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Google is in the business of making software in exchange for money and they have internally determined that the way C++ is and the direction C++ is headed isn't good for them. They don't "care" about C++, they care about running a business. They have determined that C++ as it is isn't sufficient and the direction its going is not acceptable to meet long term goals, whether that be implementing new products or maintaining existing software. Google has wholly unique software organization problems that very few other companies probably have.

If you've seen their cppcon talks, you'll see that the changes they want are not what the committee (or even the general c++ community) focuses on (for example, I couldn't care less about ranges). For example, they want to make changes to unique_ptr because the inefficiencies in the ABI cause performance issues and probably can be tracked to additional cost per month. They couldn't make these changes without changing ABI. At google scale, small inefficiencies add up so fast.

I have no doubt they looked at D and saw that it wasn't feasible (for whatever reason) and they already stated why Rust is not sufficient. They wouldn't make this decision arbitrarily and we are not privy to all the meetings that went into the decision making process.
2: Don't use a DB. Use human-readable text files

For even faster prototyping -- maybe better called experiments -- skip the text files and do everything in memory. Just use the built-in collection types of the programming language. In Python for example, that would be lists, dictionaries, tuples etc, then you can simulate database queries with set comprehension expressions.
GP said the standard low-level language. Low-level code will always be a much smaller percentage of all code than the heaps of web apps our industry is shitting out on a daily basis.

Thus it would be completely reasonable for the de facto sysdev language to have a small market share overall(unless like for C/C++ there is a lot of legacy stuff to maintain) . Your sources don't shine any light on this at all.
Maybe if someone inside the SEC finds corruption they can get a meta-whistleblower award.
If you only have one reactor, sure... if you only have one solar cell, even a bird can stop electricity production. But, if you have multiple/many nuclear powerplants (such as france does), you can turn off one reactore and the others will take the load, fix the first, turn it back on, turn the second one off, do whatever, bring it back on,.... With solar, when it's night, it's night for all the solar cells in your country, and when there is very little or no wind, this can be true for whole regios or even your whole country again.
That would lead to more shareholder lawsuits. The $54.20 cash deal is like a golden carrot on a stick, seeing what happened to Snap and the cloudy economic outlook means they would tank in value if Musk sells his shares. They have no choice but to accept it.
In many cases, bridges were more influential in enabling road trips than interstates (or any highways) The Delaware Memorial Bridge allowed ferry-free driving from DC to New York in 1951. (And the NJ Turnpike, which opened the same year, is not a part of the federal Interstate system)
You can restore to any point of time from your database backup. So it can cover some requirements.
"... around age 10." C++ (not to mention C)? IIRC, I remember seeing B.S.'s "C with Classes" appear in ACM SIGPLAN Notices in the early 1980s -- 40 years ago. I don't think it hit its peak 10 or even 15 years after its early development. Given that it's C++, that's a pretty major exception.
>Now, the same board is begging him to complete the purchase.

"Begging" is definitely not the best word choice here. This is a lot less, "Oh, please, please, pleeeeeease Mr. Musk, please pay us, pretty please?" and a lot more, "Alright, we're tired of you fucking around. It's time for you climb out of your sandbox and hold up your end of the deal."
The code may be technically excellent, but solve the wrong problem. Communication with others, especially with the stakeholders and/or users, will help to distinguish wants vs needs vs nice to haves. It is not always easy to know how to ask the right questions to bring those differences to the surface. Good communication skills are very valuable, both in software development and in life.
Comma is still one of the rare startups I've seen that are able to enter into this fierce assisted driving systems market without the hype, lies and deception and have an actual working product, making money with low head count. That's how you do it.

Unlike Tesla's FSD (Fools Self Driving) contraption that is getting so much hype for it not working at night and still cannot detect the driver's attention properly. Not only they finally admitted that they needed an eye tracking driver monitoring system, that still doesn't even work either.

The FSD / Autopilot delusion created and boosted by Tesla was enough for the regulators to investigate this broken system. I don't see any of this in Comma.
But what if the creation was made on top of others ones?
Slightly unrelated but it's crazy to see how fast the sentiment towards Netflix has changed. This article from 2 years ago refers to Netflix as the platform everybody loves who can't do no wrong. I don't think I have read any positive articles about Netflix written in the last 6 months or so.
What I love about this essay, and essays like it, is the ignorance of history (not the author's necessarily) that it points to.

Stage and cinema were social events. You could go alone but usually you would not. The amount of inventory was small so everybody ended up talking about it; word of mouth could make or break a show.

When TV was introduced critics mourned this. There was so much more content that it couldn't build community. And the stupid kids just watched TV...with their friends. Even if their friends weren't with them they talked on the phone and of course saw each other at school.

