skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not a shitty software engineer who's been "coddled." What you likely are is dissatisfied with where your career is going (and who amongst us is not in some way) and nervous about not having a name brand pedigree so you are turning it inward and trying to understand it in ways that imply the cause and effect are localized to yourself. That's understandable but I wonder if it will get you anywhere. Stop beating yourself up and start exploring what you really want.

Do you want a brand name? Go work at a FAANG. Trust me, they're hiring. You'll get there and like me you'll realize they too have their problems and maybe the "over-paid Rails shit solutions" you "know will eventually leak" maybe weren't so bad after all.

Do you want to level up as an engineer? Go work at a hyper-growth startup (probably series B) that is falling over from its scale problems. You will probably end up solving some oddly challenging and novel engineering problem along the way.

Do you actually not mind this stuff but hate feeling like you have to always keep up with the Jones and it gives you anxiety? Go find a therapist that you have good chemistry with and see if you can't work out why you feel this way and how to fix it. To be honest, the corporate rat race thrives at making people who are otherwise doing quite well with their career progression feel like they're not because that makes them easier to exploit. Life is not an exam to be min-maxed. You don't take that fancy career or lifetime earnings with you when you die, so unless you're doing it for the intrinsic joy of doing it, there's an argument to be made that becoming better at engineering has no guarantee of making your life better.

See this blog post for just what it is -- a breathless discovery of a hammer and an author who now wants to use it for everything but may not be at the point where they realize it might not be a great tool for everything. You the person are probably a lot more competent and capable than you're letting on here. And if that's the case and you're unhappy for reasons in your control, hone in on why that is and see if you can't make life moves to change it. There's never been a better time to make a career move.

Good luck. I believe in you.
Sometimes I upvote an article not because I agree with it's content, but to see it discussed. The same goes for comments in a lesser extent.
I believe so. There are way too many variables when it comes to driving. I honestly don't think it's possible to solve the problem without huge advances in general purpose AI that can do its own goal setting ... and then I just imagine Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide...

"...one of the most advanced robots in the galaxy that can do billions of computations a second and you ask me to do the most mundane tasks... go open the door Marvin. Go pilot the ship Marvin. Go fix the reactor Marvin ... Go drive my Tesla Marvin ... I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed..."
It's not that black and white. The unnerving thing is that self-driving cars have completely different failure modes than drunk humans: instead of falling asleep and drifting into the next lane, they do (to humans) absurd things like mistake the side of a tractor-trailer for empty space and merge into it.
I recall permission issues when I needed to recover a couple of files from a Time Machine backup from an old machine without restoring the whole volume. Made sense, I somehow worked around it though. Not sure I entered the old system’s credentials, I might have used the terminal with sudo or something, but memory is hazy.

Personally no issues with TM, except when it was working for too long initially I decided to wipe it and restart from scratch. (Don’t think it helped speed it up.)

That said I spend some time carefully picking which folders to include in the backup to avoid slowness and bloat.
Level 2 has 0 semblance of reliable autonomy. Those are completely different problems.
about the step 3 (checking in daily or regularly to be accountable) there's a subreddit on that, https://www.reddit.com/r/theXeffect/
My hearing is fine; I prefer captions because I often have unavoidable background noise and can’t turn the volume up without disturbing others.
One company builds a ride hailing app while the other builds one of the premier, high-performance EVs in the world with significant levels of driver assistance, over the air updates, and world-class onboard perception that industry incumbents readily admit is "years" ahead of their own development.

How exactly would you characterize the comparison?
It is a defined level of vehicle autonomy by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

https://www.sae.org/news/2019/01/sae-updates-j3016-automated...
I built a “search engine” but unfortunately my approach lacked any implicit ranking mechanism.

TLDR: my regex search engine needs result ranking to be more useful before I consider showing it to other humans.
Capable of it or capable of learning it when it's needed? I had to brush up on linear algebra for some problems at work about 2 years ago. I solved the problem, documented everything properly, and the code has been running unchanged and without issue ever since. In the time between then and now I've definitely lost that knowledge _yet again_.
The Information is a fairly reputable source, but I understand your frustration.

I feel as though paywalled links should be heavily downweighted as most of the discussion will uninformed.

To answer your question, Outline.com doesn't seem to work here.
> buried 5 children but he never got sad

?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Pol...
This was removed because the machine generated captions have reached near parity with crowdsourced captions. Machine captions can be scaled to caption the entirety of YouTube, something crowdsourcing could never accomplish.
hogwash

stability is not a strict function of molecular structure and atomic composition, it is also a function of environmental factors like temperature, pressure, acidity, ...

