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>And you can't launch a bad product and iterate.

I think Tesla is doing just this. They are putting self driving features on their cars, putting the onus on the driver to supervise, and using the experiment to gather data. I don't expect their current hardware to ever be able to deliver full autonomous driving, but it will likely provide a useful stepping stone.
I made one that gives 12 palettes for any base color: http://strapless.io/
So many articles come along discussing his work without actually mentioning his name. I think Bill is one of those contributors to technology that are often underestimated.

Anecdote: Steve Jobs came up to him standing in line to buy the original iPhone and said to him, “Bill, I already sent you one!” Bill responded, “But I need three more!”
I'm curious - how many cars does this guy personally own? How did he get to that interview? Take the bus?
I think some of it is just you, and you're right to an extent. Normal users will tolerate a lot of annoyances, including hostile approaches, unfortunately. Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Imgur, LinkedIn have all repeatedly demonstrated that versus their very large user bases. These are not shrinking networks. Instagram's new cut-off on non-logged in viewing is hostile, it won't dent them at all though. These networks know their users will largely tolerate it, because what they're using doesn't cost them actual dollars.

I think the most interesting story in social networks is the collapse of core Facebook as the prime mover. I think there is still a lot of room for more Pinterests and Snapchats yet, which could further diversify the space and dilute core Facebook's mind share. The young people not caring about Facebook thing, has clearly graduated to a permanent setting, it's not going back (the next group are not going to suddenly care about FB). TikTok has demonstrated some of what is possible most recently.
7y with around ~40k karma. I am already leaving a bit more everyday. old.reddit.com is a blessing from the past.
It might be bad for the customers/users, but because everyone does it, it doesn't seem bad for the companies.
Speech recognition still sucks. I have a coworker whose name starts with “S.” Every time she calls on my desk phone and I pick up with “Hi S.” Siri on my iPhone kicks in. It can also never understand the simplest reminders I try to set.
Same. I generally take rail to my airport except it doesn't run at all hours. I know I can count on a shuttle to get me to the airport but don't want to risk a rare Lyft driver at that hour deciding against taking me an hour to the airport. Helps that shuttle is half the cost and doesn't make it take all that much longer.
I made something like this in Less, and I don't think Sass can do it.
I really like this. As a developer who sometimes has to design, I struggle choosing colors. I will definitely use this in my day to day. Thank you very much.
Nah that's not speech recognition. That's Siri's owners dedicating only milliseconds of their server time to each request. To save a few bucks. Because they're cheap.
Increasing rent seeking was always a sign of decaying system.

You cant have inverted wealth pyramid growing indefinitely, It will eventually crash, especially when instead of creating wealth you erode the bottom.
The state of speech recognition is still quite terrible. For limited domains and very clear diction it works most of the time. For random speech and the way people actually speak it still sucks.
Only Chinese feature in this scheme is using fake paintings.

This type of bribery is common everywhere. In Europe it's usually a real painting. Bribe is just overpaying for it. Switzerland is center of this. Geneva Freeport is full of paintings, watches and artifacts used as intermediaries for bribes and money laundering.

Verified real painting bought for $50,000 sells for $500,000 in auction after bidding 'competition'. Buyer is some Russian businessman. Seller is a wife of someone working for major European bank. Rich shady businessmen are drowning in art because they love the art so much and can't stop themselves.
The 'electric' part of the article here is fluff. Electric cars already exist and will take over the market within a similar time frame to any proposed self-driving car takeover (it's primarily a matter of manufacturing capacity, which affects this company too, and waiting for older cars to die out at this point).

Aside from that, there are three main ways I can think of that a self-driving car could reduce pollution.

a) More people fit in the same car and an intelligent mechanism can pair riders. This exists today in the form of things like Uber Pool. Without a driver you might get one additional passenger in a car.

That's the main mechanism. In the best case it can reduce energy use per passenger by around 20-25% - in a realistic case it would be more like 10% or less.

b) Cars can drive closer together and with more intelligent traffic lights. I think this is incredibly overblown - pedestrians exist and cars are already pretty close together in cities.

I doubt this will make much difference especially given that electric cars use ~zero energy at idle.

c) Over a long time-frame, cities are redesigned such that parking spaces don't exist and so things are closer together.

This is both a multi-decade (possibly even a century) change, and likely to just result in people commuting further - the 1 hour sweet spot isn't going anywhere, all people won't stack in cities unless they're forced, if we're being charitable, say, 50% of people actually prefer that lifestyle.

It also works for taxis.

Basically, the whole thing is nonsense.

