skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A buddy of mine has a lower end LIDAR on a robot, working with them on SLAM on it, trying to get a similar hardware set up locally over the summer. (I have weird hobbies)

Yeah, I'm willing to accept SOMETHING bad happened here, as I said I really just wanna dissuade people from the notion that LIDARs will see all obstacles all of the time. Not going to say the car acted perfectly and it was sensor failure, but definitely willing to say that the LIDAR probably COULD see her but not as well as people would assume.

Really, I think this was a case of the car over driving their effective sensor range, same as what happens when you're on a dark road and a deer runs into the middle of the road, you simply can't react fast enough by the time you realize the danger is there. Computers are fast but they aren't perfect.

What I'd be particularly interested in was if the computer saw her and if it did the calculation - I can't stop safely in this distance, and decided to just hit the obstacle because it was "safer". At that point we start getting into ethics and this problem gets a lot murkier.
I dislike that zoom.us requires a proprietary plugin.
Definitely, if you were to run the server 24/7.

My target market is the people who don't need to run a server for that long. For example, someone who is busy, but still wants to run a server for themselves and friends/family for a few hours at night every now and then.

Such as my own use-case, where I have kids that I like to play minecraft with but can only manage a few hours here and there because of work and a busy schedule.

If someone wanted to run a server for a month straight I would suggest going elsewhere as that's not really what the service is for.

Thanks for the comment!
Trump Infrastructure Proposal Could Fund Self-Driving Truck Lanes: DOT Official
>Because the company is never the one that suffers.

This is interesting, because you're the first responder to acknowledge that age discrimination is either irrelevant to the success of a business or potentially even beneficial.

I'm not heartless, I'm willing to entertain the idea that we should subsidize a segment of the population that can't compete. I'm not convinced that older workers can't compete though.
They have also released AMAZING videos showing the entire production process. If you are at all interesting in manufacturing, they're worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt1k3BLN7pw
One could apply these recommendations to all companies really.

I guess the one interesting point was hiring freelancers but in my experience good freelancers are really expensive amd moreover if someone is not invested with a long term view they usually end up taking a lot of shortcuts which leads to a lot of technical debt. Of course, this is just my experience.
ARM dev boards are generally based on toy-sized SoCs, though.
But the person you're replying to said "electric cars" not "Teslas."

The non-powertrain components are irrelevant for this comparison.

As far as ICE powertrains being fairly reliable, that is a triumph of engineering and due to literally trillions of dollars of investments. And yet regular maintenance on the powertrain is required even today, whereas electric powertrains do not have such requirements.
Sentient employee here. I'll give an example on a problem for which we use evolutionary algorithms: website optimization.

Say you want to try many various changes like the title of your page, the color of the background, the position of your buy button etc. We solve this problem by trying out random variations of these websites - like A/B testing with more candidates - and by crossing the best performing ones to create a new generation of websites. This helps us find good performing variations in a very big search space.

This would be hard to do with deep learning as we start with no data at all, measuring the performance is quite noisy and you can't compute a gradient to know how to evolve your website. There is no smoothness between a title and another.

Also you could try to make a linear model for to see what effect each change has, but that doesn't take into account all the dependencies that can be complex, for example what title goes well with what background color. Evolutionary computation helps implicitly optimize without having to formulate a model.
The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever
Yeah, I know about these. But these are intracity delivery vehicles. The restrictions in their domain of use make the problem simpler. My university has a couple and all they do is transport stuff between the two campuses. I think, although the average commute is probably way lower than a 80km, people would still be reluctant to buy it. For example the Mitsubishi i-MiEV has been around since 2009, is the least expensive amongst EVs (besides Chinese EVs probably) and has a range of 100km to 160km (depending on different metrics) and that didn't sell very well. Only 38.000 units sold.
Are consultant brokers/agent only a thing in the Nordic countries? I started my own consultancy firm last year and just sent my profile to a bunch of brokers. They all got in touch and presented assignments they had. I selected one, went on 1 interview (!!) and bam - six month assignment. The broker gets 10% of what I make. It’s super convenient and saves me a bunch of stress and time hunting assignments so the 10% is really worth it.
Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England
In Copenhagen it's the only DriveNow car available, and I must admit that although I am a petrolhead, the i3 grew on me.

What might look silly from the outside is an unparalleled experience in accelleration on the inside. Only Tesla's, motorcycles and proper sport cars can match the 0-50 km/h (which is everything you care about in a city commute).
Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go
Perfect. I'll send this with my cover letter next time :D
Finding clients willing to pay for good work is hard, but if you can do it you can make a really good living. You clearly have the ability to build great stuff; there's a fun career in this web stuff if you fancy it.
very true, how many names and pornographic images are out there is beyond me, although this game is not rated 18+ since there are so many profile images with pornographic environment.
Well there are some counter examples, network switches, fiber channel, and Infiniband come to mind. And of course IBM "invented" the data center by defining environmental requirements for their machines in the 50's and 60's.

