skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this, 1995? You're gonna need more than airbags and seat-belts and fuel efficiency.

Modern cars need ABS, TPMS, electronic stability control, passenger airbags, a backup camera and crash test standards all but demand side curtain airbags.

Don't get me started on emissions. Fuel economy really isn't a big deal or hard to meet. It's the half million other little things that need to be in a specific range that really waste the R&D time and money.

For something like a low end subcompact compliance is a huge chunk of the price.

Given the choice between a 1999 Toyota Solara (or whatever) which has one or two airbags for $5k or a new subcompact hatch with none of the listed safety features for $6k or $7k I'd probably take the subcompact. There's been huge improvements in all sorts of non-safety aspects of vehicle design in the past ~20yr that the subcompact has that the old sedan doesn't.

There's rapidly diminishing returns for regulating cars because by driving up the price of new cars you extend the time that the old ones stick around and the people who choose less safe alternatives (see mopeds in Asia)

Saying "regulation that mandates $goodthing is good" as a blanket statement is approximately of the same dumbness as saying "regulation is bad" as a blanket statement.
So just saying "economic wellness" is not enough to issue a blanket restriction unless you are infringing on those rights to the minimum possible degree.

Why the asymmetry? Why shouldn't we apply the same standard to the rights and freedoms of the residents?

There are many, many, many way to place very light and focused restrictions on immigration that would achieve such ends, and people don't even talk about them. (E.g., if you're worried about security, make each immigrant pay a fee or bond that, in expectation, covers the costs imposed by the tiny minority of immigrants who commit crimes.)

That sounds great to me. The reason why such things aren't discussed in the US, is that proponents of such measures are tarred as "racist."

no one respects freedom of movement across national borders in the same way they respect freedom of speech

Because freedom of speech is essential to free societies. The false "freedom of movement across national borders" could well degrade a society. Why isn't there a freedom to move into your house? No government's resources are infinite. Illegal border-crossing only infringes in a less obvious and more indirect way, as compared to someone moving into your living room.
Those are also things that became widespread during the 50s.
Non-empirical statements are meaningless in the same sense that fairies don't exist. It's not a priori impossible that a non-empirical but constructive/valuable/useful statement could exist - a black swan - just as it's not impossible that a fairy could exist - but it seems very unlikely and I'd put a very low weight on someone's claim to have seen one, given how often such claims have turned out to be false. When I dismiss something as non-empirical, that's the same kind of dismissal as saying something's a conspiracy theory - formally I'm not claiming that it's outright impossible, just unlikely (though in everyday language I might say "impossible", just as we do for conspiracy theories or fairies).
It takes a good designer and a premium font: https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/avenir-next

(not that there are no quality free fonts)
This comment is reeking of Silicon Valley. There are a lot of Americans making $20,000 or less per year.
In my experience, knowing when work on some functionality will _start_ plus a rough estimate on effort (talking hours/days/weeks level) is quite acceptable for most stakeholders. It is also far easier to provide, and less likely to be off by an order of magnitude, which some low-level estimates may suffer from.
How We Imagine Aliens
Can you please go away with your whataboutism?
It takes about 1-2 years to get decent profit flowing in a startup, so if you can live 5-6 years, then quit and try for 2.

You will grow so much during this time that if you had to go back into employment, you could command a much higher salary.

But this only applies if you are a self-starter. Once I stopped working a full-time job (i.e. employment) and started my startup, I actually do a lot more hours. I dont notice it, but I do. It's not for everybody.
And not nearly so hazardous, for the pilot, the customers, or the public.
These are not rumors. Multiple news sources reported the misconduct and Andy had to take a leave of absence from Essential.
Andy would have hired a stellar law firm to protect his reputation against defamation, if there was no truth to this. When the credibility he built in his lifetime is at stake, it would be naive assume otherwise.

Edit: I personally admire what he was able to accomplish in mobile but was disappointed when I first heard the new about his mis-conduct. He showed poor judgement, and I didn't expect this of him.
And you do know that not all regulations are the same?
You are making it sound like some kind of universal consensus on the validity of regulations exists, but such a consensus does not exist because it's a way too complex, and wide, topic to be making blanket statements about.
At least one Y-Combinator backed startup that I've read of (Iris Automation), and certainly a lot more.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/iris-automation-raises-1-5...

Iris Automation has raised money to bring (...) truly self-flying capabilities, to drones used for industrial tasks.

Competitors to Iris in the drone industry specifically include SRI spin-out Area 17 (also known as a17), Intel RealSense Technology, Parrot’s SLAMdunk systems and DJI’s Guidance systems.
Unfortunately unlike software development there's no simple way to check if the 'output' of management is working correctly or not. This combination of 'hard to do' and 'hard to verify' means that there are many projects humming away with incredibly poor management.
>Treat the estimate as a best guess and then re-evaluate when you have better information.

