skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a sign public equity markets aren't structured well that companies aren't encouraged to think long term. The most successful companies in today's markets don't even allow common shareholders to control the company, ie Google and Facebook with their special classes of controlling shares. We might need to reconsider changing laws around choosing board seats or requiring shareholders to have minimum holding times in order to align incentives better for the long term.

If public equity markets don't work, the alternative is more and more of wealth creation happening privately, in startups funded by VCs, private equity, or family owned businesses. The public won't get to participate.
My take is he needs to do this in order to keep and attract the talent Tesla needs. Stock was way too volatile while rest of the tech industry has been going hockey stick.
They literally based their entire software off of IBM's "Marbles" program.

That's just a Blockchain PoC. The fact that they're trying to take the simplest, most exploitable form of Blockchain and dressing it up as an innovation already puts a bad taste in my mouth, but the fact that this garbage software is now being used for a federal election is horrifying.

It also doesn't help that more than one of the leaders of this company are Russian nationals...
Thanks. I toyed with the idea of putting in a custom CSS. As some have said, the site doesn't have big requirements.

BUT, I wanted to have a play with Bootstrap, which I hadn't used before and it was/is comforting to have the ability to expand the look to include other features if I need to :)
This is not an uncommon arrangement in companies that plan to remain private forever, or just have no rush to IPO. Without some exercise clause, it's hard to compete with public tech companies on compensation: I've seen way too many people stuck in companies that they've worked on for 4-5 years, but when leaving meant throwing away all the stock compensation, as the costs of exercise are not affordable without a seller.

Typically companies in those situations have investors from earlier rounds that want to increase their holdings, and the board doesn't have a problem letting get a percentage or two of extra shares, so they create some kind of liquidity opportunity, with the company serving as an intermediary between the employees and the investors.
Just go ahead and like the guy!
Totally, totally random thought, but I figured I'd record it, even though it doesn't seem to make sense.

Bezos?
There are also many natural wildcards. In water landings, where you hit the wave makes a huge difference. On land, it is trees and ground features. A good pilot can maximize the odds, but there is always a huge amount of luck.
I suspect a big drone could carry a one shot recoilless weapon I suspect with modern tech you could get the weight down to say > 10Kg

You can get drones that can carry over 40Lb an that's not far off a ww2 57MM M18's weight.
He’s not guaranteeing anything. He hasn’t mentioned financing to do this, and it’s not a small amount of money to raise. Shareholder approval isn’t a given either. It’s probable that he’d get the votes if he showed the financing necessary for a $420 stock price, but it’s not a guarantee.
Going private, wouldn't it be a bigger distraction for everyone working at Tesla to wonder whether they can find a private buyer or not for their shares and what their shares are actually worth?
Tesla lacks the cash to buy its own stock, no matter the price. The cash would come from private equity.
If the market was going to give us USB chargers anyway, why do cheap phones which are excluded from Common EPS rules, like the Samsung E1200, often not use USB chargers?
No, it goes back well before that, I think. Have a look at https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19/06#subj1
In which "free" market are you "prohibited" from selling your product directly to customers? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
Under GDPR it pretty clearly falls under "opinions we have about you", and ought to be requestable. I'm wondering when the first GDPR case against FB will substantively materialise, and it surely will. They're the obvious first target.
Yeah, but why not just ignore a stock price crash if you don't need to sell and believe in the long term plan?
I'd like to think that back in the day Elon, and Clarence Saunders would have been great friends.
> they were really single user

How is this a limitation in the hardware? Operating system could switch between tasks using context switching right? Or are you suggesting these machines didn't have any mechanism to make sense of time/ticks or didn't have interrupts?
So gfx-rs will expose Vulkan frontend?

Is there a plan to support GNM backend in gfx-rs?
Could be anyone from Masayoshi Son to Yuri Milner to Blackstone. Or a consortium of several.

They wouldn't have to come up with the full valuation, only need enough to buy out those who wish to sell.

Articles/Bylaws would likely give Musk control, even though he only holds 20%.
Or a HERF gun...

https://hackaday.com/2011/03/21/herf-gun-zaps-more-than-your...
Figure out why the worst devs seem to gravitate to Android?
I own a 2008 Mac Pro, and High Sierra isn't available for my machine. Why should I buy a new machine if my current one works just fine?

Note: I need High Sierra because I use this particular machine for music production, and the latest Logic Pro X requires High Sierra, and all of my collaborators have updated so I can't open tracks originated by them anymore.
Scorched-earth policies serve as a warning to others who might try the same thing.
Does that prove anything though? Let's imagine a bank is working on this deal; why would they tell a reporter? It's common for companies to deny things to the press even when they're true.
Or Apple, Google, maybe even Jeff from Amazon. Musk changes the rules of the game on a regular basis.
are you so short on tesla that you can't appreciate some nice quick'n'dirty storytelling? :) whether the story is true is of no consequence.
a better one than Elon's tweets
I had zero emotional investment at first, but the parts I work with most grew on me. I also care a lot about the people around me. And I care a lot about the tools I am using too, I love my setup, and I'm also active in the community within the company, that's built around that toolset.

