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Cities should only pay for infrastructure that other people get value out of.

Do you want cities funding infrastructure that no one values? Is building a bridge to no where better than a bridge that people want?
Running an NVMO seems like a massive hassle; if there's no profit in it then there's less of an incentive. And while an Apple NVMO could confine it's support to a very narrow set of hardware there would still be something very un-Apple about the whole thing: inability to CONTROL the physical network on which the NVMO is operating... even more so if, like Google Fi, more than one physical network is involved. I don't know if Google is in the FI business for making money so much as creating an exclusive option for owners of Pixels and a handful of other approved handsets. Apple doesn't seem to have problem selling expensive phones so having a network to manage/coordinate is a headache they really don't need.
To make it clear: the headline is completely wrong. Musk only announced a step towards autonomy which could be anything, but certainly not full autonomy.

It could be as simple as extended self parking.

From a software engineering perspective it is an interesting announcement. With all the obvious limitations of the current autopilot, Tesla must have been working on a very different package for full autonomy - we might see a first glimpse of it with that release.
Utah has passed legislation to protect lemonade stands and other childhood businesses. This has spurred weekend child entrepreneur markets.

See https://fee.org/articles/lemonade-stands-legalized-in-utah/
In the last 12 months it’s become clear that Musk relies on the same defensive self-aggrandizing bluster that makes Trump so ridiculous. Quite a quick trip down from demigod for him.
Cities have done that for thousands of years. It's a symbiotic relationship. The businesses pay taxes which pay for services to make the businesses more viable.
Netflix came to be in an environment where custom and the threat of regulation stood in for actual regulation.
Well the only thing ISPs would fight against more strongly than Net Neutrality would be any attempt to enforce competition.

If we wanted real competition, we would have to do what they do in the UK and other places; force ISPs to sell access to their fiber, and require shared access to utility poles and access points.

If we don't do that, we aren't going to get real competition; it is not economically feasible (in most places) for a new ISP to run cable/fiber to every subscribers house (the 'last mile'). In addition, this is economically inefficient - if multiple companies run fiber to a house, all but one would be unused at any given time (since a single house is most likely only going to subscribe to one ISP at a time).

So basically we have two choices - force ISPs to share infrastructure or enforce net neutrality. If we can't even muster the political will to enforce net neutrality, what do you think the odds are that we could enforce shared infrastructure?
I have Reuters RSS feed and the amount of story duplication (3 stories about the same from different angles)and the sheer number of news is really a problem. Plus RSS contains only one sentence summary.

Maybe RSS + local ML would solve the problem?
While that is true, you still need to test to ensure that your representation matches reality, and in practice when you do that in systems written in dynamic languages you tend to cover most type issues implicitly.

For that matter it's not that hard to write code to statically validate that arguments to a given method are checked against a set of types and that this set does not include a representation of invalid values. (E.g. I can "forcibly" wrap any method with checks). The reason the various libraries to do that haven't gained much traction is that they've rarely paid for themselves in reduced effort compared to higher level tests.

I'm all for more static validation, but I just don't think we have suitable tooling yet to do it at a level that provides sufficient benefit.
New Clear Chats option lets you delete Snapchat messages
You may be right about all that, but that’s no reason to think the MTA is going off silly reasons or being “malevolent” for regulating (not even banning!) the scooters, rather than acting out of genuine concern.
I would agree - more charitably :P

I say this as a dispassionate observer - sometimes it seems their professional judgment is less professional and more emotional and their risk assessment based on whether or not they'll catch hell for ignoring it or if anyone will care.
I watched the whole talk, so I heard the bit about the IDE, but I still think there's a really fundamental ability of being able to walk through the "decision-making logic" of your "code" (in this case, model) that wasn't touched upon. For example, suppose your model misclassifies a barrier and a car crashes into it as a result [1]. How do you debug this? You can say, "Well, it's a data-labelling problem" and go get more data on barriers, but in the meantime people have died. Model testing and debugging should be an incredibly high priority for use cases like Tesla's. That means some degree of interpretability, testing edge cases, simulation, anything to find flaws like this before they occur in real life.

See here [2] for an example of production ML testing practices. I wonder how much of this is in place at Tesla? I would argue they should be at the forefront of work like this. Something tells me they aren't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257239

[2] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46555
The problem is that we have become "lawed to death" and I hate that about this country. I know everyone thinks there are legal remedies for every problem, but in a free society, that quickly turns into shackles. We might better live with a few warts.
Considering how increasingly important sleep is, that sounds like a pretty good reason for you to get back into shape.
So where you alive, as an adult, in the 90's or just warped opinion of the 90's based on what you were told.

I do not remember these hoards of MLM people....

