skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American, the only thing I don't spend on a credit card is rent (because my landlord doesn't accept it).

It's silly not to pay for everything on credit cards here, when you can get 3-5% back on anything with the right card. That's around $4k/year if you spend $100k before even accounting for doubling on some cards and other benefits like travel vouchers, Uber credits, and free insurance coverage. (Minus a $600-$1000 a year in annual card fees for high end cards.)
It would be rolled into a new product line and you'd need to start paying a higher monthly service fee and take it to a dealer to have it repainted with new logo, have a new control panel with all new UX installed in the dash, and the self driving cars product would be merged with the self-driving motorcycles product and when you got your car back from the dealer you'd find it now had 3 wheels instead of the 2 of a motorcycle or the 4 of a car, satisfying the needs of both previous products inadequately.

And then in another 2 years they'd deprecate your car and launch a new competing self driving bus initiative.
Show HN: MusFuse – A central app to listen to and share music across services
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> “The cognitive function of the participants was not known pre-COVID, and the results also do not reflect long-term recovery - so any effects on cognition may be short term,” said Joanna Wardlaw, a professor of applied neuroimaging at Edinburgh University.

There was no baseline.

More panic porn, more panicdemic profiteering.
Yes; to expand on that a bit -- you can do fault injection in a chaos experiment. You can also do many other things within an experiment that would be difficult to classify as fault injection; for example, a sharp increase in the number of customers making requests to your service isn't really a fault. Chaos Engineering then wraps all of those techniques in a framework of experimentation and analysis. That's the discipline, which encourages you to proactively make improvements to Availability, and now Security as well.
If Octave were sufficient for me, I think I’d just use SciPy. But I want to use LiveScripts and several other things.
Repetitive tasks are exactly what pointing and calling helps with. The intent is to prevent the brain from going on autopilot for a task that happens exactly the same way 99.9% of the time, in order to prevent disasters that last 0.1% of the time.

Traffic lights are a lot more random (and therefore mentally engaging) than the types of things train conductors are pointing and calling.

An automotive equivalent of a situation that would benefit from pointing and calling is something like this: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/guide-to-rear-sea...

eg.: "Car parked, ignition off, get child"
Sure there is. Just ask a person to engage in a "stream of consciousness" monologue.
They've opened the spigot on the beta now and thousands of people have access. Just sign up and you should get in fairly quickly.
With these new numbers Travis has not got through it's backlog in over a day now.

Last week was bad, this week is a lot, lot worse.
MathMagic Land [video]
Wouldn't this kind of priming be brittle and unreliable? Has anyone successfully primed GPT-3 to solve complex problems consistently?
This is a sad day for the European car industry. It seems everyone except (maybe?) VW has given up on competing with Tesla and Google on self-driving.
Exactly this. I've never seen anyone set up Salesforce themselves, I'd even go so far as to suggest that Salesforce is wilfully so opaque purely to enable a commercial ecosystem of "certified" chancers and ne'er-do-wells who you have to call every time anything goes wrong.
I'm not even sure you need to be that well-lead when you're a homogenous country. Alignment tends to be self-evident and incentives are more likely to be shared/common. Emergent phenomena of the group aligns with the interest of the individual.

Where you need good leadership is when you have heterogenous groups that lack coherent alignment and need to be brought together to establish consensus.
And now optical navigation has been flight proven so it can be used on other missions.
I believe the trick is to anticipate failure, and call out the normal thing instead. So you’d always slow down at every light, and only speed back up after calling out green. This is what all drivers are actually supposed to do, although I fully realise nobody practically does that, which is why we get so many automobile accidents all the time.
Please don't post generic flamebait like this to HN, especially not on classic flamewar topics. These discussions are all the same at this point, which makes them tedious and off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906708.
Pretrained Models for Transfer Learning in Keras for Computer Vision
> The World’s Most Experienced Driver ™

Marketing departments just have to ruin everything.
Getting data quickly with data dumps and APIs
I'm sorry to be difficult, but my late step-father would respond to questions like this with "how long is a piece of string?"

There is no useful direct answer to a question like this.

Having said that, what are your normal communication latencies between nodes, P50-95-99? what are those numbers when the system is under heavy load?