If I had to prioritize the above, I care about my team the most, the tools second and the actual product third.

To value people's care about the product, can be either very idealisic, totally misguided, or perfectly legit, very highly depending on the circumstances. Me with my team herd cattles basically, large website and infra, features come and go, tickets come from business people who themselves get orders basically. But if I were to gather people around me for the startup I'm about to start, I'd like to have them to believe that we're doing something good.
This piece heavily lifts from the Fast Company story that originally reported it last week, I'd recommend you read that first:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208948/under-trumps-epa-asbest...
Thats correct. Which is why you see that the current stock price is currently spiking, as people rush to get the "good" deal for free money.... Which means that as the stock gets closer to 420$, the amount of "free" money quickly goes away.
This is about WPA2-PSK (aka WPA2-Personal), not WPA2 (aka WPA2-Enterprise). PSK was already vulnerable to brute force attacks. It always is.
Short sellers aren‘t evil. They are a mechanism how the public trade exchange improves its estimate how much a company is worth.

After the very ugly financial news over the last months (but probably true — nobody has credibly refuted them), it‘s not hard to see why Musk and the less rational part of his supporters would love to see short sellers disappear, and „punished“.
Emotions are a perfectly acceptable reason to initiate a $70 billion deal. It's important that the emotions line up with the logic and reason, but in this case, they do seem to align.
Wall Street investors and analysts focus heavily on the bottom line. Elon believes that the work Tesla is doing requires more time, sustained attention, and focus than public investors have tolerance for. Furthermore, he thinks the volatility demotivates employees.

These are all completely true, and very reasonable, but do show (at least to me) that the near-term promises regarding profitability he made at the last earnings call are probably in jeopardy.

Thank you for asking for a clarification rather than just knee-jerk down voting, though. :)
Is it possible/financially doable to make charging mostly a thing of the past with a standard replaceable battery pack? Tesla 3 gets 9, Prius uses 5 etc. You got to a charging station and they swap your batteries out for fully-charged ones if available, and charge if not.
This story is nearly identical to the original article reported by Fast Company:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208948/under-trumps-epa-asbest...
That might be how this is actually gets financed :). The shorts borrowed from institutional investors who have 0 reason to make them whole and can now take them to the cleaners.
Assuming you own your own home.

If you live in an apartment complex or otherwise only have street parking, you likely don't have access to electricity. Or at the very least, would need to negotiate with the landlord to have a new outlet installed -- which is going to depend on how much you get along with said landlord.
He would be liable for Market manipulation and securities fraud if this was not true.
I couldn't be more supportive of this idea. I am so tired of seeing Tesla scramble to meet shareholder expectations which are almost always short-sighted.
Well, thanks. I built it with react and redux starting with the "create react app" package. There are probably frameworks that will help a bit more, but I'm not too familiar with the front-end world so I went with what they used at my last job.
> When we look at what computation is, physically, we find it's a lot like a Turing machine underneath (physical rewriting systems), albeit with different kinds of structures that are being rewritten.

I don't think that's the case at all. We see sequential TM-like processes when we look at mainstream electronic computers, but that's kind of a circular argument. When we look at physical processes in general, the computations they're performing tend to be massively parallel.

Pure computation (e.g. lambda calculus, and especially combinatory logic) is well suited to running on massively parallel circuitry (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_reduction_machine ).

It's perhaps also worth mentioning that such languages can be interpreted as (descriptions of) circuitry! E.g. see http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories
The blockchain part of the voting app provides a buzzword.
I still don't think you've read the full email. He explains elsewhere in the email the answer to your exact question
The problem is that virtually all those things could harm, interfere with, or annoy human activity.

GPS is used for all sorts of legitimate human activity, so blocking it would cause problems.

Electronic noise could interfere with not just drones, but all sorts of electronic devices that humans use and need.

Nets, flack, and shotguns could certainly interfere with or harm humans, depending on where they are, and if there's some place they're not to let humans pass, then drones might be able to go through the same route.

Rain is annoying to humans and so plenty of places where humans are are protected against rain, so in those places this is an inadequate defense against drones -- though maybe sprinklers would work (but they can cause their own problems to useful electronics and might even cause an electrocution hazard to humans, depending on where they're used).
This is great to hear!
I think you mean the German V1 :-)
Nooo! Newton is my favorite! This is a sad day for me, and of course even more sad for the team.

