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Nobody uses Linux as an operating system because it's logistically harder for 99.9% of people. It's still incredibly important and foundational, and will continue to be, even supposing this never changes, even if that same 99.9% of people never know what it is.

Nobody used the Internet in its early days because it was logistically hard for 99.9% of people. However it made completely new things possible and over time, companies figured out how to make it not logistically hard to use for the majority of people, who enjoyed these new possibilities without having to worry about the complexity of the system underneath.
If you live in Seattle, I can recommend the Women's Therapy Referral Service. It's not just for women patients — just the therapists are all women. The nice thing is they give you three therapists to have a session with, and you can choose one to continue with (or not).

I'm sure similar services exist in other cities.

https://therapyreferral.org/
There's really only so far Tesla can go in its attempts to educate the public.

Thankfully, they have a long way to go before they reach the limits of how far "only so far" is.

In fact, they've been strenuously stating, over and over again, that these aren't self-driving cars.

The first link I came to when searching "tesla fully automated hardware" was this: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now... I read the page twice, and didn't see a single outright statement that the cars aren't self-driving. Oh, I could infer it, but Tesla never came right out and said it, let alone "strenuously".

EDIT: because my search string was a bit loaded, in that I knew it would find the link I'm looking for, let's be more fair with:

"tesla fully automated driving" - the link above is the first listing

"tesla autonomous driving" - the link above is the 2nd link.

In summary, should I care to know more about Teslas and their autonomous driving abilities, I will likely be led to a page that never mentions that these cars can't drive themselves, but strongly implies that they can.
He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".
> no offence you don't want someone straight out some boot camp of dubious provenance

None taken .

My point is Microsoft is shifting to make it easier to separate their apps into clear layers . Coders from bootcamps can deal with the UI and some logic , C++ Engineers will deal with back-end and the mess that office is, and expose some API in JavaScript for them.
> Curiously, at the height of the housing crisis homes were about 5.5 times the median national income. In San Francisco right now (another place where supply looks limited by the water) homes there are 17.2 times the median national income.

You're comparing national home prices in Japan vs national income in Japan. Then you're comparing local prices in SF to national income in the USA. You're then comparing these comparisons to show SF is super inflated.

This makes no sense.
The thesis of the article is not "lets conclude whatever I want"

The foundational assumption is that (a) historically people have just picked the values for the Drake Equation that "felt right", and this is wrong, biased, and stupid, and (b) we should not be surprised if the Drake parameters fall in any order of magnitude. So let's Monte Carlo in a log-scaled distribution (roughly). Thus, given what we actually do know, median civilizations per galaxy is 0.32, average is 27 million.

Interestingly, this suggests that optimistic Drake Equation parameters must be wrong, lest they create an empirically impossibly-populated galaxy.
Something everyone forgets. If you can reach something, that something can reach you.
Why does that impact whether or not it's a reasonable choice to use the language today? Old libraries I could understand, but old independent projects? How do they affect the current state of the language?
It’s as easy as googling “calexit Russia” and seeing the parade of sources from reputable outlets. What’s the right phrasing for something like that? Or do I need to source everything?
This is a good point. MS has agreed to support IE11 until 2025. I'm not sure if that means they have an internal mandate that Office 365 must work with IE11, but I wouldn't be surprised. Those poor poor MS developers.
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With this paper our last shreds of privacy are being taken away, but they presented the news with nice background music, so there's that.
I bet some RF absorbing material or something that reflects RF at weird angles would probably break it. Or an active RF transmitter.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. Wooo boy, another one.
It's kind of amazing to me that to this day Tether has yet to release an audit that proves a 1 to 1 relationship between USD to Tether.... We might not have seen the real bottom yet, if suspicion about Tether's insolvency eventually turns out to be true.
It's worth noting that TdR is not the bringer of profanity in the video.

I wasn't impressed by whoever dropped the f-bomb.
>They just really shouldn't have called this autopilot. It creates all the wrong expectations.

Have you read the marketing on the website?

All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigate urban streets (even without lane markings), manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed. When you arrive at your destination, simply step out at the entrance and your car will enter park seek mode, automatically search for a spot and park itself. A tap on your phone summons it back to you.

So it's not like this is a case of "it's called something that it isn't really", or mismanaged expectations. Tesla is explicitly stating the car drives itself. They still claim it's "Autopilot". Is what they are selling anything close to what is described there?
actually that's interesting. DVDs may make a comeback.

