skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans also fail at those things and we get accidents. We do not need perfect cars that deal with every conceivable situation in the best way possible. We only need them to deal about as good as your average human driver.

Yes, self-driving software will be much dumber than a human, but it has the advantage of constant attention, lower reaction times and the ability to access more data. Perhaps their failure modes will be different due to that, but as long as the accident rate and severity is comparable that's good enough. You also need to factor in the value and lifetime-hours gained by freeing up human drivers from the task.

> nothing short of AGI will get us close to the current below-average human driver.

If people try to climb icy 20% inclines with summer tires every winter is that the result of general intelligence or just zombie mode driving? The correct choice for an autonomous car in that situation would be to refuse or look for alternatives instead of doing the dumb thing.
You're missing the point. If I'm getting shoddy QA anyway, why keep paying Apple's excessive prices and accept their oppressive content restrictions?
A few hours ago we had a small earthquake. In our house the wind is so strong this might be the first time I've become scared due to a natural disaster.

Two days ago we stocked up on goods from Costco, and we have 120 liters of drinking water ready. Our grandparents in Chiba lost power in the last big typhoon and likely again today.

I hope the damages are not super severe, but with wind slamming our house like this no chance Tokyo is not going to have fallout.
Sure, but it's more interesting to find out who funds opposition to saving the world, right?

If you look to see who funds climate change advocacy I expect you'll find governments doing most of it, with various ngo's doing most of the rest. Look at the ngo's and you'll find maybe soros or gates as prominent, but I don't think there will be much concentration: the environment movement is a real popular movement, not astroturf.
>I think it's the mobs that need to be fought under Popper's thesis.

So, Popper's idea is basically a way for a minority who "knows best" to impose their will by force upon the "intolerant" majority (which they term "masses" or "mobs").

In might prevent Nazi-style harm (where the masses were pro Hitler), but it's a recipe for USSR-style harm (where the party knew better and lorded over the masses, "for their good", and protesters were labelled "a mob")...
Wait ... why a laser projection? You could just use the car for pacing.
You are perhaps a bit unfamiliar with long distance running. Team work can be a part of long-distance running. Pacers can help with the mental effort required to run at a particular pace; they can shield the runner from the adverse effects of wind during a race; they even help with the time keeping and dealing with crowds of spectators impinging on the course. Should be pacers be a part of marathon racing? Perhaps not, but right now they are. [1]

Generally male pacers will be able to keep up for only part of the race with the very leader but in the case of some women's records very fast male pacers are able to run the entire race. Eliud Kipchoge runs so fast that he used a number of fresh pacers for this particular effort.

Marathon's are run outdoors and not on engineered tracks so there are many external factors affecting the race times. Sun, wind, temperature, crowd enthusiasm, road condition, elevation changes, course layout, crowding at support tables, the provided water, water cups, electrolyte drinks, and food (gummy bears, high carb gels, etc.) all have an effect. Even the width of the road, the number of runners and their staging at the start have an impact. The fact that Eliud Kipchoge broke 2 hours is an important achievement and to me indicative of what we can expect in the future. Some official race will have just the right set of circumstances (good weather, perfect course, no stay pebble in his shoe, etc.) and 2 hours will be achieved. It's just a artificial benchmark (even the distance is completely arbitrary [2]), but it's one people have wondered about for a long time.

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/2278831/pacers-are-ruining-mar...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/why-is-a-marathon-26-2-miles
Since I worked for Amazon and saw how the sausage was made, I am reluctant to ever use AWS again. Random grab bags of teams using all different tech with different coding standards and methodology. Jerry-rigged micro-services turned into APIs through total object instantiation rather than efficient mutable updates.
After going through a few pages on the main page (or until I start seeing posts I’ve already seen) then I go to the “new” tab. I read a lot of those and upvote the ones I think should be visible on the front pages. If it’s something that’s really interesting/useful I try to comment so as to give it a bit more visibility. I like to think that most HN users do the same :-)
Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
I'm familiar—as I'm sure many are—with the big names: BBEdit, Fantastical, Transmission, etc. I want to hear about great, lesser-known Mac apps, and about the design elements that made them so great.

It's fine if the app is no longer actively supported. At a time when the Mac platform seems to be shifting direction, I'm as interested in old apps as new ones.

