skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Tesla's drivetrain's kWh per distance is the best, but only by 10% or so. That's not enough to be a deal breaker for the other brands. Body style selection completely dominates 10% drive train efficiency, and Tesla is rapidly falling behind there.

2) The Tesla charging network seems less extensive in silicon valley than the multiple competing networks. Also, Tesla is advertising that they'll open it up to all other manufacturers (at least in the US) really soon, so to the extent you believe Tesla can still deliver stuff, the charging network is not a competitive advantage. On top of that, the Biden infrastructure plan is subsidizing standard chargers, so the proprietary Tesla charging port is turning into a competitive disadvantage.

3) I agree that Tesla still has an advantage in terms of production ramp, but this is eroding too. BofA is projecting Tesla's market share will be in the low teens within a few years. Assuming their analysts aren't idiots, this implies the other manufactures have been able to secure battery sources.

Regarding FSD: I strongly prefer the jog wheel computer + physical buttons in my BMW over Tesla's touch screens, and that's comparing features that exist. Other manufacturers have a bigger software functionality gap, from what I've heard, but that's not unique. Most manufacturers have auto-braking and lane keeping, which is most of what FSD has delivered so far.

Regarding the rest of the company: Apparently, they pulled out of solar installs. Anecdotally, all the tesla powerwall licensed contractors around here hate supporting them (poor reliability), and point homeowners to LG on the low end or Enphase on the high end.
I also run a bootstrapped company around with $10M reve as an ADHD founder. Drop an email to lucjan at surferseo.com, I’d love to chat and share experiences.
A recession looms over the posh world of influencers
How effective would you be if someone stood behind you all day and interrupted you every minute or so on tasks that you found uninteresting? Would you perform at the same level as you would if someone wasn't interrupting you all the time? Would tools eliminate this problem or just mitigate it?
I think there's a more constructive way to look at this which is neurotypical people have an extremely difficult time empathizing with people who are neurodivergent. This leads to a lot of friction, especially in friend groups and between managers and their subordinates.
Any new model introduction has problems, there’s a reason it is popular to avoid the first model year or two.

It’s unlikely these car makers wouldn’t fix these quality control issues after that. By comparison Tesla quality is abysmal and took many years to improve to meet other car makers. It’s hard to stand up large car factories for the first time alongside a new car model.

EVs share probably 90% of the non engine parts with other cars. The big components which are different are the drivetrain (simpler), motors, battery and charging equipment. Motors are a commodity and far simpler to manufacture than ICEs. Batteries are the difficult component right now but will likely become more if a commodity as well. EVs are much easier to build than ICEs.

Ultimately we can expect far higher car quality going forward (from our current period of already excellent car reliability).
The US Trustee has now filed its objection to the proposed motion to redact the names of FTX's creditors.

https://ia601406.us.archive.org/2/items/gov.uscourts.deb.188...

Celsius recently asked to redact the names of its creditors in its bankruptcy filings and the court denied the request.

What are the chances FTX's motion will be granted.

The IRS has also filed a notice of appearance.
It's possible the experiment fails. The gap has narrowed significantly though since everyone is remote.
I saw a news story about 'NO TAG' being a particularly bad choice in vanity tags, so of course I went to the DMV and got 'N0 TAG'. ~3.5 years later I haven't gotten anyone else's tickets in the mail but I'm pretty sure it scored me a warning on a thoroughly earned stop.

https://i.imgur.com/SAbCH5Z.png
I think most comments ignore that Tesla is making much more profit for each car sold than its competitors. I didn’t make the math but I remember Tesla margin being around 20% while average in industry is quite below 10%.

Tesla is increasing production and keeping its margin while competitors are still having problems to catch up. Now they produce comparable EVs but still with much less margin.

Also Semi seems to be quite a game changer that will keep Tesla ahead in another market for quite a while
The serious answer is that Lake Superior is named not for its area or volume, but for its upper altitude / upstream position relative to the other lakes.
Completely agree with this. The only products I'd even consider by choice from Amazon are the core IaaS products. Everything they built in house on top of their own platform is a buggy shit show.

One recent problem I have been dealing with, which I can't detail because they'll know who I am and I am under NDA, involved a major release last year. I found two critical bugs in the stack which they had extended from an open standard. As we're a massive company with a big spend I managed to get the team leads and enterprise support on a call and I found the whole fucking thing was clearly looked after by two guys who didn't know what they hell they were doing, had never spent any time on the stack that they were extending and had never even considered a real world use case.

I have considered looking into Azure but I'm not sure that'll be any better.
> So as a result, exchanges exist. Problem is with exchanges in order for settlement to happen the money has to be held somewhere where it can actually be used to settle trades

An exchange is just an unregulated bank.
> not as suffisticated

ChatGPT in a nutshell.

