skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someothing I don't understand about the press coverage about Tesla Autopilor/FSD is the ommission of what (to me) is the single most important metric of Autopilot's relative safety: the number of accidents per unit mile driven, with and without Autopilot. I'm not saying this is the only number that matters, but that it's the one that matters the most. right?

Tesla voluntarily releases quartely safety data[0], and yet I literally cannot find a news article that mentions it in the first page Google results for "tesla autopilot safety." [1][2][3][4].

What am I missing? Isn't this the most important metric to report to the public in any discussion of Autopilot's safety?

[0] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-02/safety-reg...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/19/22682272/ntsb-official-te...
[3] https://gizmodo.com/teslas-expanding-its-full-self-driving-b...
[4] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/life-d...
Are Iranian nuclear scientists civilian or military?
Seasoned cyclist here...False.
I'm somewhat unconvinced.

I think there's a decent amount of fantastical evangelicals attempting to create their own little rapture at this point.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/15/17117298/mike-pompe...

WAPO and others have better pay walled articles.
The company is more than “techology”. It also marketing, sales, regional, leadership, market size, etc. That can be (and it is) a big moat preventing a well founded startup to replicate.

In short one needs to have something is hard to replicate - but that does not need to be technology.
It sets a precedent, inching us closer toward self destruction.

Remember that people all have their own histories and perspectives. What to us seems like prevention of something bad may seem like continued oppression to others.

And if you explore a bit online (unless you're traveling in Iran), you'll find that not all Iranians are hell-bent on destroying other people. In fact, the few I've met have been really nice, fun, "normal" people.

Likewise, should all Americans be judged as climate denying, anti-vax, racist, religious people who believe that men are the rulers over women? That's certainly what it looks like from abroad... unless you know Americans personally (or are one).
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This is almost exactly the plot of Captain America: Winter Soldier, for what it’s worth, except they use massive floating weapons platforms instead of drones
Again, that's your personal opinion which clearly deviates from the public opinion. It's okay to not like it, but to call it bad because you dislike it is ridiculous.

We're talking about business models here, we're talking about a whole industry, and you should realize that your opinion is worse than useless, it's actively harming your ability to understand and predict

If PeerTube wants to be a 0.00001% write off for radical CopyLeftists and "Hackers" to put up some low effort, low value, "good" content then so be it but to even bring up Youtube in a conversation of yet-another-tiny-site is silly, because that concept is not competing with Youtube and could never compete with Youtube.
1800: 1 billion people

2021: 8 billion

2050: 10 billion

Resources are finite. The world is not only ours, what about the animals and plants? Are we giving them enough space to thrive? Killing them will kill us, and our children too.

What PR and lies have you fallen for, to say individual actions don't matter? Actions have consequences. Each action is a vote. One vote doesn't matter, a lot of votes do. What are you voting for?

Giving love and safety to children who need it now is a noble act. Totally different? Maybe. But love is love. All humans come from the same source. No need to discriminate, let's spread love to all.
I believe this adage is about investing generally, not specifically about emerging market investing.

It would certainly have served you well in March of last year...
They are not opening anything

"Google is already leasing the 1.3 million-square-foot waterfront building, a former freight terminal dubbed St. John’s Terminal, in the Hudson Square neighborhood. The company has an option to buy, which it said it plans to exercise in the first quarter of 2022."
This is the case in the US because rates are the same for the length of the loan. This is decidedly NOT the case in the UK, where the entire market is composed of teaser-rate loans (2, 5, 10 year), which revert eventually and then need refinanced at the prevailing rate.

That's going to be a nasty wake-up call for a lot of people.
I trust our government's tech and hacking capabilities as much as I trust politicians to ensure that ISPs are held accountable for subsidies and grants.
As I put some books into storage, the LibraryThing app on my phone could use the camera to scan the isbn bar codes for my books, and I could tag them with "box 6" and the like. Searching for books without isbns wasn't hard.
The goal is to be respected on a geopolitical basis. Much easier to bully a nation militarily if they can't respond with a nuke.
> I see modern IBM unable to give up their cult culture.

