skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be true if Japanese companies were eager to embrace the open software revolution. However, even as companies in the U.S. and Europe democratize AI, Japanese companies have stubbornly plodded along with closed-off, proprietary standards just like in the 70s and 80s. Sharp, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sony, KDDI, and so on. There needs to be a cultural shift.
I was expecting Slik[1] to be on this list. Anyone know why it was not included? There were quite a few articles about this company since it was founded by a 15 year old and a 16 year old [2].

There was also a WSJ article[3] today though I did not read it since it's paywalled. Anyway to read the article?

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/get-automated-leads-from-a-data...

[2] http://betakit.com/slik-ais-founder-the-youngest-canadian-en...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-duo-behind-slik-to-present...
> pretty much all mechanical systems bar the electric motors and braking systems

... and the shocks and dampers and steering and servos and diffs and transfer boxes and electronic stability systems and dozens of sensors regularly exposed to harsh conditions and lights and crumple zones and doors and windows and air bags and seat belts and seats and air conditioning and ...

Elon Musk said something very true about the myriad of components and OEMs Tesla use - that having 99.9% of the parts on a car available and working, is a lot like having 0% of the parts.
What do you think about these slow electric busses that are all over the world on serious trials with real passengers.

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

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.

If I had access to these running at 30km/h only on major streets in my city I'd probably get rid of my car.
Looks like John Gruber has confirmed what I suspected.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/titan_nyt
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i love stories like this.

economists. think you're so smart.
Why does the article talk about LIGO as if it hasn't already detected gravity waves? I thought this had already occurred twice if I'm not mistaken.
>That business is tettering[sic] on failure ...

Citation required. (other than you refusing to buy one).

> Looking at Lenovo and System76 machines instead.

Please don't do System76, their laptops are pieces of crap. My wife and I have had good experiences with thinkpads though.
Thank you for scanning and posting this. I have a copy kicking about and keep meaning to share.
In the photo, that watch looks like a Pebble Time Round! Such a well-designed smartwatch, it's too bad they went out of business.
Lol yourself, and don't be so wrong.

Here's per-capita GDP growth in New Zealand, showing that there is real growth after normalising for changes in population: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
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Moto ROKR was a stalking horse to give Apple intel on how the carriers worked.

100 songs? It was designed to fail.
> For all intents and purposes my 1998 Windows CE Casio PDA looks and acts like a first gen iPhone

I assume you also think a Hyundai looks and acts like a Ferrari.

Because that is what you are saying. I owned that PDA as well as the Treo 650 which was far better and the iPhone isn't an incremental jump. It was a complete revolution.
> It really is on par with tobacco saying lung cancer or OCPD isn't caused by smoking but some other variable

No, it isn't, because the negative health impacts of smoking have always been there. The negative health impacts of sugar have only appeared (or at least dramatically worsened) recently.

> From the Liver Foundation, to the Cleveland clinic, to any pediatrician, the conclusion is all the same

I'm not a big fan of arguments from authority because authorities often get it wrong. When I was growing up the unequivocal message from the authorities was: fat is bad for you, eat less fat (no more than 30% of calories from fat was the mantra). And people did, replacing the missing fat with carbs. Look how well that worked out.
1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)
I tried to stick to (old) Apple interface guidelines for a long time. Eventually I realised, for instance, that only tiny numbers of people need to be taught how to use a mouse.
I was hoping this was going to talk about the problem that Beamdog ran into 'enhancing' Icewind Dale 2. They can't find the source code and doing the reverse engineering to make improvements was deemed too costly; http://www.pcgamer.com/icewind-dale-2-cant-be-enhanced-becau...

As far as this article; not my cup of tea but the author seems to have put a lot of time into it. If you like data science, dive on in.
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Well, yes, and that occasionally shows exactly how idiotic it would be to actually produce code on that basis when errors after the first error are complete nonsense caused by the initial misinterpretation.
> There's a lot of noise about "transportation as a service". Remember that Uber loses money, even after squeezing its drivers really hard and making them buy and maintain the cars.

Uber loses money because it pays the drivers - if you eliminate the driver you eliminate most of the cost. And if you can use simpler electric vehicles which are cheaper to drive and maintain, then you have yet another significant advantage.

