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Humans have millions of years of evolution, particularly at selecting for predictive behavior within real world physics (sight the prey, lead the shot, kill the prey; avoid the predator, etc).

Combine that with past experience about what the shape of the roadway is, and a human can fill in a LOT of missing data and correctly read clues to get a 'good enough' update on the situation and move forward.

Usually that's along the lines of: follow the car in front of me, and match their changes in motion to avoid the badness.

As long as things work, which they will most of the the time on a freeway where no one's screwing around, you'll get out of the other side without issue.
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The physics and math communities get plenty agitated at ludicrous pop-sci and Hollywood depictions, cranks who think they are oppressed geniuses with important answers, etc. Approach just about anyone with arrogance and contempt for the methods and body of knowledge they spend their life on, and they won’t be happy about it.
Our local Aldi's is like this - they don't provide free disposable plastic bags, but if you forget to bring canvas ones you can buy thicker reusable ones for $1 a piece.
Just the other day, I posted a similar question [1] here, after discovering that even gmail-to-gmail messages I send to my close friends get categorized as spam. There has been a significant regression in Gmail's spam filter recently (both false positives + negatives).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500357
Since stopping use of plastic bags I've found that loading and unloading the car is easier. I put items that I am not worried about getting damaged (cans, milk etc) in my 50 Liter back pack. Everything else generally fits in just two reusable bags that I bought from Amazon. I also have a set of re-usable bags for vegetables.

I'ts way easier bringing a backpack plus two bags in from the car.
I think that's how spam filtering started for large providers (in addition to classic keywords and such). But the temptation to do something smarter is strong, and as usual, "smart" things end up being wrong.

An issue with this is method is that company A may subscribe to company B's mailing list en masse, and then tag its mails as spam, causing all mails from B to be classified as spam. (Maybe that's what happened to get Paypal and Stripe banned from Gmail, who knows.)
Side note: according to EDICT:

引きこもり [ひきこもり] (n) (1) shut-in, stay-at-home, hikikomori, people

引きずる [ひきずる] (v5r,vt) (1) to drag along, to pull, (2) to force someone along, (3) to prolong, to drag out, (4) to influence strongly, to seduce, (P)

子守 [こもり] (n,vs) (1) nursemaid, nanny, babysitter, (2) child-minding

But starting from [ひきこもり] ambiguities are possible.
This insanity is HUGE in American prisons. There was a book called (I think) "One Man Out" where the author describes a case where someon used Sovereign Citizen declarations to get themselves released from incarceration supposedly. This somehow spread to nearly every correctional facility in the country and because many inmates are mentally ill in some fashion they eat this up (and it's a possible Get Out of Jail Free card, and when you're serving 60+ years I'm sure you'd try damn near anything to be released). Usually this results in just a lot of talk about becoming sovereign citizens and getting, and getting the millions of dollars held in some secret bank account attached to your social security number... and ends with some idiot filing liens against the warden of the prison (not making this shit up) and then the prisons banning all Uniform Commercial Code reference books from the institutions. I don't remember why but something to do with the whole name in all caps means you're actually a corp of some flavor - social security card is a bank account - there's millions of dollars backing that SS number - you can file liens as a corp against the warden for restricting your corp's free trade or traveling rights or some such fuckery -- then the lien will force the warden by the laws of the UCC to let you out..... It's insane, even for prison.
edit -- found an example of the lien's real effects: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-04-08-0...
No.

Getting a request approved is a nightmare. It's literally easier to get a search warrant from the courts than it is persuading police SPOCs to approve your RIPA request.

The gatekeeping is fearsome. They take their duties incredibly seriously.
AP3 is not going to be nearly good enough. It's just the next step in keeping the "we sell full self-driving hardware as a feature but's it's not ready yet" promise alive. It's not years away, it's decades away. And for a frame of reference, the computers (as in the actual processors, ram, memory, etcetera) in cars a la Waymo and Cruise cost more than the cars, so it's not an insignificant cost. That's completely ignoring the lidar issue and the fact that state-of-the-art just isn't good enough even when you have an extra $100k in hardware, have spent billions training your models, and have remote operators to help you out of sticky situations.

But yeah, okay, Elon Musk said it's going to happen. He also said they were going to have it years ago and we're still waiting on that cross-country trip from New York to Los Angeles that never materialized.
Telling scientists to stick to physics and chemistry for "real science" seems like telling rock climbers to stick to ladders for "real climbing."

It's possible to produce useful predictions with small errors when you define very simple systems, which is what the foundational scientific topics have done. Of course it took centuries of hard work to do even that.

