skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two defects, a torn anode tab and a folded separator. They implied both defects were occurring simultaneously in a cell but didn't indicate if all cells are affected. They did however identify that the issues came from multiple factories in the US and Korea, which indicates the problem might be with every single cell manufactured.

GM said they don't trust the stock of packs they have in warehouses or any installed in EVs. They are requiring LG to implement GM's level of QC, which we must presume is higher than LG's existing QC.

No batteries will be fixed in any EV until GM is confident that LG can actually manufacture the cells without defect. At that point in sounds like all packs will we fully swapped in all EVs made.
8 years in jail for securities fraud (embezzlement, it seems). Easy to lay against one guy acting by himself.

Maybe if he put the money into cheap mortgages and loans he'd get a government bailout instead. Play the game like the big guys do.

(The point being, you grow to be less accountable)
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I'll give you price but I think that's an equivalent trade-off to all the cons:

Much worse horsepower

Much worse EV range

Still requires ICE maintenance

Worse software
> There has to be some reason why Saigon 1975 and Kabul 2021 were such a mess.

Sure, the US was exiting one region while under fire from fighters from yet another place that sought to “liberate” the region. Chaos from locals that hoped to save their lives from their “liberators”.

You are comparing that to an exit from a region where there is no other party participating in the liberation.
To be fair this is the norm for pretty much any rechargeable electronic device. Lithium chemistries in particular are sensitive to damage from over discharging. "5% battery remaining on the display" is pretty much never "5% of available energy available"
Yesterday I made a prototype of a very small dynamic webpage (less than 50 lines of code). I am the only person who will ever visit this page. PHP was the obvious tool to use—but I still found myself stopping to question that choice, in large part because of the contempt for PHP that I have seen online.

Incidentally, I am not a software developer—I’m an artist and art historian. I have no real need for hacker cred. And yet I still find myself trying to earn it by doing things the hard way.

Which is all to say: this post resonated with me, and I really appreciate the insight.
We had one at Cygnus - originally it was just a christmas tree and lights, controlled by... finger, I think? and then in later years web (and the train) was added. One year it made the new york times...
This really hasn't been consistent with my experience as an end user. I have POS software that will blow up if any POS terminal applies a minor point release update on any terminal. I have current PMS software from Oracle that will infinitely NullPointerException if upgrade to a currently supported version of Oracle's JRE. It's going back a few years but I remember backups being unreadable if you upgraded JRE on a Backup Exec server.
It appears that almost all cool tech is invented for the purpose of minor comfort.

I call this the Pepper Law. An example is that we invented almost all of navigation and trade so fat rich dudes could have tasty food.

I find this a worthwhile reminder when people make smart-ass remarks about using tech to make some minor trivial frustration of someone go away. That’s where it all comes from.
No, the price was rising well before any of the "whales" came in. You're just writing a narrative that suits your existing preconceptions.
I mean not really? There's plenty of firms who are trading crypto at this point. A lot of tradfi firms have entered the space as well.
I agree that kicking out out-of-touch founders is a good thing.

But let's not conflate a value judgement with a prediction: When it happens all at once it says that there's either something wrong with the zeitgeist or something wrong with the leadership, or something anyways which is a leading indicator of the end.
might want to put it into context though... there are on average 160,000 passenger car fires per year and about 360 deaths due to that. i'd like to see that figure broken down per 100k miles driven or per 100k cars of the type but i can't seem to find that easily.

https://www.nfpa.org/vehiclefires
To be honest, I'm not sure what the appeal of mid height buildings are. They have all of the downsides of an apartment with none of the upsides of a high rise like better quality construction and better location.

To find out what the quality of a building is you are best off just asking people who live there what they think. Apparently you can also request that strata give you information like owner complaints which may bring up noise disputes.
On a tangent optaplanner looks really interesting. Does anybody know by any chance how it compares to OR tools [1]?

1: https://developers.google.com/optimization
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For a vehicle that approaches $80,000, I would hope so.
Eyes on the ball. Bolt is a beat car. We are talking Volt and Tesla. I agree with your sentiment regardless
This discussion was about the Volt, Chevy's old PHEV (plug in), not the Bolt EV.
Thank you for renewing your auto policy with Acme Insurance.

As a Bolt owner your new 6 month premium is $1,200,000.
That only works if you have no wealth. If you have any wealth, you should diversify it. Only a fool would dump all their money into crypto, but also only a fool would put all their eggs into the basket of unbacked fiat. You're just picking which game to play, and hoping you play enough games with even enough odds that you don't lose too many at once.
Not in many years, but I did COBOL professionally for a few years.
They identified 2 defects and both defects were occurring in cells produced at multiple factories. That implies the defects were part of the process and not simply and issue with the setup of a single manufacturing line. It also implies that potentially all cells manufactured could have the defects.
That's my goal. Get to 500k savings and then decompress for a bit and really figure out something to work on that seems worthwhile that i want to build my future identity around.
> GM has said the fires are a rare event and are the result of two uncommon defects that stem from a manufacturing problem in LG’s plants in Michigan and South Korea.
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I paid $53k (long range with a factory installed tow hitch). Average new car price is $41k, and I will save at least $5k over five years in fuel costs.

