skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell, dealerships are not owned by the car manufacturers. These guys are not dumb and will adapt.
Other car manufacturers are borrowing the Tesla reservation model (see Ford Bronco, GM electric Hummer). They are offering extensive customization. Like Tesla, dedicated service shops will be necessary to perform even basic maintenance and retrofitting, so maybe that could keep independent dealerships afloat.
Regarding Tesla itself, what other structural advantages (besides a head start and cool factor) do they have over the competition that will prevent their margins from eroding?
There was a Tivoli that was acquired by IBM. Was that you guys or the other company?
Yep, indeed I am. The same way I think casinos don't mind if you try to count cards at blackjack.
Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, and as far as I know it's the best one ever created. That's why I'll drop my paychecks into it for as long as I live (or work).
Please add encryption
Captchas are not effective at preventing attacks at all. There are many human and AI powered services as well as secret exploits that attackers can use. Captchas only stop spam, amateur scripts and web-scrapers.

It's a real shame that because of this "safety feature" the web is losing is programability. You can't even curl many pages these days let alone write some programs that connect to the web. This whole bloated scene of browser emulation had to be spawned and now instead of serving 1kb htmls to few friendly bots several megabytes of junk traffic and countless processing cycles are wasted on some menial tasks like retrieving sport match results from the internet.

The problem with these captcha services are _free_ which means people just throw them anywhere. Imagine a world where land mines are free for everyone at the tip of their fingers - you could hardly go outside! Well you can hardly go online now.
starlink doesn't, yet, all of the satellites so far are bent pipes. They're working on it however. It may not end up using lasers, but something in the E band RF for intersatellite links.
The gags are placeholders for actual presentations. Essentially the service allows people to watch you and your presentation at the same time, which is superior to only one or the other.

In time, it should allow you to present a more professional presentation. It's essentially the difference between 2010 & 2020 YouTube videos.
They had actual scientist consultants on that movie and it shows. The proposed laser was based on real theory.

Love that film.
It's not easy to be Lebron James if you work at it. Also maybe it's just having a hidden talent you didn't know you had or a biological advantage.
So... then what's the point of a status dashboard?
I converted his code to python.
https://gist.github.com/brianherman/7e58b48ddbb7060663139416...
Signature checking is not what people are mad about, the only way to get anything not bad from this situation is in the most abstract view that signature checking is not bad

thats the problem with people who dismiss Klein and her "oeuvre" you are so desperate to stay in the middle you refuse to see evidence right in front of your face
He was like 102 in cocaine years.
Its interesting to me when Chinese govt told everyone in Jan/Feb they have the virus under control, much of the world relaxed, but its neighbours Korea/Vietnam/Taiwan/Japan all knew to ramp up response and not believe them.
That’s a different pattern than I was trying to illustrate. I was demonstrating unsafely catching/ignoring/hiding errors and asserting health when it’s demonstrably not true
> CAPTCHA is the worst option, except for all the others that have been tried.
> Shira Ovide asks “a wild question: What if we played games, shopped, watched Netflix and read news on our smartphones — without using apps? Our smartphones, like our computers, would instead mostly be gateways to go online through a web browser.”

Correct me if I'm wrong but the iPhone actually did start that way, right? Apple only added an app store after the fact, because web apps weren't fast and functional enough, and the app store was a huge success with consumers.

I imagine in this alternate universe where web apps take off because Apple adds support for nonstandard functionality to Safari to accommodate user needs, people would be upset with them as well.

And at least for watching Netflix, reading news, shopping, and playing games, well, you can do that in a phone web browser now.
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On a business level, the only happy future I see is if they can eat into Zoom’s market share by giving away a superior presenter tool and then switch to being a conferencing platform themselves.

If they can’t, Zoom and others will add the same features if a large number of people find them valuable.

So I’m baffled that they are trying to monetize this already especially since they recently closed ~$30mm. Happy to hear other opinions.
FYI market cap doesn't just take into account how many shares were listed on IPO day. It's the total value of all outstanding shares.
Even an ordinary .PDF can have executable content. This isn't a baseless concern.
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This might be an oversimplification.

With any customer that has SLAs written into their contracts, they're not just going off your status page. They most likely have a direct point of contact and exact reporting will be done in the postmortem.

The status page is for customers for which there aren't significant legal or business complications and exists to provide transparency. In my opinion you do want "random" people at your company to be able to update it in order to provide very stressed out customers with the best information you have.

As an industry we probably should recognize this more explicitly and have more standard status pages that are like "everything might be broken but we're not sure yet"
I don’t see it. What is the blueprint? Release a deadly virus? I think we have always known how bad that would be and there are international laws against it.
> call out to other parsing functions

yes, regular expressions cannot do that because regular languages cannot do that. that is an important limitation of regular languages, otherwise you'd be able to match the language {a^nb^n for any n} (or more specifically, balanced parentheses).

