skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...It's not like you could take a used fuel-rod and throw it into some breeder to have energy. Not to speak of the old cladding.
I mean, I'm not against it, but it's not that simple.

You are moving the goal posts.

Your original comment was "...but we still have no long term solution for high-level nuclear waste disposal. At all. ...Unless we come up with a complete end-to-end model for safely handling the waste, I don't consider nuclear to be a viable option. As it stands, it's a massive liability to the health of our future environment."

There is an end-to-end model for safely handling the waste. (For example, the IFR design would actually have reprocessed the fuel on-site.) Nuclear waste will not be a massive liability to our future environment. The amount waste is very manageable (the Netherlands actually stores their waste in an art museum) and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
Uber disabled the Volvo's auto crash-avoidance feature. That should amount to some culpability.

Who is going to want work as autonomous vehicle backup drive now? I don't think it's reasonable to expect a person to be attentive 100% of the time, given the nature of the task (just sit and wait for a problem).
I've used libDAI in the past, but I'm not sure if it's maintained anymore. I've come across several other toolkits that looked interesting since then, but never had the right project. There's a group at (CMU?)/Pitt that I think now has a Python package for causal inference in particular. (Causality is far more complicated and harder to discover than a lot of the stuff I work towards though, which is all in biology.)
The fundamental attribution error suggests that the job she was asked to perform may not make any sense.
And _surely_ Uber would never do or encourage anything unethical.

Oh, right...
This idea needs a little more fleshing out, but is very good.

The Uber vehicle IIRC didn’t abandon control when it saw the pedestrian, it did so (if ever) when it determined that it couldn’t avoid them... So the vehicle had more and better information about the situation.

“Failing to the driver only works when it’s not helpful.“
> I'm curious what the statistics are for a family remaining wealth over a long period of time.

I don't have statistics, but a fun factoid is that the Grosvenor family, who own many properties in the west end of London, were originally granted those properties because the grantee was the grand-nephew of William the Conqueror. So wealth can last a long time. For those families who are luckiest and canniest, the only major threat is social breakdown as a result of revolution or being conquered.

> Even with wealth evenly split between each generations kids

This is why primogeniture and entailments were invented. They were necessary to maintain dynastic wealth. In cultures where partible inheritance is more common, such as the US, dynastic wealth has a much shorter half-life.
hate speech is a legally meaningless category under us law. where are you drawing the basis for this distinction of 'protected speech' from?
also importantly, it seems like racism is only viewed as needing moderation within one context. twitter is currently full of indians and chinese users posting what would ostensibly be considered virulently racist comments about eachother's ethnic groups and yet this is not subject to moderation. no one pulled facebook's ads when they enabled multiple ethnic cleansings etc. it seems like the only racism people in power care about is arguably the least consequential: facebook dads and edgy teens using too many gamer words.

there will never truly be a moderation solution that can actually handle racism in either language or substance. ban one slur and 1000 more will be invented while non offending speech and the spectrum of permissible thought are continually eroded by this absurd and ill-conceived 'scorched earth approach towards making people not say the n-word'
Expect more of these sorts of articles from NYC-based media. Whenever NYC gets insecure, its media starts churning out more articles like this about other parts of the country. Unfortunately, its knowledge of areas outside of the TriState area can be pretty spotty and superficial. If you want, you can be an intellectual smokejumper and correct some of the more egregious errors online.
> The driver was hired to perform a task that was almost guaranteed to result in a deadly injury while some driver was behind the wheels. She didn't have any way to know that, but the engineers did.

I think the culpability lies a bit more on her than you imply... she was watching a video on her phone instead of surveying the road/instruments for dangers
In what way is NVIDIA hurting Vulkan? I suspect the opposite is true, AMD designed the API Vulkan is based on, but the whole Vulkan thing would be meaningless without NVIDIA also standing behind it.

Are you blaming NVIDIA for Vulkan not being on par with their proprietary APIs? Presumably Nvidia is not sabotaging Vulkan, rather the issue could be that Vulkan is an abstraction that supports multiple GPUs, and that improving Vulkan is resource intensive.
Ethics violations are a big deal for attorneys, if a complaint is sustained against them with the bar association, they can loose their ability to practice law.
> I want all the smoke pleeeeeeeease

https://twitter.com/kanyewest
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Truth is, we will never accept robots on the roads that are as deadly as human drivers. Especially since they will fail in specific, surprising and hard to comprehend ways, see here.

