skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume your worst-case scenario comes to pass, and politicians decide (or are influenced) to outlaw manually-driven vehicles from public roads.

First, you would still be able to drive on private tracks; plenty of car enthusiasts already do this today. If your enjoyment is derived from driving fast, or taking curves, this should be able to satisfy your requirements.

Second, if your satisfaction is derived from aimlessly driving, simply enjoying the scenery and the zen of the road, this is not something that is incompatible with self-driving cars. Hell, there could be a "Scenic drive" button that randomly takes you on different routes every time.

If you are concerned that you will no longer be able to combine these activities (driving aggressively on long, rambling courses), I think this is something you are likely to lose out on. On the other hand, if this is the case, is it even appropriate for you to be doing this on public roads today?

If your argument is that you don't want to invest the time or money to use tracks or private courses for this purpose, then I think you should reexamine just how much enjoyment you derive from driving, and where it comes from specifically.

Ultimately, it goes to a core discussion of whether roads are for transportation or for recreation; I imagine similar discussions have occurred in the past between wagons and horseback riders, for example, or later, between horse-drawn vehicles and cars. Today, I would argue that more than 50% (and probably much more) of the cars on the road are being used for transportation rather than recreation, which suggests that modifications that streamline that use will eventually crowd out the remaining percentage through the tyranny of the majority.
Planet Earth II is glorious, a real feast for the senses and the mind. I saw part of it in 4K and almost cried a little; certainly I teared up a bit.

So worth the hardware.
Wait until someone figures out how to prove that by playing chicken with a budget resolution, several key congressmen have learned how to game the VIX.
> Changing the law to fix that may not even be feasible

That seems a very weak conclusion. I actually expect more from the Economist.
You don't notice that HD (even 720p) is visibly better than SD?
Autocars have the potential to reduce the price of this kind of transportation by an order of magnitude.
It's anybody with common sense's rule.
> Being a retail customer on Wall Street is a fool's game

There are time periods [1] and strategies [2] in which individuals outperform. (That said, most people should just track the marker.)

[1]
https://www.eurofidai.org/sites/default/files/pdf/EUROFIDAI_...

[2] https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/231425/1/14_08_Soderlind%20e...
Only for Windows. I tried it because I couldn't get good quality using Chrome, but it had enough annoyances that I gave up on it
"2/ The team underneath the founders should feel like they have the right, and the responsibility, to talk to the Board and investor group when founder dysfunction gets really bad."

Unless you are a key employee, you mustn't do that. For a founder, the business is everything, for an employee, it's another job. An employee has the privilege to quit at whim, the founder can't do that.

Anyways, most employees don't see the whole picture of the business so, how can they evaluate a founder?
It will be interesting to see how this affects the quality of education students get.
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Yes there is an option to do custom builds. https://pubkey.github.io/rxdb/custom-build.html
None of those make much sense as you wont be deploying to your dev test(technical copy) and eventually live systems that do have or need this "tight integration".

You do of course have at least separate dev test and live systems.

And in these days of threadripper the performance argument makes no sense as you have cores to burn.
Blockchain Primer, Merkle Tree, DAG, Nonce, ... [video]
You might not be able to escape the browser's sandbox, but you can certainly escape your tab's sandbox and spy on other tabs using timing attacks: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I have a good demo about this. The issue is that all browsers have disable SharedBufferArray because of spectre...
This is why there is usually one clear leader on most "successful" founding teams.

Cofounder situations are a significant risk which can and does outweigh the benefits in many startups
Yeah but then I'm severely limited since I can only run software that runs on the Macintosh OS or Linux and not Windows. Also, this does run Linux software natively (not in a VM).

I personally don't use this but I installed it a while ago to try it out and since forgot about it. My point - it doesn't alter your host OS half as much as a VM does. So it is superior in some ways to that solution as well.

Anyway, do you think there's any reason at all that Apple goes out of their way to support Windows on their Mac machines? I mean here is a company that has sung the praises of their Macintosh OS, talking nasty shit about Windows the whole time....and yet they actually do non-trivial work to support this supposedly shitty OS that they apparently hate. Hmmmm. It's a mystery for the ages I guess.
You are correct.

The ONLY way that Amazon even GOT a fucking monopoly in the first place, was the absolutely fucking retarded ruling that awarded them a patent on "one-click shopping".
> I have the impression that HN in general doesn’t like cars all that much, and in fact we would be much better of without them.

In a discussion forum, people are free to form their opinions and rebut anyone, who they think is being incorrect. So, I don't understand why do people say this forum is unfair to x,y and z, stuff like HN in general doesn't like "cryptocurrencies" or "cars" etc doesn't help the discussion.

