skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Levandowski is arguing in favor of retrofitting in order to deploy now, versus spending the time and money on future design with an unknown ship date. And he argues the hardware is good enough, it's the software that needs improving. It's approximately 180 degrees opposite of Tesla's strategy.

Is self-driving a mostly solved problem? I'm not even sure what the context is, long haul highway, or mixed (pedestrian, biking, non-self-driving autos)? Humans get confused with edge cases: poor road design, poor and non-standard signage, difficulty predicting other people's intentions in particular when human driver and pedestrian can't see each other's faces to know if they see each other as well as hand signaling to reduce the ambiguity, etc.

I come from an aviation background where the approximate equivalents for mixed city is VFR, and long haul standardized is IFR. And while the big expensive newer plans can do Cat IIIc with autoland in zero visibility: not everything is a Cat IIIc approach (there is no equivalent for take-off), and not every airport has the ground infrastructure to support such landings, and there's a whole area of ground operations that also aren't easily automated. Ergo, I use the best case scenario of IFR as the most likely environment in which we could have autonomous aircraft, and yet we don't. Andn that's when the environment is in normal positive control, as soon as there's no radar, compulsory reporting by a human pilot becomes required with IFR. What if weather forecast is off, and you need to fly to the alternate? What if there's loss of radio communications? All of these are accounted for by IFR, there's a written protocol pilots learn, but human pilots perform those actions. Not flight navigation systems or autopilots.

And from my point of view, the self-driving automobile problem is astronomically more complicated than IFR. Which is now where I come back full circle and opine that I think we're a long ways off from seeing "full self driving" (whatever that is) in anything other than very constrained, idealized (standardized) environments.
Scientists Behind Molecule Building Tool Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Yes, but GP said "every engineer, regularly" which seems odd.
So are a lot of things that the rest of the world do, but the rest of the world keep on doing them and they work just fine.

Almost like the issue isn't the 'thing' being done, but the people.
Without qemu you have to implement serial interfaces early in order to debug your own OS. Qemu is a huge benefit early on, and provides a sane environment for deterministic development as opposed to potentially quirky hardware.

Usually hobbyist OS projects don't start directly on hardware. Many of them never reach the point of running on hardware.
I'm looking forward o seeing numbers per python release, for what the optimizations result in taken together. Mark Shannon is going at it with optimizations now.
That particular subnet has a covering prefix, but I don't think the other two DNS subnets do, and I had checked on the WhatsApp authoritative subnets, because I have greater affinity for WhatsApp. The WhatsApp subnets don't usually have a covering prefix (and I did check a looking glass during the outage and there were no announcements visible at least at that point).

For those with a covering prefix, the diagnosis is a little bit different as you said, traffic would still flow to whichever FB PoPs advertise the covering prefix, but then it loops in FB, because the PoP doesn't know where to send it, since nowhere was advertising the specific /24. As opposed to the addresses with zero announcements, where the traffic doesn't make it to FB, but gets dropped somewhere else.
So in your analysis, how many people should robocars be killing? The easy answer is "anything less than 30K", right?

Somehow that case only looks "very strong" to people with a financial interest in the tech.
Tabs which get unloaded automatically mean that, when you switch to them, you get a long delay before you can view the tab again, and worse: it makes a new HTTP request, so if you were viewing a Confluence page or something, you will be tracked for reading the page again. So it's not a feature I've ever liked, but I like that Firefox will only unload a tab if it thinks it will crash due to low memory situations because that has never been an issue for me before. It's the main reason I like to use Firefox, Chromium based browsers are waaay too aggressive with this in my experience.
I read this very differently. This was coming off of the failure of Firefly (https://qz.com/1005083/the-cutest-thing-google-has-ever-made...). The problem with it was that you couldn't have a safety driver in the car. So it would require level 5 ready software.

My interpretation of Levandowski, is that he is pitching the current waymo strategy, to get as many retrofitted vehicles on the road in the target market and collect a ton of training data. These human driven "self-driving" cars could pick up passengers while collecting the data so as to build up a customer base and service flow for the future service.
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> they're not authorized to demand it like the health care industry is.

There is no governing body that determines who is and who is not "authorized" to request ID in the United States.
If you can build it initially in a low code tool then I'd say do it. People think you're going to miss out on the foundational building stuff if you do, but also remember that the early days of building are where you accumulate most of the technical debt due to "i don't know what my customers want yet".

Tell me this. How much easier is it to reverse engineer a low code application you built than it is to decide all things that you're customers are going to want?

Makerpad is an excellent place to start this journey. https://www.makerpad.co/
How many people have died because of Tesla FSD again? Let me check. zero.
This is required if the concept is abstract.

No one needs to be told what a flying car does and why it moght be useful. But things like PDF or REST are too abstract to understand just by the definition.

