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Because the rate of change has changed itself. Just like the internet existed for many years before it took off and car phones were around in 1946 there is a point in time where the rate-of-change in either the application or the development of something new changes.

That point in time has definitely come for self driving cars, we're not 'close' but we are much closer than we were even 5 years ago, there is legislation on the books permitting self driving cars from participating in regular traffic instead of on private property only, there is special hardware geared towards such systems and so on.

It's an idea whose time has come, now we have a bunch of engineering problems to solve and they're far from simple but I would not at all be surprised if self driving cars are going to be equal partners in traffic 10 years from now.

Lots of hard work between now but I think we'll see self driving cars long before we will see an operational fusion reactor.
This is why I can't understand age discrimination. We oldies have a wealth of experience which we can turn to. How can a new programmer have a "gut feel" which should be listened-to when there is little to no experience? The oldies "gut feel" is real because it is based on true experiences; either direct experiences or experiences of (say) a colleague.

And most of the experiences that I have, for example, are largely independent of a particular language or environment, they are more about the correct way to structure 'things' within programming regardless if it's GO or COBOL.
> Transition to EVs may start to soak up all the gains we're making in efficiency so the usage may start to tick back up.

I share this concern, but my current best guess is that while EVs will surge—it won't be instantaneous—and during that ramp not only will efficiency be increasing dramatically (in terms of sharing, routing, and better hardware) but we will be swapping commutes for VR, and moving to more walkable cities, such that if we do it right the net demand won't increase.
Some people did ask for more money to leave which united didn't agree to btw their was no overbooking which airlines can usually stop by not issuing the boarding pass. This was done so that united could send some of its employees to another place. For this they should have done an open auction instead of forcing someone out after issuing them a boarding pass and seating them.
No. You can even have multiple flavors installed at the same time, eg. by installing both the ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop packages.
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There's the argument "Why should I do it? If I'm paying for it then they should do it"

And there's, "This really sucks, its an open source project, I think I can make a difference that would affect millions in a small way but would still make a big impact overall"
Pinning stickers! I am so glad the USA is still leading in innovation. Thank you to all the hard workers who devoted their time to solving this problem as opposed to working on some vague or diffuse health-related issue. The world is so much better now that we can pin stickers on instagram gifs.
There is no stock transfer or fees associated with the typical startup vesting schedule in the US. It's just written as an algorithm in legal documents like "...one fourth of which will vest after twelve months and blah blah blah..." The exercising is more paperwork on top of the vesting.
I read a great rundown once on /r/space about how Antarctica actually is in many ways less hospitable than Mars, at least in winter. I find that rather amazing.
But how do you know what is your best? Some people (myself included) believe that you can push the human body and mind to do anything you want.

I'm aware this isn't quite true, but in a large sense I truly believe I'm capable of learning anything given enough interest. And probably time
I think it has gotten better since Uber/Lyft came about as well as younger people not being hesitant to take the subway (now open until 2).

Terrible driving in general is still the same - no signals, double-parking without hesitation, general craziness. On big holidays, there are a lot of drunk driving checkpoints but, overall, very little to no traffic enforcement.

Hit-and-runs are a really big problem.

I think the city is going through some growing pains as there as there are more pedestrians and cyclists on the road. If you are in those categories, you have to be very, very aware.

As a comparison, I was much more worried about drunk drivers when living in a rural area. Also, a recent visit to Santa Fe I saw at least 2-3 clearly drunk drivers, which my friends said is a huge problem there.
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I think this is a particularly salient point.

Earth is already well on the backside of how much longer it will be hospitable to life. First life was ~4 billion years ago. First multicellular life, 1.5. And now here we are, the first intelligence of our kind, clearly closely related to the animals we descended from, but just as clearly different in how our minds work.

That's one example in 4 billion years, and the Earth has between 500 million to 1 billion years left before the ever-increasing brightness of the sun boils the oceans and sterilizes the planet.

It could easily be that life is stunningly common across the universe, but that 80% is at the level of bacteria, and 99.x% is simple animals at best.
Card skimming isn't uniquely a Chinese problem, but asshole credit card issuers who put the burden of proof in the customer rather than store are. Seriously, china has unique self-made problems that don't exist elsewhere.

Fandango has been around for many years.

We just moved to the USA from Beijing. We have pretty much everything we had back in china without wechat.
Is it me, or did he screw up the V highlight on the left hand side of the wheel? He has a G# on the outer ring partnered with its neighboring G and A on the inner ring - but to fit with the pattern it should be the A on the inner ring partnered with the G#/Bb on the outer ring.
>a reduction in energy usage would not be due to an output decline in manufacturing

I'd like to understand this. How is there zero correlation between energy use and manufacturing output?
thought mender.io is open source?
If the team can't hammer things out in a timeboxed meeting, there are some options.

