skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. When there's a major investigation, like an airline accident, the French will bring a retired judge out of retirement and he'll milk that investigation (since he has nothing better to do) for at least a decade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

(In France, accidents automatically involve a judicial criminal investigation to assign blame. In the US, there's an NTSB investigation to find the root cause, but there's rarely a criminal investigation. However, it is common to have an FAA administrative hearing if poor piloting is found. Usually an FAA lawyer is present and the pilot does not retain a defence lawyer unless necessary.)

The closest US example I can think of is the Madoff unwinding, but at least in that case there were thousands of victims to notify and settle with. The law firm billed over $1 billion in fees for 10 years of work:

http://www.thenalfa.org/blog/over-1b-in-attorney-fees-in-mad...

When I first heard that, I was stunned, but there actually was a lot of work. What's interesting is that Madoff did have billions in assets to return, unlike the usual case where less than 1% is found.
The current military criteria selects for genetic fitness very strongly when it comes to intelligence. Its other criteria keep out people with basic health problems, but I think being in decent shape is a decent filter for conscientious behavior, just not a precise one.
Its not really an issue for the US but in Europe the population is aging.
That leaves Africa or robots. Companies like Boston Dynamics will be very profitable indeed in the next decades.
The internet the way is currently design will resulted in centralisation and end up with monopoly or oligopoly.
This is probably going to earn me a mountain of downvotes and rebukes (all of which I welcome so that I can learn!), but here goes nothing...

I'm fairly convinced that a lot of technical people are on the spectrum. I don't mean this as an insult in any way whatsoever, though I'm sure many will take it as such (sorry, in advance!). The raw, calculative persona of those described as "10x developers" and "optimize all minutiae" seems to line up with having difficulty empathizing with others and acknowledging emotions. In many ways, I really envy the ability to execute to that degree. Simultaneously, I think these are many of the same people who are taken advantage of by others (e.g. founders, managers, investors) to further deepen their pockets.

They're often immensely talented in technical realms and excel in sciences, making computer science and software careers ideal places where they can thrive. Their relative over-performance creates a tension on the opposite end where others can't keep up to the same capacity. I think we've often chalked it up to people being "quirky" and I think we're all familiar with Hollywood's stereotypes about technical folk, but there is a lack of mental health discussion in the US (and perhaps other places in the west). Am I completely off-base in thinking this way? I'm certainly no psychologist, but I welcome other perspectives on this.
There is a follow-up post where he explains what happened after publication: https://medium.com/@shemag8/when-your-story-go-viral-8a1c84a...
The exhaust temperature of the AC will be as low as is practically possible to remove a given amount of heat (assuming the AC is properly engineered). To extract energy from this exhaust you have the problem to remove heat from the cold end of your stirling engine while maintaining a lower temperature than the exhaust, which will prove difficult, given the assumption.

OTOH, if the exhaust of your AC is hotter than necessary (the unit wastes energy), then the best you could hope for is to recover some part of (depends on temperature differential) the wasted energy. Better get a better AC unit.
You're right, but that doesn't take away your capability to say "NO" and go against that stream of bullshit. Caveat: you'll probably lose everything except your morality at that point. That's how it's all set up after all...
We aren't 'fucking' with the way nature works. You're failing to see the big picture here. We are part of what you call 'nature', surely you'll agree with that being a non-believer, so at least you should say 'I think the nature shouldn't fuck with itself'.

But, still, there would still be no 'fucking', seems like a total nonsense to me.
quite the collection of first world problems...

I only skimmed the article, but I am guessing "Fuck you for my 6 figures salary" is not there.
The driver wouldn't be prosecuted if she just had a lapse of attention. She had taken her phone and was watching a TV show. That's a deliberate act.
Time to put out an alert on raw onion-eaters
That's an interesting example; Wirecard is a case of regulatory failure in that it before its collapse, the German financial regulator BaFin had been instead filing criminal complaints against reporters and short seller covering the firm.
For starters, Uber could have just not disabled the existing failsafe mechanisms that the car had.

Then, if we start with the expectation that a human in the loop is necessary for live testing, we could have two. It reduces the impact of independent failures. It also adds some social pressure to avoid negligence. It also provides overlapping coverage, as a lifeguard in this thread has pointed out.

Humans are fallible. Accept that, and design systems to be safe despite individual errors.

Driving a car is not the same aa monitoring a self driving car. There will be differences in attentiveness. Stop equating them.
> People have balances with PayPal,
> which could potentially go bust or be looted."

