skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People just expect it to happen much too quickly, there's no patience.

The time it takes to get from say a car that just drives about randomly to a car that drives pretty well 75% of the time is about a day's worth of work with today's technology. Going from 75-80% is a week or two. 80-85% is months. Getting to the 90% is years, and who knows what we need for 99+%.

I did a self-driving car in GTA V project that streamed on Twitch 24/7. If the car wasn't improving noticeably day by day, people were getting angry and frustrated, as if the car was meant to be perfectly driving within months, surely!

There's definitely a major disconnect between the hype and reality of what the challenge of self-driving cars is. The bubble is just simply bursting at the moment, but the dream itself is not dying amongst actual engineers. It's just dying for the people who never understood how absolutely challenging the problem actually is.
Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp
How does a pedestrian agree to that TOS?
Humans aren't robots.
Do you think somebody who's appeared in an advert should ever be allowed to seek an injunction against a stalker? Or is that just a choice they've made and have to live with?
The superior siege weapon.
It would be interesting to add cake sqm as that is the only reason i'd currently prefer openwrt/lede over this.
Cake should be in mainline linux soon. (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CAKE-Qdi...)

How would one go about implementing this? Call the tc binary or reimplement tc in go?
>We still don’t have flying cars

Why does no one consider a helicopter to be a "flying car"? What can a flying car do that a helicopter can't? The only difference I see is that a flying car would be cheaper and owned by more people, which a helicopter could easily be if people actually wanted a flying car. Helicopters are expensive because they're very niche devices.

The fact that almost no one owns a helicopter proves that people don't actually want flying cars.
It doesn't always do the trick. :)

Long, long ago when I worked at at bowling alley, when it was busy I'd have to run down to the end of the lanes a few times a night to untangle the strings the pins were attached to.
Here's a ribbonfarm article on using this sort of natural laziness to build things (architecture, behaviors, systems): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/
You're off-topic and completely non-responsive. The question of whether officers of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value is utterly orthogonal to the question of whether there can be local peaks and valleys in the chart of that value's growth.

Stopping operations, liquidating all the assets, and putting the whole mess in a savings account... that would eliminate local troughs, but is so obviously not in the shareholders' best interests that it might even violate the duty of good faith.
Sites like Amazon and other webstores run ad's on their sites. Forums and the like have often had a "turn ads off" payment option without killing access to adblockers or the free users. Many Content creators also have merch and other rev income streams other than just ad's.
How can it be both hard to handle a construction zone that you need to break the law to get around and also easy to handle snow piles that you need to break the law to get around?
Mu: Turn arbitrary manual tests into reproducible automated tests
This is a troll article.
That is not accurate.
You skipped the middle ground between "no basis" and "ad hominem is the only basis".

Lying about things and people is a bad way to force people to accept decisions. Calling someone or something stupid isn't a technical argument, it's a poorly worded conclusion.
The effort to reward ratio is as good as it gets. Professions with similar or higher reward usually do so only with a lot of effort. Think litigation lawyers or doctors that pull crazy amount of overtime. There's a lot of jobs in the software field that will pull in 6 figures with great conditions and reasonable effort. That's why everyone is fighting each other to enter the field, for better or worse.

And while "everyone can be a software developer" right now because the demand is so high (we're in a middle of a mini-dotcom-boom), it won't always be that way. Expect to see saturation in the next few years. Yes, the self taught person who works their butt off will be able to make it, but it won't be common, or will be limited to entry level positions, which will become more and more competitive. We're already seeing this happening a bit.
How about we drop that sort of privacy altogether?
It is only a problem because people are taught to keep their personal lives personal.
OP is hyperbolic framing of a genuine issue. Pacific Northwest is one of the more extreme cases, due to the confluence of hydropower seasonality with renewables. In general, we will address the variability of wind and solar by building more continent-scale grids, with lots of storage, with overprovisioning of solar PV (which is now so cheap it pencils out even with occasional curtailment in many cases), with load shifting, and for a decade or two by running natural gas speakers in extremis.

Read this article and notice what a key role storage plays:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/13/1755187...

Then recall that at least three major automobile companies are making $1B-scale investments to make solid-state batteries cheaper and higher performing than the Li-ion technology that is cost-effective at grid scale today. Articles like OP that cherry-pick atypical cases and ignore cost curves take a real issue and blow it up into a crisis, which it is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

It's lambda complete. Which has been famously proven to be the same as turing complete.

Also type checking is basically more or less putting restrictions on your code. If there is a language that doesn't have the syntax to compute certain things, how would restricting that language via type checking suddenly cause it to be able to compute everything and be turing complete? Makes no sense. To make a language change from not turing complete to turing complete you have to expand.. not restrict ... but expand it's computational ability. Again Type checking serves to restrict.

