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> even when they are they will still have a Waymo employee on board "initially".

I think you're confused. They've been having customer rides with employee in the car for almost a year now. The email sent to customers today is saying that they will soon find rides with no employee inside.

And again, rides without employee inside have been happening also since 2017, just not with customers inside.
We can use both sets of names, better yet, mix them!
I think this is absolutely correct. Huge advances are driven by war, for obvious reasons -- survival is at stake. John Napier discovered the logarithm due to his work on artillery. A lot of Archimedes's innovations were driven by the desire to build weapons. The demand for accurate clocks was driven by the Navy, giving rise to many innovations. And of course in the 20th Century, integrated circuit design was driven by a desire to build computers that could be embedded in ballistic missiles and withstand large amounts of heat. Fairchild semiconductors' first big contracts were primarily for defense and NASA.
My highschool (well, homeschool resource center) IT admin couldn't log into one of the macs in the A/V lab one day; I heard him talking about it, and being on good terms with him, I offered to try and hack in. I literally googled "how to hack macos password", chanced upon an `nidump` vulnerability recent enough that it hadn't been patched, used that to dump the password hash file, fed that to JTR (compiled on that same machine, to add insult to injury), and almost instantly ended up with the admin password for the entire domain: 1337

It turned out that someone hadn't changed the password, he had just mistyped it over and over again. At the time, I didn't know what "1337" meant, I just thought it was a weird number, and it wasn't until many years later that I suddenly burst into laughter, realizing the "elite" level of security in that lab.

Thanks for the good times, Ron! I'm really glad he just laughed and trusted me as I explored technology instead of freaking out when my portscanners started making the printer spew out a bunch of garbage.
I think that’s a severe underestimation of the impact of a popular and easy place of congregation. The center of power being the platform is how things work in the digital realm and the in-person realm.

As a random example, if someone is shopping for a steak, they normally would go to a market, grocery store, or butcher shop in a popular plaza near their home. If you’re in America, most likely that steak is sourced from a farm owned by a large corporation. You could go to local butcher who sources their meat from local small farms and add 30 minutes to your shopping, but it doesn’t have potatoes and green beans you'd like on the side of that steak dinner. Some people will absolutely make that trip, but not nearly as much as if that butcher got a shop in the popular plaza near everything else, owned by a commercial real estate company.

While the physical shopping example obviously has more friction than the digital example, the value is still high to provide a centrally located platform for consumers, creators and businesses to congregate. The power is rightfully focused on those that provide that platform.
Elevetors in our building(SF fin. district) runs even older ones.
I think the lack of reply notifications is intentional, to prevent quick back and forth snarky replies like on Reddit.

pg may have stated that at some point but I am not sure.
This turns out to be quite hard, because there are irreconcilable differences in the fundamentals of the different proof systems. That said, there's the Dedukti project, which is showing promising interop results between (at least) Coq and HOL style logics, and the work Mario Carneiro is doing trying to bridge between Metamath and more type-theory approaches.
Did they consider that the USA send all their production to China due to cheap labor and few environmental regulations? Now they are consuming more but using less raw materials. Compare the number of toys that a child has today to one 30 years ago.
Thanks, this was a nice short read. I'm skeptical, however, that just because we can refactor our way to saner software, that we won't still have software exhibiting the equivalent of a recurrent laryngeal nerve.
I was waiting for that :). Let's put it out at billions of generations for pre-human evolution.

Point stands. I computer will do millions of simulations in a day. And be done across a population far greater than historic evolution.

Doesn't take long to get billions of learning events. On top of which evolution pre-intelligence (as a very loose term) was somewhat random, where our systems are starting from a much more evolved position that does take advantage of existing evolution as much as humans do.
Why would you add cyanide to a product you’re selling?
Negative Latency?
I've been using openstax[1] to learn math prerequisites for a CS program. They have peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks[2] on many college courses.

[1] https://openstax.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStax
Wait, you think Clinton was going to start a war with Russia?

Did you miss how she sold American uranium interests to Russia?

Did you miss how Russia worked with her campaign to prepare the Steele dossier, i.e. how Russia worked with the Clinton campaign to prevent Trump from being elected?

Did you miss how the Obama administration (in which she was Secretary of State) worked with Russia, how Obama was caught on-mic telling Medvedev to tell Putin that Obama would have more flexibility after Obama was reelected?

These are all widely reported facts.

