skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you hit the nail on the head. There is no such thing as "sort of self driving". It's either completely autonomous or I'm going to have to be paying some attention and I might as well be doing all of the driving at that point.
.. And is still up 100% last 52wks?
Share your URL lists and find the lists others made
I agree. The entire Tesla gamble really hinges on whether the HW3 + current sensor suite is sufficient for them to achieve a safe enough degree of autonomy. It's about as minimal as it gets from the hardware front, and is entirely dependent on the machine learning side to evolve rapidly along with rapid software update deployments.

I feels there's a broad misconception across many of these types of discussions, where people assume that just because Tesla has not chosen to widely deploy LIDAR across their vehicle fleet, that they do not understand it's benefits nor value them. This is entirely false. For several years now, Tesla has driven test vehicles with very high end Lidar units to basically generate "ground truth" understanding of the world that can be then used to test and improve their camera-only FSD inference. They heavily relied upon it to build ML models to generate depth maps across frames, and that capability is already widely deployed via Autopilot (poor man's FSD). That it works in itself is somewhat shocking to me.

Lastly, if there's any indication of a mea culpa coming from Musk on this front, those ideas should be easily put to rest. Recent FSD footage shows rapid and drastic improvements to the capabilities of the FSD-beta system, and Musk himself is still repeatedly bellowing about how his personal vehicle with the latest software is able to handle more and more challenging scenarios. If anything, Tesla is doubling down, and expects to win. Given their history, if I was a competitor, I would be troubled at least.
It is mostly driven by China, which isn’t locked down due to the pandemic.
The food in Australia is actually better than SF. But it’s also better than practically anywhere else and it’s quite expensive.
I’m sorry your grandma died.
Thom Hogan for a few decades reports on Nikon product strategy & financials. From most recent article with comment on Nikons financial situation:

> That said, if I were one of those financial rating companies, I'd be downgrading Nikon's rating at the moment. You know, from something like A to BBB (using Standard & Poor's rating board). (Nikon publishes their Japan Credit Rating Agency value, which is currently A+/Negative for long-term debt. That would be the third highest rating, or "a high level of certainty to honor the financial obligations," though the outlook [Negative] is that the rating might be lowered.)

https://bythom.com/newsviews/archives/12-2020.html
I also went to prison and have a felony conviction.

My suggestion to your father is to work for smaller firms or move to a state where background checks are shunned like California.

I did not have a single background check my entire duration living in San Francisco.
What is the point of paying (a fuck load of) taxes if the people who are hired using those taxes don’t do their jobs? Why don’t you blame them? You understand there’s nearly a billion dollars a year that goes to homelessness, right? It’s become a business at this point and the people running it have no interest in solving it because that means the gravy train ends. Ordinary working people can’t and shouldn’t be responsible for every single social problem out there — that’s why we hire people whose jobs it is to do that. Otherwise, hand back the damn tax money and we’ll start figuring it out like you want us to.
I agree with this. It's exactly what happened to Skype.
The Art and Science of Boarding an Airplane in a Pandemic
The Tegra's aren't that bad are they? The CPU in the Xavier seems pretty decent, and it's only on a 12nm process. If they can get that shrunk down, it'd probably run even better.
I dunno, politicians seem pretty good at lying to people.

In seriousness, I believe him when he said he's not a politician. What he doesn't get is that that's half his job.
> like saying any rent is not rent once any other rent opportunity exists

Good point, thanks!

FWIW, I did try selling free software, though under the MIT license. My income was a fraction of the hourly wage were I do do in-house development that was never released at all. Enough to live on, but not normal software developer wages.

So I find it hard to call that "rent".

Speaking of economic rent, "Frappe has the huge advantage of being the home to most of the contributors and maintainers of ERPNext" makes it sound rather close to the economic rent attributed to labor unions ("higher pay for some workers, where collective action creates a scarcity of such workers, as opposed to an ideal condition where labor competes with other factors of production on price alone" - from WP's "Economic rent").

That's pattern matching on my side, since I don't have handle on what 'rent' is supposed to mean here.

Speaking of distractions, the analogy "FOSS is like the highway system" suggests the government should be funding FOSS, and/or that tolls are entirely reasonable. ;)
You'll see if you dig into it that it only does 2D. You could extend it to 3D with some serious work, and for simple geometries at low angles of attack and high Reynolds Number it will probably do fine.

But if you want better fidelity the best open-source CFD suite I'm familiar with is OpenFOAM. Unfortunately you have to have an adequate understanding of the math/physics to use that as OpenFOAM doesn't hold your hand even a little bit. There's really not much of a market at all for "casual flow modeling".
It's like Twitter and email met on Tinder and had a baby Mastodon
> Inevitably when the big one hits [...] earthquake resistant architecture will be the natural transition.

