skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the answer is that if we turned all of our energy to salt production, it wouldn’t even be a drop in the ocean, and our efforts would of course liberate more CO2 and contribute to global warming. Of all the possible ways we could geoengineer (all of them bad ideas frankly) this has to be one of the worst, least effective, most limited, and least likely to succeed.

If we’re going to hasten our demise, we might as well try sulfate aerosols or something with a more global effect. We’d still end up killing ourselves, but at least it wouldn’t be quite so much like trying to get a sailboat to move by blowing on the sails.
Accidents do happen ;) https://hackaday.com/2017/10/02/accidental-satellite-hijacks...
I try to tell people that if you cannot take a nap behind the wheel of a self-driving car, then the automaker has failed to produce a self driving car. If you have to be attentive behind the wheel of a self driving car, then you might as well just steer it yourself.
> having the code update itself intelligently and automatically.

That's why what the author wants is impossible. Everybody tried to make the perfect design Tool for web content starting back from Frontpage, it just never worked, not even once.

There's so much invisible pieces in web which are not related to the design. Does the markup makes sense? How does the design integrate with the features (web isn't static print at all). How does the code renders on non-standard screen sizes? Is the code generated maintainable and readable for future use? Is there a right balance between design and loading time?

The core issue is that if you would provide all the features in a software that the code provides, it would be more complicated than learning coding itself. That's also why nothing replaced a text-editor to code after all these years. If you would invent something to replace it, it would be more complicated than directly learning to code.
Loved The Talos Principle, but also enjoyed Skyrim. Skyrim’s quests and side quests felt a bit thing-collecty at times, but I feel like you could get into it as a nationalistic boy scout viking barbarian, or an angry lizard thief, or an elven mage and play three different games.

With the Witcher 3, I felt trapped in a character whose demeanor I found insufferable no matter what options I chose.

I wanted to like the game, and recognize the technical achievement, but it left me pretty blasé about quite a lot.
You can’t unionize all of your potential replacements.
Making it the first Google result for "go"? (Instead of the verb, or the game)
In related news, the sky is blue and the water is wet. I honestly doubt anyone seriously believes in the pay gap hogwash, unless they are very conveniently pushing an agenda that is set to capitalize on this.
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Of all of the disaster movies with terrible physics, The Day After Tomorrow is truly their king. Supercooled air depositing ice crystals on warm surfaces, oh yeah.
These will take a lane from regular traffic and give it to rich people who buy an expensive car.

It also will not ensure exclusion of manual vehicles, so it won't create the exclusion necessary for the predictable driving environment.
There's no need to make anything up. Mass transit systems are relatively efficient if and only if they are used on routes popular enough to replace enough private vehicles to offset their greater size and operating costs (both physical and financial). That usually means big cities, or major routes in smaller cities at busier times.

Achieving 24/7 mass transit, available with reasonable frequency for journeys over both short and long distances, would certainly require everyone to live in big cities with very high population densities. Here in the UK, we only have a handful of cities with populations of over one million today. That is the sort of scale you're talking about for that sort of transportation system to be at all viable, although an order of magnitude larger would be more practical. All of those cities have long histories and relatively inefficient layouts, which would make it quite difficult to scale them up dramatically without causing other fundamental problems with infrastructure and logistics.

So, in order to solve the problem of providing viable mass transit for everyone to replace their personal vehicles, you would first need to build, starting from scratch or at least from much smaller urban areas, perhaps 20-30 new big cities to house a few tens of millions of people.

You would then need all of those people to move to those new cities. You'd be destroying all of their former communities in the process, of course, and for about 10,000,000 of them, they'd be giving up their entire rural way of life. Also, since no-one could live in rural areas any more, your farming had better be 100% automated, along with any other infrastructure or emergency facilities you need to support your mass transit away from the big cities.

The UK is currently in the middle of a housing crisis, with an acute lack of supply caused by decades of under-investment and failure to build anywhere close to enough new homes. Today, we're lucky if we build 200,000 per year, while the typical demand is for at least 300,000, which means the problem is getting worse every year. The difference between home-owners and those who are renting or otherwise living in supported accommodation is one of the defining inequalities of our generation, with all the tensions and social problems that follow.

But sure, we could get everyone off private transportation and onto mass transit. All we'd have to do is uproot about 3/4 of our population, destroy their communities and in many cases their whole way of life, build new houses at least an order of magnitude faster than we have managed for the last several decades, achieve total automation in our out-of-city farming and other infrastructure, replace infrastructure for an entire nation that has been centuries in development... and then build all these wonderful new mass transit systems, which would still almost inevitably be worse than private transportation in several fundamental ways.
You seem to understand the difference. Everyone in this thread seems to understand the difference. So why should anybody believe a failure to understand the term is a problem?
Additional background on the thermohaline cycle and the Younger Dryas period, which saw a change of 10 degrees Celsius in a decade:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/The%20Younge...

