skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google are going to scope out basic partnership agreement frameworks with the companies interested in making partnership agreements with them, and if that happens to be a premium vehicle manufacturer then so be it. If they wanted to invent a new kind of "long life, extremely cost-focused vehicle" it would take them much longer anyway, and be entirely unnecessary to successfully challenge an app company making a loss in most markets and running out of runway. What really matters is if, when and where Waymo have self driving tech adequate and legal for commercial operations.

In the unlikely event of Waymo actually ordering 20k Jags, the economies of scale they'd get would be enormous even compared with non premium Uber vehicles bought on finance at dealer prices even before the driver gets paid, and many taxi markets use premium vehicles by default.
That’s a great point. I wonder if anyone has looked for a pattern in the dimmings? Fibonacci? Primes? Anyone have the data so we could check?
You can't "delete" anything from the Internet. Despite Snapchat saying you can. Or a big button that says "Delete". Furthermore, Facebook doesn't need you to have an active, visible profile for it to collect data on you. They still have tracking pixels. "Erasing" comments and likes doesn't do anything or get to the heart of the issue.

The best way I know of to combat Facebook is to poison their data. Which means taking the effort to "friend" strangers across the world, "like" random things, visit websites you don't care about and basically blur your profile to the point that Facebook can't tell who you are or what your actual interests are. It's quite an effort over years.

But no. Everyone wants a button. Which is how we ended up in this situation to begin with.
It reinforces peoples’ perceptions of “government waste” and the government spending on projects that “don’t help the average voter”.
I made a VR newsletter
I started this weekly newsletter for interesting articles about virtual, augmented and mixed reality. I'm going to be curating it with a couple of friends, so I'd love to know what you all think and if anyone has suggestions of what they would like to see.

I just published the first issue here: http://vamr.io/issues/1
That simply isn't an easy job with the current interpretation of the 2nd Ammendment and somewhere around 3 to 4 million AR15s alone, well more than 300M firearms total[1]

It's a matter of 0.00013% of the population (1 in 750,000)[2] picking one of them up one day and deciding to use it for a killing spree.

Mass shootings are tragic, but it's not as if there's a good solution to them on the table waiting to be taken.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/20/assault_rifle_st...
edit: [2] I previously used ~0.00002%, or 50 mass shootings per year, but there were 427 in 2017 including shootings with just injuries https://massshootingtracker.org/data/2017
Well, yes, rationalizing individual behaviour that in aggregate leads to authoritarianism, totalitarianism, genocide, war, ... is "just human". Just as building power structures that add sufficient indirection that allows individuals to use those rationalizations is "just human". And tribalism ... yes, definitely "just human".

But is any of that really a justification for anything? Yes, things are more nuanced, some things are worse than others, sure, but that doesn't really make "but he is my tribe, and he benefited from it" a good justification, does it?
I recently read the IB text and loved it. Someone already mentioned the fact that IB has more historical material than Marco Polo, but there are a bunch of other contrasts as well.

Most importantly to me, Marco Polo follows a sort of ethnographic style which arranges the narrative around the description of all the peoples and regions he encountered. IB describes his journey linearly in chronological order, which makes more sense to the modern reader. Secondly, we get a much greater sense of the personality of IB in his travelogue. He talks about bursting into tears from loneliness, he talks about longing to be able to stay forever on an idyllic tropical islet, etc.

For those who are interested, my favorite medieval travelogues are:

- William of Rubruck [1] Friar who traveled to the court of the Mongols. Very sharp and strong personality. Featuring a three-way debate between Muslims, Christians, and Buddhists.

- Ibn Fadlan [2] Abbasid envoy to the Volga Bulgars. Featuring pre-Islamic Turks, Jewish Khazars, and of course the absolutely insane viking ship burial.

[1] https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/rubruck.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
I've never tested this for obvious reasons but when that pencil is sticking out of the lightning port during charging, it looks awfully vulnerable. Damaging the pencil is one thing but breaking the port on the iPad itself is another.
In addition to the info itself being valuable to them, metadata such as the age of the info is also an important attribute to consider when placing a value on this info.
You must be confusing something, Soyuz was never priced anywhere that low. Russian Wikipedia puts it at 35 to 78 million USD depending on configuration.
I'm afraid we are just beginning to learn how badly we have arrogantly underestimated China.
I can tell you right now that 10% wouldn't shift demand meaningfully in cities like San Francisco. I don't think most people would even notice a 10% increase to be honest.

Of course, they're probably already profitable in major cities like SF and pricing is probably already adjusted to reflect the maturity of the market.

