skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the head. People often jump to reactions without looking at bigger picture.

It is entirely likely that Uber engineers evaluated this scenario, and (correctly) decided that it was safer overall to turn off reactionary breaking - and have that function performed by a human in the driver seat. If they hadn't, these cars might instead have been brake-checking people at 100x the rate.

It's easy to say things like "Uber should have waited until better safety features were available", such as the eye tracking suggestions mentioned elsewhere in this thread. But features like that take time - especially if they're development-only features that would have no place in the final product. Every additional safety feature pushes FSD deployment back.

Globally, 1.25 million people die from car accidents annually. That's over 3,000 people per day. For every day that you delay mass adoption of FSD, you are accruing massive amounts of fatalities that could have been avoided.

FSD does not have to be perfect, it's development will cost innocent lives - but if you're optimizing for minimal loss of life, it's the correct thing to do. Reactionary policies do the opposite of what you intend them to do - they cost more lives in the long run.
Perhaps this comment was intended as a parody of itself? While not incorrect, the summary grossly understates the actual content of the article.

Those who read “White Words” in full will understand why its author would oppose “article in one sentence” summaries.
I think to interrupt a render means interrupt the process of reconciliation. you don't have to response the user input until the difference of whole React element has been found.
https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/#consistency
Because it saves fuel/emissions?
We were never part of the Martin JetPack project. Totally different tech.
There was a proposal for restarting ferry service and possibly developing the Alviso location circa 2010, which I looked at around when the Richmond ferry opened last month. They spent a few years evaluating it but concluded that proceeding now would be too expensive, due to accumulation of silt from various environmental mishaps during the 20th century making the river channel narrower and shallower. The silver lining is that restoration is expected to reverse the trend, which would allow the plan to be revisited without expensive dredging as the channel clears naturally.

In the meantime there are still plans for other South Bay terminals, such as Redwood City. The ferry system is one of the most exciting things going on in local transit developmemt.
Thats a silly way of looking at it. Every field of science has their own threshold for acceptance. Biology as a field is much less stringent than physics when it comes to p values for example. Psychology even less so. This ddoesnt mean physicists can go around saying Biology or Psychology are not sciences. Economics is a science - just not as well understood / clean as some other fields. Humans are a part of the equation which makes it harder.
The investment isn't even enough to buy one
Uber was testing in multiple locations, but they originally moved it to Arizona due to less regulation than they were encountering in California: https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/22/ubers-self-driving-cars-f...
Well, if you were better at math, you wouldn't give your free time to post content on HN, would you ?

As soon as you talk about future costs, different people have different believes and different bets, because they have different risk profiles

Edit : why is my comment flagged?
A felony for mismanaging the company into nationalization?
You're right, but even that is more nuanced; for instance, the US unemployment rate is based on a survey that counts any paid work during the survey week as employment.

I'm not in the US myself, but I think for the HN crowd in general moving to someplace else isn't a problem as we have the financial means as well as the independence. Other social groups might be more dependent on the social support around them (family, friends and maybe government). For them, moving to another place would be akin to resetting everything and starting a new life, with all the associated risk.
in reply to point a), b), c) and d):

it already exists: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/ There is a companion to the BNF that has the prices of all the brand/generic versions of the drug.

Doctors don't just randomly prescribe anything, they already _have_ guidelines. and based on actual patient information (like interactions or lack of improvement) they will change drug type based on the evidence. Again, look at the BNF for interactions and contra-indications

for example look at this for nose infection: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summary/nose-infections-an... a list of four drugs and an order to try. Notice that its drub clases, not brands.

Doctors should not be allowed to prescribe brands in the states until the corruption is under control
Yeah - oh man, I'm terrible with names. Adrian Tchaikovsky's a really good execution guy - fantastic standalone novels, not with anything especially out there, but really well done. I was really impressed by The Freeze Frame Revolution, and Children of Time was also good. His fantasy stuff is pretty uninspired, though.
Game cartridges are pretty cool. Unlike a modern game download, the cartridges could extend the functionality of the base system, allowing console manufacturers to extend the life of their consoles.

My favorite example is Star Fox for Super Nintendo, a cartridge that came with a GPU, allowing 3D graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX This was in 1993, five years before GPUs became mainstream on PCs.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecking_order
If the mechanism is believed to be thermal, then this is 4-6 orders of magnitude more powerful than WiFi. It's like removing the cavity from a microwave oven and blasting it at someone. This is horrifying.
How is complaining about a neighbor being an "armchair philosopher"? I hope the irony of your statement is not lost in you.

