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"The basic Smart Summon technology is incredibly impressive, but it certainly doesn’t always work, not by any stretch."

Was there ever a claim that it always worked? Or that it should be used in a place that would make it unsafe? I don't think so.
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They are supposed to be paying attention in these self-driving car tests. If the driver was negligent then they should be held at least partially accountable.
> If I found out one of my salaried employees was moonlighting I'd immediately be looking for evidence that it had the slightest impact on their responsibilities & performance.

You don't own the lives of those you employ. While it's perfectly reasonable that if you see quality slippage you should react - actively searching for an excuse to fire someone for having a side gig is like a weird possessive and jealous relationship. Additionally, if folks at your company are picking up side gigs then maybe you should review your compensation because there's probably a reason people aren't content with their current working situation.
I think of this scenarios like she discovered every-time someone uses a line like "studies show", the only thing the study shows is that the author wants a bump in clout.
I agree, though sometimes you are working at a particular time and need to get things out of your queue. The onus is on each person to switch off non-emergency notifications out of hours and preserve their personal time.

I also think it's crucial to never reply quickly to non-emergencies. Just creates the expectation you're available and encourage more of the same.

That is, unless it's a situation/relationship you want to foster to establish yourself in a team, outpace someone for promotion, etc.
Even Twitter money pales in comparison to sheik money. I'm not sure you can defend against somebody giving an engineer with admin access a suitcase with $300k in it. Not to mention any other pressures that MBS could potentially have brought to bear in these cases.
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>It maybe be unimportant for you but not for others.

Surely "not slowing down" and "not dying" are not on the same scale of importance, don't you think?

>Again: if those are not available, then the fix is to make it available.

Sure! If I could wave a magic wand and make sidewalks appear, I would. Do you have one?

And between now and that magic time (which, mind you, might never come in the US), you're saying that pedestrians should die because tough luck, get a car.

Meanwhile, it is entirely within your power to go slower and be a cautious driver (as is your responsibility).

Let's have a deal: I'll work on making sidewalks happen. Until then, you do your best to avoid killing people (go slow / pay attention), because non-drivers literally don't have any other option other than being on roadways to get to places.

Typical example: going to a movie theater requires walking on highway frontage[1].

You might say, don't go to a movie theater, but that's just one example; you can't walk to DPS in that city either (nor take a bus there, at least when I lived there). The bus can only drop you off on the feeder road (where cars go 60mph, and no sidewalk).

Do you understand my point? I accept the solution, but it's not feasible in the short term. We all have to compromise until it happens (which might be never, given how these things work).

[1]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Harvey+Road+%26+Scarlett+O'H...
Haven't all the big cloud providers have patched their hypervisors for that?
Sounds like a depressing fantasy painted as brutal reality. Maybe an enticing belief for those of us here who are also depressed, but just a fantasy nonetheless.
They absolutely did - at the behest of the US State Department. Twitter was scheduled to have some planned downtime during the Egyptian Arab Spring, but they postponed it at the request of State. Evgeny talks about this.
Ops generally have someone in those sorts of on call scenarios. You don't ask everyone to have that availability, that's insane.
I've had a 5 hour working day for my entire career. It's the 8 hour sitting day I've never been able to break free from.
I fill out undismissable popups as abuse@theirdomain.com. I'm sure their email support team doesn't want to miss out on the incredible rewards.
my problems involved superpeers being flaky with respect to storage and connections, which meant that data propagation and persistence was not reliable. this was in August when i was trying to use it for a production application. of course, this is anecdotal, and it's easy to refute something like this by just saying "works over here". so either i try it again and find specific complaints to report back... or not
Bingo. Also, it doesn't cost release reports.
This philosophy and spreading it around is really terrible. It's not far off saying "Oh sure, you may be in an abusive relationship but if you leave it then you'll be in an abusive relationship but also now be sullied."

There are good employers out there, reject the trash and advocate for your self-worth.
What do you think is the actual risk? Who is attacking whom, and how? If you're running on HPC you basically rented the hardware. It's a time-share system. The entire thing is yours, all yours, for the hours you managed to procure. So who are you attacking? And what vp/cto/cio are you even talking about? The ones who own the hardware, or the ones who are renting it?

And why do you think a security policy is needed here at all instead of just, you know, laws & contracts? You can't just anonymously rent time on these systems even if you have the money - you need your usage approved, too, and it's a big whole process. If you then go and successfully launch a security attack, why does that require technical safeguards instead of just the FBI knocking down your door and hauling your ass to jail?
> The safety driver should have something to do

I agree with that, and the NTSB should consider adding this to their requirements when approving test programs of this sort.

