skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d agree that it would have gotten old if this was an isolated past of Google but fact is that Google shuts downs products left and right even today, recently Google Inbox.

People will keep making fun of Google for this as long as Google keep throwing products at the wall that they don’t intend to keep supporting.
I don't know. People still fly despite the occasional mechanical error, programming error, or other non-individual error leading to fatalities.

I think if it is an order of magnitude safer that would override many of those emotional concerns. Insurance companies are decent at thinking rationally about problems. People might have emotional concerns, but I think a halved auto insurance bill would be enough to sway a critical majority of people.
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Even ignoring the answer to that question is yes for other industries. They are allowing SDVs even after the Uber/Phoenix incident, so we already know the answer to this question.
You have twin cities situation going on here.

Although it is more akin to a left brain-right brain situation. 2 similar structures separated by one physical divide.

It helps to think of Boston and Cambridge as one city. (Though I am sure many don't like that) The city of Boston itself is pretty small to begin with anyways.
in this particular neighborhood, the bike lane was also fairly unpopular with local cyclists too, who felt they were being forced to bike through the dirtiest, most obstacle prone portion of the road.
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"You are mixing availability (access at any given moment) with durability (not losing data)."

You are correct - I misread that as availability even after quoting that very same line.
You're off by some number of orders of magnitude on the accidents, unless you mean, "There are ~35,000 accidents that involve one or more fatalities (and many more that do not)."
Jakemor, I noticed you haven’t responded to anybody asking you more than a generic question about your methodology.

Here’s what it looks like you did;

Made a weight lifting logging app and charged a monthly subscription for it.

Used your users data to create an algorithm that culled the routine of your best performers, most likely defined by heaviest weight lifted.

Claimed that by following your algorithm your users could 2x the results of trainers; trainers here is defined as “people who train,”
And not “people who are paid to train others.”

Cited 60 days as a window of success.

All of this, if it is as it appears, is massively misleading in an industry already known for snake oil.

Have you compensated for your users that had big numbers but approached it in an unhealthy way? For instance, how many of your user’s deadlift high numbers resulted in a hernias?

Additionally you say you have engineers and scientists working on hacking human performance. What about strength and conditioning coaches? What about athletes?
> It probably doesn't matter so much though because the percentage of people who continue biking even in cold winter and with adverse snow conditions is quite low.

This is not necessarily true. Here in Copenhagen the amount of people cycling in winter is not significantly less than at other times of the year. That said, we don't have much snow, but the bike lanes are cleared before the road lanes (to incentivize not taking the car into the city).
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Oh, sure, Satya's strategy has done wonders for Microsoft's stock value, but Microsoft's constant retreats from various parts of their ecosystem sequentially harms the remaining parts of their ecosystem. The further they retreat, the less people have a reason to build on Microsoft's platforms.

And bear in mind, HP is a hardware company, they aren't worried about what platform is running on their hardware. Microsoft is a software company, which is a very different ball game.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2017/05/08/where-do-y...
It's interesting that it may have been avoidable if he'd accepted rendition to Sweden to stand trial for the sexual assault accusation, given that the previous administration was apparently uninterested in extraditing him for this charge.

He likely made the situation worse by hiding out in the embassy---he became a symbol of something untouchable by American power, and this administration cares more about that sort of perception than the previous one.
If autonomous driving can be delivered with accident-causing failure rates similar to those of general manufacturer defects (i.e., much lower odds than accidents caused by human error), then I think that would be sufficient. But if say we go from ~35k human-caused road deaths/year to ~10k autonomous-driving caused deaths/year, that may be seen as unacceptably high.
I feel like unprotected bike lanes are near useless. Atleast in NY, drivers don't really care. Ubers/cabs will pull over quickly to let people off blocking them. Pedestrians don't look for bikes when they cross them, and bikers are often forced to leave the lane due to obstruction.
Same for me (reading The Economist). Having a few days or a week to filter news down means I still hear about things in a semi-timely manner but that I don't seem to get caught up in most media's daily churn.
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1. VC prefer technical risk to market risk. Industrial is riskier.

2. The hype around ML has turned it into magic, so why not “disrupt” a huge market?

Imho a lot of this is the direct result of the deep learning hype cycle.
Humans have a tolerance for human-style accidents, but not robotic-style accidents. A dipshit that pulls in front of you to t-bone is a human-style accident that is acceptable. A tesla that sees a river and thinks it's a road is a robotic-style accident. It's going to take centuries for us to become acclimated to how machines mess things up.
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~1/3rd of this article is dedicated to noise. :)

Trials of the drones had attracted complaints from residents in Bonython, Canberra, who said they were noisy and intrusive.

