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Imagine a world where everyone's consciousness has been uploaded to computers. People play sports, knit sweaters, whatever- all in virtual reality. It's much safer and cheaper than maintaining a physical body, after all. Now each person might have some real human friends, but they're more likely to have AI friends who are smarter, more charming, more interesting. Or maybe there's just a lot more of them. You may not even know which of your friends are "real." It might be considered insulting to ask. You spend more and more time playing alone or tittering with a circle of sycophantic AIs.

Over time people decide to pass on by ritualistically committing data-suicide, or overdose on data-drugs, or get squeezed out by increasing scarcity of computing resources, or whatever. And so the species gradually dies out until you just have some AI routines running in a hot server room on a dead planet. The last human might not even realize that she's the last.

The same situation could occur without mind uploads if you could build very realistic androids, but I like the mind upload scenario.

And of course this is all very chauvinistically assuming that those AI routines slash robots don't qualify as human even though they're indistinguishable. The AIs could be conscious, or not, I suppose, depending on how they're implemented.
it's pretty much the same change detection logic across all of these frameworks. Immutable data is key to performant change detection. Angular provides the ability to bind template to immutable state data so the framework can provide the most performant change detection
I am glad you are safe. I obviously have no clue into your actual diagnosis, but just some thoughts.

This works if and only if you are in control of the situation. That being said, have you considered if when the worst case happened to you, the kind of stress your relative could experience afterward? Perhaps guilts? What about if you are permanently disabled? You probably won’t be able to keep your current job, and then have to re-adjust to a different life style and re-learning whatever physical skills you have lost. Meanwhile, others would have to take up responsibilities for you, and more money draining down the road. Next thing you know, you regret your decision.

I do share you views in general - I would prefer going to a hospital I know that can provide better service per dollar value, but when it is life threatening situation, I won’t choose money over my life. If it was a minor stroke that probably okay, but still, so much uncertainty. Yes, if ambulance is late, you probably should consider going there on your own (keep 911 operator on the phone - never hang up until an officer has arrived). I am too really frustrated with my ambulance bill, and I wish someone can help me understand why the heck an aumblance can cost $1000.

I am sure you know the risks, but I do want to give my two cents.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Type classes are all about making canonical structures explicit.
This is currently being tested in court. Tesla's autopilot has resulted in fatalities.
Thank you. My experience tells me another story.

More code in terms of code size in bytes isn't always more complex. For example, sometimes one wants to emphasize the similarities and analogies and spends extra bytes to show that. But that in my experience is rare - and while it could be beneficial for a novice or for a substantially unfamiliar code, for good code if soon becomes burdensome.

TotalAmount instead of x would probably drive crazy most mathematicians. Or most APL programmers. And probably most people demonstrating code on a whiteboard. Even in more mainstream languages like Clojure or Haskell a lot of variables are rather short; it's unfortunate that C++ with history of Hungarian notation, Java or C# have a habit to use long names.

There is a reason why mathematical notation exist. F = gmM / (R^2) is often preferable to "force is proportional to both masses and to inverse of square of the distance with proportionality coefficient gamma".

My advice for you is to try develop a program in REPL fashion. Standard J package from Jsoftware has a good environment for that - you can launch a computation expressed in a line, see the result and if you aren't satisfied just copy the line, make changes and launch it again. Pretty convenient in comparison to classical save-compile-run-checkResults loop of, say, C++ development. One line is certainly easier to change 15 times before implementation when specification change.
I didn't realize there were public ambulance services in the US. When I was hit by a car I was definitely taken to hospital by a private ambulance as an emergency patient.
Coming from a country where ambulance usage is free for citizens, it would be interesting to see the stats in Uber cities. The only reason not to call an ambulance here is if you feel it would be unethical (e.g. if you broke your arm and your partner could drive you).

EDIT: That is, I imagine you might be able to see whether Uber provides a better alternative than the local cabs. This still holds in US cities though, why is Uber specifically good? Why don't people consider calling their local cab company, which will still be much cheaper than a $250 ride.
Maybe. True that the U.S.wastes many opportunities, but then again, the problems get harder as a country grows. It seems that economies often find it hard to continue the pace of growth past the manufacturing boom, or so I've heard and seen.
> India’s advance won’t stop there, according to the CEBR, which sees it taking the top place in the second half of the century.

what's the reasoning behind this claim? Purely population growth?

Also surprised Brazil is supposed to have a top 6 economy by 2032. Isn't their economy in the gutter and based on soybean and oil production?
Are you seriously suggesting that it is OK to open a bug bounty for e.g. a webpage that you know has XSS flaws, and then refuse to pay out when someone exposes them because "yeah, we sort of knew that there were XSS, and we're hoping to move past our legacy framework. Closed informative"?

