A public 'bed car' sounds gross.
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Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving are too fuzzy to guarantee safety. For example, traffic lights can be obscured, out of order, or spoofed; unless they are modified to support av; I don't think this is solvable.
Although autonomous vehicles will require a safety driver for a while, interim benefits still exist and services like this will potentially provide the momentum needed to make those infrastructure changes.
Now we can't trust any package published from China.
This is a bigger deal than a targeted evil maid. Distributed trust is better than centralized trust.
It is comparatively trivial to steal a strong password when it is transmitted over the internet vs local key material.
Nation states with bad certs (china has done this) can steal your password, npm can steal your password, npm can be hacked and leak passwords, npm can be subject to a NSL and forced to hand over passwords, etc, etc.
There is a big difference between passwords and keys.
Not sure why they use those balloons though, seems like a maintenance nightmare. A diving bell would work just as well and be much simpler.
Good design must be usable; otherwise we'd call it art.
That Facebook redesign for example, while very aesthetically pleasing it looks horrible or confusing to use:
* Search box doesn't look like an input control
* Low contrast for top right nav (how do I change to any other page?)
* Where did my groups and apps go?
* Large pictures, great for mock ups, but it just means more scrolling when 80% of
content I don't care or want to see;
I really don't want to have a picture of a high school friend's baby take up the whole screen
* etc.
To me this signals that the company has stagnated, or has grown beyond technology; it's an engineering team with no new ideas, no innovation, that's desperately trying to remain relevant in a company that is becoming less and less about the technology.
That's just my experience, but think about it. If a company has other revenue streams they can capture using new tech, how could they justify a rewrite vs. developing that new tech?
I've worked on a similar problem, and some very large retailers we worked with wanted to measure ROAS. They turned off all adspend in a certain large metropolitan area, while we turned on in that area. Measuring the sales lift/drop, gave an idea of the platform's effectiveness.
Any other demographic data point could also be used, not just geo. You don't necessarily need to link people directly.
Unpublished code, is itself a trade secret. Even just the processes, procedures, organisation, tooling, library use, etc in the code provides a competitive advantage. i.e. The 'metadata' is also a trade secret.
The only intent you'd need to prove is that the accused is using the trade secret to the 'economic benefit of anyone other than the owner'.
It seems obvious that Kite is training a proprietary ML algorithm, with trade secrets, for their own economic benefit.
Once you have you'll quickly realise that the 'long wait times' narrative is complete propaganda FUD.
Anecdote time: My sister is anaphylactic, when she goes to the ER she is admitted, hooked up, and given epi almost immediately. When my aunt couldn't move her arm one day, she got an MRI, diagnosed brain cancer, and had brain surgery in the same week.
I'm glad to have a system that when you are waiting it's because there are people with more urgent needs, rather than because there are people who paid more.
This seems like some kind of self-selection proxy.
When I was younger I thought cubicles were the worst: the pinnacle of boring-grey office culture. Now that I'm older, I yearn for a quiet place to call my own.
'Cubicles' if done right can be pretty damn good! When I worked at IBM, everybody got a 'PWA': four 9ft tall walls, a sliding door, a corner desk, and a few shelves. It was amazing, and took up no more space than a standard cubicle.
Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability
My first hunch would be to use rollers, like getting that last bit of toothpaste out; I can't believe that it operated as an actual press.
It really is beautifully designed though. I figure the engineers were either forced to make a 'juice press' for marketing, or took it too literally.
Although, I do wonder what effects there would be if a cancer cure-all were discovered.
Since nearly everyone would need the treatment at some point, it wouldn't really be insurance anymore; more like a mortgage.
How? Google is a private individual/company; they can deny anyone service, so long as the reason is not discriminating against a protected class.
The code, imo, is some of the highest quality js I've seen. It is also incredibly comprehensive and easily as complex.
High quality != shipping fast. They are separate quantities, it is easy to have one without the other but very rare to have both.
> Do I value integrity? Do I value my family? If I value both, which do I value more?
To make that choice you need to quantify exactly how 'bad' something is though, otherwise you can't determine which you value more.
It's like comparing stealing a loaf of bread vs. killing a man and stealing his money for your family; you'd need to quantify how "bad" each is, to determine that for ex. killing is worse than letting my family starve.
So how 'bad' is automating your job, is it even 'bad' at all?
There is, you can quit and offer to build/sell/license the solution to your previous employer. Of course this would mean incurring (potentially) substantial risk, that you might lose your salary, they might not be interested, they might sue you, etc.
The irony is that if a Chelsea Manning/Edward Snowden character leaked the DNC emails people would be praising them for exposing the shitshow that was going on behind the scenes.
It kind of takes the heat off of the Dems, it wasn't them who were tampering with the election (which they were); it was the Russians!
Why does it matter so much who leaked the emails, rather than the content of them? If the DNC has nothing to hide...
Taking the tinfoil off, Russia is probably behind the attacks but espionage is all about using misinformation; so who knows. Without the methodology behind how they've determined Russia was behind those attacks, we can never know.
In the unix world, iirc, many systems were configured to expose a folder on the user's home directory (www). Which would expose that to something like: www.mit.edu/~<username>
"The elevated BLL intervention package includes treatments previously demonstrated to impact later-life outcomes such as: visits from health workers; increased medical care; nutritional assessments and dietary modifications; and referral to the Special Supplemental, Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Prior research documents long-term benefits from programs similar to each of these elements ..."
"Two primary channels emerge through which intervention affects antisocial behavior and cognitive outcomes. First, intervention may dramatically reduce the amount of continued childhood exposure to the dangerous neurotoxin by directly reducing exposure risks within the home environment. Second, long-term benefits may occur through improvements in early-life health unrelated to any changes in lead exposure. [11] ...
[11] The elevated BLL intervention package includes treatments previously demonstrated to impact later-life outcomes such as: visits from health workers; increased medical care; nutritional assessments and dietary modifications; and referral to the Special Supplemental, Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Prior research documents long-term benefits from programs similar to each of these elements ..."
Why didn't they control for the other intervention treatments? One where they reduce BLL + other treatments, and one where they didn't reduce BLL but still gave the other treatments?