skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think that but then that Uber car ran over a pedestrian in the middle of a typical ultra wide deserted American throughfare with perfect lighting and.. kinda nothing happened? My pulse still rises when I think of that dashcam video they released that predictably shows nothing to blame that lady their negligence killed.

Maybe the common denominator is just cars. The regulators are fully absent - they care about the shape of your headlights, but do they care that SUVs have them mounted at the height of mirrors for every other car? Do they care that cars have absurdly overpowered engines that have no imaginable use? Do they care that trucks have fronts so high it's impossible to see a kid walking on a crosswalk and when you hit it, it's hit head-height and thrown under the wheels?

None of these things would ever fly on a train or airplane.
You are talking about Shuji Nakamura.
If a coin stagnates in growth, why wouldn't you liquidate and put it into something else that's growing?
I've been using a Helios4 for this; it's tiny, has ECC, and plenty of speed for a NAS.

Their new board, the helios64, is bigger, and ECC support was in-progress last time I checked.
Comparative Study of SARS, MERS, Bat‐SARS, and SARS-CoV-2
I laughed out loud at this
> I would put relativity at 9.5

Fair point. It was crowded up there, and my physics is less than current.

I think we agree, really. I'm just not as strict on the semantics of the word "fact".

I agree that laziness on the margins of fact is lazy, esp for specialists. I don't think we can authoritatively say that anything is an absolute truth. But there are some really useful models.

The extinction event model serves a purpose for paleontologists, and it's pretty good for most of them. It serves a different purpose for non-specialists.
Seems like it uses sqlite. Presumably it's trivial to sync using whatever file sync tool you want (Dropbox, or whatever) as long as you're fine without concurrent editing. For that you'd need application support or a more amenable data structure.

https://github.com/climech/grit/blob/master/db/db.go
I haven't delved into Go, can anyone vouch for how difficult/painful it is to do simple tasks such as array manipulation? Does it bother you? I've heard that it is rather quite verbose and there should be some easy encapsulations for basic array manipulation, but Go offers no such convenience. What is the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-ability of Go? As an outsider, Go appears to be C+Python combination but more like C and less like Python. How does it compare to Python+Flask or Ruby on Rails type of frameworks to build web services? I want to give it a try at some point.
> we still have pilots and humans behind the controller with 100% attention.

That really isn't true. Pilots, in particular, have huge challenges in keeping attention up between take off and landing. Likewise for trains, it turns out if you don't require humans to do anything but watch...it is much harder than if they were actually doing the flying/driving themselves.

The airforce is moving to unpiloted drones, though there is someone at a center to intervene as needed. It is only a matter of time before they decide that cargo can be moved in this way (think: fedex).
Seems like redefining the word "different" to be essentially meaningless. Yes there are similarities, but that doesn't mean they aren't different.
*in the dark, on a highway
How to build a machine learning pipeline with scikit-learn?
All of the big players in self-driving have shown that while they can try to solve the tech problem, nobody can solve the team problem. Self-driving brings together people with very diverse backgrounds (perception, planning, controls, hardware, safety, rideshare product, etc), very diverse incentives (established automakers vs start-up founders vs VC investors), and throws them in a pot with a huge amount of money and greed. And does this to serve a public who largely doesn't trust self-driving AI today.

Waymo has had a ton of notable departures:

* Urmson made a good amount of money and left for Aurora.

* The founders of Nuro cashed in $40m each and left for their own thing.

* Levandowski made nearly a quarter billion and took off.

* Drago worked on Streetview and more Google-centric things, then went to Zoox to make about $100k (lol), then returned to Waymo.

* Now the era of Krafcik is coming to an end.

The perhaps unique thing about the self-driving problem is that all of the above individuals made tons of money without having delivered equitable value to end-users. At least not today. When Google was bleeding headcount to Facebook, both companies were making bank. It's surreal to see people minted with money for life and yet deliver so little value. That sort of arbitrage usually only happens on Wall Street.

I think it's worth reflecting on the era of Krafcik as a general success-- he was brought in to do hard work and he generally did a good job. But by no means did he (nor any of his predecessors) solve the "team" problem. Krafcik himself couldn't stick to the team he helped shape, nor the userbase he helped grow, at least nt long enough to actually deliver widespread value on the scale of his own compensation.
Are there large deployments of of Cassandra or Scylladb today?
This is also my understanding, and my point was (in this example) Jack Dorsey can just do it a second time, and a third time, and so on.

And it's not like Monet making more paintings, because each painting is unique. This is an identical digital copy from the same person, with no guarantee of its longevity.
> On the subject of automation. Humanity is on track to have the computational power to perform whole brain emulation decades before 2100. Even if we don't solve the general AI problem through other pathways, we will solve it through this path. Ethical problems aside, once this is achieved, everything will be automatable at a human level of competence.

