skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same thing that happened pre-COVID with "ridesharing"

Fifteen minutes in an Uber is far more pleasant, productive, and I’d wager healthy, than ten minutes in gridlock. I can focus intensely on a task or thought or even take a nap.

We should also build rail. But self-driving cars look more likely to complement rail than detract from it. (One can imagine multi-modal trains, onto which self-driving cars park so their owners can enjoy privacy and a custom interior alongside the economics and eco-friendliness of rail.)
You're conflating "guidance" with lack of trust; the two things are entirely separate, and I'm not sure why they are being confused.

I'm leading a small (4 person) team working on a large multi-year greenfield project, and I sometimes schedule the entire team to meet with the client, who is a domain expert, so that we can hash out some fine decisions that he has unique insight into. My insights, as someone who bridges the technical and domain sides are also key to the success of these meetings.

Would you say I don't "trust" the team by not allowing them to work in a silo?
>what happens when everyone has a self driving car? All of those cars that are otherwise parked are now on the road. Traffic.

Why? The number of trips is governed by the demand for trips, not the supply of cars. There isn't sufficient demand for trips to put all the cars on the road all the time, or else they already would be. The inelasticity of demand for trips is right there in the data you cite.

>TNCs led to increased road congestion in terms of both intensity (by 0.9%)
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Adding transit makes people live around the transit - if you let them by not kneecapping them with zoning rules. All this is an emergent property of a system designed to prevent new construction.
Ah ok, I'll check it out. I'm curious if self-driving Ubers would be a step change tho, or if we would observe the same thing.

Edit: because if we half self-driving cars, do we also get self-driving buses and now we can have a lot more bus routes? Is lack (or cost) of labor one thing that holds back the number of buses we have? Could we have more mini buses? Just curious how much the labor factors into the transit options we have. Maybe it doesn't that much, I don't know.
I can't claim to be the representative of HN. However, you're welcome and thank you for sharing your joy. It reminds me of my own joy.

Free software underpins much of your experience. Given your background, you may find it interesting to read about it: https://archive.org/details/free-software-free-society-selec...

I'm also self-taught from another discipline. I'm a bottom-up learner and have found 'The Elements of Computing Systems' (aka Nand2Teris) compelling and exciting. With the course, you build a computer, completely, from scratch. It's some of the best writing and teaching I have ever experienced. It leaves you with a solid overview of computing and where you can go next with your learning, career, or projects. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

You might think of these as the "why" and the "how".
Your solutions if they totally resolved gridlock seem like they would sew the seeds of riots.
Where I live it's advised to introduce peanuts early to kids (before 8 months) because of this research
as someone steeped in web3 space, what web3 needs is some basic product design knowledge. Atrocious how so many multimillion dollar market cap projects have no concept of UI/UX, no concern about site speed (12mb-uncompressed-image-home-page bad), and frankly, no concern with anything remotely related to utility.
The idea is that the cost of a ride would go way down because you don’t need to compensate a driver.
FSD = Fools Self Driving

Everyone knows it has always been a fools dream to purchase this snake-oil AI scam product and it is finally been recognised as such.
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Of course I understand enforcing 2FA when the user has signed up for/opted in to 2FA. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here: Google unilaterally decided to enforce 2FA on a 1FA account.
And the allergies can't also be a mutation/adaptation?

Wouldn't some "processed food or medicine that triggers these severe allergies" be a "mutation/adaptation"? I'm confused on the distinction you're trying to make it it's not "Americans are bad haha".
Hard to tell if this is sarcasm.
He could have fired 100% and Twitter wouldn’t crash.
To most "coffee people"'s palette, Robusta is like burnt shoe leather strained through an old gym sock. Vietnamese drink a lot of it since they grow it there, and it's been successfully marketed in the US by "extreme amounts of caffeine" brands.

> for Arabica to be good the roast has to be right and the brew has to be right

But the OP doesn't have to worry about that, they just need to find a way to market their beans to a specialty roaster. Small batch single origin Arabica can make a tidy little profit.
> just use a database

Totally. But I’m thinking of protocols that give people insight into what’s happening and a way for them to join that protocol and start working.

Like imagine activity pub (mastodon protocol) or xmpp - both are protocols to enable real time comms.

If there were protocols to run your business that you could be a part of, and attempt to fix the issues of loads getting cancelled last minute due to dispatching errors, etc. stakeholders would know where the fault lies and payments could be adjusted based on where things went well or wrong.
The only currently known self driving system uses that same sensor suite (neural nets and cameras).
The thing about arenas is those 1,000 people all want to show up and leave at the same time.. so those 1,000 cars will all have the exact same demand and cause roving gridlock from wherever they are parked on the way to the arena.
I think I’m a jerk because I found this industry response satisfying.

