skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
somewhat related: in Russia, mobile phones are illegal in prisons, but somehow ends up available to some inmates. Sizeable amount of scam calls from "banks" etc are coming from there. Problem isn't solved for many years, of course prison management tolerates if not directly profits from that, but yeah: internet and mobile connectivity will be used for crimes, unless something else in how prisons work would change as well.
It's probably more along the lines of us not being able to correctly guess who has recovered from CoVID because most people are asymptomatic.
How well does that handle poorly marked sections of road? I have a similar system on a non-Tesla and that was one of its main weaknesses relative to AP.
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I wonder how to get rid of this space. The ratio is crazy because I don't use softwares that much, and this other space takes >90GB.
hah, because religious people make fewer bad decisions? Where are you going with this?
I find it hard to believe you have never seen social signaling 'in the wild'.

A lot of behaviour that otherwise seems nonsensical can be explained by social signaling.

Why do rich people often spend tons of money on things they don't need or use? To impress other rich people.
Probably when 80% of the population has either been vaccinated or survived the disease.
I saw a data plot from Pfizer's trial. Between 7 and 14 days after the first shot the number of infections falls off. Also a report from Israel says infections and hospitalizations fall 60% three weeks after the first shot.
Is this really all that important? There are 3 other cars ahead of the Tesla at this red light intersection. If you're able to react within tens or hundreds of milliseconds to a changing environment, it would actually make sense to reduce compute to save power for when the vehicle is in motion and not surrounded by other vehicles at a stop light.

Edit: It seemed to handle that intersection just fine, but a couple of turns down it ends up on the wrong side of the road, which is quite bad. That said, what proof do you have that Waymo/Cruise would be any better at this?
> I really can't understand why so many people rag on frontend development

May be you should try to listen to them more carefully and make an attempt to understand their woes.
Odd story.

First, the teapot isn't actually famous. It seems to be the second known copy of another, much more famous teapot, but even that teapot would not seem to be the worlds "most famous" by any objective measure, and the story doesn't even try to justify that title.

Second, as the story notes, provenance in artwork is extremely critical. But having noted that this is an issue, that's...essentially the last we ever hear of it. There seems remarkably little curiosity about the backstory.

Third, the story notes that the seller refused to provide the name of the person who gifted the teapot to them, apparently for fear that the person would be upset when they discovered how valuable it was. But of course, once a story has been published and written, and the teapot is on permanent display in a museum in the country of the gift giver, wouldn't they find out....anyhow?

Fourth, the whole concept of Canada having laws to restrict the movement of an British tea pot feels a bit strange. I have mixed feelings about laws that try to keep a countries cultural heritage inside its borders, but I can certainly see the argument for them. This seems harder to justify, but it's presented a self-obvious good by the article, with no real reflection.

Fifth, the headline is just...weird. There wasn't really a tempest, and it wasn't international; it was an article written by a Canadian about another Canadian's rather boring interaction with an obscure part of the Canadian government staffed with Canadians. I know, I know, the urge to cram some sort of pun in the headline was overwhelming, but this one just had no relevance.

On the other hand, it is a lovely (if impractical) tea pot design, and I found it interesting that it had been made in 1879; it looks more like something made in 1979. Modern, clean, elegant. I'm glad I read the article, even if the tone just seemed oddly...unquestioning.
You give far too little credit to pure recklessness. It takes a hundred practiced bad decisions to eventually decide it is okay to drive drunk. At that point you are essentially gambling with people's lives.

If someone habitually rolls a die where a six gets someone killed, and they eventually roll a six, you got to ask why they were rolling the die so many times to begin with. In a very real sense the consequence is premeditated.
I don't think I understand what alternative solution you are proposing here.
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> Arguably leniency is precisely why the problem is what it is today.

I don't think that's true. I don't think lack of policing and enforcement of laws is why white supremacy is on the rise.
This is very true, but the "if" is a big one...
Agreed. Once we're past "the singularity" a computer with human hardware can drive as good as humans. But our eyes are not cameras and the singularity hasn't happened last time I checked. Btw, we also need some additional hardware to do a good job, headlights, defogger, wiper blades...
Based on the freedom I have with using phone, electricity, water, roads, and other public infrastructure, absolutely I am sure. Twitter, Apple, and Facebook have showed their hand. I want no part of that future.
That's just mostly viral hype thinking, maintained sometimes by key people in the industry through the press, because it drives money to them and willingness to work for less in certain cases.

The decades around 1900 were more innovative than what we've been experiencing the last decades.

And yes you can find people thinking the same thing way back in history, with the difference is that now it's been psychotically amplified by mass media, and it is actually annoying.

