skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skepticism of hitting goals by certain dates are fair. But you are conflating skepticism of promises of meeting milestones with the ability to execute at all. They met the 5000 car a week goal. There was no promise of a date for a consistent 5000 cars a week. Is your claim that you are skeptical that they can ever hit a regular 5000 cars a week?
I'm not sure being for-profit has that much to do with societal pressure as being ad-revenue-driven.

However, this profit (or revenue) above all else model is something Google's unusual stock voting structure was supposed to address.
It should mean that we have better security in all of those things. Any increase in "wealth" that doesn't actually make us better off in the sense that we are less likely to lack necessary things like food, healthcare, and shelter is not really a kind of wealth worth having. All but the most very very rich people in the US are just a couple bad breaks away from homelessness, poverty, and lack of reasonable health insurance. It's better elsewhere but the safety net is not immutable and many many people want to dismantle it for shallow political reasons.
There was a video linked of the "tent" and the ends are open, so I don't think AC would work.
pretty strong words from someone who doesn't provide any evidence
The Man from Earth (2007)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
Hmmph, I see what you're saying, that sounds like it could work.

I think the tab flashing is the critical detail, otherwise you would be confused why things are deadlocking.
Many concrete structures don't use rebar. Only "reinforced concrete" worries about rust. A concrete brick is all but immortal.
Install? Netflix comes with even the cheapest TVs now. It's hard to buy a new TV without it.
Actually, if you marshall all of your addressible units up front (4096 bit sentences, instead of 64 bit words), which aligns well with raw allocation units on many file systems, as an end user of the service, the overhead (to you) is reduced to network I/O if the product is built correctly.

The only hard part requiring serialized synchronization is the carry bit, across compute nodes. Share the carry bits between nodes, and while relaying a sentence to a cluster of synchronized nodes, the pipeline can shoot the sentence into the cluster as a unit, proxy and chain together the carry bits with a coordinated execution plan, and on the other side of the pipe, you get your well-timed 4096 bit result, all at 1 GHz, because the service is designed and produced to handle input at nanosecond intervals.

What are the advantages? Predictability, and expanded throughput.

Now you can look at an entire passage of text and make a determination about it in less time. Or stack many passages and composite them to assess or intuit variation. Designing the product this way makes it easy to reason about, and thus easier to market and sell. Is it possible to make a profitable system that works like this? Gee, great question! There's no obvious answer.

But anyway, from the perspective of a subscriber, it's on them to marshall their data, and then, if they have operations for which the scale of 4096 bit chunks improves results, they can get their granular operations done at 1 GHz, which allows them to predict time spent and overall cost more easily.

(e.g. I have all these [less-than-but-up-to] 4096 bit toots marshalled in a single data store, from a shit ton mastodon instances (i did all the crawling and retrieving, and saved them in one place, as a standardized data set), and I think this fact might be true about some of them, here is the rule set to interpret, please give me back the members of the toot array that return true when the function of this rule set returns true)

BTW, don't get hung up on 4096 as "the best number" I just chose it because it's a nice square number.
> I've read a great many analyses stating Musk'll never succeed in his model 3 ramp up.

*By the deadline he provided. Which he didn't.
Taiwan may end up in a difficult spot in the coming decades unless they embrace production of distinctive (non-commoditized, like "iPhone" vs. "generic smartphone") consumer brands, or step up their efforts in software.

Its current strengths are in the stuff that exists inside the products we use every day. Think semiconductors and other hardware components. However, that know-how is being commoditized rapidly. China is catching up. Japanese multinationals like Sony are also eyeing the same, gradually stepping away from competing on low-margin consumer products.

For Taiwanese consumer electronics, you have brands like HTC, ASUS, Acer, or even a niche newcomer Gogoro (electric scooters). Sizeable, but not agile enough to take on players like Xiaomi.

