skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are the 2nd greatest engineering blunder only second to nuclear weapons. Cars are inherently dangerous. Every time you drive you risk killing someone or yourself. We must work to eliminate cars from the world, at the very least cars driven by humans. I am completely serious. There are the pollution issues too.
LiveEdu ICO is a SCAM
Do you guys know Liveedu ICO is scam ? Just ask previous investors, they are crying. They just take money and never get back to investors.
Do you ever change the radio while driving? It's about the same level of involvement. I haven't found it to be a huge issue in the ~2 years I've been using it.
That's correct. In the US, in part due to poor public transportation, people often drive when they basically should not. That includes everything from really bad weather, to while intoxicated. Just alcohol-impaired driving crashes alone account for 1/3 of all US traffic deaths each year.
Not a nitpick, just as a point of interest: The man Raymond Babbitt was based off of in Rain Man wasn't autistic: His name was Kim Peek, and he had FG syndrome, which causes a constellation of physical effects including agenesis of the corpus callosum. He was, in fact, quite an amazing man, and a savant, with an amazing memory and a gift for speed-reading out of each eye separately, one for each page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_syndrome

Anyway, very good article.
The original Microsoft KB article was headlined at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076660 .
Northrop was in charge of the payload adapter mounting the satellite so as long as hand over took place I don't see how Space X has an issue other than being tied in search results to the loss
But again, the civil liability will be on companies, who are even further removed from the direct, visceral experience of killing a person. Like you, I'm sure that there was an insurance company paying out some money for funeral costs in the original accident. To the insurers, it will be business as usual, they have been doing this for many years.

My guess is, the pressure for advances in road safety over the years have mainly come from activists, people, individuals who have seen and felt the horror of road deaths. The pressure to improve cars is much less from companies facing rising insurance costs due to liability fines. Indeed, the scandals that we routinely hear about are from car manufacturers avoiding recalls because it is far cheaper to just pay out liability claims when they happen, knowing that they will often not face them.

With the removal of drivers from road killings, there will be fewer people feeling the results of road casualties. I don't mean in any way to ignore the families of those killed on the road, of course their anguish and suffering will always be there and will be brutal. But the fact remains, there will be fewer people witnessing and feeling the effects of road deaths. And so it follows that there could well be less pressure to improve road safety.
> I wasn't attacking the author, just adding some rare facts to the conversation for people that could be unaware of it and wonder wth the author was meaning.

I wasn't responding to your original comment, which I thought added value.

I was responding to "It doesn't matter."

You're dismissing someone else's perception of the context in which the statement was made.

Sure, humor might not matter to you.

To some HN users, it might even matter less than factual correctness to a granular level. But to say it doesn't matter, full stop? That's just rude.

> Now your comment, what exactly does it add to the conversation?

It circles back from your dickish dismissal with an excerpt from the webpage for the sake of humor.

Try lightening up. Or, at the very least, maybe try to not be a dismissive jerk to other people. It costs very little to be kind.

EDIT: If you want to respond, click the "x minutes ago" to access a comment directly and you'll get the reply box. i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=16107228
I got started programming doing similar things; hacking copy-protection code on games on my 48k spectrum, so that I could go on to patch the games for infinite lives:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

Later I started doing similar things on shareware and trial-locked applications for the PC, via sites such as +fravia's reverse-engineering site.

These days people put out "crackmes" which are fun challenges if you want to test your reverse-engineering skills, and while I always pay for software these days, when I need it, there's still a lot of fun to be had patching binaries to allow your preferred serial number to be accepted!
Sorry, that was a typo on my part, I meant Windows / Mac users can get binaries -- Linux users can compile...
Are you suggesting they may be planning to leave the AMP bar at the top of the page? Even though they just went through a "multi-month long effort" with the explicit goal of removing that UI in favor of using the real URL bar?
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I count the calories of every meal I eat and every drink as well ruthlessly so unless something goes wrong with physics I'd be hard pressed to put on weight, I actually have the opposite problem, I have to slightly over eat to keep weight on.
All questions in the survey were optional. He had 2965 respondents for that question, out of 8077 total respondents, so that's a plausible source of bias.
Could be useful in catching copy/paste phishing attacks.

Perhaps relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
I think there's an important distinction between being power hungry and recognizing the need for active participation in society, taking responsibility for how our work is deployed, and using democratic technology as a counterweight against the influence of despots and corporate oligopolies. The world needs more power hungry people like I need a hole in my head.
Ask HN: Which media do you use to disconnect while staying informed (slow news)?
Hi there,

I am getting really really tired of checking my news apps or emails every few hours. It is pointless.

