skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upgrading or retrofitting existing infrastructure to accommodate $60,000 luxury vehicles is not the same thing as building infrastructure that removes the need for car ownership.
Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
My (admittedly biology/pharma-centric) point of view is a bit less fatalistic:

Private companies are much more efficient in reaching a well-defined goal.

Academia is much more efficient in reaching ill-defined goals.

The thing is that the majority of goals for basic science are very ill-defined and virtually all breakthroughs are serendipitous (reaching from antibiotics to more recently CRISPR-Cas). So I don't think it makes sense to advocate for one vs the other.
I'm not sure radar would help - the pillar is a stationary object, and car based radar tends to drop all returns at the same rate as the car is moving forward. Radar isn't terribly precise, so you end up with tons of returns off signs, bridge abutments, etc.

Remember, with radar, Teslas will happily autopilot themselves into a semi truck across the road, stopped fire trucks, concrete road barriers, etc. I see no reason to believe that a stationary concrete pillar in the middle of the road would be avoided any better with radar than without.
These spectacular fails weaken the rationalist's arguments that "as long as FSD achieves lower deaths per km driven (or any other metric) than humans" then FSD should be accepted in favor of human driving.

Even if "on aggregate" FSD performs safer (by some metric) than humans, as long as FSD continues to fail in a way that would have been easily preventable had a human been at the wheel, FSD will not be accepted into society.
Ask HN: Is Y Combinator is a cheap hack rn?
I've been an avid follower of YC for a while, looking for cool startups. But man, some of this stuff that the organization is doing is BS.

1. They're straight up just funding projects that are direct copies of trending projects. I've seen some projects within YC that have not only taken the UI another project with the same concept but have even taken some of the copy. Where's the innovation in that?

2. If someone has already been to YC less than a year ago, why the heck do they get prioritized over others that haven't even gotten the chance at the experience yet? It's absurd, I thought the whole point of this organization was to democratize innovation.

There are a bunch of other flaws that many of you can point out. But it honestly seems like YC isn't focused on quality innovation. It just seems like they're funding projects chasing the latest trend and backing founders within that inner SV circle. what are your thoughts?
Found the safety sheet for TMZ:
https://www.merck.com/docs/product/safety-data-sheets/hh-sds...

Nothing about explosions other than dust explosion warnings, but this one is kind of amusing:

"H351 Suspected of causing cancer"
"No, the BPM is actually really low, it was written using demi-semi-hemi-demi-semiquavers"
This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
Ask HN: What does it mean if lead engineer moves to competition?
Roam Research is a popular note-taking app. It's hard to say whether it's the most popular in a competitive, but it's got plenty of loyal supporters as shown by the number of people that suscribed to the 5-year-plan for 500 USD.

Recently, their lead engineer left for a YC competitor: Athens Research [1].

Is this as indicting as it looks? Or is it common? This engineer was in Roam for less than a year, so I don't think his shares were vested, so this is at least a signal that he thinks the shares in Roam are going to be worth less than shares in Athens (assuming equal participation.)

I think this is an important question for prospective users, as they're making long term investments not only money-wise but also because of data lock-in.

[1] https://twitter.com/AthensResearch/status/1414254253124866052
The US hijacks vessels of goods going to Cuba.

I don't understand why you think Cuba's shortages have nothing to do with the US threatening anyone who trades with Cuba.
The monorail posts and planters would be trivially handled by LIDAR. Tesla's aversion to time of flight sensors often strikes me a premature given our level of planning/perception technology.
Seems like a cool concept.

At the same time, it seems like one encounters a fundamental problem with going from a deep learning paradigm to a learning paradigm.

For regular deep learning, you gather enough data to allow you to massive, brute-force curve-fitting that reproduces the patterns within the data. But even with this, you encounter problem of finding bogus patterns as well as useful patterns in the data and also the problem of the data changing over time.

