skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is having multiple repos what creates those problems and a huge graph of versions and dependencies.

Bazel, the open source version of Google's CI tool, is built specifically to handle "build dependencies in complex build graphs". With monorepos. If it didn't do that, you'd never know what to test, what to deploy, what service depends on what other thing, etc. Versions and dependencies are inherent to any collection of independently changing "things".

Even if you build every service you have every time you commit a single line of code to any service, and run every test for every service any time you change a single line of code, the end result of all those newly-built services is still a new version. A change in that line of code still reflects the service it belongs to, and so thinking about "this change to this service" involves things like "other changes to other services", and so you need to be able to refer to one change when you talk about a different change. But they are different changes, with different implications. You may need to go back to a previous "version" of a line of code for one service, so it doesn't negatively impact another "version" of a different line of code in a different service. Every line of code, compared to every other line of code, is a unique version, and you have to track them somehow. You can use commit hashes or you can use semantic versions, it doesn't matter.

So because versions and dependencies are inherent to any collection of code, regardless of whether it's monorepo or multirepo, I don't buy this "it's easier to handle versions/dependencies" claim. In practice it doesn't seem to matter at all.

> What "processes" are you talking about?

Developer A and developer B are working on changes A1 and B1. Both are in review. Change A1 is merged. Now B1 needs to merge A1: it becomes B1.1. Fixing conflicts, running tests, and fixing anything changed finally results in B1.2, which goes into review. Now A develops and merges A2, so B1.2 goes through it all over again to become B1.4.

You can do all of that manually, but it's time-consuming, and the more people and services involved, the more time it takes to manage it all. So you add automated processes to try to speed up as much of it as you can: automatically merging the mainline into any open PRs and running tests, and doing this potentially with a dozen different merged items at once. Hence tools like Bazel, Zuul, etc. So, those processes.
It is also still a question, which could be answered.
I’ve kept a personal wiki since about 2007 for my notes on medicine and pathology. The “structure discovery” function it enables is very similar to Zettelkasten. I would submit the affordances of physicality can’t be replicated in software without AR.
What I find annoying about this:

They're acting as an enforcement agency without any oversight. They're modifying property and holding it hostage. It's amazing how a company tries to apply ownership towards something they modify on someone else's property. I don't have an issue with reporting an unpaid debt over fines. However you can't exactly fence off someone's house and hold them hostage because of a disagreement.
Russian Central Bank (our financial authority) have done exactly that.

The so called Faster Payments System (Система Быстрых Платежей), launched last year, offers instant money transfers in Russia for 0.05-6 rubles (≈$0.01-0.1). Your bank can charge you on top of that, but i.e. in my bank it totally free (subsidized by other services).

Now (since autumn) they are slowly launching payments system (it's not gained traction yet, but it's just started).
Tariff for payment system is 0.4-0.7 for retailers, split between your and retailer's bank.

Afaik, China also has something like that for for years.

I think that USA don't have something like that because political tradition forbids government to compete with established private services. I have read that Americans have to buy commercial software for filing taxes. :-) In Russia, it would be unbelievable — you just using government provided tax filing software free of charge.
It's hard for me to guess how much something like this would reduce delays caused by traffic compared to the increased number of cars driving due to the fact that some driverless cars would be out with no passengers heading to pick people up.
That's level 4, by definition.

(full autonomy on some/many roads)
> we simply legislate liability limits.

Liability you can incur while driving is almost arbitrarily high. Individual drivers rely on the existence of bankruptcy protection to cover these rare scenarios, or simply don't think about or plan for this at all.

> but I haven't heard of many of those.

How many do you think it takes to put a self driving car manufacturer out of business?

I'm not saying the status quo is a great situation, or that this is a good or bad argument for or against self driving cars. Only that it's a description of the current situation, and why legal issues might be a much bigger problem for self driving car manufacturers than individual drivers.
Is OU's campus a drive-up college or more walkable/bikeable? Never been there.
Gas and steering are physical controls though.

Radio and other such features do not need dedicated buttons. Crazy how many buttons my normal car has.
For my purposes that hasn’t been a problem.

I guess I would normally just start with ‘path/to/dir/‘ or ‘/path/to/dir/index.html’
Not just materials: human drivers. Signage, sizes, safety tolerances. etc.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We've had to ask you this before. Continuing to do it eventually ends in your account getting banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Defeating the promise of automated driving, and underscoring the obviousness of its impossibility, since this is roughly as useful as a Tram.
Real World Crypto Talks
If you have to restrict to marked highways then you could have had this "self driving" technology in the 80s.
It'll probably just be smooth, hard plastic.
You can do whatever you want with your own gear. Apple doesn't go after you until you start spreading it around.
Of course not, but they care when the stuff they buy bricks within a few years.
Algorithm for Drawing Trees
One issue is that "Los Angeles" in the popular mind is far larger than the literal city. A lot of the actual city, like Downtown and K-town are extremely dense and are quite walkable as well as covered well by public transit. It's just that a lot of the outlying areas and suburbs aren't.
Thanks so much for this comment. I've only scratched the surface of Cyc and SPIKE and half an hour is already gone.

