skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The burden of proof for that statement is on Tesla, and thus far they have failed to deliver. 100% of vendors above 10k miles driven between disengagements have included LIDAR in their systems.

The fact is Tesla is not submitting test data to the California DMV, which means they are either not developing a self driving system and have no right to speak to what technology is or isn't mandatory - or they are doing illegal testing, which speaks volumes about the trust you should put in their opinion.
I recently wanted to get the list of countries and provinces/regions (ISO 3166); this codifies things like "US" for United States and "US-TX" for Texas.

It's ridiculously hard to find this data. Sure, there are lists floating out there on the 'net, but many of them are incomplete, outdated, or borked in various ways.

I eventually ended up writing a script to extract it from the Maxmind GeoDB files, which was the best source I could find.

I think I spent half a day on this on total: trying to find a good list, examining the lists I found and discovering they weren't good, I wrote a script to extract this from another source (some US gov't agency, I forgot which) only to discover there were problems with that data as well (it dropped diacritics IIRC), etc.

This is the simplest possible ISO standard, and a 10-minute job ballooned to this. In hindsight it almost would have been better to just pay the €200 or whatever it is, but bugger if I'm going to shell out that kind of money for a fairly small hobby project.
I was offering an alternative to the novel problem on the spot. I’m glad you like this procedure better : )
Markets for air already exist where scarcity prevails:

- scuba
- medical oxygen
- submarines
- space
- polluted areas (search for "beijing canned air")

The law privatizing air that you suggest would match rental housing only if you're renting a vacant lot w/o buildings in a place without land scarcity. It's actually most similar to copyright - inducing artificial scarcity to create a market.

I already described some criteria for unfair transactions: compulsion or deception. You could also make arguments that if one side captures nearly all the economic surplus, the transaction is unfair (generally maintained via government-enforced monopolies limiting competition).

Rather than trying to assert Adam Smith's obsolescence, you should probably try googling "Adam Smith landlord". I expect you'll like the quotes. (I'd recommend learning more about the context more than just the quotes, but hey, it's the internet).
I’m happy with the status quo of going to wilderness as one of the only ways to get people to leave their phones alone.
They were working with different constraints: Speed doesn't matter, it doesn't have to work internationally, and their alphabet is limited to A-H.

Having words of different length makes it easier to distinguish them.

Also, I have a suspicion why the article leaves out "F".
As someone in academia myself I think this is plain bad teaching. If you make students guess what specific strange idea you had in your brain, instead of having them using theirs, you are not only wasting your time, you are wasting theirs as well.

If you want everybody to guess what you are thinking, become a quizmaster.
Thanks for sending this! One aspect of our test we're excited for is the ability to profile viruses, fungi, and bacteriophages since we use Shotgun Whole Genome Sequencing on the microbes (vs. a technology like 16s that only profiles a single bacterial gene).
Wow, what an awesome article. Thank you!
Both whites and blacks get bullied the same amount but when it happens to a black person, it’s racism and is actually taken seriously.

I get called dipshit and you get called the N-word. Why race-based bullying has suddenly become considered worse is beyond me.
There is a hell of a margin between maximizing-profit-at-the-expense-of-customers and going under. It just happen that Google has now enough critical mass to really not give a fuck about their customers.
Not sure about licensing, but one important difference with ICD codes is that you can access them for free:

https://icd.who.int/en
Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering (2013)
> Rules are not applied equally. The playing field is NOT level.

That's true, always has been.

> big names just need to pull the right strings or call the right people for a free pass

I'd be curious if that's the case.

For the most part in B2B, "the rules" generally only apply when the risk of a client doesn't out weight the benefit of that client. T&C and Contracts are always negotiable, it's just a matter of if it's worth it to both parties.

Amazon has more street cred than say, me, as a developer. And Amazon has a lot more to lose from their Add-On doing a bunch of evil things that I would if I decided to do evil things with mine. Amazon is big enough to assume liability for both itself and Mozilla if something goes wrong, I can't.
Just leave your devices at home then.
Even when I was there years ago, it was common knowledge amongst those of us who did hiring that women had an easier time in the interview process. For example, females could not fail the first phone screens. They would always be forwarded to on-site interviews regardless of earlier performance. The justification was that weak performance at the initial screens would be taken into account later by the hiring committee, however men were given no such second chances.
Fair concern Simone,

For what it's worth -- we definitely plan on making it easy to export and delete your data. While this feature is on the way, you can always ping us, and we can send you a data structure of your data, or delete it.
Aren't you assuming your conclusion? There are many socialists, social democrats, and other leftists here. If you call 'centrist' anyone who isn't an 'actual communist', ok, but that's nonstandard. By the same logic, someone on the right could argue that HN consists of 'far left' and 'centrist'.