Now, in adding "learning to learning" approaches to deep learning, you are also do brute-force, curve-fitting to discover the transformation between data-pair or similar things that are involved in change, new-stuff arriving. But this too is dependent on the massive data-set, it might learn wrong-things and the kind of change involved might itself change. But that's a more fundamental problem for the learning-to-learn system, because these systems are the one that are expected to deal with new data.

I've heard one-shot/zero-shot learning still hasn't found many applications for these reasons. Maybe the answer is systems using truly massive dataset like Gpt-3.
Then you would have state capitalism, and the government might be biased towards state owned enterprises, ruining the free market.
I wonder if this has to do with how fast typing is. Is there similarly diminished learning in very slow typers? Does a shorthand expert fail to learn as much?
Canada, Mexico, and the EU are all major trading partners for Cuba.
> Because they can't make enough of them

Or because they don't work.

The only ones to claim that it worked were the state owned media, regime and regime-controlled hospitals.

There's a pretty good chance it either doesn't work and the regime is trying to save face or that they copied a western vaccine and are trying to replicate it. They need US dollars from tourism so they have to get the population vaccinated as soon as possible or else the food shortages will get even worse.
E2EE only works with their sync service, so yes, if you care for it. Your local folder is always unencrypted, so any sync service works as long as you forgo E2EE.
Humans have an ... ok ... driving algorithm for unfamiliar roads. It's improved a lot with maps/directions software, but it still sucks, especially the more dense you get.

Routes people drive frequently are much more optimized: knowledge of specific road conditions like potholes, undulations, sight lines, etc.

I would like to have centrally curated AI programs for routes rather than a solve-everything adhoc program like Tesla is doing.

However, the adhoc/memoryless model will still work ok on highway miles I would guess.

What I really want is extremely safe highway driving more than automated a trip to Taco Bell.

I personally think Tesla is doing ...ok. The beta 9 is marginally better than the beta 8 from the youtubes I've seen. Neither are ready for primetime, but both are impressive technical demonstrations.

If they did a full-from-scratch about three or four years ago then this is frankly pretty amazing.

Of course with Tesla you have the fanboys (he is the technogod of the future!) and the rabid haters (someone equated him with Donald Trump, please).

A basic uncertainty lookup map would probably be a good thing. How many tesla drivers took control in this area/section? What is the reported certainties by the software for this area/section?

It's all a black box, google's geofencing, Tesla, once-upon-a-time Uber, GM supercruise, etc.

A twitter account listing failures is meaningless without the grand scheme of statistics and success rates. A Twitter account of human failures would be even scarier.
Not at all. They are free to trade with 180+ other countries.
its about 33% of acres of corn that go to ethanol.....this should go away even before electric cars MAKE them go away
I know for me, writing on a page forces me to commit to a spacial organization for the information— partitioning it into lists, leaving blank lines where I think there's going to be more to add, drawing arrows and connections and so on.

Digital notes don't have any of those constraints, so I don't have to be nearly as disciplined about it. But counterintuitively, this doesn't generally lead to me going back and "cleaning up" my digital notes into a properly organized reference; instead it just stays a garbled mess.

Kind of like how I can't do cardio as its own activity, but I'll happily commit to an 8km year round bike commute. I can only get the benefit when it's a forced side effect of something else.
I just meant to reference the stereotypical (to me at least) way to blow off somebody by claiming to be busy doing something at the time.

In general, I mean that having your picture taken at the wrong time can reveal things people would rather not be revealed, even if to the photographer it looks completely ordinary and harmless.

Some people here will reference the 24/7 CCTV surveillance, but that's kept private and not published as some sort of art project. So though one could compile a video of my coming and going around the town by looking at surveillance tapes, in practice that doesn't really happen. Now random photographers and artists however are very likely to put their work somewhere public.
It reminds me of the discussion of forest fires and whether to let the smaller fires burn to avoid the big, devastating fires. And then there is the question of intentionally starting fires to do the role of the smaller ones.

