skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're winning. This is absolutely crazy that 36 000 deaths a year in the USA is considered "winning". Like it couldn't get any better. Hey it's better than the apocalypse from 30 years ago, we are WINNING. If terrorism was 36,000 deaths every year you can bet this would be a big topic of conversation.

Other data to look at, shared of accidents caused by distracted driving are way way up. Perhaps if distracted driving was going down instead of going up, we would be getting much lower than 36,000 death/year

Source:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-are-you-a-dis...
Great comparison. Alcohol being the most commonly addictive drug.

In the 50s people though 'how can I drink and drive safely'.

It took a while for people to accept that... can't happen.

I see far too many people thinking about texting like people thought about drinking in the 50s.
> You can be texting and driving stick at the same time easily.

I've driven stick shift for over a decade and this is completely false.

> You don’t constantly need your hand on the shifter.

Constantly? No. Frequently? Yes.
What's the point of praising youtube's UX if you're blocking part of it?
Source for your second paragraph: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730905

That's out of date now, though; despite still being part of the required boilerplate CSS for AMP pages, I can't find that delay in any of the https://amp.dev/ pages (the ampbyexample.com replacement demo site).

This is really shady.
Pete Buttigieg worked at McKinsey after his college days...which was only 10-15 years ago. I wonder if/how he was exposed to unethical practices and grafting like this...
FYI HN: Siri defaults to having permissions for suggestions in every app
Siri by default has permissions to “Learn from this App” for every individual app installed. Turning off this permission requires toggling for each app installed. For example, Siri by default monitors iMessage conversations to suggest reminders.
Node.js is the opposite of what some people would consider "real time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
What you mean is, suicides went up.
I think it's a mistake to frame this with respect to 'fairness'.

If you were another company instead of an individual you would not be having this discussion with your employer.

Would they try to bring the price of IT equipment down, with the argument of a shorter delivery route, if they were doing business with a retail business close by their office?

For HR the best outcome is to get the best people possible for the lowest price possible.

The best outcome for you as an employee is to get the maximum compensation + benefits + bonuses for the least amount of your time/effort.

For the archetype factory employee, their value grows linearly with time spent working. For a knowledge worker the output of a small team of 10/20 people could generate orders of magnitude more, the time spent is not relevant what matters is the value adding output.

So if you want to think in terms of fairness don't frame it in terms of the 40 hours a week, frame it in terms of the profit generated or money saved as a direct result of your output.
A more barebones earth map that can show PM2.5m as well.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/particulates/surface/l...
Dressing well, having a good handshake and solid banter, etc.

Soft skills that we IT folk tend to hate with a passion, and which really make a massive difference over a life-long career trajectory
>you must not actually drive stick then. The only time I can see myself being able to text while driving stick is on the highway and even then I wouldn’t really be comfortable doing so.

He probably just drives something made in the last ~15yr. In a modern vehicle the power band is wide enough that you have about 3 gears that can be used in any given situation and the gear shift is basically a 6-way toggle switch. You could definitely use your phone if you wanted to.

I used to eat a bagel on my way to work in stop and go traffic with my gear shift hand and that's in a 25yo vehicle with a really long shifter and such little power you really only have one good gear for a given situation. In a vehicle like that it is much harder to be distracted and drive comfortably.
As a cyclist I don't find that eye contact is enough. There have been quite a few times where I made eye contact with someone who was turning and was required by law to yield to me, yet they still pulled directly in front of me, almost causing a collision. The few times I have been able to talk to these drivers at a nearby intersection I've heard "I thought you had to stop for me." No, I'm oncoming traffic, you're supposed to stop for me! There are even signs reiterating this. Don't know how common this is for (pedal)cyclists vs. motorcyclists but it just indicates to me that mutual eye contact alone is not enough.
I find this comment incredibly condescending.

Asking "why is this on the front page?" and "...are run-of-the-mill for any CS course..." after you say "Nice writeup" isn't a compliment. It's a back-handed compliment.
No they shouldnt, that is anti-competitive. Grocery store shelf placement is paid for my brands. If Kirkland pays for better placement they get better placement. Not just because they are the inhouse brand.
I also got nothing with [0], so I unblocked JavaScript and removed /html from the URL and there's the ticker at [1]. I suppose ia= is for 'inline applet' or something.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=aapl+stock

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aapl+stock&ia=stock
Just leave the clutch pedal down all the time. Proven method
It's definitely slower for me (Linux, recent Intel with 20 cores, 32 GB RAM).

I still use it on principle. But let's not get complacent with regards to performance. That's why Chrome won in the first place.
>Either go all-remote or all-onsite.

