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For every million bricklayers, there may be one or two material scientists devising new clay formulations to make stronger, cheaper bricks.

The irony is that the bricklayers are often paid better, and they can be certain that their profession will remain in demand for the foreseeable future.

The material scientist may hit a dead end, or their company may axe their entire department to "cut costs".

One of the smartest human beings I've ever met ended up at Google, working on something very similar to CRTDs for the Google Wave project. The outcome was a commercial failure and his team was disbanded.

I did the same classes as him at University, and I use almost none of that knowledge in my rather pedestrian job. I make nearly twice what he does and I have nearly perfect job security. So there's that.
People are simpler and more predictable than you'd think. There are techniques (as outlined in the article) that can predictably improve how other people see you.

> I think the Stoics would argue it’s better to just focus on what’s the right thing to do regardless of how it “appears” externally

That quote is often referenced in political corruption cases, where the politician argues he's innocent but acknowledges they might appear suspicious because they weren't careful enough to be sure to also "appear honest", not just "be honest". It's also how you have to collect paper trails and documentation if you expect that some case of yours may go to court, even if you're innocent.

Anyway, I see that people are misunderstanding what I was pointing at.

Yes the right thing is important, but it's important because it's the right thing, not because it will lead to promotions and money and fame. Don't confuse it. My qualms are with people who declare that they will stick to their principles, out of principle and not at all because they expect anything in return. And then they get upset when they get nothing in return. My problem is with this second part, not with the first.
I vehemently agree. Do you have an idea of how to stop it? Perceiving and describing reality other than it actually is seems to be growing in popularity, but I don't see the advantage in that approach.
Why not simply ask Mojang
This was really informative. Reflecting on it, it makes perfect sense to look for software economies of scale in content production with internal applications and platforms, especially as that becomes an increasingly key differentiator in the streaming space. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Not on a static road without people, animals, weather, geological events, etc.
Indeed. This is just eating lunch at noon and dinner any time before 8pm with unlimited snacks allowed in between. That's not much of an intermittent fasting regimen unless you're eating all the time.
Lymph system.
Do you have links that would tell me more about peer2peer lockstep?
This is plain wrong. Other comments have already given many arguments against this decision, but here is another one: language learners. I've used Youtube to learn German and Japanese. Those subtitles help me figure out what native speakers are saying, specially for videos which are not "clear" enough for the auto-generated subtitles to be good.
> So, that is the story of Alar and V. Krishna, the beauty of open data, and the incredible and infinite ways in which tiny, random events such as an overheard conversation, changes timelines, the Butterfly effect.

Awesome article, thank you for sharing!
my thoughts as well. compile-time checked arbitrary sql would defeat the purpose of so many abominable ORMs. make it work with DDL instead of sample data and you've really got something nice!
If interested then search on github for "voxel" rendering engines. There are plenty of repos, including some with good clean code that are great for learning the techniques used (s-macke/VoxelSpace for example).
2 times a Nobel laureate.
Yeah the ugly truth is that both the democrats and the republicans are often right. Social welfare and public spending is important and needed, and social welfare and public spending is also atrociously mismanaged. But we conveniently pretend the other side doesn't have a point on this because admitting they are right would weaken our own position.
There's just no way self-driving cars can meet the challenge with today's technology. These days the tests they are doing involve burying a wire in the road that the car can ride upon, which to me seems like covert recognition that computer vision and sensor data feeding AI is not equipped to handle the rigors of road travel quite yet.

The theoretical arguments about how self-driving cars are better than human drivers remain theoretical.
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That's a weird take. How come Tesla gets to be a technology company but Uber is a services company?
Real world evidence would suggest that human-level cognition is not enough to safely drive a car
Which still leaves the GPs question - the subjects averaged a 90 calorie per day deficit. (.94 x 2.2 x 3500 % (12*7)). That's fairly slow weight loss.
YouTube has automatic captioning though, which scales way better and does not suffer from the spam/vandalism problems of user generated captions.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en

Creators can also add their own captions in multiple languages, but this relies on them working together with the community, which may not always be realistic.
Didn't they lose a lawsuit against Waymo, which meant they had to build a lot of tech from scratch?

From the point they got identified as IP thieves it became hard to believe they'd get anywhere.
You'd be surprised at how valuable a position is within Play store. It's like default search: if 'something else comes up, they click it'.

Obviously if people can't find Netflix, they're going to think 'whats up' and try to find it, but that comes with hurdles and it won't be good, it will mean lost downloads at some rate.
If you want to say the money is wasted, I think it's on you to provide the examples rather than stating it and then asking others to back you up
Reducing phone addiction by making the phone less appealing to look at.
It looks like an actual status page written by a developer, instead of some Market speak gobbledygook attempt to not say anything for fear of liability or whatever
Is Minecraft a voxel engine? I had the impression the blocks are just polygons.