Robotic drivers will probably need to demonstrate at least an order of magnitude improvement in safety before they can be accepted by the public.
Even if the liability does fall on the big players (imo it probably will) and autonomous cars are no safer than a 17 year old, at 10x that is only a few thousand a month in insurable liability - or much less than the cost of paying a cab driver a living wage + benefits.

Never mind that autonomous driving, once technically 'solved', is going to be a socioeconomic freight train that will have the resources to lobby and favorably influence legislation and judicial judgements.
Their job is definitely not to sit around and do nothing. Self-driving cars regularly disengage from autonomy (e.g. emergency vehicle, construction zone, erratic bicyclist) and the safety driver needs to be ready at all times. Safety drivers also undergo extensive training around this.
I’ve participated in a number of SOC 2 Type 2 audits. I’ve been in cybersecurity and IT audit for a long time. You might want to reach out to Vanta.Com. The first SOC report is always a bear. You’ll likely have to do one every year. But, they get easier by the second one. If you are going to sell to enterprise customers, it’s table stakes. Also see EnterpriseReady.IO for a lot of other interesting requirements!
Carbohydrate content of crops has generally been going up with all that CO2 in the air, so maybe a bit less photosynthesis will do well for the nutritional content?
There are a lot of Republicans on HN, and it is reflected in the downvoting of posts like yours.

Once in a while, you find posts that advocate for basic common sense or human decency, and they will be greyed out because they touched a nerve that make Republicans uncomfortable.

It is funny that the people that claim to be against political correctness and are constantly glorifying toughness are also the most sensitive and sometimes even coward (e.g.: downvoting instead of replying).
Bonus points for the boolean sanitation!

Now let me tell you about the candidate that wanted to turn the integer into a character string and then search the string for “11”...
This was a training mission. Uber wasn't offering rides to passengers who weren't employees.
Nothing special about the noise floor, it's just the point where you can only transmit around one bit per second per hertz
> I’m not trying to cover for the driver as they were clearly at fault.

What was the fault? Not paying attention, or driving the car into the pedestrian?

The is the case that decides the law. Glad it's not me.
The maker and or operator of a self driving car can be held accountable depending on the specifics. IMO, we have this odd social expectation that humans killing people with cars or pollution is basically acceptable and nothing else really gets that pass.

IMO, killing someone with a car or a gun is a direct equivalent.
> Most of the latest system programming language discussions and post here revolve around Rust, C, Go with some sympathy for Nim, Zig, Crystal and others.

Well I've got to give it to V for rolling without LLVM and forking from Golang's compiler, unlike Rust, Crystal and Zig.

There is an indeed language bias and a ton of shillers going on here.
> It's a little bit like scyscrapers in Dubai, which look like someone in the 90s read sci-fi from the 60s, rather than futuristic it looks retro and nostalgic, missing the entire point.

So, kind of what you'd expect of an adaptation of the world of a late-1980s, intentionally highly-generic cyberpunk TTRPG?
Stepping back, I also find it hard to sympathize with someone watching a show on their phone. But there are two parties to this crime, and only one of them is being charged. Uber is responsible for creating this situation - I doubt this "backup driver" watches videos while driving her own car - yet has managed to escape liability. Hence why it's appropriate to describe her as a "fall gal".
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Getting mp3 to play on linux via python for some reason has been a challenge, and I ended up using this abomination:

subprocess.Popen(['cvlc','--play-and-exit','/home/me/music/trumpet.mp3'])

Going to give your library a try!
Scarcity as an API
Peloton has a bunch of features to try to accommodate this.

https://blog.onepeloton.com/peloton-community-features/
> I would personally reduce the private property privileges substantially since a social network by definition derives its value from the number and variety of people that use it.

That does make sense, and also fits with how private property can't entirely be viewed in isolation if it has negative externalities. I.e. You should be able to pollute the air immediately above your land as much as you want because that doesn't just stay on your land.

