablecoin to replace something like the USD is an extremely difficult problem

It's also a solved one.

There is one party on the planet that can credibly solve this problem, and it's the Fed. Walter Bagehot wrote about this effectively in 1873 [1], it's still comprehensible, and it is to the Federal Reserve Act what the Declaration is to the Constitution.

Every U.S. dollar stablecoin issued by someone who is not (a) the Fed and (b) fully reserved is trying to solve the impossible trinity [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
Then is an activity and mood diary that helps you analyze how you spend your time and how things you do influence your emotions. You can easily track what you do, how much time it takes, and how it makes you feel.

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Perhaps I'm a favorite... for now - my company is getting acquired, so I may be on the job hunt soon anyway.
That would be markup, margin can't be over 100%.
Ask HN: What to do if a company won't look into credit card fraud?
What will be the options for customer if the company keeps the fraud transaction benefits and presents previous account details of the customer to prevent chargeback? Any options for the customer to fought back?
If its on the public internet with no security, how can someone tell if their access is unauthorised? Its not really that different from connecting to facebook.com or the various publically accessible ssh servers.
I wish that I could share my thoughts on that in public :(
Go, not Golang. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's market segmentation AND lack of ads. Lack of ads + slightly nicer experience.
Yea, this is what always gets me about taking personal vacation time. You take a week off, but that week isn't yours for free. Your expected work keeps accumulating during that week. You're just taking a week of time-debt which you will need to pay off in the form of much higher workload over the following few weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if these employees all get back to work and find their workload doubles for a time just to catch back up!
Too many things in US culture remind me of the movie Idiocracy by Mike Judge (and a bunch of other people).
Yes, I think this will take something akin to an act of congress to force some manufacturing back. And I don't think congress has much of an appetite for that now.
Have you taken a vacation yet? Do you do programming hobbies?

Is this burnout? Or a transition from play to work?
I met my wife at age 42, been happily married two years now.

I've come to learn that relationships and my ability to navigate them have only improved with age.

I look back at myself and how I treated people in my 20s and cringe.
Newpapers / books etc used to get pulped regularly. Seriously - back when your local newsdealer sold papers the way it worked is you'd tear off the front page of paper and pulp the rest. You'd be credited unsold copies based on the torn off front page. This was national - and daily.

Books used to have print runs, after 2 years or even less, anything excess got pulped (millions of items).

If you work in a western grocery store - the expiration date thing used to be ridiculous (perfectly good food in my view going out door). They wouldn't let workers take it home either because of potential conflicts. Inventory management has improved significantly here though I think (still an issue of course).

Amazon charges enough to cover the costs of the returned products. I've even been asked to throw away items myself (I returned something, they credit me the funds and asked I dispose of the item myself).
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I'm much later in my career (25 years in academia and industry). I stopped working as hard but didn't reduce my hours, and started taking wellbutrin.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541339
When I said that the law was black on white, I was talking about the US. I don't know about the Chinese NSL
If you think finding senior jobs is hard, try finding junior or mid-level Elixir jobs... I've been trying for a while (~3 years of exp with Laravel, Django, etc)
This is glorious advice to give. Thank you. Going to try to talk to my baby sister about this :)
* Take a break

* Treat sleep like it is your full time job. Aim to be in bed early enough you don’t need an alarm. THIS is the big one that will turn things around

* Eat well and exercise. This sounds trite but it’s very important. Cook meals rather than takeout. If you don’t have time for the gym, a 7 min bodyweight workout each day is easy and effective. Fit in walks

* Time. Burnout is basically breaking yourself. Doing the above and then just waiting will give your brain space to heal. But it takes a certain length of time

* Close loops. If you have stuff worrying you, handle it. Like, if the shower is leaky, get it fixed. Desk messy, clean it up. Don’t give your brain stuff to worry about

* Actively find relaxing stuff to do that actually relaxes you. Like some leisure is junk food and some refreshes you. Figure out which
Reminds me of the classic Paul Ford tweet,
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I always thought that location in the movie Flightplan was made up. I guess the size was exaggerated but it’s otherwise pretty close.
Nice, that's really cool. Certainly puts things into perspective.
Extremely bold. And prices given without VAT included where full price is only apparent at checkout. This is completely illegal to offer in Germany: "You'll be charged US$94.01, including US$15.01 for VAT in Germany."

Also, no returns policy, no samples, nothing. Never.
During the Cold War, yes. As I said, this hasn't happened since the Cold War.
Intel sold off their X-Scale/StrongARM to Marvell in 2006. https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/ I was with Marvell at the time and we were pretty excited to get it.
1) Fertility treatments are expensive and don't work for everyone

2) "1 in 10 healthy women in their 40s will get pregnant in any single menstrual cycle". I.e. there is a 90% chance that a woman over 40 will have at least some difficulty getting pregnant. Likely more than that if their partner is similar in age because male fertility declines with age as well.

3) Getting pregnant is only the first step. Miscarriage rates also increase with age.
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Just addressing the transmission complaint, it's really difficult to end up with a manual in the US by accident. I'd be more worried about people passing the test in a tiny hatchback and then driving an enormous SUV.
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It's not the business model I object to. Though they'll probably need to do something different to actually make it work: you can't write clickbaity shite that optimises for ad revenue and then expect people to pay for it.