It's bizarre how people still think Russia wanted Trump to win the election.
Sure, but but buses would be cheaper to run if they didn't need a driver. My university runs a bus that you have to call and it drives directly to you and picks you up, I could imagine something like that being more common (for public transit)
If you haven't checked out Spiderweb Software games it's worth at least a glance. The graphics aren't really anything but serviceable, but the stories have tons of depth and replayability.
I bet most people think they're a better-than-average driver though. So if the cars are only a little better than the average person, you'll still have everyone assuming it's less safe for them.
Really interesting comparison, thanks.
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Nicotine vapes are a problem too. They were meant to help people quit smoking, but instead introduced a lot of people who haven't smoked before.

I wonder if we could do some sort of blood test to make sure non-smokers don't get easy access to nicotine vapes.
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That may be a de facto outcome but I don’t think there is a de jure legal basis there.
I'm pretty sure it used to just show eg "3 years ago". I was surprised to read the exact date in the above.

Created used to show the number of days (I remember passing 3650), and now it shows the date. So the change was within the last year.
Off-topic but related: "Blade Runner" takes place in Los Angeles in "November, 2019". :-)
This is just for automated braking, not autonomous cars.

Not the same thing at all.
Under 34? You've never experienced a month of below average temperatures
That's a big hypothetical, though. Andrew Wiles had been producing sensible mathematics in the community already, so there was no reason to suspect him of being a crank. Also, his proof did not emerge in a vacuum, he pursued approaches that were already known to be connected to FLT.

As for FLT attracting nonsense solutions: Yes, plenty of them. It being such a simply stated problem, and immediately understandable to laypeople certainly exacerbated the problem.
Interestingly, lithium ion technology is also transforming "monster" mining equipment to run on pure electricity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UH4XgPN65Q
(and this especially helps with underground mining)

But also, the brine is simply pumped. It's liquid.
If there are any journalists/news directors/managers on this thread, Nillium is building a system to manage reporting information/logistics for newsrooms. Basically everything for a story up to the point its ready for a CMS. It will provide way better organizing and archiving within individual organizations, and across affiliated newsrooms.

We're still working through our security and encryption protocols, but would love to hear from you what your concerns may be - from the incredibly sensitive investigations to run of the mill police blotter stories.

I'd love to talk to you - jared AT nillium DOT com
Access Transparency is a new feature, and for some reason pre existing customers used GAuite before Access Transparency.
According to Wikipedia, some countries use hydrogen cyanide as an ingredient in pesticide.
The problem isn't that it's an unimaginable term; the problem is that every single person imagines it differently. Your definition of hate speech and my definition might be the same for some examples and drastically different for others. For some people, saying "men are not women" is considered hate speech, while others would say it has nothing to do with hate speech. Hate speech is inherently subjective, and banning it always results in the same question: who gets to decide what is hate speech?
My interpretation: the difficulty that competitors have penetrating the market means the profits will be that much bigger for the company that finally "cracks the code." It's like dopamine-seeking behavior writ large; the more you're denied payoff, the greater the anticipation, the more desperately you want it.
Yea...Python and Powershell are the only languages that I know of outside C#/VBA/VB.NET with decent COM support. I hate COM, but it works.
He answered the question by linking a Verge hit-piece against Blizzards' actions, citing Epic's opinion on the matter.

It might be an answer, but it's definitely motivated.
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They fought alongside the US for five years to be bombed by US NATO ally
See also this site on weekends, when every "physics revolution" and "fix" for dark matter in cosmology gets posted.about.

A rare genuinely obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1758
Maybe I am confused. I'm just going on what Waymo says.

The point is that "soon" is meaningless in this context and Waymo very clearly states that "a Waymo employee would likely be present in the vehicle initially."
I'm no fan of Kubernetes in the general case, but by no metric is Docker "dead". And the article isn't spam; it's insightful, though not an approach I'd use.

It seems like your account exists just to scream about Kubernetes and Docker. If it's so bad, why waste the time?
The difference between hypotheses and theories isn't about whether one is more likely true, they are different kinds of structures with different roles.

A hypothesis is ideally 'atomic': it's making a single assertion that should be falsifiable by experiment.

A theory provides a specific way of modeling the elements of some field of study, and how those elements interact with one another.

It should be structured in such a way that it can describe the components of any experiment that might be set up to confirm/reject a hypothesis in this field.

And once an experiment is described in the terms of some theory, the theory should provide a systematic way of calculating what the result of the experiment should be.

That's where the connection between hypotheses and theory comes in: actually conducting experiments assigns either Acceptance or Rejection to a set of hypothesis; ideally, the theory assigns the same Accept/Reject values to the same hypotheses in its predictions (this is probably never 100% the case in practice though—esp. not in an active field of study).

The structure of String Theory is much closer to theory than hypothesis. (It may have limitations in how much it models physical 'experiments,' but it's at least much more of a 'system description' than an atomic assertion.)
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That is an understatement. I wonder what kind of backstabber he grew up to be :/
it is not assumed that IT will crack your password

At this company, it was public knowledge that IT will crack your password.