Some more information on the period here:
http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/arch/examples.shtml
One can dream ;).

I do like the minimization that a lot of OS/Systems are undergoing though. I still remember when VMWare VM's came along and my mind was blown. Similar feeling on seeing Docker, but it was tempered somewhat until kubernetes came out. Very excited to see what comes next in the future.
> Grow some heart Tesla. I am probably asking too much from a faceless corporation.

I'd think that Tesla is the very antithesis of a faceless corporation, for better or worse.
That article by Columbia claims that dbus is not POSIX, yet the communication occurs over a UNIX domain socket. I do not think that is a good example of not using POSIX for IPC. The underlying mechanism that makes it work is part of POSIX. It just extends what is available to provide IPC from user space in a way that people find more convenient.
1/100 of 1% of the world's oceans is a cube 32 miles on each side [0]. This volume of salt would weigh 317 billion tons [1]. World commercial production is .25 billion tons of salt [2].

So, to raise salinity by .01%, we'd need 1268 years of normal production (plus some when you exclude sea-water extraction).

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(volume+of+the+world%27...

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=31956+cubic+miles+of+sa...

[2] http://www.saltinstitute.org/salt-101/production-industry/
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The April Fools trailer [0] makes me think you could. It'd be more along the lines of a basic Hero's Journey story, but that doesn't necessarily mean it would be bad.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCzkz3gHb8
> while simultaneously stating in your legal language to protect yourself: don't take your hands off the wheel

They don't just say it in the legal language. The car is continually reminding the driver of it, as the article makes clear.
I also don't approve of the wasteful short lifecycles, however I don't think they are only caused by device drivers being closed source. People want to buy new devices, not only because of the outdated software, but also because the hardware has improved so much in the last years, and because they enjoy buying.
A lot of apps never made the switch on ios. I have some useful ones that were orphaned. I feel like only the mac original intel chips were core2 32bit one, and those long lost os support.

Its weird that dos (box) and old windows programs are often still runable, but somehow mac applications just don't age nearly as well.

I really think if some linux distros can get it together and get some good application support, now is the time for them on the desktop/laptop.

going to Apple-Menu->about this mac->system report ->software applications

will show a list of applications with the right most column indicating 64 bit support. 95ish % of mine are currently 64 bit
Telephone-based door intercom systems unlock the door in response to a DTMF tone from the "inside" line. This means that control over call forwarding for any of the relevant extensions is as good as a key to the building.

Good thing no one ever leaves their PBX connected to the internet with a default admin password. Or puts edit access to their voicemail greeting behind a PIN like 1234# or 0000#.
I'm not sure why I should give the "correct free market response" any airtime at all, given that 1) it would appear to require making one of the top 5 Canadian cities into "scorched earth", meaning a wasteland of empty housing in order to drive out investment money so that... why? and 2) any one of a hundred or more demonstrable failures of free markets that have fueled the drive for regulation more than anything else over the same period.
I’ll put this here http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-pr...
I know I'm not supposed to just say "+1" here, but that was and awesome read. Perfect timing for me, especially J.
I remember in React, we are able to do WYSIWYG visual design by using a library called sturctor. It was a pain to set structor up, however, and it has a limited state management facility.
Australia’s foreign interference laws anger China
I can't seem to find anything more recent than June 2016 on the so-called Tetris Trilogy (though I admit to not looking very hard), but this fake Tetris movie trailer from 2012 is something that I think could actually be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhwGEa7507g
A little confusing, so you're using the openhub platform to show the progress you've made making the openhub platform?

Dogfooding is good though :)

Related: https://www.indiehackers.com/
Loved the site. Great way to present research, will be even better with source code or a notebook.
I'm not sure if you are being serious? The answer is that published advice on rebase overwhelmingly warns against rebasing published code, and for good reason.
> Create a movie that coexists with game plots rather than trying to sum them up or replace them and you'll have more freedom to make a movie that's actually good.

The challenge with this is that a studio would be alienating fans and making a large investment into an IP and then throwing most of that in the garbage...

Mass Effect isn't enough of a name to carry an untried, unanchored, narrative into the mainstream. Most fans of any work have a superficial relationship to the underlying IP, so most people people who walk into a Batman movie are only gonna want to see Batman, not some "good story" told about unrelated people in Batmans world.

If the story is so solid, and it's so exciting you want to put a hundred million dollars behind it, then why share profits with an unrelated IP owner? Change the 'universe', keep the money. If you're going to pay for an IP, why not use it?

