jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, self-driving systems will have fewer deaths/distance driven and therefore be statistically safer than human drivers.

But human drivers make human errors, understandable, explainable, common errors that we are used to, and therefore we underestimate their severity.

Self-driving cars will make space-alien machine-logic crazy weird and definitely not human errors, they will cause fatalities in situations where any reasonable human wouldn't, and that is much scarier than human errors, and therefore we overestimate their severity.

And that makes self-driving a very, very hard sell, it's simply not enough to be statistically better on just the numbers, you have to be psychologically better, and that's a huge hurdle.
Mid level devs are more like £70-80k. Although actual quality varies.
The distinction isn't open vs. closed so much as voluntary vs. involuntary. The point of a free society is that if I want to share my secrets, I'm allowed to do so, and if I don't want to share those secrets, I'm also allowed to do so. It's my choice.

In contrast, in a place like North Korea, there isn't quite the same level of choice. Censorship prohibits me from saying certain things and surveillance makes it difficult to hide other things, regardless of whether I want to or not.

That said, you could certainly argue (and many have argued) that a company placing onerous restrictions on what its employees can say or do is contrary to the principles of an open society, the implication being that the power dynamics in a employment relationship make restrictions on employees less than voluntary.
Every time I see this, I get a little sick thinking about the ~$100k in loans I accumulated getting a BA at University of Chicago and Wash U in St. Louis (I transferred). I got some merit scholarships and a good amount of grant aid, but policies like this starting going into effect not long after I graduated. Based on the current policies at Wash U, I would have paid nothing :/
> I always had to look up if a particular notation was dereferencing a pointer to an array or an array of pointers in perl.

You should rephrase this because you can't de-reference an array. Plus a reference to an array is always a scalar so it always has the '$' sigil, thus it's not clear what you're talking about.
Just because something hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it will never happen. Tesla is doing extremely well and has a bright future but it's hard to make a solid argument for its current valuation.
It's intellectually dishonest to say that he incited violence, especially when there's a heavily censored video of him explicitly instructing people to go home and to be peaceful [1].

[1] https://tv.gab.com/channel/realdonaldtrump/view/we-have-to-h...
America censors its own president. Absurd.

So what platform is Donald Trump go to? I bet his presence is worth even more dollars than Joe Rogan ...
These protestors believe that the Democrats stole the election.

> At best they are protesting against something that did not happen.

That's true, but the last round of protestors were protesting that:

- the police unfairly target black people, which is statistically untrue - white Americans who encounter the police are more likely to die, according to the FBI statistics.

- Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election in 2016, which was investigated with the result of nobody in the being charged with colluding with Russia.

> This is just a mob, wound up

Yes. Why are some mobs OK though? Why are some conspiracy theories OK? Why is some winding up acceptable?
Considering that all of his wealth is tied up in TSLA and SpaceX, allowing him control (and resulting in their success based on taking risks), and considering that he reinvests most of his excess capital back into his companies, your answer is not based in reality, despite your appeal to emotion.

It's comical, but also tragic, that you also think the government can put his money to better use. The F-35 program alone is $173 billion over budget.
Avid mountain biker here. I like to ride outside 4-5 days a week in good weather when I can. I only own a mountain bike and had been looking all summer for a way to get hard core cardio during the winter months. Also, as a resident of the PNW, this year we experienced horrific fires, oppressive smoke, and awful air quality for a significant chunk of September. This meant no cycling.

Mountain bikes generally don't work too well with trainers so I started looking at spin bikes. I researched the Peloton and honestly, it's kind of a rip off. Huge upfront cost, limited classes for West Coasters (when I looked, anyway), and that pesky monthly fee. You are paying for brand exclusivity, IMO.

I ended up getting a Schwinn IC4 for < $1,000 and no monthly fee. I hook it up to Zwift and an iPad or my TV for structured riding. Overall, I'm very happy with my decision. I would still have preferred the Peloton's integrated screen but at literally twice the price of the IC4 (plus ongoing fees for classes if you choose to utilize them), I just couldn't justify it.
Why do you think it's "hiding"? analogies have a way to explain things to people who don't have context, it's a tool to remove obfuscation, not add more layers.
I wish Signal had a more minimalist UI like Messenger or iMessage, it feels very cluttered with all the full timestamps and multiple checkmarks in each message.
Remember many (although not all) of the BLM protests often evolved into violent riots, although the media has refused to cover them as such. They were all classified as peaceful protests and they were all immune from any negative covid coverage;

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: https://youtu.be/5XxLR2r5oPg

Pelosi: https://www.youtube.com/embed/3fsG5tyxRjw?rel=0 [1]

Rep Maxine Waters; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rep-waters-dr...

