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The dominance of formulaic application of opening theory over improvisation is a problem at all levels of chess. Bobby Fischer crafted chess960, a variant on shuffle chess, to deal with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960#History

> Fischer's goal was to eliminate what he considered the complete dominance of openings preparation in classical chess, replacing it with creativity and talent. His belief about Russians fixing international games also provided motivation. In a situation where the starting position was random it would be impossible to fix every move of the game. Since the "opening book" for 960 possible opening systems would be too difficult to devote to memory, the players must create every move originally. From the first move, both players must devise original strategies and cannot use well-established patterns. Fischer believed that eliminating memorized book moves would level the playing field.
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In the letter, Elon stated they have burned through over $200m/month this year after the cost reductions from last year and January and again in March. (That's net $200m lost each month, not $200m spent each month.)

They raised $2.4 billion a few weeks ago, about half of which must go toward servicing existing debt, and had about $900m in the bank before the offering, leaving them about $2.1billion in cash.

Or in other words, 10 months of cash based on the trend established by the first 3 months of the year if they do not either cut losses, dramatically increase sales, or both.
Perhaps working 50 hour weeks and being well rested would result in faster and more efficient learning than working 80 hours. Yes - you have to do your time, but humans don't learn well sleep deprived.

You could try and force them to work 100, or 160 hours per week and I suspect you'd rapidly find quality of work and learning nosedive.

I think it's worth considering 80 hours is already on the wrong side of that curve.
look up elons promises of battery swaps, 35k m3, 2020 roadster, "full self driving", and the closing of stores but then cancelling that and teslas solarcity/solar shingles shitshow

i want to remind everyone.. any mention of "self driving" is a scam, fraud. on a site like hackernews im still surprised the teslemmings are still regurgitating this idea
Looks like an inferior subset of XPath which is much cleaner and powerful
The whole point of the Active Record pattern is that domain objects double as DAOs.

https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect
Definitely less than 10 months.

Demand is dropping off as (a) serious competitors come onto the market e.g. Mercedes EQC, (b) the time between a model refresh increases e.g. S and X models and (c) the concerns over customer service increase.

And I still believe that the Model 3 was a mistake to release at this time. It is cannibalising their higher priced models and squeezing the company's overall gross margins at at time when they need money.
It does, but it's hardly an egregious amount (my 3.7 install on Win10 has it at 800Kb... though I guess tcl takes up 10MiB =P). For reference, the built in venv module (which I never use cause I'm all about that virtualenv life) is 1MB. The python tests are 20MB, and that ships by default on every python installation.

Like if you were in a resource constrained situation, you would be customizing your python install anyways (if nothing else, getting rid of the docs, the tests, maybe stripping out all but the compiled code...).
There are lots of instructions just a Google click away.

But for a short answer:

1. Just water, the pressure is more than sufficient. Hell, it's too much sometimes.

2. You can get models that air dry, but even the good ones aren't too quick, so it's pretty common to use a few squares of TP to dry.

3. Depends on you. If you habitually sit off-center you might actually get a wet cheek. Otherwise it's eerily spot-on.

4. I don't know about using soap on my butt. That seems like it would be ... irritating. Water is plenty by itself.

I recommend trying one of the cheapo ones (Neo, for example), as they will give you an idea of what a washlet is like for a tenth or less of the cost. No heated seat or water, but I found that to be less of an issue than I expected. I bought the cheap one to see what I thought, and a couple years later I still haven't bothered upgrading to a Toto. I like the cold water. But where I live, it's not that cold.
Indeed, though I think people here think you're saying that as an insult rather than a compliment.
Kudos to you for actually doing the experiment! With a control case even! I wish I could give you ten upvotes.
Your link is to what is represented as the authentic text of the memo. If genuine, to me, this seem like the most important bit:

"It is important to bear in mind that we lost $700 million in the first quarter this year, which is over $200 million per month. Investors nonetheless were supportive of our efforts and agreed to give us $2.4 billion (our net proceeds) to show that we can be financially sustainable.

That is a lot of money, but actually only gives us approximately ten months at the first-quarter burn rate to achieve breakeven. It’s vital that we respect the faith investors have shown in Tesla, but it will require great effort to do so."

With relatively low gas prices at the moment, decreasing federal subsidies for electric cars, and more players entering the market, it seems like Tesla is in a pretty tough spot.
Interesting they were hoping to collect property taxes and other fees.

If Google wants to have a private company run utopian town to run experiments in, they should do like Disney did in Florida. Buy some swamp land, develop it, incorporate it privately, and have absolute control. This plan in Toronto seems to be corporate colonization of a public city, through stealth.
30 seconds seems long enough that it has passed from business to pleasure by the end.
>I agree that those with more debilitating forms might want treatment.

Those are the majority.

