skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current breed of Volvos are already amazing at assisting drivers. Lane control + speed control + steering control is already as close to autonomous driving as anything out there on the market.

But they are doing the smart thing:

- they keep these things separate and always under driver's control

- they downplay the significance of these systems and don't market as THE BEST EVER THING ULTRA POWERFUL UNBELIEVABLE BREAKTHTROUGH UNRIVALLED BY COMPETITION ©™ They are simply adding these features one by one to all their line-up

- they have a specific goal called Vision 2020 [1]: "Vision 2020 is about reducing the number of people that die or are seriously injured in road traffic accidents to zero." This is a way more powerful and important goal than the self-serving goal of creating autonomous cars.

- oh. And yes, they work in conditions that are way more different than California. Sweden has such things as constant low sun, snow, rain, sleet, active wildlife etc. etc.

So yes, all things considered I'd root for Volvo, not for Tesla or any other American company.

[1] https://group.volvocars.com/company/vision
They have a page about taking time to eat [0] under the eating habits section. It might take a long time before any cultural or policy change happens but they at least acknowledge that being rushed or distracted isn't helpful.

[0] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio...
Again, being blocked from a service that is screwing with you don't seem that bad.

I would never touch a company again that did that to me anyway.
Nightmares on Wax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q692lHFaLVM&list=RDEM5IivTcV...
The Game. This sounds right on.
There are even more guides at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nutrition_guides .
In my university a professor isn't usually newly hired for undergraduate level CS course teaching- but the university doesn't want to hire a non-phd to be teaching undergrads. It's not a good look for a university to be hiring non-phd bearers for its teaching positions. However, CS PhDs can (relatively) easily go into industry or tenure-track dependent on what their research was about, so there's not many PhD people who are willing to take a teaching position.
Neuroscience navigates the sense of smell
If I remember correctly, that statement, mirrors what was beeing said about human flight, right before the wright brothers?
What, irony is no longer allowed on HN? Lighten up, Francis.
> they published this as part of a legal defense rather than a lobbying effort

We live in a common law system [1]. Case law, regulatory proceedings, statutes and constitutions are all law. What ultimately matters is outcome.

We don't know the details of the case they are defending against. We don't even know if there is one. Either way, there is lots of ground between "this right shouldn't apply here" and "you should take it away." Google chose the latter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Cost has increased. Health care is a huge part. Housing another. Higher pay to compete with industry another in select fields.
If Spain has the best diet why did it take this long to rise up in the rankings?
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It shouldn't baffling if you consider the politics at play, particularly as regards the status and value of non-white ethnicities in the US among the alt-right (and its intersection with mainstream conservatism and the politics of the wall) and the oft-repeated conspiracy theories about "leftist" media outlets fabricating stories and content to advance some progressive multicultural agenda.

And the aforementioned (and appropriately flagged) comment isn't about people looking shabby, it's about people looking Hispanic or South Asian. No one questions whether a white person in casual dress might be an engineer, scientist or something other than a janitor.
Very good! Thanks for educating me.
> takeaway food
Apparently deliveries can and do include bottled spirits.
Actually, under the GDPR, they must gain permission to process your information for any marketing purposes. This should be on an opt-in basis.

Sounds like an issue to me.
>As opposed to a knob, which does not work right without the physical form

What about the iPod circle? That is basically a digital pot.

In fact that idea is used on a bunch of Bluetooth speakers including Harmon Kardon and Google Home to control volume.
Any estimation based on probability can always claim to be right, after all a 1% chance can still happen, but sometimes all we can truthfully do is give an estimated likelihood. Maybe that's genuinely the best he can say, in which case I'd rather hear that than a definite pronouncement.
Sorta like when David Mumford got interested in computer vision, I guess.
Deliveroo Editions sites are clearly marked on the app with a banner across the main photo of the restaurant. You aren't led to believe the food is coming from somewhere it isn't.
why are they shaming each other?

I guess it's partly because menstruation is typically accompanied by mood swings which render the person concerned more vulnerable to bullying.
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> but I see a difference between pushing for it as an independent agenda and using it to defend yourself from a legal filing

> In filings in May 2017 and November 2018, obtained via Freedom of Information Act request, Alphabet Inc.’s Google urged the National Labor Relations Board to undo that precedent

Are we going to pretend that "lobbying" and "urging" are different concepts? It simply represents their views, and they're trying to push them into reality.

> Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

Also, are we going to pretend that they are not actually doing this because a spokesperson used the right words in a PR statement? You can't claim to use it "just" as a defense but you don't actually want it or even believe in it. You do it because you want a specific outcome. And given the vile nature of Google in recent times I wouldn't expect better from them.

