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I'm the opposite. I don't think I'll buy another car (current is 3 years old) and I'm even surer that my son (aged 2) is not going to learn how to drive.

Driving is a pretty well defined space. Stay in your lane, get to the destination, and don't hit anyone. Pretty much every similar problem that significant effort has been solved. Chess, Go, Starcraft, DOTA all were called unsolvable at one point and all were eventually solved.

Your edge cases are just that. Edge cases. Nobody is going to care if they can't drive in extremely heavy snow. To begin with, they probably shouldn't do that anyways. More importantly the vast benefits of self driving cars outweighs the inconvenience of not being able to drive a dozen times a year. We all still have cell phones even though you can't make calls in elevators.

Even then, if you can do it why can't a computer? Rocking the car back and forth seems doable. Following an unpaved road is much harder, but then again are humans actually good at it either?

You might be right that they will still have steering wheels for no other reason than there's little downside to including them.
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What I think is most likely is that many other favors are currency in the music industry.

It's simply that enough people are so obsessed with sex that they find it worth writing about that sex is too.

It would not surprise me at all if it can be generalized to “People in showbusiness play favors to advance their career.”.

Showbusiness is uniquely qualified for such gamesmanship, because quality is entirely subjective, so it is quite easy to realize such matters. — in many other fields, one might find oneself having to justify to one's superiors why exactly one so favors this particular employee as the numbers don't justify it.
Echoing what others said about a difference in culture, I find it really ironic that its important to be globalist and "inclusive" except when its inconvenient. Israelis are extremely blunt its just how the culture is. It has nothing to do with being toxic, mean, etc.

Shouldn't we be inclusive and understand that people from other cultures can't be expected to act the way others do? Especially people from California.
This just described every feature that submodules gives you out of the box. I'm curious what value this adds, if any...
While true, this feels like a tangent. In this case, "cars following the speed limit" serve the same traffic-calming purpose as the urban planning choices you're describing.
Interestingly, a harpoon was fired in space during a test of capturing space junk. Harpoon - tether = gun? Or does “gun” also depend on what causes the projectile to go (gunpowder vs. etc.) and/or the end goal of the device (destroy vs. capture,
for example)?
Is this presented as a global truth or something specific to anglo/euro society?
A 10 year old benchmark full of questions and disagreements in the comments list. Si nce when is that a proof?
They did it for compatibility with Japanese encodings.
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>Google has been in a constant arms race against unscrupulous SEO practices ever since.

One company controls 80% of what is found on the internet. They set rules, restrictions, penalties that are not public. They do not pass any sort of regulatory muster. They rip and tear through businesses standing in their way. They crush out a person's online existence through never explained reasons. They use every advantage they can to tweak a human's emotions, drive and needs to feed more and more advertisements.

You suggest those trying to use every advantage they can to rank higher unscrupulous?

Google's fight to keep search results crisp ended soon after they began selling advertising. Google long ago quit innovating search to be better for people, they've made it better for advertisers.
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> It's practically a cult. I've had conversations with senior and director-level Facebook employees and the way they light up when talking about things Zuckerberg says or does is, frankly, creeping me out

I think it's understandable that people can be excited working for one of the most successful businessman of our times (no matter what you think about his business).
I very much own all of my devices and Apple keeps them updated for 5+ years unlike every other OEM, particularly android OEMs who will barely deliver two major android versions if you are especially lucky.
I do also support completely closing all cities to private cars (reasonable exceptions for genuine requirements.)

I don't understand why almost anyone needs, let alone wants, to try to drive a car into a city in the first place.

Relcaim the streets for people.

But again... how 'complicated' do you think it would be to achieve this legislation? I would guess impossibly complicated, so it's no more than a dream. So what do we do about it now? And what can a private company like Waymo do?
A better analogue is cars. You can't install anything unapproved by Lexus on a Lexus system. But you can buy a different car, and get different software and apps.
For an example of shiny new technology being better than text, have a look at Kevin Simler's interactive essay

http://35.161.88.15/interactive/going-critical/

There is something about playing with the sliders and watching that plague die out and flare up, that makes the point with a vividness beyond words.
Just an anecdote for you- in 2009, I wanted to drop out of college because I preferred partying. I obviously needed income and was dissatisfied with the jobs I’d had in the past (fast food, waiting tables and hotel customer service). Like you, I had always been a tech “nerd” and had built websites and recycled computers for my church/charities in the past. One day I came across a job post for a small SEO firm that was looking for a “web developer” aka clicking around Wordpress, writing some CSS, and writing SEO content. It paid $11/hr. I sent an email and he agreed to interview me. I must’ve charmed him because he agreed to give me a 90 day trial. It worked out and I worked for him for about 2 years before a recruiter found me and got me a job at a “real” software company on a team of 15 engineers. After a couple years there, I founded my own SaaS side business (which went viral on HN circa 2014). It grew to become much, much more than a side business and was eventually acquired by a PE firm.

I just wanted to say to keep your head up, remain persistent, keep learning and stay curious. It can be done and hard work (usually) pays off.

Stay flexible - even if a job doesn’t seem super relevant to your core interests you never know when it’ll come in handy later. For example, my experience in fast food gave me great insights into POS systems (which I ended up building) and my time working at a luxury boutique hotel taught me how to provide excellent customer service even in difficult situations (one time I didn’t call a customer’s room at the request wake up call time and he missed his flight- eek).

Best of luck to you!

Ps- just sent you an email
The great irony is that the establishment ended up winning the whole thing. Your leftist friends may still be right though — 2021 has only just started!
I used to cover (photography) the BET music awards for a newspaper between 2006-2009. I saw the same things, in dressing rooms, green rooms and after parties. Someone controlled the female artists, who they can talk with, who could take pictures of them, etc. It made my job hard and sometimes impossible.
Why not start as a technical writer and then work your way up? People will have ZERO qualms about hiring a remote technical writer. Writing technical material will also improve your understanding of technology and give you an 'in' into the industry.

Another alternative is to join up as a sales person at an enterprise company. Look for companies that are growing at a rapid clip; they will often hire people whose sole qualification is that they have a body temperature of 98.6 F. Sales includes helping people do POCs and such, which is part of the sales process for complex enterprise products. Once you start there, you can work your way into Software Development if you wish and can find helpful colleagues. The advantage of Sales is that they require a regional presence, and there is a chance your location will work out to your advantage (typically enterprise companies have sales forces organised by vertical and/or region, including regions of the United States).

The last option is to join an enterprise company as a Customer Support person. Once again, you can develop basic skills and become a helpful person by trying your hand at scripting to help perform minor tasks support people do when troubleshooting customer issues. I see plenty of bright Customer Service people move into Software Engineering proper after they have demonstrated intelligence and a willingness to help the customer by going a little above and beyond the immediate problem.

Most of my advice is centered on Enterprise companies because that's where a large workforce comprising people with a variety of technical skills can be found. Consumer web or mobile type companies are a bit too narrow in the types of people they hire, and frankly, the variety of interesting coding and problem solving opportunities at such companies pales in comparison with Enterprise shops.
Can you send me your mailing address? I have a cool game for you to check out on a 3.5" floppy. It's also going to install a virus on your computer and you'll need to format your machine after. This was my life in the 6th grade and my dad literally beat me for messing up his computer. I don't want to go back there.
As an example, it would benefit Spotify iOS users if the app could say "FYI, we charge $13/mo on iOS to offset Apple's cut, but you can subscribe for $10/mo on our website if you prefer."
Not impressed by their historic cherry-picking. Railroads were just one of numerous advancements planners were counting on. For example, it went hand in hand with mass mobilization at a scale that was previously impossible.
Jonesforth [1] is a classic example of this, and a really good example of “literate” code.

[1] https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
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SF has spent more than 1.5 billion dollars and a decade trying to add 3 stations to the existing train network downtown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway
I think movie/game composers might fit this criteria, unless you count the movies/games themselves as gatekeepers
> It's a law written mostly by the ACCC.

Which is operated mostly by Murdoch cronies.
> pretty much can't fix... or with much difficulty.

I don't believe this for a second.
Above it's been claimed the performance difference still stands. I seriously don't believe so.
I agree that wasn't a good way to put it but it might not be entirely irrelevent to mention Crypto AG considering Quad9 is sponsored by the Manhattan DA and City of London Police.

https://www.manhattanda.org/our-work/signature-projects/glob...
When the AUD was on a high a while ago there were stories about Japanese housewives in the forex trade buying AUD for our 6% interest rates.

Low interest doesn't help if you can just send all that money overseas.
Indeed, I don't think it's hard to imagine an alternate timeline where E Ink simply negotiated royalties with a handful of manufacturers over the past 10-15 years and we saw an explosion of e-paper displays as OEMs iterated on E Ink's processes and experimented with more scalable, cost-effective variants.

E Ink could have been the ARM of low-power display technology, raking in a billion dollars a year in royalties while the ecosystem flourished, but they couldn't let go of being the monopoly provider for their technology. What a waste.
It was 100% toxic environment and a broken culture. My coworkers were fantastic but upper management was horrible. It was almost like highschool drama.

I learned so much, 70 hour weeks will do that, but I also learned about balance and what was important to me. Getting my work done so that I can spend time with my family is more important than free food, yoga classes and beer on tap. It is cool if your priorities are different than mine and good on you for taking advantage of the perks.

I will be at my desk working so that I can go home at 5.
If you think this sort of behavior is from a bygone era, or that the tech companies will somehow “fix” the problem: please ask your favorite Swedish streaming music company CEO why he turned a blind eye to one of his key investors running party house in Coachella that was, as I was told, filled with cocaine and shady characters (this was about 10 years ago)... Those mafia-esque deals with labels and managers didn’t write themselves.

There is, of course, more to this, but nobody tells you or reports on it, because nobody wants to lose access to that world.
And don’t forget that a human driver needs to rest. A FSD cab can operate 24/7 minus maintenance downtime.
I think it is safe to say that if Apple allowed another company to offer an app store, even using all the same screening and security protocols Apple does, they would take a lower cut of app revenue. I believe that is what bothers Epic. If they don't like the cut Valve demands they can make their own store on Windows, and they do.

Argument for why is that happening: So Apple can make more money.

(Disclosure: I am an Apple shareholder.)
>> “What? Sushi again???”

Could that be just someone not liking sushi? As someone who doesn't like sushi and rather eat hotdog form gas station, I could see myself saying that.
Maybe a lot of these people can look themselves in the mirror. After all, its just drugs and sex.

There's no reason for these things to be sacred cows outside of what society tries to program us to believe.
Side question sorry, what happened to the side business after the PE firm acquired it?
Yes. At my place we can click a button and it provisions virtualized infrastructure if you are authorised.
A good learning resource is Jonesforth (something of a classic), on GitHub here: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

I wrote several Forth compilers when learning to code as a teenager, one using the A86 assembler, and two fully bootstrapped-from-assembler ones for 8086 and 386. The 8086 source code is here (I didn't write the assembler myself): https://github.com/benhoyt/third (KERNEL.F has the assembler parts)
> "+1 on this - I find this behavior really irritating, it makes me roll my eyes to see some of the most coddled employees in human history whining about this kind of thing. The most charitable interpretation is its just a normal way for people to bond over some shared thing by complaining about it, but a lot of the complaining feels like more than that."

The charitable interpretation is that total compensation has just dropped, while the work hasn't. It's Loss Aversion[1], losing something hurts more than gaining the equivalent thing. Google isn't suffering from people staying at home using the internet more, it's not like Google cut manager salaries by 50% to keep the factory lights on and the orphans fed. Google's share price is up at least 50% since Jan 2020, and they've taken away some thousands of dollars of remuneration from staff and saved money on not having to run kitchens, and are demanding that staff feel grateful about this by handwaving at suffering people elsewhere.

> ">”After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users.”"

Calling legal and privacy efforts "a waste of resources" and saying they provide "zero value" /is/ saying they are not important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Once you start crossing the sr eng -> staff eng rubicon, you start doing more managmentesque things anyway. Maybe less 1:1s with specific reports, but you are definately talking to a lot of people and teams trying to lead the direction & design of what you are working on as a group.
No, it really doesn’t, except if looked through the most superficial lens.
I also really like this Gaga interview referencing Amy Winehouse

"You can't have it both ways; You can't enjoy listening to somebody singing sad songs about the blues and heartbreak and then not expect them to be truly heartbroken."

A lot of artists already struggle with mental health and addiction issues and that is why their music is powerful and propels their success.

Amy Winehouse is one of my favorite artists. Watch Amy for an amazing, sad, portrait that shows her existing struggles which were amplified to the extreme by our treatment and ridicule of her.

Mac Miller is another example that comes to mind, his last few albums in particular are lyrically intense and personal and candid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddRN5lYMTJY
It depends on the company. I worked at a large international bank where we had a couple dozen project managers that would travel abroad for 2-6 weeks at a time. We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abroad again. We never knew what people would come back with but it ranged from "Cinemax" to "Only Legal In Kentucky".

Another guy came back from Switzerland and the bank had to put him in a hotel for three weeks because the night before he left he met a lady at a bar and she left fingernail marks all over his back - no way he could hide it from his wife and he knew he would get divorced if she found out.

At the same bank we had this German trust fund kid who had a $400k a month cocaine habit - Dr. Rockso had nothing on this guy. The bank sent him to rehab for six months and when he came back it was really eerie because I'd never seen him stand still for more then 200ms - he had always bounced around like a humming bird and spoke like John Moschitta imitating yoda.

Fast forward twenty years to my time at Tumblr where people office sexing damaged a half dozen window stools, several chairs, and there was a very nice grey couch they had to throw out due to all the "mysterious" stains. You really didn't trust any flat surface there.

They tried to set up an office bar but gave up after two nights when someone drank the entire inventory of liquor each night.

Tumblr had a lot of LGBTQ "diversity hires". One guy would show up at company-wide meetings and use all of the gay porn blogs to demonstrate the latest features he had been working on. Another guy would strut around the office in a zz-top beard and a french maid outfit w/ fishnet pantyhose and heels. There was a group of transitioning guys who would hang out by my desk and discuss their urine fetish - though they stopped doing that after I challenged them all to a "b_lls-out" coding contest knowing they were no longer equipped.

After all that I think I'm ready if I ever get that dream SRE job at PornHub. O Canada! Our home and native land!...
> Case in point, how does a FSD vehicle deal with extremely heavy snowfall on a unplowed road?

90% of the cars on my street didn’t try to deal with that this weekend, and most of them would have failed if they tried. None of them are FSD.
Both are on track to be profitable this year. Lyft probably would have been already if not for Covid.
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I'm in Brisbane, Australia and we only had mandatory mask wearing recently due to someone testing positive to the UK variant.

Been life as usual more or for six months, but that's the advantage of getting it under control early so the contact tracing isn't overwhelmed each time there's an outbreak.
It’s still going strong today! It’s led by my “protege” and they have 40+ employees now with 8-digit revenue. They just acquired a second competitor in our space. I couldn’t be more proud of them. Check out www.gingrapp.com.
I just googled your VSCode theme and can provide another anecdote of violent irritation.
> The executives are still beholden to supporting teams. Want to launch a new feature that depends on GFE. Looks like the current GFE is end-of-life, but the the new one still isn't ready yet. Let's connect with GFE team on if they'll support the older GFE and accept our CL to launch...<GFE has power to delay your launch right here>

I don't see how this is distinct from what I said, except perhaps that for many teams, the GFE team reports up to a different SVP than you, so the person who you'd connect up via is the CEO, which like I said, doesn't scale for every launch.

If you want to try and escalate your launch up to the CEO, nothing is stopping you, except perhaps your director or VP. But that is itself a signal that perhaps this isn't worth escalating about and that the status quo is acceptable.
Tuskegee experiment, never heard of, thanks, therefore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

"The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men who participated in the study were TOLD that they were receiving free health care from the federal government of the United States."

Trust your government, Learn from the past.

Now is obviously all much better ?
If the model weights aren’t open source, the model isn’t open source in my opinion.
It’s not like a switch transformer is that much more complicated to slap into pytorch than any other new research.
Also in my personal opinion, while yes this model performs great, it’s ridiculously parameter inefficient. 1.6T parameters is 3.12TB using bfloat 16. I’d rather take 7x longer to train and have a model I can actually put places.
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> If everybody has an incentive for rates to stay low, they will stay low. This ends in hyperinflation.

As long as the world runs on the dollar, it doesn't.
> Apple is really great at UX, they will find a way to make it hard for the general audience, so that my mother won’t install random malware because for it she would have to go through 3 pages in settings she knows nothing about, and I can run whatever I want on my phone.

Many of us believe they will not find such a way and that in fact no one will and it is impossible. That's the crux of the disagreement here. You believe this is a possible UX to build. I believe it is not possible to build such a UX.

As many folks have noted, Android does have a number of steps required to sideload. They also have a much more serious and active malware problem despite all the extra steps:

https://lifehacker.com/be-careful-about-sideloading-popular-...
The only tangible benefits it provides are to the publishers.
If I did the math right it would be 3.12TB of weights, maybe they are trying to upload it to gdrive still. (/s, probably)
> I would guess tens of billions of dollars and fifty years, and that's if it would ever get approved in the first place.

So? I still think it is worth it. Also, these costs and delays are not given, they are artificially induced by mismanagement, and could be changed. I am not saying that they shouldn't build the cars, I'm just pointing out that the "solution" they are providing isn't that revolutionary.

Also, buses exist, which are much cheaper than what you are describing

> Don't let perfect be the enemy of better.

I don't really see how this is that much better than what already exists. How different would this really be from the status quo? I can already automatically hail a car which will take me where ever I need to go. Sure, autonomous cars _might_ be safer, but I doubt they will reduce congestion or travel times all that much. Plus, we'll have rolling surveillance cameras with a myriad of advanced sensors constantly driving by. I don't buy it
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And the reason that’s the case is precisely because of these restrictions. Not in spite of them!