skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oh I didn't see them officer." "Oh I mistook the gas for the brake." "They came out of nowhere." "I didn't have time to stop."

etc. etc. etc.

The excuses for irresponsible dangerous driving behavior are endless.

I yelled at someone for not stopping for a mother and stroller in a crosswalk. The driver said she didn't see them. I said that meant they were going too fast. They said no, they weren't, they just couldn't see them. It was impossible to get through to this person that if you didn't see someone in the crosswalk then they were going too fast and not paying enough attention.

Simply amazing. I try not to think about it too hard or I'll never leave the house.

The approach of the original post, blind spots for motorcycles and bicycles aside, is at least taking responsibility on the part of the driver to change behavior and drive safely. Every "accident" has a cause, somewhere down the line.
Do note that 60k is household income, not individual salary. I don’t know most of those brands well personally, but I think it’s fair to say that most $60k families might have shopped there for splurge purchases but do not do so regularly or casually. What was the statistic from the other day, 40% if families can’t produce $400 without debt or selling things? To your point (and mine), the purchasing power of money varies by context, nominal figures vary in usefulness
Just how many ways does Python have to format a string? I can think of at least four: fmt % args, fmt.format(args), string.Template, and f"fmt".

Just how many ways are there to make a string constant? single and double quotes, 'single quoted' and """triple quoted""", r"aw" and u"nicode". Probably more.

That does feel like sometimes it's okay to support the old way too.
People also don't watch movies with crappy camera work, bad audio or laggy animations. Yet I don't think cameraman make millions on a movie.
Likely the CDC. Wonder why they haven't already acted on this.
I think the point they wanted to get across was that they're seeing compelling evidence that China's economy is slowing dramatically. They mentioned the other things to establish that the revenue miss was not a mistake in modeling other factors. It's evidence for the broader point.
Anyone know about any C++ projects/tools that can help enforce vectorization?

Of course, you could create a benchmark test that detects a performance regression, but I am hoping for something more sophisticated like tagging a scope to indicate that it should result in a certain group of AVX instructions.
Holy crap, I remember that exact thread, I was part of it. The OP made a program that just encodes files into a series of QR codes, but I told them that with some additional effort, encoding it into a format that would get less manged by YouTube's compression would make it a lot better.
This kind of tiny piece by piece interaction with the world is something I desired in the late 90s, dreaming as a teen, but my rudimentary O(n) skills showed me was beyond the computers of the time.

It's gorgeous & I love the potential that brims here.

What if something was this complex and well built, but the storyline was removed - the player simply builds their own story, ala DF Adventurer mode.
Not impressed by their logic. This is a multi-factored problem with numerous areas which can be addressed to lower greenhouse gas emissions. And they proceed boil this complex problem down into an anti-meat soundbite.

I think they could just as easily have titled it "Why having no children is the best thing you can do for the planet in 2019" but I guess that didn't fit the anti-meat agenda.

Breakdown of sources of greenhouse gas emissions: How much does animal agriculture and eating meat contribute to global warming?
https://www.skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to...
Huh, me too!
Kind of a boring dystopia we have here. People enjoying the great outdoors from their climate controlled bedrooms. Good thing they only kept the cute animals in the game and not the mosquitos or black flies.
But by the same token, if we assume that GP is more than a simpleton (in the principle of charity) we must say that they would also consider art (always created by human intention) to be "imaginary lines", but I doubt they would deny paintings can have meaning. Words (usually though not always naturally evolved), by the same token, are just scrawls, but they have meaning despite being "made up" in the same way. GP knows they have meaning because he/she is using them in such a way. I read the idea that the lines are imaginary to mean that they don't have to be that way.
But a movie director is akin to a top level management position, not a regular developer.
This is painful for Debian users.
I loved the outdoor simulator aspect of RDR2. It might be my favorite part of the game. But I would get bored of it very quickly if it was the only thing I could do. Hunting and fishing and scouting were fun because they gave me a break from grinding missions, and it let me customize my character. But I wanted a customized character for when I was playing missions and working the story.

So the hunting and fishing and birding is fun because the rest of the game contextualizes it.
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I also recommend this excellent 2011 article by a committed carnivore who drastically reduced his meat consumption: British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

The joy of veg
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/26/hugh-fe...
Excellent job! I wanted to run the native copy for comparison, but it turns out you added support for the demo files yourself! Gah!
I worked for a semantic web startup, back when it was the next big thing.

We had a tool (UI & backend) purportedly for managing ontologies, taxonomies, vocabularies.

Our customers were begging for real world solutions. Would have paid any price.