The thing you wrote you wouldn't want to parse with a regular expression because it fundamentally doesn't look like a regular language with its hierarchical structure.
What I learned: PHP Redirect function. Ready to be used
It's attractive for a lot of companies to have users tied somehow to the cloud. Think about all the data that could be mined or think of it in a different way, they're with a foot in your house. That's a lot of potential for them.
We should fight back and
1) own our devices
2) own the data
3) if we decide to put things in cloud we should be able be interchangeably swap the cloud provider
It’s arguable that Apple launched without an app store because they were still cleaning up APIs and coming up with a plan. (And, arguably wise, if so. Apple Watch came out with door with an awful development experience.)

But, yeah, that’s what they started with. And WebOS. And Firefox OS. Where are those web-only operating systems now?
> The fact nobody seems to be talking about the national security implications of this virus and what our rivals or enemies have learned is frightening

rest assure such scenarios are being heavily discussed else where besides here on HN you get downvotes for talking about "certain things", including early attempts to speculate/warn as the pandemic was unfolding back in February
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We use the demo servers (which have a lot of load) to test the latest builds. Try it now.
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I wonder how the efficacy of these laser-powered weapons systems is affected by how reflective the target is. It'd be a bummer if the military spent millions on this only to be foiled by a glossy paint finish.
Being scraped isn't free, if it's at a large enough scale.

Plus, it's not just benign read-only scrapers. Have you looked at the spam folder of your email recently? That's what every comment section and user bio and god knows what else would look like if you just blindly allow all automated traffic.
So the choice would be: build an Android app and an iOS app, or build a web app? Eh, I'd rather build a web app.
>GDPR says that an IP address is PII if it can be associated with an individual, but that. . . doesn’t mean that stored information that is keyed by an IP address is personal data, even if the IP address can be associated back to a particular individual.

Okay, I’m usually pretty good at understanding law, but this doesn’t make sense to me. This seems like a very shallow, arbitrary definition of subject data. So GDPR didn’t grant ownership of one’s PII? What did it grant ownership of? I’m very confused by this.
LinkedIn is a pile of dogshit, they didn't need any help to do it either. It's laggy, spammy and covered in dark patterns with a user base populated almost entirely by self-aggrandizing boomers jerking each other off.

Now please explain to me, how Salesforce would have ruined it?
Holy. Crap. That is mind-boggling. I remember back in 2006 I thought I had taken things too far when I wasted many, many hours of my life figuring out the Line Rider file format: https://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/11/15/line-rider-file-format/

But this is about 10 levels beyond that! Only now do I see I didn't take things far enough by half - this is beautiful and... complete. Just amazing!
That link out to the China drone swarm video is pretty crazy. I hope we do live in boring times and don't have to deal with drone warfare wherever we live.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37062/china-conducts-t...

Drones in the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Some of the same Chinese suicide drones being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war

Slaughterbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
I think it's hard to say -- something that we'll have to observe. Or maybe history has given us enough analogies, even for this different age?

The same things that make the Asian peoples compliant with societal restrictions and "big government" might also leave them vulnerable to being led astray by those same governments, or tolerant of dictatorial actions. (and not just singling out Asian cultures here -- any authority-respecting people)

The same traits that make Americans uncooperative with government mandates might be a great protection against unreasonable actions of a tyrant. Or it could be a very bad weakness in a complex, connected economy.

After reading Jared Diamond's idea about the nature of cultural traits in Guns Germs Steel (though he didn't phrase it that way exactly), I think of that often when these things come up. A country's culture, ethos, political system (quite independent from individual behavior, as individuals quickly get absorbed into national behavior) determines a lot of how they survive or resist, or adapt.

The question is whether they have the right combination of traits to get them through the slew of challenges in aggregate, over time, that life throws at them randomly, to succeed in the long run.
Right, there is opportunistic behavior, always.

Conspiracy theorists misconstrue independent opportunist agents as centrally planned competence.

They heavily overweigh competence.
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Getafe today is better than Getafe 2004, for those of you wondering.
Interesting. I’m on iOS in the US and saw none of that except a banner at the bottom. Is this directed advertising or is there some other reason it’s not the same for me.
> all sheet metal that's cut for home appliances and so forth, was starting to be cut by high-power fiber-lasers of the kilowatt-type power levels.

Shame this tech has yet to trickle down to the home-hobbyist level.

