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There's no irony in that quote. Nihilism is predicated on the existence of meaningfulness. It merely holds that meaning is a subjective experience.

That's not to say that meaning is relative or that it isn't real.

This may be difficult to grasp at first. But consider this analogy which grasps the objective nature of a more concrete subjective experience: When you gaze up at the sky and see two birds it is objectively true that you are having a subjective experience of two birds in the sky above you (whether you're hallucinating or not) and not one bird or two elephants. There's nothing relative about it and it's very much a real experience. Cogito ergo sum, after all.

Likewise, under nihilism meaning itself is a subjective experience with quantifiable objective properties. Specifically, meaning is a quantitative (something objective) measure of experiences which are the most highly connected (ie. significant) to other experiences from a subjective perspective.

For example, if you experience prayer as meaningful to you, whether you're delusional or not about it's meaningfulness to you or in general, then it is objectively true that you are having said real non-relative experience of meaning.

For more insight, see A Nihilists Guide to Meaning: https://meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/
It seems to me that the problems that trains and rail infrastructure is facing are: bureaucracy, politics and an increasing inability to execute on infrastructure projects on time/budget by governments.

To the extent cost is a a factor, it's unnecessarily high due to these aforementioned issues[1]. So I don't think money invested into self-driving cars hurts trains and rail infrastructure.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...
Or perhaps, VW exec hopes full self-driving cars may never happen, because it would imply a fleet approach where transportation would be a service instead of cars being a prized possession. That, of course, would mean far less cars. So don't expect a traditional car manufacturer to lead the way.

This is incidentally one reason for Tesla's huge market value. The company actually has a plan to transition from individual ownership to fleet, so when this happens it will be prepared to deal with a new manufacturing reality.

Just try to imagine VW without all those ads to sell a positive self image because you drive a sexy cool car they make.
I hate people who don't park in a proper spot or who just leave the car in a garage in a spot next to the door all summer while they leave town/country like used to happen at my old university but I see this more as "college spends money on some high tech device that is easily circumvented and has poor security" than as college students screwing over the system.
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Again, at the risk of sounding like a grouchy old man (which I suppose I am :P), when I'm chatting with my wife and kids, I have limited intetion of interrupting that conversation to turn on the lights or seat warmer or wipers or change a song :-/. And even when alone - the amount of time and subconscious effort to hit a button, vs converse with the computer...

Honestly - these shouldn't be "either or". Sure, have a screen and voice for those who prefer - but leave a button or six for us ol' timers :-)
> Apple is in the top tier of self driving cars though.

Citations needed. I consider Waymo, Cruise and couple of other companies in the top tier.

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Pretty much everything you just said is wrong.

2 hours is more than the transit time from Santa Monica to Pasadena, including worst case wait for a transfer. For comparison, most of the day that same trip by car is 2 hours, and 3 to 4 hours during rush hour.

The Expo Line (E line) already exceeds expected ridership. Tens of thousands use the E, red, gold, and purple lines for their daily commutes.

Light rail was chosen for the 3 longest lines because it is literally less than a tenth of the cost that subways along the same routes would have cost (you're talking almost 100 miles of tunneling, not including the costs of underground stations, or the years of work moving utility lines so you can even start digging.

Quite frankly, the system works as well as it can in a city dominated by cars. And it's getting better all the time.
I used the Zkn3[1] software for a while, but unfortunately it is not updated anymore. Also the software quickly reaches its performance limits with many entries. Nevertheless it is worth a look, if you want to see the concept as software.

[1]: http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/en/download.php
This is not true. VW fully owns AID which is developing its level 4 stack. VW is also invested in Argo
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I've worked for Spothero before. It's a tough business. But I think they're one of the rare companies where people actually like them.
I think that Level 5 would be transformative.

It would be the end of owned cars, huge reduction of car production, millions of jobs in the transportation business amortized, to name just a few.
Well it certainly falls far outside of VW's tech wheelhouse. It would be really hard to cheat on autonomous driving tests.
And not just overhead for the company, but for the consumer too.

Whether it's actual time spent signing up, putting in my credit card data, updating expired cards, etc. Or linking my account/PayPal/Venmo to receive tiny transactions.

Or just the friction of "do I really want to pay $0.05 for this?" And I just don't want to make a choice, so I close the tab.

