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Sadly, this is not unique to Oakland. Several of the cities I've lived in have been plagued with 911 hold times of 10-20 minutes or more.

In one city, the mayor threatened to put a checklist on the ballot so people could decide which types of emergencies would be responded to, and the top vote-getters would be funded.

In another, a city council member publicly told his constituents "the police are not here to protect you. If you want to be safe, get a gun and a dog."

In Las Vegas for several years recently, the police department stopped responding to traffic crashes unless someone was killed. The insurance companies put pressure on the city to reverse that.

Unfortunately, it seems that all of the "homeland security" money that the feds send to the locals goes into military-grade weapons, and not into basic services like 911 and police patrols.

I would like to see a city sell the tanks it gets from the feds and use the money for 911, and other needed services.
What I like about this code is how much direct it is. No fancy abstraction. Brutally to the point with switch() and if() and that’s it!
> There's no way of knowing if a human driver could have reacted properly in this specific scenario.

What? Why? The specific scenario is recorded, the surrounding conditions are known and relatively easy to reproduce, and there are both norms and requirements about human capabilities when driving a car. If we can't attempt to determine whether a human could have responded in this case, I'm not sure where we could determine anything about any kind of accountability.

People obviously make mistakes too -- I've hit a deer before, unfortunately. But when the consequences are high, we look into culpability about whether someone should have done more to prevent the mistake. Driving under the influence, without a license, etc. are all things that can make someone responsible for the big outcome of a relatively easy-to-make mistake. Accepting Uber's "could you react to this video I'm showing you?" defense is skipping all the steps that would let us assign responsibility or even learn / improve from the incident.
> What SpaceX did and does for Space Explpration is far beyond what anybody has even dreamed since the 80s

I wouldn't quite go that far. When it comes to space, there are lots of very grand dreams (e.g. see https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g ), some far from theoretical (e.g. the various studies from the British Interplanetary Society), and some even reaching the prototype stage (nice examples at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ/vid... ).

In comparison SpaceX's approach is actually quite conservative (multi-stage, cylindrical, unmanned, liquid fueled rocket). The big difference being that they actually got them flying commercial missions! Plus it turns out that their main advantage (effective reusability) is such a big win that (a) it allowed a startup to leapfrog established military/industrial players and (b) forces everyone to treat reusability as a priority (e.g. adding it to roadmaps, or justifying why they can't).

I'm excited to see how their projects like BFR go, but SpaceX's biggest contribution might turn out to be shaking up the industry enough to start trying out ideas which were previously shelved as being too radical.
I think even the most ardent critic of the Wake would acknowledge that it’s full of delightful linguistic somersaults. Joyce had a talent for producing prose that can be enjoyable to read without being fully comprehended—the question is whether the level of effort Joyce required to achieve even limited comprehension is adequately rewarded.
Flash memory == RAM

I think...
Bandai has their hands in pretty much every merchandise-driven kids' show in Japan.
there was at least one non-realized research project where the cache was exposed as part of the architecture to be managed by the compiler (ppc lets you do some of that).

i think thats a potentially very fruitful approach, but would it have helped the spectre situation in any way?

oh, what you're suggesting in an analog for compiler driven speculation? that may have helped, and is also probably worth thinking about
(I'm a product manager on Pulumi.)

If Terraform works for you, then definitely continue using it. Pulumi is just another option and works well for building libraries and components. I did a rundown of different tools for serverless apps at Velocity SF last week. Slides are here: https://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/270/Tooling%... and GitHub samples are here: https://github.com/lindydonna/velocity-examples

There are a ton of tools in this space, all with overlapping functionality, so there tends not to be a clear comparison of tool X vs tool Y.
> People keep saying this, and my response is: what is your solution? Rents aren't going up (solely) because of sinister plutocratic plots; it's because people want to move to New York. Big cities are where the jobs are, and Millenials hate suburbs, so that's where white-collar workers are going. Is your plan to forbid people from moving to New York so you can freeze time in the 70's?

I wasn't born until 1989 so I don't have an attachment to the 70's. I'm not saying it's even a problem, I'm just stating the fact that the prices going up on housing prices out the elements of a city that people complain are leaving.

> People complaining about gentrification hem and haw when you ask them this forthright, and then try to dodge the question and pretend there's a simple solution involving rent control or millionaire taxes. But at some point you have to face facts and understand that, as long as the dynamics of the modern economy keeps favoring big cities, you can't stop gentrification without forbidding people from moving in.

Actually I think taxing the corporations would be far more effective, but millionaires should be taxed too, especially the kind who keep non-primary residences in highrise buildings.

