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Ok, in honor of better reads, let's try changing the URL to that from https://theawl.com/forget-1984-today-orwell-s-essays-matter-....

All: Sorry for the confusion but lots of people were complaining about that other article and I don't see why Orwell should suffer for it.
Tesla shareholders are asked to take a bet on Gigafactory and competitive advantage of having cheaper battery cells than anyone else https://qz.com/214093/tesla-elon-musk-5-billion-gigafactory-...

Tesla's own charger network also presents a slight advantage for potential buyers, other brands [for the moment] rely on home chargers, dealership sockets and third-party vendors like Chargepoint or Volta.
You can force MSAA in WebGL by using a larger canvas, and then downsizing it via CSS.

Not sure the performance implications, but I use this frequently if MSAA is not natively supported.
I guess the scenery you can go see at the weekend makes up for it.
Oh, I see what you meant now. Yes, when processing large amount of data (e.g. HD video) on an analog chip, DRAM to SRAM data transfer can potentially be a significant fraction of the overall energy consumption. However, if this becomes a bottleneck, you can grab the analog input signal directly (e.g. current from CCD), and this will reduce the communication costs dramatically (I don't have the numbers, but I believe Carver Mead built something called "Silicon Retina" in the 80s, so you can look it up).

Power consumption is not the only reason to switch to analog. Density and speed are just as important for AI applications.
It's the quality of the data and what you do with it that really matters. I think the benefits of crowdsourcing driving data to develop autopilot have been overstated. Waymo has pointed out that they are making the lion's share of their progress testing in simulators, where they can play out every conceivable variation of some strange or difficult edge case in a way that is not feasible in the real world.

One thing you can do with 1000s of fleet vehicles is begin untangling the logistics of running a publicly accessible robotaxi network, which will brings with it a whole new set of problems above and beyond the autonomous os itself.
As it turns out this is getting pretty easy. A de-facto standard has emerged for these[1] LED modules, both in interfacing and in mounting. I used a couple in a LED clock[2] which can also tell time in QR Code[3] :-). Basically at $25 each you're looking at $3,750 in modules for a 640 x 480 display that in the "P3" (3mm dot pitch) size would be 1.92M wide (75.6") by 1.44M tall (56.7").

All of the LED driving is taken care of by the module, except for multiplexing the 'lines'. So these work by having drivers for one 'line' or LEDs (or 2 lines on the 32 LED high modules). You shift out the bits to them on a 16 pin plug. My clock as using an STM32F4 chip on a 1Bitsy[4] and was doing 240 FPS. Since these micros can be easily paralleled and synchronized you can drive an arbitrarily large sign by adding about $25 per 16 panels. Feeding them all data is a bit more complicated but not terribly so.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3mm-Indoor-SMD0606-rgb-led-d...

[2] https://twitter.com/ChuckMcManis/status/794023527720620032

[3] https://twitter.com/ChuckMcManis/status/794025248203022336

[4] https://1bitsquared.com/collections/embedded-hardware/produc...
It was an incremental improvement in a fledgling social network industry

And even then, it was only because Friendster was crippled by scaling problems and MySpace was snowed under with self-promotion that Facebook even had a path out of the university populations to which they initially restricted themselves.
Maybe old food has more chance to accumulate crap in their system, thus eating it will be worse
Mitnick is probably the culturally accepted original.

But he wasn't really a "hacker" in today's parlance. More like a pretexter.
I did a major integration with Google sheets API recently and found the documentation sorely lacking. Docs and Sheets could be so much better.
This feels like a tone-deaf week to publish an article suggesting that Snapchat will become a $100B company in 2020 by acquiring Magic Leap.
Reads like a blanket statement
>"None of those practices are extreme. Moving production to a different city in the same country because it's cheaper bears no difference to moving to a different country."

It's very different. If I establish a company I choose to start a company if possible in a place that has a favorable business climate and by that I mean, there is access to labor, and capital, there's a mature legal system, a stable currency and a stable government.

If I become wildly successful and decide that I am going to rent a mailbox on Grand Cayman and say my company is "based in the Cayman Island" despite having no people or office there, I think that qualifies as extreme behavior.

I still want all of the protections and freedoms associated with the country where my actual headquarters is, I just don't want to play by the rules now . Even though its still that same favorable business environment that enabled me to become wildly successful. This is extreme.

You can argue about corporate tax rates all you want but you knew what those were when you incorporated.

>"Using a horse to carry things instead of hiring a few extra people to do so is no different from using a robot."

I'm sorry what year were horses discovered? There was no discovery of horses that caused paradigm shift that led to precipitous large scale unemployment. Please point me to that bit of history.

