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The problem is, you do not know how many of the existing deposits are for the base model that has been postponed indefinitely. No one (except Tesla) knows how much of the Model 3 demand is for a product that Tesla can sell without bankrupting themselves. I suspect that many of the deposit holders are waiting for the lower priced versions- it's what they were promised repeatedly, and they were supposed to get base models starting in Q4 2017. Note also that many depositors were expecting to get a $7500 tax credit with their $35K purchase, so many folks were actually expecting a $27.5K car. Tesla might not produce the base version before the tax credit phases out.

So how much of the demand is for a real product? Tesla could reveal this information, but Elon Musk famously called inquiries about these figures "boring, boneheaded" questions. As far as profitability, the jury is very much out on that one.
If you look at most of the unicorns - ie Uber - they are living off of VC funding without any clear path to profitability.

At every turn, Musk has put his money where his mouth is. He could have taken his billions years ago and sailed off into the sunset. He wanted to change the world.
For others that didn't notice this new and somewhat less expensive version come out, here's the HN thread from 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17124593
> It's strange for me because I lived in a 1.5k town on Balkans that had two stores and a tiny open market. The bigger one was a chain store, so it always had everything.

When I was a kid, my grandmother's neighbourhood had two stores. Understandably, besides the basics (bread, oil, flour, sugar, stuff like that) they carried different items, since there was little room to compete on price. So my grandpa, for example, had a veritable stash of his favourite cigarettes, because only one of the shops had them. I'd have to go to both of them in the morning, because my grandfather would send me to buy him cigarettes, and I'd buy myself a 7up -- but the shop that had the right cigarettes only had that dreadful Sprite thing :-).

The first chain store there opened somewhere in the late 1990s, but it was pretty expensive for the locals and it was quite far (~20 minutes walk). Nowadays there are two chain stores and one of them is a little closer (maybe 10-15 minutes of walking).

I found out about the one that's closer the hard way -- my mom has long grown unaccustomed to small town life so obviously she ran out of cigarettes in the evening, only to find out -- much to her horror -- that the shops in the neighbourhood close at 18:00. Guess who valiantly had to chase the ferral dogs away when crossing the railroad :).

Edit: to clarify the mechanism: what happened, in this and in many other small towns, was that a larger chain store in a slightly larger city, or on the city's edge, monopolizes much of the trade. The small family shop is all but extinct in my grandma's town. There is only one left in her neighbourhood, and it carries only the most basic of basics. Oil, sugar, flour, a few brands of cigarettes, water and Coca Cola. Wide access to cars, coupled with frequent commuting and town growth mean that people spend enough time in their cars anyway, so they don't mind stopping to shop. The children shop for their elderly parents and their neighbours once a week or so. There's not much of a need for shopping because almost everyone grows their own vegetables and the like.

tl;dr if a shop is out of ketchup, you're out of ketchup :)
The people can move, but the assets can't really.

If Amazon or Apple sets up shop in some"friendly" jurisdiction that's underwater at high tide, most of their operations and sales are still coming from other countries, and the taxman can intervene there. The inventory coming into the country; their offices; hell, even their patents/trademarks/copyrights could be captured by a state actually out for blood.
1. Heat dissipation is now ~n x m times worse where n is your transistor layer count. And where m is the increased thermal resistance*

2. Power delivery is now ~n times worse where n is your transistor layer count. *

3. Connections between chips are very slow, power hungry and expensive. Fabrication of "monolithic" 3D is temperature wise painful and usually results in crummier transistors.

With that being said, innovative 3D integration methods in specific applications can help a lot. Shameless plug: we at Vathys do this for deep learning chips.

* to a first order of approximation
And let Intel know that you and your business won't be buying new Intel machines until they provide a way of completely disabling/removing the ME chip.
The really horrible truth is, DRM was probably never intended to prevent piracy. I used to think this - then you realise what DRM is actually intended to do. So long as we argue like this, we're not confronting the real motives.

There seem to be two arguments for DRM which could be considered logical from an executive's perspective (even if in my view unethical):

- Firstly, it delays the initial piracy of new releases. This is very variable and since new DRM systems aren't created as often as new films, this only seems to be successfully pulled off every now and then... but there have demonstrably been cases of it delaying piracy by a few weeks (hell, there's at least one video game which wasn't cracked for over a year). This probably feels valuable to executives who expect the bulk of returns on a film or video game to come immediately after release (especially if they have unrealistic expectations about correlations between piracy and lost sales).

