skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best I can figure is companies not eating their own dog food. Clever engineers forced in directions the clueless set and enforced.

IMO, we lost the TV and car entertainment system battle long ago. It all just went south. And those two are leading symptoms of dumb smartification.

Car entertainment systems: lure of reprogrammable "somethings" replaced tactile buttons, distracting drivers. And then the programmable interface became a sequence of terrible things, features and partnerships, completely disconnected from how you use a radio.

TV: we went from hundreds of channels modulated on a single coax cable where you can flip instantly and get immediate signal to layers of slow interfaced descrambling and streaming, ... "please wait, updating" ... "please wait, cannot connect to service" ... "service status ok, 4/4" and of course, slow loading interfaces, > 1+ minute time-to-play experiences, audio lipsync issues and balkanization of content streaming, and market juggling of rights.

Yes, I'm whining, but why couldn't evolution of at least these two have gone ... better?
By the way, the Feedbro RSS reader lets you subscribe to twitter accounts like an RSS feed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
Twitter's track record is nothing but user-hostility at this point. Look at the bigger picture please, people.
I was just thinking about the 2-3 whistle communications common in the U.S. and I have no idea how one goes about transcribing them in text.

How would one even generate a language to show whistle modes, you would almost have to use sheets of music :)
Roku watches what you are watching and shares that data with their trusted partners. Same as Android TV (whatever it's called now) and Amazon Fire.

AFAIK, the only mainstream streaming device that doesn't do this is Apple TV.
But TV sets are targets of burglars.
Also having the taxi driver intentionally taking indirect routes to run up the meter. Crazy how much better rideshares serve there customers just by setting the rate before you get in the car

Not to mention taxis refusing to serve minority neighborhoods. If you're actively preventing a significant proportion of your potential customers from using your service, you shouldn't be surprised if a competitor is able to swoop in and "disrupt" your business. (that's not to say Uber doesn't have their own problems with rideshare redlining, but they're certainly better than traditional taxi companies)
> Microsoft nonetheless has taken steps to lower the security bar to a level more suitable to low-code apps by changing Power Apps portals to enable table permissions by default rather than assuming the user will opt-in to security.
The ads are too small, the design is too clean and the usability is better than on most sites and there are 'No Thanks' buttons. Often these option are hidden behind some crap. And still the site shows very nicely what is wrong with the current state of the web -> Kudos

The creators might want to mix in some https://userinyerface.com sauce to increase realism ;-)
RIP. I shall play some Stones tonight!
Thank you. I think most healthy people have this goodness in them but the modern world puts more emphasis satisfying the self. I discovered the benefits of practicing kindness when someone was kind to me.
Charlie originally was trained as a graphic artist before joining the band so maybe that will give you some Satisfaction?
That’s a pretty nice set of steps, a genuine deprecation including even as good an attempt as is possible at notifying where it’s needed, rather than just a removal. It’s interesting to note that they don’t say when they’ll finally remove it.

(One of my pet peeves is people abusing the word “deprecate” when they mean “remove”. The word “deprecate” means just discouraging something without actually removing it, though it’s typically a precursor to subsequent removal.)
Wow an interface that bad must require a committee! A single dev couldn’t dream all of that up.
So when we developed new vaccines over the years you sit on the sidelines, refuse to get them until it's been "long enough"?

C'mon. Nobody was questioning any vaccines for any reason except some fringe leftists until COVID-19 all of a sudden and now that is the vaccine you want to wait for to see if it's ok? How long is long enough? How do you determine it's been long enough? What scientific process are you using?

In exactly what way are these COVID-19 vaccines "different" enough for you to question them versus other routine vaccines that you're getting?

And now compare these made up scary boogeyman "long term effects" versus the actual boogeyman right outside your front door that has killed at least half a million people in the United States alone.

Sorry, I'm going to listen to the entire medical community and the heroes that work at these pharmaceutical companies. Ya know, the people who actually know and understand how these things work and who have also taken them.

Being unreasonable is sitting around from the comfort of your home talking about some nebulous made up "long term effects" bullshit. You weren't worrying about that in October of 2019, why start now without any evidence or reason to?
Why is that? and what are the two approaches?
Okay, I'll bite.

How does allowing people to read (but not post) without logging in produce "spam"?
Impressive uptime
In Finland we had a law that required the taxi monopoly to provide services even in rural areas, so disabled and elderly people could get transportation to services they need. Worked well in my town of 7 000 people except sometimes on weeknights the only driver could be in the next city 50km away.

(Had, as in they changed the law few years back. Not sure how it's now)

Robotaxi(s) could be quite good solution to the problem - the drivers were often pissed if you called them for a single ride when they were home or far away.
I think Tesla is taking the correct approach, treating it as an AGI problem, and training their system to be antifragile.

