skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“it’s really hard to see people, even adults, right in front of you”

Then they should say that instead of sensationalizing it.

"1) demonstrably true"

Do you have some evidence of this? 1) If you have awareness, you should see objects before they move into any blind spot. 2) Driver height in relation to the hood height plays an important role in visibility, which means that you can see things shorter than the hood height depending on the distance from the vehicle. 3) Many new larger trucks come with 360 degree cameras now, so the blind spots are not an issue.
I wonder how the 20 year old GT cars would do on modern tire construction and compounds?
Was the user a spam bot? Maybe the bot saw a city mentioned in the group and generated a spam comment using that city.

It's possible some people (or bots) from Africa viewed your page and no one else did in the recent past, and thus Facebook thought there was some connection between you and Africa.
I'm beginning to see them creeping into Australia. Absolute insanity to drive a massive RAM or Ford pickup in a crowded city.
somewhat related: https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

was a project to boot the Linux kernel directly from source code using a C compiler as part of the boot process.
So what's your business model, do you connect the users to the pharmacies, just sell the software to the pharmacy, both, or something else?

Overall congrats. Applied to YC this batch myself, so always good to hear some success stories.
to me 6 times during working hours is frequent by any measure, but that's hardly the important thing here. there has to be a line somewhere. is 8 frequent? 10? there is some threshold X, what we care about most is the response to crossing it

and the response seems eminently reasonable. getting a note in 2 months is just not a draconian requirement no matter how it is spun. i have to give benefit of the doubt and assume accommodations could have been made if one had been produced. I'm sorry but this is the reality if you work a menial job where you are easily replaced. I feel like people are just being blinded by seeing "Amazon" in the headline; the alternative is an unbelievable level of naivete
Generally, trucks do get taxed more through higher registration fees, and indirectly through fuel taxes.
Then you missed quite a few high profile posts e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049959 at 410 points from over 2 weeks ago (and many threads since).
You're forgetting this is a warehouse employee where productivity is tracked and ranked against other employees. Amazon cannot write up one employee and not another without something like a dr. note to justify the different treatment.
This is both the best organic example of FUD I've seen since Slashdot articles on Microsoft during the Windows/Linux battles 20 years ago, and an excellent example of the black hole nihilism of 2010s HN on data - free, fantastic tools used by billions are reduced to a "carrot" for "data harvesting"
It sounds like they reclassified it after the police said "Gee, are you sure you don't have a gunshot? in a slightly different location?"

I wonder how much of "AI" introduced in court (or for a warrant) involves some element of individual human attention though... They just call it "AI" without qualification until they get caught (if even then).

Would it be better though if it had been purely the output of a machine learning algorithm? (Which after all is not infallible). In that case, the guy probably would have been convicted on that alone...
SawStop tried this with table saws. Put such a bad taste in my mouth that I will never buy one.
There's also (for Aus users), Emergency+

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.threesixty...
If you've been suffering acute IBS for months and can't get a regular doctor's appointment in that time, why would that not be considered a case for urgent care?

This whole store lacks enough detail to know exactly what's going on, however, so we're all going to project our biases on it. If you're anti-Amazon you're going to project your assumptions of unfair business practices. If you're skeptical of that position you're going to project your skepticism into the unknowns of the story. Really there aren't enough facts here to know if this is Amazon firing an underperforming employee who is lying about a health condition, or failing to accommodate an employee with a legitimate health problem.
Did you get a lawyer? That’s an easy settlement.
I feel like the problem involves a liability shift.

If you stand or park on a railway track and get creamed, the pedestrian is going to be the target of blame.

We've come to the conclusion that the track belongs to the trains; at best the engineer can perform a limited, good-faith effort to stop and everyone knows that's not going to happen when you've got a kilometre-long, 10,000-tonne wad of physics rushing down slick metal rails at 60kph.

But if you walk into the middle of I-5 at rush hour, we still throw the legal and financial liability at drivers. Everyone is supposed to expect a rando suddenly stepping into the road and brake/steer around them. That's hard for humans and potentially harder for machines.

I could imagine a network of "autonomous only" roads which were much regulatorily much more like the rail infrastructure-- designed for minimum surprise (limited on/off ramps, limited turning points, predictable advance signing and marking, perhaps a block-control system to mitigate traffic flow) and limited recourse for pedestrians or human operators who enter the territory.
Walk-in clinics are affordable and frequently faster than urgent care.
> Google literally has remote control over all pixel devices and can push arbitrary code via the play services at any time without user approval.

