skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't Tesla's plan from the beginning.

This is the history of how that happened.

In 2016 Tesla announced Model 3 and took a risk by pre-announcing that the price will start at $35.

In late 2017 they started making the cars and until early 2019 they were only making the more expensive Long Range trim at $50k+.

Sometime late 2018 / early 2019 they introduced a Medium Range trim, which was Long Range with smaller batter for $40-something k. This trim is no longer available (replaced by SR+)

Around march 2019, after hard-core cost-cutting, they introduced the base models as $35 SR (Standard Range) and $37.5 SR+ (Standard Range plus).

Compared to original plans SR/SR+ was better in that it included the panoramic glass sunroof.

The SR+ was available immediately but SR had a 4-6 month lead time, presumably so that Tesla can improve production / operational efficiency enough so that they can make SR trim at a profit.

According to Tesla, few people were ordering SR so they decided to scrap that trim. That makes sense because the fewer variants they have to make, the better they can optimize the production process and the cheaper it is to make the cars.

To fulfill those SR orders they decided to give people SR+ trim and limit features in software. It took them a while to implement those limits hence for a while people who ordered SR were able to drive SR+ without the limits.

This is not the end of story.

Soon after they decided to make $3k AutoPilot a standard feature and bumped the price by $2k.

After that they bumped the price by additional $400, presumably to offset the cost of Trump's tarrifs.

And that's where we are today.

Tesla just rolls with the punches. Making the cheapest version be a software-limited wasn't the original plan but it's a reasonable decision given how things progressed.

I think it's safe to say that at some point in the future Tesla will lower the price if their production capacity outstrips the supply and they manage to further improve operational efficiency.
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Even with internal combustion engines, the power output is often limited in software (and the more expensive option with e.g. +50HP may be mechanically the same, just with a different software on the ECU.) They can have very fine-grained control over things like emissions (see the whole VW fiasco for example), and even limit how much time the engine can run at its maximum power in order to market bigger "peak" numbers (do you really think the majority of passenger cars can run their engines at full power continuously?)

All that is partly why I drive a car without any software control --- it's not really environmentally friendly, but I enjoy knowing that there's no "hidden gremlin" that will disobey me, no DMCA-ish laws to worry about, and the freedom of having complete ownership. ...and I consider the power/torque, (real) sound, and cheap parts to be a side-benefit.
The rest of the answers to this question can be found here, for the curious:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/
This is a similar line of reasoning that I take regarding 4-day work weeks. Not only would I be working for 20% less hours, I'm also gaining 50% more leisure time (2 day weekend => 3 days).

From this perspective, taking a flat per-hour pay cut is an easy choice.
I consider my threats to be my wifi connection and my ISP. I have a VPS, which I trust as my "starting point", that caps only bandwidth so there's no overages. I use OpenSSH as SOCKS5 proxy because I already use ssh and DNS goes over the proxy. I think ssh may limit the number of open connections because I sometimes need to close tabs to continue surfing.

My set up looks like this:

ssh -fCND 1080 proxy-server
socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
export SOCKS_SERVER=127.0.0.1:1080

When I'm connected to a device that doesn't give me a routable address, I'll use a ssh jump.

ssh -fCND 1080 -J jump-server proxy-server

This isn't a VPN but it's equivalent for my usage. I'm waiting for Wireguard to mature in Chromebook / Android. I want to try it out.
While a lot can be done in kivy, I foolishly decided to try it out with absolutely no primer on java, android or native development in general.

It was ok, everything felt like it had to be hacked together, and for some reason the only working version I could get stuff to compile in was like android SDK 19 and ndk 14b I think? (you literally had to thread the needle with your envs) At the time I don't know if they actually had a working buildozer env for 64-bit ARM.(could be wrong on that) Compiling took forever, especially the first time, which 99% of the time I couldn't get any 64-bit version of anything to compile so nothing was cached. I'd change one config wait 10 minutes come back not ideal.

Again I was probably super naive in my approach, but overall it felt very constraining and not the java is a peach but I was much more comfortable learning java (from scratch) and android than wading through kivy.

I appreciate the developers contributions, and I'm probably at fault, but I'm just saying its worth noting it wasn't any easier getting an app running if you know just python with kivy. I've also come to realize gradle and android are just a huge bloated mess in general lol.

As a side note cross compiling packages in go for use on android does work really good for stuff like daemons.
Definitely for certain things like intelligence, but many disease processes will be one gene coding one deleterious enzyme. For example Hyper-IgE syndrome will be a STAT3 mutation, Cystic Fibrosis is going to be a change typically at 508 to F(amino acid phenylalanine) on the CFTR gene, and Menkes disease, with its kinky hair, is going to have a mutation with ATP7A. These phenotypes are easy to recognize because the symptoms precipitate so significantly that most individuals die prematurely and because we've isolated them time and time again in the same diseased individuals. My point here is that isolating a phenotype from a genotype is pretty easy for a significant amount of polymorphisms.

