skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this type of comment on HN frequently. I have a dim view of national certifications for software engineering or computer science. Are there any highly advanced economies that have "a formal assessment by the national engineering council" for software engineering or computer science? If so, are they useful? Do they actually indicate quality? For me, the field(s) are changing so fast, that it hardly makes sense. If you are working in an area that is not life threatening, I am not a believer in certifications. It all seems like a bunch of gatekeeping.

Today, I was listening to the Lex Fridman podcast with John Carmack. It reminded me that John Carmack does not have a university degree, yet, he is one our generation's globally recognized masters of software optimisation. There are few in the world who can do what he does, and he has no uni degree, nor (I assume!) any "national certifications". Michael Abrash is similar.

On a personal note: (US) Wall Street has similarly ineffective gatekeeping with the Series 7 & 63 exams: My father called it "toilet bowl knowledge" when I studied for it. He said: "Once you are finished the exam, you can flush away that knowledge. You will never use it again." He is right about more than 90% of the "knowledge" required to pass those exams.
Waymo cannot recognize threats and drive away from them. Instead it stops indefinitely to let people harass you all they want.
> Israel is not party to the 4th Hague convention

Sorry, I meant the 4th Geneva Convention of 1949 which adopted the Hague Conference of 1907.

Israel signed and ratified the Geneva conventions (I - IV) in 1951 and Part I of the Hague convention in 1962. The relevant part is in article 42 of the Hague convention (Part IV; which Israel didn’t sign)

> Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.

> The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.

and in article 2 of the fourth Geneva convention (Which Israel did sign and ratify in 1951):

> The Convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance.

Note that the fourth Geneva convention expands both the definition and the obligation of occupation from the Hague convention of 1907.

Look, I’m not doing primary research here, I’m simply following the sources cited in the secondary source which I provided you. I’m not an international humanitarian law expert, and I presume neither are you. There is pretty much a consensus among both experts and international organizations (including the UN) that Israel is in violation of agreements they have signed onto. You may deny the occupation of Gaza and justify Israel’s violation on those grounds (just as you deny the Gaza Genocide) but you are simply (and quite obviously) wrong on those ground. Legal experts have made the case pretty clear that all of Palestine, including Gaza and East Jerusalem have been under constant Israeli occupation since 1967. And have since continually neglected their obligations as an occupying power.
It still won't be a big bang moment. There might be a moment you can go hands off on highways, and a moment you can go hands off in urban environments. But it's still going to be gradual overall.
Is it? Tillis is the only one I see associated with the bill. Have any Democratic senators spoken in favor of it?
Why is this a link to the play store? what are you trying to show us here OP?
ie "tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact"
Gonto – Auth0 Employee #6 shares developer marketing secrets [audio]
> wealthy parents (and only wealthy parents) figure out ways to supplement or move their kids into schools that are appropriate for their level.

Not true. AP courses and magnet schools are the sole way for working class/poor students to get ahead in life in the public school system. Myself and many friends took advantage of this, and zero had wealthy parents. Many had food scarcity levels of poverty at home but received excellent educations due to these programs existing.

Heck, private schools also participated in this - giving out test and grade based scholarship for exceptional students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds. Many friends participated in such programs, even to the point of working "jobs" for the school after classes to pay for their education. This is now seen as abusive to many.

The ironic and incredibly frustrating thing are now these programs are being systematically dismantled over the past 20 years in the name of "equity" with these trends only accelerating.

The one thing it DOES require is parents who care and give a shit about their kids. I suppose if you squint that's a form of wealth, but not what people mean when they talk about such topics.
If the US electorate had better economics education, they would have thought both the [2024] candidates were economic idiots.
The title is a little bit wrong, they only serve 80 square miles of LA county not all in Los Angeles.
At least from what I remember in A-level physics, a lot of the multi-choice answers usually had 2 sets of answers, both of which were ambiguous and could be the correct answer. A few questions even had answers where they were all the same answer, just with the digits either transposed or the decimal point being different. Stuff like

A) 1.2e10
B) 1.2e9
C) 2.1e10
D) 2.1e11
The Waymo-Tesla duality is so fun.

Tesla FSD already works everywhere, even on unpaved roads. It just doesn’t work as well as Waymo.

Waymo works very well, just not in as many places as Tesla.

You might bet on Waymo because they have a fully working product already, but I’m betting on Tesla because of the vast amount of training data they are collecting. There’s a bitter lesson here.
On a recent SF trip except for the airport I used waymo the entire time. About the same price as uber/lyft, cheaper if you tip human drivers.

Very cool to see how fast we went from taxis, to the app based rides to app based self driving cars like this.

After working in silicon valley tech companies for almost 10 years, ive been become really cynical about it all. This is one of the few things that actually seems really cool. I actually looked up to see if their hiring but they don't hire remote.
Furthermore, I'm aware of multiple banks currently using Kafka. One would hope that they're not using it in their core banking system given Kyle's findings

Maybe they'd be interested in funding a Jepsen ~attack~ experiment on Kafka
Why? This is such a myopic perspective on patent law that doesn't even really deal with any actual issues in the jurisprudence. If anything it's more about the politics of dealing with patent trolls.
Microsoft: Why We're Refactoring the Windows Kernel [video]
BlueHat 2024 presentation on C++ compiler issues for memory access and pointers due to lack of awareness of threads.
Bluesky Directory
A searchable database of Bluesky starter packs, which should help with the discovery problem for people just starting out with BS.

I've no relationship with this project, I just think it's a neat idea.
> We didn’t call it AI at first. The first thing that happened was these new innovations just crept into our electronic medical record system. They were tools that monitored whether specific steps in patient treatment were being followed. If something was missed or hadn’t been done, the AI would send an alert. It was very primitive, and it was there to stop patients falling through the cracks.

Journalists LOVED The Checklist Manifesto when it came out in 2009, I guess if you call it AI then they will hate it? Similarly, in the early 2020s intuition was bad because of implicit bias, but now I guess it is good?
So that's why a Waymo car cut me off yesterday at an intersection in West Los Angeles. The two streets intersect at a 60 degree angle. Waymo had a Stop sign. I didn't. It just rushed out of the intersection going fast, as if it hadn't seen me.
How does waymo prevent homeless sleeping in the cars?
Considering a Republican introduced it, I don't think they are.

The strategy might be to introduce it now, and use the fact that it failed the Democratic-lead lame duck session to sell it to the people in the next Congress.
Soon they'll bring back pizza parties for bonuses.
Is Tesla a serious competitor in this space? I know they've made a lot of noise about self-driving cars, but that all seems to be hype generated to sell more human-driven cars. Maybe I'm off base here. I don't really follow Tesla closely.
https://archive.is/qZa4s
A major part of this problem is teachers who treat "student knows something I don't (or aren't prepared to teach right now)" as a status challenge to be rapidly obliterated, rather than as an opportunity to encourage a student.

Many, many adults are extremely emotionally unprepared to accept the possibility that they may be wrong and a child may be right; they start from the assumption that this is an impossibility, and reason backwards from there.

Or, in the case where they do in fact know that the child is right, they nonetheless decide to prioritize asserting authority over demonstrating how a mature adult should handle being wrong. And thus do students learn bad examples of what to do when they're wrong.
Am I reading incorrectly or does this entire article come down to:

1. A calculated patient acuity score

2. Speech-based note-taking

I didn’t see any other AI taking over the hospital.
I'm not going to get excited until this can drive in Boston/Cambridge. If it can navigate that nightmare (and not kill any cyclists) I'll be impressed with what self-driving cars can do. Bonus points if they can work in snow when sightlines are obscured.
His past experience was known when he took that assignment. It was considered by all before he accepted it. That doesn’t mean his boss can’t fire him, but let’s not pretend that it wasn’t a complete reversal of what had previously been decided.
Introducing: The AI Hype Index
Just found this in Perplexity, pity that this didn't get more upvotes. Just installed it if it works looks awesome thanks for building this!
Yes, I agree with you on this. But we are seeing one big bomb coming our way. Climate Change.

It is a race on what happens first. To me Climate Change will be like a cleansing, and since most governments of "first world" countries refused to address it over the past 50 years. Everyone will get to pay the price now :(

Now/soon the US is doubling down on speeding up Climate Change, and as usual the young will suffer the most.
I think it's great we finally have self-driving cars, but why the huge valuation? Waymo has the enormous capital cost of owning the cars. Unlike taxi companies they don't push that capital cost to their drivers.
I’m betting on waymo because they use lidar
Life imitates Dilbert?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/86lm3/dilberts_wally_...
If light could interact with light then the rest would be a matter of how you arrange it.

Can light interact with light?
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(more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39763104)
Yeah, number of crashes is absolutely useless as a data point without something like miles driven as a denominator.

Not to mention, even without that, this data is apparently suspect:

> The agency notes that the listed crashes may be higher than the actual number of incidents due to several factors, including multiple sources for the same crash, multiple entities reporting the same crash, and multiple entities reporting the same crash but with varying information.
Just adding this on OP's behalf:

WGU = Western Governors University

https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html
Title should say “SF”, not “SFO”. SFO is the code for the airport.
Outcomes have been getting worse for decades?
Waymo vs Tesla definitely smells like bitter lesson to me yes, 100%. With Waymo being on the bitter side, to be clear. Future will tell if the intuition is right on this one
edit: my mistake, this is not the senate

Perhaps this one: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9474
So the issue really is that the match-and-discard wildcard uses a spelling that would otherwise be a valid identifier name causing an ambiguity to the reader, if not
to the compiler.

In retrospect using a different character (say '*') would have been better, clueing the reader that something different was happening; but I guess there is long history of this use of _ in ML languages.
Same. I could never EVER pay attention in class.

I learned math from khan academy, and physics from my textbooks. When I exams were coming up, I would skip every single lecture to read my textbooks and do practice problems.

Did that all the way through physics undergrad, and I never would have graduated via the standard lecture + questions method.

Maybe my professors were mediocre, but I think I’m just not built for classrooms!
edit: my mistake, this is not the senate

More recent: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9474
on some metrics (idk if everyone having a cell phone is a good thing in hind sight?)

But also things like suicides are up in certain demographics, expected life span is down, nutrition in vegetables are trending down.
Sadly, the one thing I took from my time as an EMT and paramedic was which nursing homes to consider and which to avoid. I filed more than one complaint with the DOH.

It's a standing joke that whenever 911 crews respond to a nursing home, the report you'll get from staff will be a bingo game of:

- "I just got on shift; I don't know why you were called."

- "This is not my usual floor; I'm just covering while someone is on lunch. I don't know why you were called."

- [utterly unrealistic set of vitals, in either direction, healthy, lively vitals for someone who is not thriving, or "should be unconscious" vitals for someone lively and spry]

- [extended time waiting for patient notes, history, an outdated med list with everything they've taken in their ten years at the facility]

And so on.

I (generally) don't blame the floor staff (though some things, as you describe, are inexcusable) but management/ownership. The same management/ownership that has the policy to call 911 for anything more involved than a bandaid for some weird idea of managing liability, nurses that "aren't allowed" to do several interventions that they can, for the same reason, all the while the facility has a massive billboard out the front advertising "24/7 nursing care" (and fees/costs commensurate with that).
Agree about the first two points—but I’m not convinced they’d stand on their own either. They feel flimsy and overly generalized. Putting healthcare on such a pedestal also felt a bit delusional. While it’s inspiring when the system works, it’s far from immune to inefficiencies, especially given how pervasive IT failures are in healthcare too. If the goal is to push for action and improvement, the argument would have been stronger without these oversimplifications.
Solaris/Illumos has a thread-safe setenv()/unsetenv()/putenv(). There is no reason not to have it be thread-safe, though it must leak (Solaris/Illumos retains the references to the deleted envs so as to fool memory debuggers into thinking they are still referenced and so quiet what would be essentially false positives).
> If you want news/politics

The problem is that the right has largely moved politics into a cultural space. When you can't talk about being trans or being gay is that really politics? Self-identity isn't a political position, but it has been forced to be one, as those people are under constant attack.

In addition, they're the "out group", so they will actually be targeted. Certainly, nobody cares if you post your girlfriend, but if you post your boyfriend now it has become political.

Such rules aren't equal.

It's become a meme, but there's some truth to it. There're two genders, man and political. There're two sexual orientations, straight and political. There're two races, white and political.
Reminiscent of the recent HN submission for "Security is a Useless Controls Problem", re: 5 monkeys & ladder expt.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110149

The crutch isn't the EdTech itself. The numerous examples regarding WGU's success for some self-driven training here suffices to suggest the tech isn't the issue.

It's the metrics required as part of legislation such as NCLB that effectively bind administrations to ensure adherence to a common curriculum, regardless of capacity or competence.

This effectively imposes Goodhart's law, since the only way to meet these measures on scale is to teach to the test, and only the test.

This ensures that no actual deep learning occurs for those falling back, while hamstringing those who master the subject matter early since there is no mechanism for rewarding early mastery.
When was the first amount of ‘karma’ created?

Clearly no one had any ‘karma’ 3 billion years ago, since living organisms did not exist.
Also, you can actually start converting as soon as someone types and not have the user to perform an additional action of clicking "Convert"
If this thing can reliably drive in SF and LA it pretty much means they nailed self driving.
This question is very important for planetary science. Magnetometers are our main tool for detecting presence of a saline ocean in planets and moons (Enceladus, Triton, Europa), and characterizing it. The Uranus measurement is a template for this technique.

Several of the co authors are on the Europa Clipper magnetometer team.
But doesn't Waymo have the better hardware/sensors?
Man, No Child Left Behind left a larger mental scar than I ever imagined. "learning they shouldn't be"? I never would have gotten fast tracked in math, and by extension gotten into a decent engineering school, if that's how my teachers thought. Then university wonders why kids are less prepared.
Oh, for sure. I also think that we're tinkerers or hackers... and we lean on tech to scratch an itch or solve a problem. Mostly because we thought it would be easy ;-)
Probably similar to Uber
A problem for large organizations is that all the numbers look big in isolation. $100M seems like a lot of money, but 2% of $5Bn doesn't quite have the same sound, and the 5% efficiency drop because your workers are now having to go figure out where their coffee is coming from and/or updating their linkedin because you've just signaled you don't particularly value their time doesn't seem to register either.
>It should be illegal for companies to do this to us. Our only option is to not use cell service? Bah.

That's not what the article describes, though:

"Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones"
In places that have real winters, there are going to be significant blocks of time where self-driving will never work unless real synthetic intelligence is reached.

Way too much of this is developed in places that... don't have weather.
> This company is done.

This is hard to understate the importance of this. If a company feels obligated to cut spending by cutting small expenses on consumables, such as coffee or even free fruit programs, then they are at a level of going through the proverbial couch cushions hoping to find a coin to meet the budget.
No. Because you might end up using a library that calls getenv().

Java does what you say, but it still presents problems for JNI code using libraries that want to getenv().
Why was China in particular difficult to mitigate?
Berkeley Mono is great, and one of the best programming fonts out there. Still waiting for the Houston Mono release.
If the US electorate had better economics education, the 2024 candidates might have been forced to present sane and reasonable economic platforms, because doing so would have actual political value. Dare I say at least one of those candidates wouldn't even have made it to the primaries. Which I leave as an exercise for the reader.

They aren't economic idiots, they just know most American voters mistrust any economic concept more complex than "taxes bad. China bad. jobs good."
And Muldon from The Jurassic Park softly whispering "I told you! How many times? We needed locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors!"
Ah, but that's not actually an autonomous driving system. It might be marketed as one, but from a regulatory perspective it is a driver assistance system.
> over the decades it has only gotten (exponentially) more and more expensive

There is a lot of research on this question, and AFAIK there is no clear cut answer. It's probably a host of different reasons, but one of the non-nefarious ones is that the range of ailments we can treat has increased.
It's all in the article, the "offensive" communication examples you describe fall into author's definition of defensive communication categories, which he names "Control", "Strategy" etc.