skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the terrain you're going to have a heck of a time getting there. I'm not really sure what the value would be selling it, you'd either need to sell fast or have the knowledge to keep it alive, even then you still have to fence it.

The only people I could really see messing with it would be trolls that just want to destroy a nearly extinct flower, but that terrain would surely be off-putting for most if not all.
Well, they feared an USSR invasion. Now that's gone and Russia alone can't really invade Japan. China can.
We are an information security company in Europe using Rust for performance-critical parts of our Backend.

Of course, that's just one anecdotal example, but I'd encourage you, dep_b, to look for openings. I'd guess that only very few companies use Rust exclusively right now, because of its relatively young age and because it frankly doesn't make sense everywhere, but many use another main language plus Rust.
To add on: Is there anything like this for Node.js? Would save lots of headaches.
In a strange coincidence, I was flying back from Bangalore in late Jan and the long curly haired person in the Emirates check-in line looked awfully like Richard Stallman. That's because it was Richard Stallman and in good Indian fashion, he was bring dropped off by someone who clearly adored him. I can't say I reach that level of admiration, but it's good there are people like him in the world.
Perhaps the presence of a comment like this, which itself seems primarily crafted to annoy and alienate

I suspect you may have meant the grandparent comment, however I also suspect it better applies to the parent comment.

(EDIT: Those who know enough to do a technical analysis of such laws, for example, those in California, often come to the conclusion that harassment of the gun owners might be the intended outcome. In any case, it's widely acknowledged that it is the de facto outcome.)

For the record, I was talking in a strictly epidemiological sense, which I will cede is one of the valid and rational ways to talk about gun control regulations.
So what do you do when you want centralized error handling, which is the whole point of try-catch idiom?

>he second side effect is that it forces you to think about how to handle possible errors.

Java does this with throws E and (at least in Java) it sucks and I very much prefer C#'s implicit throws. In fact, I don't think it goes far enough. If you have complex error recovery, the language should allow you to completely separate good executions paths from the bad paths. Scope guards are a step in the right direction.

How would Rust code looks like if the error handling logic was something like "try X, if it fails try again, if that fails schedule another attempt via a queue, log a warning; if scheduling fails log a fatal error"?

Sure, handling this stuff with try-catch looks horrible. But I've thought long an hard about how to simplify it and using tricks like .unwrap_or (which you can simulate in C# to some extent) does not cut it, because error handling often requires to operate on method-scoped variables (e.g. for logging).
> But author abandoned it.

To be clear though, Ractive is still under development by other maintainers: https://github.com/RactiveJS/Ractive.

> he should narrow his focus

Not to speak for him, but I think Rich is an "idea guy" and we'd all miss out if he were throttled to just one thing :-)
> Also, many loans are co-signed

Which suggests an industry will simply pop up of lending to parents. Probably wealthy ones.

Anything that doesn't address the ticket price is simply squeezing around air in the balloon.
Rust’s is a tagged union so you can have Result<number,number>, something you can’t have in Typescript.
You can already get them from places like White Castle, so I'd say you're right. What I'd really like to see is for the price to drop to a bit below that of the beef patty to help entice people to switch.
No one outside of the HN crowd and a couple of bubbles on twitter has heard a single thing about this, or cares in the slightest. There was no PR hit.
If anyone is going to try to repeat 1940's Japan, it is China.
Convolutions have a much higher arithmetic intensity than dot products.
Uber and Lyft are fucked.
In amazonaws.cn there's no KMS and they only gave the ability to use virtual MFA devices at the end of 2017 [0]

All of this is to say nothing of the additional restrictions imposed by the government -- I agree with contingencies that it's "not easy" to run a business in (AWS) China, but I think that at this point everybody who's seriously thinking about doing so knows what to expect.

