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> what it has is the reflection of priorities in the company that made it

I think it might even be more like Platonic shadows on a firelit cave wall of the priorities of the company that made it.

At the current level that self-driving is at, the cars' control software is only able to perceive and respond to situations that its programmers anticipated and specifically coded for. That could be heuristics and rules in the hard-coded bits, but, also, even the most sophisticated deep neural net out there isn't even particularly capable of perceiving, let alone understanding, things that weren't coded into its training set. Meaning that, even if the company's intention was that the car should not plow into a pedestrian holding an enormous cellophane-wrapped Edible Arrangements™ fruit basket, that intention doesn't have any bearing on the vehicle's behavior if the software instead classified that object as a plastic bag blowing in the wind.
> As for the fighter jets: how could they possibly help the situation? Shoot her?

Shoot the plane down before it hits a building/populated area I would assume.
That isn't a guarantee that 600 people will be born with both.
I do not get it, sorry. The door opens out, and the pressure is higher inside. So how does the pressure difference prevent opening that door?
Modern cars are deadly to pedestrians, especially SUVs.
My gut reaction is that that's way too niche for a VESA mount adaptor/spacer, normal whiteboard, and glue not to be cheaper.
>Too much parking creates sparseness which reduces walkability

Anecdotes and all that but for me, there is also definitely a weird psychological factor when walking past big parking lots in the city I live in. It's just... weirdly oppressive in ways I cannot properly articulate, especially living in a city that predates cars by a couple hundred years. It feels like it takes longer to walk past even if it is the same size as the surrounding blocks (or even if it's smaller!).
I've heard of towns that attempt to solve this by marking roads residents-permit-parking-only, then only issuing one parking permit per house.

Of course, it's not a perfect solution - you need exceptions for the elderly and infirm who need regular care visits; some sort of guest permit for anyone who hires tradespeople; and people who need a work vehicle have to do without a non-work vehicle, or be forced out.

And it's a whole lot more fair if you set the rule before people buy the homes, rather than imposing it later.
> the worker(unless they are slackers and have no problems being unproductive while getting paid)

You mean, as opposed to office-work 8 hours a day, where it's extremely common to hear people talk about browsing Facebook and other social media a lot of the time because there's not enough cognitive capacity to be working the full 8 hours? Or, often enough, just not enough work?

> co-workers

I'm assuming you view it as bad for coworkers because they can't just get up and interrupt you at any time they need something from you; for me, that's a feature, not a bug. Asynchronous communication allows you to have an uninterrupted productive streak without worrying someone's going to need something that really isn't that urgent.

> customers, society.

I'm at a loss for those, though. Why would it be bad for customers and society?
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A very sad story. The cofounder of Google is of Russian heritage but cares nothing about his former country and it's citizens.
I think it's a significant distinction.

This idealized barter economy contains a the same rather specific notion of value (as something countable, comparable, fungible, etc.) that is like the idea of value that a monetary system rests on. The article suggests that historical evidence fits better with the idea that money actually precedes that notion, rather than the other way around. This should impact the way barter economies are analysed and compared to monetary systems.
I prefer the sum, as it describes the minimum-length path containing all participants. It seems like the intuitive expansion of the concept of the Erdös number.
What is shown is not better than what you grew up in; it's the same. It's an outdoor mall, pretending to be a downtown.

The only difference is that this mall doesn't have the food court and the giant corridors; instead it's outside where the rain and bugs can get to you.
They once wrote somewhere that they have contracts with Seagate that allow them to get the drives much cheaper if they buy certain quantities.
They run a constellation of satellites such that satellite receivers, mounted commonly in cars, can receive programming for music. The internet offering is a new thing.
I had the opposite experience in research. I switched from pencil to pen. Reading later (e.g. 15 page math derivations) I could see some of the dead ends I took and mistakes made, while still following the thread.

Additionally, some research results should be stored in an immutable material.
I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first, there were always free to use so there was no reason for anybody to look elsewhere. It's hard to compete against free and established services. You basically have to find a killer feature (and hope that the established service will be slow to copy it) or pay people to do the switch.

>Not everyone wants to be on the Internet's sewage system that's YouTube.

Yet basically everyone is. Content producers want to reach their audience, viewers want to find the content they care about.
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I have the same issue, it's extremely annoying. I just use Reader mode.
Opera web browser got in trouble with some of this last year. Its super shitty. I think the most I ever heard of interest rates going was near 450%? Honestly how shitty do you have to be to think that people who have to take out a loan can afford to pay you back 2, 3, or 4 times the amount they request? Its evil.
No, the recommended way was to install your application with all dependency DLLs in the application install location.

