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Wait, but there's a significant difference between

"automated system saved my life"

and

"automated system didn't kill me"

Like, my own car has several features which I believe are enough to prevent 90% of accidents in urban settings. But I find it hard to interpret when someone says "autopilot saved my life" - like, you mean "autopilot didn't kill me"? Because if it merely stopped hitting something then I really don't understand how you can be certain that

1) you wouldn't have avoided the collision by yourself

2) you wouldn't have avoided the collision with exisitng systems without going full autopilot

And I have been in a Tesla(few actually) and I personally think that they way Tesla does it is the worst possible implementation - it gives you so much confidence that you really stop paying attention(even though you absolutely should never ever do that) only to spontantiously decide QUICK! HUMAN, TAKE OVER! in the middle of a turn.

Like, if I owned a Tesla I'm sure I'd love the autopilot, but I also think it's far too dangerous to be forming any kind of statements like "we'll have full self driving rollout by 2025-2028" based on it.
It could be that places where minorities live have less sidewalks, less street lighting, faster posted speed limits, less traffic enforcement, and their economic status require them to walk more.
Let's be fair. If you can't cross the road carefully and accordingly to the rules maybe you should not be allowed to walk either? It takes two to tango. All too often I see idiots suddenly and arbitrary crossing the road in front of oncoming traffic while staring at their phone screens.
I didn't even realize Medium employed journalists. I guess they started as a blogging service and then added that?

But taking your name recognition as "that big blogging site where any idiot can write whatever they want" to "source of researched news from paid journalists" is a tough direction.

He talks about this idea of credibility being built by individual people now rather than brands, but how much of that is because he's starting from a brand that was founded on having no editorial credibility?
At least as important for software quality is:

3) Make extension of thorough automatic testing in all levels of the testing hierarchy as effortless as possible.

Nobody is going to bother with thorough testing if it takes a day to add a simple test case for the new minor thing they just added in the last half an hour. Boom, test hole, disaster waiting to happen next time somebody refactors something. No matter how great you are doing with 1) and 2).
Most Node devs are JavaScript monoglots, who just recently learned frontend, and figure "Let's use JavaScript for everything!"
A pedestrian could easily be the cause of a traffic accident for the reasons OP mentioned. They could cause an accident by jaywalking, not obeying pedestrian signals, etc., whereby a driver avoids hitting them and swerves into another vehicle(s).

Who's "the victim" here that should not be blamed?

Or, negligence from the driver, as the OP mentioned.

Or, both.

This comparison does not seem tenable.
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Possibly, though that could miss other correlations that occur with race. I would want a study that also includes location, year of most recent road renovation, local visibility at time of fatality, distance traveled per day by car/bike/foot, and visibility of clothing, just to name a few. That said, putting together a more in-depth dataset may be impossible given the level of information collected. Looking for correlations with race, which is typically recorded in police reports following collisions, is a reasonable first step that can be used to motivate and drive further research.
I am waiting for someone to "discover" placing "edge computing" nodes on-premise with client computers to remove the last-mile latency, speed up bandwidth-intensive operations like file sharing, and lessen the dependence on unreliable pro-sumer grade Internet connections (read: the no-SLA, somewhat reliable, typically violently asymmetric connections available for small to medium-sized businesses in a lot of the US for a reasonable cost, often from a monopoly provider).

I guess "Azure Stack" is sort of that now, but that's not targeted at the small to medium-sized business market (yet).
That really doesn’t follow. The web is already open, and banks are already regulated. Just mandate that banks provide access to their services via the web.
Here I'm a bit out of my depth.

I think with Erlang you don't need to know >that particular implementation of green threads, but you need to implement the required specifics of the VM FFI (which in practical terms might be what you meant) - but this has a reason, in that, for the VM to provide its guarantees it needs to be able to count "cycles", refs, etc in order to preempt the execution of any function/process at given points, so that no single process can block the scheduler. It also needs to transform things from and into data types usable inside the VM.

I think you can also use "dirty" nifs, but here you might crash the VM so you really need to know what you're doing (and you still have to translate things to and from the vm).

And there's also ports, and C Nodes. These have a higher sync cost but can be treated by the VM as if they were processes/erlang nodes.

Lastly, you can also just shell from the VM to an OS level process, or use sockets, etc.

But I doubt this is anything 99% of the people writing JS do in JS?
One of the things people using Elixir or Erlang is exactly because of the guarantees and programming model of the VM.

Again, might be missing what you mention because it's not an area I have explored in any meaningful way.
Good idea, it gets posted once in a while on HN in comments, but not submissions.

