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The Taycan is $150k - it is not a mass market EV.

The VW ID.3/4 are not coming to North America.

The eTron, last month sold 434 units in the US. The Model X sold 1,675 in the same month in the US. The Model 3? 20,250. The I-PACE sold 160 units and the EQC isn't being sold yet. The eTron has been a massive sales disaster, sales are not growing. https://insideevs.com/news/369439/august-audi-e-tron-sales-u... https://insideevs.com/news/373812/ev-sales-scorecard-septemb...

I'm not trying to say Tesla has no risks at all, but you have to _really squint_ to not seem them as the clear market leader currently. The Model 3 simply has no competitors today - and to invoke the Taycan is about as disingenuous as it can get.
Possibly because they're closer to "persisted calculated columns".
I frankly prefer a chat(bot or not) because I have a transcript of what has been discussed. Also, it's kinda fun to guess if it's a bot without offending. This is a real excerpt at the end of a helpful chat with Comcast:
guest_ > You seem really nice. I've read about computer programs that can simulate nice people. Are you really a person?
Cecilia > yes, i am
guest_ > Who won the superbowl?
Cecilia > i'm not familiar with it , im sorry
OK, but what is that niche?

I'm not happy with today's massive phones, but that doesn't mean I want a massive phone that can fold in half!

I just want a non-slippy phone that fits in my hand and pocket, and has a high-res screen. Truely, I don't understand the trend for slippy phones that keep getting bigger and bigger :/
You are correct; I type without proofreading
Comparing pre-IPO Tesla to post-IPO Amazon is going to skew some things. I think it's better to compare post-IPO Amazon (1997) to post-IPO Tesla (2010).
> That bit about finding a woman who will love him for who he is inside and not for his money is silly. In case he hasn't noticed, who he is inside is also now richer than croesus as well.

That's not who he is inside. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez said, "I am not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

And if money isn't really part of his internal identity, if he sees it as something kind of separate from himself, then it's perfectly reasonable for him to want a woman who loves him, not just his bank account.

In fact, it's perfectly reasonable even if he has internalized his wealth. Who wants to be married to a gold digger?
Local Law Enforcement Should Be Able to Protect Airports from Drones
A few other points to note:

The Esp8285 shares a website, which can be reprogrammed without soldering onto test points. However, the first-time firmware installation must be done over serial, which needs a soldering iron and 3.3V USB-serial adaptor.

I think there's a world market for maybe 1000 of these devices, selling to geeks like us; not enough to justify starting a company selling these to consumers.

Please also email me if you're interested in buying the EspUSB Tiny - I will be placing another order by the end of the year, whatever method I use to sell them, and I need to know roughly how many to ask them to build. Also if you're a salesman who wants to make a quick buck marketing and reselling these, I'd be very happy to let you handle the business side while I do your manufacturing.

Why am I doing it for free? Basically because I think it will look good on my résumé, and I want to start a career in hardware (I studied electronic engineering, but now I have a job writing software for a small startup). If it goes really well though, I'd like to do the same for other gadgets of my own design (e.g. a very small adaptor from miniHDMI on the RPi Zero to HDMI female - a 1.6mm PCB fits perfectly inside an HDMI plug). If it goes badly and I get scared off by regulators and sued, then I'll probably give up and stay in software.
> 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

> Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

blog.* is unavailable in GDPR-land but I found another entry on the proper site which is available in europe: https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/777-year-old-tree-is-...
From the thread: "Representatives of BirdLife International, a nature conservation partnership, in both countries argue wildlife will benefit from the integration of sanitary policies across European borders."
...but I was thinking the exact opposite. Because at least they didn't have BOTH countries doing this, the vulture population can survive in decent numbers on the Spanish side, and whenever Portugal comes around the vultures will figure it out and come back. But, if Spain and Portugal had both, for years, reduced the supply of food available to vultures, the population would have either died off or had to move much further away.

Sometimes, avoiding a big mistake everywhere is more important than avoiding a big mistake anywhere.
Deploying and maintaining radio jamming devices is _way_ more difficult and expensive than telling an ISP to shut down service.
It's a lot easier and more econmical to recycle and properly manage waste when the waste is centralized at a commercial facility.

The home machinist trashes his chips, the production shop scraps them.
You are essentially doing the same thing with a bank, but with less risky. There are no debtor's prisons. If you default, you can claim bankruptcy and walk away. There are other risks inherit to have a business partner. The biggest one being the risk that your business partner engages in illegal activity under your shared entity. Suddenly you are liable as well. The tamer issues revolve around not wanting to do business with someone anymore... And it can end as bad or worse than a divorce.
> You're right, it's not important to have an educated citizenry.

Did you, in all honesty, go through the public school system and came out with an "yeah we need more like that"? Seriously?

