skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that in one of Perla's linked articles, he argues that Tesla's approach to testing autonomous vehicles is better than Waymo's because unpaid safety drivers are cheaper than paid safety drivers.

"Moreover, Waymo cannot get the requisite number of miles to either prove safety or truly get all the edge case long-tail test data to make it safer than humans. It’s too expensive to pay trained safety drivers, since you need more data and more miles to get edge case data as you get safer and safer. It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars or more to drive the billions of needed miles. It’s not even close to possible to get enough paid rides in remote Arizona to drive billions of miles. The unsupervised rides save them a bit of money, but risk lives, so at what cost to the population, to us?

"As a comparison, Tesla gathers test data cheaply. Tesla had at least 10 billion miles of data driven this year worldwide in every condition, and customers paid them for the privilege to drive them as (unpaid, non-professional) supervising safety drivers."

I believe he's right about the data, although I'm not entirely sure about the quality of the data. I am also not sure I'm happy with his, and Tesla's, solution. (In order to discover edge cases, you have to put the vehicle in potentially dangerous situations and hope that the unpaid safety driver can extricate it without killing anyone.)
Whilst on holiday in Tonga, I met an amateur astronomer with a decent telescope. I think he said it was "20cm". He was showing anyone interested Jupiter and Saturn, which I remember appearing about outstretched-finger-width.

Later, we somehow attached my camera to the telescope -- it must have just screwed on to the front, as you would attach a filter, since it's not a DSLR with a removable lens. It does have an excessively long zoom (600mm, it's a Sony RX10 Mk IV).

It took some fiddling to get the two devices to work together. We had to realign the telescope by finding stars on the camera's screen, work out where to manually focus the camera, and what settings (noise reduction etc, as well as ISO, aperture, shutter speed and so on) to use.

Combined, we were able to take these photographs of some nebulae[2-3] and a galaxy[4]. I don't remember, but I think the point was that these were not visible just by looking through the telescope.

It's a reasonably expensive camera, but gave noticeably better results than the astronomer's own Canon EOS 760D. If you don't have something similar, try borrowing a friend who likes wildlife / bird / sport photography or similar.

[2] https://matt.blissett.me.uk/photos/2018/2018-09-04-1/13.jpg?...

[3] https://matt.blissett.me.uk/photos/2018/2018-09-04-1/12.jpg?...

[4] https://matt.blissett.me.uk/photos/2018/2018-09-04-1/17.jpg?...

(All are 30s exposures at f4 with ISO 8000. Remove the ?w=2400&h=1800 if you want to see the original size. If someone recognizes the nebulae and galaxies, please let me know what they are -- I lost the notes I took at the time.)
The point is I wouldn't have to change my DNS if they didn't inject adverts into my homepage. When I bought the TV there was no mention of Adverts included.

Amazon sold two versions of their kindle, one with and one without ads, not an issue for me. As customer the pro/con relationship is clear. I get what I pay for.

These ads slow down my TV, waste electricity, waste my time more importantly. It's not my problem as a customer if other people mis-configure their TV and have to call support, that's a UX problem, I've never met anyone who has mis-configured their DNS on their phone. If you've updated your DNS on your TV before it's a very long process, using arrow keys to select characters, it's not something you accidentally do.

I paid for a TV and I didn't get what was advertised. The argument that they do it to protect dumb users is non-sense because the TVs that don't have this configurable in the settings are the ones mainly bundled with ads.
No. Apple plotted with the biggest 5 book publishers to enforce a 30% commission not just on the Apple Book store but all other ebook stores as well. This new request is by a consortium of independent book sellers, authors that the App Store and Apple Book store commission rates should match
Only WRT tire pollution, road wear, casualties, sometimes noise ...

Combustion engines are the single top pollutant in "developed" cities.
I'm curious why we are still messing around with all these tokens when we could be using asymmetric encryption, like Apple is using for their AppStore connect API https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi...

Just seems fundamentally more secure.
You're missing a bit of the back story and context with that passage, by the way. For example, Exodus 17 verse 8:

"The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim."

and earlier in the chapter you quoted, verse 2:

"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt."

It's not unreasonable to imagine that the Amalekites might have intended to carry out a genocide against the Israelites (something which the Israelites seem to have been uniquely disproportionately targeted with in history), and that an omniscient God might have known that putting an end to the Amalekites would be the most peaceful solution in the long run.

As for the cattle, perhaps God didn't want the Israelites to make a huge profit from their defensive war, lest they be tempted to start some other wars to profit more.
It notes discussions between feature-group managers in the middle of the article.
I dont agree with the premise that these "flaws" are wrong and must be "removed", if you were to remove them you would probably get a perfectly rational being, like a computer and computers are really stupid.