- Secondly, and more significantly, it ensures that media companies can control how content is consumed, and control the devices available to consume content. If you want to make a Blu-ray player, you have to sign contracts, and those contracts can tell you what functionality to add and what not to add. "Unauthorized" players, circumvention technology will always exist for the fringes, but that's too minor to care about. What it does mean - in tandem with the anticircumvention technology ban legislation, 17 USC 1202 - is that you can't walk into a retail chain store and buy a Blu-ray player that'll happily make copies, or so on. Most likely this is what these companies really care about - ensuring they have a say on what Homer Simpson has to choose from in Best Buy.

To be clear, I unequivocally oppose DRM; but I suspect the above points are a closer approximation of the motives of the media industry in pushing it.
My worry with toddlers and touch interfaces is precisely because at that age they should be exploring the world, touching, tasting, smelling, feeling... By exposing them to something that doesn't react to the laws of physics, I fear they get a wrong first impression of the world, that at an early age they are not able to distinguish the difference between a book and a representation of one. I'm not against tablets, just that they shouldn't be given to toddlers at all, and to older kids once they are able to use the basics of a keyboard and mouse interface. Like walking before running so to speak.

Regarding looking things up in a book, it's a great skill to have, even from a purely enjoyment aspect, and I would certainly encourage kids to learn it. It doesn't mean not having access to the internet or voice search. Same way one can teach growing food or making fire with a bow, while still buying groceries every week and cooking on a convection range.

It's important in my view for kids to know where we've come from, to better understand the world as it is today.
Many mainstream car companies, particularly GM with its all-electric Chevy Bolt have cars with roughly comparable specs to the Model 3 and you get get one today. The allure of getting something now instead of waiting surely contributes to some of these cancellations.
This is fine rhetoric, but you clearly have no idea the sales volumes and number of players involved in some markets. It is far more money than say, writing the ssh protocol handler or whatever you might think is cool. Sorry, it is that harsh.
OK if you know the answers - what % of cars in the US will be fully electric in 10 years? 20 years? Will offshore windfarms be allowed in the US? Will household electricity consumption rise or fall? Will Trump subsidize coal? People really don't know the answers to those questions. Of course they're unsure.
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> BPG doesn’t have a lossless mode, does it?

Acording to the linked site:
"Lossless compression is supported."
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In classical computing nobody thinks of programming as consisting of a series of logic gates, though :-).

Should we expect more abstractions from quantum computing models in the future? Quantum data structures, common quantum operations etc? Or are quantum algorithms too different from one another, or are "the quantum parts" of most quantum algorithms very compact? (Or do we try to keep them as compact as possible because of hardware constraints?)
Such a "side cube" configuration would probably lead to longer wires than is useful.
As long as he's not calling you a "pedo". That's pretty terrible in my book.
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It can even be funkier, like 12 bits in a char

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2098149/what-platforms-h...

It's a mess
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> Isn’t Netflix and its DRM evidence of that?

How so? Can you not find Netflix shows on piracy sites?

If you mean "Netflix has been successful in getting people to pirate less" that has nothing to do with the DRM, but with the fact that Netflix is a cheap and convenient enough service to stop many people from wanting to watch pirated content.
Any idea if commercial games are using this yet?
> Miami police say this type of fraud “is difficult to consider as a crime”

They must not understand how fraud is defined in their jurisdiction.

> Under Florida law, an individual commits fraud when they conceal information that should not have been concealed, when they purposefully lie, or when they undertake any sort of dishonest act for the purpose of benefiting themselves and duping another. A person found guilty of fraud in Florida faces anything from restitution to extensive jail time.

https://www.baezlawfirm.com/what-constitutes-as-fraud-under-...

This is no different than a server overcharging you at a restaurant. Contact your credit card company, then file a police report. One of the police force's primary objectives is to enforce laws by pursuing criminal charges on behalf of citizens in its jurisdiction. If your report is mishandled, file a complaint against the officer assigned to the case.
With the ARMs I use, once you enable code protect, the entire JTAG/SWD interface goes dead. Only a hardware erase triggered by a auxiliary pin can clear it and re-enable the interface. And its not just reduced functionality, its complete disabling of the debug interface that occurs.
The last thing i want in my car is a touchscreen or software updates. I cant understand how someone thinks a big screen is a luxury.
I've been considering a Tesla, but I can't pull the trigger. The 3 looks boring S knockoff, and have been plagued with quality issues. Supposedly the issues are more under control now, but the early 3s in the parking lot at work have crooked body panels. It turned me off.

I do like that Tesla made an electric car that doesn't look stupid and doesn't suck. For far too long all that existedd were citicars[0] and NEVs[1]. Also, the diamond lane sticker is very seductive. The thing that I can't stand is the interior. It's so empty. The infotainment sucks just as hard as legacy manufacturers (knockoff Pandora, shitty maps, stupid apps like Paint), doesn't have any gadgets (e.g. blindspot detection), and then the standout features features are gimmicks. An autodrive that falls in the uncanny valley, a self park that required to me to hug bumpers on a crowded parking lot, and summon, which is essentially a three four line macro (although, that is something).