At the vast, vast majority of companies, it's public knowledge that they are looking at your data and email as well. If you are under the impression that your employer doesn't, you should double-check because you are almost certainly wrong.
Maybe semantics, but the biggest problem isn't necessarily trusting the machine to do what's expected. The problem is the machine being able to predict what pedestrians and other drivers are going to do.

This isn't just a problem for driverless cars, it's become a real problem for people, too.

The rules of the road are there for a reason, people!

When you wave someone into traffic, or have your emergency flashers on while still moving in the rain, or wait too long at a busy 4-way stop, you're not being courteous or defensive or cautious, you're being unpredictable! (And most likely inefficient, as well.)

Worse, (and this is going to be driverless cars' Achilles heel, IMHO) is people pulling into or across traffic (or otherwise failing to yield) based only on the expectation that the vehicle with the right-of-way will brake and do whatever is required to avoid a wreck.

If they do it in front of a driverless car while trying to cross a busy highway, then people making this assumption are going to get killed.
Wow, I'm out of date. (Build 3.2.6). Just noticed the 'check for updates', which I guess our overlord IT guys missed in the automation. I had no idea this was not the 'stock' terminal for OSX and doing a bit of reading, this is capable of so much more than the simplistic SSH/vim I've been using it for. Very cool stuff - I'm absolutely blown away by all the functionality that was hidden away behind the prompt.
There will always be some; software development is an infinite treadmill of improvement where perfection is always just out of reach, but that doesn't mean we can't make things better
Just the other day someone brought their dog in for coworking. Most dogs, if you give them your palm they will sniff and lick at it and it will be cute. But this was a timberwolf-husky breed and he got SO excited at my hand that he quickly progressed to cramming as much of my forearm in his mouth as he could fit(which was somewhere between a third to half of it, coming in from a side angle). Given his size it was slightly worrisome, but he was gentle and left only the smallest of marks. Then he jumped up and slobbered my face to complete the job.

At the same time, this dog wasn't so cooped up and energetic that he could not control himself, and he napped a good deal of the time. He was clearly getting bored at his sleep-deprived owner still sitting around in a beanbag chair working and barked that this was not acceptable, but his interest was maintained by meeting the new people and smells in the space.

It was just a great reminder of how varied breeds and individuals are. I've met rescue wolves and they are extremely shy, requiring total stillness to get any trust; little dogs tend to be domineering yappers; show breeds are often anxious. Of the lot, the "working dogs" are probably the ones that are hardest to keep up with daily, since they need either plenty of exercise or stimulation or both.
I had this problem with the artist open studio website.

Oddly it seems like it wasn't as big a problem until cell phones. ( I honestly couldn't tell which way is up for some images, being abstract.)

we ended up using JS library called "croppie", but I'm not sure it helps with large images.
> Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn't take anything?

You might feel safe if he didn’t, but you wouldn’t actually be safe, would you?
It’s kind of odd all of these sort of comments are being downvoted. They seem like legitimate observations but they’re downvoted wholesale.
> What's your criteria for backup?

Something like Attic, Borg, CrashPlan, Restic, etc, that allow snapshot retention periods, like "1 per year for the last X years, 1 per month for the last X months, one per day for the last X days".

> I completely agree that something like RAID is not backup, but 30-60 days seems comparable to other backup services and covers most scenarios.

That doesn't protect against bitrot. e.g.

1. File is backed up (snapshot A).

2. File is slightly corrupted by bitrot, cosmic ray, etc.

3. File is modified by user, corruption is unnoticed.

4. File is backed up again (snapshot B).

5. "Backup" service deletes snapshot A.

6. User discovers corruption.

7. User looks to restore earlier versions until an uncorrupted one is found.

8. User discovers that all available snapshots were made after corruption happened.

Or replace "file" with "directory" and "bitrot" with "accidental file deletion" and the user still suffers from data loss.

Mirrors are not backups, and a few revolving snapshot slots is effectively a mirror.
In that case, I honestly believe you may want to get a new vehicle, or at a minimum get yours checked by a competent mechanic. There have been plenty of advancements in ABS and traction control, but this is literally what they where designed to deal with.

Ex: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9_4qiSXkw

Especially if rather than stopping with a slight twist it’s twisting enough that hard breaking means you often lose control.
In this case, I believe that when someone talks about super asymmetry they're probably referencing this:

https://www.livescience.com/64557-the-big-bang-theory-super-...
Is unpleasant, natural selection hasn't magically stopped.
A "crank" is a very specific type of person, who will not heed any constructive criticism and in fact deliberately avoids resources from the establishment. Any dismissal is viewed as a conspiracy by the establishment to keep their brilliant ideas from dismantling the establishment's sacred cows.

