skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious to see if the crash rate is similar to the crash rate of other cars in the same class (BMW, Mercedes, etc). Is it possible that people tend to drive more cautiously in a more expensive car?
Probably because when you're off autopilot, Tesla drivers (including me) are much more alert and aware of what's going on compared to a normal car where you have to alert/aware the whole time and in so doing, tend to "zone out" when doing monotonous driving. I tend to use Autopilot for the monotonous driving parts .. and then take over myself if there is something that needs more attention (construction, weather conditions, crazy drivers, etc.)
Probably demographics. People who buy Teslas are probably less likely to be in an accident regardless of whether or not they're in a Tesla. Other things might matter too, like lane departure warning and blind spot detection, which would probably lead to less accidents on other newer cars with those features as well
Boggles my mind how Amazon, one of the top tech companies and leader in e-commerce, can have a terrible search engine.
>In that case, likely a lot of people would want to not have to invest in the hefty price of owning, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle, let alone driving which everyone knows is more dangerous than most things a person does in a given day.

All of the costs are worth it, as long as I don't have to share transportation with anyone else.
That's fine, the problem is that you also get all the blame as well. Once you "fix" a computer, everything that will break will suddenly be your fault.
I pretty much solely buy things from Amazon when their algorithm screws up and chances of counterfeits are low. I've bought several metal cabinets by a major manufacturer with free shipping for a price that had to be lower than the cost of shipping itself; much less the cabinets.

Were they beat up in transit, and take forever? Oh most definitely, one was even lost somehow; however they were so undervalued it was worth the fact they were bound to screw up.
According to Amazon, an iPhone 5C is about $100.
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I had a very positive Postgres experience writing this, as I was able to find three separate bugs before the 11 release.

Two of them have bugfixes merged already (JIT EXPLAIN bugs, auto_explain support for JIT) and a third has a patch pending (track_functions for procedures)

I encourage everyone to test things early & report issues - thats the way Postgres works well for everyone :)
Because the NHTSA data includes all car, including the very cheap cars with bare minimum safety/help systems, old restored cars, ...

For it to have any value, it should compare each Tesla cars to modern/similar age car of the same category and price range.
I would also put privacy in Apple’s favor
There is also a lack of what is considered "Excel best practices", for want of a better word. The only resource I've seen along those lines is Joel Spolsky's "You Suck at Excel" video (which is excellent, and should be necessary viewing for anyone who use Excel on a regular basis):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
The simple answer is practice... A lot of it. There is no quick fix.

I think some basic theory and ability to read music helps.

The best way to get better is to play with other musicians who are better than you This can be stressful and it might not last long since they may get tired of playing with someone below their level. However being humble and honest about your abilities (with them) goes a long way.

For me, the feeling is a lot like coming home from a great first date: you can’t stop thinking about it and your willing to sacrifice other parts of your life to schedule it again as soon as possible.

Good luck!
> No I don't want to take hundreds of accidental screenshots a day & upload them to iCloud

I hear this is a thing, and fine, enough people seem to have this problem that they should probably look at that. But why are you screenshots uploading to icloud? That should only happen if you actually take the step to save the screenshots?
It seems likely that the esp8266 chip family is being used in industrial automation. It's a very powerful yet cheap chip, making it practically ideal for adding covert spyware. I love it, yet it scares me. It's a little too amazing.
At my previous job in the power industry we had to clean up our shared drive and move all the CAD files of one type into a certain new folder, and the CAD files of the newer type into another, and PDF outputs in another, GIS exports in another, etc. Three people were dragging-and-dropping by hand for hours until I had some free time and made a Python script in 10 minutes to do this all. Got a few free drinks that day.
Can you help me with RegEx in Excel?
AP racks up miles on highways and in favorable conditions, i.e. out of city traffic, parking, most pedestrians interaction and so on.
Also demographics. All Tesla cars (at least the ones with autopilot) are less than 5 years old, and typically driven by a subset of the national demographic due to their price. But they are comparing crash rates of ALL cars, including 30 year old clunkers with few safety features.

I wonder how the numbers would differ if they were to, for example, only compare to cars of similar years, or filter so the comparison is of the same demographic, or at the very minimum compared to cars of the same class/price.

With all that said, I love what Tesla is doing to advance safety features and technology. But these kinds of numbers leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Agreed, but then there are other reasons for direct apk installing, like not willing to pay Play Store for publishing test apps, orlike tubemate, the apps which are not allowed at store.
Yes. Seems far more plausible that the media is a reflection of human nature than that the media has reshaped the way people think.
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Right, it's worth remembering that Apple deals with lawsuits all the time. All costs and benefits considered, it's probably the best option for them to lie about this for now, and plausible deniability is always a possibility ("at the time of writing, Apple PR were not aware of x, y and z"). The cost of losing access to the gigantic China market and its manufacturing operations would be much too great.
huh, well there goes my main argument against iOS.
I'm a bit confused by your definition.

