skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. The SIA68 theory doesn't address the debris matching MH370 that washed up in the Indian ocean. Several of the debris are almost certainly from MH370. The debris had barnacles implying they spent at least a year in the sea.
Regardless of whether cameras or lidar win out, just consider the fact that back up cameras already exist on tons of modern cars, and the solution to the environment issues of these cameras is one of:

a) fold it out when you put the car in reverse, so it's always ice-free

b) ignore this problem. It's covered in ice for months.

This is a simple problem in comparison, and neither of the above solutions would work for a camera used for autonomous driving.
I'd say a mechanic's manner is almost off topic... anything mechanical ranks far far below life and death notifications. But I do get why you included them in the comparison.

I would want my vet (and so far HAVE had my vets) be even more compassionate than my own doctor. I know enough to talk at least basic jargon with my PCP and specialists as needed.

None of my animals has been able to communicate about their trouble, and have relied on that extra bit of comfort and care when they are terminal, or even just very ill.

Again, personal preference.
Awesome amature animal analysis but the alliteration from the announcer is awfully annoying
The 2017-2018 flu season killed an estimated 80,000 people in the US. [Flu deaths are not precisely reported, except for children and infants, but the CDC estimates the death toll each year.]

That beats firearm and motor vehicle deaths combined.
> Also why can't people have fun battling with words and bets?

They can, and it is definitely better than violence, but I don't conflate "fun" with "belittling and demeaning" . (not to imply that you do, just showing the distinction I am making). I can think of a few other "I won a bet" posts I've seen over the years and they didn't have this negativity associated with it, despite their authors clearly feeling proven justified.
We don't have conversations with paramecium.

If you wanted to build a Dyson sphere you would capture all the light from your star and might not exhibit ANY radiation.

We wouldn't see such a species and if there's such a small blink of time between the industrial age to the singularity the probability that there is an overlapping species is very very low.

We would only have about 20-40 years to actually have the technology to find them before we hit the singularity.

We have NO idea what happens after that point but my plan is to just chill with my wife in a virtual Yosemite park once we hit the singularity.
Meta-variety is a novel concept. Perhaps we should look out for that more in our lives.
While clm has more content, I find the original link posted to be more readable and easier on the eyes.
Thanks, can you explain a bit further? (Nerdy curiosity here, I've done a lot of legal work with mutual funds & hedge funds but have no experience with ETFs so I'm both clueless and curious.) Prohibited by what? The prospectus? And what exactly is prohibited that assigning a different ticker gets around the prohibition? SNAP has a similar structure but I don't remember hearing the same buzz about that being an issue for ETFs when they went public.
Seems like the author would want more than one post on the site before promoting it. Right now it just highlights one tool.
> Power9 and ARM both have register renaming and micro-ops.

And? That's an implementation detail rather than a feature of the ISA. Then again, to some extent so is microcode, so I'm contradicting myself. Ugh. Well anyway, although these days there seems little common ground in what makes a design RISC, CISC, or whatnot, I think you'll be hard pressed to have much support for the idea the reg renaming or micro-ops would be such a defining feature.

> In fact, the SVE extension to ARM provides variable-length vectors, so that the "inner loop" of SIMD compute is stored entirely in micro-code space and independent of the ISA.

Huh? I thought the point was just that the vector width is not a compile-time constant, but rather there's some instructions like "vlmax foo", which calculates max(foo, implementation vector length), and then you use that as the loop increment rather than a compile-time constant.

Not that the "inner loop" is stored in micro-code space (what does that even mean?).

> ARM-SVE seems very non-RISC to me.

To an extent I agree, but I'd say the most un-RISCy thing of SVE is not the variable length but rather the presence of scatter/gather instructions. I mean, in many RISC definitions there's the limit of one memory op per load/store instr., which makes sense as it makes e.g. exception handling much easier. But here with scatter/gather we have memory instructions which not only load/store multiple consecutive values, but potentially load/store a bunch of values all from different pages! If that isn't non-RISC, then what is.

But then again, scatter/gather is awesome for some problems such as sparse matrix calculations. Practicality trumps ideological purity.
I don't know about published statistics but there's trulia:

Austin: https://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Austin,TX/0-2000_price/APART...

Seattle: https://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Seattle,WA/0-2000_price/APAR...
Would you happen to know at which version the support was dropped?
I once forgot to sign a check completely, like totally blank signature line. It was cashed just fine.
It isn't a new solution, it's a contradiction of the paradox. That is, the initial assumptions of the prevalence and proliferation of life are statistically wrong. If we account for x, y, and z, we get the results we observe today.
I would very much like to see Quiggin's reply to this, or some kind of independent rebuttal. His arrogance, the pejorative way he refers to those who disagree with him, the blatant one-sidedness and poorly concealed rhetoric of his arguments, all that leads me to not believe a single thing he says without independent commentary.
Are you in SF or Daly City or something? Most of the bay area has vastly more sunny days than Portland (??). Hell, even SF proper should have more sun than portland.

