skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federally Chartered Banks May Provide Custody Services for Crypto Assets
That's because they could build them, but not profitably. Changing the design wholesale and then retooling your lines to build the cars at scale is insanely expensive and will take a long time to do. The i3 and Bolt are objective failures (in the US) because they're just not that good compared to what Tesla is doing at about the same price.

The dealers also have an inverse incentive to sell them so one has to go way out of their way to purchase an electric from the legacy manufacturers. It's a classic disruption case against entrenched players who refuse to adapt. The only one making a real effort is VW and they're currently paying dearly for it.
No, according to other commenters they would be paying it to the government anyway, if they weren't paying it to Tesla.
> the majority is by far from much larger, public schools, like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, etc.

These schools are very good btw. Berkeley is tied with Stanford for example, UI #5, Washington #6, UT is #10.

Conversely Harvard is ranked #15, but that's the things about rankings: they're often used to prune out people who don't "know someone", and when the metrics do not match someone's perceived "elite" status, they are ignored.

All of the schools you mention are attended by elites and commoners, produce talented people and untalented people, jerks and kind folks, and all the permutations of that.

I just wish we'd focus more on competent and kind, and less on connections or wealth - companies that do this will prosper IMHO, and companies that rant about "meritocracy" will wither as they drive away half the population.

Women are just as capable of coding well - creating a toxic culture is reducing your talent pool by half, something people obsessed with "facts and logic" should think more about. Insisting on "elite" schools when the good ones are public will also harm you long term if you're doing more cutting edge stuff.
Human interface devices on the web&#58; a few quick examples
Speaking as a passenger, the right solution is CATOBAR. Passenger airports should install linear motor catapults that can get a 500-ton aircraft up to Mach 0.85 in about 10 seconds. (it can support the plane, allowing launch with already-retracted gear) They should also install arrester cables, or something better, such as a moving platform that could handle both tasks.
It's been clear to me since their Failing Whale that Twitter is a reactionary company compared to its peers, it will wait until something explodes before they deeply address an issue. It makes for fun postmortems to read as an outsider, but I would be embarrassed to work there tbh. I can't believe for a company of their scale there were no safeguards in place already.
> Is that not what the person who originally posted the content being moderated is doing?

The person that posted the content does not expect a random person from the internet to see a video of his children because it was accidentally flagged by an AI as child porn. :)
My personal rule: if it actually hits the market (ie gets listed on a mls or the seller has already signed a realtor) then 99.9% chance you're already beyond the point of getting a good deal. That is, a good enough deal to purchase strictly as an investment.
Welcome to Your New Virtual Office
I'm pretty sure you can replicate all that remotely... you may not have the tools to make theses easy to replicate right now (though I'm pretty sure it still possible), but that just show there's a market for theses tools.

Facebook did just that when it got out, it made easier to move a IRL friendship to one online.
It's unclear whether the mayor requested it, but she delivered a speech yesterday saying she welcomes it as long as the agents aren't militarized.
So this suggests to you that it's somehow shady or below the table? Why would they disclose that information if they don't have to?
reminds me of https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
It costs them almost nothing to pay the credits. Meanwhile here in the second age of free gas the gross margins on trucks are more than good enough to cover this small expense. Ford alone makes $10 billion annual in gross profits on just the F150 model. The regulations are enough to carve out a little niche for Tesla to hoover up a few dollars, but not enough to change the industry.

Pass a realistic carbon tax and see what happens.
If someone drove drunk and drove into a pedestrian who survives after a month in ER does this diminish the severity of drinking or not?
Are there really many cases of founders who went all-in and lost, ending up homeless or otherwise destitute? Asking honestly- I know a small population of founders, and they have all failed, but generally have bounced back quite well. They at least got to a point where they launched and at least tried to find their market fit, and even getting to that point is an incredibly valuable experience.

None have massive houses in the Hamptons, but generally they have all found good jobs and are in the management ranks (aside from one who just decided that he did not want to go that route) at decent companies. It seems to me that if you took a decent stab and didn't completely flame out with some obviously poor idea or execution, you really tend to fail "up" in the end.
Auto sales are down because their main factory has been closed down for quite some part of Q2. That they don't show huge losses as a consequence is outright amazing and a very good sign.
well there are rumors they are shutting down parts of Fremont for “upgrades” soon. likely because their inventory is higher than they want.
> As a US citizen myself, I am speechless. How is this our reality?

This is exactly how many Russians felt when they saw the constitution effectively annulled in 2003.

Back then nobody could've believed the USSR can return, and people were laughing at the few who were smart to freak out about that.

Democracy is a really fragile thing. It really can disappear overnight.

One day, you wake up, turn on the news, and you drop your jaw. Just like this.
On the other hand, I've had a really fun couple of decades and I have more freedom than anyone I know who isn't just rich. Yes, if you've had your exit, you obviously can just coast through life. But where's the fun in that?
> The 'android' that you get from your phone vendor definitely isn't open source.

