skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a strong case to be made that this isn't a desirable outcome in a lot of areas. Trains and buses are much more efficient at moving people than individual cars, even if they're self-driving. I'm also extremely excited about autonomous cars, but neither desire nor think they will replace mass transit.

edit: As a few people have mentioned, my suggestion that "trains are buses are much more efficient" is dubious. And I certainly don't mean to say they're better in all circumstances. It's more accurate to say that in certain scenarios, it still makes sense to use mass transit instead of self driving cars. Moving inside Manhattan, or commuting from a suburb to Manhattan, are examples where mass transit likely makes sense. With the obligatory disclaimer that I could be incorrect, this is simply my understanding.
what percentage of FF users on the planet do you expect could read a paper on differential privacy and actually verify those points, while understanding all the ifs and gotchas, and be able to tell if any of the arguments are wrong? What percentage of that elite group would actually be willing to devote the time and energy, for free, for every one of the thousands of softwares they use?
Tesla has built a category from the ground up. That is a very different challenge from replicating an existing business that has gone through decades of refinement.
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God I'm so sick of this shit. So what you can train an RNN on text. The results are awful. You aren't special
Yes, old design icons made more sense, new flat ones are too abstract
Palemoon on android works wonderfully.
And if you want to create your own token:

https://tokenfactory.surge.sh/#/factory

Note: it needs the MetaMask extension.
Good, now if only we can get Musk to stop live alpha-testing his decapitation death code and slow down for a few years, then maybe some actual experts who have working sensors can get this done properly.
For the "happy path" case, in good weather, etc., sure. But that's the first 90%. The second 90%, dealing with all weather conditions, all traffic conditions, arbitrary road hazards, crazy road conditions, etc., might take a lot longer. To the point that it's not crazy to say "it'll never happen".

That said, I do think we'll get there eventually, as I think we'll get to AGI (or even ASI) eventually. But I can't prove that either. And I can understand a certain measure of skepticism about the whole thing.
Nice point, but I guess so far the chemical element titanium is doing all right.
I think iOS usability has become and is increasingly becoming, more complicated and less easy to use. But this doesn't have anything to do with the flat design, but with the many features, buttons, and gestures being added every new release.
It's a subtle point and it may be taken as overly argumentative.
As the link I gave in the GP argues, currency was specifically developed as a tool for population control: As the sole source of currency, a state can influence its people's priorities and behaviors by providing a budget for the tasks it wants accomplished. All tax must be paid in the state currency, which creates an intrinsic demand for it from the whole population, and ultimately the only way to obtain it is to fulfil the missions on the state budget. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State [0] provides a very good overview of how this worked in Nazi-occupied territories, but it's a similar game in any nation state, autonomous or otherwise.

If a currency were to arise with no political group can control, this mechanism of domination would be short-circuited. I don't doubt that there would still be organized violence, but there's good reason to hope it wouldn't be on the scale we see today.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Beneficiaries-Plunder-Racial-...
To the extent Project Titan served as the seed of Overwatch it was probably profitable (maybe even when you take into account opportunity cost).
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oops, missed the 'public key' part - restic, last I checked does not have that... the project author is thinking about the design of it:

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/187
The culture and support issues that would incur seem non-trivial.
Brand new flat or house built today in Madrid, Spain are fitted at best with a 20A connection. The standing charge alone is more than what I pay for electricity (standing charge and consumption) in a 2 bed flat in London. The vast majority of flat and house I have seen in Spain have 15A or 20A. That includes city, and country houses.

It is a cost cutting measure rather than an infrastructure limitation (people chose a 20A connection because of the standing charge cost) in the
newer building, but I suspect that if a significant portion of the population need to double their contract and maxed it out during the night, there is going to be some work needed.
My belief is that it just won't happen without infrastructure changes, such as new road designs and car-to-car communications regulations.

And I don't see those changes happening without an infrastructure overhaul, at which point you might as well create a streetcar infrastructure.
Sorry, I had split my original (long) comment into two separate ones and I thought I left a brief mention of it.

The winner was pCloud. Please see my other comment for a more detailed explanation of how I have things set up and why I use them if you are interested.
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What if you're using several PRNGs XORed together and reseeded frequently?
They wouldn't get the tech they're looking for.

Manufacturing scale is not something they need until after they have the self driving tech (and also, I'd just partner with a Japanese or German automaker tbh. Toyota under the current CEO has made moves that hint that it would be open to a joint venture).

The main differentiator of current big auto is the engine and drivetrain engineering, which you can circumvent when going electric.