Submitted.
I’m pretty sure I wore my dad’s original vinyl copy of Switched on Bach into near unplayability, as a child more than thirty years ago. Absolutely my favorite record of all time. The followups later with “better” synths never came close in my mind to the sounds and performance of the first one.
They have as much right to use that road as cars. If they can't share that space safely, saying that they should stay out of the road is exacly as reasonable or unreasonable as saying that cars should stay out of that rooad, what's sauce for goose is sauce for gander.
> The "work with the community to merge your software into the repo" model is much better for things that actually help people.

So you ratchet up the friction for entry, that helps devs?

Say what you want about the app store, but across all the devs for iOS, how many would go through the trouble of self distributing their product? Marketing, infrastructure, payment system etc... ? The app store is a tremendously low friction way for market penetration.

Sure, we may need to calibrate the revenue sharing arrangement. However the "merge your software into the repo" as an either/or alternative is laughable.
And the article gives little attention to what looks like the most serious safety issue to me:

The rims pictured in the article are one of the most dangerous things you can do to a car (and are not legal as shown) and present a massive safety risk to pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.

It's basically turning the vehicle into something that will cause amputations/maiming if you're ever near anyone, and other road users won't necessarily see your "spikes" to be able to avoid them, especially in a busier environment. You might as well just stick swords or axes sticking out from your rims, because that's basically what they'll do in motion to anyone you get a little too close to.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to a lot of car culture modifications, but that particular class of modifications should be zero tolerance, car impounded on sight.
Oh man the ecosystem. I still think CPAN set the bar for what a high-quality language ecosystem should look like. npm and rubygems look like amateur hour by comparison.
Working in the industry kills one's passion. It did for me.
I've been looking for a combined task manager and calendar for a long time, and have often entertained building one for myself. Some feedback that is preventing adoption for me:

- Complex recurrence is key. I exercise 4 days per week. I only process my inbox (GTD-style) on weekdays. I triage bugs twice per week.

- Need to be able to view more than one day at a time on the calendar, and add tasks to specific days in that view — I plan out my weeks.

- Looking at future dates, it still shows my tasks scheduled for earlier dates. This makes planning difficult.

Ergonomic feedback

- Keyboard shortcuts (including arrow key navigation) does not work if you are focused on the name field of the task in the list. This means I can't really navigate, open, archive, reschdule tasks without using the mouse. Or at least I can't see how to. Might have to change hotkey scheme (use control or option?) as well, as command+A, for example, should probably still select all text in a field.

- I should be able to click out of the console — I keep trying to click or alt-tab out of it, like it’s spotlight, and it just hovers empty in front of my screen until I click to refocus on it and hit escape.

- When I've thought of building this myself, a key feature was adding tasks to the day's calendar (like, "I plan to work on X from 2-3:30pm").

Currently I use Asana for it's calendar view (note: this is not a calendar integration) and great keyboard shortcuts.

Anyway, congrats on the launch!
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Shouldn’t this be a hidden layer under React native? The thing you suggest is impossible without having Google or Apple take up the initiative.

All JS improvements for the last 10 years required a lot of bypassing of browser and device maker’s implementation.
I'm confused - this sounds like an entirely different claim than your original comment. Could you elaborate?
And there are lots of people who weren’t hippies who smoked marijuana. And voter intelligence tests affected people who weren’t minorities. But that doesn’t mean the laws in question were not passed with race in mind, at least for many of those pushing for them.
Good catch. So they will refund you in whichever way is cheaper.
That is a big win for existing knowledge and process. How about creating new knowledge and process?
No, I don't present as a stereotypicallly feminine woman. I don't have long hair, I don't wear dresses, I don't have many interests typically associated with women, I didn't play with dolls (or trucks) as a kid—instead I played with hex editors and DRM protections on software. But my body clearly needs to be estrogen-dominant to work well, and I very strongly prefer they or she pronouns.

"Trans people want to reinforce gender stereotypes" is yet another GC lie based on selection pressure from the medical gatekeeping we've endured for decades. Even today, in parts of Europe and in much of the world you'll be expected to wear a dress and makeup to your doctor's appointments, otherwise you won't get access to the hormones your body needs. (The SF Bay Area where I live doesn't have that as much.)

I want to repeat: Cis people are the ones who reinforce gender stereotypes, not us.

There are many trans women for whom femininity is not an important aspect of their individuality as well. There are trans butch dykes. Of course there are. Once you start looking at us as human you'll see that we have as much variation within our group as anyone else.
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I remember back when adware, spyware, and viruses ran amuck on PC’s thanks to lax Windows XP security design and an open internet without any effort to protect users. It was bad.

We do need to decentralize the decision making but the progress toward making the web safer for average folks is good.
Static vs. dynamically generated constant variables
Thats where "supported as in can the OS attempt to use it" and "supported as in stable and ready for prod" are diverged.