Really we don't know what we want. Even the people who designed home computers probably couldn't imagine most of their applications--they just figured it would be useful somehow.
It's not like people are going to their broker and saying "buy facebook" then going online and saying "ban facebook." Most people probably have no clue that their retirement indexes include like 1% facebook stock in the mix. With the way retirement funds are set up in this country you really don't have much choice in the investment mix unless you are savvy and with time on your hands to study and pick your own horses.

Using another example, I'm against war and violence too, but that doesn't make me a hypocrite for paying taxes that go on to buy bombs, and paying taxes that fund war is just not the same thing at all as me working for Blackwater directly.
They charge three times the cost for storage compared to B2 etc. Egress bandwidth in a datacenter costs around $7/TB for you or me, probably far less for a company like Cloudflare that's built around handling huge traffic volumes.

Similarly they can use slow storage for most files and use their existing caching solutions for storing frequently accessed files.

They'll probably lose some money on customers who use lots of bandwidth, and make lots of money on everyone else.
If the problem is millions of traffic accidents from individual human drivers then it will be far cheaper and faster to bet big on public transportation, high speed/light/etc. rail, instead of a fully autonomous self-driving car future that has always claimed to be just 5 years away (for the last 15 years).
My family is, perhaps "interesting", so it's not hard to imagine at all. Just cause they're blood doesn't mean they're good.
At the cost of reducing the opinion of your company for anyone who has problems.

Whether or not that's a worthwhile tradeoff: I dunno! No doubt it depends on exact numbers, lifetime expected value, potential word-of-mouth damage, etc.
I'm following good form. No silent edits were made. There has been an Author's Note in that paragraph the entire time since the change acknowledging the miscalculation.
Not everyone is blessed with a loving and supportive family, unfortunately. Surely you know this?
What do you know the best? You shouldn’t pick a starter kit where there’s lots of magic going on because it’s the first or second time you’ve seen the language. That makes it way harder to extend well.
Thanks! R2 coming out with $0 egress is somewhere between unbelievable and literal-miracle.

I suppose my only skepticism is "but how fast can I egress?" -- if the bandwidth is 100x slower than GCP, it might dampen my enthusiasm a little bit. But honestly I'd still take a 100x slowdown if it means I can do long term archival without paying $200 just to download the data, soooo....

Anyway, cheers, and thanks for doing impactful work!
You have greatly misunderstood my point. I'm pointing out that sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.

Failing to validate inputs is fairly trivial and not what I'm talking about.

And I'm not talking about defending my own code as perfect or any kind of egocentric nonsense like that.

I'm talking about reviewing other people's code that I have a difficult time understanding due to a large amount of conditional logic for edge conditions which have never been reported as bugs before. I've accepted that code and then experienced it blowing up really horribly. It also just isn't clear that its better to solve bugs that nobody will ever hit at the cost to clarity and future maintenance and future bugs which people actually hit.

I'd rather people write "buggier" simpler code if the bugs that are mitigated aren't practical. And what I'm talking about here is the "undefined compiler behavior" grey areas of APIs. Those would of course be better never having been created in the first place and everyone should have done excellent design and input validation to start, but that never happens perfectly (because eventually shipping code takes precedence over perfection) and 10 years later you've got a job to do.

And the TL;DR there is that people can actually outsmart themselves trying to think of every edge condition under the sun, and I've watched that happen to other people and had to mop up the fallout.

Sometimes the edge condition will also simply take too long. Mitigating a bug that has been in the codebase for 10 years, has never been reported, and is unlikely to be reported in the next 10 years is not going to be terribly useful if it takes the next 3 months of your time because of how deeply buried in the design the bug is. That is a good one to make a note of and if it starts to surface as a problem you've then had time to think about strategies that might take it down to 1 month or less.

Please do validate all your inputs and write robust code against all the edge conditions you can think of when you're greenfielding though, it will make things easier later. At the same time if you argue that you're shipping flawlessly perfectly designed code I bet that's a lie.

Oh, I've also ripped out 60% of a codebase that was just horribly overdesigned as well, and was solving problems that the author wanted to teach themselves things that weren't actually relevant to the problemspace.
When you factor in the human element, getting on the road as soon as possible may not actually be that strategy.

Uber had one fatality and is now out of the market. The public has very little stomach for error here. Multiple companies with multiple fatalities could shelve the whole industry indefinitely.
> I wonder how much one buys from AliExpress is made of toxic chemicals? All that clone lego and other cheap goods. I really am curious.

Probably a lot, since lead has even shown up in recent(ish) toys from US companies (Mattel) that should know better:

https://tamararubin.com/2020/12/how-old-are-your-childs-toys...
There's perverse incentives going for both obvious plans (company pays vs town pays), but I suspect one is worse than the other.

