skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be classified as "Level 3" autonomous, aka "Driver must be available to take over controls". Waymo has publicly stated that it feels that Level 3 autonomous is unsafe and that it's goal is Level 4 "Driver not expected to take control".

Waymo currently has Level 3 cars, which is why they employ safety drivers and haven't made their cars publicly available.
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What kind of help do they require? I'd like to help but actually travelling to Gaza and risk getting stuck there is a bit outside of my comfort zone.
The angle may ideological rather than commercial.
Instances of the induction axiom are uncountable for the higher order theory of the natural numbers, which obviously means that they cannot be enumerated using the natural numbers. However, it is very easy to use the induction axiom in proofs that are expressible using finite strings. Please see the article above published in HAL Archives.
> China has a nation-wide firewall blocking any Google service, thereby forcing Google to negotiate how their service works if they want to make money there.

So if the Chinese demand they get real-time access to all information Google has stored about anyone, or Google gets banned from China, they should do that too?
This is without doubt the worst dependency manager I have ever heard of.
I think you have hit the nail on the head.

Maybe it is only paranoia, but over the course of my career I have seen an increased treatment of the employee like chattel. The rights of employees have eroded, almost by choice, through social media, smart phones, monitoring technology.

I, personally, had had enough. I decided to remove myself from that environment. I believed that it was dehumanizing and degrading. I started working remotely on contracts. That worked pretty well for a while. But I started working for one company where slowly they wanted me to become more and more like one of their employees and less of an independent contractor. In addition to the work covered by the contract, I was asked to help on other projects or with interviewing. Initially I didn't mind because I wanted to help. After a while I realized what was happening and that is what prompted me to create my own company to work through and to be paid for the end result rather than the time spent on the result.

With respect to the article, there are some things that I think you have to accept as an employee. You probably have signed away the rights to the IP you create at your place of employment. After all, you probably did it on company time with company equipment. But ultimately that is the agreement you entered into so you cannot turn around after the fact and complain.

However, my sympathy lies with the person that automates their work rather than the employer. I think that the ethical problem is interesting. Recently I watched the Crash Course on "meta ethics" and the problem they considered was a burglar who intended to steal from a little, old lady but inadvertently saved her life instead. And the question is, 'was the burglar good or bad?' I think there is a parallel to the issue of automating your job. I am no philosopher, but I think this is an interesting question.
Nope. Waymo's cars don't have passengers in reach of controls. The Firefly didn't even have pedals or a steering wheel, and on the Pacificas they sit in the back, I believe.
They can always say they use the art as decoration for charity events if they need a "use as is" reason for why they accepted the excessive valuation.
Why are you transcoding all the time? You could probably save your little droplet a bit of heartache by using ffprobe to check if the video is already h264 (or h265)+aac and just do -c copy in that case.
this is great. they now have more motivation to replace them with robots.
I think a lot of the time, we use "clever" to mean "obtuse, unreadable, and/or obfuscated" when talking about code. The positive version of that word is "elegant", I think.
No one is outright pressuring me to work long hours, but if I had 8 hours of real work to do, I’d have to work 16. Business hours are fully saturated with bullshit, mostly open office distractions and anxiety.

My jaw drops with envy when I see the impossibly huge allotments of personal space people get in more traditional office spaces. My dad’s cube farm felt like a palace. Fortunately I have two monitors side by side and management doesn’t seem willing to challenge that. Those with only one monitor inevitably get their seats compressed until that’s their entire workspace.

My colleagues assure me it’s no better anywhere else in tech and that if I feel strongly about it, the only thing to do is start my own company.

Meanwhile the company continues to throw money and perks at us. Anything and everything but quiet workspace. Actually there are quiet rooms on every floor! But those are for medication only, no laptops allowed. They came so close to getting it.
Who also leaked some other info about elon, from his gfs texts, about things less concerning to investors, but indicitave that the allegations hold more weight than just some random comment.
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Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here. Thanks for mentioning our Auto DevOps.

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Apple is an enterprise.
Facebook is an enterprise.
Tesla is an enterprise.
Amazon is an enterprise.
Goldman Sachs is an enterprise.
Nissan is an enterprise.

Successful enterprise cos move fast where it matters.