Apartment complexes don't have HOAs and sometimes it can be a huge hassle to contact your landlord to fix the sink, much less to investigate and shut down your neighbor's illegal Airbnb operation.
MakeML – Create object detection CoreML model with ease
> 1. Pay down high-interest debt

sounds pretty applicable. As someone who found himself in precisely the described situation ($40K in student loans, a car loan, and some credit card debt resulting from living in the Bay Area on an entry level salary and not being disciplined enough to live within my means then, I can tell you that this advice is painful to execute, but actually the only thing that works.
They are very much not the same thing. A signed app can be distributed from anywhere with the assurance it's the same app - it can't be maliciousified and if it was malicious from the start, it can be disabled. The non-signed up can have zillions of malicious variants which something like Defender may or may not catch. It also gets a shot of circumventing (or even exploiting) AV.
Corporate average fuel economy regulations [1] set targets for the average fuel efficiency of all the vehicles a manufacturer sells. Since SUVs are popular and higher margin, car companies often have to do tricks like the auto-off engines to offset poor fuel economies in more profitable segments. Manufacturers that want to go over the limits have to pay a penalty or buy credits from their competitors who go under the limit.

Cars with auto-off also have newer technology made specifically to handle the extra stress like self-lubricating bearings and starters rated for >500k starts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
seriously are you okay ?
They should only do that after they have reached operational temperature. Turning off the engine while it's still cold (i.e. below operational temperature) wears a lot on it. This is why diesel is a bad choice, if your regular trips are short.
The sharing economy was always fron day 1 about rentals. That's the central premise.

What's deviating from the original concept is that barriers to entry are restricting supply to the point that providing a service becomes too profitable and actually pays off to provide it full time.

Consider Uber. The principle behind ride sharing is quite simple: if you're already driving somewhere you can help someone out by sharing your ride with someone who wants to go where you're going. Cars are already clogging the roads while operating at 1/5 of their capacity. So, why not give someone a ride and be rewarded for your efford? Except that regulation bars individuals from doing just thay, and thus so-called rideshare companies are actually taxi companies.
Let me pick your argument apart:

> This is just an appeal to hypocrisy and doesn't really discredit your parent's argument, which is more on topic.

So, we are supposed to accept the following:

- criticizing China, a relatively poor country, for stealing IP is OK. The world must confront China on these practices

- the US has the high ground, since it is not stealing IP (now)

Now I point out that the US has reached its current position as tech leader by doing roughly the same, and basically you tell me

- we are not talking about the US

- what the US did decades (centuries?) ago is not the topic of discussion, and it is not relevant to the discussion

How is my evidence not relevant to the discussion?

Now let me try to clarify what I am saying:

The technology lead that US has has been achieved largely by doing what the US is trying to prevent other countries from doing now. This technology lead has a huge impact on the world (the American tax), and the world should refuse to pay it. The world should follow exactly the same approach that the US followed in the past: disregard the rules, and concentrate on their own interests.

Because the system is rigged.

Drawing rules once you have achieved a dominant position, and trying to enforce them in order for others to remain behind and continue paying the tax to the tech leader is not in the interest of the world.

Once we have a balanced situation, you can think about putting rules for everybody to follow. "Everybody" means that there must be an independent organization, not politicized, in charged of enforcing the rules.
Yes, so why not do something about the negative ones?
Thanks for clarifying! I was 90% just joking, but I wasn't actually aware that it had such a long history.
That's not even true. It was reduced slightly, which is only relevant for really expensive houses.
I was just wondering if there was something like Rcpp but for Python, looks like this is it. Thanks for sharing
I certainly believe the Uber dashcam video was poor quality. But at the same time, the videos on the link you showed are a bit misleading because the holiday lights are not strung up all year, and in any case the collision happened after the bridge, where to the right of Mill Avenue is a big golf course which is going to be dark at night, and to the left are some desolate office buildings that would also be empty and dark. It's just not a well lit area, neither is it an area with a lot of pedestrians, so there aren't many crosswalks.

You can explore for yourself here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4380916,-111.9434265,3a,75y,...
You can buy a Comodo Code Sign cert for $95 if you buy from a reseller rather than direct.
Definitely. Cartridges really were amazing; I think that's ultimately going to end up being the organic thesis of my web site.

Something I discovered while researching this post: Sega had their own Super FX-y thing with the Sega Virtua Processor. It was only used in one game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua_Racing), but the thing I find most fascinating about it is that Sega contemplated releasing just the Virtua Processor itself—you guessed it, as a lock-on cartridge.

(Unfortunately, this fact didn't really fit in anywhere, so I'm just dropping it here.)
You’re right that moving to a new location isn’t as trivial as my post would suggest, especially if you’re relying on your family for childcare. But it is still an option that people have been forced to consider throughout history.
I highly suggest using a catch-all on a subdomain, not a top level domain. Top level domains get dictionary-style spam/phishing storms (eg alice@, bob@, charlie@, etc), but those don't seem to occur with subdomains. You can also create just an MX record for a subdomain, which helps 'hide' it to some extent.

