skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you intending to compare here?

Two points:

Try using Cruise outside its tiny comfort zones.

There is no such thing as the “self driving Tesla” you mention. There is a beta which requires human supervision at all times.
I'm trying to put this into perspective, and the numbers are a bit weird:

October 2023 careers page: >600 employees, > 100 PHDs

The about page currently says >180 PhDs design our chips and 85% of employees are engineers, but you can see that between Oct 12 and Oct 15 the number changed from 100 PhDs to 180 PhDs (wayback machine). That's pretty much right before the layoffs, how does that make any sense. (I suppose they may have took some time to update the website)

If we go by the 600 number, then this laid off 21% of the company and got 80 new PhDs before the layoff.

[1] https://www.sifive.com/about
Can you explain more? (I might be stupid and don't see some obvious proof of why your approach is correct), but intuitively it doesn't seem that the fact that the cup is symmetrical is enough. Say if the handle of the cup was really really big, while still preserving symmetry, then its outstanding area would be huge compared to what the doughnut could cover.
Too big to fail, but also not big enough to be broken up. If the government's priority was safeguarding the financial system, as soon as the crisis passed the big banks would be broken up to reduce risk if any one of them failed.

That breaking them up wasn't even discussed in government or media shows how powerful their influence is.
>but tech will never ever be able to solve a social problem

I don't know where this mantra came from but it definitely falls in the risible category of leftist rhetoric. Technology has already solved multiple social problems, most obviously the advent of telecommunications itself solving the problem of coordinating actions at a distance. But more embarrassingly, the solutions you propose in the following paragraph are mostly technological.

People just need to drop this line.
We did need competition and new ideas though. Badly.
Windows: mentioned 8 times

Linux: mentioned 0 times (not counting Android)
I definitely agree with your point here.

That said, I don't know if the average human drives acceptably, and I'm very skeptical of a "99%" estimate, but I will say that I would prefer a fleet that consistently drove at the 40%ile of human quality vs. the current human fleet that follows the normal distribution.

If self-driving cars reach 40%ile quality, and enable us to stop the 20% worst drivers from driving (or average drivers when operating at 20%ile due to being drunk or tired), that'd be a huge win for safety.

Right now it's socially unacceptable to increase the difficulty of getting your license, or to take it away for poor performance, because cars are a necessity or near-necessity in most places. If we could provide self-driving vehicles as a fallback, perhaps we could make it easier to permanently lose your license than—checks local laws—repeatedly killing people by driving while intoxicated[0].

[0] https://www.idrivesafely.com/dmv/indiana/laws/dui-and-dwi-la...
The conventional wisdom at the time was indeed that OpenBSD was the most secure server OS.
The comment you are replying to starts with "My day-to-day experience..."
TL;DR: You can't just say "accessibility." How will people know you're a Serious Expert without lots of jargon and abbreviations?

Ironically, the jargon reduces "accessibility," but oh well.
In the table "Selected Product and Service Revenue Constant Currency Reconciliation", what does "Microsoft Cloud" represents?
Ah yes a casual date thru the tenderloin. These are the types of individuals with no situational awareness that end up getting hurt and wonder why. The world will kill you if you let it.
A reasonable concern, but I'm surprised at the degree of negative reaction to this— for example, who has the last word on control of a manned spacecraft? Obviously they are controllable from the ground, but can the personnel onboard take that back?

I feel like there's at least scope for an interesting discussion on what a takeover could look like and how the process could be abused and/or protected from abuse.

For example, what if it was something that could be requested using a "call for help" mechanism available elsewhere on the craft? Perhaps there could be buttons on opposite sides of the galley that would activate the distress call, so two flight attendants would have to collude for it— that would call the attention of the ground station to a pilot-incident-in-progress who could then receive telemetry and begin to investigate what was going on and go through some kind of clearance process to unlock the final takeover key that would let them disable the cockpit if deemed necessary.
hm well, that goes a bit out of topic here. As much as I truly hate to see what the commission is doing, it's naive to think that individual countries are just wishing something better for their people. In fact, this legislation may have been promoted by some EU countries. The chance of the EU is that it's big enough that 500m people care about it, and that's how such things come to light. If it were a random small EU country going full speed to 1984, the chance is much higher that such a legislation would be approved. And then the next country.. all slowly falling like domino
It pretty much is the approach the FAA takes. It's extremely difficult to get a private pilot's license if you have a history of ADHD, never mind more severe mental illness, never mind again a commercial license.
or how about this: government stays the hell away from me, and can come knocking on my door once they have some evidence of wrong doing
I should have been more clear why I thought there was a misunderstanding.

How is a matchmaker "techno-feudalism"? Specifically the role of a human matchmaker who knows people in the local community and makes introductions.
Interstellar 8-track: Voyager 2's tape recorder still works
Where does Siri fall short for you? It's not perfect, but it's never felt any worse than my google home
I disagree on the endpoint. I think active transit is healthy for humans, and removing it causes people to need to excercise deliberately much more — and people don’t, causing obesity and a ton of health concerns. Walking 2-3km a day would be great for most people, and much better than sitting in an auto-pod.
The problem is that you can't punish a car.

If a human being had done that they would have absolutely had the book thrown at them. There was a case where a woman was drunk driving and hit a man, he came up over the hood and into her windshield. He was alive but bleeding. She drove home and parked her car in the garage. He bled out through the night. NO ONE was sympathetic towards that woman.

But if an automated vehicle does it, it just becomes a line item that someone somewhere has to pay. You watch, someone will start offering insurance for that liability.

What we should be doing is making it an existential crisis for these companies. That will never happen and thus self driving vehicles will become good enough and that's it.
Really, it's extremely new. The feedback loop for old media was very coarse. They knew how many newspapers they sold and had an idea of who the repeat customers were. Editorial could be said to be linked to bumps in opinion polls, but only very loosely. Nobody knew how or if anything worked. It was all theories and snake oil and "conventional wisdom". The old adage was that 50% of marketing was effective but nobody knew which 50%.

For old media to have the same qualities as new media, newspaper publishers would have to know in real time if you were a new or returning reader, how long you spent reading page 32, which article you talked about with your friends, who your friends were, what their and your demographic profile was and then be able to serve up customised content within an instant based on all of those factors. And then say that they aren't responsible for any of it because they're just a platform.

Really, the only thing that old and new media have in common is that they are broadcasting words and images to the general public. The comparison ends there.
I haven’t heard it expressed this eloquently and succinct before. Bravo.
>Our police kill people at a rate many times higher than other comparably developed nations; about 60x the UK, for reference. Yes our gun ownership is higher, but the relatively low rate of police deaths shows that their readiness to resort to violence is unjustified.

TBF I still feel that's a gun problem. It's very hard to "accidentally" kill someone with a baton, taser, or even a knife (not that I know any police with a knife). Meanwhile, richochet bullets can kill someone in the complete opposite direction of fire if your're really unlucky. more likely, a shot misses and goes past the scene and into the crossfire of someone innocent.

but as anyone battling 2A knows, that's (and was) going to be a very long debate.
AI for Data Analysis: Expectations vs. Reality
A big lesson from running a hackerspace is that you can't apply logic like that to commercial real estate. They'll let it sit empty for ten years rather than reduce the price.
> You can't just take any two musicians and throw them together and get the Rolling Stones and the same thing applies to pair programming.

I don't see that effective teamwork should necessarily depend on compatible personalities. I think the better comparison would be to surgery teams, or pilot crews, rather than art.
Commuting into a major city on a weekday isn't a good idea, no matter which city. Luckily SF has a good (for the US) transit system.
Can C++ even die? There's too much of it and a mere superset where existing C++ code can be valid in the new language/environment (either natively or as clearly delimited blocks, like Assembler in C++) won't make legacy C++ go away.

It's going to be around forever.
Easy, humans prevent nearly 100% of the accidents. A car without a driver invariably crashes in a few seconds.

The question is how many accidents (if any) self driving prevents with respect to average human drivers.
Please direct your attention to any instance of the vast amount of media concerning the inability of people who grew up poor to shake not only their habits but how that background makes them feel about the world. One was up for several Academy Awards last year. The answer is an unequivocal, if not necessarily universal, yes.

But that's also immaterial. That a person's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors might change when they find themselves in a different socioeconomic context doesn't make those experiences any less meaningful - to themselves or society. If personal scarcity inspires more sustainable behavior amidst an environment of eventual, absolute planetary scarcity, which can be applied more widely, all the better.
is it safe to assume that you've worked at meta at some point? because this comes across as a little defensive

The post is about instagram so I'm talking about instagram, feel free to post an article about magazines if you want to talk about magazines... legislation aimed towards instagram will create precedence to pursue other platforms like tiktok and can also become ingrained as policy. Just because we're focusing on one subject here doesn't mean we're ignoring the others or playing favorites.
No. Public transportation sucks. There’s no privacy and I have to walk to and from a bus stop. I have nothing against walking, I love it but I don’t want to do that when I have an upcoming appointment or return from grocery shopping. This pedestrian whatever only works in dense urban areas and if you live in apartments. What the hell do people in apartments even do? Just sit around quietly and watch TV so there are no noise complaints. I can farm, raise goats, woodwork and still drive to a city center in under 15 mins. Why would I want to give that up.

I’m an environmentalist and the solution is electric vehicles powered by renewable electricity. It’s not cooping people in tiny apartments and foisting dense living on people that don’t like it.
I noticed you are missing a "/s" suffix.
It’s been a while since I’ve been deep in the field, but the basics are you’ve got a first order action and a second order action.

T cells in this instance are directly cytotoxic. They find the ligand they bind to, and they begin lysis of the cell to kill it.

Meanwhile the intent of the mRNA vaccines that so many of us received over the last several years was to get B cells pumping out immunoglobulins which would soak up virus, reducing severity/duration of illness and allowing time for the bodies other defences to swing into action.

They’re not the same mechanisms of action (or at least they don’t rely on the same levers at the same strengths). Like everything in the human body, it’s a stochastic process so bits of everything are happening at once
It is real time. I think you're confusing "round based" for "turn based."
It'd take a whistleblower for us to know about it. Companies have been repeatedly caught filtering politically sensitive topics inappropriately (yahoo comes to mind https://archive.thinkprogress.org/yahoo-appears-to-be-censor...) but it's usually explained as an "error" and I suspect that in many cases it genuinely is, it's just impossible for us to tell the difference between "caught them red handed censoring" and "caught them red handed being bad at their job"
Traffic is a function of how many cars go through a road/intersection per unit time, which is reduced if cars keep shorter following distances, which self-driving cars can do because of faster reaction times.

In the extreme, imagine if a light turns green and all cars in line accelerate at the same time. Intersections would let through a lot more cars.

Or think of freeway speeds where the length of a car is near-negligible. A one-second following distance means almost 60 cars pass a given point in a minute, versus almost 30 cars per minute for a two-second following distance.
Or even the ones they cause, for the most part. It's notoriously difficult to get clean data about non-fatal crashes.
https://old.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/ddh5p/comment/c0zfics...
"A11y" is particularly confusing for the uninitiated because the numbers look like letters.
Maybe of interest. There has been research by SwissRe on this topic.
https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/paper-review-comparative-saf...
I'm in love with the idea of the EU, that doesn't mean that I think any of this is remotely acceptable.

And I think that "it can't be allowed to continue" is a dumb idea
NASA have a history of reusing bits and pieces when they develop new vehicles and systems. If someone learns how to control Voyager there may not be much left to figure out if they want to control New Horizons etc.
I am not sure, at minimum it seems to be standard practice. It stands for network information center, and there is a lot of variation when it comes to information provided and tools they offer.

For that amazon link, I think the underlying website is just flakey. I was able to get the page to load once, here is an archive link of it working https://web.archive.org/web/20230616013716/https://nic.amazo...
Asking police officers to enforce traffic violations is a very expensive use of their time. Police offers cost a lot of money to employ, and we have a lot of publicly accessible road space. Having officers even regularly stationed at 50% of the most common routes would probably take up a lot more manpower than they have now and that means more taxes to pay for them. Creating a dedicated traffic enforcement division is probably more doable/cheaper, but again, the amount of people needed is large. The problem is fundamentally that the US has a lot of extremely lightly regulated public space designed for high speed and that's why our pedestrian and auto safety record is so much worse than any other developed country.
The big news article was people breaking into 23AndMe accounts to find Ashkenazi Jews. That’s pretty creepy, IMO. I mean there are obviously countries out there that would weaponize that sort of info, doubly so if you look back in the historical record.

In a perfect world, nobody would worry about their ethnic or racial information leaking. If you know how to get to that world I suspect lots of people would be interested in going.
Cars aren't a great example, they're a huge problem and we'd be better off if we weren't all dependent on having a car
I try to be aware of blind spots by subjecting myself to the same tests I put others through

In this case, I started keeping logs of what people said what across social media. I noticed that they never revisit their theories and just go on to the next one. In one example, the people calling the existence of the virus fictional were same people that were having 5g hysteria for the next year, some of the same people that moved to theories that required the existence of that virus but to stick with issues about the vaccine. Everyone that took the vaccine is supposed to have dropped dead by now according to many individuals theories. But these are not being revisited, there is no “I was wrong about that” “what happened to 5g” “how come only a couple people have myocarditis problems in 2023 instead of 75% of the population, or more since the actual virus does the same thing” its just on to the next one

so I try to revisit which theories I made to at least address them
Yes, this but with an appreciation for that paradigm. I get to live away from the city center, in privacy, and can have a bunch of land and room for activities I want to do. This way I get to raise goats, have a woodworking shop, grow my own vegetables and still be 10 minutes away from restaurants/shows/nightlife in the city center. I felt like an animal the few years I lived in an apartment.
I liked mine too. Sometimes I think I was the only one, but now I know there were at least three of us.

