skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt of the police report from the scene;

“Vehicle 1 (V-1) was a tractor/trailer combination vehicle traveling eastbound on the driveway access to 14095 SR 7 (Pero Farms) preparing to turn left onto SR 7. Vehicle 2 (V-2) was traveling southbound on SR 7 within the outside lane approaching Pero Farms. After V-1 came to a brief stop at a stop sign, V-1 entered the southbound lanes of SR 7 pulling into the path of V-2. V-2 struck the driver side of V-1’s trailer resulting in the roof being sheared off as it passed underneath the trailer. V-2 continued southbound and came to a final rest approx 3/10th of a mile south of the collision. The driver of V-2 was pronounced deceased on scene.”

The preliminary NTSB report [2] does not provide any more precise detail of the timeline, except to acknowledge that front facing video does exist, and that neither AutoPilot or the driver attempted to stop or evade the tractor-trailer.

As the Tesla approached the private driveway, the combination vehicle pulled from the driveway and traveled east across the southbound lanes of US 441. The truck driver was trying to cross the highway’s southbound lanes and turn left into the northbound lanes. According to surveillance video in the area and forward-facing video from the Tesla, the combination vehicle slowed as it crossed the southbound lanes, blocking the Tesla’s path.... Neither the preliminary data nor the videos indicate that the driver or the ADAS executed evasive maneuvers.

[1] - https://electrek.co/2019/03/01/tesla-driver-crash-truck-trai...

[2] - https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/hw...
Maybe the gauntlet would be less severe if there wasn't such a massive pot of gold at the end of this particular rainbow. Much of it is just hazing and weeding out of the "unworthy".

But that's sort of orthogonal to the problem I'm discussing. The cost structure that enables "low cost" socialized medicine in other countries is just not there, and it's not going to be there in this country in the foreseeable future. Given this, all this talk about "medicare for all" etc, is just electoral pandering and nothing else. It's not doable without turning the whole system into a money black hole that's even worse than what we have now.
Huh? It seems the exact opposite of that. The top comment here is blaming Jira[1]. But when Capital One got hacked last week due to apparently some AWS misconfiguration, it seemed no one blamed AWS (even though the hacker had previously worked at AWS)[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20597264

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20560342
> Created: 24/Jul/2009 5:42 AM
Original HN post: 351 upvotes.
Retraction: 50 upvotes so far.

Curious to see how this will net out.
> people who might not have been conscious of Facebook's ownership of either of them might now be more aware of it -- and thus see Facebook's influence on both

This sounds like a great outcome to me. Who wouldn't want more transparency in what products are owned by which companies? I would expect this to drive users away from Instagram and WhatsApp.
First of all, I have heard and read from numerous sources that I trust that slavery played a huge role in the early American economy. But that on its own would be a simple factual dispute.

The second issue is that regardless of the accuracy of the claim, downplaying the value of slavery is a way to devalue the debt owed to black Americans and has been used as such in arguments. The less valuable slavery was, the less white Americans should feel owed to pay back. So I think there’s a significant moral cost to this argument, and yes I think it’s disrespectful. But again, it’s factually controversial as well.

I had also made a variety of significant points which GP failed to respond to, instead focusing only on a hyper-literal interpretation of one subset of my argument. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The fact that England, another state with a horrific history of exploitation and colonialism, was also guilty of slavery, is hardly exculpatory for the US. Whether slavery was economically beneficial in every single historical example is a separate question from whether it was beneficial to the United States.
Surveillance isn't a political issue, or maybe rather, like drinking water standards, it need or should not be a toxic political issue.
In part because we came to assume that commercial speech was anything but self-serving: in this case, being litigation protection rather than public health.
> Filament LEDs at 120Hz have quite a few problems; there is a large number of people who suffer from medical issues if expose long term.

No one cares.

Epilepsy or migraines? Good luck anywhere in public.

LED floodlights with unnatural spectrum aimed directly at eye height when browsing any store. Despite use of fresnel with associated hideous fringing the edge of illumination is very abrupt with no chance to adjust. Always 2-10x brighter than needed.

Exposed LED strips everywhere with no shade or proper diffuser leading to an overbright spot surrounded by darkness.

Many flickering. Due to LED ramp-up/-down the strobing is instantaneous.

They are all above and all around and to your side. Of course everyone still carries on with distressing over-illumination. But most establishments gleefully ensure there is always at least one of these directly in your vision, not just illuminating the area.

They see interrogation scenes in movies as optimal settings for work, study, play, and relaxation.

Accessibility? Equal opportunity? Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhaha. Lighting is more and more inaccessible. Good luck even if you manage to convince them to let you be a weirdo in the dark. Everything is aggressively recessed in fixtures.

