skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the very common argument (even here on HN) that it doesn't matter because "humans have plenty of accidents too".

I think it's not a good rebuttal because self-driving cars will have to be orders of magnitude safer than humans if order to be successful. If I'm drunk and I decide to drive and I end up crashing into a pedestrian, then it's my own damn fault and I'll face the consequences. If a self-driving car bugs out and kills someone, who's responsible?

All it'll take in a few dozen stories of self-driving cars diving into oncoming traffic like in the parent's story and that'll destroy any trust in the tech for the foreseeable future.
It is, at most, a very mild dependence. Some people do a lot of hand-wringing over the idea that caffeine is a drug, but any negative effects you might expect from a drug are easy to deal with.
Which is why I’m so pessimistic about the likelihood of this.

In the rich world it is not hard to find a potholed road with faded markings, so how can we expect our society to maintain and upkeep expensive infrastructure when we can barely manage paint and basic asphalt?
That quote (and that chapter from C. S Lewis in general) has been stuck in my mind for essentially the past 14 months. It's crazy how insanely powerful "conscious/virtuous" authoritarianism is. It really makes any discussion or compromise impossible.

Of course the concept can seem very obvious but going through it and seeing how the whole process unfolds is still just hard to believe . We've set the stage for justifying pretty much every excess of authority/control. We somehow managed to make having more freedom something that you should be not only be very afraid of but also something you shouldn't even expect to begin with (which is quite a feat). I can't wait to see what it where that will lead us to!
My startup idea was to recognize objects by their shape. I got it to the point where I was able to setup an elasticsearch index that looked at point clouds uploaded and performed feature extraction on what was ingested. I haven't open sourced by code because I probably had committed API keys (but I should make it public now since all those keys stopped existing). The biggest issue was a large amount of debt and lost opportunity cost.

But it gave me a new perspective and at times it was really fun learning so much. I think it has made me a better developer because I made so many complicated mistakes and now I can simplify things.
I'm not asking for deterministic predictions. I'm asking for predictions that are substantially more accurate than back-of-the-envelope calculations.
I think most people don't care because they can't change anything. What exactly do you want a penny pinching working class family to do? Cut back consumption? Easy for people who have loads more money to say. Not so easy for people who break laws just to survive economically, socially, and culturally. Nobody wants to be a schizoid living in a dungeon alone but saving the planet. Coupled with excessive spending habits of morons who can't balance a single transaction in a register make for jealousy or FOMO in many groups of people who suddenly become aware they're gonna die and all they did was live day to day instead of enjoying it.
If you can’t, you can’t, and that’s fine. But people who can, should. Knowledge tends to become siloed, and we always need to work against that; I’m sure the writers of physics and sociology papers, by and large, would appreciate a careful eye from a mathematician or statistician. We don’t have to be experts in each other’s fields to contribute to each other’s projects, the same way you don’t need to have a computer science degree to find a bug in systemd.

Otherwise we end up with situations like this, where something is plainly obvious to physicists but somehow never makes its way into an epidemiologist’s brain. [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
We have a hard time believing it ourselves too. I did leave out that around 25M of it is profits reinvested over time and it did do well because we are in a bull market. Binance forces you to hold 11k BNB to be vip9 to get the best fees, we started buying it at around $15, it's worth now around $300 per BNB, and we also hold other cryptos as a side investment. The rest is algotrading profits.

The initial investment was 40k, no other funding rounds or money laundering.
We are quite successfully using Starlark for an embeddable, executable config language. For example, I can take a Starlark expression at the command line and use it to filter elements of a collection.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
> They are in severe danger of being disrupted by the very automakers they took on.

The worst part is they’re nowhere near: the effective strength of Tesla is that they built a large and reliable network of fast chargers. I don’t know how non-Tesla charging is in the US, but in Europe it’s still a complete mess of half-assed crap, meaning if you don’t have a Tesla you either simply can’t make trips beyond a single-charge round-trips, or you have to plan the trip for days in advance poring over maps and fallback chargers like it’s the 60s and you have to account for 50% odds of needing to rebuild the engine on the roadside.

Not “green book” bad, but absolutely “get close to hurling from the stress and triple travel time because you had to hypermile to reach the charger then it was worse than a home socket”.
Because we are ravaging the biosphere in countless other ways than just altering the temperature and climate. "Just" would imply that those are the only causes of biosphere destruction.
I mean that kind of defeats the point of the effort and FOSS in general.

If you need to pay you just buy RedHat.

CentOS reached ubiquity by being free. Many large corporations already have competent system admins managing large installations/clusters that RedHat offered nothing worth purchasing over CentOS.

