skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those won't go away. They might be mitigated, but once again, you can only mitigate the portion that is due to driver error, and the major problem in those scenarios is physics.

The shock wave phenomenon is one caused by physics (it literally is modeled by fluid dynamics simulation), exacerbated by limited visibility, and exacerbated once again by human reaction times. You can only get rid of the human reaction times, and maybe a little bit of visibility due to communication (although I'm extremely skeptical that there is any incentive for cars to rely on wireless communication to make decisions).

Lanes merging is a physical bottleneck. Sure, humans might make the merge worse, but speed is still limited by the capacity bottleneck, not the friction of the merge. The zipper merge has never proven to be faster, merely safer and more space efficient. You'll get to the bottleneck faster, and cars that try to exit before the bottleneck will get out of your way faster, but that's about it.
Women (not me!) will complain about the name and say "this is why there's no women in computer science."
Very short summary of another Italian article [1]:

The child is 6. She's needed dialysis since she was born. She never drank water, to prevent problems.

There was an unsuccessful transplant in 2014, because of the immune response.

They couldn't risk another transplant using the blood vessels of the kidneys. She was also at risk of not being able to keep doing dialysis because of the problems to those blood vessels. Because of all of that, they decided to remove the spleen and use its blood vessels for the new kidney. She urinates normally now and she can drink water.

I couldn't find information about the issues with the blood-type mismatch.

[1] http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/12/14/news/torino_t...
To build a better ballot
I'm with you, but imagine all those horse-lovers in the time of motorization boom where cars used to be much nosier than today.

Eventually sooner or later you will have state/gov/some department to regulate how much noise those can make.
My biggest hang-up is true [edit: complete as in covers all platforms] xplat UI; Xamarin Forms targets mobile only.

There are a couple options:

https://github.com/picoe/Eto (Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS; Android, Windows phone: pre-alpha)

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia (Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS and Android; all alpha)

For now I'm planning on using Eto since my initial focus will be on the desktop.
Interestingly enough, I just recently released a password strength library which can help enforce these exact requirements. https://github.com/GoSimpleLLC/nbvcxz
And incredibly horrible software makers.
That looks very similar to the handcuff knot
A lot of the valid issues people have with this concept is about the cost of flying a drone half-way across a city to deliver a single item, but I think that's just the way Amazon are pitching it at the moment. I think it's much more likely that they'll have a fleet of self driving vans with a few of these in the back - it pulls up to the end of your road/block/village and lets them loose for a few deliveries before moving onto the next place. Not quite as fast as the 13 minutes they're quoting, but much more feasible and potentially much faster than a bloke in a van.
When those tools were written, /sys and /proc didn't exist.
/code --poetry
> Everyone has a moral right not to be deported to somewhere they've never known.

That's the exact same argument people who live in any rapidly gentrifying neighborhood make. You do NOT have the moral right to live whereever you want, even if it's the only place you know.

Fundamentally you live where you can afford and it's legal for you to live. You don't have the rights to any piece of land unless you have a deed, and even then, eminent domain can trump your rights.
Aviation law likely trumps that, especially for explicitly permitted (commercial license) operations. And in most countries "dangerous interference with aircraft" or something similar has pretty harsh penalties attached.

I think there already have been a few example cases, so there should be info at least for the US.
Replying to this one as I don't want to reply to yesterday's thread.

(numbers unrelated to yours)

1. BART track utilization at peak times is already pretty much at capacity. The typical westbound rush hour train will be waiting in the transbay tube for trains ahead of it to unload passengers at Embarcadero.

2. Seating capacity on BART is underreporting the ridership. At least 30 more people fit into each car during peak and late hours.

It's great that you dove into the napkin math and worked out your idea. I think that the notion of using many busses is worth looking into. When it comes to capital expenditure and ongoing subsidization, BART is an expensive remedy for traffic congestion.

I think the most vital part of the exercise is to examine the choke points: the Bay Bridge and Market St. Without another bridge and another level for road traffic, I don't see how the city could accommodate the extra usage from the loss of BART, van/bus use notwithstanding.
Ask HN: At what level of complexity do you consider writing a DSL?
I've been working on a project with ever-growing requirements, and as a consequence the codebase has been growing ugly and gross. I've been toying with the idea of creating a simple DSL to abstract away a lot of the clutter.

Does anyone here have a good rule thumb for when it might be time to create a DSL?
The list on https://coq.inria.fr/documentation is pretty comprehensive.

