skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you guys think of a solution where the driverless leg of the trip is also passengerless. In v1 of the system the passenger is required to have a license and will follow route guidance from the car to navigate to their destination. After arrival the car will return to autonomous mode and take much safer precautions to the next customer.
Except that it's not a monopoly. There are still options that will compete with each other.
What it changes is whether you can be criminally prosecuted based on circumstantial / irrelevant / trumped up evidence.

Although that is obviously an improvement, it is of limited benefit if mere suspicion of criminal behaviour (including "terrorism", the current root password to the legal system) is still enough to impose serious extra-judicial restrictions on someone's life, and there are many laws and government mechanisms that provide for that.
Presumably they wouldn't allow literally-anybody comingled inventory for that. It's trivial for them to regulate requiring first party or trusted party sales for that.

They already sell it: https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Medical-Supplies/b?ie=UT...
Speaking of GDPR, I, like many others, am a little bit confused. I've read parts of the legislation but not all of it, so perhaps somebody here can help me out.

Moving towards slightly more delicate issues (compared to tracking someones browsing habits), in relation to the right to be forgotten, if I make a request to Equifax and Experian to remove all personal identifiable information they hold about me, will this actually be possible?

Will my bank then contact me for consent to pass my data back over to them? Will I be able to open a new bank account in the future if Experian and Equifax delete my data?

How would this whole legislation deal with something like this?
This page has a very odd layout.
Vanguard took decades to gain any traction and it was managed well enough to ensure it didn't prematurely burn out, and not only that but Jack Bogle spent his entire life evangelizing low-cost in an environment where "cost is no object" was a common mantra.

Not only that but the healthcare industry has extraordinarily high financial and legal barriers to entry.
Its possible yes. At the time we started working on Wallaroo, the only real option for concurrent GC on the JVM was Azul. And we didn't want to tie our product and our goals to another company's commercial offering.

My intent was not be unfair. There's a lot of nuance in the topic that can be hard to cover in a more general blog post. Garbage collection is a fascinating topic, there's a great amount of detail that is left out in that post. I was going to a broad overview of general thinking.

[edited for typo]
One thing that has maybe not been considered is that the Atari 2600 is susceptible to what's known in the online Atari community as 'frying', whereby cycling the power off and then back on very quickly while the console is running can lead to weird changes in the program state.

Not saying this is what occurred, but it could be a possibility, depending on the code...
Such questions are usually shibboleths for cultural and social affinity, rather than objective attempts to test critical thinking and logic.
I think the point is that there are still people to punish, but it will be harder for people to make that connection. Humans wrote the algorithms which “drive” the car; there’s nothing de novo here.
when you say simplicity is objective it means there's only one definition. I would really like to know what that definition is plus where to find such exauhstive list of qualities of simple code.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I read multiple tutorials and even implemented Kalman filters in Python, Matlab, and C++ for a balancing robot project. I never really understood what was happening even though I knew what the Kalman filter is used for and when I need it. The thing that "clicked" for me is that multiple measurements are always more accurate than a single measurement. That's why there is the feedback loop that derives the predicted value and the uncertainty that is associated with it. By combining the predicted value and the measured value (and their uncertainties), you get a more accurate measurement. Then you can use this more accurate measurement to "correct" your predictions so that the next prediction has even less uncertainty. This perpetuality is why Kalman filters lead to the "true" state.
USAA would be a classic example
This reminds me of the slimy feel I get about Billy Mitchell every time I see a video of him.
This! I parrot this on every thread that is remotely relevant.

Depression and anxiety are complex problems that are incredibly personal (in the sense that they are unique to the individual). More so than most other disorders. Ergo:

1) No off the shelf solution like popping an ibuprofen for body aches

2) what works for others may not work for you

3) one needs to try multiple solutions

4) and most important, have a professional at your side to guide you!

You may not necessarily figure out how to navigate this on your own.
What? In what way does releasing a new iMac reform the MacOS team, or undo Apple's iPad Pro messaging?

Did you even read the comment you're responding to?
The matlab system identification toolbox is nice to get a casual feel for the systems. Note that pid controllers are mostly used due to their computational rather than control performance. They are math equivalent for linear systems, but thats like saying x=inv(A)b is just as good...

The powerful idea is the linear system model or the stochastic linear system model. Understand them and the properties of recursive filters and pid will come naturally.
But you're taking on less risk. If you play other people around your ranking it's easy to actually lose.
This is an under appreciated benefit of electrifying transport. Even if you aren't using clean energy it helps to not pump out neurotoxins next to schools.
> or a government that felt threatened by it to invest in >=51% hash power (or nationalize a few miners) and wreck it

Well, AFAIU they will wreck their fork, fine by me.