I hope someday to work on something even remotely as challenging and worthy of applying one's brain power to as these honest projects are. In the meantime, I have to bear the "full stack developer" mania and its zombie friends.
I opened your URL in Chrome, clicked on the "Open Access" tab, the clicked on "View HTML" under that, then clicked "Click to preview" under the thumbnail of the cover at the left. The "preview" seems to contain the full text of the book.
Physicalism and materialism aren't remotely equivalent. I see people making this mistake too often.

The dominant theory of consciousness in physics, neuroscience, neuro-physics (no surprise) and philosophy today is that conscious experience is the real intrinsic perspective of matter.

As such consciousness and all its contents are necessarily subjective, qualitative, and not reducible to purely quantitative physicalism.

Materialism then accounts for both consciousness and meaning (as measure of the significance of experiences relative to other experiences) in a way which physicalism cannot.
That's true, and in addition to the claim that legacy admits make the entire college experience more affordable for everyone else, is probably the strongest objection.

I would venture the following: if we agree on the norm that "power should stop being transferred dynastically or through nepotism in a modern civilized society", and abolishing legacy preferences bring us closer to this norm, then the negative effects will be transient, and worth it.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hopefully, if this comes to fruition, the resultant GMO plants can be looked at on its own merits instead of just being labeled "GMO bad" and not used.
You can if you don't use such services. Then it's legal.
I implemented my own Zettelkasten tool as a simple bash script. I use the shell as my interface into my notes (create a new note, list notes, open a note, etc.), Vim to write new notes, and grep to search contents and tags. If, for any reason, I want to view a note in the browser, I use pandoc to convert into HTML.

The things I like about the Zettelkasten method is the concept of atomicity (notes are short and simple and are about just one thing) and then linking related notes together. Keeping notes plaintext also makes them easy to use with other tools (such as grep). I then just sync my notes in a Nextcloud instance across all of my different devices. Out of the many different note management methods I've tried this one is so far my favorite.
I'm amazed the lawsuits aren't already locked-and-loaded.

All you need to do is acquire the software, feed in a video clip of a male/female or white/black applicant saying the same things (maybe use deepfakes to ensure consistency in delivery), and if the score is one iota different, you've got the developer, at best, having to try to explain away a lot of ugly black-box logic, and at worst, a cut-and-dry discrimination case.

A human screener is probably somewhat biased too, but he's at least trained to provide a legally acceptable excuse for his choices.
This is a stupid question, but something I’ve always wondered about is how tow trucks disengage the clutch and/or the parking brake... am I to understand that they simply don’t? So if I park my manual transmission car in reverse and with the parking brake on, they’re just going to literally drag my car to their lot or destroy my gearbox? How is this not a bigger issue?
Nobody, not even her, denies that she claimed to be Native American. Snopes is fact checking whether it helped her achieve her position at Harvard. And their conclusion, despite being investigated, no evidence has emerged that it did aid her.
Also from me a clear recommendation. I have read the original in German, it is very good to read, entertaining and yet has depth. Suitable for all those who want to structure their work or thoughts better.

Btw, there is an own homepage of the book: https://takesmartnotes.com/
I wish governments would consider the death and injury toll of manually driving, and fastlane (pun intended) infrastructure for self driving cars, such as specific roads and lanes.
Controlling your home solely from your phone is overrated. I installed a smart home system and one of the first things I did was buy a cheap tablet that could control everything. I always have my phone on me for work but I don't want to pull it out everytime I need to do something. And when the in-laws are over they need to be able to do stuff. So does my 5 year old that obviously doesn't have a smart phone.
I basically markup manuscripts 50% of my day, I live in OneNote (on Surface Pro). For MS I'm quite impressed, there's a few annoyances (and work won't let me try OneTastic) but overall it works -- I've not printed anything for my own use since I started using it.
Also, if it supports any outside protocols (for example: Airplay speakers) those should still work on a totally isolated network out of the box.
:-) Happy to read this, but Don’t use trustpilot as a bible, it is always a marketing strategy if you don’t have an official account with them :-)
By the way we love workings with numbers @bounce.
BAGBNB
1.5 mln bags stored
+2,500 luggage storage places all over the world
300 cities
Is a blue ocean
Good luck to all of us
Ciao
BAGBNB
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing.

