skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These may be facts, but extremely misleading facts. Why are you comparing WWII casualties (a five year period involving half the worlds population) with a century of the global population? Its also a fact the total deaths per year, at least in the US, is falling and the deaths per mile has dropped precipitously.
Perhaps we will end up with a standardized validation simulation model that autonomous vehicles must pass for licensing. The test suite could grow as more anomalous scenarios are analyzed (ex: acceleration into gore point; white-painted trailer truck turning across divided highway; debris on highway), and it would ensure that any new vehicle on the market or OTA update would meet a minimum of safety. Manufacturers could compete on test suite coverage and acceleration curve stats, and market using rendered video of simulation results showing superhuman skill.
Those where meant to be protectionist. We are playing hardball on trade renegotiation. The recently announced tariffs are leverage to get a fair deal at the negotiating table.

There’s a big difference between the two motives.
IBM shows off an AI that can debate a human – and do pretty well
To be fair, if you can get 1.5x you'll have done well. Aim for 2x and be willing to get negotiated down.
Because some people care about user experience.
I'm too much of a newbie to figure this out but maybe someone here can tell me: Do they provide the final trained model? Or just a precursor model and code that trains a final model given bring-your-own data?
That's why I think what we actually need is domain certificates on the SPKI model, where k of n countries must agree that an entity has the right to use a domain. Anything that the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, Eritrea, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Germany & Chad agree on is probably true enough, despite what one might think of each of those states individually.
Another casualty of the Citizen's United decision.

I fear we can't go back. Now that wealthy persons and companies can spend unlimited anonymous money, and we have the tools and techniques to use that money to defeat even popular, beneficial initiatives, how can anything that doesn't align with moneyed interests hope to win?

This shows that even "grassroots" efforts are the domain of the establishment now. What hope do the people without money and power have to enact their own changes, or speak with their own voice?
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> Such vehicles would not be street legal.

On slow roads, I've often seen them driven around summer communities. It would be silly for the government to not allow this.

> They would not be safe for passengers.

The above commenter pointed out "enough trust for 2 tons of metal and a passenger," so I'm assuming the idea is that they don't have a passenger in them at this stage. Additionally, regardless of whether an SUV is safer for the individual behind the wheel, shouldn't it be that individual accepting the risk and not a random pedestrian who didn't consent to this experiment?

> They would be unable to carry the necessary payloads.

Do they really carry payloads at this stage? Isn't the focus on building a safe autonomous system?

> Most of the weight of a car is in the chassis anyway, not the body.

The golf carts are 1/8th to 1/4th the weight of a crossover, for example.

The substantial issue I'd guess would be the differences in all aspects of performance between a real car and a golf cart, but at this stage companies like Uber should clearly just be testing detection of pedestrians et al.
People forget everything, especially when there's a financial or emotional incentive to do so. This transcends any one field. It's a human trait. :( I've worked very hard personally because I recognized this to never forget the people who help me along the way.
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I had the exact same experience. I'd played a bunch of games online and some weak mmorpgs like Knight Online, so I knew without a doubt if I played Wow I was done for, as it would press every button I had. And after hearing from my friends how great it was and how much time they spent playing, my resolve not to ever touch it strengthened. To this day I've played many mmos and mmorpgs, but never Wow. How weird is the world we live in where games are actually mentally physically and psychologically DANGEROUS? Where rather than eagerly awaiting some new game we fear it? At least I'm not the only one, as selfish as that sentiment is.

And sure the case can be made for personal willpower, and it's my own fault for being too weak to play it without becoming invested. But as others have pointed out these games are made to addict us. They are custom talored crack for the brain. I've seen so many friends lose jobs, friendships, all kinds of relationships... and I've seen the same with literal drugs such as alcohol, crack and heroin. I hate to advocate for regulation but we need at least some protections here because when a gaming company's bottom line depends on how much time we spend in a game you can be sure they are going to milk us for every second they can,for the most part.
My Samsung TV will start showing bad artifacts like there are compression dropouts on the HDMI. The first time it happened I tried swapping cables and Blu-ray players but it didn't work. Finally I unplugged the TV and plugged it back in, and it's all good. I've had to do it twice more since then.
My wife and I have discussed this before and never come to a satisfying conclusion. Best brief answer I've got is that the phenomena is rooted in historical/cultural uses of clothes, involving practicality/conformity for men, and more ornamentation for women (not drawing a judgement here, just considering the last 100-200 years in Western culture).
If you are used to those two, and happy with them, you probably don't have any reason to switch.