You'd think, but after the 1906 earthquake, building codes were actually relaxed because it was taking too long to rebuild the city after it was destroyed, and residents and city government were getting impatient. Would history repeat itself if/when this happens again? Probably?
> Just look at chess history and play. the chess abilities of humans has vastly increased and you can thank computers for 95% of that. ELO rankings is a modern invention to play highly competitive games from literally any place in the world.

Elo rankings (not ELO) was first adopted in 1960, which while technically overlapping with computing's timeframe, the two are unrelated. Certainly Elo was not invented to play online chess or for the sake of computer-aided chess by any stretch.
There definitely are many tools to reform alcoholics into non-alcoholics. There are standard treatment programs like Alcoholics Anonymous [0], there are a number of other rehabilitation programs [1], and there are cutting-edge therapies like psychedelic treatments [2].

It's a despondent (and false) view that alcoholism is untreatable.

Also, as it comes to driving itself, France is a good example. There, police regularly do random spot-checks for drunk drivers [3], and IIRC every driver must necessarily carry a breathalyser [4].

[0]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/201007/do...

[1]: https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/treatment/

[2]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/201...

[3]: https://www.theaa.com/european-breakdown-cover/driving-in-eu...

[4]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2104252/New-Frenc...
Similar to how we dealt with IE6 back in the days. By default not supported, any time spent on workarounds for IE6 are billed double hourly rate, and mind you these often require a lot of time.

Quickly made a lot of our clients untick the IE6 requirement from the wishlist.
Inflicting on all children the certain damage of social isolation, screen learning, and further economic precarity, to avoid theoretical and undemonstrated long-term effects (of a perhaps serious but not crippling nature) to a small percentage of them, does not strike me as societal wisdom in any way.

Also, do you know what else has unknown long-term effects in children?
> The US govt fired the first shot with tiktok

Google, Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China for at least a decade now.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
Well, I think the rise of Javascript also played a key role in it.
What are you talking about? This guy killed two teens due to drunk driving, and then committed armed robbery when out of bond. Stop being such a gullible fool. This dumbass belongs right where he is.
You'd think very differently if those two kids were yours.

That family is done. There wont be a single day in their lives that they wont suffer.

If these crimes were handled lightly, they would occur more often.
Water is by that definition a “forever chemical“
All over the place, changing his position as he learns more, tomayto, tomato right?
Yes. I was presented an official looking Apple prompt on my iPhone which said something along the lines of: Install the the VPN to continue safely browsing.
This guy killed two teenagers with his car, because he was wasted. I'm not going to shed any tears for this guy when people have gotten similar sentences for small amounts of certain drugs.

A 12 year sentence is nothing in America, but hopefully his treatment in prison is humane and he has all the access possible to resources for education, health, and eventual contribution to society. It won't be though, of course, since the US prison system has fostered a brutal environment that causes recidivism, mostly arising out of American hatred of the poor and of dark-skinned people.
I think the products/services the market provides mostly enhance our lives. Society works better than than our cynicism would imply, and when you zoom out over a span of a couple centuries, or even 40 years, that becomes apparent.

Of course there are many cases where the consumer is underinformed, and harmed by what the market urges them to buy, and these need to be addressed.
I think you'll find people will hide behind the mask of "liberty", but in reality it's a mix of stupidity, laziness and selfishness.
Frankly, it always sounded like a solution looking for a problem for me. Transportation is like electricity, it’s all about peak demand.

I’m writing this at midnight on a Sunday... there’s no demand for transportation. Come 7-930AM, demand is 1000x more. There’s no self driving taxi that makes sense as car replacement. We already have busses, which are already really cheap and can get cheaper if cars are too expensive to buy.
> You’re saying that what progressives championed in the early 1900s, and continue to support is conservative. It doesn’t make much sense.

Why doesn’t it make sense? Political progressives and older land-owning (relative) conservatives have different reasons for opposing upzoning, but they clearly do agree in their opposition to it.

Beyond that, I specifically called out that these terms are overloaded and I’m trying to be relatively explicit about what I mean when I use them. I’m not interested in arguing for positions I never took, e.g. that “the conservative movement never really had much to say about housing policy”. I’m not talking about any movement—I’m talking about people who are, fundamentally, conservative. They may be granola-chomping, Smartwool-and-Birkenstock-wearing, Prius-driving, ex-hippie boomers who’ve never voted GOP in their lives, but if they own land and oppose upzoning because they don’t want their single family home neighborhoods to change, then they are, in a sense (to be clear, the same sense I’ve been talking about this whole time), conservative.
https://www.gmc.com/electric-truck/hummer-ev
As someone who is very critical of fighting racism with racism and other similarly ill-conceived ideas, I don’t think this is censorship in any meaningful sense of the word and this certainly isn’t the right hill to die on with respect to wonky left wing policies. In fact, I don’t see how this policy is left wing at all... They mention that they’re doing it to avoid perpetuating racism or something, but the actual meat of the article doesn’t suggest that they’re doing any sort of progressive race testing with respect to whose records will be altered and whose won’t. The racial prelude seems to be empty virtue signaling, and the actual policy doesn’t seem to be very progressive at all; rather it appears to be perfectly egalitarian.
Because most days you don't add more than one piece of content.
One thing I keep getting tripped up on with EV cars is the usability during an emergency. I grew up in SoCal when there were rolling black-outs. Just this week, a windstorm took out my parent’s power for 3 days. I don’t view electricity to be as reliable as gas. What fact am I missing that can change my view on this?
Watching this video of regular folk (not tech journalists or other "reviewers", or paid PR) riding in FSD Waymo has done a lot to reduce my "but it'll never happen" feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZ6tJSj9T4

