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> A sensible policy would be for the German government to borrow and invest heavily in infrastructure.

Or reduce taxation and make everyone but government richer.
No, my assumption is that demand is high, so salaries are going to be high.
Your account of human drivers is hilarious utopian. I've driving in horrible conditions, I've watched people driving too fast and later having their car wrapped around the divider barrier, I've watched people get stuck on a residential street and end up in the ditch, then begging for someone else to go pick up their Sally.

People are awful in these conditions and exercise incredibly poor risk decisions.
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Why on Earth would you not just say exactly what you said here?

I'm sure you could phrase it a little better but, "I had a medical problem for 9+ months and then took several more months to rest after that" is not going to be viewed unfavorably in any way if your skills are up to date.
FYI
I built a Jupyter plugin as well:
https://github.com/cascala/igalileo
I too use (Mac)Vim.

In my experience, most CS majors at UCSD that I've met complain about the course. On the other hand, DSC doesn't have an equivalent, which I find disappointing but understandable. Maybe it'll get one in the future.
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You are factually wrong. The autopilot has even swerved into gore points, causing fatal wrecks.

The parent poster was referencing this, which I found immediately using Google:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1231834/tesla-mode...
Nobody has ever asked (then again perhaps someone has declined to talk to me for that reason?). In my cases the answer (had anyone asked) would have been easy: I took multi-year gaps to look after my kid. But it has literally not been an issue (note: my work experience is over 30 years).
FL inequality is due to the tourism industry and the super low wages they get away with paying. Construction is similar in FL this way too.

https://news.fsu.edu/news/business-law-policy/2019/08/08/fsu...
Sure, that's your decision. I'd rather have the car and I work together to prevent accidents, or let the car take over at low speeds
The dataset used to create this map:

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/irs-soi/

Has tax data aggregated by zip. You can get the median zip code in a state from it because it only has totals so you can only calculate averages otherwise.
Isn't this really in service of the customer to not waste their time? The store is the one shouldering the risk because if it turns out to be a thief using the card the store loses money/goods. The more they try to verify you are who you say you are the less risk they are incurring. That's a benefit of credit, it's less risky for the consumer in the end.
Microsoft has never been shy about partnering with former enemies/competitors. We tend to forget Apple would probably be gone if Microsoft hadn't bailed them out in 97 (not out of altruism but because of antitrust). Linux is also first class on Azure. I don't think they would care about the Netscape thing.
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And that is basic research. It may be dry, boring, and tedious but somebody has to do the legwork. Throwing machine learning at it won't change things much either. Applied ML has a last mile problem - eventually you still need somebody to supervise the wet lab experiments/machines and all not so glorious bits that would never be featured in Nature or Science.
This is why so many taxi drivers say their "credit card reader is broken"
It’s also been discussed that the streaming services are also tending to not give shows as much of a chance to find an audience and a voice as was often the case previously.

To the general point there’s so much content out there and I watch relatively little. I have to find a show that at least looks interesting. And then I’ll almost certainly drop it after an episode or two if it doesn’t grab me.
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> There's no evidence that computers are any better at driving than humans

People said that about computers when it came to basic computations.

They said it about computers when it came to landing on the moon.

They said it about computers when it came to electronic tax returns, digital currencies, music, movies, video games and everything else in the history of the world that computers once couldn't do, but now do with ease, and much much more accurately and faster than the old way of doing whatever it is.

With sub-millisecond reaction times and eight cameras and radar instead of only two eyes, it's blatantly obvious computers will be better drivers than humans.

It's just a question of when.
Computers have already been judging the conditions you cite better than humans for a long time. Your car is equipped with anti-slip systems that do a far better job both controlling the car in bad conditions and recognizing those conditions than you can.