Over here,I've never seen boots, barnacles or any such devices. Refusing to pay your ticket is just like not paying your bills. They'll send a reminder bill to your home address a few times,just in case you have forgotten or misplaced the bill/ticket, then it's over to some company that specializes in getting people to pay unpaid bills, and eventually if you still refuse you end up in court and the government makes you pay one way or another.
many parts of LA are less multi-modal, often by choice, like much of the westside, beverly hills, etc.

but many parts are quite multi-modal, like santa monica, westwood, palms/culver city/mar vista, downtown/arts district, boyle heights/east LA, hollywood, east hollywood, koreatown, westlake, los feliz, university park, chinatown, highland park, pasadena, south park/south central, long beach, studio city, north hollywood, etc.

so don't fall for the "suburban sprawl" cliché. frankly, a lot of the less multi-modal areas are uninteresting, so it's a good (if imperfect) barometer of such things.
This kind of method used to be very common among scholars, before computers.

You can probably still find some in use among retired professors who started their careers 60 years ago and already had a system in place when computers started to replace physical organization systems.

Nowadays there are still many people who use digital equivalents.
The Tesla salesman told me when I asked.
http://archive.md/jQIrw
To add to this, a good idea would probably be either a physical "allow access" button on the device (think like the clicky button on top of the Philips Hue hub), or a secure random password physically printed on the device that's the default access password.
I was at an ML conference in 2017 and the keynote speaker asked the audience how many years they thought it would be until ADAS lvl 5 was on the market. The keynote had proudly proclaimed 5 years, and then audibly scoffed when about 90% of the hands went up for "20 or more years". There's such a disconnect between real engineers and cheerleaders.
Lol that is going to lead to the mother of all pile-ups not if but when something just so slightly goes wrong. Imagine somebody dropping shit from an overpass or really anything. Better build a giant cage over all the highways!
I stand corrected. Still, VW is using MobilEye's tech in their ride-sharing service [0], which probably means that their own tech is not very close to the competitors.

[0] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/volkswagen-mobileye...
Any wiki is basically an example, isn't it? Or if I'm not quite ready to defend that statement, I can at least say, you could use (or maybe misuse) any wiki-builder to build a Zettelkasten. Just impose a length restriction on each page's content.

But I don't know how much of the advantage of the Zettelkasten is tied to its being in the physical realm. On the one hand, the more physically rich an experience (of browsing or traversing or entering info for example), the more it will tend to stick in memory. On the other hand one of the things computers are good at is remembering indexes and linking them to other places where that index was mentioned.
Expanded this into a post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/is-nyc-building-much-housing
This isn't much a problem in terms of self-driving, but solutions to this aren't hard; eg. someone could use the app before they enter a self-driving taxi to report that the car has stains, trash, food, etc. left in it. The company behind it could then queue it to be cleaned.
I.e. curl command now means actual curl, not Invoke-webrequest
Has anyone looked at Fedora IoT? They're trying to make updates for this class of device easier.
https://iot.fedoraproject.org/

That doesn't itself solve, or prevent, the problem of abandoned products. But I wonder to what degree making updates easier and more reliably deployed would help.
They promote it as a sustainability initiative. Turning functional devices into e-waste is anything but that, and rightfully criticized and mocked.
I'm just finishing this book, and I echo the recommendation. In fact, when I bought the book, I didn't know it was about Zettelkasten. This book won't satisfy those looking for concrete examples, but it will give you a lot of specifics and whys. Obviously, I'm in the early adopter stage at the moment, but what I'm reading fits my problem space (tons of notes, but I can't seem to find what I want, and I re-do research periodically because of it).
Good question, and that's the main reason I prefer to own physical books over Kindle books. I know that I own a physical book, but a Kindle book can disappear at any moment. Kindles are great while traveling though.
You hit the nail on the head. It's not about enforcement it's ease of collecting money.

Me and my wife had to fight a ticket at one point for a spot we had paid for. No ryme or reason the lot was just grabbing revenue by literally stealing from customers with small tickets that they thought would not be challenged because

- you can have your license revoked for non payment of tickets

- you aren't entitled to a court hearing for a parking ticket so fighting it means figuring out how to handle it yourself or hiring an attorney to fight $30 tickets.

The best model for interactions in capitalism is predator prey wherein virtually no one is actually thinking of the system as a whole and sane conditions are only apparent as an emergent property of adversarial interactions.
This doesn't work in climates where the road is obscured for days at a time due to snow and ice.

The tags, whatever form they may take, will designate the official lanes. But people in snowy climates don't drive in the official lines because they can't be seen. They drive an emergent set of paths where everyone else drives. It's often, if not most of the time, that these paths human drives take don't follow the actual road markings.
VW is also working with Magna on ADAS, which is a huge Tier-1 vendor. I think VW is covering all their bases by having multiple design efforts.
Building intelligence into a path for vehicles to follow is probably an easier and less expensive option.
Also https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE
Probably the same thing that makes people more likely to root for underdogs.

