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No there's a serious belief in this, mainly among well-fed white intellectuals who believe in the "noble savage'.

Yuval Harari, author of the excellent "Sapiens" also believes it.
In some cases the money is coming from the car manufacturer who wants you to buy the car.
WSJ won’t even provide or quote the memo in question from their sole supplier source.
>And more ubiquitous than LSD-25.

that is CERTAINLY false.
I’ve assumed the invoice price now also includes the cost of 0% financing. This would mean it’s carrying a lot of extra cost, and the dealer can hold the price up.
All it does is exposes the problems of the American underclass. When you're not taking public transit, and live in a suburb, it's very easy to close your eyes, and pretend that poor people don't exist.
Perfume and shampoos for wife.
Sometimes you can take a loss on the car, but make a profit on the sale: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/129-cars
> You sound pretty smart and probably have the solution to these problems. Please share it.

I am not OP, and I am not sure where in the Seattle area home and work
are, but my suggestion is to move somewhere where you don't have to drive as much.

Fully aware that many people don't want to do this and will even get angry at the suggestion. But speaking personally this is doable. I myself lived in the walkable part of Bellevue, then I lived in SLU shortly before the tech boom hit full steam.

I since moved to SF and my kids were born down here, so I do not know the Seattle kid experience well other than to say when we go back we stay downtown and walk everywhere without problems.
I have never bought a new car, but I suppose if I did, this would be a good strategy. I mean it's a lot of effort, but when you talk about something that expensive that you're going to keep for 5 ~ 10 years at least, it makes sense to put in that effort.
I'd agree part of the problem is the widespread "buy the most house for the lowest price" phenomenon, which infects many other aspects of our society beyond shopping for homes, but far and away the primary problem here has little to do with architectural issues. The problem is with builders who are trying to maximize their profit - the key being build the biggest house possible on a lot of a given size (or per FAR restrictions). And the same group of builders who go this route tend to have little awareness or real concern for aesthetics - to them architecture is better when you have many rooms, higher foyers, more complicated floor plans and roof planes, and a larger number of different types of building/cladding materials. The appeal of these things has slowly creeped into the general public because tract house builders have adopted lesser versions of this crap for decades.
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That's not at all surprising, though, that's how journalism has always worked (protecting one's sources). I certainly trust the WSJ over anything that comes out of Musk's mouth, especially after those pedo accusations.
How much will a 10 mile ride to work in rush hour cost on Waymo?
Just a heads up, the lowest email/phone price is often higher than the lowest in-person price, for this very reason.
This sounds a lot like JIT compilation techniques, but applied to an already-compiled binary.
For real! This part is so gross! Glad you added this point.
I think the answer is that low-interest car loans often come from a finance arm of the auto maker. I once got a 0% loan from Volkswagen to buy a Volkswagen. Seems like a way for them to sell more cars to people with good credit who will almost certainly pay back the loan.

I don't have any particular insight into this industry beyond my own personal experience though, so there's a non-trivial chance that I'm wrong with regards to the general case.
>XPS 13 has no NVidia GPU's, and never has. I believe it has had upgraded Intel GPU, but never anything from NVidia.

I have an XPS 15 with Nvidia GPU and I assumed XPS 13 is just the smaller screen version.

Nvidia driver versions are a hit and miss on XPS 15. The latest 396 version doesn't even startup and I had to do a clean reinstall of mint.

And Gnome is a resource hog. I loved it but my XPS couldn't keep up with it's demands
A 1B Beats acquisition can be excused as a vanity play for Apple plus when they did that deal the company was still closer to “can do no wrong” status. A tens of billions investment into a money losing capex intensive industry would be a lot harder for Apple to sell to its shareholders.
Because mass transit is non-existent or shitty in many American cities.

Also, we're a good 10 years minimum from viable self driving cars, and people I know in that industry say it's more like 15+. It's a fucking hard problem, and one where you can't screw up. You screw up and people die.

Self driving cars also will not clear up road congestion. Even if every car was self driving, they still take up a shit ton more space than a train and transport a fraction of the people. I wrote about this a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...
Backdoors that can be turned off are backdoors that can be turned on.

Unless you have a fuse to be pulled, or blown.
If you are buying fancy cars, it always makes sense, as the emotional buzz from having a fancy car fades with age.

