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This feels like a really tricky question, actually -- what to do when an moving object is headed towards a stopped self-driving car?

It's easy to say the car should be smart enough to move -- but what if, as it moves in one direction, the object (like a truck trying to avoid the car) suddenly swerves in that direction too? Then does the car become responsible for the collision?

And of course, it feels like there could be a real-world version of the trolley problem [1] -- what if there are 5 occupants in the vehicle who will be killed by an oncoming truck, but in the only direction where it can move out of the way, it will have to run over a single pedestrian?

Glad I'm not the one having to make these kinds of programming decisions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Yeah I imagine the drivers do this to save time when they're behind schedule.

Which makes me feel bad for the drivers, really. I'm gonna guess that they have some very tough schedules.
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Surely they taste bitter for everyone at first? You may eventually come to prefer that and find "regular" soda sickly sweet, as I do.
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IME 95% of the time SLOC approximates code complexity just fine. Just because you can write horrendous 'clever' one liners in perl does not mean that most code out in the wild is like that. I certainly don't think the same author writing the same app in two different languages will be writing like that.

Zero mention was made of bugs caught or customer-noticeable speed improvements so I'm inclined to think that there was actually no benefit to having static typing.
Scientist 1: it may be an enzyme in the caterpillars, how we can we test for that

Scientist 2: well how about we anaestetise the caterpillar and use a microfilament to extract the gut contents, then we can ...

Scientist 1: <splat>
The shuttle was literally not moving and was struck by the human controlled truck.
The Last of Us is based on the concept.
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HN is full of liberals who believe gender is only in your mind.
How are scarce goods more labour intensive ? It doesn't take any more labour to make a good wine than a bad one.
Many places that did not have bad economies had heroine epidemics in those times as well. Can you actually show statistically that bad overall economy and heroine epidemics are in any way linked?
there's a booming market for sour beers, which typically sell for $20-30/750ml, and terroir is a major factor. ABInBev has resisted going after those breweries because they're very difficult to scale and risk is very high. Goose Island's sour program was essentially defunct for several years at one point.

Wine is the more apt comparison, since sour beer and wine operate on similar time scales.
> But if you do a website or webapp, 99% of your code is not using interface{} in it's methods.

That's not really true. If you want an SQL database to back your website, then you'll deal with interface{} with Go's sql package. If you want to gzip your output, then you'll use interface{} with your writer.

To be fair, I think interface{} gets an almost unfair amount of hate. While it is fscking annoying when passing around core types (I hate having to use switch clauses just to inspect the type of an interface{}!!!) I do love how interface{} is used for complex structures. In fact there are a few areas of Go's standard library which I wish used interface{} more in that respect (eg Go's `file` struct should be an interface{} so I can create custom methods for os.Stdin/out/err)
So if my IT system messes up and sends you 10 TV, you have to pay for it or get out of your way to fix it ?
Thank you :)

Yes, I'm German, we often simplify this:

Ich machte einen DNS Test.
I made a DNA test.

Correct would be the passive form:

Ich habe eine DNS Test machen lassen.

Which corresponds more to the English "took" I guess :)
> But when you just want to feel like everything is beautiful and nothing is wrong, you try opiates (or amphetamines).

Interesting, this is exactly what weed is giving me, without any nasty effects and addictions of hard drugs. If in nature, this effect is super strong. I came up with most important decisions in my life when high, and they are still solid and best choices possible, even when looking back after 10 years. Different perspective on situations, in some cases really proactive thinking and resolving issues before they arise and so on...

I guess it really affects us differently. I've seen few people get weird/aggressive on it, but then again I would never want to drink with them either. Something badly broken deep inside, with no real chance of fix, ever.
It's not just over-stating it, it's demonstrably wrong. All you need to disprove it is to ask someone else's Echo to answer a question.

What I presume it's actually doing is responding to the keyword, Alexa in this case, and somehow correlating the rest of the question to the voice that said the keyword. I don't happen to know what criteria it uses to do that but it's clearly doing that or something a lot like it.

That's much less dystopian than voiceprinting the family.
It's all perceived performances, not real, raw performances.
Synchronous react rendering will still be as slow as ever.

