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My building is getting new elevators right now, they just finished the first one last month. Biggest unexpected change: There's a touchscreen for selecting what floor you want. All it displays is a static list of numbers.

I would've thought maybe it's a hygiene thing, easier to clean a flat surface, except below it is a number keypad with only 0-9, where you can also pick a floor by typing in your floor number. Plus, ground floor has its own independent physical button.

I've already gotten into the habit of ignoring the touchscreen and using the physical buttons as a mini rebellion - there's a security camera in the elevator, maybe someone will pick up on it.
There are many old, great US cities that have been converted from dense, manhattan-like landscape into 90% parking lots.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Pxtl/status/1180325377996201985
Why not both: do the live demo but have some slides prepared just in case.
I have a feeling, based on prior experience, that that is unlikely to be the consequence here.
To be clear: I don't think anyone actually dropped out because of a tiny Haskell class. A lot of people did drop out because they hated math and failed the first couple of courses.
It’s not really one or the other. Firefox and Safari both exist and the incentives of the companies that run them are reasonably aligned with user privacy.
Developer evangelists are the social media influencers of the development world. Since the phrase "influencer" is viewed somewhat negatively, maybe guerilla marketer is a bit lighter.

In theory, it's a low-tier dream job -- imagine if someone paid you X figures/year to build and show off cool stuff with technology Y (with the caveat that you own none of the IP). This kind of plays out as evangelists often build cool stuff or work on open source projects that massively benefit the relevant communities. In practice, however, I find that I am very skeptical of talks/articles created by evangelists because of the inherent bias and knowledge that it's just their job, and sometimes the content just isn't that good -- you're not hearing from the person that spent the last 5 days struggling with an obscure kernel bug, you're often hearing about plugging one or two technologies together to do some buzzword-heavy task.

It's like corporate blogging/brand management that is common these days (my own personal blog is no exception to a certain extent, I do actively market myself through it) -- "Here's 5 awesome ways to use tool X that we either developed or consult for" -- most of the time you know the other shoe is going to drop and something is going to try to "convert" you somehow.
According to the article, your theory is simple yet wrong:

> Here is what the frustrated safety experts will tell you: Americans are driving more than ever, more than residents of any other country. More of them than ever are living in cities and out in urban sprawl; a growing number of pedestrian fatalities occur on the fringes of cities, where high-volume, high-speed roads exist in close proximity to the places where people live, work, and shop. Speed limits have increased across the country over the past 20 years, despite robust evidence that even slight increases in speed dramatically increase the likelihood of killing pedestrians (car passengers, too – but the increase is not as steep, thanks to improvements in the design of car frames, airbags and seatbelts). American road engineers tend to assume people will speed, and so design roads to accommodate speeding; this, in turn, facilitates more speeding, which soon enough makes higher speed limits feel reasonable. And more Americans than ever are zipping around in SUVs and pickup trucks, which, thanks to their height, weight and shape are between two and three times more likely to kill people they hit. [emphasis added]

From other statistics I've seen, the massive increase in SUV's is mentioned as the single largest factor.

Indeed, the article directly refutes your theory:

> Ask a room full of safety experts about smartphones and you will get a mix of resignation, bemusement and contempt. “I tend not to buy the smartphone distraction stuff,” says Garrick, echoing nearly identical comments from just about everyone I talked to. “To me, it reads as shoving aside actually dealing with the relevant issues.” What particularly bothers him, he says, is how poorly thought out the distraction discourse tends to be. In the UK, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Austria and Iceland, for example, pedestrian deaths occur at a per capita rate roughly half of America’s, or lower. Are we really to believe that the citizens of these countries are 50% less susceptible than Americans to distraction, by their phones or anything else? ... “All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.” [emphasis added]
This is awesome! Especially for data science, Medium has a stranglehold on reliable articles. Excited to see an alternative, and one that actually seems to work better.
> We know that Huawei and Xionomi are thieves.

Apple is well known patent troll that sues companies for round corners. They constantly try to make harder to repair their products and sue anyone who attempts to import part.[1] Why support there douchebags?

I see no need to pick the side here. I just take the product that suits me.