Further the internet is likely the larger cause of any drop in this type of door to door selling than the laws that prevent kids from having a stand to sell flavored sugar water.
This is similar to https://github.com/Jfaler/Bitcoin-Casino
well, and some vested interests/money not desiring any competition from scooters.
Some features of self driving, not the whole package. Eg. a better parking assistant.
Except that Islamic culture drew heavily on them too, especially the Greeks.

Those of us who consider ourselves Western are right to consider the Greeks and Romans among our cultural forebears, but we're not the only ones who can or should do so.
The fact that Google has so many cities mapped for aerial imagery is very interesting to me. Do we know how they get this aerial imagery data? (i.e. Is it one or more subcontracted companies that specialize in aerial photography?)
There's always been an element of this to Musk's marketing, but it's gotten much more obvious lately, alright.
"Now, our cars will focus on Jersey barriers as well."
NDVI is a well established vegetation index that takes advantage of the relatively unique spectral qualities of vegetation, in that it absorbs large amounts of red light and reflects large amounts of infrared. It is the normalized difference of a sensor's near infrared band and its red band. There are numerous band combinations available to highlight certain materials within a scene.

Here is a link describing some additional indices:

http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/docs/AlphabeticalListSpectra...

Additionally, here is a brief description of different individual bands and how they can be used:

https://gisgeography.com/spectral-signature/
It varies greatly depending on the local jurisdiction but the two most common factors for if you need a health permit are - Are you charging for the food? or Is the size of the portion over a specific size (commonly 2oz).

I have a line of BBQ rubs and sauces. In my area, if I got to a retailer and hand out free samples of product (for example BBQ sauce on pulled pork) then there is no health permit required. However if I sell BBQ sandwiches then a health department permit (and the associated inspections) are required.

In some areas I would be able to sell samples without a permit as long as they were 2oz or less. That is how many chili or "people's choice" type competitions work.
Anytime I read posts like that, I just assume they have never been to a place that requires a car to get somewhere within a decent amount of time or it's been so long that they've forgotten.

Yeah, I could get an e-bike, I just have to make 5x+ the trips to the store since I doubt it could hold what I can get in 1 trip now.
How would I drive 20 miles one way to work in the winter when there is zero public transportation here? There's no bike lanes out here, and taking an e-bike on the road will eventually get you killed, that's if you can stand driving 40 miles round trip in the snow / rain 5 days of the week.

I guess I can move, (as been suggested before lol) but now there's a lot of new problems with that that an e-bike won't touch.

It just isn't feasible for most people yet. Hopefully sometime soon, but definitely not right now.
Something being interstate commerce does not prevent states from legislating on it. Under that logic, states couldn't regulate the sale of anything produced in another state, which is obviously untrue.
Snarky answer: They sleep on piles of money.

Less snarky: They have different anxieties. They don't worry about losing their house or their job. They don't worry about the monthly bills or an unexpected medical event. Instead, they worry about being back in the place where they have to worry about those things. (I think. I'm not, alas, in a position to know first-hand what billionaires are anxious about.)

So they spread their money around. "Divide your fortune into seven, or even into eight, for many are the mischances of the world" is good advice. (It's from Proverbs, in the Bible.) Billionaires do this, so that they can comfortably survive any particular investment going horribly bad.

Then, I suspect, the more aware billionaires worry about their effect on people. They can throw money at friends' and relatives' problems, but that may actually cause more harm than good. I don't know how they deal with that - maybe by having a fixed policy of what they will and won't do, and not deviating from it no matter how good the story sounds.
I was also alive in the 90s, and can confirm it did.

It, in fact, still happens today in places where permit laws are not required or not enforced.
No. Businesses and Governments do it all the time.
Is there any advantage to this over using Lambda's python runtime to run a binary? That seems to be what this project is doing to run a natively-compiled Clojure project: https://github.com/uwcpdx/clombda
Inside Palmer Luckey's Bid to Build a Border Wall
The article links to the paper, where this is the number one concern they address. They seem to have a bunch of different ways of slicing the data to prove their effect, e.g. pairing demographically similar districts, looking at newspaper shutdowns likely induced by Craigslist, looking at number of newspapers in a district, looking at distance of political center to economic center. I don't know if this is a complete list of things that economists would look at, so I don't know if they're cherry-picking good ways to slice the data, but they have 47 pages of trying to convince you it's right if you want to dig that deep :)

There could obviously be other explanations, e.g. markets thinking that less information rich environments are just riskier because they won't know what's going on, but they seem to have been fairly thorough in establishing the link between newspapers closing and bond rates increasing.
My father in law has really bad snoring problems. At least in the beginning it wasn’t sleep apnea, he likely has it now due to weight issues.

