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> If you get things right first time, you don't need to add as much complexity on the journey to ship something usable.

There's no such thing as "getting things right the first time," because what's right depends on external, mutable, factors. The best anyone can do -- and most successful languages achieve -- is being well adapted to the environment. But the environment changes. For example, Java's object model was well adapted to an environment where memory access and computation were of roughly similar speed, but hardware changed so that computation is now faster than memory access, so Java is now changing to adapt to the current environment. On the other hand, its bet that memory is cheaper than computation has so far proven relatively long-lasting. But there's no telling what needs new hardware architectures or new software requirements will bring tomorrow.

Both Java and C have adapted better, in my opinion, than C++, and it's not because of specific features, but because of their evolution ethos, which is different not only from C++'s but also from each other. My personal opinion is that C++ has tried for too long to be both high and low level, and that has shaped its particular evolution. I feel that Rust is repeating that same fundamental mistake, but, of course, others may disagree.
Because there are three parties, and only one of them committed a crime. The one who currently has the house and the one who lost the house have not -- their dispute is civil. The criminal was long gone by the time the police arrived.
> I drive a Tesla. If my car rear ends another car, that's my fault. Doesn't matter if I had Autopilot on or not.

You can have a similar argument for: if I'm drunk while driving that's my choice; if I don't cause any accidents, it should be none of anybody's business that I'm drunk.

You see, it doesn't work like that.

If Autopilot poses a significant risk to other road users, then an investigation is warranted.
"The driver said she was using Autopilot"

"she had actually had the same kind of collision on Autopilot previously!"

I've got a hypothesis...and it has nothing to do with autopilot being faulty.
I immediately thought of this when I saw the title. Unfortunate name clash here.
So who is supposed to make them? I don't disagree that big tech shouldn't make them, but this is different from big tobacco. Tobacco/alcohol is completely banned for kids under 18. Kids will be using the internet.
Alternatively, you may be working very close to the issues at hand and watching traditional media distort the facts and social media lie about them may have caused you to distrust both.

For example, it is commonly parroted (even here on HN) that Facebook sells your data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760228
This is great! I haven't ever received Signal spam but have been getting say 5 junk SMS and 15 junk calls each week. They must be doing something right.
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Correct me if this is what you meant by "talked with the NHTSA", but another place you can submit information is to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI): https://www.nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem#index , which is the group that forces automakers to do recalls.

In my opinion (PhD student in vehicle safety) it doesn't sound severe or novel enough for the NTSB to investigate. NTSB has done good reports on a couple of similar Tesla Autopilot crashes (https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=HWY18FH011 https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=HWY16FH018).

minor note: NHTSA is spoken as "nit-sah" so "NHTSA" is better than "the NHTSA". NTSB is spoken as "N-T-S-B" and is fine.
I've fought spam in other contexts and found that to be true. A change stopped spam until spammers learned what the change was, which made them adapt. The adaption might not be perfect, but it would happen, so prolonging the blocked period was essential. If one can do something that's effective and that the spammers don't understand for months, that's great. If they can spam for days and then blocked for a longer period and that repeats, they'll go away and attack an easier target instead (well, some of them will look back later).

Let me try an argument other than "it's been my experience", though.

Suppose that it's not true. In that case, the anti-spam filter provides a publicly visible definition of spam in its code, and it's one that isn't grounded in the recipients' opinions. If the filter is to be effective, spammers must not be able to adapt their behaviour in a way that users consider spam but isn't according to the definition. Many people have tried to provide such a definition since 1995 and AIUI all have failed. I think the persisten failure indicates that it's extremely unlikely that one can be found, and therefore it's extremely unlikely that a publicly visible spam filter can be as effective as one that can be updated in secret.
Detecting stationary objects is a known issue with every driver assist system. No automaker's system guarantees that it will stop for stationary objects. In fact they all explicitly state that they may not. It's a known and disclosed and accepted risk of these systems.

Ford: "may not
detect stationary or slow moving
vehicles" https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/owne...

Tesla: "may not recognize or detect oncoming vehicles, stationary objects, and special-use lanes such as those used exclusively for bikes, carpools, emergency vehicles, etc" https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-0535381...

GM: "may not detect and react to stopped or slow-moving vehicles ahead of you" https://my.chevrolet.com/content/dam/gmownercenter/gmna/dyna...

etc. You can find it in every brand's manual. NTSB and NHTSA knew that this risk existed when they approved these systems. There is nothing to investigate.
I hear what you are saying, but sadly that's like fighting against democracy. Lobbying is a natural party of a democratic system, just like political parties. You can try and outlaw it, but you'll only make the problem way worse.

And it's not inherently a problem. It's not even slanted against the interests of the population. The only reason we have a problem is because "the rich and powerful" understand that this is how democracy works and everyone else ... wishes it was different.

