skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just out of the loop on corporate presentation overload (I don't watch TV at all, and it's mildly jarring watching advertisments and whatnot), but this video feels so... formula-driven and lacking in depth and interestingness that would give me the room to explore the concept and form/own my own view about the service's safety, efficiency and relevance... that it just feels boring. I love tech and self-driving, but the way this is presented, I'm completely turned off the idea.

And then there's the fact that there's a shot of a driver in the front seat shown for like 400 milliseconds. What's up with that? Why is a token driver required to be in the front seat? I thought the foundation of the service was automated self-driving that obviates that...? If for whatever reason it is required, alright, then own up to it and properly integrate it into the video so it doesn't feel so awkward.

Overall this presentation feels like it's hiding something, simply because it's so poorly put together.
hiring cars on demand makes sense in dense cities where most trips would not be by car even if you owned one (walk, bike, transit...). When most trips are by car anyway you are better off owning your own car.
Is this not a legal requirement?
One alternative is the Gigabyte AORUS FO48U 48" 4K OLED. This essentially an LG OLED, minus the smart TV stuff, plus better inputs. It seems to have a ~15% price premium over the TV.
There’s a “free to me” slider in the UI. It will show you content that’s ad supported as well as anything that is covered by Prime.
They call whistling languages "vestiges," a "protolanguage," and baselessly speculate that they originate from less-evolved primates. The writer's tone keeps reverting to subtly dismissive and colonialist.
Same as any timeshare, as far as I can tell. My manager is big into timeshares himself, has two (side by side, even, in neighboring buildings on the same Hawaii beach), and extolls their virtues. One time while he was talking them up, I asked for more details and then started googling while we were on the call. I just don't see the draw of it. He goes to Hawaii the same time each year, every year. Gets the same condo, but cannot leave anything there. Pays per-night fees that are pretty close to what it would cost to just rent, on top of annual fees, on top of the initial $75K he spent to 'buy' it in the first place. Even buying them used for pennies on the dollar, it does not seem like any sort of good deal. I could get one for free, and I think my money is better spent renting a hotel room when I want to visit Hawaii.
The Clickbaitification of Netflix
First I've heard of that being mentioned as the catalyst, and - forgive my ignorance - I can't imagine why the fall of Kabul would prompt this decision. Care to elaborate as to why, and/or provide a source?

Aside: lol @ your SN
The assumption that “democracy” will be pro-fundamentalist is problematic on two fronts:

- A lot of protests are anti-Islamic.

- Democracy is still bound by its constitution to protect the minorities, so a democratically elected fundamentalist government that is bound by a proper constitution can still be a viable regime.
I have an old laptop with 3GB of RAM. It runs Ubuntu Mate.

I can use it to log on to my work computer or just browse the web. But it really doesn't make sense to get a new computer with anything less than 8GB.
Does it though? When's the last time it worked on you?
Yep, with family, you can live your stuff there... clothes, fishing poles, boat, even your toothbrush, and not be afraid, someone will do something really wrong with it.
Those SAE levels apparently don’t specifically mention the geographic range the vehicle can operate in [0], but at some point that’s pretty important. Having “full automation” on a very tiny section of roads is hardly what I would call “orders of magnitude above the rest.”

[0] edit: that's incorrect, L4 and L5 are primarily defined by differences in geography range.
Does anyone else have better suggestions?

I don’t find Netflix great, but the others still require tons of browsing too.
> This is something that people are unaware of (sort of on purpose), but barbershops in black communities become ad-hoc community centers, where black men can just go and be among other black men

Originally, it may have been a kinda-sorta-secret, but given the prominent role that barbershop-as-Black-social-nexus has played in popular media portrayals of Black American communities targeting general (not just Black) audiences for the last several decades, that's hardly the case any more.
There are enough people in the developed world who are physically unable to drive or use public transportation in their area and who also don't want to be homebound that the economics could still work out even if they were the only market, which they aren't.

> Just keeping sub meter scale 3d street maps up to date has a massive cost.

True, but probably not actually necessary.
Someone pointed out to me that mortgages on investment properties typically have worse terms and/or are more difficult to obtain than mortgages on vacation homes.

So if you wanted to bet on real estate in Sonoma going up but you don't have the funds to finance an entire property, this is a way to make that investment (just tell the lender that this is your "vacation house").

