skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They never had a profitable year.

I think you're trying too hard.

Is Tesla overvalued? Very overvalued? Reasonable debate to have given where the market cap is at now.

However Tesla very obviously isn't being valued today based on whether they turned a profit in the past. Companies aren't valued by their profit from five years ago. That they have never had a profitable year, doesn't dictate whether they will in the future. Tesla has grown by nearly 300% in 3.x years. The market is primarily concerned about growth and cash burn rate, limiting excess red ink, not that they must immediately generate immense profit.

Tesla has also shown a drastic improvement in their operating picture. From negative $1.6 billion in operating income in 2017, to negative $252m in 2018, to positive $80m in 2019, to positive $841 million in the last four quarters. Investors tend to pay attention to direction in particular, betting on where the company is going.
I mean Musk said the stock was overvalued at $700, fretting over whether to raise money at $1400 or $1700 seems a bit silly.
Do you have to be strong in other forms of calculus prior to learned lambda calculus?
> Steve Martin once said about Brad Pitt

He actually said it about Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal at the Oscars.
> In the US, legislation is a bottleneck for tiny houses.

It’s not just tiny houses. On average, large developers in San Jose pay > 20% of the price of new home construction for government overhead (unnecessary work, permitting fees, rubber-stamp yielding consultants, etc).

On top of that, they often add a year or so delay to projects because they intentionally understaff the permitting offices, and created a system designed to block new construction.

We’re building a house, and it took over a year to go from architectural plans to permit. Twelve offices had to approve the plans.

All in, it will cost >2x the price of the house to complete construction. Of course, now we’re up to our eyeballs in debt and have pushed retirement out about 10 years. (Backing out by the time we realized we had been trapped would have been even worse, financially.)
Thanks for pointing this publication out, looks pretty interesting!

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/archives.html
Also many people who "invest" in physical bullion also invest in things like silver. A 1 oz silver eagle is basically a $20 bill. Gold can be traded down to silver if the economy is in that state.

There's also 1/10 ounce coins and other things.
His experience does translate pretty well to typical computer workload analysis. Realize he has to digest, at least partially, most of the kernel commits.

Someone made a comment about special purpose instructions being the future. I think that is true, in part, but those instructions might be better off on an accelerator of some kind, or at least interfaced to the chip in a way that is better than how AVX512 must be used.
Recent HN post about counterfeiting of Maxim Integrated DS18B20 temperature sensor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23815839
Yes, they are expensive, but their products are generally of really high performance. In some cases, there are no actual competitors. Just take a look at the AD936x-class of RF ICs. What is the alternative to a part like that?

ADI's documentation--relative to many chip makers--is outstanding. They have EVBs for almost all of their parts, open source hardware designs as well as firmware--and support that does not require you to tell them you'll order 100,000 pieces next year.

I wish as much as anyone else that they sold their products for less, but the market clearly supports their existing prices.
It's a triple whammy. Compensation is lower, taxes are higher, food is more expensive. Only healthcare is cheaper. It's mostly paid for, prescriptions included, if you work for a company with a decent health plan. Cars are also more expensive overall (ownership + insurance).
It used to be my benchmark for data sheets, but it has gone downhill. An example is the datasheet for the HMC6300, which has some wrong register values, and other errors. Of course that's Hittite pedigree. The ADI website still sucks; I wish they would have kept LTI or Hittites. Obvious the web designers are not EE.
It was 30 years ago but I still get nice warm memories from AD documentation.
So many people start with the result they want (more small companies) and then smash everything with a hammer pretending that is the sensible, justified way to get there with no side effects...
The reason house prices are so high is that local voters restrict new development, which enriches old homeowners at the expense of new buyers. Different regulatory regimes give different results, e.g in Japan.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho... (paywalled)
That's a great point I hadn't considered, thank you.
Volkswagen once got to be the world most valuable public traded company ...
This isn't proof of anything except that the makeup of content there has changed over time. You can find write ups of how people like Dread Pirate Roberts or other large Marketplace players were caught and it doesn't seem like it was due to compromises in Tor, naturally if there are backdoors that 3 letter agencies are using they wouldn't advertise it but that doesn't seem to be the case.
As an aside, you're using the word 'populism' like it is the same thing as demagoguery. Populism isn't always dishonest and anti-intellectual, just like elitism (its antipode) isn't always honest and benign. I think using populism that way is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Populism can cleave to rational well-researched ideas in the face of an elite establishment that is opposed to them, although since it is often used dishonestly it's something to be wary of, it shouldn't be rejected on its face in all cases.
Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling
Why Trump decision to take responsibility for cyberattack on IRA could backfire
If my post indicated that Signal is working in bad faith, please let me know. That wasn't my intent and I went to a lot of trouble to signal that.

