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I'm in professional services (and have been for 14+ years)

My "work day" is a combination of what my customer expects/allows, and what my employer expects/allows

When I've traveled onsite, my "day" starts when I leave the hotel, and ends when I leave the office - lunch has been 50:50 countable towards my billable time (always when customers are present, sometimes when not)

When I'm remote (which has been the case for 2.5y straight and counting), I err on the side of caution wrt billable hours, and sign-on between 8 & 9 and sign off 9-10h later most days

But the most important thing is that the work I need to get done is getting done (and that I don't unauthorizedly blow past 40 billable hours to a given customer in a week)
The #1 most relevant goal for politicians is to get re-elected. (Personal enrichment is largely orthogonal.) Raising large campaign contributions is of obvious benefit to that effort, and is not directly a bribe per se. But it does have some of the same problems that bribery has.

It’s undoubtedly true that some US politicians have gotten bribes, defrauded partners or constituents, embezzled money from their campaigns or the government, used inside information to trade stocks, etc. But even if all of those were impossible, the nature of the US campaign finance system would create plenty of perverse incentives.
And Fallout's PipBoy is pretty much a smartphone strapped to the wrist, just with a bulkiness and physical interface that seemed realistic when the first game released in 1997
That is in my opinion the way to go with this, to either adapt the infrastructure to make it work or to at least separate the self driving traffic and the 'normal' traffic so the two won't interfere.
I'm 99% sure I'm the best NBA Live 2004 (PS2) player in the world (by a lot), if it means anything :)
> Law should always lag social consensus.

Oh fuck no. Social consensus is too slow. Look at the social consensus that tracking was bad followed expert consensus by like a decade, and really only started appearing after EU regulation.
Helpjoy – “How did we do?” is a question you should ask experts not customers
Those are true/eventually did happen up until 2018

2014 - 90% capable of autopilot, for sure highway travel

2015 - autonomous driving for highways and relatively simple roads

2016 - S/X can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person - generally true, it still messes up for human-correctable situations but in general helps more than it hurts in terms of "crashes where autopilot was in control during impact or within 5 seconds of impact"[0]

2018 - incorrectly predicted - self driving will be 100-200% safer than a person by next year (this talking about their full self driving thing that will do turns and stop signs and whatnot)

0: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Pluggable interfaces are ok, and Rust supports them just fine via traits. Actual implementation inheritance is inherently anti-modular.
There is nothing more useful than learning what to forget. At least I manage myself for rapidly reshaping my mind to fit the tasks of the year. Despite my postings here, the gcc options for gcc 2.72 don't help much compared to my curre t muscle memory for terraform.
I've seen articles about similar behavior among Chinese tourists in Austria. Bus load after bus load came to the small picturesque towns, unloaded, took their pictures, and then moved on.

An if course Japanese tourists where known for a long time for always taking pictures and video wherever they went.
Thanks!

Haha, yeah. I need to improve the UX part a bit! :)
In another HN thread just the other day (paraphrasing, but the tone is accurate): "macOS is shit because cmd+Q kills my programs and it's too easy to hit accidentally while trying to strike cmd+A"
It's possible to sue them but how deep are your pockets?
It’s hard to put my finger on any specific thing, and it may even come down to the fact that I see a lot more Waymos than Cruises, and have also seen Waymos around SF for much longer (or at least noticed them for longer).

I feel like Cruises are a bit more cautious, to the point of making me skeptical. But again, I’m struggling to think of any example in particular.

This might be silly but I also think the Cruise cars are much more ugly.
Fair enough. I knew homes in the US where typically made of wood, but not that that was also true in Florida. Wood is not a traditional material here because it's obviously going to rot in a humid environment.
Thanks for reminding me why I'm not a comedian. If you couldn't tell that anything in my comment was a joke, then I'm obviously not good at comedy.
The abstractions aren't just for simplicity. In many cases, ensuring that the distributed nature is unknown or unobserved means the system can make different decisions without affecting the program. This leaves room for flexibility in the system design.
Computational archeology sounds great, what do you do? Is there more demand?
Google is much more profitable than your bank, and this is why. The reason tech companies sit all at the top of most valuable companies is essentially because they've automated away a ton of tasks which normally require hiring a lot of employees.

The only way to fix this is to legally require it, because nobody's going to stop the profit train by themselves.
Or just don't link personal and company accounts. Even these issues aside , there are so many reasons to keep them separate and unrelated. That's not unique to Google but goes for GitHub, AWS, and whatever else.

Use company e-mail addresses to register for everything. Enforce it for your employees. This is in the interest of both the company and the employee. Yes, the summer intern gets a corp email too, which at minimum gets access to internal resources beyond the OT chatroom revoked when they are out.

