skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there all kinds of ways to move demand around from when it would naturally peak based on peoples' preferences.

This particular one is only mildly effective; precooling can lower later demand somewhat.

My house is very well insulated, but I still cannot coast from 5:30pm to 9:30pm (when windows are sufficient for comfort and demand really starts to slope off) without an excessive amount of prechilling. My structure, insulation, and attic are all preheated by the day's heat and so there is a big warm thermal mass next to my living space.

Also, opening windows overnight increases indoor humidity, which in turn requires more air conditioning the next day.
> For example, the Nazis killed 11M over 12 years and the German population was about 70M in 1939. Thus, their deadliness is 11/(70x12) ~ 1/70

I don't have real numbers, but I'd guess at least 95% of the people the Nazis killed were foreigners. So that math makes little sense.
Public education is a net good but the implementation model of that education is what’s such a problem right now. There’s a reason so many more kids are home schooled now than ever before and it’s a complete lack of confidence in public schools. Private school waiting lists are a mile long.
> something they are not geared to do

Why? They are vertically integrating the manufacturing including batteries exactly because they are going higher volume lower price.

> Tesla is not apple, they’re not good at making and maintaining products at low cost in massive volume

They have been doing a great job scaling and driving margin for the last couple years and that trend looks to continue, not stopping.

Model Y will likely be the most sold car in the world within 2 years and it will have industry leading margins. Next generation manufacturing in Texan and Berlin will significantly improve margin over current generation.

> and they don’t really seem to be getting better at it

This is just flat out false.
I don't think pay is the issue. Teachers are already reasonably well paid considering their benefits (e.g. summers off). I think the problem is that we have to pay and fire teachers based on seniority instead of ability.
Ah yes, anyone criticizing china is racist. Straight out of the CCP handbook.
Personally I wonder if it is even possible to meet all the demands being placed on governments. The country is composed of such different groups pulling in opposite directions... something could snap at some point.

The US's own intelligence apparatus is pessimistic about the ability of the government to adapt to these changes in the next 20 years. Check out the IC's Global Trends 2040 report[1] to see what I'm talking about: a particularly salient quote is as follows:

"At the state level, the relationships between societies and their governments in every region are likely to face persistent strains and tensions because of a growing mismatch between what publics need and expect and what governments can and will deliver. Populations in every region are increasingly equipped with the tools, capacity, and incentive to agitate for their preferred social and political goals and to place more demands on their governments to find solutions. At the same time that populations are increasingly empowered and demanding more, governments are coming under greater pressure from new challenges and more limited resources. This widening gap portends more political volatility, erosion of democracy, and expanding roles for alternative providers of governance. Over time, these dynamics might open the door to more
significant shifts in how people govern."

I think the key phrase here is "expanding roles for alternative providers of governance". It seems like these people expect parts of the government to wither away and for the free market to step in with solutions.

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalT...
Xkcd: Ttsltswbd
The other thread was deleted, but wanted to comment this:

Personally I wonder if it is even possible to meet all the demands being placed on governments. The country is composed of such different groups pulling in opposite directions... something could snap at some point.

The US's own intelligence apparatus is pessimistic about the ability of the government to adapt to these changes in the next 20 years. Check out the IC's Global Trends 2040 report[1] to see what I'm talking about: a particularly salient quote is as follows:

"At the state level, the relationships between societies and their governments in every region are likely to face persistent strains and tensions because of a growing mismatch between what publics need and expect and what governments can and will deliver. Populations in every region are increasingly equipped with the tools, capacity, and incentive to agitate for their preferred social and political goals and to place more demands on their governments to find solutions. At the same time that populations are increasingly empowered and demanding more, governments are coming under greater pressure from new challenges and more limited resources. This widening gap portends more political volatility, erosion of democracy, and expanding roles for alternative providers of governance. Over time, these dynamics might open the door to more
significant shifts in how people govern."

I think the key phrase here is "expanding roles for alternative providers of governance". It seems like these people expect parts of the government to wither away and for the free market to step in with solutions.

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalT...
By hand a skilled practitioner of t-boc chemistry can couple one amino acid per hour, though t-boc (boc) is disfavored since workup involves using 100% HF. Fmoc is the more popular technique and it's more like two hours.

Robots can do this too, there's no real time benefit (but a robot can do more than 10 peptide couplings a day and doesn't need a lunch break -- though I guess neither does a grad student).

Chief problems include: you need super concentrated protected peptides, which are highly insoluble in just about any solvent, so your system needs to have tons of filters, plus stuff gunks up your apparatus over time anyways. Then, fmoc craps out at about 20 amino acids if you're lucky, due to exponential decay of yields (99%^20, not to mention later yields can be lower due to peptide chains curling on themselves), boc can go longer. Not to mention separating what you want away from side products gets difficult.

