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I find sarcastic positivity often is good eg. "that's a really great idea - you should be president." Let's you take the piss and often they think you're being serious.
We found them in Google. They were from the same country as us. They were really bad. One of the versions of their _navigation_ app would not navigate - the GPS simply wouldn't track the user in the app's map. It was a really frustrating experience.
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I still cannot comprehend the current push for automated driving.

We, collectively, not just the US, have a problem with too many cars and instead of reducing said number of cars we want to make them self crashing?

Instead of investing heavily on public transit systems we keep feeding this fable that somehow, in the near future, cars driven by computers will do at least as good a job of driving as sentient, sober people.

I can't get my smartphone to understand my language and do simple things by voice commands and yet we seem to think that there's (nearly) available technology to make a car drive by itself...

These companies must not exist in the real world, that's the only possible explanation.
I think my life as a programmer would be on the whole much easier if people didn't feel the urge to complexify simple things like a struct with an optional field.
This is true of every freemium project, from Gitlab to all the commercial Linux distros that sell support+prop extensions on the side. Given that GraalVM is a virtual machine there's strong incentive to push it far and wide. History suggests that VMs that are free and widely available survive and thrive (eg Java and .NET) while VMs that are expensive and/or difficult to redistribute die (eg Smalltalk). Oracle's incentives here, seeing as they want languages and library developers and ultimately application developers to actually deploy on GraalVM, is to go "far and wide" and not deep and narrow when it comes to their customers.

> its remaining technical limitations will eventually be adressed

It's not clear there are any technical limitations that separate CE and EE. Supposedly EE is faster but I don't think anybody has proven this with real benchmarks. All of this is clearly documented in https://www.graalvm.org/docs/faq/.
Sure, put up a sign "do not park if moon full, no red cars at any time", on your own property. This only differs from the regulated road parking by attributes that are not visible on the ground (ownership).

But worse: RFID makes for duplicate signage. What if the visible and data signage differ?
Nietzsche is one of the great poeple of history. Such people often live short or troubled lives. Ie, Alexander, Joan of Arc, Mdm Curie or Van Gogh.

Often, the tragedy and the greatness are deeply connected.

This is, I think, the motivation behind formulating the idea of the Will to Power.

The question, if you can chose: What is better, to be a great person, one that makes a lasting (hopefully positive) mark on the world, or to be a happy nobody, instantly forgotten when you die?

Everyone is entitled to their own answer to that question.
If you knew history, you'd know this has been tried before. The shuttle boosters did this; they barely saved any money after refurbishing.

SpaceX tried it too, but had significant problems even re-entering without the rocket ripping apart, not even getting to the problems of recovering and refurbishing salt-water damaged hardware.

This kind of attitude might have made more sense before SpaceX had demonstrated it was possible. After showing how the technology can be further refined for full and rapid reuse, and landing on Mars, it just reads as ignorant or intentionally misleading.
Oscar Wilde "The only thing to with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of use to oneself".
There are many problems with organ donation. From moral problems with collecting organs (esp. in specific political environments, but even in the west, questions arise where doctors are paid for organs. Even when unpaid, delivering organs is very good for doctor's careers, which raises questions about decision making).

And on the receiving end there's also serious moral and practical questions. Should this organ go to A or B ? Both will die if they don't get it. It must suck badly to answer that question even if we have clearly advanced over the years. There's other issues, like what is the reward for the organ donor ? Can we allow (some) rewards ?

There's also big differences in the different possible procedures. Liver transplant and bone marrow transplant ... are merely painful for the donor. They don't result in the loss of an organ. Should we allow for compatible donor search and allow communication in these cases ? (granted, while a liver transplant is essentially a big needle in your abdomen for ~40 seconds with no ill effects, bone marrow transplant is ... very painful, even afterwards, so there's only so much sedation helps). I'd say yes. Others are resulting in the loss of a mostly redundant organ, like kidney or lung transplants, and then there's the transplants of organs that will result in the death of the donor, like heart or pancreas transplants.