But it's so, so far ahead of iOS in openness. You can sideload apps. You can spin up Android in a VM. You can buy Android devices with unlocked bootloaders and install your own roms or drivers or kernel modules or whatever else. The system can be made yours to command.

iOS doesn't even let me run my own code in userland.
You're welcome!

Ben (on behalf of the team)
> As with most Microsoft licensing & naming things it is surprisingly complex

And weird. Like they don't want your money weird.

We have Office 365 for small businesses (or whatever it is called these days). A co-worker needed Visio for something. Nope. Visio is for businesses with Office 365 Enterprise subscription only.

Long story short, ended up with him having to buy a personal copy with the company credit card.
No, this was actually shot with SPHERE, which is a single telescope instrument: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/v...
Linux Desktop on Your Phone
Hi,

Consumers already use their cell phones as the primary computing device.
Recent Android phones are powerful enough to run Linux desktop applications.
Another important hardware feature on the newer phones is the availability
of USB-C port, which when connected to a hub can provide both HDMI
output and USB keyboard and mouse input.

Here is a clip of Debian Buster XFCE running on QualComm based HTC10, a midrange phone by current standards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQxpabAjso&t=4s

Here is a clip of Linux desktop running on Redme 6 a MediaTek based budget phone which uses Chromecast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZ7fz81w_M&t=155s

At volkspc dot org you can also download Debian XFCE for the ODROID-N2/ANdroid-x86.

Regards
Vasant
Projectium: A place to build community around projects
For physical sales, the developer got pennies on the dollar. You needed to find a publisher. Not only would they help with packaging, marketing, localization, and QA, but they also brought access to the wholesale channel. Ingram and MicroD (before they merged) would not touch you unless you could guarantee a certain volume. And like the book business, there were buy backs for unsold product.

I was involved in an Amiga game development deal from 1989-1990 that eventually fell apart and our cut was 18%.
Sperner's Lemma for the Layman
For anyone else just looking for an outline of the new algorithm: last two paragraphs of p4, first two paragraphs of p5.

Coming from a position of a few abstract algebra classes in college many years ago, all the words and notation are familiar but I am a long way from being able to follow it.
I think they have taken share recently, but total volumes are down.

That said, I think tesla is WILDLY overpriced (and I used to own tesla stock).
And then use an email-to-RSS service to get the full columns in your newsreader...
> they want to see zero of it, ever

Many want that, but very few (probably nobody at all, by this point) expect it.

> When the goal is to prevent users from
> seeing this content, crowd-sourcing moderation
> defeats the purpose.

It's not actually all-or-nothing, and if it were, it would defeat it no less frequently than paid moderation already does. People tolerated toxic internet content before social media not because they never encountered any, but because they encountered much less.

No system can ever stop 100% of users from seeing 100% of the material they find objectionable. Every user has their own idea of what material is beyond the pale, and even if we invent AI that is competent at blocking content, and capable of tailoring its filters per-user, it will still fail some of the time, because users are people, and people's tastes change over time.

Aside from that, the way Youtube, Reddit, Twitter et al, currently operate, a user who reports objectionable content typically waits days, weeks, or years (or forever) for the company to take action. If you give a user a little real agency, it goes a long way to mitigate their displeasure over occasional exposure to unwanted content.
Google does it, although it is a bit debatable given that most stuff on Android is actually based on stuff developed by others. Java, Kotlin, InteliJ/Clion, Gradle,Linux,..., that Google cleverly packs together into Android.

Microsoft provides the Community edition, which is only free for small business up to 5 developers or specific cap of revenue, beyond that you must buy the professional/enterprise/architect edition, or an MSDN yearly license.
Old people on my Nextdoor are asking whether they should buy some TSLA, which was as good a signal as any I've ever seen when the same people were asking if they should maybe get some bitcoins (at $20k each). TSLA like every other US equity right now is supported by retail momentum alone.
Yet another surprise profit vs. estimate for a loss --
https://news.alphastreet.com/tesla-inc-nasdaq-tsla-q2-2020-e...
One of the main authors apparently claims that he is re-writing the core intensely. Hopefully that will go well and we'll see it re-surface, though it carries all the usual risks of vaporware.

I'm really hopeful we'll see Pijul or something like it take off at least with "hackers." The promise of a robust patch theory is pretty exciting!
That is actually what we want to have happen. Fawkes relies on a POISON attack, in that it corrupts the model into learning the wrong thing. So taking our cloaked photos and learning on it is what corrupts the model and provides the protection.

If you're asking: what if the model trains on "uncloaked" images, we talk about that extensively in the paper and provide technical answers and experimental results. Take a look.
a) Office isn't a monopoly.

b) Slack could just build their own Office suite. Google did.
I tend to agree with both your points, but was addressing the specific claim that Earth-like conditions are average, or at least not particularly rare.

