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The problem is automation is never truly automated in most jobs. There's always things that go wrong, always changes being proposed, always explaining needing to be done. Sure, you may find it easy to automate a report or data entry, but what if that data changes or the format changes? Then you have to fix the code.

The code is almost never trivial either. It often involves integrating complex systems and making sure that they work which, if done right, involves writing several unit tests.

Using God is a poor excuse to determine ethics because there's no evidence one exists. It's especially a problem when you don't share the code because then, instead of creating improvement to the job for the company as a whole, you've written a pass to be lazy. The real job comes from supporting whatever you write to the masses. If you don't have any interest in that, you're simply selfish.

The problem is people react in different ways, but it seems like the most common way is to not tell anyone which in my mind is foolish because even if you do get fired, you've improved your skills enough to find a better job anyway. Not only that, I can just as easily come up with an example of someone getting promoted for automating job tasks.
I meant literally, but by professional I meant "A-tier." I know of zero billion dollar software companies that use Haskell as their primary development language.

I know nothing about Facebook using Haskell. Last I checked they use a PHP-derived language called Hack.
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Not in all cases perhaps though to mimic real-life usage, as then this scenario may not have been uncovered until mass adoption; I could understand a 'real test driver' and a passive/non-engaged safety person in passenger seat - what can they do but wake a driver who falls asleep though, and perhaps then wake them before they accidentally engage manual mode while asleep?
Adding a new bare metal machine or a new VM to the setup in the original article is exactly the same amount of work, automated or not.
Not me personally, but the amount of complex workflow that I've seen relying on tortured Excel and VBA is mind-boggling.

In the hands of someone who knows how to use it, Excel is incredibly powerful. Though at some point it crosses the threshold of "why don't you just get a junior developer to code this?". And the answer is always "we are technologically dinosaurs, and we think that any devolopment project costs at least $200k"
For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the side menu to refresh instead of just pulling the page down. It's all small stuff, but it adds up.

But despite this, and the lower quality search results of DDG, I'm still going to push forward with degooglifying my stuff. But I'm in deep. Drive, keep, Gmail, photos, hell I'm even typing this on a pixel 2. It's gonna take a while.

It's been surprisingly difficult finding a good replacement for keep. If anyone has suggestions I'm open. I'll probably make the shift to protonmail to replace Gmail. Not sure what do to about drive at this time.

The issue is that Google's stuff has always been very reliable and performance (well performant enough). For example I'll often ping Google.com for a network test. Google.com is never down, it's always my hardware, or my ISP, never Google.

Im just rambling at this point, but I think somewhere in there is a point about reliability, ease of use, and security that makes Google's products so compelling. Hence why they'll be able to get away with privacy issues like this.
should be. In reality it is at the discretion of the judge.
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My impression has been that HN's audience generally wants government mandated solutions.
Its not easy going after the super rich. They can, and do, hire the best and brightest.
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VC will not participate in the next round, or vote favourably with founders in next board meeting, or spread false news about work ethics or some other crap, which can lead to a down round. Have seen all the three happen.
> American polling centres also often seem to have massive queues and long waiting periods to vote, I assume due to understaffing and insufficient numbers of centres.

Yep, due to a well-documented campaign by republicans to restrict access to voting that has been ongoing since the civil rights era.
This is a case of seeing what they want to see, though: they'll listen to economists who tell them what they want to hear, i.e. that more government power will be helpful, and ignore the vast number of economists that take a more durable analysis.

Also, I'm not sure if you're reading the same article as I am; this is a private company raising its own minimum wage, from its own myopic perspective.
Well hand TPU for ML is a great example (about x1000 speed improvement for tensor computation over a CPU).

BUT ....

TPU is just a specialized GPU which has been around for 20 years? So very slow evolution of a pre-existing HW component

Deep learning has been around for 5 years and we already have 2 or 3 generation of frameworks. So very rapid revolution of DSL implemented on abstracted HW

Which is the complete opposite HW-SW advocacy ?
Couldn't disagree more. Burnout sucks... and the crash was terrible, but the things I accomplished leading up to my burnouts were the best work I've done in my life. Here's what I would say: DO IT FOR YOU, not for someone else, not for a company... do it for yourself and what you want to accomplish in your life
>One final thought: the biggest point of discussion around these new devices is the lack of USB-C on modern devices. While I agree with this point, I suspect that the decision was made because consumers outside of our industry simply don't care, and the transition period sucks -- dongles galore and little to show for it.

