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As an Indian living in the United States, I hope the development choices made in India skip some of the unsustainable choices made by other countries. Car ownership should be discouraged to a higher degree than what it is today, and we should focus a lot more on efficient carpooling solutions. Things like bikeshare, etc however may never be a realistic solution in most urban cities.

One other thing is most places in Mumbai for example don't have strict zoning practices. I do think that this has some unintentional benefits like lower travel time for commuting by colocating housing and offices.
Theoretically you could use x.509 certs and a key stored on a smartcard type device, but sure.

Point is, this advice is probably aimed at developers who aren't working on email systems.
Not even. If you take Heisenbergs uncertainty principle to be true, then we can never truly know the full state of any matter. So even if we knew the rules, we wouldn't have the seed. This is also known as the knowledge balance principle. See link below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spekkens_toy_model
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Dell workstations are really easy to open up and replace parts in. Do you think we ever open hem up and replace parts?
Only in the states.
If 'exploitation' is in the ethically neutral sense of taking something with latent potential and bringing it to bear then this isn't particularly controversial.

Capitalism has a happy partnership with inequality. People who exploit resource effectively get given more resources; that is the heart of the system. Works really well. Builds societies that are the envy of the world. Even people who squander resources can expect to come out ahead (they get a small share of a bigger pie).
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There are a lot of developers (I am one of them) who don't feel particularly distracted by ambient noise and can still do deep work. Having people and some work buzz around you can also be motivating.
To add, close mentorship with a core member of the team is one of the ways to get around this hurdle. Anything less formal than that, in many cases, it's fairly impossible (unless you have some very similar experience you can draw from).
As an "American" who's visited India as a tourist once, I have some questions to educate myself.

1) India is a very large and very diverse country. How is the culture of acceptance towards carpooling and resource sharing, especially when it will gain an ascendant middle class like we're seeing in China?

2) Vehicles have always had a status communication role. Is there something we can tap into that can impede this desire?
Not really zero cost (probably cost-effective though).

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/...
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Relevant video on the trustworthiness of Google Shopping: https://youtu.be/46bqxNv8S1w
When you use a credit card, you're not using your own money - you're borrowing the bank's money. It's perfectly legit for them to evaluate the risk associated with what you're using the borrowed money for.
Crashplan is killing off their home service, though. I've switched to Arq + Backblaze's B2, we'll see how that goes.
Determinism removes internal/external separation. They commute when both are deterministic. Consider deterministic system A and deterministic system B in a deterministic environment C. Then the entire system is deterministic and though the situation might not have played out yet, it essentially was decided for the participants. Non determinism is the best free will can be -- neither nature knows the future, nor the participants. Everyone is blind. So the will is "free" with respect to control.
Quite right, I did wonder how this post had shot so far up the home page so quickly when it's clearly marketing a service.
As time goes on, higher frequency computers will increase the number of AI tasks which are possible in a fixed period of time.

If you took half the apps built today and tried to run them on compatible hardware from 20 years ago, they would all flop.

Without the understanding of modern computing, one would have dismissed all such inventions as useless wastes of time.
Since the server (and not the Internet connection) was the bottleneck, it wouldn't have helped, as they would still have to read the files to copy them to the new drive.
The one issue I have with the article is that the author doesn’t mention specifics about designing streets to lower the speed. Is the implied suggestion to make roads terribly curved so it’s really hard to drive fast? That seems to have it’s own drawbacks. I was surprised the author didn’t mention that many cities have intersections designed so that cars trying to turn right with a green light often intersect with a crosswalk that is also green for pedestrians. That seems more amiable to redesign rather than the grid road designs favored in most cities.
> You can't take back emails or phone calls and you can't ask people to take your name or information out of a book or magazine once it's been available for years.

None of those things are going to turn up in a Google search 20 years from now - there's a relatively limited number of people who are going to dig up this information and send it to your employer, or use it to commit crimes against you.

Privacy is not binary, as much as it's nice to think about it that way - something I've only told 2 people I trust is decidedly more private than something I've published to the world, and something I've published online and then removed is more private than something I've left up.
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I can't help but think that these problems won't be solved until there's an obvious, short term incentive for our lawmakers to actually tackle these problems in any tangible way.

