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I have owned EVs -- including PHEVs -- for 12 years now. They've included two different LEAFs, a 2011 and a 2017, a Tesla Model X, a Volvo XC90 T8, and a Jaguar I-PACE.

Based on my own experience with these cars, I would insist on two things for any car I buy. First, the manufacturer should have an established reputation for building quality cars that are reliable. If they already know how to build reliable ICE cars, I think they are able to apply their acquired engineering acumen and culture to do a better job with an EV.

I think you know where I am going with this. Both the Tesla and the Jaguar have had major issues, and neither the LEAFs nor the Volvo have had significant problems.

The Tesla was in the shop maybe a dozen times before I finally traded it in for the Volvo. The final straw for me was when the half shaft started shuddering due to an engineering flaw and Tesla tried to pass that off as "normal."

The I-PACE was actually pretty good for about 4 years until now. It was in the shop the least of any ICE I've owned, except when it failed, its failure mode was catastrophic and extremely dangerous.

It started up and engaged drive just like always with no indications of a problem, except once I pulled out into traffic, the accelerator just stopped working. No forward force at all, and I only got to maybe 3mph before that happened. It was only then that I got battery error notifications on the dash with a warning to "stop safely." Except before too long the 12v battery got completely drained, and then the brakes stopped working too. Then the emergency brake applied, and the car died completely. No way to shift into neutral and push the car or anything. It was just a dead brick in the road that couldn't even be towed by anything but a flat bed.

I'm generally pretty tolerant of technology blips from immature tech, but what if that had happened when I was driving my family on the freeway earlier that same day? Porsche had a similar "loss of power" issue with the Taycan at first, and they had to do a recall early-on for that. Oh, and remember that Chevy Bolt battery flaw where the cars were exploding? Yeah, so Jaguar installed those same flawed LG Chem battery packs in the I-PACE. So far Jaguar's response has been to give me a battery control module firmware update that's supposed to detect when the pack is about to explode and then do something to stop that from happening, I guess.

This experience literally has me now looking at manual transmission ICE cars with emergency brake levers that attach to cables and springs. You know, things I can fix on the side of the road with a jack, some tools, and maybe a hardware store nearby. Or at least something almost any auto mechanic can fix for me in a few hours.

Regardless, I'm done with early adopter stuff for the machine I entrust my family's life to. It was fun while it lasted, but the failure modes must be better than "Surprise, now you can't accelerate or stop!"
Thanks for answering the question I had reading this article: how do podcasters manage to get listed on all these third party apps; with the answer being that apparently they don't, they are listed on a central directory which all the apps use. I'm curious if there is a way to achieve a similar result (open ecosystem that allows a huge amount of competition) without the central directory.
Remember that we are talking about a job interview here.
It is distributed, but the problem comes in, what if everyone is using the same mechanism to distribute it. I guess a good, more clear example might be, using bitcoin as an example, Bitcoin is a distributed digital currency where anyone can run their own node. Cool. But what if everyone runs their bitcoin node on AWS's infrastructure. Sure, bitcoin itself is distributed, but it has a single point of failure of if Amazon's AWS goes to shit.

Or think about Cloudflare. When Cloudflare has an outage, it feels like half the internet goes down. There is no requirement for all these people use to Cloudflare specifically, but a sufficiently large portion of the market has converged on utilizing Cloudflare.
I mentioned in another comment that the "apology" and humanization of the error messages doesn't bother me, but I have to admit that the frowny face and the infantilizing messages DOES make me irrationally irritated.
“An operating system is a collection of things that don’t fit inside a programming language; there shouldn’t be one” - Dan Ingalls 1981
I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, there was a pivot away from hardware to focus on software, which actually had a few customers.

Another startup, signs of trouble. Didn't take my picture for the corporate web page, and also asked to meet with a lawyer for documenting possible patent claims.
To be fair Toyota has had local factories for the longest time as part of their JIT manufacturing philosophy.
Yes, I now call this "vibes".
Some of these questions may be borderline illegal. In my experience interviewing folks for Meta we are taught not to ask such questions because of the obvious bias. Even probing into what neighborhood someone lives in is dubious (oh you grew up on the wrong side of the tracks?). I don’t even look at résumés anymore, although recruiters have to screen them. Focus on the job, if you are conducting a coding interview asking coding questions, maybe ask about something they built in the past for fun/work/learning . If you’re doing system design ask them to architect something. If you’re doing behavioral interviews this is trickiest but focus on the on the job behaviors, even if their previous job was not tech or they only have educational experience you can see how someone works with others on a project. Personal questions like this are a really bad idea.
> with Ceph

