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The long tail is exactly where Tesla's strength is btw.

Things that are improving exponentially seem far off when you look at them with intuitions developed on linear growth. Autonomy may be far off... or it may be closer than we think.

I don't trust my own judgement to know the answer, but I suspect the people at Tesla have a better handle on it than you or I.

I'm sure they see things in their long tail data that we would probably never think of. Even top experts at other self driving tech companies don't know all of what Tesla is seeing in its long tail data... so I think Tesla has a few more clues than the rest of us.
Which of his crimes looks like treason? He didn’t hack anything, his only “crime” is providing a publishing outlet.

(And yes, Assange is highly biased and anti-American, which is not good, but publishing leaks shouldn’t be a crime.)
I'm having trouble finding any on The Hague's website

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/cases.aspx
You mean the investigation that proved that Assange attempted to weaponize the grief of a family for the gain of Russian political interests? That investigation?
What if you sit on the information long enough that you can plan your trades ahead of time before the information becomes public?

cough Intel cough
> But people don't get as emotional about the resources required to build windmills (so long as it's not in my backyard) as they do about nuclear. And once a windmill or a dam or a solar farm has been built, there's a belief that there's no ongoing environmental damage. Whereas nuclear (and coal and gas) require ongoing resource extraction.

But you need massive amounts of battery storage to actually power a grid with windmills and solar plants (unless you have a bunch of coal and nuclear providing baseload power anyway). And batteries are consumables which require intensive mining.
> Around two dozen activists gathered outside the court to protest against his potential extradition, waving signs that read “Free Julian Assange” and “Is this all just about shutting us all up?” as they demanded his release.

That's not a very impressive show-up. I had hoped he would get more support than a few dozen people.
There's no contradiction; if your read the article, it's because you're not already resisting, so there's no loss. And you don't have to comment on it, you know - you can just shut down the screen.
I have no trouble deploying early on Friday (say before noon.)

So often though, people deploy something on the way out the door on Friday and then something goes wrong, my pager goes off...
This is a derivative suit (civil, not criminal) brought by a shareholder alleging Zuckerberg violated his fiduciary duties to shareholders in a number of ways. One of the alleged ways is insider trading. This is very different from the DOJ alleging criminal insider trading/market manipulation.

While this isn't a criminal insider trading case and delayed disclosure is not the typical insider trading allegation it's also not a stretch by means.

Complaint for anyone interested: https://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/documents/394...
In fairness to OP, this is effectively the Sean Hannity line so I wouldn't say it's "out of the mainstream" anymore.
Existing languages are _terrible_ for today's hardware.
Is this bad? I think it’s totally understandable.
Your view is irrelevant unless you can change the law.
Presumably the same reason that multi-billion dollar corporations (and people for that matter) spend a lot of time and resources lobbying the government to pay lower taxes. Once you've hit the billion-dollar mark, you effectively have infinite money for most tangible purposes, and yet the drive to get more money continues.

No idea if Zuckerberg is guilty, but I don't think "well he's already loaded" is a very good reason to assume innocence.
Very fair to say that this logic ought to exist on the application level, I suppose.
He was on that path in 1999 when I skipped a day of high school to attend a lecture he gave. (I also later became a prion researcher, specifically in a lab that worked with Alzheimer's).
That doesn't really bear on the independence of the US courts which would be the main issue, and they have recently proved themselves quite independent of an often opposed to the will of the president and political interference.
You don't necessarily need the whole server-side dance:

https://jsfiddle.net/chrisvfritz/50wL7mdz/

I find developing without a server side build process much more lightweight and enjoyable.
It's not like this has been getting much traction in the media anyway
plenty of peopple are writing programs which get actual usage in visual languages - e.g. with max/msp, or the old SynthMaker, Kyma... as wells as some avionics software written in e.g. LUSTRE...
Did he have access to data about "Russia's alleged crimes in Ukraine or Syria"?
Where I currently work they wont let programmers work from home because:

Jealous coworkers who need to be at work. It's not fair clause.

Company insurance doesn't cover people working from home
They can also be hard to find because they won't be advertised as remote. I'm full time remote but this wasn't mentioned in the job description, and I only found out after getting the job offer. I think management had the sense that advertising the position as remote attracted "the wrong kind of people".

