skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At autonomy investor day they were saying better than a human in all human drivable conditions by 2020 for the robotaxi network they said they would launch then. They confirmed they meant level 5 autonomy in answer to a direct question.

They knew dojo wouldn't be online by then and they didn't even really train on video at that point, just trying to judge the scene image by image instead of taking into account prior frames (like knowing someone walked behind a bush 1p frames ago, so that sliver of emerging leg from behind a bush that might not be detectable confidently enough from a single image should be weighted higher).
I don’t think that’s typical.
How to want Less – why we are never satisfied?
> I just cannot understand why…

Because it’s natively UNIX-based and this well-supported by the tooling.

Sure, Windows has WSL and it’s great and it’s gaining developers but IMHO it isn’t quite there yet.

And it’s really important to acknowledge that there are a metric crapload of real world devs on Windows. I wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority of programmers were on Windows.
Apparently they do this so that people aren't surprised at the magnitude of the bill. Last September I got a covid test at the same place as I had symptoms and was just about to travel. They didn't provide an estimate at that time, but looking at my insurance statement, I see they billed $394.35. The negotiated rate meant that the provider was paid $184.98.

Looking back at my past estimates, I see that in 2015 the estimate for the MRI ordered by an ENT that was diagnosing hearing loss was $11,427. In Canada, apparently a private MRI would cost $1,000 or less [1]. I bet the fact that they are available for free for those willing to wait a bit longer helps keep the cost down. If I was given the choice of paying $500 or waiting a few more months for free, I would have definitely taken the free option because I had already delayed care on this for over 10 years.

1. https://www.olympiabenefits.com/blog/how-much-does-a-private...

My wife works with people that are undergoing cancer treatment. One of them is single and lacks FU money in her bank account. She needs to carefully manage the 20 weeks of unpaid leave available to her (and a couple weeks of paid sick leave and vacation) so that she doesn't lose her job. While COBRA could provide continuation of benefits at her current level, that is quite expensive. The Affordable Care Act would give her a path to affordable insurance, but her recent salary would seem to put her out of the running for a full subsidy. Switching insurance in the midst of treatment could mean switching providers. Surely switching providers from one of the best in the area (which is open to Medicare) to someone else while in the midst of cancer treatment is not ideal.

Per the Canada MRI pricing, a private option can be an empowering alternative. A high-quality public option is needed to keep the private options in check and to provide a base level of care for those that are not lucky enough to be able to afford private insurance and private care. Even then, surely there are horror stories.
Regarding 4:

Not every kid should be going to high school. They and/or their families are not capable of supporting them through it. We need public vocational and alternative high schools.
This seems like a lot of work to not just consider ninja, meson, CMake, etc. I fully understand that the simplicity and portability of Make is alluring, but if you are actually using it to build C software it is a catastrophically poor choice and you can spend a ton of time and effort trying to come close to what you can get out of the box on a modern build system.

If the tradeoff was that Make was easier to use and debug, then maybe it could be justified, but in general my experience is that it's worse.

There are probably some use cases for Make where it remains difficult to replace for one reason or another, but most people using it anymore are not in that position. Now, it's usually more work to keep using it.
Exactly. I wouldn’t buy FSD myself (I take the bus), but other people would, and I still find the thing’s development immensely fascinating to follow.
I hear you, but what is the endgame with this? Does it lead to a better HN?

Lobste.rs actually exposes even less and doesn't provide an API because the users haven't consented to such intrusions.

Personally, I don't want to be able to review every vote for or against my HN account. It wouldn't be productive and would likely lead to me not wanting to be here at all. It'd be like having a super strong mirror and then looking at your skin and being confronted with too much information about the reality of how nasty looking and imperfect being human is. Basically not a healthy pastime.

FWIW, if you're truly passionate about this, it's not difficult to setup your own site with the lobste.rs open-source code. Maybe there is a whole subset of like-minded folks.

The lobste.rs origin story may also be of interest to you. The TL;DR is jcs was being singled out and abused by pg on HN. Thankfully there is no evidence dang has (or would ever) do this, it was certainly toxic behavior on Paul's part. Being a moderator isn't for everyone, it's a Certain Thing, and net-positive mods who avoid power tripping are truly rare gems on the Internet. Open information would guarantee such abuses couldn't happen in the dark, but at what cost to the best aspects enabled by the HN ecosystem?

References:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452568

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32112665
I wish he had actually explained it. I can look up what a flat VII chord is, and I know what a tritone is, but what’s the “tritone in the 5-chord?”

If he actually understood that explanation going in, I don’t think he was studying music theory casually before he got there?

If you don’t actually explain things at an object level, it’s insight porn, not real learning.
>I wish we could do the same thing to Google.

