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I understand that Musk comes up with his radical innovations by starting out with first principles and then reasoning from there.

I wonder what was his specific set of thought processes that lead to the radically different approach that Tesla is taking to manufacture the Model 3.
> I drive through the city and see 3 different restaurants all advertising that they have the "world's best burger(s)." Did they measure that? No, because why bother? Just put it on the sign, even if it is not true. Sell an ideal and worry about satisfying it after all the money comes in (if at all.)

That is called puffery and it is legally protected expression (at least in the US). If they assert any hard facts you could force them to prove it, but general floaty stuff like "best in the world!" would be puffery
Someone close to me once shared this as the best representation of how depression feels to them.

It was really helpful in helping me understand in a way that I hadn't been able to before.

* http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

* http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...
They can't find ARC developers :D
What client are you using to read HN?
Personally, I think Materialistic has the best UI but find it hard to keep track of replies to my own posts in comment threads. What other clients are there that you would recommend?
Sadly many folks have forgotten that the point of opinion writing is exactly to make us think, whether we disagree with their conclusions or not.
I survived my deepest depression by showering and shaving every day. Then forcing myself to get dressed and go be with other people, even sitting in a coffee shop and feeling miserable, hiding it behind a smile and a book.

Being home, alone, unshaven, unclean, in an unkept house made me feel worse because of all the things I saw that needed to be done, and the isolation allowing me to think about that and only that.

A bit of tidying made my space feel better (less cramped) and a bit of tidying each day reduced the sense of burden compared to seeing the whole place as one big mess. Same for the self-care and other aspects.

Every undone thing is an extra stressor because it's an extra thing that you know needs to be done, but in a depressed state you do not feel able to do or that there is sufficient time to do (it seems overwhelming, even when in reality it's a small chore).

Being somewhat social (even as an introvert), being physically active and getting my sunlight, and maintaining a decently tidy home (I still suck at cleaning the shower often enough, and I never make my bed), have made an immense difference.

There's also the benefit of routine and ritual. That's part of what the showering and shaving did. I'm lying in bed and I haven't shaved yet, I need to shave, let's get up and shave. I have to do this, once it's done it's done and I can move on. Now I'm out of bed and I can maybe do something else or not, but the ritual helped force me out of bed and gave me even the chance to have a healthy day.
This is extremely concerning. Processing sequences using CNNs is particularly bad. It covers using CNNs to process ANY sequences, text, audio, video, etc.. Basically covering any potential use for a CNN. This would like a company patenting Welding. It's just so insanely broad.
Because he says so in the parent's quote.
AI and Machine Learning are newer, and probably have plenty of productivity gains to point to, but the thing that comes to mind for me is the amount of CAD and computer analysis that goes into our products these days. You can make a car that lasts twice as long and is more aerodynamic. Musk's rockets use computers for design and algorithms to land. The down stream effect is new satellites with more bandwidth (e.g. Iridium).

In the end, a designer can make a product people get more use out of.
> Productivity growth was very strong in the mid-20th century, but since 1973 productivity growth has been stagnant.

That's not true; the first decade of the 2000s rivaled the post-war era in terms of TFP growth:

https://www.bls.gov/lpc/nfbbar.gif

Even Brynjolfsson's ultimate thesis was not that "computers don't induce growth in TFP", but rather that "computers and business practices need to converge in order for computers to have an effect on TFP".
How to act smart and outperform the business
When in doubt, they just spend more on marketing. They can all do that at once without customers benefiting in the slightest.
On the subject of automation, has anyone been able to do or is there even any scope for script level automation for video post-production? I'm talking specifically Adobe Premiere. I have to constantly do a series of the same actions on different content assets much like re-skinning. If anyone has had any success - I'd be interested to learn from you.
>And then I installed Arch.

Well that's your problem. You used a distro specifically designed to be spartan.

The UI/UX of Arch can't be compared to macOS and Cocoa. No one would dispute that, not even Arch developers. But that says almost nothing about the UI/UX of, say, Ubuntu, which is quite polished indeed.
Most OS also have platform specific extension over standard apis. This is the same category. They will not(and can not) deprecate BSD socket. Posix and BSD socket are totally different from OpenGL/CL. It's just an additional api for one who want to have maximum control.
That cat5 cable seems like a safe enough thing but it’ll wreck your day if it shorts something else carrying more juice.
Yes, small as in almost zero.
Already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17269281
Anthony Bourdain has passed away
Yeah man there's a lot of bad info about docks out there. Took me a while to find one that did dual 4k 60hz. I can confirm this one does work https://www.elgato.com/en/dock/thunderbolt-3 but theres an issue where macos wont detect the ethernet unless the ethernet itself is unplugged and plugged back in. Not sure if its a dock issue or the laptop but doesn't really affect me.

