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Yes, its good engineering practice to solve the easier problems before solving the hard ones.
Sometimes Kubernetes is the answer.

I don’t need Google scale, I don’t need all the bells and whistles, but what I get is abstracting server infra, and pushing it onto a dedicated corporate wide team.
Uh no thanks I'll remain rightfully and objectively terrified by them into the foreseeable future.
I sometimes get annoyed at how we talk about self driving cars, we shouldn't expect them to have a perfect track record. There will always be situations that neither choice is a good one but something has to happen.

But to me, I often wonder about once this tech comes out what happens once theoretically all of the self driving cars can communicate with each other? So if you need to break suddenly, instead of just your car than its a series of cars that can do it together or example?

I have been wondering if there has been any talk about a standard around doing this proposed since to me that is the true power of self driving cars, not just how do they operate with other unpredictable drivers.
Use co-working, Luke.
I had a friend that lived in the Outer Hebrides (Northwest coast of Scotland).

He said it wasn't unusual to have gales in the winter, with >100Km/hr winds.

Seems to be a rich local resource.
It doesn't have high returns, except if you already own the land.

We need to limit land value increases.

A land value tax helps with that.
Increasing supply by upzoning might help even more.
Sure, but the failure modes of the traditional human-controlled car are incredibly stupid, we've just gotten used to it.
>Just require police to carry liability insurance so their misconduct is paid for by the insurance

I consistently and strongly disagree with this. The police are a manifestation of our society. When they do bad things they do so in our name - whether or not you want them to do it. We have created a law enforcement structure that empowers these abuses to happen. Transferring the cost to them for acting the way society wants them to act is not the answer. We bear that responsibility and should bear that cost.
I like the analogy with real estate. It has that intrinsic decay element that large systems also suffer from. It also incorporates the "death by 1000 cuts" experience of dealing with a nonstop slew of minor problems week-by-week. In this analogy, I think you could compare vendors like Amazon and Microsoft to Blackstone. Scale is what makes the game work for these players. Very few get wealthy by personally lording over a handful of concerns in a single metro.

Our model today is to rent out complexity & infra as much as possible. We don't want to own a single square foot of tech property if we can avoid it. We don't even have physical floor space in our corporate "office".

We aren't particularly interested in the construction style or the brand of the lighting fixtures. We just want some kind of generic, air-conditioned box w/ WiFi to exist inside of while we conduct our actual business. The shorter & more flexible the lease terms, the better. If we could, we'd like to pay per minute of occupancy and only while we are on the property. That would be most ideal.
You probably know given your username, but Sudafed is also great for diving to avoid barotrauma (MEBT). Just need to ensure it's not less than the 12 hour formulation, lest it wear off at depth.
That doesn't make any sense. I'm looking for someone whose fundamental ethics reflects mine so that their analysis of e.g. "should society work this way" has some overlap with what I actually want to see in the world. They are fully capable, as am I, into taking into account tradeoffs and changing our opinions.

Stratechery's analysis is, when it broaches on ethics, based on ethics shared by a subset of rich people and (imo) amoral technologists and, I think, pretty much no one else.

Like I have an aesthetic interest in disallowing corporations from implementing psychological manipulation to prevent me from e.g. quitting their services. Ben can see no problem with Amazon's arcane process for quitting Prime. So, fine, he's not a person I want speaking for me or, like, affecting any policy on the matter whatsoever.
That's super usable!
Thanks. Well that's confusing then. People keep saying phenylephrine doesn't work which seemed blatantly false to me. They're not trying to ban the use in nasal sprays are they?
>With the licensing of patents? Duh?

Licensing isn't a compliance matter. There's no enforcement entity. It's all just civil litigation and party's deciding things on their own.

>Ah. I'm reminded of the famous quote — "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Community discussions are wher you talk with other people, not to win on a technicality in a courtroom.

I'm not trying to win on a technicality here, all I did was explain to you that your understanding of patent incentives was wrong and based on incorrect facts.

>I'm sorry that the word compliance isn't sufficiently in-group for you. Perhaps tell people that you want to gate-keep rather than discuss, as it'll save other people a lot of time.

It's not that it isn't sufficiently in group, it's that it is without meaning in this context.

> Perhaps tell people that you want to gate-keep rather than discuss, as it'll save other people a lot of time.

I've been engaging in discourse with you. You refuse to come to the table and recognize what's actually going on, just repeating yourself and your misunderstandings.

