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Phones have indeed allowed people to both need and satisfy that need for constant stimulation. It's pretty sad.

I'm the kind of guy in a coffee shop, waiting room, etc. who just stares into space glad that I owe my thoughts to myself and not my phone. But when everyone else has their phones out except for me, people probably think I'm a weirdo.

And it's not just phones, mind you. It's televisions, also. I used to go to a nice, quiet, and remote barbershop. Affordable haircuts and no noise. What's not to love? As soon as he started attracting more customers, boom: television in the waiting room. Gotta keep people constantly distracted I guess :\

I saw a guy today in a coffee shop. He had no smartphone, tablet or laptop. He just sat there drinking his coffee. Like a psychopath. (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5j54a0AOYfg/VqbpdyKMA8I/A...)
Yeah, I hate vendor lockin and would love to see this extended to OpenCL
It's California. It's always California. It was California in the 80s and 90s, it's California today. Always somebody else's fault.

And yes, I'm just bitter because nobody bothered to thank me for moving TO California :)
How giant is giant?

I've seen tens of thousands of lines of code compile in 30 minutes.

I've seen a hundred thousand lines of code compile in 2 minutes.

It really depends on how the project is laid out. If you're using lots of header-only libraries and try to compile monolithically (like soooooo many C++ applications do these days), you're going to have a bad (compile) time.
rapid slowing is fairly common in 280. I find it safest to be on the left-most lane, where you can use shoulder to get you a safe stop. rapid slowing is one reason i'd probably get level-2 autonomous car.
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That's a mischaracterization of my words.

I don't consider myself particularly stupid or weird but I do admit to bias on that topic.
I freelance and find my own clients.
Same here. Still watch recorded in cases I missed live webcast although much less exciting. I hope ride up there within the next 20 years, hopefully sooner.
The paper is here: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/abstract...
For me it's not even a conscious effort, as it feels rude to be on your phone, when you are having a meal with someone. Is it not rude to start reading a book while you are having a lunch with someone, why is the phone any different.

When there is a need to look at your phone (Important message, a call, or even to look up something), I think the polite thing is to excuse yourself, do the thing really quickly, and get back to your meal.
Parents face a bit of a catch-22: Those that have kids young are not all that grown up themselves. Those that have them later have trouble remembering what it is like to be a kid. They each have their upsides and downsides. There is no perfect time to become a parent. But, I think older parents have challenges they didn't expect because being a parent is not like your day job. Even if you do daycare, you get to put it down at the end of the day. A child is responsibility 24/7, even when they are at school or daycare. It is just different in important ways from most other pursuits.

Plus, we don't really have an established culture for dealing with all this as a parent. So much of our very widespread tech is too new for us to have some established precedent to confidently draw upon.
If you rent, you blame Amazon for high rents and home prices.

If you own, you pat yourself on the back for making a wise financial decision.

Funny how that works :)
I think they meant that if we have civilisation collapse on Earth then the Lunar folk are screwed too, because their supplies would be cut off permanently.
What... plants... crave?
This remembers me how in Russia possible investors "test" local social networks. They make a scandal, ask the police to start an investigation and so on. TV, Radio, whole internet discuss this. In a month someone will buy shares in the company.
I deleted my Facebook account two years ago, and I am much happier as a result.
The moon is a pretty terrible backup for Civilization.

