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How many cybertrucks can they deliver next year?
That sounds like possible death trap. Drive Tesla to some place without range, stay out there for week. Then come back an notice car is dead and you can't reach next charging station.

Maybe this is why Musk is making Starlink...
It was clear to me when getting a graduate degree in a humanities field that these programs produced mostly academics whose only viable job was going to be teaching the next generation of academics. And by viable, I mean viable for the luckiest one in ten. In other words, it was already an island of cannibals with no other food source than itself, and none likely to arrive. That system cannot run forever.

Twenty years later, nothing has changed my opinion, and I agree with the author's conclusion here: that a graduate degree in the humanities makes sense only for the wealthy. That's how liberal arts education began, and how it'll probably end. This return to origin should appeal both to students both of history's long rhythmic structure, and of literary narrative, and so maybe it will provide some value to the private scholars of the future.

I also partly disagree with the author, in that I don't think an undergraduate degree in the humanities is all that useful. I have one of those too, and I wouldn't get one again. I can't speak to history departments, but English departments don't have a lot to offer students anymore that a library card and an internet connection wouldn't do better. That's not because studying Literature is easy or worthless, but because that's not what English departments do well anymore.
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Doesn't their stock valuation count on basically every year being better than the last for a long time to come?
New defaults emerge. I was unofficially remote pre-pandemic (in that I didn't have an assigned desk and rarely went in to the nearest office). But I already see people who thought they'd come back in 2-3 days a week who find that number slipping downwards to a day or maybe not at all on a given week.
we need some breakthroughs but don’t need to live like amish. Heat pumps, nuclear, solar panels, electric cars, urbanization that promotes walkability, all exist and go a long way. We need plenty of breakthroughs, lots of help from policy as well, but already have much of what we need to get pretty far along.
It's hard to know what the side effects are since it hasn't been tested in humans and is not in a form where it would be a useful drug. We've had plently of promising drugs turn out to have unexpected and sometimes devestating side effects when tested in humans.
5bedroom, 3bathroom, powered by four electric motors, can generate enough electricity through solar to power appliances, 150 mile range. I don’t think I want to live in that future.
Your radio dying won't kill you.
So is my intel chip.
Humans have evolved reactions to protect their head when they fall at running speeds. For example, you instinctively throw out your arms to break the fall. It's when you are biking faster than a fast human can run that helmets become really necessary.
Before the S/X refresh which started around December 24 2020[0], they had ~16k S/X in q3 and q4 2020[1]. Retooling for the refresh was supposedly going to last only a month, but it turned into them only producing Model S cars starting in June and X orders still have no delivery date[2].

0: https://insideevs.com/news/460036/tesla-shut-down-model-s-x-...

1: https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/1LRLZK_2020_Q4_Quarterly_...

2: https://twitter.com/DirtyTesla/status/1443543167098359813
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In maintaining verbose codebases I often find that certain refactors or paths to improvement are closed off, because they just wouldn't be worth that much typing. It may make it easier to understand why something is going wrong, and that's usually the bulk of the intellectual work, but it also means the constructs around which the program was initially designed will be its constructs forever.
People panic and jam the wrong (or both) pedals.
(There are quite a few people who use two feet to drive automatics, one foot for break, other for gas..)
Using the USB-C to Lightning cable that came with their iPhone. They still ship with that.
Okay, I confess my reading is they are actually doing this either out of worry of being infected while riding (note that authorities have mandated masks outdoors on beaches etc.) or more likely for signaling, and I don't like this very much. I try to do the opposite because I'd like to have a totally free face again.
For reference: they did 139k in Q3 2020 and 184k in Q1 2021. That's pretty nice growth, but still much less than any major car company.
Well a big part of the distinction between FB and Twitter for me is the scale, scope, and competence of their surveillance and targeted influence (i.e. ads) capabilities and operations.

Would Twitter be as evil as FB if they weren’t incompetent? Maybe. But that is not the world we live in.

One area where I think we are talking past each other is referencing the consumer facing aspect vs the money making (B2B) aspect of social media. I think of these companies as ad platforms. They exist to collect data on people and their behavior, and sell tot to advertisers so they can use it to influence decisions. The whole public square thing is incidental to that. It exists only because it helps them collect data and sell ads.

To your other points Twitter is an official channel of communication for government agencies, not THE official channel. They still maintain websites and put out press kits.

