skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Autonomous cars and breakdowns/accidents/vandalism?
What considerations have companies been making once we have autonomous taxis/ubers/lyft where its only the passenger and the vehicle - where If the vehicle gets a flat - gets into an accident, or if the vehicle has no passengers and it gets vandalized?

What if the scenario is that the passengers inside take off their seatbelt? Or are being unruly? Or vomit?

There just seems to be wreck/damage scenarios that will be dealt with - but what infra is being setup along side with these rollouts to handle such situations?

Are/have companies such as Waymo already done dry-runs with their vehicles to test how they will handle these?

I believe that every model-year car currently has to go under crash-tests, and it would seem that many different crash-scenario tests would need to be tested by autonomous cars?

It would be interesting to hear about how they have already been addressing such...
Yeah I think that part is a bit iffy, and if you look at the resulting image it does seem to have some fringes around the outside of the cat, indicating that it's showing something related to the curvature of the heightmap, rather than the intended image.

It's probably a good enough approximation to at least generate a recognizeable image. Especially if you use a point source because then each 'window' will reflect all its light in more or less the right direction which will converge on a single point as well. Not sure if they'll all focus on the same plane but it's probably close enough.
I wonder how the reverse (YC version of Army/GWOT) would look in your imagination.

Little background: long ago I was involved with the founding of SOFWERX, which was a small experiment with ideas of this sort. Also involved with TF Palladin / JIEDDO down range, which might be more relevant actually.
Because you're being willfully obtuse of the authors meaning to make a point about semantics.

Context and intersectionality (or PIE if you want a more nerdy less loaded term) matters here. White and black have specific meanings, a shared cultural history, and face similar issues and struggles in the US. And there's more to a person than just their "race" despite race being a particularly "loud" (i.e. strong predictor) part of a person's identity which is why you have to take into account its interactions and how it melds with all the other aspects of their identity to get a complete picture of a person.
I will not take the time to take a Twitter link and send it through that website. Anything on Twitter is time wasted as far as I am concerned.
I would disagree on the assertion that it was fundamentalist. Compared to the places they came from, they were pretty open and indeed ensured that there was separation between state and religion, unlike many other places at the time where there was an intricate relationship between the two.
> people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified

And what languages would that be? (given that even some borrowed words in English have the letter é for instance)
The object of your iPhone will absolutely not impede you in any way from using its antenna to transmit a multicast IP packet on a WiFi network.

It is up to you to figure out how to get the electrons in the antenna to wiggle in the appropriate manner to make that happen, but there are absolutely no constraints preventing you, as the owner of said iPhone, from doing so.
Yeah, I'm going to need something a lot more robust than that to keep my cats out of the feeder. They rip the lids off of the metal cans I use to store cat foot. :-)
Ryan and Kate have no apparent interest in that subject.
If anyone is interested, [0] is what OP is talking about I think

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg
It's an interesting question of how to qualify your words when you talk about how widespread the tests are. I'm sure fewer than half the people I know have had COVID tests (versus tests everyone gets), which makes the tests per person metric potentially a little deceptive. I think it's a fair point that the possibility of constant testing tied to access to employment or entertainment could change our culture.

> I should have said never before have we had so much information about asymptomatic disease transmission to see / worry about.

I think this is much less of a problem than you make it out to be. Having a lot of information, and having the information gradually improve in quality, is a good thing. The media's inundation of people with the information and the insanely stupid public dialogue surrounding it all is... less good.

Nevertheless, to the original point, I think all the analogies a person could draw between today and the dynamics of the AIDS epidemic and those years of uncertainty, discrimination and death make what's happening today seem less psychologically traumatic by comparison. Maybe it's less clear because we were already dealing with Very Stupid Times before COVID 19 came along.
And in fact, the owners sold the smaller house to one of the family members and the larger house which is split among something like 27 owners is now up for sale for something like $6million.

As I wrote elsewhere I decided not to split my dad's house with my brother. Just seemed like too many opportunities for conflict. I'd rather just go up now and then when it's available.
One word about the cons of #3, you can absolutely go to a black barbershop with no intentions of ever getting your haircut. Older black men will sometimes hang out there, or stop by through the day on the weekend just to catch up with one another.
While not the same, crippling of Smart TVs already exists - their apps become incompatible with latest youtube, netflix, etc. APIs and therefore become less usable. You can get away from that with a smart stick, but then, you could've bought dumb tv instead.
A good PoW should have very fast verification. That's why scrypt makes a poor choice of PoW (technically, the hashcash PoW with scrypt as hash function). It's quite possible to have an instantly verifiable memory hard PoW, where only finding solution takes lots of memory, while verification takes none. For example, Cuckoo Cycle and its variants [1].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
I'd suggest that in this case one should consider using MusicBrainz, in order to get more comprehensive and better results than either with Wikidata or Wikipedia.
SENS[0] is engineering (not discovering) a way. And they are not that far off.