This is true. But PayPal's terms say that customer money is ringfenced: "These pooled amounts are held apart from PayPal’s corporate funds, and PayPal will neither use these funds for its operating expenses or any other corporate purposes"

> There's no deposit insurance.

This is not exactly true. As I understand it, some PayPal USD balances have FDIC insurance because the funds are stored at Wells Fargo in the customer's name: "If you have a PayPal Cash Card debit card as part of a Cash Account, have enrolled in Direct Deposit, or have established Goals in PayPal, such funds will have pass-through FDIC insurance as further detailed in the PayPal Cash and PayPal Cash Plus Account Terms and Conditions."
> most of those senators are not the holders of truth when it comes to technology

They don’t have to be. Their staffers do.

I’ve worked with a number of staffers on these questions for about three years now. They’re some of the smartest people I’ve worked with in my career, which has centred around Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
No... If I recall right, that was Steve King. Steve King was a congressman, not a senator. Maligning a single congressman does not invalidate the basic point that a lot of senators are making.
Feel like that is what Signal and Protonmail are doing. As a user I welcome this. We should never trust data curator.
I was just showing two examples of obviously partisan references, indicative of a bubble of like-minded opinions that is a dangerous foundation for scientific research even when those opinions are mostly correct.
I imagine that very few people who work with higher abstraction level languages (java, c#, go, js) are experienced at all with that.
I work at google. My grandfather spent a couple years in a Gulag. We both got free food at work, but I’m allowed to leave at the end of the day, and my job is writing code instead of counting dead people.
I couldn't stop laughing.

His skills at hacking are only matched by his wit at writing.
I was hoping to not go down the VPS route - why admin, secure and spend time on Linux when I don't have to. I don't want a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) either though because of the lock-in, but just a simple good 'ol' web host :) But thanks for the link anyway I'll read it.
What a fun article to read! Congratulations!
The UK recently evaluated the online ad market and found that Google and Facebook commanded 70% of all online ad spend in the country [0].

Their large pool of advertisers also helps them command a higher return per search compared to other platforms, allowing them to outbid its peers to become the default search choice on devices, e.g. Apple products. Their lack of privacy sensitive policy also helps their ad targeting.

Generally to me it seems hard for new entrants to make any inroads for market share when there's a self-perpetuating cycle like that.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-lifts-the-lid-on-digi...
Very true...

And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”

Luke 21:1-4
The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact
So does Facebook monopolize? lol
The full title is "The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data" which is too long to fit in the title bar.
> The Competition and Markets Authority has completed its market study into online platforms and the digital advertising market in the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/online-platforms-and-digital-ad...

See the analysis on DoubleClick etc. there.
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I don't think so, I think surveillance and freedom are mutually exclusive in most spaces and most applications.
My impressession is that politicians prefer Facebook over Google.
Marching Towards Zero Waste
"The entire reason palaeontologists make that split is because of a catastrophe that struck 66 million years ago."

True; also the reason we have human people reading websites is partly due to the same catastrophe.
What I've gathered left and right wrt the airline industry is that it was one of the earliest industries that went digital, and / but they have a lot of legacy going on.

I mean in this particular case, they could have Abbott create an account on their website first, but then, someone else booked the ticket for him so that makes things more complicated (because they don't have an e-mail address), and then there's tickets being booked all over the world, and then loads of people don't have computers or e-mail.

It escalates quickly.
> It's a good time to ponder what the real estate and living of the future could look like!

Move to Europe :)
We don’t have crazy fires, high risk of earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes. That’s becoming a compelling argument!
"Gleevin gliven"
> Do you really think people with multiple billions of wealth were living beneath their means?

Well it's hard to argue that anyone who has positive wealth is living beyond their means.
Nobody wants to write 83 and the later additions are far more extensive than C99 and 11.
Bill Gates should use his money to lobby politicians to address deep systemic issues instead of trying to cover up the symptoms with philanthropy.

One of the main problems is the continuous 'printing' of money and the way it is distributed into the economy. It doesn't make sense that all the newly printed money goes to wealthy institutions and individuals first, it doesn't trickle down. If they want to keep the money printer running, then that money needs to go to everyone equally; this means UBI (Universal Basic Income) - Otherwise we'll just end up with the insane politics that we have today; where the rich who are in close proximity to the money printers wield way too much power over politics.

I used to have respect for Bill Gates (Jr), but not anymore. If he really cares about others, he should dedicate most of his energy to fixing our corrupt fiat monetary system. Also, he should lobby for government to abolish corporate personhood and the overall concept of limited-liability corporations.

