skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to consider that an analyst pointed out. Telsa has alot of net 60 and 90 and 120 day relationships with suppliers, but gets paid from car sales much quicker. This means that they can "financially engineer" quarters to make their cash flow look much better than it would if the payment periods were all net 30.

Pre Close:

- bit of a perfect storm for Tesla to make a profit

- Model X ramp up spend is mostly done, Model Y ramp up spend hasn't really started yet.

- Model Y ramp up could be $250 million/quarter drag

- Started selling dual motor Model X, more than single motor, (probalby push for more expensive cars first to try and get profitable)

- this will mean we'll ahve to watch per car margins going forward as less profitable models are rolled out.

- Solar weighing on results, Spent 2 Billion to buy Solar City, and assumed alot of debt in the transaction

- solar installations have fallen through the floor since then,

- Tesla is no longer largest solar company in the US

- with multiple layoffs in Solar City division

- The Model 3 outsold all but four sedans in the U.S. last quarter.

- Tesla Junk Bonds trading at 86 cents on dollar, an 8% Yield, not too spicy, probably means bond market expects to be paid off in cash not shares.

- Good quote from car analyst
"So Tesla going from 0% to 1% U.S. market share and not profitable or cash-flow positive for the ytd -- `Yay, Tesla!' -- but let's not get crazy. This is still a niche brand building vehicles by hand in a tent."

Numbers:

- 3Q Adj EPS $2.90, Est. Loss/Shr 15c

- 3Q revenue $6.82 billion, estimate $6.31 billion

- 3Q capex $510.3 million, estimate $612.9 million

- 3Q adj. automotive gross margin +25.5%, estimate +19.5% (BD

- 3Q Free Cash Flow $881.0M, Est. $280.0M holy shit that's incredible

- Tesla has made money!!! net income of $300 million, now can they show that they didn't just cook the books for a quarter?

- back to 3 Billion of cash in the bank

- even without ZEV(Zero emission credits) Tesla would still be well into the black

Misc:

- 15 days of inventory, for Model 3, about a quarter of what other companies have

- building an average of 4,300 Model 3's per week

- labour hours are down on the assembly line by 30%

- little under 20% of Model 3 pre orders have cancelled

- Musk said he wants to start producing cars in China next year, this is a put up or shut-up situation as they've sat on the factory and done nothing since announcing it.

- China acceleration seems to be pretty darn Tariff driven

AutoPilot:

- now on software upgrade 9.0, which can change lanes and exit highways on its own.
I was looking at the references at the bottom and saw `6`, I thought "Hygienic Macro Expansion? M.Fellinson? He probably must be referring to Matthias Felleisen...". Effectively: [1]

Doesn't mean I understood the rest of the paper... sigh :-p

1: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319859
With due respect, the person you spoke to on the phone didn't really answer your questions, per your post. What leads you to the conclusion? From my perspective, it doesn't sound like you know what they were using it for at all, or even if there was an urgent matter that even required it. For all we know, it was just a Tuesday and they were just hunting for the source of a common encryption utility.

And just because a cipher is public does not mean that there does not exist a side channel in the implementation of the ciphers or a mistake in your usage of them.
Don't participate on HN a lot, but I couldn't resist responding to the GDPR violation in the same line as engaging with the NY Attorney General.
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We could recover from needing skilled immigrants if we would educate our population for free like most of the world. We still only allow rich or lucky people to receive high level educations. How can we complain about skilled labor when we make no effort to create said skilled laborers?
Docker containers don't need to be (and often aren't) "entire operating systems." Good point about it requiring root, though.
This is why you need a general purpose robot - to fill the gap where the specialized robots can't quite make it.
Leading change: The nonsense of urgency
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How does this compare to Citus?
Hope it's not mifare classic :/
I have very simple needs in this regard, so a very simple tool does the trick and does it very well: https://servercheck.in
The question is what material you'd use. Plaster looks cheap. Concrete doesn't age well in the elements. Steel doesn't have that look.

I'm not saying build entirely stone structures; no one has done this for centuries. But you do need a stone mason to do the kind of facade detail work you'd see on, say, the Empire State Building.
improbable/grpc-web does require a proxy, it just happens to also support a drop-in http proxy in the same app when you're writing a golang based grpc app.

grpc/grpc-web intends to support the same: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web/blob/master/ROADMAP.md#loca...
Summary (from post): Creating urgency has become synonymous with leading change to the detriment of individuals, organizations, and societies. The more leaders create these artificial crises, the less we trust and engage with our leaders and the less effective their change leadership becomes.
Yes I'm here in Kansas laughing. I've had a brown recluse walk down my arm out of my sleeve, and didn't get bit. Just brushed it off and stepped on it. Also my cousin has had several confirmed brown recluse bites. Yes they were painful disgusting etc etc, but didn't kill her or cause any life changing damage...
He was appointed in April 2018.. He got two years to investigate.. Why everything takes so long? Because politics I guess.
> Let's say there's a Citus competitor. The competitor implements a feature a bit differently than Citus. Does Postgres support both organizations equally?

