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Tesla's Supercharger network is certainly a significant infrastructure investment, at least in the US. But what's so special about their software? The German luxury carmakers certainly have pretty significant assistive driving features and other software-based capabilities. They just don't pretend they are more than they are.
yes - Perrow spends much of the book (too much, perhaps) on case studies, with Three Mile Island being the most significant.
Meanwhile amd has been cleaning their clock for decades at a better price point.

Literally there were people born that can legally drink now. Intel is the grey goose of chips. Amd gets the job done
If you’re running 10.12 you are missing enough other security improvements that this is unlikely to be the greatest risk.
Commutes are usually a lot shorter in Europe, so the emphasis on range isn't too relevant... Value/price are a bit in the eye of the beholder, Tesla isn't exactly renowned for its build quality.

And some people actually value a dealer network.
> Based on your comment, I would guess that you never tried out numba.

Well, you guessed wrong.

> it can also do general python and loop optimizations.

Yes, it can be used in general purpose workloads, with varying degrees of success. But its main purpose is made abundantly clear:

Accelerate Python Functions

Numba translates Python functions to optimized machine code at runtime using the industry-standard LLVM compiler library. Numba-compiled __numerical algorithms__ in Python can approach the speeds of C or FORTRAN.

Built for Scientific Computing

...

https://numba.pydata.org/

> ... Analyzing your competition is usually a good way to learn about your own strengths and weaknesses.

Except this is an announcement on their funding situation, so strengths and weaknesses are completely irrelevant, unless Numba has a particularly interesting funding model. (The funding model is government grants and corporate sponsorship, so, not particularly interesting.)
I mean, yes? If you're going to offer a feature that officially marks accounts that have proven their identity, then you need to revoke that marker when the identity changes. If that seems overly complicated, maybe the idea of officially verified accounts is problematic and complicated in other unaddressed ways?
That makes sense (as explanation, not necessarily justification). In general, this remote era is a "great" way to push dev salaries down, even for organizations that were already decently remote like Mozilla.
Also significantly smaller and less comfortable.
Chatted with some extended family on the topic a while back, and their take was that the Tesla "brand" isn't terribly well received. (They're mostly middle-ish class professionals.)

Their take was that Tesla is overpriced for erratic quality and generally too flashy. "Toys for attention seekers" was one phrase I recall.
They don't have the complete Supercharger network advantage there. Europe offers much better DC fast charging alternatives than here in the US and it's more standardized. That's probably why, on top of the tax advantage of buying local EVs.
Tesla can't compete on established legacy automaker because they don't sell enough cars to compete. They sell more carbon credit than cars. They will soon run out of money for research and development if they can't supply the market with cars.
You just explained how all of their current technology and expertise is obsolete, and then said that's a reason they're going to eat Tesla's lunch. Lol.
> you could argue that Firefox doesn't track you like Chrome does

Yeah, it tracks you more: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...
> "We have a formal process for what types of things are lakes vs. bays vs. peaks," Tripp told us. However, he didn't elaborate on what that process was. "Different components are named after different geographic areas."

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/decoding-intel-code-names
What advantage does Tesla software has which is not achievable by others. I think a lot of those features can be commoditized with something like Android Auto.

If you are talking about "Autopilot", I think a lot of people will have different perceptions on what it is marketed as and what it does.
It's likely better to test for accessibility than for Firefox
depending on your workload you will have some troubles with an amd hackintosh (e.g. logic plugins)
If you're writing one for general consumption, I wish you luck.
Publishing containers to GitHub might be free but you have to login to GitHub to download the containers from free accounts, significantly hampering end-user usability compared to Docker Hub, particularly if 2FA authentication is enabled on a GitHub account. As mentioned elsewhere Quay.io might be another alternative.
I think it is true that reality has a liberal bias, I don't think we have too many quality journalists, although the editors might be the problem.
I would go a step farther and say that uncontended shared_ptrs are typically fine. The problem comes in when you have shared_ptrs that are frequently copied in more than one thread. That requires synchronizing the shared state across cores, sometimes across NUMA nodes. That's slow.

The same thing goes for mutexes. Modern, uncontended mutexes are very fast. But they can start sucking resources when you're locking them from multiple threads at the same time.
Except for their computers :)
There definitely is an informal and growing consensus on just riot theory.

I hypothesize that the treatment of riots by liberal (classical sense) scholars has been based on their rationalistic optimism and a belief that domestic political problems can be solved non-violently. If they can't, that throws the entire liberal (classical sense) project into question, and opens exhilarating, dangerous doors on both the left and right.

I personally hope that the view that violent riots are illegitimate wins out, but I am not planning my life around that hope.

