skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those will lose you your license in California. I'm not sure how to lose your license in California, as I don't know of anyone personally who has lost their license.

There was a case in the news where someone was exceeding the posted speed-limit by 150kph on an undivided highway (i.e. just a stripe between you and the traffic going the opposite direction) and got a 6 month suspension.

I was on the jury for a case where the defendant was involved his third DUI, fled the scene of the accident, and still had his license.
I would say that you need to call a phone number to verify you as a user if you don't consent to captcha. And then that number is a voicemail leave your number we will call you back. And then we have a backlog so it takes us a while to call back. I don't think that's illegal.
If the rest of traffic is driving 15 mph faster, clearly it isn't difficult to ignore the people driving slowly. So if anything, surely it's the people who want them imprisoned who should be punished. Their crime? Poor priority management.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36432272 was posted earlier and also on the front page so we moved the comments (and momentum) thither.
Thanks for following through on this writeup! I knew LE certs were publicly logged but didn't know the logs were decentralized or how they hold the CA accountable. Appreciate the layman explanation.
Can you clarify what you mean by "AI engineering?" There are two main paths right now - this is from my experience as a software engineer overall for a decade, a data engineer of some form for all but a year and a half of that, and a DE/MLE working on AI R&D teams for the last 5.5 years.

1. MLE/DE/MLOps - this is more like typical software engineering. You're responsible for building data platforms, tools, monitoring, and more around the model development lifecycle. This can include: data ingestion, data architecture, data transformation and storage, automating and productionizing various workflows like training, evaluation, and deployment, monitoring deployed models, data monitoring (and building monitoring), tooling like feature stores (and libraries for R&D teams to interact with them) or internal deep learning frameworks, etc. You'll basically work as a part (or an adjunct to) the research team that is testing new model architectures, different approaches towards some goal, etc. These are largely taken from my own experiences and projects I've built. Skills: software engineering, Python, knowledge of the model development lifecycle, data architecture/engineering, some knowledge about the frameworks used, cloud platforms, etc.
Designing ML Systems by Chip Huyen is a great overview of all of this kind of work.

2. Research. This is actually building models, implementing papers, very occasionally (especially in big companies) doing publishable research. This is more akin to academic work (my educational background is in hard science academia), and requires a lot of paper reading, experimentation, etc. It will require knowledge of your niche (I mostly work with CV teams, for instance), strong math fundamentals, and very often a PhD.

I can tell you how I, as a self-taught software engineer with a bio education got here. My first job was a generic enterprise desktop application development role, randomly joined a data engineering team shortly after that not even knowing what DE was, but knowing I liked it. We worked on a massive distributed ETL system. I then joined my first startup, it was also a DE role, but we were a small group in a larger research team where I got my initial exposure to ML workflows and especially moving them to the cloud. We did some simple model training, data management, and building products around the models we built while also supporting the research efforts of the larger team.

I then went to another startup, where I had the sole responsibility of our research infrastructure (largely based on the strength of my knowledge of AWS and Python). I was the sole engineer on a team of CV researchers, and did things like automate their entire evaluation workflow and move it to the cloud, worked on the internal deep learning framework, and built a team to evaluate the current AI development lifecycle and design a platform to harden and optimize the process. Covid put the kibosh on that. I moved to another, earlier startup, doing similar work but more foundational - almost everything was built from scratch.
>Will it also cause aversion to headsets and to VR? :)

Unlikely, the Garcia effect is tightly coupled to taste/smell. Could inadvertently give a lifetime aversion to any food/drink though, especially if it's a new taste.
> The universal declaration of human rights might be naive

This isn't remotely what I said.

> their focus on freedom

Freedom is a word the definition of which can be, and very much is, twisted to most people's agenda. Being fond of freedom is a meaningless statement in isolation, without an accompanying discourse on the meaning of that freedom. The US record on freedom in practice is exceptionally poor when compared to the rest of the world. There's certainly a strong focus on talking about it but I've seen very little evidence of delivering on it.
> Time for Zero Tolerance, if one of these do it seize it, and levy the robotaxi company and whomever built it with Huge Fines

This is certainly in San Francisco’s tradition. Given the economic depression those policy’s are putting it in, one might wonder if chasing away this industry, too, is smart in the long run.
ya but if they murder someone, the victim will decompose - prob not good to breathe that stuff in.
> ReCAPTCHA v3 doesn't include any clicking on images, as far as I can tell because that doesn't actually add that much in terms of identifying bots?

Perhaps I'm being considered human and just being generally unaware. It's possible. Do you have an example website where I can try it? I have uBo block recaptcha by default, so whenever a website uses it, it takes me a few clicks and page reloads until I get the prompt. I can't remember of a single instance where I didn't have to go through the challenge but maybe my own biases are in the way of me seeing it.