And the software scene is unfortunately not very bustling despite the government's repeated efforts to pour money into startup hubs and coworking spaces. This is what Taiwan's #1 online shopping portal looks like [1]

[1] https://shopping.pchome.com.tw/

"Brain drain" to China and the US compounds some of these challenges. Very low salaries may be in part to blame here -- an engineer in Taiwan may make an equivalent of about $40k USD/year, while a home still costs as much as it does in Palo Alto.
> I became something of a Stoic

I can relate.

> However, the ultimate key to my depression was simply self-acceptance.

This is so important. Learning to love oneself is such a difficult task but so rewarding in the end.

Thanks for sharing your story, it was very inspiring.

> I hope that you may find peace, and the warmth of good feeling.

I'll try to remember to allow myself to find peace in hard times. I hope that you can feel the love and warmth in your life.

Your story gives hope. I feel blessed that you told us your philosophical journey. Have a great day!
Define failure?
"Where would that truth come from? Psychedelics are just chemicals"

Are they just chemicals, though? Some people think they are themselves divine. One example of this can be seen in the attitude of worship of some Native American societies towards peyote or psychedelic mushrooms. Some people think they allow communication with the spirit world, or with their ancestors, or with gods.

Even if they are "just chemicals" that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't show you truth. After all, you could say your entire brain is "just chemicals" and if you are basically your brain, any truth you happen to come across is the result of "just chemicals" of one sort or another. Further, pretty much the entire world could be described as "just chemicals". That itself does not diminish the possibility of finding truth in it or through it.
I usually don't make strong claims about things I can't show sufficient evidence for, although I'm sure I will trip up with my kids, but I'll have to try to be cognizant of myself and acknowledge when I am assuming things.

Dismissing someone else's assertions because they lack evidence or proper logic is not being egotistical.
IEEE 1588 v2 + rubidium decay grandmaster time sources do this quite nicely.

Source: have worked as a software / Linux monkey for two of the biggest US HFT firms the past 10 years.
Those who know anything about manufacturing are seeing very clearly that this is unlikely, or if achieved will be done at great cost and waste.

https://twitter.com/skabooshka/status/1012000014376230913
Why do pilots and cleaners need different wages, Is there something a pilot needs to live comfortably that somehow a cleaner doesn't?
Don't shut it down, make it open so we can all benefit. But I imagine no one would update it.

From a data standpoint, using such a resource to determine salaries would like cause salaries to become predictable, based solely on what other people paid for the combination of experiences used to classify the salaries (Ruby programmers with 5 years of experience in startups of size Z get X). So salaries would tend to not diversify much from the median (perhaps tend down a little).
There is some discussion of the details here: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=11430&page=1

For anybody else missing their fix, the stream source and mirrors still seem to be up, including:

https://nectarine.from-de.com/necta192

http://privat.is-by.us:8000/necta192.mp3

and many other internet radio sites including TuneIn.com
A bit of a tangent but I don't think cars last any longer than a decade or two ago, certain models sure but 90s cars can hit 300K+ miles with normal maintenance. A car from 2010 or newer isn't going to be any better off at 300K miles though and would likely be even more costly to maintain because of all the added and unnecessary features combined with penny pinching parts and materials until they are just barely adequate. Plus parts in general for newer vehicles are usually much more expensive for no good reason. A rack and pinion for my 25 year old truck is $250 and are still produced, a rack and pinion for 5 year old model of the same truck costs $1000, but there is no real difference on the mechanics on how it works and an old one could easily be adapted to fit the newer model in like 45 minutes.
I don't see how you could be certain you're not. Maybe you are.

In any case, different people have different things revealed to them on psychedelics, and interpret those things in different ways. Some of them might be true, some not. Also, some of their interpretations of those things could be accurate or not. I'm really not sure how you could tell and ahead of time pronounce them all to be illusory or false.

