skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for something like seats, yes, Ford has both its processes, and market understanding pat down (it knows just how luxurious it seats need to be for the segment it's targeting, which material or stitch features are not worth investing on, for example) and can have those seats made in the best possible way.

Rivian is making more luxurious seats, so some costs to account for that is understood, but when you four differently sized plastic pieces for each end of the seat, when one same piece could do, (which means four different supply chains instead of one) it really does show the inexperience of new manufacturers.

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But give a point for the EV side of things too, where old manufacturers are wasting material weight due to legacy frameworks etc (Munro has videos on that too)
The german store greets me in germany with 185€ and up. I'm reading/writing this with my <25 € Fielmann Glasses ...
If someone is questioning battery and power as their key issues for an EV, it’s likely they don’t own one and don’t actually get it.

The biggest issue with EV adoption will be access to home charging. If you can charge at home, battery and power is more than already solved.

And if you can’t charge at home, no amount of battery can really solve that problem.
I've never seen it as a replacement, but a supplement with it's own pros and cons
You’re trading shitty keyboards for shitty trackpads, if that matters.
I think the advice can be more general than just "make a training program", too, because the point is that you can't stick a junior next to a senior and hope knowledge will transfer by osmosis. That's lazy management. Instead, responsibilities should be clear ("Bob will spend 4 hours a week mentoring a junior") and employee strengths should be factored in ("Steve prefers not to mentor, but knows the software internals very well and will spend some time improving documentation for Bob").
> I completely fail to see how you ended up at that conclusion from that argument. A recursive function, that mutates itself is still bound by it's rules for mutation and recursiveness. Choice doesn't grow out of an exponentially growing number of possible states.

Not if you add a few random variables. Radioactive elements disintegration seems random. May other things could be as well.
> I don't see it as attractive for any for-profit investment.

Well don't forget, it applies to non-profits too. Or an individual who makes money from it.

edit: can't reply to the reply below (too nested? IDK).

> I'm not sure I'm understanding your point... could you please elaborate?

My point is the compliance laws apply to "non-profits" (the legal entity) and individuals that make a profit from OSS. Perhaps you covered that in
"for profit" but that term is often used for companies and in contrast to "non-profit"
Not by my standards. Not only does the aphorism apply to any choice, it also applies to any time period. It is simply the observation that you cannot do something and not do it at the same time. That doesn't seem particularly profound to me. But at the end of the day profundity is in the eye of the beholder so YMMV.
Did COVID suppress consumption or just redirect it? Less restaurant meals and more PS5s, and now the pendulum swings the other way as people socialize in person again.
That is just crazy (if true), I always suspected bloat at these big silicon valley companies, but that 20% is just insane.
> According to Rivian’s most recent SEC filings, the company’s third-quarter costs jumped from $83 million in 2021 to nearly $1.5 billion in 2022. That’s an absurd jump in costs, but not an unbelievable one — lithium prices have blown up like an earthbound asteroid.

Rivian delivered 920 vehicles in full year 2021 ,7,000 in Q3 of 2022, so that seems about right and unlikely much to with lithium prices.
That is still the promise and unlock of cryptographic currencies. But that does not seem to be the use case for much of the people I've seen in the space the last years. I think the fact it is crypto currencies is incidental, it is all about earning money through appreciation of some popular asset.
I just don't see where the tech growth is going to come from to keep the high multiples?
> I have two options: either throttle my whole computer by spinning up a massive image for Rust to compile in, or deal with 3+ minute compile times. My dev cycle grinded to a halt, and I felt incredibly unproductive. I tried changing my workflow to write the code and the test before manually testing, or to not use auto-hot reload, but I felt cripped. I just couldn’t do it.

Can someone explain that part to me like I'm an idiot?

I don't get it. Compiling the project is slower on a container because...?
Budibase is my next option until they implement full drag and drop functionality. Also one thing that stopped me from using budibase now is: "pagination not working on tables which use queries or relationship data". Other tools can handle something similar.

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/issues/6226

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/issues/3974
3) A
Get a Synology NAS with the DSAudio app. I stream music from my NAS wherever, super simple classic interface, and it caches songs too.
> Governments are much less efficient than private companies at spending;

This is frequently touted as an axiom, but usually 0 evidence is provided. Can you back this up in any way or form? Or is this just something you've heard as a political talking point?

