skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon has always seemed to have the attitude of "not everyone should invest in this stock". I find this refreshing. God forbid a CEO do anything except try to drive the share price as high as humanly possible.

I don't know if this carries the same weight in a public company, but setting expectations with investors is super important in a startup and prevents a ton of wasted time wrangling investors who don't get the true cost/benefit ratio of what you're doing.
So Musk turned a Conference Call that people want to be like a trial... into a commercial for Tesla.

You may not like it as a speculator of the stock, but it might be more in line with his and Telsa's long term interest.
The important part of Musk's plan has already succeeded. He made electric cars cool and competitive. If Tesla folds tomorrow, there will still be a large market for electric cars, and multiple other companies serving that.

Depending on your needs, that has arguably already happened. While Tesla is still the "coolest" brand of car, there are better/cheaper electric cars from many non-Tesla companies already widely available today. That will not go away, even if Tesla implodes.
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I disagree - I thought the questions were good. I wish both sides were able to answer questions, as Elon had promised in the beginning of the call! (He said something along the lines of, we want extra time for Q&A, will keep the call running until there are no more questions)

Having a retail investor at the table is a great thing for Tesla shareholders, IMO because so much of the public is interested in the company. I think the split between retail/institutional is 50/50 (I may be wrong on this).

Here are some interesting things that came out during Gali's questions:

- Tesla network/autopilot: autopilot safety data on quarterly basis. Timeline of network depends on regulators. A lot of autopilot crashes are from experienced drivers.

- More info on getting towards level 5 autonomy (hardware is going to be enough, but needs more powerful computers)

- Model Y production - not starting until 2020

- Supercharging network (V3): compared to Porsche’s 350kw supercharger. Tesla's main goal is to increase range.

- Interested in having supercharger network partner with another auto maker

- Tesla Semi - building out batteries/renewable energy to lower cost

- Nikola lawsuit

- Tesla Energy: prioritize power wall backlog now. Gigawatt/hour project coming out soon. How it compares to competition

- Tesla thanking China - possibly building Gigafactory in China
> Well, this literally effected me back in 2010 when I tried to donate to Wikileaks.

Clearly it didn't because someone at the bank didn't press a button and make your money disappear, which was the original claim.

> Did you know is that if the police merely suspect you of

US problems, you need to sort out your laws.

> This is just one example though. The banks censor...

I don't know what you're involved in, I've never, ever had this issue, and it wasn't the issue we were talking about either.

> PayPal horror stories

Also not what we were talking about.
There are height caps based on FAR(floor area ratio) that vary by zoning. The super talls are quite new and due to some changes to FAR restriction and trading of air rights.
Yes, they calculate using a simple regression with some controls (fixed-effects model): https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/the-impact-of-airbnb-on-....
Elon did come across very Trumpian on the call, which, in the longer term may serve his interests well. He's pretty upfront about not caring about what the public markets think of him (or Tesla), and acts accordingly. Maybe if he can devalue analysts, and their questions, in the long run these calls will have less impact on value of the company.

I mean ... if I were an institutional investor in Tesla, I'd really wish he would have answered those questions. He must have known what the outcome would be.
> he's Elon Musk and he doesn't care about investor returns

Then he shouldn't be the CEO of a public company which continues to sell stock and debt to investors on the promise of a return.

Also, Elon Musk very much does care about returns. He has a great track record in that department. He's just learned it's not something that's healthy to focus on in the short-term. Unfortunately, running out of cash forces the compression of time horizons. The latter is what investors are rightfully worried about.
BPD is 'Borderline Personality Disorder', not 'BiPolar Disorder'. Very different things.
Not sure if I have a stalker who just downvote everything I say or what's going but with the danger of yet another downvote for having an opinion:

You need scarcity in a digital world because you need things to be unique sometimes or have a unique history and because we need a way to establish "experience points" and to leave a trail that is uniquely yours and so that we can transfer that from one domain to another. That doesn't mean everything have to have a history or that we shouldn't take advantage of the Copy/Paste abilities digital gives us but there are plenty of areas where it's important to have scarcity.

Some exampels are:

Voting

Intellectual Property

Currency

Contracts

Documentation

Som even more interesting although more speculative areas IMO are:
As a base for AI (there should be a cost associated with everything AI do the closer we come to Generalized AI)
The ability for the individual to own their own data while still making it available to others (This can apply to everything from healthcare to buyer data)

I am of the belief that you want more fluidity in those areas the more digital our interactions become. Because that actually increases the need for "micro" agreements and history trails across organisationer or between humans. In other words I want a world where it's very easy for two or more parties to make agreements in the digital domain without being hooked up to some specific organisations interest. Just like I can freely trade my old book with the person next door.