[0] https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/new/2017/now-add-additional-prot...
Burger King (limited trials) and White Castle (370 outlets), already carry Impossible Burger patties.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/02/burger-king...
Anything above around 7 degrees of warming puts the human species itself at risk. Above 3 degrees civilization falls apart. Both of these are within range of possibility in the lifespan of children born today. All it would take is a few more Trump-style presidencies.
>"She would pay for it with revenue generated by her proposed increase in taxes for America’s most wealthy families and corporations, which the campaign estimates to be $2.75 trillion over 10 years"

Unless your household is making over $50 Million year, or you are a billionaire, your taxes wouldn't change for this particular plan.
It is extremely classist. My wife is from rural Iowa. Folks around where she grew up aren't thinking "one day I'll be rich like Donald Trump so I'm going to vote for low taxes."
Getting Off the NavMesh: Navigating in Fully 3D Environments
Coywolves have just started moving into the suburban and urban east coast areas.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coywolves-are-taki...

We've seen a few around. I remember coyotes from when I lived out west and these are quite a bit different.

It'll be interesting what happens as they become more numerous. They are a lot more adaptable and flexible than coyote.
What they want is pretty obvious if you've ever actually been around any of these animals. They want what you want: food, sex, comfort, entertainment - in that order.
Website looks really neat and clean. Did you use any website builder for this ?
Is all the good math institutionalized now (e.g., you can't do good math without all the benefit of learning background within the institution conventions)?

What's the intuition that an extremely important proof will come from someone who gets all the TeX tweaked to camera-ready perfection, goes around and gives the talks, and all the conventional things... rather than a genius out of nowhere who walks into a stranger's office, wordlessly drops on their desk a stack of handwritten pages wrapped in twine, and walks out, never to be seen again?

I was thinking of this because I once knew an autistic person, from some humble and isolated upbringing, who was getting some informal math instruction, and they told me they thought they knew a proof for P=NP. I considered it extremely unlikely, but not utterly impossible. (They reportedly tested "off the scale" high in some particular cognitive regard, and I'd noticed a couple minor superpowers.) If that person, to use them as an example, ever actually worked out the proof, and wanted to "turn it in" with their own judgment and access, I wonder where they'd go. And whether it would be somewhere that would take them seriously enough to look at it, and whether they could tell that a proof in unconventional terms had merit. If they get turned away from the first place, would they be discouraged and give up, or would they keep trying, there or elsewhere. If they persisted, would they appear to be a crank because of their persistence and frustration.
Paywalled, but the original post from the Warren campaign is here:

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/im-calling-for-something-trul...

Warren lays out the main cause of the student debt problem here:

> The enormous student debt burden weighing down our economy isn’t the result of laziness or irresponsibility. It’s the result of a government that has consistently put the interests of the wealthy and well-connected over the interests of working families.

Although this may be true, it avoids another important part of the problem:

Federal student loan guarantees have flooded the higher education market with easy money for decades. Families who have no business being in this market (either on academic or economic grounds) have been lured in by artificially low rates. This problem is not unlike the one created by the federal guarantee on mortgages.

In both cases, the outcome was similar: skyrocketing prices, decreasing affordability, massive debt burden, and systemic risk.

In the case of higher education, there's another factor - college has moved from being an option for some kids to a mandatory thing every kid must do. This, despite the proliferation of high-quality information sources on every topic imaginable. Many universities publish their lectures in full.

Higher ed has become an expensive, seemingly mandatory credential as a result. An unnecessary four-year detour that hobbles many young people for decades afterwards.

Maybe it's time to think differently about the problem. Maybe it's time for the federal government to step away, completely, and let the price of a college credential collapse under its own weight.
10k/year contribution inflation adjusted with 2% inflation and 9% return (pre inflation) over 30 years is 1.78mil, or 984k in today's dollars. 15k/year contribution inflation adjusted results in 2.675mil, or 1.477mil in today's dollars.

If we reduce pre-inflation return to 7%, while maintaining 2% inflation target, we get $0.685m and $1m.

