skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I will say that, when you look straight-on in Street View, it does look disturbingly like a valid lane to drive in -- same width, same markings at one point [1]:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4106804,-122.075111,3a,75y,1...

If it were night and a car in front blocking view of the concrete lane divider, it doesn't seem too difficult for a human to change lanes at the last second and collide as well. (And indeed, there was a collision the previous week.)

There's no excuse for not having an emergency collision detection system... but it also reminds me how dangerous driving can be period, and how we need to hold autonomous cars to a higher standard.

[1] Thanks to comments by Animats and raldi for the location from other angles
Comic or not - what a great infographic
> At their core, both To Explain the World and The Invention of Science seek to reaffirm the significance of the scientific revolution as a force in world history.

Summary: The author reviews two books on the history of science and finds that they conceive of history as a linear path of progress by geniuses, rather than as a tree of mostly dead-ends traversed by mere mortals.
> Steam is going to become the worlds most profitable, largest distributor of hardcore pornography overnight

MindGeek's (online porn conglomerate) annual revenue was $460 million in 2015.

Steam has 125 million active users. I doubt they will make an average of $3.68 per user on porn next year, considering the VR install base is small, and there is so much free online porn.
I covered part of this under "being available" at the end of my comment. But I completely get what you're driving at. Apart from people's availability, some of the technology is still horrible and quite unreliable (I'm looking at you, Skype for Business). But my main point was that writing emails and documentation cannot be a substitute for instant communication (chat) or voice communication.
The houses wouldn't just be for homeless who do have a high incidence of mental illness, it would be for everyone. As for the food money being destroyed by inflation, it might but giving general funds are a lot more likely to stimulate consumption than a targeted stimulus like college loans.

>Any country in history that tried to centrally plan such a large chunk of their economy failed.

There's problems and it wont go perfectly but we should still try to improve everyone's lives. I also disagree that anyone who tried to centrally plan such a large chunk of the economy has failed. Look at water and electricity, those are massive industries that are centrally planned. Central planning is not as efficient as a market based economy and is not the way to grow an industry or develop new technologies. It does work better than a market based economy when it comes to uninterrupted coverage which is why it's used in the utility model
They aren't hosting on gitlab.com and github.com because both are not open source. Gitlab.com is open core which us why they host on their own gitlab ce version.
Other than what I would consider perfectly rational dislike of Microsoft (they have a long history of making the world a worse place), some people are old enough to remember what has happened to some of Microsoft's other acquisitions†, like Skype (which went from a promising p2p client to a funnel for the NSA which still doesn't work well or reliably). And consider what they've done with Windows 10: ads in the 'free' solitaire game (unless you pay a monthly fee), ads in the start menu, &c. &c.

Anyway, I think for lots of people it's just an impetus to move, a final push: Github is closed source, and there are competitors which are open source or at least 'open core'.

† Linkedin admittedly still seems pretty much the same, but even Microsoft would presumably have a hard time making Linkedin worse.
Won't this just reduce the supply of Uber & Lyft when demand is highest? In other words, instead of having the choice to pay more (or not), you just won't get an Uber (because fewer drivers will be incentivized to drive during surge periods)?
> I don't think what I'm saying depends on corporate personhood. My point is, if you claim that corporations have a responsibility to contribute back to the military, you are claiming that someone at the company should do that.

It does. A corporation can easily set up a division or a separate subsidiary or sub entity and staff it with willing individuals to do this sort of thing. There is no direct conflict with individuals' rights. So sure, Google the corporation can be compelled to do this without affecting individuals. It's quite common in other industries, but of course, for SV, it's all about the hubris, optics and innate sense of superiority.
A user on reddit did some napkin math on the r/science submission of this article. The tl;dr is we don't have enough land area for the amount of trees needed to sequester 1,100 gt of carbon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/8pbuqv/sucking_car...
Why is this an issue? I don't understand. Is it based on practical reasons or moral reasons?
But is Steam even remotely analogous to Reddit/HN? You'll be able to just ignore the kind of content you don't want to see (the article mentions they'll be building tools to that effect). This is not like Reddit, where your subreddit will be invaded by the wrong kind of people and more like Google, where you'll only find the questionable content if you look for it.
A/B testing self-driving car software to find bugs? Would probably work great, but that is also terrifying!

But you're right, if you're really going to do a full roll out, may as well test it on a subsegment first - I'd hate for it to be used as a debugging tool though.
I fail to see how this is newsworthy to HN as Honest Co. isn't a tech driven company. Looks like being dishonest cost them a good chunk of their valuation.

