skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, can you please not post like this to HN? This is way, way beyond what's allowed here, no matter how bad someone's comment is or you feel it is.

Also, your account unfortunately has a history of posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments. We ban accounts that do that—we have to, because they destroy the curious conversation that HN is supposed to be for. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
There is a labor shortage. Shifting labor from essentially low productivity things like overseeing gas stations to other industries is better for the economy.
"idempotent"
The thing about meetings is that it's increasingly rare to have all parties in one physical location. Maybe for very small software shops, but even then, that's going to hurt the business in the long run in terms of recruiting top talent. Any company that expects all of their IT staff to be local is foolish. Even Apple, notorious for not allowing remote work is hedging. It's simply a fact of 21st Century IT employment now. Whether it's WFH or remote offices, you'll have people spread out across different regions, and you'll need to accommodate this in your meetings.

I have a friend who's entire company is remote. Employees in the multiple states, as well as multiple overseas companies. Extremely successful, top tier company in his field. This is the model for most tech companies for the rest of this century.
Yeah but then you aren’t talking about the halting problem any more, that’s a completely different thing.
Yeah the speedrun style is usually still in one locale.
Pretend it's not for a moment and make your argument?
When .Net just started, they would deserialzie datetime to... a string which looked something like `DateTime\(2007-12-10\)`.

10-15 years later I'm still baffled by that early decision (and glad it's been fixed since then)
Some interfaces will sort 10.mp3 so it's directly under 1.mp3, instead of under 9.mp3. This could be a totally sensible hack to evade that problem.
has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry

I can't say for taxis, but according to the newspapers, Texas has been running automated tractor trailers between Dallas and Houston (about 230 miles) for at least a year, and at least one other state has been doing it for at least two years. (Possibly Nevada, between Vegas and either Reno or Phoenix. But my memory is fuzzy on that, and I have zero confidence in Google.)

Texas has also been thinking about building special lanes or highways just for automated tractor trailers.
I think it’s “public” in air quotes - technically non-Cruise employees have taken rides, but it doesn’t seem like they’re pulling people organically from the waitlist. It’s mostly local influencers or Cruise investors in the few videos I’ve seen that aren’t Cruise employees.
in which case, s/neovim/doom/g and i'm sure you've heard this screed before...
You missed the 'nearly indentured servitude of the larger portion of the crew'.

https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2016/06/articles/crew-member-r...
> There is an American view of vacations as speedruns...

Not surprising, given there's no legal requirement companies give any paid vacation time at all, and most only give a couple of weeks.
The catch is how contiguous that 50% is: humans are terribly at switching contexts so it'd probably be okay if your car could be fine on, say, a long interstate trip but force you to handle the cities but it'd be a different story if you're zoning out on the highway but every couple miles there's some situation (road work, weather, other drivers, etc.) which it can't handle safely but you're distractedly looking up from Netflix.
Do we actually know if it has any effect at all?

Locking your door looks more like an historical artifact from the time the police wasn't ready available for policing the neighborhood of normal people.
In 2019, SF Gate found a household income of around 200k a year was still “middle class” (https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/amp/SF-househ...). I’d wager that’s a fair bit higher now.

Even among those making over 200k, there’s a qualitative difference between needing to work and being able to live off passive income. To say someone making 500k a year has more in common with someone who has immense generational wealth just misses the point. The political incentives are different.

I’m obviously aware that all shareholders have a voting stake - but most of their stakes are so small as to be negligible.
I've been keeping an eye, albeit not close, on this, and have mixed feelings erring happy that it's slowly trudging forward. I've had friends with PTSD for whom ketamine, as the most contemporary similar treatment that comes to mind, did wonders-- and others for whom it became a vice. In my experience PTSD tends to respond very well to that kind of 'break through' treatment; some people just need something to kick down their mental walls hard enough that they can start building roads out (ie. different behaviors, which later only need to be reinforced, not initiated). PTSD is deeply paralyzing.

I always thought a nontrivial % of HN users were on medications like adderall. The ambiguities-- the great potential good, likewise the great potential evil, and weighing them coldly-- of using a medication that can be therapeutically used or abused are pretty familiar to everyone I've known on any scheduled medication. Of course, the 'therapy session' nature of therapeutic MDMA and ketamine complicates that; you have to trust the therapist pretty much completely, and sadly any situation of total surrender is very easy to abuse, no matter how much it might have helped.
Maybe self driving cars will be so amazing in cities which don't snow that everyone will leave Boston. And then they will be 100% of the way there.
What's your definition of "distributed system" then?

