skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant by penetration is the percentage of people who actually have the chip activated and use it for something useful.

In Czech Republic chip ID is optional and you have to pay (~20EUR) for the chip itself. As it does not have any meaningful purpose that is legal (loading your own certificate onto the card is technically possible but explicitly outlawed) even the local authorities issuing IDs will advise you that you don't want chip ID.

In contrast to that in the above mentioned countries I've seen state issued smartcards (regardless of whether they are EU-wide ID or just additional smartcard) used for useful purposes (eg. to submit VAT returns online, which is something that in .cz you can do with any PKCS#11 token of you choosing or by using state-run OAuth-ish ID provider)

I cannot provide any citation for that, but I believe that the EU regulations related to digital signatures require that the private key to not be available to the state, which implies either on-card generation or same process as is used by commercial CAs (which is the case in .cz, where you can choose from three or so CAs which are at least notionally commercial entities)
Seems like this effect can be reproduced by intermittent fasting or a keto diet.
My assumption is that he upset some other powerful people who then allowed this to happen. Reminds me of a line from Rules for Rulers by CGP Grey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

It's not the people's revolt that overthrows the king, it's the court who are overthrowing the king by allowing the people's revolt to progress... because the king has stopped providing them with enough treasure to keep him propped up.

My guess is that something changed the political calculus for his key supporters and they either precipitated this or allowed it to happen.

For sure there are other abusers who are probably showering their allies in treasure to keep them loyal so they don't get caught up in this.
Thank you for this interesting link. It should be take as an example for other websites or technologies. It is unfortunate that the current technological power is absorbed by graphic effects.
Some of the issues are totally language-related.

> It’s hard to reason about code when it does something entirely different depending on what code has executed in the runtime before it.

> What we really need are more explicit guarantees on every line of code that we write [...] than what Ruby can provide

Maintenance has a cost on any language, but in some cases you also have to make up for the lack of guarantees the platform gives you. Tooling, as you said, can help, but substantial effort is required to develop and mantain, say, a (production-grade) static type checker. You can't just tell $random_ruby_dev to "help improve tooling" if there is no tooling to begin with.
There is only one for play as well
Or they could be using the money ineffectively. Knowing what I know about social services (although limited to Denmark) they are amazing at pissing away money on studies that they then don't use and classifying people into groups, rather than looking into what individual needs (which may be psych help or a kick in the butt). To be clear, this is a systemic issue, most of the front people do actually want to help.
I would agree with that for their computers to a degree, but I was under the impression that their mobile processors are known for how far ahead of the competition they are.
>So it seems actual lawyers in a huge international corporation decided it constitutes distribution.

I mean, they could also just assume that shipping three sheets of paper with each washer is just cheaper than finding out.
GOG only makes easy what the community and nerds have been doing for years. GOG made a business out of it because they pay people to "maintain" the "API". Their products are not under active maintenance nor development.

Now, if there WAS a company paying for all that maintenance it would be Microsoft, with their almost religious commitment to backwards compatibility.
Related discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644520
Not sure if you're arguing for the sake of arguing.
did you not read the terms of service when you opened the car door? they are not responsible.
It's the cyclists that don't do hand gestures that are the problem. Which is - where I live - the vast majority of them.
yup, nuking migratory species like thon or whales and also the fisheries that feed millions of european and african people, (would be changed for big chunks of land soaked in marine salt and unable for agricultural purposes). Fully exposing Europe to african viruses and diseases dangerous for cattle...

If their goal is to exponentially increase famine in the world until the boiling point of an endless war, looks like a good plan.
I own the same model of vehicle as Waymo is using (2017 Pacifica PHEV). It's cool to see how little they've had to visibly modify the car (apart from the sensors)—the interior looks 100% stock, other than the row of buttons on the ceiling. Given the level-1 autonomous features in the vehicle (self-parking, etc.), all of the integrations are probably done over CAN-bus, with no additional hardware required (again, apart from the sensors and the computing power).
Evil tradeoffs: Security vs. UX
> "Do whatever the human would do, but more efficient" isn't an answer. These cars can't get on WTOP the day before and listen to the warning that the Pope is visiting and X, Y, Z streets will be blocked off.

Well yes, they can. Planned closures like that are the easiest ones to handle. They are planned and broadcasted. They can simultaneously listen and account for all planned & broadcasted road closures. That's easy.

The harder ones are going to be things like after a storm with a bunch of trees knocked down and random obstructions all over the place.
Maybe it's been fixed, but as of a couple years ago Steam didn't seem to have a way to kill an account. After some security breach or another I decided it was time to remove it (I was never fond of the ownership model anyway), but couldn't find any way to do it.
> your solution is to just build more housing in those few areas

Yes:

http://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-w...
The basic answer is that, yes, at least until we all understand these things, they will have humans monitoring rides quite carefully. One person should be able to watch tens of rides at a time.

