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I'm sure I can find a better resource than Wikipedia, but for now:

> Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused[5][6] with a somewhat similar effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems, that is, without changing something in a system. Heisenberg offered such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty.[7] It has since become clear, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems,[8] and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects. Thus, the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems, and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology.[9] It must be emphasized that measurement does not mean only a process in which a physicist-observer takes part, but rather any interaction between classical and quantum objects regardless of any observer.[10][note 1]

> Bohr was compelled to modify his understanding of the uncertainty principle after another thought experiment by Einstein. In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (see EPR paradox) published an analysis of widely separated entangled particles. Measuring one particle, Einstein realized, would alter the probability distribution of the other, yet here the other particle could not possibly be disturbed. This example led Bohr to revise his understanding of the principle, concluding that the uncertainty was not caused by a direct interaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Certainly the authors of that story put in a lot of spin and opinion that did the article a disservice- Should have stuck to the facts.
If batteries reduce the demand for oil, oil's value will start to transfer to batteries.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true.

The basic premise of an electric "engine" is simpler than that of an ICE, but when you actually make the car, it's nowhere near as simple on paper. Just look at the issue people have had with getting Tesla's repaired... the "mechanics" don't even know that you have to keep the battery charged.

Also, don't ignore the fact that we have 100+ years of experience with ICE.
Apple is a software company now?
I fail to see the difference, exams are there to make sure that you taught your kid what the state wants.
Maybe it isn't legal? I'm pretty sure there is a law preventing use of social security numbers for some things, so there may be something similar happening here. I don't really know, and I'd also guess something like that would vary by state.
Usually only adventure games, and point and click ones did that.

Think of games like Maniac Mansion or adventure writing software like PAWS.
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The sad thing really is that tech lives and breathes Internet. It sells cloud stuff, digital collaboration tools, connectivity, yet when it comes to employment it is stuck to 20th century factory mindset : you have to be in the factory by the lathe to grind your piece out and drop it on the conveyor belt.

Even worse many even put people in large noisy factory-like rooms (open floor plans) where they commute to in the morning, so they can sit there and be distracted and unproductive, and then have them commute back at the evening.

There is a network effect as well, even if people work for companies which are remote, and they could move to a different state to be with family they won't, because most other companies are not fully remote so they stick to a tech hub just not to have to move again if they switch jobs.

You'd think Google, Facebook and Microsoft would lead the effort for working from home but that's not the case. If they switched you'd see very interesting side effects: areas of the country that are stagnating might revitalize, they'd be less traffic congestion, the whole IT work culture in US might change.
I realize that this is an old story, but I posted it because Steven Levy is the best interviewer to have ever spoken to me about the Turing apology and this article the most accurate, and because someone reminded me of it today.
> I had to plead guilty and pay the fine to restore my license, then try to repeal the guilty plea at traffic court.

Having to admit guilty when you didn't do it? What kind of system is that? Sounds like you are guilty until proven innocent in that case... instead of the other way around.
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Not a very meaningful metric. Ford is still 3x Tesla in terms of Enterprise Value, which accounts for how much of the cap table is debt.
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I see it differently. I see rich people going to rich cities because that's where the money is, which increases the money in the area, which increases the number of rich people going there, and so on and so forth. It seems to just be a massive concentration of wealth and people who have benefited massively from globalization. It turns out, though, that this massive inequality isn't so conducive to a stable society or government.
I just go surf youtube if I want to real results of AP2 and AP1 unfiltered. Some of them are downright scary. There is not going to be a sudden jump to good autonomous driving.
I remember applying to Verizon when I was still in school. I had to give up because their application kept throwing readable database errors and wouldn't let me continue to the subsequent pages. Weeks later, one of their recruiters contacted me and asked if I wanted to finish my application. I said no.
The Summon incident certainly was rather sleazy. Tesla's press release made it sound like a long, complicated series of steps were involved that could only be triggered intentionally. In reality, all it took was the car thinking the user double-tapped Park rather than single-tapping it, and then them not noticing and cancelling in time. Not only that, according to other owners there was sometimes a several second lag before message and warning sound to appear, meaning he could well have been outside the car by then.
But in any country without plea guilt deal like mine, you have only once choice : the trial with full cost and the possible high sentence. I don't get what you loose with the deal, it's just an additional option.
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I don't understand. Apple sits on about 250 billion in cash, invests a fraction of it in GPU's for mobile, while Desktop and Laptop users are chained to last generation's CPUs and Graphics Cards. Apple product team is becoming more Ballmerian with each passing day.
> Ford doesn't have any growth potential