What if the data becomes privacy sensitive after big data methods are applied to it? Does your comment say it isn't possible or it's not big data when that happens?
Having used Excel for many years on the trading floor, I have to say it's awful.

It does everything, badly. Which is why it's popular. People can get by without properly thinking things through, just jamming a few formulas on a spreadsheet, and patching the calculation when something comes up. You're never forced to think rigorously.

You can use it as a crappy database. Or a crappy UI. Or a crappy place to call external DLLs from. It's the perfect tool for that guy who "has a great idea, but just needs it coded up".

If a guy comes to you with an Excel question, he wants you to help him. Contrast this with a range of other technologies. If a guy comes to you with a question about c++, you tend to be helping each other. Same can be said for any number of things that non-techies would not think to ask. When was the last time someone asked you about Haskell or Erlang where you were treated merely as a means to someone else's end?
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Good question! Because this is on a hot code path, we were allocating new values faster than the garbage collector was able to remove them. Over extended periods of time, the server would trend toward running out of memory.
Two companies ago I posted in the “Who is Hiring” thread. I ended up only getting a couple responses (while other channels got much more activity) but I ended up hiring one of them. Though I’ve since left that company, my former employee has become a good friend and confidant, and ended up following me to every company I’ve jumped to.
You could move every CNC machine from the manufacturing line and it would not matter.

These sneaky chips were embedded in the PCB. So this is a supplier trust issue.

Plus they probably did not implant every board, So somebody inside FoxConn had to slip in these 'special' pcb's in known Apple mobo orders..
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> Chrysler's trying it all over again with their "turn the dial" transmission control.

...which they stole from Jaguar.

Oddly enough, Mercedes has gone to column shifters in the last few years, which have previously been associated with American trucks.
I don't think it's exaggerated. Here's someone's experience as an early employee at PagerDuty, and I can find these examples all day long, both on HackerNews and Quora.

"Right, but OP said he was fired before he had options vested. "So he took 2% options at a 50% pay cut, but then got fired and that screwed him out of the 2% options before he could vest. Welcome to the valley." -- bb88

If you're a founder, you'll either fail, do well, or succeed spectacularly. If you're a startup employee, you won't do better (except in the rarest of circumstances) than you would somewhere else. Be a founder or a tech worker somewhere established with market rate pay, but do not be a startup employee (unless you're desperate for experience and literally have no other options).

My opinion and advice would change if the value proposition to startup employees changed substantially, putting them on par with founders.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064745
That makes about as much sense (to me) as:

"Fill out this survey and you can have a candy bar"

"Nope, I won't fill out the survey but I'll still take the candy bar"
I view the original competitive edge to be the "Warehouse as a Service". Anyone can sell their products without having to own an online store or get the bulk shipping logistics figured out, just ship it in to Amazon, and they can load balance your product out across the US to make that 2 day delivery possible.

They also did have the original patent on "1 Click Purchase" which I'm sure has always helped sales.

EDIT: So the only reason I think it hasn't been copied is the high barrier to entry and market inertia as the other commenter said.
I did not include "intuitively" to suggest that it's wrong, only to make clear you're not saying anything surprising here. I also did not assume ground level heat emissions from power plants cause literally zero warming, only that it's negligible.

The rest of your reasoning is similarly confused.
These kinds of laws are 'feel good' measures. The ideas behind them make sense (easy default passwords are 'bad' ... sometimes. Sensible security precautions should be taken into account when designing IoT devices). But those same precautions completely fail when used as part of a one-size fits all regulatory framework. The regulatory, enforcement and licensing mechanisms that such laws entail are either going to be ignored, in which case the entire exercise was a waste of time, or they will be needlessly onerous and create undue burden with negligible benefits ... and be ignored by many manufacturers anyway (because how are you going to police on order for some IoT widget from China).

Also, it is not a good idea for lawmakers and regulators to mandate an implementation within a law (and that's exactly what mandating that per-device password needs to be unique is). Maybe my IoT device has a simple default password but has other security measures that the regulator didn't even envision that makes the solution secure. On the other end, maybe my network stack has a critical vulnerability that a unique password does nothing to mitigate.