As for self-driving, when I read stuff like this:

But the final one speaks loudly about what city roads of the future could look like: “that autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.”

https://www.popsci.com/self-driving-car-fleets#page-2

I can't help but get worried.
Shared environment is probably not created equal though. While the family environment is constant, parents are likely to vary (deliberately and/or not) in their resource allocation (e.g., attention and care) among their kids. An interesting recent paper shows that the non-inherited genetic material of the parents may _still_ have an influence on the kid. [0] What exactly accounts for that influence remains to be elusive, and it would be quiet astonishing if the majority of the influence can be explained by well-established (or rather, exhaustively studied) behavior patterns in psychology. For example: birth order, number of same-sex siblings etc.

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/14/219261
Investing in an index fund effectively means letting a financial services company such as S&P Global manage your investment without you being their customer. And if you're not paying for it...

Sure, you'll pay a low fixed commission to the fund, but they're just tracking what S&P publishes.

It's not necessarily a bad idea, but it's hardly a panacea with perfect incentives.
i've counted 3 separate conclusions you've projected onto me based on zero confirmed information about my situation. even if i refuted your points, you wouldn't believe me, so i guess you're right just because you say you are.

which is sort of what i was alluding to in my last comment.
Yes, I agree that you shouldn't take the premise for granted (that self-driving cars will be here soon).

A high-profile Uber investor has said that level 4 self-driving won't be in the U.S. for 25 years:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/bill-gurley-uber-investor-se...

That means they can service people without driver's licenses and people who can't drive -- the old and the young.

Also, Chris Urmson said the transition will take 30 years:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...

https://mondaynote.com/autonomous-cars-the-level-5-fallacy-2...

Here's my negative scenario: self-driving is "AI-complete"; you can't really hit all the edge cases without solving AI in general, which is more than 30 years away (Kurzweil is the wild optimist and predicts 2045).

You CAN use self-driving in limited circumstances, but those limitations are precisely the ones that make driving yourself around more attractive. The expense doesn't go down as quickly as anticipated because of this. They are a niche technology for DECADES.

Just like 3D printing -- the tech obviously works to an extent, but it's just not appealing for many use cases. Same with VR -- the tech works to an extent, but the content is not appealing to general audiences.

I'm happy to be proven wrong though, because I would be the first one to buy a self-driving car where I could fall asleep behind the wheel. I would love to take a trip from SF to Portland or LA like this.

Another good link: https://medium.com/self-driven/a-decade-after-darpa-our-view...
...this is called 'speed dating' or 'club 18-30' where a drink-related task is set and the interaction goes from there. I think they do meaningful walking holiday things for the more mature folks and participants get a reasonable chance of finding someone through this process.

Lucky punters might have to go to Ibiza as part of this ritual to meet the guy from five miles up the road and back in their home town they do not live their life on a daily basis like how they spent their holiday in Ibiza that time.

There may not be messaging online but there can be clumsy 'my friend fancies you' messaging not attempted since early teenage years.

In these organised events it is clear that everyone is there to find a partner, so there is no time spent chasing those that are not in the same 'available state', it is straight onto 'process'. I don't believe the numbers get better, if real world online organised dating was that good there would be more of it than there is, I think it peaked before everyone had smartphones.
>What did happen to 3D printing?

Basically "nothing".

Sure 3D printers came out much cheaper (talking of FFF Fused Filament Fabrication or FDM Fused Deposition Modeling ) and much more precise/accurate, but still they are way too slow for any practical "final customer" use, outside the pure fun of it.

Other technologies are still too expensive (or again still too slow) to get anywhere soon in "every household".

In the professional world, set aside the "quick prototyping" field, and possibly a few other "narrow" fields, like jewelry and dentistry they can make "products" that either miss the mechanical capabilities of the "real" thing or that - if you can make them with suitable characteristics or materials - still cost tens of times as much as a same product manufactured industrially with more traditional means.
My friend bought 3D printer to print a plastic kitchen cabinet hinge part he could not find elsewhere. After few days of ramping up he produced a near perfect replacement for a broken plastic part. That was a bit of an overkill, but it was more fun than anything. I don't think he printed anything useful since then.

I cannot think of anything that I would need to print. If anything, I need fewer plastic things in my life, not more.
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This is color quantization, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization
> I believe that cars are not a transportation solution that scales like public transportation, for instance, does.

One thing I would like to add is that public transport is too very difficult to scale. For example, the Northern, Central and Piccadilly lines on London Underground are massively overcrowded to the extent where it’s borderline dangerous.

