skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm imagining a Mario Kart style drone that floats above the vehicles with a camera.

And as a bonus, if the car flies off the road into the river, it can use a fishing pole style winch to pull your vehicle out of the water and place it back on the road.
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Past a certain point increasing your compensation decreases your skin in the game, because you have so much money saved up, you can live off comfortably off investing, real estate management, etc. This is usually about the level of a top individual contributor, so management is way above that level anyway. You can't have very much skin in the game if you already have as much skin as you want on yourself.
Do you have any roles for senior level graduate students?
We should have stopped at the Agile Manifesto. Everything following it made Agile worse.

In the end companies will almost always regress to a top down hierarchy.

True Agile is bottom up which is against the structure of most companies.
Clearly its derived from all of the above. The end goal we have for Hubs (hubs.mozilla.com) is to allow the theoretical limit of auditing to be done by the public when using our hosted services wrt both the code and the operations. And ofc, you can always run the bits yourself if you don't trust that audit.
I'm REALLY unclear how you decided to post this giraffe comment...

The picture and the words in the article show cameras next to the rear view mirror.

""" Using two inexpensive cameras on either side of a vehicle’s windshield, Cornell researchers have discovered they can detect objects with nearly LiDAR’s accuracy and at a fraction of the cost."""
One thing I learned a long time was this: A "bad" process that has complete buy-in and everyone participates in will always outperform a "good" process that has lip service buy-in and disagreements about who does what.
I'm working on a project right now that lacks well-specified requirements, yet we're barreling ahead with the implantation. I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen. My guess is that we'll end up with an MVP that meets the known requirements, but then we'll have to rewrite some part of it to meet the as-yet-unspecified requirements.
You don't buy his claims that lidar is non necessary and even inefficient at sdv ?
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Do you understand why I would call this perspective robotic though? I could never live like that. The reason I take a job is because I think it will improve my life. A paycheck is obviously part of that, but so is doing a job I enjoy. I would prefer a job that does 10 units of good and gives me 10 units of pleasure to a job that does 20 units of good and gives me 2 units of pleasure.
> an organisation will want the decision makers to be the people with the most skin in the game, and the easiest way to achieve this is pay them more money.

Paying them more money (in the form of a higher fixed salary) gives them less skin in the game; skin in the game is what is value at risk; because of declining marginal utility, the more is given unconditionally, the less is at risk, ceteris paribus.
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That's the image on the TV Tropes page.
Does your reasoning apply to other companies? Coca-cola, for example, is very interested in building profiles and modifying behavior. I estimate they're much less sophisticated w/r/t building profiles (although if you think in terms of flavors, instead of demographics, perhaps not...) They are definitely very effective in terms of behavior modification. The product does significant harm. It also hijacks an evolutionary flaw (people like other people's feedback=FB, people like sweet things=CC).
Perhaps, but you can't dispute that humans don't have LIDAR.

It's just a matter of time before AI can drive better than humans even if using similar vision. Especially in aggregate (e.g., factoring in distracted drivers).
I really enjoyed that book in particular, and generally appreciate that code, but I've always questioned the definition of information in this context.

There must be a line somewhere between authority and expertise—also information and intellectual property.

It's more that I don't think I understand, even though I've probably read [most of] the same books.

Where does a journalistic piece of writing fall? Certainly, and often, the results of an investigative piece of writing would be considered quite valuable information. Does that mean it should be free? If so, how should that work be funded in the future. Most efforts outside of selling the final product have failed disastrously. Most people want it for free—free as in free like rainfall. I suppose some software may fall under a similar question.

On authority—who gets to speak to a subject? Decentralizing "facts" has put us in the position where empirical evidence is actively opposed on baseless grounds, with decentralizing the ability to compound nonsensical ramblings and dress them up as if they are of equal value as something hypothesized, experimented on, iterated, and proven within the confines of our scientific process.

Those are two more practical and immediate questions, but a sibling comment also raised a salient point.

