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> Maybe self driving cars can be the "last/first mile" in transit so that more people actually will use public transit.

So the Park+Ride concept. That’s already possible today, yet completely underutilized. A criticism often brought against transit is "I’d have to switch trains at some point", do you think these people would start using that now?

> They will be driving around and not be parked..

All the time? That’d be quite wasteful, considering most cars are only used for about 2h a day, during the rush hours, for the commute.

> I think you have to think bigger. Why would you want to own a car if you could call one at any moment with your phone with an app?

Why would you want to own a car if you could call a taxi at any moment with your phone with an app?

Why would you want to own a car if busses and trains come every 2-5 minutes at every stop, and you’re never more than 400m from a stop?

Reality is, as European cities show, all these "advantages" can already be gotten with public transit today. I’m not sure what self-driving cars actually improve compared to existing public transit methods. And especially because they’re using space more inefficient than existing transit methods, these advantages would have to be huge to make any tradeoff worth it.

Otherwise you could just invest in better transit, not self-driving cars.
I could perhaps sell my company for a retire-able amount in a few years but I'd just move on to another business anyway.. so why not instead develop my staff to run the current business independently of me, so I can do whatever I want anyway, but still own something for the long term? I'd be interested to hear from entrepreneurs who've wrestled with this one and came down on one side or the other :-)
Organizing their 4,000 pg VA claims files that are essentially their last 30 years of private and VA health records (usually already organized by facility though), military service, military medical, and the VA claims process

The longer a claims file, the more I get excited because the chance of a VA error is already very high - in a 4,000 pg file I can guarantee at least one big one
Or just use the DuckDuckGo app.
Pretty damn awesome, indeed!
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If you use a metric like that to affect my pay, I will happily maximize the metric to ensure I get paid as much as possible.

As a bonus for you, I will also try to write good code.
Why because even then business needs managing. It's not going to manage itself. Even if you have a staff trained to try to take care of business, they will fail, and fail often enough that you have to intervene or your business will be out of business in a year. People are difficult. Really difficult. And outside of that the market is difficult, really difficult. It's always changing, and you have to change your company to adapt or it will die.
If you had $5M, you could buy 87719 shares of Wells Fargo at market rates. Those would yield .38 per share quarterly or $133,333 annually. You'd likely get annual dividend increases and wind up with around $13M if you compounded at a rate of 5% for 20 years. That assumes no dividend reinvestments--and 5% is conservative. It could be as high as 10%. In that case you'd have over $33M at the end.

Sure, you'd want to diversify, but I'm just making the case that it's more than enough to live off of for the rest of your life.

You could also buy 4 or 5 McDonalds restaurants or 20-25 houses and watch them appreciate while living off rental income.
> But others point out that explicit lifetime annotation is not required to evaluate memory safety [3].

I think you've extrapolated a bit too much from that answer: the code still has to be semantically lifetime-correct, even if the annotations don't need to exist syntactically. Code that wasn't written with Rust-style lifetimes in mind (even if they're not literally written in the code) is unlikely to automatically satisfy the rules statically, so unless SaferCPlusPlus is using a custom compiler that runs Rust-like rules on the code and flags violations, I would expect a lot of such code is only dynamically correct.

> [2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#safercplusp....

A few points:

- what do you mean by rebindable and non-rebindable references? That is not terminology Rust uses at all, and so it isn't clear what this is referring to.

- The restriction on multiple aliasing for mutable references is not just to avoid objects being deallocated, it avoids things like iterator invalidation and concurrency problems like data races.
Let me elaborate.

The article argues that you are better off 'switching off' from the media because you won't be doing anything about any of it anyway, other than having uninformed water cooler conversations.

The truth is, for the vast majority most of the news that's been happening for the vast majority of anybody's life, it's not worth doing anything about it, including investing the time to read books on the topics. Because, honestly, most of it is of no consequence to us, either way. And that's because the politicians know that people like us read the news and and are willing to spam social media and wreck their election chances at the slightest provocation, so policies that are against our interests are pre-filtered.

But it doesn't hold that this will always be true. If you and people like you grow complacent and block out the news altogether, one day you might notice that laws have been passed that oppress your demographic and your demographic alone. Because you didn't protest and the politicians know you wouldn't protest, because you switched off and they know that too.

This requires no ill-will on their part. It's just that their optimization function for re-election requires balancing the interests of only those who are willing to do something to protect their interests. Which necessarily requires them to be at least minimally informed. And for this, partial and shallow information is a lot better than no information at all.

