skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally go with a native pronunciation unless told otherwise. So I would pronounce it John Dubwah, but I've learned that it's W.E.B. Du-boys.

But the single most important thing to do is ask how to pronounce and keep trying to get it right. My wife's first name is a Mexican name with an ll in the middle that should be pronounced as j/y (most Spanish speakers don't really hear a difference between the two English phonemes so it's perfectly fine to use either in working towards the correct sound, but j is probably the better choice for most English speakers since y between vowels tends to disappear, at least in Midwestern pronunciation). It's really not a hard name to say, but it does take paying attention for one whole second and remembering something that's not in the standard repertoire of American first names so a huge number of people get it wrong and don't care or say things like, "can I call you — instead?" (the answer, of course, is NO, what the — is wrong with you, you lazy twit).

Take the time to learn how people pronounce their names and give them the courtesy of getting it right. I doubt that most Croats, for example, will care if you don't pronounce č and ć differently, but if you insist on pretending that either makes a k or s sound, you will annoy them.
Tesla's own marketing[1] conflicts with their documentation, then:

> Build upon Enhanced Autopilot and order Full Self-Driving Capability on your Tesla. This doubles the number of active cameras from four to eight, enabling full self-driving in almost all circumstances, at what we believe will be a probability of safety at least twice as good as the average human driver. The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat. For Superchargers that have automatic charge connection enabled, you will not even need to plug in your vehicle.

The following is almost unchanged on Tesla's current Autopilot page[2]:

> All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigate urban streets (even without lane markings), manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed. When you arrive at your destination, simply step out at the entrance and your car will enter park seek mode, automatically search for a spot and park itself. A tap on your phone summons it back to you.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/10/21/behind-t...

[2] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
>I believe this is a case where self driving software should be default illegal until proven safe.

If we go with your suggestion, what would you consider "proven safe"?

Autopilot has been running in hundreds of thousands of cars, has driven several billion miles, and we still don't have enough data to prove whether it is safer or more dangerous then an average human driver. Accidents are rare and we therefore need a huge amount of data before we can be confident that the accident rates we are seeing are predictive. I have no idea how you collect that type of data without them being tested on real roads with other real drivers.
My surprise too. When swift (the language) was still young and I had to use it. I looked for some ready made sql wrapper, and oh boy it had the standard sql injection vulnerabilities because it did not use prepared statements. I ended up writing my own thing. Guess the memory safe language could not help you here :)
I can't withdraw my consent to share the road with intoxicated or distracted drivers. That's just a fact of life. That doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to withdraw my consent to share the road with Beta software.

Plenty of businesses are able to build very effective safety mechanisms for motor vehicles without subjecting the general public to Beta software. To me this is a case where the ends do not justify the means.
I think you're missing the point that the tax authorities tend to have relatively up-to-date information because most people file tax returns annually.

'It's all the government' isn't helpful because government is large and complex and doesn't have any kind of central consciousness. You are conflating legal sovereignty with (the authority by which government operates) with operational efficiency.
In other cars, similar features are restricted to when the vehicle's sensors are 1) able to discern clear lane lines and 2) the vehicle is traveling above a certain speed. Otherwise they're automatically turned off.

This seems like a pretty easy way to ensure the features are not misused. If you're going under a certain speed or lines aren't painted (or they're unclear) you are more likely to not be on the type of road or situation recommended for these features.

Also something to remember: actual pilots that use real auto pilot in planes have countless hours of training in how to properly integrate its use into the operation of the plane.
What about the old cycling elitists who are anti car and anti ebike?

I remember when I was still surprised by the amount of old cyclist dudes who hate the existence of ebikes. Now it feels commonplace when interacting with that community
Sounds like someone should start an even more specialized specialty shop (on the same block, of course) selling only not-round buttons.
Those 1, 2, 3... buttons on the front are presets they already configured. It's triggering their "standing up preset" button once every 45 - 60 mins and then they press the "sitting preset" whenever they want.
I would love, for once, for the some in one of these anti-tesla threads to explain how we will ever get to L5 self driving without the equivalent TSLA's FSD program.
Yes, the contents of a Dropbox account can be assets for sure.

But a Dropbox account isn’t an asset anymore than a GoDaddy/Namecheap/Freenom account.

A domain name on the other hand is an asset, of course like any asset (including Dropbox contents) some are more valuable than others.
> would go to the most deserving students, with the greatest academic potential, whose families have worked the hardest to prepare them

I don't disagree with you but this clearly wouldn't satisfy the complaints of most people in the general population. I went to an Ivy and can assure you that although there were probably some people who completely bought their way in - the vast majority of the wealthy kids there also had stellar aptitude and test-taking ability.