Rolling out some desktop OS thingy when your core business is retail? No need to be excellent there. Excellence has to be in the areas where you compete, rest is a distraction.
jq is kinda concatenative too. It follows the pipeline style, and it does operate on an [implicit] stack.
How about "How much do you pay?"
I've been using Jigsaw's VPN Outline, it seems to work pretty good on digital ocean
Don't set yourself on fire to keep your company warm.
Gaza doesn't have true autonomy, though. The people of Gaza can't actually vote in the elections that matter to them, i.e. those of Israel. Israel controls the airspace, the ports, and much of the land while claiming they've "disengaged."

There's no basis for a free government when the people can't exercise any kind of sovereignty.
Blog about your work, things that you have learned etc. It will not only act as your personal knowledge store it will also lead to unexpected opportunities/connections.
No. Waymo wants their test drivers to be attentive and alert, so that when the cars are ready, the passengers don't have to be.

They should really have two test drivers there, though.
Not crash?
Attempts so far to ban bot accounts have resulted in a purge of real people who are critical of western governments.

When Facebook decided to ban the accounts as identified by Ben Nimmo's team at the Atlantic Council, it also purged people critical of western governments' foreign policies. When this is government mandated I think you see the threat to "free speech."

I'm sure this is a bonus to those pushing the react-to-bots-at-all-costs agenda, but they also seem to be the first to complain about the silencing of dissident voices they happen to agree with.
You need to behave yourself and love Material Design, or the mods will not be happy with you.
You would think this is the way to go with any invading species since it would not affect the natural ecosystem.
Which highlights the issue that if there isn't some level of engagement required (or some level of fear/stress that it might be required) your mind/body can reach a restful enough state to fall asleep; in this case of course too, the test driver may not have taken care of themselves properly, had proper sleep, or many other possibilities - which I wonder if we'll get a truthful account of (whether due to Waymo and/or the driver not being straightforward).

It's an interesting edge case that you might not think of, or thinking the odds might be "one in a million" and not design for it; I wonder how many driving hours etc have occurred so far (and other statistical analysis to breakdown different contexts) before this "one in a million" event occurred.
This is an interesting communications dilemma.

I don't think most people have really understood the Google/Alphabet transition. When most people think of "Google" they're actually thinking of Alphabet.

If you say "Google" then you're conveying the correct information using the wrong term. If you say "Alphabet" then you're using the right term but a lot of people won't know what you're talking about. What to do?

This is probably less of a problem on HN than it is for TechCrunch.
What wage are they paying? What’s so sad is when people make assumptions about things about which they clearly don’t have a grasp of the facts.
Well the driver did provide input, he touched the gas pedal, which disengaged the autonomous system and put the vehicle in manual mode, and that's presumably what you want to have happen.

When it's time to disengage the vehicle you don't want to be fighting for control with the computer, manual override needs to be on a hair trigger in case the computer makes a sudden error. Unfortunately so long as there's a human in the loop, the propensity for human error is going to be there. I honestly don't know what Waymo could do to prevent this, multiple bells and whistles went off.

Waymo takes this stuff very seriously, they absolutely do not want to have to face the music should one of their vehicles get into an at-fault accident or suffer some other kind of catastrophic failure.

I just did a Google News search for "asleep at the wheel", and in the last week a few people have been killed, a few more hospitalized, and the more minor incidents don't even get reported. Waymo sincerely wants to solve this, but there's an awkward no-mans land between no autonomy and fully autonomous where Vigilance Decrement[1] is an issue.

Fortunately this was a minor accident. Waymo's test fleet reportedly covers 25,000 miles a day, and in regular day to day driving minor accidents happen about once every 160,000 miles. So if incidents like this are happening once a week for Waymo, that's about par for the course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilance_(psychology)#Vigilan...
Yes. I think that was the main point of all this.
read more code than you write. for your entire career.
> It's similar to how most people will complain about the traffic while a very small number of people will start companies to dig tunnels for maglev vehicles to travel on.

