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Almost every instruction needs one and it bloats the size tremendously, to the extent that most x86-64 instructions are just about 4 bytes.

That's only if your code happens to be particularly "64-bit-heavy", or the compiler isn't doing a good job at selecting registers; the original designers (at AMD, not Intel) decided on the prefices (and defaulting to 32-bit for most ops) instead of defaulting all operations to 64-bit in 64-bit mode precisely because it would be better for size and performance --- using their carefully optimised compilers. Plus, what can be done with a single 4-byte instruction on x86 can require multiple 4-byte ARM instructions, and that adds up quickly.

I can't find it at the moment but one of the studies I remember comparing the binary sizes was using GCC, which is widely available and free, but probably one of the worst compilers at x86 size optimisation I've seen. I even recall a remark in that study about how it was generating mostly RISC-like instructions, so in other words they were comparing binaries generated for a RISC CPU using a RISC-oriented compiler with ones generated for a CISC CPU using a RISC-oriented compiler, failing to exploit the full capabilities of a CISC.

I've written x86 Asm for several decades (started with 16-bit --- dating myself here...), and done some occasional MIPS and ARM, and it's very difficult for me to believe that the RISCs have any intrinsic advantage in code density other than the fact that compilers for x86 aren't that great at it; you can write a Fibonacci calculator for the latter in 5 bytes and pushes and pops are single-byte instructions, while on the former even a register-register move is 4 bytes.
Al Capone went to jail for tax fraud. It doesn't mean he didn't kill people or that the comparison is not apt. It's right on point.
Operators of vehicles need to be held personally responsible for the damages caused by putting their vehicles on the road, whether the vehicle is autonomous or not. Additionally there must be a responsibility for manufacturers to not create faulty products, but that can not absolve the "operator" of the product. It should not be said that the "operator" of a Volvo autonomous vehicle is not responsible for the actions of the vehicle under her control, simply because Volvo says they accept full liability. I think your chauffeur analogy is flawed. If I set cruise control in my car to 75mph in a 25mph school zone, am I not liable? It is not possible to delegate our personal responsibilities to machines, and wash our hands of it.

Volvo's acceptance of liability seems little more than a smart business decision- the cost of an insurance payout to the family of the deceased is less than the money they stand to earn in profit from selling autonomous vehicles. We can't allow this generous actuarial calculation to absolve the operator of such a vehicle of responsibility too. If you don't like it, take the train.
No. I did and they clearly are policing people making threats and deliberately winding people up. If you don’t like the rules don’t use the platform.
Funny enough, this is about the fifth attempt to post this story to HN, with different links. It's getting barely any response.
The electric spark that changed the guitar forever
What do you mean they gain nothing? The death wouldn't have been in vain and we would immediatelly have the right precedent for reckless behaviour of self-driving providers.

Quoting the report:

In the six seconds before impact, the self-driving system classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, then as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board explained. While the system identified that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision, the system was set up to not activate emergency braking when under computer control.

Instead, the car's system relied on the human operator to intervene as needed. "The system is not designed to alert the operator"

The car knew something is terribly wrong. The company willingly set the system in a reckless manner. They did not make sure the tests were run properly. They did not set up the tested system in any way that verified the "emergency driver" was actually doing it's job

By typical US corporate welfare, the verdict protects the reckless company from real consequences and instead throws the expendable min-wage scapegoat under the bus.
Ironically, if the case can be used as a precedent (I don't really know common law that well), it's a death knell for real use of self driving cars. But in the meanwhile some "passengers" will get really hurt economically...
I believed keep alive was enabled by default on browsers with HTTP1.1
Hyatt and Marriott I earned. Hilton and IHG I "bought."

Hyatt: 80 nights in their hotels last year (5 from CC)
Marriott: 105 nights in their hotels last year (10 from CC, 1 from birthday) + required $20k spend for Ambassador status

Hilton: credit card for Diamond
IHG: credit card for Platinum, $200/yr to add Ambassador status

211 total hotel nights last year.

There's 365 nights in the year, enough to earn top status on every chain you want. I plan on adding Shangri-La to the mix this year.
Extremely pleased to find I'm not the only person to think so.
>When your car hurts someone, who's fault is it?

If its anything like the current system it will be no ones fault unless rules were broken. Its fine to kill someone in your car as long as you weren't speeding or on drugs. I assume it will be the same with self driving cars unless there was some obvious rule violation.
Many might debate it in those terms, but generally I won't because using statistics such as you've provided cannot produce a definitive argument for either side. If 20% of graduates are women, is that because of subconscious bias favoring men in admissions or grading? Or because of subconscious bias favoring boys in elementary school towards STEM? Or because of subconscious bias in society saying boys work and girls take care of the home? Etc. Unless the answer is "No" to all of these, then 39% women in a workplace cannot be considered evidence of either equality or inequality. However, until we have some means of determining that women are genetically predisposed to disfavor STEM (and these genetics are clearly not confused with the impact of societal child rearing), we do have a statistic we can use: roughly 50% of humans are women.

