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When your traffic lane is mostly a straight line in 3D and measured in 1000's of feet rather than just a few feet autopilot mostly just needs to maintain heading and speed.

You can get autopilots for boats as well and they can even do collision avoidance using radar, but its non obstructed 2D space with no real lanes in open water and lanes measured in 100's of feet in or more in channels.

Cars share such close proximity with obstructed curved paths that makes a safe "autopilot" orders of magnitude more complex which should be obvious. There is just no comparison due to the space constraints cars must navigate actively.
This just reeks of first world problems. People who "don't drink" (you know the ones), take pride in it, and when it turns out they don't have as much fun as their drinking friends, complain that alcohol and partying are "pushed on them" and justify their need for complete teetotaling spaces.

I mean, these spaces already exist. They're called Starbucks, Costa Coffee, and so on. They're fancy tea houses and smoothie stores or whatever. Why not just go there instead?
Fond(?) memories of the Tribes 2 engine discussed in that paper, which became the GarageGames engine, which was so poorly architected that every function of interest ran inside the network serialization function. Why did all the code run inside the network serializer? Because the engine was such a mess that no one could figure out why their values were getting stomped on and eventually someone realized "hey! The last bit of code that runs each frame is the network serializer! If I put my player bone animation code in the network serializer nothing can stomp on my animations" and a new arms race was born as every developer rushed to put their code into the network serializer.
My (totally uneducated) guess is, in the early formation of a solar system the material is hot and volatile it is all moving around a lot. There are a lot of large / medium sized bodies moving around they are running into each other, joining, breaking apart, moving around, etc. In all that chaos, the available material is tossed around and "excess" material is toss out of the inner planet orbit.

I am imagining it like pouring a cup of sugar on a dinner plate and shaking the plate around until the amount of sugar on the plate is sort of stable. The excess material ends up outside the solar system (Oort cloud / kuiper belt) or part of gas giant cores and moons.

With that, there is only so much material in the inner solar system to work with and the law of averages works out and we end up with similar sized planets.

I would assert a hypothesis that a ratio of material in the inner solar system is linked, in some way, to the size of the star. That it is unlikely there will be massive earths out there in the inner solar system because of this natural distribution of material around a star.

I have no formal training at all. Just an IT nerd that watches a lot of Kurzgesagt.
>an automatic system that you'll need to irritatingly press a button every few minutes to stay engaged

Just like trains! There is an alarm system just as you describe. After a certain amount of time, there are audio and visual warnings for the engineer. The engineer must engage the switch to "snooze" the alarm, and in the event that the engineer does not engage, the train automatically cuts power to throttle to brake.

I'm not sure flashing lights and a klaxon are what we would want in a car, but maybe beeping akin to lane assist that quickly increases in volume + a light on the dash would be a good start.
As a former drinker who really loved beer, within the past few years there's been a good number of dedicated NA craft breweries start up and they've endeared themselves to me in a way no brands have. My favorites are Wellbeing Brewing Co, Athletic Brewing Co, and Surreal Brewing Co.

It's been tough being in a neglected market but things are changing.
What makes someone deserve to be rich, under this philosophy? I understand that's not part of it. Maybe some of them deserve to be rich for being clever, some deserve to be rich for working hard, there are many reasons. The point is that they clearly do deserve it because they are rich.
It's quite easy to disable the daily or weekly digests if you don't want them. Not saying I think medium is perfect, but there are better ways to approach the problem then training a spam filter.
Even if you don't drink, it's still going to sound and stink like drunk people.
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Not sure why you would be flattered. Hacker News comments are just YouTube comments with right-libertarianism and a thesaurus in the mix.
There's a few good new NA craft breweries. My favorites are Wellbeing Brewing Co, Athletic Brewing Co, and Surreal Brewing Co.
> the menu features a list of $13 (£10) cocktails

How did we get here?
An unsweetened fruit or berry juice, ice and soda is very nice.

Unsweetened cranberry juice, ice and soda is my favorite.
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A 2 x 12TB RAID NAS with two separate backups in two other physical locations.
Does anyone notice that the text of this article appears to be vibrating up and down? Made me nauseous almost instantly. I'm on a Macbook, using Chrome.
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Who's forcing you to use Nix?

Their goal was probably to get the thing building within the constraints of their own time, and the constraints of the Nix ecosystem.

You can choose whether you want to invest the time to fix those build scripts and re-enable the other build systems, or not -- totally up to you. But it's uncharitable to suggest that the Nix maintainers have some kind of secret agenda.
Not basic economy, but economy for short domestic is common. That still could mean boarding group 5 out of 6 or so for travelers with no airline status.
The spooks and have always hated public Crypto and the professional xenophobes known as customs officials and border security are part of that apparatus now. They have long had an absurd anti-cryptography agenda and unchecked power.