Having my 3D printer direct the end of a decently powered fiber laser cutting head would be a nice feature!
See I don't think that's true. They aren't smart. Everyone hates dealerships. Tell me one person that likes their dealership? They deal with them because they have to for the warranty then they get a new car when their lease is up because it's easier to deal with compared to mechanics. I just want to pick the exact car I want and get it. It's nearly impossible with any other dealer (This is the typical customer as I buy used cars but I will be buying the Tesla Truck if TSLA shares pay).

The dealers are not selling it today. I used to go into the Nissan dealerships frequently and the Leaf used to be under a tarp. They had no incentive to lead the charge and now they are behind is my thinking.

The big advantage I see is the dealers. Them being not owned by the dealer is the problem. I think Elon saw this early on as he wanted to own his own dealerships because there was no money in their business model. Also the dealerships don't want to be mechanic shops as the money in a mechanic shop is not the greatest return on money as they lose out on all the added profits of sales, dealer rebates and interest. In addition to first mover and tech, their charging station, the best talent and they have solar (I was also a SCTY investor) which means they have the entire market cornered I think. They also produce their own batteries.

Honestly the main reason is they said, here is our design, go copy us, we know you can't do better. When someone tells me that I respect it and that's the tipping point for me.

Edit: Most the dealerships in a city are owned by the same person from my understanding. So the big auto malls with Ford/GM/Toyota is all owned by 1 person.
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Thanks for sharing the book link, I went through table of content. I am looking for bootstrapping a startup with few (5 to 10) customers. which hacks typically work to acquire initial customers, how to find them for an idea that I have, or The problem I found is faced by many other people ? if so how to find and engage them to provide solution. what type of users usually come forward to give feedbacks. how to attract them ? where are they ? how they are searching a solution to their problem ? I need books that gives me a framework and list of hacks to solves this problem.
I think you want to install version 3 and see for yourself.
If people cared about any of that, truly, deeply, then why is Gmail so dominant?

I’ll use Gmail as an example here, as I think it has less network effects than Facebook. Yes, there’s the big damn hurdle of having to have contacts update your email address, but past that, there are absolutely alternatives like FastMail. But those cost money, so they have not taken off. (I pay for FastMail, I love FastMail, I think they’re profitable, they are not going to set the Nasdaq on fire.)

I remember, in the olden days of Facebook, back when it was very college-only, that people would post all sorts of fake news that Zuckerberg was going to start charging for the service, and people would bitch and moan like you would not believe. Privacy is a think people think they want, and arguably do want, but their revealed preference is to trade privacy for free.
It hasn't ended the web on Mobile. Why would it end it on the desktop?
<quote>The FSF didn't force RMS out</quote>

This is what RMS declared: "I hereby resign ... due to pressure on the Foundation and me..." We know pressure on the foundation came from SFConservancy, GNOME, various groups aligned with SJW, among others. But we are left to wonder who could've possibly pressured _him_. The FSF itself, maybe? Board? ED? Staff?

<quote>The FSF released free software video conferencing to associate members.</quote>

Yes, and I agree it's a clever way to get more donations.
I think Microsoft uses with btrees:

https://github.com/microsoft/ALEX

Of course they call it "ML", but it's just a linear interpolation for faster tree search.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste”

~ Winston Churchill
global power consumption
yeah complex tax laws often have interrelated and cocontingent things to compute the final tax on.

Is this deduction before or after your AGI, whats the maximum % of AGI that it can be, does taking the deduction lower your AGI and thus the max percentage of AGI that it can be?
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And that world is Firefox OS, which we are all using right now, right?
And there was that moment Messi skied a penalty kick in ... what was it, the Copa América final? He announced his retirement the day after. Of course, retracted.
Well that might be my handiwork! About half the time I have to do an reCaptcha i mislabel one of the photos. Because I’m not being paid, I’m being held hostage to an automated system and I will rebel.
I was in a random bar in Barcelona when Ronaldo scored a hat trick to come back against Wolfsburg in the CL. For a Madrid fan, it was amazingly juicy. A little old lady started dancing the flamenco to taunt a table of young lads.
...early attempts to speculate/warn as the pandemic was unfolding back in February

Providing links to such attempts would make this argument more persuasive.
The rudeness was not in the citation request, but in the “I think you don’t know how a citation works” comment. I find hard to believe you really needed/wanted a citation on what I stated just to equiparate my post to a citation request on a sentientness scale on a different comment. I’ve read Hofstader and I know some of the origins of these scales and their are based on all but true scientific method.

That aside, how can we expect to treat animals better than we treat ourselves? And that’s why veganism without ethics is just another form of consumerism. It’s late at night and I will fail to provide citation, but you can google how quinoa prices skyrocketed when became part of the superfood/healthy eating/vegan culture of rich populations, and what this meant for the locals that used to grow it and eat it.

