skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too have been surprised at the slow pace (and poor quality) of EV deployment by traditional manufacturers. That's why I bought a Model 3. However. It's pretty much inevitable that the traditional manufacturers will have to make significant inroads into the EV market in the next ten years, if only to deal with increasingly stringent EU regulations (and not to handle the market demand that Tesla has created.)

It may take competitors five or eight years to begin making serious inroads into the EV market, but let's say it does happen on that timescale. What is Tesla's moat that is going to allow it to compete with manufacturers who have almost infinitely more production capacity and a much larger customer base than Tesla? Better battery tech? Superchargers? Rapid year-over-year growth that makes Tesla too big and successful to compete with [note: there is no evidence of that growth in the Tesla earnings report]? I'm pretty skeptical right now.
Hey Jan,

Interesting thought.

We have already spoken to some people from Cumulocity which are responsible for strategic topics, such as integration. The conclusion was that even thought both companies provide "iot platforms" we have different products with different goals.

From my point-of-view Cumulocity focuses on delivering an IoT platform with the end goal of enabling customers to leverage data from IoT devices and thus make the most its business potential. Seashell, on the other hand, aims to allow people to leverage cloud tools, technologies, and practices seamlessly also on edge devices, thus bridging the gap between these two domains from a development and operations perspective.

Diving a little deeper, we provide users with a platform for cloud infrastructure automation, network configuration, workload orchestration, and more out-of-the-box, so that they can focus building their applications rather than spending resources on lower level details required for deploying software to their fleets.

That said, it would be great to hear a bit more about your thoughts of integration with Cumulocity :-)

Regards Matheus
+1 for Rolf Dobelli’s book. Read it last year and while I can’t say it changed my life, it definitely improved it.
I have celebrity contacts in this industry who have agreed to market this software

If it's your livelihood, don't depend on people who have other interests to do the only thing that matters. The only thing that matters is finding people who actually pay. Use your contacts to get a meeting where you do the listening and selling. None of the tech matters unless someone is paying you to solve their problems and then the tech that matters is the tech that solves their problems -- the tech that solves your problems doesn't matter.

Good luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110 made a dead-stick landing on a grass levee with minor damage - it was later flown out (following an engine change which caused the landing in the first place)
I don't get why people are so quick to replace private authoritarianism with government authoritarianism. At least with the first version you have the theoretical option of escaping.
Can you share something more substantial with us? How are you using RDF? Can you share some other RDF resources? Do you have an uncommon take on RDF?
I moved to Miami from Boulder, and was working out of an office that was on FIU campus for a good while.

The first time I walked on the campus, it blew my mind. I'd never heard about Florida International University as an American, but it's easily the biggest and most beautiful I've seen.
> An app for sending millions of emails as cheaply as possible. Mail for Good uses AWS Simple Email Service to send bulk emails at $0.10 per 1000 emails.

> Mail for Good is fast and memory efficient, currently sending over 100 emails per second on a 1gb Digital Ocean VPS.

> We've used Mail for Good to deliver newsletters to hundreds of thousands of campers per week.

... Good? YMMV, but personally, I'm not a fan of spam. Never will be.
We aren't running any reports on our databases like this. I would argue it is a bad practice in general to mix OLTP and OLAP workloads on a single database instance, regardless of the specific technology involved.

If we wanted to run an aggregate that could potentially impact live transactions, we would just copy the SQLite db to another server and perform the analysis there. We have some telemetry services which operate in this fashion. They go out to all of the SQLite databases, make a copy and then run analysis in another process (or on another machine).

I am not aware of any hosted SQL technology which is capable of magically interleaving large aggregate queries with live transactions and not having one or both impacted in some way. At the end of the day, you still have to go to disk on writes, and this must be serialized against reads for basic consistency reasons. After a certain point, this is kinda like trying to beat basic information theory with ever-more-complex compression schemes. I'd rather just accept the fundamental truth of the hardware/OS and have the least amount of overhead possible when engaging with it.
Welcome to Amazon shopping for the past 5 or so years. Everything is fakes, used goods marked as new, and low quality goods with 4.7+ stars from fake reviews.

The convenience is so nice, yet about 50% of the time I'm disappointed with any purchase made on Amazon.com. But, those stock profits :heart_eyes_emoji:.
> Democracy does not need the press.

I don't agree at all. There's numerous instances happening very, very frequently of the press shaping public events sometimes only by their revelation of an ongoing investigation. An informed, critical thinking population won't/can't do investigative work.
Yet again the "we don't need big data" demoed on an example that fits on a disk. Big data is north of 30TB.
Why don't we engage with the argument a bit more. How are people who are aggressively conformist valuable in ways that Paul Graham is ignoring?