>Ah. I'm reminded of the famous quote — "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

You have no idea what you are talking about. I'm plaintiff side. Anything pro small-inventor would be for my own benefit. Getting my client a license is preferable to trial. The thing is, the big companies never want to license because they can just force me to have to take them to trial, where we risk losing, or losing on appeal. You'd behove yourself to actually attempt to grok at least one of my posts instead of just typing "but compliance"
I know at least 3 people who spent the last few years living in a van while making over $200k a year. Mostly to travel, but some just enjoy the lifestyle.
What’s your basis for saying that Apple doesn’t provide special treatment to apps? I’ve directly experienced both of their special and their non public (phone calls only, refusal to communicate over email) processes.
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If you follow that logic the rest of the complaining, which is just your complaining, is just irrelevant whining.

And if Apple is responsible for noting who owns the devices next up you will come whining about how that mean Apple doesn’t allow you to sell your devices without informing them.

Whine whine whine from a non paying customer. You don’t like the products, you’re supposedly not going to buy them. What are you whining about, that a product exists that you don’t like? Nobody cares.
Scientists simulate runaway greenhouse process – could make Earth uninhabitable
The 100-year-old book series that predicted a wild and wonderful future
Oh wow these are the folks who brought ebpf to the world.

Very cool documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA
> it has no known rebound effect

That sounds like "famous last words". The fact that they don't know of the effects is probably because they carefully avoided looking for them.

I've tried cocaine; didn't like it. I use OTC codeine/paracetamol for pain; I don't need the paracetamol, but you can't buy straight codeine OTC in the UK, so I'm forced to buy a proprietary compound. I'm never tempted to take it if I don't need it.

So it probably sounds as if I'm the type who doesn't fall to addictions; but in fact I've been addicted to alcohol and nicotine for 40 years. I've tried repeatedly to quit both, and failed.

There's just one psychoactive drug I've used that is definitely not addictive: LSD. If you can bear to continue tripping for more than about 3 days, it stops working, no matter how high the dose, and you won't get re-sensitized until several weeks of abstinence.
Not fun when you click and hit a paywall.
Plastic is now a geological phenomenon
It was raining yesterday and the Waymos were out but it doesn't matter that much. You won't get self-driving cars in your streets in Europe and that's okay.

It's just like how iPhones are wildly popular in the US. I'm sure there's someone who's like "Yeah, try to sell a $1k device to a Romanian and see how it goes" and Apple only gets 25% market share there but they're one of the most successful companies in the world, without Romania.

Some markets can be irrelevant.
> When the self mining craze somewhat waned

It didn't wane, it was decimated when ETH switched to PoS, and off of GPU mining entirely.

All of the other mined coins dropped in value as miners moved to them and dumped all their rewards, making mining those coins unprofitable as well.

It was ETH that was propping up the entire GPU mining ecosystem.
What was it like when the first stars began to shine?
> Unless you're sending a verification email for every sign-in...

Isn't that your typical 2FA flow?
>Is there a way to triangulate where you are exactly? No

The phone knows the signal strength of each ssid. Why can't it triangulate where it is?
An autonomous system doesn't just put together classifications of what it sees in the environment.

It also gets quantitative measures of how confident it should be in what it just classified. And if your confidence measures decline, for any reason, it can just slow down. Small European towns should be doable.
Do you read news? Why did the pope condemn the shooting of two Christian women in a church in Gaza? And can you please stop insulting me?

Apparently what I am saying is the IDF does not care if civilians are killed. And I am saying they deliberately target civilians, not only in Gaza, but in West Bank as well. Ample evidence. Go read Haaretz or other serious journalism.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/18/women-mother-d...
They pivoted from the previous fad.
It really varies.

I was in Spain a few months back and basically any drugs are only sold in pharmacies. And, at least one drug (Aleve brand name) which is broadly available OTC in the US generally requires a prescription in Spain and maybe France at least.
"Withholding water, food, medicines for 2.3mil civilians for over 75 days" – how many trucks of aid entered Gaza? How much of that aid reached Palestinians? Correct, almost none.

How much water Israel was providing to Gaza before October 7? Correct, only 13% of its use, and is not obliged to provide.

Where did the pipes for the canalisation and water systems go? Correct, it went to build Qassam missiles. Where would any other aid go? Correct, it will go to fight Israel and kill Israelis.

Also your statement. "75 days" is simply not true – https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reopens-second-of-three... and is the exact example of "demonisation" and antisemitism.
> If your self-driving car kills or maims someone in a situation where a normal sober person driving wouldn’t have

What if it does this while also _not_ killing/harming in many other situations where a human would have?
OK, let's say for your sake: democracy gives us some limited freedoms, that almost all other forms of government take away.

It's not in the definition of autocracy that you should self censor if you live in one. In reality, it is just a given.

Same for theocracy, etc. And there are countless other freedoms taken away in these other government systems.

