skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really "fully autonomous"? I get the feeling the driver (the one with the legal liability) is watching from a remote terminal back at waymo hq.
> I’d liken the latter to having a company credit card account.

No, having had a company credit card account 3 years ago. Unless I’m misunderstanding something, the employee had no more relationship to the company for some time.
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Collector and Drain, I thought?
The front end that polls RSS feeds, sitemaps, and otherwise imports content into a database isn't too hard.

What's devilishly difficult is the nature of "news".

That is, when a "news" story happens (say Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars) there will be hundreds of articles about it from mainstream publications right away.

For the news feed to be manageable you have to cluster these, otherwise you are going to be furious that you can't find any news in the middle of all that "spam".

Defining the cluster boundaries are tricky. For instance 'Will Smith v. Chris Rock' is an ongoing story. There is news about the initial event but there could be news about possible lawsuits, apologies, hard feelings, revenge. Also people are going to write opinion pieces blowing it out their ass forever. So it's not so simple as "say something once why say it again..." but rather you have to be able to initially identify an event and then identify a string of events which are connected to that original event.
Oh yes, it's pure indulgence.

Which is not always wrong, I mean, people spend lots of money on nice pens and paper, and that is perfectly fine.

It's just that nice pens and paper don't guarantee nice thoughts.
Cruise is running _driverlessly_ at nighttime. Like Waymo, they're driving autonomously 24/7 around San Francisco, just with a safety driver.

This new announcement doesn't specify their driverless hours. I suspect that they would have highlighted it if they were the first to be driving around SF in the daytime, just as they highlighted the first of being driverlessly deployed in multiple cities.

My guess (also in the industry) would be that Waymo combines Google's incredible technical skill with Google's incredible incompetence at focused execution. This is why they haven't had a milestone in a couple years since their deployment in Phoenix. I also think that this combination of strengths and weaknesses is a good fit for the AV industry.
Honest question: do people really not believe/understand this is just a rug pull?
One example from my employment history was a customer that kept asking for (and unfortunately getting) one special reporting feature after another in a data processing system.

After a couple of years and several such reporting options someone asked, "Can't we just generate a spreadsheet and then your business analysts can do whatever reports they want from that?" and the customer responded, "You can do that?! That would be so much easier for us."

Imagine the weeks or even months of human life (both implementing but also using the less efficient reports) that could have been saved if the right solution had been implemented from the start.

That's literally time taken out of someone's life that they could have used to be with family or whatever they wanted instead of transcribing ridiculous reports.

(Of course, those reports were probably only generated to be looked at once in some recurring management meeting, only for the executives to feel good about having seen data. I don't think the reports were ever used to support any decision.

This means the entire reporting theatre was completely bullshit and the customer could have paid the business analysts to sip drinks on the beach instead with no loss of productivity. But that's just my cynical view.)
I imagine the final standard of skeptics will be that as long as there's any manual driving happening anywhere, autonomous driving hasn't arrived yet.
This. I learned a lot of business and management skills on the side... sales, marketing, accounting, vendor negotiation, inventory, merchandise ordering, policy enforcement, staff training, firing people (and how much it sucks), etc... by helping run a furry convention for 5 years.

It's one of the best things I've ever done for my career. I enjoy casually listing that on my resume under volunteering. :)
I think you're misreading the post? I'm interpreting that sentence as being specifically about the Phoenix expansion:

"Our commitment to Phoenix and the community there remains strong, and we’ll soon be expanding to another area: Downtown Phoenix. Just as we’ve done before, we'll start with Waymo employees hailing trips with autonomous specialists behind the wheel, with the goal of opening it up to members of the public via our Trusted Tester program soon after."

(Disclosure: I work for Google, a sibling company to Waymo.)
i disagree, it is actually super optimized, food delivery, food cooking, waste management and ton of other stuff

i wonder if a nuclear proposed ship would be a solution to make it carbon neutral in the future
That is disappointing. I very much admired his thoughts on coding.
> Obviously, every HNer religiously reads and memorizes PG’s mediocre essays.

Idk, I like PG. I've read the really long-form pieces like "What I've Done", etc., but from what I gather by following his Twitter, he's less and less defined by creative or unique ideas and has turned towards more standard neo-con, gen X silicon valley. More than anything, there is a noticeable lack of emotional intelligence that doesn't hold up to the standards of youth today.

He went to RISD; cool, awesome; he's a brilliant computer scientist; okay, cool. The world is more global now, a lot of people have these Renaissance man-type experiences, and haven't yet made the money that will put a veil over their eyes. A lot of the essays are mediocre. A lot of them are good. But I think it's just less his time in 2022 for what he was trying to do.
I have never looked into testosterone before. After some research, I cannot find anything to support your claim about what's happened since the 60s, but it sounds unreasonable to me. Average levels appear to have been dropping since the 80s, but not by such a significant scale as you claim. I did however find this harvard article with the following passage:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/obesity-unhealthy...

