skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strategically this gets really obvious when you look at the financial model. A rapidly depreciating asset that has utilization of <10% is kind of insane, but Americans have managed to pull it off. Many families even have 2 of them! You need wide open spaces, no public transit, and cheap power for them to even be financially feasible/desirable, and the automotive industry has had to work really hard to kill public transit, the country has had to go to war several times for cheap power, and as people migrate from rural to urban settings the wide open spaces have been replaced with commutes from hell.

Cars are probably going the way of planes in the future -- hobbyists will operate them, wealthy people will have luxury models, and most people will just buy time in one. Self-driving technology is the nail in the coffin but it's probably happening without that.
You have to be prepared to walk away from the offer though to make this work.

Which makes for some interesting game theory.
> This is just like when you go to an electronics store and they put the super expensive tv (almost) nobody buys right next to the still very expensive but comparably more modest model. You are more likely to buy that second tv even if costs more than you initially budgeted because your brain tells you that this is the cheaper model with _almost_ the same features as the flagship tv.

I disagree that these are equivalent.

Product differentiation exists in part to ensure you leave no money on the table -- if someone is cashed up and wants to pay 50% more for an extra 2 inches on the screen size, then you let them. Conversely, for the people who are super price conscious you have the very low margin end of line product hidden at the back. You alway maximise price by ensuring you have what they want at a price they're willing to pay. Generally this is fair and works well for consumers.

But here we have prices that you _cannot_ pay. It's a dark pattern akin to bait and switch techniques that should (and might) be illegal.
> Yes it is and yes it does. (But to find this out you have to read all the way to the end.)

I've read both it and the study it refers to. It has nothing to do with desertification (and it's not empirical -- it's simply modelling a possibility).

> It's not a fringe theory at all

I said 'contested', not 'fringe'. Big, big difference. The appropriate response when something is contested is to reserve judgement. As I do. And as Gammage, Pascoe et al do (it has little relation to their theses).

> Point being, primitives didn't necessarily live in Harmony with nature at all.

Only hippies ever suggested they did. The mainstream emerging picture of Australian indigenous civilisation has nothing whatsoever to do with 'living in H[sic]armony with nature'. That you choose that phrase, and jump so reactively at straw men, displays only your tribal affiliation to a general thesis, without any knowledge of the specifics.
Stress Test:
https://www.avogadr.io/?background=0176ff&foreground=38ce72&...
> they are ambiguous about when they will cut off new certificates exactly

They are? It seems pretty clear to me. Symantec's old infrastructure will be distrusted in Chrome beta in September 2018. At that point, no certificates issued by Symantec's old root certs (including those issued after June 1, 2016) will be trusted.
Operating a domain registry and issuing EV certificates require different levels of trust.

Don't read too much into Alphabet/Google using other gTLDs instead of .com, like https://abc.xyz or https://blog.google -- that's separate work done by separate people on a separate team.
Very interesting result, somewhat encouraging to me, because it seems to cautiously indicate that you can actually do something about those echo chambers that may start as jokes but then actively normalize hate and discrimination, possibly pulling formerly neutral users in too. (And keep in mind that those hate echo chambers are not places of honest discussion, since they regularly ban any opposing viewpoints and only strive to keep the hate train going.)
The best thing I ever did was delete the Facebook app from my phone. I had already disabled all the notifications, but that didn't change things like deleting the app. Not being able to get to Facebook wherever you are. As silly as it sounds it was liberating. I still access Facebook from my laptop - but now that it's off of my phone, I'm accessing Facebook less and less frequently and I'm find I'm happier as a result.

Less Facebook == more happy. It's the best advice I can give.
What if something unusual happens? Imagine there is a long blackout during those 9pm to 6am hours. It doesn't have to be the entire city, just a significant number of homes. The next morning, thousands of drivers find they don't have enough power to get to work. Thousands of cars are suddenly charging beyond the expected 9pm to 6am window. Will the grid be able to handle full daytime load in addition to this huge unexpected load? How much would it cost to upgrade the grid to worst case scenario? (entire city blackout during 9pm to 6am)?
So along that line of thinking, everyone knows the McDonalds is there so there's no reason for McDonalds to ever pay for advertising.
GM, Cruise unveil self-driving car ready for mass production
I'm not sure where you're getting your history of Pennsylvania from, but that's not correct.

