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Gas taxes have been diverted away from roads by the California government. Recently, a new per gallon tax was added and roads are finally being improved after a long spell of neglect. California already had the highest per gallon taxes in the nation.

So then the question is to where did the original money get diverted? A big part of the answer seems to be Education, which is still some of the worst in the nation.

How can that work? The highest taxes with the lowest outcome? Many people blame the millions of illegal aliens for that.
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Oh give it a break you holier than thou fool
'in minutes' lol. Read the fine print folks!! This ain't no minutes.
Unreasonable Effectivness of Deep Learning
I think it'll aim at business travellers anyway. One-day returns EU-US are one example that will have high demand but there are a lot more profitable routes. London-HKG is currently 12h direct, I bet a lot of companies would pay up significantly to reduce that. The difference with supersonic is close to an 8h workday in each direction.
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I always find myself assuming the person writing the comment I'm reading to be a middle-aged white male, and I feel dumb and ashamed when I realize that's not it. FWIW I'm a white male living in a western country so I'm deeply privileged/prejudiced. It's good to have my biases put in check, but I wished I didn't have them in the first place.

Edit: typo it didn't->I didn't
Congratulations. You found the actual exploit.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/src/pch.c#n2...

patch calls /bin/ed. /bin/ed has a ! command that feeds stuff to /bin/sh. Feeding unreviewed patches to the patch command is actually arbitrary command execution.

This is particularly awesome if patch is being used by other programs (i.e. a CI pipeline or other contexts).
All the native linux thread stack visualizers I have used so far lack a way to show single-threaded bottlenecks in multi-threaded applications. Does this solve it?

In the java ecosystem this is solved with utilization timelines.
Living in SW London while Concorde was in operation, I was able to quite regularly look up and see it flying.

Although one becomes quite inured to plane noise, the distinctive rumble came to herald the lovely sight of this slender aircraft.
I’m a regular Church-going Christian, and could definitely go along with that theory. As a gross over-simplification Jesus is a noun, the Holy Sprit is a verb, God is an entire language.
The "no way in hell" part clearly refers only to automatically enabling lockdown mode if the kernel was booted using secure boot.

Lockdown mode itself is very likely to be merged.

It becomes clearer if you read http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/01597.html which was linked elsewhere in the comments here.
Same, I went back to Linux on a thinkpad instead.

I'm still happy with that move.
It should be priced. If you are full vegan, and recyle everything for years, and never travel, so your environmental load is minimal, you should be able to afford a year of time saving with a baby, by using disposable diapers.

And maybe it could be price adjusted for income, so everyone should do the same effort for the environment.
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This is an amazing story, thanks for sharing! One of the main reasons I love HN is coming across gems like this, and people like you.

When I was young, I would visit a great-aunt in the mountains of rural Transylvania every summer and would help harvest crops, fish, hike, and forage for mushrooms and berries with my grandmother. Now I live in LA and work in tech, often missing that bucolic lifestyle. I just couldn't stop reading about 100 pages straight of One-Straw Revolution this evening -- it reminded me of a simpler, better, time.
Also, the cohort that purchases Tesla vehicles may be a lower-risk group of drivers than average.

This could happen because Tesla vehicles are more expensive than comparable conventional vehicles, less attractive to those with risky lifestyles, inconvenient for people who don't have regular driving patterns that allow charging to be planned, or more attractive to older consumers who wish to signal different markers of status than the young go-fast crowd.

You'd possibly want to compare versus non-auto-pilot Tesla drivers on the same roads in similar conditions, but the problem remains that the situations where auto-pilot is engaged may be different from those when the driver maintains control.

In sum, it's hard to mitigate the potential confounding variables.
Development of that plane is likely profitable even if you'd only use it for EU-US East and US East-West. 3h flights LON-JFK and JFK-LAX/SFO (if supersonic over land is allowed) would create enough demand to justify the cost.

Just London-NYC has >20 direct flights each day, that's more than 1,000 business class passengers. Most of them will already pay >$2,000 per flight (or their companies).
The comment that sparked the discussion referred to Europe, not just EU:

> I think this is quite indicative of European and the US values. The US generally values the freedom to, while Europe values freedom from

The reply that prompted me to jump in didn't question this view; just generalized it in a way I'm very sceptical about:

> I generalize it as the US protects companies, the EU protects people.

It's easy to poke holes in this generalization, even without needing a clear-cut definition of what European values are, exactly.

> We were talking about laws, thus more like EU vs US. In that case, Germany in the 50s was not in the EU.

