skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, captions have to be enabled and then individually approved by the channel owner. So of course you'd be unlikely to see spam or abuse in captions since the channel owner is filtering that spam and abuse out.

Not saying I agree with Google's decision. Just saying it makes sense that you wouldn't see spam and abuse.
The iRobot is actually not really a similar problem in scope at all.

I can appreciate why the lay person may believe them to be similar, but it's hard to express just how much more challenging even the most basic form of driver assistance technology is in comparison to an autonomous vacuum.

The biggest challenge is speed. Just look at the napkin math of detection range of sensors versus stopping distance of a car. The higher the speed, the more range you need... and lidar, radar, etc. all have a fixed maximum detection range.

The rule of thumb is 50m for radar/lidar depending on how much you are willing to pay for the sensor. To stop the car safely, will take 56m at 100km/h.

Then ofcourse, the rest of the struggle is all in exception handling (getting from 70% to 99%).

Comparatively, the iRobot can use the dumbest and cheapest sensors and still be fully aware of everything around it in its relatively slow path of travel. It also does not need to predict the paths of travel of everything around it. It's enough for it to slow down or stop, especially at such low speed. If it hits something or fails to recognise an obstacle, it's not really a big deal. In comparison, lives can be lost in the car and there will be enquiries and legal battles.

I would put good money on the camera based automation delivering the best product at the end of the day, but requiring an order of magnitude more research and development than a comparitively "dumb" lidar setup. The lidar setup will have better immediate results, but probably will never reach the 99.999% effectiveness that everyone is chasing, and will probably never be safe at higher speeds.
You are right. Why wouldn’t they just die out quietly so we can all continue to be beholden to the one true choice in every area of our online lives.

What they are doing is very little different than what Google did when Google was the plucky underdog.

But I guess the whole “don’t be evil” branding is having an effect even after google doesn’t even use it anymore.
When X allows you to achieve goal Y, you can get a lot of X done even if you have no personal interest in X. If you're poor and have few options, most of the time you're gonna do whatever job you can get because you just don't have a choice (speaking from earlier life experience). For some people it's being a waiter, janitor, working at mcdonald's, etc. Very few people breaking their backs on construction or 16 hour catering gigs grew up fantasizing about being a laborer, but they still manage to pull off incredible feats of endurance and work. Why would software or other office jobs be any different?

In short, I work in software to get paid well to retire asap. I've never needed work to find fulfillment and growth in life, so I'm never short on motivation because I can't wait to stop having to work.
The title should be "Hacker News, but for cloud news" because this is confusing
Okay, so in the extreme case Uber's self driving division is estimated to be worth ~$7 billion? That proves my point more than it refutes it. Their stock has fluctuated more than that this past month.
No need to defend XML. XML stands the test of time. Yaml has become the evil it was meant to replace.

If XML had-had a command line structured editor at the beginning and integrated with JS a little bit better, it wouldn't have ever fall from grace.

It pains me that json doesn't have comments, and that so much energy has been expended basically getting JSON to the tooling and conformance support that XML already had.
What does those terms even mean, “better than and more powerful”?
Alon Levy has put together a database on transit costs: https://transitcosts.com/

The important metric isn't the cost of the project, it's the cost per km (or mile, if you prefer). The construction costs for NYC in particularly are unjustifiably obscene--it's really on the level of "fire everyone involved and make the new hires go on a world tour of transit system agencies to learn how they do cost control before they do anything."
Do you have a photo of this? Been thinking about a similar idea, but haven’t purchased a Magic Trackpad to try it yet. I am curious how the phone holder is angled.
I've worked with the accessibility team at YouTube. That team has brilliant engineers who are themselves blind or deaf, so they really do understand their customers, even if that community is relatively small. If this a grassroots decision from that team, I'm sure they have thought long and hard about it, and I respect that decision.

I still believe Alphabet is a company that truly wants to make the world a better place -- I hope they're living by their principles, and not letting the profits (of which they have plenty) get in way.
Ok, so go to the Pinephone battery spec (everything is publicly available) and point me to where it says the in-battery protection circuit protects the under/overtemperature condition.

In fact it's just the common protection circuit that just cares about over/under voltage and over-current conditions (mostly just a short, because the cuttoff current limit is 6-8A and battery's max recommended sustained current is 1.4A). So you can overload the battery 3-4x for however long you want, and that circuit will do nothing.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/d7402d89fca1a418.png
I get your point about preventing low level hacks, but isn't

> If they _don't_ do all the stupid security things they get sensational headlines where stunt hackers use drones to infect all the lights in an office building

Kind of beside the point? If you do the right security things you can ensure only the right person gets acceses, i.e. the owner of the device.
Absolutely. Great comment, however it's probably worth pointing out that the research and trial sensors are going to be high end, while the finished product will use the cheapest available or commericial sensors.

