skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to say - this comment means a lot. I thought the experience with my kid and the arrows was really poignant for me and I am glad I could get it across.
Do you have a repository of questions you like to ask? Or are you able to come up with them at will?
I work at a network hardware vendor who has a large Japanese customer base.

After Fukushima we were asked to provide specifications for acceptable operating environment radiation levels, after some negotiation they relented and gave us a figure we could test at, so engineers drove hardware to a spot with high background radiation and ran it for a couple of days off a generator to test.

The Japanese customers also insisted that each display on the hardware be the same shade of white, so they would all look nice in a datacenter, so our LCD displays have specifically graded white LEDs.
And? If you take a placebo for a cold, and you feel better than you would without the placebo - what's the issue?

If you notice they don't make these things for any serious illness, they are all for things where the goal is simply to feel better, while the disease runs its ordinary course.
> If you continue to use them despite supposedly not trusting them

No valuable data stored on the gaming PC
I'd say anything you can verify by:

* looking in public

* asking via friends of friends or acquaintances

* casually asking about in a different interview session

This could be stuff about development processes, current efforts, what processes are like, what issues they have and how they're working to remediate them.

You're not typically going to hear anyone say "this place is a trainwreck" on an interviewing committee, but you may be able to sense discordance or mismatching stories.
Investment is not the sole input into creating technology, time matters to. The tranfsormer paper probably didn't take much investment to create, but without it, any attempts at creating LLMs would have been futile no matter the billions poured in.

Moreover, technology is created as spillover effect from investments in other areas (That aren't speculative). CUDA is only possible because Nvidia was supported by gaming revenue for a decade. Without CUDA, there is no alexnet, and no deep learning boom will happen if we are still on CPUs or google's proprietary TPUs.
How often are you driving 1800 miles in a day.
And for cars that are geofenced. Not accurate comparison.
Or like modeling basketball games as random walks?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2825
Fast.ai – making neural nets uncool again
Here an objective difference is described: a Waymo vehicle reacted to new visual information in a direction that a human driver would not be likely to be looking.
The majority of chronic health conditions are the result of lifestyle choices. Those are largely outside the scope of medicine, and it is unreasonable to expect solutions from doctors. They have some drugs that can ameliorate symptoms in severe cases but those mostly don't address root causes. Patients might get better results from a personal trainer, dietician, therapist, or social worker.
And yet the cycle has continued for as long as humans have tracked it.

So either the theory is wrong or reality is wrong.
It’s fantastic and a must read.

I’d explore the various Lex/Yacc based tools after. Hand writing your own recursive descent parser is a lot of work. EBNF sugar and some regular expressions is much less work. Of course parsing is just the first step and you still need to create other representations like ASTs.
Google's iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
Very interesting to see each side try to play social media, even on HN.
Couldn't fit in the title, but the original article is from 2013, with updates in 2018.

I always revisit this article from time to time, and I think it presents a more honest view on how open source Android really is.

There's an interesting balance between OS features being part of the platform vs part of Google Play Services. On one hand, platform code is less easily updated, but it can be fully open source. On the other hand, Google Play Services can be easily updated through the Play Store, but we're now locked into a closed-source, proprietary platform - especially when more and more features move into Google Play Services. (Barebones AOSP isn't useable by any realistic standards, and Pixel devices have a large number of Pixel-only features that people just start considering "stock Android". At this point, Pixel is a skin on top of AOSP.)

However, there's an interesting "best of both worlds" solution: Google's Project Mainline modules - they're easily updateable, and open source. But Google benefits from keeping features closed source, locking you into their ecosystem - so it's not like they're going to use these for anything more than lower level framework components as opposed to user-facing features. The full list is here: [0]

0: https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system#avai...
> Not sure this is that much of an accomplishment.

Man, some of you can be ruthless
Still not sure who the market for this is though. I'm happy with MAME + Raspberry Pi ... and more than $600 in my pocket.
If I'm SUPER interested I might ask a question or two that came up organically in the interview. But it's the tinder swiping strategy: Swipe right on all, then spend time on those that already filtered you out. I'm not going to investigate deeply EVERY company that does an initial interview. By second round, sure, at that point there's an actual possibility I'll work there and I need to know what I'm getting into, but a good job search for me usually includes about 40 initial phone screens (I'm picky).
In my experience, interviewers who would be peers at work are nearly always honest. Unless things are really dire, they don't have much incentive to hire someone who would be unhappy in the role.

Recruiters have lots of incentive to lie to you, and managers may have a hard time being straightforward about the bad parts of being on a team reporting to them (though this is less often due to outright lying to you).
comma.ai is a sustainable and realistic business and it kicks ass
“Without damaging the brand” in the sight of whom? Your average person isn’t going to care about any of this, and tactics like these are making number go up, which is all these executives and shareholders care about.
Personally, I believe it's better to keep on using the proven buffer vs some person's package. We don't need another left-pad. Also another reason to use a strongly typed language.

You call a function that returns a buffer. The interfaces changes and you now get a UInt8Array.

You will never know.
Some Turo owners have their vehicles set to block Turo’s full-coverage insurance. It’s unclear whether this was the owner’s preference or Turo’s.
The same… vector space?

I’ll show myself out…
Thanks, very cool.
As kids back in the 1950s my sister and I could wander around inside Skara Brae. I've been back several times since, but not actually in the rooms again of course, so those 3D models are a wonderful revisit.

Edit to add that it's a little disturbing to find I can go underground lol.
It may seem that way, but its not.

If you only have 1 boss, he gets 100% of the control over you.

If you have 100 customers, they each get 1% control. But they all pay 1% [1] of your income. So you get to make 100 people happy not just 1. Its a very real issue in this sort of space.

[1] in truth they're not equal. 10% probably make up the bulk of the income. They shout with a quieter voice. When they whisper you jump. The ones who pay the least will also complain the most. About "trivial things". Listening to them improves the product enormously.
Can it detect stationary obstacles at freeway speeds? Do we have good evidence? Because autopilot couldn't.
Sorry, you're right! My geo math is a bit wrong, especially for cities that are nearby i.e. SF and San Jose (vs New York)

I'll definitely investigate.
The average "good" driver is likely the p90 though.

60% of US drivers survey to using a hand held cell phone while driving.

an intersection, but not exclusively 30% of US drivers survey to driving under the influence of alcohol in the last year; and that's generally excluding "buzzed"/under the legal limit - which may be lawful - but likely take one out of the "good" category.

Then you have medical conditions that go unchecked for driving in the US, peripheral vision, far-sightedness checked once a decade, reaction time, physical disabilities.

Then you have following too closely, speeding, accelerating too quickly, braking too quickly, taking turns too quickly, vehicles lacking maintenance (tires with little tread, inappropriate tread for roads, brakes not bled every ~2 years, lights out, suspension unchecked, carolina raised trucks)

Finally, you can add in US infrastructure, which traditionally maximizes speed and minimizes safety -- and generally gets a C-.
No, although the name was likely picked to cause exactly such confusion. 'Al Qaeda' is commonly translated as 'the base' but there's no connection between the two. AQ was a pretty elaborate and complex organization in its heyday though it seems mostly moribund now. The Base existed mostly virtually and was more focused on promoting stochastic terrorism by disseminating incitement and instructional materials, but without any real infrastructure/finance.
I had to check. It's Next.js /React and the images are all CSS using Chakra. Just looking at the payload, it's sending the byte sizes which tells me they are counting bytes and checking for the difference. Pretty clever.
As awkward as "thousand trillion" is, trillion has the advantage that it shows up in the news on a regular basis. I can much better be impressed by cutting a hair by a nation's debt than I can by cutting the same hair into a quadrillion pieces.
Alcohol has a huge negative impact on sleep quality, especially when consumed late in the day. If you have a smart watch with sleep tracking then you'll probably notice a very obvious impact from even two drinks at dinner.
Forbes Island is on there. I miss that place so much. https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-...

Bug report: I tried to submit a remembrance there but this page it sent me to returned a 404:

https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-...

Update: I force refreshed the original page and submitted again and it worked.
Automating Dead Code Cleanup
Using Microsoft products is for people that did not read the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

The character of Microsoft as a company is well known since their early days. It is not wise to trust them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcb-XF1RPQ
> Are there really thoughtful, mature people who think that Open AI is in any way positive?

Anyone who thinks the AI developments are entirely positive and willfully ignores the downsides [information authenticity, spamming, abuse of copyright by the AI companies, the list goes on] might as well fall into that crypto/NFT cohort for me.

> The most pro-Microsoft opinions I've seen have mostly been related to VS Code.

I think it just stems from the fact that "new" Microsoft releases a lot of code as open source, and isn't out trying to sue everyone who looks at their intellectual property the wrong way.

> Personally I don't get it - it's basically functionality-equivalent to IntelliJ

As a heavy VS Code user, I don't really consider it a replacement for other IDEs. It just so happens that the "heavy" IDEs have always done a pretty poor job serving the frontend/backend Javascript stacks- which are the world VS Code was built for. I think of VS Code as "the IDE for Typescript" the way I think of IntelliJ as "the IDE for Java".

You can certainly adorn VS Code with plugins and write Java in it, and you can certainly install some plugins in IntelliJ to do Javascript in it. But these won't be the ideal experiences.
Mercedes is fully autonomous below 40MPH, which is most city driving. Including, they accept insurance liability for any accident -- since human isn't involved and isn't required to be alert/attentive/intercede/etc.
Most AI investment is going to be applying off the shelf stuff to a new industry, so you might as well get started now to get the customers then when your wholesaler (OpenAI, AWS etc.) stocks the latest product you can wrap it up in a nice bow and sell it to your customers.

AI investment in SOTA though I have no idea how you time that but I am guessing early is better.
Wobbly startups create nauseated men, half of whom go on to become strong men! (survivorship bias). The system works!
Have you SEEN his home?
That looks like a big annoyance, but I wouldn't call that stop dangerous.
> Personally I don't think they gave up too soon, I think they were fighting an uphill battle that they were likely never going to Win

They did give up, because hardware development and support costs a ton of money, and they preferred the margins from selling Excel licenses.

They could have done what Apple did and invested heavily in hardware development for 10 years. They even had Microsoft stores rolled out, with clean Windows computers without malware installed by default.

But there was no stomach for lower profit margins and a longer term play.
References. My GitHub profile. LinkedIn.
I'm glad that it's becoming clear to more people that Cruise and Waymo are at very different levels of maturity. Waymo is so far ahead that it's hard to see anyone catching up. We really need some alternative so there isn't a pure monopoly 10 years from now. I'm not sure there are any mergers that would bring anyone close ("two turkeys don't make an eagle" and all that).
Calvin pees a lot from all the stickers I see
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-v4-supercharger-speed-cable-...

Supposedly, V4 chargers are still currently capped at 250kW output (same as current L3 chargers), but are capable of upwards of 615 amps once more cars are capable of charging at 800 volts.

I don't know what building 100,000 of them will take, but it'll be a lot of metal for sure.
> "Click [here] to visit Bing. Otherwise click [here] to find out more about Bing's powerful AI features."

"Not right now. Remind me again in one week"
Which device are you running? And how are you doing WiFi?
To zero? Don’t you think Japan will open for more immigration before something that drastic happens? I lived there for 7 years, and while they are ridiculously slow, they aren’t blind.
Whenever I read something about Disney’s Animal Kingdom I tend to feel very happy. Even random facts like this. I’m glad Disney created that place
I've been consulting for a decade. I never had a network starting out and just started contacting companies I found on job sites/indeed/craigslist.
RIP East Coast Grill & Border Cafe.
Yeah, their very faux self driving package.
I think all of the arguments here talking about why these sort of measures don't work to reduce CSAM (or have too many false negatives or too many false positives) are missing the point:

While legislators do care about reducing child abuse, they're mainly using it as justification for this stuff so they can increase surveillance and control over their citizens. This is just a play to mandate client-side software that acts against the interests of the hardware owner. Once it's on there, it's a much smaller step to increase the scope of what it's required to do (either legally or through shady backchannel means) to things that the average person wouldn't be in favor of.
"All of that" is not encompassed in the human driver's home zip code. OP is talking about more than just the zip code, they're also talking about restrictions on the times of day Waymo operates, the types of vehicles they use, whether Waymo shuts down in adverse weather, etc. I'm not sure what all the current and past restrictions are, but those have to be controlled for.

The study you linked only discusses one uncontrolled variable (which is a bad sign given how many others there are that they don't talk about) but it's one I hadn't thought of:

> A limitation of the selected human baseline is that the location of crashes that generate claims is not known,
which limits the ability to filter claims based on Waymo's Operational Design Domain (ODD). As a result,
whereas the Waymo ODD largely does not include freeway driving, the human database includes miles driven
and claims which occur on freeways. Due to variations in collision frequency per million miles between
freeways and non-freeways, this may have led to a baseline which may be more conservative than a roadway-
matched baseline.
If you're comparing to other accidents in the same (geofenced) zipcode, then why is it not an accurate comparison?
Yeah stick with the safe stuff, Adderall
>I had to give up any passwords to my devices. It was a criminal offence not to do this.

You can forget passwords but you can't forget passkeys.
They dont. This technology, aside from being infeasible at the level it would need to be to bring the claimed benefits, doesn't actually even have real benefits worth this dangerous development. If anything its a desperate attempt to keep private automobiles as the primary transportation system despite more communal, and public, systems being superior.

Its also a USian obsession. Some other places have been able to actually invest in superior public infrastructure but the US is so focused on techno-solutionism it, as usual, misses the extant and superior solutions. Self driving does nothing to mitigate the sprawl and atomization that wreaks havok on our society, but trains and busses, and density that cannot be achieved with car-dependence does.
Google says it costs roughly 4 cents a mile to charge a tesla model 3. Most city rides are a couple of miles so its a really really small fraction of the cost of trip cost (even if you price at public transit prices)
SO serious rotfl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004619
Thanks for pointing that out.
Yes. This is a abundant resource, people should be aware of that. It’s also colonize various subtrates and thrives.
The linked study even calls this out: the zip codes they controlled for are the residence zip code, which means accidents that happen on the freeway (where Waymo typically doesn't drive) or even in other zip codes are included in the human baseline.
The fuck are you talking about? A reference to the Oregon legalization? He came from Everett.
I agree that it’s a service va a tool thing.

The google maps web page is checking which browser you are using.

The ms edge browser is watching what you are doing when you are using the web. Someone had to add code that said “if trying to download chrome send this system popup. “ which startled me when I saw it.

That and my one windows machine seems to open edge when waking from sleep (maybe rebooting?)
What's the utility of that? Self driving cars are meant to replace all humans, not just the safest ones.
That's the next-gen portable battery for your ebike. Wireless power transmission through your pants.
Show HN: Pb2zig – Pixel Bender to Zig Translator
already easier ways for those things to be done
1500km is suspiciously specific. What next, I'll go to the shops and buy EXACTLY two litres of milk? 12 eggs??

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/546/187/fb1...
We taxpayers already spend >$30 per person-trip for the Sounder. It currently doesn't connect well to transit on either end (most users drive to it), and half the city is fighting to make sure it doesn't connect directly with the new "light rail" station. Also our light rail is longer end-to-end than the Paris metro and half the stations are on the freeway with massive parking garage and no pedestrian amenities. Riding transit in the Seattle area is insulting and demeaning.

I've ridden the train in Copenhagen. The stops are near things! Stores and parks! Apartments and hotels! Shopping malls! Like, actually right there! There's a few stops like that in Seattle, but they're also the ones with junkies nodding off, con men "looking for some gas money", and other anti-social behavior.
inductive, not magnetic
> One of the messages in this thread is literally stating they have special knowledge of the behinds the scene workings of Waymo.

I may have hinted as such (being an ex-Googler), and I know this thread has gotten kinda buried but I wanted to address the implication anyway.

When I left Google I sold all of my stock. My investment portfolio is independently managed and I do not advise any specific positions except for the exclusion of my current and former employers. I do not stand to gain financially from any company in the AV space.
Are you sure those were Cruise and not Waymo?
Incubate Your SQL Optimizer Using Egg
Amazon is set to sign a billion-dollar deal with Microsoft 365
Reversing the roles of the players. Typically the little guy gets crushed by capital's freedom to flow. In this case, it's the little guy that exploits the freedom of goods (ie low tariffs) to avoid the big guy's power.
Only for the people who could afford to gamble on the market. That accelerated the growth of inequality, which can be seen today.
It provides an opinioned-default transition for child components. You don't work directly with framer - you use the HOC it provides and your elements animate automatically based in (what I assume) are sensible defaults.
Never, but I’m trying to understand what the experience would be like.
If you charge at home then you are looking at like 2 days to fully charge at 240v.
What I’m wondering is if these ranges are necessary or realistic for electric cars even if the storage tech is there. Maybe 4-500 miles is the max anyone would want regardless of how long charging could theoretically take if you were connected directly to a nuclear generator or something.
Since publishing this I've found a few additional resources that are really useful for understanding embeddings at a lower level (my article is deliberately very high level and focuses mainly on their applications).

Cohere's Text Embeddings Visually Explained: https://txt.cohere.com/text-embeddings/

The Tensorflow Embedding Projector tool: https://projector.tensorflow.org/

What are embeddings? by Vicki Boykis is worth checking out as well: https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/

Actually I'll add those as "further reading" at the bottom of the page.
> This section does not cite any sources. (October 2020)

Is there an actual article with more substance illustrating what you mean or what this section (#Kritik) was derived from? Also, I'm having a little bit of difficulty in parsing out your overall position with respect to what I've said (do feel I'm doing a bad job of it or what do you mean, exactly?)

I definitely was using that (critical theory) as more of an example and only briefly analogizing rather than me trying to seriously argue from that vantage point specifically.

Edit: are you saying "heard" as in you were there, or you know the details of the case through reading or maybe both? Whatever the case, is there an actual source available?
The irony of your joke took me a minute. Bravo.
And a massive billy club they weren't afraid to bludgeon people with.