skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The missing possibility is that no one wins generalized self-driving.

Self-driving is not a solvable or a winnable problem, because the problem or question isn’t defined. It’s a probabilistic space, where the world presents scenarios, and a computer must make a “correct” or “good” decision as often as possible, for the widest range of inputs.

Because there isn’t a grand unified formula for self-driving, I’m not even sure how we can talk about it being “solved”. Maybe Tesla might be able to self-drive on US or EU or first world clearly marked streets with 99.99% automation, assuming training data exists for all road signs and weather conditions? Is that what we mean by self-driving being solved? That might be possible in the next few years.

Other than that, doesn’t seem like there’s going to be much more than driver assist. Driving is a general intelligence problem, not something machine learning can solve - by definition ML can only work on problems it has many known solutions to.
I have no idea honestly. One may think they may be trying to avoid Japanese suppliers, but who knows. The entirety of Korean semi-industry sits on Japanese consumables for example. Times change.
Even if they weren’t lying through their teeth, this changes nothing. My objection is to Apple believing that they can use a device I own for proactive law enforcement and then acting on that belief. Nothing about how they do that is even worth considering. Apple is spying on you for the police.
Why, oh WHY, do those? nutheads use vi?
It is in the category of "Think of the children", "Dats racist" etc.

You just say those words, get an emotional reaction.
> Switzerland is only 2% of the EU’s population.

The Bay Area is, similarly, only 2.5% of the US' population.
The law specifically does not ban EV chargers.

Gas stations in general are very polluting, for both the ground and noxious fumes. Because of this, in CA they are already banned 300 ft (~90m) from any sensitive uses like schools or playgrounds, and even then there is evidence that this perimeter is not enough.
That to me just sounds like weasel words to avoid having to say that it shares images. Let's not beat about the bush, the "visual derivative" has to be good enough to identify what's going on in it for the manual confirmation.

Are you actually arguing in good faith here at all? Because I can't see how a "visual derivative" that's nevertheless good enough for manual confirmation is any better than the source image?
I'm thinking of getting one of these: https://frame.work/

Any people here with experience with one?
Winning would always be easy if you didn't have an adversary. Apple (having access to the original low resolution photo) could build a relatively simple mechanism add a filter in their verification pipeline.

Even if they didn't have access to the original (for whatever reason), they train their own learning algorithm (supervised by their manual verification checkers) to detect the fake submissions.
Why Blue Origin thinks it is justified in continuing to protest NASA
Most of the US is not really land constrained. It's really only a very few desirable metros that really need to increase their density.
Waymo is the spun out version of the Google self-driving car project.

Tesla is probably the only "famous" autonomy company that is not considered a serious contender, including by people sitting in them.
Will this be a required prophylactic soon?
On the other hand, I'm based in Europe and if I decide to work remotely for a company in the US I will want a significant raise just to offset the extra costs and risks.
Yes. Lavabit. Those warrants demanded that Lavabit alter its system to capture passwords and/or decrypt stored email. Lavbit instead decided to stop operating and delete everything rather than comply. Such warrants have not been fully tested in courts but they do exist.
I think no one will win full self driving until artificial general intelligence exists.

For those in the future, I bet by 2035 there will be no car that can take you coast to coast with you ever having intervene.
I'm a tech worker based in France.

This topic gets brought up on HN every year I think.

The answer is always the same :

- Yes , US Engineers Salary are way exaggerated compared to the rest of the world

- No US Company will never "outsource" to europe to save 50% per full time worker

This has been predicted already a millions times and has never happened.
The cultural difference is so important it doesn't work.

Long time ago there was a trend to outsource to india.
It didn't end well from what I remember.
If the entity doing the scanning has a copy of the original image they can verify it is illegal before calling the police. With Apple's system they have to call the police on the basis of the image hash without verifying that anything illegal is on the phone.

You can whatsapp someone an innocent image doctored to have a hash collision with known CSAM. If they have default settings it will be saved to their photo reel, scanned by iOS and the police will be called.

Until the arresting police officer explains to them they are being arrested on suspicion of being a paedophile, they won't even know this has happened.
Happy to see discussions like this - hope it will affect MBP prices!
Yeah, as you say, I have a hard time accepting giving people panhandling opportunities as a good rationale for a national network of gas stations.
Abdul Bari is pretty good. He tried to explain from the root instead of jumping into a topic directly. However I hope he adds more videos for implementation as that's more difficult than the algo itself.
I don't see the problem with rewarding people for CO2 reductions so your argument has a weird and abrupt end to it. Especially since the low end EV and used EV market is growing so your argument is losing its strength with every single year.

