skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what's the point of having a self-driving car with a wheel you can't access in case of a self-driving system breakdown?

Regulatory arbitrage.

Also if the car is really broken down, as in doesn't start, you can get into the front seat and steer + push like a normal car, or emergency services can do that after an accident and so on. Likewise if the sensor system fails this provides a cheaper method than calling a tow truck to move it back to their shop.

In normal situations where manual intervention is required, I believe the plan is to have a Waymo employee drive it remotely, not have the passengers drive it. Apart from the obvious business reasons for this (partially discussed below, also insurance), this should mean that you don't even know how to drive to use one of these cars, which is a clear advantage.

> Will Waymo even allow people to sit in the front seat at the wheel and allow them to control it whenever they want?

Why the hell would they do that? The whole purpose of this vehicle is self driving car research, they don't get anything out of letting you drive it, so they'd just be providing you a free car.
Drones are electric but not quiet. AFAICT the noise pollution hasnt been solved.
There is also an issue of downdrafts during takeoff and landings kicking up dust.
*Flight is very prone to the vicissitudes of the weather.

Granted, there are use cases for "airtaxi" but widespread adoption is pretty delusional and farfetched to begin with.
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> But a flying, electric, quiet, self-flying drone taxi will mean no traffic issues

At certain levels of demand there are air traffic control and collision avoidance issues that need to be dealt with. Birds, other air taxis, consumer drones, aircraft small and large.

Also, departure and landing sequencing - what happens when a few hundred air taxis need to depart a large apartment complex for their commute, or a thousand or so air taxis descend for a large sports or entertainment event.
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There's a maximum amount of stuff a single function/code unit can do before becoming unreadable. When writing code, there's a tension between the semantic size of the implementation, and the semantic size of the constituent parts of the problem: very few problems are broken down into clean chunks of code. Quite often, when trying to subjugate the problem to the language, you end up with lots of 'features' of the modular parts: lots of parameters, parameters being complex non-data objects, and so forth.

Breaking stuff down costs, as well - you have to make it clear how something is going to be used. You might write a helper function for one bit in particular, and then rely on additional levels of abstraction to make it clear how this function should be used.

Instead, if you can allow your functions to become semantically larger, you don't need to explain and protect your modularisation. Helper functions with one use are inlined (it's very common that these things have names longer than their definition). Instead of a large tower of abstraction, you just have two levels: the level of the data, and the level of the problem. Your entire program is written as functions, each of which does something in the problem domain, and for each, each definition is immediately clear about what it is doing with the data.

There was an article here, a while ago, called 'smaller code, better code', and with accompanying comments, that explain this better than I can.
> but I think it's an API limitation

Author here - I believe that's the case. There isn't a way to specific start & end time: https://w3c.github.io/server-timing/#dom-performanceserverti...

That said, the spec also mentions:

> To minimize the HTTP overhead the provided names and descriptions should be kept as short as possible - e.g. use abbreviations and omit optional values where possible.

I could see significant issues if we tried to send data in timeline fashion (such as creating a metric for each database record call in an N+1 scenario).

One idea: pass down an URI (ie - https://scoutapp.com/r/ID) that when clicked, provides full trace information.
This stems from the postmodernist idea that everything is a social construct, and that our biology does not influence our behavior at all.

The interview of a postmodernist in [1] is the best tool I've seen for understanding how a postmodernists view the world and their rejection of obvious biological differences. It gets really interesting at 4m45 [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/tUs6_Kcfieg

[2] https://youtu.be/tUs6_Kcfieg?t=4m45s
The surfactants are also xenoestrogens and probably not good for you..
REMOTE possible ?
As a third year dual major plus a minor undergrad with a research project, volunteer requirements, and other life/school duties, I'm finding I need to create a recurring "day off" to be able to maintain otherwise I start quitting on certain commitments/obligations to make up for it.
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Right. What people always seem to forget about the analytics based approaches, particularly the "moneyball" concept is that the intent was to identify those undervalued players. If the current trend is to prefer players with attribute X, that means that they'll be more expensive than their relative worth, so identify attribute Y which is also important and you can pay them a lot less.

People still refer to moneyball style approaches as if the exact metrics which were used in 2001 are the end all be all, but as soon as people caught on to OBP and such the real moneyballers were by definition off to something else.
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In terms of harmful ingredients, phospates (used to increase water content) might actualy be more dangerous than nitrates. Consumption of added phospates is linked to renal failure, CVD, and yes, bowel cancer.

