skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few reasons:

1) I hate talking on the phone
2) Your experience is very different than my experience. I find it much easier to click through what I want than to do it via voice
3) My original motivation was around accuracy. There were many times where I'd get off the phone and was pretty sure there had been some miscommunication. Now they get a readout of exactly what I requested.
How so?

I mean, besides providing better connectivity for people on ships, what will/can change?
What was blocked in building out by current satellite offerings?
Yes. I know not to listen to CEOs when they say things like that. They're effectively puppets.

I've also probably coded way more lines of autonomous driving code than Elon Musk himself. That isn't to say I don't respect him and his vision, but I'm pretty certain I have a better idea of timelines than the BS he's forced to say to the public.
This is an interesting way to put it. Yes, you could say it's an API Gateway for Cloud tools. I like it!
Yup they're just regular grocery stores. Not with Go cameras or anything. Regular checkout line.

They've also introduced "Dash Carts" to skip the checkout line but they're optional and also a different technology from Go AFAIK.
Starfleet propaganda.
It's all become about money. I fucking hate this state of society.
Has China ever interdicted a ship going to or from Taiwan?

3 minutes with a search engine didn't yield an example.
What about sound ? I drive with my eyes, but also with my ears. Do we know if any of those systems (Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, etc.) also use the sound for driving ?

While it is not sufficient on its own, it would yet another (small) piece of the puzzle.
> Increasing taxes will cause a mass exodus leaving the Governments in a bad shape. [..] Holders will just migrate to a [different] country

Yeah, when the US increases taxes on me, I'll just move to Korea. Oh, what's that, it takes a minimum of 5 years and learning the language to get a citizenship? And I still have to pay the IRS in USD in the meanwhile since they're still taxing me until I revoke my US citizenship (which I can't until I get a korean one in 5 years).

Not to mention I left behind my family and friends, many of whom can't emigrate due to not qualifying for a work visa or other category.

My point here is that the free market does not apply to governments as you imply it might. Consumers can vote with their wallet for things like different brands of food and other commodity goods, but people can't change citizenships easily. People can't vote on their favorite country easily due to massive social effects and how limited immigration is.

There are far more people who live in a country where they think their government is worse than another one, and yet don't move, than there are people who do change countries for such a reason.
SpaceX rolls Starship to the launch pad five days after last flight test
With zero presence on the Tensorflow 2020 conference, not even an honourable mention on the overview blog post about the state of nation regarding TensorFlow.
Over the course of my life I've designed and built many products/projects. Not a single one that had deadlines imposed by the customer was late. It might deviate on non critical feature set but the main course has been always served properly.
Heh ... plutocracy. Nice call.-
Biology is enormously complicated. Imagine coming to a code base written in an entirely undocumented language, with 1.5 gigabytes of this incomprehensible source code (for human genome), and figuring out how this script works with the millions of other scripts of varying length in your gut or in the environment, given you have a very small working knowledge of the overall machine that runs this code and can't easily take it apart and try and figure out what is happening (short of experiments where you essentially try unplugging a single thing at a time and see what happens to the machine [mutant screen]).
> Why stop reading there?

I said 'almost'.

If you started reading a blog post on a topic and the very first example in the opening paragraph is a clear misinterpretation then it is quite natural to assume that the rest of the post will follow that trend. That's all part of critical thinking and the automatic assessment of trustworthiness any human being will engage when reading/listening to someone's ideas/opinions/experiences.

I gave the article the benefit of the doubt and continued reading; the rest of the post illustrates clear discrimination experiences so I am glad I continued reading.
For a given causal model it is (1) in my understanding.
For me, I highly value switching to an asynchronous order system and the apps give me that. In the pre-app days, I'd sit on hold for significant amounts of time trying to get an order in on a Friday or Saturday night. (For one of my favorite local places -- in Chicago -- this is still the case as I have to fight through a busy signal every single time.) If a restaurant offers a self-managed online order system, I'm all for doing that instead.
Their patent [1] describes how it works. A nice summary is provided in [2].

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10001402B1/en
[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2018/fresh-patents-served-smart-she...
They need LIDAR or stereopsis. IMO stereopsis could probably do a better job than LIDAR much more redundantly, and for a tiny fraction of the cost.

But neither is insane to me. Structure-from-motion is all you could get with monocular vision, and I would not trust that as the primary means of depth estimation, especially with no redundancy.
Heh noted to add an email contact to the page. In the meantime feel free to email me at joe@js.ventures — really appreciate the feedback :)
Do we have information whether Starlink satellites have cameras on-board? I was just wondering one day that it would make sense to use the satellites itself to build real-time maps.

Tesla cars are already connected through 4G/5G (when there's coverage) and they also store video feed in their memory, which they upload when the car connects to Wifi.
It’s not conclusive it’s far from speculation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6535271/
As I said in another comment, just normal customer service experiences. Nothing amazing but nothing terrible either.

