skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we are still discovering some species, there is a good chance that these are not totally extinct.
No one said it was. You asked how to prevent homeless people from sleeping on trains — the answer is to give them places to sleep.
This is all just shockingly short-sighted for a guy who started with an online bookstore and turned it into the Amazon we know now plus AWS, etc.

This isn't a one-shot thing - even if SpaceX wins and lands folks on the moon, that's going to lead to a research facility there. You know what a research facility needs? More people going to and from the moon.

It's still so incredibly early in this industry that every success is a rising tide that raises all boats by creating more opportunity in the future. Bezos is making himself look like a petulant child while slowing down the industry as a whole, which is only going to hurt him in the long run.
> What makes you so sure that these two things are necessarily related?

In short, I take these people's word for it because I see no reason to doubt it, just like any non-enlightened person takes the word of Buddha or Buddhist monks that they were/are enlightened. There are numerous instances of Hindus like Ramana and Nisargadatta claiming that their state of mind is identical to what Buddhists call Enlightenment.

If anything, it's Buddhism that has these crazy religious narratives about the cycle or rebirth and so on. Nisargadatta, for example, rejects all this stuff. God, reincarnation, is all conceptual fluff; ignorance. Because what is the "reincarnation" concept to the silent mind? It a disturbance.
Opinion is a big part of history. One historian's analysis is not fefinitive proof rather a view that may be close to the truth.
The only thing consistently better than that is insider info, which is very common and quite reliable.
If, after a year of testing, autonomous taxis prove to be exactly half as dangerous as human-driven taxis, would you ride in one?
Fairphone says it had to nix the jack to get IP54. If another phone can include the jack and get a much better rating, it goes to show that Fairphone is not telling the whole story. The 3.5mm jack was nixed for reasons other than IP rating.
> It's a way to create global variables scoped to the current thread.

That's not a global variable; that's a thread-scoped variable.

(It's also not (really) mutable. It gets initialized at the start of the scope and gets removed at the end of scope.)
Pedantic comment: is that not what lean is about? Or is "lean" and jit essentially the same thing?
> not necessarily causation, but it can't have helped

I do think it was causal: when the official report came out it was clear that their system was completely inappropriate for autonomous driving. https://www.jefftk.com/p/uber-self-driving-crash
The entire world economy is experiencing shortages of necessary parts and labor due to the pandemic. Why do you think they’d be doing this as some conspiracy to force an infrastructure bill, vs it being what are currently normal hiccups in operation?

That’s even before asking how many cranes they had on the first place. The cranes to handle loading and unloading shipping containers off of ships are not small machines that can be set up in a week

Edit: I made the cardinal mistake of commenting before reading the article. An executive from the port is quoted as talking about the infrastructure bill and lack of investment in west coast ports. While I doubt that they are causing delays on purpose, it’s a legitimate question to ask given their statements.

Leaving my original post up as a monument to my sin
There's also the perverse incentives of developers and farmers not wanting endangered species to be "discovered" on their property because of the restrictions that will incur.

But what gets really interesting is re-introduction of endangered species, like with sandhill cranes being re-introduced to Louisiana (transplants from other surviving populations).

Is government introduction of an endangered species on/near private land, in a way that will certainly incur restrictions on that land (to protect said species), considered a "taking" under the constitution, or should it be?

More practically, as was the case with the sandhill crane, the government had to make concessions to land owners to get them on board and make the project politically viable.

Now they're protected, but it's a "special/experimental program" where farmers and other land owners aren't restricted in the ways they would be if they were still naturally occurring in that location.

(Of course it's still illegal to shoot them, but every few years someone manages to misidentify a 6 foot tall bird as a goose or something else legal to hunt.)
Imgix Incident – Elevated Rendering
Well, one issue is that Google and FB can finance said research because they make so much money off ads to begin with, and by doing so essentially provide enough funding to keep the field going

So this reckoning in the advertising space would only be a net positive for society if others came in to fill that funding gap and threw enough money at researchers to keep the field afloat in a similar fashion
^ This. Surprised no one has enquired about the overhead of this abstraction layer.
It's also interesting that this low-power mode is sufficiently low power for Apple to be feel comfortable sipping battery power continually. Any guesses about how much power this mode actually uses?
So according to the post iphones now have an AOP (Always on Processor) running a proprietary operating system with access to other phone components. Do we know if other manufacturers also include such a processor?

A quick google search showed a relevant apple patent [0] and a similar qualcomm processor product for wearables [1] which suggests to me this (always on processors on consumer electronics) "is out there ..."

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150362980A1/en
[1]: https://www.eenewspower.com/news/12nm-always-processor-slash...
A better analogy is – should beverage companies get into trouble if minors routinely consume their products?
That depends on so many things.

One of the things I've seen cripple large organizations is waiting for the common infrastructure / services becoming mature enough to be used in production.