But thanks for the info!
So, build your network, wait for your inheritance, and do a start up :)
Wow, it looks like you probably haven't been around these places in the world, so let me tell you that while we like to discuss about bad experiences, these places are 100x safer and more enjoyable than the US, which is why we travel there in the first place :)
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Commuting 10k miles/year is nothing special. Only four nines is still an accident every year.
n=116 is not high power enough to make a strong claim that it is not more effective, only that they were unable to prove that it was effective.
Any way to read the article without paying $40 for a news website that I've never heard of?
> the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on an extraterrestrial body
And yet, as of today self-driving cars aren't nearly as good as a human even after 2-3 beers.
I literally have smart plugs laying around so I can hard reset some of my devices because they can't operate while always being on.

I'm terrified of the day we figure out energy storage to just have like 30 years built in energy store in these devices.
It's surprising because Google loves to use handicapped and disabled users as example cases of how important their technologies are. One of the most prominent early videos for the self-driving car project hinged on the idea that it would let a blind person go to a drive-thru at a restaurant.

When they turn around and cut off a surely much less cost-heavy accessibility feature seemingly at random, to many users complaint, it is, in fact, surprising.

As far as recourse, it'd be a bit of a stretch to use the ADA here, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if someone tried a lawsuit in this instance: Google is cutting off handicapped users for almost no real cost to themselves.
it could also be people who are hoping the crowd can elucidate them on the article for the same said reason
detonate the air in front of the wing, and surf the shockwave. This research happened in California by any chance?

Apologies if its addressed and i just missed it in the article; but doesn't this seem energy hungry? Like "what power source can we make fly that can do this output?"
It sounds like any bad experience during any type of trip would have depressed you though (don't do drugs!)
I wrote this back in 2016 and I think it still holds today:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...

Self driving cars are dumping an insane amount of time and effort into computer vision and AI for the wrong problem. For the amount of tax subsidies, our money, given to these companies, we could have put down insane amounts of rail. Hell, we could even do small personal autonomous rail car test programs in some cities and it would still be more useful than the current state of self-diving tech.

Self driving solves the wrong problem, and it's a good 15+ years until we see this vehicles, if we even see them at all.
As a result we often get the worst of both worlds, like the US healthcare system which combines everything bad about socialized medicine with everything bad about privatized medicine.
He was an abusive jerk, but he did a lot more right than marketing and speechmaking.
as i said lower down:
"ehhh, really depends on what effect size you are looking for. presumably you would want to see a 10% effect size or more. (detecting that intermittent fasting caused 2 lbs more weight loss than CMT would be statistically valid, but not clinically that important)"

power depends not just on n but also on the expected difference between the means (and the standard deviation of the mean)
I think all drugs should be legal for recreational use, but Ulbricht almost certainly did try to murder several people and believed he succeeded. This evidence was admitted at trial and contributed to the sentence. The crooked agents' actions didn't invalidate those aspects of the fundings: it appears there's very strong evidence he genuinely tried to do that, repeatedly.

So, I have zero sympathy for him. Life is an appropriate sentence. Other DNM owners who don't try to kill people, on the other hand, I definitely tend to sympathize with (though if they allow sale of fentanyl or poisons/weapons, that complicates things).
Toll roads are pretty common in high-tax countries. Canada has some. France, Italy and Japan are pretty much all toll roads.
I use CCC for full machine level backups that can be booted from in an emergency.
I then do Restic backups daily direct to B2 Cloud Storage (Backblaze)
police harassed me and my friends twice in NYC, never had any trouble like that in Asia or Europe.
I don't think I'd want to drive across a bridge if one of the main criteria for career success for a civil engineer was "ability to pull all-nighters 3 times a week for many months." And yet when we go to the hospital that's exactly who is treating us.
It’s been out since this morning for subscribers.
Replace "Promoted" with "Elected" and you have the US political system.
USB isn't a big issue if UASP is supported.

EG 149MB/s on dd writes.

See https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-...
Clearly, we should aim for a less ambitious goal: ultra-compact self driving vehicles on dedicated and physically separated lanes, where cars cannot be encountered unless it's their fault, similar to bike and tram lines.

This could increase city trafic capacity by an order of magnitude in congested central zones and suplement public transport in suburban, dispersed areas that cannot be properly served by buses.

