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NHTSA found that the Economic and Societal impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, when taking into account harm from pain & suffering and lost wages, is about $877 billion per year. [1]

That means we have a tremendous incentive to make investments which make the roads safer, and lower the crash rate. The single biggest technological advancement to make this possible (without eliminating cars) will be autonomous driving.

Today the lowest hanging fruit for self-driving is algorithmic work which allows the car to navigate safely based on its own sensor suite, and mostly by ignoring map data which could be unreliable. Reliance on highly accurate maps and roadway infrastructure is not really a pressing concern, because the cost/benefits of investing in improving the internal algorithm is much higher than the cost/benefits of adding roadway infrastructure for such a small percentage of vehicles to leverage.

I believe there will be a cross-over point, where safety for a significant number of vehicles can be significantly improved by making significant changes to road infrastructure to support self-driving. When that day comes, I hope that the USG will be ready to invest on the order of $1 trillion to deploy that infrastructure and ultimately, mandate all new vehicles on public roads are self-driving.

I've said it in many comments before - it is a moral imperative to get computers and not humans "behind the wheel". We can afford to spend trillions of dollars to get there, but that's not to say we get there faster by spending trillions of dollars today.

[1] - https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/2015sae-blin...
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Which is interesting because he was in a region next to Tibet when he said it which also has a long history of independence. They didn’t mention that once.
Not really, it's important to understand that directly translating like that loses its meaning. Chinese can tend to be very dramatic.. for example if you are waiting in line at the restaurant an employee may come out and tell you that you are suffering greatly. It sounds dramatic but he is just recognizing that you have been waiting awhile. Taking artistic license over a language you do not understand isn't right.
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They really are quite insane, poor Chinese people deserve better
Who gives a shit about energy usage if it is used for a cause that could potentially help humanity overcome adversity? Granted, energy usage is important but it is a question about trade-offs.

If bitcoin helped solve cancer or some genetic diseases, I doubt anyone would say: "yea but it uses too much electricity!". The world is based on trade-offs, so why not have that electricity that the bitcoin network generate be used to solve actual real world problems?
Agree. I have sympathy for people that are fighting for their freedom against a foreign power. I have no sympathy for people fighting to continue getting something for free that they got used to.
I've used a similar process; my gmail has a vacation auto-responder that informs those contacting it that the address is not used for email. The auto-response does not include my actual email address.

Even still, I find that other people's address books are remarkably immutable and despite this auto-response having been employed for around five years I still have important emails directed at the dead address.
Lol, hey renegade_master_uk! I was ashido (and various permutations of that name) in those rooms. I jumped ship from server-side to go work on Flash applications in the early 2000s, then back to JS near Flash 9/10 (when the writing was on the wall), then back again to server-side.
fuck the guardian, fuck everyone who works there, fuck their subscribers.

(yes, i'm expecting a ban pretty soon!)
Let's also keep in mind we have yet to amortize 10,000 years of waste storage that we haven't figured out yet. Highly radioactive waste is literally sitting around in barrels and pools. I wonder what happens if a pandemic or some other disaster happens, and a spent fuel pool is unable to be cooled or refilled? Would that criticality event hit the water table? If it did, how would it disperse in the water table? How much of a given aquifer could a single plant render unpotable?
That quote is brutal in it's simplicity, bluntness, and distinct lack of cleverness.

I love it.
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Because that would just be another more regular token .. like the dollar. Everything will default to the easiest path - crypto worked mostly because people are actually using it for reasons that prevent them from using regular currency. There’s nothing nefarious about science work that need to jump the crypto hoop.
Are there cheap/free games that kids actually want to play? It's not like this is a mandatory class, it is an elective like joining the football team. If the kids don't want to play the games the team competes in they won't join in the first place.

View this more like schools spending lots of money on football teams, not as an educational experiment.
ProtonMail has an IMAP bridge.
Not a fan of the idea that I can't move forward until I log into something.

I'm fine with my games not being saved, I just wanted to mess around.
Just my personal anecdote, I run Mint 19.2 x64 on my X1 Carbon and love it, no issues beyond some initial fiddling to get my hotkeys set up the way I like.
Basically this - it reduces variance in the games you play, along with increasing MMR accuracy. There’s some unfortunate side effects (it’s a long wait to solo queue as DPS, some strategy options are reduced), but overall I’m happy with the results.
Nah, that's still Model UN and Math Olympiad. Video games goes more under "sports".
> I think that's the same sort of argument that HN user 'kirindave' is making with respect to violence.