Sell computers with chrome preinstalled with a good adblock extension.
Hopefully soon, Haiku is awesome
I’d like to be able to conveniently access my most popular comments. There are quite a few things in there that I might like to write longer-form articles about.

(https://james.darpinian.com/blog/scraping-my-own-hacker-news... gives one way of doing it, by crawling your /threads?id=‹username› page, which does contain the point counts for each comment by you.)
> .RECIPEPREFIX = >

That seems like a terrible idea. You change the basic syntax of the entire Makefile, forcing anybody reading it to get used to your custom indentation, where almost every line starts with an unnecessary >.
It still sounds like cherry picking. Is there bus service from all poor neighborhoods to and from the charter school? Or is it only wealthy families that are not working multiple jobs and can afford to drive their kids to and from the school everyday that can consider sending their children there?
Fundamentally, I believe that Apple's biggest fans fall into two different camps. In one camp, you have people who effectively want macOS on an iPad with a touch-centric UI which is made obvious by their assertion that a unified everything across all devices is the correct path forward. The other camp wants a traditional desktop operating system on their Macintosh computers.

Personally, the only reason I enjoy Macintosh machines at all is the UNIX platform with a distraction free environment. The has been dying and I have therefore gone back to using Slackware with TDE. I don't want 50,000 notifications. I don't want my computer to be a dumb terminal to network services. I want my UNIX environment to be a first class feature and not an afterthought. The Apple Silicon chips are the sexiest thing to happen in technology since the introduction of the first ThreadRipper, but they aren't worth the trade off for me personally. Being forced back into the Apple world with, what is in my opinion, a distracting environment just makes me less productive.
I read a paper in Icarus years (late 80s) ago about double craters. The article made a case for tidal forces ripping loosely compacted meteors apart as they neared a larger body on their trajectory to impact. I tried to find that paper, but Google gave me a bunch of papers on "binary asteroids", pairs of mutually orbiting asteroids.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234842232_Morpholog...

Seems like in either case, we shouldn't be surprised by a dual impact.
This results in a pretty un-portable Makefile. Portability is a desirable feature for a build system, which is supposed to help other people on other systems to build your software.
I recently upgraded MacOS and now TextEdit occasionally crashes randomly. And pasted text has bizarre spacing even in plain text mode. Are they eating their own dog food?
We can hardly be expected to watch a 46 minute video on "A Practical Guide to Applying Data-Oriented Design" to find our answer. It seems unpromising on the surface.
I for one love the wild variety of AI hardware that lives one sufficiently smart compiler away from viable. It's great to move complexity out of the hardware and into the compiler stack.
Apple App Store mandates that their Apple network infrastructure shall not be impacted by an app (VPN, TailScale, WireGuard, et. al.)

In addition to unimpeded Apple network pathway, DNS resolver is being resolved by Apple DNS recursive DNS server during your tunneling setup, arguably resolving even just the IP address(es) as well as DNS names of VPN server.

More on this sad saga of Apple iOS and VPN, et. al.:

https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php#whe...

Edit: of course, an external router would only leverage the WiFi part of iOS. We could use just the WiFi part of iOS and totally ignore the mysterious cellular traffic.
I give up. I couldn’t find that list. Where do I look?

It would be useful to know what brands to avoid.
You are right, added a paragraph at the end.
Exactly, that's why GPT3 generated things that were not included in task description in C++ example like reading the numbers first and then printing them. Same thing in Rust, here vectors are static, while in C++ you were asked. All because of examples on which the model was trained.
But I think the $13K number includes those outliers, no? If I understand GP, they're arguing the average for 90% of students is probably significantly lower.
At least it’s not ad based. They sell content, and you can chose to pay them for the content or not. A respectable business model by comparison.
and part 2: https://youtu.be/ibSJ_yy96iE
s/Sanierung/according/ - one would think the multilingual keyboard would take the currently used language into consideration.
It is frustrating to see the country getting polarised this way. A 2-party system is not helpful to a functioning democracy. I am not a fan of fully proportional representation as it leads to government instability and ineffectiveness, but a party getting an absolute majority in Parliament whilst getting 40% of the vote is a travesty. Also, after having lived through Brexit and the successive government, the BBC is not fit for purpose. It is fine as a public media group, but it’s sanctity in the mind of a lot of British people is not really well founded.
Yeah, it seems like we agree. I still think this kind of writing is incredibly valuable in spurring these types of conversations. the question of how much we should care about the future vs today is a profound one. In a world and society trending towards utilitarianism, someone needs to formulate an answer within that framework for why it is unethical to carry out genocide today to generate prosperity tomorrow.
Rent it for a few days and you will see
Incompetence that leads to accusing a caring father of distributing CP seems “evil” to me.

