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> This is commonly called power braking, usually called up in an emergency.

I've never heard it called power braking, always engine braking or j-braking.

It isn't just useful in emergencies but also in steep descents with heavy loads to make sure your brakes stay cool enough to be useful. It may be obvious, but the other technique that really helps keep your brakes cool is descending more slowly.
They don't avoid left turns. There are plenty of videos from Chandler, AZ of Waymo performing unprotected left turns perfectly fine.

They will always map roads to precision, whether it's Arizona or San Francisco. Why is that a problem? You should either look at their CA disengagement reports over the years or wait until they roll out a service in SF (where they've been testing heavily). That will show how safe they are in dense environments.
Plotly is quite nice but I find Dash's use of HTML for layouts a bit forced. For dashboards I have been using Panel, which supports plotly plots, which keeps things closer to pure python https://panel.holoviz.org/index.html

The Devs recently added support for templates which can handle dynamic layouts (i.e drag and drop). https://panel.holoviz.org/reference/templates/React.html#tem...
But, Microsoft already has the AR/VR platform. That all devices can use. Oculus, iphones, androids, mac’s, windows, other VR devices.

And they are the only ones who have this.

It is called: Mesh.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/microsoft-debuts-its-ar-vr...
...or a cabal of capitalists who never really meet at all but just "coordinate" via the market, media, armies of accountants and lawyers, etc.
Then we’re essentially debating what the value is of preserving our ability to experience beauty. And what’s life without beauty?
I've seen a research paper that talks about something called "DAWG" that is supposed to preserve speculative execution while mitigating timing attacks. With some performance hit, but less than what we have today. The graphs in the paper seem to suggest a hit of 10% or less.

Not my area of expertise, so no idea how promising it is.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/vlk/dawg-micro18.pdf
How do they put in the wires into the brain without messing up some critical parts along the way?
> At the core of most motives for violence are assumptions about the intentions of others.

I don't know if I agree or disagree, but I found this a spectacular sentence that really makes me think.
I see a lot of people here are stuck on the perception side of things. There's a lot more to self driving than just the sensor suite and perception. There's a lot of work that needs to be done in the planning and controls department prior to the time we get full vehicle autonomy. Andrej's work is impressive, but I wish we'd see more research into the latter. Then again this is CVPR so...
And posting about it? No, really, what is wrong with that person?
>Writing code line by line in a text editor was supposedly on its way out, to be replaced by fancy IDEs, WYSIWYG, UML etc.

If you're using something like Visual Studio then that's is a very fancy IDE and a long long way from writing C in a text editor and dealing with arcane compile errors.
Asterisk - that takes me back :)
>But the people who work poorly when others are regularly distracting them with office chit-chat don't deserve respect?

I certainly don't mean that. Another poster who replied to my original comment compared it to a company that chooses to do pair programming, knowing that not all software developers like pair programming. It'd be fine for some companies to choose to implement pair programming and some not, and for the most part, employees would choose employers that fit their preference.

Likewise, I see room for companies that run with being in the office. Not all companies. Not everyone wants that. But if some companies offer remote, some companies are in the office and some offer a mix, I think that's a good thing for the variety of workers out there. There might be some transitional pain if your current employer does something other than your preference, but that's long been the case, and (hopefully) you have other options.
Aptronyms!
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This is a terrible approach to teaching. I’ve been in high school classes where I played the TA role, and when I couldn’t switch to another class I started skipping. It slows down the students who learn too quickly for the class, there’s no point for smart students to drill concepts as much as the others.

As someone who was in equivalent programs in the US, I can tell you my experience was that most people in the normal classes didn’t really care, and that attitude is far more likely to discourage the 2-3 gifted students than it is for gifted students to somehow lift up all the other students.

As others have said, gifted students weren’t just smarter students, they were mostly the students who cared.
Not an expert but I was surprised it lasted this long with the degree of independence it had until a few years ago.

I had seriously expected maybe two or three years before the crackdown.
Indeed - if your mind is fixated on that cabal and it leads to hopelessness, it is just the same.
Agreed. The problem I see is that certain failing school systems (and individual pupils elsewhere) are quagmires of spending. There are cohorts of students you could spend infinite resources on at school and they would not learn. This is why the top-level parent comment focuses on ROI, and I think it is a harsh perspective which is necessary nonetheless.

