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I think there are a handful of problems with this post, one of them being that index funds are already in many ways "open source." Re: their investment choices the investments that go into an index are chosen by the creator of the index which is separate from the investment house. The investment company MUST simply follow the index and trade as the index indicates. The tracking accuracy may vary slightly between Vanguard, Blackrock, and others, but generally they're all tracking accurately using basically the same methods. Any investor can move their shares to any other investment house at any time.

Also each investor already owns their portfolio outright... it is simply housed at the investment company. There is an absolute avalanche of regulation making that not just desirable but necessary. To remove a brokerage house from this equation would first require the complete and utter destruction of the global economic system (highly unlikely).

Every investor has the ability to choose funds crafted based on moral guidance or active management, which would spread out voting power more than it currently is. People are by and large not choosing that option at the moment.
I don't see a meaningful distinguishment between AI-driven hoop-jumping and in-person. When whatever you're measuring before becomes publicly known, it immediately becomes useless -- anyone can optimize for it. Humans are equally as likely as AI to reward preparation and acting skills, especially since suffer from implicit bias.
>>I can’t imagine paying $40,000+ on a new car that isn’t a Tesla right now

It's personal & subjective, and nobody will persuade anybody in a thread, but FWIW I absolutely positively can.

- I'm unlikely to utilize self-driving any time soon

- The stories of their firmware terrify me. And I don't want a DAW and computer games running on my ECU :O

- More pragmatically though, the Tesla UI paradigm is completely foreign to my way of driving/thinking.

I'm looking for a "HOTAS" type UI, where I can do anything I want without taking my eyes and focus off the road. A UI that's one giant screen, that may change position of buttons from minor firmware to another, is basically as scary and alienating concept as I can imagine.

I get that I am in a minority nowadays - a lot of manufacturer's are replacing switches, buttons and knobs with a touchscreen and deep menus, but not thankfully all just yet :|
The point is that your original statement that these rights don't require government in order to exist ist just false. These rights require that they are taken seriously by everyone, from citizens to the heights of government in order to exist in any meaningful sense. It may well be that having them written down in such a clear form as the Bill of Rights helps in forming that consensus, but in the end, the consensus is what determines whether those rights exist or not, not whether these rights are written down or which exact words were used.

And the further point is that there are plenty of people working to undermine those rights, and they don't need to change those words to be successful, they can also change how they are interpreted and how seriously they are taken in order to achieve their goal of undermining those rights, and that is what they usually do.
What would that help?
The page honestly reads like Hesse’s “description” of the glass-bead game: lots of things and no true explanation.
>"... One analysis of 11 rich countries estimates that the average mother spent 54 minutes a day caring for children in 1965 but 104 minutes in 2012. ..."

This is analysis is just hard to believe.
Between reading books, preparing food, driving to activities -- a full-time parent spends probably 4-5 full hours, except when another parent takes over or there is a continuous split.

The interrupt costs are also very high (and affect negatively ability to work).
The Zettelkasten itself is at the University of Bielefeld.

Some time ago they finished digitalizing it, you can find that somewhere I'm my submissions.
Yeah, but the same could be said for domestic income inequality. Hard to live in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, on an average American income...
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On the other hand, consider the position that had a 100-question personality test was never intended for a competitive candidate like you. It was intentionally crafted for the desperate job seeker who might take a lower wage.
Is Tesla following accepted industry best practices for designing their algorithms? If not, Tesla is exposing itself to a tremendous amount of liability when their autonomous system fails(and, as software engineers, we know it will fail). I applaud them for pushing the technological envelope and driving expectations. I'm not criticizing them for the damage those failures will cause, because it may be offset by reductions in human caused damage. I'm saying there is established legal precedent that will cost them dearly if they're not properly developing and testing their code(ISO26262, MISRA, etc). See the Toyota accelerator debacle for background.
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Seconded, it's a really well written compact book.

It's possible to tweak deft and org-mode a bit with some functions to make it very Zettelkasten like: https://efls.github.io/zetteldeft
Bose has an excellent brand name, akin to Rolls Royce in automotive(I understand there are more higher end audio companies, but they don’t have general public reach of Bose).

But it does appear they are getting chipped away at by upstarts like Beats & Sonos on the low-end luxury slice.

I wonder if Bose will have to choose going the way of Leica & Zeiss and conduct more licensing deals?

I do find it odd that a company with a physical product that demands in-person experiential evaluation would remove the experience.

If I had to guess, I suspect they will follow with in-store experience kiosks with retail distribution partners, much like what is found in some key airport locations.