Now what makes drug metabolism easy to understand is that it will typically be one gene that codes for one enzyme (I'm overly simplifying this here, it's way more complicated and we don't fully understand gene expression). It will also usually be one enzyme that is going to break down a certain drug (I'm also oversimplifying this). Let's look at ethanol; it's broken down by alcohol dehydrogenase to acetaldehyde, the thing that gives you the hang over. Certain populations, Asian and Native Americans namely, have a different alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme than other populations and thus have a common effect; colloquially termed Asian flush. This variability in how an enzyme breaks down a drug is part of the reason why some people will have certain effects whereas other people won't (overly simplified, again). Pharmacogenomics is actually one of the more easy phenotypes to delineate versus other, more nebulous, things.
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It only feels bad because you (not saying you, but you know what I mean) thought you were getting away with getting something for free you didn't pay for and it's being taken back.
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What's the difference between brand advertising (2) and hacking your brain (3)?

To me, brand advertising is when marketing people try to associate a brand with "values" that may or may not actually reflect the values that a company has when manufacturing a product or providing a service. For example, they might subtly suggest that they care about quality design, but in fact only care about cost cutting.

Or in the car industry, where they try to create brands to give the impression that similar cars were designed and engineered with different values in mind, or even by different people/companies. What would be the purpose of splitting Chevrolet and Cadillac if it's not a brain hack?
They will care. They watch marketing. And that is the point Apple is trying to make.

I assume, next is banners at the Apple Stores and at Best Buys.
It's a superset of the standard. Word uses some features that were in the standard that was first proposed but did not pass, like OLE serialization.
Some behaviours are normative in some places and not in others, for whatever reasons.

Some are mundane, some we don't notice, some we don't care about, some we misinterpret.

But 'cheating' is a problem in China which I have come to believe is factually true. Have a gander [1]

Also, thousands of Chinese ex-pat students have been expelled from US schools. [2]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1974986...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/1812115...
The fact that Tesla can effectively modify "your" car after you bought it, to disable things that it can clearly do, is what's really troubling here.
Nah, it feels back because you had something that will be taken away from you.

They shouldn't have given it to the people in the first place.
There's been talk of a "banker's oath", because behaviour that is a little bit slimy or reckless - but not criminally so, nor perhaps even unambiguously unethical - can hurt a lot of people when your job involves looking after lots of money.

I wonder if people working in marketing, advertising and journalism should have to swear an oath in which they promise not to manipulate or deceive people.

Lying or deliberately misleading is obviously not criminal in general, but perhaps it should be punishable in certain professional settings?

I appreciate that this is very delicate, and needs a bit more thought on how to avoid it becoming a potential tool of government or corporate oppression.

Of course, this is pie in the sky. Most people in advertising and marketing seem to believe that what they are doing is fine.
I really despise this kind of reasoning. You’re literally comparing 200 year old history and justifying modern IP theft, and projecting forward.
TSA keeps the spare change left in security bins, which amounts to $3m over unspecified number of years, with "some evidence that in 2013, TSA was scrounging about half a million dollars a year from security bins" without actually pointing to any evidence. Author finds this a big deal.
The ip address is also not going to be shared with apps anymore starting in iOS 13
If you host your own, there is now a dedicated IP address with only your one client connected.
And built domestically or in Casablanca, Morocco. Skodas built in India, Russia or China are for those particular markets.
Is cheating/stealing something you want to perpetuate (cuz revenge or something), or something you want to call out?
Excellent questions. We have encountered all of them in practice and have solutions for most of them, e.g., (4) requires an ACL-aware search index.

Unfortunately we don't have enough space to explain them in the paper. Please consider coming to Usenix. :-)
AFAIK, you don't. An iPhone will work fine without signing in to any Apple service and you can opt out of all Apple data collection right in the device.

I've set up several testing iDevices for work with no Apple accounts.

The only thing you can't do without an Apple account is to use the Apple services like the App Store and iCloud and other paid services.

I think even software updates can be done without an account, but I'm not sure since I haven't tried this.
Can you recommend some sort of introduction/book to VPNs? I get the idea, I have read the wikipedia page, but my understanding boils down to "one server encrypts and sends small packets, the other decrypts". The packets still go through the public internet / your ISP, but they are encrypted?
Whats the reason why YouTube and many mobile applications dont allow copy text?
What's the point of this limiting 'technology'?
Yeah you can always be inspired by others.
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Let's say the CTO said "I'm concerned the candidate won't fit in because he's not into video games or partying with coworkers or working on the weekends, all the things that help us bond and keep a cohesive team". While not directly mentioning his age, such criteria would still make it very unlikely that the older candidate would be hired.

