skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, a Model X with some options hits $110k quick. A fully kitted long range Y is about $65k. That latter number is a lot still, but way, way, way closer in the range of what an above average income earner can afford.

There is also the absurdity of spending $100k+ on an asset that depreciates so heavily. My spouse and I make enough money to afford this car without much thought, but there isn’t a chance in hell I’d light that much money on fire.
> The fact that a private company (or companies) can do so in the first place with such great impact is an opportunity for disruption. The fact that is has already occurred is an opportunity for libraries like the Internet Archive.

No, it isn't. What IA stores long-term is relevant to future generations, less so to us now. What matters for us is that you can censor anything on IA, retroactively, by updating robots.txt.

IA won't be able to capitalize on this opportunity for disruption until copyright law gets completely overhauled. I don't see this happening soon, as powers that be - both public and private - are all aligned in their interest to make IP protection even stronger.
It's good on desktop, but when I initially looked at this article on my iPhone, the photos were much too small.

I sometimes think that the rise of mobile, and subsequent need for responsive design, is what truly killed the ideal of an internet driven by readable markup and only the most basic stylesheets.
Radioactivity is not a better source of random noise than shot noise in semiconductors, or resistive noise from current in non-superconducting materials. It is not better than black-body noise from a radio receiver, or pixel noise in an image sensor, or the low 20 bits of your processor cycle counter, sampled when a keystroke or packet comes in.

What does matter is whether you have the entropy you need when you need it. Your favorite radioactive source might not have that. At device power-on, you might need entropy before the camera or radio receiver is initialized. That is when you need to consider carefully where to get some entropy, and how much of it you need right then. Maybe you can arrange to have saved enough over from when you were last powered up.
Or not. This often applies to sayings like "no offense but, <offense>".

I can easily find room for "I'm sorry for rambling on, ..." to account for people not feeling like there's room for their input. Social anxiety is a thing.
Any mask will filter PM2.5 to some level. N95 is just more effective than some (but less than others)
Henry Ford created a factory "capable of taking in raw materials on one end and spitting out finished automobiles on the other". [0]

Not all automakers have done things that way though, and other automakers are able to complete with Ford. Vertical integration can sometimes be an asset, other times the "Not Invented Here" culture proves limiting. Tesla's had incredible success thus far, but we probably need a couple more decades to see if they maintain their first mover advantage or if other players end up being more agile and more successful.

0: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a23478147/ford-river-rouge...
Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
The cost of development is amortized over infinity. (Sure, on the other hand the NPV of a perpetuity bond is finite.)

Of course (economically) the optimal allocation of current resources/funds probably would not involve fusion research, but instead instant (ASAP) replacement of coal, oil, gas power plants. Then working on fusion. But if we look at what fusion researchers should do, either they could be retrained or we can simply go ahead and print some money to pay them to work on what they want to do anyway (fusion research).
That's very impressive indeed and if they can keep growing like this few more years they will definitely have more revenue than any other car company and might be top 1 by cars produced in less than a decade.
He was convinced that without an American preemptive strike, even more would die. He was wrong of course, as we now know, but it wasn't clear at that time.

There's an episode of Hardcore History on this topic, I think the title was "Destroyer of Worlds".
It’s hated by people who have either never bothered with it and are on the JS hate train, or it’s hated by people who had to deal with poorly executed code. If you know the use case fits, then it’s great and will help you scale fast at minimal cost. However that takes a bit of experience to understand/implement.

It has some flaws sure, but unless you’re going out of your way to use poor practices or using node for a task it isn’t great for, that’s kinda on you right?

Used node for many things, including services currently in use by many millions of users. It’s just a tool in the toolbox, so use it like one where it makes sense.
The problem still remains as to who gets to determine what constitutes "misleading".
Thanks, I appreciate your reply! I've worked in AI in past jobs - though I don't have an academic background in it - and I would definitely agree with the issue of garbage data, as I suspect would many real-world practitioners.
You're cherry-picking data to make Tesla's numbers and potential look worse than they actually are.

The first two quarters are much slower for car sales; for example in 2020, Tesla shipped 178k units in Q1+Q2 and 319k units in Q3+Q4.

Tesla had sales of 31.5B in 2020, and have 73% growth between Q3 2020 and 2021, which indicates they could hit 50B in 2021, and could hit close to 90B in 2022 if they continue the same YoY growth. Nissan is stagnant. It's reasonable to assume that Tesla is on track to surpass Nissan next year (2022).
Cool, didnt realize coinbase acquired bison trails
Tesla has a lead now, but I wonder how long it'll hold up.

At some point electric drivetrains and batteries will be available in large quantities from suppliers just like gasoline motors and gearboxes are available now.

