skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how they keep marketing this as "Full Self Driving" or "Autopilot" and then wink and say "oh lol not really, you're supposed to be driving the whole time". The very name of the product is a lie.

(And that's not even counting the "Elon Mode" we've since learned is hidden in the firmware.)
It's not just the people who own the cars; everyone in proximity to a Tesla is beta testing their software.
I have read that SVMs as machine learning model failed to take off because of their inability to scale relative to deep neural networks. Would your work point to ways of changing this?
Yes fish bioaccumulate heavy metals (mainly mercury) particularly tuna, still

Much (an estimated 40%) of the mercury that eventually finds its way into fish originates with coal-burning power plants and chlorine production plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
I use yt-dlp to download approved videos and put them on my plex server; no direct youtube on kid ipas.
I don't follow. Salad is on the menu because salad tastes good and some customers like the taste.

Salad is not at all like an animal-based meal having its animal component replaced with something else.

Likewise, mineral water is there because some people like drinking water and not alcohol or soda.
> Are you suggesting that AI driving is impossible?

Seems like it'll be impossible for Tesla. It's less clear for others though, as some of them (Mercedes?) seem to be taking a more responsible development approach.
In civil engineering there is a responsible engineer. Nobody cares what management says - business takes a back seat to public safety, the engineer is in charge. Designs and products are required by law to be backed by an engineer who is personally responsible so the business excuse of “management told us” no longer carries sway: management cannot release a product without a responsible engineer by law so management MUST ultimately be subservient to the math.

Software “engineers” cling to their management driven paradigm and resist true accountability and responsibility for engineers because, ultimately, it’s easier and more profitably personally to hide behind the excuse that “management” made the decision.
> Self driving cars are not important other than for a few exec ego

This is where you really go off the rails. You can't possibly believe this.
Technically true! Alas & woefully!

They are acting under the demands made by the republic. If there is a government mandate to override freedom of speech, imo, it should always be required to leave a paper trail.
As someone who takes pride in their work and who tries to always work the hours I'm paid for (and often regrettably more, but trying to cut back on that ...) It can be surprising to find out that a lot of people, really are, very lazy.

If you've been lucky enough not to encounter them in your day to day, then that's really good, because when you have to work with one of them, boy does it suck.

That being said, I've only encountered this a few times in over 10 years working as a software developer. Most people really do want to do a good job. Even if some of them get distracted easily and need more structure.
What's wrong with Postgres + pgvector in production? pgvector is supported by RDS. Keeping an RDS instance running in production isn't exactly rocket science.
I generally agree.

As I learn more, I realize how much we teach kids younger in their lives is oversimplified, bowlderized BS, no matter the topic.

I think that's unavoidable. You have to learn some comic book version of, say, physics before you're ready to talk about the Kuhn and paradigm changes and so forth. But there's also a real danger here: whatever your dumbed-down version of a topic is, it had better be a positive one, one that engages and challenges students to learn more.

Negative stories and narratives have the self-destruction of passionate learning built into them. It's poor-quality pedagogy. If I teach a class of fourth graders that clowns are evil, have always been evil, circuses are the work of the devil, and so forth? I can guarantee you that nobody in that classroom will ever become an expert on the fascinating history of circuses, animal shows, clowns, and so forth. It's extremely tough to get students wound up enough to spend a huge amount of time diving in somewhere, but it might take ten seconds to turn them off to an entire area of future study.

And frankly, those simplistic good-vs-evil stories are not only bad history, they're boring. They make consumers dumb. They make for idiotic public discussion. (Like I said, I tend to rant. I feel that we are cheating an entire generation out of the deep and beautiful vista of the humanities in our endless search to sell stuff to one another)
Or as the subspace of all the vectors are orthogonal to a given single vector, or as the subspace generated by any orthogonal basis with one base vector removed, or as the kernel of a linear form, ... – but a more visual explanation is probably better as a first foray in the question.
If studios don't want to do it, then they should have no problem signing a contract saying they won't do it.
Depends on constant factors. The difference between an hour and a day is substantial.
Yes, completely serious. Here's the coverage map for the GHCN dataset for 1891-1920 (global historical climate network):

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/statio...

Notice how the data comes almost entirely from the USA and Australia. In Australia it's only the populated coastal regions with data, with the central deserts having none. Density in Europe is virtually non-existent by comparison, with Spain/Portugal having no data, most of Russia having no data, large parts of Europe having only a single station, there's nothing in China, India, Japan, there's a single station for the whole of Africa, etc. And of course the sea is missing.

By 1950 things have improved in the northern hemisphere somewhat:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/statio...

Russia and Europe now has coverage throughout, albeit with way lower station density than the USA (probably it doesn't matter much). The southern hemisphere outside of Australia is still almost completely missing, just a handful of stations outside of South Africa.

