skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way you speak of wrath gives me the impression you have only heard of the "eternal conscious torment" interpretation of Hell. You should know that this isn't found in the preachings of Jesus, or the Bible in general. There are several other Biblically-founded interpretations of Hell, including things like "torment in proportion to sins", "torment until repentance", and what might be considered "eternal emptiness", basically the same as what an atheist would say happens on death. I learned this via these lectures: https://www.thenarrowpath.com/topical_lectures.php#Three_Vie..., but you can google "three views of hell" to get a variety of takes on the topic.

Under these interpretations, there is no "wrath" inflicted upon the lost, they simply do not gain the reward of having faith and instead enter into the "default" death state.

> "Jesus can save you (if you let him)" did kinda trigger me, since the Bible says, nobody can come to God lest they get pulled. So don't blame people for not getting pulled, that's victim blaming.

Your view is sounds consistent with a lack of belief in Free Will, is that what you believe? The Calvinist branch of Christianity supports this view, but it is not the only interpretation. If you don't believe in Free Will might as well just stop reading here because nothing is in your control anyways :)

If on the other hand you do believe in Free Will, it must be the case that you have a choice in coming to Christ. It is true that nobody can come unless they are pulled, but they can also resist that pull. The Bible speaks many times of God saying mortals resisted His call. Most famously perhaps Sodom and Gamora.

And the pull can come in many forms, most commonly in being preached the Gospel. It is very hard at this point to exist in the world without someone at some point having attempted to preach the Gospel to you, and the Bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ gave up his life so that all may be saved. Indeed, the most famous sentence in perhaps all of time supports this: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (emphasis mine).

So under a non-Calvinist interpretation everybody has the opportunity to come to salvation, assuming they have heard of Christ (the pull), and it is up to them to choose to do so, by choosing to believe in Him.
LOL

Ok - I've listened to him off and on for about a decade

If you want to be upset over him ... go ahead
Until cars are capable of simulating real-world human decision making (of a smart and considerate driver), it's not going to be enough. It simply won't be possible to eliminate all the teeny tiny liability laden edge cases otherwise.
Not if you want to go along with the trend of portraying cities as more dangerous than they really are.
Nice, the demo is cool. How do you differentiate from DBT?
I also deeply enjoyed my Nokia Lumia.

They clearly took many design cues from Zune, which was another excellent product I loved that did not take off.

I think if MS Phone had stuck it out a bit longer hybrid apps may have helped bring some developers in.

It sounds like Nadella still doesn’t get it though. MSFT tried several times to “reinvent the category of computing between PCs, tablets, and phones” and none succeeded. Windows 8 UC targeting tablets and native apps was a disaster and ate up a lot of goodwill.
With tablet PCs and netbooks Microsoft had the right idea too early and with poor technical implementation.
Do you have tests that verify that an abstraction hasn't sprung a leak?
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Nothing terrifies me more than waking up a billionaire.
Just cut out the "for Child Abuse" part. They want to scan people's private messages. The reason doesn't matter.
There was basically nothing any public official in the US could do to steer the ship in any kind of direction, once the political leader of 75 million Americans had hijacked the entire disease, public health measures to address it, and medical treatments of it, for some pretty over the top and insane political pivoting.

The timeline really highlights the volume of avenues he took that damaged the public health apparatus around COVID.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/timeline-of-trumps-covid-1...

its no big deal, itll go away soon, i took hydroxychloroquine, masks dont work, "If we didn’t do testing, we’d have no cases", stop shutting down, kids with the sniffles are classified as COVID, and a near constant name drop and slamming of Fauci.

The guy undermined HIS OWN public health officials constantly and turned them into conspiracy scapegoats. The battle was lost well before the vaccine was even released. What did he think his supporters would do when Fauci came out and said "take this vaccine"? Hell, Trump has been supporting the vaccine for at least 2 years now, and even he cant fix the mess he made.
You can't really be sure what will cause an economic crisis. There's usually multiple factors working in a cascade, and it's only ever clear in retrospect. Even then, you get disagreement.