I guess technically I have an "unlimited work from home" policy, because I do still have a desk if I want to go in.
The article compares caffeine vs. no-caffeine but I'd be interested to see how caffeine compares to other additives. For all we know H2O could do the same thing
> Planning all her shoots around moonless nights, she wanted each tree to be primarily bathed in starlight, with additional glow from flashlights, for example, as necessary.
Facebook seems to take a pretty hard line against giving account access.

https://www.facebook.com/help/150486848354038

Technically what I did, by having my wife's 1Password account, was not up to their terms. But I was able to use it for a brief period to settle some affairs before I officially memorialized it and that was very helpful.
Family of Chinese Student Admitted to Stanford Paid $6.5M to Rick Singer
I think it will drive down the price of synthetic caffeine.
Not just the law, the US Constitution.
The one thing that’s nice about CL is the system images. Racket doesn’t have a similar concept: you can’t REPL into running systems and update the image on the fly (as far as I know). Nor can you save the corrent state of the program to disk for restarts.

A lot of times I find that feature of CL more confusing than helpful: your system is no longer a derivative of your source.
Are you looking to buy a project that 1) makes money or 2) just want to have one to play with? I recently sold one of 1) and now have one of 2) left - https://hackerpixels.com which could be monetized but I don't have the time.
Violence and lawlessness are not the natural state.

The majority of human societies live in peace. Uncontacted tribes never before exposed to us generally mostly live in peace together. They don't have the word "law" but they have an agreed upon set of social norms that people don't violate. Even most primates live in mostly peaceful social groups with established social norms.

Hobbes erred in his assessment of the natural state of humans.
I find your comments about FIJA maddening. Providing alleged victims and the accused a fair trial is one of the only things I think government should be involved in, but ours can't even get that right.
That's why the judiciary and the executive are independent of each other.
Your first paragraph misses the mark, because, unlike a nuclear plant, a windmill or solar plant isn't a standalone power source. To have reliable baseload power with renewables, you need massive battery storage. Right now, you don't factor in the (very high) cost of building battery storage into the cost of wind power because you still have all those coal, gas, and nuclear plants providing baseload power. But the cost of all that baseload capacity that's increasingly sitting around not being used (but has to be there to ensure grid stability) can't be ignored.
> So you can follow the rules and have sales on a schedule and not be labeled "insider trading", but restrict disclosure of information that would affect the price prior to the scheduled sales. So there needs to be a mandatory disclosure deadline once something is discovered.

Partially correct. Your trades will still be tagged as a trade by an insider, I can see all Mark's trades on my bloomberg terminal.

But you are correct that currently you don't need to stop your scheduled trades if good or bad news is bout to be reported and there isn't a firm rule about when you need to report bad news, ie you could delay the release of bad news until after your preplaneed sale and as long as you had a reason other than "for your own benefit" as the reason why you delayed the release of bad news you would almost certainly be in the clear.

Any "pre planned" trades that were originated after the news was known to you would almost certainly get you investigated by the SEC.

TL/DR there is a big distinction between "Insider Trades" and "insider trading".

The former is any trade by an "insider", which is a term with meaning by the SEC and the later is illegal and what Matt Levine has made a career writing about.
He ran to the UK... that's not the place you go if you're fleeing the long arm of the US.

Assange long ago lost any credibility as far as I'm concerned. I think his statements are about crafting his own public narrative than really revealing any of his motivations / actual choices. Wikileaks repeatedly claimed they would release X information, and then simply didn't and wouldn't say a word. I'm not sure if they still have a Facebook page but if you even asked about past claims the question would be quickly removed.
It's funny to label someone anti-american, when all they've done is expose america's crimes and ways of manipulating the rest of the world. Makes you think what does being pro-america mean.
Wouldn't he have been safer in Sweden than in the UK? If I were to bet on who were more likely to suck up to the Americans of the two, my money would be on the Brits.
Hopefully their guardians won't cross the border illegally and put them in that situation.
> I think it is a good thing JSON is limited in what types it supports. Otherwise it would contain so much type bloat while at the same time still annoying someone somewhere because his type is not supported by JSON.

I wish it had a few more capabilities, but since JS doesn't then JSON won't.

> If you are able to pull your data from the database and process it in a programming language of your choice, you can write a custom serializer that takes a tsrange and spits out some JSON, e.g. a JSON array with two items [start, end], which you then can pass on to a client that understands your JSON format.

I can definitely do that. My case though is aggregating and serializing into JSON in postgres and loosing type information due already on the query level.
> Many of my friends ended up becoming doctors, PAs, or nurses and medicine is basically all they talk about, especially the doctors.

Yes. It's the same with all of the engineers I know (and I suspect it's the same with all professions).

With my engineering friends, we had to set a rule that if we're at a social function that includes people not in our field, "talking shop" is expressly forbidden. This is to prevent a problem that had gotten out of control -- having a handful of people talking about arcane things that nobody else can understand, let alone are interested in.
Same way any criminal investigator uncovers stolen goods.
The legally correct answer to that question is "I do not consent to searches or seizures, and do not answer questions without my legal counsel present". But the practically correct answer is "I don't understand your question." or, more succinctly: "What?"

