skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me this is a big drawback of half-baked autopilot. It takes us humans time to engage in a split second and react to surroundings even if they are monitoring it. When driving I'm constantly updating my situation awareness by doing a 360 degree scan every few seconds and I'm 100% engaged with the car so I know which way to safely swerve, what happens if I slam the brakes etc.,. With this auto-pilot-assist I'm monitoring mostly forward and I'm not engaged with the car so my ability to handle emergency situation is severely impaired.
comparisons with vb6 and delphi add a lot more context to the philosophy and design of the language. i would consider making that point prominently on the home page.
Not sure why this is getting so much hate, I think it's pretty cute. Can't really imagine when I'd use it, but i like it.
ITER is set to come online in the next couple of years with a price tag of around $50,000,000,000 !!!! And it will spend 20 or so years testing various fuels.

China is building their own tokamak reactor to compete with ITER. I can't find cost figures, but presumably costs are roughly the same, considering the same size and is intended to "compliment" ITER.

These are still merely "test" reactors. They are experiments that may provide some enough data in 10-20 years such that another, even larger and more expensive test reactor may be constructed. Assuming ITER runs until 2045 and a replacement is started on in 2040. With 10 years of construction time, and 20 more years of testing, that means the next generation is set to complete testing in 2070. And hopefully the results of that generation will give us an idea of how to build a commercially viable fusion reactor.

All the funding in the world isn't going to change the fact that testing is a long-drawn out process, and that it must be performed in a somewhat linear fashion. The results of the previous experiments inform the next generation. And we are still a few generations away from commercial viability.

I do want to point out that I'm a strong advocate for fusion research. I just don't see it as a viable solution to global warming, regardless of how much we fund it, because we don't even know what a commercially viable reactor even looks like yet, much less be able to scale the technology out to the point that it will put a dent in CO2 emissions.
Beads was going to be recoded in Web Assembly, however, the many restrictions on I/O to the user's hard drive inside the browser make it very to build a compiler inside a browser. Hopefully in the near future Web Assembly will become a fully capable virtual machine, that will unify all the different hardware and operating systems, effectively becoming a universal virtual OS.

But any day now the dam will break, and WebAssembly will get access to I/O and the full browser API (last time i checked web assembly runs on its own compute-only thread, and is not permitted direct access)
We are indeed reading this feedback. And I get your point - thanks!
I somehow created/found myself in a role that's similar to this? At present, we mostly build networking infrastructure for decentralization (Protocol Labs, started IPFS, libp2p, & Filecoin), but the long-term goal is to embed rights and values into the protocols by which people coordinate and communicate, and my team has interpreted this to include improving science as humanity's process for knowledge generation. As a result, I'm trying to lay the groundwork for a metascience institute. (We haven't been at it long enough that I'd say we've made a ton of progress, but we've got fun ambitions and our goals have been pretty well-received so far.)

There are lots of great points in this thread already, but one thing I'll emphasize is the importance of doing something that's important but would otherwise be neglected. Studying orgs like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, DeepMind, & HHMI is great, but it's unlikely your budget is comparable to Google or the EU. However, rising experts (e.g. senior grad students, postdocs, and young profs) have fantastic ideas that they don't have the ability to pursue. Sometimes a topic isn't well funded or there's not a critical mass of interest in the field. However, unless you're a specialist, you're likely not well-equipped to identify a lot of those. I'd suggest reaching out to some experts, asking them to name great, young minds or rising stars in the field, and then ask those researchers about others that they respect or would love to work with - and whenever you meet someone ask "what research do you want to do but can't get funding for?" because every researcher has an answer to that question.

Additionally, here's some interesting people I know who will tweet about science organization: @adammarblestone, @michael_nielsen, @Ben_Reinhardt, @davidtlang, and @alexeyguzey.

Feel free to reach out - email is [username]@protocol.ai
You're cheating: you know your username and can recall which of your comments were mod log entries.

Imagine creating such a log system in a company and expecting your colleagues to find such logs in such a manner. I'd move to get you fired.
I think it's just a natural law that information tends to "crystallize" into certain patterns, and we're just the implementors of those repeating patterns. :)
> a Buddha was dug up in a Swedish Viking era burial site

Fascinating, it's the first time I've heard of this.

The Helgo Treasure: A Viking Age Buddha - http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...

> A remarkable collection of religious items sourced from diverse lands was discovered during archaeological excavations on the Swedish island of Helgo.

> Discovered close together, these artefacts included a Buddha from the Indian sub-continent, an elaborate crozier-head from Ireland and a bronze ladle from North-Africa.

> ..[T]he most extraordinary find..was a small, bronze Buddha. This devotional figure dates from circa the 6th century AD and was probably made in Kashmir, on the Pakistan/India border.