I think probably a more straight-forward (but maybe as politically intractable) solution would be to increase the funding/prestige of public institutions. These already rely much more on hard metrics. Its probably pretty hard to coerce Harvard to not let in that child of a billionaire who is "only" 90%th percentile on the SAT - but not as hard to throw UMass research money.
A remarkably large number of restaurants and similar employers have recently increased their wages due to demand. It’s not just the elite.
If you are lucky enough to live near a micro center, they sell them at the correct price "over the counter", in person only. They limit you to one per transaction to avoid reselling.

My parents live near one of the stores, and I will always stop in to grab one.
The article mentions he gets his coffee from a local food kitchen.

> And don't forget about all the rich people that your tax monies subsidize

This is What-about-ism.

I can be upset about both.
Because of categorical perception (as defined on the https://dictionary.apa.org/categorical-perception page), there's no general agreement on the "correct" way to pronounce a non-English name within English communication to a mostly English speaking audience. Some people argue that the right approach is to always use the closest equivalents within the English phonemic inventory. In this view, it's incorrect to suddenly shift English speech into the phonemic inventory of a name's origin. Listeners, on average, simply can't and won't hear the name consistently, and thus communication is less effective. The opposite view is that this is just another example of cultural arrogance, and it's best to shift out of the English phonemic inventory whenever that's reasonably possible. (For example, in this view, the shift should occur when a name is part of news coverage, and the speaker had an opportunity to learn the phonemes of the original language in advance.)

This isn't specific to English: it's the general question of whether a speaker should always stay within the phonemic inventory of the communication's main language.
I took a look at MUDs a while back. The limitless possibilities are attractive, though the learning curve may pose an obstacle for some.
There are so many combinations of native speaker of language x pronouncing a name in language y, not only Americans and Chinese. It is a waste of time and effort trying to learn all those combinations. Much easier to just not be too sensitive when someone misspell it, most people will be polite enough to adjust it if someone feel the need to correct them, which is usually when they develop more than a one time anecdotal encounter.
Storyboarding Like Satoshi Kon
The Vegas Loop deflated my expectations of having reliable autonomous driving "soonish" pretty hard.

The environment can't get any more controlled, they could even put trackers on every single passenger, and person, down there.

Yet the thing is still just a glorified taxi fleet, human drivers slowly driving trough RGB lighted tunnels.
The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/h-jacob-hanchar-ph-d-72b1a013/
Of course. Why would you expect them to host your video for free when it costs them money?
> In other cars,

In Tesla's too, just not the speed part - I don't think you can assume highways are always above 45 miles an hour, especially if you've ever been on an interstate with lanes closed during rush hour.
Safety regulations for E/E systems (which includes electrical and software components) in automotive are done via "self-certification" and adjudicated via post-facto liability suits. There's no FAA or FDA like regulator for automotive currently. As such, I'm not sure who would/could step in and regulate Tesla currently.
This immediately makes me think of the role attacking pedestrians played in the rise of the automobile.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

The auto companies played dirty. Maybe it's time to make it clear that they're the source of so much illness in American people and cities.
This is true. The results we see are the same, but the forces and ideas behind them differ. It is quite interesting to see the reversal though.

Movies, TV, Videogames, Books and Music supposedly didn't influence behavior, but now supposedly they must given the pushback given certain genres of the above.
I played this game for years. It's essentially how I learned to touch-type. I definitely recommend checking it out if you've never played a MUD before.
I'm making a recommender system for suites of disparately-designed, disconnected driving AIs that seem to work well with each other.

So you put in that you have a Tesla on FSD update 2021.7.20.123 and the supplemental AIs you want to be sure to use, and my AI will recommend you 3-5 other AI systems that receive good reviews with your existing choices. Thumbs up if you like it, thumbs down if not, if your car is totaled, that's an auto-downvote. Looking for funding.
I feel like you came to the same conclusion as me - you don't need both the CTO and a VP of Eng if the technical org is 40 people.
To apply one of my favourite phrases to your post;

"What ineffable twaddle" !

I highly recommend to you the works of David Parnas, Barry Boehm, Fred Brooks, Gerald Weinberg for edification.

