skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be missing a link.

Whether there is a driver or not (or whether the cars will be electrically powered or not) the cars will still occupy the same physical space, please read as parking, and if the same number of people will need to go from point A to point B and viceversa, roads will be needed as well.
Every day walking though the stables I give the ponies some mints. I am fairly certain judging from their behaviors that when they see me they are thinking 'Mints!'.

One day, when I found the dog looking excitedly down a drain I said 'Rats!'. Now if I say 'Rats?' she goes and looks. I know she is thinking - 'I lost a rat down there once and I'd desperately love to make its acquaintance again'.

I do not think that there is much difference between the way we and other animals think. We get confused in the same way and even subconscious things like 'infectious yawn' see to pass freely to the horse and the dog and back to me. Some people have a hard time accepting that animals do think and whereas I recognize the easy peril of anthropomorphising subjects - I also suspect a political unwillingness and discomfiture in accepting animal intelligence.
I'd like to think it wouldn't be that bad.
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Not to disagree with your main point that there's a lot of tight coupling ... but planes are regularly stretched[1][2] so it seems like it's still a lot simpler than designing a whole new plane from scratch. Even new designs are really evolutions of old planes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A340#Variants

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#Variants
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AFAIK, software for the BSDs is usually maintained in-tree, and patched to integrate with the rest of the distribution. I don't think including GPL-licensed software would be compatible with the BSD license of the overall project. That doesn't mean you can't use anything GPL, just that it can't become part of the system.
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The relative speed of two objects docking in orbit is very small. You brake or accelerate as you get close to matching orbits.

The relative speed of a capsule and the mass driver will be very high IF you're using the mass driver to slow down substantially. That's in the definition, you're using it to slow down so the initial relative speed at contact must be high. The higher the speed the less energy you have to waste lowering your orbit (slowing down beforehand). If you're slowing down beforehand enough that your relative speed of contact is low then you don't need the mass driver to brake.
The main point of small functions is they tend to be more readable. If they are too small then you get into code golf territory and loss readability. It's a balancing act, you need to follow the Goldilocks principle when writing algorithms. Also, the author states at the end that small functions aren't bad so the title is misleading.
This would be 10x more useful with some code examples.
While F-82 and P-38 shared the exact same engine, the F-82 had higher top speed, higher cruising speed, longer range, and could carrying 1500lbs more at take off. Apart from ceiling high, the F-82 beat the P-38 in almost every measure.

It was also based on the legendary P-51 which remained in service into the 50s, where as aircraft like the P-38 were immediately drawn down after the war.
Singapore has this thing called FAST transfers (Fast and Secure Transfer) that's instant transfer between the banks here. It's been around since 2014.
Or extra stops. Or aligning your schedule to the shared vehicles schedule.
Anybody come across a pedal/switch that would output sustain MIDI signal? Or would Arduino's MIDIUSB work for a DIY version? I have a couple of keyboards (Roli Seaboard block and Roland JD-Xi) without sustain pedal inputs and would like to use a sustain pedal with them

edit: found one - https://webaudiotech.com/2017/02/20/a-piano-sustain-pedal-to...
I never disputed this or implied otherwise. It's quite clear from what I have written that I acknowledge there will be some benefits. It's equally clear from what I've written that the lack of articles on this is not indicative of politics or some other nefarious reason.
Maybe it was a coincidence but it made me very anxious so I left the platform.

What were you anxious about happening as a result?
Don't get me wrong, I love make, but I also can admit it's old and has some legacy warts. Phony targets, double dollar signs, the tab thing you mention. I've learned to be ok with it, but I've seen it be a barrier to adoption.

I'm not saying it should be a barrier, I'm saying it is a thing I have experienced in my career.
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Thanks for that, good find. Pretty eye opening.
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Guys, is this the end of the world?
As basically a lifetime musician (and second generation) I'd like to give some counter-points to your hypothesis regarding the "diminishing returns" notion and deliberate musical practice.

I'll try to keep this light hearted - so as a guitarist, one learns the rules, and practices them, then grows and grows and grows. Eventually, one learns how to break a rule, but over time, bend it into something that resembles an existing rule or otherwise still interests an audience, and create rules whereby none existed before. Sometimes minor mistakes or oddities become wholesale innovations in the right hands (ex: Jimi Hendrix, Tom Morello) but are very much a byproduct of deliberate, routine, intense attention and practice.