The simple fact is that the wealthy people and the rich corporations just take up more space in a city, period. How many low-cost apartments could be built where the 1%'s high rise suites are now, that are only occupied 20 days out of the year? How many buildings have floors upon floors of empty space because a company doesn't need the room but doesn't want to give up their exclusive plot of land in an in-demand area?

I'm not arguing for anything in particular, but the problem is all the current incentives are favoring developers to build expensive properties and living spaces in very in-demand areas, and it's causing a dearth of affordable housing that everyone claims to want but no one is ready to pay for or live near. You can't have it both ways; if you want the colorful and interesting aspects of a city, then yes, you must be ready to leave some of the money you could be making on the table and sell/rent to people who can't afford $2,500 per month in housing, or raise wages so you don't need a white collar job to afford them.

Again, I don't care either way, it's not my problem to solve. I'm just stating fact.

Edit: I guess the main thrust of what I'm saying is that cities know all of this, know both sides of the equation, but keep throwing up their hands at the plummeting levels of culture and "weird" that they all seem to want, whilist their lower-class residents are being evicted at insane rates to build more condos for tech workers like it's "just happening" and nobody knows why. They know exactly why, and if they really are against it, they should be pressuring their leadership to actually work on the problem instead of just blowing each other in the press for being so concerned about it while continuing to reap the rewards.
The sentence that immediately precedes that quote is important: “I strongly urge Congress to reconsider the proposal of a separate service Space Corps,”

Mattis was talking about a separate service space corps, not about a space corps that falls under a preexisting service.

Source: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/341650-mattis-opposes-spac...
Indeed. If it were possible, Firefox would have done it.
fun fact: the virgin america systems had little keyboards on the remotes and you could kill/restart the X server with ctrl-alt-backspace

you could also switch to a console with ctrl-alt-f*. was never able to login though...
SurveyMonkey files for IPO
With all due respect, a lot of that hatred stems from the high profile cases where police have overstepped the bounds with little or no recourse.

The body cam of that man in the hotel corridor being just one of the latest.
If a "space base" were built in orbit, it would create some level of demand for McDonald's and other aggressive retail operations to supply. This could be the next step in civilian/retail expansion into orbit.
this is great. It would be fun to turn off the source video and imagine what it would be like to drive with only what the algorithm detects!
Hikikomori Loveless: What causes young Japanese hermits to give up on real life
Ethnic and religious minorities have been incredibly successful in the Toronto tech scene - Ismaili muslims, for example, have started some of the most successful companies & incubators in the city and have been, as far as I can tell, deservedly lionized for their achievements.
What exactly am I wrong about?

That capitalism only helps others to the extent that the “help” further concentrates capital?

That very often capitalism produces horrible incentives and things like regulatory capture?

That very often labor and resources are exploited by Capital in very detrimental ways? Ie, soda companies extracting water for export while local water supplies dry up?

That the World Bank essentially shifts definitions of poverty to fit its agenda (what exactly do you mean by poverty? And why are developed counties seeing an increase of people living at or near the poverty line?)

I acknowledge that capitalism is part of our evolution as a species, but moving people from extreme poverty to a bit less extreme poverty (plus fancy definition shifting) really should not be our end game.

Also unclear when you mean “broadly accepted”?

Do you mean the majority of the world practices it?

Do you mean the majority of the world has spent time studying economics and history and politics and arrived at a conclusion that Capitialism is working to lift people out of poverty?

Do you mean people have been indoctorinated by capitalist power hierarchies and are willing to repeat pro-capitalist narratives?

It’s unclear to me what you mean by “broadly accepted”, but it seems clear that it is important to you that you (and others) hold and express opinions that are “broadly accepted” (whatever that means).

It’s unclear how to evaluate your claim on broad acceptance, but I looked at Quora to see what answer would democratically rise to the top and found at least the top 2 answers in alignment with my perspective.

https://www.quora.com/Has-capitalism-really-lifted-people-ou...
Apple Saratoga keyboard, FTW. :)
> One thing I've realized is most large software projects still use some form of make in their build pipeline. Is this as a result of the addiction to *nix or there are no better tools out there.

Most large software projects are actually software projects which require software to be built, and the build order to match dependencies between compilation units/modules/packages/etc.

So how do you model and manage those dependency relationships? Through a directed acyclic graph, of course. That's all what a makefile defines, and does so for over 4 decades.

Why aren't people using some other thing? Because why would they waste their time reinventing the wheel?
Common Lisp multiple values are not used for error handling as far as idiomatic code is concerned. The also work differently, being symetrical to optional parameters.
A domain system on Blockchain is the solution then.
They arguably _are_ helping fund it, by paying for the complete implementation of the client-side support for enhanced location services.

