skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit that I worried about this for a while. I’m not sure on your risk tolerance, but I found solace in that Rails was developed by 37signals for Basecamp back in 2004, and they’ve been maintaining it ever since.
> the other companies seem to have no problem following the rules and not killing people.

What rules did Tesla break?

Also, remember that time Waymo killed a pedestrian?
They use XPO Logistics.
There’s a lot to unpack here. But Picasso wasn’t a hack. Overrated, sure. But he approached his subject matter and technique with as much focus and detail as any artist that came before him. You aren’t required to appreciate his contribution to the artistic conversation; but calling him a hack is dismissive and purposely neglectful of his substantial impact.

Picasso did what he did, and created what he created because of photography. In a world where capturing likeness, and form was basically free - what do you do with painting? Certainly not attempt to capture likeness and form - perhaps you make an Ernest attempt to capture or project the emotional response of form and subject. Picasso’s facial structure was modeled after African war masks, which were at the time ignored by the art world. And his composition and color and repetition were inspired by the Japanese print makers. A lot of the art from that era was inspired by what was coming out of Japan at that time. The product of Picasso was a mashup of influences, like all impactful art.

The backlash against likeness and form was certain way before Picasso. But the fact that he rode that style to such fame is what made the art world dramatically over correct so drastically.
I am just about to embark on resolving differences in our code base due to two different clang format files being used by different teams that have now merged. Can't wait to have all those conversations and discussion over which options are correct.

One hour my ass.
> all of a sudden when you search Tesla Whistleblower....you are inundated with articles about Tesla's contribution in the field of human powered audible alert systems.

If that was a genuine effort to bury news articles it seems to have backfired. Search results are full of information on actual whistleblowers and news articles returned that were written about the whistle seem to have no issue bringing up the actual whistleblowering
Unless I’m working with existing databases, yes.
Who is we? The CDC is actively watching for pandemic signals all the time.

We know pandemics happen, we know their rough power law occurrences. We know the most dangerous vectors of transmission. We can prepare for them. We typically don’t.

Just look at all the aging housing infrastructure on the California coast. We know there will be major earthquakes and we know how often they happen, yet the general populace cares more about how pretty the historic buildings look, even though we know they will kill people.

These are not black swan events.
> “Between 1/24-1/31, a radio station in the Seattle area sent image files with no extension, which caused an issue on some 2014-2017 Mazda vehicles with older software,” the Mazda statement said.
It is if you're rounding to the nearest 5%.
that money was never real, they never had a chance of spending even 0.1% of it. lol does anyone really think they could have accessed and spent that much money, in any way?
Square's hardware business model, they'll just be a software company now
I had the tab open a few minutes ago, and mid playback it's been made private. Just caught them doing that live.
Need third party analysis of that, personally
I have a genuine question, are we handing SpaceX a monopoly by allowing them to launch these satellites, or will competing companies be able to launch similar services?

Will space be too cluttered for competition? (I'm guessing space is really big and that we can have _a lot_ of small satellites up there.)
That you’d think 20 dollars a month is an acceptable price for this tells me that you’re either in the valley, are Alex Ellis or both.

Either way, I’ve built my own solution in go and if that doesn’t work out I also have cloudflared now. inlets is cool, but it is not revolutionary tech that can not be replicated and 20 dollars a month is mighty much for convenience, which would be hampered again by me having to throw a license key at every instance and being unable to share my config easily and reproducibly. And that ultimately matters a lot to me.
That's a very charitable interpretation, and I like your optimism!
Can you clarify how those of us calling for the government to prevent Tesla from involuntarily enlisting drivers into their beta test are "blinded by the false ideals of rugged individualism"?

Just so we're talking about the same term:

> The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rugged-individualism

Typically, the rugged individualists are the ones who say that the government should stay out of all this and people can take care of themselves. Basically the opposite of what I'm saying.
> That said user: omedyentral seems to be farming anti tesla rage both here on HN and on their Twitter page. I’m not sure that’s in the spirit of what HN is trying to be.

It's actually your post that is against HN guidelines[1]:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Read the article here: https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/just...
That seems like a much to fun thought experiment to just do away with.

Why wouldn't it be realistic?
A great deal of postmodern civilization indeed seems suspiciously much like theatre :)
> Blacks value isn't autoformatter, it's preemptive discussion ender.

Exactly. I have learned that having it formatted just like I want it is FAR FAR FAR less important than having the entire ecosystem share a single format.
Nanotechnology saved a contaminated lake in Peru
Impossible standards are equivalent to bans, and zero deaths is an impossible standard.