People need to start talking about these companies on a per-market basis. The broad 10% number doesn't make sense since every market that these companies are in is at a different stage of adoption.
In reality it did, at least since 1992 when I began Windows development. Visual C++ was a paid SKU but you got it free as part of the MSDN which was not costly and pretty much required to be an application developer.
You'd be wasting your time. Your data is versioned. People smarter than you have long thought about this.
Nonsense to you is wonderful to me. I don't think "I am unfamiliar with this syntax" is really a useful observation - Erlang has an extremely unfamiliar syntax, but I don't think that makes it less suitable for building a service.

I do not think this is just about unfamiliarity. Doing static dispatch with generics + traits does add complexity to type signatures. E.g. consider using dynamic dispatch using trait objects

trait Frobber {
fn frob(&self, something: &OtherTrait);
}

versus static dispatch:

trait Frobber {
fn frob<S>(&self, something: &S) where S: OtherTrait;
}

Of course, static dispatch has large benefits (opportunities for inlining, possibly leading to other optimalizations). Rust adds correctness and deterministic performance (besides Rc/Arc misuse). But Rust also has the potential for 'macro/generics soup' and over-abstraction. I think it is a fair criticism of a language. Use sharp tools wisely.

(Disclaimer: writing Rust daily for work.)
iPads have had multi-user support for schools since 2016.
You are right.

There have been studies that news coverage of these school shootings leads to copycat attacks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-bi...

Why doesn't Congress pass a law limiting how school shootings can be covered by news media? It might save student lives.

There is an amendment that prevents that you say? Well the first amendment talks about freedom of the press. The founders could not have imagined online news, tv and cable news or social media. Maybe we only allow stories published on actual printing presses, and ban coverage on online, tv, and social media of school shootings.

Also, even with presses, the printing presses of the 18th century were not like our automated presses of today that can print hundreds or thousands of pages per minute, no those presses were single shot presses where you had to reload after each page. Maybe they were only talking about those kind of presses when they named freedom of the press.
You'd think that after 28 years[0] they'd finally do something. Looking at the data[1] and honestly, just common sense. There doesn't need to be more bloodshed.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1...
1: http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/feb/21/ric...
NTSB Probing Tesla That Caught Fire in California Crash
Understanding what is behind Sentiment Analysis (Part I)
> [citation needed]. That's just not true.

It's likely not true that the left is as bad as the right on this matter, however the left has some big black marks on its record.

The anti-vaccination and anti-GMO crowd is overwhelmingly dominated by people from the left.

You see a lot of pop anti-science, anti-technology crap come out of both the fringe and mainstream left. That has been the case for the entire period post WW2. Anti-GMO is mainstream on the political left as one example.
I read it 15 years ago. No other book has influenced my programming as much as this one. The main value I got from it is that it teaches you what "clean" code looks like. Highly recommended.
RE> Nature of the Copyrighted Work: Dealt with previously

In my entire career you could not copyright an API. There is good reason for this. If you wanted to do business with certain entities, the implementation had to be multisource. The new implementation had to come from a cleanroom, but in this case it came from open source (which seems equivalent). Therefore you have one judge making one decision that is an anomaly. It seems to me that a single judge should not be making a landmark decision.
I wonder sometimes if I had Aspergers and just effectively trained myself out of it. All I did was read when I was a kid. At recess, at home, etc. I just read. I didn't really understand social interactions and when I left my family and went to boarding school for high school it became apparent I was extremely socially behind.

Sitting in conversations trying to figure out a) what the heck people say, how do they even come up with something to say on inane topics? and b) when am I allowed to say the one thing I managed to find relevant? was excruciating during my early years.

Being too literal, to this day, is a problem. Struggling with social norms around "honesty", another daily issue. The idea that lying is A-Okay (particularly in business) and that there are some thoughts/ideas I'm not supposed to share due to social norms hasn't come easy. I'm lucky I've opted into a career where it's assumed I'll be a little weird (software engineer), so it's given a pass when I'm too honest, literal, etc.

For me, the big turning point was when I joined acting class my Sophomore year of HS. I basically just thought, "Oh, this is convenient! I'll just ACT like someone who is <x> and it'll all work out!" And, yea, for the most part that's been true. The difficulty of quickly sliding in between "me" and a "social mask" at work hasn't been fun, but overall I feel like the "mask" has become me a solid 40% of any given day to great positive effect.

I still find a social situation to be a lot of work. If I allow myself to drink or do anything that fuzzes my brain at all so I stop DOING all that work of analyzing the room and figuring out how I'm allowed to engage appropriately while still being as much "me" as I can, well, then I spend probably the next 24 hours in a shame-cycle about how poorly I must've come off because I KNOW if I don't do that work then I'm dropping the ball in a million tiny ways.

Early in my relationship with my SO anytime I had caffeine we fought...because I just stopped reading him and went off on my own happy little zig-zagging butterfly path. If he didn't explicitly say he was unhappy, I was not going to pick it up.

