skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prospect facing democracy might be not death but mitosis.

In the US, the EU, India, and elsewhere, trust in the national-level institutions necessary to sustain any regime from democracy to dictatorship has been eroding. This seems to be part of a deliberate strategy, but that's less important than the result. In most of these places, there are moves toward fragmentation and separatism. In the US it hasn't quite gotten that far, but there sure is plenty of sniping between "red" and "blue" states. (It doesn't seem to matter that most states are really "purple" in actual elections because they still tend to identify one way or the other.) "States' rights" has been a theme on the conservative side forever, but now even liberal governors and state legislatures seem to be more inclined to defy the federal government on various policies. The sense of common purpose that others have pointed out seems to be missing at the national level. Maybe it can't be sustained at population levels of 300M or more. In the US, that might mean more decisions delegated to the states and a more limited federal government (which AFAICT is what the US founders actually intended even with their second attempt). Or maybe it will mean actual separate states with EU-like arrangements to facilitate migration and trade, and likewise elsewhere.
Hopefully it doesn't need a network connection to drive...

But if doesn't have a network connection, and manual intervention is required, that's just like the "sensor failed" case except you might have to rely on the passengers contacting waymo to tell them where the car is. Which they'll be motivated too since they are somewhat stranded.
That's fairly interesting, do you have a link to what he said?
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The most important part of IEEE decimal arithmetic is the (weakened, made optional) mandate that decimal floating point perform exact arithmetic— deterministic cross platform results on the same inputs. This is important not just for financial accounting which motivated this departure from binary floating point (where error is tolerated), but for any distributed system that needs reliable computation in the presence of heterogeneous hardware or compiler optimizations. It is embarrassing that we live with this state of affairs in 2018 with no way to do deterministic/ exact real number arithmetic in programs without emulating the FPU in software.
As I said, there are some pictures where the only thing in them are my kids. Lighting was such that they are literally all that is in the picture. And I'm talking about 3 month old pictures. They look identical. Not surprisingly, even the well trained classifiers of Google and Amazon get them wrong.

None of this was to say this isn't impressive. It truly is. I don't know why my bar for the magic of image recognition is so high.
It's expected the ones less threatened and in a social dominant position have less fear of hate speech directed towards other populations or even to itself.

A more interesting question is at what point free speech ceases to be beneficial to society and starts reinforcing oppressive stereotypes or to direct hatred and marginalize minority or less dominant groups.

It is, however, understandable when groups that are consistently at risk are more suspicious at unrestricted speech being directed to them or others in similar conditions.

Speech may have undesired consequences.
> Imagine a world where police no longer pull you over for speeding, running red lights, or other traffic infractions.

In that world, I can also imagine people modding their autonomous cars in ways which would still violate traffic laws.
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I don't think this is true; see e.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...
And many of those networks of activist organizations are tied to rich patrons. This is one reason why inequality is problematic. Inequality as such is not a problem, except for the purely envious, but in a wage slave economy like ours, money can buy extraordinary influence.
I'm not sure today, but it used to be actively used in the Fixed Income Department of Morgan Stanley in the 1980-90-2000 time period.
That's an interesting point I hadn't heard before.

Exactly.

Because why would they? Why would we even need speed limits, if the computer it in control and proven safe at X speed, because it has a Y reaction time vs a human's Z reaction time.
They own Apress, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature
> ...and has a well-recognised problem with binge-drinking

Norway? I've worked for a Norwegian company for over 15 years, and I've spent a lot of time there over those years.

And I've never seen bing-drinking or heard of it as a "well-recognised problem" there.

> rather, people get hammered on cheap booze at weekends

Sorry, what cheap booze?

IME, what you state is just not the case. Alcohol always seems to be a social thing, more of an event even, likely because of the price. Norwegians tend to be more like connoisseurs of good quality alcoholic drinks - because so much of the cost is tax, you can buy high quality aquavit, whisky and craft beers for the same price as what would be considered 'pish' here in the UK.
I do. Since C-x is very common I swapped T with X. Here's the snippet from my init:

;; Swap C-t and C-x, so it's easier to type on Dvorak layout
;; `keyboard-translate` does not work when attaching an emacsclient to
;; a running emacs in daemon mode, so instead we define the key in the
;; key-translation-map.
;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-10/msg00505.html
(define-key key-translation-map [?\C-x] [?\C-t])
(define-key key-translation-map [?\C-t] [?\C-x])

With this modification I find Emacs with Dvorak very comfortable.
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> German automakers who (from first hand experience in this domain in particular) are clueless about autonomy