The argument should have been that it takes time to transition off petrol cars and poor people need more time to transition so hasty decisions like banning gas stations should only be done in conjunction with policy that speeds up the transition.
The gas shortage was because of a gas pipeline hack, for which more or less gas stations would not really have had an impact since the stations themselves were empty for lack of gas being transported.
U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome
I think there's a large difference between arbitrary deadlines that the team themselves set and buy into as a rallying cry vs. an arbitrary deadline that was externally imposed upon a team, often without full context provided to understand the relative priority of features as well as whether the deadline itself is negotiable.
To be honest... None.

It's a choice. You might wholly disagree, but recent events aren't enough to get me to switch yet, because I think the competition has too many tradeoffs.

I can get my photos scanned against a CSAM database... or I can have Google tracking my location constantly regardless of what they say (as they've been proven to be misleading in the past)... or I can use a Linux phone and say goodbye to battery life and useful apps I need. I'll pick CSAM Scanning over my Location data being in the hands of Google, sorry.

And as for my laptop, macOS doesn't scan, and the M1 is too impressive and has me spoiled. And I have too many horror stories with both Linux and Windows and can't stand either of them. (Don't tell me switch to Linux - I've tried over a dozen distributions over the last decade. It's just not there yet.)
Not sure why the downvotes. You are absolutely correct that a threshold in the number of positives (false or otherwise) must be met.

To be fair though we do not know what the threshold is. But I would guess even higher than 5 — I would presume 12 or more.

I'm no criminologist (IANAC) but when you read about someone getting busted with child pornography they have hundreds or thousand of images — not one, not five. They're "trading cards" for these creeps.
If you want to stick with a large name-brand cult you could try MAGA or QAnon, but their whole asthetic is pretty cringe. Scientology is always a good option.
But the discussion here is about malicious actors fraudulently inserting files that trigger alarms. If they have control over your device, "content that a user has implicitly agreed to share" is not a meaningful category.
I hike around the rural area where I live and a couple of years ago found a fresh elk cow carcass. Over the next few weeks I saw it most days and watched it gradually dissolve into a small scattering of large bones. My own dog helped with that.

The next spring that spot was noticeably greener than the surroundings. It probably helped a few more coyotes survive. I don't doubt that the corpse benefited the environment, but what an unholy stench and horror show in the meantime. It's hard to imagine people tolerating that process within smelling distance.
This sounds familiar - but I will say, at least you're making an effort to discuss the issue and gather feedback before taking any actions, which is a good thing, most companies would distance them, get them to quit.

If you want to help him resolve his issues, you're going to have to become involved in them. Time, listening to him, never breaking his trust - no matter your good intentions - and taking that 3am phone call of dispair and offering hope.

If you cannot do this, do not try. Does it really mean that much to you? Or is it an inconvenience to your "now"?

Suggest a sabatical and let him figure it out in his own time.
> Europe has much higher taxes, in part to pay for that free education and healthcare.

That part about higher taxes paying for "free" education and healthcare had me cracking up.
DC-DC converters can be much simpler than PFC [0] AC-DC converters.

There are actually scant few things in modern houses that inherently want to run on 60Hz single phase AC - basically just fixed-speed induction motors [1]. And the amount of those are shrinking as more and more appliances get "inverter" technology for the energy savings.

The transformers on the poles are bona fide 60 Hz devices (and I'll take the electricity I can get). Industrial customers with large 3 phase induction motors want 60Hz AC. But for household use, DC would be straightforward.

I agree about the self-extinguishing arcs, although it seems like moving to solid state switches would solve much of that.

[0] power factor correction

[1] And actually, "single phase" induction motors don't even want to run off of a single phase. They all contain capacitors to create a second phase so the motor rotates.
I'll buy a Fairphone with pretty high probability next time. No more iPhones. On desktop I was always a Windows user, but recently switched to PopOS.

I try to use open source software where possible and after the endless stream of depressing news about working conditions and environmental impact of our juicy tech I'm ready to pay more for less to get (relatively) fair and open hardware too.

Edit: Considering Linux phones like Pinephone or Librem too, but they seem not ready to me yet and they emphasise much more on technical freedom and less on fair production.
This seems like an over-reaction. I'm highly opposed to Apple's CSAM move but they are still much better and transparent than Google, Amazon, and most other services.

Many of these already do something like this but they just don't actively tell you or document it.

Also, and please correct me if I am mistaken, Apple's CSAM is limited to iCloud for Photos. It does not just work against your local photos.

CSAM Detection enables Apple to accurately
identify and report iCloud users who store
known Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
in their iCloud Photos accounts

It seems like a needless waste of time do do all this as opposed to disabling iCloud for Photos...

Source: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
If people just took out loans and dumped their savings into the stock market, they too could afford a trendy car with a long tail pipe that relies on lithium mined overseas and is a hassle to repair. /s
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Yep, it sounds like a (semi?)unique structure is required for each target virus.

