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I think a good programmer in language X knows the standard library of language X like the back of their hand. They know how to look anything up in the manual instantly if it's not in their head. They also are facile with the extended library (e.g. pypi, maven central, npm, ...)

Any good programmer also knows algorithms, not just being able to code them out of their head but also when to look them up in an algorithm book. I'm sure I could figure out a good algorithm for making a suffix tree if I had weeks to spend on it, simply knowing that it's possible. I know there are several clever ideas that have to combined to make it scalable for practical use so if I really need a suffix tree algorithm I am going to either use one somebody else wrote or I am going to start with a description of the algorithm from a book on my shelf.

From the viewpoint of being prepared for an interview ideally you (a) have it all, and barring that (b) gracefully use what it is you have under pressure.
It's quite annoying to see people going out of their way to let others know that they do NOT use vscode, js frameworks etc

no one asked
> or the modern 2021-era Autopilot for $10,000.

Are you just trolling with that comment. You are making the same mistake again that I corrected you on in your first comment. Autopilot is free with the car.

Emergency braking systems are not foolproof. Tesla is not a market leader in that category, but these systems from other manufactures also fail in similar situations[1].

[1] - https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...
Isn't git decentralized?
From the article:

> With graphene, the most suitable material, the cut-off speed for 1 g acceleration would be approached after an on-board flight time of three years at a distance of about 10 light-years. After that, the acceleration would quickly drop to values that shatter the popular dream of reaching the galactic center in a lifetime.

Note that this is already assuming you can build superconducting rings in space with a diameter of 2000 kilometer and with enough graphene to support them. If we assume for convenience that the acceleration will fall to zero after those three years, the relativistic speed calculator at https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel (haven't checked it in depth, but I have no reason to doubt it) tells us we will have reached a speed of about 91% of c.
The first accident seems to have been very fresh. This Tesla may have been the first car to happen upon it. Though at least from TFT we can't be certain.
ROI would have to be calculated using the levered amount. Even paying $2.7M cash for this house, you can refinance and take out 80%, and have the $2.7M asset for $540k in a non recourse state with a non callable margin loan. And with capped 2% property tax increases.

Plus you get to live in it. Plus you get CA amenities (value dependent upon individual preferences, but obviously valued very highly amongst people with money). One of those CA amenities is very worker friendly non compete laws and strict limitations on what employers can claim is theirs, a not insignificant benefit for knowledge workers in my opinion.
> work with an interstellar ramjet you would have to stop interstellar H (drag!)

The drag would be useful in the second half of the trip but can you make a ramjet that rotates the direction of travel of the reaction mass by 180°? You might be able to collect reaction mass for a return trip though, or final deceleration.
Many have already decided to pull the trigger and be dog moms. Earth will just be left with the non-suicidal / those that don't fall for this particular brand of propaganda.
It is always over 38 Celsius which qualifies as fever where under the tongue is 1 degree less. So if I use it on my I get 36.4 on my son I get 38.4 , even if I try different areas of the body is still converges on the high value.
I agree completely. I do find some of the cherry picking from right-libertarians can make my head spin sometimes but left-libertarians can be just as guilty of that.

And as much as I find full-on anarcho-utopianism charming, I can't see it as much more than a fairy tale that ignores much of history and human nature.
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Removing LIDAR could still be the right call even if it means accidents like this still happen or even happen more often.

If removing LIDAR lowers the cost of the vehicles which means more of them are sold which results in a fewer accidents and fatalities overall, then I think it's the right call.
I did this program and it's still paying dividends years later. Highly recommend if you (like me several years ago) are sitting in your dorm room reading HN and feel like you're outside the main silicon valley groups.
IPFS only does addressability, it doesn't provide storage. You could use a decentralized storage network like Arweave, Filecoin, or Sia.

https://www.arweave.org/

https://www.filecoin.com/

http://sia.tech/
Maybe someone does want to create a very special and expensive type of bread and sell it worldwide.

In order to accept payment, they must become a merchant with some centralized entity (Paypal, Mastercard, Visa). They must hope they live in the subset of countries where this is allowed. They must agree to a one-sided TOS that can be changed at any time. Then they must hope that all their buyers are honorable and trustworthy as those entities favor the buyer in a dispute.

This is not an optimal state of affairs for the aspiring artisan bread maker.
I do not really disagree with you. McCarthyism was before my time and I admit to having no understanding of it.

I meant to say we should be creative in dealing with the ways in which totalitarian systems infiltrate our society and weaponize our public.

Currently, we do not seemingly have a strong defense against what is happening.

I know a bit about what our side does, and I also know what their side does and how they do it.

