skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tesla grid scale system made that money by stabilizing the grid, essentially providing storage for time periods below 15 minutes. It in no way provides the kind of storage that is needed to use solar or wind power as baseline production.
> The problem is a lot of the tech advancements in the last 30 years of the field have not had a chance to play out and instead retrofits are all that's been rolled out to the existing fleet. Criticizing an entire field based on the cutting edge 60 years ago feels really unfair.

AP1000 is a new reactor design from the 2000s. Vogtle 3 and 4 are AP1000 reactors. The construction was started in 2013 and should have taken four years and costed 14.3 billion usd, but now it seems those reactors won't come online until 2022 to the cost of 27 billion usd. Lest anyone thinks that is because Americans are bad at building nuclear power, many other projects around the wold suffers from exactly the same cost and time overruns.

http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/ap1000-pwr/ove...
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/southern-increases-vogtle-n...
https://theecologist.org/2014/sep/19/three-every-four-nuclea...
I actually think there's a bit of an answer to that, in the No Free Lunch theorem. To "experience" Beethoven's 9th Symphony, you need cognitive biases that it can tickle in the way that Beethoven intended. An alien missing those biases won't "get it", but then they'll get things we won't. But there's no solution to having the right biases for everything. All we can do is throw a lot of things at it and hope for the best, and what's more, that's the best we or any alien in the physical universe could do.

(Heck, you don't even need a deaf species. There's a lot of reason to believe that birds don't experience music the way we do, and they're not even strictly speaking "aliens".)

So there's no particular gain to worrying about being limited to "human" senses, because there is no actionable way to "transcend" them in that sense other than by being something other than what you are. It's certain to be true, there's nothing to be done about it that we aren't already doing, and thus, it isn't really an interesting criticism to vaguely suggest that we should somehow be something other than ourselves.
"He's just doing what a CEO does."

I disagree. At a certain point, Musk turned the corner and became delusional. It's beyond simple boasting now.
It has it's place for the right use case. Superhuman requires you to go through a 30 minute on-boarding one on one with a person. Superhuman isn't the most intuitive if you don't take the time to learn it as it's efficiencies come from keyboard shortcuts and features that differ from established email norms. For this kind of B2B app with a certain level complexity a seamless on-boarding makes all the difference. I never would have use the app long term if not for the process.
I think there might be fewer people who actively seek them out, so competition might be similar to any other job. I know a common sentiment I see spread around to would-be remote workers is that you need to work on-site for a while and then be given the chance, which isn't always the case.

This is just me speculating though. I had no issues finding a fulltime remote gig but I think it might be more common for people like me in the DevOps/cloud area than strict developers maybe.
Unfortunately in my case that's my manager, who I like quite a bit except when we discuss Scrum.
why is Tesla's public face almost exclusively Musk? There are hundreds of talented people there taking huge risks, I personally find Musk as annoying as Donald Trump. There are a lot of people at Tesla risking a lot to do something bold. I'd like to hear a lot more from them and a lot less from Musk.
There are pros and cons. I've been partial remote for 6 years and full remote for nearly 5. I can do whatever I need to do to get into the flow of work; music, no music, lights, no lights, etc. I don't have to conform to what happens at an office. I can start early or work late (my "office" is several time zones away). I can take a personal call w/out feeling guilty.

What I cannot do is walk over to a colleague's desk and chat. I miss hallway conversations about the project. Phone meetings are always a pain as someone is usually too far from the mic and I can't hear. I don't work in a city that has a "tech" community. I can't take my setup with me and go sit at a coffee shop (part of my project is writing hw controls).

I love remote work. But, I miss people.
> CPE is meant to be in work time though

For independent practitioners, it's outside of billable client time, but, yes, for people working wage labor on the profession this is true.

Software dev as wage labor has pretty crappy (for a profession) work conditions, and part of that is employers not alotting time and funding for CPE.

That doesn't mean people in the field shouldn't do CPE, but it does mean they should seek better terms of employment.
An attempt to write a better search engine for experimentation in text retrieval
I also grinded my way into an "OK" SAT score (2230 superscored, 1500/1600) but that isn't good enough to get into any of the elite schools. Worse yet all of my friends got 2250+ :(
Nuclear power presents the perfect storm for negative public image:

- Environmental movement went anti-nuclear in the '70s for no particular reason.

- Fear Sells in the media. Nothing strikes fear like the invisible killer of radiation. Nuclear disasters get media attention like nothing else.

- Nuclear weapons are scary, and rightfully so. And they share a word in common with "nuclear power," so there you go.

