skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is relevant to a lot of the comments, so I'll just make it as a top-level comment. First, two videos of the latest version of the Tesla Autopilot firmware, rolled out to Tesla vehicle owners this week. Each shows the car repeatedly trying to kill its driver:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYav3_7miIc

2: https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=zYHrJvXcz6M&u=%2F...

Tesla broke ties with the previous supplier of its driver assist hardware and software last year after serious disagreements over the safety of Tesla's present and future Autopilot systems and how it was being marketed to consumers.

It's now been just a few months, and Tesla's rolled out their own Autopilot software to customers of cars built since the breakup with Mobileye.

That software doesn't have the years of testing the old software did. This one, as you can see in the videos I linked from the latest firmware, does things like drive your car off clearly marked roads inexplicably without warning. It is not acting safer than human drivers would in these situations.

I'm not happy about sharing the roads with cars that may drive themselves into me with no warning that there's anything wrong with what should be a simple lane keeping system. Especially when that system doesn't force the driver to keep their hands on the wheel, when obviously they need to be there with the software in this state.

I want to eventually benefit from the kind of self-driving cars Google is building (Waymo is down to a human temporarily taking the wheel once per 5000 miles of driving on public roads), without the harm of what startups like Tesla can do by putting essentially untested systems on production cars I share the road with.

There must be a regulatory middle ground?
that's funny because I happen to personally know two gay couples (men) who both have two children.

Funny ol' world, eh?
Wrong. Self driving cars are already safer than humans. We need to put them on the road, in mass, NOW.

Every year we wait is another million people dead, due to terrible human drivers.
Half the products in your house can potentially explode, even the food. Flour is known to blow up whole factories. Powdered sugar too.
Joey from Friends has to go into the map while in London https://youtu.be/oKCIMX2dsEc?t=40
I guess so. That new flexbox design in action probably. I probably won't fix that fast, but I will see what I can do.
In what medium are you mistaken for a bot? I just ask because I virtually never suspect bots except via email or perhaps obvious comment spam.
Currently reading the book, and could see the zealotry come out, but they mention, repeatedly, that your own systems may not need the level of service that Google built-in, or your teams may not be big enough to justify, etc. I don't think it is quite fair to indicate that they didn't give that thought. I totally agree that it is a great book and should be encouraged throughout ops orgs, devops roles, and developers who want to plan for the future, but that not every company needs the Google way to 100%, or maybe even 50% (as you indicated as well).
How does banning same-sex marriage adversely impact the rate of birth amongst heterosexuals? And if banning marriages that can't result in babies were a way to increase birthrate, then why are heterosexual people who cannot have babies (post-menopausal women, men who've had vasectomies) allowed to get married?
It's not too hard to change LI privacy setting to basically never receive recruiter spam.
So my Skype account was hacked today
I understand you, and people defending it, but i wanted to point that it's a dangerous decision , where do we stop doing it? Who can decide where's the limit between censurable and not?. So Tintin in Congo(they wanted to rewrite it some years ago) it's censurable because it's a comic but Huckleberry Finn not because it's a classic? . And sorry , didn't want to look like was attacking you.
"Nothing to do" seems like protesting too much, since the next sentence is:

>But having Singhal at the head of an organization under siege over sexual harassment issues when he was not candid with Uber over his departure from Google was considered untenable.

Which makes it sound like "we don't know what to believe but we're getting rid of him because it looks bad."

This framing seems unenlightened and also not so flattering to Uber. I wonder if that's the framing Uber presented to recode, or if it was their own.
Turns out, Uber is clogging the streets
Funny related story. When I was at GaTech my dorm room (actually a 4 room suite) phone number was 4046.

Now GaTechs area code happens to be 404 and there are few biz that share that area code. One notable one was a Papa Johns 404-6xx and some more numbers you can google.

The key thing is if you have a dorm phone you have to dial 9 to dial out... you see where I'm going with this...

My junior and senior and +.5 super senior year (alas that is another GT thing) I took hundreds of orders with credit card numbers.

Now I never did anything bad with those credit cards but there sure were a lot of angry people that didn't get their pizza (some I would call back and tell them but it got pretty annoying so....).

The really funny thing was there were even faculty and staff that made this mistake. You could say they got shafted (another GT thing).

I strangely miss that Papa Johns. Their garlic sauce was so glorious and yet so disgusting. It was like liquid cocaine transfat.
That's not anarchism. Self driving cars are already safer than humans.

If something is already safer than humans, then it should be deployed in mass, NOW. Screw the laws. Or get rid of them.

