skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Musk's argument is that there isn't any indication so far that the machine learning has tricks up its sleeve that are sufficient resolve all of the ambiguous situations drivers come across. Having direct, accurate measurements of the environment serves as a ground truth that you don't have with just cameras. Humans don't have LIDAR, but we do have a different ground truth: we have a mental model of the world, and can reason about it. It's not just that we know things like 'fast cars take time to stop' or 'he looked at me so is probably aware of me', but rather being able to synthesize based on really complex behaviors we've never seen before, and in many cases, direct communication. All that is to say, there is a lot more to human drivers than their eyes, and for the moment there is nothing showing that we're on the cusp of developing real AI that can address those concerns. I don't think it's just a matter of labeling more data and GPUing bigger models.

So while Musk might be right if we get such AI, it's not clear that it's about to arrive, and even if it does, we can still use LIDAR. In fact chances are that if you have such great AI, additional sensor inputs will turn it from 'Level 5 Autonomous Pilot' to 'Ultra-super human pilot who can preemtively react to situations you didn't even realize were possible in the moment.'.

Of course there are questions at hand:

1. Is Elon right and I'm wrong? Maybe strong(er) AI is right around the corner.
2. Is current LIDAR tech good enough to reliably provide the ground-truth I spoke about?
Anyone who has read both whitepapers at a minimum, or audited either code base, knows they are far different technologies.
Sounds suspiciously like not ever needing more than 64KB of RAM.

The reality is that greater horsepower allows for greater abstraction, and easier to program APIs. Increasing developer productivity 2x reduces performance 10-100x, or something like that. So there’s never “enough” performance for the same reason there’s never “enough” powerful/usable APIs.
Robinhood’s Valuation Soars Above $5B
No doubt Google will accept ads from sites that were previously listed. Nice racket they got
With a market cap of $800 billion -- and about $100 billion in cash -- Alphabet/Waymo could just buy Fiat Chrysler, whose market cap is $32 billion.
Yeah, there's that. It would be nice if C++ did a emptiness check for you, but I guess that this wasn't in the cards…
This looks on-topic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

I'm not up to day with the RoR development, but I guess there are similar articles in English.

Do you have an English version? With some luck it will be more popular here. (At least translate the title of the submission.)
Tesla employees say Model 3 parts need substantial rework after production
This is great feedback, and initially I had a calculator for this. We removed it because we felt it would be intuitive but you're right we built it and it's easy to lose that outside perspective.

It's really just the running time of your program (you control this) plus a less than a second of setup / tear down time. If your job is set to consume 1GB that's it, you've consumed that many GB-seconds. If it's a 128MB job, then you've only consumed 1/8th of that many GB-seconds.

Let me know if this example is getting it across, it's a simplified version of the pricing of other serverless platforms.
So by virtue of being English/Dutch descended they have a better system. The leaps in your logic are all over the place.

How is France "uniquely vulnerable to fascism?

How do you think that having a response to monopolies enshrined in law makes it a "bedrock feature" of our society when the US has seemingly abandoned any serious enforcement of antitrust law?

How do you respond to the state and industries working together as in the case of regulatory capture or governments adding protections for companies like preventing state level governments preventing municipalities from forming their own ISPs?

Your whole post just reads as "us good, them bad" with no actual evidence on the results
As someone who used to work in/on/underneath websphere. I can tell you I am loathe to even consider anything IBM. I was almost recruited by them and then I recalled how miserable I was on one particular project. The money was good but I said no. I recommend everyone I mean to stay away from IBM and Oracle as best I can. I just don't think the line between open source and enterprise is crystal clear anymore.
I get results, so Im guessing its a test not a "No longer shows"

https://imgur.com/a/KZhE0
Kind of feels like a similar experience to asking Alexa a question, except with Alexa it's as if you always got the infobox or the "i'm feeling lucky" result.
12 years ago some guy had the courage to report this predatory activity in Kuro5hin

"How IBM Conned My Execs Out Of Millions"
http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2005_9_27_95759_4240.html (cache)

I remember the guy was harassed by IBM lawyers and even lost his job.
> leading to centralization

Repeating this propaganda over and over and over doesn't make it true.

No centralization will occur with an increase in block size, as there will still be enough participants to prevent attacking the block chain.

If what is meant by centralization is the reduction of people who can run nodes, then keeping the block size small also increases centralization by this definition, as there is a reduction in people who can afford to transact on the main chain.

But when it comes to maintaining the core trustless network inherent in the bit coin algorithm, increasing block size does nothing to break its function.