I don’t really know what TFL can do about it, because the lines already operates at maximum capacity. They could build more lines at £15Bn each (http://www.cityam.com/279301/gbp148bn-crossrail-project-face...), but even if money grew on trees these projects take 5-10 years to complete, by which time population has grown so much that they too are overcrowded by the time they open.
I agree, but it's more than just that --- self-driving cars will take more control away from individuals and put that in the hands of corporations and governments, who will have a much easier time tracking --- and even controlling --- the large-scale movement of the population. When they decide to outlaw non-self-driving cars almost completely, "the frog will have been thoroughly boiled."

Of course, it's all done under the argument of safety. But I don't think a perfectly safe world, one with no risk at all, is one worth living in either. There's enough dystopian scifi around to predict rather accurately what will happen.
The copy is a bit off. Maybe consider:

"Find a job that matches your open source contributions"

or,

"Find jobs that match your open source contributions"
Why don't you just say Donald Trump?

Two reasons why it wasn't bribery: First, it wasn't just bought and then sold - the property was bought, renovated by Trump, and then sold 4 years later. Secondly, the Russian that bought it subdivided the lot and is set to make a few tens of millions off of selling each subdivision: https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2017/10/06/rus...
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Just run an X-Server on Windows and then fire up your favorite Linux X-Windows Terminal (xfce4-terminal is mentioned in the article). Works great.
What is your opinion on flying for pleasure (i.e vacation)? We know that flying too is very damaging for the environment and creates terrible noise pollution. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
I feel that, in typed languages, the only GraphQL oriented code you should be writing is the schemas and the resolvers. Manually implementing the models in your language's type system seems unnecessary and is a recipe for mistakes and drift between the schemas and those types.
> I presented a few examples to prove this point but you keep on talking around the issue

No, you most certainly have not. Study A that mentions claim X may be not racist, while study B that claims X may be racist. I said that A is not racist, and your examples of B being labeled racist do not disprove it. My whole point about the unfortunate misunderstanding is that people think that since B is racist (due to context) then X is "unfairly labeled as racist" when, in fact, it is not X which is racist, but B.

> This is, yet again, a literal quote proving the point of the original statement which launched this thread.

I don't know about the situation in Sweden so I can't comment on it. It's possible that what I said is not the case in Sweden. On the other hand, it is also possible that the person quoted, like you, misunderstands what it is that is labeled racist. I do know that claims like yours about X being labeled racist when it is, in fact, B which is called racist because it is racist, are made in the US as well, despite being generally false. It's like someone complaining about being laughed at while talking about, say, bed bugs, then saying that bed bugs are ridiculed, but neglects to mention that he was wearing a bug-shaped hat while talking about bed-bugs, and it is the delivery that was ridiculed. Context matters.
This is the first time I've heard that Netflix has standalone desktop client o_O Apparently only available for Windows 10. Also the first time I've heard that Netflix HD is not 1080p except on some clients/browsers. I feel... cheated. Of course the difference between 720p and 1080p is not huge, especially at streaming bitrates, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't suspected anything. But still. Will have to remember to use Safari from now on.
I'm not the OP and don't have any solid examples off the top of my head, but I'm going to riff a little bit while I process the concept myself.

It seems to me that by explicitly writing down the decision tree and reflecting on it, you could attempt to identify whether or not there were prejudices baked into it.

As a contrived example based on the article and comments: should the fact that the patient is a 6-year-old girl vs. an overdosing opiate addict make any difference on whether or not the conditions you're flying in are safe? Or should it be based on visibility thresholds etc.
The response-by-analogy is that people still ride horses for pleasure, and we should expect to see the same thing with cars: a (comparatively) small base of enthusiasts practicing the activity in a way that doesn't endanger others.

Broadly speaking, it seems like there are an infinite number of potential "simple pleasures" out there that people could enjoy, and if we have a chance to transition lots of people from a simple pleasure that endangers others to other pleasures that don't, we should probably do it.

I think a better way to reason about the tradeoff (since reasoning by analogy is unreliable) is to suppose that we were in a world where cars had always been autonomous, and imagine how it would play out–specifically, would enthusiasts in such a world try and build human-driven cars (maybe?), would they drive human-driven cars on public roads (probably not?), and would the non-enthusiasts feel a sense of longing for the joys of the road (for the most part, no?).

The future we should try to reach is the future that we would aim for regardless of our starting position. To me, that seems like a future where no one has to drive cars, and some people who want to do drive cars, but no one has to be impacted by the manual-driving of cars if they don't want to. So I think the response-by-analogy is probably correct in this case.
> Well, yes and no. The Four have so much power over our lives that most of us would be rocked to the core if one or more of them were to disappear. Imagine not being able to have an iPhone, or having to use Yahoo or Bing for search, or losing years’ worth of memories you’ve posted on Facebook. What if you could no longer order something with one click on the Amazon app and have it arrive tomorrow?

