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I always wonder what the life experiences and world view of someone like the person you're replying to, consists of.

The older I get, the more apparent it becomes that most of my peers and friends have lived extremely "privileged" lives solely based on the freedom of choice that they've had over certain aspects of life. In most cases the source of the privilege is a combination of well educated guardians and money.

I find when talking to these people, they can never seem to fathom why someone can't just simply "get out" of a situation like this, or don't seem to understand what it could possibly be about their upbringing that lets them see the world this way or gives them a certain advantage. A lot of them seem to just see this privilege as a scalar value that just corresponds to a net worth, rather than seeing it as this incredibly powerful resource that can seed safety, well-being, knowledge, personal skills, mental stability, ... the list goes on.
In those idyllic societies that you mention, there are still teachers, senators, merchants, and diplomats who have to do work. The only people I can think of who don't do "work" in ancient history are religious monks and rich people living off of an inheritance.
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>>Agree this is a US problem and I don't understand why.

Because the US has very severe issues related to racism, sexism, ageism and many other types of discrimination. So the laws are much tighter, which results in extreme caution and risk aversion on the part of employers.
Can video digests be a thing?
There are well known problems that evolutionary systems are much better at solving than NNs. The multiplexer problem, for instance, or sorting networks, where the search space is too rugged or deceptive for neural network solutions.
I'm developing a personalized videos generator. This simple version will send you an email daily on the topics that you select from medium.
It uses Amazon Polly to read the title and subtitle of the first 3 posts written in english per tag. It then combines all the videos into a single one and uploads it to YouTube as unlisted so that only you can see it.

I believe that soon, in around 2 years, we will have a lot of engaging content (blog posts, images, videos) created and maintained by bots. The main application I see to having bots generating engaging content is education. A lot of content creator are educators themselves but they cannot make all the videos people want, it just doesn't scale. We need to give to any person the opportunity to watch a video generated on demand with the same quality as the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell videos and in virtually any language.

What are your thoughts? Do you know about anybody else working on the same things?

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Only when the majority of other employees accepts that environment.
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I'm also using uBlock Origin on FF. Huh. Maybe we have a different list of filters? I turned on the malware ones but otherwise it's basically stock.
The part which really makes me angry is that this guy probably also employs graduate students who make minimum wage, have terrible health care, and no job security. But he doesn't feel like that's important enough to mention.
There are only 16 cars (or something like that) + safety drivers in the car, so 16 cars we have 1 death, normalize this to the number of human driven cars and you will get a lot of deaths, I do not have the numbers but 1 in 16 cars killing a person is a large number, now remove the safety driver and you get even more deaths.

The point is that it is to early to test this cars on public roads. The fact that self driven cars will kill less is just a hope, we may never achieve that(there is no proof we can do it with current tech) or it will take more time, and we need some actual numbers that are not tampered with before letting this self driven cars on the road, the security drivers seem to not pay attention so this car testing are a risk.
I'd say it's largely an early-adopter problem, but likely will stand for at least the next 5 years, which is critical when making a purchase today.

Tesla charging infrastructure "just works", and charges quickly, at generally-known rates.

I've perused other charging station maps and they're all hit-or-miss. You'll get 220v but not high amperage. You'll find the charger does't work. You'll find the chargers are full and cars are just parked there not going anywhere (Tesla works around this by charging people money for leaving their cars on a charger after they're full). You'll find the charger is private -- can only be used by employees of the office building you drove to, relying on finding a charger there.

That said, this system works fine for 99.9% of daily driving where you charge in known places -- every day at home, or every day at work, or whatever. But the more I've looked into the charging infrastructure for non-Tesla vehicles, the LESS impressed I've been. At many of these public chargers you'll have to be parked for 4+ hours to get even 20-30 miles' worth of charge.
LLC/S-Corp/whatever, if you're doing this, you're going to want to make friends with a CPA, and an attorney. Everybody's needs on this front is going to be highly individualized, the couple hundred bucks spent on advice from these two professional friends are going to pay staggering dividends later.

B) Not in my experience. W2 employees have a 20% overhead for various insurances, taxes, etc. There's also significant employment law one has to follow to a T, 'or else'. Consultants, you can be a little looser with.

C) Not disagreeing on this one, but there's also _tons_ of smaller shops and startups who have expensive problems a consultant's specialized knowledge/experience may be uniquely suited to solve.

D) As a non-smoking overweight single male, my 'gold plan' insurance on the west coast is ~$400/mo. At consultant profit margins, that is effectively 'lolwhatever' money.