This does put a dent in the concept of experiential retail.
Clickbait.

This is definitely not consistent with statements Alex has made in the past. Seems like more of an off the cuff remark a German engineer would make while confident that the fully realized result is right around the corner.
Sure. Replace never by 3 billion years +/- 0.5 bill to account for human help (the time it took single celled life to evolve to human brain).

What I mean is it's a fascinating but daunting task.
I would be grateful if you could provide a link to the tarballs
Opinion: level 5 autonomy would be cool, but it's not where most of the value of self-driving cars is.

Most of the value in being able to travel by auto without attention is in trips longer than 15 minutes. Commutes, tourism, vacations. Shipping. Most of which is certainly highway driving.

If it's possible to automate highway driving under most conditions (and safely transition either to a stop or human-piloting when those conditions aren't met), then at least 80% of the value is there.

Wrestling with the harder edges of the problem is still the right thing to do for tolerance reasons, but I hope we don't have to see last-mile problems solved before we start reaping the benefits.
I agree completely. Putting a guide wire in the road would be spending a lot of money to (incompletely) solve a problem that’s already been solved.
Lwan (https://lwan.ws) can also be used like this, although I wouldn't call it a "one liner" like many of the examples listed there:

lwan -r /path/to/files/to/serve
There are thousands of miles of roads without lane markers, shoulders, signage. Some aren't even paved. Who's going to come along and bury RFID tags or wires?
It could quite easily be a ploy to prevent lost sales.
Isn't there a performance penalty when measuring with perf_counter for anything other than really short snippets of code?
Latency?
There are huge economies of scale in finance as well. The time it would require you to maintain the index would most likely cost you more than the management fee on the index.
I've read the paragraph several times and maybe it's my ESL, but I don't quite follow.

Is the term "Grade" here used in the "Slope" sense, as in don't run the cars up and down the hill?

And if that's the interpretation, I don't necessarily agree with the next point that obstacles are reduced on slopes/hills... so I probably am not following correctly :-/

Thanks!
That's absolutely the case, and traffic scofflaws ought to be hit where it hurts: yank their license. Traffic signs (including parking) are there to keep traffic flowing, they don't put them up because they look pretty.
Your comment completely ignores the reality for many, many people.

I was a low income college student who drove and public transportation was not an option for me. Outside of very large cities public transportation is often inefficient to the point that the logistics of attending college and having a job just don't work. Between my part time job and classes I wouldn't have made it to either on time if I took a bus. I sometimes carpooled, but I only knew a few people at the college and work/class schedules didn't often align enough to make ride sharing a possibility. So I bought a very crappy car and basically prayed to the gods every time I used it that it wouldn't break down. It wasn't ideal of course, but being poor never is.

And I was lucky. So many people have problems and commitments that make this situation a lot more difficult, like having a kid. Can you imagine relying on a slow public transportation system while also juggling school, a job, and child care? I can't.

I've seen a lot of these type of comments on HN and my takeaway is that an awful lot of us are totally oblivious to the realities of living in poverty. Although maybe the real takeaway should be that people in general are often bad at viewing the world from any perspective other than their own. I really wish people could be more understanding.
I'm not saying that every alien species would have the same concept of a game, but you really think it's "ridiculous" that any other alien species might have a similar concept of a game? Adversarial games are not even that far removed from the normal competition that is part of natural selection that yields intelligence in the first place.

You're making a lot of assumptions about things that you claim are impossible or would never happen, without explaining how you're coming to those assumptions. And the "communicate with a piece of rock" bit is just flat-out bad argumentation, as rocks aren't intelligent and thus cannot communicate by definition.
> If that would seriously be the issue with free parking, then build parking garages.

This sidesteps the underlying decision of who pays for those garages. Either you charge for parking and the people who use it pay, or you don't and every student (even the ones who take the bus or carpool) pay.
“You're stealing our water”: Germans protest against Tesla gigafactory
Lisp was more or less abandoned in the 90s.
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Tesla's increasing have voice commands for most functions. What you said was true before but isn't now. Honestly this feature, being able to push updates to the entire fleet when ready is a significant killer feature.
> being incredibly flat

Europe is full of two-wheeled vehicles that manage to solve this problem.
All you need are machine readable signs or beacons that dictate where full-auto is allowed.
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To a certain extent I agree. I had already written at length in another post about this topic, but my opinion is that what we think of as a "car" right now will never be fully autonomous.