This rewrite is a bit pointless to me, increase the complexity of using React on the long term (before, you could count on synchronous rendering having predictive results) and is just a hack to spread the cost of react's rendering across multiple frames. If anything your site will take longer to render now that it's async :)

I'm wary of progressively rendered sites (like Facebook) where buttons are rendered but don't work for the first few hundred milliseconds or seconds anyway. Complex websites can already defer the rendering of their most expensive parts (e.g google maps, etc); baking it in the framework sounds like engineers who had too much free time to me :p
These crashes seem to be caused by the "weird" way self-driving machines behave as compared to humans.

Perhaps we need some sort of placard that is legally mandated and easily visible (like the "student driver" placard) to let people around these vehicles be aware of them and expect different behaviors than "ordinary" divers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13595222

"Perfect execution, great, great job."
"That is brilliant!"
"Interesting -- great idea! I'll have to think about the right way to implement that."
And during that project, I realized that text stories are fractal. Unlinke in videogames (which need a steady update method), in text we don’t actually need to stick to a single level of abstraction.

Very cool, this is one of the most original things I've read about this year. The example he gives is different levels of commands and details during combat. Zelda 2 (I think) had a similar thing going from map view to side view for combat. But this is for text adventures. Mind blowing really.
"China seems to want a credit score system, with alarmingly ambituous and and political breadth..."

What is alarming about that? Are we at war with China (we being the US.)

This is not a politics or even an education problem. This, is a retarded problem.

Nobody could write that without having serious gaps in their brain functioning.
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Mostly I'd agree with you, but milage varies. I for one have never had anything but stellar support from Apple, but I know people who've had nothing but struggles. GitHub has the best support I've ever encountered, both as a typical customer and as an enterprise customer – they put everyone else to shame in my book. But again, I hear stories from others who've experienced otherwise.

Courier services as you mention though seem to have terrible service across the board. It doesn't matter if they are big or small, this seems to be some sort of hard rule almost.
"I value them at zero" is shorthand for "I am not planning my life around them having any value, such as buying a house with a mortgage so large that the only way I can pay it is for those stock options to be worth something significant." Yeah, technically that's not what it means exactly, but when you're making your life plans as if them cashing out at $0 is the most likely outcome, it's not entirely wrong either.
It make zero financial sense to send 3 switches. But here they are.
If you want a moderated service use one. Or build one.

If Google becomes one (which they appear to be doing in some ways) I'll look for something that is more of a raw aggregator.

Google doesn't need to be a social engineer. Nor do many of the others who have decided they know what is "harming society and doesn't need to exist". Like a F*n small town preacher on a crusade to remove a book with dirty words from the library that is.
But only in their minds. If in my mind gender is binary, I'm wrong.
How old is the author I wonder? Did he not play Wizardry or any other similar game back in the 80s/90s, which implemented exactly this kind of gameplay? Wizardry 7 had so much - good quality -
text in it (probably enough to fill a book) that it significantly accelerated my English learning at the time as a non-native English speaker. And the fighting system was very similar to what the author arrived at in the end.

I for one would be very happy to see the return of this style of gaming - I haven't played computer games for so long, mostly because they are just all the same, 3D action and no substance. I would gladly read / interact with fantasy fiction like this though.
Because I don't want to pay an extra 2% "tax" to the banks, for loans that I don't need?

The only place I use a credit card is online. So i can pay quickly and worldwide.
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yes but would not AI be an interesting thing to apply to something like this? So the question is why Google is not yet investigating such an application of AI...its not going away..China has started using some of the same techniques as Russia
I wonder could to do this backwards?

Create a system knows the setting/contexts etc of a text adventure game and renders a scene?

edit:
perhaps authors could add other tags/meta the user would not see but would add to the description
Unless you like and have access to certain beers, the article won't tell you any such thing. Perhaps the book from which the piece is excerpted does.
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WestWorld too.
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This discussion reminds me of the "Everything is a Remix" [1] documentary. We tend to look at the winners to explain history, even though in many cases multiple players were working on the same theories at the same time, and the likely outcome would have been exactly the same if the winners have not existed.

Worth watching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
In my personal experience it can be quite futile in general to deal with customer support.