You've probably never heard of a positive experience with them because people rarely write on a forum about a normal boring customer service interaction. People only talk about it when it goes terribly wrong.
It's supposed to be a severe punishment, usually reserved for serious or repeat offenders.

If someone works their ass off at minimum wage for a week, just to have the fruit of their work stolen in a minute, and the thief got caught doing this for the third time (which means the thief likely also got away with it dozens of times), what then?

Most importantly, why should that person work their ass off for another week, instead of going somewhere else, stealing something, and enjoying the remaining 39 hours off?

House arrest exists, but it depends on that person not just ignoring it and running away, and is significantly milder for the reasons you listed.
> it feels mechanic and distant.

Just like the passive voice, then?

*mechanical
IQ is kind of a worthless measurement, given the numerous problems with its reliability and its rather arbitrary standards. Turns out measuring intellect is more complicated than some one-size-fits-all single numeric score (the meaning of which constantly fluctuates by design anyway).
The Dr. Seuss estate decided not to publish some of his works anymore because they believed they were no longer appropriate. I stand by the right of a work's owner to say, "you know, I wish this hadn't been released and I've decided not to sell it."
> I wonder whether its possible to transplant the bacteria out before such a treatment and introduce them again later..

In theory yes, but there is the challenge of avoiding re-infection with the one species you're being treated to eliminate.
> Excel may be the most influential software ever built

I'd argue that award should go to the real pioneers of spreadsheet applications: LANpar, VisiCalc, and to an extent Lotus 1-2-3 and LoGisTiX. What has really stood the test of time is the concept of spreadsheets, not anything specific to Excel.

Excel didn't do anything particularly revolutionary, it didn't set out to "influence" anything. It just competed on feature-matching and cut-throat commercial practices until all the others had died. A great achievement for sure, but praising that over VisiCalc and Lotus is a bit like praising Toyota over Henry Ford when it comes to automobile production chains.
That's funny because I assumed StarLink was just a way to launch more rockets. Seems like there are enough synergies in the Musk empire to make this a really worthwhile endeavor.
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And even when books are allowed, they're often subject to arbitrary restrictions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/banned-books-week-pris...
Maybe you saw it in his video called "You suck at Excel" [1]? It is in any case worth the watch.

[1]: https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c
Note that 0.5 log(1.5 W) + 0.5 log(0.6 W) = 0.5 log(1.5) + 0.5 log(0.6) + log(W)

I wrote it that way to make the comparison with the alternative log(W) more obvious.
> nobody is using it
> no competitively successful commercial activity

Those are two wildly different claims but I'll bite anyway:

Your argument against DeFi could be made about Schwab, or any brokerage providing margin so I don't find it very compelling. Is selling margin to gamblers not a "competitively successful commercial activity"? Your original claim was that there were no users.

> crypto distributed betting markets are patently illegal

That's like saying self driving cars are patently illegal. Of course they are (more illegal than grey market sports betting), but it's a nascent technology and it's not obvious that it will stay illegal.
Bank Holiday is an American thing too. FDR declared one in response to bank runs in the Great Depression.
4) I have had my credit card number stolen by restaurant employees in the past, and will now never give it out over the phone
And if it did those startups never stood a chance in the first place
I should've been clearer: Your comment implies the author "just learned" what pen names are. What makes you think that?
Excel is the Lowest Common Denominator of UX.

You can show them an .xlsx, and there is no fear, and thus some chance of user acceptance.

There is enough structure that you can process it, and enough programmability to get by.

The format is broadly accessible across platforms.

It's not perfect, but it's a great going-in position.
The problem then being: how do you remove the mass you're extracting? Existing horizontal TBM systems make this much easier.
It would surprise me if there were any areas of science that were not heavily citing falsified papers.

We are perhaps fortunate that most cited papers are not read.
> it was all tramped on by some insane incentive like a bonus being dependent on how many "diverse" people a particular person actually gets to hire

my company has done this and while it's not illegal to provide the incentives, I don't understand how they can expect it not to result in illegal hiring behavior (discrimination based on protected class) by those optimizing for those incentives.
I'd never heard of this guy, but this is some good writing. The editors who blacklisted him display such abject cowardice when they say they are cancelling him because of the “reception” of his previous article in a different journal. Not because of what the article says, but because of its “reception.”

This is the moral and intellectual equal of the 14 year old girl who won’t sit with Suzy in the cafeteria because some of the other 14 year old girls think that Suzy is weird.
When you try to compare digital downloads to physical media that isn't easy to copy, like books, most of the logic falls apart just like that.

