skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an accompanying article on Project Syndicate. Like many Project Syndicate articles, it was reprinted without a paywall, this time on a South African site:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-03-18-tackl...
Public beheading then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square)
I’m not sure the whole swallowing of Hong Kong (and ignoring the two systems one country thing decades before it was set to lapse) is helping with brand reputation.
Can you elaborate on the specific issues you see with Road & Track's coverage in this case?
> people walking in the street, etc, I would expect to be problematic

As a baseline, this should not pose a problem.
There has now been a history of over a hundred years, wherein cars have been driven.

We normally require a minimum age before a prospective driver may obtain a learner's permit to drive within a city, unlike this FSD, which in the linked video drove like a drunk driver.
And it is up to the client to manage all this. You do not gain anything by knowing the clients thread count. Which is what I have been complaining about all along.
> The video is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs

For contrast, here's Tesla's promotional video[1] for this feature and its caption:

> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

It's been up on Tesla's site for almost 5 years now.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
If that's the bar then what isn't family friendly? I played Postal as a kid.
If developers don't read documentation these days, even if you point exactly were there is a solution to their problem, are they going to watch animations that are too long for their attention span to contain?
A decent chunk of the svalbard population is researchers who moved there for the sake of their research.
The worst thing about this system is it doesn't make a decision and stick with it. It just kind of meanders between lanes. Then when it realizes it is going in the wrong direction it does the wrong thing to get back on track. It should just follow a turn lane and renavigate.
Ask HN: How to handle morally superior engineers
I’ve got a team that is building a product that is mostly not meeting any definition of success. The current team is hiding behind what I would consider ‘moral superiority’, where they point to ‘well this app is very complicated and you won’t get it’, ‘we are following best practices from top companies’, ‘we are real engineers’, etc. None of them are faang, for if they were, they would faang themselvss to a FAANG by now. They bring no notable experience either, nothing that would impress anyone.

The product(s) are not meeting any acceptance criteria. What is the best way to tell them to shut the fuck up?
I hadn't heard of Cranelift but I hope they are aware of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYpMz63WAjM
I hope you're wrong, because if they put their name on this and fail, that's another strike in a long list of recent reds.
In the scenarios you described, a remote operator would "help" the car. They've specifically said remote operators can't control or joystick the car, but can "answer questions" which I take it to mean plot a different course. It can also pull over at a safe spot and not get stuck in the middle of an intersection, though nobody has run into this issue to test it from the videos I've watched.

The examples you gave sound like scenarios where remote operator would instruct "don't go there, go here" and the car does it by itself. But specifically about the traffic cop, it can actually detect hand signals from them (can't find the video though).
In the video I actually do see the yellow outline if I really turn up the resolution, it's super faint though, hard to tell if it is there the whole time. Easier to see in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClWlVCwHsI , at 4:00 the cars are all yellow when they shouldn't be.
Yeah, it's something I'd be interested in reading more about: how do we define "better" in this context? Better for whom: society as a whole? Pedestrians? Drivers of self-driving cars? Passengers of self-driving cars? Drivers of non-self-driving cars? And so on...
Well it might be useful if you are a driving instructor cause it acts like a bad student
Twitter says it suspended GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account “in error”
Good question. Short answer is no, we don't insure you in the deal.

I'd be willing to bet (and infosec folks doing assessments should chime in here), but it's rarely, if ever, a binary decision on a single question (unless you have absolutely no encryption on a service that's handling sensitive information). It's a consistent degree of carelessness and lack of attention paid to basic security blocking and tackling.

You'll typically lose deals in security review because you've done no vulnerability scanning, have never done a pen test, are using outdated encryption, don't demonstrate that you properly protect data - and oh, by the way, you want to handle customers' or employees' sensitive personal information. If that's the case, your company should spend a month patching up these basic security gaps and delay on returning the security questionnaire.

Ultimately, we allow companies to edit and change responses (and require approval of any Stacksi-generated ones) to make sure that the responses are an accurate representation of the company's security processes and policies.

That's the purpose of having multiple levels of review.

Things go like this: AI takes first pass / Human on Stacksi team reviews for accuracy and quality / Stacksi Account Manager reviews with the customer.

