skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If kayak etc. don't offer the option to filter by plane type now, they will or a competitor will. While plane crashes have happened in the past, I can't remember one that was so clearly gross negligence on the part of the manufacturer. Not everyone will forget that Boeing stopped caring about the lives of their passengers by putting them into the hands of shit software driven by a single point of failure. The simplest and only explanation in this case is malice. No engineering team or organization could possibly be this dumb. I think that alone will make people remember it better than airplane accidents. These crashes were not accidents.
This 80% solution already exists in the form of trains and airplanes.

Self-driving cars that only go 80% of the way would compete against those forms of transportation which have established business models, networks and in the case of trains are subsidized in a way that self-driving cars likely won't ever be.

Additionally the key advantage of cars is flexibility, not having to figure out how to get to or from the train station or airport. In your scenario self-driving cars would lack this advantage.

Now granted this may still sound like an appealing proposition in countries with poor public transportation infrastructure but that substantially reduces the size of the overall market. Sure this might be attractive for the US but what about Europe? Asia?

Now of course there is an obvious answer to this problem: Keep the steering wheel and drive the rest of the way yourself. That just means you'll have a lot of drivers who won't gain experience at the current rate though. Not sure I would like to share the road with those people.
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>then rapid acceleration seems like obvious low-hanging fruit

It's energy intensive.
This really depends on the state. In Montana, for example, it is a legal requirement that parking is funded separate from the rest of the school. This means that no tuition can pay for new lots or enforcement. Fees gathered from normal parking rates and fines are used only to maintain and/or improve the parking.
You'd pay less than half a pack of smokes for something that is important for your productivity?

Don't feel bad, lots of people are like this. But it's madness. They stand in line to drop 100 dollar bills on cheaply made clothes and entertainment, but actual useful stuff..
It is quite interesting that you seem to think driving your own car is the only way to get to school.
The "grade" that GP is referring to is this grade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_separation
It is sensationalized. To think that public data has not been scraped and indexed by more capable entities feels naive and hard to believe.
I think self-parking (as in “go find a space, possibly auto-paying”, not auto-parallel-parking) could also be a game-changer, not only for convenience and cost, but even zoning and city planning.
You just came close to disproving your own point above by responding with this comment. You are what you are and the meaning you experience is part of that- part of you.

In regards to emergence, the dominant view of consciousness in physics and philosophy and neuroscience alike is that the first person "subjective" perspective of reality is the inherent intrinsic perspective of physical matter and not an emergent phenomenon (unlike say self-awareness or intelligence)- ie. panpsychism.

Anyway, under this paradigm meaning is nothing more or less than a kind of experience and as such is necessarily subjective. More specifically "meaning" is an account of the type of experiences which are most significant from a subjective perspective.

If receiving meaning by fiat or dictum as if it were objective is something you subjectively find meaningful then that is your perspective and it says nothing of objective reality as such, other than that such subjective experiences are possible.
I used to assign a short piece by Luhmann on how to read that describes his note-taking technique with some concrete examples.

At the time I used my own translation (based on the text in Short Cuts published by Zweitausendeins), but I see somebody else has now translated (most of) it here: https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmann-on-learni...
Is your argument that a CSV file of everyone's data should be publicly accessible? Because that's not what I understand the fee to cover; it covers extra personnel to field and review the requests, computer systems to process it, paper to print it out. It probably also covers supervisors time, office space, printers.

Like most government spending, I'm sure it's excessive. However, I'm not clear what your counter-point was. Yes, producing a CSV costs less than $42M. No, producing a CSV file is not what this service entails.
If a company isn’t willing or able to commit the appropriate resources to hiring, they should reduce their number of open positions, not look to technology to solve a self-created problem.

Assuming they don’t have the resources to give people a proper interview and vet a candidate, can you imagine the situation once those that do pass actually encounter on the job? I’d never work at a place that makes such kinds of decisions and it’s a good signal that the culture at the top of the company is completely broken.

Any company using one of these AI systems to combat attrition or justify growth is for sure a dumpster fire.
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I have to disagree. Most of the value is in taxi services, where you get dropped off / picked up exactly where you want, there is no need to dedicate so much land and structures to parking, there is no need to have cars sit idle for 95% of their existence, and no need to search for parking spots and walk long distances.