As for me, I've been using TextMate since it's first release more than a decade ago, and I'm simply used to it. I'm more productive in TextMate since I know where everything is without thinking about it.
Being receptive to such arguments is the purpose of keeping people in poverty, which is otherwise completely optional in today's world.
I think the low profile keyboard + touch bar combo is all about training users for what Apple sees as their new interaction model: a haptic keyboard; use your apple pencil with it, whatever, but when typing, it will give feedback similar to the low profile keyboard. A stepping stone. The touchbar serves to get people used to the idea of an interactive part to the keyboard area, get devs thinking up ways to use it.

My two cents.
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You're spot on. We don't really have good benchmarks that approximate our production traffic.

BTW, 40Gb/s was so 2015. I have a box serving at 156Gb/s :)
You got a Citation for Canada and the EU allowing Chinese steel shell companies (the recent tariffs against canada and the EU targeted steel)?

I'd not heard that argument at all so far.
i love it aras.. thumbs up buddie :)
I'm super in favor of smaller transportation and in fact don't own a car, but there are a lot of practical reasons you're ignoring. The size of an SUV isn't such that it only helps in moving compared to a golf-car. There aren't golf-cart sized vehicles that are road-legal in the US and if there are, they're not well-known so who would think to buy one? Golf-carts would actually be less safe on roads where others are driving SUVs (there's a tragedy of the commons here but it's not impractical for each person making that choice). If you need a full-sized car 10% of the time, then you have to buy a golf-cart AND a full-sized car, so it'll always be more expensive to have a golf cart until there are viable alternative ways to access a full-sized car (ZipCar, I suppose). Current golf cart-sized vehicles are mostly open-air and do poorly in inclement weather.
That F-18 Growler though... Worth it's weight in gold imo.
From Fallout to Half-Life, urban planning is crucial for game design
The problem with those statistics is that they include drunk driving accidents(particularly people who drunk drive and die) - it's like saying "10,000 people die on holidays every year!" while including people who do underwater cave diving. If you don't engage in a certain activity, it's impossible to die from it(obviously it's still possible to get killed by a drunk driver at no fault of your own, but to me that shouldn't count in the same category as drunk people dying when driving).
It's not that humans are bad, it's more about humans being unreliable by definition. That's why we have autopilots, industrial robots, elevator or traffic light control system, or, in general trying to automate stuff.
In most cases black is not the best color, but I don't agree with the word never. There are cases where black color is the best choice.
50 weeks?
You mean kind of like the branding and naming of "Javascript", and how its relationship to java was intentionally obscured?
Ask HN: Which framework do you prefer for web services with high request volume?
Which framework/language do you prefer to handle high request per second and also reason behind the choice for

1. cpu bound services

2. io bound services

3. general purpose services

Thanks
You wouldn't need to since VSCode is written entirely in JavaScript/TypeScript.
All those things work pretty well on OSX. I really really like Linux, but only on CLI. Every time I touch a desktop running linux I get frustrated. OSX isn't perfect - but as a productive environment, it's the best fit or me personally.

And I'd love to upgrade my 2013 13" mba with an mbp, mainly for the display, but the keyboard issues on recent mbp's make me hesitant of spending that much money on it...
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"I have a pretty niche app that's making about $400k/year on iOS"

"I've done almost zero work for the last year"

Really, why sell it then? That seams like a pretty nice buffer from a day job.

Otherwise - try to calculate growth month over month and project the growth a year or 2 into the future minus what your hourly rate might be at a comparable day job to maintain it and ask for the $ you get at the 2 or 3 year out mark? I think I'd be happy with that figure.
1) Forget what people say, look at what they do.
Article 13 vote is tomorrow - there's still time to contact MEPs and voice your opinion. Ask them[0] to support the "Reda compromises" [1]

[0] https://saveyourinternet.eu/home

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/the-internet-after-axel-voss/
How about:

-Vacation time is not paid time while maternity leave is time the employer has to pay for.

-If working does accumulate vacation time (meaning it is paid) it's a fixed perk that the employer can take into account and knows when hiring you

-You must still always negotiate when you are going to take that vacation, you can't just start at a new job and instantly take paid vacation time.

-2 Weeks != Maternity leave
Agreed. It doesn't seem any different to what, for example, Red Hat do with RHEL (which I also don't see the problem with).
In the US, the bus is generally seen as a "poor-person's" transport. Trains are considered middle-class transport.
Building from code does come with at least one important issue: [0]

Although, upon looking at the history of the product.json file[1], it seems code to fulfill that requirement was once added to the open source version, and then quickly removed.

0: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-wiki/pull/30#issuecommen...

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commits/master/product.j...
It's interesting to hear him talk more humbly..

"Taubes sounds tired. “I say this to my wife all the time: ‘Maybe I’m a quack.’ All quacks are sure they’re right. Isn’t that the defining characteristic of a quack? But the fact is that we funded four studies and the three randomized trials were highly successful operationally."
Doesn't this lead to an arms race where cars keep getting taller forever? Maybe we should solve this by making cars transparent at eye level and higher.
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It gives Chinese companies a competitive advantage because instead of spending billions on R&D they just steal it.

