skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the vehicles are essentially driven remotely,

And then you say "an illusion complete autonomy."

Not being completely autonomous 100% of the time doesn't mean it's essentially driven remotely. Driven remotely means driven remotely. Not someone interjecting at one point on a ride, which seems to be what the articles are referring to.

So, pick a lane, you can't have both. Either someone is driving the vehicle, or there are support staff capable of intervening at points. And frankly, I would be horrified to think the second one wasn't happening. That would be moronic.

Edit: Oh, I see you doing a lot of goal post shifting in other comments replying to this. Good luck, driven remotely.
Eating healthy can have immediate health benefits in the same calendar year. Not everything is about long term disease.

Besides that, the average tenure at intel is >10 years.
Interestingly, a curated collection of films in my opinion is much better than relying on a few history books that, under the cover of being "academic," are considered "authoritative," but, in fact -- there are a lot of facets that aren't easily reconciled. While film simply embraces the ambiguity (meaning a collection of films all telling the story from slightly different viewpoints is a lot better than a single textbook that might be authoritative, but also suffers from the point of view of the writer.

Here is an interesting article on the debate over when WWII actually began (this illustrates my point as "The Invasion of Poland" is often used at the "starting point" of WWII, when that is probably out of academic convenience rather than being factually correct (it's hard to say precisely when WWII began.) https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-11/what-if-all-th...
The one exception I'll make from the very start is "add tenant identifier to every row, yes, even if it's linked to another table that has tenant identifiers."

Sure, this means you will have some "unnecessary" `tenant_id` columns in some tables that you could get through a relation, but it saves you from _having_ to include that relation just to limit by tenant, which you will some day almost be guaranteed to want. (Especially if you want to enable row-level security¹ someday.)

¹ - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
Obama campaigned on ending domestic spying by the NSA, and even taking into account that politicians will say anything to be elected, and that Obama was a skilled orator who was saying things I wanted to hear at the time, I really believed him when it said it was a dangerous violation of our civil liberties, but as soon as he was in office he expanded their spying powers and his speeches became pro-surveillance.

At this point I'm not sure any president has the power to do anything about the NSA. Congress sure doesn't. The Director of National Intelligence outright lied to them and never saw a single consequence for it.
Yup. Some humans make okay split-second decisions. Some make great ones. That this difference is unfair is irrelevant. Nobody should be entitled to be a commander.
Also while there was a lot of megafauna around, probably there was little incentive to settle and care for crops. It was better to chase the beasts.
Looks like other cases were ongoing even in 2002, https://www.cleveland19.com/story/1045614/ohio-supreme-court...
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values[1] by Brian Christian is a nice overview of some of this history and exploration of some of the pitfalls in different ML approaches. It's really interesting reading it now given what's been happening with OpenAI and ChatGPT, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem
They're not any harder to manipulate once educated
> Where does that leave us?

Free to pursue our desires in a utopia.

Humans used to work manual labor to produce barely enough food to survive, with occasional famines, and watch helplessly as half of their children died before adulthood.

We automated farm labor, mining, manufacturing, etc so that one worker can now produce the output of 10, 100 or 100,000 laborers from a generation or two ago. Now those people work in new jobs and new industries that didn't previously exist.

Today we're seeing the transition from automating physical labor to automating mental labor. Just as before, we'll see those workers move into new jobs and new industries that didn't exist before.

Our society already spends 1000x more resources on children, elderly, disabled, unemployed, refugee, etc than would have been possible in the 1800s. The additional societal wealth creation from AI will mean that we can dedicate just a tiny portion of the surplus to provide universal basic income to everyone. (Or call it disability payments or housing assistance or welfare or whatever term if UBI doesn't resonate politically)
but anyone who gets into a Waymo that smells like dogshit can get out, report it, and wait for the next one. Are you describing a real problem or just one you imagine?
Isnt that what they do for every host every week? or did she put in extra effort to try and wow elon and was sad when was like "Not Funny!"(imagine this in john mulaney doing mick jagger)
>150,000 trips / week. 3000 employees. 1:1 supervision is only viable if every single employee was a supervisor, and that's obviously not true.
Venture capital technology is mostly about replacing expensive processes with human input by cheap substitutes that are 75% as good but hoping scale will compensate. Sometimes 10x at 75% is really is better than 1x at 100%. Sometimes it’s not, because 75% isn’t good enough, and it might as well be 10x at zero.

Education is closer to the latter. VCs think they can remove the humans and the scale and cheapness (the latter in theory, at least) will compensate, but people are social animals, and students lose trust in the state when it wastes their time, so education by machine turns out not to work well at all, despite the fervent belief held in a few hundred Bay Area tech companies that it should.
> What hellhole do you live?

The US I guess.
It would make jazz lead sheets impossible to read and play. The whole point of a jazz lead sheet is that a chord symbol can be played in a huge variety of different ways depending on how the jam is going. If you followed the chord symbols literally and only played them all in root closed position then depending on the stage you might get a cymbal thrown at you.
I considered that, but the book’s web page doesn’t make it clear the whole contents are newly available online
They are not as arbitrary as body language for example.
We use Safe Vision to access YouTube by allow-list only https://safe.vision/
I guess this old gem doesn't just apply to Twitter:

> Twitter is the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.

>

> You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?”

>

> No bitch, that’s a whole new sentence wtf is you talkin bout
The Loopholes in the Law Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination
The Company is an imaginary construct. The reality is that there is a group of people with common goals who work together towards those goals. Very often those goals are simply making money by any means possible. Working with them doesn't absolve anyone from responsibility.
In my career as a web developer I have worked on accounting systems three or four times now. At one point, it occurred to me that the quirky feature of Common Lisp's FORMAT that prints numbers as English names was very likely put there to make it easier to print checks for payroll!

I have often reflected on how it would have helped me if I had been required, or even merely strongly encouraged, to take an "Introduction to Accounting for Programmers" class, that would discuss payment processing, invoices, accounts receivable, even how to store dates and times (UTC for the win, darn it!) -- if more developers understood these things from the outset, I strongly suspect a lot of systems would be more robust than they are now!
BTW the Slashdot story has been moved here: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/12/1724203/us-senate-t...
Barely function? C’mon. Just let the pedestrian pass and keep driving. Not that hard.
It's not that black-and-white.

And those demos are VERY old at this point.

I own a Tesla, though I don't own FSD, but this year, Tesla has given all cars a trial of FSD on two occasions. It works remarkably well. I backed out of my driveway, then enabled FSD and it drove all the way across Portland to a friend's place with zero intervention. It was about a 15 mile, 30 minute drive.

It navigated neighborhood roads without markings and tons of cars parked on the curb. It got onto the freeway and navigated, including changing lanes to overtake slow traffic. Once I got to their place, I was able to tell it to automatically parallel park on the curb.

As far as I'm concerned, Tesla has fulfilled their promise of full self driving. The "supervised" requirement is basically just being used as a legal loophole to avoid liability if it fails.
I was in SF back in May, but didn't manage to get through the waitlist :(

It was so cool to see them diving around.

Interestingly, when I showed the clips to some of my senior family members, they didn't seem interested at all. I think they couldn't comprehend what was going on, even after I explained.

Their (several independent trials) reaction was similar to showing them some AI-generated image of something which clearly can't exist. It was so absurd that it was just filtered out with a comment "yeah, yeah - nice car".
Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday.

I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now there's some real heat to it as things pick up.

Hopefully this surge is real, has certianly gotten me to be much more active.
His views on a lot of things, although his supporters do disagree with him on a few things

"The Real Anthony Fauci" is a damning book
Yes! For this reason our school district has stopped sending them home in the lower grades. Most parents are thankful.
If training data is such an edge for Tesla, how is it that Waymo works so much better than FSD with only 1/1000th the data?

I also don't see any evidence that Waymo can't work anywhere. They recently expanded to Austin, and it seems that it immediately drives better than FSD.
Ask HN: Tips for navigating secondary sales of startup shares?
I'm sitting on ISOs that I exercised out-of-pocket. The company is doing well based on conversations with former colleagues but there's no clear timeline for an exit.
I'm in a good spot financially, so I can be patient and selective, but I'm curious about the secondary market landscape and running into several questions:

1. Valuation: How do you reasonably price shares when you have limited insight into current metrics? The company is in the card issuing space so I have some examples to go off of (marqeta, stripe issuing, mercury, adyen, etc...)

2. ROFR: The company has standard right of first refusal terms. For those who've been through this, how did you handle it? I've heard about alternative structures like forward contracts and non-recourse loans - would appreciate any insights on what works.

3. Finding buyers: I've looked at the major platforms (EquityZen, EquityBee, Forge, Zanbato) but their fees seem steep and terms restrictive. Are there other channels worth exploring?

4. Paperwork/Process: My shares are held with standard custodians (Carta/Pulley). For those who've completed secondary sales, what unexpected challenges did you encounter? Any pitfalls to watch out for?

Would really appreciate hearing from others who've successfully navigated this! Thanks~~
At a certain large tech company, at the peak of GSM data-capable phones (eg Palm Treo, Blackberry) it was accepted practice for everyone turn off data or leave their phone on a side table due to conference speaker phones on the tables amplifying the data.

Also, during this era I was on a flight and the pilot came over the PA right before pushing from the gate saying exasperatedly "Please turn your damn phones off!" (I assumed the same RF noise was leaking into his then-unsheilded headset).
Thank you for sharing your story.

I, too, dropped out of college, but finding employment as a programmer back in the mid-90s required very little luck. It became difficult to justify the time and expense of further education when my career already seemed to be launching, ready or not.

Funny that you mention MSR - I also applied there, back in 2007, and they are also the only people who have ever turned me down for lack of a degree! (Though I still got an offer out of it, after they passed my information along to devdiv...)
Hard to get 13M people to do it, and harder to stop some subset of those 13M people polluting your dataset with fake data.
Another one is the Azolla event hypothesis where a variety of fern grew so much that as it died and sank to the ocean it sequestered massive amounts of carbon, enough to alter the climate.
He didn't join a commune though, still working [1].

[1] http://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html
That sounds promising! What about when needing to do a dance when there's an oncoming car on a tight street in the hills? Does it find a gap or even backup to let the car by?

Waymos honking at each other is hilarious.
A big difference though between how you're able to leverage online learning as an adult with at least some real-world life experience vs. what a 3rd-grader can do.

I am a strong advocate for zero technology in schools until high school.

One thing that is rarely mentioned is that schools that issue technology to students and use it in the classroom now need to have a hardware, software, and network support person at every school. These jobs use funds that could otherwise be used to pay for more instructional staff, reduce student-teacher ratios, provide more special-needs instructional specialists, etc.
Good point.

At 2 trips per day for 300M Americans over 7 days, that would put the rideshare takeover at ~4.2Bn. If we extrapolated based on the referenced graph and exponential growth, that would put the takeover at 2029 :)

Its safe to assume that the limiting factors will soon become sourcing of components of the perception and control stacks.
I'm not sure if that's a safe assumption. Do we know what the sources we are exploiting right now are going to look like in tens of millions of years? Our models of the evolution of hydrocarbon reserves are based on those we've found, and we simply assume the differences between different deposits are natural in origin. It's easily possible that places where we didn't find hydrocarbons did in fact have them at a previous point in time, or that there was more in a given reserve in the past.
Right this second, 11 am Tuesday after Veterans day, 2024, a trip to the Palace of Fine Arts would cost me $15 on Waymo, $24 for a wait and save on Lyft, and $17 for an UberX.
Yes. I expect that self-driving Tesla accidents will be rapidly suppressed.
Japan-style 'tiny forests' are taking root in British cities
Automatically drive to a hub specialized for this or a police station?
I made an AVR emulator in Haxe/JavaScript.

It turned out to be more awkward than I expected. Most 8-bit processors have instructions fairly clearly specified in the first byte. So the bulk of the decoding work can be done with a small jump table. The avr is more bit packed. Due to the way I progressively implemented the instructions I ended up with a kind-of tree of case statements. At some stage I'd like to go back and have a converter to a larger but easier to decode format. Instructions being in ROM(ish) and being easy to detect when updated means AOT is easy enough to do.

It might only need 32 bits per instruction. Opcode in the first byte and then byte aligned operands.
> everyone could do this if only they had access to the learning materials, or if the tech vaguely simulated a teacher

Everyone could do it if they were taught to teach themselves, it's funny we've almost come full circle back to the original intention of public education and universities.

I believe (almost) everyone can teach themselves something provided they have the material to learn from (videos, books, teachers, etc.).

This is because if people can't truly be taught to teach themselves there's no larger point in schooling unless you have only exceptional teachers throughout. Mediocre and bad teachers, which are far more common, make it so students end up having to teach parts of the material to themselves (which unfortunately leads to a tonne of rote memorisation) - this to me is where the true benefit of public education and standardised testing is, not the information retained.

The point of school was never fill our heads with facts we will never use in the workforce - most blue collar work is learnt on the job (or can be taught in short time), and white collar work is (generally*) done by those who learnt to teach themselves (as proved by them earning something like a college degree in spite of the bad and mediocre teachers).

* I say generally because there are white collar jobs that don't require it. And there are rote-memorisers who have such good memory they can make it into these positions, generally though upon hitting the workforce they stagnate, leave, or learn to learn (ever had an incompetent middle manager who only knew how to follow procedure?)
> So just any standard/decent motherboard bought within the last 3-4 years?

It isn't at all obvious that IOMMU is supported by even current top of the line motherboards. I looked at a lot of products and have yet to see the VT-d and AMD-Vi keywords mentioned in technical specifications. To confirm support I had to read their UEFI firmware manuals and look for instructions on toggling the virtualization support.

https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/466120-ecc-ram-and-iom...

At least ECC memory support has started to show up in technical specifications. Looks like IOMMU is not quite there yet.

> Which games do you have issues with when virtualizing?

From what I'm reading many games take virtualization as evidence of cheating and have no regard for false positives. I'm currently assuming any game with battleye or easy anti cheat will issue permanent bans on virtualization detection.

> If you buy a game on Steam and you're unable to play it they'll refund you straight away

Somehow that doesn't bring me much peace of mind.
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
The time commitment is vastly over stated.

It takes an hour at most and you can go twice a week, working different muscle groups. Your muscles need 3-4 days of rest especially as you increase intensity.

So you can only do bicep workouts once a week for example. Even then, any exercise is better than none.

You can even just start at home with adjustable dumbbells and go to the gym when you hit those limits..
If someone's only exposure to math edtech tools is Dreambox, IXL, Prodigy etc., they would be right to be skeptical.

Math Academy is great (4th grade onward). Beast Academy online is also very good (up to 5th grade only).
She called for admin backup, which reacted pretty quickly, but they basically just calm him down and return him to class. And of course the screaming happened after a series of de-escalation attempts by her, which often works, but not always. He is non-neurotypical, mostly ahead of the class academically (though there are gaps), but very behind emotionally. He is the 'worst behaved' in her grade level, but every class has at least one that is liable to 'go off' as it were. It is in no way fair to the rest of the class, but while the state we live in likes to act blue, when it comes to paying for social services it's pretty red. And this is in a state with school choice, so don't think that necessarily helps either...
I have mixed feelings on that video. The general bit-piece feel on self driving is not really deserved, IMO, and seems to be against self driving for the sake of it.

I think self driving will be a massive, massive boost to human productivity as it gets better, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse not to continue pursuing other means of transport. It doesn't really fix any of the scaling problems with car transport regardless.
For $550 on sale, the base M4 Mini is a steal. It's a really good deal.

I'm not a desktop person at all. My last desktop was bought in around 2010. But I'm tempted to pick one up just because.
This is basically just an ad. Did you mean to link to something else?
Our district uses Light Speed Content Filter. It uses a web proxy with tls decryption to read the page content and block certain videos flagged by the AI. Works way better than our previous system. That being said, now the issue is a matter of distractions. They can watch "appropriate" videos, but they just watch at inappropriate times...like during class or at lunch. As a parent, I take an allow-list only approach to YouTube. they can only watch individual videos/channels I select. everything else is blocked.
I already had a whole paragraph, which I'll reprint for you here:

> "Going outside for a day and leaving the phone fully off in the back of a drawer is good fun for the whole family, and can be done. Getting Tails onto a USB stick is easy for many and even fun for some, and you can make copies for your friends. Getting that old brick phone out of the other drawer, getting the old charger for it, and taking that out sometimes when you only need calls, can be good fun too."

I could have continued with loads more small things "ordinary people" can do:

- use F-droid totally, or as much as possible, instead of the "Play Store"
- if you manage to stop using the Play Store entirely, sign out of Google entirely on your phone, nothing bad actually happens when you do
- delete Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc etc
- have boardgame night with friends, and have a "phone-box" ready, with rules, fully off, it goes in the back of a closet for 3hrs
- buying a little standalone mp3 player for offline walkies with your dog (or lover)
- use ebooks and such on airplane mode, getting books onto them by other means

Etc etc. The point isn't that everyone wants to do these things, the point is they're easy, and mostly a good laugh, and every little helps in the fight back against the normalisation of constant surveillance. So why would we ever tell anyone, "oh, it's pointless, do nothing"?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal

> one terabyte collection of digital material distributed since around 2008 on the underground market in Cuba as a substitute for broadband Internet.
I can see this but I think humans are much more random than most LLMs - they lie, they have egos, they randomly dislike other humans and make things difficult for them. Never mind body language, networks of influence, reputation destruction and all the other things that people do to obtain power.

I think LLMs are much more predictable and they will get better.
Of course, that's not actually the implementation in GHC. When you start writing code that's used everywhere, it pays off to learn and use every optimization available. And the list fusion optimizations are relevant on both sides. Consume the input with foldr, produce the output with build. But be sure to change to a more direct implementation in a later optimization phase if list fusion doesn't fire.

No matter what language you're using, things get complicated when you're using every bit of low-level knowledge you've got to eke out every tenth of a percentage point.
None of your links support your claim that "the vehicles are essentially driven remotely". They say that remote operators in rare cases need to provide guidance:

> the technician can send the car a new route to follow around the construction zone
> Or by buying vinyl at a local record store. Sadly, those are dying out,

they were dying out but are now coming back