At the very least, there will be a panic button that will get human support very quickly.

I think people are not jazzed about your questions because this answer seems like common sense. And nobody, engineer or not, owes you an answer.
Ugh. Guys think bigger than just web stacks. Pluma/Gedit, notepad++, TextMate... stop sucking off JS
iPhone X reportedly has the best smartphone display ever created
Massive capital concentration is one of the reasons the valley, SF, and to a lesser extent Seattle, Austin, and New York, are creating so much.

Capital concentration leads to higher pay, which leads to smart people coming, which leads to cool products, which leads to an increase in the economic productivity of a society.

I don't see why anybody should "push" jobs away. That would make both the jobs and their employers less desirable.

There are few instances where central government control of economic allocation led to innovation. Even China and Singapore generally is pretty laissez faire about who does what where. It's not like the Korean government is trying to push industry out of Seoul, even though real estate there is insane.

Free markets created the Bay Area and SF (arguably the lack of enforcement of non-competes did), but that's another example of the government backing off. It's not like Communist Russia was a hotbed of innovation.
So it's only an issue when the public health of the rich is at risk? Because it seems to me that's what your comment is implying.
Your perception of technology changes as you age. Anything new in your teens and 20s is hailed as a innovation sure to change the world in profound new ways. In your 30s-40s, weird and burdensome, no better than the traditional ways of doing things. Past that point, you'll view everything as borderline destructive and proof of society's decline.
Duplicate (same AP source)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642394
Ethreums Parity Hacked. Half Million Ether(150M USD) Frozen
Part of the problem is the horribly messed up development patterns the US has embraced over the last 70 years

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/7/americas-suburb...
Yes, having a store with selection is good for shopping. The contest is part merchandising and part marketing to show the "top hot new" SKU.

For any contest to work, you need good entries. The prize is the payout that motivates those entries.

I think a hybrid approach could likely work, where everyone's entry is buyable by default (and they get royalties). I'm not sure people would like if the winner(s) get royalties of other entries, but it might work.

One factor I'm realizing (which may have motivated the change) is that contests are a more of a "novelty" from a marketing perspective, so it may have sustainability issues. People easily get bored, especially if it's the same experience repeated over and over.
No, they're not remote control. The human operators can't make safety-critical interventions, they won't be able to drive a robotaxi 50 mph into a tree, for example. There's an inherent liability associated with that.
> This may not be a winner-take-all market (I don't know honestly...)

I think it’s important to distinguish service from tech. Once the tech is mature, you’ll probably have a handful of providers but the service will be wildly federated. It’ll only take one tech provider to have moderately open terms and the service will be the equivalent of WordPress for autonomous vehicles.
Jobs are hard to get by in cheaper places, even if the hourly wage is $15.
Feel free to reach out to tmiller@squarespace.com
If every restaurant's labor costs increased equally, there would be no change to competitiveness.
The issue in this case isn't so much Solidity, as Parity getting too fancy with their code. If you look at the wallet stub contract it's half assembly.

They did a good job optimizing the contract to use minimal gas upon deployment, but maybe that's not the best thing to optimize for contracts that will hold millions of dollars. They also don't appear to have gotten fresh external audits when they made changes.

Incidentally, there are other Ethereum languages in development that are better suited for formal verification, including Viper and Bamboo.
They're essentially the universal gaming app store. If you create your own store you're going to have to 1. provide a significant discount to compete and 2. have large names jump ship with you.

At this point, the only way a competitor has a fighting chance is if Origin or Blizzard starts opening up to third party games. Blizzard did that with Destiny 2 but it seems like they might only want to partner up with high quality dev work (whereas Steam is littered with shovelware made on RPG Maker).
Does it pull over for police? And what about for police impersonators?
> though I wish you could re-open 3rd party classes to make them conform to additional interfaces which you can do with Swift protocols.

Mmmh really? I just reread the Protocol section of the Swift documentation and I didn't find this.

If I have a class I can't modify and that doesn't conform to protocol `Foo`, can I make it conform to that protocol?

A similar feature is being considered for Kotlin since this opens up all kinds of interesting mechanisms (notably, ad hoc polymorphism) but I don't see how to do that in Swift right now.
The real challenge here is extracting valuable information - if you just dump the sensor data to disk you will consume the world's storage capacity with a handful of cars.
But maybe it is. On nearly every metric that matters to power users software is worse.

Control? We have less.

Options? Less.

Ownership? Not that we ever had it, but now you don't even get a disc. Licenses are even more restrictive.

The pace of 'upgrades'? Way, unnecessarily faster

And when the business dies now? Now you're fucked.