Don't open a bug bounty if you have unresolved known issues unless you are prepared to pay out, thats bogus.
Last time I talked to someone who ran one of these and got out of it, the price is driven primarily by liability insurance.

Uber and Lyft can get away with this because they self-insure and amortize over a much larger customer base.
This production bottleneck is a very temporary thing. They had the same problem with the original Roadster, the Model S, and the Model X. All eventually resolved. I see no reason they won't eventually resolve it for the Model 3, as well.

It may (read: will and has) take longer than they wished, but they aren't in anywhere near the danger of going under as they were with, say, the original Roadster, so this is just a matter of time, in my opinion.

The danger comes in the fact that electric cars are ultimately fairly simple to make (although Tesla does a particularly good job at it), and if their competitors just got their act together, Tesla would have a tough time. But in my opinion, as long as they're the only ones with a really good charging network (the others are both much smaller and much slower... and the few stations that aren't slow require an upgraded car), they have a significant head start on their competitors.

Production bottleneck will eventually clear. But having demand exceed supply is really, REALLY good for Tesla's business as it gives them access to interest-free capital (from reservations) and the reservations also show the existence of sufficient demand to justify financing continued expansion. So, Tesla keeps coming out with new products even before the previous bottlenecks have been cleared in order to maintain the state of having demand greatly exceed supply.

And these new products usually share a technology core, i.e. battery modules and electronics, thus allowing them to traverse as far down the learning curve as is possible, which is a multiplicative effect that improves every other product. Using larger batteries than you might think strictly necessary only amplifies this effect while giving them a quality and performance advantage over their competitors.

Tesla will also have an advantage in their charging network of having cheaper electricity with faster charging than anyone else. The Semi product offers 7 cents per kWh, which is lower than residential rates just about anywhere AND is ultra fast-charging. So assuming they can meet that rate, Tesla will have a large advantage in logistics costs even compared to other electric self-driving providers.
Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN, even if something else is wrong or bad. That's no reason to make this place worse.

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Okay, but where will GDP per capita be? If you think about it, it is really sad that China has 1 billion MORE people than the US and yet the GDP of the US is still 165% of China's. GDP per person is the figure that really tells you what the standard of living is for average people, not just total output. The growth of the Chinese economy is not bad for the US. It means more Chinese entering the middle class, buying American goods, offering great products and services to American buyers, etc. If the Chinese economy surpasses ours, it will be a good thing for the US too.
It's interesting to see that while much of Europe's top economies slide down the ladder, Japan is pretty steadfast in maintaining its position as world's no 4 econ --despite all the naysayers and their demographics (which most neoliberal economists insist must change, for them to remain healthy).

Should be interesting to see how China and India use their economic might to influence global culture (i.e soft power).
Check out the following map to begin with,

https://learn-anything.xyz/web-development/web-scraping

Hope that helps,
A relevant personal anecdote - I hit my head earlier this year and gave myself a concussion, but did not realize it at the time. The next day, I began experiencing severe headaches, sensitivity to noise, sensitivity to light, etc. and decided to go to a hospital. I called an Uber.

I'm not sure what I would have done without Uber. I guess I could call a cab, but I don't know that I would have wanted my ride to the hospital to be 30 minutes late, to refuse to turn the music down, and to tell me the credit card reader is broken when I get to my destination and then insist on taking me to an ATM. So I might well have called an ambulance.
It's 30 years. Pre-signed lease renewals aren't recognised in Thailand.

Your landlord can take the property back after 30 years, contract be damned.
Even though it's Christmas the theme is looking very weird and unreadable to me.
Just because you violate social mores does not entitle someone to violate the terms of their engagement with you.
That matches my experience. Jenkins is built out of a spiderweb of plugins and that makes it very fragile. Though, I did find I could mitigate the problem.

* only use Jenkins stable releases

* snapshot the system before updating or installing anything

* make regular backups of your Jenkins server

* never install a plugin unless it's actually neccessary

* always update Jenkins before installing any new plugins as otherwise you may end up with an untested mishmash of old and new plugins

I like having control over my CI, but it does seem a lot harder than it should be.
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It is well known that semantic groupings increase memory or working memory capacity. The author alluded to that. The Gabor patches are probably used in part because semantic strategies are more difficult to use and gain from using those stimuli.
Please don't post acerbic swipes to Hacker News. Even if you have a point, it's not worth damaging the community for.

