skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're manufacturing the car from scratch just build a digital bus into the frame.

And just how would you do this?

The frame is metal - it isn't plastic; so to move control signals around, you need to have a harness. That harness, on the majority of cars today, is attached to clips that are mounted to the frame (inside the vehicle), behind the interior fascia plastic. Google "vehicle wire harness" and look at some pictures to get an idea; most of the harness is behind the dash, with additional branches leading to the doors (locks, windows, speakers, etc), up the A-pillars (rearview mirror and dome light, or other accessories), up the B-pillars (air bags, more speakers), toward the rear (gas tank, brake lights, etc), and elsewhere. There's a ton of wiring in the interior of a car.

There's a separate harness inside the engine compartment, clipped mostly to the firewall and fender area, with branches going to various spots in the compartment (too many to name); that harness is generally connected in some manner to the interior harness of the vehicle, thru a pass-thru on the firewall. This may be a connector, or just a hole the wires are routed through. Sometimes, the junction will be via a computer in the engine compartment; the point being that there are many ways it is done.

Engineers over the years have worked to reduce the number of wires and such in the wiring harness; one of the more recent ways has been the nearly universal adoption of the CAN bus. It is essentially a robust vehicle communications bus with a differentially signaled system, using two wires. Of course, there are bunch of these in a vehicle.

I think eventually they'll move to a fiber-optic system for signals, with the only wires remaining for power.
That's not an alternative platform. It's just a different group on the same platform.
I know it's blooming, and that is why that home prices will soon be out of reach. If the average house sprints to $700K like Seattle, how do you recruit workers from out of state?
Ok, we changed the title above to one of the subtitles (a photo heading) that appears in the article, which hopefully is less contentious.

That doesn't address the question of exactly what 'self-driving' means in this context, but many articles on the topic suffer from this problem.
> I wish there was a non-military or less-military domestic version of this, I've considered joining the national guard for this reason but I'm don't trust that I wouldn't end up fighting and dying in a pointless war. If there was another volunteer force that was devoted to humanitarian issues and search and rescue I would be all for it.

You're basically describing the Coast Guard. I believe they do hire reservists.
It's not the content of the subreddits alone, but they inevitably "leak", or actively encourage harassment of people on other subreddits. This is how they can be harmful even to people who never go to the banned subreddit.
My advice is always to not negotiate against yourself. Take the money and see how it plays out. Companies have short memories.
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If you are not getting subsidized because of income, you have to pay for everyone else who is subsidized.

I was buying plans from health care exchange for 2 years and my last plan for two (parent and child) cost me 500$ per month with 6500 deductible per person - 13000$ total.

So effectively I had only a catastrophic insurance but was forced to pay for some subsidized guys who had a platinum plan with no deductible for 54$ per month. Worst situation for people like me!
Polymorphism is not OOP, although OOP designs may be polymorphic. Many FP approaches leverage polymorphic functions heavily (and in fact in most they use a parametric style of polymorphism which provides a lot more structure than the OO-family ad-hoc polymorphism).
Apple is the only problem they keep dragging their feet on modern web features to try to force developers into native iOS
We’re the Only Plane in the Sky
This is more important than one might think.

At the end of the day, the mass market does not really care whether a car is gas or electric.

The average Joe/Jane just has X dollars budgeted for a car and a mental model of what kind of amenities they ought to be able to get for X dollars.

Most of the "mass-market" electric cars I've seen in the $35,000 range (i3, Leaf, Bolt) look like $18,000 subcompacts. They just have electric motors inside.

You fundamentally cannot take an $18,000 car, slap an electric motor inside, and call it a $35,000 car.

If the car is going to cost $35,000, make it a $35,000 car.
State and Church should be separate.
> I get that you like favicons, but how is the lack of this one very minor feature something you consider a complete roadblock to using the browser as a whole?

For those of us with lots of tabs (e.g. more than a dozen), favicons are the only way to know what is in each tab. With only a letter or two showing, favicons are the only tab content identifier that exists.
If that's the case then the data is bias and flawed. The data does not reveal independent subreddit bans, or existing posts in subs (but were removed by mods or deleted by the user)
Maybe we can try finding useful metrics then. And of course they could be gamed but then we can adapt and improve. By example start with number of stars on github or number of forks or even views (with verified users). Actually, we have such kind of measure, it's called advertising. It's one of the few working business models on the net but it works with a kind of bizarre tax on physical goods. Why not with a levy ? Edit: typos
I think if those generalizations let us draw a useful parallel to a historical example, we can note the similarities (and differences) and apply lessons learned from that era to our own.

(Not that Sartre included a chapter called "How to Have Avoided The Whole Affair" in his book...)
I don't know if this is allowed - if not, mods delete this.

