skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about how to calculate it. It' about how can you understand what's around. And Audi is not super good about it. Tesla is far better at understanding the context. This year they will switch to FSD stack.
The car will not drive me itself. But security features while driver engaged will have a huge boost. And that will be available for any car that was released from 2015-17 with some minor exceptions. That's how security should be handled.

And yes for these minor exceptions Tesla offers a retrofit.
Premise: the author has access to many more pet creative projects than ever before.

Author's conclusion: people are spending more time on pet creative projects.

Better conclusion: the barriers to distribution have fallen so low that pet projects which existed in the past but never left the bedroom are now available to the world.

What might have just sat on a DAT cassette or floppy disk in someone's closet many years ago now becomes an upload to streaming music catalogs or game services.
I definitely agree - Dune VFX was awesome

Not sure how much VFX Dunkirk had though - I have not looked into it - I know they did a ton of it practical with an imax camera on the actual planes. Impressive as well but maybe not the best comparison for VFX heavy vs SFX heavy
This isn't really relevant to wasm, though. You can't expect it to support platform-specific hacks just for SIMD, so you'll have to make do with the lowest common denominator anyway.
In this case you should go and ask the judge for a smaller ticket regardless. Getting a ticket so large that we are talking about it on hn 40 years later? Go to court.
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People spend more time on an app where they feel comfortable. If FB did nothing to clean up feeds, it would probably drive away both those eyeballs and the advertisers who don't necessarily want their brand to be displayed next to unfiltered user-generated content.
> but he could not use any custom hotkeys.

IIRC you could and Serral did set his own custom keybindings on the machine. The main difference was different keyboard and mouse.
They really have us trapped with WhatsApp… difficult to figure out how to get off this platform
When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games. I'm not sure anybody actually did that. But it was plausible. You could sample more-or-less everything, and choose what you like.

Today there is so much of the stuff that you just can't.

You don't know whats out there, and you never will.
No, I live around the Nashville area.
ABS absolutely does help you stop on ice. Locking up on ice makes traction even worse; you get a miserable coefficient of dynamic friction and a film of liquid water instead of the already poor coefficient of approximately static friction you get while there's limited relative motion between the tire and the road.

It's not a panacea, but ABS definitely reduces the distance you slide compared to if you lock your tires.

Citation: Towed a trailer a few weeks ago in the snow, and even with my beloved Tekonsha P3 trailer brake controller it was a challenge keeping the trailer behind the truck while coming to a stop on curves. It's easy to test the effects of locking the tires on ice with an empty trailer trying to stop a coasting truck...the truck brakes, with ABS, do most of the work.
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I think there are two arguments here: legality, and actual safety. I would argue that the slow rolling stop is perfectly safe in all cases, but the law exists as it is only to reduce ambiguity for enforcement. It's not a calculated risk - there is no circumstance where it's unsafe.
The cop working at 4am might be working a schedule like 12am-12pm and have their cases handled at 9am one day a month.

Or they switch between night and day shifts, like lots of nurses do.

They’ll make it work.
My friend group switched to Signal en masse. YMMV.
I work on a similar side project called one-on-one.tech

People can schedule one-on-one meeting with their interests. Others can then get in contact to arrange a virtual/real life meeting.

Current focus is on bigger companies but an open version is out for everyone to use.

Feel free to get in touch with me!
One simply doesn't change a name when continuation of previous successes is to be expected.
I think Meta and Tesla should consider merging because of the great synergy it will create. Imagine being driven to all your destinations while being plugged in to the Metaverse headset. You could enjoy beautiful sceneries while experiencing awesome real world g force. Tesla would also suddenly get billions more potential customers through their social network platforms. I would be so hyped!
Probably a lot of modern standards and innovations like "basic safety" might have also shot up the cost of Lawrence of Arabia today however :-)
This is very convenient buck-passing. Local governments have a lot more impact on my day-to-day life than D.C. does.
I believe if you adjust your circadian rhythm accordingly, and don't face interference from external conditions (sunlight) they are equivalent.
Heads up: Chrome's giving me an invalid cert error and refusing to load your site.
Ah yeah, I definitely have the distinct advantage of living with me, myself, and I :)
So it's "ETH escrow" where the trusted third-party conducting the atomic swap of assets is the blockchain in the form of executing a contract?
> Given both parties agreed that code is law, there is absolutely nothing unethical or immoral about what they did

There is no rule that because something is legal makes it ethical and moral. It's amazing how common this sleight of hand is used to justify doing shitty things for personal gain.
with 3306 open to remote root :)
> That doesn't follow. The right to own something does not imply the right to use it.

