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All of the advice is the same. It has different implications and obstacles, but the advice is the same.

Make lifestyle changes, and you'll have a spouse/children to drag along/convince.
Make a switch to a job that pays better, but recognize that your risk tolerance may be lower and other things may compete for your attention.
Invest. Sure, you've lost ten (ish) years, but at 45 you'll be pretty happy that you bothered to start at all. It's not like 25 is all that wonderful. Think of how a 25 year old feels right now, compared to their brother who invested $1000 in Amazon 10 years ago; all of a sudden, they feel behind because they didn't start at 15.

In other words, get moving. Change and risk almost always get harder with time, so there is always no time like the present, regardless of if you're 25 or 35 at present.
The car is a legitimate next step with AI, computers and sensors are already integrated and have been doing basic functions like parking, whereas computers are not integrated into manual laundry task, this market has decided computers are not economical or profitable to integrate into the chain.
How is he throwing them under the bus? He said it turns out he didn't fit in well at Tesla. That's just being honest.

If the alternative is phony politeness and masking reality under a guise of everything went great then I prefer this approach.

This is a great aspect of the software industry IMO. And if you want to get lots of job offers then build some great OSS projects like this guy. It's a great way to demonstrate your skill and attract a following which guarantees you job offers.
I wish ZFS were in tree :-)
Looking for a new job it seems.
Definitely trust a random blog over the American heart association
A lot of Karpathy's research and blog posts have been featured on HN. He made char-rnn which spawned hundreds of spin off projects that made it onto HN. He also comments here regularly and explains new research. So it makes sense that news about him would get attention here.
Laundry bot would make no money, I think. People are happy to do this task on their own or via a maid.
Oh the good old days
a little bit later than that, but I remember installing OpenBSD by 1.44MB boot floppy and then bringing up the network, retrieving the rest by the ftp tool built into the installer.
That's closer to the reality, yes, though I don't think lookup-table is entirely the right concept either. Useful, yes, but doesn't quite generate the right mix of concepts of neurons, activation thresholds, fuzzy activation, multiple access paths, etc., etc.

I'm not focusing on the overall channel bandwidth because I think it tells the full story, but it does tell an important story, and in particular, it shows just how constrained that channel really is. If we're sucking (or blowing) through a straw, then there's only so much information as can be mediated.

This becomes particularly significant when you look at the amount of crap that people are flooded with, and realise how much this cuts down on the ability to process significant and meaningful information.
A white pattern is an idea that I'd considered but never actually tried implementing.

It has the advantage of being able to spontaneously create email addresses when signing up for things, while still blackholing most guessed addresses.

I like this idea a lot.
I just saw their latest marketing literature on their website. They promise:

> All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

It seems somewhat irresponsible to promise that you have enough hardware to achieve something that nobody has ever achieved before, with any hardware.

Tesla has plenty of impressive-looking videos on their website of autopilot working well, but if you Google for "Tesla autopilot fail" you can also find plenty of stuff like this, which is just surprisingly bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg

Tesla strikes me as over-promising and under-delivering here. I wouldn't want to work in a division like that.
I wrote a number of Selenium scripts for grabbing credit card details, etc, but Wells Fargo seems to have pretty good anti-Selenium protection built in - even when my traffic seemed indistinguishable from organic browsing, it wouldn't let me log in.
A new inexpensive Honda or Toyota will still win over an older one. Frankly speaking you will spend only marginally higher for the new car.

And yes the thing about frequent repairs could happen with the older car.
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Are you mad at the existence of stack traces? Would you prefer it if the errors were unsourced? Are we pretending Python does it better or even that differently?

As for "the case", Java does reduce the # of NPEs you get by not letting you deref invalid keys on objects, and it makes it easier to handle objects in the abstract.
I am, send me a mail.
OK, I want you to program FizzBuzz on that whiteboard.
Google AMP is the devil and I've long since switched to DuckDuckGo as my search engine on mobile. The thing I hate most about ANY technology is when they think they know what I want more than I do.
Media coverage and popularity always works this way. I'm not sure why so many people perpetually can't wrap their head around it. There have been endless comments online where people are offended or surprised that x person is getting attention, but they are just like these other people who are just as good.

But obviously there's more to drawing people's attention than the individual skill or a comparable position at a different company. As you mentioned this top of HN ranking is driven by joining a trendy company, leading a hugely hyped product team (the Tesla automation stuff was on the front page yesterday), and a personal with a really hot skillset.

Combined of course with the usual luck and good timing.