I think Waymo will make money off of their system sooner.
take that chip off your shoulder mate

about tech interviews, the way you handle stuff you dont know is also important. I didn't say he deserved to be rejected because he didn't know what summing 2 arrays results in, but the interviewer was fair to ask that (if the position was about javascript). and yes if you were the interviewee with this kind of attitude I'd reject you on the spot
It is an OUTSTANDING product. We have several elderly grandparents who loved visiting their grandkids and during the pandemic were cut off. The portal brought them back into the feeling of being part of the action and getting to see what their grandkids were doing. They were all able to set up the Portal without any assistance, which was very surprising. Also, it’s a fantastic Bluetooth speaker when we’re not using it for calls.

Did I feel good about inviting Facebook into my living room? No. I don’t trust that company. But the tradeoff was worth it for me.

Edit: I didn’t just buy one Portal, I bought 4. One would be kind of pointless.
It shouldn't have been on NSA/Microsoft Github in the first place. That repo should have been abandoned in 2018.

Other, non NSA/Microsoft forks should continue development where they left off.

And since no one else seems to be capable of linking outside of the NSA/Microsoft walled garden to such a fork, might as well link mine:

https://codeberg.org/themusicgod1/youtube-dl
I'm not from US so naturally don't know every single bit about US...

My country is a constitutional republic too. But here any article in constitution can be changed with a constitutional majority. Yes, it's not a simple 50%+1 majority democracy, but it's still a democracy where the population can implement whatever changes they wish. Given that large enough part of population signs off on it.
I'm guessing they want to start with premium feel to give people good first impressions. That's why their other car is $60k Pacifica minivan and not $25k Honda Civic.

I'm also guessing that they want an electric car. At the time they made a deal to purchase those cars (was quite a while ago) Jaguar i-Pace was one of few premium electric cars available (if you exclude Teslas, which obviously Waymo wouldn't want as it's a competitor).

At this stage cost is not a big problem.
> it has nothing to do with hacking or technology

Don't be so sure. Music is intimately related to math, and the Stones were one of the most innovative [Edit: influential] musical groups in human history. There are probably hacking and tech connections that are not immediately obvious.

Also, social phenomena are interesting from a technological point of view as well (there's a reason social media is a thing) and the Stones were definitely that.
I agree it's pretty sad but all hope isn't lost - kids are notorious for their neuroplasticity in early years, it's possible that with proper care this generation will catch up to their peers and not suffer any major consequences through their adult life.
This is a bizarre thing to say when all of those roads exist, more or less, except for the Embarcadero which was removed after it collapsed in the 1989 earthquake (and was a crazy eye sore).

It is certainly true that the taste for elevated highways through cities has waned given the pollution and dust and general unsightliness that it produces. In the 1950s, when cars were all the rage, people were very excited by these things.
I'm fine with Tesla putting out dangerous betas, as long as the betas are opt-in. Shipping beta software by default is a bad thing.
The key metric is probably "obscure incidents" per miles driven, probably classified manually into various levels of danger. Once the "incidents that lead to disaster" count reaches 0 statistically, it will definitely roll out en masse without the need of safety drivers.

My guess is that they know how many miles they have to drive in order to reach that number, and it's a whole lot. Statistics and math stuff but you can probably pin it down to the month or quarter based on trends. Either that, or it's about driving every road in the city with all sorts of weather / traffic / pedestrian conditions until there's no issue. This isn't generalized AI driving (L5) but it's a much more logical approach to getting autonomous driving coverage where it's the most valuable.

My guess is that each city will involve a safety driver rollout until they have enough data to know the incident rate is zero. There might be a lot of variance between cities - maps data, weather conditions, customs, etc. Then remove the safety drivers.

I'm sure they also are experimenting with disaster/safety protocols while they do the roll out.

My prediction is that waymo will be a mainstream option within the next 5 years.
It depends. If I could choose one car for person use, I'd take any modern adaptive cruise control + lane-keep assist system over an L4 that only worked in one city (even if it's a major city where I live). I'm not really sure how you determine which one is "more advanced," but I would consider the "level of automation" to be the portion of my normal driving habits that are able to be automated.
The impression I’ve gotten from folks that were “over there” recently - including one person who was a contractor serving as embassy security in Kabul and didn’t get out until the second-to-last military flight - is that there are now effectively “two Talibans”.

There’s the main contingent, which is interested in being recognized as the legitimate government of the country and participating on the global stage. They comprise the leadership of the forces that took the major cities and are mostly interested in organizing a working civil authority at the moment.

Then there’s a hardline group. They’re mostly “tribal” leaders and leaders of smaller bands of fighters specifically in rural areas. They’re more similar to the Taliban from before the US invaded; they care little for how things look to the rest of the world and are enforcing their edicts vigorously.