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ppvj/dhs-seized-afterma...
Now let's imagine a scenario in the near future where the reason for not returning is that she can no longer receive a fair trial?
I totally agree, but we don’t have such a system in the US, and the alternatives being proposed today are all inferior. Checks are still easier.
Any plans to support custom domains?
Better than Chrome is such a low bar though. Chromium is better than Chrome, Kiwi is better than Chrome, Edge is better than Chrome.
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I am quiet driver. I have horror stories every single day with pedestrians who cross the street in the wrong spots, giving you 0 secs to react. I cannot tell how many guys could I be killed them because they've crossed the street texting and using headphones. Pedestrians go really in distracted mode, that's why when I approach some areas, I go really paranoid and try to foresee anything.
You have proof that someone visited a specific site because it uses a value derived from that site's SSL cert. You just don't have any more knowledge than that.
That's like, your opinion, man. I think the only way Tesla could improve their design is a few more buttons. Other than that, I love love the design, sleek and minimal is 100% my style.
Being distracted while waking around heavy machinery is bad as well, but the risk of hurt is less. Being distracted while walking has more risk to self and lesser others. Being distracted while driving has more risk to self and to others.
Full video of Hong Kong police shooting 14 year old protestor on October 4th
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I've found a lot of those articles to be a bit like the psi experiments of the 1970s and 1980s. They generally begin from a place of treating the echolocator's claims as credulous or they seriously underestimate the ability of blind people to derive signals from many different cues.

I'd really like to see some double blinded studies comparing the success of echolocators in every day tasks against non-echolocators.
Exactly and thats why Face ID is terrible compared to Touch ID! Added steps/fidgeting with your phone to just get to the point of unlocking it; a unsafe UX step backwards!

Robot cars are the answer, yet many innocent non-robot car drivers will perish at the sake of AI car progress. Progress in this instance will be murder!
Couldn't read it, firewalled. But could it be that things that used to be stolen -- record players, CD players, speakers, receivers, cameras, TVs, watches -- that those things are obsoleted by smartphones? And that the would-be thieves already own those?
I came here to make this joke. Basically, any number taken to the zeroth power is 1.
I think most chart libraries use SVG. There are trade-offs between the two approaches and both have their advantages. One of the places that canvas really shines is performance. In the past I've found Chart.js and some of the faster SVG libraries to be about on par with each other, but the upcoming Chart.js 2.9.0 release has had a couple major performance improvements that I think will make it significantly faster than probably any SVG library. It's an area we'll continue to work on since it's one of the main reasons to choose a canvas implementation over an SVG implementation.

I think the other advantage SVG has can be is if you want to do some advanced interactivity. That can sometimes be easier in SVG.
I think the only solution is self driving cars.
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To the rich every one else is(broadly) a guy/gal trying to wipe your windows, sell you a stale bun, or otherwise engage you as a walking money pot in some manner that will end up in enriching them.
Imagine a row of 50 beggars at a stop light, each one waters and wipes and demands $$. Drivers might think about having a gun...
> If you look at marginal impact then BEVs have no emissions, because generating capacity is primarily growing in the renewable energy segment.

This is simply not true. You are tying them together incorrectly. BEVs cause growth in electricity demand, which keeps carbon sources around for longer. Renewable growth displaces carbon sources. The sum may be in the right direction, but it doesn't mean it wouldn't go faster if electricity consumption were lowered.

It's also a bit beside the point, as BEVs are more environmentally friendly even when powered by coal plants. My argument is not at all anti BEV or pro ICE.

> In other words adopting renewable energy REQUIRES BEVs.

Yes, when renewables hit a point where you can't build more for reliability concerns, BEVs performing demand dispatch and even V2G will provide a ton of storage. This is the biggest reason I'm a BEV fan (although PHEVs can also provide much the same role), as dual use of batteries is the only real way to get remotely the storage we're going to need.

But my point is that BEVs, while better than an ICE, shouldn't be thought of as equivalently clean to riding or taking public transport. This isn't a radical position, it's math.
Are those fantastically long German composite words easy to read for native speakers or is part of the pleasure having to stop and squint?
There's a Chart.js plugin that will do that for you as well: https://nagix.github.io/chartjs-plugin-rough/
Some folks commenting seem to be missing some of the point.

Ben isn’t trying to say “startups pay $100k, Google pays $110k”. Those are round numbers deliberately picked out of the air (which obviously don’t match expected comp at either startups, or Google).

It’s an analysis of how to value stock options in high growth startups.

As someone who routinely tells people to value stock options at zero, this analysis has convinced me to value them at something closer to 5% expected return lottery ticket. So, still basically a garbage deal, but I’m convinced by his argument.

I’ll note one other downside I haven’t seen anyone else mention: BigTechCo managers (including me) won’t hire people who appear to job hop every 1-2 years. Why would I invest in you, when your contribution to the team is barely positive for the first 6 months, if you’re going to change teams in such a short time.