Setting that aside though, its true that easy experimental access can allow a technology to "sneak in" to a market that previously ignored it, but that isn't really the case here. (nor was it the case for SPARC or Itanium) These systems are being built for folks who are going to deploy a lot of them and they already know their cost of ownership numbers for existing x64 boxes.
Why does it matter what enthusiasts use? There are piles of Enterprise software written in Java that can be shifted to any architecture you care to name on a moment's notice. Lots of Java shops would bite your hand off if offered a 20% price cut for instances in exchange for switching architectures.
To resolve the debate: I've been to Mexico dozens of times and burritos are very popular among the locals of the places I've been to.

Burritos are Sonoran food and Sonora is part of Mexico.
You don’t believe blockcbain currencies can be a form of sound money? What do you think can? (Not trying to argue, genuinely curious).
The ionosphere is not outside the atmosphere, it's part of the atmosphere.

The atmosphere consists of many layers. From the ground up, these are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.

You may be thinking of the thermosphere, which is indeed very hot (thus the name), albeit with such low density that it wouldn't transfer much heat to your spacesuit or spacecraft. But the thermosphere is part of the atmosphere too.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/thermosphere/en/

The ISS and other low earth orbit satellites are orbiting inside the thermosphere. Yes, the ISS is in the atmosphere and suffers from a small amount of atmospheric drag, so it requires occasional reboosts to maintain altitude.

The ionosphere isn't exactly a separate "layer" from these. It's a very tall region of ionized gas that starts near the top of the stratosphere and overlaps parts of the layers above. Its exact limits vary with solar conditions.

The ionosphere is actually made up of several layers of its own, defined by the solar energy wavelength that causes ionization in each layer. These are the D, E, and F layers, and occasional sub-layers within those. Hams and other shortwave radio operators are familiar with these ionospheric layers because of their different effects on radio propagation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/ionosphere/en/

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/science/atmosphe...

And I finally get to say about one of my own comments: "Username checks out."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratoscope

(I'm actually named after the Truetone Stratoscope radio antennas, not the balloon, but sometimes people do say I'm full of hot air.)
Discussed in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643056
Hmm, on that website I got:

Chrome:

- WebAssembly: didn't load

- Asm.js: 50-60FPS

- JS: 2FPS

Firefox:

- WebAssembly: 30-40FPS

- Asm.js: 20-30FPS

- JS: 2FPS

I have the newest versions of both browsers.
It is really a pity that there are so many browser extensions who get this right, but the browsers themselves don't.

That's why it is so refreshing to see at least one of them (Firefox) actually trying to get it right.

The technical term for a browser is "User Agent". That naming may be historic and old-fashioned, but it was named that way for a reason. It's time to restore the original meaning, to make the browser an agent who actually acts on behalf of and in the interests of the user, not the website creator.
> Optional homework almost definitely won't get done.

Then they fail?

I don't mean to sound glib, but I don't see the issue here.

Students that want to pass will pass, students that don't, won't.

I say this as a student that didn't pass.
Discontinuing Support for JSON-RPC and Global HTTP Batch Endpoints
Facebook gave data about 57bn friendships to academic
Then hire more people and stop putting all of the tuition into your sports facilities.
Krita + Gimp is a great combo - I'm extremely happy both exist in the OSS world! Hoping to use Krita more as I start getting into texturing models - it's been great so far for basic images though.
Only took them 10 years?
The use case is to be able to repeatedly blame on the previous revision of the change that was made to a line. This is especially useful when you're dealing with diffs resulted from code formatting, whitespace changes, etc. in a file and you want to see what is the "original" commit that the change was made.

This has been available on GitHub for a while now (see https://help.github.com/articles/tracing-changes-in-a-file/)
Uber Operator of Self-Driving Car Involved in Fatal Crash Had Criminal Record
> That technology is so mature and well developed that any car is going to go at least 100k miles, well beyond any warranty period.

100k miles isn't “well beyond any warranty period” for non-EV powertrains; a number of car brands have a base (not extended) 10yr/100k mile powertrains warranty.
TL;DR: Innovator's Dillema + (even worse than) Ballmer-esque management culture.
There is https://github.com/vstinner/trollius for vanilla Python2.
I assume the plugs were pre-gapped at time of manufacture. Maybe they dropped this plug, maybe it was a bad batch or a defect, maybe they did it on purpose. For the shop rate at a BMW dealer they can take the time to check the gap. Regardless of the root cause the dealer installed a plug with the ground bent into the electrode which caused a misfire.

They misdiagnosed it as a bent valve and told me that I probably missed a shift at freeway speed and slammed the car into second gear, causing the engine to over-rev and skip a tooth on the timing chain. Somehow this bent only one valve and the other 23 are still fine. Oh and it ran fine until they had it in their shop. Also the timing chain is still in the correct timing.