I like a lot of the points they make, but also think some of them are naive as they came before the normalizing of internet and computers.

Curious to hear from others on this one.
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imho e2e encryption is going to quickly become table stakes for any kind of internet based communications tool. it's well on its way with the publication of the protocols used in Signal and the various open source implementations available of it.
I would never trust such a ridiculous system. I don't know that many other people would either. Although I would also not trust a fully autonomous vehicle either until more evidence is provided that we were even within 20 years of it.
No; Microsoft (for instance) today is much less riskier than Microsoft in 1988. It likely won't experience meteoric growth, but neither is it likely to crash tomorrow. Ideally, risk/reward are inversely correlated.
For half the month the lunar surface is basically paradise for solar electricity with 1.3 kw/m2 of sunlight 24 hours a day instead of just the 1.0 kw/m2 on Earth's surface for half the day. But the other half of the month is complete darkness except star and Earth light. Unless you're at one of the poles and rig a solar panel to rotate horizontally.

This is good for industrial processes you can start and stop over the course of a month but life support needs lots of batteries, about 10 times the weight of the solar panels.
I think that Valve/Steam has given more love, earlier and more consistently for Gaming period than anyone else. Yes, they make money. They also work with larger communities to improve the experience for users and gamers. I'm not really a gamer though. I play for a few hours here and there a handful of times a year.

Serious question, as I haven't looked... Does proton work on MacOS? In any case, planning on switching my desktop to Linux in a few months when I put together my next desktop (Yay, Zen 2).
Sounds silly, yes.

OTOH I've never met one of those users, so unless more devs chime in to tell me this is fact ir someone can point to a number of mailing list post, issues or other verifiable artifacts I'll be tempted to assume it is a strawman.
> Microsoft's moats have been opened up and now allow many other players to disrupt in their former core industries

Microsoft seems to be adopting the cloud just fine. They've managed to keep office modern and relevant. Xbox as a platform is still doing well. Windows is still the default OS for desktops; less people are using desktops tho. Microsoft is facing competition sure, and maybe their monopoly on desktops isn't as valuable as it once was. But it seems to me they certainly aren't headed for the mothball fleet anytime soon.
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The Big Pharma universities are probably pushed to do it by the companies.
The ACM tried to revise its code of ethics not long ago. The process a bit rough because there are very very different interests and perspectives within the organization, not to mention difference in norms between nations (like China).

They did try, though. They went just far enough that it's almost possible to suggest that one couldn't adhere to the current code and still work for Google, Facebook, or China in any engineering capacity. But I still don't really expect them to start penalizing members, as the ACM seems to see itself a lot more as an academic/research group than professional org.
How many of these studies are conducted in English vs. the legacy local language?
I wonder why the person who was taken to court over (allegedly) stealing Waymo's IP related to LIDAR would be wary of using LIDAR in his new projects...
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> if you're burned once, you can simply never do business with them again.

The problem is that avoiding doing business with them does not protect you from their behavior.

> That means the market could fix this problem.

Maybe, maybe not. But generally speaking, the free market cannot fix all problems, and particularly has an issue fixing problems that are imposed on people who already don't do business with the bad actor.
> I don't look at the keyboard anymore

You might more than you think. That was the case for me. Rearranging the key caps on my (non-laptop) keyboard quickly cured that, and is an interesting exercise when you can afford it.
Even in light of the work of Steam/Valve on Proton and general Linux support. The fact that Google's gaming platform is entirely linux, and a lot of other toolchains for gaming platforms are linux based?

That's a pretty short sighted point of view.
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It’s not true like physics is true.