Said abuses aren't surprising and won't stop until they get made an example of in the worst way.
How many Teslas are on the road, how many have been involved in fatal crashes, and for how many of those crashes was autopilot turned on?
If you’re an alcoholic, a bar may be one of the hardest places for you to resist.
I don't think that's the right time to call your lawyer.

The advice I've received in the past is to comply to the best of your ability, don't talk to the police, call your lawyer when you have a chance, and fight whatever there is to fight in court or in the media.

Reaching for something in your pocket instead of complying will probably get you hurt regardless of race.

(I am neither lawyer nor LEO)
> I wish there were better non-alcoholic drinks that aren't sweet or hot. There's only so many mocktails or teas I can drink.

You should check out Seedlip; it is a “non-alcoholic distilled spirit”, similar to gin. Mix with tonic water, cheers!
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Yeaaah so that's placebo.
Most of these places aren't open late so they don't provide any nightlife.
Bars could indeed offer these options trivially, it may simply be that they've never considered it, or considered that there might be a demand for it. As the perpetual DD throughout my college career, if you're not a fan of sucking down sugary soda or virgin Bloody Marys, be prepared to sip water for the night.
Really self driving cars won’t be much difference than how pervasive taxi use is in countries where labor is cheap, except traffic will be much more optimized.
Hopefully, for people like myself, who really aren't into multiplayer, that'll be less of an issue. I'm not sure which games do and don't contain EAC but I've generally had good results with my catalogue on Stream Play the biggest limitation being those which use Windows-specific codecs for their cut scenes or sounds.
How destructive compared to removing mountains to reach the coal, compared to strip-mining the peat, or compared to the sea level rises from CO2 induced climate change?
My experience agrees. I had a bad rental from Hertz, and American Express rejected my chargeback three times.

The evidence Hertz provided was literally a letter that just said they provided services for 5 days, even though they provided me with a detective vehicle and charged me for 10 days.

I understand the point of contention on how much I should pay for a broken car, but I don't understand why American Express can't check that the time period is wrong. In the end, Hertz at least refunded the overcharged number of days because it was so easy to convince anyone paying attention that it was wrong ...
Ah, OK. It looked like you were citing Ada as an example of the problem, not of the solution.
You can't go wrong with a nice glass of Moloko Plus.
At every airport I've flown into in the US baggage claim is after immigration.
There are a few styles of hop Seltzer or hop juice that are supposed to taste like a beer, but with zero alcohol. They are available at Whole Foods - I don't remember the brand name, though.
Oh, it's a computer bug, see, no biggie, we all get those, right? Those darn computers, they sure are a handful.

I can't accept that. What happened here is that Hertz, as a rational and responsible entity, reported lawfully rented cars as being stolen, knowingly putting inocent customers in grave danger. It was not a computer that did it, there was a rational decision to let this critical task run without human supervision on a dodgy system with insuficient quality control.

What's next, Autocad glitch destroys sky scrapper? Windows Update sends passenger jet to fiery death? As soon as you take the rational decision to let life critical tasks run on software, you are vouching for the correctness of that software and it's appropriateness for the task and you are responsible if the software fails.
It is completely reasonable to hold a judge's discretion and judgement under scrutiny.
How many times would the AP have crashed the car but the driver intervened? Are these instances showing up in any statistic?

A student driver never crashed because the instructor is there to take over. Would you say student drivers are good drivers based on this?
I find Nix to be a really nice alternative to Make; although it's also quite heavyweight and "invasive" (it's not just self-contained binary like `make`), so it's more a case of "I'm already using Nix to install dependencies, why not use it for orchestration too?"
My spouse never enjoyed marijuana for similar reasons. When I was younger I never understood and had a hard time with how different of an experience everyone has ingesting the same chemicals. I enjoy that vulnerability.
I'm not an expert but in France where electricity production is nuclear, I'd say renovating housing (heating systems/insulation), promoting public transportation and discouraging the use of polluting vehicles, improving industry efficiency...
But the gap is closed.
The social context of a coffee shop is to get coffee. The social context for a bar is to get laid. The fact that they both serve beverages is just incidental and not indicative of their function.
I'm going to be the last one to defend corporation (or any other large faceless group) but your comment is preposterous.

>The absolute impunity with which large corporations operate never ceases to amaze me.

Hertz is likely to wind up getting sued and settling. They are going to pay to make this right. If they don't then the lawyers will have a field day.

>Let say that I, as an individual, report my car stolen when I’ve actually lent it to someone, and then I do it again, and again, and dozens more times, resulting in false arrests and jail time for law-abiding citizens.