Stop with the propaganda.
In mobile chrome, they even have the weather cloudiness and temp in the search suggestion - no need to actually hit the SERPs at all.
So basically for heating this is a "min temp" sensor per room. For cooling I assume "max temp".
It only shows the infobox for me.
Unless airtable becomes its own thing worth a multiple of 50M $... they’ll prob need to sell. It just doesn’t seem like an IPOable business to me.
I've always made my own exercises by deciding what I want to build with a language before I build it. Then I break it up into chunks and learn as I go.
I am very curious about this as well. In this example [0] someone was able to precompute 30k transactions in 5 hours with a single 1070. A mining farm with 100 video cards (capital cost of $40k) could generate a sustained load of 10k transactions per second. With precomputation, you could easily do an order of magnitude more damage. All of these transactions are stored permanently on the ledger as far as I can tell.

Nanoblocks does serve some purpose in my mind, but it has major issues to solve, and in no way is a catch-all solution for the scaling problems that Bitcoin has.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/stress-testing-the-raiblocks-network-...
Unhappiness Is a Palate-Cleanser: Why it’s impossible to always be happy
You're right - my language was too dismissive. The general idea of what I said above is still valid though.

Another point: the cost per student does not increase linearly with time. Instead, advising becomes significantly more efficient after we've already taught the student our core insights. This means we're much more willing to spend additional time on students the more time we've already spent.

In contrast, houses can't "learn" how to sell themselves like a student can, so real estate agent costs are linear with time spent.
Productivity can still be measured in service, although in certain cases abstractly, but for example a barber is a service worker with pretty measurable productivity. I think inflation can still occur within the classical model wrt the service sector. An example being that a restaurant has trouble keeping dishwasher positions filled, incentivizing them to increase dishwasher wages, requiring higher menu prices to compensate.

As long as the US continues to maintain a comparative advantage in certain industries (e.g. software) I see no reason why they will be immune to wage inflation either. In fact this is arguably already occurring
I'd also like to hear more about the tech to know how seriously they're taking privacy... I was already against an Amazon Echo in my home, and that only records audio rather than video.

(For the convenience, I ended up using a Google Home, and I'll likely switch to an Apple HomePod next as they seem the most trustworthy with your data.)

If Piccolo will make money through data (like Amazon or Google), there's virtually no way for it to be non-intrusive unlike with audio, as we'd just be using it for turning off our lights rather than searching for the nearest French restaurant. Data would have to come from visual recognition. Hopefully the lack of connection needed to a cloud in this situation will result in more security? Anyway, curious to see how it works.
Lispstick was semi-maintained by me until portacle came out. Any further efforts I make will be to improve portacle.
Quantum speed limits are not actually quantum
Apparently the elevated walkway was installed in less than 1 day (with major parts of it being pre-fab). But it sounds like it wasn't the complete project, which was expected to be finished in 2019:

> Once it’s finished in early 2019, the new pedestrian bridge will link FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus directly to the small suburban city of Sweetwater, where the university estimates 4,000 of its students live.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/w...
I worked for a firm that sold IBM products. We had a horde of developers in India. Is that the proof you want? Some teams there was particularly great. Other's not so much. Turnover though was EXTREMELY high.
There is a "show all results" button immediately below the stated time.
...until you press the button.

(I see a "show all results" button.)
I don't get results, but I do get a button to reveal them.

Here's what I see: https://screenshots.firefox.com/2mY2qXqlVG9ZpESM/www.google....
Major issue on Gandi Mail
It shows the infobox, but there's a "Show all results" button below it for me.
For legal documents, Statements of Work, bids, etc. I've been using latex a lot lately.

It has most of the benefits of Markdown but is way more powerful.

The learning curve is quite high though and to call it human readable is a stretch sometimes.

I like to write common documents up front then put macros in place of things like "client name" -- then at the top of the file I declare them and it makes for really easy document generation.
I would try to go further and wrap them in a class to hide the heap usage and expose the valid uses in the interface. Then it reads like a value and walks like one too. Unless I need virtual inheritance I guess.
Avoiding Founders Dilution
Assuming that the founders have a very high leverage, what are some tips for founders to avoid dilution?
"so what did you do before self-driving cars?"

"we just drove 'em ourselves!"

"wow, no one died that way?"

"oh no, millions of people died"
Seems like Google has gone a ways from "don't be evil" to applying AI to tracking and targeting drones.
It is completely naive to think that refugees in Europe are anything other than economic refugees. Look at the data, non-European refugees are overwhelmingly working-age males: http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/08/02/4-asylum-seeker-demograp...

