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Tesla has been spending an average of $100 million a week on capital expenses, mostly to manufacture the Model 3, according to chief financial officer Deepak Ahuja.
I look forward to reading this. A system that can really do better than FPGAs and ASICs at compromising between speed and programmability is a multi-million dollar breakthrough.
Sure, they have clients, but it's far from being a huge hit (contrary to, for example, Spotify).

The amount of people using it are extremely small, which is doubly bad when you consider it's almost-out-of-the-box on Android phones, which are so popular.
Income requires vehicle delivery.
It's akin to technical debt, maybe call it Agile Feature Debt.

You implement a feature, it's done, all obvious bugs are fixed. But now that you have finished it you've gained additional knowledge from actually using it. And you realize the way it was designed or implemented isn't optimal, in fact sometimes you realize the way it works is dead wrong, and makes the product less usable.

Too late. It matches the spec. It's been checked off. Time to move on to the next imperfectly designed feature and ignore what happens when it actually works.

In my case our product was designed with a UI that was overly complex, with far too many taps and views to navigate through to accomplish a specific task. And apparently the implementors were either incompetent or totally under the gun to make tight deadlines. Because it's performance is terrible, making the long trip through all those views slow and twice as onerous.

But it matched the spec, exactly.
Can you point a newbie indie gamer in the right direction to finding a good selection of quality indie games?
I'm just boggling at someone trying to describe the Irish as an "intrinsically violent subpopulation" in 2017.
> Phones use MEMS sensors, which are much cheaper than laser gyros

Yes, but why? To my surface-level understanding, RLGs sound like they would be easier to integrate.

> It's just the compass that gives a shitty experience.

Yep, that's my experience too, and that's why I'd be ecstatic to hear that the compass was being replaced by a RLG (which could be re-locked to true North every time GPS got a decent movement vector).

Then again, I half suspect that something is FUBAR'din the current compass stack. I have one of those fluxgate-magnetometer current probes at work and can report that everywhere I've used it I have seen magnetic field vary as a high-SNR continuous function of direction, yet my phone's maps app has a ton of lag, hysteresis, and jankiness when rotating in the same damn field. Maybe we just need to wait for the cheap compasses to get better.
And what would you have him do? Let's assume for a moment, he's telling the truth.

He's tried to improve assembly process. He's asked to personally be in the loop. He's said he'll do the task himself to make an assessment.

Alternatively, if he lies, that's another matter. He has made a commitment and he can be measured against that.

Don't get me wrong. Nobody is so naive to believe everybody's perfect. However, I'll give Musk the benefit of the doubt and watch closely.

We need to move back to a philosophy of objective fact, unambiguous statement of intent, being measured against that intent.

If you have value to add, please do. However, throwing Machiavellian observations into the ring is unlikely to provide value unless something was missing from the article or you can tie it to an objective fact.
Assuming this happened and lead to anything it is still far from actually supporting it.
"Where would you fit more millions of people in downtown San Francisco?"

What has led you to believe this is a difficult problem? The impediments to density in San Francisco are regulatory. At Brooklyn's density the city would have 1.6 million people. At Paris's density? 2.5 million.

I deliberately chose those places because they're not dominated by skyscrapers.

People talk about the "housing crisis" using the language of natural disasters. But this is just people deciding not to build more housing. No more or less.
It makes sense to hide the truth. Deceiving the enemy is a very important tactic of war.
Isn't it the other way? You're in your garden in Moscow but the GPS says you're thr airport. A missile heading for the airport will think "I'm on target!" as it lands on your head.
Even though there may be some flaws in the way stock price basis etc.., the Pandas and python code and the methodology of calculating 'returns based on Analysts 12 month price forecasts' is very valuable .

One can easily tweak the code to suit their needs, I appreciate CODE Author for the effort . The Pandas and Python code can be used as spring board to further one's reserach
I think Bitcoin has potential but the majority of people do not want their everyday currency to change value everyday
I just wish apple would stop breaking gdb every release. They need to make up their mind on whether OS X is a general purpose OS intended for developer use or if its just a locked down version of iOS which runs on larger devices.
LastPass: I know from personal experience that plugin is garbage. No argument there.

There are extensions for blocking HTML auto-play. There used to be one called ClickToFlash, which became ClickToPlugin. I don't know if it's renamed again but it supported that.

The address bar thing is just weird. Can't explain that.

I won't deny that there aren't many extensions for Safari but I've never minded that, they largely never seemed necessary. For the longest time the only one I used was ClickToFlash. These days I have 1Blocker, but I've never been a plugin 'power user' even back when I used FireFox so that doesn't really bother me.

