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This isn't uniformly true: consider that New York's governor Cuomo blocked played a part in blocking reforms there for several years. It's not historically true, either, when you consider buying votes in the Daley machine of Chicago.

It's possible to talk about the politics of this on HN, but if we apply one level of generalization ("people in power for whom free and fair elections do not serve their interest"), we can have a less inflamed discussion.

My rejoinder to the grandparent is, "some states are better than others". This is well known, and the correlation with party is well known as well.
The article on self-driving Tesla, doesn't mention its lack of LIDAR. Has the industry come into terms that Tesla will one day pull of Level 4 autonomy without LIDAR?
Not really. Best practices in the field involve having representatives from many to all parties present at each step of the voting process, from the distribution of ballots at the booth, to the counting, to the archiving of counted boxes pending recounts.
Many cities have vehicles that are covered with cameras, read your license plate, and make a database entry.
And now suddenly your browser needs root and needs to run in kernel mode?
> What Tesla is doing is knowingly allow people to to unsafe software to gather scenarios that can be used as learning events. Not only that, they are getting people to pay a premium. I imagine that tesla will then rent the next generation of trained models back to the drivers, even though they paid for, and provided the training set.

As a Model S owner with over 10k miles on Autopilot, I take issue with you calling the software unsafe (I have never once had a disengagement that caused a safety issue), and I am happy to pay a premium to contribute to what I consider progress. I would happily pay more. Waymo vehicles aren't available to anyone buy a few beta testers. Tesla Autopilot neural net improvements are available to everyone in the fleet.
Something makes me think that that particular location doesn’t have abundant legal parking options available, which in turn is a community problem. I’m not defending her, but it’s a two sided coin.
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> I don't think you should refer to people as terrible just because they don't admire the same qualities that you do.

By your logic, you can admire all sorts of terrible people, like those who have committed murder, genocide, etc.

It is fine to judge people on a moral level if they are committing blatantly unethical acts. Being "successful" does not exclude one from being terrible.
Could you speak to your experience with this particular list item?
No software was crippled here. Process isolation is arguably the way it should have always been in the first place. Hell, rebrand it as "hardware accelerated sandboxing" and now it's an obviously superior approach, right? ;)

But either way nothing was actually "crippled", and if anything the reverse is true. They are un-crippling aspects of JavaScript (like re-introducing SharedArrayBuffer).
I just watched the 5minute distillation and I’m pretty sure he was talking about the organ.
And the natural consequences of freedom have been summed up by Sade who argued that without the freedom to kill someone else, freedom remains limited.

Hence the reason who no one makes one single idea the only absolute moral goal of a society.

I have yet to find someone who argues that therefore, we should consider freedom a dangerous ideal.
Where I come from, that’s considered sociopathic (and, yes, I know it applies to all corporations, not just GS or investment banks).
We've been confronted by the effects of the SCL Group and subsidiaries for well over a decade now actually.
I've never known NYC, the sitting famous for a bodega on almost every block, and street vendors with cars of produce, to be short on any produce available in USA.

https://www.myfreshgrocer.com/nkz/exec/Phone/Product/Display...
The effectiveness of a retro rests upon the empowerment of the entire team. If the team isn't empowered to own their own success/failure, then there is no point in doing a retro.

From my experience, business units need just as much coaching on agility as development teams. It's hard to change culture, but it's essential the BU gets out of the way (let the team own how they plan on delivering a solution) and facilitates empowerment of change for the team to thrive.

Again, from experience, the main driver of apprehension is middle management feeling the squeeze from making everything transparent. They're use to being the routers (worst case, bottlenecks) of information and work, when in reality their role should be to empower the team with the resources they need to own their work. The shift in focus from delegation to facilitation is essential to the whole process, making retros more effective once realized. Empowerment builds in psychological safety for the team to sink their teeth into their own issues and solve those issues themselves.

Another main driver of apprehension is power within the team. If there are only 1 or 2 main members of the team that dictate the pace of the conversation, that crowds out the rest of the team from buying in and/or providing their insights. The entire team needs to be empowered to own their success, not just a handful of members.
The car was going 75 MPH as far as I could tell. A bit fast. But generally it seems to be keeping in line with DMV guidelines. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traffic_l...
This looks interesting.

I like the more succinct schemas.

I like that it's simpler and easier to reason about than GraphQL.

I like the elegant solutions for lazy vs eager loading and supporting separate endpoints.

I like the sensible defaults for filtering and sorting based on type.

This is a very well thought out project, good job. Will it be the Next Big Thing? I'm not gonna make a call either way, but I'm glad that this exists and at the very least is worth investigating when building a new project.
My prediction: Tesla will stop selling cars to the public by 2023.

