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It's as if no one is even reading the link I posted in response to this.

> Today, FBI, police harassment and secret grand juries are being used to attack Muslims and other immigrants, Black, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Native, anti-war, anarchist, environmental and animal rights activists and movements. These incidents are not isolated, and they are not happening because the government wants to "solve crimes." They are an attack on all our movements: an attempt to divide us, isolate outspoken individuals, create fear and distrust among us, and rewrite our history of resistance as "criminal."

The government will use secret grand juries to get activists to testify against other activists, thus splitting up movements and pitting the participants against each other. It undermines basic democratic principles no matter how grand juries were _supposed_ to be used. It's historically been used as a weapon of the state to fight against activists. This goes back to the days of McCarthyism.
I've had a similar experience. I never get the flu shot now, and never get the flu. Make me wonder about the causality of it all.
I would like to hang this up in my office. Are you selling prints?
I think larger enterprises tend to be more friendly to older programmers. The companies move slower, so they have more legacy code and less interest in trends. Less fun to work at, but.
It’s more obvious is you break it into smaller jumps.

Cruse control requires you to pay close attention etc, but you can avoid making a lot of minor speed corrections, which makes long drives less taxing. Adaptive cruse control takes this one step further again reducing cognitive load. Lane following might not seem like much, but represents a huge number of tiny course corrections.

I could go on, but even if you can’t read a newspaper the reduction in stress and muscle fatigue really adds up.
Variety in taste is just a luxury, it's a few seconds of pleasure while eating that your body doesn't care about. People spend way too much time deciding, cooking, eating, and usually choosing unhealthy meals because of this.

As many comments here show, you realize just how unimportant it all is when finding your next meal is a struggle.
Yes, it seems the most promising for the kind of company I'm looking for. I am also looking at LinkedIn (not promising), BuiltInLA (interesting) and some aggregators.

But I have the impression that HN could point me to some gems I couldn't find otherwise
Try using Windows with a 64 gig ssd. You run out of room really fast.
>Tesla has effectively incorporated Lane Keep Assist/Automatic Cruise Control into a single product called Autopilot that has vastly better software than other similar products.

Is it? This[1] implies that, contrary to what you say, most other manufacturers do offer equivalent features in equivalent luxury vehicles. Tesla might have gotten beaten many of them by a year or so, and might sell more Xs than Toyota sells high-trim Lexus's, but neither of those things really say anything about the quality of the driving technology. And from what I've seen, Tesla's isn't particularly spectacular.

[1]: https://www.cars.com/articles/which-cars-have-self-driving-f...
Thanks! The functionality is definitely powerful at large scales. We want to provide a solution that companies can get started with right away, with zero setup.
and so if you set up your email filters right, you can find out who is doing this sort sort of "hacking" to get your real email address. What you do afterwards is up to you.
> You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds.

This is largely false: look at market share of all their competitors — network effects are really hard to replace.
> I'm one of those dudes who runs around with pretty much as many warnings as possible turned on, and most of them turned into errors. Most of the warnings that are disabled by default are extremely helpful in preventing simple errors. Understanding what those warnings mean and how to resolve them is something I consider to be core understanding for anyone who wants to become more than a junior C++ developer.

I strongly agree, which is why I think it's important that these warnings are not spurious. -Werror is no longer viable if what it takes to resolve warnings is more ceremony than substance. Emitting a warning every single time the compiler encounters undefined behavior would be utterly overwhelming given that the vast majority of these instances are harmless like skipping a load because it would be undefined behavior for a couple of pointers to alias. Obviously GCC and Clang could do more (for example, Clang doesn't implement -Wstrict-aliasing if I recall correctly), but their current approach of warning about UB when harmful, rather than reporting all UB, is correct in my opinion.
If you were to define a clear goal which the AI strives for, wouldn't it be possible to define other goals along with it such as "Never ever hurt humans"?
I'll be 50 soon and I've been dabbling in Rust. Not to improve my skills or any of that, but simply because my 40 years of coding experience tells me it really is awesome. I have some specialization the will be good for some time to come. When I read these ageism articles I just keep shaking my head. Last company I worked at had tons of them. You startup folks must live in a fucking bubble. (That was for effect, I love HN in case you oversensitive millenials can't tell)
Haha. Well said.

That's a clever take. I suppose if the "original" humans came from a universe as hellish as Warhammer 40K, ours would seem like a cakewalk!
This is an economist betting that higher regulation causes higher unemployment, and winning. That's a useful step better than simply stating the opinion. It's much worse than a randomize controlled trial, and it would be delightful if the European Union could be convinced to carry those out for science. But employees and employers tend to object to being experimented on.
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They using profits from one area to reduce their prices and grow their driver fleet in another.
At age 27, I find myself already qualified for most "senior" job postings I see, which is a bit concerning.

