skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Sharing Data

(TL;DR: they also probably earn money from your data)

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https://ramp.com/privacy-policy
Regarding could a neuroscientist understand an op amp, https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
What is DDD?
Thankfully I burnt out, in part because I didn't quit soon enough, and haven't found another yet in a very long time. Heres hoping that if I do find one before I quit looking entirely, it will pay well :)
Does it come with a remote control? I expect most panels sold as "monitors" don't.
I work in the space - whoever wrote this clearly isn’t familiar with how Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, etc. actually function. Just going to address a few particularly egregious takes:

>Waymo relies on 3D digital maps.

The cost of HD mapping is vastly overstated in popular press and blogs. It’s not at all a limiting factor. You can update it using the same cars that are part of your service. I've seen hard numbers that back this up.

Google’s unable to keep street view up to date because they have a fleet of hundreds of mapping vehicles spread throughout the entire world, vs hundreds of cars in a small service area that Waymo has.

>Waymo is LIDAR depdendent.

This has been discussed to death - the weather point applies to both cameras and LIDAR, and you can train ML models to deal with noise from weather the same way you can with models running on cameras. Cost has also been addressed a million times before- it’s coming down drastically.

>Waymo is GPS dependent

This one is particularly inane.
HD map based AVs localize themselves to the HD maps with their sensors - they’re not actually GPS dependent. The 2-4m of accuracy GPS has is not enough for AVs.

>Internet connectivity issues
>Waymo depends on 3D HD maps. Therefore, the vehicle needs to have onboard downloaded maps at all times. Waymo must download these maps in realtime, or you have to download these 3D maps on your Waymo vehicle before you visit a new Area.

I don't know why the author thinks you'll be able to drive robotaxis from city to city. Regardles, AV companies design their cars so that they don't need a continuous internet connection to function. They know cell connections can be spotty or blocked while going through a tunnel. See https://readwrite.com/2017/01/11/google-waymo-security-tl4/

>No Viable Business Strategy
>Waymo’s primary business strategy is to sell its technology to the vehicle manufacturer.

This is just wrong and I have no clue where the author got that from. The model is robotaxis, and maybe partnering with trucking fleet operators to outfit their cars.

>Simulated driving is not real world driving.

The data stuff has been discussed before in detail but suffice it to say AVs generally aren’t a data problem - they’re a robotics problem.

>To be successful Waymo has to work very well not only in the USA but also in Canada, Mexico, etc

The revenue from ridesharing services is hyperconcentrated in a few dense urban areas in the US. If you got a robotaxi service working well in just a few of those tiny areas, you could capture a huge amount of revenue to fund tackling other areas.
His pizzas look better than any homemade pizza (NY style) I have ever seen by far.

I got ok at making pizza, but not on this guy's level.

He said it, and it's true; it's about the crust.

I have almost completely given up on good bread though. I once heard that the book Julia Child's really valued--La Bonne--didn't have a chapter on making bread. The author said something like the best bread is bought from a good bakery. (It's basically sourdough bread I gave up on.)
And what will you do when there are no TVs to buy that do not contain LTE transmitters to force more spying upon you?
> Make more bricks!!

> Soon, the games started on inflating story points, etc, and i soon made my way out of there...

Are you saying your response to your manager's observation was to crack the metaphorical whip and demand more from them? And that they adjusted their estimates upward in response?

Do you think they were actually at their maximum sustainable velocity before?

Would you have done it differently if you could go back in time and change what you did?
This kind of reinforces my point though: neither Materialize nor Noria are high-performance database kernels, and they don't need to implement the high-performance I/O structures database kernels have that give Rust problems. Rust works great for server software generally, database kernels are a very specific outlier.

It is common in recent database kernel architectures to implement an entire virtual memory system in user space. This enables some great throughput optimizations. Almost all of your runtime objects are instantiated on top of this and, importantly, entities outside your process/code can write into your address space -- an invisible implicit reference. As a side effect, there are few memory references in the way Rust understands it, those outside entities don't understand or respect the object model, and some aspects of ownership, mutability, and lifetime can only be resolved at runtime and with some interesting edge cases. The model is elegant and safe, it just doesn't provide a coherent graph of classic memory references that Rust can latch onto at compile-time for safety analysis.

All good wholesome fun.
Yeah, can't agree more. The main thing stopping self driving taxi services is maintenance and cleaning.
What a closed-minded article! The real hard part here was to solve self-driving, which is what Waymo focused on, and is at L4 already (or close enough to it).