Actually, from google, Portland has 144 sunny days vs 205 national average vs 259 in San Francisco. And only 257 in San Jose (?).
I love the site design, it is so clean.
Or getting the money for cheap. At sub-2% interest I will take as much money as you're willing to lend me.
To address the first concern, anyone in the company can modify any link, so they will never go stale. We do this to solve that exact problem where documentation may contain dead links. With GoLinks your links will always be up to date as long as people are using them. Your company is the owner of the links, not an individual.

The second, our links are actually more human-parsable. go/customer-feedback is much more readable than https://docs.google.com/d/document/ABCDE1234/. You actually wouldn't know if the google doc is relevant without opening it.
This might be surprising, but many companies with a similar system actually don't maintain them very well. It works the first time when a tools team builds it, but when those engineers leave the company, new engineers will either try to revive the old system, or rewrite the entire system from scratch to maintain it. We continue to improve the product over time with customer feedback and can provide analytics for the most common links used in the company.

There currently isn't a solution specifically solving these issue on the market today.

Hope this helps!
>so we are ok with removing the only thing we as people have going for us

The way that the 'consumer welfare' protection is currently implemented has no teeth.

Consider the Comcast/TWC mergers. The companies involved pay 'experts' (Of their choice) to spin fairy tales about how they project that costs to customers will go down. Five years down the road, when they don't (Or, customers suffer because other intangibles degrade, due to lack of competition), nobody actually holds them accountable, after the fact.
I agree. I'm not saying they shouldn't be liable.

I had two points. One, expressing condolences to family. That sucks. And two, the laws favor cars and car drivers in accidents like these.
The few times I flew business it wasn't separated. I felt really awkward while economy passengers were boarding and staring at me in my seat while walking down the aisle.

When I'm flying economy (most of the time) I always avoid staring at business passengers so they don't feel awkward as well.
That expansion strategy won't work in TXR Lisp, because if we have

(let ((#:g1 (delay y)))
(symacrolet ((x #:g1))
(let ((#:g2 (delay z)))
(symacrolet ((y #:g2))
...))))

the (delay y) expression is not in the scope of (symacrolet ((y #:g2)) ...). Local symbol macros are lexically scoped. They can shadow lexical variables and be shadowed by them and so on.

So y in (delay y) will not be expanded there as we need it to, which we need because the initializing expressions in mlet can refer to all the variables (including their own, if they are careful).

This is why the code binds all of the gensyms first, and then initializes them by assignment in a scope in which the symacrolets are all visible.

Using mlet plus some lazy structure like a lazy cons (lcons) we can do useful things:

1> (set *print-circle* t)
t
2> (mlet ((lc (lcons 1 lc))) lc) ;; make a circular list
#1=(1 . #1#)
It's not just you. The youngsters in tech are blatantly ageist. They'll be singing a different tune when they're 40 and the generation behind is already chiseling out their headstones.
The vision problems are real. But the ability to handle ice/snow-induced wheel spin and slew seems like exactly the kind of problem that can be handled with sensitive electronic traction control, perhaps augmented with accelerometers. That specific problem doesn't seem intrinsically more complicated than, say, keeping a drone level on a breezy day -- which is something machines already do much more reliably than humans can. (New England driver here, so I do have some personal experience.)
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This gets me very excited. As a bay area resident, we've seen the income stratification from these companies ruin our way of life. It's just untenable.

Warren has my vote.
curious: Do you think tech giants' lobbying is responsible for the recent shift in allowing more highly-skilled H1B visa holders to enter USA? it would, i imagine, lower the companies' cost of labor.
I wonder if anyone has gone through the password lists to see if "correct horse battery staple" shows up, and if so, how many times.
> They can, and it is definitely better than violence, but I don't conflate "fun" with "belittling and demeaning".

I'll let the targets... no... the victims of the world's gentlest ribbing speak for themselves.
This is a fun trope- "the US unemployment rate is made up and let me give you reasons it may not be accurate..."