It will be a very good day where we can just grow organs from a patients own cells, because they will solve essentially all the above problems, as well as eliminate most, almost all, quality problems with organs.
I'm really interested to see how they accomplished this. Considering PIA puts up new nodes pretty quickly, and doesn't have one congruent address space, how does Netflix detect PIA or other vpn users?
> as if a painter or a musician is going to see something different from a regular astronaut

The point isn't that they'll see something else, but that they may tell about it better.
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Same reason he said he won't be the first person on Mars? He understands the risks and isn't willing to jeopardize his vision (nor his life).
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Then you compensate that person for not being able to provide the service. Just as you'd expect in any other case when a service is not delivered. And if we're being honest, that's not actually the reason most of us get throttled. Most of the time it's not even network management, it's just a money grab.

I don't intend to go into the technicalities because they're irrelevant. The point is they should offer a quality level at least "statistically".
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Internet companies need to refuse to serve ISPs who throttle.

“Oh we can’t get YouTube google and Netflix on this ISP? We’ll leave for one who does provide them.”

Restricting services can cut both ways.
GraalVM is very impressive. But clojure is very much associated with Java/JVM Ecosystem which makes it very hard to convince people to use it. My ruby friends would say oh i cant install clojure because i have to install JVM. Clojurescript like lumo or planck is still better, but it isnt a real backend solution. Clojurescript is great for the frontend though. I think clojure needs a native solution written in Clojure + LLVM that leverages existing C-libs. A seperate JIT/compiler that is not JVM, that is not a language with Borrowed GC + VM.
> On the other hand, there are many projects where an average team of engineers will fail, regardless of how good their manager is

I'd love to see some examples of this because IME it's not true. Great managers/leaders take normal teams and make them successful. Rarely can a single great team member or a great team succeed over a poor manager (unless they essentially start managing themselves).

It reminds of the old adage about great football coaches. The great coach will take his team and beat yours, and then take your team and beat his. Leadership and management is all too often underestimated by engineers and that is to their detriment.
> I still cannot comprehend the current push for automated driving.

Google and Uber believe they can make an insane amount of money with the transition to automated driving. This is being sold to the public as the solution to a public safety crisis with the narrative that human controlled cars are death machines which need to be taken off the roads as soon as possible.
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The logic behind Itanium was mostly to have a 64-bit architecture that was specific to Intel without any cross-licensing to other vendors like AMD. And which would also replace proprietary RISC flavors like PA-RISC.

It did also have a fair bit of security acceleration built-in. As I recall, one of the principals behind Secure64 was one of the HP leads associated with the original IA64 announcement. Secure64 pushed Itanium for security applications when it was becoming clear that it was never going to be a mainstream 64-bit architecture.
Slight correction: when you have billions, but found your projects in big part by government subsidies.

If you pay taxes in USA, you partially own tiny bit of every single conpany other than x/paypal that Musk ever -funded-
> Management does not have to be an “active” job.
> Great managers find out what obstacles are standing in the way of their team members, then figure out how to remove those obstacles.

Finding out obstacles and removing them is an active job.

But also, the saying about merely "removing obstacles" is not really correct. I am not even sure it is so in the happy flow where every employee is super great and full of initiative and is at exactly the right position. Managers are expected to coordinate, set priorities, negotiate about deadlines and scope of project, plan and re-plan, explain why we are going to be late, handle communication outside of team, clean up tracker, make sure testers are available, collect reports about who worked on what.

If all manager is focusing on is "finding out obstacles and removing them", you all have high chance of ending up in long term crunch and chaos.
> Water in RAS tanks flows through a bubbling container called a bio-filter, in which bacteria consume fish urine and convert it into a form of nitrogen that is safe for the fish and environment

I wonder if a system like this might be instead kept clean (in part or full) with the help of an Aquaponics[0] system. In that design, you filter the water by growing food hydroponically. The fish waste acts as a nutrient for the plants, which clean the water for the fish. Food out of both ends of the equation.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
I completely agree. This is a bad design and not something that I would allow on my team. That logic does not belong in the Customer object.
It’s a good question “what do I like about him”. I like the magical realism and I like the bizarre and I like the Japanese themes. But I don’t necessarily need all three at once.

I really appreciate all the great suggestions in everyone’s responses. Many of the authors I’ve never heard of.
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Why would it? Yusaku Maezawa is paying a “non-trivial” amount of the development costs, and it’s the same rocket.
Just to point few of them:
1. Quick deploy of the site (I mean you don't need to deal with servers, installations, and stuff)
2. They can start collecting leads easily
reddit.com's time spent on each request and uptime are shameful, and they are not getting any better after the redesign.
He doesn't want to die.
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Here's a better idea: no benefits allowed. Cash only. Then employment would have lower barriers to entry. Two employees working 20 hours each should cost exactly the same as one working 40.

