skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we go again. Users desperately need an abstraction layer in Android that can spoof sensor data on a per-application basis. In this case, the spoofing layer could be set up such that whenever Google Maps uses the Android API to ask "Is wifi location sensing turned on" the spoofing layer would say "Yes." When GM asks "What wifi networks are around?" the spoofing layer would say "None." (Even better would be for it to just make up a bunch of random wifi SSIDs to pollute Google's wifi database with noise.)

I have several other apps (Twitter for example) who are able to tell that I have notifications for them turned off, and consequently they bug me to turn on notifications. I need a spoofing layer that tells Twitter "notifications are turned on" even when they're off, because if the app can tell some feature is turned off it will bug me or in some cases fail to work at all. So it's also critically important that there be no way for applications to figure out that the spoofing layer is in place.
Are you not running FSD beta? That's the subject at hand here. And FWIW: my car sees and honors lit school zone signs in my neighborhood.

> How does a self driving car make that determination?

How does a human driver make that determination? They don't. Those signs don't work, they never have and never will, and they certainly won't in the age of autonomy. Frankly if you *did* want to come up with a solution to this problem, I'd bet on it working better as a data management problem (i.e. do exactly what you said and then geocode the results for the car to interpret) than as a signage problem (i.e. trust people to honor rules that they'll never understand).
Because people who buy a place would like to reasonably be able to pay something that takes 30 years or similar to pay with the rent itself.

That is a reason why you invest in the first place.
From your Waymo link:

> All rides in the program will have an autonomous specialist on board for now

Cruise is the first to do driverless (zero humans in the front seat) testing in SF. Waymo have been doing this for a couple years in Phoenix, but have not yet tested driverless in SF as far as I'm aware.
The UK, for a start.
I'm aware. I didn't want to just say the Go version because that might be confused with the Go programming language. By the way, the app you linked is just a wrapper around https://google.com/maps?force=pwa&source=mlapk and going to that link in android chromium and adding to homescreen gets you an identical result.
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Yeah I was thinking more of brainstorming and ideating on how to do it at scale before launching a real co, I agree that you can't have a fly by night operation when you're dealing with something like this (just the regulatory issues alone I'm sure require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get set up correctly).
Why wouldn't it?

We're talking about a mortgage on the rental property itself not on the landlord's personal residence.
FYI, children playing in a fenced part of a school qualifies as children present.
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I understand the cartoony feedback. We're working on improving the quality of the avatars to be more adult / work focused. We do believe in avatars - they are one of the key points in our product - because we believe that being on video all day is soul crushing, but audio-only feels disconnected. The avatar provides privacy and personality at the same time. FWIW, you can turn on video if you want it too, we just default to the avatar.
I think the US has a particular problem here -- lots of bad traffic laws, and lots of bad drivers. IIRC road accident rates are relatively high in the US (some other countries are as high or higher, but not many) (edit to add: I guess the US is only high compared to most of Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ and parts of Asia. Which is a big fraction of the world, but not the whole world by any means.)

I wonder whether other countries might fare better? Although the regulations will be really fragmented, and few countries can come close to the US as a market for new cars.
> They are ugly.

Don't use type hints.

> They require additional knowledge to implement correct type hints.

Don't use type hints.

> It encourages bikeshedding on features useless to the core language. Manpower is wasted on something the majority of Python developers and applications don't really benefit from.

The majority of Python developers and applications benefit from typing improving the quality fo the ecosystem whether or not they directly use type hints.

> It creates the rift in the language.

Not as much as forking the ecosystem between two separate related languages would. (Which is why support for typing was added, mypy was initially a separate language.)

> The editors and IDEs have become too reliant on type hints, so they changed their linting algorithms to basically require typing.

VSCode’s Python support works fine with or without type hints in user code. Obviously, you get more value with them, but that's because there is more information to work with. And even if you don't use any type hints in your code, you get benefits from hints in libraries/stubs for dependencies.

