skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do get your point and have my own doubts, I fail to see how this is a fair argument:

> If Google can't do it with its massive resources

The companies behind the SLS had and have an enormous amount of resources. Yet, they have failed to even launch it.

Arianespace has a huge amount of resources and experience too. Yet, when asked, they said landing a rocket couldn’t be done. Then, back-pedalling, that it was pointless and would never make any economic sense.

Yet, SpaceX has developed three generations of rockets (Falcon 1, 9 and heavy), builds them, launches them, iterates on them, lands them, reuses them, and is now working on a fourth rocket (SuperHeavy).

They have also created 4 different rocket engines and are working on two others.

Honestly, where are Boeing and Arianespace?

Another example? Microsoft, their incredible wealth of resources and superior position falling flat on their face with smartphones.

Funnily enough, Google getting the greatest share of the global smartphone OS market, despite having had no real experience with operating systems, consumer hardware, or licensing operating systems before.

Kodak, which had some of the first patent on digital camera sensors, going pretty much extinct despite their massive resources and market position.

Xerox, failing to ever enter the personal computer market despite designing what everyone else would copy for the next 10 or 20 years.

Sure, the amounts of resources and experience seem to help, a lot, but it also certainly doesn’t seem to help reliably predict any outcome.
yeah, im a little apprehensive of having a clickless pointing device, but i already have occasionally-used mouse buttons mapped on my ergo so it shouldn't be a huge hurdle
If they were competent, they would have worked with web browser developers, and made it browser side like other permission dialogs.

Imagine what could have been: a standardised prompt that is always the same, persists when clearing cookies, etc. Instead we have full screen modal popups that render 5 seconds after page load and move around while loading.
> Tesla hid nothing.

But they lied a lot though, right? "Cross county automous summon in 2017" "Coast to coast autonomous drive in 2018" "Tesla driverless taxis in 2019" are a few examples. One may hold the view that Elon musk can make grandiose statements about solving AGI and nuclear fusion in 1 hour and make futuristic statements about that, but when does it go from projection to lying?
This is such a terrible critique, in my opinion. Just because something's never been done well doesn't mean it's impossible.
I believe this behaviour is endemic to companies trying to morph into a "tech company" with MBAs leading the charge.

They're also going to pocket Amazon's fee.
I wouldn't say the data is better, just different. Instead of "how do I extract the info I want?" your problem becomes too much data to sift through. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24992600
Or, you know, the analogy of brain as a computer with computerlike memory management simply might not be 100% useful all the time.

> people don't want to imagine there are the rough equivalent of many, many software layers between the level of the neuron and the level of "reason", "emotions", "self", "consciousness" and etc

It's not that people don't want to imagine, it's that you don't need to imagine that. You don't need to force how the brain functions into the model of a modern computer, though it might simplify and be popular. It's often a helpful analogy/metaphor, and for people that know a lot about computers it often allows them to prognosticate and theorize using elaborate analogies built on top of more analogies, but it's equally helpful to not insist that the thing must be the analogy.

For instance, when I talk to a good friend who is a neuroscientist and active in the development of prosthetics with neural interfaces he is far more skeptical (healthily though) of the computational model than any person I speak to in software engineering or the tech industry more broadly. That's likely because the analogy and model can be built upon with further computer analogies, which people who work with computers love. If we were using an automotive model to describe how the brain functions, I'm sure we would have many automotive mechanics theorizing on the nature of cognition too.
We've moved quite a few datasets from Cassandra to Scylla, but not messages. I think we're planning to make a blog post about our experience with Scylla at some point.
I think from the original DARPA challenges most researchers knew that while self driving is possible or more correctly "a promising direction", but its application to the realworld and its robustness was a far larger barrier back then.

We have the advantage of retrospect when looking at these claims which now may seem more possible then before due to our better understanding of the difficulties and technologies to address them.

I think many people confuse their excitement for the promise of having self driving cars and the actual technical and political barriers that still need to be addressed to bring this to reality (ranging from robustness, infinite number of edge cases, perception, insurance, or public policies).
More accurately, after years of failing to be viable as a currency the salespeople started claiming the goal had never been replacing cash and instead was some sort of poorly defined “store of value” instead of what they’d spent the previous decade spinning stories about.

