skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one feeling the press + big tech narrative of "driverless vehicles = safety" is way ahead of itself? OK, "driver error is blamed for 94% of crashes", but what is the validation strategy to show where driverless cars can quantifiably improve? In 2016, Philip Koopman of CMU discusses that there are non-trivial engineering challenges of achieving safety in NHTSA Level 4 vehicle automation: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman16_sae_autono...

If we are building the safest transportation system, what role do driverless vehicles play? Wouldn't that be the narrative that actually saves the most lives?
Let me guess, security vulnerabilities in literally every object.
It's not even a complete solution which is roots for a ninth-degree polynomial. Approximation with quadratics is what makes it feasible with some caveats [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/OmfliNQsk88?t=19m7s
it's probably worse, in a sense. you can't build up in boulder because there are height restrictions on buildings.
Or just decertify outdated systems.

I guess "DRM" for self driving cars is something people will complain about, but for vehicles that have controls it doesn't seem real horrible to have an autonomous system do a check to see if it is still licensed.

There could be an emergency override if the person that needed the vehicle didn't know how to drive, an override that automatically issued a fixit ticket.
Indeed - this is actually a phenomenon with a name: the "glass cliff". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
Why would a young professional person want to live anywhere where earning 100k + is not enough when they could live in quite a few other states and earn a 100k + enjoying a cost of living that is 1/3 of what it is in SF or NYC?

My wife and I both make well into the 6 figures working at boring corporations enjoying a lifestyle where we would have to earn the equivalent of 7 figures in the Bay Area or NYC.

There are a lot of great boring corporations that pay extremely well. They don't provide couches or hammocks and you have to drink regular coffee and sure you have to sit in a cube (no open spaces) but it sure beats having to scrape by on 100k + a year.
> It's been singularly useless

I'm bribable for the job... :)
Running a small software business (5 - 10 people) in some niche area.
Also! Don't forget how expensive this software is... This puts it out of reach for like 97% of the world.
Hello, troll
do you really think she even cares for those 'thousands' of poor souls?
I was asked to work on a team at Google.

I was being paid six figures.

I would have been the only white person on the team.

Google tried to turn me into an immigrant equivalent.

I turned down the offer.

I was given a very low level (3 at first, then promoted to 4 for no reason) whereas my peers were given higher levels (5 and 7).

Google forced me, a white person who grew up in Oregon and California, to work with immigrants because Google hates Americans who aren't immigrants.

I suffered a major psychological attack because I wasn't an immigrant and I was told that if I wanted a job, I would have to act like an immigrant.

American immigrants are evil worthless scum. They hate Americans who aren't immigrants and they work together to stab non-immigrants in the back, especially white non-immigrant Americans.

Google wants immigrant equivalents. They want slaves they can exploit. It is an evil company. It is run by evil people who should be hunted down and tortured.

Let me repeat that: Google is run by evil people who should be hunted down and tortured. This is how capitalists learn lessons: through torture. They will not learn the lesson unless you torture them. Torture is the right tool in the toolbox to get the result you desire when it comes to the people who run Google.

Dignity demands torturing these god damn psychopaths to death.
Isn't NY Times paywalled?
what were you doing/where were you working that you were pulling in 250k?
Yes, there was skepticism, but there wasn't much, legally, that skeptics could do to prevent these products from being sold. If you're interested in this stuff, you should check out a book called "The Poisoner's Handbook", written by a journalist named Deborah Blum. It covers the development of forensic toxicology, which eventually lead to a lot of consumer protection laws. There's even a chapter on radium, Radithor, and the women who worked with radium in the watch dial factory.
Is anyone aware of these outside of the HN/SV tech bubble? When I mention them to non-tech people here in Paris I found absolutely no one aware of these daily scandals.
A wifi network would likely involve a physical location with security cameras or some trace/hint on the network, although you make valid points there regarding how that could be inaccurate or useless. The individual hiding their own identity in that case shouldn't be the fault of the operator of the wifi, though.