> A specific combination of nucleotides is first modeled in simulation to be the correct size to handle the target virus
>is the tine turning?

No. Because it will be quite a few years before anyone even starts noticing any reduction in gas stations. I think it's more of a political posturing than an indication of an emerging trend.
Pandemic of unvaccinated continues to rage as states set new Covid records
Extrapolating contract/freelance hourly pay to full-time... what a joke. These are totally different things.
Sorry, I meant is it wasteful like taking a rocket for a 10-minute joyride? Or are you saying Solar City is worse than that?
How are you finding Manjaro for dev work? I set up Ubuntu 18 on a desktop build last year, it's decent but it's still finicky to be my daily driver, so I still use my MBP for work.

I think for a phone I may just drop back to a Nokia 3210 and buy a camera for family pictures. Whatsapp will be a loss, but hey, maybe it'll be nice to not have my phone as a distraction during the day.
One thing I'd really like is to find a semi-dumbphone I can use Signal on and just get rid of having a smartphone with me. I'm not sure if I'm going to drop Apple completely and this morning I was wondering how far I could get with an Apple Watch and something like the Nokia 8110.

If anyone has suggestions for a small, minimal phone I can still run Signal on I'd love to hear it.
Outlines are high on the list of “it should be easy but it’s not”.

I’ve explained this many times to art and design directors and there is always the starement of “but this game did it”! To which my response is, this game is on PS4 not mobile, or it required a lot of asset pipeline customization, and/or hand authoring. Of course it can be done, but it may come at the significant expense of other systems.
Which is why false rape allegations are so fucking dangerous, and are not nearly as punished as harshly as they should be.
The disparity is massive, the company I work for has an eu office (in an enormously expensive city) as well as an office in California, in an area overall less expensive than the EU city.

I found that an interns salary is the same as my base salary, which was fairly insulting, but the full time engineers got similar stocks/bonus but in addition also get about 2.5 - 3 times my base salary, while paying less tax in a slightly less expensive city. I found it quite upsetting.
We give way, way too much weight in the legal system to eye witness and victim statements, in absence of any corroborating evidence. That's a problem.

But not really comparable, IMO. You won't even know you got investigated until after the original images have been shipped off to NCMEC for verification.
Sounds awesome! I've had huge problems with some recent ThinkPads so it seems that it will be a choice between Panasonic and Fujitsu. Thanks for the recommendation.
Maybe a compromise could be reached by simply burying the animals rather than removing them fully. That way the nutrients would stay in the local ecosystem, but there wouldn't be any "unsightly dead carcasses".
Part of the draw of hiring remote is that you don’t have to pay Bay Area salaries.

I wasn’t referring to Bay Area salaries. I was referring to normal US developer salaries, which are still higher than common EU salaries.

My comment was about general hiring, not the outlier edge cases. If you want to pay Bay Area salaries you can obviously compete on compensation with just about anyone, anywhere with very few exceptions.
Not yet switching but until last week I wanted to buy the next Watch (none yet), next iphone (now at X) and next ARM MacBook Pro. I decided to wait another year and first move all cloud stuff to some private hardware.
In that case, the information itself isn't important either. If it's wrong and it doesn't matter, why is it even being displayed? By definition then, the only people wrong information matters to are the ones it affects. "It's no big deal" to you, but she has been working for years to get this fixed.

> the only way to never be wrong is to never show anything at all.

How much error does this excuse? Any amount? How's this even helpful if you don't draw that line?

And it absolutely doesn't justify a lack of recourse when it does go wrong.
A shopping cart widget that you can add to any website and sell NFT
I believe that marketplaces are great to attract new customers. But when it comes to building relationships with your audience the marketplaces have very limited options. Marketplaces like Rarible and OpenSea sell millions of NFT, so you’re up against a ton of competition. It’s very difficult to create a unique and strong brand image by selling there. When you sell your artworks on your own site, on the other hand, you’re not renting a spot on a marketplace. You have the autonomy to represent your brand however you want to. You have your own space and customers actually come looking for your store once they know your brand.

That's why we've made an NFT shopping cart widget that can be added to any website. Integration is as simple as adding a facebook pixel to a website or a tag manager. And you don't have to make new NFT as you can sell the ones you have already minted on the marketplaces.

We are in beta and are very attentive to the needs of each new user. We are looking for beta users now. The first 30 will get a 6-month free trial and all the attention they can get :)

DM me or leave your email on the https://nftwidgets.company if interested.
faster spread will lower the signal-to-noise ratio and put too much restrictions on scociety. uk already had to dial back it's contact tracing sesitivity.
The engineers I know working for banks vs. those working for SpaceX confirm your thoughts; however, there are plenty of engineers working insane hours for fintech, finance, or even engineers-turned-financiers.

