skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ABS is a very human-centric system the tries to keep the car controllable under low traction, often by sacrificing something aspect of movement. The neural nets here throw all that out of the window, and control the car with direct physics, without being once or twice removed from reality.

The video also has some very interesting points about how the AI should be able to control the acceleration and braking on each wheel individually - so we really don't need to limit AI driving with human safety or control systems.
> That does not excuse misconduct by managers or violations of law.

Literally right after the bit you quoted.
As soon as I saw American Heart Association on the list I knew it was going to be a scam idea. This "non-profit" pays their CEO $1.5M, just fired all their product distributors to bring profit home, and just squeezed all their independent training centers by tripling the price of supplies to them. Lastly, they plant "volunteers" into its customers. For example, the purchasing manager for Veterans Affairs in charge of buying all CPR training for the world's largest health system is also in a leadership position with AHA. Guess who has the exclusive, non-competitive contract?

When anti net neutrality was up for debate, same thing. I just needed to tell grandmom: it's a political thing Comcast is fighting for. Grandmom replies "if Comcast wants it it must be bad". Bam! Done explaining.
I looked up after your reply, they decay by losing energy based on the matter they interact with. So in the vacuum of space they can travel great distances as long as they don't interact with the matter.

Source: https://cosmic.lbl.gov/SKliewer/Cosmic_Rays/Muons.htm
I think it has actually. It motivated go, brotli, quic, tensorflow, kubernetes, vp9/av1, webrtc, hack, rust, hadoop, node, etcetcetc
Somewhat reminds the progress airplanes did in the 1970s with fly-by-wire technology. Specifically they way it was utilised in the F-16.

Moving from directly piloted controlled surfaces (rudder, elevator, flaps, ailerons etc) to using a computer to convert the pilot command input to servo actuators. Flight surfaces had much more authority, much better performance could be achieved, but the flight computer was in charge of safety and keeping the aircraft within limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
But where will tomorrow's WeWork, Uber, and Elon bashing articles go? /s
That sentence conveyed an important fact, but is missing a word or two for technical accuracy. Hopefully, after a long full life, he had much more important things to cringe about! Glad the Times published his obit even with this bit.
I wish it were, but it's not. The author presents a myopic and one-sided view of the situation, scapegoating the city's numerous problems on a single group of people. It's not nuanced at all.
I'm not sure if you are delusional or stupid, but Apple isn't using the H1-B process to hire the "creme-de-le-creme" of Software Engineers.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=apple&year=2018
Anyone have more technical information on this? This sounds really cool.
It's ok if you choose to do it, but most people don't have much choice.
Yes I agree, from the object's frame of reference no time passes.
I'm not so sure British geyser is really pronounced with a гей.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/ge...
That’s the basis of the problem though, you are shown a door with no prize. I don’t understand the confusion. In that scenario you switch. No other scenario is offered.
Yeah, my mental comment as I read was, "So you're saying I'm an old fogey at 36?" Mind you, my family and friends would probably point out that I was an old fogey at 26, and possibly at 16...
I would try to intervene with language, but not violence. I would appreciate and expect the same from my friends -- there are people in my life I've discussed very similar hypotheticals with. None of that has to do with whether or not physical interference would constitute a cessation of free exchange; forget legality and morality, just think about the definitions of the words we're using.

In any situation where you are using violence to stop two people from exchanging physical objects, you're interfering with free exchange. If you actually disagree with this, I would like a term which refers to the concept I'm trying to discuss. I'd suggest that you're referring to something more specific like "well informed free trade" or "information symmetric free trade".
Ok give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live. You'll end up living in a much worse place when it's all said and done but anything else would be immoral.
The frustrating thing is - the more you learn about what the OS can do, the more you realize that many programming languages and the applications written in them quite often reimplement large parts of the OS for an astonishingly large portion of their codebase. That isolates developers from learning about the OS in the first place. (They always end up needing to learn about it, anyhow, so it's a bit futile. Now, however, they feel smug about it and pretend like they shouldn't need to learn all this OS stuff.)

I guess developers always implement their own ignorance to a certain degree (and how could they not!? except, you know, spending more time learning their craft). What they don't know the OS can do, they will recreate - often poorly - in their own software. It does get rather comical and the various frameworks that you can subscribe to in modern programming languages repeat the concept, just that now, you're reimplementing things that the language can already do, but in the framework.

