skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had been beyond the "acceptance" idea, before the cars actually were rolled out, because I believed they would they would be better than humans. I was pretty excited about Lidar. I liked the idea that environmental mix up or collision would be autoupdated to other cars so that they would perform better in the condition, crowd fixing edge cases extremely quickly. But pretty much none of that has happened and the current implementation is a total wtf.

Many cars with self-driving capability do not use Lidar, I can't tell which ones do, the very prominent Teslas do not, and they've have hit people in obviously avoidable circumstances that have nothing to do with "being too predictable in a human world", just total fuckups, and I've seen videos of what the Tesla cars see compared to what they do, and I'm not satisfied with them.

So for most they may have to build trust, for me they have to rebuild trust, because all the companies have pretty much gone the nightmare route making us all cannon fodder.
Wanna hear something really annoying? My nephew calls me and says "hello" when I pick up the phone. Even worse, he says it like it's a question. "Hello?"

We usually end up saying it at the same time. Then he waits for me to say it again, like he didn't hear me the first time.

I find it kinda funny. It's like a power move, or a troll move, or he's just a knucklehead.
These are the people who write one line emails with no punctuation.

We get it, you're a super mega busy person and I am just one of the many people you will interact with today, and therefore I shouldn't expect common courtesy. No worries. I'll make sure to communicate with you as little as possible from now on.
Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine
Paying proper attention was always core to effective human communication. Will we ever adapt to being async all the time?
The phrasing of the disgusting line is unclear, I apologize. I'm not calling people claiming that disgusting, I'm commenting on people who are calling the concept of a Jewish state disgusting, as in, I'm commenting on people who are saying "the concept of a Jewish state is disgusting."

I would still love to meet Penn and Teller though.
> Is the West planning to use it as a launchpad for a war of aggression in the region?

Pretty sure this was the reason. It’s a tactical piece that they want to keep control over. Everyone else in the region hates them (and rightfully so).
> Surely it’s only a matter of time before youtube starts doing this too.

I recently learned about the SponsorBlock extension[1] for YouTube. It's a crowdsourced collection of the location and duration of in-band sponsorships in YouTube videos. The extension queries the database for each video, then skips over the sponsorship portion of the video. I don't use it myself, since I don't mind skipping sponsorships manually, but it's kind of fascinating that it exists and (apparently) works.

[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app/about
I will usually fully ignore those. If someone wants to have a synchronous conversation, I want them to state that.

Instead of saying "You there?" I would prefer "You have 5 minutes to discuss X?" or "Do you have a moment to hop on a call to chat about ?". That way I can make a decision on if I have time for it or not, instead of having to reply with "I'm here, what do you need?" only for it to end up being something that I didn't want to be disturbed for.
It seems that you always want to use deflection, despite what they did in the movies, and it is doubtful whether a nuclear explosion would be better than attaching something to the object and generating enough thrust to alter its path, possibly using some of the mass of the object itself (stupid way: land a trebuchet, toss enough rocks into space to move it).
It’s fairly common usage in the US southeast, and in AAVE. Regarding it as poor grammar rather than an evolution of dialect is a matter of (snobbish) taste more than anything.
I'm not versed on the vocabulary. In this context, the meaning is close to "protected class" (what is the opposite of being asian while you are applying for college)
Wow, this is going to be great for determining ideal time of day to climb at different areas

edit: the controls really could use some work though

edit2: It doesn't appear to take elevation data into account, which might be useful. More to the point, it doesn't take shadows from surrounding terrain into account
What kind of cars are we talking about? A second grader is aged 7-8. Let's round that up to 8 years to include 9 months of gestation. A model Y starts at $55k. For them to be equal in cost to "replace", the child would need to cost more than $6,875/year to raise. Can you hire a full time nanny for that price? My guess is that the amount of resources/money invested into a child at that age is in the hundreds of thousands.
This is disingenuous, the "state" is still at the center of it.

Consider how Google was happy to censor when it came to doing business in China. Is that just a "private" company making "private" decisions?

It's similar in the US. Consider the 2020 big tech antitrust congressional hearings.

Congress can go after big-tech anytime it wants.

Likewise if big-tech wants to successfully lobby for favorable policies, then they'll want to stay in the governments good graces.

This is the "carrot and the stick" of how our country projects power domestically. Its through soft influence of industry.

We did the same during Covid times. We were never able to federally mandate the vaccine, but we got all our big companies to do so, which is just as good from a policy standpoint.

Google / Youtube would probably piss off a lot of people in washington if they didn't censor these videos.
I've been fascinated by just how passionately enraged the people who do have a problem with this seem to be whenever it comes up on here. I've stopped doing it out of deference to them (it literally never occurred to me that it could possibly bother anybody), but there are people who seem to go into monitor-smashing rages when it happens.
Slack and other chat platforms could easily filter these messages and only send when the initiator has added context.