> Even if they limited themselves to tracking how users clicked the button they'd still need to store it, so they could compare this user to other users and build models of what human/bot traffic looked like.

This gives me the creeps. In any case, does this need to be accompanied by PII? And how can I validate that it's not?
You clearly have much more experience than me when it comes to software development. I am not sure I can add to anything what you already know.

As to if all engineers everywhere will need to deal with more math- I don't think that would be true.

And exactly how use of AI will pan out in the development scenario is an unknown unknown to me. So I will not comment there.
It's not clear from the headline - but the debris field is on the ocean floor and was found via the USGC's remote operated submersible vehicle.
The maths are not actually that complicated. 99% of what pytorch is doing is matrix multiplication and addition with n-dimensional arrays (tensors). For backprop you need a very limited understanding of calculus. [1] Stuff like sigmoid/softmax is also straightforward and you can grok it from a 5 minute youtube video. [2] If something doesn't make sense, just ask ChatGPT to walk you through it.

There is a lot of other complicated math that you will need when reading papers because people writing AI papers like to overcomplicate a lot of things that can be represented in 5 lines of pytorch.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-backpropagation...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn4Fme1fK-M
Or maybe they'll be assigned to something even more bullshitty or just more menial.
I think they’re pointing out that if you feel like what you’re doing really matters then burn out doesn’t happen. Assuming there aren’t factors outside work.

I strongly believe burnout is a for of depression.
I could imagine a cost-benefit analysis making sense here.

- Pro: increased chance of saving a few people's lives

- Con: risk of leaking info about U.S. sonar sensitivity

I.e., the decision would depend on the magnitude of the "pro" and "con" probabilities.
Point stands about bashing electron for not being native, even if Xcode is a dumpster fire.
You can find danger in anything, eventually you grow up and learn it's necessary to balance risk vs reward. Let's ban cars outright, I have factual proof someone died in a car accident today!
Absolutely! What a movie.

Also makes me think of 'The testament of Dr. Mabuse', totally incredible film.
That sounds plausible, it sure seems management consulting (McKinsey, Bain, etc.) are involved in someway. The companies all over hired around the same time, laid off staff at the same time, and are doing the back to office at the same time.
No, that's exactly it. The new generation needs to be educated and trained. What they don't need is, to remain forbidden from that in a violently racist system. What they have now is to be preferred, even if it takes time to work out.
That seems like a solution in an emergency, but these kind of interactions must happen all the time. And it is part of a wider problem where the baseline data about the world changes and not communicated in a standardised way. It could be a fire truck, road closure for cycling event, tornado ripping through a town, a terrorist attack, a secret service motorcade, oil on the road, anything. And dealing with those situations is much easier with that data. Making that data explicit could help everyone, not just self driving cars.

It would be useful if vehicles with sirens/emergency lights/hazard lights could broadcast position and identity in a similar way to ADS-B. Make data open and allow third parties to forward, store and re-broadcast that data. Make the consumer of the data (such as a self driving car) responsible for how it uses that data.
Yeah. People have been hoping for a signed "Photoshop-proof camera" since digital image manipulation was invented, but it has the same limitations as any form of DRM. It only slows people down a bit. There's also the analog hole - i.e. just stick your "attested" microphone in front of a speaker
> FTFA, only 38% of these "centers" do not provide any sort of abortion services at all. Fine. Throw them out.

That's literally the point I've been making the entire time. I can't believe it took us this long to get here.

I'm off to do something more productive with my day, later.
Like with any intoxicant, volume affecting behavior depends entirely on each and every individual; full stop.
I have no idea specifically how loud it would have been. However with some probably-reasonable guesses, it looks like it actually would have been quite loud.

Here's a naval study where they measured underwater sound propagation: https://www.navymarinespeciesmonitoring.us/files/7514/2780/4...

They found that a 10lb block of C4 exploding produced ~210db of underwater sound. If we use that sound level as an approximation of the implosion of 200 cubic meters of submersible, which seems not completely unreasonable, then we can use the inverse square law to calculate the perceived sound far away.

Halifax, NS is 1100km from the Titanic wreck. A sound that is 210db at 1 meter, is 89db at 1100000 meters. Boston is 1700km away; at that distance it would be 85db.

85db is really quite loud. You would be able to hear that, if you were underwater and paying attention.

If the implosion was instead, say, 180db, then it would have been 55db in Boston harbor. Still easily detectable by instruments.

For reference, when divers are performing construction using e.g. rock drills, those commonly reach 170db. The implosion of close to 200 cubic meters of air seems like it would produce a louder noise than a rock drill.
>how incredibly fast desktop applications used to be decades ago.