Given how that debate is not even agreed upon, it is hard to believe that one could come to much of an understanding of the Festival and its need with humans.
Learning Haskell as a beginner might be, IMO, comparable to learning something like Java or other languages w/ a lot of baggage (= daunting for a beginner), so I believe books or tutorials can only help so much.

I would suggest playing w/ a "smaller" language like ML (https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/standard-ml/) or even Hope (https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/hopeless) to understand the sources of inspiration and grasp some concepts of FP, pattern matching and algebraic data types. The more featureful Haskell may be less confusing if you can better discern what are core concepts vs. unique features, and also avoid fixating in monad tutorials.
Imagine your whole life has been spent flipping bits. Highly frustrating, I'm really happy that I also have some real world skills and I'm always wondering whether the buildings that I put up will outlive me.
I was curious what the vaccination rate was in South Korea, and was surprised to see that their first-vaccination rate was below 30% just two weeks ago [1].

[1] https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1451900/south-korea-vaccinatio...
Spreadshirt – Security Incident July 2021
https://www.today.com/food/it-safe-blow-out-birthday-candles...
No, the litter around it is.
Is FSD still operating on a frame-by-frame basis? I remember it was discussed on Autonomy day that the ideal implementation would operate on video feeds, and not just the last frame, to improve accuracy.

When you look at the dashboard visualizations of the cars‘ surroundings, the model that is built up looks quirky and inconsistent. Other cars flicker into view for one frame and disappear again; lane markings come and go. I saw a video where a car in front of the Tesla indicated, and the traffic light in the visualization (wrongly) started switching from red to green and back, in sync with the indicator blinking.

How could a car behave correctly as long as its surroundings model is so flawed? As long as the dashboard viz isn’t a perfect mirror of what’s outside, this simply cannot work.
You can get into weird cases with DWARF based unwinders when two paths through a function with different stack depths makes it impossible to reliably unwind.

LLVM has bugs in this regard with calls to variadic calls, since after a certain number of arguments have been passed in registers, you start pushing parameters on the stack (ABI dependant).
This is what we call "compromise"; when you've got a reasonable position on one side, a reasonable position on the other, and the solution is to meet in the middle and produce policy which is totally unreasonable and makes no one happy.
>"The US hijacks vessels of goods going to Cuba."

The USA is blockading Cuba? This is news to me! There are regular flights from Canada to Cuba via US airspace, and many Americans take the trip!
> A soldier whose leg was blown up in Afghanistan and is still in a hospital - is not part of that $714-733 billion.

Where are you getting that? From here https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/IF11442.pdf and the link in the comment you responded to it seems that it is only about 80 billion.

Even if you add that to the 700 billion figure for the military, and add 200 billion for the entire VA, Medicare and Medicade alone account for well over a trillion dollars, and that’s not even the majority of healthcare expenses in the US.
It's interesting to see what's happening in Cuba when, thanks to the pandemic, foreign tourism grinds to a halt.

The Castro regime just can't cope without having USD coming in the country via the state owned resorts. Starvation, riots, empty stores and people risking it all on makeshift rafts just so they can land somewhere better and send remittances to their family still stuck on the island so they can buy medicine.

These protests might finally be the start of a true Cuban revolution where the island will propel itself forward toward prosperity.
> If two companies with 100% different spam & abuse systems detected something wrong with this ads

Do we know this for sure, or are we assuming they only use in-house resources to determine "suspiciousness"? Could they both be contracting out to the same third-party for some additional trustworthiness signal?
Here's where I start when I'm optimizing things:

- Does my data fit in cache

- Can I make it fit in cache?

- Have I packed my memory efficiently?

- Am I using the right algorithm?

