skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so dumb question I always wanted to ask, about the arbitrary prices.
Let's say I have no insurance and I collapse on the street, get rushed to the hospital and revived, after which they send me a bill for $10k. I didn't agree to any treatment; I didn't sign anything. What prevents me from saying that I won't pay it - not in "send it to collections" way, but in a "this is a fraudulent bill" way, like I don't owe anything at all? If the hospital can claim by fiat the price was $10k after the fact, how come I cannot claim by fiat the price was $100, or send the hospital a counter-bill for $9900 for having had the privilege of touching my chest? I mean, a car dealership cannot send me a bill after the fact for an extra $10k for driving off the lot?

(Semi-)serious question, actually. What would they do? There's no contract.

Even if I did sign something in an emergency, I can claim to not have been capable enough to reason about it, due to shock/mental issues given the emergency; and anyway does all this paperwork (that having good insurance I sign without reading) actually say "I agree to pay whatever you charge me"?
This is an absolutely astonishing game-changer for Alzheimer's research. The scientist who discovered prions (and got a Nobel prize for it) now has convincing evidence that the proteins that cause Alzheimer's are themselves prions. Amazing, scary, and hopeful all at the same time.
Not so fast! Even Detroit is recovering.

https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Detroit-Michigan/market-t...

Perhaps patience will be rewarded in Detroit too.
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I seem to remember that was an old idea too, but primarily limited by brake technology (cooling, probably).
Except he won’t argue that because he is dead. Which, in itself, is the best counter argument to your conclusion that he knew what he was doing and allowed it to happen intentionally. Unless you’re also theorizing that he chose to commit suicide using one of the most creative methods he could, while making Tesla take the blame. It’s not impossible I suppose, but it doesn’t seem like the most reasonable conclusion.
Human influence on drought started a century ago
I know this is counterintuitive but the sentence is wrong in several ways.

a) Your home does not have to offer you a real profit in order to be a good investment; preserving capital and hedging inflation are benefits and legitimate goals for an investment.

b) The leverage and tax benefits of buying a home with a mortgage can create returns exceeding other investments even if the home merely keeps up with inflation. For example, you can keep capital gains from your home tax-free up to $250,000... a stock with taxable capital gains would have to deliver a real return of 15% over the same time frame just to match this.

c) The minimum purchase size is not the total value of the house, it's the down payment, which can be 0% for some people. I paid 5% as a down payment. (edit: and closing costs)
"If something happens and you can't afford it anymore you risk foreclosure."

That's assuming the home value has gone down in addition to losing your job or whatever. If the home has kept its value, you can probably use a line of credit to bridge while you sell the house.
Electoralism, ideally. Traditionally, removing landlords has been very violent, and I would like to avoid that. The US guarantees market value for eminent domain, which is a sweet deal compared to, say, what’s happening in Berlin right now.
You’re the lawyer. Is there case law to support this? I ask not to mean “citation required” but because I would be very interested to read it.

I don’t know if and how much Tesla can disclaim responsibility for the crash based on warnings written into the UI and user manual and TOS.

For example, I’m fairly certain that autopilot systems on boats do not absolve the Skipper of liability if a boat crashes, and suing a small craft autopilot systems manufacture for maintaining (or not maintaining) a set course into a collision would be laughable.

I would also say, if we can’t ship self-driving capabilities without some way of managing and constraining the inherent liability, we will miss out on saving 10s of thousands of lives just because we can not save all the lives.
Clearly, yet "propaganda from the environmentalism movement" implies, to me, propaganda from actual environmentalists.

I'd call what happened corporate propaganda, "propaganda from the multinationals", or perhaps the first example of greenwashing. I suspect that may explain why you picked up a few downvotes. It certainly distracted me from the real message you were trying to convey.

