skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't look remotely similar to me

All of these agents follow a similar pattern of clothing (as I said, combination of similar garnments and colours) and behaviour (placement on the road, gesturing with authority, directly facing the car, etc.). Machine learning algorithms are especially good at recognizing patterns and storing their abstracted form, so it should come as no surprise that understanding what a police officer looks like in abstract is not the main issue of self driving.

> Humans are just a lot better at gauging intention and even simple stuff like parsing the word "police" at an oblique angle

Google seems to understand these intentions well enough, and at a much higher level than mere word parsing. This video is from 2015: https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=9m5s

You got the car understanding all that happens at a complex intersection at 9'05, understanding what a police car looks like at 9'35, then detecting and reacting to a schoolbus and then parsing a police officer gestures right at the 10' mark. I'd say chances are these are pretty solved situations 3 years later. You can even see some creatures from their "zoo" of patterns for cars & people at 10'35.

Additionally, here is an article from last year: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/googles-waymo-teaching-police-us-w...

> "When a Waymo car hears sirens, it will automatically pull over, yield, and stop. For example, when a number of vehicles are moving towards the scene of an accident on a highway and ambulances and other emergency vehicles are headed toward it, driverless cars will move aside and give way. Using audio sensors, the cars can detect exactly which direction the sirens are coming from and move out of the way."
ok, in all seriousness, yes there's lots of programmers here
In terms of gaining knowledge about the most relevant mechanisms in proficient regeneration, ARF seems important, and human ARF can shut down zebrafish regeneration [1]. That implicates the evolution of cancer suppression mechanisms as the reason why most higher species are not all that great at regeneration. Further, the dance between macrophages and senescent cells during regeneration seems highly influential in the quality of regeneration, whether the path to scarring versus the path to regrowth is chosen. This is found in the few examples of proficient mammalian regeneration such as the spiny mouse [2], as well as in salamanders and zebrafish. Salamanders exhibit much more efficient creation and clearance of senescent cells in regenerating tissue, for example. [3]

[1]: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/11/251746/human-gene-prevents...

[2]: https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-researchers-identify-macro...

[3]: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05505
The Holocaust is the largest genocide of the 20th century. Only the Chinese Great Leap Forward could be comparable in overall deaths, many of which resulted from famine and policy in a way that makes it very hard to compare with genocidal murder. Overall, I’d say it’s quite reasonable if most people register the Holocaust as the largest event of “mass murder.”

< https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_t... >
True, but space is generally not a problem at nuclear plants because there is a huge area around them to protect against the accidental release of radiation. Fourier's law for heat conduction would suggest that if you had enough surface area in just steel pipes you could dump a megawatt or more of excess heat into the surrounding atmosphere. In an unconstrained atmosphere (like your heat exchanger structure is outside) that would induce an air current that would further enhance the ability to dump heat into the air passively.

If you had a larger water reserve you could also build the equivalent of a Watt steam pump that could use the heat in the steam to pump water from the reserve into the cask pond. Time to run some simulations to see whether that is doable at all.
Just a note that defining a function using the keyword "function" is a BASHism, not generalizable to every POSIX-compliant shell.

In BASH, as well as any POSIX shell, you can define a function with function_name () and just remove the "function" from the front.

one of the many things I learned by using Shellcheck for static analysis https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
May I intrigue/terrify you with naturally occurring fission reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
I was going to agree entirely as I had been mucking with Powershell ISE and was surprised that it didn't have their normal standard of documentation, but I did find an okay reference online.[1]

Looking more, it's kind of bad, because they break the sections in the reference up by the modules, and it's utterly mysterious what the modules are for. I mean, they all seem to be for doing incredibly obscure stuff in Windows, which I'm sure is useful, but I can't figure out obvious things like the syntax or types.

This may be because the intended audience is liable to just copy and paste stuff and hammer away it until it works...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/
> And this also requires paying a representative more hours to deal with emails etc. It's not like there's zero cost.

Generally, if I'm cancelling a service, I could not possibly care less about how much it costs the company to process my cancellation. That's completely their problem, and I'm not about to make it mine.
Apart from anecdotal experience telling me that fresh JS devs have a much easier time with Vue than React, I love to still have the option to use it through a simple embed without a build system but can switch to a Webpack/any module bundler if the requirements demand it.

