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>This $4.9 Billion figure has been thoroughly debunked. It includes hypothetical tax breaks that Tesla could receive 20 years from now, discounted loans that Tesla long ago paid back in full and in advance, and even money from programs that Tesla never receives, but customers can potentially benefit from.

(from Right-wing group led by Trump propagandist launches campaign against Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX https://electrek.co/2016/11/22/elon-musk-right-wing-trump-pr...)

Apparently the "Trump propagandist" was Laura Ingraham who's recently getting some news coverage.
That's a big topic which specific part are you thinking about?
Ask HN: Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?
I'll start:

My friend's first startup took a dive after spending $80,000 to work with a local development company. It turned out the development firm was just a front to outsource all of the work overseas and take a big cut.

Long story short, 5 months later he ended up with no app, no money, and a lawsuit that he couldn't much afford.

Has anyone else had an experience like this?
This was hilarious and utterly relatable. I've also built a lot of one-off tools for my pharmacist girlfriend (now wife - she learned SQL with me ;)

Congrats on the launch and the joining accelerator, hope it gains traction! It looks fantastic!
How do you define a 'decision' in something like autopilot though? Also, if I remember correctly, only a couple of images per second are sent to Tesla. If there's a fraction of a second where it may decide to run into something, it may not actually appear in test results.
Not to mention the fact that, if they're software screws up and kills you, they'll rush to to Twitter in an attempt to smear you using personal data and deceptive statements.
Writing genuinely informative articles about your company's area of competence is a very widespread marketing approach. Just earlier today I've read a brief overview on moment theater written by some theater's marketing team. They didn't try to hide that it's a material designed to sell their tickets, but it didn't make it any less interesting.
I don't know - Googling for 'should there be a break between sprints' it seems like lots of people think you should be sprinting without any breaks.
Out of curiosity, would you be surprised by:

- Git 2.17 is now available (gitlab.com)

- Git 2.17 is now available (bitbucket.com)

The point is, by publishing this kind of posts, Github is making you associate git with Github. Anecdote example: my university lecturer calls Github APIs "git APIs". While that might not be a bad thing, it blurs the boundary between an open source project and a company.

I can already imagine Github having influence on the direction of git project and becomes the de facto owner, and the impact on its competitors and the repository hosting industry. The equivalence would be Microsoft, instead of owning TypeScript, owns the ECMAScript specification.
I really don't think they could do this effectively unless each car also uploads 20GB per day of 60fps high quality video, which would collapse the cellular networks they use.
Seems no more dystopian in an assistant setting than voice input now: listen for a wake-phrase and relay what's said after that.

As gargoyle tech, it's even more promising than that Tap chorded keyboard-cum-knuckleduster.
I am honestly having trouble parsing through how you simultaneously accuse engineers of being too lazy to use process and then agreeing that there is too much process.

I don't engineer as other engineering disciplines do, because my world is not like other engineering disciplines. If architects could push a button and see a skyscraper built in five minutes, then push another button to tear it down and build it with a slightly tweaked again, for basically no cost, often while clients are actually living in the building (!), you'd see them doing a lot less up-front planning from them, too. Stop having "real engineering" envy. As the characteristics of software are added to other engineering fields, they start engineering more like us, because that's the right answer. No, we are not in fact specially stupid or lazy, which is exactly the same mistake as thinking we are specially smart or industrious. We're neither, and we do the things we do for reasons every bit as good as the reasons for their processes.
I balled so hard with gotf
Is it possible to run Window queries on SQLite? I think it's not! Firebird implements quite a few of these statements.

I integrated most commercial db vendors and we even ran queries on imported data in a HSQLDB database. Firebird is just way ahead of HSQLDB, and HSQLDB is similar to SQLite feature-wise.

I don't mean it would be cool to be able to export to Firebird. I mean that you might want to use Firebird as your underlying engine :)
I found this fascinating

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/when-coding-style-surviv...
Oof. Just imagine trying to telling someone about it. "It's pronounced this way but you spell it this way" rarely ends up well, and often ends up un-searchable.
I visited Tripping just a few weeks ago and it looks like a good place to work. The team is friendly and their culture resonated with what I tend to believe in. I recommend to reach them if you looking for a job.
I think it means the teams deliver what the market wants in agile-pugilist speak (cadence of delivery is in sync with the cadence of changing requirements of market).
Depends on how close it is and what it is. Have to weigh the energy of the impact against the pitch introduced by braking. You need the bumper to take the hit, so that it and the crumple zones can do their job.

