skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having LiDAR in any car for self driving seems like a prohibitively expensive idea though. For instance: See how no company has released a commercial product with LiDAR.

And I definitely think Computer Vision will get better before LiDAR gets cost competitive.
Sadly for Lyft I think the best comparison will be Snap. And just one look at the SNAP chart will tell you why you should avoid the Lyft IPO.

It will go public at an inflated price and hold that valuation for a quarter or two and then people will start asking where either the profits or growth are and Lyft will need to start growing or erasing their huge operating losses right at the same time Uber is trying to grab as much ride share as possible gearing up to their own IPO.

So at a time when the market will be starting to really pressure them to cut losses, probably by cutting the driver's portion of revenue and raising prices, Uber will be trying their best to inflate their own ride share metrics by giving drivers more and cutting ride costs.

What is the story you can tell that paints Lyft as a good investment over the next 2 year period?

Then there is Lyft's dual share structure will get it kicked out of many ETF's. This locked in money is a godsend to most companies as they help buoy the stock price by having locked in holders of teh stock during turbulent times. I think MSCI will put Lyft into some of its indexes given that it just put in 8-10 Chinese companies with dual listing share structures

One thing I do like in Lyft's favour is that they could be a counter cyclical stock, ie they do well when the rest of the market isn't, due to people using Lyft to replace a second car or a lease that they've given up.

We just haven't had a recession while ride sharing was a main stream thing.

> Zimmer, Lyft's cofounder, went on to assert that private car ownership would “all but end in major U.S. cities” by 2025.

Given that people are currently signing leases and payment plans for cars that won't expire by then I'd say this is a bit of a stretch:)
However your life is also influenced by quantum effects, and the possibility that uncertainty in quantum physics is based on hidden variables seems to be thoroughly ruled out. To our best understanding the entire world is just a truly random probability distribution.
Accurint is a big one. The people selling SSN lookups have big DB collections, but the primary source tends be realtime access to DBs like these.

I'd imagine it's trivial to pretend to be a cop and just purchase access to this stuff, not that it's going to be hard to hack most police departments either.
Technology Adoption Cycle and What It Means for Blockchain
Contemporary anti Vietnam-War art was set up as Korean war or older. It's un-PC to directly criticize a current war, so artists apply a thin veil of barely plausible deniability to get past censorship.
While it’s pretty stupid to turn down a tetanus shot even after getting tetanus, much information is missing from the article - is tetanus a required immunization, and is it generally even given to school-aged kids? I remember getting it at a little older than he is (because it hurt significantly more than the others I received for some reason), but don’t recall getting any boosters for it as a child. I think I was in my early twenties when I got another.

It also doesn’t say what the other recommended vaccines were, or if he was otherwise up-to-date.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to be “anti” in any way here, I’m just trying to understand what actually happened here.
I think you you have identified the source for this dubious concept's widespread acceptance.

Putting aside the question of whether this is only about comments -- the article is about documentation and the myth of self-documenting code -- suppose you have written a function. There are many things another programmer might want to know about it, such as its time complexity, whether it is thread-safe, what exception guarantees it provides (or simply what exceptions it might throw, and what they signify), whether it modifies state, and if so, when and what, whether its design is predicated on the system being in one of a subset of possible states... how much does a developer have to read to answer one of these questions? The answer is that, in general, it is not bounded.

Now, the amount you would have to write to answer all possible questions is also not bounded, but -- and this is the real point -- you can choose what to document in order to maximize the usefulness of the function. And it is rare that the optimal solution is no additional documentation beyond the source code, at least for non-trivial components of non-trivial software.
The understanding of ignorant reasoning is no excuse for poor judgement.

As someone who vehemently despises the US education system, I have no sympathy for ethos-bound decision makers.
Have you tried marriage counseling?
> Manning IS willing to testify though. Publicly.

And that's utter baloney. Its confusing enough to be on a jury, to be pulled out of work and then forced to work on a case you kind of don't care about... while getting paid basically minimum wage to do it.

Witnesses are gagged so that the overall discussion that happens in court will take place in an orderly manner. The prosecutor and the defendant will both have opportunities to ask questions and make their case to the jury.

But under no circumstances is a witness allowed to inject their personal politics into a case. As such, they are gagged with respect to the information they tell.

If the Prosecutor isn't willing to bring forward some pieces of data... and the defendant also doesn't want to bring it up in cross-examination, then there's really nothing else for the Witness to say.

> I think there very much is a moral stand to make here. Society should not be run on secret courts. If the US government wants to accuse wikileaks of something, then let them do so publicly.

The Trial will be public. But the discussion BEFORE the trial is secret. The prosecutors need to get their story straight before they make a public discussion.