Since a real reserve currency is stable and backed by consistent demand, it’s unclear why anyone expects a pure fiat currency backed only by a small community of speculators to be successful.
> app to organize bookings hints at the direction they're going to take this

Can you elaborate why the app hints at this?
Looks like they migrated (at least partially) to Scylla: "Discord Chooses Scylla as Its Core Storage Layer" (2020)

https://www.scylladb.com/press-release/discord-chooses-scyll...
Hacker News Top Domains in 2021 (Bigquery Data)
Looking the these pages help me appreciate how far the Web UI/UX has evolved during the past 20+ years.
Self driving for taxis is a very different problem than for personal vehicles. For the latter you can always rely on the human driver to handle the last 1% or 0.1% edge cases and still provide a ton of value. Taxis don't have that option, so it really is perfect level 5 automation or bust. "Good enough" doesn't cut it.
This one (on bit gold, a few months before the Bitcoin paper came out) is even more striking:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253999
Here you can find part 2: the solutions:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/866709/671690ea60c1cb37/
In other news, the government has declared by decree that nobody is allowed to memorize seed phrases anymore.

Also, multiplying prime numbers is now illegal.

edit: Downvotes are funny because we are almost certainly going to see laws passed in the next few years that are functionally equivalent to the rules stated above.
So you recommend their hardware, and compete with them on software? (Assuming I understood that correctly -) what stops them catching up/replicating your (presumably) better software?

Or perhaps more to the point - the problem you mention in OP seems, as described, like it's already solved by Kardia, what was missing that you had to build?
Apache Cassandra 4.0 vs. Scylla 4.4: Comparing Performance
I would think most commercial value comes when you eliminate the human labor from driving, which is the dominant cost of transporting when there is less than ~10 passengers. What makes you think Level 4 is the most economically impactful threshold?
Exactly, I block all cookies (except for a whitelist of sites I need to log into) and that ironically prevents the fucking popups from tracking that they have been clicked away or agreed to.

I use uBlock origin and various CSS injection to get rid of the popups but they don't catch every single one of them.

I wish the US would institute law making unsolicited (i.e. not triggered by a user click, like clicking on "Login") popups illegal, arrest the CEOs of companies that violate this, put them in a CEO jail for a week, make them wear an "I suck" T-shirt and dunce cap, and live stream their faces the entire time.
I have a Hisense with a built-in Roku, same experience, but it got a lot faster once I cut off its internet access. (It's still connected to the home network so I can use the iOS remote control app for it, but I set up a firewall rule to block it from WAN access.) Worth a try if you can live without it dialing out.
But then the hamburgers used to make food ads are made from plastic and most definitely fake as food goes soggy and off when subjected to lamps used in studio's.
Telfar Wanted to Fend Off Bots. But Its Captchas Frustrated Shoppers
"Induced demand" applies to literally every public resource from subways to parks. If you build it and it's not totally out of place they will come.
I see that point, but the problem I have is the sites that offer the option (and respect it) are probably the sites that were the least offensive with tracking to begin with.
People make this observation about Uber mostly because they can replicate the thing in a few months (it's never a weekend). And proof of that is that many people did replicate Uber software in a few months, some times even with some commercial success.

Differently from Google search, the hard thing about Uber is not the software. What makes a lot of sense, but leaves the question of what are all those people doing there, what the article answers, but the answer is not trivial in any way.
Seismologists don't try to imply that there's "news" every 6 hours worth reading.
by making it a crime to have one or accept money from one? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯....
There's going to be a lot of people who rose to fame in the 60's fame-boom who are going to drop like flies soon.
DeMuro is proof that you can be a popular creator without resorting to sex/sex-appeal, profanity, or out-in-out lies to get traction. Personally one of my favorites.
By passing a law that makes them illegal, simple as that.
I think you uave some major misconceptions about how this stuff works. Most vision models output the current state of the world, to be integrated with other sensor data like lidar that is then used for planning. There are models that try to guess things like the crossing intent of pedestrians, but even those models just output a confidence of them crossing.
I work for a different self driving company, but this high level stuff is pretty much the same everywhere.
Failing to notice that (twice, even, apparently!) was surprisingly careless of me. Thanks for the correction. But yeah, I do think it would be significantly better restructured to put that at the end of the bullet list.

… actually, reading this all more carefully now, I retract my praise of this as “a genuine deprecation”. They’ve abused the word deprecation like so many others. I fear the word will soon be lost to us, as more and more people misuse it.

“This year, we will similarly deprecate non-HTTPS access and TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for npmjs.com, the public npm registry.” No, you will similarly remove it.

“we will also take steps to alert affected users to this change ahead of the deprecation.” — no, you’ve deprecated it now, and are taking steps to alert users ahead of the removal.

“The npm registry is removing TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 support” would have been a more accurate title.
You have changed my life.

Thank you.
O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go
While controversial, we tolerate a great deal of casualties caused by human drivers without trying to illegalise those.

