skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans don't actually have any direct depth sensing either. I don't think your ears count because most objects you need to detect while driving aren't really emitting anything your ears can pick up...

So in theory if Tesla had cameras instead of eyes, and those cameras were positioned were the driver's eyes would be positioned, and its computer systems were a human brain, and those cameras has the dynamic range, resolution, auto-focus abilities of the human eyes (or better), then the car could drive just like a human. The problem isn't really that humans have direct depth sensing and the car doesn't, the problem is the vision system of the car is inferior in many ways to the human's vision system, and the brain of the car is far inferior to the human brain.

Better sensing can (maybe) make up for that. If a car can sense all objects on the scene that it may collide with accuracy and far enough in advance then avoiding accidents becomes collision avoidance rather than general intelligence. In ambiguous situations just don't crash into anything and don't go too close to other moving objects. The car might not obey traffic rules perfectly but it probably wouldn't crash ;) If the car occasionally goes through a red light, or doesn't stop in a stop sign, but does so safely (for itself and the surrounding traffic) then it's not a big deal. If the car relies on recognizing a stop sign even if it's behind a tree or partially obscured and failure to recognize the sign leads to a side collision with other traffic or running over pedestrians that's a little bit of a bigger deal.
Its the same way that everything on TV turns into crap. It is all about maximizing profits while minimizing effort and focusing on the least common denominator of customers/viewers/users, and actually shrinking the userbase to maximize user profitability. So the result is the shit that half the people out there will just put up with.
I don't know the answers. They're definitely worth figuring out, but the legal questions do not take away from the sheer gall to dream and achieve. Figuring out liability is in the domain of law, which is easy compared to building such engineering marvels. I am sure we can figure it out. Self driving car companies take safety VERY VERY seriously not just for potential legal consequences but because a single incident would make consumers lose trust, which is a death knell for such companies.

For folks who think about Cruise's achievement cynically (not directed at the commenter), please consider what your stance would have been back in the day in the following situations:
1) Cars being introduced to challenge horse carts in the late 1800s and early 1900s
2) Countries like India spending on a Space program while having a considerable population below poverty line, rise of SpaceX
3) The rise of the internet in the 90s with its trivial applications like radio, silly websites etc

If your answer is - oh of course I would cheer each of these, but view self driving cars cynically, good for you.
I don’t think the post you linked to says that. Unless the open collective is a Facebook thing?
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I think people focus on the "turing complete" part of type checking a bit too much - what's more compelling (and a real design decision) is that when designing a type system you need to choose if the type checking algorithm is decidable. That's not usually an accident, since when implementing the system you need to write the type checker, and you'll see quite plainly if it has an infinite loop case.
my transactional emails aren't rendering correctly in Gmail on iOS. there's no stylesheet, no floats, no grids. just some vanilla ass 1999 html and inline styles and they are still fucking it up with their embedded WebView
it looks like their previous satellites (v1.0) were 18Gbps. I haven't found anything for v1.5 which is currently deployed, or v2.0 which theoretically are starting to launch this year.
it’s likely this was actually infrared imaging capabilities

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/21259723/oneplus-8-pro-x-...
I think someday and because the ultrarich wants to live forever and trying to do it medically, but it can't be done. Just can't. However, there is one way....; matrix.

I truly believe we will be able to take a snapshot of every single braincell activities and replicate them in a computer. Then place you in a virtual world of your choice to live however long your funds allow you to. One random day as you agree to this, when you goto sleep, you'll be moved over to the digital world and you wake there.

So the long tail of any long living cloud computing services like AWS will one day host your brain at a monthly fee. That monthly fee will entitle you to a world and a life of your choice.

I cannot see this NOT happening. We will soon discover that trying to stretch out human lives is all but impossible, because even if you could stretch another 50yrs or even 100. What aliments awaits you on a daily basis? Have you seen a tortoise at 200yrs old?

But digitally replicated, you would be free of ALL things that holds you back both societally and humanly.

Then when your funds runs out,... lights go out just like that. No pain, suffering and to make sure you can't really calculate your "final" days. Your days in a virtual world would be a repeat of one of your favorite days but you won't know that it was. The beauty of that is you get to live your fav day over and over and over...
GMail is the single (and last) Google product I personally use, and every time they've changed the interface, I had to manually disable all chat/meet integrations, hide all the useless sidebars and stuff, etc., just to be able to focus on my email...

Now that seems impossible... They force-feed me integrations I don't need or use...

Well, good thing I've started migrating to Thunderbird some time ago... I still need to use the GMail interface for mailing lists -- for some reason Thunderbird in 2022 still doesn't properly understand the concept of emails with multiple labels and threads across labels...

