skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cars, batteries, and solar panels are all basically commodities.

That is only true, and arguably so, for solar panels. Cars are absolutely brand-dominated, and famously so. If they were really commoditized we'd be seeing consolidation of providers, where (c.f. the very company we're talking about!) we're seeing the opposite.

And batteries are legitimately high tech devices. No one can "just open a battery factory" without stealing someone else's chemistry process first, and probably a ton of industry knowledge about suppliers and chain management. An enormous amount of money is still being dumped into battery R&D. They are basically the polar opposite of a commoditized product.
Ever since type hinting came about I wanted a library like typer (I had a few attempts to write one, but often lost motivation with other things). This was the first time I’ve seen it and am excited to read more into it!
What about Amex and Mastercard, do they have similar marketing opt-out forms?
The crazy valuation of TESLA has more to do with the flight-to-stocks caused by the unprecedented dollar printing of 2020, combined with the "memeability" of the brand and its CEO, than the fundamentals of the company.
This is a good article and I feel it is a better articulation of the problems out there.

Here’s a thought experiment- what happens if social media (define it as you please) shuts down tomorrow. The computers and tech remain, but a govt fist stops “social media”.

Going through that, working on how coders would fill the void, what it would curtail- helps refine what the technological and social aspects really are today.

For example - what happens to WhatsApp ? What about Comment sections on forums?

More importantly/ what functions did SM serve, that people will still want ?

People will want some way to filter interesting content and know what other people are thinking / submit interesting content and say what they are thinking.

Finally people will need a method to filter it all.

I feel this brings you back to the Facebook problem, suggesting our issues are more fundamental.

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My suspicions is that the core issues involves the pace and breadth of information sharing

The faster and more broadcast information is, the easier to access on our phones - the less 1 on 1 it becomes.

Driven instead by distraction or mental hijack through emotional clickbait - customized for you - individual conversations which can lead to understanding are replaced by broadcast and the most competitively addictive content.
It doesn't make much sense from a "return on investment" perspective. But it makes a lot more sense than the markets usually do from an "efficient allocation of capital" perspective...
I generally agree that they should allow a proper 3rd party audit and disclose their USD asset management strategy.

The biggest counter-argument is just the orders of magnitude of the two. Tether's market cap is 20b whereas bitcoin's is 350b. While that's large enough to cause a temporary shock and can be used for short-term manipulation, it likely not enough to cause long-term damage.
The value doesn't come from the fact that they make electric cars, it comes from:

The fact that they have a huge fleet of cars with cameras and sensors on the road feeding their ML models is a huge advantage.

Battery factories.

Supercharger network.

Elon's Following.

Edit: added following
> A downstream issue with importing the product of forced labor into the US is that US manufacturing markets, business (small & medium in particular), labor, & markets affected by finance are distorted. The argument that an influx of cheap foreign goods are good for the economy does not properly consider the long term & strategic costs of hollowing out large markets where the USA once lead the world.

That's potentially a very valuable point politically: Those complaining about unfair competition from China and those concerned about human rights can find common cause, and maybe enough support to pass such a bill.

'American workers should not have to compete with slave labor!'
I wonder if the only way to meaningfully oppose cancel culture is actively cancel the proponents. It's hard to fight a movement that's willing to go to such extremes while holding on to ideals which restrict your own response.
I had that same distinct impression about the jump at :15 the first time I watched, but watching it again i don’t. I think it has something to do with the leg motion while airborne. If you just focus on the torso it seems normal.
by using physical cash
While I think Tesla is over valued, I feel your statement is one many made about Apple. That they just used commodity parts to create the iPhone. That the margins will be driven too small to maintain and they’ll never live up to their valuation.

Tesla has atleast a 3 year advantage, a very strong hold on battery production, extreme brand loyalty, and an iteration cycle that puts all other car companies to shame. They’ve caught an entire industry with their pants down.
Yes we all know how fair and just the American criminal system is and paying pennies is vastly different than paying nothing.
Ask HN: Commodity Features for SaaS – What and How?
How did you build "commodity features" for your SaaS? I'm thinking to user flows, payments, analytics, but anything really that you'd consider commodity (and perhaps wish there was a faster way).

How long did it take? How easy vs painful was it? Interested in both the eng point of view and also the non-eng one (e.g. how long did you account for vs actually took).
I’ve seen various warnings on walking or biking directions, as well as on driving directions using ferries or toll roads, or crossing borders.