> I'd like if FB were at least as searchable to its users as to advertisers, for example; arguably FB knows more about many of its users than they know about themselves.

That might help in some small amount (and as long as people people actually reviewed info and requested removal, and that had to be honored, it would help), but I'm not sure the companies in question wouldn't just turn their neuroscience divisions to the task of making people want to allow the data for some reason.

To me this feels more like a drunk driving type situation, or age of consent, or ability to sign away your rights. We believe some things should be disallowed because the combined cost to society pf allowing it is much greater than the sum of the individual costs for disallowing it added up. But even if that can be sold as a good idea for this, I'm not sure what specific things we would do to block it that aren't nebulous and can be gamed. Maybe disallowing advertising, but that seems to be targeting one industry, and I suspect something else with a similar negative and the same incentives might take its place for this area.
My personal view: If this is Apple - I cannot recognize my self in their target demographics anymore. Those people presenting “awesome, magical, groundbreaking” things are saying boring corporate memos with a slight difference - they are shot cinematically. In a process of watching, another realization manifested itself in my mind. I use Apple products only because of MacOS. But looking at how things are progressing in Cupertino may be is time for transition to Linux. Fitness service? Whats next? Mind reading for family? Put your animoji on your forehead? I miss Steve Jobs badly. Obviously:)
Yeah, the problem isn’t that they weren’t paying attention, or that they weren’t even trying, but that they where intentionally NOT paying attention.

That said, I don’t think this gets Uber off the hook. If I were on a jury, I’d likely say Uber was guilty of manslaughter (barring a real look at the evidence).
that was already pointed out upthread from you
You may not care, but others do. That makes the anomalous speeding vehicle now difficulty to anticipate for crossing pedestrians.
Smart.

You can place more bets, elevate more creators, and ride the wave of resentment against the incumbents.

It's becoming cheaper and easier than ever to become a creative, an influencer, a talent. Discovery isn't as expensive as it once was. People can self-onboard their own career.

Ultimately, I see a model closer to Patreon being a better fit, but this is a good first step. Patreon lacks the incubator and mentorship bits that help cultivate and grow talent.

When people can follow whatever they're interested in, get good, and make a comfortable income, we will have arrived.

I so want to build that.
Airline pilots are highly trained, subject to regular physical inspections and testing, and spend much of their careers practicing for emergency procedures to maintain their vigilance.

Auto and truck drivers operating normal vehicles are in a state of at least partial task concentration while operating their vehicles. The task concentration context in which this test driver was seated was completely unlike that of a normal vehicle driver.
> This is a refresh of the old Cyberpunk 2020 franchise.

Well, Cyberpunk 3.0 if you want to take the most recent TTRPG version, or Cyberpunk 2013 if you want to take the post-CP2020 retconned name for the original.
I believe the normal behavior of self-driving cars in these situations is for the car to brake to avoid hitting the obstacle, so the safety driver has ample time to take over and navigate the situation. Didn’t Uber disable the auto-braking because it was oversensitive, choosing not to pause road tests until that issue was fixed?
>And as for finding support ahead of time - how?

Find community members who know what they're doing and offer some money up front? I've noticed the RTFM attitude goes away pretty quickly with that.
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If spending billions of dollars on the betterment of hunanity, for no personal gain, isn't worth of praise, what is?
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Cheaper to register in Delaware. Only $300 per year in LLC tax vs $800.
You can totally do the six filters once a year, that's how I usually do it, but the smoke is destroying filters pretty quickly. If you want minimal brain power, getting them every 3-months (or what your normal cycle is) is fairly optimal, since getting new filter === time to change the filter.
I've thought twice about it, and your indignation remains unfathomable.
I have no great love for either Zuck or Gates, but an untethered Zuck, what
with his intense liberal conditioning that Gates never endured, would
weep very publicly for increased vaccinations (or whatever costs-be-darned
public health initiative du jour).
First World Trade Center bombing was feb 1993, not 1994 as stated in this article.
>I'm very sceptical about the claim that the incentive to earn staggering amounts of money goes away if your great-great-grandchildren cannot profit from it.

