skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Myspace really messed up at some point. Sure, Facebook beat it out by, in my opinion, just being a better website, but Myspace could have clung to users in the mid-to-late aughts by remaining a great place to discover music.

It used to be great for that. You used Facebook to do your normal social networking, and still had a Myspace account so you could go down the rabbit hole of discovering bands from the local to the international level.

What happened to it? I don't even remember. They should have shaped it into a music-oriented social network. If they invested a lot of money into it, maybe they could draw people back from Facebook and even compete with them.
> Failure modes

Making 1000 square miles of land uninhabitable for decades doesn't kill people, though. (It doesn't even harm the land, in the long term; it's sort of a good thing, decades later, like letting farmland lay fallow.) With modern technology, as was employed at Fukushima, everyone was safely evacuated from the region and literally nobody died from radiation poisoning.

Coal plants pollute globally very slowly. Coal plants pollute locally very quickly, and are capable under the right conditions of disasters just as bad as radiation fallout from our bad old nuclear plants. Have you heard of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London ? Killed 4000, poisoned 100,000 more. And that was just a regular day of the life of London's coal plants, combined with some bad weather. So the coal plants were just fine, and kept on going after that. Meaning that there were other days like that, both before and after (if not quite as bad.) It's like a nuclear power plant that can "melt down" at random, without harming itself, enabling it to keep "melting down" over and over!

> Coal vs nuclear is a straw man argument.

No; it's the real decision that developing countries (and rural areas of developed countries) are making every day: keep building coal plants, or replace some of them with nuclear plants?

Nuclear is a viable consideration for these places in that it is a drop-in replacement for a coal plant that doesn't require any additional infrastructure to connect the plant to the mine+refinery: before, you were shipping rocks on a road to a plant; now you're still shipping rocks (well, pressed rock powder) on a road to a plant. You can even reuse the mining equipment you had from the coal mining! And, often, you have a head-start on the work, as (quoting Wikipedia): "Lignite deposits (soft brown coal) can contain significant uranium mineralization." Your coal mines have probably already excavated some, and now just have it laying around feeding no domestic industry!

Meanwhile, oil or LNG requires building pipelines, different extraction equipment, etc. And affordable solar or wind—which inevitably means domestically produced solar or wind equipment—requires a whole electronics and materials industry, and is only workable in some countries to begin with.

(The real third contender for these countries is hydro power. Doesn't require shipping anything to the plant! Much bigger civil engineering project, though, and each one is a one-off design that has its own devastating failure modes, which makes them possibly more scary to government buyers than nuclear power, where at least you can buy a cookie-cutter copy of a successful plant.)

> depending on the country I'm not sure if [state-owned plants are] better or worse

Usually far better, in that ultimately most externalities come back to bite a government (in the form of e.g. decreased GDP, and thus less taxable income), so they have far more of an incentive to clean up their act than an individual corporation does.
Being seen as a bloody dictatorship makes doing business much harder

But you can watch as much basketball as you want, and wear fashionable sneakers, and of course call your buddies in the Party over for a party on your smartphones “proudly designed in California”.

Everyone already knows about Tibet, the Uighurs and so on. Everyone. And yet they still do business there unashamedly.
I don't think this is true, there are maybe many young drivers and some drunk drivers that cause a lot of accidents.

But consider this, you are a decent driver and you need to send your children somewhere. Do you drive him yourself because you know that you will not speed or text or be drunk or you send it with a robot that is better then an idiot but worse then you ???

Sure if you were drunk or tired is safer to send him with the robot.
And in aircraft design, that is not what unstable means.
As far as technology, modern humans weren't really too different at the time (in Europe at least). And of course, modern humans and neanderthals were similar enough that we were willing/able to interbreed, which certainly says something.

I do think people overstate how similar we were though -- we don't have any super clear examples of neanderthal artwork (people make arguments, but this stuff isn't exactly Chauvet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Art). To me, this seems to indicate that their brains might have worked pretty differently.
Google Maps' map data can be replaced by Microsoft/Here/TomTom data, or OSM-based maps (OsmAnd, maps.me). Apple Maps seems to be unavailable outside of iOS, not even through third-party apps or a website, as far as I know.

Mapbox does realtime traffic these days, https://benmaps.fr can show this layer (I haven't found that button in mobile view though, might need to do a pull request), as well as your local traffic authority probably or some other local companies.

Business info can be found through regular search engines, or if that is really difficult, then you can always fall back to google maps every once in a while.

Street view is not available where I live anyway, and Mapillary is doing reasonably. They also have OsmAnd integration. OpenStreetCam is another alternative.