I agree with you that an IP shouldn't, in every case, be your personal identity and that legal situations should take context into account. Everyone from advertisers to the government uses your IP address as a personal identity for you, though. It unarguably leads investigators to your person, and that's our only real method of dealing with cybercrime. Leading investigators to an incorrect individual seems different than to an obvious wall, such as a VPN, that would require a lot of effort and justification on the investigator's part to break through.

Risk-less society in what way, if you could rephrase?
I don't think putting bullets into a ballistic trajectory without giving thought to what's downrange is particularly better than assaulting an obnoxious drone owner.
It would be more accurate to say rocks are being thrown.
Also see: eBay/fabio, Traefik.io .
You're describing canonicalization, which incorporates elements of the encoding format into the final hash, and therefore does not facilitate retaining the same content hash when transcoding to different formats.

Also, canonicalization is a bit of a mess. There are several incompatible canonicalization schemes for JSON, and even within a single one of those people have a difficult time implementing them correctly. See e.g. https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/issues/362
All money is taxed multiple times. The basic principle behind taxation is that when you receive a profit you pay a tax on it. There are exceptions.

The money I earn is taxed. When I spend my after tax money to buy a car it gets taxed. The car dealership pays tax on the profit generated by my purchase even though I already payed income tax on the money I used to buy the car.

All money is "infinitely" taxed. When I find a million dollars on the street I owe tax on it. Why not when I get the money because someone died?
> Assuming the shooter in this case chose similarly, then falling projectile damage is extremely unlikely.

This varies by locality but in anything you'd ordinarily consider a suburban residential neighborhood, this would still amount to unlawful discharge of a firearm, I would think. If not fired into a backstop those little pellets are going to fall to earth and embed themselves into something.
My daughter starts in the fall and during recent campus tours the advice on the down low from the tour guide has been to get ebooks on-line and Never Buy From The Campus Store.

They also mention Amazon's text book rental (but I haven't done any price comparisons on that).
I have mixed feelings about this. People say that state shouldn't have to pay for your kids, but the state can send your kids to war. If the state sends your kids to war and they get killed who reimburses the parent for $100K they invested in the kid?
Thanks, that makes perfect sense. Just the local car traffic over the last ten years has kind of gone crazy.
But it is taught in class, and the reason it isn't characterised as a "coup" is because the president at the time (Coty) took the decision to call on De Gaulle to take emergency powers (a decision the parliament endorsed). A new constitution was drafted and put to a referendum, before a general election.

The reason it isn't talked about very much outside the communist party is because it isn't nearly as controversial as you suggest.
You're questioning statisticians for assuming a population-replacement breeding rate?
I don't think it's the same as shooting a trespasser, the theory for shooting trespassers is that they may directly pose a threat to your safety. It's hard to argue that a drone poses such a threat unless they're chasing you or have a weapon mounted on them or something.

If the shooter from OP's link used a .22 or anything other than bird shot, then they are a real fool and a danger to everyone around them. Off the top of my head I'm inclined to think that the reach of a shotgun is probably about the right distance that ought to be protected, maybe a little bit further because of cheap optics.
The biggest assumption here is the belief that taking from the rich and giving to the politicians+bureaucrats, i.e. the government, is actually going to help the needy in any meaningful way.

I am too skeptical to trust this assumption. And the current state of democracy in the U.S. does not make me feel too optimistic about the longer term either.
In a nutshell, you're a long way from a sediment source. Most sediments by volume come from erosion of the continents or other landmasses. There's a much higher rate of deposition if you're near a continent (e.g. river deltas).

Additionally, oceanic crust is always very young geologically. It's continually formed and destroyed (subducted). The ocean basins haven't had much time to fill up with sediment, because oceanic crust is essentially a conveyor belt.

