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Something I've often wondered: could you recreate a civilization that vaguely approximates modern society "from scratch" with dramatically fewer people by focusing only on those technologies & institutions that are most important? In other words, if society had a nuclear holocaust next year but several highly-educated people survived and they managed to keep a complete readable copy of society's collected knowledge, could they build an advanced technological society with < 1M people?

I'm reminded of software rewrite efforts. Big software projects never get designed from scratch and implemented, they evolve by accretion. Somebody builds something halfway useful, they get capital (or volunteers) to help improve it, and eventually you've organized the planet's information and made it universally accessible and useful. In the process you acquire a shitload of technical debt so that it becomes very difficult to understand or change the lowest levels of the system.

Trying to rewrite large software projects with bug-for-bug compatibility and feature completeness always fails. You run into the same issues as trying to build a complex system from scratch.

But trying to rewrite a large software system where you're allowed to move the goalposts and sacrifice feature completeness often results in a system with an order of magnitude less code that's simpler for the majority of users as well. You get to prune out all the features you thought would be useful but turn out to be more trouble than they're worth, and you can often take simpler paths once you know where you're going.

Are there similar shortcuts available for human society? For example, could you race from farming villages to electricity by building wooden windwills that turn dynamos of simple copper wire loops? What would that change in how we approach industrialization, if you could start building machines without needing the labor of thousands of people and their supporting society? Are there similar shortcuts for semiconductors & integrated circuits, or do you really need the full might of a modern industrial society before you even have the raw materials?
> This is silly doomsday insanity, Apple will be bankrupt soon kind of hilarity.

Apple is probably not a good comparison here.

Apple was about three months from bankruptcy when Steve Jobs came back, and his pulling it back from the brink is regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime turnaround success. If Tesla's situation is as dire as Apple's was, that is not a good sign.

Note also that before he had time to introduce things like the iMac and iPod, Jobs had to stop the bleeding by brutally slashing unproductive businesses. I don't see Tesla doing anything like that.
This strikes me as an area where legislation could have a significant impact. It's an area where there is absolutely no economic incentive to do the right thing. It seems similar to the way email lists and spam were back in the early days of the internet. Based on my observations, the CAN-SPAM act requiring automated mailings to have an unsubscribe link actually seems to have been fairly effective at improving that situation. Granted, there is still spam, but the legit mailing lists are a lot easier to opt out of than they used to be. Perhaps some legislation relating to terms of service agreements could help with this problem?
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I'd like to know more about Schmidts relationship with several younger women. Is he paying them through a sugardaddy arrangement? Are they escorts? I don't see why this isn't publicly available information.
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Back when propaganda was first being developed as a field, particularly between the two World Wars, it was greeted with a great deal of excitement by the powers that be precisely for this reason: It provided a non-physical means of coercing the will of the masses. There is plenty of material from those days about the wonders of propaganda, that it would enable the ruling elite to guide the caprices of the people while avoiding physical conflict (win/win!). It was always a half-baked idea, and the other shoe dropped very quickly (Nazi Germany was very forward thinking in its use of propaganda), but nothing changed.

I doubt that you can remove all social inequality, and it seems throughout history there have always been people who have exerted their wills more in order to accomplish their ends in society. The deep issue that we face is that there is no ingrained morality. Imagine if wealth and power were viewed as a weighty responsibility rather than a privilege--as the holder is responsible for using it to accomplish what they will, the choice of what one does reflects the quality and worth of the person. That's the reality in any case, but imagine if that were universally ingrained as how we, as a society, defined success....
I'm just about to add this to our Risk Register. I'm thinking of 0.01 x 100 (our scoring system is 1-3 x 1-3.) That means I think it is very unlikely but seriously (I will probably offend someone if I let loose here) nasty.
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... available to american customers.

Wake me up when it's the other way around :/
What do you expect from HN? US economic policy is pillage and plunder, yet the second another nation state does it we're supposed to care? Quite frankly I don't care whose exploiting the planet and robbing from us all. US or China, equally bad. This article and these comments seem to say "It was great when we had control..."
You mean besides atmosphere and ionosphere?
After moody's downgraded tsla 40 minutes ago, their bonds fallen and yield rose to 7.1%.

Maybe Tesla can rise as much as necessary, but i won't call 7.1% yield to maturity as very favorable.
The "hedge-fund manager" in the article is a nobody who manages $25M. Not sure why MarketWatch thought his commentary mattered...
That's an accurate description. Though acquiring the best electric car and autonomous driving technology is probably a magnitude harder than ramping up manufacturing.

Manufacturing also isn't easy, but it also isn't
super hard compared to electric cars and autonomous driving.