EDIT: Compare to the top end of Chevy vehicle pricing: https://www.autoguide.com/new-cars/chevrolet/
My mistake, the article is about the Bolt.
Being a funny person is the pre requisite.
But it's not the GM-made part of the car that's failing here, it's the LG-made batteries.
Hard to understand the distinction between myspace and facebook.
The idea isn't getting you to adhere to it, the idea is when inevitably one of these ends up incinerating a national forest or a home for orphans, GM can say "We told you to park 50 feet away, if only you hadn't been negligent and followed our simple directions!" rather than "So sorry about that"
The cells for the bolt were made in Korea though, right?
I believe my other comment here [0] answers that question.

However, it also speaks to what is valued at that workplace. This matters not just for the "emotional" purposes, but for the implications it has for how the workplace will evolve over time due to those values.

If you are someone for whom personal relationships, negotiating skills, and networking matter more than skill at the job, perhaps you think that a place where a lazy but well-connected developer is paid significantly more, and management refuses to change this, is ideal.

If, on the other hand, you are someone for whom competence, productivity, and ability to do the job assigned is most important...then perhaps you will find that such a workplace will become less and less friendly to you over time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28543162
Not even that. Full-scale war is preferable to nuclear Taiwan for them. The Chinese are very confident they could invade Taiwan before the US would be able to get through their A2/AD shield, and they would probably be right. In other words, they're quite confident they would win the war as far as Taiwan is concerned.

China sees a nuclear-armed Taiwan as an existential threat.
Works great with z-Wave devices on a raspberry pi. I've got a few 433mhz sensors as well, integrated with all rtl-sdr. Also other raspberry pi devices taking to it via mqtt. Fun stuff.
How many of those are with the car off and at rest ?
That's still a lot for a car, so it had better be built right.

It's firmly in BMW, Mercedes, Land Rover territory, not Chevy territory, which it's being compared against.
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No one is going to give you advice on how to break the law, but a google search doesn't come up dry on nations full of illegal immigrants that tend to be overlooked unless they commit some grave crime or have a very serious political enemy. It's also worth knowing that strict immigration law and power of the government to enforce it don't really go hand in hand in many shitty 3rd world countries, and in some countries the law really only extends to bigger cities where federal police have power.
>The flammability of lithium batteries kind of freaks me out.

On the other hand, around 2035 when most cars are EVs, the Hollywood action movie car "explosions on impact" would finally be a realistic description of actual car behavior.
> "When the battle over Huawei began, over 5G, I saw a map of the world, and it was a map of the world according to whether countries were allowing Huawei in or not, and I said to one of my young colleagues, "Oh, that's the Cold War.""

Map of countries that have banned Huawei: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/17528.jpeg (from https://www.statista.com/chart/17528/countries-which-have-ba...)
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I got an email from them saying they renamed to "Momentive" but this is nowhere to be found in their website.
Yes but consider a non homeowners situation. How much would one have to pay for a parking permit? Add on to this the cost of switching registration (as is necessary in Cambridge, MA to get an on street permit). Model Y is untenable unless you’re making Draper cash! Volt on the other hand…
I mean you could say the same things about any sort of investment that isn't risk-free (which is basically all investments that earn a return nowadays). I don't see anything fundamentally different about crypto than any other asset really.
I’m very sure that there is more money (for big high volume exchanges) in providing an environment with low liquidations (which amplify price moves against the index, again bad UX) instead of driving customers into them and profiting from trading these wicks.

The biggest risk to established exchanges is ‘regulatory alienation’ — and having millions of USD in daily liquidations probably is not helpful here.

Won’t say these trades aren’t done (data needed to build positioning models is public), my only point here; v unlikely by exchange owners.
Well it's the only way I can manage our Brocade switches so.. yes ;(
> Tesla's approach prioritizes the user's confidence in the product

More like Tesla prioritizes removing user error
"Waste" is not disproven by "high price". "Waste" (in this context, at least) would be disproven by bitcoin fixing much of javert's second through fifth paragraphs. My money is on "waste", no matter what the price does.
Can you share a screen grab of this email?
The reduced mpg is not all that much though, maybe 2-3 mpg nothing nearly as significant as driving behavior on mpg. A small displacement honda is going to have good mpg all its life unless something has really fouled up.
If I remember correctly, some fancy places in New York are eligible for the 500k exemption. Might check that!
People who live in an HOA may have a different experience, but if you chose to live somewhere HOA-encumbered, that's on you!
> My perception of American designed and engineered vehicles is that they’re really awful, not just from a reliability standpoint but also from a user interface standpoint.