It's unclear what you're buying with a big 3 company that actually helps with the self driving part of the problem, which is currently a much larger problem than manufacturing scale and quality assurance.
It's faking it, still bitter about the time Apple kicked it out their laptops.
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Thanks! That's super helpful.
I really found the opposite last month when I was truck shopping. The prices at carmax weren't much lower than buying new. I even found one case where it was cheaper to buy new!

I'm wondering if people hate the dealership experience so much they're driving up the price of used cars?

I'm still just utterly confused by the used truck prices I was seeing.
Totally agree with
`Oh, wait, maybe "Facebook holds any software patents on the Virtual DOM or the React APIs" `
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Very interesting to start. I know for a fact that if you travel to Seattle in Jan/Feb it's really cheap, but of course that's because it will be raining a lot. Rain, for some people is not a real problem, but price is. With that in mind it would be cool to find out when is the best time to travel somewhere the cheapest. That would be really useful for me and probably others.
I agree that autonomous cars will be much better, but mostly not because of sensors. Experience will be the difference. Virtually no drivers actually have experience handling blowouts and know what to do during one. Even the ones who have will mostly not be very effective at handling it, because it happens so rarely, and virtually nobody actively practices it and studies and trains the best techniques.

What will make autonomous cars better is that they can take all of the input from thousands of blowouts, add "training" from actual experts, and load the resulting techniques into every car on the road, ready for execution the instant something happens.
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Doing "the best" by inventing some way to continue in the face of an error has caused nothing but grievous harm to the world wide web.

The developer of the HTML markup must not rely on the browser doing "its best" with bad HTML.

During development, it's helpful if the implementation finds as many errors as possible in one pass and flags them all. Whether or not anything is rendered is immaterial; the HTML writer should fix everything.

The end user shouldn't see any errors, because they all blew up in the HTML writer's face and were fixed.

It is a fact that rendering happens in parallel with downloading a web page. So yes, renderers should be able to render a prefix of a web page, up to the first error, because the situation is entirely possible that only that prefix has been downloaded and the error is not yet seen. Renderers should not delay rendering until the entire page is seen; something has to be rendered when the prefix is available, but the erroneous text which immediately follows has not yet been seen.

Beyond that, no. Stop at the first error and splash a big red diagnostic into the output, so the user can see that the HTML producer screwed up.
Because the primary function of a TV is displaying moving pictures while the primary function of a car is not related to its fuel type. The general public has not yet shown a dramatic interest in electric over ICE, but improvements to TV picture have been shown to be major drivers of adoption from color, HD, 4k, and so on. That is the whole reason why these laws are being considered, to help move people off ICE cars quicker than they would in a normal market.
With a team of data-scientists-as-a-hobby, we are building www.17-56.cl, which displays insights from data about Chile. It is in Spanish, but feel free to look around. For example, I created a map that displays the votation in the Chilean primary elections: http://fernandoi.cl/mapascomunales/primarias/primarias.html. Simple, but informative and fun.

Probably as a hobby you will not be able to write an analysis that will get published in a paper, but there is a lot of descriptive analysis out there that can be very interesting.
Speed of light limitation.
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Tesla and Uber need constant hype to keep investors believing. Even Google needs to diversify away from its desktop ads business, or show it has significant room to grow. For a while last year I was taken in by the hype and thought self driving cars were really a lot closer than I previously admitted, but then I realised there is an agenda pushing these success stories.
>The Bolt outsold both of Tesla's vehicles last month.

The article says GM sold only 7,592 Bolts in the first six months of this year. Tesla sold way more, and it makes a much higher profit per vehicle.

I don't know why Bolt sales are so low. When it came out the reviews were all very positive, and they said it would be strong competition for the Tesla Model 3. But the Tesla already has several hundred thousand pre-orders, whereas the Bolt is basically going no where.
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It's about safety and durability.

If the city wants to use a road for arterial traffic, they should upgrade it to handle the task.
More proof Apple is done innovating. This is literally a story about giving up, in the NYT. Can we have SJ back please?
And not one mention of developing blood clots
The Parent's link did give the definition, my summary didn't.

"V relative (km/s)
Object velocity relative to Earth at close-approach."
These slow electric busses are all over the world on serious trials with real passengers.

For examples: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/18/self-driv...

But they have also been used in DC, Vegas, Perth, the Netherlands and other places.

It might not be a total replacement for cars but they are self-driving vehicles that are moving passengers now.
“From the beginning, the employees dedicated to Project Titan looked at a wide range of details. That included motorized doors that opened and closed silently. They also studied ways to redesign a car interior without a steering wheel or gas pedals, and they worked on adding virtual or augmented reality into interior displays.

