skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to learn how to use it properly and pay attention. I use it a lot and it can drive from San Francisco to LA pretty much without stopping. But every once in a while it does mess up and you just need to make sure you're watching and ready to take over quickly. I agree that it's good enough that people might stop paying attention, but they just need to realize that they have to hold the software's hand in these initial stages. As a matter of fact, being in the drivers seat able to take control makes me much more comfortable in a self driving Tesla than in the back seat of a much more advanced Waymo self driving car
> Holy shit that’s a good idea, we should just fucking do it ourselves.

Seems to work for Portland Anarchist Road Care: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/03/portland-anarchists-w...
Almost any technology can be weaponized. It's not about the particular technology you work on, but who it's being built for and the intended application.
Brad Templeton has some very relevant discussion of this in https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/levels.html

including

> There is additional controversy, it should be noted, about the proposed level 2. In level 2, the system drives, but it is not trusted, and so a human must always be watching and may need to intervene on very short notice -- sub-second -- to correct things if it makes a mistake. [...] As such, while some believe this level is a natural first step on the path to robocars, others believe it should not be attempted, and that only a car able to operate unsupervised without needing urgent attention should be sold.
Imagine what the roads look like in areas that aren’t nearly as wealthy. 11% of all roads in North Carolina west of Asheville are unpaved. Some counties have 200 miles of unpaved secondary roads. The primary roadway surfaces are far from perfect too.
Think about all of the ways creative professionals augment their computers for touch-based interactions: jog wheels, sliders, drawing tablets. The touch bar is a good way to make some of those interactions more portable.
Totally different things and it’s almost an offensive comparison.

Someone’s HIV status, for example, could definitely expose them to social stigma. Is that a problem? Yeah; but it doesn’t change human behavior — there are some things we would prefer to keep private.
Ada Palmer's (imo fantastic) Terra Ignota series has this concept, among many others. She envisions a "set-set", or a child who is trained to use "neural lace" like implements from a very young age and barely uses their actual limbs, and these set-sets are the most adept at running computer systems. In the world of Terra Ignota, "set-set"s are highly controversial.
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A quick research job has revealed that most of the interesting features of facebook, in particular "liking" posts and friend suggestion, are patented by facebook. It would be difficult therefore for a new entrant to copy its features.
In my area, where relative humidity is often 60-90%, this form of drying would result in moldy cloth, not dry diapers. My guess is Tampa's microclimate is probably similar and line drying isn't an option.
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> It's like a smoking addiction

It's awesome to watch massive shifts in values and priorities.

Smoking used to be seen as cool, sexy, even healthy. Now it's widely seen as unhealthy and disgusting.

Same thing with high-fructose carbonated beverages.

I remember people using terms like "retarded" and "gyp" without hesitation. Today even people who hate political correctness don't talk like that in public.

It wasn't long ago that men abusing women in the workplace was routine and unremarkable. Now it's outrageous and shameful.

Things change, slowly at first, and then all at once. People are waking up and it will never be the same for Facebook.
I’ve always used iPhones and had no idea this feature existed. Thanks.
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Could you please not post like this to Hacker News? We're trying for something better here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> $1k a year

This person has never had kids.
Eig inv svd det, at least, in 2010. https://dpinte.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/numpy-performance-im...
I read somewhere that the shelf was there so people could examine their crap for health reasons (is there blood in my stool? has the consistency changed? etc.) I have no idea if that is true, but it makes more sense that it exists to break up the poop before it's flushed.
Why do you assume that the demographics of college classes should match the demographics of the nation?
To paraphrase Rumsfeld: As you know, you drive on the roads you have, not the roads you might want or wish to have at a later time.
This is by far one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. That is not why we have taxes.
Interesting. From a legit user's perspective, it's a bit of a hassle to comply with their deliverability hurdles. First, there's a somewhat involved "whitelabeling" and setup process. Then, there's managing suppressions, unsubscribes, etc. You also have to be mindful of service interruptions if your reputation goes too low (i.e. from bounces, spam reports, etc.)

So, seems like they are doing everything reasonable to prevent spamming through their service. Not sure what else an ESP can do.

