skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with gradually going from drivers assistance to self driving is there will be some period, possibly a very long period, where the cars almost never need intervention but aren't safe enough to actually not need it. There will be a lot of accidents if it's released widely during this period (yes much more than human driver accidents. aside: there seem to be a lot of Tesla fans who think humans are much worse drivers than they are). This is what Google saw a decade ago when their self driving cars started getting good and their drivers started being irresponsible, so they decided to start from the idea the driver couldn't be a crutch and the car always had to be able to do something safe. Getting this level of robustness is why it seems to some that they've made no progress in 10 years.
> As an aside, if you do get a V100, Colab Pro is by-far the cheapest way to train an AI model.

But others should be aware that you get what you pay for. Google still rate limited me when I used Colab Pro, and I ran into a myriad of other small problems. If that's all one is willing to spend to play with AI, 100% go for it. It's a great place to start. But if you're at all serious and can afford it, I think a local machine with a modest GPU is worth every penny.
Some differences:

web services != internet: Nobody was pulling a lever and blanket shutting down WhatsApp.

government != private: You touch on this, but it' a significant difference that there was no abuse of political power at play; you simply had independent entities coming to the same conclusion, and acting within their rights.

tactical != strategic: The revocation of service by various American web services was not time sensitive, calculated to disrupt an ongoing protest; it was a refusal to continue providing service after the heat had died down.
According to the link, it was restored around 11am PST (10pm MSK)
It's inherent to centralized power that opposing interests will attack it. Principle agent problem strikes again
Looks like a great watch. Unfortunately, I can’t find Spin available anywhere - paid or less public.

Kinda disappointing to see content like this virtually extinguished.

Actually, it may be up on YouTube in full: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uock08dy19s
Can you quickly explain how this meshes with existing data formats such as gpx or fit? Will there be converters? Can traindown express time series or is it more of a high level log (I did x of y at parameters w and z) thing?
And does that delete the data?
I've random workers from a restaurant nearby parking in my unused space (in a private enclosing) all the time. And my parking space even require a special card to use.

It would be nice if they offered to pay.

I reported them to the police, but I haven't heard about them fining them and they don't stop using it.

A neighbour used the parking space once and my landlord that was passing by reported her and she got a fine.

What I can't stand about the police here in UK is that it's so inconsistent.

Having a charger I get charged for would be an absolute nightmare.
> What new "means of communication" are protesters supposed to come up with

Did protests not exist and revolutions not occur before the Internet? If anything, the Internet appears to have tilted the table in favour of rulers.
Lidar adds complexity and domain that's not available to humans. Humans drive without lidar, so presumably we can train a neural net to drive without it as well.

Lidar is almost like adding a hand crafted dimension to the decision making process. It makes the system more explainable, but doesn't necessarily mean it will help achieve better results. I look at ML in games like chess and go. Originally, they had a set of hand crafted features, like the concept of "eyes" in go. But later iterations removed those and the network performed better. I think lidar is the same thing where it'll add unnecessary complexity and ultimately hurt in learning.
I try to post this everywhere people want to start yelling about federal debt (which correlates much more closely to the thing the government wants to borrow for than the actual size of the debt):

Interest as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (essentially: how much money do we need to pay for our spending habits):

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

We are nowhere near the peaks that we saw in the 80's and early 90's. All those 30-year bonds issued at the start of the Reagan revolution matured and were paid off, no one seemed to notice, and none of the rhetoric seems to have changed at all.

This just isn't a problem in the modern economy. Interest rates have been sitting at or very near GDP growth for four decades now, which means that money is as close to "free" as it is possible to get (that is, if the US borrows $4 and spends it, it sees a $4 increase in GDP).

That doesn't mean that serious argument about sustainable spending can't be made in good faith, but it does mean that almost all arguments of the form "we can't afford it" are not. This is triply so if the argument includes a credit card metaphor.
So,

Navalny produced this 1h52m Russian-language video that was published on Youtube 4-5 days ago, just after he returned to Russia and was arrested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI (it has English subtitles)

Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe

It's very well produced. I saw all of it and it helped me understand a lot of the history of how the current gang of eh.. er, about how Putin got to where he is today. I really recommend watching it.

After these 4-5 days, it has 74M views. The view count is at the moment still growing at ~0.7M views per hour - I just had to edit that view count. 70% of those views are from russian IPs, as per the Navalny people. Makes sense to me.

Russia has a population of 144M people.

I think it's only a matter of time until Putin/Russia bans Youtube.
All of these comments are perfectly valid once the pandemic is completely over. Until then, this attitude is pretty dismissive of the underpaid library workers that have to stand there and breathe in the virus that the public is bringing in.

