skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Also notice that some of the worst problems are in locations that already have very high local and state taxes, such as California.

There's simply no reason to believe that throwing more money at these systemic problems will fix them. In fact, it may well exacerbate them instead.
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How do the American people benefit from protecting Vietnam and the Philippines? Not to sound trollish, but I genuinely do not see why spending billions in the region and antagonizing China really helps us.
I had no idea dehydrating fruit would provoke such interest. I've got the cheapest generic-brand dehydrator I could find - think I paid $40 a few years ago at the local *mart. Has maybe 8 trays (I bought extra), basic circular, central air design. It works very well and I've done about ten batches of apples, bananas, cherries, and apricots this summer. Have three pounds of cherries to do this week. Hoping to do huckleberries as soon as they are ripe, and next spring we might try dehydrating morels. It's really nothing special, but it meets the family snack needs. I've even done jerky and fruit leather in it, with good success.

Now on the other hand my home cheese making operation is significantly more complex...
Many of these kids simply have never been through a boom/bust cycle, and they don't realize that the team/culture stuff doesn't make them layoff-proof, or that layoffs even exist.
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Otto is not the only player in the automated trucking space.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logi...

In fact, Otto probably suffered negative impact from its association with the Waymo scandal, coupled with the recent bad press for Uber's autonomous vehicles. It sounds like Uber is retrenching in favor of just automating cabs for now.
>A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money)

I think traveling faster requires quadraticly more energy though.

mv^2
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2
This venture kind of scared me to be honest. Having known a few truck drivers and having a good friend who was permanently disabled by a tractor trailer I know this industry needs to be made safer. I'm not convinced total automation is the solution as well but maybe somewhere in-between is good enough to improve things. Just doing this for pure profit is irresponsible. There is also the issue of if they are going to put any more trucks on the highways and interstates more roads need to be built first. The ratio of big rigs to commuter cars is presently out of control!
There's a worrying trend (I'm looking especially at you, UPC), where the ISP insists that the CPE device must be in router mode, and not in bridge mode. The UPC's current excuse is, that their devices come preconfigured for DS-Lite and that most customers would be unable to configure their own routers for that.

Together with the fact, that you are getting a single /64, it means that you cannot place another router behind their router.

(And for IPv4 part of the DS-Lite, no, they don't support PCP).
Kotlin's coroutines are just coming out of beta, I hope they will be able to leverage this work for easy interop if the Java version with loom is targeted. I understand it's early days, I just don't want to rework anything, and I'm sure the same compat question exists for Quasar.
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The TP-Link Archer C7 has long been one of the best choices for an 802.11ac-capable wireless router, due to being well-supported by OpenWRT. It's currently $75. The only downside is that the CPU is a bit slower than the EdgeRouter X (though faster than the other EdgeRouters), so I looked on WikiDevi [1] for something with the same CPU as the ER-X. Out of the dozens of options, I picked a recent mid-range D-Link and found it listed for $89.99 on Amazon, though I didn't check for OpenWRT support.

I'm personally using a TP-Link Archer C2600 that was on sale for $70 from Newegg in January.

[1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek_MT7621
>BTW, because of the way Amazon’s FBA service works, even ordering items that are “sold by” a reputable retailer but “fulfilled by Amazon” gets you a high chance of receiving a fake. This is because they mix FBA stock and don’t discriminate what stock it comes from when filling that item, regardless of who the seller is.

Is this also true with items sold directly by Amazon?
The ironic part is that banking really is analytics-driven.
You can't deduce that; you'd need to show that the object is never passed to for..in or Object.keys or similar to be able to avoid storing the insertion order.

They could change the representation to not be insertion order dependent, and store insertion order in a separate data structure, but that has its own trade-offs.
Does "manipulated" simply mean that something was turned off? This is what I can find in the report:

> Although it cannot be conclusivel
y ruled out that an aircraft or system
malfunction was a cause, based on the limited evidence available, it is
more likely that the loss of communication (VHF and HF communications,
ACARS, SATCOM and Transponder) prior
to the diversion is due to the
system
s being manually
turned off or power
interrupted to them or
additionally in the case of VHF and HF, not used, whether with
intent or
otherwise.