> Penn established a government with two innovations that were much copied in the New World: the county commission and freedom of religious conviction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania#History

There have been a couple religious-based communities in PA, notably the Quakers, but PA was not founded as a religious state.
I would say its probably more due to a commitment made by the fan vs maybe not going and the fact the concert/venue/promoter can invest/spend that money now instead of later.
Although I might be mistaken because I am sure there is a lot of misinformation out there on this topic, I was under the impression that there is pretty good evidence that there was at least a Jewish profit named Jesus who lived at the time. Maybe someone else elaborate.
What are some trustable providers of EV certificates? LetsEncrypt is wonderful, but if I'm a company that needs to show the company name next to the padlock, who should I be using? What's an easy way to check if a provider (for instance Gandi, who I use for my domains) is going to be culled by this?

In fact, I don't even seem to able to find certificate information in Chrome any more - clicking on the padlock just gives me a bunch of settings and "Learn more" which is some annoying page.

Edit: It's in Developer Tools under "Security"
I think it's entirely possibly that there may be a net benefit to segregating problematic groups now, but it may not necessarily remain that way in the future. We are undergoing growing pains in our society stemming from a vast easing of the cost of self publication along with massive siloing of opinions such that people are not always presented with credible alternatives to their own point of view (or credible alternatives are rendered less credible through lack of trust).

In the same way that I think those being born now will have different views on privacy, spreading personal information and identity than those in their teens now, and those have different views on those topics than those in their thirties (the pendulum swings slowly, but I'm confident we'll settle on being more private than early adopters of social media have been, but less private than those that lived without it), I think future generations will come up with their own solutions to the problems of credibility, fake news, and the other myriad problems insular social network sub-groups have exacerbated.

Put another way, these hate groups are using tactics that are proven, but have wider reach and more effectiveness given our current reality, so the only way to effectively fight that virality of that in the short term (until people learn to mitigate the worst effects on themselves) might well be to isolate the behavior. It's like any other virulent disease in that respect.
untrust?
Sorry, I can't easily do that. But I can say it uses LaTeX under the hood.
Forgot to list:

"Tell your friends about your brilliant ideas."
> murderers

So, pro-choicers?

(See what I did there?)
>it's regulating the industries.

This fixes only one of the problems caused by the immunity.

>You are basically saying people should vote to annex the land of a people we basically already committed genocide against... do you really want to open that can of worms?

Yes, I am suggesting that. The amount of corruption, abuse, and other problems are sufficient even before we get to legal abuses like this.

And if we want to bring up past wrongs, that gets messy really fast. What tribe actually has a fair claim to the land they own that they didn't steal from some earlier tribe?
Hundreds of people opened their home in October 2015 after the huge rainstorm and floods in Cannes and Biot. Several supermarket (Carrefour and Intermarché for sure) delivered tons of food to the people there.

Hundreds of people opened their home on July 14 2016 after the terrorist attack in Nice. Same in Paris before that. And same in Barcelona this summer.

While it's true that American people jump into action, it's just wrong, and immensely disrespectful of the people who helped, to say the same doesn't happen in France or in other countries.
Not really. For instance, if you put the PDF file of the presentation online, then search engines will not be able to index this code easily, humans will not be able to cut and paste the code easily, etc.
The key statement being "sensors [...] that they think will enable level 5 autonomy." One or both of GM and Tesla could easily be wrong about that.

But you're completely right... it's like saying my Macbook is the world's first strong/general AI, once the software's ready.
Add this for your desktop and you're set: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Half of new PhDs issued every year in the U.S. are fake
We are in contact, though. Don't read too little into it either ;)
CAA is fresh like IPv10. Done some tracking the last couple of months on the alexa top 1 million domains. In April 400(!) had CAA records. In August 800. 10% have errors (the issuer-critical flag's value is set to 128, 4 6 or 9) where it should be either 0 or 1. iodef set to totally unusable web addressed, you name it.
As a matter of fact there are MANY large DNS service providers that do not even bother providing CAA options. If you want to name and shame, there is ample opportunity for the years to come. Getting it up and running is harder but more rewarding in the end.
Politico editor: We discard ‘dozens’ of potential hires over toxic Twitter feedS
Interesting. Do you know of any previous publicly expressed interest by either (or any!) of those cities?
Another notification type not mentioned in the article is "you last updated your profile X weeks ago."

This one is worse because it also uses the iOS/OSX notifications system for maximum passive aggressiveness: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/887740777031278592
Why is not capitalizing titles becoming popular :(
16 essential Dose and Don't of teaching yourself how to code
> They do say it's a DC based swamp cooler. Looks home made though...more detail on it would be interesting.

Called something like a "Burning Man Bucket Swamp Cooler":

https://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=33842

Simple and cheap to make; the problem with swamp coolers at Burning Man is the dust. Eventually the water turns to mud, and the pads get caked in it. Plus, you have to carry enough water not just for drinking, but to run the cooler too.

