skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's only competition is Chinese EV makers, everyone else can't make enough cars, and none of them are profitable.

Tesla are 5-10 years ahead on profit, due to adopting cost savings such as no buttons, more miles per kwh, thus smaller batteries, casting most of the body in 2 or 3 pieces.

And then there's in house software creation, vs everyone else. Software makes their use of their motors more efficient.

That's before you have the problem with how to get rid of your non EV business.

Then you have battery tech, opening lithium refining facilities, owning more of the supply chain. Everyone else will be paying extra for batteries for decades.
None of this is a pragmatic approach to life whatsoever! And again proves my points.

You and I are peasants in the last western empire, you have to deal with that reality. Not everything is a fraud. Simply go to the grocery store and look around. Do you know how each of those products is produced from field, processed, packaged, and shipped? Do that for ICE and EV vehicles and anything else you want.

Also I absolutely know who red-pillers are and it’s trivially easy to identify them. I couldn’t “white pill” you here.
You can use logfmt with Serilog on dotnet too:

https://github.com/serilog-contrib/Serilog.Logfmt
People just don't get this. A voltage regulator is the equivalent of a $15 steel pipe at Home Depot.

Ok. You can get some REALLY FANCY ultra low noise insanely efficient radiation hardened space qualified bleeding edge switch mode power supplies.

I don't expect they're using those.
My PhD research is about classifying functions in obfuscated binaries, and when I saw this I immediately wondered if it will make my work obsolete. I suspect obfuscation will give LLMs a hard time for a little while, at least until they start training on obfuscated code.

But there is still the issue of whether companies doing this kind of RE want to send their code to OpenAI's servers. If you're reverse engineering in order to determine whether you should sue another company for copyright infringement, you are probably cautious about sharing code in the first place.

For this use case there will always be a need for some kind of alternative that you can self-host without sharing your data with another party.
I dropped Prime for the first time in many years just last month. 2-day shipping is pretty much standard now at Target and Walmart, there was nothing terribly compelling on Prime Video, and I never even used any other services. Why again have I been shoveling ~$12/month in perpetuity to Amazon?
Absurd headline.

It's still WAY too overpriced to conclude that investor consensus is that it's just a carmaker. Market cap has a long way to fall before that conclusion holds.
> open source but not open contributions

I never understood this. Does it mean other open source projects are "open contributions" and anyone can just go ahead and commit to master? No. Literally every project requires you to have a discussion with the maintainer(s) before your contribution can be merged in. In larger projects, it requires going through a change process.
I know you’re coming back in a few minutes to cite your sources. Excited to see the results of this survey!
One interesting data point here is the Fugaku supercomputer is based around ARM's scalable vector stuff (basically Cray style variable length vectors vs short vector SIMD like AVX) and no gpu. Using HBM is a key enabler here.

I'm not sure GPUs will be displaced, looking at the difficulties Larrabe had on the driver side, but I do think we'll see more flexible alternatives becoming popular.
The bare minimum is the parents. The overkill maximum is having government ID registration to access information.
Definitely. I'm not claiming it's black and white or either/or, to be clear.

But, what are the characteristics investors should look at for "tech company P:E"? Presumably a non-linear profit curve driven by low unit costs, linear or increasing revenue per unit, and strong network effects. IOW, if you're building the next Microsoft, each unit of Windows sold costs you nothing, makes you the same revenue (and thus more profit) than the previous unit, and increases the appeal of Windows because "everyone is using it."

Retail businesses are just totally the opposite of that.

The network effects are limited. (I guess for marketplaces this isn't totally the case: if everyone is buying on Amazon, then more resellers want to become Amazon resellers. But then, for "platforms" like Uber, it seems the network effects are weaker than we might think; drivers and users both find it easy to drive for/hail on Uber, Lyft, etc, side-by-side.)

The unit costs are fixed.

As the retailer gets bigger, their growth naturally trends closer to overall economic growth. (If you sell software, and the software makes workers 10x more productive, you can expect to get a cut of that 10x in productivity. If you sell milk, your market is going to grow at the rate at which demand for milk grows.)

The real malefactors, in my mind, are people like Warby Parker, Away, Casper, etc--direct to consumer is fine and well and probably lowers costs a bit, but it's fundamentally similar to ordering from the Sears Catalog in the 19th century. But by some bizarre combination of hype and, I know I keep saying it, clever CSS, these jokers have convinced investors they're somehow different.

See https://www.economist.com/business/2021/09/09/direct-to-cons..., https://www.ft.com/content/616421f0-6946-485a-aca4-e9a2a522a..., etc.
> What happened in 2020 that made investors think Tesla was a tech company instead of a car company?

