skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes return to a video game that I played when I was younger and that I remember being difficult. This will be a game that I haven't touched in years. And then, yes, I will be rusty at first. But pretty quickly, it more than comes back to me: I find that it is now easier than I remember it being many years ago. It's like I am now on some new learning curve with a higher plateau. And, the striking thing is that this must entirely be transfer learning, from other things I've done in the intervening years.
I’m more of a never attribute something to malice when stupidity provides a sufficient explanation type of person.

I tend to the think the whole thing is just a massive example of cargo culting. Like how 10 years ago everyone asked why manhole covers were round.
This seems like a re-hashing of Michael Jordan's essay on the subject:
https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re...
In a non-regulated industry you can just ignore it the same way most people ignore their noncompete clauses.

In a regulated industry you can argue it's not actually work, as your labor does not produce anything of value.
That, and upfront investment costs. Very few companies have a few spare billion to pour into setting up the infrastructure, plus deal with resource deals, regulations, politics etc.. I'm pretty sure that a lot of countries would prefer to be a bit more independent on the semiconductor side, but getting up and running is hard.

> It looks like patents are actively preventing new companies in the semiconductor business.

As far as I know, the really deep technology on the CPUs is actually not patented - it would be nearly impossible to reverse engineer or proof an infringement, but you'd need to reveal your methodology to file the patent in the first place.
Ask HN: What are the best books on relational database modeling in SQL?
What could "99% complete" even possibly mean? That it goes 99 miles/days/hours/minutes before hitting a tree?
Not a long post but not anything surprising:

Lists the Four Golden Signals (types of data when monitoring and observing)

Latency, or the time it takes for each transaction to complete.
Traffic, which represents the overall load placed on the system.
Errors, or the number of requests that result in a failure.
Saturation, meaning how many resources your system is consuming relative to the total resources available.

> need to collect many more than just four total signals

Yes, they're categories not actual metrics

> troubleshooting outliers

Yes, a p99 can still belong to a category of signal

> Business metrics

No, an SRE's job is not to report/meet KPIs (other than reliability).
Liability for what?
I genuinely dont understand this comment - twitter is already pretty noisy - why would it "go in the way of pinterest"?
Check out the MNT Reform:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
Maybe it's a fundamental property of increased globalization and communication increasing the amount and kinds of information we're capable of sending? The addictive information shares bandwidth with the practical information by its very nature.

I was also considering a feature phone a long time ago, and also like the parent the reason I couldn't bring myself to make the switch was because I was worried I'd end up needing to use Lyft.

A Lyft app for feature phones doesn't sound like an attractive business target, and even if the market was such that Lyft felt like making one then in the end Facebook would probably also feel like making their own. Those incentives turn the smartphone game into an all-or-nothing affair if you want the convenience of modern apps, for better or worse.
Twitter can be really great if you take the time to curate who you follow and don’t get overly upset when accounts share things outside of what they do (like a pixel artist sharing random photos, etc.) and avoid the trending section. I’m aware of the toxic portions, but it really can be as easy as not engaging with those accounts.
Contracting itself has many flaws: who makes more out of the contracting? The contracting companies. Such companies filter out good candidates who wants better pay.
It can be, but isn't always. I'm a veteran infosec guy (since the mid-90's), and I have zero interest in the infosec twitter feed because all I ever hear about it from my colleagues is how laden it is with drama.

I keep connected, but just not on the specialized soap-box lists because I have so little interest in other peoples' pet peeves and incessant need to present themselves as superior.

It's also why I like HN and not Reddit. Baggage should always be discouraged.
> Ethnic groups whose surnames were assigned in recent history for tax-collection purposes (Ashkenazi Jews, Han Chinese, Koreans, etc) have a relatively small pool of surnames and a slightly larger pool of first names.

This is... not accurate. The reason the Chinese have a small pool of surnames is that their surnames are much less recent than ours, not more recent.

And I don't think the Ashkenazi surnames are particularly more recent than the surnames of the Europeans they lived among. Rather, they have concentrated surnames mostly because they were occupationally concentrated.
Tesla does not let other vehicles charge at their stations, at least in the US.

I don’t have this issue with any gasoline stations.
> It's bold of you to keep raising this "anti-vaccination" point

By reducing my statements to simply "anti-vaccination" you're missing the entire nuance of the argument.

I've cited substantial scientific literature which supports the fact that leaky vaccines combined with COMPULSORY mass vaccination can have unexpected and dangerous consequences in terms of viral evolution.

Vaccines are a powerful tool and help save lives, and we should definitely use them. But if used indiscriminately, they can backfire in complex ways. This is extremely pertinent to OP and the discussion on this thread.

