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You aren’t getting the complete picture if you discuss the $5 workday without also mentioning Ford’s Sociological Department. They were basically a group of investigators that looked into numerous aspects of Ford’s employees personal lives. If your kid didn’t go to school, if you kitchen wasn’t clean enough, if you spent too much time at the bar, if you weren’t saving enough, you wouldn’t qualify for $5 a day. That new salary wasn’t purely a capitalist endeavor, it was a totalitarian endeavor that gave Ford the ability to control the lives of his employees.
> - Anti-union regulations like "right to work" laws are an anti-market intrusion that weakens the power of labor. Vote against them.

How is forcing me to join a particular union pro-market?

Also, how am I supposed to vote on this or any of the other things you mentioned? I get one vote per legislative body every 2 || 6 years and that one vote has to cover dozens of issues like this that come up in the interim.
I don't know if faster-than-light travel would necessarily accompany other technologies indistinguishable from magic.

The Romans were arguably a flash of insight away from the hot air balloon, they had good uses for it and all the prerequisite techs. Analogously, we might be one really good flash of insight away from technology we'll just actually get a thousand years from now. So the aliens could be otherwise on our tech level, but they just figured out warp drive.
And, prior to the meme of the "flying saucer," UFO sightings often involved airships[0].

And stories of abduction by aliens often involved those aliens claiming to be from Mars or Venus before it was commonly known that those planets didn't harbor life, much less advanced civilizations.

And the archetypal "grey alien" didn't really become the template for modern alien abduction stories until Whitley Strieber popularized them in a book - many descriptions of alien encounters until that point were of "Nordic" human type aliens.

So yeah, either aliens are being careful not to appear more advanced than popular culture would allow (maybe to the point of appearing as angels and demons to humans when their view of reality was entirely dominated by religion and not science) or much of the UFO phenomenon is basically a meme.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship
Having similar budgets, the German rocket program consumed a lot of slave labour. No concern for the conditions of the labour, either their salaries of course - replaceable human machines with service length 1-2 years. Add the worth of the eqivalent labour on top of the total cost of the German program.
Interesting, I wonder how that even works. Can anyone just "charge" someone with a crime? I always thought the district attorney or someone similarly qualified and presumably unbiased had to vet the evidence and decide whether or not to charge someone.
>Except that the rest of the industry followed suit as well

How long did it take for the rest of them to follow suit, and was it just the automotive industry, or the entire market that did so?
This comment seems prescient. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19723650

"Take a moment and think about why are they doing this event now. Elon is setting a stage for a capital raise, he's pitching the autonomy narrative after the Model 3 cash cow narrative failed. They're trying to convince investors (and customers) to give them money because money-printing autonomous taxi service is coming next year."
For what it's worth in the states there are also thousands of localities to deal with as well. Software is needly very quickly to actually properly account for sales. Also in the US there is a complicated system of sales tax, use tax, and exemptions for certain businesses buying goods for resale.
That is true. But how many people actually care to do that? Sure you you can personally not litter but without the massive public awareness campaigns of decades past concerned individuals would never have been able to solve the problem of littering. The public at large needed to be on board. Ditto for "socioeconomic littering". While I'd really like to see some solution that doesn't involve regulation getting the upper classes to not spend their money improving their quality of life doesn't seem like a tractable approach. What's the point of having the money if you can't use it to better your life?
> CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws)

Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag on what business is: exploiting labor and the environment.
GP already talked about taking on apprentices, with the implication being the the friend is already scaling their business past a single employee.

The practical skills are unlikely to become outdated quickly, since they are mainly about standards compliance and electrical safety. Even if something as large as the shift from gas lighting to electricity >100 years ago happened today, there would probably still be need for electricians, just as we still have gas engineers now.
From the article:

> According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location.

How can one possibly claim cocky marketing is the problem in this case?
Without really doing research myself. If there is 1 factory left in Youngstown, and it’s hiring for 3 welders or something, and 1 accountant. And those are the only 4 jobs in Youngstown, then Youngstown’s “share” of good shit jobs is pretty high and there is still absolutely no reason to move there. My bro makes a lot more than me in DC without a college degree (or skills) bc he’s good at talking and handsome. I had to leave DC b/c I just am not good enough to get a good job there, and if you don’t make a lot there, then you have to move. So I get that if you’re a loser in capitalism move to a cheap city, but this share metric I think makes cheap cities look like good cities. The shares are likely high b/c there are NO educated jobs, and the cities are probably harder places to earn in (there are more nurse jobs in DC than Toledo, and my brother would not be able to do whatever the hell he does in Toledo, there is still more sense there than money).
Weird how all of these think pieces pondering places and lifestyles available without a degrees only focus on healthcare and manufacturing.

I've met numerous people in my 10+ years of software development without a degree. I don't have one either.

As I heard from one candidate in an interview, “software development is one of very few career paths left to have a middle class lifestyle without a degree.“

My biased opinion is that devs without a degree hustle a little more and are more willing to tackle brownfield projects and nasty refactoring/conversion efforts.
I think the barrier specifically for software engineering is probably a bit lower now than in the past. Information was tougher to get at 10-15 years ago than it is today, and many of the candidates who in past times would not have gotten the necessary structure from a university can now go to a few bootcamps and be pretty much on par with people who completed a 4-year degree.