Two flipflops interconnected on one wafer. Two flipflops inteconnected on one PCB. Two flipflops interconnected with a cable between two PCBs. These are all "distributed". They're all subject e.g. to the CAP theorem. Sure, the probability of one flipflop failing on the same wafer is quite small. The probability of one flipflop failing on one PCB is slightly larger. But fundamentally all these systems are the same. If you have two computers on a network you can make the probability of failure (e.g. of the network) pretty small.
We'll probably have a lot more partially automated vehicles in 20yr.

Look at advanced ports and inter-modal yards. That sort of human to vehicle ratio will probably move up the spectrum of complexity in which it can be deployed and down the spectrum of cost.
A vast majority of them just have little to no vacation time, just like the older generations.

This is an odd thread.
I disagree with this. There’s a labor shortage in just about every industry right now, we aren’t in a high unemployment world by any stretch. UBI is not needed when wages are high and unemployment is low.
I suppose the best practice solution to this is to try to keep company Google Play accounts as "sterile" as possible?

Give access to as few employees as possible, and have all access to Google Play go through a designated, trusted release manager or "play account manager"? And don't log in to Google Play from random browsers and IP addresses which could create an association with other Google accounts?
Who can not help you. Appstore policies are rife with catch-22, personally I have never had problems with Google but Apple has been a pain every time. I am unable to update a ten year old app because Apple think they know the 10k daily users better.
If Facebook wants to say that, they should say it themselves, not hide behind a fake grassroots campaign. That is “unhealthy.”
The 300+ year-old quote is "A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"

Too often, we cut the first part off, and it sounds horrible!

The whole quote is highly insightful
And it's a good thing to all these rich people that hung out with Epstein have come to justice.
Did not tbh. We have an ops department that do not complain about menial tasks.

But of course IaC is the way we must follow.
I would like for Google to have a process whereby this type of story is not plausible. They are too big to not do business with.
That worked for 2 weeks... Then they didn't want to pay any more for me waiting. So really not worth it
This is a very nice introduction to how sleep works on a low-enough level to be interesting/new information, covering stages of sleep and the processes/physiology involved. Kudos to the NIH for making it extremely readable yet useful.
I guess there's a mismatch in some people's understanding of what a driverless car should be.

It sounds like you think "a vehicle that works in a limited set of circumstances" qualifies as a car. As a mode of transport in some areas, I get why that would seem useful. Busses, trams and trains work like that. And subways! I use all those: they're great.

I imagine the GP thinks of cars as "can go almost anywhere with limited immediate infrastructure, even some way off-road". That's how I think of them. I can imagine "driverless cars that operate like 1-5 person taxis in urban areas that have specialised roadways" could show up. But to me, these are not "cars". They don't get me to a party in the woods; they don't let me park up illegally when I need to sleep; they probably don't let me rush an injured person or someone giving birth to prepared to deal with the legal consequences later.. etc.

These things will not be "cars"; they'll be non-mass-public-transit.
Uranium is a finite resource, and nuclear energy does leave a very long term waste problem. Using that for leisure cruises seems very wasteful and a bad idea.

Sails, solar, and renewable hydrogen is much more appetizing.
That's a comforting narrative, that good parents couldn't end up with terribly behaving and out of control children. I think that good parenting probably does greatly reduce the chance, but it would be surprising if it totally eliminated the possibility.
There is a labor shortage. Shifting labor from essentially low productivity things like overseeing gas stations to other industries is better for the economy.

Only if you believe that every person is equally able and qualified to perform every other job that exists in an economy.

People aren't cogs, and they're not universally interchangeable, no matter what the economic textbooks would like people on the internet to believe.
> This meant Lucene was less concerned with things like MVCC, ACID, and 3-NF, and was instead concerned with much more practical concerns, like how to build a fast and humane interface for unstructured data.

I absolutely hate this attitude. Different use cases have different requirements. The author here appears to be dismissing any use case different than their own as not practical.
I really can’t see how any of those would apply to Google shutting down an account.
We Chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale's API
So at the end, it all comes down to "Fail fast" ?
Yes, they do have customer service and I did get on the phone with someone. I'm not sure if this is universal, or because I had a paid tier Google account.

That said, the rep failed to provide any definitive guidance on issue or resolution.
Not a math guy, but I like working with computer graphics. Is there some theory in which the tangent curve has its +/- infinities connected? I like to imagine these are connected in 3D as a circle or spiral, and what we see in a 2D graph is the projection that makes the curve look broken.
Not affiliated, but-

Cheapest 15 day Cruise on Norwegian is $649. Just line those up back to back. They even have an offer for 70% off for your second guest, which makes it ~$900 for 2 people.

https://www.ncl.com/vacations?duration=15+&sort=price_low_hi...
Not April 1st yet...
> With fully driverless operation starting in SF (and with several years in Phoenix)

As I understand it, they will only operate within a "grid". In other words, its use case will be limited to essentially a customized route city bus.

