skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you can see why "I have decided to retire right now, effective immediately, today, not even finishing out the week, going home this afternoon and never comin' back see y'all on the golf course" is going to raise a few eyebrows. It's... not the way this sort of thing is usually handled.
I find the opposite actually. I am more stressed when traffic is going slowly than when everything is flowing because recklessness tends to rear it's ugly head when you think you have the full power of that engine to get you out of whatever you might get to, and of course those brakes will work, right?

Furthermore, in bumper to bumper traffic, you're better off staying stopped and letting the gap in front of you grow, only taking your foot off the brake and letting your engine idle move you forward at the average speed of traffic once the interval is large enough. Helps destroy traffic waves by keeping everyone moving forward slowly rather than having to constantly stop and go.

Try it some time. It takes some getting used to, but once you bust your first traffic clot, it starts to feel like a game where the objective is to keep everyone moving forward for the longest time without everyone having to stop. Completely counter-intuitive, but I'll be damned if it doesn't work.
I mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS#Computing_and_technology
I would not get into a car driven by someone in a "low cost" country whose only incentive for not getting into an accident is getting fired.
I wonder if @Snowden’s disclosures have largely led criminals away from phone/text (to encrypted apps), and whether the lack of ongoing utility of this surveillance program resulted in part from his disclosures.
According to https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/census/traffi..., ~125,000 cars drive through that area per day (scroll to "JCT. RTE. 85", divide by 2). According to the report, the previous collision was 2 months earlier, so ~7.5Million cars passed through there. 99.9999% doesn't seem that far off.
He also states he will focus now as Disney Chairman more on the creative side "because that becomes our biggest priority in 2021".
It's great that a government website is receiving praise, but not really fair to compare them to the needs of a for-profit enterprise that needs to generate revenue.
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Wish they'd stop looking to CEOs then.
You can call dental clinics and ask for their prices. The prices quoted ITT are blowing my mind. For reference, see Fair Health [0].

[0] https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/
It's JavaScript. It runs on the client side.
Ditto on the love!

This is such a good and almost a "oh, duh" moment. They can significantly decrease the attack surface simply by aggressively sandboxing everything.

The fact that it may even be faster due to the possibility to JIT in platform specific optimizations is really gravy.
It’s even buttery smooth on an iPhone 6s.
Also Brave is the most private browser, according to this article—https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/25/study-finds-brave-to-be-th...
Welcome to https://phantom.auto
Wish the json.Register funcion had been in 1.14. Desperately need it for a project I'm working on. If anyone has any ideas for overriding structs in a pkg I'd love to hear them!
Yes, that would raise eyebrows, except that's not the case here at all.
Bit scary due to latency and connection reliability. If the connection breaks you’re stuck, or worse. If it breaks when you’re on the highway at speed, or on a twisty road, or in a tunnel...
Agreeing with you and just adding support by pointing out that’s precisely why autopilot isn’t used during takeoffs and landings...because seconds do matter in those scenarios
As a former Disney employee and someone who's kept up with internal politics, even though his contract was up at the end of next year this feels sudden and not in line with how Disney tends to do things. Disney has quite a number of disparate businesses, from theme parks to streaming services to movies. Chapek is a business guy that has done consumer products and parks (parts of the business that aren't huge growth areas), and hasn't even been president of parks for that long. He has no experience on the creative side. Usually the future CEO is appointed to a COO/President role in order to help them learn the parts of the business they don't have experience in. It also helps vet if they'll be capable of leading all those business heads, which is how they determined not to go with Tom Staggs after he was made COO. Not doing this is pretty irregular, especially with all the shakeup that occurred with Fox. They're still working through a lot of that.

Similarly, I don't buy the story that Iger is moving into a creative leadership role. It's true there's been a vacuum there since Lasseter left, but unless there's long term tenure planned, Iger won't be very influential. Anyone who's worked at a large company knows that no one listens to the guy whose only responsibility is to have creative ideas if they have no other real responsibility and will be out in a few months. Iger put himself into a meaningless, insignificant role, and no one has satisfactorily explained why.

