skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even lower-level automation for highway driving would be super useful.

I would appreciate a simple "keep-distance-wrt-speed" function for bumper-to-bumper situations. Where worst case scenario, you rear-end a car at relatively low speeds.

I'd happily keep control over steering in this situation and just keep my foot over the brake, though lane-keep assist would probably be handy here as well. A couple radar sensors/cameras/or lidar sensors would probably be enough for basic functionality.

Disable if the steering-wheel is turned more than X degrees - maybe 20 or 25?. Disable if speed goes over X speed - maybe 15mph? Most cruise controls require a minimum speed (like 25mph) to activate.

Trying to do full driving automation, especially in a city like Seattle, is like diving into the ocean to learn how to swim.

As cool as that sounds, I'd trust incremental automation advancements much more.
I guess this is easier than read replicas? I can't imagine there's too much work to be saved by skipping the component building.
This is a concern because:

(a) the legal cornerstone of a rule-of-law society is that (1) laws are the only rule enforceable by the government, and (2) those who make the laws are also subject to those laws

(b) because of COVID restrictions, those in power have effectively a lot more power than normal to dictate what people can and can't do

(c) lately, a lot of reports have come out about rule/law-makers not being subject to those laws. Another example is how congress men and women, as well as their staff, are not subject to the recent US vaccine mandate.

Together, these developments signal that the US's rule-of-law status is not what it ought to be.
Public transit isn't a panacea for suburbs/small cities. I'm about a 7 minute drive from the commuter rail into Boston but because of both schedule and time to take a non-express train, it's pretty much impractical to take into the city except for a 9-5 workday schedule, especially if I need to take a subway once I get into town.

For me, it's more the 3-5 hour drive, mostly on highways, to get up to northern New England.
Hmmm...I used "generally" and "high order bit".

Somehow this turned into "solely". Why?

And I am fully aware that these facts are a "tough sell" these days, because they don't fit the prevailing narrative.

Another one: yes, the criminal justice system is biased against blacks. However, it is vastly more biased against males. By a 6:1 margin.

And yes, I agree that the question why black people who are not recent immigrants are disproportionately impoverished is important to answer. It is important to ask the right questions if you want to get a usable answer. And I doubt there is a unifactorial answer.

Why the "who are not recent immigrants"? Black people who are recent immigrants from Africa actually do better economically than whites.
This requires a google account to proceed.
> We opted to wage pointless wars instead

No, we opted to provide incentives to fossil fuel producers and consumers. That is how we got into this mess.

Pointless wars are bad for other obvious reasons.
> much more than that at times in the last few thousand years.

When was that?

If you look at this estimate of temperature on Planet Earth[0][1] you can clearly see the last time the planet saw > +2C was the Pliocene.

Even if you look more closely at just the Holocene you don't see > +2C anywhere[2]

[0]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/All_pala...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
> She's behind a table with her drinks, this is hardly breaking SF health order,

That seems like a deliberate mis characterization. From the article,
"Breed was dancing behind a table full of drinks, but was not actively drinking or eating, or wearing a face covering while singing, dancing, and posing for photos."

Here is a video from the club of her dancing and singing
https://twitter.com/SFMarMendoza/status/1438604391297126452

> Do I need to put my mask on after every sip?

Are you the mayor and instituting executive orders requiring masks indoors for the whole city?
> the models which do not have a good record of maching actual data

They don't? Which models are you referring to? The model forecast in James Hansen's 1988 congressional testimony was almost spot on.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/hanse...
What is the convention for giving positive feedback to FOSS projects on Github? Giving positive feedback on an issue thread adds noise for future people reading the thread.

Does Github have an issue type for praise? Do you attempt to get the authors email address and contact them directly? Do you star the repo? I'd like a quick way to show my appreciation throughout the day as I `yarn add` various packages...
What are you on about?

