skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matters in terms of what we are discussing now is automotive margin.

Their 'Automotive gross margin' is 28.4%. If you exclude regulatory credit that is still '25.8%'.

Those are flat out great margin number in the automotive industry.

These facts literally disprove this phrase:

> Tesla pretty much still sells car at a loss

Unless you simply interpret that phrase differently then everybody else.

If you want to make a larger statement about Tesla on a company level, that is a whole different thing.

If you want to ignore unit economics Q2 they made 354 million $ in credits. Total GAAP gross margin 24.1%, ignoring credits its still 21.8%.

I'm to lazy to calculate the operational margin, but its still good excluding regulatory credits. This regulatory credit storyline is literally on its last legs.

Tesla is still a growth company and their margin and profitability are already good despite them not even having manufacturing in all large markets. In Q2 they didn't even build their high margin vehicles.

My main point being again, claiming that Tesla sells vehicles at a lose, is literally nonsense.

Find the numbers here:

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/ZBOUYO_TSLA_Q2_2021_Updat...

Any claim that Tesla has no business without credits is just fundamentally wrong.

And Q3 looks like it will beat these numbers again.
Well, now they have used a new novel system to bypass the censorship

If you fail to see the value of how this novel way can be used for other letters beyond this initial test case, then there's not much else to say I feel
Movies are supposed to be SHOW DON'T TELL.
Sex for many people is the culmination of love and many other feelings. You are depriving the audience the view of one of the most fundamental events of human life.
I suspect you know this but it was ARPA until 1972:
https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/arpa-name-change
It may have originally started as a copy of Java but its evolution has been quite separate mostly because it made the jump to parametric polymorphism at a point where they could break backwards compatibility and fork the standard library.
Very lucid blogpost, but why does the author choose pseudo-anonymity?
I wrote a little on this subject, of research that is ignored or forgotten. You might find it of interest.

https://blog.eutopian.io/the-next-big-thing-go-back-to-the-f...
I guess we have to wait for the full list. There was a map with names from other countries than the 56ish shortlisted.
https://notion-avatar.vercel.app/en
When the world solved an environmental crisis
Pretty sure Ikea does it this way, and numerous others for sure.
> It's an iPhone 13 sort of update, with no compelling reason to exist other than somebody decided it was time for it to exist.

Funny he should mention that, because the CBS graphics look to me like Windows 11: flat, seemingly uniform, nicely subtly gradiented, but subtly inconsistent in an irritating, pebble-in-shoe kind of way.
240W? I assume these cables are significantly chunkier than normal USB-C
I don't understand why they release names of people who they also say did not do anything wrong.
But that's for margin. Meaning you use the funds to trade.

It's different than taking a loan against 300k USD in FB shares, because that you can use for everything...ranging from buying a Ferrari to starting a new business.

Interest rates will naturally be higher.
> I would be totally fine if society made moves to close loopholes but I can't blame people for leveraging loopholes..

The first step in the right direction, then, is for people to become aware of these highly unsavory (but legal) practices. It's not going to be an easy fight. The kind of people that setup multiple shell companies to obfuscate the ownership of their assets have worked deliberately to extract wealth and game the system to a level that is unimaginable (at least for me before I heard about the related Panama Papers story that broke a couple years ago).

Ultimately, as we approach a global society with insane levels of wealth inequality and where public infrastructure and social safety nets have started to come apart at the seams, it's imperative that these "loopholes" get closed. Otherwise, we're going to be revisiting Feudalism in 21st century western democracies. Sadly some people seem to want that. They see it as a kind of gilded age lords and their servants.
Excellent thought provoking article, but all the times I’ve brought in a dumb cache or bloom filter it is to save calling a micro service or hitting a DB or something so fantastically expensive (in computer time) that even a staggeringly inefficient bloom filter or just keeping lists of recently-seen values etc is a massive win. So there’s no big pressing need to microoptimise the bloom filter or whatever, and all the real profile guided optimizations point at other low hanging fruit.
The suckiness of being poor is a viewpoint already represented on the thread. Yeah sure, but also: my point. Repetition of yours would seem to indicate you would like only one of the two to be true, but they're both true, or as close as it comes for either of us, who I'm willing to wager have experienced neither.

Nothing actually gives life meaning by the way, that's just a shorthand I used.
Reminds me of shotput maybe it was used in a sport?
The UK shouldn’t really raise its voice here, easily half the tax havens are UK dependencies: Cayman Isles, Virgin Isles, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar. It is inconceivable to me that the UK lacks influence to stem these activities, so the only conclusion is that it willingly accepts status quo.
I don't entirely want to be CEO, what I want is ultimate control over things I'm interested in, which is definitely not everything involved in being CEO.