What I see as being more likely if self-driving takes off is crackpots sitting at desks in the back of their van, or chilling on a sofa watching movies, and doing multi-hour commutes, offsetting the savings.

I've not even mentioned here the fact that a significant amount of people just like to own their own car and have the funds to do so. Particularly if you're in a rural area, the idea of some SV startup self driving to your ranch is absurd, you're almost certain to either be priced out or just directly geofenced out.
Usually that boils down to "we don't want to bother with the vendors IDE", e.g. MPLAB.

I know C and C++ since 1992, used them across multiple OSes, hardly seen anything that would motivate the fashion of header only files.
Are you... insisting that tech is welcoming to women?

Hm. I guess it was all in my head.
I eventually conceded to Medium’s constant harassment to sign in for free.

Now it demands I pay.

I wonder if there is a way to permanently exclude medium.com from all my search results.
A smaller group of cars getting replaced faster due to greater use, potentially with recurring subscription models reducing the amount of long term financing people have to get stuck with for the same amount of cars produced (or less) which they rarely use is still better than a glut of cars filling up parking through out a city and rusting out needlessly.

It’s more efficient by fully utilizing each vehicle efficiently for the environment and economically for customers in many ways when debt loads are the biggest issue in recent times...
I wonder if this has anything to do with them trying to catalog subs. This thread and what I'll share below lead me to believe they may be attempting to curate content.

For context on them attempting to catalog subs about a month ago a Reddit admin messaged me unsolicited (apparently a lot of people). I have no problem sharing this since they randomly contacted me via the site, I've never done contract work for them, and there was no request to keep it private (and apparently hey just randomly mass messaged people):

>Hey there! I work at Reddit and I’m reaching out because we’re looking for experienced redditors who might be interested in taking on some paid contract work for us. I have no idea if you’d be interested, but I figured I’d drop you a line.

I replied requesting more info

>Great! Essentially, this work would be reviewing lists of subreddits to help categorize what they are about and what content is in them. This would probably be maximum 10h/wk (no minimum) over a couple of weeks, though if it goes well there’s likely to be more. It pays $15/hr.

I said sure and was told this

>Can you send an email to redacted@reddit.com with your resume and your experience on Reddit and we can work on scheduling a time to chat about the opportunity? (No worries if your profession or line of work isn’t related to Reddit. We're looking for reliable people with existing Reddit knowledge; reviewing your resume will help us better understand your background.) Upon reviewing the resumes, we will schedule 30-minute phone calls with selected candidates to share details on the project work and conduct interviews.

I did about 20 minutes later and within an hour got an email saying thanks but no thanks, there were tons of people interested and they're already full.
Chlorination cycles are part of the regulation. You're supposed to leave pitchers of water out overnight to evaporate the chlorine. But some fast food places hook their water supply straight to the tap.
This immediately came to mind as well and is one of my favorite stories.
You are absolutely right, but don't expect apps to work, and if you report a problem to an app maker, you can expect the response "Sorry we cannot reproduce your problem. Everything works fine for us with browser XXX", or possibly "Sorry we cannot find logs for your device XXX" because you are falsely reporting your device in the UA, but telling them in your communication about the problem something different.
Which is unfortunate because there are times when I wish my kid had one. I'm not too worried about kidnapping, but there are times when I want to say come back from the park for dinner.
I find it to be mindblowing how accurate youtube’s automatic captioning ends up being most of the time. I also remember all of the attempts in the 90s and early 2000s, and we are at a place now I never thought we would get to.
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I had good luck with microhttpd. I wrote a little json web service as part of an existing C application for an embedded platform. Was very DIY but this is C after all.
I'm sorry about that. You almost made it to the end though :) So thank you for the effort.

Could you help me with what other options to add this question to cover the topics you mentioned?
"What kind of products are you making?"

About the revenue. You are right, I have to add an option for those who are not focusing on making any revenue.
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If you make big changes, just do it. Don’t explain it at length. If you explain it, you give people room to argue and hem and haw and ends up being counterproductive. It’s an invitation to bikeshedding.
The article explains that this is somewhat motivated for his self-driving electric car start-up.
The wakeword detection runs locally, first.
What are startup tropes you disagree with?
Ditto. Took a few years to embrace the cultural differences and find new friends. I find the UK quite a depressing place to go back to now.
Do any of the apps allow for browsing or opening links without an account or logging in?
It would only be the end of riskless profits.

The very point of an insurance is making high cost, low probability situations managable through the law of large numbers. Reintroducing individual factors is not needed per se, and also introduces both costs (you have to employ people assessing the risks/ building the models) and discrimination.

As public health care systems in other countries show skipping the risk management part can actually be cheaper for the insuree, overall.