I had what I think was the lowest end Lumia at the time, a Lumia 520 maybe? It did what it did really well.

The camera was surprisingly OK. The tiles meant I could see what I needed without tapping around. It was much more responsive than other phones in its price range from what I remember too.
Why were they keen to provide better support to customers contacting them on Twitter than customers contacting them via email, phone or their own support site?

(Spoiler: I think we all know that Social Media was one budget item and Customer Support was a different one, and executives were happy to "invest" in the former and wanted to spend as little as possible on the latter...)
> It's like 30 years ago saying "people record such abuse onto VHS tape

30 years ago was before the Internet became commonly available, and there was not a lot of talk about CSAM. Hell, the first federal law against it was ... 1984?

Why did we not really care about it before then, but now it's a "no matter the cost" problem?
Finally! An adult in the room has a good idea, that can avoid needless escalation with the Shia creacent, Russia and China. And can unite most Arab countries against Hamas.

It you read between the lines at the Cairo summit, Arab leaders have been all but begging for Israel to make a plan, for an international coalition or SOMETHING to avoid more escalation and civilian deaths. Yet most Israel supporters have such a defeatist attitude that no one will join Israel (mainly because of the votes at the UN regularly condemning Israel, but that’s not the same thing at all).

I lay out the case here for what Israel must do, and now Macron seems to be spearheading it:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=424
Sounds like he's trying to keep campaign activities separate from work activities. Doesn't sound necessarily unethical to me. Using your position as a public servant to use public resources for campaign purposes is what strikes me as unethical.
With what strings attached? With or without schematics? ALL parts or just what Apple wants to make available?
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A safety layer that kills people in novel ways... GPs whole point is that companies should have to prove that they are safe, not just assert that they probably will be and then test on public non-volunteers.
I think we all have different radars - and also what we perceive consciously and unconsciously differs.

For example, my wife has a much keener recognition for something that's messy - a full sink or a shirt laying on the floor of my office will "scream" at her louder that it does at me. Although, I suspect the mess still "affects" me - eg I might be less focused/happy in the messy environment despite not thinking about it consciously.

Something completely wild is what my 3 year old sees. A few days ago I was stopped at a red light and he said "daddy, what are all these arrows?" My first response was "what arrows?" Then I saw the arrows on a sign that explained the intersection. Then I saw the arrows on the overhead exit sign. Then I saw the ones drawn on the lanes itself to show which ones can turn and which ones go straight. Then I saw the one-way street sign. Then I saw the red arrow on the traffic light. And probably a bunch more other stuff, including my blinker signal. So at the instant he asked me about arrows, I was consciously aware of 0 arrows, while in reality there were like 12 in our field of view. Now obviously this is because I've been driving for a long time and I don't need to be consciously aware of the arrows to process their information. But it also tells you how much we might omit / filter out because our minds don't think it's worth surfacing to conscious attention.
After the CPUC voted to approve the self-driving expansion, the same people that tried to block self-driving cars there pulled two regulatory levers.

First, the California DMV, with result seen here.

The incident that triggered this event happened when a human driver, who is still at large, hit a pedestrian who flew into the path of the Cruise vehicle.

The car executed a maneuver to pull over for a safety stop, but failed to recognize the woman who was dragged some distance.

Second, they reached to the Federal agencies via Nancy Pelosi’s office, with primary focus being the NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The request was to gather data, which given the friendly posture of the NHTSA at this time will likely result in the opening of an investigation.

Both of these moves have some bite. The California DMV can suspend licensure as happened here.

But they’re fairly straight-shooter civil service types in the end, and they’ll eventually clear the vehicles for use. You can see this in part because of the action against Cruise only, rather than Waymo.

Some may attribute this to Waymo’s greater political sway in California. But my experience of the products themselves is that Waymo has a higher quality self-driving system.

The NHTSA is a bit trickier to predict.

The NHTSA’s powers are broad in theory and as granted by statute. They could theoretically issue an order to remove a type of vehicle from the road for imminent threat to public safety.

However, their typical modus operandi is to issue recalls and work with the auto companies. They won’t want to test these powers under the current court, so my opinion is that they won’t take much action.
That's a good point, and tbh I was aware of color e-ink but I assumed the price difference was enough to be a non-starter for a (parasiteware) company.
Walk of Health
Is door-to-door campaigning "civic business"?