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An uncontrolled intersection means yield to traffic approaching from your passenger side for intersecting roads of equal importance, or vehicles on the minor road yield to through traffic on the major road. Yield signs usually just formalize this implicit intersection control. Taking out one stop sign is usually not an imminent hazard to traffic, but taking out two from perpendicular approaches might cause a problem. Removing all of them would actually be slightly more safe than a bad configuration of signs.

I expect my driverless car to be able to disobey signs when I indicate that it would be appropriate or necessary to do so.

I may one day enforce this by carrying around two poles that bear "stop", "do not enter + wrong way", "no u-turn", "do not reverse + severe tire damage", and "no stopping any time" signs on them, and creating pop-up paradox traps for unwary driving AIs.
The point is that I run one kernel but dozens of applications; I feel like I'm playing application whack-a-mole trying to patch the applications, when I could just patch the kernel.
So, uh, if it's an open-source GPGPU compiler, where's the source code?
> Also continuing to claim that in general "thieves win" is as absurd as claiming they "win" under the current laws and system.

I have a far more nuanced argument than that.

Thieves win in your system more than they do in the status quo, because you somehow think that insurance companies / bouncers are sufficient to deter thefts.

A public police force is needed to deter thefts on a fair basis.
Didn't Manjaro suggest rolling your system date back because their certificate were out of date?

Sometimes it's not what went wrong, it's your approach to fixing it.
The U.S. has a significantly higher GDP per capita than Canada.[1] The U.S. also has a significantly higher average wealth per citizen.[2]

But if you look closely at the second source, you'll see that the U.S. actually has a REALLY low MEDIAN wealth per adult. This indicates a large inequality.

The problem in the U.S. isn't that there isn't enough wealth to go around, it's that it's not going around.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Maybe change the title cause I thought this was going to be an opinion piece but it's actually just a thorough summary of history of basic income.

Two things I don't necessarily agree with:

1. You can get rid of the "welfare cliffs" without basic income. Just get rid of means testing. In Europe there are various welfare services that are not means tested. I believe various European countries have child allowances for everyone.

2. It is not at all clear to me that it will be cheaper and more cost effective to replace any given welfare service with a direct cash payment to the recipients. The government can negotiate prices from a much better position than single individuals can. Just look at how much cheaper drugs are in places where the government forces a monopsony.
Our gigantic problem with portions: why are we all eating too much?
Ask HN: What are some ways to gamify writing?
I'm practicing writing fiction, and it's gradually coming along, but it's pretty hard for me. I really want to get good at it, but my reddit-addicted brain just seems to refuse to engage in this activity, doesn't enter the flow. Programming, on the other hand, works very well(it has an immediate feedback/gratification loop and clear goals). So I'm trying to figure out what kind of system would help me to experience the same thing in writing.

/r/WritingPrompts is pretty helpful, and blogging has sort of natural gamification(traffic/upvotes/comments) embedded in it, but these are misleading, my brain is getting dopamine spikes out of seing upvotes or refreshing the stats, not out of the writing process itself.

I've been thinking about making a website with daily flashfiction challenges(100-1000 words, winners determined by voting, leaderboard of the best writers), but it's not that different from writingprompts. Github-like streaks could help perhaps(a visual representation of how many words you have written every day, and how many days in a row you write). Or maybe a text editor with a progress bar that would show how much words you have written until reaching a daily goal....

There's gotta be a way to design a feedback loop that would make writing fiction addictive.

What are some ways to make writing process more fun and engaging? Are there some tools/techniques I can use?
> You seem to be asserting that their issues with calorie restriction were lack of body fat.

No I'm asserting that what happens to people's bodies at 4% body fat when in severe caloric restriction is very different than what happens to people's bodies at 40% body fat with severe caloric restriction, and so we can't apply the metabolic damage/starvation models to fat people. Fat people just need to eat less, and the issue basically comes down to compliance. How do we get people to stay on a healthy diet long term?

> do fat people get hungry? If they do, why?

Because, as even you have shown, hunger is not a reflection of your bodies actual caloric needs, it's hugely a reflection of blood sugar levels, among other htings. Given enough time (in the order of magnitude of minutes to hours) in an obese but otherwise healthy person fats will be broken down and blood glucose will increase and hunger will decrease. It's getting through that period that is a mental compliance issue, but not otherwise physiologically challenging.

> The failure rate is astronomical

Again, this is a compliance issue. People absolutely lose weight on caloric restriction, and starvation issues like low metabolism do not become an issue until you are very low body fat. You simply do not see obese people going into so-called "starvation mode." In fact there are a few cases, though admittedly not many, of obese people that abstain entirely from eating for months at a time without long term "metabolic damage."

> People can totally abstain from food for very long periods of time (depending on body fat), with very little hunger.

I think we basically agree, then, that it's mostly a compliance issue and not an issue of caloric restriction working or not, and also that hunger is not a reflection of the body's actual metabolic state (especially in obese people).

> Fat people can get energy from fat stores, just not in the way we are typically told.

Fat people get energy from fat stores in the same way skinny people do. Very skinny people on severe caloric restriction are not a good model for the general population.
Nanomaterial to drive new generation of solar cells
Yes, and we do this internally in our QA and load testing lab. It's an expensive waste to put $200,000 worth of drives in a 20 pod vault when all you need is 1/60th of that!

> are you tracking the cost of SSD drives? Do you expect cost parity soon?

Yes we track SSDs, and this is a hotly contested topic inside Backblaze. Personally I'm predicting they "cross over" in cost effectiveness within 2 years. But I don't have any more insight than you do, and many inside Backblaze disagree with me.

When I say "cost effective" that is total cost of ownership, which includes paying for less electricity to power the SSD, possibly the higher density of SSDs, and whatever failure rates of the SSDs forcing us to purchase more (might be better or worse than hard drives). So whatever our little spread sheet kicks out as cheaper -> that's the one we will purchase!

One random nice thing about SSDs is there will be less case vibration, and the drives shouldn't be affected AT ALL by the small amount of fan vibration.
It's not suprising that Bloomberg has more business people to push back on the designers/technical staff in this regard.

Having been on the other end of this fight to keep ads to a minimum as to not damage UX, it's a difficult fight over time as the number of 'business people' in the operation grow in size faster than technical teams. Plus the added pressure from the very top to keep increasing financial output increasing.

This is why I tell people that being a good designer often means being good at saying no. Particularly at larger institutions.
Extreme Bootstrapping: Scrappy Moves That Paid Off Big for These Startups
What's wrong with a simple svn server?
Show HN: Raspberry PI Zero Docker/Swarm on QuickStart
In the context of /dev/random, "information-theoretically secure" means "equivalent to a one-time pad". Anyone can look at the design of the LRNG and see that it's not that. So, no.
"It seems to be really hard to get people to compare driverless cars with real humans, and not imaginary perfect drivers."

I think this responsibility falls squarely on the manufacturers of autonomous vehicles.

I think only the people creating the technology really understand the strengths and weaknesses of software drivers compared to human drivers, and are responsible for educating law makers and the general public if they want their products to be accommodated in our laws, road ways, and market places.
Show HN: Latest Podcast Ep All About Self Education & The "1% A Day" Factor
I try to use Lyft as often as I can, they seem to genuinely care for their employees(drivers). Uber is quite ruthless when it comes to pricing. Simple features such as tipping is not present.

It is my part-time hobby of sorts to interview drivers who drive for both and inevitably (27 - 1) they prefer driving for Lyft. The one case where the driver said she prefers Uber was that the #rides were more (Bay area).

I think voting with your wallet is a powerful concept and in some cases, it is the only thing we can do.
I have no idea what you're trying to accomplished by these "partitioned pools". Sorry, you've lost me.
Well, to be fair, they do mention 'cloud' in the name. What else would one expect off of a cloud feature?
> Who the fuck ever thought that was an acceptable design?

Well, Google. :P
Right...but the thing economists have learned is that these dramatic financial events come pretty much without warning, so saying that because people are predicting it and its not happening yet doesn't mean it won't eventually.

The Big Short explained it perfectly...a few forward looking investors made huge bets against MBS while everyone thought they were crazy. It took way longer then expected for the things to come crashing down, but, of course, it did.
Yes, data is something that we're really lacking at the moment. Ideally as time passes, our users will enter it themselves. However for now to simultaneously perform both QA and UX testing, we're manually entering the data ourselves. This is also really more to have data for demonstrating and showing people the platform as opposed to just writing about it.

