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The article's subtitle states "New voluntary guidelines from NHTSA will allow cars specifically designed for Level 4 autonomous driving on the road"

The first link in the article's body points to "https://www.nhtsa.gov/DOCUMENT/ROAD-AHEAD" which redirects to "https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/12... => I did search for the strings "level 4" and level4" but did not get any hits => which page(s) is/are used as foundation for the article's subtitle mentioning "level 4"?

EDIT:
None of the links that I posted work directly (they're accessible only through https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel... in the area at the top which states "blah blah... said today in an 80-page report") - don't know why the direct links aren't working... .
or evil (Google wants to assert ownership of its employee's side projects)

I believe these are still worked on company time, in which case it is absolutely normal for Google to claim ownership.
There was no campaign. Nobody met in a smoke filled room and decided they were going to ruin the guy's life. What actuallu happened was the guy was a douchebag, and people called him out for it.

HN is the only place I find people defending that guy. I suspect it's because this forum is full of douchebags who identify with him.
>You can see it in typical German philosophy, where the language gets in the way in order to satisfy its constraints, often missing the point, being trapped in its structures, unable to formulate way out due to structural constraints inherent in the language

To be fair that could describe a lot of philosophy in just about every language.
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Kavanaugh has been a controversial person his entire career.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-judicial-jihad-a...

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/20/oral...
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When we say "reduce programmer cognitive overload" we are usually talking about purity.

f :: A -> B

There is nothing ambiguous about this function when considering application state and IO. You cannot call fireTheMissiles inside it, it performs no side effects. It simply takes an A and returns a B.

The headphone rule always comes to mind when talking about this. Typically developer productivity is killed when a developer is interrupted because they are trying to maintain a complete picture of time and space in their head. This problem is much less so with Haskell because you can just glance at the inputs and outputs of the function you were working on and get back on track immediately.

In the sense that you are implying, that the language itself is cognitively demanding, I would argue that is only a beginner problem. Once the core concepts are internalized it's actually very easy to use.

Where it gets hard and becomes a mental burden is when you start going off the map and looking into some of the more advanced concepts, like type level programming, which to date we haven't had to pay attention to or use on my team.
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."

:)
And the same question 14 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046382
der, die, das, den, dem, des, all depending on case (likewise for indefinite articles + worse for adjective endings). German grammatical case presents information quite efficiently, often replacing the need for a preposition or other helper word, but it is mostly foreign to English speakers.

The "nouns have gender" stuff isn't quite as weird. It's in many other languages and eventually it isn't too hard to learn the noun as the full "der/die/das ________". Where it gets tricky is when an article (like "der" or "einer") is overloaded and applies to one gender in one case (male, nominative) but to a different gender in another case (female or plural, dative). I wish the mapping were one to one.

It's also worth noting that there are actually two ways to _say_ "the" in English (think "thuh" and "thee"). I would challenge any native English speaker to explain when you use each. ;-)
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My simple smell test for language syntax readability is whether you can write a conditional statement with a multiline condition in it, without it looking ugly, and with the condition being clearly separate from the body. For example, in Lua or Ruby:

if
something()
or other()
then
do_whatever()
end

It's very easy to read; your eye doesn't "stumble" anywhere it doesn't have a reason to. In C (and Java, C# etc), on the other hand:

if (something()
|| other()) {
do_whatever()
}

This makes for some confusing indentation, and now it's hard to distinguish what's condition and what's body! Sometimes people indent the entire condition to make it clearer:

if ( something()
|| other()) {
do_whatever()
}

but now you have holes in the middle which draw attention to that spot for no good reason. Or you can put ){ on a separate line:

if (
something()
|| other()
) {
do_whatever()
}

but so much punctuation hanging by itself is still an eyesore. And Python is hardly better:

if (
something()
or other()
):
do_whatever()

Go doesn't need the () in condition, so it's slightly more tolerable if you do that (but go fmt will object):

if
something()
|| other()
{
do_whatever()
}

But I'll take the Lua/Ruby syntax any day of the week.