[0]: https://www.sens.org/
If you're in OP's position (25 years old), don't react that way. Instead, react by moving.

Why? Because if you're filling roles above your grade, you're a perfect candidate for stepping up your grade as you move. That's how you get a big bump in pay. But if you're doing the bare minimum, you're a much less attractive candidate for a higher grade position. And that matters a lot for a person who's 25, because that big bump in pay sets a floor for your pay for the rest of your career.

If you're 50, doing the bare minimum doesn't cost you as much money over the whole of your career. (It can still corrode your soul, but that's not the issue we're talking about here.)
My samsung TV was never connected to the internet. I didnt even accept the user agreement, it still works just fine.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle may make enforcement a little tough.
That's my point. You share language, el mundo espanol, etc.

That's true cultural linkage.

Whereas a "white" person from Ireland and a "white" person from Ukraine have very very little in common.

A "black" person from South Africa and a "black" person from Colombia have very very little in common.

And yet these are the main descriptors used in pop culture, Instagram, the media... and it's silly.
It's worse: Twitter staff sold private user PII to the Saudi government (the one that assassinates journalists):

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...
unless they've changed their policy on this you can email support and say you don't have a phone number and they'll re-active your account, has worked for me in the past.
I think this counts as confirmed (it was kayak/ orbitz)[1]. Pretty sure I heard one of the engineers talking about it in an interview too?

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304458604577488...
I used to do exactly that!
Too many startup validation stories messed around with the way I do things, not sure if it's right or not.
> Because languages gradually lose phoenetic features over time

I don't think this is accurate. While it certainly does happen, new phonemic distinctions can certainly arise as languages change.

The article you link to does not support the idea either, in fact it explicitly contradicts it:

"Moreover, there is no bias towards decreasing the size of phonemic inventory over time as human populations moved out of Africa, as phonemes may be added as well as eliminated."
what is the point of twitter ? why do people even use it.
Honestly what? How is what you're saying not a racist dogwhistle? It's political propaganda why? Because they're Black?
I’m fine with the decision except that their app sucks. It’s by far the worst streaming app. The iOS version is ok. Embedded versions like in PlayStation and TV just hang 100% of the time on suspend and resume. If they want to own the relationship they need to get their shit together.
Anu's Energy Audit helped me find Armory's next CEO
Right there with "for us to deliver better user experience"
What if the maintainers just got a bad case of covid? I hear there's this awful pandemic, but I guess they might only be baseless rumors...
The trick is to click the next tweet, then manually press 'Go' or hit enter in the url bar to reload the page, only the will clicking outside the login will make it disappear.

If it opens from a referrer, clicking outside the login box will take you back to the previous tweet
Will give it a read, thanks for the suggestion!
> The blocking will come into effect when the user of a stolen television connects to the internet, in order to operate the television

I purchased a Sony TV in 2019 after giving up on looking for 70" "dumb" television sets that would only connect to my PlayStation and act as a screen.

I decided that I would buy a smart tv but never connect it to the internet.

Every few days when I start my TV, I get an annoying "set up your Android TV" prompt that takes over my TV. I have to grab my remote and dismiss it to go back to my PlayStation.

If I happen to have a stolen television set, I would never know the difference. (My TV is from Sony, article is about Samsung TVs)
Hotels are commercial property, in commercial districts.

Staying in residential property, in residential districts is way preferable to me for my style of travel (3-6 weeks in a city at a time).
"There seems to have been a compromise of safety in order to speed up the development." You consider that a pro-vaccine point?
Such a comment like the one you are responding to comes around like clockwork on HN whenever "black" is mentioned.
yeah hear me out though, what if it's true and they're trying to get votes by making people's lives better
Never read that, I will look into it. One of the books I love is "The Mind's I" by Dennett and Hofstadter. Easily one of the best books I have ever read.
That's awesome! The site seems down for now but I'll check again later.

Also I'll go ahead and plug the site I'm helping rebuild.

https://skatevideo.site
This just sounds like including income in credit score with extra steps.
If you have a fixed rate mortgage, the bank bears an interest rate risk. If the interest rate goes up, the bank could be getting more money in interest, but they aren't.

If you have an adjustable-rate mortgage, you bear the interest rate risk.
At least for games it makes a lot of sense IMHO to have the entire game including static data structs/tables and asset data (geometry, textures, audio, ...) "baked" into a single image that can be directly mapped into memory.

