skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I looked into it (which was admittedly a few months ago) Comma.ai was by their own admission a Level 2 system, and a somewhat sketchy one at that. While it's obviously really cool, it's a long way off from Level 5.

LIDAR currently being very expensive (and a bit bulky) is obviously the reason Tesla hasn't put LIDAR in their cars. I don't really fault them for that, I fault them for their deceptive advertising. The LIDAR industry has not yet progressed to the point where it makes sense to bring a car to market with hardware ready for Level 5 automation, so Tesla should stop claiming they've done so.

Assuming the current Level 5 automation hype doesn't fizzle then smoulder for decades like the AI craze of the 60s, then it's success will coincide with rapid advances in size and price of LIDAR.
It's ok, if you believe hard enough and know that your heart is pure then the Emperor's New Currency will have value. I'm just the guy asking why.
This attitude towards customer-funded journalism promotes bad content and ad-driven models. It’s a valid choice. But understand the trade-offs for convenience and tracking you’re promoting.
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Yeah, it's very slowly coming along!
Masters degree is required to know "HOW" to teach different kids, not to know "what" you teach..

Some kids are hard to work with and the studies are (or should be) there to show you how to approach such mind.
It's both. Rail lets you be more flexible about where to put that density.
> The US government even ordered Lockheed to cease work on their jet engine and concentrate on piston engines

It's not obvious that this was the wrong answer. The Germans were the first to field a combat jet aircraft, but it didn't help them much. The U.S. didn't really need the help, by 1942 it was already producing twice as many aircraft as Germany and Japan combined.
> IMO, it's better to have dedicated syntax for index-from-end, as part of the range syntax.

This is true, and note that my suggestion requires it -- the only way to distinguish x[-0] from x[0] is to have the parser do it; -0 and 0 are the same number.
What I quickly figured about being older is that debt is your enemy. How do you service debt without a deep emergency fund and for how long? My rationale is to be debt free by 40.
I’m surprised that extra credit even exists. My high school and university had no such thing.
In the paper I linked to, the wing is moved back, and seems to function as a stabilizer does.
>>wonder how Europe would look like today if somebody had sacked Italy during the renaissance.

I’ve read (probably on Wikipedia..) that it’s theorized that the Renaissance was actually largely caused by the fall of Constantinople and the resulting migration of intellectuals and writings (from classical antiquity)from east to west back into Italy (and Florence specifically) The rebirth was for the west, the east (Byzantine empire) never lost the culture of knowledge.
> Of course the Messenger team is lucky in that they can drop messages since your family and friends missing a "Happy New Years" message isn't the end of the world. Other systems ( such as finance ),

Messenger is (also) a finance system. You can send money via Messenger. You can purchase products directly in Messenger. It's had all that for more than two years now.
You're missing the "extra dollars" that the central bank prints to fund the government's overspending. They call it "inflation" and tell you it is necessary and good for the economy.

Before your government can create its next spending budget, it needs to pay off its debts with interest. A big chunk of every dollar of tax you pay is taken before the government can even think about what it is going to spend the rest on. This is a viscous cycle because the government can't meet public demand with the remaining money it has and needs to borrow more again!

Each time they print, it devalues the dollar in your pocket by a few cents. This means when the government needs to pay back its debt with the interest, the money it is using to pay back is not worth as much as when they borrowed it. Ooops.

The cost to operate the Bitcoin grid is unimportant, because it is voluntary, and not taken from the public purse. You can chose not to participate directly if you don't want to put in resources, and rely on some other industry much in the same way you seem keen to rely on a government to do things for you.
Well, there's already the footwalk. I think the parent comment was going more for using etymologically related words.
The argument is that the article has nothing to do with gaming. The author just happens to be a game developer, and so this is their outlet to deal with their grief and/or guilt. The text itself talks about games, but that's not really the topic being discussed; they're just advocating for others to pay attention to their cause.

^ Also an exceptionally callous way of looking at things.
To developers, yes.
Honestly? I don’t give a crap what private company blocks and bans folks in the alt right. More the marrier. In fact, I wish all companies took a stand against the alt-right. Even if the government started to persecute them, I wouldn’t care. They are all my enemy and I view them as an existential threat to myself, my family and my country.

Appeals to the Slippery slope argument doesn’t register with me anymore. They are the enemy and need to go away. Ps: I’m old. I used to think like you. But now I see that sometimes things get out of hand.

You are defending a group of people who don’t give a flying fuck about free speech or any of the values you have. And worse, they are in power and use arguments just like yours to remain in power.
Whenever I got into that situation, I’d use a kitchen timer. Divide the total amount of time I had for that assignment by the number of students. Set the timer for that amount. Read as much of the assignment as I could, and then just guess the right grade.

I made it clear to students that if they felt the grade was wrong, or they wanted more detailed feedback, I’d be happy to read it again. I grade quickly and mistakes do happen, I’d tell them.