I see the future diverging into two paths, fully autonomous commercial vehicles, like taxis, delivery vehicles, semi-trucks, etc. that work within urban areas or other designated, mapped and specially prepared areas. This will possibly involve a centralized system of control and communication, something like an ATC but for cars. These will be owned by corporations and only used by people. It makes no sense for a person to buy one of these fully autonomous vehicles, although I imagine some people would pay extra to have priority access so they always have one available.

The other side of the coin will be privately owned cars that have autonomous capability, or autonomous cars with override. These will be able to go anywhere the driver wants, including unmapped villages, small towns, off road tracks, etc. I suspect these will be the domain of enthusiasts, people who really need them for work (ranchers and farmers, for example) and people who choose to live away from urban centers. They will be more expensive than cars now, but the need for these vehicles will never go away. Even if we get true AI capable of driving anywhere with only the sensors aboard the vehicle, there will still be the need for a human to override it, even if that involves just authorizing a risky maneuver or putting the AI into "unsafe driving" mode.

I think the movie I, Robot (with Will Smith) got the future of autonomous cars surprisingly right, autonomous inside cities and on highways, and using the manual override comes with penalties (higher insurance, being at fault in an accident, etc.).

On a personal note, and this may sound bad, but I would never buy a car which I cannot use to break the law. Even if I never plan to do it, being able to speed, jump the curb, intentionally crash into a wall (or another car) or even run over a person (for example, in self defense) may be at some point required or the least bad of many bad options. In this case any consequences should fall on me, but I don't think a thing I own should be designed to prevent me from breaking the law or doing something stupid if I really want or need to, although providing warnings or an optional safe-mode is fine. I suspect many people feel the same way, even if they don't put it in such an extreme way. This can be seen by the fact that a lot of cars, particularly those focused on performance or off-roading, come with switches to turn traction control off, and if they don't, it will get mentioned as a negative in any review done by publications focused on those audiences.
Suppose for a moment that for whatever reason, airbnb has a vested interest in preventing sex workers from using their platform to pursue their sex work. And suppose that sex workers are disproportionately from the LGBTQ+ community. If airbnb aggressively targets and removes sex workers from its platform, does that automatically mean they are "abusing" LGBTQ+ people, or could it mean they just do not want their platform associated with sex work?
Most humans can't drive safely in all conditions without outside human intervention.
The point is that (primarily) the road needs to be smart, not the car. There should ideally be a synergy between the car and road, but the road has to be the primary vector to guide the car.
The technology is not the only problem. The lawyers that are defending every dead body, and there will be dead bodies, that will sink self-driving cars. Even if everyone is 95% safer with self-driving cars, those that are killed by a self-driving car (in combo with a public that is easily swayed with non-objective arguments) will be hard to dismiss.
An index fund isn't doing research or making decisions though.

They invest in companies that make up an index. When a company enters the index they buy units in that company, when a company leaves the index they sell those units.
It is "open sourced"...you can go to any index provider, and they will tell you what is in the index...you realise that there is no complex "algorithm", it is just a market-cap weighted index (and even then, you can replicate the perf of these indexes with 10-20 stocks).

And this has already been invented. It is called hub-and-spoke, you generally see this with small CTAs and the like where there is a central portfolio with trades mirrored into separate accounts...it works but it is unnecessary, and costly. Another example of is are those awful portfolio mirroring services (eToro is one I think).

Btw, the thing that you are saying is "free" is where all the cost is. Yes, it would be great if everything was just "free" and people would do things for me for no money...but that isn't realistic. Some companies do just provide the "investment" side without all the low-level trading/account management/customer-facing stuff but it usually isn't attractive to do so for individual investors...this is basically what the big pension fund consultants do.

Marketing to individual investors is utterly hellish. It is expensive and the money you obtain is usually pretty worthless. If you are actually have investment talent, it is a terrible financial decision. You can spend hours pitching for pocket change with retail investors or you can make the same in a few seconds with an institution.
>He has no software background...

Yeah, because making Formula 1 cars "go fast" involves no software whatsoever, right?

I love how you dismiss "Formula 1 engineer for many years". Maybe if he helped build a payment processor we could take him seriously.

>He has no idea how to make a self driving car.. and honestly, why would we think he would?

Because he's running the autonomous car division of the biggest automaker in the world? I have no idea if he's right or not, but dismissing him as not knowing what he's talking about is hubris. He's trying to build this stuff.
Surveillance by the police and government agencies is different and in some ways more restricted than surveillance by private companies, using social media inputs. It seems reasonable to assume that NYPD won't sell their surveillance camera data to third parties, but the legal restrictions on private companies seem much weaker -- if they exist at all.
Well, when I first set my speakers up, they used the Sonos app and my phone’s microphone for setup.

