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One possibility: that mindset of mediocrity doesn't produce excellence.

Apple, for example, is famous for caring about things that rationally they shouldn't care, like the insides of their computers.

And since history is written by victors and we apply post factum rationalization, no one says that Apple is wrong to care about details that are arguably irrelevant to the success.

The same will happen with Tesla.

If Tesla is successful then Musk will be a genius with uncompromising standard for quality.

If Tesla will fail then Musk will be an idiot whose hubris, micro-management and inability to prioritize doomed the company.

And reality is that neither you or me have enough information to judge this decision one way or another. You weren't there and the it was probably more complicated that what you assume based on zero data.

According to reports Tesla started doing seats in-house when a contractor that was supposedly an experienced seat maker failed to produce Model X seats which contributed to 18 month delay in delivering the car.
More than any specific modality, what I got from the book was confirmation that the way to heal developmental trauma is to create a safe space and then to engage with it. As opposed to seek to hide it or cover it up pharmaceutically as recommended by Big Pharma.

Practices I have found to be useful in dealing with childhood physical abuse and chronic emotional abuse:

- sauna/cold plunge (incredibly useful way to trigger fight or flight and learn to deal with conditioned fear response)

- pushups, pullups, yoga

- breath awareness and compassion meditations

- metric shit-tons of journaling

- reading stories of trauma survivors

- psychoanalysis, up to a point

- talking to friends (the right ones)
>the worst thing is I can use Linux only as pure text/terminal UI

Genuinely curious, but why on earth would you install Arch of all things, then? Surely you would have preferred any of the myriad distros that come with a desktop environment preinstalled?

Even on Arch, GNOME is just a pacman command away. You don't have to run i3 with anime wallpaper.
> "dogma"

You have a dogma yourself. that's ok, just be aware that you have one, and are espousing one.

> "Then get them to acknowledge that the free-market argument is a model that needs to be backed by empirical evidence to be accepted as actually describing reality instead of being just an untested hypothesis."

The free market is one of the most tested ideas out there.

> "They use things like unions and government to have power in solidarity, and without that, they can never have comparable power in negotiations."

law is really important for most forms of economic systems to work. I think the fact that social media and perception drivings things so much could have a positive outcome in this area. Companies should see the welfare of their employees as an important role in making the world 'better'.

I see a lot of tech companies saying they want to make the world a better place, yet for instance, they have abysmal 401k matching plans. melinials are not saving enough for retirement, and that bad behavior in tech is not helping the future crisis. I wish a tech company would decide to be a true leader on this
Unless you're the NRO/DoD and want to launch some really, really high power synthetic aperture radar satellites into low altitude polar orbits, with massive photovoltaic arrays to power the radar (or nuclear reactors, as the Soviets did)
He makes some good points. But some are just silly:

> Noting that, "Tor works only if people are dedicated to maintaining a strict anonymous Internet routine," one consisting of dummy e-mail accounts and all transactions carried out in Bitcoin, Levine suggests that what Tor offers is "a false sense of privacy" (213).

That's like saying that you'll be killed if you run across a freeway. I do agree that Tor Project ought to teach better OPSEC, however.

And this is just plain wrong:

> Yet, as the case of Ross Ulbricht (the "Dread Pirate Roberts" of Silk Road notoriety) demonstrated, Tor may not be as impervious as it seems – researchers at Carnegie Mellon University "had figured out a cheap and easy way to crack Tor’s super-secure network" (263).

Ross outed himself. In a post on bitcointalk.org, he announced SR in a thread about "heroin stores", using an account created using his real name.[0] In a later post, using the same account, he advertised for a coder, and included his real-name Gmail address.[1] And he got a visit from the FBI, after ordering a bunch of fake ID from SR.[2] So he was a person of interest in their SF office. Also, the SR server was misconfigured, such that Apache error messages bypassed Tor.[3] And oh yeah, also the infamous Stack Overflow post, looking for PHP help.[4]

And all that went down before the CMU attack. There were many prosecutions after CMP "researchers" turned over data to the FBI. But SR wasn't one of them.

Overall, it's just polemical and agenda-driven.

0) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175.msg42670#msg4267...

1) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg5...

2) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-too...

3) https://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-le...

4) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-conne...
I am not saying people shouldn't be outraged, but please read the actual claims rather than just reading the patent titles. Titles are just a general description of the invention. Inventor don't patent titles, they patent a claim that is described in a long technical patent application. DeepMind is not patenting the general idea of a "recurrent neural network", they just have a claim that can be described as recurrent neural network. In the actual patent documents, they need an actual in depth technical description of a new process or invention that is not covered by any existing publication.
It's really easy to say experts are wrong. It's a lot harder to prove it. So prove it. If you're coming in here to run down the current experts, I expect you to have a better solution. If not, I expect you to delete this comment as it adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.
Japanese cities are actually not especially high density. For example, Tokyo's density is lower than Queens.
Microsoft does plenty for the consumer or the non-enterprise ddeveloper. Visual studio for free, VS Code, Typescript, Surface Pro, Surface Book, Windows subsystem for Linux, etc.
And the fact that you don't see your neighbours and that the schools suddenly have a reduction in intake?
There are obvious examples of deception being thoroughly ethical.
There is probably a cost consideration here. Every additional layer of supplier means more and more margin goes to them.

I’d also imagine that if Tesla used the seat suppliers that the rest of the industry does, they’d get lower priority in terms of access to seat designers, engineers etc. A company doing 200k vehicles a year in sales, split across 3 models, doesn’t really have much buying/bargaining power.

When Musk visited Khan Academy for an interview some years ago, he mentioned that their USB cord supplier had shipped over defective cables, so they went to Fry’s to buy cables as a stopgap. I’d assume that kind of supply chain disruption is what they’re trying to avoid, for the more essential parts.
So only open source software can be cool? I don't really get that perspective.
As a reminder, Microsoft made a few billion dollars from Android for patents.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft...
Hard CS is rarely needed in my projects but there are times that it's unfeasible to make things work without it.

My last project involved making calculations, clustering and specific spatial queries over a set of 4D points ( GPS + time ) there is no way to make competitive complex applications if no one in your team understands O-notation, Dynamic Programming, Euristics, Graphs Theory, etcetera.
Note that the USAF launches Delta IV Heavy payloads from Vandy on a regular basis. Vandy is also occasionally used to launch retrograde.
> But little I knew, that this is actually specific to windows, and on Linux or macOS, the order is reversed...

Did anybody else pick this up? The person has only ever seen Windows. That’s extremely limiting.

A later comment talks about how Microsoft designed things... one of the big differences between Mac and (DOS and early Windows) was that Mac developers tended to use the Apple tool kit and design guidelines, but the other platform devs tended to inventvtheir own and go their own way — being deliberately different.

I taught computing in the early 1990s around the transition from DOS to Windows 3.1 and on a Mac if you learned to print in one app you had it right for all others. With DOS each app was a completely different set of key presses (looking at WordPerfect and Lotus 123). Windows standardised this but it took a while for devs to catch on that consistency with other apps is good practice
With Tesla being focused on doing things in-house, shouldn't those be employees?
I never watched sesame street even thought it aired here. I watched Löwenzahn and a bit "Die Sendung mit der Maus" when I was young and I couldn't imagine who I would be today if I didn't watched this when I was young.

It's a bit sad (at least for me) to admit, but I think some programs helped shaped me into the person I'm today, for better or worse.

Today the TV hopefully hasn't got the impact on me that it used to have and I only watch selected programs and not the mainstream TV (I mean the broadcasted channels), but I guess series and movies are still a big part of my life that have a bigger impact on me than I would like to admit.

Anyway what I really wanted yo say is that I'm happy for content that tries to deliver good values and information without trying to manipulate.
In addition to paying rent on the land, SpaceX pays KSC/CCAFS/the Air Force for launch services support.
> So the answer from this veteran UX designer would be: Use whichever placement your users are going to be the most familiar with, but whichever you choose, be 100% consistent with the choice you make.

Not only that, but make the "OK" choice standout with a different color. If the "default" option is brighter than the rest, your eyes will most likely gravitate towards it first, regardless of the order of the buttons.
I haven't looked at them, but anything slightly modern should do. My laptop (5 years old), the desktops in school (2-3 years old), my girlfriend's laptop (3-4 years old), my cousin's laptop (another girl with a not-so-beefy laptop), and my brother's laptop all run it fine... Most of those don't even have dedicated GPU.

Sure, once you go megabase scale, after a few hundred hours of playing, most hardware will lag a little. But at that point there are millions of objects the game has to track every loop, there isn't terribly much that can be done about it. The game doesn't aggregate like OpenTTD, where the number of passengers at a train stop is just a number. Because of the way it works, every piece of iron ore in a train station in Factorio is a separate object existing somewhere. (Though they do some tricks to abstract that a bit as well, see their belt compression blog posts.)
> I feel like the drivers are not paid adequately though, esp. given the hidden expenses. I talk with them regularly and think many don't realize those costs.

I think that these kind of thoughts are simply not economics. If driving is bad money after all of that, eventually people will realize and it will all come crumbling down. But it cant be true if drivers keep working for years like this.

It is also a stance that you can take only because you think there is something the government should do about it. There a a lot of carrers that are not financially sensical by some interpretation. Should artsists be banned or licensed to limit the number? Should Actors? Should QA analysts? etc etc.

