skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
look Tesla's battery factory in China is in complete shambles. Porsche, hyundai, samsung, apple (hyundai collab), honda, toyota, vw, mercedes, audi are ALL after Tesla's pie and now the automotive cartel are going to push out Tesla.

I'm sorry this rustles the jimmies of Tesla shareholders and Elon Musk's fanboys. I got nothing against him but no early mover in automotive industry have ever survived in the long run: Ford, GM.

You know which company bet the farm on the continued generosity of low interest rates and government grants? Porsche in the 1970s. They eventually suffered a huge setback when the capital markets dried up.

Tesla has had a good run but you can't downvote away reality, SWOT analysis, and the fact that they have never made a profit on the cars they sold if you discounted tax credit and loan relief.

Jim Chanos is always right but not always profitable.
I looked up Global Foundries and they're 100% owned by the Abu Dhabi state wealth fund. So it might not be too difficult.
The NVME drives are what's making it so expensive. Dell retail is $6044 for each of the Intel P4610 6.4TB drives. That's $145k.
Explain Toyota's fascination with hydrogen fuel-cells. I loved my 2000s era Prius for what it was. I have lost any hope Toyota can catch up with Tesla now.
I'm very curious how trademark stuff with work with this and if the whole "<something> for <existing trademark name>" naming scheme will continue to hold. E.g. Windows Subsystem for Linux.

What if someone searches for Elasticsearch and finds Elastic's docs and there's confusion as to why something is different from AWS's Opendistro for Elasticsearch? How would that relate to trademark dilution?
That's is interesting. Makes me wonder what will happen now that this is happening to a much broader group of people. The migrations and reactions will be larger than we have seen in the past. It feels almost like we are seeing the slow creation of internet slums. An expansion to the legitimate dark web?
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1126230_how-many-mustan...

So they are looking at 50k cars compared to 500k Tesla ships. This is something these car companies needed to start doing yesterday.
That's counting emails. Unlike other Git-based projects like the Linux kernel, it seems a lot of commits are made with users.noreply.github.com email addresses. For example.

commit 8e413f85e8978da83db107aae51e5543d4779dba
Author: paulward24 <52216289+paulward24@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed Jul 3 04:37:07 2019 -0700

Ensure to access RecoveryState#fileDetails under lock

Closes #43840
I'm afraid there may be less open source projects in the future as if you become successful by being community driven open source, you get run over by AWS once you get big enough and the project will end up being more closed to only offer highly priced corporate targeted SaaS to survive and one might just start off as closed to begin with.
This targeting of the infrastructure layer is leaving a really bad taste in mouth.

I agree with the EFFs conclusion for most part here.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/beyond-platforms-priva...

Like sure this DDOS provider may not have enough of a presence in belize anymore to hold those IPs, but it's an IP block, probably more than just Parler is using them. Also tons of companies open shell offices for domain names and IPs. Heck there are even services that will provide just that for you. So it's pretty common, so this seems like pretty selective enforcement.
321insider: Better Crowdfunding for Indie Games
This is how grocery delivery works in the Netherlands. The groceries generally aren't delivered from individual stores but directly from the regional distribution centers. Delivery costs range from free to €10.
Loss of smell drives Covid-19 survivors to get creative in the kitchen
Anyone may, and many people do, have open source forks of Elastic on github. 18.9k of them on github alone. There was no need for "another" other than PR.

I feel compelled to note that your summary of SSPL is wholly inaccurate. SSPL is very clearly a GPL derivative. It's language though leaves a lot to be desired, but the intent was clear. It does NOT prohibit making money offering the software as a service. It does require to contribute your changes back to the software if you are doing so.

The real failure is that companies have danced well enough around the edges of GPLv3 for so long that Amazon running a service which is basically just the software with modifications, but without the source code being contributed to open source, is feasible. This is even becoming a problem for Linux.

The reality is that Amazon Elasticsearch is clearly a derivative work under copyright law, and under GPL should be re-contributed. But major companies have "danced" the line so it does not have to be. SSPL is an attempt to bridge that gap, a poor one, but an attempt. The OSI appears more interested in defending their license than helping resolve this egregious situation. The SSPL sucks, but not having a solution for it sucks more.
> Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to.

Disclaimer: worked at AWS.

Yes, Amazon has a vast number of engineers. They also have a vast need for engineers.

So they have to make a business case to continue to fund engineers, and I don't think one exists for the type of development we're wanting.

To be clear, there is some development they could justify.

If they are replicating new features that Elastic releases, so they're not falling behind the market, the business case is retaining customers. But that's playing catch up.

If new features optimize the service, the business case is being able to advertise lower TCO, which attracts customers. That could be quite beneficial, but there's usually not a ton of optimization you can do.

