skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying the mufflers are optimized to be as quiet as possible for the given powertrain?

Anyway, why the focus on the "powertrain"? I can understand wanting to accelerate quickly. Are you saying there's a relationship between acceleration and noise level? Clearly that's not true for electric cars, but is it even true for ICE cars? Turbo increases acceleration and yet lowers sound levels.
I mean, yeah, but having your movement constantly tracked by government is still unsettling.

I feel the right way to handle that(and traffic infractions in general) is through culture, not surveillance.
Well you'll be thrilled to know that those are illegal in California as well.
Yeah. What are we trying that we should expect to lose the most important relationships in our lives? Unsaid but heavily implied is this person would be an atrocious parent, and a very real price is paid for that.
How well does it work without a Google account? Are there degoogled distributions that are likely to work, and alternative stores?
That sounds like a trick that would only work until Google noticed.
> dunno, seems reasonable to let people pay to violate some ordinances

That's literally what a zoning variance or an oversize load permit is.
Motorcycles are more fuel/emission/volumetrically efficient and their ownership is thus generally incentivized by policy in traffic-stricken California.

Not saying I agree or disagree that this should be applied to the sound thing, but this is the thinking.
IIRC when I examined this a couple years ago—it doesn’t seem to have changed—this is about NPM signing packages submitted to it’s registry. This can give confidence they packages are not tampered with when one downloads them from NPM.

What this is not is support for package maintainers or CI/CD systems to sign artifacts they upload to NPM. Supporting this would give consumers of said packages the ability to detect if a package maintainer was compromised—the signature on a new version would either be invalid or different.
> I feel the right way to handle that(and traffic infractions in general) is through culture, not surveillance.

We’re well past a polite society as a solution. Regulation and governance around collected data, with accountability for transgressions, is the path to success.
It wasn’t ever about being overwhelmed, it was always about what “the most correctest” (tm) thing to do was for the given problem at hand.
People tend to really underestimate children and it really deprives so many of them of their potential.
Most iPhone users don't even drive. In the way we are heading, they probably never will.
That slogan was from 1997.

A quarter century later, Apple is a very different company. As it should be.
I've long wondered when somebody would make way for this use-case.

But still: Downvoted for the class-hate.

Why do people have to make it about political camps instead of just engaging with basic comapssion for those whose communities/homes are close to the roads?

You'd be amazed by the diversity of groups affected by it: Live in a "marginalized community"? It's probably a backup for traffic planners to divert cargo through (i.e. train lines, highways, airport close by). Live in a scenic area? Enjoy the exhaust pipes of road-trippers every weekend. etc.
> ...but then why wouldn't the bodyguards just expropriate even greater quantities of that wealth than the wealthy would bestow on them?

They would need to organize themselves collectively somehow.

> Somehow, they have to first be convinced that the wealthy has some sort of moral right to their possessions.

No, they just need to be convinced that they don't have any collective organization.

Slaves don't need to be convinced of the morality of their situation, just the hopelessness on it.
> It's spec'ed for 3 years of experience but salary is about the median for a new graduate w/o professional experience.

How does the company's revenue per employee compare to the offered salary?
That's right... move the goalposts and don't provide any evidence again. You're arguing in bad faith so this is a waste of both our time.
I don't think that's misleading at all. Why would I assume that non-Google employee compensation would go into the calculation for what the average Google employee makes?

As someone else pointed out, this pays substantially more than AWS Mechanical Turk. To be honest, it's difficult for me to imagine an easier job than this one. I mean, most people who would do this job could easily now make more at McDonald's or Walmart or whatever. But I think jobs at McDonald's or Walmart are considerably harder, so I don't see why this job should pay the same.
Learning isn’t really about memorization
Shout out to the author for including Dynamix II in the list of iconic users!
When I worked at Boeing on the 757 gearbox design, at one point the box was put into a test rig to see how it would behave under load. I went out to the shop to in case any questions needed answering.

At one point, a bolt needed turning (don't recall why) and I stepped forward to do it. The shop union steward literally lunged in front of me, arms outstretched, to block me. He informed me that only a union mechanic can turn a bolt, and my job was to tell the mechanic (not the steward) to turn the bolt.

It was ludicrous. Evidently every job required 3 people - an engineer to tell the mechanic what to do, and a union steward to ensure the engineer didn't touch anything. Somehow this crazy system evolved.
Extremely strange to see this writeup with no mention at all of Droneseed, which has been doing this successfully for a few years now, engineered seed pods and all. I've written them up twice, if you're curious or skeptical about the one in TFA:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/26/that-night-a-forest-flew-d...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/droneseeds-36m-a-round-mak...
Our law enforcement system was not designed to be automated. It works (because of how it has evolved, not by explicit design) on the threat of enforcement. So people "breaking the law" - and I'm thinking here of traffic laws and other minor offenses - are basically free to weigh their own risk tolerance for the penalty against the chances of being caught. This has flaws, but it preserves some notion of freedom while generally pushing people in the "right" direction to control behaviors society doesn't want. Laws and penalties are commensurate with that, ie there are countless traffic laws all drivers break every day, because they are there to guide and penalties are rare.