If your complaint is that HN is skewed to non-communists, that's obviously true, but not interesting—what large population sample isn't? Actually there are indeed 'actual communists' on HN—not many, but we have our share. Who's ignoring their existence? I think they're interesting!
I am amused about these perceptions of bias in “tech”, especially coming from those with little experience elsewhere. I work in tech and also in the tugboat industry. My consulting work has brought me into organizations in many industries. Tech is much better at being fair to minorities and the otherwise disadvantaged than non-tech industries. I don’t know how people end up complaining about tech without noticing the rest of the world around them. Have they wondered why the people who work on their car or dispose of their garbage are primarily men? Of the misogynists and racists with whom I interact, tech has the least representation.
Person trading on reputation learns what pen names are for
If anything America has a way more varied system of universities and research centers, for virtue of being bigger,richer and with a culture of generous donations by private individuals. A system like that has good things and bad things, compared to say Germany or France where most universities and research centers are more or less equivalent in funding, prestige, salaries and lines of research.
Ah yeah, fair point - I think it would actually be 0.5 log(1.5 W) + 0.5 log(0.6 W), without the additional log(W) term, because the reward is multiplicative, but it works out the same if we let W=1.

I read this paper when it was on here previously, and only skimmed choice parts again this time - rereading some more of it I can see that part of his point is that the introduction of utility, and its loose association with psychology and preference, was required to explain why you need to put a logarithm (or something similar) into the expectation in order to generate correct results, and not, as I was wrongly suggesting, that EUT generates incorrect results for problems like these. His claim is that you can recover identical behaviour, without needing to add arbitrary preference functions, by considering the time-average behaviour. Furthermore, as I suggested in another comment, this actually makes sense, because this is what an individual agent experiences.
"Revenue share" makes the bribery apparent.

This is one of the things that needs regulation, because there will be a monopoly.
I'm guessing that those parts of what ISO does aren't what Tim Sweeney had in mind - he specifically called out C++ in the tweet.
Some smartass developer at Amazon is going to make it console.log that.
It's one of the best ones we've tried so far. The upsides: great content, easy API. The downsides: you need to ask permission to increase rate limits, and it doesn't have books that are only available on Amazon Kindle.
I think we probably need some kind of government regulation so that you can’t just close someone’s account without warning or access to support, or at the very least, you can’t prevent them from exporting their data and migrating to another service.
Not me, but my wife (Taiko Drumming):

https://www.youtube.com/user/HoEtsu
I like it.

I'd love to see something about ethics, too. I feel there is a need for more ethical behavior, in today's corporate world.

I have a fairly basic ethical litmus test: "If I feel like I can 'get away with it,' it's wrong." Doesn't matter, whether or not it's legal.

Wrong is wrong.

One of the most valuable assets in my life, is my personal sense of Integrity and Honor. It has nothing at all to do with whether or not anyone else is doing it. It's all about whether or not I can shave in the morning.

I'm clean-shaven.
My chief motivation for using these apps is that I don't want to deal with a phone call. I'm happy to pay a premium for that. I switched to primarily ordering online around 2000 and go out of my way to avoid ordering from places that are not accessible somehow. I hope that in the fallout of the obvious bad situation we're in now is not to roll back to days gone by on this front.
In this case it kind of seems like what you'd want to happen is happening: we've been warned about the dangers of climate change under "business as usual" scenarios, so we're not carrying on "business as usual", but reducing our CO2 emissions.

So the question then is quite fundamental: what does it mean to describe a "business as usual" scenario that extrapolates from today? Does that mean carrying on doing what we're currently doing, or does it mean to stop caring about CO2 emissions and go back to "business as usual" ten years ago?
Ask HN: How to send per-customer emails by timeline?
Looking for a way to send per-customer e-mails according to a release timeline. Is there a platform that has this functionality?

Example: New Signup gets Welcome email, gets Week 1 email 7 days later, Week 2 email 7 days after that.

Mass e-mail by hand is getting unwieldy. I am not super familiar with solutions in the space and would appreciate any helpful pointers. Could optionally roll-my-own but that's time detracting from the main product.
Even connected cars need to run in offline mode. There’s no way a car with Starlink navigation is going to work in an empty parking garage or a tunnel. I can’t even get YouTube music to stream over LTE all the time when I drive across town — so smart caching is another frontier to develop.
The systemic bias I faced was that people assumed I was poor, didn't have resources, wealth or contacts because I am a Native American.
You die on the hill you fight on

> Blacklisting is an evil in itself, corrosive to the ideal of an open society, and to professional relationships in the small world of literary publishing in which this story takes place

Author wants to take one for their team. Everyone will let them. If it's about the ideas, then you can always get those out there. If it has to be attached to your name, well, you're in the realm of egos
Which browsers allow users to whitelist specific sites for access by a browser extension?