Is it really hard to see how this isn't much more interesting than someone joining a realitively standard branch of Microsoft?
I liked the tweet that suggested he should work on server side Swift. Doesn't sound like he's wanting to start a company though.
If google were to embrace swift that would be spicy.
How convenient it is for you to equate history books with guns. Let me hit you with a gun instead of a history book.
> I don't love that Lyft even has a tipping option, but at least it's optional.

It is going to be exactly the same with Uber's tipping.
biomedical physics?
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I think the biggest reason Window Phone flopped is actually the same as ubuntu and firefox, they were trying too hard be different. Ubuntu had it's scopes thing, MS had their tiles, Firefox had their adaptive search.

I think if they'd focused on being better than android, faster and more developer friendly, then they would have had a lot more luck.
IBM has people working on server-side Swift, but (as I understand it) those people are mainly focused on ways to make the IBM cloud service more enticing.
But what about the software?
In some of our scaling test where each container had an IP connecting out to a remote system we ran in to a ton of issues at scale that we did not see running the same number of processes on the bare metal. The overhead of the namespace can add up.
Wow, this is from a different world! When this was published, the 2.4 kernel was just a twinkle in Linus' eye--the 2.4 kernel that Damn Small Linux would later stake itself to when it boldly declared that it would never switch to 2.6 because it was just too big.
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Tell that to the school districts.
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. https://m.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our...
Wonder if Twitch somehow got a hold on major Brood War events, namely the Afreeca Starleague, seeing as how it was already getting restreamed in English on Twitch. With the HD remaster I imagine Blizzard would want to take back more control and hold more events of their own, too.

On that note, I still don't know what version/patch the competitive community wants to use going forward, either.
A fair argument, and yes, that expands the channel somewhat.

(My first posts on seeing this concept, elsewhere, had confused bits and bytes, so I ended up with 1.7 MB rather than 0.2 MB.)

But the point remains that that what we're discussing is almost certainly a maximum upper bound on human conscious information processing capacity. And that the values are ... pretty limited, relative to the amounts of information our machines can fling at us.

8.6 MB/day means that on average we're looking at 2/3 of that for waking hours or 5.7 MB. If you spend half your waking hours at work, that's about 2.9 MB of information acquired per day at work, max, over audio track.

And that's the tail-end of a 3.5 billion year R&D effort.
I agree. Although, I would point out they recently accepted the Go LLVM port in a somewhat more recognized role:

https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/

Unclear to me in what capacity it is "recognized" or "official" though.
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Cloudflare might work for this.
> I realize that. Thanks for the condescension. But, you realize that people aren't motivated by just one thing, right? Even if they are business people, right?

I'm still not sure you do realize it. People are motivated by a lot of things, and sometimes people are willing to do dirty, shitty, manipulative tactics to get what they want.

One person said Jobs was as focused as a monk, but without the empathy. But that's one person, right?

> you do think that his sniping at specific look and feel issues was just to put the engineers down?

Funny you mention that. You know when he called up Bob Belleville from Xerox, he told him his work was shit and everything he had done was meaningless and that he should work for him. Do you think he was "obsessed with getting things right" and simply being critical, or does it sound like someone who is feeling out an engineer's low self-esteem much in the same way a pimp feels out a prospective ho?

You still don't think Jobs was above putting down the Xerox engineers to elevate himself and denigrate their own self-esteem?

He lied to Woz about money is his first business dealing and took credit for his work. He made sport of humiliating a prospective employees by asking if he was a virgin and then humiliating him in front of other people.

You may not realize it, but putting people down is a tactic actually works on some people. Some people have a capacity to insult people and make those people love them. I know, because I've worked with a number of these guys. They're usually in sales, and they're usually pretty good at it.

Jobs was a lot of things, and it could very easily argued he had an incredible capacity to be cruel, callous, petty and manipulative, especially in his younger days. I'm sure he could be a great guy too, but it's clear he also had a capacity to be a giant flaming asshole.

It sounds like you tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. That's not a bad thing, but sometimes you have to recognize that some people simply don't mind manipulating people. Does that round out your cohesive picture?

> But, as you said, neither of us were there.

Sure, but you're the only one who's discounting the account of the person who was there just because it doesn't fit your cohesive picture.
I have been collecting conflicting reports on HTTP/2 client certificate support:

14 months ago: "No. But TLS!" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556762

7 months ago: "421" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022596

Maybe it would be worth the time to test out the various implementations if someone has not already done so?

--

Doing some preliminary research, support is still a working draft https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bishop-httpbis-http2-... source: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/18/http2-connection-coal...
>>What do you plan on doing that requires money?

