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> Waymo currently operates commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco,

Basically straight lines and 365 days of sun, now send them to Europe small towns/mountain roads/&c.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyEg35Stbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wphiL3vbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZaoRu7okU
Yes, I was really disappointed to see this. I've pointed a lot of PM and folks to Isovalent and Cillium. I really like the idea of eBPF as it solves a lot of the issues that just are poorly handled by middleware/middlebox solutions. I'm not sure why a company like Palo Alto Networks didn't jump on this earlier. I know that this, somewhat, cannibalizes their core business model (middlebox solutions) - however I feel like it would have been more of an additional layer than a complete product line disruption.

At the end of the day this is a great buy for Cisco, but horrible news for customers. I feel as though Isovalent was a bit too early with their mouse trap, but damn is it a good one.
Putting people that need help in jail is the dumbest solution one can think of. You’re not solving ANYTHING. You’re just swiping what looks bad under the rug. The US prison system has already imploded.
> and nvidia would have only been a bit-level player in the LLM craze we are now in

Why? They were the only ones taking GPGPU seriously? AMD completely ignored it for years and Intel only became serious about GPUs very recently.
Companies can be at legal and financial risk if they flat out refuse to respond to subpoenas and instead demand warrants. Without a law to require warrants for this data, most companies are going to respond to them if they come from law enforcement and/or judges in their country.
This one[1] is more recent and it will affect otc cough syrup in its current form. But I was thinking about the impact removing DXM [2] from cough medicine.

edit: The net effect of those being that anything that actually works requires prescription.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-seek-public-opinion-...
[2] https://www.webmd.com/parenting/teens-cough-medicine-abuse
For any type of education, you can point to instances of abuse. For home schooling, for public schools, for private schools, for religious schools, for universities. Kids are regularly shot to death in numbers in public schools, for example. People have been beaten and abused in private schools.

What they are trying to do is to use scare stories about home schooling to scare people into giving up their freedom. It's the same tactic that's used all the time to get people to give up their rights, to get us into wars, and so on.

I want more freedom, not less. I won't let authoritarian fear tactics change that.
In a similar vein Hauschka [1] and his prepared piano is always inspiring. Really great live.

My favourite album of his: [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsvlJgtAgY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4i69t4rT2Q&list=OLAK5uy_ns5...
> The practice is pervaded by the reassuring illusion that programs are just devices like any others, the only difference admitted being that their manufacture might require a new type of craftsmen, viz. programmers. From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing of insipid code, but today I am less interested in how foolish a unit it is from even a pure business point of view. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

It doesn't sound like hyperbole to me. "lines of code" without context is a liability, more is not better. The correct side of the ledger is being stated as liability, if we're to consider lines of code at all.
Ron Wyden is my hero. Seems like the only good things coming out of Congress lately have his name on them. I wish I could vote for him.
(I’m not a lawyer.)

Some lawyer friends I have (here in Australia) have told me that electronic signatures (of the kind like DocuSign and Adobe Sign that have you “adopt” a digital signature and click a “Sign” button) should only be used in situations where the other party’s actions soon after signing will confirm their intention to be bound by the document.

For example, if there is a sales contract and the buyer proceeds to pay the money, then that payment shows intent to follow the purchase agreement.

Or, if someone sends an email after signing saying “All done. I look forward to working with you.” — that has the same effect.

To use it for something where the other party will be doing nothing for a long time (like a guarantor on a loan or lease) or acting unpredictably (like a house tenant) would be very risky. The other party could easily use the defence of “I didn’t click the button… I didn’t even know about the contract.” even if they did know and did click the button.

So why use a digital signing system? Efficiency!

It’s quicker and easier. You can get dozens done with the same time & effort it takes to arrange a single wet signature. It’s multilingual. It’s automated. It’s fancy!

Having any signature, whether wet or digital, shows that your side is following proper process. The signing of a document is an important moment, and the specific date & time often has real commercial, accounting or legal ramifications. Even if you could easily show to a court that the other party has “agreed” without signing (e.g. via email, text, phone, etc) and is acting in accordance, it’s better to just avoid the court in the first place.

To summarise:

Wet signatures are best. The other party would be crazy to challenge them.

Digital signatures are better than just an email saying “I agree.” The other party would have to be brave to challenge one.

An email saying “I agree” is better than a handshake.

(Again, I’m not a lawyer! I would love to hear a lawyer’s opinion. Though, please do so anonymously — I don’t want anyone getting in trouble!)
To be fair, it behooves local governments to solve it. However, the moment a community does do something good, like UBI or small apartments, they get flooded with every other community exporting their homeless there.

Same goes for states as well. Any state gets inundated, and quality of help goes down.