My guess is nothing. Investors just piled on looking to make a quick buck on a rising stock, and it fed an enormous bubble. Money was looking for somewhere to go. The market is only rational over a very long timeline.
Huggingrear stated in a different thread that "he made the WhiteOnly mod as a response to existing mods which removed white people"

I don't know how you would validate this but it doesn't seem unreasonable.
> bicycles and trikes like the <who cares> are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport

in your opinion? Better in what way? Does everyone think like you?

Between your and their assumption, I personally think theirs sounds more realistic, they just assume the norm continues to be the norm.
If it's like the UKs proposals then MindGeek (PornHub owner) will have the good to go super private honest, ID portal.

Plus they've lost a strong of these. Mostly from hedge funds that invest in visa/MasterCard turn out to be the source of morality. Like Bill Ackerman [0] already did with PornHub.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.co.za/amp/bill-ackman-pornhub-mi...
Exactly the same happened to me :D
Hey, thanks! The data we connect to is open-source but the ETL and connectors itself (which is the actual service) is not. In the future, there are a few things we'd love to release as open-source packages, but we're just not there yet.

What kind of data/sources do you work with mainly? Would love to learn more
Market opportunity!

A meta streaming service that dispatches you towars the service that has the show you want to watch. Of course it needs to work in colaboration with the actual streaming services and diatribute revenue proportional to services' use. It would create much more real-time competition.
It was a slow process, usually following money; you see it in communities like Stack Overflow and even moreso Reddit, the latter of which started out as a "bastion of free speech", but after a while they started to crack down; first on hate subreddits and speech, then de-prioritizing NSFW content from /r/all (the only way to get everything without publically subscribing to porn subreddits) (and I'm sure that will be removed entirely if they want to go public).

I'm not sure what happened to SO, I can imagine their intent was to improve quality and reduce duplication - both bad for e.g. Google ratings or returning users. But the funny posts made it a living community. Removing the fun parts of a site like that makes it sterile.

I mean there's still e.g. codegolf, worldbuilding or the D&D spaces that are kinda funny sometimes.
Compared to the Israeli-made military-grade IR camera with optics good for 20km range that the Mohajer drone this is small potatoes
Finding TI chips in Iranian drones actually is evidence of it, albeit very very weak.

On the flip side, "it'd be pretty insane" is not evidence at all. Companies do apparently insane things for money all the time!
I find those slideshows unintentionally hilarious - ten photos of my kid interspersed with a flash photo of the back of the washing machine and some cable that's hanging down underneath my car, an accidental screen grab of a text message, all treated with the same importance and jaunty library soundtrack.
We shared an office during Covid.

One day I grabbed my phone thinking at I had a message as I heard the notification sound - well Mister Charlie as we call him started making the bubble sound.

I got Covid in 2021 and had a dry hacking cough or a few weeks - to this day when I am in the vicinty he starts coughing like me like he is dying.

Thought he actually got something stuck in his crop the first time it happened.
Is it really that simple? Is there something about Tesla’s technology that enables longer ranges? Surely they just put in bigger batteries and charge more for the car, and competitors could also do that if it was really a primary competitive advantage of Teslas.
that's only true in a world where there is no genetic history/population structure, and people don't contribute to 23andMe and similar systems.
Big German newspapers give you an option to allow their personalized ads or to pay a subscription to access their content. You have a choice. Besides, they are not tracking you everywhere. Spiegel will not care if you visited Zeit or Bild.

On the other side, Meta doesn't give you a choice. They and their numerous services are tracking you across the globe.

I would be happy if Meta refuses to provide you any of their services and track me across the internet unless I go to meta.com and accept their terms and conditions.
Click on this link to see a randomly generated video...
Many years ago, I worked next door to a porn shop. A very similar law was passed in our town that would have required the shop to move out to the middle of nowhere.

The owner bought a crate of enamel pins (this [1] kind of thing, but for long-forgotten social events) from some estate wholesaler, numbering maybe 15,000 distinct pins. He put it in front of the register and gave them inventory IDs as-needed when (if?) he sold one.