Eventually the number of channels exploded, and people started watching online. And now the media pundits mourned the "water cooler conversation" that would no longer happen because people were no longer watching from the small set of shows (which had previously been considered too big).

Both these critics and the essay author understand that social interactions are what people want, but the critics have always been stuck in the past.
While I agree that it would be cool to retrofit old cars for self driving this is just not really the case at all - human vision is incredibly advanced and we have some insane processing power behind that vision along with very often decades of learning how to harness that vision.

What actually might be interesting would be a "self driving" addon that is actually just simply powered by a human remotely driving your car. Obviously you would need to add cameras and whatnot and it might be priced higher than most would want but with properly fast and reliable internet a random person could be driving your vehicle from their home while you sleep.
As a former wildland fire fighter, I can assure you that temperature (and wind and relative humidity) have a HUGE effect on fire behavior. Furthermore temperature and relative humidity (not so much wind) have a huge impact on ignition. My training emphasized this quite heavily, but I thought the effect was exaggerated until I experienced it first hand.

In the Western US, construction, mining, forestry, etc. industries are well aware of the fire risk from routine work (construction equipment, off road vehicle traffic, chain saw work, etc.). In "red flag" conditions, there are fire watch policies. For example in forestry work, my crew would have to cease chain saw work late in the morning and stand a fire watch for 30 minutes before leaving the work site.

So as I watch the news about these fires, my first thought is ignitions: routine activities (parking a vehicle on grass, driving construction equipment, discarding a cigarette) that would be unlikely to cause a fire in normal (backward looking) UK weather conditions. My next thought is that once a fire has started, it is likely to burn hot and fast. Hotter and faster than I suspect fire fighters in London are accustomed to.

As an aside, I have been trying to figure out a good source for weather data. I see plenty of sources for temperature, but I am curious about the wind speeds and relative humidity. From the photos I am seeing, it looks like wind speeds are over 10 mph.
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That's a factor for canceling flights on smaller, lower range jets. The big long-distance jets have the problem I mentioned.
I absolutely agree with you - thanks for the chime in.
Which is not a footgun.
It’s not security for the end user

It’s security for Google

Back in the day, you could upload, for an example, a specially-crafted HTML file with your own malicious JS code to, for an example, an image hosting service and basically use them to serve your attack upload. You could more or less abuse any website upload form to host any file that that you wanted. It was bad.

Browsers have drastically improved but why risk it? Using a separate domain makes a lot of scary scenarios completely impossible.
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> Elon Musk doesn't know you exist and doesn't care what you think about him

Sorry. I am trying to engage with everyone here respectfully. I generally feel people who write like this have anger issues or purely dismissive. The later seems true if I read the answer carefully enough. I don't think I have made a personal affront to him to receive one. And the opinion is honest - writing like this unprovoked, is not okay & outside of HN guidelines anyway
So what next? It is amazing how little resources we are devoting to solve the existential problem of water scarcity that is even now happening almost everywhere around the world. Maybe we won’t realize until it suddenly hit us? I hope I am wrong.
"Engineers and planners don’t actually know what the worst case scenario drought will be over the lifetime of a reservoir."
I'm not sure about IP rights, but saying natural rights derive from property rights, which this sounds like, is pretty popular in right wing libertarian circles. The idea being that if you own yourself, all human rights become property rights. This is the basis of things like Ayn Rand's "objectivism", a philisophy effectively claiming to have solved morality once and for all.

It is, of course, clearly nonsense if you try to use it for anything more than justify unfettered capitalism or drug legalization. Most famously being unable to effectively condemn things like pedophilia, slave contracts or human trafficking. But this exact ability to come to counterintuitive conclusions about many things means it remains very popular among certain groups of people.
Are people going to start creating fraud just to expose themselves and get 10-30% of the take?
Sure, see https://ibb.co/NKBvMgw
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> We don't live in a dictatorship and so absolutes [..] don't really happen.

Of course they do and their existence isn't evidence of a dictatorship. These laws come about via elected bodies.

Raising taxes is perhaps even worse in terms of the message. "You can have this thing but you'll have to be minted to afford it." It lends prestige to something which might just be unnecessary. If it is, just ban it. Certain classes of vehicle used within cities are a good first step.
Plus, if you miss a mistake in a shoot it will be expensive to fix after shooting wraps, if not impossible. Bugs might get more expensive to fix over time, but most don't, really. Not like that—not with such a very-near-future cliff after which they get far more expensive. And I'm not sure how many more you'd catch doing daily team reviews versus less-frequent targeted code reviews, anyway. The practice sure sounds brain-meltingly dull, to me, and with little benefit.
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> real costs

Smaller real costs. It costs less to build and operate a solar or wind farm than just to operate an already-paid-for coal plant. It costs, just now, about the same to build and operate a solar or wind farm as to just operate an already-paid-for nuke. But renewable costs are still falling fast.