And a national level plan has no traction. Capitalism itself implicates these people are just lazy and should help themselves. So there's no good (or any) national level plan.

And the business part of the economy (rich people) just want them to be 'away'. The term "Greyhound therapy" is precisely that - rich people/local govts will buy you a ticket to go somewhere else.

In the end, having these people with a home and stable living would ABSOLUTELY help local areas, and reduce massive burdens on services. But again, political will says these failures of the capitalist machine is somehow 100% their fault, and shouldn't be helped.
Housing can not simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.
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Cars are not investments, and plenty of them keep being made. What makes housing different?
Without giving raw access to the database wouldn't this be a feature of the platform and not the client?
For everyone who doesn't know Guy Martin, I initially know him as a superbiker and first heard of him in the context of the Isle of Man TT[0][1], so I was a bit surprised to see he's now doing docuseries about power grids :D

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNXCJt7K3Q

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
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You're forgetting dioxins and other pollutants resulting from burning various materials, especially plastic.
Same way a rocket does. That is, don't treat it as if there's a need for a second object.
The release of air is applying a force in whatever the balloon still has in the direction of travel, even though it's going on the other direction.

Hope that makes sense
He said it was lucky.
As optimistic as I am about self-driving it seems like the “9s” model of reliability isn’t the right model here because one “outage” could be someone being killed. The aftershock of the Cruise car dragging someone shows how far one accident can sully a company.

The other issue I see is that I believe Waymo doesn’t live map the terrain in SF and Arizona right? They are using intricately created maps and so my question is what’s the leap for Waymo to operate with this success in say Pittsburgh?
> shitty, squashed, artifact laden, completely fake frames that don’t mean anything architecture would win?

I'm sorry but what does this even mean?
To say that the AI craze started after the crypto wave died down is disingenuous or misinformed. The future need for GPU's was apparent as soon as machine learning became relevant a decade ago. The effectiveness of transformers, rnn's, q-learning, etc, for language and other applications was not news when GPT-3 launched. NVidia invested heavily for 10 years, including funding research towards ML and AI, and steered the direction of the technology that we have today
Men can't be mothers. It's not a job for which you can train. It's a role imposed upon you by nature.

Fathers (and men, generally) can, of course, be caregivers, but that's only one of a mother's roles. It's far from the only one.

I accept that your "we" is a group of people who don't value motherhood highly. Based on my wife's experiences as a pregnant woman and our experiences being out and about with our children, I don't think that's a common sentiment in the general population.

I'll end with an unsupported assertion and a small mental leap: people are paid for work because it's the only incentive that will make them come to work. Since the 19th century, society has been progressively more successful at incentivizing women to abandon child rearing and home making in favor of commercial enterprise. Perhaps as a result (but certainly correlated), women's sense of well being has been dropping (at least through the latter third of the 20th century). Perhaps this link is causal, and the happiness lost is the reward for child rearing.
I feel like I'm living under a rock, how is everyone in these comments so intimately familiar with this subject? I've never heard the word "phenylephrine" in my life.
Is it compliant with e-signature law?
I'm truly captivated by this model.
The strategy is to target products that have a high Monthly Recurring Revenue and low complexity. This approach can outperform enterprise solutions, as many enterprises prefer to possess full ownership of their solutions.

Notable instances of this strategy include Slack with Mattermost, Tableau with Metabase, and Calendly with Cal.com.

Excellent work, team. I'm optimistic about the success of this approach
The second paragraph regarding abortion is terrifying:

> The revelation raises grave medical privacy concerns, particularly in a post-Dobbs era in which many states are working to criminalize reproductive health care. Even if people in states with restrictive laws cross state lines for care, pharmacists in massive chains, such as CVS, can access records across borders.

I was “pro-life” from as long as I can remember thinking about the issue (I still recall the Bush v. Gore debates) until I voted last month in favor of making free access to abortion a constitutional right in Ohio. It initially took some coaxing from my wife, who helped me try to understand the issue from a woman’s perspective, and for a while I had doubts about whether I had done the right thing, but reading about far-right shenanigans (or potential shenanigans) makes me 100% confident I’m now on the correct side on abortion.

Wherever power __can__ be abused, it __will__ be abused. I wish abortion was less common, and we should work on making it less common, but the last thing we need is ideologues and extremist politicians second-guessing healthcare professionals and harassing women in what is one of the most desperate times in their lives.

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Edit: reading some of the strident and confrontational comments from some of those with whom I actually agree on the issue, it’s clear that “the cause”, if you will, doesn’t always have effective advocates.