A million people die every year due to cars. The market can fix this if government gets out of the way.
Please, no. I think part of the reason Fastmail has been able to focus on the user experience is because they are independent. I don't want them acquired, disbanded, and dumped. It's the best paid service I've ever used.
Sorry. Fair point. I confused your comment with the rest of the thread.
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Pocket will be open sourced.
Here are two recent examples where government meddling -- one in healthcare, one in marriage -- ended up infringing on religious liberty.

Healthcare: The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charitable organization that also offers healthcare for women, were required by the Affordable Care Act to provide contraception as part of their services. This infringed on the religious liberty of practicing Catholics. Nonetheless, the federal government fined the Little Sisters of the Poor for not providing a service the Catholic Church considers immoral. Million of dollars in lawyer fees later, the Supreme Court finally reversed the decision [0].

Marriage: A gay couple asked a Jack Phillips, a Christian baker and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, to make the wedding cake for their upcoming gay marriage ceremony. The Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths all forbid homosexuality; Philips asked the couple to take their business elsewhere. But the couple took Phillips to court and the court ruled that Phillips and his staff were required to break their moral convictions and were ordered take re-education classes and file quarterly compliance reports for two years [1].

[0]: http://thelittlesistersofthepoor.com/#supreme-court-ruling

[1]: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/26/christian-baker-forced-to-...
> On the one hand, you want to make it accessible to as many students as possible as well as teach them the core of what you want

Then use it. These kids aren't going to be damaged by hearing the word fuck.
> There must be a regulatory middle ground?

I think there is, I just wouldn't hold my breath for Congress to act on it. California is leading the way on this. Elect the right people there and hopefully that trickles up and across to other states.
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> Sounds like civil unions were just created to fill that same-sex marriage gap without pissing off the people who didn't want same-sex marriages.

In most countries which implemented them, that's broadly correct, yeah. In some countries there were also constitutional issues; in Ireland we had to change our constitution to permit same-sex marriage, for instance, so we had civil unions in the mean time.

In practice, though, there were lots of small unintended legal differences. Marriage has been around since before any modern society, and it weaves itself into laws and regulations. The campaign for equal marriage in Ireland found something like a thousand legal differences between civil unions and marriages, mostly essentially accidental. They're a mess and should be avoided if possible.
The existing bookmark system does pretty much all of that already (with the sole exception of offline viewing, but Pocket's implementation is reportedly buggy anyway), and then some. It also syncs across one's devices.
Yep, this is exactly what I wanted when I was starting out. I just had the resources and time to write everything done as I went through it in the hopes that other people take it and can make even better tools and open source docs.
Agreed. This post would be okay if there wasn't so much "we crunched the numbers" talk, and then very perplexing reporting.
Endorsements for skills you HAVEN'T listed must be accepted, but if you have a skill listed, anybody can endorse it for you. I think that's what OP meant - he had Python on there because maybe he knew a bit about it, and a bunch of randos just clicked the + next to it.
Forgive my ignorance. I don't understand the threat model being worried about here. If someone breaks into your CVS/SVN server and rewrites project history, how is that less bad than someone breaking into your remote git repo and rewriting project history? Don't both attacks require a break-in at the server/remote? Or does CVS/SVN have a better method of detecting such a break-in?
Thank you for your kind words. I really tried hard to capture what was years of work into just the salient pain points and design lessons.
> And please read up on Simspons Paradox, which is clearly the case here just by looking at your plot.

What is the instance of Simpson's paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox) in the scatterplot? There are skews on both X and Y axes, but I don't see disparate trends.

Would faceting by preferred language/experience/LinkedIn age show different trends in this context?
I also read his post about wanting to do something else, so I was very surprised when I heard that he had gotten a job at Uber.

I think that Kalanick made the right decision by asking him to resign. They can't afford to have any more controversies surrounding them especially at this time.

I hope all that has happened at Uber can overall make the tech industry better for everyone.
It sure is their prerogative. It's unfortunate their paid service is not available to most of the world.
It looks like he may have been asked to leave as a result of the allegations, since they directly coincided with his departure, so that looks like Google did a lot more than "act like nothing happened".
Too bad sync kind of sucks... Just yesterday I was looking at a recipe on my desktop and then I opened Firefox on my phone and tried to get at the link without emailing or messaging myself and it only showed sync'd tabs from over a week ago.
What definition of heavy are you using here? Because despite often being 'thin clients', most of the programs I run that embed HTML engines for the UI end up being stupendously resource-intensive compared to their native equivalents.
I am an Uber survivor
I think Elon has accomplished a lot, but I think you're ignoring the fact that every one of his companies is still surprisingly risky. Tesla might not get another loan and it could go under in a year. SpaceX has fantastic margins, but they still have significant hurdles with failed launches (although this is true of rocketry in general) and navigating a political landscape. Solar City was going under when Elon saved it by combining it with Tesla, a very controversial move.

