skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it:

level 1 = expect car to go into ditch if you're not careful

level 2 = hands on steering wheel but it should be ok (Tesla)

level 3 = hands off steering wheel, looking around, expect to have to take over control (Honda's beta test)

level 4 = either taking over control rarely needed, or vehicle has limited ability (e.g. can't drive in snow)

level 5 = you can sleep

The confusion lies around whether we're allowed to watch TV - however I'm fairly sure no country or state has passed legislation allowing us to take our eyes off the road while driving.
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Daily stand-ups and scrum events work very well when used as a self organizing tool for the scrum team. Micromanagers are not invited. And neither are managers. (I am saying this as a manager myself.) This is what causes the process to breakdown.
I don't understand what you're saying. How is time spent gathering feedback from users not time spent working on the project?
Any small non commercial craft use these? They look awesome and I'd imagine they are a lot tougher than a typical fan bladed motor.
It seems to make sense. You can be distracted, but should be able to take back control when the car asks you to.
Not if they're tenured. Then you can assume they'll never move.
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I posted an idea about 4 months ago, we took in feedback and today we launched on Product Hunt!

It was this moment that inspired me to build a platform where kids could share their ideas and knowledge with others.
Today I’m happy to share our initial version of TeenUP with other parents and people who want to help invest in kids’ education! We focused on creating a family-friendly and safe environment in our platform.
We work hard to prevent bullying as well, using technology, human moderation, and feedback from parents to protect kids and parents alike.
Our first students (and their parents!) love TeenUP because it allows them to gain new knowledge in short, fun videos. And we’re avoiding discredited engagement tactics (such as dislikes) that have resulted in negative behavior on other platforms. We also have a special category of content so that more experienced students and education professionals can teach younger students as well. Maybe you can help kids learn to launch their own startup someday too? Please try out our app — or more importantly, share it with a student or parent that is looking for a new and engaging way to help kids learn. We’ll be here all day to take your feedback!
Ohhhh that actually makes a lot of sense. Neat.
No, I'm not saying we compensate people for the opportunity cost for not having kids. I'm saying we compensate them according to the value to society of them having them and spending time raising them.
If that’s a sincere question, look up the term “male privilege“
A deep investigation into a Valgrind false-positive
Tesla has been doing a much larger beta test and charges 9k for the sign up.
Because many prominent Indian-Americans share a similar opinion. Vivek Murthy (previous/future surgeon general), Hasan Minhaj, Aziz Ansari, were all in the film and have had similar experiences to mine. Most famous Indian Americans have in fact spoken out about it, and we do care, unlike 'the indians you know' who you implied had the opinion of most of us.
"Agile" or scrum is one of the worst idea in software development that can happen to a company.
I've only seen it kill creativity in lieu of "productivity" (which really is a code word for reporting to management/downwards micromanagement)
Here's the official descriptions:

https://www.sae.org/news/press-room/2018/12/sae-internationa...

TL;DR: In levels 0-2 you are driving the car and the electronics are helping to manipulate the controls. In levels 3-5, you are handing over the responsibility to drive to the car. You do not need to babysit the car to make sure it's not trying to do something stupid.
> "Honda claims Sensing Elite was tested in 10 million unique simulated scenarios and 800,000 miles of real-world testing before it decided the tech was ready ready for primetime"

This is not much compared to Tesla's 3 billion autopilot miles and Waymo's 20 million driven miles.
well, yeah, high school buddy of mine, 50 yrs old, was never the same after a bad case of flu. He was never the same because he was dead. He got sick, then three days later, dead. Our whole class was in shock. But apparently, it's not as uncommon as people think.
I would be pleasantly surprised if it's better than OpenPilot. I'm 99% hands off on the highway, 50-75% in the burbs.
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10^100:1 (a googol)

https://youtu.be/nFslB0AcVmM
It's also a great album by Rage against the Machine.
To take these in order: for what we're doing, I would recommend the talk I gave at Stanford about a year ago.[0] It's a bit dated (and of course we have much much more detail now), but it remains broadly on point.