Why would they? their whole plan from the beginning was to do a reverse Uber - a fleet of self driving cars that acts as a taxi service.

Cost of a model 3 to TSLA: 25k

Average Revenue per year for self driving taxi: $12/hr * 24 * 365 = 105k

Producing just 100k cars a year for this program would generate 10B dollars a year in revenue, if they can make 1M cars a year, it's 100B... making TSLA a trillion dollar company even with a Ford valuation.

Most of that revenue will be more profitable than a gas powered car since they also own an energy company, and the software that runs the cars.

(Very glad I got a reservation worth of stock when the Model 3 was announced a few years ago, so I am biased)
Musk is a proven liar at this point. It's like when Trump says Mexico will pay for the wall. It's newsworthy sure... but basically zero informational value in it or basis in fact.
The college I went to had a mix of whiteboards and chalkboards. Even as a student I preferred the rooms with chalkboards. It seemed like the light on dark contrast and no glare made them easier to see.

I also find disposable markers to be a bit of an environmental horror. In the grand scheme of things maybe it's not that much waste, but replacing something like chalk with a thick plastic non-recycleable marker for little if any gain is disturbing.
For what it's worth: Palo Alto already tracks parking electronically. The good part of this is that you can't just repark in a different space to avoid a ticket; this encourages people to have a real plan for the entire time they need parking.

Perhaps the US government or the states should enact data retention laws to ensure stuff gets purged in order to avoid the downsides of a surveillance state.
Clojure suffers from a lack of ambition, at least as far as adoption is concerned, and I think that's why many leave the community. Rich Hickey is more than happy with Clojure's current reach which says everything when you look at Clojure's abysmal level of adoption. It could be argued that Matz and Rich are both similarly idealistic language designers but Matz recognises the danger of Ruby being left behind without improvements to the language and Ruby's community is already much bigger than Clojure's.

Although there's Luminus web frameworks are generally frowned upon in Clojure-land which concedes mindshare to other languages which recognise the importance of frameworks and killer apps. With so many languages competing for mindshare it is that much easier today for a language, however original and superior, to be sidelined by paying customers. For developers looking for a language which will also help pay the bills Clojure is unfortunately not an option.
because if you get a lot of cash, you, while still living, can make it do stuff in the world that you think needs to be done.

Carnegie, for example, decided that He Really Liked Libraries. So he built a lot of them.

Paul Allen decided that we were wasting everyone's time redoing basic science experiments, so he did a lot of them and put them all online for free forever.

Brian Acton and Jan Koum decided that free, secure messaging should be available to everyone, so they sunk $500M into Open Whisper Systems so it can be a nonprofit with a warchest.

In years past, people have made similar decicions like "there should be a really good hospital in this town, so i am building one", or whatnot.
Istio uses more than 50% more CPU than Linkerd
it will only be as viable as long as people are willing to pay that cost

Can you think of any example where this is not true?
The reasonableness of the search never really comes into factor though because there's no basis for the 'search', no suspicion of wrongdoing, so how minimally invasive it is doesn't matter.
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Right, they'll have grounds for stopping you, but a search requires additional cause on top of the initial stop. If talcum powder is a "search", then so is that touching.
I'd love to see you opposing alpha star in a StarCraft tournament. If you have Doug's ear, pitch it to him, he may miss playing with battlecruisers :-)
For creating an unprofessional working environment. Here once again they are complaining to the press about their personal issues and causing strife for employees that would like to focus on the work and not on politics or media drama.
>give their own child nothing

I think he probabbly gave them something more than "nothing", possibly even a leg up.
I think the point of the article was that coming back to the same thing is best left to the robots; humans should take advantage of their capacity to wander off and find new territory.
Things I would have been uncomfortable with in that video:

- Passing on the right. I almost never do that.

- Speeding: 75 in a 65 (0:28)

- Merging into a lane next to a car that was pulling off on the shoulder. That's a recipe for disaster. (0:41)

- Speeding: 70 in a 65 (1:03)

- The car angling the wheels right before a left hand turn (1:12)

- Merging over a solid line (1:15)

- Merging into the right turn lane at 30 and then taking the turn at 20. (1:20)
Yes, it's less than ideal. But like I said, often good enough. Sometimes you just want a simple way to get something approximately random, the actual distribution might be unimportant.
mutual aid is a wonderful thing
Awesome! Can you provide some documentation to get me started? I have been unable to find any.
hmm..but The cost off the car does not include insurance, gas, insurance. A cheap old car will probably need a lot of repairs.
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Oh man... first Joe Armstrong, now this. What a sad last few days. :-(

For anybody who isn't familiar with his life, Nils was one of the early pioneers in Artificial Intelligence. He was probably best known for creating the A* algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_John_Nilsson

