skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parking is often one of the most expensive things to build in land constrained areas due to the dead load of cars that parking structures must support, with a standard spot requiring 200sqft itself, add to that 50% for ingress/egress space. Generally parking spots cost a fraction of what that space would go for if it were allowed to be lived in.
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It doesn't have to be that drastic. Plenty of other companies do this kind of stuff. See for example, Boeing. It has a separate Commercial Airplanes division. Plenty of technology sharing happens between the Military arm of Boeing and the DoD. I imagine that people who object to military use of their work could find a happy home on the commercial side and vice versa.

My point is, where there is a will, there is a way. Individual rights are sacrosanct, corporations', not so much (or at least, they need to be incentivized to work in the national interest).
More likely they’d fire the 3 developers in that scenario.

Which, true, means they would be better off than before.
> I guess I don't see the risk?

That's the point, though. Once you "see" it, it's way too late.

> It's been close to 20 years since

That's just anecdata, but, as you point out, you do wash your hands.

> total avoidance of all bacteria

That's not exactly possible (and essentially deadly, unless there are archea that can take the place of all our gut bacteria.. I'm not sure).

> I just don't care that much if someone else doesn't.

I'd agree it's unreasonable to care more than just slightly, since they'd be increasing the risk more for themselves than for you. However, increased risk for everyone (including you) is non-zero.
It depends on the home and the method you use to heat. Many houses in Rochester pre-date modern insulation and cost a lot to heat. That said, there are plenty of reasonably priced newer homes with good insulation available. The last place I lived was well insulated and cost <$150/m to heat in the worst conditions.
Well, github doesn't.

I have had assholes scrape my commits for the commit e-mail address, and spam me already.

Give it time.
If a company is this blatantly evil while still in a growing phase, I can only imagine what they would do once they are a established major player...
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That's an interesting (and amusing) picture, but I'd expect many more incidents of a "gently rising metal barrier" causing a vehicle to roll over.
why would Facebook attempt to portray changing the privacy settings on a post hours/days after it goes out with the wrong privacy settings, as a sensible plan of action to suggest for fixing the problem they created?

Because they are a huge company with a great deal more experience handling PR gaffs than most people posting on HN. Whatever their shortcomings in other areas, this advice actually is pretty much gold standard.

First, it prevents more eyes on it. This mitigates the damage. A lot of traffic occurs well after the first few hours.

Second, it allows people to forget. People don't have perfect memories. Some people have quite poor memories. Removing it from public view denies them the ability to return to a written record and get all hot under the collar all over again, reread it until they have essentially memorized it, etc.

Third, posting some kind of apology or something to total strangers who don't know you tends to go super badly. It gets interpreted as an admission of guilt which just fuels the fire. Most people aren't that great at giving public apologies. Public faux apologies just put out the fire with gasoline.

Fourth, if you take the advice and do what FB told you to do, you have the defensible position that FB screwed up, go be mad at them, not me. You don't get that shield if you then add more public commentary on the issue. In fact, you are just making an ass of yourself and looking like you are taking advantage of the breach to piss on strangers who don't agree with your point of view.

(edit: also, why on earth would you apologize when it is, in fact, Facebook's error?)

I wish social stuff was as straightforward as you seem to think it is. It's not. And PR is absolutely one of the few things large companies typically know more about in spades than the average person. Their advice may not be what you want to hear, but it is the least worst thing to do in a situation like this.
Aren't heavy regulations of taxis the thing that created a market for Uber in the first place?
I do, specifically dotnet core. I've switched recently from C# to F#, but its still dotnet core and aspnet core.
Completly disagree with Valve's desicion on this. While I personally don't care about porn on Steam, Communities cannot police themselves, even with the best of tools. I think Reddit and HN are iconic examples of this.
I agree that it's tedious and error-prone. Perhaps someone could automate it. But that's over my head.