It’s one lens through which to analyse office dynamics. It’s like looking through one window into a cluttered room. Through that window you might see aspects of the room that you couldn’t see through other windows. And for that reason it feels insightful. But it’s not the only window, and there is a lot more in the room than what you can see from this perspective.
I wonder how many ping pong balls would fit.
Care to provide a source to back up that claim? If you read the article and associated sources you'd find a stack of scientific evidence to confirm that it has quite a large impact.
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I provided links to the USDA report and it's findings. I provided the link to Lomborgs tweet and in it the referenced links to the findings. In it, he addresses the 10% reduction in emissions argument and show that it is cherry picking the available data. That to me has an element of alarmism in it.

"He has a history of being wrong" - if he does, I have not seen it. and I am open to changing my mind if there is evidence to the contrary - which I have asked you in good faith to provide.
> meanwhile all major tech-related IPOs seem to be about 10B.

I have some notable counters to that premise.

Square, $31.3 billion market cap. At IPO ~$5 billion.

Shopify, $27.8 billion market cap. At IPO ~$3 billion (already 9x after four years).

Splunk, $20 billion market cap. At IPO ~$5 billion.

Palo Alto Networks, $23.7 billion market cap. At IPO ~$5 billion.

Fortinet, $15.8 billion market cap. At IPO $1.5 billion.

ServiceNow, $50.3 billion market cap. At IPO ~$4.5 billion.

Atlassian, $26.5 billion market cap. At IPO ~$6.5 billion.

Twilio, $16.5 billion market cap. At IPO ~$4.5 billion.

Zendesk, $9.3 billion market cap. At IPO ~$1.7 billion.

Salesforce.com, $127 billion market cap. At IPO ~$3 billion. It hit 15x in about the same time as Tesla.

Netflix, $167 billion market cap. At IPO... a couple hundred million dollars. It hit 15x in eight years. This and CRM reach back a ways now, however you still could have easily purchased NFLX for sub $10 / share as recently as 2012.

And there are a bunch of tech-related companies that may yet produce 15x style net post IPO returns in the coming years. Such as HubSpot, which has a $7.6b market cap, versus ~$1.2b at IPO in 2014. Could have picked up ETSY at $7 / share (sub $900m market cap) well after its IPO, now $68 ($8.1b market cap).
>NeXT wasn't Linux. My understanding is that it was a completely proprietary POSIX based operating system.

NeXT was BSD with a Mach kernel.
Sign me up.

Cooperative living (very much in the same vein) sustained me through college.

'adulthood' is comparatively extremely isolating.

Where is one supposed to find a tribe, in a city, in this day and age?
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Japan isn’t acting exceptionally with Ghosn. That’s their regular operating procedure.

Ghosn allegedly arranged this overt/covert payment system because allegedly he was unhappy that compared to euro and American auto execs, he was being under compensated.

This scheme if true is unlawful. Euro and American auto execs get paid above board and since there is no need for dual streams (because if you can command 200 million and you can get it, you don’t have to be shamed about it.).

In Japan it’s improper to be overcompensated but in order to be on par with other execs’ pay Ghosn arranged this overt/covert compensation system.
You can be sleazy and untrustworthy and still be smart and right. I wouldn't use VC funding as signaling, considering how many VC folks blindly funded Theranos (which wasn't just outright fraud, but abusive pursuit of whistleblowers).

It's fairly clear machine vision is going to surpass LIDAR in the near future (taking capability and cost into account), doesn't take a robotics expert to see that.
Agreed.

I'd like to know how much security alone ends up costing. London 2012 security ended up costing over £1 billion. I can't see a US city spending less.
Unlikely, Valve has been trying to push SteamOS/Linux for years. So far without much success.
It's not at all obvious that "they" refers to "netflix and other post-production oriented users", and your argument is a tautology "Python is good at the things that Python is good at". Obviously. The rest of us are debating what those things are or are not.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s...
Sorry, *nix... didn't necessarily mean to imply that it's only Linux and conflated Unix and Unix-like platforms since a lot of the libraries and tooling will overlap.
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Let’s hope they do it this way. Munich in 1972 did a very good job building up infrastructure that is still In use.
thank you, and I wish the same to you fellow traveler :)