Of course, I live in a city, where parking is a major pain. But the other things still hold. It it far more efficient of resources to have cars be used most fo the day, rather than sitting idle.
To elaborate on this, camera based lane keeping systems are readily available and generally work well if the lane markings are in good enough condition and aren't obscured by snow.

A signal embedded in the pavement wouldn't be subject to wear, but it would make adjusting lanes much more difficult (if you've driven in the bay area, you've probably noticed lane lines moved back and forth for construction pretty regularly) and it would actually be worse in the snow/ice --- a consensus lane appears which may not follow the marked alignment, and following the marked alignment would involve driving over accumulated snow and ice.
Yes, absolutely. I'd add that this area loves its urban growth boundaries, so the only way to add lots of housing is to build up. This makes the carve-out in SB-50 for counties with a population under 600,000 problematic, in my view.
Isn’t one of the concerns that index funds are supposed to mimic the index’s returns, but absolutely aren’t required to track the index holdings?

If absolute rebalancing was required in an S&P 500 index fund, there would not be enough liquidity in the market for some of the smaller of the 500.

It’s all been fine and well during a bull market, but a concern is that “index” funds have huge amounts of synthetic holdings that are untested in a rout.
Somehow, I do not have that problem. I do not have an account with Google, Facebook, or Medium, but the article is readable for me anyways, if cookies are disabled.

However, they use too big font and too narrow width; this can be avoided by disabling CSS as well.
No. The point of owning a share is that you own part of a business. But, functionally, this isn't what index funds are doing. They employ next to no-one with any actual investment ability (from what I have seen, they employ an unusually high number of people with political connections/bank "product" types).

The problem is that this isn't really what the stock market is for. It has been turned into this infinite liquidity machine where ownership churns rapidly when the "point" is owning a business, stewardship of your asset, slow turnover (there isn't an easy solution because this is largely a supply situation, if you create a savings system that is based on the value of the stock market...it is hard not to end up here).

Btw, the issue with corporate governance is far broader than this too. Even before index funds, the system was totally fucked. You had boards stocked full of know-nothings with no stake in the company. Managers were already totally unaccountable, now even more so (this is why activism is taking off, the level of corporate waste/overpaying for executives is staggering).
I agree. But slightly isn't working. So perhaps it's time to revisit the possible solutions?

fwiw, last year I read Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

He makes the case, numerous time for rethinking the approach to problem like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Curious-Science-Creating-Busi...
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A university incentivized to educate students and do research will do the same because buildings are more suitable for these purposes than parking lots.
But did they use a .com in the beginning? Or did they fetch those expensive domains later on?
I don't understand this. If there are 1/20th the amount of deaths, how is that going to sink self driving cars?
There's a fantastic amount of value in cities and urban areas. Self-driving cars can work as a massive network to reduce or eliminate congestion and give people back hundreds of millions of hours spent stuck in traffic.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/22/us/traffic-commute-gridlo...

They can also, if Level 5 becomes a thing, reduce traffic collisions. And if they all end up electric, through route optimization they can significantly reduce energy consumption requirements for vehicle usage.
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Totally agree. We looked at providing tech in this space and it means you have to plug into literally every system. It’s an endless problem.

Slack search is awful and they have a full team on it. Jira is a mess. Gmail search is pretty good already, which is one of the things that makes frontapp far less useful also.
> 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.

Given that planes, which rely on a class of specifically trained professionals with minimum hour requirements, still have issues with this from time to time, I don't think this is a realistic thing for cars.

Driving standards, at least in the US, are very low, and raising them is a hard problem.
Unlike `python3 -m http.server`, `npx serve` doesn’t redirect `/path/to/dir` to `/path/to/dir/`. This is a problem if you are using relative paths in your `/path/to/dir/index.html`.
lol! you have to be kidding!

so poor people don't have to follow rules? bet you think immigrants don't have to follow immigration laws either.

gold! lol!!!
Roam is heavily influenced by Zettelkasten, it's the first digital version I've seen that works well
So much ignorance and inaccuracies in one comment.

(a) He was the Head of F1 Development and Advanced Technologies which involves significant software exposure. F1 has a ridiculous amount of software both on car and in the factory to process all of the sensor data and design future cars. I've first hand seen their streaming big data stacks and they are on par with anything you will see at a top tier startup.

(b) He was the Head of Product Design for Apple's Car and we know they were going to have autonomous capabilities as well as hundreds of ML models powering AR, Maps, facial recognition etc. If you think you can get away without deeply understanding software whilst leading a major Apple project then you really don't understand how that company works.

