skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comma.ai isn't even close to Level 3.

Edit:

And neither is Tesla. Anybody operating either of these systems without paying attention to the road and being prepared to control the wheel at all times should have their drivers license confiscated.

See page 73 of the Model 3 owners manual: https://www.tesla.com/content/dam/tesla/Ownership/Own/Model%...

Warning: Autosteer is a hands-on feature.
You must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times.

Warning: Autosteer is intended for use only on highways and limited-
access roads with a fully attentive driver. When using
Autosteer, hold the steering wheel and be mindful of road
conditions and surrounding traffic.*

Key terms: "hands-on", "fully attentive driver". It's a Level 2 system.

Page 74 makes this even more clear:

Warning: Autosteer is not designed to, and will not, steer Model 3
around objects partially or completely in the driving
lane. Always watch the road in front of you and stay prepared
to take appropriate action. It is the driver's responsibility
to be in control of Model 3 at all times.
OMG, I hadn't even noticed Deluxe since the packaging is so similar to the regular ones, will definitely give it a try!
This is a makeover of a project I created 2 years ago. I decided to re-do it using AngularJS instead of jQuery, and also cleaned up the logic so it is smoother. Currently, the game has 34 levels which I think is way too hard for a human to beat. If there's anyone who beat all 34 levels, I will consider adding xor, nor, nand operators. Meanwhile, I'm preparing to make it into a mobile app. Question: Android or iPhone first? PS: please let me know if you find a bug and I will squash it ASAP.
You can get an Arduino Nano clone for considerably less than $5 on eBay. The cheapest price I can find a local Pi Zero for on eBay is $24 AUD (without an SD card).

I use Arduinos and similar boards to drive addressable LED strips. A lot of these strips require extremely precise timing, which is difficult or impossible to get from a Pi for some strips.

From another perspective, the limitations of the Arduino boards (e.g. RAM measured in kilobytes) force you to think harder about how you want to solve a problem, which can be quite an enjoyable challenge.
Circles was a great idea. Too bad they failed to attract many users.
At the same time that kinda cripples the ability to hire highly-skilled foreigners, isn't it? It's artificially limiting the pool of viable candidates.

Just imagine a PhD (or even a Master's degree holder) from Europe, a leader in their field. With this system they are at a huge disadvantage and so are companies that would like to hire them.

As someone mentioned this system will just lead to straight to masters degrees. Those "body shop" outsourcing companies just need their candidates to attend any (does online count?) US-based masters degree and then business as usual.

Having a Masters from "some" university doesn't make anyone highly skilled.
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Also, some percent of users will forget to use the gift card, or be unaware of how to check the available balance, or use it down to the last penny.
I know someone who had this exact attitude while they worked at Instagram until a few months ago. That's when they left the company and started bashing Facebook's practices.
That’s an interesting perspective.
GEB not just a popular exposition of mathematical logic, the book is quite explicitly about philosophy of mind. In particular, he develops the self-reference stuff so he can draw an analogy to brains and tell us his theory of consciousness. As for support for that claim, he clarified the point of the book in an elaborate preface to the 20th anniversary edition, and that still wasn't enough to get the point across, so he wrote an entire second book ('I am a Strange Loop') to explain his theory of mind again.
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Shutting down one engine is one thing. Shutting down all engines is what surprised me.
melonbar: see my post about this very thing... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704252

I'm in much the same boat. I feel like for this to seriously change, the laws have to change. That's no small feat.

As long as there are for-profit prisons, there's little/no incentive for criminal laws to change.

San Francisco has the "Fair Chance Ordinance", but you actually have to LIVE there for it to apply to you.

https://sfgov.org/olse/fair-chance-ordinance-fco

I have reached out to you via email, btw. It was back in November. I haven't spoken about that stuff publicly, hence the throwaway account. :/
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Mr. Musk is wrong, and behind his error is, perhaps, his lack of technical aptitude.

> Musk and almost everyone else in the business recognize self-driving cars and trucks as the future of automotive transportation.

Those people in their prime majority think that some kind of "AI" program will be somehow think over the inputs and tell where to drive. They all have too much expectations for technology coming under the word "AI" these days

They all do so without understanding what those "AIs" actually are, and not realising that such programs can't make any "cognition."

Until that change, any talk of "self-driving" is premature. This does not preclude however the coming improvements in cruise control, and computerised collision avoidance.
Yes, I would say that those who are concerned about Facebook for those reasons are also usually concerned about Amazon and Google for the same reasons.
This was posted yesterday as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19026070
The lidar detected the woman.

However, the car was programmed not to brake...

