skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that all the COTs or nearly COTs assemblies on their cars are made to the same spec as they are for whatever other OEM buys them.

A TRW unit bearing supplied to Tesla in one bolt pattern and spline configuration isn't any more precise than the same bearing assembly in a different bolt pattern and spline configuration sold to GM.

Tesla is not in a position to dictate abnormally high tolerances to it's suppliers for stuff like that.

Edit: Why am I being down-voted. Is this not a correct analysis of the situation?
Given your age and the fact that you're posting here I'm gonna safely assume you know more things than me, but just in case you haven't given it a shot - I took a custom google voice number and almost never get unsolicited robo calls on it. The only ones I get are from a couple debt collectors that are tossing around an old hospital bill they can't decide if I need to pay or not, i.e. they got my number relatively legitimately.

Not sure if this is because of some sort of built in spam protection, or if because my area code is weird,but, worth considering?
What are some of the issues you encounter in integrating F# with your ops/infra processes?
This section on meetings is something that actually makes me want to apply at TESLA.

>Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.

>Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.

>Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.
Won't ublock [1] solve that by blocking that kind of scripts from loading?

[1] https://www.ublock.org/
Your comment echos a conversation I was having with my wife the other day as she was reading me bits from Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Book by Angela Duckworth.

As you might infer from the title the thesis is that Grit is a very powerful force. My comment in our discussion was that this whole body of social science research and life/career advice comes into conflict with other bodies of advice about cutting one's losses, the value of killing 'failing' projects early, avoiding the trap of sunk costs.

How do we personally know or offer advice to others about whether current difficulties are likely to be overcome by renewed effort and persistence and when do we say it isn't working, try something very different?
I wanted to use it [edit: i.e. Gnome] in order to slim down my heavy configuration. But just not worth it. All I do is use two GUI programs, and it managed to get in the way. XFCE gets bonus points for its configuration being in plain text and version controllable. I had to have this for Gnome: https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/blob/master/scripts/... https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/blob/master/xdg-conf...
It would be best to keep 3-4 year olds away from screens as much as possible and given real toys to play with and colors and coloring books. :)
I don't know anything about Tesla or working there, but my experience from large financial institutions is that acronyms are part and parcel of business speak. It's beyond comical, because very often you'll see the acronyms immediately followed by their expansion in parenthesis making it very clear that the acronyms are not widely known or accepted. But they keep being used, and each business unit likes to come up with their own. I find it pretentious and inhibiting to communication, and I make a point of not using acronyms that aren't already very well established to the point where the communications can be understood by more or less anyone.

I detest the invention and use of these acronyms and – ignoring the rest of the email – I for one would love to see such an instruction come from management at my place of work.
I think Hiya uploads your contact list to the cloud - I'd rather pay the $2/month rather than rely on an unknown business strategy.
But will it allow me to block all calls from 604-232 and 604-234 that are not in my contacts? Because I've noticed a similar trend where I get calls from numbers that begin with the same 6 numbers as my phone number.. but I have friends and family with phone numbers similar to mine and I don't want them blocked. Just ones not in my contacts list.

Edit: I read a review of Hiya and it sounds like they're still missing what we're all looking for: "Two things are missing. First, the ability to block all calls not in contacts. I have to download a separate app for that. Second, on inbound calls from the same area code (i.e., spoofed numbers) it does not pre-screen the call."
Gotta take the bad with the good. Some governments act like companies and treat tools like Signal as malware. Another discussion can be had for citizen freedom vs employee freedom, but public network restrictions benefit all kinds of censorship. It's also another discussion worth having on whether one's need to monitor all data in/out of their company is worth giving that power to other who use it for wrong (mitm devices and TLS termination w/ custom device certs notwithstanding).
Maybe the announcement was a bit too early? I don't actually see source code anywhere.
Imagine that, on average, each robocall wastes 15 seconds of a person's time. Let's round it out to 100M calls. That's 1.5B calls seconds, or over 45 years of times destroyed.

He almost murdered someone, spread out across 100M people.
Arguably citizens of Libya have it better than citizens of North Korea (or Syria for that matter)
I think they have to allow it so that services like call forwarding work.
Reading this sounds like a cult. Outside of politics, I don't think I've experienced so much groupthink and unreasoned responses as I have w.r.t Bitcoin.

And it seems like anytime it's challenged or perceived as threatened it's almost a copy paste of the exact same content as above completely ignoring the original poster's comments.

