skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternate headline: Some people overstated how simple this problem was because they didn't know what they were talking about, could promote themselves as experts, could get funding for a self-driving startup or some combination of the above.

I guess that isn't as pithy but it's closer to the truth.

When it became clear that Uber's strategy (under Kalanick anyway) was premised on replacing drivers with AIs before the cash ran out I couldn't see general self-driving vehicles coming within 20 years. I still say that's true. AI assistance? Sure. But there's an uncanny valley there too where the AI will be good enough in most circumstances that drivers lose attention and people will die. You already see this with Tesla autopilot.

Here's a simple counterexample to the idea that self-driving cars are "just around the corner": in NYC, quite a few buildings have doormen. This is great for residents. Part of this is dealing with deliveries and so forth but there's also an issue of general security. People can sneak in (and I'm sure do) but just the fact that a human is there acts a strong (but not complete) deterrent. Just like having a dog is one of the most effective burglary deterrents.

What prevents a lot of bad actions on the roads is actually fear. Fear of what other drivers might do. Fear of road rage by other drivers. That sort of thing. This is just how humans work.

Once a driver knows the car next to them isn't driven by a person it changes their behaviour. They will do things they wouldn't do if it were a human behind the wheel, particularly because they know an AI won't ram them, cut them off, yell at them and whatever. There's no fear there. Even if there's a passenger in the car, it's still (psychologically) different.

How do you program around humans changing their behaviour to take advantage of there being no driver in your car?
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I think it’s probably just a matter of looking at people’s/organization’s incentive structures. If incentives are aligned, things are _probably_ ok.

“The media” is incentivized to either have the largest amount of traffic (ad revenue) or the most amount of money coming in from subscriptions.

Both those incentive models encourage sensationalized media, since that causes people to feel they “need to keep tabs on what’s going on”
And the amazing part is there are millions of drivers on the road right now that have absolutely no idea how to handle those cases, and do an exceedingly bad job of it.

From the very new drivers, to people who simply don't drive often, to people who got their license in another country where the rules are entirely different (me!), to the very elderly who are losing their sight, reflexes and judgement and people playing with their cell phone or otherwise seriously distracted.

It's a wonder only 35,000 people are killed on US roads every year.
Your comment is a single reason I use Telegram. WhatsApp does the same, you can't even see web version without phone, and I'm probably the only one in the world, who doesn't have any apps on it... ;)
I'd explore the Erlang language and, specifically, building OTP applications. Anything in this [0] list should be good. I'd recommend starting with Joe Armstrong's writings. If Erlang doesn't work for you, check out Elixir. I haven't, so I can't recommend any particular books or resources on it, but I have read and heard great things about it.

Joe Armstrong did an excellent job explaining the motivation behind Erlang's concurrency model (which is based on the actor model), and the language is very practical. From there, move to other texts or resources on the OTP portions of Erlang to understand how to develop actor-based applications at scale.

[0] https://erlangcentral.org/books/
I've done my share of house rebuilding. The last 10% are 90% of the time. Boats likely are no different. The sailboats that were overhauled at the sailmaker where I worked (ages ago) just came in for new rigging and sails and that could already be a pretty major job (redoing the stay mounts in the deck for instance could turn up all kinds of nasty details). This is pretty much building a very large boat from scratch by one guy recycling the keel and some very small percentage of the bits. I can hardly believe that he started the job to begin with, that's a sign of extreme confidence right there. It is hard for me to express how impressed I am by this. Can't wait to see what it looks like when it is done.
> So why don't we make it illegal for politicians to lie?

Lying, especially when Politicians do it, isn't a binary. There are varying degrees of truth, deliberate omissions, and a difficult to discern intent. So it would be incredibly difficult to enforce.
IMHO cars are for getting between cities, or between places in non-cities; within a city, the economical long-term solution is to just replace the roads (save for cargo corridors) with some kind of pod rail network, i.e. self-driving four-seater trolleys. The exceptions become far fewer if there's nothing on the "road" but other rail-bound vehicles.

In such a future, if you lived in a city but owned your own real car, there'd be no road to use to drive it from your house to the city limits; and so it'd have to live at the city limits in a garage—just as people with personal planes have to keep them in a rented hanger at an airfield. You'd take this fancy pod-transit to the City Common Car Park, summon your car down from storage, and then get right onto the highway.
It amazes me how Tesla can continue to just outright lie in their sales material about this. Right now you can purchase a brand new Model S with a "full self driving" package, even though no such thing exists, nor is there any timeline at all to when it will (if ever). Autopilot as it stands is nothing more than an advanced driver assist system with blindspot monitoring and automatic lane changing. Not even close to a level 3 system, let alone full autonomous.
We have build a chrome extension that block political ads on facebook (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-factual-news-e...). The extension also rates credibility of news articles you read.

