skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody will accept liability for actions outside of their control, and car manufacturers can not possibly afford to insure all cars they sell in perpetuity.

Car manufacturers already, in the US, bear strict liability for damages resulting from manufacturing defects in perpetuity, and bear the cost of that liability either by self-insurance or some form of liability insurance contract.

> Can TSLA or Uber be charged and convicted of vehicular manslaughter?

Irrelevant to the insurance issue, since criminal penalties are uninsurable; more relevant is can they be held civilly liable for wrongful death resulting from a defect in a vehicle they make, to which the answer is clearly “yes”.
There's also Make a Lisp: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

It's available in a variety of languages and has a nice guide (linked) to various steps.
You should clarify that "assets on someone else's balance sheet" refers to paper assets, which by itself is nothing but a claim and may be as good as no assets. You'd have to track down the use of the debt to find out if there are real assets anywhere.
You came out of the woodworks because...

a wild Doreen Michele would have never appeared. But because it was billed as a solution to homelessness and impoverished areas, here comes college educated Doreen Michele to let everyone know its totally wrong and misguided!

That's incredibly dismissive.

For one thing, I'm simply here a lot. I didn't "come out of the woodwork" like some lurker who normally keeps my mouth shut.

For another, I comment on lots of different subjects, not just homelessness. I'm well known for my views on homelessness, but long before that I was a homeschooling parent and Director of Community Life for The TAG Project. It isn't at all unusual for me to comment on education and related subjects.

I'm not a big fan of the idea out there that poor families are helped by good preschool education. One of my sons went to preschool and he really benefited tremendously because he had specific issues I wanted addressed. So I'm well aware that preschool can be a good thing and I would rather see more money spent on preschool than on prisons and there are studies that show that spending more on preschools reduces how much we spend on prisons.

But I would much, much, much rather see parents make enough money that they can make choices like whether or not they want one parent to be home full time. I think we really, seriously undervalue full time parents.

(Please note that I am saying parents, not mothers. I get a lot of BS off of people who like to imagine I mean only mothers should be at home with kids.)

I've thought long and hard about a lot of subjects that happen to intersect here and even studied some of them formally.

I'm also medically handicapped and I happen to spend more time on HN on days when I am short of sleep or not feeling so hot, like today. That is a much, much bigger factor in me leaving multiple comments in this discussion (as well as others) than the topic per se.

Though I will say this comment is evidence that your opening line is probably not entirely disingenuous. You are taking me seriously enough to apparently view me as some kind of threat (to what? I have no clue) and thus feel some need to try to shoot me down personally.
No one significant is predicting a doom/collapse (which parent didn’t mention either, so I guess you are just putting out a red herring), but China is definitely due for a crash/financial crisis to wash out all of the economic bad blood/distortions that has accumulated from its rise. There is plenty of evidence that the real estate market will go bust in the next few years.

China could get stronger after a crash as it’s economy gets dosed with realism, or depending on how the government manages it, it could be in for a Japan-style lost decade or two.
Yeah, so it's a step up from the 6 overall.
When you turn off your laptop, does Google go down?
>Consultation

The European Parliament may approve or reject a legislative proposal, or propose amendments to it. The Council is not legally obliged to take account of Parliament’s opinion but in line with the case-law of the Court of Justice, it must not take a decision without having received it.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and...
Wow. I assumed global deficits were approx $50T in the QE-era. With Global World Product (GWP) ballpark $75-100T. And annual global growth rates averaging 3-4% in good times.

Even with old numbers. And the assumption interest rates will remain below historical means. There is the possibility creditors can never be paid back.

But with these new estimates of 3X leverage? Time has come to think seriously about debt relief and cancellation. Not top down this time, but bottom up. Starting with direct injection into student loans, home mortgages, medical, small business loans, etc.
and everything inside is already virtualized the memory, the processors, the hardware, the power, everything, it can multiple operating systems.
The Great Recession Knocked Them Down. Only Some Got Up Again
Isn't that the distro that the jre docker containers use as the base?

EDIT: Just looked into that.. it looks like just the java 8 containers.
AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure break more often than our mainframes. In this case, the cloud model is a con, essentially the self checkout lane at Walmart. You're paying more for the same ability you had before.

"Well, you want redundancy right? Well you're supposed to be redundant across AZs, and then regions, and then you're going to have to have disparate vendors to mitigate sole vendor risks." And then we're right back to hosting our own mainframes in our datacenters.
Watch the awesome way in which plants defend themselves
This is less easy if you have mirrors.
For many people, and I include myself in that group, the class in compiler and language design is where all of the concepts being taught in CS came together into a bigger and more rich picture. A common observation that it was like learning "how" music was written rather than just "playing" music.

