skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The github project looks to be using an existing recording of a car driving from the comma2k19 dataset and predicting the expected vehicular response. No pedestrians endangered.

You sure? Yes, he's using a dataset for training, but nothing about his post indicates he's not running it the trained model on real roads. He claims to be testing the trained models:

>I did a few tests where pedestrians where suddenly crossing the road and the model gave it’s best job to not hit the human crossing the road.

How is he running these feedback tests? If the angle of the steering wheel changes the video input that is produced, how can he test that the AI would avoid hitting the human, unless he's testing in real life?

>My reading of it was that OP was in awe at the immense scale of engineering that went into Autopilot

He said how impossibly-long Autopilot's models take to train, and then goes on to say "When we compare this to what I will show you, you are gonna see that this is insane." It sounds like we're reading this differently, but to me, that sounds like "what they're doing is so over the top, you can achieve pretty good results in this space at a fraction of that, and I can prove it."

>It feels a bit much to admonish a newcomer to the space for perceived arrogance and irresponsibility

I don't care about what he's pursuing, and if you took it that way, then understand it is not my intention. I care that he is essentially putting a drunk AI driver behind the wheel of a car on roads shared by everyone, and endangering their lives. Apparently that's an unpopular opinion, given some of the responses ("big tech companies do it and bribe politicians to get away with killing people"). But I think it's the responsible opinion.
If you're going to use the Mustang brand, start the lineup with a $100K no holds barred sports roadster. Retro styled, if possible. Sure, you won't sell many, but you will establish yourself as not a joke in this space at least. Then go aggressively after the lower end of the market using the lower end "generic Ford" brand. Tesla did the right thing with their go to market strategy IMO. Ford could play a better version of it, because they have multiple entrenched brands. This is just baffling. 6 second 0-60 EV is like a fucking Soviet Lada when compared to other EVs, numbers like this should not be associated with the Mustang brand, especially at the price point they plan to sell this at.
How can you possibly know? It's not out yet.
The Explorer is quite a bit larger and seats 7 passengers.

This is like the size of an Escape, maybe the Edge.

Kinda agree on your other points though even if I don’t love the Mustang branding.
Not really, since Urus wasn't a pre-existing model of Lambos, like Mustang was of Ford. Yes, Lambo "sold out" by making an SUV, but they didn't repurpose the name of a vehicle that had decades of goodwill built up (and a completely different body style).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
Do people really pay that much for explorers? I kind of always assumed that was the sticker and a mixture of incentives and family discounts factored heavily. It's kind of like when people buy a Dodge or Chrysler, I just assume they get some sort of crazy deal because otherwise what's the point?
Definitely easier to keep the buildings at their current level and just make a new entrance on the second (or higher) floor.
> I guess I assumed it would be at a much better price.

It's about the same price as the Model Y is expected to be. In the US the Mach-E will also have the advantage of the $7,500 federal tax credit which the Model Y will not have.
Here's interesting tidbit: Vast majority of underground railway network in Moscow was built in 1950s. Cost of building a mile of interstate highway in US is about $5M. Interestingly this cost hasn't changed since 1956 in inflation adjusted dollars when new 41,000 miles of interstate highway in US was laid out. It seems major cost is not tech but quite possibly regulation and/or government inefficiency/corruption.
> The other thing is, I don't think the average Ford buyer will purchase this. Simply put, if you're interested in an electric SUV, and have 45-60k you can part with, you'll buy the Tesla Y or maybe the Audi. Who wants to drop 60k on a crossover Ford SUV?

I welcome any and all competitors. If its a good electric car, then I'm happy for it. If its bad, then at least it will issue downward price pressure on the other auto-makers.
Link to repository: https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
For 10 years, people have been talking about REST as if it means something. I could never figure it out. If it means anything more than CRUD, it's lost on me.
> better suited to the geography of the United States.