Most libraries are only offering curbside pickup right now in an effort to protect the staff.
One thing I noticed is that the YC batch tend not to post or comment much here. Except for hiring and show posts. My guess is that they are heads down working!
An aside to this specific product, but unfortunately IMHO we have gone backwards in terms of being able to visually layout GUIs (at least in the mainstream).

Regardless of the other merits of modern ecosystems, in terms of purely visual layout of GUIs (WYSIWYG with drag & drop mouse interface IOW) I think:

- '90s/'00s Java IDEs > Modern Java IDEs

- Dreamweaver/Frontpage > Fast Refresh Cycle

- Visual Basic > Modern .NET

- Interface Builder > SwiftUI
"Big-endian on all targets"?

Enough said.
You should also be able to find it on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/SPINSpringer1995
I think this guy would enjoy seeing some of the very low end of the used computer market in places like Pakistan - where they receive 20' container loads full of 5 year old Dell, HP office PCs and mix/match pieces into fully working systems that people can enjoy for more years to come. There's a whole street with at least ten different retail vendors/repair shops in Rawalpindi.
Do you smell that? Do you smell that son?

What?

Pig manure.

There is no smell like that.

I love the smell of pig manure in the morning.

...

It smells like bacon.
I am a huge fan of what Waymo has accomplished. And I think in the beginning Tesla's FSD Beta was so bad that it was reckless to release to the testers.

BUT. Look at the very latest version of the Tesla FSD Beta ("beta 10") as of now. It is literally doing the full self-driving task with very few disengagements now. And the improvements over the course of the last few months have been dramatic.

At this point it is not really safe without watching closely and has a fair way to go before it gets to the high 9s, especially in arbitrary situations as they intend.

But if you look at the progress they have made and how many fewer disengagements there are now, I do not think it is reasonable to assume that they can't get to the finish line. They look like their trajectory is actually to get there.
As a kid "Resi And Transi Banish The Mysteries Of Electronics" raised my interest to take electronics as a hobby.

https://archive.org/details/resi-and-transi-banish-the-myste...
so dumb...

"I’m sorry to disappoint but I won’t be building a cluster or decorating my walls with them! In fact I don’t have a project planned for these instead they will be sold on starting at £4 for a “Model A” and up to £9 for a fully boxed un-repaired Model B. I’m not doing this to make a quick buck I’m doing it for the blog content and the experience and to hopefully provide you guys with some very cheap Raspberry Pi’s for your projects!"
While the conspiracy theorists seem to love that one, I think he meant "serve" as in "serve on your cabinet".
Saying goodbye to Loon – Loon’s journey is coming to an end
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I've been working from home for almost a year using a Pi4B running remmina. The other end is a Dell workstation running x11vnc on Ubuntu 16.04. I've only experienced occasional hiccups that I've narrowed down to things interfering with the Pi wifi reception when it's in a heatsink case.
Everything I know about instant messaging, I learned from communicating via radio with ATC.

Pleasantries are not required, but brief (< 3 words) ones are appreciated.

Just saying “hi” wastes time and effort. Ask your question.

Put these two together and you get something like, “good morning! Do you know how many froops the borgle puts out?”

If a question you’ve asked is no longer relevant/you’ve found the answer elsewhere, a simple “disregard” closes the loop.

“Disregard - Jeff said it’s 12”

People won’t always reply. There are things going on behind the scenes that you don’t and can’t know about.

Keep it brief. Unless there’s an actual reason to write a paragraph, don’t.

If you’re given information without a question, a simple acknowledgment suffices. “Roger,” “copy,” or a thumbs up.

Chat is a walkie-talkie, not a coffee date!
How can I learn more about this? Anything you can point me to online?
Stora Karol, a Swedish island, is a popular bird watching destination. This year, the birdwatchers didn’t arrive because of COVID-19. This caused the local white-tailed eagle population to remain abnormally high, as the eagles normally leave in response to the uptick in visitor traffic.

The increased eagle population, in turn, caused the island’s common murres to be displaced from their nests (fleeing eagles) an average of 602 minutes per day—vs. the average of 72 minutes in 2019. Consequently, 26% fewer common murres hatched this year compared with the decade average.

It’s fascinating to see the unintended impacts humans can have in an environment even when thinking of ourselves just as observers.
2 times 3 can sometimes equal 7 with Android's Neural Network API
"Internet disrupted in US amid protests except the internet works fine and its just a few accounts being banned from social media and its not protest but a violent mob intend on publicly executing members of parliament and its not the opposition because the current president send them"

(... not sure if the headline fits any style guide)
Everybody in Teheran has satellite dishes on their roof to watch illegal tv programming. You might be overestimating the efficiency of repressive authorities
Well tourism is a pretty important revenue source for France and many other European countries, that's not particularly surprising.