(c) He's the CEO of VW Autonomy. He doesn't even need to be an expert in software. He just needs to be able to listen to his engineers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-hitzinger-2163a035
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While I agree that's a hassle, I don't think this should result in a refund. It's like ordering dinner, eating it, and then wanting a refund for the meal because you waited a long time for the meal.
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Yes, the tremendous capital influx into AV could probably support advances in trains and rail infrastructure. Yet, we will chase after this idea — it receives copious media attention because it is technically challenging and is “sci-fi” idealism that is hard to mitigate and feels like a good idea for society. Also, the investments seem like chasing after what everyone else is chasing after (FOMO); an automaker would find it difficult to “pivot” from vehicle production to advancing rail (competition) so capital will be stuck in that industry.
Hell, at least in warm areas motorcycles are pretty much a drop-in replacement for cars and still require less infrastructure.
Lots of innovation and investment happening in this space. Expect parking lots in ~5-10 years to look very different — a lot of automation is coming.
They should look into how the US Navy switched back to physical switches from touch screens on ships for unambiguous commands.
Jeff Bezos never worked at Barnes & Noble or Borders. What does he know about selling books?
Prefix: I know you were rebutting the idea of rate parking at universities. This reply is just to cover some other possible solutions that are not incompatible with the rate parking idea.

As a student who attends a university that traditionally is considered rural (VT has grown significantly in the past decade, much more than the surrounding towns so I don't know how "rural" we are any more), we struggle with the parking issue as well. This is exacerbated by the housing issue however that's besides the point.

Teachers obviously should get priority with parking and with rate exemption unless there is some exceptional public transportation alternative. If teachers could get by without driving to the school that would be awesome however it obviously isn't feasible since you are permanent residents and likely live further away from campus than students since you can more likely afford the beautiful rural properties.

I could see something like teacher parking sections working well if they were allocated based on need in an area and parking spots converted to also allow student parking when the need for teacher parking was low. Depending on how it's done it could be somewhat complex and require some getting used to however time based zoned parking has worked reasonably well for city residents and I couldn't see it being too difficult to adapt to rural environments.

Our campus has gotten parking decently under control recently excluding the issues due to overcrowding. The things that helped were the free bus system allowing students to use that instead of parking on campus or parking away and taking the bus to campus, those infuriating ride scooters also allowed students to park further away making space for teachers, and the teacher parking spots which convert to generic parking after hours.

We have a lot to improve here but things are at least workable considering our situation. Also this is definitely more apt for a larger college town and I recognise it may not apply to a smaller one however there has to be an analogue that can work for small rural campuses.
Reactionary legislation is a risk to the industry.
That works both ways, though. Once self-driving is proven, the higher accident rates from human-driving will become a greater liability. "Why were you driving yourself at night instead of engaging autopilot?!?"
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I don’t think it will be winner takes all. I expect competitors to be relatively close, and may not even be clear who is the winner. One brand may do better in cities, another on highways, etc.

That will affect how outsized the profits will be.

Also, because of politics, I expect there to be separate geographical winners, at least in China and not-China.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9707075

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6115727
> If you can guarantee a society without weapons then everyone is comfortable not having any. Introduce asymmetry and the arms race begins.

I haven't seen any evidence of an arms race in Australia or NZ, for example.

> This is a software problem. Brains. Not hardware.

So it's the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument performed in staccato with additional tedious rhetoric. Could it be that no one has satisfactorily answered your hypothetical questions because despite you obviously thinking that you've cornered someone with your brilliant socratic method, that you've actually just thrown up a few straw men that are not worth delving into?
What search tech are you building it on out of interest?
How would they "reduce or eliminate congestion"? Congestion is inherently caused by too many people trying to go to or through the same place at the same time. That's not possible without reducing the amount of people trying to travel during a given time period in a given place.
I was trying to logically explain the reality of the situation. I would have a hard time trying to find sources that are going to admit to discriminating publicly. I cannot imagine that survey exists. I'm done.
Won't be surprising when a lot of local delivery vehicles are electric.