The entire financial system is a scam, it's a giant ponzi scheme. Once you do the research, it's impossible to operate properly in this system. There are many very talented, hard working people today who are being pushed out of the system into joblessness because they realize how pointless all the jobs have become and how rigged the system is because of the distortions caused by unlimited money printing. The situation we have is total madness. People are angry and they're right to be because the system is a scam and rewards scammers.

In my case I'm fortunate to have passive income so I can focus on open source full time, I cannot in my right mind go back to working for a corporation based on what I know now. I will not knowingly participate in this scam just because it's legal and everyone is doing it. I'm not going to be like those who supported Hitler on the basis that everyone else did.

If anyone needs proof, I highly recommend watching 'The Hidden Secrets of Money' on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0

Warning: If you're a rational person and you watch the first 7 episodes, you will lose all faith in the system.
I think because of the many problems listed and the significant one you add (Just what is a breaking change? It turns out pretty much any change can be breaking for some user), the tooling needs to recognise that strict semver is unsound and a looser version is required. This isn't just a question of pesky humans with their marketing versions vs unerring machines - there are complexities in the problem space which shouldn't be ignored.

Different producers/projects have different expectations for strictness in semver, and that's ok, they can use it differently in a negotiation with their consumers. Also different consumers have different requirements, and most tools provide a way for them to specify that on a per-import basis (upgrade only minor of these pls unattended, upgrade nothing on this one, only breaking changes on that one).

In short, loose semver is a feature, not a bug.
Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Time Flies’ Apple Event
So thinking about this "car going the speed limit even if conditions warrant going slower" thing, it makes me ask some questions:

1. Are there any statistics on how often road conditions do not match speed limits? I mean governmental statistics.

2. Are there any statistics on the same, but at night (I would assume speed limits are more likely to be higher than conditions warrant at night)

3. If 1 and or 2 does Uber have data on how often drivers take over the car because of conditions not matching the posted speed limit, how often does that happen?

4. Does Uber have any sort of policy regarding drivers who take over frequently? It just seems to me, given what I know of corporate mentality, that Uber as a whole (or some managers hoping to up their metrics) might penalize or get rid of drivers who took over 'too' frequently in comparison to other drivers. Obviously taking over is good for the machine learning, but you can't reward it either or people will start taking over when they shouldn't. I think there are probably incentives for the company to reduce the amount of drivers taking over.

Aside from that I was thinking - if you're a lawyer on HN and think this person is taking the fall somewhat unfairly, there might be arguments in this thread that would be worth sending to the lawyer representing the driver (his name is given in the article) - I of course mean worth it from a legal standpoint, because there might be expertise in some of these posts that the lawyer would not be aware of unless informed.
What We Learned by Working with MongoDB’s Collection Index
We are trying to fix this in the language ... It's just hard to convince people around that the change is worth it, I guess that I found the perfect use case.
You are spot on. I've said this for years. Which is why I always hire people not roles.
I think insurance companies have a role to play here. They should refuse coverage when driver is not operating the vehicle 100% of the time. To them it is two drivers splitting responsibility. Insurance/ law enforcement must demand additional coverage, for self driving cars.. a separate coverage for “software driver”. In addition DMVs should test each self driving car for a special drivers license.. just as they test a regular driver.
I think this is a pretty popular opinion, tbh. Successful people tend to have some sort of mental disorder, or rather, advantage.
Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study
Reveal 1.0: Read Eval Visualize Loop for Clojure
Do you have a source to backup that statement?
It is true that there are separate containers for PET in CH, problem the way I see it, is that people simply do not know which bottles are PET and throw in there all kinds of plastic. Sometimes, when I throw mine, I take 5 and watch what the others are throwing, essentially, if the bottle has this 3 arrows "recycle" sign, it goes in the PET basket, simple as that.
Ask HN: How close are we to a wearable that can track calorie intake?
> How do you ground a fleet of nuclear reactors? It's not like having a fridge or hot water is a luxury that we can just do without for a few months while the problem is resolved.

Is there a reason why backup solutions are not the answer to that problem?
The problem is that there are a LOT of books, but what is relevant just changes every couple years.

I mean the IT books section of the charity shops is a good example of this, there's so many there for older versions of Office, operating systems, etc.

That said, I had a school book (Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum) that explains a lot of the basics of computers. Sure, it's about the Pentium architecture and early JVM and doesn't cover multi-core architecture or using GPU's to crunch numbers, but it goes through a lot of the basics.
Sorry but any docs to refer where I could swap out the API to localstorage.