China has a similar geography to the US, and similar sizes and run lengths of their high speed space. The US has decided to build roads and highways instead of investing in other transit options. It's not that it makes "more sense", it's that the US has intentionally built things this way, for a variety of corporate and historical reasons.

> many rail lines went from necessary to obsolete with the natural progression of technology.

What? You mean, except for literally every other developed country has well developed rail lines that transport billions of people with levels of unmatched efficiency?

> when better alternatives entered the market.

Only because the market was intentionally weighted against that form of transit.
Throwing computing resources at it can be fairly accessible to small groups or even individuals as a result of 'cloud' computing. There are examples of people coordinating a large number of cloud instances for a short amount of time to crack hashes, and it was surprisingly cheap.

I don't have a reference on hand though.

This also makes it trivial for nation states and larger groups to decrypt whatever data they're able to sniff. It would actually encourage more groups to get into more places where they can sniff more data.
The same language only as seen by the browsers.. Languages as seen by orogeammers (incl modern JS but also Clojure, ML, typescript etc) get compiled to compatible-JS.
Thanks, I will add that to the GitHub.

What really excites me about this is the ability to deliver a secure "workflow automation" solution to people over any device.
Objective reality does exist - I'm not sure how this study contradicts it. It doesn't exist in a way that a normal human mind can comprehend, but it definitely exists, and you don't need observers in order to collapse the probability functions that the article talks about.
Just as a side note, "free labor" is common and not necessarily a bad thing. Whenever you give someone a gift, whatever work you did on it is effectively free labor. You could also think of donations to charity that way when you fund them out of your salary, not to mention volunteering.

It's true that often people don't want to do that, though, and this is certainly understandable.
They seem pretty distinct to me. The Dymaxion projection preserves shape as well as area.

http://www.authagraph.com/projects/description/%E3%80%90%E4%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
that's because australia means “the part of australia i'm from”
Yes. However, it's like pointing at the sun and say "That's not the sun, the sun was there 8 minutes ago".
Outside of the syntax upgrades, a lot of the standard library has improved (my favorite being 11 shipping its own HttpClient implementation).
Here's a specs and price comparison between the Mach-E and Model Y:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/382537/tesla-model-y-versus-fo...
Perhaps it has nothing to do with tech, but framing it as a tech problem lends credibility and allows for easier structural changes/violence. It is easy to say "here's how to improve transportation because xyz is a tech issue" than to say "we have a NIMBY and willpower problem, let's hire some political grads to draft a plan on lobbying politicans and researching the impact of solution abc", especially when your past achievements are all tech related.

Also tech has the perception of being hard, inflexible. Just ask anyone who had to contact Google for customer support. Tech billionaires are not known to be easy to sue either, at least compared to a bunch of city-council bureaucrats. See the first paragraph of this article as an example of how tech CEOs are portrayed in the media versus city government bureaucrats:
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-...

Framing it as a people problem is simply asking for interference by third-party interests, which is one of the main factors currently preventing accumulation of sufficient political willpower to build metros. It may be a cheap, unethical hack in the sense that the state avoids having to exhaust political capital/use controversial powers like eminent domain in exchange for having private interests build poorly thought out transportation infrastructure. At the end of the day there is an unfulfilled need for transportation infrastructure. A poorly thought out one is still better than nothing.
Numerical Algorithms (2015) [pdf]
I'm not out to analyze the clearly knowledgeable content of this article, but I'd not be surprised if someone wrote something just like it when he (Musk) started the whole illogical "make a rocket come back and land" stuff.

It's not logical, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. Let him do his thing. Who knows?
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a PM for Search
Privacy is a human right. Encryption backdoors for governments are human rights abuses.

It has nothing to do with safety; it is not a debate about “how much safety do we purchase with reduced privacy”.