If you want to see the non-theme park France feel free to ask, I can give you the address of my favourite kebab in a 70's style banlieue dortoir, you'll love it.
You can download a pretrained, full size GPT-2 for $0. Training it from scratch would be merely for fun. You can fine tune the model if you have a specific application for far, far less cost ($0-$10).

It's not comparable to a hobby. It's comparable to paying $10k to make a sandwich.
I live in rural Switzerland, and I can tell you the sensory heritage is a real thing. I came for it. I love the sound and smells of having cows on the other side of my back fence. I would be very sad if a city dweller arrived and disrupted my quality of life by interfering with my neighbor's farm.
Seems reasonable to me...
After all we've been through, I clicked on the link expecting an article about dystopian gladiatorial games.
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Alas, only if you live in the US.

Colab Pro isn't available outside the US (without breaking Google's terms).
If it's any comfort to you, you are not alone...
> I don't mind manure

I usually don't, but I once had a neighbour who found it clever to spray liquid manure through the water cannons which are normally used for watering maize... I just let you imagine for a minute the atmosphere in the whole municipality when he was doing that.
Thanks for the response. I do appreciate the intent. As you can see, though, some of us don't are more prone to missing the intent. It's even demonstrated by one of the responses to my comment here.

Maybe make that end goal a bit more explicit towards the end? Or maybe it's okay as is, since it did generate a conversation and thus served its purpose.

Out of curiousity, how much work (e.g. in days or weeks) does it take for you to make something like this?
This baffles me as well. The technology to solve so many problems hard to approach with other tools is right there, why not use it.
This is Hacker News, not Facebook.

Arguably, the internet ends at the network level (TCP).
Everything above it is just the payload.
Application layer disruptions are not internet disruptions.
It depends a lot on the nib and the ink. With an adequate nib and ink, you may write on any paper.

For bad papers, I have had a lot of luck with Pilot F or EF nibs and Herbin Lie de Thé ink. It's a dry setup, but not too dry, and that Herbin has just enough lubrication to make it pleasant.
Maybe when LICAMs become super cheap but so far, no competitor has shown a better/more advanced ADAS system using LIDAR.
You'd have to go there in person, they don't care much about having an internet or social media presence in my experience. Or know one of the electronics recyclers in the US/Canada that collect and ship the products overseas.

There's a whole street approximately here, if you were going there in a taxi you would ask for "bank road, saddar, rawalpindi" and then look around for the computer store.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bank+Rd,+Saddar,+Rawalpind...

or this side-street which is perpendicular to bank road, centered on approximately this latitude/longitude

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bank+Rd,+Saddar,+Rawalpind...

at those google maps URLs, if you turn on satellite view so you can see the shape/size of the narrow side streets, scroll around a bit within a 500 metre radius and you should find at least a dozen things that are some variety of computer store.
I’m curious about this intersection of truck driver and HN: not the typical demographics. What got you into either trucking or tech (not sure which was first)?
If you're trying to drive 4K, I would look at the power of the thin client, and maybe try putting a graphics card there, rather than in the server.

I'd also check your choice of RDP client -- are you using the official Microsoft client or a FOSS one? I believe there are extensions to RDP that basically wrap H.264, which you'd probably want at that resolution.
> In what sense are neural nets not rigorous?

In the sense that for non-trivial applications, we struggle to define what approach is successful and why it's successful without leaning on empirical metrics.
"Part of the pleasure is simply going there and shuffling through books."

The new "libraries of the future" that are being built tend to hide most of the books in closed stacks. You kind of already have to know what you are looking for, so that you can put in a request to have the book brought from the stacks to the reservation shelf.

Even when libraries these days are intentionally being built as a space for the community to meet (like Helsinki’s Oodi library), books are a pretty small part of their overall mission.
You know very well that one person means one customer.

As for infection more research was done on ventilation standards and their upgrading if necessary. It is better to pay more for energy than not have a business at all.

Businesses have to spend more on ventilation if they are to stay in business.

The risk of infection can't be more than that of medical personnel who have to treat Covid patients if proper standards are applied.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699967
Typical anti-SJW

"Presupposing that politics are created equal, this hypocrisy is ridiculous! Antifa are just like Nazis!"
I have a link to this site in my chat status. It drives me crazy when someone says “hello” and waits for a reply, or asks if they can ask me a question. In all cases this feels like my time is being wasted.

Just go in and ask your question. Or if you feel the need to be polite, say hello then just ask your question.

If you truly need synchronous communication, then use the damn phone.
Awesome list, thanks a lot. Upstract is a particularly cool new aggregator that I think I'll be checking a lot going forward.
That complexity is meaningful as it precludes precise modelling. Now that does not mean we should not curb CO2 emissions, rather it is the degree of opacity and uncertainty in a system, as well as asymmetry in effect, rather than specific model predictions, that should drive the precautionary measures.