Word? https://seekingalpha.com/article/4031938-ford-potential-grow
We are behind, but a competent investor isn't.
They will need a network of places to buy and repair. There are something like 15 showrooms in the whole of UK, half of them in London. 7 Service Centers.

A then Tesla.com lists the BlueWater as a showroom. It had 2 cars last time I was there, both in the same colour.

That's not nearly enough to sell a popular car in the premium segment.

note: I understand that Dealer is something special in the US. I use the term liberally to mean "Some places that sells Tesla car". I believe that the hate of Dealer in the US is not so fundamental that they would buy a 30K car online only. Hell Apple is doing great with Apple Store with the opposite approach and nothing they sell is close to the same level of financial commitment.
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Especially if your goal is efficient, synthesizable HDL!
Some of the "self driving" car companies fear objective evaluation. Uber especially doesn't like to test in California because they have to report accidents and disengagements to DMV. Tesla isn't quite as bad, but they report very few miles driven in California.

This is for real self-driving. Level 2 semi self driving systems like Tesla's old "autopilot" don't have to report, so we don't get data for production vehicles.

From the DMV reports, Google/Waymo is performing about two orders of magnitude better on self-driving disengagements than anybody else reporting.[1] They're up to 5000 miles between disengagements. No disengagements on freeways. That's one of the few objective measures we have in this business. Road and Track, and Top Gear, aren't getting self driving cars to test yet.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
People don't do things like that because they lack understanding of the consequences, they do so because they don't care about the consequences if their other objectives are met.

The weakness of scientism is its its agnosticism; the scientific method can test hypotheses but has nothing to say about the selection of premises. If you (as a hypothetical dictator) think it's perfectly OK to inflict suffering on people you deem inferior, science can be applied to tell you how to make their lives as miserable as possible.

Philosophy has fallen into a social ditch in that it seems mainly to talk about itself and doesn't have the predictive power of science, but I think it's irrational to expect intellectual tools to provide you with answers to ethical questions.
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If you don't mind asking me, when a professional like yourself chooses a programming language to learn, what are the criteria based on what you make your decision?
Success is simple Verizon. Deliver me good phone, text, and data, at reasonable rates. You are not doing that now. Extra services are meaningless if your not competitive on your core offerings.
Maybe it's time to buy some boring old Ford stock?
highly disingenuous article. Should be "computer programmers without degree will have to prove their specialty to be eligible to H1B visa". And all of a sudden, it becomes way less scary.

Apparently, having a bachelor's degree and a job in computer science was enough, under certain policies, to be H1B eligible. that the bachelor degree might have been in chemistry or in art wasn't relevant to the old policy. The new policy articulates that the degree should be computer related.

On top of it, it seems the old memorandum was not properly informing on the real policy. The given example sounds very odd though (apparently only programmers who were working for a company who's specialty was _not_ software were eligible for the 2-year degree rule...).

Computer programmer is not in and on itself a "specialized occupation" with the new memo. You also would need to be either senior or have the relevant degrees.
They could also buy from the gigafactory, just like Apple buys components from Samsung (their competitor within, particularly, the mobile market). Google licensed their search engine to Yahoo and others.