You made me curious, care the elaborate?
Maybe, but there are quirks you can exploit. Getting hit in the back of your car, for example, usually means fault is with the car behind.
> I know I'm older than most here (and have the tri-focals to prove it) but did anyone else read this as "modem outrage"?

http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_term...
The databases have number formats that represent numerical values for money correctly. And they’re probably the most widely used programming systems for dealing with money.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/fixed-point-types.ht...
While this one works great, what i would really recommend is a solution for integrating it with email. I found that the integration of using Hop email alongside this worked wonders
Check it out at https://gethop.com/?
> You just press it, like you would with an SD card in a camera, and it pops out... Are you wrecking your Switch by trying to force it out???

I think you might have misread my post because your first sentence is literally just a reitteration of my description (even down to the SD card example). My point - which admittedly wasn't very clear - is that it's quite awkard compared to the carts in old handhelds. Granted that's entirely down the difference in sizes and I'm not sure it's a problem that can be solved; but even so, I still don't enjoy how fiddly it is.

> The joy cons are great for when you travel, I bought mine in Taiwan and the wife and I played mario kart together on the plane ride home.

Indeed. As I also said, I predominantly use my Switch for traveling as well. My point wasn't the convenience but rather their ergonomics. They're so heavily sculpted around being comfortable while used by 1 person (vertically) that the button locations and curvature of the paddles are badly located when the controllers are used horizontally. Which can make them a little unpleasant to use (convenience aside).
You're ignoring a lot of subtelties here.

> I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have such thing going on?

Warsaw is a great example, but ironically these womens' standards are pretty high - all in all they didn't leave their 30k-something-souls towns for the Big City to marry a man who doesn't enjoy a decent social status himself.

> Or is there? Also, either there is stigma for being single woman or there are vast numbers of single women. Both at the same time cannot be true in even somewhat stable system, and it's hard to argue that Polish cities are in total chaos.

Anecdata: my sister was born in 86' and is currently single and childless, just like a few of her friends. On one hand they're pressured to do something about this, on the other there aren't many eligible bachelors available because well, they're taken. This song[0] illustrates this point beautifully.

Hell, the problem is so visible right now that a TV show dedicated to making couples out of (most of the time)well-off farmers and city-dwelling women[1] was created.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/FremantleMediaPoland
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a legitimate take.

My thinking is this is two-pronged. It won't make sense to make the infrastructure investment until there are sufficient proof points that this is 1.) something people want and 2.) something that's economically viable.

It's likely that the early geofenced version of passenger autonomy will demonstrate what further infrastructure is needed and how much it would cost.

One interesting side point; dedicated lanes for autonomous traffic are already being proposed on some roadways, particularly interstates in the U.S and highways in Europe. The economic benefits from autonomous logistics (e.g. trucking) are more readily capturable, so the infrastructure investment might make more sense there up front.
Except for the cases where it went well and therefore doesn't register in your consideration.
That sounds slightly ambiguous, is that person going to be that leader, out are they looking for one?
A hypothesis is a conjecture - we hope not a fanciful one, but a conjecture nevertheless.
While it’s true now that cameras don’t seem to be reducing police shootings (needs citation) I suspect it may lead to better behavior. Similarly, social media also drives a amplifying feedback loop that you’re not factoring into your analogy.
If you want a default decimal floating-point type, the only defensible choice is the decimal128 type standardized by IEEE 754. It has a fully-defined arithmetic, specified by experts who have spent their careers thinking about the issues involved, and is wide enough to exactly represent the US national debt in every currency used on earth.

There are situations where other decimal floating-point types are appropriate, but if you do not understand the tradeoffs you are making, you should be using decimal128.

I don't agree with everything in Jens Nockert's "silly review", but he's right about a lot of things: http://blog.aventine.se/2014/03/09/a-silly-review-of-dec64.h...

I made a few notes the last time I saw this type come up somewhere:

- It has significantly less exponent range than IEEE decimal64 (it effectively throws away almost three bits in order to have the exponent fit in a byte; 2^56 is ~7.2E16, which means that it can represent some, but not all, 17-digit significands; the effective working precision is 16 digits, which actually requires only ~53.15 bits).

- Even if you weren’t going to use those extra bits for exponent, they could be profitably used for other purposes.

- Lack of infinity is a mild annoyance.

- Rounding is biased for add/sub/mul, broken for divide.

- It's not significantly more computationally efficient than the IEEE formats, despite handwaving by the author.