Not quite, but it is an interesting one. Folks are very comfortable with games depicting repeated fatal violence. Would they feel the same way about a game involving repeated rape? Surely not, at least in the US, surely?! But then again, Pick Up Artist games that evaluate your ability to emotionally manipulate people into sex are popular enough that they've broken into the world of big youtubers and

The reason these are different is because of the way our culture normalizes conflict and normalizes different kinds of dominance.

We've seen games that challenge this (even when they're by people who clearly aren't). Night in the Woods, Slenderman, Minecraft & Roblox, every racing game, Kerbal Space Program and Untitled Goose Game? All of these games are famous and made a major impact on the gaming social structure and they don't focus on pulling triggers or capturing points.
Ask HN: Is it difficult to hire React developers?
I recently saw an article on Proggit about how to hire a React developer that insinuated it was difficult to find React developers. Is that a common impression in the tech industry? Are employers having a hard time finding React developers to hire?

I'm very interested on the impression and scuttlebutt vs reality here. A few months ago, I swung a dead cat and hired the first three React developers I hit. The whole process took a few weeks. They've been awesome so far.
Google's safe browsing API is probabilistic too. The idea is that you do so many rounds of checking to get closer and closer to the mark. You start with a fairly high false positive probability, high-privacy check, then if you get a positive, you try a lower false positive rate check that also loses you some privacy, and the trade-off is that you don't have to have the full malicious site DB with you at all times (and keep it up to date).

Why did you assume I'd not know about false positives?
What the deliverabiltiy story of your app?
I have adopted this in other projects and added the functionality there as well; it is a brilliant idea.
For six years now I've been trying to use Google Play Music, but enter a comical loop of errors that neither the support staff nor their eng team shows any understanding of[1]. They always run through the same utterly useless script of suggestions, even when I make it painfully clear that I've already tried each of them multiple times.

I've had similar experiences with most of Google's services, including my phone nearly being bricked due to a cyclic error on Play Store. I keep a list of these little joys (on gdocs, ironically).

It was hard enough getting someone to look at these insanely frustrating errors and problems when I was a SWE there and could pinpoint someone who could fix them. Fixing these problems doesn't advance anyone's career, so nobody is incentivized to care. The idea of getting anything resolved from "out here" is just comical. Instead, I get to +1 a report on their forums, where one of their "community experts" gleefully tells us not to worry, someone will probably fix it someday. And in the meantime, have you tried power cycling? Because, Google! (Cue cute xylophone music.)

[1] Guess I'm not the only one with problems. Two stars for the Chrome app that's required: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-music/.... Does anyone actually care at Google? I doubt it. Too many cool new features to build to worry about existing ones working. Someday I might even write up a piece on how I was shipped off to the Goolag (Google Seattle) because I insisted on having a team to keep our product's data up to date.
It is €12 a year, that is €1 a MONTH.
Basically any NP problem fits that category. Protein folding is one but so are many other problems. But even if the verification itself is hard (EXP problem) that could still work as at least that energy we are putting into the network will eventually produce an answer (less efficiently, granted!) but it is far better than having energy be for literally 0 gain as the produced outcome right now is tossed out as "junk".
It's not true. I've traveled & presented with Mac laptops for 20 years, and never had a problem.
>Sure, but so are lots of things. It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others. For example, a game of Go is surely a conflict between two people, but unlike a game of Overwatch or the like it involves a lot fewer guns, bombs, and patchy plots about world governments authorizing unilateral violence.

I don't think this really has anything to do with the west. Non western cultures have been producing violent art before the west even existed, and if you look at modern non-western movies and games, they aren't less likely to involve violence.

As for Go, people in countries that play Go also play plenty of games that are violent, and plenty of people in the west play Checkers.
Afghan guerillas are using a number of modern arms (RPGs, Stingers) as well, plus IEDs. Helicopters don't get downed by rifles.
Not currently. If we get to mixed 50/50 traffic...possibly. (Saying "but won't happen, because magic future technology" would be literal handwaving)
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>instances of catastrophic failure are known by pretty much everyone.

I don't think anyone says we've seen the worst possible failures of nuclear plants.

As an extreme example, what if some crazy terrorist deliberately blows one or several up attempting to maximize damage? How bad would that be? How frequently does this occur?

I guess my point is that if there's real risks of that magnitude, they are just as invisible as coal radiation.
What are the legal implications of doing this based on jurisdiction? There are also ethical considerations. I expect this to be another thing which will be an 'open secret' in the tech/marketing worlds until other people find out about it and will be upset about.
Well yes, it makes sense evolutionarily, but I don't think I had ever specifically heard someone suggest that not following such a pattern in modern times might have bad effects
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Unreal Engine 4 games get crypto transactions with Nano plug-in
How does this change with a CDN on front? Are those prices similar, more expensive or less?
Author here. I'll be watching the comments and can answer any questions!

