skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is the retort every time someone posts these numbers, which is why I said they are not apples to apples comparisons. But in the context of the OP comment that Tesla ADAS software makes driving 1000x more dangerous it is clear evidence to the contrary.

Mostly the Tesla numbers are comparing accident rates of just Teslas. You can ignore average accident rate across all vehicles if you like.

If would be truly great if the NHTSA could publish accident rates broken down is various ways like by road type and weather conditions. I’ve never been able to find this data.
Especially working from home. It just looks like you were away from the computer and not paying attention.

I get uninterrupted flow states, but if you’re in a customer facing role (and nearly everyone is or has some customer they provide a service to), you need to be able to respond and gauge the priority, manage expectations, and point people in the right direction. Often times in large companies people are trying to find the right person and you may know who it is. Other times it may be a question of how to solve the problem themselves.

If someone approaches you with an emergency multiple times, it may be a problem with that person, or it may signify a larger process problem, which can be fixed to make the organization more efficient.

Doing nothing creates churn and pisses people off.
It’s nice if you have drug problems because it takes away urge to do basically every other drug, however it’s very addictive, very voluminous (you gotta carry a lot of
Messy powder around) and you’ll be addicted for years

Also check the lab tests for the powders, it’s a lot of weird things in the soil most grows in.
Oh my GOD, the horror :) I'll leave it alone now, the dev server loaded for me a bit. Some observations from one who tried to do weird things with it…

This generator expects realistic proportions, in a big way. If you try to create giant anime eyes you're liable to find they have become mouths, even though you colorcoded them to be eyes. Auxiliary eyes seem more do-able. Mouths that are too small and eye-shaped become eyes: ambiguous shapes become who knows what. Fun ensues :)

The generator's doing interesting things with the overall contour of the face. It'll shade pretty realistically for whatever you make; the thing is, you have to be a good artist to understand what the REAL shape of, say, a nose is. If you think 'triangle' or any sort of abstraction you get monster creations: if you go for a roughed-in representation of ALL the real features of a nose covering the real areas you get something pretty realistic. That shape will look very strange to a non-artist because we don't think of a nose as having all those features.

It seems like the colors aren't nearly as important as the shapes and sizes and positionings are. That might be a useful observation. Right now, it's monster fuel but there's also an interesting 'can you REALLY draw a nose, or do you only think you know what a nose is shaped like?' factor. Again, I can't tell if the colors even mean anything but you've got to get REAL close to the actual dimensions of facial features (and scale!) to get remotely photoreal results.

Of course the monstrosities are perhaps even more fun… because the generator will try its best to contextualise them against the background of what a real face would be shaped like to account for those departures. I would enjoy a slower and more painstaking version of this along the same lines.

Thanks for the nightmares… and insights! I'll take my very creditable photoreal nose and be off now :)
The Milky Way is only about 100K to 200K light years in diameter; the 2 million diameter includes hypothetical dark matter.[1] If it takes a thousand years on average to spread civilization out by another light year, that's as little as 100M years to spread from one side of the normal-matter galaxy to the other. That's less than 1% of the age of the Milky Way.

Assuming exponential growth, an alien civilization could easily have populated the galaxy. Or heck, octopuses are pretty smart and have been around for 150 million years, if they were land animals and figured out fire they'd probably rule the galaxy already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
It depends on who is asking for help. But for many, it doesn't help them to answer too quickly:

- sometimes it's like giving the spout to a child who doesn't know how to use a spoon yet.

- sometimes it's like answering someone who could have found the answer by searching 20 seconds on Google.

Answering too quickly can make your interlocutors dependent on you.

Similarly, before asking someone for help, it is usually a good idea to spend 30 minutes looking for the solution yourself. The time lost is more than made up for later.
That’s why I said engineerable. If it takes the mass-energy of Jupiter it’s likely something that could never be done since no material could contain or control such energy in an organized way.

This paper does not offer an engineerable solution but it does argue that negative mass, which may not exist, may not be required. That brings us closer. Are there solutions that require less energy? Are they physical or just math artifacts? Get the energy down to LHC levels and it becomes testable if even at submicroscopic scale. Show it at any scale and it’s a physics revolution and front page news and loads of money starts being spent.

Going to the moon was once dismissed by many scientists as requiring silly amounts of energy until we figured out a bunch of things like modern rocket engines and staged rockets.
This! It's totally true that being anxious to please can be wasteful and long term harmful, but there is a long way between that and "do nothing". Here are some scaled responses to low-value requests:

- Nudge for a better request. Create and refer to a standard for making requests that helps people get past their psychology and into substance before seeking help.