The public outcry has been constant for decades. The information and alarmism has existed for just as long. There's no shortage of reasons why we shouldn't tackle these issues. Those in the power to enact significant change to environmental and economic models aren't incentivized to. How do we shift perception to incentivize sustainable growth, rather than growth in isolation. How do we incentivize politicians to feel rewarded for methodical long term changes rather than short term successes at the cost of finite resources?
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India's version of 401k account, eNPS does that, will accept all passwords, but silently truncates at 14 char length, and when you try to login, throws error.
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I mean, Marx would be the citation, but it's important to remember that exploitation in this context is a neutral term, not a judgment. It just means that people who own means of production (i.e. capitalists) can extract economic rent from people who don't (i.e. workers, who need access to those means of production to generate wealth). That shouldn't be controversial - the problem with Marx wasn't that he pointed this out, but rather his statement that it is a fundamental problem, and remedies offered for it.
Run a patreon style system where sustained long term benefits are rewarded with sustained long term income/rewards to the politicians?
Speed limits in US highways had been introduced in 70s to save gas during the crisis. Let’s all agree it had nothing to do with safety.

The claim that 30% of incidents are caused by speeding are also questionable. Few years back I was rear ended by someone talking on the phone. The officer wrote speeding as the cause of incident. When I asked about it, he replied that the safe speed in this case was zero. Just wander how many of these 30% are the same.

P.S. I rarely actually go above the speed of the traffic flow. I think it is the safest to drive at the same speed as others even if it is above speed limit. On the other hand, drivers in the left lane going 60 mph when everyone else is doing 85 mph are the real danger on the road.
It's a shame that statistics don't back up this hoary old saying. Turns out that modeling drivers as if they were ideal gas particles doesn't give you the numbers you expect.

Meanwhile, lack of respect for traffic laws due to inappropriately-low speed limits arguably does get people killed.
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They are, although over the last decade the amount of people driving above 180kph seems to have gotten less.
It has gotten more busy on the road, and a government campaign promoting safe driving which seems to have had effect.
It's the problem of studying for the test vs studying to learn. Some knowledge will transfer, but the further the test is removed from reality, the lesser the transferable knowledge will be. When I look back at the interviews I had and what I actually needed to know at work, the difference is massive.
The thing that worries me the most is lack of fresh water. I belong to the Indian state of Gujarat mentioned in the article, and the pessimism isn't exaggerated at all. Soil erosion and fresh water coupled with rising temperatures is a real and present danger seeimingly ignored in favour of populist and industrialist projects such as GIFT (that keeps on winning elections for the incumbent). There's no reversing desertification that plaques my home state. It is heartbreaking, to say the least. It's taking us towards a Mad Max Fury Road esque world, and how.

Uttar Pradesh, the quintessential Indian state that 200* million people call home, along with another 200 million in the Hindi-Urdu heartland, has always had abundance of natural resources but its utter mismanagement has led to an unprecedented ecological crisis that no one in the political setup seems to be bothered about; and that may be since they continue to grapple with challenges of heavy population, unemployment, casteism, and near absence of law and order in every fabric of the society. Most of its major cities are on the verge of collapse, whilst the elites along with the politicians have cornered an enormous amount of wealth for themselves at the expense of the environment and the people; unlike in 2000s China, where the distribution of wealth seemed more fair, in comparison.

I think, India and Pakistan (I was astonished at the very similarity of what's happening to India's biggest states like Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, and Punjab; and Pakistan's Punjab and Sindh) and most other tropical countries favouring unabated development at the cost of the environment are going to end up in a very sorry state that's going to get worse along an exponential curve for entities with larger than sustainable populations.

I don't understand at all the increasing rents, property prices amidst the impending crisis. Given that, especially, only a handful hoard most of the wealth and could afford buying or renting at today's rates.

India is being held hostage in a prison of corruption by greed, will promptly be taken to the altar of doom by ignorance, where civil unrest will have a final swing of the sword culling the Virus, as Agent Smith would put it.

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It definitely can, though accuracy would always be a big concern.

IIRC, the Google self-driving car used LIDAR. Though their localization algorithms included many sensors, with the LIDAR data was just one of them.
I downloaded the app in the hope of getting back my fizz from my 20s .... but it just seems to be a timer.
Author works for a company doing such desig it seems, see link in vey first sentence [1]. For an example see the link in the last paragraph [2] where a couple of possible techniques are shown.

[1] https://altaplanning.com/

[2] https://blog.altaplanning.com/reducing-speeding-related-cras...
How the hell is WeWork “pre-revenue” or even “recent revenue” — they have been around since 2010.