Hopefully, at least GMail has solved their editor in this new version? Because even if I use plain-text in GMail, copy-paste never seems to work right, and just editing text seems to make the cursor jump randomly within the textbox... (I've already started editing the email body in a plain-text editor, and then just copy-paste it at the end in GMail...)

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BTW, yes, I am a paying customer, so I have the right to complain, but unfortunately there isn't an official "complaints box". Even if I weren't a paying customer, I would still have the right to complain, because they get their share by harvesting my emails...
Java/JVM languages, C#/CLR languages, Python and Ruby (minus real threads, but compare to Racket with not-the-best real threading story), NodeJS (minus the "large" standard library, but compare to Scheme with a small standard library), can probably include Go
- The ability of Google Workspace organizations to turn off “Web & App Activity” for all users will be removed.

Why is this?
The company should have control over how employees use the company assets.
Ruby covers everything but the concurrency story, I believe.
I treat any and all Magic Leap announcements with a pinch of salt these days. I'm old enough to remember their then stealth mode claims to have invented a device that would revolutionize society, put a stop to world hunger, prevent war, abolish capitalism, etc. etc.
Why would it be "bash possibly with some hcl/cf/ansible mixed in"? There's provisioning to be done using terraform or pxe installer, packages to be installed, config files to be copied, unit files to be edited, services to be started. That's 100% configuration management, no need for bash, python or go.

Although you will get with any solution at a point where text configuration is too large and you get into templating and then coding, and you will get there with K8s as well - see pulumi, dhall, etc

There's people who can handle complexity with an elegant solutions and people who can't and search for silver bullets like K8s.
A cryptopunk would say just the opposite: that privacy is a technical problem that, properly solved, alleviates us of political concerns.

Both views seem to miss the mark. The crypto folks see mathematical certitude while ignoring the dynamics of the social/legal context in which it must operate. By contrast, those who argue that "artifacts don't have politics" would absolve technologists of an ethical duty to consider how their products impact society.

In short, privacy required both technical and legal protections as well as a society that demands it as a fundamental human right
No doubt, but that was what the British did. I made only a statement of fact.

Also, as you can see from the other replies, there were other considerations at the time. Compensation to the slave owners is morally repugnant, and yet the alternative might have also had morally repugnant consequences. In any case, that is what they did.
The kind of person who can raise $3.5 billion without a working prototype, let alone any products or revenue

This iteration of IT bubble is particularly into charismatic founders.
> [feature] only available in Firefox

Not exactly.

You can achieve pretty much the same result for the use cases described in the blog post today with the SPN (https://safing.io/spn/) - using any browser:

The SPN automatically routes every connection individually over multiple hops through the onion-encrypting network, resulting in many exit servers being used simultaneously.

Disclaimer: I’m Co-Founder/CTO of Safing, the company behind the SPN. You can ask me questions here - I have notifications enabled.
Lots of people had their first, and possibly only, programming exposure to Lisp as the scripting system for something else (i.e. Emacs, AutoCAD etc.) I'd go so far as to speculate that orders of magnitude more people learned it that way than have ever learned Lisp for the sake of learning Lisp.
> Great question. The premise here is that search is an integral part of the product experience (...)

I remember, as a youngster, a Google advertisement that was in the form of a math quizz. One of the questions was about how many colors are needed to paint the sides of an icosahedron. The next question was: "which colors would you choose? Why?" I was utterly fascinated by the, so far unknown, company that wrote this funny ad that appealed so personally to me!

Twenty years later, the mouth of Google uses wooden language with terms like "product experience". This is not only useless, but also sad and stupid. Damn, Google, what the hell happened to you? Your ass used to be beautiful!
It's been pretty apparent for me that their who focus changed a couple of years ago from "here's some stuff you might enjoy watching" to "here's the stuff we want you to watch" or much like Google ads, "here's something you've already watched, watch it again"

I'm almost at the point of cancelling my Netflix subscription simply because it's so much effort to find something of interest now.
If you can see that’s the case, what are you even doing in the left lane? Sounds like you should just get in line in the middle with everyone else.

> You will just have to put your signal on and take a spot, even if it puts you much too close to the guy in front

It’s physically impossible to be forced to be too close to the car in front. Keep a safe distance, slowing down slightly if you need to.
Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record number
You know, like "cleam the bathroon"
Very cool. Reminds me of the mechanical Easter clock in Strasbourg cathedral.
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You have some valid critiques about the post, but the big point that you didn't answer in this is the idea that tether is more or less "unbacked" and with significantly less regulation that doesn't have even the (often critiqued) limits set forward in Basel II/III. USD is backed by the full weight of the US government, Tether is backed by a bank account with unknown things in it.