Teams are kept in a holding pattern, sometimes for years, while waiting for the teams to deliver their common infrastructure / services solutions, and they're actively discouraged from building their own solutions, because the enterprise-wide solution is "just around the corner".
I've had my pixel 2 for almost four years and I'm still perfectly content with it. Google, however, stopped supporting it after 3 years. The 5 year support guarantee fairphone provides looks really appealing to me. The fact that it's user-serviceable is also a nice bonus.

It's a pity it's not available in the US.
Just a reminder that the President is 78, the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (2nd and 3rd in line for the presidency) are both 81, and this is the oldest Senate in history of this country with an average age around 65.

All else being equal people vote for candidates like them and older people turn out to vote at a much higher rate than young people. If you want you representatives to actually understand the world they are tasked with leading or want them to at least have consider how their decisions will personally affect them a decade in the future, you need to vote and convince your peers to vote. It is especially important to vote in primaries due to the US's two party system.
It doesn't matter how "tough" Spartans were. They were largely illiterate and terrible at logistics. Its hard to win battles when you're terrible at supply lines. And its hard to keep track of supplies if you don't know how to read or write.

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I've commonly heard that Spartans were good at fighting but bad at war. Turns out that a band of illiterate warriors is largely a bad idea for an army composition. If the war goes on too long, they simply run out of supplies and leave (Or, if they're forced to fight, they run out of supplies and lose)
Precisely. AI outside the beaten-to-death academic problems and datasets is a vast and completely un-plowed field with enormous potential. And unlike last time, there are some sub-fields of this that do actually work this time (computer vision, signal processing, speech recognition/synthesis, some NLP tasks, etc) and beat older baselines, often by a mile. There is a lot of froth, but there's quite a bit of substance as well, and the field is moving faster than any other I have ever experienced.
Yes, but “pretty fashionable/wealthy” would also describe most users on this forum.
Where kids can't post and do not see other kids? Probably not much because they are not the same thing.
Avoiding “useless cat” on the command line is premature optimization. Sure, don’t do it in a script that is invoked a lot but it shouldn’t be a concern when prototyping a filter pipeline.

$ cat foo | head -4
b
a
c
b

$ cat foo | head -4 | sort
a
b
b
c

$ cat foo | head -4 | sort | uniq -c
1 a
2 b
1 c

$ cat foo | head -4 | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1nr | head -1
2 b
This looks over sensationalized
> It boggles my mind that IPv6 has such a slow roll out (it's been a thing since the early 2000s = twenty years ago).

IPv4 had just as slow a roll out in some ways. TCP/IP had its flag day in 1983:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_(computing)

There was early commercialization of the Internet around ±1990, but it didn't really start taking off until around 1994:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercialization_of_the_Inter...

The Dot-com bubble peaked in 2000:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

RFC 1918 was published in 1996, and the kludge of NAPT was documented in RFC 2663 in 1999.

Given all of the above, I would say it took IPv4 about 15 years to reach the mainstream.
Career Choice for Longtermists
Is there any evidence that testing was skipped? It seems to me, testing may likely be more robust now simply because we've learned more and have a greater understanding of failure modes, rather than previous a deliberate skimping of testing during Apollo
> now have an AOP (Always on Processor)

They've long had this. It's how they turn on when picked up (by tracking the motion sensor) or when touching the screen (tracking capacitive sensor)
"Regulate" is everyone's magic word, but how exactly do they do it? What laws should they pass?
> I think the worst time to drive - as a human - is right when the sun is coming up or going down, or under tree cover when you go into and out of shadow.

Fatal accidents do indeed spike around these times, although they seem to be worse in the evenings than mornings, and more pronounced in southern states than northern ones.
Lots of small, simple things can add up to a really complex and not very much maintainable result if you are not careful
I'm glad you finished up with such a grandiose and dismissive statement.
No, it is because it is a lot cheaper and it can be bought by people that otherwise would not be able to buy a car at all. I know people who bought a Sandero for this reason and I was considering buying one one year ago, just before they announced an electric Dacia that I am still waiting for.
> For example, at least during the depression those with farms had to ability to grow their own food.

Those without farms overwhelmingly didn't need to. The only place in North America to have widespread hunger during the Great Depression was Newfoundland. If most people didn't take advantage of allotments it was because it wasn't worth it. After the fall of the Soviet Union lots and lots of urban ex-Soviet citizens grew their own food. They needed to.
> Verifying the technology is capable of detecting and responding to roadway situations in compliance with the California Vehicle Code, and a description of how the vehicle meets the definition of an SAE Level 3, 4 or 5 autonomous technology.