Everything that you will ever plan on doing will require money.
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Laughable in what sense?

The feeling I've gotten is from watching both is that I prefer YouTube for the actual watching (streaming just seems to work better, especially with being able to rewind live streams).

But I still prefer twitch for discoverablity and just easier navigation. YouTube Gaming[0] works ok (though most people don't even know it exists), but they try to blend live and past events too much for me.

[0] http://gaming.youtube.com
Yea, my comment is entirely based onrumoiurs, including a story that claimed their first hardware was refrigerator sized. And if those stories are right, startups can change direction, so they might already be trying to adapt their software to existing consumer hardware.
My first install was slackware 3.0 on 4mb. You had to manually partition the disk and setup swap space before you could even launch the installer.

This was a minor inconvenience compared to swapping the 40 1.44mb disks needed to install it because I couldn't get it to use my pre-atapi cdrom drive correctly. Using the cdrom drive it would work for a little bit, and then everything would start timing out. And, a network install was some science fiction as far as I and my 9600bps modem were concerned.

Then once you got it all installed you could start trying to get X11 and ppp to work...
Self employment is incredible when the money's rolling in, and terrible when it's not. I can't speak for a full fledged startup with funding though because then you just work for investors.
Re: "fun money" - how much was that figure for you? (range is fine if you don't want to give an exact number)
The "machine-gun" sound of Spanish is more due to it being syllable timed, while English is stress timed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrony#Syllable_timing

Spanish also has heavy syllable merging, even across word boundaries. (Vowels merge together and hiatus turns into di- and triphthongs.) This reduces the number of actual syllables in speech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synalepha
At early stage startups, not at public companies like Tesla
Yes. They have applied for a patent on ANS and video compression - ANS is one of the biggest advances in lossless encoding in the last 10 years. The inventor wants to keep it freely available, has helped Google for three years to incorporate ANS in AV1 - their reward is to try to patent his invention. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691
There are much better standard ways to phrase this and that's precisely why you almost never see it put that way. If for no other reason than that if hiring high-profile talent is something you need to do more than once, you don't want to be publicly suggesting it's somehow their fault when they leave.
> replacing the cost of paying every person around the world who drives for a living with profit equivalent to their income

That's not how it works, because your competitors will undercut you. Then you will undercut them, and continue the race to the bottom until the natural price is reached.
There are thousands of models of Android phone, probably over 10k, but to what extent are they all radically different? They all seem to end up using the same chipsets from a few manufacturers, and surely product lines within a single company reuse a lot of code.
Getting a job is like getting into a nightclub. If you're a celebrity, the bouncers open the velvet rope and usher you straight into the club, leaving the long queue of punters waiting to be told that their shoes aren't right, or that its a private party.
Second part of my post covered the second part of your response:

Try moderating, in real life, 10000 people talking at once.

Impossible.

If you're just there for the game: watch the game and hide the chat (there's a button right next to it).

If you're there for a good conversation: you're in the wrong place. There's 10000 people there.
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I never returned to my old job... Why would you go back? I did return to working as a contractor for a while. A lot of failed startup engineers become contractors.

I'm back working for a startup again now so I guess I'm just going back and forth.

I've worked for a few startups and none of them has had an exit yet but one of those I have shares in is doing relatively well.

Doing contracting work is a smarter decision in general. You can actually plan to make a sizeable amount of money and then watch it happen without taking any risks - It's all within your control. With startups, you might often feel that it's outside of your control, especially if you're not a co-founder.
It isn't, though. The two tasks aren't very similar. It's a pithy put-down if you already don't like the idea of driving AI for other reasons, but nobody who's looking to objectively evaluate a technology for use in cars would say, "Hang on, let's first try to make it fold laundry."
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I would argue that you're confusing "brain receiving complete information" with "brain doing inference on what information it does receive to get you close enough". You don't need the full screen to tell that the image is SD vs HD, you just need to glance at a small segment. That's not 100s of mb/sec. You know that the rest of the video is happening in your peripheral, and maybe you can tell what's going on. But in actuality you're receiving a very low bit rate version of that, and your brain is simply telling you "X & Y are happening in HD in your peripheral" and it's convincing enough.
As someone who spent over a decade writing in C, I read this as a subtle get-even move.
TinyCore is just 16MB (up from the 10MB last I used it), or 11MB without a desktop environment or Xorg. But it still requires 46MB RAM to run (28 without X).
No, the demographic is 18-25.
How is this a problem for them?
Can I just say that the Justin.TV to Twich pivot was one of the best examples of pivoting to your market that I have ever seen?
Perhaps it's time to try a non-hardware company.
New desktops still have CD/DVD burners, don't they?
I am 2 months into doing this, it feels a lot like when I moved to SF, lot of things up in the air but very promising. I had a 6 month financial plan but it was hard to adapt to the lack of income and seeing my savings decrease month by month, so I'm doing contracting and TaskRabbit. I'm not really a ramen noodles person, so I make due with what I can get at the grocer.

