skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, here's a better sibling comment with more substance and effort:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26394196

I tried writing a response three different times (specifically on the concepts of "safety" and "representation") and didn't manage to hit the right notes. ... Maybe next academic cancel-culture thread? :-(
> which means that every partner could be held liable to an unlimited amount for anything any partner (or the partnership) did.

Technically I believe there's an exception for things that are very clearly the responsibility of a single partner (i.e. done without anyone else's knowledge or consent).

> It’s not obviously a bad thing

Disagree. We've seen a huge surge in accounting scandals since these accounting firms became limited-liability; the field has become dominated by these "too big to fail" companies who make massive profits while paying tiny penalties for their wrongdoing.

> Lloyd’s underwriters (used to?) have unlimited liability. I can’t think of other examples.

I believe there's a New York commercial law firm that's still structured as a traditional partnership.

> I feel like they don’t scale well to large organisations.

Maybe that's a feature rather than a bug.
You want "a computer"... what is this mithical box? are you reffering to the hardware? the operating system? the internet?

Sounds like my mom - "make the gizmo do things".

Install Linux, leave us be.
Weird, it seems so.
No joke. I had a very Caucasian woman tell me why she was too “exhausted” to explain to me why America’s treatment of Muslims was abhorrent and damaging. I, an immigrant from a Muslim country who went to college in the south after 9/11, had possessed the temerity to say America had handled 9/11 with far more grace towards its Muslim population than Muslim countries would have done had the shoe been on the other foot, and praised George W. Bush’s handling of the issue. That was the wrong answer apparently.
This is such a cool project. I missed the crowdfunding but I love watching the progress.

https://mastodon.social/@mntmn
Depends on your vertical, but they can work incredibly well.
that looks AWESOME!

signed the heck up
That's an awful lot of insulting generalization you're labeling people with, simply for being able to handle stress better than you. You are also completely overlooking the people for whom stress-handling doesn't come into play because it's not a very stressful situation for them. (This set of people is interesting to me, because it seems plausible that "gets less stressed by being asked about algorithms and system design" might correlate to "has a higher skill level and finds the problems easier and simpler.")

How would you evaluate a candidate's problem solving skills? "Trust me, I can do it, I just can't show you" doesn't seem particularly compelling if I'm looking to hire someone.
This is about the same as I felt after reading this-- and his comment explaining Tokyo's free public toilets, "No homeless, no drugs, no crime, 100% politeness rate?", all but confirmed those suspicions for me. It reads more like an ideological rant than a considered treatise on potty economics.
There are many more, but dang only posted the ones that got traction

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (last one was 20 days ago, 1 point, 0 comments)
"You don't need LIDAR" is an extraordinary claim and counter to accepted best practice in the industry. The burden of proof is not on the rest of the world to disprove Tesla, but on Tesla to provide evidence that supports it. That is how science works.
> And before anyone says, well don't do that:

Fuck them...

Is that how much a pussy society we have become ? Avoid dangerous conditions because "it might be dangerous" ? If a freaking Tesla can't handle what my 06 SUV can handle without issue, and what people were handling ~forever, ... just as much as an Apple laptop can't handle what a then-IBM was handling, then the damn "car"/"laptop" is nothing but a piece of shit.

Urbanus homo sapiens sapiens is really a pussy...
Perhaps because most people don't know what we know.

I don't think about my car's airbags all that often because I'm not a mechanic or frequently in contact with sources of the latest airbag news. Two weeks ago I take my car in for some work and the mechanic walks out to me with this puzzled look on his face and asks why I have yet to have my airbags replaced; talks about how dangerous this brand is and goes on about the recall.

Now I'm interested. I had no idea. I've driven my nephews around in this car without any idea of the airbag issue. I've now been made aware and will act accordingly.
> Snowden cited this as the reason he came forward.

yep. Once he realized that the NSA was outright lying to congress and the American people had no ability in law to actually know or address the abuses going on leaking the truth was the only way anyone would ever hear about it.
It’s all relative. I once paid $150/mo for a parking spot. In some places $150/mo would be life changing.
It's fine, just don't call yourself "tolerant". It's doublespeak, just like how the word "racism" is used today
Maybe a good solution would be to have an android emulator/sandbox running on the PinePhone?
I have yet to find a satsifactory way to disable them - it's pretty easy to disable notifications from userspace apps like Instagram or Snapchat or whatever, but disabling notifications or altogether uninstalling vendor apps is a huge pain in the ass.

Most advice I've gotten has been flash a custom Android kernel or a de-Googled distro. This would definitely solve my problems, but this removes the ability to install Play Store apps which are a necessity for me. Not to mention that it gives the possibility of bricking my phone, which is way outside my risk tolerance for just getting rid of some annoying ads.
Not the same apps, though. In this comparison, it would be "my blackberry already runs iOS apps, but they're a bit slower than the new iphone".

