skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skoda/VW lane assist feels like it would bounce you back and forth between the lane markings if you just let it do it's thing; more useful a backup system to stop you crossing the line when you have a lapse in concentration (which is how they describe it I believe).
There is a little more nuance to it than you've stated here.

A Quartermaster in the British Army is generally a commissioned officer, usually nowadays a Late Entry Officer (a soldier who has achieved the rank of at least Staff Sergeant I think, and then received a commission). Quartermasters are most often the rank of Major, but sometimes I've known them to be Lt Col (Pirbright Army Training Centre has a Lt Col for Quartermaster when I was there).

A Quartermaster is generally in charge of G4 (or J4 in the modern parlance) which is the Logistics staff branch[0].

CQMS (Company Quartermaster Sergeant) is universally a Non-commissioned Officer role. I have only ever seen CQMS of Warrant Officer Class 2 rank. CQMS are responsible for the G4 branch in a company or squadron sized unit.

At a Regimental level you'll often also have an RQMS, universally Warrant Officer Class 1 in my experience but sometimes filled temporarily by a senior WO2. That role was always a bit of a mystery to me, but generally seemed to keep the CQMS's in check and filter a lot of the faff from the QM.

Getting to the point - names...

You'd never call the Quartermaster Q. I'm not sure what would have happened if you did, but I imagine it wouldn't have been pleasant.

You'd always call the CQMS Q, especially if you were Commissioned or SSgt or above. A bold Sgt would get away with it if followed up with a swift sir/ma'am.

The RQMS was RQ, or sir/ma'am to anyone junior.

Add to the mix is the tradition of using "Salutation Surname" (i.e. Mr Brown, Mrs Red) to all Warrant Officers and you have a heady mix of options.

Edging closer to the point - the moniker Q in the books/movie would likely have come about from the abbreviation of CQMS. Which makes sense as Bond, as a 'front line' individual, would almost never actually see the actual Quartermaster, but would interact with his unit's CQMS who would be the one dealing with issuing and accounting for kit.

I believe Bond also had the rank of Commander. It would be customary for that rank to address a CQMS as Q, but never a Quartermaster with that letter.

[0]http://www.armedforces.co.uk/army/listings/l0005.html
If that's an argument you want to make, then perhaps you should make it.
The counterpoint goes something like this (not that I necessarily buy it, but this is what I infer to be Tesla's reasoning):

1) We're only going to fully "solve" self-driving with ML techniques to train deployed NNs; it can't be done purely in human-written deterministic code because the task is too complex.

2) Those NNs are only going to come up to the necessary levels of quality with a ton of very-real-world test miles. Various forms of "artificial" in-house testing and simulation can help in some ways, but without the real-world data you won't get anywhere.

3) Deploying cars into the real world (to gather the above) without some kind of safety driver doesn't seem like a great path either. There's no backup driver to take over and intervene / unstick the car, and so far driverless taxi fleet efforts have been fairly narrowly geofenced for safety, which decreases the scope of scenarios they even get data on vs the whole real-world driving experience.

4) Therefore, the best plan to acquire the data to train the networks is to use a ton of customers as safety drivers and let them test it widely on the real routes they drive. This is tricky and dangerous, but if it's not too dangerous and the outcome saves many lives over the coming years, it was worth it.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding here.

A key thing to appreciate is that the women in this article, including Rebecca, are not spies. They are civil servants [1] working in a very sensitive area of government. None of them are undercover, or sneaking into Russian bases. It's a sensible precaution for them to keep quiet about what they do, but it's not like their ability to do their job depends on absolute secrecy.

By way of comparison, the US equivalent of Rebecca, who is the deputy to the chief of the service, would be the deputy director of the CIA. The identity of that person is not only public, he has a wikipedia page [2]!

[1] Well, diplomatic servants, but that's basically an alternative flavour of civil servant that exists for historical reasons

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Cohen_(attorney)
I've had FSD for about 3-4 months and it can do the vast majority of my drives without disengagement.

There are some very obvious things it still struggles with like construction and roads without clearly defined lines. But I just don't use it on those routes.

I think Tesla made a mistake trying to take a "boil the ocean" approach that will work literally anywhere instead of focusing on key areas first. It ensures you need to 100% nail it before it can be considered "released" as opposed to releasing with a specific set of criteria to meet.
California isn't an option, either.

The ideal launch site:

1) As close to the equator as possible.

2) Has open water to the *east* of the launch site. (Wasteland is also acceptable, that's what Russia does. They also care less if they drop it on somebody's head. China doesn't seem to care--we've seen them drop a rocket on a village.)

3) Has a huge amount of open space around it in case the rocket goes boom on the pad.

California fails the east requirement, it's used for polar launches (where you want water to either the north or south) but you can't insert into a normal equatorial orbit from there.

