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> I think the hardware is capable of L5, but the software is still going to take another 20 years.

Doesn't this inevitably mean that the hardware isn't capable too with extra steps? Like in 20 years with tens of millions more lines of code, we're going to need more hardware resources to run it (in particular at near real-time) than the hardware would provide today.

I agree with you, to be clear. I am just pointing out that 20 years worth of software is going to be a monster to run at the timings that will be required. So we could hit a hardware limitation between then and now on top of the hard software problems that must be solved.

> Humans only have two eyes that can only look in one direction at a time, and we achieve L5.

Humans use parallax to perceive depth via the overlap of both eyes, which as far as I know isn't used by automated vehicles for reasons unknown (patents?). Automated vehicles using visible light cameras are mapping the world in 2D, humans perceive the world in limited 3D.
I don't think that there would be much need for a 100% L5 car.

Remote driving where a single driver controls a few cars, possibly by people from emerging countries, will solve this problem, will be quite cheap, and will always add an extra safety element.

Given that, i don't think the last 5% will be an obstacle for the technology making it.
I like the timer. Main improvement I'd suggest is using the full browser display rather than jamming it up where it is.
This was my first thought, especially since they clarified that it has to happen in a "major city" -- the biggest traffic hazards are going to be other drivers and pedestrians behaving erratically/unpredictably and creating unsafe situations the car has to react to.
You just outlined the advantages to be had should such come about. But am I missing the part where you explain why you think this has any chance of coming to fruition? Because that's what parent is on about. I mean, if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops. But no one is explaining how frog wing technology has taken (if you'll pardon the pun) some big leaps the past few years.
I may have misused the term 'work' here. I was trying to describe the displacement of an object through the actions of something like a motor. You can achieve that by burning fuels (combustion engine), or steam, or an electric motor. I was trying to allude to the latter being the most efficient.
Isn't the restriction to availability in major cities contradicting the requirement of fully autonomous driving in "all" conditions? Driving in a major city with (mostly) intact infrastructure is much easier than e.g. driving in sand or mud.
> The idea that Canada or Mexico would want Russian or Chinese bases is so counterfactual it doesn't make sense at all.

So this is the Ameribrain in action. I've asked this same question many times and this is one of the common responses: not to answer the question but to reject it as being so ridiculous it's not worth discussing. In doing so, such responders admit the obvious: the US would never accept it.

But this isn't just theory. We have direct historical precedent in Cuba where the US almost started World War Three over the USSR doing the exact same thing the US had already done in Turkey.

> The USA doesn't interfere in Mexican elections.

This is so laughably untrue. The US has long influenced Mexico's elections and domestic policy over things like the drug trade, foreign aid and such.

Beyond elections, Texas used to be part of Mexico.
>> Due to our size, we don’t need any kind of backwards compatibility, we just update everything.

> Then just use 0.y.z versions and be done with it?

FWIW, I also work in an organization that thinks of libraries this way, and we've found success and simplicity in versioning (for production) our Go libraries as 0.X.0 where X is just a monotonically increasing number generated by the build pipeline.
This is fun, thanks!

It seems like once I solve a puzzle if I don't copy my results I have no way of seeing them. I'm at a screen that says to come back tomorrow.
They are also getting hand-held AA equipment like the US Javelin
"huge crowds were not spreading covid OUTDOORS" is the right take. Indoors is a recycled hellscape of germs. Viral load is a real thing. I went to several outdoor concerts and didn't catch covid however I'm going to continue to work remote.
WASM doesn't protect against heap corruption, because bounds checking doesn't apply inside a linear memory segment.
The underlying assumption seems to be that future waves will be mild because Omicron was mild, either intrinsically or due to improved immunity. I hope it’s the case, but time will tell if this is true.

Alternatively, they’re planning to more reactively bring us into the office when we’re in a lull and have us WFH when we’re in a wave.
My understanding in San Francisco is the majority of (visible) unhoused fit the GP description as those who are not mentally ill do make extensive use of shelter services and other avenues to be off the street. Whereas those with mental illness or drug issues do not.
It might escalate to that point, or it could escalate to something much worse that the current situation—a shooting war between NATO and Russia, for example. I don't imagine anyone in the West is eager to take that gamble.
The lack (or reduced teeth) of CEQA equivalents help, NEPA like laws make it hard to build things.

https://ceq.doe.gov/laws-regulations/states.html

The fact that CEQA applies to all levels of government in California makes it easier to throw sand in the gears.