There is a business case for new features that increase integration with other AWS services. That increases customer usage of AWS. But AWS is so proprietary this would likely be useless outside AWS.

So none of that, I think, is the development people are looking for.

What we'd want are features a software business develops to differentiate their product in the market. If the features go into the open source version, however, then by definition they aren't differentiating.

This is the key business contradiction in AWS trying to fund open source development.

Maybe I'm missing something and they can make the business case for continued differentiating feature development. So, I'd say I'm wrong if after two years we're seeing such features being released to the commnuity.
Agreed it's not perfect, and that's why I included my methodology and asked if anyone has a better source since less substantiated claims are being quoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866653
The things happening in Russia before the protest on Saturday is dystopian. Police take into custody anyone who is trying to promote it, schools are suddenly open and students are being scared by threats of disqualification if they go outside on that day.

I hope this dictatorship ends soon. I wouldn’t want to live in a country where nearly all your taxes get spent on building a palace and enforcing more police and military.

If anyone is curious on what’s happening, I made a Twitter list. Most tweets are in Russian though.

https://twitter.com/i/lists/1351120526220152839

Oh yeah and some russian citizens who are members of Navalny anti corruption fond are told by government to leave their own country..
This whole argument is wildly misunderstanding the problem. Andy Ngo frames this as a black & white issue - when by all reasonable measures, it is not.

It’s not all free speech or none. I don’t see Andy protesting that it is a crime to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there isn’t one. I also don’t see Andy protesting when that teenage girl was sent to prison for verbally abusing her boyfriend and verbally encouraging him to commit suicide - which he eventually did. Where are his protests? Where are the guardians of free speech here?

The thing is, there is speech for the purpose of communicating, speech for the purpose of convincing, and speech for the purpose of manipulating. The first two categories are always protected and should be under most conditions. The last has heavy restrictions. You are not allowed to use the platform someone else built to manipulate the audience they built if they do not want you to. Period.

Trumps endless lies aren’t speech. They are a blatant attempt at manipulation with a reckless disregard for the truth. That needs to be restricted urgently. We’ve seen too many minds manipulated by this category of non-speech.

That’s also the entire problem with the “conservatives” - especially under Trump. They abused platforms to manipulate people into following them because they didn’t actually have persuasive points. They abandoned their commitments to fidelity, fiscal responsibility, and morality. All they had were lies that they repeated until they became undistinguishable from the truth.

This isn’t about speech. It never was. It is about manipulation and one particular political segment trying to use our core values against us.

Stop trying to muddy the waters. This whole argument is a straw man.

Stop trying to pretend this was ever about speech.
after 15 seconds of googling, the P4610 U.2 format 6.4TB seems something more like a single unit street price of $2400 from non-Dell vendors. I'm mildly surprised it's that low considering that the U.2 format stuff, for serious servers, will always command a premium price.

Probably in the range of $2100 to $2200 per unit from a x86-64 component distributor in moderate quantities.
I tried for many years to do the site project after work. I could never muster the energy after working a full day. I always said I'll do it tomorrow.

What helped was going to bed early and getting up early. If you can get over the snooze temptation and get dressed, I had a lot energy to actually work on a project.
I've always found logging and debugging to be just so darn tedious in functional realms.

e.g.

how to do easily you log/instrument f(g(h(x)))?
I'm not sure.

From the article you linked:

> In the 1970s, researchers attempted to create rechargeable fluoride batteries using solid components, but solid-state batteries work only at high temperatures, making them impractical for everyday use. In the new study, the authors report at last figuring out how to make the fluoride batteries work using liquid components—and liquid batteries easily work at room temperature.

But OP mentions solid state batteries.

This is not my field so I might just be misunderstanding what I'm reading.
Man straight out of TSLAQ fanfic. Auto cartel has been gunning for Tesla for 10+ years now without landing any hits.

I doubt Tesla keeps it's margins or perhaps even valuation, but no one has a viable alternative that's not vapor.
This does assume you're not decreasing any revenue by using Funkwhale's sharing functionality.
They are borderline commercialized already (searched one up):

https://www.phoenixcontact.com/online/portal/us/?uri=pxc-oc-...

The power level is in active use on electric transit buses (using a charger that drops down onto contacts on the roof). The video here shows it:

https://new.abb.com/ev-charging/products/pantograph-down
May 21st is on the 20th week of the year. So close...
Looking the past couple weeks it looks like the Oppo A72, Oppo A91, and the Moro G series have great battery life and reasonably good reputation. Better battery life that the big players flagship phones.