Pushing too much of that onto a corporation who makes phones is just silly. It's bloody hard to make any kind of argument that it's even remotely their responsibility.

> If Apple doesn’t fund it, and per mobile line 911 taxes don’t cover it, everyone’s taxes have to go up to support Apples enhanced feature and the marketing goodwill they’ll receive. Does that seem fair?

If tax doesn't cover it, then it should simply not happen, and you stick with the current level of location services provided by the cell phone company. Not happy with that? You probably ought to start a petition to raise people's taxes to fund your local 911 operation better so they can do this.

Don't want to pay tax for it? Shit, who's going to pay for public services if that's your attitude?
Understanding and estimating floating point error the easy way
I'd describe PoE as more of a spiritual successor to Diablo 2. There's a lot of weird aspects of D1 which were removed in D2 and later games -- for instance, spellbooks, elixirs, and randomly generated quests.

As a concrete example: PoE's schema for items (normal/magic/rare/unique, maximum of 3 prefixes and 3 suffixes) is almost a carbon copy of Diablo 2's item system.
DHS,FBI published a join alert with technical details of HiddenCobra Malware
Yeah, they should avoid New York state and their scammy, rent-seeking, regulators as much as possible. The idea of a cryptocurrency license is absurd and an affront to the very concept.
Weird, my impression was that the Guild Wars people were ex-Microsoft. Do wonder where i picked that up...
Speculation has nothing to do with x86 in particular, although it has something to do with its general approach to execution (as opposed to e.g. the Mill CPU).

Speculation is part of out of order execution, which is logic to execute code passages when their inputs are ready, as opposed to strictly in program order, while maintaining the program visible effects of executing in program order. It works the same in ARM, MIPS etc. Not doing OOO execution roughly halves CPU throughput on your average code. AFAIK OOO without speculation is possible, but loses maybe half of its efficacy.

Actual experts may want to correct my numbers.
Why not simply have humans review the videos that are automatically flagged? That would be a significant improvement over the current state of affairs, and would command a significantly more reasonable price.
The standards for self-driving cars are MUCH higher than for computer aided diagnosis. Choice of medical tools is made by trained, rational doctors largely hidden from the public. Self driving cars’ failures will play out in front of normal people who often have emotion-driven subrational decisionmaking processes.
I was beginning to wonder if my friends and I were the only ones who figured this out :-)
I realize you can’t necessarily comment on individual deployments, but I’d like to publicly shame Vacaville, CA’s e911 combined with Verizon and/or iPhone plain doesn’t work. Contacting the FCC, Verizon determined they were sending valid position information but the city/county weren’t necessarily using it correctly. All it takes is for a rape/murder to happen and police unable to get to a victim because of it for some heads to roll, but unfortunately, it will take death(s) before such a problem is resolved.
They reuse some religious themes etc, but other than that they are not related what so ever...
Sure! I guess I’m more than a little bit of a geeky girl and had actually still had these bookmarked from these explorations nearly 3 years ago:

Jo-Engine:
http://jo-engine.org/

A fantastic, FOSS SDK for the Saturn, allowing excellent programming in C with management for sprites, collision, etc.

The Rockin-B:
http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn.html

Original Sega SDKs, including SDL and more.

Fantastical resources for plain C and/or Assembly-based development.

These should get any aspiring beginner or experienced developer with previous console experience moving quickly in the right direction. :)
I already posted about WebAssembly in this thread and I think you are correct. It looks completely different than anything else before. I can see functional languages targeting it directly.
DappVolume
I got a copyright strike once for a video with no apparent reason. After closer inspection, I could in fact hear a radio playing somewhere in the background if I really turned up the volume. I found it incredible that YouTube’s algorithm was able to pick it up at that signal-to-noise ratio.
(I'm a product manager at Pulumi.)

> That makes it sound like Pulumi only runs the infrastructure declarations when you run "pulumi update", and that those things don't run when your program runs. That's confusing to me, because your examples (like the thumbnailer) seems to have the program and the declarations in the same file.

This is an optional way to do it, by combining the runtime code and infra code. The runtime code doesn't run when you deploy with "pulumi update," but it is packaged and sent to AWS.

You can also put the runtime code in a different file, as in this example: https://github.com/lindydonna/velocity-examples/tree/master/...

> Is Pulumi stateful, then? If you create resources with "pulumi update", change the declarations without updating, and run "pulumi destroy" or whatever, it will only delete the stuff you created in the first step? (That is what I would expect. I would also expect it to support a dry run mode with a diff showing what operations would be executed.) If so, where is this state stored?