Start with the paper; "A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It."
We don't need any understanding of AI/ML in government to effectively regulate the autonomous vehicle industry. Design an appropriate set of tests, make companies run the gauntlet, only approve the ones that pass. The test criteria is simple: does this software meaningfully and statistically significantly reduce the risk of accident/harm/death compared to the average human driver? Add caveats and conditionals as you wish for conditions/weather etc. but it's fundamentally a black box test with no knowledge of technical internals required.
Selling people self-driving "capability" is like selling them "access" to healthcare. Great for marketing because it completely obscures how hard if not impossible it can be to actually utilize the thing you have the "access" or "capability" to, or how available it is to you in the first place.
It varies. The American practice is generally to try and get it horribly wrong. The English practice is to try to get it horribly wrong. In Byron's poem Don Juan, the title character's name is pronounced Don Jew-on. This is, of course, just one example of many.

Assuming you're speaking of Spanish speakers from Spain (and not Latin America), they may be reacting to the customary mangling of Spanish by their UK counterparts. Most of the Latin Americans I've met have no problem with English names. They may say them with some odd vowels on occasion, but they're no unintelligible. It could be heavy exposure to American media.
If this helps at all, it easily pays for itself in reduced hospital fees and improved economic activity.
It's like saying: ~Don't attack the tobacco companies, talk about alternative forms of recreation.~

Sure, but also attack tobacco companies. Sometimes the solution to a plague is to attack the plague.
Consider US58 as it crosses a substantial chunk of Kansas. It passes through many very small towns with a (frequently defunct) retail "strip" that lasts less than a mile. The speed limit typically drops from 65 mph to 35 or even 25 mph while passing through these towns.

Are you suggesting that the fact that neither the towns nor Kansas has altered the lane width in these locations proves that these speed limit changes are nothing but speed traps?
> It doesn't matter if it is happening more or less. The goal is to always be improving.

These two statements seem to be at odds. In order to know if we're improving, we have to know if the behavior is becoming more frequent or less.
This is only in your preconceived prejudices.

If you own a restaurant, and all other restaurants of your caliber are charging $8 for a hamburger, you're not going to be able to charge $5,289 for a hamburger.

There's a wide range of options, too. I buy pens at the dollar store - $1 for 12 pens. The Fulgor Nocturnus pen by Tibaldi was sold for $8,000,000. What, you think their marketing is going to make me buy it? I was going to the store to buy a pen for 8.3 cents, but heard an ad on the radio for the Fulgor Nocturnus for 10% off for $7.2 million and just was instantly mind-controlled and spend the money?

Ridiculous.

You just have this pre-conceived notion of what marketing actually is.

And tell me...if you have something to sell, like a bike or you went into the bagel business and wanted to sell bagels, how exactly would you do it without marketing? Tell me, I want to know. Just sit in your basement with 50,000 bagels and wait for people to magically walk in the door?

If you want a new job, you have to market yourself. Your resume is your marketing collateral. There's also other ways to market yourself - by public speaking, or by public writing, for example. I don't know, maybe you think that when you go to get a job, you don't want people to overpay you, so you just automatically say you'll work for $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage. Can't overcharge yourself, better make the minimum wage. Me, I'll try to get maximum salary.

Silly.
If by "mistaking marketing hype" you mean "believing the actual words that they were told", I guess. But I think that goes well beyond the sort of puffery [1] that is legal because nobody believes it. Indeed, I'd argue that Tesla's valuation is precisely based on people believing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
I'm just about to watch this, very excited to see it play out. I'm listening to the very start of the race right now and it's very funny how things work out:

"[The smartest racer will win, not just the strongest. Well who are we kidding, you need a good bit of luck too.]"

That's certainly true given the sheer luck on display (peloton lost track of breakaway) and how smart Kiesenhofer is. I also think it's interesting how much she dislikes riding in the peloton. She's 10ft off the back in the starting roll-out.
The problem is the tree is imbalanced. The CTO has an org of 40, with 1 VP report, 3 director reports, and 2 IC's.

The VP has 28 - the vast majority of the org.

This role is redundant at this size, and wasteful.

Just have one technical leader who maanged SIX directors (and 4 IC's, and it is still a reasonable size team. What is the VP of Eng providing here that the CTO can't do?

BTW, arguably this is still true at the Series C 400-sized company. The technical org is 114, but the VP of Eng managed 92 of them.
It's easier to filter out the old sodium lights, too, for astronomy and astrophotography. (although these are essentially hobbies... I do think the other broader arguments in favor of stopping light pollution and making the night sky visible to people again are stronger.)
Not sure if I follow you completely, but in my example $user_ids could come from an external source because I’m only concatenating question marks (?), then bind $user_ids with execute and that is safe. What I also always do before passing the $user_ids to execute if it comes from an external source is to validate that everyone of them is an integer with filter_var.
Yeah; anyone who thinks DRY means copy the answer on SO is completely missing the point.