And I've misspoken about GAC causing DLL Hell for .NET. It fixed DLL Hell, but introduced a new Strong Naming Hell.
To those who have invested time in making a "task breakdown table":

Have the benefits of contextualizing your short-term goals outweighed the cost in time it takes to make the table for small tasks?
I think simonh is saying it was economical for them to re-use the design from the iPhone ICs, which do handle facial recognition. That sounds pretty dubious to me, though.
You just need to bump the wheel every 15 seconds or so. The required interval seems to vary a certain amount, but in boring, easy, bumper to bumper traffic, where it makes the most sense, that's all that's required, in my experience at least.

> it does stop the car

More specifically: in my tests, it eventually disengages autopilot as well as adaptive cruise control (which only controls the break and acceleration) while beeping loudly and harshly. This has the affect of slowly causing the car to decelerate.
Store of value is absolutely not the definition of money, which is an inherently transactional concept...
I found Mercurial to be just as capable and much easier to learn. I’m really only considering moving my team to Git as a least-common-denominator move since nobody really makes tools for Mercurial outside of Facebook. Otherwise it’s harder to learn Git and definitely it’s harder to train interns and juniors to use it.
I wish the author would hit the non-walkability a bit harder. To get from one section to another, cross a street. To get from one side to another, you have to cross several streets.

There is one area that did the same thing where I live (The Greene Town Center). I cannot simply think of why I would want to live there, and I was their target demographic! I really can't walk around inside of The Greene without having to watch traffic (I am simply amazed at how recklessly folks drive in there). If you look at both the Greene and that picture, the roads are pervasive in there.

The suburban neighborhood I live in is actually more walkable! I can walk through a park to get to the library, I have to cross a single one lane road to get to a Kroger, and I can walk within the neighborhood on the street with almost no concern for traffic (heck, it has better sidewalks then the Greene!)

If you really want to attract people to live there, make the place actually an area where you only need a car to drive to/from work (and try to bring jobs to there!). Bring Grocery Stores, Schools, a community center, local restaurants to the area. Have a park! Make it so I can walk/cycle to places surrounding the area. Shove parking/cars out of the way.

Heck, even downtowns have the same issue. The downtown in Dayton only has Second Street Market that could pass as a grocery store (don't get me wrong, that place is awesome, but it's only open Fri-Sun). I thought about living downtown, but once again, I have to drive to get anywhere anyways. I have no incentive to live downtown.
Didn’t Makhlin and company do artificial molecules as qubits like 20 years ago?
Yes, and some of us reject it. When you work with people you never or rarely meet in person loneliness can be a big issue. If you have addiction problems, having the freedom to drink, game, smoke, ect whenever you want can also be a huge issue. Yes, not having a commute can be great, but if you are young you can usually find apartments close to your work (I bike to work for instance). What I feel is best is having the flexibility to wfh when you want or feel its appropriate.
I went from bedroom > home office > shared office

The shared office space has been by far my best situation. My main drive is preventing loneliness, working from home can be very isolating for me. My shared co-working space is expensive, but gives me a sense of having colleagues. Given this situation/requirement I don't think I would want to 'upgrade' to renting a private office.

My office is about a 20 minute bike ride away from my home. I think I have used my car maybe twice in the past year.
It appears likely that we are going to have to write off at least half of Florida in the next century, so any building at all seems counterproductive compared to finding better places to live.
Most doors on aircraft open inward, so think of it like a drain plug where the pressure holds it in place.

Edit: To clarify, they may swing outward, but they open inward first.
The thing is, if you had a discrepancy of some order of magnitude (e.g. 6,000 or 60 instead of 600), you could talk about accuracy problems. You could look into rounding errors and margins of errors, like we do with constants in physics, and that would maybe yield some new or modified equations (models).

But the "binary" absence of even 1 single case hints at something else: it's a category thing, there's "in it" or "out of it", and it seems that being born blind somehow means you can't develop schizophrenia.
I've seen enough stories like this to wonder how many more there are. How many of the "great men" of scientific and technological history were great in part due to "hidden partnerships" with spouses or others who aren't listed as co-authors on papers and such? Seems like a book collecting a dozen or so such stories would be a great read.

Note: this is not to deny any scientist or inventor any credit. Most of those we celebrate deserve it. I'm just thinking there are even more great people we should know about.
> Patients are left to figure this out for themselves, and usually don’t as the idea is considered so wacky.

In my case it's not just the idea per se, it's also how people tend to talk about it. When I look for stuff about "trauma healing", I mostly get three things:

1) Seriously questionable marketing copy (e.g. [1]).

2) (Discussion of) narratives of childhood abuse, almost always with at least one identified individual abuser, and usually recognizing their experiences as abuse only in retrospect.