Another approach to support is probably better rather than becoming RedHat 0.1
GM Is Buying Back Dozens of Chevy Bolt EVs That Pose Fire Risk
Don’t worry, we can go to Mars to escape Earth’s fate :)

Those who have the money, of course.
Most PC laptops have a key in the function key or media control row for this. Look for one that resembles a monitor, or check your laptop's owners' manual.
>Belarus, does not have that kind of leverage.

Apparently it does now as Russia is forbidding EU fights into its airspace if they avoid Belarussian airspace. Russia and Belarus have disagreements, most of which seem to be due to the egos of their respective leaders, but it's foolish for the rest of the world to not recognize the special relationship between the two. Belarus is like the loud mouth scrawny kid on the playground who stirs up trouble because he knows his oversize muscular brother nearby will back him up in a fight.
I agree! The best websites are those maintained by individuals without a profit motive. Here's a short list that I've started collecting:

- Kevin Kelly: kk.org

- Patrick Collison: patrickcollison.com

- Patrick McKenzie: kalzumeus.com

- David Perell: perell.com

- Berthub.eu

- Alexey Guzey: https://guzey.com/

- https://www.gwern.net/index

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

- https://dcgross.com/

- Paul Graham: paulgraham.com

- https://nintil.com/

- Laura Deming: https://www.ldeming.com/

- Sam Altman: https://blog.samaltman.com/

- Casey Handmer: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/
It's my impression (cannot be proven) that when one of my comments irk people and is downvoted that people look at my other comments and gratuitously downvote them too.
> it needs a full artificial general intelligence.

How do you define full AGI?

On a side note, another approach would be to have sensors in the roads that would transmit boundary information. That might be too expensive and difficult to maintain though.
>Research has shown — and lawsuits have argued — that the tests, long used to measure aptitude for college, are far more connected to family income and don't provide meaningful information about a student's ability to succeed in college.

The linked research shows nothing of the sort.
It feels like Tesla's pitch for it's current iteration of self driving is that it is akin to spotting someone who is lifting weights. Sure you are paying attention the entire time, but it's much less demanding that lifting the weight yourself. However to me it's more like if you were spotting the spotter. Most of the time you can get away with just being on your phone or zoning out, but to do it right you basically have to spend the same amount of energy as the primary spotter.
I can't seem to find the article I saw a couple months ago. Here's one on room temperature storage for 1 year. This accelerates if left in a hot car or similar environment.

https://thecanadian.news/2021/03/08/a-suspected-carcinogenic...
> exactly this method in 2004-2006 but with XML.

Of course! JSON is the modern equivalent of XML. In 10 years everybody will mock JSON just like today we mock XML.
We used this at an early version of ad-network where Advertisers would write JsonLogic against a set of user properties with all the operators. And this was checked at runtime when ad was to be shown. At the time, I thought this was a neat and quick way to give advertisers some form of targeting. We had ~500 active ad campaigns at any given time(not much growth beyond that) and this worked really great.

But I always thought there should be better way for this kind of application. I see a lot of comments about Lisp. My question is: Is Lisp better for above scenario or there is even better way?
It's good manners to refute posts instead of downvoting based on what you wish was or was not true.
We surely are missing a lot. But nature has picked easier problems with a fly. They are small enough to be very robust; flying into things is no problem. They're also cheap to build and incredibly numerous. Flies, well, drop like flies. If we had a similar tolerance for car crashes, existing levels of automation would be fine.
It’s not a plant medicine... it’s a killer of pests.

“Weaponized term” doesn’t necessarily matter. I own a farm and agree our food supply is necessary on them. BUT I think the feds need to look into this. There are likely safer pesticides than others. My farm uses none.
for me, it was much easier to read books like Little Blue Truck or Goodnight Moon night after night to my kids because they rhyme. I could memorize the poetry and read it as my boys went to sleep while half-asleep myself.
This is part of a long, drawn out disagreement (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_s...)
I think I was thinking of a Matt Parker video. I hadn’t seen this one though, thanks!
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda

If there's one open source project that changed blind people's lives, that's it. It made screen readers go from about $1000 to practically free, at least if you're an individual, not a corporation.

Alternatively, learn accessibility APIs for <platform>, and then start fixing bugs in open source apps. The meetings/messaging space could definitely use some work, for example. Stuff like Signal/Telegram, accessibility wise, is much worse than WhatsApp, same with Zoom vs. Jitsi.
Is there a picture of the place with no median?
A couple years ago we were able to hire someone with a visual impairment to do some testing on our website. I consider myself to be very knowledgeable about accessibility, I use a screen reader to test, etc.

But watching someone use something I made, and struggle to complete the task because of a fairly straightforward disability they overcome every day in many ways, but they couldn’t get that thing I made to work? That’s an incredibly humbling experience. Never felt anything like that before. I’d highly recommend doing some testing with a real user if you ever have the opportunity.
See also "We did it Reddit!" wrt Boston Bombings.
> In other cases, its a ponzi scheme, where people have an excessive number of children in order to ensure their own livelihood in old age.

