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I quit years ago. Setting aside the condescension in the title, it's probably useful to analyze the reasons people nowadays aren't voting with their actions as much as with their online activism or even personal opinion.

Restricted to the FB scope. Some of many:

- Human need for social connection (which FB preys on)

- Ignorance (and poor sense of privacy) and carelessness (even though people waste hours on it, they don't think it's an important part of their lives)

- FB's self-preservation engagement tactics (your attention = clicks = $$$) (FB: "you're deactivating your account? but look! all of these people will miss you. Oh. You meant delete? Google it.")

- Ego and insecurity (you can selectively display to others what you want of you, hide what you don't want, block what you don't like, anything to enrich your fake sense of online self)

- Fast food equivalent of catching up with people

- Fear of losing contacts (and fear of loneliness)

- Detachment from moral responsibility (why should I feel guilty for something FB is doing?)

- ...
Thanks for the flashback, I totally forgot about the slip of paper part!
I think the cifficulties with hydrogen FCs right now are:

1. Efficient production of Hydrogen at the pump station.
2. Storage of hydrogen in the vehicle. Even liquid hydrogen isn’t very dense and has a rather low energy per volume.
3. FC catalyst. I think right now FC catakysts require precious metal catalysts like platinum and palladium.
having a tough time following this as it seems to require familiarity with the subject already. Anyone able to provide or link to a more introductory version of this topic?
I hope a lawyer will chime in, because this seems pretty obviously to be an indefensible law.

If you make analogies to other services, the justification falls apart. Are landlords responsible for weed dealers' business cards stuck to peg boards? Is USPS responsible for people mailing bombs?

Even under DMCA, no public/high-traffic communication service is responsible for its users this way.
I can't trust anything these days but if the information is legitimate - both the government investigation and the reporting - then forgetting to use your VPN has taken down both Guccifer 2.0 and Dread Pirate Roberts. That's incredible given these comments are full of advice on how to prevent that from happening.
Its funny, when I landed my first job as a software developer, in a statistical startup, I learned about promises using d3.queue[1]. This was before javascript had native promises, and around the javascript community was settling on A+ promises. But d3 was how I learned to write asynchronous code without relying solely on callbacks.

[1]: https://github.com/d3/d3-queue
I can agree with this, but if a company wants to put self-driving cars on the street, I don't see how certificated engineers on their staff is the thing that matters.

Does that demonstrate that the cars are safe? Even a little bit?

To me it just demonstrates that a grunt is on the chopping block for what amounts to systemic failure.
I had a similar story that lead to Sarno's book. Going on 17 years now without issues.
I'm sorry I chose my words very poorly.

I said...

> Would attaching a heat sink to my shed cool it off?

What I meant to say...

> Would attaching a heat sink to my shed cool it below the ambient temperature?

To which the answer is obviously no.

A brief lesson on humidity to wrap up the discussion. The numbers I'm giving are bogus but the logic is sound.

Suppose you have a vessel of air at a temperature of 25C and a relative humidity of 90%. If I increase or decrease the temperature have I added or subtracted water from the system? No the water is constant. What will change in the relative humidity of the system.

Say I heat the vessel to 40C. The relative humidity will drop from 90% to 50%. Why? The air can hold more water. But say I reverse course and drop the temperature to 10C. Then the water begins to condense because the air can not physically hold the water any longer.

[/end-bogus-numbers]

So if we take MIT's device and try to extract water from the air we know two things. We need warm, humid air and we need to cool it until it condenses.

A heat sink will not cool the air below ambient. This is required for condensation. No configuration of heat sink + device will decrease the temperature unless we put some "work" into the system. That "work" will be electrical energy of some sort The source is irrelevant. It must be external to the system and it must have a cooling effect. We absolutely need some sort of peltier device (or other refrigeration technology). There is no way around it!

But to further illustrate the absurdity of all of this lets ask the following question. How much water can we reasonably expect to extract? After all 1 liter of air doesn't translate to 1 liter of water.

At 25C and 100% humidity air can hold about 0.02ml of water. Meaning for every one liter of water you need 50,000 liters of air. And suddenly you being to realize the magnitude of your problem. To extract 1 liter of water per day you would have to ram one liter of air through the system every second. And that's in an environment with 100% humidity! It's raining for god's sake! In the desert the amount of air needed will easily triple.
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Because doing so will cause issues (like this one) to be found and fixed faster. When enough bugs are fixed that the autonomous drivers are safer than the meatbag drivers, then the death rate will start to decrease. The argument is that you can trade more deaths today for a sooner decrease later. Under certain assumptions, you'll save net lives.
Trump isn't stupid unless you narrowly define intelligence as an IQ test.

