skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best insurer is the one with the most data and ability to analyse it. Nobody can beat the self driving car operator, they need that information anyhow to improve the capabilities of the car.

Interest alignment is also with the self driving company, they have any incentive to improve safety of the car.
They are simply liable so they act as an insurer and just add that to the cost of the self driving module.

For the buyer this should remove most need of insurance. Even if there is some "manual mode" the obvious provider would also be the self driving operator. They could track driving behaviour and adjust the rates, or offer some limitations for accident prevention.

So the insurance itself is still there, but it will be less important and shift to the self driving operators. Even if you own a car, you would pay some fee for the self driving module for updates and liability in one package.

I worked for insurance companies. Car insurance is a huge business, but not a very profitable or even sold at a loss. It is often used to get new customers to offer them other more lucrative products. That going away is still a huge shift and those companies are very old and slow.
In order for an industry-wide blacklist to exist, large numbers of people would need to have access to it. This large number of people at many different, competing organisations would have no reason to trust each other to keep a secret.

The existence of such a list, the details of its construction, and the possible Social Justice implications of this would attract so many eyeballs and so much advertising revenue, that it would be hard for any online news publication to resist reporting evidence of it.
I need to clarify, this is from the perspective of American or first world working conditions. Coming from Russia an Indian boss must be a god sent(just guessing, don't know).

There are maybe 100 millions Indian bosses. Do I know all of them? Like everything in life, this is my experience. It isn't a scientific fact!
Somebody else has one?

Realistically though most things aren’t radioactive in a meaningful way.
Pretending that “Indian” describes a single culture composed of more than a billion people is the defintion of racism. India is an incredibly diverse place full of people who have less in common in terms of culture (not to mention language) than a Californian does with a New Yorker.
> If you are at your job as part of your Visa process, you are essentially a slave with a slave's rights to match, and you are better off not rocking the boat if you want to complete the process.

No, you are not.

That's taking the premise way too far. Slaves were owned as property. You are not property of a corporation just because your job is connected to a visa. You don't have slaves rights (almost entirely non-existent human rights, specifically). You chose to immigrate, there is a system involved in that, you knew that ahead of time, you chose to go forward regardless. You did not become a slave in the process, you did not sign on for 'slaves rights' in the process, you did not abdicate your freedom. Your employer may not dispose of your life as it sees fit. You are free to leave and go back to where you came from if you do not like the system, just as you were free to never sign on in the first place. You are not a slave at all in any manner. That's not an argument in favor of the backwards US immigration system, it's an argument that very, very clearly you are not a slave just because your job and visa are bound together. Immigration to N country is not a human right, it's a privilege (which is why I - and a billion other people - can't freely immigrate to Norway tomorrow and begin enjoying the associated perks).
$30! Wow. Sorry - i'll stick with duct tape and superglue.

They seem to think I'm going to use this instead of going to the ER??? No. I'm going to patch myself up with it then take myself to the ER to get it done properly.

Great idea - wrong marketing.
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You need to understand how your boss takes feedback and tailor your comments accordingly. I’ve had some managers I’ve felt free to give candid feedback to and others who just don’t take feedback well so you find another way to force change.
To me it feels like everything about OpenAI's media strategy is calculated and specifically designed to maximize good PR with the public. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
What does his or your age have to do with anything?

Just sounds like a penny wise pound foolish story to me.
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I remember visiting the Toronto science centre in the 1970s and just pickingup a block of uranium for comparison with a block of aluminium and perhaps other ones. They wanted to teach kids about density.

Glad they didn't use plutonium, which is toxic!
You can donate part of the liver, but it isn't "like nothing ever happened". This followup[1] of donors from 2011 found that 53% suffered long-term complications (though 93% would have gone through with it again). Notably missing from those stats is the percentage of donors who died after donation, either due to direct effects, indirect effects, or totally unrelated things.

Donating one of your two kidneys is maybe a "like nothing happened" experience, but donating a partial liver is much more complicated with worse outcomes.

[1] https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2011/11000...
where is the men.dev domain? I see there is a women.dev...
I don’t understand this. Why would you not use it? There would be so many days where I just wake up and go: ‘No... not today.’ and stay in bed.

Then there’s still normal vacation trips to consider.

I can easily see myself using 40 days of PTO in a year.
I wouldn't generalize to the industry, this data point is specific to one studio I worked at. And most were working some overtime, just not quite as much as they thought. Only a minority were working 40 or less.