Yes, the state is stored on pulumi.com. The state is list of resource IDs that you provisioned. The Pulumi CLI does indeed have a dry run mode that shows a diff: whenever you run "pulumi update", it first shows a preview.
I thought it already fetches the highest quality by default?
> In contrast to the Tesla accident, where the human driver could have saved himself from the car’s blindness, the Uber car probably could have braked in time to prevent the accident entirely where a human driver couldn’t have.

That's a strong statement. Watching the actual video [1] of the Uber accident, it seems both an attentive driver (she seems to be not looking at the road before the crash) or a better decision algorithm, could have prevented the crash. Keep also in mind, videos are very bad at viewing low light shots, and the scene must have been significantly clearer to both the driver and the computer when you're actually there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9iRUx5wmM
The thing I'm worried about is these kids growing up to be very maladjusted adults. They are being trained to completely tune out all external stimulus, that really can't be healthy.

Not only that but a little boredom is good for children; it fosters creativity.
If you don't constrain the prices or increase as well then the prices will go up forever and your subsidies will get higher and higher. Student loans work like this currently.

There is not enough housing for everyone who wants to live in SF to live in SF. Some people are going to lose. If it's left to market forces then the losers are going to be the people with the least money. If you do it randomly it's going to be arbitrary. If you let the government pick and choose who gets in your going to get discrimination as people's biases sneak in.

Every approach has advantages and disadvantages so SF is going to have to pick which trade-off it wants unless it builds more housing
>I had to deal with a lot of microaggressions, from being ignored to … realizing [some people were] not willing to help.”

Welcome to you from those of us in the great unwashed--congratulations, nobody gives a crap about you.

As a side effect of aging, several of the women in my social circle have recently commented about the same thing: "I'm happy that I don't get all the sexual harassment now, but being completely invisible isn't exactly an improvement."
Might be, it really depends on if law enforcement is willing to look into stuff, and frankly, how nasty and mobile the criminals are. Adding ingredients to heroin would bring the price down, and truth in advertising is not really a big thing among criminals.
Consumers don't need to worry about this though: all fraudulent charges are removed from the customer's account and are somebody else's problem. The customer gets a new credit card sent to them, sometimes even overnight, for free.

I've had both credit and debit card fraud happen to my accounts: it is a pretty minor annoyance.

(A data breach of my Social Security Number would be a whole different story however!)
or maybe the Tape-beatles
http://www.ubu.com/sound/tape_beatles.html
>> Even the difference between Hacker News vs lobste.rs is night and day.

I'm curious, what are the differences? I'm not on lobste.rs except as a casual observer and it seems similar to HN.
You can no longer book Uber rides directly in Google Maps
Avenatti takes up case of women separated from kids at US border
The question is whether you are more worried about false positives or false negatives.

If you are only worried about false positives, then the humans only need to review the content flagged by the AI. This has 2 benefits: 1) the "starting number" would be much much lower than 400 hours of content per minute. 2) If a 10 minute video is obviously pirated, you don't need to watch the entire video to decide that.
> separate service Space Corps

That is exactly what the current action does. It would operate under the Department of the Air Force (the way the Marines do with the Department of the Navy), but it would still be a separate service.

The bill that Mattis was opposing during that comment would have also housed The Space Force as a separate service under the Department of the Air Force exactly the same as the current action--he was speaking out against that.
I did something similar with a set of manuals for a Microprose B-17 simulator. Thing is that one of the manuals where more of a history text book going over all the tech and such used to guide the bombers to their targets.
50 Cycles launches electric bike that generates cryptocurrency as you ride
If you have an email address associated with an account, you can reset your password.
Sure. When I (and others) think "spiritual successor to Diablo" we're almost certainly thinking of D2, not so much D1.
It's like when a mainland Chinese student sneered at former lady Korean president for being some brainwashed cult puppet, and proudly exclaimed the superiority of a single party centralized architecture.

I found it sad that he thought Tianmen Square was just a nice park after seeing nice censored pictures in the search results (he didnt know what it was before so he had to baidu it).

This made me wonder, what other fucked up shit are they hiding from naive citizens?
Ah ha! I think that's it. The denominator could be "people in the YouTube Partner Program", which means 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. So this may be saying that only 3.5% of YouTube Partners make $12k+ from that program.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851#eligibility
Perhaps it could also be at least partly related to the systemic and indiscriminate killing of people of color by police forces across the entire country.

I can't say I blame would-be "good cop" cadets deciding not to join the force to be associated with these acts; the willingness to protect bad cops by leadership seems, from the outside, to mean the entire system is rotten and impossible to change from within.
Fair enough. I don't know that much about India. I do know they tend to limit financial freedoms - capital controls, gold imports, now Bitcoin. Maybe it's for the better, but it's less free than the Western world on this front nonetheless.