I don't think there's a scandal. If there was, the narrative around his departure would be different and he wouldn't be sticking out to the end of his contract. He wouldn't still be chairman of the board. I've heard a rumor the board is upset about Star Wars, but Q1 2020 was pretty solid and Mandalorian was well received. I'm actually worried he's sick, though I hope not because I admire him a lot. Regardless, I do feel like there's another shoe. I guess we'll have to wait to find out what it is.
Could the US Contain a Coronavirus Outbreak?
Well, not quite.

> the Smithsonian is featuring less than 2 percent of its total collections in this initial launch. Much of the rest may someday be headed for a similar fate. But Kapsalis stresses the existence of an important subset that won’t be candidates for the public domain in the foreseeable future, including location information on endangered species, exploitative images and artifacts from marginalized communities.

> “The way people have captured some cultures in the past has not always been respectful,” Kapsalis says. “We don’t feel we could ethically share [these items] as open access.”

If they don't trust you to think the right things about their artifacts, they're not letting you use those artifacts.
Likely because it was a clickbait trope back in the day, but today there are more legit usages.
I'm curious why the reasons you elucidated aren't enough to make you a universal healthcare idealist. Do you mean by this that you don't want universal care or that you don't care about the issue or something else? If you mean by this that you don't want universal healthcare under what circumstances would you want this?

I ask not to engage in a debate or to try to change your mind. I won't respond to anything you write. I'm just curious about people who don't advocate for universal healthcare what their reasoning is.

For the record, I think everyone should have access to the healthcare system and that no one should profit by denying a person care. I also don't think that being rich ought to grant you better access or quicker access to the system since resources are limited and the type of care or quickness or care should not be influenced by money.
How would you react if say, within the next five years, Tesla actually manages to implement level 4 autonomy (geofenced to regions shown statistically safe), raises the autopilot cost to $30,000 and takes for themselves 40% of all revenue earned on autopilot-operated taxi missions?

I don't know if you're about to back away from me slowly, being an isolated weirdo, but this is the company's stated ambition. Not with these specific numbers, but with the same broad strategic ideas.

It's probably a bit premature and in the region of fanboyism to buy into this vision with certainty today. Tesla certainly has its share of fanboys. But there's been many naysayers claiming impossibility of technological progress only to be proved hilariously wrong in hindsight.

Don't know whether you would accept a 1% or 50% probability of the above scenario happening in the timeframe I specified. But it's not zero, and the payoff would be huge if near-term robust self-driving turns out to hinge on sufficiently diverse, long-tail training data for computer vision neural networks. Tesla would basically replace Uber, sans diver payouts, with no near-term competition. No other company is near a similar position to gather real-world training data on a similar scale.

Tesla is currently betting their autonomous driving strategy on this. Obviously a big gamble, but not lunacy.
> with many hoping for something benign (ish) like a presidential run

The political junkie in me is wanting that to be true. Imagine a debate with Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, Bob Iger, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren all on one stage.
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Yeah, I dont get what the surprise is, anyone who follows Disney ought to have been aware that this was coming.
Sure, the answer is easy: 1) ban homelessness (specifically, living on the streets), 2) ensure adequate, subsidized housing (e.g. 1 clean bedroom, clean bathroom, regular social worker visits), 3) civilly commit anyone who persists living on the streets or otherwise refuses or is unable to maintain a healthy living environment.

We refuse to do this out of nebulous concern for individual freedom (political left, libertarian) and economic incentives (political right, libertarian), no matter that persistent homeless have mental health problems (acute or non-clinical) that are contradictory to simplistic notions of individual liberty and individual accountability. (Because the real concern is the hypothetical liberty and accountability of people who otherwise would never have trouble staying housed, not those rotting on the street.)
This is so true. I got a law degree as a hobby while working as a software developer. The actual substantive knowledge I got from that hasn't been very useful so far (apart from the occasional online flex...), but the skills I learned to do what you describe have been a real USP for me. Now law school didn't explicitly teach me those skills; there was never a course where someone taught 'how to go deep on any subject'. It was more learned through osmosis, and maybe some aspect of seeing the meta as well. Seeing a few times how rules are never what they seem at first, and that you need to understand the full landscape to really understand, apply and abuse them is the underlying experience/skill. (come to think of it, maybe this is exactly the meta but just looking at it from another side... hmm...)
When called to Congress to testify about it 15 years from now, Walmart execs will exclaim "It's about competition: if we hadn't done it, Amazon would have!"
I see a lot of comments here and elsewhere that amount to exhortations to protect people from their own stupidity, whether that be Tesla, or the Government, or whoever.