I do want to make clear that most of the optimizations discussed are implemented in the Go scheduler, which is where I discovered them. I wrote the article to call them out as they were not easy to discover.
I think we should also take into consideration the fact that the referendum was illegal according to spanish state, so you have bunch of people who don't want to vote, only because it's illegal.

If there was a fair and legal vote, we'd see some actual numbers that can be trusted.
You've got to pay, normally; and usually the options are PayPal (or similar) or bank payment card (eg Visa/Maestro).

In the UK I don't think it's possible to get a credit/debit card without giving up name & address that are backed by ID.

Gmail, IIRC, requires a phone number, which again is tied to your payment account (if you buy it in the UK). Though you could buy a stolen pre-paid SIM, so it's possible if you're not bothered about being legal.

In USA I understand you have pre-pay credit cards you can buy in a shop, in the UK you have to register those (using a phone number IIRC, thus tying it to a supposed real identity) and they're really expensive.
You seem to be agreeing that the implication of violence is clear and intentional.
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No, 1984 or Animal Farm is not really fiction. It is the personal experience of Orwell when traveling to Spain as anarchist to participate in the civil war and fighting against communism.

The communist faction in Catalunia received orders from Stalin and for anarchist they were even a bigger enemy than Franco .

In fact, the communist ordered the murder of Orwell, along lots of other people. Orwell saved the life because at the time he was nobody important. Orwell was warned and he ran away of the country.

Novels like War and Peace, they are powerful because they are written in times of war.

People like Albert Einstein, watch Genius in Amazon Prime...or "the life of others" they experienced real dystopia.

It is not fictional dystopia. It is reality dystopia.

It is only that their children that are raised in peace have never experience it, and tend to repeat it.

Most wars tend to follow a cycle of 80 years. When there is no people alive that remember the war, they tend to repeat it.
Hey Jmduke,

Others have pointed out about the free plan and I mostly agree with them.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is the opportunity to position your product as the alternative for people that think mailchimp is just too much. Tell me this on the headline. "The easiest way to run your newsletter." sounds generic. Maybe something like "Write and click send, that's all it takes. No templates, no extra steps."

Finding people that want to send a simple newsletter without all the steps of mailchimp should be easier. Tell your customers early that you will handle the migration part and you might find more conversions as well.
Given the natural tendency of cryptocurrency artists to try stealing other people cycles, haven't they tried already to rewrite their hashing problems into protein folding ones?
Yes, but when computers do things that humans do there is simply less human oversight. If a human is taking action to enforce a policy that will harm other people, there's the chance that he'll resist it or raise awareness.

If an algorithm does it, there's no final line of defense. And software is easy to scapegoat because it's murky. You can claim "we didn't know the algorithm would do that," but it's harder to scapegoat your employees when there's emails on record showing you specifically told them to enact a social harm.
Woah that is so enormously stupid. I never watch a single ad (granted, I use laptop) and have never gotten into trouble nor plan to stop blocking the ad.
throw away just post once account.

Former developer working on FinFisher.

Note, I am only talking about my motivations and experiences. This was about 10 years ago and I left after about 18 months. Today it is likely a completely different place (e.g. only a few names in the suit sound familiar).

Why did I start there?

I already knew a lot of the current employees from previous work and remembered them as competent no nonsense senior developers. The job was pitched to me as working on software used by law enforcement against organized crime, terrorism and child abuser rings. Additionally the VC founded Startup I was currently working for imploded, I was fed up with the BS prevalent in the German VC founded Startup World, and my particular skill set was basically unemployable during that time for most other employers in Munich (mostly Scala and Objective-C). Gamma didn‘t hire people outside of their current employees network.

Why did I stay there?
The work environment was as close to zero bullshit as you can probably get to. During my time there were zero pointless meetings, the total meeting time during the 18 months I stayed there was less than 3h (I actually measured them once I realized how few and short our meetings were), no internal politics I could perceive. Feedback of developers was taken seriously, you had decent offices, good equipment and could focus on getting your work done in a way that since then no other employer came close to providing.

Other (not all) colleagues actually started out on the „hactivist“ , were - as far as I could See - highly competent software developers specializing in IT security without a formal CS or related degree, that probably also made it difficult for them to find other work suitable at that time. Pay was good, not exceptional.

Why did I leave?
I handed in my resignation shortly after Gamma appeared in the news the first time and it became apparent that sales was focusing more on governments that I personally do not consider as a „Rechtsstaat“ and less on fighting organized crime or child abusers.

Of course I could have known earlier/looked harder in the first place (I do not remember potential customers being keep a secret by sales) and to be honest this might be just the reason I tell myself, because after about 9 months or so I started to become excruciatingly bored by my day to day work... so this might have been the true reason and the news reports just the straw the broke the camels back. But I guess I‘ll never know.