"Can the compiler inline this" is like 5000 on my list of things I care about. Compiler optimizations are mostly only useful to people who werent paying attention in the first place.
Suicide is, by definition, not an accident.
It is better than invoking random code because the runtime mistakes some data for a vtable pointer.
The DANMASK19 experiment, the only RCT on mask effectiveness so far I believe, found no statistical significance on masks protecting the wearer. I wonder if the English demasking would be a good time for a follow-up: we have climbing infections and the change in the law will mean we can have a cohort in each camp; ENGMASK21 if you like. To not do it would seem to be a missed opportunity. Any takers?
Those costs are known, and outside of California and Nebraska, almost no crops are irrigated.

As far as transporting crops to markets? That's actually a success story. Rail hauls most of the crops from Montana to the PNW (if exporting to China). Rail is dirt cheap and efficient, as any true HN reader will know. :)
make all the corn fields back into grasslands that they were and the cows will help rebuild the soil.
Those things are fine in their separate containers. They will not spontaneously combust. If the containers are leaking, or fire starts elsewhere, yeah they could become fuel. But really no more than any other hydrocarbons in your house (e.g. wood, plastic, cloth, upholstrey and foam cushions, etc.)
Come on, dnautics. This is not hard.

You're neither an insider of said companies, nor are you a public figure with enough influence to actually manipulate the market.
Baader–Meinhof in full force. Yesterday I felt like watching some rick and morty. https://www.adultswim.com/streams/rick-and-morty I clicked the LAST STREAM ON THE LEFT during the intermission and this was the exact clip playing :o
We limit delivery to mom and pop stores within 1 hour reach from a warehouse within the city. All orders during a day are assigned to delivery associates that load the next morning and deliver to several stores based on proximity. Our business operations are local to enable next day delivery. As we expand, we will open up to manufacturers in countries outside Africa to launch their products into Africa using Suplias.
Let’s keep in mind how crazy the average citizen is. Half are even crazier
It doesn't really matter what their justification might be, Threats of violence against people for listening to music is a trespass of basic human rights.
In the case of a company offering a paid service? Nobody. Why should the government force you to publish ads you don't want to host on your own private servers?
This may seem tangential, but reply all did a story about scummy locksmiths falsely reporting locations to google. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87

This is relevant because they interview a moderator and they talk about how insufferable these companies are, and how they have a private set of guidelines that they can't reveal that these scam locksmiths are in an never ending battle to subvert.

Under this lens, and looking at the ad [safe] provided, I have to agree with other peoples take, it's likely [safe] tripped over a bunch of private moderation rules about crypto and ponzi schemes, and nothing to do with privacy.
Is the result different for this benchmark for an ARMv8 cpu with its ~31 registers vs an x86_64 CPU with its ~15 registers? For example, M1 vs Skylake?
Definitely agree on the sensor suite.

Even wanting to do things vision only is ok, but the cars simply don't have enough cameras for redundancy. You are a little rain or mud away from having a system that no longer operates.
At least here, the links to the Youtube videos aren't rendered unless JS is enabled.
I've never bothered to look up the hoare thing, but null as a member of all types increases the amount of time spent studying any given API (and of course, there are lots of null pointer bugs from people who didn't bother to study the API sufficiently).
Indigo and every other ag player. Space saturated quickly. Now people need to find ways to fund the 10-40 per acre benefits long-term...
The head of the British government is Boris Johnson.
The original point of Brainfuck was actually exactly to make the smallest possible compiler for a Turing-complete language.

The original was 240 bytes, and created an executable directly.
I'm now a crack shot at hitting the "Reader mode" button after an article loads, but before the no-adblock script wheezes into life & tries to pull it away from me.
Not long ago Team America came and set up Batista, a guy so crooked that Cubans revolutionized and have been relatively tolerant of the also very crooked Castro regime (or at least too poor/hungry to do anything about).
> I think the difference is releasing self driving provides the data Tesla needs to improve it. Releasing a half baked drug doesn't help the pharma company improve it.

The pharma company could see results (self-driving car data) and figure out what caused the issues (details of the deaths in pharma, accidents in Tesla) and use that to make the next beta version.

I don't really see how that isn't an apt analogy.