Type checking is essentially just pre runtime special syntax for:

define add (x,y)
if type(x) != 'int' or type(y) != 'int':
throw TypeError
return x+2

or in a lisp like functional language:

(define (int) (x)
(if (equal? type(x) 'int') (x) (error 'Type Error'))

(define add (x y))
(+ int(x) int(y)))

It's not a big deal. I'm not sure what LINQ is, but you don't have to add a type checking system to a language to do type checking if you know what I mean.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Phase change is a great metaphor. Once conditions are right, network effects between particles coordinate to rapidly produce a reaction in the entire substance. The catalyzing particles here are people. Once people see that autonomous driving is "here", the incentives will be too powerful to ignore, for businesses, politicians, and others who live by exploiting opportunities. So yes, I think once change comes, it will be rapid and fairly complete. Possibly at cost of human life.
> If a system can be built to replace long haul truck drivers with even being slightly safer than a human driver

I think such a system can be built. It's called a train.
Going from "appears in an ad" to "want to dictate every detail" (GP) requires some serious mental gymnastics in non-euclidean spaces of higher dimensions... I don't know how that sort of conclusion works.

Actually I don't even get the deduction from "appears in an ad" to "hypocritical to complain about invasion of privacy".
Too late: the LFTR is still vapourware, although not as much as fusion, and the existing technology of reactors already takes ages to build and is prone to cost and time overruns. We need to keep the renewables buildout going while we wait for someone to produce a working non-pilot commercial LFTR.
> keep AMD to 15-20% of the server market

For the position that Intel is in (x86 cpu dominance) this is awkward thing to say from a FTC point of view.
Great point. When did you last have sex and with who? Can you post your picture and theirs for us?
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...posts the anonymized account.

You don't really think that's a solution. You just want it to be a solution for everyone else.
> I think Linus understands Linux files.

Sure, but that doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally make a mistake.

> In that message, he's talking about...

Yes, I know. But the larger context is Linus debunking (correctly) the unix philosophy that "everything is a file". Linus is correct: it is not the case, never has been the case, nor should it be the case, that everything is a file. But then he undermines his own argument with the (mistaken) claim that "if you can read it, it's a file." No. There's a salient difference between files one the one hand, and pipes and sockets on the other, and it has nothing to do with whether or not they have names. A named pipe is still a pipe, not a file. "Files" in /dev are not files, neither are "files" in /proc, despite the fact that they have names.

It's a detail, but an important one in the larger context IMHO.
Instead of relying on the user to "do the right thing", the idea is to prevent the user from doing "the wrong thing" and making it as automated as possible.
This is course clashes with the "let the user freedom to do anything", forcing subpar decisions and predictable mistakes. Making the interface of system simple is more important that making the system itself simple.
Wolmar's argument is horribly uncompelling and betrays a bizzare technophobia. He talks about the hardware as if they're dark magic tools and his argument for the death of the cars is that reality hasn't lived up to press releases. This is an argument made with no understanding of the technological underpinnings of driverless cars, and while I agree that driverless cars are farther away than the press would have you believe, the author needs to dig in further to get a real understanding of what he's discussing.
OK – you first! Everything you do or say in public will now be documented and that documentation easily searchable under your real name. Have a nice day!
If you are writing with precision in mind then, "I tend to over use (sic) semicolons because they help convey my fractured way of thinking." will suffice.

If you are writing dialogue, then what you wrote is fine. (You can write pretty much whatever you like in dialogue.)

The point is that writing is generally use to express something to the reader, so use whatever tools you have to accomplish that goal.
The trusted 3rd party could be maintaining a blockchain. Blockchains don't have to be decentralized, they're just a type of db that can be decentralized.
Sounds like just a really poor implementation. My 2011 BMW does all of those things really well. I'd have hoped that safety systems like this wouldn't fall into the 'you get what you pay for' category, but I guess that's the case.

Not sure how to address that except through more regulation which doesn't exactly help on the innovation front...
So construction signs now need a QR code on them to provide guidance. Companies that work on the road like that are presumably regulated somehow, right?
Folks prescribed Metformin in medicare data would more than likely be taking it as treatment for diabetes. That's a fundamentally different population than healthy people taking it for longevity. It also limits you to outcomes measured in claims data - one of the primary outcomes in this study is related to gene expression, which would not be found in claims data.

