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>I have seen an equally shocking occurrence on a bike.

Yes, as a pedestrian in C in the 60's i was hit by a Cliffe on a bike ... going the wrong way on a one-way street, mind you. We, as a species, need to integrate more with others: We are not our bodies etc, we are the world
> Yet all of this journalism was paid for, in part, by The Times’s engaging in the type of collecting, using and sharing of reader data that we sometimes report on.

Nice passive voice. A writer good enough to write for the New York Times only writes a sentence that passive and convoluted for a very good reason.

"We track, use and share the data of you, the reader, and sell this to advertisers."
Cambridge can't even fix potholes and plow snow, but this is where they decide to spend money. Some real galaxy brains.
I wonder if a small array of microphones couldn't be used to accomplish the same thing by cross-correlating the sound made by airflow hitting adjacent surfaces at different angles.

Seems like a bad idea to use mechanical vanes for this, especially if you're going to bet the whole farm on a single instrument as Boeing seems to have done.
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Your "lobbying for our new hire of managing director to be a woman" is fuel for rage and even return fire. I hope you can see how it might be used to justify discrimination in the other direction. You aren't being fair.
It might not be as efficient, but it sure is better for the environment, for traffic, and for health, among others. In most of the US, the wealthier people live in suburbs, though your point still stands.

Many European cities are nicer places to live as a result of better cycling infrastructure and a culture of road-sharing.
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I think the problem with nuclear energy is the overall number of people who die per incident. Because of this, the deaths are overreported.

We seem to be able to handle people dying one at a time, but once a whole town is in danger, even if this is something that happens once a generation (this is the hard part to understand), it crosses that threshold of "this isn't worth it".

That said, if self driving car deaths get reported as much as traditional car deaths (that is to say, not very often), perhaps people will think they are just as safe as driving themselves.
> There are a number of things connecting Assange to Russia.

His own OkCupid listed that he loved everything Russian (except the food) long before the 2016 election:

https://mashable.com/2010/12/13/julian-assange-okcupid/

That being said, while he's a piece of shit we need to be careful we don't erode press freedoms we've had for a very long time just because we really don't like one jerk.
I live in Cambridge and agree with the reasoning as a driver and a cyclist. They put a bike lane inside the car parking area along the main drag (Cambridge street) i live on. It’s hard as a driver to make sure the lane is clear before turning, and when cycling through you still have to be careful and look before crossing the side streets.

It’s still better and it’s been a year since I saw a bicyclist and a driver have words when the car failed to yield.
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So Korean would be the Guinea-pigs for testing affects of 5G on human health. I can foresee tech companies/regulators in rest of the world silencing health concerns on 5G by quoting Korea as example.
You mean the roads downtown should be inaccessible to people living downtown so suburban people can commute in on 2 ton steel boxes that they then store for the day in downtown?

No, that is indeed not the most efficient use of the roads. The most efficient use of the roads would be to rip them out and use the space for vastly more efficient public transport.

(Bus transport is also not slowed down by cyclists, or of all things, skateboarders.)
Most major players in the space are not relying solely on machine vision, but rather a combination of lidar, radar, mapping, etc.

Vision is just one small piece of the puzzle, and while it's extremely difficult—particularly when considering the complexities of navigating a busy city street—the other parts are just as challenging. This is where claims like that of Ford's CEO really stem from.

Looking at the problem and some of the existing approaches to solving it, it's become apparent the way forward is not at all clear. Realistically companies are making progress, but as an industry we may not have a straight path toward a feasible solution for some time.
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"seeking political power through control of institutions" seems entirely subjective. Why is someone on the far left running for office doing this moreso than a libertarian?
But they do talk to IT people when they write stories about IT things, don't they?

Generally, no. They talk to people on the outside.