Is this actually true? I haven't heard of this. You're saying we will have an AI as good as a grown educated adult before 2100? I can't believe this at all - do you have a citation?
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Thank you for a quite humorous comment.
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Now they are having think about having to evacuate some towns due to the permafrost melting making the surface unstable. https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0280-w...
In January, I had multiple stocks that gained 100% in a week or two... sounds good to me.
Nice product and nice documentation. Everything is clear and nice I might even consider y’all’s service whenever I find something.
Biggest reason why I stick to urxvt.
The way I think about the waste: for nuclear, the waste can be reliably (and safely) contained in a very small area, far from civilization and habitats, where it can't cause much of a problem. When we burn hydrocarbons, they pollute the atmosphere — for the entire planet.
Funny. If you believe in bitcoin, then you would already have invested.

Otherwise what you (and many others, but not all) believe in as an investor is the possibility of a return from storing your dollars in bitcoin and retrieving the value later.

If you think this announcement would affect the price, look at price history data for the time of the announcement up to the date of going public. That could serve as some kind of signal given some model assumptions. Avoid confirming your own biases and establish your margin of risk as damage tolerance.

As I see it, betting on coinbase is betting on the volume of transactions increasing over time.
I think that would be to venture into complex systems & knowing of phenomenon like "causal opacity"
US Navy nuclear fleet.

Caveat: US Navy is more responsible about operating its reactors than commercial generators.
> Is there an example of anything that's completely automated that's dangerous?

Flying an airplane. They put pilots in there to make people comfortable, but if need be, a modern passenger plane can fly itself, including take off and landing.

Driving a subway. BART in San Francisco launched as self driving in the 60s. It freaked people out so much that they put a human in front. But if you sit up there you'll see the human doesn't do much. They press a button to close the doors, but that could easily be automated.

Also, I took a ride in a self driving car in SF a few years ago. It had a safety driver, but he didn't do anything (he grabbed the wheel once, but then they looked at the data and found the car was about to do the right thing anyway). It handled things like cars going the wrong way, double parked trucks, trash bags in the street, jaywalkers, etc.
> You understand the burden of proof is on the person who's making a claim, not on people who disagree with the claim?

Interesting idea, but false in this case unless you are arguing that lockdowns are and will be, in perpetuity, the status quo.

> this is still better than me or somebody else getting sick with god-only-knows what long term complications, which we don't have data for one way or another

Are you arguing your presence in society is outweighed by the mere possibility of you having a negative effect on it?
Yes the best way to understand a system is to interact with it. But there are scenarios where that simply isn't possible and yet we can still model causality, like the weather example musingsole gave.
omg, what the hell is this

can somebody give us a clue?

with all the jerks in the world you can get mad at, do they have to be so picky on R.S.?
I guess investing in Coinbase is like investing in Bitcoin _plus_ a lot of other cryptocurrencies. That's a subtle difference compared to investing _only_ in Bitcoin.

Also, Coinbase might come up with additional income sources in the future.
Also, as a separate comment, the day will come where software development is automated in some capacity. All the high skill workers may be competing with workers with much less training at lower wages.

The Luddites are a good cautionary tale about when you should protect your working conditions and rights (when the demand for your services is at its peak). So many engineers I talk to these days say things like, "Why would I want to organize/engage in collective bargaining now? My life is good!" rather than, "My work is highly desirable, and my employer might actually come to the negotiating table because it is challenging to replace us right now."
Setting the cursor position is still available in the Windows API, it is the basis of how most RPA tools work.
> What level of proficiency have you achieved?

In English, well, you've read my post, I'm conversational in Spanish and I've forgotten most of my German.

Sure, conjugation tables feel useful, but I've never actually noticed myself using the information. Instead, I use the information I've learned from speaking with native speakers and reading texts, and never from a rote recital of the rules.
Luddites destroyed machinery because the new technology was threatening to replace them. They were most certainly against this technology.

Fortunately, the explosion of affordable textiles resulted in many more jobs in textiles, which were unskilled. So the luddites were right - they were not worth the cost of their skilled labor. They did get replaced. But society as a whole gained a lot, as is usual for new technology.

And even more people than before were employed in textiles.
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I think they're talking about the reactors in naval ships. The USA has little (any?) buoyant nuclear power generation for commercial use.
The board gets screen shared. So I could do look on my phone if I wanted. But I don’t find it necessary.

I have the inverse question. How would you not be able to do standup while walking (given that you’re able-bodied)? Are you not prepared to say what you did yesterday and what you plan to do today? Or do you do a bunch of other tasks in your standup? Does the whole meeting take more than 10-15 minutes?