There's definitely preliminary work that can be done by looking at claims data, but that work just sets the stage for actual randomized clinical trials.
What does the physical implementation of the backing store for a file system have anything to do with the topic under discussion?
Right now roadways are designed for maximizing the value of the kinds of sensors that evolved in humans. We need roadways designed for the kinds of sensors we can manufacture. Imo, that's how we'll get driverless cars.
The Go team, for years, actually insisted that package management was something the Go community had to go and figure out. As you say, Google uses a monorepo where they check everything into a single tree. One of the core Go developers -- I forget who, unfortunately -- actually claimed at one point that they didn't want to design a package management system because they didn't know how; since Google used a monorepo, designing a real package management system not based on a monorepo would apparently be beyond them.

My personal theory is that what made Russ Cox cave in was his discussions with Sam Boyer. Cox thought Boyer was going down the wrong path, and thought he had a better solution. Unfortunately, the Go community didn't seem to have read the discussions the two were having, because pretty much everyone thought Dep (Boyer's tool) was blessed by the Go team and was going to be the official package management tool. I can forgive the drama of the end result is a real, non-Google package management system, though.

(While I didn't appreciate the drama, I'm somewhat relieved Dep is not going to be the official solution. Dep is okay when it works, but inherits pretty much all the warts of Glide, which Boyer also worked on. Glide has been an absolute nightmare to work with. Dep is in fact worse than Glide in some respects -- due to weaknesses in its solver, it's completely incompatible with certain significant community packages such as the Kubernetes client. Of course, Dep is not yet 1.0, but I would not say things were looking that promising.)
I really like Federated Wiki, which was created by Ward Cunningham. I run it both locally (for private notes) and on a VPS.

I find it is a computer tool that actually helps and encourages me to write and organize information and does not impede me in this activity. ("Clippings" together with a program called FinderNote on Mac OS Classic are another.)

Github repo with set-up instructions: https://github.com/fedwiki

Site with introductory information: http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors

"Sandbox" to get a feel for how it works: http://sandbox.fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors (NB: This is an older version of the software, but the core features are still pretty much the same.)

FinderNote for Mac OS Classic downloads:

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1795-findernote-2-0

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/findernote-20

Edit: Add FinderNote links.
And, on still the other hand, I daresay a lot of the books read on a beach are still in dead tree form. Not that I really sit around beaches reading much, but I'd probably take a paperback over a Kindle for a variety of reasons.
So can I walk around in my birthday suit now?
Twitter has over 300m active users. It's plenty big enough for something to become real on its own. From two years ago, here's an article listing the top 10 hashtag movements: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/21...

Most obviously relevant is Black Lives Matter. Police brutality and other biased policing has been happening in America since the beginning. The media have been generally happy to ignore it. (Even when they cover mob killings, it's often been with a neutral or even approving tone. [1]) BLM happened because of social media, because 300m people are now publishers and editors, not just article subjects.

Since then we've seen plenty more. If you're not on Twitter, you may not hear about these things until you see media coverage. But that doesn't mean they're not significant events, both societally or for the people involved.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D614D80/
Add nextcloud for sync. There's a nextcloud notes app on f-droid.
You can prototype/test the feature by calling tc (interactively via https://github.com/gokrazy/breakglass). Then, a good long-term solution is to reimplement what tc is doing in Go.
I like Bear's more polished look but as far as I can find through a dozen apps I tried, only Apple Note allows documents to be encrypted. It's sad no app cares about it.
Some shops will literally buy from the same vendor even if perf/$ is 3x higher going another route. The IT director at place years ago would only go with the most expensive HP stuff, we literally could have had 3x the compute and 4x the storage for going super micro. Even if if his ridiculous MTBF numbers for SM were true, we still would have had 1.5x compute and 3x storage after 3 years for the same price.

So yes, if EPYC isn't offered on the right vendor platforms, they will be shutout even if perf and density are better.
I wonder if a lawsuit alleging sander and line would apply here. I actually hope that the couple and the news organizations who started the whole thing get sued.
Freelancing for clients provides good money for mobile app developers.

There is too much luck and handing over control to appstores or betraying your users involved to reliably make money on your own apps.
Any good resources for proof-of-work pseudo-code?

I am having trouble wrapping my head around the implementation, not theory, of blockchain (ledger entry based on previously hashed ledger entry).

Like, how is the beginning of the ledger created/determined? Is that just a nonce/IV?

How is each entry calculated and/or verified based on the previous entry?
Besides the disgusting nature of this "stunt", having commercial entities like the Alaska Airlines and T-Mobile is where the disgust really goes up the scale, a good deed - really? Can I record the CEO of Alaska Airlines' family in their backyard and broadcast it widely on Twitter, is that a good deed? No, it isn't.
I don't think "slightly safer" is enough. Slightly safer would likely be determined based on the average accident rate, but the problems lie farther out on the bell curve. It is one thing if, say, a driverless Model 3 hits a bus full of people: almost everyone involved woud probably walk away from that. But if a driverless Tesla Semi hauling two full trailers of heavy batteries does the same thing, the results would be horrific. Lawyers would appear out of nowhere, claim that people aren't perfect sure, but the trucking company took an undue risk on a technology with known flaws etc. Bad press everywhere, said trucking company then gets sued out of existence, etc.