However, for a wall or highway barrier, it's probably almost always worthwhile to shed as much energy as possible. You're going to pitch yourself under the barrier where the bumper won't take the hit, like you might when colliding with another vehicle.
I don't think they have that much data that's useful for this purpose. They may have billions of miles of some kinds of data, but they only upload occasional samples of the camera video that would be required to test a feature of this sort. I can't find the exact link now, but someone reverse-engineered it and it was something on the order of a few seconds a few times an hour.
Yes, but for the past three decades this wasn't a problem during space launches and now that SpaceX comes along on their 50th+ launch it suddenly is a problem.

To me that looks like a trumped up reason, if there was any real concern then it would have been noted at launch #1.
I also had to help my ex-girlfriend (preschool director) make google drive scripts to generate tables. I found small businesses have great need for this type of things. I explored this as a startup idea.
This makes me think of Docker containers but for desktop rather than server use. Let the language/stack be Elixir/Phoenix if that's what the devs want to use; as long as I can pull down an app container that runs on my machine then the need to rely on a least-common-denominator language goes away and we're all better off.
Musk wanted to regulate AI to combat existential threat; in reality, it's not super intelligent self-aware AI, but buggy/shitty AI that's trying to kill people.
> There's a real anti-engineering bias in this industry.

What we do is hardly real engineering in most cases. I don't mean medical or transportation systems. In BigCorp, most of us write line of business applications, which will generally speaking not directly kill anyone - unlike designing/engineering bridges, roof systems, etc.
I think (at least in the US), the relationship the automakers have with regulators is such that if the automakers think they can make money by selling a feature, they will be able to get the regulators to come up with a way to allow it.

Not necessarily one as simple as OTA updates whenever the manufacturer feels like it.

As far as regulations preventing use of the tech, if level 2/3 systems end up causing more crashes than human drivers, we shouldn't allow use of them.
> It’s explained in several TNG episodes

And TOS, for that matter.
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> You mean seizure of land? [...] Plenty of now 3rd world countries destroyed themselves doing that.

Didn't the South African government recently decided to do that? Taking white-owned farmland without compensation? We'll see how it goes.
Generally I'd stick to C++14 features but test and consider C++17 library features as those are usually much more stable. Around the C++20 timeframe C++17 should be fully stable.
I have a pretty simple lane keeping aid in my car that keeps me within the lines. Yesterday it suddenly steered towards a wall. I think it may have been confused by either glare (low sun right in front of me) or a shadow line on the road.
Probably shouldn't be asking this, but why isn't this just a post promoting resources for middle school kids to learn programming?
Why does everything have to be polarized by sexism?
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That's a list of nations capable of launching stuff on their own. Compare with this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite#First_satellites_of_...

Non-space-capable countries do routinely put their payload on the rockets of countries with launch capability (though I guess then it can't be an obvious spy satellite).
One way is to extract the drive path for some given sensor input. Then you can classify the drive path as safe, marginal, collision, severe collision, etc.

Changes from safe to safe aren't interesting. Changes in the wrong direction are obvious issues.
I have always wondered why each company is developing their own software and algorithms... How will NTSB certify the software? Or will they? I mean, they certify car safety features now through crash tests, roll over tests, etc... Why is Tesla, or anyone manufacturer, allowed to modify vehicle safety features through OTA updates without recertification?

I realize it adds more regulation...and I'm sure there can be a middle ground. But I foresee a scenario where an OTA update is pushed and the next morning there are car crashes everywhere.
One of the great things about self driving cars is that we are going to start "debugging Roads".

From my point of view all accidents until this time could be attributed to the civil engineer that build the road as much as the driver of the car.

You make a pedestrian pass between roads made only for aesthetic purposes so you put a sign forbidding the pass and call it done. But people of course use it and get killed.

You put concrete barriers between roads but make it so people could crash frontally against it, something you won't find in any European high speed road without deflectors that will make vehicles not crash against concrete.

