skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numbers:

- Q2 EPS $2.27 vs EST of $1.83

- Q2 Rev $16.9B, EST $16.9B

- Free Cash flow of $621M but remember, $936M came from their sale of BTC, so business was negative

- Q2 auto gross margins was around 28%, which was right around the estimate, so people are accepting the increased prices

- total gross margin was about 25%

- car deliveries down but was expected, but manufacturing hit an all time high( DELIVERED ABOUT 255,00 VS 310,000 IN Q1)

- annual growth was still 50% in vehicle deliveries, so probably not much to worry about

- shares down 30ish% off their peak so they've fallen more than the market in general, but this is probably overlookable given the run they've had

- converted 75% of BTC to cash

- still have some btc impairment, remember you have to mark down btc on your balance sheet but you can't mark it up

- 1,000 cars a week made in Berlin for atleast a couple of weeks

- deployed 106MW of solar, very good, second in the US, i was wrong in this, this is a legit business

Thoughts:

- trade sanctions could delay further solar growth

- new 4680 cells aren't ready so they are making due with their older 2170 cells in their cars due to Texas factory being behind

- something to watch for is a succession plan as Elon is increasing seeming bored with Tesla

- Company is warning that the Austin and Berlin factories will continue to be "gigantic money furnaces", Elon's words, not mine, though it is great to see they are diversified by region and country now

- stock popped initially but is now mostly flat after hours, so institutional money didn't get surprised, we'll have to wait till tomorrow to see what retail things.

- with almost no move on stock price looks like the options had it priced right by predicting an implied move of less than 4%

- watch for them to announce they are partnering with someone to manufacture chips

- listen for news on the vaporware Truck, probably waiting on Austin to get its act together wrt battery production first.

- listen for talk of twitter, specifically if they talk about how many shares of Telsa Musk has locked up

- listen for them talking about liability for self driving and ongoing lawsuits, note about that they recognize half the self driving revenue up front and defer the second half until they deliver on milestone

- 2 numbers that impress me:

Cash and cash $18.9B

Customer deposits $1.1B
I reject this notion. The civil war happened because the North didn't accept the peaceful right to secession. I do not think there would have been a war at all had the nation simply allowed the south to secede.
These panel surveys are reasonably good. The better pollsters (like Ipsos MORI) spend a decent amount of effort recruiting a broad sample of people for their panels, and results are statistically adjusted for non-response bias etc. That said, the usual problem with political polling (that you can only poll people willing to answer pollsters' questions) applies extra here, as all respondents have agreed to be part of a panel and be repeatedly surveyed. As most panels are done through the Internet, it's at least possible that the participants are more terminally online than the average American.

That said, I don't think the results are crazy, on their face (though I don't myself expect a civil war). There are a number of groups openly proposing political violence, increased partisan polarisation, and a breakdown in the normal political processes (Congress has been essentially non-functional for a while, the Supreme Court have taken a decidedly activist turn, state legislatures are actively discussing subverting the next Presidential election, and trust in politicians of all parties is at historical lows). It's not clear how these will be resolved, and a further increase in political violence is certainly a possibility. Will that amount to civil war? Not close, in my view, but we live in unusual political times.
This is an inappropriate analogy. Chess at the highest levels is not drawish because the game is inherently drawish but because the meta of it is.

The easiest way to illustrate this is with openings, though it applies throughout the game in different ways. Against e4 the Najdorf defense was once the opening of champions, being a major part of the repertoire of players like Kasparov and Fischer. In modern times it's an increasingly rare guest at the highest level. It's not because it's considered unsound or even slightly dubious - it's a rock solid opening that gives black real winning chances. But the problem is it also gives him real losing chances. It's complex, difficult to play, and if you get outprepared by your opponent you may lose without him even having to make a single move himself, which is really one of the worst feelings in the world.

So instead the meta has largely shifted to openings that are more about minimizing risk where black, more or less, aims for a draw - and usually gets it. Changing the risk:reward ratios in a sufficiently extreme way is most certainly capable of changing the meta.
My car's song of choice is About a Girl (Live Acoustic) from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York live album
But author wants to surround themselves with smart people per another of their postings, obviously this can't be done in low cost of living areas...
Mentioned before here a couple of times, Tangle is one writer's attempt at finding a way through the bias of left/right in the mainstream press:

https://www.readtangle.com/
I have watched many of their videos and are great content for techies.
For a publication named "Science"... this seems to be a pretty slanted article. It makes no distinction between types of violence, instead lumping them together.

