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Weird, for me it is exactly the other way around. The syntax might be familiar, but it is idiotic. On the other hand, the semantics is exactly what I have always wanted C++ to be.
Okay ... and what do you propose ?

Presumably the idea is that the US lets go of it's nukes, destroys them, feeds them into nuclear reactors, whatever (assuming that's possible, it'd be "positive"). What happens then ? Well, nothing happens, of course. The main thing that happens is that the US can no longer threaten nuclear strikes, either in retaliation, offensive or to defend itself.

This does not affect Russia's nukes. Doesn't affect France's nukes. Doesn't affect NK, Pakistan, India, China, Japan, Israel, ... nukes. But it gives all of these countries a powerful card to play against the US.

In fact the pressure behing not using nukes is partially that the US will retaliate if an attack happens on it's allies (a promise that largely benefits European states against Russia, but not exclusively).

The inevitable result will be that all these countries will increase the pressure they use against everyone else with nukes. Which of course, only works if they back it with nukes. If at any point someone feels sufficiently pressured to prove their nuke capability ... And remember: the governments of these countries, the people that control the nukes are just as unstable, evil, ... as the US government is. In fact, the consensus is that most are worse.

So what is the real alternative to Mutually Assured Destruction ? What would be the consequence of ending it ?

Simple: the alternative is oppression, more of it, and a good increase in the chance of war, maybe nuclear war.

You can't end MAD by simply demanding it ends, you can only make it worse. You can only end it by proposing something better that is actually backed, something that works economically, something that works militarily, something that works in game theory and negotiation theories.
If one arbitrarily defines "zero force" as less than the force sufficient to accelerate one proton at one planck length per age-of-universe^2, I come up with a distance of 10^12 meters between two protons (+/- an order of magnitude).

However, (and if I didn't screw up the math) since gravity scales linearly with mass, and the size of the visible universe is about 10^27 meters, then anything with mass greater than 10^15 protons -- or about the mass of a human cell -- has a "non zero" gravitational effect on you.
This is great for many of the projects but there's a down side to donors choose I wouldn't have realized before taking to some teachers. Anecdote warning: family member works in a public school district where the principal and committees won't even investigate funding requests till the teacher has put something up on donorschoose.
I would purchase one of these without hesitation.

On smaller or older computers I do all work in RAM via tmpfs and mfs. I only use removable external storage for storing bootloaders, kernels with embedded filesystem and a small archive of custom software.

If I have enough RAM I can chroot and install some distribution from the internet or from some larger capacity external media, but thats optional.
I’m a lay person, but...

Isn’t dark matter just matter in other dimensions? Not visible in our three, but obviously having an effect? Like the body of an arch to flatlanders?
When I think about large-scale donations I think about Melinda and Bill Gates. They don't just donate large sums of money, they donate their time and talent and take their efforts very seriously. They work hard to see every penny well-spent in an effective manner.

That being said, I would love to witness a super-rich person throw a one-time insanely large lump sum of money at some problem. Like, "Here's 50 billion dollars. Free mammograms to anyone on the planet until the money runs out." It would be nice to see a global respite from some sort of issue.
I authored http://jsfiddle.net/alokmenghrajani/0qo4kq7x/ over 3 years ago...
Well, as a Dumb fuck[0], I completely believe in Facebook will take all the necessary steps to protect my privacy.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

And of course you can down vote, but we will meet again in the next Facebook scandal :)
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Well, this is the stride. If I remember (I watched the video weeks ago) building them smaller, with the steel part of the tape doing a lot of the work means you can build and swap modules to create a far smaller tokamok or stellerator that you can immerse. The same topologies can and would be used - perhaps with more stable containment (for reasons I forget.)
It really sucks that American public schools are so poorly funded. But maybe the principal and committees are just "playing the game" appropriately from their perspective. I doubt they have beanbag chairs full of cash that they're hoarding.

I could see a scenario where, sure, the teacher's proposal is great. But what makes their proposal any better than the thousand others that cannot be funded?
I wondered the same thing. Perhaps part of the justification is the branding benefit from the positive publicity?
Not wholly speculative they've built and tested some machinery with that tape as I remember.
I agree with the Twitter comment but can't stand Reddit. It's a site that promotes trolls and actively punishes people for being civil. Add to that completely tone deaf policies from the owners and I just cannot support that site. The mods there are also terrible cretins that rule over their fiefdoms with whatever bias they feel wont to.
I can't in good faith upvote a story on a website that has more junk advertisement then content per character and has stories like "VOYAGER 2 MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED AS IT ENTERED DEEP SPACE" featured next to this.
One or their problems right now is their foundation owns too much of their own currency, which is a risk to their entire ecosystem. Without looking into the details, donating the money seems like a really great way to build good will while de-risking the ecosystem.
Exactly when were each of these promises made and what was promised each time? Please give us the details.