A school can only do so much to offset the negative impacts of poor home-life. Learned helplessness is real and debilitating and it is often learned at home at a young age. I empathize with the tax payers in this area who see above-average taxes for below-average results.
If you don't open any port on your phone to the public internet, I guess it's fine for this use case? Most (if not all) home routers have firewall enabled by default. So your home devices are protected from inbound connections.
My point is that this project reimplements most of that hardware stuff in software, thus not physically infringing.
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What are some of the best paths to take for fun in the US to get the most out of the 10 trips?
Melting down glaciers that subsequently pass through turbines on the way down should come close enough I guess? That future is here.
A friend with a background in industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology was hired at Amazon a few years back and was shocked to discover the 10% turnover rate. As they shared, they took it upon themselves to find a better way to manage turnover and have a better performance assessment system. They implemented it and brielfy reduced turnover to 3%; until Bezos intervened and explicitly asked for at least 6% turnover. For someone with a background in I/O psych and interest in improving worker well-being, it was soul-crushing and they soon left.

It appears HR is also helpless in improving conditions, the turnover goals actually came down from the top. It's possible this changes with Bezos gone, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
in what world could the negative response to your pedantic and gatekeeping comment be considered "political correctness"
FB has 10,000 ppl working on VR and AR. Yes, they are serious about it.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22326875/facebook-reality...
That's an Ubuntu problem and not an Linux problem thank goodness.
90's System's Development Director here: I'd figured that enriched text/html like formatting would make its way into source code e.g. imbedding hyperlinks/tooltips to relevant documentation/screen shots/test debug cases, critical section of code highlighted in red, section of code kept for legacy in grey, annotated code with comment bubbles - this sort of thing.

The latest IDE's are certainly doing more of this with code highlighting and autocompletion, but IMHO it could still be easier for coders to more visually annotate and document code.
It's a bit more complex than that. VMs are a necessity because we need to run the same code on a Mac, a Windows and a Linux machine. Since these 3 OSs don't want to agree to a common standard we are left with applications that ship their own JRE etc. In some cases this isn't terrible as a runtime environment can take up just under 100MB and performance isn't that bad
Why do you care if you don't open any port on the phone to the public internet? It should be fine running locally in your home network.
I don't want to complain about this much - it seems like a cool little project. But from the linked page and the Wiki, it seems to have been created in near-ignorance of the Artificial Life efforts of the early-mid 1990s. That's a shame, because a lot of people did a lot of interesting things with this idea back then, and it might be worth being aware of hwo that turned out before diving into the idea again.

Thomas Ray's "Tierra" would be as good of a starting point as any, or either of the two Artificial Life volumes published by Addison Wesley in that era.
> Take the “when” of work. By default, our days are organised around 9-5, a system that was formalised for factory workers by Henry Ford in the US in 1926. Many of us do not work in factories however. Why are we hanging on to this linear day as the only schedule in which work can be done?>

The author is questioning the concept of division of labor and the associated efficiencies of that type of organization. Without division of labor, each worker must become an independent craftsperson. In other words, they must be able to do the whole task themselves, start to finish, with all of the necessary equipment at their disposal. Some jobs are amenable to this while still remaining efficient. Most jobs, however, including many technical jobs, are not. That is why people work together and in the same location.

If the issue of “Zoom fatigue”, mental health and remote work space can be addressed such that efficiency of labor is maintained or even improved, then remote work makes sense. It would really help save lives from traffic accidents and reduce carbon emissions.
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I'm too ugly for a lightboard. I wanna draw on my ipad and have that sent.
Speaking of C languages

C++ still does need more resources to compile programs than AAA games and keep running for 20min / 1h / 2h / 4h?

What were they teaching those compilers engineers and language designers back in the day? nothing about writing performant code, performance tests, regressions and yada yada?
And for FPGA stuff intersecting with RISC-V:

@jangray @BrunoLevy01 @OlofKindgren @mithro @iamtommythorn @YosysHQ @oe1cxw @wavedrom @bunniestudios

There is plenty of quality content on Twitter, and it's easy to avoid the drama llamas.
I kept wondering that when we are child it's almost impossible to study 8 hours a day all the time. Why should/could we work 8 hours as adult?
> I suspect they will err on the side of hiding this data from developers.

More likely, they will allow developers some mechanisms for leveraging the data on device, without being able to exfiltrate it.
This will be interesting to watch, as people jump ship from the other Big Four, especially when some of the others have forced staff back into the office.
But those snippets (like 7-second videos) are optimized for the attention economy in a way longer-form media is not. Even if Twitter made this change the traditional short pithy tweets would beat any long-form thoughtful comment.
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This happened to me as well. I wanted to share how we dealt with it was it was different from most comments here and may be useful to you. We paid. My company was sued along with few multi-billion dollar companies. I only found out because one of their lawyers called me as they were planning to fight back and wanted to check whether I wanted to join forces.

