skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called Level 4 autonomy.

Level 4 ("mind off"): no driver attention is ever required for safety, the driver may safely go to sleep or leave the driver's seat. Self-driving is supported only in limited spatial areas (geofenced) or under special circumstances. Outside of these areas or circumstances, the vehicle must be able to safely abort the trip.

Level 5 ("full autonomy"): No human intervention is required at all. Vehicle drives autonomously on all public roads, in all weather conditions, all surfaces, all over the world, year around.
Yeah, this is much more probable than a mechanism to replay genetically/biochemically encoded activation patterns that help survival after birth.
A clothes dryer? Why not? I can see not sleeping when the oven is on because you don't want to burn your food, but what's the risk factor for a dryer?
> “As a manager, it’s really hard to get cohesion and collegiality without being together on a regular basis, and it’s difficult to mentor without being in the same place,” Mr. Singer said.

This seems easily disproven by the last 18 months of high productivity and team function.

I find mentorship much easier as I accept more mentorship requests because zoom is less time consuming and have found more of my requests get accepted.
Appreciate the comment, last time I tried it all of this was missing. Seems like it's a fully fledged alternative now.

I'll try it out. Seems like they implemented most code in a mtxclient library, so it might be possible to reuse it for other clients.
I believe he's referring to the various MEMS sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, etc) which can be repurposed into microphones (much like harddrives).
Apparently this episode is in the public domain, and is available on the columbophile's website[0]

[0] https://columbophile.com/2018/03/25/full-episode-columbo-mur...
Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range
I think developers are angry most about it is buggy. And, no. It isn't only lack about the cutting edge tech. It don't even handle css2 correctly in many places. You can ran into bug in every damn common css or js property that even IE handles correctly. It is a true IE successor. Can you imagine making a input field on a whole screen container work properly on safari requires how many efforts? You will need several workaround to make it work properly. Even ie don't really require that…
A quick online search leads me to Data8 [1], which I admit I've never heard of. Do you think that could be the format you're thinking of?

I know that SCSI drives were made for DDS [2], which (at least, initially) used the same tapes as the DAT audio format. But those used 4mm tapes, so probably aren't what you have.

Alternatively, it could have been a custom built system that recorded data onto video 8mm tapes. That will probably be a bit harder to get the data off unless you know the details of the setup used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data8

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage
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A rewrite usually improves a lot of small things that were found in the previous version. It's like a new major version, even if it does not add new major features.

It's an expensive undertaking, though.
Kelly Johnson’s 14 Rules
> Do you trust taxi / uber driver to drive you while you're asleep at 1am, drunk?

Well, yes, or I'm not going to be able to get home?
I imagine that with HTTP range requests, it shouldn't be hard to access original TIFF data. Javascript or WebAssembly can then work with arbitrary bytevectors.
Turns out that the old adage "time in the market beats timing the market" almost always wins, and there's no upside to trying to buy the dip:

https://www.pwlcapital.com/resources/buy-the-dip/
Often both sides of a factional divide are represented on HN.
Is this at all surprising that the chinese would see the need for such nuclear deterrent, since the US still has 1800 silos (that are public knowledge).
To non-europeans in this thread: public transportation is also a thing for those living in the countryside.
When shaken to the core, we get priorities right. Can we stick to it?
It's more like every decede but fair enough. If you really want, you can simply use C.
Beacons (YC S19) is hiring fullstack and front end React engineers (SF/remote)
Many of the top-paid Substack writers do use part of their revenue to pay an editor.
It's true that the batteries don't last 6 years, but they are perfectly user-replaceable for someone with moderate technical skills and a few basic tools. Here's a kit that has everything you need:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-6s-Battery/IF314-...

Otherwise, Apple will replace the battery for $49 while you wait:

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...
Read the update on the post and it says his code is now 4-5x faster now after a few changes.
Watch Tesla Model S Plaid Blow Supercar Owners' Minds
There is no certainty of an AI winter, let alone of it's harshness.

Quantum computing and quantum machine learning are here and they could sustain the ecosystem for this next decade as ANNs did the last one.

Money will vanish as it did in the 1999 crash for overvalued stocks. This might happen for self-driving cars and other too hyped products.

But AI research will continue and be well funded. FAANGs are not going anywhere and they will push AI as much as they can. For example AWS has the Bracket service for quantum computing and quantum ML via PennyLane. This will hit mainstream in the next few years.

In the worst case we will have (approximate) human level intelligence by brain simulation. This will likely remain in Academia and be less paid than FAANG AI projects but will stay here. In 10 to 20 years we might see it getting mainstream.

It is still a very exciting field. Hype will die down and some money with it but AI careers will not be threatened at large.
At the risk of being confrontational, show me a language without built-in footguns and we can talk. I've seen people fail to check their inputs in every language I've ever touched. I've seen people cobble together their own horrifically insecure SQL query builders. And so on.