If you have some other tooling that doesn't work for your untyped code, take it up with the tooling vendor.

> It affects the startup performance.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Python -> Python transpiler that removed type specific code, so that dev-time type hinting is zero-cost in production. This is not a non-issue, but it's also not enough to justify dropping typing support from the language.
A Japanese person creating this after inspiration from listening to reggae music is cultural appropriation.
Far far more effective is lying by implication. This happens almost all the time. The article is written in such a way as to imply something is true; for example talking in such a way that said thing is obviously true and everyone knows it, when in fact it isn't true at all. This allows them to make the reader think something is true without lying, and often without even having the reader question it, and it allows the media to not even have to try to supply evidence at all.
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Way, way, way before a laser runs into any sort of hard stop regarding atmospheric effects, it crosses the line into military power and can vaporize anything it wants.

Also your statement seems incorrect to me, there is no hard stop for lasers in regards to atmospheric effects. Air is not some sort of invincible laser armor, there is definitely loss, but air does not magically ramp up it's ability to diffuse or diffract laser light without limit. If you shot a terawatt laser at earth from orbit, it would definitely hit earth and obliterate whatever it hits (it would also do horrible things to the air on it's way down that would be like a long linear nuclear bomb). I'm not suggesting one needs anything close to a terawatt laser to have an effective military power laser, either, just giving an example of why the above statement is incorrect.
$10 for the quarter I think!
Also I've had third-party recruiters ask for an version of my resume in Word format so they can standardize the format.

A. Fuck no. You aren't modifying my resume. I created it to be presented exactly as I have laid it out. I made it to stand out, not be standardized with a hundred other resumes

B. I don't use Microsoft stuff, like many other engineers

Usually if a third-party recruiter says Company XYZ is looking for people and I'm actually interested in that company, I'll just go shoot an e-mail to that company directly with my resume and not respond to the recruiter. I highly encourage everyone to do the same.
I’m wondering if growth is just synthetic at this point. They can just add more ads regardless of user growth.

There has been a noticeable increase in ads across all their products.
I think they're just enumerating the entire address space, rather than buying your phone number from somewhere. But I guess I have no evidence to prove this; I have given my phone number to companies, and I get a ton of spam calls.
Increased liquidity. Also option trading is usually in 100 share units, meaning retail investors can now afford more options (e.g. $15,000 vs $300,000 a unit).
Haaretz isn't a *reputable* Israeli newspaper.

The children of Gaza die because Hamas wants that to happen. And look at the demographics of those "children"--most are 16 and 17. And the only one starving children of Gaza is Hamas.
> Why do we have a machine that shreds any dollars?

Fuck knows. No legit reason that I can see; because cryptards are idiots, is the only thing that comes to mind.

> Who anywhere is interested in a dollar shredding feature?

Nobody with the least bit of sense. (But, see above...) That's why he was complaining about it.
Great job regurgitating that line
another example: Ford and GM accountants making engineering decisions in the 70s and 80s. Poor quality and deaths were the result.
I notice that they are refereed to as "driverless" rather than "self-driving".

Are these actually self-driving or are they remote controlled by a person?
Currently Tesla is charging $12,000 for access to their self-driving package. Even if we assume that the price would increase to $19,500 if they included a lidar (I'm skeptical), it would be the difference between paying $12,000 for a feature that doesn't work versus $19,500 for a feature that might work. This is a luxury option no matter which way you swing it.
Don't forget Moby's ‘dancehall’ remix of Prodigy's ‘Everybody In The Place’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHc7rSv03Q

I bet that this is where many thirty-something people heard it for the first time.
Hey, how about some sort of physical device that enables you to scroll the page without having any other effect? Revolutionary! Might make it possible to wrest back some control over your attention from the digital mousetrap in your pants pocket.
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people are actually pretty good at driving in blizzards in locales where they happen often. snow tires (and possibly chains), good clearance, and great caution can get you a long way.