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So the short answer is: You're depositing things very slowly on something that doesn't have much time for sediments to build up.

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In a bit more detail, the sediments you get in the middle of the ocean are either the initial volcanic-related sediments that were deposited as the oceanic crust formed, or they're limited to "pelagic rain" (things near the surface dying and very fine particles of clay) and some chemical sediments (things that precipitate directly out of water).

Not only that, but a lot of the things that die and sink will dissolve below about 2 Km water depth (see Carbonate Compensation Depth).

Therefore, deepwater depositional rates are very, very slow.

There's a very important exception, though -- Carbonates. If you start in shallow water (say, due to a small sliver of continental crust), organisms in the photosynthetic zone can produce huge amounts of carbonate sediments just from their shells (e.g. coral reefs).

Under the right conditions, carbonates can keep growing and keep pace with the subsiding crust. A good example of this is the Bahamas. You have several kilometers of sediment made of nothing but what grew there and died. There are some very significant oil fields in these sorts of "isolated platforms".

However, you need fairly unique conditions to get oil in the sort of isolate carbonate platforms that develop far away from land. In most cases you'd find out in the ocean basins, you won't have a source rock capable of generating hydrocarbons beneath the pile of sediments that the carbonates produce. Instead, the source rock is conveniently sitting out there in the deep water where it's not buried deep enough to produce oil.

There's one other exception, and that's when you're near a volcano. Volcanoes will happily produce lots of volcanic-related sediments. However, volcaniclastic sediments almost never make good reservoirs (there are exceptions) or seals, so even if you did generate oil in a narrow band around a seamount, it would either leak out (no seal) or be trapped in something that you can't get it out of (bad reservoir).

And there's the longer answer :)
In this case the only suspect denies shooting and there's no hard evidence pinning him to it. It would be a waste of time to prosecute. It's extremely impressive though that someone was able to hit a small moving drone from a distance with a single bullet fired. Whoever fired the shot is either lucky or an exquisite marksman.
Drones are specifically required to stay under 400ft.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/
https://www.pearson.com/corporate/news/media/news-announceme...
Pearson and Chegg Announce Partnership to Make Textbooks More Affordable for College Students.

imo, Pearson is really evil, I live in Taiwan and still lots of classes in the top universities use Pearson textbooks, and lots of students pay for their solutions on Chegg, which makes it all more absurd.
Donnarumma to Become Future Milan Captain
The stoics said similar things
Yeah, no heartbleed for cars will ever exist! We can just push an update... like mid-trip... I am dumbfounded by the rose colored glasses on this HN regarding self driving.
That's inaccurate or incomplete. Women shared a significant portion of agricultural labor throughout history and on top of that maintained the household and performed auxiliary labor.
We all laugh at this nowadays, but 100 years later, Radium (or rather Radon, a radioactive gas) is still being used nowadays.

I once stumbled on homoeopathic advice to visit a radon cave.
While I don't have the original site or link at hand, googling will lead you to sites like this:

http://www.gastein.com/en/radon-therapy-austria

I have no words for this.
Same for me. At $130k I was paying off debts at $2k/month but otherwise living paycheck to paycheck. At $160k I now finally have a little extra, replaced my old broken car and have a little cash to save. Rent is $1450 for a studio with no kitchen. I am 32 and single but want a home. I grew up in this area and I feel like I'll have to work forever and start saving aggressively to be able to buy a home and have anything for retirement.