You'll still need some "scratch space" for the dynamic game state (because you don't want to duplicate the entire image as savegame files), but for asset data I think it makes a lot of sense and could simplify and speed up asset "loading" dramatically.

PS: it would make even more sense to map most asset data directly into GPU memory, don't know how far off affordable 512 GB video cards are though ;)
I think this article raises a lot of good points about the weekend prototype, but I also think there is some merit in the question of “what do all those people do?”.

I’ve worked in digitalisation in the public sector of Denmark for quite some time. A few years ago I was part of the group who redefined our national principals for architecture in municipality IT systems. The whole thing is called rammearkitekturen which translates directly into “the framework architecture” and without getting into too much details it was made because we had 98 muniplacities times 300 average IT systems ways or defining what a person was. Which made buying and integrating IT hard. Rammeaekitekturen still hasn’t fixed that, but that’s not what I want to talk about.

One of the things to come out of this mindset was how to design an IT system for eldercare. Where there used to be a physical folder with a printed note containing all the “Moksly may attempt to hit you during showers and this requires two caretakers” and so on as well as hand written notes for day to day things, medicine used to come in little sorted bags clearly labelled “MORNING” and so on, and every morning people would get a printed list of their route that was adjusted for coworkers who were off sick and so on, and that was pretty much it. Today we have multiple different billion dollar systems to handle those basic things, and after two years of being used they still can’t handle differences between day and night-shifts or giving call-in temps the correct sorts of data access.

Instead of having two planners and a subscription to a pharmacy for the sorted medicine bags, we now employ almost 50 people as full time support staff to operate this system as well as throwing endless amounts of resources after project managers, lean consultants, educators and so on to get this system to work.

When polled everything single citizen and caretaking employee replied that the old non-digital systems were better. At no point has anyone asked whether or not it made sense to digitalise this area or if it makes sense to continue trying to implement it.

So I do think that it’s sometimes reasonable to wonder just what all those people are doing in some organisation. Because sometimes systems have a way of making themselves important to the organisation without actually being important to the organisation.
Could be to avoid wasting time
Just wait until they include Amazon Sidewalk, so the TV can connect using your neighbor's internet connection to download the latest ads.
One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.
I can't see that domain, it's blocked on our corporate network, but those seem like odd numbers to have picked. Lateral flow tests have a 0.3% false positive rate, and a 23% false negative rate. With those numbers, at a 5% infected rate, 7% of all positive test results will be false, rather than 34%.

But that ignores a major factor, which is that testing isn't uniformly distributed. It's inevitably going to be skewed towards people who are more likely to be infected. That means the true number will be less than 7%.

The danger with testing really isn't the false positive rate. It's the false negatives.
I see a lot of spam on Reddit.

That does nothing to speak of “auto moderator”, fragmented rules/guidelines and ilk and the sheer effort involved by volunteers.

Even then: the spam gets through. But I agree that PII is not solving this.
there is no evidence for systemic racism, is a purely political invention.

Dems are fishing for minority votes through their favorite propaganda channels, but I don't think this will help them
Cuckatoo Cycle is a proof of SRAM. Cuckatoo32, as used in some cryptocurrency, requires 512MB of SRAM to solve efficiently (in addition to 512MB of DRAM).
The solution process is dominated by writing and reading of individual random bits.
Currently available Cuckatoo32 ASICs only have 64MB on-chip SRAM, causing an 8-fold reduction in efficiency, which still outperforms GPUs.
Apache Arrow Ballista 0.5.0 release with support for complex distributed queries
Funny, I don’t get along with many other Latinos despite being one. I think it’s this attitude that I’m supposed to speak the language and act a certain way as part of the “culture.”
And gulag guards too.
See https://twitter.com/bodiecabiyo/status/1427683107788845056?s...

TLDR; there is a percentage set aside for fires but it seems way too little.
Generally not. Which is why the nervous system of cephalopods seems so alien — their processing is performed in a more distributed fashion.

Sometimes the brain and spinal column are considered together in our case, as some of our survival reactions are governed by neurons in our spine, but that does not really match how cephalopods distribute their processing (something that is presumably necessary, or at least helpful/efficient, for controlling the flexibility of their limbs).
> “It’s important for us to own the customer,” Forssell told me last week. “If the viewer is in the app, we can tailor the home page to them. We can tailor what they show them next. We can respond to that in real time.”

HBO isn't concerned because it didn't "own" those customers.
As a sweeping generalisation: Europe has chosen to value more stable employment opportunities with lower potential upside over highly volatile employment opportunities with larger potential upside. America has chosen the opposite. You're speaking as if there's an absolute truth in which model is better, but as we're finding in this very thread, American people are coming to Europe to build businesses (and Europeans are going to America to do the reverse).

