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While this is a step in the right direction it just serves to show how far behind airline companies are in terms of tech.
Swapping out passengers on the fly and handing out virtual miles in exchange is seen as "innovative technology"?

Hopefully this will pave the way for technological disruption in the airline business.
Tintin is a fantastic way to learn french. Just wanted to stop by to say I found it super helpful as well :) I remember the first book I finished in french was tintin in russia
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(site author) Thats great feedback! Honestly, I've spent the last several years trying to learn how to train models that generate reasonable sounding music but am still trying to figure out what it is that i'm building and how to present it.
I'm pretty sure I remember him saying that for year 2013.
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Yes. But generally today's valuation lens on a lot of these stocks looks more like the 1999 one than the 2001 one.
People choose risk based on their appetite. For sure, we try to minimise it, but if your statement were true, no one would ever cross a street or even drive a car. People will often take a higher level of risk in order to improve the potential reward.
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You'll most likely need to get acquainted with a significant chunk of the literature in that domain. For the most part, papers are self-contained, but they build on top of past work.

The best way is to work your way through the references cited. Often you'll find a few that come up again and again. Read them, and you'll have gained a bit more understanding on the topic. Rinse and repeat until you do understand the problem and how it is commonly treated in the literature.
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Hm... it is interesting that Schmalz only refers to chicken fat in the US. While growing up in Bavaria I have mostly seen Griebenschmalz, which is pork fat amd generally eaten as a spread on bread. I never acquired the taste for it. Now I don't even remember it anymore.
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>Before claiming he is stupid, you need to read the balance sheet

Before you tell someone they need to read the balance sheet, you should read the balance sheet.

Tesla has $3.5BB in cash, which they are burning through at the rate of almost $1BB a quarter, and have $4.1BB in accounts payable. Those are "bills", and their cash doesn't cover that amount, let alone the long-term debt payments.

They've been accumulating cash by letting their bills pile up; this figure grew over $1BB quarter over quarter.
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I appreciate the note of caution about the panic zone. Is your project closing in on a crucial, game-ending deadline? Don't pick up a brand new library that promises to save your life, do your dishes, write your code for you, and walk your dog. Save that for later and just buckle down to the drudgery of doing the predictable thing, until the urgency is over.
Turks, coming from the East, would be known to use and consume yogurt regularly, as do so many asianic cultures, in their food for taste and to balance the lit-ass spices (technical term for hot-ass and stanky-ass).
Seems like premature celebration. The Soviet Union was incredibly successful (turning a backwater into a superpower in a few decades) until it wasn’t.
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What state-owned firms do you mean with: "... but the establishment of integration with state-owned firms". Amtrak, USPS, National Parks or one of the Federal Loan Banks?
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But they didn't have the technology.

Maybe with help of good IT, this is manageable better?
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I was hoping for some specificity.
Why is the aspect ratio of the videos weird? Fixed height, ~100% width? Why not 16:9 of window-size?
Wouldn't it be nice if research teams were able to publish their work in easily accessible html5 interactive applications? Such as ConvNetJS for no sweat browser based CNNs:

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/

But even with libraries such as D3.js for visualization. Or Tensorflow.js for WebGL accelerated learning. Many scientists simply lack the front end skills necessary to create usable demos. Which can mean an opportunity to reach out to a team if you are looking for projects to work on.

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

We can also see where this is ultimately headed with the rise of electronic lab "notebooks" such as JupyterHub for data science. We want an intelligent interface, that could even understand human language to design experiments. It needs to be scalable and distributable to large enterprise research teams spanning multiple locations. Results have to be repeatable, obviously. And with a single click, publishable to the entire scientific community and general public.

What the future looks like is science "as a service"
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Looking back and forth between code and docs just to remember the shape of returned objects is annoying and probably the worst for productivity.

I imagine most people using vanilla JS have significant amounts of objects memorized.
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I had a calculus class at uni that started so easy that no-one was showing up after week one, and the module was 90% exam, 10% coursework, so people weren't bothering to do the assignments either. The people not showing up didn't seem to realise that the class ramped up to multivariable calculus by the end of term (Britain doesn't really separate calculus into numbered stages in the same way the US does), and the final revision lecture before the exam was completely full and the room had an air of absolute dread now that everyone knew what they'd been missing.