From your second comment, it's clear we are of similar mindset, and your point very valid. The current popular "theme of the moment" around veganism in the media does seem to have the same smell of someone trying to move the gaze away from the places that would move the dial fastest. Which in this case, of course, is constraining the global food players.
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Don’t waste time on this. Instead build a project, code an app, launch your startup. 6 months of that is better spent than “coding interview” preparation.
Google needs to print expiry dates on its products before launching.
Are there any curable prion diseases right now? As far as I can tell from googling, CJD does not have any known cure. If there aren't, does it mean we need to come up with a completely new class of treatments?
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If I keep up my training regimen, within two years I’ll be able to leap across the conference table and backhand the guy using the word “commitment” before he gets the last syllable out.

It’s important to have goals.
The crux of the issue will be that autonomous capabilities will/have made cars overall safer. Tesla will be able to cite data and circumstances where the safety features saved lives, and likely more times than lives were lost.

The problem is that the lives that are lost when the safety features fail are different lives than would have been lost without it at all. The families of those killed in this manner will have their day in court.
Furthermore I hypothesize people would be motivated by bad conditions to either collectively invest in better housing or to move to where there is housing. This just removes wealth from that equation.
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That's odd, because I know many (including myself) that own property in SV and other high-expense cities on the West Coast.

So I don't think that's true.
There are no current treatments for Alzheimers that do much of anything. If the problem/cause is more confidently known, at least there is a more narrow target to aim at.
I have been a samsung buyer for at least 6 years and 4 phone models. The bixby button is an absolute deal breaker for me. I dont know what i will do, but it wont be a samsung with bixby
I applied for this role some time ago, and although it didn't work out in the end, the interview process was excellent, and the people were smart and friendly.
Serious question - Can you talk a bit about how you support emotional / mental health for your employees?
In the video, that’s 50kph (30 mph). The most advanced Volvo system decelerated but still crashes pretty hard at 80kph (50mph) when approaching a stationary vehicle decoy.

Note well, if the target was an inflatable rock or an inflatable jersey barrier parallel with the direction of travel, the results would be much, much worse.

In those other cars the ACC is picking up a car-like object on the sensors. A non-car-like object is designed to be ignored.
To someone with minimal background in biology, prions are a fascinating and terrifying phenomenon right out of speculative fiction. Absolutely amazing and scary.
'Hamburglar' Steals $1000s of Food Through McDonald's Mobile App – Zero Hedge
I tried that with T-Mobile one time. They called me back and asked me for my SSN, date of birth, ... . this was after I went through this process when I tried to call them and yes they were calling a T-Mobile number.

In 2011!

I said just think about what you're asking for and the representative pretended to not understand.

What is this madness? I will never use call back unless something changes.
I don’t think a juries are known for valuing statistics over gut feeling, and something tells me technophobia will win here.
That's not what mitigating circumstances are for AFAIK.

Here are the examples given in a law dictionary :

"a young man shoots his father after years of being beaten, belittled, sworn at and treated without love. "Heat of passion" or "diminished capacity" are forms of such mitigating circumstances"

mitigating circumstances are conditions that explain and partially excuse a behavior. If anything, being a very wealthy exec that does not need money but still stealing would be an aggravating circumstance.

However, if you look at prison terms, whether this person is a danger to society or not is a big factor. We could also talk a lot about imprisonment and whether it should be used as a punition or only as a way to protect society against some very limited cases of dangerous individuals.
Hey, you mention openings in mobile but it seems like there aren't any roles that specifically mention mobile (other than the umbrella "Software Engineer"). Is there a more specific role I should try to apply to?
>Like, a human could have problems following the markers bad.

The black-and-white stripes on the highway divider were good, though[1]. They are hard for humans to avoid.

That's the fundamental problem: the signage optimized for being glaring to humans is sometimes invisible to self-driving cars.

Instead of trying to teach cars to read signs not meant for them, we should install signs that are easy for cars to understand.

[1]https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/28/tesla-claims-highway-...

(this also shows the lack of crumple zone, but clear signage).
Your local forums are better. If you lack them, they are easy to setup and can become a small business.
You have to seek out the cool stuff.

The cool stuff projects are never the right career move, the work/life balance doesn't exist, and even then you have to be on constant lookout for the right team to join.

"I'm willing to put up with insanity" is a more important criteria for working on cool projects than what school you went to.