> in all seriousness, i'd love for the US government to throw serious cash at teachers' salaries. it's basically a wise investment in the country's future.

You really believe that?

> so what if they're daycare teachers? we have plenty of $ to spend on providing a safe place and food for our children in the US for 8 hours a day.

Schools, a safe place? Where did even you go to school?

> a lot of the money is spent on the backend on welfare or prisons anyway, so it's probably not very expensive when the externalities are factored in.

I'm pretty sure most of the prison inmates had their share of public education.

> Finland

You can't just pick your favorite nordic country and act like it is representative of anything. What about France? Total free government education and massive youth unemployment. What about Spain? Everyone is running around with one or more degrees, but no job.
>In high cost areas like the Silicon Valley, almost every teacher is married to an engineer or is the child of an engineer. That is why they don't need a second job. Because they have a support network.

Huh? My neighbor at my (fortunately extremely low-cost) apartment is single, a teacher, and he barely gets by, especially in summer (if he wants to have "fun money" during summer it means taking a summer school teaching job). Obviously one person out of a plethora of teachers in the Bay Area, but that's a ridiculously general statement.
If you are doing a serious ETL job, you'll need to handle rejects - I mean, a way to identify which rows of data cannot be handled gracefukky by your ETL.

Doing this in plain SQL or Spark is complicated.

This is usually a job for commercial ETL tools like informatics, talend, data stage...
Hiring and compensation decisions have enough of a principal-agent problem that value to the business doesn't even set a firm ceiling.
What, the flying buttress falsework? That looks designed in a CAD program. Probably, all the pieces were cut to match the design, then bolted together. Better to do all that in advance and then carefully move it into place than to try to build it in place by hand.

One of the sections of falsework is being hoisted in the picture. Note the custom metal lifting attachment designed to fit it.

The supports are a nice piece of work, but routine. Now, restoring the damaged decorative stonework, that will require craftmanship and hand labor.
I understand we're all different, but I prefer to clear my mind on the toilet.
Hmm. What's interesting about it?
Ram is cheap everywhere but "cloud" instances. Was just noticing the other day, I can get about 128GB of ram on a dedicated instance for the same price I am paying in the cloud for 16GB.
You roll your lower lip over your bottom front teeth, bring the container to your mouth, and pour the liquid into your mouth while gently resting the lip of the container on your lip.
Would you stay with someone who lied to you for potentially years? Over and over with a straight face? They did it for their own selfish reasons although not malicious ones. Assume they aren't a multi-millionaire.

Now, would that answer change if you were simply given $100 million for saying that you'll stay. What if you had to lie to them that you still love them? Keep in mind, after all, they did exactly that to you for years.

My point being, a modest fake second lifestyle doesn't alter the potential distortion of money being involved.
Good old zerohedge never misses an opportunity to shit on Tesla [0]. Question for Tesla owners: how is the reliability? I'd love to get unto an electric if only to never have to change my oil again but im curious as to what kind of maintenance requirements these cars have.

[0] : https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/tesla-stock-tumbles-aft...
Am I the only one who is starting to find this sort of company names confusing? I guessed meteor was probably meteor.js (though didn't know there was an associated comapny), but had to think pretty hard about it first. It was clearer when calling things "foo.com" or some such was in fashion, but not now. Even "Meteor, Inc." would have made it clearer, but then you have to check which legal structure a company has. There's also the question of whether such common words in such widespread use for so long can be reasonably trade-marked.

Another issue is odd spelling. Not here, but many valley companies will name themselves, say, "suni" (pronounced "sunny") because that domain name is available. Problem is, if I hear that in conversation, I will google "sunny".

The best example, of course, is the we company. Significant grammatical nail-biting ensued when I saw repeated instances of "we is". I wonder, did Adam Neumann consider that such a name change would lead to articles concerning his company sounding like gollum wrote them? Joking aside, I hope people who name such things start considering how the name will sound, write, and be perceived by most people who read it.
Most of my best thinking at work happens on the toilet.

Don’t know exactly what I should take from that. Except that probably something is wrong about open plan offices.
How many master's professions insist on local monopolies for their employers? Other than predisposed ideological beliefs, it doesn't make sense for teachers' unions to be as against school competition as they are, at least with respect to employing exemplary educators.
Zydis v3.0 is now final (x86-64 disassembler library)
So here is a prime example of a government using the power to censor the internet during a revolution...
Both Christianity and Judaism have, at various points in the past, had bans on interest (amongst themselves, anyway), even if in more recent (and secular) times those have been ignored.
Welcome to HN. Probably nothing and it's just a random data point as opposed to him still being there. Beyond that, it probably means something about Dropbox's current software.
And instead controlled by one corporation headquartered in a nation that also partially controls Iraq.
To anyone else interested, here's a link to a draft paper about starlink: https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1044621609120.... Apologies for not posting the direct link, for some reason my copy url gets hijacked on twitter mobile.
Thank you for this. I am Kurdish, living in the UK. I usually follow both Iraqi and Kurdish news but somehow I was completely oblivious to the current uprising.

