skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up til now they've only been doing relatively low volume production. I doubt Bently could scale up either and they know a bit about making cars.
Why team-building exercises won’t make your staff more productive
I have never thought they were simple to the point of obvious. In large because I can't fix many when they break. So, to that point, I'd imagine most attempts at zippers fail.
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What do you think is missing in classical physics? There are physical objects with real properties an we are determining their values by carefully interacting with the physical object using a measurement device. If we, for example, want to know the position of an electron - and in classical physics the electron is just a classical particle with a definite position - we carefully throw something, for example photons, into the rough direction of the electron and look at the scattering result to find out where the electron is. I don't see what this picture is missing.
Short answer:

1. Don't do this if you have no reasonable pipeline to build the ML/AI product.

2. However, what you're describing is standard, and maybe even virtuous for people in startups.

There is an outside chance you might be successful if you have huge and special domain knowledge in a particular field or are working in an unsexy field (ie 2nd tier sewage contracts or something) versus the shiny cool stuff.

If you want to talk more, send me an email at mccain.alex@yandex.com
$100m profits in SF sounds optimistic. London's heavily subsidised cycle share scheme, for example, gets a little over 1m rides in peak months even with most of those rides being free.
>> Have you tried reading or learning?

Lol. When I was at basic training (Canadian military) we of course didn't have cellphones or computers, but were allowed books. The image burned into my mind is of my platoon on a rainy day in the woods. Everyone is in camo/weapons, huddled together to keep warm while waiting for a truck … reading game of thrones. Those novels were better protected from rain/mud than any weapon.

I have a dozen projects that I could be working on. But it is a Sunday. Canada day. Tomorrow is also a holiday. The bosses aren’t here. Other than us and the guards, the building is empty. Nobody is in the mood for the never-ending stream of online courses we are supposed to work on in our free time. It is Xbox and the web until quitting time.
For me this is the other way round: an engineer must know how to do things, the theory is a nice to have.

I am an engineer, with a PhD in physics. The theory had exactly zero use as soon as I quit academia.
The premise makes sense (per industry), but how are the bubbles potentially connected to make systemic risk?

I’m kinda looking at it like this: per-industry, there is a local-minimum solution which is being exploited

For transportation, let’s call that “cars”. Scooters are a bet that if we climb out of that hole we might be able to get to an even lower minimum (but investor dollars are the fuel that’s burned on the search path).

So despite these walkabouts in the solution space (ie companies), there remains the local-minima solutions.

Now, for pension funds and what not other LPs that invest in VC firms, they have made commitments for returns to their share holders (eg retirees). I think it’s disingenuous to guarantee returns for 30 years (effectively what these fin products are), which also kinda sucks, but I don’t understand the problem outside of helping previous investors keep promises they weren’t able to make in the first place. That feels like a pyramid scheme.
My point is that if you think the idea was the zipper, you are limiting what you are looking at. Even buttons used to be more rare.

Zippers require fairly precise machinery. It is not surprising that they are a modern commodity.
Musk has been quite endurant so far. It's possible tesla will keep up, or not.

As long as tesla doesn't die i'd bet Musk will find a way to crank up the next stage.
Economics is not pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is essential oils being marketed as medicine.

Economics is a social science, just like anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, political science, psychology, sociology, etc. etc.

It's never going to be something with Laws of Gravity or the like, because humans are never wholly predictable or rational creatures. But that doesn't mean we can't come up with models that explain markets a majority of the time, in a macro sense.

Why do you think central bank policy has been able to prevent a depression from occurring over the last 90 years, when in the past they were a regular occurrence? That's economics in action. Just because it lacks the certainty of computer science doesn't mean you can throw out the baby with the bath water.
I don't understand the skepticism. He's not claiming to have built a perpetual motion machine. Even if it were the case that it's just a burst, it demonstrates feasibility. Of course the lines will get augmented and more efficient with time. It's not like there's some law of physics preventing regular deliveries of 5000 cars a week.
GDPR requires you to “prove” you gained consent by creating a server-side timestamped log of the option each user chooses.

But you cannot see my comment because I was hellbanned, so enjoy wondering.
Economist is not economics reporting. It is political advocacy.
The land that can be used as "dense urban area" is strictly upper-bounded by zoning, precisely because it is so economically efficient: a few suburban homeowners cannot hope to compete financially with the ~400 potential high-rise condo owners vying to live on the same block, so instead they fight (and generally win) in the public-policy arena.

For the efficiency factor to overcome the desirability factor, we would have to actually issue the building permits to allow thriving urban areas to overtake some of their surrounding lower-density neighborhoods.

