skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The idea that sharing rides is good has become almost axiomatic in transportation discussions. At conferences I have seen people declare that robocars are pointless if they are not shared -- ie. people who are not travelling together ride together in them. The positive of sharing is so axiomatic that public transit is seen almost as a good in and of itself, rather than a means towards real goals like energy efficiency, low cost, and higher road utilization.

It has has attained this status as revealed truth because it is indeed roughly true -- more people together in a vehicle done right will indeed use less energy per person and less road space. But the "done right" is very important as it is commonly done quite wrong.

As I have studied robocars, this has led me to the discovery that some of our old assumptions are wrong. In particular, more sharing is not always good, and the styles of sharing (including the vehicle sizes) of current public transportation are almost certainly not the optimum sizes, and that smaller vehicles are likely more optimal once we eliminate the need for drivers and move to a highly communicating world.

I believe there are strong arguments that while shared travel is beneficial, we actually have too much of it in most transit systems, and not enough in private cars. That the 'shared' future is one of van-sized group vehicles with a mixed fleet of more personal cars with 1-4 seats."

https://ideas.4brad.com/sleeper-cars-and-unexpected-efficien...
It's also because node had a package manager before it got popular. So adding dependencies was much easier, right from the start.
A classic worse is better.
Suica cards work practically everywhere. You can poke a button to use english, usually clearly labeled. You need cash everywhere in Japan so not sure why that surprised you. My experience with Tokyo metro was pretty good. I've never seen a metro as well-organized despite 15 private rail companies splitting the system. The only problem is the operating hours, the last train rush is insane some nights.
Ludicrous mode. And you can't get 1.9 for 80k. That is ludicrous. P100D is ~135k starting. Off the top of my head a Z06 will do just under 3 and you can pick them up for <=80k new
Escher's Island: Creative Python and JavaScript Coding Practice
And even if you did with Rust you could theoretically use enums to achieve it (or a union in C).
It is more than that. We know what life looks like: composed of carbon because that is the only atom than easily forms long chains of double bonds. It is also very likely to be composed of the atoms that are common in the universe: the low Atomic number ones.
Depends on where you were living. Some neighborhoods are very walkable. LA like any major city has good and bad spots all over.
First, thanks for sharing this! Second - based on the language used I can’t tell if he is saying Tesla’s camera and Radar approach will work, or that it won’t. The only thing that I pulled out was that if we increase the types of sensors we get better results because they have different strengths and weakenesses.
Not to imly anything but why do you think they got addicted / mentally ill and then end up in the streets and not the other way around?
They're hard to identify because they aren't going around advertising how smart they think they are. You only know it if you get to know them very well.

They're often kids born to lower-middle-class or working class backgrounds.

Or they're likeable people with good social skills who found popularity effortlessly, so never felt the need to look smart. But if you talk to them they're actually really inquisitive and perceptive.

Or they're women or minorities.

I realize that growing up, everyone who I considered to be "really smart" happened to be white, Indian or Asian and male. That means there are whole demographics of smart people I didn't even recognize.

In high school, I was considered to be a top tier "smart kid," and ended up studying physics at Stanford. I thought about a girl I grew up with... who actually ran circles around me in math in 4th grade. And was a better writer than me. But she majored in communications at USC, and is working for People magazine. She was not as beholden to the "I'm so smart" identity that I was.
but you aren't likely to type the same, matching error twice.
The bit that saddens me is the realisation that those ants will probably find "aliens" one day, the termite mound half a mile away, and likely fight terrible wars, but even if not, neither side will ever see sunrise over central park
Seems like more work to me. Simple search and replace is usually sufficient for something like what the intro video shows.
> are there other particular benefits to a world with significantly more (conventional) public transportation / less cars that I failed to articulate?

- Substantially reduced traffic on surface streets (a bus or subway is MUCH more densely packed with humans than a road full of cars).

- Encourage more walking and overall fitness

- Improved safety for non-mechanized road and sidewalk users (reduced traffic will do more for pedestrian safety than automated traffic will, I promise).

- Less space required to be devoted to parking and streets, so better land utilization.
There's absolutely no equivalence between a CNN created today with deep learning, compared to the Neural Network in a human brain.

The problem with the human brain is one of inattention. CNNs / Artificial Neural Networks can remain at attention 100% of the time due to their artificial / machine nature.

But CNNs, despite being at 100% attention the entire time, still have issues determining if that splotch on the screen is the sky or an 18-wheeler.

https://electrek.co/2016/07/01/understanding-fatal-tesla-acc...

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Artificial Neural Networks / Convolutional Neural Networks have a very long way to go before they reach human equivalence. In contrast, sensor systems or LIDAR brute-forces the problem. LIDAR can see things human's can't see, and advanced sensors can tell you (at least, in clear conditions) the location and velocity of virtually every object around the car.