Since WSJ is behind a paywall but likely regurgitating the same basic info, here's a link with the gist of the investment:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honest-co-equity/jessica-...
> but why can't you run both the new and old code side by side and if the actions they take are materially different investigate further?

Because there are no closed facilities that you can use to actually perform any meaningful test. You could test "in-situ", but you would need an absolutely _huge_ testing area in order to accurately test and check all the different roadway configurations the vehicle is likely to encounter. You'll probably want more than one pass, some with pedestrians, some without, some in high light and some in low, etc..

It's worth noting that American's drive more than 260 billion miles each _month_. It's just an enormous problem.
"I don't have an issue with obeying a valid warrant" does not imply that the government is always "just, law abiding, and acting in everyone's interest." I would strongly disagree with the latter while agreeing with the former.
There are some gorgeous homes made out of shipping containers, the best ones I've seen probably were not cheap but the design is modular and relatively simple.
I stopped using the newsfeed and the time line a little no time ago. I post in some groups, where the reality is that I don't know most of the people there and what they might or might not do with my content.

For me, if there's one thing Facebook has succeeded at, it's a good amount of self-censorship.
No doubt a significant accomplishment, and should generate some creative production uses.

For 'larger masses' of 'application-in-a-box', I think, however, a NetBSD(like) with .NET CLR (or even .NET core) would be a much route.

this was discussed on HN in 2016
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636926
This is tough. In many cases I think that people identify as
superficially "worthless", I think there's a justifiable reason for those jobs even if it takes a little bit of digging to understand why it exists. For example, I know of a few jobs right now that a person does that, if it disappeared tomorrow, would have no immediate measurable impact on the company those jobs exist within. But wait a year or two and those jobs turn out to generate long-term cost savings to the company.

But in other cases, jobs that seem to be superficially necessary turn out to not be needed at all. I just said goodbye to a colleague last week and after they left we went through their entire list of tasks and responsibilities -- things that kept an intelligent, highly educated, adult human fully occupied for more than 40 hours a week and paid well into six figures -- and entirely eliminated or rolled over all of those things with no specific impact to our work. The scary part was that much of it was work producing material that was highly demanded of by one of our customers -- the bulk of those 40+ man hours were reports and other deliverable. We simply told the customer that they wouldn't be getting some of that stuff anymore or it would take a different shape to satisfy the need and they were ultimately fine with it.

What really concerns me are those jobs that need filling and nobody knows they exist and there's nobody doing them. Things that would eliminate waste, consolidate work, or expand business, but some collective blind spot prevents those positions from being realized. The classic examples in software are good QA people or in many small companies, good sales and business development people.

If this still doesn't make sense to this tech crowd. I'll pose this, in the 90s the revolution was "making software useful to people by making the functions of the software discoverable in a well designed GUI". How many of us sit in front of entire screen fulls of discovery-free GUI-less command-lines all day typing out things that took thousands of hours to master and would be bulk eliminated if somebody just put a nice usable GUI in front of it?
I don't know that the issue is LIDAR, but rather distinguishing a stationary object in front from stationary objects to the side.

Does Uber use LIDAR?
You do yourself a disservice, sir/ma'am.

We used to use Fraedom for our expense software. Everybody hated it. Now we use Concur. Everybody loves it.

Same functionality. Radically different outcome. It affects people! My boss' quality of life improved measurably.
What are Histones?
HN has a way higher standard for comments than Reddit. Definitely attributable to the mod team and their tooling. I think the tools still aren’t there yet, though. Tying karma to money or monetization will lead to higher quality. For example, you don’t have crude people who swear at a country club.
Godot has consistently impressed me. I tried something with it a year ago, but I got stalled because the only supported language (then) was a custom language called GDScript. Support for C# was added in October [0], and there are a bunch of other exciting changes in 3.0 [1] that have happened. I can't wait to give Godot another try. (If anyone is wondering how all this development is funded, Godot appears to get a lot of funding on Patreon, and the C# support was funded by Microsoft.)