Personally, I was working much more than 40. I thought I was working 75-80 hours, but it was closer to 60-65 at the time. It legitimately felt like 75 even though I know exactly what 80 hours a week feels like, even though I had worked those kinds of hours for long stretches before that.

One of the issues is that during crunch when people start staying late, often they start coming in later as well, so the day slides. The studio would buy dinner at 7 for the employees staying late, so quite a few people would roll in around 10:30 and leave after dinner. They felt like they were working a lot of overtime because they were staying late, but not accounting for coming in a bit late.
ℤ︎ (…, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, …) and + forms a group. It is also a ring with * and +. ℚ︎ with * and + forms a field.
This is the way it should be done. No employee should carry the burden of loading up their own credit or paying for big ticket items up front no matter how trustworthy the company.
Musk: Tesla Will Have All Its Self-Driving Car Features by the End of the Year
very low latency sounds nice. Especially for voice and video chat.
Nice! When I first saw this, my initial reaction was "cool but why would I do that". Thinking about it - it would be better than most software approaches due to the 'lower mental cost' for logging time.

Even adding a spreadsheet row with macros takes a few clicks, but simply reaching over and pressing a physical button would be the fastest way to do this.
> It is always easier to troll and derail than it is to employ such techniques for good.

Curious-- what possible good comes with the ability to generate grammatically correct text devoid of actual meaning?

Sure, you could generate an arbitrary essay, but it's less an essay about anything and more just an arrangement of words that happen to statistically relate to each other. Markov chains already do this and while the output looks technically correct, you're not going to learn or interpret anything from it.

Same goes with things like autocomplete. You could generate an entire passage just accepting its suggestions. It would pass a grammar test but doesn't mean anything.

Chatbots are an obvious application, but how is that "good," or any different than the Harlow experiment performed on humans? Fooling people into developing social relationships with an algorithm (however short or trivial) is cruel and unethical beyond belief.

A photoshopped image might be pleasant or stimulating to look at, and does have known problems in terms of normalizing a fictitious reality. But fake text? What non-malicious use can there possibly be?
> In practice that sounds impossible. Am I supposed to audit the code?

I know HN has a software bias, but a self-driving car is not a blob of disembodied code, and the code that is present relies on the state of hardware for proper operation.
I believe what I said was that science benefits from a diversity of "perspectives".

But go on, rant against those straw men if it makes you feel better.
If they can compete with cable internet they sure will.
There are other things your insurance covers, like an uninsured driver hitting your car, theft, a tree falling on your car, etc. These things will still happen to self driving cars.
A script contains a description of exactly what will happen from the start of the movie to the end. It contains all of the dialog. It contains descriptions of the important interactions with external entities like the location and any props you will need.

I was suggesting that the script is a bit like what we used to do when we wrote requirements documents. I doubt many people do it any more, but a long time ago we used to describe all of the workflows for an application before we did any design even. It was a description of exactly what would happen in every scenario. Sometimes it would have UX descriptions, but often not -- those would come later. This almost always fails because usually people's initial ideas are poor and it takes iteration to come up with a product that actually works well.

I don't think it's too far of a stretch to compare a script to a requirements document. Of course apples aren't oranges even though they are both fruit. You can find commonalities in anything and also differences. My main thought was that the OP suggested that filming a movie required complete control over the process, even though it was a lucrative endeavour. I thought, what's the difference between a movie and a software project, then? Are we missing opportunities because we don't apply enough control?

I don't think so. I think a movie project has a lot more information about what they are building before they start than a software project. That's the reason that control works better for them. However, I do think that software projects often lack vision because often nobody is responsible for that vision. Interestingly, as I said, movies appoint someone to be in charge of the vision of the project. Would the same thing work on a software project? I think it would.

If you think that my comparison is silly, then how do you rationalise the OP's claim that control is necessary for making a movie, while it appears that control is something we want to avoid for software projects? Or do you believe that software projects do require control in the same way that film making does?
The video on the linked website mentions that smaller scales are potentially useful but implies they are not capable of indefinite flight.

(It mentions a unit with a five pound payload flying for around four hours, comparing it to a conventional platform with a similar on-board battery which was able to remain aloft for around an hour.)
Things have changed a lot since 2012. Of course, we don't have information that we are not privy to, but I still think it's unlikely. I'm saying this as a finance professional, but of course, I really don't know what other people would do, but I know that my firm wouldn't traffic in something so high risk. Not because of some moral opposition of course, but just because the potential fines could potentially be an extinction event for the firm.
> potential advances in remote surgeries

Whoops, truck drove by, there goes the signal!
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amazon managers used the data from internal feedback system against their subordinates.
I think this shows exactly how we the customers(some say the products) can trust them with our data. Very vivid example that is.
> The change to self-driving cars will make maintenance (and maintenance records) more important for drivers for liability purposes

For owners. Until we recognize AIs as legal persons, self-driving car drivers don't have liability concerns.
You’re getting downvoted but I too hate the world domination plans of every single successful start up.
Interesting stuff, the uniformity for so many proofs is compelling.

