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> From the looks of things, Tesla has crossed into prolonged profitability

How? They lost $800 million in 2019.

> Additionally, because Tesla can self fund and doesn't have to rely on the markets to raise money, they don't have to care very much about short sellers driving the price down.

They still have increasing bills and huge liabilities. Acting like they have no risks if they don't raise money is crazy.
I remember very strongly fancying a girl when I was in high school, and that's exactly how I described it at the time: it was as if a new subsystem had "come online" enabling me to feel more complex emotions. I compared it to Lt. Commander Data's emotion chip.

Interesting to see empirical neurological grounds for what I subjectively felt happening at the time.
It bled over into clients too. You would tell your client to connect to "google.com" and it was hardcoded to connect to "xmpp.google.com", with no option to choose a different server.

If you had multiple domains that you wanted to connect the servers would also default to xmpp.other.domain.

If you wanted to connect to test.my.domain to test2.my.domain you were SOL. In a lab environment you could hack it with local DNS fuckery, but to actually deploy it would have been a nightmare. The whole thing assumed the entire domain would be served by one single server and all clients would always have good connectivity.

Their old IRC model was just to have a local server at each site with a cache. When the network went down (which it did frequently), the local users would still have connectivity, and when the link came back up they would get the backscroll. Replicating this sort of config with XMPP turned out to be very difficult, and eventually the bosses relented and let them keep IRC, or at least they passed the problem off to someone else after I left.
Their guidance for US production is relatively low compared to some of their guidance in the past. I'm guessing this means sluggish demand for the Model Y and a more cost-conservative approach to launching the product.
For mobile, there's already 'Conversations': https://github.com/siacs/Conversations
I think there's a lot of other great options on the table too. For example, we could form an international alliance with countries like Canada, Germany, UK, Japan... If a drug is legal/approved in one of those countries not only is it approved here automatically but we can also buy drugs from those countries.

We could further lower the barrier to entry for patients to get drugs by forcing the least dangerous varieties to be over the counter. For example, there's little reason an Albuterol inhaler requires a prescription. It's basically impossible to OD on and is not addictive.

Even if these specific ideas aren't the right solutions, I think we've been forced into a false dichotomy of basically the status quo or nationalization. I think we can be much more creative.
Oh, Mercola is a complete and total quack. Among other things, he says AIDS comes from psychological stress, not from HIV, sunscreen causes skin cancer, vaccines cause autism, and microwaving food destroys its nutrients. Conveniently, he sells many dietary supplements and knick-knacks to protect you from the fear-mongery nonsense he spouts.
When buying call options the max loss is the purchase price. There's not a symmetric return as there is with owning stocks directly.

The reason you can make so much with so little capital is that the probability of the stock price moving above strike price of the call option is low assuming that the strike price is much higher than the current price and the expiration date is soon
Your question is incomprehensible. Please clarify.
The key word in SEO is "Optimization". What is the author optimizing for? He's a developer who's maintained a dev blog for many years. Chances are when he started blogging, he wasn't thinking about selling e-books and courses or about competing for business with other developers who pursued a similar path.

That is the polar opposite of what "Optimization" means for businesses. Usually they're in a competitive product category, and there are lots of competitors who're not only churning out blog posts to boost their organic search hits, but also buying your product's keywords and advertising against you.

Online discoverability is a zero-sum game, so the tactics tends to be fairly scorched-earth compared to what they would for a personal website.

If you Googled "flavio copes", you wouldn't see an ad at the top of the search page that reads "Flavio is a bad developer. Click here if you want a real 10X developer on your project".
Related from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20966027
I used to live in London at a time when the fact that mushrooms were technically legal seemed to suddenly come to light. Oxford street was full of places selling them, as were various markets. There was lots of branding and marketing that appeared as if from nowhere.

Honestly the kind of overnight switch from not being visible anywhere, to seeming to be on every street corner reminds me of being in SF when Lime and the other scooter startups blanketed the city seemingly overnight.
But you can use your iPad for all these other things too. That’s the point of this. There are work arounds in both directions.

Nothing is stopping you from using an iPad to VNC into a Windows PC on AWS to access that website. It’s inconvenient and complex, just like using your PC on a treadmill, but it’s certainly possible.
All I can say is, self driving cars can't get here quickly enough.

Why?

1) Stupid people will drive cars while on hallucinogens, which famously distort perception and judgement.

2) No sobriety field test is available for hallucinogens. Probably none will be for years.

3) Patrol officers will get poor and inconsistent training for misbehavior-based sobriety field tests for hallucinogens.

What could go wrong?
> What I do not understand is, what the company performance has anything to do with its stock performance? It's not like they are paying dividends, right?

