skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The speed limit is simply irrelevant from a safety perspective.

That depends on the type of road. On an interstate or highway your argument holds, but in urban and suburban areas, where there are side-streets, stop-signs, traffic lights, crosswalks, bicyclist, pedestrians that is not the case.

The faster a driver is going the less time they have to respond to new information, this is clear. Also I argue that with most cars going fast, and most cars are not giving the car in front of them enough space, that a car is less likely to slow down when they should (like when passing a bicyclist or making a turn across a crosswalk before they look who is in it or approaching it). I also argue, as does the commenter below me, that anomalous speeding vehicles can be dangerous to anyone that is using/crossing a road using a decision making processes that relies on cars going a certain speed.

My experience as a bicyclist on some roads, where there are 4 narrow lanes (2 in each direction), with a 30 mph speed limit but where the cars drive 40-45 mph, is that I can have two cars both pass me at the same time on my left, passing very close, because the car farthest on the right does not slow down and get into the left lane.

My experience as a walker has cars turning into my crosswalk at high speeds all the time. Left-hand turns are particularly bad.

I would also argue that higher speed limits are more stressful for everyone involved. Not nice for bicyclists, pedestrians, exercisers, scooter riders, people going for a stroll, or sitting outside, or even living next to such a road. Not even nice for other drivers who just want to go the speed limit and not get ran off the road by impatient drivers. For this reason as well, quality of life in urban and suburban areas, do I argue that speed limits matter.
Is this the most expensive game ever developed? Somewhere I read something about 200 million dollars ...
Wikipedia's page on open-source mobile phones [0] has a table with a kill switch column, and it only lists the Pinephone and Librem 5, although the list is pretty short and possibly incomplete.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
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Cops manage to permanently injure or kill people with rubber bullets. I'm not really sure I can agree that the malice is in the tool and its creator. No matter how benign the tool you create, someone's going to abuse it.

Should fishing companies feel responsible because someone out there used fishing line to strangle people to death?
That was extremely entertaining and so much fun to read, thanks!
There are, but I was trying to keep it short. Alphabet's "Project Wing" drones work like this, for example. They seem a bit inelegant though.
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On the face it's certainly selfless, but the causes and recipients of the massive sum are important. Certainly you'd think differently if the recipients were foreign militants, no?
Does this financial innovation ever go into a different direction than higher risk?
> you can’t get them to be vigilant for a low probability event.

How about starting by simply removing their phone? Isn't that easy? The driver was looking at her phone at the time when she was supposed to be looking at the road. This is a simple violation. The phone should have been banned and the driver fired after a first violation.

I am pretty sure that while what you say might be hard to do for some people, there are individuals out there for whom sitting and looking at the road for hours would not be such a big problem. If she couldn't handle the job, she shouldn't have worked there.
I don't like Krebs one bit but this actually matches my own experience. The most dangerous people for investors are the ones that are totally convinced that their utterly impossible idea is going to work. All they need is just a little bit more money and they'll turn the corner. Remember all those other investments that at first seemed not to pan out and eventually did? This is one of those!

Except of course it never is.

Let's see: over-unity energy generation, the infinite compression algorithm, beamed energy using audio, batteries that can charge in a second, they flying car and so on. All of these would be great things to have if not for those pesky laws of physics. And they are total investor bait, investors can't help but share the dream, they too would use this product if only it existed, therefore the market must be huge.

Typically the entrepreneur(s) are well meaning but clueless and that is what makes them all the more dangerous: they totally believe that their idea is possible and anybody saying otherwise is just out to get them.

I've written about this phenomenon here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/evergreen-investor-scams-kooks-a...
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A stirling engine might be a perfect part for a bare bones open hardware hybrid car.

A stirling engine might not produce enough power to power the wheels directly, but it could produce electricity quite efficiently at constant power output. It's fairly efficient, compact, relatively quiet and simple to build.

The electricity could be stored in fewer batteries and/or supercapacitors. The electricity from these would then power the wheels.
You are correct with my positions.

About a) we are not necessarily in disagreement, we just probably talk about different aspects of morality. I am personally not a believer of objective morality but find that the closest we can get to is that "mankind's morality", which can be argued to be at the root of collective decisions like laws and judgements.

You are talking about individual morality, a related but different thing and indeed, collective morality spawns from individual morality so it is unlikely to give insights about individual morality's origin.
If gulag says it, then it must be true.
It's an error to attribute negligence to the safety driver of an experimental car who is watching a video rather than watching the road?

