skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An attentive driver could have at the very least mitigated what happened. Maybe even slowed down enough in order to not cause lethal harm.

As a driver you're sent to driving school and you're operating a 2 ton death machine. If you're not in control of your vehicle for whatever reason (alcohol, drugs, phone) you're already at fault, even when you're not the only person to blame (Uber, the driver and the cyclist).
It's pretty normal behavior to rely on other participants (here cars) to use their eyes and common sense. Even in cases where e.g. crossing the road is not allowed.
Oh absolutely. Like many things security related, it's not always about stopping them but rather slowing them down enough so that it doesn't become cost effective.
And 3) when you are buying a position in a company, take some time to get to know what you are buying. A half dozen shell companies through the BVI with no assets until you get to Hong Kong? I might dock that one a bit
Do get your resume together..but your resume should always be together. Always assume tomorrow might be your last day on your job (documentation, resume, networking, etc.), and you will be in a much better position. I have been working as an consultant in my current domain since 2001 (for various reasons, risk of going full-time on a startup hasn't been something I could do), and have never been out of work, in a very volatile area.

That said, you get what you give.

DO NOT watch videos on their dime, unless your manager tells you that you can take courses and study some as part of your professional development, which they should unless in a crunch (no professional development is a major red flag).

DO go to work every day as if you were a footballer stepping onto the field in the Final. Even if the startup fails, the people you meet will go on to other jobs. Stay in touch with them, because networking is key...for people networking well the resume is simply a formality. The people you've worked with know your skills, and in some ways more importantly know they can work well with you.
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Its userbase (myself included) continue to use the site in spite of Twitter's best efforts to make us not want to.
Not just "tells current charity director" but "repeatedly insisted".

In what situations would it be reasonable to gate a donation on having a private conversation with an employee, instead of having a join conversation with both the employee and the executive director?

The only ones I can think of involve fraud or other form of distrust. But in that case, why is the exec considering a donation, when the person the exec wants to talk to doesn't have the power to control the donation?
YouTubers talk even more shit about Facebook. You can find basically every semi popular YouTube video on Facebook. Some even have more views on Facebook than they do on YouTube.

Instagram will have the same problem very soon and will turn just as shitty as YouTube.
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Manslaughter should fault of the Uber programmers
Performance patches in Go 1.11
As a libertarian, what bothers me is the mandatory union. If you want to unionize, go on a strike or whatever, I'm OK with that. But if I don't want to, respect me and leave me alone.
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Is it bad to try a new programing language (new to Scala, earlier java/nodejs/python dev) in a start up if we have the time to learn.
It’s also worth pointing out that role changes take time for people to realize. This guy used to be the executive director and people knew him as that guy. All of a sudden Karen replaces him and everybody is instantly supposed to treat her as in charge and totally disregard their previous relationship with him? Come on.

The exec holding back the donation wasn’t holding it back to speak to a man, he was holding it back to speak to Bradley. The whole peice feels contrived and I feel like it diminishes real sexism that women face. It’s not sexism to want to skip the hierarchy and talk to the person who has been a heavyweight in the organization and wider community for decades.
I use soft RAID 0. The speeds are remarkable.
My story is not too different. I grew up in a dirt poor Asian village. We didn't have running water and for first few years of my life, not even a toilet. Parents taking active part in kids education was not common. I remember my parents bought be one toy when I was in second or third grade, and that was it. We used to get one pair of new clothes once every year during festivals. That's about it. Nobody ever celebrated birthdays. I don't even think I remembered my own birthday growing up.

On top of that my parents fought like cats and dogs almost everyday.

The only thing that helped me survive and succeed was my competitive nature and perseverance. I worked hard, and still do, for things I want. I am not trying to brag, but starting in abject poverty and then ending up in a one of the biggest American cities making $200k is surreal.
Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power
GCC's format mostly exposes parts of GCC's internal machine description language (to the point that, in the past, most of it was documented only on the "GCC internals" part of the manual). It comes from a simpler time.
Can't help but think a LGP-30 simulator would be the basis for a nice TIS-100 like game...
Not just require. Actually verify if the certification is valid. There are many products with counterfeit UL logo.
I love Consumer Reports. It's the best way to decide which car, tires, appliances, etc. to buy.

Good luck to them.
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That's exactly my conclusion. With a bit of time, friends/family (the more the merrier in a way), you can have a shit ton of things for a few bucks.

