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I have constant thoughts going through my head, similar to what you describe. No inspection/introspection/reflection on my conscious mind works for me (counting, drifting meditation), so I use audiobooks to fall asleep.

I have trouble sleeping but it's unpredictable. It's not always, and it usually goes that way for period of time, then I don't have trouble for a period.

I usually don't lose my focus and drift off, instead it's like I'm listening carefully, then I instantly wake up the next morning. It's like a hard stop and I lose a chunk of progress in the book. I'll do anything to fall asleep so I don't mind that.

I've tried it all, I can lay in bed and think about nothing for hours, I'm pretty good at it, and have been doing it for a long time. It's not enough to just 'not have thoughts'.

Also, I never remember my dreams. I can still remember 2-3 nightmares I have had over the years. They are very rare. Never dreams though.
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Right. But I'm thinking torrents and packets distributed to the local network of peers to ease the distributed bandwidth load. Granted a state level actor could potentially collect all data as they do now and have a hell of time trying to piece it all back together. That would take total knowledge of the network and the keys. But for users whom have permission to view the content granted to them through the "friending" process the last thing you want is for them to be able to mine their device or know what's being stored on their device. This would take a fixed install size with a flexible disc space to store popular files, something that would be clearly communicated at the time install of course. Nothing will stop people from pulling triggers other than culture. But making it difficult for the bad actors to do so seems like a good place to start. That and having a paper trail should shit hit the fan.
Exactly. Like How many mechanical and electrical problems will develop a year from now ? Two years ? It’s very different to carry 80,000 lbs for a few test rides than everyday for years.
> “It’s a new class of material that can reconfigure itself, and it has the potential to be customized into liquid reaction vessels for many uses, from chemical synthesis to ion transport to catalysis,”

It really is only a matter of time between society must address the general availability of technologies that have remained self-regulating through sheer intellectual and resource bottlenecks. This has probably already started in some form in terms of home-based genetic and biological engineering.

I'm no chemist, and do not know how likely it would be to effectively build a general chemical printer. But, one area of application would be recreational drug synthesis. Getting a handle on controlling the potential for biological weaponry is a challenge, no doubt. But we actually can address the failures of the drug war right now before a different reality is immediately thrust upon a society.
You know what makes me thing the LIDAR wasn’t working, the part about the dead woman.
Not if you paid for it (Pro version). I never install the latest Windows 10 right away.
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Those trucks look like beluga whales. I wonder if that's what their inspiration for the design was.
I expect them to not do so in a pay-to-play manner.

As it is, requests for public comment - the feedback to them goes straight into the paper shredder, but if you throw a bit of money towards the re-election fund, you can write the legislature.

It's corruption, pure and simple.
I don't think that's the entirety of the problem. I mean, that may be part of the problem; those temp agencies take a nasty cut, but I am a temp worker going through an anonymous body shop, and I make pretty good money, like I can't contribute to a ROTH IRA good money. I mean, sure, I'd be making another 40% if I were a direct hire, but I interview pretty regularly for that sort of thing, and while I can reliably get contract gigs at top-tier companies, so far it appears that I don't meet the direct-hire bar for top-tier companies, and I'd kinda rather stick with the contract gig at a top tier company than a direct hire at the third tier down. Similar money, and the food and the company is better here. Also, they don't expect you to drink the kool-aid as much as a contractor, and I am kinda bad at consuming company kool-aid. (Note, that is a little bit of sour grapes... I think the primary thing keeping me out of direct hire positions at top-tier companies is my technical ability, which is improving... but the kool-aid factor is a big part of why I'd prefer to contract at a top-tier company than be a direct hire at some place that is not.)

My point is just that the temp agencies are not the whole of the story here; for some reason, there's not enough demand for most kinds of labor to lift wages much above the statutory minimum. Why is this? We've got an oversupply of labor, why hasn't the market figured out how to use said labor?
Was publishing it in the Guardian part of the humor?
Isn't the real question: how much data does Google sell about you?
On top of that, I think it is absolutely rational to expect autonomous cars to perform at the current state of the art. We tolerate certain kinds of bad human drivers, like beginners, because there is hardly an alternative. A self-driving car with the driving skills of a beginner would be completely unacceptable if the state of the art has skills comparable to, say, somebody with a few years of experience.
I would like to bet against.

Lockheed stock is not going to react negatively if they waste few millions for this.
you misunderstand 'ever'
with computing the mistake is that it is somehow different to trains..
It's a very strange project. If some startup was doing this, it would sound completely bogus. But it's Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. They have a reputation for making the impossible work. Lockheed Martin is funding this internally, and, in one of the few public statements about this, their CEO said that progress was sufficient that the company was putting in more money.
A good example of this problem can be found in every article currently floating around HN about Uber's manslaughter of a pedestrian named Elaine.

