skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are relying too much on AI and "collective wisdom". The results you get now are what Google thinks you want based on what others want, not on what you are actually searching for. What you typed is now treated as a mere clue, not as a search key.
He’s talking about paying 5% interest to borrow leverage. That’s about the going rate.
Having worked somewhere that still used physical memos, I can share my experience. They were simply "important" notices and announcements printed on single sheets of paper hand-delivered to our desks by one of the managers or their secretaries. They'd often be on our desks before we got in, containing information that was realized the day before, but anything particularly urgent would be hand-delivered during the work day, usually around lunch.

They were completely interchangeable with emails, including in the way they were written (like short letters). I don't understand why we used them, but alas, we did.
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You don't need to train with every object in the world to train in the general concept of road occluders.

Autopilot users are ALWAYS supposed to watch the road and take control in unusual circumstances. Like an autopilot system in an airplane, it will fly you straight into a mountain if you give it that course and don't monitor where you are.
> I think my message for people who want to stay involved with the tech is to decouple their enjoyment of it from their career aspirations.

Thank you for your words! I hope to retire soon from headless chicken corporate job and to bring back a joy of programming art.
Radar is not sonar. The latency for radar is good, but the resolution is indeed poor.
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> The Supreme Court cannot rule an amendment unconstitutional.

Well, duh. If Constitution is ammended, the new stuff can’t be “unconstitutional” because it’s literally part of the Constitution.

Besides, you’re the one nitpicking. Sure, the Supreme Court can’t change the Constitution, but their job is to interpret it. The First and Fifth Amendment don’t make any mention of technology, but the Supreme Court has ruled that those protections apply to technological speech and searches.
The human system includes the human brain, which is an important part. We can easily make optical sensors that have better visual acuity than the human eye, but "scene understanding" continues to be a task where humans dramatically beat computers. The brain is an important part of this.
When your user data / logs / spools / db files are on a filer or confined to one local place that’s easily backed up and can be deployed — I tend to use /data — there’s no reason to have ‘pets’ any more.

What’s the non-cattle use case you are referring to? Systems that can’t be wiped because of important persistent user processes? That’s the only volatile state I can think of that would be lost by reimaging.
Presumably it would cost even less not to include this feature at all. I think a reasonable question is if this feature avoids more collisions in more average conditions or causes more in extraordinary ones.

Even if it saves more than it costs it might cost more in pr and court costs than is earned from selling the feature.

It is probably impractical to sell something that saves 2 people that we cannot innumerate or name if it kills one person with a name, address, next of kin, and lawyer.
Lithobraking might well become viable with some combination of tethers and electromagnetic accelerators to mediate.
Be careful with a chargeback
-- Google can challenge the chargeback and will probably win.
-- If the chargeback holds, google will consider your account in default. They might sell the debt to a collection agency. [a chargeback does not settle the dispute, it only reverses the payment and the credit card company is no longer involved.]

Has anyone ever cancelled a google cloud account? do they attempt to convince you to stay? If so, there is a slight chance that google might be somewhat helpful to convince you to stay. Some companies have a "Retention Department" that tries to retain customers. [In a different situation, I once had a company refuse to reverse a disputed fee, but the Retention Department offered me a credit if I would keep the account open (the credit was twice the fee!)]
Curious, from what neighborhood to what neighborhood?
Companies such as Uber tend to be biased towards growth rather than profitability, even at the time of their IPOs. Uber's layoffs are in part due to the coronavirus situation, but perhaps also due to their transitioning towards a profit bias.

It may seem counter-intuitive to invest in companies that are not biased towards profitability, as they tend to be risky and volatile, but portfolio management theory predicts that including some volatile assets in a portfolio makes it perform better. See e.g. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capm.asp.
If only we had a regulatory agency that monitored this sort of stuff and then punished companies that used exploitative language to dangerously market their products as something they are not.
Is this relevant to archive.org at all? It doesn't seem to be affiliated in any way.
> If you pick up a gun, you are actively planning the possibility of a shoot.

That is exactly what I stated earlier. Nobody is planning to shoot someone with malice aforethought in a self-defense scenario. As you say, they are planning for the possibility that they might shoot someone. Those are two very different things.

> I think we are just sparring over the definition of "planning". Have a good day!

It matters a lot in a legal context. If you state the assertion that “everyone who picks up a gun is planning to shoot someone”, then automatically everyone who ever picked up a gun is guilty of a very specific crime. The distinction matters a lot.
> 22.82 Mbps will reliably download very complex web pages nearly instantaneously.

The author may be unaware of how ridiculously huge web pages have gotten. I just loaded Wired.com, scrolled down and let it sit for a few seconds. It downloaded 96.2 MB, requiring over 33 seconds on one of those average connections. On a pay-as-you-go data plan, it would have cost about a dollar just to load that one page. The front page has about 500 words of content. It also covered 100% of the content with ads, twice.