Given our litigious society, I think that driverless systems for big trucks need to be far far safer than the human-guided equivalent. When accidents happen, they have the potential to do far more damage.
This quibbling semantics. That's like saying a ball isn't really a ball because it's not curved at a molecular level. It's true and it'd interesting in it's own sense, but not at all relevant to the real world discussion at hand, and not a refutation of anything in context ("had me until the end...").

Yes, the wording around "file" is a bit ambiguous, because Unix has a major design philosophy that said you can treat non files as files as get a lot of mileage, but didn't call those things "fauxles" or something instead.
If you're privelleged enough to not need a visa.
Bear is awesome. I like it enough that the thought of finding an alternative hasn’t occurred to me in a long time.

As others have mentioned, organization can feel like a bit of a pain sometimes with how you have to organize with tags, but it hasn’t really hindered me as much as I thought it would.
I've been hearing about saturation for about 15 years and honestly there are no signs of it, not even close.
I participated in solving it the best way I know how, by doing my best to ignore it completely. I highly encourage others to do the same.
But it's worth noting that the study focused on the U.S., and much of the problem with advanced nuclear in the U.S. comes from the NRC's blinkered approach to regulating new designs.

A couple years ago I got to sit in a meeting between a former head of the NRC, and representatives from over a dozen advanced reactor startups. The main complaint of the startup people was that the NRC requires them to spend several hundred million dollars on a detailed design before the NRC will even look at their proposal. Then the NRC gives a straight yes or no. If "no" then the project is over; if "yes" then they still have nothing but a paper reactor.

It's a very difficult environment for investors. The startups said just going with a more phased approach would be a huge help.

By contrast, Canada has regulators much more friendly to new technology, without compromising safety. Terrestrial Energy, a molten salt reactor startup in Canada, has spoken highly of their regulators, and thinks they can have reactors on the grid by the mid-2020s.
Who is "they" in your question, and who is "we"? Do you expect Albert Einstein College of Medicine to have access to your personal medical history without explicit individual consent?
Anonymous handles have a different set of problems which I think is why we've landed on real names for much of social media. Personally I prefer real names in most contexts, but I get why some people don't.
You can do proof-of-work without a blockchain and have a trusted 3rd-party entity, like hashcash...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
I have to admit that this is the first I've seen of this "scandal", but it appears to be "people chat on airplane". Is it a slow news week for the gossip rags?
Exactly, there may be non-pyramid scheme money in crypto but so far there is no evidence for it. Look at the daily average users for Dapps here:https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings

They are absurdly low. Like less than 100 users a day for anything that isn’t a exchange.

Many of these dapps have market caps in the hundreds of millions with a few dozen users per day.
ES6 Modules and Declarative Dependencies in HTML
Oh man, here I thought that surely whatever needed for plotly is self-hosted.

Seems like a decent thing, first impression (it works for me) was that this might actually be one of the very few things that javascript seems to improve upon the old web.

But I can't fathom how anyone could pay to make their website useless.

Do an automatic to static image failover and also provide an option at the top of the page to do this manually if it for some reason doesn't work (or isn't worth it / making the site slow). Also self host it. Anything less and you couldn't pay me to use it.

EDIT: Actually, it should probably be static image first and then "click to make dynamic" for the rare cases when you actually would want it to be.
I'm done giving Google anymore information for them to analyze out of my account. Never going to use Google's product that requires logging in.
That's a disingenuous comment. Trains don't deliver to stores directly. In the US, there is a severe infrastructure imbalance. Trains don't make sense for smaller (less than train-sized) loads.
It has been an expectation at least since Mark Twain, who courted and reveled in public attention: https://www.thedailybeast.com/americas-first-modern-celebrit...

But I don't think there's any slippery slope there. People who aggressively court public attention should expect to receive public attention. People who don't generally shouldn't. (The exception for me being people who willfully harm others.)
Could be worse, you could be this guy - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/8xn9ta/using_rope_...

:P
Is everything these days about GDPR?

Betting laws are not just a EU thing.
Can you elaborate on why it’s easier to reason about than Cargo et al? I’ve heard a lot of theoretical criticism of Go modules for not taking Cargo’s approach so I’m surprised to hear an experience report to the contrary.