I know a lot of people dream about microtransactions changing everything... but even if they work flawlessly technically, I just don't want the mental overhead of making 20 tiny economic decisions every time I use the internet. Ugh.
Because a jury will hand out a huge multi-million dollar award against a self-driving car company when its car crashes causing a death, while when a human causes a death it is usually just an "accident" or a much smaller settlement based on the person's insurance coverage.
If they did that would be insta-lawsuit. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm
Had an attendant try to pull a similar stunt once. I simply told them that I was willing to sit at the booth until it was resolved to my satisfaction, or the cops showed up, while cars piled up behind me. A few moments of hemming and hawing, and out I went no charge. I was willing to pay what was owed, but I imagine “the system” couldn’t handle that, so write it off.
This is a modern version of those personality surveys that low rent jobs would give to potential employees.
Waymo has 600 cars in a very limited/ well known area and most of their cars still rely on safety drivers. If Waymo is around in 20 years their service might get to the small-ish city I live in.

The big thing I would want self-driving capabilities for is long cross country driving. A thing Waymo doesn’t offer even to people in it’s service area.

Tesla has hundreds of thousands of cars which range over the entire country and has driven millions of miles doing exactly the sort of self-driving I most care about.

The two barely overlap in terms of offerings so I’m not sure what the point of comparing them even is.
What lots of assumptions? that's a single inevitability that a self-driving car manufacturer, Tesla or otherwise, will go out of business, rendering the car offline only (the point made in the article) or worse, like the case with Android phones, you'll have plenty of vulnerable cars on the street and some community updates (like the work of LineageOS for instance).

It's the same point made in this computerphile video[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiE0Nr8VOE
You need to test it a whole lot more than 24 hours before you go live...
Yes, the policy issues are real and sticky and act to thwart advance.
Related: Grassmann.jl – Differential Geometric Algebra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22076368
b) is education. Literacy is terrible without school too. But now nearly everyone spends years learning that skill and can use it throughout life. Not to say coding is necessarily as useful as reading and writing though.
After Elon Musk so helpfully pointed out that once cars are self-driving there is absolutely no reason for companies to sell them to us, I have to say I hope it never happens. Why would a company sell me a car for $30,000 when it can add it to a self-driving taxi fleet and generate $300,000 in revenue over the lifetime of the car?
Apologies. Based on comments I'd seen of yours on Mastodon I'd presumed otherwise.
If they're generated and inlined away, what's the remaining cost?
> If anything, I think your example underlines just how valuable and realistic this is for cars.

I interpret the stats the other way. Cars are not planes and driving involves constant encounters with potential collisions and which would make level 5 too difficult technically and socially rendering them too costly to be valuable.
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This is interesting. Why would anyone need to still use Windows XP?
Related: Directsum.jl – Abstract tangent bundle vector space type operations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085911
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Another group that stands to lose are those students who were admitted on merit and no longer have access to “mediocre” students with good connections.
Even if there is no reaction time, 5' of space at 50mph is silly. You still need room to maneuver if whatever caused the vehicle ahead to throw on its breaks comes back or halts the vehicle ahead faster than your breaks can stop you.
Right. Since this is bootstrapped, I was hoping to get some customers, to be able to invest in certification. Would you see any path going forward without certification for now?
About 7 years after this:
https://youtu.be/oSCX78-8-q0
Well not if they have insurance.

I mean, sure, you can come up with some scenario where the liability exceeded the insurance coverage, but I haven't heard of many of those. Anyway, it comes from somewhere. If bankruptcy protects drivers, it also exposes them to the risk that they will suffer damage that isn't compensated.

Regardless, expecting a legal loophole to preserve the status quo indefinitely seems quite unrealistic and inherently unstable. If that actually holds up something that could massively benefit society (both economically and in saving lives), we simply legislate liability limits.
Something like this would also work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LisjVE1djt8

Modifying the car to drive backwards
What problem is one solving when this becomes useful? Is it a compressed representation of something?
Note that there are some rule sets in which suicide is legal, so long as it doesn’t violate a generalized ko rule (no repeated board positions, considering whose turn it is as part of the position).
Or it could be people with unusual needs or lifestyles.

Someone observing a kosher diet will buy different food from the mainstream. Someone with limited use of their hands will buy kitchen appliances that most people won't need.

Incidentally, many "As Seen On TV" products were created for people with disabilities. They get marketed to mainstream audiences when the manufacturer realises that there's not a large enough market of disabled people to sustain the product.
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I published a tutorial on procedurally generating pentominos:

https://rocketnine.space/post/tetris-1/
Surprised there are no mentions here of org mode yet.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's destructive of curious conversation, which is what we're going for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you. I don't think the site needs RSS feed itself as its just 100% of other sites' content, but its fun and challenge to go through so much material updated daily and pickup real news versus fake, propaganda and obvious lies.

I would appreciate sharing the site with your friends or family - addThis app is built into the bottom of the right column.
Yes, it is less than half the cost of alternative methods.
> By offering laminar rather than turbulent flow.