I don't think anybody knows what exactly will happen, but there is clearly an enormous opportunity. The trucking industry alone in the United States is nearly a trillion dollar market. Of course when you add in all the complexities of actually scaling the business it doesn't become pure profit, but I'd be amazed if you couldn't print money if the technology worked.
As of last year, Waymo were saying it will take up to 30 years, and they're widely considered to be in the lead:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...
Are you speaking specifically about your farming town losing 10% of its population? Because I also live in Shizuoka-ken near the countryside and population decline is nowhere near 10%/year. It's been pretty much the same for 20 years now.

http://www.citypopulation.de/php/japan-admin.php?adm1id=22

But there is a definite decline in the liveliness of small towns, but that's due to migration to other towns and cities.
Would you pay for an insurance service against this, meaning that if this occurs you get paid out whatever monetary sum you had paid the premium against? (And just so everyone knows, insurance fraud is illegal, can be a felony in all 50 states, and lands you in jail.)[1]

It would certainly give peace of mind and the next time we read about 1 person in 10 million facing such a problem, we can think, "maybe they should have just paid $10 in insurance." As a public service the insurer could also publish rates of lockout.

I've had this idea for some time, so if you want it you need to reply with a resounding, yes, you'd pay for it. For the record, I'd pay for it. But I need to find 9 million other people too.

[1] I'm not a lawyer or even actuary.
Urban renewal is a policy which exists, yes.
Spherical wheels are such a stupid, dangerous idea. The contact patch on regular tires is already tiny. Make them spherical and the contact patch becomes even smaller, which will cause them to lose traction and spin out in any rapid maneuver (like to avoid a collision).
That point is a bit of a red herring. The question isn't the value of the update; it's whether existing customers should have to accept inferior terms of service to get it.

The right path for Sonos would be to open-source the kernel and hardware drivers, then either keep it up to date with a base feature set or budget $100K or so a year to run a bounty-based community contribution program. That will end the complaints that Sonos risked bricking hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of consumer hardware so its marketing department could harvest email addresses. Not everyone would like that choice, but it would be a better choice than the gradual decay of perfectly fine (and expensive) hardware that should otherwise last for decades.

Unfortunately the economics of service-oriented consumer hardware is all screwed up these days. Should buying a proprietary connected geegaw for a single up-front fee entitle me to eternal updates? In what non-pyramid-scheme economic model does that work? Yet in our world where we're still weaning ourselves from the dot-com years, that's typically the expectation.
Maybe we should put them in the trunk of the car instead?

Have another lyft driver drop them off at your car before you leave for work in the morning
Multiple manufacturers have the technology available in production cars today. Here is a demo involving a Mercedes coupe: https://youtu.be/eMUmI6LeZ_8?t=10m
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This is much less useful data than the map data and fleet positioning data mentioned in the article, for which the advantage due to network effects is very large.
Konrad seems more reliable when one considers he wrote this back in June:

My criticism come not from a lack of respect but from the knowledge that even the best run organizations have things they need to improve… and, for the US Navy, avoiding collisions with civilian ships in congested waters certainly needs improvement. [0]

He wasn't wrong!

[0] http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault-part-2-questions-an...
Great variety of companies, really looking forward to some of the biotech in particular. I am a bit worried about Vanido (The singing app), though, as for me (With no ability) a 34% improvement might leave me in the same place ;).
;)

That is, in fact, where I got the link from. Good find.
Well now I know where Walter Jon Williams got his ideas about dumb rigid military doctrine in Dread Empire's Fall. I thought that sort of stupid was fiction, wow.
> I've read enough War Nerd blog posts [1] to know ...

The War Nerd is stimulating and entertaining, but the author, John Dolan, is a sometime English professor with no military expertise or experience. Per Wikipedia, his "PhD thesis on the literary works of the Marquis de Sade." Apparently, he did geek out on military hardware books when he was young, so there's that.

On the other hand, as I said, it's a fun, stimulating read. If you like Dolan, I recommend his old publication (where the War Nerd originally appeared, AFAIK), The Exile, if you can find it. I've never read anything like it.
1. Which prevents people from fixing their software to conform to the standards once they exist how exactly?

2. What is even your point? That the industry has an outstanding track record of interoperability and security? What exactly is it that makes the view defensible in your eyes?
Well it works for some gals, so what's there to lose. that guy was following the same attitude..."nothing to lose".

Chill man and don't react.

If you are single, this is for you:: What you can do is.. goto her and apologize, saying" I am sorry on that man's behalf, not all scientists are like him. .......and switch the conversation about something she has into or about field of internship she is in. :)
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This paper has a neat table in it. Third page.

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p133-elphinstone.pdf

For contrast, Linux takes whole microseconds.
I got it to work after a few tries. Used it with VSCode, terminal, iTerm, Hyper Terminal, and TextEdit.