It's thought that disruption of biophoton communication is the mechanism by which phosphates promote cell undifferentiation, proliferation, and, eventually, cancer.
How would you handle server side rendering? Put a node app in between?
Hmm, the first link says:

> All of the bacon we sell is made without synthetic nitrates or nitrites.

Is that the dodge mentioned in the article where they actually do use nitrates from celery instead, which are just as bad even though they're natural?
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The reason why the steering wheel is there is due to these cars being modified Chrysler Pacifica minivans. It is easier all around just to leave the wheel as it.

There is no need for a passenger to take manual control. If the car or the self driving system has a problem. The car will pull over and another Waymo self driving call will arrive to allow you to complete your journey.
>That is a huge number.

Compared to what?
The problem is that so much of what alternative medicine points to is quackery, even if they get the system potentially correct.

I've worked a bit in gut microbiome stuff, and a bunch of the things alt medicine advances about it still fall in the "That's not how any of this works..." realm.
No. Bacon, salami and some other meats must be cured by FDA definition (either nirites added and sold as "cured" or sold as "uncured" but with "celery juice" which really means it's still cured)

Confusing I know
I invite all the Fox News viewers and others who take this BS seriously to move out of this hellhole and go to states with a higher quality of life rank such as Mississippi (#6) or Arkansas (#7), and send us a postcard so we can be jealous.
If your girlfriend wants to trade vastly increased life satisfaction for a slightly higher risk of developing one of the slowest-growing and most treatable cancers, I say let her.
I checked out a couple of books there. Neither had PDF as an available format. Why is this? Is PDF not considered an ebook format?
I don't think this particular implementation is unethical. It's not bypassing the paywall so much as it's querying Medium for another site where the article is published and probably isn't paywalled. No different than Googling the article title and finding the original.

For content owned originally published by Medium you're on their regular free trial system.
Having the rendered car's view visible to passengers inside is a very great idea for at least the first couple generations of self-driving cars, and especially being as prominent as they are in this car. It helps get people comfortable with the idea, and feel better knowing the car is picking up on everything in its surroundings.

I'm a bit skeptical about if those are real graphics though -- they look quite detailed beyond what I feel the 'sensors' can see, but maybe I just underestimate this technology.

The screens are also (unfortunately) a great place to blast ads at a quite literally "captive" audience, but I digress.
Sorry, how did you get to that 0.5%? I'm not sure it's correct. Haven't looked at it enough, but I was thinking that if relative risk of colorectal cancer increases by 18%, if there are ~40 cases per 100.000 people, then it's going from 0.04% to ~0.05%.

Didn't even read the article, if anyone can run some numbers and clarify? (genuinely curious)
There is no "similar logic". Smog isn't about "being annoyed". There are real life health concerns about air pollution.
AIUI, insoluble fiber didn't get fermented. Insoluble fiber basically means cellulose; to digest cellulose, you need some pretty serious engineering, like four stomachs [1], or a huge caecum [2], or, er, a two-pass process [3]. Humans don't traditionally have any of those, so we don't digest cellulose to a significant degree. There are other components of food classified as insoluble fiber, but the only significant one is lignin, at on the order of 10-20% of the mass of cellulose [4], and that's so hard to digest you basically have to be a fungus to do it [5]. Apparently even termites don't break it down much.

Soluble fibres are oligosaccharides with weird bonds that we can't break down, but that bacteria can. They're nothing like insoluble fibre, except that they come from plants. They're polymers, but this is biology, every other thing is a polymer. They're not really even fibrous. We absolutely should distinguish them.

This review is pretty accessible, and covers a lot of ground:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614039/

I would write more, but i'm going to cook some lentils instead!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine_nutrition#The_cecum_and...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecotrope

[4] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1981....

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignin#Biodegradation
No loss, except perhaps some vignette (for lenses whose optical path might partially clip because of the smaller E-mount flange). The adapters pass through/translate the electronic signals and set the proper flange distance. Nothing more.
> I would really like it given to an independent cross-party body, or the civil service, to try distance it from politics and The Treasury.

They did that. The governmental bit (in England) is the Department for Health and Social Care.

NHS England is the qango that runs the NHS in England. They provide money to CCGs to commission most services. NHS England directly commissions some (so called "tier 4" services) - eg inpatient mental health services for children; medium and high secure mental health services; etc.

I genuinely have no idea what happens in Wales, Scotland, or NI. Health is devolved and they run their systems independently.
Until the noise generated by the motors is solved they will only ever be allowed for emergency vehicles.
I'm not sure it does. I think people use Elm to signal to fellow oldtimers that they were indeed around when people used that email client, DAE remember?

