skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off road racing has come a long way since 2004. Go watch some old King of the Hammers races from the early 2000s and watch some from recent years.

Even if the AI goes off coarse it's going to be a lot harder to get into a in situations where "just point in the direction you want to go and pin the throttle" is not an acceptable solution in 2018 compared to 2004. The 2018 vehicle will be able to just ignore things that the 2004 vehicle had to actually navigate around.

We also have cars that are almost fully drive by wire in stock form which frees up a ton of resources for software and testing.

Basically in 2018 the vehicle side of things is a trivially solved problem and even with a "dumb" 2004 level AI at the wheel half the field won't DNF from mechanical failure
Creating Things That Matter [video]
No one is saying you should hire and fire a ton of people, only that rejecting good candidates for most companies is not possible given how difficult it is to find them. Talk to any recruiter and they will tell you that finding good (not great, just good) candidates is often a struggle.
This assumes raw time spent guarantees faster delivery with comparable quality of work in spite of efficiency implications of low morale and insufficient sleep. I'm sure it does help to a point but I imagine there's an individual threshold where it seizes to be productive.
Get out of the way Sam Harris.
So he did. I feel as if I've arrived - I just got corrected by Miguel de Icaza. :-)
Hmm... What if it was intentional, to frame someone else?
> Contrary to popular belief, Java's choice of erasure was not dictated by backward compatibility concerns but because erasure is a sound approach for type system representation.

Do you have evidence for the "because"? I agree that erasure is a sound approach for type system representation when designing a language, but I thought that backwards compatibility was explicitly a concern in the case of Java.

Also, that good languages can be built with type erasure doesn't mean it's a good fit for the Java context where the runtime is doing a lot of dynamic dispatch based on tags that now only represent a part of the type.
The filter bubble is the best thing ever. I use search engines to find things and Google finds them for me. I want it to be super tailored to me and show reputable results.

I remember 2000s era search and looking at Page 2. Now I don't scroll below result five 99% of the time. Thank you, Google.

I have to say, though. US Google is better than any other Google I've used.
Google is very culpable because the various problems with Android's permission system were raised hundreds of times by security experts, both internal and external, and they didn't consider it a high priority to fix.

Even when they added a sane permission model in Android $VERSION, developers were allowed to bypass it for years by just building apps targeting Android $VERSION - 1 instead.

Google's web security may be the best in the world, but Android security is a disgrace and they should be called on it. (Fuschia may put them on top of the world if they ever switch Android to that, but we'll have to see whether that happens.)
Yes, when I finally have free time, I'll spend some of it to write a reasonably good implementation of Org Mode data model in Typescript, and maybe in something else, to help making Org Mode support painless everywhere, like Markdown now.
The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man
You have it exactly backwards. You will _know_ what the vehicle will do because it will be programmed to do it. Meanwhile, that other vehicle could do anything because the driver might be texting, might have fallen asleep, might be in a fit of rage.

Driving is an absurdly dangerous thing to do. We don't tolerate that level of risk in almost anything else in life. It just so happens that getting around at 60mph is so useful that we accept the risk. As soon as we have an alternative to human drivers, it will seem insane to keep risking as many lives as currently do on the highways.
I think it comes down to:

Make index.html the starting point, that pulls in the immutable web app, and configures it, (usually with a single endpoint URL that it would typically need).

Seams reasonable to me. I'm normally pessimistic about things like this (specifically the 12 factor app which is hopelessly one-sided to specific environments IMHO). But this is actually a useful and captured quite gracefully.

It would be nice to see some examples in each of the mentioned frameworks, and hopefully example webpack configuration specifically (since it is often used across all of them).
Autonomous trucking is the only thing they're currently working on that I can see being a game changer. Everything else is a highly-competitive, marginal cost business with no moat.
I also thought of that, but it is a very dangerous failure mode for a car.

EDIT: -silly \r\n +dangerous
Just in case you aren’t aware, google deprecated the + operator years ago. If you want to ensure a single word is in your results you can put quotation marks around it. It mostly works.
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07962.pdf

Not a physicist, but my summary of the author's point would be:

If you allow for matter with a negative mass and plug it into a n-body simulation. You seem to get what looks like dark matter from first principles. Namely, a halo of non interacting matter around galaxies in just the right "non-cuspy" shape. Their conclusion is that this is worth considering, as almost all mainstream cosmology makes the assumption that mass >= 0, despite the fact mass <=0 doesn't seem to violate any physical invariants we know.

