To get a sense of how far ahead Waymo is, take a look at the disengagements report Waymo published last year and then look at everyone else's. At least in California, Waymo has more miles driven than everyone else combined and their disengagement rate is much lower
Imagine how stupid someone with an IQ of 100 is. Then imagine that half the world is dumber than that. (George Carlin)
Not everyone CAN be retrained to be an engineer, but they still have the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as I do. Universal income is one solution. A fairly generous social welfare state is another.
Training someone with an IQ of 80 to be an engineering guru is not a solution -- it's an exercise in futility where we gain the ability to blame the individual and do nothing to solve the problem.
Kudos to everyone in the last story who commented LiDAR being able to see the pedestrian and the crash being totally avoidable. Comments have also been more accurate than the news in the recent Intel and AMD (non-story) about security.
The fact that the highly moderated comments is more accurate almost any news outlet is why I keep coming back. That and I'm *still* looking for Natalie Portman's brand of hot grits.
From Wikipedia: She became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, Bartz "transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders." She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail fast-forward" concept – the idea of moulding a company to risk failure in some missions, but to be resilient and move on quickly when failure occurs. She stepped down as CEO in 2006 and became the executive chairman of the board.
During her 14-year tenure as the company's CEO, Autodesk net revenue substantially increased, and annual revenue rose from $300 million to $1.5 billion, with the stock price rising an average of 20 percent annually.
Her tenure at Yahoo didn't go so well, but it's tough moving from a software company to a media/advertising company.
It's unfortunate that the USA PATRIOT act was passed but it's notable, that the bill had only one senator voting against it (who was later defeated). In other house, the bill was passed 347 to 66 -- nays included Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders (back when he was in the house).
Bipartisan opposition to tyrannical legislation also has a proud history.
That's why I tend to trust Apple much more than Google for my consumer products.
Apple is not an advertising platform -- they're selling me 'ol fashioned hardware (with a huge markup) with the understanding that they're up-front about their business model. You buy a Google Pixel2 and you're still paying for hardware, but also signing up for their spyware "services" -- to sell you personalized ads at best, and a "helpful" older male sibling at worst.
Of course controversy attracts eyeballs, but who's voices do I hear in the discussion?
If I want to hear from trolls on this site, I just broswse at -1 -- really easy -- I'm choosing who to read.
If I want to avoid trolls on Facebook? To begin with, there's no way to "down mod" anything on Facebook -- you have your choice of love/like/angry/funny -- where as/. has a few options to downmod -- flamebait and troll. To make matters worse, their ranking algorithm picks out the stories with said reactions to feed you -- which you have no explicit control over (since they removed the "order by date posted" option years ago).
What's terribly insidious about Facebook as a platform is not the speech it allows, but the speech it promotes.
Here on/., you have numerous ways about how to order the comments on the site, which ones to show/not show, etc. Facebook does not. Instead, it orders your feed based on what it thinks you will interact with -- this happens to be things which we strongly disagree with. Instead of a society where reasonable people have discussions about solutions to problems, Facebook has created a platform where it literally promotes posts that troll to increase "user engagement" -- and thus their ad revenue. Online discussions have literally become worse since Facebook has existed -- and you see it here too.
There's a difference between admin and user moderation.
If I were to post on this site about how the Holocaust was faked, I'd be downmodded into oblivion (I hope). On certain subreddits, you could be upmodded for such things. And sure, you can believe that Hillary Clinton is running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza parlor, and that's all fun and games until someone starts shooting a gun inside.
Like many on this site, I'm a proponent of free speech -- but with user moderation to prevent stupidity. One of the problems with Reddit is that subreddit nature creates echo chambers. As many have pointed out before, websites are private businesses and have a right to kick people out whom they don't like. If someone walks into your pizza parlor and accusing you of running a child sex trafficking ring, you can ask them to leave -- and that's not censorship -- any more than it is a bar kicking out a rowdy patron.
AMD countered with 64 bit extensions to x86 and cheaper chips.
...and faster.
Working in the cash rich Oil and Gas industry in the early 2000's, SGI tried to make a machine using the processors. A couple customers bought them, but realized after just a little bit of testing that they were horrendous for single threaded tasks and even crippled for larger ones. We ran some benchmarks in-house and couldn't find anything the machines were good at -- other than the huge memory footprint (3 TB of RAM is still massive even a decade later) -- compared with commodity AMD64 boxes.
Here's a couple hundred....and that's just games based on the Unity game engine. One game, Hearthstone, has over 10 million players and its client runs on iOS/Android/Windows/macOS.
That tells you all you need to know about this "study". CSS is a mark-up language -- not a programming language (unless you're on the sadistic side as it is technically Turing complete).
I'll concede that my example was an anecdote, but according to this handy chart, employment growth started under Obama and has continued into the current administration.