Well it's not only that they don't care, they just don't know yet. But they will care and know after they get new gadgets then they'll start wondering why they need adaptors or different chargers for their computers.

That argument was fine with the previous models, but in 2018 all new gadgets use USB-C and that will be the norm from now on. I was thinking on getting one of their products, but this really is a turn off for me, since if I buy a computer today I expect to use it for at least 5 years (like my current 2013 MacBook Pro) and I don't see myself carrying around adapters in 2023.
Skimming through it, nothing in the article really suggests the headline. Elon rejected settlement 1, took settlement 2 and that's it?
I've learned everything I know for the last 20+ years after graduating from college at my own pace. I'm sure that's true for most developers.
You can. "Delete from library"
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I would really hope that everyone on HN knows what Alphabet is by now. If necessary, it can be written as "Alphabet (Google's parent company)". The TechCrunch crowd is pretty similar and should mostly know this too, right?
I've wanted to go full Kramer and "unsubscribe" from the USPS. I let my box fill up for weeks and then everything goes into the trash.
In general, I agree that juniors tend to skip useful information, but it depends a bit on the technology you are working with. PHP, for example, was known to report the error for the line after the one you forgot the semicolon at or at the line after the last line of the file when a parenthesis was missing somewhere.

While there is a reason why it did so, those are error messages which are quite hard to understand the first few times they occur to you.

Nevertheless, those lousy error message should be exceptions nowadays, and if you are using decent technologies, the chances are much higher, that you just didn't read the error message not careful enough to understand the problem.
I had not heard of this because I don't live in that particular bubble.

I looked it up, and it is rated as 'Unproven'; appears to be likely untrue, and based on who's pushing it, it's even less likely to be true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-foundation-paid-fo...
clearly picked up by a competing firm for presumably a large salary increase
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I was running Ubuntu mate off of an SD card on my surface pro 3 for a couple months and it worked well until the card corrupted. There is a pretty active community at https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/
That's an almost tautological argument, since the premise under which we'd be exterminating them is that we weren't able to prevent that kind of migration from happening.
Yes. You can install the Linux subsystem see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Or you can install a Linux virtual machine with Hyper-V on Windows 10 see https://m.windowscentral.com/how-run-linux-distros-windows-1...
Perhaps not a hard requirement, but a handy feature. It would be nice to know that "<number> <street>" is at least in the area of "<a number close to that number> <same street>" (if the city doesn't completely mess up giving out addresses).

With what3words, "///ladders.chimp.drama" is exactly next to "///thick.candle.enacts" and "///nails.spit.blaring", but you can't tell. Also, you don't know whether there are other addressable points in between. It would have been nice if there was more method in this madness.
Some friend had to compile a custom kernel, to be able to run linux. But Microsoft love Linux.
So what if there were a third or fourth or tenth comment on this thread suggesting driving this species to extinction? Why is the comment count relevant? Is there something wrong with proposing this measure? It sounds like you think this idea is not only bad (which is fine) but that you think it should be unspeakable. Can you clarify? Thanks!
Thinking out loud here, trying to articulate a notion (complaint).

My two major search use cases are 'technical' (work related, programming, one of my projects) and 'location-based'.

(As a not quite sober news junkie, I'm trying reduce my 'events' search activity.)

Both DDG and Google work fine for technical stuff. Because I already know where to look, how to ask. YouTube is surprisingly (delightfully) great for my DIY projects (eg how to tile my bathroom).

Location based searches still drives me nuts. Both Apple Maps and Google Maps routinely give me ridiculous results. For the love of digital, why aren't closer results ranked higher?

So I end up using Yelp to find local stuff. While I like its 'update search results' as a navigate, their map UI/UX widget is terrible.