You constantly see morons saying that since only one person has been killed, "the sample size is 1" even though any doofus with half a brain who thinks about it for half a minute will realize that obviously, one has more information if 1 pedestrian is killed after a billion miles than if 1 pedestrian is killed after a thousand miles. Gee.

Couldn't agree more with Zed. I'm fucking sick of having to work with these shitheads. It's not the ignorance that bothers me, that's totally okay and not something anyone should ever feel bad about. It's the goddammned hubris, thinking they know everything because they can wrap their tiny brains around an if, an else, and a while.

edit: Getting lots of comments that don't get that I'm humorously imitating Zed's tone, which is also meant humorously. Since there's several of them I assume that's on me. Sorry. Well, now with this edit you should know what I mean :)
He did not kill himself. He was murdered.
The examples of EFF and ACLU are okay and I'm pretty sure that there are hundreds of well intended lobbying groups in the US. But, I'm often confused by the lack of control or checks for private players with a lot of money like for example, Intuit which blocks easy tax return filing, NRA which blocks gun control/ban, Facebook which blocks privacy bill, etc., There must be so many other examples that an outsider like me cannot comprehend or understand. So how come this is allowed without any protest? It looks like the first amendment is being used to disguise crony capitalism!
Progress is steadily being made on fusion, not sure why anyone would say it's vaporware. Cold fusion is something totally different...
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I am not sure we can trust ourselves to maintain a rational comprehension of what’s going on around us. We have little reason to believe humans have ever done this for very long.

For all it’s follies, religion is evidence-based as an evolved meta-structure which motivates moral commitments to one’s community. We have taken such a superficial approach to religion that it’s worth has eluded us and we are paying the price.

Rest assured, I am not arguing for religion. But I will argue we cannot rinse ourselves of it in such a frivolous manner. Of course, advertising applies all the perceptual tools of the Roman-Catholic empire to unending profit and shameless hedonism.
Is there surprising or troubling stuff on others’ feeds that I’m not seeing on mine? Mine is just a list of searches I’ve made while logged in on Google products: maps, search, etc.

I was expecting to see something less obvious, like location data that I didn’t explicitly or knowingly share with Google.
had a non-tech friend recently message me this (about brian acton from WhatsApp tweeting against Facebook):

"so dumb. of course the founder of a competing company would criticize them"
This is a pretty good legal analysis of the first amendment issues this raises.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/03/why-fostas-res...

I'd point out that merely operating an interactive service provider with the intent to promote or facilitate prostitution is criminalized... if you work at a company that might get sued, you probably want to start looking for a new job.

Conspiring or attempting as well... if you talk about with intent or try to figure out a way to facilitate prostitution, that's ostensibly illegal too.

That said, the chilling effect of removing immunity under 230 is the greater concern, as it's more likely to withstand the first amendment challenge, from what I can tell. Of course that assumes that there would be such a challenge, from someone.
Well, the only Thunderbolt 2 to HDMI adapter I've used that actually worked well (and I tried 2 others .. they're expensive too, I must have spent ~$150 in the process) was the Belkin ones. The others didn't, for whatever reason, work when both Thunderbolt 2 ports were in use and the internal display was also turned on (on my '14 MBP).

Other dongles for example randomly lost one of the color channels, had noisy output, occasionally flickered black or didn't work when waking up from sleep.
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It may well start out like that, but like most technology I expect it will just keep getting cheaper and smaller with time.
> I don't think people realize that really cheap, clean energy solves pretty much every problem of scarcity.

Except the one people care about, scarcity of mates.
Coal is one thing, the environmental cost of producing batteries is another. You have to drive your 100kWh Tesla for over 8 years to get carbon emissions lower than ICE cars[1].

That number probably got lower thanks to Gigafactory being more efficient. Hopefully.

1) https://www.autovistagroup.com/news-and-insights/swedish-stu...
I think you wrote this in jest but if there were really good flying cars on or coming onto the market it wouldn't surprise me if it could make a dent or maybe even a total takeover of certain types of industries, depending on what you're targeting. Cars in general? Probably not plus they'd have to fly themselves or people would be dying far more frequently than regular car crashes.
This is the thing that makes me most excited about autonomous vehicles.
I'm not entirely sure you are following my point: it's illegal to install that software precisely because Google has restricted their use on competitor platforms. In the general case, there is nothing wrong with licensing your code as you see fit, however when you have a market dominant position things change dramatically from a regulatory perspective. See the repeated run-ins Microsoft had with competition regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.