I type: “Hi”. The chat platform shows a message bubble: “Alice won’t see your message until you add some content.”

This should probably be an opt-in feature for the recipient, not a global behavior.
Slightly more annoying is someone who you do not know giving you a "Hey, how are you doing?".

Try, "Hey Bob, this is Alice, I work on the QA team in Dublin. I'm looking at an issue I think you might be able to help me with http://jira.yourcorp.org/browse/ORDERS-1234. Would you have a minute to discuss this?"
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Yeah, kinda makes sense a SRE at google would get annoyed at people even saying hi.

Did you manage to fix your stress levels or are you now bouncing around working massively hardcore jobs and burning out once a year, then taking a few months off and repeating?

I took a pay cut, got out of that game. And holy shit, life is more relaxed doing security incident response than SRE ;)
This has been the status quo for the whole car industry for decades.

If executives were jailed for car accidents people we would have trains and trams in every corner.
> "got a sec?"

The problem is that the answer to this is heavily dependent on what it is, especially because "got a sec" doesn't meaningfully time box the activity. I need something more to know whether this is something I can engage in immediately.
Ah, that could very well be. As I don't use lists (I just sort my feed by chronological), my only connection with lists has been when I've received notifications of being added to them
>Most people choose to use cars despite that increasing both death rate and accident rate.

In most of the US (not where I live, thankfully) the "choice" is use a car or stay home.

Not much of a choice.
Help us solve API Terms of Service warning readability for developers
Do you remember Twitter breaking hundred of thousands of application because of abrupt API toS change? Facebook breaking APIs without notice? Google changing Google Maps API freemium pricing killing thousands of map integrations? Linkedin killing API access to startup competing with them? If developers had read carefully API Term of Service, they would have known the danger.

Can I use this API safely in the long term is a difficult question to answer in the Digital world we live in. Most of the time, developers discover that their API access has been revoked when users complain their app does not work anymore.

On https://www.apitos.org/ we intend to build a framework making API Terms of service easily shareable and understandable, under the form of a creative commons pattern composed by simple logos and warnings. A quick survey is at your disposal to collect more feedback. Open to debate about what is important for developers and ideas/Feedback welcome!
Yes I do find the concept of a Jewish state disgusting. It leads to a theocracy.

"The issue is that if citizenship is freely given, Jews become the minority in Israel and it is no longer a Jewish state"

This can be easily resolved if Israel would define what it's borders are. But Israel does not in fact want to be a normal country it is run by religious extremists.
No problem, just looking out is all! Best of luck!
> Of the hundreds of strategy plans I’ve analysed over the five years I’ve been studying energy, almost every single one ensures three things. First, that global citizens will still buy a lot of energy. Second, that control of energy resources will remain concentrated among a few industry players. Third, that energy-intensive companies and their shareholders will still make huge profits.

And there it is: the big boys are addicted to oil profits and "the spice must flow". Last time I looked (a few years ago) the ten most profitable companies in the world were nine oil companies and Apple.

(As I type this there's a guy outside driving a gas-powered noisy golf-cart thing with a tank and a gas-powered pump spraying plant poison on the lawn. It's a microcosm of what's wrong with us. Poisoning the air, land, and water, polluting sound itself, to maintain a wasteland of useless grass! What's more, you could make a lawn that maintained itself and fed some livestock, and not waste this guy on this stupid destructive job.)

Anyhow... Here's a link to an old "brain dump" comment of mine in re: systems of agriculture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827329

There's also a great case to be made for integrated alcohol fuel production on a local ecologically harmonious scale to power ICE vehicles (or hybrids) In many cases it makes way more sense that going directly for full electrification of cars, trucks, and busses, etc. (I know of http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/277 but there are others.)

As pointed out in TFA we have all the solutions and technology we really need already. What seems to be missing is the knowledge and will to employ them.
Over the last 10 years people have been trained to stream digital files. I am curious if the digital sales of artists who disappeared from Spotify went up, or if they saw an increase in physical media sales, or neither. I suspect a small increase in physical sales as people realize the fragility of digital distribution but data may say otherwise.

Is that information available? Back when physical sales were the only sales it was easy to track the 'popularity' of any given song or album, with streaming and digital sales those numbers seem to be fire-walled by the various streaming services.
I personally find http://shademap.app much nicer.

And obligatory plug for my Android App (if you need an Augmented Reality type of application to visualize the sun position): http://sunlocator.com
This is a very wholesome comment and it made me smile. It has the same vibe as someone noticing a hacker planting a backdoor in their companies code and giving then a gentle telling off because "that kind of security faux pas can have serious security implications!". I'm imagining a Mr Rogers type character saying it.
I find this rule annoying itself.

