skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bike lane on the right scenario is just stupidity. In what other context is it permitted to turn right across another straight-ahead lane to the right? When I turn right and there is a bike lane to my right, I pull into the bike lane first so nobody can pass me.
Forth was for 16-bit computers, and liked to do everything in 16-bit cells.

(That's 16-bit in the sense of "PDP-11" or "IBM 1130", not in the sense of "Amiga or Atari ST", which very much didn't have a 16-bit memory space.)
1. Adjust your side mirrors so they have minimal overlap in coverage, which means you get maximum overall field of view.

2. Check your mirrors routinely (though not constantly, that can be distracting in itself). Stuff doesn't just sneak up on you out of nowhere, unless you aren't paying attention. Cars can't materialize in your blind spot, they have to drive there, and if you're paying attention you'll see them, you'll know where they are even when you can't see them in your mirrors directly. Don't just use your mirrors as a final check as you are changing lanes or making a turn, use them to maintain situational awareness around you.

3. Check your blindspot by turning your head and looking at it with your eyes before you make a lane change or turn. This is your last minute double check that your situational awareness map of what's around you is accurate. If you've been paying attention then this check will almost always be what you expect, but it's still valuable to double check (the belt and suspenders strategy).

4. (actually number zero) STOP FOLLOWING SO CLOSELY. Drive defensively, leave a decent gap ahead of you, don't drive for extended periods of time side by side with other vehicles (especially much bigger ones). This sets you up for success instead of setting you up for failure, it means you have a buffer on your reaction time. If you have an extra second or two of reaction time in addition to your emergency braking distance ahead of you then even if the car ahead of you comes to a dead stop right when you have your head turned for a split second to check your blind spot then you will still be able to come to a stop without hitting them when you bring your head back and react to what's going on, for example. Stack the odds in your favor, not against them. And don't let yourself be ruled by the dumb primitive impulses that tell you driving a car is always a race and you need to "win" and be aggressive and dominate others, etc, it's not any of those things, relax, concentrate on getting where you need to be safely.

P.S. Not checking your blind spots by turning your head is illegal in most states.
My 2014 vehicle came like this from the manufacturer - the exterior 1/3 of the mirror is convex for a wider field of view.
In the particular case of gas stations, the economic incentives seem poorly aligned for enforcement. Those trucks are probably owned by people who bring in much more money for the gas station than owners of electric cars. Unless the charging company that has rented space at the gas station is willing to terminate their contract in response to non-enforcement, the gas station will profit from keeping the truck owners happy while disregarding the convenience of the electric car owners.
This board, and other places, are wrong: better education isn't a fix. The problem is that many people just can't be productively educated to do higher-level jobs. For some reason, well-educated people frequently think that everyone is nearly as smart as them, and just lacks opportunity, but that's simply not the case. Lots of people just don't have the aptitude or interest, and nothing will change that. Even if they aren't stupid, you can't make someone interested in being educated; that's likely a product of their upbringing, and the only way to fix that is to wait a few generations while attitudes change.

The only fix for automation-based unemployment I see is a Universal Basic Income. We already have something like this with welfare and WIC/SNAP, basically paying people to sit at home and raise kids in poverty.
I caught a physics bug several weeks ago and finding PBS Space Time was exhilarating. I would also highly recommend it.
That is low. Really!? I would think his net worth was a lot more than that.
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bprogram/pres/bp-sigerl201...

They actually have a program porting the idea to Erlang. I think it also helps to clarify where the two models differ. Behavioral Programming seems to throw a bunch of possible actions and controls into the world, and lets whichever actions are both desired and not blocked execute (only one of them?). It's straightforward to implement in Erlang (or not too hard), but it's not precisely what Erlang does. There's no message passing (per se), but rather a shared space of knowledge (events) which is controlled by some manager that can permit actors to act or not act.

So, related, but not quite the same. From reading it, it seems to have perhaps more in common with tuple spaces and job control languages. Registering what sort of tuple (event) a process can respond to and waiting for work to become available and then acting on it once it's available. Then the process can produce new tuples/events or simply consume them.
But that's exactly the problem -- local governments are powerless. They can't fix the BQE due to opposition from Brooklyn Heights community groups. Can't build skyscrapers south of Atlantic Terminal because they'd be too close to the community gardens. Can't redevelop lower Manhattan because everything between Houston and 30th is a "historical building".

These are all valid concerns but taken together and they prevent anything from getting done. Good intentions, bad results.

As someone who follows closely the real estate press news and has some sense of zoning controversies (and for what it's worth own a building), I think your comment is full of hyperbole and false commentary.