(I hadn't heard the slang before, but it seems descriptive for a false air of sophistication, or [possibly over-]sophisticated complexity that nevertheless leads to bad results.)
In 40s now. Diagnosed a couple years ago.
My career was a mix of huge successes and horrible failure. Really hard complicated and interesting projects I would shine at. Basically CTO founder type roles I was amazing.

I stunk at routine day to day work.

For me the worst pain possible is boredom. I’ve had kidney stones. Boredom is in same range.

First time I took medication was shocking to find that the pain of boredom was gone. I had no idea that was possible.
"back in the time", /usr could be on a network drive, and /bin had to contain just enough stuff to boot the system, set up networking and mount the /usr
Because all the interest of these stories is in fusion as a source of energy, and there's a long history of declaring we're near to break-even by leaving the most energy intensive part of the apparatus out of the equation.

With no disrespect to the researchers in this experiment, it's not like we're surprised that fusion works or that a pellet can generate more power than is put in.
Given that I‘ve grown up with zero people in my environment that showed behavior of ADHD I wonder how much of it is just consequence of our ever more stimulus-intensive world.

It seems most extreme in the US - the TV program there is a constant blurt of screaming to me whenever I visit it. European TV is much less intrusive, often more like US programs from the 70s.

But meanwhile a lot of the stimuli come from the cell phone, and I do think I’ve a) become addicted to it and b) I‘ve developed signs of ADHD in recent years as well.

So then the hypothesis is that things get better by adapting the environment to be more brain-friendly… like

- fewer stimuli (screens)

- less competition / anxiety-inducing work environments

- more sunlight, less time in dark interior spaces

- boredom

- sleeping hygiene

- less processed foods, and a microbiome well catered to

- nature

In other words: an environment that resembles more closely to what humans have adapted to over 100000s of years, and which we deviated from in the past 100… or 20.
Those are not new and would be part of the long term public investment the article states has been lacking. You can’t have a productive economy when old people are indigent and have to be cared for entirely by their working age relatives. And Medicaid is a subsidy for industry that doesn’t compensate its workers sufficiently with adequate healthcare benefits.
Partly that's because they use laser tech from the 1990s, with less than 1% efficiency. Now we have NIF-class lasers with over 20% efficiency.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.2.2021102...
Yeah I'm not sure what information this really protects assuming you're only communicating over encrypted channels (https) already.

In theory it could protect location data from the carrier for locating you with a wild amount of opsec practice but I highly doubt you could pull that off for a daily driver.

Having wifi/bluetooth off in public isn't a terrible idea though as those are generally much easier attack surfaces and are leakier.
Any recommendations? I took one that you take at night. It slightly improved my focus during day. But would leave me sleepy all day. Even with taking it before bed.
"Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content." You've never heard of Rule 34, have you...
The problem is you can say that about any wildly inefficient new technology, but it doesn't always pan out.
That makes sense. It would also make sense to have auctions for high-value handles.

Or, to take a page from 'Radical Markets', twitter accounts could be associated with a reservation price (a price at which a person would definitely sell), and 'taxed' (re: charged) a proportion of that reservation price. I believe it was Patio11 who observed that his upper limit on willingness to pay for twitter would be very high. Right now, Twitter doesn't capture any of that.

That might only work for bluecheck accounts, not sure. I don't want to lose my random 10 follower account for $100, but neither do I want to pay to be a lurker
It's not hard to convince a peace activist to support peace. They're already inclined to it, and weren't seriously considering waging war to achieve their aims anyway.

It is incredibly difficult to convince a greedy bastard to support peace. The natural order, for millennia, has been that when a greedy bastard meets a peace-loving activist, the greedy bastard takes the peacenik's stuff and then kills them. That is why we continue to have greedy bastards after millennia, and many of the original peaceful hunter-gatherer tribes have been killed off.

Capitalism's greatest success is as a sociopath-containment vessel. Historically, people who desire world domination achieve it by killing everybody else. Capitalism has managed to convince them that the path to world domination is making stuff and providing services for everybody else. This is a huge change in incentives.
> consumer HEDT market

high-end desktop for anybody curious
Would anyone knowledgeable about the field update their priors about whether we’ll see commercial fusion in the next 30 years, after seeing these results? If not, is there a big milestone we’re waiting for? Or will fusion advancement be a slow grind with many small improvements over decades?
I think the clinical way to describe what you're saying is "executive function disorder". Some ADHD researchers believe this is a much better way to describe it and distractability/inattentiveness are just noticeable symptoms of that root cause.
Bye then. What difference does it make who owns it ? You could have written all that diatribe on there still, without any censorship or suppression.
I find it hilarious that Elon would actually go on stage in SFO after all the shenanigans of the past couple months - he is hated at the moment in the Bay area. His audience now is the extreme-right QANON nutjobs!
Close but not quite. The issue is that people in management positions are overly invested in finding flaws in other people, especially those people that may have some leverage over them by virtue of having particular skills (technical or otherwise.)
The Fl9 came just a little bit later and ran in regular commuter service into the 2000s
This is a strong point. Who you meet in life has a big influence on your success.
Exascale computing might enable local climate forecasts
According to [1] Fédération Aéronautique Internationale stopped recognizing piloted endurance records altogether in 2015 due to safety concerns.