Take the freedom you have to communicate in any way you want, and use it.
It's the same for airplanes. Why is it fascinating?
Difference between the immediate sell price and immediate buy price.

You can sell an item instantly for X and can buy an item instantly for Y. You determine which items have the highest difference between X and Y. You buy for X and sell for Y.
Not sure if you were asking seriously, but: personally, yes.
I usually go for:
I'm trying to do X but I'm facing issue Y. I tried Z and W but to no help. Could you give me a hand when you have some minutes?

It shortens the conversation and if the person doesn't know how to solve, they can point to someone else right away.
Has anyone else noticed a serious escalation in references to this phenomenon the past couple weeks? I've seen highly upvoted posts on it both here and on reddit all of a sudden and am just curious where the momentum is coming from so abruptly.
I have bought several CDs in the last year, in order to get .flacs that weren't otherwise available, or not available at a decent price. Unfortunately for the music business I've bought many used. It's like $8 vs $24 and I don't need to downsample to 16/48 to save space and play on the car stereo.

All older recordings should be cheaper to combat piracy. The idea that I'm gonna pay top dollar for something multi-decades old because they remastered it (which is 10x cheaper to produce) is silly.
You'd think that "billions of dollars" up for redemption would create more volatility, but it doesn't seem reflected on 1w or 1m charts https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
DNS filtering sucks and can't filter ads served from the same domain as content, if all you can block is a FQDN, there's an absolute shit ton of trackers and ads that are getting past you.

This is why piholes are awful. I don't know why they get such high praise - it's just a crappy DNS filter that blocks like what 40% of the ads you see?
You won't need to interact with vehicles in your Metaverse pod. What were you outside for anyway!?
I think that part of the problem is that people confuse journalism, which is what reporters at newspapers and people in the field do, and editorialism, which is what normally happens on Fox and CNN.

Editorials are not journalism, but when the journalism disagrees with people who are accustomed to the nature of the editorials they enjoy, they then see bias on the part of the journalists instead of the commentators.
Yeah, it depends on who I am talking to. If it is someone I am fairly friendly with, or family, I'm less likely to do that. If there is a single topic that is why I am reaching out, sure.
Technically, yes. But this is forgetting how much of this is related to social contracts.

It's not necessarly:

> I have a question about Java but I'm too lazy to actually formalize it in words unless there's someone on the channel who might be able to answer it

But it could be:

"I have a question about Java, but nobody knows me around here, so instead of flooding the chan with a wall of text, interrupting the flaw of all the discussions around, I'm doing to introduce my interruption progressively"
That would be fine but you could give some context with that initial approach so that the other person can decide if they can stop or not.

i.e. "Are you busy? Could you help me with blah blah"

If you're getting bombarded with "you there?" from 20 people because some service they use has gone and right now you're trying to fix it for them all, well that can be stressful too.

If you just "Hi." with nothing else they might never know to get back to you on a completely different issue.
And some people will think you're rude as a result.
You should always try to give context. Examples...

Are you available to answer some questions about Docker?

Would you have time to help me with this nginx config?

Do you have time for our 1-on-1?

I try not to say "have a minute" because conversations rarely last a minute or two if we're going to do it voice.

As a manager, I try really hard never to say, "Can we talk?" without context.
sounds like an argument for the two-state solution, then?

Israel can't have its cake and eat it too.
Google makes the (sadly) dominant web browser. Why not just add a feature on the browser to have a huge popup (I'm kidding, it should be more subtle) at the next upgrade to ask the user "What languages do you prefer for content?".

Currently, I'm guessing the browser copies the language of the OS at first run, and the option to change it is behind the sign that says "Beware of the leopard"
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> 1) Writing a doubly-linked list in safe Rust is famously difficult and cumbersome, yes. But writing a singly-linked list in safe Rust isn't so bad.

Having never even seen a Rust program, let alone written one, if basic data structures are "famously difficult", ....
The browser owns the connection anyway and can do whatever it wants with the content. Of course trusting one party is better than having to trust two parties so we are back to do we trust the adblocker?
You can still add some context on what you want to talk about. “Hey, do you have a minute. I want to pick your brain on xyz”. The recipient can then say, “Hey, I’m focused on abc right now and I can ping you in 15” or engage in the conversation. It gives the option. A simple Hey is like acosting someone on their way to a meeting to talk about your problem. They have no option but to engage.
Personally, I’ve gotten used to being firm on these things and just don’t respond to these messages. They usually send an email or setup a meeting or ask me the question in a meeting we’re both in. Clearly it’s not urgent enough for me to drop everything and respond.
Whoops - you're totally right. Seems i can recall ancient history better than recent history haha.
> but one would be a fool to bet money against it happening on the OP’s “eventually” timeline.