Being alive is better than being correct, rationality is correct only if all the premises are correct with perfect information. So to manage this world of uncertainity our brain must use heuristics, heuristics that are really good, so good that we somehow survive.

Nature would say "Its a feature, not a bug"
Decoupling allows competition and places control in the hands of the user.
The environmental impact of training deep models is a tiny fraction of the impact of eg mining bitcoin.
Every comment here frames the conversation in terms of the safety of the cars and the number of crashes they could prevent, which is exactly the propaganda these companies want us to buy and further spread. Let us not forget that the true end goal is to make a profit and to "disrupt" existing establishments; that it may or may not prevent crashes is only a convenient side effect for them to advertise.
npm is terrible. Why? because the color and formatting outputs all kinds of escape characters. Guess what happens when Jenkins or other build systems try to render spinning ascii characters? What happens if color and spinning punctuation is allowed then developers who use configuration files for things like npm promote them to build with color escape character output enabled. It creates a mess of configuration files keeping separate build and development just for escape character configuration. My advice is
no color and no escape characters if your CLI will ever be part of a build chain or is intended to output to logs. All it takes is for one usage to a log that doesn't have '--no-color' and the binary characters will trip up diff and other tools that only work on text.
I think I agree w/ the general direction of the article. The longer I observe, the more reasons I find for very long-term optimism, and the importance of, over time, improving one's own skills and foundation for handling problems that arise, and helping others.
AFAIK, Bayesian networks are extensively used in biological sciences and economics. Not sure if this will be useful, but I found a survey that discusses these applications: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2014.0013...
Some years back, I tried to take photos out of a random family album to scan them. The album was built so there was a plastic sheet in front of the photos, to hold them in place / protect them. Well, that sheet ended up ripping bits out of the photos, and it's glossy enough that I can't scan the photos through it. Be careful with assumptions of how long physical products last.

Also, books used to be printed on better paper; modern cheap books will not last as long as the old ones did. I have a couple of collector's edition books printed on acid-free paper...
My question here is how are you going to install your root certificate on a $300 smart TV? Or, if that is not required because the TV does not verify DoH certificates, how bad is that for security (which we already know is awful on these devices)?
These are great suggestions, thank you! I'll add an addendum to the post crediting you for them.
Used dgraph for a large knowledge graph and didn't really feel like managing the cluster of servers. So made a switch to Arango Oasis.

But that's a very tempting offering from Manish Jain. Their graph database is awesome and now packaged as a managed service is making it a great option.
There's no honour among thieves and whatnot; advertisers do not trust publishers to report data or log impressions truthfully without money-signs-on-bags running away with stolen money.

Which, honestly, will 100% happen, considering the sheer amount of weird "adsense click fraud rings" you can find on the shitty, awful part of the internet, like SEO forums.
iPads are great. I’m not sure I’d want to install Linux though.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I couldn't help but note that 16 year old me would have been utterly baffled (and intrigued) by that headline.

Read it out loud a few times and imagine yourself in the VHS era.
Language features generally solve problems users experience in real projects. Sometimes they do a better or worse job (see C++17 variant/visit in contrast), but the goal is virtually always to turn a larger, difficult-to-understand, complex, or error-prone set of statements into a smaller, easier-to-understand, simpler, resilient set of ones.

Complexity that isn’t solved in the language itself inevitably works its way into projects that use it, which is why abstractions and standard libraries exist in the first place.
I’ve always used (and love) winDirStat.
Not all terminals support emojis. AFAIR, xterm doesn’t. I was stuck on xterm at my last job (only terminal that really worked on that system). Emojis are for SMS, and that should be it. Use emoticons.
I don't see how this can be faster to build apps with than Hasura?
Deeper and more critical sure (likely due to the platform, not necessarily the users).

On Twitter I can choose to follow POC, women, experts inside/outside this field and hear their opinion—-which I’d argue provides a more diverse representation than anonymous posts by a largely white male message board.

I also trust the opinion of someone willing to share their identity, it forces you to think more carefully about the stand you’re taking when your reputation is on the line.
I disagree with this strongly. Her communication on twitter is public record. It's clearly toxic.
Poverty leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to censorship.

When people feel (economically) insecure, they become selfish and sometimes lash out at the Other as the cause of their troubles. For 1930s Germans going through hyperinflation and WW1 reparations, the Other was the Jews. For 2010s Americans going through the Great Recession and unequal recovery, the Other (who was non-white, non-Christian, and non-patriarchal) was "taking our jobs."

Unfortunately after this pandemic, we should expect another wave of xenophobia resulting from all the economic damage, although it's not yet clear if the Other will be different this time.

