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James Bond, sitting in the night train, is having dinner with Vesper Lynd. "Wait a minute, you're saying self-driving cars are not safer than human drivers?". Bemused, James takes a sip of Bordeaux, and quips "You've noticed?".

I am a signalling engineer, with experience in design and delivery of autonomous trains (really autonomous, no driver, no nothing). Seriously, the conclusion makes me want to scream:

> Shouldn’t ADS developers be required to prove an ADS is at least as safe as a human driver for a specific ODD before allowing it out onto public roads?

To deliver an ADS thou shall:

1/ Identify the standards you are going to comply to (and I am talking about real standards, like EN 50126, SMS compliant with AS9100, not a Waymo brochure)

2/ Define your safety objectives (hint: for an ADS, it's going to be way way waaaaaay higher than human error rate). You don't self-define these. You need to talk to the safety authorities of the area were you intend to circulate.

3/ Build a safety case explaining how you achieve credibly these objectives (spoiler: testing will not be enough)

4/ Have your case examined by an independant safety assessor, accredited by a relevant national or trans-national authority

5/ Put your ego on a shelf.

Otherwise, thou shall kill people.

Simple. But it seems the automotive industry is ready to go to any length to avoid going through the concept of an independant safety assessor.

EDIT: Bullet points syntax
In case someone lands here due to search (and regardless of whether the problem can be solved without PowerShell) I’d like to point out that you can run PS commands on the Azure Cloud Shell (which is what I do whenever I need to use PS to automate anything and I don’t have a Windows machine).

This is available for any kind of Azure subscription (including the free tier), and although it may require installing extra modules in that environment, it always works since the PS context is running inside a Windows container.
How does one go about proving that PoW mining on a blockchain is from 'green' energy?
When I was more regularly doing coding interviews, I would pick a problem suited for the strengths of the candidate's self-identified strongest language, but basically go "use whatever language you want, but beware that if it's not one of <short list>, I will have to transcribe your code and run it for the final assessment".

I had Haskell, OCAML, and Ruby thrown at me (no, none of those were on the list). None actually ran on the first try, but I could rehab the Ruby to working (it was a silly mistake, only a small amount of score knocked off), but I could not rehab the Haskell nor the OCAML, so that ended up with a "recommend no-hire".

Bit of a shame, had they chosen the Python that the CV indicated they preferred, it may well have been a "strong hire" (but, failure to produce runnable code, that can't be easily fixed, in a language explicitly recommended against indicates that there are some possible red flags).
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Using Shor's algorithm at this scale requires entanglement of so many qubits that it will never be feasible, and definitely not on this earth which is vibrating so much!
How many times do you think he pooped or peed in his pants?
I have hard time thinking of a real use case of this but ... it's really clever.
Presumably the first one means you can still transmit the virus to others?
I'm more or less of the same opinion and honestly. The fact that human drivers are unsafe adding new "automated" drivers in the road would automatically make the human one safer? I don't think so. Before you can reach a point where all the cars are fully autonomous you'd need decades if not century and we're here discussing that having them on the road would be better. Well, we'd see what data once this cars are around brings to us, but human machine mixture in a road sounds like a mess that we'd want to be saved from.

Reason why self driving cars are rather hard to be mainstream:

- they're freaking expensive, currently, even the "normal cars" are not always accessible to everyone in this planet, yet we assume that the entire world population has enough money to buy Teslas and sleep while going to work like is an extension of California.

- despite having common traffic rules, people drive how they want to. If you've drove long enough and in different places of the world you'd notice that: traffic rules are an opinion, driving style changes from city to city within the same country, if not district to district. "Exception" are the norm: people park where they're not supposed to, people go where they're not supposed to, people stop where they're not supposed to like all the time.

- self driving cars make economical sense only under certain conditions, and even then the time spent automating that is yet to be proven effective. Of course you can argue that we've something working, but at this stage is rather a prototype that handle base cases.

If we want to have self driving car, just have them only. Not mix them with human to create a perfect condition to have new accidents were the insurance would have challenging time on defining who's fault.

I'd rather invest money on mass transportation systems (eg. Metro, train, buses)
> Backups that are easily restored trump replication for so many cases and much more cheaply

At 400 MB/s, you restore a terabyte in 45 minutes, and then you need to replay the changes that happened since the backup (in MySQL: replay the binlog), which will take aproximately another 15 minutes.

"One hour of MTTR or provisioning time per Terabyte of data at 400 MB/s sustained linear I/O speed" is a useful rule of thumb.

Having a replica that you can promote reduces that to seconds. Having a time delayed replica where you just roll forward the binlog reduces that to minutes.

You can work with modern databases without using replication, but that in most cases just shows you suck at operations.
Funny you say that, most of them are namesake secular.

