skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And both of those options leave you pretty much screwed if we get another 2008/2009.
As someone who leans towards a general rule of government == inefficient but doesn’t necessarily like the logic of “billionaire individuals will allocate it better”, I really like your option C re-frame here.
I've never yet seen someone tread that point, nor do I think that's necessarily a strawman. In fact, the implication of my comment was that a full edit history (e.g. click the timestamp and see all of the edits in chronological order) would address all of my concerns.
Appreciate the civil response.

I think I approach agreeing with you that it’s bad to make these analogies- but I don’t know of alternatives that clearly communicate the perceived potential for conflict.

Thanks for helping me understand your perspective.
Reminds me of MYCIN health expert system from the 1970s which was quite good at diagnosing but ultimately failed because people would not know who to sue in the event of a misdiagnosis.
> a company that is okay with ignoring Google doesn't care about Section 230

This ignores the factual reality that Google is a monopoly in several verticals, and the number of companies that can ignore Google is actually zero. Every company needs to be in Google's good graces whether it be for advertising or app installation on mobile phones or search visibility.

Even all of Google's direct competition in any given market needs to support Google in other markets. Google is inescapable and compliance with their policies is as mandatory as actual law.
> It's hard to fathom that people think he's involved with political topics.

Maybe hard to fathom, but just have a closer look and you'll see he has a lot of irons in the fire
How Amazon is using machine learning to eliminate 915,000 tons of packaging
Why praise sacrifice at all? Personal suffering/sacrifice adds no value to the community, and in fact reduces it.

Maximizing positive impact should be the goal.

Perhaps someone with 25 to their name better serves the community by keeping it?
Haha, you can. :) https://xnux.eu/contribute.html
> So how do you tell the difference between the files having been licensed individually or only the whole compilation having been licensed?

One way you could check is if each of the files has their own copyright and license notice, and the license notice includes, directly or by reference, terms which require preservation of the accompanying copyright notice.
I admit I was wrong, I will use this information in the future to make my blogposts better.
Who else than the upper-middle class do you think is going to be using a group workout subscription service on their iPhone/watch?

And, more interestingly, what would that ad look like?

"Ugh, appealing broadly to most Americans is so lame, we should inject some 'inclusive' racial/class flavor!" sounds like the utterance that birthed every cringey ad of the last 10 years.
I am surprised that anyone would want to continue doing business with the company after such an occurrence. If that's how they handle issues where real money is involved, why would you trust them for things where money doesn't even come into play and you have even less recourse?

This is not a bad idea. This is the only idea that actually hits the company where it hurts and puts pressure on them to not do the same mistake in the future.
I was going to but then since Android also accepts Java I gave up on the Kotlin since I'm confortable with Java already, but I do like a lot golang recently I've also developed in C++ and I'm frankly learning a lot of golang and liking each day more and more.. it's fast to process and there's no hick-ups like in NodeJS, it's like the best of C++/Java with the best from NodeJS and no hick-ups at least for now.. I'm very impressed with the golang performance it's outstanding and what I got impressed too is that VSCode installs all the Golang extensions so it seems like I have all the typo verification on the fly without compiling remembering me a lot of Eclipse days with Java.. Good old compiling.. haha. We never get away from compiling.. I think Golang is under-marketed it deserves a lot of attention.
The most straightforward example I can offer is my custom mark-up parser for formatting text. I wrote this parser in Javascript where it runs live in the browser, but when the final text is submitted it's parsed on the server side for security and replicability reasons.

Of course I could rewrite it in another language, but with Nashorn I don't need to. I can execute many hundreds of lines of Javascript with around four lines of utterly boilerplate Java. And it works perfectly. I don't need to worry about edge cases or dealing with subtle variations in regular expressions (don't at me) and other string parsing nuances.

I'm just a sole developer; I don't have minions. If I had to rewrite it today I'd probably look at a transpiling approach, but even then, defensive text manipulation tends to be edge-casey at the best of times.

(Also note that my priority here is browser performance, where it's running continuously on hundreds of clients simultaneously—often budget smartphones with limited CPU power. On the server it only has to run once per submit and the CPU cost on the server is beyond trivial.)
"This tweet is not available to you"

Might be really ironic but I can't tell
"officially broke" with $2M in the bank for retirement
I see what you're saying. Here's the CNBC version of it:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/bill-gates-sr-helped-howard-...

It sounds like the Starbucks owners already offered it to Schultz and gave him 90 days to buy it and it was an exclusive offer. Part way through fundraising, an Il Giornale investor caught wind of it and approached Starbucks with a higher bid. I think the fact that Starbucks had offered it to Schultz first and then his own investor tried to undermine him and Il Giornale is sort of rotten and underhanded. I think the fact that Starbucks had offered it to Schultz first and agreed on a price and Il Giornale's own investor tried to undermine the deal is where things get a little shady.