It's the horrible inefficiency and ineffectiveness of their markup that I object to. Megabytes of script and tags that achieves nothing except using up bandwidth and cpu cycles. Why are there 3 iframes (iirc) in there? Why are there so many script tags? Can't they use a packer? It's all so badly done.
It might be a definition of inflation, but it certainly isn't the definition of inflation. The most accepted definition of inflation is an increase in the price of goods over a defined time period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
It's for sure an interesting result but honestly, perf/freq is yesterday's spec. What matters in 2021 is perf/W and perf/$ and there is no information on either of those metrics.
I'm glad Apple are putting in better support for keyboards and touch pads in iPadOS. It makes sense that these can improve usability in a lot of use cases. However I don't use those and even if I did iPad apps must always be usable without them.

I think that imposes significant limitations. Some of the more powerful apps I use on my iPad have quite fiddly interfaces that would be fine on a desktop, but are really awkward on the tablet. It is getting better, but very slowly as developers figure out how to adapt to the form factor.

The new Multitasking interface does look like a big improvement though. Hopefully that will help developers to step up a bit.
Does it draw your vacation time? Mandatory vacations (especially around Christmas) were started in the early 2000s among Bay Area tech companies in order to reduce collective accrued PTO, reducing liability on the balance sheet—had nothing to do with worker health. Although that regime is certainly preferable to so-called "unlimited" PTO.
There is the German Mittselstand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand

Japan has similar industries I believe.
This is a big thing that I was dealing with, then I got into tabletop gaming in particular Warhammer 40k specifically because it was something that didn't involve a computer and it would involve a more artistic and manual side.

The good news it really helped and I am able to balance my job more effectively. The bad news is now am losing all of my money to tiny little plastic action figures and my wife keeps silently judging me because I am a grown man playing with army men. So maybe don't do tabletop gaming.
One issue is the liability risk. Especially food type products, retailers are really worried about putting something back on the shelf that has been out of their control.

What's the brand damage if returned petsmart food kills 20 animals because someone was tampering with it? For most folks it's not worth the risks.
The flight servers are technically already in the cloud, when it’s up 35,000 feet in the air.
Another day, another "Amazon did a thing" story...
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Short answer is we probably don’t know what will happen.

Long answer: We probably lost the enzyme activity during a fight with some pathogen. The truncated protein is still produced, and there are effects in the body if that is removed. So, putting it back (under the same expression programming) might do nothing bad, or it might break all the other hacks we’ve accumulated since we first lost the enzyme, or it might not protect against this allergy, or we might be more susceptible to some bacterial beastie that we should really mount immune responses to. Don’t think anyone has tried activating it again in any animal/model system.
Thomas Sowell seems to have a solid grasp on economics. Too bad people don't study his work. Maybe if he wasn't black people in the US would listen to him.
The UK would never respond to an invasion of HK with nuclear force. China had already fought nuclear powers in Korea, they would not blink an eye.

In any case, if push came to shove the PRC would have simply invaded HK. There is nothing the UK could have done to prevent it.
It is good to have a change. It can also be good on the paycheck to ladder a little bit. Every 2-4 years you should be looking for another job at a higher rate anyway imo. When you stay with a company they tend to abuse and increases come slowly. Starting a new job even if it is in the same carer path will freshen things up for a year or 2 and then it is time to repeat before you burn out again. I have even left a company to go back(for more money) with the results still being less burnout.
> As mentioned in this talk Tesla is taking an iterative approach

> You don’t need to do things in one shot and get to the finish line.

I think we agree on these things. I wasn't trying to dispute their approach, rather explain their rationale for their current method, which is focused at actually selling product now.

> But $20k on a $40k car is too much

Those sensors don't need to be 20K-40K, they just aren't mass produced yet. That's why I think Elon Musk will change his tune in some years when those sensors are 1/100 the cost and 10X more accurate than vision.
What a ridiculous statement, Europe doesn't need to import the virus or any of it's variants when it's been a global hotspot for a year now. I guess it's nothing new though, contact tracing has been mostly used to shift the blame to an "outgroup" and seems to have worked in around 2 countries out of the hundred who tried doing it
It happened a few times during my last job search, though my current one was a ghost that came back after a long time. It seems that if reqs are placed on hold, many (but not all!) employers will just go silent rather than update candidates.
It adds more support (10x to 20x) for the content creators than ads, with the bonus of not watching ads.

For some people, this is quite valuable.

As a side note, the video downloading is made available in the mobile app as well.
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UFO conspiracies are seen as quaint and not harmful. The social media bans are based on what is a pretty flear “harm to others” standard. Antivax certainly harms others, but I can’t see how ufo believers harm others.

All of your questions would be easily answered. Physics? We don’t know about it yet, but do you think we know so much that it’s impossible? Purpose? To explore. Etc.

I’m not suggesting those are the right answers, but with the right motivated reasons, they are trivial to come up with, and unlikely to create a gotcha moment where the theory believers doubts their conspiracy theory.