skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flying business I can reasonably work during the flight, and for overnight flights I can sleep. Which reduces the productivity loss due to lack of sleep (I arrive with a few hours of sleep) and jetlag (adjustment happens quicker than when I didn't sleep for 30h and my schedule is entirely shot to hell). Whether you arrive early or not seems like a separate angle from whether it's worth having people fly business.
Indeed. There's also a slightly less charitable interpretation–Tesla could't ship every car with LIDAR for cost reasons, so they're strongly incentivized to claim they don't need it.

That said, I don't think Tesla are wrong. If Tesla can deploy MobilEye-level automatic visual mapping (see https://youtu.be/GQ15HWCw_Ic?t=1381) this can obviate the need for LIDAR-based localization and dramatically improve their perception systems (by having very good prior information about all static obstacles, such as lane dividers).

Dynamic obstacle detection will still be worse than it would be with a vision+LIDAR approach, but not that much worse. Having superhuman ability along two axes (map-based priors and alertness / reaction time) is likely sufficient to drive better than humans, even if several remaining axes (dynamic obstacle detection and prediction) are worse.

Additionally, Tesla is not (AFAIK) using any structure-from-motion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2KsN7yKo0) or stereo-vision (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SskSDjUG8ZY) techniques, but there's a chance that these could also improve perception, especially in tough cases where a single frame is not enough for good detection (e.g. white semi in sunlight).

LIDAR is not being used in the (compared to Tesla) small-scale AV systems of Waymo, Cruise, Aurora et. al because it's essential, but rather because it's convenient, and because the companies producing those systems want to give their AVs every advantage at any cost. I fully expect Tesla (and MobilEye) to do superhuman self driving without LIDAR, but it will take longer (i.e. not by EOY).
... working on this stuff day and night ... —- in California.

I’ve been driving for 40+ years, millions of km, 1/2 during winter.

Now, Elon is a Saskatchewan boy, so he should know better. Perhaps he’s forgotten. Winter driving is at best 1/2 vision dependent, often much less. Many times, you have to
actively ignore your vision (everything you see is “moving” sideways). Quite often, you’re modulating your throttle to maintain a tiny ratio of +/- acceleration that maintains static friction; as soon as 1 or more contact patches achieve dynamic friction, you’re entering a spin due to yaw forces induced by your other driven wheels.

Much of the time, the road surface adhesion characteristics are best detected by sheen, vibration, sound and guesswork/prediction based on temperature, sunlight, recent weather, etc.

Unless the vehicle has sound, vibration, and vision sensor integration — it cannot hold a candle to human driving, except in the most trivial driving scenarios.

Winter is a complete non-starter for any autonomous driving technology that I am aware of.

I don’t know if Lidar would really help much. It can’t punch through heavy rain/snow, at least not as well as radar anyway. Maybe it would help in trivial driving conditions. I think vision, sound, vibration, and radar with a powerful ANN trained by professional all-season winter drivers in challenging conditions might be useful, and eventually even good. It should be able to perform super-challenging evasion and recovery maneuvers that could save lives!
Interesting. I just watched a video yesterday about how you could see screaming on hard drive stats in a data center:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Basically, the people who recommend moving someplace cheap are people who value stability over cash savings, and want to have a big house for a family. If that doesn't fit you, then it doesn't make sense for you. If you're single and live cheap, living in the high-CoL makes much more sense.
That's a really dishonest interpretation.
Personal jet carriers. Sounds sustainable!
How to find which sequence is the best?
The big missing piece is not LIDAR, but causal reasoning. Autopilot and similar 'AI' cannot reason; it doesn't have a mental model to ponder 'what if' and can't use counter-factuals to ponder what would happen if it didn't do something. It's just glorified pattern matching currently.

Reading Judea Pearl's The Book Of Why certainly sobered my outlook on AI.
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I'm not the OP but I have noticed something while not new to online dating, something that online dating (and perhaps social media) has accelerated.

For most people the list of people that would have sex with you is longer than the list of people who would seriously date/marry you. This is especially true of women but is also true with men. The commitment of dating someone has a number of social implications that don't exist in a semi anonymous one night stand. Previously an individual had to go out to a bar and luck upon someone who was willing to have casual sex (and sometimes that turned into a relationship) now you can effectively visit every bar in town in a few minutes, several times a day. Due to the nature of this and social media perfectionism I believe that individuals are setting the bar for mates higher than is reasonable in contrast to what they have to offer. They equate the attractiveness (this isn't just physical, it also includes personality type and other factors) of one night stands with level of attractiveness they would acquire in a relationship.