With new technology, I'll have a pair of team members spend some time doing exploratory work. Spend some time with the top 2-3 technologies and see which is the best fit.

Taking notes through this process is important. If we're comparing databases, include benchmarks and tooling observations. For small organizations, this is usually a multi-day process. For large organizations, maybe up to a month. But at the end, the team can make a decision based on at least some experience and information.

If, on the other hand, we have competing factions that each has experience with a specific bit of kit, but can not come to an agreement: we roll for initiative.

Literally.

I have a set of dice in my backpack for this exact situation.

Often, the worst decision is no decision at all, and I would rather that the team go down the wrong road for a month (and learn from the process) then spend that month arguing over what color to paint the hangar de vélos.
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I've yet to encounter an office culture that makes accommodations for shy people. I think that in the absence of conscious effort to elicit or 'make space' for less extroverted people to express opinions and make observations, then traditional office workplaces are biased against against 'shy' people by default.

I think that's rather unfortunate. It means that your company/division/whatever is missing out on roughly half the good insight and ideas collectively held by their workforce. I don't see it changing any time soon either. Every big change that I've seen in 'the way we work' always seems to favour the preferences of extroverts (bullpens, open-plan offices, hot-desking etc.).

It seems that the world is run by extroverts, for extroverts.
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I'm going to assume you have never been to LA.

Just like London it is a collection of "villages". What were originally separate cities: Santa Monica, Hollywood, Pasadena etc have all been absorbed into the whole that is LA. I'm sure you can recognize the same process in london where Hampstead and Stratford have distinct personalities and yet are now both a small part of the whole that is London.

Now LA, unlike London is a city much easier to live in and less easy to experience as a tourist. Tourists try to travel from Malibu to Hollywood boulevard to the Broad museum all in the same day. This is a wonderful way to experience LA traffic. Any person who lives here would recommend you choose on area and spend most of your time experiencing it properly. If you want a walkable neighborhood go to Santa Monica, West Hollywood or Downtown. If you want nature, hiking and to feel like you are not in the city go to Malibu or the Hollywood Hills.

I would argue that all of the LA neighborhoods I mentioned are very familiar to most of us because we watch movies and television and LA is traditionally where those products are made. Maybe you don't watch tv or go to the movies - in that case go to the David Hockney exhibition in london and you will see that LA is one of the most distinctive cities in the world. It is good weather, easy living, good looking inhabitants and it is surrounded by a natural beauty few other cities possess. I could argue it makes London look like a giant rat hole in comparison but to each their own!

I think London has its historic sights and some pretty neighborhoods but the livability of the city is shockingly bad. From crappy housing stock to antiquated tube - I am much happier in LA. But that's just me.
Obviously you've never done any fluid dynamics. I remember thinking Taylor series were stupid too, until I got into upper division meteorology courses. It's pretty much all we do, because hey, our initial conditions have most of the error. Taylor series are super important to numerical modeling. You may not have come across it in the wild, but I assure you many FORTRAN hackers have.
Perhaps the writer meant that while they both studied structures, they both had a personal style that was powerful and served to advance the thinking in their fields. Both were more concerned with leaving those structure to adventure toward philosophical comment through their work.
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First off, it's a bit unfair to me that you were the one to make this comment, since your very extensive experience and deep knowledge of real-time systems makes you uniquely qualified to disprove my point!! hehe

But in all seriousness, I agree with most of what you said - I think I'm just more bearish on people's ability to infer those many decision points without being given the blueprint like we were in this article.

If you are a senior engineer at FB and you decide to make Twitter in your spare time, I buy that lots of experience and knowledge gained at your job can probably get you going fairly quickly. But I have never seen an example of engineers discussing sophisticated systems like these where crucial aspects of its success in terms of implementation didn't rely on some very specific knowledge/study of the particular problem being solved that could only be gleaned after trying things out or studying it very carefully. The representation of the pixels is a great example in this case -- they go into wonderful detail about why they decided to represent it the way they did, which in turn informs and impacts how the rest of the stack looks like.