I take a look at the board in the morning and make sure it’s up to date, so I can speak to where all my items are at. Since I’m the dev lead on the team, I’m also aware of who’s working on which projects, so I can provide feedback/answer questions on their stuff, if it makes sense in the context of the meeting.
From the Wall Street Journal:

"The company said Friday that it is promoting its chief technology and operating officers, Dmitri Dolgov and Tekedra Mawakana, to lead a decade-old effort to make self-driving cars a reality. They will share the title of co-chief executive...
Mr. Dolgov is one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project. He joined the program when it began in 2009 and led the development of Waymo’s autonomous system, known as Waymo Driver. He studied physics and math at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology before earning a doctorate in computer science from the University of Michigan. As chief operating officer, Ms. Mawakana has led the effort to commercialize Waymo’s self-driving system. She has a law degree from Columbia University and previously worked at other tech companies such as eBay Inc. and Yahoo."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/waymo-ceo-john-krafcik-is-leavi...

My guess it that traditionally the chief operating officer would have been promoted and the chief technology officer would stay as the chief technology officer--but that there was a significant risk of the chief technology officer leaving if he wasn't promoted. So you end up with co-CEOs.
Just SQLite - two tables, one for the nodes, one for edges + some fancy constraints and queries. I was tempted to make a custom binary format, but that's a big task, and it seems to work fine as it is.

As for the syncing, that would be really nice, but I haven't come up with an elegant way to do it yet. Suggestions welcome, if anyone has ideas!
It reminds me of Visual Basic 6, in a good way.
Thanks! Def reach out when you do. Happy to help with any questions or integration :)
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Good question. Not sure. Here is a "pre-review" https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1378058538845499397/p...
True, and I guess private banks just sell all that toxic debt to the reserve banks.

But it's not the money which is being destroyed by defaults, it's only the debt component which is wiped clean. The credit component of the loan was already spent into the economy by the now-insolvent borrower and cannot be recovered by creditors so it's still circulating and adding to inflation.

It really sucks. What a horrible society we live in.

The current system monetizes bankruptcies. Bankruptcy is the only mechanism which allows debts to be wiped clean without simultaneously adding more debts.
It would be great to have such a database of reports from anyone with a confirmed Covid infection. Like Erowid for Covid.

Most people (I read it's around 86%) having such mild symptoms that they don't even realize it's Covid must've contributed a lot to its rapid spread.

The more vulnerable people get the same virus and suffer much more. Perhaps vulnerable people should've been subjected to stricter lockdown measures, not sure what else could help reduce the deaths.
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Is there any update on how's that truly driverless program going for Waymo?
Don't give me any ideas...
For all the "You couldn't do this in 2021 without...." commenters, have a gander at what Deliveroo did in France for April 1. 'Prank' confirmation orders for 450 EUR worth of delivery sent to thousands of customers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56617049
Anecdotally, Nakamura seems to get most of the credit in American academia
BART in SF was too.
> ... read the IPCC report and get back to me ...

As I stated elsewhere, I'm not inclined to debate the particulars, but I will note that we've learned a LOT since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fifth_Assessment_Report came out seven years ago. The sixth report, due to come out next year, which will still tend toward extremely conservative conclusions, is going to crush the findings in the previous report in terms of 'bad news'.

As to the other particulars, I've been researching and reading about those and many other categories for literally decades now. That doesn't make me right, and it doesn't make you wrong, but it has led me to realize and embrace the simple truth that even unlimited, good faith energies applied to debate over the details has basically no impact on anybody's opinions.

All that really matters is personal background and personal experiences. And your personal background (including, in large part, your DNA) and personal experiences are different from mine.

Going forward, however, we will share awareness of more and more frequent 100 year/500 year/1000 year weather events, for example.

I have no way of predicting how that will affect your view on things, and that's fine. Full and deep acceptance is a very useful tool.

To cherry pick one item:

> ... as scientists we have a responsibility to be accurate ...

Amen and amen. It's easier than ever to represent real problems in a hyperbolic fashion, but we must not do that. First: because inflated threats and predictions will cause those among us who are slower to accept the realities ahead to entrench, and be even less likely to see what's really happening. Second and most importantly: our best chance to beat this is to, together, focus on being clear, understanding and calm.
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Partnering with an existing car company helps a lot. They know how to build vehicles at scale and they also can provide a lot of support when it comes to interfacing with the control systems for the car. Controlling the car (engine, doors, wheels, wipers, lights, etc) is a surprisingly difficult task on its own. It requires a lot of control systems knowledge, a complex test infrastructure, and a lot of specialized talent that's probably hard to get. It could've been seen as too difficult to take on in addition to figuring out how to actually do all the self driving specific tasks (mapping, planning, detection, etc.).
It really depends on what you mean by "full self driving".