So far WikiLeaks' publications are what they claim the publications are, and WikiLeaks has released a number of "insurance" files such as:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823724/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823728/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823733/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://archive.org/details/WikiLeaks_Insurance_File

which I understand we're all encouraged to share widely in the event the key to decrypt one or more of them is released. I don't know what's in any of the insurance files.
Hopefully he can generalize their automation developments. Seems like this would have to be a bigger play then just the Model 3 at this point.
Tesla is a car company in the same way that Google is an advertising agency.
I actually don't hate the typeface (plex) but this backstory is just bonkers
A WWII newsreel encouraging farmers to grow hemp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8tG_0AJvnw
MLK was a massively flawed individual with the philandering and plagiarism and everything... he is an example of how leaders DON’T need to be perfect.
> "Hah," you exclaim. "You can just look at the pixels. There is always a way to tell if you look close enough."

No I do not. And that claim is simply wrong. There's often a way to tell, not always. Nobody today thinks photographs are absolutely convincing proof anymore. Experts who detect altered photographs do NOT say nonsense like "always a way to tell".

Yeah, we'll adapt, but the adaptation is going to be rough. A simple point is: my comment above is part of the adaptation process.
> I'm not sure what you use tooltips

They show documentation (pulled from comments) for functions, classes and arguments.

> and context menus

For context-sensitive commands I use once per week or less often, so I don’t bother memorizing keyboard shortcuts for them.

> most command-line editors are actually GUIs in the terminal

Most developers don’t use command line editors. Here’s recent data from this year: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e... As you see, 4 most popular editors are VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Sublime Text, all of them are GUI applications. Only 26% developers use Vim, 4% Emacs.
And who said the application server can't have local cache?
Can you imagine what would have happened if someone walked into Atari HQ or any game company targeting Atari back in the day with a Demo like either of these? They easily outclass the CGI on some of the movies of the same period.
While I'd rather listen to Costello with 16 bits at 24 kHz ... this is a very cool hack - thanks for sharing. Makes me (once again) sorry I gave away my 64!
This is a nicely succinct expression of what I intuit to be almost a universal rule of creating/designing/making.

It’s related to what I think of as “coherency” and I’m often surprised at how long it can take.

The most recent example is that I was writing up some technical feedback for a reviewer of a product I develop.

My first draft was several pages worth of dense prose. I realized I needed to simplify, otherwise it would overwhelm the reader. I worked on it for several hours, and in the end I had it down to about 4-5 paragraphs.

So it took me five hours to write what looks like a simple, straightforward email!

I’m a music producer by trade, and the principal is very much at work. To create a successful recording requires getting into the small details of the sounds, and working with them, whether your tools are complex or simple.
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Unfortunately the only reasons these "bootcamps" exist is to creater cheaper workforce for tech companies. They don't provide good education, just specialization in the areas that the tech companies decided they want.
Perhaps you are asking the wrong question. Perhaps it should be "do we need a bar exam for lawyers?" What do we gain from such an exam?
The reason why they were able to seem like they were senior was because they had the work history. Even though their technical skills were lacking, the sheer amount of development history automatically made them a potential candidate worth interviewing.

Once you have guaranteed interviews, from there it's just a matter of finding a company with the most lax interviews or one where you can fake it the easiest. At least that's my best guess; I don't fully understand how someone can work for a company for over a decade yet can't understand basic OOP or fizzbuzz-level challenges. It became a serious issue at my company because most of the senior-level candidates we got were utterly useless.
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I wouldn't be surprised to find that in the UK it's illegal to ask a candidate "How do you add to our diversity?" because it could be seen as a thinly veiled way to, for example, discover a candidate's sexual preference - something you are outright not allowed to ask about, except in very specific circumstances[1].

(Also, it's an insufferably pretentious question, even if not actually illegal.)

[1] E.g., it might be legally acceptable for a role in a religious organisation.
Sometimes optimization is not the optimal solution. They should have optimized their optimization methods first. Or should they?
I haven't seen the patent - but there were minor novelties, maybe the steel-backed tape, modularity method, immersion method, etc. Probably enough to get a patent, but I suspect not a patent of great value since there will be other slightly different implementations unless their "metal-backed" tape is their secret sauce. That's possible.