Similarly there is too much good government sometimes, too much accountability makes it hard to accomplish anything. Too little means corruption is hard to root out. There is less accountability in the east overall in bureaucracy - any state not hit hard by the progressive revolution of the early 20th century seems to be better at doing thing.

I see more community focused expectations of behavior on the east coast (There is more of an expectation that everyone ought to behave a certain way, and do certain things in certain places).

There are other cultural differences too, east coast residents in my first hand experience tend to be more apt look the other way at penny ante corruption (the stereotypical "I know a guy.." culture), which somewhat perversely makes government more flexible work better. Generally the less moral imperative government has, the better it works.

I realize these are probably not popular opinions.
I think it's also worth pointing out that there are many reasons why 2FA is valuable. Even if someone ends up with your password, they would still need your second factor, which could be a TOTP token or a WebAuthn device like a YubiKey.

Even if you rotated your password frequently, there would still be a large window of compromise. Password rotation only helps with very strange attack scenarios, and passwords themselves aren't really good enough for anything where security actually matters.

I would personally push away from passwords on the whole at this point. SSO is probably more secure for most users. Plenty of websites only support username+password auth, and given how bad most passwords are... I might even go so far as to suggest that username+TOTP is instantly more secure than that, especially with proper rate limiting as you should have anyways. (Yes, I know TOTP is "supposed" to only be a second factor.)

WebAuthn takes this to the next level and promises a future where you can use a strong single factor to log in, without any opportunity for phishing or credential compromise... but most implementations I've seen still require a fallback password mechanism. There are understandable reasons for this right now, but it is unfortunate.
Lanzatech are an amazing company. They are pioneers/trailblazers in the field and I have a lot of respect for them. They have demonstrated that they gas fermentation works at scale. There are advantages and disadvantages to their approach, like all technologies / solutions.
ps. The announcement came through about an hour ago, so i'm posting a link to Interfax

Facebook got banned because they blocked Russian state media pages

they don't like that literally anybody on Facebook is allowed to post propaganda but them
Here's the most recent Waymo report I could find on how things are going in Tempe.

Seems like there are still a number of issues but it's promising and as open to the public as Uber/Lyft (if your trip is in that area).

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/08/heres-what-it-was-like-to-ri...
Cities are the hard part, no? If you can fully navigate a city, the parts inbetween the cities are easy.
I played the Apple II version, and it was fun.
You’re going to have to explain the difference between an insurrection and a revolution to me.
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The sanctions most definitely were, are, should and will be targeting much more than the government.
>> these poor souls are effectively locked into their homes as a permanent jail.

Why do you believe this to be true? Seems exaggerated to me.
For the third time, TFA is about Facebook modifying it's policy to allow praise of an organisation it previously blocked for having neo-Nazi associations.

Rather than address that in anyway, your response has been to claim it's all Russian propaganda and now to link to a completely irrelevant article about Facebook blocking Russian state media.
100% agree. I think carbon taxes are really important here.
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> hoping that they can't reverse-engineer the solution before you catch up

>> Don't worry; they can't. Kodak couldn't even pivot to digital and they invented digital photography! Huge companies...

Yes, b/c Kodak taught us that, better put: hoping that they can't acquire a better connected imitator before you catch-up.

> You're not trying to replace Indeed: you're trying to replace recruiters.

This is spot-on.

My vision is like "talent agents for the rest of us." There are additional challenges that I won't mention because their knowledge is a competitive advantage at this point. But yeah, that's what's up.
Things like numbers having personalities is actually a type of synesthesia! Apparently the specific name for it is "ordinal linguistic personification" [0] What the author of this article is describing is also a type of synesthesia. You should look into it!

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I've heard good things about filecoin, but i haven't looked into it much.

From what I've read, you get paid filecoin for reliability storing and serving files on the network (Dropbox but decentralised)
> The only practical reason to let them warm up before moving is to get some heat into the passenger compartment.

Which can be pretty critical for safety - my breath fogs the windows if I don't let the engine warm up for at least a couple minutes before driving when it's -20C.
I agree. We (regular employees and even our Management) have no idea what Accenture meant when the leadership mentioned that they intend to care for these people.

We all hope to receive more clarification on that part. Personally I might understand that this is a difficult situation even if all involved persons really mean well (and from what I could experience especially the Accenture leadership are actual well meaning people - at least the ones I got to know). While also navigating difficult political waters.

How do you pay people without Swift? What can be done to help our (now sadly former) Russian colleagues without putting them in danger for working for a US/western company?