To the poster who had a throwaway and identified themselves as an employee of Cruise, if the environment you work in is as toxic as you claim, your best bet, right now, is to leave.

Don't stay a minute longer, as this kind of thing has a way of biting those who stay in the rear sooner rather than later.
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That's not Amazon's MO, or goal with the Whole Foods purchase. They want to dominate the grocery industry like they dominate the durable goods industry.
Definitely, and those same claims are made in the yue docs.

>I had been the solo developer of Electron and node-webkit (now known as NW.js) for a very long time, and today big corps are building their new apps on them. So I think it should not be hard to be confident about Yue.

https://github.com/yue/help
I think you aren't in the normal use case. I know a lot of people that keep money in Venmo because it's now "Venmo money". It's easier for people to categorize money that way and feel like it's separate from their bank account when it's in Venmo. I imagine they want to replace your bank account like Paypal has tried to.

Then again, Paypal also has a debit card, so this is probably a natural progression for a child of Paypal.
"The launch of the world’s first mass-producible driverless car is a major accomplishment, but we’re not across the finish line yet. Building a few of these self-driving vehicles, or even a few hundred, won’t accomplish what we set out to do. And a self-driving business that depends on humans sitting behind the wheel is fundamentally unsustainable, so that won’t cut it either. We will achieve success by integrating the best software and hardware to deploy truly driverless vehicles at scale."

That's the last paragraph. It makes me think the writer views it as a technical problem - they need a human as a backup. But, there's not enough context, so I could be misreading it.
He was down-voted as he was implying that this is an American only phenomenon, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Nah, this is perfect for containers. You could use kubernetes to manage it all.
That's too bad. I thought maybe this was just a consequence of He CLA being a relatively low-end Mercedes.
Same reason for the "Lucas" subway ads from a few years ago. Weirdness goes viral.
It's not a hard thing to figure out, honestly.
I'll vigorously defend your right to express your opinion. That doesn't mean I have to agree with you and I may disagree loudly.

Aggressive social conformism is just everyone disagreeing with you, loudly. It's the kind of thing we should be doing to racists, etc.
Hurricane Harvey was not a catastrophe
> Cruise employee here. throwaway for obvious reasons. It needs to be said that this is entirely marketing smoke and mirrors. The Cruise platform is significantly behind most other players in the market, and is having many many technical problems because of shortsighted leadership on Kyle's part, including high level people quitting (the head of planning and controls left last month because of Kyle, and more are threatening to quit) The reason I'm saying this is that this sort of public "everything is fine, we are the best" posturing leaks inwards. The opposite is very much true. Employees are very upset with Kyle because of things just like this. I make no exaggeration when I say Kyle is a mean-spirited, selfish person in private, and is very quick to publicly take credit for the work of others that he has emotionally and verbally abused. It's truly one of the most toxic environments I've ever been a part of.
Lol, yes! Safari can sometimes feel like the new Internet Explorer. Having said that, they have started work on service workers now!
> Peaks are going to be really big

This got me thinking, what does the power draw look like?

A Model S has two battery options

- 60kWh / 335km @ 5.85km/kWh
- 85kWh / 426km @ 5.01km/kWh

So a battery will need to recharge 1kWh for each 5km traveled. The typical US commuter travels 48km per day. 50km per day / 5km/kWh is 10kWh per day of required draw.

Say 10 hours of charging per day smooths this out to an additional draw of 1kW per driver (a big assumption).

With 100M additional electric cars (there are only 165M daily commuters) in the US, the additional draw on the power grid would require 1,000GW of additional capacity.

That's a 25% increase over 2016 power generation. Compared to the 1999-2016 growth rate of 9.5%, it is significant, but seems manageable. Especially considering it'll take 10+ years for electric cars to be widely used by a significant fraction of the US workforce.
None of these contrived scenarios compares to the rate at which humans simply fail to stop when they should have stopped. I don't know anyone who got into or was rescued from an accident by pulling one of these maneuvers. I know plenty of people who got into accidents because someone (them or someone else) failed to stop when they should have stopped.

Considering humans can barely stop when they should, I don't give them a high likelihood to also be able to have the situational awareness and make the multiple split second decisions required to both decide to, and take action upon, directing their car towards the least-valuable obstacle in an emergency. By the time they decide what to do they will probably be rear ended.

Edit: your examples also ignores that with self driving cars, people won't be put in these situations in the first place. A driver not paying attention to the road, looking at their phone would be... not a safety hazard.
Just put one or zero in the salary field(s). No company worth working for is actually checking your salary history.

