skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin isn’t anywhere close to the size of Boston, neither statistically nor experientially. That this isn't obvious to everyone sort of proves my point. The use of political borders as boundaries for making regional comparisons only misleads.

I really don’t think I can put too fine a point on this: the Boston region is so much bigger than the Austin region that nobody familiar with both places could possibly think Austin is bigger. The only way to think Austin is bigger is to be mislead by the arbitrarily drawn political borders of each region’s core city. (I’m also taller than Shaq if for some silly historical reason we only define Shaq to include the parts of his body up to his knees.)
Don’t worry. It won’t get stuck forever. The anonymous founder of the game will probably run away with the money when there is a lot in the pot. I predict 10 million in the pot before that happens.
> which the machine needs help with because it doesn't have money

How long does it take to mine 1¢ worth of bitcoin? Or, is there anything else a machine can do in a relatively short timeframe that’s worth 1¢ to someone else?

t2.micro instances on AWS rent for about 1¢/h...
The cards are heavily stacked against anything that uses suction to clamp on. Basically any leak of atmospheric pressure into the suction voids, and it's game over.

You can't easily prevent the the entry of sharp, thin blades between the device's case and the vehicle glass. You will never get a good enough fit on all shapes of windshield.

The kinds of contraptions I can think of that could guard the gap between the device's case and the glass could be damaging to the glass (for instance, spring-loaded steel plates around the perimeter of the device, perpendicular to the glass).

What would work would be putting a large sticker on the glass, which is cross-hatched by numerous cuts so that it has to be peeled off in half-centimeter-sized slivers.

Instead of a fine, you get a notice with a phone number: for a $180 fee and an hour or two, a sticker specialist will painstakingly peel everything off. You are under no obligation to use that service, but if your car is not out of there by a certain time, it will be towed.

I.e. nobody has any shortcut to get the thing off; it's as hard for them as for you.
Is NYC Building Much Housing?
Perhaps take 10% of the military budget and you might just have some $ for that
well, I already apologized elsewhere as I had misunderstood his personal repo to mean a private repo, but anyway I don't code in Rust, so no, I'm obviously not complaining that he is no longer working for me.

This obviously means also that he has not given me a gift.

Finally I am not sure what reasoning has led you to assume that if he gave me a gift moochers would want to mooch off of him, and how they would do so by virtue of him giving me a gift. Whatever reasoning it was, I'm forced to think there must have been little of it.
It seems easier just to remove the boot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrL5tqFczPE
Tesla has an long uphill battle trying to get it's factory built in Berlin. I also feel they're probably underestimating the seriousness with which Germans take their worker's rights.
>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.

Cuts both ways. Tesla execs have the same reason to overhype autonomous driving, because their market value depends on being perceived as a hypermodern tech company.

So far reality has proven VW right. Elon himself had to walk back on grandiose claims about full autonomy and robotaxi fleets, or advertising cars with slogans like "the driver is only there for legal reasons, the car drives itself" a bunch of years ago.

Full autonomy on a human level requires human levels of intelligence and 'common sense', it's a ridiculously hard problem that requires several leaps in AI and plenty of other fields.
Those kind of pile ups already happen now when people drop crap from overpasses, how would it be any different?
You are thinking of methods like "spaced repetition", which are neither the same as Luhmann's method, nor specific to Germany.
On a global scale: Since PayPal and U.S.-based credit card companies are too strong.

Outside the U.S. there are differences in payment system. Here in Germany we have working wire transfers for most things working fine. However that system lacks online authorization ... only in 2015 German banks started their PayPal copy PayDirekt, which however fails to attract vendors and users, to a degree due to hen and egg issues and to some degree due to competition law issues (such a cooperation between banks might for a cartell, thus they've built a complicated structure)

Government can't really regulate this much, unless they want to rule prices completely.
Tesla should just build another factory in China. Why bother w manufacturing in the EU?
Well, why don't we go a step further then and physically connect the vehicles? Maybe we can also make them longer and fit more passengers? And we could optimize the rolling friction, replace rubber on tarmac with something better like steel on steel, and use some sort of tracks to provide the sideways forces?
The device can simply startup as an WiFi access point with a preset name. The only requirement is that a user must have a WiFi client.
Ill believe it when I see it, cereal crops take an ass ton of nitrogen fertilizer to flourish and that fertilizer takes a lot of energy. Maybe im wrong but I feel like increases in nitrogen self-sufficiency will either A. Not be a huge change in fertilizer usage or B. Result in a an overall loss of yield as the energy goes towards nitrogen production. Hopefully im wrong.