That's only going to work on roads that are AI-only.
Just sounds like normal meaningless sales talk. Everything we don't have is crap you do need. What we do have will solve all your problems.
I'll be rooting for the real hero EasyALPR to clean up the neighborhood and tow these caped croutons.
ALL of the autonomous driving experts say that level 5 is, at best, 50 years off. Unanimous. They don't know how to do it, see no path to doing it. It's hard! Maybe we'll make real AI and we can enslave our human-level intelligent computers to drive cars for us, at least until they figure out how to rebel. Maybe. But we don't know how today, and not tomorrow or the next day either.

And yet HN threads are all about "here are all these cool things that will happen tomorrow if Elon Jesus delivers".

He ain't going to deliver, people.
Do you sleep enough? Are you sure?

Do you sleep well? Are you sure?

Do you have a sleep disorder? Are you sure?

For me, answering "are you sure?" on all of those questions involved talking to a sleep specialist and the answer was no. Working through all of those problems was life changing.
Could you clarify what specifically you have questions about, and/or what docs are perhaps slightly better (or worse). Or documentation for other concepts you've found useful?

Regards Zettlekasten itself: the key notion to me is simply capture and reference. Those are the dual-natured heart of the system.

The rest is just mechanics. Important mechanics, in cases, but mechanics all the same.
How did Clearview scrape so much of Facebook? Is this fundamentally hard for Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, etc. to stop if someone determined wants to suck in photos for a tool like this?
Fortunately I know the form of a URL (anyone who uses them ought to know, and if you don't know, then you must learn), and I use a fixed pitch font on the status bar and location bar. I also fixed it to display only ASCII characters in the location bar, so that homoglyph attacks are also avoided.
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I don’t think it’s impossible if certain roads/highways or lanes become marked as autonomous only. Just as pedestrians and bicycles are banned from using high-speed roads, manually-operated cars could be banned from using certain roads/lanes, removing a lot of variables that manually-operated cars bring.
>A leader that fires people for challenging relevant mainstream opinions is not any kind of leader I want to work for or follow.

There we go...most of the skepticism about self-driving cars appears to be driven by ideology and less by the actual evidence. "Mainstream opinions"...it is not an opinion, there are literally thousands of these cars being tested/piloted and improved upon constantly.

Might it take a little longer to get to nirvana? probably, but it borders on delusion at this point for anyone to say it will never happen.
I think Uber sells the cars to John Doe who registers it in their name then let’s their car take Uber rides. Uber is off the hook for both the illegal parking and the capex.
OU is a campus built around the assumption that automobiles are the primary mode of transport. You cannot tell people "just don't drive" at a campus like this; you have to build a campus and its associated infrastructure such that people have reasonable alternatives. This is society's problem to fix, not drivers'.
I cloned the Debian Git repository. I'm not relying on Debian patches, which as you've already stated are stored separately (unless they're stored separately and applied to the source code they accompany).
> What if the algorithm Vanguard uses was open sourced and could be self-hosted by independent investors?

It already is "open sourced". Vanguard precisely discloses what's in each of their funds already [0].

The issue with independent investors perfectly replicating the securities underlying the index funds is that the vast majority of investors simply don't have enough capital to replicate the underlying components of the fund. Meaning, the typical investment amount of a randomly chosen investor cannot buy enough shares in proportion to each other to be as diversified as a massive $100+ billion fund. That's before discussing the issues with maintaining a balanced portfolio.

> Where each investor owns their portfolio outright and adjustments to the portfolio are made automatically by a free index manager bot that runs the simple algorithm an index fund manager like Vanguard would.

If you had enough capital and trusted such a bot enough, it's not hard. But the vast majority of people will never have enough capital.

[0]: See about 40% of the way through this PDF for the securities behind Vanguard's Total Stock Market Index Fund: https://personal.vanguard.com/funds/reports/q850.pdf?2210151...
Interesting.

I could see creating a tier chart for the different levels of service with "monthly" and "annual" price columns, where the monthly column is crossed out for certain tiers.

But I'm not a marketing person.
It's kinda funny that we're investing so much into a potentially impossible technology just to avoid building public transport.
Snopes is not what it once was.

You can clearly see her false claim in her own hand writing here:

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article237751529.h...
Check out Boom for a new company working on supersonic airplanes [1].

[1]https://boomsupersonic.com/

Health care is worse? More expensive, yes, but anybody getting cancer and wanting to live is much better off now than in the 1970's.
Oh no, do you think he'll be okay? :'(
bane voice: "No one cared who I was until I put [it] on the Medium."

