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May i see your napkin math for the 11 Billion figure?
Other active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934073
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The great fallacy of spam filtering is that access control SHOULD be
probabilistic whenever it is easy to implement that. Let's look at the
physical world where implementation is harder. It's very unlikely that
I'll arrive home from work at 4:30 AM, AND that I'll be driving a
rental car instead of my own car, AND that I'll be wearing new shoes
with a sole pattern that my smart walkway hasn't seen before. So,
ideally my home security system would automatically call the police.
Right?
Title deserves mention of RISC-V board.
These are not anarchists. Just a bunch of bully.
I don't think you realize how much FUD is disseminated daily in the mainstream media.

Take this Reuters article for instance, which has been published and translated by dozens of top newspapers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-germany-daimler/ele...

3rd paragraph: "The market for upscale electric cars is Tesla’s to lose, with sales of its entry-level Model 3 sedan expected to reach about 50,000 cars this year and almost double that in 2019."

All sources indicates that Tesla has already produced 50K Model 3. In the first three quarters. There's is still one quarter to go in 2018. And Tesla plan to produce more than 300K Model 3 next year, not 100K.

What kind of error is that? Reuters is aware of this "mistake" and they are not correcting it. All media who published the report and were made aware of the wrong numbers kept it "as is", even though the 50K has already been proven wrong.

How can Reuters and co keep such blatant errors while knowing it's bullshit? For some reasons, the disinformation only increases as Tesla pressures the legacy automakers margin (Tesla surpassed both BMW and Mercedes in US car sales this summer while the German are losing big time).

Reuters & co might not be short themselves. But they knowingly play the short game and kep spreading the FUD ("See these terrible numbers? Who can expect Tesla to turn a profit? Now, let's hear what competitors and short sellers have to say...").
Thanks for the pro tip. Already reading...

I've been working on a notion tentatively called "example driven development". Use specifications to generate code. Kinda like compiling swagger docs to implement an HTTP server.

My first such effort was using the BA developed HL7 interface documents (swagger for HL7) to code generate our implementations. Worked great.
While I agree that compiler should eventually be updated to prevent this sort of behavior or something similar, I agree with the grandparent here. I had same sentiment as the grandparent, in that for several of these errors, if you end up causing them it just belies a lack of understanding of software development in general. It’s great if we can improve compilers to teach people about these sort of behaviors, but they don’t really fall under the definition of WAT that I think is being referenced in the article. That is, a WAT behavior like this is something you would normally expect to behave in a certain way, but because of some language idiosyncrasy or design decision in the language it actually does something different.
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The person I was replying to specifically said "pay to an engineer". That is not the fully-loaded cost.
Oberon is interesting, as is Blackbox/Component Pascal (http://blackboxframework.org/)

But it's so niche and windows-centered as to be almost useless. And the community is microscopic.
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> Musk thinks he is/can change the world. He's not concerned with how much he can profit.

Then why didn't he start Tesla as a nonprofit? Your characterization would be much more credible if he didn't personally own a very valuable chunk of a multi-billion dollar company.
It's not about how the media wants him to look, or even what shareholders of his companies want, it's about how the perception of his broader endeavors. The defensive way he reacts to any kind of criticism undermines the personal image which he has worked so hard cultivate.
He had a single puff and did not appear to inhale (his body language made it look like he was a very inexperienced smoker). He said he'd tried it before but wasn't a big fan (a pretty common experience).

edit: people are going to need to get used to the fact that weed is going to become as normalized as alcohol (which is a harder drug than weed).
This looks just like my map where I live, I littered with google starred icons everywhere with things like software companies, design agencies, makerspaces, collaborative work environment areas, gyms, event centers, nonprofits, etc
I'm going to get one printed in real-life - once I do some superresolution and probably a bit of manual Photoshop editing. Which design do you guys like best?
> A very small number of people had the resource base to survive growing old gracefully: Social Security was an attempt to extend that to all on a consistent basis.

It was designed as a safety net for lower/middle income, disabled workers, and benefactors to workers; not a primary source of retirement income. It's becoming more and more apparent that it's the former, not the latter.
Notice that this is really a cool development about something that SiFive was criticized for.

It was picked up for example here:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RISC-V-N...