The fact that the market isn't totally efficient doing USD/BTC transactions directly and the fact that Tether is clearly far more risky than USD kinda indicates something is up. Who knows, they could be playing it safe and be well capitalized, but if they're not, it becomes a very similar situation to when Soros made a mint "breaking" the Pound.
>the credit for creating two wildly successful companies

From reading comments in other similar threads I seen the argument that Elon did not created Tesla, so maybe would be more honest to rephrase your "created" wording, I am wondering how many people know that Elon did not created Tesla so he is assigned the role just because of his big social media presence.
As a radar guy I'd love to hear more about this. Stunned that's not a solved problem.

To be clear you probably wouldn't get a 3D view of the whole room, just a narrow window like a conventional stud finder.
Here is one way to fix it (but it will push you over 50 lines!)

remaining="" output=""
for ((i = 0; i < ${#actual}; i++)); do
if [[ "${actual:$i:1}" != "${guess:$i:1}" ]]; then
remaining+=${actual:$i:1}
fi
done
for ((i = 0; i < ${#actual}; i++)); do
if [[ "${actual:$i:1}" != "${guess:$i:1}" ]]; then
if [[ "$remaining" == *"${guess:$i:1}"* ]]; then
output+="\033[30;103m ${guess:$i:1} \033[0m"
remaining=${remaining/"${guess:$i:1}"/}
else
output+="\033[30;107m ${guess:$i:1} \033[0m"
fi
else
output+="\033[30;102m ${guess:$i:1} \033[0m"
fi
done
printf "$output\n"

Explanation:

The variable `remaining` tracks the letters of `actual` that can contribute toward yellows.
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Technically that is true. Economically, that means that if a nuclear power plant runs for significant amount of time at 50%, the price of electricity will almost double.
And here’s a quick one-liner to solve Wordle puzzles:

https://twitter.com/AlexWeichart/status/1488223629867462664
The two key take always here are:

* lots of clients (their needs might differ considerably from each other. So it’s not unreasonable to assume an FTE per client or two)

* is there a dedicated design, et al team or are you, the developer, expected to wear multiple hats. Like CMS patch management, managing inventory updates, design / formatting the image assets etc.

Even CMSs like Magento can be a multi-person exercise to put live. And while there is down time between updates to the CMS (whether that is backend or frontend changes), that downtime could easily be absorbed by other clients in a multi-client eCommerce web shop.

So having 10 engineers doesn’t sound unreasonable but if you’re worried you should definitely ask what an average day is like in that role.
We know that Apple does not expose a synchronization primitive needed for full Vulkan support. Apple could add such support to Metal any time they came to care enough. Anyway nobody else can.
The difference is the number of transmitters / receivers. TSA uses an array of them (from top to bottom) with narrow beams and they also rotate them and ask you to not move, so that effectively their number is considerably higher (ten of thousands), when reconstructing the image. Additionally, they use a higher frequency (160-400GHz), which additionally helps with resolution. See [1] and [2].

If we limit the number of transmitters / receivers to 3/4, the image reconstruction becomes impossible, similar how you would not really make a real photo from a few color sensors stationary looking at a scene, while a linear array of them that moves around an object would make a perfect scanner. It's a non-ideal analogy, but the best I can offer.

1. http://mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com/p/tsa-frequency-updates.html

2. https://www.3dbodyscanning.org/cap/papers/2017/17263mcmakin....
> 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.

What "backend spaghetti" ?
What endless backdoors and security issues?
https://www.opencve.io/cve?vendor=wordpress&cvss=critical&se...
Excuse my ignorance, but what does this particular malware do? Control computer? See what the were typing?
I called about a dozen dealers to find an unclaimed one that was already enroute to the dealer. From what I understand you do not go onto “Toyota’s” list you go onto the dealers list, and they will not send you elsewhere, thou a really good/honest dealer can query what dealers are getting what. Took me about a week to find one, and another week to pickup my Tacoma, however I did have to spend a few hours each way on a ferry. I’ve been told “if you don’t have a vin you don’t have a date” but not sure how true that is.
Once a single bad egg gets into upper management, the core of the company slowly becomes poisoned by similar folk who they employ and rot the company from the inside out.

Psychopaths (shown here)[1] show up where ever there is money and power, make life shit for all the better / empathetic staff, who end up leaving, gut the place and move onto the next company once it's trashed.

[1] https://pics.me.me/ha-ha-business-pig-roll-com-guys-i-havent...
Not always but definitely here. I'm sure they know exactly what they are doing... it's like Microsoft changing the default search engine to Bing with their updates.
One is backed by the US government, but isn't able to be used on chain.
One is backed by a bank account, and is able to be used on chain.

