skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inverse is also true. There are plenty of videos of autopilot preventing wrecks that the human drivers said they likely would have wrecked on themselves. I happen to be one of those drivers when someone pulled onto the highway from a field at night. AP swerved and missed the idiot but I'd not even seen them and would have almost certainly hit them doing about 70mph. A T-bone that fast would likely have messed both of us up really good.

AP will never prevent all injuries / fatalities due to road conditions and other human drivers simply being imperfect. It has a good chance to prevent a lot of otherwise fatal crashes in the meantime however. One could say it would be unethical to not even consider the alternative here.

Just some food for thought. I'm a software engineer myself and Model 3 owner.
I waited 8 months to see a Neurologist in Toronto for a slipped disk in my neck (he was in disbelief and shocked). By the time he saw me, it had healed on it's own. If you are dying the Canadian medical system is great (most of the time). If you suffer from things like back pain, injuries, condition, etc, it will be a long and arduous journey before you get the attention or treatment you need.

I have many more stories, (family member being sent home with an Abdominal aortic aneurysm on the verge of happening (Friday) because the Surgeon didn't have time to perform the surgery until Monday. Guess what happened on Sunday? Guess what else happened a couple of days later?

Wife almost died because she had to wait a month for a specialist. She just couldn't get anyone to take her seriously. Finally got the treatment in an Emergency room (she went septic).

I live in the USA now and have the best medical care in the world for my family.
I'd easily take a 10% paycut to get a cubicle again. (Whether 10% actually covers the extra costs, I don't know.)
Clearview AI Cease-and-Desist
Using Encrypted Email
What happens when content from mainstream media gets flagged as a deepfake?

What kind of verification is used to ensure that there are not false positives, or misuse for nefarious purposes?

You know twitter is a company, it has a CEO, a board of directors, and is beholden to the wishes of the shareholders. What happens if shareholders want certain types of content flagged in a way itself is deceptive or is conducive to false conclusions about the status or quality of content? What happens when governments apply pressure? What kinds of safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing?

How do you secure such a system from becoming a tool of manipulation?
I've been a "senior developer" for several years and just moved to a formal management role with direct reports. Briefly, here's where I would suggest you start.

1. Read the book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. I'm not the first to suggest this book but it has fundamentally shaped how I work and how I interact with others.

2. Try to write. I'd start with writing your "Manager Readme" file even if you don't plan to share it with anyone. Defining expectations is critical and it's start with understanding your own psyche. What is important to you? What are your expectations for someone? The internet is filled with examples of Manager Readme's along with posts that are totally for this idea and totally against. You can find mine without too much trouble if you check my comment history and find my GitHub.

Good luck.
Not every game needs a sequel. I agree that a smaller company would have been economically forced into milking the franchise, but that doesn't imply milking the franchise is universally a good thing.

Meanwhile, perpetual testing initiative was a great solution for keeping the game active without requiring active investment from Valve's game developers.
its' like a family
where you enjoy when the whole family is doing great
You have to think about each and everyone on the team while keeping the healthy competition.
Identify the people's interests and feed them type of challenges e.g. someone like debugging for those weird things or someone doing research and coming up with the ideas
Lead with the examples
Try to connect with them off the works (depending on the country/location)
Bring up the difficult discussion as early as possible, don't avoid them at any cost
Train more leaders as you're trying to finish your job
Take ownership and delegate
Here are the billionaires backing Pete Buttigieg's campaign
A few years ago, I contacted a buddy of mine at Tesla to see if they were hiring. That led to a call from their HR/recruiter and a nice chat. I remember being interested enough to continue the process until we reached the end.

It sounded pretty straightforward. Coding test, talk to a bunch of people onsite, etc. Each of the people would write up a report and it would work its way up to Elon Musk and he would make the final decision as to whether or not to hire me.

In a small company of up to ~200 people, sure. A department that's maybe a layer or two beneath him, ok, maybe? I don't remember where this was exactly, but it was something involving web services or similar in C#, and I don't even think it was front-facing, but for internal use, so probably somewhere in the IT department.

For my personal tastes, when the CEO is making hiring decisions on every position, that's an element of micromanaging that I'm not comfortable with, so Tesla is pretty much off my list.
Great to see this little tribute to NIBBLES.BAS. Anyone else who learned coding Microsoft QBasic/QuickBasic with Nibbles at an age of six?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
Good point - I stumbled on the article again and decided to post it. It already has ~20 comments, and it's on the front page. My take is that even if the article is not the best on the topic, the conversation about it is happening.