Edit: This is also how the first insurances worked: as mutual insurance companies. In other words: This type of insurance actually was the foundation of the insurance industry.
That is the correct movie. Here are the relevant parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2gFeHtTUU
I'm pretty sure the "halistorm numbers" term also predates GEB.
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He might be trying to thread a needle of sorts, ride the wave of recent anti-car articles in the press in recent weeks while still managing to get some good press for his start-up.
Providing static libraries is also an option.

Generating rpm or deb files is hardly the end of the world, there are even package generators available.
One has nothing to do with the other. A corporation has no friends.
https://coolors.co/ can suggest colors to go with user-entered colors.

No affiliation, just a tool I've used.
The other week I was visiting family outside of Frankfurt. They're in a sleepy commuter suburb which hasn't seen any new construction in decades.

This visit, I could count multiple large apartment/condo buildings being erected around town. The locals told me that downtown Frankfurt is getting too expensive to live so people are moving outward.

We knew the financial types were already fleeing London for France and Germany. This seems to confirm that it's accelerating.
The technological revolution is going to make the top appear to be gods while the bottom, well, the bottom will prey :\
That's certainly the ideal approach, but I don't think it's realistic to plan for normal people behaving that way.

By the time I realized that Google had given me a route that would not work, breaking out of it cost me 10 minutes of sitting in traffic going the wrong way. I think most people would take the "drive like a jerk" alternative at that point, because the sunk-cost illusion is hard to let go of.

A self-driving car is basically just going to do what the mapping software tells it to as well, so the "bad instructions from tech companies" factor is a problem that needs to be addressed specifically anyway.
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There may be a chasm which needs to be crossed before the steering wheel can fully be removed from a vehicle, but...

I have been very impressed with the steady incremental real-world improvements to AutoPilot over the last 13 months since I got my Model 3. They have added up to a dramatically more adept system which has become an extremely competent highway driver handling lane changes, merges, being cut off, handling poor visibility, lane closures / traffic cones, even things like scooting slightly over to one side of the lane to give a bit more room when passing a large truck.

One example of behavior which has gotten better over the last couple months is during merges where the right lane would appear to widen, prior versions would steer right to try to re-center and then have to steer left to get back in lane, where now the car understands how to keep its path in these situations, even if there isn’t a square-dashed-line drawn to indicate the right side of the right lane continuing.

I think the majority of the miles driven on my Tesla have been driven with AutoPilot. (Actually that would be a really cool feature if the car could show that number.) It’s become indispensable to me, and it keeps getting marginally better every month.

I’m not saying that it is full autonomy, or even that we will get there on the next couple years. But the cumulative progress over the last 12 months has been incredible, and if it continues anywhere near this rate of advancement over the next 24-36 months, I think AutoPilot will be a truly remarkable achievement — as in, approaching a watershed human achievement akin to spaceflight.
If you have thick skin, anonymous imageboards have been here forever, altough the quality of discussion varies.
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>It's not the same with self driving cars, which won't be profitable till you get rid of the driver entirely. And you can't launch a ok product and iterate. It has to be almost perfect when it comes to safety.

No, it merely has to be as good as humans, though it should be mildly better. The massive economic and feature advantages it will bring to the table mean that regular people will paper over problems real quick, just as with, well, current cars. In fact if anything I wonder if a higher rate of fatalities and accidents would actually be psychologically better than "almost perfect", because in the modern environment things that are super rare and low risk tend to get inordinate media attention and political response vs things that happen with a certain frequency and thus people become habituated to. I mean, again cars themselves are the big example of that. In America alone, estimates are around 40,000 died last year, which itself was actually around a 1% drop from the previous few years. Which means hundreds of fewer deaths. But that didn't register remotely like a handful of high profile super unlikely dramatic deaths would.

But the bonuses are the main things vs any negatives, because humans are good at motivated reasoning to deal with risk when it's something they want. And a reliable included always available personal chauffeur that means things like car access for kids without disruption of parents' schedules, continued car access for the elderly (note, one of the most powerful and reliable voting segments of the electorate), elimination of issues due to drinking/tiredness/phone usage, just plain letting people do other productive things or flat out sleep on trips, etc etc etc., is a powerful set of incentives to quickly move past someone else's "bad luck".
I'm quite amazed this morning at the defiant, bitter stubbornness still about amongst the rabidly pro-EU and left-wing crowd. You've just been utterly smashed; your politics absolutely repudiated with a massive turnout, in a result of epic historical proportions. The war is over. You lost.