The dealers will sell the car for next to nothing because they owe money on the car, and get stuck with inventory they don’t want. Your Toyota dealer doesn’t get his high margin 4Runner unless he takes a view Yarii (or whatever the tiny Toyota is). This is the same reason bars sell well liquor at a loss.
>The battery charge threshold is in the kernel now as of 4.17

Interesting. I missed reading about this in the change log.
I have 4.17 on Linux Mint and it's doing a pretty decent job (minus nvidia GPU)
The person actually selling you the car makes a surprising difference. A friend who worked at a Ford dealership for awhile told me to always go straight to Internet / fleet sales.

Reason? Those agents are comp'd based on volume over minimum, not on margin (or how the lot salespeople are measured).

End result? If he or she can sell you a car in 5 minutes for over the minimum, they'll happily do so and then chase the next sale.
Why can't you retrofit the car with self driving equipment?
I see comments complaining about this (generally on a national level) on HN almost daily.

The weekly a highly-upvoted thread, such as the Assange thread yesterday, is filled with it (most seemed to not be too thrilled with Assange particularly, but angered by political issues around him)

Well anyways, my point is that I guess the benefactors of all of this corruption and authoritarianism are thrilled that the best minds are occupied with demanding jobs.
"Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo. But it confirmed it is seeking price reductions from suppliers for projects, some of which date back to 2016, and some of which haven’t been completed."

The Wall Street Journal is one of the most reputable sources for business journalism. Claiming that they would publish this article without proper vetting is ridiculous and equating it to "fake news" is shameful.
Look into 1-PLSD
>>Why are people still buying cars?

Because (majority of North American cities, and many others around the world, are impossible, impractical, or difficult to live with without a car), multiplied by (variety of lifestyles, people, locations, conditions, health, jobs).

[In reality, I assume you understand the answer to this question but there _are_ people who genuinely don't - their age, health, needs, job, location, lifestyle and wealth are such that they can get away without one, and lacking empathy or bother, don't understand not everybody is in that very specific slot]

>>People buy cars and expect them to last between 7-10 years.

I bought a new car in 2004 and am still driving it. I go to dealerships for fun with my dad few times a year, but am in no rush to replace. When I do, I'll expect at least 10 years out of it (tricky with the welded entertainment systems these days, but you can still get a car without a Touchscreen, if you try hard ;).

>> With Waymo soon to be available to the general public

See #1. Some people need a car now; some people need convenience, availability, particular size, etc; some people will be outside of target markets for years if not decades; etc etc etc.

Again, I understand the question may have been meant to start a discussion, but I feel there could've been less intentionally provocative ways around it (or, if it were purely genuine, for your own sake, dear goodness, open up your eyes and empathy gland a bit and notice the world around you - talk to or make some friends who are in different positions, travel, watch some TV, etc :-)
As someone else already pointed out, I don’t think they’ll be able to rely on the name as it’s been severely tarnished beyond repair. They’ll have to rely on something that is significantly better than what the GitHubs, Bitbuckets, and Gitlabs are offering.
More like a few tens of millions.
> That was 12 years ago, and J2K is still pretty much unknown outside of niche applications.

It’s big in digitized documents and medical space where the superior compression has real benefits. One under-appreciated benefit is that the combination of progressive decoding and tiling is perfect for deep zoom services since you don’t want to precompute thousands of tiles per image when your library size is millions of images.

The big problem with JPEG 2000 as I see it was a lack of openness: for a long time, a copy of the spec cost non-trivial money and there was no standard test suite so compatibility was a constant problem. This meant that there was no good open source library and thus that most users had a bad experience relative to other formats. This changed over the last few years and OpenJPEG has become competitive on quality and speed but I’m afraid the damage may have been fatal.

One of the things which makes me sad about that is that it’d be great for progressive images on the web with an extension to srcset to specify the byte ranges for each size, avoiding the need to cache duplicate variants. Unfortunately the lack of high quality libraries and adoption probably means that window has passed, although it would be interesting to see how well a Web Assembly version performs.
One way would be to consider what you're most interested in * how much time it will take, and try to optimize both.

I like to work on two side projects at once (split by morning/evening): a long-term project (e.g. paid product/SaaS/book/etc) where it's hard to see progress everyday, and a short-term project (e.g. blog post/infographic/etc) where progress is easier to make. The reason is: I find that being able to see daily progress is important to keep you going with side projects in general.
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Depending where you live, fraudulent charges against the security deposit can be very lucrative for an informed tenant - a bad faith charge against the security deposit opens the landlord up to treble damages.
Also, it's not just the "redistribution" of wealth that has some "clear former owner", but also how people divide "new" value that is created on-the-fly.