All of the companies that are testing self-driving cars have had accidents with other cars and pedestrians. Some of them resulted in death. Others did not, but easily could have, and eventually their luck will run out and they will also cause deaths.

Who would invest millions of dollars into developing a technology when a single mistake could flush all that money down the drain?
I think a reasonable standard is: if someone dies, is seriously injured, or likely would have died or been seriously injured if the driver hadn't intervened in a situation that a normally competent driver wouldn't have had a problem then the self-driving system in question should be disabled globally until the vendor of the system can reasonably convince the NTSB or other relevant government agency that they've taken adequate precautions that it's very unlikely to happen again.

It's to be expected that people will occasionally die in car accidents. Some things are hard to avoid. If someone on a bicycle comes shooting out into a busy street when they don't have the right away and no one could see them coming, they're probably going to get run over. My general expectation for self-driving vehicles is: don't create unsafe situations that weren't there before, don't behave in unpredictable ways, and if you can't avoid running someone over at least do it in a way that the consequences fall on the person doing risky things. In the above example, swerving to miss the biker is fine if it can be done safely, but swerving to miss the biker and instead running over someone on the sidewalk instead is not. (Or, in other words: if you can't avoid an accident, at least be predictable and try to obey the general principles of right-of-way.)

Swerving at a bike for no reason as in the video above should result in suspension of self-driving features (assuming the video is real and wasn't staged in some way).
Just wait until you learn just how much random space stuff enters Earth’s atmosphere in any 24 hour period
Oh well, the British felt 18th/19th century was an age of decline?
It surely was, for India, where there was anarchy after the fall of the Mughal empire and millions of kingdoms were infighting for power.
This project needs to end. Millions have been spent, nothing has been built, and it's all somehow been funneled into pockets of people that are friends with the Pelosis.
When you consider the century-long global effort burning 2-3 billion gallons of oil every day to raise CO2 from 320ppm to 420ppm, you get a sense of the scale involved.
Queue the Joe Rogan episode where we find out what "really" happened.
If you read the article, it's not just that they operate at LEO, but the launch process begins at even lower altitudes so that they can quickly deorbit any problem satellites.
You mean into a PR success?
it’s a fraction …. as long as we are using whole numbers
And here I am trying to get in.
The constellation is self cleaning to some large degree because of their relatively low orbits. Satellites that die on final orbit have ~5 years before they've reentered on their own, and before they orbit raise right after launch, it can be as low as a couple weeks.

These orbits were an intentional choice by SpaceX. One of intentional effects benefits is to not contribute to space junk concerns.
Huh, I've never thought about insurance for stuff like this.

Do you think this was covered?
Show HN: All-in-one personal planner app for Android
Maybe a Russel Crowe gif saying "are you not infotained!?"
Yes, a common story from big businesses. Like the T-mobile+sprint merger (and various other mergers). More jobs! Better Service! Help compete with the other big telcos!

The reality was layoffs, higher rates, and more profit.
iFixit's Fight for the Right to Repair
That feels like it's an easy answer:

Human society, for a number of years now, has been governed by central authorities that define the rules in which society has to live. Bitcoin cannot and does not take part in dictating how society is to function, Bitcoin is put forward as an alternative currency that cannot be quantitavely eased / printed and gifted to society's largest entities as reward for criminal behaviours that endangered the very society that the central authorities are meant to be acting in protection of.

Central authority is a basic requirement of society. Bitcoin is an alternative currency. Recognition by the central authority of society is a legitimisation of Bitcoin in its position as an alternative currency.

I don't (sort of I do actually) understand Bitcoin being seen as a replacement for all centralisation / government. Bitcoin has never attempted to make legislation. Currency only (and that's shrunk to 'store of value').

DAO's on the other hand... maybe.
The Building That Was Built from Top to Bottom (2017)
that this is not explicitly illegal is the problem. everyone else has safety drivers and is subject to reporting requirements.

waymo never killed a pedestrian
He went to Apple and back to AMD
Alternative: yandex/odessey

https://github.com/yandex/odyssey
And wait until you can accept bitcoin payments without having to install a bitcoin wallet: https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/28/comment-tim-cook-said-apple-i....
It’s going to require hardware replacement to fix the unsanitized input vulnerability failure. Very unfortunate, quite the bug.
Growing up in the 90s you could tell when digitification came in - radios and tvs started to take forever to change stations. Radios used to be mechanical devices - punch a button and the new station would immediately start playing. Same for tvs.

I feel like the invisible degradation of responsiveness in TV and radio is an un-noticed contributor to their decline. Most of the time I don't bother even scannig the airwaves when I get to a new town cause it's too annoying.

