skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hand not applying any pressure and barely touching the wheel. It happens consistently on my Ford Fusion when I am driving on a straight line. Car says my hands are not on the wheel when they are touching it.
It's not the purpose of a company to pay enough to completely cover an employees life costs. It is the role of governments to help those in need. Companies pay taxes (profits, part of social security, wages which support taxes, property taxes, and on and on) which helps fund this role of government.

If you require companies to pay enough to support the lifestyles of employees, than any person unable to generate enough value for a company will not get a job, will not have the opportunity to gather job skills to maybe get to that point, and will require full support from the government. And mandated higher wages leads to inflation, which puts the most vulnerable even further behind.

It's fairly reasonable for the least skilled to get a job that pays accordingly, with society picking up the slack. If that person ever increases in skills to move out of this, then they too will pay more in taxes to support the new group in need or least skilled.
As with most things, it depends. If a country isn't trading in good faith tariffs can be used to correct that, just like fines are used to encourage companies to follow regulations within a country.
> If it's possible for you to live within your means, you can build wealth at a good rate in the first world.

There are a significant number of exceptions to this idea. If you dig a deep enough hole (drug problems, felonies, etc) it's hard to just keep a roof over your head.

And sure, "it's their fault", but for a lot of people the die was cast when they were very young.

(Update: I should clarify that this may be a U.S. problem vs a first world problem. The safety net here is abysmal, speaking as someone who has spent way too much time and money helping a friend manage.)
I agree... assuming no health/personal catastrophes for you or your family, stable employment, and good training in financial planning. Those are some big assumptions.
I think the GP assumed that Anders was already rich before that so joining Microsoft didn't 'get him rich'. But if that was the case, based on his work history he may have still 'gotten rich' via programming languages, just from before Microsoft.
This is mostly just a preview to a codecamp.
Although they don’t have 20MHz of bandwidth and the necessary sample rate there are USB3 power delivery controllers on the market today which do exactly that. Some even embed the microcontroller too.
It reads like he was following another car that was driving at a slower speed but once that car left his path, his car began to accelerate to the pre-set speed of 75mph.
They also tended to be the, "We have all the money, now let's bail" kind of tokens.
And as a side note, Tesla only has AAA designs for their EVs because they poached Mazda’s design lead, Frantz Von Holfhausen. Mazda was killing it during his tenure, with some of the best designs of their history.
Nationwide Comcast landline outage is affecting thousands of businesses
I know the etymology of third world, but it's meaning has also changed significantly since the end of the Cold War...

I was referring specifically to American cities (cities in America, not American "protectorates") that don't have drinkable running water...
> They use the term to imply that it's men and that they're the dominate population within tech.. which isn't even close to being true

This seems to contradict most of the information I've seen in the diversity reports from companies. Maybe there is some information covering the broader industry that supports this point?
You are talking as if the firms that have outsourced are just some poor innocent sheep. Most of the firms that have outsourced only care about money. Again it is all about money and nothing else. Nobody cares about tech, or the product or anything. It is just finding a good deal to make money. I have seen enough people from management outsource the work and then jump ship and let the lowly tech handle the mess. It is the same in India. You get the hike and then jump to another company which pays better.

If most of the firms that have outsourced have got really bad work from these big firms then why are they not suing for bad quality work? Why do they give bigger and bigger contracts? That shows the type of people in your management which you should take a hard look at before complaining about the quality of work of these big service companies.

Source: I have been on both sides. I have seen the internals of them doing business and it is a freaking mess.
The deficiency of Tesla AP has been abundantly clear to anyone with eyes, for a long time. Only fingers-in-ears Musk fans cannot see that.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yerba mate (and maybe even coffee) had some alkaloids that modulate the effect of caffeine on the body. I recently discovered that coffee contains (small amounts of) Harman and norharman, which are MAOIs and would definitely affect the effect caffeine has. (these MAOIs are also in tobacco! They enhance the addictive potential of nicotine)
Because we close at 5pm.
The irony about "saving the planet" here is that solar panels manufacturing plants in China have virtually no regulations, which allows them to skirt the normally heavy costs of toxic waste disposal. So in the process of making these planet saving devices, they've done all kinds of damage to the environment to begin with. There is a reason, after all, panels are cheaper to make in China.
Raise your prices.

I can't be alone in thinking that these prices are insanely low when considering the market. If you're selling to working programmers, $9.99 a month is a frivolity. I pay more than that for Netflix. For a business expense? Your $24.99 plan should be the entry point.

