skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This calculation is actually very rational. What you seem to ignore is that, with conventional cars, there is a relatively small amount of "known unknown" risks. There are of course significant risks, but almost all of them are known not only in kind, but also in quantity. Drunken drivers, dumb people, broken brakes, whatever. We have several decades of data regarding these risks. The amount of "unknown unknowns" can also be assumed to be relatively low, given that the concept of humans driving cars has quite a history now and largely stayed the same for a good number of decades.

With autonomous cars, even once you have a few years of safety data from a large enough number of cars to be able to make the call of them being 5x less dangerous than human-driven alternatives in that data, you will still end up having much more "unknown unknowns" (of which I can't tell you any, because they are by design unknown) in addition to also having much more "known unknowns" like the possibility for large-scale software bugs potentially causing thousands of casualties at the same time. These risks will only go down slowly with enough time, there's practically no way of fast tracking getting these down, hence you have to incorporate a large enough risk buffer in your assumptions for rationalizing to even start using that fancy new tech, and the only place where this risk buffer can come from is having a much bigger difference in the "known knowns" department of risks.
> All these complex theories/complaints about lightning. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, one good reason for not shifting to USB-C is to keep IP ratings high.

Also accessories. Sure there's a sunk costs fallacy component to it, but still: it wasn't that long ago that apple users needed to replace all their ADC accessories with lightning ones.
Signed partnership but the parner restricts us from any publicity. What to do?
Hello all,

We are a startup in edtec spear. Recently we got into partnership with one of the biggest companies in India for post exam reports. As a part of the contract they dont want us to use their name anywhere without their permission. As it's our first client or partner we decided to sign it.

When we asked for a press release on the partnership they denied it. As a startup it's important for us but we are bound with the contract.

Any suggestion or advice on how to approach this situation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
That’s delightful!

Anyone want to buy a few and make the first cluster of HDMI adapters?
I also didn't understand the hate for systemd until I have attempted to use it for the first time !

This was a few years ago, so it is very likely that the particular bug that annoyed me was solved since then. Nevertheless, the bug was so unbelievably stupid and it was not only just a coding error but also a problem caused by the wrong architecture of systemd, so I could not accept that it is possible to trust software developers that can make such mistakes.

After that bad experience, I have never touched systemd again.

Even if this was several years ago, systemd had already been in use for several years, so the bug could not be excused by systemd being experimental or something like that.

I use mostly Gentoo Linux, which fortunately does not use systemd, so I had been shielded from its problems. I had heard about some systemd-related controversies, but I had paid no attention to them. I had seen some systemd presentations, which seemed reasonable enough.

One day I was in a hurry, but I had to install Linux on a new computer. Gentoo is nice, but if you do not have a pre-prepared customized installation image, so that you have to install it from scratch, it may need a few hours for compiling everything from sources and for editing the configuration.

So I decided to install Arch Linux, which used systemd. The installation was fast and everything seemed to work OK.

Systemd was always praised for its supposedly fast boot times, but I have seen no improvement in that, compared to my carefully configured Gentoo systems. On the other hand, the computer with systemd was the first computer that I have ever encountered, among many thousands of computers, from the days of Intel 8080 and until the new Zen 3, which was slow at shutdown.

So while the boot time of systemd was OK, the shutdown time was very long, sometimes more than a minute. What is much worse, sometimes the shutdown failed, which is something that I have never experienced before or after. This was on an Intel NUC with a Skylake CPU, so it was not some esoteric, non-standard hardware.

The shutdown failed sometimes due to a race condition, because the systemd daemons exchanged some messages between themselves through dbus, and, IIRC, sometimes it happened that some daemon died before the sender expected and the sender remained stuck in attempts to send to a non-existing recipient, or maybe the dbus daemon died, so there no longer was who to relay the message.

Race conditions may happen in concurrent programming, but to have a shutdown procedure whose success depends on the success of inter-process communication, that shows that everything was ill-conceived at the highest level.