[1] https://i.etsystatic.com/25263485/r/il/04c3f8/3721109924/il_...
I had a friend ask me a few years back about investing heavily in some ETFs that were connected to lithium mining and other minerals used for tech products. I cautioned them against it. Not because I don't think the need for these materials will continue to grow, but because I worry that increased demand will spur new innovation in finding, extracting, and processing them -- which would drive down prices in the long run. I don't have a crystal ball, but that seems to be a common pattern in the history of our exploitation of this planet's resources.
It might get past the politicians but judges in general are not a fan of this kind of "technical" workaround for the spirit of the law. Easier would be just to sponsor a you-tube like competitor/hosting service for video files, especially if the 33% is defined by space not access (if the politicals were smart it would be something like minutes of access time so they don't just get 68% of their SSDs filled with CSPAN).
My first PC was a 486DX/50 and until today I was totally unaware of the potential bus timing issues but I can not remember ever having had issues. But this might finally explain why it came with a turbo button - even though it should probably be called an anti-turbo button - that allowed changing the clock to 10 MHz. But now I wonder why they would have made it that slow instead of say 25 MHz or 33 MHz? I vaguely remember using the slower clock to make games playable that were running way to fast, so maybe that also factored into it.
How is fp64? Nvidia crippled the 4090 to just 1.3T fp64 flops so if a mac mini with m1 could match that it'd be a solid win
Banning TikTok Hurts Higher Education
Actually, though the page literally has the string "404" in the title, it returns an HTTP 200 and redirects via Javascript.

$ curl -I https://dvd.netflix.com/
...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
To be entirely honest I was never against pirating, I just found it to be more convenient to use streaming services in the early days. Now with the proliferation of services and the balkanization of content, sharing logins with friends is the only reasonable way to get access to a decent spread of stuff.

If these password sharing crackdowns get going in earnest, its back to torrents for me.
We’ve also been shown that Elon doesn’t know how to run a tech company. It’s been obvious before the Twitter takeover from all the half baked features that were shoehorned in and abandoned.
If the investigation and ruling from EU can be verified, if India has the same kind of anti-trust laws and the will to do it, why India would not go ahead???

It is true for all the other parts of the world with the same kind of anti-trust laws.
I strongly disagree. Autopilot is what made them COOL and gave them their secret sauce. I used to be a major fan back in 2015 and that was an incredibly momentous initiative that cannot be understated. You can say this now with the benefit of hindsight but do not make the mistake of assuming it was all just a waste of money. Autopilot was a key driver in the hype and fanaticism that turned Tesla from a hip startup into the trendsetter for the entire industry.
He's referring to this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372

Scott's take:

> NO. JUST NO.
> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations. And, the DOS to Windows transition didn't help matters. It seems really odd in a time where you could still be using a 10 year old i7 and be just fine.

Indeed, and this went on for a good 10 years - possibly more - I think. I remember being annoyed that my decently high end system, purchased at the beginning of 2000, could no longer run many of the latest games (in some cases not even coming close to minimum specs) by early- to mid-2002.

I really stretched myself to buy that system in the first place and couldn't afford to replace it for years. I bought a new system in 2004 and then didn't buy another until 2011 when I moved to laptops and bought a 17" Macbook Pro (by which time it too felt very obsolete, whereas that 2011 MBP would still be fine if its GPU hadn't desoldered itself in 2017).

Nowadays I run a 7 year old MBP that's still more than capable of handling everything I need. Biggest issue is the battery life is really starting to suffer.
> You can also clone someone's voice by finetuning a pretrained LJSpeech model and training a vocoder from scratch, I've had great success with as little as 15 minutes of speech.

Are you able to point to any articles to help get started with this please?
> Almost all of us work for it. Truth be told, and please hold your downvotes for this, I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication that makes it easier for you than the rest of us, side effects aside, and you think it's simply evening out the playing field.

I don't really think this is a healthy way to look at it.

Yes every day is a struggle for most of us. I've been in the "healthy" BMI for a majority of my adult life, but only just barely. This requires constant effort and work for me. I assume that most "fit" people are similarly fixated on the quest to remain healthy.

But clearly, there's "something" that we have which makes it possible for us to succeed at this, which people who do not succeed lack. I don't begrudge them taking a shortcut, and I don't mind if they never understand my version of the struggle here, because I don't claim to understand theirs.

Fundamentally, we need to understand that our physiology has not evolved in a situation where we are both sedentary and have unlimited, good tasting food at our disposal, and any tools we have to make this situation easier should be embraced.
You can turn off the previews in account settings. Still annoying though.
Speaking of buying DRM-free books, let me mention again The Humble Bundle. Not many books in there, but for a good cause: https://www.humblebundle.com/
I’m surprised it’s taken so long. Companies have abused this practice to an absurd degree. Got a job at a sandwich shop? I guess you are prohibited from getting a different job down the street based on the agreement you signed at the beginning of your employment.
> they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in house creations etc).

They don't even really want your attention. In house creations aren't the most profitable because they make money, they are the most profitable because they cost the least. As long as you keep paying your subscription they are happy. The content is intended to keep you just happy enough to stay subscribed (or upgrade your plan) as well as to attract new subscribers.

Basically their income is subscriptions, their costs are largely video licensing (or creation). Serving content is probably a minor additional cost.
Wrong. Autopilot is a pretty standard smart cruise control, which many other carmakers have and have had for years. It works and it works well. You are thinking of FSD.
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I have a bunch of books on my "to read" list, that still don't have a narration. I would happily listen to an AI version as an alternative.
I think, from an emotional perspective re works i create, i feel the same.

