skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone who doesn’t check their work email “just one more time” before turning in for the night, please raise your hand.

Totally off-topic, but I see this sort of statement a lot and it's odd to me. It sounds straight out of the early 2000s at the latest. How many people that fall under the workaholic stereotype being portrayed by this kind of article are still deliberately "checking their email" in 2018? Seems to me that anyone who's this attentive to emails pretty much knows the minute they receive one because they get a push notification from either their smartphone or the inbox browser tab they have open.
You'd be better off killing off Shepard in the first minute and having those supporting characters having to deal with it and carry on, than you would be having someone write their version of Shepard and have everyone bitch about how it's not right.
A few did mention net neutrality and sex trafficking, but it was mostly (if not completely) patting themselves on the back for their part in stop government overreach for the former, and protecting the vulnerable / punishing bad actors in the latter. I'm just adding this to fill you in.

The part that I found odd in terms of topics were the questions about:

(1) apparent bias against conservatives from some Facebook-employed moderators because of incorrect or delayed actions taken.

(2) the idea that Obama campaign "did the same thing".

(3) Facebook allowing ads from allegedly illegal pharmacies in the wake of the opioid crisis.

I'd actually go as far as to say that around 20% of the questions that the Senate and the House asked were unrelated to the events surrounding Facebook and their relationship with Cambridge Analytica.
If Tesla was shipping a Level 3 system, your analysis would be great. But they aren't. They're shipping a Level 2 system where you're reminded each time that you enable it that you've got to remain alert. And which dings at you if you don't keep your hands on the steering wheel.
FYI, that link requires a login. Is it supposed to be public?
Right now it kind of reminds me of BeOS, which could do absolutely incredible concurrent realtime low latency media processing but was absolute torture to get a proper Web Browser working.

The problem with legacy support is that it drags in the braindamage you were trying to avoid by rewriting the OS in the first place. But without legacy support it's almost impossible to grow beyond the toy OS stage. It's the whole "So, what do I do with it?" factor.
I agree, and I have always found "programming" to be about 10% actually pressing keys on a keyboard and about 90% thinking about what I'm going to press long before I'm even near a keyboard.
I use voice input
I really don't get this coming up with a new OS's thing every now and then.

As I see it, is all about driver support; just because is the bigger effort. That is why vendors (and the community) focus in only one or two options (Windows/Linux).

Anybody can come up with new fancy OSs, as a matter of fact many people does. Problem is, there is no incentive for vendors to produce specific drivers for those, and the communities are just to small to cope with the huge amount of hardware support to make them useful.

I just don't see the point of coming up with new OSs as long as Windows/Linux just work as intended.
Exactly. I used Cruise control for the longest time. However having used Autonomous features on Tesla and Mercedes, I can't use Cruise Control anymore. It's just too risky.

Tesla Autonomous features have the brains of a 2 year old and consistency of a machine. Which is why there is some value to it.
It's ironic that he condescends towards hunt-and-peck typing, while simultaneously, the wiki he links to makes it clear that hunt-and-peck typists are just as proficient as touch-typists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing#Hunt_and_peck

One study examining 30 subjects, of varying different styles and expertise, has found minimal difference in typing speed between touch typists and self-taught hybrid typists.[3] According to the study, "The number of fingers does not determine typing speed... People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists... instead of the number of fingers, there are other factors that predict typing speed... fast typists... keep their hands fixed on one position, instead of moving them over the keyboard, and more consistently use the same finger to type a certain letter." To quote doctoral candidate Anna Feit: "We were surprised to observe that people who took a typing course, performed at similar average speed and accuracy, as those that taught typing to themselves and only used 6 fingers on average"

I personally dislocated my wrist during the same time that I was supposed to learn touch-typing in school. Hence, I never got around to learning it. However, as someone who spent a lot of time in online discussions, I developed my own typing style that was just as efficient. I only use ~4 fingers, and they move all over the place. But my mind has also memorized the keyboard layout perfectly, and I can type all this without ever looking down at the keyboard. According to most online typing tests, I can achieve ~70 WPM this way, which puts me in the same category as a "professional typist". From my casual observation of others, I also seem to make much fewer typing errors as compared to other touch typists, and have never suffered from carpel tunnel or other symptoms, since my hands movements are a lot more dynamic.

Would it be great if I could type at 85 WPM instead of 70? Sure. But I honestly don't think my mind can even work at those speeds, so I'm not sure what benefits I would be getting out of this. Besides, I'd rather spend all that time doing something I enjoy and am passionate about, instead of training myself to crank up my typing speed further.
Here's their blog post that provides some context around these documents: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-10/
Kind of off topic, but it's not the speed it takes to move between rooms that is the issue, it's the fact they are different rooms. It appears the brain ties thoughts to context and when the context changes we have a weaker tie to the thought: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
Well, it is a model.