It's also kind of silly apple hasn't released their own adapter for 4k 60hz displayport.

Update: Just checked and ethernet connected just fine so perhaps it was patched recently.
Yes, the simple "rule of thumb" is "the resulting CO2 is 3 times heavier than the gasoline burned." Because chemistry. H weights "almost nothing" (in the engineering approximation sense, to the first order of magnitude) in hydrocarbons, and the weight of a single CO2 molecule (made of two oxygen atoms, one carbon atom) is roughly 3 times the weight of C atom alone (again as a good enough simple approximation, it's a little more, but C alone is a little lighter than O, so all together with the starting H, everything comes to 3).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weight-ra...

For those who like more exact calculation: one molecule of C8H18 (octane) weights approx 8 * 12+18=114 masses of H, only that one molecule will produce when burnt 8 CO2 molecules, which weight 8 * 12+2 * 8 * 16=352, and 352/114 ~ 2.98 ~ 3
Hmm... it is unfortunate. I always remember him for pushing super hard for the invasion of Iraq and thus partially responsible for the deaths of 100,000s at least and also more than $T of funds used for that war:

"Time is running short. Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. He is working on nuclear weapons. And he has every incentive to pass them on to terrorists who will use them against us."

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/04/19/w...
This is the quintessential video for understanding clinical depression. A Stanford lecture given by Dr Sapolsky:

https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc

I highly recommend watching it to better understand the disease.
US Startups Off to a Strong M&A Run in 2018
To add, here is more detail: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC...
So this popped out of a New Scientist article - the gist is that Centola (book author) has a theory of how not just facts (fake or otherwise) spread amoung a network but how people's behaviours spread - the idea is that one can identify behaviours to change in networks and select the hubs for corrective action (ie leading by example) - examples include using social networks to improvise healthy eating and exercise.

People are "excited" to try and use it to teach online behaviours like research skills, media literacy, being polite in comments even.

I get the idea it is "nudge" with graph theory but I may be doing him a disservice

Get a whole slew of "should read soon" books but this has snuck itself at least near the top.
Maybe the A380 program will continue for many years, but it seems unlikely the program as a whole, including development costs, will ever earn a profit.
Occasionally, yes, but by "over time" I meant that it's something you can do repeatedly that adds up, not that a single comment gets much long-tail traffic by itself.
I'm not saying that a depressed person wouldn't want to understand how depression works, just that they don't necessarily want to, and it's wrong to be annoyed that they don't.
Doesn't make it any less condescending. Replace it with some quiet white noise or something...
Sure, as soon as they open-source Windows, Office, and Sharepoint and make the XBox platform Open Hardware.
I used to drive pizza delivery. That promise of quick cash for driving has been around for a long time.
You’re Thinking About Autonomous Vehicles Wrong
That's really nice, but "real REST services" have never really been a thing, because the reality of "real REST services" is, at the end of the day, that they're not very useful or convenient for machines to consume.

REST works in browsers because there's an intelligent agent driving the interaction. For an automated system it's just pointless drudgery and unnecessary extra requests and data. GraphQL basically fixes all the slow bits, by allowing for a single query in which the client specifies exactly what they want, it cuts down drastically on both the number of network round-trips and the size of data retrieved. And at the end of the day, that means it also (by and large) cuts down on server resources, because those extra connections and that extra data to extract & format is not free.

So GraphQL ends up being both more convenient and more efficient than "real REST services", and that's before we even get to the self-documentation from the schema and to graphiql explorers, which are superior to what "real REST services" could (but never did in my experience) (even less so as browsers kept on not supporting anything other than GET and POST) have provided.
> Surely if all you had to do was follow X program for Y months, most men would have abs. But they don't.

Discipline, determination, motivation vs laziness?

This is pretty true for success in anything. Eat less, exercise more -> better body. Spend less than you earn -> better financial stability. Etc.

Certainly there are some who could never have abs. I doubt it's very many though.
Wow. There is so much machinery that it's hard to spot the actual car parts. Would like to know how this compares to other car manufacturers. I've seen pictures from VW where there always seem to be humans around, though that may be part of PR.

I also wonder when the typical Muskian move of in-housing more than is usual (ie car seats) will fall over, or whether this will remain a competitive advantage as Tesla will have more skin in the game than others.
Those were actually very good points, specially the interaction between client / server being better understood due to the queries being made per purpose and not just trying to obey one of many REST conventions that the server provides.
opt in versus opt out.

You can opt in to using .NET.

This purchase makes you decide whether to opt out of your existing Github use. Or at least worry whether its usability (on whatever dimensions matter to you) will decline.
Why doesn't the US do something about that? China almost seems overt about stealing secrets like that.
FWIW, this is a common paradigm taught by instructors of meditation. That is, thoughts in general are transient and not something to necessarily identify as "me" nor to assign undue importance. Notice thoughts come and go and return to the breath.