Due to this many people have unrealistic standards, after a time they choose to "settle" and have dysfunctional relationships due to the fact they perceive themselves as "settling" as opposed to choosing a mate on a equal footing. Had those one night stands been more difficult to acquire, the bar may of not been moved so high and they may have more functional relationships down the road.

Just a theory of course, but something I'm been noticing.
Your bad attitude doesn't have anything to do with me.
It's the centralization, not the aggregation, that's the problem. If entities, even if under the umbrella of a single corporation, were organized based on datasets to aggregate this info, the risk and punishment could be commensurate.
Does anyone actually believe that the US government's interventions against Microsoft made the slightest bit of difference, as opposed to huge shifts in the internet and mobile landscape?

You could argue that the emergence of Firefox and Chrome was only made possible by the ability to assign a "default" non-IE browser in Windows, but that ability pre-dated any of the anti-trust stuff anyway; all you got out of that was a mandatory pop-up when you installed Windows asking you if you wanted to use a different browser.

The emergence of Firefox was by itself a huge shift, and Chrome another one, against Microsoft's browser monopoly. Its OS monopoly got broken (insofar as it is broken) by a combination of the rise of mobile and Apples re-emergence as a viable platform. Its office application monopoly got broken (insofar as it is broken) by a combination of online email systems (especially gmail) and the increased availability of online alternatives.

All the justice department did was waste their time; they could have just sat by the river and waited for the body of their enemy to float by instead.
Where is the demonstrated consumer harm that warrants monopoly treatment? Adding private labels increases the amount of selection consumers have.

You’d think we would hear more about it since basically every physical retailer owns their own brands that they sell in their own marketplaces already.
Correct about the software most likely, but Discover uses FF-Meta [0] and Ally uses Lato [1]. They are admittedly quite similar.

[0] https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/ff-meta

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato
Zodiac sign? Seriously? I don't know what mine is because that is not a belief system/religion I subscribe to so I had to Google it. Turns out my birthdate must be on the border because different sources have it as a different sign. They might as well ask what color my aura is.
pretty much "IBM only" today - I don't know of any other actual mainframe computer manufacturer

Does Cray count?
Wow, that is super fun. There is a story which I can neither confirm nor deny that a company with large data centers and drive firmware that exported PES data was able to correlate data from drives in different locations of said data center and make a seismic interferometer which could "image" traffic on a freeway nearby. :-)

I had no idea you could get as much as 4KHz of frequency bandwidth out of those sensors. That is a pretty cool result.
Exactly. Also, having self-driving cars does not mean that you only have self-driving cars in your fleet. They could still employ drivers strategically (in areas where demand is high which in turn will increase profitability and distribution to drivers) while using self-driving cars for commutes.
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I assume that binary used shared libraries?

I still have the file system from a linux host I installed in 1999 or 2000. Debian; I made a VM copy when I retired the iron. It doesn't have a.out shared libraries, so even if the kernel's support worked in 2000, I could't run that binary for lack of shared libraries.

If the kernel's support hasn't really been tested for 19-20 years and the shared libraries haven't even been built, then I think running that binary has very poor chances of working.
There will definitely be toy appeal. You can already fly helicopters low along a river which I highly recommend.

Doing that on something like this would be amazing.
I've been doing some job interviewing lately, at 37.

I do find that companies seem to know how to evaluate young programmers: just test them on their knowledge of your tech stack. Any young coder who is good and is working in that stack will know the basics. The bad ones won't.

For older coders, I'm not sure that same signal works. I've forgotten more frameworks than most coders will ever learn. I mostly don't care about programming languages, they're roughly the same and I can learn a new one in a couple weeks.

I know technologies like Rails and SQL, but I don't play with the new toys as much as I used to, becuase lately I would rather solve a new problem or build a new tool than learn a new tool.

But how do you evaluate a coder on their ability to solve problems? Much harder.

Even more difficult, how do you get a 24 year old coder who only knows react and FireBase to evaluate a 37 year old coder who has built web frameworks from scratch?

It's another world, and a lot of companies just don't bother.

Thankfully I have no desire to work at any of those companies. I solve problems. If a company can't hire for that I don't belong there. There are plenty of companies trying to hire people to solve actual problems, not just put coder butts in seats.
It asks me to install a browser extension, which asks for this permission: "It can: Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". Is it normal?
I see what you're saying about the first part (the illegal part), thanks for your thoughts on that.

I do disagree with your last comment though:

> because America loves the free market, and big business is the enemy of it.

Sure big businesses can raise prices and cause consumers to pay more. But big businesses can also lower prices too by investing in technologies that save money - which we see all the time.