So then I said farewell to systemd, I wiped Arch and I installed Gentoo, which worked perfectly on that hardware, without systemd, but with its much simpler and more reliable openrc.
If we're being pedantic, that's not a letter. It's a mora. Also, we don't know the correct Japanese spelling of Satoshi Nakamoto, because there like 8 common first names pronounced Satoshi (哲, 悟, 敏, 智, 聡, 慧, 訓, and 諭) and he never wrote his name in Japanese.
Hmm, they offer a selection of rom you can choose in addition to uploading your own rom. There is JJBA, Medal of Honor, Doom, CTR, etc that you can run without uploading anything.
ABS is not a low quality material. It is a tough polymer which maintains its toughness over a wide range of environmental conditions. That is why it is widely used in applications like automotive interior and exterior panels. It's probably a good choice for a product like a dashcam which will be exposed to a wide temperature range.
Skype has also used it for a long time.

Also, aside from the obvious AV chat systems (eg: Jitsi. Zoom, etc.) 'cloud-gaming' platforms such as Google Stadia and Shadow use it.

I've been monitoring and experimenting with webRTC for a few years now and one of the most exciting recent developments has been more or less full support in desktop and mobile browsers (even Safari, which dragged its heels for years)
Getting Started with SwiftIO
Thanks for this info :)
Yeah, like those. But my dream is an OS that is usable for non-hackers while preserving the Linux ethos of leaving the user with ownership of their machine. That does not currently exist AFAIK.
It didn't. Many people just want it to be instantaneous they way something like Vim or Sublime is, and it just isn't.

But it's in no way any worse on modern machines that what you see in your 2015 MacBook (I have several Macs and can attest). People complain despite getting better performance than what you get on later Macs/PCs.

The other case is too many / too slow plugins. Not all are made equal. But as far as the core functionality, there has been no regression all the years I'm using it.
I live in the UK, earn less than 52k and can assure you that 70k is quite a remarkable salary to be earning. It puts you in the 94th %ile of earners. If you do not think that is a big deal, I do not know what to say.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f....

Edit: And my comment was actually to the claim that 70k is 'very, very low'. Which it is not. The comments section of HN occasionally reads like it is perused only by billionaires.
People who research human health and human behavior are constantly demonstrating the importance of social status.

Take a population and look at those with lowest rate of reproduction, lowest amount of social network, highest risk of loneliness, suicide, and what you get is a correlation to social economical status.

Take a population and measure stress hormones, and the output correlate to social economic status. Take a similar population and look at health outcomes over a large period of time, and the outcome is directly correlated to social economic status. Just a few weeks ago there were a paper showing that the outcome of defibrillation by doctors in hospitals is influenced by the patient social status. The higher the status, the more time the doctors spent in the room and the better the outcome was in shocking the patients heart. Low social status is predictor for slow recovery rate to injuries, and high social status has the opposite effect.

Even in biology we can see the effect clearly. Take a group of female students and their reproductive systems will sync based on social status. There is similar research that links male hormone levels directly with social status changes.

If we compare people in a very rich country with people from a very poor country, the people the share most similarities are those of the same social status, regardless of the actually wealth. It is sometimes refereed to as the paradox of welfare.
It's all ego stroking and github stars. The psychopaths write code for the sake of building an ego instead of better software. The only people they are helping is themselves.