I understand it’s different in startup land, but job hopping more than once is a red flag for most hiring managers I know at big tech companies.
By failing twice.
There is also the issue of billing "mistakes," which, wouldn't you know it, are ALWAYS to the benefit of the cable company. This has been the norm for years, yet nothing is done about what is clearly systematic fraud.
I've always had an extremely bad memory, paired with behaviors that probably don't help at all. I have always thought (non-scientific, highly subjective text ahead) that a big part of the problem (the behavioral side) is that I never talk about the events of my life with others. I'm highly asocial, and even when I end up explaining something, I hate to repeat the same stories twice. I use alarms and calendars for everything. I've come to think that a big problem for my memory is precisely the fact that I never reinforce previous memories, I never link or associate them to new memories (for example, of myself reviving the memories when explaining them to other people). So, there's no repetition, and they kinda fade away sooner than later. The more disconnected the memories remain, the harder it becomes to recall them.
That’s the entire point of the article. The AI itself will not develop a need to harm. Users/creators of the AI will program that into it. But AI by itself even with creators of the best intentions has real problems that affect society today. And talking about a hypothetical future has distracted the public narrative from the real problems with AI that we need to solve now.
That's the opposite. The soldiers make it work for the general whereas the German word would be used if it works 'in general' but doesn't when it's demonstrated to the general during an inspection.
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Correction/TIL-per google, aluminum does eventually get removed from the body. Now I know.
Like guns, they aren’t. It’s the operators and for cars specifically idiot monkeys on phones are the actual issue. For those too stupid to decipher this, the phones are also not the problem.
> Exactly and thats why Face ID is terrible compared to Touch ID!

How would TouchID help in this case?

Concerning AI drivers, a lot of innocent non-robot people are dying because of driving right now. I am unconvinced that more people would die. Of course the road ahead is still long.
Not a transit routing API, but transit.land offers aggregated transit network data as a service. https://transit.land/
Not where I live, in Utah. Here, people constantly stop, and block traffic, if kids are anywhere near crossing a street. It is very sweet, but terribly dangerous, as it teaches kids exactly the opposite of what you are saying. They grow up here thinking that cars will stop. Kids run into the street all the time. I go blocks, or sometimes miles, out of my way to avoid driving anywhere near elementary schools at the times kids are going to or leaving school because I fear how often they simply run out in front of you.

The education that is needed is more universal - cars will crush people. Whether you are behind the wheel or not, do what is needed to respect that fact and avoid anyone getting hurt.
People carry far less cash now. It's trivial to block a credit card. It's really hard to steal a modern car unless you're very dedicated. Mobile devices can be bricked by the owner fairly easily, and the fact smart phones are basically ubiquitous means you won't make much from a stolen one.

Maybe there's just less low-level crime because it's not worth doing it any more.
Who are you referring to when you say “them?”
They even address what you are saying in the article. They mention the looming danger of weaponized AI which is exactly when someone has altered the program to do harm.
I'm not sure what you mean by "particular vitamin K was not approved in Poland for normal use". Was it the dosage? Because Vitamin K is Vitamin K, so I'm not sure I follow why this would be bad. In the US, the FDA allows doctors to prescribe any approved drug for any need. So called "off label" use of drugs is common. The only issue is sometimes insurance will not cover the costs.

As for the mistrust of medical professionals, I cannot fathom what it was like to live in a society that blindly followed the State without data to support the position--that must be horrible. Fortunately in the developed, modern world, the data is free for everyone to look at and decide for themselves. Here is a nice review with references showing just how amazing vaccines are: https://medium.com/@visualvaccines/graphic-proof-that-vaccin...

I think part of the reason 'enlightened' society requires everyone to be vaccinated is herd immunity. Not everyone can take a vaccine and be protected, so it's up to the majority of society to protect them. Granted, this is another discussion of who's responsible for taking care of whom, but in modern developed societies we have agreed as a majority to help the less fortunate. An example here are small children, people undergoing chemotherapy, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems. These are the people that vaccine herd protection protects.

I'm sorry you feel the hysteria around anti-vaxxers to be the worst thing. I can imagine how difficult it must be to feel better informed than the masses and everyone to think you're the fool. Numerous people throughout history have been murdered for speaking truth to the masses because what they were saying was not convenient.
Well, if you do fairly normal web development nowadays, that includes running a couple of local services (database, backend) and containers, iOS / Android simulator, VS Code, webpack dev server running, Chrome, db management tool, Slack on top of that etc - U-series processor is hardly adequate, and 16GB RAM is not enough to avoid some level of swapping...Just running Docker empty, with no containers, takes 3-4 GB on OS X...