There are stories of mechanics running their shops today with 40-year-old dinosaurs, where their biggest logistical issue is getting old parts to repair when it breaks. It was sad that the magazine article I read that story in laughed at the "backwards" proprietor, when in fact he is a hero for standing up to the current trend of users-as-serfs cloud everything.
Waymo does seem to be ahead technically. They've been working on the hard cases for years, while the other guys are still struggling. They are trying hard to
get good situational awareness. One of the few neutral measures we have are CA DMV's disconnect and accident reports, and in those, Waymo has been consistently ahead. Waymo is hooked up with FCA (Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles), of all things.

Uber is "fake it 'til you make it". Otto's truck demo only worked on a deserted highway surrounded by chase cars. Cruise also started out that way, but they seem to have improved once acquired by GM. Those guys seem to drive mostly on visual cues, without as much of a near-area model as Waymo.

Tesla has the self-crashing car. Four collisions with something partly blocking a lane, all on video. I've posted the links before. Musk made a big mistake trying to do it without LIDAR. Nobody else can do that reliably, and neither can Tesla. Tesla had to turn off most of the autonomy. Now they're shipping the Model 3 in small quantities with hardware that's only enough for lane keeping and auto-braking.

Volvo has a good, but limited 100 car demo with real drivers running. Freeway only. Their goal is "no crashes". They'll probably get there.

Ford is quietly doing something and not talking about it much.

Meanwhile, Continental and now, Delphi are quietly gearing up to make low-cost LIDARs by the millions. Despite all the talk about self-driving as a service, it may turn out to just be an auto part.
On one hand, I absolutely agree. The amount of change that happens for the sake of nothing more than change is laughable theme in front-end development.

And if it's not for changes sake it becomes some weird squabble over how to best handle X, and we wind up with numerous ways to do so. At that point we have to take a bet as to which approach we think will be supported and pushed forward in the future (i.e. promises? generators? callbacks? async/await?). If we're right? Great. If we're wrong. Well, let's hope the libs we're using keep support for the way we've written our code.

On the other hand, it does finally seem like React has one the shake out of front-end frameworks. While it's ever changing, it does seem like it's longevity will be far greater than most front-end frameworks of the past. And it does solve a lot of the BS that one would deal with if they didn't have a framework to leverage.

But yeah.. The danger with front-end development is how fast the knowledge depreciates.

edit: by danger, I more mean difficulty of keeping up with.
This. It reminds me of PHP in many aspects - Solidity is just awful. Like the way the multi-dim arrays' sizes are written in opposite order to the one used when accessing values? Pure genius.
Leanpub. Please don't think of it as "crowdfunding" think of it as "audience building".
> Ah, the cat is out of the proverbial bag! These cars are not really "self-driving" at all!

?

Do you class a self driving vehicle as one without any manual controls whatsoever? In which case, you're going to be waiting a long time for your version of it, and not for tech reasons.
Car pool lanes will likely be a big reason people choose to pool in autonomous cars. I imagine that self driving cars will make traffic much worse, and we will see a movement where cities create more and more HOV lanes to reduce traffic in such situations.
The issue with this is that it's going to create massive political instability if there are a few megacities with massive poverty in every other state. There are already signs that our political system is already destabilizing. What makes you think this wouldn't amplify that?
If you are worried about this un-vetted blob, it means you don't trust Intel; if you don't trust Intel, why does it matter that they have this blob running in 'god' mode? They ARE the CPU, so they aren't just god 'mode' they are god itself.

You are trusting the CPU to do what you ask it to do. If intel were to do something shady, they wouldn't need a un-vetted blob of code to do it, they could do it directy in the CPU itself.

I guess my point is that you have to trust the CPU manufacturer, whether they have this code or not.
Cities that aren't on the coasts exist, you know. $15/hr jobs in Midwestern cities aren't outlandish by any stretch.
But here's the thing: SV still needs 7-11 clerks, still needs fast food workers, still needs coffee baristas, and still needs all of those lower income positions. Automation is nowhere near eliminating all of those positions yet. So if all those people left, where would those businesses hire from?
But then what would the media have to talk about?
Why would it need to be forked? Couldn't the smart contract language just be upgraded for better security then deprecate DAPPs using the old language?
All programs grow to outstrip available computing resources?
It is not in url, it is in the text “equivalent”.
These aren't hard questions in the long term though.

Non responsive passenger->follow protocol that emergency services prefers (or even legally requires).

Fist fight->stop car, inform passengers that car won't transport them further.

Rape->turn over recordings of vehicle interior to police.

I suppose for the last one you have to take it as a given that they are making such recordings (probably on a rolling basis), but there you go.

