skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla has two branches of their self driving software, the fsd branch which is under active development and the highway branch which has not had major changes in 2 years. The highway software is much worse around pedestrians and obstacles than FSD. It’s hard to say how fsd would handle a situation like that on the highway, but based on my experience with fsd off highway it would never choose to hit a car, so very likely it would run over the debris.
It doesn't make sense to me at all.

We have an iris, this allows us to limit the amount of light hitting our retina, or increase it when conditions are darker. Do the cameras on a Tesla have shutters that can do this? Otherwise you're going to have fun when there is glare off a wet road.
If you need multiple version of such a disk image, a tool like restic (or I guess borg too, not sure?) can also compress what's provided to it via stdin. So you'd dd directly into restic and it will delta compress to earlier backups.
I haven't used anything like that, for me the problem isn't tripping over cables but basically the force required to attach the cable in the first place. I guess a magnetic pigtail would reduce the number of times I need to insert the cable but a regular USB-C extension cable would do just as well for that purpose (and that's what I use right now).

That's still not perfect because the 2 cm of plug sticking out of the side of the device is long enough to put substantial leverage on the soldered part inside the device but that seems to be a given. I do try to find the shortest possible plug to minimize that force, but can't find them much shorter than that.
I found Al Gore's HN account everyone. Climate alarmists have predicted 200 of the last 0 extinction events. I won't hold my breath. The greatest threat to developers is outsourcing not ice ages.
Basically the same right is in the human rights convention, which has no caveats about citizenship and to which the US is a signatory.
""" The Starlink terms of service contain a section stating that in the event that SpaceX will reach Mars and establish service there, the company will have full independence from any government on Earth.

"For Services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities," the Starlink terms of service read. "Accordingly, Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement." """

Very interesting. Perhaps this is why Musk doesn't mind paying out-of-pocket to provide Starlink service in Ukraine.

Indebting all parties in the war to his vision for multi-planetary independance?
Holy shit. I do have to flip my Type C extension cable sometimes. This sort explains what is happening.

I would like to have really long cables (12ft+). That way I don’t need to bring a bulky extension cord with me when traveling. Has anyone found a way to make this work?
As the other person points out, with power there are alternatives that are basically 1:1 (electricity is fungible for the most part). With plastic, we do not have readily available replacements for every kind out there, and if we burn them in controlled, concentrated points, then (hopefully) we can scrub and filter the air at the point of emissions.
At this point, they should rename it to MSB – Multiversal Serial Bus.
> How much are they spending on system modernization

A fortune, they only just finished an 8-year migration to Amadeus
My single, multi-step recommendation is to commit to improving password hygiene.

1. Use a good¹ password manager for everything.

2. Upgrade at least critical logins to use 2FA, which becomes much easier when using a password manager.

3. Use password manager features that allow you to detect weak and compromised passwords, and fix those.

¹ I'm recommending 1Password to less-technical friends/relatives, and 1Password or Bitwarden to tech-savvier folks.
I once made a little puzzle that involves this idea: https://hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words
> 5. A 1000x lossless compression algorithm. In 2122 diskspace and bandwidth are no longer constraints on anything.

This seems that it would violate a fundamental law of information theory in that a data stream can only be compressed to the minimum number of bits necessary to communicate non-random information present within it.

To state it another way, let us suppose that an excellent compression ratio in 2022 is ~70% (an oversimplification, as the ratio varies wildly based on the source data). 100Mb of data thus compresses down to 30Mb.

But with a 1000x compression ratio, that same 100Mb would compress down to just 100kb.

I am not aware of any data streams that carry so little information where such a ratio could be achievable.
I agree - but one reason that it's nauseating to see so much celebration of software engineers ("pampered folks") is the freedom-destroying force that FAANG is. It doesn't have to be like it is with walled garden after walled garden. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Yes, it is fractals all the way down and up but we are too stupid to realize it.
Shameless plug: I developed a space repetition algorithm which has a different goal. Mine is focused on learning a large number of new things fast, rather than adding new things over time and retaining memory of them.

See:
https://github.com/Jakobovski/SaneMemo
How long until Alaska's next oil disaster?
I always wondered why we say "giants" here.
It would be more accurate and empowering to say "everything was built on the shoulders of our ancestors" they weren't giants. They were regular people.
That they enable code looking like:

users.remove(expired_user);

Which gives me flashbacks to Java and makes me want to saw open my skull and pour bleach over my brains. users is data, it should not contain logic.
I believe AI will be one of those things where the first 80% is the easiest and the last 20% very difficult.