Can you transfer people? But still - how to pay them?

I don't have any more insights than the official communications from HQ. But I still am hopeful that as much as is possible is being done.

But yeah - the situation is s*t. Sorry for the language.

(and all that coming from me who has quite a difficult view on/relationship with our parent organization)
I don't understand that trend happening in California since it doesn't match the rest of the country and doesn't line up with a spike in cases a few weeks prior.

But what's different between 2020 and now:

- We understand covid risk, treatment, etc. better now. There's a box around it. In 2020 we didn't know what would happen, if there would ever be a vaccine, or what variants might do. We don't know what the next variant will be, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but "variant" is a less scary word if only due to having been through two of them and come out.

- In 2022 the deaths are more voluntary than in 2020. Of course some people can't get a vaccine or remain at higher risk despite a vaccine. And it's a tragedy that the world will remain more dangerous for some, maybe permanently. But after 2 years of on and off measures we know we can't keep it up forever.

I'd be all for making it a social convention to wear masks (at certain times) going forward every flu season, which some cultures already did before covid. While wearing a mask I didn't get my annual cold last winter, which was awesome. If you de-politicize it and think of it as a piece of cloth, it stops being a big deal. But keeping stuff closed needs to stop.
Former public defender here: laws in CA already have rehabilitative programs. LA and San Bernardino County already have fairly large rehab programs for drug offenders (aka "diversion").

Diversion is actually the preferred process for first-time (non-dealing) drug offenders. However, repeat offenders are not entitled to diversion, and due to capacity constraints, must generally surrender their spot to first-time drug offenders (the best analogy I can think of is Disney's Lightning Lanes vs Standby Lines), because first-time offenders are more likely to benefit from diversion than a repeat offender for whom diversion clearly did not work.

There are simply too many drug users for the rehab programs to handle. It's not a matter of just increasing the budget for rehab, because more than half of the drug-related offenders are repeat offenders who have already gone through rehab and relapsed.
Prison is for criminals. It's inappropriate for dealing with psychiatric issues or drug addition.
>> "Car on demand" model for most current vehicle owners

I don't see that. Cars are not just transport. They are fashion statements. They are virtue signaling. They are portable storage lockers. I just don't see everyone who owns a car now giving all that up just because the car can drive itself. The traffic/congestion implications of "car on demand" are also staggering, basically doubling the number of trips made as each car delivers itself empty to the next customer. And further reducing the cost of car ownership will only pull more people away from mass
transportation/biking/walking.
I work in Professional Services. I don’t have those issues. I am very much in control of my own projects and calendar. I manage my customers expectations and make sure that they understand the holy trinity - time, cost and requirements. We agree on the scope of work before we start on a project and I manage the timelines not to overwork myself.

This goes back to ensuring that I had a set of skills and experience so when I was initially contacted about an SDE position, I could say “no”, and they suggested I apply for a position in the consulting department.

I also didn’t go through the DS&A leetCode monkey dance and could apply for a remote position.

I was very much prepared to say “no” to Amazon if all I could get was an SDE position which required me to be on call or relocate.

If AWS ProServe does every get to be an environment where I don’t like the work life balance, I will leave here just like I left my other 7 jobs.
my ideal is like the offspring of a 122-key IBM keyboard and the space cadet keyboard, ideally fully macroed and programable.

Being able to configure my keyboard to go Control-A n on a single keypress is useful for me.
Ansible is so wonderful that I almost think we should stop teaching people bash scripts and just tell everyone to use Ansible if you have stuff to do on Linux beyond just a list of commands.

It's like, finally, some tech that actually works how I think it should. Idempotent, declarative, explicit, mostly free of terse oneliner syntax so dense you don't even know where to start researching what it does, and designed from the ground up to remote into things, and to do stuff in an automated way.

I would strongly consider it even on localhost, if I had any tasks aside from build scripts that needed scripting on my desktop.
Your parents said the same thing about you. "Kids these days..." repeat back ad infinitum into all previous generations.
> L5 in major cities is a bit strange for this, since by definition L5 isn't bound by any restrictions, including geography.

I suspect it is just easier to define a "win" that way. L5 on a test track or L5 on a quiet freeway are very different challenges than what most people think of when they think of L5: Driving in downtown [major city] without intervention.

