skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the problem is that our AI systems don't have a clue.

At all.

They are classification systems. They have no understanding whatsoever of anything around them. Which means it is likely that the AV which is the subject of this accident didn't understand that it hit a person, what a person is, how a person could be stuck under the car, how a person could be dragged by a car, how a person could be hurt by a car, how a person is more fragile than a car, why it might be better to not move in any of the above contexts, how a human driver would more likely get out of the car and make sure it was safe to move (and render first aid), etc.

We are calling this crap "Artificial Intelligence". It isn't. It is not at all. It's a parlor trick devoid of anything that resembles understanding. A dog understands the world far better than the most advanced self-driving-car.

This lack of understanding issue carries with it layers of significance. For example, a human driver understands consequences to his/her actions. Yes, of course, there are a-holes in every crown...yet, the vast majority of people are good. If that were not the case society would not function as it does. Lacking the concept and understanding of consequences, just assigning scores to things and path planning accordingly, removes important decision-making layers and drives suboptimal AV decisions.

You can add responsibility, fear, financial consequences, emotion, care, consideration and a whole host of human condition realities to the list of important factors completely lacking from AV's today.

Driving is fine when reality is reduced to easy-to-classify monotonically varying experiences. Not so easy when reality becomes, well, real.
Another fun anecdote. When a Waymo is in the vicinity of another Waymo they acknowledge each other in a whimsical/cute way - the windshield wipers swipe once (I'm not sure they still do this). But it wasn't implemented very well at some point since the Waymo I was in was behind another one for many blocks. The wipers went at least 17 times. As an earlier adopter I provided lots of feedback. Even little things like I tried working on a laptop in the back* and when I went to type in my 1password password I reached up to cover the camera that is positioned perfectly to see my keystrokes.

* Not recommended in SF. But I imagine on the 280 it would be great one day.
The United States can’t even carry out basic governmental functions. The House of Representatives is without a speaker going on a month now, and each election cycle is degrading to the point that it may stop functioning properly.

We are unfortunately well beyond the point of expecting the legislature to legislate, let alone pass robust beneficial laws.
Any bus that has stops every 100-200 feet is unbearably slow. Even every 1/8 of a mile is too much to be an time efficient mode of transportation unless you have BRT imo.
How we migrated from CRA to Next.js AppRouter in 5 pull requests
I wish I wasn't tied to Gmail because it means I can't really use any other clients if I want instant notifications. And their official app has ads that look like emails.

I assume they must do that on purpose, right? Make their IMAP implementation bad so people will use their clients with ads? I'd kinda hope regulators would step in on something like that for a case like Gmail where they're practically the default email provider for most people.
Teens who’ve just gotten their license are often quite good drivers. It’s after that when they drive poorly. (This also applies to adults, to a lesser extent.)
Considering changes in communication, where mail is less relevant compared to discord, slack, WhatsApp, ... I guess many people can meanwhile live quite some time without looking at a mail app at all. While browser is needed regularly.
Microsoft has this habit of trying to enter a new market like a bully. They toss billions of dollars around, they schmooze whoever needs schmoozing, millions in advertising, start name-calling competitors... brutes. Knuckle dragging brutes.

Off the top of my head: Zune (belittling Apple), Search (remember they started name-calling Google), CompuServe (paid shills brutally attacking people online), Operating Systems (attacks on Linux (FUD Advertising), BeOS (Licensing)). So much more.

What they don't do is create a product out of love or passion or belief, usually...

I was surprised when the surface lineup of tablet/laptops... surfaced. They seemed to actually care about what they were doing and really put some thought behind it. I was impressed with the hardware and I very much dislike Microsoft.

I'm glad they got owned on mobile by Google and Apple. I feel comfortable in saying they would not have brought anything positive to this market. A villain was defeated and we are better off.

Mozilla's Firefox OS, however... that's a different story. We all lost when they pulled out.
Can you do 150% fractional scaling on a 27" 4K monitor in any Gnome based desktop?

Dell? I have a cupboard full of ones I've murdered and a limping one. No thanks.
> A lot of the apps you love don't exist on Linux.

About this point, I switched to Ubuntu in 2009 after I realized that all the apps I was using in Windows XP were open source and available on Linux too. Some of them were actually Linux native and were much faster there, example: Gimp.
Unknown intent? The intent could not possibly be more clear.
The small library you want is likely the standard (or popular) logging library in your language/framework. For example in Node.js that might be Pino or Winston.

The automatic instrumentation part is for tracing, which arguably is a _huge_ value add on top of logging, but is indeed more complicated to get setup.