Thanks for the answer.
Is any independent party actually going to hold Musk to account on this, to make sure he and his managers do and continue doing what he says?

Or is this just going to be a news blip that's forgotten as Tesla's stock surges and Musk makes other sensational news?

Are there any consequences for failure here?
But there is usually an "or" following the word "either" ️
Imagine a flying unicorn shooting rainbows out of it's face. I can imagine that, even though it's a human construction, so I reject the argument that you can't imagine human constructions.
Adam Gorightly, author of a couple of books about Kerry Thornley, has been documenting the early days of discordianism at Historia Discordia. Lots of gems from era, info on various Illuminatus Trilogy related things, etc, on that site.

http://historiadiscordia.com/
The easiest way to live and think in multiple languages is swearing in them.
Great Insights of Computer Science: WHAT IS COMPUTATION?
Right or wrong, this appears to be a scientifically framed way of arguing "the problem's in your mind"... dealing with subconscious emotional issues, etc..

Reading between the lines it sounds like you're saying it's acedia, perhaps an extreme form. Acedia appears to be normally distributed in the population, so perhaps those who label it CFS are a couple deviations from the mean. Sure I've felt acedia too after years of working hard at a company I didn't care about with a stressful, long commute. Quitting, traveling for 3 months, exercise, indulging my neglected dating life, and ultimately a career change into a field I cared more about have kept me feeling active and motivated. If I hadn't made those dramatic changes though I very well might have messed myself up long term and developed a more extreme form of acedia.
They're a contracting agency. 6000/mo isn't a huge rate to pay a single contractor, nevermind an entire agency.
I get what you're saying. It is a prisoner's dilemma. Tragedy of the commons is also a form of prisoner's dilemma.

It won't take an organized effort to reach an equilibrium where consumers benefit. People's incentives aren't to defect and pay the money for the additional services. They're much more likely to just not watch Disney's products, or torrent them. Disney could've very easily have just not licensed their content to Netflix and made everyone buy their DVDs, but they didn't because no one buys DVDs anymore--they watch Netflix. They're banking on the notion that their content is so good that people will pay extra for it. If their content really is that good, then maybe people should pay extra for it. In that case they'll still be paying less than what it's actually worth to them. If not, then they won't. People can watch other stuff, or Disney will abandon the project.
As an Italian native speaker I wholeheartedly agree. It's one of the reasons I love English more.

Not only does English have many more homophones, and nouns can be used as verbs and vice versa, but English also has a much higher “word density” (for lack of a better term). The vocabulary is larger, and words tend to be shorter. The combination of the two means that you can take any short word, and odds are many other words with completely different meanings are just one letter-change away. On top of that, pronunciation is very inexact, which means many vowels and consonants sound alike.

These things make English pretty bad for oral comprehension, but great for puns.
AI creeps into the work of MBA careers advisers
Isn't there a key feature of your software that you could change to make it online only ?

Not checking the serial or user, this can be (and mostly is) suppressed by a crack.

But an important proprietary function that can't be to easily emulate by a crack and your software can't fully work without. Nowadays there is no more internet access limitations for stuff like that (that's why SaaS is booming for years).

And this could be the first step to your full online version.
> I’m not quite sure what Peelianism is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
I thought they didn't even need to own the land to build tunnels as long as they do it at the right depth?
The basic problem is that Coursera wasn't successful in attaching some meaningful value to their certificates as credentials.

The EdX solution to this is that their courses are all endorsed or run by brick-and-mortar universities with considerable investments in their brand that they won't want to tarnish by attaching it to any random certificate.
There is a difference between an ATM and blockchain app though.

If an ATM spits out too much money and that violates the terms of service you signed with the bank (or the ATM provider) the bank has a way to recover the funds since they can rely on the legal system to enforce the terms.

The blockchain exists to enforce the validity of state changes (transactions). There is no other value outside of that.

Thus, if you are reliant on the legal system to enforce blockchain contracts there is no reason to have a contract on the blockchain since the only real benefit is decentralized consensus. You are better off just rolling a few EC2 instances and writing an old fashioned contract.
Well, no, you can do stupid code like:

if(g++)
{

//do something

}

Which obviously will do something if g was non-zero before incrementing it by one. It's a really poor way of writing code, but I have seen it done.
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To be fair, that would be getting something out of it.
> There is a tendency, especially among educated males of a certain age, to start to feel themselves quite clever.

Once they learn a bit more, they start in with unintentionally ironic wordcraft on Hacker News.

