Mike is doing an incredible job of finding ways to make it harder for attackers to abuse PyPI (see the PyPI quarantine project). At Safety (previously PyUp) we've been tracking a significant increase in malicious packages that compromise you as soon as you install them. We've extended our open-source CLI tool with a "Firewall" capability that aims to protect against some of these kinds of attacks (typosquatting, slopsquatting) while not requiring any changes to the tooling you use (e.g. pip, uv, poetry).
You can check it out with: pip install safety && safety init
Safety (previously PyUp) - https://getsafety.com - software supply chain security. Offices in Vancouver but team is all over Canada. Raised a large seed round from First Round and others.
[I’m a PM on EventBridge] This is correct. Tim Bray, who built CloudWatch Events (which later became Amazon EventBridge) participated in the early CloudEvents spec, but as Erik said, CloudWatch Events launched before CloudEvents spec was finalized.
From the EventBridge perspective, we like CloudEvents and I expect that in future we will look to add support for it as an alternative to our existing envelope.
Check out Vonage Video: https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/
Their tech is based on a company they acquired, Tokbox. I used Tokbox’s services for large-scale real-time streaming; but their pricing is friendly for small-scale usage too. Solid service, with all the helpful extras you’ll likely need (recording videos, handling differences in browsers, etc.).
The model 3 is estimated to have a 30% gross margin [1]. So it seems incorrect to say that the traditional manufacturers are waiting for battery prices to fall, as it’s clearly possible to build a high margin EV today.
It's profitable is you remove management, R&D, supercharger and sales costs. Which is like saying that Uber is profitable if it's not for driver compensations.
no that's non sense. R&D is a huge fixed upfront cost while Uber's drivers are an ongoing cost that scales linearly. Just like Intel (huge upfront cost to design chips) VS Victoria's Secret , the former has unlimited upside, the latter doesn't and cost scales linearly.
in the car industry where R&D is largely incremental this doesn't really apply. the research costs in the automotive industry aren't fixed, it's billions after billions year after year to stay competitive, it's not like you build the car platform and then infinite cars start rolling off the conveyor belt. Which is why large car companies don't have the margins of facebook and why many of them are a hundred years old rather than ten like your average software company.
Which is why I said gross margin. And isn’t the point that traditional manufacturers like BMW are also going to have to invest in similar levels of R&D, superchargers, and sales cost? Except they’re 10 years behind.
An important difference: Tesla can produce all their own batteries, and none of the competitors are even close to Tesla's production levels. So Tesla gets better batteries for cheaper.
Panasonic makes the battery cells. Tesla builds them into the battery pack that goes into the final products. And this happens under the same roof, and the cell design is a joint venture. Tesla's battery cell manufacturing far from a black-box process where Tesla wrote a check and a third party delivers battery cells with no other involvement.
That’s non-GAAP. Google says VW 2018 profit was actually. €13.92 billion, on revenue of €235 billion.
Most of that difference was due to €3 billion in fines for lying about the level of toxic emissions of their Diesel engines.
Apparently they feel like that shouldn’t fully count against them in their annual report. [1] Maybe a company which has demonstrated it is willing to commit fraud to coverup its level of pollution shouldn’t be able to call the fines “one-time” charges, since the likelihood of recidivism is high.
VW shipped 10.8 million vehicles to Tesla’s 245k. So to be sure, Tesla is currently about 2% the size of VW.
And if sales halved? 2008 took out 2 of the big 3; which companies would a similar recession in 2020 take out? Tesla would be vulnerable, but far from alone.
Agree with you about enterprise being a more exciting space. I think the appeal for me comes from the fact that enterprise clients are a lot more likely to pay for something useful than consumers.
The company I work for is currently building a corporate travel booking system. There are hundreds of competitors out there, but all of them approach the problem from a financial system integration perspective. We try and take the "consumer" approach and apply it to a corporate environment - building products that look like a consumer product, but has all the backend functionality that a corporate would need.
I find that Flipkart does a pretty good job of managing your expectations in terms of delivery, even though you're buying from a 3rd party supplier. They update you when the seller accepts the order, packs it, when it is collected from the seller and finally through the entire delivery process.
As HN places significant value on innovation and entrepreneurship, I suspect that there will be a number of comments on this post calling out Rocket as a parasitic clone machine who steal good ideas from hard working startups and throw massive capital at these clone businesses in developing markets.
While this is definitely a valid criticism, I'd urge you to read this post: http://posts.richoakley.com/post/rocket-internet-respect which argues that we, as entrepreneurs, have a lot to learn from the way Rocket has managed to execute so phenomenally well in each of the developing markets it has targeted.
Especially given a few recent posts on HN detailing failed attempts at startups, I think the above post highlights the importance of being able to consistently execute in a business.
I am not criticising them for being a clone company. Especially not when they are cloning companies that are not interested to come to europe.
I think they treat their employees bad.
I have worked for one of their companies as a freelancer and I would never want be an employee there. It was an eye opening experience though.
I would recommend not working for them without researching their modus operandi first. If you like to be yelled at in meetings and told a three year old would do better work than you, maybe this is the right place to work - for you.
You can check it out with: pip install safety && safety init