(I suspect someone will ask what "Mac-Native" means, and I'm not particularly eager to weigh into that discussion. The apps do not need to be Mac exclusive, but they should feel highly tuned to the platform. No electron!)
If it ends up being more sucessful (bringing progress faster than the other strategy), then it actually is less dangerous (even assuming your assessment of how many drivers are ignoring safety measures is correct) - because if it will bring full self-driving faster, it means it will be used faster instead of human drivers, and will cause less casualties than would have been caused by human driving during that period.
Starcraft involves an actively hostile, adapting opponent. Daily traffic generally does not and when it does they are liable for any resulting damages, not you.
I learned the other day that the reason California is so prone to massive fires is because they do not allow fires to occur naturally, and instead do a lot of fire prevention work. Over time, ironically, this results in a ton of dead, dried vegetation accumulating.

The general consensus among experts seems to be that nature needs a regular “release” for a lot of stuff, otherwise “pressure” builds up and results in what we humans consider disasters.
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You can still call objc_msgSend() from C. Just need to cast it correctly.
no forms and no https is needed.

you can make a new submission by putting it in the url.

anything not existing already becomes a new post.

thank you for responding.

it would mean a lot to me to be able to claim compatibility with serenity browser. maybe i,ll just try it myself, if i can figure it out.

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Choose your source ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232211 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232161 (washingtonpost.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231660 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231529 (theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231503 (dw.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231479 (nytimes.com) <-- Discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231450 (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231449 (sportingnews.com)
they already do that.
There’s also a difference between “lax maintenance” and “you started fires causing millions of dollars in damage, destroying many homes and killing people.”

When you are writing software that you know is being run on medical devices around the country, you need to raise your coding to a higher level of rigor than some rando writing an open-source utility for finding anagrams.
No reason, especially since others are both cheaper AND better at shoddy QA!
Here are some common sense questions I’ve wanted to ask on this topic:

Why can’t they do a controlled burn along the power lines?

How about spraying water or a fire suppressant along the power lines from a plane or helicopter.

How about closely monitoring along the power lines and send out fire planes at the first sign of fire? You could already have them loaded and in the air.

Long term maybe just pave the areas directly under the power lines

Or long term run a water pipe along the lines and spray out a little water every day.
Go Modules Part 01: Why and What
What if there was hardware accelerated Lisp?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
cough second breakfasts! cough
So, U2 from All That You Can't Leave Behind onwards?
Developer Competition – How To?
Reddit wasn't able to give me a answer, so maybe you guys can. Looking to somehow setup a developer competition -- any tips on how to go about this? What I'd like to see is a panel of impartial judges, people enter, the judges send us all the same set of specs at the exact same time. We have 24 hours to submit our completed project using any language / framework / tools at our disposal -- no limits. May the best person win.

Any tips on how to go about this? I'm looking to showcase the abilities of Apex, and some links are below. Main site at:
https://apex-platform.org/

Update, and current frame of mind:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Apex_Platform/comments/dem3b4/upgrade_apex_v126_released/

Intro video (sorry about snapping of fingers -- future videos will be professionally edited):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SNUCHa_tA&feature=youtu.be

Demo installation video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owfK4HiLQGQ&feature=youtu.be

Current business plan (open to change):
https://apex-platform.org/Apex_Business_Plan.pdf

This is solid software, and has taken 2.5 years out of my life, so not something I just threw together. I also did this blind, as life decided to play a funny joke on me three years ago.

Looking to showcase Apex and its abilities. Not going after the big boys like Laravel and Symphony as they're in a league of their own. However, most definitely going after folks like Wordpress, CodeIgnighter, and CackePHP.

I need to start getting some traction for Apex, and more than happy to do so via a developer competition to showcase its abilities. After meetings with multiple local design / development firms, I'm confident the market is crying out for a solution other than Wordpress. Everyone is still using WOrdpress, but nobody likes it, and Apex is in a prime position to become the modern day and professional replacement to Wordpress.

Any tips on how to get a developer competition going?
Circuit boards with lights in epoxy in a table
I generally never browse by new and I think these kind of posts tend to attract replies from users who do.
Nah, the "environment movement" as you call it is obviously funded by the governments looking for an excuse to raise taxes. It's the governments giving away grant money to fund the "scientific consensus" (another ridiculous term).

Meanwhile, this has nothing to do with "saving the world", only with the sovereign debt crisis. United States, EU and Japan are dead broke, they will try every ploy to raise taxes and steal from the "evil rich people", even if it means ending the Western Civilization.
Why are you ignoring the large number of scenarios where public utilities not only work, but work well?