Satellite imagery is not exclusive to google maps either, there are lots of sources for this, and often also plane-shot imagery from your local government. You can configure a layer in OsmAnd. Personally I use Bing Maps most frequently for this (not the app, just bing.com/maps) since it is a lot more smooth/lightweight than the awfully heavy google maps website. (I don't really use sat imagery on mobile anyway.)

Trip recording ("location history" in google) can be done with OsmAnd or many other apps as well. I configured it to automatically turn on when routing: then I have GPS on anyway and I might as well store the data. Often fun to see stats afterwards (max speed, avg speed, asc/descend, or sometimes it's practical to see the time it took).

I think that should cover the functionality of google maps.

Google pay I never heard of, unless you mean paying for apps in the Play Store, in which case the solution is to contact the developers directly, though they usually don't seem to care enough to get you as a customer (I tried this four times, never got a reply, thus never became a customer since quitting google play).

Hope this helps!
The automated accident avoidance systems will never become advanced enough without something like autopilot driving them.
Yep, my first game too, and I remember the song. When I heard the popcorn song many years later in life, I was stopped dead in my tracks because it stirred nearly the oldest memory I had stored in my head.
Communication plays a substantial role in traffic situations. If self-driven cars could signal whether they “see” you or not, it would be safer for pedestrians to cooperate. E.g. when you take a crosswalk, it could shine green for braking before you, or red/yellow for accelerating without seeing any obstacles. It would also be good, if a green laser projected its suggested path with a bold stop line right on the road (or fading red dot pattern if it doesn’t).
You can find something on gofundme but I'm not going to share the link until we're sure it's legit.
Yeeeesss thank you!

I remember dying a lot, wonder if the game is actually hard now... I'll check it out :)
That’s interesting—I hadn’t seen that! It’s really more a question of absolute supply, though. NYC is a lot more dense than SF.
That have a shitload of oil which I would have thought put them in a rather strong staring position.
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People's lives are being sacrificed now, teaching us how to build safer cars. Some large percentage of the time, seatbelts prevent death or reduce the injury. Some small percentage of the time, they induce further injury or death.

Do we stop using seatbelts until they are 100% effective? Was it a mistake to start putting seatbelts in cars before it could be proven that they absolutely wouldn't kill anyone?
Of course environment & context effects hearing. Ears perceive changing air pressure as sound. The body feels other frequencies (whatever that's called).

FWIW, my SO's perceptions varied with location as well.

At the very least, an audiologist (?) would help you rule out factors. Or in our case, becoming more aware of the current best available science.

Think of it as a physical. I certainly wish I had my hearing periodically thoroughly assessed. Like I already do for my pulmonary function, eyesight, BMI, etc.

Also FWIW, even though my SO's condition is untreatable, awareness helped her better manage it.

I hope you find some relief. Keep looking. Someone, somewhere has the answers you need.

Best wishes.
> heavy manual labor that skews itself towards hiring more men

That's perpetuating a gender stereo type.

> "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."

The former is a way to cover the latter. A woman might be employed in a role similar to a man, but the actual title of the position might be different, and thus different pay, even though their job function might be completely identical.

> Why aren't women being hired in positions at the same rates as men

Women face exclusion early in their careers (according to many women), so it's hard for them to have any level of experience. Most good paying jobs are mid to senior level, and those jobs are being filled by the endless supply of people that hold "Masters Degrees" from overseas.
Transcript of a Freakonomics podcast discussing this issue:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
Why not ban all advertising? Isn't that the discussion we should be having?

If we're going to accept that advertising is an ever-existing industry in our lives, then shouldn't the conversation be not about what kinds of advertising we should ban, but media awareness in general?

Bans should be reserved for the most egregious, such as products that kill (tobacco) or explicit incitements to violence, for example.
We will have flying cars long before that happens
I guess this is how people justify killing for peace. Tesla stock holders must be celebrating that their cars get to run a few people over in the name of "progress". (Well ok, they get to celebrate because their failed pet project gets to have another go - potato/potato)
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I misunderstood the original comment. The person was posting a strategy to keep shoes from wearing out too quickly. So you're right, my comment does not make sense, sorry.

Yes, shoe companies generally want people to wear out their shoes quickly to sell more shoes, and they also change up the models offered so that when a serious runner sees their shoe is no longer going to be offered, they buy up as many as possible.
In that case they might want a very in depth analysis of what they're getting into prior to taking the job. How much does that happen?
DATA OR GTFO
>MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports.

I agree with what you're saying, but as a pedantic factual correction, the 13" MacBook Pro has two.
That had nothing to do with coal mining, per se, though. The spark was set off in a hole in the ground made by previous mining, yes, but it was an entirely-untapped coal vein that caught fire, and basically anything could have caught it on fire if it was ever exposed to surface air. (A meteorite impact, or earthquake fissure, or sinkhole collapse, could have made a similar crater and exposed the coal vein, for example.)

