skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't recall right now but I remember having errors that would not happen inside a normal for loop block. And I was using let/const not var.
As a reminder to SFbay folks, if you’re near a local waterway and you smell a strong smell of vanilla cupcakes, you might be breathing an industrial toxin that leached from a local superfund site. (Don’t panic, it won’t kill you quickly!) It’s unfortunate that her VOCs were odorless because if they were cupcake-odored there wouldn’t have been any argument.
"The ability to prove who you are is a fundamental and universal human right."

War is peace, freedom is slavery.

Let's wait for the inevitable exploits and data leaks.
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There are so many weather scenarios that are obstacles we as humans barely overcome. I think about it like the meme ”Almost at my destination, better turn off my radio so I can see where I’m going”. That is we as humans the best drivers in the universe so far as we know have to limit some sensory intake so we can focus that every elsewhere to make even simple calculations. Asking a vehicle sensor suite to handle white out snow or fog with halos around lights or to ignore its lidar in super heavy rain just seems like the equivalent of blaring the radio when you’re trying to get across 8 lanes of superhighway traffic and it’s your first day in a left hand drive vehicle.
Did HN censor the word penis, a scientific term?
> I think it’s fair to say that we often put too much business logic into the front end.

As a back-end dev, this reminds me of the time I used our own product and saw a read-only field on the UI. It was some interesting bit of data that only existed in the database (we didn’t expose it in the API) and I brought it up how cool it was that we were doing that now. The front end dev said, “oh, it’s not from the database, we make several API calls to get the bits we need and then calculate it the same way we do on the backend”

I facepalmed. Like, just ask to expose that data, it’s a single line of code! Instead we made 7 API calls... :sigh:
> Longbets 20 years $5000 that we won't have driverless cars on real roads and infra carrying 30% or more of human rider miles.

That's a completely safe bet. US fleet turnover is >15 years. If it were 100% capable and relatively cheap today, you'd barely hit that milestone.

> Waymo is going to get canned or pivot to a new concept, like bus rapid transit on closed loop systems.

I don't think so.
Doesn’t look very carefully crafted for something they claim to be “beautiful”.

> There is no published gem. To get started, clone, run bundle to install the required gems, and put bin/clayoven in $PATH.

Yuck? Is it so difficult to package and publish a gem these days? Did the author not find time to do so in the years they’ve been working on this project?

> To start writing, install vsclay for vscode, which will provide the necessary syntax highlighting, IntelliSense support for MathJaX, and trigger-[incremental build]-on-save functionality.

What about integration with other editors? Will my “beautiful” experience be ruined if I happen not to use vscode?

Definitely looks like a very “scratching my own itch” kind of project - worth sharing but the adjective used to present it sounds like an overstatement.
Well these laws are made difficult to enforce by design. In NYC and SF you can pretty easily squat for 2 years before facing any real penalty for non-payment of rent.

In other countries that'll work for one month before you come home to changed locks.
i3-resurrect: saving and restoring i3 workspaces
I didn't read it as 48mbps per signal, but rather 48mbps per device. Did I read it wrong?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2005-11-18
I think the captain retains ultimate authority of their ship, while pilots provide (ideally expert) advisory services.
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I really love this term. So quirky and quaint :)

Pops up here regularly too ...
I don't think it's comparable to Theranos. He took over a company w/a heavily (but still in a pre launch) product in its "beta" phase and was chosen for an obvious reason (get the tech into cars). He doesn't have the technical chops to understand the tech enough to know whether it's ready for prime-time or not aside from looking at metrics some of his engineering subordinates gave him.

Elizabeth Holmes didn't have a product which functioned like she claimed at all (nothing compared to the tech Waymo has already developed)... She assumed w/enough effort her ideas would eventually come to fruition, so she lied about the progress her company had made so gullible investors would fork over $$. Waymo has non-tech people trying to sell a tech which is still in development, they've made an (incorrect) assumption about when it'll be ready, as I doubt anyone really thinks it's flat out impossible... just really difficult.
Thank you.

Never could wrap my head around betting (except probably do startups - which again is probably a sort of calculated bet). There's some money (not a whole lot, though) through the acquisition + a good salary - for the near term the money isn't a worry (while running the startup it was). Maybe I should just appreciate there's one less big thing to worry about.
Is it any different anywhere else? Non federal government’s outgoing cash flow has to from somewhere, and it’s going to come from various sources such as property taxes, fees, tolls, income tax, business and occupation taxes, debt, etc. Exactly how the burden is allocated depends on the political power of the various groups of payers.

