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This just seems so quintessentially British, it made me smile. I bet Larry has seen some things in his time.

BYD is definitely slowing down. They are cutting prices to increase domestic demand and have cut back worker shifts at their Chinese factories from three to two per day.

I'm working on a new kind of encyclopedia and reference website that is way more engaging and rich than a single page of text on every subject like Wikipedia. Back in my childhoold we had Microsoft Encarta on CDROM and it was a very compelling multimedia experience and I want to emulate something like that on the modern web by combining video, sound, images and text in a more compelling user experience with great discoverability. I've been working on the first version for about eight months and I hope to launch it next week at https://reference.org

>> Casper Klynge, a former Danish and European Union diplomat who worked for Microsoft, said the episode was in many ways the “smoking gun that many Europeans had been looking for.”

Damn right. Strong evidence that Europe should look after their own, and not rely on the good old US of A. Written by an Australian who thinks we should do the same down here.

LOL, I see what you did there ;-)

That sounds about right. Thanks for the insight.

Sky honestly does not even look that impressive from the video on their website. So it can save calendar events if you type something into a prompt. Wow....

What am I missing ?

A piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that doesn't take off vertically. Congratulations on this significant first UK.

Yeah, just watched that very entertaining video and there is no resin in that bulletproof wood - it's just had all the lignin squeezed out and cooked under pressure.

My niece in Australia has a rare genetic disorder and when my wife and I had our first baby in California a few years ago we were concerned about that. We also had fantastic insurance and the hospital team there did a test where they took a blood sample from my wife and seperated the childs DNA from the mothers in the blood sample and tested it for several genetic disorders. That test is not available in Australia even today.

That Kevin Chen video using Excel was amazing and hilarious. Thanks.

Rest of World looks like a fantastic news website I was not familiar with. I just spent a half hour reading a whole bunch of interesting articles there. Well done for helping build it - its super fast from Australia.

$700 million is a really cheap semiconductor plant - I wonder what node size that fab was? Maybe they got an estimate on how much a competitve semi plant really costs - and its in the tens of billions of US$.

We needed a 16GB machine to import all the data into Meilisearch, as the batch indexing is quite memory intensive, but once it's all indexed we scaled it back to half that RAM and it works great - very performant.

We use Meilisearch in production with a 7 million article corpus - it works really well.

What an awesome story and very well told. Brings me back to the old days and put a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing.

No, Tesla has their own seperate training supercomputer called Dojo that it optimized for computer vision. Its one of the top 20 supercomputers in the world by compute.

> He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past.

None of the writers of Ars Technica are anything like fair to Musk.

This was an engaging read and really well written considering the dryness of the subject matter. I enjoyed it.

Looks like they're currently No. 12 on their cited Clickbench benchmark - so not quite in the top 10 three weeks later.

Thanks, amended post.

Edited: Very similar to another Tesla crash in China with a social media protest. In that crash the brake lights did not come on at all. In fact the acccelerator was pressed down 100% for a full five seconds before the crash which was entirely the drivers fault.

The defendant knew this and Tesla gave the family the car telemetry data, but continued to falsely protest that the brakes were depressed during a lengthy social media campaign, and as a result determined by a Chinese court Telsa was awarded damages and the family was asked to publicly apologize.

https://carnewschina.com/2023/03/02/tesla-model-y-crash-inve...

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who became a national figure after he used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider.

CloudFlare as a reverse proxy out front of AWS

Its the browser that does this on the client, not YouTube on the server.

I worked for a California based American tech company while living in Perth, Australia for the last two years. All of what the OP says rings true, but I can tell that he is living on the East Coast of Australia because living in Perth we have literally no common business hours with the US West Coast which is brutal. I had to start work at midnight and work through the night for Zoom meetings and customer interactions and work on Saturday morning.

They job pays well and the people are lovely, and Australian culture has become a LOT more like the US over the past decade. Now we even have Black Friday sales but no conception that was invented because of the US Thanksgiving holiday.

You can change maps to many older maps under the "Explore Maps" option on the home page of the site. it seems you can either explore maps or history, but not both at the same time.

eeTimes is behind the times for sure.

EV Battery packs are very heavy and dense. The ID4 has an aerodynamic Cd score of 0.28 - Mach-E has a Cd of 0.29 and Model Y has a Cd of 0.23, so its in the middle of the pack.

This is not going to end well. They YouTube video comments are brutal. At least they're 'copying nothing' from other car brands I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnYpL0GQfA