Push a complex system too far and it will not come back. The popular belief that uncertainty undermines the case for taking seriously the "climate crisis" that scientists tell us we face is the opposite of the truth. Properly understood, as driving the case for precaution, uncertainty radically underscores that case, and may even constitute it.
Why was J2EE removed? Not been following Java developments for some time, though I did a good amount of real life work on it earlier, and liked it at least some, back then. Also, I thought it was renamed to JEE. Or is that also outdated?
Buddy, the interest as a percent of gdp matches the 80's and 90's because rates are near 0%. Real yields are negative in europe. Its not even close to the same situation.

"Interest rates have been sitting at or very near GDP growth for four decades now" thats short-sighted and not really true: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

Theres no free lunch, you don't get to just print unlimited money and have no consequences.
This is an argument against zoning residential properties near freight yards, airports etc. Not a criticism of making cities more livable. No one should have to tolerate that level of noise pollution. It's actively hazardous to mental health.
I'd take anything from the Cato institute with a boulder of halite, seeing as it's an anti-regulation propaganda outfit funded by billionaires who consider any constraint on their ability to convert natural resources into personal wealth as a grave moral outrage.
> Glenn Greenwald has always been actually on the left

Over the last couple of years, he has consistently supported Trump, down to echoing Parler administrators' easily disproven talking points that none of their users were involved in the Capitol riots.

It's entirely consistent with his earlier positions that Greenwald opposed Obama/Clinton-era drone warfare, but from his writings, you'd have a difficult time learning how much drone strikes have expanded under Trump.

And finally, since 2016, Greenwald (as well as Assange and Snowden) have essentially turned into full blown instruments of Putinist propaganda (In Greenwald's case including the denial that Russia engaged in Novichok attacks against critics). This is neither a "leftist" nor an "anti-war" position, he simply favors a different bunch of war mongers.
> If we create machines that can suffer

I don't think that's gonna happen. And if it did, it wouldn't be real, and those that think it is are fooling themselves. Only biological organisms feel. Why are you wishing for a cold lump of steel to feel something?

In my mind only someone who struggles severely with emotional intimacy with other humans would want to create a machine that tries to imitate human feelings, and thus ‘suffer’; likely done in an effort to try to feel close to 'it'. It sounds like that person might not be having their human needs for safety, connection and acceptance met, which is very painful. I think tackling this issue is the important and worthy cause. That would be better than spending money on some Hollywood-inspired notion of 'AI' - which itself seems more a story made up to keep the USA spending insane sums of taxpayer money on research, weapons and other tech at DARPA.

I do think society is super alienating to most humans in it's current form [1], so I can somewhat understand the science fiction.

What is your definition of suffering though?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjvXtZRerY
For US to have problems with borrowing will require a decade long downturn at least.

The best proof is the fact that Tbills keep flying like hot cookies during major downturns, which means people buying them at least plan for time spans exceeding them.
Not sure how it is these days, now that IBM is calling the shots, but when I worked at Red Hat (~2010-2015) the vast majority of people did their level best to make things work well.

Some points:

* While "support" is part of their business, so is training, consulting, etc.

* Not sure what to lump performance tuning under, nor writing up white papers, tuning guides, and best practise docs. But there are whole teams which did that (back then anyway) for products like RHEL.

With support, wouldn't it make more sense for things to be clearer and easier, so there's less staff time needed to provide the documentation and support?

Saying that because AFAIK the places that pay for support (rather than use CentOS or similar) are more doing it for compliance reasons than straight out really needing (much?) support. eg they're going to pay for it anyway, even if they don't really use it
Noise pollution is a real thing.

All of our industrial equipment should be designed with this in mind.

Back up beepers are considerably louder than they need to be.

Weirdly, the police sirens in Germany towns like Frankfurt are incessant - it's a very piercing sound, they use them often, all day long, and the sound bounces through the walls of the town which is 5 stories everywhere and narrow streets. In a North American city you rarely actually hear sirens - maybe for firetrucks.

The low hum of gasonline engines really adds up, the electrics are so much nicer that way but I fear accidents.
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Big difference between race tracks, which are entertainment, and farming, which is where our food comes from.
>Another incredible blog post from Julia Evans.

Same same, everything grounded and then dug deep.
Well put. I would say that often even the problems aren’t particularly well defined.
Australia is not a singular entity. Are Australians who lost jobs better off now?

Reductio ad absurdum Australia would flourish with no people in it whatsoever, just automated resource extraction operations by Rio Tinto strip mining whole continent to the benefit of few stock holders.
I just retired my Raspberry Pi 1 B (2011) last week. I had OpenVPN installed on it for accessing my home network, but since my new router has OpenVPN integrated, I don't need it anymore. I played with installing RetroPie on it, but it is far too slow to be usable.

If you have it running still, what do you use it for?