I don’t believe the speakers I own have microphones (although there is probably some way to hack the speaker into detecting sound, after all... It has a coil, a magnet, and a diaphragm that moves...)

And I’m now extremely wary about buying devices with cameras and microphones, especially for my home.
Heh. Sure...licensed under WTFPL. http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
Most of these one-liner probably aren't secure. As the title post says "Use this power wisely".
The study doesn't seem to do much to attempt to disentangle cause and effect. Poor health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty and there are correlations between traits that tend to lead to better health and to better career outcomes. These are quite complicated things to separate but this study doesn't really seem to even try.
Consumers don't give two craps about this terminology. And the barrier between level 4 and level 5 is potentially decades out, if not forever.

Nobody's who's contemplating a level 4 is holding out their purchase for a level 5.
> Nobody had to lobby.

The idea that transport policy wasn't shaped by any lobbying is ludicrous.

> I don’t think transit advocates realize how amazing car travel was back in the day.

That doesn't mean the shape of policy that leveraged that popularity wasn't shaped by lobbying by those with a concentrated interest that the legislation would advance leveraging the general popularity of car travel. In fact, having something naturally popular (whether it's “car travel” or “not dying in a terrorist attack”) to leverage as a basis increases, rather thank reduces, the intensity of lobbying to gain private benefit by exploiting that sentiment.
My go-to is Wyndham properties. They have a good app and great loyalty rewards.
Ask HN: Search engines as good as “old Google” for finding information?
Several years ago, it was possible to use Google to find up-to-date topical information even from obscure sources, using a general search query.

For example, you could set a Google alert for, say, "embedded linux" and get a wide variety of good results. Now if you set the same alert, you mostly get spam results (many of which have been removed from the index by the time you click on them), and a surprisingly small amount of results overall even though a general query should give large numbers of results. The non-spam results you get are always commercial, no blog posts, mailing lists, etc.

I refer to Google Alerts as an example, but searching manually on Google gives the same impression. This makes Google mostly useless for finding actual information on a general search query, as opposed to advertisements and websites that function as advertisements.

Are there any search engines which are as good as "old Google" for actually finding recently-published _information_ when given a general search query? I mean blog posts, mailing list posts, and the like, not the Wikipedia article for the query.

I've tried DDG, Qwant and Bing and they don't seem to be improvements.
You aren't required to park to attend
That "requirement" doesn't make a difference. Society already requires you to generally wear clothes in public.
I have a Brother with a similar approach. It has ink tanks with huge capacity and it powers up once a day to do something which I presume is keeping the heads clear.

It frightened the crap out of me once but I'm used to it now.
> is it really true that collecting only anonymous, stateless data has the same value as stateful, identifiable data

If you place more value on knowledge of the collective rather than the specifics of the individual (which is arguably a good way for governance and stewardship bodies to operate) then I feel like it might be true.

to me, the perk of this totally non-specific data is that it can theoretically be public, and so there's less incentive to advocate for scary information asymmetry in private hands (neither corp nor gov). Yes, there's asymmetry in who can derive insight from public aggregate data, but in theory access can be ubiquitous, and that's less than the towering asymmetry (of access) that currently exists with our understandable lip service to personal privacy
Old tarballs? Really? Well, here:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...

and some of the software here:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

But some of that has newer versions in the usual repositories.
As long as you have places where full-auto isn't allowed, you haven't reached Level 5. Exactly what the subject of the story claims.
Possibly not, but try walking

- Half an hour

- Uphill most of the way (the college is built on the side of a hill)

- In the winter when there's 4 inches of snow on the ground, and the temperature is below 0°F

- And then having to start your job making only a few dollars an hour more than the students who get to sit there and do their homework while on-shift, and having to do parts of two other people's jobs too because turnover is so high

The beauty becomes a background after a while...and yes, as you can see, the college does have other problems that make the parking issue seem much less significant. (I'm fortunate enough that the job I was describing was not mine, but it's not only real, it's far from unique here.)
The other day I went to a concert and parked my car at a parking lot. When the concert ended, of course there were masses of people trying to exit the parking lot. There were only 2 cashiers to pay the parking ticket — no automated machines. So we waited over an hour to pay our ticket. Time that we ended up paying with our ticket (per hour parking). The cashier didn’t want to refund us for the waiting time. If the law doesn’t require any standards requiring waiting times — why would a parking operator ever be incentivized to have an efficient checkout system? Especially if they are the only parking in town. Anyways lots of sketchy consumer violations in this space.