skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! The real trickiness for us revolved around DB connections, publisher memory management, etc. when integrating it with Django. In addition, when dealing with multiple services, we realized we needed one way across all services to solve the same problems.
Because the penalties and rewards don’t align.
If you think Uber’s car is bad can you imagine how bad Lyft’s is or most any company that started years behind?

I worked in the SDC industry. It’s mostly a science project.

Between its economics and its car I don’t understand why Lyft isn’t heavily shorted.
It's not actually a reconstruction of temperatures – it's cherry-picked data to support a per-determined conclusion.
Most municipalities can do that, so the problem is likely more with your municipality than the concept in general.

Also why would municipal broadband be a monopoly? There are lots of municipal broadband projects that are one of many ISPs.

This isn't a theoretical prediction of the future, there are already lots of examples.
Wonder if it could also be used to determine matching likely organ donors, for those needing an organ transplant?

If so, it potentially opens a world of other crappy possibilities too. :(
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This article isn't about the fact that colleges are buying SAT scores. Yes, that has been done forever.
The article is about colleges using mass mailing to dramatically boost applicants and decrease the number of people admitted.

They have some interesting interviews with college admissions staff and information about Vanderbilt specifically using this tactic to decrease their admit rate (which makes them look better in ratings).

This certainly isn't the only thing driving the massive increase in applications. There are far more students taking the PSATs, more students sending out far more applications (out of paranoia? Pressure?), and more foreign applicants.

To some extent, I think it's a positive feedback loop that doesn't require advertising at all to drive it. If you know the admit rate is low (because of all the applications being sent), then it's in your best interest to send out lots of applications -- throwing spaghetti at the wall. Then the admit rate gets lower...

Personally, I'm not entirely against this trend. Growing up in a rural area with parents who didn't go to college, I had no idea what was out there. I figured I'd probably go to the state university (which was a good school!), but didn't think much about it. When I started getting mail from colleges, it was a huge help and broadened my horizons. I ended up going to a field-specific college across the country, and really loved it.

Not only that, but it was exciting and inspiring that these colleges I had only heard about in movies and books were reaching out to me. I just never thought that would happen. I'm sure I'm not the only kid from middle-of-nowhere West coast who was really inspired by that.
They shouldn't have been driving in public with someone who wasn't paying attention 100% of the time as any regular driver would. The longer quote:

> Also, don't forget: the SUV's emergency braking system was deliberately disabled because when it was switched on, the vehicle would act erratically, according to Uber. The software biz previously said “the vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action," in an emergency.

The question then was there proper training and communication to the test drivers that it's never okay to look down at your phone. Or whether that was simply unrealistic expectations. Or if the hours were too long, or testing at night, etc.

It said there was 5 seconds which should have been more than enough for a human test driver to hit the brakes, which was their stated job.
Paying for declining cost of future storage by interest on the principal is smart. I'm surprised no one did this before. It's a clever idea.
Yes there are plenty of start-ups doing this. You can also use AWS's build-in functionality to achieve this. You can write a Lambda function which checks your server status. Even better which calls your end-point for health check if you want more detailed monitoring
Well surely not, if its a bird and you'd cause an accident with an emergency stop then you should continue. Dogmatic responses are exactly the problem with self-driving vehicles.

Sometimes it's preferable to hit something in your own vehicle. Cue the classic moral question of which person would you kill if you can only avoid one - with your vehicle - by hitting another.
It could also help his own people if they got recognition for their part, and the resources that come with that. Wasn't the fact that he did not have access to the equipment he needed, itself a sign of colonial racism?

And yeah, chances are that if a white doctor had made the same discovery, they would have been credited with the discovery.
[nevermind, the case I linked wasn't a pedestrian]
Jaywalking was invented by the car industry, I wonder if they'll double down on it again: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
What’s that quote about the last 20% of the work taking 80% of the effort?

This crash seems to be the result of several cases not being handled correctly, or at all.

1. Pedestrian crossing -not- at a crosswalk, aka jaywalking

2. Objects tagged as “Unknown” don’t have their path tracked.

By the time the car saw an “unknown object” (the woman) directly in its trajectory it was too late (1.2s before impact).

Why was there no system for a person jaywalking? That’s extremely common.

Why don’t “Unknown” objects get stored and individually have their trajectories tracked? Hello?

Programmers need to start going to jail.
It's how we've arrived at where we are now, and why you have all the things you take for granted. Buildings, planes, borders, they all had a human expense.
What's crazy to me is that an "Other" object isn't flagged for a complete stop or a major alert to the "safety" driver. This seems like a major case for when the software should stop being autonomous, when it isn't sure.

Likely the story is that their software flags a lot of things "Other" without figuring it out upon closer inspection.
Sorry about the memory issue! I’ll have a fix up later today. Some info: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1192038627854946304?s=2...
When I trained for my driver's license in Germany, the scenario "people may run onto the street" was one of the most frequently recurring scenarios in the theory part.

Anything from "children run onto the street to chase after a ball they were playing with" to "pedestrian jumping out between cars because they didn't see you" or "tram stops in the middle of the road and people exit onto the street".

Legally pedestrians must use marked crossings when available and are told to check both ways, but if a driver hits a pedestrian, it's always the driver's fault (though the pedestrian might share some blame in some circumstances but never the full liability).
The roadside checks themselves are random as they aren't announced to the public, or if they are they're posted somewhere that's non-obvious. What comes afterwards when pulled over at one of these stops is inevitably a check to see if you've been drinking.

I'm not saying this is fair or in the spirit of the law, but it's how they do this, and they're random enough.
As an aside, one of the design goals of the Commonwealth Fusion/MIT team was to lower the construction cost of HTS magnets to 100% of the material cost. So something like $100M for the superconducting tapes and another $100M to build them into magnets. Current superconducting magnets cost 10 times the material cost to construct.

Basically this level of funding gives Tokamak Energy the ability to order purchases of HTS tape in bulk and start ramping up to building all their full-scale magnets as they get deliveries over the next 3-5 years.

Edit: I find nothing in the announcement that says this is going towards magnets or HTS material, but this would be a the scale of advance funding for 3 meter radius magnet development.
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My last M.D. was a quack, too. He made a wrong call (not griping, I understand differential diagnosis) on my stomach infection, wrote a prescription, then went on vacation. Meanwhile, I did not know this, nor did I know my labs came back with my pathogen identified. I went back to the office only to overhear all that through a closed exam room door. Oh, and they let me make that appointment same-day, knowing he was on vacation.

That doctor is so very fired, and I made sure every patient there knew what happened to me on the way out. I have never been so angry about mistreatment.
That is because it oozes pretense of refusing to accept that their "silent majority" is really a noisy minority. Not recognizing freedom of association is one of the big warning signs along with not realizing the impact of what they want on /themselves/. Personally at that point I mentally mark them as spam.

Annoyingly they conflate actual corporate censorship concerns with their persecution complex. DMCA abuse is actual corporate censorship for instance. Same if say Comcast blocked Netflix. The government using a cudgel to make corporations do their censorship when laws would be struck down in an instant is censorship and a messy semantics arguement of corporate vs government origin. These complaints boil down to "they aren't giving me an audience how dare they!". There is a world of difference between not given any attention and cannot publish.
I don't understand this either. They've always offered C. In many ways Win32 and NT are as much a ""C operating system"" as UNIX. The only "special development environment" might be Visual Basic.
A classic "tragedy of the commons" problem. Inarguably having only self-driving shared vehicles on the street will be massively positive to society (public space now reserved for parking will be public space, accidents due to drivers being tired/under the influence will not be a thing any more, resource waste for cars standing around 99.99% of their lifetime will not be a thing any more), but there will be a not-so-small amount of sacrifices on the way (be it people dying or being injured by prototypes, or massive job losses because the demand for cars will drop).

Air travel was horribly accident prone too, for decades, and now it is one of the safest forms of travel in developed countries - and for electric/autonomous travel, it will be the same.
That seems thoroughly off topic.
Do you have any support to the claim that nucleosynthesis is preferred to D-T other than nature shows it working in the high gravity regime? Also do you have any support for the claims of inefficiency or cleanliness? Activated neutron wall materials have half lives in the ranges of days to 15 years, making storage less of an issue.
For reference, the video recorded by the car: https://twitter.com/TempePolice/status/976585098542833664/vi...
Here's a simple rule that could be enacted for companies seeking to do work in the autonomous driving space: if your car kills a person, your company loses its license to work on autonomous vehicles. Forever. That will dictate the adequate pace to achieve these goals safely. Then we'll see what's really possible with this technology.