>"We've all been doing the same things for thousands of years, and we've all been worried in the same way"

No we have not. It was a generation ago, you would work for "the company" until you were 65. And they would give you gold wrist watch on the day you retired.
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I recently changed from 5 to 4 and took the pay cut. It's awesome and humane. Especially with young children keeping me busy at weekends. The assumption you stated doesn't apply to me though.
That is why the judge reversed the determination of qualified immunity for the two officers. :)
In a centralized system, sometimes people can help you get your money back, but it is also possible that they'll help taking money away from you.

"Spirit of contract" is usually taking money from less well-connected and awarding it to more well-connected. Have zero faith in it in XXI century.
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Fleet management is a different industry.

Someone needs to wash and clean out the cars between the rides, maintain them, park them for the night as well as provide occasional repairs (i.e. have a few spare parts and bumpers on hand).
Law is code until well connected people need a bailout.
They're not necessarily uploading continuous video of the entire time you're driving to the mothership - that would indeed be wasteful. More likely, they're monitoring diagnostic values from their autopilot algorithm (like "error in predicted steering angle") and using that to trigger recording of video and sensor values for a short period, which could then be used as "test cases" for future algorithm updates.
I don't think we were talking about DSP... at least when I originally replied I was making the official point that a high frequency CPU doing single-clock-cycle reads of GPIOs, can respond in nanoseconds. I think you are talking about something different...

The GPIOs are pins that are directly attached to the CPU. They are accessible by the CPU without requiring access to cache.

Not denying that it's hard to do on a general purpose Intel CPU with its absurdly high clock rate. But anybody with a fast oscilloscope can tell you that fast microcontrollers have that kind of response time, too (10s of ns), because ops take a clock cycle, and 100MHz = 1ns.
I should clarify, once data enters the chip, we provide 50 tops/W. The transfer from dram is not included.
But once these kinds of distributed schemes are developed they're available for other things.

The real problem is any time you develop a system a government doesn't control they can always shut it down by convincing the average joe that it's just being used for child porn.
That's true, but if this was the epic exit scam they were planning for so many years, it's a bit disappointing.
Sometimes I come directly and read the comments to deduct a summary instead
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Unless the "bug" was inserted by a developer...

I'm really curious to see the "single character" in question and assess whether it might have been intentional.
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A couple things to think about with this are...

When companies give the reason for turning you down for a job, there's a lot of disincentive for them to give the honest precise real reason (if there is one). There are many ways to be accused of hiring discrimination, whether ageism, sexism, ableism, etc. Basically it's unsafe / unwise for an employer to tell the truth here because it can lead to negative consequences for them, even if their hiring processes are on the up and up.

Similar to when a VC turns down a startup for some reason like fit, I definitely would not take this feedback at face value. Also, culture fit is a generic catch-all bucket for basically anything the company wants besides technical skills, and it may not be well defined.

As you have mentioned, I've also seen less good developers take the roles that better devs should have because they fit into a company's culture more, however that was defined. You probably don't want to work for those kinds of companies. It seems like you're more interested in a culture that values focusing on hard technical work and I think you should seek that out more explicitly.

Keep some good side projects going, have a good reason for your gap time between positions ready for interviewers, and try some mock interviews to get authentic feedback. You can do a free practice interview on Interviewing.io, and I think Pramp is another similar service.

P.S. Don't forget that hiring in our industry is broken. Interviewing for a technical position is a separate skill from developing software. Interviews should focus on making sure a dev would be good at the tasks they'd actually do day-to-day, but often they don't. It's not ideal, but it's just something to keep in mind. Sometimes at smaller cos (startups) it's possible to get hired in other ways and circumvent the traditional interview process.
This is what happens when you let the Bush/RNC private server mass email use and cough loss cough go unprosecuted. Clinton's "off the reservation" server and disregard for State's own IT services. (Hey, Secretary of State, if they're broken, how about fixing them? Especially after all the carping the Obama Administration made about Mannings' leaks -- enabled by, you guessed it, inadequate systems at State.)

People in government who are inclined to hide things, get a pretty good signal that they are going to get away with it.

Oops. Did I just inadvertently make a pun, there?

The problem is, we have all this concern that mere career bureaucrats, scientists, and the like are going to "go dark" communicating with some neo-commie press. About what swim floats to buy for your kids when the oceans wash over mid-town, I suppose.

When really, it's the guys at the top, hiding their own communications -- most likely to certainly in contravention of law -- that should be the real concern.
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Tesla has also opened the patents for their socket and charging designs. I can see a future where Tesla isn't necessarily selling a ton of cars, but is licensing technology and selling infrastructure (such as access to charging stations). This makes the purchase of Solar City make even more sense- they may care more about moving into the utility market than the car one.
Another option is that the value dropped because of the lockup period expiring?
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Stating the obvious here, but...