Apologies for telling the story poorly and missing some important details.
It was posted after the project owner confirmed it was down and would stay down.
Check out the work of the Gates foundation, working to eliminate Polio, etc.
On the other side, the US supplied Britain with all the arms, food and gas they needed. The whole point of the U-Boot campaign was to cut that off, which would have caused the defeat of Britain.

The interesting thing about a future modern war, however, is that modern weapons are too expensive and take too long to produce, so it'll be fought with whatever is in stock and will be over before supply lines matter. I hope we never find out if that is true or not the hard way.
But then why would people prefer this over driving and operating a car themselves?

One problem I‘ve always seen with the fleet model of widespread automated cars is that in 2020 cars are very much status symbols as much as they are modes of transportation. People own BMWs and Porsches to show off status first and get around second, and these types of people will always want “their” car.
This is going to be what happens in the future, if Autopilot runs over a person. Tesla will do their best to prove that your hands weren't on the wheel, and they weren't at fault, just like when that Apple engineer died on 101.
As mentioned by others, I think it depends strongly on what the driver's training was. Between the overblown hype about the capabilities of self-driving cars, the state government's abdication of its regulation power, and the intentional disabling of existing safety devices on the vehicle (it's unclear if this change or the risks of the change were communicated to the driver), I would be honestly surprised if the driver believed it was actually that dangerous to allow her attention to drift.

It's one thing to charge negligent homicide with a typical car. But the near-fraudulent claims of self-driving car hucksters at the time had a lot of people believing these vehicles were already far more capable than they will be for decades to come. And it's inevitable that the Koolaid drinking in this particular program within Uber was at its strongest. So I doubt the safety drivers were adequately informed of the actual capabilities of the cars or the risks involved.
yeah, I've watched the Netflix show about Bill Gates, he said that in the show: that his father is the real Bill Gates. really cool. I don't think he reads HN comments, but if he does, my condolences. I'm very attached to my father either and I can't imagine life without him. All the best
Some people read that prompt and think legally not responsible

Some people read that prompt and think socially not responsible

Some people read that prompt and think socially not responsible in different countries

Some people read that prompt and think legally and socially not responsible

So it is prudent to understand that not everyone is answering the same question
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How many Americans have been killed by distracted drivers, though? How many of those were indicted for homicide? Usually what happens when you run over someone, no matter what the circumstances, is the cops exonerate you on live television, with a statement about how "no criminality is suspected" which is suuuuuuuper weird because there's no other kind of killing you can do and get that treatment.
If you don't go, you die. How is that not?
Thanks for sharing this! I knew that Gelman and Pearl have been going back and forth for years, and it's great to see this.

I fall heavily on the Pearl side of this debate, because I'm interested in scaling to thousands to millions of variables, and though graphs are not a great tool, they are pretty much the only one that I think we have for scaling that direction.

That said, I think their disagreements don't have much effect on practice, and have as much to do with their different academic lineages as anything else. I expect that any dispute will be resolvable as the science progresses
I want to understand, but I have no idea who you are referencing.
maybe she had an attorney chosen by Uber?
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. We've asked you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you suggesting Uber maliciously edited the dashcam video to hide the jaywalker? Or that a better, human-readable (ie not raw sensor data) version of the video exists and Uber has not released it?
Reading the comments it struck me: why is tele operated agricultural robots not a thing? A robot with wheels and an array of cameras and arms. It rolls down the line and remote workers pick the fruit. Maybe even out of country workers being paid pennies...I’m sure the latency could be overcome. You could host thousands of humans with very few robots. Better productivity, lower cost in the long run and you’re resilient against labor problems which is really good when all your labor is illegal. If nobody gives a good reason why it doesn’t exist I would be receptive to people who might want to do a start up...

Googling around I find some recent stuff. It seems to have started being on people’s minds in the past five years only. A lot of complicated articulated arms and inputs. I am only more convinced that there is arbitrage here... a very simple articulation mechanism, something akin to what hello robot did vs willow garage, would be totally new. And you don’t have to replicate perfectly the performance of humans because it’s a sliding scale, you could use the robot to downsize at first, following it with a small human team.
To dance that dance, one should first be aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur.... .

Facebook's network graph is its single most-valuable asset. Responsibly placing it back into the hands of its users will require some subtle care, both to avoid Facebook's ire and to avoid abuse.
If manufacturers can be directly sued, then the cost will have to be incorporated into the cost of the cars. That being said, consumers already like being safe for their own benefit. And since safety is entirely in the hands of the manufacturer, consumers will probably be even more selective along this axis than currently.

