skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
probably a mix of

a) hype. stock market actually like a beauty contest[0] where what matters is other's perceptions. it's a secondary market. a lot of investors, both sophisticated and not, think tesla is beautiful.

b) expectations of future technology. Cruise just announced a self-driving taxi initiative. If you think tesla has as-good or better tech, you might now think they have access to that finally manifesting market. Better unit economics than for human car sales.

c) track record of meeting/beating expectations. By now tesla has outlived the shorts. Beyond shedding off many of the shorts that were exerting downward pressure on price, elon musk's mantra of "innovation as his competitive moat" has outlived the doubters among traditional investors. Large public equity investors originally were very skeptical of that fuzzy idea of a moat, especially considering stunts like when Elon released a lot of the electric driving patents for free (!). But a decade later, nothing else on the market has come close to Tesla's product despite several also-ran attempts.

It may also help to know that SpaceX is doing well, and Elon has shown willingness to personally bail out his companies during moments of trouble. This decreases downside risk.

[0] keynes' famous essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Shared across the entire state of California:
"037-ADD brakes randomly for squirrels."
Did you know Islamabad is now a safer city than London and Paris?
Given the expected improvements in battery efficiency over time and the brand Tesla built for itself as THE company to buy from if you want an EV, I would say Tesla's best days are yet to come.
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> tyranny of the masses

Seeing California's proposition process, I agree. It also shows how disfunctional representative democracy is.
In what way would it be abused? "To use this library, you must enable warnings in your build"? Yeah, that's gonna fly. If your code won't compile with default options, nobody will want to use it.

This is just a solution in search of a problem.
I dunno. I want a Tesla as my next car and a lot of folks have said similarly. I am tired of getting gas every 2 weeks or so and I am really tired of oil changes. If I can charge at home and at work that seems to be just right. I'd probably still have a bigger gas family hauler but day to day a Tesla.
Who'd be credible competitors to Tesla? Old ICE companies are still struggling to even compete with Tesla's 2012 Model S.

It might be that if anyone beats Tesla, it'd be some of the tech giants. Like Apple.
Penguins also like to have fun :).
Hey, at least he didn't say Halo. (rimshot)
That’s genius. Create a risk profile for each identifiable vehicle.
So what do you propose? Rarely is there any other usable access link
I'm not convinced that there's a significant market there when Microsoft is giving away Teams. Teams sucks bogwater, generally, but A/V and screen-sharing is the one thing that it does better than average.

For the most part, enterprises are already using Office 365 for their email, or if not that then at least for the Office suite, and Teams is bundled in for free.
This article is from 2013 and is not relevant anymore. Dozens of concepts useful even for writing desktop apps with PHP (I don't claim that it is the best choice) were presented in book "PHP Beyond the Web".
Machine learning. How can you say no to machine learning? Did I mention machine learning?
I've said this to most naysayers, but AWS aims itself at businesses, who are much more forward with their pocketbook and lawyers in protecting their privacy. AWS can't safely market data stored in their systems without running the risk of being abandoned and sued into oblivion.

Even Google doesn't dare monetize data stored in their enterprise customer's databases.

EDIT: Failing to offer a privacy-enhancing feature, and actively compromising and mining your customers data are quite different scenarios.
Send a DMCA request? Since he's not following your license, he's infringing on your copyright.

edit: looks like other commenters are saying that it was previously licensed under apache 2, so this advice might not apply (I initially assumed it was GPL3).
> Fun fact: medieval serfs had about 4 months of 'free' time each year. Of course it still included housekeeping and various chores, but it was nothing compared to the load of full time employment that everyone experiences today almost all year round.

I can only speak for myself here, but I work a full-time job as an SWE.

There are 52 weeks in a year, I have weekends off - that there is 104 days, or (roughly) 3 months of "free time" each year.

Factor in my PTO allowances, plus the fact that I only work 8 hour days, factor out the commute time (about 1-1.5 hours each day), and sleep time...

I'm pretty sure I have at least 4 months of "free time" available each year.

Ultimately, though, it's not the amount - it's what you do with that free time that matters.
I agree with this sentiment but archive.org didn't work for me anyways, I got slightly farther down the page before the paywall obscured the content.
I can see one good reason: the rest of the auto industry is playing catch up with Tesla. Nobody else afaik is even able to do over the air updates (reliable updates, that is). They have a charging network, the competition basically doesn't and can't seem to get their act together, and that's not even really a technological issue.
I'm going to have to pass. Best of luck to you.
Is there any hard data showing that someone significant amount of short selling is caused by speculation and it's not hedging?

