skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Computers are supposed to be orders of magnitudes better than humans at certain tasks.

Who claimed that driving is among those "certain tasks"? No, in the near future computers will at best be marginally better than human drivers. Computers are better at decision latency. But that merely compensates for some of their current shortcomings.

And that will be sufficient to save thousands of lives every year. Do you not like preventing deaths?

Delaying "marginally better" for "orders of magnitude better" means delaying the deployment of life-saving measures.
Why Tesla? They seem to be near the bottom of the pack when it comes to self driving capability.
This build-a-city approach is also probably due to the large rural population in China that have been steadily urbanizing or just moving to the cities for work. So there is some expectance that cities will be filled which does generate false hope and random ghost towns near places of economic activities. Good example in the past is Shenzhen which became big and the other unknown cities built around that time and was grouped with Shenzhen that people have forgotten because they never became big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_China
> Uber does have a massive moat -- its network of drivers and riders

The network of drivers would be rendered obsolete by SDC
A few years before I encountered jQuery, I found an experimental programming language that tried to do away with the distinction between variables that contained 0-1 values and those that contain 0-n. In this language, all operations were set operations. When your data model changed from 1:1 to 1:n (classic example - user:address is probably the concept I’ve seen mis-modeled the most often).

So when I saw jQuery for the first time, I’d already been primed for this concept. I’m a little surprised it’s been used so infrequently.
The trend in their Core Platform Contribution Margin ("a useful indicator of the economics of our Core Platform", essentially ignoring all the costs apart from payments to drivers and restaurants) is not very uplifting:

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2017 -8% -0% -3% 9%
2018 18% 15% 9% -3%

"We also expect our Core Platform Contribution Margin to decline in the near term due to, among other factors, competition in Ridesharing and planned significant investments in Uber Eats, based upon our long-term growth expectations for Uber Eats. Our Uber Eats Take Rate has declined in recent periods, and may continue to decline, as we onboard large-volume restaurants at a lower service fee and restaurants with lower average basket sizes, and as we invest in more nascent and competitive markets, such as India."
ACLU Warns Immigrants of 'Possible Violation of Their Constitutional Rights'
I will be the first to admit that I am not a businessperson, but I would predict you're not going to make many friends here standing on "the rules allow us to do this" and "everybody else does it". That's the weakest possible defense, and shows you're not really hearing why people "are pissed about it".
The first thing that popped up in my mind was the comic strip, but this being HN, I dismissed the thought and opined this could be a new Java Script framework or some new plugin for Chrome.

Pleasantly surprised to know this is about the comic strip indeed.

Would like to know what it has to say about Aunt Fritz :)
Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril
> new person bursts into the room “Hey, should ! automatically implement all traits, or not?”

Lol; that was me (although there were probably others). I approve of the dramatic rendition.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2619
Xiaomi founder will donate his £735m bonus to charity
Pudong was definitely in that range before it was developed. Chinese densities are completely different from the rest of the word. No one calls a 3500/km2 area a ghost city of it is built for 3500/km2, but if it’s built for 10k/km2 with lots of 30 story apartment blocks, there are a lot of empty units and you can play football in the overbuilt 8 lane streets.
That's nice, but:

1. It's a definition for the word 'American', not the phrase 'American race'.

2. It's from 1828. I don't think usage from 190 years ago is very relevant. Language changes pretty quickly.

3. That does not match what OP was talking about. They were talking about a further distinction within white Americans. Unless I'm mistaken.
The only issue there is that Uber hasn’t driven out the local livery companies, and Uber’s presence forced many of them to invest in infrastructure. If the rides get too expensive, people will just go back to taxis.
When your business is selling $10 for $5 then no, I cannot see a way to turn cash flow positive.
In Austin, a significant portion of the cleaning people work evenings/nights, and I believe frequently are given the option of parking in the garage of the office building(s) they're cleaning.

It's not all, but it's a part. Of course, Austin's no NYC. I assume NYC doesn't have as many empty parking garages at night, and it definitely has better public transit.
Haha why would they do that
The US and China could (and have) put a probe on the moon for far less than $100B. $100MM is still a great accomplishment, but let's not exaggerate it.
Maximum time for current charges is 5 years...and unless the US adds on more charges before the extradition hearing, they can't just do so after he's in the US since they owe him back to the UK after his initial prison term (or after the trial, if he's found not guilty). They could (and probably would) try to re-extradite him, but that would require another hearing and UK judges are less willing to put up with that sort of procedural nonsense.
Not sure that Milton Keynes "Home of the Roundabout" and the other new towns in the UK don't count.
Emacs is amazing and I still use it when I'm inside an ssh session. But I'm a convert to VSCode because of the node debugging capabilities. Those are just awesome.
There are not satellites taking photos of people as frequently or as in close proximity as these things will. Google would literally be able to identify even how healthy you’re looking by image classification.

