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I agree that we need to be careful about claiming vindication of our pre-existing beliefs on this issue (or any issue!), but your points aren't helpful either:

>I've been in a self-driving car -- it drove better than just about any Lyft or Uber I've ever been in. Th

Experience on an individual trip is not significant evidence on this topic.

>They're already safer than human drivers, with fewer accidents per mile than humans.

Safer in the specific environments they've exposed them too while rounding out the set of conditions, not a general sampling of typical driving.

I definitely think they'll eventually get there, but that's a separate question from whether they're there now.
Not everyone lives in a temperate climate with little precipitation, nor in modern cities with wide streets laid out on a regular grid. I seriously doubt self-driving cars are ready for some of the weather conditions where I live. Freezing rain. Snow storms. Roads increasingly narrowing in winter from huge snowbanks. They might be ready for your use case, but they ain't ready for mine.
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> In that case, we have already been set back decades by the Uber crash.

I mean a self-driver without a human safety driver. Many people blame the safety driver for that crash, so it saved the perception (even though it was totally the car's fault).
Impossible Burger meat is shipped ground-beef style, so the quality of the patty is highly dependent on the restaurant. Among my vegetarian friends, Fatburger is considered on the high-end of the quality scale for Impossible Burgers since making burgers is all they do.

Other burger-centric restaurants also tend to be pretty good at cooking Impossibles, except Umami Burger, which is very bad at it.
If your emails are reference documents then I would argue that you're using email wrong.
What is the proportional hit though? You need to compare the percentage/ratio of the fine to the companies net worth and also to their annual revenue and profit margins.
This is very well executed.

One suggestion: maybe add an empty block for a placeholder to make space for notes.
How on earth would you know "they're already safer than human drivers, with fewer accidents per mile than humans"?
My employer and I are bound by a working agreement negotiated through my union. The contract has privacy protections for many different types of personal information and data that could potentially be accessed or collected by the company. Think location data, data at rest on both personal and company devices, and network traffic.

Here’s the big issue I still have even with all of these ‘legal’ protections. The definitions are not highly technical and thus open to interpretation. Also, to my knowledge none of the clauses have been tested in the real world. How in the world am I supposed to feel secure that a legal agreement stops them from doing what is still technically possible? Even if they can’t use the data collected against me as admissible evidence in a disciplinary action what’s to stop them from collecting data anyway and then if they find something they don’t like they harass me in other ways?

The issue is in MDM systems. Until we design them in a way preventing access to certain classes of information through technical means then no type of agreement or ethical code is safe. The device must be treated as hostile. We can’t simply rely on ‘ethics’ because, as we’ve seen play out time after time in America, corporations lose no sleep over saying one thing and doing another.
>even in a country like Japan

So what you're saying here is that your perception of Japan is that they should be superior to e.g. Russia or other countries managing reactors for some reason?

Just pointing out that you're making decisions about whether or not a technology is safe based on your own (potentially faulty) perception of a foreign country.

You might want to check your cognitive bias here.
I might say “I would never get inside one of these things” out of concern for pedestrians as well as myself.
As a programmer who works as a contractor, I carry around at least two laptops (one Windows, one macOS) and two phones (one Android, one iPhone). If I'm traveling to an unfamiliar area where I'm not familiar with the theft risks, I swap out the two laptops for an older laptop and a Chromebook, or sometimes just the Chromebook.

I can do everything I need to do from that Chromebook, and I have a very hard time seeing how others couldn't do the same. I can use Chrome Remote Desktop to connect to my desktop or a cloud-based workstation as long as I have an internet connection--and my two phones have two distinct carriers, so that's rarely an issue.