Rep Ayanna Pressly; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/17/ayanna-pres...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-20... // https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/aca6ab76
Even more interesting is the blatant support of zuckerburg and facebook here.

Of all places, you'd think HN would support free speech, but yesterday, you got downvote brigaded for mentioning that facebook and tech companies shouldn't be our censors.

The logic was "we must protect democracy by having zuckerburg censor an elected government official".

One moment it's facebook is evil. The next moment, facebook and zuckerburg are the heroes we need to save democracy. Go figure.
The point of the article is that the meritocratic system in this country is broken. In part this is because we have systematically transferred wealth out of the bottom to the top. For example, focusing on tax cuts that benefit high income individuals while cutting support for public colleges. These two things are usually done at different times with tax cuts usually to stimulate the economy and spending cuts coming to reign in budget imbalances. The result is that you could work your way through college in the 1960's by working about 20 hours a week. Now you'd have to work 40+ hours a week to pay tuition at a public university. The difference income throughout someone's working life between a college degree and no college degree is about 1,000,000 dollars. So the middle and lower middle income people don't see the benefits of tax cuts but they bear the burden of college tuition increases. And their long term earning potential suffers. And the country as a whole suffers because we have a less well educated work force.

You can repeat this pattern with a whole host of other programs and issues. For example, the minimum wage is still behind where it needs to be if it were adjusted for inflation. We're becoming a casino culture where people keep playing the game because they believe they're going to be the ones that turn out okay. For the most part, your ability to leave your social class is pretty close to zero, with the rich staying rich because their wealth can insulate them against bad decisions. The only real mobility for most people has been down.
The military is a state within the state. Always was, always will be. There are good reasons to have people live near or in bases.
Let me decide whether I care if someone gains access to my account on some rinky dink web app.

Complexity requirements aren't targeted for you. You're making a conscious decision about what risks you're willing to assume. Most people aren't aware of the risks, even if told their password is weak. That is who complexity requirements target. (But the requirements probably aren't altruistic: they're really there to help protect the application and its developers from the perception of insecurity.)

This is one reason why application developers should get out of the business of building authentication systems. At least then the problems belong to someone else who we'll trust to have dealt with them.
How badly does the USG want your hostname? They control the root zone. And all but three of the organizations that run root servers are based out of the US.

Therefore, if the USG were motivated to block your hostname-- regardless of TLD-- they could make a fairly good go at it.
[Insert sexist comment here].
Did anyone happen to cache the IP address for fulltiltpoker.com? I'd like to add it to /etc/hosts so that I can at least connect to the client and get a screenshot of my balance.
My first answer was basically "it still impacts it, you just can't see it". Your votes still count. They just aren't visible. I can see the karma of my own posts when I am logged in. I can't see them when I am logged out. I can't see anyone else's karma.

Is that a better answer?
Ha, I just realized the same last week while listening to a podcast miniseries about the Habsburgs, who ruled a large part of Europe for about 1000 years, but not all of them were that bright. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06cqzx5
A big reason why the far-right grew is as a rejection of this insanity.
> UTF-16 is still lurking here and there

As someone currently stuck in the windows world, this hurts. Every single Windows API is still stuck with using UTF-16/UCS2 as the string encoding.

Also fun fact, on the Nintendo Switch, various subsystems use different kind of encoding. The filsystem submodule uses Shift-JIS, most of the other modules use UTF-8, but some others yet use UTF-16 (like the virtual keyboard, IIRC). A brilliant mess.
In my opinion, NoSQL is bullshit because it markets itself on what it's not rather than what it is, which is not so easily explained in one simply buzzword.

Grouping Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, etc. is the same as grouping MySQL with git - they all store data in one way or another, but the data they store and the way they store it varies wildly.

It's also sad, because all these "alternative" databases offer a lot of features that RDBMS' don't, and they should be promoted instead of stuck under an "umbrella" term to protest against SQL databases.
Computer Science =

1. How to represent data

2. How to transform representations
I cancel my twitter/FB/Google etc, all that sns no-sense so I cannot read it, I think is a good thing.
Apple says Parler has insufficient moderation policies, not that a single offending post is grounds for banning the whole app. Running an app on an app store means you abide by the content policies of that store. The content people post isn't the platforms responsibility, but moderation of it is.
I don't know any area that's continuously controlled by Democrats except for maybe certain municipalities. Even New York had a Republican Mayor and Governor for many years in the 2000s.
(Note: I'm posting a new reply after you substantially edited your comment.)