I found a good patent attorney and explained the situation. After learning that we were a small company with less that $500K revenue that year, bootstrapped and only had couple hundred thousand dollars in the bank, he suggested that I talked to the patent trolls lawyers by myself without a lawyer first. His rational was that they were not really after us as we were small, and once they learned that, they would either drop it or ask for a small amount to settle.

I followed his advice and had a call with them and it went exactly as he predicted. Upon learning that our US revenue was only few hundred thousand dollars, they asked $30K to settle and sent me an agreement. He reviewed the agreement for us, and recommended that we settle. We did. It was a ridiculous patent yet all of the companies that were sued settled as well. The experience was traumatic and was one the main reasons I decided to raise money from investors later. I slept better knowing that we had the funds to fight lawsuits if need be. Patent lawyer was happy to take the case if we needed to, but warned us about how expensive it would be.

Given that you're a single person company, you're likely small fish for patent troll. The best option for you may be to let them know that and see what they do. Best of luck!
> Most people who want to do away with college sports seem okay with killing their professional leagues.

Not at all. I just believe professional leagues will be fine with or without near-professional-quality college teams. There's far too much money in professional sports for them to die out just because universities don't field teams. I refer you to European soccer leagues for an alternative model.

Moreover de-facto professional athletes playing for a pittance and getting a poor education on top of that makes my blood boil. Pay them proper wages and don't screw up their education. College football and basketball teams also have a tendency to suck up resources and attention away from the actual purpose of a university - which is to perform research and educate people.
Yes you do. In fact in Windows/NTFS you can lose gigs of space from disk fragmentation.
The 'gifted' students should not be forced (or expected) to offload the burden of instruction from the teacher.
There's a significant shortage of teachers in the US & Canada, especially for math & sciences, so I'm not sure how we could realistically reduce class sizes in the short to medium term
Anecdotally, this holds out for me.
Many good points in the discussion below. However, when one of Stallman’s “crimes” was comparing US laws against that of Sudan (as mentioned in the open letter), I could not help but feel that people are looking for an opportunity to take him down for reasons other than his views on Minsky, adolescent sex, etc.
> I can't have Apple software anywhere but their walled garden, which sucks.

Which makes perfect sense, because you can't take the tree from an existing garden and plant it in your own without taking the roots and soil with you. Or put another way: you can take the tree, but you'll be leaving a hole for everyone else to fill in.

It's a solution to a problem and everything is integrated.

Not every solution has to be super modular, plug-and-play and work with everything, everywhere, forever, and allow the end user to self-repair, but not everyone wants that.
>>steaming bullshit you're just making up post facto

What are you saying? My Gr.11 chemistry teacher would literally play YouTube videos instead of teaching the material himself. My Physics teacher would make YouTube style videos (on a different platform) but she told us to also watch YouTube videos from other teachers because they were better!

>>floor of what the highest-achieving students can do in math by the end of high school

The highest-achieving students are often self-taught
I've been working from home for most of my life. I honestly love the freedom it gives me to manage my own time.
I would agree if their increase in data was linear, but it is increasing by orders of magnitude, which should have qualitative consequences for what they're able to accomplish as they claw their way through 9s. I don't see how it's possible to get progressively more 9s without scaling in both data and compute.

The point of the higher scale isn't just more data, it also makes it easier to solve the unbalanced data problem, because rarer and rarer scenarios will appear in large enough numbers to work with.
Electric seems like the easiest problem to solve, a solar+battery system will work pretty much anywhere.

A purification system only helps if you have access to water somewhere. If you have to spend $30,000 drilling a well, and your poor soil means your septic system costs another $20,000, And you've got to build a $30,000 solar battery system on top of that, well then your "cheap" land is not so cheap and you could have just spent more money on the land in the first place.

Even if you have groundwater on your property, don't assume that you'll be allowed to use it, the water rights may belong to someone downstream. In some areas, you can't even harvest rainwater on your own property.

Lots of people solve these problems and live in undeveloped areas without utilities, but I'm not sure there's huge demand for living full time so far from civilization that there's not even electricity available. And many of the people that do live there, are happen doing the work themselves, and putting up with the limitations.

The people that want to buy a package system are probably the people that want all the comforts of home in their off-grid cabin, which means it's going to be expensive, just getting a well driller to drive 10 miles up a curvy unpaved mountain road is going to be expensive if they can do it at all.
Apple should buy Leica.
I wonder how much Deloitte will save in expenses by doing this. I imagine that played into the decision
And it sounds like a rather visible ... race to the bottom, as it were. :-)
It’s actually really dangerous and generally illegal to tow a vehicle with a simple, easily stored strap.
> And, in fact, quite insulting to the intelligence of even the most casual ML engineers.

Exactly, casual ML engineers. The issue of plateauing tends to occur because there is no more novelty to be had in the data. What mega-experiments like GPT and similar have shown us is that actually you can keep adding novel data and keep improving the model. Kinda inelegant, yet effective. The problem is, most institutions can't add more novelty beyond a certain scale, since that usually means shoveling more money at data storage and compute, on top of the novelty collection.

Tesla merely has to open the money tap to get more of both compute and storage, and let the real-time data flow in.
I thought we would have flying cars by 2015
Yeah definitely put it up online with a license to get folks to look or contribute to it!
Someone else posted this in response to a similar comment further down:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-wo...
Can't imagine working in an office again. The bathrooms, the bad food you inevitably end up eating, the hour a day lost to commute, the interruptions, having to shower and wear pants. Yuck.
I briefly toyed around with Kcgi when I was setting up a neat little Libravatar[0] implementation[1] I found.

[0]: https://www.libravatar.org/

[1]: https://github.com/tleguern/libravatar.cgi

I eventually dropped that implementation in favor of a pure static implementation in pure Nginx, but it was less unpleasant to work with than other (Fast)CGI libraries I've tried.

It goes well with the rest of the BCHS stack[2] of OpenBSD, C, OpenBSD httpd, and Sqlite. Some say that BCHS is impractical due to an aversion of writing C for server-side applications, but I find it perfectly adequate for tiny CGI programs that don't need a big framework.

[2]: https://learnbchs.org/
So does the work load and pace stay at the average classes setting? Or does it scale up to the honors classes and leave more kids behind? Getting an A in an honors class is more valuable than an A in a regular class, just like how placing first in the olympics is more prestigious than first at the county meet.
Isn't this with the caveat when they are not on a client project? My impression with Big 4 was that they spent a lot of time in client offices.
If it's on a work laptop, it could be IT shenanigans.
Really well said. I believe Apple are doing what they think is best for everyone, including their shareholders, within the rules (which sometimes aren't clear and can be easy to break without realising it.)
I'm not a doomer who thinks the commercial real estate market is going to crash the economy, but I can't help but wonder what its going to look like in 10 years.

That's 350k people who can work remotely now. Then you'll have the other Big 3 trying to stay competitive. That's 1 million employees who are going to be doing... something? Sure, not all will be remote, but still. That's a dramatic shift.
It's "hazmat" because cryptography is dangerous, and the library authors would strongly recommend you use an opinionated library that does the cryptography for you, like Nacl, where you don't think about which crypto primitives to use, but rather they're all set up for you. Here, they're working with an existing format and have specific requirements; they're doing the thing the "hazmat" library exists to facilitate.
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Low interest rates play a significant role in the recent rise of REITs and corporate landlords.
If this is really what's making the difference... I wonder if these mitigations shouldn't be automatically enabled for home users.

The chances of Spectre or Meltdown actually managing to acquire sensitive data seems incredibly low. Is that worth the very large performance impact?
> Spend $3000 a year keeping some clunker working and hoping a big bill doesn’t come along, or spend $2400 a year for a new car.

Assuming we're talking economic cars (Honda, Toyota, Mazda, etc), it is very difficult to imagine spending $3K a year in maintenance. Maybe once in a decade if you're super unlucky.

These are cars that'll go on nearly forever on just an oil change a year (less than $100) and belts and tires every so-many years (depending how much you drive).

There is no math in the world that'll make a new car cheaper to own and operate than an old reliable brand car. If you enjoy newer cars, enjoy! But it won't be cheaper.
Yeah, that is another way to go: that developers become substantially better at UI design. I probably won't be one of those developers.
Also known as "jake braking". It's useful if you're a dump-truck driver who thinks midtown Manhattan is too quiet.
Why BS? Americans are terrible cooks, nutrition wise, and very wasteful.

I think teaching poor kids (because they're the ones who need to learn) how to mend and cook a nutritious meal would do more to alleviate poverty and its effects than most any other class they take
The majority of Hong Kong people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories, have anti-immigration sentiments, and racist ways of thinking, worse so because racial discrimination is just a way of life for many in HK, so I wouldn't say majority rules is the best argument here. Hong Kong isn't this shining jewel of liberalism by any means. All of it just gives China more justification for their actions.
Hey sentdex this is absolutely awesome! Playing with exotic target types like generating games is IMO where the fun is in ml :)

Do you see yourself taking this train of play further?
That depends. Many developers are now using Electron, .NET and other tech to develop software. Those are heavy and do not like old computers with limited resources."

My desktop products are made in Delphi (compiles to native code) and are very responsive and frugal on resources. Run fine on very old hardware. Desktop products done in C++ would be even better but I am not masochistic enough to develop GUI in C++. At least for now.