My point is that even if it is a bad deal for drivers, its their choice to make, and its not going to lead to a better outcome to make the choice for them.
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Probably both. A balanced view is not acceptable.
The places I've seen this at were either agencies (so short/medium term projects) or startups where employees churn so much that a year later almost everyone is new again.

Like I said, might not be representative but has been my observations.
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The Baffler is a great name for a website that hosts thinkpieces written by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
If you're struggling with that kind of support, I recommend that you start playing a game. It's called "learn something new every contact".

The rules are simple. Whenever you talk to a client you haven't spoken to before, your goal is to learn something new. It might be something new about your product/problem, but it could be completely unrelated. Hell, through the years I've learned how to make an insanely good brine for turkeys, piss off Mormons in Utah and make a killer whiskey sour.

I recommend this because at this point, that level of support you're providing is business development, so the impression you leave is very important. Clients tend to feel very awkward when they have simple problems with someone they deem an expert. And, if you can provide that level of support while seeming genuinely interested in your clients, you'll win more than you lose. Try it!! Worst case scenario, you might learn to make a turkey so good you'll get emotional thinking about it...:)
No, your standard of living absolutely won’t increase. I would actually say almost everyone living in that kind of city is (perhaps unknowingly?) choosing to sacrifice in that column. Depending on what you value, however, your quality of life may increase dramatically. And any efforts in frugality will likely yield a greater absolute return than they would in a less costly locale.
Okay/Confirm/Continue on the right is easier to hit with the mouse for me since it is in the corner of the window.
Oh, it’s even more compelling than that: Cambridge Analytica didn’t rely on Facebook data, but Axciom, Experian and Infogroup to target US voters.
i do not understand what incentive there is for anyone to use this - after apple's deprecation of a standard they themselves conceived only 9 years ago [1]. Berkley sockets might not be the conceptually best approach, but their support is damn near universal.

[1] - https://www.khronos.org/opencl/
I appreciate your honest feedback here! I’m currently the hiring manager for this position, and I agree that this doesn’t sound like a good experience. I disagree that a take-home assignment is inherently a bad idea - I actually have found a lot of value in seeing the work people produce there and feel it’s the part of the interview that’s closest to what the team actually does day-to-day - but I also don’t want candidates to feel like their efforts are being graded in a way that’s unfair or lacks transparency. Because of that, in the time since you interviewed, we’ve updated the rubric to be less subjective and better set up to reward the diverse ways someone could show data science skill, updated the text of the assignment to more clearly indicate what we’ll be evaluating, and made it standard practice to share with candidates right away where they did well and where they lost points. If I'm reading your concerns correctly, I think those changes are likely to address many of them.
Would anyone be interested in creating a Space Coast Hacker House?

The idea is to assemble a small group of talented folks. Even digital nomads who want to do a short stint would be welcome. And then solicit contracts, or start New Space ventures.

Main benefit is of course proximity to rocket launches ;) For which we could host viewing parties, outdoor BBQs, photo shoots, etc.

Region is known for relatively cheap rents (compared to South Florida). Great weather. Year round golf, tennis, scuba. Not sure about high speed internet availability. And it may be a cultural backwater. But that only leaves more time for building ;)
The facilities that you create in the game can be quite large and complex. These facilities can be processing and tracking maybe tens of thousands of different individual items. There’s a lot of stimulation workload when you reach large scale.

Unlike in a lot of games where the computational complexity is all graphics-oriented and done in the GPU, these computations are largely all CPU.

Modern laptops should generally be fine though.
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Probably not. As their volume increases, even if their launches have a _really good_ success rate of 99.9% [1], catastrophic failure would still be frequent enough that you don't want to live under their flight path[2]. Even if they have a 100% success rate from here on out, there would still be issues with things like blowing out people's windows.

[1] They're at around 95% now, although gradually improving. Switching to a drastically different launch vehicle like the BFR will probably bring those numbers down, at least initially

[2] see https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882600/china-long-march..., or any of the cases where rockets killed people on the ground
If you get lucky, it has a window close button on the right top as a safe way out. If you're unlucky... better have that power cable in reach.
NVlink allows gpus to share system's memory?
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Correct :) The release of headless mode for Chrome is what inspired the whole service, which the name aims to reflect.
Just checked out your site. Two things I ran into, the first was that the site seemingly wouldn't load. So I quickly typed in https://www.checklyhq.com and it doesn't resolve. Then I went back to the original url and gave it a bit of time, took maybe eight seconds to load the content, and it's doing that every time (HN flood?). It seems like something is fully loading, blocking the page load, before it finally displays the whole page.