It'd be nice to just be able to point to a diagnosis rather than have to blame myself for fucking up another social scene by letting my attention wander or drinking or whathaveyou. But, you know, I could just be a normal introvert who has to work at being social in an extroverted world...

I sort of assume it's the latter.
It's mirror has a 6.5m diameter vs 2.4m for Hubble.
That's a 25sqm collecting area vs 4.5sqm for Hubble. The area is more than 5 times as large.

Infrared light is absorbed by the water in the atmosphere. There are infrared telescopes on earth, they are located in high elevations in dry places.
Well, current is Coulombs / second. The smaller the amount of time, the higher the current.

I think your real question is, how many Coulombs. Because it isn't very much energy to transfer 100 Amps for a femtosecond.

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Overall, they need to say how many Watts does it generate. There are multiple circuits to arbitrarily convert voltage into current and vice versa. The real difficult part is creating a sustainable source power.

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Now that I think of it, a mechanical paper "compression" that generates electricity would be a very interesting sensor. There are a lot of piezoelectric stuff out there already (crystals and buttons and stuff). But if there's a way to easily create a peizoelectric sensor from a 3d printer, that'd be good news.

Current / power isn't very important for sensor applications. (Detecting whether or not something is bending over or whatever)
Or they want it done secretly by the military.
Google did not do a clean-room reimplementation. They copied. This is not disputed by Google.
Can you copyright the architecture of a building? Like can you copyright the opera house so that no one else can build something similar or a copy?
This is a system designed to respond when a human driver has failed to identify the threat, so we've already established that having two systems (one dumb system and one intelligent system) doesn't compromise safety.
Not really surprising.

Expansion packs have existed in one form or another for ages, these days they are just that much easier to distribute via Steam and similar services.
Yes.

The more commonly used features are, the more prominent they should be in the UI.

If not, the "Compose" or "Send" button in email clients should be as big as "view connection details" (to give you an example).

That's how you reduce clutter. GIMP does that horribly, so they should probably _remove_ something, not add.
Because all news is fake. Or at least, paid for by someone with an agenda.
Costs are far from “microscopic” for commercial entities.
Yeah, I'm not a facebook fan, I don't use it because it always felt sort of creepy. But fleecing poor people through AI like technology seems worse than creepy.

They'll get regulated at some point, assuming the politicians are awake enough to understand what is going (that's not at all clear). At least I hope they do.
They don't enforce things to stop kids from being killed in classrooms in mass numbers. There were a number of things that should have stopped the kid.
Fairphone 2 does a pretty good job IMHO if you don't mind spending more than 500 €.
Ask HN: Open-source Projects that need translations?
A really close friend of mine who holds a master's degree in translation, has no experience building software (but knows git), is seeking to contribute to open-source. Are there any projects I could suggest to him?
It's scary because let's say you are competing with someone, so you decide to copy their API to make it easy for people to migrate over to your system rather than use their system. Now, instead of just doing that, you have to get a license to use the API. Otherwise, you are a copyright infringer.

Take this as an example: https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/Object/Tas...

Here is an example of a potential copyright infringer copying the API for another competing service. I'd hope they acquired a license for it, otherwise.
My strong opinion is that Apple's vision of the world is that devices are extensions of brains. Sharing devices runs counter to that ideal. (In addition, there's a financial incentive for Apple to drag their feet with multi-user support.)

I read today's announcement as a mix of we haven't forgotten traditional educators balanced by features that work equally well with on-demand, lifelong learning.

(edit: I expect that Apple will leave this as the status quo for the next five years.)
What's taking them so long to make multi-user accounts for phones then? As someone with kids this would be a really useful feature.
David Brevik released that just after the Diablo postmortem from GDC a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc

Worth watching for any fans of the original and if you want more context around that pitch. Lots of interesting tidbits about the origins of Diablo and Blizzard North.

And an amusing moment during the Q&A: Someone in the audience went up and gave David some money to make up for pirating the game when he was a kid.
PSA: Safari does this by default.
Also, unless you can get your users to work their way through enabling side-loading, you'll be forking over a third of your sales to Microsoft.
Google pays bounty for discovery of core search algorithm exploit
> it will almost certainly not be in service for 30 years.

What makes you think that? Its predecessors (F-15/F-16) are both 40+ year old designs with most of the current airframes being 25-30 years old. They're all still slated to fly until at least 2030, IIRC. Then there's the B-52, which is a 70 year old design with all of the airframes being 50+ years old and no end in sight.
In many (all?) states, pedestrians have the right-of-way, even if they're jaywalking.
Missing from the article is the nature of the link to Mobileeye -- the Volvo cars Uber is using come with collision avoidance built-in, Uber disabled it. The Volvo collision avoidance uses technology from Aptiv, which in turn uses technology from MobilEye.