This aligns with what I’ve seen from the outside. Not much seems to be happening in Kabul or Kandahar, but there are videos coming from the outlying areas of door-to-door raids resulting in the executions of “collaborators”.
Then that s about right isn't it?
Source for a rough estimate on what some arbitrary unqualified job pays in comparison to one of the most qualified job?

I say a quarter, the source is me. Based on commonly known compensation information. A cashier earns anything between 25k and 70k. That's common knowledge. Source : go check what brick and mortar shops would pay you for a full time position operating a till and saving Hello thank you good bye to customers. You will get minimum wage all the way up (or down) to over (or below) median wage in certain cities in particular shops, or simply generous (or greedy) owner who don't follow wage market trends.

The comments on this thread are interesting. Counter post are very pedantic rather than argue the substance of comments
Right. When I've seen these kinds of efforts they seem to take one of two paths:

1. Specialized, monolithic systems. These try to do everything for everyone and usually end up devolving into the 12-month (or longer) release cycles. "Monolith" doesn't mean monolith vs microservice in this context. Just that the system is trying to be all encompassing. This is the norm. It rarely works well because it massively increases the cost for change (money, personnel, and time) even for what should be minor things (Oh, you need a custom report? We'll get it to you next year.).

2. Generalized, flexible systems. A document management system like you discuss would be one potential solution. These tend to be more data-oriented (sharing a common database or a common set of databases) with potentially custom front ends. The front ends tend to permit flexibility for the user, including generating their own queries and workflows. These usually work out better, but are not that common among mega corporation or government digitization efforts.

The former is easier to "sell". You get to manage a massive contract, it looks more productive than it is. The latter tends to be more grassroots, an internal effort. The former is highly visible, the latter is nearly invisible.

Related, people tend to overvalue work that appears difficult and undervalue work that appears easy. The second approach tends to make modifications "trivial", so the managers ask, "What are we paying you for?"
But, immigrants from Thailand are no less well-off than immigrants from Nigeria. If Nigerian immigrants face discrimination because many people will only see them as black, does that mean Thai immigrants will outperform them? Or do Thai people face an equal amount of racism targeting them?
I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. It's worthwhile to hear a perspective on why someone might want to leave a particular country and the options they see available to them.
Anyone who says L5 is bullshitting honestly.

L4 is enough to be viable and safe, and is all that is needed.

In fact this level crap is bullshit. It's the speak of MBAs at Bain and McKinsey at who think they understand tech, not engineers.

Real engineers don't stare at their debugging screens going "check out this data, is it L3 or L4?"

Instead engineers look at things like safety-critical interventions per kilometer, non-critical interventions per kilometer, accidents per kilometer, etc.
Option 3 is actually the plot of an episode of the medical drama series "New Amsterdam". The main character of the show is the director of a fiction NYC public hospital. In episode 4 of season 2 he tries to encourage black men to get medical checkups. He choses to teach the barbers how to take blood pressure and prescribe some basic meds. The episode centers around the mistrust that black people in the US have of public healthcare, and how barbers are a natural social center for that community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(2018_TV_series)...
> Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.

Cold fusion is coming in the next 30 years starting from datetime.now()
The extra step of running the command to generate the final output file has saved my ass many times since it checks for errors as well. Other than that command it's the same process isn't it? Edit /etc/default/grub, run command to validate and apply, reboot?
How is it "whataboutism"? This isn't saying "america is bad because history" it is saying that the history of america shoes that democracy can function even with pretty limited application of liberal values.
Poetry for nerds. (Thank you)
The loss of a photo journalist with integrity like Danish Siddiqui is an irreplaceable loss, merely because there really aren't (m)any left.

While this situation in Afghanistan was fraught with danger from the start, his reporting in the Delhi riots and UP (a state in India)'s handling of Covid really changed the dynamics of the public intercourse, and also the urgency of the government. He undertook it at personal cost as a muslim.

In this way, these photographs were as impactful as the napalm girl photo in My Lai, Vietnam.

We like to think of our country as having a free press, but we have one that is completely suborned to a political ideology, etc? Where are the similar photos of the body of the elderly stacked in NJ/NY? Is there a similar level of threat to lives of these reporters?

The lack of a properly functioning 4th estate does not bode well for our country.
You're right, my take hits a weak target. It's more relevant for say Amazon or Steam.

I find it stark that many folks browse digital stores, while I generally explore articles or videos of unaffiliated experts/curators. I'm still vulnerable to influence, but at least it's not the vendor itself.
There are many situations where "come to a stop safely" is the worst possible thing you could do.