> Hyper-deflationary behavior is not a desirable characteristic for a currency.

It is a desirable characteristic for a store of value though. And eventually, every hyper-deflation stops and it might become a currency.
Lead nurturing.. Or how Cal from the 40 Year Old Virgin puts it: You've gotta wait till the seed grows into a plant. Then you've gotta f* the plant.
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I was active on LessWrong in '09-10 (and not-as-active until '14). Bitcoin was mentioned rarely. Hal Finney and Wei Dai themselves barely talked about it there, if at all. IIRC they didn't mention it until a few years later. My awareness of Bitcoin came from various other tech/programmer forums. I mined 0.7 BTC in early 2011 and held it until a few months ago. Not life-changing, but certainly the biggest ROI on anything I've ever had by a few orders of magnitude. But my point is I don't remember becoming interested in Bitcoin because anyone on LW was talking about it. They weren't. Even though I regularly interacted with Finney and Dai, I didn't even know they had anything to do with cryptocurrency until last year.

Edit: To be clear, I'm adding context, not arguing with the article. Yvain/Scott was certainly there.
> Then the fact that all his records were referee verified instead of video verified. The referee is serving a sentence for child rape.

While that's deplorable, it does not logically follow that a child molester is necessarily an unreliable referee.
Blockchain systems enable structures very different from what we're used to, much like proprietary and open source models can differ greatly.

Instead of needing a healthy profit margin for server operation as in your Google example, blockchain servers can be run much closer to cost or even at a loss. Benefits may be realized elsewhere and do not necessarily have to be financial.
The analogy here is that if you're good and throw your first match to get into losers, you'll be facing more people you're theoretically better than.
That article is a terrible oversimplification of the issue. As you said, the two trend lines of number of administrators and cost aren't even correlated.
Been there done that. A real solution would be to stop hiring new developers, to reduce the size of the current dev team, to reduce the size and responsibility of the QA team in order to force developers to test their own code. To eliminate any new feature requirements, to prioritze regression testing (migration, update, etc) and to allocate a whole release to trim the pile of bugs in radar.

Why Apple can’t do that? 1. Pressure from investors “we want to see new stuff”. 2. If they stop hiring new “talents” that would benefit other companies including competitors. 3. You can’t hire good developers and ask them to fix bugs for a year because they would run away from you which would compromize 1. And 2.

It is a tough problem for Apple it ain’t easy to fix. In other words, Apple needs a Steve Jobs. It needs to focus and disconnect from the world for a little while no matter the short term consequences. If you’re confident enough you’re doing the right thing for your customers, it’ll pay off in the long run.
Funny title that everyone reads and goes on with their comments. The article was saying Personas in their current form fail. Mainly, because the companies that design professionals use them for are not being utilized together with the clients involvement. They aren't being translate throughout the entire design process, they are for understanding design reasoning, instead of always bringing up random things a customer may need, they are compacted into easy to id personas, and that is what they are for. Simple recall, for clients and designers to have a common vocabulary to talk about who we are solving problems for.
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Skip to the end for the only relevant piece of information.

> Also at the end of the day, pricing is about supply and demand

Charge what the market can afford and is willing to pay for your services.
All told I'd say it's an successful but imperfect abstraction. I've been very impressed by it all in all. Concurrent programming isn't easy, and it's not a silver bullet, but it's a great language feature.

In an ideal world you'd just take existing synchronous code and throw async/await keywords at it to make it async. The abstraction isn't quite that successful, of course.

See Stephen Cleary's AsyncEx library, which provides async-specific functionality such as AsyncLock, which doesn't exist in the standard library. https://github.com/StephenCleary/AsyncEx/wiki/AsyncLock
Company towns are not a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

Your idea was first attempted in the 1880's :)
I have the original 1st gen. vivoactive, the buttons are metal and the charging contacts recess is less than 1mm, so it certainly touches the wrist. You can clearly see the metal button on this picture
https://urbanwearables.technology/wp-content/uploads/2016/02...
Asking them to solve a problem step by step is great to learn whether that person is good at explaining the solution step by step. It is not about internal thought process you use to come up with solution.
So can seeing a therapist.
Unrelated, but I really enjoyed this guy's hands on approach to moving 20 ton blocks by himself, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c

It goes to show that wood, levers and clever engineering could have achieved amazing construction feats.
For a site that has a category called "Design and Development" and an author that wrote "The User Experience Revolution" that's a very weird way to show an article. I almost closed the page because I thought the article is already over but it was some huge "Check the speakers" banners that took up the full height of my screen...
The growth in drug expenditures has been reasonably close to inflation over the last decade.