I told them to get bent and took it to an independent shop that fixed the problem for $45.00.

The BMW dealer claimed there was low compression and a misfire on cylinder 4. My independent mechanic found perfect compression on all six cylinders and a misfire on cylinder 6 (the one with the bent plug).

I went back to the BMW dealer and they refunded me the $4,000.00 in unnecessary repairs they did. At this point I think they are either intentionally sabotaging customer cars because they get away with it or the incentives drive them to employ complete idiots. Either way the most dangerous place to take a BMW is the dealer.
According to arstechnica's reporting on the paper (I don't have access to full text):

"In the case of this Falcon 9 launch, it induced a plasma hole that lasted for two to three hours, which a magnitude comparable to a magnetic storm"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/spacex-launch-last-y...
https://moonlightwork.com
Yup. Here's a Google Cache for those interested:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bxG_r4W...
Also note that Los Dos bills itself as New Mexican cuisine (meaning from New Mexico, not Neo-Mexican). At least they used to. I haven't been there in years, though I love it.
You can't actually buy TX2. I don't know about market availability of Amberwing either (if you know please let me know). There is an abundance of arm stuff in the embedded space where it is king, and it's true you can pick them up for next to nothing but somewhat orthogonal to servers (flattened device trees vs ACPI/UEFI etc)

You can web buy an S821LC straight from IBM for $5k for the past couple years. The AC922 is GA. Supermicro will sell you a P8 right now and P9 in May for nominal prices and the CPUs are cheaper than Skylake by a very wide margin.

Not directly related to your comment but I get the feeling a lot of people complaining about price are navel gazing and have no idea how much a production server costs and how the costs break down. Right now storage is generally 50+% of the cost. DRAM is a very high fixed cost at the moment as well. Intel flatted the quad socket SKUs into the "Scalable Series" so Skylake represents a big price increase for a lot of builders. To help re-calibrate people, IBM doesn't have $6-12k CPUs in the dual socket config but Intel does at bins people would want for common workloads.
These were (supposedly) new plugs. The car threw up a service light around 60k miles for new coils and plugs. This is routine maintenance.

The problem was not a gap that was too large, the problem was 0 gap.
The gap on the resume is troubling because they don't know what you did during that time, so fill the gap. I would go with a combination of suggestions here.

"While on sabbatical to fulfill my dream of backpacking around Asia, I helped cover expenses by taking on small projects of limited scope, such as... "
With all the stuff running on x86 for the past 30 years + all the perf optimizations in compilers it's not hard to figure.

If ARM or Power were faster than x86 we would be using it right now on servers, most of the top500 HPC clusters run on x86_64 ( Intel Xeon ).
As someone definitely in the intersection of "weird dude", "freelancer", and "successful alumnus of a startup", I'm on board with this, strangely enough.

One of the advantages of freelancers is that you get a little bit more consultative relationship than with employees. For myself at least, I bring strategic perspective not just boots on the ground, and that can make a big difference in heading off pitfalls.

I see a lot of startups running from three alarm fire to three alarm fire without the ability to tie things up over the longer term, and that often comes back to bite them. Automate and standardize all the non-core parts of your business or you will pay in distraction.
In the last two decades we have genetic data that paints a much more complex picture. India is a fertile land and people have been streaming in (and out) for at least 50,000 years. If people move just 30km
away every generation that is enough to populate the entire land in a thousand years.

Also the existence of an isolated Dravidian language in what is now Pakistan is puzzling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahui_language
"I think it's a bit sad to be whinging at those good pieces of free software for lacking features, and just recommend proprietary software instead. Surely, it is also the developers of the proprietary software that are causing this lack of features by not sharing their code for those."

That is probably the most ludicrous statement I've heard today. Being "free software" does not shield you from criticism. And it is not Adobe's fault that the developers of that software do not have a feature. That's entirely on the developers of those programs.

And most people do not care one iota about whether a piece of software is "free" or not. They care if it makes their life easier, and allows them to get a task done. If free software isn't up to it, and a piece of proprietary software is, then the proprietary software is what gets the nod.

"It also suggests you are willing to give up your freedom for a few extra features."

No, it means I want to get my shit done. Just because you are willing to wait does not mean anyone else is.
The future of ecommerce is (almost) here
> Sure, and credit cards can be a good thing, too.

Can you give an example?
Chrome does too. Just right click on it and "Mute site" will mute the domain. Forever I think.
This is entirely true, on almost all of my homework I have been specifically instructed to not communicate on more than a ideal level with any code that I write. They could just be missing a semicolon somewhere but I am not supposed to even look at people's code. This leads into group sessions basically everyone being silent and just asking for syntax help. It's dystopian.
It’s a learning project.
This is just straight up baloney. The Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Bolt show this to just not be true at all.