Perhaps this creates an opportunity for certified allergen free foods companies to get into the game in a bigger way.
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What's FSD mean?
I think the key to building components like this id learning a few key tools in CSS. The first is Flexbox. Take a look at CSS Tricks' guide. You will give you the structure.

Then learn the position attribute thru and thru: absolute and relative will help you with pixel perfect tweaks like the vertical line and circles.

Make sure you have a mental model of the layout algorithm. If you add absolute to a div, how will its height and with change? What is the size and position of a div or span when height is specified?
‘Worse than feared’: Brexit to blame for £33B loss to UK economy, study shows
Dual SSI EEB motherboards PC case parametrically designed in SolveSpace
Anyone with a GoogleGlass willing to tell us?
Are there any good VOIP alternatives to Google Voice that don't get tripped up as invalid phone numbers by other companies' snake oil authentication? From what I've found, GVoice is uniquely large and has enough "normie" Google Fi customers that companies can't discriminate the way they do against say Voip.ms and Flowroute [0].

My tentative plan is to get (another) cheap paygo SIM, stick it in a cell modem attached to a server, and set it up to forward all texts to email/xmpp/etc. Use that for all these longstanding snake oil auths.

Then move my main personal number (used to be a mobile number, now at GVoice) to a VOIP service. At which point if someone can't call/text my personal number because they're using some crappy service (eg Comcast mobile), then too bad, they can figure it out.

[0] I figure Twilio is in this same boat, although I don't have much experience with them?
The ugly syntax is mostly a maintenance issue, but the real problem is that CMake doesn’t expose all of the internal build system “machinery” that you need to build something complex or performant.

Take waf for example: it’s effectively a Python framework for creating a custom build system, with every single internal feature accessible (and documented) with good design instead of abstractions. In waf, you can do things like:

* define custom build Tasks

* have those Tasks spawn other Tasks dynamically (e.g. by parsing the stdout of a compiler to find output files)

* Extend/modify the behavior of existing Task classes (e.g. the C/C++ linker)

* Modify the task scheduler to control execution order

* Implement commands that analyze your build scripts (e.g. to generate a compile_commands.json file, or anything else)

* cache any serializable Python types between build invications

* create reusable project-agnostic build scripts

* wrap everything in a nice API so that build scripts are manageable

* rich debugging features

Not to mention the expressive syntax of Python and the full power of the standard library.

And all you need is a Python interpreter (2.7 and 3+ both work), as Waf has zero dependencies.

The learning curve is high, but it’s worth it for projects that have a lot of build complexity. In my case, I use CMake until a project needs custom functions, or needs to support multiple languages, then I switch to waf.
If someone can't tolerate anyone else on a flight eating anything, they probably shouldn't fly.
The “fraud detection“ method used here was underwhelming. I was hoping for a statistical learning approach rather than a blunt heuristic. More justification for the heuristic would have been interesting.
As a comment on that answer points out,

100vw - (100vw - 100%) = 100vw - 100vw + 100% = 100%
There are a few open source options out there (e.g. run IMAP backup script via cron). I personally use CubeBackup [1] on a local NAS, which covers mail/drive/photos. I then have a job that backs up that directory off-site using rclone.

[1] https://www.cubebackup.com/
It might not be. I've never liked Elon, a view that was truly cemented during the "pedo guy" incident. In the past that meant I just ignored fawning articles or comment threads about this modern "Tony Stark" as I knew any critical comments would result in a pile-on from his supporters.

Conversely, herds are gonna herd, and Musk fans are probably a lot less vocal these days compared to the days of peak Elon hero worship.
I don’t think self-driving cars lead to fewer people owning cars, in fact it’s quite the opposite. With FSD, those who don’t like driving can deal with owning a car to do necessary transportation tasks (e.g. commuting), instead of giving it up for alternative methods because they don’t want to drive consciously/presently.
OK, so how do you keep the politicians in office that enact such legislation and if you say you want to create a Maoist state either how is this preferable or how do you stop rebellion?
Planned, but it's looking to be hard.
The idea that a single person is paying a specific part of infrastructure makes no sense. My taxes do not pay for a specific road, they pay for the operations for society as a whole.

Sometimes, that would mean my taxes are going to pay for something which hurts me in the short term, if I want to get to a future where individual cars are not used as much and walking/bicycling/public transit are possible.
position:device-fixed;!

https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/12/the_fifth_p...

Basically a version of position:fixed that doesn't get zoomed in on when zooming the rest of the page on mobile, so it's always actually visible. would be hugely useful for making bottom/top menus like apps have, without having to re-implement zooming in javascript.
FSD is a Boondoggle. (Collision/accident avoidance and driver assist systems are not)

I don't think we will see a legitimate L5 automation in our lifetimes. Take my 1.5 mile journey to do the morning school run, in a small UK town:

- Getting off the driveway, there is a wall that creates a blind spot behind it, often other parents are walking small kids who are shorter than that wall. I can't see behind it. I check down the street as I get into the car, watch for subtle reflections, and aware that an adult further down the road may have a kid closer by on a small bike.

