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An American Uprising
The answer would depend on no. of incidents per km driven. Apples to apples.
"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."

- Tesla
Every dodo is a bird - the concept of a bird is useful to explain what a dodo is (in part, at least).

In this case, I happened to use manufacturing inputs for a specific reason: cars are the inputs to the end product of car rental companies. In the same way it makes sense to pay for product inputs after you've sold an iphone, it makes sense to pay for the cost of a car after you've made the money renting it. If you have to bootstrap, you can't leverage economies of scale nearly as effectively.
In normal enterprise operations, it's easily attainable. I presume your servers are not extremely under load and they mount a remote storage system.

In our system, there's tens of storage servers under heavy load (while they are redundant they are generally actively load-balancing) and more than 700 nodes which are cattle but under max load 24/7/365. The whole thing doesn't have any time or space to breath basically.

While losing nodes doesn't do any harm, we lose some processes hence lose time and, we don't want that.

Even if we can restore something under 15 minutes, avoiding this allows us to complete a lot of jobs. We don't want to rewind and re-execute a multi-day, multi-node job just because something decided to go south randomly.

Our servers are rarely rebooted and most reboots mean we have a hardware problem.
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The primary reason for these tricks to keep the rents high. If a company offers 45 days free rent on one year lease with $2500 per month, that amounts to effective $2187.5 per month, 12.5 percent discount. During the renewal, the land lord will either keep $2500 per month or add another 3% on top of $2500. That's how these REIT companies have been doing. Even leasing agents won't help, as rents are determined by REIT algorithms.

Small mom and pop landlords play it differently. They will just rent you outright without these tricks.
> I'd be surprised if they came back the way they were for years.

Depends on what you're looking for. The police managed to find and shut down an underground club mid-April[0]. I'll bet the police didn't find the only one.

I'd be very surprised if it takes more than a year. Thinking back to the airline industry post 9/11, the airlines were strongly motivated to reopen the skies. The situation's different, but as we learn more about COVID-19, we get a better and better picture on what is necessary for it to be safe to reopen. The Hubei restaurant airflow study[1] says it's possible to be in the same room as an infected person and not get sick.

We shouldn't rush to reopen, but we can be more proactive than just "hope it goes away", by, eg expanding testing.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Police-shut-down-S...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronaviru...
When discussing things with coworkers for example, all or almost all CS terminology is in English, but those get incorporated in otherwise Dutch text. Grammar, non-CS-specific vocabulary is all in Dutch.

Comments and variable names in code are all in English.
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If you're on an untrusted network, run a firewall. An open network port isn't much safer just because you're not announcing it. People looking to attack your local web service at Starbucks probably know how to portscan.
There's a free tier with a thousand calls per day, which strikes me as plenty for a personal/try-out tier.
Russia was caught running ads during the 2016 election that were sympathetic to radical white and black nationalist groups, with the end goal of sowing racial tensions. [0] I'm of the firm belief that we're being played by a hostile state actor here. I have no way of proving this, but I strongly suspect that Russia and/or China are trying to spur on the unrest through digital disinformation like in the OP.

EDIT: by unrest I am (of course) referring to violence and looting, not peaceful protest

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/russian-trolls-are-obse...
This is a bad thought experiment, because a solution could be to empty the gun and then to leave the room.
You are not the first to react with this cognitive dissonance.

What if you don't have to see ads?

Your reasoning depends on a presupposition that has been sold to you by Facebook and the tech industry that survives on ad spend.

If you read the terms on the Facebook website it says, paraphrasing, "Facebook shall always remain free". It is not free of course, for its customers.

The rationale Facebook offers for why it muct be free is something like "it must be free so Facebook can be available to people in poorer countries as a means of communication". Eeven if that were a reason, it is not a rationale why it must be free for Americans.

The truth is actually that you are not Facebook's customer, unless you are buying ads or promotions. They can only charge customers. In order to lure in subjects (particpants) for the customers to advertise to, Facebook creates a website and gives participants their own pages where they can share photos, etc. and communicate with each other.

Even particpants in clinical trials or other research studies get paid. Facebook should be paying you for being part of their experiment.
I used 4chan a lot and got to know a lot of people of a subcommunity that started there nearly a decade ago, and "4chan has become an alt-right hellhole and I don't go back because of that" became a common enough position among them over the last few years. I get the impression from a few of the progressive online communities I've dipped into that there's a number of ex-4channers that got sick of the culture shift at 4chan, but it's hard to quantify. A lot of people on Mastodon use it specifically because it has more protective rules than Twitter.

I don't think people like to talk too much about why they leave online hangouts, because it's like admitting defeat, because people still at the place won't sympathize with you because they either disagree with your criticisms or think you're slandering the place (or else they'd have already left too), and because outsiders who agree with your criticisms of the place may have other criticisms of the place and judge you for being associated with or expecting differently of the place.
“Virtue signalling” refers specifically to a public performative show of caring not because a person/organization actually cares but wants some sort of social, financial, political, or personal benefit from giving off the appearance of caring.
Yes, I talk (almost) exclusively German to my co workers / friends etc.

However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar.

Example:

Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
It's perfectly reasonable for a system with more sensory inputs than a human to fail at a task a human does with just the one.

Do you think the car understands cause and effect? Do you think the car actually groks object persistence? Do you think that the car has any sense of value attached to it's own existence? Or an instinct to increase the amount of time it has to resolve a reading it doesn't understand?

This is the failing of your lab trained neural network. It is only trained and proficient in what it knows, and only that. It doesn't have a sense of self. It doesn't have intuition, instinct for survival, or any of the millions of other simultaneous neural subprocesses that even the simplest biological creatures possess to keep themselves alive. It can't forget, neither can it learn in it's runtime state. It's a crapshoot whether it'll do everything it is supposed to how it is supposed to just like it is when a human (coincidently, another neural network driven creature) gets behind the wheel.

You won't build a perfect neural network for X just like you can't make a perfect human by selective lobotomy. There is only so much neural ductility that can be accommodated.
Is there a formal study available that examines the tradeoffs of google vs a search engine like ddg?
but that isn't really true. google gets ~80% of the searches on the web. that means that if someone who isn't conforming to google's frankly arbitrary ranking system is being censored, to use strong language.
Back in 1998 or so people weren't just enthusiastic about the Google search engine because its results were good but because the search page was simple and fast.

Compare that to Altavista or Yahoo whose pages were belarded with all sorts of irrelevant links and ads around the search results. Slow to load and hard to visually navigate.

I still think the sparse pages are the best.
It thought I be in favor of whatever this article was arguing but then it went in a weird direction by arguing against certain things that are just considered good practice but its bad now because google is saying it. Like yes, I would consider it a good thing to have lighter websites. Unless your site is catering to some niche that needs to offer 1 to 1 perfect image quality there no reason to not compress your assets.
I studied CS from 2011 to 2017 in Germany. Generally all the CS terms are in English, while a lot of the theory (everything math related) or Phyiscs is taught in German. The more you progress into in-depth courses (e.g. master seminars, later lectures on database management) it is more likely to have English lectures, materials, etc.

Generally I would say you discuss CS with other Germans in German. You just treat it like any other professional terminology like medical jargon or Biology.
> If I owned a company and the people I hired to manage it were playing games like this

Imagine that you get to hire 5 people to run the company on your behalf, and four other directors each also hire 5 people to further their interests. Some of those other four directors want things that are nearly enough exactly the opposite of what you want, and you can do nothing to expel them, and precious little to change their minds. Also, the best five people who are willing to fill the roles you control are not exactly the ones you would like to hire, but nevertheless, they're the best available and willing. Now what?
Special interest groups spent the 1930s-50s hand wringing over young kids driving (which was a pretty rare thing anyway) and got a bunch of laws written so clearly some kids were driving just fine at some point. It wasn't decades later when seat-belts came along and alcohol got taken seriously that the roads got appreciably safer so it's not like they were dangerous enough to have an affect despite being rare.
Flying is considered a privilege in the USA, but voting is an inalienable right.

I would personally love if the government issued an ID card to every single person with minimal friction, but that's not what happens in practice. Requiring a specific government-issued ID has become politicized and there are enough people who can not reasonably jump through the hurdles of proving who they are (eg. birth certificate gone when their house was destroyed, no permanent residence, students move to a new state in September and are not able to get their new state ID by early November).

> and implement this

Also, it's worth mentioning that even if REAL ID were not extended this year, it would still be over a decade and a half behind schedule. The USA government isn't capable of doing much these days.
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Arguably other companies would have taken the burden, and it could have been for the better, who knows.

We might not see any obvious candidates for that, as Google was dominant and they had no market access.

Imagine a timeline where Palm ruled the phone market, and we’d be here asking rhetoric questions about what it would have been if Palm didn’t do it.
> What sensor is missing then and why?

But the discussion at hand is about LIDAR/sensors. Please read the entire comment...

Not about if "AI is capable enough currently"
Heh, this is fun. I learned a lot about functional programming while studying in Germany, so my first exposure to a lot of words was German. But they are mostly small adaptations of the English terms (monad == die Monade) anyway.

Fun fact: the professor taught the whole lecture in German but wrote definitions in English on the board (while simultaneously speaking German).
2018 was also the first time in five years that overall revenues fell – 2018 was still better than 2014 and 2015. The idea that we should scuttle the entire publishing industry and switch to Spotify because of these minor fluctuations from year to year prove the "business model is dying" is absolutely cockamamie. "Legacy publishing" continues to support the production of great work – that is what counts. (It is also my livelihood as an author, so yes I'm biased.) I shudder at the alternative – say Kindle Unlimited, the closest thing that's been tried to a streaming model, which has worked well for romance novelists and romance readers and pretty much nobody else.
I realise I’m probably not in a majority here on this one but: I’m not offended or too bothered by being targeted by ads on Facebook.

What I am offended by however is how poor the targeted ads are on Facebook. I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything based on one or even been tempted to.
Did the passenger die?
The desktop is relevant, but so is the default selection of background services. On Debian, choosing a lightweight desktop is trivial (no need to download a separate image, unless you're specifically doing a live install) and the background services are a lot more streamlined as well.
Ask HN: How to Commercialize Research?
Hey HN,

I’m a Research Scientist working on various deep learning related topics. It feels to me like ML related hype is dying down, which is a good thing in my opinion.

An interesting trend I’ve seen anecdotally is the increase in research collaborations remotely.

I’ve been discussing with lots of my colleagues and friends across research and engineering, and it feels like there are so many low hanging fruit in bridging the gap between research and application in different ML topics like Meta Learning.

Do you think there is an opportunity for a distributed research organization to build practical useful ML tools that may be commercialized down stream? I know many researchers in a cluster of related research areas that are interested but I don’t know how to lead a group like this.
I'd argue that Capcom has never made a better looking fighter than MVC2.
Man, this kind of arguments is getting tiring... It is obvious that 100% of human in the OP situation having no particular medical condition would perform better than tesla autopilot.

Tesla’s autopilot doesn’t fail because of malfunctions such as short-circuits or bad weather conditions, or anything special happening (as opposed to humans), it fails under perfectly normal condition.

You can’t even start to compare autopilot safety performance to people performance unless you work for tesla’s marketing, for the simple reason that no human is in theory authorized to let that thing drive itself without supervision. What you’re comparing is human + autopilot vs only human.

What seems extraordinary, is that human+autopilot actually performs worse than just humans in some conditions, such as OP, simply because of the way autopilot was advertized.
Naming the feature "autopilot" is dangerously misleading.
If the car was already braking, and it hit a soft enough obstacle (in this case, the roof of the truck), the G force may not have been enough to trigger them, which would be correct behavior.
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Oh, I understand now.

I generally do service configuration at the post-install stage and if I have a working configuration just get that from our central storage. Or just write a small script and add to the post-boot steps of XCAT to run the commands and configure that stuff.

I configure the service by hand at one server, polish it, get the file (or steps) and roll it out.

So, preseed file stays very stable. We only change a line or two over the years.

Thanks for the answer BTW.

Edit: It's late here. There's packet loss between my brain and fingers.
This is a common theme in this thread, but I opine using English loanwords in Russian sentences IS using Russian, not using English. I am not sure why anyone thinks otherwise.

English loanwords in Korean are Korean words, not English words. They get Korean affixes. For example, methods are called 메소드 in Korean, but only as a programming term. Methods are otherwise translated as 방법. Therefore, word "method" in English and word "메소드" in Korean are completely different words, even if they share the origin and pronunciation. English word have normal non-programming meaning, Korean word does not.
i had gnome on ubuntu and gnome on arch, and arch was significantly faster. I should try a debian install.
I don't like that future either, but it sure seems like a lot of people do. It disturbs the heck out of me, but I have to consider that perhaps I'm just an out-of-touch oldster, too.

I'll keep buying physical articles as long as I can-- books, optical discs, etc. I'll reward creators who continue to make their works available that way. I'll buy a ticket when an author comes thru on a lecture tour. I'll attend a live concert and buy a shirt. (Admittedly, our current pandemic situation makes some of that difficult, but I do think it'll eventually pass, or we'll come up with new ways to do those things.) I've been reticent to enter into the patronage ecosystem (primarily because I'm concerned about the cut the middlemen take and the value they actually provide, as well as what the user experience is like) but I'm leaning more toward doing some of that too.
It seems like they want to consolidate all those APIs with Project Reunion

https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion

So I'm hoping this improved things in the future.
QI doesn't protect government employees for their illegal actions so you're comparing apples and hammers.

QI protects government employees from retaliation for decisions made as part of their job, that are necessary for them to complete their job. Police unions and sociopaths with badges and law degrees have bastardized this to try to use it to protect police officers for murdering people.
I'd be interested in whether dogs could be trained. I know they have literally been trained to drive cars but not as far as I'm aware to such a level that you'd let them on the highway. But my impression is that they are better at focusing on the task than humans, when well trained, and maybe would out perform them, given some navigational guidance. Seems like something for a steam punk novel to have.
One thing I don't think people realize is in the age of async JS, even not doing anything is an action to be observed. Information is not sent when you say "okay" -- it's always being sent.
Gay rights, women's rights, civil rights were all won by combating unjust power using every tool available, including violence. Oppressors don't self-limit the tools they'll use to maintain power. Neither can those who are oppressed.
But you seem to want to force them to change a decision they made regarding free speech.
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Ask HN: What do you think of WSL? Would you switch to Windows?
For all the Linux/Mac users out there, would you consider switching to Windows as your software development OS? Why?
Because most of the CS/CEng content is in English, not knowing english is a huge disadvantage.

Now I am shocked that you are shocked that s/he is shocked.
On controversial discussions, flagging as a way of silencing an unpopular opinion does happen. This may not be coordinated but it definitely exists.

If you find a nicely political and inflammatory thread you can observe it easily.
There is no strong evidence for a racially biased use of deadly force by the police in the USA. It is crazy the entire public debate around this issue does not even question this assumption.
Why would you think that the voter turnout among protestors is less than 10%? That seems absurd and at least a little offensive.
How about laser rangefinders? Even one of them in the centre of the vehicle in the direction of travel would be useful for high speed impact avoidance - well, assuming they work reliably and how I think they do; I'm not a hardware guy. But would a laser rangefinder pointing forward be useful? They're not that big and bulky and should at least be useful for braking when it detects something closing too rapidly...?