The point to debate is whether Google has a dominat position in say search. Not if "this world" grants a right to unfettered anticompetitve and monopolist business practices - it does not.
Less scarcity of sex robots? Only half joking.
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The Fremont factory supercharger has always been the worst one in the network. Be social with some owners, you'll be surprised what you might find out.
Fundamental engineering limits aside, fusion progress competes with battery progress, and we put a lot more money into battery research.
It's not vapourware, just expensive to develop.

The path is ITER, DEMO (30% greater plasma density) then commercial reactors based on DEMO
> I am using the word "right" in the "moral" sense of the word

Calling legal, Constitutionally-protected political protest immoral because someone "did not feel a chill run down their spines after Snowden's leaks" isn't better.

Jumping up to your original comment [1]:

> Why are people surprised by all this?

It's novel. Specific beats abstract, actual beats hypothetical, relatable beats austere. In Cambridge Analytica we have a specific example of Facebook dropping the ball and creating actual consequences relatable to the average American.

Americans love to forgive. We wanted to see Zuckerberg acknowledge the issue, take responsibility and overcorrect. (Think: Tylenol [2].) Instead Zuckerberg disappeared for a few days, apologized like he was making a scripted sales pitch [3] and proceeded to do nothing tangibly evident to the average American. Seeing Facebook lie and cheat so brazenly, in respect of a specific, actual and relatable crisis, was novel for many people.

We're also seeing a narrative shift. Facebook once lived in the shadow of Steve Jobs, within Silicon Valley's greater story arc and the myth of the founder. (Think: HBO's Silicon Valley [4].) They were allowed to cut corners as the product of a goofy if influential wunderkid. That's shifting. Shifts surprise. There is no need to throw people under the bus for agreeing later rather than sooner--at the end of the day, agreement is what matters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16685315

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6DOhioBfyY

[4] https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley
The original comment says "you have to give way to a car that is approaching or entering the roundabout on your right", whereas the rule is that you have to give way to all cars already on the roundabout, without regard to whether they approached from your right or left. If they got into the roundabout before you got there, you have to give way.
It could be argued that Aaron was in the prime position to dish out mental health advice, being a sufferer of mental illness. Compare that to mental health professionals who, while educated and more knowledgeable than your average joe about mental health, might not have first-hand insight on practical coping strategies that actually work (as opposed to some of the "let's talk about it -- we're out of time, here's a script").
Yes, they should do their jobs without any extra nudging I suppose?
A little less contempt and a bit more patience for what is likely to be unintentional ignorance would do you much good. Zed Shaw has to act like a toxic asshole to get their opinions heard - you don't have to, and if that derision leaks into your interactions, it's not surprising you find yourself surrounded by morons. Only a moron would continue to knowingly work with a toxic asshole.
I guess that I dont see how "Apple refuses to let me manage my own data" is different from "I would like to manage my own data, but Apple refuses to let me".

FWIW, I'm not dismissing what you are saying, but I genuinely dont see how it changes anything.
Tesla was mentioning 400 miles. I _could have sworn_ they specified those numbers were all with an average load but it seems official numbers are a bit annoying to source. So now I'm curious if that's accurate or not.
> My desired experience is that I want to see what my friends have to say, and don't want to see random commercial spam.

Have you tried Facebook recently? These days 90% of my feed is posts from my friends.
The video is from a third-party dashcam, not the vehicle sensors, says the NTSB.
This is already documented to be the case with YouTube, where the recommendations serve as a radicalization engine. For example, watching videos on vegetarianism will cause YouTube to push you to be vegan. Article (by the same author) here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
It's not "serverless," you are just paying someone else to run more of your stack for you.

In the late 90s to early 2000s we called this "Application Service Providers" or "Managed Hosting."
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> almost any other country

gives example of Saudi Arabia.
Some kind of realtime system. A GC pause of 200ms in a car could easily cause a crash.

Sadly, I fear it may actually be written in C++.
>Here I am, having this largely pointless Hacker News conversation, instead of completing a Deep Learning course or something.

so... there is something deeply addictive about hacker news... but I personally think? it's the same thing as talking to someone for hours at the pub. same reward mechanism. I mean, the pub closes, and that helps; and most people at most pubs are... difficult to relate to. but I can remember just last month I was hanging out front of my local computer club talking to someone until like 4am.

I think the difference here is that hacker news is more like my computer club than it is like a random pub, just because the people I meet are more likely to hold my interest.
This took surprisingly many searches to answer - I was expecting to find this neatly tabulated from earning reports etc. But anyway :

"Alphabet generated $32.3 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, up 24% from the same period last year. It was Alphabet’s highest-revenue quarter ever, beating out the prior quarter. About $27.2 billion of that revenue, or 85%, came from Google’s advertising business."

https://qz.com/1195777/googles-swelling-advertising-business...