And it could be done today, with simple algorithms: stay in your lane, coordinate with other vehicles and the trafic lights, and when anything that looks like an obstacle is in front, brake.
Why isn't eating only between noon and 8pm time restricted eating?

I thought that was one style of intermittent fasting.
We’re seeing improvement for multiple services after applying mitigation steps and we’ll continue monitoring the services to ensure full recovery.

Big exhale.
And so we're back to still needing a source to do better than guessing :/
>In that conceptual framework it seems life doesn't have non volatile storage at all

how so?
> Critics question why CEO Dara Khosrowshahi hasn’t held the team accountable.

Because Uber's insane valuation is largely predicated on them being able to pivot out of expensive human "driver-partners" into cheap and compliant robots, and any sort of public acknowledgement that this is not going to happen would tank their stock.
Occupied(Okkupert) is a great political serie akin to house of cards.
> Things are frequently buggy, unreliable and disjointed. I’d almost be able to forgive it but unfortunately the support is really terrible too.

This is my experience. After years of paying for the service, for multiple users, using tools that seemed to have been forgotten by the dev team, my credit card failed to process one month.

Support was not interested in helping me. Not at all. Ended up having to move my team's workflow off Zoho. I had been begging them to bill my card, but they just kept sending me generic emails asking me to try again. Phone support was even less helpful.
Uber has yet to show a vehicle with any semblance of reliable autonomy. Tesla has billions of experience miles at Level 2 autonomy (Navigate on Autopilot is close to, but not quite, level 3 autonomy).
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> Didn't they lose a lawsuit against Waymo, which meant they had to build a lot of tech from scratch and, to add insult to injury, keep Waymo informed of the details?

That’s really interesting. Does anyone have a link to where this was stated?
So is it true that Leftists want to abolish the family, or do users here simply think I'm exaggerating?
Not just America. The whole of the West has been dumbed-down by Political Correctness.

Humor comes from juxtaposing incongruities. If all of the factors in a situation are Politically Correct, there's no (or very little) room for incongruities.
We have a couple of high-end vacation rentals and we are constantly trying to get fake listings taken down from all sorts of sites. What works best is usually emailing legal@website.com. Any sort of web form, even for fraud, just ends up being a black hole. The shadier sites that are purposely hosting fake listings themselves I contact legal@theirhostingprovider.com from their whois and I report them the FTC, although I have no idea if they ever follow up.
This comment greatly distorts the situation and neglects to mention the other instances. If he did order the hits, I think he deserves life, and there's very good evidence he did.
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> my general sense is that Waymo and Cruise (widely considered first and second)

Thought Tesla was considered first, in part because Tesla's fleet collects an orders of magnitude of data greater than others.
I really wonder who's going to buy in to McAfee. Their original founder is outspoken against them, their primary product is built into every OS these days, and they've been selling off their brand trust in exchange for revenue. Their revenue growth with their current strategy is purely optimized for short term growth with catastrophic long term outlook.

They even say they don't have a plan for what to do with their money. In their filing under "Use of Proceeds" they state their objectives with the funds are to

a.) pay back a previous loan

b.) "the remainder for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of, or investment in complementary products, technologies, solutions, or businesses, although we have no present commitments or agreements to enter into any acquisitions or investments."

This really looks like a last-ditch effort to salvage the company and pay off a loan they couldn't.
It maybe competition between Tesla and Google, one day in far away future.

But so far, Tesla is dead last in self-driving cars. They some cool driver-aid systems, but their self-driving tech is still being written and rewritten, and didn't even begin any tests on the roads.
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This just appears to be a copy of the bootstrappable wiki:

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/

Any idea why it was copy-pasted to the Golang News blog without attribution?
The best failure mode is none of those. Using your example, the best one is the one that finds the closest approximate word that isn't a slur.

That would solve both problems at once, because there is a really strong chance that the first closest guess that isn't a slur is the actual correct word that was said there. And in case it picks an incorrect word, it would have picked it either way and it would have been just as wrong.

So if the voice said "Because lucky you, that's why", in case youtube autotranscript thinks it was "fuck" and not "lucky", it would either default to "lucky" (which is good) or another closest non-slur word like "mucky" or "rocky".