I’m not gonna grade 100 papers over three days for $2/hour. I am happy to do it for two students for free.

Most of the time students don’t even look at the feedback anyway, so I’d rather let the ones who care ask proactively.
Besides for being obviously satire, the post clearly says:

> "Of course, FedBounty does not really exist. But it should, because..."
2 soda cans are produced by a US citizen getting 100% of their primary energy from nuclear fuel in a full lifetime. It's toxic but it's tiny. It's very VERY reasonable to bury it in deep crystalline bedrock and be done with it. That's a reasonable technical solution to a legitimate problem.

The problem of global warming from CO2 emission is much harder than nuclear waste, even if we increased nuclear generate 100-fold.
At least in some cases, it's two competitors using (bad) automated pricing tools. When one auto-raises the price, the other responds, which triggers the first to raise again. Over and over. To the point where you get book listings priced over $20M. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

But yeah...you'd think Amazon would have some sort of sanity filter.
I wouldn't say that d "doesn't have a straight story on garbage collection." It's solidly a garbage-collected language, and although there is interest in changing it, it's not there yet. D isn't entirely stable (features regularly get deprecated and then removed over the course of 5-10 versions), but why do you say it isn't reliable?
Six orders of magnitude, to be precise. Nuclear fuel has 2 million times more energy per mass than any chemical fuel or storage system.
Blackmirror Bandersnatch compatibilty issues
And we could say that CO2 is a signifiant danger for the climate

Uhh, that’s exactly what I was saying. Maybe too subtle? I wasn’t suggesting that we’d choke on it.

there are much worse molecules in this sense.

And therefore CO2 shouldn’t be a concern? Where are you going with this?
Digital Marketing Strategy: The ultimate step by step process
She has a short (45min?) planning period to start her day with her co-teacher, but as I understand it, it's nowhere enough. After that, her classes run back to back, yes. She has one meager lunch break lasting something like 15 minutes -- she actually started drinking Soylent for lunch because she doesn't have time for anything more complicated than that plus an apple. She gets up at 6:30am and doesn't really take time to eat breakfast either. It all sounds unbelievably stressful to me. It's very different from my own privileged life as a software developer.
Oh-my-posh + a few custom scripts for better autocomplete that I found here and there. Wasn't very easy to configure and it's still nowhere near my fish shell, but at least it's much better than plain powershell.
Not really true. Reprocessing is expensive and mining and enriching new uranium is just cheaper. It's a economic issue. France recycles their fuel once but they still only get 2% of the total energy out of the resource that's mined.

Another super-reasonable thing to do with nuclear waste is burying it in large salt deposits or deep crystalline bedrock. Both are actually totally reasonable and practical solutions. People just go nuts though when you talk about it.
To what extent is the creator of C++ involved with its Standardization process these days?
Interesting armchair analysis. Nuclear is both the cheapest and cleanest source of energy.
Hey, Rakuen was plenty of fun, even if it is a little weird for an RPG to talk so much about the Kanto earthquake and tsunami. It actually makes sense that you can't access an area yet because of flood damage.
Taping a pole to a wing makes it an arrow. The bulk of the air surface is behind the CG. The wing becomes the "tail section".
For some definition of "actually use". How would you define that?
Not quite as comprehensive as your example but in Japan all highways are tolled and the toll is approximately the same as high speed train fare. In cities all parking is paid too, normally even at your apartment. Driving is often more expensive and slower than transit. The end result is much higher pressure for maintaining good transit, good infrastructure for walking the last mile (it’s rare to see a long stretch of uncrossable road or missing sidewalk). There’s a lot of pressure to keep shops and restaurants within walking distance of most neighborhoods, too.
To be honest, this article scares me from using react/redux, because the author don't know how types works.

(I can't be the only one)
This is idiotic. He clearly did not say that.
Well then, perhaps its about time to pass someone on basis of competency rather than attaching some arbitrary grade at some point in time, that has poor correlation to future skills.

Allowing someone to continue trying and learning seems much better method rather than "whoops you had test anxiety or had insomnia and flunked your singular test". And if this is what's needed and is being forced on US's teachers, so be it.
The point is, government action was not the cause of the jet revolution.
The NHS in the UK continues to be underfunded to the extent of what it's trying to provide. It takes about 7.5% of the UK's GDP and is continuing to rise. But as I point out it's underfunded to the extent that there are long multi-year waiting lists for things like hip replacement operations.
What I find funny is that the American mall that so many people disparage (like citylab) is a place where the streets are closed to cars. Cars are not really the problem and people should really stop focusing on this object as the reason of so many social problems that exist. The car is used by individual people and families to somewhat mitigate these large scale problems.