Do any of the "older" folks here have advice on orienting one's career to brace against this effect (beyond the typical "always be learning")? Feels like it's coming up quick.
Maybe a little off topic, but I find it funny how big a deal people make about going to tech conferences. I never got it.

For context, I'm 37. I watch conference topics on topics I find interesting but they're often just mildly informative, definitely not the type of thing I'm going to travel halfway across the planet to see live. A lot of the time it seems to be more about making a name for the person or the company they work for. It seems the number and prominence of tech conferences has exploded in the past few years, I don't even remember hearing about these at all when I started out (mid-00s).
As an alternative to Paxos-related consensus algorithms, some projects may want to take a look at the Raft consensus protocol: https://www.brianstorti.com/raft/

Whereas Paxos tries to maintain a fully distributed consensus state, Raft instead proposes a protocol for automatically electing a leader node from a group of follower nodes, and coordinating the replication of the write log through that leader node.

I haven't had the pleasure of experimenting with either one though and would love to hear from people who have.
"The bulk of the evidence came from Tufts’ IT department, which said each incident was “well supported” from log files and database records. The evidence pointed to her computer over a period of several months, the department told the committee."

[Anecdote]

I was in a lab one evening doing homework when out of the blue, I started receiving dozens of emails with variations of the subject [0]. I was getting DMCA notices with thousands of dollars of fines for each one. They were accusing me of pirating music on the school's network, and the IT department forwarded them to the party that best matched the description in the DMCA. Some of the details in it included [1].

The problem with all of this was I never torrented on the school's network and the times the infringement took place were times I wasn't on campus since I lived off campus. When I brought this up with the IT department, they disregarded my complaint and said my laptop was identified as the source. When prodded for more information on which APs the device was connected to at that time, they refused to check.

The university has free legal council for students so I booked an appointment, explained my situation, and had proof myself and my laptop were not on campus during the time the infringement took place. They talked to the IT department and I was sent a short email saying the violations were routed to me by mistake and they were dropped from my record. The university dynamically allocates IPs to devices for blocks of time, and the infringing IP was allocated to me earlier in the day, but not during the offense. When they forwarded the emails, they only checked who had the IP first during the day.

I can't imagine how many other students might have been falsely accused of this over the years because of bad practices by the IT department.

[0]: 'Unauthorized Use of Copyrights RE: TC-be738249-d341-4a1d-ac11-9e66d285dfca ISSUE=23120 PROJ=7'

[1]: "Infringement Source: Torrent, Timestamp: 2015-09-15 03:01:00.0 GMT, Infringers IP Address: 129.21.89.206, Infringers Port: 18359"
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Dunno, I think of the people that follow other cars as sheep. In my subaru I can pick any lane I like, and often the one with the least travel has the best traction. With snow tires and a subaru I can handle just about any conditions up to where the snow lifts up the car off the tires.... which I've had happen. Digging compressed snow out from under a car is no fun.

So often I see a giant line of cars behind the plow, slipping and sliding along, then I pick the deepest snow lane with the most fresh snow and it's just fine.

Generally it's not the lane you pick, but the safe speed for that lane. Sure that might vary per lane, but with today's sensors and electric motors the autonomous driver should be more accurate at quantifying that than a human. After all a computer could easily say apply 50HP to each wheel (one at a time) for 10ms or similar to quantify where the dynamic/static threshold is.
Waymo is ahead but only as a Taxi service in dense urban cities. Tesla however can deliver one day that will self drive 90% of the time. Many, especially in North America will only want the later. In North America, a car is still seen as a freedom enabler, one that lets you go to the beach, go on a hiking trip, and go on a few offroad track in a park during weekends. All of these will not be possible with a Waymo car but still possible with a Tesla Model S/3/X
What's a lib or feature are you missing in the language?
I would argue that the iOS platform (HW/SW and app store) certainly meets the >25 billion annual revenue specified by Warren and should be split from other Apple services, such as Apple Music and rumored upcoming Apple streaming service.

For example, Spotify would have to pay 15-30% of its monthly subscription fee if user paid it through the IAP (which is why Spotify doesn't offer that option), whereas Apple music can do so without the 15-30% fee. Also, Spotify is not allowed to include a link to its website to pay for subscription, because it's against the Apple app store rules. The same applies to Netflix and other digital content/service providers. Apple either gets the 15-30% price advantage, or it gets the added convenience of In-App purchase for the service.
Orangutans are capable of planning their routes in advance. [1] I guess that does indicate some concept of future, albeit not a far one?

