skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short-range Model 3 is just the long-range one with a smaller battery and a less fancy interior package, so it's not rocket science to estimate its margin from the long-range car teardown.
Always a good reminder to see what parts of your infrastructure are more dependent on Github being up than they should be.
Mostly text crawling and rendering. Sometimes the articles are turncated (say half of article is missing), saving from pastebin doesn't work at all (my favorite way to save long forum posts).

Also text rendering is not really good: in Instapaper you get nicely fullscreen text, not really true for Pocket: they keep too much text formating (colors, sometimes also some layouts elements) and quite often I am getting articles that are cut the way that one line contains just one word (and sometimes just few letters out of word).

Last thing is bloat, which is just minor issue: I don't care about trending posts, best offs and recomendation.
33% of that $150B came to him in 2018 alone (he started the year around $100B) and some people still claim that "we're not in a bubble".
You don't even need automation, that's why we have platforms like Mechanical Turk.

In fact I would be very surprised if people were not already using gig platforms like that for captioning already.
Because the mirror is otherwise extremely simple. There are no buttons or other electronics like you might find in the Bolt which would have OnStar.
Putin's wealth can't be accurately measured by anyone except Putin himself and presumably his financial advisers. It's all just speculation.
In general, people don't think.
The fallacy runs even deeper than that. There might be no solution at all, by the construction of the problem.

The correct response to "this will not solve the problem you want to solve" is not "ok so you give me a better solution then", unless the problem is so existential that even doing something horribly wrong is still better than doing nothing.

The correct response may well be, "this will not work, therefore we should do nothing".
There was a story about people inside Tesla identifying weld simpification. I'm interested if the teardown was before or after that change, because my working assumption is construction time impacts cost. But not bill-of-materials inputs, so the impact on the cost side, might be low, it just goes to flow-rate of amounts of cars made.

Love to know: does changing manufacture of fixed-size parts like this alter cost?
The space of possibility within the confines of law is very large.
"Creating capital" isn't an evil thing -- when provided a free and frictionless economic market to roam, made aware of such opportunities to fully realize their ambitions, and inspired to achieve their wildest dreams, people will surprise you.

We -- you, myself, anybody reading this -- aren't just "creating capital," we are fulfilling our life's ambitions. It just so happens that the free market is the best environment to explore and drive towards something better than what 90% of the other comments are complaining about (reductio ad absurdum lives of complacency.)

Creating capital isn't the end to a means, it is a means to an end.
You may be right. Although I'd claim that a trend piece + a modest change in demography aren't quite the same as a "mark of social status".

I'm applying the following standard: if someone told me that their friend had 3 kids, would I infer something about their social status? At least for me, not really? Like you said, the poor and rich both have >3 children. ymmv of course
The Google Translate World Cup
You spoke my mind.

For one, Rockefeller grew rich quickly coz there wasn’t as much regulation as compared to what Bezos had to face.

On the other hand, Rockefeller wasn’t in the Internet age and Bezos banker on the exponential rise of internet.

I am sure there are many more variables.
The silver lining of this interpretation is that it implies our current trajectory to be cyclical, and not exponential. We may have to re-learn some lessons the hard way in the meantime, though.
That UBI is bad and the tech people who support it are naive and cloistered.
It isn't always feasible to introduce certain error conditions with integration tests (depending on how much of your system you're integrating, whether faults can be injected at that level or not). You often need unit testing to ensure that your code handles those failure modes correctly. That code can be critical to a system, but hard to exercise directly.
This is kind of obscene. Even more so since Bezos shuns the kind of charity work through which other multibillionaires like Gates and Buffet shoulder their noblesse oblige.
I think it depends on how much business logic you have in your REST API layer. If you can get away with using a turnkey solution like hasura with the right access control rules or by adding schema stitching then it would save a lot of effort.

I think the best thing would be to try a turnkey solution for your appliaction's database and then evaluating the effort saved. Turnkey solutions also might end up partial effort if not all. For example, Hasura is a great fit for incrementally adding read-only GraphQL queries which is where a lot of benefit of GraphQL for the UI lies.
Sneering about $500-$1000/month and talking about being able to afford a medical emergency[1] tips the author's hand: He's not worried about the actual poor, he's worried about the losers, mid-income aspirational types that will never be able to afford the lifestyle they're intensely integrated into and aware of.

UBI would make their misery even worse, asserting their status over people who "flip burgers for a living" is all they've got.