Health Care should be handled by a single payer.
Such a pointless story. Saying that startups can only succeed in SV, London or Berlin is myopic.
There are plenty of startup successes (around the US and around Europe) proving this wrong.

Every location has its advantages and its disadvantages - you play the best cards you get, and the only sure way not to win is to not play at all.
I stopped wearing a watch several years ago, and I never really adopted carrying a cell phone with me everywhere, so I started relying on clocks being where ever I would end up needing them. When there wasn't a clock hanging, I would typically find a person to ask, or a computer screen to glance at.

It's amazing how many places would benefit from hanging a simple clock. Airports, for example...
I'm not trying to justify what they're currently doing either. What I'm trying to explain is that making something that legally works the way we all want it to is a different and much tougher problem than merely being able to imagine a world in which the current practices don't exist.
This is also true. Nor is there any plan for international air travel, the Irish border, Gibraltar, nuclear material including radioisotopes, road freight, food export, farm subsidy replacement, or the 3m European residents of the UK or UK residents of the EU. There will be only one time in the UK: "too late".
That's pretty much what happened in France a few years back. SFR (I think it was SFR, could have been one of the others, sorry) wanted more money from Google, to which Google said nope. I don't even know how that one resolved, but for quite a while many folk in the office had no YouTube at home.
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Why would you think it'd be a once in a lifetime opportunity? The whole point of this is stepping into a new domain of technology and humanity where what this man is doing will one day become as accessible as flying around the world is today.

And more importantly, the risk:reward of failure involving Elon is bad. Right now he's managed to spark a number of competitors such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, but these companies have yet to achieve much of anything and it's not out of the question to consider that if Elon died tomorrow, we might enter into another 50 years of space stagnation. Contrast that against the pleasure gained from a space voyage and it's just a bad risk:reward ratio, even when the risk is mostly negligible.
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The redesign is such a horrible user experience, the day old.reddit.com gets shut down (assuming there is no Desktop program that comes close in quality to the mobile app Apollo) is the day I'm going to stop visiting.
The outcome would be entirely random - dependent on the inclination of the judges.

A sensible business would settle out of court with a very low offer. A sensible contractor would accept the offer.

But generally this is another example of corporate privilege.

In reality, late payments kill many small businesses. In a political system that was genuinely friendly to the small guy, fines for late payment would be mandatory.
So what's your point? Are you saying human drivers can safely navigate those same hills or something?
> Google helped sink Sun with their Java fork

How did that have any effect on Sun? Their mobile strategy was dead with the death of Symbian
Huh? I have never ever felt unsafe in those. What areas are unsafe in Berlin?
It's a thought experiment; do not expect a literal trolley (or even literal corpses!) any more than Schrödinger's cat deals with actual felines.

Here's a restatement without all those corpses:
In the event that an accident appears unavoidable, the computer should do everything within it's power to stop the car immediately. (This is already a given: safety first.)

"If there are multiple ways of doing the above, what variables should the computer optimize for - stopping distance alone, or stopping so that it doesn't immediately get rammed from behind?" There's your trolley problem again, just restated so it doesn't appear so offensive: in both cases, the occupants of the vehicle are in danger, as are the occupants of nearby vehicles. Now is the interest in the rabbit-hole clearer? The problem doesn't go away just because it's inconvenient to solve...
We have solar day right now. Solar day being 20-04 would be kinda shitty. Is it monday or tuesday? Or do we switch from monday to tuesday at different hour in each location?

On top of that, vast majority of population does not care about that at all. Why inconvenience majority for benefit few people will have?
Oh look! Elon Musk farted. And it is on top on HN.
Why, when Elon is mentioned in a bad light is his birthplace always mentioned by the British media. As if the reader is too stupid to grasp that an individual can become disagreeable all by themselves.
Why bring South Africa into this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45551895
and not this one about space and the future. It hurts tourism which is very important for GDP there.
In the future, we'll have "Elon Musk's Guide to Better Living", and then there'll be the same debate.
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Don't forget Canary Islands, which are spanish territory but use Portugal/UK timezone.
"unoptimized C" can easily take 10x as much effort to write as heavily optimized python/Java/..., and has a much higher defect rate. Make it work, then make it right, then make it fast; people working in C rarely get past step 1.
You asking man that job and paycheck depends on spending large amount of public money not to defend spending it on its projects?