The reason many of those inorganic polymers on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_polymer have a dangling string of "unprocessable" attached is because they're simply reactive with other chemical species (organic or inorganic) in our biosphere, or simply less or unstable at our earthly standard conditions...

if humanity does ever make contact with alien species, we might get tempted to invite them in our Czochralsky crucible if they are rare enough, and vice versa
Surely the performance left on the table by going with web tech instead of native code is just academic for a text adventure?
I'm talking about four nines in terms of reliability (not crashes) and on level 3, where the car still has all the regular driving controls - so if there is a problem or the system has high uncertainty about certain road situations it can force/return control to the driver and have them navigate the unknown situation. I'm also probably being too optimistic predicting four nines in 5 years, it'll probably be 10 years or more for people to be able to reliably take their hands off the wheel for extended periods of time on interstates.

Edit: I realize that level 4 doesn't ask you to take over, so I've edited my comments to reflect that.
It isn't the money that stops rail.
My old chromebook is being repurposed as a chromebook. My daughter's school has asked kids to bring computers to class this year. Mostly for Google classroom usage between remote and in person days. We still have the 11" Acer I got her 5 years ago for $170 and it still runs ok. I taped over the cracks in the case and now she has a great tabeltop device and if she loses it, I don't care.
So this should impact Steam, Xbox Game Streaming, and any other software that allowed digital purchases outside of Google play right?

Our app is leveraging this "loophole" as we provide license keys for self hosting as part of purchasing the app. It's also a TWA and Google hasn't published ANY guidance on how to use a TWA with Google Play Billing. What are we supposed to do, get off Google Play?
I love rail but we'll probably see some kind of self driving before we get high speed rail between any of SD, SF, LA, or Vegas.
So replace roads with tubes containing a fixed track that prevents animals, weather, and people from interfering. Then add tube outlets to areas that are frequented by most travelers. You could even put these tubes underground to save space, and instead of large individual cars you could optimize the vehicles for many passengers in a small amount of space.
> dedicated and physically separated lanes

We already have trams.
How do operators get into the building? Maybe the login in is Microsoft. Maybe someone is DDOS something that effects both.

It could be a complex interaction.

Regardless, it is being mentioned in many stories.
As a telecom dev, I can assure you that 911 systems have been making the shift to voip with a fallback to cell or POTS for the past 10 years.
I don't want to move the goalposts here because I think this is worth studying and I'm happy to see any studies being done at all.

From my research, and I'm happy to dig up my sources:

The longer you go between meals the more pronounced the effect. 16:8 with ad libitum eating is what a lot of people kinda do naturally if they skip breakfast.

The longer you abstain the more pronounced metabolic changes you see. Human growth hormone levels triple over fasted period of, for instance, 5 days. Glucose levels fall off a cliff, and so do free fatty acids. [1] It's unclear that fasting for less than a day would yield similar effects.

I think the idea that if you don't eat, you lose weight, is pretty well documented so it feels like all we can really take away from this study is 16:8 with all the food you can eat doesn't qualify.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC329619/
Do you have a counter example?
Well, it would be the same network, with some road space dedicated to cars being repurposed for public transit. Cities do this all the time for buses.
No, Tesla is nowhere near self-driving capability. Collecting a bunch of unsupervised data on its own is not that useful.
Not from California but I don't blame him. Instead of controlling waste, the usual answer from state and local governments (particularly in California) seems to be raise the taxes. When you have janitors making making 250k+ you have some serious issues and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The sheer number of administrative positions, departments and salaries just boggle my mind.

https://time.com/4555692/san-francisco-bart-janitor-salary/

https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-why-california-is-in-tro...
An object is limited to one thread. How many qps that is depends entirely on what your app does, since the app can run arbitrary code in the request handler...
Congratulations! That's an amazing result.

I suspect 16:8 with ad libitum eating is not going to trigger a reduction in glycogen, certainly not with 100kcal per day deficit. This feels more like a super light weight caloric restriction diet.
There are a lot of things that are slow shuttle pods around the place. They have been deployed on several continents.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/17/17859112/self-driving-car...

Is that what you mean?
https://www.gearbrain.com/waymo-driverless-car-hand-signals-...

I actually found that looking for a years old article about Google's system accounting for bicyclists making hand signals, but there you go.
Tesla is not even considered in the top half of the contenders. They are the best at hyping it up though.
Using MinIO to turn Amazon's Snowball into a true object storage server
Hmm, since the LLVM/Clang/Zig files in that repo are unmodified, why not just move the zig-bootstrap build script to a bootstrap script in the zig repository?
So if sellers have other choices, that kind of argues against that they need to be broken up because they are a monopoly...
Autonomous driving to me seems a lot like the domain of robotic crowd navigation, and the crowd navigation research seems to show us that most of the methods suspected in-use by AV programs tend to fall apart under trivial thresholds of uncertainty/congestion. So, I'm less surprised that Uber didn't make much fundamental progress here, and more surprised that anybody else has done better.

edit: I say this as someone who very much wants to see this class of science & technology succeed, but I often wonder if we're 2 or 3 Fields Medals away from really getting fundamentally closer to success.
This is pretty "out there." Conceptually it makes sense but the comment in the article that carrying along a power supply to make this practical cuts back on the efficiency.