One answer is, they're valuable in war, where you have large numbers of people who are in a position to weaken the war effort and you want to make sure none of them do or even think about it.

The Trump campaign signalling early on that it was at war with certain large chunks of the U.S. population helped kick a lot of people into this war mentality, I think, which might be in their interest or all of our interests in some ways, and that seems to be one of the trends that provoked this essay.

Passively independent-minded people are really valuable too, because they gum up the works of conformism by refusing to go along with it, without giving the aggressive conformists targets for outrage.

I've also seen a separate axis of how into change and new ideas people are. Some people are into new ideas in an aggressive conformist way. Some people are really resistant to new ideas in the same way.
It's overplayed: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WogKi.png
Disgraces as failed liberal democracies.

Italy, Germany and Ireland have much better working democracies.

>t EU is plenty corrupt all over

This is very unintelligent answer. Because there is something bad in everyone everyone is bad and no comparison can be made.
The point, to spell it out, is about chilling effects.

If some organization starts killing everyone wearing a blue hat,pretty soone nobody would wear a blue hat.

And then people like you would think that since no blue hat wearers get murdered, this is fine. Even call it "non violent" perhaps.
I love that out of all the more complex ideas about what may have been used, it turns out likely to be a solid piece of metal with of a given thickness, couldn't get more simple than that.
Another open source alternative: https://mailtrain.org/
Barton Gellman wrote about this very thing happening to his iPad (remote jailbreak/root) when he was working with Snowden, in his book Dark Mirror.

The leveraging of Android malware for espionage (corporate and military both) is well-documented in the media.
Me too.

I recall that F Scott Fitzgerald said "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
Walmart’s search makes amazon look good.
IMO, a brief, thoughtful note is one of the highest-value things that a candidate can do.

Hiring for a small startup, I am looking for connection. So when I review job applications, I will always read a three-sentence cover letter that is tailored to my company, but never read a page-long cover letter that is obviously copy-pasted. So if someone wanted to get a job at Kevala, it would behoove them to spend 5 minutes reading our website.
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that was a completely pointless analogy
The judge is noting that there are competing concerns at play here (as is often the case) and clarifying for participants the priority of those concerns.

Specifically, the statutes that authorize these policing actions are inferior to the constitutional guarantees in this case given the situation on the ground.
Emotions are in the most primitive parts of the brain, so I'm afraid this is exactly backwards. I'd suggest that our privilege as humans is to take our intellectual ability and use it to enrich our emotional lives. Cultivating empathy, expanding our sense of family, retraining cruel impulses and such. Loving well, so that love becomes more than lust and comfort. Take comfort that animals live rich emotional lives. Pets are a joy for the general authenticity of their feelings.
Give us a concrete & actual example that you have done instead of this theoretical essay nonsense
>>a true democracy only exists when a huge number of very complicated systems and institutions are working properly

>Falsehood. True democracy only exists when the voters' will is unimpeded by very complicated systems or institutions.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. The phrase "working properly" in this context clearly implies that the "voters' will" is being honored.
> With the UK leaving

What do you mean "leaving"? The UK ceased to be part of the EU six months ago.
This is basically the FAA putting everyone on notice by saying "yo, we found a few that were real bad so y'all gotta make sure you check yours real good." It's a bushing on a control surface, of course it wears over the course of normal use. If it sat for months and corroded slightly the corrosion would cause it to wear faster. This is all perfectly normal. These things are meant to fly so the engineering more often favors dainty little parts that can barely do the job with maintenance tacked on over heavier overbuilt parts that you don't need to check as much.

>I can only imagine that in aviation, there are even more advanced tools, especially with a well-respected corp like Boeing.

Lol. "More advanced" often being something a long the lines of a $100000 dollar go-nogo gauge because you don't trust your employees to read a measuring tool.

>If these flapper bushings are bad consistently,

Bushings are probably (i.e. "almost certainly" but I wasn't in that engineering meeting so I don't know for sure) a wear item and of course they could build beefy ones but the OEM has to balance between weight and maintenance hours. Doesn't surprise me that a little extra corrosion grit in there makes them go out of spec fast.

