skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that any better with Radar or cameras. What happens when there is a large droplet over a lens? Does sound diffuse in a heavy rainstorm and/or completely drown out the ping.
Please reread the headline and article more carefully before
posting irrelevant redundant comments. Watkins said that the manifesto document was not uploaded by the shooter.
This author missed Musks point entierly. His argument is that to solve self-driving you need a deep understanding of your surrounding which you can only achieve with visible light spectrum video. That's the real hard problem to solve and you need cameras to solve that and if you solve it then lidar becomes unnecessary.

The doomed part is because if companies are spending all of their energy on creating neural nets around lidar then they'll reach a local maximum where they never begin to tackle the much more difficult problem truly needed for self-driving.
In the long term, I'd not want my country's national security compromised by a morally bankrupt govt not subject to democracy.
Ask HN: What “fashionable technologies” has your company tried and dropped?
My wife recently graduated from a top med school. Her experience was that it was probably 80% "meritocratic" (long hours, grinding it out, being there when someone needs help) and 20% "political" (knowing the right people in the department, knowing what research projects will be good to join and what projects are dogs). To be the top student, you need to know the material well and be productive at research and be a good service provider (good manners, thoughtful, empathetic, etc). The good news is that departments generally give very good opportunities and mentorship to anyone student who shows an aptitude for grinding. Basically, to be in the top 1/5 of the class is all about getting in your reps, and the things that separate the members of the top 1/5 of the class is who they know, who knows them, and the impact and scope of the projects and procedures they were trusted with.
For larger clients who are familiar with the design process that's true. But for smaller clients, I would 100% take a working, "wrong" version of a site based on a design file over Sketch iterations any day. You'll get immediate, actionable feedback much faster (ex. "I don't like button X, change it to Y"), often times with less effort and a happier client at the end.
I don't think the karma system is the important part. Once I had enough karma to post/comment/downvote I've always had more than I ever needed.

I do wonder though if a few users are posting a large volume of stories (even automatically) adding to the general mainstreamness of content. Is there a per user daily post limit? I think there ought to be.

What's important is the rules by which we act. This is of varying consistencies. In particular downvotes shouldn't be used for disagreement or dislike but rather identifying clearly incorrect statements or noncondusive/worthless comments--an opposing view well presented shouldn't be downvoted.

Instead of the karma system, I wish there was an update to the story points. HN now has so many users that unexceptional stories of general interest get far too many points.

I would be great if posts could be tagged (e.g. 36 point 'physics' label) and the reader could vary weights of labels to surface or partially bury some categories.
Musk badly wants for you to not realize that nobody is proposing LIDAR-only, but are rather proposing LIDAR+optical+radar. Musk argues against straw men.

(Also the radar Telsa is using has jack-shit for angular resolution. It can't tell the difference between a tree next to the road and a fire truck parked right across it. Consequently that radar has very limited utility.)
The pre-clinical years (usually the first two years, but many schools are condensing this phase into 1 or 1.5 years) are very meritocratic in that your standing depends on mostly multiple choice tests. And then you take the first medical licensing exam called Step 1 which largely determines your competitiveness for residency programs. The clinical years where you are actually working in the hospital in various fields is less objective as you are judged based on the subjective feedback evaluations of the residents and attending physicians.

However, you are mostly rated on how much you know, how confident you are and your social skills. So if you did really well in the pre clinical years and are not socially inept then you’ll probably get good evaluations.

But it’s a marathon. It’s an unbelievable amount of information you have to memorize and in the beginning it’s hard to stay motivated when you can’t see it’s direct relevance.

So overall I’d say it’s fairly meritocratic. If you can memorize things well and are social then you’ll do well barring any exceptional circumstances.
It would make sense to use all three.

Lidar used for long range. Vision used for things like colour recognition e.g. is a traffic light green/red or is an ambulance sirens on. Radar used for reversing etc where Lidar given its location might not be able to see that close.
Why is amazon setting the price rather than letting the supplier and the market?
FWIW this has never happened to me.

It also strikes me as suboptimal even as a "dark pattern": Clicking on conversations when you have the app open already, and not seeing new messages you expect, is frustrating without any conceivable payoff for Facebook. The pattern mentioned above–the app icon showing activity, which gets you to open the app–seems far more plausible.
LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements
I led this project - it died with the late Mayor Ed Lee. An interim Mayor doesn’t have the political capital to lead something of this scale.
One doesn’t elect employees of a private business. They choose not to consume media that business produces. Do you think that we should elect people to tell us what’s happening?
According to the site, last update was in 2013, which I'd still consider "relatively recent" in terms of computers being generally available (and well on their way to being locked-down appliances, but I digress...) --- although the bulk of the content there looks to be from the early to mid 90s.
A little anecdote about the careful part. He flew ground attack missions in the Korean War. He didn't win any popularity contests on the ground. The leader for his squadron was one of the popular pilots. But when they were out of sight of the airfield, the squadron leader would radio my dad to assume the lead. He'd lead the squadron in and out, and when they got back near the base, he'd swap positions back with the actual squadron leader.