You should have a higher tier. A much higher tier, in fact, like $350. You're targeting agencies and studios at this point. It's still under the ~$500 that requires approval, but there are absolutely businesses out there that will just sign up for the highest tier they can process, because it's a status thing or "they may need it". You won't get many signups at this price, but even one will replace 35 signups at your current lowest tier. Heck, more, because higher-priced customers will churn less and require less support.

Consider dropping your free tier and just relying on your free trial. You're targeting businesses and working programmers. They have money, so a lack of money won't be the reason they choose not to use your product, only product/customer fit.
Not quite sure how. I ended up working at Walmart after college and had to steal food since I couldn't afford rent,student loans, and medicine. Pretty much everyone of my coworkers was in the same boat with student loans being the only difference.

If you think it's not happening I suggest you put all your assets in an account you won't access and then try and live for a few years off a retail job
This happens with regular adaptive cruise control on my Ford, when the cruise control set point is a lot higher than the current speed: the car accelerates after another car clears the lane and ram into things.
Sure you can, why not? They will just work around deficiencies in your product as long as switching is even more painful.
The only reason Crypto has those characteristics is because most of the crypto trading platform flat out ignore the law.
>This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements.

I don't understand why they would issue any statement other than, 'condolences, we're committed to safety, we're working with the NTSB to understand what happened'
So much I give you credit for your articles - but this one.
Beauty yes, not mountains.
Sure, but as other commenters have mentioned, if you were going to go to that trouble you could just remove the license check code.

I guess a service worker has the advantage of not having to dig through potentially obfuscated Javascript code. But it's not like that would be hard to do, given that Chrome's debugging tools record a stack trace for every XMLHttpRequest.
Both my mother and father were deep into the fishing business so a lot of my time as a kid was spent on their boat. It absolutely destroyed both of their bodies and their backs due to the daily rigors, so I have immense respect for those people that are able to do so and survive.
The idea of "to add 1 law, remove 2 others" worked well in other locales. The problem of laws being so freeform (sometimes being broad or multi-laws in one) is part of the problem. Forcing succinctness is just stage one of cleaning it up.
In humans, metabolism only goes down ~35% at its very lowest point during deep sleep. In other phases of sleep, your metabolism is ~15% lower than during waking time. If sleep were for metabolic savings, it would be an incredibly inefficient way to go about it.

In some senses, wakefulness may be thought of as neurotoxic and much of whats going on during sleep is centred around repairing the damage caused by being awake.

For instance, the glial cells between your brain neurons shrink allowing your body to flush the beta amyloid from your brain with cerebral fluid. Beta-amyloid is a neurotoxic protein which causes Alzheimer's an is a byproduct of waking brain function. This explains the link between Alzheimer's and sleep deprivation.

Sleep is also the phase where short-term memories are evaluated and either discarded or integrated into long-term memory. It's also essential for your immune health and cancer prevention. Your body produces dozens of cancer cells daily, but they're killed by your immune system. After only a single night's sleep deprivation, your amount of cancer-killing immune cells plummets. This is why shift work is now classified as carcinogenic in several countries.

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Edit: Just on the topic of sleep being for energy savings, did you know that during hibernation (a state actually used for energy savings), bears will actually leave their hibernating state in order to sleep? I think that fact really showcases how important sleep is and should put to rest any notion that sleep is for energy savings.
Oh wow I had no idea. I simply bought the template from Themeforest, thinking everything would be in order. Anyway, the font has been changed, well spotted!
“Decades” referred to how long MS has had the opportunity.
About donations, recently Twitter blow up with the story of Minister who lives in 35,000 square 25-rooms mansion, and asked for $54,000,000 donations for his fourth Jet [1]. Reasoning was that public planes are "tubes filled in with demons" that in the post "bothered [him] with their prayers". He also wrongly claimed that he needs new jet so he flies without stopping anywhere to refuel as the gas prices are high... altho everyone flying private jets know jet fuel is cheaper almost everywhere outside of US.

His "apology" video is worth watching [2] ... his office is literally dripping with gold; the Eggs on his desk are $4,000 per piece. Given recent price of pound of rice, one of those eggs will get you 12,000 pounds (!!!) of raw rice. It takes approx 0.8 pound of rice to feed one person per day. 12,000 / 0.8 gives you 15,000 days worth of rice for one person, or 41 years. One Egg! [2]

Anyways the point of my story is that if in first world country like USA you can find people gullible enough to buy stories like this one and keep on living in literally liquid luxury for 40 years (like that minister does), then it doesn't surprised me someone quit job, begs people for donation and actually makes a solid living.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/us/jesse-duplantis-plane-falc...

