skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

It remains to be seen whether Tesla will be able to leverage their access to cheap capital in a way that will allow them to corner the market on batteries. I think that's what this will all boil down to.

A lot of Apple's success with iPhones happened because they were able to dominate the market for the latest and greatest components, locking out competitors by simply buying up every scrap of cutting edge parts. If Tesla is able to leverage their capital and lock everyone else out of batteries, they might strangle the competition in a similar fashion. On the other hand, if Toyota or some other competitor can develop some game-changer battery technology and lock Tesla out, they could fold just as easily.
Consider the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabbouh. It was intended to look like a natural death, without raising suspicions. To do this, they snuck into his hotel room, injected him with a muscle relaxant, then suffocated him. It took local authorities ten days to realize it was actually a murder. They did eventually figure it out, but I don't think it's hard to imagine intelligence agencies have done similar things before and gotten away with it. In the case of Litvinenko, authorities were pretty sure he'd been poisoned from the onset. The poisoning drew a whole lot of attention that Russia probably could have avoided if they intended to be subtle.
> This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thing.

The open core model never got much sympathy from the community or customers. The only reason there are people siding with ELK here is because the other side is the eminently unlikable Amazon. It also never worked very well.

Yes, you can sustain a company with it, and even make it large. But it's limited in size and any idea that you can get VC money on a large evaluation and things will go smooth is ridiculous. The model also has a limited lifetime, after what you'll see your business slow down or you'll have to fight against your customers. It certainly can last enough to make people rich, but it's not sustainable, unless you diversify your software. None of that is caused by cloud providers.
I am not surprised considering major grocery stores in Greater Seattle Area all have their own curbside pickup/delivery services.
I really hope they do - because people no matter what, 40 million people will immediately learn how to use a different search engine, and irrespective of how they like the results, the fact is the 'mono consciousness' will have been broken and baseline behavioural patterns will have been established.
> legally speaking

as usual, this depends on where in the world you are. Some legal systems do make a difference here.
Anathem reference?
Remember superconductors are the epitome of needing cooling.
It wasn't a suggestion of replacement, it was saying that even the closest instance still doesn't get you 24TB of on-host storage, having to use EBS instead.
> I can imagine drivers, but if you stick to only Dell Developer Edition, Lenovo Linux-certified, Purism Librem, System76, or similar (still significantly wider selection than Apple s̶h̶e̶e̶p̶ fans seem satisfied with) hardware

I don't need a huge selection, but I do need polished hardware that I can walk into a store and try out before buying. Just things like the feel of the keyboard or the trackpad can make a system a nightmare to use if they're bad. I also need to be confident that I'm not going to get given the runaround if a piece of hardware (e.g. docking station or monitor) doesn't work with the machine.

> things should work more smoothly than with Windows (drivers are built into the kernel and update with the OS).

That's actually one of the things that worries me the most about Linux - I can't pin a driver to a version that's working, and if the kernel drops support for my hardware then I have to choose between losing support for my hardware or never upgrading my OS. I was excited for GNU/kFreeBSD up until the point where systemd arrived and destroyed all the advantages of free OSes.
Not to spoil good ideas or be a negative Nancy...

What is the process for revoking this access in the event of a less than amicable split between partners?
You can't have a 10kV or 100kV charging station being handled by the general public to charge their cars! That kind of voltage needs specialised equipment and is extremely dangerous.

There's no such thing as a consumer grade 11KV insulated cable.
Companies will pay whatever they think they can get away with. Some companies with high social cachet like Tesla pay quite poorly [1], and yet people want to work there.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Tesla,Google,Facebook,Micros...
No, Toyota is screwed.

I have a new hyper-state battery in development. It will allow cars to go 1000km, charge from 0-100% in 5 minutes, and fits in a space the size of a small briefcase.

To convince the skeptics I will now provide exactly as much evidence for my claims as the linked article.
well that was certainly interesting.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=24&v=gO3Y_IlPyXc
sure. not sure how that's relevant to my comment explicitly talking about a car that doesn't have an actual transmission?
No he just thinks joking about his friends encouraging him to commit them is funny. I just don't find joking about that to be funny. Maybe I'm just a sour pickle, but the last four years in the states have made me wary of people who find a suggestion of war crimes humorous.
Yes. And this limits the risk of making a proprietary fork dominant, or even widespread, in the industry.

This of course does not have the limiting effect on SaaS.
It's fair to criticize Tesla's valuation, but they have recently become profitable, even excluding emissions credit sales.