> All this said, note that the HiFive is no more open, today, than your average ARM SOC; and it is much less open than, e.g., Power. I realize there was a lot of hope in the early days that RISC-V implied "openness" but as we can see that is not so. There's blobs in HiFive.

> Open instruction sets do not necessarily result in open implementations. An open implementation of RISC-V will require a commitment on the part of a company to opening it up at all levels, not just the instruction set.

> by Ron Minnich (Google, Coreboot)

Its fantastic to see that they are really pushing in that direct. Specially that they try to go as deep as possible form there.

Establish a new standard people strive for, open hardware and firmware.

There are many blobs left but having a platform that starts out pretty open will allow lots more development on the missing pieces.

Edit: I think Ron is now happy https://github.com/sifive/freedom-u540-c000-bootloader/pull/...
>The small amount of shares that are exchanged every day are bought/sold by speculators and they are backed by institutions that get paid for this intraday activity.

The largest shareholders were dumping shares last disclosure. Do you have data that says otherwise?
Law makers who passed it may not have realized the average 65 year old would live another 12 years.

Interesting theory, but that mistake should have become evident by the late 1940s and led to a lot of debate, and I am not aware that there was one.

Six years longer may not sound like much, but it's 50 percent longer.

And labor productivity has more than doubled during that time, so society should be in a vastly better position to afford social security.

I think it's important to see past the framing of economic inevitability and realize that there is simply a well organized political movement that does not WANT there to be retirement security for the general population, and because that's not really a popular political goal, the framing is instead that social security is unaffordable.
Currently there are no other types of views. But they are planned and will follow.
I think it's time for Elon to step away from Tesla. He is an incredible visionary and that's what made Tesla possible and revolutionized the car industry. That work is done now. Everyone is making electric cars now. There is no need for Elon to innovate at Tesla anymore. I might even go so far and say that Tesla had moved the entire industry so much that there isn't even much need for Tesla itself.

I think it's best for everyone if Elon focused on SpaceX, the Boring Company and his AI endeavors. Tesla sticks out from this list because mission is accomplished.
I don't think it's smart to build a medieval style city in this age, due to transportation concerns. But I think there's merit in using computation to plan and simulate a soulful city.
For what its worth, I am currently looking at ProtonMail again because I find "suggested replies" too creepy. It is actually stressful, at the "increased heart-rate" level, to see those and be constantly reminded I have no privacy at Google. Gmail is the best email client IMHO but suggested replies may finally drive me away.
Seems nice, but I would prefer to get generic ads rather than having no choice than answering "yes" to the "give out my data" question.
It's rather ridiculous overall. The more 'studies' I read, the less I take them seriously. If you don't like the result of any study, wait 2 years and you will have a handful of studies disproving them. It seems like every few years we bounce back and forth between if alcohol and coffee are good or bad for you.

I'm not sure if these issues are with the methodology in the studies, special interests wanting certain results, or just poor execution. But it seems out of hand.

Small off topic rant. If we want the masses to believe the results from sciences, then we need to be consistent. I'm not advocating lying in order to do this. The results from the studies need to be reproducible and accurate. How can we convince people that something like climate change is happening and real, when the earth is a massively complex system, when we can't even go 2 months without flipping dietary results from sugar is ok, to sugar is bad, back to sugar is ok. Or the other example would be the no amount of alcohol is good for you, when for years the common result from studies was 1 or 2 drinks was a benefit.
I haven't tried it, but I love the mechanics shown on the app store page. Will try it later!
Factor of 10???

China mobile Pakistan - 200 Gb package for $65

Jio - ~30 gb for $6 a month, you can't humanly consume exactly 1.5 Gb per day.

200 : 65 = ~3.1

30 : 6 = ~5

Best case scenario, 45 : 6 = 7.5

So it is twice as cheap, but not by a factor of 10
No true Scotsman, true?

If they act like anarchists and smell like anarchists, they are anarchists.

They also proudly use the squatting symbol: https://twitter.com/besetzenberlin
Isn't finding a job better suited to him sort of his job?

The issue seems to be less than he's "not good enough" and more that he's not taking steps to improve. If he was making slow but consistent improvement you'd probably be much more willing to stick it out for him, right?
I did when I submitted it but its not there anymore.

Edit: To any admin I think it was necessary context to understand the title and I think it should be added back.
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> Once injured, many riders might discover from the vehicles' user agreements that they cannot file lawsuits because of clauses requiring that disputes be resolved by arbitration.

