skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays I'm inclined more and more to purchase from local stores. At least I can investigate the merchandises before making the purchases. Plus I found out that they also have nice discounts from time to time.

Re-packaging and mailing back the poor quality purchases is the major pain point here, and I'm pretty sure Amazon is losing some business because of that. Maybe the revenue from books sales is not much comparing to the others, but potential buyers buy other merchandises too.
That is not a good citation given the number of autonomous cars on the road compared to the number of user-driven cars.
> Would you prefer a government that is open and overt about their domestic surveillance or one that tries to keep the public in the dark about what is happening

Translation: would I prefer a government that is openly hostile to human rights, or one that has some laws.

In answer, I'd prefer my system not yours.

> which is why they're kept misinformed + uninformed

And out comes the usual claim that westerners are ignorant.
Electricity Generation and Health, Markandya & Wilkinson, The Lancet, 2007.

It finds a death rate of 0.074 deaths per terawatt-hour for nuclear, compared to 24.5 for coal, 18.4 for oil, and 2.8 for gas. The edges of the nuclear and gas confidence interval get somewhat close to each other but do not overlap.

While there was not enough data for the author to estimate the rate for solar and wind, subsequent estimates are about 2 for solar and 10 for wind.

Of the 0.074, 0.003 deaths are non-occupational from accidents; 0.022 are total deaths from accidents. The vast majority of this 0.022 is not radiological, but instead ordinary industrial and mining accidents where people are in traffic accidents, asphyxiate, are killed by hot steam, or crushed to death.

The rest is from various kinds of air pollution impacts in the nuclear fuel and transportation chain. Even if we have a horrid accident that has 1000x the impact of previous accidents, we will not reach the death rates associated with other sources of power.
I have Fedora 30 running KDE as a desktop in a VM and a laptop. In the VM its actually very nice. Dolphin is nicer than Explorer, with tabs and better view options. The desktop customization options work well and I can set it up very similar to a Windows task bar as I am used to.

The most annoying issue I've noticed is that copy and paste would stop working cross application sometimes (pretty poor). But turning off an "auto copy on select" option seems to fix that. Still an issue as its broken by default.

The laptop (AMD Matebook) is a different story. There is just not the hardware testing capacity that Microsoft and their hardware vendors provide. So kernel updates will break hibernate/sleep, or it has never worked. The trackpad will stop responding to taps after resuming, and other issues. There are also some minor graphical issues but that's mainly down to AMD drivers.

KDE is the best its ever been. The issues come from hardware issues that can never be fully tested and fixed without a vendor taking Linux support seriously.
People were having the same discussions about airbags. They ended up saving quite a number of lives. The media should do more to contribute to a better world vs writing clickbaity articles that make adrevenue. It’s astonishing that somethinf like drunk driving for example, is portrayed less scary than autonomous vehicles.
I'll take:

* paying a few bucks for BetterTouchTool, Alfred, and SwitchResX so I get insane levels of control over window placement, monitor resolutions, etc. via keyboard shortcuts & gestures (on, I should note, my deliciously smooth and responsive apple trackpad)

over:

* spending hours/days/weeks trying to figure out/find the right X config to get my display to work at one resolution I want, let alone trying to figure out how to dynamically switch between configurations without everything crashing every fifth attempt"

any day of the week.

(Now, to be fair, like many others in this thread I hopped off the linux/freebsd/etc. train a few years ago (after being all-in for around a decade), so it's a few years since I've had that second experience - and maybe that particular struggle is no longer a struggle any more. Judging from other comments in this thread, however, it doesn't sound like it.)
People who cry loudest for revolution are usually the ones who don't ever study the history of successful revolutions. Especially: who the actual revolutionaries were, what positions they held in society before and after the revolution (hint: most successful revolutions aren't peasant uprisings), and what happens to people who weren't either the revolutionary leaders or the ruling class before, during, and after the revolution. The average French peasant did not fare well during or after the French Revolution.
I have a couple of domains, and do have an email for own domain but haven't transitioned my emails to be sent to the new email just yet
He still wrote the book as a critique from a socialist standpoint. The whole point of the book was that the USSR was not real socialism and was damaging the Socialist movement.

He explains it in this preface:
http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/epfc...
>The increasingly empty storefronts in Manhattan are also well-documented. Anyone who's lived in Manhattan for multiple years has noticed this - commercial venues shutting down, and either remaining vacant or being replaced with Chase bank retail branches or megachains.

The joke is the city is looking into giving "grants" for small businesses to move into storefronts instead of trying to fix the actual issue. Basically just feeding the bubble.
You never had Raldi fix / look into it?
Regarding the Politifact article, full credit to Senator Tina Smith for immediately correcting her tweet after being informed it was incorrect.