We simply don’t have data to support that claim, and the parameters required to make earth habitable for life (as we know it) are vastly more numerous than most people acknowledge.
I think there needs to be a law that forces companies that benefit from network effects to open their standards once they reach a certain market power (similar to antitrust and monopoly laws).

For example, Twitter would be forced to open their standard and then anyone can build clients (and host servers), just like IMAP and POP3 works for email.

I think this even will have a bigger effect than breaking up these companies, and it will be easier to push through politically.

Edit: Typo
yes it is objectively shady because it appears they have full discretion to decide when to recognize these credits, and also unclear who is actually buying them.

they also don’t have credits listed as an asset on their balance sheet when you’d otherwise expect these credits to go from asset -> revenue when they decide they should be recognized, instead it is as if these credits just appear out of thin air and sold.
It does, but the rebalancing occurs in September I think.
Tutorial level civilization.

You must complete energy collection on current planet for XP to advance to level 2.
Before that 8X rise, though, stock price was basically unchanged since 2014. While revenue in that period has grown 10X.

So you could make a reasonable argument that the huge stock price appreciation in the last 12 months was in fact a re-pricing to reflect that the stock market now believes Tesla has a decent shot at becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

It doesn't reflect that something magical has happened in the last two years; something good has happened in the last 6 years and the stock market at large has only recently realized this.
I'm curious how it performs on a 10x10 or 16x16 grid
They don't have any significant monopolistic advantage and they're operating in a highly price-sensitive, competitive market.

My personal theory is that Musk knows this and his real objective is to provoke car manufacturers into competing on electric. From Musk's point of view, the win is likely not Tesla making any significant amount of money for shareholders but instead it driving the whole market towards electric, thereby achieving the "real" objective of lowering emissions.

Many of his behaviors over the years suggest this could be the case: publishing a 'master plan', releasing Tesla's patents, noting the stock price was "too high", and sinking all of his PayPal money into SpaceX, Tesla, and Solar City (and then borrowing to pay his rent).
The pictures are much better quality than I expected! I thought I'd be lucky to see a couple specks. These are reminiscent of (and a bit better than) looking at Jupiter through a small refractor.
This is my point. It's easy to say you'd do something you'd never be forced into doing. It's just rose-colored glasses "back in my day...blah blah blah"
If one firm develops this their competitors look to do it. You end up with huge investment in the science behind it with everyone trying to do it with higher throughput, lower latency and lower build / run costs than their competitors.

Maybe two decades in the future this becomes a defacto communication technology.
I was already enjoying a nice dataplan in Europe with Symbian phones.
Being on a student newspaper probably gave me some of the most valuable skills that I acquired in school.
Meh, if that’s the worst PR they can get they’d be massively ahead of where they are now. Especially considering how massively the press narrative has turned against them overall.
Yes, but bundling is also extremely common in anti-trust cases[0].

The goal of bundling is usually to introduce people who like one of your products to your other presumably-equally-good products, especially if they integrate well. Right? Sounds good!

If you're incredibly successful at that, and the most popular of your products is market-dominating, then that may be leveraging your market position to squeeze out competitors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_(antitrust_law)
>capex is decreasing

Could you give more detail on that? The last big capex increase was due to Model Y rollout. Now that most of the lines are completed, it's just replicating what Fermont's Y production line has in Shanghai's.

I do, however, agree that Tesla's definition of 'delivery' is suspect.
If this doesn't impact costs for bad actors, it's hard to see how it impacts costs for good actors, since, in the status quo ante of this program, both good and bad actors shared the same vectors to get kernel access to devices. Apple is, on this page, explicit about the notion that this program doesn't impact vulnerability research done outside the program. In what way does this program do anything but add an option for good actors?

I may just not be understanding you; maybe we just agree that this program doesn't change a whole lot.
Very cool. CSS can do some amazing stuff these days. I made a game using moving checkboxes recently - https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/qBbKYee - with a timer and scoring. It's a fun challenge to avoid JS.
Earliest humans stayed at the Americas 'oldest hotel' in Mexican cave
Are you admitting that your opinion on Tesla's inventory is based entirely on rumors? I am basing my opinion on the linked document which show excessive inventory isn't an issue. Maybe the rumors are right and the document is wrong, but that would constitute fraud and would mean there are bigger problems at Tesla than their inventory levels.

EDIT: This was comment was downvoted multiple times so I rephrased it to be less aggressive than how it was originally written.
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social media is a mirror--you see what you want in it. for every horrifying or hyperviolent act or outrageous scandal, you can find the most joyous and beautiful depiction.

have you ever seen foxes laughing? they sound like babies. without social media, i never would have known that, nor experienced one minute of happiness while watching it.

https://twitter.com/mollyfprince/status/1277601602866761729
So then resolve that two objects are distinct.
The obvious fallacy in the comparison to carriers is that they were extracting monopoly rents too, and (counter-intuitively) they charged more because they had less of a monopoly than Apple does.