But stepping back, I think there's a very significant difference in culpability between "safety driver couldn't react in time because they zoned out" and "safety driver was watching a sitcom". In the first case, the driver was trying to do their job, and the nature of the ask made it difficult/impossible. In the second case, the driver was knowingly not doing their job, and was knowingly engaging in unsafe behaviour. We don't have any examples of a fatal accident involving the first kind of error, and this case is an example of the second kind.

> "something is moving closer to the car in a way we're not expecting" would be a great thing to show the safety driver.

Isn't that what you get by looking through the windshield using your eyeballs?
Audit log around administration tool with frequent reviews of the log. Banks and financial firms do this type of auditing all the time. The consequences just need to be there to incentivize social media companies to take action.
Human minds don't work that way. Paying continuous attention to an airplane you're not controlling is quite simply impossible, and if the function of a copilot relies on it then airlines are broken.

People are tasked with monitoring things all the time. It's not some brand new impossible task.
It's analogous to weight-loss arguments.

It is true that calories = calories-in - calories-out.

It cannot not be true.

It just isn't helpful.
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I suppose so. As someone who hasn't used GraphQL, isn't most of the appeal in GraphQL attributable to the fact that you don't have to manually write all these rest endpoints? In that way, I don't see GraphQL as irrelevant in light of HTTP2; the goal of the former being to take the overhead of writing endpoints off the backend team.
> I tend to avoid Kroger brands because I do not like that most of their sale prices are dictated by having a Kroger Card.

Aren't most grocery chains like this?
Somebody better tell this guy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvH9NF-lyc
What other tech companies have in house spies. NordVPN? Wikipedia? Facebook? Gmail?
How do banks defend against insider trying to rob it?

I'm sure twitter can do it - it's a matter of cost vs benefits. They don't want to spend the money required to secure access and audit.
Since I wasn't sure who this was referring to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Morozov
Freeze? If they do an audit like that they better sue these criminals to at least a year in jail.
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That is GP's point, that no engineer should have admin access to PII when you are operating at Twitter scale. Or at least not without a lot of red tape to make it very easy to catch rule breakers.
I setup a CloudWatch event rule to ping the function every 10 minutes, which keeps the function warm without costing much at all.
> If a 3500lb vehicle can't decide what it is about to impact, it needs to slow down (to a stop if necessary).

Well, also, any of those categories should trigger braking themselves. You can't hit vehicles or bicycles. You can't hit "other" either. If you plan to hit something, it needs to be a piece of paper or some such. As a_t48 points out, classification is not needed to avoid objects, so being confused about what the object is is totally irrelevant.
Just because Nazis use rhetorical questions doesn't make rhetorical questions bad.
Related: the Santa Monica farmer's market crash that killed 10 and injured 63, probably due to a confused driver. Bollards have since been installed there. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Farmers_Market_cr...)
We are a very small team at https://codeinterview.io. We recently achieved a respectable level of reliability with a tiny team. Some things you should do:

- Atleast have a pool of 2 instances (ideally per service) running under an auto-scaler or a managed K8s (GKE is best) with LB in front. May also want to explore EBS and google cloud run. If you can use them, use them!

- Uptime alerts. pingdom (or newrelic alerts) with pagerduty added.

- Health checks! The trick is to recover the failed container/pod/service before you get that pagerduty call. Ideally, if you have 2 of each service running #2 will handle the requests until the #1 is recreated.

- Sentry + newrelic APM + infra: You should monitor all error stack traces, request throughput, avg response time. For infra, you mainly need to watch memory and CPU usage. Also on each downtime, you should have greater visibility at what caused it. You should set alerts on higher than normal memory usage so you can prevent the crash.

- Logs, your server logs should be stored somewhere (stackdriver on gcloud or cloudwatch on aws).

These might sound overwhelming for a single person but these are one time efforts after which they are mostly automatic.
> Imperfect analogy: If Uber gave away every ride for free, that would be more "competitive" for some definition (lower fares = more competitive rate), but, Uber would go out of business within months.

On the flip side...now if Uber were to provide rides below cost with the intention of putting the competition out of business then that would be the textbook definition of "anti-competitive" behavior.