[1] If you're in the US and poor enough that UBI would be life-changing, you're almost certainly either on Medicaid or in a place where the first-line medical treatment is going to an emergency room and skipping out on the bill.
Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
GitHub site experiences Issues 6 Weeks after Microsoft Acquisition
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1018903893814775810

> Some clarification from a Pinterest spokesperson: The two employees Pinterest brought on from the Instapaper acquisition will continue working at Pinterest and run Instapaper independently on the side. So sounds like Instapaper wasn’t really working out inside of Pinterest.
Agreed; it's the same GDP vs wealth comparison often railed against on here. Comparing a rate-of-gain with an amount-of-same-thing-already-gained is unsound at best, if not outright misleading. If we're going to use GDP on one side, we should measure how much Rockefeller/Bezos is gaining each year on the other. If we want to use their individual wealth, we should compare to total wealth of all US persons.
The irony here is amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11082337
It's a use case the author didn't consider, likely for a snappier article. Even if Lynx were dead, other text-only browsers followed, and were available in, say, Ubuntu, like Links2 and ELinks.
Try workflowy. Not so customizable, but it is easy to make it hierarchical, so things don't get too cluttered. It also handles links well.
I'd just use Evernote and use Zapier or IFTTT to back up entries to gdrive/dropbox etc. Fairly decent app functionality across iOS/Android/Windows/Chrome OS/Mac OS. Great build in tagging, ok searchability and even with a free account you'll still be able to add the occasional photo or small PDF relevant to your entry.

I have my Google calendar and Automatic driving history dump to Evernote in appropriate notebooks. The weather also gets added to my Google calendar so gets recorded for each day. Everything gets backed up to my gdrive too as spreadsheets.

Similarly, call logs also get backed up to my gdrive via IFTTT and I use 3 different apps to back up my SMS every 3 days which get filed a few different places.
This is pretty cool - I'd love to see similar analysis for truly "contentious" comments, wherein there were an almost equal but large amount of upvoting and downvoting, controlled for accounts that have the ability to do either.
It's right there on the page:

> Tesla Model 3 has a frameless electrochromatic mirror with no powered functionality, whereas the BMW i3 has buttons and powered functionality build-in. The Chevy Bold has powered functionality including backup camera display.

So the Tesla just has a mirror with, presumably, one set of wires going to it to power the dimming. The others have buttons, electronics, a bundle of wires, and an LCD display in the case of the Bolt. The BoM difference probably isn't too terrible, but the cost of assembly, as well as testing/QC of those features, likely results in the cost difference.

Extrapolating from that, I'd imagine that settling on one powerful touchscreen has saved Tesla some cost in a variety of places. Not just lowering BoM on things like buttons and electronics, but also ease of assembly, modularity, etc.
I believe it was in the Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (audio-)book that I heard that at least for SpaceX, but I think also for Tesla, building the components in-house came out much cheaper compared to what their competitors would have to pay for the same components.

They were often more advanced, too, because the component could use whatever was most modern technology and was highly-optimized for SpaceX/Tesla's use case. In contrast, the components for other carmakers have to be much more uniform and satisfy everyone, as you said.

When it's a new type of product, it usually pays to become a system integrator in order to squeeze the maximum performance out of every component in the system and benefit from the synergy. The other carmakers haven't done that yet with EVs, and they were in an even worse shape a few years ago when they were still only repackaging their ICE cars into EVs.

Whenever they would do that, not only were they able to use only small battery packs inside those cars, because they weren't designed to be EVs from the ground-up, but they would also be significantly less efficient per kWh of battery pack.

By the way, that book is fantastic. I highly recommend it.
Continuous Deployment with Gaia, Kubernetes and Vault
In the long run, its cheaper - if you have the initial capital.
Browsh killed Lynx the same way the Cadillac killed the Ford.
My home computer (in the center of Europe) is not blocked, but I see that as ip2country mapping issue (in my favor). That would explain the couple of "works for me" reports I've seen on Twitter. Still useless to me because I can't safe URLs at work or on mobile.
I don't understand the drive to watch someone else play, when you could be playing the game yourself!
I don't see the issue with that. We won't complain when our kids try to make a movie no one will really see, how is this creative process different?
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navlab

>Research on computer controlled vehicles began at Carnegie Mellon in 1984 as part of the DARPA Strategic Computing Initiative and production of the first vehicle, Navlab 1, began in 1986.

>Navlab 1 was built in 1986 using a Chevrolet panel van. The van had 5 racks of computer hardware, including 3 Sun workstations, video hardware and GPS receiver, and a Warp supercomputer. The vehicle suffered from software limitations and was not fully functional until the late 80s, when it achieved its top speed of 20 mph (32 km/h).

I remember watching Navlab 1 crawling slowly through Schenley Park sometime in the 80's.
Test-driven development never made a lot of sense to me. But I write code that deals with messy, poorly documented external real-time services that cannot be mocked without an absurd amount of effort. I try to pull out the bits of more pure code that I can and get that under test, but trying to go much further than that is counterproductive.
I'm curious if it will have a commercialization model similar to Yelp! - a la "extortion as a service", wherein the business owners have to pony up to defend themselves against potentially false allegations.
WHY SHOULD AMAZON AQUIRE SNAP? AMAZON+SNAP =Love THE MOST LoveD FROM MILLENNIAls
And, if we have a 9 billion surplus, why are my taxes so high? Other than the weather, there’s nothing I see running better than Texas where taxes are much lower.