- Ask for impact assessment. It is fair for people to seek help before attempting to resolve a problem if the scale is large enough, but it's important you get info that helps you prioritize. Ask for it.

- Set expectations. Being honest about where helping fits into your priority queue lets the other person plan accordingly, and gives you a way to be responsive without constantly switching gears.

The main reason not to do any of the above is to obfuscate your own process, which is long term harmful to your team relations. On the other hand, when dealing with competitors, unwanted services, etc, "do nothing" is an underused strategy...
That comment seems tongue-in-cheek to me.

But to attempt a serious answer to your question; a large quantity of CH4 is produced in nature which eventually - after about 8 years - turns to CO2 and water in the atmosphere. But carbon in the form of methane is about 30 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

If this hastens the natural process and turns the CH4 into CO2 immediately, then the earth will be subject to less greenhouse effect then just allowing the methane to naturally oxidize.
Ask HN: How do you spend your time when waiting for build?
Inamy cases I need to wait from 30seconds to 5 minutes for some process to finish what do you do in those short intervals that spans throughout the day?
Why Peloton pays artists more per play than Spotify and Apple Music
No, but the difficulties of conventional interstellar travel provide some cushion in any model. If you can build a USS Enterprise that cushion goes away.
Others have summed it up nicely, but for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton
The way we're going to change science
What kind of alternatives there are for these? At least Matlab and Wolfram Mathematica come into my mind, but are there anything else?
Dangerous Animals Caught Being Friendly in Hindi
Reddit has gradually pessimized everything about its design and function. I am reinforced in my decision to walk away.
Amazon SQS is 15 Years Old
In long distance hiking there is often a brief intersection between unsupported and supported hikers. Once I even ran into a FKT attempt hiker 3 days in a row.. that was an ego boost.

Never in my dreams would I attempt to out-hike a supported hiker on purpose, let alone adding 25% offtrail miles.

This guy is proper bonkers. Kudos and props deserved.
Very close to another concept called, "masterly inactivity," that appears in a number of disciplines.

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Masterly+in...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/may/10/busy-doing-...

and:

https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-masterly-ina... (podcast from FT columnust)
Thanks if you have some ideas don't hesitate to contribute :)
i wondered about that too. Seems unlikely given its an experiemnt with no connection to video content. However, the legal system has amazed me before...
> And yet the same newspapers will protest vigorously is Google removes news completely. Google can opt out of this so called benefit without losing much. But newspapers desperately need this traffic.

Google can't actually. Google has been ordered to display links and snippets from French newspapers and is explicitly not allowed to remove French newspapers from their results.
Just the translations of such an app would drive me batty.
Warning for all mobile users or those of you without unlimited data: This website will download almost 75MB of data when you first open it.
TeXmacs is better than Word for documents containing math.
There’s YouTube dl iPhone shortcuts.
Are those practical concerns universal and well aligned with the language's design goals?
Probably zero. It's just a SPA that grabs images from https://www.themoviedb.org. It doesn't actually do anything.
It will take a bit.

I think that there are good points in switching document preparation system. Differently from LaTeX, TeXmacs can be programmed in a sensible way (it uses Scheme), and differently from Word you have access to the source. It is superior enough to both systems that the future standard will work according to the ideas implemented in it, I think.
Shameless self plug for those into solo bike adventures, my 13000+ km ride between Lisbon and Istanbul

https://www.tomcooks.com/?p=lisbon-to-istanbul-bike
This is great! Thank you.

There is also https://forwardemail.net/ which is a different service.
Peloton is the bulk of packed cyclists that is grouped together in all long races, due to the lesser average air friction riders have to fight within it.
In the tour de france, the peloton group have a pretty homogenous total race time, outliers being either people frequently in leader group, or people that have mechanical problems or bad performance.
Being in leaders groups frequently generally means you have put more efforts in the races, the smallers the groups, the harders. Not keeping up with the peloton is generally catastrophic since you add extra effort in finishing the race atop of your bad performance.
Do you also think that its unfair when sick people get sick days while you're not sick and get nothing?

Or when people who lose someone get a few bereavement days and you get nothing?
It's being naive and selfish. Whether it's the old guard failing to relinquish the amyloid hypothesis or some radical anti-vaxxer.
Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects
France fines Google $593M for news copyright violations
I want a tool that creates GUI from data. If I put the tool at end of pipeline, it should act as consumer. If I put it at the beginning it should act as producer.
A possibly more accurate translation, depending on how "Erfurcht" is read, might be "don't deify the machine", as in "don't hesitate because you fear you can not understand it" (I'm German myself). This interpretation would somewhat make sense in the context.
Conservancy enforce licenses in a principled way. They are currently working on an enforcement action in the IoT space:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
Enforcing Encryption at Scale
From what I know, in my country it is not at all uncommon in research grants to have a portion of the funds allocated to publishing the results. It is usually also in the interest of the funding agencies, because it is a form of PR for the agency.
I have that exact frustration. I now consciously just close reddit.
French newspapers clearly do want it as Google is being forced to display links to French newspapers by the French government.
If the platform is too unopinionated you will generally end up with:

1) A project with many competing ideas Or 2) A team with some people feeling like they are not heard
Public tech blogs and stuff like that was usually reserved for more senior members of the team. But reviewing code seems pretty standard in the UK for any decent software company from my experience.