If we say that towns should pay the burden, then companies cannot "incentivize" police, but they can also exhibit disproportionate burden vs. other police priorities.

If we say that companies pay, then at some point the company is responsible for so much of police wellbeing that the police begin to lose moral credibility.
> For one, I appreciate

Capitalism, and the stock market, on the other hand, doesn't appreciate it. It kills "cautious" companies and keeps alive companies that have a revenue model, even if that revenue model comes at the expense of safety.
It seems that indecent exposure in combination with public urination is quite common. Not sure how much correlation that has with sexual frustration.
Any crime that is not worth having humans investigate is not worth disrupting a suspected criminal's life. If it isn't worth the cost to society, then society should leave it alone. Due process should be owed to every single citizen, and disrupting their lives should be considered worth the cost.
A new and rebranded return to 1997 HTML?

"Web -3.0"?

Seriously though UI/UX and Human Design seem to be lost arts these days as template sites took over. Because of mobile phones and many different screen formats, sites are crazy in form and function. We should probably seriously all consider going back to a Human Centered focus, and to revert to the practice of perfectly simplifying function, controls, and features in everything we develop.
But does twitch not share the same Amazon wide git service? Could most of Amzn code be leaked or compromised? Seems like all of amazon internals that shares security measures is at risk...
You do realise that the common understanding of a “credit score” is complete bollocks right?

There's no single magic number thats your credit score, other than the one credit reference agencies provide, which no bank worth their salt uses, making that number meaningless.

Banks buy credit files from reference agencies, which contain hundreds of different data points for each individual. Then the bank use their own internal models to calculate credit risk, or identify customers they like. That model will be different at every bank, and for every class of product they sell.

If this wasn’t true, then there would be no differentiation between lenders, other than interest rate. Leaders use their own secret sauce models to help them identify and classify specific groups of individuals that meet their risk appetite. And they won’t just be optimising for repayment or profit, they’ll also be looking to ensure their loan book is highly diverse. Ensuring they’re not overexposed to big events (like, say, a global pandemic), which might disproportionately impact a subset of customers (such as people working in hospitality).

So the idea that 20 cards is some magic number for a good “credit score” is just crap. And grossly underestimates both the diversity and complexity of credit decisioning.
That isn't the issue. The issue is that good-faith arguments are downvoted as well. If you are Republican, there are certain ideas that will instantly get downvoted simply because of your political affiliation. You could say, the most abundant element in the atmosphere is Nitrogen as a Republican and you'd get a bunch of downvotes and people arguing just cause they think all Republicans are anti-vax idiots.

Same with Democrats depending on where you are and what you're commenting on. People are polarized to the point that they no longer care what you have to say. If they think you're with the other political party it is instant downvote.
Cool site, bookmarked. Looks like several good articles on timekeeping the old fashioned way.
New Interactive Resource: CSET Map of Science
I rented a 1350sqf apartment with 4 bedrooms for $2500, 28th floor, next to a mall with 24/hr super market, and 2m walk to the MRT station.

Singapore is cheap to live in. It can be expensive if you choose to live a high roller life style. All studies for the cost of living in singapore include things for expats that you don’t need, like owning a car.
"begin to lose"?
So are you purposing each person's data is not stored anywhere and must be manually typed? Or something where each person controls where their data is stored and has to explicitly give access to sites in order to read the data?

I feel like the second option would be feasible if you could somehow get the major sites to agree they would pull the data each request rather than storing it in their databases.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves...
Shit, he was exactly right.
So? The toys might be cheaper for a reason. Are they wrong?
My issue was not with stopping the assault, but more with the fact that the story as told seemed quite embellished, ran on a number of outlets, and it seemed specifically tailored to garner votes.

To be specific, on one side the "bad guy" was a staten island guy wearing a cowboy hat in the midst of a hate crime epidemic soon after the capitol riots. On the other side, with pictures, a mentally ill person of color. The assaulted photographer was there shooting Yang, with many other campaign people and other photographers. All the accounts and pictures were released by the campaign, nobody pressed charges, and as far as I know nobody helped the guy get some help.

I hope that's a bit clearer. I wasn't there and don't really know what happened for a fact, but after looking at multiple sources my best guess was between cheesy embellishment and distasteful stunt.

Now I don't know what to think anymore... I thought it was widely discussed at the time, but I'm having a hard time finding the original coverage of the event on youtube, and the written articles I find seem more balanced than what I remember hearing. So maybe fake news got me on this one.

That said, the Israel comments and the CNN job had a lot more weight in changing my opinion (which to reiterate, is not "Yang is the worst", just "Yang is like his peers").
Ask a better question. What part of the bandwagon? The speculation side? The creating side? The integration/institutionalization side?

My answer- no, not too late on many sides. Even from a naysayer perspective, there are lots more greater fools out there.