Your point (I thought?) had to do with the distribution of wealth -- specifically with everyday working people. An real income rise (>5%) hasn't happened under previous administrations in decades and won't happen during this one -- I hope I am wrong.
Actual change — the thing we've been told we need so much — has arrived
How patient are you willing to be with this "change"? People at the Carrier plant Trump promised to save were laid off.
Many people who didn't vote for your Trump believe in many of the underlying causes you state -- but believe in Trump fixing the problem about as much as Microsoft releasing a good operating system.
They created.net core for linux and made it work really well.
My understanding was it was Miguel De Icaza started the Mono project back in 1999 and was eventually hired by Microsoft in 2016 (17 years later). Is there a.net core on Linux not based on Miguel's work? Honestly curious.
I don't see private ownership of autonomous vehicles happening for precisely the reason stated above.
Most of the car manufacturer's have very disappointing miles driven and the only non-car company working on self-driving vehicles as a platform is Drive.AI.
Takata's bankrupty was caused by airbags being faulty. I can only image what happens when a consumer blames $AICompany for faulty sensors and has a recall.
Who is responsible for vehicle maintenance and sensor/control upkeep? People already fail to maintain their vehicles now, self-driving cars aren't going to change that -- people are still going to get flat tires, overheating radiators, gunk on the their LiDAR, etc.
Right now, most companies (e.g. Waymo, Uber) are focusing on the service model -- precisely to internalize the process of maintenance (especially while the technology is beta) -- so they would logically be the ones to pay for insurance.
Apple is an extremely annoying company with the "not invented here" mentality
Apple is the only company to completely rewrite their OS from scratch around an open-source Unix distribution which allowed them to switch from their old PPC based machines to new Intel based ones (around the same time MS was switching to PPC for the XBox 360).
They also were the first ones to completely abandon all connectors in favor of USB in the original iMac.
Neither Unix nor USB was invented by Apple -- and that is what courage looks like during the reign of Jobs.
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To get a sense of how far ahead Waymo is, take a look at the disengagements report Waymo published last year and then look at everyone else's. At least in California, Waymo has more miles driven than everyone else combined and their disengagement rate is much lower
Imagine how stupid someone with an IQ of 100 is. Then imagine that half the world is dumber than that. (George Carlin)
Not everyone CAN be retrained to be an engineer, but they still have the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as I do. Universal income is one solution. A fairly generous social welfare state is another.
Training someone with an IQ of 80 to be an engineering guru is not a solution -- it's an exercise in futility where we gain the ability to blame the individual and do nothing to solve the problem.
Kudos to everyone in the last story who commented LiDAR being able to see the pedestrian and the crash being totally avoidable. Comments have also been more accurate than the news in the recent Intel and AMD (non-story) about security.
The fact that the highly moderated comments is more accurate almost any news outlet is why I keep coming back. That and I'm *still* looking for Natalie Portman's brand of hot grits.
Solaris zones? Kids! IBM mainframes has an os called VM in the late 70s - guess what VM stood for?
Vi iMproved? Kids these days don't even know that emacs is an OS as well;)
From Wikipedia:
She became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, Bartz "transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders." She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail fast-forward" concept – the idea of moulding a company to risk failure in some missions, but to be resilient and move on quickly when failure occurs. She stepped down as CEO in 2006 and became the executive chairman of the board.
During her 14-year tenure as the company's CEO, Autodesk net revenue substantially increased, and annual revenue rose from $300 million to $1.5 billion, with the stock price rising an average of 20 percent annually.
Her tenure at Yahoo didn't go so well, but it's tough moving from a software company to a media/advertising company.
Promising to spend their tax dollars on free college education instead of stupid wars in the Middle East worked out so great for Bernie, didn't it?
FTFW. Bernie is still the most popular elected politician in the country -- a fact even Fox News agrees with.
Indeed.
It's unfortunate that the USA PATRIOT act was passed but it's notable, that the bill had only one senator voting against it (who was later defeated). In other house, the bill was passed 347 to 66 -- nays included Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders (back when he was in the house).
Bipartisan opposition to tyrannical legislation also has a proud history.
That's why I tend to trust Apple much more than Google for my consumer products.
Apple is not an advertising platform -- they're selling me 'ol fashioned hardware (with a huge markup) with the understanding that they're up-front about their business model. You buy a Google Pixel2 and you're still paying for hardware, but also signing up for their spyware "services" -- to sell you personalized ads at best, and a "helpful" older male sibling at worst.
Of course controversy attracts eyeballs, but who's voices do I hear in the discussion?
If I want to hear from trolls on this site, I just broswse at -1 -- really easy -- I'm choosing who to read.
If I want to avoid trolls on Facebook? To begin with, there's no way to "down mod" anything on Facebook -- you have your choice of love/like/angry/funny -- where as /. has a few options to downmod -- flamebait and troll. To make matters worse, their ranking algorithm picks out the stories with said reactions to feed you -- which you have no explicit control over (since they removed the "order by date posted" option years ago).