So they are neither categorically opposed to warnings for any of the reasons you mention, nor are there technical difficulties. I guess the case of roads that are dangerous just happens to be extremely rare.
Yeah, and hopefully a lot of them sell more quickly that the bitcoin folks did. Tesla’s stock priced in a way that suggests the market will never catch up. I think betting against any given car company is fair, but betting against all of them is completely foolish.

I like what Tesla has done for the electric car market. They’re at least smart enough to have issued a bunch of stock at these crazy prices to keep them afloat for a while.
I simply don’t understand what Tesla’s moat is once the other companies have the same range / performance.
The build quality and ride comfort of my gas Audi surpass that of an equivalently priced Tesla by miles, once they have a comparable electric car, that’s what I’ll buy.

The current e-tron is not it, but VAG built the super impressive Taycan, they’ll figure it out.
Thanks - is there an RSS feed?
I almost certainly would have never clicked on an article about String Theory, even if it was trending at #1, but because of the vague title I did and was happily surprised to learn something about the world of physics and physics researchers.
Software is much easier, faster and cheaper to scale than car manufacturers.
You did look up what else the channel did, right? Because I would hope that a channel where someone tells people what pirated software to download where gets banned on your alternative, too.

Unless you think https://codeofhacking.blogspot.com/2018/01/burp-suite-pro-v1... is somehow fine.
Because the bet is that in 30 years, Tesla will still be here and the legacy companies will not, having failed to pivot to the emerging markets.

Yours is the same logic that has been deployed against tech industry P/E ratios for decades. No, it doesn't make "sense" per the balance sheet. But it's clear what the bet is.
I wonder how Tesla will incentivize the employees who joined circa 2016~2017 to stick around. As they would be fully vested with offers given before the 700% increases. They probably have base salaries in the 100k range but would have equity in the 10m. I could foresee some pretty big turnover as those employees practically retire or head into angel investing. I mean it’s not like Tesla’s Hr is going to refresh their equity anywhere near what they already have.
If that scares you then may I suggest you consult your cardiologist before you check what bitcoin has been going for recently?

Excusez le mot, but I really do see these developments as two sides of the same coin.
I dunno, https://codeofhacking.blogspot.com/2018/01/burp-suite-pro-v1... looks pretty illegal to me? No need to immediately take the crime up to 11, using the youtube platform to help people commit software piracy will do.
of all the glorious sites across the internet, why are you on HN if you feel this way?
I think you're being earnest so I'll dive into this thread for a few more minutes before I go back to work. Because I'm being earnest too:

If the West wants to influence internal China policy, it needs either a clear moral high ground for Chinese citizens to refer to, or clear economic upper hand. It doesn't have the latter right now (maybe never will again), and as this thread demonstrates, it doesn't have the former either.

Re: open discourse and changeable policies, China policies are more changeable than you would gather from the cartoon picture in Western media. They change constantly, in response not only to public opinion (as expressed on the internet these days), but also in response to continual internal debate within the CCP.

The US, for all its waving of the "free speech" banner, is only as changeable as the culture allows. Right now, for example, there would be no hope of reforming either prisons or e.g. a climate policy that might destroy civilization itself, because ~50% of US culture believes those aren't necessary.

Also note that open discourse is only allowed to a certain extent, as seen in surveillance and countermeasures against protests and organizers of any kind, from 1776 until the present day. So we can't in reality claim to be a society of free discourse when it comes to threats against the status quo, perceived or otherwise.

Prison labor in the US is only voluntary if people choose it over labor outside of prison. The fact that people sometimes choose it over staring at a wall for decades (and, one can imagine, being harassed by prison staff for not making the place more profitable) doesn't make it voluntary.

And finally re: Muslims being forced into labor camps against their will. It was not a century ago that the West dealt with its Muslim-extremism problem by bombing cities and weddings, and causing the economic collapse of entire countries. You want leverage over Chinese policy, you need to address this first.
As somebody who never followed the fansub scene, the rise of japanese words in common English web-lingo (like desu or senpai) was really weird to observe.
apparently yes, but it does not work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570690
If they want to play that nasty game, maybe the suppliers could buy stock cameras for $1000, desolder them, and reassemble them into hacker-friendly boards for $1200, and then resell the rest of the stock cameras for spare parts (e.g. mechanical shutter assembly) at 1/2 the cost of OEM service. Even if they can scoop up the huge graveyard of e.g. Canon 60Ds that photographers will turn over for $200 a piece, or 6Ds for $500 a piece, reverse engineer them, and recycle them into a Raspberry Pi module, that would be amazing.