I'm in the many intelligences camp: to me, emotional, academic, and athletic intelligence are very real consequences of a lifetime spent in different domains. To me Trump has spent his entire lifetime building and selling himself as a brand. The substance never mattered. He just knows how to make people want to buy "Trump".

From my perspective, his success in that realm is genius.
I just really hate the name "Guccifer 2.0" and hope they shoot this fuck, whoever it is, because anyone who'd refer to themselves with a handle like that is bound to be a piece of shit.
sarcasm? who cares about D3's data loading APIs... i mean most sophisticated JS apps using D3 wouldn't use D3 for data fetching from the service.
This: I had the same opportunity, and help with the tuition. All in all this was challenging but a good experience. Then the question is was it worth it? I think it depends: I had a mostly outstanding set of instructors and took a lot of graduate seminar classes where there was a lot of great class discussion among curious and experienced folk. I enjoyed that a lot. I might be able to get this elsewhere, but I suspect it's rare. For the more project-based classes the structure and added motivation was nice and the instruction again helped make the learning process more efficient, but you could, in theory do that yourself too.

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edit: Another thing is that I had a chance to dip my toes a bit into doing research without being in the PhD long haul. This was also very satisfying: reading papers is no longer intimidating and ended up being very helpful in my area (databases / systems).

Re: classes, yes the basic curricula always seems repetitive for folks who took a CS undergrad, but it's up to you to convince your advisor or graduation committee or whatever that you can and should skip basic requirements and instead tailor your major to more advanced stuff that you want to do.
The first cars were electric. Electricity powering cars isn’t hard to to envision.
promise is callback. When used in the context of the simple data loading scenario typical of D3, there is no difference.
This is why we need ows to make top alexia websits a utility!!

Imagine your electric provider cutting off your juice because CEO happen to be pro ozon layer guy and believes your fridge is too old and takes too much energy. Or your water company doesnt like you to wash your dog in your bathtub and cuts our water off suggesting t do that in your back yard. Or gas company does a survey and disagree that you cook lamb meat at home and shuts your gas, sggesting to switch to cooking poultry.

As billions of people visit these websites, they start to be super cruicial to quality of peoples lives! You can say “you gut cut off youtube go somewhere else”. There is nowhere to go! Same with other major sites.
> But there is no excuse for using 3rd party libs. Just don't use it. If you not know: do not use it.

Wait, what? That goes against one of the core benefits of open source software--that having many eyes on a problem decreases the risk of bugs. I'm willing to bet that if Uber had to implement their own machine learning/vision libraries from the ground up, there would be significantly more issues.
Doesn't sound like a legal requirement. Sounds like HR doesn't want you to design your own test that might expose the company to discrimination suits. That's my guess.

A good substitute is asking someone to walk you through a code review or thinking about how to start a new project. You supply the code or specs, of course.

Programming tests suck for the applicant and don't do a good job of selecting for the traits you want in a new hire.
If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures--and it's not like the posters use their first and last name as their username or anywhere in their post--so hopefully that'll keep it safe. After all, the main personals section has "148,372 readers" and right now, as of 11:57 PM Eastern Time, "1,946" are logged in. https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/
I get the feeling based on comments here that there is a severe lack of ethical and critical thinking among engineers and developers. I recognize that this is only a vocal minority but the constant mantra of "move fast and break things", where getting rich at any cost is seen as a virtue, has made me extremely disillusioned with this brand of startup culture. Doubly so when people are trading stock tips on how to profit from tragedy by supporting the worst actors in the field.
It was in GRU offices, and attributable to a particular officer. The article has more.
The CMU part-time remote MS in Software Engineering was great, definitely extra worth it if you have your company pay for it. Not sure if they still offer it, they might have shut down the Moffett Field version of the program.
Wow! I met my wife just over 7 years ago there, and our 2nd kid is due in a few months. Hard to believe that the personals section is gone.
I got family on Facebook I can't find anywhere else. Some of them died and their account memorized with pictures and comments. I find new family members too.

Facebook is like Microsoft Windows, you want to get rid of it for Linux but the apps you need and people you know still run Windows and need help.
How does that explain WeChat? No, I think they quickly realized the power social media has to shape social consensus, which is what this whole scandal ultimately boils down to. They banned Facebook to eliminate competitors for their home grown (and highly controlled) domestic alternative vs. an American company.
Is it better for self driving cars to have a flawless record & low adoption, or to have a 100x improvement over human drivers & broad adoption?