... that'd be during the time period when WordStar 5.0 would have to load an overlay from the floppy drive (taking a few seconds at least) in order to, e.g. print, and the speed of spell checking was such that you could actually follow along as the checker scanned through your document?
99% of people "writing software" could not write anything worth calling a chess engine by themselves.
It depends on how you interpret what ads do. I find that they tend to manipulate people into buying things they don't actually want or need. If you say that we should ban public cigarette ads, for example, you're kind of proving the point (which is why I mentioned banning additional ads if you agreed with banning cigarette or alcohol ads).

Also, you run an adblocker, as do many (most?) people. Why is that? Don't you want to be more informed about products you might want?

Personally I don't want to be informed at all. If I never saw another billboard, Internet ad/banner, etc. in my life it would be great. I don't consent to being advertised to in such a broad, and distracting manner either.
Julia Mossbridge
The extension already had a setting to tune the color palette even before it was merged into VSCode core.
I admire your goals and wish you success, but IMO the biggest obstacle to be tackled is how to sustainably operate such a platform. If data is hosted centrally, someone needs to pay the server bills. This is fine for a small community but if user growth reaches critical mass, it has to be monetized to the point where server costs can be covered. If data is decentralized, then the potential fragmentation will be a hurdle for user adoption. Discord succeeded because it required zero tutorial to use and no setup beyond making an account, compared to previous iterations of VoIP/IRC software. This was a crucial success factor in attractig non-gamers during the pandemic.
> I loved Permutation City and his short story collection, Axiomatic and really liked Distress. However, I stopped reading Diaspora 30% in. If it hasn't click yet, should I still keep reading?

It depends on what doesn't click. If you're waiting for it to get more down to earth, it doesn't (either literally or figuratively). But I do remember it as starting out very dry, and getting, while not less dry, considerably more absorbing as it went along.
Walking around your house isn’t evading anyone or anything, and it’d be too periodic.

You need wider range, more chaos, but mainly consistent spoofed behaviour.
That was absolutely exhausting to complete.

Not complaining about the UX. It's good. The interactive parts are cleverly designed.

It's just quite effective at depicting how bloody exhausting a 24/7 connection to everything can be, if you make it so.
Last paragraph of TFA:

> Some expeditions were delayed after OceanGate was forced to rebuild
> the Titan’s hull because it showed “cyclic fatigue” and wouldn’t be
> able to travel deep enough to reach the Titanic’s wreckage,
> according to a 2020 article by GeekWire, which interviewed the
> company’s CEO.

If you simply rebuild it, but don't redesign and/or change its material composition, won't the rebuilt hull possess similar cyclic fatigue limits to what it replaced?
It's too easy these days to anonymously send death and rape threats.
This wasn't boldly going where nobody has gone before. Getting that deep safely has been a solved problem for decades.
If you have large files (as in hundreds of MB or bigger) in your project directory, especially text files, it also really pays off to put them into either your .gitignore or the files.exclude.

Often happens to me when I run projects that output large CSVs, and it's a very notable performance impact.
When working on an experimental VSCode plugin recently, I noticed that bracket colorization was at odds with some basic functionality. For example, in comments, I didn't want colorized brackets, I just wanted everything in the same color. That wasn't possible, except for switching the native colorization off completely. Which I did.
Alcoholism is a problem in many indigenous communities, because alcohol affects many indigenous people much more severely than it affects people descended from Europe and Asia. But substance abuse is a problem more generally in pretty much all poor communities around the world, and also in pretty much any very isolated community where people are flat out bored all the time. And many, perhaps most indigenous communities have been intentionally fenced into poverty and isolation.
You don't disclose your age in the US either, but it's pretty easy to find via linkedin graduation dates, or just... looking at you. I think most companies just judge during the video screening.

Maybe we can have AI spruce up our video call avatars to be better looking and more mature. Haha.
You won't immediately loose your license for speeding, even in Switzerland. Afaik it'll be expensive until 20km/h over, only after that will the really nasty things like criminal prosecution and car impound start (for first-time offenders, repeat offenders are punished more harshly).
You are correct, and I don't know why you're being downvoted. You can see the ONI chart in this NOAA Presentation: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/l...

The cycle has had many multi-year La Niña events. That part is not unusual.
> I loved the overall concept of it and the mystery narrative of gradual discovery, but the end of the story felt rather flat and unsatisfying. Maybe he intended it that way, to contrast it with the grandiose events in that short window before (I could say more, but I don't want to spoil it).

I think at least part of it is just that he was very early in his writing career, and probably wasn't sure how to stick the landing yet. I love the book, but there's no denying that it has its rough spots.
Does any of this correlate with the solar cycle at all? Is that even a field people look to?
Til I learnt about discalulia!! Interesting. I know math can cause anxiety in kids as/when there is an external "reward/loss" contingent on it. I wonder if that exists when those external incentives are removed?

