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Honestly, I think these special cases for robust systems like Waymo's will be more a matter of custom configuration than something particularly novel.

Yes, they'll run into scaling to every city immediately, but that happens already with software-only technology.
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1 point by scrolib 7 minutes ago | flag | vouch | hide | past | web

You have more karma that I do so should be able to see it.
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I found them useless for high-end dishwashers (both Mieles they recommended worked poorly), audio equipment, and high-end vacuums. I specify high-end because I am very willing to pay top dollar for appliances that will last many years, not because I'm a snob.
NIDA is funded by the Us Gov. So you mean that this is a federal study. We are not speaking of a private company here.
Curiously, though, travel by car requires one to rely on others just as much as any other form of transportation. It's just that the reliance is hidden away from you.

Take the road that goes past/to your residence. Who built it? Who repairs the potholes? If you live in an area with cold winters, who plows and salts the road when it snows? Then you have to multiply that by every municipality/county/state on your journey. You quickly find that maintaining the road network involves quite a large number of people. It's more of a sunk cost than one that recurs for every journey, yes, but it seems fallacious to say that car travel is independent of the effort of others. That is only an illusion.

You can repeat this exercise for the supply chain needed to get fuel to your car, too. There's an entire hidden network of people enabling car travel in the first place. And that isn't a bad thing; this interconnectedness in the economy is what allows us to specialize and find economies of scale and spend time writing software instead of everyone spending their days growing their own food just to survive.
If I could snap my fingers and be granted a wish no one would have to sell anything, including their time and effort, merely to survive.

Under those conditions, those jobs would have to pay enough to /entice/ someone to do that work rather then rely on the implicit threat of pain through starvation, homelessness or what have you, to keep the price of getting those jobs done artificially low. Therefore they must provide enough value to society to justify their natural, uncoerced, price after that likely labor price increase is taken into account.

People often do things they wouldn't do if they were not paid. That's business. It is when people do things that they'd rather not else they face pain or death that we should work to minimize.

So, if someone wants to work in a mine, or a factory line, or on a stripper pole because it pays well enough knowing that if they don't they could still feed their kids, more power to them.
The only problem I see here with your question is that no one really knows the answer, they can only speculate. I, for instance, think that I'd get along just great with my duplicate, and that we'd work together on getting more stuff done and enjoying more free time as a result. But I don't really know that; it's not like I've tried it before.

Why would your spouse be jealous of your clone? She'd now have two of you, so she's more likely to get attention when she wants it.
He doesn't care to even try to understand. He's just a troll.
Do you understand the fundamental difference between a simulation according to some primitive model and reality?
HP zBooks have 90Wh batteries and you can configure them with a 1080p display and no discrete graphics (just make sure you do spring the $50 for the UWVA; that's HP code for "not a crappy TN panel"); if you have no need for GPGPU and don't go crazy with the CPU/RAM you put in then you can get quite good battery life out of them.

You used to be able to get laptops with batteries that fit in the optical drive-bay so you could expand the battery life, but that appears to be a non-option now that internal optical drives have gone the way of the dodo.

[edit]

A friend pointed me to this as well: https://www.anker.com/deals/powerhouse2 it weighs as much as the first laptop I ever used, but has 400Wh.
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California legalized (for medicinal purposes) marijuana far earlier than Colorado and Washington.

I only mention this because you stated 28 states later, but there isn't 28 states like Colorado / Washington. Most are more similar to California's original law.
If it’s true that algorithms are statistically better than drivers then we shouldn’t let people to drive."

It is difficult to decide if this statement is idealistic, naive, or written by an algorithm. I love motorcycles, as do many millions of other people, despite the obvious safety risks. This may come as a shock, but minimizing risk isn't the sole goal of everyone's life on earth. By this logic, we shouldn't "let" people play sports because purpose built robots would be statistically better.

But there are still a lot of people that love to drive. This can be a fun recreational activity but we just don’t need those people on the road.

No, what we don't "need" are Autonomous Cars. We need food, water, and shelter. We want autonomous cars the same as any other modern technology. And by the way, marginalizing the interests of millions of people with language like "those people" typically does not go over well. And whom is "we"? Because it sounds like Rick's spaceship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0PuqSMB8uU

(There is also a highly relevant Futurama episode that satirizes this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-D_Blacktop.)
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There are two ways to put it: I can say "I don't need a debugger, I have printf", or I can say "I don't need gdb, printf is my debugger".