The 2% inflation makes it that over 30 years your total contribution is $405k at 10k/year and $608k at 15k/year.
Polybius – The Video Game That Doesn't Exist
It's still impossible for an outsider to tell - Waymo logs every single vehicle-mile in their entire fleet, but Tesla samples from a larger pool.
If someone is willing to pay 30k to take my teenager from gaming all day long they can have him.
it can be a healthy discussion if spoken about maturely

Knee jerk rapid reactions aren't an example of "spoken about maturely." The normalization and acceptance of such reactions is what leads to toxic community atmospheres and the "social epistemological catastrophe" of a witch-hunt mentality.

In other words, "shoot first, ask questions later" is against the stated policy around these parts of the Principle of Charity. Just look around the Internet, and tell me what you see in this regard.

I'm obliged to link this again, for the good of all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
I never declared bankruptcy, but I did look into it. As I understand it, it's a legal proceeding and you can be denied the request if a judge concludes it's a frivolous claim.
Would it stand in court though? Wouldn't the court see the bad faith behind the terms, given they were designed to mislead the customer as opposed to having a legitimate reason behind them?
Just googling around, it seems that you can find quite a few farmers advertising such services.

For a more personal connection, I'd start at the local farmers' market.
Not sure you need to make sure the user is human on a log-in form. Just limit the number of attempts per day per account, perhaps with email verification to pass it.
Olive Ave Raised Their Shopify Store Conversion Rate 58% in 30 Days
I dislike (dark patterns) and fear (bad implementations) subscriptions so much - I've put off implementing any kind of subscription for a SaaS product I built.

I've just decided to let the customer pre-pay for up to the limit I'm willing to guarantee that I'll keep running the service, even at a loss (two years at the moment). I figure if the service isn't worth a user's time to click once to re-subscribe every few years, then I probably shouldn't be taking their money.

I admit this might be a bit naive from a business perspective :)
A resource for anyone interested in zero-knowledge cryptography: https://zkp.science/
>The newsroom doesn't really have that authority.

They could refuse to publish their articles for a corporation with such an "immoral" advertising department, but they don't, because they aren't genuine in their beliefs.
You can already do that with existing cars(pretty much anything that has power steering, so last 30 years of cars) and yet you don't see people hijacking vehicles left and right this way(or any other way, you can cut someone's brakes in 5 seconds and yet it's extremely rare). I think this is a made up problem.
I guess I will switch to freetaxusa next year. I've used turbotax for 25 years (I worked for Chipsoft, the previous owner before Intuit, in 1994). I found receipts going back to 2007:
$99.98
$96.98
$61.98
$71.98
$86.98
$86.98
$66.98
$66.90
$66.90
$39.95
$19.95
$84.90 * They must have tricked me into clicking something for a bogus $50 deduction maximizer.
$44.95
We are talking about the realm of "Google being a place people want to work"

Demonstrating that management takes petty actions like this is far more convincing than people silently quitting.
Elon just promised Level 5 FSD this year, by the end of it.
Disclosure: #FitbitEmployee but I don't speak for Fitbit.

Any Fitbit with heart rate will give you maximum acccuracy according to https://www.wareable.com/fitbit/fitbit-sleep-tracking-defini...

Heart rate is key to getting good sleep stages data, so a non-wearable won't do. https://blog.fitbit.com/heart-rate-during-sleep-stages/

To integrate with Apple HealthKit you need a 3rd party app.
Israel, Iran and UAE all have good infrastructure, health care and education levels. There probably is a lot of variation in the region but I don't think those three countries would capture the full range.
Poll Everywhere is a cool example of not only a tech startup who beat the traditional startup model but also an example of a company that found success in simply doing something better. Instead of coming up with a unique, complex, and unneeded solution they created something that was better than what was currently available. Very inspiring!
I think propagating null operators, `?`, etc., all become a bit less interesting when you consider that mostly they're just specific implementations of a monadic interface and they could all just be represented like that instead. It doesn't seem sensible to me to try to "fake" monads everywhere and add different operators for different ones when we could just have one interface that describes short-circuiting based on the data type.
> you think not being brought into existence is better than a happy life with an abrupt ending?