I have a previous coworker who'd love to help me, but I don't want to babysit his work and I feel he's not valuable enough to the business. I would like another cofounder, but it doesn't bother me that I'm doing it all on my own, I have spent the last 10 years getting ready for this, so I'm more than ready. I am doing more than okay on my business alone, but I wish I had some expertise for a second opinion. I am really really thinking about going into an accelerator program or seeking angel investment, but I'm apprehensive about taking cash at this (or any stage). My biggest fear is actually having to get a real job again, I will do anything to prevent that from happening since that means my startup is dead.
I don't use Uber or Lyft, but if I was, this would drive me away from Uber.

From what I hear from my friends who use Uber, 1 reason they love it is because all the charges are through the app and there is no "obligation" to tip, so it's 1 less decision them have to make, i.e. calculate how much to tip, keep wondering if you tipped the driver too much, or too little, what's a "fair" tip for the ride etc etc.
Self driving cars will actually take us away from a world where all car trips are humans accomplishing their goals, to a world where a decent proportion of car trips are machines serving their own purposes.

As an aside: please do lean further into this "people whose transportation needs are best served by cars aren't humans" rhetoric. It's going to be a lot easier to destroy at the polls.

I say this having just sold my car to move to a tiny studio in an urban high rise near work, because I recognize that my top-10% salary and lack of children are the only reason I can do that. I'm excited by the possibility of self-driving cars to bring the benefits of the automobile to more people, and most excited about those it can liberate from slow, crowded buses.
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"So these are my pro-Tabs reasons. You might think some of them as BS but they are rational and you can’t disagree with that.". I disagree.

"1. Tabs are meant for Indentation".

On typewriters, yes. For the beginning of a paragraph, yes. But for programming? No. Why would you mix a character of undefined length (a tab) with characters of defined length (all other printable characters, including the space character)?

"2. Tab-based indentation is uniform, like spaces"

No, it's not. It changes from editor to editor. Some editors make it easy to change the tab size representation, and some make it difficult. When reading someone else's code, you have to change your tab size to whatever their tab setting was if you want comments to line up correctly. The real headache comes when you are trying to use code from one or more outside sources, and they both used different tab sizes. It makes reading the code a chore.

I will say it plainly: Code (higher level languages) is for the ease of understanding of the programmer. Anything that gets in the way of that, including weird spacing, is wrong.

"3. Tabs work better with Notepad"

The last time I checked, the space bar works just fine in Notepad. "Oh," you may say, "I don't want to have to push the space bar that many times! It's hard!". Really?!? That's just being lazy. I prefer not to use auto-indenting because it makes me more aware of the flow of my code. In fact, most of the time it gets in the way, as it does not do the indentation that I want, and I don't care to spend the time to figure out what obscure setting that I need to tweak to fix it; I have more important things to do! For context, I've been programming for 20 years now.

"4. Code size with tabs indentation is lesser"

Why does that matter? Code is for programmers. Compiled versions are for computers. The compiled version does not change regardless of the form of whitespace used. For modern computers, quibbling over source code size (especially when it is only a few kilobytes) is like complaining because there is a sheet of paper taking up room in a shopping basket. It's negligible.

"5. Spaces Indentation takes more time to fix"

Most IDEs have tools that address this exact issue. I, however, don't use them, and it doesn't impact my output volume. These types of changes (refactoring, really) are few and far between, and therefore make it sound like you are grasping at straws.

"6. Spaces promote super-ugly & inefficient code style"

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you yourself are advocating a style that I think is harder to read. I will choose the spaces version, thank you very much.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14596529
> It seems that you're implying blatent disregard for the environment and pollution began (and possibly ended) in China.

Absolutely not. What I am saying is that the protection of environment was not, until recent times, particularly high on the agenda of the Chinese government (and that the Maoist period was particularly terrible in this regard).

Obviously, the West, being the first to be industrialized, has been responsible for most of the global pollution until now (and by outsourcing some of its most polluting industries to China, has also a share of responsibility for the pollution in China).
Lyft already has tipping.