Even today most parts of the Earth's surface are missing direct land measurements (there are satellites):

https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/2022-0...

None of this is surprising. Only rich stable parts of the world can afford to spend time reliably reading thermometers every day. Europe spent a lot of the time before 1950 either at war or rebuilding.

Note that missing data doesn't stop them colouring in those parts of the map with temperature readings and claiming they come from ground stations. They don't make it clear but for most of the world temperature readings are made up (interpolated over vast distances), example:

http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/T_moreFigs/2015-...

They don't know what the mean was in 1950 for most of the world because they don't have any data, but that doesn't stop them drawing maps showing the change from that non-existent mean.
A vegan restaurant is fundamentally different from a restaurant that happens to have some vegan dishes: a vegan restaurant specializes in vegan food.
BEVs are very simple vehicles. Anyone can make them. There is no such thing as a technological lead here.
Then maybe you're not standing downwind.

It absolutely stinks and sometimes for as long as twenty minutes depending on how much was used.

I'm not a chemist and I have no idea what's responsible for the odor. If it's some kind of intermediate byproduct.
There's still confusion over this; from what I hear most workers are saying they'll wait for the post office to work it out rather than have to pay back money.

I gather the problem is that while the regular schedule time was accounted for properly and paid, the unscheduled time, substitute routes and Sunday / holiday Amazon package deliveries and that kind of thing was completely left out. Many carriers do a lot of that class of work in addition to a scheduled route.

Many folks who do a lot of that are going to be demanding verification of their pay for previous periods now too. Who knows how long they've been screwing that up? It gets insanely complicated with postmasters pretty much estimating hours and pay rates differing from person to person based on arcane rules no one really seems to know.
Cigarette vending machines are very common in Germany. Every village has one! One uses their bank card for identification and purchase.
Thanks for this reply! I never thought of it this way before.

I guess I had imagined the captured carbon would be used to make something else, like fuel, and remove the need for extracting more oil.
A pleasant surprise to see Om Unit pop up on HN :-)

Amen Break is just one of dozens used in jungle/d&b mind.

Here's one of my favourite tracks under his Mahakala alias – The Exodus (2018)

[Track] https://youtu.be/DYKUU-AsHvM

[Discogs] https://www.discogs.com/release/12603789-Mahakala-The-Exodus...
Nobody in this thread is disagreeing with you, and in fact, a vast majority of Americans do want walkable cities according to this survey I just googled: https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/new-nar-survey-finds-americ...

GP is just pointing out its interesting our tolerance for long walks seems to have decreased, which is not a commonly discussed factor. Also that pedestrian safety is not necessarily why people do not want to walk. (I agree with this, I don't think average people think about it at all. Though I do think they think about it for bikes.) Perhaps lowering costs of car transport or increased comfort or something like that contributed.
I've seen this objection a lot and I don't really understand where it comes from. The only people who can fix public transit are the government and the public. Autonomous vehicles aren't being developed by either of these groups and in no way prevent them from fixing transit.

What's the argument then? Is everyone expected to wait around until public transit is fixed before they work on something else?

AVs are complementary to public transit. You're not going to take a robotaxi from SF to SJ. You might take one to the Caltrain station on either end and avoid needing a personal vehicle at all.
Kalash People
This article was published in deep learning and is a good visual introduction to neural networks.
> Glutens are delicious

That's what your taste buds say but if your immune system ever decides to weigh in on this you might find yourself rethinking the matter.
Most car sales are second hand and that's a different proposition.

However on new cars, £28k for a car with 149 miles range or £20k for a car with 400 mile range that the difference in price buys you 77,000 miles of fuel?
> They taste great

Sure, if you're ok with ignoring everything else.

> have a wealth of nutrients

But nothing that we couldn't get from plants.

> and they can improve the ground they are on at the same time

They can. But forest would do it too, and better. Climate-wise it's not a win.

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...

Grass-fed beef isn't necessarily better for the environment than beef from CAFOs. While grass-fed systems offer benefits like soil health, they often require more land, potentially leading to deforestation. They can also be less efficient in terms of resource use and have variable effects on carbon sequestration. A comprehensive assessment considering land use efficiency, resource consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions is essential to fully understand the environmental impact of different beef production methods.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-10-03-grass-fed-beef-good-or-...

"This report concludes that grass-fed livestock are not a climate solution. Grazing livestock are net contributors to the climate problem, as are all livestock. Rising animal production and consumption, whatever the farming system and animal type, is causing damaging greenhouse gas release and contributing to changes in land use.

'Ultimately, if high consuming individuals and countries want to do something positive for the climate, maintaining their current consumption levels but simply switching to grass-fed beef is not a solution. Eating less meat, of all types, is.’"
"The results suggest removing vegetarian and vegan labels from menus could help guide US consumers towards reduced consumption of animal products."