That's just one example. In retrospect, I think that C-style syntax was a bad idea in general, and adopting it as the "default syntax" across a large part of the industry was a monumental mistake. It favored compactness and speed of writing over readability and clarity. I really wish something like Modula or Ada would become the syntactic basis of modern languages today. I'd rather spend a few more keystrokes typing out things like "var" and "end", but end up with code that reads smoothly in a code review, or when debugging some ancient codebase.
Nice idea, and the monetization pricing seems on point without being excessive. How do you vet the 'experts' for your service? How do I know using your service, that expert will be 'better than me' ?
Which unions were asking to be exempted from. Hence my comment.
Seems for casual reader with no knowledge of German you may be oversimplifying a little. Including the plural form and four cases you wind up having to learn 16 forms of the equivalent of 'the' which then serves as a mnemonic for adjectival endings for modifing nouns. Also compound that with gender and idiosyncratic plural forms and you wind up having to learn three aspects for every new vocabulary noun.

some geographic areas use "das" for everything - yeah good point. If you ever tooled around the German-speaking sections of Switzerland you'll still find locals complaining that they have difficulty understanding the dialect of another town only a few km away.
This is an interesting option to be sure, but what I find laughable about this article is an expressed fear that the new court will force decisions not supported by the “majority.” The expansion of liberalism was largely driven by courts forcing decisions that at the time went against popular opinion. Now that the shoe is on the other foot and a conservative court might peel back some of those decisions there is abject panic on the left.

I get the anger and fear of the potential consequences of future decisions made by a judge that was appointed by a President who did not win the popular vote, but to complain that it is suddenly unfair for courts to force a minority opinion on people is just nonsense.
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Poor people will now pay more for airlines tickets.

The safest concerns of this are hilarious. Planes are already the safest transit by a wide margin.

This is similar to the congressman who wanted a law to make 1 checked bag free. Yes, make the most price sensitive people force to subsidize this cost. They are no longer rewarded with cheaper flights. (This cost has to go somewhere so all ticket prices would go up.)
Some of those look incredibly unsafe.
As it turns out, I created a slight variant of Wheel factorization. Surprisingly this did not up in any of the prime number/number theory articles I came across.
I wouldn't be surprised if they chose RISC-V --- it is basically a MIPS clone with some small differences, perhaps one of the biggest being its lack of licensing costs.
Is this likely to happen in our lifetime? As far as I know it's reasonable from a technology perspective, but I'm imagining this being a profoundly divisive political issue where politicians stall meaningful legislation for decades in the name of liberty (at least in the US). I'm basically imagining a watered down version of the debate over firearm ownership without the obstacle of a constitutional amendment. Maybe I'm projecting present circumstances onto the future a bit too much.
You realize that insurance companies pass their costs to their customers, right?
I've been learning Vietnamese for a few years and it seems to just fine without all the complicated tenses and cases etc in the grammar of European languages. I'm not sure if all those baroque rules really buy much.
"Data engineer" (more Dev) or "Data scientist" (more analytics).
The manufacturer could have prevented it by supplying a vehicle capable of avoiding collisions.

I certainly understand the owner/operator having some form of liability insurance based on usage, but an at-fault collision shouldn't be the responsibility of the owner or operator, nor should it affect their rates. That fault lies entirely with the manufacturer, or maybe eventually the subsystem supplier.

Thinking about it, I'd not be terribly surprised if it plays out with manufacturers successfully lobbying to avoid any liability, and insurance gets pooled among owners of specific Level 4 autonomy subsystems. Maybe the best we can hope for would be an equitable split of liability between the manufacturer (who controls the behavior) and owner (who controls the level of usage).
Not having a good data entry gui is the biggest benefit of not-excel in my experience. 90% of the time your data has a real source that's not "Jim's head" and you should find a way to impute the data from that source directly, avoiding the ever-present inaccuracies that come from human-imputed data.
Cisco Global Pricelist, there are still not enough lines in .xlsx to cover all their products
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Thanks, now I'm regretting not going with the pithier 'ur mom has 5M monthly users' a little less.
You can use a real database and have Excel like UI, plus data entry, with good reporting tools, here's one: http://pebblereports.com/
Here’s how divident arb / cum-ex works. Say dividend is $10. You (or one of your accounts) buys the stock pre-dividend. You are then paid $10. However, the stock ex-dividend immediately falls. The trick is, it does not fall by $10 - it falls by tax-adjusted, market-agreed-upon amount. Say, everyone pays 30% tax - then the stock falls by $7. After that, you sell the stock.

Your pnl is simply this: you lost $7 on the stock but received $10 dividend. If you, like everyone else in that market, pay 30% tax on dividend - you are exactly breakeaven like everyone else. No arbitrage. Here for simplicity we assume you can’t tax-deduct loss on your stock position (that does not change anything).

However: if you somehow do not have to pay tax on dividend, or pay it at a reduced rate, you feel happy.

This could get tremendously complicated with cross-boarder transactions and international tax law. But nevertheless may be entirely legal, although understandably frowned upon. It could also be totally fraudulent depending on the setup. No idea what this guy was doing but the fact that he has not been criminally charged may be a hint that they actually cannot charge him with anything.
About 18-20 years ago I remember reading a thread where a poster basically said (as a counter to China) that the US has developed a blight that could basically wipe out all the rice in the world. It would be deployed via Mosquito and according to the poster had the ability to spread quickly and leave over 3 billion people without their main staple of food. Not a single shot would need to be fired. Within 6 months half the worlds population would be gone.