Facebook should stop allowing micro-targeting for political ads. Period.
I'm inclined that improving systems up to full autonomy for many highways in many weather conditions is a fairly realistic maybe 5-10 year plan. Which would actually be pretty nice and potentially a big win for safety.

The problem with widespread L4/5 is that you need to get to a car that can literally drive itself between 2 points on a map with a high degree of reliability, in a wide range of weather conditions, on roads of varying conditions, with unexpected/unmapped obstacles that may require doing something technically illegal to get around, without human help. And that, as you say, seems really hard.
Thank you. I'm so tired of reddit's influence on this discussion and this tireless effort to frame this discussion as nimby vs yimby, nimby being a pejorative term for local while yimby is a self-aggrandizing term for transplant who wished they had more purchasing power, and is social-media-savvy enough to realize if they want something they better make it sound like an existential crisis.
Sure, that’s the important question to ask about this announcement. Apple could literally cure cancer and someone would complain about the kerning on the announcement.
Counterpoint: personally I don't avoid doing things on the road from fear of the person behind the wheel but for fear that their reaction will cause an accident (swerving, slamming on the brakes, etc). Self driving cars have the same problem and honestly are probably less predictable.

This might be due to the fact that I don't really care much about road rage. At least where I live, the chance of someone getting out of their car and actually escalating it into a situation that matters is basically 0. When I lived in a major city, I felt the same way but for different reasons (most people in big cities Don't Have Time For That). But I can't imagine it's an isolated opinion.
Well, to be clear, when I say "gravitational perturbations" I don't mean GRAVITATIONAL perturbations ;) I mean any terms other than the strict 2-body problem dynamics: gravitational perturbations, third body gravitational effects, solar pressure, atmospheric drag, especially acting on non-spherical bodies, etc.

See:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292745544_Perturbat...
The PIN lock expires after 7 days unless you re-auth, so this is only a temporary inconvenience.
The smart sellers realize this as well. Often the most "useful" review is also fake. Let's just create a 2 or 3 star review and list out the pros and (fake) cons and get people to upvote it.

Source: I'm an Amazon seller.
>It's good for the people "on the margins", those struggling to pay rent, or those at risk of homelessness, or those who might like to move to a more productive place for a better job.

Please cite at lease one example in which this has ever been the case. I do understand the theory behind your argument here, and I assume you are familiar with (leftist) counter-arguments, so this is not an attempt to open a debate. Rather, I want you to be right but until I see some solid evidence I am unconvinced.

>One of my prouder YIMBY moments was turning out 5 people on a weekday morning to speak to our state rep, who ended up voting in favor of HB 2001, which legalizes up to 4-plexes throughout most Oregon cities.

This is a great example of how it seems to me that YIMBYs are anti-NIMBY in the way Democrats are anti-Republican. Time and time again, it appears neither groups are actually doing any thing ‘good for the people “on the margins. Clearly, this policy benefits landlords more than anybody and the implication is that this is besides the fact of lowering rent prices. Fine. But it is not insignificant that all of these efforts primarily promote the perpetuation of rent-seeking.

I watched from the front row as investors bought up Portland. It has been about 6 years since it entered full-swing and rent prices are higher than ever before. This is not good for people “on the margins”. In fact, most of those people were not even on the margins before the investors came in. I am one of them. I should know.

Of course, history is littered with cases of YIMBY theory failing urban housing markets, so please show me an example of where your theories have actually succeeded.
> i.e. passion.

This smells more like desperation than passion.

> It also requires intelligence.

I agree, but intelligence is a very wide term and I'm not sure that the "intelligence" that you need to find patterns and memorize a few numbers is the same "intelligence" you need to make good programs. I guess it is positively correlated, anyway.
If you think media organizations, any media organization, don’t have an agenda and a biased point of view, it’s likely that you only read media that agrees with your worldview.
Try Tacit CSS [1]. No classes or special nesting to learn because it simply overrides the default look.

I use it on some side projects, plus a little more when I need it.

https://yegor256.github.io/tacit/
Compared to the hundreds of millions using languages like python, C#, Javascript etc.?

It's mostly a dead language. Didn't even hit the 2019 developer survey on stack overflow. My university never used it and no company I've ever been in has used it and I've been with 4 already.
Agree. Encouraging good things > Creating a surveillance culture.
> just a collection of people with differing - often rational - interests concerning any given project.

Well of course. It does not surprised me that a wealthy landowner would not want competition, and would not want housing to become more affordable.