To you’re point about Androids, yeah, it’s not healthy or good that the thing is effectively a data mining apparatus. So now, even if you decide to leave the phone at home to get some privacy, now you’re going to have to bring a disguise too.
Ask HN: What are alternatives to OO programming?
Don't say functional. It combines the power of abstract mathematics with the learning curve of abstract mathematics. Any programming paradigm that requires me to write a dissertation to use shouldn't morally speaking count as a programming paradigm.

I want a programming paradigm that doesn't breakdown after 500k LOC. That rules out structured programming also.
> and it's why I no longer ride my bike in the city anymore

So is your response to just drive a car then? That's a most-poignant tragedy of the commons.
> The Company has from time to time issued nonrecourse loans to certain employees for the exercise of stock options or for personal use. As of December 31, 2017 and 2018, the total outstanding employee loan balances were $21 million and $16 million, respectively. A total of 16 million and 10 million shares were pledged as collateral to secure the loans as of December 31, 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Is loaning 20 million dollars to employees for personal use as dodgy as it sounds?
Not sure if it’s the case here, but decreasing time complexity can often require a corresponding increase in space complexity.
30s, but OK.

Aircraft production was fully industrial going into the 40s.
Nine Companies Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Created an hour go not ring any bells
The given numbers are not ridiculous, so it's just as fair to assume they can reach profitability as to assume they can't.
Valuations of Biotech Startups from Series A to IPO
I don't understand how you even attempt to recover from failures that occur during a descent like this. Latency to the moon appears to be 1.3 seconds. How much time do you have to do anything?
> That's a problem with cyclists who don't follow the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles.

Yes. As someone who bicycles as my primary transportation, I get really angry with other bicyclists who don't follow the rules. A couple of times I've even shouted "you're why drivers hate bikes!"

Here's the thing -- where I live, the police used to enforce traffic laws against bikes to the same degree as against cars. It wasn't unusual to see a bike pulled over and getting a ticket -- but the majority of bicyclists were very well behaved, and there was little animosity from drivers.

At some point, that changed and cops started ignoring bicyclists who broke traffic laws. Now, you see bad bicyclists all the time, and the level of animosity from cars is noticeably increasing.

I wish the cops would go back to the enforcing the laws.
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of differentials [pdf]
The perils of value-based pricing for prescription drugs
1. I haven't heard anything about it recently but that doesn't mean work isn't continuing on it. Xray wasn't supposed to "fix" anything really, it was a fairly extreme experiment to see if it would be worth going down that path.

2. No, and it's not trying to be, as "speed" isn't their top priority, extensibility is.

That being said, the days of opening a 5mb file and the editor getting brought to its knees are largely over (unless you have poorly written extensions which can still take everything down, because again in Atom extensions are EVERYTHING and can do ANYTHING).
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, companies going public used to already make at least _some_ money...
That was what the Bush administration tried to do, but they were unsuccessful. The Supreme Court ruled that it was still unconstitutional, and the prisoners had the same rights under the US Constitution.
By normal I mean below its threshold for activation. According to Boeing this depends on speed and attitude.

Of course this leaves the problem of what happens if the sensor data was wrong but fluctuating wildly. Which is what I was getting at in the other paragraph.

In both the Lion Air and the Ethiopian incident the sensor data went to some very high value and stayed fixed basically until the aircraft hit the ground so perhaps they know that is the only failure mode or maybe they are accounting for other failures but don't feel the need to expand upon that in public.
This is extremely thin and probably shouldn't be on the front page.
Venture returns from recent biopharma IPOs
That is an interesting issue. However, there is another technique to create cloned mammals that has is used industrially to create non chimeric mice from embryonic stem cell cultures. A donor blastocyst is used as a host. At a particular stage of development, implanting a number of ES cells from the desired clone into the center of the blastocyst induces the donor blastocyst to develop into the placenta, while the ES cells continue development as the fetus. This allows for engineering of the ES cells independently, without failure prone nuclear transfer. It would be interesting to know if this would work in primates. It may be difficult to maintain the ES cell cultures. It might also be riskier in some sense. I'm curious what others know about this.
I think you missed the /s in your comment.
My understanding is Tesla and comma.ai have taken a software focused approach with limited hardware. Others like waymo have taken a hardware approach with more sophisticated sensors. What makes you feel Tesla/Comma.ai will win?
I think it's a case of "you can't be told, you have to discover for yourself"... I've written it off a few times in the past. I thought Emacs was just a text editor - and after trying it a couple of times it seemed like a clunky relic with really stupid keybinds.

