skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any number is a bad guess because we don’t have any sense of the likelihood of life emerging, even in the “optimal conditions”. It could be so unlikely that it’s probable there is no other life, it could be so likely that almost every “viable” planet has life, anywhere in between, or it could be that God created exactly as much life as he wanted, which could be, again, any number.

We have a sample size of one and what must be, in the grand scheme, a primitive understanding of physics and chemistry and biology. Throwing around numbers and probabilities for the existence of other life is frankly ridiculous. The best we can intelligently talk about is what the number is given some guess about other numbers. But remember, we have no good numbers for the emergence of life, the survival of life, the likelihood of evolution into intelligent life, etc. Any number multiplied by a totally unknown factor can be literally anything.

And before someone throws the infinite universe argument at me, of course. Any probability above zero times infinity is infinity. (Though it’s also possible that there is still no extraterrestrial life even in that case, that outcome always has a non-zero probability!) If we accept a probabilistic emergence of life, then we need to talk about useful things like “in our solar system”, “in our galaxy”, “in the visible universe”, and such. Though it is theoretically possible that the conditions for the emergence of intelligent life are so narrow that only planets exactly like ours, so exactly like it that someone else on that planet has or will typed out this exact comment, have it. In a truly infinite, random (hmm, another bad assumption perhaps?) universe, there would be infinitely many such exact replicas of Earth and its entire visible universe. This isn’t a very useful concept.
> I called Tesla recovery who verified that the car was safe and gave me some of the readouts that they had to confirm
> what they could see. They could see that all the cameras were clear that morning and the car was not logging any faults.
> They assured me they could download the data if necessary and instructed me to take it to the nearest Tesla service
> centre within 5 days to get full logs extracted before doing anything else, so that the data isn't wiped.
>
> So I got to the service centre, but the moment I mentioned the words autopilot and collision all sympathy vanished and
> she was itching to get me to f*** off. I asked about data, she said they'd have already taken what they wanted and
> that there was no such thing as a 'full-download'. I asked if they'd look into it and she said probably not because I
> was driving inappropriately anyway and was entirely at fault so no point asking.

Seems like a clear conflict of information between what Tesla instructed vs the dealer trying to avoid data collection.

Does this mean the Dealer is potentially liable if "the issue" (the crash causing bug) isn't found?

eg the Dealer caused any needed "full logs" data collection to not happen, so the fault/bug wasn't able to be identified
The Delph-in system has a morphological model based on position classes. Morphology items are treated similarly to syntax items, in that they can hold constraints on & apply features to what they attach.
I am a customer of M247; I'm happy with their service and haven't noticed anything shady going on. "Venus Business Communications" seems to be their old company name (they've been through several acquisitions) and is still the billing name when paying them by bank transfer.
That reminds me of a version of an old joke about an old RAF or some other European forces pilot giving a talk. He starts describing a dog fight he had one time around 1914. "There were Fokkers to the right of me and Fokkers to the left of and one Fokker in front of me. The Fokker in front of me starts firing..." He stops as a grad student in the front stands up. "Sir. I hate to interrupt but Fokkers didn't have
a synchronization gear until 1915." "Yeah but these fuckers were Saulniers's." Not very factual, but kind of funny.
Does that one person return the item and try again for it to be free?
I don't think it'd be much of a concern at a larger scale either. I stopped actively investing a long time ago because it wasn't worth my time, but if the market got to the point where it was responsive to reality, the increased returns would probably draw me back in. And before me would be institutional investors, picking up ~free returns. The system is designed to be self-equilibriating in this respect
Nothing stands out.
The impetus will be wartime, just as the impetus for the interstate highway system and most of the railway system was wartime.

In peacetime, self-driving cars are a nice-to-have that can save many billions of driver hours and a few traffic fatalities. In wartime, they're literally a matter of life or death. The side that can handle all of their logistics without exposing their precious humans to enemy fire has a huge advantage over the one whose supply lanes can get picked off one by one.
Pavement is a wear item.
This is pretty big news. That is the biggest c++2a feature I want to use.
The earth is pretty lumpy, what with mountains and oceans, and the earth is where I learned the term "oblate spheroid".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon

> Saturn's hexagon is a persisting hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78°N.[1][2][3] The sides of the hexagon are about 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long,[4][5][6][7] which is more than the diameter of Earth[8] (about 12,700 km (7,900 mi).
Is there a point where the conversation shifts from we need to produce more for less to feed or growing population to we need to stop growing.

Obviously a hugely loaded subject, but also worth thinking about.
I'm curious...

- What's the business model of this site (how does it make money)?

- Who do you expect will find it useful? Businesses who want to know whether I'm creditworthy will run a conventional credit check on me. Who else needs to know about my net worth?

