skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a general rule of thumb, if someone has a large, comprehensive data set about something, has claimed they've used it to back a conclusion that is very favorable to them or some cause they're supporting, and refuses to let anyone else see the data set, it's a reasonable bet that they've been "creative" with at least some of the interpretations and analysis.

It doesn't mean they're directly lying, in the sense of "You can't reasonable get these numbers out of the dataset." But it probably means that there are some games being played such that the number you're getting isn't the number it's strongly implied (or, occasionally, outright stated) to be. Or, if it is, it doesn't mean what they'd like you to think it means.

So, if you go back a few years to the first waves of numbers Tesla trotted out to "prove" how amazing Autopilot was, you roughly had:

- The fatality rate per mile of all drivers, in all vehicles, in all conditions

being compared with:

- The fatality rate per mile of expensive luxury cars, driven by older, well off drivers, mostly on limited access divided highways, in "easy" driving conditions.

You can certainly do the math and get a comparison, but it's not a particularly reasonable comparison, because:

- In general, six figure luxury cars are really, really safe. They're big, heavy, loaded with airbags and safety features, and really don't kill people very often at all. You can go look at a breakdown of death by vehicle type and class, and it turns out that luxury cars are very much under-represented in fatalities.

- Expensive cars tend to be driven by older, more experienced drivers. There's a bathtub curve of fatality rates by age (https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...) - younger drivers without much driving experience die more, and once you get to 70+, your fatality rate goes up, but there's a sharp drop going to the 30-39 group, continuing to decline up to the 60-69 group. Guess what age range is going to be mostly buying Teslas?

- Divided highways tend to be fairly safe places to drive - especially in lower speed situations where a lot of people are going to be using Autopilot. You're exceedingly unlikely to die doing 20mph in rush hour traffic. Even running at speed, limited access highways are fairly safe places.

- And Autopilot simply doesn't work in bad enough weather. Again, a lot of traffic deaths are in pretty sketchy conditions - rain, snow, sleet... things that older Autopilot, especially, simply won't work in.

So, yes, a straight up comparison of the two numbers ("fatalities per million miles in Teslas with Autopilot engaged" vs "fatalities per million miles of all vehicles in all conditions") is at least somewhat deceptive.
You go on to AWS for their managed services like Fargate, DynamoDB, ECS, S3 etc. Have used OpenShift in the past and had endless problems with cluster stability (especially in 3.x), and weird inconsistencies.

With AWS I could just spin up 10 Kubernetes clusters with pretty much unlimited resources, can't do that in OpenShift because you'd hit a resource quota or limit.
Thomas isn't just ignored, he is actively campaigned against (As a person, rather than his views) and 'unpersoned'. For example, there is a wonderful PBS documentary, Clarence Thomas in his own words, that was removed from Amazon Prime TV during Black History month at a time the company chose to 'center' black voices.

Apparently only black voices with the correct political leanings.

Love him or hate him, I highly recommend the documentary. It's very humanizing.
In my home country (that I share with the US Marshalls) you have the constitutional right to express a desire for harm to come upon anyone or anything, regardless of whether it's a federal judge or not. It's worrying that a federal agency would do anything in regards to comments that are clearly protected by the constitution.
And for music producers! Logic Pro is probably the best bang for the buck you buy right now as far as DAWs go.
Basic people like you shouldn't be giving messages. You failed so I guess that means you'd prefer if everyone else fails too. I don't know why you're so bitter about your average life because you seem average in general.
Well, if it's solved via blockchain, there's an opportunity for speculation among early adopters, which I think is the major selling point for most blockchain "solutions"
But this is a thing that needs to be fixed in earlier education (basically the schooling/schools before college need to be fixed), and not later, where you basically accept an objectively worse applicant, because they happen to be some specific race.
what? I don't think that's what he's saying lol
None, as long as they don’t try to agitate children. Again, same as with drugs or alcohol. (Well, “do bad things” is a crime, but looks the same of you replace homophobia with any other reasoning.)
Thanks for saying so. We're going to iterate on it so suggestions (from anyone!) are most welcome.

There are so many S21 startups wanting to launch on HN before Demo Day that I think we're going to be doing a lot of these, at least for the time being.
There's a decent argument to be made that standardized tests distort the education system by making good test results the goal of teaching and attending class, rather than learning whatever the class is supposed to teach. To put it differently, it's not comparing students on the basis of tests that's the problem, it's what those tests cause the students and teachers to do in the year leading up to them.