Alright, what is everyone's favorite cross-platform mail client these days then?
> We use WSUS for updates

So do we. But I have encountered my fair share of cases where an update to Windows or Office broke some third-party application. Once, and update for Office 2007 failed to register properly (but only on two machines), so after the reboot, Windows Update wanted to install that update again, followed by a reboot, etc. Once, an update to Office broke Autodesk Inventor, and reinstalling inventor subsequently broke Outlook. And don't get me started on Siemens SIMATIC/WinCC software. I have seen Office 2013 cease working spontaneously (again, only on a few select machines, and only a full reinstall fixed the issue), I have seen a certain revision of the AV software we use cause Windows 8.1 to crash regularly (literally: every 24 hours, the same time of day).

During my training at a large IT company, I heard they had a team whose entire job was to install and test updates to Windows and third-party applications and test if they broke something. I used to think they were a bunch a wimps, but after a couple of years as a Windows admin, I envy them for having the resources to do that kind of testing. My strategy is to wait for a couple of days after updates become available, check a couple of forums if anybody complains about stuff breaking and then release the updates that I consider safe.

> I tell a reseller what I want and review their response. No big deal?

Have you ever had to deal with, say, per-CPU vs. per-user licensing for SQL Server? Or consider whether to use a plain old license vs. software assurance? Maybe using GNU/Linux or BSD on my private machines has spoiled me, but I always wonder if MS wants to annoy their customers or if they just want to screw them over.

I am not sure if we are doing something wrong or if you are lucky. But I am glad that I do more programming than sysadmin tasks these days.
There was a single year where my primary machine was a Mac because I had to do some iOS work. Since I did't want the hassle of dealing with multiple machines every day, I went with a MacBook. As soon as I realized this was exactly what Apple wanted (to force developers to user their machines if they have to develop for their platform, even if they primarily develop for other platforms), I started my migration away from iOS development forever. In that year, I also learned the hard way that it's a terrible idea to have a business model that relies on an iOS presence as Apple will reject your app and/or it's mission critical updates without a care in the world.
I'd stop short of saying that Alexa is in everyone's home, among my friends and family I only know two people with any kind of voice assistant.
What, timed with an announcement of a merger between Blue Origin and SpaceX? :)
Oh I wouldn't discount Elon's interest in screwing the short-sellers. There's ample evidence of his disdain for these people and even if you're bearish on Tesla, I think a lot of the short-sellers are fueled by oil & gas interests, so Elon's ire is not unwarranted.

I don't think the media portrays this battle appropriately. Tesla is the #1 enemy of the combustion engine supply chain and that is no small thing.

Every single auto parts store, every car manufacturer that does not sell EV's, and especially the oil & gas industry is at risk of Tesla's success.

This is a titanic battle. Don't anyone ever forget that.
>It's pretty absurd at this point that we are relying on private companies like Whole Foods to build public transportation infrastructure.

Most (maybe all?) gas stations are privately owned, how is this different?
It can work well and the people further up the hierarchy can be happy about it, and could share this happiness with you with bonuses and other perks. If this would happen, I'd be more inclined to be invested in the thing, even if it were not especially the pinnacle of human altruism.
Or, maybe, about half Waymo level...

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/alphabet-autonomo...
Won't the company agree to buy their granted shares at a fixed price? (I don't know; there can be wildly different arrangements).
I think it looks like Python 3!
Apple could do it with cash, but a lot of others could do it with some form of financing. A leveraged buyout.
That phrase is not copyright infringement. Apple lost that case in a court of law.
They plan to kill it, but it's not very clear when. Quite stupid and as bad as not supporting Vulkan, but that's Apple for you.
Interesting! I'd never heard the idea that the lack of electronic voting suppresses the youth vote. Do you have a link for someone arguing that position?
> Articles/Bylaws would likely give Musk control, even though he only holds 20%.

But Articles and Bylaws can be rewritten at the whim of the majority shareholder, no? I don't doubt that's how it would be initially structured (otherwise it would just be a hostile takeover) I'm just saying it's putting Tesla's future in the hands of whoever holds the most shares.
I think if an x1 Carbon ran OS X, you'd see a massive number of people migrating from Macbooks over to it.
How will Tesla get around the shareholder limit?

There is a limit to the number of shareholders a privately held company can have. It's apparently 2,000.

http://blog.gust.com/limiting-the-number-of-shareholders-in-...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-thresho...
If you know its coming. And if you have enough. What about 10 hardware-store drones with a few grams of explosive each, operating on dead-reckoning to reach their target? What about 20 of them? 100?
I won't use a Hackintosh as my main development machine but with all that AMD goodness around it might be a very cool project to build a MegaMac around a 32 core ThreadRipper.

