skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can this truck fuel itself?

Who cares? That's how trucks are different. Somebody at the company just calls the fuel station and say "Hey, I want to refuel my trucks there, when they get there, you refuel them, and I pay you at the end of the week. Deal?"

> React to a load that becomes unsecure mid route?

How common is that? You basically have the truck phone home and send somebody there to solve the issue. Depending on the likelihood it can be a major cost by hiring people every so distance, or a delay you just deal with to something that is solved by dispatching people by plane.

> How will it deal with a stowaway?

Most likely, it won't.

> Brake inspection before a big hill?

By braking and checking the acceleration, just like a human. In two axes and paying attention to frequency responses, what a human can't do.
Indexing as a strategy implies staying invested through downturns and not trying to time the market. Selling during downturns and buying during boom times is as wrong as an investment algorithm can possibly be.
What do you mean by "multiple cores to optimise a single threaded piece of code?" This makes it sound like code can automatically become multithreaded which is not true (threading is one of JS's great weak points).

v8 is an amazing piece of engineering but it's not at the point where it allows application developers to take much advantage of SIMD, hyperthreading, or multicore.
I totally understand your decision, but I bet a 1D deep convolutional network would do really well at this given a larger dataset. You can also do a lot of data augmentation by speed changes, filters, adding reverb, etc.
So, when you were giving the book 3 stars, how did you judge the book? Did that match what you then learned (3 stars dooms a book). Did you intend to doom the book or feel it should be doomed?
> And the majority of their time is spent on relatively predictable interstate roads, not the chaotic roads of a busy downtown, so they'd be simpler to automate.

No, they'd be at least as complicated as automating cars, because there are no delivery destinations on the freeway. You have to go through the same surface streets as cars, and it's much harder to drive a truck and trailer through busy and small surface streets than to drive a car.
The original code didn't have a call to .keys(), and that's the case where this should be optimized. If you do the unordered optimization, then encounter an operation that needs an ordered iteration, you'd have to fall back to an ordered representation (which could be slower than not doing the optimization at all)
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I use ajv's schema-based validation at all entry points to my application (user input from forms, urls, whatever comes back from an API, etc) and find I can very safely assume all data after that point is totally safe, so I'm using TypeScript to ensure _I'm_ not doing anything stupid. Hopefully that makes sense. Runtime type checking would be neat for sure, but I'm mostly worried about the dumb things I'll do. It's not too hard to strictly and cleanly validate foreign data at runtime, but it's historically very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with JavaScript. So I'm very happy.
Eats is the biggest success for uber besides ridesharing. It's got huge potential.
Yes, a few, but those cases aren't really useful for answering quantitative questions about general tax level changes and their effects on tax base, because the only time the effects are even remotely clear (and it's telling that your one example is an article whose lead paragraph says “There could be several reasons for this out-migration, but one possible reason that finds support is estate tax”) tend to be fairly extreme cases of fairly targeted taxes, where there is a clear visible link between the change in policy and the change in behavior.
V8 is also a method-based JIT as far as I know.
Amazon has done this for years now. It's call Amazon Vine. Select Amazon customers with high review ratings are given free* products for which they have to give unbiased reviews. It's both sponsored by
Amazon as well as various manufacturers.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/vine/help

It has mixed results. Amazon is upfront about Vine reviewers getting free product and resulting reviews have a Vine tag on top. Customers tend to not like Vine reviews vs verified purchase reviews. While there are negative Vine reviews, most are positive. It may be due to a psychological quid pro quo, since you tend to get more products from the same manufacturer if you offer positive reviews vs negative ones. It's just really hard to be unbiased when you keep getting "free" stuff from one of your favorite companies.

*It's taxable according to Amazon's cost in most cases so you get to figure out Amazon's margins for a lot of products. If it's manufacturer sponsored, then the item isn't taxable as income. Food and similar products are also not considered taxable.
why would or should it?
I think it's assumed they'd drop off to hubs that would be near highways.
It is also checking brakes for functionality before you set out. There is an in-cab procedure too, not just a visual inspection. But I believe that both can be automated. The in-cab brake check is testing for certain pressures in the system under certain circumstances, and could be automated via software-hardware combo. The visual inspection could be done via a series of cameras under a bay the truck rolls over, with software to detect issues with the braking system components visually. Or either of these functions could be performed manually by a human at a waystation before the truck heads out on the (next leg of the) trip.
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There's definitely the need for this in JS. It would be extremely difficult to do, though.
The market Eats is in has huge potential, but Uber had lots of competition in that market and no moat.
Nah, just have "pilots" that wait at hubs. Trucks auto-drive the highways and pull into a staging area where they are prioritized for a human driver to bring them the last mile.
Sorry, what optimization are you talking about? If you're just path compression, then I don't think this works because you miss out on generating failure links as you go along.
That's just because SV hasn't disrupted the model yet...

