skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A stop sign at the end of a neighborhood road at the intersection of a main thorough street makes sense.

But four-way stop signs absolutely should not be a thing. Anywhere a 4-way stop exists should certainly be a roundabout.

The only problem is that roundabouts in the USA are exceedingly rare in most of the country. There would need to be a massive education campaign for them to work for most people. There are an alarming number of Americans that think that the people already on the roundabout have to yield for the people coming on.
Driving drunk is also how a fair number of people drive, especially in remote areas when home is far from the bar.

I'm not sure that modeling human behavior is the right way to design a self driving car.
Builder Brain
For any arXiv submission that was submitted via LaTeX, you can download the source.
I'm in for some Rust and/or Elixir.

I'm in for literally impossible things.
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I don’t see anything wrong with copying human driving behavior except without any risk of drunk driving, driving and texting, falling asleep at the wheel, having a heart attack or stroke at the wheel etc. The average truck driver appears to be morbidly obese and gets little to no physical exercise, yet they drive enormous trucks that can do insane amounts of damage if they suffer a heart attack or stroke, personally I can’t wait for self driving vehicles to come online.

EDIT: Not really sure why I am getting downvoted for this, you can search google and get maybe hundreds if not thousands of results about truck/bus drivers and heart attacks/strokes causing deadly crashes, but they get maybe 1% of the media attention of an FSD video rolling through a stop sign
https://fox4kc.com/news/family-says-driver-of-tractor-traile...
Given the title and vibe of the article, could its closing sentence be worse?

"Founding members of the Rust Foundation (kicked off in 2021) include Microsoft, Google and AWS."

How hard can it be to craft a clear, clean closing sentence?
Sounds like this was written by someone who has very atypical experience with recruiters. Perhaps they haven't had their resumes copied into the database that gets bought and sold by every recruiting firm in existence.

I could make a full time job out of replying to recruiters, because I get probably 100 "opportunities" a day. Most of them have never actually read my resume, or they are working off of a 10 year old copy that was bought from a data broker. And probably 10k other people get that same exact email, so even if I did respond, the odds are bad.

If a founder of a company reaches out with a thoughtful message, there's a 100% chance I'll respond, even to decline. If an in-house recruiter for a copy reaches out, and shows that they understand why I'd be a good fit, there's a 100% chance I'll look, and a 50% chance I'll respond.

I did get my current role by doing roughly what the article states. A recruiter for a startup reached out to me, explaining what the role was and why I might be a good fit. I interviewed with an intent to only leave for a 50%+ salary bump, and they offered 80%+ and equity, so I left. That being said, I ignored 99.9% of the other recruiters who reached out.
I feel like management has to have the emotional intelligence to separate who wants to talk about their favorite TV series for 30 minutes and who would prefer to just have one less meeting on their calendar.

Having variability here is good leadership to me.
I have a 3yo and 2yo. I love the idea of learning through play. I made a simple game for my kids to learn keyboard control, collaboration and counting! The best part is that the characters in the game are their cuddly stuffies. And the setting is based on a story I told my daughter of her penguin named Didi's quest to find coconuts. https://didi-adventure.surge.sh/ Happy to share ideas and collab!
I love fetch, except for the way that it combines headers. If more than one of the same header is set (such as multiple set-cookie headers), it combines them all into a single comma-separated string. I know this is allowed in the HTTP spec, and it's probably even a sensible default. But the fetch spec doesn't allow any access to the raw headers, so there's no straightforward way to get the original uncombined headers back. Set-Cookie headers, in particular, often contain commas in their expiration dates, so just splitting around `, ` will lead to problems.

I took a look through the source of this new fetch API, and it seems to have inherited that wart:
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/blob/2dd3437e20c5a3cc466226...

I've argued with the authors of the fetch spec about this before, and ultimately settled on using https://www.npmjs.com/package/set-cookie-parser#user-content... to work around this flaw. (For clarity, I published the package, but chrusart wrote that method - https://github.com/nfriedly/set-cookie-parser/pull/19)
> In a democracy of three, two people can vote to kill the third.

It depends on the specific rules of their democracy.

Majority democracy would allow the majority to kill the minority, as in your example. I heard this goes back to Roman legions, who knew that the 51% could kill the 49% if it came to battle.

Democracy by consent would not allow for that, because that third person would (presumably) not consent to being killed. This requires that people respect each other enough not to impose on minorities.
That incident is a tragedy - but seems like it is completely unrelated to this matter. It was a speeding driver in a van, who sped through a stop sign & crossing walk and killed a child.
I've tried a fair number of those calls. You might be surprised by how many recruiters don't really have salary range or meaningful equity details (preferences, shares outstanding, etc.) but really want me to be excited for the great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly growing business.

To my eyes, thirty minutes is a pretty expensive way to find out if a position is in line with my comp and the company one I want to work for. It could just as easily be handled in thirty seconds.