Our leadership (CTO) was mesmerized by metametametadata. Not kidding. And had zero interest in customer's real needs.

Such a missed opportunity.

The two lessons I took away...

1/ Most real world modeling problems are some narrowed use case of knowledge representation. Our customers didn't want a general purpose tool. They wanted something tailored (customizable) for their immediate use cases. As a UI designer, I guess I should have realized this quicker. My only defense is initial lack of customer interaction.

2/ At the time, for general purpose graph splunking, there was no UI solution for the "focus+context" problem. Human sized ways to query, represent, and navigate large graphs, all in one.

I did come up with a novel UI/UX that I felt would solve "focus+context", but we ran out of runway before I could get past the lo-fi prototypes.

On my to do list is to take another run at the problem, leveraging Neo4j's (awesome) Cypher query language. I may discover that Neo4j's UI may have already solved the "focus+context" problem.
For a slightly different reason than many I've seen here - double-quotes require the shift key to be depressed on standard keyboards. So programming with double-quotes doubles the number of keystrokes you need to type any time you quote something. Pretty sure the person that told me that was a Vim fanatic as well.

Not saying that it's a strong reason to use one over the other, but it is an objective reason that doesn't rely on style or preference.
I think the Israeli group is SpaceIL, currently scheduled to launch (alongside a satellite) on a Falcon 9 in February.
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Yeah, so I guess whether or not this would be practical would depend on how large the OP's initial data set is. One thing you could possibly do, if the set doesn't have negative numbers, is throw out any numbers larger than X, since they can't be part of an answer.

If the OP needs all the matching answers, I don't think there's any way to do it that doesn't essentially reduce to generating the power set though. If they just need one answer, there might be a simpler way.
That depends heavily on your philosophical interpretation of mathematics: Platonism vs. Formalism

Someone linked the BBC video, which is great, but there’s also a wonderful book that discusses this and many other facets of mathematical philosophy:

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-about-Mathematics-Philosophy...

(Sorry for the link spew) I highly recommend that book to anyone remotely interested in the field.
If you believe that your stock is undervalued relative to its risk-adjusted expected future value, it would be a good time to do a stock buyback.

Colloquially, if you think your company is going to do relatively good compared to market expectations (revenue, operating profit, net income, etc. will be better than the market fears over the long term) - then it's a good time to do a stock buyback.
No, it's taking a portion of income.

You choose how to spend your time and if you spend it earning an income then you're taxed to pay for the other things that let society function so that you can do so. How much you earn in a given time is irrelevant.
What will happen afterwards? Will it become the only UI?
I am here in San Antonio, I wanted to get Solar on the house, the cheapest quote was $14,000. A lot of new build houses here have solar panels on the top. The issue with that is some fire departments will refuse to do anything but contain the fire if you have solar panels (i guess they need training).

CPS energy (Our big power company) keeps sending fliers that i can be on wind power, the catch is it costs more. Seriously, i can pay more to ensure my power comes from (or is offset by) wind production.

I hope Texas does do more Solar and Wind power. Solar water heaters would be nice here too.
Philips Hue outage causing lighting issues
It shouldn't be a big deal to bring in a few buses to run those routes at night. Just shut down one line at a time - or whatever you want to work on. Ideally you time the traffic lights so those buses always have green and so the times are not slower.
Technically, yes. But coal's main advantage over other electricity sources is that it's cheap. If you capture all the emissions it will no longer be cheap.

Here's one disastrously-over-budget attempt at a coal plant with CO2 capture:

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

Had they forced the plan to completion, it would have generated more expensive electricity than a new nuclear plant. More expensive than battery-backed solar. More expensive than any other utility scale electricity source in the United States.
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I wouldn't consider Glen Canyon or Land's End to be part of the attractions of San Francisco. Yes, you're closer to them than you are in New York. No, you're not close to them. If you want to be close to them, go to Salt Lake or Phoenix.

If you had said Yosemite, I could agree with you.
One of the difficult thing was not knowing during the whole porting process if in the end it would really work, or not...
I almost gave up several time :)
I use Spotify playlists. I usually think of a thoughtful name for the playlist. Also, using the desktop app, I can upload cover art for the playlist.

Another cool thing that I do with my brother is a "shared playlist." We both add songs to the playlist that we want to share with each other. At the beginning of every year we start a new one.
As someone who used to use Meteor, I'd recommend not using it at all.

Meteor is amazing and great... until it isn't. The power of Meteor is the amount of bare metal things already implemented for you (DB management, for instance)

But the moment you need to do something a little weird or want to do things different, it becomes almost impossible.