Uh.. I'd survive.
Vue does hot module reload and all that jazz, and it works with Typescript too.

I totally disagree with you about the code being spaghetti. To me the spaghetti is designing views in React and having a relatively simple DOM structure broken into twenty little functions so that it can be expressed as readable JSX.

To me one of the best things about Vue is that it lets you effortlessly choose between and even combine templating and JSX. Templates are vastly easier to read when you need to understand the DOM structure and when you're looking at something on the screen and identifying where it lives in your components. And when you have complex elements where a render function really is better, JSX!
"They find evidence that large investors tend to trade more in periods ahead of important announcements, say, which is hard to explain unless they have access to unusually good information."

Typically for regular macro-level financial announcements like GDP growth, employment numbers/non-farm payrolls, rates announcements, etc, the announcements happen on well-defined, publicly known intervals. Similarly for company specific things like earnings announcements. It is expected that there will be lots of (non-insider) trading before these announcements - active investors may just want to reduce risk before a large move in an unknown direction. Of course, I don't doubt that there is a large amount of insider trading, but its worth considering other causes of an observed phenomenon rather than just jumping to conclusions.
No. However small the difference in practice, I feel cheated.
Not disaagreeing. It is possible to print useful plastic items. But what I found interesting when doing the research for a product we where producing, was that the price per item on a €1800 3D printer was about the same as producing them in quantities up to 2500-5000 units in India. The difference obviously was how many you could produce in a month, and higher quality from the injection moulded stuff.

I had expected the price difference to be more. In the end we didn’t go to larger volumes due to weak interest in the product.

The main benefit, as you point out, was the fast turnaround in prototyping.
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Last I checked there was a pivot to a (not exactly) new term - adaptive manufacturing.

On the printing side, I remember some companies getting into metal 3-D printing but I guess they are not exactly unicorn material.
Rather than translating the description into an abstract idea, and then translating that idea into a different language; it seems like it's trying to go straight from English to Chinese.
I'm interested in your first link but it seems down (404). Would you happen to have an alternative, or just post the title?
I thought Netflix streamed in 4k now. Does it really restrict some devices to 720p? And, why?
certainly seems plausible to me. do you think there's a reason they do this with art more than cars, homes, watches, jewelry? portability?
Decisions like "I will not sleep with a woman who is too drunk to climb a flight of stairs unaided" and "I will run rather than using this utility knife in a fistfight" are much easier to make objectively when you're calm and sober, rather than waiting until your blood stream is full of alcohol, adrenaline and testosterone.
I just finished Marcus Aurelius. What would be a good next text?
Not native, not 90KB. The first thing it does is downloading an embedded web browser. 90KB the installer. Not native either. libpurple is native.
What happens to other boilerplate ships or concrete blocks used to test rockets? Some 'littering' needs to take place for progress.
Absolutely if you can only afford $50/$100 a month the an index tracking the FTSE or the DOW makes sense.

Once your portfolio gets bigger start having a minimum investment amount of $1000 you need to start thinking about diversification.
As far as I read the article and understand your question, this is indeed one of the factors that they mention. Each persons immune system reacts in a different way, posing a unique challenge to the pathogen.
If by “chicken” you mean a bipartisan agreement to end the sequester and boost both military and domestic spending. And raise the debt ceiling. And whatever else was stuffed in the 650 page “continuing resolution”.
"How to collect art in your 20's" -> get a loan

Was hoping for creative ways to identify rare pieces for cheap.
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Well, no comments there so it is pointless to link.
Some ceo giving you secret handshake before an unannounced event is very simple to do
Your first link is broken. I think maybe you meant this?

https://www.eurofidai.org/sites/default/files/pdf/EUROFIDAI_...

(there was an extra 'Q' at the end)
Thought they were talking about Microsoft Word.
I'm a bit unclear, do you mean you fully switched to using a WebGL canvas with HTML-based controls? Or more like a browser-widget embedded in your application with HTML UI widgets, that somehow controls a separate OpenGL canvas?
Show HN: Index funds are better than Managed funds?
Kind of a mix between show / ask:

If actively managed funds give higher returns than index funds, why don't fund groups offer a product that guarantees index return plus a spread (say 0.5%). Charge a fee to get in. Invest the money in a way that beats the market. Their profit would be fees + spread over market.

This seems like easy money if you know you can consistently beat the market. Does this not exist because fund groups can't beat the market?
Lazy, try again.

Your last paragraph of "no context, no skin in game" is the same projection you accuse me of. How many workers have to deal with the fallout of arrogant founder decisions? They've got skin in the game too, just no agency. They probably have even more context than you, if they've been paying attention to numbers or if they have their own experience as founders.

If you think I paint an unfair or incorrect picture, by all means try to make a case.