For about 18 months in 2017 and 2018, I had a job that had me in a new city every other week. Lot of rental cars. And I started to have very strong preference.

I would go out of my way to get a Chevy. Great Android auto integration. Good controls generally. Decent cars.

It kills me to hear that Bolt is have these problems. I was thinking of buying one as my next car.
I wonder if this happened, would teenagers would be upset or relieved? There's a This American Life episode[1] in which several teenage girls explain the complex etiquette of Instagram. It sounds stressful, it sounds exhausting, it sounds like a full time job. Right now, anyone who opts out also excludes themselves from a major aspect of school social life.

1. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/573/transcript
Nah, they should have just been transparent about the throttling.

They still throttle now after the lawsuit, you can just stop it if you want to. Also an important difference with Apple is that the iPhone throttling wasn’t a safety concern.
> You are granted the right to use the Programs to provide third party training in the use of the Programs and associated Separately Licensed Technology only if there is express authorization of such use by Oracle on the Program's download page or in the Program Documentation.

Do I need written permission from Oracle to write a blog post that talks about how to get something done using the Oracle JDK? 'training' is pretty vague.

Just to be safe, it sounds like I shouldn't be writing any articles that mention the Oracle JDK.
Yeah, similar stories and timeline in other former dominions. I find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_v_Hill fascinating, when a court in Australia was forced to consider whether the UK was a foreign power.
I think this would be true in 90's. It was really bad. Now a days, Ford and the rest make excellent vehicles on all fronts.
You are for sure, in the sense that life is a speculative bubble that'll eventually end in the heat death of the universe, and your exit is foreordained.

If you're looking for more actionable advice, it may be worth comparing the expected lifetime of the speculative bubble to your lifetime. Certain speculative bubbles - like the stock market, or fiat currency, or the U.S.A, or life on earth - have a fairly high chance of outliving you. Other speculative bubbles - like Solana, or $GME, or Clover Health - will probably be gone in a year or two. In between are stuff like more established cryptocurrencies (BTC and ETH), tech stocks, Silicon Valley real estate, etc. which might last for a few decades, long enough to raise children, but will likely be gone before your death.

As a couple general rules, the faster they rise, the harder they fall, and the longer something has been around, the longer it is likely to continue to be around. Huge profits can be made identifying the new invention that sticks around for decades, or cashing out of the institution that's about to collapse, though.
TFA is about the Bolt, not the Volt.
Apple's solution was akin to taking a Tesla going 80 mph on a freeway, suddenly turning on "limp" mode and locking the car to 10 mph, all without informing the user anything abnormal was going on.
Yes.

Almost all of them were older than 50 though.

Probably most governments still have them. Social security and health payments from governments probably go through Cobol code.
And totally understand the sentiment, but Foxxcon isn’t blamed if iPhones start to fail left and right, Apple is.

The people branding the car are responsible for their supply chain.
The goal isn't to get the most money that you can from the company. The goal is to get that premium salary compared with all other software engineers.

Yeah, you might work as a high paid prostitute at a shitty company for a while, but when you leave you'll leave richer than being paid half at a friendly mom and pop shop. But generally I've found the higher paying jobs are usually better anyway.

Today in 2021, $175k-ish seems like a fair number for a mid-senior software job. If you're really good, you should consider $200-220k or higher.
Perhaps this definition:

> used to describe something that is enjoying great but probably short-lived popularity or publicity.

Though de rigueur could also work, meaning something that is required by the current fashion (or the then current fashion here).
On second thought, I actually used it wrong above: usually, naked domain specifically refers to the registered domain, i.e. without any subdomains.
The risk of lithium ion fire is very obvious and real. But to decide if this is a problem relative to the current alternatives (gasoline) we would need to compare the rates and severity of fires between the two.

Gasoline cars also have complicated parts to help mitigate their fire risk.
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Just to clarify here. no pedestrians were hit, and no one died.

I am curious how many people died on the first airplanes and commercial airline travel ( from 1900 - 1950's )

Do you suggest that the government should have made commercial airline travel illegal until there were zero accidents?
> This seems like the kind of thing GM should get wayyyy in front of with a very generous offer to buy back the cars as a trade towards another GM model.

This may have been in the playbook typically, but most car lots are really sparse. All of Q2 production was 688,236 vehicles [1], and there are about 107,000 Bolts in the US [2]. While current Bolt owners are undoubtedly frustrated, GM would really hamper efforts to expand market share.