That's like saying "The right to own a pair of pants does not mean you have the right to wear them." or "The right to own that Rembrandt doesn't mean you have the right to look at it". What, if not to use or consume an item, is the purpose of ownership at the fundamental level?

> The Constitution does not and cannot bestow inalienable rights.

You'll be happy to hear it does neither. It recognizes rights that are inherent to human beings and (presumably) limits the ability of the government to infringe on them.
Yay, another platform without the possibility to become decentralized, with a leader who basically opposes standards based development, great step forwards.
That's pretty psuedo random.
Note that fixing the "slight imprecisions" in a typical ad-hoc proof is still very valuable. Quite often it leads to a simpler, easier to understand, tighter, etc. argument as the proof can be freely "refactored" without changing its validity. This is the underlying reason why formalizing a proof that hadn't been done previously is considered actual, publishable work.
The thing is that we don't know. What I also have been seeing for a while (like for at least for a decade) that whatever profession seemed to be in danger, whichever profession came out on top on (guess) lists like "these will be replaced by AI soon", each and every one of them thought that it can't happen to them and they all had (and continue to have) explanations, usually involving how that jobs needs human ingenuity. (Unlike all the others, of course :) )

Now completely I agree with you that a significant part of our job is understanding and structuring the problem, but I'm not sure it can't be done in another way. We usually get taking in when we think about what machines will be able to do by thinking that just because we use intelligence (general/human intelligence) to solve the task it means that it's a requirement. Think chess. Or even calculating (as in, with numbers). Or go. Etc.

The funny thing is that we don't know, until someone does it. I've been thinking for a while that a lot of what I do could be done by a chat bot. Asking clarification questions. Of course, I do have a lot of background knowledge and that's how I can come up with those questions, but that knowledge is probably easy to acquire from the internet and then use it as training data. (Just like we have an awful lot of code available, we have a lot of problem descriptions, questions, comments and some requirement specifications/user guides.)

The hard part would probably be not what we have learned as a software developer, but the things we have learned while we were small kids and also the things that we have learned since, on the side. I.e. being a reasonable person. Understanding what people usually do and want. So the shared context. But I'm not sure it's needed that much.

So yeah, I can imagine a service that will talk to a user about what kind of app they want (first just simpler web sites, web shops, later more and more complicated ones) and then just show them "here is what it does and how it works". And then you can say what you'd like to be changed. The color or placement of a button (earlier versions) or even the association type between entities (oh, but a user can have multiple shipping addresses).
>> What do you think then is the difference between going from 50th to 99.9th percentile in their other domains? Is there something materially different between ago, protein folding, or coding?

Yes, it's the size of the search space for each problem. The search space for arbitrary programs in a language with Universal Turing Machine expressivity is infinite. Even worse, for any programming problem there are an infinite number of candidate programs that may or may not solve it and that differ in only minute ways from each other.

For Go and protein structure prediction from sequences the search space is finite, although obviously not small. So there is a huge difference in the complexity of the problems right there.

Btw, I note yet again that AlphaCode performs abysmally badly on the formal benchmark included in the arxiv preprint (see Section 5.4, and table 10). That makes sense because AlphaCode is a very dumb generate-and-test, brute-force search approach that doesn't even try to be smart and tries to make up for the lack of intelligence with an awesome amount of computational resources. Most work in program synthesis is also basically a search through the space of programs, but people in the field have come up with sophisticated techniques to avoid having to search an infinite number of programs- and to avoid having to generate millions of program candidates, like DeepMind actually brags about:

At evaluation time, we create a massive amount of C++ and Python programs for each problem, orders of magnitude larger than previous work.

They say that as if generating "orders of magnitude more" progams than previous work is a good thing, but it's not. It means their system is extremely bad at generating correct programs. It is orders of magnitude worse than earlier systems, in fact.

(The arxiv paper linked from the article quantifies this "massive" amount as "millions"; see Section 4.4).
This explains the shift to Meta. The current company is basically dying, and so they are going to bet the house on something new. Apple really did a number on them by restricting the data they can collect
Sounds like this guy needs a new hobby, maybe metalworking?
I see your point, however your life may be worse on average (health and mental state) because of the lower amount of sleep.
The implication of your comment is that people only do productive work now because they are forced to, to avoid starvation. And that you think such a system is fine. Because if you thought people now do work which interests them, you'd still think that in a UBI world, and if you thought the current system wasn't fine, you wouldn't go straight to "but who can be forced to do horrible things if we take the forcing lever away? That would be bad".
The idea of buying something based on an advertisement and not a need is foreign to me. What is a kind of ad that you consider to be “relevant”? I just block all of them so I might just not be aware of the potential.
Same here. All my frequent messaging friends are on signal now. Oy an infrequent group chat is on messenger.
Yes yes yes. You've nailed it so well that I can hardly believe it. I've worked first-hand with a number of different teams and this is exactly what happens.