Unfortunately neither of them are IP rated, and I work in a terribly dust environment.
Scott is a "national treasure." His intelligence, wit, and creative thinking oozes from his writing. Whatever he proceeds to do with substack and the new medical practice, I only wish that he would make the most impact he can on people. Because it's clear to me his heart is in the best place and he has the wit to elevate and inform many many more people.
I think the bigger risk is in the self driving component. If Tesla or another company pull this off, catchup could take 10+ years for other companies.

All else remaining equal who will buy a car you have to drive when you can avoid it, not least to add taxi, trucking and delivery service fleet purchases.

In addition as this market progresses I imagine accidents per km will become a huge purchase decision when self driving is more commonplace so quality of system will be huge. Not many are going to buy the cars that have 3x the accidents or too many famous mess ups.

Batteries are important but if I was an auto manufacturer the self driving component would keep me up at night.
Moderation of this sort of content is so far away from any slope, it may as well be Flatland.
I think it should be pronounced "Al-Gore-isms."
Lemmy is doing this.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

I know of the dev instance and chapo.chat, but I'm sure there are a few others.
whoops, gg guys, dinner's ready

+++ATH
I feel people don't actually read the accusation from Elastic.

They made multiple accusations. One of them is AWS announced Elastic search in partnership with Elastic when there was no partnership at all.
They can threaten but ultimately it would be a self-defeating move as, after they withdraw, the sky won't fall and other countries will quickly come to the conclusion that crossing Google is a viable option. A dangerous game for Google and a potential win for alternative search engine options.
> Linux is GPL2, and there can't be a closed-source fork. FreeBSD is BSD, and see how widespread it is, in comparison.

Is it really because of the license? I am more inclined to think it was just a matter of timing.
I would like to see this happen - Getting reasonable placement on Google search has become about giving them money for Ads, or focusing on SEO over content.
Depending on the power of the type system: Heterogeneous lists. They are hard in statically typed language if possible at all but trivial in dynamically typed languages.
FBI ups reward to $75,000 for suspect who placed pipe bombs during Capitol riot
Anyway does it needed unless partner or something exists?
10kV is indeed a lot, but say 1kV 600amps or 1.5kV 400amps is much more doable.
I had actually written an earlier date but then I realized I was talking about Perl :)

I think perl was created in the early 90s, correct?
Tucows made lots of Macs great!

With a Mac, it was sometimes hard to find software. Tucows usually had something for you!
5. Phones/tablets, back in 2016 and before. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/227816-how-intel-lost-... If they were competitive there, maybe the M1 wouldn't have happened either...
If you watch Navalny's video on this he explains that they likely assumed it was out if his body after 2 days and is why he was allowed to be airlifted out.
> I mean, have you ever heard of someone high on THC acting belligerent? I sure haven't

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
Agree, I'm wondering when they start going door to door removing peoples "right" to be on the internet due to their beliefs. It seems the silent stick has finally come to the US and likely the whole world by extension/association.
Now I want this law to happen for the sole purpose of seeing if Google actually flinches. It seems like a silly threat given that there's now a fairly large amount of small search engine providers who would probably thankfully step into that market
On the one hand I'm usually pretty anti Google most of the time

On the other hand without looking at the actual law I remember when the Aussie prime minister said "the laws of mathematics are all well and good but in Australia the laws of Australia take precedence." When taking about backdoors for encryption that only the police could use.

A tough spot to be sure.
Good for Australia.
I particularly liked the emotional end to this post, and I'm very glad he ended it with such a strong and positive tone.

Online communities are able to connect people that, before the Internet, would have had a very difficult time finding the right peers for them. Some communities adjacent to SSC (and some near HN) have helped me find some amazingly smart and cool people, and I'm very thankful that they exist (and that Scott can continue blogging as well), and if anything I hope we can encourage significantly more niche community building on the Internet, and with many more modalities than blogs, forums, and comments (which SSC indeed has).

His notes about people being afraid to express themselves, have open discussions, be honest, and share with one another are pretty saddening however, and I hope that we can progress towards a better area here, even if progress sometimes seems slow or impossible.
Android Running on RISC-V
They may have stagnated but MSDN was, for many, many years, some of the best documentation I had seen anywhere. (Java was pretty solid too, and also PHP).

But maybe I didn't stray too far off the beaten path?
The two biggest supermarket chains in Australia, and some independently owned supermarkets in my area offer home delivery. I know Coles and Woolworths do have what they call dark stores, which are set up to serve home deliveries and not open to the public, but most orders are picked at your closest store. I even order produce from the farmers market since you can get home delivery. Most places charge $10 for delivery, but offer free delivery if you spend over $100, $200.
If youre generally scrappy, switch to tech for a while and save up a bunch of cash? That's what I'm doing!
> no one has a viable alternative that's not vapor.

you underestimate the manufacturing capabilities of automtotive giants with far longer history at mass scale production of cars.

look theres' nothing special about electric cars. they are mostly just battery + chasis + motor. It's just not 2016 anymore, they've all been quietly acquiring the know how and waiting for the battery before making their end game chess move.

