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Do you know what the headline was 2 months ago? it was whether Tesla could make 2500 cars a week:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/tesla-hal...

(and they did miss that deadline)

They're now making in the territory of 5000 cars a week, almost double in 2 months. Regardless of how you interpret it as burst week or not, the production rate has ramped up significantly.

We are now seeing the goalpost being moved from whether Tesla can achieve this goal, to Tesla being lax with quality. Perhaps we'll hear soon 10K/week is unattainable. I guess that means they are making progress.
An abrupt, significant, and wide-spread regression in quality of life, coupled with cultural and technological stagnation. Something like the Late Bronze age collapse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse )

It is a reasonable low-probability high-risk concern, given (unordered):

* Depleting fossil fuel reserves: most obvious risk; dominant fuel source for transportation and agriculture, dominant energy source for industries, dominant material in many consumer goods.

* Climate change: threatens some regions' agricultural and ocean productivity, pressuring human migration, spreading diseases.

* Exhausted oceans: oceanic deadzones are spreading, loss of fishing as a food source is a serious risk for parts of Asia, which will put additional pressures on agriculture and motivate economic migration.

* Over-use of antibiotics and vaccines: risk of super-bacteria/virus plagues, mostly in agriculture and 3rd world nations.

* Depletion of aquifers: imminent risk amplified by climate change. America's food production is heavily reliant on effectively non-renewable aquifers, depletion or poisoning through fracking are serious risks.

* Globalized economy/supply chains: coupling economies improves efficiency but introduces the risk of cascade failures.

No one of these problems are an existential risk by themselves... but they are all interrelated and poorly understood, which impacts our ability to effectively preempt wide-spread impact.

Humanity will recover should the worst happen, but I think it's better to avoid the set back in the first place.
Missing a launch in rocketry is a normal and expected part of life in the industry, and no matter who is launching it happens. Missing targets for producing a car isn’t. This is what people mean when they say “comparing apples and oranges.”
Is this just a different aesthetic too http://live.pchome.com.tw/liver_form_predb.php?live_no=L1711...
Interesting idea, but how would you deal with these issues:

1.) Randomizing who receives contentious trades will just encourage order splitting and gaming. Sure some of that can be banned, but nothing stops big firms from putting each trading group into different legal entities or other tricks.

This also discourages traders from bidding their true most aggressive price. In time priority, you must, or someone else will snatch your trade. If you remove the reward, why take the risk?

2.) Being fast would still matter. Reality isn't quantized, so having access to relevant real world information or a proxy for such (trading activity in other markets or products) would still be an edge. Existing quantized trading points such as exchange auctions are still latency sensitive.

3.) The modern marketplace is interconnected. No ETF market maker will quote a tight spread if he can't confidently hedge his risk in the individual stocks. Going into a one second auction with random allocation is a lot riskier than just hitting the bid on Nasdaq, maybe paying an extra penny in the rare case when you're slow. A lot of liquidity comes from people running these arb/stat arb trades. It tightens spreads and helps keep prices in line. Why harm it?

4.) There is more to HFT success than speed and I don't think this would hurt them too much or take us back to 1997 with day traders sitting at home making big money. Virtu or some other HFT shop was the biggest trader on IEX, and they have a speed bump similar to this, just less extreme.
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That's merely an extension of what is covered in the article, legal immigrants must pay a commission (two bribes AFAIK to immigrate) go to Malaysia and the visa/legal immigration is tied to the employer who uses that leverage and the debt to force the immmigrant employee into a different arrangement much more advantageous to the employer in tech or fisheries or domestic work. It's seems no different than what we've been reading for years about Abu Dhabi or United Arab Emirates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/nyregion/workers-at-nyus-...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/23/m...
Yes -- I would love a clear definition of what "factory gated" means and then an accounting of which cars were already close to finished. But I doubt we'll get that!
Teslas are exceedingly rare everywhere but the wealthiest cities.

...recent trip to Paris.

Yeah... a notably wealthy city.
Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf]
For HDMI/DVI, there are a number of external transmitter ICs that take in 24 bit parallel video/I2S audio and spit out HDMI, e.g. http://www.analog.com/en/products/audio-video/hdmidvi-transm...
That's the point I meant by saying it's not a stable strategy to just not rape, you have to have a "punish those who do rape" trait encoded as well. Or more generally, moral standards.
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another minor typo:

> do the merging as soon as possible to exploit the run that the run just found is still high in the memory hierarchy

s/run/fact/ if I'm reading correctly

for the python timsort, the original source code is here: https://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listobj..., although porting it to idiomatic python definitely seems nontrivial
> What would happen if 100 million Bangladeshis moved to the US?