Yes, people die. But we can stop it by continuing to invest in biotech.
A simple solution: forward suspicious messages to a configured email address and let it be handled there.
> It doesn't have memory. It just makes decisions based on what it actually sees with its cameras. It doesn't trust maps, like most other systems.

This is incorrect. Tesla also relies on maps for traffic signs, intersections, stop signs etc. They just don't have additional details like the others do.

> After this situation is fixed, there will be an another edge case that the HN crowd panics over.

Is anything Tesla FSD can't handle an "edge case" now? It's literally an everyday driving scenario.
Do they have electricity? I'm betting "yes". This means there are either above ground poles that fiber can be hung from, or if it was constructed in the last 30 years, the ground was opened for trenching, and a fiber should have been buried along side the power (wou'da, cou'da, shou'da). Dig once policies and pole sharing policies have been fought tooth and nail by the entrenched utilities.
I think it's worth experimenting quite a bit to try to see what time works for you to exercise. For me early morning works best as there are no unplanned meetings etc. and I can easily do it 3 times a week.

Also as someone mentioned already in the comments C25K programme might be a good start for running as it mixes walking and running until you build up strength and stamina to run 5k.

Good luck!
That sounds great in theory, but in practice the technology is not there for reliable and demonstrable learning of that type.
> Average temperature has been up by much more than that at times in the last few thousand years.

This is simply false. The last time global average temperature was more than 2.7°C higher than modern times was over 100 thousand years ago.
> Now they are shipping a built in Redis cache back-end?

no. actual link as you surmised states:

This PR aims at adding support for Redis to be used as a caching
backend with Django. As redis is the most popular caching backend,
adding it to django.core.cache module would be a great addition for
developers who previously had to rely on the use of third party
packages.

so just a bad link title
These tools are incredible and inspiring. Terse, intuitive and functional. Beautifully elegant code meant to optimize for time over flexibility.

It is hard to put into words how pleasing it is see a balance struck between code and data and how constructing the right abstraction can make solving a specific set of problems incredibly simple through the right language of expression.

I love when I solve a problem and the domain language offers me the expressiveness to solve it in a single line - even if the concept is complex, or that line fires off a hundred perfectly calibrated decisions under the covers - it tells me the universe, my problem domain, and my tools are in alignment.
Right now, the TSLAs with FSD will disable it in snow+rain, so I assume that even if TSLA achieves L4, it will be only under ideal conditions until they have enough data to resolve these edge cases.
Decarbonization is happening/starting to happen - I actually see it taking off. It is an S-curve, though, so right now it looks tiny, but that will change.
The king of Norway is not a lawmaker, though. He's not even a minister.
Amtrak is the best way to get between those cities imo. Puts you in the center of the city and avoids a cab onto the island through traffic. Did it for work a bunch
The problem is that you could apply that argument for a drunk driver, a distressed driver, a driver without a license, a driver that hasn't slept enough, etc.

Any of those could mean a car could randomly turn into the crosswalk.

Humans are horrible at assessing risk. We worry about Teslas because it's on the headlines now, but you're infinitely more likely to get ran over by one of the cited examples than a Tesla just by sheer statistics.
It's true that there are laws and enforcement, but an automated system needs to obey the laws. Anything else is a judgement and machines shouldn't be making judgements when lives are on the line.
Yes, if the queries involve lots of fiddly calculation (for instance, the newspaper system did a lot of fancy stuff around calculating good line breaks and wrapping, or the queries themselves are complicated, involve subqueries, many joins, etc.
This makes evasive maneuvers impossible. EU regulations make it impossible for ADAS to even change lanes half the time.

Let’s not go down the rabbit hole of government specifying how machines we haven’t even built yet should work.
Isn't a SPAC just an empty shell? Why would they want to IPO that?
God exists - not just as a word or an idea; He is Someone who is actually there.

Go is a good language for many uses (contra junon). C++ is also a good language for at least some uses, but requires more care to use well.

Cheap food is killing us.