Well, I mean, duh. You’d be a fool to bet against seeing a unicorn on an “eventually” timeline. Try to collect and I say it’s not eventually yet.
> Peer to peer connectivity over public networks is a great asset for smaller companies with disruptive ideas, and this could destroy that.

I have no issues with a product having an option for internet connectivity, or even requiring it if it is a critical component of it's function.

Internet connectivity is not a critical component of my <dishwasher|washing machine|dryer|fridge|car>'s function however.
While he was a bit of a bellend, Intellij Community is a faint shadow of what you get in the professional-grade tools which are closed source.
.037% terrorism sounds high to me
No, you can always just not even look up and say, "I'm super into this, so come back in 15" or something less condescending than whatever attitude your body expression has with "Bro, you just did. Get on with it" floating in your mind.

Don't bro me dude! ;-)

If we're all devs, we all understand when you've got 12 layers of vars in your head in a mental traceback that all goes poof when you just reply with a "not now". If it's a marketing type person making the interruption, you're just perceived as an asshole. That's on them. They're in marketing so they have no soul anyways ;-)
Human psychology is, unfortunately, more complicated than that.

There was an attempt in 2016 to prepare a program to retrain coal miners in center Pennsylvania and other traditional mining regions, as the general market, automation, and decrease in available coal from mining had made that a high-unemployment space. Job retraining was on the table.

People handily rejected it. They didn't want to do something else; they wanted to mine.

The children of professional drivers may find something else to do, but professional drivers are going to, on average, be most comfortable driving, and if there's no driving to be done we're on our way to system shock.
Nope, I'm still baffled. I get the sense it might make some kind of sense looking back retrospectively after a few further events play out, but at the moment this continues to seem like a bizarre situation.
The U.S. military provides the security of dozens of countries around the world. If the U.S. shrunk its military and exited its alliances, the countries we are protecting, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea, would expand their militaries and pollute more. Ukraine is not protected by a U.S. alliance. The invasion of Ukraine, in addition to killing and maiming many people, must also be harming the environment in Ukraine.

The one-sided article does not mention any possible downsides of scaling back the U.S. military.
you can still say "hey, I need your help with xxx, do you have time now?" then at least other side know that to expect, can estimate how much time its needed to reserve for this synchronous communication and might later just replay with something like "sorry, I don't have time for this right now, but you can reach Yyy, he is also familiar with this topic"
I would be perfectly happy if we had automatic drivers that were as good as the average human driver, since I already integrated and accepted that risk and accept it every time I drive. Why raise the bar for a new technology if that risks preventing it from being widely deployed and relentlessly improved?
Oh man, thank you for that - so good in so many ways. I’ll definitely be following up on this later, I like what they’re doing.

Two things stick out for critique to me -

> Merveilles seems aligned with the ideals of Solarpunk while internally expecting the world of Cyberpunk, it is neither a utopian or dystopian vision, but a way of straddling both contingencies.

I get this, and in a way, I think it’s how I’m operating already, but man, it’s an art movement - don’t give the dystopia space in the room, it’s already got plenty everywhere else.

> The Merveilles visual aesthetic restricts color palettes to black and white, vector or pixel art, with at most a single accent color (usually a sea-foam aqua). Industrial design is minimalist, geometric black-forged metals, natural wood.

My visual aesthetic these days is “all of the above.” For the love of god, colors exist - trillions of them! Take two! Hell, take three or four! They’re cheap! And shapes - my god, man, the shapes you can make! You ever see the temple carvings in Nepal? So many shapes! Take a walk through a forest, and just look at all the shapes! Look at trees, man - the opposite of simple!
I’ve only seen that once and I thought it was insane. That person was fired less than a year later, so to me, it’s an extremely negative signal.
I'd love to learn more about this. Any good doc or tutorial ?
, World

FTFY
We just need chat script: If (helloGoesWell()) ask('when is that thing')
This would work great as a bot in your chat server that autoreplies to these single word greetings

"In our work environment, synchronous communication is important! If you were intending to set up synchronous communication, please mention why, along with your greeting!"
Unless you want to tell me something that is hard or awkward to express in writing, send me a single wall of text. One topic / one initial message should be a given.
Yeah, in case the "safe pull over" spot is made of lava, or something.
That machine is cool but 7-11’s process was nothing like that. That machine is for individual servings at a restaurant. The one 7-11 used was more industrialized and made to produce pre-packaged food to be served frozen then heated up at home.
Direct quote, nobody puts anything in other peoples' mouths: «Russians are pure terrorist nation. They have larges Russian IT-community called Habr (Habrahabr) and most of IT Engineers started supporting invasion and killing innocent children because "west started blocking IT services for us".» https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30641888