In China I noticed many of the vans and trucks of various sizes in cities were electric (which was kinda scary because they are silent, but it makes the city more livable). I probably saw electric trucks almost as often as I see Tesla's in the Bay area.
The mirror is one thing, but anything/anyone that considers passing distance=0 acceptable is, by definition, unfit for driving. The Tesla drove as if the black car did not exist at all, never correcting its distance from the curb (which it did for the previous car).
> Members of the University in statu pupillari who are in residence in term or in the Long Vacation period of residence are required to have a University Motor Licence if they wish to keep motor vehicles (other than mopeds) within 10 miles of Great St Mary's Church.

Unless the university owns all land within 10 miles of Great St Mary's Church Cambridge University has it horribly wrong.
But we are talking about what it takes to get lazy Americans to bike. I am well aware of how popular biking is in Copenhagen even though they have comparatively terrible weather. Davis truly has an unusual confluence of factors that make biking more appealing to Americans.
What? No it's not.

It's like if you were paying for a meal by each minute taken to eat it, then the waiter left your food on the counter for an hour before bringing it over because they were busy, then they charged you for that hour because "it already left the kitchen"

Adding insult to injury caused by their own lack of preparedness.
You are describing a recursive Bayesian approach, which can have significant computational and storage advantages for filtering (for example, Kalman filters). For this to work well, the prior must be able to adequately represent the learning of the posterior, which may be practical with a self-conjugate prior or a Monte Carlo approximation such as what particle filters use. In practice, for nontrivial machine learning applications, self-conjugate distributions rarely model the problem well and good approximations of the posterior into a concise prior are rarely practical.
You are correct; the public won’t accept the technology until it’s at least as safe statistically as air travel (and even then, there’ll be pushback in response to specific inevitable tragedies).

However, I think the profit incentives of the trucking industry will manage to carve out some regulatory exceptions; something like “freight trucks can self-drive between 11a and 5a on these specific Nebraska highways, with warning signs on both roads and vehicles”. This sort of lobbying will be the thin end of the wedge for both iterating the tech, and normalizing its acceptance.
Point taken. But the current title is misleading and rather vague, besides omitting the real focus of the paper. Better:
>Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People
That's a good policy, both for you and for them.
Robinhood announced that and you can request early access to it in the app right now. And yes, it is commission free too.
Hah REPL/Colab/Kaggle are great, did a similar thing at my last job when there was downtime. No one cared what we did while the reaction was running.
Your examples all seem like things that are beneficial to all, and that all should use.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3673335 is the inevitable companion.
I still see minimum credit purchase signs, especially in restaurants, cafés, and the like. Generally, they're small -- like $5 or $10 -- making purchase of all but the most trivial of items exceed the limit, but they're technically there.
I quite agree this is not exact and is not automatic differentiation (which would be exact up to round-off). However, for holomorphic functions, contour integration can be much more accurate. The reason is that under fairly general conditions, the trapezoid rule for contour integrals is geometrically accurate. Thus, using stepsize h gives errors that are O(e^{-c/h}). (See the Trefethen paper cited in my other comment in this post.) In contrast, standard centered difference has error O(h^2). Moreover, finite differences are unstable: because of loss of precision in taking differences, the relative error tends to blow up as h goes to 0. Contour integration, though more expensive (because it needs many more function evaluations for the same stepsize h), does not, because integration is better behaved numerically.
Traffic inductive loop counter costs a couple thousands to install. I don't have a source for the detailed cost breakdown, but I can imagine the majority of the cost is labor and digging up/filling the road since the sensor itself should be less than a thousand.

Now imagine we're doing that 1000 times per mile, like what you're suggesting. Even if the device is free (both initial cost and maintenance) it's just too cost inhibited.

I think we shouldn't assume that the reason is some malicious intention behind "However that would mean that everyone would have access to it." It could simply be that the idea is not economical.
Not the same person but I'm not aware of any health risks with laser toner

https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/office-printers-study-made-no...

"This study indicates an area for possible further environmental research. However, currently no health-related conclusions can be drawn from it."
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But test-based admissions can also be gamed. And the scandal that you cited has quite a few examples of that.
No, it's not. I had this mostly written a few weeks ago, I just polished and cleaned it up yesterday.
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> just like paying for parking at a university where you’re already paying a hefty tuition fee

Kinda like having to pay for parking when you already are paying hefty taxes. Neat hack, tho
Giving money to a company supporting DRM is destructive.
Neat. You're aware the Museum of Pinball (museumofpinball.org) in Beaumont CA has 500 or so machines? Not sure if it counts since its only open 3 weekends a year.

I live within driving range and have been there dozens of times...