Of course that also brings up the question of how easy it'll be to find a buyer for your 12.5% of an LLC when the time comes for you to cash out.
What do you expect Samsung to do, throw away a $3000 product for a defect most consumers wouldn't notice?
The shepherd i met in Romania had 2 cell phones. One for each side of the mountain
Yep. This hurts all SmartTV owners because it lowers the resale value of their property. Buyers have to stick to official retailers or risk getting a product that will be remotely bricked.
> The APs job

Minor correction: The comment references a Reuters article which seems to contradict the oft-repeated assertion:

> We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future.[1]

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
FSD is still technically level 2. In Tesla's eyes and the law's eyes you are driving and in liable for what happens.
.net framework (NOT core) on windows did (does?) Not support tls 1.2 by default. Enabling it takes either one line of code or a registry change.

It surprised me as well.
>This is a twisted form of whatabboutism.

As if that's a valid criticism. What about your whataboutism? hehe.

You wrote about western countries and especially US having protections that make your democracy enlightened - especially citing bill of rights that protects the rights of everyone. To which I pointed out that you had genocide of natives, slavery of Africans, oppression of women, sexual minorities etc when bill of rights was in full force. Point being that not only are you wrong about west being equal, but also about having these protection would actually mean anything.

>The crusades a thousand years ago do not justify jihad today.

No where did i say it does. You are literally making stuff up. How does you lot doing genocide and slavery in US justify Taliban blowing up whatever they find unislamic in their narrow definition of pure islam? None of the examples I used went far back to 1000 years, why even bring it up?

As for ignoring this happened in the past - Axe doesn't remember, the tree does. You can conveniently forget horrific events in the past when you benefited from it or you did it (whatever that "you" identity is). You might say the genocide of natives was in the past, so shouldn't matter, but the native americans would definitely beg to differ.

btw where do you draw the line? 500 years? 100 years? 10 years? yesterday? Of the genocide, slavery, segregation, wars to spread christianity and/or stop communism - what according to you is beyond the statute of limitations on moral responsibility?

>"The West" has come a long way. It's not hypocritical to want the rest of the world to catch up.

It really hasn't. The latest nightmare that is unfolding in Afghanistan, is created by west. The rest of the world can't catch up when you keep destabilizing it.
As someone who lives in Bath, an old european city with roads (and other drivers) that can give experienced human drivers a nervous breakdown I'm rather more interested in how they do in SF than their current deployment in Phoenix.

From what I've heard repeatedly, SF sounds much more irregular and messy than Phoenix, so it should be something of a stepping stone to making them usable more widely if they can crack it.

I've been expecting it to happen for literally decades, but always been disappointed.
Or.....against thieves. As someone who had stuff stolen, I'd pay money for electronics that catches fire once reported stolen, thieves are literally scum of the earth and only one step above murderers and rapists in my books. Great step by Samsung here.
Apple strong-arms state legislatures with investment promises and threats
“I didn't have time to write you a simple UI, so I wrote you a complicated one instead.” -- Mark Twain, paraphrased.
As backed by this post, HN isn’t precisely good at prediction. It simply has far less noise than the general internet, making it easier to notice the upcoming trends.
Wait do you mean? As in, the highways proposed in 1955 weren’t built?

I’m not sure how highways going through SF would make it easier to drive in SF (outside of the highways): wouldn’t that generally increase traffic and conflicts?
> That I'm too valuable to lose, but that I'm deserving of a less than average rating.

Good that you noticed the paradox! It is surprisingly easy to believe each half of that sentence separately, without noticing how they contradict each other. You simply believe one part in one context (trying to leave), and the other part in another context (asking for a raise or better working conditions).

Here is the pattern explained: https://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html
You might have paid the TV second hand, and not be aware of the theft. What recourse do you have then? You're out of pocket, the seller might not be reachable anymore, and you have no proof of purchase.
Don’t bring up controversial political points if you don’t want to hear opposing views.
You don't get to opt out of the primary ethnic conflict of your society. If you get read as white and treated as white then you are white. No one is going to ask you to pronounce parsley when the time comes.
Viewing masculine gatherings and mentoring relationships through the lens of "therapy," is patronizing and another example of filtering culture through the narrative of powerlessness. Here's another take. Most people who say they want you to talk about your feelings are predators looking for angry and vulnerable young people who they can manipulate with sympathy and groom for other pipelines and agendas. The barber shops represent a barrier to those people because heterosexual men typically don't relate well to the sort of enablers who prey on young men, and those personalities cannot navigate masculine environments well.