Like concern trolls, their goal is seemingly to waste the time and energy of anyone willing to listen or engage, except they're not doing it wittingly, so you just wind up feeling like a jerk when you inevitably have to ignore their latest 20-page ramble and get some real work done.
I think the usual argument is that Hong Kong is much more attractive as a meeting place for foreign and domestic businesses than other cities (in no small part due to the Great Firewall getting in the way of corporate communications). It might represent a small fraction of China's GDP (or whatever other measure we're using for economic significance, since IIRC attempting to calculate China's GDP is a pretty wonky affair), but if it stops being that place where domestic and foreign businesses meet (and other cities fail to take up the slack), it could make things a lot harder for operations in other cities to continue.

That is: HK's value is less about its own numbers and more about the numbers it enables other Chinese cities to achieve.
"Beware of Cranks" shows a terrible understanding of how major progress in science and technology happens. If you go around flipping the "crank bit", sure, you will save yourself spending time evaluating lots of correct negatives and have more time to make on incremental progress, but you will also have a couple of false negatives, one or two of which will go on to change the world. World change is dominated by black swans.

Conversely, Thiel's Hereticon conference idea is brilliant and shows a terrific understanding of how progress in science happens.
> Waymo is in production revenue service.

I’m going to ignore the fact that you’re flatly incorrect about the rest of your posts regarding Tesla, since others have more ably corrected you than I could, and simply ask what the hell this even means.

A “production revenue service”? This sounds like meaningless babble. Waymo does not currently have anything available that you can buy, lease, subscribe to, or otherwise exchange money for. That is, in fact, the entire point of the article: “coming soon,” they say, with an additional clause on top of even that: “coming soon you may...”

So: what do you mean when you say “Waymo is in production revenue service”? Because that sounds like nonsense, to be honest.
"In squoosh we wrote a JavaScript function that rotates an image buffer by multiples of 90 degrees. While OffscreenCanvas would be ideal for this, it isn't supported across the browsers we were targeting, and a little buggy in Chrome."

Wait, I know its a big company, but you're at the same company...
Independence is not one of the demands of the protestors. Please provide a source for that claim.
Can confirm. Mods responded very quickly, and took care of the issue.

Hats off to them.
A month ago people probably would have said the NBA cracked the code. But I would hope that recent events had made it clear: there is no such thing as "cracking the code". It's a perpetual dance and if you trip once you're out.
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I don't think I agree with that at all. There aren't security updates, older hardware becomes harder and harder to get fixed.

It's easy to say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but in effect everything is breaking all the time. Hard drives fail, processors burn out, security holes are discovered, and the more out-of-date something is, the harder it is to replace or fix. If there were periodic attempts to modernize stuff, the blow of this is less severe.

Example, I'm sure the people running the Target POS devices five years ago had the mentality "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and it led to a huge breach.
Alright 15 years
To be a bit more precise: myclobutanil degrades into HCN when heated to vaporization temperature

The process of extracting and concentrating THC can also extract and concentrate this pesticide.

Imidacloprid is another pesticide with harmful effects that has been found on cannabis, but seems to be toxic itself (rather than it's byproducts)

Source: https://www.planetnatural.com/marijuana-pesticides/
As explained, yes eventually, but it's not a mere handful of tasks, and the set of known/anticipated issues is too much to treat the change as trivial, especially when working on something else time critical, which I am.

(I wouldn't run Linux on bare metal on a Macbook Pro though, because I already did some experiments and found it used less battery to run Linux under VMware Fusion, than to run the same Linux bare metal on the same machine. Counterintuitive perhaps. Maybe even wrong :-) but that's what I found at the time.)
Serious question: I've heard great things about iTerm2. I'm on Linux running xterm and a tiling window manager. What am I missing out on?
I'm trying to understand what you're saying, but it just seems completely divorced from reality.

Do you believe it has not been tested in the courts that cameras in bathrooms are illegal? Do you believe that if you polled office workers about whether bathrooms are private and whether they expect cameras to be in there, you would get any result other than widespread belief that bathrooms are private and there cannot be cameras in there?

Do you believe it has not been tested in the courts that anything you write on a work computer is the property of the employer? Do you believe that if you polled office workers about whether they think what they do with their work computer is audited or private to them, you would get any result other than widespread understanding that employers own everything you do on your work computer?
Can we overlay the use of plastics? Which is curiously absent from this study?
thanks, insightful, looks like lots of more research is necessary as they aren't even sure it only applies to captive non-human primates or not.

I bet we can crack the code anyway.