Not a very high pass rate on that class.
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Quite the contrary in my experience. For most entrepreneurs, their first attempt is often make it or break it - i.e. the risk is high. The only thing is, the entrepreneur often knows that the odds are not as bad as they appear, because of their personal abilities at managing the risk. That's what they're hoping to get rewarded for eventually.
You said max a 401k plus 10%. For someone making 30k that's 18.5k + 3k = 21.5k which is virtually impossible for someone making 30k.
In Chrome and Node, Wasm code is executed by V8.

V8 can be embedded in C/C++/Go/etc applications. That allows you to use JS for scripting. This is quite different from compiling to Wasm, though.
How it should work:

A standard is written and set in stone at least for 1-1.5 years. Official test suites are made.

Then, browsermakers make their stuff compliant.

APIs must support strict versioning. A user should not be bothered with "your browsers supports version 1 of method b, version 2 of method c, and does not support method d" it should either work with API version N or popup a big error message "API version N not supported, update your browser"
Those pics look terrible. Oh my god.
Right, why does that warrant bricking the phone?

Or in the case of the iPhone 7, disabling the home button?
I understand that, but a reusable engine is not the same as a reusable rocket. If we are going to discuss engines, it seems that the appropriate comparison is the development of the Merlin-series engines, which started around 2004.
Congrats to putting this together; I like it.

At the risk of preaching to the choir here, however, I feel like these days Web dev publications don't sufficiently focus on foundations (HTML, CSS) and jump to JavaScript-heavy solutions a little bit too early for my taste.

As a consequence, I frequently see Web dev newcomers ask questions such as "What framework should I use for (basic website)" when of course for the requirements at hand a simple static site will do, and thus is preferable. See [1] for an example.

It might be all very clear to older devs (like me) who have seen the Web evolve during the last (almost) 25 years. But I'd imagine for 20-somethings or younger the "trifecta" of HTML/CSS/JS as they are today will be a giant puzzle when presented as a whole, having aggregated many features and workarounds that can only be understood in the discourse of the time. In particular, JavaScript is IMHO a terrible beginner language, the design rationales and compromises only apparent to someone with a little bit of compiler writing background, and in the context of its original purpose.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/8bi1bc/creating_my_...
Could someone please list the top 10 technological innovations that originated in China?
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> The article mentions Spain, but Germany had a similar initiative

There’d be little point in making the post longer by mentioning Germany inline as well. The shorter and more digestible the post is, the more likely people will read and share. Germany’s case is mentioned in the post they link to when referencing Spain’s situation[1].

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/google-news-shuts-shop...
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I think you don’t know what central planning means. It refers to a centrally planned economy, which has many problems to overcome that a single entity like Amazon doesn’t.

Once a company gets large enough, some of it’s inefficiencies can be caused by similar issues that centrally planned economies face, however the two are very different. Amazon still has to contend with market forces, and its resource allocation decisions have to be mostly aligned with that. In a centrally planned economy, resource allocation only has to align with the central plan.

Amazon also doesn’t have anything even close to the same supply chain complexity of an economy. I’d suggest you read ‘I, Pencil’, which convincingly asserts that not a single person knows how to make a pencil.

China’s tech boom largely comes from entrepreneurs innovating in a market that is in many ways under-regulated, which has been a very efficient environment for those entrepreneurs to operate in. If the communist party wants to take more control of that industry, it’s hard to see how it’s going to do that without impacting efficiency.
Hmmmmm.

I've often wondered about the contradiction wherein it's argued that the economy thrives on competition and yet corporations larger than many nation states never apply the same model internally.

(I'm aware there are efforts in some companies at creating "internal markets" but never close to the scale of market forces that exist externally to the company)
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See also: the law that ended roaming charges also shoehorned the taking away of Net Neutrality rules.
Honestly it sometimes feels like that.

Our particular building has had a lot of bad luck since we were a smaller company that was purchased and absorbed into the big corporation, and a lot has happened since that has resulted in us becoming a lot, lot smaller than we used to be (There's even talk that the corporate overlords might close down our office building to save money and force relocation soon).

If I didn't have so much going on in my personal life right now I probably would have left already, like many others already have. If they do close and force relocation, then I will finally leave the company at that point. I just bought a house, I'm not going anywhere for awhile.

The clients that I'm referring to that dragged their feet signing contracts, couldn't get their own data in place, or broke/backed out of existing contracts suddenly and without any issues of performance on our parts were major, major companies as well. I'm sure you've heard of each of them.
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Arguably modern windows has more programming abilities preinstalled with the OS: batch scripting, powershell, javascript (command line and browser), and C# (csc.exe compiler).