Finally the wastefulness: boc chemistry you're throwing away atoms almost 1:1 with what you're putting in to the peptide. Fmoc is typically 3:1. The solvents you use are these nasty greasy fishy smelling solvents (dmf, nmp). And the activating agents are really expensive compounds that you will slowly become allergic to if you keep working with peptides.

I personally have, though unpublished work, the first total (artificial) synthesis of ubiquitin, that I did as a grad student in my first year. Although it's 76 amino acids we synthesized it in two parts and stitched them together using a technique called "native chemical ligation", though we did something special called "folding-assisted native chemical ligation".
Love the domain. Any plans to import from coinbase? Also add some screenshots or demo account so people can see how it looks like.
> But pensions and banks should not [invest in china], and should not be investing in funds that do.

It could be argued that pensions should not be investing in risky bonds (or assets), but this idea shouldn't have anything to do with china specifically. Institutions that can't absorb these risks should not take them.

Just because it's china related, doesn't mean that the gov't should have a specific policy to prevent it from happening (but allow these institutions to invest in other, equally risky assets). To allow such policy to be set is to turn investment into political weapon. I do not want to see that.
I am excited by e-bikes and love riding them, but I'm not nearly as bullish. If you're single living in a bike-friendly city, sure. But I and many others have moved out of cities and often have to transport more than just our own bodies around. Roughly 80% of my rides include my dog (I take him to the park, to day care, to family outings, etc.), and I also appreciate the car as a second informal storage space - climbing shoes, first aid kit, and the like.

Basically, ebikes are great when you don't need much anything else besides your self.
It's completely fair to raise the price due to supply and demand, just as its fair to lower it. I don't think you are objecting to that, in either direction. But your complaint that it should just be called the price is a bit puzzling. Honestly, what do you (anyone) care what it's called? It's not a random addon, it's a carefully calculated (and continually tested) clearing price.

Normal market car pricing: "This car costs $26k. Oh also, we are giving $2k off because man we have so many of these. And so does the dealer in the next county over. Please buy from us. Today."

This is normal because discounts motivate buying behaviors, not because car manufacturers are laughably bad at setting MSRP. But also, it's critical for prices to be flexible regionally, and faster than the manufacturer can declare what the fair price should be.

Saturn famously tried non negotiable national sticker pricing. Just like Sears tried having no sales whatsoever. Both had to revert to standard pricing behavior.

My point? In a normal market, the sticker price is not the price.
Completely agree. I think they have been slowly making moves into this space over the last 4-5 years (probably longer, but slowly gaining momentum in that time).

I think my read on the new custom domain support is the same as yours. It's clearly a limited beta without the label.

They are moving at a snails pace, but a lot of the pieces are there.

Numbers is just garbage, though. If they want to seriously play in the docs space, they need to fix it. They also need a simple database solution. They've got Claris, and could bring that to the table if they wanted.

Apple also has a serious reputation problem when it comes to reliability in this space. Personally, as excited as I am about all this, I'm hesitant based on their track record.
> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say.

you know how when you navigate google drive on the web you have to double-click. like, what, a website, where you double click links to navigate? the internal study that justified that was 12 people; 6 of whom either immediately tried to double click (2 IIRC) or eventually tried to double click (4 IIRC). so, 50% didn't shit a brick when they were presented with a broken website interaction, so it was greenlit.

source: I was at google when this happened and I argued with the pm's when this happened.
> Just look at Musk

Not a good example. You make it sound like he was being persecuted back in South Africa, which is not true.

Musk was from a wealthy family. And he actually went to Canada first.

(Don't get me wrong — I think it's a good thing for the world that Musk ended up in America).

A better example to make your point would have been Andrew Grove. He had a horrible early life in eastern Europe during the Nazi WW2 era before he made his way to America.

And he was one of first employees at Intel, and eventually became CEO. See how that literally ties in with going to "Silicon" valley? :)
This very brief article is about the civil settlement. You are clearly unaware that there are pending criminal charges against nine public officials involved in the matter, including former Gov. Rick Snyder.
As a host, Airbnb is a nightmare to deal with.

It feels like their customer service was offshored to the cheapest contractor many years ago.
But some level of work ethic is certainly important. You don't need to work 80 hour weeks but you need to actually get your work done within a ballpark of when you said you'd get it done.
Tesla under Musk has done an insanely good job at scaling, growing as fast as any manufacturing company ever has. They have made the right investment in driver assistance, batteries and advanced manufacturing.

They have a huge backlog on every vehicle and they have huge new factories including integrated comming online very soon.