Unfortunately I think OpenTelemetry doesn't do a great job in expressing the different parts of the project and how they all fit together (though this is the status quo in observability in general). I think third party vendor documentation tend to do a better job in explaining how to get started with it without needing to piece together the exporters, batchers, context managers, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm building hyperdx, an otel-based OSS observability tool, so I'm pretty biased in being pro-OpenTelemetry :)
On the other hand, I see amazing machines for phone repair from China. They will separate the screen to layers and replace the faulty part instead of the full screen assembly or they will find a defect in the OLED and fix it with laser or something.

That's why I'm not very interested in this "right to repair" stuff - it revolves around demanding modular parts for quick and easy replacement. People who are actually close to the metal, who actually get their hands dirty are repairing those devices since ever. I got my old iPhone 6s screen repaired(front glass replaced, keeping everything else original) for very cheap and just in few hours.

Here is one for fixing faulty OLED iPhone screens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-lS11TIaY
The outstanding stealth of Operation Triangulation
One of my friends came to Seattle and I showed him around the Microsoft Redmond campus. (historical note: The area used to be called Sherwood Forest).

After showing him the vast quantity of free soft drinks, buildings, and grounds, I asked him, "Do you want to see Bill Gates's car?"

He said yes, so off we went.

BillG (everyone at Microsoft referred to Bill Gates by his email alias) was one of the few people at Microsoft with an assigned parking spot. Plus, everyone knew where his office was, so it was easy to narrow down which parking lot to visit.

I took my friend over. Luckily, BillG had come in to the office that day.

There was nothing unique about his car. So my friend didn't drop his jaw in awe/reverence or anything.

For all he knew, I was pulling a fast one and just showing him an upmarket car saying, "Yep, there it is, BillG's car! Ain't it something?"

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what was inside BillG's car. So I walked up to the car and stood about two feet away and looked to see what was inside the front of the car.

In one word, it was unremarkable.

Curiosity sated, I started walking away. At no point did I come in physical contact with the car.

Then someone called out, "Excuse me!"

I stopped and turned around.

A security guard had popped out of nowhere.

He approached and questioned me.

I had to explain what I was doing there, show him my employee cardkey, and he proceeded to write down my badge number.

Then I was allowed to leave.

Now my friend believed that really was BillG's car.
You're right. You can leverage wealth into a luxurious, tax-free life style, while income gets taxed and garnished to pay for the security and freedom of the wealthy.
This is low hanging fruit I had this feature in my 2015 Volvo.
The big e-ink screens are handmade, because there's basically no demand for $3k 1Hz screens so they haven't invested in automating the process.

In theory, the big screens could be roughly comparable to LCD screen prices, like the 6" e-ink screens already are.

They key cause of cost in e-ink is lack of demand, and more specifically lack of demand compared to LCDs. LCDs are produced at a rate of billions per quarter, they're so stupidly cheap it's almost unfair to compare them with e-ink. Point is, LCDs will always be cheaper unless demand changes.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38000843
Containers: Rootful, Rootless, Privileged and Super Privileged
Why do so many Windows users tolerate shit like this while refusing to consider a much better designed platform that is far more respectful of its users like macOS?
It's common knowledge that economists espouse convenient, deceptive falsehoods by lawyering statistics such as inflation and unemployment rate. The rate of price increases in essential items and real estate has been insane. And there are millions of people without employment who aren't counted.
I feel safer as a cyclist and pedestrian in SF with Cruise and Waymo vehicles driving around than I do any other vehicle.

At least the autonomous vehicles actually follow the rules: they are patient and always watching the bike lane and crosswalks. I've never had one try to cut me off, make an illegal turn, or aggressively turn into me while in the crosswalk. These things are daily occurrences for me with human drivers due to the sheer lack of traffic enforcement.
> knowing some of the stuff they do behind the scenes to ensure safety

Any info on this? I would love to learn more about what they're doing.
Highways (and resulting sprawl) aren't the result of free market economics -- they are a policy decision.

https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/government-funding-for-high...
I don't get the point of building so far from the equator, the orbital speed in this area is something like half of the orbital speed at the equator. They will have to spend more in rocket fuel to launch the rockets.
Maybe there is something I'm missing there.
If you are counting MBs at that order, then wxWidgets would be the best option. It can be statically linked easily. The size overhead is about 2.5-3 MB. It is a thin wrapper on top of native controls, so e.g. you can always get to the underlying HWND on Windows. Even for the Windows only app, I'd still pick it due to the sane API.
That’s not the claim which Purism made or which is being repeated in this thread – because there’s obviously limited marketing value in saying “battery health used to be hard to tell on our competitor’s device but it’s been easy for over 6 years”.
Living in a European city and relying 100% on public transit and walking, with occasional biking for longer distances, it’s easy. It does not require 5-10x the population density, maybe just 2-3x, at least compared to San Francisco (which is already somewhat dense in parts). It is not a major shift in lifestyle easier. The tallest buildings in some cities in the Netherlands are 2-3 stories, and those cities still have regular buses, trams, and trains.