Well to be honest there's only a small number of people with the means and connections to even start such a venture.
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But do they run Linux?
So what I'm hearing is, start a tree removal service.
We should get used to these massive movement of species. Local habitats are changing rapidly, faster than the inhabitants can adapt. They'll have to move. On the current course the average global temperature will be much >7f warmer by 2100, that's a estimate that is really on the low end, and factors no positive feedback, which we are already seeing. Plants, animals and bugs are going to be moving and trying to find new habitat. So are humans, also changing places where we may have not been before, and their local flora/fauna.
It was in manual mode. Should it forcibly take away control from the user that gave it a direct command, because it "thinks" they're not paying attention?
Well, then you have the problem of defining what a DAF vs. regular charity is. Regular charities might also just stockpile your money or give to other charities - and what makes DAFs so special is that they don't have any legal obligation to follow the donor's granting recommendations (it's a trust relationship)
Thanks a lot. I had been relying on the search feature but it hangs often on a 26k songs library.
Egypt doesn't control Gaza airspace or ports. Israel does.
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Yes, this was the question I was trying to get at. The linked wikipedia article above answers it though - energy from the sun only penetrates 10's of meters into the earth's crust, so for all intents and purposes the interior of the earth, considered as a closed system, has no energy inputs.
If there's a cunning plan behind all of this, I cannot spot it.

If there isn't...honestly this is a sad sight.
Ah, I think I just avoid using a browser to browse a code repository. Swiper/helm in emacs are far superior for searching a repository. Unless I am looking at more than what I can checkout locally... which, I typically don't need to do.
It does make me wonder what screening for test drivers they use.
It's impressively broad and consistent. Well done, MS. Surprising what a software company can do with hardware ;)
Yea I had to ask myself what is my actual goal. Why do I need to progress as quickly as possible? I mean it’s fun to do harder trails and be able to go longer, but if I’m having fun does it matter if that takes three years versus one? At 38 I have no delusions of competing so there isn’t really a strong motivation to be the best.

I’m naturally very competitive, but as you point out it is a very negative trait when applied to all aspects of one’s existence.
Easy to say now. But when gmail first came out and I snagged an address, the last thing on my mind was "this company could become evil in 15 years, I should set up my own domain and route to it from this new email service." I'm currently looking into making the switch, but it's going to be painful. Finding a good domain these days for personal email is also challenging.
There's a difference between usage while testing and usage in the final product. While they're testing the system, they should probably have two operators paying attention.
Ban all bots for telemarketing. And excessively fine them for violation. Abusively fine the developer that created it.
> The 'it just works' narrative applies to Microsoft better than any other company right now, and consumers are noticing.

Can anyone who's recently transitioned to a Surface from a MacBook Pro / Air testify to the validity of this statement? I am dreading the day I need to upgrade my 2014 MBP, I'm just not compelled by the Touch Bar Macs and the tax they add to the new lineup, but I still hear horror stories about BSOD, bloatware, and the surprise update you can't back out of that I'd want to return to far less.
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Because you don't hide the driver to hide what's in your patent. You hide the driver to hide code that violates someone else's patent.

'Patent minefield' means there are so many patents for so many basic things it's impossible to do anything without violating something. You'll never know you've violated a patent until your competitor sues you. A lot of these patents are probably invalid, but the fights in court will take years, judgement will sometimes happen by someone without know how, and losing 1 fight will cause you severe damage.

The 'solution' is trying to hide all your violations by closing the driver. Reverse engineering costs a lot, so if someone is doing it to find your patent violations, you build your own patent war chest and cross license with them - they have engineers so they probably produce something that has violations for your patents.
Speaking specifically about fighting games, there are multiple levels of progression, and thus different mentalities. At the lower levels of competitive play your best options are in fact, "playing not to lose" and letting your opponent make mistakes, then punishing them. At higher levels, execution is assumed for 90% optimal combos and situations, and dropped combos are uncommon. In those situations you need to force your opponent to make mistakes that they wouldn't make normally, and thus you "play to win". I can make a similar analogy in tennis, where low-level matches have a low ratio of unforced errors to passing shots, whereas professionals have a higher ratio. Professionals in competitive fields are working on a different level where consistency is expected.
What is the simulation hypothesis?
Uber’s fatal crash was caused by a crazy, suicidal person who literally stepped in front of the car. A human driver couldn’t have avoided her.
Three articles of “data” yes...

So we have a HuffPo article, an article from MarriPedia (a religious site) and an abstract from the Sociology and Religion department of The Association of Sociolgy and Religion. Three famously unbiased, data-driven outlets (/s) which even then, only tangentially support part of your point, and then only through the loosest of correlations.

