skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the way I would say it is, after a few tens to hundreds of thousands of such events, we'll be able to estimate the parameters of the human preference functions associated with a non-fatal trolley problem (the real trolley problem is irrelevant to the car ML folks, they are not aiming to maximize global utility) and that will help guide our confidence in rolling out more.

For all the woe and gloom in the news reporting, Google (and Cruise)'s rollouts have been more or less what I expected: no enormous accidents that were clearly caused by a computer, but instead, a small number of small accidents usually due to the human driver of another vehicle doing something wrong. That seems to lead towards greater acceptance of self-driving cars and confidence that they are roughly as good as an attentive newbie.

The next big situation, I think, will be some really large-scale pileup with massive damages and deaths, and a press cycle where the self-driving car gets blamed. But the self-driving car collected a forensic quality audit log, which of course will aid the police in determining which human caused the accident.
It's a system you already use if you use credit cards. The payment processor play this role by assuming the counterparty risk and issuing chargebacks when they deem it appropriate.
"...in any type of employment..."

Since when is it the business of US CBP to decide who can work in Canada? That should be up to the Canadian immigration authorities.
looks like...unknowns hieroglyphics?
Probably not, although scratch holograms are really cool. It looks like it's a fundamentally different mechanism
It’s art, not an “image”. I thought somehow an earlier human managed to find a way to make a very early photo graph.
My Notes on Gitlab’s Postgres Schema Design
Hahaha. Yes, very honest to link to a massive fanboy as though he's an unbiased source.
What do you mean by little data though?

They’ve been absorbing years of data classifying traffic and things like that.
Netflix has 180 million more subscribers that Paramount Plus, which probably means 10 times the cash flow, which means it can produce more content, which means it can attract more subscribers.
> two key parts of the brain were notably affected: the locus coeruleus, which manages feelings of alertness and arousal, and the hippocampus,

The silver lining, I guess, is that the hippocampus is the one region of the brain where you can still generate new neurons well into adulthood.
The story that I saw is that they have a lot of loans kicking in the next couple of years that will totally wipe out their profit margins.

Looking at [0] it looks like it's.... manageable but you still need the money. If you're making 1.5 billion in profit and the next year you have 2 billion in debt to payoff...

[0]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/04/21/netflixs-mountain-...

related reading from when things felt more rosey in 2019:

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/cf0f0bd6-4596-11e9-a965-23d669740...
QRStream (Transfer files and text via successive QR codes)
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.xloem.qrstream/
All contracts have conditions which is not met make the contract null-and-void.

Elon is claiming this. Twitter is denying it. It will be decided by a judge in a few years.

Given Twitter's ethics I already have a prediction for the outcome but ultimately it's for the judge in the end.
How many people have been killed by Cruise or Waymo cars for the number of miles they've driven?

I maintain the position that if self-driving cars handle the most common situations as well as average human beings, there won't be a strong drive to make cars that drive significantly better than humans. Cruise and Waymo are collecting a limited version of that dataset right now. It's unclear how many deaths because some details are being kept under wraps.
> A better calculator language

See Calca: http://calca.io
> Cryptomator's technology meets the latest standards and encrypts both files and filenames with AES and 256 bit key length.

I know you're advertising to slightly less technical users, but please provide some documentation explaining your choices! AES alone doesn't say anything about the mode of operation, which makes or breaks the scheme.

From a little sleuthing, it seems likely that they're using GCM-SIV[1], which is a good choice.

[1]: https://github.com/cryptomator/siv-mode
For Win95, it was tolerable. Win98 with IE integration everywhere (remember "Active Desktop"?) was much more of a memory hog tho.
Depends on a lot of factors. detoxing completely takes days/weeks.
I totally disagree. My eyes ache after looking at white backgrounds too much. That's what dark styles are for. They're much more relaxing for me. I will never read a whole bunch of text if it's got a white background. It just plain hurts. In fact, I use a plugin that converts every page to a dark style. If there's a page that doesn't render well that way (rarely) and I really want to read it, I'll squint and read it quickly before I get some sweet relief by switching back to dark mode.
As someone living in Shanghai and who experienced the lockdowns here, the US media (as biased as they may be) picture is much more closer to reality than what you are saying.

