skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most people you vastly underestimate just how many passengers a subway moves. You need to move ~10 people per second through to match a subway's capacity. (2 directions * almost 200 per car * 10 cars per ~5 minutes.)

Self driving pods could work but you would basically need to dig tunnels as big as current subway tunnels to deal with the traffic + breakdowns etc.
so, the reporter in your opinion is lying when he says

"...It’s in the city, though, where Zoox really shines. The screens inside the vehicle show an overwhelming amount of information, as the computer vision software keeps tracks of cars, people, stoplights, and road markers all at the same time. Unlike many self-driving cars, it glides to stops. At an intersection with a left turn, it allows oncoming traffic to pass and then waits for some slow pedestrians. Overall, the vehicle performs so well that you forget no one is driving. ....."

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In my mind occam's razor applies to the 'culture' of money over everything in China, if there is such a thing. I think theres a pretty simple explanation:

Most Chinese people have parents or grandparents who remember Mao and the great famines, or worked on or still work on rice farms in the sort of abject poverty no westerner--even a homeless one--can understand.

It's difficult to be exposed to this unless you live there for a while, preferably somewhere other than Beijing or Shanghai, and work with and interact with locals regularly.

The reality and nearness of the abject poverty of hundreds of millions of your countrymen is a fear that is utterly foreign in the so-called western world, but is very real in China. It is what everyone works to escape, and then works to prevent for their descendants.

I don't think TFA was particularly accusatory, but there was an undercurrent of judgement there that I think is unfair. If western culture was subject to that environment with such a large population I think we'd see very similar behaviour, understandably.

I also think this partly explains the tolerance to the current communist party--they have made real strides in lifting the living standards of hundreds of millions of people, and compared to still-too-near family memories of what China has been through, a little authoritarianism is a small price to pay for that.

I think China will need a long track record of prosperity before any real social or political change will happen.
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> China has been one of the richest and educated countries in the world.

I keep hearing the same line about India as well but that does not mean that the common people were rich and educated just the upper class. So were the common people in China rich and educated in the time period which you are talking about?
What's next? Telling you whom you can date? (HR: "We don't approve of someone with those political leanings")
Ask HN: Are foreign SaaS providers exempt from US corporate taxes?
I'm looking to deploy a SaaS solution from Canada which will have customers in the US as well. If I'm based solely in Canada and have _no_ permanent establishment in the US (including ensuring that my cloud instances were _not_ deployed on any US zones and avoiding employees/contractors from the US), would I be exempt from any US corporate tax?

I've been trying to find a clear answer and as with all things related to taxes, it's been utter confusion. Ran this question by the Canadian BDC/EDC with no avail. Practical experience would be appreciated.

If there is no need to execute a "Delaware straddle" and there are beneficial tax implications for not doing so, then all the better.

TIA
> "The consistent downvoting combined with the lengthy sub-thread with the OC insisting, in essence, that the context was sufficient to convey intent"

I'll have to disagree strongly on that one. Hacker News is a place where the voting is extremely tribalistic. People downvote what they don't like, regardless of its merits or worthwhileness. Hacker News exhibits this just as much as any online community I've ever seen, and it's pure bias that so many of us believe we're exempt and use votes efficiently. Voting on HN is very often about popularity or trying to downvote what you don't like, rather than reserving downvotes for types of discourse that truly fall outside the guidelines or scope.

> "Perhaps most importantly, though, your belaboring of this point had, at least for me, distracted from your main thesis."

I agree, and felt saddened that I was pushed into a corner where I felt it was clearly necessary to belabor it.

> "as diversity of thought is something that I believe helps us all."

Yes indeed, but there truly are many topics for which HN is just another echo chamber and downvotes are just expressions of loyalty to ideological sides of an issue.
Do that 100,000 times in different weather and road conditions and it's impressive, doing it once is just dangerous.
The full stack will never be exposed for safety and verification reasons, though it's possible you could get some sort of read-only stack walk primitive... it might be very slow. The wasm stack intentionally does not live in the heap so that it's impossible-ish for exploits to target the stack.
Take a look at https://whoishiring.io/search/34.2614/-38.8137/2?source=hn
It started off as a map of the Who is hiring threads a few years ago and now actually pulls from a number of sources. It's not perfect so if there is a country you're interested in, it's worth searching for the country.
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I've seen autonomous cars in SF before, even saw an Uber one run a red light... for what it's worth. They definitely test in SF.
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I'm working on this.
You could say that for any service though, yet we still run services on standard ports. Why? Standardization.