I am not qualified to suggest that meditation is beneficial specifically for depression, but I think there is sufficient evidence to advise the practice in general.
All ideas in NLP are garbage, and all of them are equally idiotic. These so called AI researchers don't have the slightest clue on what they are doing. If you are starting out, you'll probably be more successful ignoring these morons, and try inventing something yourself from the ground up by looking at advancements in cognitive science and linguistics. A new paradigm in AI is emerging, and it's not coming from engineers, but like all innovations, it's coming from the hard sciences (a skillset that the tech scene and Silicon Valley lacks).
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268941
I definitely agree. Here's the source if you're interested: https://github.com/brandur/sorg
Arguably, these things already had significant traction before they became 'big' properly. iPhone had I think quite a bit of a slow crawl into shaping the mobile landscape, and then there were all the precursor smartphones before that. AWS existed before THE CLOUD being being screamed by gurus, and really, 'The Cloud' has never really amounted to much more than the continuation of AWS EC2.

They were never the next big thing - one night we woke up and they were already the current big thing. Definitely the smart people could sense that it was happening, but there weren't medium articles about it :)
1. Not all of the 1200 employees reside in the US. Which implies the U.S. salaries, on average, need to exceed your $140K estimate. IT DOES NOT!!! https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Mozilla-Salaries-E19129.htm

2. Not all of them are devs, and devs are (typically) the most expensive. Which should further increase the average US compensation for devs to MUCH MORE than $140K

3. GitLab has hundreds of employees but they choose to have a lean real estate footprint, especially in exorbitant zip codes like SF to keep costs low. Obviously, Mozilla isn't concerned by minutiae like over paying for real estate

4. Why does Mozilla need a ~$50M marketing budget? HUGE RED FLAG!!!

5. Self adorned morally upright Mozilla squeezing out a $1B to squander on __insert-here__ is a crime against humanity. They neither have a moral edge over Verizon, nor does money in their coffers benefit humanity. It empowers the senior management in much the same way as government funding empowers the morally bankrupt politicians at the helm.

In conclusion, Mozilla's budget breaks down into 66% software (whose costs still don't make sense given their global developer footprint), and 33% B.S. overhead.

If one digs deeper, (I'm guessing) you'll find the senior management @ Mozilla to be earning orders of magnitude over junior developers - like a private corp. Further, even private corps have no tolerance for 33% of their budget being squandered!! [Atlassian, Gitlab, ...] are famous for having almost $0 in marketing budget, while a not-for-profit like Mozilla THAT HAS NOTHING TO SELL thinks it OK to wash $50M down the loo.

We need a politico like organization to go deep into Mozilla's inner workings as these numbers DO NOT COMPUTE
When I first arrived in London my English was not good enough to speak on the phone, I had no idea what the London job market for developers looked like, I had no idea where should I live and where should I settle.

So for the first 3-4 months, I did some wine waiting as a gig(agency work, no fixed place or hours. Like with Uber, you provide your own gear - like uniforms, bottle openers etc.) at the finest, the most iconic places in London. I worked at the Shard, I worked at the Cafe Royal, I worked at Four Seasons in events where celebrities like Victoria Beckham or Prince Harry were guests. I did my jubilee at BAFTA's after party, I was the wine waiter for the award-winning team that made the Amy Winehouse documentary. That night I had a chance to meet with pretty much every single celebrity(900+ guests from the industry), I was a huge Breaking Bad fan and I had the chance to speak with Walter White.

How to get into this gig business without ever working in this industry? 1 day of training and boom, I'm a waiter at the fines restaurants in the world.

It was such an amazing experience but whoever imagines living like that forever should have poor judgement. I was there to make some money until I get a real job and open a bank account(really hard to do because of catch 22) and most people who worked with me were either new arrivals like me or Australians who came to the UK to experience Europe for a year or 2(They come just before or after college with 2 year work visa, work for few months and travel Europe).

The world is transforming, the employment contracts are not the driving force. They are a reaction to the new needs. I think it's alright, an equilibrium will be reached.
Pensions actually provide a massive benifit in that they don't provide dead people money. You can say I will be fine if I run out of money at age X, but when you start talking about 100 million people you get a large number that make it past that.

Also, fully funded is only fully funded when it can survive the company going bankrupt tomorrow. People like to redefine it as liability less than X, but that just means underfunded.

Granted, if you have kids you might want the leftovers from your retirement to go to them, but that's not a social problem. Further becase pensions take less money so a subset can always just buy life insurance.

PS: The biggest issue is benifits not including inflation, but again that's a policy issue.
What Do You Think of This Definition of an Entrepreneur?
Maybe. But also realize you have to protect patents. So if they do not which clearly they do not then no issue.

Also realize Google culture was there when they started and weak and now they are dominate it continues.