The reason was pretty simple. He'd take the time to pour over the maps and intelligence to find the safest route in and out, and they'd get back with the fewest holes in the airplanes.

I.e. when it counted, the squadron would entrust him with their lives.

I don't think it's possible to have a greater honor.
I thought mesh is supposed to involve hopping from neighbor to neighbor - not everyone directly connected to an ISP. What is the difference then besides that it is volunteer-run with donated bandwidth?
expensive large and heavy
No, you shouldn't have that power. Doing business with someone and providing services to them isn't and shouldn't be an endorsement of their values. Jeffrey Epstein should be able to hire whatever legal council he wants, convicted sex offenders should be able to find an apartment upon release, gun stores should be able to take credit card payments, and generally speaking you shouldn't get excluded from the benefits of modern society simply for being unpopular, no matter how just the reasoning.
A Prince’s $500B Desert Dream
That’s the side position. Lucky for me I sleep that way to make my head comfortable. I wonder if it is more refreshing to sleep that way too then?
Is anyone found a stylus that works with the macbook's trackpad? The usecase is to be able to draw some diagrams during video calls/screencasst.

Trying to avoid the wacom/tablet path to keep it lightweight :)
For those not familiar, here's the wikipedia page on hybrid fusion-fission [1]. The idea is to use a sub-break-even fusion reactor as a source of very high energy neutrons that would trigger fission in uranium or thorium isotopes that are otherwise non-fissile. For example U-238, which constitutes 99% of all uranium on earth, and which is currently the dead weight as far as uranium is concerned (worse, you spend a lot, a lot of money to separate U-235 from U-238). U-238 can undergo fission when targeted by fast neutrons, but can't sustain a chain-reaction, so fusion-fission hybrid reactors can't lead to a Chernobyl event (but a Fukushima is possible).

Not clear why we don't hear more about fusion-fission hybrids on HN. It sounds like such a promising technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion%E2%80%93fission...
very few transfer spots open, and the schools tend to have different curriculum programs (generally the same courses, but taught with varying focuses).
Just install SwiftKey. The native iOS keyboard is absolutely appalling, I don't wish it upon my worst enemy...
What are the uses for downloads beyond 150mbs? 4k video and stadia? Sharing one connection between multiple users for pricing arbitrage?
(Disclaimer: I have not read any “actual” work by Toni Morrison, so my knowledge is limited to the following, which I wanted to share.)

There's a great profile of the editor Robert Gottlieb who worked with her, including a few wonderful quotes from Toni Morrison revealing how she worked (search the page for "Morrison"; there are about 10 quotes), from 1994: https://web.archive.org/web/20161227170954/http://www.thepar... — the whole thing is a great read even if you don't care about Toni Morrison (every lover of reading is likely to enjoy it), but if you do, it may just be a few snippets that you might have otherwise missed as it's not “about” Toni Morrison.

> [Morrison] Writing my first two books, The Bluest Eye and Sula, I had the anxiety of a new writer who needs to make sure every sentence is exactly the right one. Sometimes that produces a kind of precious, jeweled quality—a tightness, which I particularly wanted in Sula. Then after I finished Sula and was working on the third book, Song of Solomon, Bob said to me, You can loosen, open up. Your writing doesn’t have to be so contained; it can be wider. I’m not sure these were his exact words, but I know that the consequence of the remarks was that I did relax and begin to open up to possibilities. It was because I was able to open up to those possibilities that I began to think things like, What would happen if indeed I followed this strange notion or image or picture I had in my mind of this woman who had no navel . . . whereas normally I would have dismissed such an idea as recklessness. It was as if he had said, Be reckless in your imagination.

> [Gottlieb] I remember the discussion with Toni as she was beginning Song of Solomon, because although we always did some marginal cosmetic work on her manuscripts, obviously a writer of her powers and discrimination doesn’t need a lot of help with her prose. I think I served Toni best by encouraging her—helping to free her to be herself. The only other real help I gave to her was noneditorial: I encouraged her to stop editing and to write full-time, something I knew she wanted to do. As I remember it, I reassured her about her finances—but what I was really saying was, You’re not an editor who does some writing, you’re a writer—acknowledge it; there’s nothing to be scared of. We always understood each other—two editors, two lovers of reading, and exactly the same age.