The solution to just about all our problems is simple: stop wanting democracy to be something it isn't and start "using" it correctly - namely, realize that to HAVE power you need to SPEND money. And no, taxes ain't it.

The great thing is that "the people's" money is way more effective (i.e. it's more expansive to get politicians to do immoral acts than it is for them to do moral acts).
Plus, we have more of it (10EUR/USD per month times the entire population is ... a lot of money).

We just have to start.
Probably. IIRC postgresql has better support for looking inside JSON documents than mysql does. Storing, searching, manipulating JSON is what mongodb is all about.
UK house owner - just signed up to the Land Registry alert system. Which has to be a record from not knowing something existed to signing up in four minutes.

1. The registry seriously refuses passwords that do not have alphanumeric characters only. Did not try Unicode.

2. Most of the UK is not in the land registry - it only is compulsory for land sold IIRR since the 1990s and generally has records going back to early 1900s. If someone owns land from before then, no-one publically knows who they are or who owns it. As most land in the UK is held by government or aristocracy and they have not needed to sell it for centuries we don't know who owns what.

3. This simply cannot be the first time - something this sophisticated, the original fraudster did not so this the first time now. How common is this? I mean see above - the land registry has a monitoring service for this ?

4. Thinking about it, I just added a monitoring account with just an email. If I create a new account and try to add $TargetAddress I find out if it is monitored - and I suspect that that is not going to count as a monitoring event !
> Do you have any sort of statistics to back this up? A survey of some kind?

The virgin birth of Jesus is an article of faith and dogma for Catholicism, itself a major branch of Christianity.
I’ll second the recommendation for Racing the Beam. Highly engaging, just technical enough, and a fascinating window into the gaming world a few (console) generations before my time
To sway an election, even a close one (e.g. PA or GA in 2020) you'd still need tens of thousands of votes.

The sheer scale of an operation to cast that many fraudulent ballots has such an infantessimally small chance of not being discovered (e.g. "Sir/Madam our records show you've already cast a ballot. You'll have to fill in this provisional one and come in with ID to verify")
The disgraced lawyer is Lin Wood. Lin Manuel Miranda is the guy who did Hamilton. The name of the other “Kraken” lawyer you’re thinking of is Sydney Powell.
Yes, I do this. I really wish they and everyone else would stop using phone number as an ID and use an alphanumeric ID.

Really, I don't want to give out a phone number to everyone.
Since you haven't seen it means it doesn't happen? Sad that 20+ years didn't teach you basics of logic.
Or D) Tesla stops instantly when it hits OP once by itself and again when the person behind it hits it.

(Spare me the low effort comment about how everyone should be prepared for the car in front of them to stop instantly because it hit something, statistically nobody drives like that)

Edit: I misinterpreted the OP about it being an four car pileup.
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I think the comments section here neatly summarizes how liability for any self-driving bugs will be foisted onto individual drivers.

This was once a big question mark for me - who would be liable in a self-driving crash, the driver or the manufacturer? Apparently individuals want to be liable. It's not clear whether this is the result of marketing or ideology.
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I didn't save links, a couple of recent reports:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/delta-variant-what...

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

We see a lot of data from Israel because they made a deal with Pfizer early on to trade early access to vaccine for allowing Pfizer access to anonymized health records about vaccination and infection. Thus they have some of the best data around on the effect of the Pfizer shot on a population scale.
Juglone is toxic to most plant species but AFAIK it is harmless to mammals.
I don't understand your point. Are you saying that things like Linux and NTP servers can be used by an evil organization, therefore people who work on them are partly to blame for the resulting evil? If so, I disagree. There is a pretty clear line between working to improve the Linux kernel and working to get more children and teens to use Facebook.
This is true, I'll edit my comment.

I still think a third-party attestation provides a lot more trust than the shady-stuff going on with Tether.
I think it's a bit more complex than that. I'm sure most voters have a real hope that their politician is actually speaking the truth. And sometimes the politician is even honest about wanting to make it happen. But then comes the intricacies of parliamentary constellations, horsetrading, lobbyism, and filibustering, and so forth.
Maybe it is being investigated and you don't know. For both drivers, your responsibility begins and ends with getting a police report done and informing the insurance companies, then they'll fight it out. If they think they can go after Tesla, instead of one of them paying, they will. You aren't going to hear about it regardless.
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You're assuming this will instantly be spun into a story based on this one anecdote. It might be used as one anecdote of many, it may be represented as one point of view among many, it may never end up becoming a story at all.