The lack of caring could be excused as laziness and ignorance, except that everyone laughs at you and makes faces when you bring it up. It doesn't matter if you speak to your immediate manager at work, or customer service at a business, or whether you speak to the appropriate facilities or HR person. It doesn't matter whether you're brief and to the point or whether you lay out the details and provide references. It doesn't matter how polite or demanding you are.

It's not that it was intended to cripple the weak and exclude invalids from society. But they'll happily take it as a bonus.

Speaking of bonuses: they can give you the side-eye as "environmentally unfriendly" if you dare to raise any issue with LED/fluorescent. (Of course the same people usually oppose nuclear power, proving their bad faith.)
Let's analyze Tesla's statement here, because it's useful training in intellectual self defense:

"Our data shows..."

Note the use of the keyword data. This appears frequently in Tesla statements. It implies certainty and technical understanding.

"...that, when used properly by an attentive driver who is prepared to take control at all times..."

Interesting condition.

"...drivers supported by Autopilot are safer than those operating without assistance"

This is garbage logic. It's just saying any errors that aren't corrected by the driver are cases of "not using it properly." Of course the "data" will show improved safety if you exclude all the accidents.
Did you read the article? It's talking about anomalous purging of voters.
Linux hadn't dropped support, the driver is stable and still present. Without an official maintainer it would continue to work for some time, though would eventually need fixing as other parts of the kernel change around it.

Even without an official maintainer interested people could still update it if changes to other parts of the kernel broke something.
First of all, the medieval period comes after the dark ages. The world of the 12th century is a very different and much more prosperous one than the world of the sixth century.

Second, the dark ages were very, very hard indeed. Ward-Perkins, in "The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization", demolishes the pleasant-transition-period interpretation of late antiquing that's been popular for the past few decades. Material culture collapses: trade volume crashes and Britain (being hardest hit) nearly become illiterate again.

Did it work out all right in the end? Yes, clearly. But for several centuries, the level of civilization in Europe was lower than it'd been in a thousand years. A ton of knowledge and literature was lost forever. As late as the seventeenth century, parts of Rome that in 100AD were apartment blocks and fast food joints we'd recognize as such today were still sheep pasture. It does no good to deny that something was lost.

It's a cautionary tale: complexity and interconnected civilizations are more fragile than most people think.
I asked a related question on reddit but no answer yet.

How did taverns handle hygiene of dishes. Especially since it was a crossing of wild varieties of people.
We had a garden and we paved it.
The opposite also happens, where the uninsured price is a lot more than the insured price.

I was in this sort of situation once. I needed a CT scan, but it was on a late friday afternoon, and the hospital couldn't get prior approval from the insurance company. They quoted one price that they would bill the insurance company if it was approved, and another much larger priced that I would have to pay if the insurance company rejected the claim. (I ended up getting the CT scan the next day at a hospital that charged a lot less. I think it was covered by insurance.)

The thing about this that's bad is that it's over-charging the people least likely to be able to repay, and (if they can come up with the cash) they're effectively subsidizing the insured customers. This is the other side of narrative that poor people are driving up health care costs for everyone else because they don't pay their bills.
Impossible Foods gets FDA approval to sell fake meat in grocery stores
> It also strengthens its hold on those properties and makes it more part of one company. Harder to “break up” a company that is deeply intertwined

We’re talking about the name of a mobile app.
Unfortunately there’s little reason to believe that’s due to treatment rather than selection. Smart people both get more education and make more money, but the impact of education on income is mostly mediated by intelligence, not education. Otherwise the long project to get more and more people into university would have had more drastic effects on incomes rather than diminishing the usefulness of a university education as a signal of a certain minimum level of intelligence.

> Herrnstein's Syllogism: Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences on IQ, Education, and Income.

> Environmental influences due to a common shared environmental factor were 0.23 for IQ, 0.18 for education, and 0.08 for income. The model predicted a correlation of 0.63 between IQ and education and 0.34 between IQ and income. Sixty-eight percent of the former and 59% of the latter was genetically mediated; the remainder was mediated by common shared environment.
I always thought it'd make a lot of sense for nuclear ice breakers to be a thing. You need a lot of power and endurance, and the added weight would be a bonus.
Staying away from those things is my plan. Though I am not lonely, the two concepts are far from inextricably linked.
It's like a house alarm that tells the burglar "Hey you seem shady. But you can come in if you promise you're a good guy."
Soap and water? Soap was known to civilization by ~2000 BCE, long before the middle ages.
Das Q Vulnerabilities
Most Canadian doctors don’t work for the government if they have their own practice, which is the most common.

I guess if they worked for a public hospital they would, but that’s not all doctors.
Yes. Kryoflux is pretty good at not saying a sector is good unless it actually is. I was able to mount almost all of the images I made this way, and haven't seen data corruption issues.
Sorry Dang, I will refrain from posting this kind of thing in the future.
I also manage a database. I would never equate the destructive operations involved in managing my records to those in a voter database. The latter is a grave responsibility that requires higher than normal confidence that the management being performed is just.
This looks great, good job! I notice that you don't support Signal, maybe you want to add support via pysignald? (https://pypi.org/project/pysignald/)
UCSF and SF General aren’t much better. Public institutions are some of the worst offenders among hospitals.
Not exactly sure. Those were some of my theories, too.
"Regularly", but not as frequently as we do now, and to whatever extent this was true, it certainly didn't extend to conquistadors in the early modern period because American Indians all considered white people intolerably dirty by their standards.

The Internet seems to have amplified a certain contrarian tendency that goes too far. While it's true that the people of medieval Europe were not just a bunch of ignorant, filthy peasants, they were still more ignorant and probably more dirty than you and I are at the moment. While the early middle ages in western Europe were not "dark ages" completely bereft of human accomplishment, they were by many measures crappier than either the heyday of the Roman empire or the early modern era that would follow (or indeed even the late Middle Ages).
I've no special knowledge of such things, but for one I doubt there were many dishes to speak of. Mugs were often used for alcoholic drinks, which I'm sure helped a bit. I imagine utensils were quite rare. Perhaps just a plank of wood would be used, or a hammered flat bit of iron.
I have to wonder if body odour ramps up exponentially for the first few days of not bathing, but then fades into a less nauseating background musk after powering through the initial spike. Maybe skin flora eventually stabilize toward a less offensive culture?
Might just need to set networkaddress.cache.ttl=60 in java.security.
If we all keep paying out forward at the same taste of growth the planet will quickly be choked of all resources.

In any case yes: my choice.
I think the problem is that no one was arguing that slavery per se makes a country rich. The argument was that it did in the case of the US.
> the physicians who treat garden-variety diseases can be trained much less expensively.

So, how do you make sure that only garden variety patients see the medical assistant, while seriously sick ones or those who have only telltale signs of a 1-10k illness see the real doctor? If those rare ones don't get to the doc they die.
Don’t mean to create a pile-on, but since you asked, yeah I should explain my barb:

Is Jira a UX disaster because of just that?
Or is it bad on top of that?

My opinion - it’s both.

The product has a ton of permutations, as you said, which makes stuff like this happen: Customers who never in the world imagined public issue tracking, suddenly bit by a feature they didn’t even know existed. Conversely I’m sure there are shops, who love this feature, for whom the distinction between “Everyone” and “Open” was always obvious. I don’t envy the team building / supporting the product across all that; I don’t know how I’d do it.

But there are also endemic, continuously-poor design choices large and small. Unannounced and hard to disable major changes to the UI are the standard, and large. I’ll give you one example of the small: Recently, unannounced, the issue comment UI started auto-correcting the capitalization of Atlassian product names in the comment box. Type “JIRA”, get “Jira”. In my words in my issue tracker. (Yes, it was the js app, not the browser). It just always seems so user hostile.

Net net, to me it’s an aging hydra of a product with ongoing missteps. I’d take good design and limited features over what you get here, at least with out heavy investment and expertise.
I often think that maybe in a 1000 years or so, archeologists will find evidence that almost every household had a copy of Harry Potter or something similar and will conclude that this was a widespread religion at the time.
> 1. Does Facebook/WhatsApp have any specific plans for moderating content, via any mechanism, on the client? If so, please enumerate the kind/type of client-based content moderation currently in discussion.

I looked at what WhatsApp promised to do against fake news (something where they had reason to promise harsh measures, since they were basically blamed for murders due to their forwarding features). I'm aware of restrictions and warnings on forwarding, but not some sort of 'fake news detector'.

> 5. You say that this is easy to detect. Can you please provide technical guidance (or pointers to such) on how to go about detecting this, so that the community at large may better learn how to detect this in any instant messaging app, WhatsApp or otherwise?

Reverse engineering their app. Doing it yourself is probably beyond the time you want to invest, paying someone to do it just for you is probably beyond the money you want to invest, but I'd really love if there was a group/entity that consistently checks (through reverse engineering and similar analysis) whether privacy promises given by apps are true, and most importantly, remain true over time.
On the other hand, if you could get Triton running on Triton, it'd mean I could run a media server off the SmartOS box I've got at home (or the multiple SmartOS boxen I've got at work) :)
Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
>testing

It's been tested, look up gorgon stare.
we (alluxio.io) have gone through a similar process by replacing Zookeeper with CopyCat (a raft implementation) for both leader election and storing shared journal since Alluxio 2.0 . Works pretty well
Except the homeowner doesn't own the alarm. It's more like a mapmaker allowing access to the index of the map, which a clever person happened to figure out revealed where some houses with broken locks are. And the mapmaker has the decency to say "hey, let's see if this visitor is at least human" before allowing you to proceed from the index to the map itself.

Ok, now the mapmaker has solid evidence that this human is doing something shady.

Human, you are on notice.
It has taken off. Pretty much everyone and their grandma has fine tuned gpt-2 to generate all kinds of stuff, even poetry: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2
Kinda weird that there isn’t more backlash to this
I would highly recommend completely ignoring scalability for your MVP. Choose tech you enjoy writing/learning.

Right now you don't have enough info to make a good performance decision, so you might as well choose a stack that will encourage you to complete the project.

As you learn more about the task, you will be able to decide what kind of tech makes the most sense.
Yes. Google Loon balloons do show up on FlightRadar24, and if you’re close enough you can detect them with a $8 RTS-SDR.
I had an unpaid ambulance ride of 5 minutes. Moved and never received the bill.

Never heard about it until the collections agency called. I paid it and they still dinged my credit.

Just a lesson for anyone thinking this is a good idea, most likely you will get your credit slapped for this sort of thing.
> corporations don't need to abide by clear-cut rules

This is a straw man. Nobody thinks this.

> but we don't need a "domestic violence bureau"

There are several federal institutions which deal with domestic violence (alongside additional state and local ones). For example the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, and has the mandate to “understand, respond to, and prevent” domestic violence.

The FBI can also investigate specific domestic violence crimes, but my impression is that it is not their highest priority.

Domestic violence is a huge problem and is famously underreported, underinvestigated, and underprosecuted. Probably not the best example you might pick; arguably having additional government agencies with the power to do something about domestic violence might make a positive difference. (Disclaimer: I know very little about this subject.)
Well I can't change that, and I can't avoid using it since too many people I know use it exclusively. I can, however, keep from having that filthy Facebook name on my phone.
How "most advanced graph database" does not supports already standardized SPARQL query? Have you found anything wrong with standard SPARQL?
46 upvotes in two hours, by my count. Give it some time. :)
Rails + Postgres for MVP. Very quick to prototype (you can build a CRUD app with a few commands) and fairly flexible. Then when you want to scale you can add a JS framework if you need and use Rails for the API piece.
I believe people would extend much more good faith towards WhatsApp if it was possible to meaningfully use it without exposing all (including non-WhatsApp) contacts to Facebook's servers.

Right now, at least on Android, it seems impossible to add a new contact without adding it to your phone's address book, then giving WhatsApp full access to it. If you revoke the access, you can keep talking to existing contacts, but their names disappear. I would expect that this is just a side effect of nobody caring/testing for the case, but it attracts less charitable interpretations (assumptions that it is intentional to force users to give access).

I genuinely believe that both from a software usability and network effect aspect, WhatsApp is the sweet spot among the secure messengers, and the trade-offs they made (e.g. key escrow for backups and encouragement to do cloud backups) were made in good faith considering the average user's needs.
"I don't comment much but you lot are going to hell because you don't comment"...?
Well, a paywall that wasn't easy
Cupertino’s ousted city attorney, objected to Vallco plan, gets $205K settlement
Simple and Effective Text Matching with Richer Alignment Features
> The law clearly states that all citizen must have same access to government facilities and that was determined to mean "the same entrance" and "same facilities within the building".

That seems insane to me. You're telling me government buildings don't have any stairs whatsoever?
I wonder if cartoons like these (a distinct form of cartoons, unlike Tektronix) is a feature in Japanese media communication culture. I've seen similar comics of this style in Hakko's soldering 101 marketing materials [0], factsheets of Panasonic's solid aluminum capacitors, and user guides of Japanese laptops like Toshiba and Sony.

[0] https://www.hakko.com/english/hikaru/pages/

Hikaru's diary on learning to solder. A short story about soldering, from basic tools and safety precautions for getting started to solder things, good and bad solder joints, and the purpose of flux, it later goes on to explain how simple and thermal-regulated irons and how their heating elements work, point soldering and drag soldering techniques for SMD components, wave soldering and reflow soldering, and finally SnPb and lead-free alloy.
>First of all, the medieval period comes after the dark ages.

Untrue, medieval period and dark ages typically refer to the same time period that lasted until the 13th century.

But agreed with the rest of your post. It was not an easy time to survive. But not as barbaric and barren as previously thought.

And in much of Western Europe (Gaul, Germania etc), life was mostly the same as it had been even during the Roman Empire, generally speaking-- those areas either hadn't been ruled by Rome, or they hadn't exactly been centers of culture and technology even under Roman rule.

Sure, Europe ended up being in a backwards state of decay during the medieval period. But much of it had been during the Roman times that preceded it anyway. And yet there were still valuable advancements that were achieved.
They even pay some people to comment on Hacker News

The only question now really is how much they influence the comment section here
I wanted to level the playing field a few years ago and built the site below.

It aims to present users with the highest quality and lowest price hospitals in your area:

http://myhospitalscore.com/