This is unsustainable. Web developers have utterly squandered all efficiency gains of the last 30 years, and then covered their grossly inefficient work with impossibly annoying, privacy-invading advertising. Google should be applauded if they make these wasteful developers suffer monetarily until they shape up. They've already stolen untold amounts of time and energy from us all.
You are getting that because other people do not care about what you are searching for :( their AI is maximizing the chances of quickly finding what most people want, not what you want.
They already have IR extra, but I think this was a severe error in the system and it probably won't be there last.

I can't know what was wrong with this situation though.

It's all about tweaking the AI and camera's. I hope they don't need to replace the camera's for additional hardware features ( hdr, tilt the camera, .. ) but it's still a camera. Even if it lacks a feature or not.
The car did eventually detect the obstacle and brake prior to impact, otherwise it would have been a lot worse.

What seems weird to me from the video is that there was a person beside the road (perhaps the driver of the overturned truck) waving at cars to stop, and the Tesla didn't detect the pedestrian and slow down, even though he/she appeared to be standing on the edge of the car's lane. It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like the pedestrian would have been hit if he/she hadn't stepped out of the way.
In practice, we already suffer all of the surveillance, usability, and identity theft downsides with none of the additional upsides of being able to digitally sign contracts.

There are always tons of Americans who claim they don't want to give the government more "power", but misunderstand that it already has this power. An e-ID would just make the experience of dealing with the government less of a hassle.

This does skip over the fact that the US government is terrible at procurement, so the RFP would likely have bad requirements and the contract would likely be one large waterfall iteration and inevitably be way late and over budget.
Zubrin has a recurring tendency to ignore things that don't support what he plans to say.
> Robbing a bank and giving away the money is a decision not based on money or liability, but you shouldn't be very surprised you still get put in prison for it.

Quoting the other comment here to make my point.

AFAIK IA they did not give away the books, the books still were shared the same way as before, with DRM and expiration dates. They just temporaly removed the limitations of amount of books you can loan and increased the loan period with an initial max end date of June 30.

So, yeah, what IA did is pretty different from robbing anything, in unprecedented times of a global pandemic they provided access to a digital library the same way a public library which holds those books would in normal times.
What's infuriating to me about these types of "signals" to the search rankings is that they have little to do with the content that I'm searching for. Google will hide results that I might find useful because the web master hasn't kept up with whatever Google decided was today's best practices. How about ranking based on the best source for what I'm looking for?
> Calling someone names is not an ad-hominem

It's not, but it also has no place on HN.
I was thinking about this though not quite as severe. I would also love to see something like this in the end though. It sucks that as a mobile user I'm paying for analytics, unoptimized images, and poorly-written code when just simple markup and text would do. With the speed at modern networks run server-side processing shouldn't be as taboo.
The internal "mail room" used to be a much bigger deal. At large companies, some number of times a day an actual person would come around with a cart, put things in your in-tray and remove things from your out-tray. Once their round had been completed they would return to the mail room to sort the outgoing materials and then repeat the process.

I suspect that one of the reasons "starting in the mail room" used to be so venerated is that it's a good way to get to know a wide swath of people inside a company in a relatively short period.
> Track all cell-phone locations, strongly-linked and verified to individual identities, and store permanently . . . . This one alone could solve so many crimes in my view that I am saddened to no end that people prevent it from happening safely at the recurring expense of innocent lives.

People stop it from happening (to some degree and at great cost) because this would hurt far more than it would help. Imagine if the police could do this now. They would use it to drag everyone who had been in the vicinity of the protests out of their homes and lock them up (at best). "Secure" and "court orders" would never hold up in practice, but "permanent" certainly would. Plus, all criminals would need to do to avoid it is not bring cell phones to crimes, or bring someone else's. Unless you want to mandate carrying government tracking beacons at all times? I'm no libertarian, but this is one of the worst proposals for fixing police brutality I've ever seen.
They tried this, I used it, no big adoption, product got killed.

To which service do you refer?
> Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles.

Maybe then the problem is one of labelling and/or fraud.

"Come on down to Elon's Pizzeria where we're serving up what can only be called pizza!" - The place that serves calzones

Calling a thing "autopilot" that can't do trivial human driving tasks like this is perfect conditions (much less poor ones) isn't great.
The Police Data Accessibility Project
There's a project/movement forming to gather police data and make it accessible. They are working on scrapers and filing FOIA requests for the information.

They are calling for volunteers and need technical folks like us.

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getting to the desktop is instant. shutting down is instant.

I have an arch server. I just tested and can do "sudo reboot", it becomes unpingable after 2 seconds. The turnaround from shutdown to sshing back into it is just over 20 seconds. (I'll bet it would be faster if I didn't have the 5-beep no keyboard sound at boot)
You know what wouldn't have had this issue? Lidar.
did you just "actually" Barack Obama on how change happens in a democracy?
There's nothing wrong with working on a farm, but it is objectively not a good job. Long hours, low pay, high stress. I understand being proud of working on a farm, but I understand being proud of not working on a farm too.
Also interestingly: AEB did not trigger.

It's not the first case I've seen where Tesla's Autopilot seems to override AEB[1]. Definitely confirmed behaviour to-date and seen as early as Q1 of this year. Any car from 2009 or later with AEB would have avoided this collision.