Dozens of car companies have managed to do it, while none have managed to build electric cars and AD well yet.
"Close to a decade ago."

We started working with Peter Sikking, professional UX architect, around 2006. He departed three years ago or so.

That puts your claim roughly in the time when Pete was extremely active and wrote several functional specs that were implemented to make UI better.

Now tell me, do you feel like you remember 10 years old stuff correctly after several beers?
Memorex 89 - The spaceship designs at the bottom really bring back memories. http://vintagecassettes.com/memorex/memorex_files/memorex89e...
I'm sorry, how are these related? After this slump, TSLA is still up ~1400% since the time that hedge fund started (2010).
On election night, the odds were roughly 5 to 1 on PredictIt
I'm pretty sure APIs #1/2/3 do exist, although access costs thousands of dollars, making hobbyist usage impractical.
Absolutely.
There's the possibility that other countries could use Nukes on human populations. The USA already has.
I was referring to Modern Apple, post-2016 Apple, not Apple from nearly 30 years ago. I am not referencing that moment in time, I am referencing a very strong company with huge cash reserves and a dedicated wealthy fanbase along with fawning investors, both private and public.

> I don't see Tesla doing anything like that.

Of course not, that would Actually bankrupt the company. What Tesla must do is what they say their plans are: ramp up production and bring new product categories online. They will succeed, and if there are short-term cash issues they will be resolved.

Tesla is a $10T play. Elon wouldn't let it die in 4 months because of some silly, relatively small cash issue getting in the way.
7.1% is not the coupon rate, it's the yield to maturity.
Devil's advocate; Past performance doesn't necessarily correspond to future success. Typewriter manufacturers were still doing pretty well in 1960.

That said, IBM certainly did well in that particular transition.
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I'm confused about your "greater throughput" comment. Generally one achieves maximal throughput by maximizing parallelism (not plain concurrency!) and letting each individual core/CPU run its job to completion while ignoring everything else (even interrupts, as far as applicable).

Async is generally associated with lower latency.

Can you expound?
If Ethereum does move over to proof-of-stake, then the market will be flooded with 1080Tis. I expect the DeepLearning11 server will then be a goldmine for DL researchers - cheap as chips.
It broke to the downside after trading sideways for two years. Taking their financial position and M3 delays into account, it is not a good move. Limits their capital rising options.
Oh no they could also encode illegal data!
They’re good good for people with social lives.
It's almost as if people have different opinions about what constitutes the good life.
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Sure looks a lot like the (now discontinued) 9.7-inch iPad Pro
They were clever to understand that developers wanted the freedom to code GPGPU in C, C++, Fortran plus any other language able to target their bytecode (PTX) instead of being bound programming in crufty C.

Then they created nice numeric libraries and graphical debuggers for GPU programming.

Their new Volta GPUs were explicitly designed to be developed in C++ (there are a few talks about it).

When Khronos woke up for the idea that maybe they should support something else other than C, invoking compilers and linkers during runtime, with OpenCL 2.0, already most developers were deeply invested into CUDA.
> Having written services professionally in Java I have seen performance scale linearly with connections, until one day it suddenly spikes massively - why? It was that we crossed some threshold where the GC was suddenly having to do a ton more work, which caused a serious feedback loop - server has to pause, clients don't handle it well, clients hammer server more, server has to pause, etc.

Fair, but you almost never see things like this with Go, and when you do, it's pretty straightforward to triage since the GC and escape analysis are far simpler. Meanwhile, the performance is comparable.

> I find it far, far easier to write correct, expressive code in Rust.

I know this paragraph was comparing Rust to Java and not to Go, but while Rust is more expressive than Go, man does it take a long time to figure out how Rust wants you to express what you want to express. On the other hand, most things in Go do what you would expect, but sometimes you need to subvert the type system (which is a bummer, but it's worth it to me to sacrifice 1% of type safety for an order of magnitude or more productivity improvement).
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Yes, and the link for that first sentence is a survey which specifically asked about promotions, "e.g., coupons, sales".

That is, what does it take to make a person happy to receive an email from a business? Answer: only the opportunity to spend less money with that business.

It's extremely misleading to try to hijack that statistic into a generic "customers want to hear from companies" claim. Most of this article is about how to get people to spend more money, which is exactly the opposite of what people in this survey indicated.
Right, thanks for correcting me. Will update the post.
It's easy to be consistent with your promises if they're vague. Did Trump ever mention anything in particular that was bad about China's trade with the US, such as currency manipulation and foreign technology transfer? It's hard for me to google things about it now that most of the news is about the current dealings, but I don't remember him really offering a coherent criticism of China other than that the US was getting a bad deal. Please correct me if I'm wrong though
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Keep in mind that new car sales in the US are at their lowest since 2010, and not getting any higher, so if anything there is also a possibility that Ford might make less money in the future.
Yes. More on this in context to A/B/C/D.

https://hackernoon.com/deception-degenerate-a-b-testing-ecce...