The thing is that, in many cases, there is no "all-onsite" especially for larger organizations.

Your field people (sales, system engineers, etc.) are going to be wherever your customers are.

Acquire a company in a different city? If you force everyone to move, you're probably going to lose a lot of the value of that company?

Work with open source software? Many of the upstream developers are going to be scattered all over the world in any case.

And as soon as you're in multiple locations even within a given city, you're really not much different from being in two separate cities at that point.

Certainly, there are challenges. But I'm in a very mixed environment, which I think generally works pretty well.
> the 2 party system

The two-party system is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.

The real problem is the first-past-the-post voting system. A FTFP voting system will always devolve into a two-party system. If we switched to some sort of ranked choice or approval voting, we'd see more options.
This seems like an eminently solvable problem.

My car knows when its key fob is inside it with great precision, to the point that I cannot even lock the doors while it is inside. My iPhone knows when it is itself in the car, so when I want to use it while driving, I have to dismiss a warning message, which I adeptly do with muscle memory.

Seems to me if cars supported driver and passenger authentication, most illegal device usage could be stopped rather trivially.
>completely focused who's slightly above the legal limit

This may not be possible. One of the effects of alcohol on cognition is that it increases distractability while simultaneously making you less aware of it's occurrence which is a compounding issue.
This is not server-class hardware, which is what's been requested in this thread.
I agree that no one should be so quick to call others nasty untrue names, but the story is a bit more complicated than it may appear at first glance. I summarized a Verge article in another thread as such:

- Thai soccer team gets stranded in a cave

- British expat and diving expert helps with the rescue effort

- Musk also tries to help, dedicating a small team from SpaceX to design a submarine to rescue the kids, with preliminary approval of his efforts by the Thai government

- The kids happen to be rescued before Musk's submarine could be put to use

- The British expat got on CNN, implied that Musk was just in it for the publicity, and said that Musk can "stick his sub where it hurts."

- Musk had a Google alert on his name and was quickly notified of this. He was frustrated because he saw it as an attack on his reputation. He redirected time and resources to a good cause for free but someone was implying he did it for glory.

- Musk Googled the man's location and saw that he lived in an area of Thailand with a lot of trafficking victims, which in his view in that emotionally charged moment gave him ammunition to tweet a response. Allegedly, he didn't know that it was the same person that helped with the rescue.

- He got on Twitter shortly thereafter, defended his submarine, and called the British expat a "pedo guy" (Musk claimed that this was slang-like and he didn't actually mean that the expat was an actual pedo guy)

- The expat sent Musk a letter asking him to retract his comments publicly. Musk saw it as a financial shakedown and refused. Later, in court, the expat was offended with Musk's reading of the letter as a shakedown.

- Someone employed by Musk's family office hired an investigator who claimed that he can discover whether there is some truth to the "pedo guy" claim. He also said that he already had some intel. Any confirmatory evidence could be used as defense in a potential defamation suit, though it would be retroactive in this case. The investigator turned out to be a con man and turned up nothing of substance.

- The expat filed a defamation suit which has gone to court. A judge and jury (of around 40 people, no less) are assessing the facts of the case, and Musk had to testify in court for several hours.
It's very difficult to text and drive, driving stick you require far, far more attention to speed/gear/etc at all times. When I drive a stick car I can't doze off, I can't really go on mental autopilot like when I drive an automatic car. This is coming from someone who drove stick for 10 years, now driving an automatic vehicle. - Personal Anecdote.
What's the configuration you're talking about? In the Wifi+Ethernet case, how do the routers know to send the packets towards the "right" interface, without the computer having the "right" IP address?

I mean, suppose the computer has WiFi IP address 10.0.0.3 & Ethernet IP address 10.0.0.5, then after NAT the return packets will go to 10.0.0.3, and therefore should go to the WiFi interface, not to the Ethernet interface (or, if they don't, how do they know which interface they should go to?).
Lists don't make such great HN posts, because the discussion inevitably becomes about the lowest common denominator of the items on the list. The interesting material is in the specific items on the list, but these never escape the gravitational pull of the generic topics (in this case Amazon and AWS). It's usually better to pick the most interesting thing on the list and submit that instead.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yeah, it's remarkable that distracted drivers don't cause very many accidents but, indeed, statistics show they don't.

I'm an impatient driver (when I'm not watching myself) and distracted drivers slow me and when I'm watching someone drive distractedly, it is easy for me to think that driver is about to cause an accident but that view can be biased by my desire to pass that "slow, inconsiderate jerk".
But I don't think dinosaurs were plagued by microplastics and poisons industrially designed to kill them instead of their food supply.
There is a weird and pretty nasty bug in FF71. When using a built-from-source version (such as are available in distros), it breaks at least LastPass.