Sorry, for us in the, um, third tier of humor evolution, that is one of the most cringeworthy sentences imaginable.
How Baidu will win China's AI race– and maybe the world's
If you exclude 9/11, it's got to be a lot higher. Killings by police are constant, whereas terror attacks are spiky. Like, in the past 10 years, what percentage of days included at least one killing by the police, vs. killing by terrorists.

The "eight times" statement is just referring to causalities over a time period, which I think end up over-representing the true danger from terrorists. The businessinsider link does a pretty good job to addressing that point.
> is it reasonable

you ask the wrong question. Sure it's reasonable, noone's going to sue them
But there's a whole scientific field called "toxicology".

Anyway, I don't like the phrase "anyone who ... is likely to be ..." in the linked article. It's basically an ad hominem attack, and not very scientific in itself (unless you take it literally, but in that case the author should have been more explicit imho, to avoid confusion/insinuation).
I don't understand the irony. I've already said I don't care about piracy in itself and that I am a huge pirate myself.
> "Loopholes" matter a hell of a lot less in real life than in episodes of Law & Order or whatever you've been watching.

Or if you are a company trying to avoid paying taxes.
> Where do you go?

Typically I just leave it in the code so that people aren't confused by non-obvious code. When I'm dealing with an API and the documentation is poor, I usually just search the name of the function on GitHub, and see how other people prod it.
I seem to recall that young children of a certain age delight in puns, but eventually grow out of it as they find other parts of life and language more fascinating. Perhaps it would accordingly be apt to tell adult pun-slingers to find more age-appropriate humour, as one might point an adult devotee of nursery-rhymes toward more adult poetry.
Wait ... this context is bs. There is an entire human element driving this data. The police interacting with other people. If the driver of every car was a predictable machine then then this is just as preventable as flying. Pilots interact with machines not people. And there are a good number of those 1000 that die that deserved to die and thankfully we have brave people to go after those crazys. This is police hate and criminal pandering with such vague statememts. Is this hacker news or an antifa forum?
> constantly breathing down their necks to cut corners and "get it done" meanwhile holding them accountable for any mistakes

It's not just cutting corners in the actual implementation, but also the metrics and management infrastructure for post-release operations.
I do not make any money off of it, no. And now that I think about it I actually did buy a used license for Word, which doesn't give any money to Microsoft, but which is again arbitrarily considered moral.

As for society being ok, yes and no. Nobody attacks me about it but I know plennnnnty of people who will refuse to budge on the idea that it's immoral and wrong.
Imaginary numbers just have an unfortunate name. The complex numbers (having a real and imaginary component) are objects on a 2-dimensional plane. Using complex numbers lets you describe, in algebraic terms, geometric entities and operations. Adding a+bi is translation. Multiplying by i is rotation by 90˚ counterclockwise. Multiplying by a, a real valued scalar, is scaling. Multiplying by bi is rotation and scaling. Multiplying by a+bi is rotation and scaling again, but the angle of rotation will be something other than 90˚.

The complex number notation describes an object in space or an action to be performed on objects in space. Other than it being more compact, it's not substantively different than a statement describing an action like "travel 50m northeast, then turn left, then travel 40m".
That is a very cool drone. I doubt that it needs to be so small though. I was thinking of something like a customized mavic pro. Automatic position keeping, person tracking (potentially both officers and suspects) and automatic navigation to particular locations, plus the ability to operate reasonably well in high winds and perhaps cost too argue for something a bit larger and heavier.

In most countries, ability to read street signs is part of the requirement for a drivers license. Reaching for spectacles isn't as threatening if the police are back sitting in the patrol car anyway, and there are always edge cases - how do police interact with deaf drivers now? (edit: just checked, seems like they get shot disproportionately often...)

But yeah, maybe the screen (which could include glyphs as well as text, or multiple languages) wouldn't work. I'd need to experiment to see what sort of size you could get away with and how reliably you could make sure it was visible. Of course having a screen doesn't preclude the use of loudspeaker either.
I remember reading RAW back when I was 19 or so. I think it was the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy, then the Illuminatus!

Just amazing stuff. And a massive piss take on the post modern novels of the day. Kallisti!
Baa,
Yewe are no fun.

Used in moderation prevents it from being too terrible.
They would never abandon the US market, but they'd certainly consider moving HQ to another country and making it the base of their parent company. They already are based in one of the highest corporate tax rate countries in the world (with CA taxes they pay about 42% on US profits, which is why these companies don't repatriate profits from foreign subsidiaries to the US).
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I wrote in a recent segment and wanted to ask/comment on the mitochondria issue with the nerves. My illness has been what I consider to be a never disease; they are inflamed at times or burning. When the CFS comes on I feel hot and then get nerve sensations. How does this have to do with the mitochondria? As time has progressed I feel less and less of this stuff in my body that originally took root in the area of my chest like an infection. How could this be mitochondria related?
I don't know about the specific project SoMisanthrope is talking about, but these types of tools are often used in conjunction with human graders. e.g. Instead of having 2 human graders, you automate the grading and have 1 human grader, and if the grades differ by some amount, only then do you bring in a secondary grader.
> Even then a library is still buying at least one book if not multiple.

