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Basically every modern platform (eg free of 90s mistakes) uses the itanium ABI, which defines vtable layout, RTTI layout.

But platforms define the final memory and calling conventions so that can’t be part of any language spec - this is not unique to C++.

Windows has its own ABI, which it has had for a long time, so they can’t change it, so on x86 windows it will always be that.
This seems like a dangerous justification for the sunk cost fallacy. If you get in early on an investment, you become partial to the company based on the relationships you have created and your understanding of the market. Although that might allow you to have a better investment criteria for a following round, you could posit the question of whether another investment opportunity is the more sound choice.

On the topic of dollar cost averaging, you are reducing your risk within the investment based on timing but that is too much of a micro level view of the power and value of the investment dollar.
Tesla doesn't need degree for AI team
Likewise! Thanks for the kind words! Happy to contribute to the field and share the knowledge base I accumulated in the past few years! :)
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Why do you think AWS charges for K8s master nodes (control plane), when both of their major competitors do not?
I got a free domain name from Microsoft services a long time ago...
> If machines fail at complex tasks but fail safely then that's not an argument against self-driving cars being safe, it's only one about their limited usefulness.

They don't, not at the moment. The software detects the situation is outside its capability space and says "jesus, take the wheel!".

For all practical intents and purposes the only reasonable way to interpret the current self-driving car statistics is to treat every single human intervention as a would-be accident. That rate is somewhere in the 1 per 10000 km ballpark. That's - for now - orders of magnitudes worse than human drivers.
Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.

I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI/UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.

I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.
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20% YoY for a company this size is ridiculous. If anything it shows the power of their market share and position.
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I don't know about this particular case, but it's not unusual for scenarios where an insurance or some other claim is made rendering property largely frozen / illegal to liquidate as anything but salvage.

Maybe if you sit on it long enough the statute of limitations can expire and you can do something more interesting than incur the costs of transporting a massive thing only to have it cut up for scrap, especially if you own land where it can just sit idle in the mean time.
Sure, I'm also too old to go to Tesla, but if I would want a great carreer, really change the world (not just talk about it) and not care about having a private life, I would seriously consider going there.

At the same time Zurich is small, and many more men go to work there than women, so dating was so hard that I didn't have a real private life anyways.
The terrible thing I was referring to was the prompt asking users if they want to execute a binary they just downloaded.
Monopolies are a primary goal of corporate capitalism. When you combine that with the reality of regulatory capture, the answer to your first question becomes "no."
Regardless of the truth of your accusations or validity of the fears presented by OP, it constantly amazes me that so many people genuinely react to these stories with "the other side does it too". Someone else doing something wrong is not a justification for you also doing something wrong. It is the type of excuse you expect from an elementary school child.
> It seems that you are new in this argument, because this point has been rebutted so many times in the past, but here goes: it does not have to be flawless, it just has to statistically cause fewer accidents per kilometer/year than what human drivers cause in a similar situation (which is already non-zero, and in some countries actually quite high).

Yes, but they need a process in place to insure that that is true, and a process in place that insures that is true with each new update. They are remarkably cagey with statistics about AutoPilot.

Elon claims that Autopilot is currently much safer than human driving, yet the only statistics released are biased comparisons between Autopilot miles, which are almost exclusively on highways, and general auto statistics (where crashes occur most frequently off highways). If Elon really wanted to show the software effectiveness of current Autopilot, he could release the crash statistics of customers who purchased Autopilot and customers who did not, as many people have requested of him. He has thus far refused to.
Self driving cars are already here, just not widely distributed
I don't think you made it clear in your unedited comment that you were talking about AT&T and not Google. I certainly wouldn't want Google to be nationalized.
> Most humans can't drive safely in blizzards.

Sure they can. During snow squalls, accident rates obviously go up (especially if the roads are icy or if it's the first one of the season), but most drivers are good at assesing risk and take appropriate actions.

Importantly, they have the ability to decide that it's worth the risk to go out on the roads to pick up Sally from daycare (for example). In any case, if the car computer decides it won't drive, do you really think people aren't going to drive the car manually so that Sally can come home for the night? Of course they will. And they'll be fine.

Have you ever been on the freeway during white-out conditions before the ploughs have gotten a chance to come by? People slow down, turn on their hazards if necessary, and if the road markings aren't visible, naturally form two lanes instead of three (straddling the lanes). In snowy climates, a simple snow squall is something to talk about, but not stop you.
I will never understand why S&P didn't have its corporate license dissolved and assets seized by the FTC or the SEC or whoever's job that is, in 2008, for its role in enabling the Crash.
Well, West Virginia has the lowest average income in the entire United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
New SwiftUI tutorial from Apple on developing a Mac app
This is one of the big reasons why Snow Leopard is legendary as a favorite OS X (now macOS) release - it focused on reliability and performance rather than adding new features. I wish more software would follow that sort of major release cadence!

Catalina could certainly do with a refinement release for internals (e.g. APFS) as well as UI polishing.