My experience is that music performance has an incredible power to both be-shaped-by-and-reciprocally-shape the human brain. The inherent elasticity and plasticity cross cultures. Generations. One of the most consistent observational effects though is that practice makes better in most cases.
If you're looking for a deeper analysis than this article offers, I have some recommendations for the interested reader in considering our modern way of life within capitalism and its relation to our wellbeing and our concepts of 'freedom', mainly from a Left perspective though not necessarily so. I hope these are useful:

* The Frankfurt School on the "culture indutsry"[0], which is the effect of capitalist mode of production on our culture (specifically art and within that, most focus is on the literary arts though it easily applies to music too).

* Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle[1], describing the world at a deeper level to as Marx put it, or rather, a deeper analysis of our society from a situationist point of view.

* Marx's concepts of commodity fetishism[2] and alienation[3], describing the effects which the capitalist mode of production has on the psychological well being of the working class.

* The extensions from this, again I must refer to the Frankfurt School, I'm in the middle of a book called Escape from Freedom[4] by Erich Fromm. He wrote a foreword to the second edition 25 years after its first publication, in which he claims that the conditions he describes of the freedom of man in capitalist society have become even more important to analyse for our wellbeing overall. It is a psycho-sociological work, and I haven't read it in full, I'm slowly making my way through it, however from what I've read I would recommend it for its interesting point of view.

* For a critique of the notions of tolerance in society and pluralistic democracy (which is supportive of "true" democracy, of power of the people as individuals rather than religious, ethnic or social interest groups), I recommend in particular the first and third essays (the third by Marcuse, the first by Richard Wolff) from A Critique of Pure Tolerance[5]

[0] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/cultu...

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.ht...

[2] I must first note that "commodity fetishism" is absolutely not about how people are materialistic and value material wealth over spiritual or moral action. It is about how through the market, the interactions between people themselves are hidden and proxied such that the commodity itself is fetishised, to use that term in the sense of meaning "of unnatural excessive focus" https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/e.htm#fetishism

[3] Alienation is a concept that Marx borrowed from 18th century philosopher G.W.F Hegel, it's one which is generally deeper than how Marx uses it, and there are others who interpret it differently to Marx. Here is the Marxian view, though there are others you can find. https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/l.htm#alienation

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom and there are links to download mobile-friendly versions of the work here: https://libcom.org/library/escape-freedom

[5] PDF version here: https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Wolff_Moore_Marcuse_A_Criti...
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I was trying not to be spammy :-) It's in my profile.
Just so I understand your proposition, you're arguing that there will be a higher adoption rate of an invasive surgically implanted brain computer interface than a pair of glasses?
Which would be huge, at least for me. I'd love to be able to pull out my laptop and get rid of my "busywork" (e.g. emails, review daily reports, etc.), which would be a hell of a lot easier in a self driving car than, say, the BART.
Functions and other forms of structural and semantic composition are among the (many) things that make writing prose entirely unanalogous to writing code. You can't sprinkle prose with "descriptiveParagraph(targets, descriptors)" or "dialogScene(characters, lines)".
Wait...a car you can shower and cook in?
Nothing will happend, There will be an auto switch to : Instagram, Whatsapp, twitter....etc and many others social networking relay and the end of facebook advertising perphaps.
While there's no free lunch, I disagree that it creates lots of problems, and in fact it provides more benefits beyond that freedom (and the respective good will).

By removing the predictability of each other's presence, everyone is shaken off their complacency and is compelled to actually coordinate their shared activities, like meetings. This, in turn, is very useful for employees who require long stretches of uninterrupted time to be the most productive, since it allows them to better plan their days. If you're in the office and you refuse to join an impromptu meeting, and which might threaten a deadline, you look bad. But if you're not physically present, and that's common and accepted, then it's the meeting organizer that looks bad.

I worked in an office where there was not only such flexibility (people arrived late, picked up kids early, etc), but also some colleges had a lot of offsite meetings with clients, and it was fine. We just talked to each other (offline or online) in advance to set things up. No problems.
What are you mining? There are profitability calculators available, last I saw Monero has the highest return on investment.
That's how I use it, but you're still paying for the stuff you're not using. Instead of buying their atrocious software, I'd like to spend it on better display characteristics.
Identity politics is not some weird Tumblr creation. America was founded by and for well-off white men. They were the only ones who could vote. America's history can be written as the slow removal of those limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...

What most white dudes critique as "identity politics" is people talking about and trying to remedy historical identity-based oppression. But they don't like these things being explicitly talked about, because sweeping the historical oppression under the rug is one of the mechanisms by which that oppression is maintained.