I figure a day where this will be a reality is completely possible if not already.

Quite disturbing....
Seriously. I frequently get handed spreadsheets with integers typed as strings... people using strings for things that, heaven's sake, should undoubtedly be booleans... Getting the thing into usable condition takes up more time and energy than the actual analysis they desire
If you're putting the data in Excel's new data model, this is no longer a problem. I regularly have files with tens of millions of rows of data which pivot tables can work against with sub-second aggregations across multiple columns.
That video makes me suspect that it goes wrong quite often too.
Wait what? You're a cyclist.. how do you know about the rules of the road?
Der, die, das makes at least more sense then the difference beteween the and the.
Please email info@deliverr.com - Deliverr is pre-integrated into shopify so it should be very easy to get started
I meant if someone were to create a word processor in 2018, with the least amount of work, shouldn't they use HTML as the format of the document? Assuming no need to backwards compatibility with any other doc formats.
True! It's popular in the middle east in general, and I'm sure it made it over with immigrants somehow, but up until a few years ago I only saw tahini and halva in the "ethnic" foods aisle, until tahini became a popular health food / salad thing and now you see it in restaurants, and now I'm seeing more and more cafes and bakeries with halva cookies, halva lattes, etc etc - that's all I mean.

Also you might also like tahin pekmez - which I haven't seen around at all yet: 3/4 tahini and 1/4 molasses mixed together for a spread - on toasted bread. Best warming winter / snowy weather comfort food ever! :-)
And Hanson Lisp uses MMMBOP.
in the US age may matter, race and gender not so much. Never worked in EU but I’ve heard Europeans are more racist
There's definitely something to be said about economies of scale and efficiency.

But I'm talking about design and product expertise. People sourcing knockoffs can create a cheaper version 1 of a product, but only a brand connected to it's customers will use their feedback for version 2, 3, 4, n+1.

I'm a little insulated in the food niche because product quality and freshness and expiry dates are huge risk factors, but this applies to other industries as well.

You can buy a knock-off Amazon branded chain lubricant from China that lists the same ingredients if you want, and it may work well in low impact situations. But for my motorcycle, you bet your ass I'm spend 2-3x the lowest price I can find on Amazon for a well known brand with a reputation and uses quality inputs and filters and has no additives. When my health is on the line, brand expertise is essential.

Same with food. There's a floor for quality, and you can't escape the value trade-off. Something being cheaper doesn't mean it's quality is unaffected, but the short-term, inexperienced people at Amazon don't care about that.

I can buy and sell our "product" at half price by buying last year's crop or a lower grade, and I can sell that garbage exclusively through Amazon and "win" the completion, but nobody really wins in that case - me or the customer or our competitors - only Amazon.
Nobody said it was a weasel statement. Nobody said it was their job to back these companies. The claim is that, counter to the title, they have not backed these companies.
Hmm

I wonder how viable that is.

It is totally possible to reimplement play services, Amazon does it anyway.

You would need to duplicate gmail and youtube though.

And also kickstart an app store good enough so that all the apps 99% of the users are looking for are there.

Even for a company as big as Microsoft, this looks like a huge task.
I imagine there will be plenty of resistance to that.

The lawmakers would have to ban motorcycles first.

What was that old saying again... "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Aside from the UI advantages others mentioned, another possible benefit is that, with the right formulas set up, you can instantly eyeball the combined effect changing one factor has on every other factor that’s derived from it. I don’t know how important that normally is, but I play a lot of Paradox games, and those games are almost entirely governed by numbers that have combinatoric effects on gameplay.
If referring to phonetics then thee would be for emphasis to a construed subordinate with thuh used generally. Really idiosyncratic.

If referring to written words then use thee if you find yourself in Pennsylvania Dutch country trying to hail a horse drawn taxi or thuh if trying to play dumb while text messaging.
Interesting so in your opinion Amazon has gotten less reliable for you? In what regards ?
Some are, some aren't. Google wanted me to assign copyright even for projects that I worked on entirely at home. There's an additional process you have to go through if you don't want to assign copyright. Personally I didn't care since it's under an unencumbered open source license anyway, so it hardly makes a difference.

(To be clear, I meant the good/evil thing to be tongue-in-cheek...)
> If you really believe that you're going to use X because it's mainstream and really popular and be okay you're kidding yourself.

Actually, if there's anything that someone fresh out of school learns in the industry, is that you do use things that are mainstream and really popular (in the particular niche you're targeting), because that's what your colleagues and management expect.