This time when I tried it I started to realised that Emacs is a text editor like a saucepan is a popcorn maker: it can do it, but that's not the point.

Once you commit the stupid keybinds to memory, it works the same in most "modes" - git mode, JS mode, file management mode, ftp/remote file mode, hackernews mode... Now I rarely leave Emacs - my entire workflow is inside it and everything starts to feel like "one". It's replaced a dozen third-party apps and websites I'd normally use. I'm annoyed when I have to leave.

It's crap by default, you have to make it your own. Then it's lisp all the way down. You can ask "what is the command bound to the down arrow key?" and it says "next-line". Then you can ask "what is 'next-line"? and it tells you all the function, including a hyperlink to the actual executable source code that you can inspect, or change in place, or use in your higher level scripts.

It's simultaneously living in the past and way in the future. I wouldn't outright recommend it to anyone trying to choose between VSCode and Atom though... you'll just have to discover it for yourself in 20 years time ;)
it's economically unreasonable to drive for more than one apps simultaneously. Now, it could be economically reasonable to drive for more than one apps at many points in the past.

If Lyft and Uber are so easily exchangeable, why is Lyft is still a minority in the US while spending more money?

There's something more interesting here.
The perfect is the enemy of the good enough, or J PowerPoint Morgan's epithet: i dont want it perfect I want it by Thursday.

Assange didn't have to be perfect but the trail of wreckage behind him of past collaborators and friends speaks volumes.
Both were, in the end.

But this one was going slower.
Oh, we all are aware that construction is a huge jobs program, and that most of these buildings are going to be torn down after 20-30 years of use, since Chinese construction using concrete and cheap labor necessarily requires overbuilding that makes proper maintenance very expensive. Local governments see this as a feature, since every new building is more GDP, even demolition of the previous building is added GDP they can report to central.

A lot of the speculation will have to fall off. A good old fashioned property bust would do wonders to correct all the distortions in the market, but the central government keeps doubling down on more.
The logical fallacy is your own, nobody in the article, or the comments believes Facebook is the only party doing this.
Uber, Losing $1.8B a Year, Reveals IPO Filing
DJ Venture Report [pdf]
Agreed - Facebook has a network effect/moat because a new service that's better in every way is useless if your friends aren't on it. Getting the network to migrate is hard and when this does happen FB is quick to buy the threat (Instagram, WhatsApp) or compete and kill them (Snap).

Nobody holds an allegiance to Lyft or Uber - they pick whichever is currently a better deal for both driving and riding. Uber's recent loyalty program is the first thing that slightly moves this in favor of continuing to use Uber, but it's only a little incentive. Large swings in price still favor switching.

Their only moat comes from being able to undercut competitors with VC money in any market they appear in until the competitor is dead and Uber can then raise prices to be profitable.

It's probably a winner take all market. A SDC competitor would be a threat, but I'd be both impressed and surprised if Google could pull that off.
Is this a government venture or private? I read that it is private but then I see quotes about the PM like this.
yeah that's kind of a ridiculous statement. Big and expensive approaches to space exploration fail just the same.
1. Dealing with biased data

2. Cleaning/understanding data - nearly all data sets I've used have duplicates, missing data, highly anomalous distributions in some fields that indicate we aren't measuring what we think we are, etc. So a lot of my time is spent figuring out what's going on in the data, cleaning up the issues, figure out what subset of the data is reliable, and then dealing with the biases introduced by what is missing or wrong.

3. Dealing with people who don't understand or respect statistics and data science. For example, I've been brought in to "do the analysis" on an "A/B test" where a team didn't appropriately randomize their samples, and also hadn't done a statistical power test beforehand so had an underpowered test anyway, so there was just no hope of validating that their change was an improvement.
Well, following Snowden's revelations we learned that NSA was spying on European countries' citizens and administrations, the US president (Obama at the time) just said that spying on allies was a perfectly natural thing.

This is definitely a one-sided relationship.

You can be sure that the US will never extradite anyone for that at least.
> Every media article I've read cites her team-credit emphasis.

But that is the problem, actually. Simple question: Is Prof Bouman the team leader that held all this together?

In answering this, consider this is from the ERC website, which is the major funding body of the project:

> Since 2014, this six year research project is being carried out by three lead scientists and their teams; namely Professors Heino Falcke from Radboud University Nijmegen (also Chair of EHT Science Council), Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, and Luciano Rezzolla from Goethe University Frankfurt. [0]

So to answer "What more should the media do?", my guess would be: at some point, mention Falcke, Kramer, and Rezzolla? And the ERC?

[0] https://erc.europa.eu/news/eu-funded-scientists-unveil-first...
I'm still at 1.0g, and 300kts, but I'm in a decent, obviously angle of attack is less than in level flight.