The problem was the software, not the hardware.
Most of the time the problem is not Wordpress but poorly written themes/plugins (especially free ones). Also $5/month shared hosting running on a decade old hardware are not helping either.
I think name-dropping clients is inappropriate in this kind of context. (That's unrelated to anyone's criminal record.)
Oh, good old traditional LAMP shared hosting and WP. Honestly, I doubt that combo will ever work reliably. WP hosting is bit of a dark art in the best of times, and operating under shared hosting does not help. That being said, self-hosting on something like AWS probably would end up much more expensive, and would take also some effort to set up and maintain.

Personally I would either start looking for fully managed WP service (wordpress.com), or switching to a different, easier to host, platform
Yelp’s next review: the U.S. economy
Wealth inequality has increased mostly due to the massive expansion of the global economy, which was a large benefit to capital owners and was a detriment to US labor (whose wages were artifically very high in the post WW2 decades). Global labor competed, capital benefited. Federal Reserve policies since ~1970 have also overwhelmingly favored capital, asset holders, and not workers.

The US tax code has gotten more progressive over time, not less. The very high tax rates from the past were quite narrow in scope, they covered few taxpayers.

The top 25% are paying 85-88% of all income taxes in a given year. The top 10% are paying 70% of all income taxes.

The top 1% yield 20% of all income and pay 39% of all income taxes.

How do you qualify that very progressive tax code as "stopped taxing rich people"?

Simultaneously the US welfare state has massively expanded since 1970. Poverty and homelessness have declined by a lot, while healthcare coverage expanded dramatically. The US spends the equivalent of 20% of its GDP on social welfare programs. That's higher than Canada and Australia, just slightly behind the UK at 22%. All of that is paid for by the top 25% of income earners.
As someone who has worked many years in open-source, including as a maintainer, I can confirm that you clearly have no clue what you’re talking about. Your argument that somehow, not being paid for our work makes that work better, is 1) idiotic, 2) disrespectful, and 3) damaging to everyone trying to actually contribute. Arguments like yours are exactly what is wrong with open-source today. I’m glad this ridiculous mythology that you’re perpetuating is being challenged by the new generation of maintainers. But by all means, stay on your “side” of the “fence” as you put it. The open-source community has no use for you or your outdated ideas.
This is exciting! But keep in mind that the PR materials can be confusing. If you look at the specs https://www.rigetti.com/qpu you can see their quantum processors have on the order of 10 qubits, and after less than ~10 logical gates the state of the system will be completely scrambled due to the imperfections of the gates. It is a great milestone, and it should be celebrated, but we need something much bigger and way less sensitive to noise to be able to call it "quantum computer".
Deep learning:the final frontier for signal processing and time series analysis?
> rather, they're going to go by the complete plotting of the traffic grid with lidar being there for object-avoidance. This is Google's model and they are furthest along

Indeed, and that's how autopilot driven buses, that were around for at least a decade, work. Except their movement trajectories are predetermined, and they are very slow, and stop at every obstacle imaginable.
+1

It is odd to think of someone "using" or "misusing" Godel - if the points are salient and clear, how is it misuse? (At least, in this case, where GEB is a philosophical text, not a scientific one.)
Yes. People with less education but few years of experience could be far more valuable than a masters degree holder from silicon valley university which is now shut down. Having a us masters degree is not correlated to higher skill in any way if we are not going to factor in university rankings.

It is very easy to validate claim. How many of the employers in bay area actually ask for masters or higher education for swe jobs ?

If it is a neutral move why waste taxpayer money and potential lawsuites for no benefit ?

My primary argument however is that the move is illegal and completely against the congressional intent.
Curious to know the MeWe controversy. I just quit Facebook after being 3 day censored for posting a link to a Twitter video that was played on CNN. Joined MeWe to hopefully help build a replacement network.
Yes, it's clear that you don't believe the woman whose business was impacted, and choose to side with the VC-funded company that stiffed their vendors. You could just say that, rather than pretend to have a bunch of concerns about discourse, and save us all a lot of time.
So how much is that 1MP retina display covering of your field of view?
We are all going to get old some day. Better prepare well by saving up...don't expect to rely on anyone except yourself.
DDG is absolutely great! I am not sure if they are a profitable company yet? It would be great to have different players on the www again, not just monopolies...
I think a high school drop out with 5 years of work experience coding can beat a masters from silicon valley university. In tech jobs degrees are in no way indicator of skill.
But logic is composed of a particular set of axioms and rules - so is not any thing composed of a set of such things itself constrained by the very nature of its parts?
> There are many situations where a camera-based-only vision system falls down e.g. bad weather, glare from secondary light sources etc.

A splat of dirt on the LADAR, and it will be not much better.

MM and Thz wave radars are cheaper and better for this application.
I've had to edit the title in El'Reg style because the original title was too long "Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data"

There's really no need to destroy anyone over it. There are worse things in the world to get mad about.
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I don’t think it’s right to avoid pointing out the responsible party just because their partisans will dispute it and the discussion will devolve from their.