Resorting to entering '; DROP TABLE candidates; -- will definitely get your application rejected though.
I really really recommend the sequel of Sapiens, Homo Deus. I can't really describe it in words.
I'm curious about this being the largest disaster in US history. Can you expand on that? Largest by what metrics?
An unexpected infinite loop
What does "go L4 or L5" mean?
Tesla are much more expensive in Europe. In fact, I could have an BMW M4 and a Golf R for the price of a mid-range Model S with some options - I know which two cars I'd rather have...
>"I personally believe there is no universal morality, but if I had to pick, I'd argue that the best outcome for the human race would be a culture that purges all racist and other arbitrarily prejudiced mindsets that judge entire populations on untenable grounds (race, gender, etc)."

Out of all the possibly noble things you could pick, you pick prejudice as the item that would be universally-forbidden in your moral code? I understand that race-relations, group-bias topics and intersectionality are in vogue and centre-stage at this moment, but we need to aim higher as a society.
> Wonder what the future holds.

I hope it holds a great shift towards decentralization of energy production. Not complete decentralization, but a blend of massive power plants like today, and lots and lots of homes with solar panels on roof tops and the like.

I also hope fusion research is accelerated. Fusion in the sky, plus fusion down on Earth, that would cover a lot of bases. Portable fusion reactors would also truly open up the solar system - ride the fusion torch to your destination, power your habitat with fusion reactors.
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Worth considering:

I think the reason this topic is so hot is not because of the study, but the "What if other people use this as a justification for X?" fear.

For example, if it turns out that there are certain physical traits that predict sexuality, does this imply a physiological component (rather than a purely psychological one)? If there is a physiological component, I think some people worry this can be used to "pathologize" alternative sexualities.

However, what if all the endocrine disrupters we're exposed to daily [1] that act as estrogens play some role in this? What if we make the topic so unspeakable that we fail to recognize environmental contamination causes both physical differences [2] and sexual differentiation differences [3]?

This is part of the reason I think we can't reject information that may allow some socially-backward conclusion. Because we don't know all the other good things (i.e. medical) that information may be necessary for.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Uses
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anogenital_distance#In_humans
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol#DES_sons
What can you really control though? Your genetics and your environment determine who you are. Nature and nurture. We all have to make do.
It's slightly more frictionless because you don't have to wait for the money to transfer. Might also be useful for psychological budgeting purposes. You pay for dinner with your Venmo card, your friends pay you back in the app, you know the whole time that you're just spending your entertainment money, not your rent money.
How do you prevent User X from lying then?
Levels 4 and 5 of driving automation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Levels_of_drivi...
As the article hints, this jump is likely driven in part by the millions of dollars of free advertising Whole Foods received from the news, and not simply because there were price cuts.
> Doesn't that risk exist for many emergent AI scenarios?

Yes, and it is actually the bigger problem. Facial recognition and license plate scanners are already producing a "papers, please" situation.

The gay community, however, is more activist and more likely to fight back. Which is why this is getting such traction.
The other thing to bear in mind: I would guess that the vast majority of accidents are caused by people not paying attention -- distracted by a phone, person, great view, or even just because they're looking the wrong direction. Cars don't do any of those things. They will always be paying attention, looking in all directions at once.

So if they eliminate all of the accidents that are caused that way, but increase the number of garden-gnome related accidents...wouldn't that be worthwhile?

Another, less flippant way to say it: yes, we can imagine scenarios in which the number of accidents will increase. But what is the relative frequency of those types of accidents compared to run-of-the-mill rear-end, red-light run, lane change due to inattentiveness?
http://standards.sae.org/j3016_201609/

no driving automation (level 0) to full driving automation (level 5)
If that's true, then it's more or less the same, no?
You're not supposed to be required to report previous salary. Just give names of previous employers and don't tell lies.
> When towns sprawl, utilities with costs that scale with distance cost more per person. Have a look at the graph of the cost of delivering utilities.

That StrongTowns blog graph is intentionally misleading. It's not a cost of delivering utilities, it's a cost of utilities based on tax revenue a given parcel generates. It's an attempt to make cities "for profit".

Obviously, anywhere significant amounts of people live is going to come up "red", because we don't tax people the same rate we tax corporate offices, and because people use more resources there (most people live / cook / shower / sleep / etc at home, not in their cubicle).

That doesn't make it less worth that cost though (those downtown regions are only able to be "green" because there's lots of red around them). And it doesn't really have to do with sprawl. (The cost does rise with distance, but in mostly trivial ways. And those costs spiral backward again too -- 5,000 feet of new powerline in suburbia is far cheaper than 500 feet of new powerline in Manhattan, for instance).

> This isn't about environmental sustainability as much as long-term economic sustainability.

If that's the argument, then cities are almost entirely ruled out already. Cities aren't even economically sustainable for their current residents today, sprawl is the only thing preventing cities current economic issues from becoming even worse.