Hawaii fails the space requirement. Not to mention all the logistics hassles it would cause. Thus Florida it is and assume the infrastructure will in time be lost.
I'm sorry, have you run across a lot of child porn on Twitter?
This is incredibly impressive but I also simultaneously find it kind of depressing. In my not so humble opinion, typescript is already way too complicated and getting worse thanks to its velocity. A better approach would be to kill typescript's velocity by identifying a stable subset of the language that provides the vast majority of its benefits and optimize the heck out of a parser for that smaller language. This approach would be both easier and more sustainable since it would cap the language complexity making it easier to maintain and/or write alternative implementations.
I'm curious about what kind of connection FTX had with the World Economic Forum. Apparently WEF had a webpage dedicated to singing FTX's praises, and then promptly deleted it after November 8th. [1]

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/how-world-economic-forum-other...
Looks at webapps on the desktop, where any browser may be installed, yet webapps are all bad

No, pretty sure that's not the main reason they're subpar compared to native.

Hell, so's Java, and that's way better-positioned to not-suck relative to native than webtech is, and it's been in that game far longer.
Limiting to a well mapped city should be a point in favor of Cruise and Waymo, they are operating it with more restraint. Normalize for the raw difficulty of the area (city vs highway, etc.), but don't penalize for taking steps to make their operation area safer (hd mapping it).
It seems like there is a lot of pressure these days for people to find their "passion" or their life's work. But I think there are only a small subset of people who have that kind of single-minded focus. I used to get anxious about the fact that I did not have a passion.
I have many varied interests and hobbies, but that dilution of interest prevents me from really excelling in one thing or having anything close to a "life's work".
I've now realized it's ok to not have a that passion for one thing. I'll never create my version of a Dwarf Fortress. I'll create small things that make me happy, and know a little bit about a lot of things. And I'm ok with that.

edit:grammar
> It's not hypocrisy, it's the natural outgrowth of seeing other people as a collection of vague moving objects that either do things for you or cause problems for you.

Good object versus bad object, very Kleinian and appropriate.

Central to object relations theory is the notion of splitting, which can be described as the mental separation of objects into "good" and "bad" parts and the subsequent repression of the "bad," or anxiety-provoking, aspects (Klein, 1932; 1935).

Infants first experience splitting in their relationship with the primary caregiver: The caregiver is “good” when all the infant’s needs are satisfied and “bad” when they are not.
From BigCo to startup: tips for evaluating early-stage job opportunities
Show HN: Qwurty, a new feature-packed social network
Hello HN! We have been working as a very small team for the past 5 years developing a feature-full social platform to offer as competition to the larger platforms that many have come to resent, with no great alternative.

We set out to develop something that focuses more on the user as our customer, and providing a useful service in creating and delivering content through the many forms of mediums we're accustomed to today.
This question is clearly not relevant to the parent comment, since the linked tweet explicitly states that he would not ban this account as part of his commitment to free speech.
Feels great seeing all this reputational damage attacks towards the one guy making the biggest impact in the incoming climate disaster.
Its pretty explicit PR when the journalist explains meeting people from the SIS right in the first sentence :)
My wife has a BMW 330e PHEV. We both love it. We've had it for almost a year and filled the tank twice.
also JS let/const
There's asking questions about the circumstances to better understand before casting judgement, and then there's sarcastically implying that OP is a bad parent for endangering their child without asking any actual questions about what happened.
The If Books Could Kill podcast also have a review of the book. I found it amusing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-brookss-bobos-in...
> It forces any programmer who wants to robustly handle potentially invalid string data to use byte vectors instead.

Is this not the only thing you can really do? If strings could hold invalid unicode then they effectively become bytes and you now have to be wary of every possible string. I would rather Python just do away with strings entirely in the integration points with the OS and make you either keep them as opaque bytes or decode them.

> behaves like a string and supports all the handy string operations but which handles invalid data gracefully

Unless Guido was feeling particularly practical I can't imagine this ever making it into the stdlib because the choice of "gracefully" is somewhat arbitrary and application dependent.
I was one of the first people to get FSD Beta access and have given it a try every single time they pushed an update, and honestly, it's unusable and dangerous.

The car just does not behave like a regular driver in any capacity. It's a neat trick to show when there is nobody on the road, but besides that, I have lost all faith in FSD ever coming out in any meaningful way. I only paid $2k for FSD ($7k total w/ Enhanced Autopilot), but even that is too much for what FSD actually is.
I am a longtime very “Mac person” and don’t like non-Cocoa / standard Mac UI apps, but I used Min for a long while. I went back to Safari once Cloud Tabs stabilized, but Min is just incredibly lean, fast, and reliable. Big fan — and I may yet go back!
SvelteKit 1.0
Nice! I learned :read, :norm, and maybe considered being a little less averse to creating impromptu commands via map.