>So I'd consider myself one of these people.

I got myself positively diagnosed also, not autistic in any way, the behaviour therapists that can diagnose anyone in the UK should be thrown out, any diagnosis especially in adulthood that does not involve multiple doctors including neurologists and psychiatrists is not something I take too seriously.

>And I think it's really important that people like myself are grouped with those with more severe forms of autism.

Why? there is no clinical significance to this. I'm being honest here, from your perspective what is the clinical significance of your diagnosis in general not to mention of being grouped with people who will suffer from fecal leakage all their life?

If your diagnosis is not used to treat or manage your condition it is not clinically significant.

>Bascially because I'm pretty sure the root cause is the same, I react to all the same triggers as classically autistic people, I'm just better able to control my
reaction.

Considering that you are highly unlikely to suffer from any of syndromes that are comorbid to low functioning autistic individuals I would strongly disagree, and I have a strong feeling that once we understand the genetics of this disease better especially in relation to FXS and mitochondrial syndromes I will be right.

>It's difderent to the ADHD "epidemic", because it generally doesn't involve medication.

The epidemic is about just how many diagnosis centers are popping up targeting adults as a business with little to no oversight.
This is really terrifying that we've watered down the diagnosis of autism to a behaviour therapist who had a 6 week course that can diagnose you in a single session.

>Rather it enables an awareness of the sorts of things that one might find difficult, and aids them in avoiding, dealing with, and working around those things. I fail to see how this can bea bad thing.

No it doesn't in fact it detracts severely from those who actually need help the most, those without a six figure salary.
Just look at where the funding and attention goes these days vs 10 or 20 years ago.
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sounds like a misleading headline

The original letter says the 2.4 billion raised a few weeks ago, would be used up in 10 months at current burn rate.

It's for the money recently raised, not the entire company's bank account. Headline is misleading
Yes on the aesthetics. More of a counterpuncher choice than overtly aggressive IMO. Usually lines don’t open up until move 10-20.

As an aside, cool to meet the person behind ironworker. I used your service many years ago to launch my first startup. Helped me with some cron job shenanigans that otherwise would have caused me a lot of grief. Nice work!
This just opens up space for a business to calculate these fees as part of a SaaS offering. For example Avalara already has a product that can calculate the thousands of different sales taxes that exist in the US. The internet opens up a huge market to mom and pop software companies, I don’t see why we need any special tax cuts or holes for us.
One click Hugo cms [0] which provides a user friendly front end.

[0] https://github.com/netlify-templates/one-click-hugo-cms
My fiancee who is from South Korea thinks very highly of the North Korean engineers' skills. Even under hunger and adverse conditions, they can produce their own Linux distribution and nuclear weapons program.
Differences between silicon valley stock and city pensions are

1) stock options are a known volatile thing rather than a government backed guarantee.

2) Missed Stock options are much easier to compensate for financially than a pension. If you miss stock options, you are still part of the wage pool. If you miss a pension that is much harder. After all, the point of a pension is to take care of people who are 'worn out'. Hence, there is much less of a fall-back system for missed pensions.
I've been on DDG since about November/December last year.

I thought I'd probably change back to the Gman within a few days, but I still use it.

And I only today found out about "!g" (I was literally typing "google.com/search?q=terms" into my address bar everytime).

Averaging about 1 in 5 searches I need to go to Google to get my results. Mostly stuff regarding popularity and currentness, like memes e.g., or (admittingly bad and lazy) natural language queries where Google also has an edge.
The "mandatory subscription" can be a 7 year software support SKU. It can also be "you can't purchase an edge switch without <subscription> even if you don't want to use it but when <subscription> is up you don't need to renew". This achieves 2 things: 1) it forces your customer base to try out the subscription stuff and see they like it (or some feature becomes more work to remove than pay for) 2) you get to say "we've sold <x> units of <software product> and have <y>% market penetration" in your marketing.

It's basically just the financial move not a change in anything that could be described in terms of "worth the money" from a customer perspective. Perhaps with the exception of the Meraki stuff but that model was bought in not developed new.