Stocks are valued at the long term discounted value of their future cash flows. Are the markets always accurate and rational? No, but that's how they are intended to be valued.
Traces of Peter Rice: Pushing the Boundaries of Engineering and Design
Probably they're overselling at a much worse ratio than I described, or there are other problems in their infrastructure causing poor performance (likely both). It's not at all uncommon for ISPs to put even like 10,000 customers on a 10gbps line. 10 years ago that actually would have been fine, but bandwidth usage per customer has increased since then and naturally ISPs don't upgrade fast enough.
The frustration is not that it's different or less, it's that it could be better if apple was actually willing to try.

You don't need to sacrifice composability just because of the tablet form factor. You need to be careful with the input methods, sure, but composability on a tablet could actually be better than on a PC if designed well, but we'll never know until someone bothers to try.
Especially annoying because we used to play it all the time at the office and we've all got macbooks.
Why is that a bull thesis though? If the growth is that dependent on subsidies?
Regeneration: The Amphibian’s Opus
Yes. Submitters: please don't rewrite titles like that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please post it as a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(Submitted title was "The Engineering behind this is superb". Which it probably is.)
I haven't yet. I'm currently dealing with such a project at work, that to be frank is impacting my mental health.

In the end, we are problem solvers first, programmers second.

If it's just bad code, you can solve it by just dealing with it as is whilst slowly improving it.
> We actually do nab people

You've actually escalated to assassinating people (ref: Soleimani)
I respect that perspective as I believe it's an experience many have had with drugs. My anecdotal experience with psychedelics (psilocybin specifically) is that it is a qualitatively different substance. Non-toxic, non-addictive (experience actually discourages frequent usage), and genuinely healing. It has helped me personally and many I have spoken to with depression and a range of other mental illnesses. The key to efficacy with these substances is education and responsible use, neither of which will happen in the current environment of criminalization.
I'm pretty sure I'm not listening to Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me" for the rest of my life.
I'm gonna need some context there. To begin with you can't just donate to support a bill. What you probably mean is that he donated to an organization or politician who supported Prop 8, so say that.

The important detail is whether the funds were his personal funds, or whether they belonged to his company: i.e. was he acting on his own behalf, or on behalf of an organization?

It's an inane question, though, because the inane point you're trying to make is that individual privacy might protect homophobes. That's true, but it would also protect gays and allies who donated to oppose proposition 8. The fact that privacy allows people to secretly donate to political campaigns is the point. Part of the reason gay marriage is legal today is that people donated to people like Harvey Milk, at a time when donating to the campaign of a gay governor was risking your job and social standing.

Human rights still apply to humans who do bad things. If you are willing to give up human rights to fight bad people trying to do bad things, then those rights won't be there to protect good people trying to do good things, either.
Impressive that the article manages to be that long without once mentioning the name of the engineer who ran the project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rice#Sydney_Opera_House

https://www.arup.com/perspectives/traces-of-peter-rice

There's a chapter about the Sydney Opera House in his autobiography.
Are they scaling? Gross margin is down YoY? That's the exact opposite of scaling.
"Psychedelic capital of the world decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms"
Thanks for this! Didn't realize this was possible.
wow, you werent kidding. some folks made out like bandits. what a rush.
It used to be common to track the mac address of customers that pinged the in-store wifi. Not sure how much this happens now that some phones randomize mac addresses.
Though we should shed some tears for those who just try to sell their apps and make a living, after already being ripped off for expensive equipment and an annual developer account fee.

If Apple would care, it would be possible to charge a smaller commission based on the app category, and to vaive annual developer account fees for verified open source developers.
China is one of the biggest markets in the world and is committed to the rapid deployment of EVs.

Unlike the US, those subsides will be around for a while. China also gave Tesla very favorable loan terms for the China Gigafactory.
The code book has longer dwell time, though.
That's super cool that you have access to a pipe organ. I spent a lot of time in my youth building a pipe organ with my dad and the church we went to. They are amazing instruments.

I'm having a hard time understanding how you'd have a hard time implementing an organ control setup over MIDI. Like I get that there there is no specific tutti setting, but why couldn't you just have all the ranks be CC channels and then have the various settings be program numbers, so tutti then is jsut calling up the program with all the stops open?

I do play a real piano, and I haven't been seeing problems with MIDI in the time I've been using it. Like, I've seen a lot of issues with piano synthesizer/sampler implementations... but the basic interface of the piano seems (at least to me) fairly easy to represent in MIDI...

Can you help me out by describing what kinds of problems you're seeing?