I'm not a Libertarian as I do believe in sensible government oversight and regulation but lawmakers and regulators have to be cognizant that every single regulation they put out has a cost and that cost needs to be balanced with benefits. As it stands this is a poorly thought out law, and will do nothing for security, will punish local manufacturers by increasing overhead, and will make local manufacturers less competitive against external ones that simply ignore these directives. Typical California stupidness.
Yeah, great video. I often send this to colleagues. Another blog I recommend to others is https://itsnotaboutthecell.com/
> I figure if the Kardashians can get ritch off the internet without knowing one line of code, maybe I have a shot with this!

Promise me that if you DO strike it rich with quantum computing, you'll change your name to "Hadamard Kardashian"!
I think the point is that formulas and macros are more utterly confusing.
> Why wouldn’t a company notice any of the outbound traffic using firewalls?

IIRC the original story mentioned en passant that at least one company detected some odd behaviour on the network, which eventually resulted in hw examination and the uncovering of these moles. TBH, that part is immaterial: it might well be some parallel construction to avoid giving away NSA intel capabilities.

> Where did all the boards in question go?

Warehouse 51 [1] of course.

https://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/best-approximation-...
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>[...] China functioned more as an authoritarian oligarchy than a totalitarian dictatorship

Those both still sound like tyranny to me.
Not just the factories. Access to the market.
Long time ago somebody somewhere on HN recommended Starting Strength.

I started researching, read the book, and then one day a certified gym opened in my area. Healthiest I've felt in years.
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This is outrageous.
Consider math terminology as a so-called "term of art." An attractor, in dynamic systems, is something which attracts. A repellor is something which repels. Should it be called a "repellence?" Wouldn't that mean something undesirable? Should the opposite of "attractor" be a "repugnor," because repugnance is the opposite of attraction? What is the corresponding correct form of something that repels? Repellor (or repeller, for those who prefer American suffixes).

Forms matter. Colloquial meanings also matter, but not as much, particularly when they're an egregious violation of English and decency.
Exactly. I've never seen x-ray used post SMT. We've used it to post-mortemly debug BGA issues.
I learned about Docker and Ansible here, and we use them both in production every day.

I've used many comments and stories for material for presentations I've given.

I've learned so much I'm not sure I can list it all of the things!
Not always, at least here in Oregon I received unemployment after being let go from a contractor job. The state tax department had to rule whether or not my contracting work qualified though. They used a couple of factors: whether or not I had set times to be at the office, whether I had to be at the office, how many hours I worked, if they gave me hardware for working there - basically if they were "cheating" as you said.
Thanks for posting this, the gallery section left me speechless. I hope tensions die down so I can go visit Iran one day; i'm always impressed by the historical architecture that is present in the Middle East.
I have a custom ring tone I made myself. It is easy.
Don't be sad. Better you know what you're up against, than not know.
> Working from 10-7 keeps us both happy.

I'm sorry but: fuck that shit.

When I was in that industry I worked 8am-6pm because I was able to be more productive when the office was empty than being some night owl who stayed in the office till 2am.

I caught no end of shit because I was "walking out the door at 6pm". People weren't blocked, I wasn't leaving anyone in a state where they couldn't do work.

God forbid I wanted to spend a bit of time with my wife(then GF, I can't believe she put up with it). There's some interesting technical problems in that industry but it's not worth the hell you go through for the rest of it. Saw 3 divorces on my last team before I got out and that was all I needed to know that it wasn't a healthy industry to be in.
? The author said PostgreSQL's development gives them a warm feeling. If anything, they are saying everything should be like PostgreSQL, which means more open!
What?

I first do research on what specific model I gonna buy and than check who has it the cheapest with a minimum good Shoprating. Often enough I can buy it from or through Amazon.

How do you use Amazon that you will get different quality of a product in comparison to shopping somewhere else?
Sure, there are a bunch of ways I could have accomplished what I wanted. You can side load quite a few emulators these days without rooting, but man... just... why do I have to? On android I download the thing and go. Once driod hardware and software got better I dropped iOS and haven't looked back.
> it has lived through style evolutions

The same can be said for C++, C#, etc. that have been around for a long enough time. Golang is relatively speaking still new. Look back at this again if golang adds generics and other features that will change how code in it is written.

> Another imperfection: GC pauses can cause request timeouts and are annoying to debug.

That's not an issue with Java, but how the GC is tuned. Golang provides only 1 gc that is tuned for latency. And even that is not hard real time. The JVM has several GCs you can choose from, including latency optimized ones.
> China could cause huge harm to Apple, but the reverse is also true - how would the US government, other corporations, consumers and investors react to such a news?

They would react as usual: lots of whingeing, no action, and roll over for a belly scratch afterward.

> under extreme political/consumer pressure electronics factories can be setup in a matter of months in US.

It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you get pregnant ...