The names/id's are pretty hard imho yet they are used everywhere, e.g "readdcli": could be about "read" or "add" at first sight. Maybe if they were a bit longer and more descriptive, less clicking on them to view what they are might be needed...
You're probably requesting with a degree of sense.

If you requested your 5.6 weeks off all at once and over an go-live date that you were 100% responsible for, you might receive a request to see if you could move those holidays a bit later
It breaks down into a few categories, organized by how futuristic they are:

CDN extensions: People who have always wanted to be able to cache POST requests, or aggregate responses but haven't been able to do it with the limitations imposed by traditional CDNs. Workers moves what was a configuration language into a full Turing-complete programming environment which can make subrequests, interact with the Cache API directly, etc.

Pushing out to the edge: There is a long list of services which are best done close to users but don't require a huge amount of state. For example, you might want to validate access tokens before requests hit your infrastructure, or do many of the other things commonly done in an API gateway. You also might want to move performance critical components of your API which don't require much state closer to users, things like aggregating and caching GraphQL or prerendering your React app. We have a Workers KV product which gives you just enough state to handle many of these cases in beta now.

Serverless apps: This is what workers.dev is all about. The idea that if you _can_ deploy code to a network almost as large as the Internet itself is it possible that is a better model than deploying to a single region or availability zone? Without cold-starts you get instant scaling to almost any volume of traffic which is a big advantage, to the point where this type of serverless seems faster and cheaper even if you ignore the network. As you mention it will require better distributed storage tools, but we're optimistic those will become available in the near future.

You can read more using the tag on our blog (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/workers/) or community forum (https://community.cloudflare.com/c/developers/workers). Thanks for caring, a lot of people work on Workers every day and seeing people get invested in what we're doing is everything.
> Traditionally, people can also help each other through big family, church and other local communities. The new generation does not want to be involved in any of these. Now they want the government and their employers to bear more responsibility to support their personal life.

This comment reeks of being an outsider who does not have the slightest clue what being a single parent is like.

Your notions of these "traditional" means of people helping each other are anchored in a past that does not strongly exist in many areas today.

- Big family => what if you don't have one of those? what if family is far away?

- Church => what if you're not religious? what if (gasp!) church isn't terribly fond of single parents--especially single mothers--and treat them in a way that denigrates their humanity because they happen to be unwed parents?

- Local communities => like what? single parent groups? homeless shelters? something else? Most of these kinds of communities offer emotional or social support in some degree--say, people you can talk to about the struggles of being a single parent--but they cannot help you put food on the table, provide clothing and shelter, or buy diapers. That's what having a job is for! Single parents don't want to wind up in a homeless shelter because they cannot afford to support their children.

I don't know what this new generation is in your eyes, but having been and known an awful lot of single parents over the last 15 years, I've never seen any of them want the government or their employers to bear responsibility to support their personal life. What they want is a fair shake at the job market, to be treated like everyone else, to have a bit of flexibility when their kids need it, and to never have their kids brought up as a liability in their employment lives. I've never seen a single parent believe they're entitled to an easy life. I've seen a lot of single parents struggle with navigating society and job markets that seem to want to ignore the reality of single parenthood.

Every single mother I've known has been hit on, asked on dates, had overt sexual advances made toward them physically and verbally--hey, she's a single mom, so you know she puts out, right?--had comments made toward them about their kids, experience a complete lack of flexibility when it comes to pay and schedule ... and a host of other things that directly contradict my own experience for 15 years as a single father. I think it's pretty fair to call out the inherent sexism in the general job market--and even in tech specifically. It's pretty ridiculous.
There's a block every 10 minutes, but the number of bitcoins minted per block goes down over time. It used to be that 50 bitcoins were minted every block, but currently only 12.5 are minted each block. The amount minted halves every four years. (Personally, I think it's too extreme that it instantly goes from x to x/2 in one block. The mining rate generally dips a bit for a while when this happens. I think it would have been better for the minting to decrease in a much smoother way.)
Uranium is toxic too, but I bet that was depleted uranium, which isn't all that radioactive and the bigger danger is its regular toxicity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Interesting, whatever it is society has changed and we need to re-evaluate our culture, community and policies to accommodate
When/where did you work? Corporate cards are normal at SIE, even engineers on my team have them. I don't dispute your experience, just curious.