That said, the idea of super heating the air in front of the leading edge so that the dense air in front goes around seems pretty amazing. But I am not sure I understand how the same super heated air doesn't result in the same heating they were trying to avoid.
"Leaving" California for a billionaire means likely he's going to start claiming taxes in another state while continuing to live in California and enjoy the benefits of being in the state without paying for them.
I see people keep stating this but I'm not so sure about it. Do we know what critically important data Tesla cars collect at scale _and_ are able to send back to mothership and who pays for that bandwidth/traffic? To my mind most of the useful information (video recordings or pictures of moments when the AI driver wasn't sure about things and/or human intervened) seems like it would take a lot of bandwidth to send back from moving cars.
I've never been in a black cab with an unfriendly driver. Minicabs, yes. Don't know about Uber as I don't use them.

I was using electronic payment with black cabs almost 20 years ago, contactless came in ages ago. I genuinely find it hard to believe you've used a black cab, at least in this century.
Nurses can pull $120,000 a year here in Toronto

https://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2020/09/21...
Personally, I don't think so. If anything we might need less machine learning.

It's mostly a problem of sensor fusion. Once your self driving car has a good view and solid understanding of the surrounding environment, the actual driving algorithm is reasonable simple. All you really need is really solid software engineering to implement it with minimal bugs.

The problem is getting that understanding. You can't have objects pop in and out of existence. You can't have computer vision misclassifying objects or just not seeing them.

It might just require better sensors, or more types of sensors. Or we might need to work on interpreting the data and understanding the actual situation.

Most likely it's a combination of both.
I would frame it as "in discussion forums people upvote articles because they spark interesting discussions, even if the article is uninteresting or only available to few"
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>> Uber’s vehicles had also been having what the company refers to as a bad experience—such as a sudden jerk or a potentially dangerous movement—every one-third of a mile on average.

Pretty sure my wife would claim that I'm worse than that...
"When I look for a streaming video service, I want to make sure their programmers are the best. The content isn't as important as the user interface or the algorithms that tell me what to watch."

Do you realize how absurd that sounds? Content is King. If Netflix had crap content, it wouldn't matter how good their programmers are, because the content would still be crap. I can tell you from experience that if Netflix ever folded, their contracts with studios would be worth 100x more than whatever code they developed is worth.

> I've been developing webpages for many decades

>>It can't have been that many decades,

The "WWW" was created in August 1991, and I was on it in 1992, so yeah, practically 3 decades. I was wishing for Javascript in a web browser years before it ever existed, back when I was using lynx to browse the web. And I was coding long before that. Yeah, I'm old. I've been around. I don't need you explaining anything to me.
All attempts at self-driving cars are a failure so far. There are no exceptions. If Uber is struggling, they're all struggling. I expect similar if not worse stories coming out for the rest of them.
Won't it be great if Waymo has to end up licensing the driving tech from Google/Alphabet/WhicheverCoTheyStoleFrom?

Edit: Of course I meant Uber. Doh!
I think the fact that the time-restricted eating group did slightly better than the consistent meal timing group is actually pretty strong evidence that intermittent fasting is effective. At least for me, it is much easier to only eat during a certain time period than to hold to a 3 meal a day schedule, so the fact that the groups performed similarly shows a lot of the value of intermittent fasting - same results with simpler rules.

Also I'm surprised that a 1% drop in body weight across ~100 participants gives statistically significant results - isn't that pretty well within daily fluctuation due to water intake? I would imagine most people who are trying to lose weight are aiming to lose more like 10% than 1%.
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with the HN algo where some keywords rank higher than others. "Uber" "Billion" "Self-Driving" are hot topics by themselves and this one is all of them in one.
Our company does market comparisons. It helps, but only for the severely under paid. They have a wide range that they consider acceptable.
On the other hand, I've seen some shockingly good machine captions, where I'm fairly sure they were machine because they were just uploaded or I noticed technical terms being transcribed phonetically, but they nevertheless manage to transcribe better than I can understand it. My theory is that they prioritize the full-power RNN transcriptions for only some new videos, and haven't gone back over the full historical YT corpus.
oh I didn't know that, I somehow thought the chapters would be much longer.

