skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the software is part of humanity's cultural history but the physical artifact of the cartridge is nearly worthless. We could literally mass produce Mario 64 cartridges to exact specifications if we wanted to. You can buy reproduction carts on the internet, cheap. We can't recreate ancient works of art or antique machinery, those are truly unique, easily but Nintendo cartridges are just chips and plastic.
> Regenerative ag will not make you rich…

How do you figure? Regenerative ag is still relatively new, and it’s practices are being honed. Idk what you define as rich but I’d venture to guess that Joel Salatin and Gabe Brown are extremely wealthy.
The cycle begins again (no irony)
That's just normal.

It's illegal anywhere to profit or sell stolen goods. Why not simply return the property to it's owners?
Is something like this [1] the kind of thing you are looking for?

[1] https://www.smart-prototyping.com/Qwiic.html

Disclaimer: I have never used these and don't know how good they are.
And Tesla FSD is available to what... two dozen parties outside of the company? AFAIK both have extremely limited availability.

Waymo doesn't require frequent human intervention to prevent life threatening situations.
Pandemics and Robots: An Odd Couple
Highly recommend listening to the 3 episode miniseries TrueAnon did on Musk and Tesla. Really eye opening. The dude should be in prison.
4 day week with 5 day pay?
Shape dynamics: a relational view of the Universe – Henrique Gomes
It really doesn't seem to eliminate evaluated outcomes either. It's drive line on the screen is constantly twitching through illegal or impossible maneuvers multiple times while deciding what to do. It seems to lack the ability to converge on a reasonable solution.
Please stop calling this a "clever fix". The fix is standard procedure in the industry of fixing these kinds of things (be it an electric car or an industrial 100 ton press.

That being said, the design of the car underside and this pack is poor. It should not be a single 16k part which has to be replaced as a unit, that's just purely incompetent. I also guarantee that Tesla DOES make money on this part. Nobody sells parts at no profit.
You can use MicroPython on the FeatherS2 :) Obviously no USB mass storage mounting, but code compatibility with the TinyPICO .
A different (but related)formulation is that we judge ourselves by our intentions, but others by their results.
I assume he's saying that if he needs a minimal laptop, he'd bring something pretty cheap and disposable--as I've done on trips. I've certainly brought a cheap Chromebook on some trips even if I use a MacBook at home.
Regarding your confounding over R&D -- Yes it is. I am on board with you that the specialized Tesla mechanics are gonna charge more per hour, $200-$350 sounds reasonable for a car you can buy and sell for %30 more than you paid for it -- But its R&D for this reason: The worthiness of Tesla repairs are totally unknown. These technicians are taking a chance (and I'll bet they offer a warranty, standard practice among reputable practitioners in the industry) that they can tap the brass fitting into the Tesla plastic which has an unknown composition to me and you and it will be a more or less permanent fix.

Just because it looks like 2 hours of labor doesn't mean there aren't other risks involved as well as servicing the battery cooling system properly. Such risks include: fire, poisoning, accidental damage, environmental disposal and cleanup, future warranty service, or even an unfortunate death caused by the repair failure causing the batteries to ignite.

If you get the Monroe to spend 2 hours on it, it won't work and I can guarantee that.

>You do realize that all the usual pipe fitting shapes come in materials besides brass, right?

Yes I do. The materials are designed to be compatible with the components in the system. This is why Japanese aluminum motors typically use EPDM rubber parts and HOAT coolant without silicates, to prevent oxidization of the channels and water pump. Throw some ethylene glycol or silicate/borates and natural rubber in there and suffer the consequences.

What will PVC do with the (speculating) polycarbonate body of the battery packs or the coolant(Another commenter claims it is the pretty expensive Zerex G48[0] wich will dissolve some plastics)? Brass is a good guess for compatibility, but why they chose that will cost you $700 to find out -- a bargain! I'm betting it's because available plastic fittings aren't going to have the strength to last in the reduced tolerances caused by the repaired threads in the plastic housing. Quite a bit of experience is really required to know if and how to do this right.

