skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any Audi, Porsche, or BMW on the horizon that will be close to competing on price with the Model 3? They all seem to be targeting the Model S/X market and Tesla's results seem to be showing that market is shrinking.
They also said that seven years ago when the first Model S was released. In three years, some auto makers might be where Tesla was seven years ago, but it'll be a good while before anyone reaches the point Tesla is at right now.
Yuh, electricity production totally doesn't overlap with the subsidies that petroleum drilling gets, not one little bit, not at all.

Of course moving to electric vehicles is a necessary step towards getting off of the petrocarbons, but it isn't sufficient, production of electricity also has to move off of them.
That's deeply offensive. You're all but directly implying that civil servants are like drug dealers.
The trade-in value of Tesla is very low in Finland. If you want to upgrade your model, Tesla has been offering 70-80k € trade-in value for a 6 month old 135k€ Model S.

This means that those who upgrade their vehicles often will not even consider a Tesla.

In Finland, at least, they are forefeiting one of the biggest groups of luxury car buyers.
> The car, the service, the people, all of it is on a whole higher plane of satisfaction. It feels like the transition from a flip phone to an iPhone in 2008.

Same here. This is how I describe it to other people.
musk does the whole tesla pump before everything, go through his twitter/tesla blog posts
>For just $5, Seller Mafia will “brush” an account, which is when a product page is stripped of all information except its reviews and listed with a new product, which is against Amazon’s marketplace rules. This allows a seller to inherit a positive star rating and high ranking for a product without ever selling anything. So a shopper may see a four-star product like a jade roller, but the listing has had previous lives as a garage opener and a step stool to earn that average four-star rating.

Ah, that explains several incidents where I rebought a previously purchased item by searching through the listings in my order history, only to receive a completely different product (I once received lace underwear when rebuying a specific shampoo for example).
Tesla is years ahead and is innovating faster, so how can they catch it? For example Audi E-tron has just 200 miles of range vs. the new Model S with 370 miles with a same size battery.
Had 2 BMWs before my Model3 LR. Never going back.

Briefly thought of BMW i3, but once I tested Model3 & played with its Autopilot on stop/go commute - Teslas are years ahead of the game. Best part is, they can only get better.

- The very thought of dealership, auto repair shops feels very old now. I had a problem with my left indicator stalk, booked an appointment in the same Tesla app, a mobile mech pulled up, took out the whole driving wheel unit and fixed it on the spot.

- They have bi-monthly, monthly updates (feels like our software dev 2 week sprints) where they release NEW features, yes, brand new features... not just bug fixes or improvements.

The Model3 body feels like a frame-housing with an ever improving hardware/software under it to constantly make it better n better.

It feels like the iPhones vs Nokia smart phones debate in 2010.
Notably, the author of the paper seems to state that the implementers of the unikernels either didn't really understand how to implement proper security features or purposely weakened or disabled protections that would have been enabled by default.
and now everyone begins to wonder why they havent done a raise
It's even harder to compete when their production line is such a shambles. They tried to automate everything, which cost a fortune, and utterly failed at it because it turns out it's both stupidly hard and ridiculously expensive.

They were the first mover, and as is the case with racing, being first means others can draft and pass you.
The comments here are extremely low quality
Also want to add that Amazon's customer service/return policy is great and their marketplace makes comparison shopping and thus competition easy ensuring cheap pricing for their customers.
The price is already at a 12 month low, hard to speculate just how much lower it will go.
Is the program successful at its stated purpose of drug rehabilitation? How does it compare to other treatment programs, in particular the recidivism rate?

The article says:

Many participants said Cenikor saved their lives and equipped them for success. After 18 months in the program, participants can become eligible to receive wages and graduate with jobs, a car and the tools to build a promising life. But fewer than 8 percent of people who enter Cenikor make it to graduation, according to the program’s own numbers, and therefore never receive a paying job.

So "many participants" said the program saved their lives, and while only 8% "graduated" did the program help any of the other 92% of participants with their drug problem?

I have a relative with serious drug problems, she's been through numerous drug treatment problems and has "kicked the drug habit for good" too many times to count. Drug rehabilitation is hard.

If this program actually worked, I'd be more inclined to overlook the hard work part (but not the dangerous work, but since it's happening at established employers, OSHA should be enforcing safer working conditions)
First people ignored Elon Musk. Currently they are laughing at him, but eventually they will start fighting him.
A state like North Korea is different than a state like Russia or the US. It’s possible that they employ hackers who’s mandate is to generate revenue.
Police seize 'super obedient' lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers
And that's why we have regulations.
I'm not sure your explanation was any easier to grok for people, how about this:

Inflammation is what the body uses to clean out disease and heal itself.

The individual mechanisms used to do this could be considered analogous (but very different from) a short antibiotics regimen.