Unless it's a secret move

It's always amusing to me the conspiracy theories people have about journalism. These are people who boost their egos, their living, their careers by telling people things. The changes of hundreds of thousands of journalists keeping a secret about anything are pretty close to zero.

fear of being sacked (by the ads people, presumably)

This only very rarely happens (It happened to me once, and then the company contested by unemployment claim!), but only at very small organizations. Like where the entire newsroom is fewer than ten people.
Government is inherently inefficient, yet some people still insist that it controls everything.
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If a married US Democrat took their secret Iranian girlfriend to Iran with their government phone the scandal would last about a decade.
If it's a private spacecraft, how do you make this work financially? How do you find $100m ? It's not like there are commercial opportunities possible on the moon. Or the technology would be re-used by Israel for rockets?
> They need to be safer than me, not the average driver

But I'd they are safer than the average driver, you gain from their widespread adoption even if they aren't safer than you. Because you don't have the choice of replacing other drivers with you...
Unless the title been has changed since you posted your comment, it is a list of "awesome books", not an "awesome list" of books. But, I agree, to make the list useful, there really needs to be some explanation as to why the book is awesome.
The city does clear the snow from bike lanes with little mini bobcat tractors, but there's only so much that can be done. In mid-winter, I think studded snow tires are a must. And even those aren't exactly magic. There were a couple of late season storms this year were the city basically didn't plow much at all because they knew it would melt; and while the slush was navigable easily with a car, trying to carve through that on a bike was pretty freaky. Studs are great on ice and hard pack but with mash potato snow they don't help much.

Even when things are cleared off, melting and refreezing can make the lanes treacherous. That said, I estimate the number of people riding mid-winter is probably less than 10% of what you see in Spring through Fall.
Which is my point of remove the bias of getting an ID and then it's fine.

In its current state it's not fine and shouldn't be pushed.
+1. When I was a Boy Scout, I had confirmation direct from an FBI agent that once somebody is wanted, the Agency has a long memory and a long reach.

The anecdote he shared was a fugitive fled to Saudi Arabia. Over a decade and a half, the fugitive grew a small business empire and was well-connected. In tandem with allies in Saudi Arabia, the FBI arranged a lavish party on a yacht to which their target was invited. The yacht sailed out to international waters and FBI agents apprehended him and put him on a Navy cruiser out at sea.
It depends on what you mean by efficient, I guess. I like the graphic on this article, https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/how-much-space-do-pe...

It shows how many more people can efficiently use roads while on bikes than in cars. So, if we define efficiency by that measure (obviously this matters more in cities and congested areas), then yes, it's more efficient.
I wonder if it could be seen from earth by telescope.
By the same token, if you normalize failure in a structure that large, it’s hard to get anything done. It’s more enriching to get paid to fail 5 times than it is to do the thing once successfully.

Failure is great when there is oversight and feedback mechanisms that help the organization learn from those failures. Less good when repeated failure is profitable.
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I lived in Singapore for over a year and was very happy to leave. Decent tech scene but very little else going on. I don't see myself living there in the foreseeable future.
Re: a small self driving car, that's exactly what Nuro[1] is doing commercially today.

1. https://nuro.ai/
A large percentage of them are. When starting out many small businesses exclusively work as subcontractors to larger entities which must partner with smaller businesses to meet set asides.

Some contracts require the prime contractor to be a small business. Often when this is the case and the contract is large the small business acts almost purely as a pass through to a larger contractor. Taking a percentage off the top and filling a couple of slots on the contract while the larger contractor does fills most of the slots and takes the majority of the money.
> Russia has no aircraft carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers#Russ...
You could, but most e-bikers choose not to go too fast. Additionally, they often have thicker tires and enourage poor aerodynamic body positions which mean that they decelerate faster.
> Cambridge also seems to have a disproportionate number of unsafe bicyclists (and pedestrians) for some reason.

There's a certain "vicious cycle" element to this. If bicycling generally appears unsafe, then mostly (over)confident, risk-tolerant people will do it. Those are the same people who are comfortable getting away with unwise things like running stoplights the wrong way at dusk on their no-brakes fixie with a single tiny red blinkie mounted high on their messenger bag. ;)

It's also tied into a common argument against biking infrastructure: "Why would we build this? There aren't any people biking now." Chicken-egg, but there are many people who won't bike if it seems unsafe. And those people have a good chance of behaving more sensibly when they are convinced to ride.
Which choice betters my career prospects if I'm just getting into AWS development/integration?
I've worked for commercial, government and semi-government organizations. It's not corrupt in the sense that it's illegal. The problem is that while the stakes are high within the private sector there are no such stakes within the government sector. Yet people do get payed high stakes salaries. There's no incentive for efficiency. In the government realm when the end of year is nearing, departments start burning through their budgets to ensure they don't receive less the next year. Inefficiency is rewarded. It simply means more people get to pay for nice mortgages.
Exactly, using mechanical vanes for this sounds pretty stupid, given what can be done with acoustical signal processing. It must be a more difficult problem than it seems.
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Can you clarify your point, were you saying that the US had 3rd world-levels of corruption before the regulation, or were you saying that the US was as fine as it is today, before the regulations.
As I understand it, that would require specific training for pilots of the MAX 8, and (not sure) perhaps a new type certification.