More generally it seems like when industries are growing, there is competition in this kind of area, but later on this dies off. I wonder if there's a structural reason for this?
I thought by purchasing a car that I owned it but boy was I wrong. It will hopefully be the last time I spend more than 40k just to rent something from the manufacturer.
What's the most insidious form of this in software engineering? Some examples:
"It's probably the users fault"
"It's probably just a transient spike"
"It's probably fine to do it the hacky way this time"
There's a huge difference between the average person wanting their old social media posts from their edgelord days "forgotten" and corporations and government officials abusing copyright laws to bury evidence of their corruption, lies, and criminal history.
Competing companies are able to launch their own satellites. Amazon is launching Project Kuiper satellites as soon as Q4 2022.
Sure and covid only kills a miniscule proportion of the people who contract it. Over a million people die on the roads every year around the world. It's been a 100 year covid.

Handwringing about someone carefully testing a car and not hitting a cyclist in the process is really pretty rich. I'll happily take actual data and statistics but for every one of these I can also post a video of a driver doing something stupid that a computer would not.
> means it would have cost about $26B in China[1] at $20M/km, and it would have already been built.

CAHSR budget costs are quoted in year-of-expenditure (YoE) dollars, assuming 3% yearly inflation. The $105 billion figure is for phase 1, which is scheduled for completion in 2040. Some of the most costly portions, such as crossing the mountains and building through developed areas, are scheduled for after 2030. So a sizable portion of that $105 billion figure is simply an artifact of monetary inflation.

IOW, a large part of the cost increase is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we were to simply commit and build things out as quickly as possible--as China does--a large part of it could be avoided. OTOH, that comes with its own problems. And of course many people assume the whole thing is hopelessly beset with corruption, so the project is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't.

One glimmer of hope: according to the report it seems that their reforms (including changes in leadership) at streamlining right-of-way acquisition have seen some success:

> The results of these changes have been outstanding. Parcel acquisitions are being completed on a steadier pace each month. The division is now delivering parcels ahead of the revised schedule. As of this writing, 2,067 parcels have been delivered to the construction contractors. For the frst time in the program’s history, we have met the 90% threshold for number of parcels delivered versus total needed.

Also, environmental review for most of the phase 1 route, SF to LA, should be completed this year:

> Today, we have environmentally cleared approximately 300 miles, and by July 2022 the Authority is intending to have cleared some 430 miles of the 500-mile Phase 1 system. Achieving these milestones is an essential step in the Authority’s strategy to advance the entire statewide program and be competitive for new federal funding opportunities, further described below.
Capacity payments ARE a market mechanism.

It's like paying the ambulance squad for answering your call when you need medical help, and paying the ambulance squad to exist in the first place regardless of whether you call.

Both services are valuable. And both of them can be paid for in a market mechanism.
Nah. JS is popular for more reasons than its syntax. One being that with node and vue or react you can code the whole backend and frontend with one language that was designed specifically for the web. If anyone has wet dreams of writing webapps with go or rust then boy do i have bad news for you. If anything node will replace even more of php, python, ruby and other similarly limited languages.
Monopolies are legal, anti-competitive practices performed to sustain monopolies are not (give or take that they are unenforced.)
Not that it justified overhyping or undercaution by Tesla, but lets be real:

everyday driving comes down to that same acceptance of risk

Let's not be perfect be the enemy of the good: a self-driving highway system can probably be achieved with current technology that beats human drivers for long distances. I wish that was the priority rather than the robotaxi obsession.

Self-driving highway systems would produce immediate profit and economic savings that could fund the drive-grandma-to-Taco-Bell systems, as well as the convergent infrastructure, common signaling systems, embedded sensors, better signage and standards, improved and predictable construction signals and routing, etc.

Following the usual hype cycle, it will be highway logistics that smooths over the "despair" portion and does the practical incremental improvement.
this argument is pretty general; you're a priori attempting to prove that "acknowledged insignificant things are actually significant". This feels too strong!
I haven’t carried collision insurance for decades. There was one exception where I financed an electric car at 0% for a while. Obviously, the lender required comprehensive insurance, most of the cost of which I viewed as the finance charge and paid off the loan and dropped collision coverage once the balance got low enough to make the imputed interest rate unattractive.

You need liability insurance (until you’re ridiculously wealthy perhaps), but fire/structure coverage and collision coverage are much more optional if the home/car value is low enough relative to your net worth.
Reckless driving, DUI etc convictions often come with license suspensions, and ultimately license revocation if the bad behavior continues.
The design flaw is premature furloughing of generation sources that can survive extreme winter weather events, without sufficient replacements.