Around the time I started becoming aware of this, I once brought up in a meeting that I thought we should support keyboard shortcuts for users who prefer keyboard interaction. You would have thought I had desecrated a religious symbol.

I did figure out a hack though. The next time we met I pretended like the previous conversation had never happened, and instead brought up that for a11y we really needed keyboard shortcuts :-D They had no choice but to agree because prioritizing a11y is another religious tenet. I love a good win-win/two birds/etc.
Depending on the state, though, reporting all injury crashes and any property damage over a certain (fairly low) amount is required by law. Not necessarily to the police, but to the DMV. I assume that statistically that would count in the 'reported to police' column.
I've struggled with sleep for as long as I can remember. I have improved it considerably in the past year (still not perfect). Out of the dozens upon dozens of things I've tried, here's what I think made the most difference, in order of importance.

1. Very consistent bedtime and wake up time. +/- 30 minutes, but ideally less. Obviously if you struggle with sleep you can't count on falling asleep at the same time, but work at it.

2. Expose yourself to bright, outdoor light every morning.

3. Keep the lights as dim as you can tolerate for ~2 hours before bed. Blue light is technically worse than red, but total light is way more important.

4. Anything you do for ~1 hour before bed should be very passive. For me, reading is good, very particular kinds of TV is okay (can't be too stimulating), or something along those lines. Anything that requires decision making, social interaction, things that get you excited and so on are completely out.

5. Breathe through your nose. It can be hard at first but it gets easier over time. If your nose is constricted you can exhale all your air, hold your breath until you feel the urge to breathe, and then draw in a big breath through your nose. It will open up your nasal passages. Do it a couple times if you need to. If you have sleep apnea that you can't fix that way get a CPAP.

6. Meditation. And it's not really that doing 10 minutes of meditation during the day means you'll magically sleep better; it's more that you learn how to divert the noisy thoughts and focus on something very simple to help you relax at night.

Also, sleep is a temporal problem. If you do everything perfectly for one day your probability of sleeping better at night will go up by some relatively small percentage. Which is discouraging. But if you really work at it for a month it will get significantly better. And by the same token, if you're in a good state, one or two days of disrupted sleep don't cause all that much damage.

EDIT: 7. Forgot to mention this one: keep the room very cold. Matthew Walker (the guy who wrote Why We Sleep, which is a great book) recommends 65F.
btw. the funniest thing is. they found a way to sync calendar entries and creating automatic teams meetings, but syncing phone contacts with outlook and teams is garbage.

I mean what the fuck? you sell office 365 and can't have a contact management solution in two of your apps? and why the fuck can't you always correctly show the contact name instead of the phone number especially with call queues?
Highly skilled software engineers get to make their own hours, and don't have to look for a job that has reduced hours (and pay) on paper, since they can just AFK on a Wednesday and no one will say otherwise - because of their tenure and leverage.
I work exclusively in tech circles around L.A. and even being remotely sympathetic to Republican views is anathema. San Francisco is ideologically way more entrenched even though, ironically, their city is a mess, much like Seattle.
This vehicle, and a whole bunch of other early flying platforms, is on display at the Evergreen Air & Space museum in McMinnville OR, about an hour from Portland.

https://447bg.org/helicopters/dh4-helivector/
> When you enter truly new grounds mathematicians don't even agree if the distinctions being made have a meaning, let alone if they are true.

What examples are you thinking of? I can think of only one case where this has been the case (Mochizuki and the ABC Conjecture), but that turned out to have so much fanfare precisely because mathematicians did not agree on what distinctions were being made and this was the only time in living memory that this had occurred (the general consensus is that Mochizuki's proof is simply too obfuscated to make heads or tails of). As such the ABC Conjecture is not considered solved.

However, that is almost always not the case, even on the cutting edge of mathematics and even when making other breakthrough discoveries (e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem).

> E.g. it would be like a psychologist asking how an results of a well proven result would be different if all participants wore red shoes.

And to be clear the major reason why fields like psychology are termed to have a "replication crisis" is because well-known results are being overturned, not just cutting-edge ones.