Any suggestions for how to effectively communicate a "best guess" and a "re-evaluation" to a business side that basically demands "hard deadlines" for projects?
If you were trying to be funny, the humor did not come through. Puns often get lost in text.
Then you will have an awful salad of separate commands that you have to juggle around. I am all for "UNIX philosophy" within reason; it has its bounds, let us not over-romanticize it.
I love the Bladerunner soundtrack, except I haven't found a version without a few snippets of movie dialogue.

Second Daft Punk's Tron score. It's kind of my default.

On the Miles Davis front, check out Panthalassa.
Harriet Tubman wasn't fighting against borders. She was standing up to slavery. Slave masters had to compromise borders and sovereignty in the interest of retrieving slaves.
Because they’re Bat...Amazon!!!
> IIRC, the law applies to euro citizens both living in country and abroad.

GDPR doesn't mention citizenship, it applies to any Data Subject who is a 'natural person'. The scope is stated as 'whatever their nationality or place of residence' which is universal.

So just blocking EU residents is not enough, one would have to also ensure that no other data is processed (1) within any country implementing GDPR or (2) anywhere in the world if you have a controller in the EU, his role being a sort of GDPR proxy.

Even saying 'within EU' is actually inadequate; the Isle of Man has implemented GDPR but isn't in the EU and there are probably other examples.
Have chips ever been critical features? I mean the ones that add features like NFC ok, but doesn't every chip make phones "faster"?
All the reverse-engineered GPU drivers we have now (freedreno, etnaviv, nouveau, lima) started out with intercepting kernel ioctls, being able to observe the blobs at work. Many of them at one point ran with the vendor kernel interface but open-source userspace.

In many ways the kernel part of a GPU is arguably the least important part and it's the userland where the shader compiler sits and produces the magic, but if you start from nothing it's very useful to have a working kernel interface that initializes the hardware and accepts command streams to run.
Did your god intentionally design the system so that the sun sometimes gives people skin cancer? And is it intended that this cancer causes them to die slow and painful deaths?
Awful. If you need some eyewash after reading that, read this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...
I wish more effort had been made by e.g. Pearl to look into this and unify his approach with what had already been thought of, especially because it turns me off a lot when someone tries to create a "whole new paradigm" and it starts to feel like they want to generate sexy marketing hype about it, rather than to say hey, this is an extension or connection or alternative of this older idea already in the topic of machine learning...

I think you wind-up with a situation where the none of the less-than mainstream of conceptions intelligence will have further parts added. Instead, each becomes associated with a single individual's career. It's something of the nature of academia, a situation that made sense when scientific models and approaches were "small" enough to be fully encompassed by an individual.

But you have the problem models aren't naturally modular. Whether X model extend Y model is something of a judgment call. What makes one like or not-like another model is a matter of both the structure of the model and the reasoning behind the model.

Moreover, consider ten programmers creating one computer program tend to proportionately less productive than one programmer creating a program (ie, they work much less than 10x as fast as a rule). Ten theorists putting together one single theory may face a similar or greater problem of diminishing return and coordination.
> I've worried as I've become older that the younger generation will have not known what it was like to live in a US society where border enforcement and airport security was close to nonexistent.

In my opinion, these are two very different things and if you don't treat them as such, you will inevitably end up in a scenario with extremist opposition.
Pearl's attention to the do conditionality -- i.e., P(Y|do(X)) versus P(Y|X) is interesting and important in a certain sense, but I'm not sure it's really resolved debates about causality in any practical sense.

I don't really mean that in a dismissive sense, just to point out that his notation just begs the question of what do(X) means, in terms of why it is actually important. To me it just kind of formalizes a certain notation and kicks the hard theoretical can down the road.

In the books and papers I've read of Pearl's, he makes reasonable logical arguments for certain types of causal inferences, but when, in discussion with colleagues, we've tried to think of how they would be implemented outside the context of an experiment, we've been sort of at a loss. I say this as someone who identifies with observational study professionally, but who recognizes the importance of experiments.

My broader point is that I think Pearl's do-calculus can be reexpressed in traditional graph theory/structural equations/statistics without introducing anything new. In that sense, although I think his writings have drawn attention to important issues, I don't think they have solved anything.
One great thinker gave a very clear view of what is going on in so many open source projects:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
What about IP address?

What about having a DPO or EU rep? (not clear to me whether they need either, and judging by the huge volume of comments on this topic on HN, not clear to a lot of people on both sides of this issue)

I'm surprised they don't have any client side analytics, but if they did, would your position change? Would you stop using it immediately? What if they're using server side analytics?