Well, maybe the competing company could also become a major donor.
> This will discriminate against rural and middle America by depriving them of the skilled labor that they need to survive.

Rural and middle America needs to get off its collective ass. I have seriously considered moving to one of those places -- alas, while I can get a house cheap and have what I need to survive inexpensively, I cannot get high speed internet even if I pay $1,000.00 per month.
My ISP.. long ago.. fixed a few key thing in Postgres95 which fixed a few keys things (see slide 19 -- https://www.pgcon.org/2007/schedule/attachments/30-great_ste...).

From that point on, we never had to touch the core again.

The Postgresql community is awesome.
The only thing that would make it weirder is if the initial bloodwork happened to have been also ordered and checked by a doctor from your company's 'health center'.
This makes me sick. Now I need to take my temperature.

I can't wait for the toilette paper that transmits my poop analysis in real time directly to the good and helpful corporation.
For my own good. Who wouldn't want such close attention to their well being.
And it would only cost 10x more and will be mandated for insurance eligibility.
that's how I see it too.

I feel like the whole question here is simply: how much commitment to the existing US labor pool should US laws/regulations require from US employers?

Over the last decade, the answer has been "not much." But, now, because of political and economic realities, that answer might change.
The easier way is to just have ratios. Companies that already employ lots of Americans should be able to easily hire foreigners. Companies that hire predominantly foreigners should have a difficult time getting more. A few rules to prevent gaming the system and you've got a system that works well for everyone involved and doesn't need CoL adjustments. Plus, ensuring that foreigners work closely with Americans helps both integrate those foreigners into American culture as well as helping them learn from those foreigners.

The H1-B system seems designed to allow big companies to exploit foreign labor to drive down wages and hold those foreigners hostage while they're here. Ratios better allow mobility of foreign workers and allow them to seek market rate salaries. If I were in control of immigration policies, I'd set a 3:1 American-to-foreigner ratio based on job classification/salary bands and make it apply to any company with more than 50 employees. Any immigrant who passes a DHS background check and can get an offer from an eligible company should be able to get a work permit, regardless of their home country, with no time limit when they'd be sent home. Only failing to find employment at an eligible employer within, say, 6 months should force someone to leave. And after a 5-year working period, they should be able to apply for citizenship. At worst, it becomes a jobs program that forces employers to employ American citizens to get the workers they need.
How is a milliamp-hour rating of a battery useful to an end user? Without going very deep into details of the device's average and peak power consumption under different usage scenarios, it's very difficult to correlate that measure of capacity to practical battery life.
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We had a Roomba for two years and then replaced it with a cordless vacuum from Dyson.

The Roomba never cleaned everything and we had to modify our home quite much to prevent it from getting stuck.

So, after the Roomba is before the Roomba, I guess.
Scary stuff!
Only speaking personally, but I actually enjoy cutting the grass. It’s a sort of zen-like pattern game. I feel like this is a common sentiment.

Sweeping and vacuuming, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as interesting.
Oh, I know about it. And it looks great.

It's basically the reason the next language I'll try on the shell is Haskell. But it takes looking at the documentation, so I'll leave it to try when I'm not in a rush. For shell scripting, that may take a long time.
Why would you cite a paper on the technical details of your data source in linguistics?
Interesting idea, will try next time.

I usually want to optimize the scalar code outside of the manually-vectorized body of the loops. A function call to that external compilation unit will be slower than inlining I have when everything is in the same unit. However, it could be the call overhead is small enough, obviously need to profile.
It's very easy to change the search engine to duck duck go.
I hope robotic lawn mowers won't be wide-spread, or good-bye ecology and its diversity.
Counter arguments :-)

- Not sure what kind of meetings you attend where it's essential that people stand up. But I would estimate that for most meetings you can be seated (citation missing of course)

- With the Rift you can already access your desktop. It's only a matter of time until they launch that feature for the Go.
That's great to hear, I'll be looking forward to seeing where those talks and collaborations go.
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Nah. Older generations aka me listened to the radio which is just a much cruder form of discovery. You pick a station or stations that appeal to your tastes and let the DJ do the rest.
Sounds like you 100% agree with the conclusion
I think you are underestimating kitchen knives tbh.
I wouldn't mind a robot that unloads the dishwasher.