The laws reflect the spirit, so to speak, and while the EU as such didn't exist in 1950s, its "alpha version", the European Coal and Steel Community, of which Germany was a founding state, did. The process was already on.

The Paneuropean modern idea of a united continent is almost 100 years old. The EU is an outcome of a long and difficult process, not something that just came to existence in 1992, in a form that happened to trendily reflect the spirit of the 90s ;)
Pls consider changing the 'grant in minutes'. I am busy so I read the headline and jumped right to the page URL. It said nothing of the substantial requirements and commitments both data and time. That should be spelled out up front. This felt very un-comfortable, to keep being asked for more. If nothing else, spell out what you want upfront.

- Application form
- 100 question personality test
- 10 question spatial test prelim
- 20 min spatial test
- who knows
Yes they reacted, but only after they got called out on it [1].

Before that, for years, they knew exactly what they were doing when they gave apps access to their users' friends. And it must've been obvious to them throughout how such abuse could be executed. Yet they didn't try very hard at all to prevent it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/26/facebo...
> People need to get out this learned helplessness and make effort to improve their lives.

Surely you see the problem here?
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet
>Can a bidet user explain why bidets are superior to just having a nearby faucet to dampen the toilet paper, like this?

Water pressure. I live on the 5th floor of a 16 floor building with the water tank at the top. The pressure of the bidet is enough to clean everything off in seconds. The risk of splash is only when you use it incorrectly. Just sit for a minute or two extra to let gravity do it's work on the excess water present on your butt.

>Having a separate system and jet of water seems like a lot more complexity

I don't think so. In India, we just attach it to a normal water valve. The same one to which we attach taps, flush tanks, showers etc. It's a pretty standardized attachment.
Of the finalists:

> Zbigniew Wojna (co-author of Inception-v3, one of the first better-than-humans perception models), object detection and instance segmentation for small objects

This looks really important. At the moment there's no way that Tesla's can avoid small animals and birds. This means that both the animal gets killed and it's likely that the human will crash after from the panic of hitting an animal.

The list in general is interesting as it shows what people are working on, so it's insight into current research even before a paper or results are released.
A little though experiment. Imagine you got poop on your fingers. You take toilet paper and wipe your fingers clean. Are you now ready to continue with your business or does it feel a bit unsanitary? Then why do this to your butt?
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Really? I don't think so, it would be good if someone did a study on this though. Most people I know think privacy is important.

I do think people are communicating via other mediums more than before though. It's anecdotal but most of my family and friends just gravitate towards iMessage , Facetime and Telegram to communicate by default now.

Could it be that people don't care about this issue because they care about Facebook anymore? There are alternatives now, people will just use them more and more over time.
When the self driving revolution started, conservative people claimed that one accident would stop the whole business. Well there are many accidents already and people are still willing to risk. One reason may be our tendency to trust something which we do not understand. We feel that if the feature is already in the car, it must be safe. Well it is not. And even worse, it is driven more by marketing and money than by safety regulations.
What has the hardware cost in common with OS running on it? Just curious.
I've even noticed snipe framing on HN. Replies being added very late to a comment, that completely misrepresent and negatively frame your statements leaving you with no retort.
Yes. In fact I don't agree with the post I'm replying to in the sense that anyone should have to go back to washing diapers in a bucket 1930s style. But I do really think everyone who has access to a washing machine should be using cloth diapers given the insane amount of landfill disposables generate.
Generally speaking, because we don’t interact with food and everyday activities with our butts! :)
Or a subsidy on diaper cleaning services. Cloth diapers with a service are price-comparable to disposables currently and otherwise better in several other ways.
Given that God is omnipotent, you can always build a narrative where God is responsible for science and whatever future. You can't make the concept of God smaller. At best you can make a religious narrative irrelevant.

But you also don't need a religion to play with the concept of God. And you certainly don't even need God to have a religion.
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And when does she sleep? Surely not while the baby is awake.
not really. It was about the great engineering that goes to design TP. I said to do away with it totally
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If it allows the driver to e.g. reply to a text message on his phone, then it's dangerous.

Either it requires the driver to occasionally take over and handle a situation on short notice, then the driver should have hands on the wheel and eyes forward (and the car should ensure this by alerting and slowing down immediately if the driver isn't paying attention).

Or the driver isn't required to pay attention and take over occasionally, and then it's fine to reply to that email on the phone while driving. I see no future in which there is a possible middle ground between these two levels of autonomy.
Perhaps they're over stating it. But it's still probably an easier/faster way to get funding than traditional research grants.
Are you talking about the second video in the story, in which the car veers towards the divider?
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So does ReactOS.