The first time I setup a top level catch all, I had the first dictionary style attack within a day or so. I've been using a catch-all mail-only subdomain for well over a decade, and have had no such attack.
Common sense. Lets say you previously was paying 30% taxes on your (e.g.) 10k annual income - $3000. Taxes get reduced to 25%. So, the next year you have an extra $500 in your pocket and not in the goverment treasury.

Where does that $500 go? One or two places. You either 1) spend it on something or 2) invest it in something (which will result in that getting spent by the entity "borrowing" it).

> I want to know why you think this is the case?

I have had to raise the wages paid by my business to retain employees due to other businesses in my industry raising their wages.

No research needed for these two thoughts. Direct observation and application of logic.
I think small flying vehicles are cool and this is a good use for them, but if this is true, are there other ways to get more people equipped with some of these lifesaving skills at possibly lower marginal cost? CPR training? More AEDs? Some more kinds of injectors that can be used by people with minimal training? Maybe there are other devices on the model of the AED that could administer other kinds of potentially-dangerous treatments?
Not OP, but someone who is very familiar with this space:

Hosting... Don't do some crazy VPS thing, you don't want to worry about being a sysadmin. Dreamhost has a good WP setup with most things you'd need ready to go. There are lots of other "managed WordPress" companies too.

Email, just FastMail or G-Suite (Google Apps). Probably just the latter because it's familiar to most.

Registration is pretty negligible these days. I like Namecheap and their corporate values and support.
And that would just wear a bearing/spring system or the clutch, which are all repairs that are far cheaper than the cost of an automatic transmission replacement.
My most serious foray was around 2012, and back then such a house seemed to go for $800K. Given the mortgage ratios, that corresponds to a PI payment of around $3800/mo. Kind of hard to match this to current offerings, but it looks like maybe $1.3M now, so theoretically $6200/mo. So maybe $100-120K/y in mortgage payments? Not sure.

Can't recall the specifics, but my offer from a FAANG back then was a bit over $200K gross. But a lot of that isn't really liquid cash that you could use to pay the mortgage. It doesn't really fly.

These days, for the scenario above, even $300K/y cash seems marginal. And AFAIK, no one in the BA would seriously consider offering me that.

Lest someone complain that I seem entitled, let me say that I in no way consider that I somehow deserve such an offer. But at the same time, no BA employer deserves someone like me when I can get equivalent comp elsewhere.

IMO, the way BA comp works is you engage in raids for five to ten years when you're in your late 20s or early 30s. Live in squalor, three or five roommates, and bank it all. Do not marry. Then take your winnings back to the real world and retire, or at least, live an easy life.

But if you want a traditional life, thar be dragons...
Actually I wonder if your reasoning is circular..

If you saw a coupled mess of microservices with a lot of technical debt you would probably say that it is not "Microservices" because it is violating the Single Responsibility Principle all over the place. They just tried to do microservices -- but didn't manage to -- so do you then count it as a failure of microservices thinking?

If not then propose a new architectural alternative: The Debt-Free SRP Monolith!!

Sadly, organizations cannot choose to either make a SRP Microservice system or a Debt-Free SRP Monolith. They can only attempt. And I am yet to be convinced to attempting Microservices is that correlated with achieving SRP.
I don't know the history too well, but remember Uber refusing to get some licenses in California and opting for AZ which doesn't require the same level of licensing. Others should correct me, but that was the buzz at the time.

I always thought AZ had these laws because historically a lot of retired people are there who have slower reaction times and aren't going to be doing any stunt driving swerves, and it's generally not a pedestrian or bike friendly place. They prioritize cars. When I saw the protestors a while back pouring onto freeways in the east bay, I remember thinking no way would anyone try that in AZ -- the cars would just run right over them.
> The main driving principle of the sharing economy is actually the ability to give a lift from time to time without any bother.

Except for people driving for Uber full-time. The whole "grass root sharing economy" Uber style is a masquerade.
From the article:

"In this nighttime video, posted to YouTube by Brian Kaufman on Wednesday, the scene of the crash can be seen around 0:33"

"Black says in the video as he drives past the point in the road where Herzberg was hit (around 0:33)."
Here's a dependent types example I found a little more interesting: statically modeling a valid date type: https://github.com/chrisdone/sandbox/blob/master/liquid-hask...
If you're fresh out of college and have student debt, you probably shouldn't be taking on an auto loan of any notable value... and you shouldn't be racking up too much in credit card debt beyond maybe a security deposit on an apartment as a last resort.