Filter out countries that have had large scale ethnic cleansing or genocide in the last 70 years.

Filter out those countries which have 99% muslims.

Filter out those which do not have some form of sharia imposed.

Even though both muslims and Hindus in India want a better future for themselves and their children.

Muslims have shown their willingness to engage in arson, destruction of public property and stopping economic activity or progress to push their own Islamic politics at every opportunity.

You must be really blind to not have observed this.
This is really the main problem. As far as I know, ROCm requires a quite expensive GPU for data centers (if you want to have a current GPU) which makes it quite difficult to build a community around ROCm.
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heh this makes me think an optparse-gui for Haskell would be both trivial to write and useful
> So they're going to design it to advantage themselves and disadvantage others.

How so?

> you can't really "just fork it" without losing the main perk of running Android: Running Android apps.

> As it is, most Android apps won't work on a device without Google Play Services

Most, so you mean it's still possible to not depend on google play services. Although of course, app developers will always prefer the play store as it's the only way for them to make money in a reliable way.

> for basic functions like location.

What do you mean? All phone have GPS chips, they don't depend on google for that.

Even with all those problems, the main one being that app developers want to make money by participating to the ad ecosystem or with microtransactions, to me it doesn't seem like android is completely tied to the google ecosystem.
Small PRs are great, IME. They're much easier to handle than bigger ones, so there are rarely downsides for maintainers.

Coding standards and formatting are rarely an issue in small PRs. Even if I don't have a CI, I can just run the linter/formatter on my side, or even fix by hand if it's small enough. Worst case? You get a code review.

Bug fixes are certainly always welcome, even if you just paste the fix in a Github Issue. Even just a reproduction is good enough and very welcome. Non-code contributions are also contributions.

Typos and change of phrasing? Adding examples to the documentation? Quick to check and quick to merge, awesome.

I'd say the only "small" contributions I ever denied were things that didn't add at all to the project: someone who tried to add hand-drawn logos to several of my repositories, trying to change the license, code that caused bugs or security issues and we couldn't really fix it, one-line PRs to the readme join the contributor's list, etc.
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Not sure about Morse codes, but whales are certainly able to encode images in sound - a kind of analog version of jpeg.

https://www.cymascope.com/cetacean.html
If you are talking about making it mandatory for everyone to switch, so human drivers are banned from the roads, I doubt you will be able to sell mere equality of performance by autonomous systems to the voting public. You can make as many greater good statistical arguments as you like, but you are still saying you are going to make many individual drivers and their passengers less safe.

This kind of equivalence is also ignoring the possibility of a catastrophic system failure that simply can't happen with human drivers.
The DALnet is still around though
I can't speak to the old generations of tape, prior to 2000. The LTO cartridges seem fairly sturdy to me, and I haven't run into many problems with the media itself. Unlike hard drives, tape media is fairly insensitive to shock, which makes it easy to transport. I've seen cases of water-damaged media, cases where the leader pin broke off (and got taped back on, and the tape was successfully read), cases where tapes were physically lost, cases where the database recording the locations of tapes was corrupted...

...but data durability has been overall excellent, and compares favorably to disk.
Actually, the correct technical term for "lightbulb" is "lamp", and the correct term for "lamp" is "fixture" :)
>By postmortem molecular mapping, we found viral RNA in nearly all organs examined.

In the video you shared, they talk about the ADE, basically allowing the virus to go to places it wouldn't otherwise be able to. Not sure if this is related.
Really? I've run several websites on CloudFront that got more than 100 visits per day and they didn't even break out of the free tier. I hosted something else that served 10x that and it cost like 16 cents per month. I don't think there is anything anywhere that is as cost effective as CloudFront!

Edit: Actually, right now I'm hosting around 10 small websites completely on the CloudFront free tier on a single AWS account, and I'm using the lambda free tier to handle all the redirects for them as well (i.e. SEO and www to non-www).
Could, but a lot of modern warfare is incredibly one-sided with one side being technologically superior to the other. They wouldn't even risk deploying snipers if there's a chance of a counter-attack via artillery. Or ground forces for that matter. First and second Gulf War were started by a massive air raid that took out most of Iraq's defenses, tanks and infrastructure.

That said, just because they may have military superiority doesn't mean they can actually win a war on someone else's home turf.
Most line-of-business software has always been more service than product, and I think we're right to embrace that. If you shrinkwrapped an accountant and sold them as they were, 5 years later they wouldn't be much good for anything. The computer is a bicycle rather than a taxi, it needs active involvement rather than passive use.
A library can be stateful or have a data store but that means the user of that library has to be aware of changes beyond the API and hat to operate this data store.