Let's say that someone took psychedelics and realized that love was the most important thing for them in their life, or that they need not fear death. Are these things necessarily false or illusory just because the realizations were made under the influence of psychedelic drugs? Maybe they are false, but maybe not.
I can see your comment, so maybe you aren't hellbanned any more.
>humanity has matured ethically alongside our technology

That's exactly the problem. I don't think we have at all. We do no serious study of ethics in our schooling, and frankly don't devote serious thought to the subject. It's very uncommon to meet somebody who has read even a single book about ethics. We're a society of meat-eaters who consider people who harm animals to be scum, a society that simultaneously considers the protection of children fundamental, and where the most likely age to die on a world scale is in childhood. These are reflections of a deep lack of ethical maturity.

Regardless of all of the inconsistency, I think it's hard to look at the times in which the world came to the brink of nuclear catastrophe in the cold war, and state confidently that this is a society with the maturity to hold nuclear weapons.
> your fingers can more accurately determine when they have pressed a key

In my own, singular/personal experience, this has never been a problem for me, even with the much maligned MBP keyboard. When the key stops traveling, you have pressed the key.

Not discounting anyone who doesn't have the same experience - just offering my own.
Only evidence is every other report of burst production rates ever, but yeah, I am sure this time is different.
Future of smartphones: folding screens, many cameras
It doesn't bind CO2 from air during setting- that's the disconnect.

By converting the carbonate to oxide, the calcium in cement is free to bond with silicates (and to a lesser extent other compounds).

That CO2 released during manufacture is now looking for a new home, which could either be a plant, or a weathering deposit of limestone which could use the CO2 in the air to convert its own carbonate to stable bicarbonate.
I agree with you, and I said as much when I said:

>I am not only wanting to criticise the individual payment processors, because I understand the risk of doing business with such things.

My point is more that we shouldn't be tolerating this kind of behaviour in society, and that people use these justifications (that such business is high risk) to say that this is the way the world works, and there's no way out of that - that's just the way things are. But I reject this line of reasoning, because it is dangerous, it fosters a sense of complacency and not a sense to challenge the way that things are. These kind of crafts are looked down upon, and that stigma goes a long way in justifying what payment processors etc. are currently doing, even if it does appear to be for rational reasons. I very much doubt there would be such a problem on the side of payment processors if there were a large enough outcry about this. But there won't be.
That just looks like a different aesthetic. Much like Korea and Japan[1]; they could make minimalist webpages in the Western style, but they choose not to.

[1] https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...
and https://www.translatemedia.com/translation-blog/website-desi... and http://digitalcommunications.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2016/03/03/... and so on
Ah that's very interesting! You might find Bill Mollison's "Global Gardener" series interesting.
Using the name and legacy of a good game to market a different game that is basically nothing like its predecessors in spirit. Diablo 3 is Jar Jar Binks to the original Star Wars trilogy.
Does Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2018?
> vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you.

In terms of pure measurements, absolutely. In terms of experience? Well, it really depends on the person (and I am someone who much prefers modern digital music formats over analog).
So it appears you're supporting my point. Youre saying that idea makers need capital and the rich have the capitol.

And that the rich...create the wealth by investing capitol?

The makers create both the value and the wealth as I see it.

What the makers need is just capitol...capitol the rich are hoarding in their clammy pocketbooks. It seems rich people are an completely interchangable obstacle to obtain capitol.

8 houses and a private jet that could be funding makers that provide value to the human race.

I don't see the purpose the rich serve other than an obstacle.
That‘s what Microsoft is users helping to find out.

As the article states, for most of computing‘s history (and certainly all of consumer‘s computing history) there hasn‘t been an era change, yet.
One cannot will anything one wants into existence.

At some point, he'll need to understand how to design an effective large-scale manufacturing system, and not simply yell for one.

Specifically, he should actually learn some things about managing people, and the place that has in producing quality at volume at speed. It's sad, because that's exactly the lesson Toyota was trying to teach at NUMMI, and their legacy has been totally forgotten by its new owner—at great cost. It's simply a shame.