The economy is in worst shape since 1992, Food and beverage industry is expecting to lose third of it's companies, property market is collapsing and going down first time for ages, Apple moved production out of China first time ever, several Fortune 500s moved their "tech hubs" etc. out of China, smaller rural banks are going down and preventing people from getting their money out, third of European companies are considering moving production out of here etc. and all this is just tip of the ice berg.

Maybe the government will find a way out of this mess, but right now things are darkest they've been for a while and we are now hearing rumors there is going to be another massive lockdown.
The supply chain problems in the US are caused by the lack of US infrastructure. The reason is simple: the amount of imports into the US increased a lot in the last few years, especially after COVID (check the trade balance numbers), but the infrastructure is lagging at least 10 years behind. These problems will get worse, and China cannot do anything about it.
Is/ought fallacy.

They clearly don't, despite 30+ years of whinging. (I've whinged plenty myself.) Preemptive defence is justified, necessary, and strongly advised.

The Web is not an archival platform, it's a publishing one. Each request is served in the moment it's requested, and absent specific measures for persistance can and will vanish at any time without notice.
The model is roughly 4 orders of magnitude smaller.
I made good coin coding in vb6. Usually I was automating reports (that clients paid for). People would do a job then sit down and create 30 spreadsheets to send out to clients. I created software to pump all these out in seconds. Excel sheets with graphs, intricate layouts and formulas. 15 years later I think they finally have a working web version.
I got consulting asks for a decade.

The weirdest thing (I have ever seen in software): Once VB.net hit, all VB devs quit. VB.net was a totally different language. I guess we all moved on.
I would expect that solution to be incredibly aggressive. Wouldn't be surprised if it was lye (which feels soapy because it turns the outer layers of your skin into soap).
When I was involved in M&A for a Fortune 20 company, the rate of failures for M&A we were told by various accounting firms and consultants was that 90% of all M&A never achieve the goals of doing it. So 10% success rate on a good day.
I feel like every time an article or book comes out about sleep it gets debunked a month later.
Which area did you move to? I love the bay's climate. It's really keeping me back because pretty much everywhere else is looking way to hot right now
One person making such a principled choice may encourage another, who may encourage another, and so on. If enough of us make principled choices we don't necessarily have to live like this.
One of many explanations for their brain damage I suppose.
> Anyway, if you want a clearer picture why they decided to throw the packages away, I recommend reading the source and/or trying to use them.

This isn't really a good excuse for why core features have been rewritten 4x without a production release and with no legacy version available for the latest engine.

You left out MLAPI from your link and the FPS Multiplayer Sample NetCode

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/0.1.0/getting-s...

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/FPSSample

> Uhhhh? The package is literally right there.

I mean actually release it in a way that's stable for teams working on a game. Not "This package is available as a preview, so it is not ready for production use."

The current roadmap plan is for Netcode for ECS to reach production way after Netcode for GameObjects.

Bolt is not Unity Visual Scripting. It's extremely similar but that only makes it more confusing. Bolt is a separate asset which is still maintained, the last update was a month ago.

> develop a "vnext" tool while still supporting a "legacy" tool

Except their only production level multiplayer library, UNet is not supported anymore. There is no official way to make multiplayer Unity games right now that isn't a preview package or deprecated.
I know absolutely nothing about Brown as an individual or the Scala community in which he seems to be a controversial figure, so I can well understand anger from people who feel they have been falsely mislabeled or seen that happen to their colleagues.