No matter how much it catches on, there will still be people who have no idea what it is, and even if they have it, someone else may have set it up for them so they wouldn't need to know. Even if someone can prove you did understand the literal meaning of the question, you can always plausibly argue that you didn't understand why it was being asked in relation to the questioner's official investigative authority.
Yeah. For your application, you did the right thing. I was speaking more abstractly.
You have a concave utility function in mind.

As history shows, it is NEVER concave.
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You've gotta make sure that all your native samsung apps are up to date and then you should see the setting: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-remap-the-bixby-...

Rooting will still give you the most functionality, but Samsung has finally at least partially relented.
There are plenty of car companies out there with solid products and very deep pockets. Nobody is going this direction.
All it will do is increasing the production issues ten fold if Tesla is facing the first facelift or model change.
> for... what? revealing the war crime of the US?

They're trying to get him for being an accomplice to specific computer crimes related to the acquisition of that information. Of course, the motivation is retribution for embarrassing the government.
Not everything on the front-page of HN needs to be heavy and serious.
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Buffer (which has been remote-heavy for a long time) handled this by explicitly breaking their salary assessment into multiple elements. In addition to base salary-for-role and various experience adjustments, they have a public "price sheet" describing the cost of living adjustments they apply for different locations.

It's not a perfect system, I'm sure. CoL is reduced to three fairly broad bands, and other pay elements like experience and performance are potentially skewed by remote status. But I think it's an appealing approach in general. Candidates know in advance what to expect and can move somewhere more expensive without needing to find a new job. Meanwhile, the company saves some money, but still gets access to remote candidates in expensive cities where they don't have offices.

I suppose it would drive away any remote worker who's consciously living somewhere cheap to increase effective salary, but presumably that's offset by getting access to people in DC, NYC, Boston, etc. who aren't open to other cost-saving remote jobs.
I'm from Perth, Western Australia, a city that recently hit 2M population.

There was a massive China-fueled resources boom in the early 2000s that soaked up the available construction capacity (materials and labour) for capital projects like building oil rigs and ports and all the ancillary stuff that entailed.

In 2000 you could buy any number of 1970s houses for <$100k. These were relatively small 3x1s (like 1000-1500 sq ft) but solid. Concrete pad, brick-and-tile (Australia doesn't build timber-framed houses).

By 2006, those same houses now cost $350k. There were articles at the time stating that the cheapest house for sale in the city was $250k.

And all that paled in comparison to what happened at the high end of the market.

Anyway, rents went through the roof.

By 2011, the resources boom had definitely cooled and prices were starting to drop. There were less FIFO (fly-in fly-out) workers and so on. Rents had actually did drop through the middle 2010s, sometimes significantly. I used to rent out a house for $450/week and now I'd be lucky to get $300/week for. Thankfully I'd long since sold it.

So yes, rents can go down.
Does anyone have experience working remotely in a engineering manager (not IC) role? Did it work for you? What had to change?
I'm pretty sure there is a $35k model before tax credits, at least there was for a bit on the website. My understanding is this is a "special order" item now, as in, you have to call them to get it, but still available, just not on the website.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/12/tesla-35k-model-3-pulled...
Don't go looking too deep into ol' General Electric then.
Recall that he originally fled Sweden to the UK. That is not the actions of a man who fears extradition to the US. That's the exact opposite course of action any sane person would take.
He will argue that the prosecution itself is political. That US courts might take a dim view of a political prosecution seems neither here nor there- if the underlying prosecution were shown to be political, then I can't see the UK courts allowing the extradition.
Pad Thai was invented by the Thai government
Don't disagree with anything you said here, however:

> and they have the old coal plants to fill in the gaps

...this is the problem with solar and most renewables. They have gaps.

The question, it seems to me, is are we in a fight for the survival of our species, or not? If we are, then we should pull all the stops. I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to have a liveable planet. I'll pay the bloody premium to make that happen.
this has nothing to do with being correct.

there's a rush by law enforcement to create a DNA database.

and if you did at a clinic or 23and me et al, be sure that your dna plus some metadata (if not from you, from your payment or from the lab, anything that goes around hippa is game) is already cataloged there.

couple months ago a newspaper shown how cheap private investigators paid for this data to narrow down location of people they were paid to locate.
The real issue is that people are using threads for things that processes were originally intended for. Having one thread for the UI, one thread for network code, one thread for program logic, etc. is actually a mis-use of threads in POSIX-land. POSIX is designed for you to use multiple processes where in Windows you would use multiple threads. This gets you a lot of robust interprocess communication mechanisms and also memory isolation on systems with an MMU. It also had performance implications on the state of the art hardware at the time, which is why threads were invented. And finally it requires you to expand your usage of the operating system.

