skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice concept.

Unfortunately, I have tried to identify some of my plants but it could not identify correctly a single one. Just an endless procession of at best similar plants, most of the time completely dissimilar.

I think this is another naive model that just tries to push entire problem to AI. That is unfortunately what I am seeing nowadays, very unimaginative. Just try to have fun with parameters of the network until you find some kind of configuration that seems to be working.

What it would benefit from would be some kind of analysis/classification of basic features of the plants like what's the basic shape of the leaf, trunk, how things are connected, etc.

The classification would benefit from AI (like identify where leaves are, where trunk is, etc.) but then that intel would be passed to a more classification-oriented algorithm.

(disclaimer, I am not an AI developer, it just seems to me like pretty rational way to approach the problem)
And that's if it doesn't work. The fact that nobody seems to have thought through the consequences of what if it does work is to me even more frightening. In the past if jobs were made obsolete trough mechanization at least there were other jobs. But this is the 'end station', after this point there are no 'other jobs', other than highly skilled ones and preciously few at that. Because self driving cars are pretty much synonymous with general AI and that will make a good chunk of humanity redundant to a degree that we have never witnessed before in history.
A public bus already satisfies both those criterions.
That goes for most things about ADHD - it's a collection of symptoms which everyone experiences to different extents (which is why so many people claim that ADHD doesn't exist and everyone has it)

The distinction comes when you experience those symptoms constantly and to such an extreme that it becomes debilitating - to such an extreme that in order to cope, you have to structure your whole life around it.

In the context of that blog post, it goes from "yes this sounds like me" to "I need almost everything on this list or I will burnout and quit within 6 months".
EU has too much bureaucracy, taxes and it's just not a good place to do a business.
> Reminds me of Japan’s “Fifth Generation” initiative/boondoggle back in the 80s.

Same here, though for a somewhat different reason. The Japanese government has a penchant for buzzword-driven policy initiatives, where a particular term—such as Fifth Generation, globalization, or this Society 5.0–represents some policy focus and organizations seeking government funding make that buzzword prominent in their funding applications and publicity. SDGs (sustainable development goals) seems to be the biggest government-driven buzzword in Japan right now—even elementary school children are being taught about them. I wonder how long that will last.
You should expect more variance at the tails of a distribution because the numbers are much lower.
I'm positively surprised that you are not being downvoted to hell for saying this. HN loves techno-utopian religiosity.
> riding around Miami Beach in self-driving test cars several days a week

I watched the video. 2+1+2 lanes, no trucks parking on the side, no bicycles, no bicycles-lanes. No pedestrians crossing the road, no pedestrians at all. Clear blue sky. The car can take a left turn alone. That's cool, until you realise that the majority of the cities outside of the USA doesn't look like Miami Beach. I highly doubt that any "self-driving" car could travel through Munich today without killing at least a couple of pedestrians or cyclists. And still, Munich is like a dream compared to Rome or Ho-Chi-Minh-City.

BTW, only because sometimes I feel safe enough to ride my bike without hands on, it doesn't means I have a self-riding-bike.
YouTube feed seems doesn't work. For example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0qA-eDDICsRR9rPcnG7tw return "No feed found at that URL."
Nothing is going to change unless we break free of this shit VC funny money cycle.
Corollary: can I send my car to school to pick up the kids? Send a package? Go to the garage to get itself serviced?

Self driving cars will lead to a lot of extra cars on the road for trips that wouldn't happen today because at least a warm body in the drivers seat is a requirement to make the trip.

So the self driving car will cost countless jobs and will be a huge cause for more traffic on already quite congested roads.
> Can I sleep in it?

> That’s it. That’s the test. Pick a vehicle. Can you get in, pick a destination and safely go to sleep?

The problem with the litmus test is that it sweeps all of the complexity of the question into the word "safely". Self driving cars aren't like, say, an elevator, which has physical mechanisms that an engineer can inspect and show to be in good working order.

There is no human being or group of beings that can inspect the quality of the training data used for full self driving--the black box cannot answer for itself. A car might be able to drive nicely on straight, sunny roads... But reality has far too many edge cases such that the models can never be trained for all of them. What would the model make of a zebra or ostrich walking down the road? What if a baseball line-drives towards the vehicle? A tennis ball lands in the road--not an issue in itself for the car, but the oblivious 3 year old chasing after it would be an issue.

Thus, allow me to propose an alternative razor, Invictus' Razor: It's not a self-driving car if it uses training data. Reality has too many edge cases and it's impossible to train for all of them.