Also, surely you understand that the New York subway system’s problems cannot simply be chalked up to it being public?
Samsung announced a few weeks ago to move all its (phone) manufacturing outside China:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china/samsun...
No.

There is never a way for the compiler to do this safely and automatically.

That said, there are ways for the programmer to do this manually if they know that it is safe to do so.

It would be nice if the compiler would help in these situations.
For profit companies have an incentive for making profits. That incentive might accidentally be aligned with providing a quality service, but more often it is not.

A public entity is not restricted by the need to maximize profits and can fully concentrate on providing the best possible service within the budget.

Both public and private organizations can have efficiency challenges, which for the most part correlate with their size.

A private company that is granted a monopoly will tend to exhibit the worst of both worlds, maximizing private profits while providing minimal service and putting all risks onto the public sector.
This is a good example of what frustrates me about gun control: I think that America needs more gun control, but the people who propose gun control laws don't seem to take the time to find ways to protect legitimate gun owners.

It reminds me of a problem that I feel happens with software security: People think about the security of a policy/design by trying to identify whether the privacy/security protections are correct. Instead they should be thinking about how the system could be incorrect (i.e. how it could be exploited to hurt people).
C, or a little set theory. :)
I think this is a "Highlander 2" kind of thing. Sequels we wish they'd made but the only thing we got were weird things from alternate timelines.
The idea that paying for something somehow makes it more trust worthy is a bit of a farce, the whole system of commercial paid for certs was a bad idea, and is being propped up by those that have a financial interest in keeping it going.

EV certs cost a crazy amount, and the issuers tout an exhaustive validation process, but it isn't actually that hard to get a fake one issues. use a process very similar to one covered here (https://www.cyberscoop.com/easy-fake-extended-validation-cer...)

I think having the free SSL option has allowed a lot of sites to move to a more secure web.
4.6 minute miles, dang that is cooking.
17.1 per 100m. 10*42 times...
Back then people didn’t believe a four minute mile is possible, but after the barrier has been broken, dozens followed suit. In his eyes, his achievement is not the run, but breaking the barrier, and I appreciate him for that.
a forth array cpu based lisp machine would be a fun toy
I suspect this has more to do with civil liability then has to do with preventing wildfires. If a fire breaks out, and the power company has shut down the power, then they can’t be blamed like last time. It’s a very nasty way of avoiding lawsuits.
Sure there is. But doesn't the title of the article read like nazi era propaganda? Not very professional or scientific or to call anyone on the other side a 'climate denier'. I'm sort of in that camp but am not paid and kind of dont mind debating it
One could say we are already collecting from our offspring.
> As for handling criticism.. it's something new I've been trying in the last year.

Well, I hope you can handle praise. :- )

I unironically love the visual stylings and choice effects of Windows NT 4.0/2000, and where CUA menu bars exist, I often prefer the Mac-style centralized ones (especially the new ones, with the global search keybinding). I feel like the obvious idea of making buttons look iconically like buttons should not have been abandoned so hastily, even if it makes it harder to choose colours for dark backgrounds.
It's funny how perspectives can be so different. I feel like the GOP has been politely waiting for the DNC to come to terms with the fact that nuclear is really the only path forward to provide clean stable grid power.
Sounds like something they will fix in a point update...
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/teacher-fired-refusi...
That's how a good chunk of the arctic was discovered. Previous expeditions would go in for the sole purpose of leaving caches of foods and other useful goods.
Who are you making the software for?

If it's your own company or a client, it's not too hard to get them to let you tag along with someone who will be using the software.

If you're launching a startup then you should have customers lined up before you start writing code. Ask them if you can watch them work to better understand how you can help them.

Most people are happy to share when you show interest in their work and it doesn't take much. A couple of days can really break your false assumptions and give you a good idea of what the workflow looks like. You can pick up on details like the order in which information is available.

It's worth doing more than once too, presumably your software is going save time and impact how they work so you'll need to refresh your knowledge.
How much of a difference is it going to make? I mean nowadays most people are going with python, for better or for worse.
Walking sucks in a city designed for cars. Needing to walk past row after row of parking spaces, or taking a half-mile detour to get to the nearest crosswalk. Intersections are designed to avoid slowing cars down, which increases the danger of every crossing.

Walking is fantastic in cities that are designed for walking. Walking by a different shop every dozen steps, rather than every quarter mile. Crossing the street at any location, or even having the street repurposed for walking in.