Being tightly regulated and controlled by government makes an industry ripe for "corruption and greed" since it takes political connection and maneuvering to get things done.

It really is amazing, though, how much public image and politics can completely stall forward progress on a power source with so much promise.
I'm so sorry. This sounds like a very stressful experience.
You don't see anything noteworthy about a $1,500,000,000 gap in funding?
> "It is true that, as Fisher points out, with enough samples you are almost guaranteed to reject the null hypothesis. "

Where does Fisher point this out?

> "That's why we tell students to consider both p values (which you could think of as a form of quality control on the dataset)"

How is this "quality control"? It just tells you whether your sample size was large enough to pass an arbitrary threshold...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/02/28/tesla-fi...

Just a few weeks ago, Elon Musk claimed $35,000 cars will be available without any credits what so ever. This isn't some long-standing promise that slipped off the schedule, this is something Elon Musk has REPEATEDLY claimed to come, but has failed to deliver.

Its a message he's been hammering since 2016: $35,000, before tax credits. The idea was for the M3 to compete against low $20,000 ICE cars.

I recognize that the goalposts have shifted. Maybe it wasn't possible. But maybe... just maybe... Elon Musk shouldn't have set $35,000 before he knew if it were possible to do. He's done incalculable damage to the brand, and is no longer able to raise prices to make the company profitable.

If Tesla could raise prices to $40,000 base or even $45,000 base, they probably would be in a far better financial situation than where they are right now. They can't do that because of the multiple years of price anchoring at $35k.
Their Wikipedia page has collected the story pretty well from news releases over the years. It seems that they've had a lot of "that saved the company" moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introversion_games
That’s what they were doing before?
Julian Assange Appears in Court for U.S. Extradition Hearing
I can't trust a single thing DHS says any more. I can't take seriously "child recycling rings" when the Administration's supporters believe in pseudoscience, numerology, and "Q".
The space nerd in me says, yes, maybe it's time. Maybe the Fermi paradox is about to be resolved. Maybe we're "just" seeing drones, but at least we're seeing something.

However, the realist in me has lots of reasons to doubt all aspects of this reporting - and it's a good default strategy, especially when things seem too "good" or to spectacular to be true.

In any case, there is not really a lot to go on. Even if this went properly public, what exactly does the data say?

And coming back to the space nerd perspective, if these sightings are indeed extraterrestrial, they don't seem to bode well. Why would someone show off like that but don't leave a message? It's because they either don't care that we see them or because they want us to know that they're more advanced.

I just hope our civilization hasn't yet reached a threshold of development where another civilization considers rubbing us out as a preventative measure.
> Finally, I didn't read through the whole thing. Does he claim to have found an exception to this rule at any point?

Oakes 1975 points out that explicit randomized experiments, which test a useless intervention such as school reform, can be exceptions. (Oakes might not be quite right here, since surely even useless interventions have some non-zero effect, if only by wasting peoples' time & effort, but you might say that the 'crud factor' is vastly smaller in randomized experiments than in correlational data, which is a point worth noting.)
John Francis's talk[0] was one of the very early TED online videos to go viral- definitely the first one I remember watching, introducing me to the entire TED format. Pretty powerful speaker.

That said, having studied ASL for a few years in University I find the view of "not talking" pretty simple. So much can be communicated without your vocal chords, so much can be "said" without speaking. Though, maybe that was part of his point.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth?langu...
Maybe Irn Bru will do it?
Beyond Meat IPO Raises $241M as Veggie Appetite Grows
>A nuclear reactor blowing up, though? The immediate death potential is mostly limited to the on-site staff and the "liquidators" (as evidenced in Chernobyl), but the land wide swaths around the site can remain uninhabitable for hundreds of years.

If the land is really that valuable it can be cleaned. Nobody is going to remediate a forest in the Ukraine though because the Ukraine doesn't have that kind of money and it's not like they're particularly strapped for land in eastern Europe.

By definition anything radioactive enough to cause harm is not going to be long-lived. After a few years it's generally going to

>To this day, wild pigs and fungi in Bavaria (1700 km away!) have to be radiation tested

If by "have to" you mean "in order to make people feel safe" then sure. If by "have to" you mean "because it is not uncommon to find examples that are too irradiated for human consumption" so we have to test them to get a picture of how common these cases are. Honestly I'd be more concerned about eating deer that have been drinking from god knows what contaminated water source than I would be about radiation in animals around Chernobyl.
Right, you don't need NixOS to run the package manager. The package manager runs on Linux and MacOS.