Like I say, could just be my own lack of experience, but you've bade me curious what I'm possibly missing.
There are also several people I know who have done so at a craps table. That doesn't make it a sustainable or recommendable activity.
In my case it was just Python using `pdb` so it wasn't so bad. Though it does get extremely janky if you, say, run a server and hit it with multiple requests that all hit a breakpoint... you end up with your input being sloshed across multiple debug sessions!
There's a lot of space between those extremes, nobody is claiming that idle containers are consuming entire CPU cores. But idle virtualised machines are interrupting your host OS a lot more than you might realise.
It may not be inherent but IMO that is just hair-splitting, the important part is that it is there (also FWIW i had PostThreadMessage in mind, not PostMessage) and is very convenient to use. I've used it a bunch of times whenever i worked on Win32 tools that i wanted threading by sending commands to other threads to do stuff (e.g. enumerating the directory structure for an asset browser in a game editor at the background to avoid stopping the UI) and having them reply back with messages about the results.

And honestly i never had any bugs with that, if anything i've found it the easiest approach to understand when it comes to inter-thread communication.
What is the purpose of this? It seems more like a pet project than a serious release considering there's no roadmap.

What is your motivation? Surely you're aware of the abundant amount of XMPP client applications that have existed for the better part of the last 20 years?
Did you use a deep cycle battery? Letting a standard lead acid battery go to 0 is a surefire way to kill it.
There's a reason all growth curves tend to sigmoid (for instances / total births or cases w/ time), and steady-state, cyclic, or boom-bust. And ultimately, of course, extinction.

OTOH, 2019-nCoV might be the answer to self-sustaining fusion we've been looking for.
A lot of assumptions going on in this comment. You should actually consider testing some of them to see if they're true or just mistakes on your part.

Putting that aside: developers who do this kind of (difficult, tedious and thankless) work are entitled to ask compensation for their effort, on top of everything else they do for free.
Woops I had my ad blocker on...
Facebook’s Revenue and Profit Rise Again, Despite Controversies
Exactly, Tk looks good on all platforms at latest since 8.5 and the new engine. The relevant tutorial:

https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/intro.html

Which exists since 2008.

Here's the minimal example for Tcl, Perl, Python and Ruby (note -- Tk doesn't have to be used only in Tcl!) with the pictures of the native looking interfaces on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux (all three):

https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/firstexample.html
What's the point in this comment? What good do you possibly think could have came from saying that? Not only are you pointing out something that they have already considered, you're pointing it out in an arrogant way, right after they say that they had already considered it and wanted something that would render your comment void, and on top of that, you end it with insulting the project.

I'm genuinely fascinated: what was your mindset when posting this?
I take your comment to mean that the damage is caused by the choice of embedded scripting language being Tcl, rather than the fact that EDA engineers aren't software engineers and don't build testable, maintainable, reliable code bases.

What would have been a better choice? Lisp, as in AutoCad? Something else?
They appear to be giving conservative figures this time around.
> Regardless of how you want to redefine the phrase trickle down, your use of it here betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject

Care to explain how it doesn't fit the template I described?

> this will REDUCE the monopoly power of the large incumbent drug companies

This is at best naive. The approval process isn't the problem. Government granted monopolies are.

> Which has exactly nothing to do with insulin

Uhm, yes, and that was in response to the free-market nonsense, not insulin.
I'm pretty sure Gartner predicted that by 2010 there would be 15,000,000,000 Palm Pilot users.
> because the market expected the company not to continue operations.

The market did not expect the company to cease operations and that was particularly not the expectations baked into this quarterly result (the bar Tesla had to jump over this quarter). A small group of agitator shorts pushed that narrative, which very little of the market actually believed as witnessed by Tesla's persistently outsized market value (pre rally it was still worth more than Ford).

Companies the size of Tesla don't trade with $40-$50 billion market caps when the market actually thinks they're going to stop operating soon.
They were dropped because getting them fully correct and implemented was really hard and required a lot of work that nobody really wanted to pay for.
I think that largely depends on the class of drugs and their addictive potential. Generally psychedelics are viewed as having lower potential for addiction or abuse than other classes of drugs, such as opiates or even alcohol and, I think most importantly, steps such as decriminalization may help with broader arguments that would allow for more research in to the medicinal uses and effects of these drugs.

Psilocybin in particular shows great promise in helping people cope with addiction to other substances in rather productive ways. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201705/radical-n...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007659/
Dino is a xmpp client, so no server. You have to create an account on a xmpp server to use it, which you can do on a public server or you can install your own server otherwise.
Your friends needs a xmpp account somewhere (not required to be on the same domain) and can use any xmpp client to chat with you.
how is that tracked?
Renewables are extremely cheap only because they produce power when it isn't needed and therefore is literally worth nothing.

