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>Facebook shareholders suing the company allege that Andreessen, an independent board member representing the company's stockholders, surreptitiously coached Zuckerberg through a multi-week negotiation process to win board approval for the stock change — something the stockholders argue is a major conflict of interest.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-marc-andrees...

There is some value for you.
Yikes. Just what we need - to fix a clearly human issue with even more tech and mental overhead.
This gives you a collision after 2^48 messages (via the birthday problem). Each message can be up to 2^36 - 256 bytes long.

This is less of a problem when each message also generates a random key, but still annoying to contend with.

XChaCha20-Poly1305 lets you generate 2^96 messages before having to worry about rekeying. https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/secret-key_cryptography/aea...
Definitely. I owe him a lot. The late Wilf Hey also for his language columns, I remember following along with his Eiffel, Prolog and Smalltalk series as a youngster.
Remote work is quite reasonable for senior employees that have a demonstrated ability to work independently. In essence, some people are capable to be productive as "independent contractors" even if they're actually a full-time employee, self-managing their time, tasks and coordination with others; and some people can't (yet? is it a stage of career develoment or separate skills?) reliably provide the results that the company needs without a strong management structure doing that coordination, task assignment and information flow for them.
I'm sceptical of the idea that the good things about python make it hard to implement. Compared to forth – sure! But most of the non-simplicity beyond what's attributable to not being an ultra-bare bones languages comes from organic growth and bad design decisions.

From the top of my head, here's a list of things that were awesome in python's design:

1. Clean and concise syntax (whitespace, slices, rest and kwargs, multiline and raw strings, although both badly designed were ahead of the time)

2. good default builtin datatypes, with decent API (cf garbage like cons cells or STL)

3. in particular strings as immutable vector of bytes, no seperate character type (this got screwed up in python3 of course)

4. comparison on compound datatypes works out of the box

5. relative uniformity no value vs reference type; objects mostly just dicts, modules as well

6. repr and repl (both gimped, compared to lisp, but good enough to be super helpful in development), good tracebacks

7. anti-footgun conventions (notably: mutating functions return None convention; mutable -> no __hash__ convention; slicing copies convention)

Nothing in this list seems particularly hard on the implementor, but it's of course hardly exhaustive or unbiased. What things that you really like about python do you think are rather hard to implement?
>> have demonstrated countless times [...] powers of the federal government for personal benefit and enrichment

Same as the previous administrations then? At least Trump doesn't need money.
What is a scenario where min or max should consider NULL values?
What about individuals with broad autism phenotype (BAP)? What the GP said probably does describe quite a few BAP individuals.

(And the boundary between BAP and ASD is rather ill-defined and subjective anyway.)
Of course. Any other design would be braindamaged beyond belief.
Go watch Elon's presentation Autonomy Day. He pointedly addresses it.

Specifically, he shows an orders-of-magnitude chart, each point accompanied by a picture of a car presented at that magnitude of occurrence. At one extreme is "car" as they appear with most common frequency (in front of you, rear visible). At other extreme is "car" in an extremely unlikely occurrence (airborne, bottom view prominent). The system Tesla implements addresses such a broad range of information & occurrences.

Tesla has upwards of a million "full self driving" vehicles on the road now, all gathering video, all processing that data, all feeding what they learn & experience back to Tesla. The computers, even if not actually driving, are constantly observing situations, categorizing, and comparing to what humans do as a response. Extreme situations (crashes etc) are flagged and routed to Tesla for incident analysis; the AI is corrected & taught to handle the situations, and all vehicles updated accordingly in short order.

Upshot: Tesla DOES have a system for addressing, learning, encoding, and improving the "thousands of other" scenarios. By the time "full self driving" is unleashed, the Tesla AI system will already be trained to extremes by a million "trained, experienced, and attentive drivers"; insofar as some cases may be insufficiently covered, they will be statistically less common & dangerous than the baseline error rate of human drivers (distracted, drunk, debilitated, dumb).

As far as accountability, Tesla is working hard to build a decisive system & case that if bad happens, it is a statistical anomaly which is still better than the alternative of not using self-driving tech. There is a legal principle whereby one may violate the law when obeying it would cause greater harm; autonomous vehicles are close to crossing that line for the better.

And yes, great profit is due those who improve humanity via technology.
none of these have anything to do with autism...
What you are doing is pretty cool. Too bad I'm based in Canada.
Thinking of the $2b/5 yr contract Snapchat signed, I wonder if there are any other massive contracts which represent a disproportionate amount of GCP gross...
That's actually totally non-contradictory. The human is there to make Tesla's lawyers happy, and they are definitely very happy to have an easy scapegoat to blame if their tech fails to live up to the hype.
Coaching and educating him on the creation non-voting shares so he'll never lose that majority.
Sources on previous administration's engaging in antitrust litigation for "personal benefit"?
The human driver can always take over if the car isn't being aggressive enough.