But at the end of the day, we all share the road together, so the government will regulate some minimum safety level that all cars must comply with in addition to civil liabilities.
I mean, I agree in principle, but in practice Google is a monopoly, and even with my heavy avoidance of Google services, I am forced to interact with them occasionally and a ban would be painful.

Furthermore, suggesting this to someone without preparing them for this outcome is an aggressively bad idea. If someone is cool with cutting themselves off from Google, great, but they probably should be preparing for that long before they issue a chargeback and discover their email account gone.
I'm not sure the choice is between shipping glass or plastic bottles long distances, but rather having the bottling plants closer or further from the consumption
Better explained here: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=moderation+fallacy
This is a strange debate. They seem to be in violent agreement.
Surely the companies that print the symbol and "Please recycle!" on non-recyclable plastic wouldn't label non-compostable silverware as compostable...

I've successfully run "compostable" plastic through the dishwasher several times and haven't seen any sign of decay. The county I live in offers composting service and begs people to please not put "compostable" plastic in it.
So you’re positing that the expert witness committed perjury and that Uber secretly told the driver that it was okay for her not to pay attention to what the car was doing?
I would assume that the taxes they pay and the people they hire and pay (and the taxes they pay) pays for much of that infrastructure.

And no, most companies don't pay zero tax.
That's not correct.

I'd much rather buy a plastic bottle of water than a heavy glass one.
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
She can choose her own attorney.
This is using the D710G for the APRS digipeater, cross-band FM repeater, and for simplex / SSTV transmissions? Impressive. It will be interesting to see how it holds up.

And nice marketing for Kenwood!

I’d probably get a D710G if I had a more suitable vehicle for it, like a space station (or truck I guess).

I have the D72A which is the handheld equivalent (fewer features of course, but has APRS/packet radio TNC built in) and it’s great.
The six levels of vehicle autonomy are marketing bullshit. They imply failure of automation is acceptable and the human can be left to pick up the slack.

In reality, there is no spectrum of automated driving, with the human doing less and less. Driving is not an instantaneous activity like swimming, it requires planing and strategizing, the decisions made in the past influence situational awareness. I plan an overtake maneuver based on a myriad factors and have escape routes already planned if things don't go well.

When the automated driver fails a human driver cannot be expected to just drop in and correct the mistakes - by that time, they are uncorectable and the ramp-up time of the human driver far exceeds the available time in most real life situations. In the overtake example, if the autopilot fails when a 20 ton truck is approaching, I have no recourse, I have no idea if an attempt to brake and regroup will be successful because I did not plan the maneuver. Therefore, computer drivers cannot be allowed to fail in such a scenario.

In practice, there are only two real levels: 1. autonomous; and 0. non-autonomous, with various automation that helps the driver, while he remains fully in control and the sole decision maker. What can constitute a self-driving spectrum is the type of road where full automation is expected to work: from restricted and instrumented roads, where only other similar vehicles are allowed, for the dumbest self-driving modes, and up to full self-driving on general purpose roads mixed with human drivers and pedestrians.

But the idea that you can achieve level 5 self driving by incrementally improving the systems designed to aid the driver is a dangerous pipe dream.
And many Machine Learning paper's do not have code at all. Or promise to release the code, but never do this, like:

https://github.com/shepnerd/blindinpainting_vcnet
Some of Garmin's devices allow copying of data to software of your choice. This gives you a mature device that is excellent at managing your health but as long as you never connect it to the Garmin app, your data remains yours.
No, no hippie shame at all. In fact, I suppose everyone has their own view on what a hippy is, and I should not have referred to it as "hippy" to begin with. It's too generic and yet personal, and doesn't quite describe anything specifically applicable to this case. my bad!
One of those two people has a two-decade track record of poverty, education, and health philanthropy.

The other's political involvement is, quite frankly, something else entirely.
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Kanye West on Y Combinator's venture capital model
Indeed the conceptual fork point mentioned is RocksDB 6.2.1 which came before those features. The problem with RocksDB is that one thread only makes one request at a time. I should've phrased my question more succinctly: Is Pebble/CockroachDB capable of saturating the backplane with requests in parallel? Does it multiplex a single query by dispatching smaller requests to a thread-pool?
Anyone else find it odd that Apple News+ is locked to the most expensive bundle?