If I say "no that would be bad, goes against my ethics, increases tech debt too much, bad for UX, etc." I don't want anybody to override me, even though generally decisions ultimately fall on the CEO.
The problem is privileging technologies that have defence capabilities. There are likely countless ideas that could have similar success to DARPA projects if they had similar access to capital and state support.

However, unless it can show off some military capability its funding can't be justified using the current model, leaving a gigantic subsections of technologies that could have similar innovative impact underserved by this level of support.
Anything that moves away from the CBSness is a good thing. Their broadcasts have been second rate mediocrities since they’ve had the rights:

- Completely bland theme music.

- Half-witted former QB analysts (other than Romo).

- The worst studio show.

The other networks (particularly NBC) do a way better job.
Sorry, I'm sometimes snarky in the mornings. Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt, I presume they meant that correlation does not always equal causation, but that there is a middle ground of the "unknown" rather than just the inverse of a logical, mathematical statement. If you see a pattern from enough correlations, then you might let go of some of your own hubris. It's not black and white, and so on.
>> It saddens me that we live in a culture in which movies showing violence (including torture and murder) are acceptable, whereas ones showing consensual, non-pornographic intercourse - aren’t.

I just remembered accidentally seeing the US version of the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service". I was surprised that one scene was cut out - naked ass of a young woman. The scene of brutal massacre where dozens of people are killed and maimed was left there. I still do not get how this came to be. People usually talk about puritanism and such but this does not seem to explain it - why should any culture consider it desirable to watch brutality but not nudity or something sexual?
"To most people, economics is a dull science full of statistics and jargon, mainly concerned with money and designed to answer a narrow (but important) set of questions. To economists, economics is a
powerful tool for understanding why armies run away, voters are
ignorant, and divorce rates rise, as well as solving practical problems
such as how not to get mugged. Its theme is not money but reason-
the implications, especially the nonobvious implications, of the fact
that humans act rationally. Or to put it more formally:

Economics is that way of understanding behavior that starts from
the assumption that individuals have objectives and tend to choose
the correct way to achieve them."

Excerpt from Hidden Order, a book which explains economic concepts to non-economists.
This article has no right to be as well written as it is.
Yeah perhaps I should say I was thinking more about the limited liability form that got established sometime in the 1800s across a variety of western countries. The government orgs are a thing too, of course, but things that are that closely tied to government tend to have their own access to enforcement.

It's more that at one point during the industrial revolution, it became common that someone would make a private venture, incorporate it, and from there the law granted a number of modern considerations that we still live with. I'm thinking of limited liability and its effect on bankruptcy.
I was primarily thinking of environment when I wrote that comment, but I think there's probably some other things that are, in some ways, worse.
I think the complaint is not that the government funds research for defense, it's that it could be funding energy, medical, etc research.

I honestly don't know if I fully agree with his complaint, because I'm fairly sure the government does fund a lot of other research that isn't defense focused (see a lot of universities).
yes, pen too thin. Heat shrink tube or similar could work... thanks.
I went further than that, I profiled with perf and checked that the right kernels were used.
Consider that hardship and unhappiness are not synonyms and there isn’t always a simple relationship between them.
Ask HN: Any colleges or universities offering credit for CS courses by exam?
Looking to attempt to accelerate reaching a BS in CS. Having worked as a software developer for decades, I can teach any introductory, intermediate and most advanced programming courses. Anything from basics to data structures, algorithms, computer architecture, embedded systems, real time operating systems, web development, etc. I have worked with over half a dozen languages on various systems, including everything from bare-metal bring-ups in Assembly/Forth to, robotics systems and Python/Django applications.

The point is, I know this stuff. What I know is equivalent to several years of university coursework. I am now interested in obtaining a degree in CS, initially a BS and possibly going on to an MS. This is mostly for personal fulfillment rather than a need.

What I don't want to do is spend three years writing basic code I can write in my sleep.

To this end, I am looking for schools where I might be able to take exams to pass courses rather than have to devote entire semesters or quarters to obtain the credit. I contacted our local college's CS department. While the school does offer credit for prior learning through examination, the CS department is the only one that does not, at this time, offer that option.

There are many interesting online CS courses (For example, I've done the MIT 6.00.1x series), yet none of them provide transferable credits. Does such a thing exist?

An alternative would be super-short terms. If I could take courses that only go for, say, 8 weeks, instead of 20, well, that might be a decent option. I would not have to study much, if at all. So, pass a couple of exams every eight weeks and knock out a few years off a degree timeline quickly.

I'd appreciate any input on this.