It’s just as firearms rights have nothing to do with hunting, or a militia.
The wealthy already pay the majority of taxes.
>the seriously blinding speed of four million miles an hour

That’s ~600km/s. The Sun's orbital speed around the Galaxy: ~200 km/s. Distance from BH to “suburbans”: 400ly or 3.8x10^15km. Time to escape: 200k years.
People of Sydney are too busy stuck in traffic all day to write snarky comments on HN while people of Melbourne are free to shitpost away from the comfort of the trams.
Why can't we just vaporise stone with lasers..
Building more capacity usually induces demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

I know it's boring (derpa derpa), but adding congestion pricing, mass transit is likely a better option.
https://ideas.repec.org/b/mtp/titles/0262012197.html

Getting rid of cars should be the goal, not encouraging them: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pjatbiavDZYC&oi=...

Or, skipping the commute altogether with remote work.
> Imagine if we had cheap ways to build tunnels, no more

> traffic, no more congestion, roads and parking lots would

> only exist underground and cities would have more space

> for gardens, parks, buildings, and walkways.

Or, skip the tunnel building and just ban cars from major cities.

Building more infrastructure to "reduce traffic" only makes using vehicles more attractive. The amount of congestion is approximately equal to the amount of congestion the average person using the infrastructure is willing to accept, so making it less congested just means more people use the infrastructure until the limit is reached again.

The real answer to the problem is to simply ban all but buses and delivery vehicles - even then you can incentivize that they are electrically driven. Space increases and infrastructure maintenance costs are reduced, not increased.

The real golden use for TBMs is for efficiency - i.e. Go around some mountain or go straight through it? Go around a city or go under it? I imagine buildings sharing a service elevator down to the tunnel where delivery vehicles can offload to and send goods up (rather than Musk's idea of trying to lift a several tonne vehicle in some personal elevator).

Would likely make sense for all kinds of maintenance this way to, servicing water/gas pipes or electricity/internet lines for example could be as simple as removing a service panel from the side of a tunnel, rather than the terrible solution we have today involving digging up streets over and over.
"Just for being compatible" is disingenuous at best.

Ask yourself, "Why did they copy the Java API? Why didn't they use Python or Go or Dart?" They invented Dart after all.
It's not obvious qualia exist. For example http://cogprints.org/254/1/quinqual.htm
>>I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back.

Unfortunately, if this is actually true, then you are the exception which proves the rule. That's precisely why I call these people "freeloaders". If they actually stopped visiting my website and wasting my site's resources based on such principles, I would be ecstatic to see them leave.

>>TV Broadcasters don’t get to force you to watch their ads, in fact skipping ads on broadcast tv is a big and legal market.

That's because you already paid for it, and the payment was what allowed the content to even get created.

>>I don’t understand what you are saying. There has always existed straightforward methods of preventing “freeloaders” as you call them from accessing your content. If you don’t believe me, go to wsj.com and report back.

That's an interesting example, considering the number of times you see non-paywalled links here on HN.

Freeloaders exist only because they are being subsidized by those who actually pay. That's exactly why paywalled articles also have non-paywalled versions. If you don't believe me (that non-paywalled versions are subsidized by people who pay), just ask someone who produces the content and report back. Or better yet, ask the same person who produced the content how long they will keep producing content if no one paid for access. As the old saying goes, at some point, you run out of other people's money.
So the motor controller in an electric vehicle is basically spitting out sine waves at 200+ kW. It'd be cool if they could tune that to 120/240V 60Hz, bypass the motor, and add a connector that powers your house.
Once, I found a curious challenge in optimizing a bitwise formula for a particular computation (by hand it took hours; brute-force, a program found the essentially-unique optimal solution in a fraction of a second). I showed it to a fellow mathematician... he was mad because he couldn't determine rhyme or reason in the solution I found. Wicked smart guy, outclasses me as a mathematician by far... but he essentially rejected my result because he couldn't ascertain how to reproduce it by hand (despite me having a relatively simple proof of optimality).
Around the time people started drinking coffee instead of beer,lots of changes in art, math, and science began to happen. To use a phrase from startup culture, coffee was very disruptive.
Tyranny's got a pretty good balance of old-school CRPG feel without old-school difficulty or unfairness. Good gimmick & setting, and good-enough story, to boot.

Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Hong Kong are also really good. I hear "Returns" was OK but not nearly as good as those, haven't bothered with it.

Divinity: Original Sin seemed really promising but I got sick of it crashing like 1/hr and dropped it.

Perspective: aging former gamer whose access to long gaming sessions for deep single-player stuff is now tightly restricted by adult responsibilities—i.e., kids.

Favorite older games of that sort, for reference, are Baldur's Gate, FO1 and (especially) 2, Arcanum, and (stretching "that sort" a bit) Darklands. Still haven't beaten Planescape: Torment after my game started repeatably crashing ~2/3 of the way through years ago, but that was really good.
>In this case the unique product is demand — users. And this is where I am tempted to defend Google: at the end of the day, the company has the dominant position in its value chain largely by providing a better product.

This is the gist of it; Google, despite all the ads, and SEO spam, and other unscrupulous crap, still has the best tech. I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine, atleast on desktop, but I still have to swithc to google 1/5ths of my critical info searches.
Just curious, why would anyone use this over Bitwarden?
Lots of criticism here, fair enough, it’s very worrying to give non-transparent institutions this kind of power, not to mention the technical feasibility.

But... what should be done about child pornography, then? The ability to disseminate it with impunity is a problem we can’t just pretend doesn’t exist. Using online platforms pedophiles can monetize and go full time professional in countries where children are easily exploited. Nobody is coming to save those kids.
Odd, I have only encountered clear SEO spam from smaller companies. It is very well disguised but just looking at a users history reveals that the review was spam.
> It failed due to a couple of obvious reasons. We built on Vue.js and Rails

I read it with a comma instead of fullstop between the sentences :D
Have you ever heard of the Dodge Hellcats? They have a following and old muscle car fans would be swayed by a Mustang badge. They make a $100k Grand Cherokee Trackhawk that’s double the price of my Trailhawk.

German cars are nice but there’s no way I’m paying that much for parts and labor on top of the sticker. Not to mention they are making them much harder to work on. Remove the intake manifold to change the plugs or coil, why?
Looks very helpful. It would be great to hear a testimonial from anyone using this in their everyday workflow.
Yes Firefox on iOS does already do that.
I have no idea who he is, why should some random “analyst”?
The only time cities have jacked themselves up is after fire or natural disaster. No way “underground deliveries” is scalable.
I have had great success using Google for shopping. Their paid price comparison results are better than most organic ones.
Chinese nationalism is trying to follow in the footsteps of Japanese nationalism of the early 20th century. We all know how that played out.
> an Erlang process can be orphaned if its Process Identifier becomes inaccessible.

Has this ever actually happened? Surely with as many deploys as erlang has, it would have been observed. A casual google search of "orphaned erlang process" shows the parent comment in the top four results, and no other results that mention orphaned erlang processes.

My point about erlang is that it's great precisely because, like all great systems, it doesn't dogmatically adhere to the academic design, and rather makes compromises and is refined by practitioners.

> re-entry into the region of mutual exclusion potentially enabling cyberattacks from outside the process

Typically you run your erlang actors inside of a trusted system. The only way to give untrusted actors access to your system, is explicitly (so no one does it). There are warning signs all over the place around every place where that might happen (for example distributed erlang) and in prod you really really shouldn't deploy distributed erlang without tons of security in depth in a deeply buried vLAN, or, TLS (instructions provided in the standard libs).

The only realistic vectors of attacks on your actor system is by compromising the entry points, like the actors which live to process your TCP or TLS entry points, but you can bet that ericcson has taken a lot of effort to harden those systems and, in fact, the ericcson SSL system was not vulnerable to the Heartbleed attack (despite using OpenSSL) because there are some very smart engineers at ericcson, and also the language generally doesn't have buffer overflows.

