skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liability exists under the law in these cases in California. This came up in the Cabral case.

"On February 27, 2004, around 9:00 p.m., Decedent (Cabral) was driving an F-150 pickup truck (pickup) eastbound in the number three lane (of four lanes) on Interstate 10 (I-10) in San Bernardino County. Juan Perez testified that he was driving a big rig behind Decedent for some distance. He estimated Decedent's speed to be around "70, 80," miles per hour. Perez opined that Decedent appeared to be intoxicated or falling asleep because his pickup was swerving left and right within the number three lane. Perez saw the pickup suddenly turn right, cutting in front of another big rig truck in the number four lane, as if attempting to exit the freeway. The pickup crossed the number four lane and the paved shoulder of the freeway and then hit the back of Ralphs's big rig, which was stopped in the dirt area approximately 16 feet from the number four lane. Perez did not see brake lights activated on the pickup, nor was there any indication that Decedent tried to reduce speed or avoid hitting the big rig."

Testimony was that he either fell sleep or was suffering from a medical conditions (350lbs). He was speeding, weaving all over the place, then crossed over the lane next to his and then into dirt at side of road and then traveled a pretty long distance and then hit a grocery truck that was stopped 16 feet away from side of road, so basically another two lanes over.

And yes, Ralphs had to pay damages, even though their truck was damaged etc.
> It looks like he ... was impaired.

That was alleged by Bird and the city, but there appears to be no proof of it. Specifically it says

> lawyers for the city argued ... that he had consumed a “large amount of cognac” the night before

Sounds like he was drinking the night before the accident, and the city tossed out an evidence-free allegation that he might still have been drunk the following day on his way to a job interview with no evidence at all, in the hopes that some people wouldn't pay close attention to the details...

Also, people don't usually go to job interviews drunk.
We're a two person household with four or five laptops and a variety of tablets. But we're also a two-person household with a full fledged GPU/CPU compute workstation, a dedicated gaming/VR tower, two (somewhat) upgradeable all-in-one kitchen computers that are getting a bit long in the tooth and of course, the usual clutch of miscellaneous servers. We run Linux, macOS and Windows in a variety of configurations.

Many people don't have a need, or a desire, for a dedicated computer, not even a laptop. The world that we as technologists live in is vastly different from the majority of people who are passive consumers of content rather than active producers.
Further, what is it? Maybe I'm not a very good reader, but after looking at the website multiple times I'm not at all sure what RedwoodJS is. Comments here suggest it is some sort of React framework ...?
It's working for me.

$ host shkspr.mobi 8.8.8.8
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

shkspr.mobi has address 77.72.0.226
There can be an upside to an exit interview. If you have equity in the company, then suggesting things in an exit interview that will be a positive change for the company can benefit you.

Note, that the likelihood of a company implementing changes based on your exit interview feedback will be pretty low.
Probably won't ever catch Fortran, but using Eigen templates for reductions really opens the door for compile time optimizations; e.g. these are all reductions that do the same thing

const float residual = (L.array() * P.array()).colwise().sum().square().mean();
const float residual = L.cwiseProduct(P).array().colwise().sum().array().square().mean();
const float residual = (L.transpose() * P).diagonal().array().square().mean();

The compiler can optimize using static information, e.g. these would all be handled differently for the following types

Eigen::Matrix<float,3,3> L(3,3), P(3,3);
Eigen::Matrix<float,3,Eigen::Dynamic> L(3,K), P(3,K);
Eigen::Matrix<float,Eigen::Dynamic,Eigen::Dynamic> L(N,K), P(N,K);
Is education difficult to obtain? America is the #6th most educated country in the world, when viewed from the perspective as percentage of population having at least some tertiary schooling:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/the-10-most-educated-countri...
Hi HN,

A short excerpt from our documentation to explain what we're building...

We believe that finding high quality information on the open internet has become increasingly hard. Many have noticed this trend but a superior alternative remains elusive.

Search engines are mostly used for head queries, (simple that many people often look up) but make most of their revenue on tail queries (complex research queries with high financial or life decision stakes).

People build the habit of their default search engine based mostly on the head, and to be good at the head, you need lots of data on what people like clicking through to, thus making the market leader's position even stronger.