"Just build it smaller" can't be patented, that's not a method. Just use tape from that's made by X corp, I can't see that being a patent either.
I’ve known developers who couldn’t do certain hard tasks no matter how long you gave them.

That fact notwithstanding, I’ve never met someone more than 4x faster than anyone I would consider adequate. Maybe that says I have demanding standards (likely). Maybe that means I’ve never been in the presence of great developers (less likely).

What I have met is people who value their own productivity over that of the team. They create code that slows all but themselves down. The more clever the person the worse the damage. I have no doubt that such a one could force a situation with a ten to one ratio, especially with developers without the self esteem to push back.
DonorsChoose.org is a fantastic site and project. As someone who has four teachers in the family, I know firsthand how challenging teaching is on multiple levels, and financial is definitely one of them. I’m happy to support the site as best I can and even happier to hear about this!
The MIT video referred to is -

Cold Fusion - Real, But Is It Ready? - Prof. Peter Hagelstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiNDqaFPO4A
Are the chunks encrypted or obscured? That is, could an adversary with local access to the node determine what object a particular chunk is part of? How about an adversary that can see traffic, but not the node's storage?
well maybe tesla really thinks the existing automation research is outdated and maybe they think it will massively pay off. but they surely must recognize that there are learning pains involved in this especially when it sounds like no other auto manufacturer is involved in this level of process automation, there's no one with relevant knowledge to simply poach, and therefore the cost of learning has to be borne completely by tesla... for what kind of improvement over tried-and-true existing processes in the short and medium term? for a new auto company that by many accounts is running out of money, this is a silly gamble to take. it might be a good bet 10 years down the road when Tesla is pumping out 1m autos/yr in line with BMW and MB but not right now when they are bleeding cash out of every orifice and failing to make deliveries.

sounds like one of those sad stories where the engineers fell in love with the stack and forgot about the product.
They aren't poorly funded. I live in a suburban / rural area. The public schools here get ~$15,700 per student. Good private schools here charge ~$10,000 per student, and yet offer much better education with 2/3 the funding.
Billions of USD in digital coins they themselves created, right? So this $29M came from the shareholders, or from the coin-holders?
> it felt so constraining not having a tree view and tabs I could click on

There are emacs packages for tree views[0] and tabs[1], but as you note the built-in buffer management is more powerful. Stuff like Helm or Ivy is even better!

There's also an emacs uuidgen package, which can generate a uuid & insert it with M-x uuidgen; you could of course bind it to a key sequence if you use it frequently.

0: https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree

1: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabBarMode
Ripple placed most of their coins in escrow:
https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-to-place-55-billion-xrp-i...

They don't need to derisk their ecosystem.
Where do you live? The private schools may also get funding, and public schools have much higher expenses for special needs students etc. who are often not allowed to enroll at private schools.
But that gain factor declines steeply if sunk costs decline, as they would for smaller reactors producing more energy per pound installed.
FWIW when i apply to a job and get sent back a coding exercise, without first even talking to me, that's usually a red flag for me and i do not proceed with them - although I do communicate that I prefer to have some kind of chat so i know there is a culture fit, before i potentially throw hours of my life away.
It doesn't mean "right" either. Meanwhile, acrylamide is an example of an IARC 2A compound where there's little controversy: it causes stomach cancer and lymphoma. And yet we keep eating potato chips and grilling meat.
If you're asking, I personally assume the best.

I understand where you're coming from - maybe you're referring to things like "micro-aggressions" and other things many of us would find silly? Yup, definitely something that needs tackling. I've never argued that there would be a clear algorithm for "this makes people uncomfortable to the point that it should be illegal, this does not."

Luckily, our judges and court system are pretty good at exactly this sort of thing. I think a law on the books that goes something along the lines of "nobody should be made to feel sexually uncomfortable at work" starts the definition, and then subsequent court cases sharpens it. Sorry, Tim saying "great haircut!" doesn't count, but oops yea Janice saying "quite the cucumber you're hiding away there, Bill," while waggling her eyebrows does. Etc.
Here is the relevant data for my city:

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2016/berkeley/
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I'd argue that they're stupid questions.

What do you stand to learn about the quality/fit of a candidate from the question "why do you want to work with us?"

They could give a 100% bombshell answer and yet not at all fit the role.
There are a lot of parallels here to the HN favourite - Geeks, MOP's and sociopaths.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

It's not a perfect analogy in this case, but it definitely hits a lot of your key points.
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Just a short time ago there were negative headlines about Tesla parts being built by hand [1].

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/behind...
Not quite.

No one knows what dark matter is. Astrophysicists know it by how it behaves. It seems to behave just like a normal gas, or perhaps dust or even moderate chunky stuff, except that it appears to be essentially completely transparent and simply passes through normal matter.