Eg, I wouldn't consider the stuff Tesla is doing as self driving at all. I have significant worry because to reduces attention while still requiring it for safety.

If you're talking "Hail robocab, don't touch a steering wheel, arrive at your destination", then Waymo is already there: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...

You might mean "does everything everyone uses a vehicle for today", however I feel that's perhaps moving the goalposts to unattainable. Eg, replacing nascar racers with self driving cars would defeat the point of nascar, so that's won't happen. (though it might be an interesting side event.)

Between the two extremes of public pilot in limited area and handling every situation, there's a very large space for tremendous value. Just serving urban areas would significantly reduce the need for vehicles. There are many people who only use public transit, or could if they had more economical ways to handle sporadic trips such as grocery shopping and visiting friends across town.
Yeah, but hit it with rocket won't change the orbit of any object that might cause the civilization serious problems.

Even nukes have a surprisingly small effect, unless they are buried. We have landed on on an asteroid, but have yet to embed a nuke in one.

The trick about nukes is you have the risk of just making an harder to stop by making a cloud, like say comet levy which turned into 21 pieces, but delivered the same total energy when hitting the atmosphere.

The nice thing about the paint is that it's not that hard, even asteroids have gravity, and we have orbited (very slowly) asteroids before. It doesn't cause the astroid (which might just be a loose collection of rocks) to break up, and you get a huge win per pound of delivered mass, granted it takes months or years to accumulate into a large orbital change.
Because at least regular fusion has significant and universally accepted empirical evidence of it even being fundamentally possible.

LENR has had to have a name change because the primary connotation with cold fusion is a bunch of psuedoscience and bullshit.

Yes, some real scientists have published some results that make continued study worthwhile, but if regular fusion is 50 years off, our indication is that LENR, if it's even possible, is 100.
"the population adjusted mortality." I don't know why this is so hard to understand, and I'd expect a HN audience to understand how proportions work instead of just parroting hyperbole.
We’re never going to cover any significant portion of the Earth with solar panels, though. And the photoelectric effect has efficiency limits.
Don't spread FUD. Fukushima was ten years ago.

The truth is our systemic desire to cut costs cuts corners. Everything after each disaster will have been "obvious".

The price of the tiniest of mistakes is outweighing the advantage.

Stick a power plant in the middle of nowhere and charge batteries with it if you want to convince people.
What other things do you expect to find from the word Asian?

Food? Try Thai, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

Same goes for anything else I can think of except porn.
I really doubt that you could associate the printing press with an "explosion in slavery" given the history of the classical world.
Because you need it to make purchases, just like a real world currency. When the Euro goes down, everyday people don't just liquidate all their holdings to USD, because USD isn't accepted in their countries. Take a look at dark.fail or the FBI statements, whenever they shutdown an onion market there is always hundreds of millions in BTC sales they uncover.

Without the dark web markets since The Silk Road in 2011, and now Tesla and big legal companies, coins would have no real purpose to exist. The hype alone isn't enough to keep them all this time and dark web markets aren't quick into adapting new coins each time. Many have ditched BitCoin to Monero only because of the privacy factor, not growth.
Not having MMU means there's no virtual memory and instructions refer to physical memory addresses, cmiiw?

You say Linux won't work without MMU, it can't handle physical addresses? Moreover, why won't fork() work without MMU?
yes, we learn causal reasoning by observing consequences, we can't learn by simply watching without acting
I believe you might be thinking about Shuji Nakamura (and his then-employer Nichia), one of the other two who shared the prize. Akasaki and Amano were mostly associated with Nagoya University, and Akasaki later with Meijo.
I answered it above:

If the system is white supremacist, why do Asians, Jews, Nigerians, etc. out perform whites? Why are there any variations in weath between anyone, or intra-race?

The fact of the matter is, this is all immaterial. The most logical and least racist way to combat the inequality is to give assistance to the less fortunate, regardless of their race, gender, religion, etc. Otherwise, you're just being racist.
Well, do inventors at Apple ever get any recognition? I only hear about their product designer Jony Ive.
> but we're going to emphasize scary anecdotes, it seems like we should spend proportional time reporting the vastly larger number of anecdotes that are not scary, as well?

I haven't backed up my personal data in years and nothing nasty has happened, despite all those catastrophic data-loss stories you read online. I'm all for proportional reporting time, but strangely, no one reports on stories like mine - it's mostly in the vein of "Company shutters after accidental db deletion". I wonder why.
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