>if guys are bringing me the same rifle with the same issue over and over, it makes me really uneasy because it's inefficient for my shop, and it points to carelessness from the vendor

The whole value proposition of a Hi-point or a Chinese pump shotgun is that the manufacturing tolerances are wide opens so that your wallet doesn't have to be.
I saw an interview with the mayor a couple of days ago. He ended by throwing a Molotov cocktail that the interviewer completely ignored: "It would be really unfortunate if the irregular behavior of these federal agents put them in harm's way." (My memory is not great so this quote may be a bit more explicit than the original?) In general, if an unidentified group of armed and camouflaged ruffians pours out of unmarked vans to menace our neighborhood, we should shoot them.
In addition, many years of using stack ranking to fire 10% or sometimes more of its employees each year, which we know from other examples like Microsoft catastrophically damages a company in many ways, including loss of many of your best employees.
Not only that they would have either been using it consistently since they learned it or just learned it. I at one point could do differential equations (linear alg + calc). If you put one of the remedial problems in front of me I would not be able to do it. That info is just 'gone' from 25 years ago. But obviously I can do it. I got an A. I know enough right now to know what to go lookup so I could re-learn it if I needed to.
What was the disadvantage introduced by having doctors wash their hands or the invention of antibiotics?
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Actually in Poland more media are "liberal" anti-government than pro-government.

As a matter of fact traditional media like TV, newspaper, vertical news portals are becoming less and less influential. In Poland this manifested clearly in 2015, when "liberals" were still in power (they had their president and majority in both parliament chambers), they were also supported by something like 80% of media, including the most influential, but they lost both presidential and parliament election anyway.

The problem (tragedy?) of both Polish and Hungarian opposition is that they don't have any compelling story to tell. Voters are not gonna chose them only because they are progressive, nice and EU bureaucrats like them (bureaucrats, which does not mean all those who are really in charge - I bet that any EU action against Hungary will be killed swiftly and not by Poland, but by Volkswagen, which can do business in Hungary on a very comfortable conditions that current government granted them).
Malcom Gladwell: 'Overconfidence is more dangerous than incompetence'
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Two word email:

Subject: Hey

Body: Whaddya want?
You're engaging in a straw man of both sides and it makes me want to disregard your argument entirely.

> you choose only to talk endlessly about tweets like...

Do you really think that's what people are complaining about here? Not the professors being fired, the well known economists being forced to resign? There was a professor who lost his status running a residence hall because he was on the legal defense team for someone despicable.

As a society, we've decided that yes, even criminals need lawyers. To cancel someone and permanently affect their career for engaging in the most liberal of virtues and defending even criminals (especially if you believe we live in an authoritarian state) is beyond the pale.

> when at the same time protestors are being arrested by secret police in the US.

I've been working for police reform in what I believe is a flawed system for years. Everything the protestors are doing has probably set us back a decade. Every protestor killed by a fellow protestor (17 is the current count), every major spike in crime due to police being defunded instead of retrained, and every cop sent to the hospital because of folks throwing glass bottles and chunks of brick is not going to magically dry up and go away the next time we want to raise a serious issue.

We have a legal and social framework for affecting longterm change and it works much better than arson.
Agreed. Extending on /u/formerly_proven point, I think the third variation - where the subject changes - makes the email feel like it's coming from a real human even more.
You could write a check to Best Buy (have it delivered via an attorney to protect your identity) and make good on your theft. It's too late for CompUSA--you already put them out of business.
Yeah, we tried to pack maybe a few too many fun features into the minisite, so it is unfortunately a bit more laggy than ideal. Thanks for checking it out, though!
This, coupled with the idea that big planes simply aren't flying enough to keep the pilots certified has me concerned about commercial aviation. The scale-down and scale-up is incredibly costly and will result in huge write-offs of equipment that cannot be cost-effectively kept up. You can't just park these airframes and expect them to be ready when you need them.
"Many people have lost their livelihoods"

Hmm, sounds intriguing. Do you have any sources for this or concrete examples which can be fact-checked?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938024
Democracy? With guys like Victor Orban? Nope. You think you live in a democracy but it is something else entirely.

I'm not playing smart. I'm a Greek myself and our govt is mimicking Orban to a large degree. TBH I'm afraid that democracy is going down the drain for most of EU anyway. The way yellow-vests were treated in "democratic" France (hint: plastic bullets shot at demostrators' eyes) kind of convinced me on that one. As for Greece, well, yeah. You won't find anything but praise for the govt in the mass media. A few fringe ones daring the other side of events survive on readers subscriptions. All tied up in a tightly knitted nexus of political friends, family, friendly businessmen, huge debt (govt party has a massive debt on its own as most mass media also do), ever expanding police-state, religious leaders (Orthodox Christian Church) and God knows whom else.