This is a common misconception, but is not true. The angle of attack does not care if you are in level flight, climbing, or descending. As long as you are in unaccelerated flight, the AoA is identical.

It's not exactly the same, because if the descent (or climb) angle is significant, the lift only has to supply part of the weight of the airplane (the rest being supplied by drag or thrust), so the AoA will be slightly less. But that's accounted for because the load factor will also be slightly <1G.

(The edge case is if the plane is flying straight up or down. In that situation, the wings provide no lift at all and the AoA will be zero.)
The day the clowns cried: The story of the Hartford circus fire
That isn't inherent to getting the density though. You could design them all differently if you wanted.

You could find an example of a row of identical buildings in any country, it doesn't prove anything.
As a former resident of BC, I think the former government was dysfunctionally corrupt, in the sense that the corruption was actively leading to dysfunction in the province.

It's one thing when politicians steal for themselves. It's another thing entirely when they steal for their friends.
Feels more like Uber and Lyft reached a point where they cannot raise private capital anymore and so jumped onto the public markets to fool random investors. If they cannot be profitable now, what makes them think they will be profitable with SDCs?

I challenge the fundamental premise that SDCs will make them profitable. There is no stickiness to their business model. Moving on to another ride sharing service is frictionless today. Most people I know use both Lyft and Uber. So if tomorrow SDCs become popular and offer a cheaper rate, people will move to them in droves. Nothing stopping them. We know Uber and Lyft are way behind on SDCs compared to Google on that front. It also looks like GM and Ford could there before these two. So what makes them a good investment either in the short or long term?
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Potentially, but for high-growth unprofitable companies management is usually betting that they can either use the extra money raised to fix the fundamentals of the business in time for the next capital raise, or else they need to dump their stocks on the public market and get out because there won't be a next capital raise. I'd bet that #1 is more common in the management team's head, but #2 is more common in reality.
It didn't have ARM64 JIT support until very recently.
Looking only at the commit numbers of the `atom/atom` repo is a bit misleading as the Atom source code as the core plugin packages (e.g., the language modes, but also fundamental features like the tree and the fuzzer) are each in their own repo. For instance, the fuzzy-finder repo alone had 15+ commits in the last three weeks.
That seems incredibly tedious. For once I find myself agreeing with Zuckerberg about clothing choice.
You clearly don’t own or have ever ridden in a Tesla.
The Capone comparison is probably because there is speculation (for good reason) that the US wants to punish Assange for things unrelated to the hacking conspiracy charge he was actually indicted for...

But since they can't do that directly they've chosen a different crime to snag him on.
Coffee Not Essential for Life
Same boat, I could go buy a car in cash tomorrow but I don’t have a drivers license.

People react with incredulity when I tell them I don’t have a car.

I live a 15 minute walk from the center of town and work and the UK has reasonable bus service in most towns so why would I spend thousands on a car and hundreds a month to park a vehicle I never use outside my house.

I cycle for fitness and pleasure though and most car drivers are lovely but we do have the odd dickhead as well.
I get that it's got a bit more going on, but Atom's startup time is still so much slower than Sublime Text.

I open a file, there's still this "clunky" lag of 2-3 seconds to open. I hope they work on optimizing this at some point.
> As I once saw someone point out here, the crucial thing is that they be verifiable by the average person.

But that undermines the purpose of moving to a black-box system.

No, seriously. Every cash register can spit out a receipt; the idea behind audit trails has been around since Hammurabi. The fact that voting systems have none for something as important as the foundation of democracy betrays their purpose.

Every successive society insists on subjugating the plebes by imposing some new barrier to understanding the rules that govern them.

* You can't read the written word of God because you're illiterate. You have to come to church.

* Oh, but you learned to read? Well, only the priests can actually talk to him. You still have to come to church and talk to God through the priest.

* (Who the hell does this Martin Luther guy think he is?)

* Now we have complex tax and legal codes only accountants/lawyers can understand and negotiate. What started as a goat theft escalates to 20 other charges you don't understand the nuances of to successfully defend yourself in court.

* We have voting systems only the administrators have visibility into. Does your vote matter? Was it even recorded in the first place, or did it get wiped out by convenient Russian floating-point rounding errors?

* Our understanding of the world around us is no longer driven by dogma, but personalized algorithms administered by a handful of corporate gatekeepers hell-bent on driving engagement and consumption. If the Faceless Oracle of Google doesn't want you to see it, you'll never discover it organically.

* Freedom of movement is being replaced with self-driving cars, powered by math and code only its engineers (supposedly) understand.

* Soon our personal assets will be governed by the blockchain, another technology understood and exploited by its administrators (and their scammer buddies).

It's a classic hustler and cult-leader tactic. The less someone understands, the easier it is to fleece them.
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