Improvement for sure, and I'd bet on StarLink making a lot of money on this by volume, but it's not going to radically change shipping.
Yes and add that all in spaghetti code
Fortunately, this was a tech-internal meeting; management was sympathetic and pretty tech savvy and understood the takeaway, if not all the math. They had been legitimately worried that the department was not capable of holding to commitments even when they freely selected the date to commit to. And the developers themselves, to be fair, had no idea how good their estimates actually had been the whole time, because it had been viewed through the lens that a ticket that took 8 hours should have been estimated as 8 hours.

The presentation to the sales department was very different, and can be summarized as "we'll try to be clearer from now on to distinguish estimated delivery dates from committed delivery dates, and don't be surprised if they're months apart."
It's nice to want things, the question is what are you willing to contribute or give up to get them. The author wants to be free of Microsoft and then says he wants something like DOS on x286. Well, DOS was not free of Microsoft. To really be sure corporations and government are not spying on you, you need 100% open source for all software and firmware, if not chip schematics. This means slower hardware and less software, because people don't do as much work for free / on donations vs paychecks paid by copyright royalties and ads (that can be easily stripped from open source). Want to keep your photos if you drop your phone into the lake? Well, then a copy is on someone's servers. Want traffic information in your map app? Someone knows where you have been driving then.

Running desktop/laptop Linux is a relatively minor sacrifice in terms of available software, especially if you consider Wine and Steam emulation. Yet market share is tiny. People do not seem to own a computer enough to do anything about it.
Working from home has given me time to play music again, and I’ve been putting some new compositions/improvisations for piano, guitar, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and bass on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TKGally/videos

A few years ago I experimented with electronic music, but the above is all acoustic.
I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
Is there some kind of good-faith test or controls to penalize bad legal advice? Because I could totally imagine some grey-area tax avoidance outfit partnering with some shady lawyer that will tell the client everything's legit in order to protect them.
So go add focus on those towns as well or go limit it to mid Peninsula.
> Waymo's commercial service is L5, no?

Waymo is L4. L5 means it can take you to your favorite campground (anywhere) and handle any scenario. Waymo says it’s not a realistic goal. But yes, the normal levels are not very well defined.

> If no-LIDAR FSD is not as feasible as Tesla hopes, they can just... use LIDAR.

Tesla has promised the current fleet has all the necessary hardware to make it work (they couldn’t possibly know this at the time). So they can’t walk back on that without incurring huge costs for retrofitting existing cars and development cost for overhauling their tech stack.

Meanwhile, they would’ve sunk money and time pursuing a much harder problem. If they had used additional sensors from the beginning, they could’ve provided much more value to their paying customers by now.

Edit: Just saw your edit.

> From what I've seen of Tesla's FSD beta, it could very probably be T4 if Tesla geofenced certain areas and worked out any particular kinks manually.

Yes, that’s what they should have done. Make realistic promises. I mean, you’re talking about making it work on _any_ road, _any_ intersection and _any_ scenario. Without additional sensors and mapping, it’s seems pretty unlikely (if not impossible) to me. Certainly given the timeframe Elon Musk promises.
Even discretionary and non discretionary is a contentious item and in a CPI has to be defined.

For example: is TV service discretionary? Is Internet service discretionary? Is broadband Internet access discretionary?

I just checked. Bell TV + Internet is advertised as $120CAD right now. Cell service combined with that add $70CAD. Per month. With taxes on top that's round about $2,620 per year if we are talking Single person household.

Now it depends on where you are and whether you live alone or not and such. In Toronto as a single person at the median income this alone can be 4.5% of your net income. I'd say that moves the needle. I pay less than half of this with a different ISP and cell provider + Netflix. Of course the precise calculations change as we move between cities and provinces as well as single person vs. families etc. as base costs get shared.
> What does this system do,

It can be used for 'out of band' management of your system, including firmware/bios rollouts and updates. Allows remote hijacking of attached hardware devices. Basically can puppeteer your entire system.

> why can't we do anything about it?

Because there is no ability to update or modify this code. It is only updatable by the hardware vendor as it is encrypted, signed and checked during update.
Damn. Never made that connection. Have a upboat
Most people are happy with Windows. (Nothing wrong with feeling happy.)
> In retrospect, the only thing that kept me out of jail was some good luck and an outstanding General Counsel

Is there no legal way for me as a non-lawyer to get a signed form from a lawyer saying that what I'm doing is legal? Then if it ends up to be illegal the lawyer could get in trouble rather than me. Or am I expected to know all the laws myself? And if a law is unclear, is there someway to ask for legally binding clarification from the government?
The reason they have less than a thousand cars isn't because LIDAR is expensive. They've spent billions of dollars and enough LIDAR units to double their fleet size would only cost 3-4 million.
The question in that survey is different: it asks whether people self-censor because of others. That's pretty different than whether inclusivity is a worthwhile goal, and surveys are notoriously variable based on wording. For example, I would answer yes to that question, I censor myself to avoid offending people (I have done so in this thread, to try to keep it constructive), but I strongly support work to make colleges and workplaces more inclusive places.
I think Minneapolis seems low, but with these reports I always assume there is some lower tier in the market the typical HN crowd would never be exposed to that is driving down the averages.