OTOH, when people come and say, "we'll rewrite this in X - it's the hot new thing, and it can do it all so much better, so don't worry about IDE support etc!", and push it through, the usual consequence 3-5 years later is a bit-rotting codebase that is hard to work on and maintain, because the people who pitched it have moved on, the tooling was never great and now doesn't even see bug fixes, and new developers on the team have to undergo a long initial ramp-up process to be able to do anything.

Sometimes it works out, sure. Usually when the hot new thing becomes mainstream eventually. But most of them don't, so unless you like to gamble, the safest bet is to wait and see and then adopt it. Let someone else be the guinea pig. The more immediate productivity gain is very, very rarely worth the pain.
Rich white dude is friends which rich white rapist. That shouldn’t be a surprise.
I often wonder if all that extra grammatical baggage and more rigid pronouciation would make it easier for a computer to understand german over english.
Citroen almost did that too on the SM. That is why the steering is so ridiculously sensitive.
A lot of automatic transmissions in large trucks and buses still use pushbutton shifters.
There is iron in these words. I love using SQL and hate using Excel, but when it comes to common statistical calculations such as standard deviation or a Pearson function, or if you want to generate a graph and can't [or don't want to] use a tool such as Tableau or Crystal, Excel really is easier [or, at minimum, quicker] for generating output sometimes.
Your opinion of this would change if it was a case against someone who broke into your home and stole all your laptop/phone/tv etc. "Not exactly rape" either, and really not that much total damage but still the reason they procedure the case instead of just letting the criminals off easy is that it sets an example for the general public to avoid that sort of criminal behavior.
>For example, in the case of an at least partially selfish person, why should s/he wait to cross the street if s/he knows that the car that is nearing has an anti-collision/auto-break system?

If they get advanced enough, they may pull a Terminator 2: slow down enough to hurt you, but not kill. This fulfills their directive not to kill while disincentivizing jaywalking.
When is it ever die nutella?
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Until Google deprecates IMAP for @gmail accounts. It's already disabled by default for new accounts.
> Remember, astronauts couldn't have met aliens on the moon, if the moon landings were faked.

Now that's a debate I'd pay to watch.
Unlike with iOS, you don't need to root your phone (or pay Apple a yearly fee) to do those things and many more on an Android.
Whilst gorillas may and do battle one another, they do not do so for the benefit of ants.

Even, or especially, if they say otherwise.
Isn’t that sort of debate pretty common when it comes to history books? The entire point of the book was to write about history from the point of view of those who “lost.” Of course it’s biased in that respect, and it was on purpose.
What happens when you're legally obligated to comment? Like, if you receive an NSL about something, and then later are subpoenaed/compelled to testify before a grand jury or judicial inquest about that same thing?

Neither grand juries nor coroners "outrank" the Executive (unlike Congress, who I would assume can just throw out the NSL to get testimony, since they have similar powers, like throwing out a document's top-secret classified status to get it read into the public record.) But in both situations, you can still be found in contempt of court if you just say "no comment."
It's often very useful to quickly evaluate a project. I don't think the author of this article intended any disrespect or to diminish someone's hard work. It's more about efficiently navigating a vast landscape of tools. Although, perhaps this could have been made more clear.

Say some random project has 10 stars on github and no commits in the past 2 years. Good documentation and working examples could be the difference between using it and not using it. If you only have a single day to spike the feature, you need to efficiently explore possible solutions.

Obviously, this depends on many factors. How critical is the feature? What are the alternatives? How long would implementing it in house take? And so on.
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Significant difference is that nuclear weapons are not deniable, bioweapons are.

The United States (and allies) have already used rain seeding, river damns, and a number of other techniques for damaging adversary nation's economic and agricultural abilities. It's even a relatively common practice in geopolitics (India uses the Indus river as a carrot/stick against Pakistan).
I can imagine it possibly happening on a small scale limited to urban areas in the near future, possibly as an attempt to manage congestion, and I can see trucking being automated (at least on highways with some human intervention) and taxis, but I don't see the public accepting a total transition until the technology has proven trustworthy and seems so obviously more safe than the alternative.

That could happen, but if it did, it would probably require a generational shift in public perspective.
I thought the point of insurance companies was that the customers wouldn't pay the full cost.
Just today I had a chat with a friend about a movie named "rogue one". Roug, Rook, Roug, Rook. If feel quite fit writing english but talking - as someone with very litte practice - drives me mad.
Chinese is interesting because the spoken form has no gender but the written form does (he/she/it are written 他/她/它 but all pronounced “tā”)
Well, IIRC the "official" rule is that 'thee' is to be used before a vowel and 'thuh' before a consonant.
Since there is no corroborating evidence, and if we remove the classist, sexist, racist language (not saying you are), that's simply "Friend supports friend. That shouldn't be a surprise" right?