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> We have to live in the world we have. We should strangle car sharing in its cradle because even after decades of mediocre service a competitor could come along and complete doesn't sound like a sound strategy.

I don't think sarcasm helps having a productive conversation.

Also, straw-man: I wasn't arguing we should strangle anything.
This is pretty shocking, more so than any other autopilot related news or videos I've seen. It's something that no normal driver paying attention would ever do.

This further confirms for me the feeling that autopilot in cars won't become even remotely common for another decade, especially in any parts of the country with poor weather.
> The boorish, self-centered behavior of certain audience members would have made it very difficult to appreciate anything of the work at its premiere.

Is it the audiences or the composers & performers who are boorish & self-centred? This quote from the article is a bit revealing: ‘For sure, by tomorrow, everyone in the world is going to know about you and your music.’

Good music isn’t about being known; it’s about good music. No doubt someone could release 40 minutes of flatulence and get everyone talking about it — but that wouldn’t make it good music. When audiences reject music, maybe it’s bad.
I don’t think that is really true. Both of the latter are apprenticed-based but otherwise easy to enter, and we are only having a shortage now because of the housing crash in the previous decade. Tech has been booming almost continuously now since the beginning of the century.
Thanks! That setup breaks everytime I'm behind a captive portal (hotel) .. any work around that except changing it manually and back?!
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Shouldn't autopilot at least stop the car because of the barrier in front of it? Even if it can't figure out the lane configuration?
> Either way, there probably was some homelessness, but we'd have to look at actual records/stats on it.

Since it was a subject of official denial, records and stats would likely be hard to find.
Limited in the UK, perhaps, but there are plenty of places without such limitations where written texts stretch back millennia. I have seen many things unnoticed by others but recorded in 1000 year old travelogues here in China.
Tesls have made out that the driver ignored the warning; but it didn't actually say that. It said previously in the drive he ignored that warning, but phrased it cleverly that makes it sounds like during the accident he ignored the warning.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong; but I'm 99% sure that Tesla managed some pretty spectacular weasel wording there.
If you are going to argue that, then you need to look again at the headlined item, where it was not the case that it behaved the same on every possible platform. It is a non-standard mechanism of one compiler, that was picked based upon a compromise decision about what versions even of that one compiler it would actually work with.
Can you explain why? How is C closer to processor instructions then Rust?
It was reported that the other fellow that died a few days ago also knew of this bug before he was killed. I wonder if he too died while trying to reproduce this bug, and if so, could you really hold Tesla at fault?

You know there is a deadly flaw in a product, (Imagine a car without Anti lock brakes.) But you continue to try to reproduce a deadly bug in the software. Is the maker of the car at fault?
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>Sometimes it looks like people throw blockchain in a project not on technical merits but because they think the buzzword is a VC magnet.

That's because they do. A Blockchain without decentralization (and therefore no need for proof-of-work consensus) is functionally just an immutable, append-only object database - the same sort of data structure that any modern, distributed source code version control system (like Git) has always used, before "Blockchain" was even a thing.
There will be bugs.

This is the beginning and I only find it interesting and not in any ways shocking.
Came here to say this - seems like what's included in a nice big markup for Amazon ;)
> The reason why everyone trusts the LIGO result is that we have an extremely high degree of confidence in general relativity.

No, that's not true. The reason everyone "trusts" the LIGO results is because we believe the people running the experiment are trustworthy. The results have nothing to do with GR except insofar as they were designed to test a heretofore untested prediction of GR (which prediction they have confirmed).

And the reason we want to test a prediction of GR is that we want to try to falsify it, because that is the way progress is made in science.

I think you may have meant to say something about how we cannot know for certain that GR is true, that that's right, we can't. But it's not like Einstein just pulled GR out of a hat. It's the only known solution to the problem that fits all of the known data. That doesn't prove it's true, but it is the best explanation we have so we might as well carry on as if it's true until someone proves otherwise or comes up with a better idea.
So are mom and pop businesses using Chromebooks and Ipads to do their accounting now? Last I checked Windows was still pretty dominant in both Enterprise and midsize businesses, though I could see a food truck being run from a phone (theoretically).
I would say the sex ratio of criminals is, itself, an expression of a male-centric society. Males are expected to be successful in order to attract mates and feel a social pressure to fight for their places in society, this is the so called "toxic and competitive masculinity" some chastise men for. In less educated and more violence prone individuals, that pressure is a very strong motivator for crime.