DRY should not introduce vulnerabilities. It avoids them by

1. reducing complexity and cognitive overhead

2. allowing you to fix your code in one place and propagate your fix throughout the codebase
I remember when I learned how to pronounce the Dutch ui which I had been treating as if it were Spanish (wee). Once I learned it corresponded to English ow, suddenly a whole host of written Dutch opened itself up to me.
> why doesn't Chinese transliteration make rational use of vowels and consonants

Usage is way more rational than in English where the number of graphemes and phonemes associations is mind blowing. Save for a few contextual allophones, vowels is very regular, and consonant letters has a 1:1 mapping to consonant which is very rational in pinyin.
Sometimes the solution is to get rid of the problem. Take tobacco for instance.

May not be true of cars, but I'm pretty bitter about the unhealthy car-centric societies that 100 years of auto lobbying has left us with.
The linked article is a writing atrocity. Bad writing.
Market houku.
I'm not sure about 4G, but certainly with some of the earlier variants it was relatively easy to make your local DIY network visible as 'foreign' roaming network to your phone with it's normal SIM.
Which would force you to learn the location of the new feature, and in the next version the button would be gone.
My car in 2004. I kept that thing spotless.

I haven't seen anything like this for years and years on my car - or anyone else's. I don't live in Germany anymore but haven't seen _anything_ like that in Massachusetts or California during the past decade.

https://ibb.co/j301SkQ

Anecdata of course. But this is a thing of the past for me.
How did they teach it? What class was that in? (Guess it was before my time.)
Sure, but you can also get a stochiometric mixture of air and flour that will give you a bad day.
How to Create, Sell and Buy NFTs
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/or9aqc/ro...

The post has been removed but the video is still there.
Awful. I read the GP comment about a list of at-risk kids and my first thought was outreach so that they grow with an appreciation of their community, the police, etc but the cops are instead intent on turning prospective criminals into actual criminals. Insane.
Just 5% of world’s power plants account for almost 75% of carbon emissions
I can’t tell if I crashed my Tesla or if the Tesla crashed me. I don’t have anyway of figuring out what happened. One second I was driving down the road the next I was parallel running into the guard rail. It happen when another car merged onto the highway. I was bullish on the technology and I still have PTSD from the wreck that happened in 2019.

Tesla doesn’t just peddle super car capabilities with FSD, but just recently they seem to support the idea it can travel through dangerous flooded waters. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/ray4tesla/status/1419312854759448585?s=2...
IMO, you really aren't wrong about it being a bad business. There's a reason that so few have been successful. I can count on one finger the number of American companies that have been founded and made it past 100k units in my lifetime. One hand for those that made it to even the first few thousand units.

Its not an investment that I'd want to make. I'm glad that folks are trying anyway, though. I love cars and love the products, but I can't rationalize it as a great business to invest in.
Young investors say they were 'played' by influencer-endorsed cryptocurrency
It's worth pointing out that nuclear power's "capacity factor" has been increasing pretty steadily over the last several decades. In the 1970s, it was ~55%. Now it's in the low 90s% and reached an all-time high of 93.4% in the US in 2019. Which is inconsistent with a claim that there has been a major decrease in nuclear power's reliability (although some of it is due to reducing refueling time) due to climate change.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191201/capacity-factor-o...
From the article:

> Germany’s Mittelstand, roughly defined as businesses with between 50 and 500 employees, may be commonly hailed as the “hidden champions” of nation’s economic success, but in Berlin retail, medium-sized businesses have traditionally been less hidden than absent.

> Two-thirds of the city’s 9,000 Jewish-owned Mittelstand retail companies were lost in the wake of the Reichskristallnacht pogroms in 1938. In 1972, during the Cold War, East Germany nationalised even small businesses with more than 10 employees.

> In such a skewed retail landscape, many small shops found they could compete by specialising in goods neglected by generalist department stores, especially since retail space was cheap and in plentiful supply behind the Iron Curtain.
I've recovered from an covid-19 infection. I would describe the infection as mild. I did get a fever for a few days. But, 2 months after recovering, I am suffering from what is termed "long covid". I suffer from "brain fog". It makes it hard to concentrate. My short-term memory is noticeably bad. Maybe this contributes to scoring low on intelligence tests?
There was a post on HN back in 2016 pointing out that some tasks in Hadoop could be executed more quickly by just using standard Unix tools and pipes. It annoys me to no end that very few languages provide out of the box mechanisms to be able to emulate that sort of simple parallelism. Although I did find a Google proposal for the C++ standard library that, at the very least, made it clear how to roll this functionality myself should I so choose.
PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption