skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not much of a programmer, so I don't follow this statement. Could you break this down a bit for someone with little programming knowledge?
This is from Nov 2020
With modern fabs, how much of the operating cost is labor?
That’s a very interesting neutral take that “Tesla’s strategy might be the winning horse in this race” and that the Waymo CEO may be defensive or scared. I personally don’t know enough about either company or their tech or how people react to self driving cars to call a winner when it comes to a something (in this case, fully self driving cars at scale) that literally don’t exist yet with enough certainty to predict winners or establish the emotions of either company’s leadership.
I apologise for adding the quotation marks, and I’d added them since there’s no one else controlling.

As for the freedom of gathering - we already know that with just a few weeks of not being in contact we can protect ourselves, our families and each other. There’s no martial law or curfew imposed on us - just a lockdown or a Circuit Breaker that we’ve seen as inevitable.
I don't think there is any reason for Waymo not to pair up their system with a regular petrol car. Electric vehicle capability is orthogonal to self driving.
Darwin is also written in C++, unless you don't consider drivers part of the kernel.

Windows has supported kernel code in C++ since Vista, hence why VC++ has the /kernel option on cl.exe.

BeOS, Symbian, ARM mbed, Arduino, IncludeOS, Meadow, GenodeOS for example.

Yes the set of C++ features one uses on the kernel isn't the full language, neither is C when used on the kernel.
Tesla does not use federated ML. Federated ML is specifically about training models on device, and is mainly a technique for preserving data privacy.
Python 2.7 still works as a binary. You can vendor all your requirements. The rug is not being pulled out from anyone, we’re looking at 10+ years of this.

pypi is a mostly volunteer-only endeavor, so it’s tough to support stuff forever. And even there older pips still will work!

Python 2 still works! It’s still there! Nobody is taking it away from you in any real sense. But Python developers don’t want to continue developing in that environment so are choosing to not handle it for future stuff.

Python 2 works. You can use it forever if you want. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade... except if you want the free labor from the community. And you have had years and years and years.
Haha fuck all of us who can't access the vaccine, I guess. I'm trying to imagine celebrating the spread of a virus because it makes your life mildly more convenient and it makes my stomach turn.
That’s not how exponential curves work.
Could you elaborate on what kind of wisdom you gleaned from it?

I've read it and enjoyed it, but wondering what insights you got from it.
Stuff Your Logs
Magento 2 sucks, but clients are stupid and think that 10+ page loads are ok.
Cool, so the spike protein "factory" creates facsimiles of the actual SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which then becomes a trigger to the immune system to create antibodies for that specific virus/spike protein combo.

The mRNA approach to vaccines seems to be a leaner, meaner, 2.0 version wherein instead of injecting a virus ut totum the vaccine-development-wizards have developed it to use just enough of the original virus code to trigger the immunological response, bolstering our defenses, and thereby increasing resistance to the thing "in the wild."

Would this apply to other coronaviruses, such as "common cold" type vaccinations? Were there specific discoveries in 2020 that will open the floodgates to better influenza protection? </rhetorical>

These types of responses are really helpful, and help me to get back into a rational framing of the subject - rather than fielding psychological noise from headlines and sub-informational news pieces.
> loses millions of users

Did millions of users uninstall WhatsApp? I don't think so. The most downloaded app figures by App Annie shows exactly what it says, which app was downloaded the most during that period. So as long as WhatsApp stays in the phone and if it receives a single message from hundreds of contacts a user has; WhatsApp didn't loose that user.

So the correct title IMO is 'Signal, Telegram gained millions of users'.
I don't understand what you're saying. They're both asynchronous delivery of written messages. There are no length limits on either. There are no technical differences between them.

And they're both monetized exactly the same way, as part of a more comprehensive suite of office productivity offerings. People don't pay for Yahoo Chat the exact same way they don't pay for Yahoo Mail.
> think Delta Chat is the messenger we should migrate to.

Not really.

WhatsApp and Signal allow you to place audio and video calls, Delta Chat (by design) can't. And that's critical for folks who have families and friends in other countries.
Agree. This has been the interesting thing to me: that so many non-nerd friends have popped up on Signal. Totally fascinating that the shift is happening to a group who are typically not that bothered about the presence of FB. I'll have to ask them about their motivations in more detail...
Yes - 'autopilot' is auto-steer combined with adaptive cruise control. Now, Tesla's technically do have 'dumb' cruise control that doesn't reduce speed in response to a car getting close, but that configuration is rare since you need to specifically call in to buy one without autopilot and is probably not what the article was referring to.
Except other western countries haven't "gotten it under control"... they are all having second waves and resurgences with or without large lockdowns and with or without draconian processes.