Maybe Certified Programming with Dependent Types is along the lines of what you are looking for?
It's not circular at all. You're the one claiming that people would abuse this en masse to get free vacation, completely ignoring the reality of the situation. Therefore, it would be on you to prove that there would actually be a threat of that happening. I'm not going to let you just claim it will happen and frame the argument that way.
> I've must have written a dozen ring buffers over the years

Why would someone do this instead of re-using previous (or third-party) implementations? Of course unless it's all in different languages, but I don't think that's the case here.
Extending User Control of Flash with Click-to-Run
I made Menutail (https://www.menutail.com) which creates nutrition facts labels for food vendors. Up time is definitely important, but if things go wrong, customers are understanding if you communicate honestly with them on what is going on.

The other thing to be careful of is feature creep to ensure it is valuable for your customer base. If one customer complains that they want something which would be super difficult and applicable to only one edge case, I'd take some pause to evaluate the feedback.

The other thing as ovidiup mentioned, marketing is the absolutely hardest. I would even consider it soul draining if you like coding, but it is super necessary. I would recommend reading this book to help think about your sales channel

https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Inevitable-Hyper-Growth-Co...
IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design
To reply to myself:

I feel like it's not dissimilar to what happened with HTML. Mozilla and Opera tried to get the W3C to write a better spec and iterate on HTML in 2004, and the W3C membership voted against it… they then, with Apple, started their own organisation (the WHATWG) which wrote their own spec called "Web Applications 1.0" which was essentially a new HTML spec.
I think maybe we've taken the whole continuous delivery thing too far. It makes sense for web services/applications that can quickly be patched in a handful of locations to fix a problem for all users. It makes less sense for desktop applications that must be patched on every single user's machine.
It's hard to take you at your worldly-wise word when you completely ignored his point that photojournalism doesn't require optimal photo/video quality (and it's very high bandwidth demands) to be effective. Refusing to acknowledge someone's argument and trying to out-nerd them isn't very civil either.
Dell XPS.

Debian 8.6

Mate desktop. mate-desktop.com
http://bugmenot.com/view/seekingalpha.com
What enabled the ML revolution we're witnessing now is mostly the advent of powerful and low-cost GPGPUs and the abundance of training data, as you mentioned. Of course, there are theoretical breakthroughs and interesting new applications [1], but it wasn't the deciding factor. Even ConvNets aren't new. For example, AlexNet is basically a much larger reimplementation of the original Lenet idea [2] from 1998.

This is not to discredit any new work that's being done. I think it's awesome to see so much progress in a field that's certainly on its way of defining an era. I'm just pointing out that we have known about most of the fundamentals for a long time.

[1]: https://tryolabs.com/blog/2016/12/06/major-advancements-deep...

[2]: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-01a.pdf
I have to agree as well. I've only had two winter driving accidents, both of them just me and one of them was unavoidable: I was travelling at very low speed down a plowed street and found a long streak of ice. I've been in plenty of winter skids and am decent and correcting them but I had 0 traction and essentially skated at 5mph into a telephone pole (which seemed safer than the cross street I was drifting toward).

I'm not sure how a self-driving car would have fixed that. I certainly believe one could but it would require a ton of learning beforehand and conditions vary widely in storms. I suppose with all-wheel drive and some selective application of the wheels in reverse it might have stopped the car before any damage was done, but how to handle situations where the AI can't stop the car before an incident and has to minimize the damage? That feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen in the US.
> deportation of families that include citizen children would qualify as ruthless.

Depends. There are several instances. Trump has gradually softened his stance on illegal immigration, basically saying now that if you keep your nose clean, you probably won't get deported.

If however the family contain family members who are violent criminals or have known gang ties? How is deporting them "ruthless"? It's self-preservation.
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Not sure which is setup by default; there is the Android SDK emulator and the newer Hyper-V based Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Based on @snarfy's comment elsewhere, I'm guessing the Xamarin installer isn't installing the VS emulator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176438

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_tes...
Arvin Vohra for U.S. Senate
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Or...better yet, there would be a self-driving truck/flat-bed which drives close to a certain city-center area, and has on its bed a mini-fleet of drones, these drones will lift-off from the truck instead of the fulfillment hub...these smaller drones would deliver it to the front door. Alternatively, the self-driving truck could have a cartoon-like robotic arm that extends to the customer's front door; ringing the doorbell automatically and dropping the package on the doormat. ;-)
Very late reply, but just in case you're still watching: I don't think DHL/FedEx would be obvious customers but they might be obvious acquirers if your tech really rocked.

AFAICT there are still a lot of small local and regional shippers who offer a better deal than FedEx/DHL -- I assume that's mostly on price but it could also be on expertise, proximity, nepotism, whatever -- and the deal has remained consistently better for many years despite FedEx, DHL, UPS, and other large players being in the market.