I don't think there's an article out there that I would consider far superior to this. If there is, please post it, I'd upvote it in a heartbeat.

Context: I mostly work remote (a combination of luck, laziness, and my ability to ask for things I really want), but every time I have to be in the office (like today, leaving home in ~30 minutes), I have a weird, unpleasant feeling.

I know I don't like open floor plans.

I particularly don't like that people walking behind me can see my monitor.

I don't like that I can't take calls without disturbing others. Or that getting a private room to talk or make a video call is difficult.

Yesterday, for example, I had to leave a room where I was having a call because someone else had booked it, but I needed to extend the call by another ~15 minutes, so I ended up finishing it in the corridors next to the restrooms.

And mind you, I work with (not for) a great firm, people are super nice - but nobody seems to fully understand how toxic an open office space can be for people.

Finally, I also don't like that startups trying to partially solving these problems are getting funded like crazy, based on a relatively crappy product [0] and an expensive price tag.

[0]: https://room.com/
>As a very crude analogy with the US, you could view EU parliament as federal government and country parliaments (and governments) as state governments.

I think this is not correct because from what I know in US you don't ever need unanimity to pass federal laws but let me know if I am wrong.
Because then all the biased reviewers and short sellers would spread wild rumors about how your Tesla car has this rust in it, and you need to get it coated with POR-15. It's a huge deal breaker for them.
Downloading public court documents costs a dime a page–is that legal?
Ah, thanks for the link; I wasn't sure what it meant in the context of Java, since it's possible to get value semantics using a class.

Sorry about the confusion. I meant for the quotes around "copy-only" to indicate that it wasn't really a standard term, but I marked "value types" the same way, so that didn't really work. By "copy-only" I meant something you couldn't have more than one reference to: every name (variable) to which you assign the data would have its own independent copy.
Watched this on tv in South Africa as a child. (late 80's) It was an Asian kids anime series dubbed in Afrikaans. Very sad!

Edit found the title song. “Niklaas” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjarYm1lVRE
It also requires removal of limits on what laws the government can pass. If governments were limited to what laws they can pass when it involves consenting individuals, this would also not occur.
They pay lobbyists to influence those who do. Also they might/can be very vocal, like unions. That is power to affect legislation.
Apple Mail Encryption Bug Fixed
Create Purposeful Information for a More Effective User Experience (2018)
Constant surveillance is another part of the real reason with collaboration used as the public rationale. I mean, it doesn't make sense, but it makes them feel more like slave-owners, and that makes them happy.
Show HN: Private Dart Repository Service from Cloudsmith
TDLR - Cease-and-desist was sent to Clearview AI from Facebook/youtube. "CEO Hoan Ton-That claims his company has a First Amendment right to the data"
I suspect that, as people have been discussing upthread, open offices and a lack of meeting rooms are both symptoms of the underlying problem that a company just doesn't have enough space. I worked in an open office once where the company wasn't under space pressure, and it wasn't nearly as bad.
Angular vs. React – “I built an app in both frameworks”
Just FYI - We've released the world's first private DART repository service.

Free to trial, and Free for Open-Source projects forever!

I would absolutely love any feedback at all (positive or negative!) and I'm happy to answer anyone's questions about this (or any of the other 18 package formats that we support!) Please do give it a try and let us know what we are missing / can improve / are doing well.

Accompanying Blog Post: https://blog.cloudsmith.io/2020/02/03/worlds-first-private-d...
How to Write a Redis Client in Python, from Scratch [video]
Similar to being asked "do you like this app?" If you say "Yes", you are directed to rate it, if "No", you are not.
Coincidentally I am sure that the decision makers would love to hear about your concerns, in their closed offices.
That's what I thought. They still want to sabotage SPIR-V usage in the browser.
Tacking on to your comment, it's important to realize that hospitals do not usually lose money on patients that can not pay for routine procedures (because of generous government subsidies). The substance of this article certainly smells funny (experian is known to be shady), but it is not as nefarious as the author makes it out to be.

For context, hospitals are only likely to lose money on very complex patient cases, i.e. the kinds of program described in the video. In those situations, it makes sense that hospitals will want to make sure that either (1) the patient will be able to pay or (2) charities or government programs will cover them, once they apply.

Experian's system claims to helps them make that assessment. Will that lead to patients being turned away? Maybe, but it's not a straightforward conclusion, like you imply. The comparison to Uber ratings holds no water.

The reality is that American healthcare is a complicated market with many sources of revenue that aren't patients' bank accounts (charities, govt subsidies, insurance), and it doesn't lend itself well to this kind of oversimplifying analysis.
There is another very similar attack that uses laser beans instead of sound waves but this looks less efficient because of the distance limitation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21453554
I wonder how far you could take this concept?