> Obesity lowers testosterone levels. For example, a 2007 study of 1,667 men ages 40 and above found that each one-point increase in BMI was associated with a 2% decrease in testosterone. In addition, a 2008 study of 1,862 men ages 30 and above found that waist circumference was an even stronger predictor of low testosterone levels than BMI. A four-inch increase in waist size increased a man's odds of having a low testosterone level by 75%; for comparison, 10 years of aging increased the odds by only 36%. All in all, waist circumference was the strongest single predictor of developing symptoms of testosterone deficiency.
Yeah it's funny how human psychology works! We know the rational truth is that the AI drivers are millions of times less likely to run us over than human drivers, but we still can't get rid of the image of evil robots going bezerk from Hollywood movies and the (extremely unlikely) possibility of a malfunction in the back of our minds!
You are correct, thanks for double-checking me. Updated my comment to indicate my error.
$300/day seems high. Are they staying in staterooms with balconies?
Comparing passenger jet emissions to cruise emissions is missing the point. The point of a jet is to get from point A to point B ASAP. The point of a cruise ship is to have a nice time, and maybe get from point A to point B. AFAIK many (most?) cruise routes even go back to the port that they depart from!
No alerts possible with dashboards and variables.
After reading so many posts like this, I decided to bite the bullet and start moving off-Google. Funny thing is, ProtonMail and Obsidian are much better than Gmail and Keep anyway.

I'm still forced to use Google stuff here and there but I'm no longer dependant on them, and coincidentally I've been sleeping much better recently.
Sorry about that! Just fixed it.
I would like to share my story about transforming from a total newbie (just not to say noob) to a full-stack developer.
Having found no good answers I thought this might be interesting to someone
It's much harder to test the output of a TRNG
They also told us we were supposed to have mass produced electric cards in 5 years 30 years ago.
The U.S. and U.K will claim the money is "ill-gotten gains", then keep it to themselves and say justice has been done.
>> This sounds virtually unenforceable.

The simple way to "enforce" it is to literally just use AWS/Azure instead. I agree with you, totally unenforceable.
I know exactly what you mean, but this is not what Eric Rees means by the term. That is why the previous poster said

> This is completely different to an MVP as defined in The Lean Startup. It's absolutely about proving whatever needs proving.

Here's a relevant article.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-pro...

And

> A minimum viable product (MVP) is the most pared down version of a product that can still be released. Product demos, crowdfunding projects and landing pages are all common examples of MVPs.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27809/minimum-viable-p...
They absolutely do. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg...
The clip at 0:42s impressed me https://youtu.be/O8TSA-X9UlU?t=42 because the behavior seems to be trying to "edge in" and assert fairness, which is what humans expect of each other in these situations.
The first to driverless in SF was Cruise, who's had a public driverless program running there for a few months, albeit at night.
Private jets are far worse per Capita.
This is a major landmark. Excited to see the results.
They include footage of their drive without a safety operator and it’s in the middle of the day.

https://youtu.be/O8TSA-X9UlU
Um, they are following their rules. They make this very clear when you sign up. If you have a scammer working for you / linked to your account, your account is VERY VERY much at risk.

Lesson is, don't hire scam artists, ask your employees not to scam while they work for you or are linked to your account.
If industry leads regulation on this, I predict a Challenger-like disaster that sets the self-driving industry back by decades. A fatal school bus collision or something like that.

I hope the companies making these things are calculating margins for safety, tripling them, adding triple failsafes for everything, and not compromising on any safety standard, ever.

But we all know they aren't. There's far too much money at stake.

If there ever was a case for the government to proactively apply standards, this is it. Yes, there would be a delay, but it would be worth it, measured against the psychological and legal damage that will occur when (not if) the unthinkable occurs. Given probability p, and sufficiently large N and t, it is inevitable.
For a lot of the things mentioned such as highway driving and sleeping in the car, auto recharges, etc. I don’t think it’s far fetched at all. For a driver assisted version of the others, meaning autonomous driving lanes with precision timing I don’t think it’s far fetched either given it’s basically building the infrastructure of highways in cities, but even if not, I can completely imagine same but a driver is required to be behind the wheel and aware.
That was wrong, clearly. But it was a prediction made with far less evidence than we have today. Considering progress so far (which we had far less of in 2012) I don't think ten years is wrong today.
Google started doing leap second smearing [1] in 2008, which basically slows down each second over a 24-hour period, noon to noon UTC.

ntpd also supports this [2], though I'm not sure how popular it is in practice. Anyone making use of this?