Sentry is actually exercising their government granted monopoly (aka copyright) to ensure that no competitor is able to use their codebase to directly compete against them which is the exact opposite of increasing competition.

I have no dog in this fight and am not judging what they're doing so...
Very true, when the means meet the will or motivation, this sort of thing is bound to happen, especially as these Silicon Valley companies have so much influence. I hope this doesn't become a trend, lest we get calls for a "Silicon Valley blacklist" ala Hollywood during the Cold War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
Accumulation of savings is valuable as it can be used for capital investment at the best opportunity. Forcing people to spend prematurely on crappy mal-investment is not optimal. Spending for the sake of spending is not optimal investment.
Yes, please! And if possible, a lower frequency, higher thread count processor version plus a low core count, high frequency processor one.
Of course alerting could and was improved, but the Turkish accident wouldn't have happened if pilots had done the bare minimum of what's expected of them and monitored airspeed and altitude while they were flying close to ground and preparing to land any minute.

The TAM wreck wouldn't have happened had the pilots flown the plane either. vOv

unlike the recent Airbus case where a bumpy landing led to loss of flight controls, something no pilot was trained for nor could reasonably expect to happen.

That was quite a bit more than a bumpy landing. The Lufthansa pilots touched down far past where they should've. That's not a flaw with the aircraft. There's a reason the formal conclusion was pilot error and not because nationalism came into play.

What's also important to stress is that loss of radio altimeter and autothrottle did not restrict Boeing pilots in any way. They had full control over the aircraft.

Don't forget that in some of these cases, the autopilot didn't disconnect because the autopilot couldn't determine that one of the RAs had failed.

And what of the Lauda Air wreck? How much control did the pilots have when the reversers deploy in flight on a 76?

How about asymmetric flap deployments on a 75? Capt. VanderBurgh already discussed that scenario — another one where Boeing said that could never happen and pilots shouldn't train in the sim for it. Turns out it can happen and you're basically SOL.

Or what of the rudder hard overs in the NG?

How about the Helios Air wreck where the alarm for takeoff config and pressurization problems was (and still is) the same? How much awareness do you think a hypoxic crew will have?

How about the AoA disagree annunciator on the MAX that was too buggy to work unless you paid for additional features? Plenty of low quality crap comes out of Boeing these days…
I wouldn't call that nefarious.
I've used runscope.com and I love it. I don't know about their pricing so can't tell if it's suitable for someone in your situation but I'm sure there are tons of similar services. You could also build your own with Lambda and hope AWS is reliable enough to keep Lambda running. (Who monitors the monitoring tools? :) )
I use Heroku for https://keygen.sh. Sometimes it pisses me off how big the bill is (~$1.5k/mo atm), but the net time savings are still worth it to me. I usually spend a total of 0 hours a month on managing servers/infra, and less than an hour a day on support. I'm thinking I'll move to AWS eventually to maximize margins, but right now this really works for me.
USB-C connectors also accumulate dust in a way that prevents the connector from staying fully plugged in. They are very hard to clean out if the dust clumps together. The original USB-A and USB-B connectors did not have this problem and they could be cleaned easily (as long as the equipment was powered off...)
Is PReP specific to HIV? Or would it work on many retrovirus? Probably most variants of HIV.
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Insider risk controls and oversight, two person systems, data loss prevention, etc.
it can only be as good as who ever programmed it

Consumers and even regulators seem to think somehow software magically adapt to anything.

These sort of software environments need standards developed that deal with identified situations that it must satisfy in standardised testing as a starting point.
I wonder what the maximum here is. Cash is harder to spend than it used to be and in addition you’d be at risk that the actual people facilitating the payment delivery would be your biggest risk since it would be very likely they would turn around later and rob/murder you.

There’s probably some optimal “suitcase full of cash” number that basically optimizes for spendability and risk.
Acquiring an audiences to divide into a split test is the hard part.

It is something that could work for retargeting existing users but doesn't work for acquiring new visitors.
If you are a millennial or younger, I respectfully disagree. The "best minds" have been sought out to build out the new infrastructure in the service of the new railroad tycoons.
Hangon, Uber is not selling their product to anybody (yet). This is completely different than what Tesla is doing.

Yes, if this code was in a Tesla, it would be criminally negligent, because in the driver's seat of a Tesla is a consumer that bought a product called "autopilot".