[0]: https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-csharp-godot

[1]: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-0-released
There was probably an extra thumb drive of child porn for Snowden but he escaped capture.
thanks for what might be my favorite HN comment ever ;)
Not setting a surge cap is hardly "wild west."
My first paid internship, in college, involved printing out websites and putting them in a binder for easy reference. (Also helping the office come to a consensus on from where to order lunch.)
I am leaving the ruby ecosystem primarily because dynamic typing doesn't jive with me and the ruby import system is lackluster.
Honolulu lawmakers agree to cap hourly pay of Uber and Lyft drivers
They're not streaming porn videos, they're allowing VR porn. That's not entirely outside their wheelhouse, since they already have a lot of Japanese games with "erotic" content.
If it's like other smart cruise controls, it sped up to the set speed after following a slower car.
The New York City Office of Emergency Management has a "pre-fab brownstone" demo assembled in downtown Brooklyn. They're hoping to be able to relocate entire neighborhoods when another event like Sandy hits.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6996729,-73.9898138,3a,65.6y...
It's straight-up business differentiation on a level that their primary market understand and can point to against the detractors.

It helps the dyed-in-the-wool apple customers have an unassailable reason for their device being better than Android / Windows.

It's a genius move, but one they didn't really have a choice but to make (which takes the genius part away) because of the timing: They're the single big tech company on the side of user privacy.

(I'm an Android user and tend to avoid Apple products because I think they're overpriced and not customisable enough for someone like me who gets bored easily)
But then you're need a person who believes in women's rights to believe they stop at some arbitrary line on a map -- because American states are more like American counties than European states -- and also that anyone who believes in pro life to believe that fetal rights stop at some arbitrary line on a map. To the extent that there is competition and variety in laws there are also pressures and powers to make them homogeneous again.

As for having better oversight of state governments compared to federal governments, I think the US, Canada and Australia (i.e. all the major English-speaking federations and therefore the extent of my knowledge) have had significant problems with corruption at a state level but not so significant problems with corruption at a federal level.

Federal systems have important roles especially when -- unlike in the US -- the state borders reproduce cultural or settlement boundaries. But empirically this role is not a protection of rights. If the federal government needs more members of congress to function right, you can't say "oh we've got state governments" -- you've just gotta increase the size of congress. (FWIW, some states like California also need to take this lesson.) And if you need to protect rights, the only place to do that is in the public sphere and the community mind. Every other option might be easier but they're also much more short sighted.
This is a mind blowing concept. I mean, it makes sense when I read:

http://ecoscore.be/en/info/ecoscore/co2

But does this take into account catalytic converters or other emissions controls? Cats take the CO from the combustion process and turn it into CO2, the gas you're referencing. I'd just like to clarify because this is a big revelation in my way of thinking about pollution. Are we really releasing that much CO2 post emissions controls?
Machine vision is perfectly capable of detecting these barriers, as well as LIDAR.

The fault here isn’t with road design. The fault here is with Tesla shipping Autopilot without any support for stationary objects, AND their delusional and (should be criminally reckless) decision to not use LIDARs.

A car without ABS or power braking is not legal to be sold today. We need to apply those standards here: anything more than cruise control (where the driver understands they need to pay attention) needs to have certain safety requirements.
Quite a lot of work that's not immediately obvious as useful is producing defensive material.

It's a different story to say "we analyzed a market and decided against pursuing those opportunities because of x, y and z" (an activity that produces lots of shelves full of reports) than to say "we didn't pursue some opportunities and we never bothered to look into it" (an activity that never occurred because nobody was filling shelves with reports).

"Give me everything we know about foo" is only possible if somebody has been collecting shelves full of things over time.
Proctor does great interviews. He's talked to most of the PLT folks, as well as Matthew Butterick. It was the Butterick interview that first made me aware of Racket.
They’re abdicating responsibility for their own platform and it’s probably not going to turn out well for them.
Do what? The memory leaks? No, GHC is an extremely solid system. There are various editor integrations for Haskell that make it easy to bounce between coding and experimenting in the REPL, though.
Machine Learning’s Limits
It's very warty. The errors about formatting is unhelpful at best, if you're trying to do something it doesn't like, like having numbers together and separated by underscores.
https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ is pretty fantastic.
Some subreddits act as a beacon attracting new members and sharing new views. These people or ideas do not always stay in their respective subreddits.

Similarly people attracted to steam for pornography might stay to play a game, adjusting the demographic of the larger community.
Well, technically, we didn't fight a violent war to rid ourselves of slavery -- as hard as the history book try to push that view.

Slavery died out pretty much everywhere else in the world without bloodshed so it's pretty safe to assume the US wouldn't have been different in that regard, the freeing of the slaves was more of a punitive action against the seceding states than anything else.

Anyhoo, my point being that it isn't a grand example of American exceptionalism. Much better to just link to Kevin Kline's A Fish Called Wanda rant...