My favorite example is the various kinds of "service" patterns, like dependency injection - in many instances that I've seen, you could boil most of its use down to simple function calls. But since global functions are ew, you instead create a service that you inject and then call a method in. Boom, the gods of OOP are happy and nobody is allowed to say: "Wait a minute, if I take a few steps back and squint a little, what you're doing looks surprisingly similar to a global function call."

(And yes, I know, DI is supposed to be about overriding functions, yada yada very few people actually do that and it's often such an organizational hassle with downstream problems that projects eventually resort to put up conventions from doing that most of the time. Anyways - tell that to the people that I've seen implement, I kid you not, a CamelCaseService.)
Hey, author here. Yes the treadmill deck desk is rather maximalist!

I also enjoy very portable setups, particularly for forests / mountains, but I also sometimes computer in or outside cafes. My portable setup for being out in nature is really weird looking though, so I'm slowly ramping up the weirdness levels of my posts about these topics rather than diving right in. While the location and hardware isn't exactly mundane, the deck desk idea is fairly close to our daily experience and so approachable. The next increment away from the mundane is hammock computing - https://mgsloan.com/posts/supine-computing/ . I have two more posts that are work-in-progress that are more in the unconventional and minimalist direction. So yeah, I think those might appeal to you more!
> I think we can figure out the social and economic problems.

Seems optimistic. We are decidely bad at figuring out exactly those kinds of problems right now.
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I helped run the infrastructure for a reasonably large site. Occasionally while debugging an issue I'd be looking through our outbound delay queue -- sure enough, there'd be at least a dozen typo variations of gmail, yahoo, hotmail sitting there waiting to time out. And these were for customers who'd made an actual purchase and entered their email address twice.

Definitively proving that 'please confirm your email address' fields are not nearly as effective as the designers thought it would be.
There is unlikely to be any alive material that is that old though
> But if you to try to objectively answer a more abstract question, "Is it better for humans to live to 150 years of age rather than 75 years of age?", I don't think there is objectively a right answer.

This answer depends on the definition of what is "better".

Is it "better" to have two "medium" happy people or one "very" happy person? On a societal level, should we be measured by collective happiness (the sum), average happiness, the most happy person, or the least happy person? Or maybe "happiness" should not be the measure at all. Evolution dictates that the "best" is the one that survives the longest as a species, so maybe we should tune society simply for long term survival, regardless of happiness. Or maybe you believe in god, and "be fruitful and multiply" is the standard, so the more the better, regardless of other criteria. Maybe the answer is to maximize GDP. Or perhaps seeking knowledge is the pinnacle, so any society that builds the largest pool of knowledge is the best.

There are countless other ways of determining "better". Take a philosophy course and dig into it.
This is unfortunately a very naive point of view. An exec in charge of training is an exec in charge of a cost center. No one likes costs, so no one appreciates his job and his career is hampered.

Turning it into a profit center earns him respect and promotions.
I'm pretty sure the concept was "light shining through windows" and then the marketing department started getting creative with ways to justify its existence.
I would be surprised if the number of millionaires minted from being an employee (not founder) at a private tech startup founded in SF was over 1000 over the last 10 years.

Even if you're employee #10 the amount of equity you receive is, if you're lucky, maybe .20%, and drops exponentially from there.

Employees working at the big cos likely made much more depending on how long they held on to their RSUs than your average startup employee.
I assume you don't have to use sbt builds because you use mill?

Also you mentioned command line tools. Any chance you could elaborate on how you distribute them?

Thanks
Love the EFF plug.
Most SF techies are YIMBYs, so that is a very much "please don't throw me into the briar patch" threat.
Honestly, I wholeheartedly agree with you. His diction seems to be uninspiring.
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On an unrelated note, fuck those fields. That is all.

edit: OK that's not all. Anyone else who's sick of websites interfering with your copy/paste operations, find dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled in about:config and set it to false. HTH.
It’s not just optimized for founders. The investment-employment concentration is a feedback loop that has been running for decades. Investment stays here because there is such an established concentration of talent. VCs talk about wanting to tap into the global talent pool. But, remote/distributed development is still a penalty vs everyone on the same floor. And, there are no comparable concentrations elsewhere.

The Bay Area is expensive. But, if you have a tech job, the pay balances out easily. Sometimes excessively.

There is tons of interesting tech work in the Bay. Not just pay the bills and go home work. But, work that is fascinating in itself. If you can’t find fascinating work here, maybe your interest in tech is limited to the paycheck. That’s totally respectable. But, you’d probably be happier some place more family friendly, or with mountains, or with a culture less focused on work -even if your bank account won’t grow as fast.