The point is that the tariffs will be removed IF China stops stealing IP
> I was trying to click-and-drag on a colleague's computer earlier and just couldn't manage it, it kept registering a double-click.

Not sure if this is your issue, but (at least) the new MBP has two levels of "clicking" on the touch pad. If you just press with a little force, so that no tangible "click" occurs, you get one behavior. If you push hard enough to feel a "click", you get different behavior.

Mentioning this because it drove me a little nuts until I figured it out.
As with anything run by a huge, unaccountable bureaucracy, some special interest group has no doubt done a more effective job of lobbying for this status. I'm sure monies will be allocated, etc, etc.
A trade deficit means that, on net, your trade partners end up with your currency and no goods to buy with it. So they start buying up assets in your country. Factories, companies, land, housing, bonds, etc. so by maintaining a trade deficit for so long, we have legally sold a large fraction of the assets in our country to foreign investors. (Foreign direct investment) How do you think Trump made his billions?

Having Saudi Oil Sheiks own all the Soccer teams in England is the result of the UK trade deficit.

Having chineese bussinessmen buy up all the valuable real estate in our biggest cities is a result of the trade deficit.

Massive underemployment (more baristas fewer mechanics) is a result of the trade deficit.
Why doesn’t the Army consider a “regional-turboprop” gunship? Something 1/3 the cost, and requiring 1/3 - 1/2 the crew, of an AC-130?

The don’t need the howitzers, just a couple of M61’s and a couple of the rocket pods.
> Buses are cheaper and more responsive to changing traffic patterns than trains

True, but not very useful. The #1 Bus line in Boston takes a route that a trolley once took. And before that it was a horse drawn railcar. And before that it was a 10 seat omnibus carriage route. Same route for a mighty long time.
Compared to VS Code: Speed. Textmate opens files instantly, VS Code takes forever to open a new window.

Compared to Sublime: Better Find interface. I really hate the sublime multi-file search result list, it seems like a hack, not a real interface... I just don't get why they would do it like that.
Languages: Pretty much anything, but still mostly C/C++, moving towards JS/Python for some. Once you're in JS/Python territory it's tough to call them "small" since you're looking at 0.5-1M RAM, 4M flash, etc. but relatively speaking, small.

* FreeRTOS is a good place to start, but there are many, both OS and commercial. Most are similar in scope and application. Larger systems may also use Linux or Android, but that's further away from what you're looking for.

* Atmel, Arm, PIC, ESP8266/ESP32 are probably the strongest current players. Procs like the Cortex M series are popular on the Arm side, Atmels are what the non-Arm-based Arduinos run, and the ESPs exploded on to the scene as a dirt-cheap way to get WiFi.

* shrug Arduinos, ESPs, and RPis. There are a million other boards like the Tiny series. Adafruit has the Feather series which I like quite a bit, and the Circuit Express which is an interesting proposition, but has a Python layer, which you may or may not want. Note that almost all of these boards can be developed for in different ways: the Arduino "IDE", command-line Arduino or bare-metal, JavaScript, etc.

* That you'd just have to search for--the embedded landscape is huge because almost everything has a processor in it now at some level. If it's a company that makes a physical product that does anything other than sit there, there's a processor in it. (More or less.)
More specifically it's about freedom for all users, transitively.
And to carry a car seat for the toddler, and a bike rack, and a change of clothes for the gym, and a bumper sticker saying "26.2" to say you've done a marathon, and some tools because after the gym you're going to fix your parents' sink, and a bag of sand because the roads have iced up where they live.

Quite rational reasons for why a driverless taxi won't work.
The telemetry code (spyware) that is clearly in the binaries but missing from the MIT-licensed source code (people have already determined that the binaries don't match a build of the source code).
You didn't explicitly say it was, but you didn't make it clear that Switzerland isn't in the EU.
> What’s the story here? Seems like Koch Bros are against raising taxes. They aren’t “killing” anything.

Let's see them mount opposition for new highway projects, then.
GP wrote "most people", not "anyone" (though I did write my comment as a little dig ;)).

Though to be honest, me & my SO are driving a compact MPV which is larger than our basic needs (no children so far) - we were wondering whether to get something smaller, but it was the best used vehicle available within the budget at the time. And we frequently find use for the extra interior space.
I was rear ended and totaled and got an SUV, ended up that I would be moving every few weeks or months for a year. Having an SUV was amazing for this purpose. I'm finally settled and will probably get a car again for fuel efficiency (40 mile commute) but a truck/SUV is something that can be useful for anyone. I can fit a full 48u rack and have some spare storage left, and having it available if I see something cool is nice.
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IIRC if you build it from the source, you have no access to the package repo that's offered by MS... What you can do is to manually install any packages that you may need.
Very similar experience here. I played Anarchy Online in lower secondary school so much it started to affect my grades. I started upper secondary school at the same time as WoW came out, and even though everyone else in my class and my best friend was playing it, I decided to skip it.