The JS ecosystem really has a problem with bloat in my opinion and Vue trumps React in the regard (react eject anyone?).
Five (5) megabytes of JavaScript for a basic brochure site... I assume 99.9% of that is only necessary after signing up and signing in, not while unfortunately viewing the page on a less-than-flagship mobile device and metered data plan?
As I said above, it is difficult to argue with a straight face that Putin will be less concerned by a direct threat to his eight largest centres of population than the possibility a US executive far less enthusiastic about NATO than cordial relations with Russia might choose to sacrifice its citizens to escalate that threat. Not even if one believes in the uniquely British conceit that our bilateral relations are more special still.

None of which has any real bearing on whether the UK might be a more or less unpalatable place to live than the US for political reasons anyway. :-)
Information to the contrary? Here ya go...

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/w...
This is an important topic that I believe is well explained here. Thanks !
Over/under on that link working in five years' time?
Containerization doesn't strike me as a common feature of an init system.
Samsung seems to be incapable of making quality software that benefits the actual consumer. I would avoid connecting anything they make to the internet.
Do you have ipywidgets >= 7.2 installed (See install instruction at https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py)?

ipywidgets is an optional dependency and FigureWidget won't be available without it.
>For students that have taken the test before and would like to boost their scores, coaching
seems to help, but by a rather small amount.

This is very different than having a large part of your education dedicated to doing well on the SAT, which is what I think the original comment was referring to.
touch bar is fine- it just CANNOT be used to replace actual buttons that matter- like ESC!

So gosshake, they didn't even put the stinking ESC in the same place, they had to indent it, ruining the billion times I've trained my hand to it.
If you wanted to be super cool you would use a graphene sphere. Manufacturing such a sphere would be a fun challenge.
Forget Tech, Big Oil Is Doling Out America’s Fattest Paychecks
Not knowledgeable in this area, but very curious. I know it would be extremely expensive to be concerned with extracting "waste" systems of every insect we consume as we do with other species. What does insect "waste" system consist of that could help me be more inclined to test this food trend, the risks of removing the waste systems obviously don't exist as they do with other species?
Speaking of stories of people coding in the military and in other U.S. bureaucracies, these came to mind:

How I got a medal from the Army for writing code (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7950190

How learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810589
Yeah, the HNW policies are also stupid expensive. AAA was the only provider for normal people I found that still offered it. Extended replacement cost theoretically does the job, but in coastal california, we're already looking at rebuild costs in the $300+/sqft level. Add in the cost increase from labor shortages, and I could see it spiking significantly above that. (Looking at my policy, I see the Extended Replacement providing 30% more than baseline, and 80% more than baseline for FEMA declared disaster, which I suppose is probably enough. I still prefer reasonably priced Guaranteed replacement, as that pushes all that risk on to the insurer, rather than requiring me to guess what the rebuild cost of my home will be).

I did run your automated advice system with my recent policy renewal. Reporting was pretty good, although I was surprised that you consider a $3000 deductible "abnormally high". I don't think it's worth trading money with the insurance company as premiums to cover small stuff like that. Not everyone shares my feelings, though.
New MacBook Pro Details Leak, but Will Tim Cook Promote Latest Update?
I'm not sure were the author looked for information about architectural patterns but there is a separate section on it in the documentation: https://vuex.vuejs.org/guide/structure.html

This clearly outlines a suggested structure for non-trivial apps, where API requests are separated from the state management. It also references the Shopping cart example as a guide.

Due to this glaring oversight I can't see any criticism the author has as valid in the section about "Unclear architectural patterns".
I hope this forces the NYTimes to allow online cancellations too.
I encouraged you to make the argument and said "I'm all ears". That hardly seems like preemptively banning your argument.

I am genuinely interested, please indulge us with your argument.
If this is your article I'd love to know your VS Code color scheme.
One thing I want to say is: Don't assume only developers make websites. Don't assume everyone wants to ship a heavy and complex SPA.

Example 1: A great typographer, Wenting Zhang, author of Type Detail[0], contributing to Source Han Serif, learning Vue to do some interactive widget for variable fonts[1].

Example 2: Brian Terlson on TC39. He's using Vue without Vuex or Vue-router to build an app to track TC39 discussions[2].

I hope we can admit that many people might not need store and router[3]. Store and Router are necessary for building complex SPA, but don't make them necessary, as many don't want complex SPA. They impose learning efforts in exchange of better architecture, but the imposed effort might not be worth it for many people who just want some data-rendering, some reactivity and some interactivity on their websites.