3) Recommendations for $IMPORTANT_BOOK about $THEORY by $VISIONARY_INVENTOR_OF_THE_THEORY (which invariably leads back to #1; see also Scott Alexander's "all therapy books" review [2])

So I'm not surprised that this isn't clearly established as a treatment modality among medical professionals. There seems to be a good chance that something real is there, but I don't see anything convincing in terms of a validated theory or proven method of treatment. I honestly get the impression of something vaguely cult-like about some of the exchanges on social media around this (idiosyncratic uses of jargon, revelation of hidden truths as a major theme, claims of suppression by the mainstream/establishment), which I think has put me off trying to learn more about it because the whole thing starts to seem a little shady (cf. chiropractic, homeopathy, faith healing, etc.). Do you have any recommendations for someone who's had this kind of experience with the idea?

[1] The Foundation For Human Enrichment, d.b.a. Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to resolving trauma worldwide by providing state-of-the-art professional training and public education in Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therap...
Sort of unrelated rant. Maybe it’s because I’m not as well versed in Java idioms as I am with C# idioms, but using code that implements AOP using AspectJ seems much more obtuse than what I’ve done in C# just looking at the examples.

In C#, with the various frameworks - including on the API level with ASP.Net - you can use attributes to decorate the classes/methods with your aspects and it’s pretty easy to see what it’s doing.

You get the runtime binding basically by just using dependency injection as you always do.
Yet people continue to walk around in those areas. There's masses of onstreet parking here in Berlin and not that much off street parking, but the footpaths are always crowded.

It's the same in Melbourne - some parts have onstreet parking and lots of people, and some parts of only off street parking and few people.

If getting people to walk between destinations is a goal, you should increase the proportion of on street parking and decrease the proportion of off street parking. This will slow down the cars and increase foot traffic, since it becomes more competitive.

Also, by using the connecting space as parking places, you acknowledge the viability of using connecting places as destinations.

But if your goal is to eliminate car congestion, you aren't doing it right. Planning should optimise for humans and tax revenue, not cars.
Because the industry is looking to create a zero-emission alternative.
There's "proof" that computers can be safer than humans. Faster reaction times, don't get tired, don't lose focus, can perform computations much faster than humans.
This. The demand is there, but the environment is not welcoming. Engage remotely if you can and save yourself a lot of problems.
Or many other languages.
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Mixcloud is great however the people in charge seem to be intent on killing the platform with bad ideas. I say this as a huge fan and a paying customer (premium user).

The android app is horrible. They used to have 10-30 minutes of cache time, now they have 0. You go under a tunnel, on the tube, whatever, and your stream cuts out. Also lots of UI bugs. This might have gotten better but I wouldn't know as I am on an older version of the app and refuse to upgrade due to no more caching.

You have to pay to rewind stuff apparently (I do pay so have never been impacted here)

Search is horrible, even now.

Web has some major bugs like randomly reloading half the page when you scroll down your feed and click listen to something. Old app has some ridiculous UI bugs, can't comment on the newer ones though.

Mixcloud select may have been done with the best intentions, but it's just a bunk idea. Half of my feed is now "select" stuff I can't listen to. The idea is you pay the individual artist and get premium features. But the select costs a fair bit of money, a lot more than id be willing to pay. Effectively, even as a paying user I'm now being paywalled. They should have kept the stuff free and heavily integrated with patreon or done a tipping style platform.

Sorry for the long rant but I figure this is a chance to actually have someone from team mixcloud potentially read some actual feedback that they're probably sheltered from normally.
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For new projects, sure. For existing projects, it's not trivial to convert them and anyone working on something significant is going to need time to do a migration during which additional new C code will almost certainly need to be written.
As the driver was still unresponsive until woken by the police, I would think it was the autopilot eventually stopping the car.
"Interesting how Python is now considered a huge pile of features"

I've been tracking Python since 1.5.2 was common and 2.0 was just coming out. For me, it's not been a problem because the new features were added incrementally.

But I've seen new programmers try to come at it in 2019 and 2020, swallowing what I got spread out in ~15 major releases over ~20 years all in one big chunk, and learning even the core language now is definitely "a pile of features", to say nothing of the various library ecosystems. I don't even mean this necessarily as a criticism per se, just a description. It's not an easy-to-learn language anymore, and I don't recommend that people model it as such. It's a power tool for developers, not an easy learning language.

And, yes, the "you can pick and choose the features" is a non-starter in a team environment. At best, the team can pick and choose, and that takes a rather strong hand and alignment to achieve. It is a very common case that you'll just end up with what your teammates use.
"Naturally, they begin to use the most saleable good available to their community as "money" for trade."
Why do you assume this is natural? As the article talks about, there is no evidence of this happening vs things like a favor or prestige economy. Mises is an economist, not a historian.
Or explaining why they allow those backdoors exist in the first place?
They scored higher for those times and places / were actually available.
Did the car salesman showed you video of that FSD demonstration, while they were describing driving assist features of a car you were buying?
Thank you! I'll check that out.
Good point. We can do this in Go.
"Store of value" is not how economists (and most normal people) define money. Pretty much any non-degrading asset can be a store of value. That doesn't make them money.