Creating the perfect self-driving car, with redundant systems, safety everything & so on will certainly help its safety records.

But it will also drive up the cost.

And put it out of reach for a lot of people.

If the goal is to save lives, the bar self-driving cars should be held to is what humans do driving today, not perfection.
You're suggesting that self-driving cars may have to drive slowly and carefully in cities. I don't really see a problem with that. Pedestrians aren't frequently in the immediate vicinity of roads with limits higher than 35mph in my experience. Any human driver has to drive cautiously in the vicinity of pedestrians anyway, if they don't want to risk manslaughter. I'd want SDVs to do that too.
I think your first paragraph is written from the perspective of a human driver. The machine can predict based on physics. If anything a person who does not see a car will be more predictable, not less, as they will tend to be moving uniformly and not taking evasive action.

Taking into account optimal (computer driven) car stopping distances, the maximum acceleration of a person and typical pedestrian densities, I don't think getting though cities would be an issue, especially outside the CBD. Even in areas with very high pedestrian traffic cars will be able to get though. In support of this argument, I offer today's "shared" pedestrian zones, where cars and people mix. Pedestrians have right of way, cars are limited to 10km/h, but the cars manage to get though without injuring anyone. Cars would naturally do high speeds on main roads with low pedestrian density and lower speeds (with very short stopping distance) at high pedestrian density.

Why should children have a propensity to intentionally jump in front cars above and beyond anyone else? That's bias.

If anyone intentionally jumped in front of a car then it would be covered by the exemption that I proposed: that the car would not be liable if intent could be proved. Based on the car's sensor logs it would be pretty easy to prove that someone intended to get hit. If the car managed to stop and the person ran away it would then be relatively easy to track that person down based on the logs and charge them with a crime. In any case, I think that that is a hypothetical situation which is unlikely to occur. For the vast majority of people self preservation would trump the desire to cause trouble by putting oneself in a terrifying and life-threatening situation, so I think it would be negligibly rare.
Do you think ozonE was created by an act of Congress, like FOSTA? It's a business move to avoid legal liability.
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Govt workers that you meet in person (DMV, permitting office, etc.) are a tiny drop in the bucket and don't accurately represent the whole.
You can't just look at Uber to make a sweeping conclusion of all autonomous cars on the road. How many miles has Tesla, VW, Volvo, Waymo, Google, Ford, and Apple have?
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That's literally not what happened. There is a lot of other evidence to support this claim. It wasn't just this one simple thing that pointed to Russia.
Curious here, how does lack of pictures or first/last name have any bearing here? From what I understand, any of these reasons could also apply to reddit as well.
Being able to quickly size up and fire prospects before they become a horrible burden is a tremendous, often hard won talent.
The MS is really a gateway to a greencard.
Not exactly and not necessarily. You can await a Promise and not have any functions at all:

await thing()
console.log(‘Thing done’)

Also you could attach multiple callbacks to the same Promise at any point, even long after the promise fulfilled.
I think you nailed a large part of it, in this modest short paragraph. It's a little strong to say that it's ALWAYS intentional -- but frequently management has a very high emotional IQ and they're not oblivious to the effects of top-down policies.

If anything what was once intention for one person, turns into style/culture/rationalizations for many others. Let me try to turn the abstraction into an example. Have you ever heard a manager say about someone who works very very hard, "(S)he is passionate about technology"? My favorite one in the world is, "This is a startup, what do you expect." "This is a startup, if you want a 9 to 5 this is not the place for you."

As an older but still young enough (I hope) techie, I've learned to see that the platitudes and promises, the myth about changing the world or bullying about working hard (because what you describe reminds me of bullying) affects YOUNG PEOPLE the most.

And those young people, maybe a small percentage will make a lot of money at a young age. I know a few and I'm not even in Silicon Valley. Many others will piss their 20's away working long hours and drown their livers with company-sponsored drinks.
This is completely bizarre, we can't go down this route with the internet. It is madness.
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They are selling for a loss currently. Any margins from model S and X are being used to subsidise model 3 and overall they are still losing tons of money, profitability not even on the horizon. I wonder how long their current runway is without raising new cash again.
>By that logic, though, it's reasonable to say that there shouldn't be Net Neutrality regulation.

The logic here depends on scale. YouTube is a service among services; ISPs are utilities that provide access to other services. It's much easier to set up your own video streaming website than it is to set up an ISP. As it stands, there no risk for ISPs with the content they carry, since their subscribers have no choice to leave them. They do not risk their brand or advertising dollars. That is why they ought to be neutral to the content they carry.