Some day some billionaire will figure out there's a bunch of wasted potential in the train transportation network and get to work fixing it.
They went 15 years post-bankruptcy floundering around post bankruptcy without being able to replace a single one of their rapidly decaying satellites. They made numerous plans over those 17 years and none could get funded because they never made financial sense.

They could never get funding to use Ukrainian Dnepr rockets even if they were cheaper than SpaceX. The Ukrainians rockets payload capacity is far smaller than a Falcon 9, quality is questionable, and clearly would never have been able to hit the cadence Iridium needed (only 9 launches this decade, barely more than one per year).

Then SpaceX came along. No-one thought the Falcon 9 would be a success, because it was so ambitious compared to the Falcon 1. Then no-one thought SpaceX could be competitive on pricing, and SpaceX blew everyone away on pricing way before they even started re-using their rockets (because Musk and his team were smart enough to design the Falcon 9 to be the first rocket that could be mass assembled. He's not Tesla or Edison, in reality he's Henry Ford). SpaceX's success proving the Falcon 9 was a big reason iridium got the massive funding they needed for the new satellites.
I would pay money for intentionally silly t-shirts with a badly drawn Firefox logo and "mozzarella foxfire" on them.
I think at the point where you're talking about saving fewer than hundreds of thousands of people out of billions (<= 0.01%), it's functionally an extinction-level event for humanity.
>How did we let workers rights get this bad?

We (by 'we' I mean Americans) despise anything that smacks of socialism, and "workers' rights" smacks of socialism.
Really love this concept, awesome job guys. Do you think marketing and growth teams will use to surface ideas for copy and layout changes? I could definitely see a future feature that let teams vote too -- would be super valuable for growth teams that are moving fast.
You also can't beat C for energy efficiency. That JIT consumes energy.
You are, of course, correct.

My hypothesis (as someone who used to work on a JS VM) would be that locations of iterations over an object's keys and the creation of the object are almost always in different functions, with the object passed between them. And note that JS VMs rarely do cross-function optimization. As such, it would be exceptionally rare for the optimization to be applied.

My point was really that you can't always drop the ordering of properties, and the insertion order isn't something you can recreate after the time if you don't store in initially, hence you do really need to store it somehow.

(If anyone's confused, I edited the grandparent comment of this to better reflect the above.)
Can't these services be mocked out? Surely you are wrapping the service API with your own code to prevent vendor lock in right?
MoviePass was down last night because it ran out of money
What about independent reviewers like consumer reports, or similarly disinterested party?
Just learn Clojure. Common Lisp is mainly obsolete.
If you want to see some truly amazing tongue-in-cheek corporate logo rebranding, the Pepsi Gravitational Field:

https://www.slideshare.net/tblogosphere/pepsi-gravitational-...
> How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'?

How is it not?
Yes! Some city or state is going to go bankrupt because of this, and the people affected are going to sue. It will take at least a decade to work up to the Supreme Court, who will find (no matter WHAT the liberal/conservative makeup at the time) that, surprise, surprise, the government is NOT legally obligated to pay out the benefits they said they would. Various governments will try to implement various forms of austerity to make it work, and former employees are just going to have to suck it up.

Don't worry though. This exact same thing is also happening to Social Security, which will crash around the same time, or shortly after, so everyone working now will get the shaft.

Of course, the latest date I've seen (2038) is almost exactly when I should have been eligible to start drawing on it.
> The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.

> For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question "How can we eat?", the second by the question "Why do we eat?", and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
And what did they do for 15 years with that money? Made plans to replace their dying satellites and having every single plan refused to be funded because of the massive costs.

Suddenly SpaceX cuts launch costs by 4x and Iridium is able to get funded and launch again. Trying to claim coincidence is misleading.
and sadly the UK government is doing it again via brexit - not just via the loss of input to galileo, but killing UK based space companies and research. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/23/uk_lords_tell_uk_go...
Yeah, as soon as I saw the System 1 Masterbrand I thought "GitLab"; probably not the reaction they're going for. These seem incredibly uninspired and unoriginal to me overall.
Thanks for the reply! Where do you find these recruiters?

Good idea to go to Angellist, i will look there
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For bespoke truck fleets, eliminating the driver might be practical. A substantial fraction of truck freight isn't on bespoke fleets. The driver is often involved in loading and unloading. For dock service the driver moves the goods fore and aft for pickup and delivery respectively. Securing and unsecuring separate shipments. Rearranging shipments to make room and balance loading for safe travel. What your friendly UPS driver does with small packages, semi-drivers often do with larger shipments. They often carry pallet jacks and employ helpers.