The idea is persuasively simple. Every other force besides gravity is polarised, so why not also gravity? It seems interesting to me, but I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to know whether it can be easily refuted.
As excited as I am for self driving, it makes me sad that I get car/motion sick. I can't exploit self driving to do laptop work, reading, gaming, etc without getting sick - all I can do is sleep basically lol.

It will be bittersweet in a self driving car realizing that since I don't have to pay attention, I can do so much more with my time!.. and then promptly stare out the window for an hour.
Perhaps it has not directly caused harm, but Facebook has certainly facilitated it.
Possibly, but I don't think it's an accident to put literally the most hostile journalist imaginable on board.
Because she is funny. And possibly the bastard offspring of Hunter S Thompson and PJ O'Rourke.
Serverless Crystal
Considering how downvoted this comment was within 10 minutes of posting, I wonder if people actually read it or just did a knee jerk downvote based on the first sentence.
Even worse, at some big companies, recruiters will ignore direct referrals and ask you to submit the resume internally through their req system. But then resumes get lost anyway.

Good recruiters accept internal referrals directly.
Just to underline the obvious point the lawmaker is making, perhaps if Zuckerberg would show up to hearings that lawmakers invite him to, then he would be able to provide the context that Facebook says is missing.
About the speed of a sprinting human, unsurprisingly.
Agree. And some people will just sleep better knowing a professional is helping with their investments, and that's worth something.

One hint is to talk to a couple of local estate planning attorneys and see who they recommend for financial planning/wealth management. They will have seen who does a good job and who doesn't. It probably isn't the guy working at the local Charles Schwab or Edward Jones office in a strip mall.
ExxonMobil is a huge company. How much market power do they have over the price of crude oil? Not much, because it's a commodity.

Other factors matter far more than size.
8:45-9 is the standard school start time in the UK at least.
If I were to divide large tech companies between "good" and "bad", the only one I would classify as "bad" is Facebook. Most are neutral-to-good. Facebook has a huge societal and human cost and has hardly any benefits to show for it (unlike, say, fossil energy companies, which are a threat to civilization but at least serve a useful role by fulfilling our energy needs).

Facebook is a democracy-threatening, attention-wasting, extractive institution, with a deeply unethical leadership. Most tech companies are neutral -- Amazon, Microsoft, Uber etc., I assume they're doing business for profit and not social good, but they do provide value and largely play by the rules. Some other companies I would classify as "good" as they provide considerable value to society as a by-product of doing business, like Apple and Google (disclaimer: I work for Google, and I am quite happy about that).

Facebook is the only large tech company I can think of that is just plain evil. There's no other like it. It's in a league of its own.
>But in this near (and short lived) future, that other vehicle could do anything.

It's not like we don't have this problem today: the other vehicle could be drunk driver, tired, on the phone, texting, fixing their GPS, tending the baby in the back, etc.

As a newer motorcycle rider in the past few years, I am even more ready for automated systems to augment human ability when it comes to driving to address problems of distraction, poor reflexes, among other things - and honestly would feel safer driving next to a self-driving Tesla than next to someone coming home from work on the highway, with only 4 hours of sleep, powered by their 5th cup of coffee, etc. etc.
The main reason the way I see it is that a lot of people who still use C and C++ need maximum speed, and D is only memory-safe with its garbage collector enabled. This affects latency and adds overhead. For many cases using a garbage collector is fine, but D was trying to target video games and other spaces where the GC was not acceptable. So D allows you to turn the GC off, but then it's just a vastly less-mature C++ with similar safety footguns and worse library support. Rust actually fills a space that wasn't filled by anything else - memory safety without a garbage collector. You can write pretty ergonomic code in Rust (similar to how code would look in a dynamic and/or GC'd language) just like D, but where in D you would have to choose between highest-possible efficiency and safety, Rust gives you both at the same time.

This isn't to say that Rust is better than D, but it is to say that Rust targets a gap in the market whereas D is trying to have the same tradeoffs as C++ but be better, which is nowhere near as compelling for most developers who've invested a lot of time into learning C++. C++ developers don't use D for the same reason that most people don't switch from qwerty to dvorak even though it's technically more efficient. It's not such a qualitative change that it's worth the retraining.
Also depends on how young they are, if they are of reading age, then putting them to bed a little earlier and then allowing them to read for 15-20 minutes on their own can also be another way of calming them down.