[2] http://www.jdm.org/xw-partnerupdate.aspx?source=TWITTER

PS. Oh and while you on your donations spree, you don't have to be transparent; here Jesse Jets beacon is off; not only he doesn't fly with peasants like you and me, he doesn't want you to know where he is "burning the Jet for Lord Jesus": https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N770JD
You're violently agreeing with me.
Reading that initial report is terrifying. I am so glad the NTSB set the record straight that the driver had his hands on the wheel for the majority of the final minute of travel. Really makes me feel like Tesla was out to blame the driver from the get go. To be clear the driver is absolutely partially at fault, but my goodness autopilot sped up into the barrier in the final seconds — totally unexpected when the car has automatic emergency breaking.

Emergency breaking feels not ready for prime time. I hope there are improvements there. Don’t want to see autopilot disabled as a result of this, would rather Tesla use this to double down and apply new learnings.

Just so sad to hear about this guys death on his way to work - not the way I want to go. :(
If you were aware of what was happening. Smartphones are distracting.
By that standard, I would guess that Chris Lattner did OK when joining Tesla.
JDK 9/10/11: Side Effects from += on Java String
I want more than anything to use Firefox, but the fact remains that they have internal issues that prevent them from creating a quality product. Slow startup times, constant hangs, memory leaks, crashes, and general sluggishness prevent even people who care from using Firefox.

Firefox will never match Chrome head-to-head, and is a dying browser. Then only way Chrome doesn't win is if a new competitor appears.
> how much dislike there is for the stars metric

From the giving standpoint, people read too much into the meaning of individuals starring repos. Employee for $CORP starring a repo just means that person felt compelled to star the repo, and has no broader implication that $CORP is using the project in question. Maintainers behind the repo sometimes construe that as a company endorsement, and in some cases use that as the basis for including logos in marketing material.

From the interpretation side, the statistic itself is subject to gamification. There used to be a website where you could essentially "buy stars", ultimately calling into question any sort of usage-based signaling.

From the maintainer side, GitHub stars are basically the equivalent of likes and retweets. There's no magical bank that we can go to exchange GitHub stars for dollars. While it is certainly exciting to see major thresholds crossed, the prospect of receiving extra stars does not usually compel people to put more time and energy into a project.

(full disclosure: our largest open source project https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/ has over 10K stars and the perceived popularity certainly is surprising for a seemingly niche project)
> Why do they think they are kings of the world if they are on the lowest chain in the tech world?

Becuase they're the top of the food chain where they came from.

I came from a small, poor town. I was never a "tech bro." My parents stressed humility, and in particular, my dad said, "All work is honorable" which isn't true exactly, but the point was not to look down on people. I'd also had jobs at Walmart, Subway, etc. before college...

At about 26 my income went from NOTHING to low six figures in the early 2000's. I made more money in a day then I made in a month. I was living in a nice house, driving a nice car. For the first time in my life, I walked into a dealership and bought the car I wanted, not something I could afford. I took a loan for a modest sports car because I'd never had a loan before. But I could have paid cash.

Having come from a small, poor town-- that was a big deal to me. Most of the people I grew up with were just trying to make rent each month.

It is so easy to let that go to your head. I am sure I did a few times.
WTF? This is amazing... Please be real! Please be real!
Wear and tear aside, ethanol also has lower energy density than gasoline. The consumer is paying at least the same cost per unit for mixed fuel and getting worse mileage.
>my first world poor friends...are all bad with money

This is a well documented phenomenon.[0][1] The state of being in poverty has a significant effect on your cognitive processes evaluating risk and reward and future planning. For people who grew up in poverty, those programmed biases can be extremely challenging to overcome and limit their upward mobility. There's also the aphorism that it's "expensive to be poor." The boots metaphor and all that.

As to building wealth at a good rate, doing that from a state of relative stability vs a state of relative poverty are two entirely different scopes. "Escaping poverty requires almost 20 years with nothing going wrong." When 5 years of savings can be wiped out by a car repair that means you can't get to your job, you can lose 5 years of progress in one bad event.[2] The problem with that statement is whether it "is possible to live within your means." It can be exceptionally challenging and complicated to live within your means while impoverished but still move upwards and respond to emergencies and disasters. And it's doubly much to ask that kind of complex planning from someone affected by the deleterious cognitive effects of poverty documented above.

