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I don't really see the reason for downvotes. I don't take his comment as hostile, but rather simply as a function of economics.

Suppose for a moment that everyone of the 7 billion people wanted to live in a single city. Taking it to the extreme. It doesn't work. Land prices would make everything unaffordable, there wouldn't be enough space to produce goods and provide space to live and work. The best thing in such a situation would be to say, let's have substantial people move away from this particular city, to live and work somewhere else where natural resources (land, what's on and under it) is abundant.

To me it seems pretty obvious that this is the position that some price cities find themselves in.

You can sort of look at a heat-map or height-map of population density. This map essentially expresses demand for that land, and that expresses the cost of the land. In that sense, population density to land can be viewed as interest rates to debt. The smartest thing to do in a debt situation is move high-interest debt to low-interest debt. Redistribute your debt to where it is cheap. Similarly, we ought to redistribute our demand for land to where it is cheap, which means moving people around. In that sense, the above comment makes sense to me.

I'm not advocating for some kind of forced migration or anything, but companies and governments should inform, educate and incentivise this redistribution in a soft manner. Introducing (progressive) land taxes is probably part of the story.
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bottom line was that the person hit was crossing in the middle of the street (jay walking), so they are to blame for the accident not the car. while the technology _should have_ seen them, i don't blame it. this is essentially the same as someone breaking into your house, getting hurt and you getting sued. the person is breaking the law, yet you're to blame... that wouldn't be fair to you, so it isn't fair to blame the car in this incident.
Typically we pragmatists consider guiding the company to avoid implosion as a criterion for a successful board.
Two questions: for any job with exceptional responsibility or skill required, has there ever been a candidate with a resume gap where the story behind it did not make them more interesting?

When you see a gap, what do you really think happened in it and what does it signify or mean?
Can we maybe instead of/additional to a new Mozilla password manager get an API with which existing password managers can integrate with Firefox?
We're also seeing corporations removing discounts for NRA members. I don't see a link between that and legal fiduciary duty in those actions. They seem to be reactions to social pressure.

That's speaking as someone who would like to see clearer legal protections for content-neutral hosting platforms.
only /r/darknetmarkets seems banned /r/darknet is still there.
Agreed but immutability can lead to builders and builders lead to lots of code bloat. Plus, from what I've experienced lots of frameworks depend on java bean conventions (i.e. getters/setters for everything).

There's really two missing features of java that could solve 90+% of the use cases for getters/setters.

- Attributes: annotation or keyword based directives for the compiler to generate getters/setters for a given instance variables

- Default + named parameters which would reduce a lot of the pain of multiple constructors and constructors with a tremendous number of parameters.
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>> mixing of data and logic
try lisp;)

also in a language like java, where you can't upgrade a field to a property(function), these were placeholders, IF someday you want to be smart about that field.
The main idea is to take each weight matrix W, divide it into smaller blocks, each of dimension, say, n×n, and make each block a circulant matrix that can be specified by a vector of only n elements.[a]

This reduces W's memory consumption by a factor of n, and makes other gains in computational efficiency possible. Read the paper for details.

However, as far as I can tell, it appears the authors have tested this technique only with one RNN architecture, in one task. It's hard to know whether the technique will hold up well in a broad range of RNN architectures/tasks.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulant_matrix
Minor blip for sure. There's a media frenzy, but I only personally know two people who are even talking about it, and even they're not totally sold on jumping ship just yet. They've also known better than to post personal information on there (and I've posted bogus personal information just to mess with FB, which I heartily recommend to everyone. False information is better for your privacy than no information).
I haven't deleted mine, but I will the moment GDPR kicks in, and I have a legal right to expect that my data will be completely removed from their systems, which is not the case now.
I’m inclined to this position as well but consider cases where you need values to be restricted or linked. A setter would allow that to happen reliably every time without changing your API to require validation calls before doing anything else.

Getters definitely seem less likely to have cases like that unless there’s some sort of ordering contract you need to enforce.

How valuable this is will come down to audience: if it’s a small team which is very familiar with the app, there’s considerably less value than a large app with a huge team or a library intended for other people, especially non-experts.
ah, ya, "conspiracy forums" with a "crazy" tossed in. Welp, no point in discussing it then. Case closed. "Hilarious" even... Clearly he needed all those guns for...