As far as other companies wi-fi and sd-wan offerings tend to come like this. It's basically outsourcing the main centralized point to "the cloud" which can have a lot of value, especially for smaller shops. Larger enterprises have even been hesitant with that though, preferring to stay on a long term capex based model.
For all these claims about the claims of “pots not people” people, I’ve not seen a single citation of anyone making this argument on this thread—always some professor overheard two decades ago, or an anecdote from a family member. Yet everyone is coming armed with links to demonstrate that violent things did, indeed, happen. What I don’t understand is this: whom are you calling out, and why aren’t you posting these links in the thread?
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But the two MS Office versions both have a Microsoft logo on them. People will grumble, but get used to the new version, whereas if you give them something with a different logo, they will scream bloody murder and demand that you get rid of that weird program and give them back their Office programs.
Few thoughts

1. Is anyone still buying car? May be it's a huge necessessity in US but most of the cities are fairly packed and have good public transport and improving

2. Idea of self driving car will indeed be a big selling point. Still people will pool those and cost of transport in general will come down because of Uber's fleet. Self ownership will still not go up significantly unless idea is to buy for long distance travel (not city travel)

3. The rumors this could be beginning of Tesla being taken private by EM has merits, considering his recent spat with SEC
"when you are weak, the enemy should think you are strong, when you are strong the enemy should think you are weak" -The Art of War
You would probably just swap the last element to temp storage, and swap back after.
my 110 loc implementation https://github.com/ldarren/pico-common/blob/master/src/plugi...

you can try it here http://json.jasaws.com/
You dont end up with $100B cash by paying living wages.
Seems like what Tesla should do is convert two of the four model 3 lines to the model Y. They are very similar cars, so it should help their time to market. If the model 3 gets a bit rarer (and the average selling price raises) all the better.
Yes, I did this for about three months when I first moved to California. I was flat broke and it gave me a chance to stay dry and save up money.
Based on the burn rate as of 2018Q2 (~$720 million per quarter), they should already be bankrupt.

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9e...

They aren't because things change and the burn rate for 2018Q2 didn't represent 2018Q3/Q4.
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> With relatively low gas prices at the moment, decreasing federal subsidies for electric cars, and more players entering the market, it seems like Tesla is in a pretty tough spot.

Nothing you couldn't see coming 5 years ago, however.
Exactly this, they still have around 2b cash before that capital raise.
1. Yes.

2. Proper self driving cars are years away. Autopilot given the recent crashes are going to see some regulatory investigations and I suspect will be curtailed. Not that any of this is relevant since we have Uber today and not everyone is switching exclusively to it.

3. Tesla can't afford to go private.
Definitely cool, will probably be quite a bit better option than the Atom and other x86 Intel options in this space. Pricing, availability and ordering would be desired info.

If these are available in the $50-250 range, I think they'll sell incredibly well.
Unrelated but I'm interested to see what stack all of the things mentioned in the article are on. Handling (I'm guessing billions) of requests while getting sub-ms (maybe even microseconds) latencies. Is it all written in Go? If so that is quite impressive.
Netflix: We don't know where any of our customers are, sorry Chicago!

Chicago: Okay fine we talked to all the local ISPs and you're no longer accessible in our city. Have a nice day.

or

Chicago: We didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday guys, have you heard of this thing called GeoIP services?

Besides, I'm sure Netflix is bound by all kinds of territory-based licensing to need people's addresses. Like if Foobar Productions did a deal with someone else for exclusive digital rights to Austria and Australia but is letting Netflix license their show for streaming everywhere else, Netflix needs to be able to not show it to the Austr(al)ians.
Bidets are quite common in France and Spain, but I haven't seen many anywhere else in EU.

A really practical solution to simulate a real bidet is to buy bidet cleansing foam and/or a portable bidet.

You spray the cleansing foam into regular toilet paper, and it does improve performance a lot. Afterwards, just use the portable bidet.
So cut compensation for current already underpaid employees to shore up retirement for the people who voted for the politicians who caused this?

That doesn't taste right to me.
1. I don't know if that math is entirely solid. They got 2.4 billion and in the past quarter ran though 200 a month, thus 10 months before they're empty. But that's not exactly how it works, for all I or anyone knows the last quarter was very tooling heavy and they chose to pay costs all upfront instead of amortize costs. IDK.

2. I work in automotive. I was a the room with 3 VPs from a BIG 3. They weren't threatened by Tesla (right or wrong), they merely agreed that some day soon Tesla was going to learn "how hard it is to build a real car". Knowing the backend, and understanding the difference between acceptable failure rates on say a McLaren 570 vs a Toyota Corolla. What they meant was it's one thing to ship a few cars, it's another to get where Tesla seems they need to be to get profitable. Just an anecdote.
I started using this template and evolved it from there. :)

https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/thesis/chalmers-univers...
Have you spoken to any police officers lately about their jobs? My next-door neighbor in my hometown was a state policeman who had guns and knives pulled on him several times in his career (during ordinary traffic stops, no less). If you're a cop working in a high-crime area, you're going to be dealing with the worst of society on a daily basis. I'm very thankful that my computer can't sporadically decide to physically attack me while I'm at work.
bullshit.
a big part of the assets the stock market is valuing is land/property. Banks lend out... mortgages... mcdonalds has... stores.
There was totally a land value bubble preceding the great depression.
Right now we have a land value bubble AND a nifty fifty style stock market bubble... but compare the dot com bust to the great recession. One was way more devastating than the other.
Right now, tech companies have very high pe ratios... BUT if and when those profits actually materialize, they will be capitalized into land values.