Texas has extremely high property taxes and their sales taxes are comparable to California's. The end result is roughly the same tax burden as you would face in California, but everything about Texas is worse: the weather, the people, the food, the politics, the environment, the political dysfunction, the blatant intrusion into people's rights to live their lives freely especially if you're a woman, a minority, or not straight.

Do agree about San Francisco being a shithole of homelessness, but that's a local issue, not a state issue, and part of the problem is that places like Texas send their homeless to California in part because of SF's generosity to the homeless. (Their former governor used to brag about it.)
Microsoft wants regulation of facial recognition technology to limit 'abuse'
can you please cite putin's monarchic ascendancy? i'm having trouble sourcing even the premise of your claim...
When the least expensive products have higher margins than the most expensive ones?
Slow, but work in Austin, TX.
I’ll stick with Mozilla’s Pocket for privacy, durability and integration with Firefox, emacs etc.
Prime Day? More like Same-As-the-Rest-of-the-Time Day. It has always been a highly-hyped disappointment of a store-wide sale, and this is not news to anyone except people who have never before shopped on Amazon's web store.

I have never found anything even close to a good deal on Prime Day, and it has been several years since I even bothered to check prices.

You're better off marking a product you might like to buy, checking its price history on another site, and possibly setting an alert to notify you when the price drops below a threshold on a third site. If that alert happens to go off on Prime Day, you got very, very lucky that it somehow managed to be chosen as a loss leader.
Ask HN: Are you using generative testing?
Do you use a combination of fuzzing and property based testing? What tools? In what languages
Got a source for these claims? Because I do:

https://www.new-harvest.org/environmental_impacts_of_culture...

"The paper predicted that, based on current published figures and research, complete replacement of conventional meat with cultured meat would result in an incredible 78-98% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, 99% reduction in land use and 82-96% reduction in water use,and 45% reduction in energy use."

Likelywise, vertical farms simply need green energy sources to achieve less of a footprint:

https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr...

"But Vosburg says the company’s priority is to use contextually appropriate renewable energy sources to power the farms, such as wind energy in the Midwest, hydro in the Northwest, and solar in the Southwest...
“Yes, it sounds crazy to take the sun and turn it into electricity and turn that electricity back into light. It sounds ridiculous, but that’s what we’ll be doing,” Vosburg says. “It’ll be really efficient and clean and create a better product, and it won’t have the same carbon impact that we’re having today.” ... And energy isn’t even a vertical farm’s top ongoing expense. The companies Civil Eats spoke to say labor is actually their largest budget item. Vertical farms typically pay workers higher, more metropolitan pay rates than both dirt farms—many of which rely heavily on migrant labor—and the more automated smart greenhouses. "

That all sounds like technical problems that can be solved with the right equipment, scale, and maybe some automation.
Everything about this post is based on supposition, speculation, and a fundamental misunderstanding of UBI. No, Mr. Filloux, nobody is advocating for a $500/mo dole in which recipients have to pay out of pocket for emergency room visits.

Nor, dear Sir, is the Revenue de Solidarité Active anything even remotely close to Universal Basic Income, because it is not universal.

The straw men are piled so high it constitutes a fire hazard.
They stopped reporting their gini coefficient number altogether. There are no numbers after 2012.

I lived in a Chinese first tier city for 10 years. Income inequality was much more obvious there than I ever saw in the states (even in the boonies of Mississippi). A lot of that was related to china’s caste/hukou system that basically denies social services to migrant workers.

Yes, the USA has first world income inequality problems. But China has third world ones.

The joke goes: the USA has so many homeless people, they are just everywhere! China has no homeless people, because the police beat them pretty harshly so they are either dead or really good at hiding.
As I understand it an RSA recipient who switches to a full-time minimum wage job more than doubles their annual post-tax income even with some (not all) of their benefit being cut back. If that still disincentives work, UBI probably will too.

UBI advocates do tend to overplay the marginal income incentives. And don't forget that UBI, which would be paid to far more people than current social programmes, requires taxes to cut in somewhere (probably at a lower bound and steeper rate)
I'm not rich enough to afford a Tesla so I'm hoping the Leaf or similar hit the 20k - 30k mark when I'm ready to buy.

You can't give a used < 2018 Leaf away. Go buy one of those, or if you must have new, see if you can find a leftover 2017 (the old version before the '18s came out). You could tolerate riding a wooden plank for 4Km, you're not going to notice the niceties of a Tesla anyway.

What will be an issue is fitting my house with a charging station.