E) This is yet another example of why hourly billing is nuts. Don't bill hourly. Bill per-project, and charge for the business-value of the work to the business. Considerable literature has been written on this, see works by Jonathan Stark, Alan Weiss, etc. tl; dr - if you're billing hourly, you're doing it Wrong(tm)

F) Strong agree. But just because one may hate writing/speaking/meetings/selling doesn't mean one can't A. learn it, and B. learn to excel at it. Would _you_ take a course on public speaking and read a book on negotiation if you were reasonably certain you could make your current annual income in a quarter's worth of work?
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If you look at any demo video from the manufacturer, the product is always perfect and amazing.
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From the article:

> But zooming out from the specifics of Herzberg's crash, the more fundamental point is this: conventional car crashes killed 37,461 in the United States in 2016, which works out to 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Uber announced that it had driven 2 million miles by December 2017 and is probably up to around 3 million miles today. If you do the math, that means that Uber's cars have killed people at roughly 25 times the rate of a typical human-driven car in the United States.

We have a sample size of 1, granted, but it's not looking very good. At the very least they were expected not to be less safe than humans.
That bloody Saxe-Coburg kraut. /s
There is https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Haven't used it though.
Cheap index funds don’t usually have long term returns that are higher than mortgage interest rates + maintenance.

If anything, in current markets more property is a better investment, and you can take advantage or gearing.
> The greater Phoenix area has a huge glow that washes out all the stars.

I live in the Phoenix area, on the west side closer to Glendale (specifically, the border between Phoenix and Glendale is literally in my back yard).

There are times in the summer where the glow from the city is so bright, that rather than a dark sky (never black), you have a grey dimly lit sky instead.

Literally, "the sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" - maybe not as bright as the static Gibson was referring to, but still bright enough to see by - even without a full moon.
That is not my argument at all. I have an opinion on what the 2nd amendment ought to mean. I advocate that others share my position. I've acknowledged numerous times that others don't share my opinion and I've suggested that they keep vigilant to maintain their rights. That's the whole point of politics. This is a political issue and people advocate for/against positions all the time. Sometimes attitudes that once were accepted become repugnant.

We best not just agree to do what I want. That would be absolute power and that would be horrible. No one deserves that much power. No one should be so arrogant that they think they are always right or that their opinions are beyond reproach.

I welcome discourse and debate. It's necessary for a properly functioning society.
Samsung has already demonstrated a MicroLED TV, LG is also on the wagon, yet the article fails to mention at all any of these big display companies and keeps going on about Apple and how it competes with Google and a few startups in the space.

Disappointed that this article has IEEE's brand.
Also implying that American made electronics are even appealing to the American consumer anymore. That to me is the big question. Everyone talks about buy American, but look at the mass produced American goods and it doesn't scream quality, even if it is at the right price point.

Everyone buys Korean washing machines, Japanese cars, and Chinese electronics. Not simply because of the cost but also because of quality. My Toyota is a far better deal than Ford/Chevy/etc.
This isn't a game or a horse trade, I win one, you win one.

"I'll agree not to shoot your kids today, but only if you let me beat up your cousin instead." That's more or less what your argument sounds like to me. Can we agree that gun violence is a problem in the US, on a level vastly higher than many other parts of the world? Can we talk about how to move towards a society with less gun violence? Let's work together to find things that will help reduce gun violence. I'm willing to give up a lot of things I care about to move that way. You seem to only be willing to head that direction if you get something else you want in return. And it's especially jarring when the thing you want in return seems a to always move things back in the exact opposite direction, expanding access to and availability of guns.
If you are willing to accept that as an explanation. Yes, it's easily explainable. A big list of anonymous decisions is easy. Naming those decisions is hard.
>a very large fraction of police/national guard/US armed forces would at least refuse to enforce such a law //

Anything to support this? It's very sad to imagine that not being allowed automatic weapons at home, say, would turn LEOs in to outlaws. Do they perceive an actual threat? Do they not care about all the school massacres?

Are this large proportion of armed personnel in rebellion against the bump stock rulings that I understand were enacted recently?
Driverless car programs should really not be having more than 1 fatality per 100 million miles. Uber is currently at 1 per 3 million miles.
Streaming responses is very cool
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SGD is embarrassingly parallel as well. You can train a net on several different examples simultaneously and combine the gradients or learned weights.