Many of these equipment manufacturers have entire facilities dedicated to producing equipment solely for Apple. They simply cannot replace that amount of equipment in any timely fashion.

Edit (external reference):
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/10/next-iphone-probably-wont....

> Koenig writes. “Apple is such a huge buyer of a particular kind of mill (BT30 spindle drill-tap centers) that Fanuc, Brother and DMG Mori each have factories dedicated to building machines exclusively for Apple.”
According to this comment, the BMC is at least capable of working off the real NIC instead, and will do so if you don't hook up the management NIC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138411
The craziest thing is how close they get at 3W. That's the part that's staggering. What could Apple do with, say, laptop thermals? Desktop thermals? The mind creeps closer to boggling.
I think he's saying he prefers PG, because it is open.
In fact it is designed for small merchants - and enables you to sell on Walmart, eBay and Shopify stores with fast shipping
Here since July 2012. Nope - this site is just filler during slow days for me.
> Having used Excel for many years on the trading floor, I have to say it's awful.

But the interface is not awful - it's absolutely wonderful as a quick way to enter and share data and do a fast analysis. The part that's awful is when you do more than that. And once you've got the data into Excel, why go through the trouble of changing to something else just to do one additional thing, even if that additional thing is complex?
I have been reading HN for 8 years now. It is currently my number one source for news. I have learned many things, and I believe it is helping to prepare me for my next big adventure.
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Exactly. My 2 day shipping is always 4-5 days. I am not including non shipping days in this, either. My last item was a small SSD that took 5 days to arrive.It was bubble packed and about the size and weight of a Blu ray movie case.

I ordered SUV tires from Tire Rack, and they had them to me in 18 hours.

2 day shipping on their end is wildly misleading.
Backups do not require iTunes at all. You can backup and restore to iCloud automatically. I have not used iTunes for backup for a long time. Also if you want to use iTunes you do not need to have the phone plugged into anything. Having iTunes open and have the phone connected to the same network via Wifi is all you need to do to sync.
As I explained elsewhere to you, not all passive or quasi-passive money is in indexed products. And furthermore, reading the article as I encouraged you originally to do, reveals it is not about index funds.
I believe it's supernormal stimuli.[1] In short, we tend to think of quality of something and the quantity of it as distinct. In essense, communication has a good quality so we should increase it's quantity. However, over time the quantity of the good transforms it's quality. Ice cream for desert once a week or once a month is a wonderful treat. Ice cream for every meal is a depressing slog. New modes of communication tap into the primal desire of people to engage in social action, the repeated tapping of that desire however has pulled most of the good stuff and now we're getting into the ugliness that lies beneath.

[1] http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/
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I’ve taught R (and Python) to mostly non-programmer scientists as part of multi-day Software Carpentry workshops. Especially with R, I feel like most attendees after a couple of days were able to do things that would be decidedly non-trivial in Excel.

EDIT: emphasis on my original point of “past a low complexity bar.” If someone is looking to manually enter data and maybe sum a row or two, Excel is probably easier. I’d say at the point where someone needs to reshape data or do any kind of non-trivial formula, R becomes easier—certainly easier for me to imagine teaching.
It is. It's convoluted and idiosyncratic for no reason and all together a puzzled together mess. R is not (much) better than Excel. It's better in the same way that getting stabbed in the eye with a hot poker twice is better than getting stabbed with it three times.
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but calling "mu index" from the offlineimap postsynchook is going to suck, because mu4e invokes "mu server"[1], that aquires a Xapian lock on the index, which means you can't run the "mu index" while reading your E-Mail.

> This is the worst thing about mu/mu4e. You need to do the indexing with a timer in Emacs, and because Emacs is single-threaded this blocks things / slows down the UI. After trying to get it to work in some automated way I gave up. I manually issue a key-combo to re-index and then read my E-Mail.

I tried both approaches (actually, I had mu4e reindex on `g` query refresh, no need for separate keybindings), and prefer having indexing run after IMAP sync. I don't notice any problems (and I mostly use very slow Atom hardware).

> Another comment: I recommend not using Emacs to send E-Mail, but to outsource this to a local smtpd such as Exim (which I use with mu4e on Debian). Then if you don't have WiFi or whatever the smtpd just queues those up for later sending, and has queue inspection tools etc. All of the solutions for doing this in Emacs itself are dirty hacks full of edge cases and bugs smtpds have solved decades ago.

FUD. smtpmail.el can do this. smtpmail.el can queue mail, and you can run it in a separate Emacs process periodically or on demand, to attempt to deliver those emails. The emails are queued as files in a directory, so you don't need separate queue inspection tools. I run smtpmail.el this way with mu4e, and think it is a far superior solution to having to install and configure yet another external program.