Seems like a lot is being promised here for a 7 month old startup with one employee- SW, multiple different HW components, high end thermal mechanics delivering all of this by EOY 2024. Best of luck, I am legitimately rooting for this to be a winner (I love the concept of design meets efficient heat pumps and believe there is a substantial market here)... but how can outsiders trust to give you their money for a deposit when it's clear there is very high risk that this ever reaches market?
Holmes never delivered a product that worked. Musk has delivered 4 Tesla models and counting, as well as VTOL rockets among many other accomplishments. Sure, he over-promises and under-delivers (or at least misses his timelines), but I wouldn't compare that to Holmes level fraud by any stretch.
Even if true, this will largely not affect a business like this. They make small money on each company and scale through the shear number of total companies that pay a few thousand dollars a month to use this service. People are not going to stop going on call because their revenue dropped 20%...
Real commercial espresso machines are still a very manual process for many reasons. This is something you’d see in the micro kitchen of an office or an airport lounge, not a Starbucks.
how long until we start seeing computer vision applications that translate sign language? It's a pretty hard problem, but definitely something that's feasible with the right methods.
Companies would also be incentivized to not have too many extra cars on the road at all as they would be paying for it in terms of their running costs.
That’s a temporary change until the tunnel opens. I’ve noticed that Denny has been much better for buses since they have made a few changes for bus priority.
Sure, but a very bad nuclear incident (accidental or not) could more or less kill millions of people pretty quickly. Obviously hydrocarbons will kill more than that, but the optics of a nuclear catastrophe are in my opinion far worse than global warming which to many people is pretty abstract.
Nuclear has such a terrible reputation, and rightfully,people will always have legitimate complaints about it. We can never fully guarantee that a plant is free from the potential of catastrophe, not to mention we still don’t have a great solution to nuclear waste other than bury it in a mountain. It’s definitely a lot better than slowly suffocating ourselves by injecting hydrocarbons into the air, but we really need a revolution not evolution in energy.
Completely agree. Quote from the article also kind of shows the founder isn't really correlated numbers properly. "Reading that more than 80% of goods are transported by sea, a light bulb went off, says Vollmer. 'We can have a very huge impact,' he remembers thinking." https://www.statista.com/statistics/264024/number-of-merchan... shows that there are roughly 52,000 container ships in existence. 52,000 container ships moving 80% of the world's goods is something I assume people do not want to be automated and want to keep a very watchful eye on- notwithstanding all of the other issues in executing the idea.
How common is it for City Council members to travel to cities across the US? As a Seattleite I find it a massive waste of taxpayer money to go fund Lisa Herbold's NY homecoming (she is from NY).
From the description, it sounds like a giant Peltier device, not a steam turbine (otherwise why would they care about having a cold tank?). Solar farms also have a ton of space in between turbines so I’m not sure that metric is relevant. Additionally, since this device uses very safe materials (salt and coolant), there’s no reason you couldn’t dig a really big hole and shove the device inside...it would also provide some nice natural thermal insulation. When it comes to storing energy far from urban areas, cost is a much higher priority than energy density.
You produce energy at an amortized cost of $X /MW.
You store energy efficiently (lithium batteries) at an amortized cost of $Y /MW back into the grid.
You store energy inefficiently (Malta?) at an amortized cost of $Z /MW back into the grid.
If Z<< Y, then simply ramp up your input production and you are likely in the money. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "Worse heat has fairly low energy density and cools over time"... energy density is not relevant at all when you have practically unlimited space to store power (GIANT) fields next to your solar/wind farms.
I realize that this graph doesn't tell the entire story and there are probably better ways to gauge global interest, but yikes. I wonder how much of the 250M MAU they are claiming are actually bots/trolls entrenching themselves in another social platform for when/if it gets big. They would be incentivized to report them as users to sustain the growth story.
Respectfully, it is absolutely an obstacle. Not every manufacturer wants to play ball and in some cases it requires much more investment than playing around with the compiler settings. I would also argue that a large fraction of research teams/ companies are just looking for a platform to prototype on rather than actually deploy services on tomorrow. Most applications of this processor are such low volume that it’s not in most manufactures interests financially to care at this point.
I would argue that it should scare you. This is targeted towards people who are working in the AI world and are likely not embedded experts. Also, the bigger problem is closed source libraries and drivers that choose not to support arm64.
The development kit has been available for the last month. One of the problems no one talks about is that this platform (along with tx2/tx1) runs arm64 which makes it a HUGE pain for getting many libraries to work. I’ve been using these for a while, and consistently need to hunt down library source code and compile it for arm64 since most libraries are distributed without arm64 support. There’s also plenty of device specific closed source SDKs (such as point grey ladybug cameras) which just don’t support arm64 so your only option is to attempt to write your own or pressure the manufacturer to publish an arm64 version. I do not recommend this platform for hobbyists for this reason- go buy a small x64 computer and spend 1/10th the time designing a better battery system.
also option 3) Very unlikely scenario that they outsmarted everyone and had some great legal work done to identify a loophole in the SIPC insurance requirements that nobody else has yet identified.
In an interview yesterday, the CEO said they were an "Engineering first company". While located in silicon valley, they have no right to subscribe to the "move fast and break things" mentality when they are playing with people's money. Any financial institution that holds external accounts should be a finance first company. Good technology is essential, but not as essential as following rules and regulations to protect your customers.
I imagine that the demographic they are supposedly going after for debit cards is the same demographic that takes advantage of great credit card deals. I don't see debit cards becoming fashionable as the go-to charge card for reasonably well-off millennials that are eligible for great credit cards. Those that aren't eligible for these credit cards likely have inconsequential amounts of savings anyway...