With your commute, you could charge off house mains (110V/220V, depending on country). Especially Europe, where AFAIK a lot use 220V for house mains, meaning faster charge times than the glacial 110V we get in the U. S.
Reminds one of a couple of related posts:

> When I worked at Amazon we had to run around the warehouse, bc if our pick rate fell below a certain number we stopped getting paid. There were bottles & bins full of piss at odd points, bc you were penalised for toilet breaks. A co-worker attempted suicide on-site bc of the stress

Source: https://twitter.com/OwennnThomas/status/1007957414577090560

> Workers at Amazon warehouse in Minnesota say they've suffered exhaustion, dehydration, injuries while working without air conditioning.

Source: https://apnews.com/1d62290004b340feac5c359d59b86823
There's an argument in the middle of this muddled statement that's valid, but this seems excessively combative.

The problem is not people with good connections, it's a system that rewards those connections.
> The Hasura engine is essentially a GraphQL to SQL compiler

How much of the code base (and complexity) is doing that vs the auto-schema mapping and whatnot?

I would just "read the source, Luke" but haskell isn't one of those languages I can idly read.
Ok... back in reality, lots of people are unemployed or underemployed, our markets aren't that free, and again, capital is not the best way to decide whether someone is worth keeping alive (e.g. with universal healthcare).

To your example, a life of complacency is fine. (Edit: I guess you were commenting about someone else, but I still wanted to make the point.)
I think Bezos is a bad argument for us being in a new guilded age.

When you look at Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and perhaps even Gates, they had near total control over some aspect of the American Economy. And they used that control to make incredible profits.

Amazon is trying to do the same, but they haven't done so yet. Their retail business is not wildly profitable (if at all). They haven't monopolized online retail (and may never be able to do so).

Amazon may be the next Walmart, but they're not the next Standard Oil. And the market has priced in huge expectations that Amazon will eventually have to meet, or investor exuberance will wane.
If you split it into small enough pieces it would, because of the “every state must get at least one rep” rule.
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It's not free for less than 5km. If it was I'd sign up tomorrow. It's a 10e flat fee for < 5km.
Look at Brian's comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bthdonohue.

He's not active on HN, but he jumps in for quick damage control and "clarification" when people have vaguely privacy-related or operational questions about Instapaper. When followup questions are posed, particularly more difficult ones, he never responds. So I find it very unlikely you're going to get an answer here, because this account is clearly designed to do low-touch public reassurance without much commitment or transparency.

Now take a look at Instapaper's privacy policy: https://www.instapaper.com/privacy. In particular, direct your attention to the following, under "The Way We Use Information":

(P1) We use the information you provide to operate Instapaper's features. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to accomplish Instapaper's functionality.

(P3) We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design Instapaper, to suggest popular content to users, and to share with advertisers and publishers. For example: ...

(P6) In the future, we may sell, buy, merge, or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.

The "License Grant" section of the Terms of Service is also good reading, because it indicates that they can use user data in perpetuity, even after closing your Instapaper account (presumably until you explicitly request your information being deleted). What do you suppose that is used for? Maybe Brian can enlighten us.

My hypothesis is that Instapaper, either from the outset or somewhere prior to being acquired by Pinterest, developed a monetization model dependent upon selling user data (or derivative analysis/features of user data) to third parties. Most likely this is provided for market research or advertising optimization. Note that in their Privacy Policy Instapaper also states they use cookies "and other tracking technology" (and they specifically do not enumerate the full number of reasons which they do so, aside from normal login and session maintenance) in their Privacy Policy.

Further, I'm going to go ahead and assume this can be explained through basic cynicism. This monetization model was probably never terribly significant for Pinterest, except insofar as it was useful for internal discussions and inspirations for ways Pinterest could improve upon their own user data analysis. When GDPR came along, this probably tipped the scales to make Instapaper a net liability for the company (and not one in line with its financial or brand goals). Thus we have Instapaper being cut lose, yet again.
If there was a Hackintosh guide for them I'd get one in an instant.
Yeah it was weird -- I remember very clearly reading about GDPR in early 2016 and then I also remember it appearing in people's development plans in late 2017/early 2018 and seeming like it was a big surprise.
> does not
> I wouldn't use
> then again
> catastrophe
> struck
> worry

I can see it. If you bag-of-words'd it there are a lot of negative words used and effectively no positive words.
> we can actually experiment and see if it works.

Actually, we can’t test UBI without enormous risk.

If the number of people involved isn’t close to 100%, it isn’t universal. Any societal effects for good or ill cannot be reasonably extrapolated to the full population. What might “work” for 5% of the population getting UBI might cause the next Great Depression at 100%.
Look for how much debt the subsidiary is taking with them. The key advantage of such spinoffs, over just closing the doors, is that you can also spin away some red ink. You know things are doomed if the spunoff has either debts or onerous contractual obligations from the parent.