If you have a secondhand market you have the ability to freely move between organizations and people without any need for a middle man who

With regards to the challenges for a Identity system it actually goes hand in hand with the second hand market in the sense that you want the ability to be able to know that a person/digital entity is what she/he/it say claim they are. The best way IMO is to create a unique finger print through our accumulated behaviors.

I wrote an essay about this a while back:

http://000fff.org/the-ghost-protocol-digital-identity-for-im...

But it will take time because it has to be a bottom up approach and it will require a lot more accumulation of our behavior plus perhaps some large player like FB, Google or Amazon to start accepting it. But that's why the second hand market is interesting in that it could allow for it to happen without big players.
Pretty sure people knew how to make slide based presentations since well before computers existed. And I somehow doubt that NASA's primary use of PowerPoint today is for presenting complicated mathematical equations. But hey, clickbait title gonna clickbait.

Still a cool picture. Not sure why they decided tall blackboard + ladders was better than multiple normal blackboards at ground level. But then these are the guys who built this[1] so they didn't have to lay their rockets down when assembling them.

As for the equations, I'm no mathematician, so I wonder if people of that ilk still find use in sketching out their ideas on a black or white board. Or is it all LaTeX and matlab these days?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building
Even with an adblocker, the site is unusable.
Yeah, seems like wealth is generally created over generations, rather than lifetimes (common case might be something like: 0 - 1 your grandparents immigrate and work hard to survive, 1-10 your parents work hard to go from subsistence to middle class, 10 - 100 you have enough safety net to take risks/follow passions/start successful bussinesses). Of course there's always exceptions.
This might not be the answer you want to hear, but I've seen Andrew Hussie's "Homestuck" draw a lot of comparisons to "Ulysses".
Yeah, my neighborhood in Brooklyn is mostly 2 to 3 story building. Many of them were multi-family homes until the 1980's, and are now single family homes.
Thanks for clarifying that. I think it would be useful to mention the size of dependencies a site would need if they want to use layerJS.
Variable length instructions, so long as they're easy to decode, have always been present in the range of ISAs commonly called "RISC" and this new one from MIPS is no different. Except for the encoding it's basically the same thing MIPS has always been.
Which sleep deprivation _may_ induce.
Been running it fine for 10 years. Does sound boring.
Was he not CEO when Tesla went public in 2010?
Firstly, this was not some PR event. Musk had large number of people knew what they were talking about wanting to ask tough questions. What Musk is interested in is not relevant.

Secondly, Musk can't avoid short term investor questions because unless he answers them, there may be no longer term. This kind of clear avoidance of difficult questions can easily add one percentage point to Tesla's future loans and reduce the amount he can collect.

Tesla is down almost 12% from the beginning of the year.
Carnegie and Buffett occur to me as counter-examples that you need to devote yourself to a specific field or technology.
>Er, why is asking for something fundamental to running a business (i.e. "How much money do you have/need?") a partly boring/boneheaded/uncool question?

Some people on HN think Musk is doing us all a favour by allowing us to participate in his projects. Evidence of this is the inevitable, "Elon should take the company private" that seems to surface in these threads. As if going public is a favour from Musk, as opposed to a way to raise capital.

The company is public and the CEO is accountable to the shareholders. Period. The hubris with this company is shocking.
Rowhammer has been around for a while
Agreed. It's a celebration of a lifestyle that Hollywood perpetually presents as the pinnacle of human experience - drugs, loose morals, sexual promiscuity, and fast cars; the means of acquisition aren't usually considered as important as the acquisition itself.
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that may bring the dawn of a new era of humanity.

They make cars.
If Tesla folds, how much will they be able to refund to customers ? I guess it's probably written on the deposit contract.

Also, I wonder how many would go buy a competitor EV vehicle if their Model 3 doesn't happen. Or will they go ICE ?
Wall Street and their car industry friends want to kill Tesla. They use every opportunity. They probably pay "PR" firms to do anti-Tesla propaganda, judging from the shill YouTube comments I've seen.

None of it matters if Tesla produces products that people love. So far they're doing a great job of that. If they keep up the "pace of innovation" they will succeed, and if they don't, they will fail.

None of this drama will matter in the end. As a Musk fan since before he was cool, this just makes me like him that much more.
Thanks for posting! Author here - happy to discuss!
Meeting # 1: How many images can we fit on the page?

Meeting # 2: No seriously, how many more images can we fit on the page?

Same meeting every week at pininterest
Are there any good alternatives to 7-zip we can use instead?
Musk literally said to an investor "Please sell our stock and don't buy it.".