The team also worked on a new light and ranging detection sensor, also known as lidar. Lidar sensors normally protrude from the top of a car like a spinning cone and are essential in driverless cars. Apple, as always focused on clean designs, wanted to do away with the awkward cone.

Apple even looked into reinventing the wheel. A team within Titan investigated the possibility of using spherical wheels — round like a globe — instead of the traditional, round ones, because spherical wheels could allow the car better lateral movement.”

Very interesting, and one heck of a leak if true.
FYI I've found that e.g. pivot tables work fine in Sheets. I also prefer some of the UI details.
I highly doubt that most of the investors in ICOs are all that interested in the core business. They're interested in an arbitrary security loosely linked to the core business appreciating that is referred to as a token because calling it an asset/security would require more regulation.
Yes, it works for me. I'm using the Mitsuharu version. Results: text mode - 6.7ms (SD=0.3); fundamental mode - 6.7ms (SD=0.2); js2 mode - 13.2ms (SD=11.6); org mode - 13.9ms (SD=14.2)
You can't sue them due to arbitration clauses.
I thought anyone who finances a new car is underwater as soon as they drive off the lot. Don't new cars depreciate something like 20% the day you buy them? EDIT: I was wrong it's closer to 9% [1]

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/how-fast-does-my-new-car-...
Just a note - if you move to 4K+HDR you'll probably need to upgrade that splitter.
Sure. But the intention is to protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs. And hey, IANAL.
I've never quite understood how this works, I'm trying to imagine a burglar being asked to give back "some" of what he stole, but not everything, that would be "unfair". Fight fire with fire in many cases, start fining them the years profit, or maybe, just maybe, start treating corporates like the criminals they are.
That's a bit simplistic. Substantial demand makes economies of scale possible which can lead to lower prices. The opposite is also true (i.e. lack of demand leading to increased production costs).
"Trains and buses are much more efficient at moving people than individual cars, even if they're self driving"

Dubious claim that needs evidence. I think you're underestimating the potential throughput gains from autonomy. As just one example, speed limits can probably be greatly increased when you take the realities of human reaction times out of the equation.
That's a completely different scenario. Satellites in decaying orbits are descending due to atmospheric drag. Atmospheric drag is difficult to predict because it depends on the precise shape of the satellite, the precise orientation, and atmospheric conditions at each moment.

If you're dropping an interplanetary asteroid on an enemy, it won't be in a slowly decaying orbit. It'll spend a few seconds within the atmosphere, which won't mess up predictions that much.

It occurs to me that we just had a great example of the ability to predict where big rocks will be in space long in advance. People were able to predict that the Moon's shadow would cross from Oregon to South Carolina decades ago, and of course the predictions were spot on.
Why, the advantage is that if your browser has a big market share, then many web developers out there declare their job to be done when their HTML looks fine on your browser.

Then when the HTML is tried with other browsers, it looks like crap.

So then the advantage is that it looks like other browsers trying to compete with yours are crap.

The competing web browsers developers are unhappy and grumble a lot, but in the end have no choice by to try to emulate the random meaning that you have assigned to the HTML. Of course, you haven't publicly documented it, so they have to spend time reverse-engineering it, which means they will be perpetually lagging behind.
See my other comment but I still see this today! I was looking everywhere for that mythical 20% off and saw nothing of the sort.

I'd love to find a bunch of cars just "driven off the lot" I could get that discount on.
Yep. Web analytics LONG predate Google Analytics, at least when you consider the server-side logfile based systems that you can use when you control the webserver directly. Things like AWStats and Analog let you do analytics on Apache Server logs forever ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software...
I wonder if Ive has as much influence as people think. The last few iPhones look horrible with the camera sticking out. And it looks like this will be the case for iPhone 8 too.

I imagine he must not be very happy with the way they look either.
I'd be really interested in the outcome of this. You may be better going to your state's Office of Fair Trading first though.
Over the decades I've noticed how businesses need to recognize and focus on their core competencies - if they don't, they die. Everything must feed that core, and undue distractions are lethal. Occasionally there's a need to pivot, which is deliberately stepping from one competency to another, but that is rare and difficult. Apple's core is to build small computers; everything else they do (music, video, cloud services, Siri, AI, AR, operating systems, etc) are all built to draw customers deeper into the ecosystem for the sole purpose of buying more small computers. Electric self-driving cars, while very nifty, are decidedly not small computers (at best being a tiny part of a large product demanding other competencies); to compete in that market requires scale which Apple could certainly buy but would fiercely compete for the attention vs small computers.
I think it's the new features - but also the desire to make the OS appear simple - so new features get hidden in unexpected places and it feels inconsistent. iOS was a breeze to use up until iOS 6 because it didn't really do all that much and it's much easier to design a small screen interface if you don't have many features.
> More proof Apple is done innovating.