Even with the CMV12000 though, someone should make a RPi module that "just works", or an alternative RPi that allows it to "just work", for those of us who want to spend our time working on the actual imaging and software ... it's kind of sad there's this huge graveyard of good sensors out there that just can't be used by imaging experts because electronics people gatekeep the industry and only release them at reasonable prices inside consumer devices, which isn't what those imaging experts want at least in terms of programmability, communication, and mounting options.
Try measuring Tesla's output in Ampere-hours of EV batteries produced, vs. all those other manufacturers combined.
Yeah... um... "many books, rather old, but completely inadmissible in the court of modern science" seems like an improbable place to expect to have any accurate insight into the actual fundamental nature of fundamental particles. Even if they contain something that, if you squint hard enough, looks like a string, that's no reason to suppose that reality actually looks like that. (But I suspect that you're inclined to accept those books for other reasons, and therefore to accept them as also accurate about physics. I suppose a starting point is where you find it, but you should forgive the rest of us when we remain unconvinced that it is likely to be a useful starting point.)
Tesla is basically unparalleled in the electronic cars and their self driving is already passing certifications. Don’t come with this oil lobby, Tesla is just another manufacturer... you will keep loosing money and won’t know why
4gb seems pretty much overkill for a router though.

New release, so better to wait to see how something like armbian comes up on it:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15932-nanopi-r4s/

In general, if you're looking for semi-decent 'off-brand' SBCs, I think your best bet is to look at the armbian support:

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_category=networking

(this will not only see if there's a reasonable distro, but let you know if the support for the chip is in the mainline)
Bitcoin is equally in "Ponzi" territory. When devs like Greg Maxwell and Adam Back social engineered the GitHub repo away from the original contributors they more or less killed the idea of Bitcoin as a currency and have since been pushing the idea that it is a "settlement" layer, or something like digital gold, not Digital Cash as it was intended.

Without any real world use case and intentionally high fees Bitcoin, like Tesla, is pointlessly overvalued by people who could care less about the underlying technology and just hope to get rich off the hype train and sell to a greater fool.

Real users and developers moved to projects like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Monero years ago. All that are left are fan boys and marketers.
Sorry I was under the impression you were talking about a radio telescope and not just a big shitty antenna. /s

Wire antennas for a radio telescope are not a great solution. A giant array of antennas (still a lot of mass to lift) could have decent angular resolution but not great seeing power. The seeing power of a telescope is a function of the totally collector surface area. A big dish literally reflects photons that hit any part of the surface. A wire antenna with no reflector has a teeny tiny surface area.

For an antenna array you'd still need steering sturdy mounts, steering systems, and power for those steering systems. Just using big wires means you can't really steer the focus and has far less gain than an array and way less than a system using reflectors. TANSTAAFL.
Does anyone have good numbers on the brand loyalty to Tesla? If I’m a Tesla owner, what’s the chance of me buying Tesla again? Historically Mercedes and Lexus lead with ~40%. I won’t be surprised if Tesla beats them by a margin. Alas, Tesla is a young company and I couldn’t find any reliable numbers.

Extreme brand loyalty could explain why Tesla could be so big (in addition to other reason such as owning the vertical of selling insuring and energy being a possible outcome, which is not the case for traditional automakers)
You are the target audience for this marketing. It was made for you.

This is recruitment marketing. The goal isn't to sell the robots, it to sell the experience of working on the robots so that they have basically every need on earth lusting to work there.
the majority of the bill actually has to do with election fraud.. really really interesting.
And he still thinks it's too high. There was an internal email basically saying "investors are trusting us" meaning that they are no where near as valuable as the stock price says unless they execute perfectly (which he goes on to say is why everyone must work harder, smarter, etc.).
Let's see.

Canada currently has 338 MPs and over 80% (!) of those (278) belong to one of two majority parties.

So yes, in theory Canada has a multi party system. In practice this multi party system is severely damaged by the effects of the FPTP voting system.

There are mathematical reasons for FPTP to result in two party systems. [0] explains it pretty well. There don't have to be deeper underlying stuctural reasons for the dichotomy.