I won't rehash what brnt has said in their reply, but I will echo their sentiment: The System is me and my friends and my family and my co-workers working together to provide healthcare and education and security to each other. I pay taxes for that reason.
Counselors are more like it. Or a stranger at the bar you can vent to. Therapists do more from my personal experience.
A typical day for a software developer
We have these in the US too, they're called adjustable-rate mortgages.
A man third in presidential succession has been in five 'Batman' movies
AFAIK similar thing happens with Sony smartphones. They claim to officially support AOSP. But:

"If you unlock the bootloader, you may void the warranty of your device and/or any warranty from your operator. See your device’s warranty statement for details. Additionally, due to the modified device software, Sony’s repair network will likely have to replace key components before it can properly test, repair and verify your device using our repair tools and software. Consequently, if Sony performs a warranty repair, Sony will likely charge you a significant service fee for the additional costs caused by your modification of the software."

And regarding camera:

"Certain pre-loaded content on your device may also be inaccessible due to the removal of DRM security keys. For devices running recent software versions, for instance Xperia Z3, the removal of DRM security keys may affect advanced camera functionality. For example, noise reduction algorithms might be removed, and performance when taking photos in low-light conditions might be affected. The secure user data partition may also become inaccessible, and you will not be able to get any more official software upgrades if you unlock the bootloader."

I was very enthusiastic about Sony smartphones when I first read about them officially supporting AOSP, but after reading those terms I just bought cheap Android One Xiaomi instead, who supports unlocking bootloader with a single click, does not void your warranty or break your camera and you can easily re-flash original firmware.
It's understood from the context that the ethnic group of concern in the article are African-Americans.
Refreshing never worked for me, although I admit I probably never tried refreshing ten times.

What does work for me is manually prepending www. to twitter.com in the url.
So a person from Sierra Leone who's never stepped foot in the United States would thus never have experienced this "discrimination" and thus are not part of the "black" group?

Your argument makes no sense.
these descriptions mean a lot when they determine how you're treated by society
At some point there will only be people who don't care at all about their privacy that use twitter, Facebook, Instagram... All these American services in "social" media.
Typically they don't "think". And that's the problem.
They are, they're just doing it for advertising, not piracy prevention.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-...
Similar thing with comments whenever a Slack related article ends up on HN. "I don't understand how a shitty IRC clone is worth billions of dollars!" or "Why would anyone use Slack when Matrix is free!" I often wonder if these folks haven't even bothered to actually use the software and realize how much more it does beyond sending messages back and forth and/or how much detail and thought goes into making it usable for the masses, not just software engineers.
Sure, fixed term for a short period is normal everywhere. But a fixed term for the entire length of the mortgage, whereby mortgage terms are commonly 30 years long, are only seen in the US and Denmark.

Here's some more detail on this: https://www.netinterest.co/p/financing-the-american-home
White British immigrants to Canada today, outperform white Canadians of British descent whose ancestors freely moved there in the 19th century, as do their children.

I suspect for the same reason that causes what you've noted. People who emigrate as skilled immigrants internationally are not average people. In both cases we're seeing the cream of the crop (intentionally selected for by the immigration system), educated and driven, often with some wealth established already. And then comparing them to a large population of locals who have varied circumstances determined by local history, not the current immigration criteria.
No mention of Coming to America, where this happens?

That resonated with white kids in suburban america too (i'm one) who had the same experience, with friends' grandfathers the longtime town barbers. My grandfathers had both died when i was tiny, so it was the only grandfather situation i had recurringly, and it wasn't just white or just black, btw.

it's just a healthy thing, so good seeing it still goes on!
This is such a poorly crafted argument that it's hard to imagine it's not in bad faith. You listed religion twice! The only way this is representative of any kind of "normal" culture is if you have defined it that way.

Let's think about a couple more ways that you could go about obtaining a community in the US.

leisure: clubs, cafes, live music events, bars, gyms.
proximity: neighborhood, induced parent communities from child communities.
functional: PTAs, HOAs, coworkers, colleagues.

etc.
At some point the “dog whistle” argument refers to signals that are so faint that they could just as well be imaginary.
How does this affect Twitter users that are publishing official tweets, like police departments announcing emergency situations? Am I going to miss a school shooting because I don't have a Twitter account? Some of these accounts have mandated public visibility
Lenders should be able to make a determination by looking at the person's history of defaulting. An opaque number doesn't tell you that.
A Static Electricity Disease?
I can think of at least two possibilities: a privileged/sheltered upbringing or an intentional mis-framing of the issue to make something reasonable seem unreasonable.