So this isn't just a random company saying "we could do better", this is the company with equipment already on the car (though disconnected) defending their reputation.
What would happen to your fb account? Do they only block the account or the spam?

Also could you use ML to be more discrete to avoid the spam flag?
If they stole Java then you have stolen all the words in your comment.
I am not a lawyer, but I wonder if Google could counter sue Oracle on the basis that that Java now implements some methods originally introduced in Google Guava?
My 4 year olds prefer the tablet, but the 8 year old prefers the laptop.
> There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons.

Your list had nothing to do with preferring male over female BC. It was talking about reasons women could be reluctant to use hormonal BC methods. I was simply adding a very large side-effect to the list of reasons a woman might skip a hormonal BC method.
> Dealt with previously - APIs are copyrightable

IANAL, but doesn't this contradict case law elsewhere?
Which one, human or automated, is the "dumb" system?
Same situation here. What changed since last trial? Wasn't Oracle demand based on software patents?

I'm confused...
Hadn't heard of those yet, thanks!

TextDecoder looks fine, but I'm a bit wary of using TextEncoder naively. It requires allocating a Uint8Array for each string. Each Uint8Array comes with 200 bytes of overhead[0]. Depending on your algorithm you can end up with thousands if not millions of tiny strings. While even phones will probably have enough RAM to handle a few hundred megabytes these days, that will slow things down simply from an allocation/garbage collection perspective.

Furthermore, typed array allocation used to be incredibly slow compared to array allocation - the gap is smaller now but it is still slow enough to be a bottle-neck in my code.

The quote below is from a V8 dev replying to someone who opened an issue about this slow allocation. It is from 2012, but it still applies:

> The reason is simply that while constructing Array is done exclusively in the Javascript virtual machine and an allocation in the VM's heap, constructing a TypedArray involves the browser binding (at least in Chrome) and allocation outside the VM's heap. The former can be properly optimized, while the latter cannot. Future optimizations in this area are already on our radar, but have rather low priority.

> Generally speaking, typed arrays are good if you want to allocate a long-living dense array with a certain type and size. Array objects are better if you want to create temporary arrays often.

I hope things will improve now that Typed Arrays finally get some proper love thanks to WASM.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45803829/memory-overhead...

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2190

[2] https://jsperf.com/typedarray-create
NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2
I've always wondered about Google Drive. If you right-click on a file, you'll notice it says "Remove" instead of the more common "Delete". Perhaps this is a Material Design spec, but I always felt like that was their way of keeping a copy of the file to add to your personal data file.
I wasn't commenting on feasibility or logistics, more on the state of their progress and if they can fully replace current services in cities or if it will augment them. If, for example, they don't work during heavy rain, then they cannot replace Uber/Lyft in most East Coast or Northern US cities.
I hate the whole api copyright stuff, but part if me is hoping this leads to a decline in popularity of Java.

I don’t even hate Java that much I just hate the Java is the only “serious programming language” attitude so common in this industry.
My point is that there should be some criteria that determine if something should fall under copyright. And I'm having a hard time finding such a set that contains source code but does not include a (sufficiently extensive) API.

You're just asserting tradition. Yet you are not addressing my examples that directly show precedent within the industry for recognising copyright for APIs.
Getting data on an ethical dilemma. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Do you have a link with more information about Safari's approach?
The data is already gone. It's on a developer's server, a developers laptop, or has been laundered and is back in Facebook. Even Facebook has no way of tracking what has been done with the data.
I wish this had a better UI...

I want to be able to search by place...

And see a heatmap of all my travels...

And say what percentage of my time/days I was at a location...
There's the reverse of Wine now too with Microsoft's clean room (non-GPL2 and not currently open source at all) implementation of the Linux kernel kernel <-> userspace ABI.
I remember I used `w` to check if someone is in the box and then use `talk` to open a chat with that user.
I actually got to use the Chromebooks my last year in high school and they worked well enough(except when the internet went down at school). Unless their file manager has changed it needed some work and made us prefer the old Windows Desktops in rural areas.
This is exactly what I was attempting to convey.
More technical details here: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/google-xml-sitemap-auth-byp...

(Tom works at my company)
How Shyp Sunk: The Rise and Fall of an On-Demand Startup
This is really cool tech and very awesome work by deepmind.

But man does this scare me. I remember a quote: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” – William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898. This was in the lead up to the spanish american war.

Can you imagine tech like this/tech like "deepfakes" being used today? Fake news that was text alone has done and is doing damage in elections around the world now. Imagine that armed with pictures?!?!

In a dueling NN architecture, many say the discriminator will be able to detect the fake images. I wonder is there a threshold that a produced image is just too damn close to a real picture that even an equally good NN that is discriminating can no longer differentiate? In the end, both real and fake images are just pixel values... what would we do then?

Cool tech, scary possibilities.