skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the idea here is to use it on third party dependencies, I think the idea is "we have this C code base that we maintain, and we really wish it was a rust codebase instead".
I don't much about the tech behind Tesla, but as an engineer I'd never trust a "self-driving" car without lidar. This has nothing to do with the stop sign issue , but the absence of lidar gives me the sense that tesla is trying cut corners to get to something that's merely good enough. Waymo and cruise seem to be way ahead despite Musk's promises.
90%. The number I said was 90%
It's not only about whether you personally are comfortable talking about something. It's also about whether the people you are talking to are comfortable with it.
> I also see no reason, a priori, to 'blind' a vehicle to certain spectra of EM emissions

The reason is simple: cost. The goal isn't to build a proof-of-concept safe AV, it's to build one that meets the safety bar _and_ is as cost-effective as possible, in a reasonable timeframe.

I happen to agree with the target-then-scale approach, but I also agree with Kyle that it's not a given that this is approach is definitely superior to the one that launches everywhere and tries to improve functionality.
I still want to know who goes to prison when a pedestrian or cyclist is killed.

Because no-one is arguing someone will be killed, only that "human drivers kill people too" or "machines will kill fewer, eventually".

Will it be the passenger? The coder for bad code? The person who assembled the hardware for improperly tested malfunctioning sensors? The person who made the malfunctioning sensors?

Who? Because someone is responsible. You can't just spread the blame around and the corporation just pays a fine and shrugs after someone's life is ended.
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Privacy is a political/legal problem, not a technology problem.
Yes. The relevant information may be contained in a narrow swath of bandwidth riding within that 60GHz. Say you use 60GHz as a carrier but only care about changes happening below 10kHz. You can separate out that from the returned signal and only process 20k samples/second.
Yup, that kibble crap is no good. You (hopefully) wouldn't eat Bachelor Chow, why feed it to your pet? It's barely even a cost issue with cats, their body weight is so low compared to people.
Are you saying it is possible to buy a new Audi with analog gauges? Do you have any more details on that?
Yes. The key here is the difference between frequency and bandwidth.

The radar isn't using the entire 0 Hz to 60 GHz band, it will be using something like a few GHz or sometimes much less. i.e. 60-64 GHz

Also much of the processing isn't done on general purpose processors but in FPGAs or ASICs which can do lots of the parallel computation very fast.

For comparison 802.11ac has a max of 120 MHz channels, and that's cheap and everywhere these days (but runs on 5 GHz).

There are lots of basically tricks to reduce the amount of data in successive stages so that the processing is quite possible.
I don't think it's a lame excuse at all. Tesla barely managed to get a profitable car on the market given battery costs, and had to bet their company on a strategy of massive investment and reducing costs over a decade+ period.

They are also ahead of every other auto maker in commercially purchasable L2 autopilot.

With that context, it doesn't make sense to add $50k+ to the price of their cars (e.g. doubling the cost of a Model Y) just to get slightly better autopilot performance. Lidar would help them in some cases (e.g. stationary objects), but it's not a panacea. Their strategy makes perfect sense given they want to sell semi-affordable cars to the public.

On the flipside, Cruise & Waymo's strategy of "geofenced L4 at any initial cost" makes perfect sense for their short term robotaxi ambitions.

Maybe in ~10 years these strategies will intersect, but for the time being they are completely different products.
Thanks, that sounds reassuring. I appreciate your thoughtful responses to my other questions, as well - I may give these another pass (if I find time) tomorrow.
Mechanical computer for computing Fourier transforms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg
I should have said 'trivial for most people'. I am not referring to people who can't wear masks in public spaces for legitimate reasons.
I'd never trust a "self-driving" car without lidar. It should be a requirement. There's tons of research on how easy it is to completely fool neural nets with images.
Looks like it's meant to keep out bears!
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I think perhaps you are interpreting my statement as indictment of public transit. That is usually American debate, I am not against public transit, in most denser countries it is absolutely essential.

I commuted in Mumbai trains for years the experience is terrible and dangerous, in most dense cities there is no other cheap reliable way to get anywhere, even in richer cities like NY the system is pretty bad if you care at all about your journey beyond getting from point A to B.