(Your advise is not bad though: grant granular access as it's needed)
> * kids sent to school with the car to circle back and pick up the parents afterwards

Only if the parents are WFH and going to lunch. School starts too early already.
Nope. I know of several remote only companies that take advantage of local wages. Say someone in Bulgaria can make 30K € locally, but a US employee would cost 100K USD. The company will pay the contractor 60K in Euros. Still a huge bump for the Bulgarian, but far less than a US employee, even after you factor in employment taxes.
I saw my first self-driving car parked at Google in roughly 2008 or 2009, and watched them toodling around campus shortly afterward. Many people (like Larry) thought it was a 5 year project.
I don't get where you get the two decades from. Oracle acquired Sun in 2012.

The model for Java was Smalltalk, but in Smalltalk everything was an object => difficult to optimize. Primitive types were introduced in Java to optimize computation with those basic datatypes.

The state of things was fine, until Generics were introduced. Generics preserved backwards compatibility, but widened the division between object and primitive types.

This division was fine, until it started to matter that Java can't be used for high-performance applications. For enterprise application, this gap has never really mattered.
Google isn't the government, so the first amendment doesn't apply. Security in one's person and affects? The OP still has possession of their apps. Google is just deciding it won't sell them for the user.

And prohibition against slavery? It's both laughable and deeply offensive to consider this situation even remotely similar to chattel slavery.
> Is it impossible to sue Google?

Theoretically no but practically yes. Even if they know they are in the wrong and would loose a court case, they still "win" by just dragging it out and making you go broke on legal fees.
So no Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, or Illumos. What are they using, Soviet era kernels?
I wonder what the little icon is that the Waymo viz is putting on top of those double-parked cars.
> That says something.

Perhaps that not everyone records a taxi ride and posts it on YouTube.
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Yes, that's why Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have data centers in Europe that are used by European customers to target the European market with services that comply with all sorts of European rules and legislation. Including the GDPR.
Trucks that drive highways solely automatically, I'd expect would come way before cars navigating cities. I'd think trucks could just pull over on the shoulder in unusual conditions, e.g. bad weather, construction.

I suppose it's more a legal issue. Cars just need permission within a city, whereas trucks cross lots of legal boundaries?
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Bug report: The buttons used to change the animation duration do nothing, probably because the buttons have the `disabled` attribute applied.
"Flat design and its more popular successor, Material design, have been dominating the web UI for quite some time, featuring a minimalistic aesthetic that eliminates visual clutter and favors user experience."

Yeah. Unfortunately not everyone is masochistic enough to enjoy the Flat or Material design.
Abstraction is not what you think it is if you think it is not what I think it is.
It's probably nearly impossible at this point to avoid them entirely. They're in the air and have been detected in remote parts of the world with little human activity.

You could minimize contact more: prefer clothes without synthetic fibres. One possible vector for microplastics could come from dryer lint containing broken down bits of plastics from clothing: acrylic paints off of metal buttons, fibres, plastic buttons, etc.

If you eat fish, minimize your intake or consider avoiding them entirely. Another possible vector is accumulation through the food chain.

As always: reduce the need or dependence on plastic products in general.

Buy produce from local producers and wholesalers instead of grocery chains that wrap food in way too much plastic and packaging.

If you shave body hair consider using a straight or safety razor instead of disposable ones.

Reduce, reduce, and where you can't: reuse.
That's not what he quoted so I misunderstood. I was responding originally to the person insinuating that we need to find new jobs for people in the coal industry. Regardless of the energy returns, solar requires coal which would require people to work in the coal industry.
The video contained almost no information. Just a clip of a cyclist cutting in front of a Waymo car and then a cut back to the Waymo employee. It doesn't even show how the car responded.
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However small you feel the cultural value of Guitar Hero plays, it is still more than that of judgmental gatekeeping.
how are they going to know that the name matches the credit card?
Yes, and concurrency is, in fact, an implementation detail. Which is why I think that in most applied scenarios it should be hidden, and taken care of, by the compiler.
Re-read the full thread...

>>Grafana Labs needs to make a convincing comparison chart of some kind between Mimir, Thanos, and Cortex.

>I agree! Which is why I put one in the blog post ;-)
We gave these mofos an ecosytem because they were hiding behind the label of "free and open source software". Now they can screw anyone and not even answer to emails.
They are nothing but crooks.

