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by bertil 3y ago
Given how manufacturers love advertising how aggressive, violent, and deadly their cars are, I’m not sure they will try to bury those results. I’m 50/50 on them trying to change the news cycle on those keywords vs. going all in and hir
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by bertil 3y ago
I remember seeing a prankster passing in front of a car and miming stepping over a big obstacle. The driver looks concerned and steps out to check. Laughs. Until I realized: they genuinely had to. The driver was not checking because they sa
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by bertil 3y ago
No need to close it: just demand a commercial license to drive one of those. Yearly check-up, learn to look at your blind sides. If you mess up, lose your job. If those are getting tax benefits for being used by specialized industries, they
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by bertil 3y ago
Banks don't have to offer you an ID; governments do.
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by bertil 3y ago
Most people who use official digital authentication appreciate the value and wish it was widely available. Such systems have not been breached or leaked information yet, despite being used daily by millions of people.
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by bertil 3y ago
That's a good example of why you want to define clear tasks for each role, to identify things that you are missing (planning how to promote your product after launch), and new responsibilities (feature configuration), but also not to h
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by bertil 3y ago
I might have to edit that comment then…
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by bertil 3y ago
Presumably no privacy issues. That data is copyrighted, so Boeing could go after you for that, using anti-movie-piracy laws that are quite draconian in the US: copying itself is bad but hard to prove; making it available is definitely worse
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by bertil 3y ago
I was being snarky—and covering my butt, in case the PRC and the PLA suddenly gets very trial-friendly.
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by bertil 3y ago
No need to be snarky or insulting: I was trying to ask for a sincere assessment of that law. > do this in service of capital Sir, this is ycombinator.com If the intent is that no database with an individual-level breakdown falls under GD
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by bertil 3y ago
I don’t mind the catastrophism: it tells parents to tell their 16-year-old that this could be an option. If enough kids trade peace around the dinner table with some financial support, we’ll get electricians before there’s a dire shortage.
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by bertil 3y ago
Electricity is getting cheaper as we go. It’s already passed close, and there are not a lot of incentives to pro-actively switch, but there is an incentive to get an electric car when you change; to get a heat pump when your heater stops wo
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by bertil 3y ago
That broad definition opens itself to so much… Even raw movie rating data was famously partially de-anonymized. I’m not sure that I could imagine a detailed database with personal activity at a reasonable scale that couldn’t be de-anonymize
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by bertil 3y ago
This is the same problem as white-hat security: you need people who know an awful lot about how bad guys work but are good guys. Security has developed a legitimate market over the years, but that took time. You could try to ask independent
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by bertil 3y ago
Who would be interested in that data? I’m seriously asking because a while ago, I had an interview that was explicitly about finding a business model for that type of data (flights, on-time, maintenance, etc.) for a reseller. I think I did
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by bertil 3y ago
Labor laws are seen as a plus by many people, even in a hot market like AI. - Candidates know they won’t be showered with praise and sign-on bonuses here and now but ignored and thrown out the back after the first review cycle. If anything
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by bertil 3y ago
> I assume airships aren't allowed to touch the ground because it needs to rotate with the wind. It can touch it, it’s just that because it’s designed to be buoyant, it won’t have a good grip without enforcing it. > For an LZ, th
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by bertil 3y ago
I'm assuming they'd be picking the right altitude to mitigate that, no?
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by bertil 3y ago
I don’t think larger hangars than what we have now are that hard to build – not compared to, say, buildings like the Burj Kalifa. We can do tall. The biggest issue would be to have a wide span without columns. But those are long shapes: if
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by bertil 3y ago
Of course not, but you can have sunlight for 12, reach the jetstream, cut the engines unless you are maneuvering, store some energy to have enough to operate for the next 12 hours, and replenish your batteries for 12 more hours while you st
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by bertil 3y ago
65 knots is probably the most surprising piece of information there. That’s the speed of a car on a highway. If there were a bridge from NY to London, would you take it? What if the views are nice, and you can nap, walk around, and have tea
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by bertil 3y ago
Money: most projects didn’t have enough investment. Brin presumably can handle a conversation that starts with “We need another billion for…” Wind patterns are actually well understood: hot-hair ballons already move around simply by changin
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by bertil 3y ago
The ship doesn’t need to touch the ground, but you need to attach it firmly (because as soon as you unload a ton, that ship wants to jump up by about a ton). You can mitigate some of that with helium pumps and pointing the engines up and do
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by bertil 3y ago
Dirigibles benefit from the square-cube law, so as long as you have a hangar large enough to build them, larger is overall better. There are probably some questions about those 3,000 titanium hubs, so it might not be trivial to make it bigg
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m assuming that it would be feasible to cover the ship with flexible solar pannels and not need generators, but I understand that they want to deal with one problem at a time.
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by bertil 3y ago
Like many of those projects, access is controlled through a Discord server that is dedicated to more than just this prototype. I’m parsing and seeing things about getting CoPilot and VSCode to work together. If you are eager to try somethin
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by bertil 3y ago
This is an excellent idea, but it feels like an obvious application of RAGs (or a trivial agent to build with OpenAI’s latest ‘GPTs’ tool). Not dismissing the necessary and valuable work—it’s “obvious” in the way sleeping after a long day i
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by bertil 3y ago
An alternative to reading the docs; you can ask questions about the problem you are facing, and an LLM (presumably trained on coding questions, and RAGged to the docs) will give you configurable answers.
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by bertil 3y ago
There must be datasets of cyclist activity in London. BeeLine is a private company that develops a device for cyclists to orient themselves; I know they worked on cleaning up relevant data. Not sure if they would be keen to share with the a
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by bertil 3y ago
One small way this might affect some of us: there is a Danish Navy officer called Anders Puck Nielsen, who is an expert on Russia. He works for Military Intelligence and teaches at the Military College. He also has a very good YouTube chann

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