A whole new industry may open up: Taking previously online content (like YouTube videos, perhaps a set of related ones) and compiling them into DVDs that you can binge watch.
All valid points. I personally am very eager to see what happens to Bitcoin and crypto currencies during the next recession.
Please keep discussion civil.
People can create new cryptocurrencies to increase the total cryptocurrency money supply.
Mechanism many macOS security tools used to check signatures could be bypassed
3.4PB/month is only 111,000 GB/day. That's not particularly huge in this day and age, except to consumers.
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The vast majority of vehicles will have reflective surfaces of particular colors and sizes in a particular range of locations in accordance with applicable law and a reflective plate with letters and numbers. Of the ones that don't most of them will have underside guards, hitch receivers, or one of several common commercial vehicle body types.

Detecting these patterns is easier than pedestrian and bike detection because the problem space is so much more bounded. It's hard to give them a pass for not doing it.
a fraction of a percent is pretty much the definition of loose change
Thanks - I would love to know the possible application areas. Specifically where you think Bistro Streams make sense and where it doesn’t.
Because it had hard-won political approval; a bitcoin attack would face similar barriers.

And I know what smidge means, I was expressing ire at your attempt to sound folksy.
The Universe is old. Really old.
Your local NAMI chapter may have people who can help you find someone.
> Using administrative register data and cognitive ability scores from military conscription data covering three decades of Norwegian birth cohorts (1962–1991)

Doesn't seem as if immigration played any role in this study.
Be careful, try to figure it out yourself first. There was a disturbing experiment called Rosenhan experiment. Research Cognitive Behavior Therapy and try a good faith effort and commitment to review all of the material and exercises, if you can, before seeing an "expert"
Surely the price rose because people thought it would, self-fulfilling prophecy. Done of those people thought it would because that's how they were trying to pull the market.

The people behind articles like this are presumably short on BTC.
Those actions did garner media attention. Massive amounts of it.
Well TFA is about a big-time rewrite of Office into JavaScript, so at least MS doesn't appear to see any perspective in WASM.

Considering they are uniquely positioned to make it happen given their C# buy-in and probably more than just a bit of existing software to leverage, I'd say this is as strong a signal of non-endorsement as it gets.
A scant majority is not "the norm" - you're using a term that has no statistical meaning. A duopoly labeled as choice is specious.
On a PC you can apparently choose a higher bitrate [1], but it's still pretty ropey from what I can see. I get 66mbit on fast.com, but look at how poor this still [0] from civil war is. Perhaps it's just because it's firefox on linux [2] - are these values in kbits? I normally watch netflix on my LG tv and it tends to average 10mbit, which is still far less than a blueray, but it's "good enough".

[0] https://i.imgur.com/cC2DJgN.png

[1] https://www.addictivetips.com/web/force-netflix-to-stream-in...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/LFPWR54.png
Yes that's absolutely true. We here in the US are nowhere near as bad as China or Russia, but we better keep an eye on it because we seem to be the exception--something special--in history.
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One of the other lessons from the 80's in the high-assurance-secure systems was that you can get great ROI from throwing everything you can in terms of assurance at an security-focused kernel and VPN solution that everything else uses. Apps using secure tunnels, mainstream or high-assurance, got hacked way less on crypto part since rolling their own crypto led to more screwups than using solutions by crypto/security-focused developers. You can put the tunnel in network layer, app layer, or whatever. So long as they have a black box with good defaults and documentation on using it.

The first was BLACKER VPN. NSA has their Type 1 Link Encryptors. Mikro-SINA put it in on Intels with more open components. Now, I'm pushing for Wireguard variants in both app and network deployments. There's people laying groundwork for expanded use of it right now. Once that's done, I know some people who might put it in some low-privilege architectures.
I did not single out empathy. The comment I was replying to made the impression that was the only tool we are allowed to use and that religious people were somehow unempathetic since they need religion to not be murderers
Sounds like browser vendors should start implementing a "find" API which allows long lists to virtualize while still retaining find-ability.
I don't think ISPs have any power in this situation at all. They are just delivery mechanisms when it comes to providing internet connectivity.

All of the power lies within Google, Netflix and other content providers.

Google could one day deny access to all of its services for all Comcast customers. If all of the content providers / big sites band together and do this, then there would be no value in paying for a Comcast internet connection.