Or else what is the !#?!% technology hurdle preventing users from making their own lists?
As one that has experienced a project in the research phase being figuratively knee-capped by this money grab one would be led to believe that the ISO organization themselves would clearly and quite obviously see the lack of standards adoptions sourced from their very own actions. Catch-22 anyone?
A linear interpolation based liquidity pool for decentralized options
"Not doing anything at all" is factually incorrect, and what I was responding to for the gp.
I doubt that’s true. It doesn’t seem to work out logically.

Lets say for the sake of argument that you are right, and the no. 1 use case of cash is to evade taxes. Then the people getting payed for their tax-free labor will need to use this cash somehow. The easiest (and cheapest) is simply to circulate the money while buying regular goods and services. So buying of regular goods and services would rise to be at least as popular use case of cash as tax evasion is.

Also note that there are plenty of people willing to pay tax for their transaction, but the transaction is made illegal by their government and hence they cannot. Then the reason to use cash is not tax evasion, but illegal transaction, (note that this includes paying and receiving salaries for people not allowed to work because of immigration status). Tax evasion then becomes a happy byproduct of the no. 1 reason for using cash, illegal transaction.

But I honestly doubt that either illegal transactions, nor tax evasion comes even close to why most people use cash. Convenience. Though I could be persuaded if I saw some data pointing to the opposite.
Bacteria can transfer sequences of DNA directly to each other in real time, through an amazing process called conjugation that looks like a sci-fi movie in outer space.

This is how gut bacteria can develop resistance so quickly. They don't have to go through a generational process of breeding and selection. They just share a piece of DNA code that confers immunity and they are good to go.

Let's take a look at this process in action, from the vantage point of the membrane wall of one bacterium:

Type 4 secretion system: ii- Pilus biogenesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM
Google Ads is worse than cocaine or why the house always wins
People constantly cite that CPI excludes things like housing costs, or if we probably dug into it more excludes stuff in strange ways. It's also probably a global thing, some countries do exclude it completely, others do not so it can confuse things:

Ex:

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/04/excluding-housing-c...

http://www.chapwoodindex.org/
Thanks for the great advice. I have to think about it. It feels that the tasks associated with gathering user requirements are performed by the manager, and tasks related to system design are performed by team lead who doesn't like to share them.
But got the idea.
The hardest part of this is communicating it to a client. “What do you mean it will probably take 5 weeks, but could take between 2 and 10 weeks? That’s a pretty big span. The other programmer I asked promised it would be done in 5, period. Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”
Goodreads import is on the way! If you like, feel free to email us (stopa@js.ventures), and you'll be one of the first to try it!
> ECMAScript

ECMAScript is nowadays amusing because the ISO standard for it is literally a single page document… that normatively references the ECMA published document.
Well said! Incumbents in the space have a lot to gain from the status quo of "drill, fill, and bill". This has limited the adoption of new diagnostic technology and advances in preventive health. We hope to eventually replace observational screenings that detect the onset of irreversible symptoms with early detection and interventions that prevent disease altogether.
Metrics are not the only sensory organ of the organisation. This is exactly the category error I'm pointing at.
> I desperately want to get to a point where I'm able to quickly sketch out a statistical model for making a decision, but I'm struggling mightily on where to get started that doesn't include some kind of "hide the uncertainty" shell game, such as how I feel when Bayesianism gets thrown around.

Being comfortable around basic probability distributions is probably the main prerequisite I suggest. If you can understand the uses and analyses of Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, and normal RVs, you should be at a point where you can try to model real life phenomena. A surprising amount of life can be modeled as multiple weighted coin flips.
We started with a simple excel tool, that has morphed into a visual pay system that talks to the database through SQL queries - it impresses me everyday how much this excel file does, and the 2000 users that use it daily say the same thing
Since everything is now observed/broadcasted/published in real-time, every development of any current event is BREAKING NEWS.

But even if not breaking, certainly important.

This boils down the current style of giving a long-form article (story!) to every new piece of information.

And then to top it off sometimes a random smattering of these tidbits and factoids get crumpled together into a ball of front page articles, with "amazing production value". Big 4K pictures, a 3-4 paragraph intro, a personal touch, namedroppings.

What's missing is "obviously" what social science is supposedly about. Models, hypotheses, data, and picking the best one. Sure, articles provide this in a very crude form, via stories, appeals to some authority (when they cite/interview a random Professor of X at University of Y, who of course happens to be the Random Dude Z Chair), sometimes there are even a few graphs too!