The problem most other manufacturers have is that EV sales undercut their ICE sales, and also undercut their customer's most profitable segment, vehicle repair/service. It's going to be hard for them to transition from ICE to EV.
> 8:48 PM: Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 1/21/21, 10:00 PM with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience. The affected users are able to access Classroom, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.
Government having the power to dictate which information should be spread more is not less of a problem...
Mechanics work on your car for a few hours and the job is done forever.
> I expect Amazon will at some point leverage Whole Foods to build a proper food warehouse with the experience we've come to expect from Amazon Prime

They do this depending on your metro/area. Here in SF-proper (dogpatch) there is a brick and mortar Whole Foods ~0.7 miles away, but my Whole Foods online orders get packaged from a nearby Amazon Warehouse even closer to my residence.

The experience has been very good for me so far and I have no need for an Instacart-like service.
It's not that odd if you consider that Germany is a democracy and Russia is a dictatorship with a history of poisoning dissenters.

Read the story about this mathematician who has been sentenced to prison for 6 years in Russia. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/01/22/imprisoned-for-his-e...

At some point, we have to use some sort of priors to evaluate the truth of claims from various sources.
Being an especially rabid minority does not make a majority.
Making a search engine is not as hard as building traffic for it. G quiting au would make it ez.
Exactly this. It's to measure the nuances between designs to see if they improve user interaction.

If you're at the AB stage you should have a fairly mature prduct where you're optimizing to move forward from the low-hanging fruit customers.
As an avid bumper user, it desperately needs a front end because Ecovacs's app is constantly changing and adding alternative routes of telemetry.
(I'm 2/2 stale PRs on that repo)

Valetudo is a full-er solution it seems. Props to the author. Though, bumper does not require reprogramming the bot, it does require lots of local DNS hijacking.
If they have telescopes then the trails from star-link satellites would probably give it away.

The ants in the article were in driveways though.
I really like this idea. How are you different to Flightpath, Baremetrics etc?

I've recently spent time following an excellent Google Docs financial model from Baremetrics[1] put online for free. I'd be remiss not to share here as an alternative. I agree, it does take some time to set up, and monthly some work. I believe founders without a finance background would find it fairly daunting (but can follow along with the blog post).

I think you're offering the simplicity aspect and that's your main value prop being solved. Where do you see the products going in the future? The base modeling I don't think I'd pay for, but curious to see what network or flywheel effects you think might be there for users?

[1] https://baremetrics.com/blog/saas-financial-model#model-temp...
Who exactly would this firewall be protecting? Bitbucket, Jira and other competing Australian tech products would be dumped by anyone Australia firewalls off and there would be a dozen Silicon Valley startups to take their place over night.
Does anyone else just want to build cool s***? Or does everything under the sun need to be about furthering a social agenda?
Let's hope solid-state batteries are such a game-changer for electric vehicles as solid-state disks (SSD) are for computers.
> Why would Mazda keep existing if Tesla and Apple just out school them? There’s going to be some dead companies for sure. Where is Mazda on future tech?

Mazda's CX5 handily outsells Tesla's Model Y.

I think the thing that a lot of people don't understand about Tesla, is that most people can't afford to spend $60,000 on a car. The Mazda CX5 has a MSRP of $25,270.

There's tons of people who buy things based on price, and battery prices aren't getting any cheaper.

On top of this, the CX5 competes in a segment where there's at least fifteen competitors, whereas the Model Y is (mostly) competing with the Jaguar I-Pace and Audi E-Tron.
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Being paid to write open source is the exception rather than the norm and very hard to break into even after decades of voluntary open source contributions.
> If you don't trust Google, even this doesn't help you. They run enough code in and near your VM, they could find a way to steal data out if it if they wanted.

Exactly, but so can Intel/AMD/Dell/HP/$HW_VENDOR. That's why we have libreboot and friends trying to disable ME and other firmware blobs.

You could airgap your hardware in a SCIF and shred it when you're done with it but as stuxnet and other attacks have shown if you want to do useful network computing you can't be totally secure.
Nostalgia for sure! Tucows was one of the originals for me. Back when AOL was still running on 28.8k...thank you for being a part of my childhood and the start of the internet revolution! Tucows, Lycos, Geocities...wow! Where has time gone?!?!
Don't the 2030 regs include hybrids which Toyota is the master.
Will they publish or sell the software, hardware designs, and documents of what they learned?
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If the proposal was to treat Amp, or excessive embedding of content on social media feeds etc., as effectively piracy and prosecuting on that basis then I'd be open to it. But I just can't get behind what is being proposed in any way because it is so absurd and arbitrary.

As a supporter of a free and open Internet, I can't see how the logical conclusion of requiring websites to reimburse the other end of a hyperlink for the privilege of linking to them could possibly be a good thing.

