I would guess for safety and usability. If everyone can see where your taxi is, it's harder for a driver to kidnap you.
You can have that without giving away the whole store. How can you claim a system is designed to be "Safe" when it somehow reveals personal details enough about a driver for Uber to find them and try to hire them? What is to stop a stalker from finding female drivers and doing whatever they like to them...
I am jus saying the company had a responsibility to the drivers that it sounds like they shirked, if Uber had enough data to find drivers that a very bad sign for how well the company protected data. Who is to say they were not equally lax in protecting client data too...
How is everyone OK with this? We must wake up and punish companies anywhere that leak personal data, for either employees or customers. It is way past time we stopped letting this kind of no-security bullshit slide, even (especially?) if the information is used against that company.
Seriously, how can you support the lax security policies of this company as being OK?
However, WHY did that other company have all of these details of drivers that could be scraped? I feel like they had an API that could be arbitrarily queried for cars on the road that gave out way too much information.
Server API designers seem to never consider the importance of what they send, and how to protect the contents of what is being sent from a user that can easily install certificates or man in the middle attacks to inspect all traffic. How do you not expect competitors are trying to look at this information? Even if it were not officially sanctioned you know some software engineer at Uber would have been trying to see hit competitive apps did just to understand how other people made systems work...
If you can't connect a mouse, a USB drive, a printer who gives a shit then?
The people who can attach USB-C hubs, for video output or SD card attachment or keyboards or other USB-C devices...
Some things may not work at the moment, like USB-C drives, but eventually they will (there's already at least one external drive maker that has an app that can connect to an external drive they make).
The advantages are being able to use the same adaptors for things like video across a laptop and the iPad....
it'll be safer to buy Delta tickets than find that other airlines are again allowed to put these Max planes back in the air
You said "Safer" and "Delta" in the same sentence, hmm...
This issue seems like something the pilots can work around if they know what is going on, which the U.S. pilots seem to.
I got an email from Southwest Cargo related to the Max, they stated:
While we remain confident in the MAX 8 after completing more than 88,000 flight hours accrued over 41,000 flights, we support the actions of the FAA and other regulatory agencies and governments across the globe that have asked for further review of the data
That's a lot of flights they have done with the plane, so it's not like the plane is inherently unsafe - there is a flaw in this system, which will get resolved one way or another. They'll be back in the air and as safe as any other place flying.
are they still stuck with a proprietary charging port or they moved on to USB-C ?
The iPad Pro uses USB-C, so if that is a requirement you have a solution already. Nothing wrong with more consumer oriented gear that will not have much attached over a lifetime of the product using different ports.
they have unfiltered access to all of the commands you send to AWS in cleartext. sending data into ML? they can read it. storing data on S3 unencrypted? they can read it.
Yes... but so what?
First of all, if Amazon were ever to be found to be scanning containers that would be the end of AWS, so honestly I doubt they are dong this even if they technically COULD.
Secondly as I said, even if they do risk the company by scanning text uploaded to containers for every tiny startup, what honestly would they really learn? Are you storing your email there? What are you storing there that would really be that huge a help to determining viability?
And like I said, you don't even know what other servers a company is using, so low activity is not a good indicator for viability even if you know the general company type.
I'm just not convinced that even looking at the things you described gives you enough of a picture to make the "insider trading" claim that is being put forward.
If Amazon is using its direct knowledge of startups' health based on the fact that Amazon literally owns and operates the servers, how is this at all ethical?
That assumes you CAN determine a startup's health from server activity.
Maybe there's not a lot going on, but they have one huge trial customer and a really low burn rate.
Maybe there is a lot going on server-wise, but the burn rate is high and the large amount of traffic is really killing the company sooner rather than later as they are not moving towards profitability quick enough.
How honestly would you consistently determine a companies health from server activity? You have no emails, you have no Slack communications, hell you may not even have the whole server picture, what if they are also using color hosted servers or a mixture of Amazon for storage and other servers for compute?
In order for a vehicle like this to be operated at a profit it must spend a very high percentage of the day "in operation". The problem with EVs (of all kinds) is that they have significant down-time whilst being recharged.
Battery packs you can swap out ad re-charge offline would totally eliminate that issue. It does increase the initial cost having to have so many battery packs and some infrastructure to change them out.
It's impossible to guard a number, when at this point they are simply calling all numbers in a valid area code, probably sharing any numbers that even voice mail picks up on...