As for batteries, the biggest batteries in service now are 150MWh. If we want to power the world with renewable, we'll need TWh of batteries. We just don't know how to build something like that. We haven't got the technology (lithium isn't an option at these scales).

Renewables have an effect only as long as you have a steerable baseload of coal, gas or nuclear to actually feed the demand. They have a positive effect only as long as you haven't phased out all of your coal. As long as there is no coal burner left, they'll set a high limit on emissions. Unless, of course, we build as many nuclear plants as possible in the meanwhile instead of masses of gas firing plants (400g/CO2/KWh).

We could build batteries and much more solar and wind power plant instead, but even if we suppose a non-existent cheap battery technology, providing large scale power this way would be tremendously expensive (5 to 30 times more expensive than nuclear, depending upon the hypotheses).

Solar has an actual output of 15% its theoretical power. Wind is about 30% (onshore) to 40% (offshore). So to produce x GW of power, first you'll need x * 3 to x * 6 GW of installed capacity; second you'll need additional capacity and batteries to offset times of no wind or no sun. Figuring the price of several hundred GWh of battery storage is left as an exercise to the reader, but it can't be cheap. Plus the grid enhancements needed to transport the additional peak capacity from power plants to batteries, etc.
By “they” I assumed the GP was talking about Facebook being able to predict Macy’s earnings before they were publicly announced. That would be pretty interesting to see :)
Docker for Mac has always included some settings to tune the VM too. If your whole computer grinds to a halt because of Docker, it's because you probably allocated too many resources to the VM. I have half of my laptop CPU/RAM dedicated to the docker VM and while sometimes the fans go a little crazy I've never had the desktop lock-up or anything like that.
Spend your efforts on reading the docs instead, as repeatedly mentioned in my comments and all docs, the purpose of the projects is to compare against C#'s 101 LINQ Examples - that's the entire purpose of the series, which is what you have an objection to, which is your problem, telling others to change the purpose of their projects to suit your personal taste is pretty naive and futile.

You're complaining that the projects does what it set out to do, which is your issue, so go ahead and create the series that does what you want - I promise I wont tell you to change it to suit my tastes.
If it looks too good to be true, it usually is.
Gogo's satellite-based service isn't bad at all.
Thank you for checking it out!
> Unlike the US, those subsides will be around for a while.

Why? That doesn't seem like a stable investment thesis.

> China also gave Tesla very favorable loan terms for the China Gigafactory.

And if Tesla doesn't meet a number of targets the Chinese government takes complete ownership of the factory. They didn't give the good financing terms out of goodwill. Tesla entered an incredibly risky proposition with its Chinese factory.
That's what the comment I was responding to claimed - "grind to a halt" was a quote.
Indeed, this is true.

I've often been super frustrated by things that receive MIDI: they don't expose certain controls to CC, or they don't respond to multiple channels, or they don;'t pass certain information to the Thru port.

But often what is frustrating is that it's do-able in MIDI, it just wasn't implemented well on the device.
Build RN app on Android, if it's successful then do a light port to iOS and decommission native team.

Seems like a fantastic experiment IMO.
Living with the Coronavirus
If using mixers as such is made explicitly illegal (it's not yet anywhere as far as I know, but it could change), there's no need to have some particular BTC tainted forever because we can follow the money trail.

Let's suppose we see some nontrivial amount (so, not $100 but $100k) of BTC being cashed out to dollars or by buying some legal goods, and we see that this BTC recently passed through a mixer. KYC means that the exchange or merchant will identify "oh, that's Bob". And we can ask Bob - well, where did that money came from? And either he can provide some evidence that he got that money in a legitimate transaction from Charlie (who can then be processed in the same manner), or he can be convicted either of (a) using a mixer if he did so himself; (b) violating money laundering laws by doing large anonymous transactions if he did get money from some 'Charlie' that can't be identified; or (c) violating money laundering laws by refusing to disclose the source of these large cash-like payments.

It's not as simple and some particular nuances of the existing laws would need to be adjusted to make this process work, but that's something governments could and would do.

Not for small amounts that can obviously be laundered easily and nobody cares about that, but it would be quite plausible to ensure that no legit organization would touch a million dollars worth of BTC without ensuring a proper paper trail of how it got there; and anybody intentionally passing 100 BTC through a mixer would just make it difficult for themselves to spend those 100 BTC - because every recipient of large amounts will ask for a proper source for your funds, and a mixer is not one.
There is this fun backup tool, that have yet to set up.

https://www.znapzend.org/
I would never invest in any company which the bus factor is 1.
The trick I've learned is to never assume I'm an expert, and always question basics. It's suprisingly easy to do, and makes honest the most paramount. Also, this perspective has made me look at folks who are always trying to convince others how expert they are as silly and annoying.