Software engineering is a trade skill, after all.
Source: I live in the UK and have multiple friends in trade work.

Most can take on other workers or young apprentices quite easily. The two i know that have done it now only work their trade 2-3 days a week and spend most their time doing the admin / business side.

Not sure how piratical skills in electricity can become outdated? New legislation can be released around safety i guess...?
Grid garden doesn’t require a sign up.

The creator of flex zombies does have a grid game but it’s paid. That said I think they just released a service workers game so I guess good to know.
As long as the cashflow is positive, from investors, the company will last.
It's not that complicated to understand: While Google and Mozilla are competitors, Mozilla and Linux are not. Linux just gets less priority because it's quite frankly irrelevant as a Desktop OS.
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According to Tesla,

> the only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road [1]

Tesla has made a habit of drawing conclusions about investigations that have just begun. It is sketchy, and people have noticed.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-says-fatal-model-x-aut...
This makes sense, the latest C++ standard for example makes C++ a great language, but without a great standard library built on top (the current STL is quite clunky) C++ is much more inconvenient to use than Python for example.
Good luck and a fine sentiment but the free rider incentives will favor cheaper funds with no corporate governance ambitions. The market for investors who care enough about corporate governance to subsidize others isn’t big enough for critical mass in a scale business.
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Through the meshed radar, conceivably. You wouldn't expect it to affect the FLIR (which is displaying a sensor's input, not a tactical view) or to have an effective "position" in space.
Emotionally loaded example: woman buys a modest home in the 1970’s in a poor neighborhood from her savings working at the local packaging plant, fast forward to today she is living on a fixed income in a neighborhood that has gentrified around her, with many developers and yuppies moving in and building new homes and apartments.

Your proposal would force this woman from her home as her land value tax rose (As she has no ability to pay for this increasing tax burden)
They are growing every year, they should have millions of cars in the fleet by 2020/21. Once FSD is done they will own the space and generate enough cash to make Apple look poor.
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Is there anything like this for more advanced css?

All tutorials seem to be for complete beginners or advanced hacks / tricks. I can't find anything for an intermediate level.
It sounds like the electrician here has a far higher chance of doing any of those things then your average university graduate to be honest!
Perhaps there was no PM because there was no official Project?
Or indeed https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core
Tesla has in excess of $11bn in debt; even if you could get the equity for nothing, an acquisition would still be extremely expensive - more than 25% of Ford's market cap.

I can't see a middle of the road outcome for Tesla; it'll either be wildly successful, or Musk will destroy it in the attempt.
I was referring to application paradigms, not common UI patterns.
If they could do it for next year, why don't they just do it
and profit alone, not selling the autonomous cars to anyone -- and make trillions? :-)

It is probably because they can't
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Yep it feels good to be disengaged from all that stuff. Personally it's about the hobbies, and forcing myself away from screens into nature. I enjoy sports so i'll get outside and play. Also fishing is a great one. Peace, quiet, nature. Plus you are focused on fishing. But also just getting outside is amazing. It feels great hearing the birds etc.
The title is misleading, it's a recording. The launch happened April 11th. The youtuber is clever and kept their 'live stream' active since April.
During the big offshoring craze in the UK 15 years or so ago I knew of developers who retrained as trades people - you can't offshore plumbers, electricians etc., you need them on site.
Strictly worse because it requires more work to maintain and write new code, there's no guarantee we haven't missed any access points in our codebase so it is less robust, still locks files while in use on Windows and requires maintaining patches to Breakpad. Performance is not an issue here, the program working correctly is, and doing so in the long run is strictly worse than mmap.
How is that Occam's Razor? This is the same guesswork as aliens or foreign countries. I just see a lot of people using "Occam's Razor" with their subjective theories and the term is giving me a headache.
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>youll end working anyway just to have something to do

I'd never work if I didn't have to pay bills. Spending my limited time on earth doing something for someone else's benefit on someone else's schedule makes me miserable. No such thing as an "enjoyable job". If there was, there would be someone willing to do it for free.

I've had a year of NEET life during college, and it was the best time of my life by far.
I'd love to see a modern successor to occam, or something similar that has first-class, painless multithreading.

It's strange to me that in this era of 32+ core machines, the language model is still single-threaded by default with (often significant) extra effort required to execute multiple bits of code simultaneously. Not to mention languages like python which restrict you to a single CPU core.
Those native interfaces look so dull and out of place when having other input 'helpers' such as better 'select' with bootstrap themes, that I don't even consider them as existent and other third party date pickers are going to be around for quite a while.

Input type 'number' also gives you weird step helper which most of the time is unnecessary and there isn't even a simple way to disable it.