There's massive development at the new "Essex Crossing" in the LES. There's massive development at Atlantic Terminal at the edge of downtown Brooklyn / Cobble Hill. Along Broadway in Brooklyn, in between the Bushwick and Bed Stuy border, tons of development. "Broadway Triangle", at the bottom of Williamsburg, tons of development. 1000 units coming online on Flushing Ave at the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg. Everything I just said is not "low density housing". It's medium and high density.

Astor Pl and along Bowery has existing construction, and even more planned! Hudson Yards..

I could go on and on but your comment is hugely misinformed. The controversies in NYC around "NIMBYism" are NOT the same as California, with ideas around single-family homes and such.

Suggested media sources in the future:

therealdeal.com

newyorkyimby.com

ny.curbed.com

Finally, density comes at a price. When those people leave their high density housing, where do you think they go? When they take a shit and flush the toilet, where do you think that goes?

The density has made much of Brooklyn a nightmare commute as it is -- it takes a year to build a 12 story or whatever building, but it takes decades to upgrade our shoddy infrastructure.
It does promote it, however, due to the abundance of support, tooling, and how well it integrates with most processes and software available.

Being a special snowflake (monorepo) makes it a lot harder to write good software.
[startup] Which data role should I fill in a startup first?
The only way to attract co-founders in SF is to create value. An idea and a Resume alone have no value. Build something and showcase it. You'll create real opportunities and you'll become a magnet.
A while back I wanted to learn about SLAM, computer vision, robotics, drones, etc. I did all the following courses which had significant overlap in materials:

https://www.edx.org/course/autonomous-navigation-flying-robo...

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/robotics (also available at edx as https://www.edx.org/micromasters/pennx-robotics)

https://in.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-ro...

And I would rank them in the order of edx, coursera, and udacity last.

It's not totally fair because the best comparison for udacity should be their self driving car nanodegree but it doesn't let you audit for free and I don't care for certificates. From the few udacity courses I did do, I felt their videos are too short and triggers my ADHD to go do something else after watching each minute or two long video. Edx/coursera felt a lot more like university lectures and felt more rigorous in comparison.
The WASM folks have plans to deepen the browser ties with direct DOM access, tying threads to webworkers, GC that's tied to the browser js, etc. I can see why you want what you do, but it will get harder over time.
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I am the guy who did this port. I am very sorry for long download times, but the HN/Twitter buzz was unexpected and the host server - a cheap shared hosting I barely use just for testing purposes - is currently crying very hard. Oops...

Also, download code is dumb for now, it is downloading one big full .pk4 file (400MB) for each visitor loading the app. I know, it should be better to only preload necessary assets for sure! Smart streaming of game data is one necessary step for apps on the web.
It’s Intermission for the Large Hadron Collider
Considering it's going to be open source, it would be strange to be proprietary.
What? If it isn't in the browser, what's the difference between that and something you download on Steam?
These are for programmers? Yikes!

I mean it's still a lot more than the zero that most musicians and actors make, but an extremely surprising amount nonetheless.
That made me so happy!
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Stunning scenery captured very nicely. What was the highest elevation reached?
>Subway trains roll on tracks in concrete tunnels that reverberate sound. They're extremely loud. It's metal on metal with grinding disc brakes.

The German subways I've ridden manage to be reasonably smooth and quiet.

>Buses are huge. They're generally too huge to accelerate or decelerate rapidly, so I have no experienced this herky-jerky motion you're talking about. That's much more likely in a car.

I guess you've never ridden a bus in a city. Buses can brake very effectively, like most vehicles with air brakes, and lots of riders have to stand on them, so you get thrown around a lot more than a rider in a car who's belted into a bucket seat.
If we're seeing CP on the network, there is MOST CERTAINLY a problem with the moderation. It's literally INSANE to me that you don't get that.
You might be right on the first part, but in general a lot of us in the power transmission industry at the utility & the RTO & ISO level (those whose software turns on units and determines where to dispatch them) are pretty worried about nukes going away. Especially in the Northeast...there is one region where a lot of coal and nukes are set to retire in the next couple of years and they are import constrained with natural gas. There was a cold snap a few years ago where they had to run all the coal and nukes slated for retirement at Max...so that is where we're at.

Gas plants can be peakers...maybe an expensive unit that can move fast and is reserved for emergencies, but in general the gas prices are so low that the units are very economical and we therefore run them as baseload.
That's a very culturally specific view. In the culture where I was married (Japan) one person (either one) is removed from their existing family registry and inserted in another one. You do it at the city hall and it is entirely composed of paperwork. They even give you a free pen :-) You don't vow anything.