Those are expensive and it was a specific goal to avoid them.
They cannot do that, because then the Max loses its shared type rating due to the larger engines. MCAS exists to give the aircraft more similar flight characteristics to its predecessors.
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> I think it's a problem with how RAII is used, conflating execution scope and object lifetime in a way that makes "move" a bit of a mess.

It seems to me that there's a subset that is just fine. Use RIAA to, for example, take a lock and automatically release it when you leave a scope. That's not a problem, in itself. And go ahead and use move semantics, too. That's also fine.

But don't use move on an object that's doing RIAA to take and release a lock. That, in my view, is not much of a restriction, because if you think about it, that's not really a reasonable thing to want to do. That RIAA lock-taker is not the kind of object that you want to move, or even copy. Explicitly disable those actions (private copy constructor and operator, private move), and you should be good.

Or have I missed something?
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Well, unless you need the MCAS to kick in, and the plane plummets to the earth in a hard stall because it didn't.
Only limited by cost, but they get expensive. You could spend more on just the thermal camera then the rest of the setup pretty easily.
I wonder why this news isn’t as widespread as SpaceX launches. I would have loved to follow this from the beginning! Whats the best place to stay updated about this specific mission? - what a time to be alive
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How do you feel about any foreign political intervention?

I'd guess that 50+% of 3rd world leaders are supported by some foreign government financially or militarily which keeps them in power.

But yes, it doesn't feel good when a foreign government tries to pick a winner in our elections.
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In April 2014, American philanthropist Sheldon Adelson donated US$16.4 million to the project,[13] and in June 2017, the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) announced a donation of additional 7.5 million ILS (US$2,083,333), after having donated 2 million ILS (US$555,556) in previous years.[14]

In November 2017, SpaceIL announced that they needed US$30 million to finish the project. Morris Kahn resigned from chairing the board, and promised $10M if the organization could raise the additional $20M.[20] The amount required was produced by a few major donors.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL#History
Looks interesting. Plan to have your own exit poll ??
> The most efficient use of the roads would be to rip them out and use the space for vastly more efficient public transport.

More efficient for who? The software developer who lives in a condo downtown, or the lady who cleans his office that drives in from the suburbs?
"(It didn't!)"

How do you know?

And moreover, why should I know that?

Elections have no purpose if nobody trusts the results afterwards. That dominates all other concerns about elections, because if you don't have that, your election with all the other desirable characteristics is still just so much wasted time.
Sadly, another "the sensor did it" scenario. https://semiengineering.com/dirty-data-is-the-sensor-malfunc... The tragic example of the Lion Air crash of a new Boeing MAX 8 aircraft, which on Oct. 29 killed all aboard, may be heading toward “the sensor did it” category. The black box recovered from the flight showed inconsistent data from one of the two angle-of-attack (AOA) sensors. With one half of the data apparently incorrect, it was enough to trigger this plane’s anti-stall system into a nose down action, which the pilots wrestled all the way into the Java sea.
Because there’s no significant amount of fraud occurring that ID requirements would fix, and ID requirements are often made to unfairly disenfranchise certain groups.
You are describing the ethnicity, not the race. Race refers only to the skin color of the person, whereas ethnicity refers to the cultural and lineage aspect of that person.
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What does the US have to do with anything?
> This isn't a theoretical nit pick, this is the law.

Of course, the law is changing... and in fact, under a lot of laws, it really is "my data".

Much like intellectual property, these laws were established for a particular context, and we've long since moved past that context, raising reasonable questions as to whether those laws are really a good idea.

> And it makes sense. If you and i have a conversation, i am free to tell someone else about that conversation, because i was part of it. That is my data, as it is also theirs.

Are you entitled to a DNA sample from some skin cells that floated in the air while you were having said conversation? Does that conversation entitle you to know of every other place that person goes that day? Are you entitled to share a full recording of that conversation with anyone you'd like?

The lowered price of collecting, aggregating & exchanging information changes the context under which the existing laws were made, raising questions about whether we wish to alter those laws.
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According to a post by one of the project's initiators, the lander will attempt to broadcast video from the moon's surface.

