skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what I'm trying to get at is GP post changed the definition of level 5 from "some cars don't have steering wheels" to "all cars don't have steering wheels". A non-self-driving car will (by definition) always be cheaper than a self-driving car, and some people just like driving or distrust machines. Together with the fact that (especially in the United States of Freedom) governments will never ban cars with steering wheels, that definition of level 5 will never happen.
Yep. If autonomous vehicles become widespread before they are really ready and the news starts filling up with accidents a human would have avoided, it will cause a massive political backlash. The actual statistics will be irrelevant to most people.
I agree with this, the simplest solution is often the best, and then work on it until it is elegant. In the visual arts, i use the same line of thought when i am turning a sketch into a full painting, for comparison.
Does anyone know what happens after the query plan is generated in most database? I'm assuming individual step, like index scan, hashjoin are coded already and the plan steps are iterated and respective methods are called? So the execution steps are already compiled but the step traversal is kind of interpreted. With Peloton LLVM engine everything is merged together in a single sequence of machine code?

How much advantage does this give you? Is there really so many steps in the execution plan (the visible steps are usually < 50) but what about the internal actual compiled steps? Unless this is allowing merging and further simplification steps identifying redundant operation that gets trimmed of not sure where 100x performance improvement comes from.

Though I remember seeing the scala based in-memory query engine that was sort of doing simplification of the actual steps and doing very well in benchmark, maybe this is similar.
And lose their ranking? It won't be as simple as "just turn it off"
I will give this a try. I like the idea that despite being modern this doesn't send any requests and works offline.

How has been your experience?
I think you're combining Prozac's increased-suicide effect and the well-known danger zone of depression recovery:

https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?t=480

I suppose there could be something in Prozac being an engine of recovery without support (or suicide watch), essentially launching people into the danger zone, but I don't know.
I think in that event, teaching them how to fish would be more important than giving them a fish.

My suggestion would be something that would promote free thought. "All men are equal and thought, ideas, and speech should never be punished" or something along these lines.
If we only have one sentence, we'd best make sure we cram as much information into that sentence as possible.
Finally those years of studying Latin are paying off.
Sure, those scenarios you pointed out are difficult, but what about highway driving?

Replacing highway driving with autonomous vehicles is still completely game changing for the transportation industry. It means that 90% of truck drivers are out of a job. (Truck drivers of the future will just handle the last mile).

That is certainly something that is going to be disruptive.
Just let it die. It offers nothing over already open source unit test frameworks.
Weirdly, the download page is busted (for me) on both Firefox ESR & Opera (latest versions, on OSX).

After selecting the appropriate download choice "Open source distribution ...", the "Get started" button never becomes clickable.

(This was working a few days ago, when I downloaded Qt 5.7)

Is anyone else having the same trouble with that page?
Don't forget that once we get to level 4, every time there's rain or snow, there might even be more loss of life as everyone gets to learn how to drive again in bad weather.
So why do electronic devices work by one set of rules but car parts go by another?
re: open manholes - Why would an AI have no clue what to do if it could detect the danger? Drive over the middle, drive around it, or stop. I don't think there is any reason to think AI would be worse at handling the situation than people currently are. See this manhole "catapult" video compilation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYV2Aas668
The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds
You might want to look up the meaning of meretricious :)
well, there can be 'autonomous-car-friendly-zones' which would automatically entail ridiculously high rent prices : )
Sorry to hear about your psychiatrist. I suspect this falls into the university trap: "Great" professors are in fact great researchers; there's comparatively little reward in being a great teacher (or listener to your patients).

Hmm perhaps also because smoking behavior probably doesn't change much without accompanying lifestyle changes and confounding factors.

Still we didn't have schizophrenics who happened to pick up smoking and were completely cured, right? (right?) So the magnitude of effect is helpful, but not curative.
Have you done any network monitoring to see if Chrome is sending anything back to Google?
While I agree to some extent, I find it funny that I've somehow been around long enough to not realize people needed your example acronyms and names to be defined. Including the reference in the BBN definition to the other bbn :) I guess that's what happens when you live it first hand.
Not OP, but I've been using it for work passwords since spring 2016, and finally started using it personally in the last few months.
I had one UI-related saving issue, but the creator quickly responded to the PR and fixed it in a later version.

(Used KeePassX in both contexts previously)
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I think property ownership is an instinctive trait. Just like you don't have to tell a cat to piss against all the trees to assert ownership, you probably don't need to tell people about property.