That's also the arguments used by countries like Canada to justify out of control immigration quotas.
Memory consumption and cold code. Machine code is larger, and it takes time to generate that only pays off if you execute the code many times.
...and call it RESET?
Knowing that a probability has doubled doesn't strike me as particularly useful here. If it doubled from 1e-6 to 2e-6, then it's still almost certain that it won't happen. If it went from 0.5 to 1.0, well, that's a different matter entirely....
How are those magical lazy operations implemented in other languages? Someone had to take that insane step. It’s just not by default in go.

Look, I’ve written lots of scala and erlang so I get your argument. It just does not exist in go. And that’s okay.

Never got caught thinking “gee, need a lazy collection”. Maybe a stream when reading stuff from the ether. In go, channel was enough. 5 minute job. Nothing insane.
Apple and Google have done all that work because of accessibility laws at the US Federal and state (particularly California) levels. They have done it because accessibility laws are Civil Rights laws.

They have done all that work to avoid problems in the lucrative market that is the US.

Microsoft has done similar work for the same reasons. Business reasons. Bottom line reasons.
I agree that it could work. I'm not sure I'd want that because I expect that it would make those roads very hostile to pedestrians since you'd probably want to forbid them from crossing outside of designated areas and only when authorized. You'll probably need some dividing walls between the street and the sidewalk.

In many countries it would be a huge culture shift, and IMO a step in the wrong direction. We don't need more urban real-estate devoted to cars.
Your next angel investor. They're 19
Finance, Fitness and Climate. Do these actions play well together?
I expect PXE booting hasn't changed much in 15 years, so you can go find The Linux Documentation Project's HOWTOs on PXE and network booting and it should be about the same now. After that you just need to learn how to extract and create an initrd, and how the init system works to trace the execution of your network boot system.

This is also where shell script-based init systems rock. It's pretty easy to figure out how things get executed in an unusual environment like a network-installer because you can just open up the files used by your installer and follow them. To figure out how systemd might work in a PXE environment you'll need to find the version of systemd and then go download the source code and start reading... Might want to keep a notebook as you go.
If the pages are only accessible via a VPN, what does HTTPS really get you?
> the worst part is that it's not even transferable from one car to another.

That would make sense to do it that way: Sell FSD as some sort of license that always works in any Tesla one drives.

How does it currently work? If someone sells their Tesla does the FSD package follow the car or does the new owner need to purchase FSD for that car?
I forgot about this one. It’s great, thank you! His video with the counterintuitive bead flows was great as well, if I recall. Lots of good stuff from this guy.

Well, both numberphile and Tadashi Tokieda have lots of good stuff, I should say!
Related to what you wrote, I strongly disagree with the argument that some people make, where it is said X lives were saved. But, what they are really saying is that Y people, who wouldn't otherwise die, were killed by the new technology, yet overall fewer died! What good is any technology if it is known to kill people who would otherwise be alive?
As someone who works with ML/data science for my day job, you couldn't pay me to enable AP and sit in the front seat on a public road.

Unless Tesla gets LIDAR I'm not getting in one with the AP enabled.
Off topic a little bit, but has anyone checked the work of the guy who was trying to explain galactic rotation curves using general relativity and gravitomagnetism? Which would lessen the need for dark matter.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26442021
Let’s say that you have the ability to know the state of every neuron, and the interconnect map between them, at all times. You watch a chess player make a move, determine what is going on, and define the process the brain follows as an algorithm. Now that you have an algorithm, you have a very powerful piece of silicon execute the algorithm. Does that piece of silicon have intelligence? You would probably say no, since simply executing a pre-defined algorithm is a shortcut. Intelligence means the ability to develop the algorithm intrinsically in your head.

So fine, we take a step back. Instead of tracing all the neurons as they determine a chess move, we trace all the neurons as they start, from a baby, and learn to see and to understand spatial temporal behavior and as they understand other independent entities that can think like they do and as they learn chess and how to make a move. Then we encode all of that into algorithms and run it on silicon. Is that intelligence? To me, it sounds like it is just a shortcut - we figured out what a brain does, reduced it to algorithms, and ran those algorithms on a computer.

What if we go back further and replay evolution. Is that a shortcut?

To be fair, you did claim that the ability to adapt and make tools is what distinguishes real intelligence. But I wonder if ten years from now, you will saying that a tool making computer is just a shortcut.
A screen-space shader for unlimited vegetation rendered in WebGL using Babylonjs
I have been using quilt a lot a few years ago. We have been working on some embedded systems,and were receiving the base firmware sources of questionable quality from some shady Chinese manufacturer as a zip (or sometimes rar) archive on a flash drive sent by mail. We had to maintain our own "overlay" of changes applied on top of it. The discovery of quilt back then was such a relief!
It's obviously BS. The guy admits he couldn't even get a job at an AI lab with his skills but they were somehow good enough to make a 250000% return in about a year via "algotrading" ? It's ludicrous.
That magazine would have charged a subscription fee right?