Yet the CEO is admitting that the valuation is pretty much bullshit; how can “spiritually” make a single note but of difference for how much a company is worth? Imagine if a company said they were highly valued because they were committed to prayer and going to church every Sunday.
As a Indian, convincing people not to buy cars is going to be very hard, if not impossible. Cars represent social status, and they are a big step forward in comfort when traveling. Even if the public transport system improves drastically, the comfort and privacy that one gets in a car is unrivaled (remember that public transport, be it trains or buses, is always overcrowded).

The general attitude among middle class, when discussing how unsustainable cars are, is - why do I, as a first time car owner, have to think about pollution and traffic when all first-world countries have enjoyed it for decades? I don't necessarily agree with that stance, although I understand it.
4. Air pollution regulations in cities make owning ICE car more expensive or banning them outright.
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1) I think most of the resource sharing is driven out of cost necessities. There are many places where people share a single autorickshaw to the same destination. This is sometimes because there is a shortage of taxi/autorickshaws/bus availability at peak hours.
I tried Uber pool a couple of times in Mumbai and almost always travelled alone. Not sure what's the reason.

2) The status still exists. However it can be practical to not own a car as roads are extremely congested in big cities (in some places temporarily worsened by public transportation infrastructure projects)
Yep. That worked more than once for people I know.
Not specific to India but one theory behind luxury tax type approaches is that the social signalling still remains, but everything is shifted down a bit.

So if car pollution, parking, congestion is priced appropriately then some people will still have bigger, less efficient vehicles to show off but the baseline will be lower and therefore society as a whole is better off.
Not 85%, but 85th percentile, apparently.

https://metrocount.com/downloads/flyers/Speed_analysis_1.pdf

I'm not a traffic engineer so I'd love an explanation, because on the first look, it seems absurd to apply this measure to determining speed limits, as a) 85th percentile will keep creeping up with each iteration of such speed limit adjustment, and b) the whole rationale seems to depend on "wisdom of the crowds", i.e. trusting greedy optimization to find the right balance in the system that needs to be optimized globally.
This is such a personal decision, but to me it seems like you're possibly looking for reasons to leave.

If you like the business but don't like what you're doing, can that change soon? If this is the deciding factor, why not phrase it that way to whoever can make that decision? Nothing to lose ...

If you just want to leave the company in general, than isn't your answer "yes?"
I'm not being prejudiced. I have a genuine professional curiosity regarding the use cases for this. Somebody clearly spent a lot of time and effort making this, generally people don't do that sort of thing without a good reason. The fact that I cannot fathom a reason for this makes me think there is room for self education. It's good to take that approach is all aspects of life I think.
To be honest, I prefer to use an automated checkout. With a cashier, I'm always stressed because I have to put the items in the bag as quickly as they scan them, to avoid delaying the queue and wasting the cashier's time. In the automated checkout however, I can take my time to organise the bag and pay when I'm ready.
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I agree, it's a hella questionable language choice, and not limited to C.

I found out about it through https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/451
I disagree. e.g. Doping in sports. Should we allow everything? Then people will start using all kings of drugs for money and fame. This will encourage everyone in the future to use them. Also, athletes who want to participate without drugs, will have no choice. Things will go downhill fast. And it's not just about the individuals. Their whole family will have to suffer.

A single person without any family, can do everything he wants in their personal space. That will not harm anyone else. If they do that, earn a living and get famous, that will hurt their family and future generations too. That's why we need law and regulations.
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I think this depends on the app. I've only had problems with fonts on Linux on a few apps, most notably text editors ... of course ... and most notably of those JetBrains products (though I am a fan of their products otherwise).

There are things you can do in these situations to make things better. Right now I'm on Windows, though.

Had to do some Windows dev and it's easier to run a VM and connect my IDE to that from Windows rather than the other way around, at least in my experience :)
1. Car pooling has become very acceptable. I live in NCR and every time I've taken an Uber Pool or Ola Share the car has been packed to capacity. This is especially popular among solo office travellers.

