skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really looking forward to one day being able to sit im a self-driving car that goes at 150+ km/h towards a crowded intersection with other cars crossing left and right at equal speeds, and then just pass the intersection through a tiny gap in the wall of crossing cars. Because all those cars talk to each other and can precisely co-ordinate to create the nessesary gaps at just the right moment.
M247 are a large UK DC/Network operator, grown through a number of acquisitions. All your seeing here is their large number of data center and connectivity customers, I don’t see anything suspicious.
Germany has little choice. Their economy is heavily dependent on their auto industry, which will contract as EV demand scales up. Of all automakers, I would think Tesla would be the least impactful based on their experiences at Gigafactory 1.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/declining-car-sales-help-driv... (Declining Car Sales Help Drive Germany Toward Recession)

https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/tesla-impact-report-2019.pdf (Tesla 2018 Impact Report)
> The NSA isn’t going to blow its cover over Frozen 2 or your $3 million bitcoin wallet.

Parallel construction means they don't have to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Does it have to be visible? Couldn't it be tokens transmitting their location with great accuracy?

0 visibility in snow happens often.
NIH and 'reinventing the wheel' are phrases for questioning the need to spend time and money to develop a thing that has the same purpose as an existing thing and doesn't improve on it, which I agree with. But to use ships as an example, at some point people decided it would be useful to cross bodies of water without getting wet so they invented the boat, and as a new invention it improved quality of life immeasurably. It feels like you're saying people should exclusively stop making things which have new and novel purposes and just focus on improving existing things, which is the part I disagree with. Also, I think as an example, gears and wheels which have similar bases of design are two completely different inventions because they have different purposes, this might be where we disagree.
That's not entrapment.

Entrapment is the state coercing someone to do something they would not do under normal circumstances. It sounds to me as if these people are illegally parking under normal circumstances. The rules about curbs, hydrants, driveways, &c are well known and common enough between every state that there is no excuse that they weren't aware this was illegal.
I think that the amount of demand and market momentum that appears in the future is a better predictor if what will get done than an executive’s opinion based on current costs.
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Thank you for the explanation! Very appreciated!
I'm sure it would be the biggest disadvantage as there is not an infinite amount of roads.
Like what? If you have anything my computer can do to generate 1c/10seconds with no input from me, that’s $3.60/hour income running twenty four seven; I’ll buy a few and retire right now.
Be More Private in 2020
If a stranger sees you on the street and is able to know where you live, how much money you make, which places you visit most often and every little detail about you... would you be OK with that?

If you are NOT OK with that...

Make it a 2020 resolution to adjust your privacy settings to be more private on

-Facebook
-Google (Gmail, maps)
-Youtube
-Twitter
-Instagram
-Fitness apps

Need a little more convincing? Read the following article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
> but most forget to account for the fact that the environment will meet the cars part way

Multiple important stake holders seem to have significant incentives to make this happen. Local/state govs want less traffic jams and crashes, auto insurance companies would love to collect premiums and not pay out, Uber, Lyft would love to get rid of their drivers
But in this case their customers want specific features that would be integrated in their own SaaS product.

How would that work, am I misunderstanding something?
We'd have self-driving road marker printers to keep the paint from becoming invisible ;)
I'm curious how German engineering and the Tesla's american engineering will work together. Especially in light of the Opel & Focus experiences.
>First of all, it seems obvious that we are going to go to Mars, eventually. Maybe not any time soon, but never? Seriously?

Given the questionable economics underlying humans having a presence on Mars and the extreme toll on the human body this will have, foremost by radiation I think it's actually a fair comparison in particular because full autonomy like mars colonisation is constantly being overhyped mostly by a very small group of very affluent individuals who seem to be more inspired by sci-fi than engineering.
If I were Mozilla, I'd focus my efforts on creating a search engine. Search engine tech and computational resources are available these days and dare I say it's perfectly feasible to create an alternative to Google. In addition to that, create a Google docs or at least good Gmail competitor. They have the technical talent to do it, and they could capture a real market of people who would pay for such products, if done well, that are concerned with privacy and don't want to use Microsoft or Google products.
Your theory is that any EV builder willing to work in Germany will get to dictate terms?

That seems unlikely given the wealth and industrial base devoted to the automotive industry there.
Moving the location to Poland, some 70km east, would be enough.
It’s not a coincidence this guy works at a big corporation like Volkswagen and holds the opinion he does.

If you want to know about the future, don’t ask the incumbents. They will only tell you about the status quo.
Living across the street from the old factory in Berlin that was going to house a Google office until the local anti-gentrification movement started to protest, I'm not surprised. If you build a factory around here, with as much publicity as Tesla gets, you are going to see protests. There are probably two rare species of mosquitos being released in that forest right now.

