skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my experience is obviously anecdotal but interactions with Western-educated Chinese immigrants, many of whom left in the 80s and 90s, suggest that "democracy is the best" is not some universal wisdom that people will naturally converge to

If it were solely between these two choices? I'm not exactly ecstatic about these options, but I would. The fact that someone like Trump could come to power here - a fact that we, amazingly, seem to be trying to sweep under the rug - says this system is a complete failure and is just waiting to be exploited further.
> The big rig / semi market is the exact opposite of experiencing exponential growth

Non of those are EV now.

> EV sales are overwhelmingly replacement sales, largely taking up the sales from the ICE vehicle market.

All those need to be replaced by EVs. Tesla has no ICE vehicles so for them its simply growth.

Tesla can scale EV faster and they can reach better margin then current companies. Currently these manufactures can subsidies their EV with ICE sales, but their ICE infrastructure will turn into a liability soon.

At the same time they build out global charging infrastructure to fuel all those cars giving them a long term income at great margin.

> What's Panasonic's entire battery business worth today? Now increase that 5x or 10x.

We are only just at 2% EV in the market and Panasonic is only a part of that market. Add grid and home storage, industrial vehicles and so on. And eventually also planes.

> Tesla is still at an inferior position to both Ford and GM when it comes to industrial scale

Who wouldn't want all those distributed factories with union workers demonstrating while giving most of the profits to the dealers and suppliers.

> (to say nothing of political connections).

Yeah California and Texas where Tesla produces all the jobs are politically so weak. Elon Musk is also not on of the most famous people in the world and a twitter profile more powerful then GM/Ford marketing budget.

> Tesla represents a very small share of the auto industry globally.

Yes and they are already at industry leading operating margin while still being comparatively small and they continue to grow very fast.

> The past decade was the easy part for Tesla, not the hard part.

And just continuing to produce ICE vehicles and ignoring EV was the easy part for the competition. Repeatably in history we have seen how difficult massive technology transitions are and how established players ran into a lot of issues.
3D printers are a good example that I recently came across.

There is a patent for a 3D printer enclosed in a box. A number of plastics print much better when in an enclosure with no drafts and more easily controllable temperatures.

But instead, 3D printers must be sold and function on their own without a box, to avoid the patent. Enclosures are then sold separately and you end up with a 3D printer in an enclosure anyway, but that doesn’t infringe on the patent… so it’s allowed.
> The "skeptic" only needs to have one single piece of data turn out to be inaccurate

“The great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
–British biologist Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

This is the scientific method - theories must explain/not contradict any known facts, and must predict unexpected new facts that can be verified by experiment.
Yes, you are an outlier.

Fair enough

There is a very large amount of studies that show that people like people that are like them.

The link you provide shows a coefficient of .47 for actual similarity, and .39 for perceived similarity. I'm not good at statistics, but that seems like a far cry from "the reason why people like other people is that they are like them." which is the line I was replying to. If I'm understanding it correctly it would be more accurate to say "people are somewhat more likely to like someone who is like them." If that's what was originally written, then I probably wouldn't have replied.
In path tracing you don't want random numbers but low discrepancy sequences
Remind me the difference between Slack and Discord at this point? "Default theme" is the big one that comes to mind

It's fine, not every product needs to be super original I guess, but it's gotten to the point where choosing one over the other is barely even a statement about your identity anymore. Although I guess most people do both: Slack for work, Discord for friends. It's boring when those two experiences are so similar, tho
"I am gorilla. I have 4 moves: punch, slam, eat banana, and my ultimate ability, get mad."

One day maybe there'll be games with just one move... just to dumb games down to the lowest common denominator and not leave anyone out.
It looks like some of the Matrix devs were thinking about using IPFS for the Matrix "media" repository. It's basically an object store where the Matrix server keeps images and videos and files.

Coincidentally, that spec change proposal looks to have been posted exactly one year ago today. Doesn't look like there's anything concrete yet, but still there's obvious opportunities for combining a content-addressable object store API with a distributed content-addressable file system back end.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/travis/msc/ipf...
Here in 10 years maybe, the coupling between Google and it's infrastructure is like the head over body. Cutting cloud out surely delights TK, but before that the other SVPs will make sure TK got to rebuild it's engineering workforce and leave the exiting on themselves. In other words, Google is totally fine to retain the core of GCP.

I might be wrong though
Humans will wipe out plenty of animals and species on the way to that extinction though (also clearly plenty of other animals are suffering from climate change, see the estimated billion animals that died in Australian wildfires last year, or the baby birds that jumped to their deaths to escape the heat in the PNW heat dome this year, or the bleaching of coral reefs, or all sorts of other ways the climate is killing off animals).