Get back to me after 100 more years of progress towards equalizing race and gender through actions designed to fight subconscious bias, and then we can look at what your hiring percentages are vs. graduate percentages, and whether those actions are still necessary or sufficient.
We use MongoDB. We have a GraphQL API https://cosmicjs.com/docs/graphql, but do not currently offer streaming live data.
I am the root commenter. Bonuses are given regardless of the candidates' divery status, it's just that diverse candidate get a slightly higher bonus. The difference between the bonus of a non-diverse and diverse candidate is about 20%. That difference is not constant because bonuses vary based on other things like the role being hired and the amount of experience. Experienced hires have a bigger bonus than new grads - this is to counteract a past tendency to hire younger employees which led to a skewed age and experience distribution. We also have bigger bonuses to hire managers because we have a chronic shortage of them.
That's ridiculous; it's more of a parable than it is "just making these things up". I have, if not in those exact words, heard of such things happening with some regularity.

What I wrote is supposed to make the point that you can be successful as a tradesman and that college is not absolutely necessary. What you wrote makes no point about the importance of college education vs trade school (the topic at hand, if you will recall), but rather seems like the baseless writing of someone with a chip on his shoulder.
> In curious what on earth the argument is that lets uber off the hook here.

I took the position recently that if the code you write directly leads to the death of someone, you should be held accountable for it. But in this particular case, I disagree that Uber should be held criminally liable.

The actual person responsible is the human driver that did not stop. The article states that this individual will be facing criminal charges. I think it’s rather cut and dry in this case; driver’s attention was split, and they were criminally negligent as a result. That argument makes more sense to me.
I will go with "Let it be, hoping someone does something about it someday somehow"
I have been an on again off again student of economics since college. The most important things to know, in my opinion, are:

1) The historical inflation rate is 2-3% per year in the US.

2) In most times and places in the US real estate appreciates slightly more than the rate of inflation at 3-4% nominally. So real estate grows much more slowly than most expect. A primary residence should be seen as the cost of shelter, not an investment, because...

3) US stocks have appreciated at an inflation-adjusted rate of 6-7% per year (8-10% nominal) even accounting for booms and busts. Speaking of...

4) No one can reliably predict the business cycle let alone individual stock performance absent inside information. Stock picking is a losing game.

5) The best way to invest in stocks for the vast majority of people is to buy the market in an index fund and minimize fees.

So to distill this down to three life lessons:

1) Don't plan on renting your whole life because inflation will catch up with you.

2) Buy the most inexpensive house you can tolerate.

3) Put everything else in index funds every paycheck, and only check your balance every now and then. Let time be on your side.
Self-driving vehicle development has so many difficult problems to solve. The technology itself is extremely difficult to create and relies on this extremely complex compromise where vehicles are allowed (and are) operated by code but ultimately babysat by drivers.

I think self-driving technology is worth the risk and worth the large amount of property damage and human injury that comes with it. However, this is a societal issue and there needs to be some sort of referendum on this. While many parallels can be drawn with space travel, those projects were tightly contained and included individuals who were specifically trained and informed of the potential dangers--there is no way to really do this at scale for self-driving tech which necessarily demands an expansive ecosystem that can't be tightly controlled nor can consent be inferred from the unknown number of people involved in this experiment.
FTA:

>Uber, which declined to comment for this story, could still be sued in civil court and be forced to pay damages. The government could also potentially pursue criminal charges against managers or employees of Uber.
Depending on your country, just loading that first one up to see if it worked could put you in prison.
What I'd like to see is some kind of unofficial, periodic publishing provided by the (say) top 3 vendors that implement a given protocol where they would spec a common profile and define the basic integration test suite - sort of like the CSS Acid tests.

Let's take the example of XMPP: the top server implementations could agree that in 2019 all of the servers should support XEP-{A, B, C, D}. In 2020, XEP-E and XEP-F could be added. In 2021, XEP-B can be superseded by XEP-G...

As it is now, it seems that most vendors want to compete and try to take whatever little market is left for XMPP. If instead they decided to collaborate, it would help immensely client application developers, they know that the important thing would be to ensure that they support the current profile.