Use something, anything (besides I guess RoR) besides Meteor in my opinion. It locks your code in and becomes impossible to leave without re-writing everything.
I'm hiring people that build game engines to do 3D graphics programming for medical applications. The salary range is much better than game programming. tony[at]uniformteeth.com.
> your password will be encrypted using a modern secure algorithm, which is currently PHP’s password_hash function, which uses Blowfish or Extended DES and can change over time so we don’t repeat any past mistakes.

Not sure if the OSNews folks are reading this, but I'd definitely not consider either Blowfish or DES to be secure password storage methods. Surely there's some library that'll do bcrypt/scrypt/etc in PHP?

Also, it seems pretty bold to push users with a call-to-action around volunteering / sponsoring in the same post as they alert users to a breach.
How about working with Taiwan? I think they too have a space program, although I have no idea how big it is.
> 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.

You know what the common theme here is? They're all poor or working class neighborhoods without the political organization to fight back against redevelopment. You know the only reason that they would bend over for the L is because of the trendy Williamsburg $$$.
This is fantastic advice. The only thing I can really add is you should be keeping track of what’s around you, don’t look just before a lane change. Having good situational awareness is the most important thing when driving.
Am I the only one that doesn't find the blind spot to be where this article puts it? (Between the side mirror and the rear mirror's coverage areas.) I can (barely) see the entire side of my car in my side mirror; anything closer to behind me is going to appear in the rear mirror. The part I have trouble with is the other side of the side mirror, that is, the forward part of its coverage. A car can sit forward of what the mirror can see, but not yet in my peripheral vision.

So I turn my head when merging, to clear that area.

(Perhaps I have my side mirror pointing further "back" than the article?)
Personal health is a hugely frustrating topic. It is obviously important, but it seems like the knowledge in the space is constantly contradicted and plagued by bad science.

Are eggs bad for you? How about fat? Should I be vegan? Or is meat fine too? What about artificial sweeteners? How much should I exercise? What kind of exercises are important for long term health? Is a standing desk beneficial?

All of these questions have multiple contradictory answers. Why are these questions so hard to answer?
"The property tax rules were originally passed to protect senior citizens from losing their homes"

FWIW that was the sales pitch not the reason. The same people who got prop 13 passed on that basis also demonstrate their concern for the elderly by lobbying to slash public pensions in California:

https://www.hjta.org/california-commentary/public-pensions-c...

"A boom happens, their house values go up, but they’re still living in fixed incomes. I literally just read a Twitter exec, on Twitter, openly say that well seniors could just sell their homes. Nice! Great solution. Just leave, old people!"

The additional free money capital gains ought to take the sting out of having to move. Renting pensioners don't get that. They also don't get 1%'er lobbies pretending to care about them.
I've been aligning my mirrors like this for years. I prefer it because I can see cars in immediate adjacent positions without turning my head. It's particularly helpful in situations where I need to very quickly assess the situation, such as unexpected debris on the road and little time to react.

As noted, however, motorcycles can draw up unseen. But more often, when it fails, it's a car two lanes over to my rear that changes lanes towards me at the same time I do. it can go completely unseen. So I always do a head check, time permitting.
> They get smaller as they get closer to the edge, but there's an infinitude of them, so you have a universe that is infinite from "inside",

> Our universe is not anti-de Sitter- it appears to be flat and does not pack away nicely into a bounded area like the Escher universe

How do you tell from the "infinite inside" whether it packs away nicely into a bounded area? Or is figuring that out the trick?
Unfortunately people caught on to what we were doing after Michael Brown, so probably not
This site reeks of amateur hour scam.

> Purchase of NC_1 will be available through the Necuno Solutions web store (<necunos.com/shop/>) on 3rd of January 2019.

And that URL is even unclickable.

The Q&A page contains nothing more than

> "No one, Nobody."

(This seems to be their kiss of death page.)

No comparison of OSes on the device shopping page.

The "community" page cannot be zoomed out or scrolled to see the right side of each line of the text.

At least the VAT number seems legit[1].

Sure, maybe their web devs are utter newbs and have nothing to do with the rest of the team, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatResponse.html
Tim Sweeney's networth is now 7 billion which is higher than James Cameron (700 million) and Steven Spielberg (3.7 billion).
I wonder what he would think of the World of Warcraft panda pacifist: https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcrafts-pacifist-panda-ha...
That article is a good start at avoiding naive dualism but doesn't grapple with the computational requirements of brain activity. A triangle drawn on a page doesn't need to calculate.