I also found it interesting how much Google pays for "traffic acquisition" (like paying Mozilla for default search etc):

" In its most recently completed quarter, traffic-acquisitions costs were $6.5 billion, or 24% of Google’s advertising revenue, up 33% from the same period last year. Google’s strongest growth areas—mobile search and programmatic advertising—carry higher traffic-acquisition costs, Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat said on the earnings call."

(this is of course how Facebook is competing with Google: they have a captive audience that they additionally know very well).

As far as I can tell ad revenue is growing faster than all of google's "hobby" projects... They're still an advertising company with a couple of tech projects in a shed in the garden.
We were taught "one entry, one exit".

I now think of the early part of a function as a filter for bad params, invalid state & whatnot, and return as early as possible.

Code just feels less complex that way.
Total isn't a good number to compare against. The number of trucks they buy _per year_ would be a better number.

Even if the Tesla semi is the end all, best semi in the world by orders of magnitude, they still wouldn't be replacing an entire fleet in a year.
I would be careful with those calls. I mean, they're a decent hedge, but I'm not sure they have as much upside as you think. What we are seeing is the tip of the iceberg. It is not unlikely that even more negativity will come crawling out of the woodwork (not least because the media don't seem to be massive fans of FB).
He used the weasel words "true long haul". Tesla was clear about what the truck can do; you're replying to someone who wants to argue with unclear statements. Not a good plan.
That is the number Tesla promised for their megachargars at the presentation of the semi. So they seem to have clear plans to deploy megawatt chargers at their charging stations.
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Nation of spectators, not citizens. See the abysmal voter turnout rate nationally for a presidential election and then realize it's even worse for primaries, and still worse for state and local elections. Some people just like complaining while not participating.

With different motivations, people are enamored with someone else doing the citizening, or even technology doing it.

How many Star Trek episodes involve computer run societies?
Ok, thanks for that. Wasn't sure there was a distinction between the two (layman here with a casual interest in the topic)
I've generally found the Ubiquiti hardware to be a fair bit better than Mikrotik stuff (way better forwarding speeds with the accelerated Cavium processors in the EdgeRouters - except the ER-X, which doesn't have the hardware offload but is still useful). I find their web UI far less confusing too. I know some guys who have used Mikrotiks a lot and swear by it, but unless you're already experienced with Mikrotik interfaces I'd recommend the Ubiquiti.

They also have a really good command line interface - which is lucky, because the biggest downside with the Ubiquitis is that some (generally more obscure and advanced) features can't be configured through the web UI.
> Facebook's network effect is extremely strong

But it has to stay stronger than it's bad reputation. If the only thing you have is a network effect you are in a very bad place. Everyone I know used to be on MSN and then within a week everyone had WhatsApp and MSN was practically dead.

> this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus)

True Instagram is strong especially since they can show a shitton of ads there.
But Instagram isn't Facebooks vision of what the world should be.
Being “competent at securing your data” is useless when they are incentivized to utilize it.

Usually, when an entity motivated against our best interests is considered “competent”, we calculate that they are more of a threat. This makes fine sense to me. Why would one reason differently about Google? It looks illogical to me.

Google is a company. Google is optimized for profit, not data privacy. Quite the contrary, of course. And that isn’t changing any time soon. Right now, they have a lot of surplus, but that can change, which will effect the nature of their optimization’s. For that reason, we should consider the incentives since they are evidently the core motivation of Google’s behavior.

If I’m not mistaken, you are encouraging others to trust an unrelated entity known to be incentivized against their best interests. Sounds like a tough sell to put it lightly.
If YouTube hadn't gone on a fairly extensive program of manually culling Arabic language Islamic state related videos, watching videos on secular Sunni hanafi and hanbali ideology would pretty quickly lead you to hardcore wahabbist Sharia law indoctrination.
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"always be hustling" is/was the Uber motto. " move fast and break things" is/was Facebook.
> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

This really isn't as crazy as it may sound. When my spouse was working in BigLaw, we rarely paid anything for weekends out. A typical case was a "charity gala" at a downtown hotel. A law firm partners would buy the tickets for an entire table but would inevitably be working and couldn't go. Even if he could, he still needed 6 or 8 other people so his table didn't have empty seats, which would be very embarrassing. So the call would go around - who has time to attend a free party? Me, that's who. The bar would be stocked with top-shelf liquor only, food was provided and excellent. The catch? You have to know people to get invited. And you have to be able to show up in a perfectly-fitting tuxedo with only a few hours notice. So you buy one, and it needs to be pretty good because you're going to wear it 20-30 times a year. Amortized out, an Armani costs a fraction of a rental.