In popular press, and when people have things to sell, they do not include historical facts, because then they cannot drive the hype to new degrees, if they the include historical facts.

You may think that they have done their homework when they say "never before in history" but they have either never checked or deliberately ignored history.

I've had people I know, and the press swearing up and down that 'this time it's different' since the 90s when it comes to 'A.I' for instance. I'm sure older guys can go back even earlier and remember 'the impending A.I revolution'. Sweet money in that hyped narrative.

If you think that "this time it will be different" - congrats they got into your brain, and they do not care that they have done it just 10 years prior.
With enough repetition of the same information, and the way the human memory works - it doesn't really matter.

You will help them every time by reliably assuming that someone else cared enough to check history before saying that something is "historical", "first time", "never before in millions of years of human civilization". They haven't, and it doesn't matter for their goals.

One of these times something will eventually happen. Until then PR money, clickbaits, VC money, startups.. the whole classical techno-utopian centrifuge.
I think it is fair to assume that someone who goes as far as to commit a strong-arm robbery for a fifth of liquor probably has an extremely toxic relationship with alcohol.
Have a friend hold a blind tasting for you.

Did that to a couple of headstrong wine people, they were unable to tell their favorite (chardonnay for one and shiraz for another) from a bunch of AUD7 bottles.
That's precisely the problem, the guy didn't give a shit about anyone around him. Someone who kills someone over a sum of money, OK, that's understandable, but a drunk driver who doesn't give a shit about the hundreds of road users he encounters on the way home, I don't get that.

Skaphismos is too good for them.
America has ~330 million people. Let's assume the 18.7 Million was just in the month of january..not 100% acurate, but not 100% inaccurate.

That gives us a timeline of more than 1 year at current rate to vaccinate the entire US. Even vaccinating 70% the population will take roughly a year at current pace.

Puts things in some perspective.
Yes, "equal protection" is a myth.
I see no problem with someone developing something for fame and glory and not really want to put lots of effort into maintainance.

It if it gets popular, the community (aka users) can maintain it. If the community also does not want to put in the effort to maintain it, they cannot really complain about the original author also wanting the same.

The only problem is when the original author doesn't want to maintain things, and also rejects help with maintenance. If that occurs, a motivated community can fork things and continue.
The problem at that point is employers' general widespread aversion to reputation risk, which manifests itself in all kinds of ways. Erasure of the past isn't the fix for that.
I’ll be interested to see the lifespan of EVs for “normal” people. I’ve got a 2012 Nissan LEAF we bought post-lease in 2015. I love it still, and don’t have any plans to replace it. The battery is not in great shape, but it gets me where I need to go. I am genuinely considering replacing the battery rather than buying another EV when the battery finally fails.
Software Engineering Daily

IMO, engineering podcasts and pretty much anything related to work is just so boring to listen to. I listen to podcasts to relax and learn something new that isn't engineering.
Please note that you are asking this question at the tail end of pandemic where a significant portion of the country decided it was preferable to "just let some old people die" than to lockdown or even wear masks.

Those people will twist themselves into giving you a PC answer but the truth is they're willing to crack a few eggs in order get FSD today. They'll tell you no one else is even trying and in the long run FSD will save more lives and Musk should be praised for having the gumption to get the ball rolling.
At this point, I would not even bother using Google to find news from Australia, whether Google pays or not. Just go to the Australian media websites. How hard is that.

Middlemen: we do not need you.
You mean in this case?

In this case I believe it's murder vs manslaughter [0]. Otherwise, I believe his MDOC page would reflect a murder charge [1]. Murder and manslaughter are quite notably different in their intent and premeditation [2]. If you accidentally (or half-accidentally) kill someone, that's very different from killing them on purpose.

[0]: https://www.findlaw.com/dui/charges/dui-manslaughter-and-dui...

[1]: https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumb...

[2]: [1]: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/homicide-murder-mans...
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the guy should just be allowed to sleep it off.

But 15 years? Wouldn't 5 years get the point across?
idk. I’m sure there are better methods of preventing drunk driving then punishing people after the fact. Measures include:

* Better party hour transport availability

* Better driver awareness, education, and propaganda

* More enforcement of drunk suspects before an accident

* Police cooperation with bars, i.e. tattle-tail programs

Moving to America I’m astonished how much drunk driving goes unpunished here. In rural areas there people often go a few dozen km to the next bar, and there is no alternative to get home except to drive. When there is enforcement it seems like it is only over the top punishment. Bartenders seem to be fine with people having a few beers and driving home (as long as they are not “too drunk”).