And someone originally bought the pirated software, too, which they then went on to share with others....just like a library. So what, again, is the difference?

No, of course I wouldn't feel guilt. Do you feel guilt when you buy things secondhand or borrow books from libraries? You're not benefiting the creator and you're shortchanging the creator of the cost of purchase because you don't want to pay full price for a new copy. What's the difference?

> Presumably an author can pick a publisher that does or doesn't distribute to libraries.

As if a library is legally required to only carry books with the publisher's permission?
The two different encodings aren't just for config files; property lists are used throughout the OS for all sorts of things. They're a serialization of standard data structures such as arrays and dictionaries: same idea as JSON, decades before JSON. In retrospect, the XML-based text format is excessively verbose, but back then XML was all the hotness… As for the binary format, well, even given JSON's relative succinctness, there are many different formats that attempt to fill the role of 'binary JSON' (BSON, BJSON, JSON-B, MessagePack, CBOR, UBJSON, Fleece, PSON). It's just that none of them have become ubiquitous, probably because of some combination of fragmentation and the lack of built-in browser support.

As for the daemon, among other benefits, it allows preference changes to be immediately visible across all processes on the system, rather than requiring manual action to reload from disk. See:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Dat...
Peter Madsen arrested over Swedish journalist's disappearance
I wonder how they define "classics" - two of my cherished titles from MIT Press are "IBM's Early Computers" (1985) and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" (1991).

They're examples of what I consider "The Perfect Computer Book".

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-early-computers

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-system...
I could make the UI online and ship the app with a Chromium browser :D
You have to wonder what is currently unknown today.
Broken in many ways? Absolutely. Fixable on a technical basis? Probably. Fixable in the real world? Not as long as it's a Democrat (regardless of race) getting credit for the Heritage Foundation's plan.

As for costs, I don't know your state or situation but that does seem high. In Illinois for an individual plan with BCBS (PPO, larger of their provider lists) I'm paying under 500 non subsidized though if the exchanges still exist next year I expect it to rise $50-100.

Edit: clarity
Don’t like Google’s diversity agenda? You’re fired
Courage like this always impresses me in a profound way. I only hope I could be this brave and humble about it.
I really like 1blue3brown, but this one didn't quite resonate with me.
To me, it felt like a long winded way to make it intuitive that the point (1, 1 ... 1) has distance sqrt(n) from the origin, where n is the number of dimensions.
I think there'd be move value in explaining things like 'most volume is near the edge' and 'most points are far apart'. Granted, that is less about building intuition, and more about specifically dispelling heuristics from 2 and 3 dimensions.

I'd still wholeheartedly recommend his other videos though. Especially [1] where he gives a very nice topological result regarding inscribed rectangles in closed loops. In the same vein is [2] proving the borsuk-ulam theorem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmgkSdhK4K8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSFkLhDANA
There aren't any gatekeepers. There are people are doing work for you. You are totally in control. You (or your org) can opt to have some of that work done for you. You can't pretend that it doesn't need to be done at all

Soon are coming the days in which developers produce Docker images as their primary artefact and Ops are responsible just for k8s, DC/OS or whatever runs them, without knowing or needing to know what's inside those containers. At first developers will be ecstatic, they can use any version of anything, never have to get anyone else to install anything first, brilliant!

Then the 3am phone calls will start...
First of all, I don't agree that code like that is stupid regardless of circumstances. Any programmer worth his salt understands that condition perfectly well without having to think about it.

However, it's an altogether different situation to the one I wrote about, given that the value of the incrementing expression is specifically used in that case.
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Well, programmers have agency. Guns don't. If they did, sure enough I'd blame them for "being killers" in addition to blaming whoever commanded them.

For completeness, calling something a "killer" has several connotations. One is in the very literal sense by which I call a "screwdriving tool" a "screwdriver". This is technically correct and probably not what you mean. Another connotation involves blame, and you simply can't apply this to an object without agency.

(I'm still not pro-gun, btw. I just agree that calling it a killer is not a very convincing argument on the matter)

(Nor do guns "make a living like everybody else" :) )

My point is, if your boss commands you to do something unethical, this does not dissolve you of blame (unless you are an inanimate object :p).
I don't know enough about the background of this story to have an opinion either way, but I thought this article may be of interest to the community.