I wish the Iraqi people the best I hope you can either get the government to get their ass into gear or otherwise replace them. I have spoken to plenty of family members in Kurdistan and they're all wishing you all the best.

It's a sad state of affairs but I hope it works out for the better.
Shrimping is so bad for the environment and other marine life. The amount of bycatch involved is disturbing. He made a pretty lousy argument.
i think that keywords is the new seo gold, if you dominate some keywords you reach the top 10 result, but some search engines such as google changes frequently his rules and algoritms, thats why its diffecult to target keywords.see this http://bit.ly/shopinastore you'll see that i'm doing all required seo's but still no results.
I think that this is much more needed for men over 50. Though easier to launch as older women are more social then their male counterparts.

Men over 50 might the most fragile and underserved group out there (they have the highest suicide rate, etc).

Perhaps, at some point, you could launch a partner service just for older men?
Yes, they’re just the furthest along and perhaps most likely to succeed since they own the launching mechanism the others would likely use.
Great work, very well executed. But I have one question: if a person is moving the stick around while capturing, how do you remove the person and keep only the LEDs in the final 'painted' picture?
This is pretty similar to how all humans work. We all have stories we tell ourselves, narratives that we've chosen (possibly subconsciously). We then find evidence that confirms those narratives.

It's a defining characteristic of how we operate.
> I have no idea how society decides salaries.

Supply and demand.
This is what you want to be looking at:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-inc...
Wait, didn't America wage a war to install a pro-American government in Iraq? Are they somehow pro-American and pro-Iran at the same time, or did they switch alliances while nobody in the west was paying attention?
IMO, the biggest issue with netbooks of that time is that they were so tragically underpowered! I wanted the form factor - but with enough CPU and RAM to actually use, well, anything, and a screen with a high enough resolution that I couldn't see the pixels!

Back then, all netbooks seemed focused on price alone - almost like they knew it was a fad, so made them cheap enough for an impulse buy.

The tech of the day just didn't stack up - but it does now. I wonder if we might see a netbook revival - small, cheap machines that are actually of doing things?
All I'm imagining right now is some posters promoting some tool/library beside those mental health awareness posters you usually see in the stall...
If that's so clear, how come no one seems to care about cognitive liberty?
I've been using Vim for over 20 years yet every time I read an article like this I learn something new. How did I not know about `ci "` until now?!
It does, the citizens of different countries don't care or know each other, anyone hardly knows how EU works or what people even do in Brussels. You have news stations that are literally for 300mil people. Same with every startup and product.
Some of Sonos' speakers have Google Assistant and Alexa, some don't. They sell more than just the One!

You could have taken a look round the site rather than just looked at one product...
FTFY: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf
When all you have is a startup, everything begins to look like a nail.
1) I would absolutely not be surprised if they have delays this time as well, but...
2) most organizations find their first production line(s) more difficult to start up than they expected, even in very different fields like brewing beer. But, the more of them they do, the better they tend to get at it. Although...
3) yeah, they'll be late on this one as well. :)
>trans women and regular women

Side note observation, "regular women" can be perceived as insensitive to trans women. I'm not sure what the best term to use is either though, when differentiating between trans and non-trans of the same gender. "Biological women"?
My secondhand understanding is that they make up for it by offering more control over the students, down to selecting and expelling them.
I may be being a bit of a pedant but do you mean roundabout? Traffic circles and roundabouts are different. A traffic circle, in the modern sense, does not have much horizontal deflection on the entering legs. The diameter is also smaller and there is not a truck apron. A roundabout on the other hand has some form of horizontal deflection and a truck apron. Often times a traffic circle can be installed by placing a round bit of curbing in the center of an existing intersection. These are great in low volume low speed applications such as neighborhoods. Traffic circles have a much lower capacity than a roundabout due to the low travel speeds.

Again, sorry for being a pedant but I am a traffic engineer and the distinction between these two traffic control devices matters. Here is a link to roundabout specific information from the Federal Highways Administration https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/innovative/roundabo...
No, there's a common "short" theory that Tesla somehow reports GAAP gross margins in a way that is radically different from the rest of the industry. I've never seen any evidence that had any merit for this claim.
> why not work toward creating more fuel efficient forms of air travel?

There is no lack of incentive for this to be invented. The global airline industry is approaching 1 trillion USD in revenue. Climate concerns are not the thing that will provoke innovation here.