The other points that the author raises are obvious things known for a decade, and Waymo doesn't even have to solve them, unless it really wants to.

- The cost of Lidar has fallen a lot already, and is likely to continue to do so.

- Waymo doesn't have to manufacture cars at scale. Carmakers would love to license FSD tech from Waymo and sell premium cars. I would happily buy such a car for $100k.

- Uber/Lyft will fight over themselves to license the FSD tech, Waymo has no need to build its own taxi services.
"Why is everyone confused that smart TVs are popular?"

TBH, Im more confused by the parent comment. (Although this is a very typical type of HN comment, passive-aggressive denigration of anything "not popular".) These type of comments make me wonder why would anyone, other than the companies benefitting, care if some HN commenters do not love so-called smart TVs. This is not a mainstream audience. Moreover, I see no comments indicating "confusion" why surveillance TVs are popular. I see comments that indicate either (a) distaste for them, (b) desire for alternatives or (c) passive-aggressive denigration, like the parent; for example, something like "the market has spoken". WTF. Why would anyone read HN if all they want to read is a restatement of "popular" culture.

Only speaking for myself but I want to read about alternatives to popular choices that feed surveillance marketing as "business strategy".
Yeah, Athena is great for doing queries across multiple S3 objects. I have also used sqlite recently too, usually either with pandas reading from S3 then dumping it to a sqlite database table. I don't really like pandas but it's useful for creating the table structure for me.
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One way of cutting down usage is to reduce the amount of data you volunteer. Logging out is an easy way to reduce usage. This change compels light users to stay logged in and participating.
I dont claim to have significant experience with job market, but I wouldnt throw the possibility of "free salary rise" out of the window without even asking first.
>implemented by a brain

Which is an idea.
Which is a point in the mirror, it avoids to face.
Same as its mirror can't face the opposite.

Whereever the difference of them my be, if there even is one.

;-)
I'd say go for general software dev. If you still want to do it, get a masters or PhD in it. Most places won't let you build models without a higher degree in it, so you would just end up being a data jockey for the people who do build the models.
Jack a bunch of smart TVs from a warehouse and nobody panics. Because -- it's all part of "the plan". But if a company reaches out across the 'net and disables their stolen contraband; everybody LOSES THEIR MINDS!
A whole Burrata on a pizza sounds like heaven... thank you for opening my eyes
As an example, there are bitemporal queries like "for the given population of trades specified by following rules, find the set of trades that met the rules at a particular point in time, based on our knowledge at another given point in time". Also trades are versioned (are a stream of business events from trading system), then have amendments (each event may be amended in the future but the older version must be preserved). Our system can also amend the data (for example to add some additional data to the trade later). All this causes trades to be a tree of immutable versions you need to comb through. A trade can have anywhere from 1 to 30k versions.

This takes about 20 seconds. The process opens about 200 connections to the cluster and transfers data at about 2-4GB/s.
Perhaps just a coincidence (though I doubt it), but the full-screen login pop-ups on mobile became constant that weekend. Seemed like most of the videos coming out of Kabul airport that weekend were sourced off Twitter.
New York style pizza is better than neapolitan style.

I believe the interest in Neapolitan is an response to pizza being marketed at children for years in NA.

Similarily, comic-sans is perfectly acceptable font. Stop pretending you don't enjoy things you enjoy.

Like pineapple on pizza!!
I used to like anime back in the 90s because it was totally different than anything I had ever seen before. Then I started meeting other people who liked anime and noticed a shocking number of them really liked anime with little girls in their underwear. I know that's not everyone but it totally turned me off to the whole genre. I can just never look at it the same way now.
> Regarding recipes, Margarita is my go-to, more or less same sauce recipe, but I add a full ball of Burratta once out of the oven (too soft to even need to cook it).

This is all well and good, but given that it's mostly carbs (bread), how are you not hungry a short time later? Or do you have it for lunch, so you only have to last a few hours until supper/dinner?

I find that unless I have some protein/meat (which takes longer to digest?), my satiety doesn't last.
I personally disagree! The computer disappearing is one of the most pure expressions of form following function.

In the iPhone or iMac, what's on the screen is what is important. Nothing else is important, so it's not there. One of Rams' principles: "Good design is as little design as possible."