>> Lastly, road hazard insurance didn't cover any repair.

>Yes, this is reflected in my comment.

>[...]

>...For Tesla to charge an insurance company $16k with the justification of replacing the whole pack...

Edit: I see your point here, Tesla dumbery = costly repairs. Definitely agree.

Hopefully Right To Repair will free this proprietary information up to Alldata so anybody can pay a subscription fee and learn of the specifications and repair data. Also, it will standardize labor book time...

[0] - https://www.valvoline.com/our-products/heavy-duty/zerex-g-48
Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that way voiding the whole reason of using these ancient beasts in the first place. I won't do this of course - she's there to learn other things besides refining the art of cheating [1] - but it would be a tempting hack. An even more elaborate hack would be to replace the guts of the thing with a Zero running a TI emulator as well as some more useful stuff like ssh. The possibilities are endless... so endless in fact that I'm fairly certain this has been done already, somewhere.

[1] which in my days at school consisted of writing the translated works of Homer on a 10x10cm piece of paper, a good way to a) learn to write incredibly small and b) get those words to stick inside your head long enough so you don't actually need to consult the cheat "sheet" during the test.
>None of the problems facing humanity today are technically difficult to solve.

What? None? So "plagues, floods, droughts, political unrest, riots, and economic crises" (which follow a highly-technical century as they 'strike one upon the next') are technically easy to solve?

The rest of this wild-haired rhetorical festival grows more sad and less relevant.
And yet, you look at Hawaii, what was in a very similar situation, and a very different scenario occurred during the last century.

Pretty sure if you offered Hawaiians and Cubans the possibility to switch places, many Cubans would want to do it, but not many Hawaiians!
More like

>; DISSOLVE TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD
To Break a Book: Bibliophiles as Book Enemies
> I love to press enter a few times to add a few empty lines to serve as a marker.

Same! If it weren’t for this, I’d use less, as the searchability is often handy.

But it’s funny how just one tiny (and possible unintended?) “feature” turns out to be so dang useful that I keep using tail.
One thing leasing does is push the depreciation risk onto the leasing company. If you know you intend to keep the car a limited amount of time, then by leasing it, you don’t have to worry about the resale volatility. Mitigating that risk has value.
lol! The IP stack does not have forwarding support, but I guess you could implement some rudimentary loopback announcement support.
Not sure. "Stargate" suffered a little bit of Special Edition muckery.

"Defender" was more raw — three chords and a guitar attitude.
This would be way more interesting of a product than what copilot actually is.
I've seen this exact source code in person! Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker brought the Defender source code (several boxes of tractor-feed printouts) to the California Extreme arcade convention in 2014.

Photos: https://twitter.com/txsector/status/1302421155391791104

You can see that the file in the first photo is an exact match of "BLK71.SRC".
There's also a fallacy people fall into where they believe something doesn't affect them because they're not paying attention to it. People can be very unintentionally manipulative when they think they're just not being tactful -- they can forget that they're not respecting the finite resources of the other party. Many so-called "purely technical" discussions are actually (accidentally) veiled attempts at getting someone else to do the work. Designing APIs is a political act: ignore this at your peril! :-)

I'm fine dealing with respectful tactlessness, but what can grind my gears is when others demand more information or work from you without showing they know what they're asking of you, or at least that they're willing to provide anything in return.

For example, sometimes people simply ask "why didn't you do it such-and-such way?" which takes very little effort on their part -- it seems to me it should be their job to compare their idea to the proposed/existing design rather than mine, unless they offer well-thought-out reasons, or otherwise have a good track record of being insightful.