Really down on my luck? I've got a few Raspberry Pis on which I can use vim. They're slow, but they work.
at the same time how do we reconcile that a majority of the world harbors h. pylori and doesn't suffer from ulcers? From what I understand, there will always be "good" and "bad" bacteria inside us, the important part is the balance between the two. If antibiotics do knock out an h.pylori "infection" that is causing ulcers that's great, but what about the other bacteria that the antibiotics might be affecting? Will that offset the scales in another undesirable way?
Even if Google didn't touch by a ten-foot pole the data that it logs and collects for services like faster location finding for Android devices, which I think is unreasonable to assume, it is still accessible to the government under the 'national security' excuse.
Note the irony of these nominally conservative, pro-free-market states being more than willing to introduce burdensome regulation when it tips the scales in favor of industries they deem worthy of protection.
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Am I buying the insurance, or is the manufacturer/software company?
The idea that typing commas is far more difficult than typing semicolons is common, but bizarre. I feel like you're using a lot of words here to rationalize being accustomed to semicolons or significant whitespace as a logical preference rather than an aesthetic one. Consider commas somewhere between a minimalist and maximalist aesthetic (" " < "," < ";"), but one that values consistency.
No, they tell you to go to the library, where there happen to be computers that anyone can use.
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Ask HN: Do you retain your board seat after resign from your company?
I was curious - do startup founders have to give up their board seats if they resign or are forced out from operating roles of the company they founded? Example: if the founding CEO is let go (or chooses to resign) does he also give up his board seat, assuming the board seat is for the individual and not for the CEO role?
Isn't it? They had to pick which two they preferred.
The title is misleading; MDM should not be equivocated with “work email”.
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So you're safe if you're inside a self-driving vehicle at all times? That's reassuring.
Agreed. MDM usually gets set up when you're a new hire and may not know what the organization is really like yet. Additional note: it's a shame Glassdoor is so easy for employers to game.
No, but I think it's fair to say that they make it more difficult.
where did we see it before?

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...
I did not say duty to work for free, but duty to observe some restrictions and weighing positive/negative impacts of your publications on society if you choose to work in that domain.
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> Experience on an individual trip is not significant evidence on this topic.

I agree, it was just an anecdote to color my commentary.

> Safer in the specific environments they've exposed them too while rounding out the set of conditions, not a general sampling of typical driving.

And when they are released for general use, they will only be in those specific conditions. Every company pursuing self-driving is looking to launch a taxi service, which would limit the operation to areas where it is safe to do so.
Even though volume has gone up, the cost of making a triple AAA game is much higher than it use to be. Current day triple AAA titles are way more complex; they feature a ton of professional acting, highly detailed artwork, etc.

Also, as you point out, inflation has gone up so that accounts in part why the unit price has not changed much.

Even taking all that into account, perhaps it still doesn't justify the price they sell at. In that case, they may be selling it much higher than they need to because they can. People still buy games prices at $60.
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I'm far more worried about the use case where the people in power decide to robo-fine everyone for everything and do not get tarred and feathered in response than I am about a few cops stalking their exes. The latter we basically all agree is not ok (and there's existing well known channels for punishing that kind of stuff when it happens). The former makes our society worse and we have no good way of countering it until it becomes revolt worthy.
You shouldn't have to, but the reality is that you do. You can't rely on timely support or a loaner.
I've worked with a lot of people who could be charged with creating logic bombs in everything they touch. I guess the difference is they were creating them out of ignorance. But the end result was the same, since the company would begin to see them as a necessary resource.
Modern dripping farming systems let farmers mimic hydroponic delivery mechanisms by seeding the local soil with the necessary minerals. However, this does increase maintenance costs over a standard drip-irrigation system, which is already pretty expensive compared to standard factory-farm irrigation methods.
>> Aggregated data that can no longer be reduced to a single individual at all.

Even aggregated data will loose the anonymisation characteristics when we are speaking of low volumes of data.

Number of cancer patients in the area A: 1
Number of residents in the area A: 1
Perhaps someone with more self-driving car knowledge can help enlighten me, but from everything I've read it seems like the biggest problems are from unexpected behaviors in urban environments (e.g. cyclists going the wrong way, stopped delivery vehicles that folks behind must scoot out into the oncoming traffic lane to drive around, police officer directions, etc.) and I just don't see how those problems can be solved without artificial general intelligence, which is a long ways off.

For restricted access roads (i.e. highways), though, the technology seems ready to go. I know there is a lot of concern about the "hand-off problem", but that doesn't really seem like an insurmountable issue. If say 35 mins of a 45 min commute is on a highway, and only the last 10 mins are in a city, that seems like it would be a huge noon to tons of people if the car could take over, completely, on the highway. Are manufacturers likely to take this middle step first?
Wikipedia has a background on 'Havana Syndrome' [0]. The July 2019 study discussed in the article is paywalled but can be found in [1]. 'Havana Syndrome' has been previously discussed on HN [2] [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27385...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426129

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15460539
> They're already safer than human drivers, with fewer accidents per mile than humans.

So are trains. What's your point? This is precisely why people say "I told you so!" - the level of non-exceptions required for them to get right is so numerous that this is exactly why it's a technology problem. Semantics here are important.

This is classic SV think - it worked for me on my shiny paved road from Palo Alto to Redwood City so it must work for the rest of the world. smh
You are because you own the machine.
I use VS Code too, slightly curious about IntelliJ for Rust though since I fundamentally like that environment.
White list for network access?
pushier than a drug dealer.

oh wait theyre dealing ankind of drugs too . .
I've said this here before (though some seem to have disliked it). The Netflix UX and video quality are leagues ahead of Amazon Prime Video. Hotstar is a big laggard and far, far behind in every single aspect except for the amount of Indian content it has.