Centralia is more of a weird natural disaster. It's essentially a slow-motion, underground forest fire. And, like most forest fires, while usually a human with a match is the proximal cause, if the human wasn't there, nature would still have supplied a spark eventually.
Also their suicide and accidental death rate...
But it can be driven by those companies. Companies in the US have a huge influence on the educational pipeline, and in turn, who gets encouraged in that pipeline.
A critical difference is that Linux circa 2000 was on a path of improvement.

macOS 2019 seems to be sacrificing usability for those of us that frequent HN, in an attempt to be more useful for the iPad crowd.
ReMarkable, Onyx, used Kindle DX.
We could fix autopilot problems across the entire USA in approximately one year.

However it would not have a winner take all, Wall Street frothiness pump and dump aspect to it.

You put rfid tags in the asphalt, on the curbs and some kind of beacon on the telephone poles, or a 'wire in the road' (like a smarter version of the working system that GM built in the 70s) and then, because it is publicly owned infrastructure, everyone can use it.

That goes against the current hypocritical faux-libertarianism that is espoused by some of our tech elites-but it would in fact work.

I said a year, because that is how long it would take to install it.

Edit to add: for fun, you can go on Mouser or Digikey and determine how to put the system together with off the shelf parts. Just add weather proofing...
If your wife or child got mowed down by an autonomous car would you be thinking "Oh well, that's progress!"

Is it ethical to build something knowing it will definitely kill random people until you perfect the technology? Will auto makers be held accountable for any wrongful deaths caused by bugs?
Ah yes. No true Scotsman.

From where I'm standing, it seems obvious that as you slide down the scale into more collectivism, you wind up with a totalitarian nightmare.

It's been tried. It ends disastrously every time.
I think peaceful secession laws should be codified internationally, it is ridiculous that people still need to take to violence in order to split a first world country since the act is illegal. As for size, many of the best places to live have around 5-10 million people, so I don't see any harm in splitting out populations of that size. For example, I don't believe that Norway would be better off today if they were forbidden from splitting from Sweden 100 years ago. Note that Norway hadn't been an independent country for 500 years at that point, so their situation was very similar to current Catalonia.
>You need the right inventives to tackle these challenges. And frankly governments need to reduce the friction in terms of money allocation and regulations to get things done.

Churches did this in the past (with all the bad side effects). But I guess in more secular regions government needs jump in (with all the bad side effects).
> Update the signing script to save the tarball to disk (previously, it lived in a pipe) and upload these alongside the releases…

This should have been done from the start.

GitHub does not guarantee checksums for the generated source archives to be stable, so they can change when GitHub updates their software (and yes, this has happened).
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/climate-change-may-h...

Certainly not unheard of for modern humans though...
Systems created by humans adapt to humans, especially where they carry significant downside risks. The risk of death or injury is high enough in driving motor vehicles that we've taken a ton of precautions (licensing drivers, criminalizing reckless behavior, road signs, stop lights, intersections design, freeway design) to try to minimize those risks, and the designs have adapted to how humans drive.

Because there is skin in the game, people drive carefully -- drivers who are consistently reckless are removed from the system. Pedestrians and other non-drivers have adapted their behavior as well to reduce the risks.

Autonomous drivers have the problem that they do not carry skin in the game -- they are not removed from the system for bad behavior. In the short term that just gives us an ethical quandary about who is responsible for deaths caused by autonomous systems.

In the long term it presents much higher risks as non-autonomous-drivers (both drivers who are not autonomous and humans who are not driving) will adapt their behavior to their mental model of the behavior of autonomous vehicles. Pedestrians will adapt their behavior correspondingly, creating even more dangerous scenarios because the interaction with sufficiently complex system is inherently unpredictable. We rely on the fact that we can build an approximate mental model of human behavior as it pertains to other drivers to predict what their behavior will be, and we constrain that behavior via rules and legal deterrents so that they are more predictable.

When we are 50% autonomous, what happens to someone how deliberately tries to cross a busy highway? Other systems, like trains, we have warnings for -- "implacable vehicle coming that will destroy anything left in its path", but for autonomous vehicles? The priority on keeping humans alive will cause situations like this to require building stricter behavioral systems to try to limit people's behavior, but the complexity of the underlying behavior is real -- that is, most of the time, crossing an autonomous freeway is actually a safe operation because of the way that they cars are designed -- so there's no feedback that will cause pedestrians to modulate their behavior. Similarly, the driving systems themselves are designed with some elements of human behavior implicitly included -- as these behaviors drift due to the coupling of complex systems, it's not clear how we can directly adapt the behavior of the autonomous drivers.
Probably https://nomoregoogle.com/ by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pieterhg
If Tesla's AutoPilot was regulated like the airline industry with post-crash reviews, mandatory improvements, and open sharing of data we likely would see that. At the current time Tesla's system is proprietary/secret and their oversight is lax.

