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My main interest is in Bluetooth 5. Walking around NYC, in even semi-congested areas of Manhattan, my audio cuts out with my phone in my front pants pocket. I literally have to hold it in my hand or coat pocket in order to cut through the interference. Has anyone experienced improvement when upgrading in this regard?

At Google I made around that my first year as a new grad (total comp, not salary) and far more than that in following years (again, total comp).

My Chinese friends do. Not sure if regional. I think it's just the logical shortening when the other option is 'canto', but it doesn't really make sense.

I think this is a lot of what it comes down to. Even taking a sabbatical and working overseas would be appealing depending on how the career winds blow. I'm curious about the money opportunities, but there's also a major value package that's non-monetary, and it would give a better perspective and skillset when returning to the west.

Honestly that's comparable to SF, percentage-wise. But the 50% that's left will be higher.

That's a great point about access to Shenzhen from HK. How's the language barrier been? Have you had to learn both Canto and Mando and read both simplified and traditional? Is there a distinct advantage to living on one side of the border over the other?

Thanks for the insights, much appreciated! To be clear, are you a westerner who made this move, or a Chinese native? If the former, how did the startup culture compare to the US startup culture?

>of Chinese descent and speak the language

What about westerns who speak mando? Is it workable or still too much of a culture shock? Is racism abundant?

Google has offices in Shenzhen, too. And one could debate whether Taiwan is a country or part of China.

But that aside, the pull seems to be China's incentives and access to local hardware manufacturing. Not just the idea of living in Asia instead of the West.

I've really always considered copyright timelines of more than a decade to be way too long, honestly. Same deal with patents. Once the initial impact of the work is concluded, I don't see any reason not to open it to public domain. Where did this copyright timeline come from? Who decided on 70 years in France?

The Power Broker. I picked it up out of urban interests, but it gets into so much more of how our political system has been shaped over the last 100 years, and it's scary (or reassuring?) how little it has changed. But also all the insane things Moses did to reshape how cities were built in the USA and how hard it will be to fix his urban sprawl motivation.

CC-Non commercial is a disappointing license to find. The project is very cool otherwise.

No. It's possible that this information has been available, but the connection to the end operator depends on local, non-standard setups. I once called 911 to report a passed out individual in Central Park. I tried relaying landmarks, lamp post #s, etc. Eventually it turns out the operator needed "5th and 80th, but in the park" to clear their prompt and dispatch an ambulance. This is on a relatively new dispatch system, too, that for some reason doesn't support GPS coordinates.

To be fair, this article is from January. Still a controversial/dumb time to brag about working with ICE, but it wasn't published during this press cycle.

I'm pretty sure this has been known for a long time. This was the method used to jailbreak some Windows Phones back in the day -- extract an archive that overwrites carrier OMA files. Iirc you could just rename a folder in 7-zip to "../../foo" and it would work. No special tools required.

>Every circuit considering the issue has concluded that no reasonable expectation of privacy exists once trash has been placed in a public area for collection

There are particularly scary implications to this, such as cases where police have taken trash and seized discarded feminine products to test for drug use and DNA. There needs to be some stronger protections there.

In addition, some cars such as the Nissan Leaf have a feature that locks the brakes at full power when there is a sudden control shift from accelerator to brakes, meaning that if you stomp on the brakes and then reduce pressure, the car will continue to brake at maximum power. This was done for two reasons: one, people hesitating in emergency situations, and two, people being taught to pump brakes, which increases braking distance in cars with ABS.

I learned about this feature when reading car forums for my car and finding threads from people who were rear-ended when they accidentally triggered this feature by slamming on the brakes when they didn't intend to come to a complete stop.

In NYC the urbanists have a trend of saying "crash" instead of "accident" when referring to traffic collisions. They feel that "accident" gives the driver too much credit in situations where they were completely at fault for not looking, going too fast, running a light, etc.

It would explain the "outside a crosswalk" remark better if the person were riding the bike. This is one of those cases where video evidence should be subpoenaed, though. It's far too common for the police to accept the statement from the only party still alive, and come up with incorrect conclusions about what happened on the street.