> fairly simple

Until you start looking at how many lives are saved vs the second and third tier effects. Higher suicide rates from losing jobs and stress? People in third world countries dying from a cratered world economy? etc.

COVID needs to be handled and those more affected by it need protected. More hospital prep and masks around grandma... but the "fascist" and unproven shutdowns which by any measurements not only don't work but - as mentioned - causes more damage than it prevents?

nowhere near as simple as you proclaim it to be.
Better source, also linked elsewhere in this thread https://www.tesladeaths.com/
You might be interested in looking glass. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907306
I commented how I already read the comments (particularly those by the green usernames) and they didn't change my mind about that particular situation; I don't understand what is going to be accomplished by yet another comment simply repeating that.

Yes, he killed two people, and he's doing the time while clearly taking the process of rehabilitation very seriously. That's the whole point of prison, or at least it's what it was supposed to be.
Not really, because the account is less coupled to the topics. I have one reddit account even though I'm in a bunch of different subreddits (and I'm not even in the subreddit that I originally joined reddit for). I have one discord account even though I'm in a bunch of different discords (and even have different usernames in different ones).
> No, because I’m extra cautious and won’t slack off

A big issue is that some random guy in the Tesla behind you may not be so careful. So you cold still get into an accident because of Tesla's recklessness.
They are collecting data on all cars yes, but are training a model in one place. That is not federated machine learning, it’s federated data collection at best.
In Europe, most of the Tesla features are disabled because they were deemed hazardous. Only lane assist and adaptive cruise control is enabled. The others are severely limited or disabled (Summon etc.)
Yes same here, tried to get me to install something on my android. Please leave this provider asap! But I love these so much I'll happily host them all on my CDN if you'd like.
> The “operations” perspective is the least important perspective on any marketing site/blog.

It definitely isn't for the marketing sites and blogs I maintain. Site stability and reliability trump how convenient it is for marketing content creators to release changes. Better to have a site that doesn't have the latest change than a site that is completely down, or worse a site hacked because of a vulnerability in the CMS. Is that true for every site? Absolutely not! Although it seems like it would be for whitehouse.gov.
> So as long as WhatsApp stays in the phone and if it receives a single message from hundreds of contacts a user has; WhatsApp didn't loose that user.

Agree - WhatsApp didn't lose the user. whatsApp lost the usage. That's still a loss. Not a total loss but a loss never the less
Well I'll be able to see the Irving project from my house so that makes me not just a resident but a member of the neighborhood. And I completely agree with the person you're replying to and I plan on attending planning meetings to support this project.
95% of people are also unable to tell the difference between a secure properly e2e encrypted chat, and an insecure chat.

Does that mean that there is no insecure and secure chat softwares?
If power steering fails in speed, it doesn't really matter - the power steering does very little when the car has some velocity. If you can't turn the wheel at speed, then there's something else than power steering pump failing (the steering must have been locked by something else).

Or you have very serious muscle weakness, at which point I'm not sure if driving a car is a smart option in any case.
Sure office life is no tradie or farmer but personally I find i found i was doing slightly less walking when not in the office, I drove to the coffee shop instead of walking 400m round trip to my coffee shop of choice at the office 1 or 2 times a day and I lost the 15 minutes walk to the train station every day.
Sure thing! https://github.com/google/compare_gan/issues/54

It’s not much of a writeup. It’s basically saying, hey, this is zero when it should be one.

The results were dramatic. It went from blobs to replicating the biggan paper almost perfectly. I think we’re at a FID of 11 or so on imagenet. Here's a screenshot I just pulled from our current run: https://i.imgur.com/k1RuWEG.png

Stole a year of my life to track it down. But it was a puzzle I couldn’t put down. It haunted my dreams. I was tossing and turning like, but why won’t it work... why won’t it work...
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

is a good go to resources for all things covid related.
I would rather that our leaders be honest from the start about what we’re facing and what they plan to do about it. I’m extraordinarily skeptical that trying to control public opinion by boiling the frog is effective.
BSD, IllumninOS, IBM z/OS did it first in supporting Linux APIs in some form, either by syscall remapping or VMs.

Linux compatibility has become more relevant than POSIX, and the easiest way to achieve it is just to bundle it for the ride.

In Microsoft's case, they want to cater to the market that buys Apple devices, to actually develop GNU/Linux software and couldn't care less about Apple's ecosystem, aren't happy with it, and don't bother to support Linux OEMs.

It seems to be working.
They propose a solution for dynamic PGM indexes in the paper (section 3) and benchmark it (section 6). A summary is that, in their benchmark, their index is faster by 13%-71% in most cases, but can be slower (1%-15.2%) in a few cases.

I agree the example would be more eye-catching without that sort.

