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Girls Who Code Helps Draft ‘Landmark’ Legislation Aimed at Closing Gender Gap
Tesla to allow aggressive Autopilot mode with 'slight chance of a fender bender'
http://www.robertgraham.us/men/tees.html

$298 T-Shirts, ha. At that price I'm surprised they don't try to upsell a weave that affords limited ballistic protection.
People buying current cars were just told that their cars will earn them 30k$ a year. Is fsd driver assistance or driverless?
Army researchers identify new way to improve cybersecurity
Banning Social Media in the Wake of the Sri Lanka Attacks Doesn’t Make Sense
Of course, like in anywhere else then.
Retirement accounts are not usually risk free, nor should they be invested in risk-free assets. 5-7% inflation adjusted return is typical or worse than most current target date funds.

Average annualized return from s&p over past 90 years is 9.8%. Both 9% and 7% were chosen to be below average to account for some amount of lower risk assets in the portfolio. Even with the "great recession" the peak value from 2008 was recovered by 2011 (for spx). When you retire you should have a few years worth expenses in low risk assets, which will be the source of early withdrawals in case of stock market crashes at retirement.
I've lived in San Francisco for 5 years now, and one thing I find ridiculous about this city is how ancient most of the residential buildings are. I'm currently living in an apartment that was built in the 60's, and have been to open houses of single family homes originally built in the 40's. Nowhere else I have ever lived would people be proud of that fact. In Atlanta and Vegas and Seattle I was able to find nice modern apartments to live in that weren't thin-walled, ancient plumbing, creaky floor wooden buildings well past their expiration date. But in San Francisco somehow people get offended when I suggest that an old building would be better torn down and rebuilt. (And yes there are some modern condos/apartments in SF but they are all in the range of $4000/m for a one bedroom and mostly clustered in the Dogpatch or SOMA which isn't a great area to actually live in my experience)

To answer the parent's question, I absolutely would support the right of a property owner to tear down an old building in the French Quarter of New Orleans and replace it with a modern steel and glass structure. Likewise with an old building in the left bank of Paris. I'd even like to incentivise that with tax breaks or whatever other levers are available.
> Currently working on next gen that will be 3x better to ship in a couple years.

That's ... not great. If that was CPU type of unit, it'd be great. But TPU-type accelerators are growing at massive speed (as it's still pretty new and simple tech), where you're more looking for 10x type of gains.
High-performance, large clusters for Distributed Actors
The History of Vanilla
I mean isn't that why we come to HN, to read and discuss headlines?
Podcasts app from apple. So many complains but still better than any other competitor. Recently I tried Spotify for podcasts but I could not switch to it. I guess a super simple interface of the native Podcasts app and a few core options there make me stick around.
Where do you get it? How do you get it from there? Where do you keep it before cooking? How do you prepare it? Where do you keep it from spoiling? How do you keep it from being stolen?
In rust, what you can do is define an error type as an enum, which holds the various kind of inner errors. Then you’re just a From implementation (which is very simple and macros exist to generate it) away from ? working on any of them, and it composes them together.
Army robotics experts innovate underground operations
you're right, but i'm pretty sure that those programs are not what GP was talking about. i mean, i don't think anyone would be applying a termination checker to a daemon-ish program that's meant to run forever... you'd just check the parts that are actually meant to terminate.
> Our mindset is our greatest limitation.

That, and the nature of distributions. Salaries are not exactly normal, but there’s still a long tail on the right, with only enough room for a few. Some people find it fun to read/dream about being over on that tail, just like some people aspirationally watch Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

If outsized results were achievable by merely applying hard work, adopting certain principles or following articulable steps, more of us would be able to show outsized results. Even for athletes, more training and better mindset means better performance but not necessarily outsized performance. There are only so many Olympians and pro ball players to go around and the farther right you go on the tail, the more of a factor random chance is.
A lot of illegal things are also just what somebody didn't like at one point and then we were told to not like.
Going back to mental disorders, I came across the terms "neurodiverse" and "neurodivergent" which you might find interesting. Everything from anxiety and autism to schizophrenia. I find myself liking this perspective. I'm not diagnosed with anything, but I don't doubt I could be, so these topics interest me somewhat.
I am not, nobody is ... But a lot of people more knowledgeable than me in this area say it's highly probable we'll have one next year or early 2021. The 'when' don't matter much in this context, alot of people are expecting one and it's coming which makes it an ideal time to IPO
> (I live in a city, it was easier than I thought it would be to connect with a farmer out in the rural part of my state.)

I wish that more people would realize how easy this is! Plus, the quality of the meat you'll get (even if you aren't overtly buying the best possible) simply blows anything you find in the supermarket away.