- Turning out the end of the road, there are parked cars blocking my view, it's safer to stop slightly further back as you can see slightly better.

- Another turning onto a busy road, at rush hour you can't get out without a considerate driver pausing and waving you out.

- Cross roads that is slightly out of alignment. The collision avoidance on my Audi often incorrectly triggers braking thinking that we are going to have a head on crash.

- Delivery vans blocking a lane, heavy on coming traffic. Considerate delivers on the other side flashing to let you around.

- A right hand turn (uk driving on left). It's better to pull slightly across the centre line letting people going straight on pass on the left, while you wait for a gap across the road. Plenty of space even for the largest trucks on the other side when you do this. Keeps traffic moving and everyone happy.

- Another right turn, no road markings and 4! different exits off the road in under 8m. Often blocked by cars so have to go further forward by a car length and double back.

- School car park! Children walking everywhere, large cars, teenagers who have just passed their driving test, parents dropping their kids out in the middle of a moving queue.

I just don't think it's possible for AI FSD to understand the nuance of all that.

(Yes, a 1.5 mile journey to school, we should be walking)
Those look different
It’s still up in all its fraudulent glory: https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...
I might be atypical, for sure. I've moved through Java, Go, Python, c++ and recently to Scala now, with no contacts at any of the companies I've applied to, but hopefully good references in each case. I've only been a dev for 7-ish years and had 3 separate jobs in that time. Youth might have given me some leniency in the first moves, but maybe less so in the latest one.

Im from a small country, so it might just be that the developers have a stronger hand at the negotiation table than elsewhere, since there're fewer competent devs as a result.

In any case, as a programmer I feel like I would always hire someone that demonstrates good programming skills in the "wrong language" over someone who's mediocre in the "right language", so it's sad to hear that's not the case many places. And that might be a lesson I should keep in the back of my mind as well.
self driving cars would create demand as they would presumably be cheaper than equivalent rideshare.
Cannabis is legal in most US states but federal laws block businesses from banks
But article states something else - a company can't say "this product might not be safe for people with food allergies", they can still be sued. So the only thing left for the company is to actually intentionally put the alergen in and they say "this product is 100% not safe for people with food allergies". The end result is the decrease of alergen free food.
Will take a look into it, thanks for the link.
Not paying a human to do the driving would make Uber/Lyft much cheaper, it's the dominant cost component of a ride if you do the math.
"everything is just a few hundred clicks away" - unintentionally hilarious!
I have a similar reaction to these non-interesting, noncontributing, unthinking, nonsubstantive knee-jerk expressions of hatred of all things crypto on HN. It's tiresome, and your comment could been more useful as a flag.

This is a general point and not a gripe at the anti-crypto crowd: comments that boil down to "I don't like this topic" are not useful and probably don't belong here.
> States are better off acknowledging that sprawling car dependent cities are not sustainable.

I think this is the driving force behind the 15’ city concept.
It should be “weary of” not “weary about”
> Ahh. Armchair economics strikes again. So, your pet theory disproves thousands of years of economic evidence that draws a direct line between money supply and inflation?

> Sure, if you say so.

Economics is a social science, not a hard science based on empirical evidence. Denying that there's an incentive for the ultra-wealthy (e.g., billionaires, corporations) to fund and promote specific ideologies is to deny reality; similar to denying that oil and gas companies influenced climate and environmental research or Purdue influences medical research and practices, in the pursuit of profit.
Depends on the public's perception of self driving. If it's perceived as some tool of the rich making roads unusable for the rest it might not be so hard to make the case. We already have the situation where EV's aren't paying road taxes that everyone else pays.
The most enjoyable programming jobs that I had were ones where I was also a 'user' of the software and was given power to build features that I personally wanted. I think this is common in open source projects that are started by people who couldn't find software that did what they wanted, so they wrote their own.

Businesses are there to make money and pay the bills (including the salary of the programmers) but the needs of the users can get lost sometimes in the shuffle. Managers are so busy trying to meet some goal set in a 'high-level' meeting that they lose focus on what would make customers happy.

My current project is very enjoyable. I built a system that I personally wanted (data management) and worked on features that I thought were important. I work closely with customers and beta sites to figure out which feature should get my attention next. It's not finished until I am personally happy with how it works.
This article is 2 hours old and his Twitter is already changed?
The other reasonable choice is to not produce non-seasame items in ways that can potentially cross-cobtaminate with sesame items, or vice versa.