Car owners falling behind on payments in record numbers could be nothing in terms of the history of the next global economic crisis. Or it could be among the dominoes.
Profile checks out

> Ethically challenged software engineer working for a major tech company you know

Though scanning the account's comment history, they appear to use this site almost exclusively to brag about their unethical and occasionally criminal behavior. Not "challenged," but "bankrupt." Downvotes encourage them to continue this trail of evidence, apparently.
Why? Do you think good drivers will be more willing to switch to AVs than bad drivers will?
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002752
A11y, i18n, l10n. These all have been around for decades.
Look here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38001630 for talk about regulating this new-ish aspect of business.
Agree with this analysis but it's no where near sufficient to comply with sanctions. Said companies would still need to institute solutions that interrogate the nature of active marketing campaigns to avoid running afoul. This just seems lazy and (perhaps unintentionally) cruel.
The concept of "human remote driver" isn't feasible. Imagine driving a car using a cell phone network Zoom call. It's less safe than just stopping.
... Stopped?
Stopped the vehicle, instead of continuing to drag them?
Operation Starvation
Good luck out-lobbying Google and Meta for privacy
Either way, it's a bait and switch. I wouldn't be interested at all because the company is apparently not to be trusted for their word.
Yes, and it sounds like a fairly fundamental flaw. Does the car have sensors that can determine pulling over is the wrong thing to do in this situation?

In general, getting out of the way is the right course of action, but this clearly shows that there are exceptions. I'm not sure that the vehicles are currently equipped for differentiating to even be possible.
Okay you got me, that’s clearly either a bit to gain responses or satirize anti-vax people.
Tests in school don't require creative problem solving. We can know this to be true, because if it did then checking the results would require it as well, which would mean we'd need 10x the number of teachers.
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It's pretty common in large tech companies to see this but agreed it is not a super intuitive abbreviation.
"Ignorantia juris non excusat" is precedent for any democratic state. It's there for long time. And it could end your freedom any time if your are not encyclopedia of all current laws, regulations and restrictions of country where you live.
So he just wanted to blow away 30 billion of his own money? He felt he had too much money but he did not want to give the money to the needy or anything woke like that he just wanted to waste it in an extravagant gesture?

I think the answer is different. He wanted it to succeed he was sure it would succeed, but like many people blinded by previous success and personality worship he thought it would be easy and a bunch of half baked simple solutions would be sufficient. Fire most of your employees and increase fees for most of your users. Seems very simple, right? Guess not.
yes, windows phone UI and their basic apps were pretty great and easy to use for a none tech-savvy person. Lack of 3rd party apps actually provides a nice distraction-free experience. lol
A”I” depends on data. The more the better. That’s why a lot of these people push for a disregard of people’s property (digital content, behaviour data, etc). Problem is in stealing all of it they will demotivate people from creating quality content and even alienate them from the dead internet.

OpenAI leads the cult.
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And comparing sizes of areas in general. There is a small card game called Illusion that is built around that idea.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244995/illusion
Haha that'd be a little counterintuitive given all 32-bit aligned is the trivial case for decoding variable length instructions, unless you're thinking about prefetching/branch prediction etc
And yet people are still surprised, because they thought they meant something else.

Seems about as accessible as coloring the Save button bright red and the back button bright Green.
nsjail author here (the original one, as the tool is also maintained by others), good job!

Irrelevant nit: .proto files are protobuf definition files (like this one: https://github.com/google/nsjail/blob/master/config.proto), a text representation of a specific protobuf contents is typically called (as per man clang-format): .textpb .pb.txt or .textproto - I use .config for examples distributed with nsjail, but it's licentia poetica :)
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I never used 23 and me but I did use Lemonaid Health a few times several years ago and found out that apparently I too was affected by this hack in the form of an email telling me to reset my password - with no other information.

Apparently 23 and Me bought Lemonaid at some point. And I only ever used Lemonaid to get prescriptions for medications that really shouldn't even need prescriptions but the United States healthcare system is insane.

It's just a comedy of late stage capitalism. And isn't the one privacy law the US does have HIPAA? So shouldn't this run afoul of that somehow?
Apple readies system to load up latest software onto unopened iPhones
There are already land based transport options that are two orders of magnitude safer than cars: buses and trains, with no AI necessary :)
They have that, and these cars completely depend on it for fundamental parts of the stack. If they detect that their understanding of the scene doesn't match their map, they (generally) have remote operators clarify the best course of action for the car. This isn't a remote takeover - they just plot a path for it or select from a number of different options the car presents to them, or give it the all clear to proceed.

I worked in the AV space for years - not at Cruise - but during one of my first driverless rides in a Cruise car, we ran into a few blocks of SF where the power was out. About 3 street lights in a row weren't functioning. At each one the Cruise stopped completely for about 45 seconds before crossing - even if there was no traffic coming from it's left or right. That delay was so that a remote operator could clear it to proceed after it detected that there wasn't a functioning street light where it expected there to be one. After the first street light we were getting honked at and swerved around by cars behind us while it paused and waited for clarification.