> Similarly, the recorded changes in the aircraft flight path following waypoint
IGARI, heading back across
peninsular Malaysia, turning south of Penang
to the north
-west and a subsequent turn towards the Southern Indian
Ocean are
difficult to attribute to any specific aircraft system failures. It is
more likely that such manoeuvres are due to the systems being
manipulated.
Then investors would start asking why there is so much cash in company accounts. Good CEO invests every penny into something (hopefully profitable), for example, Jeff Bezos.
Unfortunately, it's yet another GABA agonist, and after it wears off, I get severe brain fog. Also, it has diminishing returns. If I take it more than 3 days in a row, it does nothing. So many of the supplements and nootropics that I've tried for programming are the same way. The only three that I take now are caffeine(daily), nicotine(rarely) and adderall(very rarely).
Yes- governments do cost significant amounts of money to run and this is why we should be eliminating or at least severely curtailing government. People attack the free market as though the free market created the problems of poverty and a wealth imbalance when its actually big government and special interests that have done that via co-opting the government and people via socialist policies (emotional, yet largely misleading arguments)- ones that in practice benefit a small elite rather than the masses. And before you think I'm attacking the little guy or the poor any form of regulation has a cost that inhibits people from starting small businesses and that hinders competition and we go a lot farther than that frequently even to the point of granting monopolies such as has happened with telephone and cable TV and copyright and so on. All are wealth redistribution schemes- or a form of socialism for the elite.

Socialism is causing the problem- but most don't understand that governments spending money means more is taken from ones pocket and spent in the most inefficient way possible and usually to some special interests benefit. You can't guarantee everyone a basic income for example without compromising the integrating of of the system and of efficiencies and undermining the incentives for people to work. Guaranteed education is hugely expensive at the lower levels particularly when it costs more to educate certain children than can be made back via taxation of these individuals. It would make more sense to provide certain groups welfare- or better let charity cover on-going costs. This doesn't mean that kids with special needs should abandoned. It just means we're not using our resources in the most effective way possible. Some children will never be able to enter the workforce no matter how much money is thrown at them. Other special education kids can be helped and attain a level of educational attainment that'll enable society to recoup the costs. Though more particularly we created a huge problem with guaranteed loans for higher education which has resulted in higher costs and hugely benefited an elite rather than those who the politicians claimed: ie the kids. Many students are being poorly served by higher education with degrees that provide no useful skills and huge debts. There are some degrees that are little more than hobbies. And I'm using a definition that the IRS would utilize here. That is if you spend money and you do not eventually make a profitable return your not operating a business- it's a hobby. Same thing applies to degrees.
Let's say we limit the application to just ISO compliant steel shipping container transport. It seems like we could apply much of the self balancing technology to trailer design to account for various load weights and distributions. Even without some redesign of the trailer, it's not too difficult for me to imagine software being better at controlling the truck than a human. The things that are difficult for humans to learn about driving a truck don't seem all that challenging, especially when given the limited problem space related to what is trying to be achieved with self-driving cars replacing all human transportation in cities.
Most of the big carriers already have the distribution points set up all over the place with a bunch of local drivers covering the last mile.

I (sort of) worked for Swift ~10 years ago and a lot of what I did was "drop and hook" at regional terminals or big warehouses. It was kind of uncommon to live (un)load -- mostly just drop the trailer I brought in where they told me, pick up an empty/loaded trailer and be on my way.

When I ran reefers it was totally the opposite, super rare to not have to live unload. A lot of the big places would have pre-loaded trailers waiting but delivery points were usually much smaller so didn't have a bunch of space for trailers to sit around. And then there were the times when I was live loading produce in the middle of a (literal) field...
50 hours? Can this truck fuel itself? Inspect its load? React to a load that becomes unsecure mid route? How about when the truck is pulled over for an inspection? How will it deal with a stowaway? Brake inspection before a big hill? All the rare events add up to significant barriers to actually removing the human from the truck.
And amusingly, when they are mentioned, it's almost always when they're going to run them in reverse, to spew stuff out into space.
It's a tough business. When he started out driving he barely broke even. After a year or two the company he drove for offered to sell/lease him a truck and trailer and he could contract for them as an Owner Operator. He decided to decline and just kept driving and eventually ended up moving up the ladder to recovery driver (the very top of the ladder for drivers). Now most of his expenses are covered so he can earn a decent living.

As a recovery driver he flies around the country picking up brand new trucks or trucks that have been abandoned by a driver (sometimes they just walk away), or a driver quits because he realizes he can't earn a living, or gets fired. A few have been when a driver passes away. Typically the only folks getting rich in Trucking are the big companies/owners.
We should do both.
I can't comment on Japanese, but broken Spanish can be confusing (to me) due to verb conjugations. Conjugations are also a major sticking point for new learners of the language since they have a big impact on meaning but can be hard to remember.

For example, changing a single letter in "quiero" ("I want") can have a big impact on its meaning by becoming "quiere" ("He/she wants") and "quieres" ("you want").