> "According to this, they're using 7 times as many employees and still making less than a 1/5 of the cars NUMMI did when they had the factory." https://insideevs.com/teslas-fremont-factory/
-- via https://twitter.com/Benshooter/status/1012113642689519617

(albeit they're earlier in their maturity, for sure, but still)
1$ is 75p and I doubt that you can have a fully balanced meal on just rice and vegetables or th at you could do this for 75P double it to 1.50 maybe but wouldn't be a very good long term diet.
Unfortunately, I think you're right. From my perspective, this is exactly the sort of government-sanctioned monopoly / rent-seeking that's causing so much income inequality and economic pathology. The government should be encouraging competition, not destroying it.

I think the idea of intellectual property per se is fundamentally flawed, but I can see patents as incentives. This just shifts too much power to trolls and undeserving patents.
Straightforward contradiction spoken by the judge, from which anything whatsoever follows.

The statement "you will be hanged on a weekday next week" which we can express as

H(weekday)

means precisely this:

H(F) or H(Th) or H(W) or H(Tu) or H(M)

The statement "you will not know until the knock on the door whether you are hanged on that day" means exactly this:

~H(F) and ~H(Th) and ~H(W) and ~H(Tu) and ~H(M)

Well, no, not quite! It only has that meaning conditionally. That is to say:

H(weekday) -> ~H(F) and ~H(Th) and ~H(W) and ~H(Tu) and ~H(M)

By De Morgan's, this right side rearranges to:

H(weekday) -> ~(H(F) or H(Th) or H(W) or H(Tu) or H(M))

and that is of course

H(weekday) -> ~H(weekday)

This is equivalent to ~H(weekday), since P -> ~P is ~P v ~P, which is just ~P. So, what the judge said in total is equivalent to the conjunction of these two propositions:

H(weekday) ^ (H(weekday) -> ~H(weekday))

Where the right side reduces as above, leaving:

H(weekday) ^ ~H(weekday)

A direct contradiction: you will be hanged and you won't be hanged.

The prisoner choose to believe that he won't be hanged.
Yeah exactly. That long wink while shaking hands is a breaking of eye contact, so no explicit agreement has been formed.
BeerDroid Fully Automated Beer Brewing System
Yes, this is one of my favorite, seemingly unknown, movies
Galvanic protection prevents rebar rusting. In places like the Bay Area, if you look around major concrete structures, you'll see "anodic protection" plates on the ground which contain large blocks of zinc. As long as you keep that zinc block fresh and the circuit intact, rebar will never rust.

Some protection also uses electrical power. I seem to recall there's a bridge somewhere that uses solar power to keep its rebar from rusting.
The hardest part is the long-term testing. A failure mode that appears after ten or twenty years is the hardest to detect.

Imagine the financial impact of "Tesla recalls every Model S ever made due to stress-corrosion cracking in a critical chassis component"....
Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface
That just means I spend less money cars. All thing else being equal I should have more disposable income. Just like the phone example I can say cars are cheaper now. No sense trying to assign mythical extra value to them outside real dollar transactions.
> with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk

No, they missed the deadline, twice now. Lot of Muskites in these comments, remember, Tesla failed to meet the same deadline in January and pushed it to June. (EDIT: I've been told they missed this 3 times now, the 5K/wk figure was originally Dec '17, then Jan '18 then Jun '18).

When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as "never heard anything like this ever" using what Musk tweeted as "scrap we had in warehouses" to build the cars. And even then, and running all three lines 24/7 striving to hit that goal for just 7 consecutive days with the whole world watching... they still came up 150 cars short.

(5k/wk / 168 hrs/week = 30/hr * missing the deadline by 5 hours = 150 cars short)
I don't think it would be as bad as you think.

If you wanted to remain living in your ideal world, you would make adjustments to your life for the sole purpose of maintaining your lifestyle instead of just thinking "meh, someone else will do it".

I have to think if this were built into how we lived for hundreds of generations, then your mindset would even change from "maintaining my lifestyle" to "this is what we do to keep everyone happy".