I just tried while taking a class and I believe I need your service account to use this extension.
I did a quick search on "infinite compression" and was somewhat taken aback at the results - I particularly like the one where the approach is described in a rather vague way but then there is an offer:

"I’m a little busy these days. Do any of you have time to put this lossless, infinite compression algorithm, together? If you get it to work, I’ll split the royalties with you."

I can't work out if it is a joke or not....
Thanks again for your thoughtful reply.

The terrain model is well worth looking into. It works of the principle that the body has all the abilities it needs to manage itself, but that issues arise when we overload it. So if we eat bad food, too many toxins, etc our system cannot cope and force a response. Initially that would be something like a cold. But when things are more serious, it progress and tries to isolate toxicity, hence cancer. Did you know that cancer does not survive in an alcaline environment? But that sugar, coffee, carbs, etc are acid forming?

I think your instinct is right about allowing a cold to proceed naturally. Medical intervention is not necessary. What you really want is dark mucus to be released - you are really clearing out your system at the point.

You are right to say that I am very cynical about big pharma. I am. There is simply no incentive for them to heal you, and every incentive for them to support you in a protracted disease. Their profits are best when they are managing you all the way down.

Unfortunately, if you are working on a very long term plan, and have huge resources, it isn't as complex as you think to create a situation where the medical establishment works in service of big pharma. You would need to capture the governance steering apparatus only - ie that bit that gets to say what is a valid treatment or not. And then you wait for that to feed through the system. I think that the US medical system has been run that way since 1940's.
I have a PinePhone and I've been running Manjaro on it for a couple weeks. It's terrible and it's also the only phone I've been truly excited about, well ever.

I managed to watch some TV shows on it the other day! It's really cool stuff having a phone that's actually a proper little computer. The power management is terrible, the front camera doesn't have drivers, it's near impossible to do things that seem trivial (play an audiobook at 2x speed) without resorting to the command line. It often ends up in states that need a reboot. It's extremely rough around the edges but I can use it to post on HN while walking around Mountain View, so it's a huge step toward something real exciting.

:) Seriously, I love the thing.
Upgoat or Downgoat? (vision coding challenge and solutions)
So why aren't they the senators instead of the morons they back?
That's because solving customers problems is so rarely a goal.
Accelerometers on the wrists, ankles, hips, and ... back of the head? And that would be enough to pretty much fully reconstruct the player's movements.
A few years back when I was looking to buy a house, I was interested in how long the property had been on the market. (I was looking in country towns and their outskirts, where six months is a typical time for a property to be on the market; I even saw one or two blocks of land that seemed to have been for sale for at least five or six years.) Few real estate agents tell you this on their websites (though if you ask, they may), and aggregators like domain.com.au and realestate.com.au don’t either. Except sometimes they do, in the markup. My vague recollection (I don’t have the scraping scripts I wrote handy right now, they’re just on my old laptop and backups) is that I found a JSON blob in the realestate.com.au mobile website containing two dates, and that the domain.com.au desktop website fetched a JSON response from an API which happened to contain one date. I ended up deciding that REA’s dates were when the listing was first seen and last updated, and the Domain one was one of those. Neither of these sites were actually displaying this date, but the data was there for me to take and feed into my research.

Careless or unwitting information disclosure from APIs—sometimes sensitive, sometimes not—is a real problem.
Alex, you are so funny!
Google does make a smartphone, and if my parents are any example, every smartphone is an iPhone just like every gaming system is an xbox.
I had assumed the Tony Abbott in recent UK news was a different person to the former Australian PM. Thanks for the correction!
Guest language syndrome. All libraries must be idiomatic instead of reusing the platform language based libraries.
would people actually vote for them?
Mook, a novel approach to state management with ClojureScript and React
Tech co-ops

https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
I lived like this for decades. I think I'm beginning to recover now.
Why is he ignoring the time they go to sleep? 5am-10pm is the same as 7am-12am...
Most sport/smart watches like Garmin and Suunto have had a blood oxygen measurement function for a couple years now. Not sure what the "breakthrough" is here, I guess it is the Fitness+ app.
Those poor gamblers, if only they were allowed to show all the recklessness they're capable of. What a disgrace.
Hey boy, just followyour path.
This is my 2cents, I am in the IT industry since 20+ years now, I have been in big state company as well as start up as small as 3 people.
I'm disconnecting from the loud sound around, and I have made my own believes ...
For me reading HN is a pleasure not a constrain and 28h (of work) a week show be the norm. Standup should be fun more than reporting and sometimes you neither need a trello nor a test chain CI in the first 6 months of the project....

So go in forest and take a big breath and CHOOSE your own path, not the way the billoins of dev are gently following each day.