And why doesn't my iPhone know how to spellcheck "slavery", are we trying to remove it from the language double-plus fast?
AFAIK the US imports 80% of its uranium used in power generation?
I wonder if they will still ban the more controversial ones?

Almost all games by Illusion (japanese 3d porn company) involves rape. Search Playclub VR on youtube to see examples.

Not kink shaming or anything but I can see this crossing a line for a good chunk of people. Especially when they realize you can physically roleplay a homeless guy raping an underage school girl in that game (not even talking about using mods, this is one of the default scenarios).
Evidence will get even stronger with the Mars 2020 mission and the more advanced instruments on it, capable of catagorizing more complex chemistries and a high magnification camera and spectrometer on the arm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/instruments/
I think this is even more alarming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
Yes, those are all true and the per person thing is pointed out in the article. However, we do not see a big negative from Alaska level UBI so it seems it's worth experimenting with it in other places and at other levels.
To add to that, I love that developing either using MS' tools or monodevelop will likely give you a software that works fine under linux and windows (and I guess OSX).

If I need a quick GUI, either Qt or C# will cut it. It mostly depends on the third party libraries.
No one probably saw it because it was buried between the immense amount of crappy ads and suggested posts.
Oil forms one to three miles deep (on earth, deeper on mars due to lower gravity leading to lower pressures at a given depth). Sedimentation can reach this order of magnitude on earth[0], so it's reasonable that lipids could have gotten buried that deeply on mars. The trick would be to have a sufficient amount life early enough in Martian history that it would overlap with the planet's period of geological activity. Like xrange said below, this would be interesting to colonists as a source of hydrogen, carbon and water for industry and agriculture. (It used to be life, so we'd dig it up to make it back in to more life.)

Now, for anyone who knows more than me about this, I have a question: can methane ice comets get buried during accretion, eventually climb up the molecular mass ladder into heavy hydrocarbons?

[0]https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/sedthick9.jpg
The first example is straight out of the oxford dictionary link that I posted. It's at the bottom of the page under "Informal, dialect".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/them

A couple of other examples:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB33z9xoSw8&feature=youtu.be...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elUsB4y5RVk

There are plenty more examples on Google.

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I want to say I take your point. I wouldn't use this in formal writing, but as far as I can tell this is an accepted western way to emphasise something.
> isn't a tech driven company

Not all of the things posted on HN are about 'tech driven' companies, even though the majority are.
They haven't yet unless they've figured out how to scrub logs as well.

My strategy with the kids is for them to learn that delaying gratifications can lead to greater rewards. If they ask for the locks to removed for the day, it's usually granted.

In any case, I would be happy if they figured out how to bypass. (I see them attempting but so far failing.)
"Not being prude, it just tends to discourage a certain type of person, and encourage another."

Not going to be racist, it just tends to discourage white people and encourage blacks.

Not going to be sexist,it just tends to discourage men and encourage women.
>I think he's super honest about the Mars stuff. I also think he's being super deceptive about the Tesla stuff.

If he is super deceptive about X, then there is really no reason to believe, or incredible naive to believe that he is super honest about Y for all Y
am I understanding that you are suggesting code that explicitly avoids 'do' notation in Haskell can be more imperative than code using 'do' notation? I don't get it
Why assume there are always extra drivers? At some point pool of drivers is exhausted and supply of drivers likely not super elastic.
There were so many technical terms, I'm surprised you could get through even an overview, and then practicals, in just 4 hours.

Do you know of any resources which list most of the common alternatives? e.g. what are the alternatives to a3c for parallelizing; or the alternatives to a2c for getting policy and value estimates?
It's true. I was in close to this situation once. There were 5 developers instead of 3, and 6 managers. They fired 3 of us developers.

Management are like a cult. They've all gotten to where they are because manager A has dirt on manager B, and so on. There should be no non-technical management in tech, and they should be the first to be automated.
HN in general frowns upon flamewar topics. Making comments like “FaceTime is dead” with no data to back it up, and “it’s only iPhone fanatics downvoting me” doesn’t contribute to a meaningful discussion. That’s why it’s being downvoted.
lawmakers think they know more about pricing products than the marketplace? That will end well.
Whether or not you should say they exist depends on the particular meaning of the term "exist" you are using. And that in turn depends on what are your motives and purposes for asking the question.

Of course, if you are a Platonist then you will believe that there is a single, perfect meaning for the term that everyone should use.
Working with Big Data on Alibaba Cloud
Country clubs, and anything that requires a large up-front cost for membership excludes a wide swath of people from participation. A wide range of viewpoints will result in better content over all, even if it lets some low-quality content get in.