Elon has yet to run a profitable electronic vehicle company. Elon has yet to run a stable alternative to NASA. Elon has yet to ween the world off its oil dependence. He is working towards all of them and it's great! But he hasn't succeeded in disrupting any of them yet, because all of the alternatives still exist and are as healthy as ever.
I see. I didn't know "amateurish" had such negative connotations.
Unfortunately HN doesn't let me edit the post anymore.
> 1. A response looks like this: https://monosnap.com/file/CbRNrj7TUUhaLolVTLYJhrPxUdsYOK

That's quite expensive for $100. Also, doesn't sound like an advice, more like a judge for an elevator pitch.
Their non-mobile quality seems to be pretty high as far as I can tell, but, yeah, I feel like he'd have to agree their iOS app is the definition of clowntown.
When endorsements came out, some friends and I discovered that you could endorse people for violent crimes.

Yes, you too can endorse your connections for murder, kidnapping, and terrorism.
I deleted mine a few years ago, after some idiot tried to recruit me over my work phone. No regrets whatsoever.

Recruiter spam dropped off. The couple of recruiters who were actually any good still send me an email and/or a call once a year to find out if I'm looking for anything. So I don't feel like I lost anything.
My fear here is that this is mostly an excuse for established car companies to get Trump to target Tesla. Trump has no particular reason to like electric cars, and established car companies have every reason to fear Tesla. I further suspect that Trump sees being bribed as simply a good business proposition...
OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality
My Mandarin teacher did this. The answer was usually 14, 41, 40, 44 or similar. This was because, well:

四是四, sì shì sì
十是十。 shí shì shí
十四是十四, shí sì shì shí sì
四十是四十。 sì shí shì sì shí

4 is 4, 10 is 10, 14 is 14, 40 is 40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TuVL3mlBR4
Smalltalk was long castigated for being a "slow, poky interpreted language" long, long after it stopped being that in fact. In all of my time as a consultant for the language vendor, never did I ever come across the VM actually being too slow. In something like 90% of the cases, it was due to IO.

Before I left the Smalltalk part of my career behind, someone had the occasion to compare the parser-compiler of one Smalltalk which was implemented in C with Yacc/Lex with one implemented in pure Smalltalk with a JIT VM. IT turns out, once the console logging was disabled, the JIT VM's parser was just as fast as the one in C.

In my experience of almost 2 decades, it has been a constant that uninformed programmers are especially uninformed about the relative performance of managed languages.
idk.

Should he have disclosed it? Of course, because that would have lessened the impact when it did come out.

Maybe he thought it was over and done with. And, since it was an allegation vs proven maybe he didn't want to muddy waters.

However, to say that an allegation must be reported when taking a new job is pretty harsh. Innocent till proven guilty surely?

>> "Uber execs found out about the situation after Recode informed them of the chain of events between Singhal and the search giant this week."

Punish the person responsible in Susan's case. If anything, this feels like a person's career was taken down due to a witch hunt.

To me, this action by Uber's executive team is not one of cleaning house: it shows a lack of spine.
> observing a natural physical force

There's your misunderstanding. Gravity is not a force. The force is merely the effect you observe on your specific instrument. The cause and substance of gravity is not explained solely by its effect (force), and the force is not what generates gravity, et al. And, in fact, mass is not the only thing that generates gravity. It's flux of energy density. So it boggles my mind that no one considers EM energy as a subset of the energy that can produce "stress on space".

Conclusively, you've made some assumptions you don't realize resulting in an uncontrolled thought experiment. When terms are defined incorrectly, questions using those terms become wrong. If the questions are wrong the answers also always come out wrong.
The city problem is easy to solve. Build more houses and apartments.

Cars gave nothing to do with it. The problem is that 10s of millions of people would live in the city if they could, but the government does let them, by putting so many limits on house building.
Also, there are a few presentations availavle at http://dragan.rocks. just follow the blog posts.
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I think hackable is referring to the client side API here.
Huge fan of the Pocket App. Any guesses for how much the deal would be worth?
> Civil unions would have been a better answer to that.

Civil marriage already is a civil union; distinct-in-name "civil unions" are a separate (if sometimes nominally equal) civic institution to keep same-sex unions segregated-in-name from opposite-sex unions.

> For example, two people who live together long enough can be declared in a civil union, this way, someone can get spousal benefits even if they don't go through the process of getting married

"The process of getting married" basically exists to (1) document the state of union to aid in dispute resolution, (2) provide notice of an opportunity for basic review for legal barriers to the union (which now are basically consanguinity and already being in a similar union with someone else), and (3) provide clear documentation of consent from both parties to.the formation of the union.