It's not that car companies like BMW and Honda and others who are being slow to release EVs are colluding so much as they are just dragging their feet because ICE engine vehicles are much more profitable right now (not requiring changes to their supply chain and manufacturing methods, or training of dealerships and service departments, etc.)
Word2Vec actually employs a default strategy of pruning the most common 0.0001% of words in the corpus. My understanding is that this permits the RNN layer to train on the unadulterated text rather than an unnatural concentrate of tokens, which is supposedly beneficial.

Interestingly there's some controversy whether this benefit extends to punctuation. Most W2V tutorials instruct the programmer to apply tokenizing functions that leave only space-separated word characters, annihilating everything else, but I've actually observed higher accuracy scores from models that tokenize non-word characters individually, i.e. as strings of length 1. I'm not sure exactly why this is the case, but there is a common sense interpretation which might explain. Output from the precursory tokenizer output is often transduced by word2phrase, an optional bigram recognizer. Mikolov strongly recommends using it, but I'm sure it struggles to infer pointwise mutual information from a text that's missing ~70% of its contents.
hmm. i'd rather not. generally don't want the clipboard going to disk. thanks though.
No, I'm sorry, your comment is correct.
It is free on GitLab.com for public repos.
It is also free for private repos on GitLab.com for the next year.
> We are not giving proper credit to how complex it is, and the multi-billion year developmental process that it took.

Or we are simply not ready to accept that it's simply a big book of heuristics fine-tuned over biological eons.

It's just big. We have too many interwoven, interdependent, synergistic faculties. Input, output, and a lot of mental stuff for making the right connections between the ins and the outs. Theory of mind, basic reasoning, the whole limbic system (emotions, basic behavior, dopaminergic motivaton), the executive functions in the prefrontal cortex, all are very specialized things, and we have a laundry list of those, all fine-tuned for each other.

And there's no big magic. Nothing to "understand", no closed formula for consciousness. It's simply a faculty that makes the "all's good, you're conscious" light go green, and it's easy to do that after all the other stuff are working well that does the heavy lifting to make sense of reality.
Almost all your comments are dead.
Military GPS devices have access to more frequencies and channels that consumer devices don't have. These frequencies use anti-jamming techniques (frequency hopping using pseudo-random patterns, etc). They also have much better accuracy available to them than the consumer devices. Typical dumb jamming systems aren't really going to do much against military anti-jamming techniques and if it really is hurting comms they can send in an anti-radiation missile and blow up the jammer, no GPS needed.
Being discovered in the New World by European explorers (and then taken back to Europe and cultivated there); vs. being a cultural invention of people living in the Americas and having to deal with its local climate and growing conditions; vs. being discovered by European explorers but found to only grow in the local climate and so farmed there, are all pretty different things, and it’s weird to conflate them like this.

Tomatoes and potatoes, and the vanilla bean, were cultivated in Europe, by Europeans.

Chilies were cultivated in the Americas (over 6000 years ago), and then traded to European explorers who took them back home and grew them there, too.

The cocoa bean was cultivated in the Americas, by the Olmec; and then traded to European explorers who tried to grow it, failed, and ended up invading the area to farm it.

Of these, the first is European cuisine, through-and-through. The second is aboriginal Mesoamerican cuisine. And the third is what you might call “American” cuisine, insofar as—like most of the historical cuisines in America itself—it was a cuisine invented by farmers from Europe (and the slaves they brought from everywhere else) learning to live in the Americas.
Possibly a bug on your end. Win 10 w/ firefox, uBlock filters all youtube ads, and it's pretty much a stock install of uBlock.
NLP with spaCy
I'm not sure about hiring the job hopper. Sure you may get a great talent, but my experience is they will leave you at the worst possible time for your startup.
Correct, the owner's insurance policy is the primary coverage when the owner lends their car to a 3rd party. Obviously in the case of a moving violation the driver is at fault and receives the penalty, but damage is still covered by the owner's policy. In the case where the other driver is at fault, that car's owner's insurance is liable.
The original target for the Gigafactory was 500,000 cars per year by 2020. They have a pretty good chance of actually exceeding that.

The increased the aggressiveness of their own schedule. If they hadn't, we'd either be marveling at the speed of their scale-up.

So, it gives their competitors ability to point and laugh a little bit longer while avoiding investing in EV ramp-up.
They definitely haven't said that margins would be negative until the "distant future".
Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet
Folks, two years is not very long. The optimistic take on this is "wow, we might get mass production of electric cars in two years? Great!"

How long does it take to design and build a car factory, anyway?
The UK houses of parliament are a good, if perhaps extreme example of that:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/01/a-tale-of-decay...

They have now finally decided to move the MPs out so they can do the refactoring they've needed to do for years...