Seeing that reminded me of some healthy discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235593 (SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake) that may interest you. control-f for "Ceph" to see why it caught my eye
I'm doubtful that this would be the real seed system prompt, it seems like a very naive implementation. You're asking chatgpt to generate text, so it does? Since it's very likely to hallucinate things, why trust that it is not hallucinating this seed system prompt?
I tick a lot of boxes and I've always excelled beyond expectations when hired for positions that I did not have good match on experience. Hire me! My guarantee, I'll surprise you.
i think that in the United States, this is simply not the case up until the true super-rich.

the vast majority of rich people are not well-connected enough to drive any business your way. if you have a tech startup do you really care that you hired the son or daughter of a car dealership magnate from the other side of the country?

in the USA it's possible and in fact more common to become a very wealthy without becoming hugely influential.

they may be well-connected in their particular geographic region or within a certain business sector, but this would be a specific advantage which usually wouldn't benefit your business.

this may be different in some other countries, where nearly everyone wealthy is part of the same national elite group.

but generally, in America, you'd be better off hiring the better employee.
Aren't these quadrants from about 100 years ago? Some Prussian General von Whatshisname?

Edit: General von Hammerstein

I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.
A Virtuous Cycle vs. Walled Gardens for Lifelong Learning
Hiring for potential means to me, they didn't have the time to learn something yet. So, the most important thing is: How quickly do they learn new stuff? Are they excited about learning new stuff? You can figure this out by letting them talk about previous situations where they had to learn something new quickly.
Our problem as a < 200 person non-profit is that our teams are being convinced that we _do_ need these systems, and in that scenario it is bloat. We keep telling ourselves that we need to "grow into" SalesForce and all its ancillaries that we're paying outrageous sums for. And that growth looks so much like a balloon. We have more and more SaaS stuff to support but the same number of people to do it. And we think we're getting ahead.
I described his last books as a love letter to billionaires. All that is missing is a long, flowery, baroque dedication in the front to a wealthy patron, Bezos or currently more topical Marc Andreesen or Musk.

There may be a structural literary need for billionaires - to finance and start those big projects. But it's rather sad that a guy as creative as Stephenson doesn't seem creative enough to find alternatives.
I wonder if this is relating now to remote work as well?

Been seeing a lot more "Remote only in EU/UK" type roles, and when I ask they're explicitly not catering to other timezone-aligned regions.
Hum... no. The GP is complaining that what is on the title is the equivalent of doing nothing at all.

Of course, there's an entire plan, with shorter term goals and ways to achieve them. With actionable steps, what is a huge change from most climate accords. The article just does a very bad work of citing those and not getting at any detail at all.
Thank you, my memory on the history is hazy as heck, its from word of mouth.
I Know Your Data Science/ML Project Will Fail Before You Even Begin
This is unacceptable level of reasoning about such a topic, almost comically illiterate.

The moment you've used the term “brain”, you'd already detached that thing from the rest of the body (without which it can't function — just like a spherical cow can't really live in a vacuum), drawn its borders, set limits to its functions, and so on. The same with “synapses”. So by stating that those mental objects are “real”, you've simply found that X equals X, that those things are exactly the same as they are defined. Their evident presence here is no different from the evident presence of demons inside the possessed people in the past.
It’s literally selecting for people who can tell the best stories. Not great for any company dependent on moving fast with autonomy, with a genuine mission.

Plus “looking for grit” really means “looking for someone to work long hours (typically without good odds of realizing fair equity)”… super unethical to even attempt to be selecting for people with trauatic and toxic Pasts.

If they wanted to select candidates for learning quickly, being adaptive, whatever… just test for that.
I laughed. It's both true, and very not helpful. It's the equivalent of a fairly long not-so-great book before a pretty good book. Hard agree.
Banksy — 'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable'
Crying of Lot 49 is short and sweet.
I don’t own any Apple stock. Nor is my finances in any way dependent on Apple or other big tech. I don’t even work in software.

I just think my life is genuinely improved by having access to Apple products, and find the blond hate and uncompromising takes in this thread to be just as baffling.
FWIW my advice on the same:
Hire for intellect, doesn’t have to be in the precise area you are working in. Some of the best people I’ve hired did not come from a CompSci or Informatics background. They were mostly STEM though.
Hire for enthusiasm and energy. There are people who are radiators, and there are people who are drains. Don’t hire drains.
Hire for the soft skills. People who can communicate. People who you _want_ to help (because they will need help at least at the start). People who are easy to work with (because little is achieved in most endeavours by a loner these days).
> Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyers Claim Zooming-In on an iPad Fundamentally Alters a Digital Image

> The lawyer argued Apple uses AI in its pinch-to-zoom feature to create "what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there.”

https://gizmodo.com/kyle-rittenhouse-s-lawyers-claim-zooming...
> I hate that this is such a common thought process.