It's never safe to have a single point of failure for code review. If all code goes through one guy then they can get lazy and not thoroughly check the code (I've done it myself when I've had a backlog). Sometimes a developer will just submit buggy code because they're lazy! Two lazy developers causes an issue in production. Code reviews need to be spread around the team fairly evenly.

Some developers may have more experience in certain areas, like a core library or service. In those cases it does make sense to have a final pass by a more specific developer. But initial code review passes can be done by anyone.

Pay and responsibilities in tech in the UK really depends on what part of the tech industry you're in. Start ups don't pay that well. Small businesses don't really pay well. Most medium to large businesses can pay fairly well depending on industry.
They are state-owned (SNCF is owned at 100% by the state, La Poste ~75% by the state and ~25% by the Caisse des dépots (also the state)). Of course they can have monopolies.
Python's Sage, Jupyter, Octave
> Since the redesign Reddit has been putting a huge amount of effort into keeping people on their platform.

On something, anyway. Whenever Reddit tricks me into opting into the redesign I'm disoriented by just how much of reddit I cannot access. Following comment chains is a chore, getting all comments to a post impossible, instead every page is a duplicate of the front page with random barely related posts getting shoved in my face I already didn't care about the last three times reddit wanted me to.

Is the only metric developers are judged by the number of (intentional or even just accidental) top-post clicks per user?
Ask HN: Sites akin to HN/i.reddit.com design wise?
I really like this type of retro and minimal but still compact design in websites.

Would love to see more.
The damage was caused by debris yanking the cooling lines attached to the port, the cooling lines run out toward the wheel well.

It does look pretty concealed, I'm gonna have a look at one the next chance that I get.
We have added clear to the [...] menu. You can try it out on https://unstable.massless.io/tool/face-maker-ai/.

I am still trying to get the production servers back, however, our unstable ones do seem to be holding for now.
Sigh. This is yet another definition of agile as "not waterfall".

> In the not-so-distant past, a Waterfall development approach was ubiquitous

This is not true. Unix was not developed with Waterfall. Neither were Microsoft's Altair BASIC, VisiCalc, gcc, Doom, vi, and so many other projects in the last 50 years.

> start with the minimum possible process

That's begging the question. "Minimum possible" is different for different people, even for the same project.

Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_systems_analysis_an... for an example of "a waterfall method for the analysis and design of information systems."

One of the areas of consideration during the feasibility study is "Ethical – is the impact of the new system socially acceptable?" We can therefore assume that someone following the SSADM methodology at least formally considered ethics, which we can't with the Agile methodology.

Suppose you think that ethical considerations are part of the minimum possible process, and I don't.

Am I more Agile because my process is more minimal then yours? (Assuming we're both working in the same project space, where similar ethical considerations apply.)

My reading of the many agile advocacy essays is that we are equally agile because neither of us use Waterfall.

This informs my opinion that "Agile" is a pretty low bar.

Are there any processes which are neither Agile nor waterfall?

For example, is CPython development "Agile"? It's not waterfall - does that make it necessarily Agile?
> When I see doctors who have 5-7 more years of studies in the field than me lining up for the vaccine that is a useful signal.

Let me share some similar signals that I see.

Let us talk about the VAERS database. I wonder why is it not made in such a way that it can collect high quality data? Like for example, make strict mandates to the healthcare people to document each and every AEFI that they notice.

But right now, the covid vaccines are not even in the list of vaccines whos events are reportable under law [1].

And [2] where they choose not to enforce data collections in name of promoting vaccinations.

So when the authorities opt not to collect data, it is a big red signal for me.

>Well in that case COVID-19 should be eradicated in Cuba, Iran and Russia now as none of those suffers the same stranglehold from Big Pharma.

Well I guess anywhere in the world, the authorities will be taking a big risk by going against W.H.O. Not sure, just something that could be the case..Can you show some citation to show Ivermectin was being used in these places and found to be of no use?

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_...