Then there's also another side to digital distribution, especially in entertainment — if you bought a (heavily DRM'ed) video game, or a movie, or a book, or something else, online, it's tied to your account. You can't lend whatever it is you bought to a friend like you absolutely could the same exact thing on a physical medium. You can't resell it either. You also rely on the mercy of the seller to not pull your access to the thing. Yet, even though it lacks this basic trait of a physical medium, sellers treat digital and physical as mostly the same thing.
A similar rationale was used to justify hazing and other stupid things when I was in the Marines. "We do this the most utterly painful and stupid way because that was what was done to me as a Private, and now it's my turn."
>One is legal, to avoid breaking a law or facing a lawsuit.

I don't really understand this. Isn't any kind of race based discrimination going to potentially cause legal liability? At the end of the day you're advocating for a policy of race/gender based discrimination, and I don't really get why you'd think it wouldn't be opening yourself up to liability with programs like these?

Have you actually talked to a lawyer about this? I've looked into in the the past, and while it seems to have a stronger case in Canada (where I live) I haven't really seen anything to suggest it's legal in the US unless you're a school.

Admittedly you're probably not going to be the case the brings it tumbling down, but it still seems like explicitly basing your hiring decisions on race open you up to a whole lot of potential liability.
i am not talking about toxic hires. especially when it comes to gender, it is usually the male majority that is being toxic towards the new hire.

the writer of the article certainly was not an asshat. and most culture-fit issues that i read about are bro-cultures where someone didn't fit in because they didn't join the rest in their behavior.

i am not saying the world needs to change around the new hire.
i am saying the world needs to learn to tolerate different interests and not expect everyone to conform to their personal norms. but that also goes for the new hire. they shouldn't complain about about different norms unless they are rude or unreasonable.

on work culture, if for example someone leaves on time, while everyone else works late then that is a difference, but not a reason to fire.

a woman in a male team is usually not a culture fit, neither is an older person in a team full of 20 year olds. both are not a reason to fire someone for lack of culture fit, but require the team to adapt their culture to be more tolerant.
The Language of Self-Driving Cars Is Dangerous (2018)
We really like the name, so we are debating whether we should also make a COVID-19 vaccine, to have a fair shot with them xD

(Jokes aside, indeed, something we'll have to figure out soon)
A surprising number of people who are adults now were still children in the '90s.
I live in an economy with ubiquitous free toilets and they do not all descend to the unbearable.

Socialised maintenance of the commons takes many forms. Only a reductionist believes the absence of paid toilets reduces toilets to the unspeakably bad.

I concede the best toilets are free, but gatekept by transactional relationships of higher worth. The razors I steal from Singapore Airlines majestic marble temples in changi are both put out for me to steal and funded from my frequent flyer value. But, the toilets by the bayside I use when I go for fish and chips by the jetty are not, they are kept clean because we want that, to maximise utility for chip eaters.

Sure, it's a "tax" -so what? You want it to devolve to a 50c charge and beggars shit in bags? Screw you.
It's funny people think Level 2 is a subset of Level 4 and 5.

Kind of like calling NNs a "subset" of General AI
You can't shave if you commit a crime? Is this a New York colloquialism?
Perhaps if a sample could be collected when healthy and frozen for long-term storage.

In my experience antibiotics were prescribed for acute symptoms that quickly worsened. I don't think they would have delayed my treatment for the hours or days needed to collect a pre-treatment sample.
I agree but that ignores people trying to make it today and doesn’t create any “heroes” or mentors for those in education today.
Obviously the author bears her no ill will. If you want to find out who it is, that's your problem.
I just got a peek at the future and it is a bit scary
Traditionally, tech diversity referred to gender diversity, in which case, yes tech companies (especially engineering) are very skewed for a white collar position. Note that this post is about gender diversity.

If you attempt to extend it to ethnicity (which this post is not about), this gets all really arbitrary, which is where your point comes in.

The cause of underlying skews is then a different discussion altogether.
I hate talking on the phone too, but ordering food is usually the simplest of all phone interactions, unless they put you on hold and forget about the call.

And for order accuracy its a wash. There's no guarantee the restaurant will fill the order accurately even if its printed out in triplicate. Now that I think about it, the app experience is generally worse, accuracy-wise

My angle here is that I don't want to see these delivery companies rent-seeking on mom-and-pops profits when they really need them. Restauranting is a harsh industry and these delivery apps are really putting the squeeze on, and the app experience isn't even really that good unless you're picking from the featured list.
Seems like buying more data for the LTE modems already in the cars would be easier / cheaper path than building a fleet of novel satellites and launching them into space?
- the NOP instruction is 0x0

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Do you have statistics backing your claim that white men have no chance? It couldn't be further from my experience.

In the 20 years I've been working in tech, I've seen countless candidates rejected because of "culture fit." Of those, the majority were women; but also black, Hispanic, and indigenous men. Only one was a white guy: he was overtly sexist towards every woman he encountered, including the HR recruiter.