Twitter should have banned the president long before they did for his repeated violations of their TOS, as they would have any normal member of the public. Same for other world leaders. Imo, leaders should be held to a higher standard of behavior wrt to the EULA and T&Cs than the average Joe.
If you're interested in FFI, then yeah CFFI is the standard. The other comments addressed speed, I also wanted to point out https://github.com/rpav/cl-autowrap which is built on top of CFFI and can help get a wrapper up and running faster. After using autowrap's c-include you can then use CFFI basically like normal or some useful autowrap/plus-c's helper functions -- e.g. in one project, I have an SDL_Event (https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Event) and to access event.key.keysym.scancode I have a helper function that's just (plus-c:c-ref event sdl2-ffi:sdl-event :key :keysym :scancode). Last year I wanted to try out using FMOD, and even though it's closed source and has a (to me) "interesting" API things worked easily: https://gist.github.com/Jach/dc2ec7b9402d0ec5836a935384cacdc... More work would be needed to make a nice wrapper, type things more fully, etc. but depending on the C library you might find someone's already done that (or made a start) and made it available from quicklisp.
Yes, and as long as enough investors believe in that thesis, it'll stay where its at.

What's Uber's stock price and valuation after burning $30 billion dollars and still not turning a profit? (Uber picked in particular because I'm familiar with their financials)
-How effective executives direct their own-& their organizations’–attention
I always though the approach of using SDR radios to provide entropy is interesting and relatively unknown:

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-as-a-hardware-random-number-...

Disclaimer: I participated in the development of this.
Scientists are roughly half as likely as the general public to believe in God or a higher power - https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/

Compound that effect over generations.
What happens to the lithium and other metals? I don’t know much about this stuff so I’d appreciate to know
There are three Biden appointees on the board.
OP here - I was on the Stanford campus in 2016 and 2017, frequently riding my bike there. Never once saw a mask on a bike rider. Very little car traffic on the routes bicyclists regularly use to get around. Also a frequent bike rider in my new city of Dallas. Very rarely (if ever), have I seen a cyclist (even on roads) wear a mask. Very likely masks on the Stanford campus are in response to COVID.
Not many, but that's just PHY stuff. The threat model is really the barycenter of these targeted offensive security platforms. Adding support for new protocols is generally trivial if there's an option, and a place to leverage them will tend to incentivize development when there isn't.
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It seems to work with doctors.
Not to disagree,but for different perspective

1. How long has Tesla been manufacturing vs Rivian

2. How does Tesla compare to Toyota

I feel it's all apples and oranges both ways. They're all in different manufacturing maturity place
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Yes, and those engineers have their standards because of liability. The article meanders somewhere in the vicinity of that point. I lost track because I was paying too much attention to not stepping on his lawn.
iPhones ship with a USB-C to Lightning cable.

Plug that into the MacBook charger and you’re good. No problem here, is it not working for you?
IEEE 754 had them for longer?
Cataloging format is to style as database modeling is to... well, style. It's got nothing to do with aesthetics, it's about describing the data in a way that makes it useful later.
Thanks for the correction, I should have used capital instead of reserves there.
Average price per vehicle is much higher than other brands. In terms of revenue in dollars, It seems they are on track to surpass Nissan next year, no?
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Similar to getting my prescriptions from Amazon. No thanks.
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China has a somewhat ministry like building https://archive.ph/ivtGK where "news reporting about topics which are sensitive to the CCP is distorted and often used as a weapon against the party's perceived enemies" according to Wikipedia.
Which is why, almost tautologically, it doesn't matter the power expense of blocks or even individual transactions.

If a micro-coin becomes possibly promising, someone will dump 12gW into it a year until the consumption matches it's appreciation. May as well have the work be useful or artificially difficult for good or better reasons.
> They ignored calls for their CEO to appear before parliament in the UK and Canada. Ignored.

They're playing hardball. They know the only way these other countries can do anything, even with legislation that FB would ignore, is by either blocking the website (which would encourage the silent majority to suddenly speak up and would hurt the decision maker's chances of re-election) or sanctioning the US, which nobody is going to do.
That does not look like an eye due to darkness. Waves would be a bit calmer too as the wind would die.
Because they can't use customer funds for these collateral requirements.

Note though that the collateral requirements only apply to firm-wide net buys. So if you're buying $100 of GME and another person on the platform is selling $100 of GME and those are the only two trades for GME that day, those trades would net out reducing the collateral requirement.

So on a day where there's a substantial net buy, money is basically being put up in twice, both by the customers and the broker.
Any money I've saved has been more than cancelled out by inflation (particularly food prices). So now, going back to the office would be unaffordable.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: How close is nuclear fusion power?
Walking around town enjoying the nice autumn colors.