And I should say that while lashing out in this way is absolutely wrong, it also should be quite understandable.

So the "simplest" fix is making the economy work for everyone, so people feel financially secure and can focus on pursuing their dreams.
Personally I try to artificially inject self-doubt into most of my beliefs and claims. Obviously I am as egotistical and self-righteous as anyone else. But the more I train myself to recite "I think" or "Maybe" or "That's a good point", the more (I think!) I can stymie this imperialistic ego.
100%...
> both of you miss the point.

They don’t "miss the point", they just disagree with you.
Interesting. How do you deal with schema migrations?
ISIS at is peak had a significant web presence.
There's no reason any phone shouldn't be able to control any TV, except that IR ports are no longer popular on handheld devices. Back in the 90s there were wristwatches that could control any TV.
Elite Education and Affirmative Action
If curious see also

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239162
Qt alternative https://apps.kde.org/en/filelight !
I love them! It's a shame they didn't really catch on.
It is argued that they don't really need money. But you can check their financial statements for yourself and make your own judgement:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim...
Thanks for that, I have a standing need gap for 'Make TV dumb again' [1].

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/64-make-tv-dumb-again-privacy-c...
One of the key things that Self Driving Vehicles need to learn from humans is how to predict other humans/vehicles. Predicting which vehicle is going to drive unsafely, or even with excessive caution is not just responding to the position (speed and acceleration) of a vehicle, but how it acts relative to predictions (and how well it is predicting your actions), and fits into a type of driver model. And then knowing that all of that will change when a traffic cop is visible or not, the start of a rain, sunset, kids/pets acting up.

That's why driving in different cities for an experienced driver can be so nerve wracking... it's hard to predict what all those vehicles will do! Meanwhile they are also predicting what you will do so you're dangerous as well (don't stop in traffic just because a pedestrian walks into the middle of a busy street in Delhi or Naples, you'll cause an accident).
This is why the GNU/Linux vs Linux distinction is useful.
Yes, but the argument goes that someone selling a device specifically for receiving content may see you as a customer of that service primarily, rather than as a means to subsidize the cost of the display or device.

Not sure how that plays out in practice, but not a distinction without a difference.
As long as you exclude UI/UX from "getting things done" it's going to be notoriously bad. Academia, government, enterprise all the same. There's no accountability to actual users and doing UX properly would turn the whole project on it's head so guess why no one cares...
Textual content would be used to facilitate searching and to compare the UIs of different game interfaces. For instance, right now, I can't tell what the most common language is for UI buttons in RPGs or see what options are typically available for classic first person shooters without typing it up manually from the screenshots. This would be helpful for non-UI designers who want to make games.
more and more i've grown into the opinion that aspiring members of the professional class should be required to spend at least one year doing some form of ungracious working class labor. there are things you learn as a line cook or a garbage truck driver that not even the most elite school will ever be able to teach you.
personally i think i would've become a real asshole if not for misfortune & hardship and learning exactly what it means to start over with nothing.
If you haven't heard of it before the 'apropos' command lists all man pages of topics similar to a given text string.

Eg: 'apropos time' will list all man pages that matches 'time'.
interesting, never heard of tripcodes.

but anyway, I would say more like 4chan with killfiles.
Or you will be able to, until the manufacturers catch up with DNS over HTTPS. So, you know, in another 10 years.
It was the pain, finally fell asleep 3 hours in without taking another. Took one after 4 hours of sleep to help me sleep more but switching to Tylenol in an hour when it expires.
Amazon gained monopoly power over book distribution before they knew what hit them. Now I'd imagine they are stuck.
What makes you think the pressure wasn’t low at start? After driving some distance your tyres will warm up and the pressure will increase.
Having some similar issues. The thing is that the OSD controls are nice and bright- so the brightness is there, but all the actual video content seems mostly darker than the previous non HDR TV.
No Netflix or Amazon on Kodi. While I have a NAS with my media on it that Kodi worked fine on the need to open a browser and need for a keyboard and mouse became to much of a pain. I switched everything to AppleTV which had the issue of not being able to mount the NAS. Lucky there is a Kodi "port" to the AppleTV in the App Store called Mr.MC for like $8 that is pretty much Kodi with built in support for NFS, SMB, etc. AppleTV is the perfect box for this to be honest.
Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses
> You accused me of being secretly a heroin junkie.

This is an outright lie and lying is not part of HN rules.

I used heroin as an example. You may not be using heroin but I'm pretty sure you're certainly using some kind of illegal drug or legal drug on the regular. You have personal stake in the game. But that's just a guess, I'm certainly not accusing you of it, you can say you're totally drug free and that's fine, I won't say you're wrong.