So I'd say this record is very unlikely to be beaten!

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/the-unceasing-cessna-haciend...
> But, what would be your design criteria for the new language?

I'd aim for somewhere between Rust and <other_imperitive_languages>.

I'm certainly not qualified to speak with any authority on the matter of provably correct programs, but it seems to me there's a middle ground there that has yet to get a lot of attention. Something like C, but with markup describing data lifetimes, value ranges, permissible access, etc.

The guys at Bungie did something similar for Destiny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Q_zHG3vqg&t=2791s

There are also some PHd folks working on adding type annotations to C and restricting aliasing rules. Those annotations/rules get fed through a solver that proves it's free of latent memory bugs. As far as I remember they're trying to prove the Android thread scheduler. I couldn't find the talk/slides, but it turns out that's hard in C, but with a brand new language you could probably do it pretty easily (easily being a few man-years, instead of tens of).
The exact numbers depend on the form of fusion in question, but fusion does have some several places where it has quite substantial x^n growth possibilities, where "n" is definitely greater than one and can be greater than two at times, sometimes even substantially so. This means that there is some real, concrete hope for improvement in a way that, say, solar could never improve more than 4-5x where it is now because the absolutely best it could ever hope for is 100% efficiency. At the core, this is because as you get the plasma hotter and more confined, the rate of fusion goes up very quickly, much much beyond linear increases.
You seem to be confusing "possibility" with your personal opinion on what you think would be done by others.
Ok, I've added that to the current thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863. Thanks!
> There's less margin but you remove all of the cost/risk of logistics and inventory

Risk isn't removed, only externalized. In this case you externalize it to the manufacturer. They know this and are happy to take on the risk... for a price.

That's why the kind of post-facto bulk rebates pitched in GP make no sense.

The Big Big bulk discount the big guys get is the "real" price, and drop shippers get smaller/no discount because they have to pay at least part of the risk premium induced by the drop shipping business model.
>He's one of the largest scammers in history, if not the largest, by the amount of appropriated funds.

Not true. There are plenty of bigger scams. Even my tiny country (Denmark) has been involved in bigger scams like when Danske Bank laundered $230 billion out of Russia and into tax havens around the world.
Not sure where you are, but in the US, narcotic has different meanings legally and pharmacologically. Amphetamines are classified as narcotics under neither.

Maybe a mistranslation or you're conflating narcotic with "controlled substance"?
No, that’s the mic connected to the computer he is playing League of Legends from.
Yes, _but_ the problem of generating laser light efficiently has and is being
solved for elsewhere. Which is why the NIF didn't focus on, or update their lasers. This is a major problem for semiconductor lithography for example, and receives literally tens of billions in investment every year and one which has lasers that are already 20x more efficient than the ones used by the NIF.

The real question in the experiments here at NIF was about whether inertial confinement fusion would work. This is very promising progress.

Also NIF spends a good portion of its time on weapons research, not fusion power so it's only been a recent focus.
TIL you can have custom themes on substack. My main (now voided) complaint with the platform was that you couldn’t stand out aesthetically.
I generally think that's a good idea, but be aware that the protocols are more interesting than you might first imagine, and that leads to a lot of the differences between drivers for different databases.

For instance, when setting a user's password in Postgres, you can do the hashing on the client side, even for non-trivial schemes like SCRAM. This means that the password itself never needs to move over the network, and that's very desirable. Speaking of authentication methods, that also opens up a big topic.

There are also important modes. For instance, the client encoding controls how strings are transcoded when they get to the server. That allows the client to not know/care what the encoding of the database is. You could demand that everything is UTF-8, and that's one philosophy, but not everyone agrees.

In practice, I think it'll be a while before there is consensus on all these points. And even when there is, the standard will need to evolve to handle new auth methods, etc.

If we invent a standard protocol, it will probably be more of a fallback for simple cases when the language framework doesn't offer a driver yet. Still helpful, though.
THE American DEA consider "narcotic" to be synonymous with "opioid":
https://www.mcieast.marines.mil/Portals/33/Documents/Safety/...