P.S. Oh, double digit downvotes in just a few minutes on all comments I made in this thread. Nothing to see here. o_O

P.P.S. And still rolling in as I edit. 10 downvotes in just 5-6 minutes for pointing out that OP is (deliberately) misrepresenting what the article states very clearly.
I think most people would just use “the advent of social media” or simply “before/after social media”. It might be cliché, but looking at the dates, that’s when things changed. FB started getting traction outside schools in 2005, Twitter appeared in mid-2006, the iPhone landed in 2007, and by the end of the decade the participants and tone of online conversations had changed irreparably.

(And it’s 2019 already? Damn, I feel so old...)
> I've started using privacy.com

Which is US only. Is there anything like it for the UK?
Thanks, I didn't know about that. That sounds like what I'm after.
Yes. My school (UC Berkeley) was the same (felt like everyone wants to study CS so they made the GPA cap 3.3 so if you have <3.3 no CS for you, and classes were STILL overcrowded clusterfucks) but my graduating class had $105k avg salary.
> Compare it to this: ...

The USDA updates the guidelines every so often. They no longer use a pyramid, and they’ve silently backed away from recommending so many carbs. Compare Canada’s guide to https://www.choosemyplate.gov/ .
Would that drug also treat gingavitius?
You could create a readability score from normal non-malicious code.

Eventhough I do not know what above code does, at a glance, I can tell that this is not normal code. A machine could too.
There really is no other credible argument that they could give. Business must grow, if they don't they die.

It's predatory no doubt, and Google certainly can't be considered an honest broker. But this dichotomy is necessary in today's hysterical environment that social media has created.

It sucks.
They'll be upset and "outraged", before returning to work. I keep thinking, each time Google is in the news, that this is finally the day engineers will just walk off the job and not come back. But I know it probably isn't. Even those who have every ability to find a new job quickly will find some excuse to justify staying.
Would you also like to be referred to by your employee number instead of your name?

I agree with your point about job interviews, but in your job, a photo is far from pointless. It helps people you only work with remotely to stay empathetic, and not reduce you to a faceless attributeless character (which is the image placholder photos transport), among other things.
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This isn't about a wall or illegal immigration. This is about politics and both sides using a government shutdown as a way of swinging popular opinion in order to gain an edge for 2020 elections.

Historically, government shutdowns have been a very effective way of swinging popular opinion against the party that is viewed as causing the shutdown.

The key, and what both parties are working really hard at, is to paint the other party as the "guilty" party for causing or not resolving the shutdown.
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They're probably looking at Flux as a sunk cost now, but I agree, Lua would have probably fit the bill.

Either way, I'm hoping this is "The Release" where things go consistent. They've pivoted several times, and it's all been good, but we do need a couple of years of consistency before we can make long term investments into Flux.
To add my anecdata, I had an excellent experience with Deliveroo's support team just before Christmas. Some pizzas arrived damaged. They offered to send exactly the same order again.
> To add to what detaro was saying; even if explicit consent were required for sharing your location data, Deliveroo most likely got it; they after all need it to know where your order is going to go. When such functionality is core to the app, an opt-out is not necessary.

Per GDPR[0] consent must be specific. i.e. aquiring constent for a legitimate feature of an app and then also using the data for marketing purposes, what seems to be happening here, is not legal. Of course it could be the case that Deliveroo uses Braze for all their push notifications and thus consider it an essential part of their product. IANAL, but as I read the GDPR giving an app location access required for legitimate functionallity is not a carte blanche for the app to use location data for any purpose without obtaining consent for each specific usage.

In any case, like you say it's extremely creepy and the level of accuracy is worrying.

0: https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/
This doesn't work in Germany, for example. If you charge back, they'll just put you into a central register (called Schufa) that will basically make it impossible for you to get a credit or even to rent an apartment.
Are they stretch tuning electric keyboards so if they accompany pianos they both sound good together?
As recently as 70yrs ago, women needed to drain all blood in a utensil. That's why the tradition was formed of 'women staying in one room one corner during periods'

This was due to obvious reason that if she moves then it'll make everything bloody. The issue is, people don't understand the reason behind such traditions.

Funny anecdote.

A guru had 4 students. They used to meditate together by lighting a small bonfire. Now the guru had a cat so he asked his students to bring a rope so he could tie the cat.

50yrs later guru passed away and now their tradition is 'have meditation near bonfire' but bring a cat and a rope and tie it outside the room.