But, maybe they've just managed to make it more difficult for legit users than spammers.
If you "democratize social data", you should expect privacy to quickly get out-voted.
Don't you get it? Anecdotes and hypotheticals trump logic and common sense.
No UI on an iPad could allow me to input some things as fast as the split second it takes me to imagine them (think structures and scenes)
What do you mean by "It's already in memory"? If I build an app now and abandon it, will it always be in fly edge memory? I'm sure that's not the case so can you explain that further
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong another commenter may be. We ban accounts that do this, so would you please not post like this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
better safe than sorry, and I doubt the car seizes up and bails
lol - that reminds me of the quote from the boss baby justifying wearing a diaper.
People who need to squat multiple times per day to poop throughout their lives have much better ankle flexibility than western office workers who spend their lives sitting on chairs, car seats, and chair-style toilets and never squat ever.

I also fall over when I try to squat flat on my heels. Friends who do yoga and friends from countries with squat toilets have no trouble with it though. All children under about 10 years old can squat just fine. Lesson: get your kids a squat toilet if you want them to have standard human levels of ankle flexibility when they grow up (also very helpful for improving jumping skill, if they plan to ever play sports). ;)
Why would people bring a child into the world if they can't even afford diapers, will always blow my mind.
There is a certain sense in which one has never actually interacted with anything other than one's own brain. It's not the only sense of things, but it's one.
I agree it's weird. It seems like a classic personality test and pseudo (part of an) IQ test combined. Even collecting these results in the first place raises questions for me. Say that the results do indicate a personality disorder and/or a low IQ. Having that information tied in some random database you applied to for a "side project" raises privacy concerns. Note that the website has no clear (one I can easily find) privacy policy related directly to this aspect of the application. That's a red flag for me since this is highly personal data. In fact it's pretty unprofessional. A couple sentences saying you won't use the data is not sufficient (also why are you collecting it if you're not going to use it? More transparency please).

I would suggest to the creators of this that they immediately delete existing data collected through this part of the application until they can put together a proper privacy policy and be more transparent about how they're going to use the data.
Biggest thing I gathered was the public safety barrier was damaged from a previous crash, 12 days earlier, so the driver basically hit a hard wall. This has more implications for the US’s infrastructure than Tesla’s safety IMO.
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What comes after senior developer?
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Right, I fail to see how an obstacle as large as a divider is not seen in time. If this is the case, then the system is inadequate to see many types of debris that could be on the road.
> A quick research job has revealed that most of the interesting features of facebook, in particular "liking" posts ... are patented by facebook.

I find find this hard to believe. Don't competing networks have similar functionality (e.g. "hearting")? What exactly about "liking" has Facebook patented?

I'm much more ready to believe "liking" is trademarked, though I'm still skeptical of it, given that it's an everyday word used with its everyday meaning.
Back in 2001, Richard Ankrom[0], installed his own Interstate 5 exit sign to an existing official Caltrans sign in Los Angeles, in order to better inform drivers of where the exit was.

The sticker, was made to Caltrans and DOT specifications, and affixed in broad daylight. Since the initial installation, Caltrans replaced the sign, but now adds the I-5 signage themselves.

Guerrilla public service can work people. ;)

[0] http://ankrom.org/freeway_signs.html
He definitely has a penchant for exaggeration if not outright dishonesty. It bothers me that people respect someone who can say so many blatantly false things and that an engineer can be so loose with the truth.

That's his shtick though, promise unbelievable things, then when you get halfway there, people don't care you were wrong and/or lying. He understands how to market himself and his ventures.

My guess is he's got too many fans and money behind him. If things ever go truly south, that's when they'll really go after him, because people really care about their money.
The lag time is for it to know you're distracted is ~ every 1min when you have to jiggle the wheel.
My grandfather grew up on a farm. He said they always had a bucket of corn husks in the outhouse and that was what you used. He was totally serious. If cheap toilet paper makes my bum feel raw, I can't even imagine what a corn husk would do to it.
I hadn't heard of that before so I looked it up and was floored to see that the Valve econ blogger was Yanis Varoufakis, who is presumably no big deal in the gaming world, but is a very big deal in economics and public policy, particularly in the eurozone.
Like-minded people acting independently have a very different signature from organized campaigns of brigades and sock puppets.