In Europe it is very common to see menus with iconography for fish, plants, grains, and cheese to quickly identify diet friendly items. To me, as a meat eater with a pescatarian girlfriend, it makes the menu seem much more friendly and inclusive. And from my anecdotal experience as a US citizen in Los Angeles who spends a lot of time in Europe, they are much more vegetarian friendly over there.

Maybe removing labels isn't the answer, maybe adding more is.
Don't take it personally.

California was great and I vividly remember how great it used to be. Unfortunately it isn't anymore and it's so obvious after having seen it's decline from 2011 to post pandemic. I can only imagine how great it used to be in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, California has a landed gentry problem who have a desire to not see things change. The end of that property tax prop would fix a lot of issues both nimby and otherwise.

As for making it, I mean yeah I made it and certainly got mine from living on that rat race but think critically for a moment. No one is going to remember us once the living memory of us passes. Children are really the only legacy we can build. Family and time are far more important than anything elusive career wins you're going to get.

I'm getting too old anyway.
USPS pays out every two weeks, that's very common.
My food co-op had a "vegan chocolate cake" like

https://traditionalplantbasedcooking.com/vintage-chocolate-v...

which was one of the best tasting snacks there is, but as they went upscale it became larger and more expensive and more elaborate.

It reminds me of the Sandtaler which was a simple shortbread cookie (not vegan!) in the bakeries of Dresden in 1999, if I travelled in West Germany I would find cookies that were complications of the Sandtaler such as two Sandtalers stuck together with chocolate, but the simple cookie was too cheap for richer parts of Germany.
Agreed. And if you move apartments/flats, you will need several monthly rents to pay your deposit, so a two-week paycheck is not helpful, especially when you start a new job at the same time.
How people allow this testing by customers to happen on their roads is beyond me.
RadioShack’s new owner plots old comeback strategy
Your expectation matches my general experience. I only eat those vegan options, and I rarely enjoy them. It’s not because vegan food can’t be good or because I don’t like vegan food; the restaurants and the people working them simply don’t care to make those options shine like other dishes.

It’s not always true. It’s a safe guideline though. I’d say 4/5 cases it’s fair to expect the vegan menu option to be mediocre at best.

This varies by locale too, though. It’s a little easier to find okay options in places with more vegan restaurants in general.
Other engineers don't take direct responsibility either. I've never heard of an individual engineer getting sued because a rocket they worked on exploded, or a bridge they built collapsed.

Plenty of tech companies do post mortems. This is almost certainly a failure of management. If a single engineer caused this, the process is broken.

What the tech industry needs is professional indemnity insurance and competent management.
The mythological background of Tolkien is that we’re looking at the Catholic world as we know it, interpreted through the lens of myth and Elves. Catholicism is literally true in LotR. Tolkien even has an essay where Finrod says that the only way for the world to be redeemed is for God to enter himself incarnate into it.
> Without Proof of Work blockchains have no leader

But, proof of stake?
Gracias Madre may be the restaurant you're thinking of. I unfortunately heard it has closed recently
Hilarious. Yes, I didn’t click on the article.
I’m in northern Italy. Traces of those wars are literally everywhere. One of the largest war memorials is near here [0]

Learning history is important. And it’s educational. And if to learn it you have to see something gruesome, so be it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redipuglia_War_Memorial
> nobody ever wonders if say, Sauron might be coexisted with in some way

Well, Gondor tried to coexist with him but their watch grew slack and he took over the city built to watch him. Numenor embraced him and was ruined. Even the elves originally considered him a friend, before he betrayed them with the Ring. Saruman seems to have tried to use him. So if they don't think coexistence is possible, it is from bitter experience.
"take the log of" is shorter than "exponentiate"
I’m impressed by Michael’s LinkedIn profile and extensive experience. If you ever take up blogging, I imagine you’d have a lot of lessons and experience to share.
If only individuals could pool their ideas and resources for collective action, maybe even without a profit motive. We could call it a government.
I see this anecdote all the time as if it it really applies to the modern internet. I don’t think it really holds any bearing at all.

The early days of the internet didn’t facilitate trillions in economic value like it is now.

We can use that anecdote as inspiration but it really has no merit on the modern internet.
Even that is hopelessly optimistic. Tesla has no unique technologies. It can only make the simplest type of car possible: the BEV. It cannot even benefit from the advantage of cheap labor like China companies can. A realistic analysis would inevitable conclude that it will become totally uncompetitive compared to the competition that do have unique advantages.
As a vegan I depend on these labels on the menu to know what I can order.
Ah, fair and interesting. Thanks for pointing this out. I think it's more that it's harder to keep track of when people comment on your stuff. I'll make a note not to share anymore!
Off topic but damn, Media Temple. Brings back deep nostalgia for the pre-and-becoming Web 2.0 era of the web. I still have a red iPod shuffle and some other miscellaneous swag from participating in their beta programs.
China says the best way to 'de-risk' is to restore stability with the U.S.
> Do you treat all traffic participants with same scrutiny?