The reason it's not done so much is because the bandwidth of moving huge numbers of gradients or weights between computers is pretty significant. There's been all sorts of research into compressing them or reducing the precision. However this is a problem for evolutionary algorithms as well.
Then we would never have self-driving cars.
Thanks for reviewing GitLab. We introduced a way to share scripts in the last version as a paid feature https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/22/gitlab-10-5-released/#in...
People who treat their workers in this way should be ashamed. Such blatant exploitation should be illegal.
I wonder if that has to do with TVs being fairly large compared to other consumer electronics, and shipping costs start to play a role.
How can workers change corporate culture from within to demand work-life balance? I asked an executive VP this at a one of the worlds largest company’s here in Seattle and she said “If the young talent we need coming out of school across the board demanded shorter days and more vacation we would have to comply. But they don’t instead they are awed by an extra $10k on a hiring bonus they might or might not get after two years and they’ll work 60 hour weeks because that’s what they think ‘normal’ is because their peers are doing it.”

So how from the ground up can we make corporate culture in America more focused on the social health of their employees?
To expand on this, they might try other countries as well as the PhD programs might be in English even though the country isn't a predominantly English speaking country. For example, I know that many of the Masters and PhD programs here at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway are English instruction. Other universities (here and elsewhere) might have similar programs.

I have no clue about quality of programs (world class vs not) but figured I'd suggest the option.
> Then to argue that virtual spaces are not protected by the first amendment contradicts the principles of free speech, and recent case law.

Since the citation upthread notes that even physical privately-owned common spaces are not protected by the first amendment against regulation by the owner of the space [0], though the first amendment rights of the owner also do not prevent state constitutions (California's in particular) from creating free speech obligations which do bind certain private owners of an extremely narrow class of public spaces, I think it is impossible to argue that virtual spaces are somehow protected under the first amendment by analogy to private common spaces, since the latter aren't actually protected.

[0] there is, IIRC, a different line of cases applying narrowly to government's or individual government official's use of privately owned physical spaces as a quasi-official two-way channel which does create some first amendment protection in that narrow context, and these principles have been extended to online fora, but that's not germane here.
It's not work itself that is the problem. Work actually should contribute to happiness, but the conditions must induce that. The negative atmosphere that exists in many work environments is terrible. Rather than leaving with a sense of achievement for your expended efforts, you leave feeling beaten down and unappreciated.
Do you want to work for a place that would discount you because you took a sabbatical?
If it was a residential IP, this would have been very easy. But would GRU officers really work from home?
It's just the bias at work. That word's been used around here plenty ;)

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Margins on cars alone are small. Dealers make something like a third of their revenue from their service contracts.

(Well, that and undercarriage coatings...)

With EV's breaking down less often and less routine maintenance because they just have fewer moving parts, that's going to destroy the dealer business model.
"Here, we demonstrate an air-cooled sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting device using the metal−organic framework (MOF)-801 [Zr6O4(OH)4(fumarate)6] operating in an exceptionally arid climate (10–40% RH) and sub-zero dew points (Tempe, Arizona, USA) with a thermal efficiency (solar input to water conversion) of ~14%. We predict that this device delivered over 0.25 L of water per kg of MOF for a single daily cycle."

So what does a kilogram of the MOF cost, compared to the ordinary costs of acquiring water in dry places?
I think that people must move past the belief in "heroism" as a job function and understand that many companies (not all) are parasitic creatures which finagle to charge economic rents, not saviours of Western democracy that provide value added as is commonly assumed.

I got the opportunity to apply for my current job yesterday. I expect an offer letter and threats to sign within two days or lose the job I have next week. My future company is a lowest bidder and was selected from around thirty applicants.
Under your profile settings/preferences, you have the ability to set your layout to 'fluid' This will allow the application to take up 100% of the width of the screen. If you have more specific UX issues you think we should address, I'd love to hear them!
Project Quantum is the Gecko-based project to bring Servo bits to Firefox. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
You are either trolling or obviously have no clue what you are talking about. Enjoy the ignorance, I hear it's bliss!
These “idyllic” societies still had rough lives. Nature is not only a paradise. It’s ripe with disease, infections, predators killing you and your cattle, children’s and mothers dying during childbirth, droughts, and famines.

And wars exist also, and especially, among tribes.

Growing food without modern technologies, fertilizers and pesticides was also an extremely hard job. It’s not like growing tomatoes in your back garden.
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Download individual files directly:

https://escience.rpi.edu/data/DA/fb100/
I had RSI, chronic ankle pain after an injury, and back pain. I bought all sorts of ergonomic solutions. Some helped, but none completely. I was getting desperate since, as mentioned, typing is how I pay the bills. I can't just STOP.