There is the argument that, in doing the setup manually, users come to understand what they're doing. But yes, it seems that most are put off by it all.
Forget "inherently" good or bad. It's entirely possible that the guy in the vest isn't a morally horrible person; he may have been brainwashed since birth and genuinely believe that his actions will bring about a better world. Still, he intends to kill himself and as many other people as possible, and if I have the ability to cause the only death to be his, I'm doing that every time.
Possibly, but the opposite of heavy regulation isn't wild west.
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I was hoping to read an article about NYTimes setting up video cameras outside of popular restaurants in DC and using ML to perform facial recognition on everyone to try to find members of congress and well known lobbyists. oh well... it would be like TMZ-4-DC
That per-unit development cost is almost certainly including the cost of acquiring the land. Labor in SF is expensive, but not that expensive.
Steam is going to become the worlds most profitable, largest distributor of hardcore pornography overnight. I'm really not sure how to feel about this. On one hand free speech is obvious. But allowing porn fundamentally changes the nature of your online service. Not being prude, it just tends to discourage a certain type of person, and encourage another.
You can with aspnet core. Bit tricky tracking down all the reflection types in the rd.xml file, but once done it results in a really nice, zippy little deployment
Joe Leiberman would not have voted for single payer. He opposed moving Medicare eligibility to 55 and over so that had to be taken out of ACA. He (or any single Democrat) was the margin for passing the bill in the Senate with 60 votes to avoid the GOP killing the bill in the Senate.

Also, if I remember correctly, the ACA is similar to but not identical to a GOP plan from the 90's and the state plan adopted when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts in the way you describe - continuing to use existing insurance companies.
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My gut says the same, but I have to give props to them willing to muck with a billion-dollar online store.
This may give you some reassurance.[1]

[1]https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/machines-that-suck-c...
Tesla's autopilot team is onto (if I recall) it's 5th director since the unveiling of hw2 in late 2016. The first director of Autopilot, Sterling Anderson, was dumbstruck when Musk went public with delusional claims about what autopilot would be capable of, and quit. A slew of top engineers left with him, or not long afterwards. Tesla, showing their true colours, followed up with a meritless lawsuit accusing Sterling of stealing trade secrets.
All nontrivial programs are riddled with conditional logic. The difference is whether or not this conditional logic is exposed at the type level. Every single time you branch over anything in your code (say, to check if a list is empty before calling a function that will fail on an empty list), you could bubble that branch up to the type level in a full dependently-typed language, and have the compiler do that check for you. (Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean you'd always want to!)

Dependent types can be hard to work with because you have to hold the compiler's hand and tell it that yes, actually, the list you're working with at the point you want to call this function is definitely non-empty, and you can prove it by providing an instance of that type. So if you want to make a function that takes two non-empty lists l1 and l2 and spits back out a non-empty list l3 which is l1 ++ l2, in addition to the standard list append functionality, you need to show that l1 ++ l2 actually is non-empty.

But the fact that you have to do so much of this manually is, in my (professional) opinion, more a limitation of what we can currently automate than an inherent limitation of dependent types.

Sometimes you want the same guarantees, but it's easier to keep this separate from the list type. So you just write plain old vanilla list append, and then later on your inhabit the type that proves that for any two lists l1 and l2, l1 ++ l2 is non-empty. There are tradeoffs here: later on when you need a proof that (l1 ++ l2) is empty, you'll have to explicitly reference the type you found a term for earlier to show it to the compiler. If you put it into the list type itself, then you only need to do that once, when you write the append function. On the other hand, you also have to construct a whole bunch of other functions this way, and you might not actually care about the result being non-empty in those cases.

Also in my professional opinion, switching back and forth between these representations will be easier very soon. There are probably dozens of fantastic researchers all over the world working on making this easier, and we've made a lot of progress these past few years!

Regardless, deciding what you actually want to expose at the type level and how you want to expose it is an important design problem, and it depends a lot on what you want to be able to prove about your system without ever running your code.
Doesn't work. I went through a year of executives and managers above us getting the chop, month after month after month, and layoff after layoff at one company, and we just got an email saying "how we're going to invest all this money we're saving back into the company!".

When people started quitting after being demoralized by repeated benefit cutbacks and layoffs, they said "We heard you, you said you want raises (after a year of no bonuses and two years of no raises), we're going to get them to you!"

With all that money you saved by laying off like 30% of the entire multinational corporation? Great! These should be decent raises! After the raises were finally granted, it wasn't even enough to cover a cost of living increase for a single year, let alone the two years that had passed with frozen salaries. And then they congratulated themselves in a corporate email sent to everyone for "listening to their employees and giving them what they ask for".

Oh, and they're still closing offices and laying people off, and expecting everyone to still keep serving paying clients (other corporations) at the same level of service they did with 5%-50% of the staff they had beforehand.

Any money they save, just stays in the corporations' hands. They don't care to give any of it to the peons. They're totally interchangeable cogs anyway, right?
> bullshit employment has come to serve in places like the U.S. and Britain as a disguised, half-baked version of the dole

The incredible thing is that this happened without being a master plan of any government or even a cultural meme (an ideal like recycling, minority rights, literacy).