I want to find a way to disconnect while staying informed of the most important news. I heard about the slow news movement but cannot really find something that fits my needs.

Do you know any media that help you stay informed in a more sustainable way? My ideal would be a short (readable in 1 hour or so) weekly newspaper (physical if possible) that would present facts and (various) opinions about the 3 to 5 most important news of the week. If it is not focused on 1 country it is even better. Does this even exist?

Thanks a ton in advance!
So, what are the chances we have more than N nukes in orbit, where N > 0? I've always wondered.

The time between launch and strike would be greatly reduced. Space is pretty close to land.

But beyond conspiracy theories, do we know of any confirmed secret satellites? They should be detectable, but on the other hand there are so many satellites that it'd be hard to index them all.

What could you do with a secret satellite? It seems like the signals would be detectable, but I'm not sure.
Certainly not whiny little babies like you.
They updated the update date (see also: autometalogolex).
It also doesn't add value in the first place. If you're a citizen in the USA for example, you probably have a credit card that you can use to instantly make payments either in person or online. If someone hacks your CC info, they don't get to immediately drain your bank account, and in fact usually you lose nothing after contesting it. The fees are generally avoidable, depending on the card.

The only significant benefit that cryptos offer is a scheme that allows you to make payments without handing over your credit card number in case you're not sure some sketchy site is legit. So really, the big appeal of crypto was being the new Paypal. Personally, I would like an open source or federated replacement for Paypal that makes it easy to pay everywhere online without entering a CC, but I would rather not try and create and buy into a new currency in the process of doing so.

Maybe something like GNU Taler can fix the credit card problem, but I'm not holding my breath on bitcoin.
We already find/track orbital debris in LEO, so I'd imagine finding a satellite should be doable by interested parties, unless there's some new tech on there that makes detection significantly harder.
This is a great, informative write-up, thanks a lot.

One question: what can software people do to contribute to biopharma?
A huge percentage? I reckon the vast majority of individual people alive today are pretty peaceful.

God's primary purpose is as a tool for the religious ruling elite to exert control over the followers. Do Man's desires align with God's will, or does God's will conveniently align with Man's desires? Seems we always have only Man's word on the matter.
WPA3: Latest WiFi Security Standards Announced by WiFi Alliance
The quantum physicist who believed that “God plays dice” – OpenMind
A "noble" anything is the future of human government.

I'm not betting on it happening during my lifetime.

For now I'd prefer us to have better systems for using human flaws for good government (greed, fear, narcissism & pride, etc.).
I think (well, hope) that internet content creators will start to figure out different monetization strategies. Do online ads even show any kind of ROI? I suppose they must, but I'm curious what kind of numbers they actually get.

It seems a lot of the tracking that is happening is in an effort for ad network companies to show their value. I'm hoping that eventually advertisers will realize that it isn't really worth their money to continue throwing money into the black hole that is internet ads.
Jio phones appear to run a mobile OS that is not supported by whatsapp. Effectively they are using his server to host the whatsapp instance and then only deal with the very front end of the whatsapp code natively.
This is a cool site!
It's a dreadful abuse of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but you should watch it anyway. Agreed.
Agloe, New York: a fictional town that became real
Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Product Named “Portal”
Sam Walton used to be the richest person ever until he died and his wealth was split up amongst his children. He had $100B in 1992. (https://www.investopedia.com/university/sam-walton-biography...)
Considering WalMart stock is up 5x since then, and not even accounting for inflation or dividends that would make him worth $500B today.

It makes sense that retail would lead to “richest person we’re aware of.”
Not all bodybuilders juice, and even when they do, there's a wide variety of ways to increase your gains without straight up shooting testosterone.
> That's how I know that a relatively few people can keep it all afloat.

No, clicking on those ads doesn't cost anything for those few people. Now they'd actually have to pay for the content, and subsidize everyone else, which wouldn't happen, they'd just move to a paywalled model.

Ads generate cross-subsidization, subscriptions generate pay-walling.
Can you detail your Mac setup a bit? I've tried out these fonts, but end up struggling to get the right size, and disabling antialiasing makes things look pretty ugly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7oxi53/developer_... contains a response from the current Dogecoin devs, or at least one of them:

> I feel some are using our rise to illustrate the absurdity of cryptocurrency pricing (http://uk.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-has-ma... for example). To me, in an environment where a cryptoasset with $30 USD equivalent transaction fees has a market cap of over a quarter of trillion dollars, I don't think we're the absurd one. Yes we take ourselves less seriously, but that doesn't mean we're not serious behind the scenes. We're a 4 year old currency with transaction fees barely over a cent and significantly higher throughput than most other cryptocurrencies.