The Bonython Against Drones campaign said the devices could be heard from "a long way off, both coming and leaving".

"When they do a delivery drop they hover over the site and it sounds like an extremely loud, squealing vacuum cleaner," the group said on its website.

In response, Wing said it had developed a quieter drone. The aviation authority says Wing must use this quieter drone for its commercial service.
Weaponized culture.
Battery design is one of their primary competitive advantages, along with marketing and the supercharger network. Large scale manufacturing isn’t.
No, it's a legit question. Before I read this article I heard mention of a new picture of a black hole, and I was wondering how it was different from previous pictures.

My understanding now is that this is the first time we've observed one accurately enough to get a picture of the Einstein ring around a black hole. And even there, it's heavily reconstructed using machine learning, which I wouldn't call a "photo", more of a "AI artist rendition".
I'll second this. I commute to downtown via the southwest corridor bike path, and most of the drivers are pretty patient and give me enough space once I get on to the roads. The worst parts of the commute are usually the torn up roads by mass Ave.
I have noscript that disables scripts by default. I can't read forbes, but I don't miss it, there's a lot of other internets that I can read. Should I even try to read forbes?
Thanks. I read the Wiki on the matter; should have gone straight there instead of asking. After understanding what it is, angular resolution does make perfect sense a term, but at first glance was certainly a bit counterintuitive.
Another question about braking.

When the car brakes about 70% of breaking force is at the front wheels, so wouldn't regenerative breaking be more effective for the cars with the motor at the front and not at the back (like in Tesla)?
The logic doesn't break down. They facilitate the growth and transactions of money being created out of thin air. Sort of like a bank loaning out and storing counterfeit dollars. Yes the facilitates transaction, but in the end they are facilitating the transaction of a dollar created out of thin air.
This piece doesn't really rely on the SPLC; it mentions the list (which, I agree, is poorly managed) in passing, but spends most of its time in substantive, direct criticism of Hardin. It could have gone even further; Hardin gets worse as you dig.
I've experienced similar hostility, while just walking and minding my own business (and respecting traffic rules). For some reason, drivers get annoyed with anyone on the road that is not inside a car.
Is there any actual evidence for this at all?
Clinton's 'I didn't say that, but if I did, it would have been a joke' is exactly what politicians say when they said something they don't want attributed to them but aren't sure if there's any evidence of them saying it.
>> Additionally you say you have engineers and scientists working on hacking human performance.

In this post, he says he's a 1 man shop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19635573
It was better, in the early days. IE3 and IE4 were a dream, at least as an enduser. It wasn't until closer to IE6 that it truly became shit
The fourth possibility - and this one never ceases to be true in all cases when it comes to the Feds - is that the people seeking his prosecution are spiteful as hell. They are not used to not getting their way. It's extremely fearsome to go up against the US Government when it wants your neck, because they have so many ways to destroy your life all around the world. They have infinite resources for all practical purposes and can just keep coming at you.

One of the few consistencies I've seen in my lifetime across all major US Government agencies is that they seem to hold grudges forever. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about the FBI, CIA, Pentagon, DOJ, IRS or SEC. Assange, out there, is a persistent waving defiance of their perceived power and reach (and worse, right in the US sphere of influence).
My point is that all net worth is theoretical as measured in currency D except the extreme edge case where your only asset is cash or cash equivalent in currency D.

I am not redefining net worth so much as I am pointing out its theoretical (read: unrealized) nature.
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>Can you stop trying to deliberately muddy the waters with this nonsense? You're focusing on twisting my words instead of trying to make an honest argument.

FWIW the feeling is mutual, I see you as doing exactly that to me. Which maybe means we're kind of talking past each other. I don't really want to endlessly go down that rabbit hole because I don't even think you're necessarily wrong to be upset. But I also think your original post failed to make a quality argument, was very low content for a big claim, that "politically motivated" gets tossed around way too lightly (and is a weak argument regardless) and the reasoning you gave is particularly non-sensical (normally such an argument would talk about the motivations of the Administration or prosecutors, although inconveniently for that this Administration has tons of on the record statements about loving Wikileaks). It's also irritating how you have then tried to flip the standard of evidence when it was you who made the accusation. Next time, maybe in your original post tell us what the law and history is around indictments as you understand/have researched it, why this one stands out (not your feelings, actual numbers), why this particular incident of "politics" was wrong if that's what it was (since it was international of course it had to involve "politics" but that's a broader brush then you implied), etc. Putting that all out upfront saves everyone a lot of time trying to endlessly nail down basics down-thread.
Waymo can do inner city driving better than Tesla and GM can do highway driving better than Tesla.