Sure there might be some life that survives the climate crisis after we're gone, but the planet is going to lose most of its biodiversity before then.
Shield AI, integrating AI into defense tech, acquires Heron Systems
Covid-19 false dichotomies and a comprehensive review of the evidence [pdf]
Blogger has bad UX and it annoys me
How many of us read this as Naval (Ravikant) Architecture?
> Making someone you defrauded whole again doesn't erase the crime. The notion that it would is ludicrous.

He didn't just make them whole, he made them a profit.

That's between the two parties that engaged in the contract, isn't it? They signed contracts that they're receiving shares of his other company and they're not going to sue him for the losses from his previous company. The end result is that they made a profit.

Anyway, what a criminal... he loses his investors' money in one venture and then he makes them a profit in the next. That's the sort of crime I like to see our government spend their resources on, not the 700+ yearly murders in Chicago.
> after my friend got me into dota I have to admit there's a lot of depth there that I wasn't aware of.

But that's kind of the point: you don't have to be aware of it to have a good time. Sure, all of that stuff matters in competitive play, but it can still be fun to just run around killing things if you don't know what you're doing. On the other hand, seeing artillery blasting your base from afar and having no idea what to do about it is really demoralizing.

FWIW, I think this applies more to Dota 2 than it does to LoL. I haven't played the latter in many years, but I remember it being much more rigid and cookie-cutter strategy-wise than Dota, and the micro decisions mattered a lot more, which meant that sub-optimal play was more obvious. In Dota 2, your poor item build can still win the game with a single good team fight or just generally better awareness.
The man-made part is one thing, but it's also important to distinguish evidence from proof. While this is absolutely an interesting, cool and curious observation, it is also circumstantial and should be treated as such. (Edit: As presented in the blog. I did not check out the actual paper referenced by the author.)

In my personal opinion the definite argument for any given position on climate change (the same standard would also apply for the 'sceptics'), like any other physical domain, would be a mathematical model with decent (and not retroactive) predictive accuracy. Of course the climate is an incredibly complex system, which makes creating accurate models incredibly difficult – do we even have a quantitative model for marginal changes in the mean global temperature with respect to e.g. co2 concentration in the atmosphere at the present time? I have not paid attention in several years, but when I was reading up on this several years ago the scientists had severe problems reeling in the uncertainty in said models. Something about the sun, oceans and many different kinds of fairly local feedback systems.

Anyways, you can't argue with predictive experiments!

Disclaimer: I also think man-made climate change is happening and something very much worth addressing, and I can confirm I disagree vehemently with many well intended strategies.
The TL;DR is that Apple often goes down after great earnings, with little or no discernible reason. But since you asked..."Whisper numbers", which were higher than the analysts actual guesses, which were lower than the actual numbers (but the actual numbers were still lower than the whisper numbers). Or it was "already priced in".

All bullshit phrases to allow some to pretend to know more than they do, when they really don't know any more than you or I. Now, that's not to say there isn't some truth in my first paragraph. But if someone utters those same words, it doesn't mean it's true. At the end of the day (or after the end of the day, in this scenario), it is what it is.

As a side note, I've seen Apple (a stock I've been trading for over 15 years) take a dive in after-hours, only to come roaring back in the morning at market open. Or maybe it gets pounded the next day, but comes roaring back next week. And one more thing: guidance is often "we can't keep this up for ever!", and some people believe them, despite the fact that Apple has been saying that for at least a decade.
Atleast inside the mmo community streamers are very relevant. On the start of july a famous streamer started playing FFXIV and look at google trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F064ln09
I was rather sloppy with my words there. I used a cheap PCI card, some years ago, with Windows and Linux. I had a Thunderbolt adapter for the Mac.
It's also a great showcase of the power of SQL :-)
Not saying its true but this is the reason a lot of people suspect the same thing is happening in the US under the guise of diversity organizations that suddenly started popping up in most major corporations over the last few years.
And also killed many people (more than WW2 alone), and basically created dark ages for unlucky countries that were "saved" by the soviets.
Reminds of something my father, a sailor in the British Merchant Marine, told me. He was recounting a ridiculous North Sea gale, basically hurricane force winds. The ship plunged into the trough and then topped the waves, the screws coming well out of the water every time. "It gave me a new respect for naval architects", he said.
Ok, now do Fox News.
Are they not fairly targeted, based on previous things you've done online? I guess you must have dealt with an insurance company, and the previous poster, umm....
Activision Blizzard stock dropped 8% today, this is much larger than what happened at Riot.
Are they really that into it though? Azure is clearly do or die for Microsoft. Amazon pioneered AWS so lots of true believers there.

GCP (ie, customer facing piece) feels a bit like a me too thing no? Glad it exists to keep AWS a bit honest (Azure / Microsoft really has a different sales channel to me).
> many of them like to say they support work-life balance but it rarely turns out that way

Just work the required number of hours and then stop answering e-mail. Financial security helps with that, because at most they'll let you go for "not being a team player" - these are bad workplaces and you should be happy to leave them.