> widely rolled out within ten years seems very plausible.

Define "widely". We are decades away from a driverless car driving in snow.
I never noticed math.isclose() and have often done the naive a - b < eps

There is also (for rolling your own fn)

import sys
sys.float_info.epsilon

although I can't immediately think of an advantage over the module.
> I just want to be utterly hedonistic for a week or so and then get back to my real life.

Wouldn't a resort hotel do just as well for that?
Global Electricity Review 2022
I remember Bill Gates saying a 99% tax is excessive. and I'm like I totally agree why waste your time for a measly $1B.
500k fully driverless miles in Arizona and this is still the only video where it’s actually demonstrated a “failure”. That says something.

In fact, the very same channel (JJ Ricks) has a ton of in-the-field Waymo videos where it works exceedingly well.
Tried to use IBM Cloud, they wanted my passport for verification. Big nope.
I used one of these for a while, more or less. It was great. People didn't understand how I had no phone but never missed an appointment nor lost notes.
Not mentioned in the article but numpy.isclose() works for 0.0 case unlike math.isclose().
Assuming it will indeed happen (which I'm not yet convinced of) you can add these:

* cars sent to pick up stuff without drivers

* kids sent to school with the car to circle back and pick up the parents afterwards

* cars doing the minimum to stay 'in traffic' to avoid paying high fees for parking

* far more miles per car because the biggest limiting factor (the presence of a driver) will wall away

* huge CO2 impact (negative) from all these extra miles
Good. Law should always lag social consensus. The power of the state should not be thrown around at the behest of unaccountable experts or a razor's edge majority. It should require the support and consent of the bulk of the people.
How cheap were plane tickets during the '80s in nominal dollars?
> he's being banned for having hired someone else who later broke those rules

FWIW: there's some reason to suspect that the "later" bit is being spun here. Per the timeline in the article, there were only 5-6 weeks between the employee being fired and Google taking action against the employer[1].

That's pretty tight, and from an enforcement perspective is going to make it extremely difficult to distinguish which entity is doing the bad things. And, frankly, given the spin elsewhere in the story, I'm inclined to suspect more ambiguity here and not less.

What's the ask here, that Google (which correctly detected the association between the accounts) audit the IT permissions logs of accounts that commit bannable offenses before taking action? That just doesn't seem feasible.

[1] They further spin this by trying to claim that the employee left in 2019, but have to admit that he was still present as a consultant.
Xfce power manager will handle that on its own. I tell it to sleep instead of power off. Then, worse case laptop just falls back asleep and I wake it a second time.
> “Now I can say that I’ve swum in the Arctic Circle,” he says. “There aren’t too many people who can say that!”

OMG, this is the boomer who comes up to me saying how he did some thing unique and gets incredibly upset that I don't go out of my way to pretend to be amazed and act enthusiastic about it. And this is the same person ruining the environment for his boring lifestyle.
> Those are 0.001% of the population. Most people work because they have to

That's the point. People finding or striving to find meaning in their work are far removed from the "serfs."
You're the best :)! Let me fix that.
We used to live in a magical world, where your fate was governmened by fire spirits, by demons and by thunder gods. We tamed nature and learned a scientific worldview. What these algorithms are doing is turning back the clock. Undoing the science. It's bringing us a new world of superstitution, where you better don't anger the machine elves.
Smaller companies could be exempted under the rules. Start it from 20 employees or so.
Ask HN: What are your official 9-to-5 “work” hours?
Dolly Parton sang about "9 to 5", not "8 to 5", nor "9 to 6 with an hour for lunch which does not actually count as a work hour".

Maybe another way of asking this is, do you consider your lunch hour to be one of your 8 hours that day?

Or, more importantly, does your boss consider your lunch hour to be an hour worked?

Yes, all of you are retired, FIRE, work only 4 hours/week, crypto-rich, against the man, for the man, etc. -- we hear you -- but I'm curious how my fellow proles are doing it.
I can't really tell if this is some sort of satire, or a serious post I should actually put some thought into...
And even if it is wrong, it's obviously not stupid to think we'll have driverless cars in 10 years. Waymo are literally down to solving edge cases. There are more than people might have expected, but there isn't anything fundamental to solve.
HN have a different approach. Here in HN, new accounts are restricted to comments only, the restriction will slowly remove as the account get older and have amble "karma" (sorry, I am not sure what term for here in HN) then they will gain the ability to vote later on.

Also HN prevents people from voting on parent comments if they respond to it. So if they commented it, then it is considered as voted. If they up/downvote the comment and then posted a response to that, HN automatically replace the vote to comment response.