India is a highly price sensitive country, with absolutely no customer loyalty in most industry sectors. Nothing can beat free (which is where Hotstar is stuck, competing with YouTube).

It will be a tough act for Netflix to make anything from this plan. For this particular price point, restricted to mobile and a single screen at a time, what matters to this audience segment would be more Indian content. Netflix lags on that aspect quite a bit. It has some good Indian language originals, but India is a huge country with 22 official languages (and several hundreds more of unofficial languages), and these originals with a mix of Hindi and English may not appeal to a very wide audience. At the very least, it should voice dub shows in other languages. A better approach would be to use the diverse talent of content creators across languages and states, and provide those with a voice dub in other languages.

India as a country produces more than 1000 movies every year. While most are not worth watching (for movie buffs), there are several gems if one looks at all the languages and picks the best among those.

Netflix should focus strongly on licensing content produced by others and get recent releases if it wants to keep up in the Indian market. Amazon Prime is very quick in getting recently released Indian language movies on its platform. Hotstar may be similar too.

Edit and addendum:

Actually, on further thought, this plan doesn't make much sense at all by itself. Many people in India share Netflix accounts with friends or family and share the costs too. Such people would be much better off with the highest plan for Rs.800 a month while having five profiles, four simultaneous screens (shared with three other people), flexibility to watch on any device (not just mobile), using 4K quality if desired, etc. Sharing that with three others (four in total) brings the cost to Rs.200 per person, which is just one rupee more than this mobile plan for Rs.199.

It's going to be even tougher for Netflix to make money through this plan without more partnerships and incentives. Maybe this plan could push people to move to higher tiers and account sharing. I can only think of this as acting as a teaser and getting the foot in the door. Only time will tell. This plan is not meant to have many more subscribers than the other tiers.
I was thrown by the "dumb people", not having got that from the parent comment. Then I realized I'd read "high levels of intelligence" in the sense of "military intelligence" rather than IQ. I think my initial reading was the intended one, but I'm not sure.
yay ! direct import into marvel app :)

Also, might be due to inexperience in the field but why import/export in JSON ?
And foods. Pets don't get the choice to eat loads of sugar and processed carbohydrates. It's usually some form of meats or vegetables depending if carnivore or herbivore.
> I feel like 2 years ago the self-driving car manufacturers were releasing crazy deadlines, like full self-driving in 5 years.

Everything is always five years away. That's the sweet spot for getting lots of funding while allowing time for the wow factor to wear off so you can backtrack on what you really intend to deliver (if anything at all).
good luck with apple listening to their users.

what clearly should be an option (disabled by default, sure) will never be one. same for headphones jack, only two ports on the wrong side of mac book air, etc.
> The biological female is the original gender.

Weren't there no "gender" nor "female" before sexual reproduction evolved ?
The reactionary movement that grew out of GamerGate has largely knee-jerked about Kotaku since its inception; they named their favorite subreddit after the site. And they straight-up make a lot of stuff up about anything they don't like. There are plenty of actually-real things to criticize about the games journalism industry but hen you see somebody spittle-flecking about Kotaku or any of the other publications with the gosh-darn temerity to hire women or black people or trans people it's striking how little you must go down the rabbit hole you to SJW conspiracies and the like.

This article kinda sucks, but the groups taking shots at Kotaku/Polygon/etc. at this point tend towards a default-chud stance.
Even if you are protected by a regulation that requires that permission, would anyone be surprised to discover that firms like Equifax have failed to obey that regulation? They constantly fail to do required things that don't happen to contribute to profits.
No joke, we recently went to a BYOD model with no "assistance". I'm expected to be available 24/7 in most cases. So I'm refusing to be available until I get some compensation.
Is it not ironic that the very website promoting the benefits of plain text, uses a textual medium consisting of bold, underlined, colorized, and other font effects? Something that can only be achieved via HTML enhanced emails!
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They know there's a market for single player games. They also know that single player games are trivial to pirate, unlike multiplayer games where the company controls the server.

Who says piracy is a victimless crime?
> it’s obvious that rich text is difficult to quote

I don't see how. It's just the same as plain text.
You comment is a good reasoning to combat climate change as an existential threat.
Pedestrians are important though. It feels like you are defining an incorrect problem space and claiming perfection but at the same time other thing are important in evaluating their safety. And we often require new technologies to be safer than what they replace.
Fuck 'em.