To be money, something must fulfill three criteria: 1) be a medium of exchange, 2) be a store of value and 3) act as a unit of account. It helps if the something is also fungible, easily divisible, etc.
That's not the same thing as bartering at all.

When you do a favor for a friend (like giving a referral for a job), do you see it as a transaction where you expect them to pay you back at some point?
> Maybe we should be paying for influential people to spend a month without a car in a walkable european city.

It is not just being walkable in European cities - it is also a lot to do with workable public transport.

Sure, I could walk the 2 miles from Point A to B, but in a bus/tram/metro/train that will take 5 mins rather than 30 walking it.

Even then though it is often only workable right in the center of town where there is a lot of good coverage. Most people will live further out where affordability is more realistic. At least for me about "half-way" out from the center of London, getting to my local grocery store is a 33 minute walk, 27 minute bus (assuming I did not have to wait at the stop at all first), or just an 8 minute drive.

Note also that the bus would be a £3.40 return ticket, which is enough for about 2.5-3 litres of petrol. A toyota prius that can do about 3.7l/100KM means that for the price of a bus ticket you could cover about 68KM (~42 miles) or for a tesla 3 that gets 240Wh/mile charging @ £0.24/khw you'd get about 95KM (~59 miles). For the case of this example where it is about a 5 mile round-trip, you'd be looking at 9 or 12 return trips to the grocery store depending on if you took the prius or the tesla, for the cost of a single round-trip on the bus.

It is doable without a car, but not easy. You get into a situation where you are trading off trying to carry 20+KG of shopping back on the (crowded) buses vs taking multiple separate trips a week (...and the £3.40 monetary cost + minimum 54 minute travel time cost). And it might be raining (not easy to hold an umbrella when you have 16 carrier bags you are trying to lug). With a car you can easy haul back many 10s of KGs of shopping in one trip, while staying dry, with just 16 minutes spent getting there and back ... and in a car you are guaranteed a seat too :)

Personally I did the trade off and found that having a car for day-to-day life is just so much easier (not just for shopping but for all sorts), but obviously I'd never drive into the centre of London (if nothing else, there is nowhere to park) and happily walk + get the tube when in the centre of town. Driving to work just feels 100% alien here :)
It's also being researched, as well as single pilot operation.
iOS has had that for years - low power mode.
It's popular because it gives to people what they want to hear. There has been lots of research that gave different results and people just love to ignore.
Update: it seems that Tesla agrees with most commenters here :) and in the meantime reactivated the autopilot on this car.
Yes, but you need some people around the house. Spending entire days without any human interaction is mentally hazardous.
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Clearly a hobby/passion project, so, there's no need to justify its existence, but given this point:

>I think GNUstep needs a reference implementation of a user-oriented desktop environment.

I wonder why he didn't just contribute to Étoilé, since he seems aware of it.
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Reston has public transport. Most of Florida doesn't. A shiny nickel says that the pictured development has a nod to public transport in the form of a shuttle van that loops around the parking lots and the main street once every hour or so.
Because from a first principles line of reasoning it makes the most sense to my brain. There is plenty of historical reading over at mises.org by various authors.
I hate to tell you, there is a place like this near where I live (Look up The Greene). I assure you, that place is effectively an outdoor mall. I rarely go there due to traffic in and out, I really dislike walking in it (drivers in there are in a hurry to park or leave, and have little concern for pedestrians, there is no "pedestrian only" space), and if I am going to a mall anyways, I would prefer an indoor mall where I can at least not worry about getting hit by a car going from shop to shop.

It's not just the parking, its the fact that it is not pedestrian friendly at all. If they had shoved parking off to one side and made the entire area car free, that would have been a huge upgrade.
Most artists I like prefer BandCamp to SoundCloud.
Crumple zones are designed to protect the occupants, not anyone external to the vehicle. Granted, the kind of basic design changes that would pretty obviously help with pedestrian harm are also.....not sexy. So seems unlikely car manufacturers will sacrifice too much on the aesthetics front when car ownership is such a status symbol.
A discussion about freelances v labor would be interesting.

Congrats on 4k MRR.
You click the handset down, like you are hanging up the phone, but just very briefly.

So think of the cradle switches - what "hangs up" the phone - as a button, and you just click that button (quickly) for '1' and then you pause and hit it twice in very rapid succession for '2' ...

You need to be on a POTS line to do this, of course, but it will work even today. Even if you have no dialing mechanism, you can dial the phone this way ...