Failure to understand the reason behind traditions makes ppl think women r impure. They used to be impure during periods when there weren't sanitary napkins. But now its not the case.
If they're classed as 'luxury goods', why are they being taxed at a lower VAT rate than standard goods? That seems a particularly odd combination.
Erik Meijer is hilarious and brilliant in equal parts. I haven't read the article (added to my "things to read after work" pile) but I'd always be wary of taking anything he produces too seriously, or not seriously enough!
The new Food Guide doesn't really discriminate by food groups apart from "eat fruits and veggies" and does away with daily portions per food type. What are the similarities you see?
is it possible to use a VPN in the PR of China?
> ...we show that the fundamental principle attributing to the success is the manifold structure in data...

> Then we show for any deep neural network with fixed architecture, there exists a manifold that cannot be learned by the network.

I'd venture a guess that you can extend this result to show that, for any deep neural network with fixed architecture, there exists an adversarial manifold it must be vulnerable to.

In other words not only is there a manifold the neural network cannot learn, but there is also a manifold it will learn, but incorrectly.
Here's an actual example I'm dealing with right now.

I am trying to write something in more-or-less "pure" browser Javascript, for Reasons. (Not JQuery, not react/vue/etc, maybe some polyfills).

I need a "debounce" function. There are a bunch around as copy-paste code. The one in underscore is famous. There are some blog posts saying they have taken the one from underscore, but what they paste doesn't match _current_ underscore code. Underscore has apparently changed with improvements or bug fixes. The literal code in underscore depends on other parts of underscore, so if I want to copy-paste current one, I've got to do some work to refactor it to be independent.

I don't want to use underscore itself, because I don't want all of underscore to be shipped to client browsers when I just need debounce.

I'm going to spend several hours or a day or more on this before I'm done. (that I am fairly new to 'modern' JS doesn't help)

If there was just a debounce dependency that seemed popular and trustworthy that I could just take, in a few seconds instead of spending a day on investigating it, so I could get back to actually developing my domain func -- you bet I'd take it. (Yeah, I spent some time looking for _that_ too, and surprisingly didn't find it, despite everyone using an independent 'leftpad', there isn't an independent 'debounce' (which is much less trivial code even though it's still only a few lines when done)? Or did I just not find it?)

There are "ecological" reasons that lead to the nature of the ecosystem, various pressures and barriers in the existing environment, not just an issue of developer judgement.

The fact that this kind of JS code is _shipped to browser_ makes the size of the built product matter a lot more, which changes approach to dependencies.

Those of us who use _Rails_, Rails _comes_ with so much (including apropos the current discussion, various text mangling utilities which aren't directly related to the web domain specifically), that you don't need to look elsewhere for it. But _that_ choice has been subject to much critisism too, with people thinking Rails does too much, which has it's own downsides. It's all trade-offs. And the trade-offs often effectively happen at the "community" level rather than the individual one.
I'm an engineer on Azure DevOps. GitHub PR build triggers are based on notifications our service gets from GitHub (purely service to service), and is unrelated to any state of the UI. Can you reach out to me on email so we can investigate? Use my HK name at microsoft.com.
I would never judge a company based on their words. Most corporations spend immense amounts of money on public relations firms, and these firms are pretty decent at their job. And words can be faked - lies, deception. If you want to see what a company truly is judge them by their actions, particularly ones that are not obvious PR efforts. Google in recent times:

- looking to move into China and create a censored search engine blocking offensive search terms like "human rights" [1]

- the above search engine would also tie users' searches to their phone numbers for ease of tracking

- tracking users' location on phones when tracking was set to disabled (we're back to everywhere - not just China on this one)

- looking to implement change that would disable most ad-blockers

- lobbying the government restrict employees' rights to organize against it

And this is just a list of things from the past several months. It is seriously not comprehensive. No, I think Google has quite a clear agenda, a great PR department, and a whole bunch of people in cognitive dissonance who want to believe the PR rather than acknowledge what they're taking part in.

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edit : Added a source for first point. It's borderline unbelievable, but it was not rhetorical. Human rights (in Mandarin of course) was literally on Google's black list of terms.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...
Even if the cars of the future won't be able to drive on all roads at all time, I don't see how it would matter all that much. Of course there will always be forms of rural driving where the terrain is unknown and there are limited options for sensor fusion available.

But that's not what's important. What's import is DC, LA, and many other metro cities that can't build more roads, but still need population and economic growth. For these cases, we're looking at something entirely different. If self-driving cars ever come to be a large share of the cars on the road, they become and unignorable option to lift the congestion ceiling on growth.