Russia scandal is also pretty vague. Are you referring to the one where they doped their Olympic athletes for years or the one where they killed an agent with nerve gas?
There's so much shady behavior coming out of the Moscow, it's hard to keep track.
What's terribly insidious about Facebook as a platform is not the speech it allows, but the speech it promotes.
Here on /., you have numerous ways about how to order the comments on the site, which ones to show/not show, etc. Facebook does not. Instead, it orders your feed based on what it thinks you will interact with -- this happens to be things which we strongly disagree with. Instead of a society where reasonable people have discussions about solutions to problems, Facebook has created a platform where it literally promotes posts that troll to increase "user engagement" -- and thus their ad revenue. Online discussions have literally become worse since Facebook has existed -- and you see it here too.
In Soviet Valley, Facebook uses you.
Developers love trendy new languages almost as much as /. editors love posting dupes .
There's a difference between admin and user moderation.
If I were to post on this site about how the Holocaust was faked, I'd be downmodded into oblivion (I hope). On certain subreddits, you could be upmodded for such things. And sure, you can believe that Hillary Clinton is running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza parlor, and that's all fun and games until someone starts shooting a gun inside.
Like many on this site, I'm a proponent of free speech -- but with user moderation to prevent stupidity. One of the problems with Reddit is that subreddit nature creates echo chambers. As many have pointed out before, websites are private businesses and have a right to kick people out whom they don't like. If someone walks into your pizza parlor and accusing you of running a child sex trafficking ring, you can ask them to leave -- and that's not censorship -- any more than it is a bar kicking out a rowdy patron.
AMD countered with 64 bit extensions to x86 and cheaper chips.
...and faster.
Working in the cash rich Oil and Gas industry in the early 2000's, SGI tried to make a machine using the processors. A couple customers bought them, but realized after just a little bit of testing that they were horrendous for single threaded tasks and even crippled for larger ones. We ran some benchmarks in-house and couldn't find anything the machines were good at -- other than the huge memory footprint (3 TB of RAM is still massive even a decade later) -- compared with commodity AMD64 boxes.
Here's a couple hundred. ...and that's just games based on the Unity game engine. One game, Hearthstone, has over 10 million players and its client runs on iOS/Android/Windows/macOS.
there is no specific rule that eliminates it from being a "programming language".
There is a in fact a difference. No one uses it as a programming languages, except for purposes of discussions such as this one.
The top 10 programming languages [include]...CSS
That tells you all you need to know about this "study". CSS is a mark-up language -- not a programming language (unless you're on the sadistic side as it is technically Turing complete).
I'll concede that my example was an anecdote, but according to this handy chart, employment growth started under Obama and has continued into the current administration.
Your point (I thought?) had to do with the distribution of wealth -- specifically with everyday working people. An real income rise (>5%) hasn't happened under previous administrations in decades and won't happen during this one -- I hope I am wrong.
Actual change — the thing we've been told we need so much — has arrived
How patient are you willing to be with this "change"? People at the Carrier plant Trump promised to save were laid off.
Many people who didn't vote for your Trump believe in many of the underlying causes you state -- but believe in Trump fixing the problem about as much as Microsoft releasing a good operating system.
Nice! Hadn't thought of him in a while -- wish I had mod points for you!
They created .net core for linux and made it work really well.
My understanding was it was Miguel De Icaza started the Mono project back in 1999 and was eventually hired by Microsoft in 2016 (17 years later). Is there a .net core on Linux not based on Miguel's work? Honestly curious.
Everyone benefits from this type of transparency.
Apple has not fared as well with transparency lately.
I don't see private ownership of autonomous vehicles happening for precisely the reason stated above.
Most of the car manufacturer's have very disappointing miles driven and the only non-car company working on self-driving vehicles as a platform is Drive.AI.
Takata's bankrupty was caused by airbags being faulty. I can only image what happens when a consumer blames $AICompany for faulty sensors and has a recall.
Who is responsible for vehicle maintenance and sensor/control upkeep? People already fail to maintain their vehicles now, self-driving cars aren't going to change that -- people are still going to get flat tires, overheating radiators, gunk on the their LiDAR, etc.
Right now, most companies (e.g. Waymo, Uber) are focusing on the service model -- precisely to internalize the process of maintenance (especially while the technology is beta) -- so they would logically be the ones to pay for insurance.
Apple is an extremely annoying company with the "not invented here" mentality
Apple is the only company to completely rewrite their OS from scratch around an open-source Unix distribution which allowed them to switch from their old PPC based machines to new Intel based ones (around the same time MS was switching to PPC for the XBox 360).
They also were the first ones to completely abandon all connectors in favor of USB in the original iMac.
Neither Unix nor USB was invented by Apple -- and that is what courage looks like during the reign of Jobs.
If it also keeps away tigers, I'm in.
Have you seen any tigers in Texas lately (outside a zoo)? It's working even before its built!