My guess is that could lead to some kind of concentration of power and force smaller vendors into spending resources in Keep-Up-With-The-Joneses mode, just to get close parity. However, given that the protocol is open and most interesting implementations are open source, this doesn't seem too different from other technologies - how many different FOSS http/mail/amqp/ssh/RDBMS projects are there, and how much of a Pareto distribution do they follow?
Facebook’s new privacy pledge may limit LE and intel agencies’ access to data
Do you know they banned using your horn here in Shanghai and replaced all the mopeds with electric ones over night, the city is less polluted and I can sleep in this cheap AirBnb. Pretty good dictatorship in this regard. While we argue they are winning.
Here's Pete demonstrating / talking about it too: https://youtu.be/bDZ2q6OktQI?t=6922
Sometimes interesting projects come up on the United Nations Volunteer site

https://www.unv.org/
Not a ding on poetry or art. More the fact that I have heard many accounts of boys giving up the family business to go pursue such things as a career.

More seriously, I've also heard of similar situations where the boy majors in management or something to that effect, gets out, and can't find a job (this was more common in 08-12). Tradesmen pretty much always have work.
Economics professor here. I disagree. We formulate theories that we test using data. Same as physics except that economics is much more messy. Another difficulty is that in many cases (macroeconomics for instance) we cannot do experiments to test theories. This makes it much harder to learn from the data.
ha aha. seems like all those PMs and mountains of engineers Facebook/linkedIn is hiring aren't helping their product much. They've got money to burn, so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.
To me a drop-in replacement for wordpress is something I can put on a server and point it at an existing wordpress database and it will run.
No, I completely disagree. The most important skills, after being a competent developer, are being able to communicate and get along with our team.

It took me years to understand this but without being able to work with your team you will not e able to create great software.

It's possible to create a product that's not technically beautiful but it meets a real need in society. Ultimately we create software to meet a need. Once we understand the need we can go back and refactor it. But if we can't communicate and get along with our team then the chances of creating a good product are low.
The car detected an obstacle, but had emergency breaking disabled by Uber, so it didn't stop. According to the article, the system didn't alert the driver of an obstacle despite detecting it.

To me, that's an insane failure mode.
The problem is that deaths per mile driven are currently much higher for self driving cars than humans. We don't have to just accept it. Progress can be made while still being safe -- at least, safer than how the free market would act.

> The NHTSA reports a fatality rate of 1.25 deaths per 100 million miles[2], twenty five times the [4 million miles] Uber has driven.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620736
> B. is the 7th largest internet company in the world

By what measure? Just checked and it's not market cap, not revenue, not number of employees, and not earnings.
Night terrors are no joke. I had to taper off Effexor by 1/2 mg a day to avoid them.
Those previous attempts were successful. Perhaps you mean, "attempts to get upvoted to the front page"?
Economics is a branch of social science. They always try to sell it as some kind of natural science, based on mathematical models, but in the end its just social dynamics.
Sometimes the manufacturer is at fault, as well.
> Probability has a connection to Lie groups because it's fundamentally analytic ("continuous"). But you haven't explained how you make the connection to the dual numbers.

Are you familiar with Chu spaces?

> But just because you're working with continuous spaces doesn't mean you've engaged the duals. It generally means you're using the reals.

They are not just continous spaces, it's a pair of a discrete space and a continous space that are directly connected. You never work only with one of them at once. You manipulate things in smooth space to solve things in the discrete space and vice versa.

> This gets to the heart of what I'm saying - if I wanted to be flippant I could have said the real numbers, or continuity, or analysis, etc are at the heart of so many distinct subfields of mathematics. It doesn't mean quite a lot.

Analysis is too general and also much higher conceptually. Also, you need to be looking at constructive mathematics to really capture duality. Also analysis is unusuable for a lot of problems that duality is useful for.

For example the Rust borrow checker is based on linear logic, a logic that reifies the concept of duality. No one has ever used analysis to build a compiler.
Starting to think that autonomous driving should be limited to roads where people are already restricted from being near (e.g. freeways) until the technology is (rigorously) proven safe. Doesn't seem like it would take much to implement on top of the current technologies in the wild.
That's sad - I wonder if freecodecamp even knows that some visitors will see this?

I would donate some server space and spin up a free wordpress for them to avoid this kind digital hostage taking.
Yep, if you’re a big drinker Utah can be a little rough, although personally when I was there on business I never had a problem. From my perspective as a non-religious person and a non-Christian I also don’t find Mormonism any stranger than other sects of Christianity either, but again if they make you uncomfortable Utah is to be avoided as a place to live. As for the last point, I suppose it could be for some very broad definitions of equality.

Your link references this survey: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-women-eq...