> The Buddha has a silver urna on his forehead, symbolizing the third eye, while the ears have long lobes, the insignia of royalty. He sits in a meditative pose upon a double lotus throne, the latter representing purity. The Buddha probably arrived in Helgo via Swedish merchants whose eastern trade routes were concentrated along Russian rivers such as the Volga.
That's certainly part of it, and if I was going to buy a car at the SL level I'd probably debadge regardless of the trim level. But I'm sure there are people on one end of the spectrum who don't want to advertise their $150-200k car, and people on the other end who want to make others think it's a $150-200k car.
Doesn't it depend a lot on the game? A well designed game could get a lot more out of a fast SSD.
>Wonder if there's a deeper learning to be found there.

Yes, Europe generally has Tall Poppy Syndrome and the Nordics have socially accepted norms like Jantelagen.

- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191008-jantelagen-why...
The logo is pretty clever
My absolute favorite discovery this past year has been Monica Belevan's Covidian Aesthetics blog.

Some of the best writing about being alive right now to be found if you're interested in anthropology, art history, and philosophy. Can't recommend it enough.

https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/
To clarify: the bounty was $10-30k for information leading to a specific suspect's arrest. When I first heard about it, it sounded like the bounty was a 'dead or alive' kind of thing.
I would be really pissed if I were an FSD customer. Tesla needs to at least uncouple the license from the VIN and attach it to the account holder instead, so you can take it with you. As it is, I think it is entirely reasonable to expect that the current Model 3 might never actually get FSD, or that for all practical purposes it won't because people will have moved on to other cars as usually happens.

I am actually surprised they haven't been hit with a class action over FSD yet.
It's not anywhere close to that. There's a tiny expression where we override the type system, but everything else in the program is still statically typed, and we get to avoid all the complexity of generics.
> £1 = £1

Did.... did you just implicitly compare the Pound to Dogecoin?
Of course you should choose the best school you have been accepted too. But it's important to not let the fact that you didn't get accepted into a "better" school distract you from taking full advantage of your current path.
It is possible that that's the explanation but stopping just one API only affects people/extensions willing to follow the rules (uBlock Origin for example) while the bad players will just change a few lines and begin using other APIs. The end result is people are less protected because they have crippled adblockers and data can still be exfiltrated, and worse than that, malicious ads can't be prevented from loading anymore.
>Some parts of the world have exploding populations, and while they don't consume much CO2 at the moment, they will

A, the "kicking the ladder" argument. We had a good run in the West over-consuming and producting Co2, and we continue to be at the top (including the Co2 we outsource to our global outsourced factories for our consumption), but others shouldn't.

Before we talk about over-population in e.g. Africa and India, why not talk about cutting down on consumption in the US (#2 co2 global producer with just 5% of the global population - and that's even not including the co2 produced in China for products the US companies ordered/will consume/sell).

Giving a good example how more people can live with less?

Else it's "let us keep our mega-polluting way of life and you better stop having kids so we are not inconvenienced".

(It's also often accompanied with quotes from westerners not having children "for the planet", when they just do it for their career, or to avoid any obstacles like kids on their personal "journey" to consumption and fun).
I’d be cancelling my order.
What about conditions such as fog?
"Oops we tried to kill the user. Repeatedly." seems like more of a pre-alpha kind of bug to me.

Beta would be more like driving 15km/h below the speed limit in the passing lane with the blinker left on.
one of my favourites too. i'm sad it's no longer updated, but i go back and read through the archives every now and then.
I still occasionally use quilt, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt , as it properly works across arbitrary submodule tree.

StGit does not support that as I understand.
Humans are proof that's its possible to safely drive a car with pure vision. Pretty sure no human has ever propulsively landed a rocket on earth using nothing but vision.
I remember a time in the mid 1980s when it was possible to read the entire content of all usenet groups every day. The novelty soon wore off though as flame wars erupted.
> allowing law enforcement to do their thing when necessary

"their thing" being pointing a telescopic lens at a suspect as they enter their password, or planting a hardware keylogger when they leave their computer unattended?

Or is "their thing" more like mass surveillance of everyone?

Does Cheng feel car manufacturers have a responsibility to plant microphones in their vehicles, with "threshold encryption" keeping conversations in that car secret? What about construction companies? Law enforcement has no way to retroactively get a record of all conversations that took place in a room, even with a valid warrant. Does that make rooms beyond the reach of law enforcement?