I'd probably leave my laptop home if I felt competent using mobile for location-based searches. Now, I'm lugging it every where, and regret it when I don't.
Computing too. Epic Games decided to make certain assets for the Paragon game free for use (with a black-box valuation), and it wouldn't be surprising if companies like google put a valuation on open source software that they released and took a deduction.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-releases-...
The one thing the Dells of the world have over the MSFTs and AAPLs of the world is choice in configurability.

That said, for home users their portable computer lineup makes sense.
I hope this means I get to watch the same guys buy another bunch of surface hardware and then sell it a few months later and sheepishly return to their MacBooks.

Edit: Hit a sore spot I see.
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A potential benefit being that it is preserved for the future and public funds are not used to preserve it. Yes, in the short term, someone gets a tax incentive. In the long term, that land is preserved.
A big bang event could explain the reason why the universe expanded in the first place, but it does not explain the accelerating expansion of the universe currently, forgive me for my ignorance if any, but in physics I was taught that any object which moves or is in constant motion was acted upon by a force, and so if the big bang created an expansion it will be a constant expansion and not an accelerating expansion as is obtained presently, as there is a requirement for a kind of force to cause an accelerating expansion which is not explained by a singular big bang but by a continuous big bang, which could as well be infinite in nature.
Others get a say in the enterprise because your decisions affect others. The larger the scope, the more people your decisions affect.

Ever seen the login system for a multimillion dollar app broken because someone was able to end-run around the slow boring stupid release process and just shove a little UI change in production? I have. And when the entire system of lead engineers is out trying to figure out what got broken and how it got broken, and managers are trying to get the information they need to explain to their managers why the company just got publicly embarrassed and lost thousands of dollars, their response is not going to be sympathy at your struggles with being slowed down by all this stupid consensus bureaucracy.
Umm, no, Australians don't get to bypass NZ customs. What if we had some seeds or dirt on our shoes? Or <shock> some fruit?

But yeah there wouldn't be many searches.
(cont.)

What maybe i am trying to say that a "sufficiently-clever-compiler" can probably make more progress in cache performance that waiting for a great new memory-cpu architecture to appear ?
Don't forget about the Project Zero team!

Regardless of my privacy concerns regarding Google and other Alphabet-owned businesses, Jigsaw and Project Zero teams deserve to be praised by anyone who gives a shit about privacy/security.
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To add to that, you can't be a human being on this planet without some sort of management skills.
Exactly. But it sounds good, so it must be, right?
I thought they also had some l4 cars without steering wheels and stuff. Those must not have manual mode (right?! Or what? How?).

I have no idea how to know exactly though. Waymo is pretty tight lipped about this. I work at Google and I don't know for sure.
I'm not sure that course completion percentage is necessarily the best metric to be drawing conclusions from. I will often sign up for MOOCs and courses for a single talk, chapter, or topic that I'm interested in with no intention of actually completing the course. I wonder I'm an outlier in this regard or if this approach is much more common than the author of this article realizes.
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Same here. The way I noticed the slowness was that I am used to opening up a new tab and immediately typing in my url or search. Whatever speed comes naturally to me, Chrome can handle it. Firefox would lag in ways that resulted in half of what I typed being cut off and other odd behavior. I am positive that Firefox is (or was, when I tried it last year) slower than Chrome in this regard, which was incredibly frustrating and caused me to switch back to Chrome within a week.
It has dwindled significantly from "the golden age" of Freemasonry which was the 1950's and 60's. That's in part because Baby Boomer men weren't joiners in their youth compared to their fathers. Their fathers had just fought WWII and wanted to continue the sense of brotherhood they found in the military.

But also, Freemasonry has always been cyclic for various reasons. It experienced a huge decrease in membership in the 1800's because of an anti-Masonic thread that was going through the country at the time (there was even a whole political party--the first third party in the US in fact--whose platform was to banish Freemasonry). This is where most of the conspiracy theories about Freemasonry come from.