When I started university, I was renting a house with a guy who basically sat inside playing WoW all day, didn't socialize much (other than us and our friends at the house) and didn't study much at all. Meanwhile, for the first time, I started being social outside the world of computers.

That year my grades took a hit from socializing and drinking instead, but I don't regret that. They recovered the next year and stayed good.

WoW really felt like a big threshold for gaming to me. I'd seen the same problems with Anarchy Online and other games, but nothing was close to the scale of popularity and level of addiction that WoW had.
I still use 1.x everyday. "Edit Each Line In Selection" and vertical multi line character selection are killer features. I'm really amazed JetBrains hasn't embraced those features...
It's a big improvement over having no logo at all. As someone who spends a chunk of time adding new open source tools to a directory, I'm thrilled this exists.
I was curious about what comprised the "etc." A little further down in the issue you linked, chrisdias said, "You can look at the product.json that is installed with the Visual Studio Code product to see what we configure."

I don't really know how to interpret this file, but the copy in VS Code 1.23.1 for Mac has 644 lines, compared to 23 in the repo.
I was quite happy with BBEdit. Happier than I ever was with n++, but I never really got into n++ very much
Well heres the changelog from that commit: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/9b45699978480cfc90...

Looks like 2.0 has been a WIP since 2013 though? Not sure.
> Being in the car a lot, I can feel what the car is doing—it sounds weird, but—with my butt

He's describing, incidentally, how professional drivers drive.
That the way all new washer / dryers are now. It's cheaper to replace than to fix them... the cost/benefit of having someone come out to see what the problem is just isn't worth it anymore. This isn't a Samsung thing... I had the same thing happen with a Whirlpool washing machine just a few years ago.

And I did take the thing apart to see what needed fixing -- it would have been much more expensive to fix it rather than replace it.
It would be nice to be able to select or deselect different kind of airports and see how the map changes
Oh I forgot -- at HN you never question the GPL. And FreeBSD sux because it's not GPL. Got it. I'll stop wasting my time even mentioning it again.
I find it even more impressive how the mentality changed. When Linux was still the underdog everyone cried that you should think about Linux, don't develop for Windows only and so on. Now? "Eh, you run FreeBSD? Your problem. Use Linux."

How power corrupts ..
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One of the authors here, happy to answer any questions should anyone have them.

For information on the neural net framework we wrote, check out the 'guide page' that summarizes the main functions:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/NeuralNetworks.h...

The tutorial collection should give a good sense of how high-level and clean the framework is:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/NeuralNetwork...
I'm from Liberal. I've never heard a person here (or anywhere) use the pronunciation "tifty" in any context, but I imagine you're right -- I'm sure plenty use the phrase ironically.

I've seen the initialism TFTI used in earnest, but I would consider the usage that the article refers to as uncommon at best.
I think you’re using the word respect wrong. Respect is not earned by being amiable.

In the not too distant past we had a president draw lines in the sand and dared others to cross it. Then they crossed it and we did nothing.

That did more to lose respect in the world than anything being done today.

Today we are saying we want better trade deals for US goods and we’re not asking.
> it's been fun seeing how little power Microsoft has to deal with public outcries on open platforms like GitHub

I'm curious what "dealing with it" would entail. From Microsoft's perspective, I might imagine that there doesn't seem to be anything to deal with. There certainly was a notable internet-wide spit take when the news broke. But it's all but died out, and I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a measurable effect on numbers.
Chess limits the blame game. You lost because you didn't think, son. Chess encapsulates an attitude that it starts and ends with yourself.
Seems like damned near every other non-third world country gets it...
I find this highly interesting from a personal perspective, as I am an author of a Personalized Advertising patent[1] from the early 2000's. I was unable to capitalize on my work, and ultimately sold the patent. Interesting to note, the month the patents' expired (due to aggressive early filing dates of my original patents) I noticed Facebook's AR Kit was released, which touched multiple aspects of what is protected by the global patents.

This tech is key for Personalized Advertising where consumers are inserted into still and video adverting in place of current spokespersons and side-by-side with celebrities. Advertising is about to get surreal and the fake news consumers are about to get exploited something unbelievable. "Deep Fakes" for porn is kid stuff compared to what this tech opens: Pandora's Box if you ask me.

[1] https://patents.justia.com/inventor/blake-senftner
Privacy advocates won't let you have that.

I suppose this could be solvable with proper road infrastructure design and actually punishing people for bad parking.
Tesla constructs a temporary “tent” assembly line next to their factory
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If I understand it correctly, what you're asking is indeed a bit too much (work).