I did a ee and cs degree in college and I hated the eng part of it. It was because I hated the exams which was mostly rote stuff. When I finished college though and started working in a job that had no linkage to ee I one day just picked up courses (which were just arbitrary web 1.0 sites by random folks) and started going through the (signal processing/kalman filtering/convolution) problems and implementing them in software which was a lot of fun to see in action.

Reason for that long winded one was, I was thinking in your case, would the anxiety still be there as now you (might) have a reason to develop passion for the math than back in school where it was forced without a reason?
The problem is that that's not true in practice; ads that serve only to inform would be great, but they also essentially don't exist in the real world. Have you ever seen a black and white text billboard that says "$BRAND beer exists, and sells for $COST per bottle, has 5% ABV, and has a 87% satisfaction rating."? No, only pictures of happy people and bright lights holding a beer bottle with a logo on top. The goal is not to inform, but to manipulate.
Should be working, this was just the CDN not picking up the updated CSP quick enough :/
fun/weird fact - the major release seems to have caused ~9m downloads happening on npm, catapulting Svelte to technically the top of the charts https://twitter.com/SvelteSociety/status/1671923994671603713...
>I argue the only valid statistic is x% remain non-smokers at y years, something comparable to other methods.

Absolutely agree, but our problem is time, we did our first patient around 8 months ago, so we're just limited by that timeline.

So far so good though, followup shows classic Aversion reactions, the people that were affected still have a very strong reaction to the taste and smell.
> and the horrible text rendering forced me to not use the app

agreed on this - I have a large display (32" 6K) and I like using this to highlight the aesthetics of type rather than sheer information density.

It grinds on my OCD to see only the top half of a cursor/text in the text input box, as I regularly see with Warp.
Wine consumption inversely related to cardiovascular mortality
> you don't even need to create an account immediately

Huh? It's extremely aggressive about accounts. This thing literally requires a phone number. Can't even create pseudonymous accounts.
Great post - thank you.

What directions can you head in AI Eng these days if you _dont_ want big tech?
It's almost as if navigating reality requires something better than logic and maps. Like humans have magic eyeballs or something.
Dang, was it common knowledge that Apple is testing its autonomous driving tech on public roads? I had no idea!
> That's not true, they've successfully reached the Titanic several times over a dozen or so expeditions.

This is more concerning, given that metal fatigue is an understood phenomenon (1).

(1) https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...
You simply can't. CoC's are charter for enforcing moral ideals in a context that none of it should matter.

The whole CoC is a project of an ideology that is categorically against merit and competence and in favour of identity politics.

To see these CoC's in terms of specific rules is missing the forest for the trees.
If RLHF is a mechanism to infuse LLMs with propaganda and their truths, then the future is LLMs named after the participants in the RLHF process.
I agree but not at 250k a head.

It should be safer, but everything is done to a price point and I'm sure those on board recognised the risk of such an expedition.
Why are the people operating the trucks not getting ticketed for all this then? These various programs should be accruing points on their license just like a real driver. Cruise would probably be off the road if they did this though.
Writing books that mean nothing to anyone of import; the ultimate bullshit job!
Indeed, and moreover, the ability to detect underwater sound is probably aided by the lack of localized turbulence (wind noise in microphones) and the degree of sophistication sought after by navies due to the detection and counter-detection of military submarines.

Without any actual knowledge, I imagine that a ship or sub could be festooned with hydrophones, enabling it to detect faint noises, but also to determine their direction from phase information.
Islam solved the problem. Complete ban, and it works, because it's a religious ban. Compare it with the American Prohibition which didn't work. I'm speaking from the most secularized Muslim nation in the world (Turkey), and it works to great extent even here. Note that it's legally free to drink here.
I work in machine learning and also in data engineering, and for most of my career the data engineering title was for people doing everything in the lifecycle outside of R&D workflows (building the models/model architecture itself). It's only very recently differentiated to MLE/DE, and even that is far from being a standard.

The skillset is largely the same, but with some specialized knowledge for ML data work.
This may not work out, as the fines may be lower than the costs of development to address the underlying issues, while it's at the same time all about basic safety of the community. (The fines would have to be higher than the cost of "oops, we have to employ human safety drivers and put them into every car.")
As someone dyslexic I'm not sure how I feel being compared to ChatGPT... it has better grammar and spelling then me...
I use VSCode NeoVim and clangd. This has gotten so good, although command mode took awhile, that I rarely need to use a terminal vim.
this is great. I feel a chrome extension could extend the functionality and speed to use even more...thinking about building something like that?
And FWIW, I wish I was a “young developer”!

I am not.

But I wouldn’t seek to patronise them either, or describe their thinking as “perverse”.