skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an i5-3300 from 2012, 32 GB RAM, and a SSD. There are no performance issues to speak of. I have a Ryzen 3 3250U from 2020, 8 GB RAM, and NVME storage. The performance under Windows is lackluster, while there are no performance issues under Linux. I'm not sure what the problem is since the software configuration on both machines is quite similar and the performance issues still manifest themselves when there is free memory (i.e. the most obvious difference).
> I'm not saying that I'm looking at the insane UI changes for the upcoming Safari release on the Mac and investigating other options, but I'm not not saying that.

You and everyone else. I'm just taking a wait-and-see approach, on the off chance the new tab categorization stuff makes the new design usable. Otherwise, I'll have to trade a couple hours of battery life and some overall system performance and switch to... something else. Probably FF or a light alternative Webkit browser. Hell, there's hardly a task I do that doesn't put me at at least 10 open tabs, which is already too many for the new design, then if someone comes along and says "hey can you take a look at X real quick", well, now I might be at or over 20 (I find multi-window browsing horribly obtuse unless I have 3+ monitors). And you know what? I'm not always great about closing all my tabs the second I finish a task, and I don't really want to have to do that.

We'll see how it works, but I'm not optimistic. It looks batshit crazy. I can imagine something involving a highly-capable quick-search-to-find-tab system making it better than what we have now, or at least not-worse, but dunno whether they'll be including anything like that.
Up until a couple of years ago, they did get stock (Amazon doesn't give you options, but stock grants). Not sure if that ended when they made the salary $15.

If by 'logistics' you mean the people who pack/ship etc, warehouse work sucks, but Amazon has better salary and conditions than most others (pee bottle jokes aside).

If you mean the warehouse supervisors, analysts, etc, they get paid fairly well.
LIDAR operates by timing how a photon reflects from a surface, it doesn't guarantee see everything. As you stated already, it cannot see in snow or rain.

I am actually on sensor-fusion side, but I don't think we should jump to the conclusion LIDAR is the best 3D mapping method.

For one example, a truck has a breaking distance of 600ft, either Velodyne or OS1 LIDAR has range less than that.
I’m going to say something that might seem provocative: I don’t think anyone should get a PhD in a social science, it doesn’t seem worth the money or time these days. Hard sciences, sure, those academics are very useful. I think we have far too many people racking up debt and wasting time going after a doctorate when they just don’t need it.
> Many companies I talk to have no idea what “copywriting” is.

Probably because they don’t hire copywriters directly, they hire advertising and marketing firms that hire copywriters. (They may have a similar function in house, but if they aren’t from the industries with a tradition of in-house copywriting, they probably call it something else, “content developer” is something I’ve seen that contextually seemed similar, though I haven’t looked in detail at job descriptions.)
Ask HN: What kinds of songs/musical pieces make up your coding soundtrack?
> People are free to retain professional connections with this person.

Only if they want to also be mobbed. I did say earlier that the mob ensures ostracization via fear.

There is nothing redeeming or respectable about being in a mob, but the current cancel culture is attempting to overturn generations of social norms by trying to portray mobbing and witch-hunting as the moral high-ground.

Believe me, no matter how many big words are used to philosophize about the moral superiority of mobbing, at the end of the day the mobbers are no different to any other mobbers.

> But because sexual assault is in fact a crime, people move the goalposts: now, for someone to face social and commercial consequences, they need to first be found guilty in a court of law.

Well, yes. It's much more serious to be a criminal than a non-criminal. You are equivocating non-criminal acts with actual criminal acts and then appear surprised that for accusations of actual criminal acts people require evidence.

It's not shades of gray - there's a thick and visible line between "He's a criminal" and "he has different opinions to me".

You're damn right - for someone to face serious consequences, there had better be evidence that convinces a court that the person committed the crime of which they are accused.
> Sure, but it would be worth it.

Are there really no better investments in electric than tearing up 17,000-35,000 miles of highway to make them slightly more efficient?
When examining crypto and equity investments, I first started understanding the "store of value" investments, and that was my first introduction to the poor fit of real estate to be an investment.

I know a few people who are mortgage rich, and cash poor (or house rich? I don't know the saying). They are essentially stuck. They can't sell the house and move into a new property because relative to everything else, all real estate has essentially moved at a similar rate. They can't sell their bathroom if they needed to.
They have to keep investing in the house to keep it in good condition, so it costs money to keep the investment.

If they want to sell their house, they have to find somebody who wants THEIR house, not the one next door, not one in a different town, but their exact house.