Either is fine. Most conversations about debuggers however tend to equate the debugger with something like gdb or the IDE debugging interface. People will often say the absence of such a debugger is a deal breaker for them. It feels like they forgot about printf.
That's odd. Here's what I see:

52 points by eternalban 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | 31 comments | favorite

Looking at others that are flagged, some I see a "vouch" link, others I don't. Looks like if they're '[flagged][dead]', I have a vouch link. '[flagged]' only, no "vouch" link. Also have a "vouch" link for those that are only '[dead]'.

Another example with no "vouch" link ('[flagged]' only):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366275

Perhaps until it's dead, up-votes are expected to be used.
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But we're talking about hypothetical self-driving taxis, not the existing Uber. Once you no longer need to pay for a driver, you're comparing with mostly the same costs, but with the overheads amortised over many users.
Safety is good, but it's not a dichotomy of "absolutely no safety" or "safety trumps all other things".

It seems to me that the safety aspect is currently very strong, on the expense of long time-to-market and high barrier of entry to market.
> The comp is standard across the industry

GP's question was "Why is the industry standard high?"
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I would get behind that, especially if it means screening for those that would rather not do it but feel like there is no other choice and making them aware of their options.
This is really insightful. Can you recommend any books to introduce thinking critically about race?
Second hand smoking puts others in risk too.
Ah, didn't see that field in the data dump.
I'm sure they have a conversation at some point, and that conversation ends in an exchange of money for sex, even if they skirt around calling it that.

Not that there aren't men who sign up to a sugar baby site, date much younger very attractive girls, pay them, and don't have sex with them. I'm sure that exists too, but only because the client really doesn't want that service.
Being that cars operate in physical reality, my guess is the machine would ignore your obviously incorrect spike of data and rely instead on its LIDAR and cameras.

Frankly, I see V2X as basically useless outside of coordinating complex maneuvers (high speed, high efficiency car trains on freeways or stopless intersections). But why even have it if the sensors are already aware of what's going on to a reasonable degree of 1-2 seconds of future reality?
Yeah, carrots are hard to grow. Saying they are easy are going to make people feel even shittier when they try
Marijuana while generally not physically addictive can be habit-forming though. How else do you explain stoners? I'm not bashing pot but I know people who were different people before adopting "pot as a lifestyle." I'm drawing the distinction here between recreational user and non-medicinal multiple times a day daily user, with "stoner" being the latter.
> The study examined DNA methylation—an “annotation” of DNA that alters gene expression without changing the genomic sequence itself—in a group of diverse Latino children. Methylation is one type of “epigenetic mark” that previous research has shown can be either inherited or altered by life experience.

What are you even arguing against?
A few ideas...

* A site that posts startups that flame out spectacularly due to poor business models (models that everyone knew would never work but money was still invested, etc.). Like that F* Company site that used to exist, or whatever it used to be called.

* An incubator for startups devoted to the proctology industry. (I assume that's what you would call this sub-industry of medicine.)

* A p0rn site, duh.

* An incubator for startups devoted to the adult industry.

* A bathub company for folks with reading disabilities. (Sorry.)

* A startup focused on developing the next generation hardware programming language to replace legacy ASSembly language. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist considering the expected audience here on HN ;-)
Hmm yeah, for some reason I conflated them with NetApp, the storage company. Glad I double-checked – I haven't heard of Net Applications either.
Would the layman consider Khoisan and Bantu people to be of the same race? I mean after learning about the existence and names of both of them.

I am a layman who knows next to nothing about genetics, but a bit about Africa, and I would not consider the two peoples to be in the same race. They look completely different - which is what most laymen use to determine race, isn't it?
> The people who asked "what's making you sad?" or tried to "fix" my "problems" were the least helpful.

As someone who lives with someone depressed, I find myself guilty of doing this and I don't know any other way to be present for that person. What kind of approaches have you found helpful?
Just curious if large ice shelves like this ever start to separate and end up refreezing before they actually break. Looking at the diagram in the article leads me to think that this part of the ice shelf is a goner, but I don't actually know that much about the environment in or near Antarctica.
Did you read the email at all?

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In your opinion, how many orders of magnitude more difficult is driving than mowing the lawn?