Contrast that to a competing product like the ASUS ROG Phone: RGB lights, not-strictly-necessary cosmetic vents, asymmetrical lines, printed design patterns. Now THAT is a product that would make Dieter Rams throw up in his mouth!
Thinking next time I need a big panel I'll shop in the digital signage area, and take care of inputs and sound externally.

Philips got the BDL line, NEC also a big supplier.
LIDARs are not inherently expensive. The volumes are tiny. Continental was prepared to put a good, low-cost automotive LIDAR into production. They're an auto parts company. Someone has to order a few hundred thousand units.

Good color TV cameras cost thousands of dollars 25 years ago. The one in your cell phone costs about $10 and is much better.

The business model problem is real. A big disappointment has been the lack of self-driving shuttle buses. The cost problem isn't so bad, and at moderate speeds the sensing problem isn't that bad. Shuttle buses are expensive from a labor perspective - they don't carry that many people, and you want a lot of little ones running frequently all day and night. servicing airport parking lots and such. Not a big bus every half hour.
There are a few companies selling them, and they work OK on fixed routes at slow speeds. But they're not selling well. There are a few in various places around the world, but not many.

A big name not well known seems to be set to change this. New Flyer is the largest big-bus builder in North America, and they have come out with an automated model.[1] This should be interesting.

[1] https://www.newflyer.com/bus/xcelsior-av/
Are the year-by-year rankings for languages available somewhere in a table? How much weight would you give these vs. TIOBE rankings?
I feel like this would only work for the 9-5 crew.

Realistically, if you’re a salaried employee working from home at a fortune 1000 or startup in the US, you’re basically always kind of working; nights and weekends, when there’s important stuff happening or you don’t have plans.
They were popular!

But there was also the tradition in higher end A/V equipment of selling components instead of complete systems so it was limited to the low end.

I think the issue with Smart TVs is that people became aware of the extent of the downsides only years after they became aware of the convenience.
we're trying to use Discord for our multi-site grant-funded healthcare project... it's pretty messy to use. Would love to pay for some decent support... People are getting locked out of their accounts for some reason and working with their support team is very painful.
So what do you think happened? That people were manipulated in to using discord? Or that they don't know what the alternatives are?

Everyone I have spoken to loves discord and thinks it is one of the best programs they have. It's only a select group of hacker news style users who complain about minute details the average person does not care about.

I know it's hard for most people on this site to understand but the average user has very different priorities. Being able to create a "server" with the click of a button is worth more than every other issue listed in this thread. Having to pay or self host to create a group is a total non starter in 2021.
Twitter is to society as cancer is to life.
Agreed. I even read it in an Italian accent.

The content speaks for itself (not pun intended).
Are you asking me to provide evidence that the account posted false information and never redacted it? How about the very tweets in the linked thread where the account makes fact-free claims about how a “single IP” accessing “hundreds of accounts” (the former of which is not substantiated) suggest iCloud security is fundamentally broken. Of course Matt is smart enough to not state the implication directly, relying instead on sarcasm and FUD.

Since you went ahead and stated opinion as fact (while cleverly pretending that you didn’t), can you provide an example where I dismissed a valid concern with a non sequitur? How do you reconcile the accusation that I assert “nobody should be concerned” with comments like this where I clearly outlined why the announcement should be concerning:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279776

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28165116

I’ll go further and say that I have sincere concerns with what was announced, but seeing how that Twitter account seeds legions of incorrect commenters who proliferate (and post intentionally clickbait material on HN, as the poster of this article themselves admitted on this very thread!) led me to the conclusion that Matt is doing plenty of harm, especially since he should know better.
Excellent, yes - thank you for listing these. EKG devices have been around for a long time, so plenty of predicates for 510(k) pathway.
Ally still offers 0.5% fwiw, which would be $1250. Doesn’t keep up with inflation, but better than $25.
> But to the Googlers, it was as if I was speaking another language.

I mean, they are literally being paid not to understand.
Thank you for an informed take. I agree completely. There is no fundamental reason why Waymo can't work. Sure, there are challenges, but is servicing cars REALLY something Google can't solve?
So why don't we have remotely driven cars?
I'm not aware of anything that does a better job than discord. So they can be doing a fantastic job relative to the competition while still leaving stuff to be desired. Although bots are not really a bad solution and they leave the tools in the hands of the users who can now do just about anything.
Most phones don't run directly from mains with an empty or removed battery.