You can "flip" through MDN's other (free) articles, or the excerpts they've provided here to decide if it's worth your money.

How is reading free content on your phone harder than walking to a bookstore? (Also this seems like a paywall, not a walled garden.)

I remember those times too, but there were no magazines for me to flip through to learn CSS float-based/table-based layouts. I had to look at ::shudders:: W3Schools.
TLDR:

One guy goes treasure hunting in the Gulf of Mexico

Finds a prosthetic leg

Owner of the leg was an army vet / surfer

The leg was returned
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301463.
Terminus

Nothing comes close.
Good, lumber has been too cheap lately, which was pushing construction costs down and depressing house prices.
The best part of the story, for those of us who aren't overweight and chowing down fatty diets.
> You incorrectly assess the risk by ignoring the fact that it took tens of thousands of years to move those numbers.

We have no evidence of prior exiting of ice ages. Also, The sun and magnetosphere play a much larger role in earth temps than anything we do.

Higher CO2 and slight (<4C) should increase overall yields, local production will be the primary issue.
Did you read the two papers?

1) hydrology professor shows that water is the largest driver of earth's climate (besides the sun of course) and that CO2 has proven to be an insignificant factor, both based on physics and on history, where CO2 levels were far higher, but temperatures did not rise in tandem.

2) Professor Valentina Zharkova predicting that the coming grand solar minimum will lower earth's temperature by around 1 degree C, based on past minima.

Zharkova has a history of being right, by the way, which is more than I can say for the tabloid science currently being peddled in this thread.
For defining (and allowing users to touch) more powerful than static configuration and/or business logic, that you don't want to be turing complete.
I built something like this once for defining form validation rules. It was fun. I was very proud of it. I'd probably just use JSONSchema now though.
Isn't 2600 enough to pay rent for a studio apartment + food in the US? why would you spend the money on tents and whatever rather than paying for proper housing? I don't get it.
Go through what? Raising global temperatures may require moving away from current coastal areas or life changes like that. I've not read anything that would make it seem like a global warming future would be a hellscape not worth living in.

I have young children and have worried for them quite a bit. If they're healthy, if they're getting everything they need, if they're safe etc. I have never once considered global warming as a concern for them. While they're children I'll be able to handle any such changes. When they're adults, they will.
Pet theory: "dark matter" is gravitation leaking from adjacent universes, in specific, from the juxtaposition of many divergent universes.

Most diverge in trivial ways, so dark matter concentration is correlated with where matter is in our universe.

Some relatively few diverge more drastically, so there is a background.

As someone outside the field I remain curious if there are reasons this is inconsistent with observations to date, for some models of the multi-world hypothesis.
Second this, it is the first thing that comes to mind whenever I hear about this voyage. Gives a very bright picture of the ancient world, and it is also a great story of love and friendship.
I feel for you, but I would not expect them to "stop this idiocy". Tesla has climbed the hype ladder to incredible heights. One can't just step off that ladder.
I don't think humans are a good benchmark for what we should expect from FSD.
It’s a “loan” insofar the interest is paid out in over-the-air FSD updates and the principle is irrecoverable.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303744.
IME the billing-centric view is mostly a US-centric view. If you talk to folks who've done EHR deployments in other countries (my dataset is mostly Canada/UK), a not insignificant amount of work is put into tweaking Epic/Cerner/etc. _away_ from being so billing focused. Your other points still resonate, though anecdotally I've seen less private sector interest in doing analysis over providing infrastructure or other COTS software here.
It's also possibly not possible? I used to have a neighbor who used the road. I don't know that they really had any other choice. There were plenty of people on the block who also knew they had a neighbor who used a wheelchair, but that didn't prevent them from blocking the sidewalk with their cars, or setting up their lawn sprinklers to ensure that the sidewalk was really well watered, or allowing their bushes to grow across the sidewalk, or leaving their sidewalks unshoveled for days on end.

Government can do a lot of things, but I don't think it can force people to be conscientious.
Yeah, I left this part out of my comment. My 4th grade science textbook said we were headed for a new ice age by the 90's, and that we'd be completely out of oil by 2000.
My point was not just about performance - a lot of bugs come from the introduction of abstractions to increase readability, because the underlying algorithms are obscured. Humans are just not that good at reading algorithms. Transforming operations on silicon into a form we can easily digest requires misrepresenting the problem. Every time you add an abstraction, you increase the degree of misrepresentation. You can argue that's worth it because code is read a lot, but it's still a tradeoff.

But another point worth considering is that a lot of things that make code easier to read make it much harder to rewrite, and they can also make it harder to debug.