Not all Pixel devices; mine doesn't even have Play services installed:

https://calyxos.org

https://grapheneos.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148771
Don't be a sheep and take the highly safe and effective vaccine, take livestock drugs instead.
I’ve seen accusations in the US that people were being counted as Covid deaths that died “woth” Covid, and would have even without it - I have no idea if these accusations are true, just that probably-nonsense leads me to the question:

Isn’t it tough to compared countries with how strictly or loosely they count a “Covid death”?
I’d love a utility ebike but afaik they just don’t have enough weight and hence - the grip at high speeds to be safe.

I’d guess e-scooter/moped is next best thing tho parking is an issue in some places.
What do they ask you to show them at airports?
Where do you live? Most states I know of have laws that specifically prohibit parking within 15 feet of intersections or hydrants regardless of if the curb is marked. It's not only for visibility but also for larger emergency vehicles to navigate.
As someone with a pretty good job in software, I don't have a primary physician, because what's "in network" changes every time I switch companies.
I'm finally kicking EN to the curb (my subscription renewed right before they released EN10, and I gave them a year to make it stop sucking, which they failed to do) and Joplin seems to be the one I'm hating the least, despite it being a piece of webshit in an Electron container. The fact that it actually has a plugin for dealing with conflicting changes via an actual diff interface (something EN never did in the entire decade I subscribed) kinda compensates for that.

Still gotta do a decent test drive of its sharing features, though, and see if my husband hates it less than swearing at EN10. Looks like I can only share if I'm using the Joplin Cloud, too, guess I should pay for a month soon...
This proposed approach of taxes based on volume+mass also addresses the problem of getting funding for road repairs.

For a specific example of how much better that approach would be compared to what we have now, let me pick WA state (because that's where I live, so I am familiar with how it works here).

In WA, road repairs are funded through gasoline tax. There is one big problem with that: EVs. EVs don't use gas, so they effectively don't pay the gas tax used for funding road repairs. As time goes, more people switch to EVs, and funding for road repairs dries down. To solve that problem, WA instituted a flat EV fee that you pay along with your early registration fee. It would have been ok, but that EV fee is flat, so it doesn't matter whether you drive the newest most powerful Tesla Model S or a budget entry-level Nissan Leaf, you pay the same EV fee. That flat fee is around $150 or so (iirc from the last year). This pushes the cost of annual registration fees for Nissan Leaf up by over 50%. Which is ridiculous, given it is a small and fairly light car, and it doesn't seem fair to charge it the same amount of fees for road repair purposes as you would charge a much larger car (because heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear for roads).

However, dropping the EV fee and switching registration fees to be based off mass+volume would solve this problem perfectly and would be much more fair, since mass is pretty much the primary variable directly affecting the amount of wear and tear caused to the road (in addition to how much the vehicle has been driven in a given year, but I don't think that charging annual registration fees based on your mileage is that much of a great idea for multiple reasons).
You might be surprised to know that many other major tech companies have already been using the same CSAM technology for the last two years and how many of these situations have you heard of? I can't think of any.
Usually in British English (Yorkshire, might vary by region), I just hear "It is/was/will be a lark", so I'm not sure if either is particularly common. However, I've definitely come across people using "as a lark", whereas I can't recall hearing "on a lark". I've seen it used in text, but I'm not sure how many were from British English speakers.
You live in a country that has your name and your birthdate on file for ID, taxes, you presumably have health insurance that already knows you have the vaccine - the EU system as it is right now is designed to prevent those entities from collecting more information than that.

How is this a lot of reduced privacy?
I'm not saying they should optimize for these simulations, just saying they should test for them.

Also simulations are definitely a part of military training, and if they perform badly in the simulation they'll have to fix that before going on a mission I'm sure. I don't know much about Navy Seals specifically, but I've got friends who built full body VR suits for special forces training.
Is it good genes or a healthy population because of good nutrition and exercise?
Are you sure that isn't saw manufacturer propaganda?

I thought the issue with SawStop wasn't that the licensing was bad but that nobody was willing to take on the liability.

ie. If someone cut off their hand with a table saw, it was settled law that it was their own fault. If someone cut off their hand and the SawStop didn't fire, the manufacturer now had a gigantic liability.
> This is a failure to demonstrate how promoting language standards may result in increased discrimination.

It does that right now, no "may" about it.

> Again, whether a language standard is promoted or not, people will discriminate against others who differ from them.

"Promoted" is a too nice a word when the reality is that the standard is used limit the opportunities of people who don't follow the standard.

> You are suggesting we pretend that a standard form of English does not exist

It doesn't exist. There is no single standard English, there isn't even a standard set of spellings for English.

> Judging people as stupid comes from differences in people, not language standards.

I've literally had people tell that they assume someone is stupider if they use the "me" instead of "I" in an "and" clause.

> Whoever is the appropriate authority of the language. It could be a national government or an academic organization. Language standardization isn’t a new concept, nearly all European languages have gone through a standardization phase.