All software giants hold too much power in their hands and nobody can touch them.
What can you do? They have at least 50% of the market.
“Welcome back to the office, here’s a beehive!”
the error isn't when x is small. it's when sin(x) is small. the problem happens for x near multiples of pi
I could certainly read more about this, it sounds fascinating. Will appreciate more of your knowledge or a thoughtful hyper link.
Here’s one that can be widely applied - from inside the cpu to your daily commute:

context switches are expensive

… and yes, sometimes so expensive that not knowing this might, indeed, have a 10x penalty.
> You can't legislate morality

Why not? That seems like a big statement to make without any reasoning to back it up.
There was a lot of discussion at the time this stuff went down: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/1/22812761/ubiquiti-data-br...

The HN comment majority also changed from when I made my first comment. At the time I was pushing back against the overwhelming sentiment here and on Twitter that Ubiquiti was going after a journalist just for reporting a breach. The story is way more mixed than that and from the stuff I remember reading at the time Brian wasn't in the right.

I don't want to be overconfident (I don't really know the specifics), but I did want to push back against the overwhelming overconfidence I saw arguing the other direction.
This isn't from using plastic utensils. It's from consuming meat that comes from animals that had plastics in their food, drinking local water supplies that have been tainted with microplastics and not treated (from what I've seen I think the only "proper" treatment here is reverse osmosis/distillation), and other random things listed in the article like toothpaste, tattoo ink, and lip gloss.
Meh. WP reports negatives on Amazon too.
I think one thing to keep in mind is that cheaters in baseball, cycling, and even Donkey Kong brought more eyeballs to those games than anyone could have imagined. I'm sure a lot of people forgot GH existed before seeing this thread.

I wonder how much devs should care about this in single player, score attack type games.
Seeing a "stable" visualization of what the car sees strengthens your confidence in its ability to perceive the world around the car.
The Guardian's coverage uses a very odd photo of a prototype: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/30/dyson-lau... , seems like an unsubtle "fuck this bullshit" from the photo editor there.
Like most adults, most of what I know about Roblox comes secondhand from the media. Recently I saw[1] a pretty damning video about Roblox's lack of moderation and exploitation of its users.

My basic perception at this point is that TikTok, Facebook, and Roblox all deserve each other. Hopefully they waste their money attacking each other until they mutually self-destruct.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
This is definitely not the norm for many large companies and really shows the emotional context of the leadership. If they feel attacked, or threatened, often they will resort to the same behavior in reverse.

Similarly, this seems to affect consumer companies a bit more often than B2B companies, but that isn't to say that they are immune.

Certainly not surprising to hear this about Facebook given it's history.
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What alternative did you end up using?
Ask HN: Could your company operate without meetings. Why or why not?
I totally get the value of meetings, but I've been running into companies that have different operating structures lately and wondering if there are companies out there that just don't have meetings. Curious to know what these hypothetical companies do and how they manage.
Not at the moment, but I will add support to work with Docker Compose.
OP: You don't happen to be an Iranian national, do you? Google's relationship with Iranians is... complicated, and likely influenced by the U.S.'s sanctions regime with respect to Iran and some of its nationals.
So does Linux (although by default it only seeds it after initial boot, so doesn't help with boot-time seeding), but the problem is that the seed must be trusted. Which may be true (or true enough) in a number of specific cases, but it's not true in general.
Indeed, but that's also true for any large organization, whatever their status: public, private, nonprofit.

I witnessed large sums being spent for very dubious reasons in private firms, mainly in order to meet ridiculous demands by executives. Show-off features despite no interest from customers, "visionary product" e.g. implementing a blockchain or "artificial intelligence" that classic algorithms could do as well for much cheaper.

The idea that private entities pay more attention to money than public entities is a prejudice. At least in modern developed democracies.

Financial scandals in private firms tend to be muted in order to preserve the external reputation: hence the impression that public entities are less careful.

It's all the same everywhere, no general rule in that matter.
A year later the State Dept. still hasn’t answered my FOIA on fake polls in Iraq
Isn't the kind of driving that waymo and others have been doing so far the edge case? Normal/ideal driving conditions is not what I spend the majority of my time driving in even if the different kinds of edge cases I drive in are individually less of my time.
I mean, you could call that basic logic and just take a philosophy course. That would provide formal and informal methods of evaluation without the need for actual calculus. This informal understanding and balancing is more closely aligned with philosophy than it is to calculus.
I am not insinuating that. I am arguing that a major part of a data center costs is electricity, and that an important percentage of what cloud customers pay comes from that data center cost. My comment was clear that was not the only cost for cloud providers.
I can’t speak for other states but my state does not allow gas stations to serve alcohol. Maybe beer at most, but that is tightly controlled and regulated via licenses, inspections, and tons regulations and liability on the licensee.
> Or they’ve found a way to give the AI a sense of confidence and assertiveness against people using micromobility to aggressively bypass urban traffic congestion.

I'm looking forward to mass robotics.

I'm not looking forward to corporate dark patterns in mass robotics.
So Hyperloop isn’t hiring?
It seems like the scene is kind of splitting though.