This is in contrast to other investments, gold, stocks, crypto, where you can sell to anyone, you can make money (dividends) if the business is doing well, you can sell any portion of your investment and buy another investment with it. There is no cost to you to hold on to the investment, etc etc.

The only argument I see for owning a house is the "I'm paying myself my mortgage, so it is like investing in myself", but if your money can do better in another investment, I feel you're better off renting and making money in other ways.

The two big questions I think we have are
1) if we suffer population collapse - which is a possibility - what will happen to house prices
2) will millenials, or whoever comes next want to own houses? We thought it was crazy that somebody wouldn't want to own a car, I think it's crazy that any of them would want to have a University degree. We're seeing digital nomads as a fringe atm, but perhaps that becomes more mainstream. What happens to housing?
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics – and they are mostly clever fools – seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.

Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficult, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.

http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
> OOP is not inheritance, just one possible trait among OOP implementations, just like FP isn't Haskell.

I didn't say it was. The key par was "state is managed seperately from logic."

> Component programming with interface separated from state

There is no such things as interfaces in ECS. Interfaces are a way of describing how state is bundled with logic. ECS does not do that.

> Those that promote ECS as not being OOP 99% of the times never read books like the one I linked on my comment.

I'll admit that I have not read that book. Your condescending appeal to authority here doesn't actually promote conversation.

Please, tell me what the "objects" are in ECS or what else qualifies it as OOP?
There are nasty leak currents when the ground is wet. I wonder of they managed to fix that.

Air wires will probably be the way to go, but those will unfortunately be to high for cars.
The rapidity with which they're being replaced by stupid kiosks and robots in countries with strong minimum wage laws says otherwise.
> In essence, the guy was a micromanager with trust issues. They later replaced him, with someone that was actually worse.

At least it had a happy ending… oh wait.
I absolutely don't believe AWS should be shut down. I do think AWS and Amazon(retailer) should be split up, and thats what a majority of sensible people believe.
Rarely do I read remarks so condescending, callous and cruel. Even instrumentalizing the tragic deaths of Shepard and Floyd to dismiss the hurt of another person on its own is absolutely sickening.

I'd like to think that this cruelty is backed up by a good motivation. Maybe the author hurt you or someone you know. Maybe you sympathize greatly with the victims and you're motivated by righteous indignation. But no matter what, I'd really ask you to reflect on whether this kind of unempathetic approach makes the world better or worse. Because this is exactly the sort of incredibly tasteless comment a bully would write.
It's called Western New York to people who live in the upper New York. It's called upstate New York to anyone who isn't aware that New York has more than just NYC in it.
Eh, some may call it noise, some may call it "thank God my work is saved!". That only applies to pushed changesets btw, may I remind you. You can obviously remove/restructure local commits as you like; you just need to enable certain extensions for mutability.
SproutLife – Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life
> it’s also not fair to pull the rug out on these people.

But what if they voted for policies that prevented subsequent generations from ever even owning a rug? The choice they made to secure their retirement is only "safest" if they can convince the non-retired people to treat them better than these retirees have treated everyone else.
To learn more about asset allocation, I highly recommend this book - https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/All_About_Asset_Allocation
Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?
Specifically, what did you think was plausible and what did you think was around the corner (even if either really never came to fruition)?
How do people lose their work so easily with Git then?
Hey buddy, I'm going to pull back the curtains a little on those coding interviews. Solving coding interview questions is a skill that you can learn, just like playing musical instruments or solving mystery novels or mastering a type of video game.

If you hit up TopCoder or Leetcode or one of those other corny interview programming sites and grind away at it for a few months, you can get to a point where you have a really solid chance of getting past any coding interview.

Google is a little sneaky, since they take "Can solve a leetcode question" as a starting point, then crank the difficulty up on the questions even more so you have to be able to solve the base question in ~10 minutes and then expand on it. It's like "OK, you solved the locked room mystery. But now can you talk me through a locked room mystery solution.. WHILE PLAYING DARK SOULS?"

There's a ton of luck involved too. I've run into a lot of interviewers who ask questions they themselves don't actually understand very well. Then I'm in the unenviable position of wondering "Do I tell the interviewer he's wrong? Is it a trick, or is he just an idiot? Is he going to get mad if I tell him?" Another problem is that coding interviewers will ask a question, not try to code up the answer themselves, and just assume it's way easier than it really is.

If you want to get hired by the GAFMAN, just grind out those coding questions (and write working code answers in your IDE of choice or on the command line with vim/gcc). Brush up on your CS when you come across a concept you don't understand. Then get some referrals to get past the HR filter, and roll the dice.