This is basic court stuff. The defendant gets an opportunity to see all the evidence before the trial. Both sides are sworn to secrecy to help the process move forward. Its a complete clusterFFFF if you get witnesses and whatever throwing pre-trial evidence to the media.

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This is an order to testify before a Grand Jury. Technically speaking: this means that the prosecutors haven't even proven that there's enough evidence to officially give a charge yet.

The Grand Jury is called to provide the answer to the question: is there enough circumstantial evidence to begin an official trial? To leak information this early in the game would just be nasty, to both the prosecutors and the defendants.
I believe Teams is the old Microsoft Messenger with a Skype-like skin
> Amazon uses profits from AWS to dump in other sectors, selling goods and services below market value.

There is big competition in cloud computing so AWS is priced according to market rates. I seriously doubt AWS profit is significant enough to influence the rest of Amazon in way that would be considered monopoly abuse. Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods did not result in WF reducing prices (as was expected) to uncut other grocers in that market.

> Google is dumping in adjacent areas of tech - giving away Android for free, for example.

That ship has sailed; Google effectively eliminated the market for mobile operating systems and Microsoft could basically no longer sell Windows Mobile. But the open-sourcing of Android has led to direct competition as well -- Amazon runs a completely Google-free version of Android on their products.
Code NEXT was a huge loss, but I don't think the NIMBYs will be able to pull that off again, because their entire tactic was based on spinning people's lack of interest into a conspiracy to change the code by stealth. The city is licking its wounds, but there will be another go at overhauling the code, and there will be plenty of public interest next time.
I mean I don't disagree, but living in a big city (London) it is •very* rare I see a needle in the street (once in the past year?). It never was on a walkable path, always in some sort of gutter. I'd assume the risk to be so close to zero it's negligible, I'd be more worried about breaking my toes hitting them on stuff
One of the vaccines you want to get first, is against tetanus. It's a horrible disease. Also, speaking as a German, who is going to pay the bill? Is there any health insurance in the US, which is covering such a case?
If I need to document something in a way that doesn't fit into a comment, I'll add a separate document to the source repository and then add a comment that references it in the code. If you're using something like GitHub that gives you a Web interface that renders Markdown files, the ergonomics of doing it this way are really pretty good.

I feel like this is the best way to document "big picture" stuff in general. You don't want to just have the comments, because, if you carve it up into a bunch of little vignettes and scatter them around the code, it's no longer a big picture. But external documentation alone is also insufficient. If you don't mention when it's relevant, at the spots where it's relevant, then you can't rely on people to know when and where to look for it.
That's not what the party wants, national laws is for no ethnic discrimination, if people don't have jobs, they create trouble, and economic improvement and providing jobs is basically what the CCP is building it's power base on.
That's from 2012. What I'm specifically asking about is returning the s/n ratio to 2012 days.
If we can fly quickly AND safely and land within feet of an injured person and that makes a difference of them living or dying, isn’t that worth a shot?
You can find out on his blog (cringely.com). The TL;DR is that he mostly does consulting for startups and writes his own columns on the tech industry at his own pace. A few years back he did a Kickstarter for a $100 Minecraft server with his teenage kids that failed. The blowback from the failure and his poor communication about it has at times taken over the blog comments.

For a while he did a series of columns exposing the decline and mismanagement at IBM; he eventually turned these into an ebook that I purchased and thought was a reasonably interesting read.

More recently he had cataract surgery and had to move to a new home after his old one was damaged in the California wildfires.
>I very much hope that this whole microtransaction racket will be over by the time my kids are big enough to get their own console (or whatever people game on by then).

I wouldn't count on it. Look at the "gacha" market on mobile. These are fairly simple games with relatively small budgets and some of them are pulling in near $100 million per month on microtransactions.
Sharing Lambda Layers and Restricting Your Own Usage
I'm on the fence about antitrust action in general, but here's an assertion from the article that I think is completely untrue:

"Venture capitalists are now hesitant to fund new startups to compete with these big tech companies because it’s so easy for the big companies to either snap up growing competitors or drive them out of business."

The possibility of being "snapped up" is very good money for venture capitalists instead of waiting a decade for an IPO. So regulating acquisitions by the big players may have a chilling effect on capital and, thereby, tech innovation.

In addition, the first mover effect is very powerful and should not be discounted. For example, the competition between Snapchat and Facebook was not as skewed as the outcome would have you believe. Snapchat had and has a large userbase, and is losing because of mistakes (including not agreeing to very good acquisition offers). I can't personally think of too many other examples of megatitans successfully squashing innovative smaller companies with an equivalent product.
This seems cool but I'm gonna suggest that maybe this isn't the best name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19339039
I mean, there are significant environmental problems in the US as well, but that doesn't mean VCs are going to suddenly start moving money away from food delivery and rent-a-bike plays.