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear

[2] https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html
To me, a better title would have been "How to get to Hell before you die".
You are correct, thanks for double-checking me. I've updated to my comment.
I wish we lived in an alternate universe where paranoia about nuclear reactors wasn’t so much of a thing, and that we could have nuclear powered cruise ships just like the Navy has nuclear aircraft carriers and subs.

Because I _love_ cruising, and the climate impact is among the major reasons I don’t go as often as I’d like. (Yeah yeah, people who go on cruises get a lot of ridicule, but I don’t care. Something about a cruise just fits me lot more than “real” vacations. I don’t want to be challenged, or go to a place where I don’t speak the language, etc. I just want to be utterly hedonistic for a week or so and then get back to my real life. Insult away.)
Microplastics as being discussed are much smaller than what you get with sandpaper in model building. If you can see the dust, it's not micro sized.
I thought you were looking for a sincere response to your point about skeptics, but you're now labelling me as someone who doesn't understand the technology and using that label to discredit my point... but I do understand the technology, as is evidenced by my comment, which you echoed with your own.

You're building this conversation on the belief that the problem is technical, i.e: if the hack could have been prevented, then cryptocurrency is legitimate, and Axie Infinity is legitimate, and therefore the skeptics are wrong if you can prove that cryptocurrency could be used in a way to prevent this hack which you can. That's nonsense, though, because the cryptocurrency skeptics (myself included) are not arguing that there are not technical solutions to these hacks, of course there are, better private key protection is a remedy to private key compromise... but that's not the point, at all, and it's disingenuous for you to pretend you defeated the skeptics by pointing it out.

Do you know how Axie Infinity works? What it is? Axie Infinity is an insane scheme that is destined to fail and hurt a lot of people along the way. Cryptocurrency skeptics take issue with that predatory behaviour: these hacks are further example of the absurd levels of incompetency and fraud involved in the industry, they're not THE problem.

Saying "I'm genuinely curious" doesn't make you genuinely curious if you're not approaching this with a curious mind... it just makes you disingenuous. If you're genuinely curious, you'd at least ingest the key message and respond to it without jumping to an assumption that only you are smart enough to understand very simple technology.

Cryptocurrency is neat technology, in the same way sql is neat technology, nosql is neat technology, I think the technology of cryptocurrency is interesting, as do most cryptocurrency skeptics, which is entirely logically consistent because cryptocurrency skepticism is rooted in a disagreement with using a neat technology as the foundation of some half-baked predatory "financial revolution".

If you're going to reply to me, please first consider the awful predatory mechanics of Axie Infinity, and address that.
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1. Cruise only operates between 10 PM and 6 AM and under 30 mph. Waymo operates all day without an artificial speed restriction.

2. Waymo's service area in SF is more than twice that of Cruise's. Unsurprisingly, both of them avoid downtown areas.

3. Waymo has hundreds of vehicles in San Francisco. Cruise only has a fraction of that — last I heard, only <10 of them were providing driverless rides.

4. According to CA DMV 2021 disengagement data, Waymo is driving almost 3x more miles than Cruise.

Waymo seems to love a slow and steady approach, but when they announce a service it's fully featured as we've seen in Chandler, AZ.
Makes sense. Seems like we can generalize this to if you're working in a niche area requiring lots of training to bring new hires up to speed then perhaps WFH isn't the best of environments? Going forward maybe your team needs to think through how to best do your onboarding. Maybe you would need to get together for a couple weeks (or have "high touch" time) and then go back to primarily working from home? It's something to think about.
You may wish to read Gould's Mismeasure of Man, and about thw fallacy of reification.

And brain plasticity, and the characteristics of high performing groups or institutions.

Changing the way your group works together is going to have a more profound difference on the outcomes than focusing on individual performance.
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Public APIs maybe. Internal? I'm not so sure. Since JSON doesn't have a time type, an ISO date field always requires validation and there are plenty of edge cases to consider (e.g. do you want to accept bare/naive datetimes, do you want to require all parts to be present, do you allow week dates, etc).

The biggest advantage of ISO 8601 is probably that you can also use it to represent dates and/or times rather than only datetimes but this can result in unnecessary ambiguity (e.g. if you decide to split the datetime into a date and a time field and make assumptions about the timezone).
This is (hopefully) overly cynical, but having worked in and closely with politicians in the past, I highly doubt it.

There are surely interest groups and think thanks that are working on the problem, and they will (if they don't already), have some legislation either ready to go or close to it.

The politicians won't even think about it until it becomes an actual problem that threatens votes, and when they do start caring they will just take whatever they can get from friendly/trusted think tanks and try to ram it through. The bills will be thousands of pages long and practically nobody will read them before voting for them.
And we have various versions and levels of drivereless cars today...
I would like some kind of visual feedback (maybe countdown timer for how long it has stopped for?) from autonomous car.