Comparisons between the safety of robotaxis and human drivers are strange to make when 'robotaxis' still depend on remote operators for fundamental parts of the driving task
This is terrible advice based on a real misunderstanding of the law.
using unique passwords would have prevented this from happening on the user side

but I agree with sensitive data 2fa should be mandatory
stop and get out of the car because someone just got flung onto/underneath your car? or perhaps have enough situational awareness to see that someone is about to walk into oncoming traffic?
I had the same thought about the name. They also didn't refer to the name again in the rest of the article, so it wasn't even setting up a convenient name to refer to the vehicle and distinguish it from other AVs; it was entirely superfluous.
These are always hard to read and I want to make a mention because we are critical in this area (like medicine and food) but when it comes to stuff like ML no one brings it up (pretty much all the ML papers you see are supported or directly from large tech companies).

Usually if the results are positive they're not exactly made up. Negative results just don't get reported. You should always maintain skepticism though and be critical. Those are still good qualities and I don't want to discourage that in any way.

(Sorry, little ranty below)

I say "not exactly" because every researcher does embellish their work a bit. I'm not going to directly criticize the researchers here (well I will) because this is more a product of the reviewing process (i.e. researchers) who are often quick to reject. The bigger issue is that reviewers see themselves as filters (i.e. adversarial to the reviewed work) and not as editors or consultants (i.e. on the same team as the reviewed work). I'm not sure if this is a psychological thing or incentive (both for sure) but it's probably something we should be discussing due to the feedback loop that it creates and is resulting in more a prolific environment where it is impossible to distinguish an ad from science. Which isn't good for science and especially for people trying to read science (i.e. why science communicators are often shit).

I'm also a big believer that we should be publishing negative results. Fuck man, most research is failing. You find out how to do something by failing to do it a hundred/thousand different ways. Why aren't we encouraging this? I thought papers were just about us scientists communicating with one another...
I don't use the calendar integration, but the behavior you're describing is almost certainly some JS explosion that wasn't handled. "Tools > Developer Tools > Error Console" (Ctrl-Shift-J in my copy) may cough up something that would enable you to file a bug report, if you were inclined, or may even help understand what expectation it had that your setup deviates from
This woman got dragged 20 feet and then the car rolled over her leg and stopped. The fire department had to come and remove the wheel of the car to get it off her leg. I don't know of a single person who would have done that.
The UK is basically destroying itself at multiple levels. It's really sad to see. Would have been nice to have a balanced counter partner in the anglo world to the USA.
> Too many times their vehicles just stop in the middle of the road.

The problem in this case happens to be that the AV tried to pull over instead of stopping in the middle of the road, so not sure this is a great criticism to make.
What's missing is a catastrophic privacy event. People have been yelling from rooftops about how terrible losing your privacy could be, but the horror stories aren't coming true. There aren't any wide-scale or pervasive negative consequences of a loss of privacy, and there are a lot of immediate positives.

An insurer needs to start disqualifying anyone who, I dunno, is shown in Google Maps to be out at bars past 11 PM or something like that. Until you can show the practical problems associated with a lack of privacy, people won't care, and I would even argue that those people aren't entirely unjustified in that belief.
One down, now lets get those others off the roads too!
CRISPR!
It's just so stereotypically American to say "here's a problem society faces" and then in the same breath pretend the solution is to enrich the CEOs of a handful of tech companies peddling solutions that may or may not even ever succeed.

>But they want freedom more.

Sure, it's a very individualistic society where one's personal convenience is more important than societal good. But let's call a spade a spade and not pretend that self driving car companies are selfless benefactors out to solve pedestrian deaths.
Reminds me of a story from one of the startups I worked at. Our CEO found himself in the elevator with the CEO of another company.

Other CEO: Ah yes, <company>. I guess that makes us competitors.

Our CEO: We'll be competitors when you ship a product.
Incomplete is a strict subset of wrong. That doesn't mean it's not useful.
Did Cruise release the video, its not clear to me a human driver would be better (other than some textual descriptions of the event)? The (human) person who actually caused the crash is still at large, and the bay area (SF + Oakland) still continues to one of the municipalities with negligble traffic enforcement [1] and massively dangerous (human) driving behavior [2].

So the city and DMV focussing their efforts on this corner case driving systems seems like dereliction of duty on the City attorney's and DoT's part.

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/01/ask-the-standard-san-franc...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzc15BeAaE
I'm not too familiar with the details here, but probably hit the brakes and stop ASAP? If there could be someone under my car I wouldn't keep driving to "pull over safely".
> Do you think the potential future where humans are freed from doing anything for their transportation (no driving, no pedaling, no steering, no danger, no waiting in traffic, etc) is worth some short term pain while we develop the tech? Was the pain and suffering during the industrial revolution days that have led to our current high tech world worth it?