Fiat financial security is based on monitoring, paper trails, and legal consequences for fraud. Yes, you can initiate a fraudulent ACH knowing only the numbers printed on a check you received, but you'll probably end up in jail for it. It's far from perfect but it mostly works.

Cryptocurrency intentionally doesn't have any paper trails. Anonymity is the selling point. If you find a bug in the code and exploit it, the anonymity protects you and you likely won't be caught. That means that security depends entirely on the code (and the theory!) being correct.

So yes, when bugs in fact lead to massive amounts of money being lost... some point are going to argue that cryptocurrency may not be a good idea.

(Note: My personal opinion is mixed.)

> Zerocoin has a bug, money gets stolen, the bug is fixed.

You say this as if it isn't a big deal. Sure, the bug is fixed, but the attacker essentially stole 25% of everyone else's zcoin (via inflation), and fixing the bug doesn't bring any of it back. That seems like a big deal to me.
One of the good things to come out of Google Wave was a better understanding of how to scale using (eg) operational transform. Even without that, scaling a mostly read only spreadsheet backend isn't as hard as you are making out.
Sure, it's possible, and flickering is indeed the same as scaling the brightness (but randomly each line). I was under the impression that the table needed would be too big, but now that I actually calculated it (max_range^2*light_levels), it's nothing back-breaking.

I'm concentrating more on the game right now than on making the engine even faster, but I'll try to look into before writing the next part - thanks!
"I forgot to pay a bill basically because I forgot to check it was set on auto renew. It was for the landlord of my office space. She emailed me but I forgot to give her my up to date email address a while back - I never hear from her normally, and tbh communications about this sort of stuff are pretty low level so I shouldn't have to worry about it. Each week I need to do about two things to do with the admin of my tenancy here in the office building, the landlord emails me about trivial stuff - checking things, making sure that that new guy who said he worked for me didn't get a set of keys to my office space, updating things. TWO THINGS A WEEK! I don't have time for that. So now I'm super pissed off and people are starting to say I'm maybe not all that professional for letting stuff like this slide."
When is the autopilot data "good enough" with any further improvements being marginal, i.e. how much of the data being sent back to Tesla is repetitive?

This problem lends itself to horizontal scaling very well, I'd say.
True, although it's arguable that that car is more a "Corvette" than a Chevy, from a branding POV.
According to a recent video [1] some features from the new audio engine should have made it into 4.15, but I can't see them mentioned in the release notes. Didn't they make it in?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8o2xQcrb_E
> I think that recording the police fits in this category. It is obviously completely legal and works to your distinct advantage.

This is true, but be prepared to deal with an angry-acting man with a gun and the presumed right to put you in jail and take your stuff (via civil asset forfeiture). Most cops are decent, overworked public servants, but they're also trained to exhibit "cop rage" when they feel a lack of control.
Right; I just mentioned the kernel because it's the only thing I know of with consistent stats on what companies are contributing (and I mostly skip over those anyway). I just don't know anybody who publishes the same for, say, Gnome. It probably doesn't help that the boundary between the various projects need for a desktop Linux are blurrier.
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You really don't, and if they want to take it away by force record that.
We build and deploy to test on every commit.

Deploy to production almost daily, usually for items that have been in test for a few days
Thats not the same at all or even true. Land with access to a waterway was never "cheaper" than non-waterfront land. They were located there because it was the quickest route to market.
And there's the stories like the valve engineers helping oculus out only for oculus to launch on Kickstarter and be a major competitor to valves own VR efforts.
I agree with the folks who see this as a serious risk to TSLA. If you've driven a Model S or Model X you know that the design, the software and the performance are insane, but the fit and finish (especially of the interior) is like a 1980s Cadillac. When BMW and Benz start making EVs, TSLA is going to be pushed hard and could likely end up becoming a software or powertrain T1 supplier.
GM has a long track record of fumbling new products. I expect Tesla will suffer from competition, but it will be BMW or Toyota that does the damage.

The big advantage Tesla has, as far as I can see, is the charging network. Someone else is going to have to bite the bullet and put up a few thousand charging stations.
To play the devils advocate, the criticism of the article is misdirected. None of the problems mentioned were created or exacerbated by facebook. Addiction : just like any other addiction , filter bubble: people not making friends on the other side, right winger's followers: the shunning from mainstream media brought that.

Facebook makes the most obvious choice of algorithms. An alternative choice of algorithms (e.g. deliberately exposing you to views you don't like) would create a much bigger backlash.

Anyway facebook has a long history of "huuuge outcry" every time they make a change, but its users have the attention span of a fruitfly.
Thank you. I had a hunch that this would require a scope and a signal generator. And I have neither unfortunately.
Nice writeup, but right about the time the essay starts hitting Gamergate the author's bias begins to show and they tip their hands.
One of the first things I learned when going to Sweden is the history of the Vasa ship, which was a ship designed to be the most powerful in its time. The only problem is that it couldn't actually stay afloat due to its weight and design.