That is much different than mandatory automated enforcement that would or could penalize everyone every time they broke a law. If we went there, all laws would have to be revisited to understand what is an appropriate threshold and penalty so that we could preserve some kind of personal autonomy. But what would happen in practice is that everyone would get the fines.

Then there is the whole question of discretion and personalization.

For most people here, I'm sure this falls on deaf ears, but I hope you see my point. I don't believe in technocracy and a world where our behavior is enforced that way is horrifying. Anyone who likes that idea could move to China or Singapore to try it out
I got a laugh from this about tar https://xkcd.com/1168/
The problem at Amazon as I understand it is extremely darwinian stack-ranking. The leadership principles don’t address this. Even if you have a team of 10 senior high achievers by every metric, some percentage of them have to be managed out every N months. It’s absolutely insane.

If Apple did this, they’d never ship hardware or software updates.
So, like Chinese social credit system?
Thanks, but no thanks, I'd like to avoid living in a literal dystopia for as long as I possibly can.
These are all metrics around driving habits, not about outcomes.

"Safer" is an adjective of outcomes and potential outcomes, neither of which this article correlates with habits or demographics.

Not to mention that there's zero information about how any of this is measured or how they control for sensor calibration, phone placement, phone capability etc...

signed,
android user
I haven't looked at this in years, but IIRC Knuth's program could be built and run on almost any OS that had a Pascal (?) compiler, whereas McIlroy's solution obviously required a Unix-like shell, piping, and the necessary commands/tools.
That's a different problem with different possible solutions. Just because we work on one thing doesn't mean we have to stop working on another.

Presumably this one is a lot easier to address inexpensively with a bit of tech. Smoking not so much. For one thing, people don't wear license plates.
From how I see it, if your bike is loud enough that it is in violation of noise ordinances then you should take it to a shop and mod it if you expect to be driving around other people.

Also, if I had to guess, the reasoning for the limit for cars being higher is that past about 20(?)mph the tire noise makes up for the majority of the noise (which is proportional to weight)
No, especially in fields that have as much citations and papers on average as ML/DL/RL.

If a paper in any other field was cited 44k in ~8 years, it must have made life-changing discoveries. Maybe some of the early papers on COVID-19 will reach that number.
Wordle brought ‘tens of millions’ of new users to the New York Times
Google salaries outside of the US are a fraction of that.
If rates go up like that the housing market will freeze up and people wont sell if at all possible to avoid.
Banks who own the assets if they force people to sell don't want to see the asset values go down below their collateral required. Hence banks move softly and let the majority of underwater people ride it out instead of selling.

Why would rents go down? It might go up?
For example, you can make a separate REST method returning all levels you need. However, it still doesn't account for items lost while paginating (e.g. some visible items are deleted while one scrolls on a device etc.).
Well they just got robbed of >500GB of chips designs..
Personal values should have taken precedence then because that's what he's claiming now. Money can be ignored if your are true to your values.
DOH! Sharp eye :) The original was:

TARGET_FILE=~tomcat/logs/access.log
tail \
--lines 1 ${TARGET_FILE} | \
column \
--json \
--table-name ACCESS_LOG \
--table-columns $(seq --separator=, 1 48)

And the story behind it is a bit silly but memorable. To keep things fun, our ENG team does "left field challenges" and this one was "using only core bin tools, how would you get the field numbers and field values of the tomcat access log file in json format". Its memorable because not long after the code was posted in the ENG chat, we had a PRD incident and some team members used it and found it useful.
Multiplayer excel!
It's not a tax, it's the law.
Automated solutions are only objective on the surface. There are often baked-in-biases born from ignorance, privilege, or history. The classic recent example is facial recognition that functions poorly with people of color.

Somewhere in the nuance of programming this system will be the (known or unknown) subjective values of the programmer or those that are directing them.
We're already on camera all the time in public. There will only be more cameras in the future.

Given that, I see no reason to not use the cameras for something good.
The israeli will enjoy it.
You shouldn't have a user account on prod machines. Typically, there's just the user the service runs as. If it's in the cloud, the "machines" are containers. If your company sells on-prem stuff, there's a good chance it's an appliance that's owned by someone else.

If you operate your own data centers, then you need to do configuration management of the machines, so their configurations are immutable/reproducible.