What you are responsible for and what benefits you enjoy from being married is very much a product of that culture. In my case, if my wife is ill, I do have to provide for her (Fun fact: in Japan you require your spouse's written permission to get a divorce except in certain circumstances). However, it would not surprise me that some other cultures (perhaps Norway) have different responsibilities. The world is large and "marriage" means different things to different people.
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The United States killed its own citizens in military operations long before Obama.
63 Crypto Theses for 2019, Arjun Balaji
You have to communicate with Alex Jones fans somehow if you believe in Democracy. I mean, what are the other options? Not telling them anything? Sending them LaTeX formatted papers?
ES6 is explained in detail, with implicit return in Chapter 5 (or 6).
Developers still need to know the function syntax for when they look up documentation online
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The swoosh logo of the Nike company supposedly resembles the wings of the goddess Nike as seen in some ancient sculptures.
Yes, the original title of the post included Nobel Minds 2018, but it was modified to emphasize the description. I discovered the Nobel Minds series a few years ago. I think last year's was better, but I agree, the episodes can be hit or miss. They should let Joe Rogan do the interviews -- he's been interviewing a bunch of leading scientists of late (Sir Roger Penrose a couple weeks ago) -- Rogan's our modern day Charlie Rose -- he let's them talk and it evolves into interesting conversations.
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There are a number of improvements, including how you define them and the things you can do with them. Some of these tie in with other language features, e.g typing.NamedTuple[1].

There is also PEP 487[2], which means you can do more without needing a metaclass.

1. https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.NamedTu...

2. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0487/
I think we've seen a proliferation of one concept, often disguised as many things: the container for a program.

A long time ago, the program was your whole OS, you'd boot into it. The computer is the container.

Then we introduced operating systems, allowing a safer container for bad programs. The program is the container.

One type of program became extremely popular because it enabled delivery of a program via the internet. The web app is the container.

In the web world, frameworks like React have become incredibly popular because they allow people to break up apps into smaller components that can be shared. The component is the container.

Of course, on the back end, similar needs have led to Docker/K8s. The container is the container.

Given that everything in our world is a container, you'd think we would have better tools for composing them. As a web developer, I should be able to embed other web apps and communicate with them like I do with my React components. And I'd also like to be able to boot directly into a web app, and embed native programs and virtual operating systems.

Even when it comes to basics: most operating systems other than Chrome still have yet to natively support the web as a peer of traditional programs.. Electron should't be necessary. Likewise, environments like Docker and VirtualBox should be baked in to the OS that we boot.

The point is, as an industry we need to collectively pull our heads out of our asses, and realize that we'd be much better off refactoring our magnificent existing containers, rather than attempting to invent new ones. (I'm looking at you, iOS/Android..)
I agree, except many times those blindspot mirrors are made WAY too small, of course I also think a number of cars just have too small of mirrors in the first place. They should be easily checkable with a glance, but those real tiny spot mirrors require significant focus to even tell what you are looking at.
Lua's very small by today's standards but it's huge compared to the languages being discussed here. Computers like the Altair 680 discussed here only had 1KB of ROM which is orders of magnitude away from being able to support Lua. Lua's minimum size is about 63KB.

The "tiny" languages being discussed here are really, really tiny, and are also very limited in their capabilities compared to a language like Lua.
Sure but it wouldn't be the first time a rights holder sued over a "silly restriction". If someone wants to take that risk then more power to them but they should be aware it is a risk unless they have a specific assurance.
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What about the Artists that worked on the game?
The article doesn't claim that you can adjust your mirrors such that shoulder checking is not required. Quote:

With the mirrors adjusted properly, a shoulder check to change lanes becomes more of a "shoulder peek", meaning you don't have to turn your head so far. That means your peripheral vision will still provide a view in front of you - no "blind spot" in front of you either, meaning less chance of rear-ending a vehicle that has suddenly stopped.

Note that no matter where you turn your head, you have blind spots, caused by the roof pillars of the vehicle. You also can't see a portion of the ground around your vehicle; that's also blind spots.

Blind spots are real; they are not just excuses.
"Site not installed". I think we killed it.
Side question, do you think there's a market for this sort of game? Outdoor simulator I suppose?
I would guess that he's talking about this story:

https://www.chemengonline.com/worlds-first-successful-ammoni...

The headline is a misnomer. Renewable ammonia was made from electrolytic hydrogen via hydroelectricity in the 20th century. Ammonia-fueled generators have been demonstrated before too. Even the new low pressure catalyst has near-identical antecedents.

All that said, putting existing ideas together in an evolutionary way can yield revolutionary outcomes. In the past 40 years there has been no revolutionary change in terrestrial photovoltaic cell technology, but continuously compounded evolutionary changes have taken the industry from kilowatts to gigawatts of annual cell production.
Yes, but maybe convenience has to suffer?