"You can't keep up that rate of fire no matter how many mags you've got"

Citation needed. You could make shot timeline with the audio. It's 101 that changing mags is faster than switching guns. I have most if not all of the footage, there is nothing there that makes me suspect he needs more than one gun, I have extensive experience shooting similar weapons.

Did anything remotely interesting happen in SA soon after?
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Is this a US thing?

Did this and found a remote job no problem here in Germany.
How is he deflecting?

He's talking about McCarthyism, which is very relevant to the subject at hand.
How can one read Slate without giving it hits, on the odd chance it's an article that's worthy of a read like the old days, unlike the pretty objectionable material it has these days?
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"Don't take guns away from people to protect the populace because if you try to do it nutters with guns will shoot people"?

That sounds like justification for taking people's guns from them.
You would think that a reasonable project plan would attack the human safety/emergency situations first, and then move on to anything else. I guess having a car that avoids accidents but doesn't drive across the country on its own does not make for interesting headlines. This is the consequence of headlines-driven AI... "lets solve something hokey and grabs attention so management will be pleased instead of doing the more meaningful/long term r&d."
https://youtu.be/T77frLL_bsg

They’re not just click bait, they do create incredibly biased content.
"horrible" is going a bit too far? It is 20% higher than average.
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Yes, put the projects on there. It shows that you are self-disciplined enough to complete things even when not in a regular job.
Despite the fact that the driver was clearly playing with his mobile (which makes him indefensible), I have some sympathy for the driver not reacting early enough. Even if the driver spotted the obstacle, the car is only going to apply the brakes when it gets closer to the obstacle, not half a kilometer before. So how much time would the driver have had to 1. assess that there is a danger, 2. realise that the self driving car is not reacting to that danger, 3. apply the brakes.
Yes, it's possible. Many people just work 9-5. I've done interesting work at multiple companies since 2004, never worked more than 40 hours (past few years I've worked less than 40 hours).

How to get such a job:

1. You may already have one. At many companies you can show up at 9, go home and 5, and no one will care. Really. You just need to be productive and do your job and everyone will be happy.

If you work in company where everyone works crazy hours this is harder, because you'll feel constant social pressure to work longer (even if manager doesn't care). But if you pay attention you might find other coworkers doing the same.

2. There are many companies that have work/life balance by default. E.g. read descriptions of companies that say "work/life balance" on https://www.keyvalues.com/. Some companies there define work/life balance rather bizarrely, but some meet my personal definition. And in either case you can get insight into their culture.

You can also often get a sense during interview (https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries has some good questions).

3. You can negotiate explicitly. Negotiating takes some practice, but definitely possible.

4. How will you get your work done in 9-5? Turns out you're actually less productive if you work long hours. I write about it e.g. here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-so...

Productivity skills can also help, e.g. https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/

5. More difficult, but also possible, is <40 hours/week: I've done it, as has this guy I interviewed for my blog who has been working less than 40 hours a week for 15 years now - https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

6. Finally, I've written a book about the topic, covering negotiation skills, productivity skills, interviews with people who have taken different paths to this goal, and more: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/
You can see the human driver taking her eyes off the phone and immediately recognize the situation.

Yet I see no hard deceleration. This would have to be immediately visible as it would jerk the driver forward from her seating position, yet you can't see this happening.

I understand that once the pedestrian came into the light cone, the computer should have reacted almost instantly to a very obvious threat situation, yet I see nothing.
> In certain situations there may be no police response at all...

This more or less describes the Parkland shooting.
Have you ever found vinyl sounding different from its CD equivalent due to the equipment you play it on?

The few vinyl rips I have seem to have issues like a high noise floor (hearing the amplified sound of the needle pushing the vinyl during supposed silence, as well as random pops).

I am curious to know if that's seen as a feature and not a bug.
Pointing out ignorance is not mocking intelligence.
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It's important to consider that when you work in any kind of advertising capacity, you are already part of the problem. Anything you have to say that moderates how big of an issue it is should already be suspect to anyone with even a modicum of critical thinking ability. At that point you could try to ask yourself whether or not what you're doing is truly ethical. Maybe then we'd collectively get somewhere.
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How can you say guns are safe when so many get killed by them in the U.S.?
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As long as actual hosts allow you to put your stuff online I see no harm.

The internet worked perfectly fine before YouTube and Reddit, it’ll work perfectly fine after.

I mean, I understand the problems this poses for people, but I just don’t see how taking ownership of your own platform is a bad thing, even if it is forced.