I believe we will need a new algorithm to do this task, something that ends up mimicking the human neocortex. What we have now is fundamentally not good enough.
So Google is just passing on the tax to customers. Instead of taxing Google they are just levying a tax on business doing advertising. A bit like those taxes on burnable CDs.
The only thing I hate about Safari is that it won't let me go full PWA. Besides that, I'm fine with it.
We use Xero for all of our accounting but what has always shocked/surprised me is that their backup/export facilities are so poor. We have all the source data so it's not a disaster if Xero loses data, but we would pay double or triple to have a monthly data dump a la Slack.
Not really. You are ignoring the network effect. The vast majority of the matrix network, including the by far the largest node, is using the software developed by Element. If they change something, any competing spec will lose access to federation, and, subsequently, users.
And if some users are to be believed it is here today, and already safer than ordinary drivers, even if that requires some mutilation of the available evidence.
No, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?
The augmented reality function that seems to allow you to label your plants seems intriguing. I wanted to try this over PicturesThis (I don’t like how PictureThis makes it look you need their subscription for the app to work)
But it seems the app is not available in my region maybe because of GDPR, I guess?
Is that really so different from people buying a phone that will be supported for a year or two and using it for years afterwards? From what I've been able to gather, many Android phone vendors either don't give any promises regarding software updates or they only provide them for a couple of years.

I suppose there could be some genuine reason for why that's a specific problem for Nokia's support claim here, but I'm not sure if you've actually got something like that in mind or if you're just being negative.
In Sage's case, they're having an Identity outage and Xero have their own identity setup internally (ie; not dependent on any external services) so it'll be purely coincidental.
Can you share more details on this ?
It's a self driving car when it has a chauffeur, and you can afford it. The other thing currently does not exist.
Indeed, the latter problem is the same as implicit traits.

For the former, you can absolutely do it without having object-orientation or anything like that. Simply lower the iterator protocol to

```
itr = iterator(x)
while (i = next(itr)) !== nothing
# stuff
end
```

Then `itr` can be mutable, even when `x` isn't. This is what most modern languages does, and it solves all the problems I mentioned, since the state is stored in the mutable iterator, while at the same time, `x` can be unaffected.

Read more here: https://mikeinnes.github.io/2020/06/04/iterate.html
Orwell's “The Lion and the Unicorn”
The only one thing that has all the difference in world to me about work: quality of coworkers.

The business can be failing with layoffs around the corner (I’ve been there). The current job can be building really shitty things that have trouble releasing to the public even possibly due to really poor code quality from the team. No matter how unproductive the technical environment is or how bad the business becomes the stress factor always comes back to quality of teammates. Always.

In your current work environment how far will you go to help a teammate? Seriously, how excessively far? Will your teammates be there for you just as much?

This condition is a major factor in retention in the military and it’s something none of my prior corporate employers knew how to foster. My current employer seems to have it really nailed though despite being a monster giant with 270,000 employees.

Culture is driven by leadership both intentionally and through inattention. Great work culture is never an accident. It’s there because leadership has intentionally invested considerable resources on it and frequently seeks to continuously improve at great expense.

As a leader be a listener and solve problems more than just administrative concerns. Really be there for your people and empower them. As a contributor invest in your teammates. My recent mid year feedback from my manager actually suggested I focus less on doing business related work and more on providing training and mentorship. I am fortunate to be surrounded by junior developers who have a real hunger to improve their technical competencies and want to do the right things in the code even when internal processes make that frustrating.
To be fair the level system is dumb so I support anyone that wants to describe things in a better way than it does.
I'm positive there are programs that can take a screenshot on a timer already, or at worst easy ways to achieve that
You aren't liable for the accidents caused by the taxi driver or chauffeur or even when taking a train so you shouldn't be liable for ones caused by the self-driving car, the car maker should be.
How the hell are you supposed to determine if the conditions are suitable for a computer?
The Nigerian Government Is Destroying the Country's Tech Sector, Experts Warn
One perspective:

I've been doing the digital nomad thing for many years and while I'm more or less ready to be done with it, I think it's worth doing for a while if you can and you seem perfectly set up for it.

The lifestyle you can live in Chiang Mai or Medellin or a few other spots for whatever you'd be paying to live in SF is hard to describe without seeming hyperbolic.

If it appeals to you it's worth looking into. My email is on my account feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Not great since it allows human remote assistance and even human in-person assistance like Waymo has. If your taxi is a Tesla and the driver uses all the driver assist features, does that make it self driving? Plenty of grey areas.
> That's cool, until you realise that the majority of the cities outside of the USA doesn't look like Miami Beach. I highly doubt that any "self-driving" car could travel through Munich today without killing at least a couple of pedestrians or cyclists.

Yeah, simply stating that they aren't yet at GA status seems pretty uncontroversial. Gotta start somewhere though :)

> BTW, only because sometimes I feel safe enough to ride my bike without hands on, it doesn't means I have a self-riding-bike.