Short selling is used used as a hedge against downside risk of a long position. It's reasonable strategy for big investors who have huge stake on Tesla to short sell to manage the risk.

>A "short sell against the box" is also known as "shorting against the box." Sellers use this technique when they do not actually want to close out their position on a stock. The strategy is generally used by investors who believe the stock is due for a fall in price, but do not wish to sell because they believe the fall is temporary and the stock will rebound quickly.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sellagainstthebox.asp
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Yeah, but if you ignore that part of the article, it's a pretty good description of burnout.
How do you feel about opening up your company's git repositories to non-experts? I think an adequate example of the difference in expertise between an average software developer and a cancer researcher means we should probably open up your git repos to a 9 year old.

Most of the people in this thread have about as much reason to "share ideas" with cancer researchers as a 9 year old has to share ideas about your line-of-business form-over-data web application.
Musk is a disrupter and he is disrupting this industry turning it on its head. We've been stuck in the same boring recycled car designs and concepts for decades and here comes Elon with the promise of self driving flying cars on their way to Mars with SpaceX in the background making incredible strides forward everyday.

To be honest I think this valuation is too low. Elon continues to eat the competition's lunch on a daily basis with new ideas and approaches to just about every industry he touches. The competition will be left in the dust once he straps some rockets on his new model Ts.

All the incumbents are slow, fat, and happy with a lot of inertia and management layers from decades of success. They became too fat and too comfortable. They all look old fashioned by comparison to what Musk is producing.

EDIT: Top comment is disparaging Musk's success here. I think in all honesty there are a lot of people who are envious of Musk so they will always have something negative to say when he or his companies are in the news.
Slightly annoyed as I bought Half Life a couple of weeks ago.
Even more annoyed, as it turned out that it doesn't run on Windows 10 - it installs and launches, but isn't capable of any sort of useful FPS.
I ended up installing Windows XP in a virtual machine and then installing HL on that - I get native resolution and fps that matches my monitor.

Steam does have history selling games that can't be played. I bought Max Payne a few years ago at only to find that doesn't run on Windows 10 either (iirc I used WINE that time).
It seems like the authors made the unspoken assumption that the product would not significantly embiggen the market. That seems very reasonable in this case.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Copy-Paste
That's a great thread
https://progardenreviews.com/best-self-propelled-lawn-mowers...
How would it help with creating self-driving cars?
Was that actually a major part of the value of the company? It probably would've been if the standard the part was intended for ever became widespread, but it may well be that running the production primarily for the occasional single-part purchaser simply wasn't profitable.
Depends on how market will act in that regard. If it's profitable to pick up at exact location then if Uber tries to optimize by sending you to a pickup location then someone else will jump in to provide the more luxurious option. It's really hard to say how exactly market will reach equilibrium but it necessarily has to be better than it is right now without the self driving aspect
I have been following the issue since start of this month from Chinese media, where is the covering up?

Where is due to the pressure part? At first there had not been showing enough evidence of the virus's capacity to spread from human to human, which only confirmed recently because the medical staff gets infected and 2 cases in Guangdong, so the alert level is much lower than it is now.

You can blame the Chinese authority for not fully predicting the severity of the situation, but intentionally covering stuff up is a different accusation you better have strong evidence to support that.

Some people indeed had some weird imagination.
Then use a generic email client instead of Gmail mobile app or web email interface.
1st DDG result: Homelessness and severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: scoping review

NCBI link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611071/
I get what you mean in the larger sense, but here that would suggest there are masses of people who voted for poisoned water, which no one would do. You can certainly argue the polarization of US/ democratic politics in the time of the Internet has led to one side adopting a nihilism where they would prefer to die living "The way things were" than accept inclusive change.

And yes, I am definitely biased.
“Wood is cheap because it is abundant”

Wood comes from a living organism. If we destroy an ecosystem or habitat, then it won’t be renewed. We have engaged in...

Overfishing, fish are gone

Kelp forests are gone

Coral reefs are disappearing

Many species are gone

One third of the world’s farmland has become incapable of sustaining food using normal production, depleted nutrients (desertification)

We are also killing biodiversity on the planet

Insect populations plummeting

Bird populations

And you’re sitting here thinking about monetary costs only.

It’s like a guy sitting in a house on fire playing a video game of Red vs Blue yelling YEA!!!! WE ARE WINNING!!!

Except we ALL live in this house, and we have to shut off the game and put out the fire like NOW.
If they make voice chat require nitro, it would most likely kill the product extremely fast (my guess would be that people move to Steam, but there are other options as well). For things that voice chat is generally used (usually some kind of team based game), vast majority of people definitely don't want to limit their team mate pool to people with Nitro subscription.

Requiring certain number of nitro boosts might not be as serious, but that would likely just make people consolidate servers more (possibly split text and voice servers, but at that point they might as well consider other options for voice).
Software magic. The same reason Apple is valued more than Nokia in 2008, even though Nokia sold many more phones. Once you have software, you can do magical things like upgrading the car’s capabilities, create an eco system for various apps allowing the car to slowly creep into your life. Imagine someday using your car as a backup battery for your home, now, who wouldn’t want that? Allow refueling at hours of day when electricity is cheaper.

It’s the story we have mostly seen before. Software adds a new dimension to existing solutions and decimates the competitors, because they can’t compete in that dimension.
The biggest advantage they have is their supercharging network. Every manufacturer is focusing on ADAS and electric cars but no one is focusing on the network. That is their biggest advantage and the only reason to buy a Tesla, granted their cars are great but without the network it’s just an expensive commute car.
Children already grown?

These days, for various reasons people are having children in their mid-to-late 30s, and waiting closer and closer to 40 to start having children (many then find out they can't because they left it too late).

For many, the children are not grown and old enough to leave home until the parents hit mid 50s.
I mean, do your best, sure. But I've literally been offered jobs because friends and relatives have connections that aren't available to other people. I was thinking this morning that I've written a lot of resumes, but mostly to give to employers as a formality. I've never been unemployed between jobs partially because I started life with a number of advantages not given to others. This isn't a political thing; it's just the facts about my life.
Because it isn’t just cars. It’s energy infrastructure.

Battery plants, storage, charging stations, solar roofs, AND personal transportation.

Aristocrats are humans and get the environment thing is real. They’re talking about Tesla in a way we can’t see.

We live in a managed society from an information perspective. Think about security in IT? The entire premise is no one has all the details at any one time.

Do you really believe they’re discussing just car sales with what he’s been building?
That’s the thing about burnout; it feels great because you’re so productive and respected ... until one day your energy is gone. It might take years, it depends on how much support you get from people around at managing your stress, and of course it depends on your own ability to manage it too. I’m skeptical of how effective toys like a Rolex and booze is long term at easing the stress.

My ex-wife felt like she was on top of the world until she was burnt out and it developed into full fledged depression at age 27. I’m not saying everyone will end up like her, everyone won’t develop lung cancer from smoking either.
Outdated or not, you can learn an awful lot using Borland Turbo C. You can implement any data structure you like.
The original democracy was actually designed to appoint random representatives.
What we are seeing is not democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
There's also TA bots. Both algorithmic and human traders who will eschew a stock at $280 but consider it a buy at $430 because it crossed some magical technical level, without anything fundamental having changed about the underlying company.

These traders tend to conduct the opposite of the value strategy, often buying all-time highs for no other reason than it hit an all time high.
I use Vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
> I for the life of me cannot figure out what could possibly justify this valuation for Tesla.

Tesla is innovative, and they deserve praise.

That said: finance is prone to bubbles and animal spirits. At one point investors will understand that old producers like FCA or Ford sell better, produce more and innovate in a prudent way. Tesla bubble will pop, and their valuation will get more realistic.
I've played HL and HL2 on Windows 10 and not had any of the issues you describe -- what hardware are you using?
That upgrade process on the app is a three step-process when two confirmations. That's not including unlocking a phone, opening the Tesla app and selecting the upgrades menu...

Quite impossible to "fat-finger" it.
I don't know how to value a stock, but after riding in my friend's Tesla a few times on road trips. I seriously doubt I'll buy a ICE car ever again unless for specific purposes (mini-van). I know 10 people who owns Tesla, the 6 or so friends I've spoken about it feel the same way as I do. If this keeps up, I think Tesla's stock price is under valued.
It really depends on a number of factors and how severe the burnout is. If there are other factors involved (stressful commute, interpersonal problems), make sure you deal with those.

If the burnout is mild and you're just working too hard, the solution is to take a break and reduce your hours.

If you're starting to suffer from CFS, then the best solution is a long-term break from work, and a serious re-evaluation of whether you want to continue working there.
You can break messages off into other topics, and we have one long-lived channel per stream, which I've found helps (you don't always want to make a new thread to post a one-off link).
WRT Uber, market seems to value recurring revenue streams higher than non recurring streams (ie average customer buys a new car every 7 years, likely from different manufacturers, but an Uber customer uses the product a few times per month). Auto makers could be valued more highly if they can sell subscriptions to something.
I am betting Accujack was referring to boomers. And in particular, those of the conservative persuasion.