Frankly, this is what is missing in online education today. A degree granting program that is compatible with people who might have acquired the knowledge outside university walls. Coding is coding. Algorithms are algorithms. Theory is theory. If you know the subject, and you can prove it, it should not matter one bit where you did the learning.

Thanks.
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tl;dr Cultural appropriation implies an ownership of art and tradition, and is akin to intellectual property. Stallman is skeptical of the validity of IP, and hence also the concept of cultural appropriation.
The language's exception facility does what it says. We don't need a unit test to prove that in every particular case, any more than we need a unit test to establish that the language correctly carries out our assignments or function calls.
Given how popular lawn bowls is in Scotland, I'm surprised no one appears to have considered these objects might be part of some game or sport. To this day, people take their fandom to their grave, why not then too?
Another leak that will have people "outraged" by aggressively upvoting and commenting on articles for two weeks. The news cycle will move on, the leakers will be car bombed [0], and these papers will be memoryholed.

You can wait around for four years til a new set of old rich people get voted into power (maybe they'll be blue/red this time!!!!) and hope they get rid of the loopholes they all use. Maybe a couple more """revolutionary""" politicians will be elected who VERBALLY DISMANTLE AND DESTROY a couple billionaires in a senate hearing (OMG SO AWESOME!!!). Decide for yourself if you think anything will change.

There does exist a great equalizer, but I won't mention it. I like staying unb&.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...
I mean, yes, you're not wrong, but the terms within Emacs itself for these features are dynamic/local "binding":

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Dy...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Le...
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I was very excited when Panama papers came out. Intrigued when Paradise papers leaked. But now? Damning evidence of outright crimes came out and nothing happened. In the UK IIRC it was found that David Cameron evaded some taxes via offshore funds, and? He said he’s very sorry and didn’t mean to, and that was it.

Everyone knew before and after the rich don’t pay taxes. We don’t need more evidence, we need action.
Ukraine did not have as much of a choice as one would think. All the nukes were set up to be controlled by Moscow and it would have taken enough time to bypass the controls that the Russian army could feasibly have invaded or destroyed them.
> But that's for margin. Meaning you use the funds to trade.

nope, you can withdraw it. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/01/29/margin-loan-ibkr-...

Also, there's nothing functionally different between:

1. having 500k in stocks and borrowing $250k from it

2. having 500k in stocks, selling half of that to get $250k, withdrawing $250k, then rebuying $250k worth of the stocks using margin
> Why do politicians send their money to offshore havens when they could reduce the tax in their own country?

Maybe because the people actually want to tax the rich? And because the politicians who evade taxes don't intend to pay their fair share anyway?
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For many ideologues, wealth is evidence of crime.
How could you cut off City of London Corp from international financial circuits. Or the Netherlands, which is one big tax paradise even though it may seem it is not. Luxembourg? Don't think that tax heavens are some remote, distant islands governed by some petty lord.

Taxation is really hard to enforce in the modern World. The biggest problem is that small, local companies cannot compete with big ones because they don't have resources to overcome taxation.

For me it make sense more sense to abandon corporate tax at all and make sure that all the resources, public services that company uses in a given country are paid by the company. If company uses trucks, it should pay for roads, etc.

I don't think that Facebook that operates from US and uses US resources and services should pay CIT tax in, say, France. If it uses internet infrastructure, just make Facebook to pay for it fair amount and that's all.
This feels like one of those "and water is wet" type posts.

I can't stand basically any political commentary anymore, at least in regards to economics. It feels like everyone has "simple" solutions to the best way to solve every economic problem, and it doesn't really seem like the economy can easily be reduced to a ten second Fox News soundbyte.
I'm not sure what this provides over what GCP already offers. 4 years ago I switched my co's ML training to use GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) using a cluster of preemptible nodes.

All you need to do is schedule your jobs (just call the Kubernetes API and schedule your container to run). In the rare case the node gets preempted, your job will be restarted and restored by Kubernetes. Let your node pool scale to near zero when not in use and get billed by the _second_ of compute used.
.NET native is a dead end technology that only supported old UWP apps.

There's the new single file builds but those just concatenate the dynamic libs together into one file.

There's also the new .NET linker for trimmed builds, but that requires special annotations from many libs to work.
Why hasn't that happened? I can answer it very easily. Freicoin is a Bitcoin fork that has a holding fee to avoid speculation. Nobody used it. Nobody will use Bitcoin.
Quantum computing would use Grover's algorithm, which is provably optimal for accelerating a brute-force search. That reduces the key space by half (so square root of the effort), eg AES-256 requires about 2^127 quantum operations to crack on average, instead of 2^255.