Source: I've been on those cool projects, I've hired for them as well. End of the day, the questions "want to write an OS, work 70hrs+ a week and live under constant fear of not having a job when you come in tomorrow?" get asked, alma mater, not so much.

Of course at the end of the day, you get some great stories out of it. You also get literal grey hair, potential lost friendships (I lucked out there! Saw plenty of it around me though.), and an ongoing base level of stress that is very unhealthy.

But hey, great stories.
No way. Even in beta, I’d much rather put up with roads full of autopilot Teslas than a road full of human drivers. Have you seen how people drive?
> In case you think this kind of abrupt shutoff sounds dangerous, keep in mind this is in the current generation of the system which relies on a human driver being attentive and ready to take over at all times.

What is a driver to do when the system randomly decides to brake? [1]

Phantom braking has been an issue for awhile, and has yet to be acknowledged by Tesla.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b5yx1o/welp_th...
And since his cat won't be with him, he might even manage to do that.
Metric inflation. It’s a thing.

Don’t let anyone show you a two year graph of story points.
I had health insurance and still we were in a 10k shock for normal delivery. US healthcare is a mafia extortion industry.

US is the wealthiest nation but the deadliest nation too in terms of preventable deaths.
UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
wtf. epic "buys" exclusives. This is something steam has never done. If a developer has their game on steam, they're free to release it anywhere else. Epic has exclusivity contracts
Does this mean that inflammation of the brain is to be ruled out as a cause?
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South Korea already has over 260k 5G subscribers
I really love this monthly thread and was wondering if anyone knows of any thing else like it? i.e. some forum where people (esp in tech) looking for jobs can post?
In California landlords
are already allowed to pass through “reasonable” capital costs on rent controlled units, so they can essentially already do this.
This game really opened me (and possibly other people) up to indie gaming. They're definitely not the first small team to tackle a fun game concept like this (The first game companies were 2-4 people.) but maybe the most influential of 10 years ago.
> The dream of programming language design is to bring about orders-of-magnitude productivity improvements in software development tasks.

I can understand why there is such a focus on productivity, but I think it's awful for the industry when it's our number 1 priority. Productivity is meaningless if the thing that you are producing is of poor quality.

It's why we make web apps out of 500 npm dependencies when a native app would be faster and preferred by the user. It's why we use languages where we don't have to "fight against the type system" because we prefer writing code faster to writing correct code.

Again, I understand perfectly why this is the case. It just kinda makes me sad that we treat ourselves as garden hoses spewing out as much code as possible without as much thought into making a better product.
I loved mine, I'd still be using it if I could have found one that didn't have motherboard issues. It was a pinnacle of industrial design and I'm sad that smartphone designs have moved away from it.
probably the security flaws and lying about stopping exclusives. Tim Sweeney has caused a lot of outrage with his recent statements on press, which pretty much were lies. Can't link since don't have time, sorry
> Epic buys Rocket League publisher, announces Epic Launcher exclusive, and goes silent after backlash

Seems like a better way to put it. They are buying IP left and right and pushing their unfinished, buggy client in a very unhealthy way.

[0] - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-01-epic-acquires-...
> with RADAR it is, I have read, very hard to tell a soda can from a car from a above highway sign

Yes, read about phantom braking, for example here,

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b5yx1o/welp_th...
In S10, you can check bixby to double click.
No extra app install needed.
I agree with you. I think articles like this one contribute to the problem by perpetuating a false sense of what housing prices should do to be a "good investment."
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Sorry my comment uploaded before I was done. It is an error to state that there is evidence for dark matter. There is no evidence for it other than that as a hypothesis it adds support to a larger cosmological theory; that of the so-called Big Bang. But that is basically a circle in the proof. A tautology.
Speculatively, in the future we may be able to design proteins that would target the prions and destroy them or refold them into less harmful shapes. To do that we would need to 1. know what protein shape would be required and 2. be able to figure out how to make that shape (what sequence would happen to fold itself into that shape). I would think we would need to advance quite a bit more in protein science before that is feasible.
This is a lie. Every single time I've tried to switch a Windows 10 installation to default to Firefox, it asks about trying Edge first.
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But IBM Mainframe programmers aren't as rare as one might think. And that platform is one a young person can grow with their whole career instead be whip sawed by the latest Javascript framework every year.
They probably found that many people lose interest in their Ring if they don't see a purpose for it, so they're manufacturing a point. The more your Ring tells you about crime, the more afraid you'll be, and want your Ring around to keep you informed about crime.
Again, you have failed to understand what I said. The CAR AND DRIVER link is this one: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...