I'm not discounting the struggle in Syria, but it seems fairly obvious that the opportunists well outweigh those who truly need asylum. In a real crisis the refugee population would be age and gender agnostic within a reasonable margin.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

"Unemployment" has been such a gamed term, especially since the Great Recession (at least, from my current perspective), that someone would have to argue me back to believing, to any significant degree, the numbers they are posting and stories they are telling about same.
Epigenetics can sometimes influence pigmentation, but expression of human skin and hair colors is pretty explicitly genetic, so you can expect the same results from the same genes a mere several thousand years apart.
Geo-Partitioning: What Global Data Actually Looks Like
If you're referring to the DMCA, there are two important things to know:

1. YouTube supports DMCA notices, because it has to in order to keep safe harbor, but YouTube's preferred/automated system does not use DMCA notices and so is not bound by the DMCA's rules.

2. It's next to impossible to meet the standard for getting punishment/damages out of a false DMCA takedown. The only part of a notice that's made under penalty of perjury is that assertion that you are, or are authorized to act on behalf of, a copyright holder. The claim of infringement is not made under penalty of perjury. The infamous Diebold case did get damages, but only because Diebold literally admitted in court "we knew this wasn't infringing but sent a takedown anyway". As long as the sender of the takedown notice isn't quite that stupid, they won't be on the hook for anything.
It's incredibly dumb for anyone to fixate on the unemployment rate as a long term metric. Because it's really a measure of employment 'churn'

So employment churn is at historically low rates really. And this is good exactly why? Especially since the population to employment ratio hasn't changed at all since the great recession. This means you have a very non dynamic employment situation going on. That's actually not good and the Fed's preferred fix, having businesses fire a few percent of the workforce isn't a fix at all.
"The Pentagon needs help on A.I. from Silicon Valley because that’s where the talent is. The tech industry’s biggest companies have been hoarding A.I. expertise, sometimes offering multimillion-dollar pay packages that the government could never hope to match."

The Pentagon is going to have to come up with market compensation if they want top talent. The US spends half a trillion dollars per year on the military, they can certainly afford to pay software devs what they're worth if it is a priority.
``Real'' books are an environmental nightmare. One e-reader can save countless trees.
I don't see it as a struggle between state and industry per se, but rather as the difference between one type of aristocracy over another. I'm not sure what you mean by "fully privatised states."

Privatization effectively does two things. It exposes the health of the organization to the market, and it takes the control out of the hands of the ruling class. It is unclear how you could do that to an entire state. If you remove from it the ability to collect taxes, that would do the trick, but also effectively destroy the ability of the state to govern, making it no longer a state.

The closest analogue to this may be Somalia, which is effectively a medieval feudal regime that persisted into the 21st century. Somalia's national government has no real control over the country and can only cajole, never force. Somalia's federal government is playing a 'fake it til you make it game' which apparent when you see that their actual collected taxes is only 30% of what they say should be being collected. Customs were 68% of the entire government revenue in 2016.

Another "private government" is the Vatican, which sustains itself largely on donations from Catholics throughout the world. As there is nothing compelling Christians to donate, the Vatican is much more market-oriented than most states.

I have already gone over Russia's system of tributary taxation, but that's a voluntary system as well that the Russian state could not survive without in it's current form. It's estimated that by midcentury, the system will be replaced with a more conventional one. Putin's successor won't be as capable as he is in keeping the current order humming.
Wire transfers don't have chargebacks.
We'll soon need some chat bots to make small talks.

Something like Poe in Altered Carbon will be awesome.
As an avid Excel and GSheet user, it's nice and slick with a few more bells and whistles. Very clean and probably good for an organization with members who are not very good with sheets in general or have a hard time mapping data mentally; akin to a better designed SmartSheet.
Yes, and there's a strange interview with the CEO of (Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles about their deal with Google/Waymo. He seems to have a sense of wonder about dealing with Google, because Google is bigger than FCA. He's not used to that.

On the other side, Continental, the huge European auto parts maker, is quietly starting to make all the parts for self-driving cars. They bought Advanced Scientific Concepts, the good flash LIDAR company, and are preparing that technology from volume production. They make the sensors, actuators, ruggedized computers, dashboards, etc.[1] Delco is also active in automatic driving. Self-driving may just be an auto accessory.

[1] https://www.continental-corporation.com/en/products-and-inno...
You can make educated guesses about the future, which is how Oculus's Asynchronous Spacewarp works. Rendering a whole frame is slow, but warping a pre-rendered frame is fast. If the next frame is taking too long to render, you can warp the last frame to roughly match the perspective that corresponds with the current head tracking data. You get some artefacts, but they're not as noticeable as the judder caused by a missed frame. Prediction can also be used to estimate the head-tracking data at the time the frame is drawn to the display, rather than at the time the frame starts to render.