Physicists and chemists and biologists and economists all study the same thing. It's just that most chemists use heuristics to avoid dealing with the full physical complexity, and most biologists use heuristics to avoid dealing with the full chemical complexity.

Unfortunately, the jump in complexity from biology to the behavior of a population of humans is still too complex; we don't have great heuristics for that yet.

It seems kind of short-sighted to me to say that the people who are trying to build those aren't doing "real science." I don't understand the theory there... that they haven't figured it all out yet, so it's not worth doing?
With all of these offerings, I really hate that it’s 2019 and I’m still having to choose cores and ram and storage.

I really just want a no-brainer solution that horizontally and vertically scales whenever needed.
That has not been my experience but anyway there's a "Report a Bug" link on every doc page.
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I put it in a spreadsheet for easier tracking and added more info for funding and careers page link. Hope this is helpful to other job seekers out there!

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Those were the naysayers’ words, not one of Ford’s justifications for the increase.
This is almost surely about catching "unauthorized" tenants (e.g., medium/long-term guests) and finding grounds for eviction.

One of the many sorts of ubiquitous lease provisions that landlords are more than happy to turn a blind eye to for "desirable" market-rate tenants who pay on time each month, but will vigorously enforce against others.
I was re-reading the 2017 AMT story, it is so strange. How is this even possible?

https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vul...
I think the basis stays with the fund, and the capital gains are due when the ETF holders sell their shares.

The bank does not get hit with any capital gains due to the lower basis of the fund. The bank has their own basis in the shares that they brought into the fund which when traded for the other shares may trigger its own separate capital gain.

The shares the bank gets back at the end should have price equal to basis by that point I would think.
What's that mistake?
And that is exactly what so called climate sceptics say about climate science or what antivaxxers say about conventional medicine.
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Sure, that's possible. But what's the actual argument?
What really annoys me is that (with the web version at least), you need to click a "More" link to even see how many spam emails you have sitting unread, so I don't get a visual reminder to check it occasionally :/
My choice of words could use some improvement. Here's the explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
Is it your belief that it is better to make a loss rather than make a profit in return for one's labor?

Do you consider making a profit as opposed to making a loss to be equivalent with "getting rich"?

Do people have a right to be paid for their work that benefits others?
If ETFs are able to dodge taxes that mutual funds cannot, why do people still invest in mutual funds? Different risks?
That’s not what they mean. They mean the services can be used in a “legitimate” way that doesn’t involve hijacking to spam people.
Actually, I would guess catching people that try to Airbnb their rent-stabilized apt (short-term guests).

Honestly, I agree it is would be kind of messed up for someone to have the fortune of winning a below-market luxury apartment and turn that around and illegally rent it out for a massive markup on Airbnb.
Maybe the OP is trying to find problems, ideas that fit his unique skills and expertise to execute, and wants a little bit of help to validate.
> Getting photographed everyday or perhaps several times in a single day could quickly start feeling like a huge violation of privacy.

If you in the public spaces of a city, it's likely you are photographed thousands of times a day.
Exactly! Gotta focus on one or the other. Either pay me for the idea, or I pay you to do the work.
My choice of words could use some improvement. Here's the explanation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
It makes it much harder to subscribe to new services [1]. Or when existing services mess up their config [2], your mailbox will silently drop the messages.

[1] eg. today I got a mail from IKEA from an address @ods2.net instead of the usual @ikea.com one; I had no idea I would have had to whitelist

[2] Which happens and will continue to happen as long as most mailboxes are not configured to drop messages without a valid DMARC. Chicken and egg problem.
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Gmail and Yahoo will do retroactive classification to some extent, but not broadly. It's a little more common to defer delivery by varying amounts based on historical sender reputation, but again that impacts a minority of legitimate email - maybe 10-20%-ish, off the top of my head - and mostly only by a few minutes.

And yes, every major consumer email provider tracks complaint and response rate metrics (as well as many other metrics and indicators) and uses those as part of their filtering. A spam ratio of > 2% is often enough to cause filtering - that's actually toward the very top end of the complaint rate spectrum for messages that are delivered to the inbox.
Taiwan should block all IT company of China. They all are spy.
If it's relevant, shell out a couple grand to a competent tax lawyer and make sure you know what you're doing.
The thing is, highly skilled employees are only effective if they work in a coordinated manner towards a common goal, and the people in charge of coordinating the teams are... Managers.

To put it differently, in a 6-man team each employee is responsible and held accountable for around 1/6th of the productivity, but the team manager is responsible and accountable for 100% of the effort.