You can model the impact that different retry intervals will have on your system
From rights of the accused point it seems that handling these issues by police seems much better, as criminal justice have established rules to protect accused (e.g. including 'beyond a reasonable doubt' evidence level) that seems to be lacking in these extrajudicional punishments.
I think it's interesting they're only installing sensing tech in front of the truck, not the back.
Delivering reliable electricity – nuclear plants just keep on running
It’s not clear what you are trying to say.
inefficient in what way? after you meet company match, max out an ira, then what would you do instead of maxing out the 401k? The tax savings are a big deal.
He's a person with influence who is endorsing a labor practice. I'm pretty sure no one was ever forced to work for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, yet somehow their opinions on labor managed to affect peoples' working conditions.
Thanks, Jeremy! Having a name for it made it a lot easier to write the principles: https://principlesofchaos.org/

And now we have a canonical book. ;-)
> In a lot of places with options, this is still a good price.

It will be interesting to see if any existing providers feel the need to lower their prices in response to Starlink becoming more widely available. That's how competition is supposed to work, right?
You think getting fired for violations is the nuclear option? Then what do you call involving law enforcement?
If both "demand pull inflation" and "cost push inflation" are standard economic terms, how can you claim that it's a misuse of the term inflation?
The advantage are the incremental builds they mention. If just one input file changes and you run ninja again, it'll only re-run one step instead of converting all files again.
> That isnt just a security hole in X, it's a total lack of security.

That "security" is useless on a Desktop where you run all programs as the same user. If you want a platform to run locked down "apps" that's fine, just don't expect others to be happy with the cost of that "security" when it provides no benefit for them.
That's not a crazy high number. But I would assume there is an order of magnitude more of that in injuries. And then probably much more in property damage. So significantly reducing truck accidents could be very lucrative.
Doesn't this just create a culture of fear? Where you can get fired instantly for a single, ill-considered remark? I would certainly never participate in any kind of socializing at such a company, since the consequences of a misstep would be so drastic.
Thanks, so a handful at most, and the "usual" ones, I always thought that those companies keep their machines connected in (redundant) "sets" and that a command affecting all of them was more a case for "never" rather than "once in a while".
The CDC’s Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers Are Critical to the US Election
The U.S. has already hit 47% of total 2016 voting
Looks like streamlet requires synchronized time. That can be hard to achieve.

From the link; "The protocol runs sequentially in synchronized ‘epochs’ that are 2 seconds long. Every player starts in epoch 0 at the same time...."
I don't know the exact coordinates of the newly found cat but Nazca lines are around here: -14.7192698,-75.1298623

Supposedly the cat was spotted from the nearby outlook/outpost, so look around what you could spot from "Mirador De Las Líneas De Nazca"
Whoa! I had no idea this had changed. It used to be that cookies for .example.com and example.com were different -- one was accessible by foo.example.com and the other wasn't. Seems RFC 6265 changed the behavior[0].

I assume the RFC explains the reasoning, but prima facie, this seems like a bad change to me.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/posts/23086139/revisions
Smoke from Colorado over the Mediterranean
It won't be applied uniformly and dispassionately. That's the point. The laws we have on the books far outweigh capacity to enforce them, so enforcement is selective. Lowering the cost will make enforcement more selective, not less.
Launching Pastel – Customer Videos Made Easy
I think Visa is working on NFC to phone for Android (without a terminal)

https://www.globalcosmeticsnews.com/visa-tap-to-phone-to-exp...
Absolutely. You should be able to go through an auth flow to add your IRAs as a paycheck deposit destination as part of your employer's payroll platform just as you might for a checking or savings deposit account, and you should be able to make changes to contribution amounts or accounts at any time.
This is something like the 30th or 40th time I've seen a documented instance of toxic "bro" culture in sales/marketing groups.

This is true but a company founded to do a sleazy thing like “surveillance” is only going to hire sleazebags anyway. Or turn previously decent people into them.
Thoughts about Epiphenominal explanations of the mind?

I'm a former philosophy student that had general interests Philo of Mind and that always stuck out to me as the most reasonable explanation for consciousness.
There’s a lot of baggage being thrown into the word fancy here. Any (and I mean any) distribution can be factored as a sequence of its random variables, with the next one being conditional on everything that’s come before, aka autocomplete.

That said, I agree more closely with LeCun than the hypers here.
They're talking about all the changes right now in Next.js Conf's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-NzQ9ObsfM
Well, it looks more to me the "great team" at Daimler has given up, or? Will there be any ML work at Daimler going forward?
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Apple fans really live in a peculiar world, the whole intro made it seem like the author isn't even aware that non-Mac laptops exists so I was surprised with his purchase and even satisfaction with the X1 (I have the same one but one gen older with the same OS).

As if thousands of laptops are just copycats.
Weird. I think this money would be better invested in better train infrastructure. But then again maybe this money is peanuts to the money needed to get better train infrastructure
I actually agree with you and mention dragonfly as an example specifically in my blog post.