AGI is a mirage, and the singularity is a fantasy.
I don't know where you get the idea. Even plane autopilot will not land the plane w/o Pilot's supervision.

People who don't read manuals put themselves at risk.

Even simple systems like Cruise Control carry plenty of warnings that one should be familiar with when operating (from Ford's manual):

WARNING: Always pay close attention to changing road conditions when using adaptive cruise control. The system does not replace attentive driving. Failing to pay attention to the road may result in a crash, serious injury or death.
WARNING: Adaptive cruise control may not detect stationary or slow moving vehicles below 6 mph (10 km/h).
WARNING: Do not use adaptive cruise control on winding roads, in heavy traffic or when the road surface is slippery. This could result in loss of vehicle control, serious injury or death.
[and few more, shortened for brevity]
It’s worth pointing out that the US Military is one of the most prolific polluters in the world, and while an army at peace isn’t a totally idle thing, active deployment drives up consumption massively. Our pointless wars have absolutely contributed to global warming, although I wouldn’t pin the majority of the blame on them.
The Sun gear was really cool to work on. I think occasionally I would like to buy an old one just to have around.

My mentor at the time hated emacs. She said everybody had to learn vi because on a new machine it might be the only thing installed. The flamewars over it seem quaint now.
Every 1C increase results in 2.5m of sea level increase. 8ft of sea level rise will be devastating for Florida for example.

This prediction is for 6.75m of sea level rise or 22ft.
No one has ever expressed regret from playing Russian Roulette.
fantastic! this is certainly more up my alley :)
"Which turns out to be false. The offenses are prosecuted, just not by the federal government."

You don't seem to understand how the law works. The Federal offenses are not prosecuted. The State offenses are. My statement is true.

"but deferring to states is a common practice in the US and indicates no such thing."

Lack of interest in pursuing the law would fit with the definition of lackadaisical. I've given you the stats that show they are not interested in pursuing the federal crimes.

This isn't really deferring to the states. If one is not guilty under state law, the feds may subsequently prosecute under the federal law. Even if you're found guilty at the state level, they might prosecute you just to make an example of you (Chauvin, recently). It's a sloppy way for the people in power to ignore equal application of the law by picking and choosing who deserves it, which to me undermines the very principle of rule of law.

"It sure looks like you are intentionally trying to mislead people, otherwise you’d probably have mentioned this up front."

I have not tried to mislead anyone. Perhaps you were projecting your own ideas on it based on your lack of willingness to engage in a meaningful debate. After all, you're the one calling my statements total BS, yet not providing any responses to the questions posed around sources or data to support your position or refute the data I have provided.

"As far as racism goes, it’s pretty easy to understand if you apply Ibram Kendi’s definition - if it disproportionately affects black communities, it is a racist policy."

If that's the case, everything is racist and the very definition provided is racist since it only deals with "black communities" and not others. Perhaps we can use a widely accepted definition, like from a dictionary. Then you can also explain what is being disproportionately affected along with the why and how.

So, where is your response to the requests around definitions and data for "illegally" purchased guns and their impact? Conveniently ignoring this too? I'm starting to think you are a troll.
That's A solution, but it's not like energy plants are the only source of CO2. They also take many billions to create and many many years, need rare materials that can also be turned into weapons, and need to be located near some large body of water for cooling. It's not like you can just roll that out to the entire world in time even if you started now.
Oh cool. Their algorithm is why I’m now a big fan of Beluga.

Thanks Algorithm™
I had a very similar "I can get a whole operating system for free?" eye opening experience when I got Slackware on a bunch of floppies.

I also picked tcsh for my main shell based off some blurb I read and spent a few months unlearning what I learned when I was actually given a task to maintain a Linux system a few years later.
Alright, calm down Ray Kurzweil
Generally from my measly experience developing apps, it’s not coding them that takes the time
It depends on your system model (e.g. do you consider memory corruption to be a valid threat), but it could be. In practice, actually establishing that proof purely in code is almost always impractical or doesn't address the full problem space. You use hardware to help out and limit the amount of code you actually have to validate.
I rented a car last month in Spain, it was a less than year old Seat Ibiza. I booked a couple of weeks in advance, but prices seemed no different than before the pandemic.