Over the next few years I will travel and see what other areas of the country are like.
Umblical cord blood rejuvenates the aging brain
She deserves some compensation for managing to make Yahoo salable, which was mission impossible when she took the job. I'm not in a position to evaluate the actual sum.
I'm not trolling you, i'm asking you what HN has to do with this. You got all huffy at HN for not featuring your post crying about a license and then implied HN is at fault for stealing your work and then "censoring" you. Get off your high horse and try not to act like an emotional child if you want people to take you seriously.
You're right. The point still stands. The difference is further reduced after taxes (you'd be paying over 50% in California taxes on that high of an income). I moved to a very normal and beautiful suburb in the USA close to a big city (Boston, Chi, DC, take your pick)
I look forward to it, a daydream for now but quite envious ( at least in theory!).
I moved out of California 5 years ago and I think I won't consider back moving back at all. I enjoy my 1K/month 2 bedroom-2 bath apartment. 15 mins commute to work and a decent pay to manage my monthly expenses. I dont get paid in 6 figures, but close and I still leave a pretty decent life. I have a friend who works for vmware and gets paid in 6 figures, and still complains about how hard is to manage and do budgeting.

Most of the friends are in bay area in tech industry, tells me that tech scene here is amazing and I miss out on the cool dev meetups. I agree, but I think I got used to my life style now. Good work-life balance is hard to achieve.
From the article:

> "I never crossed his property—I looked back at my flight log—I never once crossed his property."
It's a security measure which protects the unlimited storage feature, among other things.

What if someone wants to use random burner accounts to store gigabytes of child pornography?

That's a lot harder to achieve if they have to buy a burner mobile phone for each account, and each burner phone has the potential to be tracked to the point of sale to use video and other techniques to catch the predator.

Mobile number verification is a very cheap and powerful way to cut out the vast majority of bad actors.
So, what we don't have here is jurisprudence that relates to the trespass and/or shooting of objects. Your other statement is correct that you can't shoot a person merely for trespassing, but I'd say it's (at least slightly) more reasonable to assume that if Johnny 5 from Short Circuit (or a scarier robot) were wheeling up to your front door, that you might be within your existing property rights to shoot it.

Because it's property and not people, the redress would likely not be criminal, but civil. Within Causby's 83 foot criteria, the rationality of that defense doesn't really change, whether aircraft or no. Ergo, you would have a conflict between Causby and US Code. I dare say that because it's a federal rule, it would carry less weight than a local one, as 83+n feet is hardly un-arbitrary.

Long story short though, there's quite a lot of nuance here for which we don't have precedent.
Interesting inadvertent test of how many people are lactose intolerant vs. say they are.
Well context matters. It is much harder for a boss to close down the local factory and fire employees whose kids grew up together than a boss to fire some folks they've known for less than five years and is an outsider too.

I mean it isn't painless, nobody likes to fail and failing in newspapers around the world sucks more, but there are degrees of suckiness in life
I inherited a SolarCity lease after buying our house. It's been a six month nightmare of my account and the previous owner's account mixed together in their system. They keep trying to charge me for the previous owner's other solar system, and I'm unable to pay my bill because the statements are always incorrect and I have no idea what I actually owe them.

This has been going on since last November. SolarCity is horrible.
Only if you want to live in central London. You can still easily get a house on that income in London suburbs. For example you can get a 3-bed in Orpington (20 minutes by train to London Bridge) for around £400k which should be comfortably affordable to someone on 70k.
Nobody will do that if they know you are waiting to force them to share with competitors.

And really, we can get gigabit over coax, so I'm not really sure we do need to spend money upgrading.
If the academic world let scientists publish their validation of the null hypothesis, then they wouldn't go out of their way to "deep dive" into data to look for other hypothesis to prove!
It is my opinion that

1) We continue to need new textbooks: Despite relative little change in core materials for subjects like Calculus, there is a need for adaptation of texts to include current applications and methods.

2) The best use of interactive media to complement and enhance learning is yet to be determined.

3) The worst crime of textbook companies is lack of innovation.
Yahoo did not kill Flickr, Facebook did. Turned out the secret sauce to putting photos on the internet was the social interaction with your friends, not a bunch of photograph amateurs obsessed with lens quality (not that there's anything wrong with that), but that's not what regular folks care about and Facebook really took this aspect of the web by storm.
I am not a minority race, but Utah is becoming quite diverse. My personal opinion is that it is a welcoming place and is a great place for families to raise their children.
>... Demand exists, and supply, too, depending on where you are located and if you accept remote.