Even when the scooters are mechanically defective, such as having stuck accelerators or malfunctioning brakes, people still are stuck with arbitration?

What are the limits on people's abilities to sign self-harming contracts by clicking through some mammoth terms of use agreement?

Surely "I agree to let FooCo roll two dice, and if the results come up snake eyes, FooCo can kill me and auction off my organs" is invalid (um, right?) but how close to that can a contract get?
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Are many/most companies with billion dollar valuations so exposed?

I would imagine most billion dollar companies have multiple sites and manufacturing and data centers spread across multiple sites.
He calls it RISC5, one might assume but does anyone know if it is using the RISC-V ISA?
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They waffled. They wanted to preserve people's feelings by not letting the specific people know. That way, it looks like they're looking at everybody, when really, they wanted to get rid of these six guys.

Let me correct. They weren't looking to preserve anyone's feelings. They were looking to preserve people's opinion of them.

Because one thing I've found is that anytime someone says they did something "to not hurt someone's feelings", it's not the target's feelings they're worried about, it's their own. They don't want the target to have a negative opinion of them. Because they don't want to be the bad person. Or what they perceive as the bad person. But it leads to treating people like children. Which is disrespectful and causes resentment when things finally come to a head.

Be simple. Be honest. Be direct. Be clear. If anyone harbors ill will towards you after that, that's their hangup, not an actual reflection of you.
The Prince of Wales is already on that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury
Whether or not you agree with the copyright reforms, it is not helpful to present these opinions (e.g. 'will negatively affect...') as fact. You may as well stand outside the legislative building with a placard.

To my mind, it's impossible to take part in the debate until you've realised that your position is a point of view; that other have a different point of view; and that compromise is going to be necessary.
What is fascinating is that many Indians are discovering the mobile internet having never been on a desktop, or having never even had a land line. We are talking of 100s of millions of people here. Nearly 80% of internet access in India is via mobile.

It would be fascinating to see how their behaviour differs from those who have come to the internet via the normal route.

Besides the rates etc, what Jio has been able to do also is leapfrog straightaway to a pure LTE network, with no GSM at all, with VoLTE. Other providers have to maintain a legacy GSM network and also support LTE. They have gone from 0 to 215 million subscribers in just 2 years, which is incredible.

A lot of people have mentioned that Mukesh Ambani is doing this the second time - even the first launch had a major impact. At that time India had incredible high cellular rates, and the launch of Reliance Communications in early 2000s really changed the game for mobile connectivity in India. So this is the second time he has upset the apple cart.
>Jio is paying Indian wages to lay and splice backhaul fiber,

Dude. Charter Communications posted 10 billion dollars net income for 2017. They have under 100,000 employees. They could raise each of their employees' wages by $100K and still have money left over at the end of the year. It ain't the wages.
> So you're pregnant or sick and happen to not have enough resources to live from savings for a few months. If neither the state nor the employers are obligated to help you, who exactly is?

Why would anybody be obligated to help you if you've decided to take up a hugely resourceful personal project?

Kids and pregnancy is expensive, and should remain so. How is making a kid is different from taking your time to go on a trip around the world, or recording an album, or doing anything else like that?

If you can't afford it, don't do it. It's that simple. Cases when it's out of your control (medical conditions) are different, of course, but they are not the norm and conversation about pregnancy and kids should not be revolving around them.
Wow, I knew Musk wasn't good at speaking, but he doesn't look at all like a CEO here. Part of that is probably because it is a long interview where he didn't get the questions ahead of time, but he just doesn't seem very confident in his answers, almost awkwardly answering the questions. Seems pretty stressed.
Per twitter, one of the protestors got injured gravely, and someone mentioned that a security guard got hit by his own pepper spray.
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"Stock Plunges"?

If anything, TSLA seems to continue to ride high with only small relative deviations with news that would gut any other stock.

Not to say I am bullish on TSLA...quite the opposite. TSLA will inevitably crater but it is going to take most of the NASDAQ with it and probably wipe out the mobility 2.0 market segment and the EV and nascent AV markets.

Silicon Valley is way overdue for a serious garbage collection cycle....TSLA is going to trigger it eventually. Its not all bad: a big reset in SV would benefit the big players like Apple and Google who will suddenly have a much deeper and cheaper talent pool to access.
> type-related errors account for ~10% of bugs.