I'ts not that simple, we are talking about evolutionary timescales here. It's very easy to see that if we live in a universe where accumulating wealth will not benefit your descendants, then accumulating wealth is an energy and time sink which will be selected against.

As for the second point i have no idea what Bezoz's motivations are.
This one looks exciting...

Going to finally replace my ipad air 2.

Yes, I will miss the laminated display -- however, for nearly half the cost of the new ipad air and a much needed upgrade i can live without it.

plus, the screen is cracked and to replace on the air is very $$$$
No thank you. My open source software is a hobby I spend time on when I feel like it. The moment I start asking for money and selling it it's no longer a fun hobby but instead a burden on my time as I'll now feel obligated provide support since people gave me money.
I’m curious how much energy this consumes because compressed air is very inefficient.
It is very far from the norm, both in US and international law. The only things in common are they are written down, and involve obligations.

The key difference is that a license implies obligations on only one party (not the copyright holder), and they do not need to have signed or agreed to anything to be obligated. There is no requirement to exchange value for license provisions to bite.

You can make a contract around granting a license if you like, but that is wholly up to the copyright owner.

Another key difference is that copyright ownership cannot be transferred without a physical written paper identifying itself as such.

Many lawyers and judges are very unclear on copyright law, and say confused things like you did. That is not law.
You still have to pay a minimum of $800 a year to the franchise tax board for operating a non-Californian business.
I keep extra filters in the garage for about 6 months before they rotate into use. I'm not sure if they have a shelf life or not but we've never noticed any difference and neither have our indoor air sensors.
Based on some searches it appears to be "Budi skroman jer si stvoren od zemlje. Budi plemenit jer si stvoren od zvezda." / "Буди скроман јер си створен од земље. Буди племенит јер си створен од звезда."

But note that "noble" isn't really the right translation for "plemenit" (despite what Google translate might tell you) -- it's closer in meaning to "selfless" or "generous" (which you could argue are noble attributes, but "noble" has certain connotations in English that "plemenit" doesn't).

But to me it still doesn't sound right. I asked my mom (native Serbian speaker) and she said she's not heard of it as a proverb, and some Googling reveals that native Serbians are confused why foreigners seem to attribute it to us[1]. I also weirdly found a lot of questions on Quora and Yahoo answers asking for people to translate it to Serbian -- which explains why the proverb sounds slightly strange when read in Serbian. My guess is that this is actually some recent English proverb which someone decided to attribute to us (though it is neat that "zemlje" and "zvezda" do have a certain kind of rhyme).

[1]: https://www.svetnauke.org/95-srpska-poslovica
It's equivalent, yes. When someone recklessly kills someone with a car, it's called vehicular manslaughter and they are punished for it. It's not considered acceptable.

Blurring the lines of accountability is an anti-feature. The killer feature for humans is that we can be held accountable.
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Curious, what exactly stops these rich families from simply moving their wealth off shore? I'm sure there are many other countries that would bend over backwards to have these uber rich families living in their country instead of the USA.
I use this thing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0787Z5DK9

I'm not sure how accurate it is or isn't. It reacts to the filters, for example, or if I hold it in front of the filter it'll reach a very low number, conversely if I take it to other parts of the house or outside it'll increase. I've done a few trials like that and it seems directionally accurate, but I can't speak to the numerical accuracy.

It measures PM 2.5 and 10 and has a button to show graphs over time for ~12 hours. Battery life is pretty good, I usually leave it detecting on the charger, but I've had it in handheld mode for several hours and stayed above 80%. It's super simple to use.

One thing I don't like about it is that it has a cheap plastic hinge that is supposed to let it stand up, but it broke on me after a couple uses. It doesn't seem to matter though if it's standing up or laying down, it still reads pretty much the same.

I wish it had a way to export data to my computer or maybe an app.
By virtue of being a HN reader, you are almost certainly much better educated and much more highly skilled than the person Uber hired to baby sit their vehicles during testing. Set the alarm on your watch to go off in two hours. Start looking at your monitor to see if any pixels fail in the next two hours. Ask yourself how far into that 2 hour task you were able to maintain vigilance. Now try to do it day after day. Was she at fault, yes. Were the Uber engineers who designed this testing system at fault too? Absolutely.