My goto solution is to contact the public relations people instead with the same issue and it usually gets resolved very quickly...
> what makes a "sex" a "sex" if it's just variability within the sex chromosome, but every individual is able to create progeny with 25% of other individuals?

I haven't read the article yet (looks like it's been DOSed by traffic from Hacker News?), but your criterion would be met in a population of 201 entities (numbered from 0 to 200) where each entity X can procreate with entities in the range [X-25 ... x+25] (mod 201, of course). That would arguably yield 201 distinct sexes, where each individual is sexually compatible with 25% of the population.
How is that a "really painful process?" It's the same process I went through in my early 20s as a native born American citizen! I got a MasterCard with a $500 credit line in like 1993 and used it sparingly. I later got an apartment and paid my rent and bills on time. I eventually bought a car on a loan. It was not hard establishing credit, it just meant not being a total deadbeat.
A surprising amount of the actual viral bullshit I've seen out there, especially on Twitter, has been started and spread by journalists working for respectable publications. (Just recently they got a bunch of viral attention by misdescribing what Trump did at a public press op that was videoed, for example.)
I'd rather that the software sense it's surroundings and make an assessment of risk for various possible actions. In this case, backing up a bit since there was no one behind it would have been the safest option.
The main problem I have with analogy to a court of law is witnesses corroboration only works if all the witnesses are describing the same event, or are at least a series of deeply interrelated specific events local on a particular person or place or entity.

If witnesses are all talking about a series of separate events all over the globe at different times that aren't associated with each other, those claims are all systematically vulnerable to biases and don't serve to reinforce one another.
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it will be impossible to park another car close to a self driving vehicle - it will always move away.
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Is this a response to Gitlab’s attempt to build an end to end CI/CD system?

I still use GitHub and haven’t switched mostly because gitlab was slow two years ago. I know they’ve made huge strides since, but the integrated workflow is a compelling reason to switch back.
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There should be a service where you can rent the use of a Russian troll twitter account to make customer service request tweets, taking advantage of its millions of crazy alt-right wing nut job follower parrots who will mindlessly retweet your message and threaten to boycott the company and make death threats and show up with automatic weapons at the offices of the company that didn't give you good customer service. Just mention the customer service rep's name was "Hillary".
What makes him say that is that it is a well documented problem. Many other people recognize it and treat it accordingly.

My father is a Anthologist and they are very careful with how much they give. It is a major issue.

For some reason, the US, including doctors, have developed a anti-pain philosophy where they oversubscribe these drugs and it is know to cause addiction.
> who do you sue for the damage if this vehicle crashes in to you

Generally, the owner of the at-fault vehicle is responsible.
I've addressed nearly every gripe in this thread by getting a mailbox at a local UPS store. Sure, it's inconvenient and some extra money each month, but I never have packages stolen and there's always a signature available.

The most annoying part is when I deal with someone who makes it hard to deliver to a different address than my home (looking at you, Verizon) but it's always achievable.
9 by their count (7xRBX+2xSBG). When this was posted, the CEO wrote that everything except BHS (Canadian DC) was offline (tweet now deleted). Presumably he was in RBX and noticed that they couldn't reach any of the other DCs. So it looked like all DCs were down for a while.
> Ha, my 7yr old twins could explain that one to you. It's just not.

That's not an answer to his question.
DHL is mostly subcontracted to local companies. Yes, drivers do that when they have a residential address, because they cannot pull the same trick with companies at factory/office hours, they hope it goes unnoticed with individuals.

But I also have a DHL driver doing the opposite: you stay at home all day and nobody rings; then you notice that the parcel is marked as delivered on the website. What? You get outside and you see the parcel was thrown in your yard over the wall/fence/portal. You go back to DHL website and you download the receipt, to discover a beautiful fake signature of yours forged by the driver.

So he just didn't bother to ring the doorbell to save 20 seconds. He saves 20 seconds and you lose several hours waiting for him...

Also, in this subcontracting company, the drivers have very bad equipment, they do not have winter tyres (and we are talking about a mountain area...), they do not have enough large enough vans, so the drivers try to ditch as many parcels as possible in any 'possible' way because otherwise they have no room for pickups...