While we can (and should) hold autonomous vehicle developers to a much, much higher standard than we hold human drivers, it is precisely because of excellence.
Yes, but hardly anyone uses them because fixed rate mortgages are so much better of a deal in most cases. The government owned guarantors (Fannie/Freddie mainly) are the main reason that 30 year mortgages can be offered at such low rates in the U.S.
My experience is that water proof phones ironically are more prone to water damage since they don't drain. Simple moist in a tent can kill it.
It already does on mobile. It is impossible to view subreddits unless you sign in, you only get a "preview"
FSD v2 hw with DOJO - we definitely got it right this time.
It's the same thing as if EU jumped to ban our classic, leather, pocket wallets. Pure bullshit, except if this is marketing?
Drugs (or alcohol)? There are so many more failure modes that drugs are the least of my concerns. Especially of unspecified type. I'm not the least bit worried about drivers hopped up on tylenol. Humans get distracted while driving, by texting, or simply boredom and start daydreaming. Don't forget about driving while tired. Or emotionally disturbed (divorce or a death; road rage). Human vision systems are also pretty frail and have bad failure modes, eg the sun is close to the horizon and the driver is headed towards the sun.
> Instead of making meaningful change,

Meaningful change: the ways that web sites track you are now disclosed and require your explicit consent.

> the EU proceeded to make almost every European website 10x worse with egregious cookie nag screens filled with dark patterns.

It is the web sites that have chosen to make your experience worse. The blame lies with them.
Airlines are not going to implement that out of the goodness of their hearts, especially since they overbook flights regularly and have no idea if a given seat will be in use by a given person until boarding time.
The diversity of philosophy in early Christianity is really interesting, I'd advise anyone from the most evangelical of Christians to the most evangelical of atheists to study it with an open (but not uncritical) mind. At the very worst, you'll have gained new insights into what might have been had history worked out a bit differently which is always really interesting in my opinion.

Love it or loathe it, Christianity has had an enormous influence on Western civilisation so if that's where you hail from it will always be something worth knowing about and knowing about from a neutral perspective.
Show HN: Angband Running In-Browser with WASM
Is there a third party app/viewer that can get around this? Twitter is getting increasingly problematic, what with the new font and so forth.
The examples I was thinking of came from growing up in a city where there is a layer of social workers, teachers, "educators," and even therapists who encourage young men to blame their problems on society and an oppression narrative instead of equipping them with the tools to develop constructive masculine friendships with boundaries. There are real systemic social issues that men who are american and black must face, but the article reframing normal relationships as therapy is precisely the kind of framing that harms male friendships.

Maybe this coalition is doing good work, but anyone who leads with problematizing men talking about their feelings earns very reasonable suspicion, imo. The main reason I see men having trouble connecting is because they haven't spent enough time around another men to learn the normal cues and boundaries. Setting up their friendships in yet another relationship that treats them like problem children isn't going to help them.
> Many hobbit projects

Gotta destroy the ring somehow
Yea. Everything but messages is on Scylla.
> Either way, it's hard to describe anything about a 20 year occupation as "sudden" and having "no transition period". If the US was not able to establish a functional Afghan military after 20 years, what difference would a few weeks/months really make?

It doesn't matter how long you're there for, it matters how gradually you hand over to the locals, and that it be done in a way that supports their success.

This was an abrupt exit after 20 years of carrying the load. Of course it's going to get dropped.
> You can put one tag on a piece of clothing and sell it anywhere in the world. Not everyone speaks English.

This argument sounds attractive and inclusive, but it doesn't make any practical sense.

If a cheat sheet is needed to determine what icons mean, one column for the icon and the other with the meaning in the user's native language, what is the essential difference between that and replacing the icons with English words?

Why is it easier to learn what a strange symbol means than the word "print" ? At least if someone is faced with "print" they can figure out what it means by typing it into google or a dictionary. Not so with an unfamiliar icon.
That's the "not possible anytime soon" answer, which is probably the most common choice.
Well to compare that to Twitter you'd also have to have everyone in the world on Twitter which is overwhelmingly not the case.
The downvotes you are getting is for not reading the article.

Your comment is not on-topic.
Tony Hawk is selling 100 skateboards painted with his actual blood
It's very hard to ban math. It's very easy to ban communications, which may happen to contain math.
Yes, and BrandonM's comment was constructive criticism. He was trying to help Drew with his YC application (that's what "app" meant back then) and clearly wanted it to succeed ("I only hope that I was able to give you a sneak preview of some of the potential criticisms you may receive. Best of luck to you").