Also, is not requiring an email good enough? People once people provide an email, don't they need to advise at that point exactly how it will be used and get the user to agree? Unless it's fully under legitimate interest, I guess?
If you view that from the US, it redirects to the US site, full of Facebook crap.
I suppose you have to use your TOS for that. (In fact, a banner that tells European users that they aren't allowed to use your site is probably the easiest way to insulate yourself -- if you collect their data because they used your service illegally, I'm not sure you can be blamed.)
What the hell happened with DN?
The problem is that those ads could not be pay-per-click because you need cookies, javascripts and other tricks to combat clickfraud and impression spam.

If that USA Today site sticks around and adds advertising, it will presumably be low quality inventory like the internet used to be flooded with - casinos, punch the monkey etc.
My wife accumulated about 30k in debt, through EducationOne. It was guaranteed through TERI.

We chose a private lender specifically because at the time (early 2000s) private loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy and we wanted a hedge against the possibility that she might fail in her career. We accepted a significantly higher interest rate for that reason alone. They changed the law and now they're not dischargeable.

Luckily, TERI itself filed for bankruptcy and didn't keep good records. They'd sold the loans but the records showing assignment to the new entity apparently don't exist. We stopped paying on them, they filed suit, and we demanded that they prove ownership of the debt. They withdrew the suit, and the statute of limitations has since expired.
Before HFT existed those risk free trades were taken by NYSE floor brokers. If anything the amount taken is smaller since spreads are so thin now - they used to be much wider in those days. There is always going to be some way to profit by doing a really obvious thing the fastest. Like trading on news or company earnings, etc.

And as the sibling commenter said I suggest reading other sources besides Flash Boys, which I have read before. There is a lot of misinformation in that book. And by the way, IEX has been a public exchange now for some time and still has a tiny share of the volume.
There's an absolute ocean of old obsolete ARM cores clocked slowly. The difference in performance is so vast it would be hard to compare with an A11 chip, especially once you include graphics acceleration in the mix.

Apple has been doubling down every year on the "we can make it go faster", and the rest of the ARM chip makers have responded with a "meh". It's so bad that people get really excited for a Samsung chip that is no slower than a two generation old A series chip.
I thought it's just a brand for YouTube's partnership with record labels.
Even if that were true, it's hard to justify them making 5X more per year than actual pilots.
Well, it is well written and informational.
Guy is using a government loan forgiveness program.

He'll pay "10% of his discretionary income, defined as adjusted gross income minus 150% of the poverty level. Any balance remaining after 25 years is forgiven, effectively covered by taxpayers. The forgiven amount is then taxed as ordinary income."

Don't get me wrong, dental school is stupid expensive (forecast from USC was ~450k) but this guy has the financial acumen of a brick. You don't buy a new house, Tesla, and take vacations to Havana with that much debt, while simultaneously pushing the burden for your schooling onto everyone else.

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/mike-meru-has-1-million-in-...
It's no laughing matter for some companies. EU citizens have turned into pests overnight. There are businesses who don't make much money from the EU to justify compliance with the regulations.
Is having expenses under $8400 per month particularly impressive?
I have a lot of fond memories with the Radio Shack Robie Junior robot. As a kid, this was a great introduction to robotics.

https://rctoymemories.com/2014/04/25/tandy-radio-shack-robie...
Explaining the ‘Mystery’ of Numbers Stations
KDE “leaders” are doing an AMA
80 columns is very standard.
How? AFAIK policy analysis is based on asking causal and counterfactual questions, primarily by trying to find a quasi-control-population that can be a proxy for the intervention and then regressing against it vs the observational data. I forget the name specifically. Causal models would represent this explicitly and you could reason about the model to see if your economics question is well posed. Nobody does this now but it is important to do because it lays out the assumptions which can't be hidden behind politics.

RL is for training system parameters based on positive or negative reinforcement from a critic. RL is based on a Markov decision process. RL has policy search idea but that is separate from economic policy evaluation.
>Even if you have a legitimate use case you still need to provide users a way to access all their information and delete all their information.

Which, in the EU at least, you have had to do for decades under the Data Protection Directive.
Since there are IP addresses collected and sent to third parties without consent, it violates the GDPR.
I've never felt exploited by advertisers. Nor do most other people, otherwise they would keep their internet usage to a minimum when what we see is the exact opposite.