Almost getting to the point where I wish there was an hour a day I could designate as a time it was possible to call me, that I could set arbitrarily - then the rest of the day have my number reported by the phone company as disconnected.
The technical issues are being chipped away but there are power and autonomy (traffic control) issues that will require decades of work
Practical flying taxis already exist - they just aren't large enough to carry humans yet.
Drone tech in terms of following paths and tracking and even collision detection and avoidance, is all there and really reliable now.
You don't need to fully solve traffic control. You just need to have well-defined paths and schedules and a few deviations possible. The "nice" thing is that unlike traffic, any problems is the air are quickly cleared away letting further flights continue.
Taxi air drones are a much easier problem to resolve than self-driving cars, and we are almost there with cars...
I signed up for some company that is offering test drone-taxi flights this year. From what I can tell they just take you up, go for a short tour, and then come back to the same spot. But they are planning to launch with real people this year.
The benefits to a city of working drone taxis are so monumental I think they will start going as soon as even the first viable solution is in play. Especially in Silicon Valley, but not that long to reach other places as well.
I really like the thought of not having to take a car in for service, that someone can just come out and repair it.
One thing I've wondered is how the fix some things without a real lift - like if they need to replace some parts of the suspension. Seems like they would still have to take it to a real shop for some more advanced repairs.
Since an electric car is generally simpler. I had been wondering what kinds of repairs people were even calling in...
MrBeast got a video demonetized for singing less than 3 seconds of a a song. Yes, just singing it, and the person claiming the copyright had 1 video uploaded.
This suggests a strategy - make videos where you sing yourself, then immediately after upload claim copyright on any official videos that claim the song... you could imagine YouTube not allowing inverse copyright actions to be filed without renewing them both more carefully, or possibly the first always taking precedence.
As I said before, I found the system entire corrupt and producing material factually wrong. So who are you to say the material this paid person is attempting to insert is not more correct? If I were a company paying him, all I would want is a factual account of what is really going on.
Indeed, you really need to read the article again because the way this guy wins is really by being correct, and explaining the ten thousand ways in which the edits he is making ARE correct. That is really why editors give up, because they cannot proof he is wrong and he can work the rules.
And useful idiots like you.
Problem with your statement; I'm the opposite of a useful idiot. I am a jaded man of experience who has seen the bar far worse wrongs the system is rife with. So I'm all for whatever small forces of correction try to push back against the howling void.
In my limited interactions with Wikipedia editors, I would have to say that very probably this guy paid to correct mistakes, is way more likely to be accurate than the supposedly "neutral" Wikipedia editors.
So I applaud the tenacity of this guy to correct mistakes that editors probably made on purpose to begin with to slam or ridicule some target. Even if he was paid, he is doing God's work in doing some small part to drag Wikipedia back to real neutrality.
After all, all this guy can really effectively argue for is substantiated truth... I had a running fight with an entry on a wiki page just to add a movie reference, the editor refused to acknowledge that a movie existed even though it was sold on Amazon. I eventually gave up, not worth my ALSO unpaid time to fight with wiki editors who are supposedly unpaid but spend 100% of time on the system...
I don't think the data really bears that statement out, Amazon's cloud services are used by a lot of services with a very heavy load (like millions of users load), and on top of that you know Amazon's IT is not too bad because of how generally reliable Amazon itself is (never mind that little hours long flub last Thanksgiving).
To my mind, what has Microsoft really done at the scale that Amazon handles regularly? In terms of proven ability I trust Microsoft a bit less, though Azure has generally seemed to work pretty well for people I know that have used it.
One of the apps alerts people nearby that know CPR an event is happening, so you get quicker response.
There are also educational apps that help you learn CPR, better than nothing if you are the only one there. Although I do not know which apps do this, it also seems like CPR apps could help with timing of the presses and breathing assist you are supposed to be doing.
So don't make too light of apps that can help someone having an attack...
I've been looking at service providers, and at this point I would probably go with Microsoft primarily because I want real competition for Amazon in the server space.
It's difficult though as Amazon has some offerings like Glacier I'm not sure other even really offer - does anyone know of other companies provide something like that, that are also pretty reliable?
To me it seems pretty obvious that Penny Arcade is directly responsible for this resurgence. Not only because for a few years now they have made non-electronic games like tabletop cool again with a whole show dedicated to showcasing them, but even more because of the very popular webcast of "Acquisitions Incorporated" D&D sessions.