> we would be tearing down the statue of liberty

> It is a popular mental dysfunction

This characterization of people who disagree with the parent, along with the comments above, does not seem to invite discussion, but rather a flame war.

> it doesn’t work like that.

In fact it has. People have been making the same predictions as you about immigrants to the U.S. since the first immigrants arrived. Can't trace your family to the Mayflower? You shouldn't be running the country. (I'll save redundancy by citing my other comment):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17437962

And yet the evidence is that the wealthiest country in the world and its leading advocate of democracy (over a longer timescale) is run by those very immigrants and their decedents.

Freedom and democracy are universal values; they are embraced in "cultures" all over the world (U.S., almost all of South America, Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, India, Europe, etc. ...) and provide the most stable governments, the most freedom, and the wealthiest economies. Bangladesh might have had a bad experience - there are no guarantees - but of course we don't know how much that depends on poor execution nor do we know if other forms of government would have been better or worse. Maybe democracy was actually the best option.
> The fact that it's extremely one-sided

There's a fucking crisis destroying this country and you're complaining about this article being "extremely one-sided"? Any accurate portrayal about what's going in the country will appear one-sided because the situation is one-sided. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything the government is doing right. That's the extent of their incompetence.

> about a country well-known for repeated US meddling

Ah yes, Maduro's universal scapegoat. Can you point to what "US meddling" you think caused this crisis?

> why did Kellogg's leave the country? it's unclear.

Are you fucking serious? It pulled out of the country because the country is in economic free-fall, and the government is notorious for expropriating companies at a whim. How the government was able to ruin Venezuela's oil industry and is too incompetent to even operate existing infrastructure should be a case study for the world.

> May it be in part because of US government pressure? not unlikely.

Based on what?

Using the abandoned factory isn't the problem. It's what led to that situation that's the problem.

> international sanctions are the direct cause of most of the problems that make the news daily (lack of medicine, food, etc).

Direct cause of most of the problems? What the hell? On what basis do you claim this? Are you even familiar with the factors that led to the current crisis at all?
Parent’s point was probably that the connection used is still traceable
This is something which always gets me.

So it is widely accepted that there is no/negligible genetic difference, but there are cultural differences at least when it comes to prosperity.

However it is also the case that cultures are extremely slow to change - multiple generations - almost to the actual speed of evolution. Essentially conceding the point that even if it isn't genetic there is some kind of heritable negative/missing positive traits which can last multiple generations.
Fair enough... Pizza is a savory dish and I've he'd the displeasure (on multiple occasions) of having sweet sauce and dough bloomed with lots of sugar, and it transformed almost into a dessert.
They could have stayed part of Pakistan. It could have been worse. My family is Ahmadi. We left for the US in 1986 right before I was born over this death penalty for apostasy business.
Unless you can afford to retire now. We are all in varying degrees subjected to Forced Labor. We've made many advances in making everything efficient and more abundant. Yet we still work to the death.
It's quite the thing. I profiled it with and without ads, and it looks like the ads are the culprit. There are two of them just sitting there using CPU time the entire time the page is open. (I had two Facebook ads that had animated text being typed. They continued to use 100% of the CPU even when the animation was complete.)

There should really be some sort of CPU/power budget enforced by one's phone on a per page basis. If there's no user action going on, a page should only be allowed to run a certain number of instructions.
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> Interplanetary travel will do this

That's optimistic. Do you mean when the first person steps on Mars (or orbits Venus!) or large scale travel?
> You can not have both free social services and totally open borders without ruining your economy. Pick one or another.

I suppose if you can't refute an argument with facts and clear reasoning you can always resort to lies and threats. Like so much anti-immigration propaganda that defies all historical evidence and economic analysis at it's basis it's just plain old fear and bigotry.
YMD is the only sane format. When you sort, you can sort by the year, followed by month and day. I do this a lot with folder names or log file names in directories, file system creation/modified dates don't always match reality. e.g. a folder named 2018-01-07 is entirely readable to anyone who looks at it, but at the same time easily sorted.
I'm not the commenter you replied to, but, constructive criticism? For a recently euthanized product? I don't think they care any more.