A box that only opens under exactly 8Gs of force? Should be easy with an appropriate sized spring and weight.

A box that only opens in zero gravity? Not sure how you'd accomplish that.
A clickbait titled shill post. Doesn’t belong on HN!
Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures
I know lots of people that have their phones set to not lock automatically. Some of these include not locking them when they throw the phone in their purse, or put it in their back pocket. "I can't be bothered to type in my password every time I pick it up" or "My kids bother me too often to unlock the phone." It's absolutely mind boggling
Antwerp is a great place to visit for a day or 2. The train station is arguably one of the most beautiful in Europe and the main walking street right next to it is a great day trip of a walk all the way down and around to the main cathedral.

you're also less than an hour from Bruges and Brussels as 2 of many other places to visit in the area.
I see. Yeah, to be clear, I'm NOT for the government getting involved at all.

My take on the DC hearings is it was just a smoke screen because they're scared to death of a trend materializing that non-career politicians can get elected and actually do the bidding of those that elected them. That and their afraid of losing control of the narrative.

As for Twitter, I'm not sold on the damned if we do damned if we don't picture you're painting. I think Twitter has a definite agenda and they'd be policing speech and de-platforming those they don't agree with regardless of the politicians.
> My claim is that empathetic people can be dishonest and still be virtuous, not that no empathetic people can be honest. Concretely, I know people who do not express preferences directly on such things where it may harm me, out of empathy for me. I don't consider these people morally corrupt despite not being completely truthful. An app like this (or any tool like this) which removes the conflict between these values seems productive since unhappiness stems from not being able to live according to our value preferences.

It seems like this is a reasonable response to andrewzah, but to be clear, my argument has nothing to do with virtue--I don't even believe in virtue ethics.

I also know people who don't express preferences directly when they think those preferences will harm me. We can call this empathy or we can call it fear, but what it comes down to is that it's irrational: the end result is that they don't get what they want from the relationships in their life, and that comes out in negative behaviors.

This isn't a moral judgment of these people, it's just not something I want to deal with: I'll try to help these people work through their social anxiety, but if that doesn't work, that's going to limit how close we can be, because I can't trust them to be honest with me.

It's not kindness/empathy to coddle these people, either: that's just enabling them in a behavior that is going to limit them in many aspects of their life.
Wuhan Coronavirus API
More specifically, these are "notable programming languages".

There are any number of specialty programming languages which aren't on the list.

For example, the language "Seq" was recently posted here, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107510 , and is not on the list.

For more examples, the esoteric languages at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language are not included.

That said, it's pretty complete.
3/3 of my last companies have moved to new offices while I was there, proudly touting the open floor plan and increased number of meeting rooms.

3/3 found that the meeting rooms were inadequate before they even filled the open floor plan seating.

Open floor plans mean meeting rooms become mandatory for just about every interaction. The promised ease of interaction doesnt happen when everyone is in headphones and the polite people dont want to talk while in close quarters with others NOT in the conversation.
> Once again this is all anecdotal but trying to infer anything from one city is likely going to be just as flawed for any meaningful conclusion.

Well, DC-based data is quite relevant to DC. You're providing reasons to do similar work in other areas, not reasons to dismiss this work.
I'm working in an open office now. With few exceptions, every single person wears headphones (presumably noise-canceling) most of the day. Some people (especially me) have video conferences from our desks.

For a "hey there" conversation, most teammates have to get up and walk over to someone else... tap them to shake them out of their focus and get them to take their headphones off.

Don't think any of us resort to email, but then again I'm only on one of many teams. We do use Slack but again I don't know how many private Slack conversations occur. (Most of my team is not located here, so everything is Slack, and most of it is in a team channel.)

I'm not sure I have a solid takeaway, but I can say that I'm much, much more engaged with my remote teammates than my local ones.
Latest phishing scam is spreading fake invoices loaded with malware
AWS S3, as far as I know
Show HN: Stories of impactful young hackers around the world
Health Share of Oregon discloses data breach, theft of member PII
I wish we could see promotion of good health and good education as investments in our country.
Watch Band of Brothers - Dick Winters I think is the best example of a good leader.

Doesn't ask from the team things that he wouldn't or isn't capable of doing.

And as many of the other comments have said you are there for the team. They will produce the real value.

What can you do to get them all the things they need to succeed? What can you do to shield them from the nonsense? Poor requirements, unnecessary meetings.

I think you want to give chances to fail but also provide that safety net so they don't fail too hard.
i was going to mention Safing and Arming devices too! Apparently there's work going into making MEMS Safing/Arming devices that work like those devices (physically interrupting the explosive train) but are....lots smaller: https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2015/fu...
I've worked in both open and closed office environments -- currently have my own office, and it is _much_ easier for me to be productive without distractions in this arrangement. Huge improvement in quality of work and quality of life. It's possible that I could be persuaded to go back to an open-office environment, but it would require a _lot_ of additional compensation -- like maybe 50+%.
Hahaha I can hardly believe it.It is amateur hour deluxe
What you need to know:

Once you get past the lamers-following-scripts "customer service" reps, it's surprisingly easy to get a static IP, even a static IPv6 address, from major ISPs. I haven't done this with Comcast, but Centurylink was easy. You may have to buy "business class" service. Comcast will want you to run their router so they can have yet another "Xfinity" wireless access point leeching off your bandwith to them.

You have to pay extra for DNS, which always seems odd to me, like it's a scam for domain name registrars to make extra money.

Your machine will be probed mercilessly. Nearly 100% of SMTP traffic is spam. Way more than half of HTTP traffic is bots. Put ssh on something other than port 22, put a honey pot or tar pit (endlessh is good) on port 22. Occasionally you'll get DDoSed for no reason you can figure out.
Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance
We did try that and it supposedly claimed to the other party that I didn't have the app installed. Not that that would have been a scalable solution anyway, since then no pair of people could use it unless one of them gave it all their contacts.

Meanwhile the option remains available to use a different app that doesn't behave that way.
SpaceX is trialing a new absorbent coating on the new launches https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-astronomy-p...
Crafty malware makes you retype your passwords so it can steal them
35+ years in the IT workforce here.

Yep, dumbest idea ever.

The vast majority of my office time was in cubicles, which are pretty good. Usually enough privacy to get things done. I did have a glassed-in private office for about a year at one company. That was productivity heaven. In retrospect I was dumb to leave that company when I did, but they started demolishing offices for cubicles about 2 years later. It is all about efficient use of real estate.

I've been at a millennial run company for the last 6 years, first 4 in open space. What a productivity fuck, for all the often repeated reasons. And I really consider them de-humanizing. I gave up on trying to explain this to management years ago.

Working from home the last 2 years. Whenever I do visit the home office nothing gets done. Looking at what my colleagues do, I think they only ever get much done on work form home days.
Just to get the alternate view out there too: I had an office once with a door that closed. As an extrovert it was awful. I felt lonely all day. The only way to get any human contact besides email and text was to leave and go walk the halls or find some common area. I ended up pretty much never using it and instead worked from the break room. From time to time they’d give me an officemate to share the office, but they were all extroverts too, so of course were never around.

Different strokes for different folks. I love open offices and wouldn’t go back to closed ones if given the choice. I also have difficulty WFH for the same reasons.

More employers should offer more choices, as everyone is different and what suits one worker might be awful for another.
I know a lot of people who say that too. Its awful.
It is surprising to me that modern browsers don't pad TLS (in TLS 1.3 padding is "free" in the sense that you don't need any extra bytes to say "this is padding") to fill the last packet.

Supposing MSS is 1500 for a link, how much longer can it conceivably take to send say 1500 bytes including 120 bytes of padding versus 1380 bytes?
I'd expect them to screw up much more often than they succeed. But if 25 people take a risk and found a company and 1 of them succeeds, that one company might employ 1000 people. The 24 failures may be worth it. That's leaving aside whatever useful services the company provides.

~20% of the world population of foreign-born people lives in the US. It's difficult to think that's unrelated to the fact that the US produces a disproportionate amount of global innovation.
Also optimized code is not necessary well designed.
> They start using email and messaging with much greater frequency than before.

Couldn't the same focus that drove the open-office transition also be responsible for driving more effective communication tools? Or just more collaboration in general, which naturally results in an increased use in communications tools?

Or maybe the tools have just been improving over time, which results in an entirely unrelated increase in use?

There are so many potential explanations here. This seems like a non-point.
Create a RESTFul Web Application with Flask and Server Side Rendering
Obviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively. Now the question is, why do living beings want to propogate themselves whereas inanimate objects don't?
I don't understand. They had a machine for washing parts where the water intake for the machine was pulling from an open container with the plating solution? How does this contaminate the building's water?
Fiber: An Express.js inspired web framework written in Go
Interesting. Are you suggesting that in cases where all parties must consent, the law may not be passed until those parties explicitly provide consent?
You could do that, but no is no one powering their data center that way. They are all grid connected.