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Nice article. One gripe:

>For example, a 200ms service task that needs to run every five minutes would need a dedicated service instance (or two!) in a traditional model

This feels like such a straw man. Under what traditional model would you spawn off an entire server instance for such a minor function? You'd slap it in as a service on an existing host. Hosts which for a long time now have been virtualized on consolidated hardware, not bare metal.

Serverless can bring big benefits for certain workloads, but hyping it up by misrepresenting the alternatives seems a dishonest attempt to justify investment in the big architectural changes you have to make to get there.
They have a Fab (fab 68) in Dalian China for their 65nn process node on 300mm wafers, and an assembly/test site in Chengdu.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_...
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It may not be "text", but "words" as symbolic constructs do enable us to think. Read Helen Keller's biography; it's a quick read and fascinating seeing her account of how scattered and frustrating her mind was as she was growing up before she learned language.

Of course, that might be exacerbated by her blindness/deafness, where for example a sighted person could probably conceptualize objects better without a specific language.
> It's especially hard to isolate ...

I guess that, that it is especially hard, is what motivates some people to put in the effort to attempt to quantify these variables.

It's probably impossible to determine with absolute certainty, though it might be possible to determine with some level of confidence.
I feel like the issue here is less race and more another country.

In other words, replace the word "Chinese" in GP with "in China", as I assume GP intends, and I don't believe that racism is an issue.
Ah, retargeting. Do a search once, be followed forever...
1,000 miles, you're probably covered by the lemon law on that if you just want to return it. I can't say at 1,000 miles I'd not be fuming about a large up-front deposit being asked of me.

Amazing. Well, I wasn't going to hand GM any money again anyway, but my slight admiration I had of their Bolt is now gone, so thank you for that. GM is pulling their usual cheap Android vendor that wants Apple prices method I suppose, which I should've known. Yup GM corporate simply told me that the dealer is their eyes and ears and could do nothing other than side with them. Really helpful.

I certainly hope you don't have any further issues with it for the remainder of its lifespan because this stuff is a big waste of time. I've been at the point for years that I'll just pay more and get the Toyota or Honda even if it looks like I'm paying for nothing on the spec sheet.

GM really goes out of their way to charm all their loyal customers.
It's made of metal, its going to corrode in some way - I don't think stainless steel has the properties you'd want in a brake rotor, either.
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can't take over the space industry when your rockets keep blowing up
How much time does one actually save? Modern air travel is as much about the airport as the aircraft. You spend almost as much time getting to or from the aircraft than actually flying, even on transatlantic routes. So for far less money they could achieve the same results by attacking the airport ends of the travel time equation.

And what business passenger, by definition someone with a degree of wealth, would cram themselves into a concorde-like seat rather than the epic accommodations of a modern first class cabin? Just to save a couple hours?
Arguably you can get by with just one (plus a little of the other) vocabulary and still be pretty intelligible.
+1 for spaced repetition. I automated a schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days) based on the SuperMemo algorithm for stuff that I read that I want to remember. Currently exists as a browser extension:

(Chrome) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...

(Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/harvest-gr...
If I had to take a stab at it, I'd suggest more immediate gratification and less abject poverty. I have no source and didn't look for one, but those may be causes for less personal discipline.

And we do have excess food production. We can feed the whole planet. Food supply isn't the problem, distribution and affordability is the problem.

So, that is my purely layman stab at it. I wouldn't even know where to begin doing quality research on this.
This is especially relevant in our current environment of unregulated civil forfeiture.
As a sidebar, I really wish that Blendle would exit Beta so that I could buy these extremely interesting articles as a one-off micropayment. I don't intend to get a subscription with every top news organization (NY Times, New Yorker, The Atlantic, WSJ, Economist etc), but I would be more than happy to pay $0.25-0.75 for an article like this.

I want to pay for their content, but getting locked into a subscription when I don't want to read the majority of the content in any one of these publications is foolhardy. And unlike streaming platforms like Spotify, Netflix, HBO etc these news platforms don't provide nearly the same return on investment. I listen to Spotify 15-20hrs per week, I watch Netflix for at least 6hrs / week. High quality journalism is very valuable, but certainly these publications are aware that they aren't in the same weight-class as Netflix and Spotify in terms of value to customers individually. As an aggregate, I would easily spend $10 / month consuming "high quality technology and research news and opinion" pieces.