[1] https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/orangutans-pl...
Stuxnet was a well-programmed virus rather than an AI-driven one.
Definitely not Hysteria. I have inhaled second-hand crack smoke walking up the stairs at Civic Center, watched a man defecate on a crowded train, and saw a person get stabbed in the past 5 years of riding BART. It's not this bad in NYC or LA and I couldn't even dream of seeing things like this in Europe or Asia.
But different products are often different markets. An author of science fiction could write a romance novel with 0 overlapping readers.
GTFO
This level of govt intervention in business sounds like a disaster
Yeah, they (or someone who replaces them) are a robot taxi company. They own and operate a large fleet so their costs of acquisition and maintenance are much lower than a P2P solution.
Do you think that the situation in most of Europe, especially with budget airlines, is much different?
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Empathy often does require conscious thought from me, I'm curious if that makes me a sociopath. I have to intentionally imagine myself in the other person's situation to understand why they might be upset about something. For example when I heard about the student who was recently suspended for creating an N-word pass at school, I felt that those who were offended were just being overly sensitive. I only changed my mind after someone suggested imagining the same thing with a slur against my ethnicity. I just don't seem to empathize with people by default in most situations.
Maybe you wish this was so, but it does not appear to be in practice.

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-companies-give-interview-feed...
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For more details, and to apply: https://angel.co/truevault/jobs/514894-sales-development-rep...
> - Stupidly restrictive time limit

This one kills the chance of my applying by itself. Turns what could be a interesting coding challenge into an exam, ruining the fun of it. I could see junior devs going through this to get some experience but why would anyone past that point in their career bother when there are so many options?
AI would not think in the same timescales that people use, so something like killing sea life with plastic drinking straws or changing the climate via herbivore flatulence - though lengthy by our standards - might make logical, reasonable sense on its part as tools of human extinction.
Fair caveat. I'll just re-iterate that taxis are really fucking expensive. So expensive, IMO, that cost becomes the most significant factor in utilization.

Definitionally, only a small chunk of the population can afford to hire other people to perform services for them. The miracle of industrialization was figuring out how to make physical goods with extreme efficiency. Part of that was by reducing the amount of materials used. But mostly it was about reducing the amount of labor that went into manufacturing an object. Henry Ford's autobiography is a revelation on this topic. But ride-sharing is fundamentally about utilizing 100% of another human being's time to take you from one place to another. That can work in several situations: 1) you're in the top several percent of earners, or 2) you only utilize it for occasional trips. But those situations don't come close to covering the vast majority of transportation that takes place.

Hence everyone pinning ride-sharing's hope on self driving cars. But, uh, then you're just an auto rental company. Last I checked, those were not great businesses. And they certainly don't enjoy network effects that can take hold when you control a two-sided market, which is what's driving the current ride-sharing marketshare death march. So it's this weird thing where the opportunity sucks until self driving cars are a reality, but then the opportunity transforms into a car rental company, where you're basically deploying and maintaining equipment in order to chase single digit margins.

Anyway, I'll end my rant there. As you can see, I'm not a fan of ride-sharing business models.
Obligatory liberal hypocrisy link:
http://marketurbanism.com/2017/01/27/the-disconnect-between-...
If you don't like cars, then you probably don't want to move to Austin.

I suspect the meager public transportation offerings here are going to get worse, not better. Austin has a good climate for self-driving cars and I think when they hit the market, they are going to fuel sprawl like crazy. I know if I could buy a self-driving car, I'd move another 30 minutes out of the city to get more space.
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What's their maintenance like?
Is there a party that gives a shit about climate change?

This isn't a bad proposal, but I feel like a lot of stuff in politics right now is just so off-topic.
> I suspect because statistically programmers are in their editor, they're just a distraction away from playing with elisp.

I think that's one reason, but not the only one. But they all fall in the 'barrier of entry' theme.

You are literally two keystrokes away from being able to replace any running elisp code in your editor (C-x C-e). You have a default scratch buffer every time you start the editor. You don't have to create packages or do anything else to start coding. You can inspect everything, even ask which function is run when you type a character, which will take you right to the source code, which allows you to copy, modify, eval, and then paste it right into your .emacs when you are done.

After that, you just uploaded the file somewhere for other people to use, if you are so inclined. Historically, they would just plop the file right on their .emacs.d.

Now, you can go the extra mile and make a package. Which is comparatively easy as you already have the code written and it just needs a home.

One time, I created a few commands to query Jira (grab issues assigned to me and stuff like that). It took me more time reading Atlassian's spec than it took to code the whole thing.

I've also reproduced the entire ending of Portal (the game) in Emacs, complete with synchronized lyrics, the ascii art and the color scheme (before color-themes was a thing). That was pretty easy to do.