It may very well be that future FSD modes will require highly detailed maps, manual curation, limited areas where things can work, but even that would be valuable. e.g. if self driving trucks only work on long haul highway-only, that's still a win. If FSD taxis are mostly rolled out in medium to big cities in the beginning, it's still be a win.

Trying to boil the ocean all at once, and launching an enduser consumer FSD program that can handle wherever the driver takes it, may be the wrong way to do it, top-down instead of bottom up. Start with small geographic areas, and expand as you go.
We can create our own goal though. For instance maybe we want to maximize happiness. So this means we should attack the core root of the problem. Our chemicals. We either need to find a drug like heroin that does not have tolerance and withdrawal or find a way to reset chemicals after drugging yourself or thirdly we just must find a way to be able to easily alter this chemical state. Then we will have solved all suffering issues. Right now we are just trying to treat symptoms.
If you believe "this kind" needs to be removed from society expeditiously, the best option is rehabilitation and treatment. Otherwise, we'll have to kill 14.4 million people in the US alone [0]. There are many treatments that work [1][2][3].

[0]: https://www.verywellmind.com/prevalence-of-alcoholism-in-the...

[1]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/201...

[2]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/201007/do...

[3]: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
They should, the markets are using this as speculative trading and preys on those that don't understand the viability of the projects and rely on ignorance to drive prices up.

Not only this, but the financial safe guards of scams and transactions are moot in all major crypto-currencies.

I believe that cryptocurrency is great, and a testament of modern engineering, but the entire financial system isn't built just for speculative trading, but to provide safety and resilience in the face of bad-faith actors or general mistakes.
I did a semester of contract law at University and what they were trying to say is that in Software, we have the problem that we all got bamboozled by idiotic lawyer departments that apply to everything the same recipe.

It would be much better for everyone to give good willing contracts, more open and well-intentioned, that the current model of unenforceable but scary lock-everything clauses. It would however probably mean a change of business model.

Whatsapp could say "we'll never profit from you data, we'll only give them to law enforcement after review of the request and we delete all after 5 years", 3 lines and easy to enforce in front of a judge. In truth, none of those auto-approved contracts nobody reads can fully be trusted to be enforced by a judge. The excuse of "I misunderstood it and just clicked anyway to talk to my children" could very well be a defence. You can't say "if you breath, it means you accepted this contract of 2000 lines of legalese".

One day I suspect, at least the EU, they'll think of doing something where you can't deny service for non-respect of a new contract and will have to offer a multi layer service for each contract level. That sounds rational and I can't believe a company can lock me out of an email service or whatever just because I can't accept a contract change I don't even understand.
I like how unbiased this article is
I do agree that because mastodon became focused around specific niches per host, it made things much more complicated for new users. Do I join mastodon.social? Do I join bsd.network? Do I join writing.exchange? Etc.

What I realized was I should have been asking: Do I care about the federated timeline? Do I care if my host blocks other hosts at random? Do I care if my host allows certain things (I.e. pornography with or without a NSFW tag, or at all). Do I know who the host is and can I trust them with my private messages and to not randomly ban me?

I personally like seeing the federated timeline as I have discovered some accounts through it. But my host absolutely needs to do some filtering because some hosts will allow -anything-. I never really found much use for the local timeline.

So for me, hosting was clearly the best option. I do try to get my friends to consider joining the fediverse, and I offer hosting to them to solve this issue.
I actually know a ton of people who have taken road trips this year (to get out of the house and do anything, anywhere) in lieu of flights.
Yes, it chains to some kind of fake Flash installer.
Can the footage be trusted? From my understanding Tesla has only rolled this out to a small number of users, browsing the YT search results you’ve provided I see that almost all the results are Tesla super fan accounts.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to disregard this until you see an objective assessment in the field.
> These things happen with Sugar too. The amount of lives ruined by easy access to a addictive thing like sugar is just unbelievable.

The American price of sugar is generally around triple the price on the world market. How high do you think the delta needs to be before smuggling gets serious?