Let's keep the personal attacks to a minimum please. I can't even have a conversation on HN anymore without getting flagged by people who can't handle criticisms or fear their narrative coming under attack.

I get it. You bought Tesla stock, you made money, you are smart and everybody who drives ICE car are dumb. However, that still has nothing to do with how Tesla has never made a profit on its cars. Jim Chano is NOT wrong on this and lots of people overlook at this simple accounting trickery.
Eh, 3 is the closest, but I can't say I like anything that involves directly mucking with existing companies. In my dream world, the government funds federated software to the point that it can compete with twitter for most people. It's unclear how realistic that is, I'm just very confident that government dictating moderation policy will go horribly wrong.
The title should be changed from "UPS" to "ups" or better still "increases".
Yes, doing that certainly does raise a lot of questions from people. They often pause and ask for clarification. Also, I've come to learn that some company's email validators do not accept `.email`. Thankfully this is a rare occurrence. And when it does happen, I've always been successful in bypassing it. I'm too attracted to the appeal of `.email`, so I happily put up with it.
A phone every 3 years is barely a blip in the "disposable stuff" department
This is counterproductive in an English speaking country. There is a few similarly good alternative like Bing for example. In non-English speaking countries though this strategy might work.
This is a nerve agent and is not ingested or inhaled, it is absorbed through the skin and is very deadly. There are sole antidotes but they don’t always work. It is used because beside western advanced hospitals it cannot be detected even at an autopsy. Navalny didn’t die because FSB used a small dose not to arise suspicion and make it look like he died of natural causes. Not sure what you’re barking at really, this is a very serious affair. The guesome death of Kashohgi was effective but left a huge stain on the Saudi prince that will forever stick, the poisoning of Navalny was supposed to subtle, his death may spark a riot
Tone it down. It’s semantics, not logic.
We very often see rodent research failing to translate to humans.

This is the first time I've seen research in humans translating beautifully to rodents.
I would characterize his early (and spectacular) career at General Motors as where he “got his start”.
> Hank will detect and warn you about valid parts of your code that could potentially be deleted or at least refactored based on rules.
Not much value at all, from my experience.

Having given Elastic's support two tries at different companies, it doesn't surprise me that their business model is failing. Their support was _terrible_ both times; at no point were we ever in touch with anyone who seemed like they understood the product, cared about our issues, or were in any hurry to fix them. We were locked in year long, 6-figure support contracts in both cases, and issues dragged on for months until we basically gave up. We got better answers out of random Google searches and a 20 minute conversation with a friend of a friend.

AWS's hosted ElasticSearch only recently is able to handle the data set sizes we were dealing with, and their enterprise support on this (and other products) is vastly better than anything we ever got out of Elastic.
Summary: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...

NYT was writing a piece about rationality, SSC, lesswrong, east bay, maybe AGI, etc.

Evidence suggests it wasn't a hit piece (at least initially) and was just about the rationality community/bay area influence since a lot of people don't really know about lesswrong.

As part of it NYT said they had to reveal his real name and he asked them not to (details described in that blog post). This created controversy.
Writing is a way we communicate ideas. You did not successfully pick up on the idea Scott was communicating here. Maybe that means the writing was bad; maybe it means your ability to comprehend vernacular English failed you in this instance.

Either way, neither Scott nor anyone commenting here thinks "war crimes are good", so your increasingly heated arguments that they are actually quite bad is just a waste of time and energy.
Carrier landings should move eventually to JPALS (all-weather landing system) in some time in the future. It's military Autoland that works even for carriers and amphibious assault ships).

Drones will also be using it, I think.
Even in Python 2, you can do something like this:

println = lambda s: sys.stdout.write(s + '\n')

Not that it really makes things much better, but, at least it shows you can do it.
My mind exploded when realizing we can read random IO from disk at 40GB/s, which is faster than my laptop can read from RAM.
https://spdk.io/news/2019/05/06/nvme/
Btw. using SPDK or io_uring?
> Elastic made the mistake of building a whole business on open source software by relying on the poor experience and artificial overhead to launching that software independently and in a production ready fashion

It's a billion dollar business. I don't think they have made any mistakes, until now at least. They are very successful.

They are portraying themselves as a small indie dev up against a titan, but with over $400 million in revenue last year they are no small fish.
They'd have to ditch the famous stainless steel body or it wouldn't make it very far.
org-babel is brilliant but I do find that you have to do a lot of things manually that Jupyter does automatically (manage figures, etc.)