I love the competition amongst the different platforms, as a consumer it's a win for us. I could care less on which brand does it better.
The thing about cycling is that it’s basically fast walking. In places where cycling dominates people only ride as fast as a quick jogger (10 mph is a 6 minute mile). The correct model for cycling isn’t space on the road, it’s an extra sidewalk with an accommodating turning radius. This is what you actually see in The Netherlands. People think of public spaces as roads and as roads as places for cars to drive and park, so they get hung up on “sharing the road,” but really the thing to do is shrinking the road and enhancing places for people.
Yeah not surprising. Used to work for the Texas Gov Storage IT. Those guys left the single file server for all of Secretary of State (department that manages elections) up on the internet for months to make remote access / working from home possible. SSL certs, keebase backups, it was all there.

Behind a single user/pass form with a 12 char pass. Would be stupid to not target these states.

This was in September 2018.
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But the bureaucracy is sometimes for good reason (usually driven by Congressional mandate). What people need to do is learn to work within (and around) the bureaucracy. That's key to the government market. There is a reason for the way it is, and you need to learn to work with it instead of fighting against it.

I'm not sure you're understanding really how the system works, which is exactly what I was pointing out in my statement. I never said "guaranteed" - I said "stable". There is ALWAYS risk of losing the customer and the government can terminate at any time for almost any reason. But if you perform, then you can maintain the same customer for a decade or more.

This is how the system works and it works this way for a reason. There is more accountability in the government market than people realize - moreso than in most commercial transactions even.
That is what you get for using 4096x4096 sized alpha blended HDR bitmaps for the icons and animated emojis on your 5" QUHD phone :-P.
Sounds good to me, as long as cyclists follow the same rules drivers do. Just yesterday I had a cyclist blatantly roll a stop sign on a side street, entering the main road I was on. If I was an inattentive driver I would have creamed him! He even looked to the left, saw me, and just kept rolling through!
I try to cross the street in my downtown are just walking from my parking garage to the office and some driver's think I don't have right of way and turn left or make right turns into me, because as a person, I don't count, even though I have the walk signal.

I'm almost tempted to just start video recording when I'm making the trip, and start reporting these people after getting their plate number.
Depends on the person, if they hold personal values higher than whatever the outcome may be.
I would generally agree. First of all, you're going to test a lot of your restore processes with backups which are closer to home: You should make sure your VMs can all restore from your onsite (or just less icy) backups, for instance. As long as you're confident in that, the only thing you need to test with "ice cold" storage is that you can successfully restore a single VM from it, since you know all of your VMs can be restored.
So you're arguing that Mozilla should stop developing FF so that they can improve an inferior, competing product?

That still makes no sense for either Mozilla or us. Just use FF on mobile.
People with the yard space will become hubs (for a relatively small fee) for apartment dwellers. Or, the drones will deliver to the roofs of the apartment blocks instead.
For one-way streets this is avoided by reducing one lane of travel and using it for parking, putting the protected bike lane where cars used to park. Example: https://goo.gl/maps/9FoAZgKirbQ2
Excellent point, the relative lack of blocking is one thing that makes protected bike lanes better.

To be honest, though, I'm not entirely a fan as protected lanes make left turns much more difficult to the point where to make a left turn I usually make a right turn and then a U-turn in a protected bike lane.
Forester and his acolytes are widely discredited.
Other sites' use of jQuery only helps if everyone is loading the same URL, which they're not. There are too many versions in too many places. I think I know the article they were thinking of, where someone tested how common it was for different sites to load libraries from the same place, it was not great.

jQuery.com doesn't mention linking to it, only downloading, and references to their CDN and other CDNs is at the bottom of their Download page. They focus on the download option probably because people generally want to have more control of their sites and would rather have "their" jQuery file be loaded from the same CDN as their site's other assets.
Is there a good general book on type theory as it related to programming languages or a good place to start?

I don't have a strong comp-sci background even though I've been a professional programmer for a long time, I've always preferred strongly typed languages with ADT's just from experience but I'd really like to understand this type of stuff better.
There is a relationship between GA and Octonions (and the 7-dimensional “cross product”). http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/node7.html
^This.