It took a few trials, and I had to disable transparency. I think it also doesn't like blinking cursors, and if (...) is turned into it's own glyph, you should start the line with some dots of your own to prevent that.
All of these are true. On top of that, they're lifestyle and identity products. That carries a massive premium. Those yoga mats you see suburban moms hauling around probably cost $0.30 to make, but they'll easily sell for $20+. Ditto the pickup. When your daily driver is also a powerful class and in-group signal, it's suddenly worth a lot more.
You make a good point but my question still stands, why couldn't they design it in California and outsource manufacturing to Hon Hai/Foxconn the way they do with their phones? Unlike Tesla, sourcing the parts wouldn't be Apple's problem.
I loved your crash course in memory management. It had a real Randall Munroe vibe to it. Please keep up the good work.
Just like Java compilers have no users at all because they refuse to compile broken source code?
Missing the point. The question here is more about how to generate inputs that would yield the same result in wolfram.
MacOS: VSCode and iTerm got 17.x ms, Terminal.app is at 7ms.
I assume you also think a Hyundai looks and acts like a Ferrari.

Compared to a car with freakin' spherical wheels, yes, it does.
> We have the iPhone because Apple was so ambitious.

When you say that, you conventiently forget that Apple re-invented the smartphone. It was an proven thing, which already sold in spades in the tech/enterprise market.

They took something which existed and was awkward to use, and re-did the UI layer of the whole thing. They refined something else which was already proven. They didn't invent something original from scratch.

Here Apple is clearly trying to design a new kind of a car, where every part is different from what's already out there in the industry. Where none of the new bits has been invented yet.

They are trying to do original discovery in addition to refining things, in an industry where they have absolutely zero experience.

> Project Titan looked at a wide range of details. That included motorized doors that opened and closed silently .... Apple, as always focused on clean designs, wanted to do away with the awkward cone.

That they were even considered things like this important in a self-driving car when they hadn't even solved the self-driving bit (or even car-bit) yet tells me all I need to know about the realism of this project. There was none.

It was doomed from day one.
How about:
Blacks contribute over 50% of violent crimes, homicides and rapes. It is ok to consider dealing with ghetto black types as a "high risk activity"
I'm just not clear about the federation works I guess. If a power hungry mod (or maybe a good guy coming under very intense pressure from someone else) were to hate me, could he block me from sending messages to my friends by refusing federation somehow?

I dont want to be on a platform that can hold my friend hostage, is why I'm asking.

EDIT: If hub federation is needed for asynch messages, and unblockable (by hub owner) p2p used for chat when both users are online, then I guess that would be acceptable.
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I can pull twice my bodyweight, actually.
I think its really cute that an attempt was made to cite blog articles as references though, good job.
Wouldn't that invite for more extremist/incendiary texts?
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I'm hoping that this makes HN's front page just to see the fun recursion of the site displaying a screenshot of itself. (And I do appreciate the experiment in user experience design, too.)
I see that Pixel represents each character on the screen as a "char". This does not seem a simplification made when writing the blog post, as the Rxterm library does the same [1]. Doesn't this limit too much the applicability of the code? There are plenty of interesting Unicode characters to use in a terminal interface (e.g., non-English alphabets, box drawing characters) that cannot be represented using a char.

I imagine that the choice was due to simplicity, as just changing "char" to "char32_t" does not completely solve the situation because of Unicode's combination characters. What one would need here is a "Pixel" structure capable to hold any Unicode grapheme, which unfortunately can be an arbitrary long sequence of bytes in any UTF8/16/32 encoding.

I am writing this because a few months ago I was trying to create some library similar to RxTerm and build a structure very similar to RxTerm's "Pixel", but got struck in inventing a smart way to keep a matrix of graphemes representing the state of the terminal screen. I gave up because the only idea I had was to use "std::string" within Pixel, and this didn't satisfy my taste.

Also, it seems that RxTerm does not use a terminfo database, but it just hardcodes ANSI escape sequences [2]. I understand that the concept of a terminfo database was invented when the number of incompatible terminals out there was far larger than today. How much widespread are today the escape sequences (cursor movements, color, font styles, etc.) used by libraries like RxTerm?

[1] https://github.com/LoopPerfect/rxterm/blob/master/rxterm/inc...

[2] https://github.com/LoopPerfect/rxterm/blob/master/rxterm/inc...
...and we wonder why we haven't won a war, or even honorably withdrawn from one, since WWII.

(Wars in the Caribbean don't count. Talking about Grenada would sort of prove my point...)
Whether a Japanese company is closed off software-wise or not doesn't make a difference in terms of hardware profitability. Sony's camera sensor business is doing particularly well due to their sensors being in almost every flagship smart phone. They might not play a part in the software used by the owner of the phone - but I'd say competing against Google in the software space when their product is free might not be a winning strategy.
P.S. I just Googled "recursion," and got this very witty reply:

Did you mean: recursion
“Theory vs. Data” in statistics too
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Or, in India, typically a 100% restocking fee.
(West) Germany's ascent to a multicultural nation began accidentally, as the post-WWII economic miracle and the closure of borders with the GDR led to a shortage of workers which was to be remedied with an import of guest-workers from the Republic of Turkey.