L5 driving downtown for an entire day with zero interventions, in a consumer vehicle, is really the gold standard for this tech. You nail that, you're done it.
Oh, isn't this a variation of the Knapsack (or more precisely subset sum) problem? With the additional constraint of adjacency.
Yeah, that's too easy. Add "via the Manhattan Bridge and the Holland Tunnel".
Took a while, solved kids mode^^ I suck, thanks for rubbing it in. Incremental difficulty?
One thing about his hours comparisons: it is not clear that British and American yards counted hours the same. This matters for office work like accounting, materials received, etc.- was that counted or not? Which of them was counted, for what contracts? The most that D.K. Brown (in _Nelson to Vanguard_) felt could be said was that the data was suggestive that the British shipyards were more efficient, not that they actually were.
I'm trying to learn C++ just because of how widespread its use is.
Cogent doing the Roskamnadzor’s job for them?
Drug induced psychosis.
Is your 30 amp wire at home? Do you have a 30 amp circuit breaker as well? An electrician told me that if there is a mismatch between the current and the circuit breaker amperage it can cause the software to think that something is wrong (not sure how the car's software would infer anything about the breaker but so I was told).
Most of Canada doesn't live in Canada, if your standard is "months of -30 and lows hitting -40". That's pretty much constrained to the prairies and the territories.
I know. TiSAX (automotive industry requirements standard) forces much of this onto us (just to name one example).

And if I am not mistaken even ISO27001 requires this to be compliant/certified.
Coming from more than 5 years consulting, my conclusion is that hourly rate (a high rate) helped our motivations aligned.

Context is important here, the work I was doing is helping companies with big complex software projects.

Did you try something else? do you have different experience?
These are the same sort of average calculations that are the reason the general public don't understand why 1.5ºC is going to be a shitshow. Peaks and troughs and local maxima are what humans will notice, and the averages lie a great deal.

I was more talking about the distance between plants as a function of the odds of encountering the Precautionary Principle with regards to radiation events, but heat pollution is something that I've already seen happen in a town near where I grew up, where an artificial lake intended as a cooling pond ended up being unfit for recreation due to encephalitis-inducing microbes that enjoyed the heat of the cooling system.

Heat pollution at the plant can be problematic depending on where the plant is and what cooling system you use. On the consumption end it exponentially contributes to the heat island effect. Not a huge exponent, but an exponent nonetheless. Doubling power consumption more than doubles heat pump power budgets, and pushes nearby systems that previously relied on passive cooling into requiring active cooling, which pushes more systems into active cooling, on and on.

I think the only time I ever really disagreed with George Carlin was his bit about how arrogant humans are to think that we can possibly ever do enough to alter the climate. Turns out we can. There are just so many of us doing our own little game of externalities. I wonder if he were alive today what he'd have to say about it.
... Zerover[1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154187
> Depending on how you look at it using another's entity's cryptographic key to sign something that then "pretends" to have been produced by that entity might classify as forgery.

Perhaps, if you were attempting to make that claim to an actual person in a commercial context, deceiving them for personal gain. But in the context of "pretending" only to the hardware? Unlikely, as hardware has no standing in court. Even for-profit distribution shouldn't be an issue so long as it's clear to the human recipients that the signature is only present to fulfill technical requirements and the item wasn't actually produced by the other entity.
Yeah I was thinking about that, for example if you had one device but you wanted to back test versions of software is it easy to do that?

What I mean is like iOS/Safari 14 over 15
Because the user is typically looking at the center of a screen.

Sure, you can organize you windows in a way to compensate and center the content manually. But I think there are two usage patterns:

1. maximized browser windows

2. non maximized windows

For the first pattern, the above statement is essential. Naturally, the user is looking at the center of the screen. The second pattern is somewhat unpredictable, because you neither know where the window is on the screen nor the size of it. But the typical behavior for centering content (`margin: 0 auto;`) does not make any difference compared to left aligned content when the window is smaller than the content. The only hard to judge situation is, when the window is not maximized, but larger than the content and I think for that case it is pretty hard to judge if left aligned or centered content is superior.
What do you think the regulatory timeline would be for this? If my startup had a working L5 car today, how long would it take regulators to approve so the general public could buy it? I'm guessing optimistically 3 years but probably 5+. But my opinion has no experience behind it.
I wish the page had more examples at, say, the 10pt size which is more comparable to what I am using in my editor. The huge copy in the examples look beautiful but they hardly map to real world usage so not entirely helpful...
There is a large crossover between the two. If a psychotic or drug user isn't doing anything illegal, there is no harm or problem.

If their mental illness or addiction is harming others, they should be rehabilitated