I mean those “Urgent!” recruiting emails have to be filled by someone right?
It was created by the Library of Congress for bibliographic purposes, hence approximate and uncertain dates. I agree that they have their uses. However it is also apparent that 8601-2 is trying to amend 8601-1 to fill the gap, in my opinion very badly:

- Sub-year groupings are not very well defined and you may want to avoid them, but if you want the basic approximate and uncertain dates you can't avoid them because they all belong to the level 1. Ideally each extension to 8601-1 should have been defined separately; they do have to be described altogether to avoid the conflict among them, but any part of the additional standard should have been optional.

- 8601-2 essentially took the whole recurring time interval mechanism from iCalendar and it is a simple textual format. Why not the same for extended date and time instead of sigils (e.g. `2021-03-09;SIG=P1M`)? Unlike 8601-1 it doesn't have an absolute requirement for usability. I can only guess but editors seem to have forgotten to harmonize different specifications.
And the cool thing – it looks like there has been some interest[0] in supporting Power for WINE.

[0] https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-February/14...
Seems like a better design choice would be to have instruction 0x0 throw some kind of page fault violation or other exception the OS can catch then.
During what period was income not a barrier to “having technology that you own completely”?

Given that the only people frothing at the mouth in desire of “having technology that [they] own completely” seem to be rich computer programmers, why wouldn’t companies jack the price up?
I suppose I should have added basic equipment as a barrier to entry, it seemed self evident as I was writing.

Edit: I think you could call Windows mainstream (or becoming dominant) around version 3, maybe a bit before. So that's over 30 years.
I think you're missing the real world nuance here, anxiety isn't as on/off as you make it out to be. For me, a developer with social anxiety, there is a huge difference between an interview environment and talking out a problem or code review with a team I'm familiar with. The two main factors for me are one my anxiety just skyrockets around new people but quickly calms down after being around someone for a couple days/weeks and getting used to them. The second is one aspect of my anxiety be is an abundance of worrying about people judging me/what I'm doing/wearing/whatever and in an interview the interviewer is doing just that: judging my performance & worthiness to join their team.

Anyways that was a long winded way to say it is entirely possible for someone to be anxious and generally bad at interviewing while also being capable of being a productive team member.
In this case, "political agenda" was claimed to be a direct quote from the magazine's staff, so it's a little less of an imputation than it might be in other contexts. :-)
But somehow it’s always a white woman from a privileged background

It's a pattern in part because of the way white women get socialized and the role they get assigned.

I'm not excusing it or saying it's okay. I'm just saying widespread patterns tend to be driven by larger forces.

I'm not going to say more than that because it tends to be a shit show to try to say anything about the whys and wherefores.

Yes, it needs to stop. Helping white women escape the role society assigns them would be a more effective means to address this than just pointing fingers and being blamey.
> it's painfully obvious that the quality of features in C++ are much lower than what they could have been otherwise.

It's not obvious to me at all; in fact I'm more tempted to believe the opposite. C++ has its shortcomings, but when I (say) compare the C++ standard library against third-party libraries, I find the standard library design & implementations to be of much higher quality. They're often far more flexible and handle far more edge cases than open-source libraries do. So, while I would love for the C++ standard to be free, I think this would be more of an argument for not making it so.
Numerous argumentative fallacies here.

* Nothing about "average consumer" was mentioned.
* Speed and size aren't relevant to topics of ownership and trust.
* People may pay with privacy, but it should be a consenting relationship.
* 4000 > 0
* Whatever "most people" are into, there is yet a market for good VPN services, and people do use Tor.

I hope you enjoyed your exercise in hyperbole.
What do you mean by “it’s just skin tone”? I’m going to take it you’re asking if I think all inequalities between white and black people in the US are based on interpersonal racism regardless of class? Obviously that’s not true.

However, there are many examples in the US’s recent history and present that _are_ explicitly racist. For example, the criminal justice system in the US is definitely classist, but it’s also racist.

That’s the case with most of our institutions: both classist and racist to varying degrees.

As to why the situation isn’t as dire in Europe than the US? My first question is: is it really less dire there?