Independent actors are far less correlated than centrally orchestrated groups.
i don’t see why it’s controversial. just look at drivers now. many are already on human autopilot checking their phone, eating, etc. if you give any amount of automation but that which still requires checking in from the human, humans will almost universally check out and crashes will be prevalent. autonomous driving will simply not work without full, unsupervised driving. i don’t understand why this is even a discussion amongst people.
It you have to pay attention as much as if you were driving, then, what's the point of autopilot?
Thanks for all the good work -- I look forward to trying this soon. I wonder if you might be willing to expand on the differences further between Fly Edge Apps and Cloudflare Workers, (and whatever Fastly is working on) in a blog post in the near future?
Why do you pay your taxes? Is it altruism on your part, or fear of retaliation if you don´t? What happens if you were more powerful than the IRS (or whatever force the IRS might send your way to coerce you into paying your debts)?
How can a state impose a law on criminals if criminals are stronger than itself? See mexico for example, where drug cartels are arguably stronger than the state in certain parts they control. Or brasilian favelas.
This part is not an opinion my friend.
Also I don´t claim to have invented this concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Relevant quote from an article about the Air France 447 crash:

> To put it briefly, automation has made it more and more unlikely that ordinary airline pilots will ever have to face a raw crisis in flight—but also more and more unlikely that they will be able to cope with such a crisis if one arises.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-... (linked to from another HN post today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757343 )
FDVS or set theory? Baby or Papa?
I don't trust you to be able to snap out of a distracted state and take control of a car in a situation you may or may not have been paying attention to. I don't trust you to do that, I don't trust the driver behind me to do that, and I don't trust the drivers to the left and to the right of me to do that.

I should not need to trust you -- if I trusted you, why would we need autopilot at all? Humans are either qualified to drive cars or they aren't. If they are qualified, we don't need autopilot. If they aren't qualified, autopilot should never require human intervention. What we have now is a half-measure that assumes that neither humans nor autopilots can be trusted, but that some combination of those two untrustworthy parties can somehow be trusted. It doesn't make any sense.
And if it had conference rooms, high-speed internet, a fitness room, and the slower trip helped minimize jet lag... I'd be quite happy with that as well.
> but it would still be a huge improvement to eliminate gaps everywhere but the floor

It would, but then in larger bathrooms you'd have to be able to hang some of the weight off the ceiling, and you'd still have issues with things swinging or bending.
This. I don't know I feel ambivalent about autopilot right now, as most on HN I always crave for new technologies, but the fact that something very dangerous can be very good most of the time and very bad occasionally make me weary of using it altogether. I know that's irrational because most often then not it probably saves you from your own mistakes.

Also, if Tesla intends to shield itself behind a beta status for their autopilot system until it is perfect, I think this beta status will remain even longer then the time GMail was in beta. At least, in this case they should own this problem and somewhat hardcode a meaningful warning at such intersections or do something.
(iii) That there doesn't seem to be a continuous path between where it is headed immediately and where it will have to go 2 or 3 seconds later. If your immediate future can't be harmonized with what will happen afterward, something is wrong.

(iv) That it has (literally) been down this road before and had to revise its estimate of what it thought it was a lane (i.e. jerk back into the lane once it realized).

(v) That other Teslas have been down this road and learned that.

(vi) That the lane is suddenly getting wider than a freeway lane should, and that doesn't normally happen.

(vii) That the paint is worn, which indicates poor road maintenance, which necessitates caution.

(ix) That it saw a freeway exit sign a short while back, which logically indicates there must be a V-shaped spot ahead somewhere that it shouldn't drive into, and this could be it.
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Yep that's quite old news. They scan messages for offensive content and block messaging for few days if they find something.. let's say "interesting".

For example, kids at school sending these "dank memes" to eachother and Facebook slaying bans to them.
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It's trivial to write that script, but not any more trivial than just generating lots of common_name@common_domain email addresses. Once you're willing to spam emails that didn't opt-in even to a list that you bought, you've entered into very shady territory.
We're also using cloth diapers, except when travelling (which is pretty rare), but it has had no impact on the childs exzema.

(As expected really, half of the rashes are on his arms/torso and completely away from the diaper-end!)
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I think the world would be a better place without cunts like you.
It was funny to see this HN post tonight. This week I'm doing upgrades to the DCS (distributed control system) operator stations at one of the largest tissue manufacturing sites in the US. I was just telling my fiancé how funny the security is here. You would think they were enriching uranium.