Nobody is stopping gun fans from building their own social network for guns after all.

If people did that, quality would probably even increase. I mean, just look at HM. Even if HN is another centralized social network it still managed to become much better than anything tech related on Reddit or YouTube.
Just say you freelanced during that period. You can come up with a few projects to list during that period.
Similarly, I moved all my reddit subs to multis, so my homepage there is empty. In the last months the time I spent there has dropped to less than single-digit percentages of how much I spent in the past.
"If you're forced to choose between getting
rear-ended and hitting a small animal — hit
the animal."

If you are forced to make that choice, the car behind you is already driving illegally close to you. Kristine D'Arbelles, spokesperson for the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), is just making excuses for other people's poor driving.

Stopping distances people! And the rule of thumb is double them for rain, ten times for ice. And if someone is tailgating you, let them pass you. They are in the wrong but there is no point saving a few seconds keeping in front of them.

/rant
Try asking on lobste.rs, more people there who like this sort of thing.
Yup. In Amsterdam we now have fines against empty homes. We used to have a vibrant squatting culture. Any landlord who didn't live in his home, or made it available to the market for rent or for sale, would be met with squatters. In the past decade or so, squatting was harshly dealt with through the judicial system and instead landlords can now be fined if they let their home empty for more than 6 months.
I think the point is that dumb data structures should look like dumb data structures, with a language construct like `struct`, rather than trying to defensively put everything as a getter/setter because “maybe this won’t be a dumb struct in the future” or something.

Such a thing does reek of design smell to me, and is a sign that you’re blending your data and your logic too much.
Considering we are talking about people killing themselves, I don’t think so.
Not only is there enough housing, but the market calibrates it to be affordable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv6SbFlZMbU

And there's enough space in the housing market to allow for ultra-precision housing alternatives like capsule hotels.

If you need to commute in, there's an astonishingly good public transit system.

The same youtube channel has an excellent multipart series on homelessness in Japan that's absolutely worth watching. Here's the episode on housing the homeless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPyN3LE65g
I wanted to love Firefox Quantum. At first, it was great. But for whatever reason (likely CPU and RAM as people are describing in this thread), I've discovered that its performance doesn't scale with many tabs as well as Chrome. I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page. That's fine. But sometimes, it takes forever to get past a blank white screen on that tab. Sometimes when I open a new tab and try a Google search from the URL bar, same thing. Tried the same URL or same Google search from the URL bar in a new tab in Chrome, absolutely no problem.

Sorry, I'm currently switching back to Chrome. :(
Sorry but that's just wrong behaviour IMO.

If you're about to hit a pedestrian and your only option is to swerve, then you swerve. What could you possibly see in the rear view mirror that would change your reaction from "I'm gonna try to swerve around that pedestrian" to "I'm gonna run that pedestrian over"? Another car? Then you're going to take your chance and will turn in front of that car! The chance that people will survive the resulting crash are way higher than the survival rate of a pedestrian being hit at highway speeds.
That’s a good coup. Did it bleed into your family’s other circles outside the family at all?
nitpick: World population is currently about 7.4 billion.
> The common excuse is licensing and copyright. Yet none of these services are actively trying to fix it. They just do not care about non-Americans.

What do you think initiatives like Netflix Originals are for?

Content owners are trying very hard to squeeze as much as they can without losing all their agreements.

Netflix is ubiquitous so clearly they can be charged more and more until they drop the agreement and a show falls off.

Do you really think Netflix wants anything less than to offer every TV show and movie ever created? That'd be a huge advantage for them.

But every step they take toward that makes it harder to negotiate for more. So they've started making their own content that costs upfront but with no recurring fees.
> When I signed up for Facebook (back when it was just Harvard-only) I made up a new never-before-used password, because going thru other students' passwords was just the sort of thing I'd imagine Mark doing in his spare time...

Did you know Mark personally? What gave you that impression?
You can use setters that return a reference to a new object with the updated says, using some copy and delete mechanism for immutability.
Just saying, the only place the cover up story goes around is conspiracy forums.

If you've got a non-crazy story (didn't call you crazy, you didn't provide anything but a vague suggestion), have at it.
Veering off the road to avoid a collision is not necessarily the safer option.
They could have 2 cameras--one for low light, one for high-light fairly cheaply.
Hiked four days across a national park in the US a couple of years ago and was astounded at the lack of wildlife. Two snakes and a couple dozen small lizards, but almost no birds, no squirrels/chipmunks/whatever, no deer, etc. The lack of birds in particular amazed me, and I noticed the same hiking in Europe.