[0]: http://typedetail.com

[1]: https://twitter.com/DesignJokes/status/1015003288528400386 and https://twitter.com/DesignJokes/status/1014260361535647744

[2]: https://twitter.com/bterlson/status/913433979239436293 and https://github.com/bterlson/tcq

[3]: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
> First, under the ADA they can't actually ask you to verify any disabilities: that's between you and your doctor.

Wow, that's interesting. They can't even require a doctor's certification of some sort (without any details)? How does that work for companies that give discounts (say) to the disabled? Can everybody lie to get them legally then? This doesn't sound right. (Note that it doesn't have to necessarily be the ADA outlawing this, so I wouldn't just rely on that.)

> Second, you don't have to be explicitly diagnosed as having a disability to have one.

Do you mean to have one medically or legally? The former is obvious to me but the latter isn't.
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I think I agree with the broad thrust of your argument but I am having trouble sourcing the "70% of Alabama's income" stat, and the stats I have found are more like 10%.
> This article insinuates quite a bit, while saying almost nothing.

That's certainly a valid criticism.
If you have budget, I would recommend trying an Aruba instant access point.

It supports local and remote management, clustering, poe, and can prioritize traffic based on application or specifically voice traffic.

The local management also has a web gui.

Disclaimer: I work for Aruba.
We already produce too much food.
This whole thread is about companies that don't support self-serve cancellation and require you to call in, so the "scammers" here would very much care considering it's companies like Comcast and the like.
"Because the Portable Service concepts introduces zero new metadata and just builds on existing security and resource bundling features of systemd it's implemented in a set of distinct tools, relatively disconnected from the rest of systemd. "

clearly, this is a messy situation. lots of different pieces doing different things in different ways. in order to harmonize this, and simplify it, I believe we need to have systemdd, a daemon for systemd, so that all of it's various pieces can be in one, neat, centralized location.
I have a Bank of America card with the same feature.

In some ways I’m glad it’s not more widely used, or merchants might start banning the BINs the virtual cards use.
GetHuman has most companies' information online on how to get a human the fastest and alternate ways to contact them.

I learned the other day that the CA Franchise Tax Board has a live chat via GetHuman [0] which saved an insane amount of time on hold. I was originally just trying to find alternate dial in numbers to actually talk to a person, not a robot.

[0] https://gethuman.com/phone-number/California-Franchise-Tax-B...
Relatedly, I've been flying a lot more than usual in the last couple of months.

Every single flight, the boarding announcements start with something along the lines of "this plane is going to be more full than usual, so we're going to need to check some of your carry-ons".

Well guess what, United? Maybe if you didn't cram passengers into the fuselage like sardines in a goddamn tin can, you'd have enough room for everyone's carry-on luggage in the bins.
EU copyright proposal rejected, but revised version still a threat, says EFF
On the flip side, we can also come up with Plato's dialogues, general relativity, La Gioconda, and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Too much of any food makes you fat, it’s right there in the label “too much” after all. The issue is to what degree you can use protein and fiber to suppress appetite, not whether it’s possible to overeat protein (it definitely is).
You may not realize it, but on Android, Signal acts very similar to iMessages, pulling in your SMS & MMS so that you can seamlessly text regardless whether the other person is using Signal or not. Most features that come with the Android build just don't exist in Signal for iOS, or are delayed by a year, like Giphy support: https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/

Additionally, if someone is so petty as to consider not using iMessage as a dealbreaker, they likely have other issues that would cause a significant relationship to fail. More than a few families have one Apple user ID for 3+ phones, which makes iMessage effectively break (unless you want mom & dad to see Johnny's messages!).
Even more fun: I was working on an unholy bash script that had a long curly brace block, and I was wondering why none of the environment variables survived.

Then I noticed, tucked away at the end:

...
kill --all humans
touch $children
fork yourself
} | log

Because, you see, components of a pipeline have to be run in subshells...
I have followed a few companies in this space over the years (I believe only one of which has survived), and a few in adjacent spaces, e.g. general urban farming, not necessarily "vertical".

My enthusiasm aside, and based on some of the same concerns raised in the last paragraphs, I have to be that guy and bring up Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

EDIT: Even the company I thought had "survived" is in the process of an extreme pivot from their original focus: https://indoorharvest.com/ They used to repurpose HVAC equipment for some aspect of indoor farming, iirc.
>roguelikes which encourage more frequent, "short"(-er) games.