Meanwhile, I have to argue with developers on a regular basis to convince them that they actually need to patch the libraries in their systems. Yes, even if they don't see an obvious exploit path. Yes, even if it's more work than drop-in-and-ship.

Getting them to use static analysis is a nightmare. Entirely too many developers view each finding as an attack on their style they can negotiate away.

As you so wisely and correctly say, we're at a point in time where we mostly have the tools to employ safer software development lifecycle methodologies. It is telling, then, how often we don't.
GraphCDN has acquired FastQL, the first GraphQL CDN
Off the top of my head, offsceeen canvas and being able to query for many processors the client device has to use for web workers
Where do you live? I live in Norway, and paid NOK 3,000,000 (USD $339,291) for my house. My car, a brand new MG ZV EV Luxury cost me NOK 280,000 (USD $31,667).
Coordinate-Measuring Machine
> If this happens, it will be the end of open source and the indie web

If I run over someone when driving a car, I'm responsible - not the car maker. If my customer's data is stolen, I'm responsible. Whether the makers of my software are responsible is a contractual matter - and nearly all open source licenses include a disclaimer of warranty and a limitation of liability, including the GPLv3 (see sections 15–17).
>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.

There's no reason to think that needs to be done separately, and in fact that's the kind of things that you'd expect a good model to find on its own.

In general, we've already learned that while handcrafted features can help, they are often ultimately worse than learned ones as techniques get better.
Thank you!

It's a question we often get, but not a product we're looking to pursue. I think it would be prohibitively expensive to do it right and I'm not confident there's a big enough market for it.

I could be dead wrong about this, of course.
slow compiler
> Human drivers rely on hundreds of hours of training to safely and reliably handle most traffic situations

Human training is different than AI training; they are so different that the words should not be the same. The difference is that humans see things how they are, not how they appear. If a human learns to drive only during the day, and then after their training has to drive at night, they will still recognize the traffic lights and stop signs--an AI will not. Moreover, a human really doesn't need hundreds of hours to learn to drive. I was driving at 5 years old, in a toy Jeep with a top speed of maybe 10 miles and hour. I knew not to drive into the flower garden or hit the dog. In many States, you can drive legally as early as 14, and historically many farm kids started younger than that with no training to speak of. When your vehicle is a slow tractor, it's not nearly as dangerous.

> We also get brain farts or fall asleep at the wheel and flatten the occasional pedestrian.

Great, this is something an algorithm that mimics the human brain would be able to improve upon.

> According to the National Safety Council, the chances of dying from a motor vehicle crash is 1 in 103

Over what time frame, presumably a lifetime of about 75 years? A very meaningless and alarmist statistic--better to talk about the 1.1 fatalities per 100 million miles.
I came here to tell you, kragen, that I am enjoying your zeros before 4-digit dates, your derision of old units, etc. Oh, that and your informative comments, of course.
Thank you —- these are good examples.
I think I simply dont understand what this is all about.

As I understood, this is about CONTENT ENCODING using brotli - i.e. the http response message body is encoded via brotli. Why would this be any different to any other encoding on its impact on proxies?

Of course, brotli compression for the TRANSPORT is another thing. I appreciate that there may be some (non-transparent) proxies, IDS, etc that may choke - but thats not what the author seems concerned with.

It sounds as if cloudflare have disabled brotli content encoding (but just for http?), and are using brotli compressed transport incompatibilities (if you consider not being able to snoop on TLS an incompatibility) as the reason for doing so. The two are completely different things, no?
Sure, but to be fair, most laptops these days does the same.
Quoting Frank Zappa: Music is the best.
I looked at several and settled on M1Finance, where I’m able to create a few “pies” (allocations among various ETFS) and even mixtures of pies, and just forget about it.

It’s not strictly a “trading” platform, in the sense that it’s not meant for day trading.

Was intrigued by Titan but they are pricey.
Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies
Are there any compelling reasons why it should be legal to sell exploits to anyone other than the company whose software is vulnerable? By neatly bundling these exploits up and selling the hacking tool to the highest bidder, this company is giving nation-state spying capabilities to cartels and dictators who would otherwise not have had that. I don't see why that shouldn't be regulated the same way as if they were selling nukes.
"Collision Detection" is a term of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_detection
Regarding Newtonian universe. Is that really true, that multiple pasts can exist? Some source would be very welcome.
> You are ignoring the main point of the grandparent.

Respectfully, I do not think so. I went into great detail about how Debian has technical measures to prevent tampering from upstream. If one does not trust upstream programs....well that is a bit out of scope of this issue.

> Who is going to check all the patches by hand in debian/patches?