So I guess I don't see big business as the enemy of the free market, after all, there's nothing forcing me to buy from big company A, even if they have a monopoly on a product. The reason is, in a free market, I'm free to discover and pursue ways to side step a monopoly. I don't need the government to help me do that.
That is incredible. There are only twelve signs. I mean why not just ask your birth month? And even then, incredibly easy to guess or to find out. I honestly want to know who came up with that security gateway and question them on how they thought that was secure.
> 700 million years of evolution behind it

Sure, but only about 0.000014% of that time occurred while cars existed. It's not like we evolved to control big metal objects hurtling down artificially made flat surfaces.
People have a lot of opinions on what could have happened, but I would like to know why hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent investigating the southern arc and at no point has anyone even considered investigating its northern counterpart.

Edit: ... and this post was flagged off the first 14 pages within an hour. Not "dead" per se, but clearly forgotten. Wouldn't want anyone to think too hard about these things.
1) The transition doesn't need to happen overnight nor does the transition need to entirely replace human drivers

2) 1 human driver != 1 autonomous car. While cars need servicing, they don't get hungry or tired or have a family to spend time with
There’s a wide range of events. Some of the event types: lecture with Q&A, discussion groups, communication practice, non-sexual cudde parties, second-base parties, sex parties.

Events open to the public tend to be non-sexual and very structured. One needs to build trust in a community to be invited to other events.

Nearly all events have a hard start time after which no one is allowed to enter. The beginning of events cover rules and guidelines for the event. Then there’s usually some ice breaker such as introductions. After that it really depends on what kind of event we’re talking about.
To be fair, google spends more than comcast because google, along with facebook, are constantly being attacked by the media and special interest groups.

If comcast was being attacked everyday, they would hike their lobbying budget.

I wouldn't say google is better at playing the game than comcast. Comcast has been playing the game for decades and they have far more political clout than google.

It's funny how people underestimate the power of comcast. They own nbc, msnbc, cnbc, universal, sky and a significant portion of the internet connections as a major ISP provider.

Google is a joke compared to comcast in terms of political power and influence.
Isn't that more of an indictment of the self-driving industry as a whole? In Tesla's case they are missing that, but they are also missing LIDAR (or some other thing to fill in that technological gap).
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The value of a degree for most of us is mostly in passing those automated HR screens and not being defensive / self conscious about not having a degree. Where that degree comes from is largely unimportant, unless you went to Harvard/MIT/Stanford et al.

That said, as someone who's going for a greencard, I'd be shut out of this process in 2 seconds without a degree. The degree itself? It was good, but let's not kid ourselves, it's a middle class stamp of acceptance.

As for Silicon Valley, good luck getting anywhere without a degree. Look at the founders of virtually every startup and you'll see a pattern, Harvard, Stanford, MIT etc.

I have a degree from a no-name University in New Zealand.
Right. I don't think that either of us intend to ever remarry. Our end goal now is two apartments that are close to each other in the same city that we are living in now, so that our children don't have any issues visiting us.
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Wisdom from a random Silverwood Uber driver
I had one of the more inspiring moments while taking an Über pool last night after seeing the Lakers.

When the driver dropped others off, I stopped the music on my earpads, inclined to talk to him because of his cool accent, I started a conversation asking if he’s feeling tired.

He responded: “I love to work at this time. Daytime is pure chaos. It takes forever to complete rides being stuck in traffic and hitting the required 140 Uber ride limit is not an easy task in this city.”

I asked: So.. How do you do it?

He responded: You know, Uber pool is my specialty. I drove Taxi for 15 years before Uber put me out of business.

He made a pause.

I asked: Whats your secret?

Turning up the music volume in his car, he looked at me and said: “This is the music I play”. The music that was playing was kind of a New York Frank Sinatra style, but without the vocals.

He said: “This is the music for before going to sleep. When people enter my car, they get to relax. I don’t want any drama.”

Me: hmm... interesting (thinking and realizing how brilliant his approach is)

He continued: “I don’t always talk to people. I talk to some people, and when I want. There are certain people that I don’t want to talk to.”

My dropoff was approaching, and he switched the radio to some mainstream station about politics and said: “Their brainwashing starts in school. And I pray for them daily”.

A pause.

And then we said a good bye — Good luck, sir.
Seconded. I make good money, am nearly 40, and work remotely while living in an inexpensive small town near a reasonably fun metropolis. I’m probably going to be able to retire in 5 years. All of this would have been much, much harder in a different career track. Computer science was a great career choice for me.
"Perhaps more disturbing, simply holding meritocracy as a value seems to promote discriminatory behaviour"

Of course it does, meritocracy is the process of discriminating good candidates from bad candidates.