If there comes a time in America where an ISP risks losing subscribers to their competitor because they allow LiveLeak or Porn or dragon ball z gifs, let 'em go wild with the filters.
> Your concept that there are no accidents, only oversights, is not correct. Say I’m crossing the street and I don’t see your car coming, because I look the wrong way or I’m distracted, or my view is blocked by the sun. You may not be able to avoid hitting me

Solvable by reducing speed sufficiently. It's reasonable to expect the car to avoid a man travelling at 10kph from any off-road blind-spot, and a car travelling at 100kph from any on-road blind-spot.

> Additionally, if we train self-driving cars to always give way to pedestrians who even look like they might cross the street, they’re going to have a heck of a time getting through cities. Kids are going to learn that they can trigger a squealing emergency stop by lunging towards the curb - great fun!

If you sprint to the curb in front of traffic today, drivers will stop/swerve. Almost certainly illegal too.

My interpretation of the parent post is that more responsibility can be put on the car to avoid accidents, than is currently the case today. Hence greatly increasing road safety. It sounds great!
Not exactly. The required bandwidth for the evolutionary strategy is actually very small: if every node knows each other's random seed, they can reconstruct the best model themselves, using the seed of whichever node declares the best result. There is no need to transfer any weights. Of course, this trick only works if it's cheap to compute the weights other nodes are using, which is not the case for SGD. So evolutionary strategies have an advantage here, even if it's not a decisive one.
All of the above would be great, obviously, but for me to take Apple seriously, I'd say that they'd need to:

Open source pretty much anything that they can, allowing me to compile and install my own os and software. And this would have to be without having to contact apple's servers in any way.

There might be more that I can't remember ATM, but I think that's the main gist of it.

By not allowing me to see how the code works, I can't know what they are doing with my data. And by designing a system where I could set up as much of the stack as possible without having to contact any central source, would ensure that everyone could use it without fear of that data being mis-handled.
Actually, a landlord can be responsible for tenant's drug dealing.
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Granted, they have to at least have a suspicion it is occurring, but there is potential liability there, and business cards stuck to a pegboard may be enough.
> - Expecting engineers to always write perfect code is insane. Mistakes happen.

In safety-critical fields, setting a much higher quality bar than the regular 'it seems to works, the tests pass' seems perfectly rational to me. We can now write provably-correct C compilers (CompCert) and OS kernels (SeL4). There's no excuse for not putting similar levels of effort[0] into something as safety-critical as self-driving cars.

[0]: Note that I'm not advocating for "provably-correct self-driving car software" (that may not be the right approach, as a formal spec is likely unrealisable), but find the argument that "it's ok to write buggy spreadsheets, so it's ok to write buggy self-driving cars" to be morally unacceptable.
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I've been joking for at least a year that Uber's motto is "move fast and break people". I'm saddened that this has come to pass but not surprised.
It's comparable insofar as, in each case the sociopolitical temperature of the moment has resulted in a reduction of the content available to users, even if the actual dynamic varies in the important ways you point out.
Takeaway: promote promote promote promote promote.

Seems like most of what they are doing is (self) promotion. Nothing wrong with that; but I think we can distill their advice down to that.
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Despite Telegram's shortcomings in not using well supported crypto and not having default end to end encryption on all conversations. Their clients for both iOS and mac are amazing in that they are native.

And unlike WhatsApp you don't need to carry your phone with you all the time just to send a message to someone on desktop.

Their bot API is also really rich. I am thinking of rewriting some of the Alfred workflows I wrote in Go as Telegram bots. For example I always wanted my Web Searches workflow (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-web-searches) be present on my phone in some way. It seems I can actually do just that and reuse the Go code I wrote already.
Usually I get minus of critisizing facebook and google.

I hope people start to understand how deep state systems facebook and google are..
However, the interior seemed filled with light, and they didn't glance up long enough for their eyes to adjust properly.
I apply this to my day job. So far so good.
We know for a fact many of the emails are true, and there are no claims that specific ones are false as far as I remember. Reasonable to conclude that the batch was accurate until claims from the senders and recipients otherwise.

Podesta had the same argument about tampering IIRC.

Ask yourself if you would be questioning RNC leaks by a foreign power the same way. I would.
That boat is super niche. Numbers of $100k cars Tesla sells per year is very small and actually is not growing. So that boat is quite small and I don't see the issue for BMW.

You have to remember Tesla is losing hundreds of millions of dollars, so clearly that boat is not going to get far until they can start making money. Even Elon Musk won't be able to raise big rounds of new capital indefinitely.