skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, the numbers in the parent comments were "3 per year" and "101 per day", so the ratio there is 12288:1.

There are approximately 250e6 registered vehicles in the US, so if all the Tesla-related fatalities are those "3 per year" (which seems unlikely to me; it assumes that there are no Teslas involved in fatal accidents when the automatic driving stuff is not engaged) to be disproportionate there would have to be only ~21000 Teslas on the roads. There are close to an order of magnitude more than that at this point.
That is what they claim over here as well. Meanwhile business is booming in the pedestrian zone, with shops actively moving there from other parts, whereas those shopping streets that kept cars are indeed showing some empty spots due to (a) the above, (b) normal churn, with new businesses starting preferring the car free zones as well and (c) stall-wards being trounced by e-commerce.

The same complaints playbook every time in every city (commerce, disabled, deliveries and repairs) with the same success stories each and very time the carfree streets and regions are there.
I wish you could just download a big bunch of pre-rendered tiles for each country.
You can avoid committing that crime by refusing to speak to agents.
It has everything to do with the big-businessification of the industry. As soon as people with money realized there was a growing market they dumped tons of money into it. You can't just allow a risk such as having a person put their name on art, since that person might one day give you the finger and do something else. In reality you can't even tolerate the risk of making art. That's the games industry today.

Kojima got away with it because his eccentric egotism meant that he could put his name down hard and fast before that privilege was taken away. And while Konami were trying to take it he made a point to put his name on everything even more so that when they did show him the door he'd have an exit strategy. He's one weird dude but at least his games are art and was the one person to be able to tell a publisher to eat dirt.
It's really cool but I wonder what kind of range it could feasibly achieve. Personally I like the idea of high altitude helium balloons. You can't control the direction but they could stay up for much longer than something that used powered flight.
How is one driver going to take over for 4 vehicles? Each truck needs a safety driver.
The "coding is the same as writing" meme really should stop being subscribed to. It's soo different.
I'm not sure what the problem with microphones / voice transmission is in 2019.

Using Zoom and other such platforms (across different companies, computers, meeting rooms) the result is almost always a distorted, low bit, overly compressed sound. Plus crazy 2-5 sec latency in some cases.

One would expect this to be solved in an age we stream 4K movies...
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21770622
Part of it is a big chunk of the HN crowd hasn't been in business, and part of it is that marketing is an ethical mess.

And HN is engineer heavy, so we see how a product comes from raw materials and is built into a thing you can use, and see how those roles are adding value. It's easy to understand that a cut diamond is worth more than a raw diamond.

But a product also has more value if it's on a shelf in a store than sitting in a warehouse, thus a person driving a delivery truck is adding value.

And the mutual gain from the transaction is realized when questions are answered and the transaction is settled, so the cashier is adding value.

Bringing it back to marketing, the transaction can't even begin until the customers are aware of the product and understand that it meets a need they have, so the marketer is adding value by enabling that to happen.

But I've got no proof beyond the observation that people get paid to do these things, and it could be that some or all of these jobs really are redundant. Anyone can settle the debate empirically by starting a business that doesn't rely on them, though.
Australian checking in - and I'm not trolling either: I can just as easily read that 10-point list off for Australia.
so basically, the bad manager was there to intentionally run the departments into the ground so there would be clear spots to axe following the company's acquisition
That’s what they’re called[0], no matter where you’re from.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose
I am an introvert. It is readily apparent to all, but not a disorder. I am not a psycologist and I don't know more than I have read from non journal sources. But the wiki page lists things like superficial charm, repeated failed relationships, inability to take responsibility for mistakes, diminished affect etc. Again, that i no longer the term preferred. Movies gave the term so much loaded meaning that was inaccurate. They also once had homosexual as a diagnosis and a disorder. Different is only a problem if it is a problem. If suddenly none of us felt sad when we harmed others, I don't think it would turn into mad max.
>I've read criminal defense lawyers advise people that they first contact a good lawyer before contacting the police (and have them present during any communication) if their spouse is missing.

This is pretty poor advice. A prosecutor will absolutely subpoena your phone records and use the fact that you called a lawyer first to convince a jury you're guilty.

But you're right - in most cases, talk to investigators as little as possible. The classic YoutTube video [1] on this topic is worth a watch if people haven't seen it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Another good reason to use Firefox. I never have this problem.
Write a parser with JavaScript
Don't you understand the trick? If they acknowledge that they "stole" it, Mamut will then go to US and use it as a basis for his claims on the F5, which is like a million times bigger than this claim.
Adding 'waits' in for UI elements to be available feels wrong. Seems like busy work.
"Susan Fowler joined Stripe to found and edit Increment"

https://stripe.com/blog/increment
Link to a slide set in this distribution -- the overall approach.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cF7qFtjAzkXL_r62CjxB...