1337 folks are not enough and they only know half of what is going on.
why would anyone build chip factories in regions with high seismic activity?

that is so fishy

the perfect place to build such factories in EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE
Naming plays a big role. "Autopilot" implies something that people might not fully comprehend.
I'd say OCaml wins in term of operators and maybe as a language until you start using monads. My entirely subjective feeling is that modern OCaml codebases use more and more monads, the language is becoming less elegant and tedious as a result.
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Isaac Dushku made a fortune selling maps this year
When the pandemic hit, many of us started DIY house projects or bread-baking. Isaac Dushku, on the other hand, learned to make real-world maps reminiscent of the kinds found in fantasy novels like Lord of the Rings. “Ever since I was a little kid, I always looked in the front of books at the maps. I always had one hanging on my wall and I thought, man, no one’s doing this for real-world locations,” says Dushku.

The desire for fairy-tale-like maps of real-world locations, and the boredom of quarantine, inspired Dushku to start creating the maps he would have loved as a child. “I drew a little map of Utah and posted it on Facebook just to test the water and to see if anyone thought it was cool,” he explains. “I wasn’t even planning on selling it. But someone said, hey, I’ll buy that. So that’s what really launched it. I spent the entire lockdown just drawing maps.”
Unfortunately, there’s a small amount of relatively common things you might want in literals that can be very confusing in monospace display: tabs, of course, but also all the other spaces (en, em, hair, etc., legitimately needed if you want your typography to be up to 18th-century standards and not argue about the “single vs double space” typewriter-age nonsense), hyphens and dashes and minuses (aka “why I’m still using -- and --- in my TeX code”), and so on.
In one of the articles, the modified servers were noted as also having an email associated that participated in the tor mailing lists.
For i2p, is there something like tails? Like a hardened read-only OS built to avoid the usual client opsec failures?
I used adaptive cruise in a Nissan Murano and it maintained assured safe distance perfectly. First time using adaptive cruise and I found it very confidence inspiring.
The RADAR that Tesla used to ship with (and older Teslas used to use before FSD12 disabled it) would have almost certainly seen the truck in this specific case.

The issue with RADAR was allegedly phantom braking, if Tesla marketing was to be believed. But other companies seem to have RADAR systems that work.

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Its fine to use 1.2 MP 1/3" CMOS sensors as part of a general-purpose sensor network (which may include RADAR, ultrasonic, and cheap Cameras all working together). I think LIDAR is still needed to really make things work, but RADAR + Cameras seem to cover a wide variety of cases.

What's a problem is when Tesla starts removing RADAR and pretends its an advantage. (Look, they couldn't figure out the RADAR false-positive problem, and there's a chip shortage right now anyway. So they just... stopped using RADAR)
I think the issue is more for all those kids living 10km outside that 30k town.
And I’d bet the difference between video and in-person would be even greater than the difference between compressed and non-compressed video.
Because the car had radar. There are plenty of other car brands that ship similar emergency breaking features that wouldn't have missed this. Also, I, as a human viewing a video with crappy color balance (much inferior to human night vision), noticed the car long before it was struck. At least I would have begun breaking before hitting the car.
The rent sky rocketed.

If you want to see what happens when you ignore basic economics and focus on feel good solutions, come on down.

Instead of making it easier to build housing，the local government effectively floods the market with housing vouchers. If you give out a 1200$ housing vouchers, a unit which would only be 800$ on the free market is all of a sudden 1200$ since that's the voucher's max.

I really do miss the LA of my youth, but it's gone now.
The problem with web apps is that the user doesn't really have any control over updates. With a regular app you can verify a version and stick to it. The web version can change at any point with no notice.

Additionally, a regular app can be signed by a key from the developers that you can verify. With a web app you don't even know if it comes from the developers or if you're being MITM-ed because someone managed to get a SSL certificate for your domain. The certificate isn't the only angle of attack either, your CDN or hosting provider might be hacked. Yes the CDN that hosts the regular app can also be hacked, but that will only work against brand new users, because existing users can already know the signing key and the hacked binary won't have the correct signature.
No. Read about "burner" reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Waste_reductio...
Talent and investment. There’s nothing fishy about that.
Not saying I wouldn't have crashed, but it's way more visible in this video. It's not even close. Definitely would have at least tried to brake, whereas in the compressed video the truck seems to just pop into existence out of the darkness.
>People don't want to make their own bread, and they don't want to be their own bank either.

Speak for yourself, I quite like the idea!
A car’s autopilot braking in the nick of time to avoid an “invisible” obstacle is basically a perfect viral video, surely that would be a top post here and on Facebook and Reddit if it existed
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It costs the Internet Archive $2/GB to host content in perpetuity. They have a tool, Archive It, that will periodically crawl your site for archival purposes if you are not technical.

