skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big point that Robert Frank makes in "Success and Luck" (the book this interview is about). Being born in a developed country is one of the luckiest things you can have happen to you. He talks about his time in Nepal for the Peace Corps and a man who worked for him, who was one of the most talented people he's ever worked with. He was also illiterate and living in a developing country, so his prospects were vastly reduced.
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Even if that was true, the fact that all the other idiots are in self driving cars that are not crashing into you makes you safer.
Many economies in the South destabilize themselves due to bad leadership and the elite trying to enrich themselves at the expense of the system and the people.
Ask HN: I need to built a site.I am a beginner web developer. PLEASE HELP ME
Hey i am beginner web developer. And i am a CS undergraduate. For a long time i have been thinking about writing blog.
But i just couldn't start anywhere. Now i have been learning Web Development and i have reached upto an average level in Front-End. I have knowledge about :
HTML , CSS
JS
JQuery (JSON, AJAX)

So the blog idea has started ticking again. And this time i want to make it in form of a site. So that i can use my skills and test them on a real world scenario. But i have no knowledge of where to start and what extra skills to acquire so that i can work on it. Please someone suggest me anything advice, article, blog.
I don't want to use wordpress or anything. I want to make a site on my own. With the help of technology and skills.
So please guide me about the technologies that i have to use plus all the skills that i have to acquire. My aim is to become a full stack developer and i think there is no better way to learn rather than to do that thing.
That is one reason to choose Rust, but that is far from the only reason to prefer Rust over Go. I've found that algebraic data types and pattern matching have become irreplaceable parts of my programming toolbox, to the point it is painful to work without them. Rust also has a powerful macro system that Go cannot match.

This is not to say that Rust is better than Go in every way, but performance is far from the only facet when I compare the two.
Express and phoenix maybe. Elixir is not a framework. Node is to js perhaps as plug is to elixir. Even that kind of doesn't compare correctly though.
Javascript is a very common language. Elixir is generally a better language, but less popular. If you're looking to get a job you could probably do either but there are probably more Javascript jobs. At the hobbyist level Node might be easier to pick up, especially if you know Javascript already.
I read "mozza", then I "got" the web reference, and immediately disliked it. I don't really understand how moz://a is better than Mozilla, but I don't categorically oppose it either.

New branding is fine but the choice here is a bit more debatable than the examples you point out, where each of the brand names are spelled 100% with the alphabet. In OP, 3 characters in 7 are not letters.

Edit: Maybe Mozilla could have suggested an addition to UTF-8 and used that new stylized character "://"?
The real question is are there any who don't need one?

Your contributions would be more than welcome in my Open-Source project, CAMotics. It's a CNC simulation software.
there is also a leak to each site

That's not really a leak unless you're keeping a password to some site without actually using the site and don't want the site to know you've done this. But that probably doesn't come up often in practice.
>Welfare can be controlled via food stamps that stop people from wasting their money on alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and casinos. UBI is just a cash handout which absolutely go to those things and drugs.

Why are you so opposed to allowing people to spend money on mood altering substances?

>If the government guaranteed me $100k a year I wouldn't work. I mean I'd "work" but at being a rock musician or comic book artist or a non-practical technical pursuit.

And maybe your artistic pursuits would help make others happier and motivated and inspired to work on their projects that would qualify as real "work" to you.

For example: Lots of people listen to music to get in the groove when they are working on something that requires them to block out the distracting real world.
It might also just be that it is a bigger and older company, which entices a different group of people.

I have noticed some ethnic bias in hiring for test/quality engineering roles. My working theory is that, for cultural reasons, some people are mostly looking to work for a big firm, and are thus happy in such a role. The rest think of it as too dull sounding.
You are making a totally different argument - not refining OPs original one. If you think yours is a refinement of the same argument, then you could perhaps state which of your listed reasons explains OPs lack of success with the NBA?

For what it's worth - I do not disagree with your argument, but I do not think it adequately explains the situation.

OT: it's somewhat surreal for me to experience HN going all out for the status quo (regardless of subject). I just wanted to get that off my chest - carry on.
The amount of success one finds in life is probably some combination of luck, effort, smarts, and appetite for risk / ability to take risks. I think most would agree that you can determine how much effort you put in and you can study hard to get at least some amount of domain expertise. It seems like your father likely ignores that people do not get to choose what family situation they are born into, what skin color they have, or what gender they are. All of these factors affect things like your economic level of support and your ability to take career risks, which in turn has a big effect on your ability to be successful (assuming we define successful as making a lot of money).
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The 40% number isn't very informative. The report has multiple notes about it:

ODI analyzed data from crashes of Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles involving airbag deployments that occurred while operating in, or within 15 seconds of transitioning from, Autopilot mode. Some crashes involved impacts from other vehicles striking the Tesla from various directions with little to no warning to the Tesla driver.