I have a fairly thick skin, some I’m avoiding engaging in a similarly mean-spirited way, but extremists (on both sides) are their own worst enemy. In the same way that I was pushed away from being “pro-life”, in part by far-right extremists, I imagine the extremists on the far-left are also losing friends and alienating people.
I laughed at that as well. Kids these days won't understand the quote!
Flash data retention is about 10 years.
And with ROHS everything is a smoking gun.
IMHO we need a standardised benchmark for this stuff.

You can't claim better than human when humans are driving under different conditions.

I looked around to try to find the actual data but it's just marketing materials. Are these miles on the same roads under the same traffic and weather conditions?
Yeah, something along these lines. Also just making apartments that Americans can be comfortable in. We are so attached to this single family home idea that is unsustainable.
Doesn’t help that moral busybodies at NYTimes got all the porn taken off PornHub
5.5% risk free gain is a barging compared to most startups.
How dare they do their own research.
Nvidia has been powering the AI(ML) progress for the last 10 years and it's because they have the best hardware/software combo for processing vectors. There's nothing lucky about being continuously dominant in a space (GPUs) for 15+ years.
I think I see your argument is economic for Uber, human-intervention for Cruise, but what is the wrong way for Tesla?
Ha! As far as I'm aware, every drug promoted as "doesn't build dependence" turns out to build dependence. Even cocaine and diazepam used to be pitched as not dependence-forming.
Are you sure these are facts? I think it’s just bad engineering IMO. Send people to jail doesn’t solve any root issues.
Another problem is that people just don't use the existing review system as intended. This entire story is hugely extreme, but over the years I've heard plenty of stories that clearly crossed boundaries. For example (all from different people):

"I arrived and we chatted and had a great time; everything was going brilliant. Suddenly he started kissing and touching me; when I hesitated it became more forceful and said 'I know you want to fuck'. I ran away and staid at a hostel."

"During the night he suddenly put his hand on my breast. I asked him what the fuck he was doing. He removed his hand and nothing more happened."

"When I arrived I was surprised that we had to share the same bed; that was a complete surprise. During the night he was far too close; nothing happened, but it was very scary."

When I asked "did you report him" none of them did. People usually aren't sure why they didn't either.

And these are just a few examples; ask any woman who has been couchsurfing for a while and they'll have at least one story to tell. Some men, too. Even though I think a small minority of people are responsible for these actions, these kind of stories aren't rare exceptions.

There's no realistic fear or repercussions here, so that can't be the main reason.

I think it's always a complex dynamic, even without outright manipulation. You're always grateful you were allowed to stay at someone's house for free, so even after the fact there's a complex mix of emotions.

Designing a good review system around this is pretty hard, although I have no doubt couchsurfing's system can be improved (insert long rant about mismanagement at couchsurfing).

Most women still loved couchsurfing by the way! I met all of them on the platform after all. I don't want to discourage anyone from using couchsurfing, but at the same time you do need to have a bit of a backbone.
you're missing the software part, which is essential to this story. Nvidia was the only GPU maker betting the farm on positioning for GPGPU/HPC all the way back in ~2007. What is happening now and since the last couple of years is just payoff for that massive R&D and software maintenance cost they've been fronting. They bet big and won big.
FYI you can get some tests without the gatekeeper now. I've used walkinlab.com before.
Correct.

This is just tinfoil hat speculation of course lol.

When this Citrix zero day was disclosed to the public a few months ago, they mentioned nationstate actors.

It seems that Santa Clause is finishing up his naughty or nice list before rejoining the little lost island of elves with the rest of mainland North Pole.
What do entitlements have to do with not asking for user permission though? Seems like separate issues.
Even in those scenarioes, I'd still trust Waymo far more than the current substandard, falsely-advertised, snake-oil alternative offerings ...
Apple has already done it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-art...
Author posted and said their index was out of date
This is pretty great.

A colleague was saying to me that they would like to be able to have an ebook to read, but also to have it read out loud when driving or walking.
Including trailers parks. New trailer parks and trailers built to modern standards could fill a lot of housing need.
Why would you make the government pay out? Make the police unions provide that insurance.
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From the included chart it looks like we are back to the pre-pandemic “good times” in total deals, down from the “Must-invest-in-everything crazy times” of the last couple of years. Is this really bad news?
> If you want this, just use MS Paint or similar tools.

Except then you need to have people install those tools and know how to use them correctly. I think eSign platforms can still provide some value here in terms of usability even if that's not the core value proposition.
There is one class of homeless that we see - the mentally ill, drug addicted, drunk, whatever, sleeping on the street, shitting on the sidewalk.

But there's also another class of homeless we don't see. They have jobs, they might be your coworker or classmate. But they live out of a car or at a homeless shelter.