For the parts of Sun that we want to take after: the good bits, of course! ;) There were things that have influenced us with respect to mission, and then also with respect to hardware/software co-design (we are, contrary to the impression you might have, doing a lot of hardware[1]). Lest I sound too rosy about Sun, it had a lot of problems too[2] -- so we're trying not to recreate those! ;)

Thank you for the kind words on the podcast -- very much looking forward to getting back in the garage and recording some new episodes!

Finally, on Spring: yes, I need to find it (we just moved) and then find a CD-ROM drive (feels easier) and then I'll get it uploaded!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc

[1] https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1342294298692206593

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
Here's an example of a fairly natural bit of text referring to somebody who uses he/him:

> Kerrick's wife called; he isn't going to make it today because he's sick. We're with him in spirit.

Here's an example of unnaturally replacing all pronouns with somebody's name, which reads quite awkwardly:

> Kerrick's wife called; Kerrick isn't going to make it today because Kerrick is sick. We're with Kerrick in spirit.
No 1Gbps should be the standard for wired and 300mbps for wireless and satellite. We’re not exactly leaping into the future with this effort — we are barely catching up. If the US wants to continue to lead the world we need high speed internet.
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That "long Covid" percentage could just be the result of general poor health in a percentage of the population and any disease would have caused long-term symptoms to that particular group.

It's actually surprising that percentage is so small in America.

Would be interesting to cross-reference "long Covid" stats in America with other countries.

Maybe the real pandemic is how unhealthy Americans are.
The second person is more correct: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-c...

UpToDate is what I use to manage patients, and is pretty good.
Right, but human propensity to seek status hasn't changed, and if anything it's been amplified by corporate interests more than simply just the internet's ability to connect.

> instagram or twitter follower counts. Being a FOSS developer doesn't remove all the usual human drives and desires that most people have.

This is corporate influence. Those companies are manipulating that innate status-seeking behavior and amplifying it. In my opinion most F/OSS developers or most creative subcultures clout chase in different ways but it's usually not so overt and it certainly isn't trying to show "hockey stick growth" on slide #2.

I'd argue that for most F/OSS developers making cool (and maybe some overly complicated) things used to be the main way to clout chase, until some corporations came along and helped us "connect" but also sought to make profit from those connections and encourage the connecting.

Let's take HN for an example -- how do people clout chase here? HN's major moderation innovation/advantage is that they've tried their hardest to make clout chasing here equivalent to submitting interesting projects/products/thought/discussion. I'm sure they have the metrics internally, but I just never see HN bragging about how much "engagement" they get.
It is a mistake to adopt any agile process when the management does not have what they call the agile mindset. Both the words "downwards" and "micromanagement" are already warning signs that the company will do better with a different process.
the supersonic eurofighter typhoon has autopilot. Are self driving cars more complex then the most advanced airplanes in existence?
Why is Sony making a car?
Left-leaning stuff has been cancelled for ages. Try organizing a union in your workplace and see how quickly you'll get cancelled.
Level 2: driver is expected to override mistakes made by vehicle.

Level 3: driver is expected to take control, with brief notice, when vehicle cannot determine correct action.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...
“Good morning, colleagues” has worked well for me in past grip interactions at work.
Can you say more? Lockless linked lists are unreasonably hard for an interview problem.
Ask her if she likes all the implications that comes with giving in to all the privacy invasion and manipulation that comes with those ads that she might like.

Ask her if she would give up on the ads that she sometimes likes if she learned that ad tech makes us addicted to our computers, more socially isolated, less likely to connect to our family and community, etc. IOW, ask her if she would trade the ads on Youtube for better quality time with her children and (potential?) grandchildren.

Giving in to ads because "some ads are nice" is no different to think that a diet based only on heavily processed foods are nice because "some of it taste good".

"The ads are annoying" is the last of the problem with the ad-based economy. People do become ad-blind after a while. The problem is all the tracking, profiling and the "eyeball-based website funding model".
The point I am making is that the people making the transaction are not the losers in the game. You have to trace the origin of the product back to how it was produced and what limited resource was used to produce it.