Frankly, I'd trust a computer over the average human any day, given the horrible judgement I've seen most people exercise on the roads.
You can't rent out "just" a ballroom for an inauguration, or anything or anywhere ab president does or goes... The amount of security and extra amenities that go into an event that big certainly add on. I don't know whether it balances or not, but this strikes me as absurd.
If you are able to grab the users password off of their computer then you are able to capture it as they type it. Passwords are stored unencrypted on computers all the time, your browser stores passwords.
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This screams of a huge need for a browser add-on to just let you automatically filter these things. I know I'd use it.
Except that such bills don't see a naturally high amount of use - it's still legal to use them for a bunch of purposes, they're just inconvenient for nearly all uses... Your statement applies better to not-currently circulating modest denominations, like two dollar bills.
> the intro level course for cs majors is in python, but calculus I is a prereq. so the students who are catching up in math and/or don't quite feel ready for the real intro course have to take the remedial course, which is in c.

I don't understand, why would students who need to take Calc 1 not just take the normal course the following semester?
Sounds like that lawsuit with Epic Games was more about him selling the cheats instead of the videos. Plus I heard people spend real money in Fortnite and can even win real money with the Esports. Don't really follow that game much though.
How does the board hold Zuckerberg or anyone loyal to him accountable when he controls >50% of shares? Zuckerberg and his lieutenants can do almost anything they wants as long as he doesn’t tank the stock price or bring about a pile on of investor lawsuits.
What in the hell happened to that site? It went from interesting, in depth finance research peppered with looney shit, to this incoherent trash akin to the youtube comments section
F-22 had similar weird bug. Instead of degrees it was dates.

In 2007 squadron (12) of F-22's were flying from Hawaii to Japan. When they crossed when they crossed international date line every plane had systems crash. They lost communication-, fuel-, and navigation subsystems and restart did not solve the problem. Apparently only basic aviation systems worked. They could still fly.

They would have been completely lost, but luckily tanker escorting them was still nearby. They were able to follow it back to the base.
Unintended consequences of blocking semiconductor sales to China.

It's the perennial question for all company CEOs:

Do we 'buy built' which is quicker, cheaper and easier, but leaves us dependent on external manufacturers?

Or, do we 'build our own' which is expensive in terms of development time and energy and wasted dead-ends, but will eventually make us independent of external manufacturers?

Most CEOs tend to choose the cheaper 'buy built' path. As did Huawei with US semiconductors. But if they are forced to take the 'build our own' path, as when Trump banned US technological sales to Huawei, the end effect will be for the US manufacturers to miss out completely on the already huge, and growing further, Chinese market for semiconductors.

(And that's not counting the future competition between the massive new Chinese semiconductor manufacturers and the US semiconductor manufacturers who previously held the monopoly. Why are people in the West seemingly blind to the fact that, all by itself, the internal Chinese market is larger than the whole of the Western market?)
Isn't the issue that they're depriving the user of income based solely on a non-legal (not not-legal) complaint? If YouTube really justed wanted to have people Duke it out in court, they wouldn't have their own system that is massively tilted towards the studios. They're effectively allowing one side to be judge and jury.
I can understand if he's a PhD level scientist recruit. That it takes a while to digest all the newest methodologies if he hasn't been following.

A data engineer should have no such problem. Anecdotally, when I was recruited to Amazon, all of the people who made the shots are either SDE or SDM. It could also be a way of telling you that "This role has already filled", as it is likely with all of the people lining up for data/machine learning roles.
Until they run over someone important and not just some grandmother in Arizona will the industry realize what they're doing here?
This is only true in a world where the barrier to entry is low, and innovation is "cheap". There is a possibility that true innovation on the internet is becoming expensive e.g. how much does it cost to gain a 1% relevance improvement in search results? how much does it cost to take photos of every street corner twice as often as google?
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> bashing Dropbox is HN-suicide

That's not true, and why would you go to the trouble of making a footnote about a six-year-old thread yet skip providing the link? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069

grellas' comment has 270+ replies, and HN's software currently paginates threads at 250 comments. That is purely for performance reasons, and I can't wait to be able to turn it off. If you go to the subsequent pages, there are many other top-level comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=4

grellas' comment is at the top because the ranking algorithm put it there; many of his comments have gotten upvoted heavily over the years. Moderators didn't do any of that.
Z88dk Release 2.0 – Gameboy and Spectrum Next Supported
Another year has passed, so it must be time for a new z88dk release! And this is the big 2.0.

z88dk Release 2.0
https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/releases/tag/v2.0

This z88dk 2.0 release is a stable release and is the culmination of thousands of commits (and many hours of work) during this year.