This is why the 9front/cat-v crowd is cantankerous and the humour as dark and cringy as possible. No likes. No stars. No instagram accounts full of pictures some jerk took in the middle of the sahara to show how shallow they are. We only want well thought out code. Otherwise go away.
I can't think of any product that has been developed since 1970 that can kill people. The exceptions are medical devices and pharmaceuticals. I sure hope self-driving cars can be an exception, but that will definitely take a federal law limiting the liability of manufactures. Similar to how small aircraft manufacturers were being pushed to extinction due to very high liability costs until the passage of the General Aviation Revitalization Act in 1994.
Plus the site uses a certificate that is not only issued by but also owned by Cloudflare according to its metadata. It's undistinguishable from a free tier Cloudflare cert unless you know what exactly you need to look for.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. China did this in a few weeks. I’m not even talking about automated tracing of cell phone signals - just databases and people making phone calls.
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I was of a similar mind this year, but when I went to Walmart's website, they had 3rd party sellers on there too. It is really annoying, especially with the pandemic, trying to sift through all the trash online.

I ended up buying we webcam from BestBuy.com, because a webcam I got from Amazon was pay-for-review and was utter garbage.

Just more evidence, to me, that the era of internet business models being "get everything online" (Amazon, Spotify, Steam) is closing, and the era of online aggregation as a product is just beginning.
+1, this is exactly what I meant. Not saying it doesn’t belong but asking why it’s interesting, because I’m sure there is a reason :)
I find the 3-4 star reviews the most helpful. I feel like the positive fake reviews are all 5 stars (based on what the little notes I get in my Amazon packages, the vendors will only reward you for 5 star reviews) and I'm guessing the negative fake reviews are all 1 star. So that leaves those reviews in the middle as the only ones worth paying attention to.
> it neglects to mention that using Facebook and entering into a contract with Facebook is optional.

In theory, not always in reality.
Or possibly a few other characters...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%95%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97#J...
Idk about risk: that is hard to establish. There are so many conditions in which an automatic pilot hasn't been tested. We don't even know the factors involved in estimating the risk: e.g., is it dependent on the human co-pilot? And self-driving cars may change the car usage patterns, exerting a contextual influence on the risk.

Then there's the question of responsibility. Who will be held responsible when the automatic pilot is driving? If it's the human, then a high risk of causing an accident will be unacceptable to many drivers.
Tesla just dropped a snow driving beta: https://www.teslaoracle.com/2020/12/29/fsd-beta-8-tested-for...
8th gen iPad and a 1st gen apple pencil works for me. I also like to write because I find I can hand write notes while holding a conversation, but I can't come anywhere close to speaking while typing. I use OneNote. No handwriting recognition seems to be able to handle my handwriting so I leave the notes in handwritten form
I have never seen a paywall for Wirecutter
Nobody will be forcing you to buy self-driving car for quite a while. But as a safe driver, you should care about eliminating the most unsafe drivers from the roads.
Super easy, they just have very, very few old people. Different population pyramids. Hence low fatality ratio. And low prevalence is just because vast majority of people are young and have it asymptomatically.

It may also play a role that asymptomatic carriers have lower chance of transmitting infection, so R0 in those countries is lower.
The example was meant to make clear what "net positive" means. Do you actually believe that women get abortions because "they want them"? That there are no real reasons?
Not because untimely offspring might throw them and their family into poverty again? Not because the partner might be unsuitable for raising children and they would be left on their own with them in short order?
https://github.com/agenda/agenda might help you out with persistence and supporting more specific schedules :)
There is also Fomantic-UI (https://fomantic-ui.com/) active fork for now defunct Semantic-UI (https://semantic-ui.com/)
I've improved FS dithering algorithm in pngquant. In color images standard Floyd-Steinberg tends to add noise and make whole images look fuzzy. Remapping error from high-error areas is diffused to low-error areas, which makes otherwise good areas look noisier. This is why graphics programs make dithering optional, because it is a trade-off: you either have posterization, but a cleaner look, or fuzzier images due to error diffusion.

In pngquant I have adaptive diffusion that is enabled only in areas of the image that really need it, so you still get dithered gradients, but don't get as much noise added to the image overall, which makes it look cleaner and compress better.
Related to this theme of worker status, but in Europe:

Uber, Gig Companies Seek Labor Deals to Avoid Workers Becoming Employees

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-gig-companies-seek-labor-d...