There are even some suburbs full of single family homes, with yards, which still have buses every 8 minutes all day long, and long-distance commuter train service every 20 minutes.

Yes the US needs more density for this to be feasible. But San Francisco isn’t that far off on the density that it would needs
> doesn't make sense to me that a car with a single driver can be more cost effective than a bus, tram or train

This is a fascinating area to research. Of course there are trade-offs to model including a few such as: price of person's time waiting for next bus, time to go all around the mulberry bush instead of point to point, and hassles and personal safety in public places.
Optimism, defined. Alternative strategy: downvote, flag where appropriate, and they'll eventually be shadowbanned.
Or in another universe. This person know where to put his money. So if I am more productive and get time saving effort and time by a tool, I will use it. And actually making coffee at home/office saves more time not only money. And you can get it whenever you want in a 5 minutes max.

Ironically I am using their main competitor, beeper.
Still waiting for Movemail support to be restored though. When using apticron it's nice to get upgrade notifications (and other local mail) in Thunderbird rather than when I invoke a command in xterm (which I find very distracting).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802145
Do you know any competent IT professionals who would want to work in government for that salary?

No. That is why government IT is not very good. It's a terrible environment to work in, and the pay is not good compared to private sector.
If their slides are to be believed, the CPU is going to be competitive with whatever everyone else puts out.
This may be a helpful list but it isn't a valid Show HN; please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
> strongly implied challenges around object permanence for Tesla

Anyone who has ever ridden in a Tesla knows they have no real perception of the world around them. Even just driving down the road they show icons of the things around them, which will randomly appear and disappear or change from busses to pedestrians to cars.
They don’t. Someone is adding charges that are not the windows or whoever smashed them also hit metal
If on .NET, Windows Forms, WPF, or the community projects from Uno and Avalonia.

For C++, you're better off with Qt, wxWidgets.

You can use Visual Studio Community if the licence still fits your work, or in the case of Qt, Qt Creator alongside a recent VS or MinGW.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35262156 (aka https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th... ) may interest you, although just like every "WinModem" style repurposing of Windows-centric hardware it's not so simple as "wipe disk, install Linux, profit" :-(
Sad that you're getting downvoted. OP's post is essentially "People who made different choices than me should be punished."
I'm not sure whats the dark pattern - that the ad looks like an email? I consider that a good thing since it makes it unobtrusive and invisible. Just like google text ads.

I consider it a small price to pay for a nice app.
Storytime.

When the company I work for hired a person who was super excited about NestJS, I looked at it with an open mind (or so I'd like to think). I was probably a bit sceptical because this person, who seemed really nice, couldn't think of a single thing he disliked about it (that's a question I tend to ask about any tech that someone is all-over-the-moon about, and my thinking is that if you can't list a single thing you dislike about something, you probably don't know it well enough), but let's take a look at it!

As soon as I saw they had basically copy/pasted the Angular 2+ module system into Node.js, and went full-hog into IoC, I decided not to even try it out.

The same Angular 2+ module system that basically was copy/pasted from AngularJS and that I had actually ripped out of our huge AngularJS app at our previous job because it caused more friction than it solved, and lo and behold, the tests became simpler when we didn't have to use ngMock. All those services were singletons anyway and were more suited to being actual JS/TS modules.

But AngularJS had a valid reason for it because it was back in forever-ago and there were no JS modules, much less dynamic imports for code-splitting.

Not that you need code splitting for a backend app.

I have never felt I needed DI in a Node.js app.

NestJS - not even once.
Some companies now ask to do a coding test with screen sharing. It's not a hard test but it's interesting because you can see the reasoning and ask for more details if necessary. Live sessions means the company is interested in humans but it requires potentially lots of wasted ressources to find the right person.
Hopefully eventually we fallback to the more analogue solutions that have always been better anyway. Things like actually talking with applicants, seeing things they've actually built that have existed for some amount of time, talking to people in their networks, etc.
Those are very different things in my mind. Someone at Wikipedia probably voted to merge.
GPU performance would likely be terrible. Combine that with the CPU translation and it’d be pretty bad. Better to just wait for the AMD chip to process shrink:
What? How do you figure? I run a small hobby forum for a niche interest and it's very easy to monitor every post. We have five moderators, a couple hundred registered users and we get maybe 3 or 4 posts a day.
In practice, I imagine it would be in the minority of cases when law enforcement is given a report on someone including this detection "evidence," and for the duration of the investigation the child is placed in protective custody. Not necessarily permanently, however the experience of family separation even for a few days can be traumatic. Criminal investigations can often take more than a few days of course.

At the same time, there are unfortunately many counterexamples of abusive parents not being separated from their children via the same mechanisms. Sometimes this is from the abusers being "good criminals" and not getting caught; but sometimes it's from LEOs being bad LEOs and not doing the catching.