Scaling is hard for public transit, very very hard, it does not matter how wealthy the city is either. Poor cities don't have money to expand, rich cities have ton of legacy infra, politics[1] and other systemic issues. The NY 2nd avenue line is 100 years in the making and costs $15-20B and it is just 9 miles long. There are some good transit systems but most of them are have ton of problems.

Fr vast majority of people, trains (or managed SaaS ) would be good fit for their needs, however that does not mean it is always better in every metric and fits for everyone, for some people control and experience and other aspects is more important than what managed solutions can offer there is nothing wrong with that.

[1] Large scale SaaS apps unsurprisingly also have similar problems
We already have a system that relies on assigning fault among the multiple parties involved in an accident. This same approach applies just as well to SDC accidents. It would be even easier than the status quo, given the much richer data SDCs could be regulatorily mandated to provide.
My point is that people develop attachment to things they own and use, and it's harder to be objective.
Neither are humans. Our eyes are so close together there's almost no disparity between the eye images beyond a handful of meters. We do 3D by inference beyond the near-field.
The government can't even give our money away with a basic level of competence? This is worrisome.
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Or treat that turn restriction as applying 100% of the time.
It's not only Google; I've noticed this slow-but-accelerating decline for a few years now, and my theory is probably a bit too controversial even for HN, so I'll just be oblique about it: this is the result when hire people for who they are rather than what they can do. You end up with docile, obedient employees who don't care about anything other than the fact that they're working for Google and making $$$, and they're not going to push back against any decisions.
I don't disagree but I think this version of privacy is reductive.

Plenty of real world privacy exists on a spectrum. My family knowing I'm in the bathroom is a far cry form them pointing a camera at me.

If stores track you "anonymously" with this ... Who cares? It's less invasive than the ubiquitous security cameras they have pointed at you.
What happens when there isn't one? Roadworks, and accidents cause frequent closures of the breakdown lane. L3 has a lot of edge cases where the vehicle is supposedly too dumb to drive, but smart enough to know it shouldn't drive. It may be death by a thousand cuts.
There used to be a number of good monochrome AR projectors for industrial and military use last few years.

They look pretty unlike a sleek consumer device, and are expensive, say, $1000 for just the display. For a business, it's peanuts; for a consumer and even prosumer device, it's a pretty significant sum, for a monochrome display not good for gaming.
"Soy contains phytoestrogens and soy also negatively influences the thyroid gland"

Sorry, stopped reading here. Do you have a source that isn't verging on anti-science nutbar crap? Genuinely interested in the health benefits, but after reading that sentence I can safely say that any claims on that site are suspect at best. The only other times I've run across the soy/phytoestrogen argument have been from anti-vaxxers or Alex Jones level conspiracy BS. And the constant references to Man's ignorance definitely didn't help.
There has been research done on gait recognition https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-artificial-neural-networ...

mmWave can be used to identify unique traits http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/10889/%5BDCOSS19%5DmID.pdf
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Seems maybe inspired by this: https://github.com/isaacs/github

Was a great resource (and place to vent with like-minded users) before GitHub finally conceded and created a public issue tracking system of sorts <3
My claim is that humans use their eyes as a primary input for driving. I don't think it's controversial. We don't let eyeless people drive. Eyes do not shoot out lasers.
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Hi HN, I am Ahmed. I was at the end of my energy engineering degree when the infamous oil price dropped and took the entire job market down the chasm. Then I had take the decision to study CS with a minor in DS... then COVID happened. Anyway, I am in my final year, and I have been been running a small VA and Social Media Management firm for a while.

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The forced obsolescence with Windows 11 designed purely to help Intel sell hardware at the cost of the planet's well-being was pretty evil.
I'm sure Apple will get right on enforcing that with Amazon.
> people are going to get injured and or killed by unusual real-world events riding in these autonomous cars

I don't think anyone inside or outside of the AV industry is expecting that there will be zero injuries or fatalities involving AVs. Why would that be the bar, when AV rides displace human drives that already injure and kill tens of thousands?
The FCCs mandate is to protect the airwaves from interference. Starlink uses shared bands. if the receivers move, tracking down interference is harder.
It doesn't even need a radar sensor. Everyone moves in a different way, so that extracting patterns from the phone accelerometer can help to identify a person.
Two people carrying the phone in the same pocket or hand will produce very different patterns that can be analyzed to extract the different behavior. All it needs is one chance in which that pattern is successfully paired with the person's identity, and from that moment on all their activities can be identified.
They didn't deny it. Alex Jones was banned from these platforms for spreading conspiracy rhetoric.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-infowars-idUSKCN1LO...