And, in my opinion, this is way better than putting [censored] or any other workaround out of those you mentioned, because all of them have zero chance to end up as the correct word (in case the slur was detected incorrectly), while with the approach I described, it is very possible.
Waymo seems to be doing much better than Uber, so it can't be just about what's possible. Waymo are also doing much more than just deep learning. For example a deep learning algorithm might be good for predicting possible paths of tracked pedestrians, but figuring out whether you will intersect any of those paths is better solved by a different non-learning algorithm.
> identify as needing accessibility features

Has this also become an identity thing now? Whether you need it or not is a matter of self-identification?
"The other 97%" sounds like 9to5google's misreading of a deliberately misleading statement in the press release. Less than 3% of all apps use their own billing - but most apps don't use in-app billing at all. I suspect Google is pulling some Apple-style sleight of hand to make the impact sound trivial instead of like yet another cash grab.
One group has 3 calorie restricted meals and another has an 8 hour window where they eat whatever amount they want....

Useless.
I’m very familiar with this having recently lost exactly 2lbs per week for many weeks to hit a 35lb total. At least in my experience it really is much easier to lose weight initially. Not sure if there are studies on this or just anecdotes. When I was borderline obese, losing weight was simply a matter of being vaguely mindful about “eating better”. After I lost a decent amount that way losing more took deliberate effort and tracking calories. The people in the study didn’t even lose the weight you would expect from the effect of losing glycogen and water retention.
Apologies, I deleted that last part of my comment after I tried to search for this and failed to find evidence. I'm not sure if I'm remembering wrong or if this detail was in some obscure article somewhere.

The settlement is discussed for example here, but no mention is made of Uber having to disclose future developments: https://9to5google.com/2018/02/09/alphabet-waymo-uber-trial-...
Seeed have a nice looking range of x86 for this type of application: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-c-1492.html
What I've never understood is how you're going to get a car to understand a construction worker or cop doing hand signals without artificial general intelligence. Why even bother with the car until you've figured that out in the lab?
I do 16:8 to maintain weight. To lose weight, I'd do OMAD (One Meal A Day)
Dara Khosrowshahi on line one, for George Hotz.....
It’s just my perception, but Tesla and Google both have track records of developing new technology IP to overcome their challenges. Uber’s record is not the same, they don’t have any hard to reproduce software or technology IP at the core of their business. Their strength is the brand that has quickly entrenched itself in many cities fighting public legislation to satisfy its goals.
Unbuffered ECC RAMs are expensive because of lower demand. Registerd ECC RAMs especially used ones are dirt cheap thanks to huge amount of servers.
The article talks about Google working to make it easier for users to install 3rd-party app stores; I'd hope that allowing automatic updates would be a part of that.

Unclear if Google would be able to ninja that in to older phones as a Play Services update. My guess is that they probably couldn't since that's pretty fundamental to the OS's permissions system.
You can flag articles that aren't supposed to be on the front page and help correct this sort of problem.
I interviewed at Cruise, and when speaking with them, Waymo was the main competitor and Tesla didn't come up.
I've got Pi memorised more precisely than 355/113 as well for no good reason, and for engineering applications it doesn't serve any purpose.

But the fraction is weirdly close and that's interesting for other (more academic) reasons, such as explaining why plotting primes in polar coordinates looks like a pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ
Hmmm.. Not accurate? At all?
So they discover phosphenes in the clouds of Venus and suddenly they're discovering more water on Mars.

See what a little competition in the space race can do?
Certainly hard to measure, but Figure 2A certainly looks like an adherence chart.

Regardless, in RCTs we usually consider a 'intention to treat' analysis gold-standard. That means that since you are assigning an intervention in the real world, even if someone drops out, you still consider them part of the intervention group, because the same thing will happen in the real world. You can also do a 'per protocol' analysis, which attempts to measure the impact of the intervention to those that adhered, but not as important...
Indeed amazing because I know employees at Tesla who take it home on autopilot in the freeway! It’s also very unsafe ans I dot believe camera only is the way to go, but at least it can drive for more than a mile.
Not burnt at all, quite the opposite!
When you say Ada has a hefty price tag, what do you mean, exactly?

(Are you talking about ide licences, the commercially supported version of the compiler, ramp-up time to productiveness, or maybe something else?)

Somehow I've become interested in the economics of Ada, and am considering it in comparison to several other strongly typed systems programming languages for a learning project. So I'm a bit curious.
I don't see how setting up an entire new parallel road network all over the world is "less ambitious". Some of the best funded cities in this country aren't even able to lay a few miles of fiber for broadband internet.
CRDTs just are.

Following the golden rule, I always post a link to a series of papers comparing the theoretical properties of CRDTs and OT – here's the latest one:

Real Differences between OT and CRDT under a General Transformation Framework for Consistency Maintenance in Co-Editors

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2020

Chengzheng Sun, David Sun, Agustina Ng, Weiwei Cai, Bryden Cho

It’s an evolutionary series, here’s the rest I believe: https://arxiv.org/search/cs?query=Sun%2C+Chengzheng&searchty...