Only both projects are pretty pointless to sue since they aren't making any money.
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Are you kidding? 80-90% seems awfully low to trust it.
I didn't care why, I cared because it was decietful. Eventually by the time they wanted an additional '20 minutes' AFTER already doing a ten question spatial awareness test I quit. Could go on forever. Very private stuff too. To not be upfront with things like that is wrong.
As a middle class white couple we have never had a problem affording diapers mostly because between showers, grandparents, and other middle class friends with babies, most everything else from strollers to clothing for the first two years has been provided to us for free. Perhaps another unrecognized perk of living in certain social circles?
Is this open to Europeans and have you heard of GDPR?
Would love to apply for the algorithms engineer position. Feel I have the necessary background. How do I?
Is this what you intended this to be?

"Thanks to Phil Kast for writing this bookmarklet for submitting links to Hacker News. When you click on the bookmarklet, it will submit the page you're on. To install, drag this link to your browser toolbar:"
The website is very light on contact details. Specifying things like physical addresses of where you're registered/located are fairly simple things to differentiate yourselves from scam artists.
I honestly don't understand why, if the driver does not take control when the car has sensed an issue, it does not just throw on hazards and roll slow or stop. Seems like the safest way to keep people from dying.
Apple can associate their own public key with the users phone number, then they will be able to read messages sent to that user.
You can't just slam the brakes on the highway. Just a question of time until you get rear ended.
What exactly is it you do in Excel which is quicker than Numbers?

Numbers excel at what a spreadsheet application should be about. Once you get very complex sheets you are much better off using more specialized software such as DataGraph, R, Julia, Matlab, Numpy, SAS
The issue is much more nuanced than that but nice job positioning protest, dissent and citizen concern ie basic democracy as 'outrage culture'. [1]

The bigger debate is about exploitation of natural resources , negatively impacting the local community and environment [2] corporate capture, people in neighboring towns not able to access clean water, all things that the average citizen is negatively impacted by.

Nestle, corporate shills and those paid to defend it defending it is logical. Individuals with no stake seeking to defend Nestle on the basis on volume extracted based entirely on Nestle's figures with no regulatory framework to independently verify actual extraction on the other hand is not.

Your first link is a generic article on progress and sustainability. The second does not show how much water is extracted by Nestle and its impact on the local environment and is based on 'self reported' figures. Here are far more updated perspectives on the issue.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-mak...

[2] https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-04/tiny-michigan-town-wa...
> Turn on the feature to hide photos you're tagged in

And how should I do that if I don't have a Facebook account? How do I tell Facebook to not steal my phone number and texts from phones of my friends?
He popularized the geodesic dome.

While no doubt an eccentric genius and early advocate of systems theory, I can't really give him a pass after coining the term "synergetics" [0]. The common form of the word used today is - synergy. He also coined the terms "cloud nine", "tensegrity", and "dymaxion".

"Experience with synergetics encourages a new way of approaching and solving problems." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Reader beware: much of his writings are either math heavy or word salad. Or both.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergetics_(Fuller)
Edit: corrected spelling of his name
Agisoft is what I use on a weekly to daily basis on an i9 system, and it's really good. Unfortunately it's closed source unlike alternatives.
What baffles me more is that a ton of people are vaping now, even those that haven't smoked before, because "it's, like, totally not like smoking".
Yeah, transparency matters in this. Laying out the required steps at the beginning is easy to do.
You’re arguing from a horrible stance. Autopilot isn’t 100 safer than human drivers that is why people are concerned about safety.

It’s like if you said “I don’t get why people are concerned with every kid bringing a gun to school, if that would make the schools 100 times safer then shouldn’t we do it? Even if there’s an interim “learning period” where they are much less safe, doesn’t the end justify the means?”

I really can’t fathom the mindset of people who honestly believe that the only way forwards with self-driving tech is to put it into the market prematurely and kill people. In 10-15 years we’ll have safe robust systems in either case, let’s not be lenient with companies who kill costumers by trying to move to fast and “win the race”. Arguing from statistics about deaths without taking responsibilities into account is absurd. Would it be ok for a cigarette company to sell a product that eliminated cancer risks but randomly killed costumers as long as they do the math and show that the total death count decreases? Hell no.
Came here to ask the same thing. Thanks to to others in thread for providing some context. Personally I haven't found any of the posts from this site to be interesting/entertaining... but please link the ones people think are.
Ask HN: How to avoid being psychologically manipulated by the media?
I sometimes wonder if growing up before the internet and Wikipedia and Stack Overflow was actually a boon for my problem solving skills. I spent so many hours with nothing to go on but some books and my own persistent trial-and-error. If I'd done the same stuff these days I don't think I'd have learned half as much (although would I have done more, different things? Probably...)
>>Convenience and maximisation of traffic are