Using established IPs is all about risk management. Paying extra for the joy of increasing the risk is how execs end up not execs ;)
maybe don’t call it autopilot then. call it “driver assistance”?.. or something that doesn’t make it sound like “autopilot”.
It's called a 'brand name' and people are surrounded by them. I can't eat my Apple MacBook, despite the fact it is misleadingly branded as fruit. Everyone in this thread seems perfectly capable of understanding that 'autopilot' doesn't mean 'fully autonomous', and they got to that understanding through the fairly mundane and routine method of thinking about it.
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I suppose dropping x86 support makes for one less architecture for Rosetta II to support.
One thing that comes up a lot in these discussions: a lot of people (not saying this is you) got the impression that the society in the novel requires military service to gain citizenship. It's worth mentioning that the novel is pretty specific that the condition of citizenship is service, period: you have to be willing to sacrifice a few years of your life in service to your nation, and they will find something for anyone willing to serve, no matter what disabilities they may have. The protagonist only chooses the military because he doesn't have any aptitudes to speak of beyond "reasonably physically fit."
No. EAS doesn't cascade like that. Broadcasters are only mandated to monitor 2 stations, and the monitored stations are upstream in a distribution hierarchy. I can't speak to every broadcaster's configuration, but it'd probably propagate 2 or 3 hops.
Still works for me? At least in Australia on Android.
Presumably because China really wants to continue to build its control over Australian politics and society.
> Wouldn't some of the higher-risk demographics (e.g. the elderly)

Elderly aren't usually considered higher risk. The young kids are, enthusiasts are, people who drive red sports cars are.

> Unless a critical mass switches to car-sharing, autonomous cars and no parking will make rush hour worse because now each car will make the round trip to work twice a day instead of just once.

Autonomous cars should be mostly fleet vehicles (otherwise you have to park it at home).

Isn't that just like in most of the major world cities where taxis are the norm rather than the exception? It isn't weird for a taxi in Beijing to make 5-6 morning commute rounds. But even then, there are a lot of reverse commutes to consider.

> The financially sound thing to do will probably be converting these lots to more offices/condos/malls.

While density can increase, convenient affordable personal transportation also allows the opposite to occur. Parks, nice places, and niche destinations, are also possible.

Think of it this way, once traffic is mitigated, urban planning can apply more balance to eliminate uneven reverse commute problems. There will still be an incentive to not move, but movement in itself wouldn't be that expensive (only 40 kuai to get to work in Beijing ~15km, I'm sure given the negligible labor costs, autonomous cars can manage that in the states).
> Tesla's system demands more from drivers than manual driving.

This is a great point. With regular cars, drivers can reliably predict where the car will be after 5 seconds. However, with Tesla, there is really no way to know what the auto-driver will do, and so the driver has to stay even more attentive to ensure that it does not do something wrong. It's like driving a car that is not under your control, and may go in random directions.
> Yes, you can live without the convenience of your car. No really, you can.

No, I can't. Don't presume to tell other people what they need to live their lives.
Qualcomm launches its new vision intelligence platform for IoT devices
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If it was wider the measure would not be optimal and it would look bad and be harder to read.

If they increased the text size and image size to make up for it then the amount of items per page would go down.

I don't see what they could do that would work very well on larger screens aside from adding more columns.
Here’s a few of my personal favorite insane nostalgics:

* Donald Knuth: http://tex.loria.fr/litte/knuth-interview

* Linus Torvalds: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

* Martin Sústrik: http://250bpm.com/blog:4
I realize we're talking about Teslas, but still, how many people can just stop using their car when they need to go to work or pick up kids?

The airbag recall affected millions and millions of cars. How many of those people were able to not drive their car until the problem was resolved?
Because of how floating point works, it doesn't matter. The difference between modelling in meters or millimeters disappears in the exponents. What matters for precision is the mantissa, which is 23 bits in single precision floats. So you get ~16 million of your smallest unit before you're losing precision, counting the implied leading 1. You can double that to ~32 million by using the sign bit.

Edit: this translates to 320m if you want 0.01mm precision.
You work at one of the highest paying firms in your locale and you are slightly above making ends meet?

Do you at least love what you do (for a living?)
Maybe the cost of improvement is failure in this case. For Tesla to fix the issue of a crossing tractor trailer not being positively detected there had to be an instance of a Tesla hitting a crossing tractor trailer. Maybe for road work barriers that change position as the road work progresses to be avoided there needs to be an impetus for Tesla engineers to build in detection of these cases.