Commercial and commercial-inspired software is doing a great job of making totally standardized predictable platforms, and the DIY minded people pretty much only do things like Arch, unless they're getting paid a lot.

Doesn't seem like the dev community is really excited about anything safe and repeatable anymore.
Yup. Cheap 2x4 framing + drywall. Residential building/construction is more or less the same across the entire US regardless of native climate.
I legitimately can’t tell if this is a joke or not. It must be a joke, and yet it seems legit.
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That’s fair. But a lot of them also just try out Waymo for the cool factor and capture the ride (like myself).
In addition to a forum, I think blogs should have a built-in video chat, so that people can have real-time conversations about the posts.
> special lanes or highways just for automated tractor trailers.

I know that there's last-mile advantages to this compared to what already exists, but god damn I just cannot get over the fact that we've just reinvented trains with a much larger environmental impact.
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Are you claiming that "young" people can't join the professional workforce? Are they joining some other, "unfessional" workforce? Is there an age limit at which you're Old(tm) and then are able to be a true professional?
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Plan 9 was designed in this way, but never took off.

Rob Pike:

> This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.
> Today: You have to do it in some software menu, but invoking this, you're not even powering it off. You're requesting your computer to "pretty please, with sugar on top, turn off my computer when you're not too busy."

This captures my sentiment towards current trends in technology so aptly. I went to turn off a Windows machine the other day and the only options required allowing an update to be performed. There was no way to shut down or restart without allowing an upgrade. Fortunately I could bypass via the command line but this level of mediation is unwanted and abhorrent.
From the design video, it looks like it forces air in through the ear cones and then expels your exhalation forward with fans. Wouldn't this turn your face into an even more powerful droplet cannon?
My thoughts exactly! But from watching the video it seems real, they've actually built at least one of these...
They blogged about it here: https://austinhenley.com/blog/leavingacademia.html
How sad that we live in a world in which this is a product for which a corporation believes there will be a need.
Bold design.

Reminds me of Scorpion and, "get over here" from Mortal Kombat - https://www.deviantart.com/bakerrrr/art/Scorpion-GET-OVER-HE...
The fact that someone was killed by a car with an Uber computer on board does not mean that people have been killed by autonomous cars. It's easy to draw a bright line between realistic, responsible self-driving tech companies like Cruise and Waymo and the move-fast-kill-people shenanigans of Uber and Tesla. They are really two different categories.
Weird as they are, I need a pair! I currently use a face shield respirator helmet when the forest fire smoke gets bad and I still want to be outside working in the garden, so this would be more convenient!
It should also be noted that (as a product of their time) each of these affiliated economists had a vastly different approach and view on economics.

In light of this plurality, ignoring any quote from Schumpeter by default seems unwise. He clearly stimulated academic output in all sorts of directions and the same might hold true for the current reader.

I know quite a few scholars who happily quote Marx, Foucalt, Hayek, Lucas or Friedman and yet, many of them are absolutely worth listening to.
Could you explain what you mean the 0.0 case? math.isclose() has an abs_tol parameter for, among other things, handling comparisons to 0.
(Note: Intel graphics driver stability on Linux is pretty good.)
There is this famous story about research into image recognition back in 1960s - everyone involved thought it was literally a matter of few months, maybe a year at most, to have a system that has 100% accurate recognition capabilities.

Yet we're in 2022 and the best of the best image recognition systems spew out absolute nonsense no matter how much money is poured into them.

It's just the same sort of issue. It can work amazingly well 90% of the time, but the remaining 10% is basically impossible without some kind of actual general AI that can understand the context of what it's looking at. I honestly believe that current approaches to this tech will not get us to general self driving tech that is safe enough for use on our roads.
Is it so unfathomable to you that people make art for its own sake?
Most computers have an in-hardware function to cut power if you hold the power button down.
The thing is, price tags for cloud services are so much higher than what data center costs would be for hosting an equivalent service yourself that I doubt that the electricity rate difference would make a cloud service in Germany outright uncompetitive. What is 40% in data center cost may very well be <10% in cloud service pricing.
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> Tesla FSD beta has something like three orders of magnitude more miles driven under full autonomy now

Wait. “Keep your hands on the wheel” drives are NOT fully autonomous. By definition.
I agree it's not 100% the same thing but it's much closer than playing a plastic guitar.

Being an excellent GH drummer might make you (a mediocre) drummer IRL.
Being an excellent GH guitar player won't make you even a beginner guitar player IRL.
It's not "an entirely different skillset", it's a relevantly close skillset as long as drums are affected.
Daniel Tiger is decent. It teaches kids a bit of EQ, which I think is pretty cool.