But assuming it is, I’m guessing it’s one of two things:
- Less recent oppression: the US has had explicitly racist policies in housing, policing, schooling, etc. in its very recent past. Some of those practices are still around, just a little less explicit.
- welfare programs seem better in general in Europe: when you have no public healthcare, an all but abandoned public schooling system, and an unlivable minimum wage a wealth gap between two races isn’t going to fix itself, it’ll only grow wider.
> There are so many literary authors that aren't white men, that arguing that he should have the right to decide to only teach works from white men (if he deems them to be the best works), does seem to me like arguing that we shouldn't teach the history of marginalized people.

No, it does not remotely seem like arguing that we shouldn't teach the history of marginalized people. How do you go from "I should be able to decide to only teach works from white men" to "other people shouldn't teach anyone other than white men"? To go from "I should be allowed to _____" to "nobody should do anything except ______" is a massive leap.

A course in classics is going to have overwhelmingly male authors, likely exclusively so. The reality of the ancient Mediterranean was that patriarchy was extensive, and women were not afforded the opportunity to contribute in that space. This is in now way saying that other courses in other fields should feature women or minority authors.
Do you have a timestamp for a specific quote?

I can point at "Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality"

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/17/geoffrey-hinton-and-demis...

and

"Martin Ford interviewed 23 of the most prominent men and women who are working in AI today, including DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google AI Chief Jeff Dean, and Stanford AI director Fei-Fei Li. In an informal survey, Ford asked each of them to guess by which year there will be at least a 50 percent chance of AGI being built.... Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and director of engineering at Google, suggested that by 2029, there would be a 50 percent chance of AGI being built, and Rodney Brooks, roboticist and co-founder of iRobot, went for 2200. The rest of the guesses were scattered between these two extremes, with the average estimate being 2099 — 81 years from now."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114362/ai-artificial-g...
this article is about the $320K compensation packages and their volatility, these expenses just do not scale at all.

the point of the article mentioning the "but cost of living" rebuttal was specifically to point this out, they just didn't finish the sentence to drive the point home.
Precisely!

In the olden days of real mode MS-DOS, if you want to gather keystrokes from the user securely (e.g. a password) the program could simply take over the IRQ1 (keyboard interrupt) vector and that was sufficient. The extra paranoid could also revector the other interrupts (or disable interrupts entirely) and ensure they had exclusive control of the entire machine.
The first section of [1] explains that with references

[1]: https://legends2k.github.io/note/clean_me
Well, you want an open computer right? How can you trust closed source apps like WhatsApp and Wells Fargo?
Is the problem the grant process or the lack of cash to award? There are pre-proposals for say department of energy that are only a couple of pages so you can see if you should waste your time on an application. I am not sure about other agencies. You do have grants that go across groups of researchers (MURIs/MRSECS/etc) On the tangent that you mention, I sadly agree with you about the difficulty of dealing with bad statistical methods. I am curious about your thoughts on peer review.
Every flip phone I've come across has run a version of Android.
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Bertrand Russell – Great Interview with John Chandos – 1961
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Please consider funding https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/. I did. (Seo Sanghyeon)
Up market as in brands. Samsung can’t exactly advertise less surveillance as a feature, this a “$5” feature ends up costing vastly more.
It's a bit of an eye opener. Our supposed moral advancements is merely a part of the human condition, and not a product of it. Essentially, we are guided by principles that we think we are controlling. Wow.

Not that i agree with your conclusions.
I wouldn't call expunging racism from society "radical" or incompatible with any inquiry worth making free. If conservatives need to "allege" about that, what more do you need to hear?
The rule of thumb that I was taught for software delivery is to double it for every layer of management you have to deal with.

So if it's just you to a customer, 1 week becomes 2.

If it's you, reporting to your manager, to a customer 1 week becomes 4.

Although I generally don't apply multipliers this liberally, I do keep in mind how many stakeholders there are that can add uncertainty and friction to a project.
I’ve always felt that the advantage of pay toilets wasn’t that they were clean, it was that they exist.

Walking around an American city trying to find a restroom can be extremely challenging, while in European cities I could almost always find a sign and a public restroom in short order (even outside the more touristy areas).

I don’t know if there are actually more public toilets in those cities - or if the culture just includes more prominent signage - but remembering to carry change is way better than going shop to shop begging to use the toilet.
1) Would a random driver (random steering and throttle) also have avoided these crashes? It seems like they were fatal because several variables coincided very exactly, and really any other input would have avoided them.

2) What input is the Waymo driver using here? If these were not originally Waymo cars, then is it perceiving simulated video or getting raw access to ground truth vehicle positions?
Made this trap track over the weekend: https://soundcloud.com/krankthat/what-gives
It’s a somewhat angry & rambling rant, but without picking it apart too hard, one sentence really resonated with me.

I would summarize the thesis in this sentence ->

”I want a computer that does what I want it to do, not one that has a hidden agenda programmed into it at the factory.”