I honestly don't have a strong sense of the scale of ability here.
In my understanding, the article was saying that who your ancestors are has less of an impact on DNA methylation (epigenetic markers) than where you grew up. It's not about race, it's about ethnicity---the cultural identity of the individuals, the environment they lived in. It's not about DNA, it's about how DNA is actually manifested, as represented by methylation markers.
>I'll bet that in the near future (next decade or so), there will be rising incidents of traffic being blocked due to a stopped automated car who's driver is not responsive, but the computer couldn't handle some construction or weather, and went into fail-safe mode, simply slowing down and stopping (but not pulling over due to lack of space).

Obviously "do not stop in the middle on the road" will be high on the priorities of self driving algorithms...
My guess is the people working on driverless cars aren't interested in driverless mower technology -- that is, one industry is cannibalizing the rest.
But I can just see octopuses hankering for that fourth hand. You probably can't have too many hands, and wanting N+1 is going to be universal . . . :-)
Halfway through reading, I was going to criticize the author for lack of quantitative evidence, but he partially redeemed himself by using actual numbers in the Expired Domains section. Anyone can write an article saying "X is important!" but a business owner will not give attention unless dollar values are assigned to the importance. Still, I'd like to see some more evidence in this article than the Bobblehead case study that using keyword domains actually increases sales in that market.
> In fact, I think that having a solid social safety net would push capitalism to even greater heights of efficiency.

I live in the UK. We have a solid social safety net. The issue is that it exists to support a capitalist understanding of wages - i.e. that your wage is a result of a market, which is more-or-less unrelated to the value that you create through your work (except insofar as an upper limit is created) and more to do with how many people and companies you're competing with to do the work.

A "safety net" which somehow ensures, in perpetuity, that people are able to work for a wage which has some relation to the value they create winds up looking a lot like certain forms of socialism. But as with all real-world politics, it winds up being blurry.
Yeah, but getting off the couch is the hardest part
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Huh... Well, good to know.
I think the observations in your last paragraph are very wise.

I've recently begun to wonder if pursuing 'happiness' is even a useful goal. I'm not really sure what 'happiness' is, or whether it exists. In the past, I have conflated transitory 'ups' in my life, caused by external factors, with sustainable and lasting happiness. When those external factors change, as they always do, it never seems to end well. But it's such a difficult thing to avoid; even being aware of all of this I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in to this same trap at some point in the future.
Dunno if you live in Silicon Valley, but here in the Mountain View / Sunnyvale area, they absolutely do drive the same miles that humans drive, in the same conditions. There is about the same chance that you'll see a WayMo self-driving car on your trip as that you'll see a VW Bug, perhaps slightly higher. There's a significantly higher chance than seeing a Tesla or McLaren, even though both of those marques are quite popular in Silicon Valley.

They don't do highways yet, but most of the time, I don't either.
> you have to earn more than X pounds per year to keep your non-EU spouse with you in the country

I find that astonishing. I had a quick look and couldn't find anything that suggested you need to earn a minimum amount. The only requirement (regarding employment) that I saw was that the resident much meet the EU Treaty requirements but any employment restrictions are for non-UK citizens.

Do you possibly have a source as I'd be very interested indeed?
> It also means the battery can't have a funky custom-designed shape that devices with integrated batteries can

... so you're saying that designing for a detachable battery forces a certain finesse when designing the rest of the internals, so that there is not any funky-shaped gap big enough to put an entire LiPo cell.

Also, one can easily make an "extended" model of replacement battery, which protrudes rearward (or downward[1]) of the rest of the case.

[1]: http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/396005-lenovo-thinkpad-x2...
I tend to agree with your view, or am biased because it reflects my pattern. However I would add, browsers (Chrome at least) have a bit of a dark pattern that pushes people towards a search making searches very common although not always needed/intended.

For example, when I type the first 4 letters of my bank's URL, the omnibox has 3 suggestions prior to the direct bank URL even though it's a site I frequently visit and google knows that. They want me to search "BANK NAME" because then I'm more likely to click on the top link which of course is an ad.
I completely agree.