Uber, and Waymo, and Cruise, are all _testing_ their systems, and that's why they installed safety drivers. There's no marketing here, and there is no customer -- the person in the driver's seat was employed to sit there and pay attention to what's going on, for the explicit reason that the car's computer is NOT yet capable of driving itself.
It seems like there is an inverse relationship between sophistication and risk. If everything is full-custom then it may be quite easy to integrate auditing tools for who accessed user data. If an org uses mostly off-the-shelf software then it's pretty much impossible to audit e.g. who connected to what mysql server and ran which queries. So I'd be a lot more worried about a Twitter (fairly unsophisticated deployments of standard software stacks), moderately worried about Facebook (hacks upon the usual stack) and not very worried about Google (literally everything written in-house).
As Tito said to Stalin:

"Stop sending people to kill me! We’ve already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send another"
How are you defining a "calorie"? The number printed on the package? Because that number is basically meaningless.
I’d wager every single one of them.
I wouldn't use the term self serving. Armin has made massive contributions with open source libraries (Flask, Jinja2, Click, etc).

I think with a suitable developer culture (people actively contributing back to the commons), that this is a great model. Unfortunately in the real world there are many more people willing to take from open source then contribute.
My point is that a trip can be difficult and unpleasant as much as it could be nice and entertaining. Psylocibin is not like heroin, cocaine, MDMA, or marijuana, it does not elevate your mood and make you feel better, as far as I know.
I agree that riding in the road is the right thing to do from a safety standpoint for everyone involved. Cyclists are much more likely to be hit by cars when riding on the sidewalks, and are probably more likely to injure pedestrians as well.

Since you seem to ride, is it possible there's something unsafe about the particular cycle paths you're referencing?
Not all guests know that ratings are hidden until reviews are completed. And for those that know, maybe they were planning on guilting them into it?
I don't blame Sentry. FOSS is a fine ideal for hobby and academic projects, but it doesn't pay the bills. 36 years on and the most successful business model for FOSS is to convince someone rich to lose money on it. (Cf. Gilmore at Cygnus, Shuttleworth at Canonical.)

I do wish more companies would use these kinds of "Doom clauses" and contribute old software to the commons once it's no longer commercially viable.
I'm still reading the article but thought I'd mention some popup infocards (such as Audis and turtles) are cut off near the end since it's too long. At least on my desktop Chrome browser. I can read them via browser inspection but that won't suit a wider audience.
This is not unusual, only an unusual way of asking.

The usual way is just to drop you a message on Slack asking if they can use your photo on their pitch deck or website, or attach your resume on a government tender.
That depends on your perspective. I support the intentions of the Arab Spring, but I still think it's inherently nefarious for a private technology company to partner with the US government in order to overthrow governments. I also seriously doubt that they were simply sitting idly by and hoping that the revolution went their way, as we now see that most all world governments have their own online propaganda divisions.
So these findings contradict Kamal Meattle and the NASA Air Study?

https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...
Wait, in the US you use 15A at 120v? Here in Europe (Spain at least) the typical is 16A at 240v. 1500W isn't that much of a problem. Oven breakers are even 20 or 32A.
Parent might mean export templates. Godot has export templates to build games for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, macOs, and HTML5. But there are also third-party companies that offer export templates for PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.
Some people need a push to dive in, because they'll never feel ready. That's whom the article uses as examples.

OTHER people though, they know that, from where they are at now, they'll be past the "challenged" stage and be put into the "fear" response - overwhelmed, unable to make progress forward because the anxiety is crippling. The constant pushing from those who have been in the first group just makes the people in the second group feel worse.

We should all consider if we're delaying for good/effective/self-helping reasons, or if we're doing so for bad/ineffective/procrastination reasons, and then we should act appropriately.

And no one should shame anyone for their choices. Maybe the choice is wrong, maybe we're identifying ourselves as having the wrong quality of reasoning...but who would know better than ourselves?

Imposter Syndrome sucks - but the reality of it is no reason to cripple yourself by diving into situations you know you aren't ready for, and then flailing and validating the feelings you had.
What about the people using prebuilt machines, or ones with 4GB of soldered-in RAM?
The idea behind community-based development is that anyone can provide a business around the output of others, and it's not a problem because all improvements are shared by everyone.

All the license change says to me is that the development team was very insular and ended up all at the same company, so they ultimately saw no benefit to participate in the wider community. Closing themselves off further is a natural progression from this. That's fine for them, and I'm not going to dig into the deeper reasons why it happened, but for this reason it's a big red flag to me when a FOSS project fails to attract contributors from more than one company.