And I usually find myself on your side of these discussion, trying to avoid hyperbole. I don’t think ‘evil’ is hyperbolic in this case.
Been ussing this script https://github.com/srvrco/getssl
You can't, because the Chrome license is personal and non-assignable. If you enter into a contract with them to deploy them on computers, I assume this is precluded explicitly by the terms.

You could with Chromium, but that's problematic and annoying in minor ways. (Some of the things consumers value involve Google integrations).
X was literally the thing they needed shared libraries for - it was too big to link statically.
I think Sci-Hub is the opposite since 1 DOI = 1 PDF in its canonical form (straight from the publisher) so neither duplication nor low-quality is the case.
> Exactly 0 of 627 college students can answer simple questions like 'What is the name of the mountain range that separates Europe from Asia?' or 'What is the last name of the author of The Brothers Karamazov?'.

These simple questions that are just recitation of facts are worthless. I don’t even know the answers to these.

The only questions that measure anything useful are critical thinking type questions, consider simple things any CS student should be able to answer such as “Describe the design for a roles based authentication system” or “Describe an implementation of a communications bus between multiple systems in a micro services architecture”
That's not what that link says. In fact the source explicitly states that they are not looking at SAT scores by major, they are just looking at average SAT scores for a given college and weighting those scores by the percentage of education majors at that college. That led to their conclusion that: "Graduates with education majors are disproportionately found at schools where students have lower SAT scores." That doesn't mean the graduates with education majors themselves have lower scores unless you make some unsupported assumptions about distribution of SAT scores at any given college.

But even if education major SAT scores are lower on average, it it seems like backwards thinking when talking about pay. The point isn't that all current individual teachers deserve to be paid more; it's that teaching as a profession should pay more to attract talented people who otherwise pursue more lucrative fields, just like any other profession. If you paid doctors and engineers low wages, you'd probably fail to attract some top talent as well. But that doesn't then become a justification for those low wages since the low wages caused the issue in the first place.
there is chocolatey as well which i find works great
Again, just expressing my opinion, but another example would be it would allow custom ranking algorithms like PageRank, TrustRank, etc.

And yes, aware of Lobste.rs mod logs, but Lobste.rs is basically dead compared to HN — largely because it’s an HN clone.
I'm going respectfully disagree with you on the first point. Do you really need a Phd to maintain an internal javascript framework with a handful of users? (True story). A lot of the hires are made to starve the competition of good people.

The low hiring bar is relative. If all you do is put together crud apps and it's mostly stitching things together you might not even need a formal CS education. In fact a lot of people I know are wildly successful because they found their niche. They would have an exceptional bad time in a whiteboard setting.
At this point, I think people who can say 1. with a straight face are either intellectually dishonest or just repeat things others say.

The majority of teachers make a median US wage fairly early into their career and plenty make a multiple of it later on, on top of great benefits. Their job is no more challenging than nearly all other professions. “But they have to”… yes, everyone else has shit they have to deal with. The fact that the Waltons, crypto lottery winners, etc. exist is a separate problem that doesn’t mean teachers are underpaid.

Education majors are easier.The sky is blue. If we even remotely believe in a meritocracy (liberals often really don’t when you dig into their beliefs, granted) starting teachers should not make as much as a starting EE major. Nobody in their right mind would or should pursue an engineering career if teaching paid equivalently.
How do you measure programming speed? Everyone remembers an instance where they lost a sizeable amount of work, only to figure out that you could easily recreate the work in a few hours because you know what has to be done. Programming is not the only part of the job.
Like subb said, "sRGB Linear" means sRGB primaries without the sRGB EOTF (gamma curve) applied, which you could say is "raw linear" values, the most common way to input colors in 3d applications.
Z-Library has been innovating a great deal in that regard. Sadly they are not as open/sharing as LibGen mirrors in giving back to the community (in terms of database dumps, torrents, and source code).
This is bad advice. Changing the default prefix for recipes is worse than using tabs, whatever your feelings about tabs are. Just use make as it was designed, it will work better this way.
I think general survey results are probably a poor metric to use in evaluating the success of a healthcare institution. Sure, at any point in time, most people should be able to get what they need, but the serious cases, or anything out of the ordinary, is a much smaller percentage of cases for any given year. Anecdotes of waiting lists and the rationing of care (e.g. delaying services to the start of the next fiscal year when new money gets distributed) have been notorious for years now. This dissatisfaction only reveals itself over time, where it personally affects a greater swathe of the people. The pandemic accerlated this, but it shows how ultimately unsustainable it is.