I'm so fed up with people attaching emotions to the word discrimination. It is not an inherent evil.

"Yet Castilla and Benard found that, ironically, attempts to implement meritocracy leads to just the kinds of inequalities that it aims to eliminate."

Then they haven't implemented meritocracy properly then, have they?
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Yeah. It's also somewhat incomplete analysis about happiness because it views it as steady state. I mean, anedcotally, sure, being employed is good and being unemployed (even with a good safety net) is bad. But being laid off is much worse than either because of the disruption it causes.

Consider, would you rather spend a career with a single 1-year blemish where you had to live on the dole because you couldn't find work after changing career paths or whatever, or one where you were laid off four times for three months at a time? Those don't seem as symmetric to me as they do to the author.

That said, I think the points raised are valid. It does seem like in 2009 the market of academic economists was too bearish on the long term US unemployment situation.
> What is the story you can tell that paints Lyft as a good investment over the next 2 year period?

There's only one: it gets acquired
this guy has a very one dimensional view of labour regulation, there's a lot more to it than just how easily you can be fired. Things like minimum paid leave of 20 days or more.
> Breakthrough home computers, by contrast, tended to emerge from "good enough to play games and play with balancing your bank account," having a strong emphasis on arcade graphics, but not so much on reliability.

That was true after 1977, certainly, but going earlier, the S-100 bus computers which ran CP/M had text terminals (and front panels with lights and switches!) and were cheaper than any other kind of real computer, but were more in the mold of the small-scale business machines of the era, called minicomputers, than the Apple II or Commodore-64 were.
This bean counter run country is so fucked.
Imagine if this got snagged into the Spam folder.

It'd be prime material for a Tom Lehrer song involving lawyers, malpractice law, ISPs, IT professionals, email protocols, and similar related ilk. Just this simple "proposal" is blowing my mind.
Okay, it's crass but let's talk numbers. I'm currently earning $210k/year in Austin, TX. My monthly income is about $12k after taxes, and my rent is $1,400 for three bedroom house 20 minutes from the office (wood floors, nice appliances, yadda yadda). I save about $9,000/month, give or take. When I was looking at relocating to the bay area I crunched the numbers and couldn't find a realistic scenario where I wouldn't be taking a relative pay cut.
I think our company has a policy against using shortened URLs, namely because:

- If the company goes out of business, then our documentation and business logs have a lot of dead, useless links that can't be fixed after the fact. If it's a business critical use case, then you just shot yourself in the foot.

- Related to the above, it's not human-parseable. If you're on a mailing list and you send out a hyperlink, you don't immediately know if it's relevant to you and have to scan the rest of the text for context.

- It's an unnecessary abstraction on top of perfectly good HTTP URIs, that couples an Internet-scale protocol to one particular company and its closed-source parsing logic.

I also don't get how this is product is "sticky" / won't be cut at the first sign of a recession, how much overhead larger companies really have in maintaining such an internal tool (I would think you make something like bit.ly once and keep extending the suffix length by changing one number in a conf file), why smaller companies might need this (I think larger companies just track everything because human analytics at scale might have business value), and how it's different from other solutions on the market.
afraid it might be too late :(
It's not normal and shouldn't be allowed to become some dystopian new normal.
I think it's realistic - the physician doesn't know you as a person. They care about you as another human being but not on a personal level, and don't have the time or the emotional energy to get to know you. Really, I'm just advocating for a return to the conventional approach which the article is saying they should have followed. I'd say the "wheel a box into a room to tell people that someone is dead" approach is a bad one.
Most car companies make lots of money on add-on features. The base model couldn't be super profitable, but the base model with the self-driving package probably makes some good money. Or it would if the didn't have to keep doing recalls to upgrade the hardware.
and if you think it's bad now, just wait until the company goes under and sells the extension to someone else. next week on: "When good extensions go bad"
So many issues here and too many laws around the age of 18. Do these kids even have an ID? Do we change age for Military? Insurance? Driving?

This country is still putting people in jail for weed, now they want kids to vote? No thanks....
If you look at IMF predictions of world GDP [1] you can see that simply taking last year's value would have had lower error for most years and in average.

[1] -- figure 2 https://www.ft.com/content/60581224-3335-11e8-b5bf-23cb17fd1...
I think both Lyft and Uber are pursuing IPOs because the private market has soured on them. The VCs want to get their payout and are starting to fear a down round…so the companies will go public, the investors will get their payouts, and whoever buys will eventually regret it.
SSN on its own is sufficient for verifying identity. SSN coupled with a phone verification step is more secure for authenticating than DOB.
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