Rockets dont feed people, a billion pounds or rice do! Otoh, great letter indeed!
Slight correction: This is Maezawa's money that is been discussed here.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-155 from 1988 also ran on LNG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
I wonder how long will it take them to realize that it won't happen before someone cracks the artificial general intelligence problem...

I don't know what ticks me off the most, people believing that these companies can easily solve the automated driving problem or these companies stubbornly pushing for it.
Like everything to start with? Consider that whatever device you're writing your posts through is millions of times more powerful than devices that, in the living memory of some today, was something so exclusive that literally the only people capable of owning one were national governments. Then it became national governments and massive companies. Then it became national governments and massive companies and very wealthy individuals. Then it became .... anybody who can work for a few days at minimum wage.
This is just like the Brexit vote. The populous doesn't know what they are voting for. When they realise all that daylight at 4:30 AM is wasted while they are sleeping it will be too late. As others have mentioned a lot of the DST opponents are confused and actually hate the switch from DST to standard time. I love DST I look forward too it every year.
> All in all, I would rather the waymo style of overcaution and immobility

From what I've read here and in the linked article, a Waymo car would be unable to pass a driving test here in Germany. Consequentially, they shouldn't/couldn't be allowed unsupervised on German roads, just like a learner driver. (In Germany driving schools are mandatory for a license and their cars are fitted with dual controls for the instructor).
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the major downside of globalization is you're no longer just dealing with demand from the local region
As a spaniard I'd love to see the DST nonsense end. It gets dark too late in summer: Western provinces can be watchching a sunset at 23:00.
I suspect a search would discover other supporting data.
Unfortunately, you might end up changing that if it increases your conversions...
moved to Berlin 2 years ago. Very safe city indeed.
I think it's helpful if EMs to continue coding, even if it isn't at work. I've been an EM for 4 years now and keep working on side projects every now and then.

1. As an EM you do sometimes have to resolve conflicts about code between senior members of the team(if it involves the team's tech lead) and it helps to not to have strayed too far.

2. It's much easier to drive new engineering initiatives if you are fluent at code and can quickly read and understand code documentation about a new library/way of doing things.

3. Sometimes while chasing deadlines, it helps if an EM can just sit with an individual contributor and do pair programming. Reminding developers about deadline won't motivate them as much as an EM sitting beside them and helping them out with coding.

4. EM jobs can be a bit hard to find, so being fluent at coding helps you to secure a job much easily since individual contributor jobs are far more prevalent than EM jobs.

I usually try to pick up a side learning project every couple of months to just have some fun and learn something new. After moving to an EM role, I missed coding a lot and had thoughts about moving back to being an IC since EM at my company was a lateral move. Though I chose to stick on since the amount of stuff that I could pick up at a given point of time was no longer limited by my own personal bandwidth.

I completely agree with your point about team members not having to dumb down complex concepts. Sometimes team members can come up with really novel solutions to problems which cost more time to implement on the short term but pays off in the longer term. Unless one is comfortable with the technical chops of a project, it's easy to dismiss ideas which aren't conventional.
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He can obviously afford it

Can he? He definitely has the potential to be massively wealthy. If Tesla/SpaceX/BoringCo/etc exit at some point he'll walk away with '*&^@ you money', but until then he doesn't seem to have that much. According to Bloomberg he's in debt with personal loans to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars[1].

To be honest though, I don't really understand how normal money-you-buy-stuff-with works for people who are billionaires when most of their wealth is in stock and options.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/musk-pick...
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Graal is able to produce native, statically linked executables that do not require a JVM installed to run. See the native-image component of Graal.
To be fair, what's going to happen to the drone shipping industry is probably the same thing that happened to the naval shipping industry: we will converge somewhere at local minima between super-fast and super-cheap shipping times.

So I could see how fitting the batteries everywhere in the drone might just work. But at the same time I don't see why no one is yet shaping the batteries for the frame itself.