Yes. Many people who've been riding motorcycles more than about 6 months or so (aka and lived), have learned to. A few years on from that, defensive^W paranoid riding is well ingrained.
There is a reason why I said Ex friend. Turns out, people who pull crap like this are not the best to close to. I just didn’t realize the extent of what he did until just before (and being the primary cause for) me cutting off contact with him.
What does the line have to do with anything?
I'm sure I'm just naive because I don't work in this space, but I keep wondering why they don't do machine learning from a satellite perspective. Yes, the cars need to notice and react to things in front of them. However, a lot of problem areas and odd navigation can be identified from space. I'm surprised they don't do some massive slow exposure shots from a satellite and see how traffic flows across the entire US. I want a car that can react in realtime to new problems, but it has a massive amount of storage so it can probably be told ahead of time what roads, interchanges, freeway onramps, etc.. are problems, and what should guide its decision making.
Consent was you typing in “youtube.com” to go to a privately owned website.
More users is likely not more expensive per user; especially not given how much cheaper compute is now compared to 20 years ago.

Clearly market forces often lead to a horrible product many of us don't like.
You could scrape the lumen database if they were requested, but it sounds like they weren't.

I guess the next best would be scraping google/yandex/bing and comping which domains never show up on google.
Agreed. Surely the authors don't mean that stories qua stories make you stupid. The love of your own stories combined with confirmation bias, perhaps.
Not sure I'd agree it was a "good one" even before this joke was made a million times. Certainly not after.
> On mechanical watches, they are smoother than Quartz since the escapement releases power multiple times / sec. But still ever so slightly jumpy since power is still released in discrete increments.

Yup, and the higher the beat rate, the "smoother" it looks. Grand Seiko Hi-Beats and Zenith El Primeros come to mind. There's a good Hodinkee article describing the tradeoffs of different beat rates [1].

[1] - https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/watchs-frequency-hz-vph-me...
> at slower speeds that don't instantly kill you or others,

So, what speed would that be that is safe for pedestrians?

And how useful is FSD that only drives at that speed?

See where this is going?
They specifically said test track. Once it's proven then put it on the roads. But in it's current state it should be severely restricted. They may need training data but then they can pay for it or pay to construct suitable tests
I think the best chance for RadioShack to make a comeback is to become the electronics store for small towns like the Dollar stores. If I live in the country why should I have to travel to the city to buy a laptop or a cell phone or even a big screen TV? The only success Sears had in the last thirty years were their small town stores which were franchised.
Is lightening the albedo of the sea helping reflect light and reducing global warming? I know this is a thing with, for example, forests which absorb more heat versus desert.
Yes, as I said if you want the cheapest car on the market to be an EV you'll have to keep waiting. You can also buy a used EV for under $10k right now, but obviously it's still a tiny market compared to used ICE cars.
I’m always amazed how people eagerly want to be human crash test dummy’s to test out a feature that could kill you.
Exactly. Broccoli can be delicious, but is never marketed as “vegan”.
That’s only a problem if you chose to work somewhere mandating RTO. I have a great personal office and kitchen where I work.
I guess it's impressively bad that a blatant conspiracy theory made it past peer review and into Wikipedia, but this article is a summary of a review of a rebuttal to a bad paper.
>On the other hand, GP is saying things elsewhere in thread that feel... insufficiently substantiated, to be generous.

>insufficiently substantiated

we are literally talking about effects that cannot, by definition, be articulated or substantiated usefully, and havent, because of their legalities.

if you are looking for a single sentence to sum it up, I don't think I have done an injustice.

LSD and Mushrooms are NOT as "safe" as culturally represented.

I don't recommended anyone who is not in the soundest of minds to try DMT, without an experienced trip-sitter, and an abort -zolam. That is the sentiment I've expressed, to a bizarre amount of mis-inference for dubious moral grandstanding by those I am sure think that they, too, know everything.
There are two things to note here.

1. I believe the initial change from 12 to 131 ng/kg was science-based. Based on the literature and science process 12 ng/kg was the wrong number.

2. This change won't matter. The amount of chemical required per use leads to concentrations that are 10-100 times the new limit.

SEPA rules require a prediction showing that the average concentration within the predicted deposition area is less then the limit. Regardless of the increased limit it will not be possible.
I grew up in the snow belt where 2-3 ft of snow and -10F for several months were the norm for the first 23 years of my life.

Trust me, 110F texan heat is a dream compared to being stuck inside for 6 months of the year and watching everything slowly fet destroyed by road salt.

Though i will say, I do love Seattle, another city that is also nearly as expensive as