In the short term or localised to one area it is beneficial. But at a systemic always on level there are negative side effects where these systems begin to overwhelm/damage healthy functions/cells.
Tesla's going down this time!

<they survive>

Aha. Nevertheless, …
You’re being disingenuous. You want to argue drilling subsidies for fracking cheap natgas for power generation? I won’t argue against that. But it’s all going renewables on economics alone (renewables and batteries are already cheaper than natural gas and coal), just not fast enough. We need to get off of combustion vehicles and power generation as soon as possible, full stop.
I agree that there's a cosmopolitan bias, but I'm extremely skeptical of the claim that journalists writ large are motivated by a sense of professional ethics and are exposed to people from a variety of backgrounds.

I don't think I saw a single journalist apologize for pushing the Trump/Russia misinformation, the NYT and WASHPO haven't given back their pulitzer for reporting on it, what's most telling is that after the report dropped, the journalists pivoted to impeachment - it's clear the Russia angle was more about having a stick to beat the dog than anything else.

Additionally, I think people in cosmopolitan areas are probably more ignorant about life in rural areas than vice versa. This is a pretty partisan source, but look how some journalists reacted when asked if they knew anyone who owned a pick up truck (one of the most common vehicles in America): https://www.dailywire.com/news/12138/journalists-lose-it-aft...

I'm sure journalists have 'diverse' friends/social circles, but I'd wager that they're all in agreement w.r.t culture war topics - how diverse is that really?
"You know how you keep costs down? Buy in bulk and cut out the middle men as much as possible."

I have been noticing frequently that unit prices for larger packages of things are often as high or higher than smaller ones. I suspect that due to the increasing quality of data analytics, stores have realized that they can systematically take advantage of the majority of people who don't scrutinize everything and make assumptions.

It's interesting that you don't mention looking for things on sale. That is something I have rarely done in the past, but I'm starting to feel like maybe it's necessary to avoid being screwed.

Shopping for a week or more is only logical if you can't stop at a store on your way home from work, and you live a long way from it. I live less than a mile from work, and slightly over a mile from the nearest supermarket.
Wonderful idea and the Chicken Scheme implementation looks nice also.

I wrote some Racket Scheme code that reads Keras trained models and does inferencing but this is much better: I used Racket’s native array/linear algebra support but this implementation uses BLAS which should be a lot faster.
Yeah I think people are underestimating how dire the financials are. I think the cars are pretty cool (though way too much autopilot hype) and it's awesome that EVs have came so far so quickly.

If Tesla continues burning cash like this quarter, it will basically be out of money in Q2, yet they are not raising capital which suggests there is some major problem.

I think Tesla has had an awful lot of financial near misses so far and they are lucky to have made it this far, but they can't go on being so close on financials this poor forever.
Cars-as-software demand software-centric co's hiring ML people. Legacy won't catch up, startups will.
This omnipresent seismic noise is also a big challenge for building terrestrial gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. Even though the noise is "only" a bunch micrometers of movement, they had to deploy multiple levels of noise suppression to be able to measure gravitational waves: https://youtu.be/j4gE-hSQm68?t=1380
note that this uses BLAS that is largely implemented in FORTRAN
I'm being sarcastic, not disingenuous.

The "just not fast enough" happens to be an important factor.
Xi’s big naval parade sails into heavy smog
Generally when people are down on Tesla or Elon Musk, it's because they want them to succeed at displacing internal combustion engines.

They're not rooting for internal combustion engines, they're rooting for electric cars and annoyed when the company (or Musk) flounders from self-inflicted damage. At least, that seems like most of the criticism here. No one is going to respond well to an advocate of a technology they want to succeed saying and doing stuff that actively harms the cause (prime examples: George Hotz with autonomous vehicles, RMS with basically everything that RMS has ever advocated, or Julian Assange allowing Wikileaks to become a tool of corrupt governments rather than a force against them).

It's great to give credit where credit is due, but even more important to hold people and companies accountable when they screw up, especially people and companies that you want to succeed.
At both Google and Facebook I elected the Autosale programs to immediately sell my company equity for cash and then immediately automatically reinvest the cash in an ETF portfolio (using Schwab Intelligent Portfolios). When autosale wasn't available I would habitually sell on the first open trading window day.
Microtransactions are about user behavior, not tech. We had a low-friction experience with a browser extension and that's been possible for several years. Convincing people to value content, judge the price, and spend their own money is the real challenge.

And if people aren't spending their own money then it's just an ad network in the browser to replace an ad network on the page. Not revolutionary and open to all the same concerns of ads today. 99% of people don't notice "privacy", they care about intrusiveness and annoying experiences. That's what's visible so having an ad is the same effect for them regardless of how it's delivered.

If you want to judge my perspective then read this first [1]. It's great to have alternatives and I'm as interested as you to see how this experiment works out.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593812
Most drones are human piloted with pilot assist features, but very few are "autonomous" beyond standard auto-pilot type systems.