Another thing is that after a while I started to realize that sometimes I spend more hours on fixing than buying a new one. Also I felt I could just be a customer for someone invested into a whatever store (social feelings) and I could find my own spot to make more use of my time.

/me back repurposing 'dead' laptop batteries with a 1$ li-ion charging pcb :)
Employees wouldn't have to keep one eye on their CV and plan for the next job if employers treated employees better and gave them long term security & oppertunities.
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There is an expiration date on the battery which should be listed.
TSMC ramping up 7nm chip production
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This is the same line of defense as the fake bomb detectors beeping randomly and sold a fortune.
Another UoM alumni here...

I can remember the (small?) part of it that used to sit near the library.... Ahh, student days...
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I don't understand how this can be enforced for selling digital goods online.

Right now you can process a credit card transaction with only needing the number, exp date and CVC. You do not need the card holder's billing address. You don't even need the card holder's name.

So what's stopping someone from buying your digital item (let's say an ebook or course where you use Stripe / PayPal to handle the transaction) but put in a fake address, or an address they don't live in. I don't think Stripe / PayPal will halt the transaction. Instead they might flag it as questionable but the transaction will still go through.

In this case the business owner has no idea where the customer actually lives to tax them properly and the customer has no incentive to put a real address in because they are not getting something delivered to an address.
A significant fraction of Google employees don't live in America.
Intel now faces a fight for its future
Except that Facebook video is crappy at best. It's not even in the same league or the content is of very good quality.

Vimeo is most suitable competition IMO.
The incentive to be wealthy is far more greater than 4% tax on wealth could be a disincentive. Beauty of this is you only pay if you are rich, not if you are poor or even if you earn a lot and still have lot of expenses (medical, live in nyc, or have children etc)
Indeed. It is this sort of "worm-like" or "near-virus" -like behavior of these genes (transposons, promoters, etc) that made me decide to split the difference between comp sci and molecular biology (bioinformatics) as an undergrad.

Nevermind the mitochondria - the powerhouse of our cells - which is basically believed to be a bacterial companion that our single celled ancestors integrated so tightly with - that it became part of our genome [1].

1 - https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origin-of-mito...
That's definitely an interesting thought experiment, and wish it was a real problem at some point.

However, that thought experiment doesn't make individual stock pickers and active fund managers better (skilled) investors in any way.
Journalists Start Using Drones to View Immigrant Detention Camps
It’s because this is a really well understood problem with human attention. If you put people in a position where they’re supposed to watch for something which rarely happens, they’ll get bored and distracted. People who build systems for industrial production, monitoring, security, etc. have been dealing with the for a long time and it’s one of the selling points for self-driving technology since inattention causes many accidents per year.

Responsible engineers deal with this in a number of ways, such as the test images TSA screeners see throughout the day, Waymo’s reported careful monitoring of the drivers, or redesigning the process so the human is continuously engaged. Uber engineers apparently say YOLO! and disable the car manufacturer’s own safety systems.
> There's certainly a case to be made that a strong US military is in the world's best interest. In fact, I would wager that a majority of Americans (and a majority of citizens of democratic countries across the world) hold the belief expressed in the previous statement.

That's probably true for US citizens, but I highly doubt non-US folks share that view (at least from a western European perspective I'd say definitely not).
Cool, we'll make the charts clearer, easy export is indeed in need, taking a look into your suggestions.

Also it'll be great if you could send me your report URL to make sure I managed to make it clearer.
> My point is, that regardless of your issue, authoritarianism is not a good answer.

Your assumption that this software would be used for authoritarian ends is exactly the problem the OP was trying to point out.
He could have used another word that sounded less dramatic. And you all know it.
The implication being that the only reason I could disagree with the idea that there is no human nature is that I have never encountered critical theory, structuralism, or postmodernism. Actually, one can acknowledge that we are all immersed in social structures that shape our thought in ways that we can't objectively understand, that communication is fraught with signs asserting cultural preconceptions, that there is a close connection between knowledge and power, etc., while repudiating the idea that external reality is illusory or unknowable, or that human behaviour is purely a function of context.

Human beings are animals, and thus the product of evolution. We are not blank slates, but highly specialised machines with innate tendencies and potentials. Almost anyone could, with minimal difficulty, list any number of phenomena universal to any human society: pain (and aversion thereto), communication, laughter, anger, etc. It is avowedly extremely difficult to separate ourselves from our inculcated norms when reasoning about human nature, but that does not refute its existence.