Please, for the love of god, provide me with a sensical way to pay for your content.
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Ah, ya, and Singapore was just flash (did they fab there before), and that is just Micron now to boot.

At 65nm, they aren't fabbing CPU there, probably just supporting chips.
Wait... Back up. That was not my intention at all. The question was more about cultural differences and risks moving a core piece of a public company with lots of proprietary technology into a foreign country. I am actually a bit frustrated and confused why you think my comment would be deserving of a moderator.
I thought "Trump's America" was a decent enough moniker for a culture (an entire culture, larger than just the 49% of the electorate that put him in office, if that makes you feel better) that has lost the ability to engage with one another intelligently and with decorum, since he's the epitome of that phenomenon. It's interesting that you took it and ran with it in an entirely different direction.
I work in energy, and there's a phrase: "The cheapest kilowatt-hours are the ones you don't use."

Anyway, for those who haven't read/listened to it, Maciej Cegłowski has a wonderful talk on the subject.

Talk: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Video: https://vimeo.com/147806338
The most important function of cash is to limit the power of the government to control private economic actions. There needs to be more acknowledgement of the fallibility of government, and other mitigation strategies proposed for government abuse than just "we'll vote in a better government". Society needs non-political checks on state power, like cash.
Are you really comparing the relationship between smoking and lung cancer with a relationship between air pollution (especially outdoor) and heart disease? Seriously, they're not even in the same ballpark in terms of objective statistical significance. Not even close.

You may not be able to say with absolute 100% certainty that "a specific smoker got long cancer from smoking", but you can often be >95% certain. Can you (or anyone) say the same for outdoor air pollution and heart disease?
Can you share business logic between serverless functions? Like classes, functions and immutable data. If not, it's a severe limitation.
In fairness, HN usually assumes software engineers are idiots too. The general sentiment is more "engineers other than me are idiots".
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I drive a Toyota hybrid, and have never even remotely considered relying on regenerative braking to even slow my vehicle. If I want to slow down, I press the brake. If there's any slowing because of regenerative braking, I have never noticed it.
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I personally think it’ll be another 30-50 years before it’s clear whether it’s actually smart or not.
Okay... let's say we should avoid a cashless society and encourage people to carry cash. Why is a $500 note useful? If you look at businesses today, you'll find several with signs that say "no bills greater than $20 accepted." If you think it useful to keep cash stuffed in your mattress in $500 notes, and there's a massive disaster that shuts down all the banks... where are you going to convert that $500 into everyday spending money?

As I once saw a survivalist say, hoarding gold for a post-apocalyptic world is a dumb idea, because it's too valuable to be fungible. High-value currency notes have a similar problem. They're not really usable except for high-value transactions, and the number of transactions that meet the criterion is actually quite low (I've paid rent in cash using $50s before, and the most problematic thing was getting them), especially in disaster scenarios.
Well right now most Teslas go to salvage by a third party and some go to Tesla recycling. I assume some number just go to normal scrapyards.

It's profitable to recycle the batteries so it isn't really a problem, and isn't likely to be a problem, and there are existing paths to recycle vehicles at EOL. For instance 90% of lead-acid batteries are recycled[1]. Again though batteries are most useful simply as salvage, and it'll probably be that way for a couple decades at least. The battery in a Tesla is so sturdily built (very thick aluminum sidewalls and bottom plate, then filled with potting epoxy) that they pretty easily survive crashes that total the car. Even "dead" batteries still have significant life and storage left, and are still more efficient, cost-effective and energy-dense than ni-cad or lead acid. Right now they're mostly just used by hobbyists but I will not be surprised to see companies popping up in a few years that buy old Teslas for $5,000-$10,000 and sell stationary storage at close to $125-150/kWh. They scrap out the rest of the car, install the battery modules into racks and sell them. At those prices it will take quite a while for this to be a viable business, but once it is it'll even compete with the used car market.

Worst case Tesla batteries can be safely sent to a landfill (they contain a small amount of cobalt and nickel, but no other toxic elements), they should just be drained first. Recycling is done with a hammer mill normally, but car shredders are built to chew through two foot long cast iron blocks[2]. They would have zero trouble with a Tesla, and probably wouldn't mind if it was charged.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycl...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQNttxaG1qA
You can bypass the WSJ paywall by tweeting a link to the article and clicking on the link from Twitter. They check the Referer header.
That's like saying, "just stop smoking" in 1960. Ok, there's a handful of us that recognize the danger here, and have ceased using social media, but what are we going to do to help everyone else?
There is no way you owe $7500 in federal taxes on a $40k/year salary.