I think it's wrong when western companies appease the CCP too. The Tiananmen Square example is better than the messier one in the article because it's a clear case of a government leveraging its power to cover up its own abuse.

The distinction I was trying to make is about the company being based in a non-democratic country. In the west companies are choosing to appease the CCP for their own self-interest and access to the Chinese market (which is wrong), but companies operating out of China are forced to comply if they want to exist at all.

It's not possible for Chinese companies to exist and make the right choice, so they're going to make the wrong choice (and we'd be better off avoiding them entirely).

The distinction is between the governments and how they operate which makes the pressure on the companies different. It's not to excuse western companies from making similarly bad concessions.

In the end dragonfly was abandoned by Google.

Zoom can never choose to ignore the CCP's censorship requests and remain a company while continuing to operate with the majority of its devs in China.

Zoom knows this and doesn't care.
Highlights (live from keynote):

- On-demand image optimization, lazy loading, via an Image component (responsive sizes, formats)

- Internationalization support (routing via domain or subpath)

- Next.js analytics. Automated performance testing and tracking https://nextjs.org/analytics

- Next.js commerce. Starter kit for high-performance ecommerce https://nextjs.org/commerce

Blog post: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10

Full changelog: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v10.0.0
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There are more than a few entire factories run by Chinese and staffed by Chinese in Italy. That's your answer.
Actually, I disagree with your idea that emojis are distracting or not useful in documentation/page titles. I actually really like them, because if you use them well, they can be helpful for visually parsing through a bunch of pages quickly. You can use them as kind of "categories" (e.g.: :ladybug: for pages/database items that are about bugs) or to delineate which pages in a set of them are for different things while having to look at the least amount of information. (e.g.: :tear-off calendar: for calendar/todos/meetings, :desktop computer: for technical articles maybe, etc.)

Emojis that are more for adding flavor to conversations would be more stuff like: :shrug:, :thumbs up:, or :D. Though even there the thumbs up could potentially be used as a quick signal of approval in some way in tickets or documentation or whatever else. Visual aids are honestly great! I think they should be embraced more, though not going too far because little aids are helpful but tons and tons of stuff all over the place can get messy. As with pretty much everything, moderation is extremely helpful.

EDIT: HN seems to have eaten my emojis? Adding in text bits to the original post to indicate what I was trying to use.
That's very sad. It's a landmark and a wonderful place.

Though I'll admit I never understood how it lasted as long as it did. Its "miles of books" stand on some very expensive land. As I understand it, a lot of its business came from providing books in bulk to designers, theaters, etc. who want books for looking at rather than reading.

It's the place an interior decorator could go to fill a bookshelf in your SoHo apartment with white books. Which is a niche that needs filling, but it could be filled almost as well from a cheap warehouse in Jersey.

It's also a wonderful place to go, both as a regular bookstore and for browsing those miles of mildewy stacks. I highly recommend its rare book room (which I suspect will survive separately, but perhaps no longer be quite so accessible as it is now). So good luck, Strand.
I'll guess: money. Postgres is decades old and was designed when the internet was smaller. Doing a large, fundamental change like this requires an already experienced person (or maybe more than one) to devote a lot of time designing and implementing some solution. This time costs money. So some company must be willing to employ or pay some people to work full-time on this for months. Anyone qualified to work on this should be very expensive, so full costs to pay experts for months of their time would be in the ~$100-200k level. Much outside the donate-a-cup-of-coffee-each-month range, and outside of any small startup's budget, too.

This suggests that the various companies employing people to work on Postgres-related stuff (like Microsoft, perhaps due to their purchase of Citus) have more lucrative work they'd rather do instead of improve this at the design level.

This problem is now perhaps larger than open source is designed to handle because of how expensive it is to fix. Very few people (zero in this case) are willing to freely donate months of their life to improve a situation that will enrich other companies.

Regarding the difficulty of doing this: the blog post here describes how the concurrency and transaction safety model is related to connections, so any connection-related work must also be aware of transaction safety (very scary).
I’m in a rural area with limited options. The local DSL company was really bad until this year (I wonder why...), but it’s still $70 a month for up to 50 meg and I believe it has a cap. Until this year it was the same price for up to 15mb/s, which in the evening meant more like 1mb/s.

I’m on some hotspot plans that are no longer available that have no caps, but I’m pretty lucky with the speeds I get. For me it’ll depend on what speeds Starlink gets in my area, and I might keep one hotspot anyways as it’s handy to have.
Not speaking up when such a comment is made is doing something wrong.
I'm not sure that you can assert that language is tightly coupled to reality, unless you're using the term "reality" to mean something akin to "as one perceives the world" (regardless of whether that perception is correct or not).