Even people who have done a good job in the past can make mistakes, and this post was written to highlight what I think was a mistake.

ETA: I'm not writing here because I want to have a public argument with you. That's what Twitter is for. I'm curious because you seem to have strong feelings and I respect your opinion, even if I often disagree with it.
I've been a bit short with you because you've written long speculative comments without making any attempt to look up the numbers yourself. That's something to be embarrassed about.

I don't have anything at stake here, personally. I am not a string theorist, nor am I dependent on grant funding. But I've worked in and out of academia as a scientist, and it offends me to see you play-acting as a critic of science without even understanding the lay of the land.
Chrome and android has lot more data than analytics, and if you go that extent to assume Google is lying and using our data, it would be least of my issues of Google using analytics data for displaying ads. I also don't think such a sparse and context dependent data like analytics would help that much to Google for displaying ads. They just want time you spent doing what, which is already present with Google.
Believe me, I love the same things you love about rust. Move semantics, sum types, error handling are all amazing, to say nothing of the ridiculous perf!

I think our difference is I spend a lot of time on graphics and games, where there's a lot of manual tweaking that you have to do. (Is 20px far enough? 25px? Is 1 second long enough for the explosion? Maybe 0.5s instead?) There's just no way to test it outside of rerunning the app.
> I don't care if the super rich have mega mansions and million dollar cars. It is when they start monopolizing essential resources like water, housing etc that it becomes a serious issue.

If you're a billionaire, you quickly run out of mansions and cars to buy for yourself and your money has to go somewhere. This is why you hear statements like "billionaires shouldn't exist" - mass acquisitions are an obvious use of that kind of capital and allow for rent-seeking behaviour on owned assets.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/why-covid-...

>In Florida, the median age of new COVID-19 cases fell from 65 in March to 35 in June.
It seems ADI still hasn't surpassed its all-time high of 108 $ (which it reached in 2000), though it's awfully close. Then again if we add the inflation we are still nowhere close the earlier valuation.
Pixel hosted somewhere and then request fingerprinting possibly. Client , IP, country, etc
The Ecstasy of 2020 [video]
I don't think Jio's game is to squeeze out revenue from the cheap data users. They've openly admitted to using Deep-packet Inspection techniques and I believe data harvesting is where the main long-term game looks to be for them.

If you're concerned about your privacy, it's usually known in India in the tech circles to stay away from Jio related products.

https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio/from-bi...

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/reliance-jio-...
Yes, this has been going on for a while.

From 2013:

Wall Street played a central role in the last housing boom by supplying easy — and, in retrospect, risky — mortgage financing. Now, investment companies like the Blackstone Group have swooped in, buying thousands of houses in the same areas where the financial crisis hit hardest.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/behind-the-rise-in-h...
> How is getting a less feature rich/buggier kernal due to less devs a good thing?

You don't really believe driving out the alt-right white supremacists would result in a smaller overall community, do you? They're a small group that has an outsized ability to repel other people.
I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what was up - a guy that reported to me was torrenting child porn.
Most 9-5 employees work a lot less than you think. Coders tends to think of productivity as all day long. Any task that isn’t coding is not productive. Look at a day in the life of management or administrative roles and you’ll see why the burn out a lot less.
I guess they're companies you might not hear a lot about if you don't deal with designing electronics but if you do they're all over the place. You probably have at least a dozen components made by these companies within one meter of you as you're reading this message.

If you want practical examples of what they do, go to digikey.com, search for the company names and click randomly on one of the thousands of hits.

Here's a microcontroller: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/M...

Here's an I2C temperature sensor: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/M...

Here's an RF amplifier: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/M...

Here's a 3v3 DC-DC: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/linear-technology-...
I don't know if I'm unique in this regard, but I actually find it rather fun / interesting to work on the "rewrite the legacy system" projects. I generally find it to be an interesting puzzle.
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> With SSO via Google, FB, you have to agree to share data with them

Not sure about Google, but with FB you can choose which information to share with the site.
It was at least true for Comcast in 2007-2011. They were using a third-party agency for this info and then moved it in-house when I was doing contract work for them.

No clue how MPAA letters interfaced with them. Could have been an agreement with them for all I know.
I would assume this is because of how fast flu is evolving and how many strains there are, with different ones predominant in any given year. Covid is (relatively) stable, so you'd just use the same one.
Please stop turning the forum further "to shit" with unsubstantive comments.
> Insanity is at an all time high.