Looking at the VC craze and company overspending during the Remove/Covid craze, it's completely not evident that private companies are 'better' at spending money than governments. If anything, many of them displayed poor fiscal discipline through overhiring and basing long-term strategies off of a limited-time pandemic.
That's an under appreciated point. Dealing with inefficiencies is perhaps Elon's greatest strength and why Tesla and SpaceX managed to succeed.

Andrej Karpathy (ex-Tesla head of AI) talked about this recently. "I think Elon is a very efficient warrior in the fight against entropy in organizations". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE
What the headline giveth, the fine print taketh away.

Not really positive at all, just a PR stunt to dress up a tax dodge.
Covid boom is over ???.
It's just focused practice. Something about the brain requires frequent breaks but with repeated focused practice it seems to reach almost an autopilot like ability.
Of course it’s ideological. How else does one arrive at ideas and concepts after a review of empirical evidence? The facts are the same, the conclusions we arrive at (including our ideologies) will be the intersection of the facts, our mental models, and our life experiences.

Edit: wrt to your reply, agree to disagree.
If you use the car for 100k miles, you’ll spend anywhere from 70 to 270 straight 24 hr days sitting in that seat, depending on your mix of average speeds. (60 to 15 mph for these examples)

I can’t imagine a more sure fire way to hate past you than having bad and/or unergonomic seats. But hey, we all have different priorities.
> Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine.

Even though I'm in tech in silicon valley, all the personal websites I maintain are related to non-tech hobbies.
Interesting that you left off the qualifier "many", changing the context of OP's statement.

I'll say, talking about "many" in the pool of all Internet users is pretty much meaningless (you can count "many" among any sub-population from a starting population so large), but OP is clearly implying that there are a great deal more consumers than creators out there.

Stats support this, like 97% of tweets coming from only 25% of tweeters: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-...
Unrelated really, but I think the design/spec of the Rivian trucks look great. Just cant imagine spending $100k+ on a truck.
How do you withdraw Bitcoin for something you can actually use? A fund means a sum of money. Bitcoin isn’t money in the normal sense. It never got to that point.

If everyone kept their own wallets, bitcoins value would tank to pre-2017 numbers.
I did this as soon as google music transitioned to youtube music and I saw how bad the experience is. Extremely easy to get up!
Or just use real background images and composite an AI face on top. The question which face is real so using the background is kinda "cheating" imo. So using a real photo for the background eliminates that technique to cheat.
> Where do investors see the growth?

It's a really well designed piece of hardware, with actually innovative features that have done a great job separating itself from the existing stalwarts making boring, me-too cars that happen to be electric. If they can manage to bring that innovation down to a sub-$60k offering, they'll be able to pick off sales from cars like the Mustang Mach E that nobody seems to love but is in high demand, presumably due to its low price for those looking for a cheaper way to get away from combustion without spending a fortune.

They were also new enough to the market that they were able to draw a lot of excitement from investors before everybody else started competing tho, so your point is definitely fair, and it's probably become more of a gamble than originally anticipated.
The Fediverse feeds are not uniform. You may have a "federated feed" in your Mastodon instance, but the feed you see on your instance is vastly different from another instance.

The federated feed is nothing more than a combined list of all public feeds from all the users on the instance. There is no way to get a central firehose, since there is a large number (I was going to say majority, but that's probably unlikely) of posts that never even leave the local instance.
Usually only the original producer of each component has to do the certification and apply the CE stamp. Any conglomerate doesn't need to reevaluate all the components themselves, only their interactions in the conglomerate.

So for your Python software you are fine either just providing the software alone, without an interpreter, having the customer get a Python-standard-compliant (if there were such a thing...) interpreter for themselves. Or you could provide a CE-certified Python interpreter that you got somewhere else along with your software, provided you do not change the interpreter you got and the interaction between your software and the interpreter is standard, run-of-the-mill, unsurprising normal use as intended and certified.
A New Guide to Better Writing by Rudolf Flesch, A.H. Lass. Somehow, I never learned to write well in high school.

https://archive.org/details/newguidetobetter0000fles_z5a7
I do this (for the most part). Whenever I buy currency on an exchange, I Immediately transfer it to a personal wallet. This is actually what drove me away from anything based on Ethereum, because the transfer speed and fee system for Ethereum is so horrendous, I found myself leaving that currency in the exchange managed wallets.
>Every time the order books show a significant decline below 15k, that company issues new tokens that are treated as dollars by exchanges in order to buy bitcoin.

source? Sources like these[1] don't any mention recent issuances by tether.