For another criticism, the cynic in me went "Blargh" at the "A Love Note" blog headline...
> I often catch myself acting uninterested in my daughter's interests

I read a book that talk about how to improve on this [0], when ever my 5yo daughter shows me some of her drawings I try to take notice of some detail and comment on it, not just say 'that's nice dear'. She draws masses and masses of pictures of stick girls in dresses, but I always try to find some detail that she's done different.

We often draw or paint together, maybe once or twice a week. The last time we did it, I painted a picture of a boat on the sea, she painted a space portal that takes you to another world.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769016.How_to_Talk_So_Ki...
Er, wasn’t there a dictatorship and a coup along the way?
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Perhaps there is some legal consequence?

If that is the case, I would hope Galois would just given him some ex-gratia payment.
> and the left fears that migration will threaten the welfare state.

to my scale, these are neo-nazis, not left at all.
Wouldn't that make housing more expensive, rather than less?
Let's be real- maybe there's a cabal of homeowners trying to jack up the value of their house with government policy for their own gain. Or, maybe the homeowners don't like skyscrapers and do like seeing the mountains, in fact perhaps that's why they moved there in the first place pre-boom.
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Until you 'earn' -$500,000 in six months during the next real estate crash.
Your phone is always on you. Your computer, less so.
As a generation who read text in flow layout from the start, multiple columns fixed layout is quite ugly, hard to read, shall be abolished from the world(especially academic world.)
Not in the direct manner you seem to be implying.
> To believe that the west’s material wealth is the result of random chance ...

All true Americans know the wealth spews from the Greatness.
Hey! I'm not the person you're responding to, but since you're here anyway, I have a quick question. I found your article by Googling "MultipeerConnectivity" and "CRDT", to see if anyone had put the two technologies together. I was wondering: why did you decide to eschew MultipeerConnectivity in favor of your custom solution? What was missing from that framework?

Also, what's the Wi-Fi extension that you used to implement your tech? Haven't heard anything about this, would be very interested in investigating further!
I do not own Excel, hence it is not ubiquitous (ubique - Latin: "everywhere".) I do have LO Calc - that is cheap (price) and yet priceless (value).
I found the article odd, because it talked a lot about the different dynamics and the emissions of different things, but never netted them out.

If you're going to talk about the CO2 emissions of the concrete needed for a wind turbine, the obvious next step would be to net them all out and figure out if building wind turbines is a net reduction in CO2 or not.

The author seemed to go out of their way to imply that as long as we use Portland cement, it would not be a net reduction, but they never actually came out and said that.

Not quite sure what to make of it. It's like reading an article that talks about electric cars and how high electricity can make them more expensive than you think, but then...never actually calculates their operating cost and compares it to a conventional ICE powertrain.
Exactly - there's a good reason why this article, arguing that we have huge monitors now, is still constrained to a max-width that takes up 28% of my screen's width. And it's not because we're still designing for an 800x600 constraint.
> "Of course she can go shopping," Tun Burgos says. "She can buy some eggs or tomatoes for us. She knows the way and how to stay out of traffic."

I wonder how much this has to do with the value of child life.

What are the statistics of Mayan children being run over / kidnapped?

I can't imagine it's somehow safer in Mexico, just somehow parents are more willing / less informed to take this risk.
Redundancy makes sense, but that explains two computers, not three, unless they're engineering for abandon-in-place in case of failure.

I routinely advocate (usually unsuccessfully) the latter for relatively inexpensive high-volume parts like disks. My knee-jerk reaction is that even a small computer like they mention dosn't qualify, but a large disk (including the amortized cost of the disk bay) is easily hundreds of dollars, which is a large fraction of the cost of such a computer, if they're getting a decent deal.
How does a pizza steel compare to a pizza stone?
Increasing density is the natural impulse when an area becomes more desirable. So much of our society is tied to the area you live - jobs, public schools, access to services. It’s immoral to kick the ladder down behind you and make entry into the area impossible, not because the market decides it, but because existing inhabitants have co-opted the government through NIMBY policies.

I can think of many pro-market initiatives that would alleviate society’s ailments. But allowing more, denser housing to be built is one of the easiest, least burdensome solutions placed on the taxpayer. The damage caused by more housing is to delicate sensibilities as a homeowner’s “view” is blocked by new towers and the “character” of a neighborhood is ruined by lower income newcomers.
I lost my phone somewhat recently. It's been great: I read more books, and get a lot less distractions throughout the day. The privacy implication is a huge bonus.