Indeed. Google of all companies should have embraced the future that was exposed by the pandemic, i.e. remote working.

This is even more the case given 100% of their products are based around the internet and so inherently facilitating remote work:

- Android
- Chrome
- Docs
- Forms
- Google Search
- Gmail
- Google Meet/Chat
- etc.

I mean they pretty much don't have to license any third-party software, all they need to do is eat their own dogfood.
(iPhone 6s). The latest release for the iPhone 6 is iOS 12 due to having lower RAM (1GB vs 2GB).

Also didn't see it mentioned in your comment, but both were released in the same year (2015). Additionally, although the iPhone 5s (2013) and 6 (2014) are stuck on iOS 12, they're still getting security updates! [0] That's 8 years of support so far.

I'm still using a 6s, but planning on upgrading in the next few months. It's nice to have the option to keep using the phone though without losing support.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212548
Honestly I'm just disappointed that I can't match against random locals.

I'm at the point where I'm willing to pay someone to write a preprocessor that'll let me put switch/case statements in my code and then run the preprocessor and have it convert them to if/elif/else statements.
The ones I've seen said it was because they are conservatives or republicans specifically, not because they were religious. It wouldn't surprise me if there's both though.

But yes there clearly is a religious dimension to this, which again there just isn't at all over here in Europe bar some fringe cults. But it's the political affiliation that seems to be the defining factor. I know there's been an anti-vax movement, but as far as I'm aware that wasn't a mainstream Christian position across the evangelical landscape in the US. Fringe yes, but a tiny fraction of the levels we're seeing for covid.
Germany braces for energy supplier casualties
Who's benefiting from less kids?
Even if most of your folks work from home you need a lot of square footage for gathering spaces, conference rooms, and phone booths when people do get together. (Which, they should when rates of infection get under control, because it’s key to remote productivity).

It’s also an asset on their books at this point and probably cheaper to own than to rent in the long run.
> The gun utilized satellites to calculate its shots.

highly doubtful. More likely it was something like a good quality camera fitted to a scope, outputting around 1.5 to 2 Mbps H264 or H265 4:2:0 color space video, with a data link over satellite to a remote controller. Some person staring at a screen with ability to pan and tilt the weapon.
What??? You could send them to a private secondary school for that.
Nice article by Tim Hopper that compares all the diffirent options for plotting in Python. Each figure is presented with code in 5 or 6 different libraries. Like rosetta stone for Python plotting.

Another similar site in this vein is https://www.python-graph-gallery.com/ which covers matplotlib and seaborn.
Out of everything Israel has done, assassinating the chief of the Iranian nuclear weapons program is pretty low on the ladder of complex ethics issues. I promise you no one in the Israeli security apparatus batted an eye, and it’s not because they are any less moral than you.
Assassinating scientists makes you happy?
The only reason I needed to replace my 2nd gen paperwhite is because it fell out of my dry-sack into a river on a canoeing camping trip this summer. That thing had been backpacking to two dozen countries with me over a decade.
Fossil reveals giant new penguin species that lived 27M years ago
"Looking forward to seeing how this technology makes it into domestic situations. It's just like space and other military technology. It'll benefit us all in the end."

//////supervomit
That’s exactly how I use my kindle. Keeping the wifi off saves battery life and the web browser is terrible and the eink screen isn’t color so it’s not like you want to do web things anyway.
Ask HN: Is it possible to raise without traction?
I'm a 36 year old founder who quit a $200k a year job to work on a startup. I figured I had a year of runway (I have a mortgage, health insurance for my family, and other fixed expenses so I can only cut so much fat).

Now that year is half up, I have a MVP that I'm polishing for beta launch in October but all the investors I talk to want to see traction before considering investing in a seed round.