Similar techniques are used in video compression - encoding the exact value of every pixel is expensive, but you can trade bandwidth for processing by encoding transformations of a previous frame. A modern compressed video consists mainly of these interpolated frames, with only a minority of frames containing a full image. This interpolation can use data from both past and future frames (B frames) but can also use just the data in previous frames (P frames). This works extremely well most of the time, but there are some edge cases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_compensation
Can I ask what actual business functions these spreadsheets are for?
FWIW: You can do this with spotlight search without a connection.
Based on the exponential growth of disk size, I don't see this as a problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire chain, even at visa levels, could be stored on an average phone in 10 years.
We do some preprocessing on-device and run our more complex models in the cloud. It’s similar to Alexa which always listens for the trigger word, but only streams to servers for the few seconds afterwords. While some image data is processed in the cloud, it’s never stored.
Is it? They’ve known about the problem for a while now.
I like the “Answered in 0.15 seconds” instead of “About X results (0.27 seconds)”
> This is completely wrong. The JVM works at an extremely high level.

I'll give you that; it was just one example. There have been plenty of others in history, Pascal P-code is closer to WebAssembly and that's from the 70's! The concept of a portable assembly language is neither new or interesting. WebAssembly is just another compiler target -- if you can compile to it, you can compile to every other native CPU directly. That's just not that interesting as an intermediate form. Java was slightly more interesting as they abstracted the entire platform not just the CPU.

I stand by my statement that WebAssembly is only valuable because it's sandboxed in the browser.

> Honestly it seems like HN is blind to fundamentals and everything new is just some hyped up useless piece of shit.

Maybe being blind to the fundamentals is not knowing the 50 years of technology that has already been done. Remixing old technology in new ways is valuable and in this case remixing portable assembly with the browser sandbox is the cool part.
Perhaps you could infer it by looking at the number of people that are working 2 or more jobs? If that data exists...
The Final Conf-Down
I guess the nebulous thing is exactly which 8th generation Cores will have the update.

Indeed. Plenty of 8th gen processors have already shipped so it won't be easy to tell which ones are fixed. Also, 8th gen includes Kaby Lake-R, Coffee Lake, Cannonlake, and maybe Whiskey Lake; I doubt all of those will be fixed. And I was expecting Intel to be selling 9th gen in 2H2018.
The slow creep of Google centralization is working less in their favor than I believe they understand.
The absolute numbers are still pretty low. It's not like SF and LA are mostly homeless.
I wish our company had this 10 years ago. Everybody was using and mis-using Excel for everything, whether it's requirements, project tracking, documentation, manually updated dashboard and dashboard.

We're not abusing Excel anymore, but we've ended up specialized software for everything. Ironically we've lost ability to create something that is exactly tailored for each person's need.
Linux, PostgreSQL, Rails, Webpack, React and Sass. For the most part.

This is a great solution for general-purpose use, dropping React of course if there’s no need for interactivity.
A series on building modern business apps https://www.voucherify.io/blog/building-an-online-marketplac...
Let's just say I'm not early in my career and 33% is taking into account a $15000 paycut by my wife and we still ended up in the 90th percentile of household income....

I'm not bragging. Any dual income household with one being a senior developer in a major city could do it.
> It’s not that drones get tired. It’s just that if they’re delivering your box of cat food and low-rise socks, dropping down to put them on your patio, and then flying back up for the next delivery takes power they need to conserve.

Descending and ascending slowly should use nearly the same amount of energy as hovering. Am I missing something? Also the added time spent doing the descending then ascending versus just dropping the package from hovering is certainly negligible compared to the energy needed to fly from depot to drop-off and back.
>so what happens if I move to another company

Don't worry, at our current rate that won't be allowed. As a programmer you are now company property. I guess that also means "You're fired" means "Literally fired in an incinerator"
“It looks more like stock manipulation than a security advisory to me” – Linus
> and the official The Rust Programming Language Book also doesn't have any

Could you expand on bit on what you see as the difference between an "exercise" and the "projects" that the book includes?

- Guessing game: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch02-00...

- I/O: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch12-00...

- Web server: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch20-00...

There's also some exercises scattered at the end of various chapters, but not with the header "exercise"

- Control flow: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch03-05...

- Collections: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch08-03...

Sometimes they are even inlined with the text:

> Try modifying Cacher to hold a hash map rather than a single value.

> try introducing more generic parameters to increase the flexibility of the Cacher functionality.

- https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch13-01...
Even when you use RAII, const-by-default, shared pointers, type-rich APIs, and the like, you're still using C++. That means you're still tied to C's legacy defaults (of UB) and that also means you're still using C++ value categories. If your "safe" C++ subset uses references, it can't be guaranteed to be safe (since plenty of valid code will lead to UB).

More info in the value category cheat sheet: https://github.com/jeaye/value-category-cheatsheet/blob/mast...
Our first prototype ran locally end-to-end. To make that work we used a Jetson TX2 ($600 computer), but the performance was abysmal. In a few years, it might be possible to do what we're doing locally and at a reasonable price.
Excel is SUCH a double-edged sword, isn't it?