Also the feeling of "how long" is too long to wait changes a lot when you are in more of a passenger mindset.
Don’t you need to register the car in the DMV and get an insurance before you can drive away? That’s definitely the case in the parts of Europe I’m familiar with.
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> everyone can learn to program

Indeed. Everyone can learn to write code. Not everyone can learn to program.

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For good clean code, check out the Thorsten Ball books - Writing an Interpreter[0] / Compiler[1] in Go

[0] https://interpreterbook.com
[1] https://compilerbook.com

While the books are not strictly about clean code, there's definitely a focus on it within the books.
Woahhh this seems like the perfect place!
> Imho we are talking hundreds of years here.

So we are already hundreds of years late, aren't we? Let's start right now to make this happen.

> Better douse the fire first.

Here we are again... the good old, well there's something else wrong, lets just fix that other thing wrong and ignore everything else.

Why not working on both? What stop us from working on both? I would be happy to be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that you could do more to "douse the fire". We sadly can't stop doing 100% of what we do to fix everything.
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Yep, but there is a bit of a chicken/egg problem. If someone created a wicked-fast, private, secure browser that worked with a subset of HTML/CSS, people could start designing their sites in a way that's compatible with both that and modern browsers. It would actually be less work for the developer because you need to become familiar with a smaller number of tags and properties. Over time hopefully bigger sites would make themselves compatible, and eventually you get a killer app like Wikipedia on board and the rest is history. </pipedream>
Source of this administration's engaging in antitrust litigation for "personal benefit"? The OP doesn't single out antitrust litigation specifically.
Other languages that have these but they do look different.

I personally don't see anything wrong with it, but it does resemble Java to me.
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In regards to COM I was specially thinking about how virtual functions and methods are layed out. This cannot change without breaking a lot of code. Already this causes issues in non-C++ languages (e.g. the difference with thiscall in C++).
I believe the 2019 AWS revenue is at $35B which means that a very consistent 4.4x multiplier against Google Cloud for 2017-18 is now going down to 3.9x.
This is also called buffering where buffer size is in bytes or messages. The string/stream size being processed using the buffer is undefined. Just new words to describe the way Unix has worked for decades.
I'd suggest reading the NTSB report on the pedestrian killed by Uber's "self-driving" vehicle [0].

The vehicle misclassified Elaine Herzberg so many times in the seconds leading up to taking her out at 40 mph - its clear to me that none of this is ready for public use.

We are so normalised to vehicular violence. This would never be allowed in any other sector, say healthcare for instance.

[0] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2019-HWY18MH010-BMG.a...
Source that Trump doesn’t need the money?
The same nerve conduction latency exists for your arms. The computer will beat you every time.
I concur. I look for whether what you already know fits what we need and complements what we have. If there's a gap I might ask offhanded about what you were doing, but spending a year slumming in Cambodia is just as acceptable as taking time off to care of your invalid parents. What I care about is what you can offer, and if you'll be able to fulfill that potential.
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Would like to see this work integrated: https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
I'm pretty sure the truck thing is because images aren't stitched yet. That's coming in an update.
>Ajit Pai, for example, famously worked for Verizon before government.

Pai worked at Verizon for two years between 2001 and 2003. He was appointed as FCC member in 2012. How much loyalty do you have to a job you held for two years, nine years ago?
>At least Trump doesn't need money.

What does that even mean? If you're implying that he was rich before becoming president (which is already on shaky ground), are you saying that rich people aren't looking for more money?
For some kinds of work, open offices are the most expensive type.
A massive short-squeeze/bitcoin-like retail bubble is certainly not indicative of the strength of the company. Look at the last earnings report, it wasn't impressive for a growth company.
It’s ~25% of Search ads. That’s a big drop in a small bucket.
Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270 [pdf]
> They were only available to banks [...] while keeping them out of the hands of criminals.

So they were discontinued when they couldn't find any non-criminal bankers?
You resume will be tossed in the reject bin by the scoring algorithm.
In the first few years you're converting a small percentage of that $8K payment into equity...most of it goes to interest, insurance, HOA, property taxes, etc.

With the SALT restrictions you can't write off more than $10K in state taxes now either, which means basically $0 off your property taxes since that your income tax alone in CA will be more than that.
Making this another polar political discussion would be shameful and unproductive for hacker news.
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> The costs involved in turning Mars into an experimental environment

I think it would be more realistic to say, if we are able to live on Mars instead of making Mars livable. Being able to live on Mars won't require "the sum total of human activity to date (300k years worth)"
Previous administrations have clearly abused their power with the DOJ, just look at how DACA was passed. Just because the large media outlets did PR for previous administrations or you agreed with their politics doesn't mean that abuses did not occur.
I think it's a combination of several factors. One is that few people join or leave a bank because of their website. It's usually encountered already after you've deposited your money and it's going to be very inconvenient to leave them.

