skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they may never happen because full self-FLYING “cars” (vtol drones) will very likely happen first (it’s more a regulatory thing than a tech thing).

And flying would be superior to driving (faster, no traffic, no need to maintain infrastructure, etc..) so there’d be little incentive to continue even trying to get to level 5 for self-driving.
Good, it was getting awfully corrupt
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What for? I mean, I have relative freedom at work and could probably use Lisp on my own tools for my own job, but I’ve never really considered it (I use Haskell and Python instead).
Configurable! A reasonable amount of death. Not to much but enough to still allow for fast traffic. This kind of calc is already done for car safety features. It probably is as ridiculous as it sounds but who am I to judge.
As long as the two different crops are compatible yields tend to be the same or better if symbiotic. Problem is for economical harvesting you need to spread them out which also lowers density on a field. Which also lessens the symbiotic benefits as they now are further apart. Also density is important for grains/cereals since each plant produces so little.

Honestly, while a nice idea I agree it wont really work at the scale we need. I think some genetic engineering would be more useful. Ideally a crop that also is not encumbered by patents like other enhanced crops.
I really like this take and I would love it to come true, but I have some doubts. Fully self-driving cars could probably eventually be accomplished with our current level of hardware (we just need much better software), but flying cars would require decades of continuous improvements in the hardware required.
Not the parent but Vancouver's become like that over the last 10 years or so. I lived just outside Vancouver and I watched the relatively quiet, affordable neighbourhood I lived in suddenly become filled with overpriced highrises and condos and watched rent more than double in price while average wages remained relatively stagnant.
Love it! A MIDI export would make this really fun to experiment with.
This remark comes from a tremendously privileged position. Much of the world spends its day trying to find enough to eat, so creating creating a nitrogen-fixing cereal may be a better compromise in a world where the "ideal" outcome (from an ecological perspective) is not viable.
And given the size of Bloomberg's donations during his lifetime, I suspect the university also has assurances for more gifts in his legacy allowing to close the gap from former alumni no longer donating.
The very concept of a civilized society requires everyone to living by the laws and rules that society agreed to as their guiding principles. When you live in the US the Constitution, perhaps, the most important of these rules.

If we are going to talk about government derailing and doing as they wish then no piece of paper can protect anyone. At that point it becomes about guns and blood. Which sort of drives the point of the second amendment. That scenario is very, very far from reality in the US for more reasons than one.

The US is one of the few (well, I don't think I know of any other) where you can tell a police officer to go to hell and stop harassing you in a public space due to the rights recognized by the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution. YouTube is FULL of videos showing these kinds of situations. Anywhere else on earth you are far more likely to end-up in jail or worse.

That happens because, at the end of the day, this society is based on a legal set of rules that everyone tends to follow, particularly the important ones. That's the difference.

I know someone is going to bring up the topic of cops doing bad things. Guess what? There are bad cops, bad engineers, bad dentists and bad ice skaters. Humans are not a uniform blob of meat with the same brain. When someone behaves badly, more often than not, they face the consequences of their behavior. This includes violating others' rights.

I know that if you are not in the US the above can be incomprehensible. And that's OK, there's nothing I can say to make you see this realty. It's like a bird trying to explain to a fish what it is like to fly. The lack of context is too extreme.
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And then Verlander lost against the Nationals, because they stole the signs to him. This is the most plausible explanation for his losses. And the internet didn't help there, rather the opposite.
Less lumpy than a billiard ball. The mountains and trenches only seem significant because the whole thing is so big. Totally not a perfect sphere though, yeah.
For most of us here, there's no reason to move anywhere at all. Programmers can work from anywhere in the world. We need to let go of the idea that "work" means 2 hours of commute and sitting in an open plan under constant barrage of interruptions for 40 hours a week. We need to let go of _all_ the components of this definition, from "40 hours" to "office" to "commute". There are jobs which have to be done in the office only. Programming is not one of those jobs.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae5f7/... says:

> On the other hand,during the past 2 decades great attention has been paid to the theories with varying speed of light (VSL), in which the speed of light might be dynamical and could have been varying in the past. ...

> The measurement of c in the distant universe is an almost completely uncharted territory. Recently, with the angular diameter distances measured for intermediate-luminosity quasars extending to high redshifts, Cao et al.(2017a) performed the first measurement of the speed of light referring to the redshift baseline z = 1.70. The result was in very good agreement with the value of c obtained on Earth(i.e.,at z = 0).
The best take on AlphaFold: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp...
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Nope, they already lobbied that car owner is responsible for failures of the self driving system.
Isn't that exactly what the article said? Lvl 4 on good prepared roads - possible, lvl 5 go anywhere you want - maybe not.
how about a simple average ?
how about a simple average?
Every human is born free. Even in North Korea.