Edit: oh, I forgot one. One white guy was slightly effeminate by north American standards, and wasn't considered after somebody made a comment to the effect of "I think it's weird when men wear scarves". I think he was French (or Québécois), and I wouldn't speculate about his sexuality
> Not that the fact the nobody wanted to count isn't troubling enough in itself.

This crappy trait isn’t limited to that time and place.
The incident that comes to mind is gulf war 2 Bush “We don’t do body counts”.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/we-count-they-dont...
I think I might simply be biased based on my experience. Haven't changed jobs often enough to use any of my friend's referrals. But none of them were my dream job, either. Might, in fact, change my PoV when an opportunity comes.
That's a great idea! I think the game would benefit from a more engaging onboarding experience. If I'm being honest, I'm not super motivated to design and build out a robust "guided tour" like you see in some apps, but I think there are a lot of opportunities to add in simple affordances that would guide new players through the first iteration of the core game loop.

For instance, there are some basic "new player achievements" here: https://github.com/jeremyckahn/farmhand/blob/dc734f71bcc081f...

It wouldn't be too hard to display those on the Home screen for the player to check off when they first start out (and then hide after completion). And I think the default state for some views could offer more explanation. I'll think on reasonable ways to improve that aspect of the design.

Thank you for your helpful feedback!
The GSuite/Google Workspace UX on my pixel 4a has been awful. It's so painfully obvious that they do not care. Their customer service sucks too, they sold me an expensive screen protector that immediately got scratched to hell, then told me to go fuck myself because it was past the return date (because I preordered...)

Obviously I cancelled Workspaces, but now my Fi account barely works, and I don't have the time/energy to deal with their idea of customer support (a community forum...) to fix it.
I don’t think we’ll see “full self driving” within the lifespan of several cars from now.

Yet, if I bought a Tesla I’d still need to sweat the decision of buying the FSD option because Musk insists the resale value of cars without it will be significantly smaller without it.
One interesting thing is that these backdating schemes were caught out by statistics. As I understand it, at the time the regulatory regime was such that it could be arranged easily that there be no documentary evidence that backdating had occurred - options grants were made by resolution of some internal company committee and documentation of this was filed after the fact. (Not sure if this is true today?). Thus this practice came to be one that 'everybody does, and gets away with'.

But, some academics figured out that they could show statistically that options backdating was occurring: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raquel-Alexander/public...
and very quickly it became a huge legal issue for a lot of companies.
I don't see it yet so I'll add another: UX Architect. With your frontend knowledge and potential interest in a product role, the UX space might be a good fit. It's a great space for not getting bored because it's not super well defined and is pretty large in scope. One say you might be broadly looking at a problem space, and the next you might be working on a nuanced solution with mocks and prototypes.

While I appreciate all backgrounds, I'm a huge fan of UX-ers with engineering backgrounds (vs, say, design backgrounds).
Thanks for the response. I think protocol-bias is something that will be hard to control for. The collection kit, extraction method, library prep method can influence the results significantly from my experience. For example, we've seen significant differences in results between tagmentation-based lib prep vs ligation-based.
this was part of the tech hiring method at one place I worked. The main filter was colleague review of an anonymised coding test. I don't know any details but it seemed to have the desired effect - high quality colleagues with diverse cultural identities.
On the other hand, using your own phonetic alphabet is a way to disambiguate your communications in a noisy channel. If someone hears someone say "Charlie 6" they could be talking about anything. But "constellation 6" is almost definitely a chess game.
Would love to hear your take on agile. You should write a "blog" post about it...
Company A would eventually get a good reputation and win in the long run.
I remember reading "Future Shock" back in the day. I got maybe 1/3 of the way through it before putting it down.

The thesis of the book is that the societal rate of change is increasing, first chunk of the book has example of example of how stuff changes faster now a days. The author specifically used paper clothes as an example (now you can throw them away and get new ones easily and cheaply, thus allowing fashion and trends to change even more rapidly!).

I remember thinking that a good chunk (maybe 50%) of the examples in the book were outdated by the time I was reading it (e.g., paper clothes aren't a thing anymore). It felt like the argument of the book was undercut by the fact that most the examples were no longer valid and we'd mostly gone back to whatever we'd been doing before (e.g., we all still wear non-disposable clothing)
Is there anyone that wants to defend this blacklisting of the author by the Chicago Review for writing this article [0]? That is, not to reconfirm that they do indeed have the right to do so, but to argue that they are right to do so? Maybe some of us can avoid this fate if we understand the grounds for it, since they decline to make it explicit. What did he say that was not just wrong, but so wrong that he should not be associated with?

[0] https://arcdigital.media/self-censorship-in-the-academy-5241...