R.I.P., Mr. Nillson.
And not just once, but all the time, in real-time.
No, they've been around for many years, and there are many different designs/brands.
Same with that yellow phone directory. It doesn't matter if you're in the "don't deliver" database - their contractor gets paid by the ton delivered and can't be arsed to check a list. Also, I wish I knew who the contractor was so I could accuse them of trespass and littering.
> father puts him in charge of a company that does $2.4 billion in annual revenue

> self-made man!
Doesn't help that the word "graph" can mean multiple things, from a visual representation to a mathematical abstraction to... well, whatever it means in the context of REST.
My take is that you're better off finding a social life that is not alcohol fueled.

I have never "blacked out" but I did get in trouble with my extended family for going to parties with an open bar, drinking too much, and acting like an ass.

That for me was a wake-up call.

Then there was the time that we made a huge amount of applejack and around the holidays I would drink consistently quite a bit and find that if I didn't drink my body felt warm and I was a little irritable and I figured that was a sign of getting physically dependent -- that was a wake up call too.

More recently I've found that I usually wake up with a glucose reading around 95 (good but not great), but if I drink alcohol and have disrupted sleep I get a glucose reading around 120 (flaming diabetic).

As a result of that it is really rare that I drink these days. Maybe I have a beer or two now and then but not on a regular basis.

For me the consequences and fear of consequences has been sufficient motivation.
If your children are well educated and have connections, they already have a leg up. But whatever the reasons, if he's not worried about their ability to survive, then it makes sense to contribute to society.

>Evolutionarily speaking, people should...

What does this mean?
If you've parented well, you've given your kid a leg up whether you leave them money/property or not (though I intend to leave my children money/property). The connections they have from their father are likely non-negligible as well.
Maybe the other families had less than his kid. Have you thought about that?

I'm pretty sure his kid has more than nothing. It wasn't sent to an orphanage to begin with. Having a good education and knowing the right people is often more valuable than some cash in the bank.
As a manager, would you want an activist person that rails against bad company practices/policy, or a more docile person who only focusses on day-to-day work?
> So much of the business stuff we read now is bullshit. It is stupid people getting lucky and riding on VC money while making more stupid decisions but ultimately dumping enough investor money into it that it works enough to get sold.

My impression (from way outside, I'm not an entrepreneur at all) is that so much business is VC-funded, which effectively means driven by finance people. Everyone who isn't a VC is still chasing a VC, so VC culture ends up defining business culture.

People, especially left-brained ones like programmers and finance nerds have this really bad tendency to see problems in terms of their preferred solutions. The old "if all you have is a hammer..." thing. So finance people like to turn everything into a money problem that they can solve using spreadsheets and Jupyter notebooks or whatever else it is they use.

Their ideal state is that "business" is just some board game where the money is all on the board already and you're just playing the rules to move it onto your square.

...which is of course completely antithetical to any kind of business that actually matters to real humans. If you want to actually solve a human problem, make peoples' lives better and maybe make a little money in the process, Silicon Valley business culture is increasingly useless to you.
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Yes, after all the article is promoting rental services WeWork (you to can pretend to be an employed tech worker while homeless) and REI rentals (for the millennial homeless who no longer own their own tents but rent them)...both of which are financial sponsors of the publisher.

And just in case you weren’t convinced how great the life is, they throw in a PhD quote promoting these “choices”, odds are the PhD will be homeless soon too and hoping their qoute will get them a job.

Curious how you read anything but promotion into this article?
Isn't this just NIMBY but for outdoors?
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A teen is suing Apple claiming its facial recognition led to his false arrest
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I used to work in a government office when I was young. One of my jobs was every 165 minutes to go out and wipe the chalk marks off the tires of anyone in the department who parked on that wonderfully close to work street.
I think the only way lawmakers will learn that weakening encryption is a terrible thing to do is if one country does it and their banking system gets crushed by it. Or something else as disastrous would have to happen for them to learn.
People mistake 'regular ID' and national ID.

Does your regular ID state your citizenship? Good, then you can travel. If it doesn't, you aren't proving that you are a citizen with the right to travel freely in schengen.
> Just give me Clojure running on BEAM and I'll take it over anything in this world.

That already exists: http://try.clojerl.online

It's a community maintained dialect. Its maintainer, Juan Facorro is very active. You can see him giving a talk about it here: https://youtu.be/Ow8o9Mm_N7M

I'm sure all the project is in need of are more adopters to really get it off the ground. Check it out!
Maybe you could move things down the chain: make it illegal for any entity (with perhaps some exceptions for anonymity compliant polling) to ask for voting proof, with very significant felony punishments (large organizational fines, jailtime for individuals).
> You can turn a machine off and on to reboot it, but this simply simulates sleep.