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Sounds like a good way to self-sabotage and not launch.
Could someone explain what we're seeing here? I've seen self-driving startups do staged demos of self-driving cars, but this seems to be the unveiling of a self-driving car web page.
Wasn't it supposed to be by 2025?
7.6% can be absolutely HUGE. I have to support Samsung "The Internet" version 2.1.... and that's about 1% of traffic. But the amount that that still brings in in a single month is enough to pay a developers yearly salary.
You can also get married to a Thai citizen.
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This comment is the sort of indignant, dismissive snark that we need HN users to forego when commenting here, especially when discussing new work. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of ideology, so please stop doing that.

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And things like things needed to keep patient alive and breathing
Been doing Ruby full-time for 3+ years, bunch of experience before that.

there's heaps of good tooling for finding the
method source and docs dynamically

I know, but this is a huge problem with a lot of code I see in the wild because this stuff is (ab)used so widely in Ruby-land.

If I have to run code just to see where `Foo.bar` is defined, that makes things... about an order of magnitude harder to understand. I mean, that's really tough thing to do in anything but a trivial codebase.

This is nearly 100% the fault of developers, not the language itself, but I would suspect that most Ruby developers spend a significant amount of time dealing with things like this because it's how the ecosystem rolls.
Japan was supposed to overtake the US economy by 1995, I believe ...

China has many of the same problems with country supported banks, bad loans to prop up the economy, etc.
You seem to take a keen interest here. I wonder if you're familiar with John Taylor Gatto's prior work in the field. (see https://archive.org/details/JohnTaylorGattoTheUndergroundHis...). I'd be greatly obliged to hear your evaluation of it, and any substantive response you'd care to make, having once familiarized yourself with it - it's a fairly quick read in my experience.
Um, Japan was #2 and has been sliding down since about 1995-ish.
Maybe you really do need a vehicle, but improving public transit and walkability would get a lot of other people out of your way.
Even if someone else was trolling and/or breaking the site guidelines, you're still responsible for not posting like this. Please don't post like this again.

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Please don't take HN into partisan flamewars. Even if you're right, this is just the sort of political flamebait that nothing good comes of here, and it's destructive to the purpose of this site.
This makes me think and I'm pretty excited about it...

How far off/difficult would it be for Tesla to create their own ride sharing app?

I mean both Lyft and Ubers "moat" seems to be their app which is not defensible against a market leader in autonomous cars that can simply switch on a new marketplace for its userbase and whole lot of other folks that can't afforda tesla but wants to be picked up and dropped off by one.

Would it be far fetched to see Tesla's market cap will combine Uber and Lyft on top of their existing market cap.

I mean it's a matter of time for Tesla...thanks to Uber's aggressive campaign efforts in spreading ride sharing, city management will be more than familiar and open to new innovators....plus Elon Musk's reputation (he might outsource some SpaceX to your city, you never know) riding him to the stratosphere....
This is still not appropriate. You should really change it.
The other posters aren't correct. The actual reasoning is that the banks, as tenants, impart a top-flight credit score to a substantial portion of the building's finances if the leases are designed the right way. In return for the slightly more demanding leases which allow the credit-score to functionally pass through, they receive a substantial rebate on the market rate of their leased locations over long periods, affording them cheap arbitrage opportunities - if real estate prices and rents soar, they're still locked in below market rate at the pre-boom rates. If they don't, and rates go down, they have a substantial buffer before the market value of their leasehold is negative.
Correlation != causation
Understood, but after that they have been holding --and apparently will be able to hold till at least 2032, per pub. On the other hand Euro countries keep losing position.

One can't expect them to hold off countries with 10x their pop.
This whole thing reminds of Buffett, Charlie Munger and the textile mill machinery story. I need to find the exact link for it though. Here's what I can remember from top of my head:

They were offered more "efficient" machinery, which could manufacture more textiles than the old machines. "It will pay for itself" was the pitch. But they refused as more efficient machines meant they had to pass on the savings to the customers. With lower prices, machinery was not exactly going to pay for itself.

I guess that will be the case for Uber and Lyft too. Any efficiency with low enough barrier will mean no one is reaping profits rather passing it on to the customers and hence making less money.

Edit:

Found the link:

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/a-lesson-on-worldly-wisdom/
Twice is extremely optimistic though... Especially if you give it a couple of years to forget your original thinking.
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I'm not quite sure how that title made it in there (unless the submitter broke the HN guidelines by editorializing) but we've restored the article's title above.
Threading macros (-> / ->>) can greatly improve readability, putting lisps on par with Ruby (which I appreciate much).