One could argue drugs cost too much, but you can't argue they are a major reason for soaring healthcare costs.
Once we made the decision to use Pony for Wallaroo, that has driven a lot of our other choices. The Java and C client libraries are excellent. We had architectural concerns about how the thread pool in the clients would interact with our scheduler threads.

There's a large performance improvement we get by having a single scheduler thread for each CPU. The performance impact of that is very large. Adding another threadpool that competes for CPU usage would be problematic.

Our client is for those high-performance use cases where if we can get parity or close to parity with the C client then we should get much better performance due to those architectural concerns.

That said, we plan on providing a way for folks who are less concerned with performance to use the C client library.

In the end, it was less about "use Pony" and more about "do this in a way that matches with Wallaroo's architecture".
That's not what I was suggesting. I was suggesting that the proposed solution would be nothing more than doing the same thing again, but as a transcription service. Unicode updates with new emojis too.

Being more adaptive than that requires offloading the responsibility of readability to the writers. If I write a blog post featuring a unique ascii emoji I made up, I can't expect a third party to handle that for blind patrons, regardless if it's a transcription service or unicode.
Waymo orders thousands of Pacificas for 2018 self-driving fleet rollout
Facebook's search is so bad it almost feels like it has been abandoned by their product team.
Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble
I think that's what aria-label[1] does. Also, I believe the correct term of art is "kamoji"[2]. Emoticons are faces constructed from ascii characters.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

[2] http://kaomoji.ru/en/
There will be economies of scale. The bigger the pool of employees the lower the costs, so yes there are options but they could get fewer if this takes off.
I think the maximum polling frequency on the 2600's joystick ports is only 30 Hz.
It was unambiguously better if you lived in Great Britain or other places which were at war with Germany but not occupied post-war by the Soviets.
Is there a new wave of innitiatives in the health sector? I was surprised by hospitals working on producing generic drugs [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/hospitals-plan-to-create-the...
Much Appreciated!!
It has been well over inflation since the 1970s except 2010-2012, according to https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/recent-....

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184914/prescription-drug... says we've gone from $121B/year in 2000 to 360B/year in 2017.
I'm pretty sure it does trigger in this case, if you have any tools like GA on your site.
Maybe they meant pounds? Large sheep can weigh around 250lb so it gets closer to the 7700 number
If you rephrased that as "we treat people as individuals regardless of the statistics about any classes those people happen to be members of", I'd agree.
what would a spheron truth table look like with a 100000 inputs.

Also, if the output is wrong then which gates do you change/update and by how much?

With a ANN the equivalent of which type of gate changes depending on the weights.
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I was trying to make a joke about the journalist not caring about screen readers. Also, the correct way to shrug in markdown is ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ (verified in github and gitlab).
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It’s worth pointing out that the intent of the Kobayashi Maru is to present the candidate with the terror, trauma, and experience of inevitable doom. Kirk cheated brilliantly, but that was not the point.
Because those who wrote the law have cover from parliament passing the law.
Who would we be cuffing?
Those who drafted the law? Or maybe those who whipped party members into line to vote for the law?

In my opinion, people drafting illegal laws is to be expected. It is the responsibility of parliament and the house of lords to keep illegal laws from being enacted. So if we were to cuff anyone, it seems to me it ought to be parliament.
For parliament we have a different measure than the courts though. That would be elections!
It seems less that wise for the public prosecutor to be able to target members of parliament for how they voted.
The solution should be sought in a better democracy.

An underlying issue here might be that a majority of voter would actually like to see the constitutional basis for this ruling changed.
The Brexit vote could be seen as supporting this.
If indeed the electorate wants to get rid of this, there is very little to be done.
And that is how a democracy is kind of supposed to work.
Sometimes, this makes democracies suck. But like Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms we've tried.
Is it worthwhile when the tech could save tens of thousands of lives altogether?
Yes, but “Linear mixed effects models were adjusted for age, sex, maternal education, socioeconomic status, and air pollution exposure at home.”
Twitter pundits commenting on Geekbench benchmarks, mostly.

Snark aside, Apple's CPUs are pretty(really pretty) far ahead of Qualcomm's in single-threaded performance.
Anyone else find this ironic, given the potential link [1] between screen/device use and depression?

[1] https://qz.com/1190151/why-am-i-unhappy-a-new-study-explains...
“Success is going to require talented experts, a beginner’s mind, and a long-term orientation.” - Jeff Bezos

Solid start-up tips
Nope - neither of them say "shrug" on my laptop. High Sierra/ 10.13.2

[edit] And it "says" them exactly the same, regardless of backslash: "macron, (unintelligible)letter two underscore slash, macron".