So, no buttered roll for you on the way to work in the morning because the bakery staff couldn't get to work at night.

The bodega on the corner is closed anyway because the morning people have to do the stock because it the overnight staff couldn't get in.

Garbage trucks block your way because the garbagemen couldn't get to work overnight.

There's no morning news because the thousands of people behind the scenes couldn't get to work over night.

The cleaning crew in your office vacuums while you're on the phone because they couldn't get to work at night.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who work overnight in New York City. Nine-to-five stopped happening in New York in the late 1700's.
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Hey! It's probably because there's no confirmed primary email in the Github account
Ethereum does seem to be the platform of choice for odd gambling games.
Being "made up" (what I think GP means by "imaginary") doesn't mean that such things lack force. For instance, class is "made up" and some ontologies of race and gender fix them as "made up" - this does not, of course, mean that class, race and gender do not have very real effects on society and the individuals therein. But humans have power over human abstractions, so such "made up" things can be changed, as opposed to what I presume OP would group into things not "made up", such as the laws of physics. Being "made up" hints to a possibility, no matter how remote, of a different (and dare I say better) world.
Movie directors aren't necessarily the ones doing the art, or writing for movies.
Should be verifiable on the inside with stuff popping up at the boundary, right?

When I read these quantum articles I think it's might as well be mambo jambo. Are the fundamentals of quantum physics even falsifiable?
>>There's no way a car could've gotten there without me seeing it in my mirrors unless it had been dropped from the air into my blind spot.

But if you don't check every single time, you will eventually make a mistake and hit another car.

It is the same rationale about never pointing a gun at another person. Even if you are 100% sure that it is not loaded.
What is the resume Mark Cuban likes?
That's a pretty fatuous statement when you consider the goals of the GOP over the past 38 years. Did Obama work with the GOP to privatize entitlement programs? Did he pass a major tax cut? Did he appoint pro-life judges? Did he move towards transforming the Department of Education to state block grants?
A Lotus Evora costs around $100K:

https://www.caranddriver.com/lotus

I guess whether or not that's "expensive" depends on your financial situation.

The Elise was cheaper, in the $60K range, but unlike a $100K Tesla, most people aren't going to use a $60K or $100K Lotus as a daily driver, it's more of a weekend toy.
It's not a growth stock now. It was before. Are you missing the part where it's dropped from $1T to $750M over the past three months, and now to $680 given the earnings warning today (which basically validates the earlier motion)? It's literally the subject of discussion...
This is the 90s all over again! Something very like this once existed for Java games. It was called Castanet. IIRC, the website ClassicGames.com (later acquired by Yahoo) used this before broadband really took off.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/castanet.html
Natural gas steam plants (retrofits from coal-fired) cannot be spun up very quickly. Natural gas turbine plants (e.g. that burn the gas directly in a turbine engine) can and those are the type that are typically used as "peakers"
FORTH predates eight bit computers; it was developed in 1968 on the low-end IBM 1130 computer. Carl Claunch (who I restore computers with) recently tracked down the original FORTH and got it running on his vintage 1130. This FORTH interpreter code is interesting because it is starts out by building FORTH primitives from 1130 machine code and ends up with an interactive FORTH console just a few pages later.

Link: https://rescue1130.blogspot.com/2018/03/historical-recreatio... discussed a few months back on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611505
https://www.humanesociety.org/news/horrible-hundred-2017-unc...
All matter is information, and all information is functional. Therefore perception is the lazy evaluation of the universe, and discovery is the fountain of invention.
No, I think you would have to be like added to their github group to be considered a "member" of the D* foundation. It used to be a private company but then it turned into a non-profit thing with volunteer coders. From what I can tell there are maybe 5 or 6 active devs, and they have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with the amount of CP on their network, and NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER blatantly censoring anyone who suggests a plan of action to stop the CP from being posted to their network. It seems to me that they may be PROTECTING their CP network from public view and legal scrutiny.
I don't know why the title got changed: the original article doesn't have the word "phone" in it anywhere.
Could we get the title changed back please?
For the user almost none. The difference is for the devs. If I want to make a cross platform game now, I have to worry about which Graphics api I will use, OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan etc. What sound api I will use. What Display, Input, abstraction I will use. Etc. If I could have a unified api and runtime abstracting all that already for me, making full cross platform games would be easier, assuming I don't want to use Unity. But that is of a much bigger scope that just WebAssembly. We already have that power, but we are chained to the browser. The discussion is to free that runtime from the scope of the browser. Decouple it.

The final dream is having a unified, Desktop, Consoles (Ps4 and Switch) and Browser runtime with a unified API (where sensible). One can dream.