The science is good, I just don't think the people using it care enough about good science for that to matter, they will still pump it full of just as much nitrogen before except now they get like .005% higher yield. So they can give their corporate administrators a bonus for utilizing the work and efforts of others and we get jack shit because their object is producing money, not making as much food as possible with the least amount of resources.
> implement networks in which the cars can talk to each other

And sing kumbaya, holding hands together....

What about adversarial car AIs? Malicious actors, etc.?
This is a silly comment; Bielefeld does not really exist. He’s just pulling your leg.
Absolutely, flying wings are very efficient and can carry a good amount of batteries. Just on 700mhz video you can go 30+ miles away with full control. If automated much farther.
Depends on the car and where it's drive wheels are. Also I think tow drivers are authorized to use a tool to break in to the car (non destructively) to put it in neutral if necessary.
If you do consulting around a product, it's typical to exclude improvements to the actual product from any rights assignment clauses, potentially in exchange for better terms. So e.g. any integration on customer-side would be owned by the customer (or grant the customer lots of rights to it), but changes made to the service itself would not, but potentially be cheaper/come with included credits to use the service/...
And meetings take the other 50% of time available. I know what I want to get rid of.
People who can't, or shouldn't, drive themselves at all are totally unaccounted for in this logic. Full autonomy would be hugely freeing to the elderly, for example. Presumably it would enable travel for people too young to get a driver's license as well. And I have to assume driving patterns for capable drivers would change too, in ways that are likely hard to predict or appreciate right now.
The economy would collapse if people only bought what they needed
Navy Jet Boots
Not only do your numbers not appear in the document you provide, one has to wade through pages and reams of stats ... And your comment still makes no sense to me.
> Apple is in the top tier of self driving cars though.

I mean all we have to support that they're working on self driving cars at all is DMV records, articles, and pictures of their car efforts. We have no idea how far along they are.
but religions are based on lies... the blockchain is just pure math/science...
That depends on the ownership structure, I think.
>Finally, Bloomberg should be more careful with their word
choice. They are prestigious enough to know that
__nothing__ is free. There is always a cost(s) involved.
The transaction might not call for an exchange of financial
wampum but that does not make it free.

I read the article. It is a synopsis of a paper.
The word "free" does not appear in the article,
and to my reading the author does not imply "free".
Certainly. When a quick function allocates lots of memory, the slowdown gets blamed on the functions that follow. In purely sequential code this leaves some clues behind. With event-based or concurrent code these problems can be more elusive.

Cache invalidation can follow a similar misattribution pattern.

When you do succeed in making an improvement, the % of time for everything else should increase. 10% of 90% is 11%. Look back at the old results and see if anything else went up disproportionately, and see if you can understand why.

Related to that notion, and as a parting thought, since this is getting some love: game and A/V programmers understand something the rest of us do not. And that is a computation/time budget. It doesn’t matter if one thing takes four times as long as the other if they both take too long. You haven’t fixed “the problem” until you’ve fixed them all. Late is late.

There’s another “systematic” approach to making very large perf improvements that doesn’t fix problems from most to least significant but by functional unit. Fix all of the problems in that functional unit even if it’s 1% of the total (if you’re after a 5x speed gain it’s actually 5% of the total budget). If you make large scale changes you are going to have to do some expensive regression testing on this part of the code, tests or no tests. Once you’ve paid that price once, you will never go back for that last 2% because you can not justify it to your organization. You’re stuck with those in ten different functional areas, forever. What you can justify is boosting a raft of work from 18% to a 20% overall improvement.
Yea they could put down visual markers on the road to make it easier for CV or ML models to be trained against, or maybe even physical tracks to mechanically guide these cars so that minimal software is needed. Multiple cars can be linked together for efficiency.
But it's really not. Level 4 will require the vehicle to take you from door to door without driver intervention in normal driving conditions. Level 4 is mostly what people think of when they think of autonomous driving because you can take a nap, work on your laptop, whatever. You get in your car, tell it where you want to go, and it does everything.

Level 5 basically removes the steering wheel so you never drive. But once you're at level 4, almost all of the hard problems have been solved.

https://www.sae.org/news/2019/01/sae-updates-j3016-automated...
Off topic, but why is there a pop up on the site that says “This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website”? What is the “best experience” that I am missing out on by refusing to allow cookies? I didn’t think cookies on a blog are useful to anyone except to the website owner for tracking, but maybe I am missing something?
Self-driving cars cannot plan an entire exchange in a dense urban areas because there will always be actors like pedestrians, cyclists, and stray plastic bags that do not participate in planning and act adversarially to their shared model. Optimizations will be highly local, spatially and temporally, and I suspect they will end up looking a lot like humans trying to coordinate on the same problem. And even if AVs can technically plan and execute faster, their actions will need to be artificially slowed to be legible to humans. Likewise with their raw speed — cars, self-driving or not, are already moving too fast in urban areas. Reaction times might improve but braking distances will not.