That has interested a ton of people in D&D and I think may be the key reason for the rise you see, because they have shown it is cool, and maybe more importantly shown how fun it can be with a good DM and plot.
Key phrases in the article. Looks more like damning with faint praise. Why only "sometimes"?
Gee, why not ask whoever wrote the summary? Because the article ITSELF has the title:
Stanford study finds Apple Watch can detect irregular heart rhythms
That's not very faint at all, and "sometimes" never appears in the article.
The problem is, whoever added "sometimes" to the summary didn't understand what the 84% was about...
For something that is worn as much as an Apple Watch, it should "nearly always" be able to spot a problem.
I think you need to read the actual article; it may well have "nearly always" spotted afib conditions. All we DO know from the study is that 84% of detected cases were valid, with the remaining 16% being false positives - we have no idea if it missed any or not. But it alerted more than 100% of the time in known valid cases. That is "nearly always +" as It were, with the key thing to get right not being to alert more often, but actually less.
The funny thing is, that socialism will always be roundly rejected by the majority of Americans. Would you like to know why? Because quite a lot the victims of socialists disasters through the decades, all end up here with the US being about as opposite from Socialism as you can get... they come in, a constant stream of people with fresh and painful memories of the literal horrors you wish to bring down on a healthy and happy populace.
They probably started a business there because that is where they happened to live.
Step 1) Have great idea for business. Step 2) Move to some place where the government is not so corrupt they will be sure to eventually shut you down or bankrupt you. Step 3) Profit.
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I would guess for safety and usability. If everyone can see where your taxi is, it's harder for a driver to kidnap you.
You can have that without giving away the whole store. How can you claim a system is designed to be "Safe" when it somehow reveals personal details enough about a driver for Uber to find them and try to hire them? What is to stop a stalker from finding female drivers and doing whatever they like to them...
I am jus saying the company had a responsibility to the drivers that it sounds like they shirked, if Uber had enough data to find drivers that a very bad sign for how well the company protected data. Who is to say they were not equally lax in protecting client data too...
How is everyone OK with this? We must wake up and punish companies anywhere that leak personal data, for either employees or customers. It is way past time we stopped letting this kind of no-security bullshit slide, even (especially?) if the information is used against that company.
Seriously, how can you support the lax security policies of this company as being OK?
Nothing worse than an endless parade of bills that are voted on just to virtue signal, with no chance of accomplishing anything.
Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.
What Uber did was abhorrent for sure.
However, WHY did that other company have all of these details of drivers that could be scraped? I feel like they had an API that could be arbitrarily queried for cars on the road that gave out way too much information.
Server API designers seem to never consider the importance of what they send, and how to protect the contents of what is being sent from a user that can easily install certificates or man in the middle attacks to inspect all traffic. How do you not expect competitors are trying to look at this information? Even if it were not officially sanctioned you know some software engineer at Uber would have been trying to see hit competitive apps did just to understand how other people made systems work...
Cables ordered online seem really hit or miss generally, but so far the Amazon cables seem to have decent build quality and have not failed.
So most iOS apps, will not be made to handle the newest models
I find that something like 90% of iOS apps handle new features within a year or so - like FaceID or the Files app.
because for one it needs to support on the lower power phones, and just change the screen display (to save on re-coding)
That is totally wrong, there are a lot of ways to easily provide for more complex UI on the iPad without much coding at all.
On top of that there are a number of very powerful iPad only apps...
These are low power devices and are limited in what they can do.
That is also wrong, the latest iPad Pro models are FASTER at browsing large 16-bit TIFF files than many desktops.
At this point they are extremely powerful and not that limited, with what limits there are fading away over time...
If you can't connect a mouse, a USB drive, a printer who gives a shit then?
The people who can attach USB-C hubs, for video output or SD card attachment or keyboards or other USB-C devices...
Some things may not work at the moment, like USB-C drives, but eventually they will (there's already at least one external drive maker that has an app that can connect to an external drive they make).
The advantages are being able to use the same adaptors for things like video across a laptop and the iPad....
it'll be safer to buy Delta tickets than find that other airlines are again allowed to put these Max planes back in the air
You said "Safer" and "Delta" in the same sentence, hmm...
This issue seems like something the pilots can work around if they know what is going on, which the U.S. pilots seem to.