Or more succinctly: "You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Sorry, eggs [regular people].

Ends justify the means thinking leads to some dark places (e.g. what kind of medical-technological progress would we be able to make if it was possible to do testing on humans like we do on animals?).
Wasn't it time to take action after the Equifax leak, or the facebook-cambridge leak? Yahoo? Marriott International? Yahoo again somehow?

Nothing will change.

Its time for people to stop expecting things from their corpo-overlords or the governments they've purchased.
Yeah. Politicians using children as arguments for total global surveillance is the epitome of bad faith. Leveraging children as political weapons should be considered a form of child abuse.
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23andMe is not considered a regulated Health Services Provider and thus is not regulated under HIPAA.

I can certainly see that changing now because it is utterly absurd that they are not subject to such regulations.
They do vote for them, as I understand things this strike is broadly because people do not think equality is progressing quickly enough, that the rate of violence and sexual violence against women is unacceptable (40%), support for non-binary and trans people and support for equality globally.
The problem is when "just don't give personal information" is taken out of your control.

For example, I have largely cut Facebook and Google out of my life (Facebook lingers for keeping up with a few people but its access is severely limited).

However that does nothing to stop my data that may happen to be on my friends phones (like my cell phone or chats for example) from being gobbled up by both of these companies if they allow it.

There is basically no way for me to stop Google from buying my credit card information. Just saying use a different card really isn't a realistic option.

These laws are necessary because there are many instances of a complete lack of consent on my part for these companies getting my data.
Counterpoint: he has behaved as an idiot the entire time.
I call it "trust arbitrage"
I have a friend who interviewed at Waymo to be a safety driver. He told me they have a human at command central monitoring the car and the safety driver, talking back and forth. I see no reason why they would remove the human monitor after no longer using safety drivers. For liability reasons at least. My point is I'm not sure Waymo cars can actually be considered self- driving since they have a remote human standing by to take over.
The only dim silver lining here is that non-executive employees will have a clear(er) understanding and legibility of their status within the organization.

This signal is typically pretty valuable beause it gives those who are allowed to work remotely the understanding that they possess a unique and currently difficult-to-replace skillset. Conversely, those on the other side of the invisible divide (i.e. deemed replaceable or non-essential) will also realize that they should either start developing a difficult-to-replace skillset within the eyes of the company, or seek other employment even if they end up moving to San Mateo.
Interesting piece is down at the bottom:

> Apple readies system to load up latest software onto unopened iPhones. When a customer buys a new iPhone from an Apple retail store, the device sometimes comes with outdated software. For instance, the first iPhone 15 models out of the factory shipped with iOS 17, but iOS 17.0.1 was already available by the time the devices were available for purchase. Buying a new iPhone without the latest software isn’t ideal, especially if there are some high-profile bugs. But that situation is about to change.

> Apple is planning a new system for its retail stores that will update the software on iPhones prior to sale. The company has developed a proprietary pad-like device that the store can place boxes of iPhones on top of. That system can then wirelessly turn on the iPhone, update its software and then power it back down — all without the phone’s packaging ever being opened. The company aims to begin rolling this out to its stores before the end of the year.

This will also open iPhones to any border agents or whoever gets hold of your phone.
Fair, but also humans working manually don't have a 0% error rate
They're saying this again huh? Boy who cried wolf, meet apple who cried repairable. Nobody should care about what apple says on this, wait for third party repair ships to verify that repair parts have become obtainable and repair has actually become more viable.
I would love this, but unfortunately if you want to travel nowadays you need to give up biometrics to board a flight
I'm aware HN has a dim view of the GDPR, but I previously worked in compliance and it was a sea change in how big corporations and organizations viewed data collection.

User PII and especially sensitive data suddenly was viewed as "toxic" and that having it around was something that could only bring them hassle.

California's data privacy acts are similar (but much more narrowly focused).

Also, I always like to sum up what the intent of these acts typically are and what compliance means:

- Tell people what data you're going to collect and, what you do with it, who you share it with

- Keep their data reasonably secure

- Delete it if they ask
None of the accounts I followed were blue checks for anything other than the purpose of verifying they statements made were legit from the source, which would be a mark of authenticity, what accounts were just given checks for whatever it is you're insinuating? (pre elon drama)
No, because fixing all humans is impossible.

Fixing all Cruise vehicles so that this doesn't happen might be hard, but it isn't impossible.
Why My Fall Made Me Feel So Ashamed
Not that I like social media or tech companies (I detest them). But it's not a special case. Media companies, cable companies, newspapers, etc. They've all enjoyed the ability to manipulate and 'guide' what people see and what opinions they form, for a long time. It's nothing new.