[…]

> [Morrison] Writing for me is just a very sustained process of reading. The only difference is that writing a book might take three or four years, and I’m doing it. I never wrote a line until after I became an editor, and only then because I wanted to read something that I couldn’t find. That was the first book I wrote.
Musk's argument was refuted by his own Data Scientists.

They admitted their own models are far from perfect and will likely never be. The concerning one in particular was the "is this a large object" model which initially failed to identity objects such as car-carrying trucks, cranes etc.

With Lidar you can certain at least that it will identity an obstacle.
>that nearly every professional philosopher

>You're not going to get anyone in ethics

Isn't this exactly an argument supporting collective position ?
I think you're on fairly complicated ground here, ethically speaking. This is not a question that ethicists have left unaddressed, and it requires a bit more thought than simply the "existence vs non-existence" dichotomy you've presented here. If you want to look into it further, I know Christine Korsgaard among others has discussed this exact question in her papers.
Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Our site is internationalized with our product and we have Spanish translations. If you change your Chrome language setting to Spanish you can see it. We'll plan to add a manual language flag soon.
No, I'm saying that people generally should not use their influence with third parties to enact extrajudicial punishment. Tortious interference with contract is a bad thing.
Once I had Alexa in my home I stopped asking Siri for anything ever
Volvo Cars, China in first blockchain project for recycled cobalt
Renewables are rapidly approaching cost parity. In energy generation, they have arguably already achieved it, even with existing(!) coal(!) power.

And China is actually investing far more into clean energy than richer countries, both in absolute as well as relative terms. One of the reasons is the catastrophic pollution from manufacturing. Others are fuel independence and the goal of becoming a leading manufacturer.
Do you really feel that people here don't allow opposing viewpoints? IMO that is an area where Hacker News shines, especially in comparison to sites like Reddit. I rarely see, respectful, well thought out counter-viewpoints downvoted simply for disagreeing.
Do the philosopher have a clear ethical answer of the morality of death penalty? [or replace this with your favorite flamewar topic]
> Assuming advances in technology and energy we could get to the point where a hypothetical farmer could raise animals in luxury. As tech increases the luxury will increase.

Why would an industrial food processor care about how luxurious the sentient inventory finds the warehouse?
And Minix which runs inside every Intel CPU.
The criteria mentioned seem both parochial and specious.

I'd prefer meaningful criteria that result in new citizens who would make positive contributions to a community, not criteria that would encourage otherwise ethical people to falsify official documents nor ones that equate toil with virtue.
The colored lines are visible. And the non-lines are gray-scale. If you look at the entire picture rather than individual gray patches, the surfaces/textures seem to have the proper colorization even though the lines have much greater spacing than our color visual acuity.

It's more impressive with thinner colored lines in the more info link.
Myself and all my three children from birth have been belly sleepers. Never slept a wink until they could turn themselves over since they make you put them on their backs. Always thought it odd.
For more,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanid_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghurid_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarazmian_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia
Those are two different points in the timeline though. The kids encountered that hazard because the parents didn't keep them from all hazards. But, it is the parents job to keep them away from things after they become a problem. It would be poor parenting to let them keep playing the game if it has become a problem.
Shenandoah GC changes in JDK 13 – Part 1
CPU speculating that it knows what the state will be after SWAPGS and continuing to load instructions into pipeline and partially executing them. In case of either a different branch bring taken, or SWAPGS causing a fault the pipeline will be rolled back, but side effects of the partial execution (like loads into cache) will not be.
Isn't Yelp essentially committing fraud by colluding with GrubHub to impersonate business entities?
> calling folks like yourself a nasty name and checking out

You forget; they also murder indiscriminately. You're acting callous and self-righteous; it's not hard for me to imagine you "understand" Fascism's appeal, a la Matt Bors' reluctant Nazi.

https://images.dailykos.com/images/574802/large/1350.png?153...
Those servers have more than one user, perhaps.
Yes, one added value that people often miss from Ethereum is programmable money. Ethereum gives you a nice API of money.
It would also be highly compressible. So maybe 1-2 GB after compression?
The raspberry pi camera is rolling shutter, which adds some complications. To properly simulate a high framerate camera, you would want to build each frame from sections of several images that are being simultaneously exposed. Doing so without leaving artifacts at the borders would require some sort of really fancy interpolation, but might be possible.
It’s difficult to switch residencies because each residency program has a fixed number of positions per training year which is largely funded by the government. And almost all positions are filled by the end of match so the only way you can switch is if someone leaves their position for some reason and they happen to be at the same training level as you.