- I don't see any information on the site about terms of service (privacy, etc.). Why should anyone trust you with sensitive financial information such as their net worth?

Also, many peoples' major positive contributor to their net worth is their real estate, and a major negative contributor to their net worth is debt such as student loans. Someone who has $100K in the bank but $200K in debt has a net worth of -$100K. How can you accurately compute such peoples' net worth by just using the Plaid API?
The bans would have to be quite extensive. You could not allow networked security camera systems like nest/ring. No social networks could exist, no personal video sharing. Even governmental databases of photo IDs and company photo IDs pose a risk given this technology. Always a chance of a data leak or bad actor.

There does not seem to be a feasible way to stop this. We may simply need to accept that a face will be enough to positively ID anyone.
Free numerology reading to choose the right decisions in your life
Do you think will users share that information?
Talking about disadvantages and privilege is great and all, but alumni donate money. Best to let in a few legacies and keep the cash flowing.
So I am high net worth. One issue is that 1) why would
I want people to know. 2) How won't this make me more of a target. The biggest issue since getting money is family/friends knowing. Why would I use this?
Was there a reason why they didn't take off like docker did?
But it's more British, and therefore classier. Because that's definitely how these things work, somehow.
Is it always acyclic though? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family...
Ginkgo's CEO explains in some interview [1] how they seek to become co-owners in the companies they involve with since apparently they are well funded for now.

"You’re a big company, and you have an idea for what you’d like a cell to do. You come to us, and we agree on the spec. We program the cell to do it. We give you that cell app. That’s our product. It’s essentially an intellectual-property license. We’ve written a piece of custom software for you, except it’s a custom genome inside a cell. You then take that back and build a business around it. The key is: I need to get a piece of that. It could be a royalty or - we just announced a partnership with Y Combinator - we can take equity in companies that are building on top of our platform. We want to make it so that everybody uses our platform to program cells. It’s much cheaper than it’s been historically. You want to start a biotech company? You’ve got to build a lab. You’ve got to get equipment. You’ve got to get all the lab materials. All these things are an enormous upfront expense, and it really limits innovation. So what we’re saying to the Y Combinator companies is: Just use our platform. We’ve already built all that. We have that huge fixed cost, and you get a low marginal cost. And I will program that cell for you in exchange for a chunk of your company. That’s the deal."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-06/ginkgo-bi...
Just say you are in free beta until you figure out a good and fair way to price your product.

Good luck with the product, looks very cool! Mistakes happen, nothing that would be a problem in the long term
Not meant to be a brag. I am honestly wanting answers.
The yuan won’t be freely convertible because that would open the floodgates to capital flight from China. As long as that possibility exists, free convertibility will not.
I have edgerouter X with cake
Thanks for the response. But the problem is it takes sometime to gain expertise and consultant firms. And it is very difficult to foresee a tech disruption as it is primarily driven by big-tech's agenda rather than of introducing new tools and other firms just blindly accepting it as standard.
This just goes to show how even unperceptive humans are better than the most perceptive car logic.

Where the car would freak out and stop, you don't even notice anything is missing.
There's no way they were using the TV feed - there'd be too much lag to be useful. The 'bangs' were just way too fast. They might have been using a feed destined for broadcast...
Adding blur between camera and broadcast just adds a layer of complexity. Nothing stops the team from installing their own camera. The league shouldn't have to add technology censors to prevent a team from cheating.
Selective Hearing: On the specious new history podcasts
The uftrace [1] tool is gold for counting function calls (and more), and I don't think it's that well known. It's relatively new.

I used 4 or 5 performance tools to look at the performance of Oil shell, and uftrace was one of the most important ones.

I hope to write a blog post about it soon. The overall results were very good -- Oil is now faster than bash despite doing more parsing by design -- though the biggest win was translating the code to C++ from Python :)

So it's unusual, but after translation, uftrace was a winner, and I used it largely by counting function calls and allocations, not measuring timing. Although you can use it in many different ways.

Oil's Parser is 160x to 200x Faster Than It Was 2 Years Ago

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/parser-benchmarks.html

Another lesson is that aside from the big difference in execution speed, tools for measuring C++ performance are just way better than those for Python. Debugging tools are also better. Of course I still avoid C++ for most problems because of build times, headers, memory management, library style smorgasbord, etc.