A lot of the things (majority) that would eradicate life on earth would also eradicate life on the moon.
I ride a bus across the city that goes almost door to door from my apartment to my office. It's fantastic. I used to do the commute across the area by car and it was awful, a couple hours a day sitting in my car wasting time.
You don't believe that's accidental, do you? =)
In Google Analytics issue last month, "legacy" uBlock could block the connection while webextension version couldn't. It can't because it is not allowed to (openness), as a result your privacy is compromised.
I have to admit to two of those :)
As I already said, most people probably don't share your definition of initiating force and coercion. You provide no reason why those terms should be based only on private property. If you define initiation of force as "initiation of force, except when i'm protecting property", then you can obviously come to the conclusion that you don't initiate force, but you are still initiating force by other peoples definition, unless you can justify to them the assumption in your definition.
Sorry, I'm confused, you felt pressured or you felt that people are just doing their thing?
Wow, if I were a passenger in the second video, I would insist on taking over if a human were driving. I don't know anything about the technical issues, but this is so not ready for prime time, it seems from that test autopilot drive to be super amateurish.
There's a pretty good case to be made that the dominant role of the neoliberal faction of the Democratic Party makes it the party that is substantively best for big business and the super rich at the moment (when it became dominant, it's economic policies we're not far from those of the dominant faction of the Republican Party—hence the “neoliberal consensus” that used to be frequently discussed—but since then he overlapping nativist/protectivist, social conservative, and religious authoritarian factions have gained more power.)
Did the number of people killed by police drop since tasers were added? Any research on that?
makes sense. given how much folks talk about concurrency you'd think it would be at top of mind from the beginning of a project.
The story specifically mentions that there were suspicious calls asking if a store was a NYT reporting store, followed by bulk orders with no delivery date.
CMake helps a good bit, ccache goes further, and ninja helps a bit too. But none of them can help templated header-only libraries with complex interdependencies. It gets particularly bad when the developer #includes a convenience header to bring in _everything_ in the library instead of just what they need.
I find Udemy is a lot better. The courses have been rated by other people so you can usually figure out if it's worth the effort to spend $15 on it.
Yes, I updated my comment a short time before you commented. Not sure why you are downvoted.
>Not splitting the community because the guy is an asshole is still splitting the community between "people who will put up with the asshole" and "people who leave the community because of the asshole".

Note how all the BS they mentioned show absolutely no proof that the guy is an asshole.

I'd go as far as to say that the people that did the split and power grub move are the real asshole and they should be ashamed and driven away from any community.
I'm not sure why you're arguing with the person that keeps responding to you. I think you've clearly made the point that Apple feels like they don't need to work off of existing design or technology methodologies and yet this person seems to think that Apple's entire predicted failure is that they're not working off of existing processes and technologies. He seems to be arguing a straw man of your argument rather than your actual argument and part of me feels like he's being willfully disingenuous in doing so. It's "Apple can't possibly do it different than everyone else because everyone else has only been able to do it in this one way" without any room for the possibility that the "best" (subjective, of course) solution may be one that doesn't exist yet because it requires the very paradigm shift you're referencing.
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I think the mapping between rail and motor vehicle transportation is not necessarily a direct one. Rail (excluding public transit like subway) is more infrastructural and largely unseen, and cars are basically a daily experience for the majority of the population; this fundamentally changes people's perceptions of each.

> Nobody will ride a driverless vehicle provided the explanation that it is, you know, "already an improvement when compared to a typical driver".

I don't necessarily think this is true (perhaps age-correlated?). Let's set aside the issue of whether or not we can do it, for now, and assume that we have a scenario where self-driving cars are safer than human drivers.

In this context, I can easily imagine a political campaign à la "Think of the children!" that paints human drivers as fundamentally unsafe, advocating for a self-driving mandate in urban areas. Perhaps with a Cash-for-Clunkers type of deal to aid the transition. I am not saying this is desirable, merely plausible; it has all the elements of good politics: an easily-grasped bright-line dichotomy, emotional manipulation, and massive corporate benefits (for vehicle manufacturers, self-driving software vendors, and transportation providers like Uber).
Dying of cancer, David Hume wrote some notes about his life. The final paragraph is rather moving because he speaks of himself in the past tense:

>To conclude historically with my own character. I am, or rather was (for that is the style I must now use in speaking of myself, which emboldens me the more to speak my sentiments); I was, I say, a man of mild disposition, of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments. My company was not unacceptable to the young and careless, as well as to the studious and literary; and as I took a particular pleasure in the company of modest women, I had no reason to be displeased with the reception I met with from them. In a word, though most men, any wise eminent, have found reason to complain of calumny, I never was touched, or even attacked by her baleful tooth: and though I wantonly exposed myself to the rage of both civil and religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: Not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration of myself, but I hope it is not a misplaced one; and this is a matter of fact which is easily cleared and ascertained.

https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/humelife.html
Evidence is against it. We have cabs (also Uber, Lyft, etc.) now, but most people outside dense urban cores still choose to own their own car.
Interesting article, personally I think this is more useful: https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules
It seemed pretty clear from the context that she was referring not to a solitary instance, but a dinnertime prohibition on electronics.

And if not, it's a good place to start.
I like your creative thinking, but that wouldn't work. An immediate problem is it would only train the driver to pay attention when they hear a disengagement chime. L2 depends on the driver to monitor the autopilot continuously.