Self driving will give us scientific evidence of what creates accidents like black boxes did with airplanes. Thanks to that we know that what looks like insignificant details like the color and placement of buttons, turns out to be essential.
Holy hell, that's Drew Houston!
We will be killed by AI developers and the dunning kreuger effect, not armies of Skynet T-800s.
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I presented a different view, not an argument. I stated my view as fact because it is in fact how I see the world. For arguments about chattel slavey and wage Labour, the Wikipedia article does a pretty good job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

There are people in the world who are functionally chattel slaves who happen to receive a nominal wage, but this is not what the term “wage slavery” typically refers to; that term (and perhaps your argument, though I am not sure) equivocates wage labor with chattel slavery. I and others believe the difference is vast, important, and moral.
I'm curious how it could possibly go much lower than that. The credit card processors impose fees on everyone, including Stripe.
Serious question: how will it make life better for all? I haven't given that question a lot of thought, and I haven't heard legit answers from others yet.
And that's exactly what makes Tesla PR so disingenuous, they know better than anybody what updates they did and how often their updated software passed that point and yet they will happily cite numbers they know to be wrong.

So, now regarding that previous crash: did that driver (or should I say occupant) get lulled into a false sense of security because he'd been through there many times in the past and it worked until that update happened and then it suddenly didn't?
And your comment - cynically - assumes that no one knows how to cook anything. A friend of mine who works in a VA hospital sends every patient home with a cheat sheet on how to cook vegetables to make them delicious and has seen fantastic uptake, especially when the card comes with an explanation of how much better your life can be if you'd stop eating refined sugars and pre-packaged foods.
Are you ever worried about Microsoft a feature that acts similar in a future version of Excel? It's a problem that has bit others before (Firebug, Growl, tabbed-browsing extensions for IE).
A ticketing system can collect messages from a mailbox, I don't see what the problem is... support@ should be for support = simple as that. It shouldn't be a shared mailbox that the whole company can access - that is my point.

I've several contract with many different suppliers, hosted ticking systems myself and never had this issue (And yes - dealing with the dreaded GDPR myself now too).
Yes, I'm sure Facebook's goals are entirely altruistic just as they were when they performed psychological experiments on hundreds of thousands of people without consent.

Why are we still giving this company the benefit of the doubt after years of blatant abuse?

Advertising corporations shouldn't be anywhere near my medical records, period.
> I think autopilot is currently a death trap.

I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. As long as the driver keeps paying attention and uses it as a driving aid, not a driver replacement, everything is fine. It's the moment that people start relying on it doing something that it wasn't built for, that the problems arise.
Ignoring the Finite, but years ago, I was introduced to a company that basically did not use a whole routed and public /8 except for... honeypot research.

Was a blast to see some of it and the warstories about how they where able to do some early warnings of nasties that where about to wreak havoc.

Gave them a good insentive to actually design a pretty good toolingset, that never made it past "On Demand Innovation Services" which helped me to clean out a network with a zoo of malware strains. Still would implement it in the different networks I frequent, if it was available.
How about for new startups (with low or no volume)?
The regulators have been really easygoing so far with automated cars. I strongly suspect its because they take the optimistic comments of the tech industry at face value that these technologies are road ready. Meanwhile, I think Tesla and Uber perceive this as more of an open alpha. This will not end well.
And endanger others who have decided to opt-out of the beta test. Keep in mind that in any accident all bets are off with respect to the traffic around you, even if you ram into a stationary barrier you could easily rebound into other traffic.
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No, Raft doesn't deal with the faults, it deals with consensus and can help tolerate certain faults. You then deal with the faults by other means. And even on a fast and reliable local network where Raft can work well, once you have a significant amount of data replacing failing nodes, healing broken records, resyncing, rebalancing all without affecting operations is not trivial and unlikely to be done properly.
There's been a few startups that forked off from my employer, but none of them started off as "here's a bag of money, go and make something" - they always started from one of our customers having a need, and being willing to invest and be a pilot / first user.

Ten years later, that first startup scored a 100M funding round.
What make & model?
Back in 1990 the novel "Earth" by David Brin predicted this.
AV driving seems to be ripe for disruption
That's not a description of an idea, just like a paper doesn't only consist of the title. This kind of argument is insincere and not helpful at all.
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Okay, say it's half that. It's still crony "capitalism", just the same as when regular car manufacturers or coal mines receive subsidies.

How about not expecting taxpayers to subsidise any industry?

Quibbling about the exact dollar figure doesn't change the moral issue.
> One of the great things about self driving cars is that we are going to start "debugging Roads".