Ultimately, the car is disappointing. I guess I'll just wait and get a Porsche Taycan[2], which is ironic because it wouldn't exist without Tesla.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle

[2] https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a12778510/...
I think it's over-engineered.
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> please spare me the "if they can lower the number of car fatalities overall, they have every right to actively kill a few people here and there" spiel

Why? Instead of telling people not to make arguments, please make an argument against it. It love to read a well written argument. Until I do, I'll pick less accidents of a different kind over more accidents of the usual kind.
If you don’t convert value to a commodity form, but instead trade in representations of the original work, then just and unjust can be in the eye of the beholder. With commodity currency, distant parties never have a chance to know.
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I claim this is self-evident. What counterproof do you propose?
Don't be afraid to leave Ontario. Every single "Onterrible" resident I meet in Western Canada has only one regret.

They wish they had left earlier.
A while ago, i looked into how to do something like this, and ended up asking people on sci.crypt for help. That led me to the "hasty pudding trick" - see the section on 'Encrypting Numbers and Dates':

http://richard.schroeppel.name:8015/hpc/hpc-spec

And ultimately to this this solution (which is a terrible writeup of it, sorry):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/966822/116639

Basically, the hasty pudding trick lets you whittle a block cipher down so that it works on some subset of its natural domain. And you can make a block cipher for an arbitarily small block size using a Feistel network with truncated SHA-3 or whatever as the round function. So, if you want to work with IDs in the range 0 to 999999, you make a 20-bit block cipher, then use the hasty pudding trick to run it over 0-999999 instead of 0-1048575.

There's probably a better way to do this that doesn't involve building your own cipher, but i didn't work it out at the time.
Why do you think they don’t care that people have died using auto pilot? And who is honestly arguing that they have “every right to actively kill people”?
>had those superficial interactions with people different from me

sorry why do you presume they're superficial? or i should sat why do you exalt your small town interactions over someone else's big-town interactions? i've lived in both a smalltown (currently) and brooklyn ny (previously) and the depth of the interactions is absolutely about the same.

btw we can all play presumptuous and haughty: in your "tight-knit" community no one will help you/acknowledge you as soon as you diverge from highly constrained cultural norms even a small iota - where as in my diverse working class neighborhood in brooklyn that wouldn't be the case. what do you say? not true? color me just as suspicious as you color yourself if i claim to you that i actually had deep and genuine conversations with my neighbors, grocers, and occasionally fellow subway riders.
Your cpu most likely doesn’t. This vulnerability is based on AMT, which requires additional hardware.
The ME has in fact been used for video DRM for a long time; Google for Intel PAVP (Protected Audio-Video Path).
Alrighty, I'll clean it up and post it.
And for most platforms you need to pay to develop your own programs, a no go for most teenagers.
It would not. That interest rate doesn't even cover inflation, let alone the significant occurrence of default that you would see when using 'low income', with its high correlation to 'credit risk', as your criteria for lending.
My favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"

I have a startup in cleantech software, and often I feel very alone on HN. Every time the energy transition or climate change comes up on HN, it seems like most of the replies are either armchair-quarterbacking ("What they should do is..."), dismissive ("They don't take into account..."), or futile ("This isn't going to be fixed because...").

What I don't see is gravity for the magnitude of what's going to happen in the next few decades. Over 80% of the world's energy currently comes from fossil fuels[1], and the vast majority of that will switch to clean sources within our careers. It's a $10.2 trillion dollar transition that will happen in just a few decades[2].

So why the the lack of interest from "high growth" HN crowd? There's fuck ton of money to be made in the energy transition, and I'm betting that much of it is going to be in software. Intermittent solar/wind generation + storage requires a ton of software to (1) deploy enough to displace fossil sources and (2) actually work reliably. The energy transition isn't a research problem anymore, it's a scaling problem, which means software opportunity.

Maybe it's the assumption that salaries aren't competitive? Maybe it's because most business models in energy tech aren't compatible with VC? Maybe it's because you have no idea what specific problems there are that need solving? Maybe the assumption is that energy is super slow and bureaucratic?

Anyway, it's always sad to see the 2nd largest industry in the world (the 1st largest is killing people over energy) always get so categorically poo-pooed on HN. I'll keep posting[3][4] and hoping that attitude will eventually change, because we could very much use your talent in making this transition happen.