The difference is one of visibility and discoverability. The 70's and 80's were the time when user equated to programmer, mostly by technical necessity. The separation between those two concepts came later, and it's evidenced by the way modern windows hides the programming languages it bundles.
I wished Tesla would focus more on a full ecosystem for self driving, lighter cars, including better infrastructure, rather than shoehorning their vehicles into the existing system. I just feel that with their current approach, we've ended up with an even heavier, expensive lump of metal for moving a 70kg person from A to B. I do like their product from a "coolness" perspective, but I'm not sure if it's the long term way to go.
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>Maybe with help of good IT, this is manageable better?

USSR's math and science was on the global forefront during upswing years. I dare anybody to deny that. Soviet cybernetics was just few steps away from Norbert Wiener's school, up until the point Khrushev decided to put a lid on it. USSR was the only country to apply real hardcore math to economic modelling and planning. Yet, no mathematical model survived its first encounter with an average soviet bureaucrat.
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The electric cars have problems that have nothing to do with actually manufacturing and it has less exciting name, it is called power grid. If we would switch to el. cars, the first effect would be light polution due to electrical wires glowing in the night. Then the complete collapse of system. To be able to power all the cars, we have to double the amount of high voltage transport wires between the power plants and consumers (cities) + additional transformators, and this is something where billions need to be spent, it will make electricity expensier (actually the other part of the bill - the power grid costs) for everyone and el. cars economicaly useless.

Electrical cars? Yeah, I want one. Does it make sense on large scale? Not really.

As far as I have noticed, there is a pattern, bad Q results, then Musk comes with a new revolutionary idea, just pumping the hype. I am eager to see what will be next, maybe electrical cargo ship or electrical magic carpet (I would have one if those :) )
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See their blog post on it[1]. I think it made HN’s front page at the time.

[1]: https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filter...
Corruption and incompetence eventually takes over. The Brezhnev era is sort of illustrative.
In some ways I think we actually need simpler file systems more than fancier ones. Here's an exercise: create a USB flash drive that can be both read and written on any system it is plugged into, by any user, without using FAT.

Can't be done. It's 2018 and FAT is still apparently the best we can do for universally usable filesystem.

And don't go trying to pin this on Windows not supporting ext or something stupid like that, because an ext filesystem cannot by default be both read and written universally even on systems that have full ext support, because they bake in permissions and the default umask botches this simple use case.

I realize this is sort of tangential to what you're saying, but I think a big problem we have in tech communities is that we focus too much on fancy interesting things and not enough on stuff that gets things done simply.
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>The last two dozen, or more, Tesla threads I've read on HN, have been approximately 95% negative.

Maybe people are tired of the endless claims from the Tesla fans that "everything everyone else has ever done before is wrong".

Maybe the rest of the manufacturers aren't that stupid? Why do so many people here root against Ford and GM?

>have claimed Tesla would never mass produce the Model 3

Yet to be seen. Right now they are hand-building cars for huge losses. There's no "mass" production (on an automotive scale), and there's no $35k Model 3 in the foreseeable future. Have you given thought to why people might make such a claim? Or are you of the mind that Musk is infallible? Maybe people tire of being called dumb because they don't believe "air friction" is holding back the assembly line?

>Now they're tracking to 100,000

According to whom? Tesla won't release the numbers, and the Model 3 tracker from Blomberg shows 2,300 per week. Maybe it's exaggerated claims like yours that spur negative sentiment?
*Regulated free markets.

Unregulated free markets could prove to be at a disadvantage. We shouldn’t be engaged in free trade with China. Countries or robber barons of those countries shouldn’t be allowed to destroy their environment to have a cheaper price.
Communism didn't fail for lack of top-down control. It failed because of too much top-down control (to oversimplify to the extreme).
I was negative about Musk from almost the beginning - but it's because he's a representative of the kind of delusional, investor-story-time silicone valley that shouldn't work, but does, because investors keep on bankrolling it.

It's extremely annoying watching him in interviews, saying stuff like his biggest advantage is his physics training, when the real reason why he was successful is a combination of luck, media savvy, and (most importantly) incredibly wealthy family.