It's not charitable or informed of you to reduce my comment to "anti-vaccination" rhetoric. To suggest that I have an "agenda" or that I'm spreading "misinformation" - especially without any supporting references - means your comment is purely ad hominem.

Like you, many others here immediately react negatively to comments that promote anti-vax misinformation. I understand, empathize with, and support that. But after lengthy debate, the person who made the comment you quoted eventually admitted that they over-reacted, and that my argument was more nuanced than they initially realized.

I have not stopped sharing the literature supporting these ideas because many people are completely unaware of the possibility and consequences of vaccine induced immune escape. My comments are in the spirit of fostering sincere and informed debate - nothing more, and nothing less.
That stretch of road you describe as difficult is actually not difficult at all for Waymo's current technology. Their navigation does not depend on vision.
Most of these sound reasonable to me. The appeal of the Japanese countryside is tied up in all of these requirements.
“Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work”
URL should be changed to https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/failure-cascades/ - same content on the author's site, without having to navigate around the Medium paywall.
https://archive.is/SoCQN
Because when they succeed it will return more than the investment? By many times?

The product is being tested. Many things, including life changing drugs, are developed this way.

We both agree Waymo definitely doesn’t sell its half baked product calling it Full Self Driving before it’s ready.
It's a very troubling example, but most of it is focused on product failures. Isn't that a bit orthogonal to ethics? Maybe there's some traction between how hard something is to 'get right' and if it should be attempted, but it sure doesn't seem black and white.
Neither is OK. It's not OK to offer yourself up as an incubator for new and more-deadly variants of a global disease.

And that's leaving out the monumental hypocrisy of any anti-vaccine and anti-abortion people. So... it's outrageous to tell people to do with their bodies... unless they're women.
That page does look pretty awesome!
I upvoted this, although I am not sure if it is quite true as you have put it. Venture capitalists are very much aware of the risk of lower-ranking SWEs failing to recognise dangers out of insufficiently critical obedience.
The price of the X over Y is pretty hefty and, frankly, the interior is outdated and due for a refresh. I'd not buy a model X at this point for those 2 reasons.

I'll bet the X gets a refresh around the same time cybertruck is released. If I were to guess, I'd guess that X will go to the same platform as cybertruck (right now its built on the Model S platform).
Ask HN: Switching from project manager to solution architect/developer. How?
I've been working as a project manager in the IT field in Europe in the last several years also leading development project as PM. While it was/is interesting, I've always wanted to be closer to the "real" work of planning & implementing the IT solutions, like in the role of a solution architect/developer.

I'm quite able to handle a lot of technical aspects (spinning up, configuring and provisioning server, installing and deploying server application like apache/postfix). I've been for example running my own Jira servers on a own virtualized environment for several years now.

I also enjoy programming and have written some tools for own usage in Node.js/Python. Nothing spectacular only some rudimentary web apps with simple Rest-APIs. There for example I've also written custom scripts for data migration from MongoDB to Azure Storage Tables.

Now I would like to make the switch in a more hands-on position but don't see how. I've tried to apply for some technical positions (technical PM) but wasn't able to break through. To be honest after some of these rejection I've not been brave enough to apply for a (junior) development position directly because I don't think I would stand a chance.

One reason for this is that I haven't any formal technical education (Science Master) and also I'm approaching my 40s. On the other hand I see all these retraining activities driven by big companies (even by Google an Microsoft, at least publicly) and all the whining about missing technical knowledge worker (at least here in Europe).

Any suggestion if & how someone with my profile could make a switch form PM to SA/Dev? Have you done something similar? Is this switch even realistic, considering that most developer are moving into opposite direction (more management positions) during their career and that ageism is a thing?
Should they? Why should one private company be forced to build infrastructure for other companies that are intentionally dragging their heels? GM doesn't run gas stations

It would be great if they could be altruistic to let anyone use them, but altruism isn't really a good path to profits in our society
Also https://text.npr.org/
That would hardly work since Facebook made a deal with the Taliban for censorship purposes
The More Masks Fail, the More We Need Them
What I’m saying, is that free market is a bad model for the reality of renting or owning a home.
This.

Recently did an eight hour drive in a model 3. We stopped more frequently than the Tesla strictly required - once for a bathroom break and a quick coffee, once for food, and once for a more substantive charge.

The nice thing was that by timing the shorter stops to also be at a supercharger, we did the electric equivalent of a ‘splash and dash’ - we got ~2 x 15minutes of charging time ‘free’ - as we’d stopped anyway, and the additional time spent to plug in is about 30 seconds.

I suspect people who think that a Tesla would be substantively worse than an ICE car for long trips are either far edge-case car users… or are seriously underestimating them time they spend not driving during a long trip, and then compare that unrealistic best-case situation with the likely case for an EV.
I agree... I'm shocked at how onerous the rules are.