I used to be quite strongly anti-test because in my opinion, testing well is a skill like any other that can be learned largely independently of what the test is on, and it doesn't transfer outside of a school environment. I've softened that opinion a little because testing well seems to require performing abstract thought under stress, which is probably useful in more situations than I originally thought. Still, while it's useful for categorizing students, I still suspect it has a net negative effect on learning outcomes.
Okay but they're talking about a difference of a few percentage points, and the survey collected a lot of other demographic information. It strikes me as very unlikely that this is statistically significant. If you check every demographic split, you're likely to find a handful that show whatever phenomenon you want (in this case that crypto is more popular with group X).
I'd say it's very different with X. I looked at the large number of hardware design docs that were open-sourced[1] when they shut down Makani - hell, even the Makani documentary[2] was mostly about hardware (material science, mechanics, aerodynamics) with a some software sprinkled in.

1. https://github.com/google/makani

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE
I suppose the fact that he's a Stanford professor (formerly Cornell), and has written a large number of popular books.
I'm saying it doesn't work as a paragraph to do that. The article makes the reader work to figure out what this thing is.
Incorrect. I've had the chance to use it. I'd take responsibility, in the same way I must whenever I operate a vehicle. They are good systems and frankly already handle a lot of tasks better than people - like driving at 50+MPH on busy highways, because they don't get bored, tired, or angry.
> At least Apple stick them on a daughterboard.

This is the least Appley thing I’ve heard recently. Making everything as small as possible with every single trade off that entails is their style. I say that as a hardline Mac user.
> building a machine of machines

a self replicating robot / factory / 3d-printer, a potentially new form of life
> you ideally place your 2fA devices to multiple people you trust

That's a really good point. I keep a key with a friend in another city. When I visit them I use a query like the one above to determine any services that need to be registered with the normally unavailable key.

> So it makes this setup a bit harder than it could be.

I wish there was a way to enroll keys without them being present.
A prominent world-award-winning fantasy author summarized a convincing argument on the subject a number of years back.[1] His argument is that heterosexual marriage is both necessary and challenging because of the natural differences between the sexes. If we remove stigma from same-sex unions, such as through the efforts of activists, men will tend to prefer same-sex relationships because they are simpler and more enjoyable:

> Men, after all, know what men like far better than
> women do; women know how women think and feel far
> better than men do. But a man and a woman come
> together as strangers and their natural impulses
> remain at odds throughout their lives, requiring
> constant compromise, suppression of natural desires,
> and an unending effort to learn how to get through
> the intersexual swamp.

[1] http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html
So your college didn't require an essay. Is that the rule or the exception in the US? Nearly all colleges require essays. Your college may not have used "holistic reviews" but nearly all colleges in the US do.
What are some competitors in this space? I would be a customer of one of these businesses.
I don't have expertise in video codecs or file formats, but couldn't you hash the first N bytes of a stream? Stream those N bytes to the client and if it matches start the video, else stop the download and not start the video.
A land value tax might be a more effective way to encourage redevelopment. That way it doesn't matter if unused land is in public or private hands.
I haven't noticed anything of those sorts of suggestions on the Start Menu in a long while. Though I probably did turn things off once long ago. I also use a Microsoft Account to login to Windows and I've also heard that makes a difference sometimes in the number of "suggestions" that you see (in that it shows more for Local only accounts for some reason possibly as dumb as "has no way to remember what suggestions it has already shown to you").
Honestly I just want the cute little doggo to follow me around while I'm shopping. I don't care if it's trying to get me to buy things.
My account was completely disabled. I tried two other phones that are compatible with att volte and they only worked after talking to att support.
Apple: Recognizing People in Photos Through Private On-Device Machine Learning
One of the services I've sold more than once was to handle the "offlining" of a domain. Basically provide a 307/404/410 service and make sure it works for a long time before the name gets released. Basically to help clean up on the way out.
DE Shaw rejected me after I submitted my SATs (not once, but twice).

What even is the point of living if society deems people like me to be inherently inferior for life?
The distaste is a black man who is a republican. That is all there is to it. Ask any non-white republican, and you will understand. The hate dished out towards us is on a level white republicans never see (not that they should... it's absolutely ridiculous). Accusations of 'Uncle Tom', 'race traitor', etc are common. When the various racial groups organize anywhere, and you volunteer your time with them, they silence you, get rid of you, and prevent you from speaking up elsewhere.
Disneyland, Disney World, and The Woodlands, TX (where I live) all require 100% buried power lines. The visual difference when crossing in or out is quite apparent. Buried lines improve quality of life for residents and visitors.
The Decentralized Michael Milken
Here's some praise: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algo...
In this article about the impacts of dropping the SAT, I would hope to find a coherent analysis of the impacts of that policy vs. the status quo. Unfortunately, that analysis seems internally inconsistent:

"In short, this decision will probably hurt thousands of Asian American teenagers, backfire for Black, Latino, and low-income students, and make little difference for affluent whites."