Too many politicians double down when they get something wrong and try to defend it, instead of admitting they made an error.
> write your code as valid programs with comments.

That's what I do! Then I have a script that converts my python program to shitty json that my colleague--who can only conceive to work inside a notebook--can run it. Finally, another script translates back the json to a readable code; and more importantly, to something that can meaningfully be put into git.

I would love if the jupyter interface allowed to save the notebook directly into a program with comments. Then all this silly sorcery would not be necessary.
Ask HN: iPhone 6 EOL: How risky to stay on unsupported iOS (12.x)?
Apple has officially ended support for iPhone 6 and below (iOS 12.x and prior).

How risky from a security standpoint is it to continue to use an iPhone 6? Will Apple continue to release security patches if exploits are found or do I need to shell out for a new phone to remain secure?
> does anyone doubt that with massive, publicly-funded investment we could not achieve them?

Possibly, but the far harder thing to achieve is massive publicly-funded investment in the first place.
Our baby slept for exactly 28 minute stretches day or night. Surprisingly, moving her sleep time to earlier (7pm) improved the situation. It took weeks to get her into an evening routine (dark room, changing, soft song, etc) but that helped flip her sleep bit. YMMV but hang in there.
Higher-paying executive and engineering positions tend to skew more male, and lower-paying executive assistant/secretarial/administrative positions tend to skew more female.

There is plenty of overlap but the distribution skew results in men, on the aggregate, being paid slightly more than women.
Cool! That's me.
The driver is still fully responsible for whatever happens with the car. So whether the car steered autonomously or the driver turned the wheel it makes little difference from a legal perspective. Perhaps it would just be an aggravating factor that you intentionally let a system that is unable to fully perform the action of driving do this on a public road. Like letting a 6 year old drive.
Kids repeating these memes is 99.9% a reaction to get a rise out of people like Joanna.

https://joannaschroederauthor.tumblr.com/
Being true trumps being OK.
HK was part of the UK when it the terms were coined, so it was "first world". And now that the term's meaning has shifted it's probably fair to say it's still "first world", despite being part of China, which was originally "second world".
So are you volunteering?
> Instead, we have a lot of observations and modelling that allow us to run those experiments, and the weight of those say we have a problem.

No, the weight of those say there will be an increase in temperature. Never mind that the weight of these have been wrong for more narrow definitions of the word "wrong":

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs/public...

If those models can't predict ten years into the future with any reasonable amount of confidence, how can we trust them to predict the next 100 years?

Even then, let's say these models are more or less correct, what exactly says "we have a problem"? What problem? We already have tons of problems! Not being able to emit CO2 would be a huge problem in and of itself. What are the models to predict the actual problems caused by climate change? How good are those? Do 95% of scientists agree on them?

> The majority consensus is not to drop everything but to continue making substantial changes to human activity to reduce warming.

Okay, I don't exactly feel like making substantial changes to my lifestyle based on these predictions, especially since the impact doesn't concern me much at all. Now what? Good luck getting all that political support that you will need.
Drivers make many judgement calls that we take for granted. These are just a few good examples of the hurdles that have to be overcome before autonomous driving becomes a reality.
Automated accident avoidance covers accidents in stop-and-go traffic jams. My 2012 Volvo already a rudimentary system along these lines that is designed specifically for stop-and-go traffic.

Other Volvos have tools for detecting drivers losing alertness. Technology for helping to keep cars in their lanes already exists.

Technology for stooping cars when pedestrians and bicycles appear in front and/or on the side when making a turn at an intersection already exists.

Most of these systems need to get much, much better, but I think it's very reasonable to separate them from the general capability of driving a car autonomously from point A to point B.

If we can develop a car to drive autonomously from point A to point B, and if we are granting that this system can also solve the problems you list above, I believe we can also develop most of the safety features that do not involve driving the car autonomously from A to B.

I think this is more than a minor point to quibble over, as there are many extremely difficult problems to solve for fully autonomous driving that are unrelated to this kind of safety.

For example, autonomous driving involves recognizing when the map is wrong. Despite driving maps being a so-called mature technology, a variety of map programs tell me to turn left on certain streets during prohibited times.

There is a road that was closed at one end more than a decade ago, and when summoning a ride-share to an address on that street, we have to always text them not to follow the map directions, because it tries to send the car down the closed road, and today's ride-sharing drivers are terrible navigators and literally get lost.

Solving autonomous driving solves problems like those AND safety problems, true. But if we just want to solve the safety problems, we can, and we can solve them faster and sooner by focusing on them.
Here we go again, downplaying risks and ignoring facts that aren't supportive of your argument.