I'm not advocating to keep coal, I'm advocating for an intelligent phase-out of these sources, which just happened to be resilient against extreme winter events. The failure is lack of diversity and planning, all of the technology exists to solve this problem.
Yep, my apologies for the US centric mindset in the comment; I can't speak to elsewhere.
Cloudflare tunnels is free now though.
To be fair, they probably didn't tell people that there was a backup system in the first place. Removing something that people generally didn't know about isn't a sin. Especially since it was a duplicate device.
SpaceX is using their satellites to accomplish useful things for a lot of stakeholders. They also get special permission to allow their satellites to descend to the earth at EOL. These satellites stop orbiting quite quickly after they're no longer functional - they don't orbit indefinitely.

Your litter in comparison would be a totally different kind of problem, and evidently, it is a problem at human scale. That's why there are fines.
There's no wallet on macOS; Safari does enable you to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch or iPhone to pay for things on websites.
It is, was, they were warned and launched anyway. I assume they calculated they could get through it and didn't. Live and learn. My guess is this was in budget an 'acceptable losses' to the constellation.

Fun site to track this stuff: https://www.spaceweather.com/
There's already multiple competitors in late stages doing this style of satellite internet. SpaceX just got there first.
Idk. The Outlook web client takes like 20 seconds to load.

I'd use a desktop client, but MS' SMTP server doesn't work, so I can only receive emails on my desktop, not send them.
Ohio's Personal Privacy Act
Because of the asterisk.

Buy a new phone and get unlimited data*

* Speeds may be throttled after a certain about of data usage

Technically still unlimited.
iPhone XS or newer.
> so I don't know how it would do if you were doing some crazy 3 monitor gaming

Let's hear it for all the Mac gamers!

stock cricket chirping sound effect
My wife got a contract with our provider, we pay normal prices during the day but get 100% free power from 8 PM to I think 5 or 6 AM. Can't really complain.
Ah yeah, that's very true. Hugely anti-nuclear here, and very energetic about that.
Unfortunately, as seen during the pandemic, we as a society care more about the health of our older and sicker members than we do the health of our younger members.
Sometimes sacrifices need to be made so that we can all prosper. The American mythos is unfortunately allergic to this truism. The idea that society needs permission to better itself is misguided. Same reason America is lagging in vaccination rate even though we are the society with most access. I'd be extremely happy if people could come to the correct conclusion themselves. I don't want to allow their failure to harm the rest of us.
Most here have no idea what's involved in automotive control systems or these autonomous driving systems, let's be honest.
SpaceX granted themselves the monopoly on these large scale constellations by being the first (and so far only) organization to develop (mostly from scratch!) reusable orbital rocket stages. Anyone else (without Falcon 9) launching the same number of launches/satellites would spend several large multiples of the amount SpaceX did, which makes it economically infeasible.

There will be other reusable orbital launch systems (although it looks like #2 will also probably be SpaceX, heh) but until that time everyone else is priced out of doing what SpaceX is doing.

It's got some analogs with TSMC and the latest process size microprocessors. Nobody else is prevented from doing it as well... it's just that they figured it out first and nobody else has developed equivalent technology yet.
Zoom enables grid view in Chrome, just not in Firefox.

Everything else seems to work fine in both.
Would spacex be liable if one of their satellites hits your car or house?
7 cents for delivery, zero to five cents for power. 2.3 cents/kwh as of a few minutes ago.

I'm just surprised because maintaining a grid in an extremely dense urban area that hasn't gotten above freezing in several weeks and getting nuclear power which is very expensive should be a good deal more expensive than the wild west that is Texas energy markets and it doesn't seem to be.
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

You could argue that there should be some sane defaults though.

GCP, AWS, etc are usually good about waving bills if it's very clearly an accident and the first time it happened, especially if you catch it early. Not always of course, but it's a good idea to create a billing support ticket if this happens.

(Former GCP employee)
I think $1B wouldn't be enough to build a wide-ranging project.
I currently have no valid identification whatsoever (everything's expired). I could walk across Europe and nobody can stop me.
The better question is, why do we pay such extreme taxes in the first place? A lot of state/local budgets seems to be well kept, but the federal budget is essentially cash incineration.
The data are clear: the boys are not all right
These launches are getting SpaceX the money to advance to methane-powered rockets: they will literally make rocket fuel out of air and sunlight, making them absolutely carbon neutral.
This isn't quite a fair comparison, though, because it doesn't consider the energy requirements to refine lox.