Yes, turns out that there are a LOT of ways to measure this, and the people whose jobs it is to do so have chosen some, and even laid out the pros and cons of each of them. Yes, the definition of unemployment that you usually hear (U3) has things it doesn't count. But those choices were made intentionally because they thought it was more useful this way... not because they are too stupid to understand this, or because of a vast conspiracy.
I quit eating out for lunch because I got tired of spending 20 minutes hungry, trying to decide where to go, then half the time paying money for food I didn't really want to eat in the first place.
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Hey SOAP was great when the alternative was coming up with your own custom RPC protocol. At least if you were using visual studio's tooling. And nullable types didn't show up to give you a headache. XML was great when the alternative was writing your own custom serialization format. I don't miss them but, I remember their being a step forward.

* stealth edit.
There's a good book called A History of Future cities that talks about historical examples of this. Although "success"is relative bc it was often the British forcing it on a country that was colonized.

IIRC the cities discussed are St. Petersburg, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Dubai.

The biggest takeaway is that this is a lot easier if you're an autocrat with an army.
Self-driving cars will be feasible only if LIDAR/camera costs go down to $10k/car or lower. No one is going to pay $250k for a self-driving car. At $10k/car, it's $5B for 500k cars, something that Google can easily afford.
That's mostly because France never used copper cable as a TV distribution system and is going straight to fiber. Deployment is admittedly slower than it should be especially in the countryside where it will never be profitable due to low density. Meanwhile, people are stuck with ADSL and VDSL which give connections closer to 10mbps than 15.

Cost wise however, you can't even compare the USA and France. In France, a full speed FTTH subscription with no data cap cost 25 euros and you can pay 20 more to get a cell phone plan with unlimited call and unlimited data. If you are ready to switch provider yearly, you can bring that down to 25 euros all included.
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>A company that is not profitable now that is going to make a profit down the road is a good investment, since you'll be buying it at a discount on the market now.

No it's not because the market takes this into account.
I think the difference is that they are better at pissing people off essentially by transgressing status quo norms. Most tech companies are too right for the left and too left for the right in addition to their "upsetting their perceptions of the natural order" aspects.

A big chain consumes the market and puts others our of businesses and it is just how things are. A new internet company goes from niche to cannot be ignored and it is scary change despite the impact being essentially the same.

Combine that with openly envious old media and their selective condemnation. I honestly suspect the real reason is that tech companies don't buy enough TV ads for their liking given the softball treatment of ones that do frequently like cable.
Great rundown on exa, looking forward to the upcoming content. Thank you for sharing - cheers!
Commercial (not even taxi, but transport) will be the first to be autonomous because of the larger savings possible. That we'll see useful autonomy for a $50k car driven by individuals, rather than in a $1M transport vehicle operated by a huge logistics company isn't likely.
https://github.com/kellegous/go as well
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This is definitely a real concern, and we're actually exploring the Chrome permissions to see if it's possible to redirect your traffic, without requiring the "Read all data" permission, because you're right, that shouldn't be the norm.
Will be interesting to see if Austin takes the typical Texas laissez faire attitude toward parking and lets developers build whatever they want and let the negative spillovers of traffic get worse and worse, or if they go the Los Angeles route and require absurd amounts of parking to artificially inflate the price of land as much as possible.
I wonder if you could argue that that wasn't a valid cheque to the bank then. But then you'd be saying you were claiming fraud against yourself, so somehow you'd still end up the one in trouble.
I dug around a bit when you posted...and was surprised to find that "apologist" isn't generally considered rude. Then I return to the comments here and see at least one person also thought that it was.

I suppose it has to do with usage in different communities? Now I'll have to re-read this article to see if it changes the tone I read into it. (which will not be easy, because I'm definitely biased to view the author as mean/arrogant/dismissive now)
Classic HN comment. It's got it all: dismissive, terse, oddly confrontational. Bravo!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
Most people would say they're against climate change. Advocates of climate change would want to encourage climate change.
I can’t and I won’t comment on that larger part of the code base, but I suspect that you are right. (I did leave the company after all.)

Having every hotel on the planet requires some very heavy-handed growth teams and they have impressive talent there. It also requires to develop very flexible solutions and, even of the main code-base has some problem, that flexibility is worth mentioning.

There are three areas where I’ve seen some world-class internal products (on par with what I’ve seen at Facebook): data engineering, A/B testing, Machine learning hosting and serving. I’ve asked them to open-source and started what I could to help them do that, but they are far from being able to do it.
I think those descriptions are meant to be about Portland rather than SF (where the commenter moved to a couple years ago). Would be perfectly accurate in that case. :)
he's probably a top 5 figure in the austin tech community
Eh, aesthetic pleasantness does not always go hand-in-hand with art, not nowadays.