The problem is- let's say you're a brilliant genius who's willing to work 80 hours per week doing very difficult tasks. You can make $130-150k net working for space travel, or engineering traffic lights, or you can do similar very complex work for $200-800k in finance. They're hoovering up the smartest, most competitive people because the rewards are the most outsized.

From "Max Dama on Automated Trading" [1]:

> Quantitative trading is the job of programming computers to trade. It is the best job out of undergraduate - you commonly make $100k base salary, plus a bonus which is often larger, the hours are flexible as long as you produce, there is no dress code, the work is extremely fascinating, fast paced, and uses the most advanced technology, and your performance is evaluated objectively. Quant trading combines programming and trading. Programming is the fastest way to take an idea and turn it into reality (compare it to writing a book, publishing, etc or to architecting a building, getting zoning permits, doing construction, etc). Trading is the most direct approach to making money (compare it with starting the next facebook, programming, hiring, advertising, etc or to creating a retail chain, hiring, waiting for money to flow in to reinvest, etc. Combining programming and trading, you have the most direct path from an idea in your brain to cash.

[1] = http://isomorphisms.sdf.org/maxdama.pdf
To add, Apple and Corellium settled.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.55...
But the discussion at hand is about malicious actors causing innocent people to trip the alarms. Given the clear capabilities of tools like Pegasus, "just don't enable cloud syncing" is obviously not sufficient to protect against a malicious actor who wants to plant illegal content on your device and trip the alarms.
I guess that means sharks frequently bite humans[1], dogs regularly befriend cheetahs[2], and people often hit the jackpot when they play slot machines[3].

(YouTube search results are not useful data about national trends, and YouTube would be intensely boring if they were.)

1. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shark+bite

2. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dog+cheetah+fri...

3. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slot+machine+ja...
I can tell you I’m paid nowhere near these SV-Unicorn numbers and saving over 50% of our net income is really not that much effort. And we’re renting, we don’t own.
Fed's Neel Kashkari says cryptocurrencies are 95% fraud, hype, and noise
There’s a lot of overlap between Apple product buyers and “fight the thoughtcrime slippery slope” hackers. The CSAM abusers are presumably (if they’re not stupid) also fanning the flames on that slippery slope perception, because it’s to their benefit if the hackers defeat Apple.
A high turnover rate of strangers handling their wallets. Also a ginormous sunshade and legal occupation can be obtained for a $1 soda or lotto ticket.

Superchargers have nothing to do with financial transactions. You can't buy a soda or lotto ticket and claim to belong there.
You might be able to get a used Tesla by then. Shops are proliferating that can repair battery packs for way less than replacement which offsets a lot of the risk.
What is the real estate square foot cost where you live?

Maybe more media-visible Americans are living in such areas now, but supply is extremely tight. A lot of these neighborhoods tend to be older, being poor in previous decades, and now those poor people are getting pushed out to the suburbs where cars are a great required expense.
I'd argue they are both important points that are tightly interconnected.

#2 is bad on it's own and in my mind it shouldn't even get to the merits of discussing #1 because at that point the debate is already lost in favor of surveillance.

But beyond that, #1 is highly problematic, doubly so given the fact that government surveillance is basically a non-decreasing function.
The game concept isn't novel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
> intentionally designed to be more difficult for disadvantaged groups

Why is obtaining an ID "intentionally designed" this way. Don't you need to get a driving license to drive? A passport to re-enter the country? Do disadvantaged groups not get driving licenses?
Here ya go:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/coxtsv/countries_i...

Of course, there's some hand waving here - micronations are dropped, Mercator projection, etc
Why parallel as opposed to the same wires? There are good answers for this, but for most people what is best second circuit box that runs just the fridge and a few important lights (in my case the well for water). This way you use the same appliances for everything. A parallel circuit implies when the power is out you have to use something different.

As I type this my house is running from a backup generator. The power company has their repair crew in route to whatever the issue is. I'm looking into how/if I can add solar to the system as well.
Without society there would be no motorcycles, no gas and no roads. You have to work with society if you want nice things. When change happens, sometimes you benefit disproportionately and sometimes you suffer. It's just the way it is.

You don't actually need to fill up with gas in order to stop and eat. This doesn't seem as bad as you seem to think. It's just change.
Since, as I have read, Microsoft and Google already do this, where are all the illicit cop take-downs? I have not heard of any.
They do though. They've been doing it for years. I mean UK's no longer in Europe so your point may technically be true but I've had plenty of recruiters contact me from big US tech co's who operate via EU/UK (sometimes shell) entities.

EDIT: to further qualify, those orgs base salaries have typically been in the range £120k-£150k if a quick scan through my notes is in any way representative. And obviously the FAANGs pay extremely well when you factor in stock but those figures are quite hard to come by.