Because it really is too late.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11951

[2]: http://sdg.iisd.org/news/investments-in-renewable-energy-to-...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250336

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127154
Ok, I'll clean it up and post it.
And said github repos immediately DMCAed and if the companies vengeful enough, subpoenas issued to hunt down the uploader.
Comic Book Publishers, Faced with Flagging Sales, Look to Streaming
"Postponed indefinitely" is a really weird way to say "6-9 months".[1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/MkRKzvc.png
One of the things I love most of all about Solar is it really doesn't matter how incompetent policy makers are.

Irrelevant of what they're doing, you can cover your roof in panels and stick in some storage and forget that a grid even exists.

People spend a lot of time complaining about things they should just ignore.
> To me, Netflix is evidence that there's no point to DRM. I still can torrent any content I want, but I almost never do.

To me, it is rather the other way round: As Netflix offers no DRM-free version, I will never subscribe. So in other words: by insisting on DRM, the movie industry openly states that they don't want any money from people who don't want DRM.

But if you "reverse" this sentence "in a hacker way", this means that they are not losing any money, if DRM-haters pirate (because they just stated that they don't want the DRM-haters' money).

Thus, in my opinion is quite a pro-pirating slogan coming from the mouth of Hollywood.
Kind of expected to see real specifics here given it's hacker news. Perhaps people sharing links to opml to share, and commentary in the comments here.

Is there any kind of showcase sites where you can show publicly opml feeds these days? I used to love netvibes, pageflakes and myyahoo - it's been so long I can't remember if there was/is a "make these blocks public" setting.

I sketched up some ideas for making a myspace like social for individuals with blocks of rss for their home dashboard, I think some of this functionality is now available with some buddypress blocks.

I wish browser discovery of rss was more prominent, and sites would make the feeds easier to see / find.
My problem with this is simply that I feel that tax money is irresponsibly spent. Infra in the US is crumbling, we prop-up the profits of the same companies we are talking about taxing and defend them with the military that we pay for from the taxed wages of the people who work for said entities...

Its a pretty bad loop of corruption and inefficiencies.

I'd love to see a true accounting of how money is taxed, allocated spent and wasted.

Just because something is "taxed" doesnt mean that the funds are used correctly - look at the Lotto, gas taxes and the recycling tax fund which was looted.
> There's no reason we can't say "people earning more than a few million dollars a year can afford to pay a 97% tax rate."

Sure there is. They won't bother creating any value if their marginal take is effectively zero. How hard would you work if someone said you couldn't take home more than $10K?
This was great. If you enjoyed this, you should also watch this short parody of LinkedIn from SuperNews: https://youtu.be/_7DiOm-edMs
Would you honestly believe a Tesla spokesperson? If these happened, seems like it would show up in a quarterly earnings call. Those things have to be somewhat trustworthy. Now if they don't deny the claims, then I'd worry a bit, no matter what the spin is.
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>There's no reason we can't say "people earning more than a few million dollars a year can afford to pay a 97% tax rate."

We have people "fox news" deluded into thinking the elite deserve all of it -- hundreds of lifetimes worth of money -- because all of their hard work went into making it (their workers made it), while their own wealth and security declines at the same time. In 1944 we had a tax rate of 94% on people earning over what in today's money would be $2.8 million [1], and it was the beginning of some of the lowest income inequality in USA's history [2].

Jeff Bezos would still be left with $9,000,000,000 on a 94% tax rate (I realize most of his net worth is stock, I have a hard time finding what it is without his stock, this is just an example).

I would love to see it too, but people continuously vote against their own interests.

[1] https://www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1944

[2] https://www.epi.org/news/union-membership-declines-inequalit... (unions + income tax)
Why don't workers start their own worker-owned and unionised companies if they want to?
This article should mention a lot of other factors that are important, including changes in technology, automation, globalization, etc. It's too short-sighted to simply say that the problem America faces is as simple as a small group of people or laws, that if removed, suddenly would fix society's ills. There are many other factors in play that should not be neglected.
Yes. You can handle 100W on a 300mm^2 chip. Or 300W on a large one, compare AMD Ryzen/ Nvidia Volta (MXM/V100).
I've also had fun playing around with StrawberryFields (https://github.com/XanaduAI/strawberryfields), a photonic quantum computing library which has some good visualizations with simulators driven by NumPy and TensorFlow. Xanadu's even made Blackbird, a language specifically for quantum.
One could argue that 9/11 wasn't all that bad. After all there are just as many fatalities in two months of traffic accidents in the US. How did such a small band of hijackers change everything forever? Suddenly there is no way to go back, no way to return to the peace of how things were before. That's just gone forever, out of reach.
It would help if gitlab's web interface could make it possible to renew letsencrypt security certificates more easily than running local commands and cutting and pasting the certbot handshake string, then the SSL public and private keys. I have to do this every 3 months for the website for an open source project. Or if gitlab could sell ssh access to a VM host (for this purpose, not to use do any other significant computing) at reasonable cost.