(These problems all arise once you have a large fleet and a large ops team.)
Why doesn't it work for trees? I can't stop trees from growing in my yard from seeds blowing in, I genuinely don't understand why just spreading seeds aerially isn't effective
If you get a bill in the mail, how does "monopoly on violence" come into play?
I’ve used CUDA and Julia extensively in my work for radio astronomy imaging applications.

I can say it is a delight to work with. All the usual GPU tips and tricks still apply, of course, and you need to pay careful attention to sequential memory accesses and so on (as with all GPU programming). But staying in the one, high level language is a real boon, and having access to native types and methods directly in my kernels is fantastic. I can’t speak highly enough of it.

And for performance comparison, I see between 3-4 orders of magnitude improvement in speed, about as fast as native CUDA.
Signature verification of releases would of prevented this.
I’d personally rather deal with the unforeseen masters instead of the armed guy with 6 months training and an anger problem
Indeed. There’s a chance all of the “acceleration” categories are down to different types of accelerometers being controlled for poorly.
For what it’s worth, even using “vanilla” JS it’s generally much easier than it’s made out to be. It requires design discipline and knowing ahead of time what discipline to apply. But it’s pretty simple once you know it:

- the UI isn’t a source of truth, it’s a computed interface to it

- changes/interactions in the UI should update the source of truth, not other parts of the UI

- the source of truth is fully responsible for managing and notifying dependencies of relevant changes

Or much shorter: state and presentation are separate concerns. Once you have that, you can focus on the actual problems you’re trying to solve rather than the ones created by crossing underlying technology boundaries.
There are poorer states like Karnataka, Mizoram, West Bengal, Nagaland etc. Is there more of a cultural acceptance because others have moved and experienced success?
Most people won't even buy a pot of basil to grow on their window sill that requires nothing but watering every now and then. They'd rather buy their basil from the grocery store. Same with pretty much all the other "simple to grow" plants.

No way are most people going to invest all that money and watch hours of videos and then spend a lot of time, trial and error, probably more time to engage with the community to find out if they're doing it right or if the growth they're seeing is normal or contaminated, etc... it's just way too much trouble for most people.

Sure, some enthusiasts will do it anyway (just like some people like to brew their own beer) but they will always be in the minority.

One thing I could see happening is non-profit coops developing, with some interested people growing and then distributing their crop to non-growers for free or minimal cost... at least if the regulations that spring up around this allow them to do that. Even then, though, they will be in the minority.. just like food coops that do this sort of thing are in the minority now, even without all the regulation that will doubtlessly surround psychedelics.
Thanks Thats very helpful!

Yes very cynical
It’s ok, it’s California so they’ll just tack the fee onto your registration and force you to pay it if you want to drive legally.

At one point I got a ticket for my car for parking without a permit at a college. The college was in a city that I had never been to, and the make/model of my car did not match the report, so it was obviously a mistake taking down the license. Should be easy to clear up, right?

Apparently no. I didn’t find out about that ticket until I got a renewal notice that was way, way more expensive than normal. I spent the next two months making daily calls to try to get this fixed, unsuccessfully. The advice I got was to take it to court, which would have been about ten hours of round trip driving.

I eventually just paid the ticket so I could renew my registration without incurring a late fee.

I have a very high level of distrust in this system, I hate that another automated crap shoot may be upcoming. I would like the asshole noise machines to stop, but this is not the way.
And who is gonna decide which shells stay or go?
Many discussions turn to political and inferiority issues, essentially, 'is this development a signal that machines are surpassing us?' But let's leave that aside and look at it as art:

Many artists have used randomness; you could look at this software as a sort of controlled randomness. More interesting to me, artists also have created works challenging the source and significance of meaning, teasing that line between meaning and nothingness. There are so many possibilities with this tool.

Also, it could be a sort of Rorschach Test, even adding a feedback loop.
What do you mean? I have a contract to pay Spotify some dollars and receive music in return, yet they sure as fuck use "required technology" to check I actually paid them. It seems infinitely more important to do that on public roads where public law mandates a speed limit, yet speeding kills thousands - and often those who 1) were not in a car and 2) certainly weren't speeding.
Probably that iPhone users are more into social media fashion, which they check more regularly.

It's not about the phone, it's about why they chose the particular phone in the first place. iPhones are deemed more valuable by many people, hence have a more importance in people's lives, hence more usage. Probably something around those lines.
Setaceous Versioning, the revolutionary new way to maintain software
The problem is there's not really even a defacto standard. At least as far as podcasts are concerned, some players will use certain fields in completely different ways, ignore other fields, include their own vendor specific fields (with some other players adopting those vendor specific fields).
If that were true, shouldn’t the decibel maximum be higher for motorcycles?
Also it becomes very useful piloting a ship with an oversized afterburner which makes it move very fast but penalizes the turn speed, thus breaking the logic of usual controls provided in game.
How is go still a hot mess? Unlike the other systems you know exactly what went in by default and it's easy to vendor.
I'd caution against python in prod. In addition to supply chain issues with pip ("pip install" in prod is foolish on the best of days), python libraries love breaking compatibility.