By policy, we only introduce patches there if it is absolutely necessary, so there actually aren't very many assuming you really want to. I'd argue its a tractable problem.

> But if you care about security, etc., it is probably better to wait until the changes have landed in Debian and you can install vanilla Debian.

As I said earlier, many of the Mobian devs are the same as the Debian on Mobile team, so assuming you don't trust the Mobian devs, you probably shouldn't trust the packages we put in Debian proper as well.
Jet-Powered Coyote Drone Defeats Swarm in Army Tests
A Guide to Hot Code Reloading in Elixir
Ask HN: How to Run Payroll for Founders?
Hey! Just raised a pre-seed, and now I need to start paying myself. Its a Delaware C Corp. Do I just go with Gusto and pay myself with a normal W2? Arent there any tax exemptions I can do? Whats the best practice?
For readers, this blog post is crap and clickbaity sentationalism.

As the article itself admits in the end, Safari is a great browser. It just falls short in a few key areas that really upsets the author.

I’ve been a web developer for neigh on two decades. Safari has easily been the browser that gave me the _least_ headaches. Apple might not be the fastest to implement the newest standards, it’s pretty good at implementing them properly.
I’m not so sure. Substack is clearly not blogging as I can’t remember the last time I paid for a blog.

And the financial returns are real. I vaguely recall someone, Glenn maybe, who shared they had 6,000 subscribers at $60 per year or $360,000 in income. Clearly more than enough to sustain a writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain

https://pelicanstateofmind.com/louisiana-love/jacques-st-ger...

This story fascinates me. I recently went to New Orleans and happened to walk by Jacques’ house; I saw the current owner snoozing in an armchair with a book. Later I went down the rabbit hole of the Count’s life and how he seems to be the progenitor of so many things and legends in modern society.
> - you can no longer select text on the page, anywhere

That's a deal breaker for me.
I was just pointing out that a baby does not gain weight faster than it ever will again in its life, in absolute terms. That's all. Not sure why I got the downvotes and no-true-scotsman arguments in return.
I think the facts cited in the New Yorker article make it implausible that the swap took place. The photographs are interesting, but I'm not sure how much they really say.
>But the absolutely overwhelming majority of people who use cars need to be able to do so on public roads.

Yes but that is ONLY a permitting/approval hurdle.

Before we approve any particular autonomous vehicle for road use first we have to invent an autonomous vehicle that somebody wants.

If the absolute overwhelming mamjority of people wants a particular design, but the red tape is a blocker on some semantic minutia - we can always change the regulation to accomodate the technology.
Sumatra, alongside maybe Everything and IrfanView, is my favorite piece of software on windows. Incredible speed, great customizability and awesome compatibility.

I really missed it when I made the switch to Linux, but not enough to consider installing WINE. Still, absolutely wonderful project deserving of the highest praise.
Why go to war over something trivial like this? None of the major browsers support http/2 nor Brotli over plain http connections - if not for COVID they probably wouldn’t support plain http connections at all. They were set to depreciate those but held off at the start of the pandemic because so many government sites were still http only. You have to go with flow sometimes. If you want to ask Cloudflare a favor then not re-compressing my highly optimized zopfli source files with standard gzip would be a good one. Passing through the accept-encoding header so I can send my highly compressed brotli responses instead of them repacking my gzip responses would be another. At least the option to select those behaviors if the mom and pops can’t be trusted to do it right.
In high-density areas, they stop every few blocks to let people on or off.
> Now think about a currency that's used internally and slowly it gets released by the company and used by all.

You really think facebook employees using it internally would mean other people would accept it too?
Not just rich but often “smart people”. They might be professors or scientists etc.
> This is just population growth in the US. It continues to grow elsewhere.

The fertility rates are dropping everywhere, specially in populous countries like India and China. So the trend is similar worldwide.
Epigenetics are one way. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127768/
> 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.

Do you have a driver's license? If so, how did you get it?

My guess is, if you do, you got it by learning, and then demonstrating you had learned, to drive. And you learned by... Training, just like everyone else.

If that's not good enough for an automated system, then how is it good enough for human drivers? How the heck else is the system -- or anyone, or anything -- supposed to learn?
> Do you have a threat/security model?

Not explicitly no. Implicitly, it would be the same as Debian, and I would argue we go for sane/common sense security defaults.

Is there a particular threat your worried about/want me to comment on?
https://www.inaturalist.org/ also does this kind of thing. iNaturalist works well for lots of different organisms.
> The difference is that humans see things how they are, not how they appear.

Muahahaha!
What about it?

If your threat model is "People fully compromised my phone" then you should definitely not rely on the phone in the face of that.
No, those are not the safeguarding positions; the Spec Core Team are the folks who approve PRs to the spec. Originally they were 50/50 element and non-element, although it's drifted thanks to members of the team choosing to work at Element so they can work on Matrix fulltime.