Wait a second. If this policy is going to reduce enrollment of non-white and low-income students, and make little difference for affluent whites, then which demographics will see increased enrollment?
> Soon, once the spam arrives in your Google Drive, you'll be able to click the menu button next to the item and choose "block user."

So it's going to be absolutely useless, then. 100% of blog spam is from unknown email accounts.
Sounds like my school district. Freshman were technically banned from taking AP classes (but of course, some parents spoke to the school and thus they were allowed in). And naturally the valedictorian 3 years later was one of the 4 that was able to get into an AP class freshman year.

I always felt quite vindicated when I got my class rank (8/432) even though I had a "normal" schedule. 0, 3, 6, 7 APs. I even took a free period and only had 6 classes junior year as opposed to the normal 7!
It's almost as if comments are not worth the trouble
Assuming there is no malicious intent behind the embeds you could have the hash in the header of the video.
When are we going to start talking about black privilege?
What world do you living where people share or remember their high school test scores?

I've almost never heard of anyone caring about their SAT scores since freshman/sophomore year of college. The only people who still talk about them are the people who did really well on them complaining that they didn't help get them jobs once they graduated.
This seems to work amazingly well even for our local birds.
My read is that the order had both conditions: preserving records, and gagging against revealing the order.
Nice.

Here's much the same job, being done almost 50 years ago, by a robot at the Stanford AI lab.[1] This robot has both vision and force feedback, and uses them to assemble an automotive water pump. It does the coarse alignment visually, and the fine alignment by feel.

[1] https://archive.org/details/sailfilm_pump
One explanation I've heard is insurance - a degree is supposed to prevent someone from making mistakes so egregious that the person ends up in a life of poverty. As you pointed out, degrees are overwhelmingly received by people who already have some family wealth, so it's easy to sell university as the cause of those higher lifetime earnings.
Tear Down the Restaurant Sheds Before It’s Too Late
I don't think they are stupid games. It's a policy they are forced to enforce. Good intentions turned into law often turn into bizarre actions from government departmens..
In two days, my facebook account will be gone for good.

I plan on throwing a party!
Sometimes my work-issued Macbook decides that it no longer wants to display an escape key on the touch bar (and there is no physical escape key). People joke about not knowing how to exit vi, but it turns out the game is even harder when your machine takes away your escape key!
> as Alphabet apparently thinks everyone is still doing. The obliviousness of suggesting that using ML models for robotic control is some unique new idea is really off-putting.

Intrinsic/Alphabet are not suggesting they are somehow unaware of easily-Google-able state of the art in ML robotics. They literally used to own Boston Dynamics.

From the post, the second demo of their tech (“Two robots use perception, force control, and multi-robot planning to assemble a simple piece of furniture”), is very clearly much more than “moving Petri dishes”.

FAANG has access to the leading factories in Shenzhen, and heavily utilize robot tech in their HW supply chains.
I think it's pretty telling that there are lots of letters like this from Microsoft, but almost none from Apple.

I can't imagine someone from Apple writing a letter like this to Jobs and still working at Apple.
So the argument is that if being gay is legal, straight men will turn gay because it's easier than dealing with women? And that strikes you as a convincing argument, does it?
The head of robotics there mentioned that it was a strategic move because OpenAI wanted to focus on AGI. If OpenAI had other goals, like improving robotics, the division would still be around.
> Allowing families to choose what school they go to,

This is a non-starter for any family that depends on public school buses to transport their kids to school. It might help to some extent in regions if schools are in close proximity but overall it just becomes "School choice for people with parents that can afford it".

Plus I would be surprised if it there's a case the program led to a 'bad' school closing and a 'good' school opening on the same facility/location. What tends to happen (my state has this) is that rich/educated parents do everything they can to get their 3-5 year old into the best school and the poor/uneducated kids are still stuck at the 'bad' school. The 'good' school ends up with a large waitlist which wealthy parents work around by moving close enough (which costs more) such that the good school is the default school for them.