Also, I don't want you to have total, unrestricted freedom. I don't want you to have the freedom to harm me without consequences =)

So, limited ability to sack a government, and freedom of association, and freedom of commerce are good enough for me, from a practical point of view.
Having worked in audiobooks before, those limits usually come from rights holders, not from the streaming service.

(I work for Spotify now, but have no idea what the audiobook licensing is there, and couldn't tell you if I did know)
Don’t forget their clubhouse competitor Spotify Live which they shuttered earlier this year
For now it is very limited. It is just a promise. It depens of the evolution.

In my case:

- It sometimes replaces Stack Overflow for some questions

- It replaces Google for other questions. Not always.
When pseudoephedrine became a behind-the-counter drug in 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Methamphetamine_Epidemi...), they wanted a replacement chemical that looked similar enough on the box to avoid a drop in sales.

It is a legitimate vasoconstrictor, but not when taken orally. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/health/phenylephrine-tablets-...

> The agency approved phenylephrine for over-the-counter use in the 1970s, but it became even more common after 2005, when legislation restricted access to OTC drugs that use a similar decongestant ingredient called pseudoephedrine.

> Phenylephrine works by temporarily reducing the swelling of blood vessels in the nasal passages. A respiratory infection or allergies prompt the body to send white blood cells to the nose, throat and sinuses, leading to swelling in the nasal membranes and the creation of mucus. Decongestants constrict the blood vessels in the sinuses and nose, reducing the swelling and helping fluids drain.

> In pill form, some scientists say, phenylephrine gets absorbed by the gut and is metabolized so well that only a tiny bit makes it to the bloodstream, where it is needed to reach the nose, according to the citizen petition that asks the FDA to pull the drug from store shelves. A citizen petition is a way for industry, consumer groups or individuals to petition the FDA to change regulations or take other administrative action.
AMD does not just make GPUs, and pre-2008 their resources were spent on their fab, post-2008 they simply had no resources. They did not need to expand the TAM, just try to increase their revenue share. CPUs did not need the same level of investment for return.
It can and does.
So if I'm tracking the progress correctly, now we should be able to do:
Single Image -> Gaussian Splats -> Object Identification -> [Nearest Known Object | Algo-based shell] Mesh Generation -> Use-Case-Based Retopology -> Style-Trained Mesh Transformation

Which would produce a new mesh in the style of your other meshes, based on a single photograph of a real-world object.

...and, at this speed, you could do that as a real-time(ish) import into a running application/game.

Gotta say, I'm looking forward to someone putting these puzzle pieces together! But it really does feel like if we wait another month, there might be some new AI that shrinks that pipeline by another one or two steps! It's an exhausting time to be excited!
It seems like these accidents could have been prevented by humans driving cars with collision avoidance. I'm a big fan of this feature on my relatively late-model Subaru, which tends to come part-and-parcel with adaptive cruise control, which is also quite a positive change in experience driving.

I recently rented an even later-model Malibu that only had collision warning auditory alert. Better than nothing, but I'm surprised cars are still made without automatic braking.
I'm sorry, but you were the one suggesting that 4 deaths somehow didn't suffice to meet the criteria of "multiple deaths" which seems absurd and in defiance of any common use of the language.
From the article linked above:

> the agency said that its order would only be related to the oral drugs and not the spray form.
I don't understand the point of comments like this, and I see them all the time when it comes to autonomous vehicles.

First, as all the other respondents have pointed out, your characterization of San Francisco as "straight lines and 365 days of sun" is way, way off. But more importantly, as a consumer, I'd be thrilled to own an autonomous vehicle even if it didn't work in bad weather. There's easily enough data to have a car say "there is a storm coming in your area, can't drive autonomously" long before it would become a safety issue.

And, of course, wouldn't one expect an autonomous vehicle to start in places with better conditions vs yolo'ing it in a blizzard whiteout?
The share of Nikola in a total-market index fund was so tiny as to be negligble. If one person invested $100K in a total market fund, and another put together thier own "total market minus nikola" fund, even with zero trading fees, the latter might be up maybe $10 or so over the former. After fees and slippage, they're almost certainly behind.
AFAICT the cars are everywhere I'd go. They're just on normal streets and when you take them they're just like normal drivers (except they don't run reds and are politer).
Hard disagree.

Greenfield vs Brownfield experience teaches us differently, you don't need analytics involved. Scope creep doesn't just eat up man hours, it eats up the ability to maintain and bring onboard new people. Learning new features to you doesn't eat your time when you already know the product. Learning new features as newguy is far harder because you don't know the underlying product, but you're expected to know the core product, including all new features.

This is tech debt, and all code becomes it, because devs die. Fortunately we end up moving techstacks, which allow the new devs to eliminate that code debt, temporarily.

