skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a lot of things that weren't possible in the 1960's that are possible now. Highway driving is the easiest type of driving. If Waymo wasn't limiting their driving to specific areas, I have no doubt their Driver could easily drive through the US interstates without issue.
Waymo is full self driving, not partial
A Brief Overview of Causal Inference (covers Pearl and others)

https://tjohnson250.github.io/overview_causal_inference/over...
Why is fusion ignored?
Parts of Russia too.

"How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russ...
> I think this is just the usual goal post moving, if a machine does it then we decide it wasn't really dangerous for a machine to do it.

I strongly disagree. Most machines are not capable of killing you because it makes a mistake.

Do you have an example of something humans did that could kill them that was automated completely that still can kill them, but generally does not anymore? An elevator is one example, but in the case of an elevator its a very bounded problem to solve, and even still hundreds die for unnecessary elevator deaths yearly.

Not to mention an elevator is not an entropic environment. A full self driving car would have to be able to deal with ice suddenly falling on the ground, people crashing around them, etc.
As a whole this is true and could probably be bested. But it would have to be by many magnitudes of order to have people accept it. There's a feeling that isn't necessarily true that one can control their destiny driving and avoid being a statistic. Now we know that isn't always true as you are at the mercy of many other elements. But if autonomous cars were even 90% less fatalities it would still be hard to get humans to give up control for that. It would have to be on the realm of air travel safety.
You're probably on a different desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, etc)
> Additionally, to my knowledge, Matt isn't originating any of these ideas, he's just implementing them.

He's fairly open about this. He was recently on the Essential Craftsman Podcast and he talks about trying to educate and pass on knowledge:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG63Cb83sc
Hang on, presumably you're now framing this as a US thing. How do we know the demand in the US comes disproportionately from white men, is that in the stats[1]? OKCupid seems to tell a diff story.

[1]https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/howyourraceaff...
Was it self-hosted?
Do you need to exchange data with every other driver when you're on the road?
A free market is extremely efficient at some things. It's also extremely terrible at other things.

Of all the options, a free market with regulation to internalize social externalities seems the optimal solution.
We can disagree and still be nice to each other.
> The idea of value-added investors is pretty silly IMO.

The company I work at is VC funded. It would have folded if it was run by the original founders. At ~200m valuation it started stagnating. A member of the board that was on a VC seat found a consultant who came in as a strategy officer at first. He was able to turn the company around, made it possible for original founders to step away and became the new CEO in about 1 year. The company became a unicorn +-1.5 years ago.

After seeing this I prefer smart money very strongly.
One quality an expert has is the willingness to admit that they were wrong in the past, but that their assessment was based on information they had available at the time.
I did a lot of date windowing based on 49. My gift to a future generation.
"The ability to run the Crystal runtime on multiple cores is on the roadmap, together with ARM support, and availability on Windows. Building fully statically linked executables is currently only supported on Alpine Linux."

Once Crystal addresses above shortcomings- it'll be a lot more interesting.
I think I saw it mentioned (possibly also linked) in a comment on another article here today. So it's not just us, it's also us!
I'm not against technology: I'm against inferior technology. I know what you can build with a computer: with a smartphone not so much. I don't see many professional sound engineers, architects, chip engineers, developers and all the myriad of profession requiring serious tools to do serious work working from their mobile phone or from their Internet-of-Insecure-Shitty-Poinless-Thing-with-a-3-inches-screen (yup, I know, there's that one guy who made a hit pop music tune using only his smartphone, but that's more than uncommon).

Yet because there are a very select few megastar who became famous because they kept posting selfies taken with their smartphones, we are to believe that the smartphone "is the new computer".

Luddite? What about we talk about the specs of my workstation vs your IoT device? We'll see who's adopting modern tech ; )
It depends on how wide you cast the net of "hacker."

I think people who take things apart for fun and mash them together in new, unplanned ways can tend to build up a healthy respect for unexpected consequences. That can translate into an extremely reasonable tendency to shoulder the role of doom-sayer for any large system that could have huge societal impact. That's the thing about the Luddites... They were, perhaps, short-sighted, but they weren't exactly wrong. The Industrial Revolution was absolutely disastrous for entire ways of life and paved over tens of thousands of people on the path of progress. I personally see their failing not in their desired goals but in their methods.