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275
Gaming, Technology and Entertainment
Before the pandemic, zoom was a starting to gain market share over a bunch of the legacy conference software vendors, like cisco webex. They had their act together on the enterprise sales side and were getting traction via their freemium model ... just dropbox/box got enterprise traction even when companies already had things like SMB/CIFS or sharepoint. The UX was better for the same reasons many an HN didn't understand what advantages Slack has over IRC.
Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)
Planes encounter a lot of air resistance because they're constantly creating lift, which means they're pushing a lot of air around -- which means drag. Planes also fly fast which means a lot of drag (drag forces are proportional to velocity squared). Blimps don't need to produce lift, and they move much slower.
I admittedly know very little about this space. What are some of the newer players?
Governments can either get onboard, and come up with a reasonable, practical regulatory environment, or alternatively they will be left behind and Crypto will evolve to circumvent their wishes.

It is a shame but the USA may end up leapfrogging the EU in the same way they have done with other innovations, like Social Media, Self Driving Cars, and other cutting edge tech. It turns out regulating entire sectors of the economy out of existence has consequences.
Hopefully this will reduce the amount of embedded tweets in articles and my accidental exposure to Twitter and the problems it produces.
The only difference is that Tesla tech is not generally available, while all the other prev tech were.
> simply never gave it the wifi password and never connected it to ethernet

I worked on the team who built Samsung’s initial smart TV experience back in 2009 and yet I’m the exact same as you with every TV I own. If I could get the same quality panel and video processing without “smart TV” functionality for a reasonable price, I would, but they generally are much more expensive. My choice of panel is intended to last me 5 years, the last thing I would want is to be stuck with 5 year old “smart” tech that usually is abandonware shortly after purchase. It’s just to easy to buy a separate box (AppleTV in my case) and get a better experience and easy upgrade ability as new stuff comes out without wasting a perfectly good multi-thousand dollar panel.
Yeah, that and an enormous number of other nearly all-male hobbies. Unfortunately this leaves men who aren't in to trains, electronics, shooting, cars, or other stuff with few options.

Obvious disclaimer: there are plenty of women who like trains, electronics, shooting, cars and other stuff, but that doesn't change the very high chance of finding the romanticized "all-male-space" if you show to a rail fan meetup.
They should make gravitation illegal. Would save lots of money spent on transportation.
I'd put 50 years in the "not anytime soon" camp. 50 years is an eternity nowadays with regards to tech.
I don't think there is really much of a difference for the person buying the device, except they have some degree of recourse.

1. I unknowingly buy a stolen device.

2. I connect it to it's associated network.

3. The device is reported back to some central authority which then black-lists/bricks the device making it fairly useless.

The only difference I see is that Samsung will allow your to provide proof of purchase, and it will function without being connected to that networked system.
My guess is that you just don't fly unless the weather is good. Since these are small ships it's not like your whole Walmart is going to be on it.
L/D ratio is not enough, you also have to take into account speed. A L/D of 6 at 120 mph has an equivalent per mile efficiency of an L/D of 12 at 60 mph (and a better von Karman efficiency).

The figure of merit is maximum (speed * L/D), not L/D alone, and this is where the efficiency of airships fall apart. Due to their greater parasite drag compared to aircraft (necessitated by the lifting gas volume), airships generally can’t match the same per mile efficiency, and even if they can, not at the same von Karman efficiency.
Much of current cognitive science is neo-phrenology: geography = function. This article shows thats too simple.
I agree it's strange
I feel like we have very different buying strategies on Amazon which is what leads to our differing opinion. I never use Amazon for product discovery. It's ... not great. I always research what I want independently and then go to Amazon to make the final purchase knowing exactly what I want. They're basically just a delivery network for me and on that front they're so far ahead of everyone else it's not even funny.
I just ran openssl list --public-key-methods on a Debian 10 box and you’re indeed right. I wonder why they chose to include it…?
actual title == [Frequently Asked Questions | Official web site of the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration]
So... I'm supposed to keep the receipt for the lifetime of the TV? Around here I don't even need it for the warranty in some places, they just look the item up by serial no.

And what is a "valid TV license" ?
Tracking is a choice. uBlock Origin is a free download. Geoblocking is not a choice.

EU citizens are worse off only having access to insular media with one viewpoint. If you're German and a significant amount of foreign media is either blocked or scorned, you end up enabling giant frauds like Wirecard.

Germany's homegrown DW had fawning coverage of the fraud, calling it remarkable and a "weapon against poverty". [1] [2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/whats-behind-the-remarkable-rise-of-ge...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/is-fintech-the-latest-weapon-in-the-fi...
> With privacy concerns, companies should be shamed for storing billions of messages.

should we shame ycombinator for storing the messages, accounts and comments on hacker news then?

I am still unable to delete my account here even though the CCPA and the GDPR exists. But here we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound gives some details about that. I knew that some Irish English speakers inhale when saying "yes", but it seems fairly widespread across Europe...
They hacked the blues into rock and roll. They weren't the only ones doing so but were obviously major players.

I'm not sure about them being among the most innovative but are without doubt among the most influential.