I'm not even sure I've ever seen a HN submission about the email client. And they're in such different niches that you, precisely, have to write a comment without clicking in to the article. At which point, what value are you contributing to the discussion?

You're basically suggesting that choosing a different name would increase the odds of someone being more relevant when writing a comment based on a submission title. Not very compelling. These comments just get downvoted where they belong.

One of the worst aspects of HN are top-voted arguments that have nothing to do with the subject matter of the article. We don't need more of those.
as a part of Amazon prime now
Here we have a company that is simply opening up visibility of the code of their commercial offering, which will enhance customer relationships vs. keeping the code black box —— and it's observed as user-hostile?

Open core isn't evil. Companies need to make money, and shouldn't have to choose between fully-open-source vs. closed-source.

Fully-open-source companies have a really hard time of building a good company, because despite the great work they put out into the world, other enterprising cloud companies can build closed-source cloud services around it. For example, I've paid Compose.io and other companies real money around MongoDB, and never a cent to MongoDB the company. Same goes w/ Docker, who has struggled to build a great business because they open-sourced so much of their value.

So yeah, Elastic is trying to make it more likely that you'll choose to buy a license, because the health of their business depends on getting paid customers.
I think there is an interesting problem to solve here is one of mass production. To be cost competitive these vehicles need to be produced as scale. This is nothing that the traditional aircraft business has experience with, but car manufacturars have plenty.
This reflects in the savety architecture of airplanes vs cars: Airplanes rely on redundancy, which makes manuacturing more expensive but. Cars on the other hand try not to break in the first place, which is ensured through exhaustive testing and monitoring of the production chain. I think the winner will be the one who brings these two worlds together.
This article drastically overstates the evidence, which comes not from experiments but from epidemiology--that is, purely observational studies where you ask people what they eat and follow them to see what happens. This type of study has a horrible track record, and there's a solid theoretical basis for expecting them to produce false results. That there are "more than 400" such studies is irrelevant, because the problem with epidemiological studies isn't a problem with sample size, and the same confounder can distort all 400 studies in the same way.
Isn't line breaking an NP complete problem, akin to bin packing? I seem to recall hearing a presentation about it in the context of autoformatters for code. For example, Auto formatting Java code, which is typically verbose, relies on heuristics to avoid computational snares.
This is an interview with Susan Pinker. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510442 is an op-ed by Susan Pinker. I'm going to merge these threads as soon as I've eaten breakfast. Which article is better?

Edit: the Nautilus article wins. We moved most comments from the other thread hither.
I'm in my mid thirties. My partner and I have been together for 16 years. At no point in that time have either of us felt strongly that we wanted children. However, there are very good health reasons for us not to have biological children. So rather than risk future-us deciding we wanted biological children despite the issues, we made the choice permanent. Should that change we can always adopt. It's not like there's a shortage of children in the world.
We're super excited by the overall project at Graphistry, and hadn't realized there was a ray-on-pandas component! The first line w/ GPU count is intriguing given what we do :) Super excited to try it on our pandas code.

For node/data hackers: Our team is trying to bring the full & accelerated pydata world to JavaScript. We started with Arrow columnar data bindings (https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/js). Next stop is Plasma bindings in node for zero-copy node<>pydata interop. That enables nearly-free calls from node web etc. apps to accelerated pandas-on-ray. If others are interested in contributing, let me/us know!
How is this news? It’s wraping AI terminology over what we would call over since dawn of human, a disguise.
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Remember Bushs Missile Defense Shield in East Europe?
Either the cold war never ended or it's not the cold war anymore.

I'd say it's the second. The superpower game never ended but even with the sanctions, trade, travel and politics are not that locked. On the other hand there are those 2.0 war technologies like drones, trolls, cyber warfare...
No, but putting the needs of the individual before the needs of the group does create a bad society.
It's kind of sad. There are jobs I'd rather do, but I've consciously chosen one that I like less because it has more status and pays more, in significant part because it has improved my dating prospects.

It'd be interesting to see what proportion of the pay gap/high status job gap comes from different sociosexual incentives, though I have a hard time imagining a good way to measure that.
I think, tbf, that was more about dodging the question of child support than rape. I don't think any of the women targeted by undercover police officers are pursuing rape cases.
I was explicitly attacking the strength of the effect. Poorly, I grant.