2. This has, sort of, lost its charm with the younger generation especially if they are earning well or used to own a car. Public transit has become faster (on the order of twice as fast during peak time) compared to driving. 2 wheelers are more popular than 4 wheels for cost and practical reasons.
> How do we incentivize politicians to feel rewarded for methodical long term changes rather than short term successes

Make sure they stay in office for a long time.
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I've been to some very quality meetups actually. I should go to more.
Yes, but it would be preventable if the driver also stayed at home.
I believe the author is advocating for "traffic calming" measures, which are a fairly standardized set of measures that urban planners and developers use to slow down traffic on streets to make them safer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
> 2) Vehicles have always had a status communication role. Is there something we can tap into that can impede this desire?

I really doubt it. People are always looking around for honest signals about each other, and a vehicle is the most expensive possession other people will see in a casual social setting by at least an order of magnitude. Whether you're at school, work, a bar, hiking, etc, people will see you get into your car.
Perhaps the skepticism is true, perhaps not.

For me, the take away is not the accuracy in the speed of light.

It's the fact that there was recognition that light is something that has a finite speed that can be measured, and the recognition that that speed is a very high value, measured in thousands of distance units in half of a time unit.

This is extremely remarkable in itself.
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> Meanwhile, lack of respect for traffic laws due to inappropriately-low speed limits arguably does get people killed.

This is one area where I believe we need to treat the "lack of respect" part, i.e. beat the people into submission. Because it's not reasonable to optimize speed limits for what a driver feels should be appropriate - a driver takes into account his own position and situation only, while optimizing traffic is a much larger-scale exercise.

(Also, frankly, it's the speed that kills. If either the pedestrian or you were dumb enough to get into crash at 50km/h, you'd get into an even harder crash at 100km/h. I cringe when I hear drivers wanting to raise speed limits on the roads that have foot traffic crossing it, children playing on the sidewalks, etc.)
Edit: This is a decent enough solution, though it comes with its own pitfalls.

How exactly are you sure that the email is encrypted and is read only by the intended receiver and not by anyone else? This is too simplistic as a solution. Things like what to do if a user clicks on the same link more than once also have to be considered (is it really the intended user who clicked it or a malicious actor that the user is not aware of?).
There's a movement to change the language used: https://www.crashnotaccident.com/
Yeah and the Malthusians have been predicting the downfall of civilization due to "non-infinite growth" for the last couple centuries as well. And they keep being proven wrong.

Just because growth isn't "infinite" says nothing about how far away we are from reaching the limits of the planet.

Personally, I think that limit is much closer to 1 trillion people living on the earth than it is to 1 billion people. So we've got a ways to go.

The facts show, that by every metric of quality of life, life is better than it has ever been in the history of the world.
WeWork is super noisy, and even if you go when it isn’t busy, they play loud music through a speaker system that you can’t turn off. Also, there are only 21 songs in the playlist. It does not shuffle, it just loops.
Provisioning and maintaining the certificates/keys across even a small user base is a huge pain compared to letting users choose their own passwords.
You have to be realistic about what you expect here. Suppose it takes you 1/100th of the time it took them to write the code to understand it. Some of these projects have had hundreds of people working on them for years. It may take you months to get a basic grasp of things.

At my current company it often takes 6 months for experienced people to become productive, and that's with a helping hand.

IDEs are nice, but grep remains the best tool. You tend to need to find things in XML files and config as well.
That wouldn't suprise me, considering the amount of other information they legally must keep on hand for some years on-site and then years in mass storage. (former CVS employee). Some of a pharmacy's surveillance would be kept just for instances of robbery and prescription fraud. The last one isn't always known upfront. There is also the issue of employee theft.
The XOR story is misleading. :-) The Wikipedia page does a good job in what the book actually proved:

"What the book does prove is that in three-layered feed-forward perceptrons (with a so-called "hidden" or "intermediary" layer), it is not possible to compute some predicates unless at least one of the neurons in the first layer of neurons (the "intermediary" layer) is connected with a non-null weight to each and every input. This was contrary to a hope held by some researchers in relying mostly on networks with a few layers of "local" neurons, each one connected only to a small number of inputs. A feed-forward machine with "local" neurons is much easier to build and use than a larger, fully connected neural network, so researchers at the time concentrated on these instead of on more complicated models."
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In my single interaction with Hinton, we were talking about a theory, he told me how he thought of it years ago and he remembered people distinctly disagreeing with him. I feel Hinton carries a tiny bit of salt with him where he goes, which explains his sarcasm as well.
> the word literally meaning beyond red

More exactly, below. (Lower frequency, outside the visible interval with ultra-violet at the other end.)

As in 'infra-dig' meaning something being 'beneath dignity' to be done, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infra_dig