More likely too early- participating in ANY part of crypto involves an ENORMOUS amount of risk.

You probably won't wind up dead in an unmarked grave, as have 99.9% of pioneers in human history, but being broke/in debt is very, very likely, and for many just the opportunity cost of the time spent will outweigh the benefit of the learning.

Nevertheless, for a small fraction, the riches will pour in, many, many more than have so far.

Only you can decide how to spin life's wheel.

Best wishes.
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. — Yogi Berra
Canonical launches Ubuntu Frame, the foundation for embedded displays
There are tons of dysfunctional families in the world. The US just had one in the Executive branch. Don't you think Mary Trump probably has good reason to not want Donald knowing her income?
The status quo is ridiculous, but we already have a better solution, dense cities and mass transit. We should be building trains using decades old tech, not AI bs. Of course I'm just shouting into the void but the dream of self driving cars is incredible over engineering and will take us backwards in the long run on the problem of global warming.
Mechanism of molnupiravir-induced SARS-CoV-2 mutagenesis
No need to give up a PCIe slot. The Raspberry Pi Zero and the RPi 4 have USB On-The-Go support so they can appear to be a serial port, Ethernet port, or other types of devices using the Linux USB Gadget API. It’s even possible to appear as multiple device types at once.

Overview | Turning your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB Gadget | Adafruit Learning System
https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-in...
exceptions are supposed to be exceptional, darn it

This feeling is at odds with what is generally considered idiomatic Python, for better or worse.

Upthread BiteCode mentioned EAFP. See, for example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/idiomatic-python-eafp-...

(It's certainly not unanimous. Guido himself is on the record as saying EAFP isn't better than LBYL, but in most of the Python I've cruised through these last umpteen years [that wasn't some other language written in Python], I've certainly seen an overall preference for EAFP. Naturally YMMV.)
It's never to late, I believe as Web3 pickups steam and we get a decentralized internet there will be a lot of activity in the Cryptospace.
> In my experience with corporations there is little to no technical sharing between different parts of the company.

Amazon is all about sharing efforts with the company. That's the whole point of AWS - its a monetization of this efforts. Most older AWS services started out as internal services that someone realized was generally useful.
I get the impression this is web scraped spam, of the type where they scrape somebody else's content, process it through a translator, and then post it as if it was original content. This is done to basically steal the real content creator's link reputation and ad income.

There are a LOT of examples, but for the purpose of this post, I'll just give one that seems pretty glaring to me: "One of the finest oversights..." Finest is obviously not the right word, but there is a synonym that would work there. The whole paragraph this example came from is just bizarre.

It would be forgivable if it was only one example. But the article is so littered with incorrect and unusual synonyms that it is highly unlikely to be a legitimate post.
They're not the only QC company using Common Lisp ;-)
Car accidents resulting in fatality are relatively uncommon, thanks to modern safety standards, and Tesla FSD doesn't have nearly as many miles as it needs.

Your sample size is way too small to be implying that FSD is safe - given a year or so, with millions more miles, we'll see what the score is.

By the way, and this is anecdotal, I was personally given a FSD demonstration a few weeks ago. The car immediately did an unsafe lane change in the middle of an intersection. Albeit, that was one of the pilot program beta versions.
Every time I see one of these 'how to make friends and influence people' sort of lists, I can't help but fear for the young people who will take them as gospel and act like a robot, moving through them as a checklist.

Also, this one is summed up as - pay attention to non-verbal communication (body language), pay attention to group dynamics, be available and in proximity when appropriate and available fluidly, get people to talk about themselves, and be interested in other people.

In other words, act like a person who is trying to make friends with another person.
Several deaths, and more serious accidents, are attributed to Tesla Autopilot though, which Tesla marketing has confused customers into thinking is equivalent to FSD.

Compare Tesla’s initial approach (or lack thereof) to driver monitoring vs GM Super Cruise for instance.
I also wonder why other OSs don't implement a Linux binary interface for drivers, so they can reuse at least some Linux drivers.
This is absolutely untrue, and trivial to verify.

Quick Edit: I suppose it's more accurate to say FSD hasn't killed anyone, but AP has, but given the current context, I'm not sure it's relevant.
Firefox for Android has already had this feature for a few years.
My fear is that there is a big variance in how toxic they are. E.g. some month 2111111111122222222<<§

Edit: Sry toddler ...
Merck Sells Federally-Financed Covid Pill for 40 times What It Costs to Make
As an avid Twitch streamer, what do I need to do to protect myself?
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It is quite possible that an Erlang dev billing 3x more than a PHP dev will be more than 3x as productive.
I was bummed too when fb blinked my community ran forums out of existence
You mean it hasn’t already killed anyone since its release - two weeks ago? I don’t know if that’s something to brag about…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/09/25/tes...