Edited to add: archived version at https://archive.is/3YR8N
Jitsi is very, very impressive. But their whole platform is also bound up with a lot of other tech in the stack. (jitsi-meet, jitsi-videobridge, jicofo and 'Prosody' (XMPP).
> I'm a 2-spacer, being of a certain age and having learned to type in school on an actual typewriter.

Yes, from posts with double-spaces I can usually tell that the author is over a certain age (I would put them at baby-boomer or near baby-boomer).

I am guilty of having been taught that way when taking Typing class in school as well.

I have since dropped it though since we no longer live in a monospace world (I know, I hear you saying, "Speak for yourself," but I am excepting coding).
Show HN: React 17 Boilerplate with useContext and useReducer utils
Increasing min RAM from VMOptions.
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Why would a state actor do this? It's a clear declaration of war, and probably wouldn't kill more people than suddenly launching missiles. Even if they could somewhat hide it, the US is prone to retaliate on fairly flimsy pretexts.

There may be some terrorism risk, but any truly terrifying scenario requires a multitude of incredibly stupid design choices. Like constant internet connection, remote updates, no manual override, and a single widespread system. Hacking stoplights is roughly as scary.
Two spaces, like the Oxford Comma, reduce ambiguity and aid in visually parsing text information.

As a side benefit, that extra space can help software identify a sentence vs a line which contains something like Mr. Bob. With a two-space system, Mr. Bob would be part of one sentence. In a one-space system, the software cannot tell if the sentence ends at Mr. with the next sentence beginning as "Bob ..."
Adding five seconds to everything just adds five seconds, it doesn't matter if the difference between the two requests is .01s or 5.01s.
This resonates. I wonder if he writes poetry? Would imagine anyone who naturally writes poetry about their domain expertise would have competitive advantages.
That song is not at all detectable on the video we have from just before the blast. I don't know if the cop who said he heard it was mistaken or lying, but it's been really weird to watch the media run with the story when it's clearly false.

Fair warning, don't have your volume turned up too loud when you watch it:
https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1342656453610524676
> What is the purpose of acquiring wealth perpetually until death?

Reducing uncertainty and increasing opportunity, to put it simply. Money dictates the decisions and choices you can make, the more you have, the less restricted you are.
Because the people who refuse it are the "criminals".

Slippery slope, coming to a country near you.
If liability is on anyone, it would seem it has to be the manufacturer. And if there's no liability then the options are basically set up some sort of vaccine fund-like system or just to shrug and say it's between you and the insurance company.
I am really really waiting for new macbook pro 16" with M1X chipset to launch!
Quake III's Fast Inverse Square Root Explained [20 Min]
Ziglang has done a lot of interesting work here as well. They have no default allocator - things in stdlib that require allocation require you to provide one, but you get a decent selection of different allocators in stdlib to use for various use cases.

https://ziglearn.org/chapter-2/
I don't believe anyone with any significant knowledge of the subject has ever seriously suggested that the ability to play chess well requires full human level AI. Automatons that can play chess, some real and some fake, have existed for hundreds of years and nobody I'm aware of mistook them for human level intelligences but just clever curiosities, so I think this is clearly a particularly poorly informed straw man argument.

I can maybe imagine someone not working in AI or unfamiliar with how computers work, and ignorant of the history of Chess automatons maybe saying something like this, but even if so who cares? It's simply wrong. We're not going to issue Deep Blue citizenship because Chess.

The gold standard test for human level intelligence has long been and still remains the Turing Test. Not hobbled, limited "easy mode" tests as in some recent competitions for chat bots, but a full on, no holds barred freeform dialogue including whatever games, discussions, tests and topics a sophisticated tester chooses.
Atomics can be a pain point as well. The strong memory model of x86 tolerates sloppy use of atomics so bugs can easily fly under the radar, until the code is re-compiled for a weaker memory model like ARMs and suddenly you have a nightmare web of race conditions to deal with.
Is this just an American thing? I was educated in the UK and it never once came up (we use a single space), nor have I heard of it anywhere except online conversations with Americans.
Haha, the pun was a big part of the project's naming process. Glad you appreciate it!
>I think that business model could work well for 1-2 person companies, but how well would it scale?

