skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took cruise at least a dozen times, back when they were giving free rides from downtown SF late at night, originally advertised as a promotion for restaurant and hospitality workers going home. (I was just hacking late into the night ;) I lived on the other side of town, so it was about a 6 mile trip.

I can't speak to their technology, but generally speaking Cruise seemed too cautious, both in the aggressiveness of the driving, and in how quickly the company capitulated. I've taken Waymo a few times and what stands out to me is how aggressive Waymo cars are. As a passenger this aggressiveness makes them feel more sophisticated, not to mention faster, but the cars also spook pedestrians to a greater extent as they nose their way into traffic or through turns. Nonetheless, Waymo has been more adept at moving past bad publicity than Cruise, including in the face of accidents.

Above and beyond whatever technological shortcomings there may have been[1], I think there was a management and business development mismatch between GM and Cruise. Cruise manifestly worked well enough. With better management--more honest, but also more aggressive--it could have been a contender; heck, it was (is?) the only proven competitor to Waymo for autonomous public taxi service, at least in the U.S.

[1] In 3 Waymo trips remote intervention was required once, which is a comparable ratio to my Cruise trips.
Wow, I wasn't aware. @jart, do you have any harsh comments on the actual reneging of an actual promise? @antirez, do you have any kind of comments?
Beneath the level of legally actionable cases of suicide and physical harming, there are all kinds of social nudges that these apps can perform to get kids to speak, act, and think in various ways, and it's different kind of vector because it's interactive and dynamic, not published like a tiktok video. These people suck because of XYZ, those people are cool because of XYZ, did you hear the latest on scandal X, the Holocaust was invented, etc.

Secret friends, and some of them will definitely be super twisted because there is plenty of twisted intent.
> Small anecdote: I visited a GM dealership this week and the salesperson told me Super Cruise was not enabled for test drives. The excuse was pretty weak, like the dealership would have to pay for the service or something. GM might have the technology but they are completely bungling the strategy.

That was a your-dealership issue, not a GM issue. GM doesn't run the dealerships (though they sure have plenty of influence).

I test drove the Silverado EV a month ago and got to try out super cruise.
Yes, and the idea of Boltzmann brains depends for its credence on those physical principles used to derive it. And those principles in turn depend on the reality (or at least reasonable reliability) of our memories and the whole history of experimental and theoretical development leading to them. So trying to use it as an arugment for philosophical scepticism, or that it's a probable scenario, would be self-defeating, denying its own evidence.

It does give a technically detailed construction for how such a scenrio might come about though, as you say, so it can be interesting to think about.
That wouldn't change anything - he IS the foundation.
In the situation of jury nullification, though, the judge would have to be punishing a juror for the verdict they supported. That isn't legal at least in the US, a juror can't be instructed to give a certain verdict or punished based on their decision.

Judges will be careful not to directly give instructions against nullification for precisely that reason. They may very well imply that you shouldn't go off the rails of evidence provided or laws and precedent as described, but that's as far as a judge can go with instructions against nullification.
I think it will be Tesla. Regulatory pressures for them just lifted, and they move faster than all the other driverless companies, courtesy of Elon's fairly hardcore mode of operation.

It may not be a perfect driving solution (probably 1:1 teleoperator to car in the beginning), but their go to market speed is undeniably better than Waymo et al. Waymo, Cruise, etc have to map out an entire region and have long rollout timelines. In theory Tesla could say they will deploy in X city, talk with the local government to get necessary approvals, and get it going after a few test drives. Thats the tail, anyway. With that kind of go to market speed you can start acquiring customers pretty easily and start scaling up the business. Its basically the typical SaaS setup - cut some corners for market share and become the defacto player in it after some time.

I wouldn't write them out purely out of spite. Their solution is the most conducive to scaling laws, on the ML, operations, and business side.
Neither is "White". An Australian is completely 180 opposite of Canadian in almost everything and there is almost nothing common except monarchy and English language.

Are Amish white? People from Turkey? Sicilians? Argentinians?

I find the whole concept of "race" perplexing and catering to the lowest common denominator.
That is absolutely not true of Patrick's writing. Whatever else you might say about it, "lacking in testable claims" is not a reasonable argument to make about this post.
Agreed. Fantastic landing page.
Ancestral connection in the quoted sentence means knowing your ancestors, not genetic lineage. It must have been clear from this thread that I don’t deny genetics.
I didn’t say they can’t perform it. I’ve seen a laureate get plenty of trival math wrong. It doesn’t matter.
> but it doesn't change the fact that they are different colours.

They are the same hue. That is scientific. It doesn't matter what words you use to divide them -- I am sure you conceptually understand they are the same hue. I even found a comment from a Russian saying [1]:

> I would say that they are two colours that are sufficiently distinct, but I also wouldn't argue against a statement that голубой is a lighter shade of синий.