To say they're "mostly doing it" is a huge over-statement. Flying in a circle for a few hours is nowhere near the same complexity as common real-world situations like landing at a busy airport with an unpredictable cross-wind.
The enablers of these executives live among us here on HN, excusing unlimited exploitation in the name of "personal responsibility".
My point is that it’s the existing that contributes to culture, not knowledge that something once existed.
I’m not sure a case is being made at all. A massive investigation turned up no criminal conspiracy and failed to substantiate a charge of obstruction. I’m really not sure what ‘spaceheretostay’ is on about.
You have a point about the negative externalities, but insisting on using the word "subsidy" for that concept is just going to confuse people. That isn't the accepted meaning of "subsidy", in casual conversation at least.
Take them to small claims?
It’s attention grabbing because people are prudes. One of the many things wrong with this country
> It is not just like slavery, it _is_ slavery.

They have the ability to leave though, slaves don't. So while reprehensible, it's not slavery.

Wage theft is probably the best term I know of for this.
i dont think that is the case. people care about their privacy, and facebook provides adequate controls to make them feel safe. they have not had leaks of private messages for example, which would be very embarassing. and compared to the wide web at large, they are have pretty good security. HN users live in a bubble where money grows in VC trees and nobody needs advertising.
The most surprising thing about your post to me is the price of a new Model S. That's $150k. Is the price so high because it includes VAT?
Tesla's 1.5B reduction of cash on hand was largely due to the 920M convertible bond payment — but that only happened because TSLA didn't perform to the level necessary for conversion (~$360 IIRC). I wonder what changes in terms this'll warrant for future capital raises.

Then they mention that they missed a lot of revenue due to missing half their shipments overseas, and onto Q2 (But also expecting a loss in Q2).

Sales for their higher-margin vehicles seemed to have cratered, explained by seasonality, lower US tax credits going forward, and inventory/demand mismatch.

Panasonic has halted their planned battery plant expansion, which implies a lot about future demand.

I don't want to be a downer, but I'm having a hard time seeing the way forward for Tesla in a manner that isn't very unfavorable for them.

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b2218d34-fbee-4f1f-ac95-05...
Exactly. Making Tesla criticism about criticizing alternative energy is a false equivocation.

There are strong arguments that Tesla is being ran very poorly by Musk (solar city acq, VW cash denied, SEC fines, etc.) despite the company being one of the champions for electric vehicles.
They became unhappy Blackberry customers, prompting them to become a happy customer of something else. Nobody forced them to stop buying Blackberries.
If you're not lucky that "deposit" might turn into an "investment".
I think that choosing to ignore seemingly-willful-ignorance of major national and global issues is not helpful to anyone. I replied in clear words with facts about where to find more information. I also see it important to note that the information is extremely widely publicized in the last few weeks especially.
Might as well still use platinum, easier to explain multiple tool chests (eg: I'm an avid mechanic) versus why you have gold tools.
Clojure is ideal for Unix-style pipeline programming. Few people will use the command line for neural network inference, I think it would be better to use clojure to implement.
[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
Both Linode and DO have vague AUP that they can cite if someone complains and they choose to de-platform you.
Metabase Series-A
I do not think it is fraud to print the Apple iPhone X US-version 64GB Black code on a box that does in fact contain an Apple iPhone X US-version 64GB Black

Trademarking your UPC would not work, as someone reselling your product is protected by the first-sale doctrine. If I buy a bottle of Pepsi(tm), I can use Pepsi's trademarks when selling that bottle to someone else.
I'm confused, so this is a client, that doesn't need a mock server. Does it just return the expected objects to a Java client? How does this relate to non-Java clients, e.g. JavaScript?

I can see this being somewhat valuable for Android testing somewhat.
> I mean, I wanna stop global warming as much as you do. But an unsustainable business model is doomed to fail. This company needs to start making a profit (and not just a quarterly non-GAAP profit... I mean a real GAAP profit measured on a yearly basis)

So many darlings don't ever post profits though. Palo Alto Networks is a prime example. They've never posted a GAAP profit, ever. Yet... It trades at ~38x and the stock has rocketed over the years. Non-GAAP reporting is a racket and should be illegal.
Billionaires have billionaire friends.
It won't be too difficult for Elon Musk to talk to the Google folks and get a few billions in funding, for an appropriate equity.
I actually think this is where ML really shines. You can pick things apart. Sure, you might need carefully designed experiments, but you can subtract "female" from the resume and look for other data that cause some trained machine to activate, like patterns of word choice, etc. This is akin to the Go players learning from Alpha Go. It's actually a richly rewarding investigation for those of us who have done it. To discover a whole class of failure modes, that's success! And, unlike courts of law, the the process is much more efficient, because you don't have to contend with a defendant appealing to matters of intent or the emotions of a jury.
I think you are being uncharitable - is there any reason to think they are using the specious logic you are imputing? The fact that the truck already has a route with a lot of packages means the emissions are lower even when you count the meal kits proportionally. And they didn't count the emissions as zero, right?
And there's the point. There's no proof Tesla customers will be happy as Apple or happy as Blackberry customers in 3 years.