I think the convenience will mean more traffic since many who now use public transport will use their self driving car instead. So in total autopilots could be worse for the environment and require even more roads
Personally my views are you have a right to ask for whatever you want. Don't lie about it and call it a 'grant in minutes'. Sure there is 525,600 minutes in a year. That many?!! Spell out everything you want upfront. This is a dark design pattern and it's unethical and especially coming from you all you should know better. With sensitive information don't lead people on.
I doubt it was that expensive. I know families who migrated from Europe to the US in the 50s/60s, and I'm pretty sure they didn't have (inflation-adjusted) $1000/person.

It was probably easier to find work on a ship to pay for the trip, at least for able-bodied men.
And what are your processing times like? I use my Mac for video editing, but I have never had any problems doing that smoothly even on much weaker Macs.

Only issue I have on Mac is compiling large programs.
Wow, struck a nerve, did he?

Please keep this vitriol and personal attacks off of HN. OP was polite and posted a well-reasoned response. You making personal attacks out of ignorance that may not even hold true in the OP’s case is just petty.
With high enough gearing that is plenty. The issue is we are not capable of building strong enough gears.
This is literally what I have been saying
My first child screamed whenever she was not on a human for the first six months. She slept, but only on a person.
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> My point is that with the correct effort, people can generally break free of most of the poverty traps they find themselves in.

I find 'correct effort' to rather deceptive term, because part of the problem is defining what that would be (and your example failed as a 'correct' one).

Furthermore, I'd say a cursory glance at history shows that what you're saying is not true. Slaves did not just free themselves, the working class did not just obtain the many rights all enjoy by themselves, women did not just gain voting rights and all that jazz by themselves, and all this applies to gays and the mentally disabled too.

I'm not arguing against 'correct effort', clearly many poor, slaves, women and gays fought hard. The crucial bit here is that they did so collectively, that they needed a lot of help from those who were not in their situation, and that a big part of this involved effecting political change.

I've never heard a convincing argument that somehow we're now in a completely different situation, and that somehow now the steps one can take as an individual are 'correct action', even if of course they can't hurt.

It strikes me that this focus on the individual is somehow a problem on both ends of the political spectrum. The one side devolves into perhaps too much identity politics, and the other too much into the "we'd all be fine if we just worked harder on ourselves".

Both sides, meanwhile, seem to prefer to paint the other side as being will-fully <insert shitty ism>, when I think we're all really mostly equally shitty and good, probably partly right, and really we should just be mad at the immense inequality that has left us mis-directing our anger at each other.

Broadly speaking, anyways.
The counter argument to that is if it causes user anger, then maybe it should not be enabled at all.

Also, I am not sure about it adding no security without verified boot - a machine rebooting is something that can be noticed.
Can you think of any reasons or situations where that logic fails? I can think of tons.

The very challenging, and somewhat unusual given the life/death stakes, aspect of this domain in general is that general 'easy' logic works for 99% of the scenarios. But in the remaining 1% -- and I mean every single possible last scenario, whether probable or not -- the "what to do" is so much more difficult. Enough time to do it? Can be done safely? Etc.

The reason the car turns control back over to the human at all is because the vehicle presumably does NOT have any maneuvers left which are high-confidence -- whether that's because the sensing equipment failed, the software failed or failed to interpret the data satisfactorily, or there's just no "good move" left, or any other number of reasons, etc...
I think as long as you make it clear that there is a 10-minute questionnaire and 20-minute brain-teaser at the start of the application people probably won't mind.

Plus you might want to change your claim from 'minutes' to 'hours'. You won't put off people who really want to apply and you'll get less people who just want easy money, trying to apply and reacting angrily.
I'd say science makes the future more uncertain, not less, by giving us more tools to change it. It's easier to figure out how to change things than to understand the impact of those changes.
I'm getting near two years past refresh date on my work laptop. The touchpad is getting pretty funny, but I've not upgraded because of the bar and the approximately one acre that the new touchpad takes up, like they want me to hit it mistakenly while typing...
You really don't need to boil cloth diapers, honestly.
Of course they're not, but OP kind of implied that it wasn't necessary to read a lot of pages of mathematics when he said

> you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text

Even if you watch those videos, you still need to sit through lots of pages of mathematics if you want to master the subject.