Here's what I've been doing with 4 friends for years now: every year, we go in on buying an entire cow from a local rancher. We have it butchered and packaged, then we each get a quarter. That's a huge amount of meat (a single cow gives us in the neighborhood of 600 lbs of butchered beef) -- enough to last for a year, including giving some away as gifts. I swear, even the hamburger from that is far superior to the best cuts I've had elsewhere.

To do it our way requires buying a large freezer, of course.
I agree with the essential bit, but “has to be perfect”? Do you know how bad human vision is at estimating distances, speeds, angles, etc? I don’t think you need perfect vision to implement the first law of autonomous driving (“Avoid hitting stuff”)

It also doesn’t have all the information to recreate the 3d environment. There’s all kinds of inferences that human drivers make that require a good model of the world, to start with. For example, a car shouldn’t brake for a small object that moves with the wind, even if it looks like it’s made of concrete, or looks like a child.
> But I do not understand why Mr. Musk is trying to reinvent the wheel and rely only on vision when LIDAR has already shown that it works better.

Because he's sold a bunch of cars (and a bunch of stock in the company selling the cars) without LIDAR with the explicit claim they are hardware-ready for full self-driving.
>I don't subscribe to any political labels.

What does this mean, exactly? Wouldn't merely having opinions on social issues mean the details of those opinions fall under political labels? Acknowledging such labels doesn't necessarily mean your opinions have been simplified to the point of misrepresentation, or that all your opinions must conform to a single label, or that each opinion must conform fully to one label and not at all to another, if those are the kinds of things you're worried about when you say you don't "subscribe".
Transparent Architecture
Hasn't this been obvious for years? Like, centuries? No major power allows other nations, especially nations which are not close military allies, to dominate its economy. China acts in its own self-interest, as does...every other nation in the history of the planet which is able to. The U.K., the U.S., or any other major economic power, will not allow its economy to be dominated by companies from countries that it does not trust as a close military ally. Both the U.K. and the U.S. only became in favor of free trade once they were the dominant economic power of the world, and prior to that was protectionist. Japan and South Korea protected their economies as they grew, to the extent (given their size) that made sense to. If you're the size of Singapore or the Netherlands, of course, things are different, as you simply cannot do everything, however developed your economy. Also, the U.S. allows someone like the U.K. to have a much bigger presence, because of many cultural and military ties.

But the idea that China ever intended to continue to allow western companies to dominate their economy, once they were developed enough to do something about it, is naive. No nation, that can avoid that, allows it.
Sri Lanka attacks: Authorities face scrutiny over advance warnings
What do you image a constructive proof looking like?
Is Tesla collecting that data? I've looked at their earnings and didn't see any big expenses related to datacenters. Amount of data they would need to store and process is massive, that would for sure show up in earnings, as one of the biggest costs.
Both Liberal and Conservative are really loaded words. Not necessarily loaded in the emotional sense (although they are often that), but just in terms of being used with very different definitions in very different places. I listened to an audiobook or a lecture series a few years ago that discussed the idea of Liberalism that I found very interesting. Rather than dealing with any of the modern senses of the terms Conservative or Liberal, it dealt with the sea change in types of governance that occurred at the end of the Enlightenment with the rise of the United States and the French Revolution.

It takes a bit of doing for modern people to even conceive of what the actual argument was at the time. To really understand that both the rulers and the citizenry viewed rulers as fundamentally Better People in some way (often granted by God) is a mindset that modern people just aren't accustomed to. They read 'all men are created equal' and they don't realize what it's even talking about. The idea that citizens who are being ruled should have some say in how they are ruled was the essence of Liberalism in that time. It was a revolutionary idea and seen as stupid by many. Thomas Payne's 'Common Sense' was published at a time when the phrase 'common sense' was a perjorative. It referred to the 'sense' of commoners, implying that it was worthless and senseless. Commoners simply weren't built to be able to understand notions of governance or to be able to wield power without self destruction.

Just as racism and sexism proposed that there were "different kinds" of people who inherently bore different capabilities, setting one group or another apart and making them unsuited to certain pursuits, Conservatism held that the divide between ruler and ruled was of this nature as well. A natural fact, emerging either from direct divine edict or carried in bloodlines, that made it ludicrous to even suggest that perhaps the peasant should have something like a 'vote.'

Liberalism won quite conclusively. After the American Revolution and French Revolution, revolutions flourished all over the world. While Ancient Greece debuted democracy, it had died out for a long while and at the time every single nation on the planet was ruled by a Conservative government built around the idea of inherent superiority of the rulers. I can't imagine what it must have been like to live in those time periods, growing up knowing to your bones that you're simply a follower and a subject, liable to be called upon to have your concerns or life spent by the crown for their own purposes, and knowing that you simply weren't capable of questioning their motives or techniques. And then, that some people emerged who made arguments about the philosophical basis of government which was able to persuade this population to rise up and kill their own country so that they might build one of their own based upon this utterly heretical notion that there really aren't any Special People born to rule... it's dizzying to consider.