[1] https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace
you donate $1 Million but get killed when a robber demands your wallet with $8 in it, cause you don't want to let go. It's not the money,
As someone migrating from airflow back to cron jobs (I can do that doesn't really need to be distributed), I can't agree more. And the important thing is to look at the complexity of the solution as well.
Yes, the top lift of pavement is a wear item in the decade time frame. Paint is a wear item in the sub-one year time frame (where I live, with low-VOC paint and frequent winter plowing)

Curbs, signage, lights, poles, drainage infrastructure, lower lifts of asphalt and granular material, ...are all non-wear items. This doesn't mean they never need to be repaired, but rather that they tend to get replaced after unintentional damage. Off-surface beacons (what the original comment suggested) would be in this category.
Ha Ha mises.org. What a joke!
An institution which has been wrong about everything for the past 100 years is predicting a dollar cash? What a surprise!
I don't see this as an issue, unless expressively forbidden.

The goal is to win, by all means necessary. Like war.

I'm almost 60 now, but in my twenties I thought "why don't teams have people in the stands to do just this, steal the signs."

I was a phreaker back then and always wanted to call the Twins dugout just to see if I could.
I've long been unhappy with the state of mobile computing.

Tablets offer a near-ideal form-factor, and impressively good battery life.

The story from there is exceedingly poor, and remains so. For both Android and iOS.

I'm looking at the Linux tablets (PineTab and Purism) with interest. Possibly enthusiasm.
Well this is fucked up
These lawsuits alright happen. Right now.

A car manufacturer can already be sued for things that go wrong, in a car, but the world keeps spinning.
I am imagining it is a status thing. 90% of my worth is in commercial businesses with no liquidity. You can't verify that well without months and months of audits and accounting if my last sale is any gauge.
I think one of the biggest reasons theres not more of a push to get away from monocropping is the amount of labor required for harvesting, tending, planting, etc. Well that and the overhead for having your production span multiple outgoing market and distribution systems.

Poly cropping almost certainly ends up being more labor intensive, and even requiring some knowledge on the ground. The trend is very much so improving profit by reducing labor.
Stealing signs using a cameras/video/technology is forbidden.

Four people have already lost their jobs over this, additionally, Astros were fined $5 million and lost four draft picks.
Pit Ponies: ghosts of the coal mines
Oh LOL, I see now that what I said can be taken to mean the opposite of what I had in mind.

I think we have good laws for what goes and doesn't go in public. Much more relaxed than the big platforms terms of service. You already get arrested if you publish the "right" kind of video. I'm simply suggesting we should strip away whatever social engineering facebook and google have in mind.

The dumb account termination as a punishment for everything is like revoking peoples citizenship by administrative punishment - in a one size fits all approach.

Google's tos literally says they can terminate your account without stating a reason. That is much more dystopian than the Chinese social credit system.
> I haven't seen any evidence of an arms race in Australia or NZ, for example.

Their laws prevent it. That's the problem with these comparisons. You have to compare apples to apples. I'm sure they have pretty good gun control in North Korea. There's an app for that.

> 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?

No. People don't answer the question because the only honest answer exposes the fallacy in their thinking.

It's very simple, if guns cause violence then giving anyone a gun should turn them into criminals. However, the only way that can happen if for the person to make that decision. The weapon is not the root cause at all.

What is also interesting is that every anti-gun proponent I have presented with this scenario immediately resorts to personal attacks, insults, mischaracterization and more, anything except any approximation of an honest answer.

If you can't turn someone into a killer by handing them a gun, then, what makes a killer? Well, to begin with, not the gun. Maybe magical pixie dust?

I have over thirty years of work in all kinds of technology fields, from the motion picture industry to aerospace, small projects to billion dollar programs. I have yet to see anyone --ANYONE-- solve any problem by IGNORING root causes and focusing on the demonstrably irrelevant. That's the problem with this issue. It has become so polarized and political that nobody, on either side of the argument, wants to address root causes. Because, to borrow the term, these are inconvenient truths.

This is equivalent to: "I have a flat tire. OK, let's change the engine!"

Here's a tip: Insulting me or my argument does not fix the problem, does not save lives and does nothing towards fixing the real problem. If you are a US citizen and are truly interested in saving lives, stop pushing fantasies and get behind going after true root cause analysis. That's the ONLY way we make things better.

I guess I have to ask: What do your root cause analysis of the problem?
Complexity, effectively not supporting shorter scheduling interval (if you need to run something more frequently than every 20 minutes, beware), some bugs don't get fixed for years and are very hard to debug. We ended up restating the scheduler on regular Cron to kick stale task queue.
The "even" both breaks up the flow and makes the "bloody" unnecessary - i.e. you've already said "even", you don't need to say "bloody" too.

So although there's nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence, it reads awkwardly. A native British English speaker would be more likely to use your suggestion. It's just one of those barely documented curiosities like adjective order (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/senten...).
>The feigned shock at steroids.

Barry Bonds still isn't in the Hall of Fame. Neither is Roger Clemons. The institution seems to be reacting appropriately in my book.

>The shakedowns of cities...