This is a scary prospect.
You can't drive a Tesla in "self-driving" mode in non-highway traffic. Solving Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Automated Lane Centering (ALC) on highway traffic are much easier tasks than what Waymo and Cruise are solving. You can buy a device from comma.ai that gives you 90% of Tesla's functionality for a few hundred dollars.
Ok, that was weird. Here's some info for others who were thinking WTF?

https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ae04as/whats_up_w...
https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-auctions/

FYI, DDG's point is that they cannot win the auction because they are less profitable relative to other search engines. They proposed a new way to determine the set of default candidates by search engine market share rather than running auctions.
In-app purchases, using whatever payment platform they like!
Lucky for Plantir people are sheep and you just have to tell them you have a crystal ball and they believe it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/activists-protest-palantir-a...

I'd love to believe Palantir organised the protests, but sadly I don't think so.

We got idiots over dystopian Blade Runner :(
I would also like to add one more thing that helps you to achieve goals: "Make it fun".

I don't like exercise but I love watching Netflix. Unfortunately, I don't get enough time to watch my favourite shows everyday.

Solution: Put a treadmill in front of my TV. Now I happily take out half an hour everyday to do the treadmill just so I get the same 30 minutes to watch my show.
But git doesn't do this. It punts to the user pretty quickly. (Even when it performs a merge, it is expected that the user confirmed the merge with a build. That is, git just claims the states combined without stopping in the same lines of the same files. There merge has to be verified by a user, from its perspective.)

Games, similarly, typically have a master state server. Yes, they optimistically show some state locally, but the entire process checkpoints with a central state constantly. (Else you get jerky behaviors pretty quickly as the states diverge more and more in ways that can't be reconciled without committing to a branch over another.)

Edit: that is, I would think the point is to force more, smaller arguments. Anything else puts more at risk as you lose one. Right?
This is why my new strategy is to avoid purchasing mission-critical components of my infrastructure from gigantic vendors.

For example, right now I could be using Azure SSO, which would have been free with Office 365 at the level we're bought in at, and then all of my other cloud products would be just as inaccessible as Office 365 is. Even when it is working, I could have an edge case issue and never see a feature added or a bug fixed to help me at all. Or, I could go with a 3rd party authentication company, and get a product that their company lives or dies on. My experience is that, if chosen well, you'll get a much better experience even though you have to do some legwork here and there to make things work together.
From a mile high view, does it matter what the problem is? Early laptops got us the lithium battery. ICBM's got us integrated circuits. Calculators got us microprocessors. Maybe in twenty years we'll look back and say self driving cars got us human-level computer vision- to be applied to anything you please.
who even cares, just use things that everyone uses. XML can be used in a schemaless manner and json/yml can be used with a schema. Eventually the more compact formats are more popular because people can use them for other things such as object dump and actually read it. And a very big config file can be handwritten and code review without too much hassle. It's not about schema or association with enterprise.

I do miss SOAP though. Why are we still writing plumbing code in 2020. And no grpc isn't the answer there is still plumbing code, what's the point?
China and Japan aren't exactly low-cost construction countries. Actually, they're among the highest-cost non-Anglosphere countries (which are perhaps best labeled "stratospheric-cost" countries). Instead, you want to look to places like Spain, Italy, Sweden, or South Korea as low-cost countries.
It looks like it was copied from a text file, since if you view the source the actual formatting is there; but HTML's default whitespace/newline treatment causes it to turn into one big blob of text.
> Tesla vehicles safely hand over responsibility to the driver when path planning confidence has been lost

You've been lucky then, not to experience phantom breaking, cutting off other cars when changing lanes or fire trucks stopped partially in your lane.
The false-positive case is more like, e.g. "[censored] the chicken crossed the road." There's no slur/curse that actually makes sense in that position, according to the rules of the English language, so there's no implication.
Genetic programming works basically the same as the other genetic algorithms, except that the individuals are variable size programs, whereas GA uses fixed length values like a vector.
I use DDG because it’s better than Google. Any search engine that actually allows me to use it is better than one that doesn’t:

https://lee-phillips.org/byeGoogle/
I really think we need a new party. Fiscally conservative Democrats. People who live in the real world with respect to budgets, with the ability to say NO to stupid things, but generally being open to some Government programs and of course socially liberal.
Side-note; Anti-virus software is ironically quite invasive and can be harmful to your system.

They bury themselves deep into the OS and often access undocumented kernel API's which can break the OS. In some cases they [1] betray your privacy in the name of security...