But that's at Burning Man - in other contexts it works as well as any other similar cooler.
Angela Nagle recently talked with Ezra Klein on his podcast, and that was one of the major points she made - how much of the alt-rights use of irony and satire draws in a lot of people who are then exposed to the larger ideology
Customers LOVE it when businesses don't make money!
> Modelling and tracking other cars is a bigger issue

Aren't there very reliable ways to model other cars? Something as big as a car can't move very unpredictably in a millisecond-to-millisecond basis. And at the end of the day, all you need to do is be able to model the behavior of your car.

If car in front of me starts to swerve over on a collision course with my car, my car can note the probability of a collision a long (computer-long) time before it really needs to do anything about it. Knowing full-well its own braking, swerving and acceleration capabilities at any given speed, it should be able to know when it _must_ take action to avoid the actions of another, and it doesn't even have to rely on reaction time.

No, I think the real problem here is for cars to do things like understand _context_ of a situation, like, for instance, how can it tell that there's a bus in front of me turning around that's going to be clear of my way in a moment vs. a tree that's been felled? That's something that computers are and will probably continue to be terrible at until they can closely mimic the capabilities of the human brain.
Booking.com are the all-time kings of this approach. The search results page is littered with highlighted messages like.

“4 people are looking at this room now”

“2 people just booked at this hotel”

“Too bad you already missed out on this hot deal”

“X% of the neighbourhood/city/region you’re looking at is already booked!”

...

It’s quite likely real information, but the timeframes and language are vague enough to make you feel like you’ve got about 5 minutes to lock a room down. They do such a good job at instilling anxiety that you feel like you achieved something important when you finally book.
Amazon as a company believes margins are an opportunity, either for them, or for someone else. They don't believe in raising prices unless forced to by something external. You aren't correct here, they believe in making money on volume and breadth of services / products.
Same thing a few days ago. Same happy feeling.
philipkglass showed how the problem is solved

jasonmaydie showed that even if a problem is solved it can still be a "problem"
Yes, exactly. Companies treat this stuff exactly the way universities treat the SAT/ACT. But I'd alter your statement: the big players are the worst with this stuff. They care about nothing more than your ability to regurgitate CTCI answers at a whiteboard. One mistake on a six-hour loop, and you're toast.
Just to be clear, it isn't that it's taking the top few listings and randomly marking as sold, but that the code is going out and retrieving what appear to be already sold listings (as stored in the urgencyMessageListings variable), and just injecting the top 2 from that array randomly in positions 1-5 in the main list (through a Array.splice() call).

While somewhat deceiving, it's not as bad as marking tickets that haven't sold as sold. Imagine if you were trying to sell your tix at the last minute, well that would be bad. (I've sold tix at the last minute before and that would scare me.)
"The only difference between this and any other marketing campaign is that you just happened to catch them this time."

I'm not sure this is fair.

By displaying false information, they are point-blank lying. That's misinformation. It should be illegal - it could be.

Some other tricks such as 'creating very expensive items which they never expect to sell' as a cognitive 'price anchor' - well, not quite the same thing.

I suggest there is a distinction between falsehoods and other forms of tricks.

In the end it probably doesn't matter, but I wouldn't mind one bit if there was some consumer protections concerning this.
The quote you responded to said "closer in time", not "modern day". Francisco Franco (Spanish fascist nationalist) controlled the country until the late 1970s. The toxic effect on non-Catholics in recent Spainish history was Franco[1], rather than the religion, but it's sometimes hard to make the distinction when non-believers are killed and repressed and the church is silent[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain#Catholicism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Spain
Was that U.S. shrimp or imported? There are very significant differences in environmental sustainability across the various supply chains for meat, fish, produce, and dairy products.
> Ayn Rand wasn't pushed down a stairs.

The thought of this was just way too satisfying...
Still buy gas, it's not like we're going to suddenly produce clean energy. All that's going to happen is we are going to build more power plants to support charging cars...

With the push for less nuclear, and less coal, all that's left is oil and natural gas. Renewable energy is no where near where it's necessary. So invest in companies that build windmills, solar, etc. But also natural gaz power plants.

Really the best investments are construction companies, and companies that manage and build the power grid infrastructure.
I'm not sure I understand the motive behind progressive web apps. Some apps I can see being web-only. But apps that require extensive storage, low latency, and much more traditional computing resources isn't going to work in the mold of a PWA. A calendar, a chat room, or some games I can see fitting the PWA mold automatically. But like I said, PWA to me isn't a universal replacement for good native app development. It fits many lightweight problems but anything else that better fits native should stay native. I really wish web developers would acknowledge this much and stop trying to say "why can't you make that a web app?"
Of course not. Norton Secured Seal is indistrustable.
Thank you explaining my frustration in such a clear way. My original response was so feral because I interpreted his comment as a criticism of all scientists and a call to change the current University system to something more "libertarian" (because those are arguments I'm frequently exposed to, and the comment I responded to appeared to dog-whistle similar ideas).