Is this just a US issue, if so, why is the US being hit so much harder than elsewhere? Surely it should be the opposite, as the lockdowns in the US were often much less strict than Europe.
It's a little bit out of date, and not hosted on a personally owned domain, but this is what I have right now:

https://mindcrime.github.io/
BASIC is how I got started, and I'm always tinkering with making BASIC compilers (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html). I'm open to trying a "modern" dialect, and I think novices could benefit from it as well.

Are there any big efforts towards a modern BASIC?
DB lookup + rendering vs cache lookup + concatenating. Yes it adds up.
The part that always bothered me most about AP on the highway was how willing it is to drive full speed into an obvious problem. Obvious for me, that is. Dense merging traffic, for example -- I can see the conflict coming, I can read the way people are driving on that on-ramp, and I take defensive action. My Tesla would just drive right into the center of that mess than then panic when things got crazy.

I no longer have my Tesla, but I stopped using AP before I sold the car, partly as a result of this behavior. And partly because phantom braking became pretty common for a number of overpasses we go under on our way to grandma's house, and it really scares the crap out of my wife & kids.

Aside from phantom braking, the best use case for AP, in my opinion, is to be a jerk and cruise in the middle lane of the freeway. It deals okay with that most of the time.
Maybe it thought it was a roundabout. Aside from getting a scare, pedestrian risk was likely quite low - there is a separate emergency stop circuit.
I bet it felt magic, but if my car would actively try to kill me, it would go back to the dealer ASAP.

I'm not paying with money and my life to be a corporation's guinea pig.
The SPAC sponsors burden the risk, not the bankers.
I don't think this will happen, I don't even think Rust will become 1/10th the frontend language you're predicting it will.
City-dweller here. I was on the public transport bandwagon. Then summer 2020 came and I realized the buses were at limited capacity, Uber and Lyft drivers were practically non-existent, and the big 3 car rentals were liquidating their inventory. So I bought a used car, just in time too.

I still hate car ownership: the parking fees, maintenance, shocking price of gas, insurance, etc. It's costing me $20/day to sit mostly in a garage. I was saving up for a BEV. But realized air travel is out of commission and a BEV might not be practical for road trip vacations, at least not right now.
If ernie the intern decides to use a hashmap to store a class of interesting objects as we drive, you could end up with seconds of GC collection + resizing if it grows big enough.
99% perfect is not good enough, it's horrifyingly bad for a car on public roads.

When I drive, I don't spend 1 minute plowing into pedestrians for every 1 hour and 39 minutes I spend driving normally.

If a FSD Tesla spends just 99% of its time doing boring, non-click-worthy things, that is itself interesting in how dangerous it is.

To your point, I'm definitely interested in knowing how many minutes of boring driving tend to elapse between these events. The quantity of these sorts of videos that have been publicized recently gives me the impression that one of these cars would not be able to spend 100 minutes of intervention-free driving around a complex urban environment with pedestrians and construction without probable damage to either a human or an inanimate object.
I used Liberty Basic back when I was about 9. It was one of my first languages and I held it very dear. I also dabbled a bit in VB, but C# became somewhat popular(/created? I don't remember) around the same time so that took over.

Overall, if you like it, use it! Can't hurt. I wouldn't recommend it for any serious, large projects that would require a team of collaborators, though.
Or your name is Wayve https://wayve.ai/
Good idea, but I'd definitely do a lot of reading before going that route. In some cities with a seemingly functional public transit...well, it's not one you'd want to use.