I guess it's still popular because it's often part of the bloatware on new PC's and Laptops...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20703699
How can you implore to argue on the facts when you’re lying yourself? Their statement couldn’t be more clear. They want to eliminate the pay-for-play to replace it with a system without money exchanging hands.

I say you forfeit your right to ask only to speak on facts when you’re that wrong.
Everyone has made disappointingly little progress on full self-driving in the sense of driving little Johnny from the house to soccer practice by himself.

There are possibly opportunities on freeways but anyone who expects to be able to get robo-Ubers door-to-door for decades is likely to be disappointed.
Yes, but the question is what are you going to do about it?

I'll tell you what happens in other countries: Cut all the tall poppies down.

I love my new home, America, because she doesn't do this and it happens in my original home country. I love the results of the American system, it's something I'm grateful to live in everyday. Unfortunately I've personally witness that mentality creep in here.

The perniciousness of the go along to get along system is hard to describe to someone who hasn't lived it.
Yes, the auto-pilot is easy on rails (Morgantown built one in 1975), but rails are expensive, many to many rail networks are even more expensive, and grade separated rail networks are insanely expensive. The Morgantown system final price was 12 million 1975 dollars per mile.

So by using advanced self-driving concepts (but not yet full self-driving alongside human drivers), you can repurpose much of the existing road space for personal public transit, without creating completely new infrastructure.
It's kind of grim, but so far Uber and Tesla are the only ones to have killed people, and the Tesla case is more ambiguous. There's clearly big problems at Uber compared with the others, though I too think that the tech is further in the future than people were saying a couple years ago.
As well as checking if that is a more long-term sustainable diet
They have a management plane that is still an asset for some people, and places with compliance requirements will use their crypto tools.

Security tools are an industry that’s all about m&a. They can buy a few startups and cobble together a suite of some sort.
I wish this were only limited to Office 365. It's most services that use authentication backed by Azure Active Directory.

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

A few days ago a similar outage occurred with Google Accounts.
Indeed. Such is life.
I firmly believe that the literature produced which shows self-driving cars are safe or even safer, and there is scads of it now, is mainly down to the program's ability to make sure a safe following distance is observed leading to greater reaction time for braking. I know a lot of driving tests have been done in simulators which show the AI can be safer but I agree with your statement.

I also have very little confidence in the AI's ability to stop at road construction, make its way over temporary embankments and diversions placed for construction, navigating in inclement weather or adverse traction situations like a muddy drive, etc. I suppose the real goal here is for Wal-Mart and Amazon to move freight on the Interstates to begin with but I don't even see that happening any time soon. Your average Wal-Mart loading bay and parking areas are likely much more than any current AI can handle anyhow. How does the AI know the person in the mart cart isn't going to just jut out in front at the last second? Can't exactly make eye contact.
> In the last three months America has lost more people than Sri Lanka lost in 30 years of civil war. If this isn’t collapse, then the word has no meaning.

Phew. It seems like there ought to be some measurable "collapse models" out there, and if not, maybe we ought to build one, just in the name of helping _any_ nation come up and out faster. (BTW when I think about collapse, I do tend to think in terms of finality, so there's one data point of wrong-headedness, I guess)

And if a new model needs to start with "how many people died recently" then that's fine. But people new to the topic might be excused for bringing up contrary ideas like the transient aspect of a novel-mega-killer virus hitting a one-of-a-kind US presidency, or they might bring up AAPL's recent stock split, or who knows what else.

Anyway, for those reasons I think it'd be nice to work from a model of some kind, and maybe it already exists. Heck, sometimes it's nice to even work with multiple models and combine leverage points. Thanks for posting.
I've noticed that the content creators I watch who used to use annotations for corrections still have roughly the same number of corrections in their video, but they're being done in the edit rather than post-upload.

I've got no hard evidence of this, but I feel like the removal of that feature got rid of a lot of the annoying spam, and the people who were using it correctly just started paying more attention to their videos before they uploaded them.

Obviously some will still get missed, but I think the overall accuracy of the actual videos has increased substantially.
This somehow feels related to the outcome of Epic v Apple.
The podcast page had a critical error when I went to look... nice idea though.

You might find podcastindex.org is useful for this.
An internal team is also going to be far more accessible and responsive to the company's needs.
Yeah, my "solution" to that problem is to backup to a zfs NAS, and through shitty^Wclever scripting, create a snapshot after each successful backup. If TM backup fails for any reason, I roll back on the NAS end and start again.
Their costs are lower because their land aquisition costs are lower. The problem isn't the tech it's the regulations/property rights.
Chrome is one of those cases where i think it could be an open and shut case of monopolistic abuse, exploiting their search monopoly to promote chrome at zero cost and then also using chrome to promote google.com.
Whats the difference for you between VS2017 and VS2019?
- Take credit for your work (use pronouns I and Me when talking about your work, not We) and do not allow others to take credit for your work

- If it's a teamwork situation with other people on your level, don't do most of the work, because the credit will end up being split 50/50 in the eyes of the bosses even if you did most of it

Maybe this is true and maybe it's not, but I can't stand these kind of office politics. I enjoy working with the team and collaborating, and want to see my fellows succeed. With perhaps the exception of level 1-3 IC roles, work is almost always a team activity. Showing proper recognition to those who contributed is the right thing to do.