On the other hand, looking at examples from his page identifying people as having issued death threats, I (for example), I can personally vouch for the accuracy of that statement due to familiarity with the individual described. My comment refers to the use of the tool to unmask previous Twitter identities, which can be very useful in tracking the architects of or participants in harassment campaigns. So I have no compunction about using it to that end.

People who regret prior behavior on social media and want to turn over a new leaf have the simple option of starting over with a new account. If they want to change their ID for privacy reasons but hang onto their friends and followers, that seems like a case of wanting to have one's cake and eat it. I don't feel any sympathy for the LibsofTikTok account owner, for example, who hate-tweets about 'drag queen story hour' type events knowing full well that those she tweets about are likely to be crashed by Proud Boys.
You can charge a Volt overnight on a 120V outlet.
Imagine that a company who created a game that was clearly a massive fad that stopped growing years ago, was unable to sustain that unrealistic growth.

It’s almost like it’s important to make business decisions off long term expectations, not short term miracles.

But then again, these are educated businesspeople who would know better than me…right? :P
With VC funding, though, once they find that one blockbuster business, they expect it to be able to grow exponentially because it has a defensible, unique "special sauce" that is scalable.

With games, though, one successful game or franchise rarely guarantees additional successful games or franchises. In some ways it's "catching lightning in a bottle", and very difficult to repeat, even if you have the same inputs (designers, programmers, funding).
Possible related to this recent discussion [1] about Outlook and Bing visiting links inside email? Not sure why the access type would be IMAP though...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299
I think it's that the "blocks" are much smaller for games/movies than for tech companies.

A great game or movie can make a ton of money. But a great tech company can make 2-3 orders of magnitude more.
This writing is insufferable. If I removed every errant newline and "bear with me" sentence, the posts would be half as long and twice as interesting.
> The “applicant” gets a job offer letter PDF, supposedly from our HR department. The email may come from kapwingeditor@outlook.com.

I laughed for a good 2 minutes at this one. You have to admire the chutzpah of some of these scammers.
Clearly a false flag is being planned and it will be a nuke detonated in a Blue City. When you see it, know it for what it is.
Transgenic edible plants would be incredible, introducing entirely new species and flavors to the palate.

Cellulose isn't the problem. Just the toxic and bitter organic compounds. Knock out a few genes and it should work. These genes shouldn't be necessary for plant growth.
Newly Recognized Dementia Called LATE May Hit 40 Percent of Older People
The industry doesn’t care about functional programming, are tail calls really necessary?
What does this mean for QuantumScape which is backed by VW?
The book is that boring? :joy:
> The right to be forgotten is distinct from the right to privacy. The right to privacy constitutes information that is not publicly known, whereas the right to be forgotten involves removing information that was publicly known at a certain time and not allowing third parties to access the information.
Do you understand what thermal throttling means? It means your powerful-on-paper computer becomes just as powerful as a much lower priced computer.

And that is also assuming that the rest of the computer is good. Lets not forget the horrendous touchbar, the multitude of bugs in the OS, the lack of ports and hubs that have issues and in some cases end up frying the smc, shoddy external monitor compatibility and so on.

Issues that my much cheaper laptop that is running linux does not have.
To your first point: that makes sense!

To your second point: Zenni and competitors do custom grind their orders.
> The eyes are happiest reading dark text on a light background

Hi, dark mode-everything user here. I highly disagree. I don't have vision problems per se, but white everything at all times causes strain.

Also, comparing black vs light and vice versa for text reading is a bad example, but the author points it out by mentioning the changing of color schemes.

Edit: As a point, I'm using a moderate red color shift on my monitor on top of dark themes. It's far, far better for my eyesight than proverbially staring into the sun!
You just fell for the "in goes more money, out come more hits" fallacy.