Somehow HTML stopped innovating for so long, the latest revision (HTML5) is just mostly fixing what sucked with HTML4 and adding stuff other third parties already did better.
Exactly. My ligatures affect no other reader’s presentation. It is absolutely personal taste. What an absurd rant.
This isn't total war. Technically it's not even a war, but a "Military Operation Other Than War" (MOOTW). We're not fighting against a coalition of countries; we're fighting a few thousand dudes in caves with AK-47s and rusty Russian ordnance. Of course there will be fewer casualties. Yet still we've managed to kill upwards of 100,000 people, mostly innocents, across 18 years of occupation, in retaliation for a lucky strike that killed 3,000 Americans. You're right--that's actually a lower number for direct casualties than I expected. But I seethe knowing this is what my "defense" tax dollars fund.

Those drones just make it easier to continue killing people tagged as "militants" (a very flexible word in the hands of our government, I'm sure) while removing deterrents, like the idea that our children could be sent off to die in such a campaign. So now we have robots killing people the government doesn't care about, simply because they have been identified as the "enemy." I think I've seen this movie before.
So, Tesla's sensors failed to detect a concrete barrier and failed to detect he driver’s hands on the wheel, but we’re supposed to assume that the first which was clearly a manufacturing defect was not responsible for the crash because of the second which, we are to presume, must have accurately reflected reality.

(Since California uses comparative fault in these kinds of cases, legally this would seem to at best reduce but not actually eliminate Tesla's liability, even were a jury to be convinced by it.)

> If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.

Which I suspect says nothing about the vehicles (much less autopilot hardware specifically, and even less the autopilot function), and everything about the age demographics of Tesla owners, because age is a significant factor in accident rates, and there are probably disproportionately few teenagers and other very young drivers driving Teslas.

https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...
I’m hoping they get out of building their own cars altogether. Sell the car manufacturing and focus on the infrastructure and important parts: charging network, drive train, battery packs, solar, and self-driving tech if that’s their goal. /armchair
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What do you mean, "may"?
Still easily doable by Apple, if they only wanted to.
Did I leave the garage door open? No-code project, Azure IoT Central and MXChip
Because your back/body will be shot by age 55 unless you transition to management or entrepreneurship. My buddies who did trades (the smart ones at least) all have plans to get other income sources or save the majority of their money for the inevitable outcome of a career of physical labor.
Tesla is just alive because the crisis haven't arrived yet. As soon as a lot of investors hit the breaks, a lot of those companies will go away... or become profitable.
You absolutely should be learning and growing on company time.
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Does it stand to reason that not only can an update change the cars behaviour, but that an update is likely to change the car’s behaviour.
By representing the car to come with an auto driver, they implicitly take on that responsibility.
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You're assuming "failed to detect hands" means that his hands were not on the wheel, which is 100% false.

Tesla's have detection is extremely rudimentary and requires the driver to apply torque to the wheel on order to be "detected". You could be grasping the wheel hard enough to turn coal into diamonds and it STILL wouldn't detect your hands unless you move the wheel slightly.
Due to unprecedented urbanisation you effectively have runaway inflation in large cities, which is wiping out whole economic classes. Raising interest rates would be the only sane thing to do from the city perspective, but outside of the cities high interest rates would wreak havoc to the small amount of industry and jobs that remain there. I don't think any country has come up with a solution to the economic imbalance created by the flight of capital to cities.
"organised Abhrahamic religion"

Non-abrahamic religions like Hinduism,Jainism, Buddhism, believes in existence of world systems other than current one.

Buddhism is especially is accommodative in terms of acceptance, of evidences that refutes Buddhist world view[0].

[0]http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/carl-sagan-the-dalai-lama...
could you explain this idea a bit more? it sounds interesting, but i don't quite see why "visual assembly" would be necessary. most "high level" languages are written in something lower level like C (possibly with Assembly bits), but that's an implementation detail – the semantics of C have little bearing on the semantics of the implemented language. why would it matter what makes a visual language tick under the hood?
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I don't want to see ads, ever. I hope a growing number of people feel the same way.

I don't care about the business model of the whole internet. It is obviously a house of cards. A business model based on bad UX? I hope it collapses.

No, I don't know what will replace it. I don't care, as long as it doesn't involve ads.

I really don't care if the ads are innocuous or labeled or relevant. I don't ever want to see an unsolicited nudge to spend money on something. Ever. I can't be any more clear than this. I hope there are more like me every day.
What do you mean by software engineering is a trade skill?
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I recall this as a standard 'canned' interview question. The goal was to assess if the applicant had a general passion for software development as well as a drive to learn new things. While I had no particular issue with the goal of the question at the time, I always felt it a bit one dimensional. At a different job in a more corporate setting, I find the push to be just the opposite. Time-off is time to unwind, use it as such. I believe companies have found success in this cultural imperative as a means of preventing turnover and burnout.
i like 4 hours a day, everyday, weekends too. Even on vacations I like to get 4 hours of coding in and THEN enjoy non-coding activity. But lots of coders seem stuck in i must do a full 8 hours a day M-F only.
The original post quantifies it. Around 50% better performance for the mmap version.

They are saying that if they somehow knew up front what the performance gains would be, and what the cost in bugs and complexity would be, they wouldn’t have used mmap at all.