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Edit: I would be remiss not to note that Intel has made available a well-tested complete implementation of IEEE 754 decimal64 and decimal128 under 3-clause BSD: http://www.netlib.org/misc/intel/
Isn't that the purpose of United Nations?
How is the 100 watts calculated in your example?

I would've presumed the theoretical maximum for a producing unit would be what it could theoretically actually produce in the location its placed. If it's the theoretical maximum output of a cell, then calling BS seems warranted, but it doesn't seem like that would be a useful comparator in this context.
Norway’s, no? It just happens to be located near Scotland.

The SNP’s plans for tidal barriers came to naught (as did their dreams of oil at $100/barrel)
Really agree with the author's point that there is something fulfilling about inconvenience and struggling.

After I started fishing in my spare time, I've had really good days where the fish are hammering my lures and I'm catching them every 10 minutes. Those days always start out well, but towards the end it's almost boring since I know they'll end up biting and there's no sense of accomplishment.

But the days where the fish aren't biting and I have to switch out lures, tie different rigs, and search for the fish make it much more rewarding when I do catch one.
For one it seems to be system-wide rather than Firefox-specific (too bad It's All text doesn't work after Quantum). Apparently relies on the clipboard instead of filesystem
You could look at tuning hdfs or Cassandra to be strongly consistent. By default though they both use eventual consistency for replication. The difference is you can set the required number of nodes to accept a write as a success. What I can't say for sure is if this is a good idea.
Or just get out of the academic world. Everyone knows it's going down.
Antifa is a blessing

Perhaps your neighborhood has never been rushed by fascists...
people still need to cross roads
I used to be sort of obsessed with some kind of handheld Linux machine. Devices I've had included:

HP 200 LX with 40MB PCMCIA storage. Tried to run a cut-down 16-bit version of Linux on it, but I don't think I ever got that running properly.

Original Sharp Zaurus, the first Linux PDA. Tried to run Linux on a Compaq iPaq at some point too.

Asus EEE PC 401 with the 7in screen and 4GB of storage. The first of the netbooks. Performance and build quality were not good. But it was very cute.

HTC ADP1 (G1), the first Android phone. Decent keyboard, terrible battery life. Connectbot was awesome for SSHing into remote systems, and local development was slightly possible with a Linux chroot environment.

Samsung Sidekick 4G. By far the best keyboard on any handheld device I've ever tried. Great feel, and I could get up to 30wpm. I was also able to set up a chroot environment. Had to modify the keyboard map to enable the last few ASCII characters not normally available via Fn keypress.

The idea was that I'd be able to do some software development on the go. But that didn't really work out either.

The device I'm most happy with so far is my current Chromebook. I've got a full Ubuntu environment via Crouton on a 128GB SD card, though most of the time I'm just SSHing into a workstation. Light, cheap, and with a long battery life. The keyboard is good enough that I'm running at nearly full speed, though I do miss my dedicated caps-lock.
The width of the float not being fixed seems like a massive goal post shift. Unnecessarily so, honestly.

That said, this problem doesn't seem that much harder, honestly. Each float has a max size. They are only smaller if they had less text.

And see the example in the TeX-book. Basically a circular cutout for text aligned on a circle. Both parts fully hyphenated to fill the outline. I'm on my phone, but will try and find an example, if it would help.
> I think you might have misread my post because your first sentence is literally just a reitteration of my description (even down to the SD card example).

I read it but I still do not understand why you have to "jam your nail into the card to get it to spring out" when this isn't the case at all...
Did I say that?

What I suggest is we stop ignoring the fact that there are (almost) always unintended consequences.

Why do we keep pretending we are smarter than we really are?
You can't say it's better or worse

It's different, and equally dangerous
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> Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper.

It'd require some impressive mental gymnastics to consider hand-washing cheaper than a washing machine. The societal changes (improvements) that washing machines brought are immense, and fairly well documented.

> After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undignified.

Renting vhs/beta/laserdisc/bluray/hd etc has long been preferable to watching something littered with advertisements every 12-15 minutes - leaving aside the frequent censorship, lower quality audio or video, the inability to pause or rewind at will.

The phrase 'streaming television' just seems wrong.

> To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism.

I know plenty of people that don't have a smartphone, but have a 4G / LTE 'feature' phone. There's no stigma there - it's down to a combination of cost, functionality, and signal range.

The suggestion implies there's a clear downside - an evil, perhaps - to using a cellphone or any of Google's services (naturally conflating the two is not useful).
I am so glad that died. There was a time when you couldn't open most businesses' websites on Linux because flash support was shaky and everyone relied on all of it.
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https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/pdf/technotes.pdf discusses their methodology some. They aren't simply using nameplate capacity as the denominator.
In fairness, that was the original plan.