I've mostly played VR games in 30 minutes sessions about. I get dizzy beyond that and it's the time I've got available anyhow :)
Interesting. I have a backup using Netatalk, but on ext4. Are you saying a simple samba share should work just fine?
Wow yeah that is a very crucial bit of information to leave out of the title.
The relative safety and performance of autonomous anything is very, very hard to measure - there are so many variables.

Even on identical systems, different parameters will create totally different outcomes.

Maybe it has 'sudden movements' because it's actually a lot after and designed to react to things that Waymo would just plow right through. Maybe they're using crappy non-production sensors. Maybe they are entirely relying on instruments and not indirect data like GPS. I have no idea really, other than to say, these are very sophisticated systems and given the obvious opacity of the work ... it's going to be hard to tell what's what.
You are assuming a modern filesystem and/or cacheing architecture in a machine with enough memory to spare to run it effectively (though in fairness the post you replied to directly did mention a fairly modern use case). Back when the behaviours being discussed became the norm the landscape was pretty different.
They can route people from fixed point A to point B, and some locations along a predetermined rute from A to B. Personal rapid transit allows a Many to Many mapping, just like cars.
I would not say they "wasted" that money.

It's a moonshot, and the first to get it right will make far more than $2.5B in revenue.
Hand signals and gestures have been used with kinect systems for awhile now.
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Not really. Rail in the US is spectacularly expensive; look up a few recent rail projects with dollar figures attached, they're billions of dollars each. That's the same order of magnitude as the cost of an entire self-driving research program (Waymo has taken $3B of investment, according to its Wikipedia page), which, if successful, would scale quickly and easily to the entire world.
I wonder, did Uber even have to do so?

Would nobody sell them such tech or do they think anyone who solves this problem will put Uber out of business?
Uber is more of a tech company in that their entire value is based on internet connectivity (while Tesla could take a 99% market cap hit and still put together metal on an assembly line), but Uber is less impressive since it's just an app and an API connecting drivers to people and sometimes throwing a restaurant in the mix.
Cities usually go as far as having dedicated lanes for buses on a few main thoroughfares. That is a far cry from having a self driving car not encounter any human driver during the drive from my home to my office or the grocery store, for example.
I agree but only because of bureaucracy and nimby-ism.
The wealthiest people and corporations pay proportionally a tiny amount of tax and then they get subsidized and bailed out by the middling middle class.

Canada doesn't have a ridiculous semiprivate health industry that could probably deliver free healthcare to a smaller state with what it spends on lobbying alone.

I think a deeper truth is that America has a split personality: partly it wants to be a grownup nation, and partly it wants to still play Wild West.
> No one can read this article yet it is instantly upvoted to the very top of HN. Goes to show how discussion forums like this one just serve to amplify people's existing biases rather than actually educate them on anything new.

Maybe everyone that is upvoting it can read it b/c they subscribe to the news site, and maybe your comment shows your existing bias about your thoughts on other readers of this discussion forum?
That might explain why I've been unable to download onedrive links for the last day.
Still today I have friends and family that seem uninterested in checking their reasoning (read: assumptions) against reality, and it's the most frustrating thing to debate. How would you convince Aristotle that the principles of the scientific method is the best way to query reality?
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As Gates said, "It's as hard to give this stuff away effectively as it was to make it in the first place."
Could this be a downside of being a bit of a one party state? On paper, I imagine if more races were more competitive, we'd see our elected officials work harder to keep their jobs rather than lean back on the party establishment to support them.

This is actually an honest question - I'm not trying to make a political point here. I'm genuinely curious about whether purple states spend their tax dollars better than the very red and very blue ones.
The United States is structurally incapable of large-scale public works projects. There are a lot of reasons for this and they aren’t particularly partisan, rather reflect how decisions are made. My guess is places like China and Singapore will have the first true deployments of self-driving, because they’re actually capable of building road infrastructure to support it when it isn’t fully level 5.
Yet you can’t see that sales is inherently different?? You think most jobs have an easily measurable benefit??
Hand signals are pretty standardised and obvious, and even the first Kinect (XBox accessory from 2010) can estimate people's skeletons sufficiently well to figure out construction worker hand signals. I would expect that you can solve this pretty well even without any ML at all.
What is RCT? This is not in the title of the linked article.
A bit late, if he doesn't get reelected . . . .
This is awesome- only 2 points I'd counter

* In my experience OKRs genuinely are a ritualistic bullshit dance

* "tech debt" is terrible vocabulary but throwing out the rules to prototype things is critical if you expect to make something that is actually new
Even Silicon Valley levels of money don’t approach that needed to purchase the land required for rail.