Again it is roundabout 10 years since I worked there and this is just an account of my Personal experience, not „the truth about Gamma“
Software makes everything go. How is that treatment going to be sustainable? There's a reason FANG is paying so big.
> Dota is a game where folks play avatars that come together to contest a pointless battlefield, murdering each other over and over while also murdering useless "creeps" that have the trappings of anthropomorphism but are explicitly considered value-less by the Heros.

It's not a boring or bad game, but the fundamental principle is "me and my friends murder your face with our amazing tactical teamwork for no special reason while our grunts carry on fighting like robots."

I am not sure what you want to convey. Simulated violence is base of any game really.

Heck, chess is literally a battlefield where soldiers are scarified to acheive victory.

Playing chess doesn't make you violent or toxic.
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But if they really did that, this could be grounds for a serious lawsuit.
I have a suspicion that the poster is not being entirely honest.
This is a really misleading and inflammatory article.

" reading books, napping, strumming a ukulele, or having sex."

Perhaps it was like that years ago, long before the Model 3 but it isn't like that now. My 2015 Model S would complain long before I could complete a sex act. Or perhaps Bloomberg's hack suffers from premature ejaculation.
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But you still lose access to your entire life up to that point.

Sure, you can start to rebuild without changing your email address, but it's no less catastrophic when you get locked out.
DuckDuckGo has Apple Maps, and there's an API.
Honestly I think orchid subscriptions is the way to go. Send them out when they are just sprouting a flower stock then exchange them in a month or 2 after they are done and before the new owner kills them.
They miss out Mixi which for a time (mid 2000s) was huge in Japan. Mixi was another social network which killed itself - by introducing a very restrictive registration policy, and then kind of letting the technology stack slide so it became slower and clunkier in relation to other sites, and missing mobile altogether.

The real news is that MySpace has 393 employees still. I wonder what they do?
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Yes, as long as we are good for them.

I've had ill relatives with impaired mobility that really enjoyed the company of pets; it makes a huge difference on people who can feel lonely at times.
That's what a typical anti-Bitcoiner would say.
>The problem is that "it could" there is no proof that after Tesla tests on public roads won't fail or go bankrupt.

Tesla will just raise more capital. It's unlikely that they will go bankrupt anytime soon.

Unfortunately, there are nowhere near the misfortune of Faraday future.( They just announced bankruptcy today)
Yeah. I think a high CRI would be what you'd want for this purpose. Those aim to match sunlight.
And, of course, by brigading this down you are making the author's point for him.
This makes some sense of it. The author has a project that happens to have some financial reward.

A startup SaaS is a product, and while a project can become a product, I think it is better to set out from the beginning as a product. And for projects to remain so and be treated that way as the author describes.

Projects are great, but revenue is the primary metric for most SaaS products, and and if you follow YC school of thought you should be chasing growth of that metric.
I see no other defense that would plausibly be undertaken in the current culture of the West. There are many options of course, I just don't see any that maintain current levels of corporate profitability and re-election likelihood. What little commentary on the matter I see from those who hold power seems motivated by the chance for political gain, or corporate perception management.
Is Square Cash on Android? It has a physical debit card option.
what's your take on latinx or latin@?
Out of curiosity, how did you notice folders were full of child porn? Do operators have access to mail folders and / or use to check randomly on people emails?
The light is very strong even while diffuse, having it behind my back doesn't hurt my eyes and the effect is same. It's a non-LED one, not sure what is inside but it initially took 10 minutes to light up fully (now it's instant, probably some firmware for initial burn-in). I'll have to find box somewhere to tell you exact type.
I take issue with the headline. The fact that crashes still do and will occur even while AutoPilot is on does not mean that AutoPilot is legally or ethically responsible for the crash, until the system is advertised as a Level 4 system. Only at that point we can look at the accident rate of the L4 system and decide if those accidents are the fault of the autonomy, or if the algorithms could be improved to have avoided an accident that was even another driver's fault.

Distracted driving is a leading cause of crashes today, and particularly if you use AutoPilot, you really see the ridiculous numbers of distracted drivers all around you. Many drivers choose to use their phones instead of looking at the road, whether they have AutoPilot or not. It's dangerous in both cases, but less-so if you have AutoPilot on. In either case, in a L2 system, if the car crashes while the driver is on their cell phone, it’s the driver’s fault regardless of whether there was AutoPilot enabled or not.
> I find my brain shuts down during interviews.

Same here. Anytime I'm put on the spot in any context, whether it's interviews or when a teacher calls on me in class, my brain goes blank. Fight or flight? Or just panic? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