The bit i feel unsure about is if it really removes my ability to generate revenue. To make that claim I’d have to be sure the people that have copied would have otherwise paid. I’m not at all confident that i could assert that.
I don't understand why people think this is a bad thing except unless they think children should be watching porn?

We could argue over the implementation of it, and worry about the downstream consequences, but then shouldn't the argument be: how to accomplish this without those effects?

If there was a guy on your block constantly trying to lure children into his house to show them porn, or even a guy on your block who was flashing himself at your children, you would find that objectionable (I hope). But it's okay for pornhub to do this because it's online? Why?

I think this is good. I know that's probably a dissenting opinion here.
The Rise of Steel – Part I
Google changed Google Maps URL: Your location data is no longer safe
It's fine for 99.9% of the time, and saves you energy. Also reduces noise when moving.
Apple Quietly Rolls Out AI-Narrated Audiobooks
Car companies were asleep at the wheel before Tesla. Selling EVs is perfect because they have lower OpEx at the cost of a higher CapEx. Higher CapEx means more revenue for the car manufacturers, and higher valuations in the long run if they can maintain their profit margin.

Car manufacturing will be a more valuable industry as EVs become the standard, but definitely not fast enough to quadruple the value of the industry in a handful of years. Not unless we start overvaluing every company like Tesla.
> The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.

Openpilot by comma is very equivalent to autopilot (not FSD) and can be added on to a boring cheap car (depending on that car's compatibility) like a prius, corolla, or sonata, all for just about $2,000 dollars. Granted, it's a "dev-kit", requires a bit of research to install, but if you can pass the barrier it's really equivalent to autopilot and available to consumers at a price point that Tesla is not.

And if you don't want the latest and greatest (comma 3) you can get a used comma 2 or a comma knock-off "Mr One" for a few hundred dollars and still have an excellent experience for basic level 2 functionality (automated highway navigation, essentially)
Who knows, this might be 3d chess by lobbyist. They might be carving out a porn lobby, where porn sites have to shell out money to the crooked system to stop these laws.
Docker got popular because of lazy incompetent devs. Since they are the vast majority it got popular. Yes, a lot of times everybody is wrong. That shouldn't surprise you. Larry Ellison put it best: software industry is more fashion driven than the fashion industry.
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I had a good laugh at this.
The below are not necessarily indie/solo focused, but interesting nonetheless.

- Sausage Factory by Cane & Rinse: https://caneandrinse.com/category/sausage-factory/

- Industry & analysis: https://twitter.com/unboxingpod

- Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo experimented with a podcast (Tales From GameDiscoveryLand), and I really want him to continue: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-gamediscove...

- Designer Notes: https://www.designer-notes.com/category/podcast/ (I'm currently working my way through the series)

There are a whole bunch of others which I listen to on and off (see screenshot below), but the above stand out for me.

https://imgur.com/a/UaLxOVM
Russia was strong in MechE and material science but surprisingly weak on electronic. I think Warsaw Pact's electronic workhorse was East Germany, especially Dresden.
How about the fact that America's most walkable and transit-accessible neighborhoods are also the most expensive and highest demand?

People want this kind of development, they flock to it, and they are willing to pay astronomically high prices to get it. The government keeps the supply low with exclusionary zoning that makes all types of construction except car-centric single family housing illegal.
"I'm risking my life, and my car".....fails to mention the general public.
Babashka is cool. I’ve looked at it and want to learn more, but it’s always a question of time.
Ask HN: Web Designers to Follow?
Do you follow any web designers, whether through blog posts, YouTube, or Twitch, who review web site designs and user flows?
It's poorly worded, but I think they're saying, "this link will let you download your list of subscribers. We're giving this to you with no warranties, don't use it to spam people or otherwise break the law."

Honestly, I don't think that's a particularly strong legal defense, but IANAL.

I do appreciate the revue team for letting users port their subscribers to other services. This is basic decency, but with Twitter banning links to other social media, I don't know what to expect from them anymore.
Rivian, for one, spends over twice as much to build a car than they end up selling it for. The disparity is larger than Tesla's has ever been, as I recall, and there's every reason to believe they can't simply scale their way out of it. They have to figure out how to fundamentally build the car using less than half the effort and material it takes today.
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A. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

B. Criminally investigate noncompliance.
Selling to interested buyers to use that information in target ad campaigns?

--I want to target my new car advertising campaign at any Tesla owner with FSD that recently had a wreck or near-wreck.

--I want to target my bloated overpriced techy product that will collect all sorts of personal data specifically at Tesla owners as they are clearly okay with this behavior.