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> What am I conflating? Everything I described is unsafe. Note that I'm not talking about failing to signal on an empty street or rolling a stop sign when there's good visibility and no traffic. I'm talking about failing to signal when there are lots of other cars around who could really use that information, or rolling a stop sign too fast to tell if you need to stop, or just without bothering to look.

You weren't quite that clear about it in the first post, the rolling stop sign with good visibility was my first mental picture while reading, so I apologize for the misunderstanding. That being said, all of these maneuvers you're talking about could easily cause an accident whether the other vehicle was AI driven or not, so I don't see how it's relevant to the topic at hand: that corner cuts and slights which are technically violations but not inherently unsafe need to be predicted and handled by the self-driving car.

> It's really weird that you use driving the speed limit in the left lane as an example of dangerous rule-abiding behavior. That's against the rules in most jurisdictions, and definitely should be in any where it's not.

Again this was my mental picture, the idea of a robot driving according to the letter of the law reminds me very much of the sort of people who cruise at speed limit in the passing lane, just for different reasons.

> I agree that it's possible to break the rules safely. Rolling a stop sign in a situation with good visibility or exceeding the speed limit by a bit is perfectly fine. I agree that humans sometimes break the rules safely.

Agree.

> But I disagree with the statement that humans violate the rules in a safe and principled way. When humans break the rules, it's almost never based on any principle besides sloth or selfishness, and while humans do break the rules safely sometimes, it's almost always safe by accident.

I would assert that the times they break them safely is not always safe by accident. Every given decision in driving is a balance of risk and reward, the reward more often than not arriving at one's destination faster, and that's where the majority good decisions come from. The bad ones are often not decisions of R&R but of distractions, as you point out like texting, or worse, inebriation. I'm not arguing human drivers are better: I'm merely trying to say that the article is, I feel, attempting to demonize people for driving like people drive, and saying self-driving tech needs to be able to handle the unpredictable nature of human drivers, just as I did on my commute earlier today, if it's going to be a mainstream technology.
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It is sometimes amazing how stupid traffic light systems are. One is giving left turning traffic and straight traffic going in the opposite direction green at the same time. That can be solved easily by making sure that all traffic that gets a green light can actually proceed across the intersection. This may need to vary with traffic density, but that's just a technical problem.

The bigger one is to make sure that the next traffic signal down the road is also green. To avoid traffic piling up on an intersection because it has nowhere to go. Of course, this should also depends on the amount of traffic.

Any city can in theory build systems where traffic that wants to go to empty roads gets more green and any traffic that wants to go to full roads gets less green.
I think warm standby is a relatively new feature for Postgres.

As someone who's had to configure warm standby recently, it's fine, but it's not active-active, which infuriated a few Oracle DBA colleagues. The best way to do that at the moment is by using a proxy like PgPool II.
> So the real question is how much the curve shifts. And we need the real number, not politically convenient fictions like calculating the change in the number of crimes committed using the prohibited weapons without counting crimes committed using substitute weapons.

We already have several empirical studies that show that there is no perfect substitution and that the new equilibrium is significantly lower.
Yeah as a proponent of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies I think it's important to recognize how they first established value. The only people that really had a self interested reason to use cryptocurrencies are people that were poorly served by the current situation.

Cryptocurrencies create a minimum coverage of ability to conduct financial operations, they are assets that a third party can not freeze, they are assets that a third party can not invalidate. Of course the first use cases will be illegal ones.
If you adopt the Parisian way, you can change lane very easily and quickly even if there is a big traffic jam. I have drive in traffic jam in smaller towns (like Cherbourg), it was more difficult to change lane.

The fact that you can not change lane without forcing is a normal consequence of the increase of the traffic. I think the unwritten rule is that people should not turn on flashing lights too early before acting. The better communication of the intents and a fair level of trust that other drivers will understand it (and not try to block you) makes driving a lot easier (in Paris).
> The interesting tech is not only AV but the infrastructure where cars communicate automatically about which lanes there in, what their intentions are etc.

I don't think that this will really work. Considering how interaction between tech of different manufacturers works in other areas, I doubt that cars will be able to safely communicate within milliseconds in high risk situations. But they won't need to, they can just use their own sensors to detect what happens around them.
He was mocking the original: “Look at my story! I’m going to use pop culture character names and memes and shit to identify with my audience! Whee!”
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> It won't help you with most killer avalanches such as large powder ones

This is tautological. Yes, few people survive killer avalanches, because that's what defines a killer avalanche.