Disclaimer: I've been using Catalina as my main OS since it came out.
They probably still have to maintain systems running PHP 5, and are quite literally stuck in it ;-)
You can explain it either honestly with medical issue during an interview, phrase it as a sabbatical where you focused on something else or yourself for a year to figure out what you wanted, and did projects on the side instead of working.

Or a "fun" way is to claim you worked for any government agency who would never verify or deny that you ever worked for them. :P
Hey, I'm interested in chatting. I applied, but I generally distrust direct applications through company websites. Any chance I could talk with your recruiting team?
Print people at the time had no idea what 640x480x24 even means. That was all IT dorks and amateur self-styled "designers." (i.e. barbarians)

The Bringhurst book was published 1992. Web tech learned zero from that book.
(Life-long vimmer here) At the bootcamp I teach at, one of our students almost became a life-long VIM user today, too: he had accidentally opened it and didn't know how to exit ;-) . Unfortunately, my co-worker helped him before I could introduce him to our dark ways.
Hi HN! This is a project I've been working on that has just hit the MVP stage and I'd love your feedback on!

I was actually inspired by a post I found here almost three years ago on automating wedding invitations via Twilio[1]. A lot of commenters pointed out that especially for older relatives a physical medium is still best for things like this and so I wanted to build something that would make it just as easy as the approach outlined in that post but still send physical mail.

Over time, I cut the scope back from save the dates + invitations + updates to just the minimum I thought would actually be a useable and helpful solution and landed on save the dates. The fact that you don't need to RSVP to a save the date radically simplified the design and cut down the features required, and since I have a lot of trouble maintaining steam on side projects I thought it seemed wise to cut down as much scope as I could. Actually getting something out the door is a big personal accomplishment for me regardless of how it now performs as an actual business.

The tech stack I made as boring as I could for operational reasons. Most of the stack mirrors what I used at work so that I could just focus on building and not fighting new tooling. The backend is Django deployed on AWS Fargate and the frontend is just a React app deployed to an S3 bucket with CloudFront.

Any tips or feedback would be greatly appreciated, and if you have a particular favourite article on marketing a product like this I'm all ears.

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> Unfortunately, returning to a web of documents isn't going to happen anytime soon; too many people profit from this ability to run programs on other people's computers.

Yes, I've resigned myself to this truth long ago. Since then, I've been watching the web get smaller and smaller as more and more websites break unless they're allowed to run code client side.

I fully expect that the majority of the web will become inaccessible to me within my lifetime. Alas, the future does not always bring wonderful things!
Looking at how much has happened over the last two months though it seems that they are on the verge of something big. I'm on pins just waiting for stop light and stop sign detection to be integrated into lane keeping. They're already seeing them, they just need to put that data into action. In terms of my personal driving that'll be pretty big, road trips get a lot shorter when my attention isn't forced.

Turns through intersections is another area where Tesla's current implementation needs a lot of help (read: can barely do it at all) but should be within range soon given where they are at. And lane splits in city streets is definitely something the Tesla implementation is going to need to get better at before really making it door-to-door.

It's a very exciting, even historic time for self driving.

But yeah, taxi fleets are a ways out. There's a turn in the road just a 1/2 mile from my house where my Model 3 gives up every time.
> My reaction to 'the test fails because map::at threw an exception': stupid STL!!

> A core dump would be so much easier to analyze..

Uncaught exceptions call terminate(), which by default calls abort(), which generates a core dump. So if you want a core dump, just avoid catching the exception.
When I started at school we all got unix shell accounts mostly for email. Later years got bumped out into multiple machines but for that one year almost all of us were on the same 8 core box (and seriously clamped down quotas)

Within a few weeks, a friend of a friend of a friend had figured out how to pull pranks, and that opened the floodgates. Soon we all knew about man pages, about commands to query utmp and wtmp (to deduce who just did what to you or a friend), grep, file permissions, tty write permissions, quotas, nntp.

The most fun was when someone did something to you without figuring out how to stop it from being done right back to them. Many a kernel was cat'ed to someone else's terminal.

Even today when I'm trying to troubleshoot, half of the stuff I'm using was first used trying to seek revenge on a prankster. Once in a while I wonder if this would be a good way to teach a class on Unix.
I don't expect ANY game where "run" and "jump" are options to make "jump" the primary form of movement.

I get that "realism" is a silly thing to discuss, not because it's good/bad, but because it is meaningless to try and distinguish the "changes from real life we like/want" from "changes from real life that hurt our enjoyment", particularly when we all have different tastes.

But all games that make gummy bear-style hopping over flat, unbroken land a common form of movement are personally visually jarring, and even as I welcome others to enjoy whatever games they want, I don't think my reaction is a terribly crazy reaction to have.