How does the company prove this? Are there detailed criteria listed somewhere that these companies should then prove to meet? AFAIK, its all self reported. I mean, if the company is confident it can do it, I guess it's a good thing, but is it enough?
Sorry if my distaste for these "I'm so cool look at me go" Twitter rants is seeping out here. If you go to his profile and scroll back a few days of posts you'll find them. Anyway it looks like he's humbled and corrected himself after seeing this writeup. Maybe I'll give him another chance.
I get what you are saying, but then what is the solution for people who have legitimate complaints, but fear reprisal if they don't remain anonymous?

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to go up against their employer without repercussions that are worse than the original complaint. But that doesn't mean people should just have to suck it up and put up with unjust (and perhaps illegal) behavior.
> Instead of "blasting" how about regulating it?

How do you suppose that happens? First you need fact finding, which happens in the background, and soundboarding, which is what this is. It looks like a circus, because it, in part, sort of is. The Senate is gauging to what degree the public cares about this. If prioritizing this issue will bring them votes when they go to campaign on it.
How to Decrease Bureaucracy
An app to send love to the world
Because these "top engineers" are self-taught with massive gaps in their base CS education? Reversing a tree tests for the knowledge of binary trees and recursion, which is... what?... a second year of a CS program, conservatively?
Get your bespoke, hand-crafted hourly rate from a team of humans
Wanted to share a thing I built for the freelancers out there. I know there are a few "hourly rate calculators" out there for independent folks, but they're all pretty generic and not especially useful. Saymyrate is a bit different because it's powered by a team of humans with a big pile of data. And they reply back with an hourly rate that's tailored entirely to you. Free too, at least for now. Give it a look if you're curious what you maybe should be charging: https://www.saymyrate.com
‘Twink’ doesn’t really connote a passive role though (you can be a twink and a top). Similarly for ‘bear’. Twinks can also be post-adolescent. So I don’t think ‘twink’ and ‘bear’ are very good translations of these terms, which are based on quite a different conception of gay relationships than the one we have now.
They only released support for it for the legacy AWS CLI v1, but not for AWS CLI v2.
I use the customization options in Linux to make my desktop look exactly like Windows 97. Try that in Windows 10!
Some of it. There is still the ultrasonic channel: beacons are emitted by various tv's, stores, etc. which can be used to capture location and other data and exfiltrate from the phone with the right software running. And of course the regular microphone can capture conversations and media.

If the bag is not opaque, there is still an optical channel.

Plus there are still accelerometers and magnetometers which can do rough inertial and geo location estimation.

The bag may help with some exfiltration routes, but it can store locations and other info and upload it when it gets a signal back.
When they try to change the way they’re viewed instead of bringing up relevant facts, you know that they know that they don’t have a leg to stand on.

I say we do to Facebook what JFK wanted to do to the CIA.

Imagine social media without a profit motive. Decentralize, distribute and encrypt the fuck out of it. I don’t want curated feeds, I want to keep in touch with people I know.
More Than Half of Police Killings Are Undercounted, New Study Says
I can't go too into details, but now that the AOP is doing cryptographical operations and key escrow, the internal bus is likely to show up in future documents. Maybe not the AOP but certainly the mechanisms it uses to interact with the find my network. It may also be a separate find my network whitepaper.
> It is pretty short sighted if you believe the only businesses and people financially impacted and bankrupted in Australia were Little Caesars, I can assure you that is false

Oh cheers, I didn't know. I will reconsider my position on the 600k dead Americans.

Could you just humor me and do a little back of the envelope calculation of the loss of economy in the US vs AU vs the number of deaths? Hint: Australia's economy is doing fine. Let me know how much each life was worth.
It's funny, because the number of people who regularly claim to have seen an IBW is really high. And 9 out of 10 times you can show them a picture of a pileated, and they instantly realize their mistake.

Idk why people who can't ID fairly common birds get so certain in thinking they've ID'd a really really uncommon one, but they do.
Sort of, except instead of free time it was full time. After reading the Zanzibar paper, we had a strong conviction that this solution could address many of the authorization challenges we've had in our past products and roles.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense than the generalised freedom I’d assumed.

I really should read Wealth of Nations…
My experience agrees with the OP. Aerospace is sometimes considered a subset of mechanical engineering which is a very broad field that can be applied across many domains.

Now if you've spent your career in a very narrow subset of that field and not developed transferrable skills along the way, I'm not sure the fault is entirely the employer's.
Alright, I'm back 24 hours later to finish out my responses!

RE going public- yes, there was a lot of alignment between everyone internally about the advantages of being a public company. The main downsides are 1) cost 2) distraction to the rest of the company. Huge credit to our CFO Hoang and the internal team for getting it done in record time which minimized the distraction. The main debate was whether to do a direct listing vs traditional IPO which I've covered elsewhere.

We sold about 25% in the seed, another 25% in the Series A (cumulatively 45%), 18% in the Series B, and then 10% in the Series C, D, and E, and 5% in the Series F. We also did a lot of employee grants along the way and were more generous than the median company. It adds up! It's not so much about fairness, it's about what sets up Amplitude to win. You can see the full cap table in our S-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001866692/000119312...