And it shows a Tesla's performance among other cars, not a Volvo's.

And anyways, that Volvo video does show AES invoking at 80km/h and 130 km/h, reducing the speed of the collision but not avoiding it.

Maybe you're right about the car vs rock distinction but so far your track record is pretty spotty. Provide a source for your claims.
For many people, it's mostly the bank's though, eh? ;)
What is inflammation?
I helped design/write an embedded runtime when I was ~29. Got a lot of patents out of it.

If I'd done it at 22, it'd have been a crappy OS.

Getting software patents is easy. I used to take time to file one whenever I had a 6 hour or more flight. Boredom and all that. Also my employer's patent bonus paid for my airfare.

You have decades of life left. One of my mentors had the time of his life programming in his 50s, putting his mark as a leader on multiple amazing products that sold in numbers ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions upon millions.

Up until then? Rather uneventful. If I remember, lots of years working on test equipment.
Yep that's correct. And the main asset that navies protect are trade routes. So you can see that they would want to protect the South China Sea since that's their gateway to the world. But the West Coast really only connects to America, who wouldn't trade with them anyway if they took over the West Coast. So it would be totally counter-productive to send ships there.
pretty shocking how little hn knows about this situation
Theres an (arab?) parable about this. Something along the lines of “the grandfather is born in a tent and dies in the palace. The son is born and dies in the palace. The grandson is born in the palace, and dies in a tent.”

The people who strive and exceed can accomplish great things. Those who are born to greatness may maintain it. But if they dont remember why their lineage strived it can all be lost.
> Tesla will be able to cite data and circumstances where the safety features saved lives, and likely more times than lives were lost.

It would be great if Tesla would share such data, however their safety report is only a couple sentences [1] and Musk just recently refused to share more safety data because it would allow people to "turn a positive into a negative" [2]

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqvatzjHGyk&t=47m17s
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Teslas and other manufacturers will trigger at speed against a stationary vehicle detected by the adaptive cruise control system.

Teslas are beginning to trigger more at speed on perceived non-vehicle obstacles (added in a recent OTA update) but that is not without false positives which some have deemed the Tesla Brake Check.

I’ve experienced the errant braking, typically when a lane is partially obstructed but you are moving to avoid the obstruction, that is when it will trigger. I’m not a fan of this behavior. You can override it with a quick tap on the accelerator, but it jostles you.
can we just make a law that the driver is responsible/liable for the car they drive, regardless how they drive it? I mean breaks failing while you are actively driving is one thing, but to completely surrender control, that is a choice.
This is why we use a redundant geometric approach (with LiDAR) as a fallback to NNs in our perception stack. NNs can have false negatives which is unacceptable, but dealing with false positives is more manageable and safer.
I call it "Hanlon's razor"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
With a college education, you are paying for someone to curate content, present it in a way that builds on itself, and provide a reasonable amount of depth and breadth of knowledge. Maybe some of this is solved with modern online courses, but the sheer amount of noise seems high. Free books aren't free -- they cost dozens of hours of your time. It's very easy to become discouraged or paralyzed by choice.
Did you miss the part about “we prefer that people don’t die at all”? Or the contaminated land? How many deaths per generation on average do you feel is acceptable to store our radioactive waste?

And in the linked example it was highly radioactive, and people fell sick and died within days. More likely is higher rate of cancers, stillborns and different kinds of genetic damages. How long is it going to take before people connect those things to the strange mines?
But that's what Elon promises. He is careful never to publicly say it outright but his PR machinery wants you to believe this car can do things it literally cannot.
Can someone with a better background tell me if this is a game changer? I thought the consensus was that Alzheimer's probably had a few potential causes.