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No, automated driving won't be doing that. It will never make your car safer than human drivers. You think every human driver is out there playing Candy Crush?

And there are several car models that have ZERO fatalities. How is Tesla supposed to exceed that safety standard?

Right now Tesla is being criminal in comparing their safety rates to the average vehicle. That includes comparisons to motorcycles, which have death rates that are 50x-100x more than luxury passenger cars.

If Tesla is comparing death rates of their luxury vehicles to motorcycles, they have already failed.

And you know whats safer than cars? NOT cars. As in, mass transit.
Probably more like Victorian era.
As a reference, USA's total debt to GDP is 852%: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Un...
Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
You don't have to estimate it. They put the actual number in their earnings report.
Virtually no Chinese people have credit cards. Everything is prepaid apart from business loans, cars and house loans.
I understand your frustration but its coming from flawed argument. According to cancer.org, there is 50% chance you survive brain tumor surgery. From that account half the surgena should stop working.

Imagine the twitter traffic and how much code they are dealing with. This kind of mistake can happen and will happen. Someone was surely held accountable which they do not need to disclose.
This is a good thing if you want a truly open source phone.

Smartphones have become a commodity. Yet the solidarity among fabricators against a { us: hardware, you: software } business model has been remarkable.

Margins have been razor thin for awhile, the business is incredibly cutthroat. Though it might come from Taiwan, I hope this is the straw that breaks the camels back.

BTW I'm talking on the low end here. It's already being done on the high end by Fairphone, and a few others.
There are multiple websites and communities. The /r/cs50 [0] is popular. Also, there is cs50.tv [1]. Tons of information and where or how to work through the course. Many options.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/cs50

[1] https://cs50.tv
> eBay pushing the prices of trash up
On the other hand, for those who didn't live near ubiquitous junk availability, eBay kinda did the opposite.
"Surplus resellers" tend to grossly inflate the price of all this junk, so it sits on their shelves indefinitely. Meanwhile, eBay became the yard-sale of old, offering a lot of it for far more reasonable prices (so long as the seller wasn't pretending to be a "real business").
> Credentials don’t mean we should take someone seriously.

This is a level of cognitive dissonance I’m not prepared to commit to arguing against. I’m not capable of issuing the bar to every lawyer I require the services of, nor the board to every presumed doctor, nor a thesis defense to every academic.

Credentials aren’t perfect, but they are superior to the time required for everyone to judge everything on their own. For example, almost all scientists agree that climate change is human caused. Do I spend my time digging through climate data, verifying this? No. I rely on the expertise of experts.
> Ansible,... Python (with accent on Python so maybe Salt Stack)

I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to use ansible and salt stack (both automation tolls written in python).

They strike me more as alternatives than being complimentary.
There is a difference between the actions of the criminal justice system and of civil society. People routinely lose jobs and experience other consequences without being convicted of a crime or even without committing a crime. Indeed, the vast majority of job firings, for example, do not even involve criminal behavior.
We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016)
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In the US, I think it largely stems from our individualistic natures. Our fierce independence comes at a cost to the greater community; we often don't interact, and in the worst case outright loathe, our neighbors. People would rather bitch on NextDoor about a loud party down the block instead of confronting them directly about it. We solve disputes not by working it out with the other party, but with subpoenas. Public jobs are low-paying and staffed with people who couldn't find jobs in the private sector, resulting in little incentive to do more than the absolute minimum. Many well-meaning government initiatives aimed to benefit the greater good are met with intense suspicion (your NIMBYs). Companies don't see offering jobs as enriching communities, but rather bestowing saintly privileges that those plebians better be thankful for. They're decked with such ridiculous liability clauses that the case of the carpenter in the story is not an exception, but the norm.

That was somewhat of a rant, and I don't really have any kind of solution to all of it. America is several thousand tragedies of the commons, from a neighbor-to-neighbor level all the way up to the federal government.
You went from the slowest and more bugged phone that I ever had to one that it’s even slightly slower... it’s not really a good upgrade choice to do after 3 years.
This is a really good list. Thanks.
>Whatever we are coding in biology will be radically, radically different. ... But I do know that whatever it is, quite a bit of Computer Science will still apply to it.

Whenever there's an article about computation and the brain, or computation and biology, there's always someone showing up saying that the comparison is ridiculous because, hey, biology/computers are different.