I'm sure this would never happen but that's all it would take for real change to happen.
I'm most interested in the phone camera, wallet and keys use cases.
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This is literally the same argument of the tweet's first poster (to which the linked tweet is a reply). This is just simply not true. I know many people who make mail apps for some big big companies. They have CS degrees and would admit they suck at C++ (I wouldn't even mention C) but they are great at Python
the hypothetical here is that Comca$t is going to artificially throttle Netflix and give you mandatory free (paid) access to their own streaming platform.

all a WISP has to do to compete is offer more bandwidth than the throttle allows with no bandwidth shaping at a competitive price.
With your last sentence you were obviously referring to this...

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
facebook used to let you do direct knowledge graph searches

"restaurants liked by people who like Joe's Pancakes and Green Dragon Mexican Pizza"

"movies liked by people who are friends with people who like Back to the Future and Arrested Development"

"people who live nearby and like Green Dragon Mexican Pizza and Arrested Development"

"friends of friends of friends who like Arrested Development and Joe's Pancakes"

"Friends of Megan Albert friends who are women named "Erin" Chipotle employ"

I think you can see why they removed it.

this URL might lead to something like "restaurants liked by people who like Snow White"
https://www.facebook.com/search/130104022710/likers/pages-li...
It's one of the use cases for usbarmory [1], which has been around for a while now.

[1] http://inversepath.com/usbarmory
Oh yeah, roads powering cars. What's to like about that, right? Pure insanity.
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One of the best things I've ever done was to find a coffee shop to frequent. I've made many very very good friends there. One of them was a psychologist. Last year when I decided to get some therapy of my own, I asked her for a referral.

I will only ever purchase professional services through a referral.

That said, you want a therapist that matches how you want to see yourself as becoming. Mine is warm, friendly, and approachable, all things I'd like to be myself. I once had the idea that a more analytical approach might be more helpful, and so tried one out for a few sessions. Nothing worked, total waste of money.
Because it can't tell the difference between an object in the lane and an object overhanging the lane (for example, exit signs on highways).
It's also because we have tried all sorts of approaches for the past 70 years or so and we haven't been able to bootstrap it ourselves.
I thought Tesla could detect one car ahead by bouncing off a signal under the car right in front of you.
This is a legitimately related impromptu talk gave at BSDCan last week.

Better quality video should surface eventually..

http://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/1035.en.html
In general, the higher the variance in outcomes, the higher the expected payout of an investment.

Also, if you have more money you can decrease the variance in your payout by making multiple uncorrelated (1) investments.

That can make investments that are insane for the average citizen look as huge opportunities for the very rich.

For example, consider a game using a fair coin “put in $100k, heads you lose everything, tails we pay out $201k”.

If you have 100k in savings for retirement, you probably wouldn’t want to play that game. People who have $100M, on the other hand, might line up to play it a thousand times, as that game, on average, pays out 0.5% per game played.

I would hope manny of those shorting Tesla must have thought this “game” is similar: high risk, but an expected payout that is better than that of less risky investments.

(1) there’s a risk there, as totally uncorrelated investments do not exist anymore in a global economy.
The next step beyond the mail was the telegraph and then the telephone. Those were built out by private companies, but operated under a regulatory regime called "common carrier," which protected the network owner from liability so long as it charged and carried traffic from all parties equally.

These days, that concept is called "net neutrality" in the context of the Internet, and I suppose you may have heard it mentioned in the news recently once or twice. (I think it was a mistake to rename common carrier, but too late I guess.)

Personally, I think that private buildouts are a better way to go than a government-funded network infrastructure. Private industry is better at investment and product development than the government, and any enterprise that generates a profit contributes to the long-term economic sustainability of innovation. A government-run economy becomes starved for capital and innovation slows way down; that is why the Soviet Union lagged U.S. technology and why Cubans still drive 50-year-old cars.

But privately run networks need regulation to deliver the results that citizens want. Railroads needed it, telephone companies needed it, airlines needed it, and yes, ISPs need it. And if that is thwarted, then sure, let municipalities take a swing at it. My town is looking into muni fiber now, and I'm in favor of it because the local service from Comcast is so bad and so expensive and there seems to be no other way to do something about it.
Ply looks really cool! I can certainly understand the appeal of that kind of approach in terms of simplicity, stability, and better interop.

Local types are an edge case I'll need to spend more time working on. The type-checker won't have any problems; the real question is how to generate the appropriate Go code. One solution might be to move the local type into a higher scope during code-generation. Another might be inlining the relevant generic types in the same scope as the local type. Finally, the best solution might just be to say this sort of thing isn't allowed and the compiler will return an error.