The loser here is other person who could've potentially used that limited resource for his own gain.
Is quantity the only metric?
The AsciiDoc example is an interesting one as I've not seen really any discussion about "whitespace" as offensive and cannot really find anything. Add onto the fact that stuff like wikipedia also still refers to it as whitespace as so it does seem like they're going to define their own term for AsciiDoc that'll be at odds with broader community and just begs for newbie confusion.
At least you didn't complain about the spelling of Referer, with Falacies in the title. Two L's.
google: define guys -> https://imgur.com/a/g4jjFM8

The first definition of "guy" in most dictionaries is "A Man", including the oxford english dictionary so while common use is that guys is genderless consider maybe it's not as clear cut and dry as you would like? And there is a reason why it's becoming an issue (the women and non binary folk who don't like it finally feel like they can speak out against it?)
I’ve been saying for years that if inequality keeps growing then whether we get a far left or a far right totalitarian will depend on which side fields the most compelling demagogue first. The ideology won’t matter as long as pitchforks are being handed out.

I’ve been thinking this kind of thing since the 2008 bank bailouts. I’ve also wondered if that was when America collapsed and we are just living through a slow unwinding period.

The problem wasn’t the crash. Crashes happen. The problem was that banks were bailed out and the we pretended there was a recovery. There wasn’t. It was a largely paper recovery, basically fake. Yes unemployment went down but the quality of the jobs were poor, housing inflation ate any gains, and inequality exploded.

Trumpism was just a superficial symptom. If things don’t improve we will get someone much much worse.
The Airbyte guys do this but honestly I find more utility in the fact that they have an open slack that they're responsive on.
Link to support your statement. San Jose State University bans the "okay" symbol https://sjsunews.com/article/sjsu-bans-spartan-up-gesture-fo.... It was a symbol used for decades. Now, overnight, it is something that can get a student suspended.
I just spent an hour in JQBX, my first experience. I haven't had so much fun on the internet in a long, long time. How will I get any work done now that I know?
This mixed messaging of “you don’t need to be looking at the road!”, “but you should be looking at the road.” Is going to lead to more deaths. As someone who works for one of the major global car companies, I’m very concerned for how breathlessly we (as an industry) talk about things like “autopilot” instead of “driver assist”, and a million other flashy marketing terms that make it difficult to just understand what the system is and is not capable of handling.
Really? Suppressing secondary markets probably falls afoul of copyright law.
I didn’t say anything about unsigned integers, or any specific approach to encoding strings at all, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here.
The 98% is not based on seroprevelance data so using it now would be misleading - their stated number should still hold regardless of seroprevelance
In a thread full of bad takes you are right at the top. Comparing someone throwing out a completely friendly "hey guys" to a group that has both males and females is no where close to the same fucking galaxy as using a racial slur.

This is why so many don't take you seriously.
That's not generally applicable, e.g. not if files are on an external drive, or worse, a network filesystem (where they can change even during use).
With standard VLAs, you always have a guarantee of being able to access sizeof(buf) bytes from buf, for any variable buf. With your syntax, that guarantee would no longer hold, unless c had dependent types that could prove said guarantee.
If it's not impressive it's because a certain player in the field has distorted the standards of rigor for self driving for so many people with "Autopilot".

The fact you watch a video while it's active is a tiny difference to the driver (especially since some people are already watching videos using LKA), but a HUGE difference in terms of what the system is doing. The fact the system is driving with full responsibility on Honda

To the point that instead of seeing existing LKA as a step behind this, you might as well see them as existing on different planes, where progress towards A does not affect progress towards B meaningfully
Based on seroprevalence which the 98% was not based on so using it now would be misleading
Let's hope nobody will lose their head over this.
Its a fairly common flavor of instant noodles.
This is a great argument for why we shouldn’t work in generalities. “Systematic racism” isn’t practically actionable, so it results in Lincoln High getting the same treatment as yours, which apparently held “slave auction” fundraisers relatively recently, and another school which may teach the “Happy Slave” narrative.

1 of those is a high school named after a president that freed slaves, 1 is a high school with a seriously questionable recent past, and 1 is a high school actively perpetuating racist dogma. We shouldn’t be treating them all like what their doing is equally bad
Figure 1 has an intriguing caption: "You can click on any neuron to open it up in OpenAI Microscope to see feature visualizations, dataset examples that maximally activate the neuron, and more."