No one sat in a meeting room in the 1950s and said, "Well, we're going to have massive unemployment in the decades to come, so let's start creating lots of meaningless jobs."

It just happened. Gradually and without anyone noticing. Amazing.
This is such a ridiculous reply. "You've audited an election?"

It's on par with "you've inspected the rain clouds, you've watched the rain fall into the Bull run watershed, you've inspected the reservoirs, the pipes, done salinity and chlorination tests on your tap water?"

Voter fraud in Oregon is virtually non-existent, and all you can do is raise the spectre of I don't even know what. It'd be silly if it weren't so insulting, what you're suggesting.
> It's a public standard that they're setting for themselves.

I'd like to really draw attention to the "for themselves" part here. Yes, this is a public document, and of course it serves a PR purpose, but the function of setting the terms for internal discussion at Google is at least as important.

I think that since most people aren't Google employees, they tend to focus on the PR angle of this, but I don't even think that's the primary motivation.
Suicide rates for non-Hispanic white Americans are the highest. Clearly, race isn't irrelevant.

> By race/ethnicity, non-Hispanic whites and American Indian/Alaska Natives had the highest rates of suicide, with rates for both groups showing notable increases across periods [1999-2007, 2008-2015] (from 14.9 to 18.1 and from 15.8 to 20.0, respectively). Rates among non-Hispanic blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders and among Hispanics were much lower and showed comparatively modest increases across periods.

From https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6610a2.htm
This is not the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last. Facebook is too big and way off the path for anyone's good, IMO.

As someone who uses Facebook in a limited manner for a specific topic, I set my audience to public a long time ago. If it's something I can't say in public (on Facebook), I don't trust or allow that information to be on Facebook. Period. There are other platforms for exchanging information that Facebook just cannot be trusted to handle correctly.

As the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Yep, just plant a tree or two ;)
> The House turns over a lot. The Senate is a different story

I respectfully refer the gentleperson from Spooky to the following:

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php

Few things in life are more predictable than the chances of an incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives winning reelection.

They don't provide a number but eyeballing the chart, I think that number starts with a "9" over several decades, and is increasing. Here's an article that says it was around 96.6% in 2014;[0] it must be embarrassing to find yourself in the bottom 3.4 percent of any group.

(It also says House members are reelected more often than Senate members.)

[0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov/...
At this point it's damage limitation. Changing the settings at this point doesn't do much, but it is the only thing you _can_ do - it at least stops anyone else seeing it, and stops anyone who has seen it referring to it again in the future (if it was something embarrassing).
Suicides across all U.S. states rise
This just reconfirms my belief about Tesla's "autopilot" --- most of the time it behaves like an OK driver, but occasionally makes a fatal mistake if you don't pay attention and correct it. In other words, you have to be more attentive to drive safely with it than without, since a normal car (with suspension and tires in good condition, on a flat road surface) will not decide to change direction unless explicitly directed to --- it will continue in a straight line even if you take your hands off the wheel.

Given that, the value of autopilot seems dubious...
I think an allow everything model, except what's illegal in your home country (USA), is far more noble than most platforms.
Status quo at what cost?

It shows how embedded the powers-that-be are into coal that they can convince the government to waste tax-payer money on propping it up for a little while longer.

Maybe it'll give them a bit more time to continue their divestment process, so their paper value doesn't drop off a cliff once this policy is scrapped.
All true. But note that GP didn't say that they've stopped spinning started speaking the complete truth about fossil fuels--only that they have stopped denying its link to global warming.
Does anyone really believe that if an open source project hosted on Github became a serious competitor to a Microsoft project, the Microsoft management wouldn't figure out some way to undermine it?
Flying in an airplane is safe because of direct intervention by the government.

Cars have been made safe for us also by direct intervention by the government. From important things like mandating seat belts and crash safety to smaller things like forcing the recall of tens of millions of faulty air bag inflators.

These are just a few of the many things Uncle Sam has done to make things safer for us.
Were you using the Velodyne 64s?

Cruise, who uses the 32 laser velodynes avoids highway/freeway speeds because their lidar doesn't have the range to reliably detect obstacles at that distance.
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Why would the government ever do that?/s

Did you hear what happened to the whistle blower that leaked vault 7? Apparently he had a bunch of child porn on his computer[0]. Crazy huh?

[0]:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/ex-cia-employee-...
You can replace the reason any corporation does things with $profit and it will almost always make sense.
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You're making jumps again. Shareholders and the poor are two subsets of society. Its possible for wealth to be moved from society as a whole to the shareholders and still benefit the poor, without taking money from the poor to do so.