ODI analyzed mileage and airbag deployment data supplied by Tesla for all MY 2014 through 2016 Model S and 2016 Model X vehicles equipped with the Autopilot Technology Package, either installed in the vehicle when sold or through an OTA update, to calculate crash rates by miles travelled prior to[21] and after Autopilot installation.[22] Figure 11 shows the rates calculated by ODI for airbag deployment crashes in the subject Tesla vehicles before and after Autosteer installation. The data show that the Tesla vehicles crash rate dropped by almost 40 percent after Autosteer installation.

21 Approximately one-third of the subject vehicles accumulated mileage prior to Autopilot installation.

22 The crash rates are for all miles travelled before and after Autopilot installation and are not limited to actual Autopilot use.

So the actual rates of crashes for Teslas using Autopilot vs Teslas not using Autopilot aren't reported.
>What Python does have is a far richer third party library base.

I assumed this is what you were talking about. i.e. Ipython, Jupyter, pdb, etc.
"Moh-see-jah"
Level 3 is the real danger area. That's the level where the driver is able to do other things, but must be prepared to retake control at any time. Those two ideas are basically contradictory: if you're not already involved with driving, it takes too long to get back into it to do anything useful.

Tesla's system is level 2, meaning that the driver must (as in, is supposed to) remain engaged and aware of the driving task at all times, although the car will handle common cases on its own.

I believe the plan for everybody is to go straight from level 2 to level 4, since it looks like level 3 is just not going to work.

In any case, we can't stop the politics and deploy all the real self driving cars to the road immediately, because there aren't any real self driving cars to deploy yet. The technology is advancing extremely quickly and it's getting close, but politics is not the only obstacle.

If and when we have a real, production-worthy self-driving system that's being blocked by politics for no good reason, we can revisit this. I get the sense that, at least in most places, the politics will be pretty easy once the technology gets there. Getting a lot fewer registered voters killed has a way of swaying legislators. Especially in the US, where it's a state-by-state decision, a few states will want to get a jump on it and then the rest will face immense pressure to follow.
What do you mean 'real games'? Mobas have far less in common with Farmville or casinos than MMOs; did you mean to bash those?
You're reading my statement as saying that this is preferable when in fact I'm staying that it's improbable to expect we could do otherwise.

Unless you want to go down the AGI/transhumanism path with me, which I doubt you do.
The dream remains a dream. Being able to call your car like batman did the batmobile, a car able to navigate unsupervised is still a decade, perhaps decades, away.
enpass certainly looks interesting, the UI looks atleast as polished as lastpass. I'll give it a short drive.

Thanks for sharing.
Isn’t our code just the *BEST*
Rick Perry: Climate is changing. “Some of it” is caused by “man-made activity.”
Danah Boyd, the author, leads a think tank known as Data and Society. https://datasociety.net/
The "shitty variety" that doesn't have to deal with all the stuff the current state-of-the-art pure self-driving cars don't actually do yet like drive in imperfect road conditions and adapt to unusual circumstances because it's just a braking assistant and cruise control system with humans behind the wheel?
Not necessarily, making other drivers safer makes them less likely to collide with you.

Depending on how all the numbers would work out, making other drivers safer could well make you safer too. It might not, but it could.
Ask HN: I'm in NYC and Boston soon. Who should I meet?
Hi all!

I'm part of a team working on an alcohol delivery app without outside funding (though would be open to it), thinking of possibly using our software to pivot into an area which would be more innovative and fresh.

I'll be in NYC and Boston and would appreciate any good tips for interesting, enlightening or productive meetings. I'd love to connect with people who may have useful ideas or suggestions, attend startup events, meet with an angel or VC, or just grab coffee with someone in the HN community (could be totally unrelated to the app).

P.s. I'm almost exclusively just a lurker on here, so please do let me know if I'm violating any HN netiquette with this post.

Thanks!
Why has the issue to remove analytics been closed on the project's GH without the change being implemented? https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/27
The judge is known to have received scholarship from Samsung in the old days.
> No core Python dev will support Python 2 after EOL.

You say it like it's a bad thing. Core Python devs are terrible programmers.

I'm personally rooting for this fork now: https://github.com/naftaliharris/placeholder - it's what Python3 should have been.
Can anyone who is in the industry comment on how Autopilot performs in poor weather (ie. flash floods, thunderstorms, snowstorms etc...)