To me, that's always felt like it was missing a huge point and I think your comment is one of the better ways I've seen it expressed. I hope we're getting closer to a point where we can eventually turn the page on this, and the Hubert Dreyfus-style arguments/declarations about what "computers can't do."
The most important thing is for you to get better. If you really are becoming a better and better engineer over time, some companies will realize that and offer you more money. So find a project that challenges you enough that it will improve your skills to work on it.
Is It Time to Regulate Cyber Conflicts?
The goon category is interesting in a future world where AI has replaced most jobs, because it can employ an unlimited number of people. (Goon jobs exist to counterbalance other goon jobs. Militaries are the canonical example.)

Most jobs -- teachers, auto workers, plumbers, farmers -- have a natural ceiling on employment related to demand, but goon jobs don't because when one side hires more goons, the other side has to also. Militaries have created millions of jobs this way.

Goon jobs are not just blue-collar. A growing category of goon that allows unlimited highly paid professional job creation is inter-governmental lawyers. For example, the CA government is suing the EPA about vehicle emissions limits. Both sides can justify a big budget for hiring lawyers. Metropolitan areas like the Bay Area provide lots of opportunities for cities to sue each other, transit authorities, and the state. I don't see any upper limit to the number of jobs this can create.

All this is only a bad thing if you care about efficiency. If you let go of that axiom, there are unlimited jobs to be created.
The New Yorker article was later expanded into an entire book of the same name.
Also depends what you are working on...
Asking someone to be constructive isn’t policing. Why should poor behavior not illicit a comment?

Keep HN high signal to noise!

Edit: The crowd is free to use downvotes judiciously if calling out the disingenuous is frowned upon. That’s what they’re there for.
I feel that, for the most part, what google offers is fair enough. There are some instances, however, where they completely ignore the needs/desires of their users though.

Google Home Page and Reader are the big two... both extremely popular, and plenty of opportunity there. Hell, at this point, I'd like to see Google offer a website similar to what I get on my phone's new tab screen now (articles of interest). I find it hard to actually trust any google services beyond search and gmail (only hoping they don't nix gmail without a LOT of notice).
Good point regarding mutable data. But since we were talking about loglevels, I don't think it's a problem there.
This doesn't make sense. A CEO who touts it as an ethical principle, if they're being honest, is likely to actually try to protect your privacy. For profit reasons, there's no reason to actually protect your privacy as long as they keep up appearances.
Walmart Takes on Amazon With $15 Billion Bid for Stake in India’s Flipkart
Yes, but e coli really is close to the limit of how fast you can go. They're rather like tribbles, before they are done splitting, the next generations dna has already started duplicating. The DNA copy time is ~40 minutes and the dividing time is prot close to 30.
A job for one week was to move plastic roof boards from an automated saw on a pallet. They would save lots of money if they‘d place a robot there. In fact, the hole factory could have been automated.
I remember this being discussed often in the 1980s. Early concept art for Boeing's entry in the LHX helicopter program (which eventually became RAH-66 Comanche) showed a completely windowless cockpit, where the pilot would use a virtual-reality-style helmet in order to not be exposed to lasers. [1,2] Meanwhile, the soviet union was developing a laser tank! [3] Throughout the 1980s people were arguing for an international treaty banning blinding laser weapons, which eventually came into effect in 1998. [4]

I guess this may become an issue again now. U.S. navy ships are currently experimenting with laser weapons, and one of the stated uses is to blind UAV sensors. Using it to blind humans would be illegal, but presumably possible.

[1] https://youroker.livejournal.com/52416.html
[2] https://i.imgur.com/GbGLTcg.jpg
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K17_Szhatie
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
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Nuclear material is self-guarding.
This rewrite seems to be advertising his new book on the topic. Good summer reading.
Yes, and he has expanded it into a full book. It comes out later this month.
Advent of pricey copper and more consumer goods having salvageable precious metals. There's an incentive to destroy functional goods instead of giving away.
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How Long Until a Robot Cries?
> it doesn’t have a great track record of acknowledging people who actually become loved and/or acclaimed

Why should they have? That's not what the statutes say should be awarded so that particular criticism is a bit unfair.
Well, we're going to need something as the Boomers continue to age, eventually aging out of being able to drive themselves en masse but being... let's say disinclined to give up their car keys and rely on someone else to drive them around.

Meeting them halfway with self-driving cars is going to save a lot of lives, compared to having octogenarians with horrible reaction times and the idea that having their own car makes them an adult filling the roads.
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Or Jackdaws! (Here’s the thing....)
1.) dollar is reserve currency. Yuan is not. Yuan is barely convertible

2.) US has large debt but way larger assets. 40% of the worlds wealth in fact

3.) US gdp to debt is only around 100%
I guess this goes back to being concise. I comfortably fit 5 jobs and volunteer work on mine. I have no issue getting interviews or offers. I know others who stick to 1 page that have decades of experience, and similarly don't have issues finding work.
I really want that phone but find it too expensive. if Im going to spend that amount of money, I might as well get a Samsung or iPhone
For anything to happen in this case.