In terms of economics, the trucker provides a set of hands exactly when the truck arrives. The alternative is a set of hands waiting on the loading dock...docks, one at each end of the route and all stops in between. The trucker is the one person authorized to move all the different shipments within the trailer. The cost of employing a driver is often rounding error compared to the value of the goods being transported. Picture UPS but where customers load and unload their own packages.

I'd put it this way, the least interesting part of truck automation is on the highway. And that's still in moonshot territory.
I don't think this shows that the author is incorrect. As far as I can tell, the author is arguing that it does not make sense to wring our hands over the death or life of "deep reading" because it has always been an unpopular activity. Books were only genuinely popular when people had no other form of passive entertainment, but even then people were just reading the way most people watch TV now, as a way to pass time.

The fact that most people say they read at least one book tells us pretty much nothing about the state of deep reading, and therefore is not very relevant to the linked article. Granted, the linked article doesn't cite sources for its conclusions either, but based on the books I see read in public...I believe them.
I like the forward-looking fox face idea, but I would de-abstract it a little bit. It's not cute anymore. It's the equivalent of the 1986 Prudential logo: https://www.ortnergraphics.com/designofthetimes/?p=285
If you were to say that Yellowstone erupting leads to World War III, well, I wouldn't argue that it's implausible. But, similarly, world wars are not extinction-level events. Nuclear weapons can't cause extinction: nuclear winter is basically volcanic winter with a much less effective stratospheric pump (a VEI6 eruption, such as Krakatoa, pushes at least 1km³ of rock into the air; a VEI8 eruption, like Yellowstone, is 100× that). There's a hard cap on the proportion of your population you can mobilize to front-line troops, and while it is possible for one side's losses to exceed this fraction, on a global scale, only 60% or so of the population can be killed in a war, a far cry from the 99.9999% you'd need to kill to effect extinction.

It's certainly possible for an astonishingly large proportion of the population to perish, but extinction requires extermination to be nearly complete.
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Even so trucks are more difficult to drive than cars. They need longer following distance and they need to react sooner to traffic jams or obstacles ahead. They have so much more momentum than a passenger vehicle. And they are much less nimble in handling. Anyone who thinks driving a truck is easy because they travel on highways has never driven one.
You can find my email in my profile.

Which exact process you want me to elaborate on?
I can gather some papers to read more on this.
https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=siliconsqueak

Our corporate landing page is a mess this month, with broken links http://morphle.com
I use Any Randian to describe those who publicly cite her and they tend to have a certain political philosophy that is best described by me as, "I've got mine, fuck you." I'm not critiquing her personally or her philosophy. It's sort of like Ghandi's famous quote on Christianity. He said, "Your Jesus I like. Your Christians, I do not."
Essentially the same as today’s airline pilots.
I don't see any indication in the article that they are stopping due to technical challenges. They already demonstrated it on the road, so it seems they were well on their way. It appears this project is a victim of politics and legal action.

Why do you think we need to get to the level of top 10%-20% of commercial drivers? How do you come to that cutoff point? If we had automated trucks that could move freight 24/7 with even 5% better than average accident rates (for example) would be a huge win.
This topic keeps coming up in the news, and I've altered my shopping habits because of it. The competition has gotten tougher with Google Express, Walmart delivery and pickup, Target pickup, etc. When I order from one of them or make a trip to the store, I can at least verify the item I'm purchasing is from the manufacturer.

When looking at the reviews on Amazon, countless times I've seen reviewers mention to not buy the item from a particular seller because it was not genuine or was defective. If I'm not sure about the brand, I'll search it to see if its legitimate and if there are reviews/complaints on other sites. I'll also use buying guides when determining what to buy instead of Amazon reviews.
> You're protesting against what people believe? What does that even mean?

It means, when and where I encounter people propagating a false claim (that enforcing the law as written, regardless of race, is racist....that opposition to open borders is racist.....claims that people are calling for extermination of people with identifiable characteristics such race/religion/etc or using a number of well known dog whistles against those groups), I will point out the lies, as there seems to be a growing problem of people believing absolute nonsense without thinking, just because they've heard it so many times.

> Do you expect everyone to believe what you believe?

I expect people to make an attempt at sorting out lies vs the truth. Do you honestly think I "expect everyone to believe what I believe?"