Anyway, I'd definitely suggest redirecting the www to the naked domain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan's_laws are incredibly useful when trying to analyze or simplify conditionals.
And if you received TV Ontario there was also Readalong, Read All About It, Write On, The Edison Twins, Eureka!, and probably others I've missed. All highly focused on educational content.

Oh and Mr. Wizard's World coming out of Calgary.

At least we still have Sesame Street.
There are quite a bit of oil/grease on the floor from the latest pictures.

The youtube video looks so much cleaner.
Forgive me for being naive, but what OS runs on this beast? What framework do people code to to make use of the environment?
I think he's not really ranting at the guy submitting the patch. He's ranting at the the c standard committee and the compiler maintainers with their optimization fetish[1]. While at the same time redrawing a line in the sand.

[1] It's an open secret that most of the optimizations introduced in the last ten years provide no real benefit while making programs harder to reason about and trust. While at the same time the gcc backend is a trashfire. Hint, Microsoft's VC compiler produces better assembly code without any of these 'optimizations'
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I just got my latest PGE bill, and I'm paying $0.29/kwH. That's the highest rate in the continental US by more than 30%, and only $0.03 cheaper than Hawaii, where the entire grid is powered by burning imported oil. What on earth is going on here?
I always preferred, "Do <the thing>" or "Don't do <the thing>". Be explicit in what the buttons mean.
I suspect from details in the article that the leak is from the external parties, probably former employees of the external parties:

- Facebook employees would not call that number “friend link”: it has another name internally; “friend link” sounds like how you’d explain it to someone who’s not familiar with graph theory;

- the WSJ is anything but exacting, but the article is oddly vague on when the program was terminated. That sounds out-of-character, unless the source left since, and couldn’t confirm if the program was maintained.
Well - you know - those are soft skills.
You left out that .NET Core is just as fast as Node.js [1] and .Net runs on linux. Its pretty cool that I can write Linux programs now even though I am terrible at c (to my neverending shame).

1 https://stackoverflow.com/a/44093694/73804
Mind explaining how exactly de Morgan’s law comes up in your day to day?
> want to develop for iOS?

Because of how restrictive apple is, if this is a requirement then none of the other reasons matter

That being said, I've been living, working and playing fine over in the android and linux ecosystems. "Specific programs" like xcode I guess, but most everything else has a generic equivalent
Interestingly, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from the 80’s do not say the order must be Cancel—OK.

They say:

”In general, dialog boxes should be laid out with the most important information and controls at the top left, working down to the less important information, ending with the default button—the button most likely to be clicked—at the lower right”

So, there’s “in general”, and “most likely to be clicked”.

The first leaves wiggle room, and the latter opens the door for changing the order. They even almost give an example: an alert “Are you sure you want to erase all changes to your document?” with buttons “Erase” and “Don’t Erase”, in that order, with “Don’t Erase” being the default button.

I don’t remember ever seeing a dialog on a Mac in those years that had OK—Cancel, though (there were a few in the 90’s from bad ports)
Partial hospitalization would be way preferable, but that generally requires more engagement on the part of the depressed than "show up and say you're gonna kill yourself."
This comic kind of captures what you two are getting at, though I think you are applying the idea a little more generally.

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Mt. Shasta and the Wallowa mountains are also great to fly over on more inland routes. SF to the East coast takes you over the high Sierra which is fun and you can get some great beta on the snow conditions in the high country.
BFR is projected to have ~5X the lift capacity of the DIVH. That's just a crazy amount of mass. I really don't see the call for single payloads of that size to the orbits that Vandy serves. I certainly could be wrong, but I just don't see enough current or future demand to warrant constructing a pad capable of supporting BFR on the west coast.
The files are inside the computer.
I just posted a thread, Ask HN. If you have any more questions.

Stock picks but options only.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17270396
What if you need the help? If you're severely depressed or hallucinating, by definition you can't care for yourself.
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I would only color destructive actions red (and "positive" actions green). People tend to interpret red buttons as if they'll delete something, but "cancel" should usually be the option that doesn't change anything.

For example, if you have a dialog that lets you delete something or cancel, the "delete" button should be the red one (although delete/undo is a much better flow than delete/cancel: https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning)
I thought it took off because they managed to get celebrities on it.
property tax is lower for older residents

That's incorrect as written. Perhaps you meant to say that "for otherwise equal properties, tax is lower for owners with longer tenure in that property." It has nothing to do with owner age.
It has become a lot less perplexing to me after I noticed how frequently this kind of discussion-avoiding proposal appears when the subject matter involves ethics of some kind.
Vandenberg is also used for westbound, retrograde launches for ballistic missile tests and anti-ballistic missile tests, to Kwajalein.