Crypto or distributed banking may be a useful concept, but Bitcoin is horrible to the world. Energy is one of the single most important and fundamental resources. To get really theoretical this hold from the cellular level all the way up to societal. We are burning and trashing a significant portuon of society's energy to run a simplistic financial network. And this percentage will only grow, and it's built into the system that it must be wasted.

Bitcoin is our first planet level grey goo, and we're somehow still arguing about it. 30% of our planet's energy cannot go to running a simple financial network, it's ludicrous.

Other than governments stepping in and banning it, what will prevent that?
That would be great. At my company at least there's a lot of legacy infrastructure and complexity around phones and it's always seemed pointless to me, since obviously we already have a network. And like you, I don't even use the damn thing.

And on a related note, I much prefer interacting with customer service through a well designed website or app, rather than having to call, figure out the menu, sit on hold forever, and finally talk to someone who can't help me. It boggles my mind that a phone number is the main way to get service from so many companies.
Problem with Discord is that unlike project targeted to corporate customers it's might break APIs hard or change UI without notice or enforce whatever weird rule they desire.

Also they burning VC money and don't yet have proven business model so investing time in adopting it for non-gaming seems like strange decision.
It is interesting half the calls I bother to answer, are just instantly disconnected. Why bother calling if you are not even going to attempt to scam me. It is funny to get a live person and mess with them though..."oh which credit card are you referring to"

I kept one agent on the line for a few minutes and was eventually called some very insulting swear words. If I recall correctly I was called a "bitchass mother fucker"
This is spot on. The design of attrs remines me a little bit of the syntax from a declarative ORM, for example. I'm sure it can do very powerful things that I've not had occasion to use, but it is heavy. The @dataclass format is very clean and seems more like the syntactic sugar that I expect from Python.

One of the prime uses of a dataclass is to be a mutable namedtuple. And the syntax can be almost identical:

Part = make_dataclass('Part', ['part_num', 'description', 'quantity'])

(from Raymond Hettinger's twitter)

This has the added benefit of not requiring type hinting, if you don't want to bother with such things.
From the e-mail:

There is a very wide range of contractor performance, from excellent to worse than a drunken sloth. All contracting companies should consider the coming week to be a final opportunity to demonstrate excellence. Any that fail to meet the Tesla standard of excellence will have their contracts ended on Monday.

Unless this is an empty threat a bunch of contractors will be out the door on Monday. Which means less capacity to do the work.

Hiring line employees for a 3rd shift is great, but where are all the supporting ops people like safety engineers and plant managers going to come from? Doing that means a bunch of white collar employees just got a whole lot more work to do.
This happens less often than being killed by lightning, which you do not take proactive measures against.

People can leave a message. Officials can leave a message. When do you ever need to answer a call from a official?
911 is for getting instant help in emergencies. No one needs you to answer your personal phone immediately.
the source code is linked at the bottom of the README in https://github.com/Netflix/titus
"This scheme was particularly abhorrent because, given its breadth, it appears to have substantially
disrupted the operations of an emergency medical paging provider. It did this by slowing down and
potentially disabling its network. Pagers may be low-tech, but for doctors, these devices are simple and
dependable standbys. By overloading this paging network, Mr. Abramovich could have delayed vital
medical care, making the difference between a patient’s life and death."

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-80A1.pd...
> A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.

This is a way to create a clusterfuck. Nothing is worse than having people barging in from other departments going over managers' heads and imposing their own priorities.
Climate change is an existential threat. This is the language of someone who takes this seriously.
We'd be only interested in threat data for our usecase.
that's what I was trying to communicate! :)
Why? What about all the previous times Tesla hasn’t made goals and said they were doing something to fix it?

At this point I don’t trust any predictions or promises Musk says. His timelines (and level of product quality) are something to be very suspicious about.

And that doesn’t include when I think he’s flat out lying for marketing reasons (“Autopilot”).

I used to like Tesla, but this happens too much. I don’t doubt the production rate will improve, I doubt his estimate. I doubt the quality will improve to the level he claims (or possibly much at all). I doubt the Y will come out anywhere near on time.

I don’t see why he should deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Clean landing page as always, keep up the good work.
I love using attrs, like the idea of bringing something similar to the standard library, but strongly disagree with the dataclasses API. It treats untyped Python as a second class citizen.

This is what I'd prefer

from dataclasses import dataclass, field

@dataclass
class MyClass:
x = field()

but it produces an error because fields need to be declared with a type annotation. This is the GvR recommended way to get around it:

@dataclass
class MyClass:
x: object

You could use the typing.Any type instead of object, but then you need to import a whole typing library to use untyped dataclasses. I highly prefer the former code block.