There is no such authority for English, so there is no standard?

Also, "standardisation" didn't work for German or Spanish (the other two European languages I speak) as local dialects diverge significantly from the "official standard". It is far from "solved".

> This is the equivalent of saying we can’t standardize Python because there is no obvious way to decide who is allowed to standardize it.

That isn't what I said at all.

> In the absence of the existence of a “correct English” the judgements would transition from “you are not speaking correct English” (which is shared by all) to “you are not speaking my tribe’s English” (which is unique to a single tribe and would be a lot more tribally divisive).

Those judgements already happen. Teaching people about each other's dialects would make them less foriegn and lead to less judgement and better understanding.

When you take that position that there is "one correct English", that makes it harder to encourage people to learn each other's dialects and it encourages discrimination against people whose dialects differ more from the one correct English.

Finally, I'll repeat myself: I am not wholey opposed to language standards on principle. A good language standard would be determined inclusive organization that is representative of all its speakers, would be a living standard that changes as the underlying language and it's dialects change (i.e
descriptive), and would understood as common reference point for communication rather than as the one correct way of using that language ( i.e. not proscriptive).

English does not have such a such a standard and other language standards I am aware of are not super effective and tend to be rather eurocentric and not inclusive of their broader populations.
I think it's probably relevant that Historians don't actually claim to be "science" at all... I'm not being sarcastic, I think that's probably helpful for remembering your fallibility.
Connecting the Unconnected
As bad as it is losing your job, is she infact have a bowel problem. Then she can look forward to a nice settlement .
My favorite notetaking program is Keynote NF
https://github.com/dpradov/keynote-nf

On the mac though I never found anything as good.
True, but if the file isn't that big, then the difference isn't noticable.

Being able to do something like

/some string/-2 d

Which deletes a line 2 lines above where some string matched is something that's trivial to do in ed, but takes a bit of work in sed.
I use ArchWSL https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL
Literally this. Just more vindictive management at Amazon.
In theory you should be using the bathroom every 2 hours if you are drinking the right amount of water. That is 4 times in 8 hours, so 6 is not a lot
The linked report [0] states:

"As opposed to Europe and Japan, fatalities in the United States have remained steady over the last 14 years"

Considering the makeup of the American vehicle fleet as opposed to the Japanese and European fleet, I'd firmly place the blame on physically larger vehicles. I think this is backed up by the stats included in the same article (on page 26):

* SUVs and trucks make up ~30% of vehicles on the road (at the time of the report), but account for 40% of pedestrian fatalities

* Trucks and SUVs were twice as likely to kill a child (aged 5-19 in the study), when compared to sedans

* Pedestrians are 2-3 times as likely to suffer a fatality when hit by a truck or SUV, when compared to a sedan

Some will point to stats one and three as conflicting. I would disagree - out of 100% of pedestrian fatalities, 40% are from trucks and SUVs. Meanwhile, out of 100% of pedestrian incidents (including both fatalities and injuries), trucks and SUVs are 2-3 times as likely to end with a dead pedestrian.

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-12-16/pdf/2015-3...
> It's about valuing people's time and paying them for their time.

Those are two separate things. I think once can do the first without doing the second.

> no idea what that even means

I used to work for financial traders. Some people tend to treat everything as a commodity. That's not the kind of culture I want to work in.

> I'm happy to report we've never let any "goofs" in through the process! But it might actually make us a little too selective.

That's a real risk. For me a lot of the best hiring value comes from talking with people who don't fit the profile of a perfect employee. Some of the best people I've worked with are terrible interviewers, for example.
It's pretty close, though.

The closest proxy to this that I could find ("inside height" of the truck bed plus "open tailgate to ground") is 57.4-57.7" for a 2015 4x4, while the average adult male in the US is 5'9".

https://www.fordfseries.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-...

I don't know about you, but if you looked at the top 1.3" of my head, you'd just see hair.

edit: as pointed out, I am bad at math apparently.
CRT as it's applied is very much a performative extension of how people are reading Frankfurt thinkers. Your reading is out of sync with the orthodoxy not mine.
I think the 2 weeks sick time and unlimited unpaid sick time off were still in effect, not to mention a full day off probably isn't required.

Not to say these policies are grand or the working conditions are anywhere near reasonable just that the claim from the lawsuit it was a disability violation seems like it will be difficult to argue vs just being a shitty place to work.
Arrested for bigamy, broken headlight Does the NYPD know this data is public?
Sure, converting (or interpreting) structured data is easier then unstructured. I doubt anyone is arguing that. I interpret op's statement however in that unstructured data is easier to couple unrelated tools. Tools perhaps which haven't written yet, by teams not knowing of each other and hence are unable to agree on a structure.
The sawstop story is interesting.