Avoiding the mainstream, etc.

These people arent as broken as this article may make it seem.

Its interesting how these zip codes are housing bubble resistant for example! Id wager these people arent trying to get rich, just trying to live a decent life and be nice to each other.
There's a story someone wrote in a comment or otherwise posted here about Tesla telemetry identifying an employee who crossed one of the SF bay area bridges at 130mph
Hard plastic covered in the last rider's vomit :/
SpaceX last 10 launches over Tesla Stock
Well, considering that these won't allow anonymous usage this can be mitigated by kicking out "bad" users and big fines. Also cars can visit the cleaning zone frequently.

For "free floating car sharing" (DriveNow/ShareNow, Yandex.Drive, ...) this seems to work quite well.
Quite an accusation, but I'll bite.

The alternative to this solution is literally a clipboard and excel that doesn't really work. Allowing parking patrollers to capture photos and coordinates allows secretaries to avoid sometimes violent confrontations and I'm happy about that.

As for oppressing poor people, the great majority of people who I've seen get towed thanks to record keeping by EasyALPR are parking at commercial business parks. These are out in the suburbs and serve everything from medical offices to joe schmoe SEO company.

The most common violation is people parking in two hour parking for 3+ hours or all day. The parking is free, but it is restricted to two hours. (This is actually a very difficult thing to enforce regularly manually)

At the site I'm thinking of, there is actually longer term parking also free nearby for this facility, but people don't want to walk so they keep seeing if they can get away with abusing the closer short term parking. It is even allowed to move your vehicle to get two more hours for free, they just don't care.
simfoo is right, Argo.ai is essentially a joint venture of ford and VW at this point, to the tune of billions of dollars invested. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/vw-invests-2-6-billion-in-...
At least in Germany I usually get a QR code for the online bought postage I just show at the local post office on my phone. They print out the the postage thing on a sticker. I need to go there anyways with the package.
Url changed from https://modernfarmer.com/2020/01/mit-is-getting-closer-to-ce..., which points to this.
The DIY PhD: Doing Independent Research in Machine Learning
Who has the liability if the algorithm is found to be illegally biased? I assume it would be based on the contract (or perhaps there are other laws relating to having a service rendered illegally), but I wonder which way it goes
I've seen a similar article and they had a more provocative headline: There aren't as many women in STEM academia because they're too smart.
I implemented the Tromp-Taylor rules (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Computer_Go/Tromp-Taylor_Rules) which have "A turn is either a pass; or a move that doesn't repeat an earlier grid coloring." Since it doesn't consider whose turn it is to move in whether a grid coloring is repeated, it won't allow suicide.
Most people's home internet connection relies on electricity though. Internet will necessarily be less reliable than electricity for them.
If the taxi is soiled then the next passenger indicates this via the app. The taxi is sent for cleaning and the previous passenger is charged for the cleaning. Also, there will be cameras inside in case it has to be proven who made the car dirty.

If people have to pay the cleaning bill they will be careful not to make a mess.
This is why Let's Encrypt is zero cost by the way. I'm certain Hanno knows that, but for everybody else:

The purpose of ISRG (the not-for-profit which runs Let's Encrypt) is to drive automated issuance for Web PKI certificates. Nothing about this directly means they should be free - surely a not-for-profit could deliver this as an at-cost service, so why zero cost when that's not a core goal?

Machines don't have wallets. If they charge even 1¢ for a Let's Encrypt certificate (which would certainly cover costs at current issuance rates) now there needs to be a payment flow, which the machine needs help with because it doesn't have money. At zero cost all of that goes away and leaves you only solving engineering problems to achieve your goal of automated issuance.
It's substantially worse because the easier and cheaper it is to extract revenue from you the more people will do it.
An interesting idea, but not appropriate in this instance. Super-voting stock are basically a polite way of retaining control while not appearing to own a majority of shares.

They don't preserve the right incentive structure and remove escape valves the regular stock holders should enjoy. I thought the original idea here is to let the index investors direct the fund how to vote with their portion of the index's stock. A pretty neat idea that de-fangs much of the incentive risk if the index fund management goes rogue or an activist investor tries something.
This is higher level than this question, but I actually think the entire individual ownership of vehicles and having them the only viable method for getting to work for many as fundamentally broken.

So while I operate this tool that enforces a thing, I don't own a car myself and I honestly can't wait for some autonomous fleet-based future where parking lots are torn up and streets are wider and safer for bicycles and alternative transportation vehicles.
They abandoned it.
I’d imagine working for apple as a product manager or customer support. Or working for a company that produces Mac software in a similar
role.

As a curveball could you write a book about the apple ecosystem or some aspect of it that would be useful for developers to get an overview?
Heh Summon My Stuff works too