Hence managers earning higher salaries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
Ugh. A good joke would be to have no crappy joke one year, and then tell everyone that they should look out for a good one next year. Repeat.
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I mean disposable plastic bags benefit the poor more than they hurt the rich. For example, perhaps the poor use those plastic bags as trash bags for other waste instead of buying proper trash bags. I know I often did.
The japanese article has a definition of how they labelled people.

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM3R4DZQM3RULZU005.html

It’s still pretty vague, my rough translation: “people who didn’t participate in social activities, like school or work for more than 6 months”.

Also it’s stressed that this time they didn’t automatically remove at home spouses, and they were flagged as hikikomori if they had almost no interaction outside of their family.

I wouldn’t surprised if blogging or content creating on the net would be excluded from “social participation” or not seen as communication in general.
The main thing is "Why undocumented?", not threat model and physical or remote exploit.
Human driving behaviors are also based on a bunch of heuristics and assumptions that do not hold in all road conditions.

It's good to expect autonomous/semi-autonomous to improve on humans, but it's not good to expect zero edge cases to be the bar that must be crossed before allowing this.

It's likely that even any significantly improved (vs humans) system would also have new fatal edge cases while also sharing some existing fatal edge cases. What's important is that the systems are not overall worse than humans alone and that they continuously improve.
Because wealth taxes Piketty proposes are anathema in the current world order?
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I get where it’s coming from. I know a guy who’s been subleasing a rent-controlled studio in Nob Hill for years. It’s not a money grab, I think he’s just passing through his own cost. He’s just holding onto it as a backup.
Same with Seattle.
> the theories posit that despite this, there is some deeper framework of law that the government still has to obey

Isn't this the spirit of hacking in general?

Of course, they're trying to hack a system rooted in fundamentals that undermine hacking. So rather than a vulnerability leading to a "full compromise", the best that can be obtained is a minor advantage.
(Setting aside the argument from authority, which you continue,)

Here is the actual argument:

> full of elementary statistical and programming errors that should’ve gotten its authors fired

Here is your characterization:

> the OP quite literally argued the scientists who authored the paper should be forced out of their job just because they published an academic paper that he found to be politically inconvenient
But you do not imagine that people will compile a profile of all your random photos where you are just background.
(maybe google does, but that would be extremely creepy too)
Plastic bag usage by itself is neither positive nor negative. The parent comment was referring to the effects of plastic bag usage. What are the implications? What does it affect?
> Go ahead poke at Milton Friedman and watch them get really hot under the collar.

Who is them? Do you think economics hasn't made any progress sice the 1970s and everyone is a paleomonetarist?
The problem with economics is the money riding on it. If one day the consensus becomes "raising the minimum wage by $5 only impacts profit; it doesn't impact employment" then a lot of very rich people stand to lose a lot of money as it becomes more politically palatable.

Economics is the most highly paid soft science for a reason.

Climate science has the same issue but fortunately they have managed to resist the corrupting influence of money.

Their hard science fetish isn't really the issue. Money is.
Google cloud has MySQL PITR
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/backup-recovery/rest...

Oddly seems missing from their PostgreSQL offering though, which is also several versions behind.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/71565188#comment73 mentions Aiven, which looks good to me..
"(T)he problems with post WWII "social science", "political science", "psychology", "architecture" are precisely that they're trying to ape the physical sciences and not just be art."

I'm not well versed in areas other than architecture, but I'm really puzzled where you'd go with this thesis with respect to that discipline. Would you care to elaborate further? I'm genuinely curious.
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Ah yeah, it would be much safer for the occupants than a Pinto, you are right.

Not so reassuring for the 2nd party though :(
That’s true, but it’s also true that hypothesis is preferred because of the abject failure or other theories and hypotheses to match those observations. The window for something other than DM is exceedingly narrow and only MOND has a hope of fitting through, and currently not in a form that’s very compelling.
One result of doors being controlled by facial recognition -- or any other kind of biometric system -- is that you have to get permission from someone whenever you have a regular visitor. You can no longer give your girlfriend, boyfriend, dog sitter, relatives, or whoever you wish a key or access card to your home. You have to enroll that person in the facial database. And whoever is doing the enrolling can ask for lots of further information about your visitor, or take that opportunity of enrolling to impose restrictions on your visitor, or just say no -- you're not allowed that visitor. Wonderful surveillance and control society we're building one piece at a time.
I'd like to see details on that part. My guess is each side of the exchange keeps their cost basis and just divides it over the new to them shares -- like in an untaxed merger stock transaction. Otherwise, it would be a competition to send the other party stocks with the lowest cost basis.
Wouldn’t this be “unauthorized tenants?”
100% agree.