Never underestimate the ingenuity of idiots. No matter how carefully you design your safety protocols, some genius-level moron will find a way of getting themselves killed.
Sure, sometimes if it's a particularly hard day. But except for really crushingly busy days, I'm always in a better place to get stuff done after work than in the morning, even if I got plenty of sleep.

Edit: This might be different, of course, if I worked in a physically demanding profession. I work as a software engineer though, so that's not the case.
Or, you could build an actual Memex.
https://trevor.smith.name/memex/
About six years ago I found several 8" floppies for the 1970s Ohio Scientific system. These had been in storage since the late 1980s and contained games and utilities. One disk label was dated 1/31/1979.

I sent them to the author of the OSI emulator and I believe all but one of them were fully readable and dumped for emulation.

http://osi.marks-lab.com/
If you want to take this seriously you should be rotating all canned goods every few years. You're basically trading off the tiny cost of canned goods with a small risk of getting a disease from bad food (well-stored cans should be fine for 5 years, any bulging cans should be discarded), which isn't normally a huge problem, but during emergencies, could be.

If you look at history, a lot of wars were won or lost based on how well a city prepared for a sustained siege.

in the case of hiroshima, water pumps were restored 4 days after the bombing, but of course the story is more involved (http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=47988)
Quite a bold claim. Care to give reasoning?
To validate this and one of the above comments, you could give some people a free apartment with electricity etc. and they'd still screw it up badly. And it's often not even an obvious issue of mental illness, it's more described as just completely unsocialized, wild, a sociopathic level of disagreeability.

To be clear I'm not implying this is everyone, or that money wouldn't help, but it's complicated.

The CBC followed this one homeless man for a while in Toronto, he was given a $1200/month basement apartment for free. After a few months, he walked out, choosing to live on the street (in wintertime no less!). He complained that the carpets were 'dingy and musty and disgusting'. Now it wasn't really apparent if they were or not, but literally as he's saying this, the camera pans to the shelf where there are about 40 empty 'tall boy' beer cans.

I could only think that since he's not really doing anything all day, he could probably work out a deal with the landlord to remove the carpets if they were really that bad, or else, file a material complaint if they were, but it honestly didn't seem like it was an especially negative situation to begin with.

Also, it seemed that the homeless man was very cantankerous and antagonistic.

So just consider that nugget: 'carpets not nice enough for me so Ima rough it' is the logic employed here.

I mean, possibly the carpets were toxic, but I doubt it, moreover, any other reasonable person would find a way to fix the problem considering the 'glorious' opportunity of having quite a nice little flat in one of the more expensive parts of the country for free. But it ends up in argumentation, aggression, complications, and literally 'back on the street', by choice.

I wonder to what the degree of anti-social behavior is learned or is an adaption of 'street life' or if these types were always like that, and if som, does an excessive degree of anti-social behavior count as 'mental illness'. There's a really interesting degree of hyper-libertarianism going on there as well, that 'street life' at least implies a kind of 'absolute freedom' with no rules, no clocks, no responsibilities of any kind, no concept of social order etc..

There are some studies that delineate between the 'temporary and long-term homeless', it might be that it's really important to nab people as they are just descending into this darkness before all of those ugly social features start to encroach upon someone's identity and they don't come back from the mouth of madness.
Not mentioned in the article is the high rate of attrition at Waymo. It's roughly the industry average (~20% Y/Y). So the % of folks that are new is even higher than reported here.
The CDC is telling people to use face masks (not necessarily n95 or p100 respirators) when ill or around those that are ill.
The current meta strategy for getting a software engineering job is practicing leetcode.
> making as many parts of ChromeOS open as possible

Chromium OS is already a thing; what change do you want?
Local dentists have a reputation to maintain, but the impact of reputational damage is generally limited. If they end up with 10 Yelp reviews complaining about fillings not lasting as long as they should or being overcharged, it may negatively impact the volume of patients they have or prices they can get away with charging.

Walmart, on the other hand, actively has a target on its back. And with $524bn in revenue last year and almost $33bn in EBITDA[1], it's one of the most deep pocketed targets around. Any minor issue has the potential to spin itself into a national news story, and malpractice lawyers would be giddy to nab a patient they can use to take a stab at Walmart's pursestrings. And just think of the stars in their eyes if they stumble upon enough complaints to get certified as a class action and be able to really dig into the clinical guidelines and operating procedures for deficiencies to exploit.