I probably would have approached it first by `ls | pbcopy` then putting it in vim, and then using global replace (:s//) to put in the links, then used the Finder's preview (pressing Space in a finder window) to get the PDF file titles, much as he was using that custom map command to work through each file manually.
As an aside: I keep seeing claims on mastodon that any mention of mastodon on twitter gets flagged. Not having a twitter account I can't test that claim. Any twitter users up to try an experiment?
Local:

- Google Maps optimization, asking or discounting for ratings

- Rewards and affiliate programs

- Physical flyers sometimes, yes

- Free samples at various stores if food related

Startups:

- SEO

- Content marketing

- Affiliate programs

- Cold emailing, DMing on other platforms

- Sponsorships with creators like on YouTube

- Gamification

- And of course, word of mouth and simply having a good product

Unless you're big or have lots of VC, ads usually don't work. The companies I've worked with, we tried many different ad models which cost a lot of money but ultimately didn't bring in the traffic commensutate to the cost.
I don't think 'beta tester' is a recognized class in terms of consumer law. You're a customer, a merchant, a manufacturer or a bystander. Besides that for something that costs that kind of money you can simply expect it to work.
And so what; the hammer manufacturer comes around and gives you fresh handles and a nice rust treatment every other month? That’s precisely the difference between tools that you buy once and SaaS subscriptions, and why the analogy is flawed.
My other car with TACC and autosteer claims to be a pro pilot, but can't handle a shallow curve and also accelerates towards stopped traffic fast enough to trigger its own collision warning.

Tesla will be fine.
I'm grateful that this site still has no ads, no pictures, and no JavaScript nonsense.
Supercharger network is the only moat. In all other respects other EVs beat Tesla feature for feature.

Maybe the gov't will squash FSD and Tesla will have an epiphany and decide to refocus their efforts on the basics where they're quickly falling behind. Hell, maybe they'll start including the better technology the competition relies on, and try to stick to just the things they're good at. Which is ... I don't know. Image seekers?
You should look carefully at what Bari Weiss misquotes. Twitter's statement is about Libsoftiktok not doing something suspendable was limited to a short time period, not a blanket statement.

But "they got suspended 6 times for legitimate reasons and then the continued to behave badly while staying just inside the written bounds of the rules" isn't really a story.
Yeah, I wouldn't really count it for much on actual load bearing walls, but it is noticeable on non-load bearing walls, they become more stable with drywall.

The most noticeable place I've seen it is in garages; the ones that are drywalled on the inside don't seem to lean as much as those that aren't.
Russia Must Prepare for War with NATO in 2023, State TV Guest Says
You're going to mislead a lot of non-Americans here with the bit about political donations. In America, you can donate to one party to benefit the other party by virtue of candidate selection during primary elections. Who one donates to does not necessarily match their preferred party.
Two users reported the demo was having issues, but tested prior to sharing and just now and works fine for me. Only error I get is when I exceed the token limit, which is basically input limit; for me it appears to be roughly 200ish tokens.

Token counter is linked to in the demo, but for ease of reference here’s direct link:

https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer

Feel free to share the exact inputs and error messages and I will attempt to replicate them.

EDIT: For fun, here’s an example I just pulled from the the linked demo; my input starts with “rephrase following” and ends with “option two:“

__________

rephrase following sentence in Chinese: what is your favorite color?

option one: 我喜欢哪种颜色？

option two: 我的最爱是哪一种颜色？

In a way, the second option is more polite. However, it’s still not really correct to use ‘favorite’. 我喜欢 means I like or prefer something and it doesn’t necessarily have to be my favorite thing.

As for the first option, I don’t think there is such a word.

I believe that the most common way to ask this question would be 我喜欢什么颜色？or 我喜欢某种�色？
> stochastic terrorism

This is an interesting term that is worth exploring. A problem with it is that it could apply to huge swaths of people and organizations, e.g. Fox News, the Republican Party, CNN, Democratic Socialists, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
Why is progress in biology so slow?
Saner politics -> ranked choice voting.
The underlying data is public, there is no expectation of privacy for publicly available data.
Note that the FAA offers aircraft operators ways to make ADS-B information more private by vending a temporary ID for domestic flights.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

Note also that FlightRadar24 and other ADS-B vendors are required by law to comply with FAA LADD, so airplane operators can request (demand, really) their information be scrubbed.

https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations/security/privacy/limiti...

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd
These Spies “Run Agents”: recruit, train, hand hold, interview, debrief and analyse, pay/bribe and present the information from the traitors, drug smugglers, or other people with nothing much to lose.

I’m sure there may be dangerous jobs but these days much of that can be done from friendly countries or even the office.