I think it's helpful in seeing where people are coming from on different issues. And note, it's not like all three axis are "valid" or "right" or have equal weight for every given issue.

For example, I think most people today (regardless of party or political affiliation) would tend to view the issue of segregation and Jim Crow laws in terms of the oppressed vs oppressor axis, which makes sense.
The problem with Electron apps is that they can be done well, or they can be done poorly. And if they're done poorly, wow, may as well add cryptominer code for the drain on battery you're going to cause.

That isn't to say Electron is bad, quite the contrary, but it isn't a silver bullet either.

To your "do you think..." question, I think it is an aspect in their success. Gone are the days where someone could say "this site requires IE 6/IE 7/Firefox/Chrome/etc." and be successful. Going onto Facebook, I don't think the site looks great, but it functionally works in any browser I've come across in an expected manner. But if they'd require a native electron or otherwise app? Wouldn't use it (don't have Facebook or Messenger installed on my phone or tablet, I only check messages where allowed which is desktop and tablet web sites, everything else I use it for works fine in mobile/tablet/desktop).
Volvo's messaging is less reckless than Tesla's. They call their similar feature "Pilot assist." It's also always been stricter about trying to make sure the driver is engaged when it's enabled. As a Volvo owner, I'll admit I find it annoying at times, but I think it's also helped drill into me that I shouldn't trust Pilot Asssist not to drive me into a barrier. It's amazing at keeping me in my lane when I'm fiddling with my podcast feed though.
Sounds like the real deal: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/capabilities-os-security-goog... (I think this article made a small error in that an open-source KeyKOS release exists now, I think only for obsolete hardware.)

OTOH the OP's table of contents gives me the impression that Fuchsia is more complex than the older capability OSes (KeyKOS family, seL4).
Technically, you don't. Push comes to shove, employee would have to prove discrimination, which is near impossible. But if the company has a decent amount of assets, some enterprising lawyer can decide to be a thorn and say well the company might settle to make legal costs go away. Which is where personal improvement plans come in, so that if you are threatened with a discrimination lawsuit, the accuser knows they're not going to get anywhere so they won't waste your time.
Agreed. I kind of reluctantly started to watch the movie some night, expecting a glorified first person POV parkour video.

I absolutely loved the concept of the "Jimmy" character, it made the entire movie super satisfying. The topic of surrogate bodies, whether virtual, robotic, or in this case biologic, is very interesting to me.
You never want to actually lend your car to randoms -- as anyone who has ever driven a loaner car (fleet), these cars are ruined. People drive like maniacs -- its not their car!

This is a sure way to get your car messed up.
I see a lot of negative comments about this project here. Let me just say that: it doesn't need to be a POSIX compliant system, doesn't need to be user friendly or even provide something different from what can already be done with Linux or other OS's that we have today.

Google spends a lot of money on research. One thing about research is that a lot of stuff you do ends up completely useless in the short term even if you cover all your bases initially. Even if this project fails, I hope something good can be learned from why it failed; maybe someone in the future can learn from those mistakes and try again.

I'm certainly no fan of Google nor of the way they make money. But I am very happy they use that money for stuff like this.
Exercise modulates my appetite such that I eat much healthier. I know it's anecdotal, but this effect is patently obviously to me.
Nobody has ever asked me to routinely check my work email outside work hours, nor to subscribe to work email on my personal phone, nor to stay logged in to slack outside work hours, nor any of the other always-on practices which have supposedly become universal. I don't take my work laptop home unless I plan to work from home; on the rare occasions I've had a work phone, I've left it on my desk when I go home. I keep imagining that someday somebody is going to take issue with this, and then we'll get to have an interesting conversation about expectations - but nobody in management, anywhere I've worked, has ever talked about such practices as though they are expected, given me any hassle for being unavailable outside work hours, nor - so far as I can tell - noticed at all that I have continued to divide my life into work time and not-work time.

I've been reading articles for years now where people talk about these sorts of expectations as though they have become universal, and yet I can't find any evidence that they actually exist in my own experience. It's confusing. Why do people believe this? Is this just not a tech industry thing, or perhaps is this just not a Seattle thing? Or is this something that has sort of collectively emerged in people's awareness without actually being real, and people just go along with it because they think everyone else is doing it, and they don't want to be the odd one out?
Unrelated but thanks for making this! The code is clean and easy to follow.

- a student trying to get a better grasp on neural networks
> More charitably, though, part of the goal of reading textbooks is to develop textual parsing (reading) skills, so again if you take that away from a dyslexic student, what are you really trying to accomplish as an educator? Making them feel good?