What do I think is in the pools? Radioactive waste that will have a mini meltdown if the pools leak enough water to expose the waste to air. You know, the kind of leak that can result from a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or just plain old maintenance negligence [1]. But that's ok, we'll just pretend Fukushima never happened, I guess.

I already provided a link to a renewable power plant that's going up, backed by battery storage for non-generating hours. Perhaps you didn't like it? Here's a report on how costs of batteries are dropping fast enough to make them cost competitive with traditional sources [2]. You probably won't like that, either, since you're hung up on the whole "linear with demand" thing, which no one actually cares about. What they do care about is total cost per reliable kWh, taking into account all negative externalities. But I guess we'll just pretend nuclear accidents don't occur, especially small ones [3], and that the whole long-term storage problem doesn't exist because that whole Yucca Mountain thing is just needless worrying.

I like how you focus on total demand globally because if you look at total demand in the West, it's been flat for years. You conveniently don't point out that the places demand is increasing are in the developing world, which is the last place we should build nuclear plants. Do you want more accidents due to poor maintenance or operating procedures? Because that's how you'll get them.

And I understand induced demand perfectly - my whole point of showing per capita consumption is to point out that it's bullshit in this case. Electricity has been plentiful in the US and EU for decades, but per capita use peaked 9 years ago. Induced demand is only relevant in developing markets where there is latent demand, which again is back to the developing world where I will never agree we should build nuclear.

You like nuclear, I get it. It's a good power source. It's just not the best one anymore and it's time to recognize that. But it's clear you have already made up your mind on the issue, so I won't be engaging in any more discussion with you on this.

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2017/08/pushing-the-storage-horse-wi...

[2] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-levelize...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/indian-point...
I have the same assumption when a dumb human is tailgating and rear ends the car in from of them. That has been solved with frontal radar and emergency braking.
It's so relieving to read this thread. Last year I took over management of some legacy scripts and was tasked with updating them (move from Python2 to 3, interfacing with some new APIs, etc). One of the biggest stresses I had was little fuck ups I kept doing with the releases. It was never anything huge, but every few releases I would end up taking 15-30 minutes longer then I planned, and would involve me updating the release process slightly.
Not to be even more cynical, but I can't help wondering how the advance and royalties on that book are split between the co-authors vs time spent writing/editing.
You're supposing that women all want or aspire to the same types of positions that men do, which isn't true.
> downvotes aren’t disagreement here

While this may be the official intention, in practice it is not the case. Afaict, disagreement elicits downvotes the majority of the time.
Yep, one interesting idea about these Amazon sites is that they add corroborating evidence to Francisco de Orellana (the first Spanish explorer to travel the length of the Amazon) that he claimed he had found huge cites with hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people living in the Amazon basin.

Presumably by the time later explorers came along 50 years later to verify his claims, the people had all been killed by European diseases like small pox and the jungle had claimed back the cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana
> 1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI ...

Apple's adapter only goes to 4k@30Hz. Which have you found to work? My monitor only has usb-c and two 4k hdmi@60 and two HDMI 4k@30.

It's also annoying that Netflix on Mac doesn't do 4k where even my lowly Surface Go does.
If anyone else balked at the pilot story, here it is (and it's a bit juicy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_188
The person controlling the car.
Search for YouTube vidoes inside Google sheets
Humans are bad drivers, and countless people die in car crashes every year as a result.

The question shouldn’t be whether autonomous cars will kill people, but whether they’ll kill more people than human drivers. If they'll kill fewer people, then on net they're saving lives, not "sacrificing" them.
Are you sure this is true? I recall the DOS hunting feature using the keyboard to navigate and shoot, whereas the Apple II version used a mouse. It's /possible/ I'm confusing the Apple II version with the Mac version?

I remember playing the Apple IIc version in school and the DOS version at home around 1994, and noting this as the difference.
How did Alcohol120% work?
> If this is an issue of "we're not hiring women to the same higher paid positions as men", that is a problem separate from the problem of "we're not paying women equally to men in the same position."

Which is exactly the point. The solution may be much farther back in the pipeline, when young people are making educational choices, and can't be solved at the point companies are looking to hire someone.
Parent was referring to Tolkien's Palantir - not Thiel's
is there a reason you're sharing this wikipedia page as opposed to any of the others?
Correlating this to the blooomberg supermicro drama makes me mad.

Yes, this was always possible, nobody ever denied that.
But this doesn't have anything to do with the claims by bloomberg. You could always tack on another chip and start messing with hardware. Bloomberg's claims were of some magical chip implanted automagically via a photo of a common mode choke.