We've decided as a society that this is unacceptable, so urban areas will probably maintain their premium indefinitely. In a sense you're right. But only for self-inflicted public policy reasons.
> Several months ago this would have been unthinkable

Unthinkable? Their Q4-16 Shareholder letter [1] (Feb 22nd, 2017) stated: "Our Model 3 program is on track to start limited vehicle production in July and to steadily ramp production to exceed 5,000 vehicles per week at some point in the fourth quarter and 10,000 vehicles per week at some point in 2018."

On July 2nd, 2017 Musk forecasted [2] 20,000 per month by December '17.

[1] http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/1ff901ba-bb25-4264-9153-7aa...

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/881757617416056832
> Or is it one of those phrases that can be used to mean absolutely anything at all?

The meaning depends a bit on the political orientation of whoever is uttering the phrase. In the neoliberal nomenclature presently used throughout Europe, "structural changes" are an euphemism for cuts to public spending (healthcare, social security, pensions, services), reduction of worker rights and wage depression.

For example, France is currently undergoing "structural changes". Ireland, Spain, Greece underwent "structural changes" as a response to the global economic crisis of 2008.
So what happens if an emperor dies unexpectedly? Does all Japanese calendar aware software break?
Don't be this guy, employees will figure it out.

> He recalls walking away from negotiations with a newly hired employee thinking, “Man, this guy is underpaid—we got a good deal.”
I wasn’t intending to advance an argument, merely present that as a biotech entrepreneur in the process of forming a new company I for one like many of the changes in this proposal. I completely get why software people take umbrage with patents, but wanted to politely put forward that it isn’t a universal feeling.
I guess you are missing the weather. Umbrellas are difficult to carry open while scooting.
> The turbine will produce about three megawatts of energy on average which, when working at full capacity, is enough to power 2,400 U.S. homes for one month.

Seriously, how does this kind of basic unit bungling happen in every report that involves Watts?
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."

What if taking certain drugs actually liberated rather than enslaved you?

Psychedelics, constructively used, might actually help people see through the power structures used to control them in ordinary life, and could be a strong catalyst for positive social change.

Take a look at the ideals that psychedelic use encouraged in the 60's and 70's counterculture. These people were not after being lulled further in to sleep by "narco-hypnosis", as Huxley terms it. They were after dropping out of the dominant society, about building their own alternative societies, about being peaceful and loving towards each other, about resisting the powers who told them to give their lives to chasing profit, or climbing the corporate ladder, or killing people in wars, or hating other people.

Of course, they did not all realize their ideals in the long run (though some did... the environmental movement, which has been incredibly successful, had its roots in that time), but it wasn't like these people were an army of brainwashed zombies programmed to obey. If anything, they questioned and disobeyed too much for mainstream society to tolerate, and there was a huge reactionary backlash against them -- they who had been greatly influenced by psychedelic drugs.

I suggest you take a look beyond Huxley's "Brave New World" (which he wrote in 1932) to his later book "Island" (which he wrote in 1962), in which he himself describes a utopia based around the use of a psychedelic sacrament. His thinking on drugs had clearly evolved in the 30 years since he wrote the former novel.

Also, Huxley is famous for having asked for and received LSD on his deathbed. There is a touching account of this event written by his wife here:

https://erowid.org/culture/characters/huxley_laura/huxley_la...
>The most sustainable forms of life is decentralized subsistence hunting and gathering or small scale farming

i.e. staying within the radius you can traverse on foot. Our oldest villages may be small, but they are unthinkably dense compared to midcentury American suburbia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428007
> It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time.

When Tesla reached it's 2,000 units per week deadline, they had production line shutdown soon afterwards. Then ramp up again from lower level.

Based on their previous numbers I would say that their next 3 month production average will be 60% - 80% of their last peak.
Given that half of those 5000 are being produced in a tent in the parking lot with summer heat and no AC, I can only imagine.
See this issue[0]. tl;dr: make sure you have the libfuse-dev package installed.

[0] https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf/issues/9
I stand corrected - it seems blocks' time must be increasing and must not be more than 15 minutes in the future, according to clocks of validating miners. Thanks, didn't know that!
This is pretty routine with the Economist. The anonymous bylines obscure the fact that most of their writers are fresh out of college economic majors with little to no real-world experience. When all you have is undergraduate level economics models and no experience to anchor it to how business actually works or decisions actually gets made, then you’re going to have vague, overgeneralized gobbledygook for analysis.
Right. And his whole timeline shifted right by 6 month when they didn't start production as they expected a few weeks afterwards.