I am perfectly happy to admit that institutional science is screwed up - really bad. Scientific texts are often un-readable, and the entire community has major systemic issues. But I react incredibly poorly to the opinion that scientists enjoy this system or even benefit from it. We hate the way academia is structured. It's just that no one can figure out anything better and the benefits for enough people are important enough that swaying them is incredibly difficult.
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Even if we stop all overt biases, there is plenty of sub-conscious bias that is impossible to recognize as the personal level because of how small the effect is verses the sample size (and how poor we are at doing mental statistics). Until we get to the point that we have personal AIs letting us know every time we begin to favor in-groups slightly more than out-groups, there isn't the ability to correct for this.
It'd be great if someone could either answer me or refute my assertion instead of pointing to prior art as if it nullifies what was said. This, in itself, is an example of the topic post.
The best principled stand I have ever taken was not installing it in the first place...
Some believe that Britain did this in the past; with the combination of the richer in society having many more children, and hanging (gene pool removal) criminals on a regular basis.
What exceptionally new technique that we totally didn't know from like.... the '80s.
Welcome to shellcoding kiddo. -.-
> Less Facebook == more happy

Nice! You're almost to nirvana. ;)

Very liberating indeed.
After the phobia kicks in, after the threat is neutralized, I encourage you to thoughtfully consider not wasting a flush to dispose of the dead spider/toilet paper combo.
Something i've noticed recently is that my feed is flooded with the "x has become friends with y" type of notifications. I literally see 5-10 of them in a row, they make for a very monotonous feed experience. I think its supposed to be a nudge for me to add co-workers and acquaintances to facebook.
Not that anyone believes that this car is really going to production anytime soon, but as an additional datapoint: the car in the first image is sporting $40,000 worth of lidar on the roof (5 x Velodyne VLP-16).

I'm sure GM is getting a healthy discount off retail from Velodyne, but production-ready lidar is still eye-wateringly expensive by OEM standards. Some solid-state lidar units (Quanergy) out there in the hundreds of dollars (and one from Velodyne in the works for 2018 release), but the fact that Cruise is still using spinning Velodyne units suggests to me that solid-state lidar needs a few more generations to come up to par.
I think he was joking :-)
They also ensure there's ALWAYS at least one notification when you sign in. Even if nothing of importance happened, they find _something_ to notify you about just so you can see the red notification count every time.

I deactivated my account yesterday and look forward to a FB-free life.
Right, but the mods here don't allow heated debates on controversial subjects. They view them as pointless or even harmful. Further, they seem to have accepted a sort of broken windows theory of moderation that says that any such discussion has to be stopped, lest it leak out into other threads.

I think that's disastrously wrong on all counts.
This piece has value. This passage from it is a morass of cognitive dissonance and bad faith rhetoric:

"The claim that CO2 causes worse hurricanes is unproven and controversial, even to believers in climate change. Regardless, even if you believe that CO2 is causing climate change, you should be thanking the energy entrepreneurs in Houston for bringing cheap, clean natural gas to the nation. The increasing use of gas in power generation has led to a much-improved carbon dioxide picture in the U.S."
Fun fact: one of the "independently-operated and audited subordinate CAs" that is exempt from this is, yep, you guessed it, Google. They've recently acquired a GlobalSign root and are in the process of getting their own roots added to trust stores, but I imagine they'll want to keep chaining back to the widely-trusted GeoTrust root for a few more years.

(IIRC Apple is on that exception list too.)
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Nobody said that. They're saying you cannot reason yourself out of your boner. Just that the impulse will always be there, I just choose to ignore it.
> 2. When removed from reddit, do these people find different alternative social outlets to share their hate (i.e. after the ban, did 4chan etc. experience a measureable increase in fat/racist posting).

Yes. See Voat.

> 3. If #2 is yes, is it better or worse (and in what ways) that these people and their discussions are forced to move into forums that more readily accept, or even champion hate-speech.

Not really. I think echo chambers are good for peace of mind and general contentment. I think they also tend to accelerate extreme viewpoints and further entrench the balkanzation of the Internet. It's like watching the Tower of Babel live.

> 4. Is there a net benefit or net detriment to keeping these shithead communities within an ecosystem like reddit where they, on one hand, can recruit more moderate minds, but on the other hand, are subject to the ridicule of more moderate minds.

Something new can only be birthed from the meeting of two or more different things. If we value free speech and a common identity/norms, then it is required for us to be able to reconcile our differences in some manner.
The React developer tools usually can tell if a site is using React and shows you the component hierarchy. Screenshot of https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ taken today: https://i.imgur.com/yF1Q3uY.png.