You're forming the question again in the same way as the article:

"You think not being brought into existence is better than a happy life with an abrupt ending?"

When really the question is:

"You think it's better that humans choose not to bring animals into existence in order to kill them is better than humans choosing to bring animals into existence in order to kill them?"

And yeah, I think it is better not to breed animals just to kill them, when we could also not.

> What if supporting humane slaughter led to less animals being factory farmed, which is agreeably relatively better conditions for the farmed animal population as a whole?

False dichotomy: poor factory farm conditions vs. better factory farm conditions. There is also the option of no factory farms at all, which would be the least amount of suffering at the hands of humans.

> That's great for keeping a clear conscience. But realistically is it believable that this will slow down the impending climate change?

Actually, it's in the top global climate change causes, so, yes. And there's an avalanche effect of not having to grow 9 times the crops to feed the livestock: less pesticide runoff, less land needed to grow food so less incentive for deforestation and overall habitat destruction, less hauling and shipping required which burns less fuel...

Honestly: do you really think you're doing the animals a favor by raising them in factory farms? You really care about these cows and pigs, so you eat them? Would you be willing to pay the cost - the real cost, not including subsidies funded by taxpayer dollars - for them to have long, nice, natural lives? Because meat is already expensive, and it's artificially cheaper, and the animals only live about 10% of their natural lives. Chickens can live about 8-10 years but are killed at about 18 months when their egg laying starts to diminish. Cows are killed around the same time, but can live up to 20 years.

Would you choose to be fed okay food, in a pen, until you were about 15, then killed?
2014? Would be cool with an update
I think this actually is pitched as a stimulus program.
lidar is not required and is expensive.

Given that the only the company claiming that is the one whose cars sometimes hit (or even swerve into) clearly visible stationary concrete barriers in broad daylight [1, 2, 3, 4], I consider that claim far from proven.

[1] 2019 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/dashcam-video-shows-tes...
[2] 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772748
[3] 2017 https://bgr.com/2017/03/02/tesla-crash-video-texas/
[4] 2016 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1402992/tesla-self-driving-car...
I am sure they'd do, if you ask nicely next time.
Restricting Control Flow During Speculative Execution with Venkman
Rust: Zero-Cost Async IO
> The generic term is basically iThing.

Are you from the US? Because here in .eu "iThing" is definitely not the generic term for pretty much anything.
Why doesn't she propose a plan to subsidize home buying or raise salaries? This seems like another doomed trickle down economics plan.
I somehow also feel this penalizes those who have exercised healthy financial planning and made the conscious decision not to get into crippling student loan debt.
> The scary bits of self-driving is person detection, crossing detection, roadwork detection...

Your point it very astute.

Among a few other ML/AI MOOCs, I completed Udacity's "Self-Driving Car Engineer" nanodegree - so when I'm out driving, I often come upon situations where I wonder "how would a self-driving car navigate this?"

Today, driving in to work (note: USA), I noticed one intersection I've been through many times before, and that question came to mind. The intersection is interesting, because on approaching it, the road curves to the right, and you can actually see one of the traffic lights on the left before you even see the intersection. By the time you see the intersection, you're already on top of it.

So as you round the curve, you see the lone traffic signal (red/yellow/green); if it is red, do you start to brake, or do you wait until you can "see" more traffic signals? If you wait - will you have time to slow down and/or stop? ...and so forth.

This and others are all kind of "edge cases" that will need to be trained on, and/or perhaps other cues for self-driving vehicles installed or set up so the vehicles can navigate such areas successfully. I know when I first went through the intersection it was a bit of a surprise; it's not a very safe intersection (going home in the opposite direction is not any better; in that direction, you're headed downhill, have to cross the intersection, and immediately start turning to the left after going through - the curve is really abrupt, and you have protected/unprotected left-hand turns both directions, etc).
Or, the building can rent the excess parking to daily/monthly parkers at market rates...