Assuming the organization behind it appears to be good for the 1/1 USD/USDC exchange at all times that system works, but stuff gets weird if that peg ever moves.
Cruise in particular has been around in San Francisco for a while. https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/09/cruise-begins-driverless-t...

> The California DMV, the agency that regulates autonomous vehicle testing in the state, issued Cruise a permit in October that allows the company to test five autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel on specified streets within San Francisco. Cruise has had a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers behind the wheel since 2015.

I saw their cars a lot while I lived in San Francisco. But back then they had safety drivers and such.

Information about the permit can be found here https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
This is illegal, Google will pay another millions of euro of fines in EU. You cannot just work around privacy settings by renaming the options.

The sad thing is that they probably already included the fines in the budget cause the benefits are bigger :(
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Do we forget that AirPods solved a real pain? No more tangled wires, and they were the first in-ears I actually found comfortable.
> The problem with such an ABI is getting people to use it, there's no single entity with enough power to enforce it.

There is on Apple (XPC), Microsoft (COM/UWP) and Google (JNI, Android IPC, Fuchsia IDL), IBM (TIMI / Language Environments).

The problem are UNIX FOSS clones that lack such overlords.
I know they went up a little over the last couple years, but they (at least tacomas) hold their price really well, and they are generally solid and will last. Driven Toyotas all my life and 100% recommend them. My only advice is to just call all your local dealers and find one with a vehicle already on its way to claim
Using CRDTs requires that you define all the relevant operations as monoids. A lot of work has to go into the choices of monoids to yield usable results. Monoids work fantastically well for things like upvotes on videos or whatever (so you'll notice that's always the first example given), but they don't really work for things like primary / unique keys, yet primary/unique keys are a critical requirement of most RDBMSes and schemas. Ergo, CRDTs don't work that well for relational databases. The situation is very different for collaborative text editing as there's no primary keys nor schema there, and humans are able to detect and correct nonsensical results.

Mind you, I want CRDTs to work for RDBMSes -- the promise of CRDTs is fantastic. But do they? I suspect they do not.
Sure they do. Even if you only count optical satellites, each sensor produces an image of about 40.000 x 40.000 pixels every few seconds. There are hundreds of satellites doing that and sending the images to earth. All of these data is archived indefinitely and widely accessible.

> How to get the data from its source into your number crunchers?

You do not simply "get" this data. It's simply too large, conceptually infinite. You query it for the parts that you are interested in, and then you extract only those parts.

As an example of free access, see the access hub for the Copernicus program: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/ There is an interface for downloading particular images, and an api to query the archive of images with space/time constraints to obtain a manageable list of URLs to download. You have sentinel-2 for optical images, sentinel-1 for radar images, and sentinel-5p for hyperspectral.

If you want higher resolution images, they are also publicly accessible, but typically not free. There's plenty of commercial satellite imaging providers nowadays, and lots of companies work by extracting information from this huge corpus of data.
Andrew Tarantola does not seem very informed when he calls a book from the 1550s/1570s "medieval."
I do a lot of WordPress hosting. I more or less agree with you: I really don't think most orgs are served by having custom theming.

I've done several websites at the low 6 figure range.

I've seen a lot of work go into fine details. To me that's fair: good design is just a lot of tiny tweaks iterating toward something simple, and that's what the designer I work with does well. If that makes the people we're working for feel good, then yay.

If it helps, most of that cost actually goes into data modeling, migrating/ cleaning the data, training users on the admin system, or connecting the site to an ERP and writing functionality to render that data. Or requirements gathering, process documentation, publication strategies, or whatever.

Another side is that most of the off-the-shelf stuff I see won't pass our a11y audit. Which is important to me not just from an ass-covering direction but because I really think that blind folks ought to be able to use the web.

As to the author's point, just locking down what users can do should be good enough. I've been crapping out WP sites in an hour for my musician friends, and my hope is that full site editing gets good enough that I don't need a theme, just a good plugin.

But yeah, in general you're right. I tell folks that they should concentrate on finding some good content, and then the rest of the crap doesn't matter.
> There should be a way to provide personal info in order to recover an account when one's phone gets stolen.

This causes a security weakness by itself and can end up defeating the 2FA.

You need to use a MFA app that has a backup/export feature.

I've seen one that can export the QR codes to a HTML file then you can print the HTML file and you get a nice paper backup of all the codes.
Seems to me that it’s a fraction of the goods, but makes for a good story.
No All-Knowing Oracles
Yes I am aware tether is not backed by nearly as much liquid capital as it claims. Neither are any traditional banks. Any flaws with tether are present in the traditional banking system. Tether at least solves a few of its flaws however.

I am by no means a fan of tether or any other stable coins, but they are just as legitimate as our current banking system.