It’d be like a conference on measles and not mentioning vaccines because it makes 20% of the delegates filibuster the parties with speeches on autism.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834
And I don't think anyone is absolutely sure that OLED is the future. It suffers from burn-in so it's really only great for smart phones and movies, for everything else LCD is king for the foreseeable future because there's no guarantee they'll solve the burn-in issues before the next great tech comes along.
Can be done doesn't mean it's a good tool for the job. I don't know enough about wordpress to say but I've seen some big sites built off sharepoint and "can be done" involved an extraordinary amount of manpower and working around sharepoint rather than with it. Those details get left out of the case studies.
Ask HN: Which SaaS would you like to simplify?
For which SaaS would you like to see a more simplified version.
Something similar was posted to HN today as well: https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/drop-facebook

I left my main Facebook account some months back. I was worried it would be a rough ride. But to be frank, I haven’t really even noticed or thought about it. It’s funny that when it’s not there, you don’t notice. That must mean something about the lack of value it was adding to my life.

Yes. I am still on messenger, so I haven’t left Facebook completely. But without the app I am not checking my phone every two minutes.
can you elaborate on the process of copying data into Redshift? How often do you run COPY commands? On a continuous basis? Asking since Redshift as an OLAP isn't really optimized for heavy writes, so if you've figured out a way to do it, please bottle that magic!
Take notes on all processes even if you think you'll remember anyway.
Only China / Russia / Korea can currently push platforms because of dictatorship and censorship.

You are forgetting that the WTO was already asked by multiple countries for help. There are other options than China ;)

The source of the money is partially already from Europe and America. China borrows a lot of money too.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/china-borrows-lot-money-world-ban...
Sadly the shuttle abort protocols were not effective for Challenger-like, catastrophic failure modes. My, admittedly layman's, understanding is that Apollo abort system would have been able to evacuate the crew in a number of pretty dire scenarios.
I'm looking forward to lidar in human-driven cars. Imagine how cool it would be to see the 3D point cloud on your dashboard or reflected on your windshield as a heads-up display.
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F1 is a non immigrant visa. To get f1 visa student needs to convince visa officer that he will promptly return back to home country after completion of education and will not try to seek any immigrant intent visa.

In that sense every f1 student filing for h1b transfer of status in my opinion acting in bad faith. The case about already here makes no sense as many other visa categories loke r2 or h4 are not allowed to work despite having spent years in usa.
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'Fuck ethics. Money is everything': Facebook employees react to scandal
By "stuff" I was actually referring to digital products, digital technology, websites, technology companies, etc. An import tax on those would be harder than for physical products.
> https://openxcom.org/

This is great!

Had no idea this was out there.
Doesan't the country she came from also want her contributing to their economy?
GDPR + Vestager’s crusade against US tech + digital tax is clearly EU protectionism. Unfortunately, none of this is going to help European tech, it’s just going to move US tech out to make way for Chinese tech.
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more school != more skilled proxy should have it's range.
A rank 100+ cs grad school is quite obvious showing a person's learning skill if anyone knows how applying for a cs master in the USA works. One could argue a UCSC graduate doesn't have a good skill set but hardly to say a SIT graduate
has a better learning skill. And a SIT graduate is also a 'master' of science in cs, which is able to participate the 'advance' degree h1b lottery slot. How absurd..
That's so awesome to see. I used to go and look at the winamp forums every now and then to see if they actually ended up doing something with it or not, it's good to see that the community's taken it into their own hands!

What I meant with that is, people will more likely to go and look for the old version of a Prince of Persia game than an older, specific version of an application.
Data Structures for coding interviews
Anyone else use Ghost? I've got Ghost running in a Docker container on a DO droplet. It's the smallest droplet there is. I don't have a ton of traffic to my blog (at least, I don't think—I haven't found a privacy-respecting analysis system that I like (maybe roll my own... just count page request)) but it does the job.
From the article it looks like a much better and cheaper solution is to build retirement homes for the elderly. Is it feasible to write to one's political representative in Japan?
Mozilla developer fixes Chromium bug caused by Google breaking the spec
Better to Have Educated Parents Than Wealthy Ones
Ignore all the comments telling you to switch to static content generation, that's generally a large time endeavour and for a blog that is getting 50k uniques a month should be pretty easy to serve all requests with a little CloudFlare tuning.

First, let CloudFlare do 99% of the work. Don't worry about optimizing the linux box, PHP, MySQL, PHP Opcode Cache, WP-Cache at first.

First, let's check that CloudFlare is caching and serving all static assets such as js, css, images, .xml, .ico. I don't see a cache-control header being returned on js, css, images, etc. Make sure this is setup in CloudFlare with Caching Level => Standard and Browser Cache Control => 1 month. Also, consider enabling Auto Minify => Javascript and CSS. Finally enable Brotli and make sure HTTP/2 is enabled under network.