Addendum: I should note that, if one were opposed to the liberal (classical sense) project, the encouragement of riots (regardless of them being left or right) would be an excellent strategy.
In our system, contracts have an expiration date/time. The only actors are Swedish. 12:59:59 must always be 12:59:59 on a certain date. It may never become 6:59:59 when someone in the company traveled to NY and prints out the contract.
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Actually they were already collecting data and people easily set up outdoor sensors all the time. But maybe there'd be more incentive to collect within a smart city project.
Ask HN: Hackers Banning Instagram Accounts
Many of our businesses get a good amount of leads using their instagram profiles.

Today a hacker contacted me and threatened me to close my personal instagram account (30 post vanilla family stuff, created in 2010, 300 followers, private, two factor auth enabled)

I resisted.

Within minutes I was logged out and now when I log in a message like this appear:

"Thanks for Providing Your Info
We'll review your info and if we can confirm it, you'll be able to request a review in the Help Center within approximately 24 hours."

How is that even possible?
Remember the purpose of this is basically showing me how vulnerable are our business ig accounts.

Have you ever faced something like this? did you figure out how to solve it?
(lost 30 min exploring all the facebook and instagram support pages with no luck)
I never understood this line of argument. Economics is 100% inextricable from realpolitik. Whether you have a socially constructed economic right or not is 100% a question of realpolitik.

Also, private property simply isn't a natural right, not even by the definition of Hobbes. The right of exclusion of something you don't use is neither natural nor universal in most early human civilizations, it just simply isn't a natural right.

And intellectual property in particular is perhaps the opposite of a natural right.
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1. super charging network

2. brand name , a car is still a status symbol, owning a bmw, kia ect is not a social signal.

3. autonomous driving and software
Adaptive cruise control has been available on mainstream cars for at least 5 years, and on fancy cars before that.

That is not is what is interesting about Tesla. It's the developer like OTA updates with massive new features. Vs... the Forester gets an infotainment system when you buy it, and likely never gets a change for the life of the car. Compare to a 2 year old model 3 which is getting brand new features monthly.
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I preheated the water this morning and the difference in flavor was noticeable.

Now I have to reoptimize my coffee routine.
Just wait a bit and someone is sure to say "It's not bigotry to believe that women and black people are less qualified for tech jobs".
You must be be among the few that that have had a positive experience with the dealer monopoly.
And, at least in the US, like solar panels, EVs become a lot less interesting when they cease to be a cash transfer to upper-middle and upper-class consumers.
Can you please tell us how is it obvious? I am interested in the network in network part
This still means that tools published in the last few years until now might just be gone soon. The people who uploaded the images might have graduated or moved on and none will be there to save the work.
Does anyone know what is docker's business model these days?
I don't get the heartbreak over Mozilla and I don't get why there's all these confused people who were apparently wearing rose tinted glasses until now. The last time Firefox mattered to the world at large was at least five years ago, the only people I know who use Mozilla products are tech enthusiasts and people who would fall into the political spectrum of "cyber activist". It's not sad when an org that ignored the bulk of users to chase idealism finds itself beaten out by corps that decided to focus on giving users what they want.
Yup, as soon as the "real" auto companies start selling EVs Tesla will be doomed. Any day now, surely...
> not really competitive with Tesla's offerings on range, efficiency, advanced features, and value/price

One big factor probably is you just don't need as much range in Europe. Cities are more densely packed so travel distances are shorter and if you really want to go really far there are better options than driving like trains.

Also I think the cars Tesla has put out are probably larger than people want over there. They're putting out large SUVs and regular sized American cars where Europe has traditionally favored more compact cars.
Tesla's super charging network is essentially the future of gas stations, and there's no reason to believe that Shell, Chevron, et al don't re-purpose their petrol pumps to become battery superchargers once the demand for ICE falls.
When people say they're "neither for or against, just annoyed" about something, they usually mean that they genuinely don't care about the underlying issue, and the annoyance comes from the idea that they have to care about it. I think this is pretty much just the maligned neutral you're describing.
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As someone looking to buy an EV in the next few years, I don't see the benefit of the supercharger network. It locks me into a proprietary charger when there seem to be thousands of CCS Combo chargers from Electrify America, EVgo, and others.
Well, Tesla is valued along side these companies, not as a high end luxury manufacture. And one narrative we have been fed is that Teslas are lightyears ahead of the competition. This article seems to say that is not the case, at least in Europe.
If they are doing this, they should add stats on when the last time an image was pulled, so you can see what is at risk of being removed. Would be curious about a graph, like NPM has a weekly downloads one so you can see how active something is.
Tesla is still biggest in Netherlands, but mainly because for Leasing it got tax incentives until 01- 2020

https://nederlandelektrisch.nl/actueel/verkoopcijfers

Tesla cars are still considered expensive and viewed as having low build quality.Especially the first model 3's and the Model X's.