Some of the kids mindfulness podcasts (Peace Out as an example) are also good for this kind of thing
It's that they sell something that cost relatively noting to make or distribute, put an imaginary wall around it and charge insane access fees. The only value provided is entirely in the targeted mind, the minds of children; the uneducated; the impulsive.

Maybe it irks me so much because it represents the bottom of capitalism barrel and it's wildly successful.

I'm mad at Epic for making the trap, but I'm equally as aggravated at people for falling into the trap, even though it's clearly marked with giant neon lights.
Except times are changing, and maybe we won't see it until baby boomers are all retired, but a lot of younger people are far more adept at using technology and coding is becoming far more popular. In university, we had to learn Python and SQL in a CS for Business introduction course, R for stats, and while we did learn some Excel, for anything related to stats, econ or even finance we used other tools primarily. Just like MS woke up one day to the fact it no longer has a strangle hold on computing, the same will happen to Excel, but maybe in 10 years. There are better tools and the people who cling to Excel are on the way out.
Changing these takes next to zero effort. "Blacklist" and "whitelist" are more confusing to new engineers than "allowlist" and "blocklist", since the latter terms speak for themselves.

Language changes over time. These are just words. I don't understand why we have to hold onto them like they're our precious children. If we can be more inclusive with the labels we choose, that's a good thing.
>> One time my family was charged $1000 for an ibuprofen for a perforated eardrum at an emergency room

This kind of maddening injustice is why I left the USA after living there for 3 years, and will likely never return even to visit.
> which has not actually caused anyone harm.

This is not a statement you can just throw out there.

For example

https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-...
> But the service isn't fully baked yet for me, because they're not explaining how they're enforcing the trustworthiness of ProtonVPN. I have no idea if ProtonVPN is as trustworthy as Mozilla -- maybe it is, but I don't want to learn and stay on top of that. Instead I want premium.firefox.com/vpn/ to convince me that, if I use Mozilla's service, I'm fully benefiting from their trustworthiness.

I'm also interested in this. I cannot help but wonder if the reason is 'because they gave us money to', like Firefox 'partnering' with google to make google search the default provider.
The author doesn’t cite growth rates, customer acquisition costs of lifetime value of the customer and without that it’s not clear they know what they’re talking about. If CAC << LTV and you have a high growth rate and your cost per ride is coming down then they should be doing exactly what they’re doing. The investor around the table are not dumb. They’re probably some of the smartest people around and they can do the math themselves.

There’s a reason I don’t even go to Lyft anymore—Uber is way better than it was a few years ago.
Maybe it was modeled as a curvature of space? So positive masses curve space so that everything moves toward them - including light, massless particles, and negative mass. And negative mass repels everything, including other negative mass, by shaping space differently.

[Edit: jbay808 has a better explanation below, and negative mass attracts negative mass.]

That behavior is described here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass#Runaway_motion but it's not what I was expecting either.
> you'll see that the Manichaean "entirely and immutably good or entirely and immutably bad" model just isn't very useful

Agreed. But these same arguments could be made by many terrible people throughout history. Associating with and assisting those who do bad things is bad behaviour.

Society is incentivised to restrict people who show a tendency towards assisting destructive behaviour. We aren’t at the point where everyone voluntarily at Facebook should be seen as dirty, but we’re closer to that Enron moment than many there would like to think.
Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (2016)
Would you say Facebook has monopoly position in social networks?
I'm damned if I can say what my own models will do. Can't really tell what the other guy's stuff will.

But to be honest, I'm so excited by this.
"paying attention" and "researching the difference" imply distinctly different patterns of activity. I was objecting to the former, and am asserting that the article is an exploration of one facet of the latter.
The beginning of a new class of user-interface attack?
That’s funny, a month ago my car was totaled by a guy who fell asleep and blew through a red light. That happened at a right angle but only at 30mph. Since then I’ve been concerned at every intersection about what the other cars will do.

I’m not sure how much of it can be blamed on cell phone use, but I swear that human drivers have been getting substantially worse over the last few years (at least in the Bay Area). It seems like every single week I avoid a major accident from somebody doing something stupid or not paying attention. And I don’t even drive that much!