More productively, Tesla currently senses hands on the wheel. Perhaps they could extend that with an interior camera that visually analyzes the driver's face to ensure their eyes are on the the road.
The problem isn't with devices or necessarily "screen time" but with the types of software on these devices. Social media is just 21st century TV -- that's why it's harmful. The platforms that are ad-driven and engineered to be addictive don't help us connect in the same meaningful ways we get offline.

So as you might restrict your kids' time watching TV, parents should be aware of the amount of time kids spend on interactive TV. Phones are particularly demonized because their omnipresence encourages more consumption, but really they're just the physical manifestation of the individual problems starting inside the devices. (Aside: I'd really be curious to know the amount of time people spend passively consuming information on social media vs. creating / contributing.)

And as an industry I think it's important we find other business models. We build these apps for "stickiness" and "engagement" -- seemingly innocuous metrics that ultimately accumulate to form these larger societal issues.
I was wondering the same. I have a very similar experience to yours (3 dishwashers in France, all of them Bosh or Siemens) and this is one of these wonderful inventions which change life.
Obviously by not accompanying the link with an offensive comment.

Links are not just the a href="xxx" part.
That's great then. As adults were are left to our own devices to figure out how to use new technology. Giving children those mechanisms will serve them well long-term.
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That's an impressive number considering the weight that it'll be pulling, but hows does this compare to gas range on current new rigs? Those refill to a full tank in a few minutes, whereas you need to wait quite a while from a full to empty electric charge.
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I live in Europe and I wouldn't say that it is much "better" here - it depends on the places and the subcultures obviously, but for sure you will also see lots of people staring at their phones (and I admit to do it myself from time to time).

Nobody would say s(he) is a bad driver, but so many people complain about the driving of other people.
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That is seriously laughable how bad that is. The parent to your comment either doesn't remember what things were like prior to the iPhone or they're intentionally ignoring the differences.
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The nice thing about this one is that it actually does have some important kernels of truth amid all the hilarity. Especially this bit about threat models:

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@ virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

More security researchers need to learn about that.
I don't see how you'd draw that conclusion. It seems possible to have a workable, purely optical solution. Our workable solution today relies purely on optical (human drivers).
Why are you friends with this person?
> It's not on by default because, again, it makes it complicated when you have multiple clients

This is simply not true. The reason it's not on by default is because we're still developing it and it's in beta. It's not tacked on; we've designed in E2E from the outset - but implementing it well in a decentralised manner is a huge amount of work; probably 5-6x more than in a centralised system like Signal. We're not going to enable it by default until we are 99.999% sure that it won't cause regressions over the non-e2e client.

> Either they have to make a UX-friendly way of warning everybody that there's a new client

I think you must have tried it a (very long) while ago - we've had the UnknownDeviceDialog since February. It looks like this (https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/mOOj...), and warns you every time a new device is added to the room, and gives you the option of blacklisting it from receiving your messages if you don't trust it.

Now, totally agreed that this UX is ugly and needs work, but this is NOTHING to do with the decentralised or federated nature of the protocol. It's simply that we currently are very resource constrained currently for working on web front-end issues.

That said, if your ONLY priority is security, then Moxie's "the ecosystem is moving" probably has a point. After all, in an open ecosystem like Matrix, it's possible someone will fire up a buggy/malicious client and inadvertently compromise a room. However, if you value freedom as well as privacy, Matrix or OMEMO are basically your only choices.
I wasn't there, but I don't think they were requesting his resignation based on his questioning of the Code of Conduct. From the sound of things, they had called him on several CoC violations over an extended period of time. The community response was to let him off with a warning, maybe? Not sure what actions were taken to address people's concerns.

@rvagg's response was to openly mock the idea of a Code of Conduct. So then not only was he potentially getting away with violating the CoC, he was publicly mocking the whole system with impunity.

"Free Speech" grants us (American Citizens) the right to say (mostly) whatever we want without fear of breaking the law. No one is accusing him of breaking the law. No one is trampling anyone's freedom of speech.
Maybe autobuses would be the difficult medium — disastrous consequence of failure with at least the same operational complexity as cars.