The newly released SDCC 4.0.0 has been incorporated, and is one of the two compilers available.

This release of z88dk also sees support for two new retro processors:

gbz80: zsdcc, sccz80 and classic now support gbz80 machines
8080/5: sccz80 and classic now support 8080/5 machines

Support for the following classic and new machine targets has been added:

Nintendo Gameboy
Tesla PMD85 (8080)
CP/M based: Excalibur 64, Sony SMC-70/SMC-777, Sharp X1
Hübler/Evert-MC, Hübler Grafik-MC, Kramer MC
Nichibutsu My Vision, Hanimex Pencil II
Toshiba Pasopia7, Bandai Supervision SV8000, Videoton TVC
RomWBW HBIOS based machines including Retrobrew and RC2014
SCZ180 family machines

We've also improved floating point support to provide a (mostly) IEEE-754 compliant math library. Both integrated integer math and floating point math library now use hardware multiply instructions to improve the performance over the standard z80 architecture assembly floating point library by between 4x and 5x. And this from a starting point that is already better than C coded floating point libraries available elsewhere.

Of course, there's also many other fixes and new features across both compilers and both libraries.

https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/wiki
https://github.com/RC2014Z80/RC2014/wiki
https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW
https://www.specnext.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15
https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/tree/master/libsrc/_DEVELOPMENT/math/float/math32
> ...does if you overflow normal arithmetic while debug assertions are on (if debug assertions are off, overflows result in wrapping instead).

What I am reading from this is that in Rust, debug assertions cause a different semantics. That does not sound right at all.
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An easy way would be.

First 5 low fees.
Next 5 (10%) increased fees, repeat.

This prevents one company from amassing too many.
What if there was some rule where any company over lets say 10 million users are treated differently (or a public utility)? I am not sure if this is the right solution or not but I think a lot of the monopolistic and anti-trust behavior comes because of the network effect of these products.
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> The best remedy for these tech giants is to force the use of open standards

The best remedy for these tech giants would be to kill the ad-supported business model. The reason users get treated like second-class citizens by the tech giants is that they are second-class citizens; they aren't the customers.

Unfortunately, you can't kill ad-supported businesses with regulation. Only users can kill them, by refusing to let their eyeballs be used as a free resource.
Let's say everyone replaced their current cars with self-driving vehicles and they never killed anyone ever again. If normal vehicle usage continued and fifty years passed without a single traffic death, your claim suggests we'd still be unable to say if self-driving cars were safer, as it would still be a sample size of one.

I don't think your use of statistics is correct.
Ugh, speech to text. Thanks for finding that in time.
These can make neat demos but what’s the false negative rate?
The leaders of Chinese companies like Alibaba, TenCent, and SenseTime must be following these stories with glee. I get the Western position that values will win in the long run, but someone should consider the possibility that some of these Western companies employ Western employees who represent those Western values and actually are being responsible.
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If we wanted to actually compete with China we'd do what they did - grant immunity to copyright law to a Chosen Company for a given product line (chat, search, video, whatever) and leverage the legal system to block foreign competitors to Chosen Companies from functioning within China (i.e. google search, facebook).

I'm not interested in what it'll take to compete with China because we'll have to act like assholes to do it.
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I am willing to agree. Corruption is bad for the population at large.

I even agree with the assessment that GOP during Obama years would certainly cry foul if there was even a perception of inapproriety. Frankly, it kinda was their job to be a check ( though I would argue that they failed then as well ).

There is a but coming. But, Obama had a decent team, which kept unapproved leaks from surfacing, had a cover from friendly media so even if there was something there, it was tightly held under wraps.

Now compare it to current administration where everyone is out to leverage their current position for something better in the future ( book deal, friendly energy company or just extra business for your daughter ).