Besides, "fly less" is infinitely more tangible. When you become aware that skipping one intercontinental plane (round)trip has the same positive CO2 impact as going from moderate meat consumption to veganism for one year (!) you might weigh your travel options differently. I know I do.
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> I definitely learned _something_ from at least a few classes every year in K-12

What if the guy managing your retirement fund lost 85% of your money, would you stick with him because you got to keep at least some of it?

> Meanwhile, I couldn't tell you what about half of my college classes were even _supposed_ to have taught, shortly before graduation, despite passing all of them with (almost all) high marks.

Are you beginning to see a pattern here?
> But it is great that at the end of a long career a few unicorn teachers can earn $100K,

Teachers tend to get very generous benefits packages, including retirement pay.
Neat!

however, as a C guy, I really don't want to give up the control of my data structures.
Genuinely curious, why did these not work? Extremely poor battery life / portability?
When I was a kid, in the back of a sci-fi magazine I saw a t-shirt advertised, with a picture of the galaxy. It had an arrow pointing towards the edge saying "You are here." And another arrow pointing to the center, saying "All the action is here."
As someone who experienced the same thing and started their sabbatical 3 months ago, I highly recommend/encourage it. I regret not having started my sabbatical earlier.
Hope I don't come off as a conspiracy nut, but:

I think it's important to remember that in the big picture of things, very, very few employers care about whether a hire went to Harvard or not.

But as it happens, the ones that do, also wield a lot of power.

I think a lot of these places only care partially about the intellectual prowess of their candidates, but also about a lot of other factors. Socioeconomic background, networks, pedigree, and what not.

Hiring the right kid from Harvard / Yale / Princeton / whatever means that he/she can be a good future resource not just because they're smart, but because they have many other attributes with considerable upsides 20-30 years down the road.

Hell, I'll put it in plain text: I think a lot of elite universities are valued in the job market because they're breeding grounds for rich elites, where the new generation of rulers can mingle and network, which is very useful for future operations. It's about grooming people for succession .

Obviously doesn't hold true for everyone there, but the ones that know how the system is rigged, will follow the rules.
R u a dissatisfied customer
It didn't feel good as a teenager to hear teachers complain about education levels, workload, and salary when my intelligent and hard-working parents made less, worked as much, and had much less employment certainty.
Teacher pay is not correlated to outcome. The US pays more for its teachers than Finland and other counties with much better outcomes.

I think the challenge is just measuring and comparing education. If we could, reliably, then we’d likely pay tons more for teachers.
Normally, I would agree that it's a snapshot or data point. But one of the things that I don't see mentioned anywhere else is that this is running on a macbook. I don't know how it works with his setup, but I get significantly different performance results on my local dev system (windows) than a linux server.

I run everything in hyper-v docker, which should actually get pretty close to bare-metal performance (as hyper-v sort of runs an instance alongside windows, rather than virtualized on top).

However, due to some quirkyness, maybe something with docker networking, I rarely get very good performance and I assume in this case, they are either using ported versions of the software or also running virtualized.

So I'm not sure if these kind of benchmarks add data points to anything but "performance on a dev machine".
But is the size of the market growing even faster ?
Tesla is making money on each car sold. But you are right, they do invest a lot in R&D and factory expansion (e.g. new factory in China starting this month to produce model 3 cars).
I am still not sure if we can tell now if they are doomed, it might be too early. It is a tricky game, but as long as they make money on each car sold, and keep some technological edge (battery, manufacturing, etc.) they should be fine.
People have been making that exact argument for years. There have been so many "Tesla killers" that I've lost count. None have panned out.

The Taycan is roughly twice as expensive as the equivalent Model S Tesla and has greatly inferior range and, among people likely to buy electric cars, presumably less brand value. People haven't forgotten VW's emissions scandal. Let's not forget they haven't even shipped a single Taycan yet. BMW has sold a crappy, overpriced electric car/washing-machine-lookalike for years (i3) without it catching on.

Furthermore, there's no real competition on the horizon just yet for the Model 3. Tesla have a 3-6 year head start on making electric cars which will be difficult to overcome.
What you are describing is the usual problem of establishing a two sided market. You need users to make app developers care. You need apps to get users in the first place. From what I remember, MS already had to build some apps themselves / offer significant financial incentives [0]. This seemed hardly sustainable and thus the death of the product was, while disappointing, not a surprise.

So yeah, you don't need a conspiracy to explain this failure.

[0] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2031384/microsoft-stokes-win...
Half these Pro-Americans used to hide in Iran before the war, America got outplayed when it comes to the Iraqi government lol
The Iraqi elections are democratic (somewhat? I don’t know the level of Iranian influence) and not controlled by the USA.