What's sad is that a modest number of features would make Ello a great text/writing platform. Those have not been forthcoming, and there's little sign they ever will be.

I've dialled back activity accordingly.
I've heard the point made that the Democrat's identity politics caused the Trumpian identity politics as a backslash. If topics are frequently about solving issues for groups that are explicitly different from you, you get framed as the problem and frequently even prohibited from having a voice backslash is inevitable especially by people who don't agree with the problem statement in the first place. That approach is not a productive way to have any discussion.
It's certainly the force that is pushing a majority to willingly hand over all of their personal data to third parties. Presently, it is inconvenient to set up a virtual private network and application servers to host personal omnipresent applications ("PAO" applications) and share data with friends. But some of us insist on keeping personal data personal. Rather than store my data on third-party services, I use my own disks with a virtual network that makes the data available everywhere. Here at HN, similar-minded people are fairly common.

Convenience is simply one variable used in decision making. Some of us value it more than others. In many spaces, I value preference and self-ownership higher than convenience, so many of the examples in the article do not resonate with me. I see the described behavior in others.

As the article points out, technology evolves. Personal hosting will become simpler with time and perhaps at some point, we will hit the tipping point where it is approximately as convenient as third-party "cloud" data and application hosting. Incremental steps along this path that merges self-ownership and convenience (e.g., the work being done by ZeroTier) are visible if you're looking for them.
What, that you don't own someone else's personal data?

No, sorry, I was referring to your whole opening section, which was a response to my question, "How can anyone possibly make a reasonable, intelligent, a priori assessment of how long that data will be useful for that kind of purpose?"

My point is that even something as "simple" as deciding how long you should retain some data that you originally acquired and have used for some obviously legitimate purpose is not necessarily an easy question. These are the sorts of issues where I'm arguing that small organisations really need simple, concise, clear guidance.

You've linked to a few pages on the ICO's site throughout this discussion. I note in passing that reading and understanding them fully would take many hours, even just looking at the high-level guides and checklists, and having done so, they still leave numerous subjects open to interpretation or judgement where someone would probably need real legal advice to find out where they might stand in practice.

Now, if you're a business with an in-house legal team and an in-house IT team and a turnover well into the millions and a designated management structure and established processes for doing most things, that's probably not a big deal. But if you're three guys running an Internet startup from someone's bedroom, or even a significantly more established online business but not large enough for dedicated IT staff or in-house lawyers (which is still the scale that the vast majority of businesses are working at), no-one has time to read through dozens of pages of "guidance" full of subjective-anyway legalese. You need clear, actionable guidance, and you need a clear, unambiguous legal framework.

I would argue that expecting even a good faith effort at compliance from many of those smaller businesses is unrealistic, given the "support" available today. They're just going to break the law, either of out of ignorance or out of apathy, and either way the law didn't achieve anything useful in all of those cases. That then means that any of us who are concerned with trying to do the right thing and do want to understand our real legal obligations will automatically be at a disadvantage. That's not a good way to encourage compliance or to support smaller businesses growing (and in particular, growing responsibly and legally).
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Without revealing too much, German automakers have expertise primarily in logistics, with some expertise in automotive design.

There is a vast pyramid of Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers that feed into that logistics chain. A lot of those suppliers are promising automakers that they can deliver either components that feed into autonomy, or else autonomy in full. This fragments the effort across literally hundreds of small teams, many of whom have little to no expertise at all in the necessary disciplines.

Additionally, every German automaker also has its own in-house autonomy team, and the relationships between in-house, contracting, and supplier teams is chaotic. Many managers see autonomy as another way to build a small empire and make a name for themselves, and it just results in a huge organizational snarl.

The fact that this is an area no one knows how to execute on yet since it's brand new, coupled with these gross inefficiencies, will mean autonomy efforts from the automakers will be stillborn. They will eventually learn from it though, acquire the right teams, and get on with putting it into their cars just as they're doing with EV.
Sadly, Chrome won't support extensions: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=706008
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I love my Switch and Mario Kart is my favorite game on it, but it's not really new. I played the crap out of MK8 when it came out for the WiiU. Although it does have many tweaks that greatly improve the experience.

But I'd agree that it's a must-have! You can just whip it out and race a friend anywhere.
That's not what transaction cost is. Transaction costs are expenses incurred when buying or selling a good or service.

Convenience is a factor in preference (ordering of alternatives based on their relative utility)