It's literally the opposite of that. They spent billions of dollars on R&D in a new market segment. Just because you cancel the project or decide it's a failure doesn't mean a) you didn't learn anything, b) you didn't get any tech out of it, and c) it's not innovation.

You cannot be innovative if you are not prepared for your efforts to fail. If Apple was "done innovating" they wouldn't be taking massive bets like this at all.
Trains are great at moving people to train stations. Buses are great at moving people to bus stops. Cars are great at moving people to their homes and businesses.

When millions of Americans live in rural or suburban areas, what do you think is easier? Extending rail and bus routes to within walking distance of every house, or convincing everyone to move to a city? The answer is neither, and that's why cars exist.

Here's one that isn't a trick question: is it more efficient to build a rail line to my office and have a train run there or to have individual cars drive there? I don't know the answer for sure, but considering you may possibly need 15 trains filled mainly with people who don't work there converging on one location or 15 cars with one person each who does work there converging on one location, I'm almost willing to bet 15 electric cars would be more efficient than 15 trains.

There's a certain density requirement that mass transit needs that doesn't always exist. That's why we have cars.
no.

You care deeply about YOUR privacy and the privacy of those you know. You care very little for the privacy of 'others' and feel comfortable with neighborhoods, which are public spaces unless otherwise noted, making privacy choices for others based on a perceived threat and fear of the unknown 'other'

You are creating a market and product off of fear of those you don't know, the same attitudes that are used to harass people of color and the same attitude that caused the death of Trayvon Martin amongst may others.
What's the latency like? I've got some Qualcomm Allcast gear that seems to do sync properly with no perceptible delay, but it's the only one I've heard that does it properly.
Check out carmax sometime. 15k is way low actually.
Why would a high margin, high ROE, low capital requirements business like Apple invest in a low margin, poor ROE, high capital requirements business like a car maker?

Besides being a poor investment that would lock up lots of their capital, it would also create a ton of management distractions.

If they are serious about building self-driving cars, they are probably making a huge mistake. Cars have been a poor business model for quite a long time. Licensing automonomous tech seems like a far better business model.
Apple really is a one hit wonder. Outside of computing devices, phone, tablets, laptops, (let's throw in desktops & watches) They really haven't been able to build and innovate much since Jobs. I was short on the idea when they announced a self-driving car. Without a major change and internal culture shock, they are going to stay on this course, hit peak cash extraction until they start mortgaging cash quickly. The only thing that has been pretty interesting has been AR. Innovation dilemma is strong.
I miss the textures a lot. All the flatness makes the UI too harsh.
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For lines, fixed-point wins in extreme simplicity and can be even faster than Bresenham, because there's no branching in the inner loop:

https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/faster-than-bresenhams...
If the companies that serve the cloud provided all the privacy they possibly could, would we then actually have privacy? That is, would NSA not be able to refer random communication to the parallel construction department for prosecution? The chain of privacy will only ever be as strong as its weakest link.
psy-ops > pay-ops
We won't need nearly as many charging stations as we need gas stations because electric cars can be charged at home.
> You can't have both.

It is entirely irrelevant to this thread and discussion. We are talking about the service for one paid product (Google Apps), on a thread announcing the service for another paid product (Google Chrome Enterprise).
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not
And streetcars are great at moving people that last mile.

Take that road in front of your office, and just put rails in it.

If your local government can pay for a road in front of your house, it can pay for a streetcar. This applies to dense areas as well as rural areas. Rail lines actually cost less to maintain than roads, and they cost YOU less because you don't have to buy and pay for a car.

And you don't have to fear dying in a crash every time you set foot inside a streetcar, like you do in a car.
I see you have new tires there citizen. Your papers please.
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This is so true. I refused to update a second generation Apple TV when after several updates I realized the "updates" added zero functionality to then end user. They were just occasions to put new paid-placement crapware on the home screen. I kept up this refusal to update partly out of stubbornness and partly as an experiment. Eventually, after a few months Apple just applied the update without asking. It was at this moment that I realized "I may have purchased this device but I certainly don't own it."
> Wouldn't the price tank if the majority of insiders want to cash out?

that depends on the demand. if the insiders have more shares they really want to sell than there are matching buyers, sure. if the market is full of buyers will to pay huge sums of money, then no.
Nice! I did a similar thing with a character-based rnn a few years ago, but its output was less coherent. I liked when it started spitting out character descriptions though: "NOTHAN, a boy of nine, cupped and dismal,"

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