Those that remain dedicated to an idea of a return to this sort of Conservatism, and there are some, walk in step with eugenicists and should be feared.
Tesla has great products, created and supported by thousands of people who appear to go above and beyond. Kudos to them. And kudos to Musk for the vision and the early execution, but that doesn't mean I have to like him or believe that he is the right person for this phase of the companies growth.
Pretty much, which means that the existence of fallible functions is exposed or handled. The big difference with explicit exceptions in Java is that Rust has enums that let you encode every error (so the type checker shows you when you add a new error type where you haven't handled it) so the list of possible errors goes in your enum, not the function definition or alternatively lets you rely on trait objects, which you can't match on but you don't care about when moving them around, which can be equivalent to relying on the root of the an object inheritance tree.
I've lived in SoMA. Great place to live. Best weather in the city. Easy access to the waterfront, ballpark, Bart, Muni, and CalTrain.

edit: forgot bart
The motivation is largely irrelevant - if someone wants it, they'll get it. Not to mention the survey drone itself got a closeup, so equipment isn't an issue.
It took me about 5 minutes to ballpark the location [0] from this still [1] in the video. Branching off the hiking trail above and walking down the ridge line or sitting in a boat off the coast will both put you ~1000ft away line-of-sight. That's well within range. I'd have to agree that the group behind the study leaked a little too much info on this.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/eXTTsAJ
[1] https://imgur.com/a/yIwci6X
Even with the penalty and tax, it will be less than 50 percent, making it financially beneficial since the employer is matching 100 percent.
No, it just means the next-gen design had safety as a primary design objective. Secondary objectives could be additional modes of self driving like traffic light detection and managing intersections.

Volvo leadership states the exact same thing about their car designs. The primary motivation “in everything they do” is safety.

The statement can be made entirely distinct from the current safety level.
+1

To NIMBYers: The "character" of your neighborhood is more important than cheaper housing for everyone--disproportionately helping lower income people?
Democrats are just as anti-science as republicans. I wish people would leave politics out of this because it gets us nowhere. Insulting half of the political structure isn't going to help anything.

Also, the Earth as we "know, love, have co-evolved with" has been destroyed many times just in the past few thousand years. Climate change isn't a new phenomenon. The earth wasn't this magical garden of eden with perfect climate just for us. We just got out of an ice age just a few decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Universities Use High-Performance Computing for Multiple Returns on Investment
does this page ever load? I've tried like 5 or 6 times over the course of the last 9 hours and never been able to see what the hell that is all about even with a VPN
> Lived below my means. Always took public transit, never owned a car.

I worked >10 years in the industry and am quite well-to-do, but I always take public transit and never owned a car. I never thought that was living below my means. Maybe it's different in US...
However, the Smartcar CEO replied in another thread that they use Readme.io for their docs, which can autogenerate using Swagger, which automatically parses hints in code.

So it is definitely possible that the codebase got stolen and the perps missed changing a few hints, resulting in the Otonomo samples generating identical sample code, as shown.
I agree with all your points. However, Musk did mention that his team at SpaceX built their own LIDAR for docking with ISS. I think Tesla can custom make their own LIDAR too.

And I would secretly look forward to. I was part of a self-driving team at university and we had to raise funds especially to be able to afford a Velodyne HDL-32.
>> human cost of people's NIMBYism is real

Not to them, it's not.
Assuming you use Python, you might like this library - https://github.com/robdmc/behold

It gives you contextual debugging - so you can put fancy prints throughout a function but they are silent unless some context is true. It's useful for when you have a hot path that is executed a lot but you only want debug prints for one of those invocations.
When plotted on a logarithmic scale.
Next big thing? Probably not. Next big things are usually innovations that open up areas to computerization that had previously been resistant to computerization. The GUI opened up all the users who couldn't memorize hundreds of command-line commands; the Internet opened up distribution and let software publishers bypass the retail distribution chain entirely, and also SaaS billing & delivery that creates markets where transaction costs would previously have made them impractical; mobile opened up situations where users couldn't physically have a laptop or desktop computer with them; blockchain opens up trust & exchange of value; neural nets open up classification, extraction, and generation tasks of unstructured speech or video data. The reason these are so highly valued is because they open up whole new markets to computing, ones that could support potentially billion-dollar businesses.