Many avalanches encountered by backcountry skiers especially are not these giant killer ones, and can be survived either by skiing out of them or having the proper equipment and training. Your odds aren't great, but they aren't nothing either or people wouldn't bother carrying the gear. (beacon / shovel / probe / avy bag)

Anyways, this is sufficiently off topic, but your characterization of avalanches is movie-like-stuff. Huge avalanches happen but they aren't the typical case. Most are small / medium slides triggered by humans in the backcountry.
Look through the list yourself, but at least on my device, most of those kernel security issues aren't really of significant impact as apps don't have access to the APIs needed to trigger them and they're not remotely exploitable.
Don't Panic, but Wi-Fi's Main Security Protocol Has Been Broken
I consider the recruiters I work with (there aren't many) to be my agents. They know me, they know what I like, and they're familiar with the jobs they submit me for.

They're a different breed than what I consider run-of-the-mill headhunters who shotgun jobs more or less at random.

They don't use a lot of technology--agents require personal contact and an understanding of both the developer and company culture. It's nothing different than agents for actors--they know people, they know roles, they know actors.
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I orded a librem5 for this among other reasons.
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Eddy Cue 'Disagrees Vehemently' That Apple's Pace of Innovation Has Slowed
Ask HN: What is your yearly passive income?
civil asset forfeiture, capital controls

Bitcoin offers no special protection against this. Your problems would arrive in the real world with guns. See shutdown of exchanges in China.

Black market trading

If your opsec is perfect, maybe. See Ross Ulbricht.

intense privacy invasion by governments

Bitcoin keeps a public record of every transaction, forever. That is trivial to tie to your real world activity, in retrospect. It has not been important enough to do yet, but the data is there and data is already collected on other selectors linked to all online activity.

widespread privacy loss through corporations (Equifax, Verizon)

Bitcoin solves this how? Companies checking credit record will require your real world identity and past records. Why would they want to participate in your crypto-anarchist future?

Pseudo-anonymity is not anonymity, and most of the features you have listed as desirable, people simply don’t want, even if bitcoin could deliver them in a meaningful way for non technical people. For better or worse, they are revolutionary ideas which require a change of laws and government, not a change of tech.
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This, it seems to me, is a much more important vulnerability than the key-reinstallation attack on WPA2. It will take a very long time for every cached Infineon-generated RSA-1024/2048 key to be found and removed.
You haven't yet seen many SWEs decide on whether to do a rewrite yet have you ?
It is disheartening to see how a company like Dow can not just survive but flourish after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-...
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I am fascinated about this . Do you know where we can get more info about the way businesses treat their customers in Japan?
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The best part is that gravitational waves stand out in a way that events in the visible spectrum do not, so these gravitational wave observatories will be helping find events and get them observed in every portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can observe. That means we'll be observing many more of these kilonovae now. This truly is a new era, as we'll now be able to use all these observatories at the same time to observe the same events, and this will yield the highest possible resolution imaging of these events, as far-flung telescopes are able to function as one really, really big, virtual one.
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The real problem isn't Management style. Agile would be irrelevant if every programmer found it incredibly trivial to refactor huge portions of the program or very hard to introduce even one bug into the system....

We see a problem, we don't completely understand it, we think it's a problem with process but the same issues happen regardless of process, so then the issue must not be process... What's the common connection between all of this?

The complexity of code. Bugs, development time are directly related to coding style and coding technology and that is where the real issue lies.

The article author references martin fowler. Martin Fowler advocates a style of programming which makes it harder to refactor and easy to introduce bugs.
I doubt many drivers know their car and tyres well enough to assess the safe speed given current conditions. People either adapt to others or choose a speed they feel comfortable with. Speed limits are not perfect for every condition but humans are certainly not good at choosing a better one while driving.
I'll typically just sit there until the person yielding their right-of-way gives up and goes. No way I'm pulling in front of someone with the right-of-way only to have them change their mind on a whim. I just assume they're trying to commit insurance fraud and ruin my day, whether they are or not.
> A good manager would have nipped this in the bud before it started.

The problem here is that "good managers" are incredibly thin on the ground and even then, this situation can arise due to circumstances beyond their control (consider a politically well-connected developer, for example.)
"if someone is going to rear-end you, there's not much you can do (even if you can see it coming), other than brace yourself"

.. and by "brace yourself", you would touch your head to your headrest so that your neck has nowhere to move/flex with the impact. You want all of your body to be completely rearward in your seat.