Nothing has been brought to the police in terms of sexual assault reports. The police report the academy has let go forward is about the corruption/financial issues.
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So what is crying then?

You’re being hugely reductive for no discernable benefit.
First, this story was reported in 2015 already (https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-feds-investigate-hob...) and the 1992 novel Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson had a plotline very similar to this, where a Christian evangelical is smuggling in Sumerian artifacts to try to find an ancient code to unlock the brainstem and encode his 'program' -- Hobby Lobby's CEO David Green ~= Snowcrash's L. Bob Rife
What about solar? I know it does not scale down very well or work for the military, but solar seems useful for the largest ships.

MV Barzan is a container ships that's 400 m x 58.6 m. If you take say 400m x 50m * 24% solar panels that's ~6500 HP in full sun. I know the engines are significantly larger than that but not sure how much they use at cruising speed.
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A Samsung S9+ costs way more and so does the iPhone X.
IMHO the majority of opposition to GMOs often comes from a place that isn't focused on factual data, but fear of the unknown.

However, this study raises a good point, that genetic modifications can cause allergens to be present in foods that did not have them before.
Ask HN: Recommendation for a reliable dock for Macbook Pro 2017
I need to connect 2 4k monitors to my 15 inch Macbook Pro. Can someone recommend a dock which would reliably for this purpose?
Agree, but when firing is because supposed criminal behaviour, then it's only fair to mention that he was fired because of involvement in such case against him, that it puts commitee in bad light etc. Otherwise it's just passing sentence without tribunal.
Mid 80s I started out with 2 giant Sansui floor speakers encased in wood (like these: https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Rare-Vintage-Pair-Of-Sansui...) that my father had gotten at the PX while stationed overseas, along with a discarded Yamaha AM/FM receiver. Those speakers were awesome, but after one of the woofers blew the no-name replacement I put in was not able to do the original sound justice.

Tape players were always a challenge. I never had enough money for good ones (reel to reel or cassette), so I just repurposed my base model Walkman. The Yamaha receiver/Walkman combo was the source of many mix tapes of stuff I liked on FM radio, usually classic rock and Dr. Demento.

One issue with 80s-era LPs was a lot of major labels started using the cheapest possible materials in the pressings and those horrible plastic bag sleeves instead of heavy paper. Indies were better when it came to quality, but when CDs started picking up steam I was happy to switch.

Lots of weird stuff could be found in people's trash. Once I got an old 50s or 60s era waveform monitor, another time I picked up a vintage typewriter from the 20s that after a little restoration kind of worked (but it was torture pounding those keys, frankly).
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Nostalgia... Rasterman was light years ahead of his time with enlightenment. Same programmer's league as Torvalds and Bellard.
Because 1) he made a valid point. 2) It’s noise to whom? You? Not me per se. 3) You’re claiming authority over what is acceptable on HN.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro has a vivid portrayal of this. The people doing it took it very seriously indeed.
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Well written and timely for me. I would like to see this capable of something other than Jira though :/
iAd did poorly because Apple was unwilling to share data about their customers with advertisers.

>Advertisers Not Thrilled With Apple’s Practice Of Protecting Its Users’ Data... rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w...

Ping was intended to integrate with Facebook, but Jobs canceled that integration at the last second, citing “onerous terms that we could not agree to”. It's uncertain if those terms were privacy related.

http://allthingsd.com/20100902/steve-jobs-on-why-facebook-is...
40 Years of Spam Email [video]
"Razor thin" may be something of an exaggeration.

Apple's margin on iPhones is 59-64%[1]. Samsung is 17%[0].

"Razor thin" would be the grocery industry, which is usually under 3%.

[0]: http://fortune.com/2016/08/23/apple-samsung-smartphone-profi...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/apples-iphon...
I would think carefully about this. Elon Musk thought the same thing with Model 3 production, and then said “humans are underrated” and that they bought into automation too much, leading to production delays.

https://gizmodo.com/overrated-human-elon-musk-says-humans-ar...
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Keynes was a little more direct: "The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up."
Having recently escaped from a "control and blame" environment, this is also horrible for releases as left unchecked, more energy is expended trying to double-down on architecting for perfection in fault tolerance. Risk aversion goes through the roof cripples decision making, and before you know it your entire team of developers have become full time maintenance coders, you stop innovating and spend cycles creating imaginary problems for yourself and begin slowly sinking.