The reason is that the power supply isn't guaranteed to be able to cope with the short peaks in power like from the various radios. It could lead to brownouts. And it's not a common enough usecase for manufacturers to bother supporting.
True obviously but the poor man working for a logging company in Brazil needs to feed his kids today. He's not concerned about what happens in 20 years.
Lately, I have been seeing lot of youtube videos of unruly passenger boarding uber. I wonder what happens in that scenario. It seems like it is common thing during weekends in big cities. Is car aware of the fact that some body puked or took a dump inside it?

Unruly passengers without supervision who destroy properties might just be the reason it won't be a viable business.
I've made two brick ovens in totally different places with very different types of bricks. The thing that surprised me was how similar baked goods come out of each. It's kinda magical.

I've often wondered what it is that does the trick and I'm not entirely sure anyone's theories are quite right. It's probably a few things: high heat for a toasting/char effect, with radiant heat providing some kind of specific heating mechanism. But I also have started wondering if there's something about the humidity that's different in most wood-fired brick ovens.

I'd love to try one of those tabletop pizza ovens but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Those pictures make me want to go out and start churning out pizzas.
Software for marine science applications.
An ad-free experience would almost certainly cost more (consider Amazon's cheaper Kindle that shows ads when the screen goes to sleep). If we're talking about adding even $50 to a $1000 TV, I'd bet most consumers would rather endure the ads and keep the $50.
I've had yeast stop working after a few months unrefrigerated, but refrigerated it seems to last for years, at least, that's my perception.

I'd only advise somebody to bother to proof if they know the yeast I'm using is older than a few months opened unrefrigerated, but I habitually check it anyway.
You can definitely follow Twitter users. There's BirdsiteLive, a Twitter->Fediverse bridge which allows following Twitter accounts by reference from Mastodon (or any other Fediverse server). I'm using that to follow a small handful of users.

https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive/blob/master/...

Nitter also supports RSS, so you can follow Twitter accounts in your feedreader.

What you can't do in either is reply back to Twitter profiles. BirdsiteLive sets the bridged toots (equivalent of tweets) as private, which on Mastodon renders as unsharable.
Another option is a 4 on 2 off schedule if you can swing it.

This gives you a 239-240 working days per year. This is only 15 fewer days than a standard year, which can easily be made up by working 2 hours more per 4 days or 8.5 hours per day.
I hate that HN's voting system allows low-effort, factually incorrect, borderline spam articles like this one to get boosted right to the top because the title is catchy and supports people's biases.
Why do you think the cost of building the HD maps is prohibitive? How much do you think it would cost to say, keep a square mile of a dense urban HD map updated for a year? It's probably way lower than you think.
Aren't these all issues that car rental agencies have?

Somehow they turn a profit on renting you a car for $80/day which I imagine is less than a tax takes in for fares per day.
Thanks for the answer. I confess I don't see why any similarly-situated opponent would eschew any of those problematic tactics. If we can't handle those we can't in good conscience go to war.

Your impression of the Northern Ireland peace process seems wildly at odds with my recollection. The various Republican and Unionist groups killed and injured more people than the government did. The Provos forced the other parties to the negotiating table with the Docklands and Manchester bombings, and the resulting Good Friday agreement was approved by 97% of Catholic voters because it established local government and made it possible for Ireland to be reunited based on future votes. IRA was no more "beaten into submission" than Taliban were.
Discord is somewhat of a power user UI. They cater to people who are in 10+ large communities and use lots of the features provided.

It's not the simplest tool if all you want to do is PM a friend or two.
The inflationary coin was tried more than once. I remember one that wasn't content with infinitely expanding the monetary base - it would delete balances at random, watching people try to defend the idea was hilarious.
Maybe I should have linked to [1] as one of the videos from a couple of guys testing it out in Oakland.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs&feature=youtu.be
Sure, but the point is that the car can flag something that doesn't look like the map so a human can review it. ie. closed road, new road, construction markers, etc.

That's way less intensive than having to build the whole thing from scratch or having it be fully automated.

Humans are good at exceptions. Let the humans do that while the machines do the rote task of "Yep, road still looks like the map. Nothing to see here."
It's there yes but it was only added as a result of the controversy.
The wages paid to professional drivers is also staggering.

If amortized cost of hardware + backhaul & processing costs < professional driver wages, then the model works. This is especially true as tech improves and wages increase. There will be a crossover eventually.