Now, here is where you can really make things fly. It is possible to have CloudFlare cache the result of generated html pages, so requests don't even hit your shared hosting provider. This is done with Page Rules. The trick is going to be crafting a rule that you can match posts and posts only. With my site, I leave .html extension on my files, so my rule is simply:

https://imgur.com/a/4iNpB4V

Your challenge will be creating a matching rule while excluding admin backend pages. Also, most certainly you probably going to want a much lower cache time than 8 hours. My site content does not change often. Perhaps something like 30 or 60 minutes to start.

Good luck, let me know any questions, my contact info is in my profile.
I’m as willing to blame anything on big corporation as a Marxist flying United. But in this case I strongly feel responsibility lies with the state government, which should never have maneuvers itself into a position where it could be harmed in such a way. That’s what contracts are for, after all.

HN was also harshly critical of Amazon’s HQ2 search/reality show and the willingness to subsidies successfull corporate giants with race-to-the-bottom tax incentives.
But few people know about any of that stuff. There are new subcultures on Mastodon/Pleroma, tons of small self hosted projects people are now trying out .. sure .. but the average user isn't going to find any of that.

Where once we had Lycos, Hotbot, Dogpile, Excite, Yahoo, et. al., we have a fraction of the various search engines today and most people just know and use the big-G.

Reddit use to have all sorts of communities. Then they started banning everything, a CEO edited comments and didn't step down and now it's all 'safe' and single opinionated (Even /r/unpopularopinions went away).

This is a cute project and I hope it's self-hostable, because I might give it a shot. So far it doesn't seem like there's any code released.

I think the future of the Internet needs to be distributed. We need more things like Sandstorm, PeerTube, Pixelfed; thinks that make it easier for people to pay to host their own content and have control over it.
> -Anyone who feels strongly against Facebook will have stopped using it

That's a pretty big assumption. People's feelings can and do change based on new information.
C++ templates are not typed structually. The compiler does not assign types to them at all. Rather they are treated as macros and the type assignment and checking happens during the expansion. For example, one can write a template that has no valid expansion, but as long as nobody uses it, the compiler accepts it.

In sense templates are similar to dynamic languages. Except in C++ it is the compiler, not runtime, that evaluates the templates.
Just like the DX.echange. https://www.investinblockchain.com/nasdaq-stock-offering-dx-...

Users can purchase stocks with Tether in real-time. The in-built exchange lets you convert other assets to USDT.
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Uber stopped for a few months after killing a woman, but resumed testing a month ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/uber-self-driving-car-test...
it used to be. Then the internet became a product. It became a storefront, and home to the advertising apocalypse that will probably wind up being the catalyst for the downfall of the human species.

there's still funny/weird shit out there, but you have to dig pretty deep, sift through the ads, copypasta, and general crap content to find it... eventually it'll all be banned/deleted for some reason or another.
The real question is: is there really that much of a difference?
We've all done it, and often had to, which is the root of the problem.

When I was under 10, both sets of grandparents and four of five aunts and uncles were within 10 miles, most under 3. Now we're all over the place and a visit isn't a regular frequent thing but a major, rarer, trip.

As I'm in my mid fifties some of the future looks rather bleak. Add longer life expectancy after retirement and for most, better mental and physical health, and you end up with many more years to contemplate your loneliness.

I saw one story a few years back of a retirement home that combined a nursery. Which turned out to be a huge boost for both the kid's development, parents, and the old folks. Every day they would have joint activities. Sounded a great idea that we need far more of, rather than occasional novelty worth reporting.
That assumes the demand and the supply are independent variables.

More people would mean smaller pieces if the size of the pie held constant. But what if there are also fewer people making the pie?

In reality, it's even more complicated in that the contribution of the pie making is not proportional to the headcounts either.
Quora is another gross offender.
This is false. Once you're past a certain point in the GC process, you will renew your status each year.
It occurs to me that the mainstream American media suddenly turned very negative towards Facebook ever since they've got the idea that Facebook was probably one important reason that Trump got elected. While I agree Facebook has some real problems and they need to do better, but the recent reports appears almost nitpicking to me
When I lived in Japan back in the 80s, doctor visits were basically free. They took all day though, partially because the elderly would go to the doctor to interact with other people, rather than for a real medical need, thus clogging up the system.
> He was a small-d democrat. His best friend was a small-r republican.

Uh, that's not what those mean, unless your father was a monarchist and his friend a believer in dictatorships?

"Small-p Partyname" is used to differentiate the actual word that the party's name is from the proper noun. A small-c conservative is someone who holds conservative beliefs, regardless of whether they support a Conservative party.