The sort of thing I'm thinking of is Oliver Sack's writing about various mental disorders. A theory of mind needs to explain how thinking can be degraded in specific ways when certain parts of the brain are damaged. Not to mention mental development in children, the effects of old age, of being tired or distracted, of hormones, of various drugs, our similarities with other animals, cognitive illusions, and so on. These place a lot of constraints on what consciousness could be.
What webassembly provides is a bytecode format that multiple languages can target, that isn't owned by a corporation, and that's intended (as per their own docs[0]) to run both natively and on the web (with browser vendors already opting in.) This offers benefits over native code tied to an operating system, existing bytecodes and VMs tied to a specific language or company, and allows the possibility for applications to seamlessly operate on the web and offline.

The only thing a browser offers is an HTML and Javascript context... which are necessary to run it in a webpage, but not really the entire purpose of webassembly as a concept.

[0]https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
Sorta, I think go means “browser chrome” like the part isn’t the url bar and menus. Webassembly, assuming you use the browser engines, gets you some nice things sand boxing and true cross platform execution.
Thanks very much. I am not into legos (grew up outside USA). Can you suggest me some basic Lego sets.
Exploiting JNDI Injections in Java
Microsoft/api-guidelines – Microsoft REST API Guidelines
Ultima Thule was classic/medieval Latin name for a supposed place beyond the northern borders of the known world.

From time to time the name was used to refer to Norway, Iceland or Greenland but no real place is really consistent with all the stories that were told about it. The historian Polybius refers to Pythea "telling us also about Thule, those regions in which there was no longer any proper land nor sea nor air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk nor sail, holding everything together, so to speak."

Some Nazis also thought it was the mythical origin place of the Aryan race and there's been some fuss made about that, but Nazis thought (and think) a lot of stupid stuff.

The CYOA book was just making reference to this mythology.
This has to be sarcastic
I think, actually that the region would have had its melt-down one way or the other. The Arab spring would have happened anyway.
And he most likely would have swept Hussein away. Vietnam told us, that in the long run, no foreign power projection prevails against local interests aligned with local powers.

And it will happen again, in about 1.5 generations- waving over a region, who will be very much beyond peak oil.
Which will have all those in power at that moment, trying to vent the tension the good old European style- by sending those revolutionary's with all the emotional words and no plans on how to make the world a better place into endless ditch wars.

So the board for the great game is been lay out- now the most relevant game piece has to be determined. Who is the Germany of the middle east?

As in a currently disassembled power-house without resources, that reassembled is capable of innovation and thus is a danger for all current major players.
Turns out slavery, limitless debt, unfettered authoritarianism, and rampant abject poverty has its advantages when it comes to completing major infrastructure projects. Who knew.
I'm sorry, but this is the most stupid thing you could have said. The entire human civilization is based on following some "clear" rules, commonly known as law. If you disagree with the law, you fight to change it and in this case it did happen.
>The median commute time in the US is 25 minutes, up to 32 in the most congested metro areas. This is overwhelmingly due to driving on freeways across suburbia, enabled by sufficiently low density.

Firstly, that's more like exurbia than suburbia. Suburbia is characterized by low density sprawl surrounding a denser, urban core that acts as the economic anchor. This is also where the nightmarishly long commute times tend to be: (https://www.caliper.com/featured-maps/xus-commute-time-mapti...).

Secondly, people decide where to live and work based on commute times. In other words, people consciously choose to live in places that are within a 30 minute commute from work, and they structure their days (when they wake up, when they leave the office, etc) around minimizing it. This same mechanic works if the transit is available. People will consciously choose to live closer to the transit hubs that minimize the lengths of their commutes, promoting density around the bus or train routes.

This is why the "last mile" problem is not as relevant of a consideration as people think once you get past the "windshield bias" a bit. Firstly because if everyone is within a mile of a transit option then that means the [i]worst case scenario[/i] is that someone has to walk a mile, and most people will choose to live within a space that's even less than that.

And secondly, because a mile isn't actually that terrible of a walk, especially if you make the walk a pleasant one. I live 2 and a half miles from my office. If I ride the bus it takes me about 20 minutes door to door with maybe 5 of those minutes involving walking to/from the bus-stop. If I walk the whole way it takes me about 45 minutes. Despite the walk being more than twice of long, though, I'm honestly indifferent between the two options. My only real consideration is whether I'm in a hurry or not, and usually if I'm in a REAL hurry I'll take a cab.

Even if it's raining, I often just take my umbrella and walk the commute because the walk is, in itself, enjoyable. It's not just a means of conveyance, it's a stroll and a source of exercise. There are plenty of murals to look at, a park to stroll through, flowers and landscaping to see, shop windows to look in on, sidewalk cafes to people watch people on awkward first-dates, etc.