>This actually hurts marijuhana legislation efforts as people like you just assume I am a coke/heroin/meth addict. And feel pushed to keep things forbidden alltogether.

Did I push this? So you do use mj on the regular. It's not a "hard" drug but it shows you have a biased stake in the game.

Anyway I'm not pushing anything. My agenda as I said before. Is I don't know.

>This actually hurts marijuhana legislation efforts as people like you just assume I am a coke/heroin/meth addict. And feel pushed to keep things forbidden alltogether.

So you admit that this is your bias.

>(I suppose you ended up on dangs watchlist or even got shadowbanned, as not many people else read this thread now, if at all)

I can flip privacy setting on and off. I made a personal post just for you.
It's not about not understanding the projects, it's more often about misaligned incentives. In most companies project work is the exception compared to "everyday functioning" of the company, and the line managers are managing that instead; and a typical situation is where particular resources are needed for the success of the project, but they're also needed for the non-project things that the particular manager controlling that resource cares about and is evaluated upon, so it's in their best interest to prioritize other things at the expense of that project.

Or that manager might need a particular narrow subsection of that project done their way and the rest of the project is worthless to their goals (i.e. the very common 'silo thinking' in many organizations), so they might assign resources for that part of the project and 'starve' it afterwards. Management and internal politics has a big effect on which things get done and which don't.
This is a common myth about abuse. Abusers act they way they do because their behavior gets them what they want, not because they're driven to abuse by mental illness. Some abusers would like you to believe that, however, because it shifts the blame for their behavior away from them and ultimately gets them what they want.
It seems that the most ardent supporters of unrestricted free-speech are the most optimistic in their belief in humanity to come to a stable, moral consensus if we all just say whatever we want.

Personally, it's more that I'm pessimistic about giving governments the power to imprison people for expressing opinions that governments don't like.
I don't know. You can always clean the Git history & force-push it, but the developers would have to explain if there's any backups or archive kept anywhere...
Yes, I work in C++ systems, I feel huge job security. I don't see demand for C++ systems engineers going down in the next 10 years at all. The field evolves, it is just very slow.
they know that most purchased books never actually get read so they're afraid of pricing models that are based on how much people actually read. they're used to being able to sell dead trees and not having to worry about that.
I always wonder why you need 7 versions of a url router.

It should be the type of thing that’s written once and lasts forever with only small changes.
To be clear, I'm not blaming the homeless or anything. My point is that the middle and working class hang out on the streets because they can't afford to spend their weekends in Monterey. Now they don't even have the streets. Blaming them for not having empathy is insensitive.
You’re missing the point. Some people still buy CDs and Records. Some people fill up disks with .flac or .acc files. The industry still serves those customers, but the real business is happening on the streaming services. What _you_ want and what the market demands are two different things.
This is a very important distinction. The Turing Test can be passed only by something that is indistinguishable from a conscious, thinking being.
Putting a distinct serial number in each one, that could be read at a distance, was a clever idea to appeal to a certain segment of government.
Founder ISA as Investment Model
unfortunately this also seems to be why power tends to self select the exact sort of people who should never have it.
It's sad that books don't have the equivalent of steam sales. I have so many games I'll never play, because at $2 it seems rude not to but at £30, I gotta think about it.
I have pfsense with pfblockerng/dnsbl and it lets in way more ads than pihole.

I could be doing something wrong, but I have no idea what.
I very much liked the article, we (Human Beings, Planet Earth, 2020) need many more like this.

Rather than be disappointed by the negative comments you might read in this thread, I recommend that you consider them from the perspective of the article itself. There are only 40 comments here so far, and there is already more than enough rich irony for a followup article, particularly considering that most people on HN are on the higher end of the intelligence spectrum.

This way, the article then kind of has a cool ARG (Alternate Reality Game) aspect to it - write about a topic, seed it into an ecosystem of the very thing you are talking about, and then write about how the ecosystem responds to it. And then to make it even more fun, let everyone in on the joke! So then not only are you playing an ARG, but everyone is playing it together - we (humanity itself, and each of us as individuals [1]) are the very joke that we're laughing at!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breaking-the-fourth-wall

I have a theory that some interesting consequences could come out of this sort of thing, but it requires a fair amount of work to set up properly.

[1] For example, the "people" who downvote this post - it is "you" whom I am speaking about! Does your mind (as opposed to "you") find this idea/situation pleasing?
If it's increased, it hasn't scaled with population. Reagan was well known for cutting the Department of Education's budget[0], and the public school system in Florida is abysmal. In places like that, it's implied that, if you remotely care about your kid's education, you enroll them into a private school[1]. A lot of those are Catholic, too. No wonder the right likes them.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/14/education/reagan-record-i...

1: https://time.com/5885106/school-reopening-coronavirus/