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655658/alex-jones-facebook-yo...
Slavery apologists just keep getting more creative.
I think it's not super relevant but: my understanding is that they were of partial Native American descent.

Reason why I say it's not super relevant in this particular case? As a white person, it would be ridiculous for me to attempt to speak for Native Americans or any other group. But it would be perfectly OK for me to say e.g. "hey, I think a lot of Native Americans aren't cool with white people making 'dream catchers' -- maybe look into that? Also here are some links to Native Americans talking about it?"
Imagine if your housecleaner went bankrupt and had the right to sell your house or cover their debts. It's insane that bankruptcy legalizes theft.
First banks don’t actually issue money, people treat the IOU from a bank in their checking or savings account as money but it is an IOU. This is why economists use M0 vs M1 vs M2 vs M3 etc

Second Banks want to have outstanding loans. They are going to issue new ones as the old ones are paid off. Therefore cash on hand + outstanding loans get modified by defaults, new loans, principal payments, and interest payments. Suppose from that 1,000B in loans they got 5B in interest, 3B in principle payments, and had 4B in defaults and issued 7B in new loans. They now have 1,000 - 3 - 4 + 7 = 1,000B in loans and an extra 5 + 3 - 7B = 1B in cash.

Those changes can be calculated on a day by daily, monthly, or yearly basis, but dividends means a bank can make money in some year and still fail. Which is why regulators care about bank reserves not profitability.
Put a rfid tag in the tire, store how many rotations that tire takes over time. Once it reaches a threshold, refuse to spin that tire further.
They're near or past peak growth. Juicing the profits means they have to extract value by reducing costs and monetizing as much as possible. Steady dependable revenue with good customer service isn't good enough for American businesses any more.
The greatest number of vacancies is in soma. The neighborhood that emptied out during the pandemic. Soma was startup central. It has been a ghost town since march 2020. I suspect a lot of startup people moved out of the city. I imagine it is quite tough to get those places rented since there’s negligible demand. Everyone is probably hoping return to work will bring companies back. I suspect we’ll never get back to where we were.

A vacancy tax would probably incentivize landlords to drop rents which could be a great thing.
VLC has access to your entire filesystem by default. Their sandboxing doesn't much care about that.
Any reason why they haven't moved to Clojure. For one, Clojure has all the Java libraries at it's disposal.
Directus is an amazing open source tool that you can self host as easy as deploying a Node app. You can setup content types with a nice UI, very configurable roles so a client can't break the site, a media library that can hook into S3/DO Spaces, a REST or Graphql API built in, webhooks, revisions, works with many different DBs, and a bit more I'm not thinking of.

I'm not affiliated with them at all. Was just very pleased to find how polished it is for a self hosted, free product compared to the other $499/mth proprietary options in the space.

https://directus.io/

https://github.com/directus/directus
I'm pretty sure large companies like Google often hire to prevent competitors from getting those employees, not for what those employees would bring to the company itself. Or maybe that's what you were getting at?
But what about the trolls?
There are plenty of people who might still think that's bad value. Trades put a lot of stress on your body, and are not that easy, especially masonry from what I've heard.

If you think of people working in the service sector, like fast food, or retail, I don't think most of them would cut it as a mason.

Aside from that anyone who has a way to make similar money another way would probably do so instead, I certainly would.
You're confusing good with good PR.
Lol, what answer do you expect from a question like that? At a high level, Cruise is taking the same approach as Waymo, and a different one from Tesla: start with lots of hardware, HD maps, and a targeted operating domain, then try to scale. Answering in any more detail would be a) giving away trade secrets and b) rely on knowing trade secrets about Waymo's cars that they probably don't know.
This speaks so badly about America, but you're right - I know at least two pretty large and heavily-populated dead spots in the heart of Irvine, California.
I'm interested in your thoughts about the quality of the authors argument. What I'm decidedly not interested in is this stuff about "the antivaxxers" (whoever that may be to you), and them winning or losing.

At some point, people started losing the plot. The win condition here is not "every single human vaccinated with the current batch of vaccines, and anyone in the way labeled and punished".