"Firearm deaths in the United States grew by nearly 43% between 2010 and 2020,[...]" conveniently omits the distinction between homicide, suicide, and accidental deaths. It also ignores any type of comparison between criminal gangs having a turf battle, mentally ill people shooting up schools, and Nazi/Antifa type disputes. It conveniently lumps all into a single "guns are bad" bag.

Their assertions about conspiracy theories all conveniently target conservatives as well as ignoring the possibility of any truth in those perspectives. With a reproductive replacement number below 2.1, the US population is shrinking. Adding more than 1M who crossed the US southern border this year already and were processed, with an additional number nearly half that size who avoided he border patrol completely, most who have historically supported a single party... what would informed people think?
Why this is so remains contested; Marshall argued that even with their own lives at risk, the resistance of the average individual “...toward killing a fellow man" was such that "he will not...take life if it is possible to turn away from that responsibility and at the vital point, he becomes a conscientious objector".[2] Others argue so-called 'low fire' is a function of training and discipline, and is a positive attribute.[3] These debates continue since understanding is crucial to overcoming them through training, as well as dealing with actual or potential combat-stress disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall
The downtown Seattle transit tunnel is an unusual beast; it was built from the start as a hybrid bus and rail system, though the city did not yet have any plan to build a train network. The builders designed the tunnel and its stations for train service and laid tracks anyway, expecting they would eventually be needed.

So... where BRT is a proposal to save money on transit by building cheaper infrastructure - a promise it can always keep, since bus service can be degraded as far as necessary to fit a budget - the DSTT project instead used the promise of future rail service as a motivation to spend more money on transit, building better infrastructure than they actually needed at the time.
Sorry, I wasn’t as clear as I meant to be. I was specifically thinking about things like Rust lifetimes being a compiler warning level instead of an absolute.
The IPv6 update really helped me at work, thank you!!
Eelco Dolstra's original PhD Thesis that started it all is worth a read:

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

https://philandstuff.github.io/pf-deployment/#/
> As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet.

Like I said before, a year ago, they are not looking to HODL their bitcoin. They are here to make money out of the hype in the form of a pump and dump and psychological manipulation. Q2 suggests they sold at around $45K to $31K. [0]

As predicted and expected, these Bitcoin maximalists and crypto bros got played like a piano.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177780
Discord? I dread "subscribe to my discord". The average discord seems to have 780 rooms but only 3 people logged in, they are kinda like zombies except that the word "brains" has 5 letters too many for them to handle.
Low taxes incentivizes a retiree to stay in possible a more spacious home than they need instead of selling to a young family. If you are a retired couple or a single without any large adult children living with you, you're better off with less to maintain.
For some people, sure! There are dozens of other metrics that can be used to evaluate a remote work environment, and for a lot of people "my salary matches my coworkers" doesn't matter as long as it's a good wage relative to what they'd be able to get working in an office locally.
In the “capitalism is when no iPhone” catáfora we seem to also have: high employment and labor shortage is when “nobody wants to work”
It’s never because compensation is to low, it’s always because these damn workers want to be paid too much!
Yeah I tried it with a pile of transit cards accumulated over the years from various places (Oyster, Octopus, Pasmo, Suica, Opal, Icoca, SmartLink, probably some others) and it was able to identify the Japanese cards but not do much more with the firmware I had.
Some European cities, especially in the Netherlands, found a solution, and I think it works quite well.
ya, that's right, good point. For complete GHGP inventory reporting, customers need to estimate employee commuting separately (and we're happy to help with that; it's usually a pretty straightforward calculation, though gathering the employee info takes some doing).

Setting the GHGP aside, my own personal opinion about how we interpret GHGP data is that it's important to make a clear distinction between upstream emissions and downstream emissions. For example, 'use of sold products' (Category 11) is also not something you can determine from spend data. But I'd argue that 'use of sold products' is a very different thing than upstream emissions (even though they're all lumped under Scope 3).

Commuting is a less clear-cut case, but I think of commuting (that is paid for by employees) as more of a downstream emissions category.

We wrote up some notes on this here: https://bend.green/faq/downstream-emissions
The biggest barrier to entry for first time home buyers is by far mortgage rates.

Low mortgage rates cause house values to go up because value is based on what an affordable monthly payment for that house.

Low rates means value goes up to equalize payments which is mostly superfluous for people with only one home and good for anyone with investment property but it causes a 20% down payment to be an unsurmountable barrier to entry for those looking to enter the market.