It's just as bonkers for a city to shut out everyone who can't use transit.
But the NYT itself still makes legal decisions, like which articles to run. Lets say they decide to run a particular article which is later claimed by the government to be libelous. Since the NYT has no rights under your ideal the government could simply find them guilty of a felony without giving them due process of law and end their corporate existence.

I would argue that so long as corporations continue to exist they require a minimum amount of rights, such as a right to due process, or else they just become tools for the state to act without any of the restraints our current system has developed.
Time for tech to unionize
At least the iPod/Pad/Phone stuff isn't US-centric - these are colloquially used to refer players/tablets/smartphones in many different languages.
> It can thus be assumed that changing the way animals are raised and delivered will have a bigger impact on their well-being, than will those who do not eat meat continuing not to eat meat

There's no reason we can't do both!

> A disingenuous attempt at mocking me, considering I have taken large steps in my own life toward vegetarianism. I just hold realistic rather than idealistic hopes for the future of omnivores and the environment they derive their food sources from.

I'm sorry. I'm not trying to mock you. I interpreted your argument as a classic "make perfection the enemy of good" argument. It's fantastic you are making efforts to do your part.
What Does the Word “Liberal” Mean?
Vision is probablistic. You can improve your probabilities with more data and deeper nets, but the probability is never 100%. Inferring depth using triangulation of extracted features using vision is also probabilistic.

Lidar gives you very rudimentary depth and positional data, but it is precise, and reliable, and the false positives are low. Lidar is not seeing the world as a series of probabilistic phantasms that may or may not be a pedestrian, or a jersey barrier, or whatever.

Elon said: "Lidar is lame! Lidar is Lame! lame lame lame lame."

But then he later said: "We've gone over this multiple times. Are we sure we have the right sensor suite? Are we sure we have everything we need?.... No."

Lidar is a crutch and we'll see how hard Tesla is limping in a couple years when Elon is claiming They're going to have Robotaxis.

To Tesla's credit, it is theoretically possible to develop a fully autonomous vehicle without needing Lidar, but before you can deploy, you need to integrate Lidar, and it can be retrofitted as a largely independent system, necessary for it's enhanced redundancy, but not needed for informing the planner, except when the Lidar is seeing things the vision system isn't.

The presentation was a pretty good run down on various techniques and methods that are being utilized by different autonomy developers. The downside is that everything is framed as a rationalization as to why Tesla has some kind of secret weapon, when they're mostly doing conventional things, and not all the conventional things you need to build a complete autonomous vehicle.

I was waiting for Elon or Karpathy to trot out the magic pixie dust that will have Tesla's driving empty in a couple years, but that was nowhere to be found.
Some further thoughts in two different directions (I don't personally have a settled opinion here):

1. Not only does everything die, many things naturally die as food. Being a victim of carnivores is a perfectly normal thing in nature. So even if you don't feel comfortable justifying killing animals in general with "everything dies," it should certainly justify killing animals for food. (BTW, my understanding is that halal- or kosher-certified meats are slaughtered very humanely/painlessly, so if you're worried about suffering and not death, sticking to those isn't a bad choice.)

2. Although things happen in nature, that doesn't mean they're not cruel, and as humans, we have the option of being more humane than nature. While many early humans would also have starved, frozen to death, or been eaten alive, we think it's pretty not great for modern-day humans to be subject to such a fate and we often think it's a moral obligation for society to prevent that from happening. So why should we not also save animals from their fate in nature instead of perpetuating it?
It isn’t like it all cameras simultaneously go from 0% obstruction to 100% obstruction instantaneously. The car should pull off the highway and park or at least pull to the shoulder and park once it has identified decreased visibility to an extent that might impact safety.