I think there is a second path of staying humble and empowering others. It's the path I've followed and have never had a problem with getting promotions.
To be fair to them it is a bit hard to fix the levers of control from their observation post. Orange man did humanity a solid from what I understand.
To be fair, I think it's more like a 24-hour shift every several weeks, not multiple times a week. And I don't think residents get weeded out if, say, they make errors during 24-hour shifts at >2x the rate of other doctors; I'd guess that, if any weeding occurs, it would be based on the "overall error rate" instead.

I do have opinions about how to select doctors. For example, surgeons in particular should be selected a lot more for manual dexterity, and less for ability to memorize facts that appear on the MCAT.
I'm familiar - I had a top 15 paid app for a few years. That position drove all of our sales.
I’m more willing to believe that Tesla is just committing fraud here before believing they have any kind of lead.
> Weight limit: 276lbs

I don't think they know their audience. Especially if that's inclusive of monitors and whatnot.
also the machine generated captions are

completely devoid of punctuation

and proper capitalization so that all the words

run together in an endless nonsense sentence also they're

useless because each word pops up on the

screen one a time very slowly in time with the audio

with arbitrary line breaks sounds useful but

it makes it impossible to read the captions and actually

watch the video because you're forced to keep

your eyes on the weirdly scrolling captions you

can't just read one line at a time like proper

captions and it never gets the hard to

hear words right you know the ones that

would benefit most from proper captions

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Also, the machine-generated captions are completely devoid of punctuation and proper capitalization, so that all the words run together in an endless, nonsense sentence.

Also, they're useless because each word pops up on the screen one a time, very slowly (in time with the audio), with arbitrary line breaks. Sounds useful, but it makes it impossible to read the captions and actually watch the video because you're forced to keep your eyes on the weirdly scrolling captions--you can't just read one line at a time like proper captions.

And it never gets the hard-to-hear words right. You know, the ones that would benefit most from proper captions.
Not sure where you’re located, but when are we gonna stop saying “the US needs more rail”? It’s not a solution in this country and never will be (Not outside major cities). People are too spread out, we’re not like Europe or even Japan, where the habitation area is actually quite small. People want to leave when they want and go exactly where they want. Gasoline is cheap here making cars cheap to own and maintain. It’s tough to move things while carrying them on a train, a reason so many people have trucks and SUVs. This doesn’t even consider all the cost related reasons outlined in other comments.

Electric self driving cars are the future of the US.
>Like "what power source can we make fly that can do this output?"

How about actively reacting fissile material? I suppose there wouldn’t be much difference if the thing were already carrying a warhead.

Or maybe create the tip of the vehicle out of magnesium and ignite it immediately before launch.
I'm truly amazed that searching "crushed" "hurt" and "injured" in these comments didn't turn anything up.

Anyway, I think this could be among the more stylish ways to be crushed to death by a malfunctioning piece of office equipment.
Did actual business goals ever align with the aspirational marketing though? I find it hard to believe that the actual people building it didn't know that real widespread autonomous driving was more than a pipe dream in the foreseeable future. They still managed to suck up piles of investor cash, maybe that was the real goal?
26/45 is the best that I can do without cheating.
Level 2 means the driver always has responsibility.

It's good that the Tesla system stops making inputs when it doesn't know what to do. That's different than the Tesla system having full control and safely notifying the occupant that they need to start driving.
Many of us with children, family and, you know, friends care very much that life goes on after we die, regardless of our role in it.
That’s a fair amount more snarky than I intended my comment to be taken.

When I was a grad student I talked to grad students from a lot of other schools. I went to conferences, made friends, sent emails to folks doing research in my field. In the course of events we compared notes on advisors. As a consequence I knew that the professors in my department weren’t outliers.

You didn’t do this?
Has the US and EU just given up on anti-trust at this point?

What Apple and Google are doing here is racketeering.

There's no inherent NEED for app stores. The world worked JUST FINE before app stores when people downloaded apps and installed them directly.

Apple disabling 3rd party downloads on their phones is just creating an artificial market that wouldn't exist normally - AKA the literal definition of racketeering.

We're about to release an app on iOS and Google and we'll probably just have to yield to their rules but we're going to really make a stink over this and write letters to congress and the EU saying we believe this should be illegal.