Perfect example is owning Chrome and Android which are the dominate two clients. Then own the top 2 web sites with Search and YouTube.

They create a better protocol which saves money with SPDY. Gives a better user experience. But even thought they have NOTHING to gain sharing they do and give away to the standards committee. They do NOT use as a competitive advantage which is just standard good business practices.

That is just not what MS did when in power.

Instead they give it away to help everyone. Also so much very valuable IP they just give away to the industry to help everyone. Kubernettes is a perfect example. But there is so many more. Why on earth do you help your competitors?

But they help competitors that do just evil things against them. They give away Android to Amazon who uses on their Echo, Dot and Fire among other hardware. In return Google gets a ban for ALL companies being allowed to sell the competing Google products. Not just Amazon will NOT sell as that is understandable but they will NOT allow anyone to sell them!

But then SPDY is changed and Google goes back and pays the expense of supporting the changes.
Working on new projects every couple of weeks would be fun.

Learning a new set of APIs, version control strategies, team members, platform peculiarities, build systems, bug reporting and issue tracking software, groupware... fuck that. I could sort of do it when I was in my early 30s but not now.
> One is much cheaper and frees up money to be spent on other things.

The "other things" that people would spend on are just other vehicles for acquiring utility. If the customer enjoys the better coffee enough to justify the higher cost, then spending on that is exactly in line with "better for the economy".
> I've talked with bunch of car sharing drivers who were bamboozled with car loans, get hit by traffic infractions, costs of maintenance and the list goes on and on.

I've seen a lot of the people that some cases of people that do it that are future minded and care about running the numbers just rent a car for the day. All of a sudden, you've abstracted away a lot of those variable costs to a third party. Unfortunately, I think the rental companies wised up after a while, and have wording in the contracts about ride-sharing now.

I imagine in a large enough metro area, someone could (or has) abstract the vehicle and maintenance portion of the larger taxi services to specialized rental service for people that work in ride-sharing. Rent a ride-share car for a day, or more likely by the hour, and they'll make sure it's clean and in good running condition and meets the requirements for ride sharing service X, Y or Z. Specialized ride-sharing insurance optional...

Actually, I imagine some of the existing taxi services in larger cities might have already shifted to this. Seems like a natural pivot, since they already have the majority of what's needed in place.
A lot of people would love the stability and predictability of a regular 9-5 office job. I think that's what they meant.
Maintaining the sales pipeline is tough while delivering the current project(s). But that's what pays the bills.
bring back unions
Jesus talk about Hail Corporate. Borderline astroturfing imo.
Already being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268941
> Motivation is part of the equation

So really, it comes down to laziness.
Sorry I'm not updated about what demos we have available. But please book a sales call, they are nice people and they will be very happy to tell you more about it.

All we did in beginning was asking our first client what they want, they replied chatbot and something better than ----> that. We promised, read a lot about NLP and delivered. After that we partnered with several consulting companies, which made the selling and project integration process a lot easier. Most of our clients are in Norway, but we have clients in several other countries too. Even Finland which is not an indo european language but uralic.
She seems a little like Madoff.
Well, Turkey is rather repressive, so I wouldn't be surprised.
I think that's highly unlikely. We've had radio for 100 years. The written word is still thriving and TV gets twice as much time from people as radio does. Audio's fine for some things, but it's so very limited.

And as an aside, we haven't really had voice-only interfaces for 100k years. Really, they've only existed since the telephone. What existed previous to that was humans, whose in-person interactions are almost always far more than voice. People have different estimates of the amount of information conveyed in a conversation through expression, gesture, posture, glance, and the like, but it's never a small amount.
https://register.epo.org/documentView?number=US.2017058046.W...

Read the applications for yourself. I'm not a patent lawyer but they seem to be unbelievably broad.
If you've been on OSX for the last 10 years then indeed Linux was very different. Whilst I won't attempt to argue you should swap or anything, I've found modern distros are pretty much plug and go when it comes to wifi/multiple monitors/graphics (things that used to be a real pain).
Pretty neat. I'm assuming you cache the results from the google sheet and update them when the google sheet is updated?

Another idea. Would be to have a "under maintenance" flag you could mark in the google sheet and then only the updates would happen on a secondary test site. When you are satisfied with the results you can change the flag to go live.
> "Recent consistent state" is unfortunately not "last good state", which would make it a non-starter for certain use cases.

Is the issue "recent" or "consistent"? "Consistent" seems like a good metric for "good", so perhaps "how recent" is a problem you foresee?
Agent Ray: "Good news, sir, we've got an uncorrupted hard drive."

Richard Gill: "In English, please."

Agent Ray: "It means we've got access to all of his files."
Makes sense. Nice product by the way!
Try to get in the back of the plane and sometimes you'll get 2-3 seats to enjoy! Best way to fly in the world in my opinion.