Also the link in that document is unsurprisingly 404'd. If only IIS had a method of doing redirects and rewrites :?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200327011332/https://docs.micr...
> Most people don't heed advice given for free, but if they pay dearly for it, they tend to pay attention.

100% this. I've seen consultants get paid $250 an hour to simply listen to what the team is saying and regurgitate that to management. But it's more trusted than their own employees because the consultant is "independent".
Not from a personal point of view but from a global humanitarian point of view, mobile phones are how most people interact with the internet, technology, and the rest of the world. That should make it #1 on everybody's list. Right now 99.9999% of smartphones are closed source and closed hardware that is controlled by mega corps that don't have your best interests at heart.
Thats because in most places in the US driving is a necessity in order to function in society. So we need to make it stupid simple for people to maintain a drivers license, less we want them to end up homeless.

IMHO the only way for such a culture to emerge is if driving is not something that is required by a mass amount of people.
Smart Car and Cooper Mini beg to differ

I haven't checked the sales numbers, but I see far fewer Smart Cars today compared to even 5 years ago. Also the latest Mini Coopers are massive. Much larger than most normal cars.
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you could argue that, but you’ve yet to make a substantive and persuasive argument in that regard. besides stating your beliefs on the matter, you’d need to show how other sets of mitigations aren’t nearly as effective, and why we’d need coercive force, given the real danger that poses to the existing balance of power.

it isn’t just about whether we can stop this pandemic through technocratic means (sure, in theory, we could), but whether it makes sense for such a relatively weak pandemic (we shouldn’t). you can’t consider just the technocratic arena, but must also consider the inextricably-intertwined sociopolitical consequences as well.
The impact of synthesizers is already over. They were used far more imaginatively in the 70s than they are today.

The real future is software, especially composition integrated with DSP. Not aimless generative nonsense based on randomly reshuffling arrays and maybe snapping them to a harmonic grid, but complex, composed architectures of sound.

Some of them may not even have a bass drum on every quarter beat - a bit radical, but who knows what the future holds?
This is what I always wonder as well. It seems to me that if we all weren't constantly dividing ourselves by an increasing number of characteristics that are not socioeconomic class, then we would have an enormous group of people working towards the problems that result from socioeconomic differences.

It also just feels like pandering. Now that the problem is framed as racism, politicians can just paint a mural or something and continue to not actually fix anything.
Ah I got you.

Found a study from 2005 - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/4/232

Light truck (pickups, suvs, vans) accounted for ~30% higher relative risk vs cars.

Surprisingly (to me) motorcycle/pedestrian accidents are three times as likely to result in a fatality.

Personally I think it's mostly related to distracted driving/walking but vehicle type almost certainly plays some role.
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That said, I will agree vehicles and traffic laws are probably the most important contributors in this case -- I'm only arguing we shouldn't ignore information or use racism / rape as moral equivalents to simply asking "are there any pedestrian behaviors that contribute to this phenomenon?"
Do you keep enough money to buy a tesla lying around in straight cash?
Firefox's tools are still competitive with Chrome and there are even a few things I miss about them when debugging in Brave. It gives a little joy to know that Mozilla is still competitive in something, but not holding my breath for it to stay that way.
A vendor gave us a .jar cli tool for managing an enterprise product last year, and I swear it starts up in under half a second (to the familiar spring boot splash too), so it is possible, just uncommon :)
If you do it on your own sure, but I usually offload such issues to Verbraucherzentrale and let them do the talk if there is no collaboration, usually it has an higher success rate when they come into play.
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On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions. A small bug fix here or there is about the most I see from 90% of resumes.

Every once in a while we see someone with a lot of open source contributions, or even full leadership of a popular project. These people would really prefer if we believed that OSS contributions and GitHub profiles replaced resumes or CVs, because it’s where they shine. Unfortunately, doing so would exclude many great hires who have done a lot of great work at private companies that doesn’t show up on their GitHub. We’ve also had trouble hiring prolific OSS contributors who spent their days working on OSS contributions instead of doing their job. One candidate wanted their contract to state that they could spend half of their paid time working on their OSS project. We passed.

In my experience, anyone claiming to have a single dimension credential preference for hiring (usually GitHub portfolio, Ivy League education, ex-FAANG) is simply hiring for people who look like themselves. They’re not a good fit for unbiased hiring.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561811
I'm not a gardener at all, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out, should it?

Get like 9 of the same plants at the same point in the life cycle, wash 3, leave 3 and do the 50\50 for 3. Compare results.