As soon as that is the case, there will be many dozens of different car models that compete with Tesla.

Teslas vertical integration is an advantage now, because they don't have to wait for suppliers to develop what they need. But once suppliers have caught up, I'm not sure if Teslas edge holds.
Was this serious or satire? If you wouldn't get prescriptions from Amazon, why not?
Karrot: Find best source for nutrition in food
Imagine in 1980, saying: Philip Morris will be stopped when people decide to stop smoking. All the information about the cancer their products cause is quite public and people still chose to use the product.

While the US didn't outlaw cigarettes, it did take a number of steps to reduce the usage because of the externalities they cause. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't treat Facebook the same way. Add taxes that go towards funding programs to warn of the dangers of anti-vax and other extremist content, keep kids under 13 off of their products, etc.
Fundamentally, what is it that prevents the established auto makers from making changes mid lifecycle? Seems like Tesla keeps pulling it off; why can’t GM?

Is it that the component specification+acquisition cycle you describe is optimized to take as long as the development cycle of a new car?
The website looks good! Do you still use Common Lisp? If not, what are the reasons?
That was not his reason, as I stated in another comment. You're free to educate yourself about his thoughts on the matter, which would be much more productive than a snarky comment.
We use Trinet and while I think there are weird challenges to the whole thing, I know our international employees have stock options just like those of us in the US. They were even able to exercise some of their options when we had a weird event that let us do that. So it's definitely doable! I'm not sure how much of a hassle it is for the executive team to deal with all of that, but I do know that we got to the result.
Do you have a source, both ways seem to have some logic to them (a larger growth is a smaller percentage growth for a large tree, for example - adding 1% to a massive tree is better than 10% to a tiny tree), but also we're used to new life increasing size far faster ...

Actually, I might tree rings not getting smaller as a tree grows taller is probably enough evidence to see that the carbon added increases over time? Would be nice to have a rigorous source to review too?
This is just my non-expert understanding: They give you the share immediately, but the actual trade takes two days to complete, and might not complete at the price you paid. They're in affect giving you a loan for that two-day period, and the DTCC gives them a loan. The DTCC wants to make sure robinhood won't default on their loan, so they require robinhood to post a certain amount of collateral.

Usually this isn't such a big deal, because stocks don't vary much day-to-day so the collateral requirements aren't very high, but for extremely volatile stocks like GME they might need to have $100 of collateral for every $100 of buys they try to execute. They couldn't afford that so they stopped accepting buy orders. TD Ameritrade, another broker, stopped accepting buy orders for GME a day before Robinhood did for the same reason.

(Robinhood has suggested that trade should settle in minutes or seconds instead of days, which would obviously be better, but that won't happen any time soon)
Nothing, create your own Facebook

..Also send the whistleblower to the Ecuadorian embassy
Hey I appreciate the caution. I did a poor job representing our current situation. We are looking into a multi-state remote workforce but haven't decided/deployed yet. Thanks for the heads up!
Op brings up points that directly contribute to why there's been such a need to work from home.

get out of here with your negative horseshit of a reply and find some way to add value to the conversation.
I wonder how it will impact their data collection for self driving.

There's many people here who hate on Tesla, but when seeing YouTube videos of Tesla owners posting footage of self-driving I'm constantly amazed and perplexed how far they have come and how intelligent the car appears to be. There's obviously edge cases where it fails and will be hard to iron out, but it definitely doesn't seem impossible based on countless of videos I have seen. It's amazing and I don't understand how anyone can reject this as a major advance in technology and where humanity will eventually arrive.
But killing non-"sentient" beings is not. IMO it's a vacuous and ridiculous distinction that only distracts us from living sustainably within our environments.
The frustration those of us who are skeptical of this use case of NFTs -- creating artificial digital scarcity -- has with responses like yours and Exporectomy's is that you're pretty much saying "you're clearly not thinking about this deeply enough, because anyone who thought about this correctly would surely agree with us." This is not only not a very convincing argument, it's a little bit of an insulting one.

The objection I mentioned in my previous comment was that the original copyright holder of a creative work is the only person who can transfer any ownership rights. But let me restate this without invoking copyright: if I have the legal right to transfer ownership of a digital file in any legally recognized sense to you -- whether that file is a piece of software that I bought on physical media I am conveying to you, or artwork I created that is being digitally transferred to you -- an NFT is only useful as a proof of ownership if we have contractually stipulated that it does. That contract exists independently of the NFT, incorporating the NFT only by reference, just like the NFT itself only incorporates the digital file it tokenizes by reference. The NFT itself has no legal authority -- it's just a transactional record. As I mentioned in my previous comment, it's possible to easily create "bogus" NFTs of digital files whose creators or rights holders haven't authorized it. Furthermore, since there are multiple blockchains that handle NFTs, an NFT is just unique on that blockchain, so again there needs to be a framework outside the blockchain to truly establish ownership.