That said, everyone who learns to program usually learns more than one language. For me, it was after about the fifth language that the syntax of a particular language fell away and what remained was the algorithm that was being expressed. It was this ability to see the algorithm distinct from the syntactic construction of the language that lets me see where the language is "helping" and where it is "hurting" in expressing the algorithm.

The advice then for starting points for developing new languages would be to take some algorithms you know well and implement it in as many languages as you can find. Ideally you'll have at least one imperative language (BASIC, C, Fortran, COBOL all qualify), one functional language (haskell/APL), one lambda language (lispish), and one semantic language (Ada, Mesa, Modula) Typically sorting, string handling, and asynchronous execution (or schedulers) all make for good algorithms to try. See what is "easy" and what is "hard" to implement based on the features the language brings to the table.

Then optimize for 'easy'.

That will gives you verbs and structure that support your need, once you have those then giving them names and a syntactic structure is fairly straight forward.
Us devs got so much to complain about !
IMO the only company that has been able to successfully "productize" a language/programming environment is Microsoft, and that is because companies were paying a LOT of money for these tools a decade or two ago.
Exactly. Children have decent hand-eye coordination as toddlers. By 3 or 4, they can drive toy cars; by 5 they're riding bikes. But it takes them another decade or more to have the knowledge and judgment needed to drive a car in traffic. And even then they're not great; teens have a crash rate something like 3x other drivers.
Ah, I'm Canadian so having to sacrifice everything for loved ones health-care didn't occur to me. That'd be a horrible position to be put in.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-government-pension-thats-last... if anyone else is interested
I'm sure the data is coming in from multiple sources and being stored on high capacity tape archives or something, if it's not just being thrown away at some point after analysis is complete.
My province in Canada had a program for some substantial (I think it was 30%) bursary for university. The thing is that it wasn't based off of what you pay, but rather that percentage off of a specified rate. It was about to 1/6 of my actual tuition for an engineering degree.
FWIW, I oppose postal balloting, except where it improves enfranchisement (eg on demand for disabled, military, overseas). It has all the pitfalls of electronic voting and adds a few new ones. It lowers turnout. [1] It leads to ballot chasing, driving up the costs of campaigns, and alienating voters.

The Oregonians get fluffed up in defense. But everyone thinks their baby is beautiful.

[1] Mail ballots in Washington State now have prepaid postage, which appears to have boosted turnout 3%, restoring turnout to the pre-all mail voting levels. We'll see if that holds.

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We have national standards. Enforcement is spotty. It sounds like what you want is national administration. At one time, most of us election integrity activists would have probably agreed with you, before the Voting Rights Act was gutted. If our elections could somehow be administered in a non-partisan way... But I just don't see it on the horizon.

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Chain of custody for paper ballots and gear is the norm. But the best laws, regs, rules mean nothing without civic participation. Administrating and observing elections is a mountain of work. We just don't have enough people stepping up. And election administration nationwide is chronically, notoriously underfunded.

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Despite the opposition to Real ID, we do have national identifiers. The NSA, Lexis/Nexus (nee Seisent), ChoicePoint, Google, Facebook, others have uniquely identified everyone living and dead, tracked in near real-time. But the US Federal government refuses to leverage, license, nationalize these demographic databases for anything other than terrorist watch lists.

Why?

For one, it'd completely moot the current debates around the census, voter registration databases, immigration, Social Security, etc.

You can't manage what you don't measure. And there are powerful interests who thwart all efforts to measure.
~$ docker-compose pull
~$ docker-compose up -d --build

The compose files are already using latest, so this pulls the latest images, rebuilds images with any new code, and restarts the services.
> Not the reforms themselves, but what followed. China's growth since then has led to the largest poverty reduction the world has ever seen,

So the content of the reforms themselves weren't really an accomplishment, but rather activity of the people that the previous policies had restrained?

> and that didn't happen because a bureaucrat flicked his pen, but because hundreds of millions of Chinese toiled for generations to make it happen.

To make what happen? Deng's reforms? Poverty reduction? The path was so circuitous and so driven by the ideology and policy of leaders that I'm not sure if much can really be said about the political intent of that toil by such a large group over such a long span of time.
And it took the UK until December 2006 to finally repay the USA and Canada their WW2 debts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6215847.stm
So if you know Docker, you shouldn't know how to do things without a container?
Censorship is no longer anathema to the values of Google and other tech companies, indeed neither to the values of the ideological Left in general.

The Communist Party sets its censorship standard at anything that would denigrate the Party. Google, Twitter, etc. and ideological sympathizers set their censorship standard at "Hate Speech", which is an impossible term to rigorously define leading to political judgements in enforcement by necessity.