Lots of cool main streets have cars going through them. It is just the post war, huge road, big-box chain stores that suck. Maybe we need to go back to where a corporation is only allowed to form (get a charter) if it is planning on doing something that takes a lot of people and capital to execute. Like building an airplane, or a car, or a computer chip, not anything like a retail store. Leave that to the sole proprietor. We don't need corporations, and all its inhumanity, to run burger joints.
Because religion. Even today we have it en masse. Half, 50%, of US population don't believe in evolution theory, compared to 8-15% population of european countries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism
Oh, of course I wish Apple and IBM had made it free!

But it included Apple's "crown jewels", the QuickTime player source code, and they were't going to give that away in 1995. Apple were even trepidatious about IBM having access to that source code.

Besides having proprietary decoders, it could also do some things you can't even do well with the Flash player or html video component today: like smoothly playing videos and music backwards!

Ever since the music industry switched from vinyl to CD, listening to demonic backmasking in Devil Music like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin's promotion of Satanism became much less convenient. ScriptX solved that important problem elegantly with its synchronized clock system, but today's HTML video player still hasn't, alas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BDh_j5qAJ4

Here's a description of ScriptX's clock system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18350511

>Kaleida Lab's ScriptX (a multimedia programing language kinda like Dylan with classes) had built-in support for hierarchal clocks within the container (in the sense of "window" not "vm") hierarchy. The same way every window or node has a 2D or 3D transformation matrix, each clock has a time scale and offset relative to its parent, so anything that consumes time (like a QuickTime player, or a simulation) runs at the scaled and offset time that it inherits from through its parent containers. And you can move and scale each container around in time as necessary, to pause movies or simulations.) You could even set the scale to a negative number, and it played QuickTime movies backwards! (That was pretty cool in 1995 -- try playing a movie backwards in the web browser today!)

Is it possible to play HTML5 video in reverse?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5277293/is-it-possible-t...

Kinda, but it's not smooth enough to sing along while dancing backwards and worshiping Satan to:

https://codepen.io/adrianparr/pen/qmCek
it usually doesn't. doesn't stop people from begging for it.
I'd consider them equally as silly, considering we're actually capable of launching rockets into space yet the closest we've gotten with a space gun is a measly 180km apogee @ 3.6km/s[0]. The original question was why we don't send our nuclear waste into space. We can't send our nuclear waste into space using a rail gun because we can't currently send anything into space with a rail gun.

Otherwise here's a good discussion on the viability of space guns: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2370/what-technolo....

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
Wasn't it? According to Wikipedia the Me-262 project "originated with a request by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM, Ministry of Aviation) for a jet aircraft capable of one hour's endurance and a speed of at least 850 km/h (530 mph; 460 kn)"

I think the real answer is "it's complicated." The jet revolution was not a single point event, and both government and private industry played a role.
Okay, so the last time I bought hdmi cables I got 2.0 rated. Just looked and HDMI 2.1 rated 48Gbps cables are $25-35 each for 6 foot. That's not totally unreasonable. Now how is a $350 cable or a $800 cable any better?
What exactly did they lied? In terms of Dev?
space flight - liquid fuel rockets were privately developed before the government got involved, both in the US and Germany.

internet - the first internet was the telegraphy network, privately developed.

www - is not the first internet. BIX, Prodigy, CompuServe, MCIMail, RBBS, Timenet, etc.
Oh hell, software dev is so, so very overloaded with underskilled programmers with fragile egos. They come out of college knowing a little python and javascript and can't do jack shit for at least a year, and just come to a screeching halt with every tough issue they encounter. I'm a project manager box in an org-chart to help un-flatten the management hierarchy (I manage 20+), I am constantly having to re-assign tickets because they linger too long due to inexperience. Our review system is a joke and i have zero authority to fire, I'm supposed to "onramp" them, especially kids who just will never understand how to do this job (I give classes one week a month and they blow them off). I'm not in charge of hiring, if I was, half these kids (and I say "kids" because the 20 somethings are really immature compared to the mid-30 devs, but the latter ain't much more actualized) would have NEVER made it past the phone screen.

TL; DR - New college CS grads are mostly children who know very little and expect huge paychecks immediately because they watched Mr. Robot and maybe opened a browser on an RPi. Once.
At least in America, most teachers are expected to take home work and spend a large portion of time outside of the strict 6-8 school day doing lesson planning, grading, etc.

Their wages are quickly approaching what you would expect at a fry cook position yet Wendy's doesn't give you four hours of extra homework a night.

We are headed for a giant education crisis because we overwork and underpay under-qualified teachers.