So if AVs can't increase the throughput of city streets, I'm skeptical that they can increase the throughput of off-ramps which are bounded by city streets, or urban freeway segments which are bounded by the off-ramps. And even imagining that significant (2x?) throughput is achieved, it's not going to meet the induced demand ceiling; there would be the same amount of congestion, only with more cars.

L5 is dead on arrival as congestion-mitigation technology and I hope at least some of the billions earmarked to be spent on researching and deploying it are redirected towards better walking, cycling, and transit amenities instead.
What info are you using? If it's weather, let me pick a provider. If it's satellite imagery, let me update the domain if necessary manually. If it's something that only you provide, put it on github. If it constantly needs updating, find a place that will re-index it. Doi.org is a suitable solution for a lot of things, is there a case that i am not covering?
Thy pick it up by the end that actually does the driving. Not sure what happens with full four wheel drive locked. Use a full-size wrecker I suppose.
Windmills' technology has improved dramatically, like also nuclear fusion's.

We are not "back" to windmills that give 3 MegaWatts of power because they never existed in the first place, like affordable solar panels with 20-40% efficiency.

Progress is not automatic. It is millions of times harder to create or improve a technology than imagine it. And also takes lots of money.

We have nuclear tech because Manhattan project, because WWII(and because they were scientists coming from Europe that were scare of Hitler). It took a tremendous amount of money and sacrifice to get there.
Wayland is linux only, and will require significantly more work. Some work has been done on macOS, so maybe one day...
Spending is a repeated game. If you don't agonize, you have to pick either $0 or $2 *N for unknown N.
OMG. I could have written this very comment. The chortles and sneers I get are numerous.

One other reason to use SeaMonkey is it works the best with the -D (socks5) feature of ssh, even better than Firefox's implementation. If you have to traverse into networks via SSH and browse, SeaMonkey is your best friend.
I don't think we're talking past each other, and thank you for your responses.

> Does your team want to treat other teams as a 3rd party dependency?

From what I recall, 'true' microservices are supposed to operate totally independent from each other, so one team's microservice really is a 3rd party dependency of another team's (if one depends on the other). OTOH, monolithic services would require much tighter integration between teams. But there's also architecture like SOA that sort of sits in the middle.

To my mind, if the repo structure mimics the communication and workflow of the people writing the code, it feels like the tradeoffs might fit better. But I'd need to make a matrix of all the things (repos, architectures, SDLCs, tradeoffs, etc) and see some white papers to actually know. If someone feels like writing that book, I'd read it!
Ask HN: How can I take advantage of my time in graduate school?
I'll be starting the first semester of my master's program next week, going for computer science (U.S. student, also did undergrad in computer science). I know that graduate school is not all about studying (and finding internships), what sort of opportunities should I look out for and what activities might be fun to get involved in?
Incidentally, if you go to a restaurant, and you waited a long time for your meal (that is longer than their required service time) most restaurants will comp your bill, or at least give you free bottle/desert for the inconvenience. For reference, I've worked in half a dozen restaurants over as many years, and they all did this.
The margins on taxi services are so incredibly thin I find it difficult to believe there is any value in autonomous taxis. Especially when you take into account all the edge cases that will have to be accounted for, and the traffic that will be generated. Shipping and trucking are a massive industry, and I think automating highway driving has a much much better cost/benefit. Not to mention being safer.
It's not the people who fail, but the products.

I suspect it's some kind of anti-aura effect; those look like the groups that are less likely to be "influencers". The Apple/Tesla strategy also used by lots of fashion products is to sell at high prices to market segments that the rest of the public identify as "cool".
Prior art against Google’s Page Rank:

“ By connecting lose dots of information you create interconnected clusters of knowledge which emphasize the importance of an information based on the number of connections”
Subway is already driver-less in a number of cities around the world. In others the drivers are still there but don't actually drive the train.
Assuming you mean dedicated self-driving lane, what about when a non-self driving car crashes into the self-driving lane? Assuming you mean to have a dedicated lane with barrier (which is already much more than a wire). And what about when a large mining truck tire rim falls off an 18-wheeler and bounces over barrier in a way that any human driver would be able to hit the brakes and be ok?
Bigger. Faster.
I wouldn’t want a loved one driving a Tesla with autopilot enabled. Some of the people who have died so far have been tech enthusiasts who knew the limitations of autopilot, yet they still grew complacent and it cost them their lives.

If my non techy family see the Tesla performing what they deem to be self driving then they will quickly trust it 100%.
Are you trying to hide from the NSA, FBI, China, or Disney?