BTW, when you get an offer, don't sell yourself short. Check levels (dot) fyi and/or talk to your peers to make sure you're getting the market rate for your skills.
I’ve got a Tuxedo laptop for four months now, which is a really nice piece of hardware.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en#

Both software support and hardware quality are very good. Bonus points for having a Tux key instead of a Windows key ;-) . Maybe they’ve got something in your range?
One of the arguments made in this talk is which sensor to trust when there is a disagreement. I'd love to see the scenarios where this happens with three types of sensors and the logic they use to choose the "right" one.
The article author seems to be falling into the trap of only thinking the few huge cities of NY/LA are all there is to the USA. Why are home prices *in major cities* rapidly rising in cost? Because every 3rd rate blogger has aspirations to live in NY, which has limited supply.

If all the value is how much land you have, like the author claims, then people would just build a mansion in South Dakota.
You seem to be more upset at Google than the sites you visit that choose to use them as a source of revenue.

Makes perfect sense to me since Google earns most of their revenue from privacy invasion. Their entire business model depends on it. No one is more insidious, pervasive and widespread.
To be honest, none, I either listen to music or do other stuff like coding, I am a single-tasker.
I strongly disagree. By all measures I've seen (including a couple of slides in the OP's video), Tesla's self-driving is far safer than human driving: the number of accidents and deaths per mile driven are something like an order of magnitude lower (i.e., around 10x safer). I mean, the machine never gets distracted, tired, sleepy, emotional, drunk, etc., so it is a LOT LESS likely to crash on boring, monotonous road segments than most people -- who do get distracted, tired, sleepy, etc. Not only that, but people make really scary mistakes in routine circumstances. The video shows several examples of human drivers hitting the accelerator when they actually meant to hit the brake!

The criticism of autopilot is really about it getting tripped-up in response to statistically rare, unusual circumstances, i.e., edge cases. Karpathy et al are working on getting better at those, bringing the rate of situations that surprise autopilot closer and closer to 0%, even if it can never be achieved -- there will be always be surprises. Personally, I would rather take a tiny risk of crash on rare, once-in-a-million-miles events with autopilot driving than a ~1% risk of crash per 1000 to 2000 miles with everyday human driving.

Prediction: Tesla will be the first of all major automakers to get to level 4 and 5 autonomy.
> Patents and certification are going to be interesting for this.

Are they? Is there any plans to make a commercial product? It doesn't seem like it from the webpage. This project appears to hope to marry several existing projects to build an open source cellular network for researchers and private use, which is not even the first time this is being done. It is being funded via the grant linked below.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825310
> Baby boomers entered the workforce in the 60s and 70s with an expectation they'd probably work for the same company for their entire working lives.

I mean Boomers. Yes, they entered the workforce at a time of rising wages and quality of life and in an environment where they expected their employer to take care of them for life even through retirement thanks to pensions.

I think you're interpreting my "following their dreams" in an anti-corporate "not into corporate America" way but that is itself a modern framing. I meant more the belief that they could go to college for what they were interested in with the assurance that plenty of jobs would be available afterwards regardless of their major.
Thank you for a concise and clear explanation.

Under those circumstances I can see how "other people riding a motorcycle" makes your premium go up.

I don't quite agree that the "odds of a collision remain constant" over time. Motorcycles take less space for one. But obviously, being subject to more damage has a selective effect.

However in any case even if the selective trend is applied to maximum, holding to the assumption of safe/damage for riding-vs-driving means that the premium will have some increase vs a "all car" world.

But I live in a world where other people affect me in so many ways that I see this as another similar effect. Damn miners stealing my gaming GPU cards...
I think regulatory capture applies here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture)
When I interviewed with the AWS team I definitely did not get the impression that they were a happy bunch. Then again, periodically being on-call with a 6 minute response time for critical emergencies can do that to you.

Hell, Amazon doesn't even give its employees free Prime accounts.
Please please let there be an unemployment test for individuals receiving this benefit, and a means test for the companies receiving it.

There is no reason for individuals who were employed throughout covid to receive this. Same for multinational rental companies who operated in the green throughout the pandemic.

I don't think my sliver of hope in public policy could handle it otherwise.

Meanwhile, most of the fully employed people I know with student debt are skipping payments in anticipation of federal loan forgiveness
I am curious why you have such a low opinion of SwiftUI, most third party developers I have heard from are eager to drop Storyboards and switch immediately.