I have no reason to suspect it would not scale up. In fact, the larger the force behind the software, the more difficult it is for a competitor to step in and try to maintain a fork.

>TBH I'm not very informed in this regard, do you know where can I read more about open source business models?

I wrote about this here:

https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/20/A-few-ways-to-make-money-...

I don't address your specific domain - end-user software - but I would just say "try selling it, with the source code".
To be is to hoard Camus paraphernalia.
True, the Pi 4 with 8GB RAM would allow for 8 TB max recommended storage per node. Thus, requires you to have 7 Pis for 56 TB. I think that's still a good setup, even with 1GE.

btw, 10GE is the minimum requirement for a non-hobby ceph cluster
I don’t know what your metric for being best is, but APL and K do arrays more natively and completely than anything else.
See: mediasoup for SFU.

- https://mediasoup.org
There is life beyond HN and Web Development in particular. To me my photo editing software for example is way "hotter" than the one available on web.
Find out what they will give permission for. Maybe a logo on your site or maybe just in a private pitch deck?
This is a very important comment.

Will start watching the movie right away if you say it’s good enough?

Edit - is this the movie? -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
I think this is a good point. The best lesson my dad ever gave me back when I was learning how to drive was to 'be predictable.' People don't get in wrecks when everyone behaves as expected. And the rules of the road are largely aimed at guiding that predictability. But in the end, regardless of the written rules, humans behave as humans and a robot driver should behave like other drivers. And it may change based on locality.
I refuse to believe that Amazon, Google/Youtube, Facebook,... have actually "solved scale" unless they can deal with problems like this reliably and automatically.
Be careful using eBay, a rather scary number of listings on there are people just relisting items from Amazon at a higher price and reshipping (or just ordering with your shipping address, I had one eBay purchase come directly from Amazon).
Postgres 13 Benchmark: Memory Speed vs. TPS
I consider piracy to be a form of civil disobedience. Why shouldn't we capture the value even if it would normally be sold to us in an unethical way?

Personally, I don't use nonfree software, pirated or not, but I have no qualms with anyone who does.
Exactly. Because now we can punish those individual drivers, lock them up, take away their car and license, but are we going to pull the plug on all cars with auto-pilot X because X is causing accidents? Is a small change in the software enough to establish it as a new driver? It's "smoking is good for you" all over again.
Thoughts on countries like Japan with a super-aged population but with low fatality ratio?
Sadly, the news around facial recognition and AI seems to imply the government has been happy to roll out exactly that.

I guess when the government contractors can profit off self-driving murders we will be good to go. /s
I've also found myself buying a lot of things from Best Buy, something I would have scoffed at 5-7 years ago. These days, I just want to know that I'm getting a genuine (vs replica) product and most of the time I can go pick-up my purchase same day, solving the "fast shipping" problem.
I always thought they recorded this scene by having the camera pointed to a mirror the whole time (at a slight angle of course, so it's not in the frame). Turns out the effect was much more complicated to film than that.
It will cripple a country and its economy.
I'm not saying that chess equals human-level intelligence. I'm saying that dismissing any progress in AI because it doesn't solve a corner case of a previously important unsolved problem is moving the goalposts of AI research. Especially if dismissing the progress requires usage of fuzzy terms such as "understanding".
Show HN: Collaborative programming environment inside GitHub Actions
Ask HN: What's the JavaScript front end packaging way 'du jour'?
I really don't know. I do one small thing in JS every year, it's different every year, what's the hotness going into 2021 to get dependencies into my frontend javascript?

I've heard words like yarn, npm, babel, browserify, webpack recently?