If it's as big a deal as people make it out to be, it should be obvious, no?
Not at all.
The eu has pedestrian safety standards that must be met as well as passenger safety.
In those countries Tesla and Mercedes, to name a few, have active pedestrian safety devices in the hood that change the angle of the hood just before a pedestrian strike to minimize injury.
They remove those safety devices in North American markets where there isn’t testing.
Do you really need a peer reviewed study to tell you that getting hit by a truck in the chest/head is going to be more dangerous than getting struck by a small sedan in the legs?

If you do, Euro NCAP has them.
> Yes, but they are not more of a status symbol that BMW, at least broadly.

Forget BMW. They had a lead with the i3, which they squandered. Their latest EV is the Mini One Electric, which is a rebranded i3. BMW dropped the ball.

No decent future lineup of EVs. More importantly, no planned investment in battery factories. BMW is dead in the water, with a lag behind Tesla of 5-10 years.

VW is the first brand I see with a less than five year lag behind Tesla. Battery production capacity is a good metric for how much of a competition each manufacturer is. VW should catch up to Tesla a bit before 2025, assuming no delays and assuming no ramp-up of Tesla Gigafactory investment.
That seems to be at least one reason for AWS Outposts...so Amazon doesn't lose revenue as some edge things move to customer local on-prem. Though there's no small/medium business version of it yet.
That's terrifying, and I deeply sympathize, but it seems like a government problem more than an app ecosystem or market problem?

It's not just that Linux isn't going to break the app store duopoly in your case, nobody is going to, because your government is effectively reinforcing that behavior. Forcing people to install root certificates on their devices is a problem on a whole 'nother level over just commercial incentives.

I just don't see how any technology or market-based solution will solve that problem. What happens when the government starts deciding that its authentication software won't work on rooted devices? What happens when the bank decides they need contact/GPS/camera permissions on your phone for "security"? I mean, that's not an app ecosystem problem at that point, it's just full-fledged required malware from your bank.

In the US (for all of the many, many faults with our trash-dump of a banking/federal ecosystem) at most I've only ever been asked to do 2FA using completely open standards, and the worst problem I've run into is that my bank's website won't load over some VPNs. I can even disable analytics on my bank's website and it'll still work.

But getting support on a Linux phone OS for what sounds to me at first blush like malware and spyware isn't really the best solution to what you're describing. The problem isn't that the malware isn't available on Linux, it's that you're forced to install malware on any of your computers, including iOS/Android.
You could make the tickets refundable if you don't want to piss off people not being able to go last second. I'd also say making scalping into a felony (by requiring forged ID's) is a very good place compared to where we started.

Also you don't have to tie it to an id, just pick something that is personal and can't change hands easily. Be it phones, old enough accounts (steam for example), emails which have been subscribed long enough. Hell, plant an underskin chip if you're doing a distopian cyberpunk convention.
> Israel is particularly egregious

Of course you won't delight us with any facts that prove your anti-semitic statement, will you?

Does Israel put Palestinians into Gulags ("Re-Education Camps") like China does? Does it jail people for voicing their opinion like Cuba and Venezuela do, or kills them if they pray to the wrong god or love the wrong gender?

Surely you will back your statement up, with enough data, that explains how Israel is more evil than all the atrocities mentioned above combined (eg "2006-2015: 61 against Israel, 54 all others, none against China"). Surely.
In the linked study, 75% of the fatalities happen at night. 32% of pedestrians struck are drunk, and 13% of striking drivers are drunk. There is mention of drug treatment as a prevention method, but no specific statistics for non-alcohol intoxication.

It's also notable that fatality rates are only worse for some minorities-- those typically in the lower socioeconomic brackets. And the difference isn't nearly as dramatic as the difference in homicide victims in general.

Yes, we need smaller cars, but it's worth noting that the common case isn't someone being run down walking to the train on their morning commute, as the Doerner quote might insinuate without further research.
I think this is one of those conventions where your team agrees on one convention, and you just try to follow it consistently. If that's looking at the test in code to find descriptive comments, great. If that's long test names, cool. Just do the same thing consistently.
or even (2018)

more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320605
The topic has obviously been discussed before this week.

The notable part in this submission is that organizations increasingly use standard generic social justice boilerplate to justify their dehumanizing mob "justice".

They are not even trying to write something original.

People should reconsider donations to the FSFE.
FTA: “In 2019, 6,301 pedestrians were killed by vehicles on American streets — up 46% from 2010. Over the same timespan, the total for all traffic deaths rose by 5%.”

As always with traffic death data, it is eye-opening to compare with the EU (https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/sites/roadsafety/...).

There, pedestrian deaths about decreased by a third over about the same period, and stayed at about the same percentage of all traffic deaths (figure 2, page 4), so non-pedestrian traffic deaths also must have decreased significantly.

(And no, it isn’t because US traffic deaths already are very low. They’re high, compared to the EU)
Now you're just telling me a Shah Guido G. story.