Apart from the usual suspects such as rate limiting, only allowing public key authentication, using/enforcing sensible passwords, and/or blacklisting with firewalls (which are also very easy to set up, low cost, effective as well, and objectively better) how about not having a SSH server exposed to the entire world in the first place? Or having only a SSH server exposed, and for the rest nothing? (And even then, it still doesn't make sense someone in China can access your SSH server located behind your DSL or cable router...)
Ask HN: How often do you see duplicated work in your company?
I've worked at multiple companies and see duplicated efforts all the time. It's honestly good to some degree to have competing products, but I was curious how often some of the HN crowd has seen it as well?
Great advice. After having worked with a remote team that insisted on doing everything using waterfall, for months at a time before sharing any code/demos, I would never ever do that again. OP's advice about working in short sprints is spot-on.
Well Fortnite just made over $300 million in one month.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17390004/fortnite-battle-...
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GP's link is to an on-line HTML version of the book. It works fine as far as I can see.
That’s a very oblique way of referring to the Wealth of Nations. There are only 4 references to Massachusetts in a 750-page book.
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I get your point, but you have to acknowledge that there is a gap between "suffering from mental issues" and "treatment is necessary" even in wealthy societies like America and free-healthcare societies like Britain. The best emergency room in the world has a "triage officer" whose job is to determine who needs treatment, and who is merely suffering, at any given time.

People with easy access to mental health care often think that they need treatment for whatever ails them. Similarly, people with the opportunity to worry about Big Problems and argue for whatever they believe (without consequence) often think that they need to have nasty, dehumanizing duels over temporary political phenomena that will be forgotten in a few years.

Nobody should be discouraged from finding help for their mental issues (or standing up for their beliefs), but at the same time they should understand that it may be a luxury and not a necessity.
What makes you more qualified to negotiate for myself than I am?
Running small pods underneath roads doesn't seem like it would really increase throughput much at all, while being significantly harder to build and maintain than the area directly above it.
Essentially, my game system is the low tech version of this. The game is just a dumb terminal for displaying moving objects, which are syncing to info streaming from the server. It's so simplistic and dumb, we can even enforce Fog of War. When an entity disappears, its tag and move information are simply not sent. The client then diffs it out of the set of visible things.
Sure, lets all push for that "supernice" community vibe that avoids any and all controversy by giving numerical means to point out and grounds to get rid of those members raising tough and controversial discourse.
Push it into the fucking ground! Get rid of people like me, like every other platform does to provide a "high quality site for all members"! Curbstomp the undesireables for the sake of the greater community (even though it's actually to avoid political fallout and protect the shareholders than the community).

It doesn't matter everyone has their proverbial nuts cut off if it happens to foster an "inclusive" community. This is TOTALLY not like China's social credit system, right guys?! PROTECT SOCIETY FROM THE UNDESIREBLE! COMMUNITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL! COMMUNITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL!!

Fuck you if you think this is anything but a garbage idea that fosters virtue-signaling and appropriates the status quo. I'd rather be banned from this place and have a shit social-credit score than be part of the system.

Watch me get compared to the alt-right, my comment deleted and perma-banned from HN for being "rude" -- which completely misses the entire point of this post. It's really easy to rationalize removing someone if he's "undesirable". Sure the alt-right thinks LGBTs are "undesireable", but they always fail to point out the exact same hypocritcal behavior by people like the guy who made this system: the establishment of an undesireable class, and the (beginning of) rationalization to remove them.

Food for thought: Homosexuals, jews and communists all were "undesired" in their time and place. Identity politics is a dangerously slippery slope and modern America -- the entire west is full of it.

Wake the fuck up, quit that shit. PS: Fuck you you fucking fucks, give me the worst fucking score you can give me. Come on! Do it! I'd rather you'd be busy purging me than the others! Can't argue with crazy!
Yup. No horror quite so horrid as dining in French restaurants.
I'm definitely not headed to the bathroom every half hour, like I would be if I drank 4 liters of water ever day. What exactly needs that much replenishing working at a computer in the air conditioning most of my day?

https://www.goarmy.com/soldier-life/fitness-and-nutrition/co...

Military suggests roughly 4 liters for an active person, for an entire day. Even adding another liter for strenuous and in dry climates, that's far less than 8 liters.
We are comparing both models and ages not just one or the other.

Compare a new Ford Expedition vs a 3 year old 3-year-old Kia Rio.
I'd like to see nested virtualization on EC2.
I didn't like their main client very much (though it was a while ago) but I'm still planning to use B2 for some things. So it depends on what you're buying from them.
Starting Stripe Atlas, writing Guides to help entrepreneurs, acquiring IndieHackers, and now launching Stripe Press is a very well thought out growth strategy.