Home ownership is one if not the best way for families to generationally escape poverty.
Recent thread with 100+ comments, "Where have all the forums gone?", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923377
I'm not sure what you're saying, yes Illinois property taxes are high but that's mainly because of the collar counties around cook (https://www.civicfed.org/civic-federation/blog/2017-effectiv...). It's hilarious that you think that high taxes has done anything good for Illinois. the state is bankrupt and in absolute shambles financially. The taxes are high on everything to try to dig out of the hole (which will never happen), effective sales tax in the Chicago area is now over 10%!! All of this nets reduced buying power so yeah, housing will probably be slightly cheaper on average but at the cost of standard of living all around. Your argument is absolutely clueless to the reality on the ground. High property taxes just look good on a spreadsheet.
Further on this... Free states refused to honor slaves states' "property rights." If a slave were to make it to a free state, they could get away and the authorities wouldn't do anything about it. If someone owned (I hate this language) a slave and traveled through a free state they could potentially lose "their property" with no recourse.

I don't know which states have actual fighting forces that makes a civil war like situation possible, there is the whole mob mentality thing where maybe a group of really angry citizens would start to take actions on their own. Something else to consider is that the bluest of states still have a fairly large red contingent (north of 30%) and the same is true for the reddest states. I think that dilutes the mob. There might be places like rural Montana and Idaho where things could light up but I couldn't see Texas taking up arms against New Mexico. I think there would be a lot of obvious build ups.

The abortion laws create a lot of interesting inter-state problems. If we were willing to have a shooting war because of "property," it doesn't seem far fetched that there could be one if one state supports the "murdering" of "killing" of lives from another state that tries to protect them.
Q was a deep state run operation, everything they did was to misdirect public opinion about election fraud. They would plant stories about voting machines being hacked, and other such nonsense. They basically disappeared after the election was settled. I don't see how you think they helped the populist movement.
No criticism intended. I didn't expect it either.

However, anyone following the story probably did expect it. Russia has been in Ukraine since 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War

It's not just Ukraine. In 2008 they entered Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)#Russo-Georgi...
Wow. Thanks for enlightening me. I hope this happens, I don't care for the use of superdelegates to the benefit of the party over the people's will.
Wow unreal… I used your guide years ago for my first project when I was learning C. It was an IRC bot.

Thank you!
> This is false, revisionist history. During the war maintenance was deferred and many operators either went bankrupt or dramatically reduced operations. By the time the war ended the tracks and rolling stock were all in need of replacement.

Just to be clear, when you are stating that "This" is "revisionist history," I believe you aren't actually referring to the contents of the article itself, but rather the conspiracy theory mentioned in the article.

Note that there are two conspiracies mentioned in the article. The first is a conspiracy that did in fact occur: conspiracy to create a monopoly. The second is the theory that this was part of an intentional plan to dismantle public transit (which is effectively refuted on the wikipedia article).
You're basically right. I'm not 100% sold on this idea, but I think it's a possibility. Most of what I'm seeing right now is CUE facing outward, e.g., to generate typed things from within nix. This[1] is a good example of that. Given how flexible CUE is, and given how similar nix is to HCL, I think it's possible to have CUE emit nix and provide some basic typing that way.

[1] https://github.com/jmgilman/nix-cue
> No one demands children invent new languages to prove they aren't just "randomizing samplers"

I sure as hell do. No son of mine will be comprehensible to other humans until he's at least two years old.
> At most companies I've worked for, mentoring and training junior engineers is a requirement for promotion.

You've worked for some great orgs, then! My experience is mostly the opposite. One company I worked for did value mentorship, at least somewhat, and it was a factor in promotion decisions, but not mentoring others didn't really stop people from getting promoted.
I didn't make a partisan distinction, only described the thought process for how someone justifies the use of political violence instead of the legal and democratic process.
Reliance on the federal government, by state: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
This is a serious topic of discussion in our family. I personally think that the USA will collapse within the next 10 years. Specifically, I worry that the rumblings that the Independent Legislator Theory will be used to hand the next election to the right are true and that it's a viable strategy. And that this will lead to an Brexit-type situation where states vote to leave and the Federal government is happy to let (some of) them in order to solidify one-party control of the country.
Honestly I keep hearing about how we need to fix trust in the media and what not. But I am wondering if society will end up adapting.

Here's what I mean. We believe that it is ideal that the media gives us clear accurate unbiased information and that is what should be happening, but what if there is an alternative that we accept that all the media is biased as hell and we adjust and filter oir credulity to match. I know that if I go to outlet #1 I'll get one story and if I go to outlet #2 I'll get a different story and knowing that I don't trust either of them completely but instead bank on being able to understand between them.

Now I know some people will object that something like that isn't happening in today's world and that people are being driven to extremism but it might take a little time.