If you really don't like identity politics, you too should work to help undo America's long history of pro-white, pro-male, pro-upper-class identity politics.
All of the "red leader" stuff is directly lifted from another film - the Battle of Britain (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/. Watch the dogfight sequence and see if it doesn't remind you of Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk5gMaCq8GE
> Ideally, it would support almost all modifications that work in a dynamically typed language, while still preventing anything that would take the program into an inconsistent state.

This is impossible. Data structures have these little things called “invariants” that require proof to be established. In statically typed languages, abstract data types are used to prevent users from breaking these invariants, by making the representation invisible to anyone but the implementor.

If the data structure underlying an abstract data type can be modified anytime, then every time you patch your program, you would have to check two things:

(0) That the new data structure respects every invariant relied upon by other code.

(1) That either the new data structure is compatible with the old one (which is often not the case), or there are no reachable instances of the old data structure in memory.

This is an even bigger pain in the ass than just stopping the program and fixing it.
But it does impact your privacy, that's the whole point.
I'm sure you can imagine other benefits. Flexibility for example.
Unless I'm mistaken, the topic is Pybind11, which is a foreign binding mechanism. Being criticized is the example in its documentation:

http://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/master/basics.html

under the heading "Creating bindings for a simple function".

Looks like FFI to me.
There are a few cryptcurrencies that are attempting to solve this problem. Some are actually centralized enough that banks are testing them out for this exact purpose (Ripple). Are they the solution to the problem? I don't know. But ACH is pretty old school and there are more than enough technologies to do far better.
Interesting subpoint here: people who are able to work remotely are going to add about an hour or perhaps a bit less to their productivity but those who cannot (let's say a hypothetical janitor/sales clerk) will not, further adding a layer of inequality to those who work with their minds versus those who work with their hands.

This is all things equal, and assuming that the advent of self-driving cars doesn't also bring a whole new economy/job market.
Could be, but by and large I've always been a late adopter of social media so apart from a hotmail / messenger account, I think FB was the only common service.
Star Trek style Teleportation is the real game changer regarding real estate prices.
With regards to the parking space article reference. In the long run with self driving cars we can reduce the overall number of parked cars through greater vehicle utilization. Instead of them being parked for long periods of their life, they can join fleets (think the Tesla fleet idea) and service many people in one day.
The mAP is just what I have laying around, it's small and usually in my bag anyway. Plus, it has 2 ethernet ports so I can use it as a router/AP in a wired environment too.

To power it I use a microUSB cable to my laptop, or a phone charger, or a battery pack with the microUSB cable.
Everyone I've talked to says it's highly dependent on which team you join.
If you're going to argue that it's crime rate, it's disingenuous to then link to a story talking about raw numbers, not rate - you should know the rate of black Americans killed by police is over double the rate of white Americans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...

The point of BL M and many protests is not only the number of people killed by police, it's a symbol of a more widespread issue of racial injustice, specifically in the criminal justice system. Why are our increasingly militarized police murdering and brutalizing unarmed or non-aggressive citizens? Aren't these people they're supposed to be protecting?

Why are we letting white supremacists and racists in our police forces?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fbi-white-supremacists-i...

Why is there almost a gap of 20% in sentencing rate between black and white people, for the same crimes?

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13...

Same for the disparity in conviction rates. Did you know many states strip felons of the right to vote?

Why are drug crimes, despite similar usage rates among races, so skewed in actual prosecutions and incarcerations towards blacks?

https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/03/02/us-drug-arrests-skewed-r...
this post would be much better if treated like the Satire it is ...
If someone looks at your facebook account they will suggest that person as a connection. Frequently as simple as that.

Of course, in the background they likely knew you were more connected through mutual friends, contacts, etc
I haven't read the whole thing but I'd briefly say: true, there are many codebases where you have to jump through a million strangely-named onliner functions (+5 lines for parameters, braces, modifiers etc... sometimes as declaration and definition) to find out what that thing actually does. It pollutes the name space, fragments the code as hell, fills up a lot of writing space, fills up the stack and the mind. A crash yields a call hierarchy that fills a roll of toilet paper.

Hope that's a good tl;dr for the article ;)
Sure, why not in the future?

I would probably prefer my Dönercopter delivery.
You disagreed with me, but upvoting your comment because the counterpoint is compelling.

It's easy to assume resources are the key point - are people with less time/money well served by these bootcamps?

However, it makes sense that individual personality traits like motivation, ambition, and comfort level with uncertainty / cutting your own path could matter.

As aside I've always felt successful STEM people receive unbalanced praise, always credit for some ethereal genius, not enough credit for maniacal drive, near clinical obsession with goals, gall. Does the general public realize that everyone from Einstein to Musk would have been greatly diminished without these qualities?
I'd disagree and say that animals do in fact "talk" or convey meaning. I have raised multiple dogs and with time your understand their needs: I want to eat, I want to play, I want to show you something (or alert you of something). These are the three things that most dogs will learn to convey to you.