Right, that was pretty much the point of the article.
After reading through some of the job descriptions, I get an impression that there's a disconnect between what job posters want and what an actual wildcard might be. Can't quite put my finger on it, but the following doesn't really feel like they're looking for someone potentially chaotic.

> Manage products from concept to design, requirements, testing, pricing, promotion, and support.

> Prioritize thousands of bugs and feature requests using a ruthless focus on both quantitative and qualitative criteria towards defined goals

> 5+ years of SaaS product management experience working within the financial sector

I get that's for a Senior position, but let's be real, they're looking for someone with specific skills in a specific domain that have been applied in a somewhat linear fashion for years. Is my impression off?

Your FAQ describes someone who might be doing a tradeshow one week, while probably not also being responsible for programming some feature, nor do they have unlimited time and energy. But those job postings read like they just want someone to be responsible for everything all the time, because everything is arbitrarily urgent, and manage it well.

I don't know quite what I'd expect to see, maybe I'm just too far gone from being in a job, but I feel like just short term contracting might be the thing to do.
A public subway even more so, because it can actually be self-driving.
HMD Global has been making phones under the Nokia brand for years now. They're not going to disappear in 6 months.
> "The entire point of language is to be understood by others. If you're unwilling to take any time to find out how to be understood, then you're really just failing at basic communication. It's not up to others to interpret your misunderstanding of how to correctly say something, it's up to you to put some effort into being understood."

These are all true statements. They are also non-sequiturs: true statements that have no bearing on the argument.

The question here is: Who gets to decide the correct pronunciation of a foreign word? Who gets to say brew-SKET-ta is correct and BREW-shet-uh is wrong? Italians? Native English speakers?

If you think "Well, clearly, Italians, because they invented bruschetta" then where is the line? Why would you not then pronounce "prosciutto" pro-SHOOT-toh? And the "Bifrost Bridge" BEEF-roast? And "sauna" SOW-na?

Who gets to decide that Hausa people must pronounce "New York" as Americans do, and that Japanese must no longer add a vowel onto the end of foreign words like "Disney Land"?

I'd love your principled answers to those questions.
No. Like BSD and MIT it cannot protect from prorietization, tivoization and SaaS. You need GPLv3 or AGPL for that.
Toyota and Honda are popular for reliability, build quality, longevity, and low TCO. Tesla has a lot of work to do if they hope to replace those brands.
The real generational divide is people who feel this post in their bones and people who will nitpick at it because it's not in fact an unbiased survey.

The point about focus is very true. The socialization of development via online tools means people think sticking their nose in other people's code is a virtue instead of a bother. If you're not going to contribute, why are you interrupting me?
Admittedly, this incident is probably a pretty big one since it was acknowledged on their Twitter account. They'll mention it in response to customers but you only see an actual broadcast to followers when something is really on fire. I hope the responders at least get a bit of sleep (it's currently 11pm here in NZ and the HQ is in Wellington, New Zealand)
I can imagine the same was said when cars took over, or computers. There’s just no telling. But basic income is often cited as a solution. And we humans can go back to more creative and/or humanitarian tasks. There’s still a lot of shit in the world that we can’t deal with due to a lack of time and need to provide for our families / ourselves. If that need is removed, who knows - maybe a lot of good will happen because we have the time for it!
The problem with this is the illusion it creates and how that affects human behavior. Now that a butt robot exists, people will think it matters less whether they collect theirs or not, even if the tech never gets realised. Given that this is only a concept, it’s hard to see that happening. Who would fund the actual development? What would be their ROI target for that investment, and where would the cash flow come from?
What's new in Polyphony – July 2021 edition
Yeah, tried it once and its pointless. I would be happy to pay up to £30-60k extra for a car that allow me to use a car without a driving license :)
This is what Tesla's Autopilot should be called.
You can assume that the taxi driver will be able to react to most possible events on your ride home. Right now self driving systems require active oversight and you can't sleep while you use them.

It's like comparing an experienced driver (taxi or not) and a student driver. I'd sleep with an experienced driver driving but I wouldn't even think about sleeping if I am being driven by a student driver.
Is this why EVs cost more than my house, they're supposed to be a replacement?
Indeed, you need the whole stack. However, the (non-temporal) memory safety alone is still quite easy to get - the compiler will take care of it, as a programmer you just need to make sure your code doesn't get in the way by eg manually stashing pointers into non-pointer types. It's been demonstrated on large, real-world code bases, such as FreeBSD and PostgreSQL.

(Disclaimer: been there, done that, part of the CHERI team)
So:

> better for the environment, lasts 5 years

and:

> Battery type: Non Removable

You can't really live up to your bold claims, can you?
Australia's largest bank accuses Apple of leaning on its market power
Or turn the tuning dial
The key is that your long-form stuff needs to take a back seat to a plot that starts and ends in with each episode. In my personal opinion, Stargate SG-1 is a master class in this.