... but on the other hand, hackers are also the ones building cloud services, user tracking systems, and DRM protocols. Again, depending on how wide you cast the net.
Pretty neat. I have been thinking about how I can build a tiny NAS, but I would like ECC so that rules out the pi, etc.

Best option I have found so far might be this ASRock 4x4-v2000 https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4-V2000M , it has an 8-core cpu and supports ECC. Would need to get a M.2 to 4x SATA adapter. The hard part seems to be figuring out how to buy the board itself...
>Are there factories that exist that are automated in a way where the human is exposed to a potentially lethal injury?

Yes, but probably to a lesser extent than driving a car. Everything has sensors that are meant to identify a risk to a human and stop whatever operation poses that risk.

E.g., there may be robots picking thousands of pounds of parts and driving them around a facility but they stop if they sense a human a their path. Same for welding, stamping, etc. All those operations can injure or kill but unlike vehicles they can rely on the mitigation of “stop and wait”. It’s a much easier problem than self-driving
No you don't, seeing as Ruby compatibility is a non-goal to begin with.

If you want a fast language that is mature and has a big community with lots of documentation and resources, I'd go with Rust.

I am a Ruby developer myself and I was interested in Crystal because of what I perceived to be an advantage for not having to relearn a language. But trying building something with Crystal revealed to me that syntax is about the smallest part of a language. Granted, Crystal shares a lot of the core libraries but even so there are differences in that it is typed, you have to compile, debugging a running program is completely different, etc. If I am going to have to learn about those differences, I'd rather learn a language that has the same advantages and more in the form of the aforementioned resources and the fact that it has been accepted by many as a well built language with lots of support for it. Hence my recommendation for learning Rust.
That's a fair rebuttal. Depending on the situation though 'if not this - throw error' can be mitigated. It's one of the reasons why I try to avoid nulls coming into the code, otherwise you have to null check everywhere.
Fully automated train systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...

Not nearly as complex a problem as self driving cars, but I'd still rather not get hit by a train
> What if every bicycle, school backpack, shopping cart did so too, identifying itself in the process?

That sounds like a nazi-state dream - easily track every backpack, car, bicycle, etc...

no thank you
A interesting analogy is the Washington DC Metro, which was automated but now isn't due to a significant accident in 2009 which killed 9 people. That's a train on rails. We have much less tolerance for computers killing people compared to people killing people.
You might consider the image shown to actually be more impressive than a regular 2D image since it is a tomography done in 3D. There is far more information in this simulated image than in say, an SEM image of graphene. Also, it’s hard to say what an “image” actually is at nanoscale.
Except the Japanese government turning a blind eye is a simple case of corruption
My high school claim to fame was a VB.NET application I wrote during class that would connect directly to my server to download flash games since online flash games were constant cat and mouse. I had hotkeys so you could hide the whole thing from screen and taskbar on a whim. My flash repository was still getting hits for years after I graduated, though that tapered off a little while ago.
Is Waymo not headquartered in California?
So, at least one pro-canceler has a cushy Facebook job and opens a tribunal against Stallman on flimsy evidence.

There is no evidence at all that Stallman actually hurt a person.

On the other hand Facebook hurts millions of teenagers every day by deliberately nurturing addictive behavior.

Should we examine Zuckerberg on the gcc mailing list in the same manner?
One of the little gems I found while I was putting together the video for this post was "Shouting in the datacenter", an older clip (from the pre-HD era) demonstrating the consequence of doing exactly what the title says: https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4

Warning: loud!
Depends on how much you weigh Julian Jaynes’ hypothesis, but certainly since reading his work I’ve at least upped the prior that the answer is “incredibly different”.

Another datapoint are the many remote and isolated tribes with wildly different cultures, for example not having the concept of object permanence.
How much did they get you for?
Yeah, you can click it, but only if you already figured out how it works - move the fake mouse cursor to the point where it is almost over the button, blindly move it down a bit and click.
Imagine you were at my station
Imagine you were at my station
And you brought your motor to me
Your a burner, yeah, a real motor car...

Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you!

Who ever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat...
Oh, yeah, yeah!

We were shifting hard when we took off
Put tonight all four on the floor
When we hit top end ya know it feels too slow

Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you!

Who ever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat...
Oh, yeah, yeah!

I'm giving you my room service
And ya know it's more than enough
Oh one more time ya know I'm in love

Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you!

Who ever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat...
Oh, yeah, yeah!
> Is there an example of anything that's completely automated that's dangerous?