[1] https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter
> I'm heavily locked in

You should be able to download the music you bought from iTunes DRM free. For the movies/etc, just pirate them. You already "bought" them so morally you're in the clear. For the software/etc, walk away from it. Sunk costs.
You are talking about the wrong segment of cars, neither Rivian nor its competitor the Ford F150L are trying to capture your segment, if I understand it correctly.

but the issue is about the manufacturing process for the seats.

Rivian would have five different plastic pieces, for say, the underside of the seat, all requiring individual painting, whereas Ford has learnt that that piece could be one single textured molded piece, ready to go, so that is process engineering, and neither effect the luxuriousness of the seat, but there are still cost savings to be had.
I've read the book partially (which reminds me I need to pick it up and finish it) and it's amazing yet frightening to realize how naive I am when it comes to economics. I like his arguments about how politicians use people's naivety and ignorance to peddle policies that aren't possible if we're to believe that economics is about "scarce resources with alternative uses".

In my book, Sowell is a national treasure.
That wanting something implies that you want to want it.
Figure out [where and how] your interests intersect. What is the nexus, and how will it benefit you in the longrun? Does the nexus of your interests align with your lifetime goals? Maybe try to construct a mental model for how educating yourself across many disciplines will help you achieve your goals, then start progressing.
A lot of people older than me that accomplishes a lot more than I do have two things: They are single and never had children, and also they maintain a daily schedule of physical exercises.

To accomplish all of this with a family, I can only assume they must have an easier than most work schedule/assignments.
I've got a nice mouse already (Logitech MX Master 3). I don't use a touchpad if I can help it.
Clearly the advantages and disadvantages have both overlapping and mutually exclusive elements. For this reason It makes sense to me that some may choose to diversify their holdings by taking advantage of both. To me relying fully on the bank doesn't seem safe at all, as the IRS and other agencies have been known to arbitrarily seize accounts based on absurd claims of 'structuring' even for sub 10k deposits [0]. Crypto is volatile, and you can forget your seed string, but nearly impossible to seize if appropriate precautions taken. Local value like land/durable goods retain value largely as long as you can defend them by force, but are poor choices when fleeing.

As time moves on it's clear to me all these assets are becoming important members of the financial landscape. If crypto were merely a degraded version of the dollar, then I don't think so many people would use.

[0] https://ij.org/report/seize-first-question-later/
How don't compete directly?
Haha I'm not anonymous!

I use my real name here. You can read my past comments, blog, LinkedIn etc.
Crypto will never be worthless!

People mistakenly believe that the two option you have are valuable or zero. Instead it is a scale from positive to negative value.

For example a legislation to have bitcoin
"pay for" the environment damage could lead to it having a negative value.

Working with and spending effort on a coin that goes to zero is a loss of productivity and opportunity of not doing something useful. Again the real cost is non-zero.
> - CI can build your app and run tests on each commit or manually.

"Simply" while getting it wrong? :D

What "Continuous Integration" is hides in the name of it, you continuously integrate the code into the "main branch/trunk", meaning if you have multiple contributors to a project, they frequently all merge the code into a common place where they base their next changes from.

"Continuous Deployment" is taking CI to the next step where you frequently deliver those integrated changes to your user. Deploying every commit to a testing instance wouldn't actually be CD as your users usually don't hang around on your testing instance. If you frequently push changes to production though, where users can use it, then you are "continuously deploying".

To make things even more confusing, CD can also refer to "Continuous Delivery" which is essentially the same as "Continuous Deployment" except you don't actually deploy to production, you just pretend to all the way up to actually updating the software on the production server. You do this in order to always be ready to deploy whenever, but when you don't feel safe enough to get there just yet.

Building and tests are not even needed for CI nor CD, although it helps tremendously and it would be foolish to attempt CI/CD without any sort of automated tests.
It's literally impossible to see without a lens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(anatomy)
The Great CEO within is a great book. Honestly, also for non-CEOs. One of the better (and short) Startup/B2B/SaaS self-help books.

But one grain of salt: If you are at a smaller startup like me (~35 people) implementing all the lessons and tips would required doubling head count just for all the reporting, training, engineering, sales and marketing support staff you would need.

So pick and choose what you need I guess.
Read about the company Aereo. That should have been legal too under fair use. The argument will be that this fictional company isn't licensed to be a transmitter because they are transmitting unlicensed content.

YOU can store your bytes wherever YOU want. This would be someone else storing your bytes for you. You could get around it by using Dropbox or something but if you want a good streaming music system/app/experience, then you are locking into "knowing" that it is music, not just a user's files are a user's files.
I toss everything on the NAS and interface via Swinsian [1]. Bought a license many years ago and haven't looked back. Closest thing to "old itunes" UI and rock solid, low-latency playback and browsing across a large library over the network.