Medical schools admit a variable number of students each year although they aim to have a specific number. It’s difficult to switch medical schools because Med school curricula are very different from program to program. And also there’s just no standard mechanism for switching, you’d just have to schmooze some of the higher up administrators. Med schools don’t really get any advantage by taking in transfers unless they had a mass exodus of students and needed the money. So there’s little incentive for administrators to even bother with transfers. In residency you want all your positions filled so you can keep the funding and have enough staffing so if a position opens you want to fill it ASAP.
It’s mostly consistent except for 7-9PM weekdays. I set up some special QoS rules that I can toggle on/off on my LAN to make my phone feel decent enough during those hours...shh don’t tell my wife! ;)
As far as I can tell, that's a yes to both: Signal supports VoIP calls, they're definitely using the PushKit VoIP API, and I assume they're using that API for both text notifications and calls since the code doesn't have any reference to the other API they could use.
well, i heard in a podcast that surgeons -- not to pick on them but that was the example given -- don't have their own lives on the line and would likely ignore checklists. compared to say pilots.

yet, pilots make mistake too. examples were given when they rush and ignore the checklist or the second in command for example. rushing is usually the biggest mistake. and ignoring a lower ranking pilot is another big one.
That's why certificate/trading schemes are important: they allow all the costs of emissions to be levied onto the goods produced, making the (financial) costs of production, and therefore consumption, align with the environmental costs.

That's better compared to, say, per-country emission goals.
If only engineers working on that sort of product had some kind of way of using a plastic tab or something to hold things into place. Like have lunch with the memory socket or PCIe people and talk shop.
They are made in and shipped from Canada. I doubt they are export-controlled, but I would email them. They were quite responsive to most of my inquires. Just don't ask when they might implement features. I'm still waiting on some stuff that are listed on the 2 year old spec sheet as "*features (that) are fully supported in the camera's hardware, but are not yet supported in software. They will be added in a free software update after the camera's initial release."
Don't the vast majority of people think there is a singular set of correct ethics? Why do you think otherwise?

The mere fact that there is wide disagreement about some ethical questions doesn't help the argument (as some people think), because there are all sorts of very controversial questions where it's still commonly accepted that these questions have a correct answer.
Maybe I want to watch every NFL game live, simultaneously, in 4K.
Proof that bureaucracy kills!
Heh, I clicked the comments on this to make sure Althea was being talked about. Glad to see you guys are getting deserved attention!
QCObjects was featured by British Herald as the most advanced framework
Show HN: Better Support for Units in Google Sheets
> His argument is that to solve self-driving you need a deep understanding of your surrounding which you can only achieve with visible light spectrum video. That's the real hard problem to solve

Musk's argument is more that cameras should be sufficient because humans can drive using only two eyes to perceive the driving environment. He always neglects to mention that humans do this with a combination of sight and a brain capable of general intelligence. I'm sure it's true that if Tesla invents AGI, self-driving with just cameras will become tractable. But "real hard problem to solve" doesn't begin to capture the difficulty.

In reality, since no one has yet invented a self-driving computer, it's impossible to say what components are necessary or even whether there may be more than one way to skin the cat. But one source we should probably take with a grain of salt on this issue is those (like Musk) with an intense commercial interest in one perspective.
I knew an NYC paramedic 10 years ago who was making $13/hr.
Chicken is one of the most commonly farmed meats and they're certainly omnivorous.
Right, the use case for 10x bandwidth is so you can discard 90% of the download so you don't have to decide even 1second on advance which part you want to keep.
Vision is also poorer in rain, snow, and fog.
There's also M.2 "M key" and M.2 "B key" because why not have two different types of connector in your brand new standard. There's also "M+B" which reminds me of the days of CD-RW and CD+RW with CD+/-RW thrown in to try and unify things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

This is annoying because some dual M.2 adapter cards have one of each, so you can't use two M-type cards in it.
I think it looks rather spectacular, and have no idea why "[...] an artist's fantasy made real by extensive structural analysis" is anything negative.

If I were to define the perfect consultancy it would be pretty close to "do really strange stuff that gets people thinking about important problems and get paid well for it".

And FWIW, I believe they are proposing to build it on land, not have it floating in water.
Price. I worked briefly with teams building self driving cars in the past. Their budget for sensors far exceeded the cost of the car itself.
> that nearly every professional philosopher (particularly in ethics) disagrees with this position.

So you are (at least partially) defining ethics by the consensus of people (in your case professional philosophers).

Even in pure mathematics, which is considered to be among the most rigorous of fields, a whole lot depends on consensus about axioms and consensus about what is a valid proof.

Yes, I agree there are logical principles for determining ethical actions given a set of ethical axioms, but however, the ethical axioms themselves, and indeed the logical principles, are determined by consensus.