They have further invested vertically integrating not just batteries but cathode and anode manufacturing as well.

What exactly is Musk doing wrong in terms of scaling and logistics?
I understand the incentives, however, I think the biggest consequence of this is that it will give a false sense of support on conspiratorial videos and other forms of misinformation.

Some people think that the more likes a video has, the more the community agrees with it's message, and therefore the more truth the video contains. The classic appeal to the majority fallacy.

This is only going to strengthen those communities and empower them further.
How much equity is one expected to be giving up in these early rounds (angel, pre-seed, seed)? I was speaking to someone yesterday and they had mentioned 20% per round is a rule of thumb. This in Asia so not sure if the rule of thumb is correct and or whether it's different in other geos.
Oh! the maximum expression of irony comes by seen how many dislikes that shit is getting...
I posted a similar comment elsewhere. No tracking. No smarts to speak of - I do like Bluetooth, but I put a basic aftermarket Bluetooth unit in my 20-year-old car back when it was only 10 years old, and I'm still using the same one. Tactile volume knob. Physical controls for heating and cooling. I do have to take the key out of my pocket to push the remote entry button and put it in the ignition to start it (though if I really wanted to, I could get an aftermarket that would make it act like a modern push-to-start). I would like heated and ventilated seats, but really - other than creature comforts like that, and modern safety features like ABS and crumple zones, I'm perfectly happy with a 1975 user interface for my car.
Retrieval practice and attempting to solve problems before you know the solution to them _does_ improve retention [1]. At least in my high school, those drills definitely exercised these two ideas. In college I copied half my homeworks from answers or exercised the option to make my grade entirely dependent on exams and I definitely retained less information than if I had done the homework.

[1]: https://www.retrievalpractice.org/make-it-stick
My son is experiencing the homework issue this year. He’s 2 years ahead in math and the class he’s in gives out massive amounts of homework. It’s exhausting. He had to pull him out of sports so he could have more time in the evening for his homework.

It’s so frustrating how worthless it all is too.
> in a bike-friendly city

also, many bike friendly paths don't allow electric bikes (sometimes not enforced and it will probably change in the future though)
it is unacceptable that goodthink content that promotes correct opinions gets ratioed and ridiculed.

the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k

kudos to our billionaire overlords, celebrities and their first world cosmopolitan yuppie congregation for looking out for us unwashed, uneducated plebeians. without their guidance, we'd be lost.
if those large group of people agreed to be shot at, for a chance to get a lot of money in return, then they made their own choice and must live with those consequences.

Unless there's some element of fraud undertaken on the part of a national gov't (like CCP), which only the US gov't could present as a counter to, there should be no intervention from the US gov't about the defaults in china and the investment losses incurred to US citizens.
>I'm imagining someone in 1990 hearing you say that being able to instantly start watching almost any music video or filmed lecture/talk ever made

Imagine going back and mentioning that this would also be a way for the company (Google) to snoop on your conversations and censor dissenting thougth.

A free way to stream any video sounds nice, but it doesn't once you mention the fact that it actually limits the type of content you are able to enjoy.

We should be trying to build a better infrastructure for FOSS video streaming instead of trying to rationalize shitty business models.
Yeah, Coinbase is in the pipeline.
We added a "Seed a sample portfolio" button that adds some transactions to a portfolio for showcasing the app. However, I think we will add more stuff to demo the app.
We had our oil changed recently and the shop forgot to put the cap back on from the fill port (Subaru). Figured that out after 15 miles and the smell of burning oil. Engine bay was covered.

It's always something!
Some car batteries may be available but I know for a fact that stock of some ran out. We could not get them from the manufacturer.

Same as ECM for cars. You think that Ford, GM or Toyota would not pay a bit extra to be able to sell cars?

Wood saw a huge price increase but also ran out.

Right now try to source tires. Distributors don't have them, you might be able to find 1 or 2 if you are lucky but you could offer double or triple and you still couldn't buy in volume. Material is not available.
> what you’re reading is essentially a diary entry

This seems like how I treat semi-public content I write not intended for an audience. Sure it’s technically available to the public, but it wasn’t intended to be consumed by the public. I’m obscure, my content is usually obscure, it being spotted and becoming more widespread is unexpected and makes me reconsider lack of caution in anything I might have said for my own purposes.
Agreed, my first thought was why don’t they remove the Like button too?
it did - some people left holding the bag lost out. The banks were playing the middleman, they weren't the ones taking the risks.