The arts culture has fallen off recently as rents have risen and the drug/homeless epidemic has really picked up in the past two years. But, it’s SF is still a beautiful city full of wonderful things. And, a lot of (mostly dog) poop.
Start by observing that Sun, Google, HP, Apple, PayPal, VMware, Cisco, Netflix, Instagram, LinkedIn, and many other huge companies were founded by affiliates of a single university located in that region. What could be so special about the place, indeed.
I don't know about 120, but an edifice with just 102 stories, the Empire State Building, sort of made the vicinity of it better. At the very least, nearby properties did not depreciate.

Of course if you don't like bustling city life, you may see it differently. I would recommended moving to suburbia it the countryside then.
> you have a problem larger than this conversation and you should expect pushback

Why is that? Please give an example of what I said that is sexist or any other -ist.

> So really, it's just your feelings.

No, it's perfectly reasonable to object to points that were made that don't support the argument. I'm only stating that CompTIA+ does not provide evidence that you are an engineer because of the nature of the certification.

> You're obviously eager to categorize her as a not-engineer

I didn't categorize here as either way. Someone else did, I just object to assuming that a job title or a cert makes you one. It doesn't. I don't think it even matters to the argument at hand either.

> you're obviously eager to shut down any pro-unionization messages, even legally protected ones

I'm not. I'm neutral to whether googler's want a union or not since I don't have to work there and have no interest at all in google's future direction. I'm eager to inject some reality into some very dangerous idealism before more people think they will stand up to the man without understanding the not-so-nice realities.

It's well and good, from the safety of the narrative of her supporters to say things like "she had autonomy to make changes". But engineer or not, she doesn't have that kind of autonomy. No employee really does, including directors. And it's up to her to prove she did. For example: can she show her manager approved this specific action in writing? Who asked her to do this? It looks a lot different when google shows up to a hearing with logs, rules, job descriptions, and her manager's manager having not approved the labor message, corporate security policies, and on and on. Then she shows up with, "but I thought it was OK because I did other stuff similar before, but it didn't involve labor notices. Yes, I had no actual authorization, but I was trusted as an engineer". People need to think adversarially, not just "Oh the NLRB will magically protect me". Because it can't if they don't follow the rules to the letter, and even then only partially.

A company in google's position is just waiting for people to do what she did: combine legal organizing with breaking a verifiable rule. Something with proof, like security logs. Great! now they have plausible reason to make someone an example. Now - do you see why I think it was stoopid?
Hmm, I think if you're good/bad at dating, you'd be like that anywhere. As in, big cities generally aren't great in dating for dudes.
Ok, that's fair enough, though one could argue this is about writing new java like code not accessing existing java code.
The std library of python 3.8 has many more data structures and multiple ways of doing things. You have “enforce” ideas about the app design to keep consistency, etc.
Precisely why I included the adjective, "well-functioning". . . .

I would add that basically everything you list is why there exists in human cultures a general disapproval of suicide, because people may feel bad in the situations you list, but suicide is not a good answer; in most cases the person's feelings will change and they will be glad they chose not to kill themselves. Deciding to die for reasons like those listed is not generally considered "dying with dignity"; it's a tragic case of people becoming overwhelmed by feeling to their own detriment.
I was more interested in the cat claim.
Domino's in Australia has recently rolled out an in-store camera based monitoring system for pizza quality.

It doesn't make the images available to customers as of yet, but they claim it will in the near future.

https://dompizzachecker.dominos.com.au/
You're definitely wrong. I'm at a company that minted over a thousand millionaires, assuming they held onto their options.

That's just one company.
SF is ridiculously non-dense. Paris, which most people think of as a much nicer city than SF, is much more dense, despite being limited to ~5 stories for most of it.
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Also a summary -
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-appears-kept-major-nuclear-172...
16 points are not all that much though...
Any others around today that do?
For what it’s worth, many of the region’s problems are not unique to it and are instead shared by any prosperous economic region in the USA. Land use, infrastructure, ineffective bureaucracy, urban place making, etc are countrywide issues that need resolution, and in some ways the Bay Area is leading that reform. I hope to see Prop 13 repealed or greatly weakened before I die.
Of course Windows can (and does usually) use a VPN as an active route. The poster just doesn't know what they are talking about.

