skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how much of the actual driving decisions in these cars are made by machine learning algorithms? I'm aware that ai/ml is heavily used on the vision side but how much of the actual driving component is traditional algorithms vs neural nets/svm/whatever?
Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook
Yet another person rediscovering cargo-culting.. the problem with software engineering is that everyone (me included) thinks they discovered something new and writes yet another blog post, but in fact they only rediscovered something that was discovered, written about, and promptly forgotten 20 years ago. Because we are all so smart, and tech changes so fast of course.
If you are going to post constantly about political and social issues, and be a NYT columnist about such issues, you are going to get counter points of varying quality. Some may be offensive. Twitter is a 2 way platform. Qualifying opposition viewpoints as bots, teenage boys, and angry man-boys doesn't help, and shows in a way that the writer is as hard headed as them. I am sure some of them are in that category, but Twitter bans people for outright threatening actions.

I use Twitter to follow people that are in the software field or that I am otherwise interested in. I don't post non stop about social or political issues, and I don't follow anyone that does. I agree that it is a stressful and caustic environment, but you can't expect to be in it and not get the side effects.

She can go back to speaking to sympathetic people and disconnect from real feedback. That is just going to put her in a silo. Facebook does that to people by only offering "likes", calling your followers your "friends" and presenting all news you like. Twitter is the real world albeit more caustic as people are pseudo-anonymous.
ES4 tried. Typescript, Flow, and ActionScript's type annotations all inherit almost directly from ES4 (though each diverged to different paths).

I think the next step would be to see someone champion through TC39 the "Python model" where browsers/engines should at least parse and ignore type annotations per spec. Then at least you could pass Typescript/Flow annotated code directly to a browser, even if the browser/engines don't immediately do anything with those extra annotations.
I've worked for UPS delivery before, a long time ago, though only briefly. I liked the physicality of it. I can't speak to an Amazon fulfillment center, but I will say this: stress isn't only about physical demands. I think many people would prefer pure physical exertion (within limits) to long-term stress about job security. I think medical professionals can back this up.

One more thing. Often people's argument around these issues seems to end with: "it's better than no job at all". We can frame the issues in more constructive ways, don't you think? We should aim to find ways to adjust the system to better achieve the goals we want: innovative technology, fast delivery, fair pay, good benefits, subject to the complexities of the world.
Amazon does most of the loading, unloading, and sorting the contents of the their carriers' trailers because they've negotiated rate benefits in exchange for doing it themselves.

I've done both. You may think picking and packing orders is less grueling, but it's not. Pick rate and pack rate expectations are high enough to ensure they're not. I'd take truckloading any day of the week.
I know it is anathema to current globalist ideology, but that is why you want tarifs for. Do Foreighn Ruthless International (FRI) wants to sell his trinkets produced with near-slave labor? Sure, just slap it a 100% tax to it and make it play level with your very own Beautifully Crafted Trinkets, Inc. (BCT) Then, if you are a really enlightened despot, use the extra cash from FRI taxes to build better infrastructure locally, so that BCT can save other costs rather than labor.
See How Shuttered Storefronts Are Destroying the West Village’s Character
the time is ripe for the proletariat revolution, comrades.
That’s a big challenge: for big news stories it’d be useful if it meant that TruePatriot420 has to explain how their phone was used to record a candidate’s private conversation in a different state but I think many of the most damaging things for many victims won’t hit that level of scrutiny. If some horrible person tries to smear their ex, most of the damage will come simply from circulation.

What might be worth trying would be some sort of verified badge if this became common enough that players could meaningfully highlight its absence, similar to the way browsers are now showing non-HTTPS sites as insecure. If Facebook badged the video with a big “this iPhone video doesn’t have the usual signature” message that might slow people down.

For the deepfake porn or fake news problem I also wonder whether there’s a useful fuzzy ID service where a player could display a “this is substantially similar to <source video> and may be a copy” warning which wouldn’t be so inaccurate that nobody would heed it. That could be really important if we started seeing political fakes where someone is shown accurately but their words are faked.
The media seems to have a very different view of how the public used Facebook than what I think reality dictates. Even my most left leaning friends have never told me they were particularly bothered by fake news on Facebook, besides maybe some viral crap posted by their aunt.

People are leaving Facebook because it's not that satisfying, and the public has become increasingly aware of this. Pretty much everyone knows that people exaggerate the hell out of their lives and that maintaining an online persona has diminishing returns. It's also just not cool anymore because Facebook is seen as a highly censored platform, and you never know when the algorithm has decided that your post won't "go viral" so many of your friends never see it.

Then of course there's seeing the same ads over and over again.