Of course, suggesting that human beings have no natural tendencies evolved for their survival ignores an overwhelming preponderance of evidence accumulated by biologists over the past century. But you know that, having clearly studied the field.
> I got a strong sense of irritation and annoyance that people still, after many years, have not understood the organizational structure. He's using repetition to make it clear, in no uncertain terms, that his boss really is his boss

People aren’t as rigid as the organizational structure wants them to be. My boss is also my boss, but when his boss wants to cut through the bs and get stuff done, he comes right to me. Humans are fluid like that.

You can read about Bradley, he’s been around the open source community for decades. The reputation alone is the reason why the donor wants to speak with him, how is that not immediately obvious? Why be disingenuous and think that it is something more insidious (why would you even suggest something sexual? There was no indication of that....)?
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I'm not expert in the field, but what purpose does the average person have for small spherical strong magnets?

I know a few people of various professions, trades, students, and I've never known anyone to have a use for spherical strong magnets that wasn't manipulative or construction item for entertainment.
using Crystal Lang on a production app with Kemal.

If one gets used to breaking changes and gets to know the inner bits of ones language and libraries and it's less risky.

If one is using very complex stacks and hoping/waiting for other people to fix things, it's much more risky.
More power to automation. If it can be done it should be, but automation should not be used in a cynical threat to keep wages down. If it can be automated profitably it would have already been done, and when it can be done it will be done.

Everytime there are stories on burgers why do so many feel it is ok to run down people who are working and attempt to debase and dehumanize them. Is it some kind of perverse pleasure in running down others?

Why should a random commentator decide what is worthwhile for other people to do, what people should earn or what is the value of their job. Why is it more worthwhile to write html code, do hft trades in office or peddle surveillance and spyware all your life? How come no one else is running them down.

This is no place for such debased comments on other human beings in civilized discourse and the mods here usually on top of things should consider the impact of perpetuating this kind of gratuitous disparagement on entire groups of people.
Its good example of writing for your audience. The audience of that page is bloggers, YouTubers, and social media "influencers."
Truthfully, it also seems to have other advantages. Compared to traditional restaurant kitchens ... this looked pretty damn good. Even pretty damn good to work in (I mean compared to [1]). No grease, no dirty hair, no ruined clothes ...

And of course advantages for the restaurant owner, but also a bit for the employees : more space, generally. The whole kitchen seems to be the size of a small car. That's pretty good.

[1] https://bestlifeqatar.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/20171031_1...
I’d like to add something to what I wrote earlier: how is it any more “moral” to be working for any company whose primary revenue source is based on sneaking up ads on unsuspecting people and tracking all manner of personal data without permission? At least in the case of an adult site or a gambling site, the proposition is very clear - you know what you’re going there for and that’s what you get. On the other hand, nobody goes to a website for the express purpose of giving away their personal data and getting stealth cookies on their machines to track their every move. I’d argue working for any of the ad-network or personal-data companies is more immoral compared to working for a casio company.
I am not trying to over-simplify, but should I stop buying goods and services because the taxes taken on these transactions benefit the military?

The dividing line varies from person to person, of course. I think most would agree that improving a guidance algorithm for missile targeting is directly supporting the military. Fixing a kernel bug is not directly supporting the military. I'm a pacifist and I would go by my definition of direct support.
>Yes I don't understand why so much focus has been put on the failure of the technology rather than the failure of the back up driver.

It was well known all along that humans are poorly equipped to remain actively engaged in situations that require split-second reactions, while exerting zero effort or control for hours on end.

Air traffic is as safe as it is because the accident analysis always pushes past "pilot error" as the root cause. If one pilot can make the error, why won't another? Did the system set them up to fail? Even if it didn't, could the system be enhanced such that the failure (or class of failures) could be prevented?

In the case of the human in Uber's self-driving car, they were set up for failure. And in such a well known way that makes any claim Uber was not negligent very hard to defend.
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Sure, but that's the case for almost the whole stock market (in the US) right now. Fundamentals make almost no difference in the stock market today.
> Libertarians and other free-market enthusiasts should actually be for collective bargaining and unions.

This depends on what you mean by "be for collective bargaining". As in most things, the details matter, and the slogan "be for unions" is almost meaningless.

In the sense that people should be able to form and/or join unions etc, then absolutely, I think most libertarians would be totally for it.

But often when people say you're for or against unions, they're talking about specific laws with specific consequences. For example, should an employer have the right to fire an employee who is attempting to start a union? A libertarian might well say that both sides have liberties that shouldn't be taken away in this case. If the employee manages to start a union and gets collective bargaining power - good for them! But the government shouldn't intrude on the employer's right to fire employees if it so chooses, no matter what the cause.