But yes, I can agree that art is essentially encoded data.
I've eaten the same thing everyday ever since I got old enough to understand lunch as a concept. Food is just not important to me, it just has to fill me up and cover my macro nutrient. I think this is pretty common, at least here in Scandinavia
I don't know -- I have no data to even speculate on. But I do know that there's nothing unusual about my situation. It's common across the country.
Really doesn't though. Humans are pretty good at driving, and 90%+ of accidents come from people being drunk/distracted/tired etc. We don't crash because we miss categorize a truck as a plastic bag or w/e.
Vaccinating every year a whole population to save a few % seems dubious to me. No medical act is a free lunch, economically of course, but from a health perspective either. It's impossible to know the consequences of such a large and recuring treatment. There is a huge difference between the one shot for years against the massively deadly tetanus and a regular shot compaing against something as little importance as the flu.

Because of the anti-vax movement, it's impossible to debate this rationnaly. The antivaxers will not listen to any argument. But the others also accept anything "vaccine" without thinking like steve irwin or mr roger: it's good, and you can't say anything bad about it.

But again, in medecine, there is no such things as a free lunch. Any drug has known and unkwown side effects, and interractions with the env, and should be use if it's worth it. It's then important to debate what is.
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I would argue that calling out "blatant bigotry" is addressing behavior. It doesn't automatically make the person a total bigot to blatantly demonstrate bigotry.
> Democrats lost the centrist vote in 2016, not the left

They lost huge numbers of working class manufacturing industry workers in the Midwest, who perceived HC as a tool of Wall Street, and rightly or wrongly, instrumental in the secular economic decline of their jobs and communities. This was literally reflected in a schism of working class vs professional class counties in the midwest, with the former going for DJT and the latter going to HC [1]

Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin didn't swing to DJT because centrist's didn't have a candidate that spoke to their concerns - that candidate was definitely HC. Even many centrist Republicans who couldn't bring themselves to vote for DJT voted for her.

Those states swung because DJT at least spoke to the working class' economic concerns in a way that at the time seemed authentic, while also invoking their repressed cultural anxieties about demographic and social changes.

Democrats should stay the heck away from the racism and xenophobia that motivated part of his coalition, but they would be fools to ignore the economically-left sentiment that put him in office.

And since DJT's actual economic policy has turned out to be the same Republican trickle down, tax cuts for the wealthy approach, the Democrats have an opportunity to expose that and run against it.

[1] https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2016/11/macomb_county_cou...
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/20...
That's great. Thanks for letting me know
> 1st world problem

I suspect it isn't.

You didn't tell us how human are all those corrupt nurses and doctors? Maybe they offer first-rate compassion and spiritual support, once they pocketed their bribe?

People die everywhere, and even in poor countries people not always die because of shortages of equipment and treatments... hope in Romania terminal patients are accompanied to death with all due compassion -- this has no material costs that only 1st world can afford.
I just googled “largest internet companies” and a list popped up with ‘Priceline’ in 7th, so it was a year-old list. I would agree it’s a vague statement but they are much larger and more interesting than most people suspect.
If it's found to be grabbing more data than it should, people can report them and the extension can be banned from the Chrome Web Store.

It's not ideal but in order to make utilities that work on every page, these permissions are needed.

The code inside the extension bundle (.crx) would need to contain the potential for abuse, and if it gets popular enough, security researchers will look at it. Even if it's not popular, incentives will be at work, because it would be a foolish risk for a company to ship code that could expose a user's entire browser history into the extension, because at any point someone could take a look at the bundle and find the flaw.
Do you knwo why that is? It seems like having the two tickers would have all the same issues.
You also need an ocean.
Found this was true for car rentals last weekend. Went to an aggregator, saw their price, went to the to the car rental company to compare. Aggregator price was 2/3rds of the rental company's lowest price.

Have found the same for airline flights. Google Flights showed me a flight on Delta and provided a link that was much cheaper than I could find on their own site.

Absolutely no problems with either reservation. Not sure why people would go direct unless it's their employer's policy or something.
Google learned from Microsoft's mistake.

You pay your bribes or the justice department comes knocking. Google made antitrust investigations just vanish into thin air.
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I didn't say that Equifax was the ideal realization of what a credit bureau is supposed to be.
I think the blinking "cursor" in the header is a bit distracting.
Obviously it's not. And probably the blogs that the author mentions are also better. But why should that stop anyone from doing it and showing it off?

Humanity did not stop rocking after the first great rock band. I fell this is kind of the same.
I'd examine the occult obsession in 1800s Britain and Nazi Germany as examples of this occurring with a different focus, for starters.
I sympathize, but the problem with this is that you'd inevitably end up punishing the child, who is then more likely to grow up feeling like he was victimized by "the system" rather than his parents.

This is a hostage situation unfortunately. Anti-vax parents are holding their kids hostage, and we as a society are on the hook for the consequences when the hostage gets hurt. There's no good way around it.