All I can find from the article about weather was in section 3.1:

> The manual includes several additional warnings related to system limitations, use near pedestrians and cyclists, and use on winding roads with sharp curves or with slippery surfaces or poor weather conditions. The system does not prevent operation on any road types.
You mean brand recognition? (What prevents a user from using more than one service?)
Your ability to handle the consequences of either making bad choices or being unlucky is dependent in large measure on factors like financial resilience (can you afford to take a risky project without running the chance of being homeless?) and social support (will your partner be prepared to support a change of direction, do your parents recognise the value of trying and failing at difficult things, will your country help you retrain if things go wrong?). These things are not evenly distributed.

I'm now in some senses on my third career (I'm 35). Each of those decisions to change direction, take risks and grow as a person were made a lot easier because I had a good enough salary to put money aside to cover the risks, and a wife who happens to be both adventure-loving and locationally-flexible. Not to mention that the most recent career change (moving into academic research) basically required a self-funded MSc as a preparatory to funded PhD study (I was moving into quite a different field, and there's basically no funding for taught Masters courses in the UK). That's more than half the people who could benefit from it priced out from the start.
EmDrive Thruster's engine that defies the laws of physics?
I think that's an open question. Right now, it's not the millions, that'd be too much to bundle with browsers. But browsers may well change their delivery mechanism for preload information to allow this to scale higher.

In any case, .gov won't add much to the load -- right now there are all of 5,500 .gov domains, and the rate of adding/removal is on the order of dozens every month at most.
Haven't there been a lot of tests of self-driving technology on public roads? Tesla has released a couple of videos of theirs, and Google has put a couple million miles on theirs. What hasn't happened yet is a production-ready, customer-owned vehicle on public roads.
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Are you assuming the more wealthy owners have lower levels of education? Or have I misinterpreted your statement? I would have assumed tesla owners would fall into the more educated category. No idea which assumption is correct just wondering about your reasoning.

For my assumption I assume that due to the higher cost of a Tesla better educated people are opting for them over the alternative because of the environmental benefits.
First off, Amazon never lost a billion dollars in a single year.

More importantly, Amazon could have been profitable for much of the time. Amazon was losing money because they were taking the profits from they successful ventures and pouring it into new ventures.

With Uber, what change do they make right now to switch to a very profitable company? Amazon had that option, Uber does not.
I've been needing a toy project to dive a little bit more into AWS Lambda and IAM roles & policies.

Only been working on it a bit starting Saturday so there's no auth and the pledges are create-only, but I'm gauging interest to see if it's worth developing further.

Stack is:

- Serverless Framework
- AWS Lambda: C#/.NET Core runtime
- DynamoDB
- S3 for site hosting
- A $10 bootstrap template

Source at https://github.com/FLGMwt/offset-trump

I submitted this earlier before I had post moderation and some nasty stuff piled up which at least partially led to a flag.
Riseup is all cucked out now, not safe to use, canary issues, etc.
It's okay to withhold judgement and to be skeptical until seeing actual data. Especially for rapidly developing technologies like self-driving cars.
I liked that point too, but when I went to use the text adventure bot, I found the delay immediately frustrating. It feels like I spend more time waiting for messages than reading or making decisions.

This is a cool concept though!
Maybe other drivers are really good, or maybe this class of driver is really bad?
IPv6 is a federal mandate for agencies: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/eg...

And NIST has a dashboard of adoption:
https://usgv6-deploymon.antd.nist.gov/cgi-bin/generate-gov
It looks like this happens when you use the web version of Lastpass available on their website, not through the extension.

I've been able to confirm when you update a site through the web interface it makes a POST request to https://lastpass.com/show_website.php with the `url` parameter which contains the hex-encoded URL of the website. I think the author is correct about this.
Is it "improbable" that we build houses and dams to try and correct traits of the universe that we deem undesirable?

Stop typing and look around you. You live in a huge improbability already.
Our language currently lacks the words that would let us refer to a person in a way that encapsulates both succinctly.
It was eight or so months ago. If I recall correctly I got the interview because someone here flagged my application.
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For anyone unable or unwilling to access that domain name for work purposes or filtering purposes, the linked page lists this alternative:
http://goshdarnfunctionpointers.com/
I'm not sure that inequality is necessarily the thing to be fixed.

I suspect that when most people talk about inequality, what they mean is, "a few people are doing really good and a lot of people are doing really bad". If you can lessen or remove the "doing really bad" part, whether through UBI or some other means (progressive taxation to fund other programs, whatever your ideology prefers), then statements of inequality start to mean just "a few people are doing really good" and I think there are far fewer people that are bothered by that.