Also, while this may be morally negative, if there is another car in front of you, you could creep forward and lightly touch their car with your own, making yourself the middle ball in the Newtons Cradle[1] that your three cars now describe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cradle
The number "20%" scares me because people will makes his a hard rule. Soon you'll have to justify why you didn't refactor your stuff.
I second that. I followed an 8 week university course teaching introductory programming using SML and picked up Haskell on my own afterwards. I think SML helped me get enthusiastic enough about FP to motivate me to study the more advanced concepts
The Gravitational wave was detected 2 seconds before the Gamma Ray Burst. I wonder why it is faster?

> On 17 August 2017 the NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States, working with the Virgo Interferometer in Italy, detected gravitational waves passing the Earth. This event, the fifth ever detected, was named GW170817. About two seconds later, two space observatories, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ESA’s INTErnational Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), detected a short gamma-ray burst from the same area of the sky.
These claims make me assume the original author exaggerated everything to the point that the whole story is essentially a lie. This guy was incredibly capable but copy-pasted everywhere and wrote shitty code? This doesn’t even make sense. It makes even less sense that somehow no one noticed his copy-paste coding for over two years until he was finally fired for other reasons. But then those same incompetents who didn’t notice the copy-pasting or generally overengineered spagetti code suddenly came together to rebuild the whole product in a quarter of the time with less than a tenth of the code.

Yeah right.
Robert Harper has written a few posts on his personal blog why they use SML to teach functional programming, why they teach it to freshmen, why they don't use Haskell ect https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-dog-tha...

"Finally, this article explains why Haskell is not suitable for my purposes: the principle of induction is never valid for a Haskell program! The problem is that Haskell is a lazy language, rather than a language with laziness. It forces on you the existence of “undefined” values of every type, invalidating the bedrock principle of proof by induction. Put in other terms suggested to me by John Launchbury, Haskell has a paucity of types, lacking even the bog standard type of natural numbers."
I actually enjoy the benefits of my course in Clean at university ( http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean => "Clean is a general purpose, state-of-the-art, pure and lazy functional programming language"). While challenging, it taught me all the functional principles. Many of the language features and principles can be applied and useful for understanding Python, Scala, Kotlin, etc.

Applying it to something that wasn't just plain 'ol boring was slightly hard, but creating soccer team logic as the final project with a pre-written GUI module was lots of fun. Before that I never thought exams that required writing actual code were a good idea, but this one pulled it off well.
With the current state of computer vision and AI, I would agree with GM. There's a lot of fast and loose talk about what AI can and can't do, but the reality is we're not even close to having general intelligence which would, at least in a rudimentary form, be necessary to safely navigate a car using only optical recognition.
Or worse, I spent 1 hour writing it, so 15 minutes refactoring... And done, no more refactoring...
Yes. Orders of magnitude more.

While it's commonly understood that coal-fired power plants release more radiation than (properly operated) nuclear plants per year, with Fukushima we are talking about a core meltdown and uncontrolled release for nearly a decade!

We are talking about anywhere from 100 to 400 Tons of contaminated water per day. It is truly a man-made disaster being ignored.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fukushima+tons+of+water+per+...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-02/fukushima-radiation...

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/376607-leakage-radiation-fukushim...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-wit...
Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
Seems like a horribly inefficient national defense strategy. A country is on the brink of having a war levied against them by a belligerent, and plead for funds... some are scared for their life and donate their entire savings, others give nothing because they think/know their neighbors will.

Anyway, this is not a primary reason for having fiat money, but it is a reason.
Absolutely not. You need a gateway drug before Haskell becomes interesting.

It's one of those things where you should not use a solution to a problem until you understand what the problem IS. Otherwise you'll feel like things are complicated for no reason.

ML, Elm, Elixir, Closure or even (yes, really) JavaScript are much better places to start.
No, you do not need expensive hardware such as SDR to carry the KRACK attacks. Most plain standard WLAN adapters support AP mode, which is all you need to simulate the rogue network, as demonstrated in the video.
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In the Bay Area (Tesla home territory) I see a lot more Leafs than Teslas, mainly because the Leaf is the cheapest way to get a carpool lane sticker. For people who commute on congested local highways the time savings of carpool lane access can make a Leaf effectively "free". Nissan is leasing them extremely cheaply due to the government electric vehicle subsidy and to meet CARB zero-emissions requirements.
Motel check-ins are not a recurring thing for most homeless people. They can't afford it because they aren't out there due to imagining that sleeping in a tent is some clever life hack that will save them money. But if you have enough income where it is feasible to spend $3000/mo on housing (that is more than I live on all month, supporting a family of three) and you imagine that sleeping in a tent on the city sidewalk will save you $3000/mo, that is just not realistic.