Note: I am the author.
Could you repost your original comment please? People seem to think any and all outrageous tales where X told Y some shady Z was happening means schizophrenia.
Thank you, but that's just the "plain" phantom limb illusion. I was thinking of a completely different documentary -- the person was actually wearing a complete VR setup. (Now that I think about it, I think it might have been a researcher at Uppsala University. Just in case anyone finds this comment in future.)

EDIT: Ah, here we are. I think this is the one I was remembering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t0xw (alas its "not available in [my] location", so...)

(I do seem to remember seeing an even earlier version of this experiment on this very programme, Horizon, but that may be a false memory.)
Tesla has shown itself to be really bad at scaling manufacturing, even when it has large backorders for its cars.
Ironically, this kind of automated activity is a violation of the TOS and may get your account suspended.
Why is the very first piece of criticism on something like this that Apple doesn't serve the bottom 20%? I can make that argument about tons of things unfairly. For example, does Toyota serve the bottom 20% of the world? Does Hacker News? Does Tesla?

Why don't the middle 50% deserve a great experience or progress? There is A LOT of progress to be made in education in the first world. There is so much low hanging fruit.

Did iPhone serve the bottom 20% of the market when it was released? No. Did it subsequently change the quality of life for the bottom 20% as it ushered in the smartphone era? Undoubtedly. Will this particular announcement do the same? Probably not, but who knows. Does it need to in order for iPad to be successful? No.

Look at it this way, if a $300 iPad is easy to administer, easy to manage, easy to get children to use, easy to clean, easy to handle, useful for teachers and students, and extremely reliable - that is a huge win compared to the status quo because it will convince schools that implementing and integrating technology is both a worthwhile and easy endeavor.

Can Google do something similar with Chromebooks? Sure. Is it a different approach from Apple? Yes. Are both approaches worthwhile? Probably yes, let’s see what happens.

I feel like there’s a fundamental pragmatism missing in the OP’s snap judgement and that results in something short-sighted and irrelevant. Ultimately s/he has a point but not a useful one and there are far far more useful critiques for us to be talking about.
Yeesh. I didn’t know that Windows still uses the self-referential page table trick. This makes me very nervous, especially since they seem to keep it mapped in the user page tables. This seems likely to poke a big hole in ASLR if nothing else. It’s a huge target for write-what-where exploits.
This should now be resolved, Safari should work fine.
It's called brand recognition.
It looks very nice.

Congratulations, one of the few times I see a worthwhile use of WebGL beyond games.
>They still have tracking pixels

You can block that with e.g. a hosts file blocklist that blocks all Facebook related domains.
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You're right, I decided to switch from seconds as base unit to hours as base unit half way through writing the comment, and screwed up the conversion. I was accounting for seconds when I was already in minutes.
"I get that you don't like them, but that's tough beans."

It's hard to overstate how difficult it is to separate what you want the law to be from what it is. This is why people do so badly at representing themselves, and even lawyers have this problem.
I’m assuming you mean the Affordable Healthcare Act? I find the whole Obamacare thing divisive and obnoxious.
Was it solved?

Just because the marketers don't have your name as "John Argano", they still know everything about your handle "pishpash".

Even if its not your name, its not anonymous. The same profile can be targeted by political parties and manipulated in ways that we are coming to see as problematic.
Yes, there is JSDoc[1] which allows you to add type annotations in comments, that can then be used by some tool.

The VSCode editor is able to leverage the TypeScript engine even with vanilla JS to automatically infer types and also supports JSDoc. Basically you write vanilla JS, add JSDoc comments here and there when the inference doesn't work as you want and it gives you most benefits of a typed language, without tying yourself to a specific ecosystem (your teammates could be using something else entirely). It works pretty well.

[1] http://usejsdoc.org/
There is a reasonable school of thought that banning them would increase the amount of warfare in the world, by drastically reducing the risk and scope of retaliation. As it stands, they make the cost of war too high between major powers.

Do you believe otherwise? Perhaps that it is worth the cost in lives from smaller wars to prevent mass casualties in nuclear ones?
The internet is as inherently global as the postal services are. What differentiates it is that it's faster, cheaper, and immaterial. In principle, the legal situation hasn't changed compared to before the internet was a thing. If you just want to do business in one country over the internet, you can do so. What has changed is that a company and a customer can reach each other easily, cheaply and fast aross national borders, using the internet. The drawback to international business is laws, rules and policies compliance.