Last month I had a quick 20-minute call with a recruiter who couldn't tell me anything about the company or the position that I hadn't found in thirty seconds of searching. This is not an unusual experience, unfortunately. The only explanation for that call I can find is that the recruiter sincerely expected to impress me with a phone sales approach.
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The first time I set eyes on their modular port tech, I knew this company was going places. I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon but I think my next laptop will be a framework if I continue to hear good things. Any statements on quality since people have had them for a bit now?
Looking at the GIF demo, am I correct to understand that you can view Katherine's screen by clicking a button, even if she's not voluntarily sharing? That seems to be a violation of privacy…
A lot of traffic laws are guidelines until you do something worse, or fit a cop's profile of "suspicious." In the same vein as the old "broken taillight" ruse (the trope is that you get pulled over for no reason and the cop breaks your taillight).

Roll through a stop sign during rush hour? in most places you're fine.

Roll through a stop sign late at night when bars close? Maybe you'll get pulled over for it and a sobriety check.

The laws are rooted in safe ideals, but are applied on a whim based on police bias.

Personally I think self-driving cars should err on the side safe ideals (even if they're slightly less practical), and the laws should be applied to human drivers in a more uniform manner.

I've had some bad run-ins with police myself (pulled over and searched for having a mirror ornament, pulled over for doing 5 over the limit, etc)... and follow every asinine road rule because of it.
>You’re the one who said they were mostly illegal immigrants.

Please point out where I said this.
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At Fastmail, we’re bringing the human touch back to email. We have three email services, Fastmail email, Topicbox email lists, and Pobox emailing forwarding.

On the backend we use Debian, Bash, Perl, Apache, Consul, Cyrus, MySQL, Nginx, Postfix, Prometheus, and of course many other things. We host everything ourselves in physical datacenters.

Much of our software is open source, including our Javascript framework - see https://github.com/fastmail/ . We're heavily involved in the construction and maintenance of open standards, and of course you'll be working a lot with the JMAP protocol in most of these roles!

Philadelphia:

* Backend Developer

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* Engineering Manager

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"Hold my mead..."
Peter Thiel Funded a ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsApp
distrust of Oracle is Mongo's main source of income. and it's a ~$25B company now.
Top-100 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
Microsoft's infamous embrace and extend strategy.

Word Perfect works with Word, but Word doesn't work with Word Perfect.
The Wired reporting is based on Bez's article on Singletrack (as stated): https://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-th...

Tom Scott made a good complementary video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU

It's already fixed just last month: https://www.hants.gov.uk/News/25012022Ipleycrossroadsopening and https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/new-forest-acciden...
i just looked TAoCP up on amz, the box set is $600. that's... pricey. sheesh
We purchased a shortcode with Twilio for 3k a quarter, then with their bulk pricing discounts, we are able to send text messages with a 70% discount off the ticket price.

Source: We send many millions of messages a month via Twilio.
How many database companies are out there that made it big? How many are based on FOSS? It seems like the lesson of “you can’t make money in a FOSS database (or file system)” keeps being learned and relearned the hard way.
Edited: We've posted in the February Who's Hiring thread too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30165535
I am looking for someone to collaborate on with https://teslatracker.com/
I need to scrape inventory and charge users and if a dev can handle the engineering i would offer rev share. I would do all sales / marketing / sign up paid users. I would like it if someone was in the USA so we can hop on a call to discuss feature. East coast would be even better since i am in NYC. Thank you. please reach out if you are an engineer and interested contact (at) teslatracker.com
4-way stops are so fuel inefficient. Would traffic circles be more efficient with automated vehicles?
People put in effort making PDFs and ensuring that nobody can read them without either a 14" portrait screen or a ton of scrolling—and you had to come along and ruin that carefully laid out inconvenience? What's wrong with you.

The incredibly complex layout of ‘a wall of text and occasional pictures’ is there for a reason. That's what the authors wanted, and only PDF is up to the task of representing such delicate formatting.
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SmartSurvey | UK Remote | Full-time

Online data collection and surveys but growing quickly and potential to move into similar markets.

.Net stack (mainly) with a mix of MVC/Dotnet Core on IIS and also some newer apps in Linux containers on K8S. Some front-end code, mainly Vue JS which looks like it will form a larger part of our products moving forwards.

We are open to doing what we need to do to succeed so happy for people to bring their own expertise and ideas for discussion.

Various roles in development, operations, design and sales.

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How is Oracle’s OpenJDK not FLOSS?
Yeah, but a printed book well outlives an author's good intentions, too. People underestimate the lifespan of books.
Seems like plain old competition to me.
I love this response. Thanks Leo!
Ask HN: How to Integrate with SAP?
We have a SaaS that relatively regularly receives questions if we can connect with SAP.

If we have a REST API - can we use that somehow? Is it much work required? I know it’s a how long is a rope kind of question but would like to know in the ballpark how much effort we would need to put into it.
It’s not just for an interview. Remote work environments allow scammers like this to skate by for years while it’s a lot harder to bullshit in person.
It's always safest to not drive at all, or never leave the house. On the other hand, exceeding the speed limit when driving through the desert doesn't endanger pedestrians to any significant degree (how many zeroes is sufficient?)
As far as I can see, the only thing outsourced recruiters provide is blame-shifting. They're not better at judging candidates. They're not better at finding candidates. They're almost certainly worse at understanding what the company needs than the company, and worse at understanding what the candidate has to offer than the candidate.