When the storms come, you will say "Fuck it! I am not sleeping in this! I am checking into a hotel. I can afford it for one night."

As soon as I had enough resources to check into a hotel periodically, my highest priority was being in a hotel during life threatening storms. It was often a financial hardship that I stressed about, but I did it anyway. So, I think the odds are really poor you will willingly subject yourself to sleeping outside in a bad storm as a matter of course if you don't absolutely have to.

I wasn't in Seattle. I was someplace a lot drier. Given how much rain Seattle gets, hotel stays on stormy days could easily exceed $3000/mo. On a per night basis, hotels are usually much more expensive than housing.

Additionally, you will not be welcome at homeless services. Those are aimed at helping poor people, not clever hippies giving the middle finger to society to save a few bucks. And people will likely be much less tolerant of you setting up a tent on the sidewalk than of actual destitute people doing so. If the neighbors and cops figure out you are adding to the homeless problem in spite of being able to afford housing, you may find yourself subject to a campaign of harassment until you either go elsewhere or relent and get back into housing.

If you want to save a few bucks, a better plan is to do some research and look for a cheaper housing arrangement. This might involve getting a roommate or moving to a cheaper town and commuting or something else that adds inconvenience to your life. If you can't tolerate those inconveniences, you really don't want the hassle involved in living in a tent with no plumbing, no electricity, no means to secure your possessions, etc.

Also, I don't imagine they will shadow ban you for asking a naive question in good faith. I don't think that violates any rules here. ;-)
> likely Rick never could off load his work because of management.

It's possible. But it's also possible that he considered everyone else far below his acceptable level of skill and refused to delegate or allow other people's code into "his" codebase, even going as far as to ignore a team-blocking ticket for months until someone else picks it up, then blocks on the review, then when management finally say "get on this", rewrites it himself and commits his own code without review.

What? No, I'm not bitter about recent experiences. Not at all.
From the article:

"AB 1665 takes effect immediately. It lowers California minimum broadband service standard to 6 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload speeds and adds $300 million to the California Advanced Services Fund for broadband infrastructure, to be spent under rules will give it to AT&T and Frontier in exchange for token upgrades. That they would, in most cases, be making anyway."
I'm not a programmer. The last time I did anything technical was about 20 years ago, when I taught myself basic HTML in order to make a fancy Angelfire website for my 13 year-old musings. Needless to say, that is not the career path I followed. That being said, I am willing to learn, but my efforts would probably be best used establishing connections throughout the various companies, factories and contractors who would need to be onboard in order for this to actually work. So yes, I am looking for a technical co-founder, one who actually cares about making a difference in the world. I'm not desperate, my husband is a test manager and has plenty of contacts. I just saw the posters comments and felt that we are in the same mindset, which is crucial for co-founders.
Can Automated Pull Requests Prevent the Next Equifax?
Back when I commuted more regularly, the traffic around the beginning of September was always particularly awful. My assumption was that school was back in session and that, as a result, you had a lot of people with new travel routes who weren't quite up on the patterns at various rotaries and other traffic chokepoints.
> Imagine instead if the government simply gave disabled a stipend to help fund their transportation costs. A diverse market would emerge. Some businesses, eager to tap into the fountain of government stipends, would charge higher prices and offer wheelchair friendly vehicles.

Even better would be to make it cash instead of a stipend. Then you don't need a bureaucracy just to verify that the money is being spent on a particular thing, and if it turns out that the recipients prefer to use the money for something else instead, that only increases efficiency. People can choose the more efficient alternative between paying a premium for wheelchair-accessible transport or just having products delivered via UPS.

Or simplify things even further and just have a universal basic income to replace this sort of thing as well as the other thousands of other individual subsidies that end up producing mountains of unnecessary paperwork when we could just give everyone one unconditionally.
Is it faster, or did the gravitational waves simply precede the GRB?
> Full disclosure: at Kent, after teaching Haskell for many years, we currently a compulsory second year course on “functional and concurrent programming”

s/currently/currently dispense/
When I was reading "The Phoenix Project" I thought that the outcome there was going to be the same as in the original article this post is responding to. The "hotshot" developer would be fired and everyone would live happily ever after without addressing the reason things got so bad.

I was pleasantly surprised when they acknowledged this is largely a management issue and worked to fix the underlying causes instead of using the developer as a scapegoat.