Compare cigarettes, where smuggling -- just from state to state -- is already highly profitable.
they actually took over the O'Malley's kitchen. They are doing truck there as temporarily measure. The truck will continue with different menu once the kitchen is open.
Reserve – A flexible pool of stablecoins designed to reduce risk
American prices rarely if ever include taxes in the listed price. This is something that americans are used to, and will usually budget extra money for when they go to pay, but it catches a lot of people from other countries off guard.
I dunno - I always thought we had it pretty good now. Previously delivery options were limited to the handful of takeout menus you had stuck in a binder - not knowing if they were up to date, if they were running specials, etc.

Now I can get a burrito made to order to my door in 20 minutes and I don't even have to hand over my credit card details to a minimum wage server. I'll take this Byzantine system any day.
Today I learned.
Stubborn : adjective : person or people who don't service gays, but do everyone else.

Usage:
Some gay : Hiya we would like one of your nice cakes please.
Bakery : Nope sir, sorry. We are stubborn.
By Springtime (in 45-60 days) we'll be at the one year mark, fatigued by masks, rules, shutdowns, and authoritarians, in general. The news will be tedious about how many are being vaccinated (it will be a lot) -- and, the weather will turn warmer.

Then, many/most will say _fuck it_, I'm taking my life back. I'm visualizing that day, and will welcome it.
It's a very powerful concept, since it teaches you to become very comfortable with starting things.

I often employ it in work too, picking one of the most minor thing I have on the to-do while having morning coffee and three hours later realize I have been grinding away non-stop.
We run WordPress multi-site on WP.com to power several hundred million user accounts. So whenever you visit a domain hosted by us, you're hitting 99% core WordPress, plus some custom plugins and code we run to make it multi-datacenter and super-secure.

Calypso is our JS dashboard that lets you manage all your sites in one place, plus get cool WP.com features like stats and notifications. It's just a REST API client, just like the iOS and Android apps.
Musk's immature and petulant behaviour is an embarrassment to entrepreneurs.

I for one am not remotely jealous of him but disappointed that others think his behaviour should be emulated or worshipped just because he has been successful.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-story-elon-musk-robert-d...
Conspiracy level nonsense here. Elon tried to take Tesla private. He himself didn't want raise money on higher evaluation. He himself multiple times said they don't deserve the high stock.

He has been an optimist on this technology of a long time and has made that argument for a long time.

The claim that the FSD testing is to boost the stock price is truly bizard, specially because there is very little evidence of any correlation between FSD and stock price.

Go look at the Wallstreet models, most of them don't have large considerations income from FSD. If you look at FSD testers, their videos don't have millions of views.
How do you differentiate between autopilot and cruise control in Tesla case?
I assume by lane keeping engaged?
It's easier to set up back yard solar panels than a back yard fuel refinery.
Another question. If China is left free to implement such a device that can completely optimise their people, will they become more powerful than other countries by having wonderfully optimised people to do their bidding?
Blackouts knock out gas pumps, too.
I'm not so sure whether this is truly a benefit of FP. Is it the same in languages like haskell or ocaml? (haven't used them in any significant way)

As for clojure, it's described as a "data-driven programming", which is almost as important as it's FP designation. I think it's that data-driven part that brings a lot of the benefits you're talking about.
Fedora just announced to kill the Guile bindings for GNU make and GDB.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveGuileFromToolch...

Apparently they dont like it that much
Regarding your clinical depression, I strongly urge you to (with the guidance of a doctor) begin taking Prozac. It changed my life.

You can find a clinic that will take you for $50 or so. It's not the cheapest of options, but it's the single most impactful choice you can make in your situation. If you adhere to your schedule, and if your brain chemistry matches my own (which it might not), you'll start to be "evened out" after 30 days.

You have to take the pill every single day though, without exception. I almost didn't realize the Prozac was effective at all, because the first time I tried it, I was inconsistent.

People seem to hate this advice and reply aggressively each time I give it, but the moment I see "clinical depression" I will continue to give it. If the doctor notices any problems, they will take care of it.
IE had better CSS support than anything else up until they froze IE6 and eventually Firefox (Chimera!) caught up and surpassed it. The hatred of IE came because it was frozen and non-standard and full of bugs. It wasn’t that the default box model was ever good, it was just that it was the spec, and there was a big push to follow the spec instead of blindly copying bugs from other browsers. At that time, we also thought XHTML was a good idea, but eventually experience taught us how to balance the spec with practicality.
/r/spacs/ but its a lot of hypemen/astroturfing to sort through.
I agree on the immediate availability of your car being an issue that will hinder this model but the 2nd concern can be addressed by having multiple subscription levels with a premium level guaranteeing only luxury cars pick you up.

Either way I consider cars a personal item same way as I wouldn't share my laptop.