The census don’t, generally speaking, tend to believe statistics and facts. And the media will always spin a bad situation to boost their click through rates.

So, even though self driving cars may be 100% less prone to accidents (this is just an example), media headlines like “driver killed instantly when self driving car automatically steered into a wall without warning,” will cause the majority to push back and say they’re unsafe.
Anecdotally I heard a few people grumbling about mini-coopers because they wanted basically an FWD BMW but had to settle on something ugly.

Maybe BMW has finally heard from them.
> For anyone with enough resources and time I'd encourage collecting citizenships like they were Pokemon.

Care to elaborate? What kind of benefits one could get out of it? There's tons of information on topic from biased sources like law firms, but very little otherwise.
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I would, it's just like Steve Jobs being a* hole while taking credit for everyone's work. In those cases it's a result of hierarchy in this case it's a case of the media looking for a media darling for their story. In either case it's not painting reality correctly. That being said it's not her fault and she should be proud of her accomplishment. It's the media which likes to paint pictures of reality like this, to single out a single person to take credit for what a team of researchers did or what a corporation did.
the real question is, will his sentence be less, equal, or more?
> No one talks about the noise.

That's almost the only thing the article talks about.
Cycling on the street is taking your life into your own hands. I avoid it whenever I can. Sidewalks are usually empty where I live.

Some places have a great network of bike and walk trails. I think this is the only viable option: roads or other paved surfaces where automobiles are not allowed.
People die today. Self driving cars just need to improve on that but a significant amount. I predict that despite not being perfect (which might not even be a reachable bar) they will become mandatory for all cars in the near future because they are that much better than humans.
It's not the snow so much as the temperature. I bike commute year-round here in NYC and most other cyclists aren't willing to brave the cold, even when the streets are completely clear.
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It also didn't hijack the page header, back button, and left/right swipe actions on other people's pages.
Historically, government contracting and the public sector has been incredibly corrupt, as it's basically unlimited funds with no market-based mechanism to address it (in a private entity, the owners will be angry about money taken from their pockets by employees, and in places where corruption is too high, you end up with family firms or other external trust structures, very small entities, etc.)

This is why the heavy-handed regulations exist in US contracting (along with massive risk aversion and other things). The Government uniquely cannot be subject to market forces and punishment for bad actions.
If there were a mini-compressor-pump aboard the drone, is it possible that it could inflate/evacuate a balloon on demand during hover mode? Is the economics of such a thing
even possible?
Last time I checked, the salaries for developers in Singapore didn't look competitive, especially when considering the high cost of living. Has this changed recently?
There actually is a microformat specification for this, rel="license" [1], which you can use like this:

<!-- In the footer -->
[...] <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> [...]

Alternatively, as the microformats page also points out, you could use `<meta>` or `<link>` tags [2] with a well-known ontology like Dublin Core [3]:

<!-- In the head -->
<link rel="DCTERMS.license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" />

Which I'm fairly sure would be recognized and correctly extracted by scrapers like Zotero's.

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license

[2] http://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcq-htm...

[2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/
Can you explain what you mean? Sounds like hot air.
Maybe they're not from the West, and are just ignorant of how ignorant we are, not naïve.
Yes, this makes sense. Nobody is arguing to ride a bike 17 inches from a train (and the train can't swerve into you!), why would you want to do it with cars? Separate places for bikes and people make the most sense.
Why is this posted on HackerNews? I mean, I know the reason why, but what's the handwavy-low-effort reason that it's here?
> Thought experiment: if you saw an article titled "Jony Ive: The Man Behind The iPhone" would you be commenting on how unfair it is to single him out?

Yes, and that’s what happens in each of those hyperbolic articles (that are mostly about Jobs, but same thing)
You are referring to what Hillary Clinton and Perkins Coie did via Fusion GPS? Yes, exactly.
And actually insulating the car. Cars today are almost entirely thermally uninsulated, which was fine back when gasoline engines pumped out kilowatts of heat for free.

Having an insulating layer between the inner and outer steel panels and maybe making all glass out of a laminate with the inner plastic layer something thermally insulating would help a lot.
There's a certain burden to being vigilant and self-defensive on the road. Even if I'm not protected in intersections, a protected bike lane means that there's a lot less time I need to be worried that a car will hit me.

However, you're bringing up the point that protected bike lanes may make intersections even more dangerous for cyclists. While your reasoning makes sense, do you know if there's anything to corroborate that claim?
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I see car drivers roll stop signs every day, multiple times a day. Sounds like the cyclists are doing just as good of a job at following the rules.