As a user of the Internet in Australia, I am concerned about what the obvious sovereign risk of the Treasurer having this power to arbitrarily punish web companies does to the availibility of services to Australian users.

As a software developer in Australia (albeit one who hasn't worked directly in web tech to date), I am concerned about the damage this does to the tech industry, and subsequently my employability and income, in this country.

And most of all as a political citizen of Australia, I am deeply troubled by the idea of giving politicians the power of deciding which media organisations do/don't have the power to arbitrarily extort money out of FAANG as a significant revenue stream.
This report is written well and provides a very balanced perspective that spares no part of the political spectrum. For that intellectual honesty, I appreciate it.

However it is also from June 2020 and needs an update. Terrorism is defined as using criminal acts to move political goals forward. Throughout 2020 and even as recently as yesterday (see https://www.wsj.com/articles/inauguration-day-protests-in-po...), the political left has been using terrorism to push their social justice agenda on the backs of the George Floyd tragedy. The end goal of groups engaging in such violence (eg antifa, BLM-affiliated groups, socialist groups, etc) has been to leverage this incident (or really any crisis) and use virtuous packaging like “social justice” to ultimately implement ideas like highly redistributive tax schemes. This type of behavior is outside the acceptable norms of how political debate and civil discourse is meant to be carried out in our society. Additionally the amount of economic damage and the number of deaths stemming from left-wing riots throughout 2020 is far greater than right-wing ones, such as the recent Capitol riots.

However the calls to curb extremism, and the actions to curb extremist actors and organizations, all seem to only be directed at the right. This double standard prevents the kind of deescalation strategy this article proposes at its conclusion. One side is not going to back down if the other side is given a pass whenever they use dirty tactics to further their cause. The only way out is mutual disarmament and fair (evenly applied) mutual accountability.
Even if facial recognition worked perfectly, the culprit still needs to exist in the library/database to be caught. And no system claims to be perfect- you need good reference images of everyone with multiple angles and a good view of their face at the crime scene. Driver’s license photos just aren’t good enough and the culprit may not have allowed themself to be in other images. Out of all the people that were at the Capitol that day, there are bound to be a few people that don’t have many pictures associated with their true identity. It’s maybe even more likely that a person who would bring pipe bombs to a mass gathering would be one of those people cautious/paranoid enough to stay out of the system.
A battery that works at high temps would be great! Most batteries degrade with temperature
They were saying the instacart shoppers who shop for other people are not in a warehouse setting but in the actual retail grocery store.
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On the contrary, this is win-win for everyone: Amazon now has to make their fork competitive with Elastic's, so they'll have to invest more resources in open source development. Elastic is also still free to grab their Apache-licensed improvements.

Meanwhile, if Elastic's future improvements are better than AWS', it'll drive use of their services over Amazon's.
At the end, he says his name is Scott Siskind. Is that a pseudonym? Was Scott Alexander a pseudonym? Did he change his name?
It wouldn't have been picked up by the community if it weren't Open Source. Yes, you may have used it if the current product just appeared on the market with a source available license but that's not what happened.

People used and recommended the software for years because it was Open Source. People contributed to the project because it was Open Source. It became popular BECAUSE of Open Source.

Your argument doesn't work because you wouldn't have known about it if it wasn't Open Source.
Our ant colony might be sitting inside a terrarium on some aliens desk...
> If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead.

But Amazon is releasing their source code. Even more of it than Elastic.
Exactly. For corporations, it was like the guaranteed mutual destruction which keeps peace stable. They felt safe to contribute because their competition could not steal the contribution from the communal pot.

A similar setup is needed for the SaaS age. AGPL is a good step but is problematic for corporations because of the patent grant clauses, the way GPL2 is not.
Yes, I don’t think the response is to regulations, but the fact that EVs have taken off while the Japanese carmakers have been placing massive bets on hydrogen which does not look as promising.
But is it in the spirit of the license to have multi billion company appropriate it without paying fair share to contributors?
Presumably they only need to filter out selective websites from being displayed inside Australia and not prevent Australian products from working outside of Australia.
Aah the French and their quirky sense of design
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Racketeering works, it's also illegal.
Yeah well just refute the arguments for the people who think democrats, hollywood, and the (((globalists))) and kidnapping and killing children to drink their blood, thatll convince them
The prize for being good at firefighting is being assigned more firefighting.
Inconsistency with a wordy explanation.
I'm surprised that's what did it for me. I admined some sun enterprise servers and was blown away when I bought a pi 3 yrs and realized the pi was probably faster than it. That enterprise server would have 100-200 engineering students logged in and working at once. :-/. We're living in the future.
At the end of the day, all this really demonstrates is that the business model of producing open source software for free and charging for support or hosted solutions either does not work or does not scale. Part of the point of open source software is that anyone who uses it can inspect the source and make changes. If your business model depends on users not providing their own services for the software you have developed, that is on you.