Sprawl is the only reason the majority of regular folks have any housing to sleep in at all.
GLAAD and HRC are advocacy groups, not organizations dedicated to truth. If a lie creates advocacy that's perfectly within their purview as advocates.

As with all organizations the purpose of organizations are to perpetuate themselves.
The dig command is totally aware of it if you have updated bind within the past couple of years.
> I'd argue that the best outcome for the human race would be a culture that purges all racist and other arbitrarily prejudiced mindsets that judge entire populations on untenable grounds (race, gender, etc).

Phrasing. You can't just come out and say purging--you have to dress it up a little more.
I want PWAs to succeed, because I would love to publish close-to-native apps without an app store. I think PWAs are a great thing for the open web. However, hyping PWAs with unrealistic expectations doesn't do any good. The Ionic team talks in the same vein. I like Ionic, I don't like hype. Here are a few reasons why PWAs aren't there yet and probably won't replace most apps in the near future:

- No native APIs. Yeah sure, you can order a coffee at Starbucks, but the underyling hardware isn't exposed to JS. You won't be able to make a camera app with PWAs.

- Input controls suck. Same as with every mobile browser and every Cordova-based app: You cannot control how the keyboard behaves and I suspect that it's not even in Apple's interest to make Mobile Safari super-great. Sure, they're working on PWAs, but that doesn't mean anything. Just see how bad Mobile Safari's <select> looks like. Or bugs in multi-selects that have been there forever.

- They still run in a browser. It shows an address bar and whatever else your browser is always showing. Try Twitter's PWA right now: https://lite.twitter.com It's way too easy to accidentally swipe back. And then, Twitter being a shitty Single-Page-App, the browser loses its scroll position.

- PWAs suffer from the same problems like all SPAs [1]

And finally:

- A PWA is just a proxy to download and cache responses from a server. It enables offline support (kinda) for single-page apps. It's not a magical something. The problem is that most users go to the App or Play Store first (like djrogers pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219682). They COULD be using PWAs – or at least good mobile webistes – right now, but they aren't.

I think PWAs will find their places and I'm betting on them, too, to a certain extend. But over-hyping PWAs without addressing these issues is just naive.

[1]: Great read on this topic: https://adamsilver.io/articles/the-disadvantages-of-single-p...
Let's put it this way: Would Panasonic have achieved just as much for EVs if it had made the partnership with any other carmaker?

To me it's been obvious that the other carmakers were dragged into the EV race, and they would've rather not see it happen at all. It's quite hilarious seeing around the time the Model S came out and soon after, how the other car makers were still "one-upping" each other with 65-mile range, 70, 75, 80 - by continuing to repackage gas-powered car platforms into EVs. And those were the "full EV" versions, not the hybrid ones or whatnot. Those still had like 20-30 mile ranges in their batteries.

I think it would've taken at least another 15 years until one of them would've decided to just rethink an EV from scratch. Their love was status quo was all too obvious.

There are some who say Apple is Messiah on Earth and they've invented all smartphone features and they deserve to ask $2,000 for an iPhone (see latest iPhone thread for such opinions). I completely disagree with those, even though I was one of the "fanbois" preaching an iPhone in the "Nokia is still king" days.

And then there are others who say Apple invented and innovated nothing. zero. nada. And the smartphone industry would've progressed in exactly the same way without them, too. I say that's also bullcrap. Not only did Apple completely change the mobile phone landscape, but it has pretty much changed it every year afterwards (see the wave of "retina displays", or fingerprint auth, or 2x optical zoom from last year - all being adopted at a rapid pace by everyone soon after Apple did it).

I see opinions about Tesla split the same way. In my mind, Tesla is the first successful car company in 100 years to not just exist and survive but to reshape the car industry. They haven't invented everything either, but I give them a lot of credit for the awareness EVs have now (and will have in the next few years).

I guess my point is you don't have to have extreme opinions about a company in order to give it the credit that it's due.
Basically they make you fill it, but I think the idea is that the company who'll hire you fill in the salary you claimed you had during the interview and the background check company will check if you didn't lie.

So you can just leave it out, if it's important they'll ask you and you can discuss why you're not confortable sharing it. Anyway it won't cost you the job.
It's a classification[1] for the level of automated driving capabilities in a vehicle.

1) https://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf
I went through this when I received an offer to join a BigCo.

During the background check provided by the 3rd party, I actually filled in my STARTING, not FINAL salary for some of the previous companies that I worked for.

This actually came up in the final report as mismatches in my history since they actually do call up each company you provide information for, but nothing ever came of it.

I suggest that you not lie on a background check. The company will not renege on an already agreed on salary nor does a BigCo care how much they're paying you.

What they're looking for is honesty and that there are no glaring red flags in your personality or history.