I got an email from Southwest Cargo related to the Max, they stated:
While we remain confident in the MAX 8 after completing more than 88,000 flight hours accrued over 41,000 flights, we support the actions of the FAA and other regulatory agencies and governments across the globe that have asked for further review of the data
That's a lot of flights they have done with the plane, so it's not like the plane is inherently unsafe - there is a flaw in this system, which will get resolved one way or another. They'll be back in the air and as safe as any other place flying.
are they still stuck with a proprietary charging port or they moved on to USB-C ?
The iPad Pro uses USB-C, so if that is a requirement you have a solution already. Nothing wrong with more consumer oriented gear that will not have much attached over a lifetime of the product using different ports.
they have unfiltered access to all of the commands you send to AWS in cleartext. sending data into ML? they can read it. storing data on S3 unencrypted? they can read it.
Yes... but so what?
First of all, if Amazon were ever to be found to be scanning containers that would be the end of AWS, so honestly I doubt they are dong this even if they technically COULD.
Secondly as I said, even if they do risk the company by scanning text uploaded to containers for every tiny startup, what honestly would they really learn? Are you storing your email there? What are you storing there that would really be that huge a help to determining viability?
And like I said, you don't even know what other servers a company is using, so low activity is not a good indicator for viability even if you know the general company type.
I'm just not convinced that even looking at the things you described gives you enough of a picture to make the "insider trading" claim that is being put forward.
If Amazon is using its direct knowledge of startups' health based on the fact that Amazon literally owns and operates the servers, how is this at all ethical?
That assumes you CAN determine a startup's health from server activity.
Maybe there's not a lot going on, but they have one huge trial customer and a really low burn rate.
Maybe there is a lot going on server-wise, but the burn rate is high and the large amount of traffic is really killing the company sooner rather than later as they are not moving towards profitability quick enough.
How honestly would you consistently determine a companies health from server activity? You have no emails, you have no Slack communications, hell you may not even have the whole server picture, what if they are also using color hosted servers or a mixture of Amazon for storage and other servers for compute?
So I'm not sure how this is really unethical.
It seems that something like the Internet Archive must have captured a lot of this, that at least someone could restore from - something like this.
In order for a vehicle like this to be operated at a profit it must spend a very high percentage of the day "in operation". The problem with EVs (of all kinds) is that they have significant down-time whilst being recharged.
Battery packs you can swap out ad re-charge offline would totally eliminate that issue. It does increase the initial cost having to have so many battery packs and some infrastructure to change them out.
It's impossible to guard a number, when at this point they are simply calling all numbers in a valid area code, probably sharing any numbers that even voice mail picks up on...
Almost getting to the point where I wish there was an hour a day I could designate as a time it was possible to call me, that I could set arbitrarily - then the rest of the day have my number reported by the phone company as disconnected.
I'll say that we're probably 5 years away.
The technical issues are being chipped away but there are power and autonomy (traffic control) issues that will require decades of work
Practical flying taxis already exist - they just aren't large enough to carry humans yet.
Drone tech in terms of following paths and tracking and even collision detection and avoidance, is all there and really reliable now.
You don't need to fully solve traffic control. You just need to have well-defined paths and schedules and a few deviations possible. The "nice" thing is that unlike traffic, any problems is the air are quickly cleared away letting further flights continue.
Taxi air drones are a much easier problem to resolve than self-driving cars, and we are almost there with cars...
I signed up for some company that is offering test drone-taxi flights this year. From what I can tell they just take you up, go for a short tour, and then come back to the same spot. But they are planning to launch with real people this year.
The benefits to a city of working drone taxis are so monumental I think they will start going as soon as even the first viable solution is in play. Especially in Silicon Valley, but not that long to reach other places as well.
I really like the thought of not having to take a car in for service, that someone can just come out and repair it.
One thing I've wondered is how the fix some things without a real lift - like if they need to replace some parts of the suspension. Seems like they would still have to take it to a real shop for some more advanced repairs.
Since an electric car is generally simpler. I had been wondering what kinds of repairs people were even calling in...
MrBeast got a video demonetized for singing less than 3 seconds of a a song. Yes, just singing it, and the person claiming the copyright had 1 video uploaded.
This suggests a strategy - make videos where you sing yourself, then immediately after upload claim copyright on any official videos that claim the song... you could imagine YouTube not allowing inverse copyright actions to be filed without renewing them both more carefully, or possibly the first always taking precedence.
He's being paid by companies to whitewash.
You claim whitewash; do you have an example?
As I said before, I found the system entire corrupt and producing material factually wrong. So who are you to say the material this paid person is attempting to insert is not more correct? If I were a company paying him, all I would want is a factual account of what is really going on.