obviously you try to avoid driving in these conditions when possible, but sometimes a moderate storm is much more intense than forecast and you get caught out. pulling off to the side of a snowy mountain pass doesn't guarantee your survival either.
No, regulators (bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry and other special interests) put the regulations into place.
Good question. There are tools and procedures that can be used to maintain anonymity within the blockchain. For instance, tornado cash is a popular dapp used to break the on-chain link between source and destination addresses of a transaction, so you could fund a spending address and make payments with it. The companies receiving money (stablecoins) would maintain off-chain data of your purchase (e.g. product, quantity, your contact info and delivery address) not available publicly.
> A device like this could have alerted someone at the facility that he had fallen, this is a very big deal and it's going to save lives.

Nope. It will never get deployed.

The problem is that when it fails, who is liable?

I've said it over and over, but the revolution in biomedical will happen when someone solves the problem of indemnity and not before.
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They've destroyed their own credibility long ago.
I guess we are calling paths to executables "bash code" now.
I've encountered this going back to the beginning of my career with basic software engineering terminology. Different experts have different definitions of terms like "unit test" or "user story," and they think the differences are important, for good reasons, so they promote their own definitions. Some software engineer learns one expert's definitions and they become impossible to talk to because they keep correcting you about what words mean. They don't understand that there are differing expert opinions, and that the experts who promote the definitions they use are reasonable people who converse and debate with other experts who use different definitions. But when I say "in the past I've found it useful to think about it this way" they just say "but that's not a unit test" or "that's not a user story" and I say "I think in these circumstances this is the kind of user story that serves us best to succeed on this project, for these reasons" and they just say "but that's not a user story because a user story has to..." and the conversation goes nowhere.

I learned way too late in my career that just because your company's self-appointed authority on some software engineering concept makes it sound pedantic and useless doesn't mean it is. Chase it down to the source, and you'll likely find a thoughtful and nuanced take on it.
He actually sold a boatload of TSLA last year [1]. But yes, his wealth is not really expressible in USD.

If you tried to acquire a similar stake in TSLA, the price would shoot up and it would cost you more. If he tried to sell all his shares, it would plummet and he’d get less out.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-tesla-share-selling-...
Sure, it's misleading - but it is technically the same thing.

The car still needed to be fixed. The car was faulty.
Google is a large monopoly that subsidizes “free” products to burn a thousand mile clearing around their money engine.

If Google maps was not free, there would be more of a market for competing mapping products.

A mapping product has a natural intersection with advertisements - a non-negligible number of mapped trips are commercial in nature, and can thus catch consumers right before the moment of purchase. This might prove fertile ground for a new competitor.

So Google gives maps away, and anyone who wants to compete has to compete with free, and starts with a tremendous data disadvantage.

Through this lens, requiring you to disclose more data makes sense. They strengthen their data moat around the free product, which in turn protects their dominant position in ads.

I would like to see regulators crack down on this kind of anti-competitive behavior.
do Cruise and Waymo do rolling stops?
I couldn't disagree more. The rule of sarcasm on the internet is the same as every other rule where everyone is anonymous. Give people the benefit of the doubt.

Moreover, the claim that sarcasm can't be detected on the internet is extremely dubious. It's really not that hard. The person puts extra effort into showing how the thing that they are pretending to believe is an absurd thing to believe. This is not culture or age dependent.

"It's awful how those people are doing all that good stuff" is a statement that requires you to know zero context. An alien can detect that this sentence is absurd. Moreover, if someone actually believes something absurd, and presents it this way, it doesn't matter if it's sarcasm or not, since they aren't convincing anyone.
Likely NOT the landlord's personal domicile's mortgage, but the mortgage on the rental property itself. Landlords with mortgages on their rental property can go upside down on their notes too.
That won't ever happen. If it did, it would disproportionately affect people of color, be declared a racist "feature," and be banned.
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When you're driving significantly below the speed limit (or more accurately, below the average speed of the other drivers), it becomes impossible to maintain proper dostance behind you. Add to that the fact that people randomly drive in the left/middle lanes regardless of actually passing anyone on their right and you're forcing people to brake, make dangerous merges, etc.