The magic involved is not really magic at all, just Swift syntax sugar. Nothing about SwiftUI is proprietary, you can make your own SwiftUI variant by copy and pasting its code. It's just another library after all. Granted, some Swift features do seem like they were explicitly granted to make SwiftUI prettier, but it's not like you can't use those features in your own code or libraries too.
The touchpad is essentially busted. I get about 1s of lag before the cursor starts moving on every touch. I was hoping that improvements to libinput would resolve this but I'm starting to think it's hopeless.

The dGPU is useless with Fedora, my preferred distribution. (nvidia something or other) This isn't Lenovo's fault per se, but an AMD GPU would have Just Worked. The integrated Intel graphics are simply not performant enough to drive the 4K display.

Battery life is abysmal. I get less than 2 hours on a full charge.

The screen arrived with an obvious defect and Lenovo ignored my complaints about it.

The SSD's performance is worse than the one I have in my X1 Carbon, which is older. I find this bizarre and frustrating.
Sensor fusion is hard, especially with data at various qualities (different generations of LIDAR, radar, probably images are more portable actually).

I am actually on sensor-fusion side, and think a transformer can merge everything and generate a coherent world-view. But this is a hard problem and people side-step them after the evaluation shouldn't be dismissed blatantly.

For one:

> It gives you a more robust view of the world than using a single sensor modality.

How can we evaluate that correctly?
I anticipate a future where mobile road repair will carry their own massive batteries by default to restart dead EVs on the side of the road.
If you stop the owner-occupied mortgage interest deduction and property tax deduction (both of which have been nerfed a bit in the last few years), you put commercial landlords at an advantage relative to owner-occupants (as commercial landlords are taxed on profits not revenues, like any other business). I personally think that’s a bad policy balance in its own way.
Disney files copyright claims over Loki fan art
That isn't really going to make a difference. The patents involved in cellular networking extend significantly into hardware.
It worked out pretty well for many of my friends' parents, who bought houses in the American West, raised their kids, and then sold their now incredibly valuable homes to retire to small towns.

Doesn't work so well when houses are expensive.
Years ago I visited the Seneca Pumped Storage Generating Station [0] reservoir in person. It's a massive man-made lake on the top of a small mountain in Pennsylvania, USA.

They pump water up to it at night (when there is excess energy in the power grid), and let the water out in the day when the demand for energy is high (turning some turbines on its way down).

Prior to visiting I had an intellectual understanding of the concept of pumped storage [1], but I have to admit that it's one heck of an experience when you see it up close and personal. My thoughts standing at the edge of this massively perfect-circle deep lake full of water: "somebody built that... and it's one BIG BATTERY".

If you get a chance to visit one of these, I highly recommend it!

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Have you used one of the other ones with Linux?
Not much lol. Checking my expensive Japanese-English dictionary that I only have on Android on occasion.
I think you might be looking at this from the wrong direction, if I may. If you pay with your meal and put a tip on your credit card, you are taxed. When the server claims their tips at the end of the evening, those tips are than taxed. Those are two different things.
And for extra fun, sometimes you'll start typing and get "Contro" in and it will pop up "Control Panel" at the top, but then by the time your fingers have caught up and stopped typing you've got "Control Pan" and you mash the enter key and... it suddenly replaced it with a bing search for "Control Pan".

I actually generally enjoy Windows 10 as an OS, but I actively dislike the start menu search. It's worse than useless.

I just went and punched "drive" in a few times. The first couple times it gave me "Computer Management" since it's related to drivers apparently. Then it decided to give me "Create and format hard partitions". Meanwhile, the several options that contain the literal "drive" in the name are all ignored as the "Best Match".

I too am completely baffled by what sort of algorithm it's using to find and select the most relevant search results.

I have PowerToys installed and have "PowerToys Run" bound to Win+R. I use that pretty much exclusively these days as an app launcher.
> You shouldn’t be able to make a tonne of money by just buying a house and sitting on it.

Maybe you should instead think of it as sitting on a piece of _land_, not a house. Twenty years ago you bought a house in the middle of nowhere, now because of people moving to the area it’s desirable and thus worth a lot more. Whose fault is that?
That's true, I didn't think of that! D:
Good to hear it from the source! Great talk by the way. As someone in the CS field but with no knowledge of CV/NN I still find these presentations very insightful.
Why the supergiant star Betelgeuse went mysteriously dim last year
Not sure if it’s easy to do in most CRTs, but with a little engineering, it is possible to enable RGB inputs.
Make the school year full time. It would give more time for these classes, make it easier on working parents, and give kids more time to learn.

I would require basic law, accounting, and economics classes.