I wouldn't say roguelikes encourage shorter games; they encourage long games, and are mechanically designed around long sessions. The difficulty makes it more ..difficult.. to achieve a longer game, but there's absolutely nothing to encourage killing off your character.

Someone new to roguelikes, I think, might be perceive that everything revolves around the initial roll of the dice, and the items you find, but the games are balanced such that you should be capable of surviving regardless of the initial roll (except in really, awful, just plain terrible starts). And you'll still trivially die with even a great start.

You're encouraged towards a long session, but unlike most games, roguelikes fight really hard to not let you have it. in a similar fashion as https://i.imgur.com/mHXiz.png

roguelites on the other hand encourage shorter sessions to some degree, by the usual mechanic of meta-rewards that persist between sessions. With it, it's not just less punishing to die; it actively encourages you to die, because you'll be able to start again with a better character, with better equipment, abilities, whatever. And this will inevitably mean you take more risks with your character (like say, investing more in health, because you have a guaranteed strong weapon), and eventually reach the same point as where you died but stronger than before. They push death onto you, whereas a roguelike offers next to nothing.

Just another roll, but you'll get those anyways if you push on..
After this research, when do we expect to see male luxury brand stores in the mall start selling testosterone boosting snacks?
Note that the date on the article is 10 September 10 2015.
Wouldn't it be nice to have that message say "Our options changed on July 1, 2018"? :)
> the list isn't too different from issues that face other sites based around user-generated content

This was what caught my attention at being remarkably non-unique:

> Another structural problem of Tumblr is that deleted blogs don’t really go away. Once a blog has been reblogged to someone else’s Tumblr, they are essentially posting it again as a copy of the original.

It's a well-aired controversy for the Web at large, including the EU's "right to be forgotten", hardly specific to Tumblr.

It made me wonder if the article isn't more a lament that Internet discussion forum platforms in general have failed to adapt to modern usage/expectations.

I hadn't considered the pendulum idea until you brought it up. I had merely assumed there isn't enough moderation labor available given the increasing number of users, but that wouldn't apply to a closed community.
>> And this also requires paying a representative more hours to deal with emails etc. It's not like there's zero cost.

> Generally, if I'm cancelling a service, I could not possibly care less about how much it costs the company to process my cancellation. That's completely their problem, and I'm not about to make it mine.

This was not the point of my comment. The point wasn't to sympathize with the company for their costs. The subjects of concern were other people with disabilities who may have otherwise been helped by the same representative (who probably also couldn't care about the company's costs either). The point of mentioning the costs was that the costs imply they can't just instantly add representatives to avoid affecting other such customers.
I guess a big lesson here is: keeping the data on paper made it less secure.

The police made overreach on top of overreach and grabbed as much as they could, far exceeding their warrant. They now have historical donor records for an unrelated organization, when the warrant should have limited them in scope and history. But the police can't compel them to unlock their encrypted hard drives. If they kept that info on encrypted disk it would have been safe.
I've always wondered, we know that testosterone levels have an effect on people's behavior, preferences, and disposition. We know that men and women have, on average, different levels of testosterone. Yet we know that men and women do not differ on average behavior, preferences, or disposition; that the two groups are equal. How is that possible? It seems like a shockingly simple line of logic to me but it must break down somewhere.
It's worth noting that React has _always_ been something you could add to an application with just one or two script tags, and the docs were recently updated to emphasize that use case: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html
Domain shows invalid security certificate (Google Chrome, Firefox). Message 'MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT'
But if you looked at the official React docs the answer was always 'setState' and embracing components, that was the whole promise of React to begin with. Not once did the React team/docs ever say you needed Flux to build a React app. All of those answers you got were cargo-culted from the community.

Can you really look at where the community is, the perception that still exists that React+Redux is necessary, projects like redux-form (that now admit Redux was a poor fit for forms) and honestly say no cargo-culting happened?

Sympathy for 'attempting to follow the mainstream' though, I understand that. Personally I stuck with Backbone for years longer than most, avoiding the Angular/Ember wars, and the early days of React+Flux til the React ecosystem had matured a little, before jumping over to React at which point it was clearer that Flux/Redux were being misused.
I got rid of them when my card was stolen and then cancelled. They couldn't bill me anymore and my account was downgraded.
>>>le meme arrows
Were you transferring from the Mountain View office?