He had his tonsils removed and it didn’t help. They even removed the dangly thing (Uvula) at the roof of his mouth. Both didn’t help.

Removing his Uvula caused way more issues than it solved. He is constantly choking on small drops of water and forgot spicy foods.
From my personal datapoint, I agree with that question.

There are 2-3 abandoned moderate sized retail buildings in a suburb I pass on my way into work that have sat vacant for the better part of a decade with a big "for sale" sign out front.

On the odd times I look up the listing price, they want high hundred thousands to low million. Keep in mind this is for buildings and land that have not been maintained for years now.

Without a massive surge in pricing, they are already vacant maintained spaces that will capture most interest before that vacant tear-down gets bought.
A neural network in 10 lines of C++ code... Plus another 200 lines of C++ code.

AKA: My "lines of code" count is super tiny if I don't include function definitions!
> That's why I wanted to keep it out of the discussion and just mentioned Meltdown, AFAIK Spectre applies to both so it would be pure speculation to identify who'll be hit harder.

That makes sense. Many people conflate the two, so I just wanted to be explicit about what I was saying :-).

> I think we have this problem already all the time (with or without mitigations applied), that's why we (should) interpret benchmarks only as a proxy.

That's totally reasonable. I think there were some discussions of the impact of the Meltdown patch (on Intel performance) on the LKML list at the time the patch(es) were being reviewed. (Other OS may have different perf impact for their Meltdown mitigations, of course, but it helps ballpark.)

Here's some discussion on anandtech, although it doesn't measure Spectre mitigations alone vs Spectre+MD; only base, MD alone, and MD+Spectre:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12566/analyzing-meltdown-spec...
>What is my next step? I have honestly thought about suicide

Because you lost 50k? Who cares. Even if it was all your life's sayings, at best you'll need to work some more. You can always shut the company down if it's not profitable.
35% of the country is being taught to burn down their own houses, to make room for Versailles imitations after they leave.
Exactly, I too agree with the grandparent, but I think parent has pushed too far on the other side of the spectrum.

Saying that as a Brazilian that is astounded every time Latin America is implied to not be 'western'. I would feel offended, but I understand that is useless to me, the same thing with the term 'American'.

Let them live in their happy bubbles, it's a disadvantage of their own creation.
It makes sense why you would choose to do that and I can certainly empathize, but in the interest of user experience I try to fix these problems because my customers deserve a good user experience.
It gets more sinister is when it is inferred from name or where you live.
The headline if for an article written by an American newspaper about an American situation. It isn't necessary for EVERY single article written in America about an American situation to specify it as being 'in America' in the headline. 90% of the headlines would have to include 'in America'.

The article makes it clear who they are talking about.
I feel very happy to be a Canadian right now. The CRTC's (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) laws on net neutrality are considered to be some of the strictest laws in the world.

Here is a great quote from a 2017 music streaming case requiring all data to be counted against a user's data cap, regardless of its source:

"the aim [of] the decision was to encourage Internet service providers to compete on price, speed and network quality instead of acting as a gatekeeper." - Chairman of the CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais
This Crazy, Cheap Technology Can Turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
You're changing the meaning by adding the word "related." Say Microsoft stated it would "will begin to enable full 8K features" on the XBox One. That would mean that something would be in 8K--maybe just for movies but not games. It wouldn't mean "features related to 8K" but not a actually being able to display 8K video anywhere.
They are not deceptive in the least. Skepticism is fine, but your question comes from a fundamental lack of understanding.

As an example, when you see a pretty picture of Mars in a magazine, it's composed of dozens or hundreds of individual images, captured as long, thin image strips, as a satellite orbits the planet. Those images come in looking absolutely nothing like the final product. You're viewing a rectangle, but the source data represents a strip along the surface of a sphere. It needs to be rectified, aligned to dozen of other such strips, and projected on to a flat surface. Unless you're projecting these images back on to a sphere, there's a whole lot of stretching and alignment going on. The images are taken at different times of the day, during different seasons. Software needs to balance the albedo so that it doesn't look like a Picasso painting.

Most NASA images are false color, because they are not taken with normal optical cameras. Much of the good science comes from imaging outside the human visual spectrum. The THEMIS instrument on Mars Odyssey images 10 infrared spectral bands, none of which can be seen with the human eye. Other instruments record ultraviolet light. There is no way for humans to see any of this data, so they pick three spectral bands and assign them to red, green, and blue so that humans can see something. Different band selections produce different images of the same area and serve to emphasize different minerals or other natural materials. Science is done on all bands of the data, but pictures help provide context.