We had a guy who more or less appointed himself manager when previous engineering manager decided he couldn't deal with the environment anymore, his insistence on controlling everything resulted in a conscious decision to destroy the engineering wiki and knowledge base and forced everyone to funnel through him-creating a single source of truth. Once his mind was made up on something, he would berate other engineers, other developers and team members to get what he wanted. Features stopped being developed, things began to fail chronically, and because senior leadership weren't made up of tech people-they all deferred to him-and once they decided to officially make him engineering manager (for no reason other than he had been on the team the longest-because people were beginning to wise up and quit the company), the entire engineering department of 12 people except for 2 quit because no one wanted to work for him.

Imagine my schadenfreude after leaving that environment to find out they were forced to close after years of failing to innovate, resulting in the market catching up and passing them. Never in my adult life have I seen a company inflict so many wounds on itself and then be shocked when competitors start plucking customers off like grapes.
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As someone with a high energy theory background but has only read titles/headlines about this time crystal business, can you give a precise TL;DR on what a time crystal is?
This is a non sequitur. There's no contradiction between "There will eventually be autonomous programs that are safer than human drivers" and "Tesla's current autonomous program is not safer than human drivers". There's no principle requiring Tesla's current program to be good enough, or even that it will ever be good enough– the future might come from someone else.
> It's often not worth the overhead to develop for small bits like `likes`

Two things.

1. Likes are not a small detail of a social network app

2. If you're handling a failure state when the HTTP request comes back (like the author does), handling the success state is just an `else`
This makes sense for hiring a human. It doesn’t make sense for evaluating what they say in a general context. Credentials are fairly useless next to consensus for evaluating a given statement.

Credenials have use; just not in conversation.
This is another argument in favor of universal income. Bullshit jobs is one of consequences of progress, low cost goods, food and comfort. With increasing automation it’s going to be get incrementally harder to find bullshit jobs for people. until society understands that not everyone can and have to be employed.
Definitely strong with map visualization. They're based on OSM map data, so weaker on anything that as to do with geocoding and routing (business data, speed data, traffic data). For good routing and search, you need to look at professional platforms from TomTom Maps, HERE, ESRI or similar.
The article is quite provocative and could easily become a movement that eliminates thousands of jobs. Not at all pointless.

Calling for the elimination of the army and corporate lawyers is sophomoric, but probably deliberately so.
That's what Cadillac calls it

http://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-c...
I've heard that lane assist and blind spot sensor features could make things worse because people will start to pay less attention to the road.

This video is pretty frightening and seems like it could be closely related to the most recent Tesla crash into the exit barrier.

The biggest problem is Tesla marketing this shit as "auto-pilot" where as Honda and others tell you what it is: lane assistance. It's obviously far from perfect and I really don't think anyone should rely on it at all.

The article separates out auto-breaking and adaptive cruise control and I'm glad it does. Those are present on a lot of other vehicles and it makes sense that those have prevented accidents. Side/blind-spot cameras connected to turn signals are also incredibly helpful.

Going back to actual self-driving tech, I think this helps prove it's a long way away. I'd say at least 10+ more years of prototypes and I'm honestly sick of tax credits going into it. States should work on fixing our god damn public transport infrastructure first. It will cost less, transport orders of magnitudes of more people and self driving trains are real tech that exists now, verses some sci-fi fiction that may or may not be viable in a decade.
Does growing up poor harm brain development? -on an ambitious welfare experiment
I would expect counter rotating props to be more reliable. Instead of one big engine/prop you have two smaller ones. While it is more likely that something will break, it isn't a catastrophic failure: you continue to your destination using just the other engine/prop.
":" is or is not a legal character in filenames on macOS depending on which API you use!

Try saving a file or renaming a file to contain ":" using the GUI. It will not work. However, "/" is fine.

Try saving a file or renaming a file to contain "/" using the CLI. It will not work. However, ":" is fine.

A ":" in the CLI is translated to "/" in the GUI and vice versa. ":" was the directory separator in Mac OS 9 and earlier, which explains the behavior. The actual on-disk filenames will contain "/", which is translated to ":" for the POSIX API. This is for HFS and HFS+, not sure how APFS changes things.
Akin's rules for spacecraft design [0] include: "Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program."

By analogy, any software project that includes writing a database is, de facto, a database project.

[0] http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
What car models have zero fatalities?
Have you taken a look at what designers do when they have access to modern materials and control systems? They don't design Triremes, for good reason.

Have a gander at the America's Cup boats, for instance.
> So you've answered your own questions

Yes, I am trying to.