I don't think the poor as a group would end up in the same place. I believe the wages would end up rising but less people overall would be employed. If you remove welfare then the people who end up without a job are going to be without anything and homeless/starve to death. The amount of time it would take for the new equilibrium to be met would also cause a lot of pain and suffering in the interim.
I love your real-world examples of "miracles"!

In front of me right now I have the June issue of the IEEE Spectrum special report, titled "Blueprints for a Miracle: 10 Technologies for a More Livable Planet". Its highlights include carbon-eating fuel cells; turbines driven by super-critical CO2 (nearly "free" carbon capture, courtesy the Allam cycle); a plant in Iceland producing methanol fuel from renewable (geothermal) energy and waste CO2; a pure-electric airplane; plant-based and in-vitro meats; and a sodium-cooled travelling-wave nuclear reactor with decent performance.... It seems to me like we're coming to the fight awfully late, but we may also have more weapons than we'd realized.
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+1. If the language is not pure it's unclear how type checking would work. To make things even clearer, consider the following example (in a hypothetical dependently typed language with mutable references):

f : () -> Type
f =
let r = ref 0 in
fun () ->
let t = if !r = 0 then Int else String in
r := r + 1;
r

x : f ()
x = 17

y : f ()
y = "foo"

Should this program type check? I think there is a consistent way to talk about type checking here (if there is a canonical ordering of all definitions across all files) but it seems unlikely you'll get a system that's easy to understand.
The lifespan of a house is a ship of theseus type question. The wiring in the walls, plumbing, foundation and frame could last 50+ years if everything else was done right, and there is no water going where it is not supposed to. Modern roofs, windows, air conditioner and heater last 25-30 years. A water heater is going to last about 15 years. Exterior paint, interior paint, carpet, all last about 10 years. After 50 years you will have replaced a substantial portion of the value of a house even if it looks more or less the same.

Even if the home is habitable there are other reasons they are removed. After a certain point it makes more sense financially to tear a home down and rebuild than to continue to renovate it. Also markets change over time, and homes are not always built in a way that maximizes the use of the land. An area that was mostly bungalows and ranches can have homes replaced with larger homes or multifamily buildings.
You can almost do this in OCaml using GADTs. The only trouble is you won't get nice "string syntax" for your format specifier. The idea can be seen here: https://github.com/bobzhang/ocaml-book/blob/master/lang/code...
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At highway speeds, if that "fence" is strong enough to prevent vehicles from falling from the raised left lane into the lower right lanes, then it would seem likely to cut a car in two. I think I'd prefer the crash attenuator.
That cultural identification issue is massive.

I was involved in a software project where management kept wanting to define the company as manufacturing, rather than primarily retail. The only way I could rationalise that is because it gave them an inflated sense of importance about their place in the world.

As a result, they ended up with a software system bigger and more complicated than their business dictated, meaning additional on-going admin and support load.

That's small fry, however, compared to a state's or country's cultural identification, which has the potential for far-reaching destruction.
About "hands not detected on the wheel part", it seems that the car only detects steering torsion, and it is possible that the driver actually had hands on the wheel, but just didn't provide any steering input.
SICK LMS 2xx. Weakest link was the java microcontrollers we had to use because we were majority funded by SUN. My favorite part was the old elevator relays we found in a junkyard and used for a bunch of the control system. You could hear the car 'thinking' and know what it was about to do.
Seems like they can't catch a break recently. Stopped using newsfeed altogether, only use messenger for groups/folks I don't have numbers for.
Clearly it's their mistake to make. I'd hate it if legislators stepped in and told them they can't do it simply because their store didn't sell it before.

I have a feeling they'll use tasteful judgement on segmenting that section of the store and it's not going to turn into a big smut-house overnight.
> He's beholden to his shareholders and every move they have made is all about that.

That's the real nub. I'd posit that this is also about keeping a small but vocal group of employees happy. However, why did Google effectively disavow all cooperation with the military to appease this group? They could have easily set up a division and staffed it with willing people. Or Alphabet the parent company could have started something else up (how costly is it to incorporate, really?). Looks like none of these things was even given serious consideration.
US government should consider accelerating breaking Google monopoly. So that " ….we understand there is room for many voices in this conversation. " becomes more meaningful.
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Hey, fair is fair. Your "important EU company" ate up Freescale and VLSI Technology, both of which were important US companies. We're just taking our stuff back.
That just might work... they should commission a study immediately to see if it would work and hire a new manager to manage the study.