This is also why, if you have a customer or competitor who makes changes to the software and does not release those changes if they convey the software to others, you are not protected by using a permissive open source license. If AWS was allegedly not committing back to Elasticsearch/Kibana, they are within their rights to do so, whether Elastic like it or not. Elastic should not have used a permissive open source license like APL. The only thing that protects users here is strong copyleft, in this case a license like AGPL.

At the end of the day, these licenses protect users. Maybe something else is needed to protect the interests of businesses which also respecting users - whatever that is, it is not necessarily one of the stated goals of free or open source software, so assigning an open source license and expecting support to cover the costs is not going to end well for you if you get big enough to matter.
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Its one thing for amazon to not want to do business with them. I am fine with that, nobody should have to provide hosting to people they dont like (as ling as its consistent with any cintract signed). However this feels like a bridge too far to me, and leaves a bad taste.
Mining Bitcoin over tor is an interesting idea
The real problem is that Parler sincerely wanted to start a free speech platform, and this is another data point that the idea, while well intentioned, doesn't work. It's a just-world fallacy: because free speech is a good and just thing, a business model predicated on free speech will be successful.

The first trouble is that you are opening the doors to all sorts of extremists. Whether they're far left, far right or simply personally unhinged, they are as predatory as spammers. They have no qualms about abusing your good will and s**ing in the punch bowl.

Same thing happened with Gab and Minds, but also smaller bulletin boards I've seen over the years. You set up a free speech site, and next thing you have a bunch of Nazis festooning it with swastikas. They're just like spammers, except they're spamming ideology instead of work from home scams.

The second trouble is that Parler is a competitor to established media corporations, who have a strong incentive to shut them down. That's a reality that every new business needs to face: established firms do not want competition.

All the people running amok provide the established firms with plenty of ammo to tar the upstart's reputation. And while they are biased by their incentives, they feel they are acting justly because they see all the extremist lunatics there. AWS didn't fabricate those incidents on Parler, all those were real posts.
Doit!
The repeat in he USA!
> was pointing out the tribalistic attitude the modern left takes towards individuals who won’t consider themselves leftist

Do you not see the irony of what your accusing me of doing with what your saying? I'm not a self described leftist (though that is a right wing internet troll thing to say) I just have my opinions

American politics have gotten pulled so far to the right, center is pretty right wing. Idk how you can deny that? That's all I'm saying. Even if you don't, other wise sure prove me wrong explain how your actually center.
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Jellyfin is an amazing and underappreciated project. I've run it for a year or so and it's great.

I use (and recommend) the Kodi addon as the client. I had stability issues with the jellyfin Android (TV) app, but Kodi runs on all sorts of platforms and it's very well supported. I use it for music, too (there's a dedicated music player for it in f-droid called "gelli.")
Altavista used to run their entire search engine on a single computer twenty years ago. Imagine what Mike Burrows could accomplish today with one of these 2U EPYC NVME 200gbps PCs. It'd probably trigger the singularity.
(fwiw) you could have left the question out and your second sentence would have conveyed your intent perfectly.
Here's a pretty good start:

https://www.thestreet.com/phildavis/news/a-game-designers-an...

Show them the method of operation of the theory building so they can recognize it and stop participating in it.
They use an utterly insignificant amount compared to an EV though...
I love when people say this, while on the left we are having debates about if we place too much of an emphasis on deradicalizing and rehabilitating the far right
This FUD about the AGPL drives its unpopularity more than any reality.
You're confusing energy and power which is leading you to the wrong conclusion. 6KW is 6KW of power. Over 10 minutes it's 1KWh of energy but typically you only care about instantaneous heat dissipation, which is power.
For me, it's the fact that we aren't (currently at least) using rust. I would possibly, maybe, consider porting it to another language but haven't had the time...

In general I wonder how many people sit in the intersection of those who are free and willing to base their system on rust, have dataflow problems to solve, and understand the advantages differential dataflow brings to the table?
Haha, believe me, I can make this plan fail if I haven't had my morning tea or coffee, let alone serious head injury!
Like, contributing back? AFAICT Amazon did contribute back to ES, in the form of code.

Running a profitable business to service free software has nothing to do with the philosophy.
To be fair, John Lennon was a far better lyricist--mostly because Bob Dylan told Lennon that his lyrics sucked. Lennon took that really hard and really worked on it.