For major thoroughfares, you're looking at something close to a controlled environment. Even if there's rain or snow, you could have precision car location, relative to static beacons, and relative to other cars. There's no question where the lanes are, because all of these extremely major routes have detailed 3D models that all the algorithms have access to. I'm not saying we have that now, but compared to the other resource expenditures in self-driving technology, it's practically a trivial thing to do.

People don't need a car to drive them anywhere at any time. They need a reasonable option to get to work in the places where the jobs are. I would say that we're losing that right now, and self-driving cars are a solution, rain or no rain.
Also the hackers managed to change the user's email, which Deliveroo could have easily prevented by sending an email first to the original email address. It's hard to prevent people from using bad passwords, but there are a few easy things they can do to prevent hackers from completely taking over accounts.
Having a degree is not the same as being able to work as a coder.

Sure it overlaps, but it's a kind of marmite-like work: you either love it or hate it.

You also have a fairly harsh selection process, at least at the top end companies. Not everyone is going to pass the whiteboarding quiz, and although you can somewhat study it, it's very different to most other fields where it doesn't feel quite as harsh.
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Interesting. Based on a quick glance, it seems this would answer the question I asked in that thread about whether it might be possible to get word-sense embeddings via two simpler transformations: first a transformation to the space of word-sense compositions (e.g., via GloVe/SGNS), and then a transformation to the space of word senses. I'll take a closer look. Thank you!
I'm not CS faculty, but this is similar to the situation in economics. Interview 40. Of those, 20 may end up being acceptable. The eight best of those 20 get offers at better places. Four others take nonacademic jobs. You're left fighting over a pool of eight candidates with a lot more than eight other schools. It was really tough after the recession, when the Fed was hiring a ginormous number of new PhD's.
Python cannot even index lists by ranges (or other lists)

True for python lists, but not true for numpy arrays.
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For "known good" folder, a git repository may help, at least to restore a clean version of the code.
You might be able to catch that by looking for lines with unusually high entropy. Something like this: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/909
Inequality in Equalland
Tragedy of the commons. Individually, perpetuating the status quo is the "better" option.
Multitasking :-)
Yes, I generally ignore carefully worded PR misdirection.

I find it interesting that you found posting this weak defense so important that it compelled you to log in for the first time in over 2 years.
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Also, not all engineers have a risk-taking mentality. The Bay Area attracts mostly the "hacker" types, but there are plenty of more conservative – yet equally technically capable – individuals who prefer working for the government or a Fortune 500 company, where IT is just one of the many departments. Essentially, these are the people who might as well have chosen a career in banking or any other well-paying science-based field. To them, having a stable job is the highest priority.
That’s because content like this is political manipulation, in meta form.
Against which you have to balance the risk of taking the NASA job, but not getting paid for a few weeks or months every year.
Found it: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...
I see it as indicating a need to revise definitions. Ultimately what we want is a car that is at least as good as driving itself as we are at driving it. But even the Eyeball Mk. I is unreliable if the rain or snow is heavy enough. I've often had to simply pull off the road in a torrential downpour and wait it out. Why isn't this be the watermark for full autonomy- a system that recognizes when the SNR is too low to proceed, and suspends itself safely?

There will always be a set of conditions that overwhelm your sensors. It sounds like the definition is bad. but we can probably develop an autonomous car that is satisfactory nevertheless.
This tool generates APIs providing data, developers can make use of the API to build other tools. For example I build https://cloudfetch.info based on it. More strictly speaking, this tool is extracted from cloudfetch, because I think an API might have more use cases.
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The tech community appears to be experiencing a political and intellectual shift towards the embrace of anti-progressive and so-called "racial realist" ideology. To dismiss all such comments as trolls or to pretend that banning comments and accounts somehow excises intolerant and prejudiced views from the culture would be a mistake.
I would wager the pay would be at or near minimum wage levels. I had this exact predicament. A decade ago, it was an $8/hour offer or do an internship/co-op and make triple. Passion for your area of study is great, but going to a home with minimal to no luxuries gets old pretty quickly as years go by.
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It's not "AI" now... There are all sorts of SWE jobs not just "AI" and pretty much all them pay well.
It's tricky. But doable. I know because I have done it on all three of my trips there.
I think there's a world of difference between difficulty and impossibility. I can see your point when someone speaks of the former, but I don't think anyone should nor can state that something's impossible.
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That’s not quite the same because the extra strings still resonate. But yeah, it has the same name for a reason.
Historically shutdowns don’t meaningfully affect public opinion in the long-term: https://news.gallup.com/poll/164714/history-suggests-shutdow...
What is "User safety" with regards to a web browser? Do they mean privacy? Or like, not functioning in a moving vehicle? Or is it a security thing? The READme doesn't really give you much except some screenshots.