Not every society allows it's members to be free.
Yeah SyQuests were big in the Mac realm, mainly due to graphic design/publishing people being the only desktop users at the time needing such massive capacity in a removeable format. My uncle had one and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
The "zero emission" label is on the back on the car, maybe they should use something else for their marketing.
"If violating terms of use is a crime, then private companies across the country get to decide who goes to prison for what, instead of lawmakers."

When these same "private companies" are allowed to commission their own police forces, it can get a lot uglier pretty darn quick, given the close relationship that most police departments have with local prosecutors.

Just recall what MIT police did to Aaron Swartz after he "overused" his library privileges by downloading too many papers from JSTOR, most of which were already in the public domain anyway.
Unused variable in plan9 implementation?
https://github.com/pete/cats/blob/master/plan9-cat.c#L22
I'd say this is what technology should do: to efficiently reduce waste in our world, so we have fewer trashed flats. Of course, the solution should not be intrusive, using public data should be totally fine.
Stop appears to cause the old instance to play through to the end, but not start a new instance right away. So it works, but it's really delayed; I think most users would expect an instant mute from a button labeled "Stop." Perhaps a relabel would set better expectations.
The issue AFAICT is that you need to define a separate unit to run the command. It's not clear why systemd has this restriction on timers, other than implementation convenience.
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Check the EDPB opinion that was released recently. It states quite clearly what can bu done.
> Sexual reproduction allows improvements from diverging lineages to combine in a single offspring. But only if they haven't diverged too far. Genetic engineering may bring beneficial feature from vary different species, or in this case kingdoms.

As stated elsewhere, gene transfer also happens cross-kingdom by way of virus.
Finally, I can stop taking my notes in Minecraft.
cuz its just funny. If you saw little robots all over the place run by facebook or $mega_corp, wouldnt you just strand them for fun? Cameras are easily defeated by a hoodie and a mask.

Bricks from bridges could kill people and just damages regular people's property. It's just different.
That's right, I almost never find any dev.to articles.
It's more like eating dinner, finishing, and then no one being willing to take your money for an hour after you're ready to leave. A scenario that I've been in, and considered walking out, but the restaurant was too close to my house and I wanted to avoid any unpleasantness in the neighborhood.
New search field now return album covers (yuck). Old list search feature is now under View > Show Filter Field. Disappears after app restarts...
That only works for complete (or "nearly" complete) binary trees, and you can't draw many of these since the number of children in a generation grows exponentially. For most trees you have to try to keep the width minimal while avoiding collisions between deeply-nested left and right children. One of the earlier papers to give some precise "niceness" criteria is "Tidier Drawings of Trees" (https://reingold.co/tidier-drawings.pdf) by Reingold and Tilford, with a companion Pascal program for computing the coordinates.
This argument is tough to swallow. The real push to build interstate highways was in early 1950s and began in earnest in 1956. National defense was only one piece of the justification for the project.
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Neither makes sense. What will happen though , is that EU countries will make sure that more monetary independence is possible and that blackmail attempts by US government will not succeed. Trump has used that to undermine the European politics towards Iran. Trump is also using this as a threat against the EU and certain EU countries.
Yes. You cannot be your own ancestor. A graph pointing from child to parent can split and merge, but never loop.

Though, you may need a cyclic directed graph for fictional family trees and time travel paradoxes.
In fact, Google has a Pittsburgh office which is doing quite well as far as I can tell.
Yes. And if a Googler (and this is true if most others major tech companies too) transfers from SF or NYC to another market, their salary usually drops. In fairness, the drop isn’t 50% or anything like that. And levels (which define the bonus structure) are still the same.

If a large company was doing a mass-migration of employees to a new, lower-cost city, it might make sense to keep salaries consistent. But let’s not kid ourselves and think that new hires at that new location would still be hired at the SF rate.

And as others have pointed out, if the salary did remain that high and you left, it’s almost guaranteed that your next job would not have that kind of salary.

Personal anecdote: when I moved from NYC to Seattle, I didn’t take a pay cut (I was switching industries), but the recruiter knew my Seattle market-rate was lower than my NYC market-rate. She tried to console me with promises of lower-cost of living (in fact, I pay more in rent now, but in fairness my equivalent apartment in Seattle would be 25% higher in NYC) — which wasn’t really true. But the tax difference was/is so massive, that it really does offset the salary difference, even at market rate. And if I were to transfer from Seattle to NYC, I would insist on getting a pay increase to offset those higher costs.