I know nothing about your driving, but I find (anecdotally) that drivers who drive significantly slower than traffic are also ones who never look in their rear view mirrors.
"Mysterious" or non-existent?

Life is an infection. It's billions (quadrillions??) of times more likely that planet-like objects are non-infected rather than infected.
While socially tradition and memories clearly play a role, our food taste changes constantly. I grew a taste for fish, vegetables and whiskey - all things that I found disgusting 5 years ago.
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Judge it, in stead, by the fact that it makes it possible to set up automatic money shredders.
How Lyft predicts a rider’s destination with attention model
Okay, how about globally? This argument on it's face is useless. Detergent comes in a variety of forms, both liquid and solid.
It isn't mental gymnastics, the media has two very good and intentional reasons for doing this. Number one is to avoid being sued while still being able to get away with misleading their audience. Number two is that it gives the zealots following their cause to clear their conscience by saying "see this article was factually correct" when, on the rare occasion, someone bothers to call them out on the lie.
I'm not aware of any time when that was a mainstream belief, but there might be a gap in my history-of-science knowledge.

In any case, while we're currently in an "interglacial" period with respect to the Pleistocene glacial cycles, we're actually still in an "icehouse" period by the big-picture definition, since there are continental icesheets on Greenland and Antarctica. By contrast, a lot of the rest of the Phanerozoic has been characterized by "hothouse" climates, where there are no major continental icesheets anywhere on Earth.

It's possible that anthropogenic CO2 emissions will prevent us from going back into a colder "glacial" period when we otherwise next would have ~80 kyr from now, but geologic time is long and there is a lot of it still in front of us.
But AI and ML isn't as good as a human brain or maybe any brain. I imagine the gap has to be closed with better and multiple sensors or make fundamental leaps in computing technology.
LOL! I enjoyed that.
Very good story, thanks for sharing. There's dissonance in every culture and we must take a good look at things like this, if we want to understand our human nature.
>"Only if Isreal reacts by declaring the peace deal with one group dead because another group fired rockets. It takes two to tango, as they say."

This is problematic for a number of reasons. First, it could be that the Palestinian government was actually responsible for shooting off the rockets, but were scapegoating someone else for political reasons (the internal and external messaging are very different things, and it's hard to figure out the truth). Second, 'authority' is not unified in Palestine, and a government may be composed of groups which only agree on some policies, and have members have differing objectives and strategies.

Overall, if the Palestinians fail to stop rocket and mortar attacks, the only logical response for Israel is to blame their government. If Canadians were attacking the USA repeatedly and it seemed likely that the attacks were being organized by a political party which was a member of the governing coalition, I think the USA would have no option but to blame the government.
Thanks. I will look at this.
I’m no Tesla fan but 2 mph rolling stops at clear intersections hardly seem like a big deal.
Lane specific driving directions?

How many Wifi access points and Bluetooth beacons is Google expecting to find on the highway while moving at 70mph?
Can you explain why operating income is better and why you are bringing up walmart?
Additionally, if a neighbor is having an emergency they (emergency services) might call you to see if you are home and able to help.
Please provide some evidence, other than your intuition, that the patent system is necessary and useful, over no patent system.
It's still a "fix".
Anecdotally as a bicyclist it was infinitely easier to predict rolling stop drivers than those who stop. People stopped are rarely intelligent enough to follow the order of who's next, and constantly would randomly choose when to start up (sometimes just in time to almost hit me). the one rolling through I already know is going and I know the time is now that they're going, so little risk of accident. Biking isn't a game of who wants to kill you (all drivers) but rather _when_ they're going to attempt it.