Cost of storage is falling faster than wind or solar ever did. By the time Cali needs to build storage -- after there is renewable generation capacity to charge it from -- it will be very cheap.
Only really if Twitter would trend to go over the offered price. Which I doubt.
I would take this further and find out what is the most energy intensive computing task across these DCs and attack those first. This is a huge unknown for me as I have no statistics on what activities result in the most energy usage in these DCs but if I have to guess, it is probably GPU/Database.

I would also tax personal data. Current regulatory framework strangely assumes that personal data has no value yet entire companies are built around monetizing and claiming it as theirs. Those companies are also the biggest consumers of these DCs.

Even by taxing personal data that is being used by companies, you could realize significant energy savings as they have to discern between what they need and what they dont. Asking for someones driver license to verify their account? Tax them yearly. Suddenly companies that dont really need it find themselves searching for more energy efficient solutions since their tax dollars depend on this activity.

Unfortunately, we may not see this happen for quite some time.
>Eventually, irrigated farming in Arizona and Nevada may become a thing of the past.

Why is there irrigated farming in Arizona?? It's a desert!
> is a luxury, and is not an expectation that can be extrapolated to an average attendee of a Major League Baseball game

This is exactly what the article is about. It used to be a normal thing for normal families to do, but the prices have gone up significantly.

You wouldn't drive to Oakland? Why? It's quite literally a stadium surrounded by parking https://www.google.com/maps/place/RingCentral+Coliseum/@37.7...
What types of problems are solvable now that this sort of infra is possible?
>given that Samsung in an unhappy spouse in a loveless marriage of necessity

What makes you think Samsung is a "unhappy spouse"? They save billons by having Google develop Android and spoon feeding them security updates each month all for free. Samsung can leave this relationship any time the want and they've probably though about it. Then they saw what happened to Huawei and Samsung fell in love with Google all over again. Samsung doesn't want to be Huawei-d, but they will be if they ever leave Android and the Android ecosystem.

>how are you going to convince Samsung to switch to Fuchsia? I still see no answer to that.

Why wouldn't Samsung switch to Fuchsia? If Fuchsia really is the next generation of Android then it seems logical to hop on that train or be left behind and trying to maintain a sunset OS with limited, if any, support from Google.
The real figure, half a decade ago, was a loss of 50% over 70 years which is already very scary when you know that it constitutes 50 to 70% of the photosynthesis capacity of our world, and thus the ability to remove CO2 from the environment.

AFAIK, the trend hasn’t changed.
Guess you didn't watch the viral video of the guy on skates with a drink in his hand, listening to Fleetwood Mac...
I also would love to see Musk and Tesla to crash. Entirely deservedly.
> VMware Announces Plans to Remove Non-complying Code, Hellwig Decides Not to Appeal
Trivial case I hit:

1) Client wants to remove user from the system who have left their org but

2) There are objects that were contributed by that user which are required to persist beyond the user's deletion.

Those are ideal cases for soft deletion. We can still query information about the deleted user to explain who created this object, with the note that their account has been deleted.

Probably I should be doing full event-sourcing for this case, but delete flag works well. MS offers temporal tables for this use case and I'm still considering the implications there -- AFAIK ORM support is WIP.

And unlike the article author, I have used soft deletion to undelete things. Many times. Maybe he has better users than I do, I don't know.
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I would pay $20/month for an API that let me download a chunk of music/sound, with the rights to use it in commercial products. With the option of fade in/out at start and end, and the ability to specify the duration of the sound downloaded.
I don't think "there are some place where law enforcement doesn't give a shit" is a good reason to just not care about legality. At the very least, it would behoove someone living in a place Detroit to at least think about it -- and perhaps decide "nah, no one is going to bother me" -- before starting something.
>The two examples show exactly the problem of the median: it is not that different from the mean in many situation when we talk about salaries and incomes

???

Did you compute them? do you know how?

The Brazil data I just posted has median around 1383, mean of 2308.36, which is 65% larger.

An interesting test: compute with details the median and mean of the data I just posted. I already gave you the answers. I think you don't understand these terms.

That you don't like the outcome of the most two commonly used indicators is not the fault of the indicators - it's the result of you wanting to put things in the data that are not there.

Your claim about Brazil having "hardly anyone", which I showed was nonsense, shows exactly what you're trying to do - put things in data that simply are not there (and in the case of your claim, are mathematically invalid no matter the income distribution).

>Now, if you start using the percentiles as you're doing here, then you are looking deeper into the data

Percentiles have the exact same graph as dollars, or pesos, or anything you desire.

% = exact$ / total $.