Consider a company that mines for gold -- how much of that new value is split between the people who own the land, the people who dig the ore, the people who process the ore, the people who lent some money long ago, etc.
Nokia 6.1 Plus aka Nokia X6 for Global Market
Depends on your target platform and what you're doing. On Windows? Learning DirectX will be more bang for your buck. Apple? Then Metal is probably the way to go, if you need low-level control and performance. Vulkan if you want crossplatform low-level control. If you don't care so much about the nitty gritty details and want to get things done quickly, Unreal or Unity is probably more rewarding.

One of the difficulties with OpenGL is that it's awfully fragmented and there are many ways to do things that have evolved over time. Learning resources are consequently spread around, and it's really easy to learn suboptimal obsolete ways of doing things.
Predicting the next 10 years for deep learning
I dont see any reason for this to still exist now that git is a thing... all github would have to do is make their release pages a bit more friendly to non devs and it would demolish sourceforge completely.
If you're interested in how dealerships actually work (and how perverse and stressful the incentive structure can be), I highly recommend listening to the above podcast. It was fascinating.

One example: sometimes dealerships are selling you a vehicle at a loss, in hopes they'll hit the next volume tier, earning enough manufacturer rebates to make a net profit on the deal. And they have to cut their prices that low if they're in a competitive market.

Which turns the entire endeavor into a monthly game of musical chairs. "And 3rd place? Third place is you're fired."
> The smartphone is inefficient and restricted computer.

It's worse than this. The smartphone is such a complete abstraction with "apps" that modern teenagers don't even have a correct concept of "computer".

The fact that an "app" is actually a recipe and that something (aka a computer) needs to execute that recipe is a revelation.
All those things sound like antipatterns to me. If your application is supposed to fetch HTTPS pages then there should be an integration test for that, so you would never have to debug it in production. Having shared objects on the machine actually makes this impossible because your tests are running with different libraries than in production. Shared libraries on a machine are a non-hermetic input to your build and are to be avoided. In addition, runtime shared objects (especially of something performance-critical like crypto) inhibit all of the most important compiler optimizations like inlining. The savings from sharing text segments is small in my experience. As for ltrace, there's a million ways to trace function calls these days, like uprobe or perf.
Nice. I could talk all day about this stuff.

I represent goal/value alignments by assigning each value a label and labeling each goal. For instance mental health might be blue, professional competency might be yellow, etc.

Tracking depends on the specific thing. Most habits I track in an iOS app called Streaks. For skills which require introspection to improve, I keep a journal right in the trello entry for that specific habit. For instance if you play a musical instrument and you get feedback from a teacher weekly, you may want to journal that.

Values & Principles were later additions (I only added principles in the last year). The distinction is that values are specific to a person while principles are broad. For instance a lot of people agree in the principle that giving back to the community leads to deep happiness in the long term. But some might choose to do it by teaching python to kids, others might make dance tutorials on youtube.

My thought is: values do change over time as we get older or re-prioritize things in life, principles should be more steady. And it's useful to ground our values to reality.

Granted it's probably impossible to write down principles objectively, but I think it's worth a shot, even if to remind us that our values are only that: things we value, not necessarily others, who are all on their own journeys.

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-difference-between-princi...
I never had an issue with people on buses in Seattle .. well there was that one guy on the E who was smoking week in the back, but another passenger told him to quit that shit and he did. .. and I did find a needle laying on the floor of the 8 once, capped.

Other than that, I took the bus/LINK nearly every day to work when I lived there, and a ton on the weekends, and never had issue with the Seattle bus system. I knew people who took the bus from up in Linwood at the park and ride; way better than trying to drive through that shit in the morning.

ST3 is going to help a lot too. A train to Redmond and up past the University. That's going to be amazing when it goes live.
But the question was why would "Anyone" buy a car, and almost by definition, not everyone can move out of "Impractical Big city A" into "Utopian Small City B", because then "Utopian Small City B" becomes "Impractical Big City B" :)

There simply isn't a place in North America, let alone the world, that a) Is amenable to a non-driving lifestyle, and b) has room for all the people in the world.

It is not a universally applicable advice; it is virtually by definition only doable by select few. The rest of the population will still have to deal with reality of things.
True, it is that too.
This is from 2014. It's completely true, of course, but old news by this point.
Although the problem you described can be solved with software, is it really "high growth"?

Put another way, can this grid flexibility problem be solved purely with a (currently popular in tech, especially among startups, as the GP alluded) cloud-based SaaS offering?

Or will it require some significant non-software portions to the solutions, such as co-locating hardware and/or high-reliability low-latency networking?
One new trick I discovered last time around doing the new dealer quote matching game is to find a set of dealers in a different state.