A monopolist wants to maximize profits, so they choose the maximal trade off between margins and volumes. If they charged 100%, nobody would make apps and they would get 100% of nothing. For the carriers, if they charged 30%, more people would make apps than if they charged 70%, but then the competing carriers would benefit from that as much as they do even if they're still charging 70% (which they still can because they each have a monopoly over their own users), so they all charge 70%. Apple gets 100% of the increase in app production rather than ~25%, so their profit-maximizing monopoly rent is a lower percentage (but a much larger absolute dollar amount).

But that 30% is still dramatically more than the ~5% it would take to cover their costs and provide a reasonable profit in a competitive distribution market. Which is what Microsoft now charges in their store, for example.
Mostly correct. I performed swing trading along the way up, but still hold all of the initial IPO investment (yolo’d my Roth IRA). Was sold after my first Roadster test drive.
> it's what Google Maps does.

Nope. Google Maps loads an uncachable JS file that itself points to version specific sub-files that are cache breaking.

> It's what the Facebook SDK does.

Nope, they have versions in the fbAsyncInit configuration.

> We already know it's what Twilio does.

Indeed, and if you want to copy a company that almost had a massive security problem then go right ahead.
The margins on the car are actually very good, this is evident in the official data and confirmed by expert breakdowns.

They don't make money because they are investing lots of money all the time. People seem to miss that they only launched their first large production cars a few years ago.

Its insanely difficult to start a car company and to scale it to the level Tesla is now with a product that basically nobody else can do profitable is a gigantic achievement.

They are currently building 3 huge new factories.
> No, because usually the private key is around 256 bits, so you need to compute 2^255 hops on average to find the key.

So if my key is 255 bits long, then don't I need to do the 255 2^255 hops anyway to actually decrypt something? And in running 2^255 hops, wouldn't I have also cracked the key if it was any number less than that?

> bigger keys also result in longer encryption/decryption times.

So, there's a reasonable upper bound for the key length? Does that mean 256 bits aren't reasonable, and wouldn't this reasonable upper bound be more brute forceable?
Continuing:

Google (or anyone else) hasn't shown an implementation of an error correcting code, so we do not have data points for a model-free "ruler extrapolation" of logical error rate vs. lattice size.

In fact, I think the Sycamore qubits were "pre-threshold", i.e. no error correction gain possible even in theory. I wonder if someone will correct/confirm me. I remember the readout fidelity was particularly poor.

Furthermore, I would argue that the large readout errors make the observed scaling of total error slightly less impactful.

But don't get me wrong, it's still a monumental achievement.
Maybe you're not used to reading quantifiers. I also find them much easier, faster, and more accurate to read, because it's from practice.

Sure you can take simple English statements, and write them with quantifiers, and claim the English is simpler. But going the other way, expressing complex items in English, is a non-starter. English is far too sloppy, whereas the quantifier version is mathematically precise.

Try converting something professional, such as Godel's incompleteness proofs, into English. Without precise quantifiers you'd quickly get lost, make mistakes, and take forever to get anywhere.

For example, look at page 17 of the proof [1], at AG(6)(a) (after the "Thus"), where there is a long statement in logic. Convert to English (near impossible, certainly not possible without something like parentheses) and tell me it's easier for a logician to read. It's not. As written it's concise and parseable without confusion for a logician.

The simple English sentence case is a tiny part of what mathematicians do.

[1] https://web.yonsei.ac.kr/bkim/goedel.pdf
As somebody else points out the bandwidth isn't a major issue. You can have two opposing strategies and use a single bit to toggle between them.

Put enough behind those strategies and you're making millions a day.

Until your competitors notice and refuse to trade with you or do the same.
Unless you set up money in a trust, it has a tendency to disappear through the generations quickly. And even in a trust, by the 3rd or 4th generation there is often not too much to go around.
> It is beyond me why anyone would by this stock over VW, let alone pay 4x the price for it.

The better answer is that nobody should buy VW either. Their business has zero potential upside and a huge downside risk in the transition to EVs; along with the inevitable rise of China's domestic automakers, which will eat a very large amount of market and sales away from the old giants. VW's position is its weakness, it has everything to lose and nothing to gain from the peak they've reached.

Which also isn't the same as saying that Tesla should be bought at its present absurd valuation.
What? While in college, I learned way more of the required content over Youtube videos then I ever did in a lecture.
I think this is pushing it a bit. By similar logic, paying taxes to, or simply being a member of the US (or almost any country) is contributing to a platform that is directly responsible for human harm.