As OP said: the content business is not normal. You can't assume that big budgets == big success.
I'm sitting here reading this at 3am after having fed my 2 month old son and this was the same thought which crossed my mind. Given how affected my sleep has been (and my experience isn't anything out of the ordinary really), I would absolutely expect to see some pretty clear trends showing up.
You can also power better jukeboxes with better car batteries.
And blindly hope that the direness of these warnings will incentivize medical science to invent cures.
I don't know how much they can stretch the license
I don’t think I would do very well under Elon’s management style ha - the whole butts-in- seats from 8-6 thing is basically a dead end for me (personally).

I’m not sure what architecture they use, but they do indeed already have a pre trained “auto-labeler” that their annotators use. My understanding is that due to hallucinations from the model and the risks involved with driving, they still need to be vetted manually before being added to the dataset.
Or brew them as a tea.

The fresh shoots don't taste all bad. Definitely bitter, but not in an unpleasant way.
Fleet sales is a place I see demand seriously ticking up for BEVs. Even modulo today's price gouging on gas, gas prices are only going to increase over time and many countries/states are increasing emission regulations.

In California at least there's a significant percentage of fleet vehicles that are HEVs or low emission ICEs like CNG. Fleet edition BEVs will sell like gangbusters here (if they're not already).

I don't see Tesla really able to target the fleet vehicle market. They're currently geared entirely for consumer sales and then only up market consumer sales. Fleet sales aren't flashy or exciting but they're reliable income generators for car companies.
People can't be willing to pay fewer dollars for the third asset class, which is dollars.
> Why can't journalists use units correctly?

If they could, they would have better paying jobs.

I don't mean to say journalists are stupid. They're generally not at all. But their required talents are verbal and social.
This is a really helpful industry perspective, thanks csours. When GM and others are thinking about this, is it focused on beliefs in specific markets or globally? I know that many commodities trade globally but there is a ton of noise in DC about critical mineral supply chains and America's reliance on China but at the same time minimal movement on extraction and even less on processing domestically because of the environmental factors/NIMBYism. But if there were another trade war with China, would that change the equation for GM or are the rest of the markets a large enough weight that doesn't matter? Do you think GM and others believe there will be U.S. mines brought online or that all the growth in extraction will come from abroad? Given the pushback in other places (e.g. Serbia's Rio Tinto mine, Mexico nationalizing their sector, etc.) I'm pretty skeptical about being able to depend solely on foreign growth.
I think the intention was (cheap (coated lenses esp. sunglasses)) though they wrote it as (coated lenses (esp. cheap sunglasses)).

I have a few uncoated lenses, such as semi-disposable safety goggles, and a few uncoated glass lenses of one sort or another, although I expect you didn't mean those.
For calculator languages, I think there are several choices. Depends a bit on what you know, and what you need...

Frink (https://frinklang.org/) has been around for ages, and is rooted in physical unit conversions

Calca (http://calca.io/) has come up a handful of times. It looks pretty reasonable

R, if that's your flavor

Anything with a REPL. Though the OP suggests these are cumbersome, I'd counter argue that anything you know well is usually more efficient than learning something new.

A very long list of commercial tools: Matlab, Mathematica, WolframAlpha, STS, SAS, etc
The GPU in the M1 Max does not have dedicated raytracing hardware and will run it as a generic compute workload (which is not that fast).
I'm implying that it's hard to take criticism of Israel seriously when it gets far more criticism than its much worse neighbors (indeed, the UN has passed more resolutions against Israel than ~all other countries combined, and whatever Israel has done it's not worse than Iran, North Korea, Syria, etc much less all of them put together).
"My eyes are happiest when"...it really depends...

To use an extreme example, back when I was experiencing corneal erosions (you don't want those), contrast itself was the enemy. You send me this website, I am going to have to play with my display settings and also probably put on sunglasses.

Thinking of more common contextual preference change, time of day comes to mind.

I wish my e-reader clients could pick up on my time-of-day settings changes, because sometimes I want contrast and white on black, just dimmed in general, and at other times I want sepia but brighter...but generally there are obvious rules that could be derived based on what time it is.