The driver even showed up one day with a regular compact car... He had to come back.
Sounds great, I'm not being sarcastic, it really does, I'm somewhat sick of the 'big city' bs.
Yes, I didin't read the whole thing so I don't know if it applies here, but portals have an additional property:

Events fired in the portal bubble up the vdom tree up to the component that mounted the portal (and then further upwards to the main vdom root), rather than up the real dom up to the popup window root.
Brazilian here, currently attending the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Security, and today's speakers include the people behind this proposed national ID (it's not widespread yet).

If you have any questions I can relay it to them directly.
I find that fascinating since velocity of money is a facet of economic health and prosperity, European money velocity would appear to be lower than American. I prefer to be debt-free mind you, it's just an observation. Taking the risk of extending people credit and having some default is not the worst thing in the world. The US is way too materialistic, however.
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And some quotes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett :

> In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress

> Buffett's interest in the stock market and investing dated to schoolboy days he spent in the customers' lounge of a regional stock brokerage near his father's own brokerage office.

(His father brokerage company was Buffett-Falk & Co.)

> In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a 40-acre farm worked by a tenant farmer. He bought the land when he was 14 years old with $1,200 of his savings.

Neither of my parents were in Congress, nor started and ran a brokerage office, nor owned a business - much less a business that others could invest in.
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I'm... still confused as to what this is. It sends emails, based on events? The FAQ link at the bottom leads to nowhere, there's no explicit "Pingpoint is an API that does XYZ", and nothing beyond the front-page multipage. Your website has virtually unlimited space - you should use it to explain what I'm actually looking at.
However in a democracy those people are merely one constituency among the electorate, the rest of whom like to have things like police forces, emergency response services, shared infrastructure such as road networks, enforced assurances of the quality of consumer goods and services and many other things that a well funded government can provide. Unfortunately that funding has to come from somewhere and making choices about where the funds come from requires making judgements on such things.
> "I do not need signature. Drop at doorstep"

Isn't the point of the signature to protect them? You can't just say "I don't need a signature, I promise not to sue you." and expect them to just be ok with that, or have I got the wrong end of the stick here?
One of the fundamental social problems with Twitter is that counterclaims and retractions don't generally go viral in the same way that bullshit does. It's probably not one that you'll hear journalists talking about much, because it would make their own screw-ups look a lot more harmful and destructive.
Who would moderate the moderators though? Didn't Facebook do this and had a problem with left-wing bias in the news they served?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654860
I almost never have to return anything but the one time I had a defective item I decided to use a locker for the return exchange and it never worked, they were always all full (London, UK) so then I had to end up going to a post office anyway.
In consumer law in the EU (which the laws of the UK are supposed to reflect), I believe entities that enter into a consumer contract are in principle, treated equally. That means you have to minimise their losses in the event of a dispute, in the same way that they have to minimise your losses. I would imagine that principle would apply here, though I don't happen to know the specifics of the law in this case.
Also, if the packaging degrades quickly, then by definition it ends up in your food in larger quantities (not sure if that is a problem though).
I work on a 90k line application with many views written in VIPER. It’s awful. It’s an arbitrary collection of classes that reduces maintain-ability, readability and ease of debugging.
Sheep-based facial login, anyone?
Don't have to strain our imaginations too hard do we?
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>Writing in a fast compiled language is not premature optimization.

If the fast compiled language is equally expressive and equally fast to write then no.

Those things are rarely (if ever) the case, though. It's certainly not true in this case. Go appears to be about 30% less expressive.
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The author describes themselves as a "gamebook enthusiast" and mentions IFCOMP, so they're very much operating within the knowledge of the genre.

What the article really is is a deconstruction, presented as to a novice; he's asking what interactional elements and primitives are required of both video-action and text-interactive games, in order to produce an action-IF game.
With that much power, "internal squabbles" equals mutual annihilation. Just imagine if terrorists could easily make their own thermonuclear weapon etc.
>As most readers probably know, both the microphone and the camera can be turned on even when the phone has been turned off. He uses headphones to make calls. This makes the recent phone design trend away from headphone jacks look particularly nefarious.

What's preventing you from doing the same with USB 3.1 or lightning headphones?
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Agreed, a previous discussion on HN illustrated this very nicely:

https://securitybytes.io/quick-one-stop-calling-it-identity-...