Not to say the service they offer is likely to be world class. But between their existing institutional competencies in operations[2] and the potential liability concerns, it is likely to garner a reputation for being consistently and predictably acceptable[3].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/revenu...

[2] Walmart's operational standards are notoriously demanding and exacting across their supply chain network. They could easily bring that to bear in running their clinics and enforcing compliance with clinical guidelines and SOPs from their medical providers.

[3] Walmart's reputation for mediocre product quality isn't an accident, it's a deliberate choice. And one that takes a considerable amount of effort to enforce and consistently maintain across the board for decades. They use their scale to get an incredibly detailed view of consumer behavior (because what people say rarely matches what people do). Then turn around and squeeze their suppliers to get a bill of material that minimizes return rates and maximizes consumer satisfaction within the constraints of price points determined by prior consumer behavior.
Apache Drill [1] is alternative, using ANSI SQL. Beside json, it support JDBC, csv, parquet, file system traversal, HBase, Mongo, S3... I believe it also support joins across different sources, although I haven't tried that.

EDIT: to add context to the story - Apache Drill is running on JVM and can be embedded, so it can be run from Scala code as well.

[1] https://drill.apache.org/docs/querying-json-files/
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22154333
Unless leadership skills have any overlap in the private and public space.
Granted I've not used a ton of AWS services because all of this was in context of grad school research, but I've found this with a lot of the AWS documentation I've come across. Things like documentation for general API being inconsistent with language specific library docs, or function signature is different than what docs indicate. I had issues with others, but for reference this was largely with MTurk JS bindings to the api.
When CEOs unexpectedly leave, don't they usually do it because they know something?

Have there been CEOs in the past that have "left", but actually been forced out due to scandal?

It seems like there's been a few attempts at that, but of the cases I know, the CEOs seem to fight back and try to keep their position.
There's a difference between a can-do attitude and a complete disregard for the exorbitant costs of doing the things you're talking about.
> but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated / hard to find employee count in a year at that scale.

You throw an EXCESSIVE amount of money at the problem and over-hire (and just naturally weed people out). Recruiting firms will gladly take anyones money to help solve this problem.
You're citing a paper from 2006. I'm not even going to read it.

As a former Mozilla distinguished engineer (left Mozilla in 2016), I assure you memory safety bugs are the majority of exploitable Firefox security bugs.
Er, he's staying on as executive chairman through 2021, so even though he's stepping down as CEO it's not anywhere close to “going home this afternoon and never comin' back see y'all on the golf course”.
As a Walmart tire tech, I'd like to recommend everyone that not every tire shop is equal, even within Walmart. Our next door Walmart acc generates a lot of horror stories that we get to fix. Also some local non-Walmart tire shops do even worse. Like forgetting to tighten lug nuts. Heard that one several times about a local (and quite respected!) tire shop.
> The circumstances that may end them up with a poor credit score have little to do with how responsible or diligent that person is.

And yet, very few people support the abolition of financial credit scores. Or support expunging people's criminal records after they're done serving time. Or oppose the existence of sex offender registries. Or believe that restaurants should not be able to turn away someone on the basis of "no shoes, no shirt, no service".

All of those things are ways that social institutions flatten people out into making quick, and often rough, decisions about people. All are subject to the very same criticism you raise. Their are all sorts of exigent circumstances that might make someone wind up with bad credit, or a criminal history, or on a sex offender registry, or without clean clothes for the day.

Yet we as society accept a wide variety of surface level decisions about the human beings around it. We accept that the inevitability of false positives, because the overall gains of being able to easily segment people into social classes makes society as a whole more pleasant for everyone. At the end of the day, it's simply a matter of utilitarian calculus.

If anything, a social credit score for the homeless is less unjust than any the above. Because there's no element of coercion to it. Ir wouldn't be used for any official institutional purposes, it's simply a way for users to quickly gather more information about the homeless people they're interacting with.

I'm genuinely curious would you bite that bullet. Should we ban credit scores, and permanent criminal records, and sex offender registries, and dress/hygeine codes on the same basis that you oppose social credit scores for the homeless.
They might also care about not killing people, but fair enough I guess.