I think our current customers would attest to the level of quality we're able to attain with this approach.
In small business stores most users checkout as guests, so the website only has enough info to provide a shipping estimate after they have your address.
A popular revolution in 1989 China would have restored Chinese culture. It was the CCP that squashed it.
I just bought Macintosh Classic. I want to do some retro programming at some point using old hardware & software.
yeah yeah, sure. try explaining that to the family.
Show HN: Everything Necessary for Adequacy
It was a response to >most sites could just use that

They wouldn't use it (or the VAST majority wouldn't) because it means losing tracking.
the government moved to Versailles just before the start of the uprising
Vaguely relatable, there is/was stuff like Photosynth [1] which (as far as I recall, from researching this stuff as a CS undergrad) was making use of Bundle Adjustment [2] and detecting landmarks in images using Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) [3], to estimate camera poses of photos relative to each other in a 3D scene -- even from completely different cameras.

By projecting the discarded frames onto your keeper frame, you've potentially got multiple samples of the same pixels and their neigbours...

(Although I guess the "every image is a plane" 3D transform is a bit simple and doesn't account for lens distortion)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_adjustment
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...
I love SpaceX, but I don't find them quite as miraculously impressive as some people. SpaceX is "just" doing what NASA did in their glory days: rapidly iterating, innovating, and then carrying those innovations all the way through to real world flight. That last part is key. In industry we call that "shipping."

NASA didn't stop innovating per se. In the 1980s and 1990s they worked out their own version of vertical take-off and landing and actually test flew it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

Linear aerospike engines are pretty neat too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcW9kUUTfxY

Problem is absolutely none of this stuff ever got close to operational. It kept getting cancelled in the prototype stage.

If the DC-X had been developed into a fully reusable first stage, we'd have had something like Falcon 9 by the year 2000 and might be on Mars by now.
Waymo also has LiDAR which is infinitely better for bounding box detection than images.
It's a large proof of concept on the safe use of mRNA. Sure, any given implementation might be harmful, but this is (so far) showing that it is not in itself a harmful process.

And there'll be mountains of cash poured into mRNA research now, so if cancer treatment is a viable path, there's a reasonable chance of some success here. But it won't be a cure-all. We use "cancer" as if it were a single disease, but it's really a large group of different diseases with "unwanted cell replication" as the common factor.
I'll take this opportunity to plug Shamus Young's Free Radical [1], a fan novelization-cum-quasi-reimagining of System Shock's story which I regard as being, in some respects, more faithful to the setting and characters than even the original creators were able to be.

If, based on that, you're not sure whether or not you'll like it - just click the link and try Chapter 1. It's a fast, fun read and an excellent intro to the novel; at the very worst, you won't have spent too much time in vain. At best, you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

(Or almost as much, maybe; at some point this year I intend to typeset, print, and bind it, so I can add it to my physical library as well as my electronic one. Considering the subject matter, doing that meticulous work to produce a physical copy strikes me as retro-cyberpunk in a way that's both appealing and apropos.)

[1] https://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/
I beg to differ. It seems pretty clear whether they will.
> its called a PaaS

You mean like Heroku?

Kubernetes allows your ops and developers to collaborate and scale and avoid vendor lock-in.

How does a PaaS (like Heroku?) allows that?
AI exists, but not necessarily Artificial Intelligence.
> It is bad enough that when I see Teslas on the road now, I feel unsafe, because the system is so unreliable right now.

At the very least you should be required to put a visual sign that your vehicle is in "FSD" mode. Sort of like how we require "oversize load" signs so that others can take extra precautions around those vehicles.
Who said anything about the host?
Ask HN: What phone provider do you recommend for privacy?
I realize it may be a contradictory question, that for privacy concerns it is better to not own a phone at all - I am open to that however I don't see how it would work for me yet - however I currently use Google Fi and have been transitioning away from Google for other services.
> full autopilot car infrastructure

Not sure what this phrase means to you exactly, but it may not be the worst idea-- the only way I see a mass rollout of automated vehicles any time soon at this point is on dedicated roads/lanes with roadside sensors to assist. Anything else is gambling with human lives.
I just got Office 2011 for Mac running on my iMac and it's sort of a pleasure. If nothing else it provides a lot of ambient nostalgia for middle school (well, because 2011 looks like 2008). For simple word processing tasks it also seems as good as anything modern, and in fact faster when opening a new file, copying and pasting between documents and such. (Faster may be the wrong term... less clunky might be the right one. Clunky being the general experience of what happens when you try to do things in Apple Mail).
Harvard, MIT and Stanford are schools with enormous endowments with generous aid packages that are already very inexpensive for students even if your parents make 6 figures. However most students are already priced out of those schools given how competitive they are.

The top and even top middle school (probably every school outside HYPS) would either lower in cost or dramatically cut class sizes. There is a small number of students who’s parents can actually afford the 50k sticker price - either prices drop or these colleges end their undergrad programs. These institutions will not cost 50k/semester.
> counterpoint is that there have not been any Tesla accidents recently while in autopilot mode I believe?