Not every tree makes a good composition for a photo but they're all great to just admire with their golden leaves rustling in the sunlight and gently falling to the ground.
so much previous discussion when this was fresher:

1 year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101883

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
What can be done by the government? Or by individuals taking responsibility for their families?
I once would say Apple will never re-enter advertising. I still don’t think they will, but their continued push to make a car makes me think that they have lost focus as a company. Instead I will say why they shouldn’t from a business perspective:

1. Apple is a premium brand. Ads aren’t premium. By beginning advertising as a service they destroy a key differentiator, erode trust, and ultimately open the door to a competitor.

2. Advertising as a Service at scale would require a whole new division of Apple with significant investment and resources. This takes away from other work. Other work would have to consider how advertising will fit into the product. There is an opportunity cost here.

3. As a company, Apple doesn’t have the stomach to be in the ad business. To make money on ads they would have to give creative freedom to advertisers to design their own ads and Apple will hate this. Advertisers will design ugly ads or write click bait headlines and they will constantly have to police this. Facebook tried to do this with their no text in photos rule and eventually just gave up. It is a never ending battle.
Many people here mentioned the dependency hell in Node. Why dont the core Node developers work on improving their standard library?
Can you point to anyone like him in the recorded history of the last thousand years? There may well be some whose lives were unrecorded or of whom the records were lost.
10K global variables sounds insane, until i realize "oh, huh, we have that too, we just call it _config_".

Almost every place we would have a constant (tuning parameters, etc) we instead have a configurable value with the likely default declared in code, but all overridable in config. Managing config can be a hassle, but the number of times we've merely had to tweak a value rather than roll a new build pays for itself every day.

We have thousands of such "global variables"... of course they are read-only, so aren't used to share state.

If Toyota is doing that: nbd. If they are using them to share state ... god have mercy on their souls.
Tesla sales already cars, sure, but they also oversell a future that at the moment cannot deliver (Semi, Cybertruck, Roadster, robotaxis). The whole point of jumping early in an IPO is to sell this future promise.

Neither Tesla, nor Rivian are doing something wrong if people believe their narrative and invest in such a future.
Coinbase CEO here. Thx for mentioning it, we’ll get that fixed.

This is an early release from us and I would expect there to be a few quirks. Please keep sharing any feedback.
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In fairness, this isn't just about CEOs. All supporters of remote work (including myself) aside, there is no shortage of people who really would like to get back to pre-pandemic office work which isn't going to happen if most of their co-workers meander into the office one day a week, if that.
Oh, yes, there absolutely is trainablity, you just need to do the training as it's against 'natural' orientation instincts.

Totally agree on the survivability. While most ppl just immediately think 'it's a nuke/meteorite, you're just fried', even a quick look will show that the lower effects zone is at least 10x the area of the 'you're fried' zone.

So yes, just instantly closing your eyes & looking away, stepping away from the window, behind a tree or lamppost, etc. can do a lot in the first 5 seconds, then using the next 10sec that get behind something to be on the leeward side of the shockwave, and you'll be way ahead of the situation. Probably best measure is to avoid important cities.
I wrote a book about a pandemic hitting Alaska. The reality is worse
It's far far worse. Tesla is probably the only company in the world that produces\designs its own batteries, motors and electronics.

Most "competitors" are just buying batteries\electronics from a vendor and shoving it in.

Tesla partnered with Panasonic and created their own custom modules(2170), now they plan to do everything with the newly announced 4680(from raw materials to products).

They are truly unmatched.
Mall seems to be a natural end state to which many institutions tend, given enough time: Airports, universities, hospitals, ...
I suspect the claim is along the lines of stories like this https://news.usni.org/2021/09/22/navy-plans-to-cut-1000-civi..., where the U.S. Navy is working to fire 1,000 civilians due to budgetary pressure.

Even government agencies (even the military!) can't spend inordinately, they have to fit within a topline like private companies have to.

There are differences of course but there's a lot of similarity as well.
HackTheBox is a good resource to improve your pentesting skills
If the argument is that tokens in general have a use-case, then I agree with you, they do. My concern is specifically with NFTs (not the general concept, the specific example that springs to mind when most people say the word). I have problems with:

A) the technology

B) the average consumer's understanding of the technology

I think we need art-tokens to be on a blockchain, and in a lot of ways the blockchain might even make this kind of stuff even harder. It's often desirable when working with non-fungible tokens to be able to easily update their metadata, block them, or link them together. NFTs are slowly making movement in this direction, but they're moving very slowly, and it's not clear how the blockchain is helping with any of those features.