But tail queries, often the most important queries users make, are declining in quality because

1. The organic results cannot be much better than the ads, otherwise too much revenue is lost.

2. Publisher revenue is getting smaller relative to search engines', so larger publishers often make more money by affiliate selling to expensive products (e.g. review sites) or by paywall-blocking content.

3. Large publishers win out in search results over authentic user generated content because people click on familiar brands and because they can spend more on SEO budgets.

We don't think it's easy to make an alternative search engine that's much better, but we do think that there are clever ways to use existing search engines to get to the best content.

Hence we built this as an extension, and also made sure to open source it to keep our incentives as honest as possible.

I also published an accompanying blog post 2 weeks ago https://abhinavsharma.com/blog/google-alternatives . Hopefully this is just the first step and with feedback from the community we can make it more useful in the future.
The details matter. A lot of people sign up for a two-year active duty contract (it's an eight-year contract in all though, you're in the reserves afterwards). That only gives 70-80% of the benefit (which only runs for a max of 36 months, not a full four years). You're also restricted to in-state public schools, no private (Ivy League etc.) or out-of-home-state schools. Most of the military people I talked to at my local community college barely got two years of schooling out of it.

https://www.va.gov/resources/how-we-determine-your-percentag...
That’s a fair point, but the first gulf war was all about Kuwait.
if the object you wanna bind fits into the mold of "an algorithm with inputs and outputs, and some helper methods" I've got automatic binding of a limited set of C++ features working in https://github.com/celtera/avendish ; for now I've been using pybind11 but I guess everything I need is supported by nanobind so maybe i'll do the port...
The name Meta dilutes the brand significantly. I bet if you ask people what Meta is, most people outside tech can't tell. But if you ask what Facebook is, 100% of them can. They took a really good brand name and trashed it to the point they needed to rebrand.
Bird shouldn’t be in the middle here. The fact that it was a Bird scooter instead of his own seems to be immaterial, the scooter itself seems not to be at fault.

If you’re illegally operating (invalid vehicle for the road), your ability to complain diminishes quite a bit. Sucks to be that injured, this is where socialized medicine sort of helps out.
That depends on where it's used. For example, Rust's traits bounds are structurally typed, for exemple making a function that accepts a type that's Summary + Display. This "Summary + Display" type doesn't need to have a name, and in that case it's great. On the other hand sometimes you want to have two strings, one that's a name and the other the address, and not substitute one with the other. I don't think there is "a" solution, only multiple solutions and tradeoffs.
There is a tricky balancing act here. Detachment because you are at peace with yourself and untroubled by the vicissitudes of the world because they don't affect who you are is good. Detachment because you are avoiding negative feelings that you aren't able to handle and process in a mature way isn't.

Distinguishing those two can be very difficult and in practice it's often a mixture.
> In response to my request for an interview about the case, a Bird spokeswoman emailed:

> “... The accident occurred while Mr. Pena was allegedly operating a Bird scooter illegally on a city-maintained sidewalk with a BAC [blood-alcohol level] over the legal limit, tested positive for marijuana and in violation of the California Vehicle Code.”

The rest of the comments notwithstanding, this is incredibly misleading and scummy wording on Bird’s part. The tests, according to the article, assert THC consumption within the testing window (about a month, or maybe longer), not marijuana consumption at the time of the accident.
> Most major database systems come with a fully integrated and mature programming language.

Like ... pl/[pg]sql? Not exactly a joy to write.
The basic gameplay of Spacewar, central gravity well and all, persisted into the very excellent Star Control series, which were 90s releases. You can get Star Control II as open source, under the name The Ur-Quan Masters: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
How much of that was VHS masking the primitive techniques, and how much of it was you simply being little and having a young kid's imagination and ability to suspend disbelief? I ask because I've seen old movies on VHS and the special effects didn't seem that much less obvious to me than they would today. Watching Star Trek on a small 640x480 CRT TV, I could still tell the Enterprise was a model and the lizard alien was a guy in an unconvincing suit.
What's a good solution? A steep fine everytime they fail to vet a source properly? A yearly report that has to be displayed prominently on their website and lists false claims, changes and settled lawsuits against paper?

The one I've found that works well is ignoring the deceitful liars.
This has been done conclusively a long time ago.

Owning a Doink-it [0] is the only proof you're not a baby.

Why we are even discussing this is beyond me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eb5sNjhItw
> With Vasily Arkhipov it was 2 to 1 for the "retaliatory" nuclear strike against depth charges aimed at getting them to surface.