Success depends on the ultimate landing angle which will determine how much power its solar panels will be able to provide.
I'd argue it is unreasonable given that (afaik) no one is marketing a self-driving car that doesn't also require a driver be attentive at all times.

You can learn to drive a self-driving car defensively, in the same way you learn to drive a normal car defensively. Pay attention to your surroundings, blind spots, and other cars.

Maybe self-driving is a poor term to use.
http://www.spaceil.com/major-donors/

Looks mostly like their funding is from donors who want to promote Israel or STEM? They also received funding from the Israeli government, but I believe it was a small percentage (< 5%).
Yes it should, and that's actually the original title of the article:

> Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure

Mods should likely change it.
The usage of Facebook is free.
You uploaded your data voluntarily.

How do people think Facebook pays for running its service?!?
Of course you are the product.
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In general a majority stock holder(s) can rewrite the rules any way they like. You could have a poison pill written into your offer letter (requiring an immediate payout for certain events), but I don't think any founder/VC would sign it.

But I AM NOT A LAWYER.
> the vehicles can be coordinated to drive closer together

How do you make this work? There's no standard in self-driving systems, no standard in sensors, and no standard for vehicle to vehicle communication.
> It's an unreasonable need, but human nature.

Not at all. Computers are supposed to be orders of magnitudes better than humans at certain tasks. If you're going to put computers in charge of our lives on the road at high speeds, why wouldn't we expect them to also be orders of magnitudes better at driving?

Also, if I'm a lot better than the "average driver" (where I assume such statistics also include people texting and driving or driving drunk or having not slept for 40h, etc), then I certainly wouldn't be satisfied with an automatic system that is only a little better than the average driver.

And I didn't even get into the whole thing about car companies, including (especially?) Tesla, which compare highway Autopilot accidents to all road conditions accidents, to show how their Autopilot is "better," or the thing about such systems making errors that humans would never make, just like language translation systems can make totally different translation errors compared to humans, even if they "score the same."

To keep things short, yes, I think it's completely reasonable that self-driving systems should be far FAR better than your "average human driver." I don't even know why this is controversial.

Also, I agree with the Ford CEO that all carmakers, even Tesla, overestimated self-driving capability over making an electric vehicle. The ability to make a great EV will matter far more for these companies' survivability in the next 10 years than making a good self-driving car. But it's almost like most of them focused more and invested more in the self-driving capability than switching to EVs. Big BIG mistake!

Even Tesla, the only major pure EV company, mistakenly almost "bet the farm" on self-driving to the detriment of making a high-value EV. How? Well, by putting very expensive "full self-driving hardware" (that turns out is not actually full self-driving) into every Model 3 car out there. Terrible decision. They would've done a lot better if every Model 3 was $5,000-$10,000 cheaper by default without all of that gimmick.
Very low tax rates especially for expats and expats tend to get paid 3-4 times the average in total comp and even more if they contract for the more “high end” roles, there are a lot of shady companies there especially in cyber security tho so some of these might have hidden risks.

That said unless you really and honestly like the South East Asian expat life style you wouldn’t last there long, it’s pretty hard to live a “normal” life there.
Much of that money goes to pay software engineers. And they pay rent or purchase homes, like everybody else.
Right now we don't verify beyond verifying your email address that it comes from a corporate domain.
In the future I plan on adding features such as referrals which will need a stronger verification process.
You're reminiscing about good ol' days that never were. My wife and I got our first mortgage twenty five years ago. The junk mail started arriving almost the next day. Damned straight the banks were selling your information. Every time you wrote down your name and address on a warranty card, a car loan, or anything else, that went into an IBM DB/2 database running on someone's System/38, packaged to be sold to the highest bidder at the first opportunity.

The only reason you might think there is a difference is because the tools got a lot better.
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You could try Gelman et al.'s Bayesian Data Analysis. It has a good overview of MCMC.

If you want an overview of Markov chains as statistical models in their own right, Durbin et al.'s Biological Sequence Analysis is a well-motivated overview.
This is going to get ugly in Cambridge because a lot of parking is going to be eliminated and people who used to be able to park near their homes will be parking on the side streets. People who live on those side streets are going to suddenly find it more difficult to find parking.

I'm for adding bike lanes, but there are plenty of people who work far outside the city and who need to drive are going to find it intolerable. A lot of people will be forced to move, while the value of off-street parking will go up.