Healhchare is tricky, because treatments are not one-size-fits-all. Large institutions are rigidly setup to deliver a product, a product that is ever changing, as new treatments are always being refined and added. When it was created it was set up to deliver products that were new 50 years ago, but the structure is inherently slow to evolve. But the private health insurance in UK does not have these problems. More effort could be made at growing the economy in such a way that rising incomes allow people to purchase the private health insurance. It's not an immediate answer for many, but it definitely beats throwing more money at a bureaucracy that cannot adapt.
> Has it really? I'm sure the potential exists for video lectures or whatever, but I think the teachers still ostensibly at least teach.

Yes. Gone are the days that you would hire a teacher to teach you something. These days you turn to automated teaching services. The fact that the word teacher is now synonymous with the K-12 school teacher further emphasizes that the career in general has effectively disappeared. As before, "teaching" has survived as a career where childcare is the actual service offered.

> How little do you pay babysitters?

In my case it is $3 per hour for a daycare provider that cares for no more than five children at a time. If the babysitter cared for more children I would expect to pay less as I would get much less value for my dollar. The quality of care and attention declines as the number of children increases.

Large class sizes are accepted because we are going for bang for our buck over quality of care. If teachers were charging on the same order per child as other daycare providers providing higher quality care, indeed it would be good money, but there would be a shift to putting children into those better care facilities and so it wouldn't last. Why pay the same amount for lesser care?
I don't know why this system is such a magnet of internet skepticism.

Of course the system is extraordinary, but it's an engineering project. An engineering project with a lot of "knowns", vs "known unknowns". It's mostly a materials science project.

It's a complicated integration problem with all of the engineering associated with that, but, to be fair, they're not making up a lot of stuff out of whole cloth, they're utilizing known things in new ways.

Simply, much of the concept can be simply tested after the napkin math is performed. Tested to the point of either "yea this will work" vs "no way".

As far as I know, there's no real government money in this, they don't seem to be running in to a lot of administrative red tape (like, high speed rail is not an engineering problem, it's social and governance problem). So, doesn't seem to be some swamp land boondoggle.

Can it fail? Of course it can fail. Is it inevitable? No, I don't think so. I don't think it's a bill of goods sold to investors to fund a few engineers in the middle of the desert.
Why do you think this should be an option?
> I don’t understand that endgame. I would never want strangers in my car unsupervised.

You are misunderstanding the comment you are replying to.

It doesn't say "Tesla utilises the car which it sold to you as a taxi". It says that Tesla doesn't sell you a car. And they don't sell you a car because they can make better money by using their factory output as taxis, than by selling it to you.

Which means it won't be your car.
Well, you are correct in the sense that only the consciousness needs to be incarcerated in order to sustain the profit model, but:

(a) compute cost for uploaded brains is probably more than the cost for the pig slop and water/sewer bills of current model. Recall that prisons right now almost never have AC. If you're going away from corpses, you'll have to pay for that.

(b) Cost of caring for the physical body has pretty much been solved by the markets. The customer has a social network that sends money in and pays transfer fees. This network also pays per call and email. Then the customer purchases food and clothing at monopoly prices, since... it's a captive market! Just imagine the ARR hit when people stop eating.
They do build a lot of stuff. And don't have the muscle to keep it around and maintain it. That's not whay softwarr developers do, right?
These statements should be understood as Google's privacy, and Google's security. You're just an authorized user.
If phantom braking is reproducible, ie it happens at the same place and time(because sun angle) you should report it to Tesla. Or post a YouTube and link on Twitter. In 15k miles of mostly autopilot, I have had phantom brake happen once or twice. I’m in the Bay Area. It happened when it couldn’t tell wether the shadow of over cross bridge from a physical object. What is your experience?
I understand your feelings. I had a very interesting project at my FAANG start, it was fun, required creative and learning new things.

With time I got assigned stuff that wasn’t challenging, and that hit me hard. And also locked in legacy code or big-Corp only way of doing things.

But you have to remember that you have a very good job. Most people would like to work there someday, and it opens many doors.

It’s yours to decide, but I would bet in an internal transfer. If nothing is interesting, starting exploring other options. But big Corp is always like this. The only difference is if you are lucky with your manager and/or project
Is it a one sided war, right?

FB can only lose money and Apple can only make more.

The best outcome for FB would be to legally deny Apple from blocking ads and keep the status quo.

The worst outcome for Apple would be to make only as many money as before without the share they are taking from FB.
>Control+(left arrow|right arrow) does it for me. It doesn't hop across destops but it gets me where I want quickly without moving my hand off the keyboard.

You can create desktop-specific shortcuts in Keyboard → Shortcuts → Mission Control → Switch to Desktop N
How hard is it for HN to make its own API? so I could do something like:

curl https://api.news.ycombinator.com/
What's the difference between PBR and ray tracing?