I don’t find it massively convincing, but YMMV.
Is there a shortcut? I'm sure some improvements can be made but I am skeptical of the idea that science is just doing it wrong.
After getting into painting a few years ago, I dug into aesthetics a bit and quickly ran into the same fundamental problem: most abstract works are, prima fascie, giant heaps of crap. I mean, I sat down and tried to read different intros to art theory, etc, but it all was so much flim flam trying to paper over the obvious: it was fecal matter, sold for high prices (don't get me started on pomo performance stuff).

One text I ran into was by an Objectivist: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P9RV9PE/ - which goes into the motives and rationales for why the modern art went the way it did - and compares with other societies. Fascinating book.

Fundamentally, the Objectivist text comes down to roughly this

> – Proletarian: relevant to the workers and understandable to them.

Which is a description of soviet realism (something Objectivists might find startling).

http://www.russianartdealer.com/socialist-realism/

I also want to stress that the notion that art is subjective, or that it should make you feel, is wholly a product of the Romantic era and its challenge of a previous understanding of art as being an _objective_ thing with a ladder of values.

So I strongly concur with you here.
They show up separately but not in tandem.

The canonical example is robotic motion and the reason why Lie theory is used there. You have very discrete states (positions) that you want to interpolate between smoothly.
Indeed its worth the risk - but not at the cost of human life. And if the risk is being taken by a company, it has to pay for it - because it intends to reap the rewards? Not a woman or a negligent employee.
Not when you consider that the majority of linux distributions haven't picked up support for it yet in their versions of nginx, apache et al.
They're using the Service Worker API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

It's not running in a browser so they reimplemented some things but the overall API surface is the same. They also have some extra APIs for CF only features.

Debugging is a problem though, but there's another project called Cloudworker that emulates a local instance: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudworker-a-local-cloudflare-w...
The article in one sentence: saying that Eskimo have fifty words for snow is like saying that Europeans have fifty words for water (water, river, lake, dew, fog, cloud, ice and so on).
It helps avoid most phishing emails. I have a DB with a list of randomly generated aliases and services I've provided them to. My e-mail client is set up so that these individualized per-service aliases are highlighted (and renamed to the name of the service I provided the secret alias to) in the message list, so I instantly know when I receive e-mail from a service, and when someone is trying to spoof it by sending e-mails in the name of the service to my public address.

I can also whitelist some of these private addresses, so that my spam filter can't hide e-mails from services I depend on, no matter who sends them (it can be automated no-reply address, or some support person's address, etc.), so it's not really whitelistable based on the sender. I can't whitelist my public addresses.

It has plenty of benefits with regards to security.

It's basically a secret passphrase you give to a company that it can use to reliably contact you, and that you can use to verify that you're talking with someone you've given this secret to. It's not perfect, but much better than public addresses.
I'm not so sure. Uber's defense here amounts to blaming the safety driver for the crash. They can argue that their actions improved the safety of the self-driving car (by reducing erratic movements due to false positive) so long as the safety driver is performing their job properly. Absent a smoking gun email that says "yep, we know this is unsafe, we don't care" (basically the Ford Pinto scenario), I don't think a guilty verdict is near-certain.
Perhaps their chances as plumbers are slightly lower. But as businessmen and owners of the 100-person company, they have excellent odds of improving their future. It grew to 100:1 with one owner. In a well-run business, each boy could work on expanding the business and hopefully balance that ratio back out as time progressed.

And yes, technological innovations might be a concern. But the job of middle management might well disappear before the job of a plumber. Ask yourself which is easier to automate.

Farming has been on such a course for a very long time. Quite evident if you look at the tiny percentage of the population that produces America's food today, compared with everyone growing their own only a few thousand years ago.

On this and your point about productivity of capital vs labor, do you have a solution? Quite frankly, I've heard a lot of issues raised around this point, but few good solutions, let alone solutions that don't involve the government.
> However, this is a societal issue and there needs to be some sort of referendum on this.

Why? Where's the referendum on allowing people to drive vehicles? People cause 99% of accidents in the streets, as of today.
This whole article is about disproving the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis. While not entirely convinced, I do believe people tend to overemphasize it. In other words with a little effort it can be escaped.
Alright so I was following with the author for the longform introduction about coyotes and raccoons (although essentially all his criticisms of raccoons apply equally to cats, which he seems to like).

But then he lost me when he started making it a piece about finance gone awry. I don't really follow the point, can anyone walk me through his example more concisely? He's throwing in a lot here in struck out letters, which is part of the joke, but I think I'm missing the big picture.
Those people are rationalizing away harm to others as a moral concern. No phrasing is sufficient to prevent that, and all phrasing is sufficient to enable it. They’re not depending on the phrasing for anything more than a launchboard through the mental logic that lets them say “logically” that their methods are justified.