Something similar to checking if driver is paying attention and is aware that I'm going to cross in front of their car by looking at direction where driver is looking or a hand gesture.
Coal and Quartz are used to produce modern solar panels. No hand waving or EROEI can negate this fact.

Takes less than 5 seconds "using a search engine" to discover this.
In Germany many bike trailers have a small brightly colored flag on top, so there's an object in your field of view even if it's very close to your car.
No, you’re just arrogant. You sound like a boomer through and through.

You have extremely weak arguments and constantly try to choose tiny things to create a wedge issue. Your argumentation is ineffective and trollish. You don’t win any arguments - you just troll online. I get it - you have nothing better to do with your life. It’s why I see you all over posting all the time. You’re like an old man yelling into the wind. And like that man - soon to be dust in it.
Boston will certainly be one of the boss levels for AI drivers to try and beat, but even then, there's massive value in them working for even 50% of the roads out there. If my robot car said "I can take you from Rhode Island to Maine, but you're on your own while we're in Suffolk County", it would still be very useful, or it could just avoid the tricky areas and take a longer trip while I sleep!
founders are hugely important to the success of the companies they found. where would Microsoft be if Bill gates stopped running it. or if Steve jobs stopped running apple.
Cargo ships are far more numerous than cruise ships. They basically use tar as fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fuel_oil
Can you give some examples? I feel like perception of safety will be a big adoption gap. What made the Waymo cars appear more natural?
I have the same feelings as you -- most children shows are a bit ... much. Tumble Leaf is a good one. Slow pacing. Other good ones are Puppy Dog Pals, and Bluey (very short episodes). Also, the old VeggieTales episodes are always good, like Rumor Weed or Fib from Outer Space.
Not exactly what you want, but I run the Programmers Against Humanity account on Twitter (@software_crimes), and I collect stories like this.

I'm going to be tweeting this story out as soon as I get to my computer.
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Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
Customer service? For a Google account?
> I know we'll have driverless cars within ten-years

If we get driverless cars (meaning there literally isn't a steering wheel), it may happen within 10-years BUT only for last mile stuff (or vice versa for trucking). It won't be an overnight event. We won't see truly driverless vehicles across the board for decades, if at all.

TL;DR - It won't be as instant as you think.
Excel and VBA
If I had a penny for every time I assume an API takes Unix time in milliseconds or seconds and it turns out to be the other...
I vaguely remember a pizza delivery company facing a fine, because its website actively broke screen readers, and therefore was considered as discriminating against the blind.

Memory says a blind would-be customer complained loudly, but was ignored before they engaged the authorities with a formal complaint.
No, I thoroughly appreciate that, it's just that the functorial language of the "abstract nonsense" seems perfect for discussing modeling and abstraction.
Blast from the past! I remember reading about this a long while before life was greatly enhanced and simplified and also terribly blighted by the hand-computers.

I was into paper notes for about a year, just at the very beginning before phones came and I lost interest in pretty much all analog tech.

One thing that was cool about that era was the amount of variety. Now that multi device sync exists, notetaking is a very hard technical problem, but before that expectations were lower and people could invent all sorts of systems that were totally practical by the standards of the day.

Of course I greatly prefer the modern system, but the aesthetics were pretty cool.
That’s disgusting. It breathes new life into the biblical rules of abstaining from pork.
But would each employee working at a company found to be money laundering have their personal accounts shut down?

Google goes out of their way to associate people's accounts and identities. Even if you have work and personal Google Accounts, you should assume that Google knows they're the same person. For example, Google wants you to login to their Youtube App on Roku. If you choose not to but have it open at the same time someone opens Youtube on their phone, the two communicate and you'll get prompted to login. Even if you choose not to login, the two apps share information and cross pollinate watch histories and suggestions.

Google also makes it difficult/costly to properly lock down their development tools. You can't for example lock down your developer console or cloud account to accounts with specific domains. You also can't take ownership of your domain outside of a Workplaces Subscription in the same way you can with Apple's ABM tool.

At the same time Google requires you to consolidate all of your company assets into one basket. You can't have different developer consoles so an employee or contractor working on Project X might have access to aspects of Project Y because the console permissions aren't granular enough. So there's no plausible deniability for Project Y when a Bad Actor working on Project X is identified.

You can't even insulate projects on Google's tools as there is a 1:1 relationship between their Play Console, Cloud Console, and a singular Cloud Project. So again absolutely no plausible deniability.

What you end up with is a situation where if a user does something Google doesn't like, Google decides how large of a net to cast over that user's network graph when bringing down the ban hammer.
Apart from using metal/glass drinking and eating utensils / plates and things, how can one avoid these the best we can?