Would you consider this to be age discrimination (from a moral perspective; let's ignore legal considerations since those are incredibly vague and convoluted)?
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If you look at the reports, it’s been out there for a long time. It’s not some new thing. I heard the anecdote I recounted below (about copying routers down to the silk screening) more than a decade ago. If you’ve worked in telecom/networking, this is common knowledge.
I specifically get directions “home” to a neighbor’s house a bit away. Once I know where I am, I kill Google Maps. I’m sure they could, if they wanted to badly enough, figure the whole thing out, but at least my profile has a certain amount of uncertainty (though what utility that has is probably debatable).

I would love to be able to fuzz my location within a certain (randomized?) radius of my home for certain apps. Strava has a ‘privacy circle’ that essentially accomplishes this when sharing GPX tracks of runs around one’s home. An OS-level feature would be fantastic in many cases.
There is no evidence of “mass hatred.” There is plenty of evidence that steals IP. If there is some evidence that Huawei doesn’t steal IP, then let’s hear it. Corporate espionage is a real thing, suggesting that Huawei never engages in it is ridiculous. Suggesting this is propaganda has no basis in fact, considering that they do steal IP, they do engage in corporate espionage and they are affiliated closely with the Chinese MSS — an agency that makes the Stasi look like Boy Scouts.
I'm with you on that. Ideally it shouldn't have been given at all. I just don't see any issue with Tesla updating things to match what the customer paid for. And again, the Tesla website is super easy to use and they detail everything. You know EXACTLY what you are ordering when you order it. I may be bummed if I got some free extras if I was one of these customers but I'd be totally fine if the extras went away since I hadn't paid for them.

I'm wondering if when the customers were handed the keys though if Tesla let them know about this "free trial" of sorts.
Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to fight climate change
True, but they’d have a difficult time suing you for breach of contract given that they’d already broken the contract themselves.
> Fast forward, very little you can now make is cheaper, or creates a functionality not otherwise available retail/off the shelf.

I think this is a matter of perspective. The components you string together are now scaled up, as are the experiences of younger folks.

I think of some friends who were saying "people just can't become a private pilot nowadays", but later I wondered if maybe there are new opportunities they don't recognize (like powered paragliding).
Maybe because I trust those organizations (and even the American government) more the China as much as I hate to admit it.

I don’t think you can really compare the companies.
Also actual cash ("5 EUR (or an equivalent amount in any other currency)" for a month), which may be easier to make anonymous than crypto.
Cool. Keep us posted
why I say it is a cultural issue, is because when there are minority PRC origin students in majority Singaporean classes the PRCs tend to adapt and not try funny tricks. They longer they assimilate, the less they try.

For Singaporeans it's an unholy sin to cheat at exams, (you are barred from exams for the semester, all your grades for the entire semester are invalidated, you parents will be ashamed of you, and everyone you know will unfriend you) but copying homework/assignments/plagiarism is still somewhat tolerated before university level.
The Oracle/Java trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....
In Discussion with Anna Fifield, Author of 'The Great Successor'
It's fair to say that, in 2019, Huawei scale money can buy you online reputation...including removal of any documented instances that might hurt its image. After all, Google was their partner for a good amount of time.
How? When an app makes an API request, the client IP address is (necessarily) exposed to the server.
Yes, "The sun is gone..." starts out amazingly well. But later fixates on tides for some reason :)

Everything is generated by the 117M model, correct? If so, do you expect the quality to improve for larger models, or is there not enough poetry to train them on? I wonder how much of total poetry is contained in Gutenberg poetry corpus...

By the way, here's some poetry which has been generated by a Markov model: http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/poetry/rkcp_poetry_samples.p...
The energy is free, so efficiency is only important for comparison reasons. Is there something better we could be doing with that solar panel output? Solar panels themselves are maybe 22% efficient to begin with so this process cuts the efficiently to about 1/3. Personally, I'm impressed that it's even positive.
Maybe but that wasn't Tesla's plan, just how things turned out.

Initially, SR was supposed to be a different physical trim, with a smaller battery and some other cheaper parts.

However few people were buying SR (compared to SR+ trim which was only $2.5k more expensive) so Tesla adapted and dropped SR variant. Less variants means more efficient production means cheaper cars.

But they've already taken SR orders so instead of canceling them they decided to do right by the customers and instead gave them SR+ trim with software limit.

Given that it was a decision made late, they didn't have the code to limit features. Again they did right by customers by giving them the car right away and introducing the limits when the software was ready.