[2] https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#worker
If you hate the EU, sure. But I live here and I would’ve liked it to become more business friendly, competitive and innovative instead.
Was just about to post this. I've been using it from the beginning for all of my "pre-launch" domains and it has been flawless.
> Similarly compiler writers could do optimizations without breaking user programs.

This isn't possible, since "breaking user programs" in this context means "violating the intuition of the programmer", who is an unknown person who has never written their intuition down to be observed by the compiler authors.

If you are actually talking about breaking user programs, both C and C++ already have ABI stability as a design goal, which hugely limits changes to the languages but enables people to keep linking against binaries that were compiled ages ago.
Mint condition Super Mario 64 game sells for record $1.5m
In many cases, they actually need a rubber duck and don't know it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Long distance touring and racing are two different beasts. He rode 12 hours a day. The peloton rides ~4 hours daily. Watts numbers are also very different, as racing forces riders to spike with extreme numbers to accommodate different race situations. Like doing your absolute max effort for 20 minutes to get in/control the breakaway, and then still have to ride +100km at a high pace.
Projects like this[0] might be for you

[0] https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android
That's just rubber hose with a warning and paperwork.
With Google, that result is fourth. Not bad. But because they are so focused on things people can buy, the first visible page of results is dedicated to the brand and local stores, and then the brand's Twitter. I should've kept scrolling...
I'm working on similar streaming application as a side project, was expecting to see how static media serving strategy with concurrency being handled but this is just UI..
Dr Cornel West's Harvard resignation letter
> does pretty poorly at importing LaTeX

As far as I know, an importer that interprets arbitrary LaTeX cannot exist (i.e. you have to run LaTeX on the file) because the grammar of LaTeX documents is Turing-complete. There is a StackExchange Q&A where this is explained, but I do not understand the arguments ;-)
Our Roadmap for QUIC and HTTP/3 Support in Nginx
Google doesn't pay much taxes in France, the fine is probably lower than what they should have paid is they weren't cheating the system already. This is fair game.
Questions that aren’t being answered by the NTIA pushing this.

Why would a vendor do this and become liable for all inclusive software?

The build chain isn’t required to be part of the BOM so any trojaned tool in the build environment may pass along the Trojan modifying the outcome drastically, the BOM is useless there.

People were selling snake oil saying this would solve solar winds. No.
If a search term fits the media world, search results look like spam and you won't find anything interesting, since you already know how most papers frame a topic and other sources have no chance against Googles direct business associates. It really made search results that much worse.
Sure- how about instead of delete s/username/redact. Soft delete and replace X person's username with redacted<id>. I assume the display costs are then similar.
> OLPC also was built around it's founder's pet theories about constructionist learning. If you don't know what that means, well, then you're probably not a Hacker News user; because constructonism is how most techies learn a new system. We play around with it.

I have roughly an associates degree in education. (I don't actually have it, but I have more than enough credits.) This is a massive misrepresentation of the importance of constructionism. It's not a tech-bubble fringe theory. It's the only respected idea in pedagogics since at least 30 years. Every mainstream idea in the academic sphere about education is constructionist. Poststructuralism has had no lasting impact. C/ism is the only surviving school of thought in this field.
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: From a to Z
If your relationship with the requestor is a mentor/mentee or you are their supervisor, then sure, go ahead and let them stew a bit to see if they can figure it out.

If you are in IT support, it isn't your job to treat every colleague like a child who needs to learn. It's your job to serve others and remove any IT-related barriers to their productivity.

When I was doing IT support, half the requests were things people could figure out themselves if I just waited. But I was there to make their job easier and make them feel supported. Making them wait doesn't make them feel supported or instill confidence. Knowing they could call or text and have an immediate response is a huge boost to their productivity and feeling of confidence vs. wondering if or when I might reply.
I think 99% of the "hard stuff" at Netflix is serving the video.

Making a robust, consistent, fast user experience that works well across all devices, resolutions, and network conditions is quite hard.

If it was easy then fewer websites would suck.
Go is open to forks and PRs though. It’s more “we’ve got a vision, but we’ll hear you out”. Elm is full cathedral, Elm comes down from the gods with no input or transparency into the decision process.

The Elm developers have a history of ostracizing people who even mention the possibility of forks from the community; tester89 posted a link with a lot of good context.

They take a very heavy handed and adversarial stance to development. I had just started getting into Elm when the news of .19 basically breaking everything and the core team just brushing off peoples cries and it soured me on the entire language.

When pre-v1 Go broke things, `go fix` was there to at least try and help.
As others have mentioned it's the main group of riders in a bike race. However, as is the case in this context, it can also be used to refer to the race in general, given that in the TdF all the riders will generally finish each stage within an hour or so of each other (or else be disqualified) and start the next one all together.