"You can see here how" a journalist is choosing to investigate a possibly promising lead while their profession continues to be misunderstood.
It changes nothing. My whole point was that people aren't deciding on who to vote for based on sound scientific principles. You aren't going to change their position with more facts or new facts.
My VW Passat was on ACC and LKAS just a week ago when it suddenly stopped detecting the car in front and was about to drive into it. This was also at a red light. As I was actually paying attention, I just hit the brakes manually. Technology isnt perfect. This happens to all cars.
It means essentially removing myself from the internet. No public social media and hiring a company to get myself (i.e., address and phone number) removed from public data brokers (you can do it yourself, but it means hundreds of unique forms to fill out).

You seem to be hung up on "obscenities" but yes you are correct, it's not just obscenities... there are a lot of varieties of harassment. Following someone around and shouting anything at them is likely harassment IRL, but it seems less clear online when you can't conclusively determine if anonymous accounts are the same person.
As I understand it, the main motivations were speed and memory footprint. Might not matter too much on a desktop, but people also use Debian for smaller things like Freedombox.
I just went through the process of buying something expensive in a "trustless" system in an IRL country. It was pretty painful and very expensive -- I paid $300 just to get a guaranteed check cut!

Of course this is a trivial problem to solve with smart contracts, if you can have things like real-life identity and real-life money mapped to them.

While I don't think any of the crypto stuff out there today solves any of these problems realistically, at least Ethereum sure looks like an experiment in that direction.

That a lot of people are getting rich speculating on crypto absolutely triggers my FOMO, and sometimes my disdain (cf. certain NFT sales) -- but I definitely wouldn't call it worthless.

Some day we may have free, secure, trustless escrow via smart contracts, and a bunch of other neat stuff. I think that's unlikely to be on any of the current networks, but I also think we'll get it decades earlier because of them.
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So what kinds of economic activities, besides ransom, drug sales and donations to wikileaks and others not liked by u.s. government does bitcoin facilitate? Remittances to countries under repressive economical regime or under embargo?

Not saying those are good or bad, just aiming to quantify the market size.
> In the case of Roblox, you can argue "but what about the platform?" but 5% is still a metric-crap-ton of revenue and is more than enough to keep their platform afloat (especially if they don't have to give 30% upstream to Apple/Google)

Afloat? Maybe. Seems doubtful. Anyway, the justification for app stores charging developers is always providing the Platform. Android is a free platform. You can buy an Android phone from a manufacturer of your choice without Google seeing a cent of that money. Their way of making money is to use rents on their application store.

What I'm getting at is that they produce a product. A valuable product, given that many people enjoy it. Under standard American assumptions about free markets, this means they're entitled to a reasonable profit, not just enough to "keep their platform afloat". Profit is not theft.

Think about a company that sells you a printer at-cost in the hope that it will pay for itself in profits when you buy ink. There's usually third-party ink that will work in the printer, but the business model of the company is that there will be enough people who buy their ink to make cheap printers profitable. There's a, I don't know, 150% markup on the ink.

In other words, they have an overall profitable business, where one part of it is a cost leader and another is where they extract rents. Nothing particularly surprising about this. The app store model is exactly the same: most parts of the platform are free (despite very real development costs), and store developers pay a fee of 20-30% which keeps things running. In fact, if the developers reduced the fee but then charged users to use the platform, the overall profits of developers would probably be reduced, as fewer users would use the platform.

I'm skeptical, in the end, that the profits earned by companies like Roblox are terribly out of keeping with those owned by retail stores or computer manufacturers. You cannot separate out the parts of the business that are pure profit centers from those that are cost leaders. The fact that the profit on the profit centers seems exorbitant has to be taken in context.
The cops in a lot of cities in the US seem to be completely incompetent at actually enforcing things that matter and go whole hog on enforcement that most of society disagrees with.
> The whole premise rests on the idea that FB products are inherently harmful to children

It's also that it's Facebook doing it. I'm not writing off social media or messaging for kids. But Facebook's culture is broken, they constantly lie about everything--I don't trust them with our next generation. (Similar situation tanking their crypto play. Had Libre not been a Facebook project, it would have likely worked.)
The positive externalities from sound money and the concomitant demonetization of other assets (like real estate, oil, etc.) are massive, especially in the long term.
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Just imagine that you're a person who constantly lies about anything just to feel better. You have a Tesla. You made a mistake and hit this car. You get out, what do you say.

That's what I thought.

Obviously this is just one possible scenario, one of the others is OP's interpretation that the lady was telling the truth.
Not looking forward to this... I use bots and I bet this will make them stop working at some inconvenient time.

I wish I could put up collateral, say stablecoin in a smart contract, where Signal can ban my account and keep the money if I abuse, but otherwise do not break my automation.
It's the main definition of worth that is used when discussing the value of commodities in economics on the internet.
Why do we need large particle accelerators?
It's capitalism that's about stealing.