Giving this the new estimate is placed to summer 2018.
Nice, very good recommendation. Would love to add Erich Fromm ("The Art of Listening", but I can recommend all of them), although his works are a bit OT in this conversation.
The struggle here, not that this contradicts anything you've said, is how easily this turns into a fetishization of unhappiness or suffering: Lincoln's depression as a cost for his genius (or Beethoven's, as the article talks about). It is a sort of bastardization of Faulkner's point about how "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies: "The Gettysburg Address" is worth any number of depressive episodes. Which maybe it is to us, but was it worth it to Lincoln?

If we believe that suffering is valuable for the excellence of humanity (not just for individual human beings), it seems to justify a political system that actively neglects the welfare of its citizens. To say nothing of the intellectual dishonesty of claims that suffering builds character when said from the vantage point of those who can choose not to suffer.

In the end, I actually think Nietzsche's political philosophy is wholly compatible with something resembling the modern welfare state: insofar as we can understand suffering to be valuable, it is only so when it is an active, human choice. Those forced into such a position may find themselves closer to "the whole damn truth", but only incidentally. And human experience is rooted in the choosing. The power of Martin Luther's oft-(mis)attributed "Here I stand, I can do no other" is not in its truth -- he obviously could have done otherwise, but he chose not to. Without the capacity to make those decisions for ourselves, to be allowed to decide that truth is worth the loss of happiness, achievement, fulfillment, we are never ourselves truly human. That some (many? most?) may decide the 'easier' path of herd morality doesn't change this: we are, by virtue of our humanity, able to elect not to be human. That so many do is a tragedy, yes, but an understandable one; and the possibility and fact of this tragedy gives meaning to the choice itself.
Maybe it was different back then. Most games were simpler and many of us did not have endless collection of games. It was much easier to get bored playing with computer. Now the app stores are filled with free, addictive stuff. And that’s just games.
Amusingly? He has been like that for the past two years.
Some key people left after that project too. I’m sure some good stories will come out for that soon too.
Ask HN: What's your favorite movie because it makes you think?
I'm looking for a movie that may not be the best film, but you may like it because of the scenarios and questions it raises.
Diablo 3 was far from a failure as it broke a number of financial records; the main problem was the game-design pitfall of basing a loot-based game around the Real Money Auction House. (which they fixed in the expansion)

In a way the Diablo 3 RMAH helped validate the modern freemium/gacha business model for mobile platforms.
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The skepticism is simple: Musk has a history of making schedule pronouncements that fall through. He predicted they'd hit this milestone last year, and they didn't. In fact, he predicted they'd be far beyond this milestone by now, and they aren't. And he really, really, really hates it when people point how his broken promises and failed claims, so it's reasonable to expect he might be trying to play with some smoke and mirrors and distract everybody with a one-time hit at 5k, hoping we forget he's late, and that he said that would just be a stepping-stone on the way to 25k/week.

Or, you know, it could just be late, and he's on track slowly. But the skepticism is absolutely warranted, and there are probably better odds for the skepticism.
You can have AC on big tents, and I would be surprised if they didn't as your external 40C could easily become dangerous in a literal greenhouse.

At least forced ventilation is needed.
Cool, didn't know that. Is the feeling any different? Anyway, that keyboard is gone and I am never buying one based on reviews only again. :)
Tesla put an awful lot of time into getting their glorious factory factory rolling. Bentley might just copy existing high volume production lines from the beginning.
They got that plant almost empty.
You can see the really old videos where the thing had full empty floor only equipment was left in a few corners.
Elon Musk at one point claimed they were going "school" Toyota in manufacturing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...
This was the only other logical scenario ;) Glad to have u both steering this ship
From centuries ago emperors could decrete new eras, and in the last centuries it was rationalized as one emperor reign = one era. So when the new emperor will be enthroned, he will take its emperor name that also will become the era new era name. How the previous emperor exit the throne (death or abdication) is irrelevant.
I don't know enough of the details but there were reports about using it for the Swansea lagoon barrier - a £1bn tidal energy project that was to be about 6 miles long. The government blocked the project just last week so we'll never know.
Perhaps more mix-able?
They definitely cannot. These numbers are completely gamed within an inch of outright fraud.
> Justifying the tax to provide a service with an existing private provider

I think you misunderstood. The tax would be on the private provider (serving profitable areas) and for the benefit of the public provider (serving unprofitable areas).

> If the city service tried to operate city wide, the private company would sue them claiming they can't compete.

The idea of taxation instead of monopoly power is not having the city operate anywhere a private operator would, in the first place.

The argument is that using monopoly power distorts the market to such an extent that it leads to gross inefficiencies and that more overall value can be extracted through competition and taxaction.

> The company may sue even if the city is only trying to extend service to the underserved for the same reason.

That part I don't follow.