In the worst case (single or married filing separately; in this range the numbers look the same), the standard deduction is $6350 and the single personal exemption is $4050 in 2017. So your taxable income is $29,600 assuming you aren't putting any pre-tax money into retirement savings.

The 10% tax bracket for those filing statuses goes to $9325 in 2017. The 15% bracket goes to $37,950. Tax on $29,600 ends up being $3974.

To get to $7500 in tax you have to have about $47k of taxable income, and hence about $57k of gross income, for single or married-filing-separately filers.

For married filing jointly filers, you have to have about $56k of taxable income, standard deduction is $12,700, two personal exemtions is $8100, so you need at least $76,800 in gross income to owe this much.
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I largely agree with you, I think until you can see a electric with a 400 mile range with a 45 min recharge to get another 350 miles out of it, the concept of the electric car as the car for everyone doesn't pass the smell test.
I am fit and healthy. So, I can't say how simple it is. I don't know, I'm not in their shoes.

But, I'm told it is simple - for the vast majority of people who are overweight. Put fewer calories in than you use and the result is weight loss. Operate at a caloric deficit and the result is less weight. That is it.

Note: That is just weight loss and doesn't imply that it is healthy eating. Obviously, it should entail more, but I understand it is pretty simple physically. I was a fat kid but I got chicken pox at the age of 15 and have been the appropriate weight ever since then.
> I think they're safe from going under

They're pretty safe from going under now, but what about when the next big breakthrough is at a competitor? Presumably you want to keep your memories past the 5-10 year visibility that technology cycles at.
15 years since I last looked at Java for Desktop Apps and shipping as binary. I remember there were also GCJ as the commercial JET alternative.

Graal and Truffle are progressing along. I wonder what happen to SubstrateVM, which allows AOT of Java. I assume with SVM the binary size can be further reduced and much faster startup time.
So basically a supersonic turbofan is a SCRAMJET behind the first fan?
For married-filing-jointly you need a gross income of at least $76,800 in 2017 to owe $7500 in federal taxes.
What a fascinating read. I don't have anything to add.

The pursuit of Mr. Wright in Australia, I thought, was somewhat mundane. Evidently from this article my assumptions and his successful evasion of the Australian Police would show it wasn't just a simple raid-and-audit exercise, but something altogether more sinister.
No offense, but that's kind of the fun of linux on the desktop.

Also, if you really haven't updated in three years, that means that you're still running kernel 3.16, which has 81 known vulnerabilities[0], 12 of which are critical. That's the kind of stuff I don't really want to worry about anymore.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/p...
Yes, I'm sorry you got screwed,, but every manufacturer has a story just like this one - I'm not really a 'GM Guy' but I don't think this is a fair brush to paint them with.
Mostly too many calories. Fruit isn't 'bad' as much as 'it's really hard to consume so many calories with all that fiber in the way'.

But if you process fruit by removing that fiber, as say fruit juice, you're easily consuming tons of calories.
When skylab landed on australia they sent a littering bill to Nasa. The general rule is that, if you want your hardware back, you have to pay damages. A sat isn't generally a big deal even over a populated area. It's a lot less damaging than a small plane crash. Those happen every day.

Depending on who you talk to, much more natural rock falls to earth every day (asteroids etc) than satellites. A hundred pound rock might make a local newspaper headline but only if someone sees it.
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I don't really think this is even remotely useful and will probably be abused within the hour.

Plus, I'm not sure if I want to trust Google to check what my website or blog says is true. I don't see any extensive track record of being a fully neutral entity when it comes to things they care about, which would only hamper discussion on the topic.
Note the GP's use of "delivering" - people have been using non-JS languages for a while and they have mature tooling & good communities. Elm, ClojureScript, etc. And the semi-Javascripts like TypeScripts and CoffeeScript.
Enough easy money is pouring in that cash comp is equal to what you'd get at a large non-Big Tech (Google/Amazon/Fbook/Msoft/etc) company. The lottery ticket is just an add-on.
Your married number is off; I think you forgot that in that case the personal exemption and standard deduction also double...
I was surprised to find no mention of Tu-160, which is a supersonic strategic bomber currently in operation. It builds on Tu-144 design. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160
One of the advantages of flying Mach-2 is to provoke the increased wear of the intercept aircraft at peaceful times, or so they say.
I won't deny we're in a unique situation right now. Being one of the beneficiaries of there being a bubble, I won't deny I'm biased here.