Fake-it till you make it camera-only driverless cars are clearly hype that relies upon a fundamental misunderstanding. Just because CNNs are kinda-sorta like the visual cortex of the human brain doesn't really mean that it works like one.

CNNs have really cool visual learning properties. But I've yet to see one 100% successfully tell you background vs foreground in pictures like a human brain can do. Even in clear weather conditions, the CNN can confuse a truck for the sky and still run full speed into an 18-wheeler.
Self-driving car: ZF
Electric car: ZF
TaaS: ZF
Self-driving advertising services: ZF

All will be available, all from the same company.
EDIT: Waymo laughed at "route-based advertising" when I mentioned, but ZF supports this idea. Route-based advertising or route advertising is an advertising model where your vehicle diverts to make you see a particular place and/or get you to visit a particular shop. For example, it may make you see McDonalds to get you to buy BigMac.
As an existence proof, people drive through fog every day. We prove that it's possible to take binocular visual data and convert that into a series of control signals that will propel a car through fog. Sure sometimes accidents happen, but every day thousands upon thousands of people safely navigate fog in e.g. San Francisco or London. I see no reason machines shouldn't be able to perform at least as well one day.
You can make it secure from mitm with this but it doesn't allow ftl. You can't use the entangled particles themselves to do the communication since you cant control how the superposition collapses when you measure it. This allows you to get two streams that nobody but you and the party knows but they're fundamentally random and unpredictable, you can't encoded information into it, just use it as a one time pad essentially.
So did the surgeon who killed that poor girl because he was overconfident and took too many risks.
While certainly influence by the car. LA also just has a history of filling in old large scale industry with more people.

Orange groves, mountain ranges, oil fields, and huge movie studio back lots are all part of LA's history.
Which is still extremely useful for things like probes.

Instant comm's to Mars rover or even voyager.

Of course no ones figured out how to make use of entanglement for information transfer.

Pops up a lot in Sci-Fi, reading Three-Bodied Problem now and the aliens sent "sophons" basically probes the size of protons at near the speed of light to earth from Alpha Centauri, they arrived in a few years while their invasion fleet will take 400 years to get here. The sophons spy and interfere with earth communicating with aliens via quantum entanglement.
I mostly agree. But, surely, you'd agree that personal experience, especially extensive personal experience, might give one an inkling about whether a particular statistic is accurate. I wasn't arguing anything more.

I've looked at a number of studies about this. In general, it's hard to find much agreement between them about actual numbers. I suspect some of that is related to how "homelessness" and "mental illness" or "addiction" are defined by the people doing the studies, but most indicate that some kind of majority are influenced by one or more of those issues.
As CEO I let whole company see the same charts, graphs, and data as the execs
I am a woman and I don't think the ability to fit a phone in a jean pocket determines best phone dimensions. Most of my pants don't even have front pockets and even large phones fit perfectly well in my purse. I much prefer having a large phone screen to a small phone that can uncomfortably fit into only few items of clothing I regularly wear.
abdullahkhalids has the correct answer. Even if you have the entangled particles already in place, you can't communicate with them.

The real proof is that if you could, we'd already have this technology and high-speed traders would already be using it. If it could exist, we have all the tools to build it; it's far simpler than even a 4-qubit quantum computer, which we've also built. We don't have it because entanglement can't be used that way.
This fund has way more PR value than just paying his workers a decent amount. The latter creates entitlement and expectation which this avoids as well. I personally have a very dim view of these philanthropic efforts.
>it's totally not usable on a mobile network for a ton of people

As noted in the sections:

4. Maps aren’t truly responsive by default (but are annoying on mobile by default)

5. Performance, particularly on mobile, will need all the help it can get

As someone who worked for me used to say: "It's better than good. It's done."
Overall negative impact on Googlers of decade-long war, increased airport security and PATRIOT act in general has greatly outpaced whatever extra negative impact Trump has caused so far and will cause in foreseeable future. I'm not surprised in the slightest that majority of Googlers are not liking Trump very much; there are plenty of very good reasons to do so. However, as much as media hype it, let's not pretend that he's so much worse that W in terms of what actually happened since his election.
Underlying source : http://seti.berkeley.edu/frb-machine/

and paper : http://blpd0.ssl.berkeley.edu/frb-machine/CNNFRB_eprint.pdf
Correction it has mountains close to 12000 feet near by and the Sierras about 3-4 hours north. Yes I know the Cascades are amazing Ive been, but I was simply pointing out that there are plenty of high elevation and forested mountains close to LA and California has the highest elevation mountains in the lower 48 if you include Sierras with much better weather to boot so they are more accessible.