I'm not sure I have enough cash to get to significant traction -- I'm a B2B SaaS so the sales cycle is long and will require me to spend money to make money -- so the question I have is... what is your experience? Is it possible to raise seed funds without traction or have most of your startups needed traction first? (not counting asking family for cash)

I keep hearing about people on HN raising absurd amounts of funds on nothing but an idea... but I have a working prototype and all the East coast investors that I have talked seem to care about is traction. Basically they only want to invest in companies that don't need the money and only want to use it to accelerate growth.

All the best, thanks for any advice.
AI could predict 10 years of scientific priorities–if we let it
I've found a use for the browser - it allows me to easily load DRM-stripped books from various places without having to bother plugging the device in. You can set the homepage to a server on the LAN with your books and download what you want easily.

That's... about all the browser really handles. But Pocket or Wallabag get you a far better article reading experience anyway. Any long form article on the web now gets shoved in Pocket and read on my Kobo.
> If you can't even choose the OS you want to work with

I mean not really. Linux is usually an excellent choice for development and if the rest of the company can use it there's probably no reason you can't other than maybe aesthetic ones. IMO they shouldn't take priority over creating a standard dev environment (you still need all OSes for testing, etc but that's a different point).
Every country's primary purposes are to guarantee continued sovereignty & obtain military superiority (or at least credible deterrence).

This is why major nuclear power invasions of non-nuclear powers are incredibly dangerous: they incentivize nuclear weapons development and disincentivize adhering to the NPT.

Where the NPT really failed was in handling actors with expansive, violent regional influence aspirations like Iran and Pakistan.

If you're inevitably going to come in conflict with the US and/or international community, your obvious move is to develop nuclear weapons. The NPT provides no carrot to balance out that reality.
Yugabyte Cloud, yet Another Distributed SQL at Global Scale
NFT startup Sorare raises new round: $600k (seed:2019) - $680m (Series A:2021)
Tip: If you’re trying it by hand place the first Queen in a middle column, and the next one underneath two places offset, etc - it’s much quicker than starting in a corner, and gives you a good feel for what makes finding a solution difficult.
Having worked in robotics, I can absolutely vouch for the usefulness of simulation. It's not a 100% solution by any stretch, but it will absolutely help you smoke out the stupid, low hanging bugs, freeing you to concentrate on the messy shit that happens in the real world. When I was in the field, simulated tests were a critical part of our CI infrastructure, and warnings would be sent out if something failed in simulation. I even jokingly proposed a coat of arms for our software team featuring an "AUV naiant" blazon and the motto "Fungitur Simulatoris" -- dog latin for "it works in the simulator" (literally "he/she/it performs for the liar").
While I haven't used it (and it's a Mac-only app with a companion iOS app for scanning), I've heard many people rave about Delicious Library from Delicious Monster: http://www.delicious-monster.com
Iran is in an open state of warfare with Israel.
Writing a new software design pattern!
The article states

> The gun itself was connected to an Israeli command center via a satellite communication relay. There an operative was able to control the gun and take aim at its target via a computer screen.

Seems I misread that.
It's your prerogative not to have children, but if you're doing it for the climate, just know that there's going to be plenty of others in developing countries that will more than offset your decision not to have kids.
Not hard to understand. Real estate in a tier 1 city is the ultimate NFT.
Are you suggesting that we should take moral cues from our enemies?

Or that normalizing peacetime assassinations won't have an obvious destabilizing effect?
Learn something new every day. Thanks!
If Iran has nuclear weapons, then its principal geopolitical rival, Saudi Arabia will want nuclear weapons. You have a proliferation risk that will greatly increase the risk of actual use of nuclear weapons.
I would love to see runtime comparisons to put this in perspective for folks. Exact results from exhaustive search are known for values of up to 30ish, I think. And algorithms for values lower than 16ish are quite fast. Balloons quickly, though.
> that your proposed AI trailer likely wouldn't be street legal

I see this statement all the time (that legal issues are holding AI back) but I'm pretty sure the legal issues could be fixed pretty quickly if there actually were self driving things.