In this social model, females have less to gain from high risk behavior, since they are not selected based on material affluence, and a lot more to lose; a woman projecting a high level of self autonomy is labeled as promiscuous and a poor choice for what a female "should" optimize for: motherhood, a stable family, supporting her husband and so on. This goes on from early childhood, teaching girls to conform to social norms or be rejected, even (or especially) by other girls.

Meanwhile, "boys will be boys" and are expected to bend the rules.
This scares me because this looks like it would be a pretty common edge case/ something you would easily think of. How could a bug like that in such a high stakes scenario not be tested/be missed??
From my understanding the driver who died in the crash had previously reported problems in this area. I wonder if it was this specific crash site or not, I wonder why too if the person was aware of it why they didn't pay more attention during it - and to stop trusting it. I can understand how easy it is to be uncertain of something and have enough trust or rather a thread of hope that "nothing bad will happen to me."

I wonder too, if it's true that the person who died in the crash reported the area, what process Tesla followed and .. Any area reported with a problem IMHO should immediately start warning other drivers going in the same area until the issue is resolved, even disabling auto-pilot completely until Tesla's resolved it. I'm sure that would make people safer than the temporary inconveniences they would cause - I'd hope people would take that attitude anyway.
Propably not. A car stopping because "its confused" in the middle of a high speed lane is dangerous. Slowing down OTH (as it is shown in the video).
Stationary objects are less likely to be recognized than moving ones: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
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Singapore is dense like NYC is, and, outside of its public housing program, is equally, if not more, expensive than NYC. Singapore is otherwise a very capitalistic country, and its housing program is basically ownership with restrictions that fade overtime.

But more to the point: every super dense city I’ve lived in has had more expensive housing than the lesser dense cities I’ve lived in. Obviously something else is going on, density itself isn’t magic.
>And yet there was no homelessness in the USSR.

Was there no homelessness or did the state just say that? Just like there are no homosexuals in Saudi Arabia or Chechnya?
The OPs forecast is predicated on an understanding of companies like Google and Amazon being so big and powerful that they are immune to the ebb and flow that define normal market conditions and allow new entrants to prosper and old companies to whither when they no longer create enough value for consumers.

My argument is that when Facebook, a company until a few weeks ago commonly understood to be every bit as immortal as Google and Amazon, can be so deeply upset by a scandal that isn't even predominantly their own making (I don't mean to imply that FB isn't culpable, but CA did the bad stuff and explicitly and broadly broke terms in doing so), this immortality is a lot shallower than it seems. Facebook isn't dead, and won't be for a long time, but the idea that Facebook moving into Airbnb's space will immediately monopolise it for the detriment of consumers seems rather more of a silly fantasy than a "forecast".
Worth mentioning these pretty renovations happened well after the system which brought them stopped its existence.
This small robot lures hackers away from other robots
Indeed. "Search iframe hack". That's basically all you need to know about their "instant loading" and "caring for speed".

See, they are not really optimised for speed. They are optimised for being pre-loaded from Google's CDN in search results. Or, as OP's article says: "the incentives being placed on AMP content seem to be accomplishing exactly what you would think: they’re incentivizing AMP, not performance"

Actually recently I wrote quite a long comment about what's wrong with AMP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16549828 that covers that, and more.
Probably best not to think of Tesla as the standard bearer.

You can go back through Animats comments here and see criticism of the (apparent) approach Tesla is using, for months and months:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:Animats%20Tesla%20map&sort=...
The types of collisions will shift to different concentrations as well, so there could be a "500%" increase in one type of collision, while a "20,000%" decrease in another area.
Also, Tokyo sprawls. The city isn’t one giant cluster of skyscrapers called Shinjuku, sorry. Most of the people on this thread would be shocked to see pictures of actual Tokyo housing, which mostly consists of low-rise, detached buildings.

Japan is magic, you see. They must be doing something different there. It can’t possibly be something boring like “the city is built in an enormous, flat river delta.”
I can't help but think about how it would give you more time to consider carrying to term vs abortion, since there is a hard time limit and earlier is better in terms of stress on the body and ethics.

This would make it a target for anti-choice groups as well as internal company ethics, however, so it's a complicated issue.
I am always surprised by the turn of events when legislation is not involved.