In particular this sentence is complete nonsense:

I'm sick of the idea that Windows perceives an internet connection somehow, hides it from me, and automatically makes it available to everything that asks for "the internet". But I don't actually know how to do this. Someone is working really, really hard to make sure I don't affect who uses what device.

As usual, MS has pretty decent documentation on this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/mo...

I don't particularly like the GUI_centric nature of much of it, but the complaint itself is completely ill-informed.
True but the point is that immortality doesn't automatically include "well-functioning" as part of the deal. Life goes on even if one isn't subject to aging.
Is not giving food to those who cannot afford buying that particular food inhumane?

Sure demanding people to leave the place they are used to live in isn't the nicest thing to do. But it can be done in a reasonable way, e.g. with a plenty of warning ahead of time.

(Disclaimer: I was asked to leave a rented apartment twice, not in SF; both times I was told so just a month ahead of time.)
Thing is, it doesn't need to be skyscrapers to house vastly more people than it does, it just needs to be 5 story walkups. And SV is currently one long stretch of strip malls, open air parking lots, and single story ranch homes with sad little yards.
Holy moly. The human diving at 332 meters is insane. That’s 34 ata, or 34 times the atmospheric pressure, or 34x compression on your body. Did they use some sort of inverse pressurized suit that can hold this sort of pressure ? I’ve scuba dived to 50m and even that was a bit dizzy for the brain. People have known to hallucinate if they stay deep too long. 330+ meters is absolute nuts. Wow! Someone explain me the science of how this is possible.
Fair enough haha
Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
This comment is 10/10. Excellent cultural critique.
IIRC someone did a study that concluded that there's a large single-person gender imbalance, way more single guys than ladies in SF, and the opposite imbalance in NYC. Unsure if it's credible.
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>> San Francisco has been getting worse.

From my first visit there in ~'93 to my last in ~'99 SF felt like it was going downhill quickly. I would not have gone back voluntarily after the first visit if not for job requirements.

I had an uncle who lived in Hayward who complained about both areas a lot.

After reading the news about needles, mental patients, shitting in the street etc... I dunno how it could get worse.
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Who said anything about violence? No one should try to stop fraud with violence, except in extreme circumstances. The answer to fraud is to simply repay the person who was defrauded... someone who bought a fake lottery ticket should just get their money back, there is no need to resort to violence.

You seem be assume that "free exchange" simply means no one is physically stopping you from making a trade. That isn't what free exchange means. Free exchange means that two consenting parties trade known goods without undue influence. If someone puts a gun to your head to buy something, that isn't free exchange. If someone sells you a fake lottery ticket passing it off as real, that isn't free exchange. If someone sells you something they don't actually own, that isn't free exchange.
1000 millionaires at a private startup that went public?

Only one I can think of is Uber where there could’ve been that many employees with significant equity, but that is really a generational company. Thinking of the ones that reach peak value in the low billions.

AFAIK engineers were getting around 12K RSUs pre IPO, maybe 20K for senior ones, which at today’s valuation is not even close to a million.
Seems like a DeLorean isn't necessarily that expensive, prices range from $20,000 to $45,000.
I would estimate that the typical software developer working over that 10-year period and putting the money into either S&P 500 or a house saw an increase of $1M in their net worth.
I dunno, man. Microsoft has a bajillion dollars. I’d rather they waste it on inspired people doing technically interesting work with a ho-hum outcome than the other things that corporations waste money on (Microsoft included), like regulatory capture or figuring out ways to shirk responsibility for giving people cancer.
This amounts to a "best viewed in Chrome" philosophy. It's an argument against Open Standards draped in worry about security.

It's no different than Google's policies of restricting apps on Jailbroken phones, a practice that was ostensibly introduced for security, but quickly expanded to be used for DRM and to discourage users from taking control of their own devices.

The whole point of Open standards, the only reason we built these things in the first place, was so companies like Google couldn't decide which browsers worked with the web.

You might as well rephrase your first sentence to read, "you get a consistent experience with a current Chrome browser" -- and I have no doubt that there are people at Google who would be happy to have that policy if they thought they could get away with it.

After all, why should Google's security team trust that Mozilla's browser is secure, given that they don't get to pre-vet new versions? Even if a current version is implementing the standard correctly, there's no guarantee that a future Firefox version won't have problems. And Mozilla is already refusing to deprecate old APIs with Manifest V3, when according to Google that deprecation is super necessary to make extensions secure.