I think America is failing spectacularly in preventing drunk driving, and I think the main reason is that this over reliance of punitive measures that simply don’t work.
I wouldn't suggest it personally, and don't think it's common.
At least on American domestic flights the free wine in first is the same crappy wine you pay for In economy.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, it sounds like you (sixQuarks) and the parent (vegannet) want the same side of the bet :-) ie you're both betting that Tesla won't achieve FSD L5 in 5 years.
>This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe

Uhhhhhhhh... You know he killed multiple people, right?
Research suggests that after infection with some coronaviruses, reinfection with the same virus — though usually mild and only happening in a fraction of people — is possible after a period of months or years. Further research is needed to determine the protective effect of antibodies to the virus in those who have been infected.

Even if infection with the COVID-19 virus creates long-lasting immunity, a large number of people would have to become infected to reach the herd immunity threshold. Experts estimate that in the U.S., 70% of the population — more than 200 million people — would have to recover from COVID-19 to halt the epidemic. If many people become sick with COVID-19 at once, the health care system could quickly become overwhelmed. This amount of infection could also lead to serious complications and millions of deaths, especially among older people and those who have chronic conditions. [1]

Which would result in ~1.3M dead Americans.

So no. The concept of defeating COVID by relying on a "natural herd immunity" is a bad idea on all fronts.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
I really feel comments like these come from people who haven't successfully actually quit Facebook. There's a real heavy cost to not being on Facebook and most people don't feel the dependency because they've convinced themselves they can quit at any time.
Inevitably when the big one hits those single family homes will be gone.

Also imagine the URMs in SOMA, Chinatown, and Tenderloin to be leveled.

At that point the city will need to rebuild for a large homeless population rapidly. High density earthquake resistant architecture will be the natural transition.
Every society has a judicial system. They're all different, with some being very primitive with eye-for-an-eye violence while others have centuries of political procedures and massive infrastructure. They can also be layered, as the society within a prison has its own justice system.
Old people 65+ are about 90% of hospitalizations and deaths. Israel finished vaccinating their seniors and hospital admissions are down 60%.
I tend to do TDD because I hate having to pull up a full application, run the thing and then eyeball a result. The problem with TDD zealotry is that often they'll induce all sorts of architectural rot (DHH did a thing on test induced design damage a while back) in the name of testability
I'm surprised, personally I would put software engineer akin to a new-age factory worker, but worse for multiple reasons. This is taking into account how many new software engineers are joining and where the field is going in general, sure some are doing novel work but most are definitely not.
RDJ’s portrayal of Iron Man is partially based off Elon Musk, not the other way around.

Edit: Since I’m being downvoted, here you go, today you learned: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-story-elon-musk-robert-d...
Up 43% is great news. To put it in context: There were 91 million cars produced last year (per wikipedia) and 3 million electric cars sold.
Nah. Just tell them they can't have it and they'll be screaming for it.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-perl-on-redhat-8

Biggest of them all. I can't find the announcement.
Everyone deserves to be helped out of poverty, but cases like yours show that the deck is just too stacked even against some of our brightest people. Despite being from a more stable set of circumstances and I can barely manage to get by at times (including now), if that helps. It's tragic that the very best things on this planet are being destroyed as we speak, including people like you and your father.
The two main ones I've heard are:

- Airbnb selling Obama/McCain themed cereal.

- Getting people to sign up for your app by literally installing it for them/walking through the sign up process.

EDIT:

Another, IMO, despite hearing that it is a bad idea (I disagree with the idea that this is a bad idea):

- Build it and they will come
Awesome example, thank you for sharing!
Open data models allow for faster innovation and stronger collaboration. That's basically the meat of it.

Right now the cost outweighs the benefit but the cost is decreasing and the benefit remains.
Tulare Lake.
Nothing in the link you posted supports your assertion.
I avoid all the middlemen gig economy food delivery apps entirely. One I do like is the Little Caesars smartphone app in combination with their pizza portal, it really is seamless and a social anxiety sufferer's dream. Little Caesars is an entirely private single corporate owner company; I feel like there is a Linux to BSD analogy somewhere in here.
While on a family trip to Iceland, I read a translation of Njal's Saga. Granted, you have to read it in light of the fact that it wasn't written down until a long time after the events happened.

But it describes Iceland's ancient legal system in some detail. If you killed someone, you could be sued, tried, and fined. The fine went to the victim's family. What it looks like happened in practice was that the victim's family wasn't really satisfied that justice was done, and would conduct a revenge killing. Then the money would pass back to the other family again. The practical effect was that the entire saga is like a decades long blood feud, mediated by the court system.