Several years ago, documentaries were coming out attacking Walmart over everything. Now it's Amazon. I don't hear as much about Walmart from the rabble-rousing press anywhere now. Moreover, Amazon ended up killing many of the mom and pops anyway. We could not get a Walmart near our city because of the political opposition, and in the end, the political opposition only delivered us a different overlord.
Why on earth would you expect something for nothing? Presumably the policy you carry is your own business and will become theirs in case of an accident.
I don't know compilers, but this seems like a lot more steps than I would have expected. Is it actually an unusually large number of transformations, or is that just how compilers are done?
Its important to think about what the problem really is. Right now many people are moving to the big cities, and the big cities have expensive housing. To me the real problem is why people want to live in a handful of big cities instead of cheaper regions. If its true that there is no choice but to live in big cities then the current high prices really aren't a problem, its just that is where the money is. Manhattan is a great example, lots of high density development and it still isn't cheap.
That might have been more of a response to the choreography than the music. Earlier in 1913, a performance of Schoenberg's work turned into a riot during the 'Skandalkonzert' in Vienna. Even that, however, may not have been so much about the music as the composer, who apparently behaved haughtily at a previous concert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandalkonzert
There was also no unemployment. Clearly that is a system worth emulating.
Is Python interpreted or compiled? Yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
Autopilot has trouble with stationary objects.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Mr. Heisenberg would like to have a word with you about classical versus quantum phenomena.
...free forever until... isn't really free forever.

why not offer free for development. I would offer a paid plan that has the features completed.
I wonder why these systems aren't linked to GPS and maps, surely you'd be able to calculate that going right into the middle of two fork options isn't going to end well.
Unless it's a Google Pixel device. Firefox on the Pixel infuriates my wife, it slow and crashes a lot. She's baffled because she watches me cruise happily with it on my Nextbit Robin.
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Windows is not going away. it's just been downgraded from primary strategy at Microsoft
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
We don't use quantum physics to measure significant amounts of time, we use classical physics. In addition to the uncertainty we encounter at that scale, the arrow of time is often irrelevant anyway.
I think the most solid argument in favor of the quantum multiverse is along the lines of "The universe is virtually certain to fall into a lower-energy quantum vacuum state. That we have not observed it to be the case means either that we have been astonishingly lucky, or that there is a selection process going on. There is such a selection process; we can only witness futures in which the entire past lightcone of the universe has not collapsed; despite the near-certainty that such has occurred there are still far more possible universes than that." In short, the quantum multiverse argument can be run backwards in time, too; a given quantum system will observe a superposition of all possible past states of the universe as it evolves forward in time, and we can only see the ones in which we still survive.

Now, I still don't believe in the quantum multiverse. We have not proved to my satisfaction that lower-energy quantum vacuum states are inevitable, on the grounds that we don't know enough yet to know why it hasn't happened. (i.e., there may be other effects keeping it from happening, or perhaps there are reasons why it actually can't happen such as the lower state being non-viable for some other reason, etc.) But in my opinion, this is still the most solid argument in its favor; if it can be established that our current universe with near-certainty should evolve into something that we can't live in or observe with a bubble expanding at the speed of light, it's going to take something equally potent to counteract that.

Or, in other words, under this theory, for every split second of your entire life, vastly, vastly more of your worldlines are getting lightspeed-annihilated than not. %99.999... "keep writing 9s as long as you like" of them. But the destruction is so total and instantaneous that you can never observe this fact, so you go on happily living in the 0.00...01% of the remainder, happy as a clam. Again, this isn't my own personal belief, but it's a theory.
'Suspicion of compromise'? That sounds like a terrible idea - locking the door when the horse is gone. I'd just skip the password entirely then - use a Yibikey etc and trust it, and leave the (fallible) human out of the equation entirely.
ETA: Too late to edit, but the point I'm trying to make is that Amazon is able to gather data on potential customers, and it's possible, even likely, that when you get pregnant, you start to think "paying for housecleaning" is worth it, and the combination of knowing if this is true, and being able to predict (or know) when someone is pregnant through their data mining and algorithms gives them a position to advertise directly to newly expectant mothers with these housecleaning services. This is, obviously, a big advantage over their competitors.
you're asking me if men are a marginalized community. what do you think is the answer i'm going to give?
Nah, both companies have a major weaknesses that no amount of money seems to be able to solve. Namely, user experience.

Example 1, Dropbox: Google & Amazon seem like companies ideally positioned to destroy Dropbox. They excel at making network infrastructure at scale, they both have competing products and massive existing customer basis. Yet Dropbox has managed to compete and win on user experience.

Example 2, Netflix: Both google & amazon have tons of money and massive amounts of users to cross promote a premium video service to yet neither YouTube nor Amazon seem to have figured out how to produce consistently good original content to the same degree that Netflix has. Netflix should be dead by now yet it’s doing very well. YouTube/Amazon also have much poorer interfaces than Netflix.