Another factor is that they typically have a big pile of money budgeted to develop it, which means hiring large teams, which means finding work for many people, which means building a very large complicated website to have something to show for it in the end.

This is where design-by-committee comes into play, which is a third factor, and where all those asinine rules come to play. And don't forget, they are already under the authority of all the regulatory committees, with a committee deciding exactly how to follow another committee's rules.
Massive investment in energy efficiency, plus big investment in renewable energies and and demand-response, plus a little bit of investment in thermal and electric energy storage would more than do the job, for cheaper, with more resilience...
you mean using powers of the federal government for personal benefit, that is what the person you are responding to said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-to-ukraine-mili...
It's not so much about loyalty as it is about connections, aka cronyism.
The reason that those USB adapters get hot is because they have to actively convert 3.3V to 5V. That's an inefficient process and it's what causes excess heat.

My mod doesn't have that problem, so the only heat generated will be from the drives themselves, which don't put out much.
Let freelancerSeekingWork = (location = "NYC", remoteOk = true) => {

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return "arturo@make-it-happen.dev"
}
The expectation of a single result should be encoded in the API, not the business logic. It's a very common expectation for e.g. identifiers found on http paths.
It sounds like your taking your existing workflow and trying to virtualize it, this always fails. Remote work (especially with timezone differences) requires text based asynchronous communications, just look at large successful and international OSS projects, they thrived with mailing lists and IRC and this wasn't just because of bandwidth limitations.

IME unless your a particularly good teacher then your whiteboard isn't as high bandwidth as you think anyway. In face to face meetings everyone will just smile and nod because you have to go away and dig into the details to find issues. Put it in a graphviz drawing with the accompanying text and you'll get better results.
Running for president to get "more money" would be an extremely dumb strategy for someone who's already a multibillionaire. Dumb people do not win presidential elections, especially not with half the funds and with the entire propaganda machine shitting on them non-stop for months. He could have just kicked back and enjoyed his fame, like he did before he announced he's running.
Tech and politics cannot always be separated. This appears to be one of those cases.
I wish they would show the video overlay WITHOUT the background video.

Is the car seeing enough on its own that we as humans would be comfortable driving with just that information?
You do not need to be Elon Musk to make a good living from your business, but you will need to be in the top 0.1% to make a good singing career.
How much do you pay the candidates for this exercise?

Or do you expect them to put in multiple hours without reimbursement?
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This is an inherently political topic.
I've often wondered if all of Android is an anti-trust violation. How much did it cost to make vs how much do they charge for it?
The beginning of this article seems to conflate "success" with riding a short term "fad".

Only after you conflate those two, you can equate success with luck.

Once you get out of SV, business success has little to do with fart apps and birds that are angry or have flappy appendages and more to do with skill, knowledge, and hard work.
Netflix, Amazon, and Uber, no, but Microsoft is a hard yes. It was the first tech giant to popularize the whole "rest and vest" cliche and still does. Facebook and Apple vary by org but it's still quite possible if that's what interests you. Then drop down a tier and it's very easy -- the likes of Oracle, IBM, eBay, PayPal, Adobe, etc. push very few out because barely anyone wants to come in.
> tiled dynamically-loading images, as in maps applications. That should be a tag, and... that's all. Just a tag.

You say that, and then you disprove your point by going on to list a bunch of extra features that that tag would have to have. And even with those features, major map sites wouldn't use it because they render map content client-side using vectors, not map tile images, and have lots of other features your tag wouldn't support.

Implementing your vision would mean a massive increase in the API surface of browsers, with concomitant increase in browser bloat, and browser and standards development effort ... while there's a strong argument that browsers are already too complicated.

Even so, when we've tried to implement declarative features on the Web we've seen over and over again that it's impossible to satisfy everyone's needs without scripting. (See e.g. HTML5 form validation, SVG vs canvas, VRML vs WebGL, ...) That is why stuff like the Extensible Web Manifesto emerged.
You are free to read a graph on any direction you want.
The SpaceX landing pads at Cape Canaveral are 10 miles from populated areas and 50 miles from the large city of Orlando. So we are already landing them near population centers.

With fully reusable rockets, one gets to the point where they are better than airplanes because you can use them more (10 flights per day from Sydney to New York and back instead of the 1/2 round trip per day you currently get with airplanes). They cost similar amounts to build, but can make much more revenue/time. Also for long trips (1/2 way around the world) the fuel used/passenger will also be similar.

This is of course future tech, but could be coming in the next few years. Elon Musk say first orbital tests coming this year.
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