This is all a way of saying that I reject the notion that autonomous vehicles are more unsafe as compared to manually driven vehicles. This isn't an impulsive reaction either; data compiled by the NHTSA has proven this out.
The Era of Voice
The level of supply being made in Vancouver is also unprecedented. I can seriously not overstate this enough. Vancouver is not SF. It builds.

https://twitter.com/YVRHousing/status/984243329494745088
Does it mean macOS users won't be able to play 32-bit games in Wine anymore?
I wonder if Tesla decided they want to own the term 'autopilot' at a short term expense, forcing other manufacturers to use less obvious names down the track. Cause it seems strange they would stick with a term that could encourage lawsuits and frivolous behaviour by drivers.
Funny how people know actors for different things. I googled "Matt Frewer" and my first thought was "Oh, that guy from that one episode of The Next Generation."
In a sense though, without the software the hardware isn't self-driving, at least enough to be misleading. If you saw "Full Voice-Recognition Hardware on All Computers", you would expect it to actually recognise voices, not just come with a microphone.
I think it is easy to dismiss everything as "choices". But why are people taking different paths? Did they have the same opportunities? Was the environment welcoming for both?

The 2017 top 500 CEO ranking included more female chiefs than any previous list since the first Fortune 500 ran in 1955. They were 6.4% -- 32 out of 500.
> we all have reason to be very, very concerned

What are you going to do about it? Armed revolution? Hoard enough food to ensure that you survive a few months longer than the rest of humanity?
Microsoft and Apple have different approaches to backwards compatibility based on the markets they're in. Microsoft makes most of their money on enterprise, whereas Apple makes most on consumers. Enterprise values running old apps, consumers value running today's apps. Each makes sense for their market... and desktop Linux doesn't make sense for either.
I'd be really interested in the real-life lifespan of scooters, including theft, ditching (cue pictures of piles of ditched e-bikes sitting in a stream), customers doing stupid things and breaking them etc. Also on real-life utilisation percentage (ride length, rides/day). Together these could make an order of magnitude change in the profit expected.

The article is making the point that changing the key parameters dramatically varies your expected profit, but the message I'm taking away is you can make any business model look arbitrarily good or bad by slightly tweaking your estimates, and the more multipliers in your model, the more 'flexible' it is in this way.
ChromiumOS is a Gentoo fork. Speaking of which, I am a Gentoo developer and I like what the ChromiumOS team has accomplished. It serves a practical need. My neighbor uses it.

If Google wanted to avoid GPL software, they could have used a BSD UNIX successor. It certainly would have been far easier to do.
About 0.008 km^3, each coordinate between -100 and +100 meters.

The number's the roughly the same even if you'll model in km or imperial units.
This is a reply to the sibling comment rather than the parent (which I largely agree with). Politically incorrect rhetoric aside, it's clear than Vancouver's housing shortage can be easily addressed by free market mechanics.

Increased supply, even if not available on the market means that the owner or occupant will not outbid a local on a different housing unit. Multiple additional housing units will over time enter the market and reduce competition and rent increases. A more friendly zoning situation will also spur developers to bring in more housing capacity. This will stabilize or reduce rents, as has been empirically demonstrated in the past year by Seattle.
> The focus on handles overall is good though. Some capability security lessons have finally seeped into common knowledge!

Huh? NT has done this for 25 years.
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Albert einstein "was an.idiot propped.up.by fake news"..he stole.other people knowledge..."he worked.in a fucken patent office"...
no, this isn't how you train computer vision algorithms.
Call a nested user-defined function prior to its definition?
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The only ones I have that aren't 64 bit are games interestingly enough. And Calculator and DVD Player, which is odd, I'd expect that to have been ported by apple by now. That said the DVD Player app is not a big deal as I don't have any dvd drives any longer I realize, oh wait i bought a usb one, would have to find it.
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+1. HTML and CSS are not programming languages, so it’s not programming, it’s design. As a designer shouldn’t you know this powerful design tool? The web browser itself can be your canvas.

No ifs, &&’s, || but()’s about it.
> Car demos are almost always "do not attempt" and violating this or that

Ads like those explicitly include 'do not attempt' disclaimers; this video does not. The statement it does include only emphasizes how advanced the system is.

> so when they say the driver wasn't necessary for the demo I don't personally extrapolate that to say anything about real life.

You do not, but the question is how many jurors would see it the same way when a highly skilled lawyer argues that this video is misleading, as part of his efforts to hurt Tesla in a liability suit.
This is so frustrating to me. 50 years ago we had the ability to fly to the moon. A played out trope, sure. But today we can't even do a basic 'dont run into shit' on a perfectly clear day. Physics in this way is and has been a solved problem for decades. The fact that people are dying from hitting stationary objects should be criminal. At lightest, they should bar these companies from even participating.