In Illinois’ case, the taxes especially go up in an economically distressed area because they local and state governments are heavily indebted so there’s less room for local governments to cut expenses. As I understand they try to remedy this by increasing various sales taxes and tried for marginal income tax rates last year, but didn’t succeed.
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I too am getting tired of having to tell people to make sure they fully read and understood my point before replying. Just had another such incident recently. But bigger point is, there is such a trend to make fly-by comments, maybe with the aim of showing off or putting down the person to who they were replying. IOW, pretty much trolling, even if done unconsciously. Or just mental laziness.

Anyway, sick of arguing about such meta points. That is not what I come to HN for. I come for intelligent discourse via which I can learn from others' experience and share mine.

I'll just end by saying that I made specific points in that Twitter thread, such as BDD and RDD influencing the language's direction undesirably. To me, that is specific enough a complaint. A language is much more than just a bag of features.
YMMV.
It seems so obvious to me that I think I must be missing something that the clear narrow use case of limited access highway driving (probably in a subset of weather conditions) doesn't get more discussion. Long highway drives are a thing for many people. They're boring and easy to zone out on. It would be huge for both safety and comfort. And it seems much easier to implement given the lack of pedestrians, cyclists, and unprotected left hand turns.
I'm not a Muslim but I've read the Quran. I can confirm that there it says not to worship any entity other than Allah and it says nothing about "celebrating" them being prohibited.

It does say a lot of bad things (to put it extremely mildly) about people worshiping other deities, especially idols, though.
(this is not about VI)
Most of the issues I see in front end code are repeats of problems that were solved decades ago, some of them even 100 years ago! (debouncing).

No separation of concerns, no layers, or if there's layers there's controller code in view layer or view code in controller layer.

etc.
Are you serious?! This is what you got out of that entire article? Wow. So in order for her story to be credible she has to develop what, cancer? Gosh you people are ridiculous. God forgot anything like this happens to you. Pretty sure Irvine Co. scared away any other complainants, but who cares about that, right? We’re just going to let large companies block necessary investigations and victim blame. You make absolutely no sense. How about we push for an investigation?
I don't know a lot of economics (though I have opinions of course). I'm referencing economists like Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman.

You are free to disagree but referencing "Dunning-Kruger" is just ad-hominem. I can link various things that "you should read" too.
Amazon's user experience is fantastic. Why else do you think they are so commercially successful?
+1 to that and thank you. A side-project (makes money or not) would let me not become outdated in something.
Saving Human Knowledge at 800 Pages an Hour (2015)
Yeah, while the basic concept obviously would work I can't see the energy density they are claiming. C-14 has a long half life, the decay rate is going to be low.
Don't know about you, but the thoughts in my head are such an unordered and incomprehensible mess that it is really hard for me to see any benefit of direct streaming. Typing the thoughts slowly down and rereading and evaluating consequenses multiple times is the only way to get any sense out from my head. And I like to think myself as relatively good thinker...
I agree entirely. The worst sites are imo the ones not using modern frontend technologies.

I think people are forgetting how bad it used to be. Loads of jquery spaghetti code everywhere rerendering the page 1000 times with a nested for loop.

Also, web applications have became so much more complex than they were (but still work!). Things like Figma would be unthinkable even a few years ago. And - even though it's running in a browser Figma feels far more responsive than Illustrator or Fireworks (RIP), plus it has a load of collaboration tools which these desktop apps don't have.
A long drive slightly less fatiguing is better than a short drive in a limited area of operation.

This, I think, is why Tesla will eventually succeed. Every Tesla sold is gathering data about its environment and phoning home - we already know that. So whether you have Autopilot or not, Tesla gets data for its Full Self-Driving Capability; when you swerve to avoid a possum at 12:47 a.m. because you've been working all day and night and into the morning and you really need some Whataburger, or, if you must... In-N-Out..., some engineer somewhere at Tesla can look at that event, see why you swerved out of lane, recognize it was a possum, and then jot that down into his or her notebook...

twwooo... forrrtty-seeeven... ayyy emmm... driver swwwerved... to avoid... possum..., integrate possum-avoidance behavior into Autopilot for next release...
It's probably not implemented as closely as what you described but check out Europe, this small continent across the pond and the tech scene in the smaller countries.

For example Estonia has had famously and online identity stuff linked via a federal ID (in europe there are more republics then federations so it's easier to manage country-wise) [0] [1]

Or more familiar to me with a bigger sample is a movement in Poland which is gaining popularity - mojeID (myID) which is a Single Sign On system with major banks as providers (they really regligiously check the identities when you open a bank account) or the statebacked login.gov. The mojeID system allows other entities to use your actual identity as an authentication factor without having to keep that much data and pose risks - for example an online alcohol shop can verify the age. [2] [3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card

[1]: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/

[2]: https://www.kir.pl/en/administration/mojeid/

[3]: https://www.mojeid.pl/#zastosowanie
Certainly, I wasn't trying to suggest Krafcik was spineless or lacking competence, just low key and not high on coke.

The biggest hazard Waymo faced the past 5 years was some kind of Media witch hunt based on a sensational accident of some sort, and that didn't happen on Krafcik's watch.

His job was to do a political highwire act and manage the interests of his team, Larry and Sergei and Ruth, regulators and politicians across multiple levels of government, partners across several industries, competitors as well as the media and public expectations. Somehow nothing catastrophically shitty happened.

Self driving cars are still a science experiment, and that's not on Krafcik. He killed it. At the front end Waymo is as ready to scale and commercialize as it can be at this stage.
The thing about music is that "more complex chords, more harmonies, more timbral variety, etc..." doesn't say anything about whether or not the music is better. It's a silly pursuit anyway given that music is a subjective experience.
The mess at Teen Vogue, which is a Conde Nast mess
You can’t stop someone that wants to pay to file a complaint.
You're on the right track with this:

>build a directory of products and services and the proceed to attract users/reviewers

Think about the questions users ask and build content to suit their needs. Cast a wide net while keeping quality good. If the businesses in question are tech savvy they may review their referral traffic.
here is proper doctor comparison: imagine you are a plastic surgeon and patients comes in with stack of cash and demands you make a surgery that is not medically necessary and is high risk for him - and you do it anyways and then the patient leaves happy.
if you refuse, the patient would just go to the doctor next door and pay him.
i don't know a thing about modern directx :D (the intros i work on are almost always developed on linux and only then ported to windows for official/party release)
This answer is how you should preface your argument. Gives people like me context. Saying Im long time mac user in a vacuum misleads small minds like mine
I agree with you :)

> But in the same way that the mature industrial revolution made high-precision manufacturing possible which made incredible computers possible, our mature computer technology is now enabling incredible progress in biotech.
> The post-Covid summer is inching closer

Where I'm living (Germany), this sounds like fantasy.
> You will have to change who you are to fit into the company, im afraid..

As if you don't have to already? The false consensus paradox in corporations is overwhelming.
Perhaps I'm making too many assumptions, but wouldn't such a lawsuit be filed in an Egyptian court? It could be very easy to find them guilty. In the article the port authority is already holding the ship hostage for the money, and they could easily bar Evergreen from using the canal if they don't pay up. What motivation do they have to negotiate?
The official press release is here [0], and does a good job at describing what happened, and imo supports my argument of ignorance/negligence than intent.

Two independent programs with separate purposes, sometimes accidentally trading with each other which could affect the price. This information was included in API data (since it was just normal trades) which can create the appearance of activity or volume that doesn't truly exist. But these were real trades, so in some ways it does still exist it's just that CB happens to be on both sides.

[0]: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

> Plausible deniability is used by bad actors, and the existence of investors investing in founders who will do anything to protect their investment isn't a myth - it gets discussed a few times per year in threads on HN and Reddit.

I agree that has been used like this and will be in the future, but it's different to claim it's possible than spread FUD that it is actually happening (not directed at you to be clear). The latter is what you commonly see in online discussions revolving around Coinbase, though really with all tech companies.
And enabling child abusers is even more niche, yet houses are still sold without built-in surveillance cameras, that would let law enforcement look at the recording of what you were doing (with a warrant, of course!)

But as it stands, private houses are warrant-proof places where anything can happen.
It’ll never catch on
This is a really rose tinted view of the world. Writing JavaScript works ok now the language and browser support has matured. 10 years ago it was a complete nightmare.

Regardless without a framework it ends up with you reinventing core framework features anyway. Yes, a framework driven app is more complex if the page/app is extremely simple. But if it is of any complexity a framework driven app is going to be far easier to maintain and reason about in 99% of situations.
France actually banned non approved use of encryption algorithms/math in the 90s so there's some precedence.

https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_...
> build apps that scale easily to hundreds of thousands of users

I don't understand this.

Frontend dev is about writing a portable software to run on as many runtimes as there are users. There is literally nothing to prevent any frontend software, good or bad, to "scale", because scaling in terms of users is nonsical for frontend dev (unless you consider browser compatibility as scaling, to which statement I'm orthogonal).

Note: meanwhile, back end dev is about writing a program that accepts as many users as possible, which make front and back nicely yin-yang together. But maybe I'm overstating things here :shrug:
People have been imprisoned, tortured physically and mentally, and killed for being part of (or just being accused of being a part of) certain religious/political groups.

I find it hard to say "good" about that, even if I disagree with the group they are a part of.
The most convincing way to refute is a counterexample.
To put this in perspective, Faceboook just leaked information about, at most, 1 in every 15 people, in the world.

(Less, depending on the number of folks with multiple accounts, which FB seems to try to prevent?)
And yet, “performance improvements” are often the excuse for making every single site and web app look the exact same. Dull, flat, ugly, homogeneous design has sucked all the life out of the web. Remember flash? Remember when websites were cool? Where it was fun and exciting to go to certain sites simply because of how they were designed? Remember the early days of CSS 3 experimentation?

But but but! Skeuomorphism is slow! We need fast sites. We need accessibility! We need to improve our performance!

Now look. The web is both ugly AND slow.

The big question is why? To me, it’s all about commoditization and making money.

Why spend money on expensive artists, designers and engineers to make sites look good If we can band together (big tech) and make flat design the norm? Everyone will forget that the web didn’t used to suck as bad. Instead, we’ll absolutely decimate performance with loads and loads of ads and nonsense JavaScript. We’ll hire product managers to track every single interaction imaginable so user’s experience sucks and we can invade their privacy!

Basically big tech ruined the web. They ruined design and everyone pretends like this never happened.
This diagnosis needs more precision. What/who, exactly, has failed? What needs to be changed, specifically? You look at the comments here and you see many different people are taking this different ways.
If Linux were a product "sold" to consumers (that is, if consumer distros were driven by market forces), consumers would put their money where their mouth is and buy a distribution which didn't use systemd, if that were their preference. But consumers don't really buy OSS products, so all they can do is complain instead. Proof that OSS is not a panacea when it comes to solving users' needs; market forces are an equal if a not superior mechanism.
You mean trains, we've got them here in Europe
>For example, increasing fuel efficiency of cars does decrease energy use

MPG from passenger car didn't decreased since 1976 despite huge advancement in fuel efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CAFE_mpg_curve_from_NHTSA...
Thank you. I get your point - I suspect that 15+ years of constantly being consciously/unconsciously held up to society's idea of a successful career tends to cause people to simply assume that there is only one (or a handful) of definitions of what is success.
You should check out the Nexus series :)
Pretty sure you’ll get shut down by the networks due to chargebacks… unless you have a quick “press 9 for a refund…”
Exactly.

The observation that a less faulty model is likely less accurate on a noisy validation set than a more faulty model, doesn't change the fact that there must be faulty models with higher accuracy than a perfect model on a noisy validation set.
Elon said they’re not going to need the radars going forward. I guess that makes sense if vision gets good enough but they’re going to run into issues like you said if camera placements and poor visibility. They should have stuck cameras facing the left/right from the furthest corners of the car so it can see around corners without inching into the street.

But who knows, it seems like they’ve made good progress as is so well see. I don’t understand the people that think they’re never going to upgrade the camera suite though, cybertruck and the semi already have a new camera layout.
Bird poop on sensors? Dirt? Grime? Rain? Snow? How sensitive are these sensors? Half the rental cars I get have broken blindspot or rearview camera sensors. How often will L3-L5 sensors need to be maintained/replaced in order for software to work?

Poorly marked road? Messed up road signs? Erratic drivers? Construction cones? Construction workers? Potholes? Road vibration? Road kill?

Just because it can navigate a sunny California parking lot doesn't mean any of these systems are ready for primetime. The most common job in most American states is truck driver. If there's basically 0% market penetration by L3-L5 systems in the space as of 2021, I'm not holding out any hope that L3-L5 systems will be commonplace in people's garages in the next 15-20 years.
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It’s a thin line. I’ve been running a service a few years back that required KYC. Lots of people from African countries could not sign up for a lack of ID. In that respect it is a human right. But I agree with your double speak sentiment as well. It’s almost impossible not to be abused.
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That would be valid if Tesla is really collecting all of that data. But the people who have done analysis of what the cars sends back say that what is actually sent is very limited statistics on times, locations, and general characteristics of disengagements (speed, direction, list of detected targets, etc). This is doubtlessly useful but it's not something you can just drop into training a neural network or even be sure exactly what the issue was.

They can write query strings for very specific situations they're interested in, too, and receive video frames.

On the other hand, Waymo is gathering vision data on every drive, and ground truth LIDAR data.
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