Call it a "Vurger".

Let lazy phoneme substitution take care of the rest.
Oh this trope again. I am no vendor and I fully support the idea that security researchers coordinate their publication activities with affected parties.
It seems like they're partially using PayPal because they're maxing out credit cards regularly (!?)

If my business was maxing out any sort of credit card I don't think I'd be donating 3% of my revenue to open source projects in the first place.
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I’m not the person you’ve been talking to earlier
Uf damn, just seen that one of the companies thatdid this https://www.jukedeck.com/ is not doing it any more.

They had everything for free, and the music seemed perfect for background music for videos, etc... You could configure parameters, including the time and get an interesting track out.
The very last clause in that sentence answers a question that I hadn't even thought to ask.

I thought it was very odd for what is essentially a marketing post.
Yes, see Tesla Autopilot...
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Expect to be fired. That’s, unfortunately, the labor market reality.
Location tells you where you are. It does not tell you what unexpected obstacles are in your path and how to avoid them safely. The latter seems to be where a lot of self-driving pipe dreams turn into nightmares.
Yeah, I also have that argument all the time ... "the wolves are not coming back to farm country, we need to deal with deer overpopulation since we're the only apex predator left"

Some people are deeply offended by the idea that we are an apex predator.
I buy them now frozen and bbq them, serve them with a sauce recipe we (my wife and myself) perfected over the last months + pickles, onion and tomato. Our friends (mainly somewhat anti vegetarian meat eat eaters) do not believe it is not meat (we live in a small village). I have been making lasagne and spaghetti bolognese with mushrooms based meat replacement and no-one ever noticed it was not ground beef (I use different herbs and fatty tasting oils).

For us it does not have to taste like meat at all; we eat different beans, lentils, veggie dishes most of the time, but if we want friends over, we have to serve ‘meat’ so this is a good way of doing that. Or pizza, but after having perfected my woodoven chops over the past 2 years, I need to lay off the pizza for a little bit...
The US has 6500 nuclear weapons -so why is it so hard to comprehend nuclear war?
This dude is awesome. Props to him for tackling a challenging situation head on. I wish for him the best!
Slack, Trello, Github issues, Google Calendar, Zoom, email.

Edit: I've since left that startup but it was a team > 10, 4 engineers on staff.
> Q. Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

It is not, so long as you first quote the relevant part you are replying to.

At some point you can also trim the tail as you see fit (I don't find it necessary because my mail client does a good enogh job at hiding that part unless I click on a "show wverything" button.

> 2019-07-24 10:50 earthboundkid wrote:

> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

>> 2019-07-23 23:55 someonelse wrote:

>> A: Top-posting.

>>> 2019-07-23 22:00 first guy wrote:

>>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in email?
Trains don't drive on roads? And keep in mind that all of these self driving cars will only be in those specific pristine conditions. Every company pursuing self-driving is looking to launch a taxi service, which would limit the operation to areas where it is safe to do so.
>with fewer accidents per mile than humans.

any actual public data? Because if you mean Tesla then you are wrong because autopilot is not self driving, the driver is supposed to be 100% involved, so from Tesla stats(that are not public) you can only conclude that driver+driver assist could be better then only driver.
Is not a direct comparison between the author and middle school attitudes and conduct and being juvenile extremely patronising? (Almost by definition, given the description 'juvenile', ie youthful or child-like.)

There's conduct and commentary that follows the Hacker News ethos, and there's conduct and commentary that does not. This does not. It is a pity to read it.
This comment is made in full good faith.

I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for?

Even in the most conservative engineering positions I've had, slang was used alot, since there are tons of things that have overly long/descriptive/technical terms which no one wants to use in everyday language/communication. The only time you would use them would be in documentation, and even then many times there is a glossary and the shortname would be used.
Some forums actually work a lot better WITH embedded images.

To pick just one example[1]: a lawn forum where people will try to ask a question, or share an experience, and go back and forth trying to describe the details. A photo cuts that pain out and enriches the conversation.

[1] https://thelawnforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11802
If I buy a self driving car now, can I buy insurance for it? I doubt it. Maybe the developers of self driving cars should fund such an insurance.
Working research for a big tech means you are much less subject to the “publish or perish” req of a university. It often isn’t a must have resume point, but it actually gives you a different kind of freedom.
And also safer outside of one then outside one driven by a human.
This. Driverless cars work on the easiest roads and the mistakes they make are ones that humans wouldn't make. They also currently have humans as a failsafe if they do behave strangely. The stats would be very different if we just sent all the self driving cars out tomorrow without safety drivers.