> There is no chance that the resulting Congress will vote to eliminate borders

The fact that I've made no such claim is abundantly clear by simply reviewing this comment thread. Here, I'll give you a handy tip on how to self-detect when you've made an error in thinking: take what you think I said, and then post an excerpt from my words where I said it. You'll find you can't do it.

Another thing to look out for in your own behavior is obviously emotional based statements and insults, such as: "You're crying about something that cannot happen. That isn't rational. Why aren't you rational?"

> We have our suspicions.

What does this refer to?

> Only after you displayed a real commitment to a weird paranoia about racism did I start pressing that button.

Shameful. You very well know a large portion of the public is very vocal about their belief that enforcing existing immigration law is "racist". Or, will you continue your disingenuous, dishonest claims that you have no idea what I refer to? Then try this: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+border+racist

PS: Cool it on the personal insults. Stick to the facts. Check your emotions at the door. Think.
Indeed, questioning assumptions is a part of what hopefully comes out of a careful reading of Plato's dialogues. But it is much more than this. Plato not only tries to figure out which questions are worth asking, but embeds a plethora of different approaches and ideas in his dialogues. Many of these approaches and ideas are specific to the type of question under discussion—part of why we have different classes of arguments for different topics.

I do agree with you that you should not expect to uncover some magical idea in Plato's works. But this is certainly not what Plato intended us to do. Instead, what Plato is trying to do is encode philosophical practice. This entails not a collection of ideas (magical or not), but rather an approach to philosophical discourse and hence to the world. Curiosity and scepticism, as you correctly point out, are important and are recurrent themes. But this just scratches the surface.
For a lot of queries EAV type schemas are really hard to index efficiently. E.g. searching for something like a = ? and b = ? where a and b are dynamic attributes you can't just have a multi-column index when using EAV. So you instead end up with two intermediate query results that then are intersected. If you need even semi-efficient querying EAV usually isn't the answer.
OH, so that's why that icon felt so familiar. I thought it had already been made public long ago since I feel like I've known that icon forever... nope, Gitlab's.
The Mediterranean Sea was/is not enough water for each of the human civilizations that has ever lived on it's borders. Let alone the entire (habitable area of the) planet.
This seems very dependent indeed on the top of the organization being absolutely trustworthy. And, uh, to say that's not the case is an understatement.
... On an interstate? What situation are you trying to describe here.
I see what you mean. CL is low level in that it exposes implementation details of some of its data structures and let's you use them at that level. Sure that is powerful.
It'd be nice if we had some more rail expansion. Rails are so efficient, and are just more impressive mechanically the entire system is like a giant computer with actual switches. There was an article posted here a while ago about how rare train accidents are and how incredibly fail safe those systems are.
When I talk to my female engineering friends, Stripe, Slack, Patreon, Pinterest & AirBNB consistently come up as great work cultures for women. They preferentially apply for those companies first over other places because of the work culture.
If you don't think protecting the investors money is not job one for any CEO, then you should never become a CEO or investor.

And no good CEO solely gets a company ready to IPO unless they are committing fraud. Getting ready to go public almost always (outside of super bubbles) means establishing your business model works. And usually that means generating profits, and generating profits means you are never forced to go public, you get to go only when it's most advantageous for the company.

Going public isn't an end-goal, it's a hugely expensive and distracting operation than only provides a single thing of value, slightly greater liquidity for your investors.
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Recently moved to a new place (rented my own house and moved to a rented apartment), learned that nothing is permanent in life and less the expectations more the happiness
The Art of the Deal has an F, with 57% low quality reviews.

"Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved."
>> By braking and checking the acceleration, just like a human.

And your robot just lost is license for not performing a proper pre-hill brake check. Large trucks are not cars.

https://www.drivesmartbc.ca/sites/default/files/images/brake...

Then look in this pdf for "En route inspections"

https://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/Documents/drive_commer...

From Alberta:

A vehicle inspection at a rest and check
stop should include the following:
• All lights are clean and in working order.
• There are no air leaks.
• All the wheels are secure, and tires are
properly inflated and are not hot.
• There are no broken or loose items on
the vehicle.
• The load is secure.
• The dangerous goods placards are
clean and secure (if applicable).
• The trailer locking mechanisms are
secure and in good condition.
• The brakes are properly adjusted.

These procedures assume human eyes. A robot might be able to tick all the boxes via sensors, but that isn't going to be enough to constitute due care when something goes wrong.
the photographs from the 90s look so current it's eerie
Cargo container ships too. There are pilots that wait near each major port that specialize in that port.
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I don't think they know where it is but they certainly are more informed than the other players. As I said, "more information", not omnipotent knowledge.
Wait until you see all other markets.

Seriously, what's your experience out of "tech"? "tech" is the best signaling environment ever created.
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