The safeguarding positions are the directors of the Foundation (aka Guardians), which is very deliberately majority non-element (3:2).

Why not spend your time improving XMPP rather than complaining about Matrix?
I still install Sumatra PDF on every Windows PC I have to work on. It's a habit I've kept from the days when Acrobat Reader took like 30 seconds to start.
Powers of Hearing: The Military Science of Sound Location
No this is very much about brotli transport compression, the original post mentions this more than once. I am actually not aware of any single image format that has widespread brotli content compression support (which will probably not be very useful either as most image compression methods use more domain specific algorithms).
This is one of the reasons that I really hope we get self-driving cars working well. They have the potential to do so much better at avoiding creating traffic issues. Short traffic lights have for a decade+ now made me wish humans weren't involved in driving.

You get that traffic wave effect except it's extremely noticeable what's happening as you see each car ahead of you delayed in reacting to the light changing to green, so you end up having half the number of cars get through than it seems should be able to. The optimal handling in terms of getting cars through the intersection would be every car in the line moving at the exact same time, something that only self-driving cars would be able to do safely.
So learning a new language and OS (ObjC/Swift and iOS) is easier than learning a new web API when you're a web developer? And it's cool because everyone simply has their own _standards_? That's... a take I guess.
Xero has about 60% of the SME market in Oz.

Xero doesn’t let you export or backup your data. One Kiwi company does auto Xero backup (Control-C) but their interface is super clunky - I know they are trying to fix their stuff though but the backup service provided is for use in emergency only.

Each time I see an outage at Xero, and they are getting more and more lately, my heart stops.

I fear one day I’ll wake up and my business won’t work.

Still - for SME’s, the alternatives are sparse.

I wish they offered offline and backup.

I wish they had a competitor with similar pricing and features that offered backup.
Interesting. I unfortunately don't know enough about Phosh to comment on it, but I wonder if you bring it up to the Phosh developers, they may have better commentary on design choices?
First one doesn't look any "worse" than Geowizard's crossing of Norway [0]. Second one feels like it's not in the spirit of things, but I have trouble coming up with an adequately rigorous definition.

I was thinking of saying Norway and New Zealand look OK because in both cases you start on the eastern border/coast and finish on the western one, unlike Queensland where you are still in the northeast by any definition. This gets close to my intent, but to make this work we have to accept that NZ has multiple east coasts, or a single discontinuous one. Why is it OK to cross the North Island in NZ, but not OK to cross some tiny island in Australia (e.g. cross King Island [1] from west to east)?

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/gistDx1
[1] https://goo.gl/maps/Q5JEN1j3U4sBMEvf6
I meant this specific thing. And many other specific things. Not that their ecosystem is closed.
>You can have all the safety mechanisms in a language, but you need control, too, and anyone who is completely unqualified will use that to break something.

That's needless extremism, moderate programmers benefit from safety mechanisms, and you can't hire a lot of perfect programmers.
MS decision to make mice had zero to do with any patents. They simply had no products utilizing them before Word.
I don't know about in the US, but in the UK there have been enough media scare stories of dryers catching fire as well as a popular brand which failed to recall 1 million faulty dryers (https://www.thefpa.co.uk/news/update-on-fire-risk-dryer-reca...) that it's put a lot of people I know off. The risk is small, of course, but I do know people who won't leave things like dishwashers or washing machines on at night although I do because I'm lazy ;-)
Thanks for spelling it out. You really shouldn't ever lose your chat history, but it sounds like something is going horribly wrong on your encryption.

As part of the funding we're setting up a dedicated crypto team (at last) to focus on nothing but the remaining encryption problems. It's super embarassing that these failure modes can still exist today though - sorry :(
> Because self driving cars are pretty much synonymous with general AI

I disagree; they appear to need general spacial and physics AI, but they don’t need general linguistic or emotional intelligence.

Certainly level 5 autonomy for cars is going to radically change things, but it’s not the only stop between here and fully automated (dys|u)topia.
No, because 3D folds are conserved. That means, short of one of the unknowns containing a novel fold (which they havent), theres always a possibility kf overfitting.
Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor
The externalities are here the issue. Tesla becoming a huge monopoly and charging exorbitant prices for the taxis. Or refusing to drive you ever again because that one time you puked when drunk at 2am. So you need to go to hospital now? Well tough luck.

Centralization of power is not good and laws ought to be enacted that producers of self driving cars must not also own them as taxi fleets.
Everything Is Everyone’s Job
How can anyone do their job if in today’s world, everything seems to be everyone’s job?
The two first pages of results alone list security, data quality, “shit jobs”, ops, customer research, customer support...