For my needs, I run a report monthly for the content I’ve archived using my IA account to determine archived GBs, and then donate the amount needed to cover those costs.

Consider reaching out to their patron services email address with any questions.

Edit: $2/GB citation: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...
Are you saying that our culture hasn't really gone anywhere with psychedelic drugs, i.e., that so far there has only been a (if at all) small net benefit?
> However through recycling to reuse

Exactly! Fabs use lots of hazardous chemicals, it's not like they can just dump the water contaminated with these into the next river. And if they clean it, why not clean it a little more and reuse it?
A good friend of mine once cynically told me that academia is largely driven by narcissism. He was only half-serious, and it was probably more an expression of his frustration with his work, but that quote always stuck with me, because it does help to explain why very talented people would stay in a gruesome, relatiely low-paying field. This I think also applies to a decent degree to entrepreneurship, politicians and ambitious career people at Fortune companies. So assuming this as a primary motivating factor, I'd say humanity is building towards whatever serves the glorification of the ego of its most successful narcissists.

Phrased less cynically, we are all building our own little future, and humanity is the some of our constituent parts.

To also give a more pragmatic answer to your question, I think we are progressing fastly towards a global society, with centralisation of both private sector and state power in the hands of a few elites. States are generally becoming more authoritarian, while companies are becoming ever larger and more complicated. We are already in a situation in which the largest companies can take on smaller countries in "asymmetric warfare", and I think this will just escalate with less borders and a potentially shrinking cake due to climate change and changing demographics.
Its successor (now android tv) do have this ability. All work on q stopped at that time
I wasn't aware that this is an issue. It seems to me that the existing feature is 'text-based' folding rather than 'code-based'. I wouldn't notice as indentation very closely follows the code block structure in most of the code-bases I edit.

It could be useful to open a feature request for 'code-based' folding, if the existing 'text-based' one is considered to be working as intended. That way we're not fighting over a definition but rather showing demand for a new capability that everyone would agree is absent.
I think that's not possible on DVB-T (yes, there are countries like mine where DVB-T is used with Teletext). I wonder what are the options to recover teletext from today digital TV.
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how's it decentralized if 70% of eth nodes are hosted and their software keeps hard forking(backward incompatible)

you're just relying more middle-man but giving false sense of p2p network to the end-user

no bueno
I certainly hope that's not the logic anyone in power is using.

"Good news! We have tests. Bad news: We don't want you to use any."

The point of cheap, readily available antigen testing is so people can more safely do things like gather, go to school, etc. Making them expensive as a "deterrent" would be counter productive; treating a COVID patient uses orders of magnitude more plastic.
Speed leaves something to be desired but I have not had problems with reliability. I've used it - and Owncloud before that - for almost 10 years without losing any files. Which problems are you seeing?
This sounds like shilling.
Presumably you could fake a negative test just as easily as a positive test using the same method as the researchers. The researchers obviously were not covid-positive and thus had no choice but to fake a positive test for their research.
Man, that is an incredible glitch animated transition.

If you keep working on that I'd love the ability to see how it looks like my own background images right on the page.
I think the root cause of this boils down to one thing: Smart engineers have been screwed over time and time again by startups who used their talents and didn't reward them.

I've known many early, foundational employees work themselves dead only to get a meager payday while founders and executives (always hired when the risk is gone and who are always given more stock and money) get rich. You don't have to look far on HN to see similar stories.

So enough people experience that/read that and say, "If I'm not going to be rewarded, why not make more money?". So they do this. After all, the only people who could pull this off are the same types of people who would be those essential early engineers.

I'm sure there is some aspect of greed related to this, but I would posit that people who are driven to do this are doing this (deep down) because they feel they want to get back at a class of people who have done them wrong before.
It reminds me of the styles from the 60s/70s, like from David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1974-basic-computer-g...
I see Rust as an imperative language with functional support, and OCaml as a functional language with imperative support
Yes everyone is aware of the problems with flash. The point was that nothing today compares with how nice the development tools and experience were for it.
In theory, but who uses something other than either Github or Gitlab?

Obviously I know some people do, but I've yet to work on a project that doesn't just stick with the one.
In this case 1. Unless it's a ghost Tesla that travels the highways on its own?
> No snow, 300+ days of sun ... running a little low on water

All reasons I will never live in California. My ideal is four seasons, generous servings of rain and snow throughout the year, ideally never above 60 F, and not worrying about water. I do whatever I can to encourage people to keep flocking to NYC/LA/SF/etc so they stay out of everywhere else
3 months ago discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28871105

How's it going since then?
Borrowing money in exchange for a promise to pay it back isn't really a thing in defi (and I'm not sure it ever could be?) All DeFi i'm aware of is based on borrowing less than the value of some asset you stake to assure your repayment. It's definitely a different thing than most people think of when they think 'loan'
> once you’ve taken your picture, you need to: 1) remove remaining silver halide that wasn’t exposed to light, 2) “fix” the remaining silver so it’s stable

Isn't that somewhat backwards? The developer converts exposed grains to metalic silver to create a visible image from the latent one, the stop bath neutralizes the developing solution, and finally the fixer dissolves unexposed silver halide.
The number of developers who believe that operations is a support channel for development is truly amazing.

The amount of engineering leaders that allow it to happen is far more frustrating, at least IMO it is.
I think much of the world is still ambitious and optimistic. Modern America and the opioid epidemic reminds me of 19th century China that battled with opium addiction.
Sure. Just like blockchain- or any other decentralized ledger- may be a tremendously disruptive technology for property recording, sale/transfer, and financing in the future (compared to the current archaic system of deeds/titles for real property or UCC financing recording for secured transactions); so to, a graph database may clearly illustrate the point of bookkeeping along with the share of assets creditors and investors are entitled to realtime.
An excellent place to start is talking to your parents and grandparents and recording their history and stories online.
Most certainly not at that cost.

Easy access to tests is much more important than ridiculously inflated prices. There is no value at all to this, not for COVID lateral flow ag tests, it’s complete bullshit.

Those tests have to be plentiful, it has to be easy to get and make one. This also seems to be the case pretty much everywhere except in the US which is so weird. I read all these discussions about lateral flow ag tests from the US and they are like from another fucking planet. Why are those so hard to get in the US? And so expensive?

They are free and plentiful here (at test stations, insurance doesn’t matter) and still cheap enough in grocery stores to just have a couple dozen at home.
I’ve used syncthing for years now to keep a bunch of large folders with millions of files synced between multiple computers running windows, linux and macos. Works really well and it is light on system resources.
I personally think covid is no longer an emergency with the advent of the pill.

In a few months, I expect it will be over.
Everytime something good happens someone have to come up with something to make our efforts seem hopeless.

I'll say our efforts are not without hope for now.
How does this compare to solutions like git-annex, where multiple 'remotes' can be defined (whether it's dropbox, gdrive, ipfs, etc.) and you can track the availability of a given file across the remotes?
Depends on how you think of "forever". If you post an embarrassing video and someone saves and reposts it with your name attached, odds are that video isn't going to be around in 200 years. But what about the next 10, 20 or 40 years? In the context of your overall professional adult life, that's a long time.

"The Internet is forever" isn't some natural law by which all content abides as though it can never disappear. It's a warning that you don't control the content once it's accessible on the Internet.
> Imagine thinking profit-seeking is just a Western thing. Lol.

Seems pretty clear to me that the comment you're replying to is talking about short-term profit maximization, and not "profit seeking" in general.

The argument is that excessive short-term profit maximization hurts you in the long run by driving your customers to look for alternatives. Which you'll notice only makes sense as an argument if you do care about profits.

And I agree that it's debatable whether this is specifically a Western failing or not, but it's sure become a common approach over at least the last few decades in the US of A.
chevill says >"1. The type that's too incompetent to diagnose anything more complicated than a cold or a broken bone. Usually they are general practitioners, sometimes they are specialists."<

Dermatologists! Dermatologists!

My wife and I have gone to our healthcare providers' dermatologists about 6 time in total: each time they've sent us home with a diagnosis of "allergic reaction" and a prescription for a tub of cortisone (which we have, at this point, ceased to fill):

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0996/0350/products/triamci...

The cortisone never works, but I have two tubs of cortisone cream in the refrigerator in case of nuclear war.

This is a shame. We once had a private dermatologist who was simply outstanding - he nailed every problem with his diagnoses. But he retired. It seems the colleagues he left behind are all candidates for the
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.

My wife recently was given another "allergic reaction" diagnosis for a skin irritation and got another cortisone tub prescription. I looked at her skin and then, on a hunch, sat at her computer terminal awhile. Sure enough in a few minutes I felt stings on my neck and right arm. An examination with a magnifying glass revealed very tiny fire ants on my arm. I searched above her chair and found the source - a Chinese lantern was the ants' launch platform - they were falling onto her and then stinging her.

How a trained dermatologist cannot distinguish ant bites from an "allergic reaction" is beyond me. The ant bites have a red center and form blisters, which is nothing like a generalized allergic reaction.

A little bug spray and some ant baits took care of the ants. I don't know how to fix the dermatologists.