The danger isn't that you end up 'voting wrong'. The danger is you'll stay home the day everybody else votes for the stormtroopers to kick your door in and take all your stuff.
The only other thing I see is doing simple things that are useful but not requested. I.e. thinking from the users perspective.
Indeed. There are plenty of things I could be doing, such as writing books or teaching martial arts, but there's not enough money in these activities to pay for food and accommodation.
He's saying "i live frugally, be like me" then doing something that doesn't scale. We can't all be the landlord, rent seeking.
Personally I've been using fink for >12 years now, I enjoy being able to use the familiar apt-get and dpkg to manage packages on macOS:

http://finkproject.org/

I even backported the then-current version to MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) last year. :-)

https://github.com/l1k/fink/commits/branch_0_38_tenfour
Good thing for this conversation that it can decrease locally.

(literally, otherwise life would not exist)

I don't think this is the argument tomp is making though.
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> All that news noise is part of our accumulated view of the world

All that news noise is part of an unreliable, distorted view of the world. The article gave you the solution: read books.
> Interestingly you accuse the other side of being unreasonable when you are the one confusing reason and ideology.

Nope, I said zero things about ideology. All I said was this: an AdBlock program is a program that block ads. That's what is reasonable to expect: that it does what it says in the tin. If an AdBlock program starts charging money to allow certain ads to go through, then it is betraying its users.

Some people want a program that filters ads according to some criteria of quality? Sure, I don't care. But it's not an ad blocker anymore, it's an ad filter. Right?

The only ideology in this discussion is coming from people who argue that the public has some obligation to accept ads or tracking in exchange for free content. I made no moral judgements, I just have a strong personal preference against ads and tracking, a lot of other people in my "box" or whatever the fuck it is do too, and this is why ad blockers became popular.

And let's be honest: people who claim to like to be exposed to "high-quality ads" typically have some vested interest in the ad business.
I think the key here is that replies actually have to go to the CEO.

I've seen way too many companies implement this where any replies are actually just sent into normal support channels.
Thank you for the explanation! How did you learn what the model numbers mean?
Haha, yes.

There was a TV show once, that interviewed rich people. Some lottery winners, some who made company money, etc.

One of the lottery winners made 2m and started his own business, some car workshop stuff and went bankrupt 2 years later.

A couple made ... I don't now >10m and the first time they visited them, they told that they will keep working in their normal jobs because they like them. Half a year later, when they got interviewed, they both quit their jobs and were building a house and the guy was always talking about that he fears it wouldn't get big enough.

One guy made big money by renting out building equipment, he had a big nice house which he let build completely to his wishes, but lost everything to bad investment. They even visited his old house and the new owner let the camera team in.

The new owner also said, if he would get rich again, he would sell him his house back, which I found kinda nice. But I always have the feeling that people who got rich are simply lucky, even if they didn't get it through the lottery. So he probably knew that guy wouldn't get rich in this life again.
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> $5million, which isn't really enough to retire comfortable for life these days

When it comes to money, HN is often unbearably pretentious.

If you can't "retire comfortably" on 5 million USD, then you've got a hole in your heart that more money won't fill.
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> ... if the same consumer pulls the same dnpipe again, does it get the same message

No. Each message is delivered at most once. But good point, need to make that clearer!

> Do messages ever get removed from dnpipes without a reset.

No. Again, something I need to clarify as it seems.

> Does pull block, support async completions, or just return an error when no data is available?

It blocks.

> Reset, rather than sending an EOF which passes through the queue, implies that shutdown is either drastic or requires external coordination to empty the queue and stop the sending end before the reset.

I don't follow. Reset empties the underlying queue.

In general, since the consumers start to consume not from the beginning of time (as in Kafka's `--from-beginning`) but wherever they happen to be (that is, in Kafka terminology from `latest` index) this shouldn't be a problem.

I tried to model as close as possible and as it makes sense after the semantics of (local) named pipes. I might have fudged up here but I'm not 100% clear on where :)
Longing for FU money sounds just like "getting a job where I have nothing to do" (maybe, slightly better). The idea of just idling all day, browsing your favorite sites seems so amazing, but when you do get that you realise the fulfilling-work imperative [1]. What you do everyday might be drudgery but it's more so when you have nothing on your todo list.