That was a potential strategy for achieving the actual win condition of keeping society running. For a variety of reasons, we seem to have wrung the majority of the benefit we can out of that strategy. Now we have to go to the next phase, and it'd be nice to start undoing this bullshit division that's been created among us.
The issue is global conflicts have a lot of missiles. Your 98% success rate probably still means most Americans are dead. IIRC Russia's ICBMs are measured in tens of thousands, and each one could take out a major US city (until we ran out)
I remember a few nursing students being in my calculus 1 class, but this was several years ago.
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WiFi can be used to monitor heart rate, falls and other human activity, through your (and neighbor) walls,
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22864783/sengled-smart-hea...

DFWS (Device-Free Wireless Sensing) is possible with low-cost ESP32 devices and custom firmware, https://academic.oup.com/jcde/article/7/5/644/5837600

802.11bf WiFi Sensing is scheduled to be part of WiFi 7 in 2024, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901587
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Or is it because these companies (not just Google) have now saturated their markets and to sustain revenue growth the only solution they see is to squeeze harder regardless of the ethics?

(upon thinking about it, the above is not incompatible with your POV).
One way out of the LIDAR PR dead end would be for Tesla:

1.) When solid state LIDAR is ready, re-brand it something like SSL technology (Solid State LIDAR) and put it on new high end Teslas.

2.) Wait for all 'camera only' enabled Teslas with FSD beta to age out of service and upsell the owners on a heavily discounted FSD subscription for their brand new Teslas with SSL.
Just today I was looking for a quick way to build a marketing site for my startup that would allow my not super technical co-founder to do the majority of the building. It has been a while since I had used WordPress regularly so maybe there are new sources out there, but I defaulted to checking out ThemeForest to find a decent theme to start with.

I consider myself fairly decent at design (though I'm far from an expert), and I was amazed to see how at odds virtually every theme on there was with what I consider good design, particular from the UX perspective.

Most of them are so bloated they take forever to load and they have an absurd amount of animations.

I've just given up on the idea of taking the easy route here, I can't in good conscience have the first look that people have of my business be a bloated, over-animated mess. Gonna have to build it from scratch.

If anyone has found themselves in a similar situation I'd love to hear what you did.
Unless the driver is drunk, has malice, or willfully breaking a bunch of other rules, I don’t think they go to prison now.
Disclaimer: This is just my interpretation of “unit of account”. This is not me agreeing with it or advocating for it.

When people say “unit of account” basically what they are saying is:

Cryptocurrency is an Open Source rewrite of the banking systems that currently run on Cobal. “Banks, please start using them as your database and reconciliation layer instead of your legacy software.”

Meanwhile, users continue to use credit / debit cards as they do now, and they continue to see some number on their bank accounts going up and down regardless of where the “money” actually is. Which is the same as today. That’s why we see “Pending” across so many of our transactions.
In general, a government spending program to create jobs costs 3x as much as the jobs pay.
Get ready to be surprised. The routes are created by the car on the fly. There is no preset course. The service area is bounded by the current permit, but within those bounds, the car can go anywhere.
In 2020, the US had 1,700 deaths caused by knives and other cutting instruments[1] and 38,000 deaths from cars[2]. Cars clearly need more safety regulation than knives.

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I absolutely hate Wordpress, but I completely understand why it's popular.

The reason why it's bigger than other publishing tools, is because there's almost nothing out there that has the deep network of plugins that can do almost anything.

Sure, the backend of spaghetti PHP, HTML, MySql and endless backdoors and security issues are a nightmare, but there are really not that many alternatives to what Wordpress can do.

And that's why Automattic is doing such a good business by basically hosting Wordpress and cleaning up and whitelisting more and more plugins. It makes perfect sense.
Hey, thanks!

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Second one. Someone remote can help label and plan until the car has enough confidence to proceed.
One of the most common tactics is for Jews to point the finger at “Gentile anti-Semitism” rather than acknowledge actual Jewish behavior.
Describe the boiling please.
Because MPAI.
They also play a game where they refuse to center on your location without tracking enabled even though the GPS is working fine and the pip is on the map.
Right, which isn't a remote driver.
The result of a system that legally binds corporations to maximize profits enforced via shareholder lawsuit.