Having cars that can drive themselves just doesn't seem like a particularly high priority for society at large in the face of other looming issues. Why allow it to proceed in such a dangerous fashion at all?
Sorry, for states other than California, this year, that should say all of the the time; And part of why every house is wired for 240 is because our dryers and hvacs all use 240.
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I found the "action suppression" system very interesting, and I think that is new information. Essentially, for 1 whole second after an emergency situation is detected, the system does nothing at all by design. It even suppresses planned breaking maneuvers. If the operator doesn't take over control after one second, the car will slow down slowly, not even using the full allowed braking power for regular driving (not to speak of actual emergency braking, which the system wasn't allowed to do at all).
You need monitoring. But it will not keep your servers from dying.

Using serverless, PaaS like Heroku or similar will help.
That case involves neither autonomous cars nor pedestrians.
Unlimited heating where it is cold, unlimited AC where it is hot. We had outdoor AC in the Doha World Champs this year.
I don’t quite follow your train of thought. Isn’t it normal for companies to compete and evolve their designs? I am sure Airbus is capable of doing that.
The author did not claim to give a solution.
Someone inside the car has a better sense of the surroundings than someone operating it from a distance. They also don't have a skin in the game, which can impact the judgement
It's not. I remember getting mailings 25+ years ago.
1) Microwave transmission has been practically demonstrated for decades and is less dangerous than lasers.

2) I mean not for nothing, whoever gets their reactor and satellite in orbit first.
And, of course, they _paid_ for that comp (exercising of stock options) in cash.
What if some adversary wanted to create a tailor made biological weapon that only affected people with a certain genetic profile?
Some blame, too, belongs to the human driver. His job was to look for exceptional conditions that the car may not pick up. And he failed.

It's quite possible there wasn't time for a good human driver to stop completely or avoid a pedestrian where one shouldn't be, and this accident was all but unavoidable, but we'll never know because no attempt was made. Given the speed of the car, the woman crossing the street either miscalculated, was betting that traffic would see her and slow down, or didn't see the oncoming car.

It was also odd that they disabled the car's stock emergency collision avoidance system.
Be sure to announced it a ShowHN launched. Good luck with the journey.
Freedom comes with responsibility.

And who decides what is responsible?

This may be helpful https://www.popehat.com/2019/08/29/make-no-law-deplatformed/
this definitely counts as a human error, so stupid.
But what would be the goal of governing them as utilities? This is always said as if it were obvious what would happen once FB gets utility status.

Should FB resume its banning of sexually explicit, beheading, animal torture, and ISIS videos when it is a "utility"? And how will the product of FB change as a utility? In what sense is FB a utility other than a very common place people like to go to, like concerts or a sports stadium or something?

What is actually meant when we say "regulate technology companies built around communication as a utility"? How large before you become one? Is any app that has chat or public posting a utility now? What classifies? Is the only goal to make them dumb pipes? What other roles and responsibilities would the government hoist onto FB and require it do?
It was a pedestrian, _walking_ a bicycle.
Self driving cars probably (and impossibly) need their own roadways like cable cars or trains.
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I know the situation. I haven't got to the production stage yet but I totally get it. Beside using Kubernetes, Nomad or some other scheduler, you will always have to invest your own time to resolve issues manually. You could have triggers that would invoke ansible playbooks if you don't want to handle any of the aforementioned but in the end the type of business simply requires maintenance - there is no way around that. A real human being has to be keeping an eye on the entire architecture and make sure it is running as it is supposed to.
I'm happier with retext (https://github.com/retext-project/retext). Fully open-sourced, live preview, and taking ~50% less resources than Typora to deliver the same features. If I'm not using vim, I'm in live preview mode in retext.
When the software I write fails, and it does, someone doesn't get to read a web page. Nobody dies or even gets very inconvenienced. This story reminds me of how good a thing that is. After 40 years of practice I'm still not competent to write such high stakes code. I hope the people who do write it are far more competent than me, but still at least as skeptical about their own capability.
I think part of it comes down to reliability of the sensors - if you detect an object 200m down the road, 5 metres to the right and you have only a small error in the reading, you could easily get the impression that it's moving into the path of the car. However, if you can identify what it is then you can identify if it's likely that it really is going to move into your path. These sensors really aren't as perfect as you would hope which is why so much effort is being put into machine intelligence.
> but it certainly feels like pedestrians should look out for cars when crossing, and drivers should look out for pedestrians.

The problem in this case was that the pedestrian was impaired by drugs, if I recall correctly.

In my opinion, this happened because of 3 simultaneous failures: failure of the pedestrian to responsibly cross street, failure of the computer system to recognize the obstacle, failure of the computer babysitter to be on the lookout for obstacles and override the computer.