We probably need at least another doubling of global processing power before we will see any major advancements in AI tech, which will take 3-7 years in my opinion.

I would enjoy being proven wrong, but I fear I am actually overly optimistic.
> I appreciate I could clean it instead, which would be less wasteful.

Taking it to a commercial laundromat with one of those big front-loaders would probably work. Put in plenty of bleach.
Archer Maclean, Commodore 64 developer, has passed away at 60 years old
Is that basically what Thunderbolt does?
Have been using Borg for many years now, it saved me several times already when I accidentally deleted stuff I realized I still needed later on. What's great is that you can just mount your backup repository as a FUSE filesystem, Borg then gives you a directory structure containing all your backups over time. Personally I use dates to name my backups, e.g. 2022-10-11, so when I need to restore something from a specific date I just go to the appropriate folder and extract it.
You don't get what he claimed.
Your body allows your perceptions which are basically stored data that initiate the construction of your consciousness.

No data = no consciousness.

Do you think someone who was blind, deaf, and no sense of touch from birth can be conscious (have an internal representation) of colors? Dream in colors even?

The science tells that they wouldn't even dream in images.

As was said in the parent comment, the issue is that people have overloaded understandings of what is meant by consciousness.

First it would be wiser to expound on what is meant by consciousness by each...
The concern is they want to access biometric data in an automated fashion. The USA are known to be careless and/or evil when it comes to dealing with sensitive data. Why can't they just run someones fingerprint at the airport against their national databases and any international terrorist databases that might exist?
That’s not the material reality you’ve described because you immediately followed with “…everyone feels…”.

Material reality would be something measured in objective material benefits enjoyed.

Everything people read and consume today teaches them to feel things are worse because doomscrolling produces greater engagement.

It’s the same reason people feel “injured” (offended) by things that boomers in their day would find laughable.

It’s incredibly profitable to sell people their own discontent.
If I take a script, modify it and re sign it with a valid key, it will still be signed, just not by the original author, and will run.

Even on windows now, package are often signed by individual developers rather than an entity that you might recognise the name of.

> but there is enough hoops to jump around for this not to be an easy task for a malicious actor gained access a distribution point.

If this is an optional step (which it would have to be) then the easiest thing to do is to remove the signature from the script and modify the instructions on how to run the script. If an attacker has compromised the supply chain, unless the original host has done something incredibly dumb, chances are they're quite dedicated and jumping through a handful of extra steps arent going to stop them.
And to top it off, unions fight tooth and nail to make sure this type of information cannot be tracked, which keeps a lot of systems manual. I understand why the unions don't want the data to be captured, but it also makes it hard to optimize physical systems.
> I'm sure they know exactly where every plane and every flight crew is at every moment.

The story being circulated by Sw employees is that this is the failure. The system needs to be manually updated when flights are cancelled or changed, and in this situation with a cascading failure they have completely failed to keep that data accurate. SW employees have said they have spent 24 hours on hold trying to inform the company where they are.

I don’t think this has anything to do with algorithmic complexity.
I've seen older stage monitors use powered TRS cables. I still see it in amp heads and cabs. Powered signals on exposed conductors. Better not touch it.
I don’t blame them. Modern UX has a huge problem with something as simple as date pickers. Preferring you scroll through 90+ items when a simple textbox would suffice.
There isn’t compensation for this in the US? I don’t think I’ve ever had a flight cancelled.
Running it on cloudflare by provisioning it yourself instead of using something dedicated like wordpress or contentful.
What does it have to do with zen?
Do both of course.

Also what is “reasonably” high paying for you? If you have PhD or been in the industry for a while sure you can get $700k/ year job.

But I am just a bachelor with less than 5 yrs of exp.