What other everyday tools we consider "ours" should be required to betray us if whatever threshold he proposes is reached? And only the good governments will be able to reach these thresholds, right? If you look back through history, the risk of one's own government turning against them is so low, we should have no qualms about surrounding ourselves with tools ready to turn on us, should the state ask them to?
isn't this a bit like saying i'm not afraid of being homeless, what i am afraid of is having no where to sleep and keeping warm in cold weather.
It wasn't a split, it was how sometimes you see there are protected turn lanes on highways. So if you need to turn left, you can take that lane and wait for the oncoming traffic to pass.
> Chaos does this. The wildest outliers are tied to how much energy is in the system. They may be no more common than before, but the increased energy and increased chaos can produce wilder variances from the norm.

if we're talking about a chaotic system then wouldn't the probability of extreme weather being better for humanity be the same as worse for humanity? Maybe an exceptionally long growing season allowing more crops to be harvested for example.
> Telling people to have fewer children in an area where few children make it to adulthood ...

Are you arguing for more or fewer children?

Seems plainly obvious the birthrate is too high.
That is a very cynical view. You assume Mozilla will give up their one huge advantage over Chrome (ie a browser where actual privacy is somewhat possible), you assume they will go about it in a round-about way.

And you assume that nobody will fork it to keep webRequest. This seems strange as Firefox is itself a fork of Netscape create because the dominant browser was horrible to use.
If you paid 10k, that means you bought your car in the past year or so. I've been following Tesla for a while now and FSD has been around the corner since 2016 or so. Maybe sooner. I love my model S but I'd recommend that you not delude yourself with FSD. It will bring nothing but frustration. On the other hand, regular AP does a fantastic job and I use it daily.
The combining of JSON & SQL is mostly inconsequential here. It is just a convenience for sending things in 1 file vs multiple.

The big takeaway is that SQL is a really great tool for exposing any sort of customizable logic over arbitrary datsets.

The only major caveat with this - You will typically have to perform some degree of transformation over source data in order to achieve a form of normalization well-suited to the writing of business logic (SQL). Assumptions (i.e. denormalizations beyond 3NF [0]) made in your schema here will inevitably hamper or kill the ability of the business to write flexible queries which can satisfy real-world needs. Today, a customer may have multiple accounts. In a few years, maybe we decide it goes the other way too. If you made an assumption, such as nesting these complex types in any way whatsoever, you are probably stuck with a steaming bag of shit that you now have to refactor and retest top-to-bottom. Using relation types to decouple nested complex types is the core tenant in my mind. Identity is foundation, but you can fudge your way around that a little bit.

This one caveat is why a lot of developers look at this idea as a bad one at face-value. It takes a lot of work & iterations with the business stakeholders to get this correct. You can't sit in a silo and expect to completely figure out the abstract nature of business types or learn how they might be related and in what ways. There really is a "correct" and "incorrect" way to go about it if you are being properly academic. Worry about webscale and performance later. Get it correct first. Nothing is too complex for a SQL schema.

If you can satisfy the academic gods of normalization and achieve a stable schema, then you are in for a wonderful ride. Between using views to compose higher-order functions, and UDFs [1] to wire into customized SQL functions, you can satisfy literally any degree of complexity required by the business. The only limit is your ability and discipline around modeling the domain types & relations, and willingness to get your hands dirty with some views and functions. You will find your business experts loving the power they gain by being able to write queries in a domain specific language they inherently understand. Giving them higher-order functions (views) and iterating on that side of the fence is yet another gigantic value play that is invisible if you are looking anywhere other than SQL.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_normal_form
[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
Just to put it in context, I'll share one of my favorite (even though I think it's one of the more outlandish and less accepted):

In the Multiverse/Multidimensional universe theory, all of these dimensions aren't necessarily in different universes. Some are of different dimensions, laid over top of ours, but we can't see them because we can't perceive the dimensions they exist in. The only dimension that bleeds into ours, that we can track so far, is gravity. This is what we call "Dark matter". It is actually gravity leaking over from an "Nth" dimension laid over our own that we can't perceive.

Again, as to the veracity I can't say. And I wish I remembered to author, but I don't =/ maybe I'll look it up later and make an annotation.
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> If in July the systems are safe and Beta FSD has improvements are you going to admit you were wrong about these things?

Still waiting for the 2017 coast-to-coast FSD drive.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280
Chia is a godsend for storage prosumers. All you have to do is look at the speed and check if the warranty is voided by Chia.
This problem is, this was never the marketed vision. The implicit and sometimes explicit message everyone seemed to swallow was "it's like human driving, but better!" when it's actually not. It's just another set of fundamentally-flawed algorithms running on binary computers that only know about zeroes and ones.
From your opening question and follow up, I am not clear on whether you really hope to create an institute, a limited duration retreat, a venue to host such things, or even a housing village and/or coworking space. But, from my US perspective, I might not appreciate the local issues you face.