More likely though, your perceived worth at work will improve because you don't appear insecure about your position.
(author here)

Thanks for the info about "urban heat island" warming, I actually hadn't ever heard that phrase before. It makes total sense. And yeah, even CNN is right, urbanisation is almost certainly just as big a factor as (if not a greater factor than) regional / global climate change, in terms of the cherry blossoms.
The USA had a huge reserve, but they wasted it via corruption that permitted it to be sold off for party balloons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
You can compare the sizes of countries using this website.

https://thetruesize.com/
> Assume for the moment that you're American, liberal, white collar and live in one of the more affluent blue coastal states. Now imagine that 75% of your countrymen are rabbid red state Trump supporters, of low education....How principled are you really about the rule of democracy?

Though implicit in that fantasy is that, without democracy, the blue-state liberal gets to impose his will on the Trumpers. Something that can keep someone like that committed to democracy is (for instance) the thought that the alternative is could actually be a never-ending dictatorship of Mitch McConnell, beating humanity with its chin waddle forever.

> Now I'm not suggesting that this is a good analogy for the Chinese situation, nor that this is how highly education urban Chinese think about democracy (though I do know a few who do seem to think that way). What I am suggesting is that democracy is not always and everywhere the slam dunk win that some Western liberals appear to think it is.

Are you saying that educated urban Chinese are hesitant about democracy because they get to vicariously impose their will (or something close enough to it) on the rabble via the CCP?
I don't think you missed much. It is an email scooper at the end.
The "former eBay employee" was pretty high up in eBay security operations and also a former police Captain and they don't come cheap. He's less rich than the CEO but can definitely afford more than the paltry $15,000 fine.
Why not? Honest question--I haven't used fastai myself but my understanding is it's just a high-level wrapper API for PyTorch. Any particular reason why you wouldn't want to use it outside of the course?
Is the iPhone the greatest product in human history?
Who wants to follow up to see what this guy gets after 18 months of prison for keeping his mouth shut?
> the whole point of the audit is to figure out what's true

It is abundantly clear that this is not what the 'audit' is about. The effort is about overturning the results of a legitimate election through propaganda and lies.
Some theorize it's been on the rise since the first waves of migrants from the Middle East. But no one in power is really eager to keep track of such things, so the public perception of the situation may lag the reality by a large amount of time. Such is the reality of politics.
I feel that search queries would correlate strongly with revenue because google serves ads next to search queries. Less search queries would mean less ads served.

Also 2021 Q2 revenue from google services was 57 billion dollars which was the lions share of revenue according to the shareholder report. So yes, while Google makes money from other things, they mostly make money from search ads.
First impressions of M3DB, from a developer's perspective
I assume it’s a Model 3
I#4091: Fix crash due to AMD stack segment bug #4485 (2020)
The blog post is interesting, but for anyone who wants to play with the data themselves, instructions are here:

https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/tutorials/nfl-...
So, I suspect why they haven't gone with an approach like that is they want to preserve the layout for spectators. Dota is the biggest purse in all of esports, and they take the spectatorship quite seriously as a result.
Regardless of why they were admitted they still had covid.

You’re trying to answer what sent someone to hospital, not who has covid.
Unfortunately, energy is likely to get somewhat more expensive as fossil fuels run out and global warming puts a limit on any major growth.
> how people perceive things.

ah, but which people? the most reasonable and intelligent people? the traumatized and most sensitive people? The former I'd say yet, the latter I'd say go get some therapy and keep your trauma to yourself, it shouldn't drive the larger discussion.
> But first I had to add a new role to grant myself those permissions

Assuming you're an Administrator, it's covered by that.
I have not read the paper but I have done extensive ad effectiveness analysis and the one thing most papers ignore is that having your product listed in a store is a given. More often advertising is protecting your product's listing in a store. Ad spending isn't just about boosting your own sales, but those of the category and adjacent categories. If those 80% of brands stopped advertising to prevent $1mn of negative ROI but then were dropped by the store, causing $100mn of negative ROI.
Each constellation could be in a slightly different elevation.
wow - iPad revenue is within 1% of all Macbooks+iMacs
You can't eat bank notes. Money can be stored, most foods spoil very quickly. This asymmetry results in inflation once your farms are gone. Just look at Zimbabwe.

So the obvious strategy is to support your farmers, help them get through the bad years and make sure there is always some slack. If you cut subsidies then the free market will trim agriculture for efficiency, meaning producing exactly enough food and not a single grain of wheat more. Any supply shocks will cause famine because there are no farmers overproducing beyond the need of what the market is willing to pay.
When people say this kind of stuff, I wonder whether there might not be philosophical zombies among us.
The funnest starcraft games I ever played were 2v2 or 3v3 games with friends. 1 on 1 always seemed overly stressful and annoying.
We use some risk tracking web platform from IBM at my job.