If we look at the history of airline safety, going back further, we can see that it took many years and numerous crashes to get to the point where it became well regulated and crashes were independently investigated. Before government stepped in, private companies weren't doing a great job and their biases (inc. bad headlines/liability/cost) got in the way of improving passenger safety.

So let's absolutely keep with the airline analogy and regulate Tesla's AutoPilot like the airline industry.
I can make a video but I think you can figure it out.

1) CB needs to know the file type because it inserts comments and those need to be of the right kind. So you need to have your file saved first.

2) Select a couple of lines of text, like a function or a class and click "Insert Section" in the edit menu. This will fold the selected text and collapse it to a single line.

3) Click "Child section" in the Go menu while the caret is on the folded line to go into the new section, and "Parent section" to go back.
>no alternative at all

Have you heard of credit cards?
Too low - water-cooled reactors are designed to bring the water in the secondary cooling system to just above the boiling point, because anything beyond that is wasted energy (the temperature of the steam doesn't really matter as far as driving turbines). So retrofitting a molten-salt system onto these reactors isn't very efficient and you would ideally want a new reactor design intended for that from the beginning.
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> I’m very skeptical of this authoritarian market logic whereby we are told we must sacrifice others lives for the sake of “progress,” which is almost exclusively tied up with one person or business’ individual profit.

This is a fairly nuanced Bloomberg article. You're making it sound like Elon himself is proclaiming that some sacrifices must be made for the sake of his self-driving Teslas.
And? The damage from CO2 is logarithmic as well, and methane is currently at a much lower concentration and the atmosphere, meaning that any given mass is much more dangerous than CO2, even after adjusting for relative absorption.
Boeing 737 real cockpit simulator conversion
IIRC they tried exactly what you said
Regardless of your reasons for your decision, responding to dissent by calling it a "well akschually” isn’t a good way to respond to dissent.
Don't linters complain about it nowadays? Maybe devtools should start doing it too.
Not forever. Windows XP drivers don't work in Windows 10.

5 years of support for a driver ABI seems achievable though. Especially for basic things like proximity sensors, touch screens, buttons etc.

How often is the ABI for a button going to change?
Windows 10 on the "happy path" (the right hardware) works very well.

My desktop machine is a box by ThinkMate (dual Xeon, 256 GB Ram, Dual 2080 video cards, dual 5K monitors). It "just works" -- including all the power management functions sleep, hibernate, monitor sleep, wake on ethernet, fan control, etc. Super quiet unless all the GPUs are running full blast.

My laptop is a Surface Book. Again, it "just works". Plug in a monitor, share the desktop, sleep and wake.

And other vendors are getting better at not putting in crapware that breaks windows, like hard-to-uninstall 30-day trial versions that nag you, or silly "extra keys" or help software (IBM used to have a key that brought up an IBM help system that was completely useless--and it used to get pressed accidentally.)

I switched from Mac to Windows when Windows 10 came out and haven't looked back. It "just works."
Tesla wouldn't be where it is if it just had mere accident avoidance. Fewer would buy their cars and so they'd have worse training data and less money/viability. They probably wouldn't exist. The author is essentially correct but you don't see the whole picture because there aren't news articles when a Toyota or BMW LKAS system fails and causes an accident. We'd just have incumbent car manufacturers with worse systems.

In fact I'd probably go the other way and advocate for requiring these systems on cars similar to seatbelts. At the very least collision accident avoidance and blind spot detection. Some manufacturers still make them options or, worse, reserve them for the highest premium trims which is kinda bullshit given the technology really isn't that expensive.
>1. We have democratic checks and debate now, regarding this issue.

Not functionally, consistently, or meaningfully. Many of these companies have learned to how to ingratiate themselves to party machines in the markets where they operate, such that this decision-making is almost entirely excluded from public check or debate. Others, like Uber, willfully break laws with little consequence, for much of the same reason as the above.

>2. I see no evidence that "massive, publicly-funded investment" would achieve this technological goal faster or better than via capitalistic means. Do you have any?

As someone else pointed out, its not about faster but more safely. But the whole technology that these companies are building on top of was arrived at by this kind of public research to begin with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#History

>3. Lives will be lost regardless of how the tech is developed. Surely this is obvious. So what are you even talking about?

That private companies not be the nearly sole arbiters of what lives are worth sacrificing.
Fastmail isn't as privacy-safe as other alternatives. I used Fastmail for a while and recently switched to mailfence.