I don’t like employers lowering salaries if an employee moves to another lower-cost city (mostly because in many cases they are already paying hire taxes in those expensive markets and it feels punitive to get to pay less taxes and a lower salary for the same work/person), but it’s very common. That said, I don’t think it’s possible for very large companies to follow the Basecamp approach of universal salary structure based on being in the top X% of SF median or mean salaries (I forget which). As nice as that is for a smaller company, if you’ve got 100,000 employees (not counting contractors) potentially paying people 4x market rate doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t scale.

That said, there are always exceptions. If a person is valuable enough to the business, that person can get whatever salary they want regardless of location.
comparing swapping a player with an ref is a serious stretch.
You're calling Google "creepy AF" and giving Microsoft a pass? Did you forget they own LinkedIn - probably the second biggest social network that makes money from selling their user's data?? Have a Ad network that tracks users and delivers targeted ads? Has an OS monopoly on the desktop? Has an OS that forces users to use their search engine and only their search engine? Has an OS that has a built in ad tracker that delivers targeted ads? Has an OS that actually has ads in it? Spies on their users via the collection and retention of OS "telemetry"? Has very invasive privacy settings in their monopolistic OS? Has proactively broken into their user's email accounts and then forced to admin their evil behavior when it was revealed in court? Worked with the NSA to deliver Skype and email messages of their user's?

Now, that is what I would call creepy AF and a prime target for investigation.
It would be kinda nice if we could pull the job runner out as it’s own thing.
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Thank you, dvorka! I recall having come across your website, and MindForger a few weeks ago when I was looking for lite Markdown editors. Thank you for posting. I am going to try it soon.
The MLB isn't in charge of who gets into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The article mentions DC and I'd just like vent about how miserable a place this is to live in. I see some people spend 10 hours a week and often more just commuting to work. It's overpriced. And when you look at the state of IT in the federal government you realize why this government fails so badly at non-tech things.

I'll be running away from the major cities as fast as possible as soon as possible.

Yuck. You actually lose money working in DC, the salaries aren't even worth.
The body forms structures over the course of development. But I don’t think it can replay those actions again. In places like the knee and eye lens, the cells that formed those structures did their job and dissolved their nuclei. I’m more familiar with the eye lens example so let’s go with that. The cells there are just bags of proteins and antioxidants. No nuclei, no mitochondria, no activity. Oxidation from the environment gradually damages those proteins and lead to cataracts. Everyone would eventually get cataracts if they could live forever.

DNA is not enough. There was coordination in time and space to construct the body during development, and the growing body has no damaged cells and structures to deal with.
You have to actually go out there and physically do the act.

In a wired world the distance to everything is zero. If you can find an 'in', you can carry out this attack in any place in the world, from the comfort of your nerd cave or barracks.
Me too. It's a lot of fun coming.
And we've designed much of the world in such a way that if you can't afford a car, you can't participate in society in any meaningful way, so maybe come up with better solutions than "Don't drive lol."
Ferries have limits too, like grid-locked streets also do.

The way, the channel, the [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)

all there to calculate whodunit in advance, this is no Voodoo, just calm glance at what is there, to not get stuck,
that would suck, and be unfair.
Interesting, I didn't test it that far. My pathetically low tolerance as a user kicked in beforehand. If it behaves more like "queue next", then that's what it should be named. Although, a queue next function without the concept of a playlist makes little sense compared to a stop/start.
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In the long term for sure, but for individual families considering to relocate they're looking at the short term. How long does it take to "make" the schools better, and how many of the ten or so years your child is in education before the level gets back to what they already have.
>What's stopping people from destroying yield signs and other safety critical road infrastructure now?

People do destroy yield signs and other safety critical road infrastructure now. I've known more than one person with an appropriated road or safety sign as a home decoration.
https://github.com/brho/plan9/blob/89d43d2262ad43eb4b26c2a8d... seems to be a global variable.
https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/arg.html also references it.
I think the HN baseball fan crowd is the perfect audience for this paper, entitled "A Mathematical Analysis of Catcher/Pitcher Encryption Schemes."

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/mlancast-sa...
Maybe it's because I'm relatively young, but I actually like working in an office. I bike 15 minutes to work rather than commuting 2 hours, because my work pays me enough to live close by. I spend some of my time collaborating closely with smart people who are a lot more experienced than me, which seems to be the fastest way to learn. I spend then rest of the time with headphones on facing the corner of the open office, hopefully getting absorbed in my work to the point where I'm not too distracted by the people around me. I eat free food that's better than anything I could make at home.