In Australian backyards, let alone the bush, the birdlife is varied and can be very noisy (magpies, lorikeets, cockatoos). At dawn in many areas of the bush here, the birds are hilariously loud - good luck sleeping in if you're camping!
TBH my observation is that for many it's just engaging in stupid circlejerks and flamewars with strangers and post glorified "good morning" messages and celebrations and congratulations.
Bump stocks are likely on their way out. They seem to be only suited for throwing a lot of bullets around indiscriminately.
Not to say there isn‘t a problem here... But walking across the street in dark clothes, without any light or reflectors, at a random spot does not seem like the best idea to me.

If I have a picknick on the train tracks and get hit by a train, maybe you should consider my stupid decision as well when evaluating the security of trains.
But the fact that it spends more energy, and it is less efficient, should be interpreted as a sign that something is wrong, isn't it? The gestures are powerful but the fish does not advance a lot.

Limping on one leg is a more extenuant exercise precisely because you need (and show) more power (and that is less sustainable). I don't think a lion would see it as a warning signal!
In some places (UK for example) you need to have lights on your bike as well--not just reflectors.
>It's not censorship, it's moderating your platform.

This is doublespeak.

>censorship:
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

"Doublespeak is a language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms, in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable."
In the eighties, the US had missles with a CEP of 300 feet. The increased accuracy from the fuzes is irrelevant in terms of attacking cities. It only matters for attacking nuclear hardened silos.

The US arsenal has been getting less deadly against civilians and the earth, while becoming more effective against other nuclear forces. Seems like a good trade.
We had a beer pong robot at our party first!

But more seriously this makes me wonder about collaborations between Blue and Rocket Lab or between Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics. The first is currently independent and the later is under the Softbank umbrella.
Well it was a pedestrian but they were walking their bike across the road. It's not like the software should make a distinction between a cyclist in the way and a bicycle with no rider in the way.
It is not physicalism I am arguing against, it is behaviorism/functionalism.
An object graph operating more like a network of tiny special-purpose computers with I/O (messages/method-calls). Rather than occupants that are conscious of being not much more than rectangles in a single memoryspace. Alan Kay also made analogies with cell biology.
Yes and those things are (in my opinion) regulated proportionally to their "level of danger".

You can't anonymously own a car in the US, you can't (legally) buy one at a car convention then take it on the road without registering it. Larger knives have regulations and rules around who can buy them, and some are just illegal to own in many states. Tequila requires you to be over a certain age, and you can't buy it if you are visibly drunk.

These things are dangerous. Yes, they won't jump up and attack someone on their own, but even well educated sane good people have accidents with them, which is what I mean by these things being dangerous.

And just like with automobiles, I don't think banning them is the right move, but I do think requiring a "gun license" where you can prove that you know how to handle, store, and can show you have the skills to safely use a gun should be required, as well as registering and proving that you have a safe place to store them that is out of the reach of children, mentally ill adults, and theives.

Safe gun owners will need to do very little to get approved to continue owning guns, and many unsafe gun owners can be denied. Not to mention that increasing the "average" storage security would mean that less would be easily stolen reducing the number of unregistered guns available for purchase on a "black market".
Dupe - being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16644860
...because the text is in the Constitution in very clear wording. Trying to use syntax tricks to explain an alternate meaning for the second amendment results in nonsense, really. People who are against gun rights aren't for "well-organized militias" in general.
I disagree with this, I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals. The problem I have is that they're having their cake and eating it.

To me there are two models:

- You are a platform, you don't moderate content (although you do respond to law enforcement), you are not responsible for the content on your site.

- You are a media company, you do moderate content, you are responsible for the content on your site.

Reddit & Youtube want a little from (A) a little from (B). They want the revenue from being a neutral platform, and the control of being a media company to moderate
content for PR purposes.

The problem they're facing is that by banning stuff they don't like, they are endorsing everything they don't ban. So for example, at Reddit, Pizzagate is now officially endorsed as a reasonable point of view that Reddit believes is a valid opinion and is worthy of investigation. We know that reddit endorses pizzagate, because reddit moderates their content and decided to allow pizzagate conspiracies.
There's some really great channels on this on youtube:

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