Imports aren't supported right now, but it's one of the most important things I need to work on next. It'll be pretty tricky, but I'm confident I can find a solution.

The fortunate thing about the approach I'm using with Fo is that I have complete control over the parser, type-checker, and code-generator. At the cost of having significantly more complexity, I have the flexibility to tackle these sorts of edge cases without relying solely on existing tooling.
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IMO Quake 1 was the pinnacle of moddable ID engines.

This because it used its own language, quake-c, and a simple compiler. Beyond that there were few inherent limits to the engine, so people set of making wild weapon packs (some having up around 20 guns that could have multiple modes), RPGs (abusing the hell out of how the game transferred character state between maps), even simple flight sims and driving games.

Come Quake2 you needed VC++ to do mods (leading to a way fewer single developer experimental mods), and come Quake3 there was a hard cap on the number of weapons the mod could contain.
> Also, take away right of way to private ISPs, and let citizens and municipalities charge arbitrary amounts for anything going over their property.

That would make private ISPs go away.
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Note that the intelligence tests are for people who are evaluated for conscription, not the ones who are finally conscripted, so they cover a large fraction of the population (80%-90% of males).

Since not everyone was given the test, there are indeed large selection effects. The main technical contribution of the paper we are discussing (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/05/1718793115) is to try to estimate what the selection effect is.

They use a comparison of siblings. By comparing the score of brothers who were both given the test, one can can create a model to estimate the score of one brother from the score of the other. Then by comparing families where one brother was given the test and the other was not, one can estimate how the the probablility of the test board administering the test depends on the IQ of the testee. Then given that curve, one can estimate the average IQ of the entire population from the available test scores.

Their result is that selection bias hides some of the effect. That is, as the Norwegian military got smaller, the selection board got pickier and tested fewer (smarter) people, so if you just look at the average score you will not see the full drop.
Tensorflow is the best tool

It is one of many competing tools, which is “best” depends ironically on many variables. CNTK is a rival for example.
The adjective worse was what I was asking about. What is worse about a person that decides to live off the grid? or not care about materialistic things? Yes the decision/change was extreme and caused by the experience of the drug use but why classify it as worse? I'm not saying drugs are safe, just that I've never heard of people doing psychedelics and behaving like alcoholics, addicts of pain killers, etc. That is why I asked what examples of 'worse' did he notice, I want to hear from his experience maybe he is on to something.
Bandwidth can be cheap, all depending on the connection you're using. It can also be extremely expensive:

[ Dutch ] https://www.telegraaf.nl/vrij/2167192/zoontje-duitsers-kijkt...

If your Dutch isn't up to this let me summarise: A German family took a boat trip from Kiel to Oslo. Their 12yo son watched a few movies (or clips, no idea) while on board. Total data consumption was 470 MB. They got a bill for €12.000,- which comes down to just over €25 per MB.

Bandwidth can be very expensive as well. Of course this is an extreme case but any byte shaved off an encoded stream can end up saving some people a lot of money.
AFAICT it's not related to OOO execution, but rather to not cleaning normally accessible state after normal execution. No timers or tricky memory reads needed.
Given the context, doesn't it feel a bit... tactless to talk about how Europeans in America used freedom of information to defeat other Europeans and succeeded in taking the continent for themselves?
If you could say what city (and country) you are in, it might make it easier to give recommendations instead of having a completely abstract discussion :)

I've worked as an emergency medicine doctor in the UK and the US, and in the US at least, I tend to recommend that patients with less severe symptoms start with a therapist (i.e. NOT someone who can prescribe meds). If the therapist really thinks a patient needs meds, they can arrange a referral to a psychiatrist, but I feel like psychiatrists underemphasize the therapeutic values of actually talking to patients and overemphasize meds.

Now the meds are absolutely required for some people with more severe conditions, and can help those patients a lot, but for the majority of people who have less severe illness, I think they can do more harm than good. Either way, a therapist can tell if someone does need meds and make the referral if needed, but the extra level of indirection is helpful, I believe, in preventing over-medication.
In any other assisted driving, the system deactivates when it suspects the driver is not paying attention. Not issue impotent warnings.
It does slow down and stop, but not in time—it comes to a stop before hitting a second vehicle directly in front of the first.

The video says it doesn't have room to stop before hitting the first vehicle.
This is what happens when cable companies are the ISPs - if they give you enough bandwidth to no longer subscribe to TV, they won't be able to sell you data twice.
You're being pedantic.