(Sending people to websites like this without caging it in some kind of wink or chuckle of an expression seems like it would be a bit over the top...)
Turn off iCloud everything.
NFL agrees to end race-based brain testing in $1B settlement on concussions
Go find and read some articles about neurogenisis to feel better? Seriously though, as a young adult I bought mephedrone analogs from RC vendors at one time and then later saw all the wild claims of brain damage and inability to sleep afterwards.. Relax, you are still you, and you're okay. It's not the end of the world.
Even on Windows, MS Teams is garbage in terms of core instant messaging UX:

- it has a massive lag in syncing messages after your computer wakes from sleep or after re-signing in
- switching accounts is, again, unreasonably slow whereas Slack and Discord allow you to keep multiple accounts logged in at the same time.
- no triple-backtick code block syntax
- no true fullscreen video in the desktop client
I think OP is saying that some people have exceptional capacity to devour tomes of technical information without any deleterious effects
> A lot of random programs that seem to be needed for corporate work, like outlook and teams, I imagine don't work or are somehow even worse on linux.

I thought Teams was shitty on Linux, then I got switched to a Mac. Teams was just as shitty there too. I don't think it's any better on Windows either.

> Does the general dev stack really run significantly more performant on linux distros? Significant as in uses 50% of the resources, compared to a 5% performance increase.

Depends on the stack. One example: Being able to use Docker Engine natively rather than Docker Desktop saves a lot of resources.
As I recall Tesla got $4bn of government funding to do this. Win win.
My Friend, Scott Aaronson
> Content absolutely does scale with budget

Wrong, unless you measure "content" by "minutes of screen time."

If you measure it by box office, then we can easily prove you wrong. Many of the other commenters have already done that.
I mean, you take your car in to the shop once a year for its inspection, they take care of it all for you. The only difference with the BEV is they don't charge you $X0 for the oil change.
> If you believed in inflation north of 3%, why the hell would you own bonds?

Inflation protected bonds earning nearly 10%?
I do some optics design and prototyping for my day job. This is close enough to how I clean expensive optics, except that I would avoid a q tip unless absolutely necessary. The only thing I'd add is if you do need to dry something with a cloth, an old cotton undershirt that's been washed many times does a great job.

Also, I wash my windows at home with plain water and a squeegee.
Little Anecdotal bit:

In 2020 I started getting this weird perpetual minor unsteadiness. Like I could not stand still, I sort of swayed, or at least it felt like I was swaying. My doctor said it was too minor to really be anything, I was fine. I couldn't shake it. When this started I was going hard, 5ish hours of sleep, 3 miles on a treadmill, work, then 5ish hours working on a new deck on my house, then sleep, rinse repeat.

A few months ago I started doing one meal a day fasting. I noticed my weight slowly creeping up and wanted a change. A side effect has been my sleep has gotten much better. (I eat lunch typically) I sleep 7 hours easy and even when I wake up I feel like just laying there some like I am a teenager again.

A few weeks ago it occurred to me after nearly two years, the unsteadiness sensation was finally gone. Not sure if its the calorie restriction or more sleep, but I am not complaining.
I've been reading those DMV reports for years, and there are clear patterns which repeat. One is where an autonomous vehicle started to enter an intersection with poor sight lines to the cross street. Sensing cross traffic, it stopped, and was then rear-ended by a human-driven vehicle that was following too closely. Waymo has that happen twice at the same intersection in Mountain View. There's a tree in the median strip there which blocks the view from their roof sensor until the vehicle starts to enter the intersection. So the Waymo system advances cautiously until it has good sensor coverage, then accelerates or stops as required.

Humans tend not to do that, and, as a result, some fraction of the time they get T-boned.
I run a large service contract of over 60 people. We've had really no issues with remote work over the last 2+ years since the pandemic started. Several staff were ousted for performance reasons but they were low performers to begin with. Remote work didn't make them that way. So to me, blaming remote work for lower performance is a reflection on poor management rather than individual contributors.