We've been debugging roads since Roman times. This is mostly about debugging software, and even more about crappy software development processes. After all, if your update is not monotonically improving things you have a real problem if your product is mission critical and lives are at stake.
Consumer incentives are paid by the merchant, who will adjust prices to compensate.
> Tag search is a search. Can be broken. Can be optimized in a way that causes it to lie. I look at the results, and I'm not sure if they're complete. Maybe the file I'm looking for is really not there, or maybe the search gave up too early. Or the tag was slightly misformatted?

Google Docs, while not exactly a tag system, wants you to search instead of use a hierarchy, and so is my go-to example: A good 90+% of the time, I can't find something I know is there and have to ask a co-worker for a link.

The missing consideration when it comes to tags is simple discoverability. You have to already know enough about what you're looking for in order to find it. A hierarchical system lets you do systematic browsing.
Fewer dead people sounds good.
I'm a software developer too. I've held senior engineering roles at Microsoft, Apple, and Intel (in that order). I grew up loving Windows but soon after getting really deep into development that love vanished.

Anything I do today (everything from Intel microcode, x86 assembly to C/C++) happens on macOS simply because I can do every single thing I need to in one place. Most devs I bump into that really hate macOS have no idea it is really just (open source) BSD with Apple's oddly unique visual facade. There is literally nothing I can't do on my Mac even during the times I run Visual Studio, VTune, etc. I also find it amusing when devs tell me that macOS isn't as customizable as Windows. Sure... sure... ;-)
I read most of the relevant sections of the document, and there are good reasons for regulating remote sensing systems. I'm fairly familiar with remote sensing systems (SAR, scatterometry, etc) and I'm most interested in reasons why it makes sense to classify the cameras SpaceX stuck to the side of the rocket as remote sensing systems. While technically accurate according the definition provided in the law, it seems pretty dumb. The law even specifically states that handheld cameras don't count, so the distinction apparently comes down to whether there is a person up there to hold a camera that is easily "hand held" size.
Efinancialcareers is a good site to peruse job ads and see what people are looking for. The banks themselves all have job postings on their sites. Once you have the main qualifications you can apply directly or contact a financial recruiter.
I'd accept that answer if you added, "AND is just a giant MMORPG where the object is to grind long enough to get a house in the Hamptons". Both can be true. I think the original poster's criticism is valid.

In particular, since one of the objects is to grind long enough that the rules of the game don't apply to you, see 'Goldman Sachs', I think the original poster's criticism is valid.

There is no referee. The only goal is to give game winners more money, and if they screw up, give them their money back and then give them more money. It justifies things like investments in index funds (or identifying those who are already competing outside the rules and rewarding them by investing more money in them since they cannot fail), but it's gone well beyond the rational functioning of a system, much less a self-regulating system with useful purposes.

It's Calvinball. Go ahead and enjoy it, but it's not right.
This. Absolutely agree with both points. Going it alone is hard, and developers have issues with self promotion. Sales seems like dirty word to us. The thing is, when I'm the customer, I don't mind being sold to. As long as it's not a flat out lie, I actually find I appreciate the stuff I buy more if the sales person made me feel good about it.
> large scale

1080p wide-angle is not quite large scale in terms of space imagery
I like your humour, I like the joke about the mansion, I like how you casually assume that choosing the project over Anna was obvious as you move on. Nice article!

You should do an interview with IndieHackers!
If done well (long way to go still) there will be less traffic accidents, less traffic jams, etc.
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You can pry the steering wheel out of my cold dead hands. Might be true that on paper these things cause less accidents and less deaths, but I want to be in control of my life. If I die in a car I don't want it to be because of a software bug.
Why? It has been accepted that oral supplementation is as good as injectable for a while now.
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Suprising observation about the debugging of roads. Who knows we might even learn that certain States / Countries do better in this respect and the desing aswell as the signaling might benevit from this.

Thank you.
Moreover: it's easy to trust each other if all you're doing is scientific research, games and pranks. But one day we woke up and found half of the world relying on computing in everything, from business to healthcare to national security. With regular people and regular day-to-day stuff comes regular crime.
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Oh yes you're right. The feeling of texture and natural imperfection is a big part of my feelings.

I love to spot the shortly being animated parts of an animation movie. Those parts always show a slightly different coloring so that you know that something is happening soon.

I bet this is coming from the classic layering shown with Mickey at the beginning in the video.
This works only in the states. In other countries, the fraud protection is reduced (ICBC AmEx in China) or there are fees involved (Europe).