Okay, you got me there I guess. Which stadium are you thinking of though? My understanding of the Braves stadium deal(most recent stadium deal that comes to mind) is that the team is required to pay off the county's bonds raised over some period of time (I'm not from Atlanta, so this is just my recollection). I suppose Target Field in Minneapolis was kind of a raw deal. I can meet you half way on thinking that a lot of these projects are in fact crap for local communities, but I think we've seen this phenomenon in the NFL more than MLB. Teams like the Rams and the Chargers basically held their local governments hostage for a new stadium and when they didn't get one they moved. This hasn't happened in MLB for a long time.
Now imagine every car equipped to 'self-drive'. No manually driven cars anymore anywhere. No old timers, no exceptions.
What would the daily dead rate be? 30k? 30m? Somewhere in between? Lower?

It's easy to say they are better, when there are so few of them. (Compared to the amount of human driven cars)
the performance of the 'blame' view is so much better than Gitlab. Great job!
For those already using Edge for its greatly superior DRM, the new browser may result in a big nosedive in performance for streaming video! Providers will be happy to supply cheaper Widevine-encrypted content instead of Playready but this will cause a big increase in CPU cycles when watching encrypted videos. Fortunately users may opt out of using Widevine by disabling the Widevine DRM flag at edge://flags/#edge-widevine-drm.
A perfect example is community-sourced apps that warn about police and speed traps.

I also recall reading about apps that warn about video surveillance. But that's a difficult thing to search for.
Possibly something between lifts of asphalt would work. But a nail through the surface layer of asphalt would allow water in, and mess with the structural integrity of the wear surface. Also, the water it allowed in would freeze and expand and likely push the "nail" upwards - leading to punctured tires. I'd be curious to read a bit more if you have a link.

The overhead lane markers in Hokkaido work well, but would be an expensive retrofit elsewhere (not the poles themselves, but the foundations)
Tax evasion is not a valid answer. The others are issues though gold would be subject to the same taxation. Moving money abroad is a major issue but its already a major issue (see apple in Ireland or Chinese in Australia).
Yes they make one using simple models that roughly fit the geometry on screen. Then transform for parallax. That may reveal hidden areas so they fill them in either using an algorithm from surrounding areas and recent frames or manually.
It’s so depressing...I spend so much time opting out of unwanted services and data sharing but I feel like I’m losing this battle.
I had the same issue. It was because of unresolved stress. I would wake up with slight palpitations and a lot of thoughts and feelings and concerns in my mind.

I resolved it by regularly going out of my home, leaving my phone behind and "doing nothing" at a place where I can sit for a long period of time without being disturbed. Over time a lot of stress builds up in your body that if not unwinded will add up and create a self-feeding cycle of stress-nosleep-stress-even less sleep. Until you are in a burntout situation.

I find that sleeping of its own will not unwind your stress. It is not hte reset on all stress and full rest. You have to take time to let the mind wander. This activity took almost 5-6 hours of doing nothing for it to become complete and for me to come back to normal.

When I say doing nothing. I don't mean not doing something productive. I mean not fiddling with the phone. Not talking to someone. Not taking your kids or partner for a walk. Not taking your dog. Nothing. You literally have to do nothing and resolve to let your entire body and mind rest. Only then will the mind and body allow itself to rest. Ohterwise you will be stuck in this unending barrage of activity which your body is starting to burntout from.
Google has heaps of offices around the world :

https://about.google/locations/?region=asia-pacific&office=s...

Does anyone know what proportion of their workforce is not in California?

A question to Googlers and those who have worked there, is it possible to move to say Boulder within Google easily?
It's interesting how succinct this is. How come this didn't appear before being postulated in Einstein's theory of special relativity, given that there was a 16 year gap between this and the Michelson-Morley experiment?
I have a couple of those disks hanging around but the drive is nowhere to be seen.
MD-Data was a flop since it was Sony proprietary, but the more open "MO" Magneto-optical format based on the same technology was very successful in Japan (equivalent to Zip disks in the west). I wonder why it never caught on in the west.

Comparison photo: https://imgur.com/a/gpNk0SV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive
this is tangential to your point, but I feel as though I personally use this justification often in technical projects, a wide base of users often means a large base of accessible supporting material and community. while I'm sure of the utilitarian justification I can't help but feel it's also laziness on my part.
Do you really want to have the monetary system (the Fed, the Treasury, the Post Office, ...) to be the payor, aribitor, and recordkeeeper of every transaction you make?

There are benefits to cash. And despite the tremendous faults and failures, of a (more-or-less) decentralised payments-processor system. Though one might argue that one in which Visa and Mastercard account for 3/4 of all card-based payments[1], even before accounting for the data "sharing" between payment and credit-scoring entities, fails even harder than even the government-controlled case.

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Notes:

1. https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/market-share-by-credit-card-net...