[1] https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content...

[2] https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/bolt-ev/chevrolet-...
Whales is a relative term for a percentile distribution; not a static designation for some arbitrary dollar threshold.
Their machinery is ridiculously effective. My Uber driver the other day was Afghan. He talked to his family fleeing their country via Messenger.

Ubiquitous universal communication. It is the stuff of utopian sci fi.
It seems to me that this article reflects a lack of cultural awareness. I read things like

> I saw a presenter at a Python conference make fun of Java. How would that feel to people trying to move from Java into something else? I wouldn’t feel welcome, and I’d have learned that the idea that the Python community is welcoming wasn’t true.

and I feel exactly the opposite! Every Java programmer I know has a roster of "Java sucks" jokes; if a Python presenter made a good one, I'd feel like they're one of us and be more interested in the rest of what they have to say.

The author does mention they've been programming for substantially longer than me, so it could be there's a streak of true meanness somewhere that I've been lucky enough not to encounter, but I'm not really convinced it's common today or was common in 2015.
Recommending people park 50 feet away from other vehicles to me means that’s not rare enough IMO.
> If property values in my neighborhood go up will I be forced to sell or refinance my house to pay the tax bill?

Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t that how it works (outside of California)? My understanding is that in almost all US tax districts, property values are assessed periodically and the tax liability of the owner changes year on year with the value of the property.
On the other hand, the vast majority of anyone holding any bitcoin are not making transactions, so the electricity per person using bitcoin over any medium sized window is probably vastly higher.

For example, in Jan 23 million bitcoin wallets had transactions. Since many actors hold multiple wallets, this would imply not so many active bitcoin users. [1]

Per capita could mean anyone who has ever touched it in any way, or could mean someone who actually uses it reasonably often.

[1] https://decrypt.co/56188/bitcoin-hit-record-number-of-22-3-m...
Cool, but if i bought a low cost electric car specifically because my commute range allowed for it, for example, until your "bug fixes and changes" OTA was quietly force-pushed and i find myself on the highway with a dead battery, i'm likely to set the fkn thing on fire myself...
That’s my point, why bother with Bolt et al. when the volt has already established as a clear front runner.
Amazing write up! Can you provide a link to the switches you use?

Also, how does HA know when the dog is asleep?
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Bummer. I thought nickel was suppose to be better at handling these fire issues? As consumers, should we be waiting to see when CATL's sodium batteries are arriving?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-top-ev-battery-mak...
There is frankly a whole self-flagellatory thing going there. Plus well, selection bias is everywhere. People post more about complaints.
There is a post about their name change on their website: https://help.surveymonkey.com/articles/en_US/kb/momentive-fa...
I'm not sure we want to distract Drew from Sourcehut (and running an email service sounds deeply distracting), but I would love to know what FLOSS email hosting service Sourcehut might see fit to support, as in the other thread about Openstreetmap.
Just noticed how bad the color choice is on that chart.

The lightest red (pink) is actually "Unlikely to ban".
I have a Kindle, and I use it from time to time, but generally I agree with the author.

My reasons?

First, for whatever reason -- I'm not dyslexic or anything -- reading is a significant expenditure of effort for me. So finishing a book, or being 2/3 of the way through makes me feel good. And seeing that bookmark two-thirds of the way through is part of my feeling of accomplishment, in a way that 66% is not.

Secondly, when I read it is usually non-fiction and is usually something I hope to come back to. So I do a lot of highlighting and notes writing. There is a special pleasure in being able to flip through a book with my own notes and highlighting and to be able to quickly find what I'm looking for is important to me.
I always give them a look - my biggest tell is usually which 10+ year old models do I actually see on the road. That’s a long lead time for sure, but IMO they have to prove it. I looked at the JD power reliability rankings for 2021 and was shocked that Honda is near the bottom now - but GM, Ford, Chrysler etc are all middle or bottom of the pack themselves
https://imgur.com/a/qLx9tWR

It's super fishy. The origin is mta-81-50.sparkpostmail.com. [192.174.81.50] and the domain is surveymonkeyuser.com

This was sent to an email address that I haven't used in years.
Western Europe is somehow supposed to be in the Second World in this Universe.

The only way that’s true is if the US player is forced on the Early War card Degaulle Rules France and not permitted to play NATO.

I declare this comparison Bogus History!
yet surprising cs education requires you to take a ethics course. It should be called a morals course. But their are no morals or ethics in the real world. Its all about how much money you can make and its all about greed.
CATL sodium batteries, maybe in 2023:

https://qz.com/2041051/chinas-catl-unveils-sodium-ion-batter...
iPhones are made in China; the brand owner doesn’t get to pass the buck to their contractors that they chose.