Tesla is not in a position to replace Ford and others, and they won't be for several years. Even then, they won't be in a position to displace anyone in anything other than consumer vehicles. They have no truck and no announcement for a truck. They have no busses. They have no heavy equipment.
It didn't work out for OpenBSD. I wouldn't generalize so quickly.

Mentoring students does take work, some do try and game the system. That happens no matter if GSoC or not. With GSoC, you basically have a form of financial support for hiring students. The GSoC paperwork is also rather minimal.

If you can, going through local universities and colleges is also a great way to have students work on community-driven Free Software projects. On a project, we had 4 engineering students do the equivalent of an internship on our community mesh network project. They did really great work and it's nice to have ties with university communities. We also had profs in social science classes inviting us to give talks, or had networking workshops during the weekends.
What are you basing that trillion dollar evaluation off of?

Combining the 5 largest auto manufactures on earth and you are still well short of a trillion dollar company.
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Indeed, it should come as no surprise when the Trump team does some unmasking of their own.
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The Parson-naturalist list you link to lacks one very prominent scientist-cleric- Gregor Mendel (though I believe this to be deliberate, as he performed research for economic reasons rather than spiritual reasons iirc). The earliest research on genetics took years to complete and was done as a side-project in addition to other monastic duties.
Or potentially just positioning some big development offices outside of their historic areas rather than the gigantic corporate campus mindset..
Part of the problem is that Linux has no driver API like Windows. The result is each vendor maintains their own fork of the Kernel with their crappy drivers shoehorned in. On the next Kernel version, they have to uplift all of their garbage to it.
IELTS score can evaluate a person's ability in English skills. Canada Express Entry gives points for English skills. While H1B (highly skilled visa) is based on "lottery"
I think in general the technique of introducing some slack in the form of partitions and then constraining those using some property of the specific problem space, in this case linear relations of whether those points lie on some curve, is very strong and has general applicability. Sort of like branch and bound. It's nice to see that this author started with a general idea that wasn't that fast, and then used a lot of clever details to improve the implementation of that same idea over a number of years.
The point is that one does not have to modify a system to exhibit uncertainty. You said it yourself: if the particle is in an eigenstate of A, it is not in an eigenstate of B. That is, the value of B is fundamentally uncertain, whether or not you thereafter "disturb" the system.

Per Wikipedia (not the best source, but accurate here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

"Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused[5][6] with a somewhat similar effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems, that is, without changing something in a system. Heisenberg offered such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty.[7] It has since become clear, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems,[8] and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects.

...

Bohr was compelled to modify his understanding of the uncertainty principle after another thought experiment by Einstein. In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (see EPR paradox) published an analysis of widely separated entangled particles. Measuring one particle, Einstein realized, would alter the probability distribution of the other, yet here the other particle could not possibly be disturbed. This example led Bohr to revise his understanding of the principle, concluding that the uncertainty was not caused by a direct interaction."
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Tesla isn't a car company. It's a power/battery company that makes electric cars.

This is the goal:

https://www.tesla.com/tesla_theme/assets/img/solar/section-h...

Powerwall
Solar roof
Car

All made/sold by Tesla.

If Apple can be a multi-billion dollar company making laptops, phones, and an app store, I don't really see the Tesla "could be a trillion dollar company" as too far-fetched.

I mean this is the era when SnapChat is "worth 25 billion".
If they cared one second about it, they would have changed the terms of access to the Google services.

The sad part is that the 2016 security report just came out and they brag how the whole security improved, without mentioning the elephant in the room.

Google IO is around the corner and I bet they will keep talking as if everyone could upgrade right away to Android O, with N now having barely 2%.
It was fucked up, and there's nothing wrong with saying that.

I don't know, as a pretty recent transplant from Texas to NYC, I find a lot of things to be fucked up here. I have a choice about how to respond. I can get very deeply upset by how messed up everything is, or I can accept responsibility for my choices, realize when I've made a bad one, and find some humor in the situation while I make a mental note to not do that again.
dupe. Still don't know what HN is doing with this.