German employers' lobbying and the worsening of global economic outlook in the 1970s led to these temporary measures being made increasingly permanent, with a path to permanent residency, but not citizenship.

In the 1990s (and in a process that continues today), Germany relaxed its jus sanguinis citizenship laws, and German society, influenced by the political approaches of its western neighbors, debated profoundly about how to reconcile its historical notion of Germanness with its desire to participate and show leadership in an increasingly multicultural European Union, all the while showing proper human compassion to its decidedly different residents of foreign descent. In Germany's case, this was particularly interesting, because the German people have long been a nation split between several sovereign states, yet a shared sense of German belonging has transcended centuries of political upheaval; nonetheless the State of Germany -- in its various guises and predecessors going back before the Unification of 1871 -- has been the one polity that was always intrinsically German.

Today, this questioning of what it means to be [nation] in a classic nation-state is ongoing Sweden and beginning in Denmark; it's also causing angst in Austria and Hungary, where the recent rise in immigration (or transiting migrants) is causing conflicts with a national identity that was built -- both by domestic and foreign forces -- in the aftermath of the First World War to emphasize maximum contrast with conflicting nations who would go on to gain their own nation-states.

Japan's outlook on immigration is not entire unlike those practiced by small European states defined solely around the self-determination of a single nation bound together largely, but not exclusively, by ethnicity, shared language, and implied lineage to predecessor states somehow connected to the nation in question. It's under demographic pressure, but its past experiments with immigration have shown that widespread assimilation foreigners is out of question, and it can only import people if it's willing to re-examine what it means to be Japanese. Given their high-tech economic base, they may opt to pursue that solution instead, while less economically fortunate Eastern Europe can't pursue as much automation, and will have to opt for immigration.
Also the Chevron at grant and el Camino is $3 when the shell a block away on grant is $3.60 or so. The Chevron is one of the highest trafficked gas stations in SV and operates on volume. The shell can't play that game so charges a pronoun to grocery shoppers.
Mutual funds mark down investments in Uber by up to 15 percent: WSJ
Seems to me like the solution is to work on improving handoffs rather than trading the risk of handoffs for the risk introduced by sleep deprivation.

From the medical professionals I know, handoff problems are partly because of missing/difficult to find/ignored information in charts and in healthcare IT systems. Improving on that front might be a way to allow a switch to more sensible schedules that don't invite bleary-eyed mistakes from doctors/residents.
Certainly, but keep in mind no one suggested it was either impossible or illegal.

The suggestion above is to merely take note, as it is unusual.
Why the downvotes? Not saying "it is true" or "we should follow this", it fits the article as "an unpopular idea about social norms that might be true".
Not necessarily. A smart actor with massive hash power (enough to stage a 50%+ attack) would gain the most by using a Sybil variant to subtlety take control. There is no reason to be overt if you can conceal the connection between "independent" mining pools.
Eh, I'd never stand up if I had to do all that. I prefer pressing a button to raise the desk to my preferred standing height.

Also, I use 3 screens. I'd like to see "oristand" do that!
I don't think I've ever browsed through any language's set of libraries - for any serious language there are far too many libraries for that to be useful. The only reason I've ever used e.g. PyPI is to look for a library for doing something specific, and I've never had trouble finding libraries for doing a given thing in Scala.
Interesting article about how dns works
Have you read the article?

The problem is not that ML reproduces the bias that is present in the training set, it is that it amplifies it (a lot).
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If you have an outlier like that you can skew the slope greatly by where you pick your starting point. E.g. if I were to measure the drop in used-car prices from when C4C was at its peak, I would expect to see a big drop; much bigger than if I measure from just before C4C.
> Payment processors like Visa 4

Visa is not a payment processor, Visa is a payment scheme. Payment schemes offer a variety of value

- settle and clear globally in almost any currency, almost any country, if you accept Visa and somebody with a Visa walks in your store we'll be able to pay

- protection of the merchant against insolvency of the card holder (yeah the issuer comes up with the money but Visa makes him pay)

- protection of the card holder against fraud

- protection of the card holder against misconduct by the merchant (ie. but not limited to the merchant not shipping the goods). this is really easy to do for the card holder without having to the merchant, which may the on the other side of the world, to court.

- a rule book for international conflict resolution

- rules for software development and operation processes among participating companies, see Mt. Gox

- rules for terminal security

- a lot more

If however you mean that Visa is a worse version of MasterCard that doesn't have its shit together, then I agree.
The most interesting bit is the footer with links to discussions of the organizations leaving Medium... apparently this time donations will be the answer!