If you’re a pirate, I wouldn’t worry. Likewise if you’re a Chinese dissident or tax cheat. The NSA isn’t going to blow its cover over Frozen 2 or your $3 million bitcoin wallet. Recent news accounts also suggest that the Feds are dismissing child porn cases rather than disclosing methods.

That leaves espionage and terrorism. If you’re involved in those, maybe going cheap on a vpn isn’t best practices to begin with.
What an incredible and disturbing read. It's sad to see how willing we are to let bribery win out over science but thankfully the EU are on the right track.

I would love to see a follow-up on other countries as well - based in Australia at the moment means we didn't even get a mention but I imagine it's closer to the US than the EU on strategy and listening to solid science.

I've just setup a recurring donation to the intercept as well, this sort of thing is truly worth supporting
On the other hand, we should also understand that a constant stream of insults, contempt, and general negativity around every step one takes, can and will bring anyone down, and even induce depression
Tariffs. Cars built in the EU are much cheaper to EU buyers than those made in China.
Zero shot learning: Approach that can change Machine Learning
Paint is a wear item, the example of beacons would not be a wear item. If original commenter is correct that infrastructure meets halfway, I wouldn't expect self driving cars transition to happen fast at all - maybe on highways first, and busy city streets, later secondary roads. But that kind of thing would result in a decades long transition, and I would estimate it as never being fully autonomous (if beacons die, car would need manual intervention)
I find it extremely unethical for Tesla to sell its customers a $6000 option to "Enable full self driving mode" some time in the future. Does anyone really think that this will happen before their car is totaled/broken/old/end of life (10-15 years)?
Interesting to see the PR greenwashing marketing claims of Tesla clashing with their real life polluting activities.
This is ludicrous that you think administrative salaries are huge factors in the cost of education.
The counter-example to this is train tracks. (There are minimum standards for roads, too.)
We used to have that in the Netherlands. For banking, regular banks refused to service small businesses and lower income private people. The government set up two banks of their own, one for small businesses and one for ordinary people to do things like deposit their paychecks and have simple savings accounts. The latter especially was wildly successful and innovative, with a truly forward thinking IT department (they had online banking over dialup in 1987!)

Alas, the 90s hit and these banks, along with the energy companies, the cable companies and the postal company, were privatized. Innovation ground to a halt and service quality plummeted. In the end, they had to be bailed out during the 2008 financial crisis.
Great. Let’s give companies even more ways to violate privacy.
It's not right to penalize only C-suite employees. For instance, lots of actors and entertainers in California make tons of money, and they're notoriously hypocritical about social issues. (i.e. flying in a private jet or living in a constantly-irrigated oaisis, but still pontificating about climate change).

If the proposed law taxed the snot out of every company with very highly compensated employees I think it'd be more fair.
That was previously. Since 2013 it is mandatory for each household (Exceptions for disabled, people on social security, etc.) as well as mandatory for business premisses.

The assumption is that everybody owns a media receiver (since computer+internet counts as well, as there is streaming) and since running the infrastructure is seen as a public service.
While the water issue is, indeed, quite serious, I'm not exactly sure why the 'increased traffic on highway' is so much of a concern that it's raised in the same article. Yes, traffic will increase because more people will be coming to newly created job opportunities. I suppose some of the worries might be due to the equipment being moved by big trucks which could inflict infrastructural damage but this is solvable.
Hey, that opens a great business niche for face decoration kits that would add X% to your average interview score. /s
If he can actually address the shortcomings of upwork, etc (and there are MANY), he can always scale up. Nobody right now is providing a good application that models the end-to-end experience of hiring a freelancer for software development. For it to really work, the application would need to force clients to specify their software requirements in a detailed way (for a start).
Cars with no person inside them at all (vehicle drones?) would unlock the biggest productivity gain in a century. Revolutionize anything that can be delivered to your house (food, goods, groceries) and make sharing items feasible (need a power tool? Just have a drone drop it off for an hour then pick it up after you are done). I think the biggest advance of self driving is having cars with no people in them at all
> I just don't think the people using it care enough about good science for that to matter,

They care about money.

> they will still pump it full of just as much nitrogen before except now they get like .005% higher yield.

Why on earth would they do that? Fertilizer is expensive, dude.
BETA software in a car that can kill people ... insane.
A car that can drive itself in a specifically prepared environment would hardly qualify as "fully self driving". You could achieve that with all the AI prowess of a mechanical connection between the steering linkage and some guide rails. And you'd still fail to get even the tiniest development budget for a car that won't sell anywhere else.
To give access to a very lucrative business endeavor? Someone would come up with the investment. We put a nice canape of cell towers too, or wired up every home for internet, after doing it for cable TV, after doing it for electricity. No one really frowns much at those economics anymore (in big parts of the world at least).