[1] https://swinsian.com/
I'm not sure I'm understanding your point... could you please elaborate?
Author here: just to clarify I did not write a book on Flask, I did create the framework though.
the correction is happening now. the pandemic pushed all these tech companies up artificially. they hired in record numbers to meet demand and thought it would be permanent/the new floor. The economy has since rebounded and companies are returning to previous levels. The war isn't helping however
Yes. The only good ones have Korean/Japanese cells with embedded balancing IC. These cheap cell packs soon degrade cell by cell. When this happens a cell may get reverse charged and rupture = fire time. Many places in NYC have banned them and the word is spreading on the insurance web forums - who tell the buildings they have zero coverage in case of a battery fire unless they are forced into basement corrals where the structure contains car fires, gas or electric with structural concrete barriers and sprinklers. Not sure how a battery fire can be damped by water .
I have seen many fires on video security cams inside apartments that just burned and some exploded. This is sure to attract regulation.
This is trending towards requiring a license to develop software. You will need to ask the government for permission to develop software just like you do for countless other professions.
This is the 3rd wave of crypto enthusiasm that I've observed. In the first wave it was exclusively technical people who understood the details of blockchain, and where fascinated with the tech and perhaps a bit naively enthusiastic about the social component.

Then the second wave was technical adjacent people. Most of the "investors" I knew they were less technical people but still in the startup scene. Most of them didn't really understand how cryptocurrencies worked, but weren't completely clueless. They still had to figure out how to create a wallet, acquire coins etc but could only give you a hand wavy understanding of how various currencies actually worked.

This current wave was the naive retail wave, where large masses of people who fundamentally do not understand the underlying technology started getting involved. Most of these people in earnest do not understand what a "wallet" is, have no idea how to use crypto currencies outside of a central exchange. All they know is "a lot of people seem to be making easy money off this".

This is precisely why so many of the loudest critics in this current wave where crypto enthusiasts in the first wave. It became increasingly clear to anyone with technical understanding of the topic that the only explanation for what we're seeing is a lot of the very financial corruption and scams they were hoping to fight in the first wave.
> Having black-and-white thinking, of "I would never do that", like you seem to do, is proof itself of lack of empathy.

No, it's the opposite. I wouldn't treat anyone as an Untermensch because I'm convinced that the difference between me and them is a few throws of the dice. If you divide the world into "people worthy of empathy (by virtue of the dice showing X)" and "sub-humans to be treated like scum and vermin (by virtue of the dice showing Y)", you're completely sharing their worldview, you just randomly weren't born into their shoes and you don't agree with them on what the dice should show, but that's it.

That's not to say you should tolerate Nazis, but to not feel any empathy for them, and to not treat them as humans? Yeah, good luck on that road.

"Sure I tortured prisoners and waterboarded them ... but they were insurgents, and I'm a good guy, so it's all cool if I do it. Had they done the same to me though, wow, what a crime against humanity" has a super weird vibe to me. But it works, and Abu Ghraib documented neatly, how happy people can be while they torture others, if you tell them they're the good guys and that it's okay, because the others aren't really human.
While I agree with you generally, it's a bit absurd to compare these bizarre degen exchanges with something like coinbase.
> Add to that the fact that most billionaires don’t “have” wealth the way we think of wealth.

While it's true that if they were to instantly liquidate all of their stocks/assets, the real number of their "wealth" would be significantly reduced, they still operate with insane amounts of money.

The question still remains though whether at that level of ownership they are still generating enough value as a CEO/board member for the outsized returns they are receiving as an owner.
A wealth tax would solve a lot of issues debated here. The schedule of giveaway and distribution could be democratically determined.
The PPP was multi-trillion, not near-trillion. And yes, there were a lot of issues with the PPP. That seems to have been fairly unique (thank goodness)

The other federal bailouts aren't talked about often on HN, because they are not tech companies. And most of those conversations feature the talking point "they paid back the loan" as well. I have no idea why it's important.

I'm fine with the government subsidizing EV manufacturing industries. That's not the question. The question is "why is it important they paid the loan back?"
There's a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.
It is quite math heavy, but I guess you can skip the proofs.

You can see the book for free, I think it’s scanned online, it’s from mid-20th century I think
Some people copy and paste other people’s profile info into their profiles.
Seriously? We're still doing blatantly obvious astroturfing?