Don't forget about that Tesla on autopilot which crashed into a parked police car __two days ago__ in Michigan...
It's not designed to work without the map/geofence, so why is this your critique? Do you also judge fish for their crappy tree climbing?
Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province
Yeah exactly. I think the idea of protectionism to kick start the economy probably worked a lot better in the 20th century. In a reasonable space of time you could clone a lot of the products you need and then start exporting.

Take cloning a 1970s car vs an electric one from 2021. While not trivial, I feel if you can make, stamp and weld steel you are half way there for the 1970s. For an electric car you need an enormous supply chain of batteries, microelectronics and all kinds of safety features, etc etc. It's so complicated that big car makers now basically just have one platform of car they base dozens of models off.

However, it's not all bad. China's one child policy is really going to start biting them over the next 10-20 years (and even though they've reduced it now it's hard to see the mindset ever changing) and there will be an enormous demand for cheap labour, which I expect Africa to provide.
Coming from Python, I always wondered why this was not the default behavior.
Are you also an engineer on the team, or a product owner, or what role do you play?
> splitting up poor people somewhere far away from the city center where they couldn’t do any harm

it sure worked really well in 1871, considering the dommage which were done during the Commune
Something about ducks?
Yes, for example I expected the 8 ball to be black.
Painting Ethereum in 3D
Cherry MX Switches on a laptop-sort of
Use of mRNA is a much more generalized technique than just producing an immune response. In fact part of the problem in making them an effective delivery system for other therapeutics is trying to avoid triggering an immune response.
This I cannot answer, the identify bloc reads HN. Work with what I told you.

Edit: for the downvoters, respect anonymity, which is sacred for honest discussion. I can’t give more context.
Advice needed: difficult coworker and passive manager
I'm considering leaving my job at a big tech company working on a cool project because I'm having trouble managing my work relationship with a difficult coworker and feel little support from my manager.

I am leading a project which a difficult coworker is contributing to. They see any disagreement with them technically as a personal attack, including when I leave them code review comments. I'm the only one working closely with their code on my team.

I have brought up with my manager the consistent pattern of low quality code, bugs, missing estimates by 5x, 10x.

This has escalated to them leaving me very negative performance feedback and complaining to my manager about my "toxic" behavior. All the other feedback I got from my team was overwhelmingly positive. This coworker said I was "creating an atmosphere of fear" for "ridiculing" and "targeting" them publicly.

I've never received feedback like this before on any other teams. I admit, I am direct and get straight to the point when it comes to code. Should I expect my manager to do something other than telling us to "resolve your differences"? I would really just like this coworker to deliver tasks in a timely manner and not create extra work for me or other people, or at the very least communicate to the team when timelines are slipping.

Any advice? Strategies?
"Liftoff!" is an excellent book by a very knowledgeable insider, who had complete access to interview all the SpaceX personnel. A great read!
Ironically, we're all here complaining on HN while he's probably hard at work on a Friday night.
That bucket looks like something from KFC
They have a public domain English translation free at gutenberg.org
Ok, is this the same in every country? I use to play sinuca in a bar which I know is different than other types
Nah, he's probably running the web server on an old computer with an old OS ;)
"Haha! I lied to you on this form about how many fingers I have! I actually have 10! Now you can't pick me out of a crowd!"

"You're the only person here, and I can clearly see your face, Jerry. And now I need to make you a new set of gloves."
K8s is one of many options to collaborate and scale applications and for many organizations it is not the best option. It also comes with lots of vendor lock-in if you're using a service like GKE, EKS, or AKE, or integrate with any of their loadbalancer or storage solutions!

Oracle and Alibaba building a large abstraction on top of kubernetes, to do something kubernetes was not designed to do (though capable of doing), is not the direction I personally believe distributed systems development should standardize around.

There are tons of self-hosted PaaS options that are not built on top of massive abstractions and provide better functionality to their users. Since you mentioned Heroku i'll mention https://github.com/dokku/dokku.
I don't follow this too closely but are you referring to company-released videos? Seems unfair to compare a compilation of bad incidents from one of many (thousands?) of users of Tesla's system to one curated by the company releasing it. I've seen a few videos of the Tesla doing 15+ minute drives without intervention too.
There is nothing "beta" about this, it's at a "proof of concept" level at best.
As someone who used to live in London, I assure you it's not.
The optimization problem of hoverslamming a rocket is something that I can fairly easily wrap my head around. Even without the advances in convex optimization of solving that problem you likely could have done it with somewhat less robust approaches. I'm pretty certain that rockets could have been landed using the engineering pieces that existed in 2001 with incremental improvements and learning (maybe not as robust so your optimizer eats a few rockets in your first 100 landings).