But just the existence of opposition isn't very meaningful. Of a few million people, some will oppose manna raining from heaven.

Does this have a chance to derail the project? Absolutely not!

Germany is getting quite nervous of its car industry doing an impressive 4-way re-enactment of Nokia's fate, and a significant Tesla presence is just about the best thing imaginable. The local politicians here in Berlin and Brandenburg (the state surrounding Berlin that includes the actual factory) are even more motivated, because it (still) lacks industry. Not one of the top-30 public companies in Germany is located in the east, for example.

It's also important to mention that the concept of "protests" has significant different meaning here than elsewhere, especially the US: A protest is seen as one method/venue/institution among the many that make up "civil society". It carries no connotation of lawlessness[0], and any average citizen, even the blandest centrist, will attend many protests during their life. It's often a social event as well, and can include entertainment, somewhat similar to parades in the US.

0: some specific protests, like May Day, tend(ed) to involve some violence. But these number in the single digits, while there are 15 protests per day on average, just in Berlin.
"Not only will the tech get as good as humans"

Let's suppose it will happen. Do you have a proof that such "good" tech does not develop a will to one day run over every human it can?
Clearly the author hasn't used Yandex image search.
Well, sort of. Chess spread from India, but in many different forms. The form we call "chess" today is only around 500 years old, although the original game is over 2000 years old. And even today, the Chinese and Japanese have chess games distinct from Western chess (Xiangqi and Shogi respectively). It's interesting that Go didn't similarly "speciate". Perhaps because unlike chess, there wasn't the multitude of pieces and movements that seemed arbitrary.
Definitely tempting, but I'm honestly more interested in an ebook reader suited for larger formats and don't think I'd be a interested in a tablet as a pad of paper replacement. My concern about the Boox devices in the past was the already - EOL OS, but the newer one appears to have Android 9 instead of the 6 of earlier ones.
>You can design a car with very little math.

I'm not trying to make it seem like car design is a higher class of work than it is, but a car designed with little math isn't going to run in any meaningful manner.

Margins/thresholds for design scope exist everywhere.
Having a Certificate basically says you have put time and have knowledge to handle problem/issue when it comes. Interviewers or colleagues may act like that's not big a deal, but actually underlying they know that he knows stuff and you can depend on a certified person.
worrydream.com is the website of Bret Victor, a popular researcher and proponent of computation as a new kind of dynamic media rather than simply a substrate for software. He's made a number of influential essays and talks, and is now working on a project called Dynamicland. His essays often reference great works of computer science, HCI, electrical engineering, and other related fields. This directory listing is full of such works.
Wow, you just keep digging deeper. Let me spell it out for you:

Most people make those choices because they don’t have better ones available. They would love to live closer to work, but it’s not viable for many reasons. I’m sure you consider them invalid or of less importance than whatever you prioritize in your life, but suggesting that the solution to other people’s problems is just to do something they can’t easily do is quite arrogant and out of touch.
I just hook up a UPS and the first thing that is on it is my router and my key devices.
What if I told you I could offer you a 99% automated intercity solution? That's right, a solution where 99% of the people involved have no obligation whatsoever to engage with piloting the vehicle... EVER! Where the vehicle just sort of seems to... drive itself? Is this some futuristic sci-fi fantasy? Well hold onto your hat, because the future is NOW!

Behold! https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7177/6894934663_0619c8bea3.jpg

Bonus: the vehicle can be resized at will, depending on the number of passengers.
My theory is that Tesla is the least worst auto manufacturing partner Germany could work with (there are always compromises that must be made), and has the power to go elsewhere if desired (several other EU countries have been very vocal in their demand for a Gigafactory; China bent over backwards to provide financing to Tesla for Gigafactory 3 at very favorable terms, I could see something similar in the EU considering their negative interest rate environment). Whomever has the least to lose wins. Tesla is proven and has been derisked. I also think Tesla would be receptive to minimizing their environmental impact to the site, given their mission and marketing (see my link to Tesla's impact report in above comment).

Does Germany want to be included in the next chapter of automotive mobility? That's up to them. Otherwise, take a trip to Flint, MI to see what the alternative path is (auto centric, of course). It's in Tesla's best interests to be a good corporate citizen, and they (in my opinion) walk the walk. Any environmental impact issues will be resolved and Gigafactory 4 construction will move forward.

Disclaimer: Have toured Fremont and Gigafactory 1 facilities, TSLA investor, all that jazz
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Laws have been passed in some places where the credit card companies are not allowed to ban minimum prices or different prices for cash.
It could be, but it is probably just they have enough backup power to send the signal.
Or Czechia or Polen, even Spain.
Good luck explaining to the average Tesla driver that his cars did pollute a lot.