Of course it was fascinating to read, especially since we were visiting places described in the saga, such as Thingvellier, where they met to conduct government and trials.

They had another system, where if you were utterly uncontrollable, they could vote you off the island by making you an outlaw, meaning that anybody could kill you without repercussion.
The sad truth is, if that were the case, prisons would label what they do as prison labor and claim their wages or sell them connectivity and equipment at exorbitant prices. One upside is it would be a solid addition to their resume, but that’s after they find a company willing to hire ex-cons.

We would all be better off if prisons had rehabilitation and reintegration as their raison d'être, but with private prisons wanting to grow, I doubt that’ll happen any time soon.
1. Look at why drunk driving is a much larger problem in the US than other places.

2. Is there stuff we can do to fix the discrepancy in the US.

3. Can the perpetrator of harm in society be a part of fixing the harm they have done, and preventing more harm in society.

I think punitive justice is just the easy way out and never addresses the roots of the problems.

For example, imagine instead of jailing people for 15 years, we used that money to subsidize lyft/uber rides of 18-25 year olds when they were detected to be near bars. How much impact would that have compared to jailing?
Given how many lives it ruins, I'm amazed at how easily accessible it is. I'm not trying to say we should bring back prohibition or something like that. I just find it fascinating how much socialization is build around drinking something that can have this type of potential.
Not buying that for a second. This same industry ran PR to squash efforts at developing competing vaccines in human challenge trials[0]. I try to remind myself that most individual players don’t act with malice, but the system as a whole runs purely on profit-taking and corruption, and it has managed to do horrific damage.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/23/challenge-trials-live-co...
this case makes me wonder - are there reasons that no govt agency nor NGO has offered computers to jails... with restricted connectivity to only specific domains like Coursera, Edx, etc?

I understand the need to prevent criminal activity via internet access, but that seems like a trivial technical problem... or is it ?

I'd think such an initiative would impact re-incarceration rates, which for the price of a few laptops, seems like a steal (pun intended)
Actions have consequences and, well, you know what they say: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Perhaps your father isn't so much a "good person" as you believe. He sounds crooked to me, anyway.
Re: rent control, if we keep it and extend it to all the housing stock, it needs a few tweaks. For one, changing occupancy can't "reset" it to market rate. The current state of things just keeps people in the same place for many years past when they'd like to move, simply because they don't want to give up their low rent. It also severely disadvantages potential new residents who haven't moved here yet, as they're always faced with a market-rate rent rather than a lower rent-controlled one.

SF rent control currently allows landlords to raise rent by 5-10% per year (depending on how large the yearly cost-of-living increase is), and can also raise rent somewhat for capital improvements[0]. To offset the above change, maybe we could bump that a little bit... but honestly 10% a year seems like a lot already; if you look at the other side of the equation, most renters are probably not getting a 10% raise each year, and a lot probably aren't even getting 5%. Does a landlord's costs really increase by 5-10% a year? I'd be surprised if so.

We also need a vacancy tax. Landlords should not be allowed to keep units vacant when doing so makes more financial sense than leasing it.

[0] Because I had to look it up myself: https://sftu.org/rent-control/
I don't know if you're being facetious with your Skaphismos comment — if you are I think we'll have a hard time finding any common ground.

We could argue about the details of the crime, but I think your view of punishment is draconian and absurd.

For those who don't know what Skaphismos is, I've translated this from the German Wikipedia:

> In scaphism, the victim was ... enclosed in a prepared, clamshell container, except for the head, hands, and feet, and force-fed inside; according to the accounts, death resulted from infection, tissue destruction due to insect feeding, or physical emaciation (thirst, starvation) and blood loss and/or poisoning from insect bites. [0]

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphismus
Telling citizens that they're noncompliant grade-schoolers will do nothing but breed resentment.
> What those consequences be if the society does not punish people for that?

Given the state of most prisons in the west (Especially in the US), we are often sending people to effectively rot and even if they get out they might as well be dead they're so stunted.

Indeed, you can't bring dead people back to life. Judicial systems should not be based off of the emotions of people affected by crimes - it's not a nice thing to say but it just empirically doesn't work.

> For this crime any punishment is exerted only as a message to other people: don’t kill people or else those bad things will happen to you.

Not only is deterrent-policy usually very expensive both directly and in the aforementioned tendency to shit out people who go straight back into crime, I'm not aware of any studies that manage to disprove their null.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/deterrence

In the extreme "capital punishment means those without capital get the punishment.".
Didn’t Walter Bright write empire? He frequents HN a lot