Indeed, you really need to read the article again because the way this guy wins is really by being correct, and explaining the ten thousand ways in which the edits he is making ARE correct. That is really why editors give up, because they cannot proof he is wrong and he can work the rules.
And useful idiots like you.
Problem with your statement; I'm the opposite of a useful idiot. I am a jaded man of experience who has seen the bar far worse wrongs the system is rife with. So I'm all for whatever small forces of correction try to push back against the howling void.
In my limited interactions with Wikipedia editors, I would have to say that very probably this guy paid to correct mistakes, is way more likely to be accurate than the supposedly "neutral" Wikipedia editors.
So I applaud the tenacity of this guy to correct mistakes that editors probably made on purpose to begin with to slam or ridicule some target. Even if he was paid, he is doing God's work in doing some small part to drag Wikipedia back to real neutrality.
After all, all this guy can really effectively argue for is substantiated truth... I had a running fight with an entry on a wiki page just to add a movie reference, the editor refused to acknowledge that a movie existed even though it was sold on Amazon. I eventually gave up, not worth my ALSO unpaid time to fight with wiki editors who are supposedly unpaid but spend 100% of time on the system...
microsoft = software. amazon = marketing.
I don't think the data really bears that statement out, Amazon's cloud services are used by a lot of services with a very heavy load (like millions of users load), and on top of that you know Amazon's IT is not too bad because of how generally reliable Amazon itself is (never mind that little hours long flub last Thanksgiving).
To my mind, what has Microsoft really done at the scale that Amazon handles regularly? In terms of proven ability I trust Microsoft a bit less, though Azure has generally seemed to work pretty well for people I know that have used it.
Probably a great time there are in fact real CPR apps that help.
One of the apps alerts people nearby that know CPR an event is happening, so you get quicker response.
There are also educational apps that help you learn CPR, better than nothing if you are the only one there. Although I do not know which apps do this, it also seems like CPR apps could help with timing of the presses and breathing assist you are supposed to be doing.
So don't make too light of apps that can help someone having an attack...
I've been looking at service providers, and at this point I would probably go with Microsoft primarily because I want real competition for Amazon in the server space.
It's difficult though as Amazon has some offerings like Glacier I'm not sure other even really offer - does anyone know of other companies provide something like that, that are also pretty reliable?
To me it seems pretty obvious that Penny Arcade is directly responsible for this resurgence. Not only because for a few years now they have made non-electronic games like tabletop cool again with a whole show dedicated to showcasing them, but even more because of the very popular webcast of "Acquisitions Incorporated" D&D sessions.
That has interested a ton of people in D&D and I think may be the key reason for the rise you see, because they have shown it is cool, and maybe more importantly shown how fun it can be with a good DM and plot.
Key phrases in the article. Looks more like damning with faint praise. Why only "sometimes"?
Gee, why not ask whoever wrote the summary? Because the article ITSELF has the title:
Stanford study finds Apple Watch can detect irregular heart rhythms
That's not very faint at all, and "sometimes" never appears in the article.
The problem is, whoever added "sometimes" to the summary didn't understand what the 84% was about...
For something that is worn as much as an Apple Watch, it should "nearly always" be able to spot a problem.
I think you need to read the actual article; it may well have "nearly always" spotted afib conditions. All we DO know from the study is that 84% of detected cases were valid, with the remaining 16% being false positives - we have no idea if it missed any or not. But it alerted more than 100% of the time in known valid cases. That is "nearly always +" as It were, with the key thing to get right not being to alert more often, but actually less.
Capitalism is failing
To paraphrase an old saying, capitalism is the worst way to run an economy - except for all the others...
When 'C'apitalism fails, a lot of people lose jobs and have to figure out what to do.
When 'S'ocialism fails, you wind up with results from people getting drinking water from sewers, to 20 million (or more) dead...
The funny thing is, that socialism will always be roundly rejected by the majority of Americans. Would you like to know why? Because quite a lot the victims of socialists disasters through the decades, all end up here with the US being about as opposite from Socialism as you can get... they come in, a constant stream of people with fresh and painful memories of the literal horrors you wish to bring down on a healthy and happy populace.
They probably started a business there because that is where they happened to live.
Step 1) Have great idea for business.
Step 2) Move to some place where the government is not so corrupt they will be sure to eventually shut you down or bankrupt you.
Step 3) Profit.