When I first got into the paper industry, which resulted from coming out of grad school during the Great Recession, I thought i would be a top performer within six months. I have to admit though that it took me longer to be proficient in my current position than it did in my former position as a metrology engineer in a semiconductor fab. There is more technology in the paper industry than one might assume.
Not all disposable nappies are the same. The ones for $0.10 each are pretty horrible.
If privacy is really a concern, one should live like Jack Reacher, even not use credit card.
Current situation is that, we want to happy share and attract attention on facebook. If it did something wrong, let the court sues it.
it's normal and you can expect that no matter what, as CEO you'll have phases like this on/off throughout your tenure, for better/worse it is part of the job. that being said, without knowing more details, I'd venture a guess that after 2 years, you are at a size (in terms of customers, volume, team size, etc.) where you may need to start thinking about not just getting shit done, but managing your team more actively (the thing that clued me in on this beside time/revenue is "people need things from me constantly"). there's lot of resources for how best to do this, but overall it all comes down to identifying big picture goals for the business, setting clear direction for your team, identifying metrics for performance, and then allowing your people to operate relatively autonomously but have regular check-ins / reports on performance relative to the established metrics. this can be as simple as well-defined product development milestones, support tickets closed, sales number achieved, customer acquisition targets, etc. it's important to identify the correct metrics, but often times part of that process is just starting with something simple/obvious, being consistent in evaluating, and then being willing to adapt / add / modify as you and the team learn what really matters.

hope this helps, doing similar things at my company now, not easy but once I appreciated it as a new problem set it's been interesting and satisfying to work on. hit me up if you want to chat more, happy to help.
That just removes formatting. zero-width characters are not formatting so they wouldn't be removed. They are as real as the letter A - you wouldn't want ctrl+shift+v to remove all A's from your text, would you?
But longer nonstop flights mean the longer flights total time is shorter
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Do most solar installations not include batteries?
That is a good point. What baffles me is it took so much evidence from the medical community to convince people about smoking. And many still do it! Adverse effects of technology/social in general wouls be even more difficult to prove. I see technology addicts' rehabilitation centres a reality in near future.
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As far as I can tell there is no way to resolve this that will be effective. Google spoke about this problem publicly and why they directly targeted level 4.

Train drivers are the closest thing and they have a lot of equipment that forces them to stay alert.

Personally I think that autopilot should only take over when the driver is unwell or that it thinks there will be a crash.

Even when driving full time drivers get distracted. So when the car is doing the driving humans will get bored and won't be able to respond in time.

Autopilot however is always on and never distracted but doesn't work in some cases.
Until we replace UNIX derived OSes and throw away POSIX compatibility that day will never come.
Funnily enough I actually look at the KORD weather reports all the time and took the time to learn how to read pilot reports.

I think the difference is that captains are dealing with currents in the ocean and in the air. For the most part pilots are flying above things that will make the wind change in extremely short distances.
I think we both conjure very different conceptual entities when we imagine “The Google Engineering Union”, and are at this point talking unproductively at equally valid and imaginary crossed-purposes.

The truth is that neither of us know how a union at Google would change things, because it doesn’t exist.
... guess dang went to sleep?
Has CrowdFlower renamed? Their website now redirects to https://www.figure-eight.com/
No, keeping SSH keys on bastion hosts was the silliest reasonable thing I could think of.
No u use bidet and then TP ..best of both worlds
Alameda St, just north of I10, is in such poor condition that it’s practically third-world. I’m usually so concerned with damage to my suspension that I avoid it.

Los Angeles has a very interesting set of problems. Chief among them is the repercussions from closing roads/highways for repairs. It’s often times better, I think, to let them suffer in disrepair than it is to close them for any length of time. With semi-autonomous cars, however, I wonder if there will be greater pressure to keep them in repair.
I like your idealism. But there's often not a why. And if there is, it's not necessarily 'what they did' but rather 'what they have', like water or land or whatever.
One important functionality gap, between FB and email, is that email always creates copies that are easily controlled by the recipient by design. While it's technically true that a FB recipient could be auto-scraping everything, practically that's not true, which allows people to retroactively delete things with a large chance of success.

I feel like reasonably effective retro-active deletion is an important feature of a social network, as it gives users more control.
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Yes, they are now FigureEight.
Whenever someone says "no one wants to take your guns away", now you can just point them at this and see whether they maintain that position:

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Maybe force users back in either speeds above 30, crowded places, complex topologies.