An academic institute, as I take it, is a sustainable organization that necessarily needs to think about funding and recruitment. It is not just a building or a community, but a host organization to support ongoing fund-seeking activities as well as providing the environment for academic interaction. In the US, these are often soft-money and so the senior researchers are writing proposals and bringing in funding to support themselves and the staff working under them. Overhead taken from such grants and contracts supports the host organization and can circle back to cover gaps in funding or new-business development efforts by the researchers. Other matching funds might be used to help bootstrap an institute (or a strategic expansion), but I think that self-sustainability is the typical operating mode.

Recruitment needs to consider the opportunity costs that your candidates are facing to join you. The "cheap labor" of grad students and postdocs are not available to anybody who wants to pay the same rate as a university. The candidate is expecting to benefit from the prestige, experience, and social network when they take such a position. They need to see a path where this period of sacrifice helps secure their future career. Regular research staff, already in their career, would expect fair compensation. A place with no reputation is higher risk, and probably needs higher compensation to attract the same talent. Also, I think academics are usually a bit risk-averse or otherwise have a different cost-benefit model compared to those who would rush into industry, startups, or entrepreneurial adventures.

I joined an institute in the US which was formed slightly before I was born, and to date I've experienced over 40 percent of its life and mine on the research staff. As I was told, it started as a small set of researchers who identified a problem area and potential funding source. They shopped around for a university willing to be their parent organization, to provide the administrative, HR, and legal support needed to take the money and pursue the research agenda. By the time I joined, almost 25 years later, the division that inherited the agenda of that first group was perhaps only one fifth or less of the total institute in terms staff or funding levels.
Imagine trying to configure rules in a CMS without touching code. I work at a place that does it. They may... be using this.
What does a percent sign mean in Python
It's kind of funny when (pre-covid) at the office people would point out my dock TB/USBC connector and how thick it was.

It carries probably 100W+ for power, multiple 4K displays, ethernet, half a dozen USB3 ports... I'd rather it not be the thickness of a 5W charging cable.
What is public static void main (string args[ ])?
The Goldeneye Sound (2017)
I think Tesla is very close to a do-or-die situation. They are in severe danger of being disrupted by the very automakers they took on. If they can't make a profit with the current market conditions (and they haven't, right? their profit is entirely due to credits?), I just don't think it's necessarily going to get any easier as time goes on. EVs are commodities.
On the page in Goodnight Moon where the mouse is peeking out from behind the bowl full of mush, our 3-year old has started shouting at it "NO NO YOUNG MOUSE, GET AWAY FROM MY MUSH!!!" Makes me laugh every time.
> More people need to see your comment because there seems to be a belief that full self driving is just around the corner. However, IMO, it will never happen because it needs a full artificial general intelligence.

People who were not convinced by autopilot shoving cars under trucks are not going to get convinced by one more anecdote.
There are plenty of RHEL docs that will show up in a search but are inaccessible because it's hidden behind a login.
Tesla is a great at many things but managing customer/media expectations isn't among them. I'm sure Elon has the data and will tweet why vision is better, he may even back it up with really good data, but it's reactionary media management rather than preventative.

How hard would it have been to write a press release explaining why they are removing radar, what it means to safety, and how it impacts the future of self-driving?
"People are saying stuff on Reddit" (or Twitter, etc.) doesn't really qualify as news.

If there's a thread on Reddit that's actually saying something interesting and original, please post it directly (see HN Guidelines about submitting the original source).
I'd file it under things that initially sound ridiculous but make sense when you think about it. Which is fine by me, those are always interesting.

It does remind me of shoes on the highway, which is more mundane than a limb but an ocean but turns out to have a variety of mundane to wacky answers.
I've been wondering about this myself. I drive in bad weather all the time. Sometimes its blowing snow, sometimes its because the DOT can't keep the road clear. I often can't see the white strip - or even the yellow strip on the road and have to gauge where I'm at by finding reflector poles.

Two lanes will turn down to one, and back to two really quickly (snow removal). Toss in 60-80MPH wind gusts, and it really is a test.

Add in wild critters, inexperienced drivers, impatient drivers, and it can be a bit insane.
Why 0 points? I'm not Mr Money Mustache but down voting seems unfair.
With people hyping it and putting our lives in danger like this https://mobile.twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/139541771021799... (no hands on wheel) we’ve got plenty of tragedy to come
They don't seem very far apart in the Tesla..

https://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2017/07/Tesla-Mode...

The Subaru cameras are either side of the mirror, probably much more effective for stereo vision.
> extension makers will only consider porting to Firefox if it's as little effort as possible. Hence they need to support the same API's

At least the last time I developed a browser extension, this was not the case. I found that what was considered the WebExtension API was not 100% portable across browsers, and I had to rewrite parts of my code between Chrome and Firefox because Chrome had many extra APIs that Firefox lacked.