I'm not a hardcore socialist either. I'm almost the opposite. I like the idea that if someone puts in a lot of effort, they should have a lot of success. I have no sympathy for people who want to just watch TV and expect to be carried by society. But, at the same time, I would much rather live in a world where everyone was happy doing what they love, and everything just worked out without the concept of money.
Just listened to eps 1 & 2 on a road trip and I'm completely hooked! Great production quality and premise. The format is reminiscent of the WWZ audiobook, which I also loved. Just thinking out loud but does Amazon/Audible support mini audiobooks like they do with epubs? Could be an interesting business model offering each episode as a single purchase. I'd definitely rather pay for this (purchase or subscription) than have ads that rip you Out of the fiction.
It's not the high information density on the home page (common in Asia) but the overall web design style and functionality. The site was developed over a decade ago and has many interesting bits. For example, the "show me the product I ordered" page brings you to a captured JPG screenshot of the product listing.

And product listing pages look something like this:

https://24h.pchome.com.tw/prod/DSAM2L-A9007SS3R

Contrast/compare with these main players in China:

http://www.jd.com/

http://tmall.com/

http://taobao.com/
Still isn’t proof; fraud is a strong term. Throwing around such allegations with any proof is irresponsible. Has Tesla been convicted of fraud in the past?
People naturally rise to their responsibilities, whether it’s work or basic life skills. Like learning a language, it come more naturally to children as there’s to no second guessing the difficulty of the undertaking nor the fear of failing at a task.
I don't know how you found your way onto the addition operator (+) on your keyboard, because that's not at all what I was driving at.

I think you are... JUMPING! TO CONCLUSIONS! (get it?)

Anyway, at it's core, much of the logic within a turing machine winds up being addition in an accumulator. So, you widen the pipeline, and that adds place settings to the numeric values addressed at a location in RAM.

I think we both know that each place setting increases the maximum valus of the addressible unit by an exponential factor of the base, which in computing, and so in this instance, is binary.

Specifically: 2^4096 instead of 2^64

Golly, did I get my math right? This sure is difficult to for me to understand!

Why would anyone want a 4096 bit CPU? Oh, I dunno. I suppose 640K ought to be enough for anyone.
promising news i think. a friend of mine said they would go under. i dont really want them to go under though.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Hakyll [1] here - a great Jekyll alternative that's fast(ish) and supports hot-reloading. You do have to like / tolerate Haskell though (this polarises opinion pretty fast...)

[1] https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
In the sense that they'll show dates wrong, yes, though one could imagine the following era might start a few months after the death.

But essentially, software (and printed calendars!) will start showing dates with years "overflowing" the era.
Does anyone actually buy a $35k version? I tried to spec one recently and couldn’t get anything i felt was acceptable for under 68k
I would guess Tesla announces the 200,000th domestic sale sometime in the next week. They could be hitting their ramp-up to high production of the Model 3 right when they hit the 200k domestic electric car milestone. This also happens to be right at the beginning of a quarter so they can get as many $7500 federal tax credits for their customers as they can. One would guess this is not just some lucky coincidence, but who knows.
> One cannot will anything one wants into existence

Let's just see now.

Musk wanted to grow a plant on Mars, and when the Russians pulled out of a deal to sell him a couple of ICBMs he decided he would will his own rocket into existence.

Then he decided he wanted it to be reusable, so he willed that into existence when everyone said it was impossible.

Then he wanted to strap three of them together, so he willed that into existence.

Then we wanted electric cars, so he willed into existence not only the best electric car ever, but one of the best cars ever, period (Model S)

etc. etc.

I think it unwise to underestimate Musk.
Okay Mr negative happy pants, who cares if they needed a tent to reach that goal, they reached it and the tent is not going anywhere.
I disagree, I'm glorifying autonomy in relation to self-determination theory but critiquing individualism as a cultural ideology or orientation. I used different words because I wasn't expecting a response like yours.

If you want a deep dive, this is a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12518973