In most teams, not everyone is on the same page:

- There are people with varying levels of experience, some may not currently have enough background to fully understand all the aspects that a plan addresses.

- Many/most people have the tendency to let their various biases creep into team-level decision-making. For instance, if someone had a bad experience on a previous team using technology X, they are less likely to support using X today independent of X's suitability for the current situation. And people tend to have a massive bias towards their own ideas rather than others' - so when two competing ideas are presented, one's own ideas are often preferred to others' ideas.

- Especially in larger organizations, there may be political motivations for pursuing one plan over another plan - both for management and for workers. "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" and "resume-driven development" and "launches get promo more than landings" are a few examples that come to mind that I've seen.

Unless you're on a golden A-team of contributors who are all incredible and on the same wavelength (this does happen sometimes! if so, cherish it!), you're going to have a mix of people with a mix of motivations+biases+experiences, incapable of reaching consensus around the "true" best plan in a reasonable amount of time.

Making decisions in a reasonable amount of time is CRUCIAL to team performance. Obviously, sometimes you make a bad decision quickly when you might have arrived at a good decision with more deliberation+debate+waiting for consensus. But in my experience, the benefit of avoiding these "bad" decisions from time to time is dramatically outweighed by a team's ability to decide very on things very quickly and commit to a plan (and therefore execute).

Famously, section 5.11 of the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual [1] describes some pretty timeless ways to ruin an organization's productivity - all kinds of behavior that are kind of indistinguishable from the behavior I've seen arise from "disagreeing and not committing" in organizations.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
What double standards? How is the reaction to Taylor Swift particularly different?
At the scale of individual neurons, or clusters of neurons, would the performance of human brain cells significantly differ from that of a pig? or house fly?

Those would be some interesting LLM performance benchmarks to see.
I was told that asking about resume gaps is a very biased question and a no-no, especially if it is a single gap, as opposed to a pattern.

Usually the answer to a single resume gap is something personal and none of my business as an interviewer, it's not my place to pry if you were raising children, caring for dying relatives or battling severe depression
But isn't all of that 100% true? You ARE at the whim of Microsoft. Microsoft DOES control your computer if you are running Windows.
I saw this on hackaday 43 seconds to crack bitlocker is pretty badass.
I've always been of the opinion that there some people for whom marijuana provides a form pleasure, and then there is everyone else.

I've really never been able to handle it. I've experienced anxiety/paranoia but even in the absence of that, it makes me beyond stupid. My version of a little high is similar to someone knockdown, drag-out drunk.

I live where it's legal and I come in contact with it all the time. I usually regret accepting that gummy. I'm not sure there's anything I can do to better tolerate marijuana or whether the juice would at all be worth the squeeze.
It’s revealing that the author feels entitled to the interviewee just volunteering such information for the sake of a job.
I think getting a no-hire signal after spilling your guts about your childhood, birth, and real stories would feel like shit. Same reason as not wanting to write cover letters anymore. If it's going into the shredder, who cares? Keep it light and airy.
Ambiguity and uncertainty are anathema to approaching problems from the classic engineering mindset. That's not a bad thing when used properly, and it's great in school where people hand you a stream of problems designed to be interesting in that mentality, but it's not the general-purpose tool for interfacing with all problems, as some imagine. I've worked both as a developer and designer, and with design tasks, you've only got a fuzzy sense of the wrong answers before you manage to craft a right one. Many, if not most engineers find it much easier to assume designers sit around all day moving things about as they fancy rather than imagining what it would take to solve ambiguous problems with no way to determine if you've got a really good solution until many people start interacting with it.
They won't break, but they may screw-up in-progress wafers and need to be realigned. You're right that they're incredibly sensitive, and they've built this into the design of the fab. They float the masks, objectives, and wafers on pneumatic isolators (separate stages for each, I believe). Extra-sensitive machines will also be individually isolated from the rest of the fab to prevent adjacent machines and footsteps from interfering.

Here's an example of a common pneumatic isolator, the kind of which can be found in almost every lab making optics:

https://www.newport.com/f/pneumatic-vibration-isolators-with...
It could improve performance, but let’s not kid ourselves that there are many companies that care about the minutiae of battery life as much as Apple. I mean, have you used a windows laptop recently. It’s -so- much worse than a MacBook that I refuse to believe it’s all about the m* magic chips. Sleep, power cycling, prioritisation just all seem to be better implemented.
Cars, and EVs in particular have strong protectionist laws in the US that make it more expensive to import vehicles than to build them locally. There are a few other sectors like semiconductor fabs where we have started to introduce protectionist policies but I haven't seen any movement to expand those types of policies to most other manufacturing sectors.
Previous discussions: "Breaking Bitlocker – Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption [video]"[0](110 points, 3 days ago, 68 comments), "BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico"[1] (108 points, 11 hours ago, 62 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243305
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39284711
Company was going thru a split (selling a large division off), the project I was on was going to get axed for sure, its just that it would take 6-12 months for the company to realize that and actually do the downsizing. When I put in my notice my manager was happy because he thought he would have to lay me off in 6-9 months.