If the bug was doing this only for a particular jurisdiction then it would be ignored by cops like you weould be. If you had the geographic reach that hertz does you could probably report 30 cars stolen.
You misunderstood. The grid must still be dimensioned in terms of production capacity as if wind power did not exist.
Depending on how strict you are being about non-alcoholic club soda and bitters is a good option. There are tons of bitters types out there that make good choices and even dives tend to keep agnostura on hand.
Scale isn’t an excuse. If I personally rented out hundred of thousands of cars a day, the judge isn’t going to tell me, “Well, don’t worry about those dozens of false police reports, nobody’s perfect.”

Ok, they’re many many people. Are the individuals who made these false reports being held responsible, then?

That’s the problem: if you try to hold the corporation accountable, people say that it’s made up of many individuals and most of them had nothing to do with the crime. If you try to hold the individuals accountable, people say that they were acting on behalf of the corporation and it’s not right to punish them alone.

I don’t know what the solution is, but allowing large companies to get away with crimes that would ruin my life if I committed them myself is not the way to go.
Three letters: AWS

Same issue with regards to control but not as policed as YouTube...
I'm actually surprised there aren't more options for social spaces. Cafes are a sort of social-anti-social space, but past that it's somewhat lacking. Local gaming stores for nerdy-style board gaming nights tend to do well.

Where's the big room full of people on comfortable couches enjoying some Smash Brothers?
First of all, I'm extremely in favor of social spots that don't revolve around alcohol. But what in the hell is going on with that price point? I would have thought you were paying for rent + alcohol + labor when it comes to a regular alcoholic cocktail, but one of those things is missing from the equation. Is it just that it's in NYC? Is their overhead so high they need to charge the equivalent of a meal per drink, or is it a status/luxury thing? Maybe my standards are out of wack.
“I don’t remember” is a fine answer only if it’s true. Otherwise she could be punished for making false statements (the issue is how to prove someone actually does remember).

In court, she could just invoke the Fifth Amendment, but I don’t know whether that applies to grand jury proceedings, especially since the grand jury isn’t investigating her and she’s already served time for any crimes she committed.
IMO quick emergency stopping for surprise obstacles falls under "micromanagement" not "executive planning".
I would be very interested to know what breed of cat that is, as it looks just like one of our rescues: https://i.imgur.com/Mbe89HT.jpg
not sure where you live but atm, in the UK, the range of non-alcoholic beers is superb. Off the top of my head:

* Brew-dog Nanny State

* Erdinger blue

* big drop pale ale

* big drop stout

* Franziskaner 0.5

* adnams ghost ship

are all available in my local Tesco and all pretty great.

Almost every bar now has the usual alcohol free becks/heineken - but i must admit, like their lagers, they are pretty grim drinks, but i am finding that more and more are stocking nanny state or erdinger
I used to drink quite a bit in high school, university and my early twenties. At some point I decided that I wanted to start programming and build a side project but found that having one or many drinks would write off the evening or next day that I had planned to learn and develop myself.

So I stopped drinking alcohol and over time just began to prefer the clearer state of mind. Eventually, it just seemed like alcohol was unnecessary money and calories, and would end up tainting any free time I had ahead of me. So I preferred not to drink.

Not that I have anything against drinking alcohol in moderation but I really think there is a good opportunity to do interesting non-alcoholic drinks that you could have on a night out.
I am sorry, but who brings a kid to a night club? I hope you are kidding.
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Ice water with a lime. Available everywhere, meets your needs and looks like a vodka drink so people who REALLY want you to be drinking something harder if they are, assume you are.
Looks like there’s a variety sold here in Canada. I’ll keep my eyes open around the city to see if I can give it a try.

Sounds like it’s sweeter and maybe closer to an English malt beer than an Irish stout, but it sounds like it might be close
At a bar I would expect to get plain seltzer served with real fruit instead of a couple drops of "natural flavor" made in a lab.
It would really be good if the remaining cars were substancially smaller though. Driving an SUV into the city is not ok and does not provide significant increases in utility for the one doing it compared to a small car.
> Hertz’s computer system has a “glitch” that has led to the company-wide pattern of reporting cars stolen.

The future I fear isn’t 1984 nor Brave New World; it’s Brazil, and it looks like it’s already here.

I doubt I could file a false report and get away with it. Why aren’t the state AGs holding Hertz accountable?
Everyone should have a reasonable expectation of privacy. That certain groups more frequently find this expectation violated does not mean that it is not a reasonable expectation.
> Statistically, Teslas are much, much more dangerous than other new cars in the same price bracket.[1] To be fair [...]

To be fair, how many of the other new cars in the same price bracket and category class (midsize sedan, large sedan) can be ordered with factory 700+hp and sub-3.3s 0-100km/h times?