It has started to cycle back a little in the past 8-10 years. I'm seeing more and more younger guys interested in joining.
There are two problems with "learn on your own" (more accurate than "own pace")

- No-one to guide you if you misunderstand a big concept. You are just left with a lot of reading around

- Time. This is why so many contractors are accused of learning on the clients time - because there is so little of your own time.
I know you're joking, but I (jokingly) considered a law that if you're using your cell phone and are involved in an accident, that accident is your fault and you must pay in excess of actual damages. The problem is of course all the gray areas where there was some emergency, or the unintended side effects of people getting hurt who weren't just being douchebags in traffic.
Is he cool with using his name and likeness?
No just read a lot. There’s a lot of first hand reports.
I use a MBP at work and just bought a Surface Book 2 to use for side projects. It's everything I want a MBP to be, good battery life (you can go almost a full day on a single charge), a touch screen that works exceedingly well, and function keys that are...keys. Using the stylus also changes your workflow, instead of screen shotting, opening in preview, and annotating, you just kind of draw on the screen and share the image.

Only major downside I've run into is that there do not seem to be any native terminals for Windows that even come close to rivaling iTerm 2. Cmdr is decent, but has some weirdness around colors and ligatures; Hyper is also decent, but has some rough edges. Suspect that'll change as more devs start needing decent *nix environments to develop on.
No, I just think it's a bad idea.
I don’t have hard evidence, and certainly not every VC would act this way. There is a great episode of Startup where they seek additional funding and eventually settle on an investor with a long time horizon. YC itself is known for having a longer horizon than most.

But for VCs with an aggressive stance towards working longer, there are many subtle ways to stop supporting a founder that goes against their working culture assumptions.

Increased combatitiveness in board meetings, reduced support in tapping their network for key hires, and increased attention paid toward advising competitors in their portfolio are a few that come to mind.
I get hassled via email for months leading up to a renewal, and even if something goes wrong there's a grace period. It's really not a big deal.

Were I smart, I'd set up a calendar reminder each year for my most important domains.
Don't know about most people but I understand the idea of a holding company. I don't care though.

It's still Google because it's the most important part. A synecdoche, not a misconception.
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Strongly disagree.

What you get from MOOCs is directly proportional to how seriously you approach them. Yes, MOOCs do less handholding (aka: forcing adults to behave like adults) than traditional university courses.

But they are also 100x cheaper and easier to access. If you approach them the right way you can get way more. I do still believe that for your 1st degree a traditional university is still the right choice, but there's no reason to return to university after graduation.
These are aspirational course sign ups, and are of course similar to aspirational book purchases (where I will learn a new language through psychic connection between the desk the book is on and the my hands on the desk) and aspirational gym membership (where calories will be burnt simply because my body knows it might go to the gym and so gets all worried and sweaty anyway)
Yes, 'converts'. That's a whole different story.

Someone who is a 'huge believer' is utterly something different from someone who was born and raised Jewish, or Anglican and was raised that way.

Growing up Jewish/Catholic is mostly a matter of culture, tradition, community, it actually has less to do with faith. That's why I focused on 'attendance'.

They tend to be small-c conservative: normal jobs, kids attend school regularly, don't do drugs, eat reasonably well, vote, take out the garbage, stable family etc. etc..

'Converts' are a whole other issue because ironically people who grow up in a regular faith aren't likely to convert to much at all. Seekers, people who are emotional about stuff, people who have had major tragedies, drug problems, who had major family problems, maybe lived on the street ... those 'new beginning' people are often the most outwardly 'believing' but they represent a totally different cohort of behaviours.

The guy who was abused by his parents, lived on the street and smocked crack and then 'saw the light' and is a 'true believer' - this guy is going to bring most of his broken habits with him. This guy is not Ned Flanders.

The other issues is type of religion: Evangelicalism is kind of like a 'Church of Converts' - they are 'living in faith' type thing. The type who mostly watch 'Church on TV'. This is not the camp of people I mean. Again this is not about how someone outwardly talks about / believes in Jesus or whatever.

Old-school, traditional, mainline Churches are full of boring, very conscientious, small-c conservative people. This is my point. I'm not saying so much it's about faith per say, although that's probably related.
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That makes a lot of sense. I wonder why I've never before heard the part about Ford triggering an overall wage increase across the country as part of the often repeated story of him paying his employees more so they could afford to buy his cars. It doesn't make sense without that addition.
Won't it be dead? Isn't it super easy to pull the caller's location out of jurisdiction of this law?