I think at one point Firebase had it as one of their example apps something which very closely mirrored what they did with r/Place, so I agree that one could probably build some "roughly" like it somewhat quickly. I agree that in general knowledgeable individuals could probably grok things which would in some form resemble popular services we know today. The devil is in the "roughly," though. I think that often what makes them be THE giant services we know are things that let them have the scale which very few of us have ever needed or know how to deal with, or because they have combined tons of "below the water" features and polish like you mentioned. When really basically most web apps that we use are CRUD apps which we all know how to build, I think maybe we need to give more weight to these "below the water" features in terms of how much they actually contribute to the success of the applications we use.
I live next to a Trader Joe's, target, and Ralph's in Westwood. It is also two short blocks away from where I work. I pay money for that, but damn is it convenient.

I have to remember to drive my car every so often so the battery doesn't drain completely.
> I don't like tiny text

This is something Apple really needs to address on macOS. The font sizes, many of which cannot be changed, are a bad mix of too small and too big. I can't find a comfortable resolution that works well for all apps. Things like tab bar titles are the worst. Can anyone actually read them comfortably anymore?
If it's not fraud it's pretty damn close. Certainly sounds illegal, and definitely should be if it isn't.
Really ? In our product, an average user can send request of upto 4000/minute and we have about 1000 users now. Do you think would it be possible to scale ?
Suppose, if maintained a list in redis with sorted time stamp, then for every incoming request i will have to make get query to redis for count of requests in last one minute, one hour, one day (3 calls) and then insert a timestamp for this current request. So, totally 4 requests.
Apart from this suppose if concurrency handling (number of concurrent connections allowed by a particular user) is also built then that will also include additional redis calls. Do i make sense to you ?
I was okay with using "imo" and "lol" in words in this discussion as full forms also lack taboo glyphs, and I concur that such with said glyph is tantamount to a violation.
Santa Monica isn't LA, like San Jose isn't SF.

And anyways, Seattle and even Portland beat both of them.
I'm actually glad that they are treating everyone like shit.
Non proximal individual. Now what?
> you miss out on the social media sharing buttons

Oh, sad day... :)
interesting,it must be very valuable if voice recognition applied and accurate, it could be huge market value.
Generalizations are usually considered good when we are talking about code. But ya, LA is the definition of superficial.
> Well, what do you mean?

> I think it's obvious that machines can, for example, weld better than humans can.

Ok. That wasn't all that obvious not all that long ago.

> But machines can't decide what to weld. For now in that arena, things are mostly still human controlled.

Yes.

> I think your argument gets significantly weaker when you push truck, car, and plane driving onto the conversation stack.

What's so incredibly special about truck, car or plane driving/piloting that you feel they are immune to automation?

> Even the best of self-driving AI automation isn't nearly as good as bad human driving. Yet.

Precisely. Let's give it 10 years and look again. I wouldn't bet against it.

> But the absolute best human weld joints are no better than the absolute best robotic weld joints.

It's not about 'best'. It is all about repeat accuracy and consistency. That's what makes the robot better. Maybe the best human welds are better than the best robot welds. But to get a human to consistently outperform the robot or to consistently deliver a specific quality level is not going to happen.

> I think you're talking about two entirely different domains here when you conflate welders and couriers.

We consider welding to be a highly skilled job and yet welding robots are a thing. Courier on the other hand 'merely' requires a driving license, something we hand out to 16 year olds after a perfunctory inspection.

> One of those needs a human decision to place the components to be welded next it in front of a robot that basically does one thing.

Which takes a couple of years training for a human.

> The other is an actual adaptive AI that's trying to make decisions on it's own.

Yes, it's a harder problem for a computer. But it was mostly harder because in the past computers could not see the way we can. But deeply layered convolutional neural networks and their descendants have changed that, dramatically. What was SF 5 years ago is now commonplace. And computers now have access to senses that we don't have, such as radar and lidar.

That takes care of one of the harder parts of the problem.

There is still plenty left, but one of the most formidable obstacles to self driving vehicles is now behind us.

> Yes, it's obvious that the lowest-wage and lowest-skilled workers are going to be displaced by robots the soonest. That's like arguing that the sun is going to rise. And as a society, we need to account for that.

Yes. But I wonder if we're going to be ready when the software is ready. In fact I doubt we will be ready. It will be the industrial revolution all over again, only this time it will play out in a decade instead of in 100 years.

> But arguing that the lowest hanging fruit of automation is going to displace taxi drivers and gardeners in the next 10 years is pretty nuts, even for HN.