I’m not it’s most proficient user but from the stuff I do in it, it’s basically half CMS half relational database with some search and export functions.

It’s called “IBM OpenPages with Watson” because of:

“Translate documents across 50+ languages, obtain 24/7 support with a GRC virtual assistant, promote accuracy and efficiency in incident reporting with AI relevant classifications.”

So apparently “Watson” now means “translating and auto filling stuff”?
> To be fair, the only reason he got pinched was because he ripped off some very wealthy and powerful investors/partners in a ponzi scheme.

And barely even that. He lost/used their money and then paid it back before they even noticed. While it was wrong, as far as I can make out it was basically a victimless crime.

Meanwhile, it seems like price gouging medication people need to stay alive is still perfectly legal in the US. They scapegoated this little twerp to distract from the fact that the system is still badly corrupted and the politicians changed nothing of importance after this.
American Spaceman, Body and Soul
It would be nice if python could get the same amount of effort put in to performance as JavaScript did.

But in this case the interpreter speed is largely irrelevant. This is a complex project and more than half the response time is spent waiting for the database (which is C++, not that it matters either)
What's the problem with the Dock?
Okay, I agree with everything you've said. In a "Data driven" organization, how do you prove that your brand marketing is working in order to protect it? A new leader comes in and says "this isn't adding value, you cant prove it's adding value, I'm cutting it unless you can prove it." What's your response?
Thanks for the input. I definitely understand your first point, sometimes the city seems “impossible” to me - a lot of wealth and demand packed into a small area; I wonder if there’s space for me there.

I’ve also seen my fair share of naked homeless people in SF. In all honestly it doesn’t bother me, but I’m sure that would change if I lived there for a couple of years.
Take a look at The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System. It's a pretty good look at the history of FreeBSD and how it is put together.

Of course, if you're really after Darwin/macOS info, a lot of the book won't apply. Apple took FreeBSD userspace and FreeBSD network stack (in 2000ish), but I don't think they tool the scheduling or process management. And the current version of the book covers a lot of things that were added to FreeBSD after Apple took the stuff they did; maybe the earlier version of the book would be better, because Apple didn't do a lot of updates from upstream.
Hemorrhoids Is the Greatest Enemy of the Programmer
Not in the case of TSMC, no.
Biochar.

It lasts for at least a couple thousand years, and is considered a long-lasting soil amendment.

The presence of biochar creates habitats for those microbes and conserves nutrients, making the soil fertile, even in areas like the Amazon where rainfall normally washes away nutrient accumulations. It can be made with processes that sequesters carbon, both in the charring stage (via gassifier designs optimized towards sequestering) and during the inoculation stage where it can capture greenhouse gases emitted by a compost pile.
Apple posts $81B quarterly results: Charts
What that quote doesn't tell me: if I bury carbon today, will 99% or 1% of it stay for centuries?
I see very few skeptics. A true skeptic would be truly skeptical, including own ability and Dunning-Kruger effects. We mainly don't see that.

It would be a breath of fresh air for people to be open-minded and curious. Seek out cutting-edge information from experts now and then, and share that.

There's room for being concerned, but more than that, may not be too helpful for anyone.
that's true. but none of this is happening in a vacuum. liberal democracies are also the ones trying to change or destroy non-democratic regimes by force. imo you can sum up everything evil China is accused of, and it would not come close to what we pulled in South America, the Middle East, and Asia

I'm all for a fair comparison. And as someone who currently benefits from Western ideals of personal liberties, I'd be happy to see it proven that they are superior. But let's make it fair
Ask HN: Negotiate Salary to Subcontractor Company
I've been interviewing for a 'Dev Shop' that does software development work for Big Bank Corp. So there's some sort of relationship where Big Bank Corp. has their own in-house engineers, who also work alongside 'Dev Shop' engineers placed in their office.

I've interviewed with both companies, have been approved and have received an offer.

I'm familiar with Patio11's essays on salary negotiation, however I'm not sure about the dynamics of who pays who how much between these companies, and how much room I actually have to move upwards.

I'm continuing to interview with another company. Does anyone have insight on contractor payments/relationships? How is 'Dev Shop' compensated for my work?
I wonder how hard it would be to write kernel modules to fix that.
I hate when HN'ers just chime in and say you're shit why didn't you do this.

So hopefully I'm not that totally rude person, no-shade intended pointing out that if for some random reason you haven't seen ClickHouse you should check it out.

Solves problems that I parsed from your blog post and originally built for that use case.

100 recs/s for an ad network is super duper mega tiny so I hope you're successful and get bigger!