I like this approach because it is a great way to have engaging discussion than trying to drive meaningless and irrelevant comments as top comments.
There's already been an industry-shaking accident that led to vast reforms in regulation and program design: the Elaine Herzberg crash.

I can't speak to every company in the space (and I can think of a couple that don't seem to have much in the way of safety), but all of organizations I've worked for are very diligent about safety and looking to improve. N > 1 here, so they exist.
Have to say, seeing my Auto Pilot graphics with cars "jumping" all over and appearing and disappearing.. (this is not the FSD Beta graphics mind you) compared with what seems like a stable and coherent visualization of the environment, it really makes the difference in my feeling of confidence that it's aware and able to react to the same things I see around me
Is that a direct Heinlein quote? It's amazing!
The official name for ours is Collaboration Days. But since every team has a different CD, it's almost impossible to have in-person meetings outside of our team. In within our team, if we have to wait for Collaboration day to make decisions etc, we'd be hopelessly broken and inefficient.
Who is "they" ?
If they can’t help you frankly the problem is probably with you or your app.

But who knows… what aspect of your users do you know about that Apple refuses to understand?
I think the problem is that (at least for now), we don't have good mental models of AI drivers and what their failure modes might be.

Dangerous human drivers are likely to be consistently erratic (e.g., drunk), or distracted and oblivious in certain situations (bikes, intersections, lane changes).

For all we know, an AI driver might drive perfectly for three hours, and then accelerate full speed onto the sidewalk.
Some of the early chrome experiments required spoofing UA to run in Firefox.

HTML5Rocks which has a similar purpose used a dubious CSS hack on the book demo that only worked in Chrome.
That’s a very interesting tactic that I haven’t heard of before - almost the opposite of built in obsolescence?
And kind of the point of laws. If people did them without the law then there wouldn’t be a need for the law in the first place.
"Or again, the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today's issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston's job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones."

1984
No they didn't. Cruise didn't even exist 10 years ago.
I miss iOS 6.
> These types of attacks are extremely hard to defend against.

And yet, enterprise-level suppliers do it successfully every day.
Surely a better measure is time, not distance. Ie what is a person's carbon footprint on land, for say a week, vs what is it on a cruise for a week?
It’s fully autonomous. They can’t “joystick” the car from a remote terminal.
> 95% of the questions in my exams had a correct answer,

Of course. There's only one answer to 9 = 3x (at the undergrad level).

Just like there's only one way to spell "correct".

English has "correct answers" too.

> with zero subjectivity.

Really? Wow, that's impressive. I don't understand how that is even possible.

I can think of 10 different ways to implement a linked list. Which one is correct?

I can think of 10 different ways to build a single-transistor amplifier that meet frequency and gain specifications, which one is correct?

And that's just two examples off the top of my head of applied knowledge that are absolutely subjective.

Want more?

:)
Delightful to see the creator of Bullet Physics here in the comments too!
Cool sounds like this guy can open a police case, a detective or police person looks into it, finds "yeah, sure enough, we audited Google's code and they broke rule 2c, so we'll give you X-million in compensation for this." And then the detective (because it's an open-shut case mind you) goes further with: Getting an extract of 12,393,333 other people affected by this "problem" so they issue a court order to charge Google 12,393,333 * X-million in damages. And then further also issuing a court order for Google to stop all operations immediately until they deactivate this automated process.

As if that will ever happen. We don't live in a world of rules and logic until things play out as simply as above.
I don't understand why the fear of being sued is not preventing Google (and other big players) from misusing their position like this. Is it impossible to sue Google?
Thank you Simone, nice of you!
I really want this, too. I highly depend on eye contact with other drivers for safety.
> Waymo are literally down to solving edge cases.

But: there are very large numbers of these edge cases and they are of the kind where new ones keep popping up all the time. This is a very easy problem for the first 99% or so and then the last 1% is super hard.
I mean who cares?

If anybody thinks we're going to "solve" climate change by a couple oldsters staying off cruise ships (or honestly through any reasonable means), then I think they're deluded. The solution is going to come in the form of a world and way of life that's essentially unimaginable today.

For those of us alive right now, may as well do whatever we want at this point.
>> Google is dealing with a very real problem. There are bad actors, particularly internationally, who systematically and at scale try to subvert / cheat.

I really dislike this explanation because there are so many obvious things they can do. Example:

1. Force uploads of Passport/ID for identity confirmation. If you have 100 accounts with the same passport...ok...issue, but if not, is it worth human review at least?

2. Force credit card payment with address verification, ideally match to passport. Same credit card used across 1000 accounts...ok...issue, but if not, perhaps worth a review at least?

3. Still an issue? Force user to pay $100 for verification and run credit check routine.

The idea that blanket account terminations are the only way to handle issues seem lazy.