But no, it's because people are concerned about Russian meddling and fake news!

Hahaha
Send a rubber duck around the world with ETH
House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias
> Something that can't be attributed to rising inflation?

Sure, but probably a very particular type of inflation: housing cost. Wages for unskilled labor haven't increased at a rate to account for rising housing costs, exacerbated further by insufficient housing supply, and demand for housing has gone up due the increased number of jobs.

Median household income in San Bernardino is 39k/yr (pretax) [1]. Median rent is 16k/yr [2]. So the median household spends nearly 42% of their pretax income on housing. The other necessary expenses of life (especially if you are far below median income and have dependents) will quickly eat through the rest.

There is a dynamic at play in which several factors, including the increase in lower paid jobs and population, is increasing poverty rates.

[1] http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/california/san_bernar...

[2] https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...

EDIT: found a more conservative median rent citation and updated the figures based on that.
> it's extremely funny how much false right-wing propaganda you're attempting to use

I mean it's literally just what happened. Donna Brazille even said the reason she did it was because she didn't think Clinton was smart enough to be President on her own, and that she would be 'blindsided' by basic questions.
It's both. Kodak was slow on the draw because making the big investments early on to move to digital photography would have pissed off shareholders who would percieve the move as a drain on the coffers and hurting 'Kodak's bottom line'.

You can see this with other companies today (IBM, Intel, Microsoft, etc) that are struggling to stay relevant in areas where they have not traditionally been, they don't have the stomach to make the long term investments early enough, and if they do, they don't stick with them long enough.
No one reads "everything is okay" stories. Journalists need people to click through to their stories and view their advertisements. It's how they get paid.
Betteridge's law of headlines:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'."

tl;dr of the article:

- Autonomous vehicles drove fewer miles in the state of California in 2017, but maybe made up for that in miles driven elsewhere.

- The disengagement rate will probably need to improve considerably before AVs are ready for widespread deployment

- Waymo's disengagement rate barely improved year over year, but that may have been because they are placing the cars in more difficult scenarios (their blog post suggests that is indeed the case)
About another company's warehouse:

> Wages start at $26 an hour, but many workers make a lot more than that because Stater Brothers operates an incentive program in which people who grab orders—doing similar tasks to workers at Amazon—are rewarded if they go faster than the average speed.

I wonder if it would be possible for a group of workers to pay another group of workers to slow down, thus lowering the average speed so that the first group ends up in the rewards group without having to raise their speed?
I'm a little confused, but I think you restated my point. The portfolio approach appears to be the optimal strategy in an open game like startup creation, where the upside is potentially infinite and the uncertainty is really high.

I guess I was asking if there are other explanations for why this is, or if the strategy appears to be optimal to others.

If it is the best strategy, any discussion about unicorns versus profitably invested smaller startups is moot, because it's based on the assumption that the investment class should do something that's strategically suboptimal.
We call them semantic because they have extra technical meaning in HTML (built in WAI-ARIA roles for example). For example, browsers expose them as landmarks for screen readers.

That said there are a lot of similar examples of magical beliefs that are unfounded. Extra <div> tags rarely matter and "semantic" CSS values don't do anything.
Right. When we set out to "change the world", we rarely stop and think whose world we'd be changing.
That seems like a huge problem for a pre-interview question. I usually refuse to take interviews if the pre assignment is going to take more than an hour or two.
The Wes Bos course on CSS Grid is free and excellent. Check it out: https://cssgrid.io/
I don't think it's the physical labor that is most complained about, it's the tyranny of the system. It seems like you're treated like a cog. The fact that many people quit after not very long is a strong indication of the poor work conditions.
Create Paper Wallets for Stellar XLM Coins with Angular
A serious issue lacking a clear solution does not clickbait make. (There are plenty of other pieces of content that deserve the clickbait title.)
There's already a tool for that: http://wav-prg.sourceforge.net/ - also works with the ancient mini-jack-to-cassette adapters.
This is certainly true, the difficult part is to find a middle point between vigilance and sufficient progress rate.

Sometimes though, you can work in parallel. A consumer-grade CPU may for example be used in a airtight setup when increased security is needed.
The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery
FPGAs start from far, far behind on the performance end though (by a factor of several dozen). FPGA vendors compete to shift as much as they can out of configurable logic and into lithographically-defined IP blocks because of this severe disadvantage. A modern FPGA will be strewn with hardwired serial interfaces, memory controllers, CPU cores, and the like. Taking advantage of these is almost always a gigantic performance win, and that's assuming the functionality they provide is even possible in configurable logic (e.g. try implementing a 32Gbps serial port using only configurable 500MHz logic).