It looks nice enough, people read the things I write. When the editors like the things I write they send it to lots of people. For people who don't already have any kind of following, these are big plusses.
Would you please edit personal swipes and/or snark and/or name-calling out of your posts to HN? Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22080698, you'd done this more than once in the thread. We're trying for curious conversation here, not flamewar rhetoric.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting, we'd be grateful. I appreciate how much your HN posts have improved, but it's necessary not to break the guidelines.
I don't know what planet you live on, but people need a local mirror of your stuff for reasons such as, oh, so that their continuous integration builds don't stop when your server is not reachable.

Most users are not going to use your today's daily build, nor should they. Only people who are more than casually involved with your project can be expected to contribute changes which are rebased to the current.

If things are working for some users, and there is no security advisory that affects them, they have no reason to update to every new version.

Anyway, between you and the users, there may be middlemen: the distro package maintainers. Those people will lag in picking up your changes, and may push back on bad ones that break things for them.

People should mostly get stable things from their distros, not straight from the horse's mouth.

For instance, if I'm building something on Ubuntu 18, I will use the make, bison, shell and whatever else that is packaged on Ubuntu 18; I'm not going to pull these things from the tips of their repos and rebuild their latest versions.
Congestion is not just caused by reaching capacity. It is also caused by human behaviour:

- selfishness eg stopping or parking in no parking zones, driving aggressively

- error eg causing accidents

- ignorance eg not knowing the traffic flow in an intersection, driving slowly to find your bearings.

Also, if we have fewer cars, but higher utilisation of vehicles then we will require less parking.
> Most of the value is in taxi services

I’m imagining how gross a taxi would be that doesn’t have a driver to provide passengers a low level of behaviour moderation.
It’s my understanding that GDPR protects the personal data of EU citizens. Regardless of whether you do business in the EU, if you process this data GDPR applies to you.

My guess is that this company has no way to verify that they don’t process EU citizen data. They almost certainly do if they’re scraping so pervasively. And I don’t think they can credibly claim users gave consent let alone all the other rules they need to follow.

Looking forward to someone challenging them on this and hopefully the EU taking action. This feels like exactly what GDPR should protect against.
> 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.

Those are installed with a massive handtruck saw while cutting off a lane of traffic all day. It takes a half dozen people working on-and-off, doing different jobs. It takes jackhammers, high pressure water from a tanker truck, and people to place and wire the sensor to power. It's way more complicated than anything you'd do at scale, because it's infrequent and the goal is to do it thoroughly with non-specialists.

If you were installing millions of tags you'd have a dry drill that could go off the back of a truck and place+fill a tag in ten minutes. If you had a line you'd have a it hanging off the back of a truck and place it continuously, like a street cleaner or edge clearer. For tags there's no reason they'd need more than one person to place and no reason to even put them in the road when they could just go on the edges. Triangulate with directional antennas or something.

That said, I think it's pretty obvious that locating the roads is by far the easiest problem for self driving. If you wanted to make a serious attempt you'd want every car to broadcast a short range location, and to share data over a mesh network. "Knowing where the road is" to precision RFID would give you has been solved for over a decade with GPS and digital maps.

Much more pressing issues are non-obvious sensing like hearing a car around a blind corner or knowing when to be cautious about moving. Knowing when something is coming onto the road or when a vehicle is having a problem. Inter-vehicle communication is just so obviously important to that... it's really frustrating how vaguely it gets talked about. I don't give a shit about teslas coordinating braking so they can form a tailgate train for efficiency, I want cars of all kinds to be warning each other about what they intend to do. I worry that legislation or at least a regulatory body will be the only way to even get people talking about it seriously.

Other than that, cameras watching for intrusion into a road would be easier than solving it from vehicles. It seems patently ridiculous putting cameras to watch every 50' section of road. 1080p+ cameras, simple detection, and mesh wifi can be built in a $30 package... but there are >2.5 million miles of paved roads in the US. 30$ per 50' would cost, bare minimum (and ignoring electricity requirements+labor+the pole to put the cameras on) 8 billion dollars.
When I drive to work there is an empty transit lane for cars with 2+ people which seems to imply that most rush hour cars have just the driver in. If everyone is ubering in robot cars then they’ll probably share. It’s not that weird as people share public transport and choosing between $10 to get to work and $3 is a no brainer.

They might even Uber to the train station then Uber from the destination train station to work. Lots of ways of cutting traffic!
Its how many students, especially the industrious ones learn here in germany.
Many reasons. Time value of money, competition, maybe even regulation.
Oh god yes. Really any site that paywalls or limits content viewing to their app should be Auto-excluded from search results.