But, if the company hires a few people they're unhappy with through a recruiter (which is bound to happen from random chance no matter how they hire), they have someone to blame. They can switch to another recruiter, and assure their further-ups that the problem has been addressed.

There are many corporate roles that are mostly about providing blame-shifting opportunities, but outsourced recruiting is an unusually pure one. Along with "networking"-logrolling, it's one of the things which I really can't stand about working in software development, and on darker days they makes me wonder if I shouldn't go be a hermit in a cabin in the woods or something instead.
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Kosmi is building the next generation of virtual hangouts: Video, Music and Games.

Tech Stack:
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Eigen Therapeutics is a biotech startup dedicated to developing better combination therapeutics for cancer. We believe that the future of drug discovery lies at the intersection of biology and engineering, and we choose to live right at that intersection. We’re building biological, software, and hardware tools to search the vast combinatorial landscape to discover synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies.

We’ve just closed our first round of fundraising, we’re well funded for a seed stage company, and we’re looking for an ambitious scientist to be one of the earliest members of our team. If you’re a scientist interested in being on the ground floor of a startup, playing a huge role in building up a biotech company, and making a large impact in cancer, please reach out to us. We’re both technical co-founders with backgrounds in oncology, robotics, synthetic biology, and software engineering, and have previously built platforms in biotech taking them from testing early hypotheses at the seed stage all the way to developing new therapies in clinical trials.

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Yes, you'll still encounter throttling even with 10DLC trust, it will just be less. If I remember correctly 10DLC is supposed to have a send rate of 15 text message segments per a second, although you can get that bumped up after vetting. But for example if you try to send 250K SMS at 10:05 am EST, those messages will be queued up and will be received by clients at varying times. This is something you'll want to monitor. If I remember correctly Twilio (and presumably other vendors) will show the actual sent time, so you'll be able to compare when you triggered a send with the actual send date. Unfortunately I don't think you'll see when clients actually receive the SMS unless you've got a personal phone number on your send list that you use to monitor. There are also daily send limits, which again can be increased after vetting. From a software engineering perspective SMS sending is really a series of queues. Twilio has its own queue per a number and a queue per a carrier. Each carrier maintains their own sending queues. As such, you'll want to monitor SMS sending the same way you'd monitor a queue ie by measuring throughput, and number of items in the queue.

Oh and I forgot to mention that if your SMS includes emojis, they get converted to MMS, which typically are more expensive. The companies I worked at, did tests and found that emojis didn't really impact response rates, although its worth testing your specific use-case.

With the double opt in, you probably don't need a blacklist, although you may want one for customers that reply with expletives, etc (assuming you're supporting 2-way).
Self-driving cars need to bend the rules enough to be attractive to a critical mass of purchasers. Then regulations will require strict adherence to laws. Then owners of these cars will be numerous enough to push for regulatory reform.

If all self-driving or driving assisted cars were limited to exactly the speed limit and following the letter of laws that no human follows, they will never achieve mass adoption.

FWIW, cruise control has always let you set any reasonable speed. Doesn't quite seem right to hold a car to a different standard just because it's advanced enough to sometimes know the actual speed limit.
Not justifying rolling stops, but I can understand why people do it. I've lived in infuriating neighborhoods with a 4 way stop sign at every... single... intersection... You could drive a mile and hit fifteen of them. Cities get a complaint about an intersection and the cheapest way to "calm traffic" is to plop down a 4 way stop sign. You've basically created stop-and-go traffic without the traffic.

Most stop signs I encounter in my commute and trips into town could be safely converted into roundabouts while still keeping neighborhood driving speeds low, but since this is the USA, nobody understands how to use roundabouts, so we sit there like idiots stopping every 300 feet of travel.
Curious to learn more about Mroonga. FT has been a sticking point for several sites we've built, and the search daemons (typesense, meilisearch) tend to not as accurate as we'd like.
Since you're inspired by DF, are you going to do a similar macro/micro split simulation that DF does? I thought this was one of the most interesting aspects of the game and implementation: how do you give the illusion to the player that other civilizations are evolving in a way that's not unlike the evolution of the player's fort without actually doing the CPU-crushing fine-grained simulation outside of the player's map?
To claim that the fact that (most?) humans' lack of hardware for processing numbers with exceptionally large or small magnitudes is equivalent to the numbers not meaning anything is... odd. Isn't the whole point of learning, curiosity, and even articles like this to assist us in developing our own internal software to increase understanding beyond what our naive hardware can do?
I personally bristle when someone says "privilege", but I don't think a recruiter should.
I pretty much always respond to recruiters that seem to have understood what I do, even if I'm not looking. They are gold.

I usually ignore the others.

The ones that spam me with positions that are clearly absolutely nothing to do with my career, I sometimes respond to asking why they think I'm suitable. And that's just for the childish pleasure of wasting a bit of their time.