Getting rich might help you in having comforts without monetary considerations, and have more time with things you enjoy. All of it won't subdue the need to fulfilling work. While I can imagine some people who would happily spend all the riches on exorbitant possessions, the people who have a higher probability of making that amount of money might not have propensity to spend their lives in that manner.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/jobs/bored-to-tears-by-a-d...
I work for a major enterprise software company. We can install whatever we want on our computers as long as we use full disk encryption.
you shouldn't put your private key in the cloud..? ..or maybe it is considered acceptable these days? theoretically--if you put your private key in cloud, and you pass the passphrase you give everything to the man in the middle for decrypting, but also give them the possibility to impersonating you.
Define 'normal' :)

Joking aside: since I've used Kafka for the reference implementation it naturally looks very similar, yes but it's really about the semantics. For example, does your 'normal' Kafka consumer start from the beginning or use latest index, etc.
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There are lots of developers happily running Linux on Apple laptops. It's traditionally been a good choice if IT dept makes you pick between a standardized random business laptop and a Mac.
Fair point, I suppose. Is https://dcos.io/docs/1.8/administration/installing/local/ an option?
That is true, but wind and solar do not change because we do use them, they will occur anew. Nuclear material does not reappear (within our system on earth). So the entropy increases for wind and solar anyways, while much slower for uranium under normal circumstances.
That's a classic. While working on the David, Michelangelo had the unwelcome visit of Piero Soderini (statesman, sponsor, etc) who suggested that the nose was too thick.

Michelangelo feigned reworking the nose and some say sprinkled a handful of marble dust to make the trick credible, then asked Soderini if he liked it now. He said it looked better.
Well ... there's a flip side to this.

The people I know who are absolute news hounds end up knowing all the talking points of the talking heads, but don't actually think for themselves. I'm on the board of a small prep school and one of the most important things we do is teach critical thinking. This includes analyzing statements from a historical perspective, recognizing that the speaker probably has an agenda and memorization of the logical fallacies.

In the '80s I was a big fan of Rush Limbaugh ... he was entertaining and for the most part, did talk about current events. I felt informed. In '92 when Clinton was elected, his monologue quickly became hateful and negative. My mood was dramatically worse and I became hateful too. Funny since the Clinton years were coincident with a huge boon in my businesses. And then I found myself repeating his talking points without even thinking about it.

Finally I realized that I didn't actually believe much of it ... and when I looked at the vitriol the other side was spouting I didn't believe it either. I think it's pretty important to know the facts of what's happened in the world but you can't do that through news.

Now I completely ignore the news channels and generally skim through headlines. Some headlines are factual while others are purposely skewed to the writer's biases. It's easier to tell that someone has an agenda from the headline and I even occasionally read the first paragraph. I don't miss the period of my life where I was under the influence of the news channels, and I spend the time I've recouped in my community ... I find it easier and more useful to know the pulse of the area where I live.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but this would make it virtually impossible for the ad provider to reliably measure how often their ads are viewed, forcing them to consider only clicks in their business model.

This may be a pro or a con, I'm not sure. Would optimising for ad-clicks instead of ad-views encourage more valuable and interesting ads, that one would actually want to know more about? Or would it encourage (literal) big mouse clickbait at the expense of understated, informative, Google Analytics-style text ads?
I have always worked along the lines of most people here and the article. A Senior Developer is one that has amassed not only solid development experience across multiple projects but also has a solid knowledge of your product code base. Someone that can just get stuff done and leads by example. Applies best practices and is pragmatic and always add's value to the code base.

I agree that titles are handed out too easily however, developers are partly to blame here. I have held numerous titles over my career but they are meaningless. Experience is built over years for learning and applying your trade and for those that want to continue doing that where do they go after "senior"? If developer's were not so desperate for the title then this discussion and the questions being raised would be moot and we'd all be back coding.
You don't have to put your private key on Keybase servers to use Keybase.
If someone needs to auromatically grab articles from rss feeds i made specifically this https://github.com/foxmask/th2w
Couple of guys in my office did the same, but came back to OS X after weeks of suffering problems with high-DPI support, multiple screens, bluetooth etc.
I use it as a simple way to share credentials over insecure channels.
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Or you could have people use busses or other transit methods.

Yet a common criticism when that is suggested is that only the poor use public transit, and that everyone in public transit smells bad.

Which is what I’m questioning here: Self-Driving cars provide no real technological advantage over existing transit methods, and the real issues are social problems.

And we can’t solve social problems with technological solutions.
One of my old networks lecturers used to love trotting out this on a slide, pretty sure he had the same map in his attic.
My main gripe with the campaign is all the maps are just set pieces in which they spawn waves of enemies. It felt like I was just playing multiplayer against bots.
While I agree that the box cat is not a valid thought experiment, just dismissing quantum superposition is not a solution.

The double slit experiment (while tangential) shows that discrete events can somehow be connected.
Not OP, but there are all these places that are tied quite strongly to my identity. Why not tie my PGP key to them in an explicit and centralized manner.
You think there is a ready supply of people so detached from reality?