It's even worse here because the buying cycle for cars is longer than phones, and Tesla needs more cash right now.
> "The invisible hand of the market made me do it"

<cynic>It may also have been God...</cynic>
Scaling the REPL Experience [video]
If they have 2.2B in the bank, lost 700 mil this quarter, expect to lose significantly less in the next quarter, how are they out of money? Even if they lost 500mil next quarter, they'd still have another 3 quarters of that left. That's not "basically out of money", in my mind.
In one sense, electric vehicle manufacturers are getting a bonus via the tax credit.
The democracy thing is how the power centers like to represent it. Democracies without inalienable rights (specifically to property ownership, speech and self defense) are inherently unstable.

The United States is a constitutional republic.
> A massive investigation turned up no criminal conspiracy

That is definitely not true.

> failed to substantiate a charge of obstruction

This is also not true. The events are ongoing, the investigation has not 'failed' in any way.

> I’m really not sure what ‘spaceheretostay’ is on about.

I think I've made my points clearly. Abuses of power that are clearly illegal are common at the top of our government, and it happens because they openly commit crimes that they know will take years to investigate, during which times the goals of their illegal activities can be met. That is a direct example that directly relates to the parent comment in this thread.

I've tried to be as clear as possible.
I’m using cars to move me and family from point a to b, the less of service and Tesla people I ever see, the better - and if I ever need to get those things, the faster they get the parts and fix it, the happier I am, as most other car owners I’m sure.

In other words, I don’t get the whole Tesla club thing for basically a glorified metal bucket.

Although for some odd reason I do want Tesla to be my next car.
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

My response to that quote is, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
The question is whether the existing base of premium-paying fanboys is enough to sustain a company that’s losing nearly a billion dollars per quarter. Think Apple, except if Steve Jobs never returned, and with almost triple the losses.
A woefully inadequate subsidy, which phases out entirely too soon.
Two years away? Just in mid-February he said "You'll be in FSD, coast to coast, in of our cars, _this year_".
A note on this submission: This paper differs from previous "Magic is Turing-complete" links you may have seen here in that this construction embeds a universal Turing machine that runs without requiring the players to make particular choices.

Note that the previous "Magic is Turing-complete" links you may have seen here were presumably pointing to the earlier constructions by Alex Churchill, which, as mentioned, required the players to make particular choices. Well, in this paper, Churchill (along with Biderman and Herrick) have finally gotten rid of the holes in the construction; once the machine starts running, the players have no more choices at all and cannot stop its operation.

So, now Magic is actually proven to be Turing-complete, unlike Churchill's earlier constructions, which just showed it to be, uh, sort-of Turing-complete.

FWIW, the key innovation in this paper (compared to the earlier constructions) is the use of Wild Evocation, together with Wheel of Sun and Moon, to force Alice (player 1) to cast her cards in a specified sequence for the rest of the game. (Well, one of two specified sequences, as Coalition Victory is sometimes skipped due to Mesmeric Orb and Xathrid Necromancer, but that's details.)
> if someone treads dog poo into my house on their shoes, it doesn't really matter if they did it by mistake, or spent ages walking around town trying to find some dog poo to step in before coming to my house; the effect is that there is now dog poo on my carpet

Yes, but if someone treads dog poo into your house every day for a year, their repeated claims that it was a mistake every time are not going to carry as much weight. With FB we're not talking about a single incident of treading dog poo; we're talking about a repeated pattern of getting dog poo all over the place.
It was he must mean 2015
Sure, no intrinsic morality...more of a passthrough.
I'm not necessarily against that approach, but the penalties should be for externalities beyond just the tailpipe. Anything else is just short sighted. This means counting counting environmental impacts for manufacturing, including batteries
India Lifts Ban on TikTok
they no longer paid their Roman taxes and could eat more of their own harvest
your comment makes no sense to me as I live surrounded by teslas (in the bay). I also know an increasing amount of people (including me) who gives no fuck about cars, and yet would be into having a Tesla if they had a driver license.
It’s definitely gotten better over time. The 2018 one is better than the 2016 ones for sure, but not good enough still.
Thats the california mindset moving in. Colorado is not what I would call litigous.
Super weird, this worked once and no longer works, I have no idea what changed. Sorry.
I used to think the same, but I’m increasingly of the opinion that he needs Tesla to distract him from unduly interfering in SpaceX.
It's super weird, this only worked for me once? It no longer does.