> And if you have to set up and migrate a client/server DBMS for the library, wouldn't you also have to do the exact same steps as if it was running as its own process somewhere the network?

No only the team doing it has to. Users of a service only have to worry about the API that it exposes, which should ideally never change in backwards incompatible ways and if it does, you make sure everyone calling the API understands it and migrates and you break backwards compatibility only after everyone has migrated.

As a user the implementation details of other services I don’t work on, don’t concern me.

Note that a service equivalent to libpng should probably not exist and be a library instead. A more reasonable service would be a wishlist service that keeps track of every customers wishlist and sends notifications to customers when products on their wishlist get discounted or are back in stock.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Somebodies probably trying to sell you something. I just got the same video on youtube. It's a very sublte form of marketing that plants ideas or breads knowledge before it's needed.

For example, remember all those articles that came out about the Max Headroom tv hack a few years ago? And then six months later Eminem is dressed as Max Headroom in his rap god video. An obscure cultural reference that you probably wouldn't get unless you were preconditioned.

So in six months time when a song or movie or product comes out and it's got mini disc references, you'll know.
What is the no-traffic running cost of this (or running any website on AWS)?
What about getting a song stuck in your head or having a nervous tic?

I'm not sure the concept of an infinite loop even makes sense for a brain's "architecture" anyway.

After millions of years of evolution, there are lots of "errors" that just aren't common at all, so asking why an error isn't "normal" is very presumptive.
Sigh. We can continue playing that game, or acknowledge that the question was between microservices vs. more monolithic approaches, obviously in situations where both is equally viable. If your boundaries between services (or whatever) are only what you just mentioned, then either it is a small application, or the services are not very “micro”.

Again, my, and likely OPs point, was that distinct, modular development (and for example the mentioned low compile times) is not contingent on separate services and IPC or even RPC, which come with a whole other can of worms.

(BTW your scope of shared library is also pretty narrow. For persistence for example, SQLite is essentially a persistence layer that is a shared library. And some libraries do certainly spawn threads for their work. But that’s not really the point.)
You should be running flash with self-encryption (and make sure you have a drive that implements that correctly).

To zap a drive you ask it to securely drop the self-encryption key. The data will still be there, but without the key it is indistinguishable from random noise.
> mumble jibberish until the system gives up

I mostly just press * (sometimes zero) until it gives up and connects me to a human. I will never speak anything to a computer.
I would love to, however for practically all tasks I need only the CUDA backend is available, not ROCm - an that is of course bad not just for open source, but also for the owners of AMD GPUs. The popularity of Nvidia's solution is so overwhelming AMD would need to do something revolutionary in order to catch up (supporting Windows and macOS wouldn't hurt either).
> We all have a finite life. How much of it do you want to spend incarcerated needlessly in a transport device?

Assuming that there is ~260 working days in a year, subtracting 30 years for holiday we have roughly 230 days that one would have to commute on.

My average London commute was 1 hour each way. That's 2 hours per day. That's 10 hours per week. 460 hours per year. 4.6k hours over a decade. This is not a chill "going on a trip" time in a train - it is stressful rush hours madness, breathing underground air and constantly bumping into a crowd of frustrated commuters who happen to be power walking the opposite way.

To put this into perspective and assuming that an average working day is 8 hours, over the last 10 years I could've easily spent 19 months of full time work commuting during rush hours.

Also ironically ~20 years of commuting adds to almost 10k hours which supposedly would put me on a world-class expertise level in terms of being a train passenger. The problem is I'm a Software Engineer, not a professional underground train passenger.
> SPY as we know it will cease to be on Jan. 22, 2118, or 20 years “after the death of the last survivor of the eleven persons” -- whichever occurs first.
The Unstoppable Growth of China's High-Speed Rail Network [VIDEO]
China: 37,900 km
USA: 301 km
UK: 1,814 km
Germany: 1,885 km
Japan: 2,764 km
That a very powerful lightbulb!

It has more CPU perf than my first computer, and costs 1000 times less at the same time.

The progress of semiconductor industry is fantastical.
ZigBee is a network protocol with a network stack. Just because it isn't TCP/IP does not mean it's not a network. It has addressing, routing and routing tables, fragmentation and reassembly, discovery, error detection, packet retransmission, and everything else you'd expect from a functional network protocol.
The current drama around Freenode is completely disproportionate to what its importance in 2021 is.

Sure, IRC was huge back in the day. Today it isn't.
* "Game that ran in a 486 @ 66 MHz (for the same fps), with 4 MB RAM in 1993 running on a 80 MHz Cortex M33, with 0.108 MB RAM"
Yes. This is why I called it a "little book"
Enabling more flexible capacity would fix this problem by introducing additional "contextually aware knowledge and meta-level thinking" into the market. Higher prices would spur additional market entrants to come online faster. To do that you'd need to reduce regulation or at least make regulatory processes more efficient.