Stripe benefits when every new indie hacker or entrepreneur planning to start their business uses their free resources to learn how to go about doing this. The goal of marketing is to be in the mind space of your potential buyer when they feel the need your product serves. If you use Stripe's free resources to learn about building an online business, you're more likely to pick them to accept payments over Braintree/Paypal, etc.

Also, the easier they make starting a business by providing these free resources, the more smart people will take the leap to launch their startups (or side-projects) thereby expanding their overall market.

Lastly, spending your content marketing resources on evergreen content like this has very high leverage — it's a one-time investment that pays off for a very long time, unlike a blog post about a current trend that goes stale quickly.

Goes without saying, but the more businesses Stripe gets using their core product, the better the core product itself gets by amortizing development costs over a larger user and transaction base.
He basically agreed with your skepticism in his first comment, but he also believes that his situation is comparatively very fortunate, when looking at many other people in this country.

Both things can be true - your comment is comparing up, as he did in his first comment, while his second comment compares down.
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Make a thousand fake accounts, load accounts up with money, and have them each buy your app?
Self-driving is a software problem, not a hardware problem.

Investing in someone with zero useful ideas and zero ethics is not a symptom of good investment skills. (Yes, tricking experts into talking to you is unethical)
A single tweet does not mean doom for a company. While Elon should probably focus on more important things than Twitter backlash, he won't. Social media is an addictive thing, especially for those successful on the platforms.
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You can have real-time games whose mechanics are designed around latency. My game is one example. In fact, I would assert that for now, you have to design around latency in real-time multiplayer games. Until round-trip latency for your entire userbase is below 40ms, it will be an issue.
The experiences the OP has had are priceless, and read something like a novel if someone like John Kennedy Toole had he written about living in China (comic in some respects, but also surreal). The Snow White episode in the elevator is delightful: the father having to explain to his daughter that being associated with Snow White is a good thing, and she being upset at being labeled.

The world is shrinking and being stretched at the same time.
What about debugging? Without an IDE and/or a stepping debugger you're in for a lot of no fun.
They don't cut lines because they are too few. You gather a bunch, and it's the same shit. People will see this.

A greater East Asian struggle will happen in the next decade. UK, US, France, Japan vs. China. It'll happen because America will be torn to defend some stupid peace treaty signed 80 years ago.
That's what it sounded like to me:

"It means that it has history attached to it and that it's traveled in time"

For this statement to be true, or even meaningful, there has to be a meaningful referent for "it", and that referent has to have continuity of identity if the word "history" is to be meaningful. In this case "it" is a painting, which is a physical object. But physical objects do NOT have continuity of identity.

Put this another way: consider the following two scenarios:

1. Take every atom in the Mona Lisa and replace it with a different atom of the same element and isotope in the same physical location.

2. Take the Mona Lisa and grind it up into sawdust.

I think you will agree that the end result of #1 can me more reasonably regarded as "still the Mona Lisa" than #2. And yet #1 is "different atoms, same arrangement" while 2 is "same atoms, different arrangement." So it's not the atoms that matter, it's the arrangement.
I'm not sure that most skilled drivers to could reliably drive through SF 100,000 times in all weather without some sort of incident. Autonomous would be more impressive.
People are stupid, manufacturers get to be stupid many times.
With all these self driving companies, I ask. What is the lowest price point they can get to for that product?

Cause if I can pay a highly reliable driver for less, what's the point?
Very true. China is a pestilence.
hmmm. Presumably, they did it more than once before putting a reporter in the car and risking having him or her killed.

how many companies that you know of that are working on self-driving cars have done this? had a reporter do a similar route in a car driving itself? I know nothing of this company but they are either completely insane or have a high degree of confidence in their product, or the reporter is lying. I have no reason to suspect the reporter of lying in this case.
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Be careful interpreting polls. Question wording bias is very powerful. If you ask them whether they’d be willing to pay higher taxes for Medicare for all, it’d much less popular. Just like how a huge majority support renewable energy in surveys, but the same overwhelming majority refuses to pay even 5% more for electricity.
If you’ve followed the Theranos saga you know they had set up a lab specifically for reporters and their blood samples were manually tested by a team of scientists instead of their actual device.

How would the reporter know if the car was or was not being remote control operated by an employee?

Is “overwhelming amount of technical info” any more impressive than those memes of computer hackers typing really fast with the green terminal text scrolling down like you see in the movies?

The left turn doesn’t sound like anything an autonomous car shouldn’t be doing? He’s wowed that the car stopped for a pedestrian? Really?
That it has history attached to it is what makes it valuable. Thats why an original is worth more than a copy. It's the one thing you can't replace the "it's" history.