I wouldn't have done much differently- you can see my reply in some of the other threads for mistakes in not talking to customers enough or with people.
JIT, as Kanban, is part of the Toyota Production System. It is also called Lean nowadays, or simply TPS. The basic principles go back to the US defence industry in WW2, on one hand, and some ingenious ideas from the old Toyota company manufacturing looms.

I also see some of these ideas, tacted assembly lines for example, as far back the Venetian Arsenal cranking out Galleons and Galleasses in unprecedented numbers in the 16th (?) century.
The Find My network is designed so that only you can track your own devices using it, nobody else can.
the leaf colouration will change dark green in lower light, or enhanced yellows and varigation in high light intensity, so if you have no light meter it is an index of where your light intensity is.

yes epipremnum will make trailers but is not great at being a vine, it is better at being a creeper unless you have rain forest like conditions. it will ^tolerate^ repeated dryouts rather than give up, if given time to heal between droughts

extremes of forced growth habit ive seen range from monsterous orchid like with aerial root structures, to life supporting tendrils of bare nodes running several yards away from a single gallon pot to find a slot of light and grow small tufts of leaves at the terminal.
There's an official one here: https://valid-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/
> I say we do to Facebook what JFK wanted to do to the CIA.

Use it to invade Cuba?
I recall being at Amazon some years ago when we were running out of IP addresses internally. A natural answer was "Why don't we all just switch to IPv6?".

The senior principle project manager in charge put it very simply: "The number of routers that don't support IPv6 that we'd need to replace exceeds the world-wide yearly production of IPv6 routers capable of replacing them. At our current rate of growth, we have less than a year until we run out of IPs." (I'm badly quoting a brilliant person many years after the fact, but that's roughly my memory of the talk she gave.)

Major tech companies often have constraints like that which the rest of us wouldn't even imagine.
1/6 of fatal accidents are vehicle vs. pedestrian. I don't have great data on motorcycles, but speed and or alcohol are the most common factors in those accidents as opposed to other vehicles.
Wait, I see them everywhere in SF and in completely random places too…
You assert removing those "luxury" items results in a car that is immune to chip supply issues.
Many Hacker News people, who are prone to conspiratorial thinking will.

Regular people, not so much.
You mean "a little bird told you I was going to get rate limited", don't worry I gotchu.
Dealing with historic preservation would seem to defeat the purpose of living in a rural area.
All I'm saying is that when you look at other sectors with low cost labor, smart money like mcdonalds had the tech stack to replace their burger flippers with robots just like the auto industry in the 1970s, so there's probably a good reason why they still have human burger flippers today.
Even when on, the system is designed so that Apple themselves can't use it.
AWS bandwidth is definitely over priced however the comparison to an unmetered colo isn't quite fair. What happens when that unmetered colo gets hit by a 100G ddos attack? Everything you have on it goes down?
Thank you! That's totally fine.
Actually it states:

> The key MUST NOT be placed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d or loaded by apt-key add.

And yet the snippet that I quoted has the latter command.

Further: the link has the example "[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deriv-archive-keyring.gpg]". Perhaps it's my BSD upbringing showing through, but shouldn't only/mostly OS-provided stuff generally live in /usr/share? Shouldn't locally-added stuff go into /usr/local/share? Or perhaps creating a /etc/apt/local.gpg.d would be appropriate?
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ACLs are deprecated and IAM is a single mechanism with multiple policy types (which again, I don’t think should be simpler… if anything, I find it’s not complex enough to handle some niche access requirements). Can you share what the other separate access control mechanisms you see for S3?
It's only a rotating pool because people want to stay in aerospace. Many of those engineers can transfer to other fields if they really had the desire. They could work in automotive, energy, oil and gas, etc. I assume they either like aerospace or don't feel comfortable enough to branch out to other domains.

Aerospace is one of those fields where many people feel like they are moving backwards if they leave because of the status/prestige attached to it.
Kidnapping, assassination, a London shoot-out: CIA's plans against WikiLeaks
This article argues that a sequence shouldn't blow up to infinity. Does it make a case for why a sequence shouldn't get caught in a permanent loop before it can drop to 1?
The issue isn't that people are trapped at their current job (though some people may also feel that way, who knows), it's that if they stand up against poor treatment at their current job, the other companies in the field won't hire them.

Sure, another option is to not say anything at all, and just quietly quit and go to another company, but that doesn't really solve the problem; it just makes it someone else's problem.

And if the pool of companies is small enough, you also run the risk of these bad behaviors cropping up everywhere, with nowhere else to go.
Human level AI in 2021 is still
"tree climbing with one's eyes on the moon" (Hubert Dreyfus).