As a person actively involved in looking for a remote job I have to ask? What do you mean by 'remote'. I have come to realize there are two meanings employers wont expressly state: 1. developers who live within the US
2.developers who wish to work remotely and live outside the US
Might want to mention that it's especially interesting if you're a mouse.
Why? None of this happened in an urban area.
>It's getting 100 daily new users that's really hard.

I'm part of a local business networking group, and we have members with businesses of all shapes and sizes, from "just launched two months ago" to "I hit 20 employees seven years ago". We were chatting about picking up new followers on social media and I mentioned that you have to celebrate the little successes. One member chimed in "yeah, we got 1000 new follows in Instagram in the last week, which was neat" and I thought to myself "I said little successes". I recently hit 700 total, which was nice.

It does start to have a compounding effect, though. People start giving you word-of-mouth, or take you more seriously when they see how many others are using your product, etc.
I know /s but.. obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/385/
Sidebar / off topic: highly recommend the cuban espresso in Florida if you're into coffee...blew me away when I had it for the first time, and is one of the top reasons I look forward to travelling there.
The premise that the news was truthful before the internet and we need to go back to having gatekeepers is comical
Yes, we've gotten a couple notices from Costco about recalls on frozen vegetables.
What's the tech job market like there? Or are you fully remote like above?
You haven't heard the allegations that Uber approached Levandowski while still at Google to start Otto so Uber could buy them later?
My biggest takeaway from this article is that ICQ is still around.
Once upon a time, the woman stayed at home and didn't need a second car.

Televisions were prohibitively priced as to make one even a stretch.

And, travel was prohibitively priced so that only the ultra-rich could afford planes. When cars hit the scene en masse, it brought rise to car trips.

So, I guess you're saying people aren't living within their means? But they weren't necessarily then either... And boy, I sure miss all of the great stuff from the 50s.
but you're one child or a 1% increase in interest rates away from being in trouble
I prefer not to say exactly, but it was multiple sources of income from different small businesses I've built over the years.
Once they're available (and I see no reason not to continue thinking that door-to-door self-driving is decades out), the ownership question definitely gets interesting. But I don't think it's as obvious as some think in part for the reasons you say.

Furthermore, a lot of people use their cars at the same time of day. It's also the case that a lot of auto depreciation is mileage-based rather than time-based (especially in non-snowy/salty environments).

The questions others raise about the maintenance/update requirements for these sorts of vehicles are interesting ones.

My guess is that, like Zipcar and Uber, they will make a difference at the margins but won't cause a wholesale shift. But who knows? Especially if, as I believe, this happens over a number of decades with demographic shifts happening in parallel.
Yeah.. I mean, space is nice, but in homes of 800 or so square feet I've been pretty happy.

How much carbon is emitted cooling and heating an 8k sq ft home in Utah? How far do you have to drive to do things?
"It would be more accurate to say rocks are being thrown."

No, considering their brazenly illegal and proudly criminal behaviors, they exist in a rock pit of their own digging.

If you build a company by digging a ditch labelled "screw the law", you can't complain when you're neck deep in legal troubles.
Probably around 180 square meters plus 50 square meters garage, driveway and garden?

Edit: duh, it's really 800 sqm.
On adding features:

You have to be flexible with how you classify your product. If you are stuck in "maintenance\small tweaks only" mindset you will constantly find excuses to say "no".

New features will break your model. It is your job to try and figure out if it is worth the cost. I typically use the "common customer" argument. If this would be useful to the "common customer" it gets serious consideration.

On hand holding:

Most people will "get" your product and stop calling you. There will be some who call all the time. You can use these calls to help direct your work eg: "I'm getting 15 calls a week about username\password issues, it is time to rethink the login\password reset process."