I guess we could tell them "communism is bad" but that's a bit too cold war even for me.
Why a SF startup doesn't make an offer until they've undergone a 'trial week'
I completely agree. I personally believe barter is implicit in property ownership. Since you can't barter anything you don't own, and once you do own something bartering (in my opinion) is inevitable.
Why .de?
The only step needed there was ctrl-F5. Browser caching can be annoying. I'm not sure that it is up to the jupyter devs to fix it though?
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Nintendo started to use Vulkan, so things are moving in the right direction, though pretty slowly.

> The reason you need a proprietary API on a console is that you cannot make a game running on a $200-300 piece of consumer electronics compete with a game running on a $1000+ PC if they both use the same API.

Their primary reason is to tax developers who want to release games cross platform. In practice, no one prevents console makers from making more expensive high end consoles. Those who want demanding games, would buy more expensive hardware. Console is just a type of human interface, nothing inherently in it requires it to be cheap. Same as in regular PCs. The only reason current incumbent consoles are like that is lack of proper competition in their space. Compare it to mobile hardware where competition is fierce.
Social mobility is a major problem in democracy http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-24936416
What makes it difficult? My projects are all quite simple, but I do keep them compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3.

All I had to do was create a setup.cfg that said:

[wheel]
universal = 1

To build, I use:

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
twine upload -s dist/*

The .travis.yml is just 7 lines. https://github.com/cgmb/guardonce/blob/v2.0.0/.travis.yml
Sure missed an opportunity to call it "Sonic Rainboom".
Mine did as well. I absolutely loved them. When I was having our house built in America I tried everything I knew to get them built in. Apparently they are a fire hazard(1) here and so are not permitted by code.

(1) Then again, the house I lived in that had them was nearly 100% concrete as most houses in Germany were. American houses, not so much. Sure would be useful here in Florida come hurricane season though.
Because it is backed by a German organization.
How does that work with stuff such as odd password complexity rules (such as only digits allowed), enforced rotation, leaked password etc? It sounds like it would need to store more state than a master password.
> Yet, we have a supremely weird tendency to identify as some sort of labor slaves.

Depends where on earth you live.

I can assure you that while some of my Asian friends doing offshore consulting do have a much better life than many of their country fellows, the way they are seen by the western companies hiring them is not much different from the old colonial days.

Also those of us that are lucky to live in countries that have working IT unions, e.g. in Germany, do see the difference.
Is property ownership instinctive? I'd definitely agree that [usage] is instinctive, in that one may want to use something without interruption or threat of having it taken away during usage. However, the idea that one needs to own something after it has been used, no longer needs to be used, or simply is no longer in use seems interesting.

Maybe I'm too idealistic, but I could imagine a society where everything is communal. I just think we started off in a way that would make it too difficult to transition to that now (too many people have too much to lose).
Awesome! I am a heavy user of KeePass, and I also use all three main operating systems regularly, so this has always been an annoying issue to have. I usually get around it by using KeePass2Android on my phone and typing out passwords by hand on the other device. Could be worse.

I hope developing an official Android and iOS app is on the list. There are third party alternatives (such as the one I just mentioned), but if the goal is to be completely cross-platform then let's push those out too.
I think part of the difficulty with level 4 is that you're always going to have to accept some error rate in the 'safely stop' behavior, as that simply isn't possible in all situations.
This already sounds like Minority Report.
Ah, but can any of those things actually be removed? Each is not just an idea, but a representation of the one constant limitation to human economy: resource scarcity. The particulars might change, but the basic idea--some means of distributing resources--will arise to limit and shape whatever civilization might follow. We don't have to tell them anything; it'll instinctively develop on its own.
Legally it's ride sharing and that's all that really matters from a legal, economic or employment standpoint. The fact these people cannot find other jobs is the real problem.
On which platform? I would LOVE some sources on this! (seriously! I would really appreciate it)
Many good points in that article. Probably self driving cars are finally going to force us to review and to fix in many occasions the way we are using cars today. Especially the ways which are already broken today. A good example is the competition for the parking in front of a Starbucks or other similar shops. The common usage pattern is still crafted by how traffic was decades ago, and you could still just drive to a location and leave your car. But that depended on there being fewer cars than parking lots. In most locations, this is a thing long past - so I would consider the current situation already as broken. Self driving cars would make it worse and such could force us to finally find solutions for these situations.

There are two obvious ways of fixing that situation. The first, recognize that trying to reach a location by individual cars cannot work out and ban private cars. Many European Cities have large pedestrian zones where private cars are locked out of whole streets in city centers.