See this page for the 142 possible conjugations of the verb querer:
http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/querer
> Why does a restaurant company like Chick-fil-A want to deploy Kubernetes at the Edge? What are the goals? That, we can answer.

> Low-latency, internet-independent applications that can reliably run our business

I like their priorities. I've had too many experiences at other fast food restaurants where they're having some kind of computer issue and can't take any orders, so everyone is made to wait.

I also like the reliability-focused thinking that acknowledges that the internet isn't always there and designs for it.
MoviePass could block more big movies from its subscription service
I would not assume that. The impact of a paid review decreases as the number of reviews increases. ie it probably better to pay for reviews for a low volume or new product
Looks interesting. Can you provide some intuition on which languages can be parsed by this algorithm, and which can't?

Btw, why did you choose the name Owl?
is communist antifa any better?
What amazes me is how information-dense the universe is. We’re able to do a lot with a little data because we can extract so much information from it.
I'm generally pro-self-driving vehicles, and while I don't want to underestimate the difficulties, given how far related tech has gone in recent years I think it'd be a mistake to assume any of this is "never" going to happen.

Despite this, I've been very nervously watching how truck driving and self-driving interact. I feel like city-to-city long haul driving will have a very rapid turnover once a certain tech threshold is hit. That threshold might be 5 years out or 20 years out or even further, but once it is reached a lot of jobs cease to be as profitable very quickly.

Trucking is a major source of strong employment for those without a college degree. It is a significant source of employment all across the US, and there are related effects - entire small towns and certainly many small businesses rely on the income from truckers. (Everything here is about the US because I know too little about non-US to have even these vague reactions)

Miners have become a synonym for workers displaced by technology - yet mining was always 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than modern trucking and took multiple generations to decline. Trucking could lose a big chunk of the industry in the course of a decade or less, to the tune of a million drivers or more. Having a million or more drivers that are suddenly unemployed or under employed would have a huge impact on the economy and public faith in the economy. Having this occur is predictable even if we can't predict when. Yet how many have given serious discussion on how to handle the reaction once this starts coming to pass?

Could be confirmation bias on my part, but I see cases like this - where the effort proved to be more complicated than expected - to falsely create the narrative that this is not a real problem to consider, which just makes the eventual impact worse.

EDIT: Please stop thinking I want to "protect" trucking or "stop" self-driving technology. I want neither - I just want us (society) to take advantage of the time when we know a change is coming but isn't here yet rather than deny it as "not yet real" and then wring our hands in despair over the consequences once it IS real.
I think the issue, for me, is not that 3 stars is bad. I probably use a number of products each day that are legitimately 3-star worthy. It's that 3 stars on Amazon et al are an amalgam of 1 and 5 star reviews. There is then a risk, is this product bad but propped up by low reviews? Can I expect poor quality control? Etc
How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? Your deduction is neither demonstrable, nor is it objective.

You've really proven nothing
> Then they end up marginalizing themselves economically and diplomatically. If they take to violence, then liberal democracies should feel free to meet force with force. But not until then - if you believe in classical liberalism, you should not be willing to throw the first punch, nor to compromise principles out of fear.

And I do tentatively agree with you. However, there's a whole loaded meaning of " If they take to violence".. How much violence? Speech can be violence, no? Screaming "nigger" at black people is in horrible taste, but is questionable if its a crime. Allegedly murdering people, like what was reported to happened the Charlottesville rally - is that violence enough? What happens when their websites state they would demonize, illegalize, and murder people if they got power?

How much violence needs happened before the "arbiters" of liberal democracies stand with their pitchforks?

> If you adopt traditional tribal/nationalist mentalities out of fear of those who already follow them, then you've already lost, while if you make clear what you stand for and live it, you're at least fighting for what you believe in.

I'm for open-ish borders, as long as people are fingerprinted/faceprinted and announce whom they are on coming in. I don't care if you were a criminal in your original country, as it could have been made up for countless reasons. Frankly, I enjoy diversity. I live in a diverse area for the region, and I would like it moreso, but this is what we have now.

My grievances are with people espousing views to harshly remove immigrants, treat them worse than animals, de-humanize them, and go to lengths to actually murder them. You can say I "already lost"... Lost is having that group that would do us innumerable harm in control.
It makes no difference, because the promise was already made and now you have to choose between (a) destroying your government's credit rating or (b) making good on the promise. Complain all you want, but that's just the situation we find ourselves in.
I wasn't talking about back propagation. But sometimes you need to change the loss function, or the shape of the network. Or combine two models. Back propagation is the same for those examples, but not other math stuff.