However, it seems the main function of established media these days is to try to follow what's going on in the world and establish a record, ask questions, try to look/peer into the nasty machine of contemporary politics and power, scratch the surface, kick the tires, and so on. They are not really here to interpret and explain it.
But.... why? I don't know where you're ordering from but calling the place is generally way faster than trying to futz about with an app to order a burrito or whatever

A typical exchange for me is:

"Hi, Jose's tacos"

"Hi, I'd like to place a to-go order."

"Sure, go ahead"

"Get me an OMG burrito and a large diet coke please"

"No problem. What's the name on the order?"

"tomc1985"

"Ok tomc1985, that'll be $8.43 and be ready in about 15 minutes"

"Thanks!"
At least where I am and at least on GrubHub it seems like the standard delivery type places you cite are using their own drivers. I have only done pickup with DoorDash, and have only used Caviar & UberEats a combined total of 1 time. But when that's the model the primary advantage is being able to do it all through a website and not the phone
The hope and appeal of MWI is that the Schrödinger equation is sufficient. What you describe is way beyond what may be found in it.

"Many worlds" may arise naturally from the Schrödinger equation in this way: if you measure a system, the components of its wavefunction decohere, so that they no longer interfere. These components may be intuitively understood as "worlds."

We find ourselves in the world corresponding to the larger-measure component more often. But why? If your answer is "because more universes were created for larger measures," that is not found in the Schrödinger equation; it requires additional axioms, which is precisely what MWI hopes to avoid.
Another Step Forward on China’s Long March Towards Improved IP Protections
I think parent means 'other people'. At least, I would, in their shoes.
Don't know for which technical domain he demands open access to ISO standard texts (because many ISO standards, in fact, can be freely accessed [1] while others are accessible as pre-final, nearly identical versions), but I'm guessing ISO being essentially a complicated joint org of national standardization bodies, changing treaties and getting member votes etc. would be a difficult thing to do at this point. There's also the issue of spec editors selling copies of books containing spec text with commentary for financial compensation of their work.

[1]: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/in...
You are wondering about the wrong thing. Companies/Orgs are not designed to pull this type of stuff off. And thats the end of the story right there.

Society has developed other mechanisms precisely because orgs are dumb as shit at handling complexity.

Its sort of like encouraging 2nd graders to think about 10th grade problems. They need a whole lot of help and time from someone else before they can. Thats why the East India Company runs to King or Goldman runs to the President or Jack Ma evaporates from the earth when things get too complex.

Orgs are just dumb simple parts of society like the ribosome is a part of a cell. Expecting the ribosome to morph into something it is not just because every part of the ribosome has good intentions and feels it can be doing much more to influence the behavior of one cell, or a clump of them and therefore the whole body makes for a good Pixar movie and Google hiring material. But in real life that stuff happens on very different time scales and by very different institutions.

If you want to change the world don't work in the corporate world. Work in places that supervise them.
Cheers Vlad! And definitely empathize, re: fear of failure
Any kind of positive value is bad if we are discussing the price of an open standard.
That’s great :) Scala.js has such potential. I hope that my next opportunity to try it out (versus TypeScript) will be a similar experience to yours!
:wave: While not _exactly_ the scenario we envisioned when creating it, you might want to check out Reclaim's Calendar Sync feature.

We basically can read events from any source within Google Calendar, assuming you have access to the calendar (either because it's shared to an account you have access to in Google or because you have OAuth access to the account where the calendar originates) and then sync them over to any other calendar that you have access to. You can also assign some nice custom privacy settings to those synced events so that they show up with whatever level of visibility you want others to have when they view your calendar.

So in your GF's case, she'd sign up for Reclaim, set her primary calendar as the non-Treatwell calendar, and then set the Treatwell calendar (assuming it's a shared calendar that her Google login can access) as the source. Then events get synced and you're good to go!

https://reclaim.ai/features/calendar-sync
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Looks like a game changer. Nice approach. But wouldn’t the public cloud providers have the same tech?
Good luck. I can't see any reason why a typical restaurant would not just use one of the many online ordering services that throw in a splashy front page theme for free.

We observe this as we serve vendors to restaurants.
WhatsApp reportedly working on password-protected encrypted chat backups
Most major email marketing services have this, e.g. GetResponse, Constant Contact, Sendinblue. If you want to find cheaper solutions, check out AWS SES and the various 3rd party integrations that uses it to send email [0].

[0] https://geekflare.com/aws-ses-powered-email-marketing/
What you're describing is called a low FODMAP diet. A family member has tried this diet for about a month to great success. They were fine for the last 1-2 years and then ate a coconut yogurt and the symptoms came back. They are back on the low FODMAP diet again and things have gotten better but they have like two to three more weeks before they are on their normal diet again.
Isn’t this already here? ~5 years ago I remember watching Netflix, playing rocket league and remotely accessing as unix server during a flight.
How a love for milk tea is unifying people against authoritarianism