The other option would be, and fortunately self driving cars would be part of the solution, to create enough parking spaces. Parking in the streets would still be disallowed, creating large pickup areas instead. So the road sides would be free of parking cars, enabling drivers to stop at any desired spot. As soon as the passengers left the car, the car would leave immediately for a nearby garage. This would of course depend on the creation of the necessary amount of parking garages.
The other thing being left out is that Obama was the first black president, I would expect that to draw much bigger crowds than a trump inauguration. Far too much is being read into it to begin with.
From the standpoint of the law you are incorrect. Legally it's ride sharing, these people can make their own schedule, no one is forcing them to work 100 hour weeks behind the wheel.
> If you own a ten story building on a lot zoned for twenty, adding the extra ten floors looks a lot more attractive before you subtract out the additional property taxes you'll owe forever if you do it.

By that logic one should bulldoze the existing 10-story building and stick to owning dirt lots, realizing enormous property tax savings along the way.

The reason you don't see entire cities converted into dirt lots is that in reality things don't work that way.

The developer that builds condos doesn't really have an opinion on property taxes because paying those will be up to condo owners. The developer that builds apartment towers intended for rent doesn't care because the rental operator will take over, and the assessment of a rental property is a function of existing cashflows and comparables, subject to change when assessed at too high of a value.

> property values (and thus property taxes) go up and you have to charge higher rents to justify new construction

In reality large-scale commercial build-outs do not depend on financing from existing renters. A property operator (the principal) typically contributes some cash but also brings in a variety of outside investors. The rest of the sum is raised via fixed-interest debt and is one of the largest areas of US commercial banking. As a rental property reaches stabilization point, the principal conducts another round of outside investments, this time in somewhat worse investor terms, as the property is de-risked and has relatively stable cash flows. The money is used to pay down the commercial loan to a reasonable LTV.

When the plans for a new project show up on the horizon, the fundraising cycle begins again, with principal contributing some "skin in the game", outside investors participating in the first round, and numbers from existing properties being used in a presentation deck sent to the bank in order to secure a new commercial loan.

If everybody financed by raising rents on existing renters, than apartments by some aggressively growing operators (let's say Avalon Bay) would be extremely expensive, while exact same apartments owned by conservatively stable operators (let's say Essex Property Trust) would be extremely cheap. We do not see that imbalance in the marketplace.
Got any basis for your nationalistic ramblings? Or are you just content to misjudge an entire nation from your chair?
If the advent of self driving cars corresponds with reduced private ownership then cars will not need to wait and our children just need to hop into the next free car and their phone or smart school bag will contain their home address. For adults, cars will not need to hand around near venues because we will just get into the next available car.

I agree that the transition will be messy. Perhaps we will need to redesign our local communities a bit to help. More off street parking for example.
I don't develop for Nintendo so I am curious, is it like PS3 support for OpenGL or is it an actual native API?

And to reply to your edit:
It's true, nobody prevents anybody from making $1000+ consoles. They sell for shit though. Even PS3 suffered from being a $600 console a lot, a $1000 console would be as successful as the Steambox.
I had to stop reading because the blog poster's level of thinking is really superficial.

If you're going to think completely autonomous self-driving cars, why the hell would you bother with things like parking? Why would I even bother "owning" a car? What the more reasonable approach is time-sharing of multiple vehicles, like Uber.

So instead of worrying about parking, you order a car, and it picks you up, and then you get dropped off. It drives off and services other customers. Then, when it comes time to get driven home, you order another car that comes and picks you up. You only pay for the car while it's driving you, not while it's sitting there doing nothing.

Or, if you did own the car, when you are not using it, it could go off and service other people and earn you money, and then return to pick you up.

And why would you go to Starbucks to pick up your own coffee? Why not send a self-driving car through the special self-driving car drivethru to pick up the coffee and return it to you? It could wireless transmit the order and payment details for you, and have a special slot for the coffee or food order.

Seriously, the article is really superficial thinking when it comes to self-driving cars.
I left work just over a year ago because it just wasn't going anywhere (and it didn't leave any time to travel), and rarely done team work etc, but after a few months travelling I started to miss work, having people to chat with each day and help out. Now I'm finding it hard to find another employer as good or better as my previous one. I think it's allot about the people you work with, and less so the company.
Cool. Does that mean you can print fingerprints with this tech? Might come in handy in the dystopian world we are headed into.
> But, I don't think paper has to be involved. I see it
> as an indication of a lack of good stylus input in
> most devices.

That was going to be my reply to your first comment. I'm still using a Note 3 with its Wacom stylus, and I cannot ever imagine switching to a phone that requires a capacitive stylus.