Monorail trains (like at the airport)

Combine Harvesters

Airplane Autopilot/autoland

Elevators
This looks pretty interesting! How is the data stored? Would it be difficult to sync among different machines?
Because it is always 50 years out.
> I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.

Spoken like a true luddite! XD
I don’t really understand this argument in relation to the USA. A country like Germany, where they are in the Schengen Area, surrounded on all sides by multiple countries, with no hard border? Sure, I can see that being a factor. But the USA has only two land borders, both of them hard. If the USA had locked down properly, it would have resembled New Zealand a lot more closely than Germany.
That's a really good idea. You probably wouldn't need too many sensors either. Now that I think about it, a few strategically placed cameras around blind conrners woul be pretty useful for human drivers too!
Probably because it's still decades away from being a cost-effective, break-even source of power.
Compassionate Communication == Connection
The NSA isn't allowed to spy on American citizens, so they get the GCHQ to spy on Americans and they exchange data on British citizens in return.

You literally have a government helping another government to break the fucking law. Not to mention it's illegal to not pay your taxes, and yet almost every big company does.

So I'm just not convinced the solution can be as simple as "just enact legislation".

We need a technical solution. Even if you want legislation, a technical solution is good to act as another layer of protection.

Technology can be checked -- by reading the source code or inspecting network traffic -- to make sure you're not being spied on. That's vastly superior to any solution that expects people to pinky promise to not do anything bad.
Here's what I see: https://i.imgur.com/VMTdfDk.png

If you just recently enabled the setting in your user profile, probably there is just some caching on reddit's side so it is still serving the old results from before you enabled that.
I caught a swarm near work that was looking very sad as it was raining hard. I put it in a beer box until I could take it home.
Because I couldn't get scihub to work; I think my ISP may be blocking it, or else my browser has over active security settings.

How is your question contributing to the discussion? Mine had the potential to give participants access to the primary source under discussion :)
> I think this is just the usual goal post moving, if a machine does it then we decide it wasn't really dangerous for a machine to do it.

I've seen a lot of goalpost moving in the other direction on this one, to be honest - Self Driving Cars started as "never have an accident again!" and have slowly migrated to "look, you suck at driving, the robot sucks less, so stop bitching when the robot runs over grandma"
Fine, then don't laugh. Even mock me. Tell me not to quit my day job. I don't think somebody should lose their job/be banished from society because of a bad joke.
Taking your other fronts into account, what is a clean energy?
What happens to reactors after 50 or 100 years of global/national decline due to environmental and geopolitical circumstances?
Then prevent malicious apps from doing that without preventing the user.
That lidar has been for sale for years, it's not really a pivot. See e.g. this older post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319233
Beggars can’t be choosers. We have a lot of constraints and not a lot of options.
Some comments are saying self-driving cars are not currently possible and that Waymo isn't successful, but aren't they currently available to the public in some areas in Phoenix, with no safety drivers?

There may be many limitations, but self-driving in sunny flat suburban areas would already cover a decent portion of the American market. Sure they might not be ready for chaotic, busy city centres or regions with harsh weather conditions, but that's letting perfect be enemy of the good - those living in areas suitable for self-driving cars would certainly appreciate them, and who's to say there can't be a gradual retooling of infrastructure to accommodate them as they expand to more and more areas?
*Waymo is trying to develop full self driving, not partial
Then we can just build trains instead. Perfectly automated today.
You mean, like the entire rest of his comment? Garmin Autoland...
BCOD: Blue Coffee Of Death.

I can only imagine the repercussions of this.
I still think it was a mistake to hire this guy and partner with the auto industry dinosaurs. Should have kept going down the path of being independent and building their own cars without steering wheels. I never liked "Waymo" as a brand either.

Maybe just retrofitting off the shelf cars made sense if they thought they needed hundreds of thousands of cars ASAP, but it turns out they would have had plenty of time to develop the car and even build factories for it while waiting for the technology to mature. And they didn't really need to partner with any manufacturers just to retrofit existing cars anyway.
There is a bad stigma associated with nuclear energy that I just don’t understand - Nuclear less impact to the environment when compared to other energy sources. What is is the problem with nuclear? Is it the cost of maintaining these power plants ?
My understanding of trains is that most of the safety advances have come from better signaling, not the automation of the trains themselves.
Coal energy puts out more radioactivity into the atmosphere than nuclear power.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Yup, bravo, they got me too. I'm so angry.

e: The JavaScript can be found on the <head> section of the page btw
How many of these completely automated things have lots of humans interacting and are outside an closed area?
It's something I learned to be true on a personal level, and I'm sure it applies to many other levels - giving yourself away for free on Facebook and other social media devalues your social contributions and presence as a human being.
I had persistent lung congestion for weeks. I did some research online and found this thing called a salt inhaler. That cleared it up in a couple of days.