Firstly, the notion that lawsuit against an entity that could legislatively preclude one is possible, is questionable at best. We are, after all, discussing, their existing use of monopoly power.

Secondly, even considering suit as a metaphor for seeking any kind of recourse (other than lobbying for not getting taxed at all), why would they want to?

> Some of these success stories are more luck then repeatable solutions.

I assume by "luck" you mean that the eventual circumstances were unforeseen by the original architects of the solution. I admit that I can conceive of a situation where that's at least theoretically possible (unexpected growth "in town" creating enough profitable customers to support an otherwise failing teclo), but I'd say the burden is on you to show that "some" isn't vanishingly few or even zero.
There’s a lot of work you can’t get to on municipal rail.
I was forced to use this product. It was not good. Bad. Very bad. Crashes, lost data, major lag between edits being visible by others, shit UX, etc. Minor gripe: no concept of a Sprint, despite having the word in its name.

The world is a better place now that this is gone.
The first shift was 3-months, as of Nov 2017 [1]: "We currently expect to achieve a production rate of 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by late Q1 2018".

When that was missed, it was pushed back again to Q2-18. It looks like those shifting goalposts have finally been met but for the above poster to call it "unthinkable" is absurd. It's the exact messaging we've been hearing for at least a year and a half.

[1] http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/d68bddfe-6f2b-4f8f-bed0-94d...
Isn't that all getting bit ahead of ourselves? Wouldn't the first order of business be creating framebuffer graphics and all the requisite HW needed to drive displays (HDMI/(e)DP/LVDS transceivers etc), and then maybe some basic 2D acceleration (bitblt etc)?
> HFT should be banned

What do you mean by this?
My reading changed after adopting a similar system. Reading on a Kindle and with a new Google doc created for that book, I:

1. Highlight the passages that are important along the way

2. After each chapter I try to summarize its important points and any challenges I have to them.

3. Over multiple chapters, I have a section at the top "Key Ideas" with the top 5-10 points over the course of the book.

4. After the book is done, I edit the doc to include a "My Thoughts" section and gather all my critical thoughts into one place. This is probably the most valuable.

Overall, even if I don't remember the details of a book, now I have a collection of summaries that I can pull up to remind myself about each book if it comes up again later and I need a refresher.

As a bonus, it's super easy to write a review of the book afterward because you have all the pieces almost already in place.
Dogs are an invasive species in those territories, attacking native wild life like deer, cats, etc.
I'm not sure how one could compare, or how it was implied that I didn't "accept" my parents? I have a good relationship with them, I just don't agree with excusing bad parenting because it came from "love". I'm still happy to have them as parents, and since I'm financially independent, it doesn't matter to me what my parents' assumptions about afterlives is as they have no way to waste my time with it.
I think people could trick them with food and steal the packages.
Trees are not a form of permanent sequestration.
Producing low volume luxury cars and mass market $35,000 cars is very different. Mass manufactured cars must be designed for the manufacturing process in mind. Tesla is still constantly tweaking with the manufacturing process. The Model 3's they are delivering are still prototypes.

Tesla's knows how to make the electric 'skateboard' and it's technically far ahead of others. They are struggling with the traditional parts.

Munro Associates did completely Model 3 teardown and report for some customer. Munro said in a interview that had Tesla outsourced the manufacture and design of of the car minus the scateboard to a company like Magna they would have hit every target and even Toyota would be crapping their pants now. If the traditional mechanical parts of the car would have been even decent, Tesla would have mopped the floor with everybody.
It would perform admirably in that usage, though even modern concrete should be fine because you shouldn't need any rebar.
If I had done that 15 /20 years ago yes :-) the post Brexit / Trump stock market crash maybe not.
> First off: no. Big money plays in high frequency trading (roughly half of all trading activity), and the smaller traders without instantaneous access are the losers in this game.

Vanguard is big money. Blackrock is big money. Fidelity is big money.

These big money vehicles are where most Americans, that have any investments at all, have their investments. So, honest question, should we care that smaller traders are the losers in this game?
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Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?
> the 5000 deadline was arbitrary anyway.

Wasn't it in multiple letters to shareholders? It is literally an update to debtors on the company's position, far from arbitrary.

Were Tesla required to give an estimate? Nope. But doing so may be used to attract further investment into the company, so it is far from innocent.
>You can have AC on big tents, and I would be surprised if they didn't as your external 40C could easily become dangerous in a literal greenhouse.

"The tent doesn’t have air conditioning, according to the city documents." [0]

It hit 90 in Fremont yesterday...

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/the-futur...
When is Linux support coming?
20 people all running intensive programs well I am not surprised sounds like you needed a bigger vax or more vixen.