Which is crazy, and I don't know how we managed to get to this, but it's the reality...Electron and Java being the worst culprits - 1GB RAM just to have a project open in VS Code and 1GB for Studio 3T just to be open and connected to local MongoDB...
in montessori training most of the time is spent by the prospective teachers in the classroom, observing children and other teachers at work. and then they have to write reports about the observation.

it's just a few weeks rather than years, but it's the right idea.

just like a pilot has to look so many flight hours before they get their license, a montessori teacher has to log observation and teaching hours before they get to lead a classroom.
Not sure what the actual statistics would be, but using Google streetview, it seems that trucks/vans are maybe 20% of traffic. Taxis, limos, Uber, etc. probably make up another 30%.

Private autos are probably on the order of half. It would be interesting to know what percentages are trips NJ to LI/outer boroughs, LI/outer boroughs to Manhattan, and NJ to Manhattan.

I personally would not drive in Manhattan unless absolutely necessary (not for decades!) and have only crossed it in the dead of night or from the GWB to the Bronx.
Which personal attacks?
It’s isn’t. US Government is alive and well with enterprise software for the next 100 years.
It's like a half VPN, https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/ see "What WARP Is Not"
In all honesty, it only sells well because of the tax benefits. Do the actual math and then figure out how many people would then buy and use it. Likely not a lot.
In Norway every single person buying a new car makes the decision based on tax incentives to a large extent.
There are even DNA and cell division targeted agents. Colchicine kills cells by messing with DNA segregation between dividing cells. This one appears to promote division? Though I haven’t read all the details.
I learned of my own aphantasia while watching an episode of House with my roommate. In the show they had a machine which let them view a rough picture of what a subject was thinking of.

I observed to my roommate that this was an especially dumb plot point as people don't actually think in images but only in words. My roommate was quite confused and claimed that he did think in visuals and we had an interesting conversation and Google search thereafter.

I still am slightly torn between thinking that there is some disconnect in explanation versus believing that some or even most people can actually visualize things in their mind. When I think of a "square", for example, I have access to all the facts I know of squares (polygon with four equal length edges) and I could draw a square or trace one in the air with my finger, so I obviously know what one looks like, but I have no visual experience of a square and it's difficult to imagine that other people do.

One reason it's difficult to imagine other people have the visual imagination they think they do is because I so rarely see people just sitting and imagining things for long stretches - which I assume would be borderline irresistible if you had the kind of fantasy machine to show you whatever you wanted. Perhaps people do this in private and don't talk about it much?
Exactly. I am a big hater of everything that even remotely feels like a shitcoin. BAT is a silly useless project; I would not hate it if there was no conflict of interests, even if it's a silly project; but there is a huge conflict of interest - the developers want to make money out of thin air by issuing their tokens.

I already wrote this before in another comment. Basic Attention Token is not a secure cryptographic system. The idea to pay tokens for shown ads cannot be cryptographically secure. There is no known way to have a cryptographically strong "Proof-of-Watch". All that browser does is, when a user watches an ad, it communicates to its backend and asks the backend to send a token to an address attached to the user. It's not a cryptographic system that mines coins by showing ads.

It's a useless gimmick that has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. The real coins are so valuable because they are cryptographically strong. This thing is centralized and its mechanism of payments for ad views is not cryptographically strong. The token has some value only because of peoples' stupidity.
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As I worked more and more, in isolation especially, time seemed to fly faster and events seemed less salient. I remember things but not as vividly as when I was 15.

I hope this isn’t a normal thing that has to do with individual years being less fractionally important with age, but just the brain adapting to loneliness.
The article shows that RNA bases were actually created in the lab. Furthermore, this is not the first time, but it is the first time they have all been produced by one process:

Now, Carell’s team has shown how all nucleobases could form under one set of conditions: two separate ponds that cycle through the seasons, going from wet to dry, from hot to cold, and from acidic to basic, and with chemicals occasionally flowing from one pond to the other. The researchers first let simple molecules react in hot water and then allowed the resulting mix to cool down and dry up, forming a residue at the bottom that contained crystals of two organic compounds.

They then added water back, and one of the compounds dissolved and was washed away into another reservoir. The absence of that water-soluble molecule allowed the other compound to undergo further reactions. The researchers then mixed the products again, and their reactions formed the nucleobases.

This is progress (especially as the yield is apparently quite high), but as both azaa and the last paragraph of the article point out, we are still lacking the ribose backbone of the RNA molecule.

I don't think it is possible to have a killer argument against determined creationists, as they do not regard evidence in the same way as you and I do. Any discusion with them will take the form of a whack-a-mole game.
And Twilio didn't pioneer it. Microsoft have been doing developer evangelism for decades.
I offer these 3 words: Used Chevy Volt

There are a lot of them on the market now sub 20K and they are effectively EVs in most use cases.
I like to imagine that whatever company makes these little touchscreens employs the Michael Jordan of B2B salespeople.