Obviously the system should improve to make errors less likely, but that doesn't absolve anyone of guilt in my view.
But you did not work there. There are people who would very easily do this job. If she knew she couldn't concentrate, she shouldn't have taken the job and the risks involved.
Calculating just deaths / DrivingDistance is easy but overly simplifies the complicated comparison between human- vs self-driving. Comparing normalized deaths is not sufficient to persuade real people to choose self-driving over human-driving. Real humans and society take into account many more factors to accurately compare the two driving modes.

Take a hypothetical scenario where self-driving cars reduce deaths by 10x compared to now, but the deaths caused by self-driving cars are all small children and people with darker skin in human-preventable ways (you can imagine if cameras are used why this could happen). I doubt society would accept this tradeoff.

The safer future is to have humans still drive, but be enhanced by computers and cameras that are installed in the car.
Buffett & Munger agree with you. (paraphrasing here) Munger cited Costco as an incredibly important, effective, and efficient institution that couldn't be replaced by a non-profit or government. It has lowered the costs of essential goods while treating its workers well.
I couldn't either. It was absolutely terrible. I think you can achieve the style and voice he was going for without being completely over the top, which he very much was.
Declutter your screen to share it on your next presentation
GCC only started to matter after UNIX vendors stop offering their SDKs for free actually.
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A Mac only app, that allows you to declutter your screen with one click to safely share it on your next presentation
>I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring

This can be reversed as well, if you do black things out this way: please make sure you're using 100% opacity black. I've managed to retrieve data from plenty "blacked-out" documents simply by playing with contrast and exposure filters in Photoshop because the opacity wasn't set correctly.
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Tldr

A crazed San Fran cuck complains of being overexposed to a consistent set of new-age, self contradictory lifestyle choices he himself chose to be apart of.
Fair point, I assumed this to be a matter-of-fact but I add more info below.

Evidence on the health effects of Bisphenol and Pthalates (commonly used chemicals in plastics):

- Influence in hormone dependent types of cancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31471387/

- Influence in Cardiovascular disease
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32438096/

- Influence in Female and male fertility
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31238688/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32046352/

- Cofactor in Diabetes:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31286379/
Did he really abandon his car at the curb of the airport departures terminal?
Reminds me of the Simpson's 3D episode. Professor Frink's

>"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology..."
I'm from a non bullshit culture. They first greek word you learn is "den katalava", do not understand. (δεν κατάλαβα)

The 2nd phrase you learn is "den xero", do not know. (δεν ξέρω)

Some cultures prefer to be polite and therefore lie, some cultures prefer to tell the truth.
> 30 years ago

Wow, that's long enough that their earliest patents would have expired by now.
>Perhaps it would be kinder to call it "conceptware" but who really cares?

I do. It is not vaporware, because it exists, can be used, works for the most part, and is improving every day.

Please do refrain from calling stuff, that you do not use yourself names.
>Fuck you productivity freaks. You try to make me feel bad because I woke up “only” at 6AM.

What's so terrible about getting up sometime between 8 and 9am? :o
In what world is asking someone to at least not pick up their phone and start watching videos instead of doing one's job and at least looking at the road outside is "unnatural amount of vigilance"?

It's the basic job description. If she couldn't do it, she shouldn't have taken the job.
i guess i am still unaware of these issues since i am still using glide.
According to wikipedia, the car was traveling at 43 mph when it detected the pedestrian, and street has a posted 45 mph limit. There was no reported inclement weather, heavy traffic, or faulty lighting, so I don't see a reason to suspect traveling just below the speed limit should be considered speeding. Police had released a statement claiming the limit was 35 mph, although that's contradicted by the signs.

According to police, 85% of drivers would have identified the pedestrian 5.6 seconds away, and the Uber system identified it 6 seconds away. That should be enough time to stop safely and/or manuever around the pedestrian. So I really don't see a speed issue. The issue is that the Uber system did not react in a timely fashion, the human driver was not prepared to drive, and the Uber system test did not have appropriate safety controls.
One of my lecturers did that back at university - they generated an Excel spreadsheet containing everyone's marks, then for each student, deleted all but that student and saved as a different file.

Document history was turned on and anyone who hit ctrl+z got the full class marks.

(The same lecturer initially failed me because they forgot to add my final exam score to my assignments score, and then took four months to fix it. They weren't very competent.)
My first IDE was Turbo Basic in 1989.