I guess what I am saying is, Obama, HRC, Biden et al are just waaaaay better at covering their tracks.
No, that is not what transactional mail means, you're wrong.

Things like friend requests are also transactional email by definition. So are those "you left your cart behind, want to complete the purchase?". That doesn't mean that you asked to receive it.
Learning about a command-line debugger and command-line profiling tools would be helpful for those that find themselves in the past. IDEA and Visual Studio have had these things integrated for decades. I find the likelihood of knowing how to use a debugger or profiler is inversely proportional to the amount of time someone spends in the terminal.

It's astonishing how many developers rely on logging/print statements for debugging. The learning curve of using a tool like PDB or GDB is just too steep for most people.
I'm working from home today because my work's primary and secondary lines to our data centre are down. We have a tertiary but it's slow. So they didn't want ppl coming in to the office and using all the bandwidth
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I agree, I think this is generally better. It feels like google needs some pressure to listen to people. Oddly enough Microsoft didn't do some things that would be instant wins, like support plugins on mobile so you can install things like ublock origin ( biggest reason why I use firefox on mobile ).
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It does. There are types in the standard library for non-zero numbers[1]. While it would involve writing a wrapper, Rust does provide for customizing the behavior of operators[2]. The example implementation for Div (the "/" operator) even shows how to make a type that panics when trying to divide by zero. One could also return a Result so that trying to divide by zero can fail gracefully.

1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/struct.NonZeroI32.html

2. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Div.html
Wouldn't opening up competition to other companies be exactly the reason why such non-US competitors may be able to acquire more market share?

The only way I could see the US being able to regulate non-US competitors who grow too large is to fine them, such as what the EU does. Although that may not be enough to stop them from acquiring market dominance and may cause retaliation (such as the current trade war).

To be clear, I'm not a shill for these big tech companies. I don't currently work in any of them nor have stock in any. I'm concerned about their dominance, stifling of competition and their use of market position to render consumers powerless just as much as you may be.
If self-driving cars become the majority of cars, how long until it is deemed that "manual operated cars" are unsafe and should be banned?

For example, if it were the case that safe driving cars were on average 10% safer in most situations.

Wouldn't there be pressure to reduce deaths and injuries by banning manually operated cars.

What do you think about self-driving cars being a source of data for private and govertment organizations on where you are at any time, or your travel patterns?

Do you think there would be a time when people who displeased the government could be essentially stranded because they can't get access to the self-driving network?

I never expected the level of survailance and scanning happening in UK/China, etc.

Are self-driving cars (possibly with biometric face and fingerprint scanners), another possible entry point into survailance?

I've been wondering about the privacy / control aspects. What do you think?
Why can't they just whack it with some kind of Bayesian latent space model. A big jump should have to require more evidence than the history of the previous posterior
I agree. My point being getting a larger sample size of things have diminishing returns, while being simple enough for most of the people to do it. With the end result of sizable expansion of the academia system without a corresponding increase in new advances. In fact, most of the things that are not theoretical in nature is already being spearheaded by the industry, likely for exactly that reason.
Yeah, I've been uploading there for a while. I love libgen, and the-eye's efforts to help preserve sci-hub (they didn't have any seeders on many of their torrents) was one of the reasons I originally became interested in the site.
I'm entirely self-taught and can entirely understand wanting that belief to be true, but it just isn't. A university can give you so much more than just learning some programming language. At the very least, it's going to force you to dabble in some languages you wouldn't ordinarily touch. The same obviously goes for theory.

Assuming there are at least some things that require a minimum effort that is uncomfortable before allowing you to see their benefits, you will discover more guided by qualified people and well-designed curricula than on your own.

Then, there are the people: from my experience especially with Ivy-League faculty, these schools seem to do something right. Remember that one teacher from school that really got you into (reading shakespeare/track/organic chemistry)? Yeah, they aren't all like that, but a rather significant number seems to be.
To be pedantic, evidence indicates that humans have not existed (on Earth) for dozens of millenia.

Human skills to breathe and find sustenance below the ocean surface have been common enough for 70+ years. Do you really require that we wait millenia before we try it on another planet?