(Disclaimer: I know him personally.)
What a $4,000 Treadmill Means for the Future of Gadgets
I highly recommend SEVENEVES. It's like NS doing "The Martian" but weirder.
I have no idea who wrote that in Wikipedia. My source was a Theology PhD about 35 years ago. Before maccabees there was no believe in afterlife, that came from Egypt and eastern cultures. Even in Jesus times, Sadducees didn't believe in afterlife.
Introducing $DEBT Coin
What is the advantage of stealth on an observational satellite?

Are the Russians really moving equipment out of sight every [orbital period here]? Or locating equipment out of the observational path?

Elsewhere in the comments, there is speculation of trying to hide an orbital refueling capability. This also seems like an obvious capability to already have, given the automated docking procedures used on the ISS for many years now.
Two items for me.

first, how do they deal with the steering wheel air bag? Which way does the screen flip if it does at all? What are EU requirements for air bags?

second, i have seen this before where a company implies that Tesla or anyone else needs to open up their stations. I am still waiting for the first city, state, or country, to declare such and just force the issue. That we cannot seem to get everyone on board for the same plug this will have to be resolved within the next few years one way or another.
> Think of how much attention and focus people would regain for themselves.

Which is worth $0 (or close to it) for them.

People are willing to trade their attention for free services and content.
Yet apparently half the US population is magnesium deficient: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22364157
Hackernews clone for crypto
>"It's now my default k8s dev environment, ..."

Could I ask you what are you developing that you need a whole local K8 dev environment? What I mean is as opposed to just using docker compose or docker container themselves. Are you specifically developing K8 features? Thanks.
I mean there's some degree of survivorship bias. I've had no problems with coinbase on my personal account, but had a serious snafu with a corporate (non profit) account I had on there - for reasons that had more to do with the irs than coinbase I suspect.
How does this relate to Samsung Pay? If a retailer takes Google Pay do they automatically take SamsungPay with Samsung phones? Or vice versa?
The X-37B has been known to vanish from being tracked from time to time. We've got some clever stuff.
> as XML had much more well-defined implementation requirements, this among other things meant that web pages that weren't well-formed XML would have to break by definition and browsers were only allowed to show a yellow page of death with the syntax error.

Indeed, part of the problem with switching to XHTML is that, even today, much HTML is authored by hand. On top of that web pages are often a mix of content from various sources. Third party widgets (like Twitter or ads) might be injected into the page. Or user content, which has often been converted by a hodgepodge of complex regexes into something vaguely resembling HTML.
Same for me. I read stuff like this and always picture it happening to my kids. It somehow makes it worse in this instance that it's a complete accident that no one could have done anything to prevent it. I'm much more sensitive and squeamish since having kids.
Ads are still there. They'll simply not be targeted now, like the punch the monkey ads of old. On balance, users would probably prefer ads to be relevant, for products and services they actually might want.
On the contrary I think it's ideal. It can adopt any paradigm you like to learn; imperative, OO, functional...

Just open the console and start typing. Results are immediate. No need for linking libraries or setting-up a virtualenv or whatever.
Goldhat – The essence of accounting: double-entry designed for simplicity
‘Least Desirable’? How Racial Discrimination Plays Out in Online Dating
It's nice that "Autistic Prodigies" are gaining more attention, and that some of that attention is starting to focus more on the problems these kids face instead of just their abilities.

My significant other works in a classroom of kids who are on the spectrum. One of her boys, 6 years old I believe, has the entire transit map (all routes, stop numbers, and stop times) memorized for one of the largest cities in the world. When you meet him he asks what bus or train you take, and then he recites back to you every single stop number on the route and the next 10 arrival times at each stop. It's awe inspiring.

But that's on a good day for him. On a bad day he just sits and pretends he is a transit driver, going through the routes in his mind, for 10 or 12 hours at a time. Any type of interruption results in loss of control and mayhem.

There is a huge amount of work to do in this area still. Most of these kids with incredible abilities are not receiving the help and support they need in order to ever be in a position where they can join society and use them for good.
Except now everybody is looking for it...
So let's say I want to access a huge database; it's too large to fit in memory. Then why wouldn't SQL be an appropriate way to navigate through it?
Changing the number on a sign doesn't work, but enforcement, designing roads for appropriate speeds, and providing separated infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists does.
No kidding. I've been trying to recover my account for almost a month now. They're not answering the support thread anymore, nor on twitter.
Yes, it is down for us as well.