So, anyway, all the best...
> I rather doubt there are any examples of an off airport landing of a 737 without significant damage to the aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
Participation in cancel culture and censorship is becoming mainstream. Part of what makes it work is that participation isn't acknowledged, especially by those federating together to cancel.
On the specific mechanism of self improvement. Cycles of Intense focus, activity, followed by deep rest. Checkout Andre Huberman's podcast
"a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine"

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/andrew-huberman
Journalists under siege after false accusations from Fox News’s Tucker Carlson
Lobbyists require data. Existing wildlife laws require enforcement. Political support requires mobilization. All of the above can be helped by smart, enthusiastic developers. If more people help out, we can save the tiger and the forest.
> I feel strongly that the aggressive conformists are gaining ground on several levels of society. ... the fact that sensible people are speaking out about it now is encouraging.

It is, but I am afraid sensible people speaking out may be on the decline. Many employers now schedule obligatory "sessions" where employees are given a spiel on a topic heavily pushing "the right view" with a short 2-3 minuted at the end dedicated to "discussion". With "just try to criticize this" as an unspoken seasoning.

This would have been dismissed as "ludicrous, never going to happen here" when I came to the US 20 years ago but is the accepted norm now. Ironically, folks leaving for Vietnam claim more freedom as their main reason for leaving...
An entrepreneurial culture.

Yet there are statistics showing the US is becoming more centralised, business is becoming concentrated in fewer and larger companies.

World-class research universities.

Which the UK also has. Germany less so but it's richer than the UK.

Labor markets that generally link workers and jobs unimpeded by large trade unions, state-owned enterprises, or excessively restrictive labor regulations.

Again the UK is relatively free of trade union interference but still considerably less well off.

A growing population, including from immigration.

Again the UK has a growing population, even after Brexit.

A culture (and a tax system) that encourages hard work and long hours.

The country with the longest hours in Europe is Greece, one of the poorer regions. Germany and the Netherlands work fewer hours but are much better off than Greece.

A smaller size of government than in other industrial countries.

According to the article France has a much bigger state than Italy but France is also much better off.

A decentralized political system in which states compete.

The UK has a very centralised state, its probably one of the reasons we dealt with Covid so poorly.

As someone running a business in the UK the one thing I would love to have is such a large homogeneous home market. Even within the EU selling into other European countries is much more work than into the UK.
I had a similar experience at LinkedIn in its early days. Back when we had maybe 500k members, we A/B tested the hell out of our invite messages. These messages were critical because no one had heard of LinkedIn at the time (~2004ish) and no one knew what social networking was or why they would want to sign up. And getting new users to accept invites was incredibly important to us. We A/B tested many invite email formats:

* A paragraph explaining social networking and another paragraph explaining LinkedIn.

* A few paragraphs on the benefits of joining LinkedIn.

* A few paragraphs explaining that a LinkedIn invitation was special because it meant that the inviter trusted and respected the invitee and wanted to stay in touch professionally.

* A tiny blurb along the lines of "I’d like to add you to LinkedIn network."

Despite my expectations that one of the explanatory messages would be best, the short, vague blurb outperformed by a huge margin.
As oisdk points out, I would consider the very real threat of violence different than a celebrity getting their contract cancelled. But that’s an important point to also make. There’s a vast difference between a celebrity being cancelled and an average person. Cultivating popularity is a part of being a celebrity — so isn’t avoiding being cancelled a natural extension of that profession?

As for regular people getting cancelled, there only seems to be a handful - particularly those that might actually have committed a crime (thinking of the Central Park Karen).
While some of these points are undoubtedly true, there are also a couple that sound questionable to me:

> "Labor markets that generally link workers and jobs unimpeded by large trade unions, state-owned enterprises, or excessively restrictive labor regulations."

As far as I'm aware the US is the only western country where trade unions impede linking workers and jobs. Netherland, for example, has pretty large and powerful trade unions, but membership is never compulsory. There's no such thing as a union shop. Unions merely represent their members in salary negotiations and assist them in labour disputes.

> "there are virtually no state-owned enterprises"

Many European countries have privatised a lot of industries during the 1990s. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the USPS is still state owned, while in other countries, postal services have been privatised (personally I think that was a mistake, although with phone companies, it seems it have worked out well).

> "A culture (and a tax system) that encourages hard work and long hours."

It certainly does but I'm not sure how much of a positive that is. In the EU, Greeks work the longest hours, Dutch work the least. Yet Netherland has a much higher GDP per capita. Long hours don't always mean high productivity, and it can also mean burned out workers.

Besides, is it more important to have high GDP, or to have a happy population? My impression is that the US has a lot more poverty than many European countries.
You can push that all the way back to the Middle Ages. Serfdom was quite an improvement over Roman-era slavery, being tied to the land was far more stable and secure than being tied directly to a master. It wasn't quite a middle class, but better nonetheless.

Transportation and naval technology steadily improved, and more and more goods and services became broadly available during this time period.

The downside is that war got really bad from 1800-1950.