This sounds implausible to me unless they're only counting bugs that have slipped through QA and have later been fixed in production. In my experience the compiler catches maybe 95% of my errors I write. Most of those would be caught by my unit tests or my manual testing, and a few more would be caught by the QA team, but it's much nicer and faster to get notified about them immediately.
>They are now at capacity and they are expected (by Tesla top management) to announce profitablity for this quarter.

Honest question: when did you start following this company? Elon has claimed profitability for years. Where is it? Where are the economies of scale that were promised?

>By then, the shorts (with billions in backing) will do all their best to give the company an extremely bad look.

The shorts will? Really? Which stories are false?
Unrelated to calculus, a simple mental trick for quickly calculating squares close to round numbers is to just break it into (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2. E.g. 51^2 = 2500+100+1=2601.
It is now, and because it improves things for gamers it’s hard to argue with.

Quack.exe was for Quake 3, Before shaders even existed. At that time drivers didn’t have special paths for certain games, which is what made it a scandal.

If ATI had said they were doing it, perhaps it would have been fine. But they hid it and looked like they were doing something underhanded (true or not).
> Clearly interfaces are a crucial aspect of compositionality, and I suspect that interfaces are in fact synonymous with compositionality. That is, compositionality is not just the ability to compose objects, but the ability to work with an object after intentionally forgetting how it was built.

Well, it's complicated. Quoting Gerald Sussman from https://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end...

> The work of engineers used to be about taking small parts that they understood entirely and using simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what they want.

> But programming now isn't so much like that. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don't know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job.
Because it doesn't fix an issue that's otherwise out of the ordinary (like a disease, or an accident). It tries to address something that was always considered a hard limit and the perfectly natural thing to happen throughout the history of life to almost every living thing: death of old age.

Pushing that back could have some devastating results on society in the long term. There are plenty of movies on this topic so no need to go into details :).
This seems to be geared more at tabletop RPG. When you're running a game, it's helpful to have these sorts of artifacts to enhance players' understanding, but it's not the sort of thing that GM's really want to spend a lot of time on, unless there's some specific thing you need. Having this just be generated potentially saves a lot of time.
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On a positive note, Uganda sounds lovely:

'Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria. Its abundant wildlife includes chimpanzees as well as rare birds. Remote Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a renowned mountain gorilla sanctuary. Murchison Falls National Park in the northwest is known for its 43m-tall waterfall and wildlife such as hippos.'
The occupiers are not anarchists. It's a diverse group of people that carry the protests, some even with ties to the established political parties. Some of them certainly have ties with anarchist movements, but placing them all in the same bucket is willfully ignoring the diversity. While I'm not certain that the methods they are using will help their cause or whether the problem is actually even solvable, I understand their grievance:

The area around the new google campus used to be one of the cheapest in Berlin, partly because it was a triangle that jutted out from West Berlin into the eastern parts and a large chunk of it was close to the wall. That area was marked for redevelopment and intended to be torn down pretty much from the beginning until the 60ies when a large grassroot movement started occupying the buildings and refurbishing them. Parts of the original plans can be witnessed in the area around the Kottbuser Tor, which is a prime example of failed grand city architecture plans. All the concrete blocks their replaced existing buildings which were torn down.

The area became attractive after the 1990ies, because all of a sudden, the whole chunk of land was quite central in Berlin. As a consequence, many people that had been living there for decades and sometimes were quite involved in the improvement of the area are now forced to move and there's a fear that Google moving into the building will accelerate the process. To add on top of that, the building was recently sold to a holding that resides in one of the British tax havens, so all earnings go offshore and do little to benefit the area around. Google hasn't exactly been very forthcoming in its communication regarding their plans for the space, which makes an already complicated and heated issue even more heated.
Perhaps you don't remember the days when every computer on the internet was an equal peer. To be honest, I don't quite remember it either; I only caught the very tail end. But time was you could run a website off your home computer, or your own email server. Now you have to go pay money and hand over trust to one of the huge hosting providers, and the internet is a sort-of-bipartite graph with two classes of citizens: The home clients, and the corporate servers.
I’m sure there are other ways to do this, including specifying a profile when you initially launch the browser, but you can enter about:profiles in the address bar to see a UI to manage the profile. One of the options is to launch that profile in a new browser.
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