Pro tip: The absolute best stylus that I've found for capacitive screens is a fresh, stiff cucumber. The water in the cucumber is detected by the screen just like your finger. Carrots work well too, but they are heavier for any given size.
Banning private cards, I believe, will be unnecessary. I know free market is often folly but in this case, I believe, the advantages of just tapping in the app to call a driverless cab will be huge. In almost all cases it must be cheaper than owning a car which doesn't work most of the time just sits there.
Not really a database per se, but trading system matching engines can maintain updates in excess of 1M/s. Of course these are small 60 byte messages updating 10-15 bytes of a given order book in something like a RB-tree, so it's not as impressive.

What is impressive I guess is that they can sustain 1M updates/sec at a 99.9th percentile update round-trip of ~10 microseconds or so, with medians at around ~4 microseconds.
The simple syntax changes I did prior to running 2to3 as they came up on the first run I tried. The semantic changes that didn't come up in 2to3 is what I was more bothered about.
See https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

(Search for Nintendo there).

They support Vulkan on the Switch, which shows that they now see benefits in using cross platform APIs.
Maybe, since this is a standard wherever there are esclators or moving platforms, the manufacuturers hold some blame? It seems optimizing for that behavior would be simple.
They support OpenGL and Vulkan now natively on their Switch console. I.e. proper support, and not some fake pseudo API.

> They sell for shit though.

All it means, that most of those who use consoles don't want to play high end games. And console makers aren't incentivized to market that, because they don't have much competitors.

Compare it to mobile hardware as I said. You could argue, that people also don't want to overpay for it. Yet, mobile hardware makers rush to refresh it way more frequently than console makers do, and prices there are more realistic. Competition helps.

> a $1000 console would be as successful as the Steambox.

It would surely sell less than cheaper ones, but same goes for regular PCs. Only a minority of enthusiasts buy high end computers. The vast majority buy weak laptops and such. But gaming market can address both use cases. I don't see how interface of controller vs mouse + keyboard is supposed to change that.
Is there any enhancements in UI? I dont find any screenshot posted in the repo
You'd be surprised. Pilot G2 is a great writing pen, and I'm personally a fan of Uniballs.
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Weird, but somewhat relevant question (given that self driving capabilities combined with buses can potentially disrupt public transportation in urban areas): why do we even allow anything that's not a bus (say, 10+ passenger) or industrial vehicle on the road?

The downsides of such a thing seem small.

1. There would be less traffic

2. The speed limit could be raised

3. Due to higher occupancy, more people could go to places, faster.

4. Cheaper per person (maybe) than most other forms of public transportation

5. High density areas can have fleets of buses go there, express. This would have only a little overhead compared to driving your own vehicle, yet would be substantially cheaper.
Japan Explores Ways for Emperor to Abdicate the Throne
Looks like a good collection of important topics. The tutorials feel a bit 2005 to me. GNUplot and svn? In my scientific universe it's all matplotlib and git these days. Maybe I'm unique.
The lost may add to their suffering by worrying if they aren't looking or working hard enough to produce their niche.
I'm troubled by the fact that they cannot open the tool immediately and that it will take "some time". I also don't see the value proposition over say Google Scholar+alerts or Researchgate trends. Wait and see I guess. The current website doesn't have much information other than the fact that Meta got bought and some generic blurbs.

I'd much rather see Zuckerberg buy out an entire niche of science journals and Open Access them and keep them that way while keeping the high standards and impact factor in tact. Bioinformatics would have been a decent fit. I think freeing domains one by one with wads of tech-donor-$$$ might be the easiest stept towards open science.
AMP is a terrible idea. HTML is already very fast, if it's just kept lean and clean.

Creating a new fork of HTML only means less resources for publishers to spend on their existing sites, creating an ever-increasing divergence in experience. Google already had a great way to enforce better performance by taking it into account for search rankings - which it already uses as we've seen just a few days ago to discourage popup modals.

Another issue is that Google's adtech software is the most popular across the web and one of the primary reasons ads are slow in the first place. They've made improvements to speed up ads but they again hold an incredible amount of leverage to force better practices like smaller assets, less JS, async loading, https, no flash, etc and yet still havent don't anything about it.

It seems like AMP was some small side project that's easy to praise and get attention without actually fixing any of the root causes for the web cruft issue, ultimately hurting everyone in the long run.
The `iter` form of the `readline` doesn't load the entire stream first, whereas the second form you posted does. This makes a significant difference when reading data from another program.

I saw that migration guide, but it has very few details about what is actually involved in migration. It doesn't include API change details.
It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than any human in any situation (including those that require pulling over). I think that's what level 5 is referring to. Otherwise yeah, it's meaningless.
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That average has to include vast areas of aggressively useless and unwanted land (eg Wyoming).