As for project data, just like LinkedIn people are free to more or less information for their projects. I'm assuming that people who aren't as well known will be entering a better description than people who are well known. We'll see once we formally launch.
As re-tweeted by @Docker

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"PS: If human drivers where not killing 20,000 Americans a year then we might debate perfection. Until then, self driving cars that kill 1,000 people per month would be a massive improvement end of story."

This is the biggest faulty argument in this entire discussion.

Imagine a radiotherapy machine. Statistically, due to operator errors, it delivers lethal dose of radiation to 1 patient every 10k patients. Then someone brings out a radiotherapy machine that doesn't need an operator, but statistically delivers a lethal dose of radiation every 100k patients. That machine would be banned faster than you can say litigation, even though statistically it saves lives vs. manually operated machines.

As soon as an automatic car kills the first person(be it due to faulty programming or mechanical breakdown) the manufacturer will recall all of them and the backlash will be huge, even if an average, they are still thousand times safer than manual cars.
A similar one but as a native client app: http://meetfranz.com/
The one you linked is a must-watch!
It is important, since governments often use other countries' policies to excuse or justify their own.
Last time I checked our society tells us that striving for money is the way to go, so why should researches be hold to different standards? If you don't like the game, change the rules - don't blame the players.
Doing work on your own time, with your own materials, and expecting to be paid for your work product is "scarily similar to blackmail"? Could you go into that a little bit more?

Exactly how are these "professional researchers" generating their paychecks?

(NB: I was one of those "professional researchers".)
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I think a lot of people would be happy with slow but steady growth instead of the up and down of the last years/decades.
> Can it be as simple as a spanning partition to treat all drives as a single drive?

Sure, but there are tradeoffs. One option is to just concatenate all the drives together, either with mdadm (grouping the drives into a RAID-0 array) or with LVM (adding them all to a single volume group). This lets you add drives very easily and efficiently, but has no redundancy. When (not if) one drive fails, your entire FS is toast.

If you care about your data, then you'll want to use RAID-6 for redundancy. But adding a drive to a RAID-6 array is very time-consuming, because all of your data has to be re-shuffled onto a new drive. And you don't want to do this without a backup -- although the reshape process is designed to be safely interruptible, it's not bug-free. (I speak from experience, having nearly lost a few TB this way not too long ago.)

You can compromise by grouping your drives into multiple RAID-6 arrays. For example, instead of using 58 data drives + 2 parity drives, you could use 6 arrays of (8 data + 2 parity). This gives you much less usable space (80% as opposed to 97%) but it allows you to add 10 drives at a time without having to re-shuffle all your data. And it means you can recover from a drive failure much more quickly.

Of course, you can also just treat the drives as separate block devices, and provide a single redundant filesystem at a higher level, using something like Ceph. I would assume Backblaze is doing something along these lines.
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> but [a vegan diet] is the best way to prevent/cure T2 diabetes without causing other issues.

There is basically no science that allows you to state this confidently.

> The fact is: fat tastes good. Nobody want's to give up bacon and cheese so we keep looking for ways to say it is "OK". Big Pharma really wants you to keep eating your fats too. They make billions of dollars a year selling people drugs to offset their lack of will power.

It's been repeatedly shown that basically all fats, even the once thought of as "bad" like saturated fats, do not clog arteries (or raise cholesterol, while we are here) when not in the presence of caloric surplus. I don't follow it, but the success many have had with the keto diet is one great example of this. It's just not as simple as you are saying.
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Shorting a stock would remove cash from the system which is essentially the opposite of QE. To short a stock the short seller first "borrows" the stock from another stock holder and then sells that stock on the open market. In most cases the investor who the stock is borrowed from won't even be aware that his stock has been loaned out to a short seller.

The effect is that there are now two individuals who believe that they own the same share. From the perspective of the market the short seller has effectively created shares out of thin air, sold the shares and is now sitting on the cash.

When a central bank is the one shorting the market the effect is to pull cash onto it's balance sheet which removes it from the economy which is deflationary.

Interesting idea though! One that I hadn't considered as a tool for central banks to constrain inflation.
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If you're about to cross a crosswalk, you're contributing to the attentional noise that drivers have to deal with. IMHO, just get out of the way so that fewer people have to make sure that they aren't going to hit you.
> You can't wilfully hit someone and just say 'my right of way' and be all in the clear.