...Fortunately I'll likely die long before common human inhabitation of the moon, so I won't have to a reality I find jarring in this way :)

(real life is jarring enough already. Too much realism)
The distance is beside the point. The amount of time it takes for your brain to parse visual stimuli, then propagate a signal to your arms, and finally for the muscles in your arm to contract will be much slower than a computer parsing a sequence of images and then actuating the steering column. The computer is faster both at understanding it needs to respond and at signaling driving systems to respond.
Now please treat Tesla as a car manufacturer instead of "Tech"
To anyone else frustrated by the lack of year-by-year images, you can click on the animation and pause it on whichever year you wish to more closely analyze.
Self-driving is largely a reaction to the single-person-single-car scale problem. When you're trying to transport millions of people on a weekday, cars will never be able to meet demand. Look at China trying to vertically scale their highways resulting in 40-lane wide highways and multi-day traffic jams.
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I wonder how much of that fail safe difficulty is to blame on humans too. The car can't just slow down on a highway due to the reaction time of other drivers after all.
I think they call this getting Sweeney'd.
It does make a boring reading. But it’s true critical comments are continuous downvoted by PR staff only hope is community is larger than mechanical or automated turks trying to downvote.

Many times downvoted -4 to -8, when comments were critical on Google’s stadia service.
So this is what we've devolved to: ultra-rich tech overlords competing with each other for government handouts.

Things are fixing to get interesting if Bernie gets the nomination...
Which is why people should be very much against cashless rules.
How do we convince hospitals and medical clinics to use Chrome, Firefox or the latest edge browser?
> if you attempt to insert an empty sting ("") into a not-nullable column, it will fail

Yes, because it will convert the empty string into a NULL, and fail to insert that NULL into a non-NULLable column.
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When I was writing the interview question I was wondering if some site had already covered it. Turns they had, so I ran their solution and discovered it had some bugs. Whenever I ask the question, I refer to the "answer" on geeks for geeks. If they copy it, they get a no-hire from me.
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> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

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Huh, I've always wondered why someone doesn't start a company with these open integrations. If it benefits everyone, then people will migrate to this new company, right? Instant success?
To be fair, it is quite OK for them to do just that. To cater exclusively to large businesses that require multi decade support and who demand specialized features. The reason those wealthy clients are still with IBM is precisely because they can trust IBM (it’s possibly the only tech company they do trust).

IBM marketing is all smoke and mirrors to convince everyone that they’re cutting edge in areas they’re not. They don’t need to be; their important customers are fine. The customers just want to feel like they’re working with an “innovative” company, and that feeling is delivered by IBM marketing and M&A.
> Weather and complex situations would only rank at the bottom of the list and therefore could be considered a YAGNI problem.

This is a logical fallacy. You are inferring from a comparatively low incident rate that the condition must also be rare, which is not a reasonable conclusion to make.
The point is that you need both the intent + ability to carry out a murder. People like to act as if someone who wants to murder someone would just use a knife if they didn't have access to a gun, but that is simply not true.

It is way easier to murder someone with a gun than a knife, both physically and psychologically.

If someone has the intent to murder someone, it is much more likely to actually happen if they have a gun. Thus, more guns means higher murder rate.
"Self-driving is largely a reaction to the single-person-single-car scale problem."

What in the world? No it is not.
Waymo resolved this early on by encoding the human resolution into the action. Stopping as required by law, then moving forward slowly until the next action is more clear.
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That's the Uber "Level 3" accident.
The article talks about companies growing more than 34% per year as lucky... Because companies growing less than 34% is more likely to produce consistent growth going forward.

Hence, we shouldn't look to learn from top performers, but instead learn from consistent performers.

The point is that there are few lessons to be learned from lucky top performers. But that there are lessons to be learned from consistent performers.

That luck is an ingredient in top performers isn't surprising :)

Also who cares about being top performer for one or two years, instead of being a consistent performer. Which isn't as luck dependent :)
Now if you want theoretical considerations instead of evidence, then consider the lower reaction times of machines.

Reacting quickly except in emergencies is almost always worse and more likely to cause an accident in an environment consisting mostly of human drivers.
Honestly, I don't know how often that question ever warrants good responses. From my experience, most hiring comes from interviewing people who resumes show they're pretty obviously qualified, rather than questions like this from the beginning.
I'm not sure I follow? I'm just asking whether it's possible that the underlying processing could take place in a remote server, rather than an onboard computer in the car.
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Piss poor execution. Wise but unsteady hands messing up whatever they touch.
Behold, our 29 electoral votes (and counting, yay reapportionment!) and DESPAIR.
> And that is how it should be.

Well, I don't think that's how it should be, but that's certainly how it's turning out.

How it should be is that websites degrade gracefully, and remain usable (if more limited in terms of geewhizzery) without client-side scripting.
That's ... interesting. How old are you, and how much do you know about how the US telephone system used to work, and how much it cost to use?
That's because having the rule of law in the modern world usually means that you're playing by the same rule book. If you allow one powerful player to do things the other can't, that's simply corruption. And our ex-socialist states have proven that that's fundamentally damaging to the country.

People fundamentally want government that's fair.
It is just a novel. His ideas on ecosystems are as much science fiction as traveling to other solar systems. Not scientific truth. We really will have to try living on other planets before we know how it works.
How much difference does 4++ vs 5 make for the predicted consequences of self-driving cars though? That's the important thing.