EDIT: I see now that OP also refers to the ABC Conjecture.
Let's say for the sake of argument that there is too much art out there, that we need less people writing novels and more people fixing potholes and whatnot - fine. How does the author propose deciding _who_ gets to make art? Even if you have an oracle who can assign some sort of quality number to an art project before it's made...how are people supposed to get better at it? It's going to take thousands of cruddy Unity indie projects to make a single Undertale or Stardew Valley. The more crappy art we have, the more good art will come later, as artists either get better or luck upon a good idea combined with the perseverance to make that idea a reality.
Probably people that "want more" than whatever the government stipend buys them. I would probably change nothing about my day to day if I the government started paying my living expenses, except worrying less about what happens if I become unable to work.

UBI probably won't pay enough to have high-speed internet in a two bedroom apartment in a popular city center eating at fancy restaurants three meals a day. It will be the absolute minimum to not die if you can't work. So, people will probably go to work to have a better life than that, but at least have something to fall back on if it doesn't work out. Having a fallback means startups, volunteering, self-care, all sorts of good things. The risk of starving to death living in a cardboard box goes to zero, which prevents a lot of people from doing a lot of things. It's a very real possibility in the current world.

I think people that read this site don't quite understand what "real life" is like in America. There are no paid sick days. If you don't report to your shift, you're fired. If you're lucky, you very carefully fill out the right paperwork and keep your job this time as a courtesy. (There is no federal protection here; for example, FMLA doesn't apply during your first year or so at a job. Some states do a little better, but with remote work, you'll find that most of the jobs are in states without protections! Happened to a friend, though their home state also offers no protections.) While you're sick, you still have to pay for rent and food. UBI is the acceptance that corporate America isn't going to cover routine events like receiving medical treatment. It won't enable people to party 24/7 for 80 years on the taxpayers' dime. It just means you don't starve to death if you get unlucky.

People will continue working to do a little better than merely existing, if they're able.
Before LiveView came around, I didn't realise how much I hated building a SPA for very little dynamic interaction in the UI. One can of course sprinkle jQuery/Web Components and get stuff done, but for a server rendered app, LiveView has just enough magic to make sense of it as a server rendered component.

And the blog posts that the Fly team puts out on Elixir/Phoenix is just awesome. All that remains is just finding a project to try it out!
GitHub introduces sponsor-only repositories
don't follow content that makes you uncomfortable. seems like an easy fix any user can implement on their own.
Aren't all these indie games he's decrying being made on free time? Whether they are working day jobs, in school living on debt, or living with their parents, it's still their free time. Society isn't supporting the vast majority, and the experience they gain is very valuable. Show me a failed indie developer and I see someone who can at least ship.

If it's their free time, why should they spend that contributing towards fixing his bridges or maintaining his roads? Does the author do that? I know I don't, I just pay my taxes on my earnings like everyone else, occasionally volunteer, and do whatever I want in my free time.

I don't see the problem.
Hard with wider friend network, family, even work colleagues
My last job we did CV mostly focused on satellite images. When someone on the team mentioned she had a Tesla the director who set up the team was like "you see the results we get here. Why do you feel safe getting in a self-driving car?"
I was referring to the lane "following" aspect. FSD disengages, but most humans can follow lanes in snow. Of course there are separate concerns.
Another way of saying this is is that time in bed is not equal to time spent sleeping. sleep hygiene is important.

I got a CPAP and it really helped. Another overlooked one is sleeping in a cold room.
> there's no way to mathematically prove any of it works, either

Or there is, but then you're doing statistics not just ML.
Fascinating use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service frequencies. Supposedly "secure and private", with some interesting engineering on the way[0]:

> To further support anonymity and prevent IMSIs from being tied to a user’s identity, a
development priority will be enabling the network to roll IMSIs on a periodic, random basis,
such that even if a hostile actor manages to associate an IMSI to a UE, it will be temporary.
Additionally, we envision the ability for users to be able to request a new IMSI on demand.

[0] Pollen Mobile Whitepaper: https://assets.website-files.com/61bcdf68fb5dc56d13dd117e/61...
At a global scale, everyone-in-the-search-space view, there is significant duplicity. That's life. If you look hard enough, you could find games, songs, books, paintings, even people that are essentially indistinguishable from each other. Yes, there's lot of artwork in the world.

Ask yourself instead if the thing you are making should instead be an improvement to some other thing, or if you want to use your time on earth to make a potentially-similar thing that is focused on your immediate neighborhood.

Nothing wrong with that.