Thing is, even remaining constrained by current law assuming stopping prostitution is just and right, they /still/ went about it entirely the wrong way. Ultimately this will lead to a complete loss of control, more prostitution, and more trafficked/coerced people.
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So how much plastic pollution do bags actually cause?
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Elixir is really in a sweet spot where I just have no major complaints about the language or platform - it all fits together, makes sense and works well for a wide range of useful projects. Most published libraries also seem pretty high quality for their young age, and the community appears to be generally friendly and growing/maturing rapidly.
Well, I mean, if they did in fact get rid of it all, then they would not have a job to do anymore and then would be laid off. So......
I've honestly never used LinkedIn for anything.
[citation needed] ^

In particular, it looks like you're mixing up cause and effect, and I haven't the slightest idea from where you're getting the "brain inflammation" thing (it sure as hell ain't in the DSM-IV, last I checked (it's been awhile, granted, but still)).
I agree that you can make such a construction in theory. However, in practice there is no way we can synchronize our clocks with an observer at the location of that binary star system. There is also no reason to do it: the precise time of the star merger does not have any physical meaning, it is just a label. Saying that some astronomical event took place on the date we observe it, is equally valid and free from ambiguities.
It's pretty clear you skimmed the article and read from it what you wanted, instead of what it actually said. I read through the responses and you've been pretty thoroughly proven wrong so I won't reiterate the points.

Constructively, try not to see news as a chance to reinforce your existing views. Try and do the opposite. try to expand your world view.
combating trafficking in the framework of existing laws. trafficking does not imply consent.

yes, the existing laws are broken.
I think this is an important point. As a person with foresight such as yourself it is very hard to simply ignore your natural self. Some people can “believe” in a method that allows them to only focus on the present or feel content that a superior entity is in control. I wish I could trick myself in to believing in one of these systems as people who do in fact seem content.

I have however arrived at what I believe to be a meaning of life. I think it may appeal to other science types. The main purpose of human life simply seems to be able to persist and gain complexity. You can play a small role in either part. Help life persist or help build complexity. Right now in this time, we simply don’t have enough complexity to even take a stab at the overall meaning. So saying you have the definitive answer is akin to giving up. Thank you for your contribution to the persisting camp though. Your offspring may help us build some complexity.

But, you can believe that one day we ( mankind, machine kind) will know the answer. So why can’t your belief simply be faith in that one day we will find answers and right now you simply don’t know. Help put the next piece in the puzzle while you are here so the next person has a shot .

E.G. help us get off this freaken Rock! :)
> in the long term it would lead to a better outcome

I'm not really sure I follow the argument for it leading to a better outcome.

Prostitution has been illegal for a long time, long before the existence of Backpage, and we haven't seen an outpouring of support for improved public assistance.

Indeed, people on public assistance are usually characterised as lazy scroungers who can't be bothered to get a real job. Meanwhile prostitutes are usually considered tragic victims of adverse circumstances.

So if anything, it would seem like a massive increase in the numbers of prostitutes as a result of legalisation (not to mention the increased visibility of the existing amount) would be far more likely to lead to support for change than the status quo.
Is this event likely to cause large waves in the area? I ask because I will be taking a cruise next month which stops in the Antarctic sound, and I would like to live.
I am not going to leave the kids at home, hoping they get into the car and off to the daycare centre, so I am assuming you mean before I get to work. So that means I have to wait for the car to get back before I get to work? Wouldn't that just cost me additional fuel? Seems like a bit of a waste to have my car go out twice (or four times if we count both getting to work and home) every weekday.

Isn't this a more likely scenario if the car was leased and/or it was a car pooling thing? But in that case, why are we wasting our times with cars? Why aren't we making buses self-driving? Car pool even more people in one vehicle!

I can imagine a common type of vehicle for self-driving cars that will be popular would be 'small buses', ones that carry 8-12 people, that drive unique routes.
Maybe you could lease your self driving car to self drive others around and pay for it that way...
I think Microsoft forgot about developers for a while. The Windows 8 timeframe wasn't a great time to be a Microsoft developer. They have been recovering mindshare lately, but it's the same back and forth. It's less clear that developer mindshare even matters as much these days when the web is the real desktop platform for most software.
I don't remember writing anything about jail. Legalisation and penalisation are two very different issues.
14 month old rMBP here, I spend all my day with Safari and Firefox open plus Slack and Word/Excel, plus connected to a remote desktop session and I can basically always expect 3-4 hours under those conditions.

If I'm visiting a client and turn off wifi and just take notes in Word, after an 8 hour day I can usually still make it through the evening with some light Netflix.