The less formal form you describe (common-law marriage) coexisted alongside formal "registered" marriage (and, arguably, is even more linked to religion than the formal kind, since it's a direct product of the Christian doctrine that sacramental marriage is created between the partners alone, with the Church and/or State functioning as additional witnesses, not the creators of the state), but has increasingly fallen out of favor because it creates a lack of clarity about legal rights and obligations.
> XUL was the future of old-school, heavy desktop applications.

The old-school, heavy desktop apps seem to be so unbelievably light in comparison to current electron-based craziness. But I guess we deserve all the bloat for not being able to come up with sensible common API for desktop development :(
A NOP shouldn't ever take up actual pipeline space in a modern CPU - it can be discarded at decode.

A clock is a signal that is used as a valid signal for the data moving across a bus. That could be as short as between pipeline stages.

With async you have a different valid signal, which you will need to derive.

With aggressive dynamic frequency and voltage scaling, clock gating, power gating and having different power and clock islands you get a design that is very difficult to improve on. What AMD has done recently with circuits that lower voltage based on reading the environment on chip rather than sticking to a frequency: voltage mapping is a nice optimisation.

What async designs don't improve on are all the static power issues that are increasingly important.

It all adds up to being an interesting take on the problem of digital design, but not much more.
Hilarious.

I can take an apple from where I'm sitting to the Turkish border 2000+ km away without anybody batting an eye but somehow miraculously an apple in the possession of a traveler from Canada to the USA or the other way around is a huge danger.

As for me being an IT professional: yes, that's my main occupation. But besides that I have a rather wide interest (as in pretty much anything that I can read that I can get my hands on) and have also lived on the Canadian/US border.

And the thing that I recall is that every so often the USA would come up with some trumped-up reason to declare Canadian products/produce/whatever to be so dangerous that they could not possible cross the border any more, and more often than not (in fact, pretty much all the cases) were simply protectionism under the guise of safety.

Fearmongering in the name of commerce, what else is new?
Opposite of my experience. LinkedIn gave me a massive scope over engineers, with better filters than any of the many other sites we were using.

What kind of recruiter waits for responses to their help ad?
Did you miss the "shitty" part?
> How would a custody case play out with two fathers, for example?

These already exist. Gay couples have kids, even married ones.
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People (in our hypothesised Western industrialised nations) WANT density of population. People can already freely move to less densely populated areas, where they avoid traffic jams, pollution, etc etc etc. They choose not to. Density of population creates opportunities that people decide are worth the extra problems to be part of.

Halving the population wouldn't stop this happening. There would be a rush to the cities, a rush to create density of population and all the opportunity people want from it. What you're complaining about would happen again; particularly since people know what's possible with density of population, and they choose it over the alternative.

I suppose you might be able to get the effect you want if you really, REALLY reduced the population. By an order of magnitude or more.

We have to normalize, we have to batch, we have to have pyramids, a chain of command to manage things.

Which allows us to have a society in which people are hundreds and hundreds of times richer than they were even a couple of centuries ago. The wealth of humanity under this is astonishing. We are all so much better off. And again, to reach the point where this efficiency became uneconomic and your alternative options would become optimal would require a population drop of far more than half.
Job well done. In the spirit of "Friends don't let friends", I suppose.

Seriously, against my better instincts I had more than a few slices of their "product" at a meetup the other night. My innards are still cursing me for it.
Nobody said Uber shouldn't do that. I was pointing out that Uber's self-driving technology isn't fundamentally different from a collection of bad drivers (at least within the scope of our comments). You just seem to want to hate on Uber. There are lots of reasons to hate Uber, but please do so with logical consistency.
Goes to show you never know what someone knows from their previous life experiences, and that you should not judge a book by its cover.

Given how poorly academics, research and other fields pay, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find that there are highly educated people trying to make ends meet working for the TSA or Customs. And odds are they are eager to dust off that knowledge and put it to use when they can.
A lot of them were in the military too. Guess what, soldiers swear.
What jurisdiction are you describing?

In the United States, they are legally different concepts, with marriage conferring more rights to the couple. Since Obergefell v. Hodges, civil unions are not really used.
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While I can't disagree with that, I still think it's relevant to point out that as bitcoin's controlling powers have become increasingly regulated, so has bitcoin's stability.
Maybe your endorsers thought you meant Squirrel-lang? (files of which end in .nut)
They don't decide to kill anyone.

The trolley problem would never happen in real life.

In all situations, the safe thing to do in an emergency is to slam on the breaks, and do avoidance, maybe. As well as don't get into these emergency situations in the first place.
>This is just Goldman trying to get better terms for their loan.

In the vaunted halls of Silicon Valley, maybe. But people in the finance world are starting to wonder if this thing can hold up. Others have been wondering for a while.