FPGAs don't trend towards openness and you have to get a 100x win from their flexibility to break even on performance.
Yep, that's what I expected. I read the article and while it hasn't been proven, if this exists and was released it would be pretty appalling.
I think it's pretty common that progress slows down once the simpler problems have been solved. The unsolved problems to get to fully autonomous cars are getting harder and harder once the low hanging fruit is gone.
I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA
If you want to play with it on OS X you can `brew install minimodem`.
Actions that increase the cost of labor will take big chunks out of their profit margins.

Amazon will respond to this threat by telling agitated investors to calm down because they have a plan to automate every human out of existence by the year 2025.

Unsophisticated investors are appeased by the tasty kool aid.

Sometimes the general public will drink it too and react with downvotes thrown at the people hinting that the emperor might not be wearing any clothes.
The “Secret” Nunes Memo [pdf]
Can't it simply be explained by the mathematics of decision making under uncertainty in open and complex systems?

This is an interesting discussion; is it shapeable market forces (US tax and legal system) that creates these incentives, or is it something more inherent to trying to predict the outcome of a really complex problem?

It sounds like you believe it to be the former, whereas I believe it to be the latter.
Deploying new clean environment including DB from PR?
What kind of things make it great? I only see downsides or at the very least poorly implemented upsides that most other languages only have.
I liked NewsBlur but for some reason switched over to InoReader. I wish I could remember why though, but I haven't been using feed readers for quite a while... Either way, both are good services but somehow I always wished I could GReader back.
Then defendant could make his/her point by doing the same but with the face of the judge or prosecutor.
I see a new business selling face data
TIL #4: ActiveRecord Dependent Hooks, Callbacks, Execution Order
I was extremely fascinated by bacterial resistance growth mechanisms (DNA exchange). It was the first time I realized how immensely complicated the biosystem is at lower level. The 2nd time I had this feeling was when introduced to space of possible protein structures & the futility of prediction strategies. Suddenly the “known universe” and things like “number of known stars” started looking “reasonably sized” or even small.

Fascinating stuff. People can read more about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_structure_prediction
By that logic why should we ban any technology? Everyone here is unanimously against child porn even though we understand that it is already out there and that there is no way to put a complete stop to it. How are deepfakes that different?

The truth is this technology is dangerous in the wrong hands. I don't know if that means there needs to be laws created regarding it, but I know that the difficulty in stopping it shouldn't be used as an excuse to not even debate that possibility.
Does Amazon offer a significantly worse deal to its warehouse staff than Walmart? My impression is that it doesn't, so I don't think this is a problem with tech companies specifically.
what's the usecases for this parser?

I'm mostly interested in writing a docstring document (like jsDoc) generator. So I care if this parser can keep comments. From the readme I saw it does. But from the demo page, I checked "attach comment", but I couldn't see comments in the parsed result.
Microsoft adds new, cheaper versions of the Surface Laptop and Surface Book 2
I haven't seen it turnkey yet, but it's coming.

BTW, we can create extremely convincing synthesized voices: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
As someone who recently converted to using CSS grid for my company, I can't imagine going back. It really reduces the mental overhead when building complex layouts and has made my code shorter and easier to understand.
San Bernadino is not a poor city.
> But it's better than no job at all.

I think questioning this idea is the whole point of the article. It's a job, but does the job pay enough to improve the lot of the individual worker? Maybe that isn't fully obvious to the worker because they're worried about no job at all, but if the city of the business and residence of the workers isn't collectively benefiting, then maybe that's a hint that low-skill jobs don't pay enough. (Or are on a questionable edge).

Finally, if a business sets up with a portion of its employees earning subsistence wage, it's competition to other businesses which are more willing to pay better wages. These conditions are a potential drag on the progress of civilization if that's the case.
Every measurable I've seen has Amazon very close to total compensation for similar levels. The real differences are in perks and vesting schedule (theirs is notoriously bad - 5%, 15%, 40%, 40% I think)

It's hard to make a case that they underpay by 50%, have horrific working hours yet still have / retain an engineering workforce that's talented enough to deliver consistently.
It's also important to note that it's only a fairly recent development that fatal injuries in F1 are a rarity. The previous last death in F1 was Ayrton Senna in 1994, with Barrichello being injured and Roland Ratzenberger dying that same weekend. Ayrton was a big proponent of driver safety, and his death sparked a huge push to improve safety in the sport.

It wasn't until 2014 when Jules Bianchi crashed in Suzuka that F1 saw another death during a race. Now, a biometric sensor probably would not have helped Jules, but it may have alerted the medical team to the seriousness of his injuries. Oximetry and heart rate may not have indicated much, but I think it's a great first step towards other sensors that could eventually be incorporated.