NoVa/DC and SF are both good examples though of generally safe, effective public transport.(not speaking of Portland or NY as I haven't used theirs)
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1732/
To be fair, when most car companies began researching Hydrogen in the 80s there was no indication that bets on battery research and the incredible density wins we've seen in especially the Lithium-Ion family of batteries would pay off nearly so well. At this point though, the writing should be on the wall that hydrogen fuel cells can't compete with modern battery density.
> my fix would be to remove the "dick face" art.

Funny. My interpretation of this was—and still is—that it is reference to Pinocchio.
Have you looked at https://freebasic.net/ and https://www.qb64.org/portal/ ? It's been ages since I actually wrote code in BASIC, but there do appear to be nice open-source options in the modern world
> I guess that the right turn would have been completed without any problem.

The right turn would (at best) be completed by making pedestrians wait for the car, which is backwards.
Drunks are ordinary because alcohol use predates agriculture.

Unpredictable death-robots roaming the streets are pretty novel.

I don't think that's very complicated, from a news perspective.
My favorite BASIC of all time was QBasic.

FreeBASIC was interesting - a portable implementation and extension (including OOP concepts) of the original
PC QBasic and I enjoyed playing with it a long time ago.
Ya. Now that you point it out, that's a glaring omission.

It was a great deal of effort to monitor myself, flag the negative stuff, dig down to determine my actual root goal, and then figure out some kind of alternate positive framing.

Complimentary to this was learning that all negatives can be stated as a positive. (Something I got from an in-house corporate communications seminar, if you can believe that.)

My go to example from parenting is to say "Please walk" instead of "Don't run!". It was super effective!

(Transformed my parenting. Used my son as my guinea pig. I hadn't yet learned about positive reinforcement, which is really too bad.)

So. I'll start journaling expressions, as I remember them.

Thanks.
this looks awesome. 100hrs playback!
I want to suggest to you that you research AMOS which was a BASIC for the Amiga with very interesting concepts.

I think "spaghetti" is in the eye of the beholder. Alternatively you could argue that GOTO/GOSUB puts BASIC near ASM and that is cool.
> most people on hn will not experience much issues

If the AMOC collapses as we are already starting to see [0] then at least the European portion of the HN community will be deeply impacted.

If the American South West continues it's path of aridification [1] then plenty of HN member will be impacted as well.

[0]. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceano...

[1]. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11856
Couch to 5k? This absolutely worked for me as well. Don't try to do more than prescribed though, you need to have time to adapt to the stresses of running
> You don’t have to worry about piping data around your app, syncing, binding state to interface components, etc. You just construct your app.

Apparently, you just construct your app.
MVP vs MVT is a false dichotomy. It is made up by the author to sound smart and be convincing. From the article, describing what it calls MVT:

“Build an initial product to bring all of your insights together and test them with your target customer.”

Yeah, that initial product is the MVP.
>Recommendations drive a significant amount of the overall viewership on YouTube, even more than channel subscriptions or search.

Chicken/egg. Above is true is because they flood the sidebar with algorithmic recos instead of your subscriptions, and have tuned their notifications to not give you as many, even if you are subscribed and even if you click the notification bell.
> It should have been obvious in context that I was referring to something along the lines of "western democracies" since I listed countries before ever using the word "peer".

I already dealt with that in this response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28560646

> It honestly seems like you are arguing just for the sake of argument at this point.

That doesn’t seem honest to me.
Haha, I commented on this exact sort of video, one titled something with "success" where the car somehow managed to get past that monorail but in an extremely sketchy way, way worse than any learner driver would every do.

This FSD beta seems way too cocky and at the same time confused underneath, I think we will see quite a few incidents with this one unless everyones a good boy and is really in the loop with taking over quickly.
Yeah two-way data binding isn’t exactly new.

What I would like to see more of is “no backend” type solutions that allow you to just write front ends that leverage existing auth, databases, etc

eg. Sia, Gun, Dfinity, etc
Others are reporting 23-30 ms in US.

What latency number do you require?