It's called clinical trials for pharma the key point being it's opt in and doesn't affect anyone around the subject, unlike Tesla's autopilot beta.
In today's world where everyone's trying to be ironic counterculture is mainstream culture, just with more smugness
Planetary-Scale Computing – 9.95 Pflops and Position 40 on the TOP500 List
You may want to check out Mochi [0], a markdown based SRS app. Similar to Obsidian in that it is a local-first architecture with a focus on zettelkasten style note cards.

[0] https://mochi.cards/
Wait, so your friend (or acquaintance?), bought an apartment in cash? Or does he regularly makes cash deposits below $10k?

Please clarify because those two things are THREE orders of magnitude apart.

Buying an apartment with a briefcase full of money is something you see only on Disney movies.
Any bit of research into this (and most of their successes in other fields) will show otherwise.

Or you could supply references and/or an argument. The "if you researched this you'd agree with my claims" approach is pretty pernicious.
Great timing! I literally played this album for my 15 year old for the first time yesterday.
See the other comments in this thread about "Working Copy", which is also referenced in the Obsidian docs:

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/iOS+app#Working+Copy

Sorry Android users, you're on your own to figure this out.

edit: I had to figure out how to perform "Setup Folder Sync". This is done within Working Copy. Here's a walkthrough:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...
Writing games, I've rarely seen the optimizer do anything of substantial use.
There's really not that much meat in regenerative agriculture. Given the current per capita consumption of meat in kg, a regenerative ag operation could never accomplish that.

Reducing to 4-30kg of meat per capita per year seems impossible.

No one can even accomplish that with ruminants. That's why there's so much chicken everywhere, because accomplishing that with ruminants is near impossible, so chicken is advertised massively instead.

A nitpick, there's no single food that is great for human health or bad for human health. Diet can contain various things and be healthy and it can also lack meat and be healthy.
This is an original thought to me.

I wonder how grammar evolves now that most language is typed rather than handwritten.
South Korea has had 2044 deaths, out of 51.7 million people. That's a death rate surely under the usual "flu and pneumonia" rate.

I don't understand, I really don't. I anybody can explain, I'd very much appreciate.
Exactungly, Go's flavour of channels are full of subtle bugs. I could count on N hands the number of times I've had to make a channel to drain a channel.
Loved the All-hands meeting simulator! Congrats
I think this is already true though for highway driving. Highways are long and tiring, and the surroundings model is easy to get right, so computers have an advantage. Most manufacturers offer a usable cruise control which is safe and can probably be active 90% of the time spent on highways. I often switch it on in my 3yo Hyundai as an extra safety measure in case the car in front of me unexpectedly brakes while I‘m not looking there. Add to that a lane keeping assistant and lane change assistant, and you don‘t need to do much.

Except for when the radar doesn’t see an obstacle in front of you, eg because the car in front of you just changed lanes. That needs to be looked out for.
Hey, if you had fun building the thing your time was not wasted.
Some of the covid cost cutting takes a fair bit of mental gymnastics to justify. But really it's just cost cutting.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci was another one that was a great Welsh band, psychedelic folk sort of thing, some similarly absurd/surreal lyrics, and the later material some very emotive folk with a unique Brythonic feel. Loved their song writing.
The US would love another Batista-esque favorable warlord/strongman. Under both the present regime and American interventionism the people will lose.
> Releasing a half baked drug doesn't help the pharma company improve it.

Sure it does. It identifies cases where the drug may have unexpected side effects so either the chemistry, dosage, or expected risk factors can be refined.
And I would also suggest to change website name. safeapps.io is similar to safe.apps.mil. Also safeapps.io does not convey what the app is actually doing. Maybe Open-source-money-manager.com, yet-another-money-manager.com,... Because this app is a money manager - correct?
is that 2.5/7.5% rate on the employee's salary or your revenue?
I was having flashbacks to stuck LILO bootloader prompts.
We've banned this account. You can't post slurs like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html