See: https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=356405
Anyone with iOS 12 really.
For those cases having Brave or another Chromium browser as a backup works well.
So, how do you get the phone to know whether or not you are driving or merely a passenger?
Sounds like someone doing linear regression, claiming it's artificial intelligence, and charging $150k salary in a year for said data science...
I gave it a try. So I searched for "Trump" in Safari mobile, the result page loaded 2.5mb. It loaded a bit more when I clicked on an AMP article and kept loading more as I jump from article to article. It did not load any data without me switching to the next article.

After 10 articles, the transferred data was 28MB. I visited the Guardian's own website and it fetched 3MB.

So, It looks like Google does not preload a huge amount of data.

ps: I use ad-blocking and cleaned the cache.
Diet of Worms
No loss here. I listen to several podcast, but I usually skip the ads. If that was not possible, I would not listen to podcasts. Podcasts can be nice, but there is an abundance of people that want their voices heard.
It's a closed loop system.
Is that one module more complicated than the entire rest of the phone that the Purism team has already put together?
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Driverless cars need to get here sooner rather than later.
Eh. You're likely making a statistical error also. Cars are massively more safe to get in an accident in. In theory the rates of deaths should have fallen far further.
Is there some traceability on what input parameters were used in testing computer models?

Is there a hypothetical world where the modeling software failed to show this scenario for the correct input parameters?

Either way, I agree, based on the links presented in the OP, there is no evidence presented of it being a software bug.
Stop the presses ... I asked a Ford salesman what the best Black Friday car deal was and he recommended a Ford!
There are a lot of other ways of getting involved, especially at the local level.

I'm still kind of figuring out as I go, but maybe the best bet is to find some like minded people who sort of know what they're doing in terms of 'activism'.

After all, a lot of politicians 'higher up the food chain' got their start locally. So that's a good place to help push things in a direction you'd like to see.
The decrease in fatalities is mostly a result of improved safety technologies. The appropriate statistic would be to look at accident rates under similar traffic densities and speeds to see whether or not that bears out.
This is a very cool project, but I'm not sure exactly what I would use it for. I could see it being useful if didn't start your project out using a tool for schema migrations and need to back reverse engineer things to create fake migrations.

I'm curious, does anyone here use it that would care to explain their use case?
Ask HN: What are your favorite computer science papers of 2019?
I vote and I protest, but yet those with money continue to corrupt the system. I feel much more like a victim of the system than a participant.

How would you suggest a typical American HN reader go about effecting change?
LOL, you think children listen to parents when “taught properly”? We taught our kids all the proper behaviors, for years. Loads of examples of consequences, restrictions, lectures, etc. they still grow up and make poor choices.

When it comes to acquiring good judgement, for most people there is no teacher like experience.
You gotta honk. I honk ALL THE TIME now. It’s just enough of a jolt to send a signal to everyone around you that it’s time to snap back to attention. It works marvelously. I don’t like doing it... but it really works. If the light turns green and no one has moved for a few seconds I give a little tiny honk and like clockwork you can see brake lights in every lane turn off and people begin to activate.

I don’t think we can solve this with enforcement. We gotta start thinking outside the box. I have no advice... I wish I did ... but it’s an epidemic. Its a symptom of a much larger issue, I think, so we need to try and treat that instead.
That's also Epic's (the healthcare software vendor) big value proposition. Their software is okay—among an industry filled with shit, their turd is at least polished.

But their delivery model is incredible: they make customers woo them (shouldn't vendors be doing the wooing?), and they have a prescribed way of doing things if they decide you're worthy to purchase their product. What you get in return is a constant cudgel of "this is the Epic way" to yield when talking with practitioners who are used to doing things their own way (especially doctors—nurses are more flexible and pragmatic, in my experience). This can be especially useful when you have a system of multiple facilities that's grown through acquisitions, with each facility having decades of accumulated practices that aren't quite aligned with your other locations.
Seems like most people I observe texting seem to do so at low risk times (e.g. at stop light or in stop and go traffic). People looking at their phones in traffic in areas where "things happen" (pedestrians present, traffic entering, etc.) seem to be much rarer. There's not much opportunity to kill someone accidentally in those kinds of conditions because of the low speed which is probably why those accidents don't show in the death based statistics you're looking at.
At intersections its the people behind you. I have lots of friends who have been rear ended on their bikes. People tend to reach for the phone when approaching a red light.
>Open source app? Compile it yourself! Which takes noticeably longer than x86 for me.