But on the other hand, Tesla already has a few notable sensor failures, the biggest one being the fatal crash when the sensors failed to see a semi truck at 90 degrees to path of travel (or cancelled it out as noise, etc.)

Obviously things improve with time, but Tesla has never convinced me of having a robust pipeline for validating their sensors/AI projects. Everything they release feels like someone said "well, it's good enough for how much we're willing to spend." Notably, their refusal to evaluate LIDAR when every other company is banking on it.

The problem with stopping to take a picture is that thousands of people are walking on the sidewalks of these avenues, and people want to take a photo across the sidewalk (camera person by the street, subject by whatever shop/thing they want to pose with) and thus they try to stop everyone coming into frame. There are thousands of people trying to get places in this city, and it's not about leaving early/getting late -- people just have places to go and don't want to get stopped repeatedly.

The scale of it is like stopping on the freeway to take a photo of a billboard. It holds everyone up because you put yourself above the people around you. It's rude.

I bike in NYC and occasionally deal with people stepping into the street while looking at their phones and not checking for cross traffic because they can't hear me. It's annoying, but doesn't take much to just brake and dodge them. I wish they would've looked, but the streets are for the people in the city. It's not a freeway.

I do fear there will be an uptick in problems with EVs, though, that don't have pedestrian warning sounds added and people not looking because they hear nothing and expect to hear an engine (experienced this a little bit in parking lots during my time driving a Leaf). But we'll see what happens I guess.

It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the left of an escalator, queue up for a bus by blocking the sidewalk, or holding everyone up to 'just take a quick photo.'

It's really annoying, but I don't think you can just ad-hoc legislate it. We have tons of things that were made illegal in NYC and a tiny amount of the laws actually get enforced. As others have said, this can lead to laws only being enforced on people the police already want to harass, and everyone else doing it on a regular basis.

In addition, with our Vision Zero goals, there are so many other things to focus enforcement and government bandwidth on. Hundreds of people are still being killed by reckless drivers every year. If we can solve that, then we can focus on getting people to be less annoying when walking around.

The new Right Of Way law has theoretically helped this in New York, but it's rarely invoked and the consequences are usually a few thousand dollars and cancellation of your driver's license. I don't think anyone has ever seen jail time for it, and the only cases that are prosecuted under this law are cut-and-dry, video evidence available, driver clearly behaved recklessly and killed someone.

Is the driver supposed to try and figure out if they get to be more aggressive? I don't think that's the point at all.

I'm waiting for GCP to support preemptible GPU instances. Would love to be able to spend ~50% less on GPU instances when running a batch job that can be stopped and reloaded.

You are literally just quoting the most recent John Oliver episode.

There's an interesting rebuttal to his episode here that is worth reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/08/24/please-jo...

Has anyone tried one of the newer revisions of the Protect and had any experiences, positive or negative, with it? I was initially excited when I heard about the product announcement. It seemed like everything I wanted in a smoke detector: remote monitoring, ability to silence, starting with voice before blaring and getting my adrenaline up, and, well, a smoke detector. But Amazon reviews and the infamous video later, I backed quickly away. I've been awoken by a false-positive smoke detector before and the experience is panic inducing on top of outright annoying.

I drove a Leaf for a while and one issue fellow owners faced was that regen braking plus one-pedal driving meant the car could slow down very quickly without people expecting it. The Model S/X do put on the brake lights when this happens, unlike the Leaf, but I'm curious if they get rear-ended more often than other vehicles.

I think D.C. has some mixing zones that are gold standard: https://i0.wp.com/www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

Would love to see this in more places, because seriously, no other method is safe. For me, mixing zones usually mean merging over to the turn lane and riding to the right side of cars turning left (NYC puts bike lanes on the left side of the road).

It sounds like the problem isn't the existence of a bike lane, but the construction of a really half-assed bike lane. Here in NYC, we have some of those, and I avoid them like the plague. If someone doors me, I'm going flying into traffic. Ridiculous.

But we also have lanes that put parking between the bike lane and the motor lanes, and have a few feet of buffer between to eliminate the door zone. They're pretty fantastic to ride in, except when NYPD parks in them for whatever reason.