We consider that animals are of a lesser species so that we can take advantage of them without any "legal or moral" consequences. Like we eat animals on a regular basis. We do deadly trial medicines on them. We raise animals against their will (like birds) and cage them.
An RV?
A bit of discussion of why this was built or what's its goals are would be helpful in understanding/assessing it.
Only if you can negate the need for a personal vehicle, which self-driving cars aren't close to doing.

Self-driving cars do nothing about the fact I need somewhere to put my gym bag during the work day or my gym and work bags while I go out in the evening. Or that I might need a carseat for a child. Or that I might like to keep an umbrella and change of clothes in my car. Or....

Any benefit to not having the static car is quickly mitigated by the inefficiency of storage shuffling for even a moderate amount of things.
One criterion for decomposition into functions is to mimic the structure of the problem domain. This makes it easier to check against the domain, to reason about one in terms of the other, and to extend. It's especially helpful for interactions with problem domain experts. A "domain" includes math. Efficiency may require a different structure - note though that when efficiency trully is paramount, it licenses outright barbarism.

Another approach is "disproportionate simplicity", and works out similarly to an abstraction, something of a DSL. If you can modularize functionality, such that that aspect becomes much simpler, do it. Note that it might not solve the whole of that problem (like the core of git is a "stupid content tracker", it solves the part it does tackle with simplicity disportionate to the alternatives; but that simple core doesn't solve everything). It's about where to draw bounardies (between modules, with functions being one kind of module).

Yet another is the traditional criterion, based on likelihood of change: boundaries between modules [functions] should be unlikely to change; the stuff that is likely to change should be "hidden" within a module [function]. Unfortunately, I've found prediction to be tricky, particularly when it concerns the future of programs.
I once had an escort girl from Whatsapp showing up on my fb. This was when they said they won't integrate the data. Pffff.
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Climbing is a satisfactory 1:1 movement because you "move the world" exactly the distance you move the hands, so it feels very natural, unlike any other artificial movement system in VR games. Lone Echo does this but even better (I said Echo Arena before by mistake, it's the multiplayer version of Lone Echo)

Jumping can be hard to get used to for some, it's like throwing yourself, and requires the same skill as throwing a ball to a target. But once you get the hang of it, it feels VERY good, it's an incredible sense of freedom, esp after playing other VR games with teleport or other systems of artificial locomotion. I'd like just to jump everywhere like that. The jumps are superhuman but your brain accepts it as perfectly possible (which is important for immersion).

Walking is done through arm swinging. I think it's kind of weak but I still prefer that form of locomotion over any other if there's no jumping.
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I agree - it is amazing how even a small mention of a product in a whatsapp conversation with my friends turns into a barrage of related ads on Facebook. We have even started teasing each other by mention funny products just to indundate each other with irrelevant ads. So sad - my assumption is: anything you say or do in an electronic device is NOT private.
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> why do people still need to pretend they know better than me, the reader

Perhaps they do? Or perhaps they just see a trend starting up in their day-to-day work and want to try and nip it in the bud?

I see this exact same trend forming: in my last code review I saw a function which had exactly one line of code in it - a string format operation. It was called twice, and had no likelihood to be called more.

That was the most gregarious, but not the only, example.

> And I don't see how [lots of small functions] would be bad.

Well, I am not sure about Swift's implementation, but functions are typically expensive to execute. They require pushing values onto the stack, switching control, executing code, popping values off the stack, switching control back, etc. Lots of CPU operations and memory manipulation (not to mention cache misses, etc). There's also the possibility of blowing out your stack if you store too many values on it, or nest too deeply.

From a cognitive point of view, you have to interrupt your current flow of reading, move to a different spot in the current file (or another file entirely), to track down the behavior of a certain function. As the functionality of that function mutates over time, its name is rarely changed to reflect the updated functionality, which means it can create confusion and require even more time to consider the corner cases.
I would imagine Facebook keeps placeholders for people you know that are not on Facebook. His father had made a contact with one of the relatives not on FB but with the other name. Perhaps the great aunt had him in her contacts as well. A name and/or phone number can represent a person in the graph without being a FB user. Why they made a suggestion so many degrees away is a little curious, but I think they mix those in with the more obvious ones just to check.

TL;DR: I think their graph includes non-FB-using people.
That should be the decision of the organization hosting the parade, not a separate group with it's own agenda.