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rightiousrob

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rightiousrob··on Tesla Full Self Driving Beta Causes a Crash
I don't think that a root cause analysis like this is good for anything else than improving the algorithm.

It's the same as with face detection. The algorithms are better far superior to humans, but they fail at occasions where a human would not even think twice

rightiousrob··on Omicron Variant report from UKHSA [pdf]
Tldr?
rightiousrob··on Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
As much as 6% of the labor force work in transportation[1] Automating those jobs away will be a step stone to the transformation of our relation to work as a society! [1]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/de/web/products-eurostat-news/...
rightiousrob··on Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Unsure If Fine-Tuning Shots for Omicron Is Worthwhile
also known as the antigenic sin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin

rightiousrob··on Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
But it does doing so publicly. There was a recent trail where an 80 year old woman got sentenced for publicly expressing her believes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Haverbeck

rightiousrob··on Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
I know the history very well, but the law telling me what's true and what not, that rubs me the wrong way.
rightiousrob··on Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
How does it makes sense to put any truth into stone by law?
rightiousrob··on Germany will legalize marijuana and promote drug harm reduction
How hard is it to imagine that an hn user is not based in the us?
rightiousrob··on The first Arab mission to Mars is delivering some interesting science
Like the 'american' mission to the moon. A stolen V2 Nazi rocket with a bigger fuel tank, lol.
rightiousrob··on Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute
Well said
rightiousrob··on PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac
Guys, an opt-out whitelist is per definition a blacklist.

I.e what is done explicitly defines the color. Explicit Allow (blacklist opt out) -> whitelist Explicit Deny (whitelist opt out) -> blacklist