There's a big thread discussing the issue on python-dev somewhere. Also some discussion in https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/2#issuecomm...

Anyway, it's not a huge issue—attrs is great and there's no reason not to use it instead for untyped Python.
The common wisdom is that it will lead to more dispersion. (In fact, this will probably be true even before full hands-off door-to-door systems are available.) To the degree that at least some people live in cities, not so much because they want to, but because they work there and don't want the commute, they might move to the suburbs if that commute becomes easier. Of course, if a lot of people think that way, traffic probably becomes more congested.
Presumably because he's talking about last week's improved production, not an average over all cars produced.

A bit cheeky none the less.
Neat Ways Startup Stalls Are Overcome by Savvy Teams
Prices will spike in small "urban-feel" bedroom communities that aren't currently on a major bus or commuter rail line and are within a ~30 minute drive of city centers. Also, cities will grow denser in areas that aren't currently on transit lines, at the expense of property values along transit lines in the inner suburbs.

I doubt prices in cities will change much, though. People who want to live in burbs are already living there. And there are lots of people living along transit lines who would rather be living somewhere else, if only they had access to trasnit.

If prices drop anywhere, it will not be in city centers. It will be in the inner suburbs along transit lines.
If you get a voice mail from the police, you can listen to the voice mail and respond.
The Tetrad Project – Graphical Causal Models
I see immutability as a feature.

There are uses cases for mutability, but it should be opt-in, not opt-out. So I'm not loving the fact that "frozen" (the mutability param for data classes) defaults to False.
> That was my take on this too, why do the type hints need to be there for this to work

Because (1) you need to declare the fields, and (2) it's good to do that in a way that will work with typecheckers even though they are external, and (3) there are actually two particular type declarations that are used by the implementation, even aside from external typecheckers.
I gave up my home phone because of this. Now my cell is starting to get a few a day. I'm going to be Viber/Skype/Messenger/Facetime only soon.
>While this is probably going to be an economic disaster based on the redistribution, its merely another alt coin solving a non-existent problem.

There's plenty of demand for a stable coin so that you can trade crypto easily or save money in a stable manner.
Hah, the phone equivalent to when Hiroyuki / 4chan banned all Russian IPs during a DDOS attack.

I spent a solid couple minutes trying to find the screencap, but it went down in 4chan history for the distinct Hiroyuki-style response, that went something like

>Many DDOS IPs were from Russia. So, we block Russian IPs. Now, DDOS ended.
Cryptocurrencies have reached the 1980s, with "stable coins" attempting to achieve the "impossible trinity" [1] of a fixed foreign exchange rate (i.e. "stable"), free capital movement (i.e. liquidity) and an independent monetary policy (i.e. reasonable collateral rates).

Prediction: to prevent a breakdown of stability, the marketing point for these schemes, we'll see, for coins without a centralized bottleneck, stupid collateral rates, and for coins with one, redemption restrictions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
> I know the supposed benefits of open offices, but I'm not even sure what hot-desking claims to achieve? Except in call centers I guess, where it's explicitly "to speed up firing people".

In call centers, there's another reason: if the company gets big enough, they may have more employees than desks. Since call centers work on shifts, not everyone is going to be in the office at the same time, and so they just lay down a policy of "nobody has their own desk".
Such vetting is not needed for an action such as playing audio in the background. That is harmless and only needs to be a permission the user chooses to allow when visiting that page.
I get it, I really do - if you can live on Linux alone that’s great.

Many other people here will complain about Microsoft ads on the start menu but turn around and forgive Apple who shows you ads every time you want to update your computer via the App Store. With Windows when I remove the ad (which is just a shortcut to a non-installed app) it’s gone forever or at least a long time.

Or, they will fault Microsoft for some slight lock-in with their Mail app that nobody is forced to use and completely forgive Apple for the immense level of lock in on iOS because “Apple has always only offered that” and Microsoft is not allowed to change.