Please stop attacking services and sites that hundreds of millions or billions of people find useful because of your own over the top histrionics.
Some of the keywords and operators (punctuation) of Avail methods are “completely optional”, in that the caller’s choice to include it or not (or alternative prepositions in some cases) is solely to improve readability of the result. For example, the ordinary field-getter has the form “_’s??thing”. The double-question-mark should actually be a single Unicode character (I’m on my phone). The question-mark makes the “s” optional, so you can say “cat’s thing” or “Jess’ thing”. But there’s nothing stopping you from saying “cat’ thing”, other than the derisive laughter of your peers. :-)
> For PH it makes sense due to them already have infra to support it especially video streaming

It is not their infrastructure.

They appear to be using this white-label service according to code in the app (verified by looking at network traffic): https://wlvpn.com/
That is cool. If they can pull it off that’d be awesome. Thanks for the link.
Anything that has to do with creating an AI. Pretty much whatever will nudge it in either direction(sooner/later, good/evil, whatever) will have impact, everything else probably won't matter.

It's like imagine an ancient protofish asking "what can we do that will be significant in a million years?" Get out of the water and try walking.
The limitations of internet technology means that any computer located in the EU, whether or not the user controlling it is in the EU, can enjoy the beneficial effects of the GDPR. (Those limitations and effects being in part that companies will attempt to distinguish EU natural or legal persons based on IP address.)

The GDPR finally provides a legitimate, compelling rationale for users to employ longstanding methods of partially controlling the flow of their traffic through the internet, e.g. setting up a hosting account that uses servers located in the EU and using those computers to access www sites. An ssh account on a server located in the EU has gained new value.

Accessing the www from a computer located in the EU has new advantages, thanks to the GDPR. To users who are aligned with the goals of the GDPR, it is possible that www sites located in the EU have become more appealing than those located outside the EU.

How will EU news sites treat users from outside the EU? Is there a benefit to using EU news sites from outside the EU?
Salt Lake isn't that expensive.
Your previous comments notwithstanding, this comment does have a legitimate point. If you truly do intend to take good care of your users’ data, then the goal should be to have you demonstrate that whilst making it as easy as possible for you to do so (without compromising the said care).

I’m hoping that over the coming weeks and months the enforcement of GDPR and various court cases will add clarity and allow the development of improved guidelines for becoming compliant. If a random SaaS company that users emails for logins and communication with active customers could look at a simple 5 point check list which they could check though in a day then things would be better for everyone.

Less burden for customers, wider services for users, and those firms that can see they could make a few small changes to become compliant would be more incentivised to do so.
That is awesome. Thanks!
It's called Progressive Web Apps. Already supported in Chrome, coming (or released already) on Edge. Still waiting for Firefox and Safari to catch up.
Not sure why you think I would disagree. I'd say that is exactly my opinion, so I wanted to share that googlable term with the other frustated people out there.
Show HN: GDPR templates to request/erase personal data
As a nerdy kid, I was exposed to all this personal robot hype (particularly marketing material from Nolan Bushnell's Androbot) via pop-science library books -- all of them somehow staying in circulation 15-20 years after nearly all the companies mentioned went out of business in '85-'86. Looking for information about the machines in those half-remembered books is what led me to write the article.

I think it would be really easy to miss all of that if you weren't specifically interested in robots growing up, or if you grew out of robot books aimed at children before those books had gotten into the library system. A lot of them were probably published after the machines (aside from the HERO & RB5X) were no longer available, because the publishing pipeline is about 18 months & Androbot went from launch to bankruptcy in about two years.
Just because a law is written to apply to effectively the whole planet, doesn't mean it can be enforced as such. I just don't see the current US administration complying with a EU charge against one of its companies that did go the blocking route, let alone any of the shadier countries that host companies in violation
We've changed the title to a non-baity subset.
"The entire Christianity and Catholic church has been the biggest examples of bigotry, racial, hatred and unimaginable violence."

True but why? Most of this was rooted in power and wealth. The Catholic Church is one of the most wealthy empires ever to have existed. Why do you think they became bigots, and racially radicalized? They wanted power, exclusiveness, and wealth. Legitimizing servitude and slavery through religion made them incredibly powerful.

"A Pastor should not engage in this type of virtue signalling.""

Like everything else religion is evolving, this Church is LGBT friendly. As someone who has a gay family member who attends an LGBT church these things do exist.

"When you create wealth you are already helping poor people and blue collar workers. Who do you think mows Mark Zuck's lawn ?"

That's fine, as long as you pay them enough to live near where they work in a house that isn't a shanty or ghetto. We don't need modern age indentured servants in the United States.

I'm assuming you identify with the Republican party? My only interest is if you identified as being "Liberal" because you definitely aren't.
Exactly. He could pay the loan back in a few years if he tried to do so. He is paying back ~10%.

There comes a point when you don't need to spend all your cash . Someone making 225k can pay back a far greater % than someone making 100k can. Live within your means, pay back the money you owe in a few years, and then you will be far ahead. He has simply chosen not to do that.