So to combat two party systems, replacing FPTP with an alternative voting system seems a pretty reasonable step.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhO6jfHPFQU
I wonder about this too. There seems to be some inconsistencies with how society thinks about violence vs sex. Rape and murder are two of the most serious crimes, and both are punished severely; with murder more severely in most cases. But when movies or games depicts extreme violence, including murder, it’s seems as fairly normal and accepted. But when rape for example is depicted, it causes a lot of controversy.

Ultimately games and moves are fantasies. But for some reason living out some fantasies that would be very wrong in real life is ok, but others it’s not. I hesitate to even get into the really taboo subjects like for example pedophilia.
CAPIQ basically do this, they normalise it with a human analyst too. Credit Suisse's Holt product also does this.
Ask HN: Smoker Blanket Replacement
This is a smart group of people. I'm working on ordering the official winter insulation for my smoker, but it won't arrive until Mid-January at the earliest. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can insulate it so it stays nice and warm inside, and I'm not wasting as much fuel.
Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.

Everyone's so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.

The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.

The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.
WireGuard full mesh configuration generator
POSSIBLE not impossible, can't edit.
Some legacy companies will certainly fail the pivot, but I think it's wrong by the stock market to be so certain that they will collectively fail.
I’d argue yes.

I mean these are physics and mathematical specialists.

I’d rather have a country that can keep such people engaged and active than lose them.

I mean what other options do you see? They could join hedge funds. Open an ML based startup.

In the end someone else has to work on this material- the problem isn’t going to go away.

And it sounds like this requires tools to do measurements of astral phenomena. Considering that America lost its telescope recently, and further investment is unlikely, I don’t think the investment in ancillary fields is high either.
Oh I'm pro making money, I wish you all the best in that regard. I just think crypto is thoroughly and utterly worthless. Regressive at best.
> Fauci was obviously lying.

That's not evidence, but a claim that you provide no evidence for. Even if he was wrong, you don't have evidence that he made a mistake or that he lied.

> Masks are and were well understood to be useful in mitigating the spread of airborne contagions.

IIRC, most medical experts agreed with Fauci at the time. The analysis of someone on the Internet doesn't mean much.
Yeah...we'll regret that at some point, IMHO. They've converted all the railway right-of-ways around here into running/biking trails, which is in no way terrible. But at some point we're going to wish we still had those railways as very-low-carbon delivery networks.

But that's my opinion...I could be wrong.
Please tell me you have a blog
> These solutions turn out to have a very nice physical interpretation: they are the different ways in which we can compactify the extra dimensions of string theory. Regardless of this physical interpretation, the fact remains that there are many many distinct solutions of string theory at low energies, and in order to make predictions that are falsifiable, we need to know which of these solutions we're living in.

You have created a mathematical structure that is so flexible that it can fit any data. It is useless. You have abandoned the hypothetico-deductive model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetico-deductive_model
Unfortunately that's too high of a cost; this would be mostly for serious hobby / side project use and the stock cameras are extremely limited in programmability.
Not just compute. Storage and data transfer have also trended lower in my experience.
There's an unspoken assumption here and elsewhere that the captcha doesn't present any kind of difficulty at all; is that true? If so, why?
Public grant making is a very political process. People imagine there is an apolitical body that makes grants to physicists based on the merits of their work ... but that's not the case.

In any resource allocation scheme where the grantors have no skin in the game, politics and cronyism will dominate in the long term.

That's probably what's happened here. String theorists get grants not because string theory produces practical results, but because there is now a network of string theorists and sympathizers in charge of the institutions that control professorships and grant making.

That's why resource allocation should be left to those with skin in the game. A market is one mechanism for forcing allocators to expose themselves to the downsides of bad investments ... but there are other mechanisms if people have an allergy to markets.
Not to mention the fact that you can hear them from a mile away - there's a reason all ambient noise was replaced with the music ;)
I’m pretty sure that Twitter account is not run by Michael burry
Puts require you to get the direction, strike and time correct. Really hard to guess on such an unpredictable stock like TSLA.
It was a Garmin and it was 15 years ago, but it attempted to send me down a legit ski slope near Lake Tahoe. Good times. Like it sent you through the parking area and behind the club house and everything. I’ve been a skeptic ever since.

Then again, I got a land cruiser 3 years ago (with a 24 gallon secondary gas tank) so if a gps says to try something these days I usually do!