It's not like these situations are any thornier because an automated system is involved. Passed out person is better off with monitoring (at least in health terms), fist fight without car, same difference, rape without monitoring, no video evidence.
Kotaku was blacklisted by Bethesda for reporting on Fallout 4 before it was revealed.

https://kotaku.com/a-price-of-games-journalism-1743526293

Not exactly local government corrupted by a major corporation here, but yeah studios blacklist for reports they don't like.
Maybe it's hard for them to find work outside of the area and they are living paycheck to paycheck. So any gap in employment would sink them.

It's hard to get out of an area when you're economically distressed. Cutting that tiny lifeline is a massive risk. This is the same problem keeping poor rural people stuck in poor rural areas.
The last election shows, among other things, that the media so grossly overplayed their hand that it backfired on them greatly, and Trump was there to take every advantage that was possible to take. Meanwhile, Clinton literally acted as if the election were merely a formality and coasted (although she spent a huge amount of money).

I can say personally that the media's breathless spittle-flecked coverage of Trump did nothing to turn me off to him, and only improved my opinion of him. I did not vote for him in the primary and was angry when he ran, but by the time the general election came along, the idea inflicting schadenfreude on the media and left became incredibly appealing to me, and along with the fact that I would no sooner vote for Clinton than for Chairman Mao, and the fact that I wasn't going to throw away my vote, I pulled the lever for Trump.
I think you mean anecdotal.
Would you mind elaborating on which aspects of the language reflect poor design? And what was done well for that matter?

I have no strong opinions on Solidity, btw - just generally interested in people's views on developer experience.
It's not so absurd when you are good friends with people who run astroturfing companies.
Google Will Have Their Own Booth at CES 2018
Highly recommended. Probably my favorite part is the asymmetrical approaches of the races. Interested in firepower, maneuver warfare, and positioning? You'll enjoy the Terrans. Want to achieve the dream of bloodless (for you, anyway) war? Try the Protoss. Want to be an efficient Darwinian nightmare? Pick up the Zerg.

It's this mix of styles, to the point that the races feel like they're in different genres, that makes SCII such a varied game. And that doesn't even account for different playstyles within the races.
We're talking about someone who's struggling to get by in SV. Where are they going to get the money to move their family to the Midwest?
So does this mean that USB 3.0 will be banned from use on airplanes as well?
With the exception of the hacking case and maybe the legal ramifications of a fatal accident, I don't see how any of these are different than the status quo. Hit-and-run accidents and auto vandalism are an everyday occurrence whether a car is self-driven or not. I agree that there are a lot of questions and strange scenarios that should be considered. I think the assumption that none of these questions have been considered because they aren't being discussed in this thread on HN is flawed.

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Apple's iPhone X has higher margin than iPhone 8
Bob Iger donated $2 million to Florida Sen Marc Rubio. Rubio is one of the "Gang of Eight" in the Senate that wants to triple H1-B.

http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2016/02/28/displaced-di...

Interestingly, MSM, rarely speaks of Trump denouncing H1-B visa abuse. Iger wants to depress H1-B wages and already has replaced 250 American Disney IT workers with H1-B Visa Indians. It is for reasons like this that Trump won.
Lack of security in “modern” on-screen-display controllers
In my case, it's not that I don't trust Google's cloud security. It's the unknown third parties they sell my info to's security that bothers me.
iPhone X Gigabit modem won't fly
Ethereum is not meant to be a currency in any sense of the word. It's the backbone for a large distributed infrastructure network.
Hardware is more than just processor though. They have had less storage, less memory, and worse cameras for many generations. I'd have to do some research into mobile processors specifically, but this is just broad statements. I'm not saying anything about the state of Apple today, but over the past 15+ years. In general, Apple hardware has been worse than their competitors despite costing more.
Moderate success?

Warcraft 2, Diablo, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 were considered massive successes and all predate WoW.

That's like saying Google had moderate success with search but hit gold with Gmail
That's hardly the thrust of the article, though.
Google also have oblique (45 degree) anywhere you have a 3d model. For some reason they do not show it in google maps and you need a separate API to see it: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... .
Throws money at screen

Having said that I do love seeing these wide, straight American roads and wonder how well this will do on the tiny (often single track) winding country roads around here.
Perhaps, late at night, some autonomous vehicles will drive unmapped areas at about 25MPH, gathering mapping data. You don't need much mapping data if you drive slow.
> Within your own self.

I don't know what that is.

> The first layer of "within" can be easily understood. In between 2 successive thoughts is a state of "no thoughts".

That doesn't match my experience at all. There are times when I don't pay attention to my thoughts, or my thoughts aren't distinct enough to grasp, but that's not an absence of thought. For me, the concept of "between 2 successive thoughts" makes about as much sense as "between two drops of water in a river".

The only way I can relate your description to anything I understand is to suspect that what you're describing is shifting your attention away from your thoughts to interoceptive sensations, and then reifying your integration/synthesis of those sensations into a distinct entity rather than a representation of your body. But maybe I just haven't read enough Deepak Chopra to "get it".