People have always been insane, we've just never been connected to so many people simultaneously and have never experienced so much collective insanity accessible anytime, anywhere.

> You can't have a two-way process where one half is trying their best to communicate, and the other is trying their best not to do so

This is impossible to prove, especially how many "trying their best to communicate" efforts I've seen are simply not good enough. People suck at communicating clearly just as much as they suck at receiving and processing unclear communication, especially via text, and I bet people who think they are communicating effectively are misjudging just how effective their communication is. These people then tend to blame political affiliation for their lack of communication skills, though of course any platform will tend to be biased in some way or other.

But yes, communication is a two way street, and particularly with divisive topics, neither the sender nor the receiver of the message is properly taking into account people of differing opinions.
Part of the fun of hobby building is you can design your stuff any way you want. Maybe nobody will mass-produce an audio preamp with $20 opamps inside, but you can DIY one if you feel like it.

I built a digital audio interface with an ADI ultra-low-noise clock generator. It was a $20 part. That's a ridiculous price but it's also only $20.
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I wrote more about this in another comment [1], but I believe that the limitation of not being able to lend something is a constructed limitation of digital goods. I already do "lend" access through streaming services -- I would call it "lending" because many of the services have limits on concurrent streams (This is the exclusivity principle that is important in lending, as you mention).

In terms of digital goods writ large, there is no good way for me to lend access in a provable manner -- so of course piracy is the natural evolution because that's the only way to lend things.

Also, we used to copy Blockbuster tapes too, which is illegal, but there was never enforcement because we never re-sold these copies. Maybe I'm just a miscreant through and through. Irrespective, this is another clear example of where the transition to digital caused a dissonance between the physical and digital worlds that led users to believe behavior called "illegal" was actually just a subtraction of their ownership rights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23823166
I think Tesla is extremely overvalued. I was long on them for years and cashed out at around $800 because I couldn't understand the valuation anymore. However, it is a mistake to compare Tesla best case scenario against current car companies. They are also a energy company, a battery company, a logistics company, and a transportation company.

For example, Uber isn't that far behind Volkswagen in terms of total valuation. If Tesla ever nails Autopilot, Tesla can immediately become Uber. Volkswagen doesn't have nearly as clear of a path to those extra revenue streams.
Actually, not _all_ are scams.

In Finland, last year, young man offered his hitman services on dark web and eventually murdered another.
Trial started in the beginning of June 2020.

Of course, he was not a professional hitman and outcome very scam'ish.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11386629
Can corroborate, 2012 is when I stopped using Tor for anonymity because a lot of busts happened all in a row. Every bust had some sort of Silk Road style clearnet mistake associated with it, but parallel construction felt like the real answer. A bunch of sites that had been fine for years don't suddenly all make tiny fatal mistakes at the same time.

I'm sure any operators that didn't get busted realized the heat had showed up and chose to shut down. When you are facing 20 years in jail you don't need hard evidence that Tor is broken to decide to walk away.
Probably so! Just HN/Youtube as far as my media consumption goes for the last while. HN has tended very much towards the optimistic entrepreneurial advice end of the spectrum for a decade, for understandable reasons. My youtube channels are nearly devoid of the shrill screech of contemporary political discourse. It leaks in occasionally, like witnessing an occluded star by gravitational lensing. I don't know how people stand the unoccluded version.

I've been doing my part to help kill flat design by pitching depth and shadows every chance I get.

I'm nearly in the stockades. :D

Also, down with the cult of monochrome!
I have a great fear of things like the Android/IOS app from the store being compromised, resulting in my passwords going to someone. Do you do anything specific to overcome such fear?
Analog Devices tends towards making specialty integrated circuits, often used in very demanding, high-heat, high-accuracy, high-efficiency applications. Many AD parts are analog interfaces or power-management related, and very expensive, often used in military or space applications.

Maxim tends to make a bunch of almost generic odds and ends, are middle-to-low prices, with fairly large volumes. They compete directly against Texas Instruments for a lot of interface products.

This acquisition is especially interesting in light of AD's (relatively) recent acquisition of Linear Tech, which was basically a consolidation of the high-performance low-volume integrated circuit market.
Latest in a trend of silicon industry consolidation.
A few other major moves in the embedded market over the last five years:

NXP + Freescale in 2015

Microchip + Atmel in 2016

ON Semi + Fairchild in 2016

Infineon + Cypress in 2020
Nature of these investments seems to be somewhat different. These investment are more towards infrastructure, rural skilling, education etc.