This will not happen in the future because from now on the software limit will be enabled from the beginning (not to mention that this trim is not available online; you have to know it exists and custom order it via phone which probably means that very few people are buying this version).
They can also modify it to add features. I have a Model S I bought before auto pilot was released. I had prepaid for it though so when it was ready I got it. And over the years other features that weren't even announced I also got for free. It goes both ways. So is it troubling they can modify the car to add functionality?

I get it if they are modifying it to remove something you paid for, but that is NOT the case here.
It indicates that the model is learning a good likelihood function, and that it has still not trained to convergence which makes the samples have lower likelihood scores than real text. That's all that's needed to make it a good recognizer.
That wouldn't help de-acidify the oceans. But I guess through diffusion it's all connected anyway.
Blah blah blah let’s all ignore how often Sanders quotes Finland and Denmark as his examples of an effective mixed model economy and pretend like he wants us all back in the USSR.

Fake news
How does this work with their return policy, or with test drives? You can't effectively test the car you bought, only the "better" model. Depending on the features, not all customers might realize what they actually bought vs. what they're currently testing.
The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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If there’s internet connectivity, and you’re sophisticated enough to be planning Find My iPhone based booby traps, firing off a text message from a contained detector shouldn’t be a challenge
It's not linked in the article, but the number comes from a committee report [1] related to the TSA Loose Change Act (which _is_ linked in the article, but finding the report from that link is indeed nontrivial).

I think the interesting part is that TSA keeps the money to fund its own operations. The actual amount they raise is not too surprising.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress...
Interesting comparison. But Apple doesn't have clean hands too. Did they invent graphical UI of first Macintosh themselves or were "inspired" by what they have seen at Xerox PARC? Yesterday you copied the GUI, and today you claim that someone has stolen the idea of using rounded edges.
Interesting idea, I wonder how it can be protected from rough seas?
Here's an explanation

https://memetician.livejournal.com/201202.html
In fact with current neural nets on floating point hardware, people use dropout which is just deliberately introducing random errors.

Which is why, only somewhat tongue in cheek, people sometimes describe the rounding errors from using lower-precision arithmetic as "free regularization".

So any noise from this being an analogue system would likely improve performance (at least in terms of training).
Don't take me wrong. I understand that they now get what they paid for. It's clear to everybody. It still FEELS bad and it looks bad. Can't do anything about it. That's what it is since you come to this world as a baby. If somebody takes something away from you, you cry.
3/45 day Half Marathon challenge. My impressions
The passive voice here is fascinating. Huawei did something! What did they do? They got accused.

Who is accusing them? AKHAN Semiconductor (and the FBI), a small company in Illinois whose primary product is these diamond-coated screens. Past their founder, the second person on their about page is their "Vice President of Government Affairs;" the third person listed on their about page is their "Global Security and Intelligence Advisor," a former senior CIA officer who joined the company in May.

If the roles were reversed - a small display-tech company in China that recently got a senior Party member and intelligence officer to join made accusations about America with the help of the Chinese national police organization, and Xinhua was reporting on it - I think we would be very skeptical!
> Your friends will still be your friends.

While this is true, you still do need to be able to contact them in today's isolated world where we don't run into our friends on a daily basis in public venues. For a vast amount of my friends, WeChat is effectively the only means of communication to organize an in-person meetup. For a certain group of people, it has replaced phones, e-mail, Facebook, and everything else.

Last time I was in the emergency room and needed a friend to bring over something to me? I sent them a message on WeChat from my hospital bed. I didn't have any other means to reach this particular trusted friend. They don't use Facebook, Signal, Telegram, or anything else, they don't check their e-mail frequently, and I don't have their phone number because the only thing we have ever used to make calls is WeChat voice call.

I have other groups of friends who organize real life events (hiking, dinner, etc.) on WeChat. Without WeChat I'd probably be left out of those. Yes, friends will still be friends, but they won't go out of their way to ping you by e-mail for a random hike that everyone else they know would just respond on WeChat for.

I just don't hate WeChat enough to want to completely ban it from my life. The friction of finding alternate communication methods with all the people I'm already friends with is too much to bother; I just grudgingly use WeChat.

Separately, I'm in China from time to time, have both lots of friends and business contacts there, so it's basically 100% a necessity for keeping in touch.
It's a waste to not give the best software possible to the car. In a car, a higher price is only natural if the car is more expensive to produce or develop.
You're demonstrating one of the (many) weaknesses of arguing from analogy.

You've completely switched your argument to what happened when instructions were posted about removing software imposed limits on a printer, not what happened (or might happen) in a similar situation with Tesla. Printers do not carry human occupants on a public road system which is heavily regulated and requires certification of vehicles for roadworthiness & safety, including regulation of owner made vehicle modifications.