What is says is actually this: ¯ツ_/¯
Ads is free money from Amazon. After all they have the best possible traffic one can imagine: clear shopping intent queries, with customer shopping history. They just need to put up the billboards, the money will follow. Maybe not Google scale, but free money, what not to like?
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This is where the technical complexity comes in. All of a sudden my static hosted page on github which gets a few hundred visitors per month and uses analytics should have Geo blocking? How much overhead will that add to the small site?
They're the people behind Signal, kind of assumed you meant them :-)
Buffet is the same guy that "fixed" other insurance markets by driving them away from mutual ownership to privately owned companies - a massive wealth transfer away from the common man. He shouldn't be commenting on tapeworms.
Is the cautious mode going to obstruct traffic or something? Or are you saying that exposing other people to risk is okay and exposing users of the service is not?

If the autonomous system can't operate in a way that passengers would be comfortable with I don't see why it should be allowed on the roads at all.
For those that are interested, Netflix's Dirty Money (S01E01) covers this topic from the point of view of the auto manufacturers emission scandal that happened recently.

It really puts a whole new spin on this very important conversation.
In this particular case, it wouldn't be unusual if a book like that were too damaged to circulate and couldn't be replaced (if it were out of print). I think the lifetime of most books is measured in 10s of circs at most.
Could it be used with e.g., a drop of blood, to see which bacteria strain is making you sick?
Sorry, incorrect rebuttal.

Whenever you or anything you ship touches an commercial airliner you enter a globally coordinated network of non-governmental compliance and multi-government regulation spanning every aspect of every device and every protocol. The only reason you CAN take planes to other countries is this international "compliance". Where "you" had to do exactly what "we" have said, because if "you" don't then "you" get to be excluded from global trade.

I have already addressed your hypothetical in my comment... There is no "expect", only business reality. The same solution as above, and the same irony, applies.
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It's a pretty safe bet, though.
While this article in general is fine, some of the details are wrong. Namely - he died on 25th of May, not 22nd as written there, also he was arrested May 8th not 5th. Not sure about the other details, I didn't had time to check it.
A Mysterious Amnesia, Related to Opioid Overdose, Creeps Beyond New England
I'm genuinely fascinated by this comment. You're saying that mutuals offer lower prices (not typically true), but they were out-competed by private companies? I'm not sure that makes sense. In my sector (life insurance), there's no real pattern to mutual vs public company pricing, but maybe it's different in auto insurance, for instance.
You (edit: They) do know that Africa isn't a country, right? Because I'm struggling to think of a company form that has a field for 'continent'.

There are also international standards for country codes. Using standards almost always saves work down the road, and sometimes much more.
> Managed well enough

Unlike Amazon and Berkshire, two of the best managed companies humanity has ever created?

> Extraordinarily high financial and legal barriers to entry

Unlike financial companies?
Americans expected to wager $4.76B on Super Bowl LII
I think the build time is the least factor to take in consideration.
I choose Jekyll some time ago because:
- it was supported by github
- the plain website generated was much FASTER than anything with a database (WP I'm talking at you)
- as a developer I could mess with HTML and JS wasily

Build time is important at development time, when I'm programming some new feature, and I have to wait 1-2 seconds before refreshing the page. If those changes take 20 seconds, well, that's a horrible development experience.

So, for now, I'll definitely give Hugo a try (didn't even know) but we do websites for people and we should only care that the website is fast, nice and easy for them.
The team that I mentor is about to start tuning their PID controllers... this is very timely.
PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax
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I hear this all the time but I’m not sure it’s true.

iOS is in the exact same place. The number of weird bugs and subtlety broken interactions I’ve seen has been growing exponentially.

Even as I type this my Safari address bar is pushed halfway into my status bar, making them overlap.

A couple of weeks back my phone became unusable in the middle of the Everglades as I was relying on it to get back to my hotel. A message notification got stuck on screen and it blocked input with anything system related.

I couldn’t even turn it off because the strange new reset procedure isn’t exactly discoverable and the normal slider couldn’t be intersected with!

Those are just anecdotes, but it happens often enough I’m sure most users of iOS 11 will be able to identify that this is just par for the course on iOS these days.
All involved players are mainly interested in lining their own pockets. The question if this will come at the expense of patients or other players in health care.
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I don't have a lot of first-hand experience using LQR but I definitely have seen it being applied to systems that traditionally are thought of as non-linear with the respect of variable you can control.

Maybe it's explained by the state space containing more terms than PID controller, so the transfer function can be linear for each individual term?
Because those sections of the Bible were fabricated by neighboring Canaanite herder tribes in the 9th century BC as justification for their unification. Why would they know what Egypt was like?
If that happened, would libertarians begin to regard unpaid surplus labor as theft?