So the question has to arise: do you need the NFT in this transaction at all? Why can't the original contract incorporate the digital file directly by reference itself? The NFT doesn't really do much to support "proof of ownership," while instead clearly creating opportunities for scammers taking advantage of people who don't understand that just because you have an NFT for a digital file doesn't mean you necessarily have any legal authority to sell any kind of right whatsoever, copy or otherwise, in that file.

Maybe you don't see it that way -- clearly a lot of people don't -- but please do not imply I haven't taken a moment to think about this more deeply. I've thought about it a lot, in fact, and so far I haven't found a convincing response to the concerns I've expressed about this particular use case for NFTs.
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Ford had years of domination, didn't it?

It is extremely hard to predict 15 years from now but the next five years?

There are no competitors(perhaps besides Chinese battery makers) everyone is still in early R&D\prototype phases.
That doesn't make any sense. The reason regulation is suggested is effect on society, and the effect is the same regardless of the engineer's personal status. An engineer designing bridges is liable regardless of his salary, and same must apply to a programmer.

Besides, it's trivial to launder everything if you give such an out. The regulation can apply equally to everyone, or don't expect it to go anywhere at all.
Consider Bars and Clubs.

Bars earn all their income from serving individual patrons. Facebook earns nothing from their individual patrons. All their income is earned serving those seeking to manipulate and take advantage of their patrons.

It's easy to see where the allegiance lies in either case --- just follow the money.
Agreed - I hadn't really considered the SEC angle, I'll make sure I get proper legal advice for that as well.
Any article referencing Factorio should warn how insanely addictive it is.
Well-Funded Stem Cell Startups Are Manipulating Your DNA
The images are actually a bit small on desktop as well. It could definitely use a few tweaks but I still like the idea. I think a bit of minimum padding so that text doesn't touch the edge of the screen and some logic for sizing images would make this a great style.
Depending upon your location and interests, there are probably various activity clubs (like hiking to pick a random example) around where you live. Certainly I don't depend on the office (aside from travel/events) at all for socializing--though I did at one point much earlier in my career.
Every URL eventually decays to pointing to a parked domain loaded with ads.

Is that a theorem with name to it attached already? I feel it should be.
What do you consider 'Established'? I'd consider it the first model 3 being sold so since 2017.
Maybe someone will finally name this comet Ajax.
If you imagine individuals at less power than government and industry today, then you take industry and cut their power in half, their power now sits closer to that of individuals than it did before.
But isn't there just a little bit of truth behind each meme?

I mean, all I'm saying is, that there's a reason Tesla is a meme stock.
I always interpreted the "10K global variables" to mean 10K directly accessible, heap-allocated symbols. It's a code reek. If you use a configuration object or other abstraction, the number of accessible variables may not change, but their scope and access method does.

It's a matter of interpretation I guess, but I would not classify a wrapper object (like .Net's ConfigurationManager singleton) as "10K global variables" even if the accompanying config contained 10K items, or if the ConfigurationManager backing store was preallocated in the data section of the binary.
Gauss comes to mind.
Yeah, certainly having "V"GPRs in a "scalar ISA" is a bit off. In graphics parlance, the term really just refers to the lack of things like dot products and matrix multiply instructions where the compiler has to line numbers into "per-thread" vectors for the instructions to work out. Turns out you can save a lot of work by not having that kind of ISA, and just moving to ones where you operate on number registers (which are then "vector"'d to be thread-count wide).

Wouldn't be graphics unless we overloaded a piece of terminology 20 times.
Texas power outages took down one of the few major US plants and a random fire took down another, at the same time as a global pandemic. We're almost at the level of "imports banned from China"-levels of implausibility here.

Sometimes shit happens.
Care to clarify? I tried reading it that way and it made no sense.
The one on deep learning is the best theoretical introduction I've read on that technology.
I live in Brazil, and here we often think that this kind of stuff doesn't happen in Europe, or is very, very rare. Reading the comments here about Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, I'm reminded that it isn't so.
I'm not even a layman in this area but I think a lot of the vertical integration for Tesla is purely the result of them being on the flame front of growth in new technological domains. An automaker creating new ASICs and new batteries is atypical, but they are in a much better position to both understand the demand and absorb the risk. Early automakers were in the same position, but eventually the worst ideas were filtered out and industry was able to develop around each of these areas until they could compete favorably with internally developed products.