Something related to this fallacy is something I saw on HN years ago, about how in the feminist movement flat hierarchies ended up having a hidden power structure, which in many ways is worse than when the power structure is formalized. I guess there's some value in "RTFM," so long as whoever says this knows it's in the FM (unfortunately many times it's not).
That's about Ramses II though, and a lot of his statues are still standing.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luxor_Temple_-_panor...
Ah yes, prioritizing important features like crashing into things at high speed, remotely making the car a brick if it gets written off, writing an unnecessary amount of data to flash until it wears out, misaligned panels. Just what are people actually paying for here? A shit experience?
> I don't understand how something this broken is allowed to operate on public roads.

Legislators are slow and ignorant about technology. There's also perception that everyone who dies on a Tesla accident is a tech bro who defeated software safeguards (e.g., chose to ride on the back seat in full self-driving mode).

If automotive history is any guide, scrutiny and regulation only appear after a lot of people get killed. It's not obvious what the threshold will be, with Elon Musk being louder than anyone else in this debate and early adopters being comfortable experimenting with the lives of others.
> presents itself as a USB storage device and you can just drop Python files into it.

Now that's really convenient. I'm creating a smartwatch with custom laser micro-projector, and would like to add such feature.
In fact I have not lived long on the East Coast. The SF MTA, in 2017:

"""Higher income households in San Francisco make more trips by automobile. Much of this difference is associated with variations in auto access by income, with only 10 percent of households with incomes over $75,000 reporting no access to a vehicle, compared to 40 percent of households with incomes under $75,000... households making incomes over $76,000 having a significantly higher private auto mode share than households making $35,000 or less."""
How well does the wifi work? I can't at first glance see any sign of the antenna, many ESP32 boards have a trace antenna carved onto the PCB itself.
Cool! That is a great way to start.

If you look at the Crowdsupply page, for $32 + shipping you can get the Pico and a set of 'shields'. The interesting one for you would be the "Grove" shield.

"Grove" is a connector / pinout standard that was created and supported by Seeed Studio (see: https://www.mouser.com/new/seeed-studio/seeed-studio-grove/ for a video on the infrastructure and ideas behind Grove (also see the Seeed wiki here: https://www.mouser.com/new/seeed-studio/seeed-studio-grove/)

There are a LOT of different boards you can get with sensors and what not on Grove and programming them in Micropython is supported because that is what Seeed uses (calling it Ardupy).

You will have to solder the pins on the Pico and the Grove shield, but after that you can just plug them together with cables.

Grove typically uses either a GPIO (on/off), and analog I/O, or an I^2C per board. You will need to know enough about those to match up the boards with the right connector on the shield. And then its just programming.

One of the things I've used when I've helped people learn about this stuff is to use the Grove temperature and humidty sensor and the NodeD1 (this is an early ESP8266 design that also runs micro python). A Python program that reads the sensor and then does an http GET on a web server with a CGI that records temperature and humidity. Control flow looks like this:

while true:
temp = read_temp()
humid = read_humid()
http.get("http://192.168.1.5/environment.cgi?t=" . temp . "?h=" . humid)
sleep(10)

The same web server has a page that uses D3 to plot temperature and humidity over time. Very simple and easy to do.

(and yes you learn to read the temperature and humidity over i2c, and set the chip up to connect to the wifi hotspot)
Sure you can. It’s BSD licensed..
I am basing my opinions on work at a small/medium publisher that had well know material considered essential in a variety of fields-- they were pretty high quality. This was a while back, though I know people that publish in fairly reputable places.

They did and do this sort of editing, so it may be, sometimes, a matter of journal quality. I don't anything gets into JAMA without that level of editing.

Anyway, that's what my opinions in this thread have been based on, but maybe I'm exhibiting selection bias by having experience primarily with a higher quality publisher.
One of my favorite songs of all time. The guitar playing is so good, and apparently the guitarist, Ricky Wilson, only played with 4 strings (D and G strings removed on the guitar). The last third of the song, when it gets really frenetic, always gets me dancing.
They also built a serial adapter that connects to a dial-up modem:
https://youtu.be/epFX8K0dhdY

And an IRC client:
https://youtu.be/afkrucsMMrc
> Honest question, do you think a Tesla that doesn’t recognize whats in front of it to 100% should stop in the road? I saw this recently with Waymo and it stayed blocking traffic until a Waymo tech arrived then the car tried to drive away from the tech. This doesn’t seem like the better answer to me, but I don’t have one.