The modern political and ideological Left have far more in common with the Chinese Communist Party than I think even they themselves realize.

The arbitrary whims of the powerful can never define what political thought can and cannot be said in the public square if we wish to preserve freedom and justice.
>There is more community consensus that sites should not allow the “www” subdomain to be user controlled.

Is there any record of this "consensus"? This shouldn't be happening, period. There is a difference between example.com and www.example.com: they can serve different content, and can have different DNS records. There is literally no sane reason to hide any subdomain, common or not -- it's there for a reason.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
Kafka is also very embedded everywhere now, with a big first-mover advantage. Pulsar already does everything Kafka does but also supports custom functions, per-message acknowledgements, and native cross-region replication.

Unfortunately it's hard to change something that already works. Most users don't hit the performance limits of their tools so they'll just continue Kafka if it's already running.
How Granular Should My Data Be as I Get Started?
A book published in 1946 is "very old"?! hehe. Maybe try Plutarch's Lives (about 100AD), or Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates (about 370BC), both of which are extremely readable, gossipy even, and touch on that subject. Marvel at how little's changed.

If I had to name one book, I guess Emerson's Essays: First and Second Series, (that first copy I had also included Representative Men) which I discovered when I was about 20, and read from almost every day for at least 10 years, and still never go more than a few days without....well, it's more myself than I am (to paraphrase Emerson, I think). Trying to track that quote down just now, I realized that Emerson's Uses of Great Men[0] explains the matter far better than I could.

The first time I read it, it was like he'd described 10,000 things I'd experienced, and had thought couldn't possibly be described. That was 27 years ago. I can't imagine at all what difference not coming across him would have made, but I guess "it actually changed my life" would be a huge understatement. Also Russell, Hazlitt, Chesterton, Santayana, Stevenson, William James, Nietzsche etc have been hugely important, but....somehow, in various ways, none are quite such admirable characters, or teachers for all seasons.[1] This:

"It is nothing for any man sitting in his chair to be overcome with the sense of the immediacy of life, to feel the spur of courage, the victory of good over evil, the value, now and forever, of all great-hearted endeavor. Such moments come to us all. But for a man to sit in his chair and write what shall call up these forces in the bosoms of others – that is desert, that is greatness. To do this was the gift of Emerson. The whole earth is enriched by every moment of converse with him. The shows and shams of life become transparent, the lost kingdoms are brought back, the shutters of the spirit are opened, and provinces and realms of our own existence lie gleaming before us." – JJ Chapman

[0]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Representative_Men/Uses_of_Gr...

[1] I almost added Thoreau, but he seems an extension of Emerson, unimaginable without him. Well, you could say that about Nietzsche too.

"Emerson. – Never have I felt so much at home in a book, and in my home, as – I may not praise it, it is too close to me." – Nietzsche
If the Model X in your example had LIDAR, it would have been able to build up a decently accurate collision model of the world, which it could have then used to say "there is an object in the path I'm on, maybe I shouldn't plow into it." As opposed to relying on implicit and apparently unreliable cues like lane markers. That particular fatal crash seems like a sensors and geometry problem.

"Nothing about our current world has been designed for lidar and radar. It was designed for binocular vision."

Really? Was the world designed for binocular vision, or is it just three dimensional?

Having more sensors, especially when they have different failure modes seems like the only possible way to create a reliable system. LIDAR isn't super dense, but generally has accurate returns. Binocular vision sucks on untextured objects, like the side of a white truck in the fatal Model S collision. Why wouldn't you want the crutch of both types of measurement?
Step 1: Use your wealth to lobby for laws that let you do things that are unethical but increase your profit.

Step 2: Do those things.

Step 3: When people criticise you for unethical behavior, point out you are just following the rules.
The problem with buses isn't picking people up or stopping. It's just that without dedicated lanes or busways, they're not better than cars. Same traffic, + stops is a recipe for failure for people who can afford it. My bus takes a busway and skips huge traffic jams. I save 25 mins riding the bus and I don't pay to park.

> If they could tell that no one will be boarding or deboarding at a given stop, they could skip it entirely and take a shorter path instead.

Everytime selfdriving tech comes up people say things similar to this, this problem is 100% solvable now. Why are we waiting for self driving cars to solve this problem?
It's exceedingly likely that any new elements we discover will have half lives fractions of a second and not available anywhere in the universe other than the labs of civilizations at least as advanced as us. So there's almost no possibility that they play any role in alien life.
And it was over a hundred times more productive (rather than a thousand), even with the original numbers. With the inflation-adjusted numbers, it's over ten times more productive. (Still nothing to sneeze at...)
EM waves are, given everything we know about the universe, the obvious communication medium for advanced civilizations no matter where or who they are. Maybe somebody sufficiently indistinguishable from a god could use gravitational waves, but off the top of my head I'm not sure why you'd want to bother.