That being said, this is a bit of an interesting situation because we are largely seeing an alternative set of vehicles that aren't silicon valley funding tech innovation outside of silicon valley as well as in.

Our personal situation, we are seeing larger innovation outside the valley than in in terms of both AI publishing (China) and alternative use cases. I won't try to predict when a bubble will pop, but there are both tons of capital right now as well as tons of naysayers looking for the chance to say "any minute now" and look to be right.

I really can't say yes or no on whether we will see this pop or just evolve over time. You will see articles online both saying "any minute now" and "the bubble will continue".
I'm not sure to what degree we are in a bubble as much as we are seeing money shift outside the valley.
I don't think these issues are unique to GM sadly.
The average person doesn't buy new cars. The average new car is $33,500[1], so the bolt is right there at the average price. I guess the question is how well it holds its utility as the price drops.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car...
That's a terrible experience, but there is no way that is common or the story and lawsuits would be everywhere.

> (Most years of this model had software bugs that were so bad, they could literally kill you — for example, the exhaust system could overheat, and burn the car down)

Has anyone died?
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Maybe you could find a sport where injuries are logged or can be inferred from other data? For instance if a racehorse performs far slower than its typical pace, its odds of losing the subsequent race might be higher.
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In a disaster, buying a few bags of ice, or a few gallons of
gasoline is unlikely to cost more than $50. What cash-only vendor will be able and willing to provide change for a $100, let alone a $500?

If any cell service were available (think Project Loon)
then a vendor with a Square reader could do business
without cash, or, if willing to break ToS for trusted
customers, could act as an ATM, providing cash in trade
for credit or debit card charges - with the risk of
charge backs, of course.
Inflation, the general rate at which the price of goods and services is rising and falling, is literally the calculation made in the post to which you have replied.
This article is blog spam. It was written by someone with only a rudimentary understanding of the topic, which is pretty evident if you read it.

The entire purpose of this article being written was to get a good looking (SEO-wise) back link to the domain "businessmacroeconomics.com". If you look at all the links in the article, they are almost all to major news media publications (safe links to make the page look good). Then the real link appears at the end of the second-to-last section (the perfect spot for SEO). It's the only link not to a major news outlet, and if you look at that domain/website, it's some guy selling a book no one's ever heard of.

This article was 100% paid, for SEO purposes and written by someone who has no idea what they're talking about. They just ramble for 500-1000 words to get good (human-sounding) content so that google will trust it's a good backlink to the author's website and put him at a higher rank in the search results.

Either a voting ring got this post to the front page of HN, or 29 HN readers (at the time of this post) were swindled into thinking there was any substance here at all.
Better get very very good at configuration management, provisioning, patching, monitoring, and all the other things that go along with running large quantities of infra (even if virtual). I don't know anything about your app, but I do know many shops that deeply regret going down this path rather than building multi-tenant in the first place.

For what its worth, and some may disagree, but production SaaS apps don't belong on Linode/DigitalOcean... but that's a whole other topic.
Brendan Eich's Brave browser is working on solving this.
GM resale value is terrible across the board, except for Corvettes.
I thought China was part of the WTO and has most favored nation trade status with the US. Does the US have such high import taxes on Chinese goods? I don't think so. Googling around I found this[1] 2014 article about unfair taxes on US cars and a win for the US in the WTO court, but maybe China just ignores that ruling. It does not seem reasonable for the US to allow China to impose taxes and force tech transfer from the US, especially since the US has such a high trade deficit with China. There was some talk about this problem during the US election, but I have not seen any action on the issue yet.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wto-autos-china-201405...
I don't think any user would want to, but some unscrupulous websites and ads already do.
Concorde was a British-French aircaft, so it was allowed to fly over the UK. If it had been American, it would have been banned instantly. It was horrifically noisy.
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This comment is an example of the adage that successful sports betters could probably be making money in lots of other ways :)
>>I look at it from another end - I feel there is a sort of an app fatigue.

For all practical purposes, the early start up riches are now gone. And there is also a degree of low hanging fruit value, that gets taken early in the stage of any industry. First movers have had that advantage. After that you can have a lot of small companies providing value to small niche places, but the big money value is now taken.

Every once in a while you will have some nice idea that comes along and will get big, but those will exception rather being the rule.