Willfully perhaps, but if it's accidental and all other circumstances being equal I would say that's the pedestrian's fault. I don't understand this logic that because the pedestrian is ignorant about how traffic law works that they're exempt from following it, yes the driver should be paying attention at all times and be ready for anything to happen, but if someone breaks a don't walk light and just wanders into traffic, they should be held liable for the resulting accident.
Yeah, it goes down to $563,000 if its 6%, a 30% drop in affordable home price.
I find Chromebooks are increasingly good for a lot of things but, no, I doubt they're ideal for a lot of college students. (Pre-college is a somewhat different matter, especially if there's a family computer they can use for those applications that aren't accessible through a Chromebook.)

With things like Google Docs, Chromebooks are pretty powerful. I often travel with one rather than a laptop these days. But many college students are likely to run into situations where they need apps that aren't available for a Chromebook and, especially so long as Chromebooks aren't the norm, that's likely to be a problem.
I'd say the Nordic countries plus Switzerland.
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Is there an Rpi adapter to allow hdmi in via CSI port?
It would be cool to use an action camera like a gopro
Speech is suppressed commensurately with its threat to power. It is difficult to see the absence of speech; negative space, absence is difficult even to talk about. Historically speaking, movements of people that posed a threat to the US Government were shattered, suppressed, and then rewritten out of the canonical history as promulgated by the government and its subordinate institutions.

What isn't being said today because of the way speech and power is structured in the USA? Is there really any voice out there whose words substantially threaten the government? Whenever such a voice gets loud enough, out come the battalions of cops with riot gear, armored vehicles, and chemical weapons. The mainstream media never questions this clockwork logic: it must be as natural as the sun rising and setting in such a society.

It is almost a truism that any institution of power will renege on all of its promised rights towards those who would curb or abolish its power. We know after the fact that the government of the USA has done so towards many, many people whom it felt threatened it.
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Dropproxy: Dropbox public folder hosting experiment (2013)
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My solution has been DDWRT on my router, acting as a print server with the printer plugged into it. It has worked great, and never have issues like I did before when the printer was plugged into the computer. It always just works.
I have said this about many websites recently, but design/front-end dev teams have to to justify their existence through constant "progress".

However you choose to define progress is up to you, but when your boss asks you about the Q3 roadmap you better have some answers.
If anything, it reminds me of the Better Off Ted episode with "Jabberwocky."

Nobody knew what it did or what it was, but everyone wanted in on it... somehow.
I don’t find the arrow function version of (1) cleaner than the anonymous function version. Is it cleaner because you can fit it on one line?

I don’t find the import version of (2) cleaner than the require() version. Having a boring old function that’s consistent with the rest of the language actually seems better than dedicated syntax, especially when that dedicated syntax is unnecessarily verbose. Copying Python’s might have been okay:

// I have to repeat “fs” =(
var fs = require('fs');

// Wait, I still have to repeat “fs” *and* it’s longer
// *and* it looks more confusing? There’s no precedent
// for this use of * in JavaScript.
import * as fs from 'fs';

// Nice.
import fs;

I don’t find the `export default` version of (3) cleaner or more streamlined than the one that assigns to `module.exports`. It just seems like another waste of dedicated syntax.
Awesome! With an advent of smartphones you shoud take into account what girls really want... MAKE UP!!! Sometimes it would be nice not to follow tight circle of youtubers that i know but see something new.
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Even worse is the blogger thing of swipe right/left takes you to the next/previous post. Zoomed in and looking around? Surprise! Youre on another page! This seems to break every reasonable expectation of good navigation design and I hate it with a vengeance.
What does npm stand for? You decide
German scientists seek way to end live chick shredding
So the plan is to generate an initial spike in demand from a group of people marginally interested in something they can get for free, then alienate your core users, who would have been happy to pay from the outset, by introducing a fee, but only once the service is sufficiently overburdened supporting free users ? Well they say any plan is better than no plan... but....

Turn this upside down now, think about 100 users paying $50 a month for something they depend on, I bill $100/hr, if you can save me an hour a month I'm winning, once you have $5000 a month every month think about the next 100, keep going, sounds like your product has a use, don't make the free mistake, it's been highlighted here many times, good luck!
What are you using? I only caught 12 :/
I don't want to shoot the messenger here but is there any other source for all that info? I would like to read more about it but some other report investigation that came to the same conclusions would be nice. Given some garbage-level articles I've read at The Intercept recently I am very skeptical about their motivations and the quality of their report.