What seems much scarier to me is we try and force "neutral" "fact checked" information to be the only kind and that anyone outside of that is a "threat to democracy" because for me that seems far far more worrisome.
Sanctioning Russia was a huge gamble in that it will likely lead to a heavily decreased reliance on USD globally as well as create competitors to swift which the us uses to enforce its hegemony.
It's why I have NO music on iTunes.

Did you hear that, Apple? I will never give you money for music, ever ever, as long as connecting to a car == play iTunes.
> Nokolisp had no strings, but I invented new practise: a flat list of numbers with first number as 34, is prettyprinted as string in the editor. Then you can edit the numberlist normally and the editor shows range(32,256) as chracters alongsside.

Interesting solution! I wasn't sure if you were joking, but I see this syntax/convention is actually used.

(print-nice (34 100 101 102 113 40 39))

Is there a way to escape the first number if there's a need to create a list with a literal 34?
> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked...

From the company's perspective that's certainly true.

As a regular person I'm more worried about the companies whose unit economics work too well. Companies like Amazon have so much momentum that it seems like they could go on indefinitely, instead of eventually failing and making room for new entrants.

Companies whose unit economics don't work transfer wealth from investors to customers, then get out of the way. Companies that work too well can become an inescapable force.
The logistics of actually fighting a war would deep-fry your brain and serve it drizzled with chili crisp sauce. I don't see it happening.

"Civil war"... oh please. The people flying their private jets to the capital have ZERO reason to upset that status quo. They're just a bunch of narcissists who want attention and to dominate others. Once it gets hard they will start apologizing.

Frequent outbursts of fascist violence similar to "The Troubles"? I could see that happening.
I ended up uninstalling Apple Music because it would similarly play the same song (I forget what it was) at surprising times.

Spotify doesn't give me the same problem.
The streetcars were not around for those other wars though, and the war effort was not nearly as total. The US went through the war unscathed, and even then most goods were highly rationed and citizens were encouraged to make do and use less.

Stopping all maintenance on any kind of complex system for four or five years will almost certainly bring it to a state of ruin.
I have no idea, I have been with nix for long enough that I hadn't sought anything like that out. I should note that flakes are still technically experimental (i.e. opt-in), and theres still some community drama around not wanting to go with flakes mainly by longtime nix users.

Also note that the "modernized" `nix` CLI interface is experimental/opt-in as well vs the out-of-the-box "legacy" commands (e.g. nix-env). So yeah, its a bit of an odd time in nix land as they transition but I don't see any indication that you would be poorly served or burned by moving to both nix command and flakes now.
Had the same exact thought. Thank you!
Most likely by Microsoft looking at their recent agreements.
I dread the day...
An easement is a form of a property contract, not a law. It is enforceable in court by parties to the easement.

Maybe look into the lot lines and confirm if they extend through the 'road'. Then go to county clerk and recorder and find what easements were filed there. Lots of misunderstanding about this, even in local government.

Have those laws been tested? Published appellate cases specific to the law may be very interesting. An encumberance or taking requires compensation.
Also, be careful to not use motor vehicle laws and words like 'drive', as you can do what you want on private property. My child was practicing use of movement via a personal conveyance when 11 years old, in what looks like a car on what looks like a road.
While true, renting is a roach motel no matter what property taxes are.
> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked, and even if you raise literally tens of billions of dollars you will eventually run out of money.

Hum... VCs exist exactly because this is not a general truth.

It's true for Uber, but there are many sectors where unit economics change with scale.
What do you mean by 'permanent money'?
The distinction between light rail and streetcars gets confusing - is the San Diego Trolley a "street car" when it runs down the street? Or because cars aren't supposed to drive in its "lane" is it still light rail?

What about when Amtrak comes rolling down the street? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFk-yeGHn-o

I've always taken them to be "single car trains that run in normal lanes" but that almost covers the electric busses of Seattle.
> Texas

> the same states that generate less federal tax revenue than they spend

False.
A civil war doesn't need to be between two regions (like in the American Civil war). I think most people (including myself) envision a "Handmaid's Tale" style coup from by an extremest group / government faction with an ensuing rebellion.

I would like to think it could never happen. But I also wouldn't have ever expected to see the halls of Congress violently trespassed by a bunch of rednecks with confederate flags.

Just imagine if the Jan 6 insurrectionists we're organized and not completely inept at accomplishing their goal.
I had to laugh so hard at this as I’m literally sitting in my Tesla listening to Songs of Innocence that autoplayed on my iPhone without my explicit consent for exactly the reason you mention. I swear I have Stockholm Syndrome because the album that Apple forced my to download is slowly growing on me.
Slap skateboard forum still going strong.

https://www.slapmagazine.com/