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p1162-ferragina.pdf
There can be such a wide range of different wines within « chardonnay » and « Shiraz » that saying one of the two is you « favorite wine » is meaningless. Hence the outcome of this blind testing.
Thanks, same to you. Don’t count on any “return to normalcy” though, at this point the only way out is through, and the other side is gonna look a lot different.
It’s all wrapped up in the same context. Wear the mask, get the vaccine, trust the science, and we will un-person you if you question any of it.

The last part is the problem!
> Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust.

This is false. Fabs get decommissioned from time to time.

> TSMC still operates fabs built in eighties.

I mean, kind of. TSMC's oldest operating fab is Fab 2; it was built in 1989 and it started production in 1990.

https://investor.tsmc.com/static/annualReports/2016/english/...

Fab 1 was decommissioned twenty years ago.
We'll unlikely reach said number because over 50% of the population of the us is not interested in a vaccine because they do not view covid-19 as a disease much more risky than the flu.

Facing this reality, the policy will probably be once everyone who wants it has had a chance to get it, things will or should move towards normal.
I like that Waymo is confident enough in their system to put it out there for people to use. But honestly, I think that their reasoning for releasing it is exactly to reduce worries in people, that 'it'll never happen feeling'. I think they needed to put something (before it was even 99% ready) out, otherwise people would lose hope and investors balk at the progress. I really do think that it'll never happen, at least in the ecosystems current form. There needs to be special lanes or routes that self driving cars can take, special pick-up points, etc. Humans take risks while driving every day, the problem is, that we have an incredibly good picture of the risks involved in everyday things. Machines don't have this sense perfectly attenuated yet, and I have yet to see evidence that they ever will. With us, there is no variability in our senses. Our eyes mostly work the same every day, our perception skills doesn't change. Machines cannot even trust their senses, and their code has to reflect that.

Obviously, this is all speculation on my part, but when I see videos of waymo sitting in roadways and parking lots, blocking traffic, pedestrians, and just the overall flow of life, the more that I get the feeling that machines should not be allowed to participate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SeVxYAZzk
Oh, is this what Leverage Research turned into? Interesting.
Last time I checked the process is very water intensive. Where does one get enough water in Arizona?
> I don't think the two concerns are all that neatly separable. I find it impossible not to notice the relentless campaign to put forth _vaccinating everyone with an experimental jab_ as the only legitimate escape from indefinite lockdowns and distancing.

Who said that?

There are quite a few ways out: we can reach a state of herd immunity (as a practical matter, this would mean that going back to normal would result in a low enough rate of serious infections as to not be a big deal), we could find an effective, practical treatment or prophylactic, or we could vaccinate everyone. Or a combination.

Many things are wrong with the process, but, right now, all credible models suggest that we are nowhere near herd immunity. We have two vaccines that, in proper RCTs, appear very effect. We have a third vaccine that had an incompetently run RCT and appeared somewhat effective.

As for other treatments, we have some things that help a little. There’s ivermectin, which (if you read Derek Lowe’s blog, for example), seems dubious. It’s cheap and safe, but the dosage that works in vitro is impractical in vivo. The studies saying it’s effective are, in my opinion, dubious. Vitamin D (injected) looked good in a tiny study. Fluvoxamine looked good in a well run but very small study. HCQ does not appear effective. Convalescent plasma looks so-so. The mABs look less effective than hoped, and they don’t really scale well enough to use for everyone who gets exposed. Remdesivir seems to be barely effective.

We should absolutely run serious, expedited trials of everything credible. The fact that we haven’t set up a national clinical trial system for this is an embarrassment.

But please check your assumptions. Under the previous administration, the federal government did not impose significant restrictions on your freedoms (even your freedom to go around in indoor public spaces without a mask). The government did not do much of anything useful. To the contrary, the government gave premature EUAs to untested treatments that actively interfered with the private sector’s ability to run trials. The current restrictions have been largely imposed by the states, democrat and republican, whose governments have been some combination of ill-equipped to do anything else and insufficiently creative to come up with anything better. There is no “they” setting up a campaign to convince people that the new vaccines are the only way out. Heck, there isn’t even a “they” doing a good job of jabbing people at all — note the bizarre contrast between the number of doses shipped, the number administered, and the medical providers who have run out of doses.

If you want to look at a country with an organized vaccine campaign, try Israel. If you want to look at countries that are managing COVID effectively with minimal invasion of peoples’ freedom, look at Taiwan, New Zealand, and China. (China has taken extremely harsh measures, and their administration is not dumb. Taiwan’s measures are not particularly harsh. All of these countries have serious travel restrictions, which the US states cannot implement on their own.)
Thank you - this is what I was hoping for!

> adaptive vs innate

This I did not know - so basically there's a class of pathogens we have protections for at birth, and others we have to learn by exposure.