I was scouring the net and ran across a developer who swore that The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by Sarno fixed his issues. I looked him up, proved to myself he was a dev and then basically said, fuck it, let's try it despite it seeming woo-woo to the extreme.

Little to no pain to this day. This was after MONTHS of PT and ergonomic changes that didn't solve the problem.

Anyway. Just my two cents.

*EDIT - one of these was the article (perhaps both), https://blog.evanweaver.com/2012/09/05/a-programmers-guide-t... and http://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain
The Apollo program could never have happened without the decades of rocketry work that took place before that time. It's not like the US started from scratch in 1961 and landed a man on the moon in 1969; while the work involved to pull that off was incredible, there were decades of work prior to that, much of which involved the exact same people, that made Apollo possible.

Wikipedia, citing "Ward (2005). Dr. Space: The Life of Werner von Braun. ISBN 978-1-591-14926-2."

> Apollo program director Sam Phillips was quoted as saying that he did not think that the United States would have reached the Moon as quickly as it did without von Braun's help. Later, after discussing it with colleagues, he amended this to say that he did not believe the United States would have reached the Moon at all.

Wernher von Braun worked on rockets since the 1930's, inspired by the writings of Hermann Oberth, whom he later worked with at Peenemünde. The first V-2 rockets were launched in 1944. Von Braun continued working on rockets continuously until he retired in the 1970's, after working on the Apollo program.
Makes sense.

I did not know this existed.

Thanks, learn something new everyday.

Bafflingly to think about...

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I've found that assembling highly in demand skills helps a lot with this. For awhile I was by far and away the best developer in my org (which is not to say that I'm a good developer, just that our org had 0 formal software engineering xp). This gave me very broad power to say no to projects or put in place prerequisites which had to be met before I would take on a project. It definitely pissed people off, but I was adding enough value to be able to take the stance "hey if you don't like it fire me".
It supports VP9, but not in WebRTC.
Or at least, not without enabling a flag on each viewers computer[0]. I am running Nightly, and can verify that it is _still_ behind a flag.

I suspect they don't realize how many viewers this costs them, as this has been behind a flag for months already, meanwhile RTC users are being told "We recommend Chrome".

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/38701342/87520
Almost all current assitance systems in luxury cars, which are not design for automated driving, could have avoided this situation with activation of the emergency brake. But this car didn't even brake at all?

It will be interesting when Volvo pulls back from that relationship, because even the uptodate emergency brake assistent should have catched up. Except Uber as deactivated those in favor for their own technology (because it is superior).

EDIT: German Automotive Club did tested full sized cars in 2016, which means decaded old technology in IT. The results where that the Subaru Outback was the only one detecting persons in the dark. But was very poor with biclysts.
https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/tests/assistenzsysteme/fussg...
The Romans had steam engines, too. It took until the 18th or 19th century for metallurgy to catch up to the point where steam engines were worthwhile.
This is common wisdom I think is false. You absolutely do get stuck in local optima frequently with reinforcement learning. OpenAI has a good example somewhere of a robot trying to put a peg through a hole. Trained with regular gradient descent it just gets stuck putting the peg pretty close to the hole, but not through it.

I'm not even sure that it's not a problem in general. I know I've watched NNs frequently get stuck in local minima even on incredibly simple datasets like xor or spirals. SGD and dropout are widely used in part because they add noise to the gradients that can help break out of local optima. But that's not a perfect method
As a non-expert in the field my impression from reading the article wasn't that they were saying there was a large difference, or it's a whole new approach, only that is was a progression over DL.

The entire article repeatedly relates everything in the context of what DL accomplishes and only introduces EC as an better optimized version.

Which doesn't lead one to think they are significantly different approaches but variations or tweaked versions of the same general thing...
The rest of the sentence quoted above is "... working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow."
Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
>But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation.

He forgot to use the VPN that was masking him.
Why isn't Uber forced to release LIDAR footage for the recent accident?
Examining the dashcam footage is unfair because the camera cannot reproduce the fidelity of human eye. Releasing the LIDAR footage could reveal if the fault was with Uber.
Rest assured that all of the evidence they have of this identification is not included in this article.
It wouldn’t be too hard for the Russian govt to set up shop in a residential neighborhood.
Yes I suppose that could be the other explanation