I tried to explain once that the "zero emission" label on the Nissan Leaf is misleading because building a car makes emissions.

I do think electric car are a good solution where developing public transports would have a higher (environmental) cost, but building cars pollutes.
I don't see why not. We have centimeter-level GPS. It's true you maybe can't always rely on GPS signal being there, but you could also install devices on traffic lights that would allow cars to precisely locate themselves at intersections, so they stop at the correct position, etc.

What I think is that self-driving cars may also force us to confront ways in which real-world driving environments are inadequate, so that we can make them more adequate. For example, there are intersections where stop signs (or other signs) are present but not visible. Humans know they have to stop there, so they stop anyway. Self-driving cars could systematically find and report these locations, and might get the city to do something about them.
Of course, Joel Spolsky has an article about it.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
Yep, the farmer would be so happy to not have to deal with fertilizer.
You don't understand. We just need more data. Once we have enough data the AI will be able to model all possible scenarios and make a better decision than a human driver ever could! /s
All of these provided access to new technologies.

Autonomous driving is a marginal improvement on an already deployed technology.
This is why I am very skeptical when companies, especially tech companies, go running to Congress wanting more imported labor. They're ignoring qualified applicants left and right due to processes that are optimized to minimize the risk of ever making a bad hire even though it filters out lots of good hires. Fix your process before expecting laws to be changed to ameliorate the negatives of the process you chose.
Do self-driving cars even need road markings? IIRC Google's self-driving car project started out ignoring road markings entirely, and relied on a centimetre-precision map of the test city instead.

That obviously has downsides too, but unreliable road markings would be a pretty silly blocker to ever having a self-driving car. that's a solveable short-term problem.
I think you could quite easily make something out of generic parts. The traditional material for remote control planes is tissue paper and balsa wood. The controller could almost certainly be made with a generic micro-controller, and battery cells are more or less the same whether they come from a phone or a drone (afaik).
Hilarious! Wish it had gone on another 10 pages.
Opel and Ford Germany are pretty successful...
People seem to drink enough marketing PR to buy it. That whole company is built as a cult and as a PR playbook. Any other company would not be able to pull that type of dirty tricks.
They don’t dream of micro transactions where you make micro decisions to approve it, they dream of it like a direct debit leech where the amount they drip out is micro enough that you won’t bother taking the decision to stop it - like Amazon Prime, gym membership, wine magazine tasters, book club, whatever you subscribed to but forget about.
I'm no physicist, and foam is just my analogy. I could have also said bread, because it's basically foam. Or even soap bubble foam. And yes, biological tissue, which is fundamentally an emulsion of oil in water.

That's a great point about dark matter, that it's just a placeholder. There could be stuff that only interacts through gravity. Or it could just be that there's a constant gravitational force that dominates at large distances.

TFA describes evidence that such properties as galactic rotational axes are correlated on extremely large scales. And if there are connections, they must be something that we can't see. So "dark matter" is the obvious candidate.

The other issue is how stuff can be correlated over distances that are too great for forces at the speed of light to correlate them quickly enough. Although TFA doesn't explicitly say that, I can't think of what else about those connections is so surprising. Given that the large-scale structure is so well known.

That's what got me thinking that inflation could account for it. I was thinking of stuff like shedding of vortices from rapidly moving objects in fluids. As they expand, features that arose at small scales in the boundary layer expand to far larger scales. Indeed, to scales that are large enough to be puzzling, if we had observed them in isolation.

That's simple minded, I know. But then, I'm no physicist.
There are millions of miles of roads just in the US that will never have that sort of infrastructure because the cost of keeping beacons running and marking in place would be astronomical. Sure maybe California will have some of that around big population areas but that's probably about it.

What happens to all these markings when it snows a couple centimeters?'

Fully self driving cars won't happen in our lifetime, probably not this century.
While that's a useful counterpoint, it doesn't really provide an estimate of the damage that could be done.

I'm thinking of questions like:
1. Are there areas where people currently live that shouldn't be inhabited?
2. What's the worst case death toll?

I realize there's uncertainty, but a more concrete rebuttal would still be better.
Same as usual for the past few decades: private capital that funds existing and upcoming startups, who will deploy proprietary smart infrastructure and allow users to connect to it probably through some monthly subscription service.
It's also a business endeavour that's done a lot of bragging about the number of people it will render jobless. It's not going to be an easy political sell to erect lots of additional road furniture unless it's cheap and unobtrusive.
Privatized roads?
I think I am going to side with VW on this. I have always been skeptical of fully autonomous vehicles, and I do not believe they will _ever_ exist on the roads that currently stand. Driving safely in all conditions without aid from a human is simply too complex a task for code that can be audited and verified. If some AI model that's been trained on a billion years of driving experience shows promise, but it is some incomprehensible black box of weights, I won't be getting in that car.