Quantum entanglement does not, as far as we know, enable superluminal transmission of information. "Teleportation" is implementation-dependent and at this point entirely science fiction. If you're going to rip something apart or non-destructively scan it, and rebuild it at the other end, which is the only "realistic" theory of how it might work, you either need to transmit the bits or the bits (heh) and then you're back to the same problem of information transmission.

Of course we don't know everything, but the discussion really ends there: we don't know what we don't know.
It does not, I've lost alot of time profiling Kafka perf issues against clusters on the exact same hardware with exact same traffic but with a 3000% throughput difference. The root cause was one cluster had a lot of empty test topics

Try benchmarking Kafka from 0 partitions to a few thousand partitions in 100 partition increments. The benchmark only needs to write to a single topic, using their provided producer perf tool while all other topics are inactive with zero data.

As the partitions increase there is a very noticeable drop in throughout that looks to be linear.

Kafka does not handle a large number of partitions well currently, large even being low thousands. It's easy to hit with just a few hundred topics.

Reading between the lines ehen Linkdin and Netflix advertise several clusters, i am predicting/guessing they shard the data.
This article is misleading. The 9 percent drop occurred primarily because Tesla's CFO left after just one month with the company. Also, most who sold Tesla because of the weed incident don't care about the weed use itself, but rather that Elon used a federally illegal substance publicly when it would clearly lead to a drop in share price. Shareholders already assume that Elon uses more exotic substances than weed.
Unfair? Why should a technology touted as the future be half-measured to something as "50%", as just "good enough"?
When you have the human element at play, fault is easy to judge, as is blame easy to lay. When, say, a drunk driver is involved, it's clear what the problem is, and the state can fund enforcement against drunk driving and take other measures to reduce accidents. But with driverless cars, who does the victim and/or the victims family blame? What can the state and law enforcement do when there's nothing to prosecute besides some corporate entity (and possible laws that protect it) and a faulty algorithm or similar? The human element is no longer at play, and instead there's a car manufacture, protected by decades of lobbying, deciding what is safe enough to unleash on the populace. It's pure negligence to release driverless vehicles onto the roads simply because some statistics show it's "50% safer, thus safe enough".
I'm originally from the Pittsburgh area and the Pittsburgh Left [0] throws me off guard every single time I visit.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_left
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MDR isn't a neighborhood in LA either, it's technically an unincorporated part of LA county.
It's not his money to use this way. He stole it from the workers he underpaid.
Nobody said that.

But yea, when using Docker already, why not? It's quick and easy compared to all the alternatives.
Asian cities have far worse infrastructure than the US for cars.

Toronto has horrible traffic too.
Sir, you have nailed it. No serious robotics project deployed to date does anything more than Good Sensors + Good Geometry. And I do not think a revolution is required, just good old time.

At some point the right balance of sensor quality and manufacturing processes will converge to be an affordable solution to highway driving. (broad daylight, then dusk, then maybe rain, etc etc).

If history is any guide (airlines anyone?) This will come along piecemeal, and the CEOs being forced to make ridiculous promises to appease shareholder anxiety will be given nice scapegoat packages along the way.
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Spot on! I pity the resources we waste. It seems people have forgotten to respect the fundamentals of computing.
Oh, CFML. I was recently involved in adding Kafka support to an older CFML application. I found a couple of things that were really difficult to work around:

- the versions of some (most?) of the libs Adobe CF (even 11) depends on are ancient, years old, shading had to be used a lot, a lot to add things like Kafka or protobuf

- EVERYTHING loads into a single JVM process, every gateway shares the same JVM with the application server

How does Lucee handle this?
Here's a link to Nuro's blog post with a link to the actual report (PDF):

https://medium.com/nuro/delivering-safety-6eb859223868
I like your thinking but Amazon/Bezos will push the boundaries to minimize costs and to be successful.

The 2B is a start but it's up to society to make sure he doesn't go too far by putting limits where needed.

Amazon's ways would change tomorrow if customers would speak up against its abusive ways but we all love PRIME, their customer service, and the convenience.

Amazon at least has to hire people to get the job done, good or bad people still have work. Apple, the largest cap company in the world, does its work with a fraction of the people that Amazon does, 500k+ for Amazon vs 120k+ for Apple. And they minimized their tax footprint while having truckloads of externalities that cost society billions.

The criticism of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller was highlighted by the longterm reporting of Ida Tarbell in the Saturday Evening Post. He was criticised before but Tarbell brought up to a different level in people's minds. No one seems to have the guts and long-term focus to do it for the new tech giants.