I don't think that was called for, that's pretty rude, even for HN.
I think part of the attraction of LA is that you can have a wide variety of buildings within a small place. It's a lot of nodes, that rise and lessen in density. If you stay off the freeways, you can see a lot (I've only taken them to get out of the city). It's a young city still trying to figure itself out, kind of like the teenager that will dye their hair a different color every month. There's a lot of ugly shit, a lot of beautiful shit, and lot that varies between those two spectrums. Probably one thing no one told you about is the nature - lots of slightly tamed parks and mountains to hike in as well as fun on the water, if that's your thing.
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Meh, in a way you could view it as the most important thing everything needs these days. Extra motivation to keep your secrets tight. And insight into what you've messed up.
Human tribes in the rainforest have levels of social sophistication, technology, and manipulation of their local environment that outstrips any other animal. It's not close.

Look at the recent discoveries in the Amazon basin. Layers of dirt thousands of years old, still filled with the charcoal used to improve soil quality. Species of plants that were clearly selected for over time. The list goes on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
But it's stunningly better than it was 3 years ago. It's like going from crawling to walking. That takes a long time. But going from walking to running is much easier.

We're not yet at a 'general vision is a solved problem' level and this may take a long time still - if it is ever solved. But many problems can be reduced to the point that they become tractable even absent 'general vision'. Affordable LIDAR is a huge step, so is radar. Those two reduce the problem of vision with two crappy stereoscopic cameras set 5" apart to something much closer to the domain.

As far as I can see the race is on.
I love Alaska. Its the least evil of all domestic airlines. I once had a supper shitty experience when Microsoft flew me in for interview with United. Since then I don't even go 100ft near United. Alaska all the way!

I really hope Microsoft doesn't fly their candidates with United anymore. A couple of big companies cancelling their corporate contracts might give them a reality check.
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I recommend "Los Angeles Plays Itself" to any interested in seeing the juxtaposition of what you see in movies/tv with the reality.

There's also a much shorter, funnier one called "Vancouver Never Plays Itself" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
That first paragraph was a fun summary. It sounds like they're just throwing proven tools and tactics at a tough problem getting some good results. They start with output of one, high-quality tool. Like prior projects, they find an intermediate point in the transition that lets them add or experiment with optimizations. Then, they feed it into another high-quality tool to get even more out.

Looks like good research mixed with good, engineering tradeoffs.
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Certainly. Snaps are contained and there are already a pile of desktop snaps available. You can install the applications, see what access they have and trust containment that they can't overstep their bounds, even if compromised. Same of course with the server, right down to IoT style devices where the entire system is composed of snaps and everything is running in containment.

Its all there and available right now. At some point soon I'm sure deb packages will start wrapping snaps and an 'apt full-upgrade' transitions people without them noticing.
And there's only half a meg of data! Serving the readers is a much more interesting problem than managing the writes, and tbh I'd just keep a rolling "pixels that have changed in the last 10 seconds" diff going, pushed out every 100ms, compressed and cached, and have clients poll for it. Easy peasy, websockets just complicate life.
Maybe in the internet-focused UNIX sysadmin world.

Your average small to medium business in meatspace has a closet running:

- Windows Domain Controller

- Exchange Server

- File server

- Accounting server

- Several line of business apps from different vendors, each with an onsite server component (often just a distribution of MS SQL Server).

- Card access control server (if there are more than the ~4 doors that fit on one beige-box-on-the-wall controller).

- Security camera DVR.

- Cisco, Avaya, or similar PBX.

- HVAC system controller (if you're a large, modern building or complex).

The DC, file, and Exchange servers, as well as desktop management and support, are probably handled by your primary IT contractor who sells you all your servers, network gear, and desktops. They'll tell you it's not good practice to colocate any of these services on the same Windows install, and resell you (with heavy markup) a different Dell/HP box for each one.

Each line of business app has its own vendor, which created and manages your site's installation of its package.

The door controls and security cameras are likely installed and managed by the same company that does your fire alarms. The two software packages likely state they should each have a Windows Server to themselves.

The HVAC system controller is likely installed and managed by a company that knows barely enough IT to be dangerous, and also doesn't want to colocate.

The PBX for your VoIP desk phones is likely installed and managed by the same company that ran the old DEC PBX for your analog desk phones in the 80s. They might have also done your ethernet wiring.

None of these guys trust all of the others enough to share an OS instance. According to the old-timers, you previously you needed a separate server in the closet for each one. Now your Microsoft Partner is also a VMWare Partner and gives each other vendor their own little slice of an ESXi box.

Oh, and there is probably no one on your payroll who understands this stuff or even has the passwords. Just the operations manager type who manages the relationship with each vendor and knows which one to call under what circumstances.
Now I remember where I'd heard of that Gadsby book before.

It's referenced in one of the exercises in the Think Python book:

Write a function called has_no_e that returns True if the given word doesn’t have the letter “e” in it.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython010...
Got a sex change to fool the grim reaper. Brilliant