Quantity is no substitute for quality.
I am writing a book specifically for these. But focusing on soft skills.

Its called "self.debug - An Emotional Guide To Being A World Class Software Engineer" - you can download it here (its free) - https://leanpub.com/selfdebug

Feel free to provide feedback on twitter to me.
> It becomes difficult to distinguish the finger pointers from the ones that are genuinely trying to overcome the bottleneck.

Which is precisely why senior leadership needs to map out the value streams in their org first, identify bottlenecks second, get a sense of vision about what the area should look like without a bottleneck, and lead people in that direction. The question about who to fire has nothing to do with who's at "fault" for the bottleneck, because generally, nobody's at fault, it's just the way things organically got to that point. Firing is not a response to fault for the current situation, it's a response to a failure to respond to leadership's direction, so finger-pointing has little to do with it.

> Are we assessing not just on talent but also the type of personality traits we want to see exemplified in our organization?

This is nigh impossible to do without incurring prejudicial bias, not to mention that the devils of our nature (sloth, toxicity, etc.) are never revealed during interviews. Furthermore, this kind of perspective assumes that people cannot adapt to their environment, i.e. companies that hire players instead of problem solvers cannot turn them into problem solvers.

Whatever the situation is at an enterprise, if it sucks, it's not because people are "evil". The situation is the sum of the current incentives - how people's roles are defined, how people are rewarded, etc. If the situation sucks, it's because the current incentives at the enterprise have led the enterprise to that situation. A big part of changing the culture is changing the incentives. Do you want people to focus on problem solving? Then reward problem solving. Do you want people to focus on helping each other? Then reward people who look beyond the narrow confines of their job description. The "players" will take note. But rethinking incentives very much requires senior leadership - not just to approve but to drive - and still, requires a willingness to fire those who allow the devils of their nature to get the better of them.
This is indeed a very common strategy. It is also very commonly caught and detected, and doing so is straightforward. At some point the asset get liquidated. If the appraisal was done in good faith, then the taxpayer has to pay the back taxes without penalties or prejudice. If the appraisal was deliberately manipulated, then there is a strong possibility of criminal charges and fines for evasion.

If the article genuinely depreciated in value, then the burden falls on the taxpayer to prove this, and in illiquid markets this is very difficult to establish.
Containers are a killer app for me. Having a separate workspace for each project I am working on, or work role, vs personal browsing reduces both clutter and distraction dramatically. I still use Chrome for some things (select boxes seem to not be handled well in firefox, or sites don't implement them properly which can be annoying, and FF still feels a little slow at times compared to Chrome), but I use Firefox as much as possible.
That's incorrect, it's still in the code of conduct. It's the last statement: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
I do find that my older relatives/older friends not in tech are a mixture of appalled and amazed when I say I would kill for a cubicle. They equate that with the worst sort of soul crushing jobs, but none of them have gotten to experience the open office
> which is fine given Python is a scripting language at heart

This is exactly the problem, and it's actually kind of rare to get an example of what you're talking about to show up in the very comments you're using to explain the problem! Very validating, that is.

For the other folks reading this, imagine trying to work with someone who thinks these things. Imagine how unwilling to change their bad habits they'll be, since they think that because they're good at C means they're good at writing software. Any trouble they run into is the language's fault, not theirs!
Try and understand the big picture, not just the tiny corner you've been assigned. Working in an iso-chamber is neither pleasant nor productive. Understand where you fit.
Agreed, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

The statement is the "Driver no longer works for waymo" not that "they were fired for the incident.".

That feels somewhat deliberate choice of words to me.
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I use nextcloud for calendar and contacts.
> I've worked about 20 hours a week for the last 8 years

Congrats! If everybody did that we would be halfway through solving the climate problem.
Most robocalls come from VOIP addresses outside the US, which can be created/rotated just like spam email addresses.
This has not been a good Nobel year for Wikipedia.

First, yesterday, we find that Physics winner Donna Strickland did not have a page. She had one four years ago briefly, but it had been quickly deleted on notability grounds.

And now today we get a Chemistry winner, George P. Smith, who also did not have a page--not even an old deleted page. His first page was created this morning after the Prize was announced.

This also happened last year, also in Chemistry, with Jacques Dubochet.
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