The problem is I can get a maid that scrubs my apartment 2x a month for under $200/mo, approx $2k/year. So that sets a very harsh price ceiling on assistance robots.
What makes auto bad?
Can you guys join forces and convince AWS to make both of those products available on RDS? :)
Fundamentally different approaches. Citus focuses on horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL and PipelineDB focuses on continuous aggregation for large volumes of streaming time-series data.
I'm interested to see who can build the first $100B, fully remote company.
Wasn't it iRobot that wanted to sell your floor plan (and other household information) to other companies?
Transportation is 100 or 1000x the market that lawn mowing or carpet cleaning is.
> we will see a lot more social upheaval and rightfully so.

No.

You either don't know what 'social upheaval' means in the minds of nationalists or I wonder why you would judge it as 'rightfully'. There is absolutely nothing rightful about killing people.

I don't know if that movement is just a based on feeling 'left behind', maybe as a symptom. I mean, there are serious issues connected to all of this. For example, there are companies in Europe which systematically conquer specific African industries (e.g., milk products), which is one of the reasons why the Africans migrate (no job -> no food -> certain death). The worst about it is that the same industries receive EU subsidies.

So the European people pay money which causes the Africans to come to Europe (great job). After all, stopping the European companies from doing that wouldn't solve the problem as the US or the Chinese would just see the opportunity, but I doubt that shutting down the own country is a proper solution to that problem either (and nationalists don't stop there).
Conceptually, I think you're right -- to serve gRPC requests only requires http2 as a transport and more shouldn't be necessary (edit: I stand corrected, seems like not all HTTP2 features are supported by all modern browsers). In practice, I believe the official gRPC web setup it serves as a translation layer and provides some monitoring bells and whistles. E.g. the official gRPC-Web implementation allows for a base-64 encoded wire format in addition to the typical protobuf binary format, so without a proxy layer, you'd need to define middleware server-side that translates the base64 encoding to the protobuf format.

I think the full set of differences can be found here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/PROTOCOL-WEB.md
This is a really, really big deal. They've still got a long way to go (as I'm sure Musk would be the first person to admit), but turning a profit is no small feat and should be applauded as such.
If you think that manufacturers do not create planned obsolescence for all of their products you are living in a dream world. Car manufactures have become some of the worst about this. Every company now just wants RMR, if they don't have a way to get RMR, it's planned obsolescence.
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We hear ya. We were bit the very example you mentioned, so to prevent that with our service:

1) We are currently adding a "bring your own cloud" feature to Relica -- in fact, it's already done, just undocumented while we finish up the UI for it.

2) Relica uses restic for the actual archival operations, so your restores can be performed with an independent, reliable, well-maintained, MIT-licensed open source tool.
From your site:

> Protectumus acts as a web application firewall (WAF) and scans the website for known malware. Once the malware is found it will be automatically removed.

How does a WAF remove malware? Is there an additional agent sitting on the server or something? And surely when a server is pwned, it needs to be reformatted, not just the malware 'removed'.
> Software has become buggy shit that's shoveled out the door as fast as possible.

This comes up a lot in dealing with PMs and those funneling requirements to developers: What is "good enough"?

"Good enough" for a software project means different things to different people, and is influenced by factors like time, cost, and attention.

Oftentimes, there's conflicting desires/statements from stakeholders in the Agile process. For example:
- Executives approve an iterative "MVP" software plan proposed by the PMs.
- PMs deliver plan to developers, and give them a schedule.
- Developers deliver the software "as-is" based on what was scoped in the MVP plan.
- Executives (or some other party) are demoed the software, and undoubtedly come up with list of things that could be done differently or questions like "Why don't we have this feature in..."
- PMs funnel down the executive feedback to the developers; developers say "This wasn't in scope for MVP..."

Where iteration and speed falls apart is when those judging the work want things to move out the door on schedule and as cheaply as possible, while still have the software fit their liking and follow an unrealistically ideal development path.
the newer ones are much better at avoiding lobster-trap situations. but you are correct.
gRPC needs access HTTP/2 trailers, which is not supported in browsers today. This necessitates translation in a proxy of some form. It is possible to support in-process or local proxies, but instead starting with this in n languages, we are starting with a proxy, with the intention to build in-process support on languages or use cases where there is real need for it.
Sorry if I didn't make it clear, I was not trying to "attack" the article. I think my anecdote was relevant but my main aim was to share an event I experienced, not to win an argument or craft a straw man. I do think there was a real problem in the event I described, and anyone who has the goal of helping STEM fields needs to avoid those specific pitfalls. You are arguing past me.
Are you kidding? Haskell is the language for picking stuff out of text files. Unless Perl got a complete transformation on the 5 to 6 change, it isn't even on the same league.
IBM thinks it can create perfume with its new AI
There are plenty of bugs in normal, human-delivered medicine. Medical errors are a massive source of death and disability in modern medicine.
The Problem with Fixing WhatsApp? Human Nature Might Get in the Way
My 14 year old roomba has algorithms that are dumber than all livestock I can think of; my pet tropical fish exhibit better path finding abilities when I feed them.
When the roomba unintelligently, yet effectively, cleans my room I do not feel any danger of human anthropomorphism.