I also think it's worth asking why this scene exploded specifically with NFTs even though the systems to make it work existed long before NFTs were on the scene. Frankly, I don't believe you that the average NFT investor understands that the ledger is just a ledger. I've talked to people who are involved in casual NFT collection, and they think the technology is magic. They think that the blockchain magically makes their tokens valuable.

> but when OpenSea kicked off a Cryptopunk Clone project no one lost their tokens, they continued to be traded elsewhere, and the community still chose to value their possessions, even if it maybe inhibited their growth.

It's not really the blockchain that makes this happen though; federated systems can split from each other and route around each other just as easily. If a federated ledger tries to remove tokens, communities can still choose to recognize those tokens and either fork the ledger or run in parallel alongside it.

What you're seeing with OpenSea and clone projects is the social side of this, not the blockchain part.
That was one example that came to mind.

Clearly (?) the shortcut can be only a character or two and the text it expands to can be as long as you like.
These numbers do not include Giga Texas or Giga Berlin, both of which are nearing completion. Each of these factories are estimated to ramp to 500k vehicles/year in the first phase (going far higher in the years to follow). Giga Texas alone has around 8 million square feet of factory space, whereas GM has around 33.9 million square feet factory space, dedicated purely to ICE vehicle production, in its 10 US factories.

I expect that around 900k Teslas will be produced and sold in 2021. The new factories easily bring that up to something around 1.8m-2m in 2022.

At present, Toyota produces something on the order of 10m gasoline vehicles per year, and roughly zero EVs.
I thought mutual security insurance was the libertarian thing
What do you think about Ada Spark?
Why is it relevant that some were DACA eligible? They’re still illegal immigrants, and it doesn’t impact the reality that granting them deferred action changes the future electoral power for each party significantly due to birthright citizenship. DACA wasn’t even a proper piece of legislation, but an executive order, which makes it even more one-sided.
Korean perspective: This is totally normal. It's just "hey, help us out here, since you are reaping the rewards". But we can't sue our customers or they will go over to LG for their ISP, who will gladly have them.
Stock prices are not always rational. I'm not sure why. But one of the contributing factor could be things like ETFs where stocks were bought to track a particular sector or index regardless of their financials. (I'm just guessing, I don't have a financial background)
You're missing the point. Citation formats are not a matter of style here. It's about making research results easier to find, which directly affects the quality of new research.
Liability implies lawyers.

Contracts also imply lawyers.

What if we put the liability requirements into the contract, and see how it goes?

Might we discover that legal language is just another programming language as fraught with peril as the software?

Don't take my word for it: make that legalese happen.
> That obviously allows them to out-compete other auto manufacturers who are more aware of things like product liability

A lot of this era comes down to this. You have a legacy industry with tons of regulations, then a new guy comes up, steps on all the lines, and convinces people they're smarter for doing more for less. (up until regulations come back in the equation).
Fair point about statistical analysis. My comment was more that the tools and data to provide that visibility are starting to trickle down to smaller companies, sort of like how GA did it for web analytics. For better or worse.

Disagree on traditional vs digital though. It is totally circumstantial which performs better.
The article starts out with, "it is very hard to find sources of good randomness". Then it goes on to show that fantastically good sources of randomness are everywhere, on every phone, on every laptop. Even where there is no camera, there is often a radio receiver, or a microphone, and the low bits of the A/D converter from those are just as good.

It goes on to belabor the issue of runs of zeroes from oversaturated pixels. Stirring the whole frame into your entropy pool, all the non-random bits simply fail to add any entropy; they are otherwise harmless, no-op bits. But every frame has more than enough entropy, so the only way it matters is that stirring in a string of zeroes consumes power without adding entropy. If it takes as much energy to filter out the zeroes as to stir them in, you have achieved nothing by filtering them.
I hope I get to see a comet with the naked eye before Halley’s next visit. I’ll be pretty old by then.
If this is true, stay away from anything Tesla does. I work in the industry. 2 examples: 1) you have to change a transistor with one from a different supplier, same characteristics. You need to do some HW engineering tests. If the transistor is part of a safety relevant function, you need to do also system, SW and safety tests. And then environmental and EMC tests. Of course you can tailor but you need a very good justification. 2) You change the microcontroller. You need new SW, new tools (emulators - takes some time to be delivered), new sourcing, new HW design etc. It is from development perspective a new product so you need testing (HW, SW, System, Safety) and design validation (environmental tests, EMC) , maybe more than one loop.And when everything is passed and sourcing is done (i.e. you can buy the component) you can start production.