The main drawback have been that people rarely label apartment doorbells anymore, so if you don't know which button to press you're in trouble. Another is getting hold of old friends if you don't know their email address (I don't have Facebook either).

Overall, I'm fairly content with the situation, and am seriously considering not getting a new one. Another benefit is that I'm more likely to bring my laptop if I go somewhere, and thus when I do connect to the internet and have time to kill, I often get work done instead of mindlessly browsing HN/reddit or playing games.
Agreed. It's foolishly short-sighted to worry about the one-time construction emissions of a facility that can go on to produce power for decades. It's frustrating to see a segment of climate advocacy motivated not by quantitative concerns regarding radiative forcing, but by an aesthetic opposition to industrial civilization itself no matter what form it might take.
Does the US federal government not have a department that handles land survey?

Land surveying, yes - The USGS.

Building surveying, no. It's the "private" part of "private property."

Unless someone's committed a crime being investigated by a federal agency, the federal government has no right to know what's on my property. And even then there are limits. The feds can look down from a satellite, but so can anyone else. But the feds can't come onto my property and laser measure my house, as was the scenario proposed by the parent commenter.

As I stated earlier, external-only building surveys can be done by the local tax collection agency for the purpose of assessing taxes in places where taxes are assessed based on improvements to the land.

And your insurance company may also want to make similar measurements, but those are usually done only very rarely these days. They were more common in the past when structure fires were more of a problem. (Think Sanborn Maps† and The Great Chicago Fire.)

† https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps
When economists want to track quality changes they typically use hedonic models like hedonic regression or sales adjustment grids.

In the U.S CPI calculation uses hedonic adjustment in many item categories, including smartphones.

Bringing up quality when talking about wages does not seem relevant. Wages are important relative to the size fo the economy because they turn into consumption. CPI tracks that just fine. When trying to estimate economic growth quality may be more important.
You seem to be arguing that this is a protective notion, when really it argues the opposite. If you bring two large groups of people together, their respective cultures are not going to change quickly. And if their cultures clash with each other, you have a recipe for enduring intra-national strife.
People thanking the public transit bus driver in Vancouver.
ADUs (accessory dwelling units) are smaller than neighboring buildings, so they don't impact views at all. However, many California cities still banned or severely restricted them, until they were forced to stop by last year's state legislation.
I think loans without income to back them up is an indicator of a bubble, but that's not what we have. But new jobs, esp. higher paying jobs are concentrated into narrow areas, like Seattle, SF, Austin. There are only so many houses, they are building more but except for apartments in Seattle there's no evidence of enough housing to meet demand. So I think housing prices should keep going up.

If housing prices were going up in towns without people moving there, that would be a different issue, but that's the opposite of what is happening. Interest rates are going up slowly, that should slow housing price gains.
> My professor always said, ideas are like hemorrhoids, every asshole sooner or later gets some.

What does that contribute? That could apply to your idea too, or mine.

> they come here and bring their beliefs, values (about women, violence etc.) and tribal thinking and create here exactly the problems they have in their home country. They see our apples and they want to have apples too. But they don't get the idea that the apples could have anything to do with the tree they are growing on.

This is really an incredibly broad stereotype to paint on hundreds of millions of individuals. Perhaps like you, they should be judged on their individual actions and have the right to believe what they like.

And who is the parent to judge others and take away their rights? I don't like the parent's beliefs (which I find especially based on "tribal" ideas)' should they be ejected from my country if they are my neighbor? (No, absolutely not.)
for me, D2 is the better game in that it is fun and addictive to play, while D1 is much more atmospheric.
Are you referring to the tweet that was almost certainly a joke, coming from a man who "only occasionally drinks"?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/279270
Well regardless of the statutory interpretation tools employed, they purport to be interpreting section 101, not the constitution. If 101 changes, those cases should be out the window.
If timed right, they have 6 months to sell cars after the 200k cutoff. Some people say they have been storing some cars and not selling them along with selling more overseas so that all the cars produced (and sold, but with the reservation backlog, this is the same thing for now) for the next six months can get the tax credit. It has to do with production because you can't have sales of cars that don't exist.
Yeah I think a lot of city dwellers would be fine with new building if it looked like building more of Paris, instead of building High Rise Home Depot Clearance Bin or commie block housing.

Most new stuff, at least in New Hampshire and Mass, is just SO UGLY inside and out. The people complaining about new construction do have legitimate grievances here.

(I say all this as a huge walkable towns, new urbanist-ish advocate)