My point was that in a system which surveils ~500M people, even an FP rate of ~0.01% is 50k people. Supposing the LEOs tasked with filtering this into credible (and triable) cases further manage to, through amazing police work, confirm the innocence of 99% of those false positives. That's still 500 falsely accused, but now confirmed suspicious, suspects.
Current day EU is trying to be like one of those comfy Norwegian prisons but with more guards and surveillance.
Companies will interview you on a white board, like many already do. There's nothing new here. This is why we've been taking tests in class and not at home where we could use friends or family to do them for us.
Kirby's Dream land is for Game Boy; the sequel, Kirby's Adventure is a very late release on NES/FC
There are many tasks for which speed is not an absolute requirement.

I bet there are lots of places that parallelisation makes more computers within the ballpark of acceptable performance perfectly cromulent to keep around.

Heck, my 2015 mac is a perfectly serviceable media player when I watch sport.
I think people care when things beyond their control force them to needlessly spend thousands of dollars.

Nobody likes dropping a couple Gs on a new laptop because the software has become so utterly shitty that their 2 year old I7 and GTX 3090 with 32 gigs of ram can no longer run a web browser.

I think if the general public knew that their stuff getting super slow super fast was a product of software rather than hardware degradation, theyd definitely care.
> I counted 5 cars parked in either a bike lane or active traffic.

Did the bike lanes have a "no parking in bike lane" sign? Because (and I learned this by getting the question wrong on my CA license test when moving here) it's not illegal to park in bike lanes in CA.
it's just bizarre that there isn't more embarrassment about how much worse we've made our industry. you've fucked up the economics of your global business desktop OS monopoly so badly that now you're adding ads to your free, bundled-with-the-OS-to-kill-Eudora mail client? what in shit?
Here is the solution to this:

1. Use AI to do the full on-site interview loop. At least for SWEs it is heavily structured, so something a good wrapper around GPT-4 can handle. It can even have an avatar if need be.

2. The AI-led "on-site" is done at your own time. But you must have a camera enabled.

3. HR just goes over the footage and other features to see if you have been using aids. In any case, the way you respond will be highly indicative of whether you used any aids.

4. If you pass and there is no cheating detected, then go straight to meeting the hiring manager. This interview is mostly behavioral and guessing whether you are a good match.

The problem today is that interviewing is expensive for both parties. Companies in particular get drowned with applications so they put all types of hurdles and auto-rejections.

But with AI, you could flip the process around. You could give _everyone_ the chance to do the full technical interview! Then you leave the human matching components for the best performing candidates.
The comparison you're making is nonsensical.

My home kitchen doesn't routinely serve strangers. The forum I host trough a server in my cupboard does.

If you want to make a comparison, it's between a small family restaurant and a giant fast food chain. It may surprise you but food inspectors treat both in roughly the same way.

Face it. Nothing meaningfully separates my forum from giant social media companies apart from scale.

Hence, small forums hosted by hobbyists and volunteers should be shut down.
Making something illegal doesn't stop some people from doing it, so it's something that should be considered when looking at the overall safety of human drivers. One benefit of robots driving is that they won't get drunk, get distracted because they had a stressful day, get drowsy but still try to make it home, speed because they're late for an appointment, etc...
I think this is a point in favor of the parent, actually. As you said, you described solutions, and the "problems" found by inverting them are not really things that people would say. To some degree, the founders thought "this product would be awesome if it existed" not "I'm solving a painkiller-level problem here"

For example:

- Facebook: "it is hard to connect to young people at my school" (what do you mean? I'll just go to the campus bar)

- Apple: "I want to get into home computers but I don't know how to solder" (ok, let's start a soldering school?)

- Amazon: "I don't want to leave the house to buy books" (???)
Symbian was too strong internally.
It might not have been on purpose originally but it's certainly convenient and in their best interest to leave their IMAP support in that state.
Yeap. It's snakeoil in the league of MMS. People go to prison for this shit.
GM Offers Chevy Bolt Owners $1,400 Gift Card After Going Back on Battery Swaps
This picture makes it clear, for the most part. Public transit is a pareto improvement on personal driving pods in terms of scalability. Especially for fixed commute routes.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/7999510360_8e46299621_z....
This is more subtle than you make it seem. Consensual sex between a minor and an adult is okay, abuse is not, and all European nations you’re talking about have a lot of legislation around that fact.

For example, a 16 year old girl might have sex with her boyfriend of 19 without having to fear legal repercussions, but a teacher or supervisor will face charges for any kind of sexual or emotional overtures towards their underage students or staff.

Generally, I would call this a lot more pragmatic than assuming everyone is just grown up at some magic date.
But there's a much smaller number of people from the social class likely to have lawyers as friends.

Also further reduce your number for adults in the name age bracket as practising lawyers.
I'm wondering if we're going to hear regret giving up on IE/Edge or other web browser tech a couple years down the road.