Having that in mind, the project Gutenberg lawsuit makes sense. Imagine a service that copies a requested book and sends you that copy, all by postal services. If that company shipped into a country where the book in question stills protected by copyright, then it is clear that there will be legal action.
Oh Diablo. I will never forget how you broke my heart when my hardcore character died because my mom picked up the phone when I was busy slaying demons.
Jim Chanos echoes a similar sentiment

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is...
Is the March 2018 update even out still? I thought they pulled it because it reconfigured all the NICs in the system, losing static IP configuration in the process...?
The author makes some good points, but what he doesn't delve deeply enough into is that the leadership of the Democratic party - those at the DNC, the Clintonites, and other centers of neo-liberal power who push identity politics the hardest have absolutely no interest in a "progressive agenda". They want to gain power and wealth. Winning elections is only a piece of that dynamic. Above all else, their allegiance is to their Wall Street paymasters to whom they will depend on for a paycheck long after their political careers are over. They would much rather lose an election with Wall Street backing, then reject their Wall Street funders and win. For this crowd - grifters - that would defeat the whole purpose of entering politics. How does one run as a "Progressive" Democrat with a Wall Street agenda? Identity politics! As long as the focus is on race, and gender, and "identity", the focus is not on economics, privacy, or endless war. The DNC crowd thought they could have it both ways if they just hammered identity politics hard enough and tried to shame people into voting for them. They ended up losing to Trump - a half-retarded, corrupt, boorish clown - literally the worst candidate you can imagine. The Democratic party is rotten from the head down. Unless and until we cut off the neo-liberal head of the snake and purge the party of identity politics zealots the Democrats are destined to be the Washington Generals.
It's always been laughable.
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I'm pretty sure they had around six months give or take a day or so of oh shit in Intel. Of course, Intel may have actually simply broken the glass on a dusty old plan of action "In the event of ..."
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I expect if I were to pay for an alternative to not have my privacy violated.

The whole free versus pay argument is sophistry. Many pay products usurp your privacy. Your television is selling your viewing habits. Your car telematics solution is selling your movements. That operating system is mining your activity to sell you things.

And many free products defend your privacy. Linux, VLC, Firefox, IPF, and on and on. More concerned for your privacy than any other product.

So can we please stop this binary differentiation. It isn't useful.
Well, true, but talks about tesla bubble gained traction after tesla reached capitalization of ford - year or two ago. So I (somehow optimistically) assume that tesla shortsellers shorted TSLA highs during last year or two, which puts their positions into black atm.
How can you test against an unknown bug?
True, but the version of Java for phones was J2ME, which was different from J2SE. Android implemented the API of the latter.
It would be great if you could add top posts from each of these domains. I am really interested to see the top content I may have missed from a few of these domains.
Wow, thanks for this.
If all it takes is being a "better" psychopath along with an organization lead by psychopaths that only care about popularity and not truth, then with initial testing for calculations - they likely had a very good idea what would happen once they added fuel to the fire.
> Sharing your data in exactly the way they describe in their privacy policy is not lying.

But they refuse to tell me when my data has been compromised. They also say that my data is stored securely, when it is not. That is lying.

> Are you saying that Google is wrong to respond to consumer demand?

Not at all. I'm saying that Google could build their systems in such a way that they can't comply with an NSL. The reasons why they choose not to are irrelevant. It matters that they made that choice. Additionally, there is no reason that they couldn't make it optional.
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That is problem DGX-2 interconnect solves.
Why are you manually patching workstations? WSUS allows central management (inc. zone deployment), but even in Windows 7's default state it should apply these updates without intervention.

2008R2 I can see doing it by hand, but Windows 7 clients is odd. Particularly as it seems to be taking you two months to apply urgent patches.
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This is correct. Appols!
A 'cellular dongle' would be a dream come true.
Actually, both parts were incorrect. This has nothing to do with implementation whatsoever. This copyright case is based solely on the SSO of 37 Java API interfaces and nothing else.
No, I was (until very recently). Sad to see it go...
Polarization and margin of victory are orthogonal concepts, and certainly not linked by causation.
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Yes, how cute they put everything into a thingie designed by Linus, for Linux and it scales way beyond its original use case. There's probably a lesson there somewhere.
Having an English text but setting the language to another one like German or French is hilarious.

You get e.g. ze Dscherman aczent or de frensch onehe.
EU/UK here. Hoping that GDPR will force FB to actually delete every copy of what I've tried to delete/hide.