No. You make the pass every mandatory exam. Many of the pupils who struggle most at school makes excellent carpenters, fishermen, chefs etc. Source: my father is a specialist teacher and tells me he get really good feedback on some of those who have struggled to even pass mandatory subjects.

And if reading barely passes and they get a medium good grade in some other subjects because they learnt better from audio books that is so much better than barely passing in all those subjects, right?

Not everyone is cut to be an engineer. Not everyone even wants which is why I argue that in addition to teaching more STEM, earlier we should also work to increase the status of other professions.
I worked at a company which was like this. All emails were delayed until the hour to make sure you only got one interruption per hour. You could mark the email as “high importance” to get it through immediately, as were emails from external addresses.
Compare that with the message displayed each time the driver turns on Autopilot. Is there any evidence that Tesla drivers are more influenced by marketing or by the message that they see every day?
Mind the digression, but it's a Fiddlehead, and they're delicious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern
Windows as a desktop operating system ships everything you need to write GUI apps with a plain C API, which allows to build fairly small tools. I'd guess this probably just uses good ol' fashioned GDI.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean its not a good idea.
This headline is clickbait. Everyone knows that the first good feature film licensed from a video game was Resident Evil (2002).
There's no need to get personal about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As far as I can tell, Zipcar was intentionally sabotaged after it was acquired by Avis Budget. Over the past few years the prices went up, the cars are dirty, often damaged, and the customer service got worse.

I may be an exception in that I can walk to several rental agencies from my apartment, but renting from an agency usually gets me a nicer car for 24 hours for the same price that I would get a zipcar for 3 hours. If I need a car for less than three hours usually it's cheaper with uber/lyft.

Edit: although they're still the most convenient for picking up furniture, as they have vans.
I got excited and googled the email clients you mentioned...and then learned they are Mac/iPhone/iPad only.

And that's why I'm on Gmail.
If you live in SF, its much more more convinient to hop to a zipcar/getaround car block away from your house for a day trip to Napa, than first go the airport/downtown, where it takes additional 30-60mins to do the whole travel+process+traffic. Plus you have to do it on the way back and fill the tank (zipcar gas and tolls are free). Also the SF rental shops usually close after 6/8pm so you cannot drop the car off after that.
Google owns it.
For one, if you limit your definition of freedom to "freedom to do things" and disregard "freedom from things", you end up being pro-organized-power, which is essentially pro-business.
I’ve always liked your historical perspectives (often times controversial). I’m not really into regulations at all, but it’s not the advertising that is such an issue, it’s the surveillance required to accomplish ‘targeted advertising’ that’s more of the issue these days. Infomercials on broadcast TV are one thing, but actual tracking of your viewership is entirely different (connected to your home address/credit score/demographic specifics).

>...you're the product”

I know pithy sayings are popular right now, but HN should probably stay away from that sort of demagoguery. November 29, 2010 is the first time I can find that phrase being used on HN (in a Lifehacker post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952292
Promoting the system with the name 'Autopilot' is, to my mind, quite a bit less than extremely clear communication.

Is it, though? Autopilot has never in the history of those systems meant hands off controls, attention off driving. Pilots with their autopilots on in airplanes are still flying and watching gauges.
I wonder what the "quality" of after work email is vs. work hours email... or communication that happens as an alternative to email such as talking to people.

I often noticed that email I receive after hours gets noticeably more vague, sometimes unexpectedly demanding, less thought out, and at times lazy after hours. Like people are putting in the effort to send, but not think about it completely.

Often I'd call someone the next morning and whatever they emailed me was out the window by that time and we'd be on to something else.
What is the point of Autopilot? It's not self-driving. You're not supposed to let go of the steering wheel and you have to be completely alert to take over if there are problems. Isn't it easier to just not use it in the first place?
A libertarian view:

I see jobs very simply as offer and demand.

In tech for example, there is such a huge demand for engineers that you are can get away with a lot of things. For example a lot of my friends work at big tech companies and consciously decide to work 9 to 5 and never do any work (email or other) outside those hours.

Some will decide to do it and as dictated by the law of offer and demand, they will be rewarded slightly more than the ones that don't.

I see nothing wrong with that, and it is a prioritization choice and tradeoff that everyone needs to do.

Now, on the other side, there will be jobs that have very little demand and a lot of offers, which will make people compete for the lowest wage and the highest availability. There must be some sort of regulation here, but I don't think that a blanket regulation against emails outside of working hours is a good idea.
> If you want a law with teeth, prohibit employers from emailing workers outside of work hours.

I actually think it's better as-is. How would, for example, automated systems handle this? You'd have to reprogram everything to hold back e-mails until 9am or whatever when e-mail is already asynchronous. Something arriving in the middle of the night isn't a problem.