Access to resources historically is a problem "solved" by military action. VCs will only get in on the action when the resources are secured, and they find a way to insert themselves into the action.
It does very much matter which direction the black hole is moving; it needs to be moving toward you or you won't get any blueshifting effect, which is the entire reason the energy budget works out.
> Given the extremely sensitive nature of this investigation—not only the political implications, but also the fact that it involves a state known to conduct assassinations on foreign soil—a closed-door hearing is entirely reasonable

That's not why it's secret: it's not a case-by-case, sensitivity-based decision. Criminal grand jury proceedings are secret, period. This protects suspects, it protects witnesses, it protects the integrity of law enforcement investigations, it protects third parties who might be mentioned in evidence and testimony. This is a long-standing rule that applies to all criminal grand jury proceedings.
Could you give more details about these events?

What actually goes on?
That's the same as refusing to testify. You don't get to chose the format of your testimony, especially not in a grand jury which are secret to protect the innocent as well as prosecute the guilty.
so we are ok with removing the only thing we as people have going for us, consumer welfare consideration and focus only on how to make it easier for businesses to screw us.
Should I feel better that the business that is screwing me is a "small business" instead of a giant? is that the new standard?
I believe that, if you have immunity, then you can be forced to testify - because you already cannot incriminate yourself. It's a weird legal loophole.
> It’s possible that the Milky Way is partially settled, or intermittently so; maybe explorers visited us in the past, but we don’t remember, and they died out. The solar system may well be amid other settled systems; it’s just been unvisited for millions of years.

This, however, does not explain the complete lack of artifacts or observable technological signatures.
Chelsea Manning Is Jailed for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case
Amazon abruptly stopped buying goods from third-party sellers
2008, Financial Collapse, Too Big To Fail, Banks Got Bigger
2018, Facebook Helps Trump, Too Influential, Break Up Facebook?
because Google/Amazon/Facebook are more consequential to our life and society. But I agree cable companies should also be looked at. TBH there's no hope competition will ever be a thing where heavy infrastructure spending is at play, those companies should be made public and the infrastructure provided for businesses by the government through fees, just like roads and other basic infra.
Because, as a rule, you're not prohibited from publicly talking about your grand jury testimony.
I tend to flip between two extremes:

Code where I write few/no comments, because the API is intuitive, straightforward, and free of weird edge cases or unexpected differences, with any constraints well encoded by the type system, with everything relatively obvious from naming conventions, etc.

Code where I write more comments than code. It might still be a good API, but I can't fully encode the edge cases into the type system, or maybe there's some subtle internal edge cases, or it's unobvious why you would need some code that happens to be a bugfix, or [...]
You're going to have to expand on this, as this isn't what I see at all, and I've been dating online for a long time.

People definitely are trying to optimize what they can get, I'll agree, but that's no different from pre-internet dating. People have always tried to optimize what they could get in a dating partner, usually men for appearance, and women for paycheck. As for ghosting, I've certainly seen that, but that's usually something you experience very early on, even before you first meet someone (at which point it's kinda hard to call it "ghosting" if you've never even met them). I frequently have women match up with me, and then never respond. These people I suspect are just seeing how many matches they can acquire, and then choosing from the ones that interest them the most and leaving the rest in the queue in case they're bored one night and want a date. Usually, it's "ghosting" when you've been dating someone a while and then they suddenly disappear. I wouldn't blame that on online dating, that's just bad modern behavior, and can happen regardless of how two people initially meet.

As for "serial monogamy", again, this is just modern behavior, as opposed to 50+ years ago when divorce was uncommon and taboo. If you have different partners in your life, but you're monogamous with them while you're dating them, that, by definition, is "serial monogamy". I don't really see how that's a bad thing, unless you don't think people should ever get divorced (which means you support people staying in abusive or miserable situations), or you're trying to push for polyamory to become normal. It's just unavoidable.
The video states that business class is the most profitable per square foot, and economy is only there to fill up the plane. First was in between
Every minute saved in reaching a stroke or heart attack victim reduces mortality by approx 10%. Worth fighting for?
Canada? Or Common Wealth? Judging from how you spell “cheque”. Signatures still mean something in some countires, just not the US.
I believe net neutrality is a regulatory capture move, and gives Google and Netflix a stranglehold over the industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316513 Marketing to the contrary, I believe there are good, strong justifications for against net neutrality, as a consumer and someone excited about the future of technology.