Again, just like my example with red and pink.

Any Russian painter, for example, would have a very clear idea of a unified "blue" hue, because they have to mix paints. Surely you can't deny that?

You are confusing two things, words and perceptions. The "arbitrary buckets" you describe refer to words. But they don't change our underlying perceptual qualia. We perceive lots of things we don't bother to give names to in order to distinguish them. Our concepts vastly outnumber our words.

And regarding blue specifically -- the brain interprets colors based on the opponent process [2], which includes blue as a one of four fundamental hues. Which argues that it is one of the four most likely colors to have an instinctive perceptual concept for, regardless of whether you give it a word or not.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/75kaij/comment/do6...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process
Can you go into more details, when was it built and how much time have you spent (approx) on creating the content? or is it all generated? And the traffic's gradual organic increase?

Interesting to see Adsense revenue still being so high, I imagined this category being so competitive and diluted the CPM would be very low!

I noticed your purchase modal only shows Amazon pricing, are you using their API to get prices or its scraped data. If its scraped/stale data, I would look into the pricing display guidelines for affiliates.

And why is it just Amazon and not other online bookstores too?
And aging very, very well.
That may happen very soon.
It is the design choice of the system we have now. The post doesn't claim that it is the only possible design choice. The post doesn't even claim that the banking system was never weaponized for political reasons; it makes clear that has in fact happened. What it is at pains to point out is that the complaints of crypto-magnates about the system being recently weaponized against them are dubious, because their complaints center around longstanding properties of our system that other businesses routinely trip over.
I can't do it reliably and I don't want to - I learnt to spot certain popular video compression artifacts in my youth, and that has not enhanced my life. But any distinction that random people taking a casual internet survey get right 60% of the time is absolutely one that you can make reliably if you put in the effort. Look at something like chicken sexing.
> Breakfast tapas

I wish you could comment on some of these or vote them "already implemented," because whoever wrote that needs to try Turkish breakfast.
Cool! Kudos for finding success in a competitive market. How do you promote yourself?
had

WPEngine (and a horde of Emanuel Urquhart lawyers led by Rachel Kassabian) are taking him to the cleaners. This won't be pretty. A preliminary injunction is not easy to get, it's really likely WPEngine will win at least something.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. If you're venting air outside, that air must get replaced with other air. Unless you have a fancy heat recovery system, pointing a fan out the window on a freezing day is just as bad as pointing one in the window. Maybe it's worth it given the health risks, but let's not pretend the tradeoffs aren't there.
> Why would "COVID" only impact the US? It's a global pandemic?

Schools in much of the US were closed longer than many of those around the world.
there's only one way this ends
we all literally just stop
> The latter is closer to a Waymo or Cruise than it is to a Mercedes or GM driver assist.

It depends how you look at it, but in the (super limited) cases where you can use Mercedes Drive Pilot you can legally and safely read a book, watch a movie, or work while in the driver's seat. [1] That's not the case with any Tesla product.

[1] https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot
It was bad a couple years ago but has gotten a lot better. The reason for this was that Tesla scaled up manufacturing quickly, but took longer to scale up service centers and certify third party shops. For a while there was only one certified Tesla repair shop within 100 miles of me. Now there are at least ten, four of which are Tesla service centers.
Well, one is real and one is not, so it is probably an or.
maybe framing them as ideas at all is self defeating.

What's your $0.02 insight?
It's not even close between Tesla and Waymo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv9HtWUf27s

Arguably this is Waymo in its "home turf"
Hippocampus damage explains aircraft noise-induced memory loss in pilots (2019)
It doesn't close much of the gap. Prescription drugs represent ~9% of healthcare expenditures in the US.
Ask HN: Is your solo project covering your living expenses?
If so, what is the project? And how long have you been working on it?
I think it's the other way around.

Descartes/Hume are saying that to even bootstrap our understanding of reality, we have a hard dependency on sensory perception. (I mention Hume because he points out that even Descartes' singular ground-truth can't lead anywhere else without linking sensory perception back into the mix.) And when I say "nearly anything" it includes our notions about the laws of physics. (Which, btw, cannot be derived from Descartes' singular ground-truth.)

At best, BB is a restatement of what I wrote with the philosophically irrelevant detail that the BB hypothesis relies on all the same laws of physics we have in common with our universe. But I imagine it's really meant commonly as a weaker claim-- one which takes the laws of physics as epistemological ground-truth to derive an ambiguity about the nature of our reality within that universe.