A vase owned by Djengis Kahn is worth more than the same type of vase owned by some no-name.

In other words it's not the atoms or the arrangement that matter but the history of the object. It's not the inherent value of the object but the value of the history of the object we assign to it.
And then they possibly create an account and tread more carefully next time so they don’t lose their skins. This is behavior you can even see in streamers that get banned.

Frankly I think a zero tolerance approach to
cheating makes sense and sends a more
serious message. It still looks bad if cheaters exist even to other cheaters, for example a shadowbanned streamer, and makes it harder to take your game seriously.
I am not a linguist too, I would really be interested on hearing feedback from a linguist.

Yes, most words were inspired form existing English words. The caesar transformation words were mostly transformed from English words, some using Indonesian, some Arabic, some Latin.

I tried not to create a whole new word, instead the idea of adopting some words from existing language were a common practice on any language that we have now, so I tried to adopt whenever possible and change the pronounciation.

Here's an example of some words that was not adopted from an existing language (or if there was similarities, it wasn't my intention):
- Vragel (soul)
- Serentia (eternal)
- Rus, Erus, Berus (the suffix used to implicate negativity, rus is least negative, erus is mid, berus is the most negative; e.g Vragelberus (to indicate a highly damaged, wicked, dangerous, or corrupted soul).

There's also some rule I used to create/adapt words, words that indicates greatness or something big always ends with the letter "A". E.g. Versila (universe), Elia (god), Alua (sky), Titania (giants), Manara (tower).

Name of places in the book also follows this rule. E.g Riddorana (place of huge waterfall), Zodiarchia (capital city), Altand (small ponds, note it doesn't end with an "A").

This rule allowed me to write poets that easily ended with the letter "A".

It is always interesting to learn words from existing language, then adopt it and learn how to make it fit with the existing language design.
If you want to go there, the same was true in the rest of the world as well, including Western Europe if we are comparing European and Chinese peasants. And yes, India has similar potential to China.
Meh. It's a demo. Doesn't prove reliability. With an HD map, slow speed and plenty of Lidar sensors, it's like a car on rails. Doesn't tell you what happens at the very long tail end, for instance when that HD map is not correct, making eye contact with a pedestrian is required to infer intent, or distinguishing a tumbleweed from a rock is required to make a driving decision at high speed. Fully autonomous driving may be AI-complete for all we know, and these one off demos are child's play in comparison.
Two things:

Right now they’re fighting to own the platform that works when, ten years from now, the technology is affordable. That means developing on higher priced technology now to get the software sorted out.

Human drivers that are cheap probably leave a lot to be desired in the “reliable” category (I conjecture), so robots really can (in theory) offer more there.
At the limit, with proper design a stream of pods can act almost like an endless, continuous train - no subway network can beat that. But even if we accept a 2s spacing between pods, human level reaction times, that's still around 1 passenger per second per lane (with minimal 2 person/pod packing), or 15% of your peak subway estimate per direction. You should also factor the much higher efficiency of a system with no train changes, where the pod occupancy is optimized to avoid those empty returns to the busy area, where you don't have to dig a whole tunnel worth of capacity (6 tracks) at the terminus stations since one is enough for the traffic there, that can dynamically switch track direction depending on demand during the day etc.

Bear in mind, a subway tunnel for a single train has a diameter of about 7m, or about ten times the area (and dirt volume to be moved, and concrete to be poured) of a 2x2m lane.
I think one of the biggest issues in Corporate America is that the pay of upper management is totally divorced from the pay of the common worker. Furthermore, upper manager is often incentivized to fuck over workers because of their preferred stock options.

I am sure it has always been this way but I don't know if it has always been this unbalanced.
Yes, there aren’t many kids chasing balls in the states anymore.
For those of us that lived through the tech bubble of 1998-2001 the tone of this profile feels very familiar.
so, you're saying it would be impossible to fake the demo with, for example, a remote driver?
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Here would be my solution: Either you don't have headshots, or you make aimbots a part of the game. Publish an API to let users have aimbots. Measure aimbot-ness by speed of aim, and have that status effect another stat, like "shield." ("Cranial shield feedback?") Manipulate that curve, such that the penalty only really kicks in for the truly superhuman.

Now 1) You've motivated the cheat-writing community to try and imitate very good human players, but no better. 2) Your game's mechanics de-emphasize the style of play that would've made aimbots op, making it just a player choice.

Also, not everything has to be an FPS.
They can have pretty high up front price points and still hit a decent price per mile. An automatic system reliable enough to let on the roads should be able to drive more hours per day than a human and the up front cost will be amortized over a few years.

So you easily get to 5x a good driver's annual cost probably being cheaper.