Shows these days are written for streaming, they are clearly meant to be binged a season at a time. You'll have 4 plots an episode and not a one of them starts and ends in the same one, with several episodes having resolution of anything at all. It's maddening.

Like, there are memorable episodes of some shows, like SG-1's Ergo, that you can sit down and re-watch and enjoy yourself, but this made-for-streaming format just doesn't have that quality. What episode did that cool thing happen in? They all blur together.
A murder detective show where you already know who did it and how should never work but somehow it does, perfectly.
I made a dumb Linux mistake
This right here. That's the reality.
> the nearly 6-year old iPhone 6s

How is the 6 years (non-user replaceable) old battery holding up?
I’m thinking that Tesla is in a mood to reprogram its army, not wake themselves up.
Spot on. When one organization controls servers, protocols and main implementation it creates lock-in just like closed source software.

Signal is a good example.
This is one of the best apps to install on your kids’ phones. Makes them go outside and get interested in their surroundings.
Because right now, they don't render that modal on Mobile Safari since there's no notification support. If they add notification support, we'll start getting those popups.
> Because self driving cars are pretty much synonymous with general AI

It really isn't, it's not even remotely close. But it also doesn't need to be general to severely impact employment numbers.
I'm not sure if all web scraping that's undesired by the website you're scraping is illegal.
Yes , I have always said that I am not impressed by the selective Tesla promo videos.
Let me know once he takes himself and his family on a trip with difficult conditions with fsd on and all of them asleep.
Thanks for adding this anecdote. Is it the same mathematician who worked on almost periodic functions ? I have run into those in my line of work. On second thoughts, I guess that's what Fastperiodische Funktionen means.

On a different note this would be the third example where the person concerned is Danish.

Was entertained by how you wrote about all those relations and associations it felt like those logic puzzles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle
Much as I would love Facebook's pervasive presence bite them in the ass thanks to a legal technicality, I'm pretty sure that being exposed to advertising or being tracked would not be covered by any reasonable legal interpretation of "accessing a website" or "using a service" .
Maybe Blackberry ? It wasnt on html they innovated but I loved mine before the Samsung revolution.
Me too. HN's anti-hype sentiment seems to be winning.

Perhaps HN doesnt realise how harsh an AI winter will be: billions in funding will vanish. PhD's staking their careers in this area will find no jobs, etc.

This has happened twice before in largely identical ways (self-driving cars, ad-tech companies, university research propaganda -- 50s and 80s).
Buddhist animal release practices: historic, env., health, econ. concerns [pdf]
In order to preserve the traditional homogay spirit of the Olympics.
In parallel the GA planes used got old. Imagine the same happening for the software!!!

In 2000, the average age of the nation's 150,000 single-engine fleet was more than 30 years. By 2020, the average age could approach 50 years

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/small...
Seems a very dubious theory since mortality over time looks like an exponential curve.
The downvotes you are getting only prove the echo chamber :(
Not if you're a human describing their environment: zero is F.cold and 100 is about as hot as you can stand.
Is it fair to say that the counterfactual is hypothesizing the B in an A/B test?

I.e. I administer a pill with an active drug to a treatment cohort. What would have happened had I administered no drug (sugar pill) to the same treatment cohort.
Everyone is "guaranteed" a fair trial. As much as one can guarantee such a thing. Bill Cosby was just let out of prison because of shenanigans with his trial.
Mostly open source does not gather data that is not needed for the service/program to function.
> constraining factor is not pelvis size

I kind of doubt that, because if baby is after term, the risk is supposed to be childbirth itself being too dangerous. And they induce birth if the baby is too big too.

Large baby is considered a risk on itself.
Also a PWA can’t compete in quality with a proper native app, should a competitor ever build one you’re toast.

The question just revolves around how integral an app is to the business. Online banking probably requires an app. A restaurant that offers online ordering probably does not. A video game requires an app. An online encyclopedia does not.
3 hours down so far and no notification on the login page, no explanation in the status to say they have diagnosed the issue and no eta for a fix is very very poor for a service of this type. Particularly annoying as I have an invoice to create.
> Right, that was pretty much the point of the article.

Agree. Nevertheless there is a flood of articles showing videos recorded under similar conditions but missing this point.
> And if you do kill someone with your car you will be charged with vehicular manslaughter.

You still have the freedom to drive your car while we all know very well that several dozens of thousands of people will die because we allow that kind of freedom. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Is there really any challenge in making a roller coaster that kills its riders? Seems like the space of lethal coasters would be larger than for non-lethal ones.

Also, is the short amount of time with hypoxia really enough to kill someone? Or is it just an unconsciousness coaster?
HN dogmas on Israel match exactly what I was taught in my soviet high-school history class 30+ years ago. Good stuff, highly entertaining nostalgia.