My speculation is that science-minded people think BB is the most potent thought experiment for the same reason non-musicians might think Pachelbel's Canon in D is the best ever-- they've heard it a lot at places filled with people they admire.
Cruise and GM Supercruise/ultracruise share nothing except the names and a VP somewhere inside GM. Entirely separate organizations and tech, at least the last time I had any knowledge of the matter.
are you using lob to print/mail everything?
>just trust the robot?

i already do it when it comes to the translation from the languages that i don't know, ie. almost all the human languages. Soon it will be doing other types of thinking better than me too.
Are you from Houston originally, by chance, or from a part of western Louisiana? Anytime I hear the word “feeder” it’s a dead giveaway the person either grew up near Houston area or hung around there long enough to use this word in their lexicon
Even if by magic we had all of the worlds fabs moved exclusively to the US and working at 100% capacity... we'd still need the rest of the infrastructure to actually make them useful, plastics and ceramics for packaging, discrete components, solder, connectors, pcb boards, assembly, etc... the Fab lines are only a tiny part of the big picture.

Who in the US makes surface mount resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. in volume sufficient to meet all of our demand? (I'd love to be proved wrong here)
> We already know by now, that before going out of Africa at least two major genetic branches developed in addition to early Eurasians.

Nice of you to acknowledge genetics.

> At K=4 and clustering by genetic distance, they would likely represent two clusters while the rest of Africa would fall into one of remaining two.

I suppose they would.

> Not even close to what average American would understand.

The average American would understand if those two branches lived among us today. The value of science is to inform us of what is occurring now and to predict what will occur next, including the impact of immigration on test scores.
Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins
Yes exactly! That's how Postgres synchronous replication works. If you turn on synchronous replication, then you won't lose data unless all your replicas are wiped out. The question the original poster was asking was what guarantees can be provided if you DON'T use synchronous replication--and the answer is that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
tangent: how do people in general manage their k8s yaml? Do you keep manifests around, or stuff them away in helm charts? Something completely different? I especially wonder about ways to manage deduplication
Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm drunk and got annoyed by your contraction use.
WORD + 's = WORD + is.
So, "ad's" = "advertisement is". Which shouldn't make sense. It should be "ads".
Hi Walden,

my name is Devin and I don't like sharing a name with a product. Will you please consider changing the name?

There is always the chance that someone named Devin will do something that gives your product a bad name. Perhaps some new scandal will involve someone named Devin or something.

I'd also like you to imagine that a hot new erotic AI was named "Walden", and people said things like "I was talking with Walden last night" as a euphemism. How would that make you feel?
totally, education across the globe is currently severely suboptimized. At this point there's troves of research on what actually works when it comes to learning, yet the educational systems that implement these techniques are still incredibly scarce
Would you care to share more about what this means?

"moving a chunk of non-IEP kids into more non-secular schools with lower standards"

When we applied to public schools for my child, the one we were most excited about was a charter school, not one run by the local school district.

As far as I can tell, charter schools have some selection pressure that is absent from government-run schools: if a charter school does poorly, parents don't choose it, and it closes. If a district-run school does poorly, the district will allocate kids there anyway.
It is a significant amount of money/effort for many, yes.

Originally I said I wasn't going on a shooting spree over it and edited it. Maybe I should have left it after all.
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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I'm a new grad from UC Berkeley, having double majored in Computer Science and Sociology, with a little over a year of software engineering work experience. I'm very social with a collaborative mindset, so I'm looking forward to working with a team of experienced engineers on challenging projects!
You can always rely on HN to produce a software guy with a unique hypothesis about how the universe and/or the economy actually works.
If you participate in charitable donations and are able to itemize deductions, after a period of capital gains you can also donate the low basis shares and then rebuy the shares with cash immediately. This is effectively donating cash while stepping up the basis of the asset.

I’ve been doing this cycle for a bit now and while it doesn’t produce life changing savings, it does motivate me to donate more.

Donor advised funds make donating shares pretty easy to do.
More than that, even -- Waymo is already transitioning to having partners that do the operations & maintenance work while they focus on the tech. I read this as a confidence in the tech timeline, strategy, and maturity. Meanwhile, Tesla's strategy is "hype, ???, deal with it."

I know which one I'd back.
Sure, the 'problem' is that while the schrodinger equation is deterministic, we can only 'measure' the amplitudes of the solution. Is the wavefunction epistemic or ontological?
Was just about to comment this. It was worth noting this included highly regarded luxury brands like Lindt, not just some store brand stuff.
Sure I think Mark’s primary intent was to repair the device.

But Mark also took the opportunity to mock the builder and their customers.
(He does the same when he comes across other people’s repairs that are not as good as he is capable of). But this time the target was not an unknown person.

