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by esilver 7y ago
I agree. The typography and page layout are gorgeous.
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by esilver 7y ago
Funny you should ask, I’m actually in the process of applying to the online CS degree completion program at CSU Monterrey Bay at this very moment. To my knowledge it’s the only online CS bachelors offered in either the CSU/UC system. [
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by esilver 7y ago
That's the difference. In an autonomous urban driving environment a monitor is expected to have full situational awareness at all times because driving in cities is a hugely complex process. A truck driving 1,100 miles on I-80 would no
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by esilver 7y ago
What drivers are paid for a given load reflects market conditions like e.g., weather, truck availability, and load availability, more than anything else. Automating large parts of the driving process would make the job easier and more desir
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by esilver 7y ago
Local drivers. They follow a different process than long-haul drivers do and are way more likely to unload their own trucks.
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by esilver 7y ago
If it were as simple as pushing a button a monkey could fit the bill. Or maybe a pigeon. [0] The monitor would be in place to manage the last-mile driving and any other technically-challenging aberrations on the route. Human skill and jud
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by esilver 7y ago
The arrangement I described above assumes no need for active monitoring for long-distance driving. It is the most monotonous and least technically-complex part of the process and the driver would be free to do other things during it. It’s n
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by esilver 7y ago
Some drivers have to unload their trucks depending on the load and the receiver. For multiple LTL (less-than-truckload) loads the driver might stop at multiple facilities and unload a handful of pallets at each. This would be more likely fo
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by esilver 7y ago
It would be wholly dependent on the load and the technical implementation. In my view the monitor would be a driver with standard knowledge and experience who could drive if the autonomous system encountered an edge case or for last-mile, i
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by esilver 7y ago
The driver shortage is a legitimate crisis and was the cause of huge rate increases last year. Driving a truck is a difficult job and fewer people are choosing it as a career path. [0] “Regulatory constraints” refers to FMCSA’s hours-of-ser
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by esilver 7y ago
The in-vehicle monitor will likely be a standard part of autonomous and semi-autonomous trucking for the foreseeable future. A monitor can be paid less than a driver, as they’re doing less work, and can respond to onsite issues more prompt
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by esilver 7y ago
> I'm an olive producer in Portugal. I love this community.
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American life is improving for the lowest paid(economist.com)
101 points by esilver 7y ago|127 comments
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by esilver 7y ago
Interesting. This comment, along with the one above, made me wonder whether a detailed analysis of this behavior has been undertaken. Pew's Payday Lending in America [0] series of reports is helpful and there are many, many analyses
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by esilver 7y ago
You may have a point; workers could start living instant deposit to instant deposit instead of paycheck to paycheck . But I don’t think this is as likely. I’m inclined to think workers who would have turned to payday lenders in the past
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by esilver 7y ago
Doing away with fixed-duration pay periods may help workers better respond to unplanned expenses and sidestep usurious payday lenders. I would be especially interested in seeing banks offer or partner with services like these as a way of
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by esilver 7y ago
It’s a handy comparison in that most adults used to smoke in bed before going to sleep and first thing when they woke up. Sound familiar?
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by esilver 7y ago
> These demonstration microgrids are delivering a reported utility bill savings of 20 percent to 60 percent, primarily in avoided demand charges, and some have successfully islanded during power outages. Super promising. Especially consi
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by esilver 7y ago
A year ago I stopped going to Whole Foods and started buying packaged foods at Trader Joe’s and produce at Berkeley Bowl. My food spending halved. Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Lidl, and to a lesser-extent Costco, are revolutionizing the grocery busi
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by esilver 7y ago
I think they meant in terms of population and, transitively, users of infrastructure. California (39.5 MM) will likely be “larger” than Texas (28.7 MM) for some time, despite a much lower growth rate. https://www.census.gov/
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by esilver 7y ago
Merced to Bakersfield will probably be the fastest-growing corridor in the state for the foreseeable future, however, the state received HSR funding contingent on the development of a San Francisco to Los Angeles route. It’s completely unsu
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by esilver 7y ago
There are substantial margins to be had in over-the-road freight. The launch of the Amazon Freight platform last week is a clear indication Amazon knows this. Managing an enormous seller marketplace is almost as fraught as shopping on one.
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by esilver 7y ago
I love this concept. Many HN clients take for granted that the user wants to do away with the site’s styling. I like the minimal interface. One request: Make it possible to filter out sources . I never look at stories that have, e.g., Medi
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by esilver 7y ago
Important to point out that the linked article, in addition to being highly-informative and well-researched is also an exemplary application of type design worthy of emulation. If you’re running a SAAS business you can admire it; if you pub
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by esilver 7y ago
We’re living in a moment in which the Shenzhen industrial complex can give us technical wonders at very low material cost. The total social cost, however, is still being measured.
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by esilver 7y ago
Bloomberg is paywalled so I wasn’t able to read much of the linked article; Reuters, however, wrote about Don Quixote in August 2018 [0]. Interesting retailing concept. I do wonder if Japanese consumers will ever tire of the novelty. Then a
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by esilver 7y ago
I’m not certain Twitter can be fixed. I’ve opted-out by deleting my account and choosing not to visit the Twitter site. I’ve done the same with Facebook following the same principle. I won’t suggest that my decision had no costs; I miss out
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by esilver 7y ago
My guess would be that the ravens demonstrate effective scavenging behavior to the wolf pups. Interestingly, both wolves and ravens engage in observational learning of food acquisition behaviors [0]. I think most of us would assume that wol
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by esilver 7y ago
I think it’s largely dependent on the parameters of the problem. The researchers noted the significance of the distance between the reward, the first tool, and the second tool. My guess is most humans run two quick analyses: 1) what is the
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by esilver 7y ago
Corvids don’t just have the capacity for making and using tools but also metatool use, i.e., using one tool on another [0]. In this respect their cognition apparently exceeds many species of primates. [0] https://www.sciencedirec

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