I say the above (the google it part) without trying to be offensive and with an olive branch, looking forward to go deeper in this reflections.
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I might actually like something like this if it did not try to replace conventional regex syntax but aimed at making it more useful by enabling composition of smaller blocks of (conventional) regex into larger. An API like that could certainly also have an equivalent of Pattern.quote(..) for the few times what you actually do want to enter unescaped (ever tried reading regex with regex?), but it would just be a minor nice to have feature.

It wouldn't even have to contain all the small blocks (like [] single char alternatives, those are best left as is), just an option to describe bigger round-brace blocks out in the java syntax where nesting is validated in compile. Lookahead, lookbehind, their negatives, capture, noncapture. Noncapture with a varargs (or builder) API of piped alternatives.

You could still provoke a PatternSyntaxException by writing invalid stuff in the conventional blocks, but if the composed pattern fails checking the subpatterns should be quite helpful (if there are no backreferences)
Really? What will they use to build the legs to support it?
Nice! Any habits, frameworks, tools you have found to help you achieve this :)
This is one of the more incredible expressions of passion I've seen in a long time. Thanks so much for doing it and
sharing with all of us!
This brings back memories of playing Free Rider 2 on TrackMill. It’s amazing how these simple games were elevated to art forms by their communities.
The Big Deal About Cloud Regions
Not necessarily just for ios apps; a tablet form-factor is ideal for just reading, and a pen interface is ideal for drawing etc.
Yes, by allowing file upload of recorded file.
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the international laws can't contain a virus outbreak, people still get murdered by guns when there's laws against using guns, the scale of the damage to economy and security to enemy nation has made this too lucrative to pass for any strategist
It definitely looks like China took advantage of Covid lockdowns to strengthen its hold on Hong Kong.
Back then there was the unprofessional foul, with disgusting regularity. Referees were much less willing to show cards.
Really impressive -- however last I recall reading about that breakthrough airborne platform laser (see photo in article), it involved dumping 2 huge tanks of chemicals together to produce a chemical fluorescence infrared laser pulse, wasn't it? Not as scalable that one I think. But the article emphasizes small lasers combined via fiber, ok.

And yes the optics must be pretty impressive -- I wonder if adaptive optics (from astronomy) are used at these ranges and target sizes?

And then, a puzzle I've always wished to have the knowledge to solve. Does a laser beam obey the 1/r^2 rule in intensity and area spread over distance? Of course it does, light waves intrinsically have that property I think. But how do you show it when it comes to a coherent beam that is always depicted as a focused pencil out into space forever?
Can the Apple M1 Run Linux?
Working on something faster: https://linear.app
It's true that apple hobbles PWAs on their mobile devices. But not everyone uses those devices and most apps don't make money off the initial purchase.
This should be the intro/opening credits to a Bond movie.
I rarely "need" anything, except water and Web hosting. What I don't need, I don't buy.

I am an artist, and my primary medium is code. Often I gift websites or physical craft made of recovered parts.
That's the eternal question isn't it: Where's the line?

In this case I think the question is something like "is it cruel to eat an animal?"

I'm not a spiritual person, but I like what the general consensus of the tribes around the Great Lakes (and elsewhere) saw of it: we're very much part of the [natural] world, not above or outside of it in any way. And I don't see that as a bad thing. Now, talking scale of consumption and all that is another matter that I didn't gather was at the core of this discussion—at least that is the way I've been framing my comments.

But now I'm getting a bit worried I'm taking this too far off track of the actual linked content and discussion so I think I'll have to leave it at that—but I'm happy to continue to discuss if you wanted to—just fire me an email.
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Tries are insanely good for implementing fuzzy search as well (say based on a Damerau–Levenshtein distance).

Using this approach for a typo-tolerant instant search engine that I am working on: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
> China, Russia and every other country has been given a wonderful blueprint for absolutely disrupting the US and really entire western order.

Probably not. Notice something interesting about COVID - countries that were scared of SARS did fine, countries that weren't scared of SARS suffered.

If you chart out the response to COVID in the West it is probably something like disease growing exponentially, response growing linearly. The mobilisation of resources over the last 11 months has been staggering. If another virus appeared now it would get demolished because everyone is already on high alert. The regulatory paths for emergency tests would be exercised recently, and it seems likely that the stupid issue where the US government basically banned private testing in the first month of the response is resolved.

If it is contained early, COVID is experienced quite differently to if it is allowed to become endemic. Really, if we replayed this pandemic but people understood the risk of air travel w.r.t. disease it would go completely differently. It'll be decades before people relax again.