> it's an illustration of the perils of dismissing people you don't agree with as biased, and of using that as justification for censoring them.

What do you mean by "dismissing"?

In my view, Sunstein is not "dismissing" anyone. He is describing their behavior as being irrational. Yes, I understand that people can take offense to being called irrational. But in the field of behavioral economics, discussions of rationality are not meant to insult. They are meant to inform public policy and law.

To be clear, Sunstein is not promoting censorship of people because they are biased.
> his basic ideology is rule by experts

Not only that, but he ignores an obvious alternative that is staring him in the face. From the article (p. 5):

"We can better understand the problem if we note that in ordinary life, many human beings seem to follow a simple rule: people generally do not say things unless they are true, or at least substantially true."

His way of dealing with this is, as you say, rule by experts. But the obvious alternative is for people in general to stop assuming that others generally do not say things unless they are true. And the way to do that is to make people responsible for their own beliefs--to let people suffer harm if they have a false belief that they shouldn't have adopted in the first place because the source it came from was not trustworthy. Then people will have the proper incentive to actually think about the trustworthiness, or lack thereof, of various sources of information.

> Maybe that idea has merit

Based on the actual track record of "experts", I don't think it does. But Sunstein's own stated principles don't even leave room to ask the question. That's the real problem.
Any word about AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile?
The protected classes in Iowa are "race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, or disability" (copied from §206.8(a) in the linked PDF). Political viewpoint is not a protected class [1]. It might qualify under "creed," but the typical definition of creed is generally tied towards religious beliefs rather than political beliefs, so I would not qualify it as such without a court case to back it up with precedent.

Of course, that is moot since Trump is a Florida resident who is physically present in DC, and we're talking about a service whose contract says you agree all suits will be handled in California, so Iowa does not have personal jurisdiction here.

[1] Political belief is not a protected class in most states, actually, including California.
Do you think the people who were supporting BLM while condemning the violent components were encouraging violence? If not what would you say the difference is?

> Iirc, he told supporters to punch protesters during the 2016 campaign, no?

Yes, that would obviously be inciting violence. I hadn't heard about that. Do you have a source?
wait until you hear about the song and dance needed for a modern React app
I think they're more worried about getting sued if their services are used to plan/incite a crime and they do nothing about it...

edit: civil suits are so easy to file, they probably don't want to risk 'wrongful death' type suits.
Anybody kind here whou would explain me how is this different from Binance card https://www.binance.com/en/cards ? Of course Binance card is not available everywhere but excluding this restriction these two are the same system, right ?
Thing is this is exactly how it works with literally every other forex ever. If you go buy CAD with your USD from your local bank, of course they make money on the spread, the exact same way.
That's totally fair. The music style in this early stage is geared at people who enjoy this kind of popular music. In the future we will be expanding to have different styles of music as well. But certainly, we aren't trying to replace traditional meditation - so for anyone who is more aligned with more traditional meditation music and less verbal guidance - I honestly think there are some amazing resources already out there. Our hope is that we can provide a new style that resonates for people who the more traditional sounds and guidance levels don't click for. Very much appreciate your honest feedback!
> Inflation adjusted $/sqft on average across the US housing costs exactly the same as it did in the 1970s.

> Inflation adjusted

Inflation is a result of monetary policy. So when you’ve adjusted the price for the monetary policy, you see that 50 years of capital accumulation and efficiency has been soaked up by monetary policy.

> I admit I misspoke, because of course, monetary policy controls interest rates, but I maintain that a change in affordability is not dominated by inflation but rather other social policies. Houses are twice is big and families are 20% smaller.

Things are supposed to get cheaper as capital accumulates. Social policies undoubtedly have an effect. So does increasing the money supply. An increase in the number of currency units necessarily causes each unit to be worth less, ceteris paribus.

> Happy to debate more but [citation needed].

I’m not sure how to proceed. The notion that one could print money and have each currency unit correspond to the same amount of physical goods is prima facie false.
Definitely - not sure if you're responding to me with intention of suggesting it, but I definitely didn't say he was politically correct.