I could be wrong, though.
Just a few things that come to mind:

- Because you still need to bill your customers even when the net is down or slow,

- It works faster and more reliable on old, low on memory PC that you probably have. Also can work with old printers, barcode readers and pretty much anything out there,

- Power of habit (a big deal),

- Don't want to keep your accounting details on a remote server. This is probably of less importance for restaurants, but very important point for various trading companies, as it's not uncommon for someone to bribe accounting firms to leak info on competition.
it's not the same use-case, manpages are detailed instructions, tldr is just the 7 most used commands
Hello Zwieback,

thanks for coming back to me on that matter. I am a MPG alumni myself :) Would you be up for a short chat? My email address is in my profile.

Cheers!
Serfdom is a better metaphor. Microserfs was published in 1994:

“The plot of the novel has two distinct movements: the events at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and the move to Silicon Valley and the "Oop!" project.”

”The novel begins in Redmond as the characters are working on different projects at Microsoft's main campus. Life at the campus feels like a feudalistic society, with Bill Gates as the lord, and the employees the serfs. The majority of the main characters...are living together in a "geek house", and their lives are dedicated to their projects and the company. Daniel's foundations are shaken when his father, a longtime employee of IBM, is laid off. The lifespan of a Microsoft coder weighs heavily on Daniel's mind.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs

Turns out the author was onto something:

”When Microserfs first came out, most people thought it was a tightly focused anthropological look at a tiny group of historically transient information workers in the American Pacific Northwest. It turns out they were forming a template of the way everyone else in the world works in and around information. As time went on it became a lot broader, instead of a lot narrower, which is what happened with Generation X.”

— Coupland, The Times, June 1998
I much prefer foldersize to windirstat
Really makes you wonder what the criteria is for being investigated.

Maybe I’m naive, but I find it hard to believe that there are 36,000 yearly iCloud accounts with probable cause to be tied to terrorism activity and/or national security matters, especially if that’s only in the US.

As someone with a (half) Middle Eastern heritage and name (but born and raised in the US) I’ve experienced my fair share of nuanced discrimination at airports and one weird situation with what I assume was the FBI. There’s always the ignorant TSA agent who raises an eyebrow when you report coming back from the Middle East... like why would anyone ever travel there if it weren’t for terrorism?

I’m a pretty average techie so I’m not too worried about anyone going through my iCloud backups, but I feel like there should be some more transparency around this stuff. I feel like if you’re secretly investigated but discovered to be innocent, shouldn’t you deserve to know you were spied on? I guess that’s what FOIA requests are for.

The war on terrorism feels like a game of whack-a-mole sometimes.
How is this "rapidly decaying third-party documentation" in any way that man isn't?
This seems like a mean-spirited leap. The quote says that they want to have a diverse team because their product's userbase is diverse, and you're saying they don't think people are capable of empathizing with people of a different skin color. Their intentions and/or implementations may not match their stated goal for all I know, but it seems like based on very little you've declared that this quote is racist.
Sure, and nationalizing or limiting the scope of credit reporting are both fine ideas.

It is still a third party collecting a fact about someone and repeating it to others, to the data subject's detriment and against his will.
"unable to account for costs that are farther in the future than their own lifetime."

...if ever 'ok, boomer' were an appropriate response, it would be here.

Some of us will be alive for quite a while, relative to the current rate of changes...
Including a video, which makes it clear that the inside diamond really is disconnected.
I’m not an expert so forgive what might be a naive question.

Even if the languages had not split, could there still not be regionalised influences on place names?
Demo seems broken on Firefox 73.
The lady who developed the app is a different person from the one who suffered the burnout. If you want to understand or cope with burnout, best just ignore the last part of the article.
during a business downturn, it can be hard to get consulting contracts as everyone is under pressure to cut costs. That's when having a viable software business can be helpful.
Tesla ARR (edit as it seems to get some people confused: "Annualized Run Rate") is something like $25B/year. That for tech company easily makes for $250B+ valuation. (and yes i do own some)

>than Volkswagen

those dinosaurs are still not getting it. They continue to stay car companies instead of becoming tech companies. Paradigm shift must be very well familiar to tech people here at HN.
We asked teens what adults are missing about tech. This was best response (2019)