Most expressions of language that survived from a few thousand years ago are centered around myths, and while those myths may have contained certain moral or ethical lessons (that were and are subject to interpretation) they certainly weren't tightly coupled to reality in an objective sense.

Training on expressions of language (I separate the concept of language itself from its expression in the form of writing, speaking, etc) certainly has use cases but can GPT-3 recognize a previously unknown analogy and correlate it with the proper piece of applicable "knowledge" it has? If not then it really has no understanding.
As the AV space continues to mature, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that Waymo made some good choices:

1. Prioritizing safety over everything has kept regulators far away and there haven't been any mishaps that I'm aware of.

2. Using multiple high resolution sensor modalities (LIDAR, camera) has led to very accurate localization and environment understanding, evident in on board videos [1]

3. LIDAR costs continue to drop precipitously, it now seems quite possible that next gen Teslas may sneak a unit on board to improve localization and depth perception.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsfUmU30kWY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZ6tJSj9T4&t
Interesting there are 3 mounts:

- Tripod (you get it by default)

- Volcano $24 https://www.docdroid.net/YObvsZP/volcano-mount-guide-pdf

- Ridgeline $99 https://www.docdroid.net/Wc9unhw/ridgeline-mount-guide-pdf
I feel your pain. I have NEVER had a phone that quickly and easily pairs with our car stereos. I'm pretty sure it's because I use android phones. I'm convinced the manufacturers test with iphones and say "yep, works perfect" and call it a day.

In one car, we have an aftermarket JBL stereo; it typically takes about 30-45 seconds to pair. Unacceptable, but better than the stereo in the CX-9 -- with that one, it's typically about 3-4 minutes before I can hear any audio. 30 seconds of searching for the phone, and then like 2-3 minutes of limbo where it's doing god-knows-what telling me it can't play audio while it transfers phone data. Surely my contact list doesn't take that long to sync?

Quite often, I get a "ghost" connection, where the phone indicates it's connnected, and the car stereo does, too. Audio applications are playing, and the time is advancing, but no audio is coming out. Usually takes about 2-3 disconnect/reconnect cycles to correct it.

Paired to an Amazon Echo, my phone disconnects every time the music pauses; this is a new problem.

For a while, my Sony STR-DN1050 connected so well that I could just select it on my phone, and it would power up the receiver, select the Bluetooth input, and connect within 3 seconds. Then one day, it just stopped working that way, and I have to power up the receiver and manually select the Bluetooth input before trying to connect.

About once every couple of months, I have to REBOOT the phone in order to get pairing to work.

I've seen this erratic and pitiful performance on a wide variety of android phones, from low-end to high end: Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S8, Pixel 3, Pixel 4, Moto G6, Moto G7. Over nearly a decade, it just never gets better.
Behind the feature: the hidden challenges of autosave
That is an interesting point. However, one can potentially conceive of us human changing our minds as a form of real-time model updating.
My thought too. Think between Amazon (or UPS/Fedex/Walmart) distribution centers/warehouses.

Still have a driver do the last mile, for deliveries to stores, homes, etc, but the between cities, long haul routes seem ripe for automation. (especially with all the laws on driver mandatory rest periods).
Elon Musk cruises to $11.8B haul from his moonshot award
That led me to this comment that embodies the modern Chinese war-wolf mentality:

> annie还未活跃到令它们注意的地步，没事

(Rough translation: annie is not yet as active to get noticed, don’t worry)
Strategies to help you live with uncertainty
They are probably referring to how a lot of tour guides in Peru will explain that the locals knew about the locations long before white people showed up. Usually, "discovered" means white people or at least non-aborigenese populations discovered it.
I recommend the book 'families and how to survive them' for some actual insights on this topic
- VS Code (Electron, the best)
>During the fourth century, competing emperors fought each other in murderous civil wars.

It was actually the third century that had the worst of the civil wars. By the fourth century, Diocletian and later Constantine had pretty much restored stability to the empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century

That being said, I think the thrust of the first book reviewed is correct, that it was the Roman Civil Wars more than the barbarian invasions that destroyed Rome.
I clearly wrote "the very first sentence of that rationale section". Even though you've erroneously picked the standard from 2004 instead of the current edition, and then erroneously didn't even look at the rationale, the first sentence of that section of that old edition's rationale is the same.
> This can be important in some scenarios, like paying to a street musician, or donating to a cause by just pointing your camera at a billboard, or a graffiti, or a printout on something.

Pointing a camera at something that deducts money from you seems extremely ripe for abuse, what’s to stop someone from putting fake QR code’s over real ones and hijacking payments?