If you're at a publicly traded company, pay attention to large shareholder changes and/or things that need to go through SEC and lawyers. It should be obvious what some potential outcomes are and the length of time for the SEC and lawyers to do their work is enough to start looking immediately and land another job.
That is the story if you read western media but it is important to remember that there is a massive world outside the west where that story is turned on its head: Here the US is a frail aging empire that just cannot handle the peaceful rise of China, and the idea of it no being the top dog, and thus lashes out in an increasing desperate manner.
English has lots of axes to represent this difference, I offered two in my post:

amateur versus professional: King was paid so he's a professional filmmaker.

bad/unskilled versus good/talented: King showed himself to be a aesthetically bad/unskilled filmmaker.

You are offering a third axis:

"one-off" versus "career": King so far has not made a career of filmmaking and only made the one film.

In English yeah, we do tend to assume the first axis (amateur versus professional) as the "default" axis. I think this is a very useful axis to use as the default: it's the least gatekeeping and the least subjective. Have you been paid anything to do that job? Congratulations, you are a professional at it. You've done the job. Otherwise, you are an amateur, keep trying you'll get there some day.

"one-off"/"career" is an axis with more subjective judgments. (How many films does it take to call it your career? 2? 14? If you deeply and academically study films your whole life but only make one masterpiece, is that not a career effort?) I shouldn't need to explain how good/bad, skilled/unskilled are deeply subjective.
Aren't gas heaters reliant on the gas grid? What if the gas grid goes down?
"Please paint a photorealistic picture showing garbage men dumping trash cans into the back of the truck."

What will my grounded in reality picture look like?
https://github.com/powersync-ja/sqlite_async.dart/blob/f994e...

https://github.com/powersync-ja/sqlite_async.dart/blob/f994e...

I think you may be looking too deeply. It does look like that object will wrap in a tx.
Serenity is one of the only recent OS projects that I think has any potential. It's a very high velocity, high quality project and I think that's down to the community culture Andreas has fostered. They aren't a load of fuddy-duddies who insist on using mailing lists and IRC. Nobody wants to collaborate with a load of grumpy greybeards.
We ran so much faster when we didn't have to run with shoes on.
> when I was working on Aperture

As a long-term Aperture user, I concur with the above sentiments. It was an impressive real-world use of SQLite by Adobe.

Hence I agree with the conclusion that if SQLite is "slow" its usually a PBCAK error.
It’s a good advertisement or due diligence that they respect security and take it seriously.
I was recently chatting with someone in that industry but not at TSMC. It's that they assumed Taiwanese workplace, cultural, government, and business norms will work here. There's chip manufacturing in the US, so it's not that it can't work. It just won't be the same as Taiwan.
I don't understand the focus on recipes, though, since USPTO explicitly carves out recipes as works not protected by copyright. There's no reason not to search for a recipe and extract "a statement of the ingredients and procedure required for making a dish."
> Then lie and tell a good story.

They'll review your story with your references; better hope your mom has a good sense of humor...
How do we know it's not an hallucination?
Highest Paying AWS Companies
necessity and sufficiency is insufficient (and not necessary) in biology. I've attended talks where the system was complex enough that something (a molecular factor) was sufficient, but not necessary! Pure logic isn't useful in biology because it's a feedback-controlled system with an enormous number of internal states.
Sooooo all those are of Japanese descent as requested in the prompt? Or only Haruka was abducted and the others just work there...
I made a couple of my own (they're incredibly scrappy, probably won't make sense to anyone but me):

- Ruby: https://github.com/stevecondylios/ruby-learning-resources/bl...

- Rails: https://github.com/stevecondylios/ruby-learning-resources/bl...

But this vim cheatsheet was great:

- https://vim.rtorr.com/

A failed attempt was to load (very) many (e.g. about 100) pages of javascript lessons from w3schools before the plane took off, but for some reason the pages tried to refresh during the flight and I lost them all, so that was a massive waste of time (opening them all before the flight took about 20 minutes).
Not legally binding.

Market adoption is already rising. Seems like a good way for the states to get good PR riding on the back of existing momentum.