Answer? Yes. A fully stopped car is a better option than a car that plows into a wall, barriers, or pedestrian.

> Why can’t other companies make self driving software/hardware that a normal person can afford? All other options are insanely expensive and out of reach of anyone but millionaires.

Not sure what you're talking about by "other options". Every other large company I know of is either 1) pursuing self-driving for ride-hailing services, or fleet operations or 2) still not shipping.

But Tesla's aren't exactly cheap, and Tesla cars aren't exactly in the affordable range ($20k) of the working man. A Model3 is $50k with FSD. $60-70k with the performance/long distance versions, and Model S/X well over $100k.

Perhaps you are talking about LIDAR costs and using the old $70,000 LIDAR system that Tesla originally put out FUD about. We all know that in mass manufacturing, the cost of LIDAR would fall, and it has, Velodyne has units that cost only $500 now.

A fully enabled array of consumer Velodyne units, plus radars, and cameras, is going to cost pretty much on par with what Tesla is charging.
I'm completely in the dark when it comes to hard biotech, but have heard this labelled as a CRISPR-level development.

Based off this tweet[0] from one of the paper's authors.

Can anyone here confirm or deny this?

[0]: https://twitter.com/BanfieldJill/status/1414647658786922496
ergonomically, that sounds like torture to me
The lesson in this article is, if you drive a $50,000 automobile and can't afford to repair it after an accident, you should probably carry comprehensive insurance.
Note that Paris 2024 was awarded as part of this “without even a proper bid process”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bids_for_the_2024_and_2028_S...
I love this video game. For a brief moment, about four years back, I was the top player on the Williams Defender Players Unite facebook group at hard difficulty settings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEqoYW013E

And, for the hackers, here's a version of the Defender ROM, modified by a programmer named Jim Bowley, to render an impossibly difficult version of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZlOwEvd5M

The above is running on JROK -- http://www.jrok.com/ -- custom silicon to emulate the original chip (much better than MAME), it's contained in an original cabinet, with an original monitor, and a custom built control panel, designed to be as authentic to the original as possible, and hand-built by Jim Bowley https://www.jbgaming.co.uk .

Here's a player, mikeville66, whose video inspired me to get better. This is maximum difficulty on the first-run ROM chips, the infamous Green ROMs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrkx6vuiMrE

And if you're interested in an instructional video of how to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEpDMgR9D0

Defender was a big game back in the day, grossing about a billion dollars worldwide.
> The sanctions are in place because of their human rights violations. We cannot condone their corrupt government.

The regime can end the sanctions at any time: simply allow for democracy and return the stolen property. It's that simple.

That they would prefer their people risking their lives on rafts and starving should tell us all something about the Castros.
The problem is, UB is not guaranteed to segfault. A guaranteed segfault when a bug is hit would be great - but randomly getting one of (segfault, silent memory corruption, invalid instructions, ...) is not great, and most people would consider that to be much different than what Java gives you.
Okay i wasn't interested in the `less` usage in the GP comment because i use tmux to stop and view logs as they're passing by. However automatically opening in my CLI editor? That sounds sexy as hell!
I think the article also mentions hitting it with a hammer.

I imagine that hitting it after it’s been inside a hot car would cause it to decompose more enthusiastically.
Health and climate mitigation. Trace elements of Glyphosate in food supply. Intensive grazing to reverse desertification (as per Alan Savory) and carbon sequestration.

A 2015 USDA study shows organic corn fetching 3X conventional. But, higher variable costs. What if lowering costs with new techniques changes the roughly equal profit margins to a 2X? That's the sort of questions I and folks like me like to ask.

Aside from that, my housemate sold a cattle ranch in Montana and his family is one of the largest wild rice growers in California before the drought. Now, converting some of that parched land to Solar. Seems like a terrible waste. What if you could do both?
I have no idea the specifics but I do think about this a lot.