Yes, snow is annoying. You bundle up with a coat and boots, and then it doesn't matter anymore. The fundamental difference is in how a city is designed.
I've seen this problem several times expressed using camels and bananas [1]

I would also think it's related to the rocket equation - with each iteration of "grab bananas, turn around" you have fewer bananas to carry with you, but it forms a parabolic curve as you need many bananas at the start of the desert, fewer as you go onwards and don't need to make trips to retrieve the bananas you've already eaten.

[1]http://www.crazyforcode.com/camel-bananas-puzzle/
Do universities pay for health insurance for PhD students? In my experience, an uneventful birth costs $3k to $5k, with insurance, and it all depends on if the pregnancy costs occur in the same calendar year to avoid resetting the out of pocket maximum limit.
yes, according to famous book 'Art of War by sun tzu', you have to defeat the enemy at his place.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
> people of low intelligence just dissaper.

What recent practical trend or phenomenon in the world in general makes you think that the society is moving in that direction?
Yes too late to edit comment thanks
Reminds me of this post on HN from 5 years ago: what will it take to run a 2 hour marathon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439408

Unfortunately the linked article seems to have disappeared.

I wonder if today's record was run with those special Nike shoes with the blades inside... The ones that supposedly give you a 1 percent boost or something similar... If you have shoes that give you such a boost, is it doping?

Edit: thank you web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20141010142108/http://rw.runnersw...
It's so broadly the goal of the language that many things do, often in small ways. For example, it turns out to be really convenient that strings are simply lists of characters. It means all the list manipulation functions just work on them. And the where special form and zap macro make it much easier to define operators that modify things. The advantage of Bel is a lot of small things like that rather than a single killer feature.

Making bel.bel shorter was one of my main goals during this project. It has a double benefit. Since the Bel source is a Bel program, the shorter I can make it, the more powerful Bel must be. Plus a shorter source is (pathological coding tricks excepted) easier to understand, which means Bel is better in that way too. There were many days when I'd make bel.bel 5 lines shorter and consider it a successful day's work.

One of the things I found helped most in making programs shorter was higher order functions. These let you get rid of variables, which are a particularly good thing to eliminate from code when you can. I found that higher order functions combined with intrasymbol syntax could often collapse something that had been a 4 line def into a 1 line set.
"anyone who would betray their ideals just to make money in China isn't worth a lick of spit." - Stan South Park
My brother in law was fired from a law firm for stating (at a casual drinks night) that he believed that, legally speaking, people should not be allowed to change their gender on their birth certificate.

He had worked there for six years as a para-legal, soon to be lawyer. I don't think his cause was helped that the director of said firm had a transgender sister (or brother). He was unaware of this.

EDIT: Typo.
A list for Overwatch can be found here [0]. They've banned people for "unsportsmanlike conduct" and "negative speech", as a separate thing from "toxcitiy" [1] which they have been trying to clamp down heavily on for years now, like most major publishers.

As somebody following gaming, this has much more to do with "safe space" culture than Blizzard being pressured to do anything by external actors. These are massive corporations, they do not need an external force pushing them to keep everything they do as "uncontroversial" as possible.

Having your sponsored event be the spotlight for political statements is the exact opposite of that. Something too many people here completely ignore because they happen to agree with that particular political statement.

But I doubt these same people would support similar freedom of speech, in that situation, if a player used their spotlight to prostylze for a religion, or tell the world about their personal views on things like homosexuality.

[0] https://liquipedia.net/overwatch/Banned_players

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/01/29/blizzard-co...
Would it be any different from how it is now? Right now roads and people around them are also vulnerable to terrorists that might want to drive dangerously or just outright ram into other vechicles or pedestrians.
Facebook employs lots of lawyers. They are well advised when they make decisions with legal implications.
> Here we have world's brightest people trying to tackle a very important and useful problem,

No you don't, but world's best paid people are working in it for sure =D

The "AI industry" has a problem. Every few weeks there comes a "big name AI researcher" and call solving another "world's biggest problem," but a 5 minute research into his claim would, yet again, reveal just a hello world on opencv.

This is from where the negativity towards the ai industry is coming from.

Saying that you have "world's brightest people" sounds like a big stretch to an industry outsider, and plainly funny to people with some solid level of computer literacy.
This is true, and ironically the more money that is invested in fire fighting, the more vegetation is allowed to build up for a future fire until the size overwhelms the current capital investment for firefighting. This funding policy guarantees larger and larger fires.

Meanwhile, no one is seriously discussing this issue, and everyone is blaming it on climate change, which will only make the voters of California feel hopeless, and therefore do nothing about it.
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