A beautiful piece of work. What else to say.
bandwidth != latency
Navigating that slide deck was surprisingly frustrating. Clicking forward 10 times to get through a single slide must have been really annoying to present, too.
Eugh, annoys me that people talk about entitlement in this case then management is surprised when developers don't stay any longer than 3 years
Ring camera hacks see homeowners subjected to racial abuse, ransom demands
You do have alternatives to the `component` library.

This new library, `clip`, might sit better with you:

https://github.com/juxt/clip
Crypto ETP. How Does It Help the Crypto Market?
This is why I don't let my cats roam freely outside. If they want outdoor kitty adventures, they can have them on a leash.
I'd argue John Romero is the most influential among those. He is the architect of the grand daddy of 3D game engines.
He doesn't.
If you contributed to nginx, do these new owners own your contributions if you submitted them under what turned out to be false pretenses ? Shouldn't all the community contributions be void because of that? That would significantly reduce nginx's worth.

If not, what's to stop other companies doing this in a predatory way? Start an "open source" project, gather years of valuable contributions from a enthusiastic community, then pull the rug?
Places that pay for technical writing
They are currently being interrogated, not detained.
Man, I wish I actually had a job where I got mentored.
Roberta and Ken Williams were big PC adventure game celebrities, too — and eventually their company, Sierra (at the time owned by Vivendi), published Gabe Newell’s Half-Life.
Curious: Do people find value in reading increment? I've tried reading it a few times but have often found it to be too many words for too little deep insight. Would love to be convinced otherwise though.
This is cool, but what makes it "music for programming?" I'd say music for programming is whatever your favorite music is. Everyone has different tastes.
I imagine it's more complicated than that. Settlements can have terms (no admission of fault, etc), and claiming precedent across countries probably isn't straightforward.
Thanks for taking the time to write that. It's clearly stated and helped me recognize some more of the nuance of our current situation.

While I haven't thought it through entirely, nor am I qualified to assert that I can; I wonder what a universal max income and / or placing a maximum on the value of an individual's asset holdings (in addition to a UBI) would do to combat the disparity between the strength of capital and labor. I wonder if such a system could support itself without a traditional tax structure and instead impose a 0% tax rate on income below the max and a 100% rate on income in excess of the max.
I have a related question, which is if the government's argument is valid, then why not extend it? Why not require cameras in every room of the home, so that if abuse or molestation of a child occurs then child services can step and remove the child, and the parents be prosecuted? You might also argue that if you don't accede to this simple request, then you must have something to hide.
It's becoming more and more apparent that Konami fired kojima for not being able to deliver a game on deadline and within budget.

His latest game death stranding was panned by most people, rightfully so since it's just a walking simulator. The game before that, MGS V also clearly a game cut short and made with the skeleton of whatever the real target was. We ended up with a mission select repetitive playground, but not a real MGS game.

If anything I hope konami comes back to making games, they own a lot of amazing IPs.
> Sorry, but abuse of power by a federal institution that once upon a time harassed MLK isn't partisan, it's a problem.

It's not as big of a problemas abuse of power by a federal institution that directed genocide and, incidentally, which that other federal institution answers to, which makes it strange that that's exactly what you are using it to minimize.

> Orange man didn't create this system.

The manner in which Donald Trump has corrupted the administration of the executive branch and for which is defenders—includig those who can't bring themselves to a direct defense by only engage in the kind do distraction you are engaging in now—are desperate to set the precedent of total absence of accountability is one of greatest dangers to democratic-republican government in the history of the nation. Certainly, it builds on a history tracing back at least through the Nixon pardon, the relative lack of accountability in Iran-Contra, the Republican Congress so burnt out from a failed attempt to impeach Clinton for lying about sex that it couldn't muster up accountability for a war waged not only without Congressional action, but against direct Congressional denial of authority, and scores of abuses, including bad faith in making determinations Congress required in the Iraq AUMF, war crimes, torture, etc., directed at the highest levels of the Bush Administration, etc.

But we're running out of opportunities to draw a line in executive abuses of power before there is no more capacity to restrain.

> Obama [...] did pardon Chelsea Manning.

In fact, he did not. He commuted Manning's sentence, which is a very different thing. Not that I see how the issue would be relevant to the rest of the discussion either way.
Facebook Messenger, you mean ?
I guess that most Facebook groups are public ?
> Block everything incoming except your VPN tunnel should you need remote access

With the slight caveat that you should have at least a second out-of-band access method for when you bork your VPN config :)
Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy, just as work fills allocated time.
Luckily the Valve Index is much superior to the rift lineup, so you’re not sacrificing anything to stay far away from facebook.
> What is often brushed over by proponents is that it will weaken security for all of us.