I wonder what the true market price of these places would be, without all these restrictions.
Those people are much less bright than you think they are.

There are zero people in my own social circles who didn't get vaccinated the moment they could (some live in countries where they still don't have access to vaccines). The difference might be that my social circle is mostly queer people like myself, and we know how bad pandemics can be.

Again, I have very little sympathy for anti-vax people. The correct thing to do for society as a whole is to follow New York's and San Francisco's lead and exclude them from public life until they get vaccinated. Public policy can't be based on fringe pseudoscience.
Reading this article has resulted in an afternoon of watching classics about Mutual Assured Destruction.
Because electrical distribution infrastructure is a utility in every other case.

Good on Tesla for building a solution, but their stations are monopolized, and this isn’t good for EV adoption overall. It’s good for Tesla.
I don’t think the issue is that it’s hard to manually parse. The problem is that it’s hard for someone else to read your ad-hoc parser years later and reason about what you did if they need to modify it.

Disclaimer: I am the author of the article and JC.
> Do you have a check to ensure that a person can't upvote twice? (Like cookies, or something similar.)

Looks like you can just reload the page to vote again
What do you call the video of a Tesla mistaking the moon for a yellow traffic light[1], if not a detection failure? That wouldn't happen with a lidar-only or lidar-assisted system.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UF-S2czdCk
Wouldn’t the second phone put you at the scene of the crime?

As an aside, working for an automotive manufacturer (my opinions are my own and doing reflect my employer, etc) I think were rapidly approaching a time when all new vehicles will have a built-in cellular connection.
>> Other invasive species being sold include Japanese barberry, Chinese privet, whitetop, Norway maple, Brazilian peppertree, Russian olive, garlic mustard, yellow star thistle, Canada thistle, kudzu and Johnsongrass, among others, the study states.

Part of me wants to plant a garden containing all of these to see which one wins
Followed by an evening of Fallout 4.
So, wait, you believe Waymo One is free? That seems like a pretty significant subsidy for everybody who lives in the region served by it.
Kudzu enters the chat.
I understand your perspective. However the solution is for those native to East Asia to post, not non natives to post less. I agree that more viewpoints is better, just wanted to point that
And, IIRC, they only did it because the YouTube streamer (i.e. the channel host) asked them to do it!
> just not do the work.

And how exactly is this person supposed to pay their rent and food costs?

"Don't do the work" isn't a viable solution for a lot of people. Pressure has to be put on the decision makers AND law, not the poor dude who is just trying to feed their family.

If you have enough rent saved up for a year, you might have the luxury of being able to say no.
You need to login to show the whole thread. I hit the same wall. Twitter was already a terrible medium for these kinds of posts, now it just got worse.
You need less chargers than gas stations and they are somewhat cheaper to deploy and maintain. Tesla has been doing a good job keeping up with demand building out new charge stations.

All you need for a charger is enough power. Fortunately, high power power lines tend to follow the same routes as highways and interstates.

The supercharger network is something tesla does a lot better than the competition.
"First 99% and the second 99%" is a common software industry quip.
It sure as hell doesn't seem like it sometimes...
If you are or know the owner of the road, it would probably not be that big of a problem - fiber and equipment is quite cheap and you could do the digging yourself (it would not be perfect, but it does not matter for private use). Usually, the real problem is getting the permits from the government and/or the owners in between; in your case, you might just need to get the ISP to meet you at the border of the premise.

Setting up a wireless ISP (posted quite often on HN) might be another solution. But, if it works for you, it's probably not worth the investment.
Ok, then the government should be doing it and investing to meet current and future demand. A private company (in a non-regulated market) can't be forced to do so.
"Physician and Clinical Services" receive 20% of the total spending on healthcare. (https://www.cms.gov/files/document/highlights.pdf and the CDC info I posted elsewhere).
You should come drive some of the mountain roads in CA. I wouldn't consider roads in TX any trickier than roads elsewhere.
Thank you. Seems like I had just really poor search skills. I somehow reached here https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... which I guess has not been updated since the early nineties?

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... archived at https://archive.fo/v3bco

Thank you for the correction. This is great news (to me)!
If you open the link you click in a new tab, you can get past it.
Yeah if it had like a turbine engine it should have been pretty obvious on the thermal camera unless it had some kind of countermeasure. The pilots seemed to think it had very low thermal emissions, but I do wonder if they were also just having a really hard time getting it within the sight of their thermal camera. I would personally tend to guess operator error (unable to keep the camera pointed at it due to its fast motion) over it having very low thermal emissions, because hiding the exhaust from something like a small jet engine is not at all easy.
It's a structural issue caused by the way wealth creation works for majority of people in tech. Job hopping, trendy frameworks in CV, "high-impact" projects done ASAP, etc.