It could be said that the rating agencies were complicit, since their ratings were trusted by various parties by assumption and did not do their own due diligence.
I moved from a company that gave us fresh off the store MacBooks to one that managed them using jamf and a host of other antiviruses and compliance software, and I tell this to all of my colleagues: the experience you're having with your MacBooks - the poor performance, stuttering and random beachballs aren't representative of what MacBooks are actually like.
I don't like this one, as each voter has decisively chosen one side. In aggregate, the voters are ambivalent rather than neutral. Better had it received no votes at all.
A few years ago the feminist mantra was 'my body my choice'.

Are people free or not?
I would say regular (analog) bikes are great when you don't need much anything besides your self. The wonder of the ebike is the fact that I can transport myself, 2 kids, picnic, toys, etc on one device. Granted your pup may be too big for even a modern longtail, I can understand you don't want to leave your best friend behind!
Tesla has not yet scaled to their volume but equally those manufactures are not even remotely close to producing the same amount of EV as Tesla does.

If you look at their timeline for EV scaling, its laughable.

And sooner or later the ICE market will collapse and expose the terrible economics on their EVs.

Turns out mass manufacturing ICE engines doesn't actually magically make you good at batteries.

Tesla growth will have them overtake companies like BMW and Geely within 2 years. 1-2 years after that they will overtake Ford and friends. By then GM might have lost another million of so in sales as well.

By 2025 Tesla will be one of the bigger car makers on the market and will be 100% electric with their own batteries, while most current EV makers will not even be at 40% electric sales.

You are totally misguided on how easy it is to make batteries and EV a commodity. And you assuming that other manufactures can magically do it better then Tesla despite a huge amount of evidence that they simply can't.
It is not accurate to use $40,000 as the amount of money needed to get a car. A good new car can be purchased for half that, not to mention the used car market.
Maybe because of the semi-bullet proof windows and tough exterior?
I'm getting 404d on the link
That info you linked dodges around a couple things, potentially more, but these two in particular are illuminating:

First: Washington Economic Consensus --And this is both parties being aligned with and giving priority to the interests of people and corporations of significant means. (more money and more command of resources)

Second, and root cause of the first: Money in politics. We allow transactions here that are called bribes in many nations, and that's just getting started. John Oliver did a segment on fundraising some while back. New Congress people brought into a grim room with desks and phones and books of people willing to fund their re-election, given just a few minor commitments

To sum up: We have a priority problem, and ordinary people just are not a priority.
Lowtax, founder of the SomethingAwful forums, has died
I know La Defense well and I don't think this is the solution.
La Defense is not dense from a housing perspective. And it was built with a car-centric mindset. The Esplanade itself is public transport friendly (thank god) but the surrounding area is a shit show. Thankfully most of the recent developments in the area are trying to reverse past decisions, but it's hard.

Also, it's obviously very subjective, but to me La Defense is an ugly concrete jungle and not a nice place to live.
Fundamentally, my core issue with la Defense is that it was centrally designed and planned with an Ivory Tower type of thinking.

Today, we recognize the design was deeply flawed. But for some reason, we think we can play the same game again and design a new place from scratch and not make awful mistakes.

I'd much rather see us grow existing cities and areas organically, making them progressively denser, rather than pursuing more of these big money-type projects that don't end up creating places people want to live in.
I think the obvious customers are IRS and FBI, who pay for data with our money.
Just store the width. You'll know the height when you're done drawing it, and it saves you two bytes.

You never get over learning to program on a system with 3.5k ram.
>Bullitt bakfiet with multiple air conditioners in the front "box"

Isn't that a festool vacuum (like a shopvac), with festool tool boxes on top?
> Telsa is not making money from vehicles yet from what I recall.

Are you a time traveler from 2015?

Tesla is having industry leading margins. They are currently at almost 30% automotive margin.
Piped + Privacy Redirect
> The Signal code was closed source for longer than a year (from April 2020)

This absolutely untrue. Signals source has NEVER been closed source. The Signal server source code(which isn't special and doesn't change that often) just had no public commits. The Signal client source code(what matters and makes Signal secure) was frequently updated.

> Signal may be open source at times,

Again, Signal has always been open source.
Sounds like you’re looking for DevOps roles. Other titles include Cloud or Systems Engineer. K8s is an uncommon thing to find on a hobbyist homelab, and experience administrating clusters implies good knowledge in other subjects too.

You don’t have to be as good at coding as a Software Engineer, but I’d say if you brushed up on a language (Python or Go) enough to be comfortable, finding those jobs shouldn’t be hard at all.
how steep is the learning curve for VHDL?
Until there are laws putting a stop to the ongoing abuse of the current identification system by commercial surveillance (ala GDPR), a stronger identification system is a non-starter.
A European company selling their product to US customers, with (as I understand it nontrivial) US regulatory certifications. They clearly have the US market in mind in addition to the European market.