I have been unable to get this to work. Does it work for anyone else?

(Each neuron has a dropdown menu, but it sounds like there's more to it.)
That doesn't really work. It will take seconds for you to orient yourself to what is going on if you're not paying attention. At 70 MPH that's about 200-300 ft of travel.
Now imagine someone who grew up in the 70s or 60s. They must feel like complete strangers in this new world.
The second link doesn't say the sample was hospitalized patients, it seems like it was patients in all conditions:

> The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, included patients from ages 18 to 86 in light, moderate and serious condition.

(I tried to find the actual study to see if they had a breakdown but couldn't find it)

And frankly I'd say a study which shows that 94% of COVID patients still had symptoms after 3 months and 5% had symptoms after 6 months is actually not super positive news.
Has anyone here used scrum for research oriented machine learning projects at a company? How well did it work and if it worked well, what tweaks did you make, if any?
In my case I'm still very much trying to encourage people to use my project. The time investment for office hours isn't too high - I actually dropped it down to three sessions every Friday for a while due to other commitments, so it's only an hour and a half a week.

In exchange for that I get extremely high bandwidth feedback from real users of my software!
His wealth doesn't sit in a bank account, it's invested in his companies.
There's a lot of aggressively clueless pro-nuclear sentiment. It gets downvoted because of the cluelessness, not because it's pro-nuclear.

One does wonder why the pro-nuclear arguments are so often so egregiously flawed. It's almost as if good arguments for nuclear are difficult to find.
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I’ve been wondering if a radical, dare I say even Trumpian, centrist politician who is willing to pick vitriolic fights with both extremes is just what our times demand.

I really believe that Republicans can elect some of the craziest Qanon believers precisely because the Democrats refuse to forcefully denounce the craziest whims of their radical base, and are tainted by association, even though almost none of the national-level Democrats are nearly so extreme.
> a power-hungry person can have the pleasure of telling 1000 other people what to say, and financially obliterate those who don't comply

> Some people are more power-hungry than others

True. Also, some people are more violent than others, but we try to keep those away from the rest of the population and gradually titrate them out of the gene pool.

I would love to live in a society that treated insatiable thirst for power the same way.
> for example, this is the occassion when the developers could collectively decide to stop using Jira

That's the gold standard! You know you are doing fake agile when the team is not allowed to decide stop using Jira.

In all seriousness, thanks - very valued insights! I did not even know those were the original purposes of the Scrum ceremonies, having only ever worked witn almost exactly the kind of pseudo-Scrum you describe.
It isn't as easy as you are implying. Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have been done decades ago.

For example, one estimate is that for Germany to rely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is literally 183 times their current capacity:
>...Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...

There is a large variation in daily electrical usage (particularly in summer months). For example in the US:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

Contrary to what advocates claim, people have been looking at grid energy storage for decades and it isn't as simple as they claim.
As Bill Gates said in an interview: "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements. What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what? The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need...

Gates is investing in 4th gen nuclear and energy storage companies so he is putting his money where his mouth is.
Cybersecurity firm Qualys is the latest victim of Accellion hacks
I've relocated twice during this pandemic and have no qualms going out and making judgements for my personal probability of exposure.

"Scared and unable to derive statistics" is a large inaccurate stretch of the imagination, I'll make my own stretch of the imagination and say you were probably pasting this response a year ago on things that turned out to be real threats for 500k Americans that didn't even know they had a meaningful pre-existing condition.

We don't have statistics on who has the "inflammatory response" or any other side effect.
I was thinking something similar. Now it seems eBay is jumping in, trying to ride the wave of viral publicity. I haven't thought about Dr. Seuss or ebay in ages but suddenly my wife is buying Dr. Seuss books in case they ban more. Maybe I am just cynical, but it seems like a few people are getting promotions over this ordeal.
Most rooms can hold 3 bunk beds. If the bunk beds are only 2-level and you put two kids in the lower part, that comes to 9 kids per room. Babies can stay with you.

That's a 10x density increase. You can have 20 kids now. Since the kids leave home at about age 20, you can have 1 kid per year without ever stopping.