F1 tries to be at the forefront of automotive technologies. Driver safety always has been and should be a huge part of that.
I think it is pretty clear that we should automate box packing as soon as possible. It is a waste of human talent to have people doing this.
It is a mixed bag. In some aspects Sweden is more socialist and in other things Norway. But then, all government programs is not socialist by design, some is conservative other liberal. And I think that Norway is more conservative than Sweden.

How to tell if a government program is socialist or not? Rule of thumb is if the labour union or any other part of the labour movement is in on it.

'Löntagarfonder' originated from the Swedish labour union LO, LO is the main funder of the Social democrats. Up to the 90-ties membership in LO included a forced membership in the Social democrats.

Housing system is pure madness, rent is set by negotiation between the land lord and Hyresgästföreningen, historically a political ally to Social democrats!

So in Norway you can surf to finn.no and find an available apartment within minutes. In Sweden, nope!

One crazy thing I remember from Norway is that NRK can take money directly from your own bank account or contact your employer to take it from the salary if you don't pay the TV license ('kringkastingsavgift')!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
This is exactly why the technocratti are not to be trusted with what have traditionally been 'bootstrapped businesses' (aka a normal small business). It's not an unreasonable thing to burn some random VC's cash with a team of coders working on apps, but stretching that money when you actually have to hire people to do real work that your product depends on is harder, and then once you've settled on hiring people for peanuts, why would you change it? Shareholders won't stand for it, after all.
Redef is a great aggregator across tech, media, fashion and sports.

Otherwise, just HN
How do you keep up with news related to your job?

I've stopped following news-news (political, world, etc.) but I still follow a number of tech sites and blogs so I don't miss anything important.
Right - hard labor is hard.

It doesn't paint the full picture to say this is a problem with Amazon or UPS or whatever...

The problem really seems to be lack of additional opportunity for people who are unable or unwilling (or not in good enough health) to perform hard labor.

The same kind of applies to other low-skilled minimum-wage jobs like food-service. There's not much opportunity, so you find mid-career people doing jobs that only require (and pay) at levels that are appropriate for highschool or college kids.

(Not criticizing your comment here just providing my own conclusion to your point)
> In Italy, a similar phenomenon was tarantism, in which the victims were said to have been poisoned by a tarantula or scorpion. Its earliest known outbreak was in the 13th century, and the only antidote known was to dance to particular music to separate the venom from the blood.

Perhaps it was something similar to this. It sounds like they were shooting in the dark with various different "antidotes".
Blackblaze supports FedexNet. Latency is atrosious, but its bandwidth is hard to beat.
Like I said you can de-anonymize data. I wouldn't know since I'm not a security researcher and haven't tried to analyze Windows traffic with external hardware. It's like asking if nobody would have find out about Spectre in a decade since it's so obvious.

Since everybody else does it now MS, from a competitive standpoint, also has to be a creep with your data. But they own the OS and I don't want that bullshit there.

You can go with the "it was a bug" narrative about all the privacy settings getting reset, saying that the tool showing what they collect is enough, that not being able to pay to stop the data collection is ok (if they "really" have to collect data to be competitive), well for me it's shady business and I don't want my OS doing that. Just tired of this subject to be honest, here's more info if you want to dig deeper https://google.com/#q=Windows+Restricted+Traffic+Limited+Fun...
Hand-to-mouth can be from touching things in the environment contaminsted with animal feces without washing properly before, e.g., eating. It doesn't have to be your own feces.
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He talks about that in the video: https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk?t=1324
So, what's the difference between this and photoshoping someone's face to create fakes? Both are the same thing fundamentally, right? I understand the technological significance of it, but not the philosophical/legal etc differences of it.
Ive posted this before, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE

This isn't about technology. Sure, it's being used to make something "look" new. But in the end, its trying to undermine governmental regulations to make an extra buck. Ignore these regulations cause we're a "tech company", and you profit.

There will be a reckoning again, regarding these "sharing" and "tech" companies. And after the courts' dust clears, those companies will sink.

Edit: Ok Downvoters, I'd love to hear why I'm wrong. I'm all for building new and innovative things. But much of "tech" is just shoving the costs of society on the poorest in favor of "innovation".
First 6 months of a Serverless monitoring startup
So Many LEDs with One Raspberry Pi
If they're more willing to pay better wages, why wouldn't the employees go and work there instead?
A successful SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch gives NASA new options
The article does not say "no" or that autonomous cars are still getting better at any meaningful rate.

Maybe we're 90% of the way to practical self-driving, but won't reach 99% for the foreseeable future.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2...