If a bakery is jumping through hoops just to make a batch of sesame buns daily, I think there's some misdirected effort.
I don't get it, everyone can be born. Are you saying that it's the possibility of iteration that makes it fair? So if the raffle enforced one ticket per person it is no longer fair?
This, plus if you have no Google Takeout backup.
> How did we end up in a place where the companies aren't putting the cross-contamination ingredients

Isn't it because it's not an explicit ingredient but a risk of trace contamination? I'm not sure that an ingredients list with a bunch of "might also contain ____" items at the end.

The warning is pretty easy to spot when it's supplied.
> which exposed how overstaffed and overpayed thise guys were

Systems don't fail overnight, and Twitter has definitely been exhibiting odd behaviors lately. It's just a bit early for a victory lap.
Teslas don’t have LiDAR, which is used in all the best self driving systems.
I am really failing to understand the distinction here. Encryption with say, AES has very different properties and use cases compared to an obfuscation scheme. You can use encryption as a part of an obfuscation scheme, but obfuscation is a shell game, all the way down. Crypto is not, mathematically. They are categorically different things, right?
https://www.ncsc.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/1594/preven...

https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents...

The key issue is societal harm. For example above discusses bail considerations for serial rapists, etc. I pointed out that societal harm can also occur when a perception of distinct treatment for different classes of society reaches a critical threshold of society, it will result in societal harm. It's a sort of meta-harm to society, specially in today's political environment, societal harm to the people of United of States of America is anything that increases divisions, and diminishes trust in institutions, in my opinion.
> Programming a sfx card was way easier compared to nowadays.

This. Replace "sfx card" with almost anything except new ones. The list would include: ios/android app, web site, etc. There's a feeling that we keep stacking an unneeded complexity in layers.
Always remind them of their S.I.N.S. (Scale is not simple) haha
The amount which is tax-deductible is the amount donated, minus the fair market value of any goods and services and received. If Foo donates $3B for a non-profit hospital in exchange for a promise to slightly bump the priority and treatment Foo and Foo's family, I'd estimate that at least $2.999B of that was tax-deductible. (Is the promise of better treatment worth more than $1M of NPV? I don't think so.)
Thanks! Yeah that’d be nice. It’s a challenge to balance flexibility vs simplicity and I tend to go for the latter. You can always change the speed and make some notes longer to get some of the same effects I guess
Oh, I’m not sure how many people ever used Google Reader’s _own_ social features. But RSS facilitated social networking via blog (remember, for a while ~every blog had comments and trackbacks, on which twitter quote-retweets are based), and, unfortunately, Reader became so synonymous with RSS that its death largely killed that ecosystem. It was really noticeable at the time; blog activity really fell off, and even if you switched to an alternative RSS reader which stayed working (a lot of readers used Reader as a backend!) you had to switch to Twitter to keep up with what was going on.
But this is kind of strange, as for example in France, you definitely don't see the same level of allergies as in the US.
I very much agree, and I think it's also quite telling that on the male side, so many of them desire to be pornographic caricatures of women. We're regressing back to an era where women were stereotyped by men as submissive sex objects, rather then being actual full people.
This is it. The labeling isn't the problem it's the extra processes and cost required to eliminate the potential for any cross contamination. This problem, cost and liability goes away by just adding the ingredient.
Imagine thinking that firing 50% of the staff that built an enormously complicated piece of software, and having the service stay up and running means that the people who built it were overpaid or overstaffed.
If you think humans are equivalent to cameras and artificial neural networks, you are severely wrong.
Buses are as large as they are because the driver's time is valuable. If self-driving cars were cheap you could a bunch of 8 person van/busses on the road that give you most of the environmental/traffic benefit of a bus but could really expand frequency and reach.
>The most important metric for self driving is the distance a car can travel before it needs assistance from an occupant. That’s what self driving is.

That's reductionist to the point of meaninglessness. A car limited to a specific track could keep going autonomously until it breaks down, thus having an infinite metric on the distance a car can travel before it needs assistance from an occupant, yet practically it could easily be useless as a self-driving vehicle.

Being able to handle self-driving without being restricted to carefully chosen "good spots" and instead being able to generalize is at least on par in importance with distance the vehicle can travel.

Also, the vehicle determining that it can't handle a certain road well enough yet is a desirable feature and isn't really comparable to a bunch of people deciding if a certain road is safe for their vehicle before allowing it to self-drive there, as the latter simply isn't practical at scale.
Allowing FSD (in the next 20 years) to drive is unsafe, in my eyes. Investment in alternative transportation is the answer that doesn’t require driving from human or an algorithm.
Full self driving
Update: contacted my team to get this on the books for 2023 and now we're working to get an ad-hoc message out to our affected customers. We're making our list and checking it twice and working to make Christmas nice - for everybody!

Happy Holidays HN!
Musk has been a jackass for years, and many of us saw through the facade well before now.