However, I have to put up with basic telemetry which is slightly annoying but not a showstopper for me. I can also install the enterprise version of Windows which I think I can get via my MSDN subscription. Either way, it is annoying but I can live with it.
That is configurable, but for unbounded PCollections it appears the default is to use streaming inserts https://beam.apache.org/documentation/sdks/javadoc/2.4.0/org...
That's how MAD worked during Cold War as well, isn't it?
One business that I own has "Lab" in its name. It gets sales calls for lab equipment from Asia at least once/week. It's a data lab, not a chemistry lab... these sales reps haven't done 1 second of research before calling. I assume they're scraping the names from somewhere too, or someone is scraping it and selling them a list.
Or perhaps a little too late!
Of course it does; I'm an idiot. Though it does seem like very few applications (I can't find a single mainstream browser) that actually support using them. I do wonder why not.
What's wrong with emergency calls going to voicemail, for your personal line when you aren't an onduty first-responder?

Would you also take your phone into the shower with you so you don't miss a potential call?
Your section with long monotype lines, which makes you have to scroll right to read it, makes we want to plead with HN commenters to stop doing it. Please, do quotes with >, it reads fine that way.
> Patent a very specific model for determining socioeconomic status? Sure. Patent the process in general? No fuckin way.

That's my point. If you're using machine learning, isn't the "specific model" just the output of the machine learning algorithm? And if so, even that may not be patentable, because the applicant didn't create the inventive parts, the computer did.
Is it? You're capped at 0.05. You can't print "obvious" results. ("With a confidence of p=0.00002173, we find that people are more likely to be angry in the slapped-in-the-face-by-the-researcher group than the control group...") So there's a natural floor determined by what is worth doing research on.

Now, it turns out that the floor is far lower than researchers believe and the field would be better off by slower incremental progress built atop "obvious" results, but still, I assert that publishability is an adequate explanation for high p values and obscures the evidence for bad practices.

Not that I have any doubt that bad practices abound; I have an undergraduate degree in psychology and am well aware of how things are done. It's not even malicious; people don't understand statistics, don't understand significance, don't understand models, and are mostly just doing whatever they can to make themselves feel good about their own intuitions and biases.
Prop 13 reduces city income from residents, so cities prefer to zone for offices instead. When Mountain View has offices that provide jobs from 10x people, but housing for only x, that means the richest x will get the housing (pushing up prices) while the other 9x have to commute in from far away.

Result: expensive housing and bad traffic. Prop 13 is a classic case of "road to hell paved with good intentions".
That's because all major Western internet companies are just virtue signalers for the wine drinking, cheese munching western population that loves to pontificate on the topics of "freedom". Every single time a country with a reasonably large market told Google/Apple/Facebook/etc "Jump" these companies asked "How high would you like us to jump?" rather than respond with force -

Google can respond to Russia with a single "OK, lets see" and block all Russian IP addresses from accessing/using any and all Google resources. Such action would create the kind of pressure on the Russian government it would within days change its decision -- it is not that the top of the Russian society does not rely on services provided by Google in a day to day life. It is that top that matters. Leaning on them creates leverage.

Compromising one's principals allows competitors to exploit one's weak principals.
As were computers. And the internet. It is not a given in any way that x amount of energy maps to productivity level y.
Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments.

For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
>I assure you they are thoughtful...

I thought you were arguing from a position of authority but looking at your comment history all I can find is "I'm a blockchain investor at [redacted]" which leads me to a placeholder website. You'll have to come up with something a little more convincing if you want us to trust your judgment.
First you must define what you mean by "stabecoin" and "leveraged". I can think of at least two definitions for each one that do not completely overlap.
"Most"
to be honest I find it hard to take writing that uses "females" as a synonym for "women" super seriously
> "spam assassin" for telecom.

https://www.asterisk.org/

> I don't trust anyone calling from a non-local exchange

Modern telecom scammers spoof your local exchange when they call you.
Considering that Facebook makes its revenue from ads and that providing relevant ads needs data and tracking, this move is not so bad.

Users that don’t accept the terms or use various tech to block this, would receive misappropriated ads. Bad ads make companies lose revenue while annoying the users with extremely irrelevant info.

This method should be extremely effective in removing false positives.

Personal observation: ads are never going to go away and I personally prefer receiving ads about some local beer brand and not about lipstick or sake in Japan.
This __post_init__ thing is shit IMO. Why does it make sense for the language feature to allow you to completely disregard the type hint and fix it later?

I have to imagine that the type checkers would factor in anything that occurs in __post_init__ when evaluating whether the class conforms to the type hints, but it still feels like this python static typing stuff is drifting in the wrong direction.
It's straight up in the article...

“Please refer anyone you know who you think meets the Tesla bar for talent, drive and trust” he wrote. “Between Fremont and Giga, Tesla will be adding about 400 people per week for several weeks.”
There is a major difference between a good school and private school with all rich connections. (Especially at this high level.)