It's worth keeping that in mind.
...in the US.

Jurisdiction please.
I have no dog in this fight but saying "X" is a bigger driver than "Y" of some complex social phenomenon is not what I consider to be a "fact".
Phenylephrine should be banned as an oral decongestant in all cold medicines, prescription and OTC, because it is a scam and doesn't work.

It basically serves as a way to sell people OTC decongestants, since the one that actually works (pseudoephedrine) is BTC.
Ultimately it's an empirical question, and unless someone has published the research, you and I will not be able to know for sure. I think there will be a lot of cases where two people simply look a lot alike, and any observer would have difficulty distinguishing them.
I get it, but also I think this is one of the things that makes Ben so good at his job and is also a bit more nuanced than might initially appear. He (mostly) isn't interested in being an activist for a certain perspective and really just seems to think about things in terms of systems, incentives, and revealed preferences as they exist today. I think this can butt heads with idealist types who want things to be a different way, but to me it's a big part of what makes his writing and analysis so good.
> The problem is people don't want housing for the homeless (or any housing at all, usually) built near them.

Oh, actually I think the problem is that I would like temporary housing to be built for the homeless, just far away from me. But certain people insist that they let homeless people, with their many varied problems, live up the street from me instead.

One would think that being willing to have temporary housing built somewhat distant from any major cities is a compromise on my part, but my opponents insist on getting everything they want and having homeless people live on the exact same block as me. It's like every other topic where people have zero intention of compromising, e.g. no abortions even in the case of rape, no guns allowed period, etc. etc. The internal debate people use to arrive at a position becomes: How can I best poke my neighbor in the eye and force them to exist in a political reality that they despise, instead of compromising? That is the position I would like to take.

And instead of reaching any sort of compromise that could help solve the problem, we get nothing, a political stalemate where no one wins and everyone loses. Politics in the US is absolute trash.
Liking this post, thanks for sharing.
I disagree. Coming from Europe the problem is that the US is filled with homeless people everywhere. It really is a crisis. Whereas in Europe you don’t really see them. It’s incomparable (and yet we still complain about homeless people in Europe).

For example I used to looooove hanging out at libraries, that’s until I moved to the US where they are crowded with homeless people.
CIA and NSA would like to have a word with you. :)) /s

Anyway, they don't usually talk about their archival capabilities.
Especially when Microsoft paid out about 75k for essentially the same issue.
The article mentions this choice being made in 2018. I don't know the ML industry, but as a gamedev I had been mystified about Nvidia's strategy since about 2018.

It felt like they weren't leaning into crypto, which surprised me. Instead it looked like they were trying to maintain gamer goodwill by not increasing consumer card costs during the boom. Of course scarcity raised secondary market princes, but Nvidia kept MSRP lower than the boom dictated.

It seemed like they were betting against crypto during the craze. And sticking to their strategy on the consumer side. So maybe that's how they stuck to a ML strategy too.

So they had all this CUDA stuff, which they must have invested in heavily because AMD showed what happens when you don't. That led to a software ecosystem for ML.

Maybe it was all luck, but a strategic choice explains some of this in hindsight.
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It doesn’t need to be either/or. We can simultaneously increase housing supply through new construction and disincentivize suboptimal uses of housing you describe.
Subjectivity in AI with Dan Shipper and Bob van Luijt
Hey everyone!! I am SUPER excited to publish the fourth and final episode of the AI-Native Database podcast series with Dan Shipper and Bob van Luijt!

I thought Dan brought such a unique perspective on how we write and create with ChatGPT and Vector DBs! We dove into how subjectivity, or personality, is reflected in AI systems. For example, imagine you ask an LLM: "Could you plan a vacation to Miami?". Compared to previous database or search engine technologies that will just spit out relevant information to the query, the LLM might respond: "Are you sure you want to go to Miami? I think Fort Lauderdale is nicer at this time of year".

The podcast is titled "Subjectivity in AI" because this is such a novelty of AI compared to previous technologies. How will this unique "personality" of LLMs (as well as vector embeddings, classifiers, and other model types) seep into all these new applications? Can we control it with prompts and RAG, training data, or some combination of the above? What do multi-agent systems look like, each with their own personality and intrinsic motivation? Further, what new art forms will arise because of this property of AI, what will the "overdrive" of AI use look like?

I hope you enjoy the podcast, the last in our series! This has been so much fun to record and publish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prV5R3T6UqM
> This one[1] is more recent and it will affect otc cough syrup in its current form.

Functionally, no, it won't. The ingredient doesn't do anything; it's a scam.
It's the internet. I have a feeling a lot of people are not. One tab for HN, another tab for wikipedia.
ship homeless instead?