My guess is that the further away from the FedEx/DHL hubs you get, the less attractive their service and the higher their prices -- and it looks to me like more and more stuff is being sold online in these markets too, and that stuff has very low margins and needs to get shipped for "free" or at least cheap.

Furthermore, in Europe at least you have direct competitors to FedEx/DHL on the international level (at least within the EU). Players at that level have their own tracking systems, sure, but that means they have to have IT crews, software developers, etc. and I'm sure they'd much rather not.

For example I recently had a delivery from DPD:

https://www.dpd.com/de_privatkunden

It's probably a much smaller market but there are also specialty transporters for stuff like art and antiques. I'm sure they absolutely hate having to care about tracking systems when their value-adding expertise is so thoroughly elsewhere.
That's not really DRM. At best it's DRE (digital rights expression, a term I just made up). DRM controls the computer showing the content.

The problem with the idea is that it works only if every single photo/video player in the world agrees to respect the metadata in the file, _in spite of the wishes of the owner of the computer running the player_. Be careful what you ask for.

In theory, adding a copyright notice to EXIF is just as effective -- though everything is already legally copyrighted the moment it's fixed in a medium, regardless of notice. So you already have what you're asking for, and you can see how well it's working.

See also RFC 3514.
To echo this we have run 10k+ containers in production for close to a year, and docker crashes all the time. Sometimes in ways undetectable by any reasonable health polling mechanism messing up Kube as well.

Edit: Relevant details
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110897

Note these were not issues with using docker poorly, or out of mainline use cases. They are all issues with dockers core networking or runtime stack that are acknowledged bugs.
Godwin's law strikes again.
Is per-IP rate limiting the only one way to respond to auth DoS? Different situations involve different trade-offs.
Power plants are not the only source of pollution in Delhi or India.They burn garbage as well as manure for fuel. And the land-fill also caught fire. On my last visit, I saw this up close: http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/delhi-pollution-panel-sends-n...

My dad and I have allergic asthma and this just makes it worse for us.
> the API is currently handling around 300 million requests a month.

Are those number not enough to start charging for more than #k requests? Even a few bucks a year to use the service would be better than nothing.
If we had a society where people could educate themselves/be educated for 20 years, work for 20 years, have a vocation for 20 years, it might be a better world. Presently such a lifestyle is available only to a minority in our society. You can't advocate such a thing more universally without being labeled a Fascist (Service Guarantees Citizenship!) or a Communist. Those ideologies certainly are problematic but they did offer a higher ideal to the people.

Many people in Western society feel bored, miserable and lost. That's what is behind many of these conversions to Islam. It is first and foremost, a crisis of higher purpose and if it cannot be turned to a productive output it will likely metathesize into something worse.
When preparing for a change, it's good to know whether or not you're leaning on a button that makes the change happen faster. If you are, you can try to lean less hard on that button, and buy more time to prepare. If you're not, then attempting to lean less hard is wasted effort. (It might accidentally have some benefits, but you could have gotten those benefits anyway, if you thought they were worth it.)

It would be really surprising if our best-value course of action, relating to climate change, was exactly the same regardless of whether climate change were human-influenced or not.
FWIW you would pronounce "Coq" much more like "kuhk" than "cock", if that makes sense. But that depends on the accent :)
The problem with that is unless that guy figures out what's inside his console, he would never realize that an established PC vendor was providing key parts inside. I've never had a game console, but I don't remember seeing AMD stickers on consoles or their packaging.
Amazon makes first drone delivery
Why not just design the chimney properly in the first place? Chimneys are supposed to have enough updraft to do this by themselves.
> I accept that your argument is more reasonable if you're talking about stills, but the article is about video, and presumably that's what everybody else here is talking about.

The article is not "about video". The article mentions both, and if you read the original letter[0], you'll find it does too.

> My point was that the measures you suggest for worst case scenarios do not even make sense in best case scenarios (London being a highly developed first world capital city).

Making sense for London is irrelevant. Read the actual letter[0] - it talks about, and only about "...the most dangerous parts of the world", and protecting against "authoritarian governments or criminals". Obviously, if that's not what you're doing, then different solutions might be better.

0: https://freedom.press/news/over-150-filmmakers-and-photojour...
That issue is a kernel issue in old Ubuntu kernels. If you are experiencing that, upgrade your kernel. It is not something Docker can fix. If that is not your issue, please open a new one. If your system locks up, that is a kernel issue, and as the container runtimes all use pretty much the same kernel features, switching will not fix it.
It has to come down to deliver. Even if doing roof deliveries, if they are on a roof within a building or two, they won't be that far away from the drone.

Plenty of young people put good skills to use in stupid ways until they get older (and some never hit "until"). Sometimes it's how they develop those skills in the first place.