You said you missed mountains around Seattle, so I had to point out that while not glaciated, the Gabriels and San Bernardino mountains are breathtaking in their own right. And the Sequoias by Yosemite just 4 hours north arent bad either where you have peaks over 14K feet. I live in the mountains, I moved to California for the mountains.
Bridj which went bust a little while back. It was awesome. I was an early adopter in Boston
Is that what is behind the Master the mainframe program? https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the...
My dad regularly drives 8 hrs with his kayaks to fish for bass. Though he usually leaves them behind when he flies to Mexico to fish.

People do carry their horses to work with them. They aren't just luxury goods.
If you have $1M for an apartment, you have $1k for a political contribution.

If you can barely afford your $2k rent, you don’t.
Momo, Michael Ende
>The capacity for self-education is not innate for most people.

I disagree. Most mentally healthy people are capable of self-education. Self-education is what makes human a human. Being an adult person requires working self-education skill -- using public transit, bank services, mobile phones, internet, microwave ovens, TV sets, driving, etc -- all requires self-education to some extent. Getting professional skills is more difficult, but it just requires more effort, not a completely new skill.
I found Los Angeles pretty pleasant because the weather was nice and I could ride my bike to the beach. But different people value different things.
They’ve always been decoupled, it’s just a lot more visible these days.
I mean, of course we might be missing out on things we can't technologically grasp yet... but even if we knew it existed we wouldn't know what to do with it yet.
Facebook Says This Post About a Firing Squad for a Senator Doesn't Violate Rules
A lot of the responses to this question could have been copy/pasted from Erlang marketing copy.

I'm still not seeing what mainframes give you that a well-designed pc cluster couldn't, other than marketing BS and opportunity for grift.

Waitaminute...
I don't know if I'd describe the speed of light as "low", more like the universe is really, really big
Distributed Agreement on Random Order: Fun with Lamport Timestamps
NO, copyright is simply the right to make copies. It has nothing to do with the right to create derived material of the original copyrighted item.
$250 Trillion in Debt: The World’s Post-Lehman Legacy
Alpine isn't junk, but it is a layer in a lot of things that people use (ex. `golang:1-alpine`).

Docker just makes it super opaque when you have to rotate images.
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Or perhaps we are a only advanced civilization in the known universe and other civilizations are using some lo-tech method of communication like creating sounds or fire signals. Add we are looking for only high-tech modes of communications.
`Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams` by Matthew Walker. Still in the midst of it actually, and it's had a huge impact.

Runner-up would be `the end of religion` by Bruxy Cavey.
Following this rabbithole lead me here, which explained it in a way that made sense to me: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DY9h6zxq6EMHrkkxE/spooky-act...

Just in case anyone else is struggling with this, as I was :)
Carbonic Acid, or more specifically drinks with carbonic acid (with or without anything else) have recently been shown to increase calorie consumption.

Phosphoric acid (popular in Coke) is the much more dangerous one eating bone, organs, affecting the liver.
> Today, 3000 people die in the US every single day because of car accidents

Whoa... that's over 1 million people annually... you probably mean globally?

Depending on the year, it's somewhere between 30,000 - 40,000 annually[1][2][3], or in the worst-case, about 109 people daily in the US.

When you examine those numbers further, you'll see about 10,000-18,000 (depending on the year) are sadly still alcohol related[4]. We can and should fix this first and foremost.

With over 3.1 Trillion miles driven annually in the US, that's about 0.001 fatalities per 100,000 miles driven, or about 1 fatality per 80,000,000 miles driven. Driving is pretty safe - although I agree we can make it safer.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht...

[3] https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatali...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...

[5] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/21/516512439...
Sure, it's also possible the universe immediately surrounding us was teeming with life a billion years ago and we just missed it all anyway.

We can only try our best with the current means we have available.
Nope, you couldn't. From all the experiments and theory we have on entanglement, you can't use it to communicate faster than light.
Possible, but not something I'm worried about. Those "mature" societies are still limited to the speed of light, they would have to be willing to wait out an average trip of thousands of years just to wipe out new civilizations in our galaxy - assuming the new civilization survives that long.
I suspect that driverless cars will end up somewhere on the spectrum between buses and human-operated cars. They're extremely cautious and will be a lot slower than human-operated.
> Of course no ones figured out how to make use of entanglement for information transfer.

Saying "no one's figured it out" is misleading because it creates the impression that it's an engineering problem to be solved.

According to our best understanding of quantum mechanics, the laws of physics fundamentally do not permit faster-than-light communication, whether through entanglement or any other mechanism.
We'd be safe for 3 billion years, probably. Also I don't think we have the technology to answer that call (can radio waves sent by humans be visible after traveling 3 billion lightyears?)
"Do you believe it is possible that there exists a physical phenomena that, if described to you right now, would clearly be a "flight of fancy", however would in fact turn out to be real?"

Yes, of course.