The raw data for all these images are freely available to anyone, but asking to see the "real" image before it's been processed is a meaningless request. There is no such thing as a "true image".
Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build a Border Wall
>also begs the question on how you did get that kind of money

As if 50K is too much money to be able to have?
it be interesting to know how these phone interviews went. if you’re not even getting that far then you don’t want to work for a company that requires a degree. all a degree gets you is a base level of knowledge, you’re not gaining any useful experience. all that usually counts is if you can prove the knowledge without a degree. if you’re making it to the phone interviews then someone else must be more a more viable candidate than you
> But what it should be is a lesson for cities to adopt a young entrepreneur license for like $10/year.

What happens when the lemonade stand with a $10 licence poisons people? https://foodsafetyinfosheets.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/6-1...

Death from norovirus is rare, but it does happen.

https://www.cdc.gov/features/norovirus/index.html

> CDC estimates that each year in the United States norovirus causes 19 to 21 million illnesses, 56,000 to 71,000 hospitalizations, and 570 to 800 deaths.
Lemonade Stands Legalized in Utah
Ah, cool, thanks. Yeah, I saw humans doing TONS of stuff at Tesla; driving forklifts around (dragging chunks of wood under the wheels and bumping into things), etc. OTOH its also possible BMW just hides that stuff from their tours :)
Why bother with autonomy crap? Just focus on making cheap electric cars that can save the planet.
>There's an active fight against entry-level entrepreneurship in terms of fees just to start a business

This is illustrated well if you peruse the internet fora used by Uber/Lyft/rideshare drivers.

Some locations require no licensing at all. Some require just supplemental insurance. Some pile up city/state/local/inspection/insurance fees in the hundreds of dollars just to get started.

In Las Vegas, there are annual state and county licensing fees totaling about $225. But a rideshare driver picking someone up at the airport and taking them to MGM, for example, only makes about $3.00 after expenses for what can easily be 45 minutes of time spent (staging + travel + loading + unloading + return to staging).

Yes, the problem is really the amount that rideshare drivers make in some cities. But that's a discussion for another time. The point is that all the licensing fees are a barrier to entry for a job that's supposed to be entry-level.
> There’s an immense mystery at the heart of being human: the paradox of opposing and accepting suffering.

And the whole next paragraph just lacked a point: on how so many people extract pleasure from BDSM, where pain and pleasure (in many, many variants) come together in some controlled environment.
You’ll find no disagreement from me that we needn’t completely ban scooters, only figure out the right way to regulate them. Not coincidentally, the MTA isn’t completely banning them, just beginning to regulate them.

As for the specific solution you suggested, I think that sounds great, although it isn’t obvious to me that it would “cost nothing”. At the very least, deciding on parking spots for them seems like it would take a lot of a bunch of government employees’ time. It certainly seems reasonable to me to start with a permitting system on the handful of companies, which seems like it would take much less time to implement.
Every year I build a Halloween themed cardboard structure for the kids. It started originally because we had just moved into our previous house and we had cardboard boxes everywhere. I was bored one night so I stayed up way too late and built a "Haunted Mansion". Kids loved it, so I've done it the last 5 years now.

It was a lot easier when the kids were 4 and 2, since the size of the structure could be significantly smaller, and therefore cost a lot less.

Last year I built a "Haunted Volcano" (imagine a large box structure covered in black fabric) complete with "lava" (orange lights flowing down the side), internal lighting, and a second level (used some of those little Ikea tables). It was over 6ft tall and probably something like 50sqft all told. I honestly probably spent close to $200 on it, so it's somewhat of a waste of money, but at least you can reuse some of the materials and recycle most of the rest when you're done.

Home Depot and other similar places sell cardboard boxes that are pretty reasonable and reasonably strong. The "medium" sized boxes are good for small kids. The large and XL boxes are better for big kids and, uhmm, adults who think they're still kids :). You'll quickly figure out good ways to combine and attach boxes to each other.

Grab a bunch of those, a big pack of quality packing tape (3M, not the knock off stuff), a tape gun, and a box cutter or two, and you're all set.
I'm having a hard time finding a link to the results of congressional votes related to net neutrality. Does anyone know which politicians voted for it, and which against? Which party did most of the pro-neutrality politicians belong to, and which party did most of the anti-net neutrality politicians belong to? I'm eager to vote for pro-NN politicians, so I'd like to know.
I was wondering that myself so I checked. It turns out scotters with a handle bars are legal but with restrictions.

- they must ride where bikes go. This means they must use bike paths if available and stay of the sidewalk

- Users must be 16 or older. Under 16 but over 14 can use them but must have a Mofa license.

- max speed must be under 20km/h

- helmets are not required.

I have however only ever seen people using them on the sidewalk :/