BTW, thanks for coming to my stanford ee380 talk a couple of Februaries ago -- unfortunately I wasn't aware of what you looked like, so I didn't get that you were in the audience at the time.
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Ask HN: 'Systemic' vs. 'Systematic': which is the correct one?
Systemic describes something that happens or exists throughout a whole system. It is the newer word; it entered English in the early 1800s.

"He has a systemic infection."

"The new police chief had to address systemic corruption."

Systematic describes something that was thorough and intentional, methodical, or implemented according to a plan. It is the older word, having entered English around 1670.

"Doctors began a systematic treatment plan."

"Ending systematic discrimination was his first goal."
Not CNN
But the F1 racer has far better top speed, better acceleration, better braking, better handling, better collision protection, better aerodynamics (and active aerodynamics), far more internal sensors, telemetry of those sensors, and is far better for impressing girls.
Terra lunas?
Hmm, I'm not sure if people in the western world can use it but in South Korea (with a 1Gbps network) this is basically unusable.

It has too much latency, text doesn't get entered, scrolling doesn't work, etc... Is the experience from US similar? Or is this just b.c. of server latency?
An extraordinary bit of data. Thanks for sharing the link.
An Obsession with Product Experience Begot a Great Integration Platform
Bloody hell that's the most boring drive of the country too
Also, the Andromeda Galaxy is about six times as wide (and about as tall) as the moon. So Australia is about five times as wide and about as tall as the Andromeda Galaxy, which means it's about 20,000 light years wide and 4,000 light years tall.
Except gun ranges are not just liberally sprinkled throughout cities, making it difficult to leave the house without having to move through one.
I find the UX patterns in the demo section pretty jarring. Having new pages animate in from off screen feels like it requires a fair amount of cognitive load to model the navigation hierarchy in your head (especially on a per application basis)
We are in a golden era of muscle cars with Dodge, Ford and Chevrolet producing the most powerful and poised cars in the category ever, and Ford comes out with this Tesla lookalike branded as a 'Mustang'? Incredible. why not call it the Ford Electro or some new name - why on earth mess around with the Mustang brand?
but... since you mentioned the french, isn't french cities like paris more than thousands of years old. thanks for replying though, i was just curious why havana is suddenly singled out because it seems still a young city.
Benchmarking PyTorch Quantized Models
internal internal combustion engine engine
(Edit: To get an idea what this would look like if you were to watch this star moving across the sky like a comet)

The sun's apparent diameter in the sky is roughly a half a degree. Over the course of an hour, it will move approximately 15 degrees across the sky, or rougly 30 apparent diameters. The actual diameter of the sun is ~860,000 miles, making the 'apparent velocity' of the sun across the sky nearly 26 million miles per hour or ~6 times faster than this beast.

I mention that to apply wet socks to any notion of a bullet star flinging across the sky like tracers at the Knob Creek night shoot. It's fast yet, but at that scale, doesn't look it.

(for the uninitiated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11uEvGc7u8 )
Do we need free full-fibre broadband?
Because that’s literally the job of a compliance person? They have access to Google, you know, and all your personal identity information.
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A lot of things were happening in that (very long) period, most of them with a much more obvious connection to changes in learning and culture than coffee. A connection would require better evidence than contemporaneity.
I just took a look at Skaffold. I don't think this is what I want. Skaffold does not look like the right solution of a monorepo with code gen, dependencies, and complex build processes. It looks like it's the right tool for a bunch of folders containing Dockerfiles and build contexts.
I'd just like to point out that University of Wisconsin's German department has been putting out great German learning material for about 100 years now. If you're lucky enough to live in a university town with used book stores and a foreign language section, you may find old primers there. There's even a dialect of German called Wisconsin High German:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_German
Wasn't that Porsche before the Cayenne too?