Another example - many countries have laws that say that if some percentage of the workforce, say 30%, agrees to form a union, then all employees are now automatically part of that union. This makes it much easier to form unions, obviously, and you might make the case that it helps protect the usually-less-powerful employees from the usually-more-powerful employer. On the other hand, this often means that individual employees don't have the freedom to negotiate their own specific terms with the employers, even if they prefer not to be part of the union. Or that the employees now must pay money into the union, whether they want to or not.

Again, all of these are legitimate debates and most of the sides of this can be defended. But the slogan "you should be for collective bargaining and unions" just doesn't include enough nuance to even being to address how you should react to each of the above - which are the specific laws that people are talking about when talking about unions.
I thought we had been dogging millenials for ages for bring dynamism to the workplace through not wanting to do what they are told? These kids can not do right, no matter what.

I would love to mount the Mr. Holland’s Opus defense here. Maybe the problem is not that kids are rule-followers / lemmings, but maybe through removing free time, attacking the arts, etc., we have raised one of the smartest generations without giving them opportunities to become impassioned about what they could make in this world.
FWIW if someone were to build AI technology to classify militants vs civilians in images from drones then I'd prefer it to be a competent company such as Google, since presumably an accurate well-engineered classifier would reduce collateral damage.
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I'd suspect that it's harder to take over and avoid a colision in a self driving car, than a car that you're continuously in control of. You first have to recognize that the system is failing or about to fail. And that has to happen well in advance for you to take appropriate action. Doesn't seem like a reliable failover procedure, even if the person behind the wheel is paying attention.
I guess it's a reference to how the algorithm zooms in on a smaller region of the image before picking out an object.
I just finished doing some install automation with Ansible of the ProtonVPN ovpn configs and I’m happy to report that these settings were not in there.
A startup's primary focus should be getting the product out and getting customers. The language should be something that you are comfortable with, unless it is critical to the success of the product, in which case you should hire people who know it already. Can you clarify why you think that you have time to learn?

Learning to be able to write functional code will not be enough. You need to be an expert in it - the kind of expertise that is gained with years of writing code in it, knowing debugging techniques as second nature, idiosyncrasies and best practices, where your productivity in the language has reached peak levels and you don't have to think of how to do something in the language, and can focus on solving the problem for the business.

This is more true of languages than of frameworks or tools.
Without this law and the corollary of reasonable firing (as in with a lawful reason), unions are dead on arrival as anyone willing to unionize will get fired on the spot.

This is similar to the procedural loophole of registering manifestations where the mayor or other redeposit body can virtually countermand the right to organize. It happens all the time.
A backup driver should be just that -- someone there to take over in case of software/hardware error. Such a driver was deemed necessary, failed to do their job, resulting in the crash.

If the system was supposed to be entirely driverless and autonomous, then sure -- perhaps more blame would lie with those in charge of whatever kind of "certification" procedures take place (rather than the developers). But IMO, in this instance the blame lies with the backup driver, and Uber for not enforcing more training or monitoring of the backup driver to prevent this kind of horrendous incident from happening in the first place.
Maybe it's different where you live, but where I live the only place where a pedestrian doesn't have right of way is a motorway.
That's a good example of why permissions should be opt-in, not opt-out.

I recently developed an ElasticSearch plugin and I was positively surprised at the security model: plugins have to declare the permissions they intend to use and the user has to explicitly grant them when installing the plugin.
You’re right that they’re not impossible to recycle or decompose. I asked about the economics of getting that done..There’s already a huge problem now that the Chinese are no longer buying trash to recycle cheaply. If the cost of recycling is factored in, do these once-use products remain affordable and profitable? They’re not made from paper, but from plastics and metals, which take specialized recycling.
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Interesting, thanks for the referer :)
Almost two decades in the business.
Ask HN: How do you manage your analytics/data science process?
Hi,
I lead a data science/analytics team and am wondering about how other teams are run? Specifically, how does your process/workflow look like? How do you set timeframes? What tools do you use? What are some of your biggest challenges when it comes to delivering work and how do you resolve it?

Disclaimer: I am building a SAAS platform to manage the process and looking to learn how other analytics/data science teams operate.
Fully agree with you, I have done so multiple times.
Crowd computing / peer learning would be a great way for the community to compete with the tech giants. 10000 nvidia home gpu's might beat Googles TPUs.