Because there are criminals in the government.
It seems to me that remote work does a whole hell of a lot to reduce CO2 emissions, so any company that claims to care about the environment and their future should really be doing all they can to make themselves as remote friendly as possible, especially now that technology is good enough to make it happen.

I've been working 100% remotely for a large company for a year and a half now. They shut down our office (and a bunch of others) to save money on real estate, but with software like Microsoft Teams (and I'm sure there are just as good alternatives, but this has a solid mobile app and Outlook integration, so it's pretty enterprise-friendly), it's not that hard to do.

We also VPN to the same network that we were on when we still had an office, so I still have access to everything we had and can remote into our other servers as needed, just as I could when I was at the office.

Obviously the environment is not a big factor to a lot of these companies, despite the lip service they may pay to it, but perhaps the government could provide incentives to facilitate the transition for several companies?

It really doesn't help that several of the biggest tech companies, which should be a model for how other companies could use tech for this benefit, have gone anti-remote in recent years though. I think that's shown other companies "Well it doesn't work for them, so it can't work for us." and has done a lot of harm as well.
Wow, I would have honestly thought that the Martian atmosphere was too thin for a helicopter to fly!

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/14/helicopter-to-accompan...

> She said the size of the rotors was restricted to 1.2 meters by the space available on the Mars 2020 rover’s belly pan. In turn, the 1.2-meter rotor diameter limits the mass of the helicopter to 4 pounds — 1.8 kilograms — based on the rarefied density of the Martian atmosphere.

> “The biggest thing is the atmospheric density at Mars is very thin,” Aung said in an interview Friday. “It’s 1 percent of that at Earth. It’s equivalent to about 100,000 feet in altitude here on Earth. The other difference is the gravity at Mars is lower. It’s about 40 percent. That plays into how much we can lift.”

> The rotors on the Mars Helicopter will spin between 2,400 and 2,900 rpm, about 10 times faster than a helicopter flying in Earth’s atmosphere.
The Guide for Indie Retailers Considering Automation Through RPA
are they? maybe if you push people really hard (completely unrealistic) they will still deliver much more than otherwise ("just" unrealistic). You might not land a rocket on Mars, but you can still land it on water...
Costs $$$ to have techs drive around the land with that kind of gear...
Isn't that more applicable to John Carmack? If I remember it correctly, Romero was the game designer type, while Carmack was clearly the technician at id.
So what are the long term impact if any can opine here? Doesn't sound good for the founder.
Nginx's Igor Sysoev Allegedly Arrested in Russia
I learned recently that there was a word for that: "kayfabe"

Kayfabe [1] is a concept from wrestling, where an adversarial appearance is staged but portrayed as reality in order to get viewers interested.

Kayfabe is also commonly employed in politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
Could a helium balloon fly in the rarefied Martian atmosphere?
As someone who worked on videoconferencing for a while, there are four answers: multiple microphones, echo cancellation, background noise, and network issues.

If everyone in a conference room wore individual headsets it would be great. But when you have 3 different mics along the table all of which are picking up different audio signals (to make sure people at both ends can be heard), you need to subtract background noise of construction and hallway chit-chat and people typing on their laptops, and also subtract everything coming out of the speakers (which has different delays in each microphone and is distorted by both the speaker response and microphone response)... and then it's 2:30 and your office upload link is saturated because everyone's starting a new remote meeting uploading HD video simultaneously?

That's why.

But the main culprits behind the "distorted, overly compressed" sound are echo cancellation and then noise cancellation. It's insanely hard. It's actually not low-bit at all, it just winds up sounding like that in the end. (Play with a noise removal filter in Audacity and you'll realize it will produce similar-sounding audio.)
Obvious but Bad Remote Work Advice
Most new features don't require changes to the logic of every existing feature.
Hum, this is a new kind of dark pattern, here's what's happening when I click this link:

uBlock₀ has prevented the following page from loading :

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_cc-session_5136ebd9-e4e2-493e-82eb-6d42aeb5c582

I managed by using wget instead...
Was just in a Zoom call that covered US, Europe and Japan. Didn't notice any delays and sound was clear. We were using screen sharing but not video.
Don't you think that these are not things that a person being asked to sign a paper under a gunpoint will think about?
Don't worry, I'm sure Biden will publicly be held to account for this during the next Democratic debate, and then Trump in the later Presidential debates.. Just kidding, this is going to disappear from public discourse just like the recent revelations that the government consistently lied to us about the Afghanistan war.
It’s true. When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile. You just have to deploy and deal with exceptions bubbling up to your end users.
Quora: How do I protect my online privacy from surveillance capitalism?
I should remind you that there was a 1:342 ratio of "Not guilty" to "Guilty" decisions on the criminal cases in Russia last year, and the it's declining year-to-year.
Another name for this in a properly regulated industry would be fraud. It's like if your 4 cylinder car engine was still called and labeled a V8 because "it has the power of a V8."