German cars are hard to beat regarding build quality.
I own a Model S and a Nissan Leaf, and can confim that plenty of non-tesla manufacturers make great EVs.

Tesla owns the space for sexy, somewhat self-driving, longest range cars, but they are very expensive.

Alternative manufacturers make great cars many different price-points.

Based on my experience with Tesla and non-Tesla EVs, I would expect market share numbers in 5 years in the US to look more like the German market share numbers. Teslas are like BMWs or Mercedes: they are great cars, but not mass-market.
yeah, I agree with that and that was what I was doing and still. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fortnite is BIG. Often the really big players get special deals from Apple (Netflix, Amazon).

But this doesn’t seem to be a special deal. This seems like unilateral action.

It will be very interesting to see what happens next.
I do think there's something to be said for both. Tesla software truly is pretty impressive and it's unheard of for a car to get better over time and supercharger helps alleviate a lot of range anxiety.

That all said, it's a question of whether the legacy players can catch up fast enough before Tesla can work out its affordability AND quality + service issues at scale. The latter should not be slept on as even the worst of the old guard are still far more consistent and IMO a quite serious issue for Tesla.
Do what? Point out the petulance and inconsistency of astronomers?
Cant the for profit entity be acquired?
I use Visual Studio Code for both my Rust and my C++ work, and love it. Tooling support comes from plugins there.

I've also used QtCreator, and hated it because for me it was a resource hog, you had to do things its way, and the Qt APIs were horribly designed.
Range is about road trips rather than commutes for most? people. If 250 vs 300 miles is a make or break it for a daily commute, you need to much a lot closer to work.
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Germans are very brand and country loyal. Usually they perceive German products to have higher quality. Usually they are right as well.

Source: my wife is German

My perception of Tesla is that it is a dishonest company and has mediocre quality.

I wouldn’t buy a Tesla either if I were in the market and would probably look at a German brand or one of the Volkswagen group or Volvo or something, maybe Toyota.
I would absolutely love to do this but AMD is somewhat annoying when running MacOS.

1. Really bad VM support. No Hypervisor framwork, which means problems with Docker (apparently some workarounds for Docker specifically, but not 100% stable). Things like Parallels Desktop, Android VMs, etc won't work.

2. Problems with Adobe suite apps crashing on boot. Some patches exist but last I checked there was nothing for Lightroom (which I use a lot).

3. Things like iMessage, Facetime, Siri, etc won't work

4. Uses a custom kernel and there can be hassles related to power management.

etc.

My use case would have lots of problems, but it's definitely a great option for people who don't need VMs or Adobe.
As a Tesla owner, I welcome the competition and hope it comes to America soon. I like my M3 but do not like driving an expensive car seen as a status symbol. My criteria are 300 miles of range and large enough for a family and unfortunately there aren't many options today.
Unfortunately the ryzen 4000 series already compares fairly unfavorably against the ice lake 10th gen mobile cpus on arguably the two most important mobile metrics: per-core performance and overall battery use. It's really unfortunate how AMD just isn't dedicating as many resources to the mobile as it deserves.

That said, by the time Tiger Lake comes out, Zen3 mobile will likely already be close to shipping, hopefully there will be significant improvements there.
> Riots are extra-public because crowds riot rather than institutionalized groups such as parties or social movements. Riots are extra-state because they violate the state’s monopoly on violence. Riots are extra-legal because they are a form of unlawful assembly. Riots are extra-Parliamentary because they operate outside of the normal legislative process.

Then, by definition, a riot won’t have a durable justification, since its goals are fluid, it uses extraordinary methods, has no accountable leadership, and doesn’t seek enduring change.
There's no one particular reason, I think, it's just yet another thing to show brand loyalty for.

I'm fairly certain every single person has used or currently uses an Intel powered machine, so choosing AMD has a bit of caché to it (ha ha get it), because you're supporting an underdog, and as it so happens, that underdog has been kicking Intel's butt as of late.
Sadly, it's gonna take a while before actual legislation is enacted.

If Fortnite gets banned, they'll stay that way for a long time unless they remove direct payment.
Wait, I must have missed something. Is BMW's image bad? That wouldn't explain them able to survive some of the high price points, they sell cars at.
You don't need to register an SSH key to download a public repo I thought
Sounds like a job for the Archive Team, as long as there's some way to identify the images worth saving.
Libraries Are Not a Crime
Rule 5 (data dominates) is exactly the same as lie 3 (code is more important than data) of Mike Acton's Three Big Lies (https://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2008/03/three-...). Rob Pike's rule 3 (don't use fancy algorithms) is closely related to Mike Acton's lie 1 (software is a platform) as well.