For all we know of all art of the time 99.9% of it was done on wood outside in the elements but all those would be destroyed by now.

We have a selection bias issue where we may be looking at a very small fragment of the total art/messaging done at the time.
I couldn't agree more.
Anecdote: I have been waiting for 2 weeks for insurance to "approve" an angiogram + interventiin that two cardiologists agree that I need immediately. I am a single 43yo male on a $1,000\mo insurance plan.("reduced" to "only" $550\mo by coverer california).

If I ever manage to get powerful and\or wealthy, I will task myself with fighting the scourge that is the insurance cabals tooth and nail.
it’s been a long while but i remember it takes ~15 years and 500 million to push a major drug through fda testing. The argument was who would do that if a competitor could just copy it at the end? has that situation changed? What other changes would need to be included with removing patents to alleviate that issue. genuine question, even 10 or more years since i read up on this.
Yeah about the same here. I wrote some programs to handle quadratic formulas. Impressed the Algebra teacher who then let me take AP Computer Science so I can learn to program in Java...which I promptly forgot after graduating HS.
My mistake, I meant the opposite: electrolytic corrosion. There are potential (non-electrical) chemical variables too. The chemistry involved is complicated and I can’t claim to fully understand it. Even big automakers sometimes get it wrong from the factory.
> In recent days, whistle-blowers have alleged in the Intercept that the E.P.A. office in charge of reviewing toxic chemicals tampered with the assessments of dozens of chemicals to make them appear safer. [1]

> E.P.A. scientists evaluating new chemicals “are the last line of defense between harmful — even deadly — chemicals and their introduction into U.S. commerce, and this line of defense is struggling to maintain its integrity,” the whistle-blowers said in their disclosure, which was released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Maryland-based nonprofit group.

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/epa-chemical-safety-corr...
It does not matter how standard in the industry that fix is, I am not arguing for Tesla here, I am contesting the idea that this situation is covered by "right-to-repair".

Right to repair is about availability of replacement parts and repair manuals so that third parties can do repair on X. It's about Apple no controlling flow of parts so tightly that they can sue someone for doing "unauthorized repairs" when they change a broken screen.

Most importantly right-to-repair is about things that you own, which was not even the case here seeing how the car was leased.

So it does not matter if this is a "clever fix" or the equivalent of tie-wrapping your bumper so it does not fall off while driving. In both cases it has nothing to do with right-to-repair and trying to use it as an umbrella term for every automakers shady practice is how you end up with no legislation at all because lawmakers won't enact bills that allow you to fix a leased car with something that isn't prescribed by the manufacturer.
ok great. Makes sense. And people have definitely moved to Montana during the pandemic! Another q:

What new markets in this space are interesting to you?
Completely agree. It's frustrating to be product focused when the company isn't.
One of my recently learned tail tricks (which may be very obvious to most of you already but it’s new to me) is to tail -f /proc/<pid>/fd/1 (or 2 if you want to see stderr)

I have some scripts that, for example call zcat file.tar.gz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1M status= progress (that last bit it important if your version of dd supports it)

This way I can watch the output of dd in another console if I wanted. I keep finding other uses for it now.
The little engine that could(n't)
I don't think that math works out. That works out to around 6 square meters per cow. Google says cows eat about 160 pounds of grass per day.
The white block at the end of the PCB is a 3D Antenna - much better performance over a PCB antenna or 2d chip antenna.
> and disregarding factory specifications

Does Tesla share those specifications, if they dont share it, can you really blame third party repair?
but it's the easiest way to find system header files. Who cares about Preference Panes?!
No, it's not normal. If you live in America all the land you may own and all its proceeds was stolen, obtained fraudulously, or obtained under duress. This is the case in almost every country on earth. You're not required to give it back because for better or for worse governments are considered sovereign, except for Cuba when that's convenient to US geopolitical goals.