The only thing that makes you think it is easy is because you are just copying what others have been doing and you don't change anything. Try to go beyond that and you will change your mind quite quickly.
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Wouldn’t using drivers who are already on the road, who drive to point A to pick up a person and drop them off at point B, make perfect sense to pick up food at point A and drop it off at point B? And considering food doesn’t take a pool spot, they could do everything simultaneously while picking up people. It makes perfect sense to me.
Side hustle or masters degree? Pilots don’t work another job while autopilot is in use, and neither should truck drivers monitoring its autonomy system.
Amazing! Now the right to freedom of expression, as historically understood and instantiated by Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, is now considered a fundamentalist understanding of "free speech". And what exactly is Article 19?

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Clearly, the long, moral arc of the universe eludes you. Yes, those with power did everything within their power to repress and dispossess those utilizing nascent means of communication to spread free inquiry and discussion outside what "respectable" society desired.

The end result of that attempt at suppression and repression was the Thirty Years War, the Commonwealth of England, more than eight million dead in Europe, and a safeguard so enduring that within a generation of the aftermath, freedom of the press was established in the United Kingdom--as well as the dissemination of certain, how shall we say, liberal philosophies that led to the draconian view that freedom of speech is fundamental to an open society and must be purchased by eternal vigilance against those that would take it away. As previously noted: different times, different costumes.
Do you know what a global boon it would be if I could operate a cryptomine in your bedroom?
There's probably a huge number of shoppers that use Amazon for nearly everything, myself included, that would just toss the cheap crappy thing they got off Amazon and try another brand from, you guessed it, Amazon.

I don't know how many horrible sets of bath rugs and towels I went through on Amazon before I finally bit the bullet and bought an actual expensive brand and the difference is staggering. Before someone asks they're from Frontgate (not on Amazon).

Point being I'm just sending Amazon money over and over again.. It's definitely made me go back to stores where I can see the product for certain things.
Which cities do you choose? N cities will require O(n^2) connections. That grows very, very quickly.
And then there is 2to3, which has not failed me once.
If you subscribed to the WSJ you wouldn't be reading one article in isolation, and you'd already be well-informed about this issue, because the paper has regularly covered it (due to its massive impact) in various forms for decades.
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There's a whole range of advice here, but for most of us now it's a numbers game.

I recommend putting together the best presentation of you that you can, emphasizing the positive without over-explaining, and starting to contact people to figure out how or where you will fit--it's really the only way to know.
Even if this was only available on Interstate 40, I think you would make a lot of money. Trucking is something like $800B industry, and a lot of that flows on I-40.
The API is a reason why I _love_ Reddit. Being able to moderate my communities tools I can write has been a savior more times than I can count.
> Notice the pattern?

No.

For ages, people have sought to convert lead to gold though alchemy. Some skeptics said that was impossible or uneconomical.

(Enter... no one)

Turns out the skeptics are right and no amount of positive attitude and can-do spirit can change that fact.

Terraforming Mars is a lot closer to alchemy than powered flight, if the literal matter needed does not already exist on Mars. If we have the technology for space-tugs that can transport an atmosphere's worth of matter to it, I doubt we'd still be interested in the project.
So as I said you can copy what others do. That is fine, but you don't k ow deep learning, you know how to apply it based on examples, which is is fine for a lot of things.
>> Good CEO invests every penny into something (hopefully profitable), for example, Jeff Bezos.

Apple?
> Corporations have largely shunted the responsibility for retirement savings onto individual workers. Now said workers have no pensions and have uncertain retirements. Instead of asking why they have no pensions they seek to equalize status by falsely believing we can't afford any sort of pension.

Aren't you ignoring Social Security? For example, average Social Security monthly payments appear to be around $1400/month [1]. Spain, as an example of a high-tax, cradle-to-grave care system, provides pensions that appear to average a little under 800 euros/month ($940/month) [2]. And that's ignoring all of the Roth and 401(k) extras available out there. Am I missing something?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102814/what-maximum...

[2] https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3287811/0/cuanto-cobra-medi...
It comes down to this question: are they Viaweb or are they Amazon?

If they're Viaweb then they should only do "taxi-like" stuff and should throw away all the automation and other businesses.

If they're Amazon then they are in transportation. Eats acts as a flywheel - more pay for drivers, more demand for drivers, more supply of drivers, more loyal customers, more revenue from customers. They should do automation, be involved in trucking, eats, scooters... add more flywheels.

What's the right strategy? We'll know in 5 years and all proclaim that it was obvious!
AFAIK this is the accepted path forward (minus the side hustle aspect). Automate that which is easier to automate: the long distance highway driving. For the first/last mile, let a human do the work.