It's useful to ask whether people who say they are operating on the pretext of "healing," and "trauma," are really just morbidly attracted to weakness and vulnerability, and if so, why. These barbershops are places created by black men as a place to gather and have some community, and the reasons for a CNN reporter to pay them any attention at all should be treated with suspicion. Journalists aren't part of the communities they cover, they are scavengers and mainly a nuissance to what they perceive to be power, so if you start seeing them, it's probably because there is something nearby whose vulnerability or weakness has made it a target to co-opt into their narrative. Those barber shops are community treasures, and I'd wonder whether they benefit from having someone else co-opt their story and re-tell it on their behalf.
> I wish I could know "Is that Tesla owner using the FSD mode?"...

I wish I could know a lot more about the car and the driver in it too, such as if the car has pedestrian airbags[0] or if the driver is having a heated argument with their spouse. It's all risk management and ultimately the person behind the wheel is responsible for the exoskeleton on wheels they pilot, as the existence of cars at all is a net negative for pedestrian safety.

0: https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/23/files/23ESV-000...
Yo! That’s awesome you’re working o skatevideosite! O just read your guys interview on Jenkem [0]. I used your old data years back for an article for The Pudding
[1] years ago - invaluable resource. Growing up I would spend so much time on the site just finding music and skaters. If there’s an issue board or something please plug it, would love to contribute!

[0] https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2021/08/16/meet-minds-behind-...
[1] https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
I've never cleaned mine after 8? years... maybe I should. It seems to work fine, just roll it around and it cleans.

I guess if I open it up I can mod it with a pool ball though
Here's a fun test: try to think of what you watched that was not suggested to you one way or another. Think of what it would even mean.
You are making heavy assumptions on the composition and math literacy of the HN community, the idea of people not upvoting things they don't fully understand and the difficulty of control theory.

I've had this stuff in uni, forgot most of it, and re-learned it during my current studies via thinking about optimization of neural networks and I think both our understanding of things and pedagogy are improving to the point that it's not unreasonable to expect tech-interested recent high school grads to have an intuition, if not a formal understanding of control theory.

3B1B might be the most "to blame" for this, but also just the proliferation of tutorials, making etc. PID controllers are not very complicated, people dig into robotics on their own and find PID might not be enough
=> voila, they self teach observability, controllability, lie algebras etc.
Is there a market for taxis in the rural areas? They have little incentive to expand there if there's no money to be made.
> "Unlike a timeshare model, the co-owners that Pacaso serves collectively own real estate, not time,"

… well that actually seems like a somewhat interesting business mod—

> If you buy a share in a house, you're able to stay in it 44 nights per year in increments that can't exceed 14 consecutive days per visit.

Oh, hmmm, it’s not a timeshare, it’s something completely different that they just invented. Fascinating!
Show HN: Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool
By focusing on shared experience of cultural context or upbringing, you're ignoring the shared experience of how people are treated by others. People do have things in common based on skin color. For example, my sister is Filipina. She lives in a white dominated area which has a lot of xenophobia about Mexican immigrants. She has experienced several events where she gets mistaken as Mexican, simply by her skin color and is threatened and/or told to go back to Mexico, sometimes quite angrily. These experiences are quite traumatic. The typical person doesn't make a close study of other cultures, so if they're actively racist/xenophobic/what-have-you, they don't look to the nuances of their target's background before they lash out. Being ANY minority, especially a visually identifiable minority, creates a shared experience regardless of peoples' actual backgrounds. This causes communities and identities to form as people group around shared experiences.

Yes, most ways of categorizing people and identities are arbitrary and diffuse, but in the end its people bonding over shared context and experiences, real or illusory, and I'd be hard pressed to call it silly, any more than other human behaviors that don't follow, I dunno, strict logic.
If buses were a better alternative, people would take the bus. Unfortunately MUNI does not seem willing or able to compete on convenience
I actually saw a job the other day looking for a Solaris kernel developer, so someone must be.
> A company that could eliminate organizational inefficiency would be a larger innovation than any tech startup, ever.