Relatedly, does a landlord have the right to know when you are in your home? Because that's a side effect of this (which could already be possible by monitoring things like electrical usage). Asking in both legal and ethical senses (which I expect are different).
It is always interesting to me to contrast the presence of laws, which enforced feel like privacy violations. At least in SF, I have to give my landlord notice if someone is going to stay with me longer than 2 weeks. But, my landlord and I have a great relationship and I never see him. Technically, I am violating the lease if someone stays too long, but he would never find out or care if someone did...

Seems like the solution is to give up on unenforceable laws, or get comfortable with surveillance. The status quo of rules and laws that are not really enforced is more like an option than a contract. And I have a feeling that the excersize of those options asymmetrically hurts certain people.
The ability to delay a capital gain until death, at which point it disappears, seems like a remarkable tax dodge? I agree that it shouldn't disappear, but it seems like the fix would be to have some limits on how long a capital gains can be delayed so that they will mostly be paid in installments during a person's lifetime, rather than in a big chunk at the end.

Perhaps the money should be held in escrow until a sale or death happens, much like tax withholding for wages.
How was the training data obtained?
We’ve actually had a taste of a world without Goldman Sachs and its ilk performing their functions: the credit freeze right after the crash. Was that better?
California could clearly benefit from this. Housing here is treated as a luxury rather than a right. There are plenty on the streets that should arguably be in institutional care.
It will be an interesting lawsuit when the power goes out during a snowstorm.
What makes you so sure that it's not aiming to catch people who get a rent-stabilised apartment and then long-term sublet it at market rate?
Well, the person I replied to for some reason specifically called out medium/long-term guests, like partners or friends not officially on the lease.
The reserved market policy was created in 1977 specifically to keep IBM from launching their minicomputer, which would have preemptively killed off the effort by the government owned company Cobra (which would only launch their 530 mini in 1980)

The relation with jobs was that the policy had full support from academics who were upset that foreign companies would hire their engineering students only for sales, with all design work done in their home countries. I am not aware of any big stink about factory line workers losing their jobs.
The LinkNYC monoliths have cameras[0]. If they're not already selling or planning to sell this data for exactly this kind of aggregation, I would be very surprised.

(They swear they have a privacy policy but frankly, I just don't believe them).

[0] https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/linknyc-free-wifi-kiosks...
This is just the unfocused ramblings of someone who works in finance and is convinced it’s the best possible option.

If your only metric for success is money and you aren’t particularly creative that’s almost certainly true.

If you live in New York and have wandered into the wrong bar or dinner party a couple times you’ll find this sort of self-satisfied pseudo-intellectual rant from a young finance guy pretty familiar.
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Faster, yes, but not lighter on RAM usage.
Right. We do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public for a given location but we do have an expectation of privacy in public in the aggregate (the alternative is called stalking).
At my last workplace, I used to deal with it by simply getting up and taking a walk. A total context change is probably the best way to cope. Take a good half hour and get some physical activity. Ping pong was helpful too when I had access to a table.

A service is unlikely to work because anger requires immediate release when triggered otherwise it's repressed. Repressed anger builds up and makes the next outburst worse. I believe that the "lives of quiet desperation" described refer to anger that's continually repressed with no outlet.

There's a seeming epidemic of burnout in tech that I think is driven by this dynamic. I've seen people start jobs and almost immediately start exhibiting symptoms of burnout. The inhumanity of tech builds up and every little thing builds up.

I don't get burned out. I think this is because I'm skilled at managing my emotions. But as I get older my tolerance for repressing anger to release it in a controlled explosion later when nobody is watching grows less and less. And my jobs get more and more visible. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to stay in this career.
I read that as 'A barber shop on wheels that you book via SNMP'. Facepalm.
It sounds like you’ve discovered the problems with the softer sciences. You should look into whatever you consider a “real” science and see if it doesn’t have many of the same problems. That would require a bit more effort and intellect, problems in psychology and economics are pretty obvious, but you might be amazed by what you find.
I recall when Intel attempted to market TPM for the first time. The reaction was swift and very negative.

Are you sure you didn't confuse that with the processor serial number (that Intel actually reversed their decision on)? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870

TPM was (unfortunately?) far more positively received, likely because it was marketed as a security instead of DRM feature --- and the same goes for a lot of other antiuser features today... the manufacturers have gotten smart about it.