Bremermann's Limit[1] puts a fundamental limit on the rate of computation for any given amount of mass of about 1.36e50 bit changes/second/kg. Unless you get an amount of mass of literally planetary scale (as large as, say, Mercury) to take part in your computation the time will be enormous even for a 256-bit key.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
I also really appreciated the software archaeology, and the projection forward of what were then common ways of communicating on the internet (Usenet, etc.) into the distant future where they might actually make sense again due to the transmission times and bandwidth for interstellar messages.

I definitely recommend both. I didn't realize he'd written a third in the series, but I'll be giving that a look.
This limitation is due to the poor implementation of the PI analog audio out; pretty much every other ARM based SBC performs much better in that field. I hope the code is portable to other ARM boards too. Although I never liked the MT-32 sound, being open to soundfonts makes this project much more interesting than the original device.

Hopefully one day we'll see a bare metal synthesizer engine such as the TSynth (https://electrotechnique.cc/), which does wonders on a small Teensy; I wonder what it could do on a much more powerful board like a PI or any other ARM board.
Great analysis.

In short, to more accurately name the harm in some specific cases, don't name property appropriation, just name [and/or make a case for] obvious disrespect.

Stallman, naturally, uses the occasion to help question the notion or applicability of "IP" in the first place.
I think there is no place for RPA in Industry 4.0 or any kind of high tech architectures (ML/cloud/insert buzzword here). If you are using RPA, it means that your IT infra does not even have (usable) APIs to begin with and you have to resort to mouse-clicking and other hacky approaches offered by RPA. First, get rid of software that holds your data hostage and cannot be controlled via APIs before you start thinking about “AI”.

P.S. Congratulations on paper acceptance!
mind you though, that layer 3 and 4 are somewhat interlinked.
> This is a bad take because if that dollar does not transact, you do not get inflation but you get a lowered velocity.

> However a lowered velocity rises r - g. This exacerbates wealth inequality.

The cantillion effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_t...
> Globalism is fantastic for business and stocks, but horrible for the American worker.

Often claimed, hard to prove.

In fact, isolating your economy to protect increasingly ineffective industries is the exact opposite of what is good for the avg. worker.

It sure helps those industries that are specifically. protected.

> We eroded a lot of our capabilities to chase after higher value of being the final step in production. Now we see how fragile that makes us. And everyone is gunning to compete at our level.

And the solution to this is exactly not to try to use restrictive trade policies.
> an alternative database technology cannot succeed unless it also supports a high-level query language. The advantages of such a language are just overwhelming

Neo4j's Cypher query language is beautiful to work with!
It is interesting since recent OFAC enforcement was against crypto exchange in Czech republic and I did have some other indications of CZ becoming an interesting nexus for otherwise unsavory or questionable activities ( from US perspective anyway ).
Yes, watching Seinfeld on Netflix, the zoom-ins, the framing. I was enchanted.
It is probably a reference to the SDI program, also called the Starwars program. Note that the economic impact on USSR is just speculation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative...
They are also used in automotive as part of the Coldfire CPU series.

But I think a lot of this usage goes back to the days where embedded CPU families had been a lot more fragmented, and companies usually picked one family of their favorite supplier (based on pricing, fulfilling the use-case, etc) and then just sticked to it due to code not being particularly portable.

Since that time the amount of CPU families that are actually used shrank drastically, and it's a lot more likely that all of those use-cases just pick ARM.
So what I think you’re trying to say here is paraphrasing the (apocryphal?) Einstein quote, “as simple as possible and no simpler”. I agree, you need to design the software to be as simple as possible, that might include building some quite complex abstractions but again the net total should be the code ends up overall being simpler.
"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics.

Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.

Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
I would appreciate any resources you could point me towards to help make this argument against the Staff+ engineering leaders at my company who are pushing standards that say exactly the opposite.
It's a symptom of rabies, not a name for it.

It just means "fear of water".
I think that may be the paradox here.

If it gets a significant userbase, it's much less clearly "alternative" anymore.
Can anyone edit this type of photo in 1000$?
Billions hidden beyond reach
Once a company becomes big enough it turns into 'yet another big one' that inherits the branding and the original activities but simply starts doing whatever else is doing to min-max everything beyond human ethics.

It's like having a very small company with only a few people. There won't be any HR because that kind of overhead isn't something you can afford or make use of. So you work 'for the boss' and if you need something your boss is also the person who makes the decisions. But when the company gets bigger, you now get HR between you and the boss, and suddenly you are insulated. You work for the company, and are beholden to HR. Every step after that is just more insulation, more min-maxing and just making things worse for the sake of scale. Usually.