Hopefully we learn something from this triple failure and take measures to reduce their likelihood in the future.
> One is never given

Here’s an obvious one: break up Facebook. Easily splits into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
>The question then was there proper training and communication to the test drivers that it's never okay to look down at your phone.

If I remember right, Uber did cost-savings by removing the safety engineer and expected the driver to fill both roles simultaneously.
Even 5% sounds sketchy indeed. However, AVX2 (or Haswell New Instructions) hasn't quite been on every Intel processor this decade, rather only since the 4th generation (late 2013), and only in Core-branded processors.
The video shows the app with a radar-ish view of what the car is seeing of its surroundings and its planned route. It's more than just a button, and I could see why someone would be focused on the screen display instead of the car.
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a) exercise(gym, mma, boxking, krav-maga...)
b) create a one-man-show startup - find something you are passion about, to keep you going, and start working on it every day
We use Ag-grid at my company. It's probably the most fully-featured data grid I've ever worked with on the Web, but it definitely has some pain points. I think it basically supports almost everything mentioned in this article out of the box (except for modals etc., which shouldn't be part of the grid itself anyway...). They even recently added support for charting selected ranges of data from the table.

Be forewarned though: if you're trying to use this from React with dynamic data that can be modified on the client, you're probably not going to have fun. Ag-grid is a vanilla JS library with a very thin React wrapper written around it, so even though on the surface it looks like it fits into the React model, most complex things you'll want to do end up meaning you have to use the imperative table API. I can't speak to how it fits in with other frameworks out there, but I would imagine it's going to be a similar situation.

That being said, if you're just going to drop some data into the table that's read-only, i.e. just for analysis etc., I think it's pretty solid and hard to find something with anywhere near a comparable level of features.
For several years, conservatives have expressed concern that big tech companies, such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, are suppressing right-leaning content in various, more or less direct ways. Even though conservatives often exaggerate it, I think there is no doubt about the anti-conservative bias of these companies, but that is not what I want to discuss in this article.

You don't want to discuss it here because you don't have a detailed analysis backed up by solid data. If you did, you'd lead with it.

Trust me, most people here can handle an article full of graphs and stuff.
So it's ok to have water dripping on your head as long as it's vapour condensation?
That's a false dilemma. The author is not disputing Google's natural right to do so. He s arguing that they shouldn't however get a pass from libertarians. It is possible to criticize someone without demanding that someone regulates them!
That is right - so now we have two major errors.

The justification made for disabling the emergency braking - that it would interfere with data gathering - might appear reasonable at first sight, but it does not stand up to scrutiny, for if the emergency braking is triggered, the driving system has already made a mistake, and you already have the data on that malfunction.
>projected to be after 2050

So about 30 years away?
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Chromebooks have been able to run Android apps for a while, so dev environment via Termux was possible. And newer Chromebooks also can do a Linux container.

But indeed, cheap Chromebooks are not that fast, so running tests etc remotely can be a good option there.
Also, there aren't many books about those (compared to e.g. books about the *nix API). I only know of Hart's Windows System Programming.
$6.5B is the recognized loss, i.e., the lowest possible amount they can get away writing off on their accounting books.

The real economic loss may be much higher.
When war became industrialised rather than boutique violence the swiss decided that being neutral was better.

Up until then the swiss mercs had the rep of being the hardest Bastards out there
> Legally pedestrians must use marked crossings when available and are told to check both ways, but if a driver hits a pedestrian, it's always the driver's fault (though the pedestrian might share some blame in some circumstances but never the full liability).

It's theoretically the same in most US jurisdictions. However, it's not what the law says that matters; it's what the police will actually do, and in practice, there is a very strong tendency to blame the pedestrian for any accident.
Olmsted favored a different site [1] and, as I recall, the story was that when the city didn't go along Olmsted declined to be involved--at least to any significant degree.

[1] https://fromthethicket.com/2011/03/29/who-really-designed-go... "Interestingly, when Olmsted came to San Francisco in 1865, at the invitation of prominent citizens, and surveyed the landscape to determine a suitable location for a large urban park, he proposed an entirely different location and a very different configuration . . . more attuned to the lay of the land . . . a swath of park anchored by a large parcel hugging the lower, slopes of Buena Vista and Corona Heights, sweeping down to what is now Civic Center and from there turning north to the Bay in a wide, green boulevard along what is now Van Ness Avenue."
So... trains?