A part of me wonders if Mike was influenced by Rob Pike's rules directly or indirectly. It's also something that an experienced programmer can discover independently easily enough. Mike Acton was clearly heavily influenced by some of the failures of classic OOP design (lie 2 of Three Big lies).
I doubt anyone knows what the impact will be, all we can do is speculate. In the very short-term, I would definitely be surprised if we don't see it have a negative impact on the development of Rust and certain Rust projects such as wasmtime. In particular because so many of the top contributors appear to be full-time Mozilla employees[1].

1 - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/graphs/contribu...
Marketing and FOMO works
One thing that bothers me about serverless functions is that there is virtually no concurrency. Once you return you have no assurance that your code will keep on working.

If you want to perform actions that might be throttled (cloudwatch for example) and are not critical for the response, you cannot have a singleton processing them after you return, because they might not be processed.
Teslas are not cheap in europe, they are top expensive.

However for leasing they have become the cheaper choice.

Private owners often for more affordable cars such as BWM i3.
If you're writing a C++ application, it can be quite useful. I've shared this before:

I worked at a company once that had a really decent HTTP server library... That they put in every program.

You'd launch an app, and to debug it, you'd access http://localhost:9001. From there, you could go to URLs for different libraries in the app. Like, if you had a compression library, you could go http://localhost:9001/compression. It would show stats about the recent work it had done, how long it took, how much CPU, RAM, disk it used. The state of variables now, etc. You could click a button to get it to dump its cache, etc.

If you were running a service on a remote machine, accessing it over HTTP to control it was just awesome. http://r2d2:9001/restart. http://r2d2:9001/quit. http://r2d2:9001/logfile.

Oh, and the services running on that remote machine would register with a system-level monitor. So, if you went to http://r2d2/services, you could see a list of links to connect to all of the running services.

...and every service registered with a global monitor for that service. So, if you knew a Potato process was running somewhere, but you weren't sure which machine it was on, you could find it by going to http://globalmonitor/Potato, and you'd see a list of machines it was running on.

Just all kinds of awesomeness were possible. Can not recommend enough.

And, I mean like, programs with a GUI. Like, picture a game. Except on my second monitor, I had Chrome open, talking to the game's engine. I could use things like WebSockets to stream data to the browser. Like, every time the game engine rendered a shot, I could update it (VNC-style) in the browser window. Except annotated with stats, etc. It was just the most useful way to organize different debug information.

And what was great was that writing a library, and wanting to output information, you wouldn't write it to std out... You'd make HTML content, and write to it. Want to update it? Clear the buffer and write to it again. As a user, if you ever want to read the buffer, you just browse it. Want to update it? Refresh the window. Or better yet, stream it over a websocket. Like Std Out on steroids. If you need to combine the output from a few libraries in a new window, you just write a bit more HTML in your code, and you're doin' it.

It's just another example, in my mind, of the power of libraries. We all get used to thinking of frameworks (IIS, Apache) as the only way to solve a problem, that we forget to even think about putting things together in new and unexpected ways. HTTP as a library - HELL YES.

Using HTML to debug programs, live, is highly under-utilized.
I think this link seems to suggest that that day is closer than we think...
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Some people hate negotiating. Services like CarWow seek to skip this step and are hugely popular.

So I’d say it’s a fair point.
The Berlin Tesla factory is supposed to make up to 40,000 cars a month so hopefully someone will want them. :) Maybe they need a smaller model for outside the USA.
I doubt anyone will ever catch up to Intel, look they are already producing 14nm!
Tesla was (just) profitable last quarter if they sold no carbon credits. Perhaps worth a look at more recent financials?

6 billion in cars, 428 million in carbon credits last quarter.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...
Intel's CPUs today are still king when it comes to single-thread workloads, like gaming. The main difference in the past two years has been that AMD has taken the lead in multi-thread performance, and that's scared Intel so much that they've significantly improved multi-thread performance and price across the board.

The difference is quite stark, in both directions [1]: AMD destroys Intel in anything that benefits from multiple cores at the same product tier (Ryzen 9 3900x vs i9 10900k), in some workloads as high as 50%. But, Intel wins when gaming; usually by around 5-10%.

The more measured position is: If you're just looking for the best value brand right now, AMD is the way to go, even if you are gaming. The 10900k is better than the 3900x for gaming, but its also a ~$120 up-sell: At similar pricing tiers, the single-thread performance difference is likely quite similar. But if you just want the best at any price, that's still Intel: More cores won't save every workload.

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/3543993/intel-10th-gen-revie...
Collective efforts exist due to the contributions of individuals. One person making a principled stand on how to live their life makes a difference. There are examples all over this thread, and even if you don't think something will last, it doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile to support it in the moment.

The obvious response to your request is "do nothing". And don't let anyone sway you otherwise.