Additionally, and far more importantly: Comcast is a regional monopoly. They have a lot of power in some geographic areas of the United States. Google is a global monopoly that has power in nearly every home on the planet. You shouldn't be willing to strengthen a global monopoly to try to fight a regional one.
No, you're putting words in my mouth, or misunderstanding my point.

> you think Comcast should be broken up

I think efforts to break up tech monopolies should first be focused on telecommunication companies.

> because they lobby for things you don't like,

Not just me, but are objectively harmful to 99% of the people they would affect

> but FAANG is fine because they lobby for things you do.

I'm mostly focusing on Google here, and yes, they at least occasionally lobby for things I like because sometimes their interests and the interests of the public in general happen to align.

With Comcast (and other ISPs), you have only one choice, and they spend tons of money and effort making sure you only have that one choice, and continue to have only that one choice. Comcast recently spent nearly $1M to prevent Fort Collins from creating a municipal ISP[1]. That is actively anti-competitive and monopolistic by definition.

[1]: https://muninetworks.org/content/totals-are-comcast-spends-9...
I am a bit surprised to read this since I often compare Austin and Seattle. IMO, Seattle's property and rent prices are way higher compared to Austin (I guess at least 50%). Both places have no income tax but Austin has slightly higher property taxes for less amenities, but that does not seem to make up for the purchase price difference.

Sure Seattle has much better public transportation but Austin has reasonable options for some specific locations.
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Roundness isn't acquired from a degree. It's acquired from learning multiple perspectives.

Colleges push that propaganda but they only offer perspectives that fall into academia approval.

Life is much much more than structured curriculum. Life is chaotic. Knowledge can be obtained through structure. Wisdom is obtained through chaos.
So if everybody knows your SSN/DOB, I'd say that makes a very good identity system in the sense that we can all unambiguously refer to the same person. It's just not any use as a means of authenticating that you are the person who has that identity.
Q: What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?

A: IBM.

https://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot&play=true

(I worked for Kaleida!)
The gas price build up went from 2005 to 2008, and then came the housing crisis.

For this study to mean much, they at least have to go as far as 2015
Email is wrong because the culture has decided it so, and doctors are judged based on how they exist within the culture.

As are we all.
You’d think with all the money people pay that hospital they can afford the cost of the doctor walking over to the room...
In 2007, the reading list for my Political Economy class had a book focused entirely on the water wars of the future. Lack of clean water isn't a hidden opportunity, it's a planet-altering challenge.
I am not sure what country you are from (or if you are being sarcastic?), but it is definitely not America.

If you have to go 100K into debt, this is a huge barrier to entry. It means that only rich people, or those who are willing to shackle themselves into debt, can afford to go to college.
Would you mind dumbing that down for me?

As I understand it we'd be living inside a simulation. Isn't that what GP suggested?
When my friends parents had to get the unfortunate news that their sons body was found, the police drove to their home to give them the bad news in person.

The news was going to hurt one way or another, but they appreciated that other humans empathized with their situation, taking a completely less efficient means of giving them the information directly.

Granted, it's different than hearing you have a terminal disease, but both are jaw-dropping, numbing realizations few people could be mentally prepared for, especially with the swelling of emotions.

Perhaps there is no 'right' way, but IMO there is a humane way.
Most decent sized designs, hard or soft, have little processors embedded in them in addition to their core logic. It's an interesting space/time/ease of development trade-off between a special little processor, and doing the same work in just logic.

GPUs are pretty well documented (relatively speaking), so they make a good case study. Generally special processors will handle FIFO pulling (so the part that reads the command lists), DMA engines, power management, video codecs, DRM key management, and some other miscellaneous pieces (like run this code on the GPU' on certain interrupts, instead of interrupting the CPU). And that's all in addition to the shader cores you normally think of as 'the GPU'.

In the past, I've used simple processor cores in FPGAs for motor control.
I live in Austin. And I've lived in Miami. And I've lived in NYC.

Degrees don't tell the whole story. Austin is nowhere near as humid as NYC or Miami. No question. Ask anyone who's lived in both places and they'll tell you the same: Austin is more comfortable in the summer.
They claim that it was an "unauthorized recruitment agency", but searching for the text from the image turns up plenty of results from 2015, such as http://www.sohu.com/a/27959735_233585 with exactly the same wording. So if it's unauthorized, then it's been going on for quite a while without anyone complaining.

My best guess for why it's included with the job requirements (rather than quietly filtering out people with non-Han names) is that they want to signal to workers that they won't be working together with minority peoples.
In what way does your final paragraph follow from anything you wrote before? You assert that the art -> empathy connection exists, but literally provide no basis for this assertion.

The idea that art generally does X is purely subjective, for all X, by the very nature of what art is.