[0]http://behavioralscientist.org/can-neuroscientists-help-us-u...
[1]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/this-is-your-...
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
You and I likely made more profit than Deutsche Bank. They haven't been profitable in 3 years. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/investing/deutsche-bank-loss...
>I think everyone would be worse off

I agree with this, which is why I disagree with your first sentiment:

>Everytime a company pays their employees so little they need welfare to live, that's redistributing wealth from society to shareholders

Since we agree that employers would not pay more if welfare is removed, then the value of those welfare programs must not be subsidizing shareholders.
> The new paper says it can remove the same ton for as little as $94, and for no more than $232. At those rates, it would cost between $1 and $2.50 to remove the carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline in a modern car.

If those numbers are true, that's actually a pretty achievable cost to absorb that could be added directly as a tax on gasoline.
It doesn't matter if he was following another car or not. If there is an obstacle, AP2 should brake and in that case it should brake hard or use evasive turning maneuvers to avoid head-on collision.
First solar in Toledo manufactures solar panels. Almost 100% of their output was sold to Germany because they were subsidizing them.
Developers are manufacturing prefabricated apartment buildings
Ah yes, Hollywood, our moral arbiters that can't stop projecting their own issues on to everyone else.
Simply write free software (as in speech) ...
Despite the autopilot failure, I find the battery failure quite remarkable too:

> The car was towed to an impound lot, but the vehicle's batteries weren't finished burning. A few hours after the crash, "the Tesla battery emanated smoke and audible venting." Five days later, the smoldering battery reignited, requiring another visit from the fire department.

Where is your LiPo god now? Batteries have more energy density than 20 years ago, ok. But they are also much more dangerous. Now imagine the same situation with Tesla's huge semi batteries. They'll have to bury them 6ft under, like Chernobyl's smoldering fuel rods. Minus the radiation.
Puppet acquires Reflect (the data-visualization-as-a-service platform)
If they didn't keep logs and aren't lying, they could still be asked or warranted to allow LEO to monitor their system live during a suspect's usage in order to identify them.
Wealth, is wider and more complicated but if we narrow things to "money," there's an accounting tautology to take note of.

You borrow a dollar from the bank. You buy something from me for a dollar. I put it in the bank.

I have a dollar in the bank. You have -1 dollars, a debt to the bank. $0 net dollars between us. $0 average money-wealth. This is what most money is, debt. The average amount of debt-created money.

If you keep borrowing from the bank, buying from me, and I keep putting money in the bank... both sides of our combined balance sheet will keep growing. For every dollar in my account, you will owe another dollar. The average & sum will always be 0.

So.. if we are looking at just the money part of wealth, it never grows in total.

If you borrowed to spend on consumption, then the story ends here. If you borrowed to buy non-money assets, then you still have those durables. For example, say you borrowed $1 to buy a house. I built it for you. I have a $1. You have -$1 and a $1 house.

In reality, it's hard to differentiate between real assets and money assets. What is a security, really? This part gets hard so I'll leave it at that.

The upshot is that a lot of our collective wealth adds up to $0. For every dollar someone somewhere has in the bank, someone else owes a dollar. In the currently prevailing banking/money/governance system, a lot of the debt is owed by governments so they take a big chunk of the negative side. This leaves more room for people to own rather than owe money.

If you subtract each persons share of national debt from your median person, I would expect the number is negative.
Personally don't view this as a necessarily bad thing. Short term losses like this suck but what you learn long term is entirely more valuable than if you did well the first time. Nothing teaches you as well as losing money.
http://everydayhappy7.com/2018/01/16/mix-dried-figs-olive-oi...
A counter argument that HUMAN DRIVERS are unsafe an fatal (let alone missing common sense and alertness). I 100% get your point, but my counterpoint, is that this is what we are going to see, in the future. Autonomous systems that by and large are way safer, than human drivers, but when they fail, the might do so, in circumstances where are human would not. Humans are good at some things, computers/ai/sensor suites are good at others, and that is going to mean different kinds of failures, and we have to learn from this. The gigantic upside, is countless situations where the ai, detecs things, the human would not, and overall better outcomes. (Its also worth nothing, that this incident, was way worse because of the barrier. If the divider was in normal condition, the driver would have lived, in my opinion).