In this case, if you look at the videos it doesn't look like this trailer is doing anything smart at all, it just accelerates/breaks when you pull/push on the draw bar.
Ah remind me days when I made an MSN messenger Quran bot in 2005 and then Twitter bot in 2009. Both used Quran data in XML format which I later converted into Sql.

Good attempt!
I wonder if the scientist was voluntarily working on Iran’s nuclear program or if he had no other choice.

It was said he liked to read poems and enjoy everyday life pleasures, maybe this was an escape he didn’t mind.

Either way this will not stop either country’s ambitions.
Revealing Ways AIs Fail
This sounds like a simple fix.

Charge large companies fees to use use their large delivery vechicles on any road.

Those fees, and taxes, could build more bike paths, and repair streets.

(I would like to see governments charging large companies to use our infrastructure. Only charge the large companies. They are the ones abusing the privilege usually.)
Is that more or less ethical than artillery, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, nuclear missiles, suicide bombers, ieds, weaponized drones, proxy wars, etc.?
Who need nukes when you can assasinate a single person in any country. From the same people who brought you Pegasus spyware (tm).
There is quite a bit of violence involved in preserving your free, liberal Western way of life.
We're pretty happy with Azure DevOps on our team.

But, these competing offerings between Azure and GitHub have been really confusing to follow. Especially since folks are pointing out that GitHub Actions is partly Azure DevOps under the hood. It just seems like a complicated branding play because some people will refuse to use an Azure service but will gladly use a GitHub service still owned by Microsoft?
I enjoyed this problem a lot when reading SICP book: https://billthelizard.blogspot.com/2011/06/sicp-242-243-n-qu...

Lisp'y example is as usual pretty elegant.
Being underwater is only a problem if you want/need to sell. Choosing foreclosure is a bad move, not having a choice is different.
Really fascinating article. I also went for a rabbit hole by clicking the tag “cannibals”; there are more articles available than I thought there would be.
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I know nothing about guns, but assuming someone is walking at a typical pace, what kind of latency would you need for a robot to actually (remotely control and) shoot someone via a robot?
This assumes you continue to own a home, and own a home in the same market.

You can downsize, rent, or relocate to realize profit.
Doesn't technically have to be docked to do this. It's how I use it on an airplane often. Screen on the tray table with it's little kickstand, arms to my sides maybe in my hoodie pockets. It took a little bit of getting used to strangely but once you do :thumbsup:
Privacy Myth 1 – We Are Not Collecting Personal Data
Cincinnati here. Might want to hit them up too. There are droves of "dentists" riding $10k road bikes in $2k worth of gear pretending to be on the Roubaix and acting the total asshole on a multi-use trail. As an avid cyclist I make it a point not to ride the same bikes or get all kitted out because I don't want to be associated with that crowd. I also observe the rules of the path...enough to make one stand out.
I think people just think of an e-reader the same way they do a book, and so use the same solutions they use for not-having-to-hold-up books: lecterns and stands, bed/bath tables, suspended clamps, etc.
I have 3,476 books cataloged at the moment on https://www.librarything.com/. I bought one of their barcode scanners (https://www.librarything.com/more/store/cuecat) to do my initial cataloging but you could also use the scan feature on their mobile app.

I prefer LibraryThing to Goodreads because LibraryThing focuses more on cataloging than social features. Their team also builds software for actual libraries. They source book data from almost 5,000 external sources so it's easy to map ISBN information with the correct edition and cover. You can also get your data out pretty easily, they offer exports in multiple formats.