Also, with bonus I get total of $400k
If it's the same person I'm thinking of, most of the content disappeared with Google Wave.
This used to be my main approach, but now I only use it for some key sites and rely on a password manager for the other 90%. Why the change? Watching the mental deterioration of aging on friends and family, and noting the beginnings of such things in myself. My mind is so much slower than it used to be, including recall. It's not only aging. A friend had a concussion from a lousy picture frame falling off the wall. It wasn't even that big or heavy. 3 years later still slowly rebuilding mental and language function.
That is very helpful thanks!
Interesting. There are some books that are retail-only on Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781483080703), but I guess they don't think Sanderson is big enough to let him do that. Everyone seems to be acting reasonably here, I think it's fine that Sanderson doesn't think this deal is worth it, but as a user it's obviously nice to be able to use credits and it seems like most publishers are ok with the tradeoff, as I don't think I've ever been unable get an audiobook through Libro (unless it doesn't exist anywhere).
While they may be able to figure it out, optimizing pay to quality of life at work ratios to ensure long term employee retention and loyalty has certainly not been a priority.
I know someone who had a seizure disorder and worked as a registered nurse. There's plenty of opportunities
It would be nice to see theoretical computer science pushed forward again. I'm certainly tired of every other paper being some spin on the same old ML nonsense. Make Computer Science Computer Science again.
Regarding the employees, keep in mind that neither SWA (nor any other airline for that matter) have big software engineering departments. It's all outsourced to either generalist bodyshops for custom/peripheral systems (IBM, Accenture) or specialist shops for core (Amadeus, SABRE)
People often try to say “airline travelers are price conscious” as if there are several options in the same price range and travelers will accept any reduction of quality or service to save a nickel (I’m not claiming you’re suggesting this). But in my experience with US domestic flights the options are basically one “cheap” decently tolerable itinerary, a few slightly cheaper itineraries that are like twice as long in total duration, and then a couple of slightly better itineraries with better amenities that literally cost like twice as much or more.

I just laugh at the upset attempts when you go to check in online: “get priority boarding and 2 inches of legroom for only an extra 50% on top of the ticket price.” I really don’t see much evidence that there was actually a race to the bottom. And I certainly won’t blame consumer preferences when I don’t see any options for slightly better service for slightly more money.
My experience with SW has always been that they're better than everyone else at their pricepoint, and below their pricepoint the savings aren't worth the hassle. They've gotten worse over the years, but they're still consistently the roomiest flights I've been on, their employees have always been friendly and I never really dealt with any major delays with them.

My experiences with Delta were that they were a 50/50 between a nice experience or a "should have just bought a Jet Blue / Spirit ticket" experience. My experiences with United were that anything that wasn't a major route, you were likely going to fly in a tubo-prop coffin and come out with so many aches and pains any money you saved will be spent on advil and massages. They're also the only airline that's managed to lose my luggage twice.
GoDaddy is the pioneer of dark patterns and the Silicon Valley SaaS model. Every step they take is a step to extract more money out from the user. Sadly, it is clearly a good business model.
Use a developer desktop setup instead of a laptop
Average GPA at Harvard keeps going up, now 3.8
My bet is that it will be Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi
Something tells me the Centre for Economic and Business Research is looking at slightly more information than the single graph I bothered to pull off fred for the sake of an internet comment implying we weren't going to have a recession period.
> As far as I can tell, Steamboat Willy is dead a Mickey took his place.

The character in Steamboat Willie is Mickey Mouse. There’s no one named Steamboat Willie in the animation. That said there have been several visual evolutions of the character given the same name, and Disney may claim newer versions are still copyrighted.
Since the Kabul withdrawal disaster there has been some more strength behind the EU battle group concept.
Activision's Boston studio workers announce unionization
Doesn't zfs kind of solve all the backup problems alone? Technically, no other backup tools can beat it as being the filesystem itself, it knows more than any external tools can know, like instantly know what file got changed over time without scanning the entire tree.

I use Borg as backup of backup (zfs snapshots), so I'll be having multiple implementations of backups (also both are on different remote location) just to be on the safe side.

I don't use any other fancier ones as I don't like risking data on less reliable tools.
Isolation tank would not work because living organisms have memories (store data).

You would have to be born with no data and no way to acquire any (no perception).

Would you then be conscious?

Matter is just data of a particular kind as in anything.

The only thing that one is really sure of is existence.
Note that non-existence doesn't even exist by definition.

If we want to get into theology, I would even claim that existence is the true unique thing that encompasses everything and all possibilities (some will never manifest physically). Call that God, the One (Allah) etc...

That could make sense.
Most of everything else is folklore imho.
The issue is that self driving needs to be better than human drivers by a considerable margin. The public will not tolerate an AI driver that makes the same mistakes as humans, they expect better. To do this it will need access to sensors that humans don't have
Oh, that must work great when you insert them and short the connectors against ground...
This still makes no sense at all. Self hosting means running a program on your own machine instead of on a cloud platform such as cloudfalre.
>Again, CDC did not say masks aren't effective. They said we don't know if they are. This was and largely remains true.

Like I said, it was "true" only in the sense that "we don't know if parachutes work [to save you're life in freefall from an aircraft]", which is to say, it's criminally bad to communicate that as your advice, given the costs and benefits to the user. There was no great shift in evidence that caused the CDC's change in advice, only a change in which way they wanted to clumsily manipulate the public.