Musk's approach for both Tesla and SpaceX seem to be a very effective to effectively push into a new domain if you have the money and the guts to try. It will be interesting to watch how they evolve over time.
'Countability' is too precise a term for the meaning or context. The article as I read it makes the core point I wanted to express: a derisive reference to scholarship of the time period as obcessed with "angels on pinheads" is probably ungenerous.

If you know of JMG one statement of his was roughly this: Every school-child (of that time period) used to know that an 'eternal being' was outside of time, not a being [within time] that would "live forever."

That is, 'eternal' apparently had a precise sense [then] which most are now ignorant of. Again, I could be wrong.

It is hard for me to look down on curiousity about "what could be outside of time" when it remains a popular science question -- i.e., where did the big bang happen?, etc
What is it about Netflix that they pay so well? Lots of tech companies have tons of cash, that's not it. Other tech companies are equally profitable, that's not it. What is the tradeoff that Netflix is making, in order to invest in its employees the way that it does?
I can’t see anything on my cellphone, just huge blank spaces.
The Very Short Introduction series is a fantastic way to get a good over view on a range of topic. They're well written and pretty accessible.
What kinds of issues did you have with your heat pump? Was it the unit itself, installation? And where do you live?

It's unfortunate that the heat pump ecosystem isn't as developed as it should be. Feels kind of like installing Linux vs buying a Mac — not so seamless.
That's such an incredibly short-sighted and single-tracked view on what is "the environment". Planting trees will not magically fix the climate, and carbon sequestration is not the solution to all our problems. Destroying ecosystems for the sake of capturing more carbon makes no sense, if for no other reason that it reduces the chance of survival of the new trees. You also can't lose focus from the end goal of why we're trying to capture CO2. The goal is to save the environment.
Back when I was an IT Guy at a small marketing company, I did whatever was asked of me (I'm getting paid, so why not).

I got pretty good at data entry, and it's fairly enjoyable. You're not worried about bigger issues than reading scribbles on paper, and trying to get them entered correctly.

It is from this experience, that I think they should have done the following:

Sit everyone on the committee down down at terminals, and make them do card catalog data entry for a week, just typing into a unformatted text file.

After those dues are paid, then you get to participate for the year. I think contact with the data at hand would have rapidly lead to a far better understanding of the required structures.
> nor does he seem particularly well educated tbh

He did drop out of university in his sophomore year, after all, and has working virtually non-stop on his company since then. Very little time to catch up on reading the classics.

I know there is a whole contingent of people who think it is good enough just to be admitted into a place like Harvard—that the name matters more than the experience—and surely it's Zuckerber's raw talent that has allowed him to build Facebook into what it is today, not anything he learned in school that he couldn't have just taught himself.

But if he had actually completed his education, how might the world be different today? Might just that little bit of wisdom and perspective that we hope a liberal arts education will transmit to its recipients have made him think twice about implementing any of the strategies that Facebook has pursued over the years? Might have some of the horrific societal consequences been anticipated and avoided?

Perhaps. But if Zuckerberg had cared enough about his education not to drop out of school, the Facebook of today probably would never have come to exist at all. A world with a Mark Zuckerberg that completed his education is likely not a world with Facebook in it.
This has an historical precedent:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...

posted multiple times on HN, last time 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27264816
The argument about Tesla being to small to matter is dwindling fast. Elon has publicly stated a goal of a yearly production run rate of 20 million before 2030.

And let's not get into the profit margins which is way better than ICE :)
What other company has that percentage growth in sales?
I have some doubt cars will be their primary source of revenue in the long run. They are also an energy company and soon to be insurance. I also don't think Tesla bot is a joke, Elon seems pretty serious about outdoing other companies for household robots (re: his comments at #codecon)
But will they? All major car manufacturers bringing in more and more EVs each year and give another 2-5 years and it's all we are going to see. Now why on earth would I buy Tesla, if I could buy Audi or Merc instead?
By that explanation, I actually 100% confident I'm understanding you correctly.

Most of the functionality of these chips can be represented in some form of hardware. However, that hardware is often much more expensive, significantly less flexible, and likely significantly bulkier.
>More like the CEO/CFO are only expected to have a churn rate similar to competitors. Above: raise comp. Below: slow down.

Honest, curious question- What exactly is it that's wrong about that? Doesn't that exactly reflect the point that "they are still competing with the market to retain their existing employees"?
Japan utilities help ease China fuel crisis – at a tidy profit
Established players rarely grow quarterly sales(in units) by 70% in one year on top of 40% growth previous year, with expected almost doubling next year.
I would guess they’re talking about the Hunter Biden laptop thing and how it was recently “confirmed” by I think politico. I’m not going to bother googling it for you, just for the edification of everyone else reading your comment and GPS comment.