My father had a collection of Hustler from the 70s and 80s that as a teen in the early 90s I sneakily perused; this was definitely the golden age of the magazine's anti-PC speech, with all you mentioned, as well as unveiled racism.
I was using the skyscanner app to check some tickets the other day and there was blatant price manipulation(used another device from browser and vpn from halfway around the world to compare).
Then I tried to use the web page from yet another device from an anonymous chrome tab, the "minimal cookies for essential functionality would not go away. Europe. No declaration what that means anywhere, not sure how this is in harmony with gdpr laws. Infuriating.
> The thing you need to understand is that nobody cares about this,

Um. Don't be obtuse and obdurate. This conversation is getting really tedious. Look at the market, look around the world. Actually research the statements you make. There are already millions who care.

> I built a prediction market that used bitcoins in 2014.

You built on bitcoin yet you never understood how transactions work? That's deeply disturbing. Nonetheless, I sincerely wish you good luck. I respect your effort at building and sincerely hope you keep building winning products.

The market will decide the victor. See you on the builder's battlefield. That's where all the action is. En garde!

> the way you and other zealots look at bitcoin as a kind of panacea is just insane. Your fervour borders on a religious mania.

P.S. I totally want Bitcoin to be declared a religion, if only for the possible tax advantage! Fun times.

> not a single one of these would come up if you ask the man in the street (or your average economist in the street for that matter) what he wants from money.

[sigh] If you asked them what they want they'd have said they want a faster horse, not a car. The purpose of travelling and talking to people is to discover their problems and pain-points not what they imagine the solutions are. The innovator then inserts a solution into the machine.

> bitcoin is far from the best even at what it actually does.

You keep making these vacuous statements yet you don't even have a grasp of what Bitcoin actually does because, apparently, what it does has no value to you. I mean, good for you. What you don't seem to realise is that your inability to look at reality looks like a religious mania.

Now, respectfully, I have to bow out. Code to write, Bitcoin to build on.
If you're trying to make your code look non-malicious, it's easier if you have somewhere to hide the malicious-looking stuff.
Whether you agree with it or not, the purpose is to remove funds from police, which many believe is a positive outcome. Look at police budgets, how that money is spent, how it affects communities to have 60-80% of their tax money go to police. Again, you may disagree, but removing money from the police is the point of the slogan.
If I recall correctly, viral infections can cause remission of cancer. It somehow redirects the immune system to cancer cells.
In the last race I saw from the iRacing streamer Dan Suzuki, he had some kind of visual spotter - I think it was from Kapps - where at least you saw the position of the car - how far ahead or behind - on the side.

Perhaps that‘s implemented with the percentage you mentioned.
Well, trade offs right? Rolling their own form component is sometimes the right decision, depending on context and more.

See also, #1 and #12 that should be considered in your example too.
It might be worth adding that to the post title somehow e.g. 737 (not Max).
"once winter ends" I've been wondering about that. In June things were just great, but at the same time our health agency (RIVM) claims COVID-19 is not affected by seasons. Are they lying (since they're saying "is not" instead of "might not" / "unknown"), or was what happened around June a coincidence?
Experience is the best teacher here. But to help you get on track faster, things like the courses @ acloud.guru, the first level of AWS certs, and the reference implementations by AWS itself are a BIG help.
I've just bought it. At the first glance it's very basic. Hope, that you will ehnance it with some real world example. The way it is... it looks like five ways to write Hello World program.
>Yet look

You had me going until that point.

I was expecting you to say something more like 'look at what happens when private industry intervenes in government'
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> I am not sure about why so many people are surprised.

Because the whole premise of this editor is that it's "hackable". It isn't truly hackable if it isn't truly open source.
> let's say you can lower the amount of intelligence required to actually understand the system

Every system has accidental complexity, so a better language can obviously help achieve this. However, Java does not do this. What Java does is lower the intelligence required to make changes without understanding the system, by having few abstractions and effectively making the programmer work in an intermediate language with added redundancy.

And while this approach allows for cheaper unskilled programmers to be used, they take up more time figuring out what to attempt to change and then crossing their fingers hoping the code will compile. A similar amount could have been spent for an intelligent consultant working in a high level language and serving several such clients, but management would rather feel secure by having someone they control.

> I'm explaining why a healthy corporation

Once it's in the territory of hiring more people instead of better people, you have something that prioritizes control over obtaining results, which is not healthy. Unfortunately, it can indeed still pass for a healthy corporation and live many decades, a source of many modern ills.