Reports are that Apple isn't happy with its performance, so I'd think Apple would want it in a lower tier bundle to entice people.
That's actually a fantastic reminder - get commercial things when it comes to high quality products - they definitely don't come to mind at first, but it's the same for many things, from appliances to boats. Commercial grade is meant to last way more than over the counter consumer goods!
Also, when you do tell your landlord every time you enter/leave, how often do you inform a random facial recognition software vendor about it?
If we don’t have detailed information about carbon emissions then just use country-level estimates to establish a general carbon tariff.

It then becomes the importing manufacturer’s responsibility to actually do something about climate change.
False positives are dangerous, because cars stopping suddenly and unexpectedly can be dangerous. The engineers probably were right to disable that, if the false positive rate was too high.
Well done!
Btw I do agree with you regarding the knowledge transfer on the real robot platform. The open source design is built to work with very cheap servos and the alinement is not quite easy too.

As you, I was totally new to RL when I started (almost 1 year ago) - I’m a DevOps engineer during the day :)
The goal of this project for me is learning ML more than build a product - that’s why the limited focus on hw implementation. Anyway, there are examples on the web on how to run the policies on the real world robot (even using ROS) - maybe in the future I’ll digging in this topic as well!
To any curious readers like me: the charge is negligent homicide (the indictment itself is linked at bottom of article)
I hardly believe that. If that was true, I'd expect this fact (that the server will stay down) to be mentioned in the blog post. The blog only says "playground server stopped replying" and "The V creator acknowledged the issue and admitted the machine was compromised".
An A.I. Became a Communist
Wouldn't it be more clever to call it 3-bit?
It is, but it is myopic not to consider other factors. Especially when those promises were given on the condition the other party keep theirs.

"At least we virtuously upheld our promises" is very cold comfort as your industries wither.
"if you drastically reduce the size of the corpus won't you also drastically reduce the output domain to the point that it's no longer useful?"

Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder.

A model trained on, say, all the works of Shakespeare might not create something that can pass for Shakespeare's lost work, but might be inspiring, interesting, or have a Shakespearean quality about it in small doses... which could still be very useful for a writer seeking inspiration.

Incidentally, all of Shakespeare's works make up a not insignificant amount of data, though obviously it's a lot less than what GPT-3 was trained on.

Other prolific authors might also provide enough data to train a model.

It's not clear to me at what point the amount of data one uses becomes too little for useful results, and it would surprise me if there was any consensus on this matter, considering the enormous variety in AI techniques, combination of techniques, and parameters that can be used for training and testing, along with all the different uses one might put the models to after they're trained.
I would expect that their status would come from being able to hail more expensive cars. They would spend extra to have an automated Porsche, BMW, etc. pick them up.
How many have videos of both the victim being clearly hit and the driver being severely negligent leading up to and including the accident? How many are pedestrians that subsequently die?
Most of the time there isn't a video of both the driver and the incident with detailed telemetry data. Also, commercial drivers are held to a higher standard.
Mine didn't wear out quite that fast, but it is indeed finicky, no matter how much I clean it out. Same with the Nexus 6P it replaced.

My new PinePhone seems to be more solid all around, so hopefully the USB-C connector on it ain't an exception. It ain't exactly my daily driver right now, though.
We offer free built-in (kubesail managed) domains, but don't offer domains for purchase - that would be nice to add eventually but we're a small company, so holding off on that for now!

Ideally, you don't need to learn Kubernetes any more than you need to learn Linux in that example - our Repo Builder will do it's best to guess how to host your app on Kubernetes - and ideally the UI makes the rest feel like any other cloud platform. The benefit of not being locked in, and of learning open source tech instead of walled-gardens, is hard to express!
> "The vehicle operator’s prolonged visual distraction, a typical effect of automation complacency, led to her failure to detect the pedestrian in time to avoid the collision."

This is quite an important point. It was very dangerous of Uber to disable both the car’s built-in collision avoidance system and to have nothing to replace it but the backup driver especially when there is a non-zero risk of automation complacency. I’m not trying to cover for the driver as they were clearly at fault. The evidence seems overwhelming. However, Uber shouldn’t be cleared of fault just because the backup driver is found guilty.
Tough call.

If you and I handshake on buying my house, you’re rightfully upset when I sell to someone else for more.

On the other hand, all we had is a handshake, so I’m rightfully upset when you chase off a higher bid.

I guess how shady depends on the agreement that Schultz had. The fact that Sr was able to chase them off suggests the agreement was at least of some
substance.
The implication the above person is making is that one's beliefs around epstein depends on their political leaning.

But, people are complicated. I remember reading somewhere that he was a generous donor to a number of schools & STEM programs, that he was a patron of the sciences, and an abhorrent sex offender. They aren't exactly mutually exclusive, but just goes to show how people are complex and multifaceted
This is a solid list of red flags. Thank you!