Changing from

Type
Domain is 0..255; to Domain is 0..65535;

Is quite easy.
>design sprints

Oh my goodness; let's take everything that anyone has learned about software development and gut it. I hate these people.
Apple partners with Singapore to encourage fitness with Apple Watch
Most hilarious techie post I've read ever
Personally, I'm waiting for the next batch of PineTabs. I've been wanting to create a programmable digital picture frame (with touch screen) for some time now, and the hardware costs are pretty high for all of the raspberry pi projects out there vs the $79 for the PineTab. The Amazon Fire 7 is cheaper ($50), but I'd rather build on top of vanilla Linux than try to replace the Amazon OS to strip out Android.
So? Better than using tanks!

The solution to police/state violence is political, not (anti-)technological.
Could you explain how returning all data to the frontend is connected with "god mode" usage? Is the Amadeus system such that it created/masks different fields in the data depending on the access level you have?

In this case, "hacker" logged in a customer facing portal, this is probably not even an user account in the strict sense of the word.

I am asking as I fail to see how it is not a development issue. If they returned only the data that was needed on the page, it wouldn't expose internal comments or passport IDs.
Any reason why the block cache needs to be 10s of GB in size? Cassandra, for example, usually has a rather small key cache on heap, and then just relies on the kernel page cache. I don't have experience with cockroach, it looks like the block cache is similar to cassandra row cache, which can be configured to be on heap or off heap, but usually not beneficial to enable.
> Passionate developers are a big part of what enables their industry-leading margins on all that shiny hardware.

Apple needs developers far less now than it did ten or fifteen years ago. They have been very successful at commoditising 3rd party software.
Many people write this notion in this thread. Do you have any data for this BTW? How are you claiming this confidently? Have you driven a self-driving car? Many people (myself included) find it quite easy to monitor the road in it for long periods of time. If the driver was not one of them, she shouldn't have taken the job and risked innocent lives.
I find this dialog to be reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Perhaps one could frame it as the theorists versus the pragmatists.
Since there are example of Paypal and Mastercard banning customers for political reasons, cash has proven to be important again.

I am in Europe and I do give tips from time to time. Most cashless options don't give that opportunity. They don't even manage the basic use cases properly.

I also pay many services with cashless options, but I don't want to be dependent on one provider. At some point those will fail and many have shown that they cannot provide a universal payment solution.
...shred cut out parts, burn remains, mix with water, encase in cement, explode, divide rubble into four parts, disperse one part each in Lake Superior, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Great Salt Lake; assume an alias, move to Alaska...
"I’ll come work for you because you have the Glenlivet 17 and not the 15" ... obviously not a whisky drinker :D ... nothing against Glenlivet but come on :D
This sounds true and I've seen it in action. But I always wonder about the implications.

Must we keep our most important measures target free? That sounds insane, although I can see how it would improve the measurement.

So the questions is how are we supposed to set targets without our most important measures?
May you rest in peace Mr. Gates. At the moment your son is doing great things for humanity.
Kind of off topic but that is how I name the cloned git repositories. foo-git says nothing. foo-xxxxxxx says nothing, really. foo-20200916 at least tells me when I cloned the repository, and if I really wanna know which was the last commit, I can just git log it (usually, well, always a git repository).
The Hedgehog and the Fox – How to Think and Change Your Mind
It's better format but still less accessible for machine translators. Most translating system don't support PDF or only limited support.
> It's unreasonable to hold someone accountable for a "self-driving car"

It is not unreasonable at all. She had one job to do - look at the road. She failed it because she felt that her entertainment was more important than doing her job. She picked up her phone and started streaming videos. She failed at her one job, plain and simple. She knew everything about the job and still chose to watch some videos and risk lives.
This job reminds me a lot of when I lifeguarded in high school during the summer. You sit on a chair in the sun, waiting for something to happen. The job is not stimulating, which further increases the difficulty of recognising if someone is in trouble - try watching some rescue training videos [0]. While a lot of the interventions a lifeguard does are prophylactic (“No running!” vs administering first aid to someone who tripped and split their skull open), interventions did happen a few times a month. To make sure those interventions happen when needed, pools implement processes to better manage the risk.

These processes seem to be the key difference between that job and this one. Rotations every 30 minutes, a manager actively observing for engagement, and overlapping zones of coverage all were instrumental in 0 fatalities - I can recall examples where each of those saved at least one person’s life. Redundancy, supervision, and engagement are what make a pool safe. While I think this woman failed to do her job and may be punished for it, it is important to question why your community pool has better safeguards than an experimental car.

