This reminds me of the part of The Book of Why by Judea Pearl discussing how do calculus and the causal revolution came about with the simple insight that effects come before causes and so do calculus was invented to keep track of that in the math, rather than obscuring that with statistical relations that worked in either direction.
I would go so far as to inherently mistrust any legal reporting that does not link to the ruling or trial footage at this point. I've watched multiple public trials and seen reporting that simply did not reflect what actually went on.
I think there's some difference between distributed reputation among many different groups for different purposes and a top-down, centralized reputation from the government that controls most of what you can do in life.
One is more distributed and not controlled by any single entity, the other puts all the power over your life into the hands of a few oligarchs.
To refute the parent, you have to argue that it's a good idea, not just that it's done. It's not hard to find plenty of things that people do which are terrible ideas.
If you actually ride in one, you do notice some off behaviors that I didn't pick up while just driving alongside them. That said, I agree that the bad human drivers have done things far, far worse than any of the cars.
The biggest gripe with riding in one is that they're slow, both because of super cautious driving and because they won't take freeways yet.
A month ago I saw a Waymo turn left into a tiny alley in Palo Alto and continue at full 25mph speed, which was alarming. I guess the alley is marked as a regular road in the software? Highlights how even if it's safer than humans on average, they need to minimize these weird behaviors in order to get socially accepted and avoid $$$ liability when there is an accident.
New speedbumps were installed in a school zone near my housing complex recently, we're a heavy Waymo area and I watched one of them launch itself over one without slowing down.
They installed one of those near my friends house. There's a couple mechanic shops in the vicinity used it for diagnosis while driving exactly the posted speed limit. It lasted about a month until the people who complained it into existence complained it out of existence.
I have only taken a couple Waymos but I had the opposite experience. They were much faster and more decisive than I expected. They do apparently learn from surrounding drivers and this was LA so maybe that explains the difference.
Interesting. I hadn’t considered it but that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if that happens per car or per ride. Do aggression settings adjust to apparent passenger comfort?
One problem is that we're, on average, fatter than before, and while tech isn't the primary cause, it's a contributor. Being overweight can cause sleep apnea, which in turn can cause depression and anxiety because it turns out you get pretty anxious in your sleep when you can't breathe.
> the response for that function should maybe differentiate between "401 because you didn't authenticate" and "401 because your privileges are too low".
I'd tend to think it more proper if it were 401 you didn't authenticate and 403 you're forbidden from doing that with those user rights, but you have to be careful about exactly how detailed your messages are, lest they get tagged as a CWE-209 in your next security audit.
As someone who'd naturally stay up all night and sleep until noon, I've found that very tiny doses of melatonin (1 mg, preferably less) a few hours before bed work wonders to help me get proper sleep and stay on schedule with everyone else.
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