According to Bloomberg lumber dropped ~18% this past week, the highest drop on record since 1986. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/lumber-pr...
And zinc, if it's a slip-strike fault.
>minimum wage is almost a political stunt. Rents will follow the increase

The studies I've seen demonstrate that it gets taken out of profits. Almost a direct transfer from shareholders to the minimum waged.

Not that there are many papers that study this, coz if you're an economist it's not exactly a surefire route to a cushy job at a prestigious think tank. That's why there are 10x more attempts to study the effect on employment instead (which is minimal, if you believe dube, lester, reich).

There's a slick lobbying industry dedicated to telling us that raising the minimum wage would be awful for everyone involved - ESPECIALLY those on minimum wage. Who do you think pays for that?
Sigh. I accidentally tried to engage with 15 days old account.

Remember people, check first.
I understand your perspective on DeFi in general and agree that it is necessary. Perhaps it's a case of perfect being the enemy of good enough. It does make me wonder if the current generation of crypto will be disrupted by something that functions in line with the stated goals of crypto AND is rolled out in a way that aligns with it? I guess they are betting on lock in but what is to stop dapps working with multiple protocols/cross platform in the future?
You can find a quite bit more than are on this list if you don't mind shady torrent sites
Editing videos on mobile is really hard. Sitting on a desktop, transferring the videos, downloading the other videos and sounds you want to remix in, and stitching it all together in a video editing program is actually a really high barrier.

Tiktok is basically set up for remixing. You can splice your reaction, or add your dub, or lip sync, or more, and any of those would take less than 5 clicks to upload.
Because each computation needs an output of the previous iteration, so the only way to beat other miners/validators/block providers/etc. is to have a better single thread performance, basically you need to build a faster CPU.

PoET (Proof of Elapsed Time) works differently, there you basically running a sleep or a timer inside an Intel SGX secure enclave, so you have to trust Intel, and also need to hope that there are no security vulnerabilities there.
Maybe in your language, but looking at my English dictionary it clearly says a lamp is a device for jibing light consisting of a bulb, holder and shade.

Historically a lamp would consist of the wick, oil and holder.
While self-hosting sounds fun, I think part of made for example freenode so fruitful is the concentration of projects. It's easy to pop over in a different channel when you're already on the network, and concentrating similar projects makes it likely that you find something interesting.
> If it's a crank conspiracy theory it should be easy to disprove.

Have you never spoken to conspiracy theorists? Go and watch one of the Flat Earth documentaries. If Flat Earth is a crank conspiracy theory then it should be easy to disprove and the conspiracy would die out, right?
> The media itself is cheap and durable, but the drives are $1,000 or more and sometimes break--in other words, if you really must have your data, you want two drives.

Newer drives will also drop support for older LTO standards, so you end up having to rely on flimsy old hardware to recover your older tapes. For most home users, it just doesn't seem worth the hassle. Maybe it starts making sense for casual/non-professional users in the 100TB+ range, but even the most committed data hoarders are nowhere near that.
Taproot exposes a bare public key in each output with spend authority.
Not everybody feels native to the terminal, so this could ease the use for non-tech-savvy users
There is a fine line between those rebellious workers who give good ideas and then take ownership of their idea till the end, and those who throw ideas out, but don't want to have to do anything with implementing those ideas. No one likes the latter.
> So to me it's clear that we're animals that treat other animals like other animals treat other animals

I don't think there are many examples of animals farming humans and torturing them for "testing" purposes (the topic of the article), is there?
I started my degree in 1997 using a PC with a 66MHz CPU and a dial up modem. Why should a Chromebook not be sufficient?
> it'd lead to the league enforcing against all teams simultaneously, which ultimately would be bad for the league itself to have at the very least none of it's star pitchers for some time period

I don't get this idea. Is it better to watch the best players cheating than watch great-but-not-best players in general?
the end of ownership

Maybe you'll stop owning stuff, but your self-interest will be owned.
If that's your "consideration" then charge for it.

It's what other time based professionals such as lawyers do.

e.g. https://sherborneslaw.co.uk/pricing/
> The Thread spec for example is hundreds of pages.

And this also assured it being dead on arrival.
Illegal spying should remain illegal. When a spy agency has nothing to loose anymore, does not have to tread carefully anymore to see which laws to break or sidestep there is no bound to the eventual corruption that will come with time
That's just like, your opinion, man. The tens of thousands of users that migrated to other networks feel differently about the matter.
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This is super clever!! I love it.

I wonder if it could be extended for almost all command line applications by running "--help" and parsing the output. It's not quite as standardized as programmatic access to argparse but there aren't that many variations.
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