Just because someone's self interest is rational, does not me that I cannot criticize it.

Creating more affordable housing, and lowering rents, is obviously something that some people out there would not want, because they make money from rents being high.
You might have it backwards. Traffic is increasing because we're adding offices but no housing nearby. Therefore people need to pour in from further out.
With higher density, alternate transportation options become viable and attractive.
If you get a new phone number the week after a prolific phone user lost it, I'm guessing that would be super annoying already?

"Hello? No, this isn't Dave, he got a different number. No I don't know what it is. No this isn't a prank, please stop calling"

As a result I would imagine that unless the network is absolutely clean out of numbers (which they try hard to avoid) it will just never reuse numbers in such a short period. The only way somebody else has the number while the PIN is valid is that they're attacking you, which a PIN blocks.

So my guess would be that this ends up not being a problem in reality, it worried me right up until I read the expiry mechanism and then I went oh, that makes sense.
So... per the upthread comment, "something of value" is indeed being exchanged?

Don't be silly. Obviously this is a business arrangement from which both parties expect to benefit, it's governed by a binding contract, etc... It probably even does have a set of billing rates for stuff at the margin, even. But no, it probably doesn't involve much real money flowing.

None of this is "for free" in any kind of economic sense.
Increased development wouldn't necessarily devalue you asset, particularly if it's a single family house or a condo in a relatively low-density development.

Right now, the high cost of housing in the Bay Area is largely due to a couple of factors:
1 - high cost of labor. Rezoning won't change that.
2 - restrictions on right to build. Rezoning will reduce this.
3 - high cost of land. Rezoning will increase this, by making it possible to build more units of housing on a given area of land.

For most current homeowners, it's likely that 3 will outweigh 2. Developers will buy up some portion of single family housing stock (and low-density multifamily stock) to rebuild the lots with denser housing. That process will both increase demand and reduce supply of those types of housing, resulting in price increases.

At the same time, the average unit of housing will cost less, because there will be many more condos/apartments available. Owners of high-density condos would be the most vulnerable to seeing their asset values decrease. However, building big condo buildings is still going to be a complicated endeavor, so price adjustments will happen slowly over time. No one's going to get hosed, although their asset prices might go up more slowly over time than otherwise, or even be eroded by inflation in the long term.

At the same time, many of those condo owners will still come out ahead. They may be able to upgrade to a nicer condo than they otherwise could have afforded. They may also benefit from the second-order effects of lower average housing prices, in the form of reduced costs for non-housing items. If they run a business, it will be easier for them to attract and retain workers. Schools and other public services will also be better able to attract and retain quality staff, at a lower wage bill. Etc.
Here are a couple of links with some awesome Delphi applications https://beyondvelocity.blog/2019/05/19/awesome-applications-...

There many lists like these with many new apps popping up.
Well if you get that part running I'm interested because when I run the tool on an air-gapped machine without access to SSH private key, then this bare mode is not functional and keeps saying "Address is not a faucet or sponsor address".

The next step on the Namebase website is that they ask you for your passport and utility bills, and since they issued the address of your wallet, they perfectly know who received the reward.
(as a note I really don't see the point of the crypto-privacy protocol, if it's supposed to hide who received rewards if you need to give your passport to transfer the coins out or exchange against other currency).
Fact: No YIMBY, no matter how powerful, can force you to put something in your back yard. They can allow your neighbor to put something in their back yard. You don't own your neighbor's back yard.
I think that if you're going to argue that supply and demand are not real for housing, you'd need to supply some good evidence of your own.

There are a lot of ways to build more supply:

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...

I find the 'Montreal' example the most compelling in that it's fairly "human scale", but tastes vary.
I just looked up my favorite resource from when I first started JavaScript but it is either gone or has moved, so I can only give general advice.

My process for learning a new language has been to focus on the fundamentals. Think about how you would teach Python to a total newbie and do that with JavaScript. You already know how to create a working program and are probably comfortable with a number of patterns. Your brain will figure out the high-level stuff on its own so don't worry about writing fancy structures or algorithms. You need to know the basic building blocks of the language.

The only specific advice I would give is to separate learning ES6 features into its own lesson. Start by using good old JS inheritance, creating instances, constructors and all of the pillars of the language. Learn classes by rewriting the same code with new syntax, because JS classes really are just new syntax for the same old patterns.

Before long you will come up with an idea and want to build it. If you focus on being productive too soon you will only look like you know what you're doing... until you don't.
When literally all of your value comes from "being the most aesthetic tech company," and you intentionally target perfection, people are going to nitpick. Apple deserves this.

The product they're presenting isn't significant, and other people had already made fine points on it, so I pointed out something that I care about that was on-topic instead.
Pretty decent, but covers the pre-test loop as "loop" (unqualified), omitting the post-test loop.
It has a live chat and five different tracking solutions implemented. What about this doesn't look like a tech business?
> It's a wonder only 35,000 people are killed on US roads every year.

vs

> do an exceedingly bad job of it.

No, they're doing an amazingly good job of it. Given the cumulative number of miles driven and the conditions driven in it should impress you rather than that you come to the conclusion they are doing a very bad job. If the current crop of AI would be unleashed in those same conditions the carnage would be unbelievable. Humans are very well suited to adapting to changing environments, it is the one thing that we have over the rest of the animal kingdom. From hanging from tree limbs to riding on the autobahn with the same software.
.xpis are just zip files.

You can literally just save them from addons.mozilla.org and look inside - it's js so it's not compiled, and obfuscated code is against Mozilla policy.

Automatic updates are optional too.

Microsoft Application Inspector might be handy for some superficial profiling - https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector
Radiowaves are non-ionizing radiation. Your DNA isn't going to be destroyed from anything below UV. Local heating from RF absorbtion might cause issues for certain biological functions but local heating can come from things like a warm laptop sitting above your crotch and reducing sperm count via heat. You need a lot of RF power to cause local heating though, think on the order of a microwave oven, not what a typical phone puts out.
Any software dev worth their salt knew this was going to be a 90-90 problem.
Alternatively, engineers point it out, and product managers don't listen
Yeah a firewall where you open a port, but have to plug a monitor and keyboard into your router every time you want to use it.

I'm not "upset" that it needs authorization. I think it's a design flaw that you can't do it via a terminal, you don't even know that that's why your process has stalled, and you have to click a box every time.
It still feels kind of like we're in the "Apple Newton" phase of self driving with the iphone in the indeterminate future.

One day we'll look back and say "aww, they tried so hard with the limited tech they had and got so close but what they needed to make it good just didn't exist yet".
As I understand it developers have to submit a government ID to withdraw their tokens.

https://help.namebase.io/article/usgrydy7da-kyc-restrictions

This is a bit concerning, and it practically negates the privacy claims of the airdrop, unless people only use the tokens to bid on Handshake names. Could you share more details about the documents you're requesting? Which company handles the personal data?
Against my better judgement, I'm setting family members up on Matrix right now specifically because they don't have phones and I can't switch them to Signal. A consequence of that is that I'm setting up a bunch of people who do have phones with Matrix, because the alternative is excluding people. In a world where Signal was even just a tiny bit more open, I'd be able to use it for my family right now, and I could at least wait longer for Matrix's E2E solutions to mature more. That would definitely be the world I prefer.

> "This is not just for hyperparanoid security researchers, but for the masses," says Acton. "This is something for everyone in the world."

If you want encryption for the masses, delivering 90% solutions and dismissing unconventional use-cases is going to put a ceiling on adoption. It's not just technical users who balk at phone numbers. I'm dealing with elderly users, I'm dealing with kids.

"It's not designed for you" is a reasonable response if you're building a niche product for a niche audience. But it's important to note, that is explicitly not Signal's goal. Signal is advertising itself here as an encryption platform for everyone. A ubiquitous chat problem has higher requirements -- even if 99% of my family has a smartphone, that's not good enough, because we're talking about shared group chats. The solution has to work for 100% of my contacts.

I don't think Matrix is mature enough to trust for super-sensitive communication, I think it's a lot less unpolished than Signal, I think it's a lot more annoying and a lot more buggy. I'm irritated that I'm using it this early in development. But I don't see what the alternative is, because it works for 100% of my contacts, and that's what encryption for the masses requires: 100%.

Heck, I can even bridge Matrix (albeit, poorly) to other clients, a feature that Signal has specifically rejected. Which is a fine decision for a niche product. It's not fine if you want a chat application that everyone can use. I need to be able to talk to users who aren't on Signal.

The "minority" argument is bullcrap given Signal's stated goals in this very article. Sure, Moxie is talking about eventually getting rid of phone number requirements as a highly-theoretical, future event after contact integration, and key retrieval, and whatever. But I'm not going to wait literally years to have a secure E2E conversation with my nieces.
CMV: Something material cannot be the source of a immaterial experience or phenomenon
Any idea about how the security posture changes? I would expect some significant tradeoffs are required to make all your messages appear in your browser
See my comment above, but the economics of increasing supply are actually much more nuanced, and the majority of current owners would probably not see the value of their assets eroded.
This is conditional on the perceived value of the domain names these coins offer.