Fully agree, and would extend to any social organization. One of the most important aspects of organizational efficiency is managing the signal/noise ratio of internal communications. We now have the ability to turn effective bureaucratic protocols into material reality with automated information systems.

The organizations, whether private or public, that best tackle this problem will come out on top on the 21st century, regardless of ideology and historical advantage.
All it does is that i wont be consuming this, behind a login bye bye.
If they have a monopoly on the public square, arguments could be made...
agreed in the early days, and i'm not scientician, but my understand was that once you've had it you become increasingly immune (or unlikely to require hospitalization).

I was more thinking about the future, than the immediate response.

Seems like someday Corona virus will be something we just get like a cold or chicken pox?
I really love the hbo feature which will randomly stop working and force me to refresh the page. Especially when I'm in the middle of an episode.
Apple remotely scanning our phones for "suspicious" content, Samsung remotely disabling our TVs on the suspicion of TV being stolen what is next?!

This is akin to Crypto Wars from the 1990s but this time the enemy is far more dangerous. In the 1990s we had a centralized enemy the government which decided to turn against us this time the enemy is decentralized in the form of private corporations which are turning against us one by one.

Government can be tamed but private corporations can not; they only see profit and now they think they can get more of it by lying to us they do it in the name of social justice.
Sadly, No. Thanks to the way Python works when installed via homebrew on Mac this is actually very necessary if you want to install system-wide python utilities that do not depend on the system python. Without it you can have these utilities broken by a system update or by a homebrew update that bumps the Python version.
> wouldn’t that generally increase traffic and conflicts?

When coupled to our additional refusal to build housing, sadly, yeah. What two things do people usually commute between?
The Librem 5 is absolutely a smartphone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
It is quite pointless to fight hardware vendors for FOSS support if they don't want to and you don't have to.

Why spend effort to crack their platform when you can buy from competitors, which you do a disservice for fixing Samsungs TVs.

Then again I don't know if there are any 'dumb' or open software competitor TVs left on the market ...
It looks like the challenge is tracking cloud resources created as part of a CI infrastructure and not Jenkins itself. Jenkins can be nothing but a scheduling and execution engine, not quite a self-service platform for business workflows.

It may help more to define more precisely a few scenarios where you experience problems, so people can be more specific with suggestions.

Lacking more specific information, you might consider putting automatic self destruct / deprovisioning for created cloud resources, e.g. 7 days, so you don't worry as much about what is created. What also helps is idempotency in these scripts, to just tell developers to retry things if there are transient errors.
I wonder if the cars will always have a human chaperone. Not as a safety driver, but to prevent riders from trashing the car.
“Security theatre.” Apple’s servers in China and their local photo scanning shows you clearly whose side they’re on.
What you sound like is a deluded and emotionally post-justifying case of Stockholm syndrome. There is nothing normal or in any way ideal or worth romanticizing about the measures you describe, or their absurd over-reach for increasingly minuscule justifications that have moved goal posts to a degree that moderate rational analysis and weighing of risks reveals as somewhat demented. How sure are you that so many people in your state so whole heartedly support such a normalization of social control on the flimsy clinical pretexts you describe.

Calling actions decisive doesn't spare them from being badly decided or indeed even oppressive. Decisiveness first requires solid reasoning, not just a defense that rests on an action simply being decisive.
HBO's goals and a user's goals are fundamentally not aligned.

They're tailoring their home page to increase the metrics they track and to make more money. They're not doing it altruistically to make me happier or to solve a problem I have.

HBO's goal is to make HBO more profitable. The user base they want, one which shares that goal, is nonexistent, there are only users who have a goal of being entertained and have varying levels of tolerance for HBO's antics to achieve that goal.
Doing that better than the average human is a pretty low bar.
Author here. That's a fantastic question! I think you're right that a better solution would include adding curvature to the individual "pixels" in the lens mesh. Unfortunately I don't know how to manufacture anything with microstructure that small! The microlenses would need to be of order .2mm by .2mm square and have curvature that is very slight, because the image plane pixel is about 20 cm away. Perhaps this could be achieved by choosing a ball-nose machine tool of the exact right radius and sweeping it back and forth in the channels formed between the "pixels"? It would leave a grid of tiny features that might just get the job done!

As is I just gloss over that completely and I don't address it. So tiny, lone, bright pixels end up more smeared than I'd like.