That is, yes it increases the risk. It is such a weak source, though, that you are still better starting elsewhere, and are here unlikely to die from cancer if you eat these. Contrasted with smoking, where it is a strong influence.
While you're kind of right, I downvoted because I don't think that's the most reasonable or fair interpretation of what they're saying.

I think their point is largely true in two or three ways. The first is that prior to the moneyball era, teams treasured power hitters in a way that was much more OBP agnostic.

The second way is that they underappreciated players who don't hit for power but put up strong OBPs, like Scott Hatteberg.

The third is that however much moneyball teams prized home runs, they certain prize them even more now than before.

I think it's perfectly fair to say these distinctions support the notion that moneyball teams didn't value power hitting the same way as the generations that preceded or followed them.
I've done this (using full frame lenses with a speed booster) but have to say native Sony lenses are often really good, and half the size/weight of full frame lenses.

Also autofocus doesn't always work or is slow with the speed booster
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Sure, but pretty much everyone (even current Conservative party) agrees the Lansley reforms (The Health and Social Care Act) were a fucking mess and are currently causing problems.
From the GDPR, recital 45:

> [...] where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest [...] the processing should have a basis in Union or Member State law.

I don't think that purpose of archiving has a basis in law.

That said, I do remember my law professor calling the 'right to be forgotten' one of the weaker parts of the GDPR, and I'm not an expert, so it's possible I'm missing something.
I have too much money in Fuji so I won't switch. But the A7iii looks really good. Sony's lens line up is a little thin but if they can convince Tamron and Sigma to make lenses for their mount they may be unbeatable.
”If we focus our telescope on what men have traditionally valued, which is high-income and STEM jobs and long work-hours, say over 60 or 70 hours a week, then yes, women are not there, at 50/50, and I don’t think they will ever be—even if we had the most gender-neutral society possible. But if we aim our lens on lifespan, career satisfaction, and close personal relationships nurtured over decades—relationships that have been shown to protect cognition, resilience, and immunity—then men, on average, trail well behind women. If men want to live longer, happier lives, they have a lot of catching up to do. It all depends on the outcomes you value most.”

It’s extremely refreshing to see this discussed. It seems intersectional feminism is laser focused on prioritizing career and monetary success and nothing else. There’s so much more to life than spending your life earning a paycheck. Raising a healthy family, building a community and many other non-career based objectives seem entirely missing from the conversation. Instead the goal seems to be everyone becoming an office worker and mass consumer. I’d love to see other dimensions recognized as success.
> if nothing else the youngest and oldest children of a couple can be 20+ years apart.

This isn't relevant to generations. My youngest sister is 21 years younger than I am. But we are both part of the same familial generation. My children and her children will also be part of the same familial generation. (This is irrespective of the fact that my sister is a millennial and I am not.)

> The same person could easily show up as someones great grandparent (3) and their great great grandparent (4).

In the case of the graphic, I suggest that they put each person at the highest possible place in the hierarchy and then simply extended the relationship line down in cases like this.
Right. Any time a federal official asks you a question other than "How's the weather?" your response should always be "I cannot comment before consulting with my attorney."
I was going to suggest uncured bacon, but it looks like even superorganic uncured bacon has celery powder[1]. I guess nationally-distributed refrigerated meat products need more preservative than just low levels of salt. I'd suggest buying "pork belly" from a butcher. A good butcher should have more fresh product and be able to answer questions about preparation.

[1]: http://applegate.com/products/organic-sunday-bacon
Everybody gets paid the same, without any consideration to their productivity, or the level and scarcity of their skills.

Congratulations, you’ve invented communism.
It's better than denying the evidence and claiming it's a global conspiracy.

Understanding the risks is important, but you literally can't live your life avoiding everything that could cause harm to you. It's about picking your battles.

In this article, it's the nitrates, not the bacon itself. Next time I go to Costco I'll take a look and see if there are options with no or fewer nitrates.
What are the empty circles and squares?
> He was always awkward, but he is also very calculated. He wants in on the Chinese market.

That is of course the only possibility Chinese can think of, while Americans just think he is being awkward.

> And do what differently?

Not do a bunch of cringe worthy stuff like asking Xi to name his child or jogging in Beijing smog.
> All this begs the question is this missile actually an air-launched ballistic missile system?

Like Skybolt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-87_Skybolt

The Iskander is a bit smaller (7.3 metres long, 3.8 tonnes) than the Skybolt (11.7 metres long, 5 tonnes), but that fits with the idea that this is a tactical/theatre weapon rather than a (not quite) strategic one.
My guess: Letting customers drive a car is an entirely different regulatory and liability hurdle than letting them ride in one.