The only equitable method would to make every school use a 100% raffle system but that's not logistically possible.
It's great that we have these laws and the U.S Marshalls to enforce them since a lot of jerks wind up in civil litigation because civil litigation is how one can deal non-violently with jerks who try and screw with people's businesses, and cause damage and harm. These jerks are used to getting what they want through intimidation and well... being jerks. Without this kind of protection, there'd be nothing to stop these jerks from getting their way through continuing their pattern of intimidation.
I don't think they complained super hard here, and the transparency is good regardless.

But I agree: of all the law enforcement oversteps that we see in this country, this case barely registers.
Ok cool. Well don't forget to post your work here when it's ready. If you're not just a crazy person then it's bound to be really interesting.
TL;DR: Cloudflare are upset that AWS won’t peer with them in terms of Cloudflare’s choosing, and this is the angry shitpost.
> The Pillar correlated a unique mobile device to Burrill when it was used consistently from 2018 until at least 2020 from the USCCB staff residence and headquarters, from meetings at which Burrill was in attendance, and was also used on numerous occasions at Burrill’s family lake house, near the residences of Burrill’s family members, and at a Wisconsin apartment in Burrill’s hometown, at which Burrill himself has been listed as a resident.

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...
Odd. The form appears to be ok after some testing. Can you send an email to sales at sitenna dot com
I can't point to something better than the SAT, but I can tell you what people don't like about it. SATs correlate with demographics in ways that conflict with the concept that merit is evenly distributed among student demographics.
Honestly, looking at Oracle Cloud, I think the best thing they could do is spin off and just completely remove any trace of the name Oracle. You have some absolutely fantastic products that are being criminally neglected because people won't go anywhere near the name, and can you blame them?
Shouldn't be. It's fairly classic human nature.

There's lots of folks with axes to grind, that are excellent spinners, and lots of people that are maybe...a bit insecure, shall we say, that eat that spin, and turn it into venom.

The old "Ford vs. Chevy" spat can get like that. People kill each other over which football teams they like.

It's easy to see why folks don't like Apple; just as it's easy to see why folks don't like every other platform.

It's just that there's a lot of really unbalanced folks out there, and even more folks who like to set those people off.
I was always wondering what method the Abacus guy used for calculating the cubic root
they just wanted a story.

also, its more likely the us marshals were trying to connect the dots on more straightforward threats and this comment ended up in the drag net.

so if you think internet threats are a big deal, then the effort going into documenting those potentiak threats are still important and juzt becausw they observed a false-positive dowsnt mean the us marshalls went overboard.

the end basically just confirms there was nothin in that specific comment.

maybe if they dug deeper, like a journalist would, they would illuminate what the actual broader activities were.
Actually, the Vatican City is a remnant of the Papal States, a nominal nation that encompassed significant parts of Italy for much of the Middle Ages. And the Papal States were a descendant of the "Holy Roman Empire," which encompassed massive parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. Vatican City is the smallest that it's been in over a thousand years.
> 10 megawatts per square kilometer (annualized, already accounts for night time and clouds) is a decent rule of thumb for solar farms.

Oops, you're absolutely right, I didn't square the power, and it messed up the answer by a factor of 1000!
Most likely prosecution for destruction of evidence if the Marshalls could be arsed.
New account? That's so 2020. Your account will be the one issued to you at birth that happens to have your SSN as your username.
Each individual is a minority of one. Forced equality is oppressive at individual level.
Well, it is basically an IQ test.
That’s kind of hilarious but gross all at the same time
I'm fairly concerned about stochastic terrorism, but I'd disagree about that comment. Reading it in context, I'd say the author has some inaccurate views about how often people will turn to murder rather than pay court fees, but... it's not the same thing as saying "someone should do X."
Why does there have to be a "war"? There have been times in history when multiple currencies have been used in parallel for international trade.

See How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chitu:

> At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three noted economists provide a reassessment of this history and the theories behind the conventional wisdom.

> Offering a new history of global finance over the past two centuries, and marshaling extensive new data to test established theories of how global currencies work, Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chiţu argue for a new view, in which several national monies can share international currency status, and their importance can change rapidly. They demonstrate how changes in technology and in the structure of international trade and finance have reshaped the landscape of international currencies so that several international financial standards can coexist. They show that multiple international and reserve currencies have in fact coexisted in the past—upending the traditional view of the British pound’s dominance prior to 1945 and the U.S. dollar’s dominance more recently.

> Looking forward, the book tackles the implications of this new framework for major questions facing the future of the international monetary system, from whether the euro and the Chinese yuan might address their respective challenges and perhaps rival the dollar, to how increased currency competition might affect global financial stability.

* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177007/ho...
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