Compare with other editors, even some of the 'cooler' ones (like VS Code). It is not obvious what to do if you want to change something, or where it even is. The config file is not programmable. You need to figure out how to create a package first, and only then start writing code. And that's VSCode. Some don't even allow you that much flexibility, other than maybe invoking shell commands.

And don't get me started on "IDEs" like Eclipse. Last time I extended it, I required two running copies of the environment and a full blown 'project' in order to add a lowly menu entry.
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I grew up in SF, now live in Toronto and spend a lot of time in NY. Pretending that Bart/MUNI arent on a completely different level than other major cities is ridiculous.
In what scenarios do you have to manually download and upload data. There are ingestion tools out there. It seems like automating tasks is painful. What kind of tasks are those? I’m guessing all of this takes a lot of your time away from actual analysis
Look around your lab. What problems do you have that software could solve? (It could be as simple as a spreadsheet.) Can you build that? If you can't, can you realistically learn until you can?

Then go build it. Congratulations, now you have experience.

Look around some more. What else do they need? Do you have to learn in order to be able to build that? Given that you've done one thing already, can it become your job to do the next thing?

You don't have to make a clean break, go to school or bootcamp, and get a whole new job. You can start just by becoming the "software tools" person where you are. Then, when you are ready for a new job, you've got a track record, not just a certificate from a bootcamp. Even better, you got paid to get there, rather than paying to get there. Downside: It took longer.
The Bay Area is the most absurd large scale property market in America, but it's really just the most extreme case of a disease found almost everywhere.
When I was in grad school, I lived on oatmeal for breakfast, a cheese sandwich on homemade bread for lunch, and a small stir-fry on rice for supper. I never got sick of it.

Now my spouse is vegetarian, and the kids don't eat beef (long story). If we eat meat, it's just a nice little bit of chicken or pork that the kids and I can put on our portion. And due to a health scare, I have replaced the cheese sandwiches with hummus on bread.

Recently my family went on a trip and I had to stay behind. So, on the first day, I went to store and brought home ... a steak!

When it came time for me to make my supper, I looked at the little steak, then proceeded to chop it into bits and turned it into ... a small stir-fry on rice for supper. The beef was a treat, and I spiced it up more than usual.

During the remaining five days of my family's trip, I lived on oatmeal for breakfast, a hummus sandwich for lunch, and a small stir-fry on rice for supper.
I dont know where you are getting “political correctness “ from lol
Just for completeness, the recommendation (in the US at least) is for the Td every 10 years, and the Tdap only once (preferably in adolescence) or during pregnancy.
Maybe rethink that acronym.

I figured people would take a couple minutes to
educate themselves about the candidates, but I forgot that I wasn't in my home country.
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Because if people were not eating them wolfs would be, or they would not even be born.
Aaaaah could be Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2n_-jwPUHQ
> Is there a party that gives a shit about climate change?

Yes, the Democratic Party does, but that doesn't differentiate Democratic candidates from each other.
I don't really think that it just comes down to can-become-more-sophisticated. Assume we had children that never grow up, and we can tell which ones. Assume even that they just mysteriously from the forest, so they don't have parents/owners. I really can't see the legal system changing to permit us to treat them in the same manner we treat pigs.
Really surprised by the consideration of moving to SF. For a long time now YC stated that the ability to focus down in the valley was key, though immediately founders moved to the city after. I knew of a few cases where founders were based in the city and would commute down on needed days.

I'm a bit surprised as this shift now as it was positioned as thought out before, but the reality is the center of new tech startups is now very much SF.
Yes, but I don’t see how that is relevant. Your claim is that we aren’t seeing Jupiter/Earth type systems and so they are rare. The counterargument is that we aren’t looking for them, so we don’t see them. We don’t know whether they are rare or not.
A million of revenue isn't a lot.
There is an official "Who is hiring?" monthly post the first day of each month. They are popular and you should take a look there and perhaps post in the sibling post.

For the latest post see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
An alternative that I have had kicking around in the back of my mind for a few years is having the process on the read side of the pipe call fcntl() with a new flag to set an "Accept" set of formats, which the process on the write side of the pipe can retrieve with a 'get' equivalent. If there's a format both sides recognise, they can use that.

Both sides just default to plain text so it'll be backwards compatible.
That's not a clear goal. For example, define "hurt". People define hurt in all kinds of ways, and sometimes differently when it's themselves or someone else.

Then there's the problem that humans hurt other humans. Should the AI stop that? It's going to have to hurt humans to do it. But if it doesn't, that will hurt other humans...
Agreed, we're still left with the same fundamental problems.
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