Salt has a way of pulling infections out of tissues.
A Day of Forgiveness
I'll just add my own experience. I had almost no symptoms, no cough, no taste loss, not even sniffles. Likely infection date 15th of February. PCR test on the 24th of February.

No symptoms at that point. 2 days later, I started feeling more tired than usual. The next day I had a mild fever and was sweating more than usual when exercising. This lasted 3 days, after which I only felt the fatigue for another 5 days.

No lasting effects that I can name.

I'm 31, male.

I had a cold around 5th-10th of February. I take levothyroxine every day, multivitamin everyday, Gabapentin every day, Vitamin C 500mg twice a week. Light exercise everyday, a more thorough workout twice a week. I drink alcohol and smoke tobacco regularly, and everyday between 24th of February - 15th of March.

I mention all that because some research said the cold and CV viruses are competitive, plus having the immune system "battle ready" after a simple cold could've helped. Levothyroxine increases metabolism, vitamins and exercise probably help. Smoking has been linked to lesser symptoms, too. I wonder what the effects would've been without all that.

Anxiety over Covid (I scared myself reading reports on Reddit) and losing my job (unrelated, but bad timing) was by far a bigger problem than the virus itself.
> Have you moved on to accepting what will happen?

Yup. For someone who became aware of the existential risks that human produced CO2 and CH4 are causing back in the 1980s, full acceptance is, in my case at least, literally the only long-term, sustainable approach.

> ... the situation with an oceologist ...

I think that's been happening with a lot of scientists these last couple of years. Many I've spoken to are basically, "I don't see a way forward, a way out of this." For many, it brings a sense of calm.

In my mind, the next necessary step is to embrace and accept uncertainty. That one's very well informed view isn't necessarily correct. This is an ideal shield against despair, which must be avoided at all costs.
Learn about Small Modular Reactors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofGtxEgpI8
36,000 US driving deaths annually would beg to differ.
In my case my diagnosis was because they didn't know what was going on and the gastro doc ordered a camera both ends to rule things out - it showed up on the colonoscopy and the biopsies up til then I had no idea.

I'd lost a lot of weight worryingly fast - mostly because of massive reflux problems (barrets oesophagus), was having frequent bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea and was generally in a shit state all around - as for diet it's really hard to recommend anything to anyone else since it varies so much - what worked for me was keeping a detailed journal of what I ate, how I felt, how I slept, toilet habits, times etc then I cut out basically everything from my diet I could for a few weeks (think porridge, cottage cheese and mashed potato/oven cooked chicken breasts) and very gradually added things back still keeping the journal until I had actual data I could look at - for me there isn't really any one food or group that acts as a trigger red meat/processed meat comes the closest, it's large high fat/high carb (think Pizza) that do it - if I eat fresh foods/veggies/fish/cheese (hard not soft) and limited amounts of fruit I have it mostly under control but what works for me might wreck you.
Sincere congratulations, living in the US I think it's inspiring to see all the countries with incredible (and relatively equally distributed) health outcomes at costs that society can bear.

That said, I want people from island countries to stop saying "being an island country has nothing to do with it", when all evidence and logic says being an island country has a lot to do with it.

I'll happily take criticism from Vietnam, even if I think it's of questionable utility to say "you just did it wrong" when the overwhelming majority of countries seem to have "done it wrong"
In modern politics, you simply cannot defend your left flank
Hope vs despair is often within our power to chose and it is a political choice. Choose despair and you make bad outcomes more likely as it is a contagious feeling. Choose hope and you make good outcomes more likely, and make the process of fighting for the good outcomes more effective and more fun for all.

It is the social form of the prisoners dilemma: choose your response assuming there is nothing special about being you in particular, and assume that you are choosing form any. Do you want to live in a group where everyone does A or everyone does B. This also leads to more flexible choices: I’d like to live in a world where most people pick up trash a few percent of the time. Where most people lobby for carbon tax and electric cars and whatever the solution for cement and steel are.
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