No one wants to do boring, slow pace work with lots of planning, reflection and introspection. And why would they do it? These kind of jobs are usually worst paid. We, the practitioners, have every economic incentive to go the other route.

The problem goes far wider in tech than just ML. And unless the society collectively learns to appreciate patience and long-term thinking, as virtues above all else, it won't go away any time soon. What can be done is to discourage use of ML systems if an explainable deterministic system can be used (even one developed in a rush). For example credit scoring. Rules are good while black box artificial neural network isn't, even if the NN has some % more accuracy. Then if the rules are not good then can be amended and in special cases customer support could also override the rules based on human (hopefully unbiased) judgement.

The problem mentioned in the article of COVID-19 detection based on radiology scans is an example of a system which needs ANNs due to the nature of image processing (very difficult problem for rules AI). While techniques such as ShAP could be helpful a radiologist still needs to check because ANNs learn a lot of useless noise very often and the prediction can be nonsensical. Here it would be best to use PCR tests, serology or any more traditional and "boring" tool as it works. Luckily that is the case and shit CNN models start and end their lives in some useless paper.
That makes a lot of sense, on a highway with three lanes, I'm always making sure to not merge to the middle lane, if there is a car on the opposite lane, to name another situation.

The hard question which really has nothing to do with the tech, is what we do if a self driving car kills a person. Made worse if the accident could be avoided by the majority of human drivers.
Which is what @giantg2 said:

> The science is generally sound (procedures and theory). Usually it's the prosecutors that present the forensics in a way that misrepresents what the results actually mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265884
I didn't see bamboo mentioned. It grows crazy fast. I don't know if it's technically "invasive", but I imagine it's fueled quite a few neighbor feuds.
Snapstream employs similar tech. It's how shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight can quickly and easily find segments where certain words or phrases are used on television.
Why should anyone argue for/against it?

It's like being grossly obese - it speaks for itself.

Now some people can pretend they're happily obese - they're not fooling anyone but other fools.

Whether or not being a fool should be illegal is a different matter. My take on it is if it's not hurting anyone else - go for it, just don't expect medical treatment for self destructive behaviour afterwards - we have an over-abundance of fools on this planet as of late.
ClearCase is the devil in software form!

Unintuitive, hard to maintain, absolutely unloved in industry, extremely expensive.
I have talked to many friends in other industries. Some of them are heavily regulated—my wife’s a doctor and her interviews are basically just people spending a lot of money showing her around and begging her to work there.

Some of them aren’t heavily regulated. I have many friends in engineering disciplines that don’t require FE or PE exams, and they don’t need to deal with any of this nonsense.

I think our industry is just very prone to following trends for whatever reason. I would love it if we grew up a bit and introduced more regulation.
Ah, thank you that makes more sense.
The link leads to a 404.
Does that make my perspective as someone who lived there invalid?

In this case the "spousal perspective" is that we aren't subject to many of these barriers and we STILL aren't purchasing one due to the remaining barriers and issues.
Yes, in the same way a Cuisinart blender is a "monopoly" since I can only buy a Cuisinart blender from Cuisinart

No one's preventing anyone from building a better solution and making it available to consumers. Not a monopoly
don't forget these parts

>Last search I had something like 6 in hand offers (a few more that would’ve transpired but they realized they were out of their depth).

>Make $400k/yr.

I would say this is just a case of someone taking on the process of getting a job as a full time job itself...which I think is appropriate. I've been in industry for 20+ years and have easily left well over a million dollars in lifetime comp on the table because I haven't really approached maximizing it as a primary objective.
Sounds like something governments could help with.
I use it almost as a newsfeed for things like small artists I like releasing new albums. News that I wouldn't get otherwise.

It's really not a social network I think. Communication is not really different to YouTube comment feeds, where there are people with social standing leaving messages and literally thousands commenting with no hope of ever getting a reply (unless they're socially relevant themselves).

I can't shake the feeling of being part of the masses when I use it, with my role in it being at most leaving a +1 in someone's followers/likes/retweets. Way less interactive than an old school forum, or HN, for example.
The challenge, as he mentions a bit at the end, is that "no manipulation" isn't an option. He didn't have to climb up on a ladder, or post-edit 3D labels on top of his presentation, or make a cute little animation of a present unwrapping into another present. He did all of that to make the video more engaging, which means nothing more or less than manipulating people to keep watching. Crazy titles bug me personally a lot more than fancy editing or weird props, but as long as they're not so misleading I can't make an informed decision on what to watch, it's hard to begrudge content creators an engagement tool that can make such a difference.
Or, once companies start paying for interviews, they start outsourcing all of their work to interviewees, never hiring anyone. I don't think this would ever actually scale well, but if there's any way to exploit labor, corporations are going to figure out how.