I also think these conversations tend to get stuck on the definition of poverty. Some people say, "well, it can't be poverty because they all have smartphones", and other people say, "well, it's poverty because they lack any opportunity". I think that if these discussions are going to get anywhere we have to start by convincing people that the definition of poverty is allowed to change and that we shouldn't in the 21st century be defining poverty in 19th-century terms.
Ask HN: “tools wiki”
Is there anything like a curated list or Wiki of Software Engineering tools; a place where you'd go to see what tools are used for a given task. For instance, tools for Configuration Management, frameworks for Web dev, Database systems, etc.
What prevents other logistics providers from driving the price down to commodity levels?
A ride in a Cruise AV
Static types helps for complex apps, good concurrency control helps for ambitious apps, and fast performance helps for critical apps.
I see poverty (and UBI) as fixing the problem of people not even having enough to live on, but inequality having a much wider range of impact. Maybe UBI could lead to fixes in other areas - but there is this other problem economically, of people making rational decisions based upon the limited resources they have to draw upon (capital, experience, network connections, family fallbacks, etc). How may good ideas are never explored because someone has an idea that is a 0.001% of success, but could benefit the world 1000x over? Then they look at their personal resources and just push that idea away? This isn't a problem just on an individual basis.

For instance, I sometimes idly wonder how many fairly sharp and/or self-driven people ended up working for the illegal drug industry vs how society (and those individuals) could have benefited had other paths been available to them. Maybe we've missed out on many exceptional CEOs because they were taken up by the illegal drug industry, became drug lords then somewhere along the line locked up or killed.

Or the looming Automation issue. We may take care of many basic economic activities by automation, and now many people will be out of work - we see that couched as a "jobs" problem, but looked at another way it's and extension that our economic system really doesn't know how to harness human capability. Our current economic system says only give people just enough resources - any excess is pulled away from people who lack leverage (like many who exchange labor for income). And increasingly I think the fact that allocating for leverage != allocating for potential is unbalancing our economy. Now most wealth has accumulated at the top to a very few - and, from world economic growth numbers, that group basically doesn't know how to more productively allocate it on a world-wide scale (or maybe doesn't want to to preserve the accumulated wealth, or some mix).
Because breaking out of poverty is a hard thing to do. It is certainly possible, beginning with a focus on achieving at a high level early in school (which can be a difficult task when dealing with life issues imposed by poverty). Doing extremely well in high school, which can lead to college, scholarships, etc. is one of the few exits on the freeway to adult poverty for impoverished children. Once that ship has sailed, they could go into trades, such as electrical and plumbing/heating. Most, won't, instead bouncing from job to job with no hope of ever improving their station in life, and will have their own children, instantly worsening their own financial situation and continuing the cycle.

But none of that means it's impossible or that it requires luck to break out of (again, assuming they live in a country with abundant economic opportunity). It requires hard work, discipline, and perhaps most importantly, an understanding that the limits their parents ran into that resulted in their impoverished upbringing are not insurmountable.
35,000 people die from car accidents every single year in the USA alone. Other drivers are not "really good".
No problem, I'm a fan of the product. Been using it since v2.1.
You neglect the possibility of a legal, constitutional order with which one disagrees (neither the law nor the Constitution forbids all bad things). For a member of the civil service, one's choice, then, is to obey or to resign.

For the military, of course, there is no choice: one obeys.
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By the output of the employees that are lead/managed?
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Thats like saying "This medical procedure doesn't save lives, it just results in 40% fewer incidents of sudden heart failure".
But some elite colleges have focused more on being
affordable to low-income families than on expanding
access.

The article talks about access multiple times, but never defines what that might mean. If financial commitment is removed from the table, either qualified low-income applicants aren't being accepted at the same rates (unsubstantiated here) or qualified low-income applicants simply aren't applying (supported by linked research[1]). Or colleges accept students based on qualification alone and are "blind" to economic circumstances—which may be good or bad depending on your POV.

If the second, the question then becomes how to encourage those applicants. Is that "access"?

Or do we need to re-think "qualification" to be more democratic (if it includes, say, international exposure that can be bought)? Are institutions obligated to change their qualification criteria to this end? Should they all?

The selectivity-vs-income ("rainbow") chart is interesting and fairly linear. I wonder what a similar "qualification-vs-income" chart would look like: e.g., are top 0.1%-ers "more qualified" (e.g., more likely to get into a selective university by performance alone) than other bands?

Then we're either into really dangerous territory (e.g., wealth correlated with intelligence), we're back to (re-)defining qualification criteria, or we shift the "blame" from university admissions to childhood education.

[1]http://www.nber.org/papers/w18586
> I just tried adding a new site to the "Email" folder, and no requests to remote servers showed up in my Network tab.

Well, I don't even have lastpass so I can't check, but it obviously has to be sending something when you save the new site or it isn't saving it in the cloud at all.