Much like airplanes are not imitations of birds, its unlikely household robots will be mistaken for human slaves. A lot of time was wasted in the development years of heavier than air flight by trying to poorly imitate birds using machines.
Any links to the implementation of this? The paper says that there's a concurrent implementation in the author's thesis, but Princeton charges $5 per copy of theses, so I can't view the actual implementation:

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01gh93...
they tried a couple of times.
A story of underfunded pensions coming to a local municipality near all of us.
There's still a difference between hand-curated content and algorithmically generated ones. People have trust in others, people are less likely to trust code.
Seattle's minimum wage foes done in by “deeply flawed” Univ of Washington study
Facebook isn't going after the gaming market (long term), from what we've seen in their demos, they are targeting the enterprise (read:$$$) near-term with virtual meetings. Long term they are targeting casual entertainment consumers (read:non-gamers) with events such as virtual sports/movie viewing and more immersive news/videos such as their VR tour of Puerto Rico [1].

Facebook is much better situated to work with non-game enterprises and entertainment licensing/distribution companies than Steam.

Not that I want Facebook to excel here, I don't use Facebook or Instagram and personally I find the thought of VR business meetings/news/friendships pretty distasteful, but just a 3rd party observation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/09/mark-zuck...
Don't think of it as them weighing you down. Think of it as an opportunity to be extra valuable to your team by sharing knowledge. Some people might need convincing that your way is better, but if you can't clearly show them that, then it may not be a battle worth fighting. That just means move on to the next thing you think you could improve on.
I wonder if this correspondence could be used for program transformations/optimizations?

code -tx-> polynomial -tx-> simplification -tx-> [possibly more efficient] code
The user is too focused on the app, and part of the problem is when we stop using correct phrases and start using "app" for everything.

User installed and app and agreed to use a service. User uninstalled an app.

User needs to understand that installing an app and using a service is not an implementation detail, it is a fundamental part of what they are doing. Dumbing our vocabulary down to use "app" for everything makes this education harder.
I'd love to chat with you. If you have some time, send an email over to jdonnell@digitalocean.com and let's talk. I promise nothing but honesty, transparency, ideas, and maybe a few laughs :)
I downvoted your original comment because it was a bunch of unsupported conspiracy BS and at least one of your claims was directly refuted by the company itself.

If you have a real complaint against DO, please provide specific allegations and support for those allegations.
The most impactful thing you can do here is ask the RDS team for this. If enough users ask them for it they'll eventually begin seriously considering it :)
Are you distinguishing between a "mixed state" and an "ensemble" and a "mixture of pure states"? Because AFAIK these are all the same thing. If you think they are different, what distinguishes them?

If you agree that they are all the same, then what you are saying is exactly the same as what I am saying, except for the "no entanglement" part. Whether or not you have entanglement or a mixed state depends on what point of view you choose to take. If you have an EPR state, then the joint system is in a pure state, but each individual particle is in a mixed state when viewed as an isolated system. That is what a mixed state is. A mixed state is nothing more or less than the state of a proper subset of an entangled system.
Oh no it's not. I don't have a roomba, but I do have a Neato.

I know that that thing is not able to, nor it is supposed to, completely replace cleaning up the floors. But it helps immensely in reducing the amount of dirt that accumulates day to day. This problem is even worse as I own a dog.

If I do have a complaint, is that the navigation software is a blackbox that I can't tinker with. If I could upload floor plans, or otherwise program the thing, it could potentially do a much better (and faster job).

And boy does it get tangled in power cords, or even drier sheets. That's annoying.

I'm actually debating buying a second robot vacuum for the other floor.
I don't own any VR gear and haven't explored, but isn't this one of those tech 'adoption' areas that is driven by porn, like VCR's were? FB & porn don't seem like good bedfellows, as it were...
fab = fabulous, which can mean "amazing" to "really quite good".
I mean, the bigger problem from an ecological perspective is lawns themselves but that's a whole other can of worms.
Nobody’s stopping you from installing those apps if you want - an offline Maps app, Signal, Firefox with uBlock. It might not be the system default app, but I’m not sure how that’s a fundamental loss of privacy.

Sure, you need an Apple ID, but how hard is it to generate a throwaway account for that purpose? Nobody ever said you had to use one that was tied to your actual identity. Heck you can even use different IDs for the App Store vs. iCloud, but anyone who is extremely privacy sensitive would already not be using iCloud. I don’t know where you read that Apple IDs can’t be deleted - on https://privacy.apple.com/ if you sign in there’s a nice big Delete your Account button.