Even 10000 years from now, when civilization consists of a bunch of satellites orbiting the sun in a dyson swarm, an analogous orbit value tax will be the most logical source of tax revenue for a far future government.
Land is always a prequisite for doing business, and absent an LVT, private sector actors will benefit from the network effects inherent therein, instead of the community that that value was actually generated by.

What's your alternative to a LVT, a sales tax? A vat? Income tax? Deadweight loss, deadweight loss, deadweight loss.
I wonder if anyone cashes these things? We should all gang up and cash these checks together and overdraw him. Or at least really screw up his check book balance.
I didn’t read it like that. I read it more like... yes, we just got some money from investors but the drive for profitability is still a huge priority.
This is going to sound really egotistical, but honestly I don’t remember much about becoming a master as I was 10 at the time. What I do remember is playing a shitload of games, rated games most weekends. And analyzing my losses with a soviet chess coach to identify and work on my blind spots. Rinse and repeat. Playing experience way more valuable than book learning.

I’ve been working on some training software and will hopefully be releasing a beta version on HN this summer, pending wrangling a bit of funding and/or a few devs willing to work for equity/glory.

I recommend checking out the mighty hippo’s Wikipedia page for some decent commentary and sample games.
No, the headline is accurate.

Of the $2.4 billion raised, about half must go toward servicing existing debt, and with the money they already had in the bank (about $900m), they have about $2.1b liquid cash to see them through the next 10 months, assuming the same burn rate (losing $200m/month).
They will build (my perception) a hyperloop/maglev train between St. Louis and Kansas City.
https://www.stlmag.com/news/missouri-could-be-getting-a-hype...
I think it is important to notice here that a lot of the tension here is also Twisted vs. asyncio.

I've never liked asyncio, while Twisted felt natural to me. So I would agree that an inferior solution has been pushed heavily in the stdlib and also to the syntax level.

Moving the entire stdlib to PyPI is of course entirely foolish and would destroy Python.
>If you wrote a law book designed for lay folk, it would fly off the shelves into the hands of people who become self-represented litigants who would then screw up their lives and give bad advice to their friends.

the same could be said about very many things - from biology to auto repair. it's a very strange position to take on education because the converse is also possible - the more educated someone becomes the more humble they become about how nuanced/subtle the topic really is.
> Venezuelans are on my same position

I see what you did there.
Great documentary I watched today that touched on this very subject "Toilet the Unspoken History"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZHm3vkavgM
Someone else in this thread has stated that a) around half of the raised money needs to be used to service debt b) Tesla had $900 million in the bank before raising money. Doing the math based on the letter's $200 million/month loss rate that comes out to 10 months before Tesla is utterly out of money.

Are those statements incorrect?
yea, nice, how do you assess wealth? (you can't)
also your wealth tax creates.. deadweight loss, lvt actually benefits the economy.

Meanwhile land wealth correlates very well with real wealth. Jeff bezos, for instance is one of the biggest landowners in the United States. And we already have a system in place to assess property values - and there's no way to hide property.
They are a right-wing magazine (i.e. ardently pro-capitalist). Their endorsements support that idea. All of those candidates that they supported were also ardent supporters of capital.
Is that not simply hypermodern school with the fianchettoed bishops?
I've done a number of projects for Boeing, and their engineers are some of the most cautious and careful customers I have ever had.

And if you've been following the news you'll see the engineers had less and less say. Going back to the 787 program — Boeing tried to outsource a ton of the engineering and that resulted in minimal oversight and the type being grounded for a bit.

Keep in mind Boeing is a company where the previous CEO (McNerney) bragged about being able to make the employees cower in fear and pushed for dramatic cost reduction above all else.

I'm curious how long ago you did your projects for Boeing though, as there seems to be an appreciable shift in culture.
for all I or anyone knows the last quarter was very tooling heavy and they chose to pay costs all upfront instead of amortize costs. IDK.

Many people do know...Depreciation is subject to specific tax and accounting rules. While for tax purposes some (but not all) of Tesla's spending is immediately depreciable, for accounting purposes, none of it is, so their tooling costs must be depreciated over the useful life of the equipment. Depreciation also isn't relevant to a discussion of cash flow, as depreciation is merely an abstract number representing estimated wear and tear.
>>1. Is anyone still buying car? May be it's a huge necessessity in US but most of the cities are fairly packed and have good public transport and improving

Is this like....a joke? I mean I get it - I used to live in a big city where owning a car just seemed stupid and wasteful. But once you live outside of the metropolis, where yes, there is public transport(in a form of a bus or two going every two hours), and you have kids and things to do, then yes, cars are still a necessity.
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