Being multi-process would solve the issues with a process-global signal handler because there would no longer be a question of which thread generated the signal.
Yeah, I was a bit confused when I clicked the link and ended up on GitHub and not GitLab.
How can it be treason, when he's not a US citizen?
The code-to-IDE transformation described here could be trivial. Right-pane only shows comments, which are neatly folded away in the left-pane. Doesn't really scream "next level" to me but I'd definitely use it.
GitLab employee here, yes we do! I honestly couldn't go back to a company without asynchronous communication.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/
I’m not familiar with the legislative landscape you’re referring to, but it doesn’t seem like most of the other major companies have gotten rid of their lootboxes, so Epic is doing something right...
Neither one is a particularly safe space if you're worried about the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...

> Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Alzery were two Egyptian asylum-seekers who were deported to Egypt from Sweden on December 18, 2001, apparently following a request from the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The forced repatriation was criticized because of the danger of torture and ill treatment, and because the deportation decision was executed the same day without notifying the lawyers of the asylum seekers. The deportation was carried out by American and Egyptian personnel on Swedish ground, with Swedish servicemen apparently as passive onlookers.
It is a sign for abysmal factory operations. And the first time pass rate is really bad compared to other OEMs.
I think the more annoying part is being out in public, there is a vast decline in basic human interaction in places that are meant specifically for that purpose even. It is much harder to meet new people at a bar for example than it was even 5 years ago. The difference is dramatic.

How are you supposed to meet strangers and have interesting conversation when they won't look up long enough to see that you are attempting to make eye contact with them?
If events are disclosed in a timely manner then shareholders can sue for securities fraud.

Matt Levine—a columnist at Bloomberg who is both smart and hilarious; his Money Stuff newsletter is excellent—has a recurring theme of “everything is securities fraud.”

The theory: anything that effects the stock price of the company and isn’t disclosed as soon as possible is securities fraud.

Company doesn’t disclose a security breach? Securities fraud. Board buries a sexual harassment settlement with the CEO? Securities fraud.

If you buy stock after the event but before the event is disclosed, you were trading when the company had material information that could effect the stock price. That’s securities fraud.

Levine is both joking and not that really _anything_ could be prosecuted under this, and the SEC has seemed to make some prosecutions under this theory that feel more like, “what you did was shitty and maybe not exactly illegal or we don’t have exact evidence so we’ll prosecute you under this super broad statute.” Wire fraud seems to be applied in a similar manner.

(I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, just some things I’ve read and now you’re reading on the internet from a random commentor. The above is how I understand it.)
NPM really isn’t all that great; constantly goes down and prevents you from publishing modules that are spelled 'too similar' to existing modules which is a major annoyance [0]

[0] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19438
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On second reading, I think OP meant the war crimes ("many of these") were treason. I don't know what was done, but I suspect that's not really true under a narrow definition.
stare decisis is (in common law countries)
Verge3D 2.12 for Blender is out with improved AA and new Cycles/EEVEE nodes
Satya has done a tremendous job turning around Microsoft. It was headed in the direction of becoming a slowly sinking behemoth under Ballmer, but he's turned it around.

Sundar, on the other hand, is just content collecting $$ and showing more ads.
Any business (individual persons too!) has at least some conflicting goals and trade-offs to make. E.g., profit now, or profit later? The one in this thread is exactly that sort of trade-off: monetize consumer data vs. optimize for reputation.

It's not like reputation has no value. Reputation is an intangible. You'll be able to put a fairly accurate dollar value on reputation after ruining it, but you should be able to estimate it before trying to ruin it.

Problem is, intangibles have an out-of-sight, out-of-mind effect going on: because you don't see them when putting a dollar value on tangible things, you tend to ignore the intangibles.

Companies often find this out the hard way and end up taking tremendous PR damage. Remember United's PR damage when they had to have cops drag a passenger off the plane because they wanted to "bump" him? Yeah. That sort of thing. Or perhaps the 737-MAX saga. Or any number of such events.
> DrRacket is a pedagogic IDE, originally intended to be simple for new students and non-majors.

I know that. But it's far from being generally 'awesome', when the look & feel is actually below average.

> P.S., Thank goodness programming students are still being shown things like RAM usage (DrRacket can enforce limits) and that GC is happening. :)

GC happens. Then students see it all the time and start to worry. No of the current IDEs I can remember still show GC activity in the GUI. I would also not know why I need a constant updating view of program memory size.
Seeing large amounts of encrypted traffic leaving via a DNS tunnel during non-standard business hours for instance would be an example of such an anomaly. It's not always that easy to detect however.
I’m referring to the officials not Julian.