Transcript : https://seekingalpha.com/article/4169027-tesla-tsla-q1-2018-...
Any place to download the data used for the regression model?
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Sounds like a good thought process, but that's not how I feel it happens in my department. The thought process there is more like "hey, this sounds like it's relevant for 'the team'. Let me check the calendar for the first open slot!"
To be fair (edit: figuratively, to state a favorable viewpoint on Elon's decisiont to give more time to one person) he was asking excellent/interesting/challenging questions and it was really interesting to me to hear Elon's answers.

I think Elon might have done well to be less brusque with the more run of the mill questions but I really enjoyed listing to the long exchange there
>If colonizing a new planet isn't a new era of humanity, I'm not sure what is...

Do you credit Musk with coming up with the idea of getting to Mars?
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see that you are not defending,
but this is not a meeting. it is an investor conference call - most if not all of the entire point is to clearly and openly answer their questions about financials...
If the only value you provide as a developer over a low-cost outsourcing agency is your physical presence in a location, then outsourcing your job is probably the right move.
Guy has been instrumental in a couple hundred billion $$ in market value and you’re suggesting he doesn’t care about investor returns? Wow.
Also, actual flamethrowers are commercially available and completely unregulated in 48 states: https://throwflame.com
Also, on a related suggestion, it could also be nice if layerJS could be modular, so that everyone does not need to download the whole thing if they only need the responsive menus, for example.

Of course, I realize that implementing this would be a lot of effort and would require change in your release flow.

But just in case, there's more demand for what I suggest, here's an inspiration from FontAwesome: https://fontawesome.com/get-started/svg-with-js. Note how they provide a fontawesome-all.js having all the icons. But they also provide separate fa-*.js for different icon families for the people who don't care about downloading the whole thing.
I think what he did is awesome. Who cares what wall street thinks? They're mostly a bunch of leeches passing around paper and overreacting to news articles.

Tesla will be fine.
> What did you think was missing from the Wikipedia article?

Oddly enough as stated the problem fails. It essentially assumes an evenly distributed random placement of numbers. However if the warden simply adds the same random number to every single box it ends up as a very long cycle and they all fail.

Worse, they have to communicate which order to count from. Is box 1 the top left or bottom left box?

PS: The problem shows up in many such puzzles because 'the problem' was based on the math rather than the math being chosen to solve the problem.
>I suspect many of these people touting their nearly purchased Lamborghini and the like are actually just renting them.

Yes, this is incredibly common in the entertainment industry (particularly Hip Hop), and I also saw a lot of people like this when I lived near a wealthier part of LA for a couple years
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There was a petition of sorts on twitter to get Hyperchange on to the conference call. I think Elon was trying to segue with a plug to these guys because they aren't the regulars.

I'm asking seriously though, what would he stand to gain from hiding info about capex? Or do you think the reaction from investors is due to his attitude or signs of stress/things going wrong internally?
Nonsense! Anyone can become rich if they just want to! For those who don't buy the OP's argument and want to get rich quick, I'm looking for investors for my ICO. It's like bitcoin but for people who like to eat pizza.

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I totally see where you're coming from too. You're right; it's not necessarily an app that I want. Ultimately, it's expectations & behaviors that I most want to change, not add yet another app to my day.
Agreed. At this moment on HN front page we have Musk story and the Fake It Till You Make It story[1]. Illustrates the different ways of achieving success in the modern world. I prefer the Musk way.
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Security puzzles that argue for dynamic language tweaks
> The cycle notation is not unique since a cycle of length l can be written in l different ways depending on the starting number of the cycle. During the opening the drawers in the above strategy, each prisoner follows a single cycle which always ends with his own number.
I have always used 7-Zip on Windows. Having done some reading now, the author's general attitude towards the tradeoff between security and executable size/speed have convinced me to try and not use it in the future. Thankfully I rarely have to use Windows these days.
It may be a strange call but it's not the first. Overstock's former CEO, Patrick Byrne, had worse calls where he discussed his personal issues.
This article is totally worthless without some way to gauge what $616M actually is... I have a VERY hard time believing in NYC that's anything but "piss in the wind" compared to total amount spent on rent.

Too many articles come out with a "shocking number" that doesn't mean anything except to those who don't know the scale.

This is mostly a click-bait article and study.
>IMO because so much of the public is interested in the company

What do you mean by "so much of the public"? Outside of tech circles, Tesla isn't as well known as you imagine.

Why do we need to hear about all of their ideas and potential on the conference call? I can read Twitter, Electek, Teslarati, Reddit or others for that.
Well, suppose you have a fleet of 100 cars. In the morning and evening, 100 people travel for 1 hour to work and back during rushhour. That's 2 hours in total, or 100% utility of the fleet during 8% of the day.

Now suppose that every hour of the rest of the day, there's only 10 people making a trip of 30 minutes. That means there's only 10% of the traffic volume compared to rushhour on the road. But you're seeing 22 hours of two groups of 10 people making a trip every hour. That's 440 trips.