I'm not the Mac Pro customer (just programming) to begin with and I am satisfied with the 2015 and 2018 MacBook Pro's. Just as I don't even have a car let alone need a Lamborghini for groceries.

But it would be nice for once just to step on the pedal of one and hear it roar. If you know what I mean BIG GRIN

I don't think the Mac Pro will ever have USB-A again but surprise me.
You can probably cut that down a bit by doing a robotic battery replacement mechanism.
Prognostication and Risk Factors for Cystic Fibrosis via Machine Learning
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Very much so. The entire proposed rule, so far as I can tell, is solely about taking most of the asbestos products which are still legal to manufacture and use in the US, declaring them a substantial new use on the basis that they're no longer being made, and erecting regulatory barriers to ever manufacturing or importing them again. It doesn't unban anything, not even genuinely novel uses for asbestos (which there's a long-running blanket ban on).
He's smart, and also a monumental dickwad. I'd expect people that dislike him to do so for the latter, not the former. (i'm on that boat too)
When time and money is limited, new features will always win both time and money, until something goes wrong. At that point where it's gone wrong, people will step in and lament "why didn't you just do X" for a few days, before they go back to wanting more features.

The cost of good security is high - audits, slowed down development, limited data retention, higher compute costs... and the return on that investment is only ever going to be a reduction of liability.

Big company with lots of resources, small company with no resources; it doesn't matter. Security is a cost center, and will only ever get a token amount of resources until the costs of doing nothing outweigh the costs of doing something.
LOL at $420/share I think he wants investors to chill out.

Anyway, since I own some shares will miss their stock, since I truly believe in them, but I guess this is better for the company.
Installing TensorFlow Object Detection API on Windows 10
There are many factors that could affect this. There is no words of the source of the fund, although people believe he already has that secured. And all shareholders have to vote. The last and most important is when this would actually happen.
So what you're telling me is the reason for failure really isn't important. The fact that one program was championed for 40-50 years while the other one defunded and dismanteled is of no consequence.

The real takeaway here is they were doomed to failure because the US government chose similar bad names.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
X would be guilty of fraud if this isn't true is only proof of its truth if you treat it as axiomatic that X would never commit fraud.
re Xamarin:

Only reloading your XAML or CSS is supported. With Dart, you can reload all your code, in the same way JS developers have had hot reload for ages now. I'm not sure if C# will be able to support this. This really leverages Dart's roots in being interpreted, not compiled.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/...

What changes does Live Reload redeploy?

Live Reload only applies changes made to XAML or CSS. If you make changes to a C# file, a recompile will be required. Support for reloading C# is planned for a future release.
Actual security by design. Hold events with high-value targets //indoors// with no open roofed areas near by.

This might mean throwing a net over the inner alcove or erecting a temporary tent to block the outside facing windows.
> Would the only risk be that this whole plan falls through or that Elon ultimately decides against that price?

That is pretty big risk; if this plan isn't real or falls through, the stock is going down hard.
Hi, yes I have done this in the UK but for electronics/photonics/instrumentation company, not software/data company. A good first step is to find someone who has done this before and convince them (using the value of your early idea) to mentor you through writing a solid business plan and pitch.

The process you need to go through is to construct a plan that:

maps out your strategic objectives for the next 3-5 years;

identifies what assets and resources you need, and when you need them, to achieve these goals;

lays out a financial budget for that (this being a model that gets increasingly less certain and accurate as time goes on);

considers how this budget will be funded;

identifies the likely points and sources of first commercial income;

discusses how the business scales to become a full commercial concern, and what its value may ultimately be;

provides supporting evidence for the assumptions you make in the plan.

Good luck. Where are you based?
The problem isn't who opened the account, it's whether they authorized a massive electronic transfer somewhere.

The problem with voting is not and has never been physical people people voting fraudulently. It is the alteration of the votes on a central machine. (For example as an easily editable excel file on at least on occasion)

The extra barriers to confirm the physical person standing at the booth is a redirection of a serious problem with Putin into a little more voter suppression.
The French government is also a big shareholder of Renault and Volkswagen is partially owned by the regional government where they’re domiciled, if I’m not mistaken, plus the German government itself always putting the interests of the German big 3 (MB, BMW, VW) ahead of almost everything else, even their citizens’ health (see the tax incentives given to diesel vehicles for the last couple of decades).
If I understood correctly, gfx-rs aims to provide an implementation for that initiative. Khronos only announced it in concept, they didn't implement it.
Liquor.
> Second, my intention is for all Tesla employees to remain shareholders of the company, just as is the case at SpaceX. If we were to go private, employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. This would enable you to still share in the growing value of the company that you have all worked so hard to build over time.