The big reason why I think this is likely is the same as why I think it's more likely with autonomous car package delivery. An employee is a wildcard in the equation, they may care above all reason about the crime, and that can be the difference between easy money and going to jail.
Does anybody know what the chance of getting a self driving car is? I could try to use uberX instead of pool for a while, if there's a sufficient chance of getting one.
Maybe a better metaphor would be C is a car with a knife pointing out of the steering wheel. The fact that it's dangerous makes the person drive safer and more cautiously.
Previous discussion, when the merger was initially announced, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421894
I believe it was one of the numerous starship self destruct codes, which also technically passes the usual hoops of letters and numbers and mixed case and punctuation.

I actually looked it up: 1,1A(bunch more stuff here)000Destruct0 it was kinda long. From memory that movie even displayed it on the screen so the guys used the same capitalization and everything.
Certified Programming with Dependent Types

http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/
Better One

https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-c...
Coq and Agda are both based on dependent types, but Agda is more of an in-progress research language whereas Coq is currently quite useful for doing proofs in practice.

Haskell doesn't have full support for dependent types (yet). The Haskell community is very cautious with adding features that make type inference undecidable (like dependent types), so what people do is gradually add type system features onto GHC and then gate them behind feature flags. So you can do some of the things you can do in Agda in Haskell (like GADTs, kind promotion, limited type functions, etc.) but not everything.

The advantage of Haskell's conservative approach is that it's actually very useful for writing programs, whereas Coq is only really meant for writing proofs and Agda is more of a research testbed than a production language.
I'm not saying Xamarin is the greatest tool, but it's definitely not unmarketable. There are always several jobs around me on the job boards. But if your comment was a generalization, then I guess you could make the same argument for being a Swift developer because ios devices are only 10% of the market. Telling people not to learn Xamarin is stupid. It maybe the right tool for some people. And besides, Xamarin Android is VERY similar to native Android Java code. If you learn Xamarin Android, it is a easy jump to native android.
Thanks. This is also the paper I was referring to.
Good, but might I suggest a larger set via bloom filter.
A housemate of mine used to call herself "The spleenless wonder." It was removed after a car accident.
With that quick of a click to delivery, do you really think you'll have the same car traffic? The amount of times you'd need to drive to get anything would dramatically decrease.
Why does having attorneys involved specifically matter?
Overall an interesting article but at least his premise for point 3 doesn't seem correct. The FBI leaks are talking about financial connections and if you notice never say that the hackers weren't Russian.
This isn't a philosophical debate, but consider something like physicalism rather than free will.... No point in getting into a debate about that, but if you believe in science then you kind of have to believe in determinism.

We aren't really special, we ONLY think we are, we are restricted to the same laws as all other animals over all of time. We THINK we are different and ACT differently, but the 'effects' will still come to our 'causes.'

Take a stoic perspective rather than a defeatist one on the deterministic nature of things and it stops being something to get angry about.
> And you are basing this on what, exactly?

I made that statement based on my limited ability to extrapolate how our species might deal with the two scenarios. It sounds much, much easier to me, while still being incredibly challenging, to deal with large population displacement versus dealing with our planet becoming entirely uninhabitable.

Now, if I understand what you're saying, it sounds like our understanding of the probabilities of the two scenarios occurring isn't exactly known. While the two scenarios, at face value, sound incredibly different (to me at least), the likelihood of one happening over the other could be very similar. I agree that we should absolutely take that position seriously and that we should absolutely do things to guard against the possible outcome where our planet becomes uninhabitable.

All that I'm asking is that we say it like that. Lets say that instead of speaking in absolutes (e.g. "its a hoax", "we're doomed"). That's all I'm taking issue with. It doesn't help the discussion no matter what side of the argument those kinds of statements come from.

> And we do not have a second Earth to test your theories on. Are you really willing to take the risk of assured doom based on your belief that "the gap between now and assured doom is incredibly huge"?

To be clear, I don't have any theories I'd like to test nor do I know what I might be willing to risk. As I said in my original comment, my understanding of everything is incredibly rudimentary and I'm trying to do a better job seeking information to help me answer questions like that.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Kubernetes CRI-O tutorial
How to Spot Bad Marketing Advice
A year after the tech is available, I'd expect a thicket of regulations and permits to emerge that make it economically unviable for anyone but a large company fielding thousands of cars to profit.

Sort of like how you couldn't open your own payment processor for the few hundred people in your neighborhood today.
This is remedied with a service charge for the responsible person.

Unlike a Tenderloin sidewalk, deterrents are easily enforced under a scheme like this.

Uber and Lyft currently charge $100 for a cleaning fee to the driver when their passengers soil a car's interior with vomit, etc. I don't see why Waymo, Tesla, or Uber would be any different.