A middle ground solution: block client access to mail servers outside of office hours/outside of internal networks.
I think this classic Renault will do a little over 30mph.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/renault/r...
I was 16 when I discovered this (except instead of DTMF it was a special two-tone dispatch alert), but I somehow had enough discipline to not attempt a replay attack. My (now ex) girlfriend's sister was a dispatcher who I mentioned it to, and about three months later they changed the system.

In my college town, there was a tornado siren placed very close to the biggest multistory residence hall. I learned (through the ham radio club) that it had a long history of mischief before my time.
Check out https://type-fu.com for a programmer-oriented typing tutor. It has a built-in keyboard layout editor with presets for Colemak and Dvorak (and many others). You can also paste your own code snippets for practice.
Your reasoning and conclusion are exactly correct.

The only reason for this “I agree” comment is to underscore one last time there is absolutely no reason it has to specifically be .av1, and in fact several reasons it should be something else.

Whoever is involved please just walk right into the execs office and make the case to bring it up at the next meeting, it’s not too late.
Any car in motion has the potential to be 'self-crashing' if the driver does not pay attention. All straight roads end eventually.
Another thread where we can talk about unionizing tech workers but nothing will get done about it.

I mean, myself included. I wouldn't know where to even start with attempting to form some kind of country wide or global union effort.
Anctedotally I’ve seen a few friends take roles where they have essentially absorbed shift work. They are supporting multiple time zones and don’t really have a defined work schedule they are sort of always working. It appeared to take a tole on them based on thier physical appearance.
Some of my problems with correctness research
It seems great in theory but is absolutely impossible in practice.

If someone in SF sends an email at 4pm to a coworker in NY and it arrives at 7pm local, would that be a violation?

What about our India office emailing me during their normal work hours, but it's 9pm local?

Ok, overseas sites are exempt. What happens when my boss is visiting there (monthly occurrence) and sends me an email during local work hours? He's a US worker sending email out side of "standard business hours".

Automatic system emails? We have tons of reminders that get sent off overnight due to automated maintenance tasks. Do we have to spool those up until morning?

Many of our production sites run 3 shifts. What happens when a plant manager emails me from the start of his shift at midnight?

As soon as you start carving out all sorts of exemptions for these totally standard edge cases (and many more I could come up with if I spent more than 2 minutes on it), the whole law is pointless.
I get that the vision system might have been fooled by how the lane widens before the split.

What I don't get is why the radar doesn't pick up the barrier itself. It should have been getting a nice, healthy return signal from it, lots of metal at all kinds of angles. What I'm saying is, this is not a stealthy barrier.
You're right. It has been so long since I've seen a Mortal Kombat game that I forgot which character was which.
They initially said that out of respect for the family, they would not make further statements until the investigation has completed. This is the second time they have broken that promise.
So, what to use for asynchronous messages if I’m finishing up something and want my colleague (up or down) to see when they start work in the morning?
I like that they have a head of documentation. Good documentation is so important for open source projects, but most projects don’t have it.
Investors are warned that there are all sorts of ways that Theranos could be run as a zombie company, for the benefit of insiders, once no further investment appears. New investment would add to that zombie concern, not fund a going concern. The company has had enormous funds at its disposal to invent a blood analyzer using very small blood samples, and has failed. This technical failure is primary; Holmes et al’s misdeeds and Rasputinizations form a superimposed soap opera for authorities to sort through. What’s next is the auction.
Cruise control DOES cause deaths:
http://www.indianainjury.com/trucking-accident-verdict-leads...

...but it's not Tesla, so a single death isn't plastered over every news site and discussed ad nauseum by tech sites.

EDIT: More cruise control deaths:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/24/skoda-drive...
https://www.levylaw.com/cruise-control-accidents-defective-p...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5645195/m1-motorway-crash-lorr...
One use case where I default to Zipcar is picking up furniture / big items. Also, I like hiking in Muir Woods but there is no cellphone signal there. You can book a trip to, but not a trip from. Another one is when I want some privacy.
An airplane under autopilot is not a second or two away from a fatal crash.
yes but people pick up typing skills "on the way". I suppose you could refine those skills, but then it is like anything in like. Diminishing returns. So this is actually counter efficient.
This is a terrible piece of legislation. Supposedly emergencies are exempt, but what if you have a remote team and need someone to check in once or twice during the evening? There are a lot of situations in multi-office / distributed teams where a response from one-time zone is the only bottleneck for moving forward.

The penalties are harsh and arbitrary: A fixed $250 fee paid to the employee plus a $1,000 civil fine for each violation.

Government workers are notably excluded from the bill. City Councilman Rafael Espinal Jr. got the idea for his bill from France, which isn't exactly a great model for a city that wants to attract business.