They basically tried to license it to the other saw companies.

The other companies said hell no. We have the market.

So sawstop started building their own (great) saws. They really are pretty to very high quality. The saw stop feature is also very effective.

It's so effective that if you are running a woodworking shop in a school, or ever want to let your kids use your saw, or have staff using your saw, you really owe it to them to ALWAYS buy a sawstop.

I've worked with a few owners who took the approach you did. Inevitably someone loses a finger - and after the dust settles and folks ask why they didn't put this VERY simple and not that expense solution in place - they usually regret it. Either they feel guilty for chisling on some $ and having someone lose function in their hand or if they are here in CA they pay out BIG TIME for their stupidity.
As a recommendation to individuals, the suggestion to seek early treatment -- indeed, to apply certain treatments immediately to oneself -- is, I believe, sound, and I second it.

But the situation as regards public health policy and messaging is more complicated. Denial is among the most human of emotional patterns; many people do not want to face the possibility that they've contracted a dread disease, and will procrastinate seeking treatment until they are quite ill. Altering that behavior on a large scale strikes me as a very heavy lift; but that is what we would have to do to pursue a public health strategy that leans heavily on early treatment. If you think it's doable anyway, why has no other country done it?

That said, the risk of vaccine escape seems to be real. Perhaps that's why the CDC is telling us to expect boosters.
That drops NaNs, for one.
And the high voltage chargers and plugs will kill a lot of people.
I wonder if everyone who supported the policy ripped out their Kentucky bluegrass, fescue, and perennial ryegrass lawns because they’re not native. (I’m guessing they did not.)

If they had ripped out their lawns, would that have been an HOA violation?
> When some "authority" (some random internet commenter, or the CDC, or Facebook, or whoever) politicizes science....

What does that mean though?

For example, I would hope most people on HN accept that our current best research indicates that climate change is a real thing and a problem.

But given that (apolitical) starting point, you then need to do something with that information, and that is inherently political. Even doing nothing with it is a political position (the position that government should not interfere).

So how do you avoid politicising science?
Obsidian isn’t open source.
What are some knock-on effects of having a predominance of sigint and not much humint?
But then we would be discussing a different topic - forbidding or further restricting aftermarket modifications instead of the current discussion about all trucks and larger vehicles. It seems the stock designs are reasonable and pass various safety considerations (stability, braking, etc) that the extremely modified versions would not.
A series of meetings followed, in which Gass "negotiated with major players such as Ryobi, Delta, Black & Decker, Emerson, and Craftsman" in an attempt to license his invention; he followed those negotiations with a February 2001 presentation to the Defense Research Industry, a trade group for attorneys representing the power-tool industry.[7] That presentation immediately preceded one from Dan Lanier, Black & Decker's national coordinating counsel; Lanier's presentation gave Gass the impression he was unlikely to succeed in convincing major power tool manufacturers to license SawStop technology.[7]

The license fee was going to be around 3% of wholesale (so about $3 on a $100 wholesale saw that goes for $200 retail). I think he came very close to licensing to ryobi?

Anyways, if you think $3 for potentially incredibly QOL saving tech is too much for an inventor that actually invented something (and tested on his own finger) then I don't know what to tell you.

That said, once someone's parents (if you run a woodshop in a school) or employee sues you - you may start valuing this invention a bit more.
As someone who lives and has to deal with the homeless situation in my neighborhood frequently - there has to be a better option than allowing rampant homeless camps infest every single park of ours.

The piles of used needles, trash, feces, rats and being verbally/physically harassed by them while paying a very high cost of living and taxes is a horrible experience.

As someone born and raised in Seattle - I’m leaving here.
Fairly certain YouTube requires you to disclose paid-for adverts now.
You should compare Sweden to its closest neighbors, not to all of Europe or all of the World).

Countries geographically close to each other are more similar than countries far apart. Therefore you can
more readily attribute the difference in death-rates to differences in policy.

And use Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation for the 10x difference in death-rates is most probably the correct one: lack of lockdown. It just makes (common) sense.

What is your explanation for the 10x difference in death-rates between Sweden and its closest neighbors? Do you have a simpler explanation than the lack of lockdown?
SawStop is or was trying to get the government to ban the sale of saws without flesh detection technology. Guess who holds the patents for said technology?

Bosch came out with a superior design that doesn't use a brake at all, but were barred from selling it in the US because it infringed SawStop's patents.
Li-ion battery is the very big and expensive key component for current BEV. But there's no chance Japan to win cheap Li-ion race for China/EU/US because it needs much energies and materials. Energies need to be clean for the future exporting. Japan is now in bad situation for clean cheap energies, and no materials. So they also bet other techs, but I wish Toyota bets more for Li-ion BEV now.