(There’s one candidate theory of dark matter called, IIRC, “MACHO”s, which is the idea that dark matter is just a bunch of small, very dense objects dotting the universe. We don’t see them because they’re compact and don’t take up enough space to be noticed.)
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I think he's agreeing with you on the overarching theme. If I'm reading his comment correctly, he's saying that despite him writing math heavy stuff, organizational skills are super important and as important as raw algorithmic skills.
I think you are missing her point. She isn't saying that all passionate people are affluent white males. My interpretation is that passion in a swe job description is code for affluent white male. I think she has a point, individuals who have time for passion projects, self study, or other endeavors are privileged. Many of them are white, male, and affluent.
man how can you even give a fuck about that. i cant believe HN sometimes
You only risk getting lynched when you have an Israeli passport. Even if you go, better not talk about your ethnicity and prepare to be flagged by the Israeli authorities. You could also just visit the Israeli startup scene.
wallstreet analysts don't know jack shit and come out with statements whenever the wind blows their way from the woodwork. Wallstreet is short Tesla, bonds are trading new lows...
Goodluck - so basically you are shorting the guy that is landing fucking rockets back down on this planet? great thesis. I will take the other side of that bet.
Isn’t there a quantum theory of entanglement that says something like once two electrons meet then separate they are still ‘bound’ and influencing each other ? I wonder since, as carbon based life forms , we are all just made up of stardust , how and on what string theoretical levels we are quantum entangled with all the atoms known as planets moving around ?
I'll take that as implicit acknowledgement that the OP's point was correct (DRM of course being the complete opposite of "open").

I agree that could work though.
FYI - My wife had her project funded this year by ripple, but last year her projects were funded by Melinda and Bill Gates. In both cases her projects were less than 10k, but make a huge difference to the kids in her classroom.
Those features are available in emacs, and work in both the GUI and the terminal.

For auto-complete, vanilla emacs has dynamic abbreviations; there are several packages for fancier auto-completion; company-mode, for example, works just fine in the terminal, as well of course as in the GUI (X11, macOS or Windows).

Likewise with tooltips, which in the terminal generally are generally displayed in a special region of the terminal instead.

Likewise with context menus, which can be shown just fine in a VT100 terminal.

Likewise with expanding & collapsing text ('folding'). Org-mode, to take just one example, is built on folding — and is easily one of modern emacs's killer features.

Seriously, give emacs a shot. Both Prelude & spacemacs are excellent configs for it.
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Right. The US spends more per student than most similar countries.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA-2012-results-US.pd...
But Facebook themselves still gather and keep the data? If so this is mere window dressing
Fair. But one of the things you end up realising is you can't come up with the perfect process that will please all applicants.

One thing I should have mentioned as well is how I handle referrals, because it's quite different. I always skip the assessment or telescreen in favour of some sort of face to face:

- Invite them in to the office, have coffee, find out more about them, let them meet some of the team, show them what we're working on, maybe have lunch,

- Have a more low-key meeting in a cafe or pub.

In both cases it's about getting to know them better and giving them the opportunity to figure out whether they're really interested in the role: i.e., not a traditional interview. If they are interested, then we go straight to a technical interview.

The above is important because it's a key route for more senior hires. As a result, certainly at the beginning of the process, it's very much tailored to the candidate at an individual level.
Optimistically, those over-the-industry-ratio of line investments in automation will be profitable after more models are introduced for the mainstream audience.

Other car makers take no risk in the short term by not investing to automate more final assembly. But 2 times more is not like 10 times more. It is very probable that Tesla will get to have lower production cost & better capacity than other car makers in just a few more years.

Yeah I know they may need more cash very soon and are way under their targeted rate, but Musk still has lot of money in the bank I think?

I always think of Tesla of a company with a more long-term vision than other car makers. I think analysts sometimes just want a lower the price so they can get more of it.
This is a cool initiative.

I've always been a bit bummed that as software engineers, there tend to be less overseas volunteering opportunities than other forms of engineering.

I'll be honest and admit that I just want to go to cool places and do work there. There's always lots of roles for civil and mechanical engineers, as well as doctors, but there's never much need for software engineers in the jungles of Cambodia or the beaches of the Solomon Islands.
Is there any easy way to share an egg? I showed this to my colleagues at work and was trying to share a particular egg, but couldn't spot anything clickable for this. Inspecting the HTML, it doesn't look like any of the eggs have ids on them that could be used as anchors.
It doesn't really add much to the conversation, and it comes off as rude.