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_da_··on The Beer Can (2023)
It's designed to be raised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen–Scott_South_Pole_Stat...
_da_··on Tesla is looking to redesign its door handles following trapped-passenger report
The Y also has the redesigned release (from the beginning, afaik).
_da_··on A postmortem of three recent issues
> This is pretty concerning. I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.

When you click "thumbs down" you get the message "Submitting this report will send the entire current conversation to Anthropic for future improvements to our models." before you submit the report, I'd consider that pretty explicit.

_da_··on United Is Latest to Discover Bogus Parts in Plane Engines
https://archive.ph/KS9PC
_da_··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Either way is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February#Pronunciation
_da_··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
> Why do people still use Subversion on GitHub, anyhow? Besides simple inertia, there were workflows which Git didn’t support until recently. The main thing we heard when speaking with customers and communities was checking out a subset of the repository–a single directory, or only the latest commit. I have good news: with sparse checkout, sparse index, and partial clone, Git can now do a pretty decent job at these workflows.
_da_··on Ford Was Unprepared for Investor Revolt and C.E.O. Change
> Tesla is not a battery company.

Tesla owns the world's largest battery factory.

_da_··on At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
I disagree.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I think many hackers (myself included) find this interesting.
_da_··on Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit
Their shareholders probably don't mind - their share price is up 50+% today. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VHC+Interactive#{"range":...