EDIT: For most books, you can scan the barcode on the back to get the ISBN. Mass market paperbacks seem to usually have separate UPCs. The ISBN barcode is often located on the reverse side of the front cover, so you want to scan that one instead of the one on the back.
This seems pretty easy to mitigate if someone created a IGNORE_EXPIRATION environment var where any matching cert fingerprint would ignore the expiration date. I have a feeling the more paranoid people would hate it, but it’s better than what we have now where it’s all-or-none ignoring cert validity.
I really struggle to be impressed by this as it’s a gross violation of national sovereignty, similar to US aggression in the Middle East. Imagine the other way around - headline: Iranian military shoot Israeli nuclear scientists on way home from work. It would likely cause WW III!
This kind of intervention is wrong and should be condemned by the international community, not celebrated.
For me, I'd love to use my e-reader to handle sheet music while playing my piano or cello, but the screen size means that I have to turn pages far more often than with physical sheets, and ends up being impractical in real life. I love playing around with a lot of different sheets and trying things out before deciding if I want to really spend time on it, and I hate how much I have to print to do so, and using screens for the purpose ends up being also impractical (and I much prefer how sheet music looks on e-ink vs a backlit LCD). If I could tap a button on the floor with my feet to turn pages, it would make this quite reasonable.
I do most of my reading at night, so the backlight is a big feature add for me. If you don't need it then there isn't a lot of convincing anyone can do for you.
I agree, although being able to get through a degree without the ability to apply your knowledge is a problem with many schools, even top schools, not just WGU.
I have looked at it, carefully, and there really isn't any way for it to do harm. If you want to claim there is, I will want to hear the exact steps you are thinking of, and how they match the published details of the system.
I think the problem is that this device will come with a USB-C cable that won't be good for much beside charging a Kindle, but could be plugged into something that wants higher power.

USB-C's greatest asset, that it is becoming truly a universal cable, is also kind of a problem--but probably less of a problem than the one it solves.
I found the tagging capability useful in a complicated tunneled etc setup; the physical layers were set up and tested then the various virtual layers of tunnels and abominations used different PROTO tags, for the reasons mentioned here.

I am very grateful i don't have anything to do with that network anymore. Tho it was quite small it managed to embrace all the mistakes one would expect from a much more productive operation.
Do you have any examples of JWT refresh token auth for Apollo? I'm having an absolute nightmare figuring it out
Here is a cynical take...

Big Tech: "We will continue promoting remote work."
Real estate prices plunge. Big Tech buys real estate on the cheap.
Big Tech: "In-person work is important."
Real estate prices surge. Big Tech profits.
Way to miss the point. I've been without a car for about 18 months now. Yes, I miss having a car, but I don't miss payments, insurance, or maintenance. I've dealt with small grocery runs with my pedal bike, but it has limitations. Delivery fees have just become part of my budget, but those fees still do not add up to a car payment or insurance fees. As much as I miss my last car, I'm not ready to jump into that level of commitment again any time soon.
I'm following a pattern used in casual English, exemplified by the sentence: "Is your dog a he or a she?"
Interesting. Couldn't help but be reminded of station models in meteorology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model#/media/File%3A...
Walmart+ Hits 32M Members
This seems pretty terrorist and illegal to me. Is it not a violation of Iran's sovereignty?
I'm still looking forward to an e-reader that will allow me to comfortably read academic papers. The usual two-column format on pdf is very uncomfortable on small readers. The obvious choice is to use an A4-sized reader. While I haven't tried one myself, I think that to some extent it defeats the whole purpose.
That's exactly it. I've been running Linux as my desktop operating system for over a decade and know how to use grep - I just opted for shorthand (or may have underclocked some brain cells - I was in a hurry).
Also see: Privacy Myth 2 - You Have Zero Privacy Anyway—Get Over It

https://blog.xot.nl/2021/09/20/privacy-myth-2-you-have-zero-...
Look at $GOOG's one-year performance versus its peers and I think you'll have the answer why shareholder aren't complaining.
I'd probably feel differently if I had to ride through that on my morning commute, but presumably replacing diesel delivery trucks with (even obnoxious) electric bikes is on balance a good thing?
As for trucks and buses parking in the bike lanes, in most states unfortunately traffic laws provide loopholes for that, sadly.