Autonomous vehicles will only ever truly exist upon infrastructure literally designed to aid them, greatly simplifying how they need to interact with the environment, thus making the problem tractable with code we can prove works. I really think it will take more than putting markings on existing roads. It is going to take new roads full stop, probably with various wireless checkpoints built into them.
I'm sure there are many reasons; one might be the tariff on imports of electric vehicles from China, which I believe is 10%.

The tariff is a bit tricky to find, but I think it's 87038010 - electric cars principally for transport of persons, that aren't trains or trams.

Ten percent isn't nothing but it's not like the 100% or more tariff seen in some countries on car imports; I expect it's just one more factor.
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Agreed. I have running bet with fellow at work who owns a Tesla about when we will have self driving cars. He keeps telling me the AI revolution is just around the corner. Still waiting.
They need one in the EU for tariffs and shipping costs. But I agree that they should also build another factory in China. Keep showing the world how it can be done if all parties are committed.
Sure - this is always a balancing act but given how expensive cars are to own and the students who can’t use them, I would generally favor increasing transit and sidewalks, etc. rather than subsidizing parking since that benefits everyone.
Hear hear! My favorite idiotic parking ticket story: back in grad school (at Stanford, so valley people watch out!), I got a $75 parking ticket once at 3am, in a lot for which my car had a valid permit (in student housing)... because I hadn't changed the DMV registration sticker. Mind you, my registration was renewed, I just hadn't put the new sticker on the plate.

Also, it was pouring with rain that night. So they seriously had someone at 3 am, in the pouring rain, shining a flashlight at the license plates of every legally parked car with a valid permit just to try to find an excuse to get people.
"There's probably a very big difference between" - that is precisely my point.

I have a lot of time playing ms flight sim and so obviously I know how to design airplanes is his argument.

Writing "greenfield" applications that no one (comparatively) is using is relatively easy. Creating systems that have four+ 9's availability, integrate with various disparate APIs, don't lose data, and,and etc is where, IMO, the learning is.

Once one has this experience, watching this micro services "movement" is, in my mind, related to global warming - like watching someone jump out of a plane with no parachute, smiling.
So all someone needs is a photo of my hand?

If this took off, it might be wise to buy stock in major glove manufacturers.
I think this analogy isn’t very illuminating. In the case of Clearview the photo is the product.

For public place photos, the photographer has rights to the photo. Anyway, most of the photos on social media are not these public place photos.
> Have you ever felt your life is going nowhere?

Start with that feeling. Why do you feel your life must go somewhere?

You might be medically depressed. Im no doctor. Consider visiting a therapist rather than seeking answers from internet strangers.
Because the autonomous car is a systematic issue that could affect every single car on the road using that manufacturer's software, and the "driver" of the car has no way to stop or mitigate the risk, or cause risk. He puts his life in the company's hands each time he drives the vehicle.

I'm not sure why people even embrace self-driving cars. By now we know that centralization, lack of maintenance, and fragmentation in software are serious risks, as well as how software can increase the attack vector on people as well as provide benefit. I'm not sure if the risks are worth the modest efficiency increase, and this isn't even getting into existential risks like external parties being able to control when you drive, or attacks on the networks or technology.
Everything I’ve read on Zettelkasten has been the equivalent of trying to learn to program by reading a reference book. Sure, I could technically learn Python by reading an exhaustive list of methods, classes and operators, or I could pickup a book which explains key concepts through an example project and examines the syntax through a specific context.

I learn best by example, personally, and I’ve never seen good examples on this topic myself.
> It it far more efficient of resources to have cars be used most fo the day, rather than sitting idle.

This is better and more easily addressed by car sharing services like car2go than autonomous cars. The more I use them the more I wish for a world where every car was shareable: you need to go somewhere? you simply get into the nearest parked car and drive it to where you want to go. And, unlike autonomy, there are no technical barriers to this, only the will to do it and the economic model to sustain it. Sadly these services seem to be in full retreat now but I will miss them and still hope they'll rise again soon.
I want an oceanside villa on the dark side of the moon but that's doesn't mean it will happen. Just because there is motivation to do something doesn't mean it is possible.
So the author mentions hearing about the Reingold-Tilford Algorithm which wouldn't work for the example given since R-T is meant for binary trees and a family tree might have more than 2 nodes.

Which led me to wonder why is there even an "algorithm" per se for binary trees: wouldn't it be acceptable to just trace out a complete binary tree with spaces reserved for each potential node, and only fill in a space with a node if it is non-null? Or does this not meet some criterion of "niceness" for drawings?