Yes, people are bad at driving, because they don't pay attention, panic, make mistakes etc. But ML models tend to freak out at slight variations on mundane circumstances; a cyclist crossing the road at just the right angle and the wrong colour of bike, that sort of thing. The thing self driving cars need to avoid is killing people in broad daylight for no discernable reason, and that seems like the kind of thing that you'd need a mind for. It's the same issue as with adversarial image manipulation to fool image recognition; if changing 3 pixels can turn a frog into a toaster, you aren't really "seeing" the frog at all in a symbolic way, and not seeing a road symbolically seems like a recipe for disaster.
Yes. Let’s hope it makes a comeback. The current direction is unsustainable..
RAM disks make no difference for gaming
As if they care - it's a feature, not a bug. I am not even being sarcastic. Don't believe me? Try blocking Apple processes on macOS with an application firewall and watch how macOS starts acting erratically, randomly.
What Is Considered Sexual Immorality? – God's Good News
"safety" is a term that's been abused since at least 1793: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety
The warm, long term relationships are several decades old at this point. Russia/USSR has long backed Iran. Russia/USSR has long had at least a working relationship with CCP China.

Not sure about China and Iran. But that's my own ignorance/incuriosity
Samsung has some of the best displays. I use 0 "smart" features and just use it as a big dumb 4k monitor for a dedicated Home Theater PC. My wireless keyboard with built in track pad is way better than any smart features they offer, or having to wave a dumb remote around in the air to get their "air mouse" feature offset just right from where you're actually pointing so it doesn't mess up. The TV itself is not connected to the internet and doesn't receive firmware updates beyond the initial one to set the TV up. When I still subscribed to cable TV I used cable cards and windows media center to get all the HDTV stations. Sweet DVR functionality.
And then a year later there are articles saying, "Oh, it turns out that the regulation we created 80 years ago that was specifically designed to prevent exactly this situation was repealed 40 years ago."

And then a year after that there are articles saying, "Why isn't Congress fixing this obvious thing that only makes the very rich richer and always leads to economic disaster?"

And then a year after that, there are articles saying the next crash is coming....
At the beginning of the year, I have picked up a second hand R720 with 192GB. Haven't used all of it yet but the mental peace of having it right here is so satisfying. Used all the 44 cores, though. It cost me half of the money I would have had to pay for a laptop with 64GB.
UX Designer vs. Product Designer
yep that paper is extremely impressive! I would love to implement that approach as well, but it is much more computationally expensive. In the Q&A after a talk from that paper's author, he mentions that it takes about 6 hours for the algorithm to run. The approach I took, modeled off of Yue et al, takes about 30 seconds. The trade-off is that the Schwartzburg paper is capable of much more general purpose remapping. It does not require continuity, which is why that paper results in ray folding which you can see as creasing in the lens.
>It’s important for us to own the customer

Outside of how evil this sounds, I've found that recommendation engines ultimately play against my own interests. It's possible that this ultimately my own fault based on what I watch. Realistically, I think there are multiple scenarios here:

- I watch some junk videos, and youtube suggests more videos like it.

- I enjoy junk videos by a single youtuber, and youtube expects that I want similar sorts of junk videos from many other youtubers. (when I do not)

- I enjoy junk videos of one narrow variety, but most people who enjoy those videos enjoy junk videos of a very wide variety. eg, I watch one retro games review channel, and so youtube thinks I want to watch whatever the most popular retro games review channel.

More perversely, I find that part of the feedback loop here is caused by the move from searching to browsing. That is, if I am shown a list of options (ie, if I am browsing) I tend to want to pick from the available options. The options are just based on what I've watched before, and so my tastes remain narrow over time. If I have to search for content, my mind wanders more, and I think more broadly about what content might be interesting to watch. This is nearly a creative process, and it broadens my horizons. Again, I think it would be perfectly fair to claim that this is really my fault, and not youtube's fault. But, it's very reminiscent of problems with junk food, or gambling, or any other vice. Just because the blame must lie with me does not mean that the company has created something good, which benefits people.

Having discovered this vice, I now do my best to avoid any product with a recommendation engine.
Exactly.

And when you have your special barber, he would cut your hair even when you have no money. That's another assumption a lot of non-black peoples do not know.

I'm black African. I went to live in Rome (Italy) and went 3 times in a "normal" barber shop and the Italians were just doing the haircuts as it is required by their jobs and talking about moundane things. I joined the conversation but ... They are professional. They don't have time to talk about personal problem and stuff. This is not the place.

I switched to a black barbershop and, just near Termini train station. Man, the first day I was there the barber told me and asked me personal stuff and it wasn't "unprofessional" in my view.

We bonded. And now he even call me to ask me how if a problem I have told him previously is solved yet, he has a plumber who can help me fix things and stuff...

So in our culture barbers are well respected.
That 0.9% then 0.09% are also where the real success comes from in many fields.