I've been using Nix for years, in dev and production, and haven't bothered to try NixOS yet.

https://nixos.org/nix/
Studies Show How Befriending Your Biggest Rival Will Elevate Your Performance
Specifically: We have remote data scientists (I work closely with one in Tokyo) and will have more in the future. Generally: every engineering workstream at Stripe will have remotes in it.
If all of those people had 4 year degrees to have a higher wage job we would be absent people to do many job necessary for our society to operate.

This growing gap shows how we value people, many in roles that our society requires.
> I'd love a keyboard that had a ≤ key

On a mac, hit option + "<".

I can't help you with the language, though.
> Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Maybe we should join forces and found a voice technology testing company!
Presumably they'll be abducted, detained, and deported.
I think this is less true than most people believe.

A well-intentioned intern can make a programming decision in an afternoon that might take a team of senior SWEs months or more to clean up later once the code or data is being used for something important.

We brush the bad engineering decisions under the rug by calling them "tech debt", but the truth is that if we invested more up front in hiring people with big picture skills and experience we'd probably save significantly more money in the long run, despite their higher salaries.
Beam: A Distributed Knowledge Graph Store
I don't see how an external camera changes that, really. By the time you've been notified, called the cops, and the cops arrive, the intruders will almost certainly be gone anyway.
This sort of "logic" was used to justify efforts like Prop 13 in California. It creates a massive windfall to incumbents and little more. It also ignores the most basic of solutions to solving this "problem", if it even is a problem:

You can provide land tax subsidies or rebates to targeted individuals (eg the disabled, the retired) without providing massive tax breaks to everyone else.

What's more, this system makes it impossible for, say, retired people to downsize or move because that resets their tax base to a much higher level on their new property (in the Prop 13 case).
FYI. Tesla Net income in millions.

Q1 2019: -702

2018: -976

2017: -1,961

2016: -675

2015: -889

2014: -294

2013: -74

2012: -396

2011: -254

2010: -154

2009: -56

2008: -82

2007: -78
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My biochemistry education is 20 years old.. As you say DNA encodes the sequence of amino acids. Protein folding is a thermodynamic problem as parts of the protein stick to other parts and bonds try to achieve a low energy shape.

There are enzymes, co-enzymes, and other molecules that can help a protein to achieve its proper shape.
It's well known that the number of Nicholas Cage movies is correlated with a wide variety of natural phenomena.
I'd put a huge asterisk next to "deported" in this case.
> Im wondering what learnings has Stripe figured out that makes their remote workers as productive as their in-office employees.

Hmmm... you get done what you promised to get done during the sprint.

If a team member isn't doing what they promise to do, it doesn't matter if they're remote or not, you figure out a way to get them productive or help them pursue other interests. A remote employee isn't inherently less productive.
The point of this policy is to identify real familial relations with those crossing the border.

At the border there are instances of individuals using children to get special preference. The proposed idea will mitigate this issue.
Last couple of years have been really great for newcomers to any kind of tech really. Resources like this Learning Lab, freecodecamp, react.games etc. have really opened up a lot of avenues for anyone to learn how to code - no experience required!

I can only hope that this results in better developers entering the workforce few years from now.
The name conflicts with BEAM, the Erlang/Elixir VM.

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
There are other uses for old toothbrushes [1], but I'm with you: I want the only parts that get tossed be the bristles themselves, ideally as a soil amendment (not as plastic nanoparticles that end up inside our food chain). It is very annoying plastics are used for only a tiny fraction of their lifecycles, and spend most of their lifecycle polluting our raw resources.

Interestingly, there is a company that rebristles antique brushes and also sells toothbrushes [2]. No idea if they rebristle toothbrushes.

Blizzident [3] sells an interesting product for $340, rebristles for $90, and you have to spend up to $200 to get a dental impression because the Blizzident is custom fit to each user [4]. Verified experience seems sparse on the ground [5], [6], and actual controlled study seems non-existent.

[1] https://experthometips.com/22-uses-for-used-toothbrush

[2] https://kentbrushes.com/bodycare/handmade-toothbrushes

[3] http://www.blizzident.com

[4] https://newatlas.com/blizzident-toothbrush/29264/

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/aco59q/product_r...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JlKqoU4cI
> Nuclear weapons are scary, and rightfully so. And they share a word in common with "nuclear power," so there you go.

Now you're being specious. They share rather more than a word, they are based on the same physical process.
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All I would say to this is that there are plenty of very successful companies that I do not consider predatory.

A $10 ticket to Avengers:Endgame is a downright bargain, so is $15 a month for HBO.

I give $60+ dollars on the regular to companies like Rockstar and From Software with a huge smile on my face and then line up to do it again.

It is very possible to be successful and not rely on predatory practices. I think part of the problem is that as a society it is our responsibility collectively to punish the true predators. We seem to be getting worse and worse at this and the predators seem to be getting hungrier and hungrier...
Your comment is pure political flamebait.
Ponzi schemes also need to produce persistent returns, Tether doesn't. Ponzi schemes aren't priced like free-floating currencies, Tether is.

If we look at the peg carefully, Tether has often traded above one dollar. That's because of Tether's utility as a cryptocurrency. Actual dollars are far harder to move around than Tether. Other cryptocurrencies are backed by nothing and often far more volatile.

The market is certainly pricing in the risk of the fractional reserve, but it priced it so low that it's almost imperceptible. In lieu of any catastrophic events, the peg will probably hold, because it held for the longest time, when it was unclear if there was any backing whatsoever.
Neither Qt nor GTK care about backward compatibility.
Most of the pressure we put on ourselves is superficial
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Some of them encode the target URL in the tracking URL itself so it might be worth checking that. I think MailChimp uses a Base64-encoded JSON object in the tracking URL which you can decode and get the real URL even if the tracking link is no longer working.
This is a perfect example. He said it could happen, pending regulatory approval that Tesla does not control, in certain locales, possibly with human supervisory drivers at the beginning, not at, but by (a different word with a different meaning) the end of next year. He had so many qualifiers on his statements, yet you missed every single one of them and came up with a totally different statement you just projected and attributed to him. Did you even listen to the event? This is basic listening comprehension 101.

Edit: ok you got the word "by" right but... everything else... wow. But it's not just you... the crazy thing is how many people do the same thing.
This is probably the most egregious example of price gouging in the pharma industry. But it is an outlier and not representative of the whole industry

I feel like there are ~3 groups of high priced drugs:

- straight up profiteering: this is the questcor playbook, that also inspired martin shkreli. companies find cheap old drugs that treat severe rare disease where they can get away with jacking up the price. The companies do no original r&d or new science. This is a rare practice these days and is highly stigmatized in the industry, as this type of practice kicked off a lot of the political debate around drug pricing

- increasing price of "legacy" drugs: big pharma is increasingly bad at r&d. The industry is also in a period where a lot of huge drugs are going off patent. So pharma companies increasingly rely on price increases of mature drugs, rather than development of new drugs, to sustain revenue growth. This is a much bigger phenomenon in dollar terms than the aforementioned profiteering. This is possible mostly for large molecule drugs because the "generic" pathway isn't as mature as small molecules, so the large molecule drugs can have exclusivity after patent expiry. Huge multi billion dollar drugs like humira and enbrel have done this a lot. Private payers are beginning to push back on this pretty effectively, and hopefully as the biosimilars industry matures this will improve.

- innovative, clinically valuable medicines. Some medicines are expensive because they are worth it in health economic terms. The cost per QALY gain is within the "acceptable" range. Most of the industry really does try to develop drugs like these (with varying degrees of conviction), but it's really hard. Companies ideally only want to develop drugs that are first in class or best in class. When that fails (which it usually does) they resort to aforementioned strategies. Unfortunately in many cases these innovative drugs are priced too high. They are often developed by startups and then bought by big pharma once the tech is derisked. Pharma is under huge pressure to grow revenue so they often price these meds too high. Which is a shame bc a lot are amazingly good medicines

Price isn't the only issue though, access is another, although they go hand in hand. Price can be "fair" but access still limited by payers. Copays for drugs are generally higher than for medical procedures, so consumers feel like drug prices are higher than medical procedures, when in reality they are all super high
I believe your core point is that humans can't detect a force which acts identically on their whole body.

More than "detect", a uniform force simply doesn't affect us.

This statement is true, of course, but does not seem relevant in context...

On the contrary, the thread was started discussing if we could be facing a far superior technology, continued by Pyxl101 speculating UFOs could be drones because enormous accelerations prevent manned ships, and then I pointed that, if it's really a futurist technology, acceleration in itself could not be a problem.

... no practical mode of transport can move someone without physical contact

The "practical" thing has been inserted by yourself. Also it's not about "practical" it's about "known by us".
True but its paper and language based dissemination of information takes time. and Time is a good catalyst of strengthening or weakening sudden emotions. It gives space for rational decision making. Realtime comms like twitter etc eliminate that space and hence in effect make it more easy to act emotionally without giving the space to rational behavior to provide a balanced action (individually and there by collectively).. There is a reason why gun sales usually have a waiting period.
"no particular reason" is quite a misrepresentation. If you mean that you don't agree with their reasons or think they are incorrect it would be more honest to state that.