Now suppose that the two groups of people, rush and non-rush, all used their own cars. You'd have 100 cars for the rushhour group and 440 cars in the non-rushhour group. You get to 540 cars needed.

Now suppose the two groups shared vehicles. You just need 100 cars still to make the same amount of trips.

Under these (made up) assumptions, you can reduce the amount of cars needed by 5x.

Then there's the notion that you can get dynamic pricing, e.g. look at Uber, but for semi-public transport. This incentivises people and companies to distribute their travel in a better manner, which also allows a system where producers of congestion pay for it. Thereby you can distribute load better, increase utilization, decrease the number of vehicles needed even further.

But indeed, you're unable to get to 100% utilization because demand fluctuates during the day. But even increasing it from 10% to 20%, or 30%, would introduce massive changes to the market size.
> Tesla is a giant confidence game - as are most high growth opportunities.

Do you literally mean that Tesla is a scam? (That’s the normal meaning of “confidence game”, i.e. “con game”).
> Elon has always seemed to have the attitude of "not everyone should invest in this stock".

Sounds like the CEO equivalent of a movie director saying "I didn't make this one for the critics." Translation, "I know there are problems but I'd rather have my ego stroked by fans than face real criticism."
The magic comes from the nuclear half, not the Stirling half.
Pretty much ready to ditch my smartphone. iPhones are too expensive and affordable Android phones are a security mess since they never get updated.
But time is a factor, especially in relation to milestones. I think everyone would agree that Tesla's Autopilot and full-self-driving aspirations were going extremely well in 2016 [0], and we can safely assume that progress is still being made into 2018. The more relevant part, though, is the amount of progress relative to Tesla's earlier assumptions [1], and of course, compared to its competitors' progress.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/799908000689336320

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768?lang=...
And refusing to answer is when I, as an investor, would begin looking at options available to me to change management.
And thats the part I still don't understand.
Actually assuming moderate economic rationality (on which free market efficiency is based) we can conclude that each actor is engaged in their most effective means of utility maximization. Basically this is the best job they can get and any variation in employment is likely to be less satisfactory.
This is such propaganda. Not even worth discussing. I mourn the loss of factual journalism and critical thought.
Elon says things like that every quarter.
Personally, I would have preferred Hammertime.
Random distribution of numbers is part of the problem statement:

> The director randomly puts one prisoner's number in each closed drawer.
Wall Street's money pays Tesla's bills.
I disliked Don Draper from close to the start of the series ( I hate watched it...) and disliked Walter White after he killed SPOILER's girlfriend by neglect until maybe the last episode of Breaking Bad (the unfolding trainwreck was compelling), and was pulling for Tony Soprano and Nuckie Thompson to die after the first seasons (those pesky survivors to the end at least).
And anyway, AirBNB allows more people to visit NYC, so it's good for tourism. That has to be counted as money coming in. It's just not going into the pockets of some traditional hoteliers.
Or the economy is so fucked that they simply can't get another job.

Or they need the employer provided healthcare.

Or they don't have access to unemployment benefits.

Least worst of a bad set is still bad.

I worked in warehouses when I was younger and I didn't mind it but they treat you like a human not a cog in a machine.
> To be fair he was asking excellent/interesting/challenging questions and it was really interesting to me to hear Elon's answers

thats the opposite of being fair, but unfair is fine sometimes.
Technically yes. The engineering idea has caught on.

I'd like Tesla to stick around for a while, so that the other idea also catches on - you know, the "do the right thing for a change" philosophy.
Did he use it? I saw nothing in that screenshot where he actually used his access.
Propaganda is used to change peoples' opinions. Peoples' opinions are their opinions, regardless of how they were formed, and their opinions help determine their behavior, particularly at the voting booth. You seem to be attempting to claim there's some huge amount of support for changing the election system, but this is an assertion without any supporting evidence. As I've pointed out, there's no popular support for any such change, none at all.

Meanwhile, I can point to lots of popular support for other things, despite any "propaganda". Propaganda and apathy don't seem to have stopped various activists from pushing for marijuana reform, gay rights/marriage, gun law changes (in different directions), etc. Can you point me to ANY significant activist activity to change the voting laws? Any? Any at all? Can you point to any national-level candidate (or even state-level) who's made any noise about this issue?

(And before you try to claim that "propaganda" limits the choices and viability of candidates, I'll disprove that with one name: "Trump".)
i used to find standups to be useless hurdles put on the track by my manager. now i find them more useful, or less useless, because after 10 minutes have passed i just start coding again.
Belfort made it look effortless. Bateman made it look hard.
From the problem description on Wikipedia.

The director _randomly_ puts one prisoner's number in each closed drawer.