Even if you have a six-figure job, everything you need should be acquired like you're broke, because you literally have negative money until that $30k debt is wiped out. In fact, if you live that way for a few years on a six-figure salary, you should be able to knock that $30k out in one year and save up the downpayment for a property in the following years. I understand this isn't fun and most people wouldn't do it, but it is the solution.

The banks have made us very comfortable living with debt, and we have to do everything we can to resist it. Credit cards are great for cash back but you shouldn't carry a balance -- set the limit to an amount that you can pay in full every month.
Automobiles were death traps for approx 80 years, it's just that the utility outweighed the risk. Not sure the same can be said about flying bikes.
Apple has a tool where you can lookup your DUNS number directly for free.

https://developer.apple.com/support/D-U-N-S/
Incoming Unpopular opinion.

I had a somewhat similar discussion, and it turns out many people from different origins and Culture think differently. And hence why politics are complicated. In America that would be considered as hard working American. Some are proud ( until the hard cold market reality got in to their end I suppose ) and they don't even think there is anything wrong with it. In Europe, that would be considered as Market and Companies taking unfair advantage over its citizen on labours. And should be condemned as evil and greed. Then this often leads to discussion of US with little regulation, and comparatively EU with many regulations.

The hardest problem to solve are problem that many don't seen it as a problem. In the case most Uber drivers in US don't seems to be having an issues with Uber.
If you stop viewing this as a "flying motorcycle rich person toy" and start viewing it as a "vtol jet engine based drone" it's quite cool.

Have to imagine that there are search and rescue/fire fighting/military uses for this technology, manned and unmanned.
It's my understanding that disproving commonly accepted things is a way to become a superstar in the scientific field. Also, you don't need research grants to show that there is no research that shows a causal link between two things, which is what the poster above claimed was the problem with the anti-egg movement
> How much is a life worth?

Value is relative. Nothing has intrinsic financial worth. “What is a life worth to the average person in a society” is a well-researched and answered question.
> There are choices other than unemployment and shitty gig jobs -- stable, well-paying employment with benefits.

There really isn't. Everyone looks after their best interests, and those working for companies such as Uber are already choosing the best option that's available to them.

Zero people have passed on well-paying jobs with benefits to pursue a career delivering food through Uber eats.

Making vacuous statements regarding the myriad of better options the gig economy workers forego to pursue the siren song of delivering pizzas makes as much sense as depicting winning the lottery as a valid alternative to working a day job, and it's an insult to those who want to make a living but have limited options.

People choose to deliver pizzas for a living because it's the best option available to them, and complaining that they should instead just get a stable well-paying job with benefits makes as much sense as complaining that starving people should eat cake instead.
Agree on the flying part, not so much on the line following machine. If you think about it: think about the vast amount of cars and miles driven every day. Think of the sheer number of decisions every driver has to make all the time. I think it’s a wonder that the traffic accident rate is rather low.
Really fascinating - can you talk a little bit more about your experiences?

You always hear about trying moonshots but I’ve never heard someone who went reverse and was happier!
US tech firms fear China could be spying through power cords
From ‘R vs. Python’ to ‘R and Python’
The mobile phone market is already slowing down. Just like PC market did years ago.

When it gets stagnant, companies will stop innovating that hard and slowly but steadily open solutions will gain quality and feature parity.

If in 10 years I get an open phone with the features close to what I have today, I'd be pretty happy. Because I just don't think phones today are going to be that different in 10 years.

You are right that Linux Desktop barely has any market share. But it's a very viable solution and I'd personally argue that it's ahead of it's competition.
Generating passwords with $RANDOM seems like an incredibly bad idea. In bash, it’s a Lehmer RNG seeded with the current microsecond and PID – and the seed is 32 bits. sort -R kind of saves it because it uses /dev/urandom + ISAAC, but it’s really not comfortable – 1/8 of passwords it generates are breakable in at most ~2^29 × 40320 attempts, for example (and the expected number could be much lower than that, I haven’t done the math).
To call that ranking an "equality" survey is misleading. It measures average salary, executive positions, political office, and educational attainment. But that proves nothing on whether women are treated equally or given equal rights or are treated fairly in the workplace.

The fact is, many, many LDS women choose to be full time mothers and homemakers. There are much fewer women in the workforce because of this. LDS women are much less likely to work full time and they choose not to take on demanding positions because it has been their dream to raise a family and be with their kids. This also results in many choosing to do less schooling. If your dream is to raise a family, getting your master's degree is probably not going to be necessary for that. Especially if you are already started on that family before you finish your undergrad.

In other words, using the criteria of this survey, the only way to make women more "equal" in Utah, would be to force them to do things they don't want to do.

Now, there might be issues in the workplace where women are not treated well or where they are paid less for the same job (to a worse degree than the rest of the U.S.) but nothing in that survey indicates that.