So, while his goals are broadly admirable - his personality is so obnoxiously delusional that it reflects badly on the entire society that believes in it.
As a trained theoretical physicist, I am entirely unaware of the distinction you are trying to draw here.
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Talk to people at the programs at which you are interested. Start establishing relationships with the people you may be spending a lot of time with. Get specific relevant information. Good luck.
How about top four?

Paper, printing, gunpowder and compass.
I guess at its root the problem may just be how much compute is available to throw at the optimization. Alternatively there could be more efficient algos... I looked into but never fully tested this, it seemed promising:
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>I've heard a bad hire costs $X, where X is some surprisingly high number, but why must it be this way?

Because most companies don't (and generally shouldn't) operate like pro football teams. "You've had a couple bad games; we're cutting you. Sorry it's just business." Most (though of course not all) people think that once you've hired someone, you should really try to make things work. Both because of the costs associated with someone getting up to speed at a company and because of the personal cost to the person being fired. Different companies have different philosophies of course.
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The "trade war" thing has been the most/only interesting ideas to come from trump, to me.

It was interesting in that he did recognized (fluked into?) an actual shift in public/expert position. China is the pro-trade side. They'll be willing to make concessions, do the work, etc. It's the beijing consensus now, not washington.

Large american companies are still on the pro-trade side, being multinationals. They also have pretty obvious interests. They want market access, american IP protection, they want freedom to operate mostly independently of the CCP.

Market access is a typical request. This has been the basic definition of free trade for a while. They probably can get this protection. Independance is a trickier one. I'm not sure it's realistic. Imagine a Chinese company operating in the states, with an a fully imported senior management and all "c-level" discussions in chinese. I dunno. I doubt they'll get what they say they want.

The "IP" point is interesting. Why does the american economy want US IP rules everywhere so bad? Same reason Disney does. They have the biggest IP portfolio. A pharmaceutical company's value (for example) is mostly IP. IE, the market cap is the IP portfolio.

Why would china want to use this IP system, where they start with fewer chips than the US? I'm not sure. Who says a fake Gucci is a crime, if the buyer knows it's fake. Why should a US drug patent grant a worldwide monopoly. This one would be a concession.

Anyway, it's not just pharmaceuticals that need IP. The economy is ethereal these days. Capital isn't building and machines. It's intellectual property of one sort or another, whether or not it's legally formalized as such.

..

PS: I'm Irish, not American. Realize from the wild votes in both directions (didn't think) that I've obviously waded into live american politics. I wasn't trying to make any political points. Just musing and bullshitting on the shifting world of political interests after reading the morning paper. I'm not against anyone, nor do I mean anything too seriously.
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If you truly care about your user experience you write native apps.

For everything else a hybrid or web app will do.
This isn't entirely correct.

A book can be usable even if it has a few loose pages. Also you can fix it.

Disks break more often and when they break you are lucky if you get anything out of them without paying (or being) a specialist.
Right, that's my point :) But thanks for making it clear for those reading.
That is really good information! I would look a bit weird but it is discreet and no one would know the true purpose or make the connection.
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Resource allocation is the single hardest problem to address in large organisations, and there’s numerous cases of companies withering and dying because they failed to properly align their resource allocation with market forces.

Except withering and dying for a company is not a humanitarian crisis, but it is for a country. A company can also fire an underperforming team member, or ditch an entire department. Where as terminating underperforming citizens, or unneeded communities is generally frowned upon.
Accounts payable is a rotating line i.e. there is turnover. The first X gets paid and a new X comes in. It did not grow $1B qoq.

The burn rate of of $1B+ would need to go to 0 to be called profitable + cash flow positive. Profitable => Net income > 0; cash flow positive => including capex net cash flow into business > 0.
I've only seen that used for congruence (x ≡ y <=> f(x) = f(y), for some context-dependent f).
It doesn’t seem to far fetched to speculate that money is involved.
The first catastrophic failure of the Soviet Union was agriculture. When the West was beginning Borlaug's Green Revolution they were deep into Stalin's great famine, the Holodomor. Their inability to put bread on tables is at the root of their collapse.

Most tragedies in China's recent history also have their cause on failure to produce food.

I wonder how China is prepared to handle the impact Global Warming will have on agriculture.
Amazon does apply that model internally. This is arguably why Amazon is as successful as it is: Bezos turns internal products into external products. AWS started as an internal product. In order to keep it competitive with external offerings, they opened it up to external customers. If AWS fails to compete in the market, then Amazon knows it can get a better price by outsourcing.