I think those of you who are finding your feathers ruffled need to go back to the initial post. The question is, do you want to answer the question based on current science, or do you want to imagine whatever you want to be the case? Both are valid options. But pick one. You do nobody any favors when you try to blurrily flick back and forth on a whim.

And the truth is, if you are going to just imagine whatever you like, there isn't much interesting to say about it precisely because anything could be true. Could aliens be communicating by getting high on DMT and have found a way to use DMT entities to transmit real, useful messages? Sure, whynot, but what's there to say about that?

By contrast, we can discuss what real science currently has to say about what aliens may be doing. Current science says there's not much reason to expect anything but EM. If you find that unfortunate somehow, that's a psychological thing, not a scientific thing.

Or, at least, we COULD discuss what real science has to say about it if people didn't immediately pop up with the equivalent of "But what about DMT-entity-based communication???!?" every single time.
the word "copyright" is about allowing/forbidding all kinds of use of a work, not just copying. Derivative works are very much part of it.
Holy shit, that's a bad time to read that book. I think I may share that book with you as one of the most life-changing books. I remember crying during the ending as a teenager.
This reminds me of the time many years ago when we worked on a VB app that had to resort to the sledgehammer of Win32's LockWindowUpdate API call to do some hefty calculations and not "freeze" the UI even though we were, in fact, freezing the UI.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winuser...
Because "Model T on the way to a Ferrari."

Oops... laws of physics and all that.

I'm also not sure why this is a "new take" on something which, for all intents and purposes, has never existed.
My comments are all US-based:

Alternatively we (govt) should be taking advantage of historically low interest rates to spend money on infrastructure maintenance that we KNOW needs to be fixed. This provides stimulus (or wealth transfer, depending on your perspective) through creating jobs and fixes a looming problem before it stops looming. We'll have to pay the price one way or another, and right now the price is at a discount.

I read a report claiming that the tax-cuts are in effect demonstrating short-term stimulus spending. Based on my anecdotal observations from trying to read/hear viewpoints from across the political spectrum, lower-income conservatives ARE seeing a difference in their paychecks, and they like it. So the not-fiscally-conservative conservatives are proving the point the fiscally-conservative conservatives don't believe in, at the risk of proving the fiscally-conservative conservatives right about the longer-term costs because of the methods chosen.

I do feel bad for those that are truly fiscally-conservative: They've not really had anyone to vote for in a long time.
I thought we could Van Eck phreak the aliens.
You still need to work hard, but working hard smarter works better than just working hard.
Aware or not, they are still being manipulated.

25 years after Tiananmen, most Chinese university students have never heard of it

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/3/5775918/25-years-after-tiananme...
In the 00s driverless car tech was heavily incubated by DARPA, a branch of the US DOD.
Glad you like this, feel free to make a GitHub issue if you notice a missing feature :)
Lots of nice ideas which I don't think will work together. Nevertheless, it's always a good idea to give it a go, and the next time around maybe it will work out. For example, I don't think there is any sense whatsoever to have different syntaxes for exactly the same structures and semantics. You want different syntaxes to make different semantics more accessible. Also, reference counting and functional programming doesn't seem like a good fit, as much as I get the performance aspect.
I guess you don't know many people that have died at the hands of human drivers if you think it is "stupid"
Unfortunately, legal definitions can have counterintuitive consequences.

The article is saying that the justices disagree on when you become an adult. One justice is saying that you become an adult 18 years after you're born, but how are years defined by the law?

It could be defined as "365 days, or 366 days if the time period starts after February 28th of a year preceding a leap year". Instead, the law first defines "N months" to always end on the last day of the final month if there aren't enough days in that final month, and then a year is simply 12 months.

This is actually sensible. If you enter a 1-year contract on Feb 29th, it makes sense that it ends on Feb 28th rather than Mar 1st the next year.

Therefore you become an adult 216 months after you're born, which in the case of this girl happened on the last day of February 2018 (because February 29th 2018 didn't exist). I agree that this is a problem, but if the problem lies in the law's definition of "becoming adult", it might not even be possible for judges to fix it.

Assuming it is actually possible for them to fix it, the alternative definition could have been "on the day of your 18th birthday", but really you need a more precise the definition actually must accommodate February 29th and push it to March 1st. For example, as the other justice puts it, "until your 18th birthday has begun or passed" (as if February 29th 2018 existed but was of length zero). Of course you'd have to find out whether any other laws are in conflict with this definition, and possibly fix all the computer programs that were assuming the old definition (for example, would she have voted on February 28th 2018? would that change with the new definition?).

BTW at least in Italy, if the justices reach parity they have to judge in favor of the defendant. In that case she would be declared not an adult. But the ancillary question of e.g. elections would not be resolved.
Work on your side projects.

Go out to hiring events and network.