[edit] list of roles from MI6 site: https://www.sis.gov.uk/intelligence-officers.html
The linked tweet isn’t the suspended account, @ElonJet is. And of this moment, it’s still suspended.
This is something I've knowingly devoted my life. It's an immature idea / realization / dream I had at age 12, which was about 1976. I saw a presentation by Ohio State's 3D computer graphics group, basically showing off the then-new field of 3D computer graphics. I thought in my 12 year old head "some day someone will make realistic versions of ordinary people in animation, and that person is gonna be rich using these to sell stuff to those same people." And since that time I have in one way or another been working towards that goal. I've been a 3D graphics pioneer, game console OS and game dev, VFX technical artist, MBA, the author of a patent on automated actor replacement, and the failed CEO of a startup doing actor replacement for advertising. At this point my emotional state on the entire effort is mixed and complex. I feel "personalized media" is inevitable and on the cusp happening, and without me, despite my working on this at high levels for decades.
AoC is too easy. There's no benefit to more than one person.
You mean like this service?

https://landtransparency.ca/
Though it looks like ActivityPub is push, and RSS is pull. But one should be able to construct transformers between the formats of ActivityPub and RSS/Atom.
Or, the elderly. How many times have we seen accidents due to an confused individual driving down the wrong side of the street or mistaking the accelerator for brake?

Tesla may not ever get FSD working with its current approach, but if a competitor can do it (even geofenced like how Waymo and Cruise operate today!) and the economies of scale could kick in to make it more affordable than Ubering everywhere, then it would be a huge benefit to those that are even unable to use public transportation.
> Sometimes it makes up crates that do not exist though.

You're missing the point, these are ideas for further work.
look up old thin clients. (lots of youtube content about this too)
for example:Dell DX0D Wyse 5010 Thin Client w/ Stand & Charger 16GB SSD 4GB 1.40 GHz [wifi]

i got 2 of those for 80 dollars. work fine in linux. even videos about converting them to be USB powered too, if thats a thing you think you'll need.
The total cost of not acting is almost certainly greater than the cost of acting. It's a matter of who will bear the costs. Not acting pushes the costs off onto others, frequently the poor. Acting requires costs to be borne by the powerful.
My internal image of him is the iconic "oldish bald guy with thin circle glasses, black turtleneck and dad jeans" but young Steve Jobs actually looks surprisingly similar to Ashton Kutcher.
Wow, this is something I never considered... go down the rabbit hole on this site ("guns", "glider guns", etc). I had no idea people actually tried to "game" or discover useful patterns in game of life:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
I could see something like this being their logic - maybe not with neural networks/machine learning specifically, but certainly "the only way to get to where we want to go is to do this".

My counter-counter-point would be that there's plenty of other companies that are doing this more safely, and also that ends don't justify the means when those means involve killing pedestrians.
I hope Last Week Tonight does a main story on Elon when it comes back.
This would be great. I don't want to install another app store or sideload much if that big change comes next year as I am a fan of the walled garden. My one worry was web browsing as I would prefer a firefox/ublock setup on my iphone.
that's a screenshot of signal, so the only way the any of the old stuff can be retrieved is if one of the participants saved it outside of signal.
My experience in threads about Elon and his companies, is there is a large number of people who are complete and absolute fanboys in the comments, that also heavily overlaps with a large group of people who have invested in tech stocks trying to get a return on their money.

Any criticism I've ever said of Tesla or Elon usually initially gets up votes and then half a day or even a few days later receives a lot of down votes. I always assumed it was people invested in his stocks doing it on their own, but his antics on Twitter show he's the kind of person that might actually employ people to down vote people critical of him and his companies.
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
> On most US highways you are technically supposed to overtake on the right

You mean the left?
when it comes to decision-making there is a lot of hardcoded rules in these systems. They don't learn the speed limits or to stop at red lights. The learning is all in the perception and object recognition but a lot of the behavior is just explicit rules.
He's not to blame for being hypocritical, the ones to blame are the people are being hypocritical because they'd be just as hypocritical as he is.

Mental gymnastics gold medalist.
> Snowden didn't just blindly dump everything he could get regardless of the consequences.

Snowden leaked information about NSA surveillance of foreign persons not on US soil - that kind of activity is explicitly within the NSA's core mission and the legal framework around it. I'll leave aside any debate of the domestic programs - he very definitely did expose entirely legal secret activities. That's either careless or malicious.
No shame in that. Thanks for sharing
When the Elon/Twitter transaction went through, there were a lot of HN comments stating that they thought that this might actually mean a more open, "freer" Twitter.

When I mentioned that Elon had already been using his power unilaterally to re-platform personal allies like Babylon Bee and Ye, I got all sorts of pedantry about the difference between suspension and banning, more pedantry about the Ye reactivation happening moments before the deal went through and some justifications about Babylon Bee not having done anything wrong, etc...

I will reiterate here again. Musk will squeeze every bit of perceived power he may have out of Twitter by issuing personal favours like the petty, tin-pot tyrant that he is.