>"Has foreseeable negative consequences" != "is stupid," especially in emergency scenarios where you're picking between bad options and worse ones.

Correct, and the path they took foreseeably led to the worse ones rather than the mere bad ones. The few people who correctly saw through the CDC advice still hoarded masks, still made up for the non-buying of those who nobly held back (it only takes a few hoarders to exhaust the supply), and health care providers still saw the very same shortage ... it's just that now, they have to walk back the advice against mask-wearing and suddenly pretend the evidence became ultra-strong overnight, even though half the public has made the earlier statements their hill-to-die-on, and we missed a very large window in which we could have been advising people to make good-enough ad hoc masks.

In what world is that the less-bad outcome? Or somehow not foreseeable that the public might actually believe you when you lie about your position on masks?
It's certainly a major criminal enterprise harbored by a foreign government. What's the protocol here?
Musk contradicts Twitter safety chief, disavows statement as “fake news”
Wanikani [1], an SRS for learning Japanese kanji and vocabulary, kinda works like that, though on a simpler level than what I think you envision.

Basically their system involves first learning to recognize common parts of kanji (radicals), then learning to recognize kanji made up of those radicals, and finally learning vocabulary that uses those kanji. Later items in the graph are unlocked by getting the previous items to a certain SRS stage. Additionally, the entire syllabus is divided into 60 discreet levels of (very) roughly the same number of items, the next level being unlocked by getting 90% of the current kanji to a certain SRS stage, which helps keep it all manageable.

I tried using Anki before, but found the Wanikani "method" to work much better for me since I could constantly build on things I had learned previously.

[1] https://wanikani.com/
The only people disputing your point are those who are trying to get the Webb telescope renamed.
Based on the title alone, I was shocked that a parody article made our to the HN front page, and that a .ru domain was hosting comedy at the expense of Putin.

The truth was even stranger...
I've found that usually, when I get the urge to buy something, if I just wait a few days the desire will subside and I can go on with my life and not miss it. Amazon does its best to enable impulse purchases for that very reason.
It explains why you should try to learn anything about a subject before trying to comment on it.

Jesus I need to stop expecting better from this website.
If the Cowboys were put on similar anti-parasite schedules with their Farm Animals, maybe we'd be raising Tougher Riders for the Bulls
Imagine paying in from age 15 to age 55 and then being told that in 10 years you’re going to 74% of what you’ve been paying for for 40 years. You’re 4/5ths of the way there before the bait and switch.
geez.
It's sad even the right wing delusion has crept in here of all places.
Eh, for a while, but clearly long term it seems to tend to not work out.
So this method of dating can determine when a piece of pottery was " heated to sufficiently high temperatures"

So does that date the conquest (city burned) or when the pottery was created (by high heat)? Could pottery be used over several generations? I.e. Could broken pottery fragments have been created 100 years before it was destroyed?
I think it's because one can see the "horizon" better whilst standing on a giant - the horizon being the future of scientific/engineering progress (or whatever we'd like to call it). But yes it's a good point, I'm not a fan of appealing to authority either which is kind of how the quote makes it seem. We had this exact discussion in an engineering class so the above is relevant to my experience only
There's been a lot of Ask HN's recently. It'd be nice to have fewer.
Trademarks are about consumer protection (first-most) and possibly also 'brand dilution'.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Borrowed from Alameda to Buy Robinhood Shares
Interesting, referring to remarkable people as giants doesn't exist in your native language?
The statements from employees indicate that SWA does _not_ know where flight crews are at every moment. When a flight is cancelled the downstream information is not updated accordingly. Crew have to call a phone line and speak to another human to update their information and assignments. With the large scale cancellations due to weather, that system was overloaded and fully collapsed. SWA had no choice but to cancel the majority of their flights while they sort out where the crews are at and how to schedule them next. The debacle is a direct result of lack of investment in modern software systems.
No magic needed*; ring is MacGuffin:

> The Ring itself is a luxurious ornament, but powerless, crafted by the Nazgûl (a group of ancient scientists and philosophers who take turns as the Nine to guide Mordor through its industrialization) to distract Gandalf and the Elves while Mordor built up its army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer#Plot

(compare https://allpoetry.com/The-Persian-Version )

* if one doesn't read tale by reactionary JRRT, that or otherwise.
It’s not that deep. Same algorithm as for palindromes, but with different logical conditions on “equality” / continuation
Many examples worldwide of people getting married happily and successfully without extended courting, cohabitation, and premarital relations.

And you are free to leave off arguing and jabs but seems that desire still pulls you in. I am done with this discussion, and freely choosing to end it.
Does vi maybe help in this case?