Those of us who cannot afford to keep their kids in private or home school will have it rough finding quality education for their kids.
Marry rich; you may have to make yourself more attractive first. Shortcut: be born rich.
Many years ago I saw gold plated TOSLINK cables. They were $500. TOSLINK is a pure fiber audio connection standard that uses multimode fat plastic fiber.
The Apollo program was government funded. The examples I gave were not.
At 25 years old I was laid off from Oracle so what prize do I win?
Totally agreed. I feel many engineers feel this way but can't say it. Really impressed to see the humility here.
Heinkel demonstrated flying jet aircraft to Hitler beforehand. The 262's engines were a direct descendant of Heinkel's.
It depends on the seller, the exact product, and whether you pay extra for faster shipping. Even then, it varies wildly.

(The many stories about people receiving goods over a year after they were ordered and long after they were assumed to have been lost and refunded are not lying.)
I mean come on, it has got to be a business decision. If Gamers were there, they would have made it. How much investment do you expect them to make when only 1% of the world wide Desktop uses linux and possibly less than 10% of that 1% are gamers?

I mean Mac Gamers don't complain as much when they have higher market shares.
Most people don't need to make their own solutions for that anymore either, since we have AWS, GCP, GKE, etc.

However, we software engineers (as well as computer scientists and devs) tend to underestimate how much we've already learned and internalized. It becomes painfully obvious when you try to teach someone, and realize that you need to start at a much earlier point than you expected.
No program other than a shell requires that a URL copied out of your browser's address bar be escaped. Users may not be accustomed to a program escaping or quoting text they paste, but they're also definitely not accustomed to escaping or quoting strings manually.
> in the US we have, not surprisingly, the quickest and best active shooter response of anyone in the world.

That is both admirable, and immensely immensely sad...
US investigating CenturyLink internet outage, 911 failures
Grade inflation and extra credit are the two big items which let American schools down. A class should have a bell shaped curve after the final exam and extra credit should never be given as it's form of cheating the system.
Schools get money for each student enrolled, so there is a strong incentive to please parents so they don't move their kids (to a charter school etc). That seems fair enough to me in principle, but due to unrealistic demands, it can fail at times. Nonetheless it is better than a one-size-fits-all no child left behind policy. So charter schools create the competition in a district, and at least put pressure to raise the level of all the public schools.
Your comments violate rule #1 of Hacker News comments.

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We're discussing ideas here, there is no reason presuppose others ideas or behave snarkily.
Walking on the shoes of the software developer
Why Do We Love to Eat So Much? Our Brain Doubles the Pleasure on Every Mouthful
How do you risk your 401k? Unlike a pension, they can’t take it away from you.
From 1990, these guys were so ahead of their time (yea, I know, institutional racism != IT infrastructure, but still...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M
>"It is very clear and defined that a question mark is a wildcard"

To experienced command line jockeys like you or I, sure. To the inexperienced user, knowledge of the ? wildcard is far from given. ? is esoteric enough that fish has apparently decided to deprecate it completely. fish's error message does not indicated that the wildcard in question was ?, nor does it point to wildcard, it only points to the token that contained the wildcard with no indication of which character it was.

That's not the user friendly experience fish advertises.
I find it interesting that we call our subculture "hacker" subculture but "hacky" is a universally pejorative adjective.
It's still not POSIX compatible, deliberately.
I think the point of the article is that it may be significantly harder to get a new job once you’ve been laid off, if you’re over 50.
> The author created one of the most-used programming frameworks, yet there are a lot of things he doesn't know.

There are far more accomplished people in the world who know far less about far more topics. This case doesn't seem particularly extraordinary.
> In my city they're removing roads left, right, and centre

This is fantastic to hear, what forward thinking city do you live in?
I'm not sure what's worse.

From my limited observation of flat-earthers on YouTube, they at least seem to be willing to do measurements but then either misinterpret the results (due to lack of knowledge) or knowingly twist them to say what they want to say.

Audiophiles on the other hand seem to reject the whole idea of taking measurements.
Or you were giving too much work, and it was reflecting and multiplying on your side.

What would have happened if you gave the amount of work that would have reflected on you a normal amount to grade, assuming an 8 hour day/5 day week?

Simply put: why do you punish students, and then complain (and not do your work) when you assign too much, by your very own standards?
It is not that common. Erlang has a famous one "erlang the movie". This one feels more like a hat tip to the awesome erlang one.
Sure, but cars take up 50x more space, create way more pollution, and are responsible for 40,000 deaths in the US a year. So you should not have that option.
> In London some bike lanes have slightly increased travel times by car but cycling has increased more than 50%.

50% of anything near zero is still darn close to zero. But at the same token, a 5 minute increase for 1000 people is a loss of 5000 minutes.

> The reason people in cars don't notice bike traffic is because a bike is small and unobtrusive and silent.

False. A single bike sticks out like a sore thumb in traffic -- even if there's a bike lane. In this case, I was so pissed off at the increase of my commute I started to count bikes in the bike lane, and I saw exactly zero.
I'm not sure they have playlists. They probably spend more time tweaking their system than actually listening to music on it, negating the need for a playlist.