One might think that this would be a time of introspection for the losers, but that it's apparently not says a lot about their true nature, as in, they have no intention whatsoever of compromising, and if they can't get what they want the result is a massive huff, and a covert war to overturn the result, whatever the damage done along the way. There are unpleasant words for this kind of philosophy.

Honestly, people that are so far out of touch with their fellow Brits are better off leaving for whatever enlightened liberal utopia they imagine they will find; newsflash: it doesn't exist, and statistics show many of them will be back once they realise the UK isn't so bad after all.

The people have spoken conclusively now THREE TIMES IN THREE YEARS (2016 referendum, European Parliament elections, General Election). It's high time for the losers to start showing a bit of humility.
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Yes of course. As a spokesperson for this company, he'd be remiss if he didn't press the company line energetically.

But its trivial to see the irony here. This salesman is too shallow to actually walk the walk, and is gonna get laughed at a lot for it.
Uber and Lyft certainly did not decrease congestion in cities. The idea that ride-hailing services would decrease congestion already has not panned out.
So your view is that the heuristic methods (NN, 2-opt,...) do not yield a solution?
It's not a soo strong opinion. There are definitely people who learn a lot from lectures, I've seen a lot of them, but there are also a lot of people who don't like lectures and feel they learn nothing in it and learn quite fast alone at home. The last one is mostly me. (for context, i have a PhD in AI).
I also had this with the Neanderthals paintings of Tom Bjørklund. Most of the time Neanderthals are rendered as ape like beings, but he draws them as humans. This made me think completely different about Neanderthals.

A list of his work: https://steemit.com/art/@cultureshock/these-neanderthal-char...

His website: https://www.tombjorklund.fi/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombjorklundart/
Interesting. It might depend on the plan, we have a vandalism protection option (in-car theft, window breaking, tire damage etc.) so the insurance company has all the incentive in the world to know where and how it would be parked at night.
Digg failed because Reddit existed. There's no similar social media for Reddit refugees to go to.
I guess what he has in mind is to follow the example of the software industry and use "car as a service" as a market disruption that will allow him to jack up prices.
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I'm trying hard to write polite comments, which could help users finding the solution for their issues.

My comments could be harsh only in response to misleading posts about VictoriaMetrics [1].

[1] https://www.robustperception.io/evaluating-performance-and-c...
Apparently we’ve decided it’s ok to assess my risk based on my penis or lack thereof. Oh and my wife or lack thereof too. What a joke.
You can’t sign up for Lyft with WiFi can you.
GP is making a bigoted argument with supporting data from a serial killer. If I were to downvote because I disagree with their argument, I would have to downvote twice.

Let’s stop discussing voting now, though. I agree with the mods here that it makes for very boring reading.
Yeah, I forgot that little fact. It should be (3*r_n + 1) / 2 then.
Branch-and-bound MIP isn't very computationally intensive. I run models with millions of variables and constraints on my laptop.

The commercial solvers (fast and best) are very expensive though. So you're kind of right in a eay.
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What would it mean if they found a number — one number — that didn’t adhere to this rule?
All WoW plugins are open source by default. They are essentially Lua scripts.
Soon we’ll hear from the construction industry, don’t buy houses, let and rent your next domicile, we’re building apartment buildings like crazy. House ownership is over, except for us builders, you will rent from us.
I use the (old) desktop site on my phone. I also don't want extra apps that should just be websites.
It's not a great idea and here's why: it's an almost sure way to create an echo chamber.

How? The point system is the gamification of the forums. It's designed to spur conversation while also an attempt at self moderation. When someone posts a controversial but trailblazing comment, like say "Scrum Agile doesn't work very well for their company and here's why," the barrage of downvotes from the orthodoxy makes that person lose points and disincentivizes them from making any more controversial posts (unless they just don't give a damn).

Ergo, the conversation gravitates towards whatever the herd thinks is best. It's rewarding conventional thinking and discouraging unorthodox thought, which is poison to any technological discussion. Technology and in fact progress itself was built on questioning and even destroying the conventional.
FWIW, Apollo doesn't render the ads. Neither does Sync on Android.
Sometimes you have to stand-up to your employees. Having a small group of activists driving your business decisions is unsustainable. Google is a multinational behemoth, and as much as it likes to think of itself as a small nimble progressive startup, those days are long gone.

>Google’s open systems also proved valuable for activists within the company, who have examined its systems for evidence of controversial product developments and then circulated their findings among colleagues. Such investigations have been integral to campaigns against the projects for the Pentagon and China.

Google had the benefit of obscene profits from their ad business that let the rest of the company do whatever, which also enabled internal activists to exert pressure for them to not do business with the American government.
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