You see this same thing in gaming. Dota 2, LoL, CS, Live Service XYZ are not getting new players because the amount of things you have to learn now vs when the game was new is mountanic.
The biggest mind bend you can give yourself here is that the difference between asset and liability is largely perspective only. Consider your deposit in a bank. It is, by definition an asset. However, it is also, by definition, recorded as a liability for the bank. They both lend against it, as an asset, and they are required to pay it back, as a liability.

That is, yes. Code is a liability. This does not keep it from being an asset, as well.
I took a waymo last night in the rain in union square in SF. I assure you it wasn't easy, many merges, people walking in the road, cars to pass, etc.
If your system is objectively right, but also objectively causing accidents with humans. Well you won't fix the humans...
I'm not a legal expert, but is it necessary for an act to pose a threat to "national" security for it to be considered illegal in places like the United States?

In my country, we have a law known as "The Crime of Destroying Computer Information Systems." This law makes it a criminal offense to intentionally harm computer systems in a way that could compromise them (which is somewhat vague in its definition, I'd admit). This includes leaking private information from these systems, and it applies even if the affected systems belong to private entities. And if you sell exploits to a third party and are later caught, you will be considered an accomplice and there are precedents for this.
I see, so you'd classify Tesla's FSD as software that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, because it is only a concept or is still being written or designed. Got it.
It sounds like the issue is that these service providers are obeying Google's aliasing rules, but also ignoring the fact that you shouldn't be using email as a primary identifier [1]? It's funny, if they had adhered to the spec more they'd be fine; but if they adheredess and treated alias' as distinct emails, these platforms would at least be more secure.

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid...
stop being a jerk.
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Withholding != not providing. It is a very muddy topic as is, but let’s not leave out that Gaza is not bordered by Israel alone.

What some random politician says (and then some of them gets cut up out of context for propaganda) has not much to do with the actual official foreign policy of a country.

Every civilian deaths is deeply tragic, but 0 deaths is absolutely impossible to achieve, and without eradication of hamas, the whole story will repeat again in a year or so, leaving much more innocent people die and suffer on the long run. Palestine requires a similar de-radicalization that Germany has underwent after ww2. Significant controlled investment into the region. But that can only start after there are no more hamas.
You bring up a great point about selection bias. The "homeless" you see are the ones with the drug/mental illness problems. When I was in college 2 of my friends were homeless. One slept in his car, the other slept in an office building. I would have never known if they hadn't told me.
I think it's the opposite actually; only individuals can really opt out. As a long time observer of the US (having lived in it my entire life), I'd say it's a highly anti-collectivist country. Socialized education is under attack as unfree and lacking choice. I find it instructive to think about if libraries did not exist and someone proposed creating them today - can you imagine the screams of "socialism!" and the attacks on such an idea as collective ownership of books? And we're the only developed country that lacks a universal healthcare system.

I feel that I've voted my entire life for more collective solutions to problems (what else is government for?) though imperfect the purveyors of such solutions may be (let's be real, as fashionable as it is to say that both sides are bad, the Democratic party are the only ones trying to actually improve things). But it seems that enough voters go the other direction that we have decided against such solutions. I am truly sorry for the state of things and that children today will inherit these problems.
Matrox and 3dfx never came close to making general purpose GPUs, they just got completely outcompeted in the regular PC graphics market of the late 90s. Matrox and 3dfx last tried to compete on architecture in 2002 [1] and 1999 respectively, while the first GPUs capable of general purpose computing were released many years later at the end of 2006 (by Nvidia) and mid 2007 (by AMD/ATI). High performance GPUs have been a completely Nvidia and AMD/ATI affair for two decades until Intel entered the fray last year, since before people even conceived of GPGPUs.

Matrox and 3dfx were gone before they could even conceive of a general purpose GPU strategy.

[1]: The Matrox Parhelia itself being out of date tech on release to boot, lacking a Direct3D 9.0 class architecture that ATI launched two months later.
As you said, it's early days. That's all subject to change. Especially if it goes public.
No, there are only two valid values for {name} where this kind of dynamic is both real and useful to observe, the rest I would agree with you.
Stop worrying about deepfakes, as in "we can't do anything about them and have to resign to have unrealiable media evidence from now and till forever.". Don't worry about that, right?

Also this professor's methodology is laughable. He is surveying popular deepfakes on the popular sites. OF COURSE they will be jokes. Who will share and view a million times a deepfake of some CCTV with a face of some robber substituted for some other equally unknown guy. Or a deepfake of a car crash with car plates swapped for different ones. Etc.

"We were worried that they will affect elections or politicians, but none of that has transpired." Says who? Who did this research? How was this determined? By a gut feeling while watching deepfake memes? Thought so.
that's a you problem.