Heh, it's funny, right? I switched from an x86 server to an arm server and now it takes seconds and seconds to log me in using ssh. It's like the server really struggles when crunching numbers.
Ok, but how is a domain name essentially different from 'any form of text string'? There needs to be some central registry, unless you are ok with such long strings that nobody will effectively double check, that they are correct.
This seems like a roundabout way of getting to something much more like what wikipedia calls a "Language-based System"[1], which is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Very cool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-based_system
Amazon is a search-for-something-to-buy company. I think the analogy holds.
Welppp, that's a sad chart.

Though I really doubt Firefox's drop in market-share is that tied to performance. The story is more likely to be Chrome/Chromium as the default on Android, the release of Chromebooks, etc. Of course, this is just me interpreting facts with my feel good opinion.

Back to the main point at hand, though, Firefox is obviously not doing well today either according to that chart. But its performance and dev tools are top-notch.
When did stores start having to treat all the products they sell equally?
Everyone gets defensive about their culpability on the roads...it's the same in online gaming or work. If you point out what someone's doing wrong, especially if they have no relationship to you, most self-conscious, ego-centric people will react defensively and rudely.
> The other thing management consultants do is industrial espionage -- they go into a company to learn how it work, and then advise other companies on how "industry leaders" operate.

This one doesn't get mentioned enough, I think. They'll happily sell you an outline of what you need to do to be in line with "industry best practices", where those practices are all the things your competitors are doing better than you (and guess what they'll sell those companies if they spot anything you're doing better than they are? Where do you think they learned about those "best practices" in the first place?).

It's basically a kind of weird, expensive, inefficient, unofficial business process collaborative R&D program.
Sorry, some of us still consider a phone to be a personal computer. Legislating that phone software mandatorily implement centralized rules, no matter how sensible the specific rules would be, is the path to further locking down these devices and general societal computational disenfranchisement.
This is a farce, if there is any discrimination occuring in Canadian hospitals it towards smokers and the obese. Sure there may be incidents by bad practitioners but it is far for a tipping point. Im so sick of every special interest immediately going to racism the minute someone treats them unfairly. In Canada there are checks and balances to prevent things like the "Rapper" experienced, he may have slipped through the cracks, the triage nurse may indeed have been biased but the outliers are the exception not the rule. Rather than going to the media to self promote his music he could have reported the incident to his local ministers office, ombudsman or hospital oversight.
Plenty of people do show up to emergency looking for drugs, whether they are in pain or not is not the point, you walk into a hospital with an attitude that they need to bow down to your demands, you will have a bad experience.
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Healthcare workers are some of the most over worked, abused and stressed public employees we have, and when a so called reporter writes a hit job against the system like this it really pisses me off.
Mostly because the service is still beta.
> Like thousands of American public school districts, Montgomery county gives students laptops and has hired tech companies to track students’ activities on those computers

This is one of the rare occasions where I am sympathetic to libertarians - the state takes money in the form of taxes, and returns it in the form of spyware-infected laptops. If parents could keep that money, they could buy laptops that would not betray them.
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If I had to guess, I'd say the biggest reason is that it's dead simple to get a driver's license in the US.

I remember meeting with a German coworker, raving about how fantastic it was to drive in Germany[0]. He was flabbergasted to learn how easy it is to get a driver's license in the US.

Driving is more necessary in the US than in Europe, but it's absurd that (at least in WA) all[1] that's needed is:

- a small, multiple-choice test

- a ~20 minute driving test

- a small fee for all of the above

[0]: driving through small medieval-ish Germany cities sucks, though.

[1]: https://www.dol.wa.gov/driverslicense/steps.html
My point was that our reaction to this new problem of distracted driving should be commensurate with our reaction to the "old problems" of, I dunno, DUI or road rage or whatever. Because numerically it doesn't really make sense.

By all means let's work to reduce traffic fatalities. Let's just do it in a smarter way that "OMG phones in cars" -- I mean, how about work on better civil infrastructure choices so people aren't incentivized to drive in the first place.
I think the real target is - or should be - CIA, and NSA. People who have security needs that China will never agree to. The hardware switches help play into their needs: shut the chips off in situations where they are a concern.

Pursim should have a standing offer: we will make your phone on a day scheduled well in advance and allow your auditors in the factory to watch over the process. At an extra cost of course, but I think this is something they could offer easily enough and it would be very helpful to those most paranoid about security.

Dealing with government contracts isn't easy though.