It probably would be great if car software didn't follow the "move fast and break things" mantra.

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[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/automatic-emergen...
Yes, and this agrees with my point that it probably cannot be done "easily".
The Boston Tea Party was very targeted. They destroyed the tea that they had an objection to. They did not destroy the ships. They did not burn down the customs houses or otherwise damage Boston Harbor. It also only lasted three hours. It was not a riot, but rather a well-organized and well-executed precise political statement. That was one of the reasons that it was so effective politically.
These would drive you crazy then :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
Directly from Tesla

<<In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.68 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.99 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.42 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.

Total overall miles and crashes were significantly reduced in this quarter.[0]>>

[0] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport#:~:text=Q1%202019,....
Since most of hacker news is technically advanced, I'd encourage you all to take a look at the data and determine exactly "what" the back channel was (maybe a secret IRC server??).

First you have to find it, since it's buried in MSM reports and "maaaaybe it's true but who knows??" articles.
> This happens over and over. So far, they've hit a crossing semitrailer, a street sweeper, a car at the side of the road, a fire truck at the side of the road, and two road barriers. This has been going on for five years now, despite better radars and LIDARs.

And in that time, how many people have crashed into other people, whether they're in cars or not? Buildings? Walls? Children?

Are you claiming that Tesla's safety performance is worse than that of people?
> If Congress is considering legislation to change QI

There already is legislation making government officials liable for violating someone's Constitutional or legal rights. 42 USC 1983 is pretty clear:

"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured..."

So I don't see why the court had to make up this whole "qualified immunity" thing in the first place. Just judge the question: did the government official violate the person's Constitutional or legal rights? If they did, they're liable.
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> while it will take at least a year for SCOTUS to reach a decision.

The Supreme Court has the ability to rule on things overnight. A very well known case where they did was Bush v. Gore[0]; The case was argued 11 Dec 2000, and ruled on the next day.

They just generally don’t because ruling overnight would take their focus away from the other cases they need to rule on.

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They can be redeemed or created but that is a facility for market makers. The redemption is not in kind since you can't redeem swaps. I posted an example in the thread above.
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This is all speculative, of course, so you are entitled to your beliefs based on your views and experience.

In my case, I have often seen the case that companies have certain stable modes, and many unstable modes. It could easily be that after slashing 80% of their engineering workforce, and cutting their marketing, they subside into becoming a slightly higher-tech taxi company.

But what about the remaining 20% of engineering? Do they want to work for a company that has let go 80% of its engineers, and has given up on self-driving cars and drones and whatever else they were dreaming of?

Or will the rest of the talent head for the exits, their options hopelessly underwater forever, because investors have no interest in the faded hulk of a company that was once a Unicorn?

It could be that if they try to shrink to 20% of their engineering talent, they keep on shrinking involuntarily, shedding their best talent in all areas, not just engineering.

I don't know for a fact what will happen, but for the moment, if I had to bet, my bet is that if they try to cut 80% of their engineering and most of their marketing, they will keep on shrinking until they become a penny stock.

It would probably be easier for them to have Private Equity come in and take the company private first. If they have to cut that much flesh off the bones in public, it's going to be brutal.
These threads are closely related, but might not exactly be duplicates.

The previous post was an announcement that game code will be released, and this more recent thread contains a link to the recently-opened public code repository.

It's a little duplicative, but this thread might be newsworthy too.
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I'm seeing reports of a 5% decrease (a ~152 million pound decrease) in print book sales in the UK from 2018 to 2019. "Selling books to people who want to read them" seems to be a declining business.

The 3% increase in ebook licensing revenue from 2018 to 2019 was an absolutely increase of ~20 million pounds. That doesn't absorb event a quarter of the decrease in print sales. Given the relative price parity between the two, I'd say that people who aren't purchasing print books aren't licensing ebooks, by and large, either.

Unless the book publishing industry can come up with some analog to subscription streaming services, or can use their lobby to kill general purpose computing devices, I don't think the long game looks very good for their business model. Video and audio media are well suited to the streaming market because there's enough inconvenience in making infringing copies to make paying license feeds worthwhile (at least, with current media file sizes and network speeds).

I don't think ebooks have as strong a value proposition for paying the license fee vs. making an infringing copy.
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I would have been content just to watch the Roci accelerating, flipping, and decelerating, for ten seasons.
A control theory idea: use continuous voting. When the support falls below some threshold (e.g. 50%), kick the candidate out.

But now you'll get an unstable system where candidates get kicked out all the time and are too populist because they don't expect to live long.

So add a low-pass filter. When the moving average of the candidate's support falls below the threshold and a definite other candidate's support is high enough, replace the incumbent with that challenger.

You might even increase the duration of the moving average with time, like the doubling trick in multi-armed bandits. The logic is that a candidate who has shown that he can weather the initial period without getting voted out can be trusted with more long-term decisions, i.e. actions speak louder than words.
They are the issuer. it's trivial.
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