So they have the exact same graph, merely a different label. Do you understand this? The % of total income versus income shows nothing different, there is no "deeper into the data" or "more accurate and reflective of reality" for this.

It's simply scaling ALL the numbers by a constant. No one changes place. No income compared to another changes in ratio. There is no subtle nuance pulled out of anywhere.

>which just proves my point.

Is your point that you don't know what any of these terms mean? Then yes, you proved your point. Mean, median, percent, ratio, decile, all the terms related to income - you have screwed them all up beyond reason.

Don't bother replying until you answer the questions I poste last time:

Do you admit 50% of people in Brazil make median income or more? What amount of people did you mean by "hardly anyone"?

Also answer: is the graph of income by % the same geometric shape as income by $, or yen, or peso, or any currency you care to pick, thereby giving no "looking deeper into the data"?
It’s only devastating because competitors have access and understand all the things that were to good to have public and patent.
Humanity will ignore its existential problems until existence becomes immediately threatened.
The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail
I've seen several wealthy celebrities, yes.
It could just be my state's state fair, but with 2 kids, I could easily spend more money at the state fair to keep the, entertained all day compared to disney The only thing that would make disney more expensive is the hotel cost. By the time you pay 20 bucks for 10 tickets that the kids use up on rides and games in 30 minutes, because the carousel cost 3 tickets per rider. That game is 2 tickets per round and that ride over there is 4 tickets per rider.

That isn't to say Disney is cheap. It isn't cheap either.
So do you. Basically made up.
Their soil is extremely fertile. You can grow just about anything, even cotton, given enough water.

Edit: grammar
drivers are willing to shell out more than what is reasonable for a slice of asphalt.

If drivers are willing to pay, isn't it reasonable? Isn't that a core tenet of supply and demand?
What can do they with the public key vs private key?
> What would have happened if it had told Hollywood to go love itself somewhere?

Intel's executives would show up to play golf, and find out that nobody wanted to play with them. They might even be no longer welcome at the country club. Power structures coalesce, because powerful people identify with each others' authoritarian desires.
I think whistle blowers should potentially even be eligible for WitSec. These people are likely giving up their career and ability to provide for their family. This is the least we can do for their service.
Why would private keys be on the chip?
It is not easy to hire a business leader in the AI sector that knows something about AI. And here is not even the "easy" AI, we are talking about autonomous driving that is like the edge of innovation in AI using computer vision and reinforcement learning. It is hard to find technical people that knows RL, it is much easier for the funder to get better in the business side.
Masters of Doom. I'd definitely go into game programming.
It wasn't any where near a car. It was on a garden tiller. Traditional ICE lawn equipment still uses carbs.
From part 2:

> Nobody will have cars without a safety driver in cities anytime soon.

Did not take that long.
Most places don't have a "theme" park like Disneyland. And Amusement parks are often very expensive too. In some cases the park ticket and parking is almost as expensive as Disneyland (as is the case for me). Although, it is cheaper because of travel expenses (unless you live close to Disneyland).
> what would be NATO's way of defeating a single high value target that is under good air defense?

Wild Weasel air force pilots, who fly into areas of high air defense and fights it head on.

> First suppression/defeat of that air defense, then launch Tomahawks or whatever other missiles are available

Probably the opposite. Pilots and F35 are more expensive than Tomahawks. USA opened Iraq 2003 with 700+ Tomahawk missiles and then flew in with Wild Weasel pilots afterwards.

Bonus points: as the enemy shoots down Tomahawk missiles, you learn where their strongest air defense systems are.

So a massive bombardment of Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the most important radar / air defense systems / enemy runways, followed up by specialist pilots who train for the role of flying inside the enemy's air defense system.

Maybe 2003 Iraq is a bad example because their air defense system was basically crippled before the Wild Weasel pilots even entered the battlefield. Nonetheless, a huge saturation attack like that is what the USA is capable of. There's something to be said about just masses of missiles attacking all roughly at the same time... its really hard for defense systems to react to such a large mass.
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This is likely the result of the recent braindead 'your intentions don't matter, only impact' mantra that has taken hold. Gone are the days of just trying to assume people mean the best, it's just about how things make us feel. It's hard for me to understand how we can progress as a country, or society perhaps, where collective reasoning and assuming the best in people has been replaced with focus on each person as an individual on an emotional level. Just seems like a recipe for...well, the way things are today.
Yeah. It was my first time seeing a rather simple extension by solo dev getting YC funded. Not saying that it's not possible but highly unlikely.

Agree with above. It gives a false impression.
> referencing anal sex and two musicians, one of whom is effeminate and the other gay(and famously popular among gay people), all as insults.

It sounds like you believe that only gay people have anal sex, and that only gay people enjoy the music of Elton John and Justin Beiber, is that correct?