I could go on. My point is that plenty of companies successfully compete with both Google & Amazon.
For those who don't know, AdNauseam is an example of such a system, implemented as a browser extension. It warns users that it does not protect privacy, though, but it seemed to annoy Google enough that they blocked it on their web store.
i actually dont even know there's a max. I thought you just keep adding 9's.

yes absolutely. rather than messing around with css i want actual helpful diagnostics. i'll spend more time on that.
Is it not called the decimal point elsewhere? What do you call your comma that separates the integer from the fraction?
Perhaps that depends on operating system. In the 30 years I have been using ping on Linux, the reverse lookup time is absolutely included in the first ping time.
> Science and the Humanities worked fine before peer review

Before peer review they were not dealing with the volume of scientific content that is submitted nowadays. One could debate whether citations are the only metric necessary, but there needs to be a filter before that even happens, or else we will be flooded with an avalanche of garbage research. It would be trivial for someone with deep enough pockets to order a network of junk papers citing each other and debunking climate change or evolution and make a real mess. As painful as reviewing is, it's a necessary evil for now.
You seem certain of that, but I don't think it's been quite that clear for some time. I'm not a physicist, but AFAIK the Copenhagen interpretation essentially requires indeterminacy. Suffice it to say that I don't think it's as clear-cut as you do :)
The social concepts in Heidelberg's Bahnstadt put the prices there just a tad below ridiculous, if you qualify. (If not, they are indeed ridiculous.)
This is just the first batch of tariffs, the Chinese press says there will be more.
Quad9 is a consortium of 3 founding companies, none of which is the London Police Department. Additionally nowhere in your link is either Quad9, IBM, PCH or GCA mentioned. Please stop spreading and disinformation and FUD. See:

https://www.quad9.net/about/
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Note that I'm not saying Tesla Autopilot is ready to bet lives on, etc, etc etc... but I think we also need to address the problem of bad lane lines for humans too. The right side of the divider was virtually invisible. Anyone fully paying attention should also see the right-side lane markers continuing straight and stay with them, and see the barrier very early (although I usually see those with a lot more reflective markings and barrels to absorb energy), but - bad lane line markings can definitely throw off imperfect humans plenty too. The I-15 in Utah is notorious for this. Areas that have been under constant construction for years have layers of previous temporary lane markings that are badly removed and weren't clear to begin with, and you can be driving along with several lanes of traffic who suddenly get confused about which lane they should be following and start converging into the same lanes.

Clear lane markings are not a requirement just for autopilot.
Avoid package scans, they are very slow.
I'd put the blame on crappy user-agents that can't present a readable view by default for a reasonable, semantically marked up document. Arguably that is their raison d'être, and they fail horribly at it.
Does it need to be slow and shitty? Couldn’t “blockchain technology” in the context just refer to it being an immutable log? If the nodes are controlled by one entity there is no point in doing proof-of-work for consensus for example.

IMO there is a difference between “blockchain” and “blockchain technology”. The latter means taking parts of or inspiration from how blockchains are built.

Even if the technology is not be specific to the blockchain originally, blockchain still helped bring these ideas into the minds of the masses and so I think it is fair to characterize some of these things as “blockchain technology” when that is how some people came to know of them.
I switched all my devices to CloudFlare 'cause it 2x faster than Google DNS in my location - Europe.
Yes, but how do you test different DNS providers? ;)

(Please read the thread for context)
There are many different approaches. Chezscheme does a gazillion steps using the nanopass framework, but is still fast enough to compile a metric shit-tonne of code without any noticeable delay.
The "waivers" for coverage that one needs to get not to get sodomized in an event of an accident require one to be someone very familiar with all kinds of statues or spending nearly $70-$100 a day to be able to cover a premium sedan or above ( did you know that Impala is a premium sedan? )

No, credit card automatic policies do not cover even top 10 issues that you would have in event of an accident - they at most cover loss of revenue provision and some of the damage to the vehicle you are renting.

The only reasonable insurance that you can get is Amex premium insurance which is $25/trip (not a day) and covers everything.

Edit: Over years I tried Citi, HSBC, BOA, Chase and even CapOne "premium insurances" - they all were garbage with a list of exclusions longer than most of TOS policies on shady websites.
Yes, but this is also the only way to preserve any kind of historic character. This decision was made for Tokyo when it was burnt down, but in lots of places preserving the status quo appearance is locally popular.
Squat effect, on ships at speed in shallow waters
Or if your land gets up-zoned and suddenly is worth 3x as much, and your property taxes go up accordingly (if you don't live in CA at least).
I'd assume that's probably done to prevent FOUC while it's waiting for the JS to load. What do you get if you override that style?