When it comes to automated driving though you're really requiring solving entirely novel never-before-solved problems. If there is a spectrum between "found a company on doing some existing engineering twice as good" and "found a company on solving the Goldbach conjecture" then driverless cars are a bit more towards the latter than hoverslamming rockets is.
You could rig up a proxy that turns HTTP requests into HTTPS (when needed) and also rewrites `https:` scheme URLs in HTML to `http:`.

If your vintage browsers support some old JS, you could also have the proxy to do a a very simple kludge to patch JS going through it to fix some URLS, but not all (because The Halting Problem).

Bonus of a transforming proxy: if there are bad known vulnerabilities in some vintage browsers that can't be fixed, the proxy might be able to filter at least some exploits. (But you might not tackle cross-origin vulnerabilities in any case, so keep that in mind.)
https://12factor.net/
It would take too long, on the contrary you want to release it as early as possible. It need to learn from real life situation. To get a true real life data you have to... release it to real life situation.
You know there are many promises he made that haven't come to fruition? Remember Hyperloop? Interplanetary travel? Neuralink?

His achievements are remarkable but that doesn't mean that he should be treated like an infallible demi-god. Yes he's done some really cool stuff but that doesn't mean he should not be the subject of scrutiny.
Younger people are very engaged in the culture war, they're also extremely ignorant but think they're not. A dangerous combination.
Archive: http://archive.is/ErT0D

As I mentioned in several other comments, I use Word 97 to do most of my writing. It is a pleasure to use, frictionless, accessible, and never nags me. (As much as I miss Clippy, I unchecked that option in the installer.)

I've read it runs great in Wine, but I thought it would feel more at home in a Windows ME virtual machine. (Since the hardware is virtualized, there are no stability issues.)

Compared to anything released today, both FOSS and payware, it is leaps and bounds ahead. And, of course, it is no surprise, since during its development, including thousands of hours of user studies, the primary goals were accessibility, usability, and polish.

Also, running inside a VM, and sharing resources with my development toolkit, it's still more responsive than anything else I've tried.
Why Were Charges Dropped Against the Driver in New York Hit-and-Run Rampage?
The City of London is in effect a separate country in the UK, in the middle of London.

OT, but interesting: When the Shard was built across the river in Southwark (in London, but not The City Of London), The City started making noise trying to annex it.
If you want to change the padding in a project that's using Tailwind you only need to look for classes that begin with `p` followed by a letter for a side or x and y for an axis (same is true for margins). Those are by far the most cryptic classnames and by the time you finish reading this sentence you got it.

In a project where you have to name everything semantically you don't know where the hell the padding is going to be.

It's amazing for long term maintainability and quick prototyping. There is a lot of value in classes that does one thing well.

Been wrinting CSS for 15 years, switched to Tailwind 2 years ago, just for reference.
@pranav_rajs I work with a bunch of open source projects via a foundation and wanted been working on a side project to help build ecosystems around complimentary open source technologies for both users and contributors. Would be interested in chatting more around how you’ve been growing? I am offering free use of webinar, events, and cross-community tools to open source projects to try out my ideas.
Have you recently done a Premium trial? I feel like they show you more ads after the trial of ad-free expires
Yes K8s is one of many options, but one that can translate to many situations. I'd still choose it over anything else when I need more than a `docker run` on a server.

Thanks for the link btw.
I thought it was mandatory for anybody leaving town to either carry rifle, a sacrificial husky (!), or a guide who had both?
If your concern is tracking, clearing the cookies doesn't help much. Next day you will login on the same services and websites that you logged before, and if they share data with 3rd parties they will keep sharing it, with or without cookies.
I'd happily pay some money to help test something that I've hoped and dreamed would be possible in my lifetime.

Driving sucks and is dangerous as hell. Anything that 1) makes me need to drive less often, or 2) makes driving safer is a worthwhile financial & time investment for me.
While normal Julia syntax is indeed arguably not quite homoiconic in the same way that Lisp s-expressions are (a good discussion of the issue by Stefan Karpinski here: [1]), it turns out there is a little-known built-in s-expression syntax for Julia (which can be more-or-less enabled as a REPL mode in only a handful of lines [2]).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...

[2] https://gist.github.com/brenhinkeller/44051118c2f9d18b26dc76...
They mean that the forEach runs code per element, but cannot return a transformed list of values, you need map for that.

A map can run code per list element but the result must be injective (one-to-one).

Reduce can do all of the above, but must return a lower dimension result from its input.

And finally, a for loop is basically omnipotent.