Best of all, emacs/Cursive lets you trivially transform a sexpr into a threading form, and back. So one doesn't even have to do much effort for refactoring nested (a(b(c(d calls.
After some time, I think I get it. If the key/iv is location-specific, trim may result in an abandoned block which will then be recreated somewhere else. This results in two blocks from the same logical location in two different flash locations. Unless I misunderstand something, the xts mode encryption uses location-based keys.
Solitude and loneliness appear similar only from the outside. With sufficient experience of both, one learns to recognize the difference.
> solving this one without people dying from misdiagnosis

Why would that be the best metric. I'd prefer "overall minimization of death and sickness", not the "no mistakes allowed for DeepMind" as if doctors don't make lots of mistakes that cost human life.
Consumer goods are practically free next to housing. I don’t buy this argument at all. I could completely slash or double marketing-driven spending tomorrow and be in substantially the same financial position. Maybe that’s just a Bay Area distortion.

Consider also that a large portion of consumer goods spending is on cars, which are basically just a substitute for living on more central/expensive land. In the end it all comes down to real estate.
Is GDP per person really the metric though? Doesn’t wealth/income distribution have something to do with it?
I agree. I rolled my eyes pretty hard at this line:

> Before we could Skype home and feel we’d done something meaningful.

Those golden days where talking to people was so meaningful, not like today where people talk over a distance!
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If the Great Firewall is anything to go by, I would expect Chinese people to be spending less on American services due to more services being blocked.
> Obviously you can view history from different social constructs, but for me at least, this article did little but waste the time it took to read.

Well, the fact that these were some of the LAST temporary truces and that the high command was actively terrified by these kinds of events and raised them to court martial offenses was something I hadn't known before.
By the way I agree with `There is a better thing, even if you must make it`!

But I make those 'things' within lisp rather than by exploring new languages. If done sensibly, colleagues will be able to use those custom abstractions too.
> each of the places I listed was because it is a unique shopping "experience" beyond the goods sold.

>>> Walk into the Sunshine Mart where you feel like you've been magically transported into a grocery store in Tokyo.

These two ideas are not compatible. "It feels just like a store in Tokyo" is the opposite of a "unique experience".
It's actually a lot more than just 1 sq km, mate. Waaaay more.
Japan's GDP per capita in 1995, is 60% more than that of US. Now their GDP per capita is 60% of U.S...which says a lot.

The rank actually doesn't say too much. Japan's power is waning, while European country, I know is controversial and hated by conservatives, has EU. EU has a much bigger representation in world economy in terms of the effects of policy and regularization.
The 4 GWe wind farms have an average capacity factor of 35% so over ten days that's 336 GWh or 4.8 million Teslas, and that's just for the fraction of electric generation that's wind in the PNW. Scale that up to full electricity and then full energy and you're looking at a pretty serious challenge. Batteries are generally not what people consider for grid-scale power. The 100% renewable Stanford superstar, Jacobsen (who's suing his scientific critics), doesn't even use batteries in his scenarios (he uses pumped hydro and hydrogen instead).
Everyone and their mother has been predicting the eventual economic dominance of China the for literally decades.

Truly groundbreaking work.
Ah, so you don't think anyone would lift an eyebrow if you told them "you can easily get a billion dollars working at Microsoft"?
>The point is that f it is, it will end traffic.

Will it though? Lyft claims that self driving cars are smoother and more consistent. They claim this will end traffic. Smoother, consistent driving doesn’t take into account traffic lights, stop signs, merging, lane changing and turning, all of which require you to slow down, even for a bit, and all of which are sources of traffic congestion. And of course bottlenecks as you move from a highway to city streets, and the slowing down as you reach your final destination. Intuitively, you would need a vast, high capacity tunnel network that would allow you to avoid all those things to “end” traffic (maybe). That’s more than self driving cars alone.
I'm incredibly excited for Red's use for exploit development, as a security researcher having a tool like this can make things move along quite well.
Also, if current growth rates hold, everyone on the planet will be employed by Amazon in 2 years.

I am not sketical that China has a quickly growing economy, but models that project 20 years into the future often fail to account for black swan events (ex: 9/11, 2008 financial crises, famine/drought, decline in oil price since 2013, etc) that require total model changes. I expect at least 1 of these events in the next 20 years and likely a few. I’m thinking:
Environmental crises,
Demographics crises in China (too many men, not enough women)
Debt crises
North Korean crises
Yeah, I wonder when they are expected to surpass the US in per capita GDP; or the median income adjusted for PPP. A lot of China is still in abject poverty.
The intro example here is a bit confusing. It seems to suggest that the student was less educated than the others, but presumably he had roughly the same education level as the other new students. He just came from a poor background, and had an accent. That seems more like conventional class discrimination.
So in a few decades we can start thinking about it.