"Anyone seen the new V12s this year?"
Maybe they'll start charging for the resistors.
This isn’t a fair response. If law enforcement knows that some specific person is doing a crime, they can and do plant always-on microphones on their car. The law enforcement concern is that they can’t do that at all in this context. Even if you know for sure someone’s planning a serious crime, there’s no way to spy on their E2E encrypted communications.

Most law enforcement agencies argue (with varying degrees of believability) that they will not treat an encryption backdoor like a universal bug they can just listen in on whenever.
One day we won't be able to drive at all, it will be all self driving, and at that point, you'll no longer be able to do anything to avoid an accident. That would shift the default responsibility to the manufacturer and then split it with the owner if he bear a bit of responsibility too (like missing maintenance).

You forget that we live in a society where we need people to use cars. Nothing force you to have a dog, nothing force you to let him loose either in a park. I hope one day it will no longer be a necessity and public transit will replace that need, but sadly, in most cities, it's pretty far from being able to.
Yes, but those are not subsonic, which was a qualifier in the original post.
Crows also eat carrion and listening to a bunch of them squawk all at once definitely sounds like they're a crowd at a colosseum demanding someone get killed.
"The accused never purchased an Alexa, carefully disabled all Android smart assistants, and even when his diligent neighbor across the street purchased a Ring for neighborhood security and protection, the accused immediately planted a very large hedge row in front of his home."
With the original open sourcing license of nginx in doubt, it is prudent for open source projects to look into alternatives?
Speaking personally, I find somewhat ambient, low key, or atmospheric music without words to be most helpful when I program, which is not necessarily my favorite kind of music in general. This is just a huge library of those kinds of songs. I was a big fan and user of it when I first discovered it in 2013/2014.
It likely becomes fraud (IANAL) when Intel internally believes something different from what they say publicly.
I think hardware companies realize more and more that hardware doesnt create recurring revenue. The best way to extract revenue from customers? add software! Peloton bikes? check- you can have a local only profile, but if you want to really work out you gotta subscribe!
Sonos? check- we cant have this perfectly good soundbar functioning into perpetuity, software to the rescue!
FB ads engineer here.

Every time I read these threads, I'm
1. Flattered by how sophisticated HN thinks our systems are (they're not. and we're not that smart. FB's A-team stopped working on ads a long time ago)
2. Entertained by how HN thinks ad targeting works (we don't want to know everything about YOU. we want to know basic info about all of our users.)

Hypertargeting doesn't work. Targeting small audiences doesn't provide marketing scale and is extremely expensive. The goal is to have the biggest possible audience, while still applying one or two critical filters. You could hit all 1000 people in a pool for $100 each, or you can hit 1000 people in a pool of 1 million for 50 cents each.

The main priority here is to enable "Show ads to people who own an Oculus" level targeting. This means that people selling VR-adjacent services, products, and content can reliably advertise to their core market without wasting money on non-users. Or maybe they can filter out that segment to show different ads to non-users that convince them to buy their first device. I know most on HN hate any level of targeting, but this has a massive benefit to the VR ecosystem because it allows VR companies to reach their customers much more effectively and sell more products.

FB is actually stripping away features from our targeting system and removing inputs because we spend too much compute power ($$) driving optimizations that don't have any material impact on delivery value. Basic is better. There's no meaningful business value to capturing biometrics or pictures of things in your home. Also, ethics. We do actually think about that a lot these days - it just took us a while to clean up short-sighted product decisions made a decade ago.
Well the mini nuke fired from a recoilless rifle on a jeep (Davy Crocket) is sort of direct fire
Color is huge! There are so many half-baked trends in color that look great for people on large screens with wide color gamut and young eyes, that in less than ideal conditions are completely illegible.

Some of the best guidance for the use of color written in plain, easy to understand language: https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/color/overvie...

Should be mandatory reading for anyone with any hand in designing a user interface.
Unity in 24 hours is pretty cool. If you haven't done game development before this will open up a lot of possibilities for you and it's pretty fun. For example, not only will it show you how to create 2D and 3D games but it's pretty easy to turn a 3D game into a virtual reality game. But especially with virtual reality it doesn't have to be a game. So it's actually super practical in my opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Development-Hours-Teach-Yoursel...
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm wondering if anybody has experience with running OpenGIS in Postgres with one of the supported mapping servers listed on their about page? (https://postgis.net/features/)

I looked at this for a POC but was notably out of my depth and gave up. I'm not sure exactly how the tileserver OSM provides differs from the mapping servers in the link above.
Yes, in particular, you can't just buffer ahead with a voice call, which is something you can do with a Netflix stream.