Not really. Human sleep is much more than simply turning off and on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_memory
Running untrusted code in the same process isn't "bad software architecture". And we've been doing that for as long as microprocessors have had OoOE. Java got big right when the first consumer OoOE chips came out in the 90s.
I suspect that this decision will get overturned. People don't have privacy expectations concerning the appearance of tires of their cars. Any member of the general public can come by and chalk your car. No specialized equipment is required. As I recall, that was the deciding factor when the SCOTUS ruled that finding pot-growers with the help of a an infrared camera was unconstitutional.
This stuff can be a pain though. I drop my daughter off at a club on Saturday mornings. I need to pay for parking for an hour, even though I only need 10 minutes but then I can’t return for 2 hours. So actually, I need to pay for 2 hours upfront so I can come back to collect later.
You also have to consider the cost of disposal, which isn't currently done when creating plastics. Is it eventually going to have to be paid for by the taxpayers of some countries?
By making cheap, quick plastic we are creating a very expensive problem. Might it be better to deal with this problem on the front end?
DMV guidelines are that it's okay to pass on the right doing 75 in a 65?
The article is inconclusive on this point, but many cities have paid and time-limited parking. The same issue applies whether parking is free or paid.

In some jurisdictions, the law states that you may not park in the same spot longer than a specified interval without moving your car.

In order to determine whether a car has moved between successive passes of Parking Enforcement, chalk (or another method) is used to determine whether the car has moved.

I have seen some cities that further prohibit parking anywhere on the same block after the time limit has expired; this eliminates have to determine whether the car has moved since you can't simply drive around the block and back to your initial space.
> Most of these AI algorithms are open source and available on Github for anyone to use.

This is like saying "because we can create nuclear bombs, we might as well should because it pays well!"

No, with the power to engineer something comes the responsibility to make sure you are not creating something terrible. This is Ethics 101. Even if the philosophical/ethical argument is not something you care for - how many more countless, concrete examples throughout history does one need to understand this fact?
> The good part of this is that you can't just repark in a different space to avoid a ticket

This is weird to me. Is parking time a per day thing instead of per instance - e.g. if I park for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, would it violate a 3-hour parking space? If not, what's the criteria for being "not parked", if getting in and driving your vehicle to another spot isn't it - would around the block count?
They can base the kernel on top of these C++ libraries:

- https://blog.jupyter.org/a-new-python-kernel-for-jupyter-fcd...

- https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus

One day, hopefully, language-independent part of Jupyter will be rewritten completely in Rust (backend) and WebAssembly (frontend), to achieve the portability, better safety guarantees, and speed.
My hometown uses license plate recognition. To pay for parking we put our license plates into the kiosk. The enforcement person has a gadget with camera instead of expired meters.
They assume you are lonely, because you take issue with couples dating. They are there in equal amount for nature, pictures themselves aaand what you call mating ritual. The coupling seems to anger you.

Yes, cheap digital photography is how young people show each other their feelings. They later watch pics to feel the same again. Or most just forget pics. In the past, passion was shown differently and in the future it will be different again.
> It's funny and beautiful how a moment of whimsy ends up being a fulcrum point in his life.

I posted a bitchy comment using a throwaway account on Reddit about ten years ago.

It directly led to me moving across the country, getting hired at Google, and finding myself in my dream job doing programming language stuff full-time.

Life is weird, man.

Also, Vidalias (and, really, all of the alliums) are wonderful.
What about old cars? Free retrofit?
> It's very expensive.

Processes? They don't need to be expensive, as proven by Linux. Trivially cheap enough to do one per site origin in a browser, anyway.

> Site isolation in Chrome explodes memory pressure on the system.

How do you figure? Code pages are shared, after all. Only duplicate heap would be an issue, but shared memory exists and can mitigate that if there's read-only data to be shared.

So what memory pressure is "exploded"?

> Language enforced confidentiality is a lot less resource intensive.

Not at all clear-cut or self-supporting. What resource(s) is it less intensive on, and what are you using to support such a claim?

CPU time is a resource, too, after all. All this software-injected mitigations and maskings aren't free.
Funny enough: (mostly conservative-leaning, old) people complain that the young generation has less kids, has girst time sex much later in life etc., but they seem to ignore the cause: stuff like this. How can one have a relationship without having a space to live said relationship in?

Call me a pessimist but this is going to hit societies hard in the next decades. When there are not enough young people to sustain pension systems, and the people in their 30s or 40s don't have a house, savings or any other asset to make up for not having a decent pension system...
...no, the kernel would provide safe access to those.
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