There were couple of ministers who were part of the announcement (unlike other corporate investment announcement like that of recent FB one, where govt officials would never make an appearance); one of the ministers even extorted Google to adopt cluster of villages and make them 'Digital' ones.

https://youtu.be/GwJJw2fE8T4?t=1625

This $10 Billion (!) investment is not in the same league as that of FB, Intel, Saudi investment in Reliance Jio.
I love the idea of Tesla, and what it's helped promote. But I do worry about its cult of personality, and what effect that could have on the stock should something happen to Elon.

I got in around late 2012 because Elon spoke about really good ideas, and I really wanted to promote what he was talking about. It's been quite a ride, with the acquisitions of Solar City and Maxwell Technologies. Those additions made me have hope we'd see a real mover that could help get a lot of the world onto solar energy.

However, I look at the stock prices right now, and I can't help but see they've been greatly overvalued since ~January 2020 with the major driving force (in my opinion) only being the cult of Elon.

I admire what he's done, and his ambition, but I also worry if he gets removed or hit by a CyberTruck, if the company will still continue as it is now, or if it would spell disaster.
I'm not making an attribution error. Both things happen.
> Kafka brokers can seamlessly be added, too.

You can add as man as you want, but they take no traffic.
I was "caught" by some monitoring system sharing Knoppix on a machine in the CS lab at university. I'd forgotten about it, and it had been running for months.

One of the helpdesk staff told me that it had been noticed, since the bandwidth to that machine was very high, but he unofficially liked the idea of the university being top of the seeding table, so I should leave it running :-D

[1] http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/stats.html?info_hash=8dcb18... (but mine would have been in 2007 or so).
I agree that in the modern world, many people may find it somewhat "obvious" (or rather, they have a similar belief intuitively), but I think it's very relevant here: of course doubting science requires some kind of faith. So does believing science. Everything requires faith, we can't actually know anything without faith in something.

(I personally am very aggressively areligious, so "faith" here does not necessarily refer to a spiritual faith.)
That is 100% correct. Soon as Netflix and Steam became a thing, I pretty much stopped pirating. They are so convenient that pirating is actually a subpar experience. If you download a game, maybe there's a miner or malware in it. Download a movie and maybe it doesn't have subtitles or has visual artifacts aplenty. The only cases where I do that is if it's a media property that I particularly love. I download a copy and store it on an SSD to make sure I never lose it in case Steam loses the rights to the game or Netflix decides the movie isn't popular enough and takes it off streaming, etc. However, now that everyone and their grandma is going into streaming, it's turning into cable. So I'm really starting to eye the idea of pirating series and movies simply because I don't want to pay extra money to Disney just to watch Hamilton.
9-5 is just kind of a lousy schedule in general. I preferred 8-4 or even 7-3 when I had the choice. 9-5 cuts too much of the evening out and makes even being at home feel like a chore and the extra hour in the morning doesn't really make up for it. Having an extra hour or two after work ends up making a big difference. It gives you some time to just relax or do something else before making dinner and stuff. You miss the worst of rush hour, the grocery stores are still not packed up so even the commute and after work stops go faster.

That said though, it doesn't really stop burnout in the long run. You still end up going through that same cycle you do with a 9-5 and it still ended up getting to me.
It closed at $124.50 last week.
This seems like a similar argument to what I saw for Bitcoin before the crash came. Bitcoin prices were high because the bitcoin price reflected the future of currency and that bitcoin turned the finance industry upside down.
You should publish your findings showing it is "rare to nonexistant" so that these researchers no longer waste time studying asymptomatic spread...
No apology from Spotify over FB SDK crash fiasco
"Classroom attendance removes children from the everyday world of Western culture and plunges them into an environment far more primitive, magical, and deadly serious."

I know it was written in 1970, but back then a family could still have one person working a good job on just a high school diploma. Today, grade school serves the primary purpose as a daycare for the kids so both parents can work.
On the one hand AVX-512 is incredible, the performance gains from AVX-2 to AVX-512 are often more than the 2x you would hope for. On the other hand, when you can use AVX-512 you can often use a GPU instead, to greater benefit. So linus may be right, overall.
Doesn't avx-512 crush the clock. Then they still spec using the non avx-512 clock speeds for floating point somehow. I always felt there was game playing here.
This is pretty neat. Newsletter discovery is one of the biggest challenges right now. So many people are getting bogged down with crappy newsletter because they can't find the no-name authors that are generating top shelf content.

Would be cool if there is a review/ranking mechanism to help the best boil to the top.