It's like a decent technological investment, though, one that could support a long-term career if you're interested in compilers or language tools. The trend long-term is away from Javascript as the sole language of the web, and WebAssembly is also finding its way into other platforms (eg. EOS) in the crypto & SaaS spaces.
All of those places are desirable and do have pent up demand though. If I could cheaply buy a house in SF, Seattle, or Boulder... you bet I would!!! But I can't, so I rent as cheaply as possible in SF.
110 years ago when my house in Calgary was built, they were sold as kits by Sears. they're essentially the same cookie cutters that there are now.
Sure, if it's 100% employer match. Even employers that do matching often do it below 100%.
Or that our society values self-sufficiency and two-parrent households where one parent cares for the children in the home.
Researchers Make Blockchain Protocol to Prevent Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Sales
Processed is not a bad word when it comes to health. What matters are the ingredients. I'm not aware of any consensus on canola being anything but healthy, but am interested in learning more as canola oil is what I use for cooking.

That being said, like any meat or meat-substitute, I wouldn't consider it a "health food".
So isn't it reasonable to assume we will still have doctors if the pay is at the level of European doctors then?
Somewhat understandable. I didn't get hung up on the title, and if anything the story is an object lesson in the need to familiarize yourself with the intricacies of inbound changes to your stack.

I appreciate when people share war stories; I like to think that wisdom is knowledge survived.
That is a horrible justification for continuing to outsource American middle class jobs to China.

Cheap trinkets are not worth the loss of jobs. That idea is an economy-killer and is the long-term death of the nation.
> I'm a little confused on this point you are making. You say the Rust community is biased against `unwrap` which makes it sound like you think that is wrong but then you proceed to say it shouldn't be there, making it sound like you agree.

Nope. I think unwrap shouldn't be used without understanding the error handling capabilities of Rust. It also shouldn't be used for deployed software. The problem is that most people introduced to Rust would like to see something working now and Rust has higher barrier to entry than most mainstream languages. They'll likely keep the habit.

> From the function's perspective, it errored, but from your perspective, it failed and you want to fallback to a default value.

That's not my point. My point is that a failed function should not return a "default value". A default value is not a failure but rather a design decision. Should the function fail, it returns an error.
Your SSN is not a password
New software tool could provide answers to life’s most intriguing questions
The main example, of course, is in self-driving where he has most certainly not delivered. And he wasn't just a little off.

But also his claims about being able to automate the manufacture of Model 3 turned out to be very wrong and to do terrific damage to the company - they are/were way ahead with their technology and should have taken a less risky approach to getting that tech onto the market and taking advantage of that lead. And how did he not learn from the model X experience?
Apple News has a notification spam problem
The National Bison Range near Missoula has a placard at an overlook that claims the outflow of water was 9 cubic miles per minute. I don’t know if that number is correct, because it defies all sense of scale.
> What happens if you have an emergency?

You borrow from the 401K. If for some reason that's not an option, you take money out with a penalty, but with sufficient match you are still often ahead.
It amazes me that alternative solutions are never mentioned:

1) (short term) Make remote work much widely accepted, especially for software roles.

2) (long term) Build offices/centers (e.g.) jobs outside of Bay Area and CA. This is much more scalable and beneficial for the country than having one or two super concentrated centers. Why not have 20?
No. But like I said just take a peek at any job site that lists aggregate salaries. Starting numbers in Texas are not at 6 digits.
Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey a NATO member for how long now and you are worried about the Golan Heights?

As far as Crimea goes the world is much better off with it than the alternative of forcing Russia’s hand.

No one that can read a map ever thought Russia would give up their only warm water port, it’s also the reason why they went to Syria it’s their only port with access to the med that doesn’t have a NATO toll booth controlling it.

Russia is a land locked country with all of its strategic assets and everything it cares about within strike distance of NATO FOBs.

The US and NATO isn’t stupid they won’t be bogged down fighting over the rubbles of Stalingrad and they are much better logistically equipped to fight in winter than Napoleon.

If a conventional conflict breaks out NATO tanks would find themselves on the outskirts of Moscow well before Russia can reach Warsaw yet alone Berlin.

The buffer zone of the former Baltic and Soviet states has eroded and as much as the Baltics fear Russia if I was a Russian general I would be binge drinking and for a good reason just to stop my balls from shivering.

Russia has no strategic depth, it’s land locked and thanks to improvements in air and missile defense also air and even space locked.

Their geographical actions are about as predictable as playing risk with a 3 year old but just like that game the biggest risk is you have no idea if and when they’ll throw a tantrum and smash the board.
I'm a burger lover who tolerated the soy burgers better than a lot of folks in school. They tasted like crap, though. Unlike meat in many ways. It was all these HN comments that made me try the Beyond Burger. It was different.

It looks more like meat, sizzles like meat, seemed to have texture of meat, and mostly taste like meat. Not quite meat, though! I'd say main difference, which could've been how it was cooked, was that it was soft and crumbly. It about fell apart vs how most burgers are solid. That's a drawback for most but better for a certain niche in my testing. I might try to sell them that finding, though, given it would expand their market.