Come to Mars, work for free for 5 years, enjoy the bleak circumstances in the years that follow.
Have to agree .. I'm looking at my Steam back catalogue wondering how I'm ever going to find the time to play everything .. And it's almost time for another Xmas sale!
> Paying attention to current events and bearing witness to some of the darkest aspects of human history is important at a societal level

You are confusing reading/watching the news with being informed. Trusting superficial and biased news is disinformation.
Being a witness, a citizen journalist, an activist, and reading books thoroughly is another thing.
Or maybe some people actually enjoy their work and find it fulfilling.
I develop backend components that run on Linux servers. The editors, the terminal, the debuggers on Mac OS are pretty good for me. Brew works just fine for my line of work.
Sounds like Keith needs a personality transplant. Loss of status! Learn to play an instrument. Read Zola. Leave the uk!
And yet uBlock Origin pull it off without betraying its users. Go figure.
Sure, but that's super ultra boring, and it doesn't improve your life in any way right this second. But...you could go and buy yourself that $1M house in a nice area. And a nice car for you and your partner. And mum's house needs fixing, we can do full remodeling. A friend has a business idea, let's chuck some money his way. Or better yet, let's invest some of that money into a cupcake business you always wanted to open.

Then poof, 2 years later that money is all gone.

Like, I seriously doubt that my first thought after winning the lottery would be to go and talk to an investment banker.
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Well, the wealthiest people I know are all very motivated. I'm not surprised that they don't stop working completely.
Nuclear is too slow and too expensive. Even once you get past the permitting objections, it takes a long time to build the plants. And building nuclear plants in countries that don't currently have any is extremely problematic because of the arms proliferation question. I suspect that's a big factor in South America.

I don't really see what nuclear has to do with space. Our short-to-medium term life is a question of keeping Earth safe, both politically and environmentally. While the energy costs of rockets are individually huge they're still not a significant percentage of our global energy consumption.

The uplands of Chile, Peru, Bolivia etc are particularly suitable for solar, entirely viable and cloudless for most of the year. I've been to the altiplano: this https://www.flickr.com/photos/136766297@N06/21300817773/in/a... is a short drive from La Paz, 4000m above sea level and 16 degrees south of the equator. Ideal landscape for solar farming.

Edit: just remembered, while I was there I saw the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, which is an incredible way for people to live; a sort of houseboat built of reeds. The only modern convenience was a TV ... powered from a solar panel and car battery.

Solar hot water is also already ubiquitous at that latitude - all you have to do is put a black barrel on your roof.
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We do fund public research.

It is then considered the "property" of the university, which is sold as IPR to the highest bidder to make money for the university. It is also summarily locked behind academic paywalls but there are some solutions to that (icanhazpdf , scihub).

We just fail on everything else in that sentence: make results free, and increase competition.

Things might change if those laws were revoked, turning public universities back to the public, and then funding them appropriately. 30% tax funding is not "funding"... Let the privates do what they want.
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If I got rich, I would do the following:
try to work "as I want". That means: shorter days in my most active time (like 10-4pm), go on vacation with my family often (in a rhythm of 6 weeks work - 2 weeks vacation).
I think, for me the main point of being rich is not to work no more - but to know I don't have to. Maybe I would even work better then with that peace of mind.
On the other hand, if your partner buys their own ticket, their estate is responsible for the ticket and if it doesn't have sufficient assets their credit card company can go eat a brick.

This is a more reasonable comparison in our modern context where such a contract would be entered into individually, not on behalf of a partner.
I checked out cadwolf and as an engineer myself I find it very interesting. I am curious to understand a few points:
- Why do you center everything around documents? Is it more because people are used to it, or do you believe that they are best fit for design-tasks?
- I saw that to update multiple documents after a requirement changes, you need to open them one by one, in the order of their dependencies. Have you tested that this is still a viable approach, once you have thousands of dependencies and multiple users in a complex design?

I really like the equations and how you only allow to make formally correct equations (including units). Anxious to see how this develops.

(full disclosure: I am co-founder of a Software which tries to achieve the same aims using different concepts: www.valispace.com)
He could learn to paint! This isn't about idling, constrained by pretending to work.
> ... noatime,nodiratime, ...

noatime implies nodiratime. I shrug off when I see newbies copy pasting this to their /etc/fstab but this is in a mainstream Android device??
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I'm not saying there aren't; in my experience, Linux on a Mac didn't go smooth at all. Connecting Retina display and 1080p monitor at the same time, specifically, was a huge pain.