I've had periods of working from home in my life and they've been lonely and unproductive in comparison.

My only point is that there _are_ some people who genuinely prefer working at an office.
> It seems like nitrogen fixing plants could get out of control, and evolution hasn't produced them yet.

what about legumes? What's the difference between "built-in" nitrogen fixing and symbiotic nitrogen fixing that would make the former much more dangerous?
The expansion is not over. There are still european countries wanting to join. Btw., the UK (especially Boris Johnson) was a proponent of more countries joining the EU.

France never wanted the UK in the EU in the first place. Maybe they were right? The UK was boykotting deeper EU integration on political, economical and defense levels, so after the UK leaving we may expect to see some progress.

Boykotting Russia everywhere leads us nowhere. Cooperation does. Russia is not even a candidate joining the EU. We have Turkey in the line of countries - which is not liked by many EU countries, but PROMOTED by the current UK prime minister. Even the US has requested in the past the EU to take Turkey as a member.

The US foreign policy is the current horror. Last time the US lawlessly invaded Iraq with a coalition of the willing. Now the US has many more countries unwilling to follow the foreign policy adventures of the least qualified administration since decades.

A country like Poland sees with horror, that the US is no longer clearly committed to NATO.
Put it simply, there is reversible damage and irreversible damage. Oxidized protein aggregates that the cell can’t degrade are an example of irreversible aggregates. Amyloid protein fibrils, although no longer implicated in disease, are another example of a stable, irreversible state. The process of repair slows down not due to programming but because the cells of the body get progressively worse at identifying and repairing damage, because the very machinery that carries out these processes, proteins, get damaged.
Population is the reason why euros are importing uneducated hoodlums though not sure population alone would fix Euro's problems
> So who are you planning to put to work as agricultural stoop-labor peasants? Are you volunteering? I mean, we used to harvest all our crops that way. The people who did it were generally...not volunteers.

I find it strange how we have cell phones and solar power and other these other wonders, and yet arguments always goes straight to slavery anytime the specter of higher labor costs comes up. One would think innovation, especially on this forum. The obvious, immediate way would be to fix the immigration laws and enforcement to allow in as much guest labor as needed. If the economics are an issue, then selective use of farm subsidies are appropriate given the positive value being added to the land in terms of increased productivity and soil quality. Eventually innovation will bring the costs down.

> As far as higher yields go, I don't believe you.

Another silly comparison to the past - agricultural science has advanced multiple times in the last 80 years. No one would argue that modern, chemistry-based farming isn't productive, simply that it's less productive (and far, FAR more detrimental to the soil) than what modern science around restorative agriculture can produce.

Restorative Ag 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

For what it's worth, I also think Corn yields are probably impacted by how heavily subsidized it is. That's a policy that started with the New Deal in 1933, so it makes sense that the graphic would start to increase there.
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"As long as there are huge piles of cash floating around" : is this due to the low interest after 2008? Even still, I would assume stock prices can't exceed a certain threshold relative to the company's earnings as it won't make economic sense; but if indeed there are no other investment alternatives I guess it does? Maybe just hoarding cash and waiting for a crash is the best strategy?
A few questions:
1) at best this happens at~50% of the games. The Astros won the series in LA that year. Did they find a way to cheat everywhere?
2) what is the end game here? The Astros have won exactly 1 World Series. Hardly a huge disparity.
3) do you think they’re the only team???
4) what rules were broken?
5) is it wrong for a base runner to scream change-up if they are on 2nd base?
Disclaimer: I’m from Houston and of course I want the Astros to win but I don’t think a huge advantage was had here. One could easily get just as outraged by the Yankees having a bottomless bank account to pay their salaries. They Yankees paid 218mm vs 168mm for the Astros. Both teams are on the larger end of the spectrum but I would argue that smaller markets have a huge disadvantage vs the major cities.

I’m disappointed that the Astros lost this year but I don’t feel compelled to find a reason the Nationals beat us this year. At the end of the day our pitchers failed(ahem Verlander) and our batters couldn’t hit the superior pitchers in dc. Ironically the “cheaters” couldn’t cheat their way to a second victory. This seems like another case of Twitter and social media amplifying things that don’t matter.
No, it's actually pretty much the selling point that Apple the phone manufacturer is also Apple the security chip manufacturer, Apple the OS development company, Apple the financial services company, and Apple the company that supplies the wallet app. This means that I only have to trust one entity to use Apple Pay to buy things with my phone. This largely collapses if Apple can't at the same time be a manufacturer of chips, a seller of phones, a developer of operating systems, a provider of applications, and a handler of financial transactions.