Edit: As an addition, the expense isn't paid by the employee. Costs over $2000 need justification above your boss, but your immediate boss can approve up to $2000 no issues.
As correctly pointed out by other readers, this is a non-issue and complete overreaction. All feeding into misconceptions and irrational fear of radiation.

The "safety professional" was out of his depth and clearly undereducated about the risks of radiation and uranium ore in particular.

Hence, the true risk of a "dirty bomb" -- is psychological, i.e. it would be a weapon of mass disruption (not destruction), triaging a "worried well" would be expensive and time consuming.
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A shame. When my son was about 11 or 12 his career ambition was to be an evil genius, and when he learned about the FFL he told me, "this is really useful to know in case the evil genius thing doesn't work out"
In California you are not legally allowed to audio record someone in private without their consent. They must know that they are being recorded for it to be used as evidence in court.
The point is that if you get to tag your objects with something, it's far easier than dealing with un-prepped objects. What they have here is a better way of locating RFID tags.

The real application for this is automated checkout, where the RFID tags on all the items get read. If you have good location, you can compare the item's visual image and its tag for discrepancies.
Some accounts of Kirin, yes, appear quite likely to be giraffes, others are nearly identical to the Western accounts of the monoceros of distant India (one of the original of the unicorn legend) and are almost certainly accounts of rhinoceros.
My experience with Amazon was extremely positive.

The author of this article seems very junior / immature, and honestly feels like he's got some mental health issues going on. Airing this much dirty laundry is not likely to get you what you want, and is likely going to make it hard for him to get hired by the next company.

Always talk to your boss 1:1, face to face. Never give shitty feedback over an online system. If you can't work out your issues, or you don't get along well with your manager, best to just move on and look for a new job.
How is making negative generalizations about people from a specific country not racist?
> But no, everybody can get into Ivy League.

I didn't say that. I said that the universities offer scholarships which cover their assessment of financial need. They still have limited slots and are very selective.

> It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some truth

I genuinely didn't know that you were exaggerating. I thought that was your perception.

We live in a world where lots of things are true in degrees. There is some amount of snobbery at elite US universities and there s some quantity of social mobility. But exaggeration makes it really hard to talk about how much or how little and that quantity matters to understanding the problem.
and the only open source flight sim, in desperate need of more contributors :)

http://home.flightgear.org/
Mh no, the shadow's position depends not just on the planes movement, but also on earth's rotation and trajectory.
Life will never be fair. That is the status quo of life since the beginning of time, it will never change. Regardless of what you try to do, it will never be fair.

I didn't see women fighting to get into those physically demanding jobs, or demand quotas or any of the other nonsense we see today. It's fashionable to be tech because it is easy work that provides a comfortable lifestyle. Thinking otherwise is foolish.

I can decide these arbitrary standards just as one else can decide their own arbitrary standard just because they don't conform to your standards doesn't mean they are wrong.

Any quota placed on the diversity of race, gender or another divide we can think of is asine, waste of time, and pointless. You can think otherwise, I don't really care, I don't need everyone to like or agree with me. I accept that as a part of life.
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those folks normally have a PPL and do that to "fly" big planes.

Also, outside of the US, a PPL is pretty damn expensive!
You're not operating a vehicle. You're a passenger in a vehicle operated by waymo.
Cherry picked recordings are very eye opening
https://hkm.com/seattle/retaliation/

Most US states are at will; and people still win lawsuits against their employers quite often for just run of the mill toxic behavior, and not just for things as cut and dry as bigotry (although, being a visa holder, he may have a case for, especially since it was a part of these discussions - national origin and immigration status are protected classes).
> Maybe you are able to book 80% of your time, and you only work 5 days a week, so each year you can work: (52 * 5) * 0.8 = 208 days.

So, you never take vacation or get sick? Plus, 80% of days billed seems pretty optimistic, isn't it?
I'd have to think about the pomodoro thing. Maybe, but I developed an almost unconscious reflex to hit the 'ok' button on the timer to make it go away. I would try very hard to not have it make me think about anything, just confirm which task I was in the middle of. The main thing it caught was when I hadn't re-started a timer after finishing something and stopping it, and when I switched tasks without telling the timer. I'd take a second to fix it, but not stop to reflect, nor break down my tasks. After the first reminder, I'd try to ignore them again.
>got asked out constantly

oh god the horror