Antigens act as metadata of sorts from which our immune system can use to develop response mechanisms, do these antigens mean "permanent upgrade," in terms of our immune system recognizing it? (Yes, memory cells - cool!)

Just ordered a copy of the recommended book from my local library, thank you for the February reading list.
There are six cases of death where autopilot was confirmed to be engaged at the time of the incident, with 15 total that claim AP was engaged but had not been proven (via post-crash analysis or otherwise).

https://www.tesladeaths.com/

Based on reviewing the articles linked to the data, only one includes a lawsuit that claims the driver fell asleep before the crash. Doing this would either require a weight on the wheel to simulate constant torque (otherwise, on the highway, you have to apply torque every 30 seconds and it'll lock you out from using autosteer if you ignore it for roughly a minute), or falling asleep within 30-45 seconds of an incident, which is entirely possible.

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/04/tesla-autopilot-blamed-on-...
Thunderbolt Security Vulnerabilities
I think the issue is more complex than that. Cigarettes are a great example here -- they can be really expensive and people who are already smokers will still buy them.

But there's still a limit to just how heavily you can tax cigarettes, because the higher the taxes are, the more profit smugglers can receive. They'll go out there to bring the price down even if smokers were willing to pay the higher prices, as long as their smuggling costs are covered.
Waymo had one of their employees not properly monitoring their car and they killed someone. I dont believe anyone had been killed by the Tesla development team? Couple of customers did die but that was their fault for not monitoring the car? One was watching harry potter I remember.
> members of the U.S. population who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

... This is not necessarily vaccinated with a full dose.
That sounds borderline stupid, is there a technical reason you can't just generate the "clock" internally? Do most of the devices require grid AC?
Global eradication of diseases is very hard, because there are lots of areas that don’t have much money or government capacity to dedicate to disease control. Developed countries have brought quite a few diseases to near-extinction within their borders; tuberculosis is the obvious comparison, given the similarity in symptoms, transmissibility, and vaccine efficacy.
Yeah, alcohol quality shows itself off the next morning when waking up not in pain, for me.
LOL, I love it... an actress with no higher education has to explain antigen tests to the world's richest man.

We really are in the best possible timeline for general lulz and nonsense.
I said "fuck it, I'm taking my life back" months ago. And then I realized how little that is possible.

How are you going to protest your way into a concert that isn't performing?

How are you going to demand your way into a university that isn't teaching?

How are you going to riot your way into a Disneyland that isn't running?

How are you going to force your way into a sports stadium that isn't playing?

How are you going to disobey your way onto a cruise ship that isn't sailing?

We are much more at the whim of our authoritarian overlords destroying everything joyful in life than we ever realized. We are no longer ever allowed to make personal risk management decisions.
It has a feature for video calls.
I feel like your point is probably important somehow. Could you make it with more sensitivity and less indignant contrarianism? Remember that you're replying to someone who has just lost a loved one!
But what fraction of the money that goes to the driver is spent on depreciation and maintenance?
Yes, Waymo seem good in Phoenix for the people who have access to it. Looking forward to their expansion.
I came across Jeff Heaton's books a long time ago, when I was looking for material on how to implement my own NN for my AI class. If I remember correctly, he published C# and Java implementations.

I eventually settled for Python and implemented the NN with the help of the book Make Your Own Network by Tariq Rashid. Numpy is really magic.
I've got a PHEV; when I need to exercise my portable generator (it's supposed to run for at least 30 minutes once a month), I plug in my car to at least have some load, rather than letting it just idle.

Personally, PHEV makes a lot more sense to me than full EV. My particular model (Ford C-Max Energi) has pretty low EV only capacity (20ish miles, if you stay under 60 mph and relatively flat), and the battery interferes with cargo space, but if you got the capacity up to about 50 miles, that would do a lot of people's (non-covid) daily commute with a single charge (either overnight at home, or during the day at work; but you wouldn't need both). And when you need to go farther, 500+ miles per tank, 5 minute fillup.
> Why is grinning-and-bearing harrassment by people who want you dead virtuous?

Because it's what makes society possible.
Trying to imitate Intel tech?
https://ktar.com/story/76977/intel-plant-replenishes-water-s...
Generally people don’t have their cars sitting around at close to zero miles of charge left. So you can drive to a charger that does have power, if your house doesn’t. You can always come up with fearful scenarios though. What about pumping gas during a power outage? I guess they have battery backups for the pumps? Many Superchargers have battery backups as well, built in. And some are powered by on-site solar with battery storage. But again you can always come up with a worst case scenario.

During COVID lockdowns I was wondering if the national guard would be deployed to gas stations to enforce limits on driving by limiting gas purchases. If we want to just make up scenarios, this is the kind of scenario you could avoid by having an EV with your own solar and backup batteries.