However, the term does come up with other meanings. The international narcotics control board (UN) deems opioids as narcotics, but also cannabis and cocaine:
https://www.incb.org/incb/en/narcotic-drugs/index.html

But typically amphetamines are not classified as narcotics, even though you could argue they are based on dictionary definitions, i.e. "a drug (such as marijuana or LSD) subject to restriction similar to that of addictive narcotics whether physiologically addictive and narcotic or not"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic
right, but everyone within a region commutes at roughly the same time, had roughly the same weekend schedule, etc. etc.

There was that story a couple years ago about England's electrical grid and specific localities being stressed because apparently all of England would turn on their teapots at the same time after a TV show ended.
I wouldn’t call those true social programs, although the direct payments to taxpayers comes close. The programs you cite were designed to prop up the economy, and they mostly succeeded, albeit highly skewed towards big businesses. It accelerated trends already in place.
I think FTX claimed 1.2 million users awhile back. Is there any insight into a true count of FTX users and maybe the average value of holdings they entered into FTX with?

I'm interested in understanding just how much actually flowed into FTX from users vs what (the probably fake?) value of their holdings were when FTX melted down.
Once you have their IP addresses you can make them serve anything you want. Set your imagination free.

For starters: copyright-infringing material.
A stronger example would be Elon Musk accusing an emergency rescue worker of pedophilia during a deadly rescue attempt -- as backlash for insulting Elon's high-tech submarine solution. Elon would then go on to elaborate on why he thought the rescue worker was a pedophile.

I wouldn't really call this "bullying" though. Being repeatedly accused of pedophilia by a top-tier celebrity is very dangerous.
Well, it's an anaesthetic. It makes the discomfort of forcing yourself to focus on something you find maddeningly pointless more tolerable. As long as the pain is there the anaesthetic will have a purpose.
I guess I just don't believe you, and it will take more than people complaining to convince me. In the situation described in this thread, I cannot imagine everyone in Central Park dismissing this notification without anyone saying "hang on everyone, it says missile instead of amber this time". I have lived in several big cities in the US and have gotten these alerts less than once a month, sometimes with years in between. It is not a scourge on society. I do think you should be able to disable them, but I think that even if explicitly given the option, most people would leave them on.
prob Signal
I think it's only going to get worse.
It was never about "liberalizing the world". That was just the argument used to persuade those who valued liberalization. Like the British Empire got religious Britains on board by focusing on the sending of missionaries that would Christianize the world. But the expansion of the Empire was not done to send missionaries.

The idea of liberalizing -- e.g. converting to Western values -- was the more modern version of this missionary argument, but it's basically the same argument, and really the same target audience, just shifted in time.

Shockingly, most of the world has kept their previous religion, although there are liberal inroads/enclaves scattered all over, particularly in coastal trading cities.
I remember hearing about ITER back in school, a long time ago, and being told that they were just about to finally assemble the thing now.

That's pretty much the definition of vaporware, but maybe it will actually go the route of Duke Nukem :)
“Wants to reconstitute the USSR”. LMAO.
Ok, thanks. Here’s Putin’s propaganda:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
That sounds like the same rationalisation companies use when people quit.

"It is good because we don't get inbred ideas".

More often than not the person departing has expert competence in the university or company specific systems or social structures, that are of no use somewhere else, and no one recruited from the outside have it.
I’d recommend the book “Delivered From Distraction”. It’s written in a relatively ADHD friendly way and the first chapter or two explains a bit more about the condition and will likely give you enough of a feeling as to whether it would be worth pursuing a diagnosis. (“ADHD 2.0” is also good and is a more recent book by the same author).

I get the concern about the NHS (private support options are available too if that’s an option for you) but I would definitely try to move past any stigma concerns - no one cares (in a good way) :) personally I don’t think it’s a big deal and that shouldn’t get in your way of pursuing answers if that’s the right path for you to take.
One interesting fact about thumb drives is that they have evolved significantly since they were first introduced. The first thumb drives were created in the late 1990s and were much larger and less reliable than the ones we use today. They were also much slower, with data transfer speeds of only a few megabytes per second. In comparison, modern thumb drives can transfer data at speeds of hundreds of megabytes per second and are small enough to fit on a keychain. This has made them an essential tool for many people, and they are now commonly used to store and transfer data for personal and professional use.
just like this time in 2013, https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-breakthrough-..., and this one in 2021 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-fusion-rea...

Which definition of breakeven are they using this time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U&t
Yes. This story has proven impossible to wait for because it was leaked and is being widely reported, so I guess we're going with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863 - as you say, that article seems to be the 'original source' of at least the current wave.
A person's gotta have a hobby and an ethos. More power to you for the dedication.