Even the title makes me mad

>for $200

Bitch please, I could do it with a $5 ardiuno board and some time.
The sad truth is simply that all software sucks.
"does anyone doubt that with massive, publicly-funded investment we could not achieve them?"

Yes, I very much doubt it in the US at least. We are many generations deep into an extremely nepotistic and corrupt bureaucracy. I have no faith that the US Federal Government is capable of handling even mundane projects at this point. We would require a serious shift in patriotism, education and accountability before I could believe the USA of 2020 is capable of doing something like the moon landing again.
Well, some automakers are trying at least: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/07/25/california-and-major-autom...
Thanks.

I've already tried to go this route. I actually avoid full time now at this point, for this reason. But the lack of delivered projects, and highlights on my resume. Have limited the upper amount of my rate.
7 can be acceptable in some cases, but just to be safe I suggest 8 lines.

// 8 Lines not including sarcastic comments obviously.
That is an area that is still being debated. I suspect it will depend on the level of autonomy the car claims to provide. If it is level 5, and perhaps doesn't even include a steering wheel or other means of controlling the vehicle, then there would be no rational basis to hold anyone inside liable for failure. If, on the other hand, it is level 3 or 4, and does provide a steering wheel, and prominently informs the user that they are ultimately responsible for the vehicle, then the driver would be liable in this case.

This technology is still evolving, though, and the law will need to be adjusted accordingly.
You and I agree, but look at the market for end user programming, it is vastly under developed. You are a single data point, not the whole population.

End users are way smarter and more capable than programmers give them credit. Applications should be empowering users not capturing them in a walled garden fed by their masters.
I think the point is that it isn't just Middle Eastern regimes - perhaps they should feel uncomfortable working with the German government, as well
Siraj Raval – Plagiarism Again
Hey, cool! That's me in the story
Philadelphia / remote.
> I’m very skeptical of this authoritarian market logic whereby we are told we must sacrifice others lives for the sake of “progress,”

Then you should be _very_ sceptical of the current state of affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2196238-does-air-pollut...
Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to users’ phones, report says
It's not QR code, per se, but something quite similar...
> Conventional nukes aren't great at going to these temperatures so this is mostly a thing "advanced" reactor people talk about.

Are the temperatures too high or too low?
Honestly, It's hard to fault someone for failing to notice something that happens irregularly like that. Unless you're willing to camp out in the front yard of a prospective home 24x7 for a week, you're likely to miss this.

The onus is on the noisemaker to make less noise, not everyone else to avoid the area. If they didn't move there, someone else with less money would have.
What bothers me about autonomous-driving software is that while you might argue that drivers are free to take the risk, I as a pedestrian (or another driver) did not sign up for the risk.

There is an entirely new set of failure modes that we are not familiar with, and particularly as a pedestrian, it worries me greatly.
I don't think he thinks it is a good tool.

>At this point I should have noticed that this language was going to be inexcusably ugly, but astonishingly, I did not notice at the time. I kept pushing on, inspired by better languages like TRAC and LISP. I determined that this was the wrong approach for dealing with browser incompatibility, but I completed the language anyway. I named it Tilton after Robert Tilton, a television faith healer and speaker of tongues. I believe that Tilton is the ugliest programming language that was not intended to be an ugly programming language.
At least in part I think it’s because everyone dies eventually but we tell ourselves that we live on through our family and community and we also rely on family and community to support those left behind when death happens; so (all other things being equal) we care significantly more about children dying than old people even where both are preventable, and we also care more about mass deaths which affect a single community very acutely than mass deaths spread out across many communities.

We also think about causes in quite different ways again precisely because everyone dies eventually. Shortening of life is ‘less bad’ than preventable death which is ‘less bad’ than deliberate killing.

For nuclear disasters you can then layer on an element of irrational fear of the unknown and lack of control which sets it apart - the horror of ‘this thing I don’t understand might kill us all in a few days and we can’t stop it’.
The title makes it appear as if "Sacrifices" must be made, which is either a disingenuous click-bait or misguided, as its categorically untrue.

The whole process of implementation of autopilot is based on the logic that its implementation is scaled as a function of the number of lives it SAVES through its utility. Meaning that as the percent automation increases, you should be able to see a net DECREASE in casualties in automated vehicles compared to non-automated vehicles. If we are not seeing this, then the rate of implementation may be too high, and the software needs to be corrected until it is.

Nothing in life is perfect, there will always be accidents, the only question is can we create tools which will decrease the percent chance of them happening.
I think given the amount of effort Benioff had put in, I do think he comes from the right place. But just don't have the same level of rigor and mental investment as say Gates.
All cars are not going to the same place.