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I think it depends on the person, a friend of mine would act out WWE type stunts: jumping on a trampoline full of tacks, getting hit with a chair in the head and bleeding all over... He says the pain tolerance has stayed with him through the years.
Meltdown: What’s the performance impact and how to minimise it?
If true, this sounds like the best possible outcome: SpaceX succeeded and will continue getting closer to Mars, and the NSA or whoever essentially burned money without getting any more powerful.
Nobody should have to tread lightly about criticizing YC companies on HN, the mods specifically note taking a light touch on threads like this to avoid the perception of censorship and bias.
Thanks for the clarification. Based on your previous talks, I assumed you're leaning towards thinking that (almost) all of our current problems are primarily social, and no technology is of help here.

If I may pick your mind a little bit more - what do you think of the approach of a hypothetical person, who decides that politics is too hard and, with good intentions, thinks unilaterally unleashing new technology on the world is a more efficient way to fix things?

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Also, I've been browsing through your other recently published talks, and there was this paragraph in one of them[0] that caught my attention:

> This is an inversion in political life that we haven’t seen before. Conversations between people that used to be private, or semi-private, now take place on public forums where they are archived forever. Meanwhile, the kind of political messaging that used to take place in public view is now visible only to an audience of one.

I'm quoting it here because I found it to be a really insightful observation, that never occurred to me before. The hyper-targeting of political messages is indeed eroding our ability to discuss those issues together, as everyone is starting from a different point of view created by political arguments. Our present times kind of remind me yet another quote from the Bible:

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (2 Timothy 4:3)

--

One more question: in your talks, you propose a lot of actions that, IMO, share the same fundamental problem - they require coordination, which is something tremendously hard to achieve at scale, especially when the individual incentives pull us all apart. Do you have any ideas on a) alternative strategies that require less coordination, b) ways to reduce the need for coordinating to employ your proposals, or c) ways to boost the ability of 'people of good will' to coordinate?

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[0] - http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm
> Then how do you explain the existence of e.g. Idris or Dotty?

Have fun convincing people to port their existing Haskell and Scala programs to Idris and Dotty, respectively. In particular, Idris is not even remotely similar to Haskell beyond the syntax - it even uses a different evaluation strategy!

> They don't feel like a workaround. They feel like a nice way of modelling my problems that has the properties that I want.

The trouble with Haskell and Scala-like higher-kinded type constructors is that they are merely parameterized by other type constructors, rather than by entire structures. (It is as if, in mathematics, all functors were functors from Set!) Haskell and Scala attempt to remedy this situation using type classes, i.e., identifying every type constructor `T` with a canonical structure whose carrier is `T`. But, what if you need to use two different algebraic structures, both having `T` as their carrier? For example, say you need to use maps whose keys are lexicographically ordered strings, as well as maps whose keys are colexicographically ordered strings. Do you create a `newtype` wrapper as in Haskell? Or do you use different implicits in different contexts, and risk conflating maps created in one context with maps created in the other?

This problem doesn't exist in ML, because functors allow you to parameterize entire structures by other entire structures, not just their carriers.

> Maybe there are other ways, but if those other ways work then why aren't we seeing them in industry?

What do I know. Ask the industry, not me.

> I use a combination of trusting the compiler's typechecking,

Trust is neither here nor there. Without concrete type safety theorems (“such and such doesn't happen in a typable program”), you don't even know what type checking is supposed to buy you.

> sticking to the scalazzi safe subset and enforcing with linters etc., manual review of recursion (limiting the cases where it occurs as far as possible) and fast and loose reasoning.

That's a perfectly fine set of software development practices, but it's not verification.

> I don't have a proof of soundness, but plenty of verification systems don't have that.

Then all you have is a fancy linter.

> More to the point, there's nothing fundamental about Scala that makes it impossible to incorporate linear algebra without array bounds checks at runtime into the language.

Um, the inability to statically verify array index manipulation using Scala's type system?

> "Without array bounds checks at runtime" is not a real requirement.

Not paying the runtime cost of superfluous runtime checks is absolutely a real requirement in my current job.

> More to the point, there's nothing fundamental about Scala that makes it impossible to incorporate linear algebra without array bounds checks at runtime into the language.

It can't be implemented as an ordinary library in the existing Scala language without relying on unsafe features (e.g., a C FFI). Doing this safely requiers bona fide dependent types - in spite of their name, so-called “path-dependent types” are just fancy first-class existentials.