His comments weren’t just bouncing around his workshop walls. They were heard around the world and capable of putting people out of work for the sake of better YouTube analytics.
Willing players are what create the game.
Every license is a unique snowflake, but if you're going to stay sane and get on with your life you need some categories and lines. Redis is not available under a license that is open-source in any of the usual senses - not OSI-approved, not DFSG-compatible, not FSF-approved. That is a big deal. Matrix remains open source under a license that meets all those criteria. It's not a technical distinction, it's the line in the sand that stops open-source from being whittled away to nothing.
Around competitive prices and terms rather than a monopoly.
You could easily turn these ideas into a poster. Get the funniest ideas and sell them as merch.
Yeah and neither of them is close to FSD in capabilities lol. Super Cruise/Ultra Cruise is a brittle highway-only thing, only available in a handful of $200k+ GM cars, that works by localizing to a detailed lidar map of some interstate routes.
Broadcom VMware dropped by Ingram and Partner margin eliminated
If we’re discussing just that one data point, I don’t think so. I think it could be, but it could also be okay. One of the challenges is knowing what’s he is actually doing commensurate with what he says he’s doing.

His workout is really hard, it it’s not a lot of resistance training. He’s gotten good at it so it has the benefits that a hard workout would. When I did it for a week, I suffered but I couldn’t match the metabolic demands that my Olympic lifts oriented training workout entailed when I lift heavy.

I’m very strong but I eat between 2500-2700 kcals in my 50s and I lift heavy. I eat a bit more on big run days.

Given the length and nature of his gym routine, o don’t think his burn ratio is that high.

As for the rest.. his temps and sleep patterns, I couldn’t say. He says he sleeps well and there is data to support the observation that he had trouble sleeping. I can sleep 8-9 hours without waking up, and that is definitely correlated to my workout habits and my peace of mind.

Brian is interesting but we may have partial data from him that is out of sync with what we think his other practices are at the same point in time.
The antiparticle could be a few metres away.
TANSTAAFL

After spreads, tracking error, and overhead, it'll be really hard to beat a Vanguard index fund.
This seems unfairly downvoted as a sincere question.

The answer is that the types of standardized tests that these country-wide statistics are based on are not, in the US at least, the tests that generate your grades or your university admission.
Yes, I can easily imagine the tears of frustration and loss that bank CEOs and Boards would have to wipe with 100 dollar bills at having to deliver a simple enough product that it doesn't "require" them to debank people arbitrarily.

Why you defend this is beyond me, but it's obvious enough as to barely be worth noting that banks can structure, package and name their checking accounts, and their customer service, in such a way that you as a user can be sure of their reliability, especially after you already fucking deposited the exact funds that you're later hoping to use into said accounts.

Call them credit products if you like, they're not the same as a loan that's given on evidence of solvency but nothing held by the bank directly.
It's a throwaway account intended to be detached and hopefully untracable to whoever the owner/main account is.

What I'm wondering is what point you're trying to make here; account age has no bearing on whether it's a throwaway or not, though the longer a throwaway is used the more it accumulates an identity of its own.
No, I'm Devin.

At least our names got attached to an upstanding product, and one that is likely to languish and fail. We're not the next "Alexa", I hope.
I don't know what you want exactly. Trump's future administration isn't exactly subtle on their wish to axe the Department of Education and cut funding of public schools [1]. Reducing government spending and taxes is what they do, that's the one thing this party has been consistently campaigning on since the 50s. I don't feel like going through every bill they passed or proposed since Reagan's, but you can find them online quite easily.

As for the job of teacher, it used to be respected but now a large part of the population genuinely believes they are trying to indoctrinate children into marxism.

Regarding teacher salary, I'm pretty sure you can find studies online that link the unattractiveness of the job to the poor salary and societal perception. Why would a math major become a teacher when he can have a starting salary in tech that is higher than what he could ever hope of making after 30+ years of teaching? I certainly didn't.

As for the other culture war nonsense they've also been campaigning on, I don't even want to entertain it. No, children don't go through gender affirming care at school without their parents consent, and come home with their genitalia cut off.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79zxzj90nno
> Earlier this month, one robotaxi ran a red light and crashed into a pedestrian, state-run paper People’s Daily reported.

That doesn't sound like it's nearly at par.

I'd love to see some direct safety comparison stats.
Lots of future unicorn CEOs on here?

I mean "temporarily embarrassed
billionaires".
Then find a way to tell everyone this in the open, not just Citadel. Then anyone else is free to trade against you. There can even be a micro-auction to get you the best price among all counterparties that want to trade with you. There's already auction mechanisms at some exchanges so I'm thinking attaching a voluntary "this order came from Robinhood" tag to your order shouldn't be too hard?
Impressive! Its well made and such a simple idea making $$$ with some innovative thinking!

How does reverse-billing work in case of data usage?