I haven't seen numbers but I'd suspect that the vast majority of Tesla fatalities are due to the fact that the cars are stupidly much faster than anything new Tesla drivers will have driven before.
Are you certain that movies reflect reality in this regard? I'm less willing than you are to believe a cop would smash a tail light, perhaps you could link me to a recent incident or something.
Most projects don't actually want help. Go and try it: report a few bugs or point out usabilty issues. See what happens.
I wonder if a simulation could be made of planet formation in a solar system based on current data of the different stages for each type and size of star and the distribution of clouds of gas and matter. Run billions of simulations and see under what conditions similar gaps appear in planet mass and size. Perhaps that could provide a clue.
You're right, I was conflating immigration and customs
Tomato juice!
As much as anyone that gives tech support to their parents I can assure you I get your very fine and subtle irony.

In systems development, the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is precious, it is your safeguard to mental and emotional health.
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[0]: https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md
Specifically, Slack patches to get software to build, because often software will work for the original developer, but not with a different set of dependencies. Otherwise everything else stays default. I think this is the closest anyone can reasonably get to strict-upstream and still have stable releases.
Tell the airline where you're staying and where they can deliver the bag. Ask them the policy on reimbursing the purchases that you'll need to make to get by in the meantime.

I've had an airline drive our bags 50+ miles to deliver them, but they are not likely to open with that as their initial offer.
> While TESS doesn’t yet have enough planets in its statistics bin to confirm or disprove the Fulton gap,

You can stop reading the article after that line.
This is true of driving in any case. 8 seconds is an eternity at 70mph on the highway. You have to look out the window. You can not watch a movie, or check your phone, or fall asleep.

You can, for example, adjust the radio, or take a sip of coffee.
Unlikely, but if they can at least avoid crutches in their childhood then... that isn't nothing. That's a lot, actually.

They'll probably need them eventually. Then again, technology does keep progressing. Maybe this will be like many other diseases in the past, and it'll turn out that we've reached escape velocity -- the repairs will outdo the damage.

There's no way to know yet. Even so, this article is very good news.
> Do we really accept a known flaw just because it's still better than the alternative?

Would you really choose an overall-worse alternative because the better option has a single known flaw?

If you're that worried about Autopilot, just don't buy or use it. The rest of the car is still best in class.

Edit: Be less inflammatory.
Gosh, they’re probably going to spend hours’ worth of revenue on settlements, I guess that makes it alright then.

You’re right, if I spread out the reports, I probably could report 30 cars stolen before I get found out. Then what happens when law enforcement finds out? Are they going to ask me nicely to stop and let me spend a few hours’ wages settling with the victims? Hell no! I’ll probably spend the next ten years being extradited from one state to another, assuming the Feds ever let me go after convicting me for dozens of counts of interstate crime.
and how many times has AP avoided accidents the driver wouldn't? The stats arn't that simple any more are they.

There are plenty more news articles, especially in local news, about fatalities involving non autopilot cars, but they're not as interesting so don't get shared as often.
There wasn't consensus before about racist laws and forced sterilization. As a matter of fact, they were completely moral! Consensus on the immorality of it was achieved after many people struggled with the judiciary system and lawmakers.
It takes a whole lot of noise to open some eyes.
I think you might have a good idea there. With great execution, I could see something like that taking off.
It sounds like they're distinguishing themselves by curating a 'rowdy' atmosphere. I'm too young to remember coffee shops before wifi but I assume people didn't dance.
Actually, I'm rather shocked that there isn't an all-in-one solution like what I've cobbled together. It's not like there's any super secret magic involved; you'd just need a nice user interface on top of it all.

There are even music streaming servers that you can deploy on a VPS (or locally) pretty easily. Pop in a little rsync script to move your converted lossy files to the streamer and you're set. It's just that nobody's built something that integrates everything yet, thus my Frankenstein setup.
You aren't going to have much of a nightlife if you don't drink. Most people would rather go to sleep after 1 am if completely sober.
It's hard enough to find a good non-alcoholic beer without limiting it to stouts, so I'd try blending your favorite non-alcoholic beer with an infusion of roasted barley. Guinness is fairly light as stouts go, so I think this might work.
I mean, if you don’t have tests, write some. I know that sounds glib when confronted with a horrible old big ball of mud, but it’s probably the best place to start.
It sounds like a savvy business move. My kids have been coming home from university and are not interested in alcohol when offered, other parents report the same. They really have a negative association with any drinking, in part because of the binge drinking they see at school, but they also associate craft beers, wines, and fancy cocktails with older generations that seem obsessed with waiting in long lines to sample the next cool IPA.

On the other hand, they are growing up in an era where weed is either legal or de-criminalized, so perhaps they just have more options.
I guess more ways that I am ignorant to the situation, I was always okay with just a water. I am not too familiar with non-alcoholic beverages. I can imagine if the demand is there, which apparently is true after this article, regular bars may want to start looking at it as an option. That would probably be a great way for bars to introduce a "drink responsibly" program.