In our case all the dealers for one brand were owned by a single conglomerate(under different names) however as soon as we mentioned we had a lower quote from a OR dealer(this was in WA) they suddenly dropped their prices significantly.
Estimate time to correct?? Most of the time that's very low, the hard part is figuring out why you get Y instead of X.
It works where the power company might just raise your air conditioning thermostat for a few hours.

Your Nest can already do this:

https://nest.com/support/article/What-is-Rush-Hour-Rewards
Yeah, this is why people are mad now, and dare I say it exactly explains why Trump won.

The fact that the US is run for the elites isn't something that happened in the last year, its been that way for decades. Which is why when presented with the option of re-electing a dynastic choice for President and a (on the surface) political outsider who captured their rage, people voted for rage.
That's why I said "pay reasonably well". It seems to me that most places that don't interview and filter candidates by asking algorithmic problems don't pay as well as those that do. That's just been my experience as a student that's interviewed for internships and is going to start interviewing for new grad positions in the fall.

Also

> (They do exist, even if they're not as common as they should be.)

I'm curious why you think interviews _should_ be non-algorithmic. How do you propose interviews be done? How else are you supposed to find if someone can employ critical thinking + has the necessary programming skills? And yes, most interview questions _are_ original and not straight from Leetcode so they do demonstrate critical thinking + programming skills.
I've taken public transport quite a bit in several US cities. I didn't have a car for five years. Transport isn't going to get better if regular people stop using it. And there's something special about being on a bus or train or cycling/commuting with tons of other Americans.

Even if you don't interact with them, you see them .. you see all sorts of people from all walks of life. In the 60s we were all in our books or in newspapers. Today we're all in our cellphones. We don't interact, but we see each other. That changes perceptions. That changes the way you view people.

When people go to work in their cars and yell at other faceless cars, they don't truly see people. It changes who we are.
GitLab is like the average kid in class that everybody makes fun of for constantly asking questions, but the joke's on them because "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." While GitLab may have warts, I feel that they're very earnestly working to make the product better, bit by bit, day by day, and will one day surpass GitHub.
I mean by putting off refactoring and bug fixes that are being constantly eschewed in favor of adding features.
GitLab should, frankly, focus on performance/ux/bug-fix releases every other release. And probably for the next 2-3 releases to get some of the warts under control.

This constant push for project management features, frankly, is at the expense of the core product. I'd rather use a combination of GitHub and JIRA over Gitlab.
Don't get hung up on the problems. 98% of the people I've worked with couldn't, e.g., reverse a linked list to save their life. Many of them were perfectly fine professional programmers all the same.

If you have a CS degree, it is almost 100% certain that you are qualified to do programming at a bank or insurance company or whatever at the very least. If you're scared of the intimidating tech companies, then just skip them and go work somewhere that'll be less stressful.
Another angle on Wittgenstein's rectitude, by the folks at Existential Comics :

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/245

In which W's talking lion shows a taste for English pop groups and Ultimate Frisbee
Well, then, Twitter is a morass of copyright violation ;)

Edit: But wait. Can't using images on personal websites be fair use? Is it just the Twitter ToS that makes it illegal?
I think many engineers would love to have a scrum master or project manager who at least understands what they are trying to do. Your challenges position you to appreciate the difficulty of engineering at the highest level. Use your demonstrated (in this post) communications skills to help them cut through the bureaucracy and be effective!

You have more to offer than you realize!
Supposedly the place I work at did the same thing about 15 years ago. They were close to closing the doors and started calling for suppliers and begging for discounts etc. It worked, they’re still in business today.
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For some brands, it's about needing to be under factory warranty coverage for the entire ownership period.
For people in good health, for people with flexibility of time and condition they arrive to target in, for people in cities with amenable climate, for select times of year.

Not to be glib, but what about the old, the young, those who cannot come in sweaty to work, those who don't live in Caribbean / those who need to get out of their house more than 6-8 weeks out of the year, those of poor health or limited mobility, those in places which are not friendly to bikes, those who need to go with somebody, those who need to carry stuff, etc?

My pregnant wife, my 73 year old dad, my waist-down-paralyzed nephew, my asthmatic self (no made-up examples) cannot take 15 mile trips in Canadian Winter through a place lovingly called "Halton Hills". I have two friends who can. They did for one season, they told everybody how awesome they are, and their bikes are now in the locker.
Counter --

- The supplier provided the memo.

- The memo included that all suppliers were asked.

- Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo, but confirmed that it had asked this of some suppliers.