[0] https://youtu.be/4sFuULOY5ik
Any Lisp or Scheme. Because of the cited features. Homoiconicity only helps with macros.

I should have mentioned Prolog also, because this is even better for compilers. You state the rules, and the system comes up with the optimal transformation by itself. Trees are natural as in Lisp. But unfortunately Prolog is not popular enough, and you rarely see an open source Prolog compiler. Ocaml took that niche, but prolog would be far better.
Cleaning off razor sharp lunar dust with electron beams
Lately I am thinking about building a framework for web APIs where the database stores the owner, group and other's rights for each entity. The framework will then fetch data based on the user and fills the models based on the rights set for each field.

Exactly for the reason shown in the article.

I believe right now it is still too difficult to do this in any framework. That's why developers take shortcuts and just expose all entity data or just make a mistake and forget about it.

Does anyone know if such a framework already exists? So per field rights, not per entity rights.
I see a lot of comments asking for clarifications on the numbers, the process, and what is being tested during the interview.

Let me clarify first that 50 interviews include phone screening, where we don't do specific technical questions but rather just poke around what the candidate is looking for and whether they seem able to explain what they have been doing without drowning.

As for the process we use, we are a hedge fund of 30 people, we have no HR, so I directly deal with head hunters. That means the numbers I gave are "raw".

I see a lot of comments arguing whether it's even possible to assess technical skills during an interview, and overall spitting on whiteboard brain teasers.

For the former, really, you need to be in the front row of hiring to understand it. I'm not talking about filtering candidates that can answer library specific trivia or solve red black tree removal on a white board here. I'm talking about senior Python developers that cannot remember the syntax of a for loop, data science specialists that cannot ELI5 the intuition of a linear regression. That's the degree of "low skill level" I'm talking about. I think a lot of people here are biased toward thinking the average programmer on the market should be the same skill level of their average colleague.

This is Wrong.

You are reading hacker news, you are very likely to be passioned and dedicated about what you are doing, you are most likely working in an above average company, surrounded with above average colleagues. Your perception of the average programmer is biased toward your own surroundings.

Now I see that the whiteboard interview seems to be really dreaded. And man, do I feel you. I also used to hate them as an interviewee. But that does not mean they are all the same.

When I do a whiteboard interview, I am perfectly aware that the candidate is obviously stressed, uncomfortable, and not at 100% of his potential. That's why the questions I ask are typically not too intellectually challenging. Some variations of the fizzbuzz mainly, along with a small exercice on recursivity in case the fizzbuzz is too easy.

"Whiteboard interview" should not become a strawman for "24yo fresh grad throws B-tree inversion at you to feel superior". Really, the only thing that should be tested in these interviews is your programmer muscle memory. And from my experience, it does work.
Does this really deserve a rehash?

I hope this guy found his true passion as an alpaca rancher. All humour aside, it's clear that the feeling is probably mutual.
Maybe there is also less need/causes to donate to if living in a high redistribution country (and yes proximity is important for a lot of people at least emotionally).
or... GraphQL.
I ordered mine, and it hasn't arrived yet.

I am not sure if I will use it as my main phone, just because it doesn't support 5G Wifi.

At home it would be the only non iot/smart device that would need 2.4G Wifi and I blocked those from direct internet access.
You are on a tech forum. Reductionism is pretty much the norm here. Any programmer that has toyed with chaotic system theory can imagine holist views as explained by emergent behaviors of simpler systems.

> Did you purposefully ignore my question?

No, actually I had to rewrite my answer enitrely 4 or 5 times to avoid talking past each other, as it is clear we have different worldview, but I am doing my best to be less dismissive and bridge the difference in assumptions, something I did not do in my earlier messages, sorry about that.

> Holistically speaking, how do you propose we measure “health”?

I am not. I am proposing we measure precise aspects of morality. Keyword here is "precise". Measuring something requires a workable definition. A word like "health" or "good" can have several operational definitions that are contradictory with each other. In some contexts, like a hospital, you would measure "health" with a compound of physiological measures, like temperature, heart-rate, blood pressure. An economist would probably define it more in terms of likelihood to survive the year/decade.

Likewise, "ethics" or "good" are not operational definitions but things like "approval of peers", "likelihood of being recognized guilty of a crime", "reported happiness" are measurable metrics that we can use to try and establish a quantitative model of ethics.
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She could always just take a break if she felt her attention was lacking. Or you know, not take the job in the first place if this job was so hard for her personally.

It is not at all fair to make the comparison you are making.