So while Waymo continues improving, it appears that the bar for them to be better than human drivers also keeps getting lowered.
Except you couldnt GDPR them, as they are allowed to save data if its business critical, which I would argue "XYZ took the 100$" is
I've never found the "choose this, because the other option(s) suck more" to be a particularly flattering argument for web browsers, programming languages, cars, or politicians.
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Psql on Postgres 12 Gains Simple CSV Output Feature
A gentle overview of the pipeline in Protein Structure Prediction
>> Is it never beneficial for a good person to work at a bad company, perhaps making it less bad?

That's an interesting thought. If carried to its logical conclusion, the 'good people' had many, many, many years to influence the direction of the company, and whatever little 'less bad' the 'good people' are doing is being completely negated by the 'more bad' that the not-so-good people are doing. So I think its fair to conclude the 'good people' are completely inept when it comes to their ability to effect any kind of meaningful change from inside of FB, and should probably leave en masse. After all, given such across-the-board ineptness, what's going to change tomorrow that couldn't have already been changed yesterday?

Facebook is going to face a massive recruitment problem from here on. To paraphrase Richard Hamming, "the only folks left there are the moral dregs".
In your two camps, I'd be curious to see why someone would specifically choose just video based?

Ie, I'd expect (as a layman) neural nets to be able to consume many different data types. Why limit to just one? I wonder what is better about just video, rather than video+lidar+audio+x+y.

Hell, one of the most neat things to me was how Teslas can scan multiple cars ahead to know of non-visible traffic blockages/etc. Using just video seems like a step backwards. Though, if it can produce better AI, I suppose it's still forwards.
Nobody is suggesting everyone has a right to Facebook or any other company's data (just like nobody seriously suggested MS shouldn't be able to impose any restrictions on OEM Windows installations). They're suggesting that if a company sets itself up as a provider of data and other platform services to encourage everyone else in the market to become dependent upon it then selectively pulls the plug on the most successful companies or forces them into deeper partnerships, it's definitely harming the ecosystem. And that if Facebook has done that, it might also have fallen foul of laws which are there to stop that sort of practice.
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You can't move between Mastodon instances and keep your followers.
Try audiobooks or podcasts! Listen with a soundtrack. You won’t regret it.
> This is a pretty high risk thing to do from a PR perspective

What's "PR" here?
Whether or not that is true, my experience on here is that the amount of effort and self-doubt involved in this response by the average HNer is so low that I suspect jealousy and schaddenfreude are often involved. For example, consider how the root comment above ends.
In last 5 yrs from now, Amazon Outperformed Bitcoin, With Much Lower Volatility
I think they were mostly using their market dominance to kill apps that decided to live on the Facebook platform in the first place.

If you build an app that relies solely on Facebook login and access to Facebook data as key parts of your business model then are you really a competitor?
I'm not a fan of the far-right, but this begging the question/false equivalency doesn't sit well with me:

> Since when has it been the case that the far-right are never drug dealers, ransomers, scammers, or money launderers?

Since when has it been the case that the far-right are always drug dealers, ransomers, scammers, or money launderers?

The political inclinations of these people are a factor, but not the sole reason. 1 + X = 2, only if X = 1. There are many more reasons why such as trip would attract scumbags and political idealogies aren't the whole story.

Left/right is a different political spectrum to libertarianism, totalitarianism, communism, liberalism etc. Fascism is closer to totalitarianism (which is the polar opposite of libertarianism), but is far-right.
yep, more or less how approach it.

1. build js,css,img assets

2. upload assets to CDN under unique urls (at build time, for any build that may or may not produce a deployable container)

3. build docker container with server that serves dynamic html referencing those assets

4. deploy said container

Main advantages for me:

1. easy to rollback

2. graceful rollover, all assets any deployed container can reference will always exist, even if multiple versions are deployed at the same time during deployment

3. immutable === cacheable forever

4. CDN always "warm"
Oh, I'm sure a couple downvoted it even before that, as soon as they saw my name. ;) That's OK, though. The important thing is to get people thinking about moral issues in a more possibly-productive way, and I haven't been disappointed.
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Icecat[0] might be the closest thing to what you are looking for. It's part of the GNU project.

0. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Car manufacturers have never put a lot of priority on security in the US. I once unlocked a car, got in, and started the ignition with my key before realizing that the reason the seat and mirrors felt weird was because it was not my car.

I shut it off, exited the vehicle, re-locked it, and saw that my own car was actually the next one down the row. There are only so many combinations of pin heights in a car lock.

I have been paranoid about not keeping valuables in my vehicle ever since. That door lock is only keeping someone out for a few minutes, at best.