The "one off" script from two years ago that you really, really need right now probably won't work. Perl/bash are less likely to hit this (they stopped changing years ago). It's an open question whether golang will have this problem.
Hollywood actors are part of a large union (SAG-AFTRA), but individual actors still get compensated orders of magnitude more than the average.

What particular aspect of having a union would make that substantially more difficult in tech?
This was announced during the keynote by devs on EVE Fanfest.
Same thing happened to me just the other day. Including the forced clenched teeth laughing to avoid the alternative.
Yeah, that's a really good idea and made me put on my list to make that public (there's a couple of issues with it being public in the state it is in now)
I didn’t benefit if you’re going to keep making comments like you did here that hurt the forum for reasons I explained and which make no difference to you.
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AFAIK, the US military assumes that in combat with near-peers, the electromagnetic spectrum will be a battleground itself and units will not be able to use it. Everything must be able to operate offline, autonomously, and that includes soldiers who can't reach commanders for orders.
VPN providers in India mandated to collect customer data
Ok...Kendrick — attacked specifically for questioning the role the cholesterol in heart disease and the efficacy of statins. Read through the discussion and it becomes clear that there are fundamentalists who don't want anyone who, rightly or wrongly, questions a current medical orthodoxy to even be noted. Keeping them off WP in this way is an attempt to write such dissident voices off as loons and not even worth investigating, to make it such that when someone does not appear on WP, it will be a sign that they're not even at the edge of the conversation.
Some sports stadiums are going cashless, so you must have phone apps or credit card… the workaround for a cash acceptance requirement? they have automated kiosks on-premises that convert cash to MasterCard
That’s a fact about your poor judgment of HN contributions, not a fact about any helpful insight in bee_rider’s comments.
Alright, so at each step, they're trying to rule out as many wrong answers as they can until there's only one left, at which point they'll know the right answer. It works because they have different starting information and know the nature of each other's starting information, allowing them to combine information that they already know with the information communicated by the other person still not knowing the answer. Each time they say they don't know, that gives the other person some information—and they know they're giving each other this information. For example, say Sandy was told the sum is 84. When Peter says he doesn't know the answer, Sandy can immediately rule out (83,1) because that's the only pair of numbers with a product of 83. If Peter had been told that the product was 83, he'd have known the answer immediately. And Peter knows that Sandy can rule such pairs out. Every time Sandy says she doesn't know the answer, Peter can rule out from his remaining options the ones that he knows she has enough information to have known, had it been correct. And vice versa, repeating until one of them narrows it down to just one option.
>Both of these tracks have huge holes and I suspect people choosing them may end up as depressed as regular "lifers" at big companies.

Anecdotally i have enough money that i dont really _have_ to work. i "retired" and bought a farm. got a job learning to frame houses (to learn to build my own house), and a year later i own a business framing houses. I run the farm, and build houses, and do whatever i feel like doing. i cant imagine getting depressed. there are always new challenges, and things to learn. I was horribly depressed and unfulfilled in corporate america writing software.

now i do what i want, there isnt an HR department, and the business politics are fairly down to earth.
In practice the incompatibility comes less from new invented fields (that happens rarely and when it does it has a namespace attached to it most of the time), and more how certain fields are interpreted, which fields are used, etc. Something as simple as showing a short summary of an item varies significantly by player.
Regarding number 1, then expertise to support the thing is lost when the project is handed over.
And that's how you write a clickbait article.

Zero substance, zero data gathering methodology, zero statistical deviation controlling methods (we know that real-time GPS isn't always precise), and as another commenter pointed out: no outcome measurement, just supposed driving habits.

Well okay, maybe that really supports the conclusion in the title but it's not clear how.
he's also known for single handedly starting the field of adversarial examples, which is a huge field. he basically started two fields. he's huge
It is difficult for some people to understand "The job at XYZ paid way more, but..."

IMO Enough is best.
Think you have that backwards on emissions. Motorcycles pollute far more than cars. https://www.latimes.com/news/la-hy-throttle11-2008jun11-stor...
Sometimes around here, a B-17 will fly over (I know the sound). They're loud, but I love every decibel.
Yup. Firefox had RSS support from first release in 2002 (inherited from Netscape, so even older than that) until 2018 when Mozilla decided it wasn't a priority.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202028

https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod...

I don't think Chrome ever supported RSS, though.
Yea, (any) smartphone is the last thing that can be considered secure.