That offers a noble lesson about planning, setting goals, etc., and it has probably influenced the local entrepreneurial culture.
Slight clarification - my point wasn't to keep a car 10 years. I bought it when it was 4 years old. Kept it 5. Looking to trade it in (it's actually still worth right around what I paid because of the low mileage), but my next car will also be 3-4 years old with low mileage.

Ultimate point being, I drive cars that would have been $35k new, for less than $100/month over the life of my ownership, versus the $500 referenced in the article.
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Haha...love the cat and dead body idioms. Captures the fail perfectly.
But which scenario is more likely to foment such an encounter? The one where the officer thinks he's being recorded? Or the one where he doesn't?
It's literally referred to 'lights-out manufacturing' in the automation industry.
They tried this on an AM335x, a modern ARM Cortex A8 used on the BeagleBone Black for example. Clocked at 1 GHz and doing nothing else other than toggle a GPIO pin - it took 200 ns. This is for a fully integrated SoC. Merely due to various levels of interconnect within the CPU.

Here is the slide for reference:

http://imgur.com/a/sWyH5
Electric drivetrains alone were never really regarded as a major competitive threat to the big carmakers. What has lit a fire under their ass is is the combination of electric, autonomous, and on-demand. This is disruptive, this scares them.

Google's autonomous driving efforts alone weren't taken too seriously either, but when rumours of Apple's interest in the space began to swirl, that's when the carmakers (including Tesla) got the message and suddenly all started scrambling to come up with a strategy to develop an autonomous OS. Fast forward 3 years and here we are, with stodgy old GM in a position of confidence.
The perfect office should be long enough to contain your body. It should be upholstered in something soft. It should have a strong lid to keep out vermin.
The compounding effects are interesting to consider.

Wages have been depressed and housing costs have increased, particularly in areas people want to move to due to more job opportunities.

Owning a home has been a forcing mechanism for savings for the US for some time. You get a highly-leveraged mortgage, build equity (ie. forced savings) and hopefully see your investment appreciate, and ultimately own your home clear and free for retiring there, or selling and downsizing to fund retirement.

I wonder what will happen in 20-30 years time as we see more and more people unable to own a home. Their earning power will diminish as they age and retire, yet their house costs will continue growing if they rent.
Fieldbook co-founder here, thought I would weigh in. I agree with Howie that he doesn't spend much time using Fieldbook, since we already have many of the features he mentioned.

IMHO Fieldbook has the best user experience anywhere for building and working with a real relational data model, including many-to-many relationships, sophisticated queries, and aggregated reports. We've done a ton of iteration with real users and hundreds of usability tests to make these features natural and intuitive.

Fieldbook customers use it on a daily basis for their core business information and processes, and they're very happy. Read our reviews here: http://www.capterra.com/database-management-software/spotlig...

But there's no need to be gripped by indecision! Just try them both, it's free. That will tell you which one works best for you. Message us in-app if you have any questions, we're happy to help you get set up!
It's probably an indication that your use-case is not a good fit for dynamo, or that you didn't adapt your use-case to dynamo, you're doing something "wrong" like trying to use it as a relational database. I've experienced some of these pains as part of my dynamo learning curve.

For example by changing my query strategy I was able reduce the provisioned write units from 1900 to 150 (write units dominate the cost).
I am glad facebook exists, to keep all that garbage siloed and away from me. As a non-user, i enjoy a slightly cleaner web.
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I didn't agree. He said it would not. I said it could. I said it was more likely than he said and I would put money on it.

Your use of basically is ambiguous.
I wonder what the role of prions would be in that? Assuming of course that this isn't just another bullshit, N=20 study.
Totally agree on Google Sheets. I love the connectivity of sheets and the best application I have seen is grades at the school district when you have a lot of kids. It is so easy for me and my wife
Interesting. Most of the traditional RDBMS implementations have some kind of delay functionality. SLEEP is in mysql, postgres has pg_sleep, MSSQL has WAITFOR, and so on. I guess Spark doesn't have one.

These are also handy to test for SQL injection issues without screwing anything up.
I like to remain skeptical about Elon's vision, he seems like a great guy, but he is still a business man, maybe he isn't able to see that for himself.

Just remember we're not just getting free lithium, aluminum and copper from another dimension to build all those cars, and when we're done with the cars, they're not just going to biodegrade back into forrests and coral reefs. Mining those minerals can have a pretty serious environmental impact.

There is some cognitive dissonance going here, we see a solution to climate change, but we don't want to observe the other side of the coin.
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