However I don't see how the fears of an industry that needed to have extremely good results immediately need to be extended to one in which all signs point to progressive improvement. The danger being that the general public is fast to jump on blind trust, but to be compared with a vastly different ratio of number of people who are / can be in control to number of people affected, at least for cars and trucks which as far as I know are the first POIs in this industry. Autobuses might get automation slower than the rest of the fleet (no source, just from the top of my head).
I'd say 9 out of 10 of those couples you see on their screens in a restaurant are on a first date.
That sounds at least somewhat workable. The Accord seemed to drop out of cruise control if the speed dropped below 15-20 Mph, so it was entirely useless in stop-and-go, and even slow-and-go.
Wasn’t talking about you specifically (or at all, truth be told), and I thought that was pretty clear.
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There are also defensive patents. If you don't defend them, you can lose them. If Facebook (or a company that they acquire) starts by infringing your patents, then the PATENTS file would seem to apply.

I haven't heard anyone address that scenario yet.
It's not a fair analogy. Smartphones are still a premium product ($800 new). They were heavily subsidized by the mobile carriers which made them accessible. However, we are slowly seeing that subsidization eroding (fortunately now everyone is addicted).

I don't mean to be petty but it's not "economics" that drives prices down but rather competition. The thing about smartphones is while they all had dramatically different surface behavior, underneath they all shared very similar technological cores (Qualcomm processors, iOS/Android/Windows OS, etc...) and were able to utilize those same innovations.

Artificial meat on the other hand doesn't seem to be like that. Every product is unique and requires significant investment in R&D to make a reality.

They have been selling it for a long time now, it's not like this stuff is brand new. My only point was that we have not seen the effects you are describing happening yet which is worrisome. It feels like they are happy with product positioning at the moment.
I'd guess that was because there are more factors in play than just distance. But I get the sense that you're trying to invert a logical implication somewhere.

The comparison you should be making is the rebellion of a distant colony versus a more local rebellion. I.e. why did the American Revolution succeed, but the Whiskey Rebellion fail?
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Some of you might be interested in an essay I wrote about von Neumann and Norbert Wiener that gives some of the background and context of this work.

http://www.ehudlamm.com/outsiders.pdf
There's nothing about JS as a language meant specifically to "programatically manipulate the DOM in the browser".

Anything it does related to that is just simple library code and methods on the "document", "element", etc objects -- and that's only when run in the browser where those are available (automatically "imported" let's say). Node doesn't even have the "document" object.
most drivers are lazy, distracted and accident prone.

If this had any element of truth roads would be empty.

This kind of sweeping and bigoted dismissal of other people is a bit too self serving in the context of self driving cars and is made too casually and too often on HN now to allow balanced discussion.
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In theory, devices can enhance social engagement. In actuality, they more commonly put up barriers. You name my nightly meal a myth. I'll name yours an unrealistic fantasy.
Sure. But many of the worst performing schools are under funded. You can find outliers either way. There's also the fact that the way k-12 schools are funded causes socio-economic segregation. People with means congregate together due to schools (among other reasons). I don't know if this would be true but maybe if there was genuine equality of funding throughout the country then maybe there would be less socio-economic segregation.
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This would be due to string interning, which automatically caches small strings, which are very common because attribute names are just strings.
That's parenting advice I can get behind.
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> So, Slovakian workers are now realizing their current leverage, they might actually receive raises, but soon auto companies will move on.

Then they actually have no (sustainable) leverage at all.

In the end, the shareholders just matter more to these companies than the employees. They're often the ones signing off on the renumeration of the CEO and the executive team.
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Too many people have online personas that are simply terrible, opinionated loudmouths.

It's a shame, really. It's led to today's bifurcated society.
Salaries in Serbia can go up to 40-45000 on an annual basis ( taxes can be pretty insignificant). Even though that is not a lot of money, you can live lavish lifestyle of that money, since everything is super cheap ( monthy rent in the city center, 2 room apartment can be found for 300€)
>And the "Browser API" was invented to do what, exactly?

Whatever it was inveted to do is totally irrelevant, as the "browser API" is not Javascript the language/syntax but just an API (library/module).

In fact you could trivially implement it in all kinds of programming languages.
Sounds like the issue was the steering input, not the speed. I call BS on there being a single non-construction stretch of I-90 you can't take at 70mph in a Model S. Hell, the true speed is probably much closer to 110.

Normally I'd call the issue "the driver", but since the car was automated, it was an input failure, not a curve that couldn't be negotiated at that speed.
It wouldn't be as sexy as sending astronauts up, but I think we could get a lot of bang for the buck sending up generic robots and some scientific equipment that could also be used to boot-strap a local production environment for some resources. (solar oven/etc)

I imagine it would be useful to gather core samples from a variety of locations and catalog the location of resources. I wonder how much of that could be done with higher intensity radar aimed at the surface while in orbit...