Hopefully the modern US government would also know not to attack a nuclear submarine in international waters.
And Don MacAskill of Flickr tweets:

"To be clear, Flickr didn't delete this. Our friends at the Internet Archive did. It's their account. I don't know all the details, but I believe we've been collaborating with IA on ways to improve the Commons, and I think removing the Books account was part of that effort."
https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1511018079802720256

Clearly there's some misunderstanding/communication.
That would be very cool to look into. Is there any documentation for that somewhere? I tried googling "redwoodjs angular" and didn't see anything obvious. Thanks for response.
The 2003 invasion is obviously contentious. I’d argue we should have done it the first time, but that’s moot.
Yes, I understand that correctly. You can have credible existance of counter attack ability for MAD, but it can still be irrational to counter-attack once one side drops a nuke.
it's a valid reason for yourself, but it's a reason that is difficult to communicate.
Yes, the book is well known, but is there a balance or are we just destined to live in lies? Maybe that is the purpose of life, to find truth in anything we do?
Eigen is really nice for getting code that looks like the underlying math and it also optimizes away unnecessary temporaries by using template expressions. However, when you mess up, you get a screen full of template errors that take some experience to understand and debug.

It makes me wish for a language + compiler where linear algebraic objects are first-class values.
"a lot of people in tech . . . think we should just unilaterally disband"

Not SV, but similarly myopic:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/dell-apple-should-cl...
It seems like you're confusing "robbing" and "not giving opportunities".
I think the author of this post would likely respond by noting that people with disabilities are not babies and can maturely handle that an article decrying an app doesn't necessarily apply to them and is not trying to rob them of an assistive tool.
My 3-month gap to avoid burn-out came up in interviews, including for the job I have now. It was a hard gap - no work, no training, just recovery - and I did have to explain it, but it didn't block any opportunities. And frankly, if it had cost me an opportunity, I don't think I would've wanted to work there.
My spouse and I both had salmonella recently, it was not pleasant, we were both very ill, and it took a considerable amount of time to recover. The health department traced the source to a seafood supplier who provides fish for many restaurants in the area. Unfortunately, I got sick after eating at one of our favorite restaurants, so now my body associates that feeling of gross sickness to the food I had at this establishment. It's not at all their fault, but when I think about eating there now, I get a full-bodied signal to "stay away" and avoid that source of food. It'll probably be awhile before I'm ready to go back.
Python, SQLite, and Thread Safety
I know it from "Stone walls do not a prison make": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Althea,_from_Prison

I find when colloquialisms like this are used it's to make a point, like using a child's nursery rhyme to indicate "something so obvious a child would know it". I think in this case it's meant to imply "This is such an obvious statement that it would be known even in antiquity, but..." to allay a "duh, no kidding" response and make the headline more eye-catching.
I think part of the problem is that science is not honest with itself. There is some sense that getting a Ph.D. is an institutionalization process, one that does not really reward non-conservative, long-term, or high probability of failure work. And god forbid if someone wants to revisit "known" ideas and results to help clarify them, apply them, or place them in better context. There is very much an "in" crowd in science, which leaves a lot of people, people who could positively contribute, feeling "out". We have commoditized academic research, at least in the science and engineering fields, which makes things very streamlined and on rails.

I've spent some time in both academic and industrial circles of mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists, and physicists. It is a bit astonishing just how people in each one of these groups all sound like each other and distinct from the other groups. There are particular mannerisms and even idiomatic phrases that each group uses. Some simple ones are that physicists like to say "it goes like" and use the word "codes" to refer to code, as in software code. Computer scientists like to say "it better be". There are many others that I've lost track of and should have written down over these years. Yes, in many ways, the little idiomatic phrases make sense, but it at least lends credence to the question that if they all use the same phrases, something very simple and harmless, how else are they "conditioned"?

The book Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt covers some of this.

It all makes me wonder if someone like John Archibald Wheeler, a personal favorite, could be successful in today's academic climate.
Perhaps we should start arming insurgence in Russia instead: provide weapons and immunity to anyone as long as whatever they do happens within Russian borders.
Bird isn't technically a party to this case, but it's on the hook for costs and damages via an agreement it has with the City of Los Angeles to indemnify the City. So, ultimately Bird would have to spend money if the indemnification clause it has with the end user is found to be illegal.
All of science is model building, or will advance to it (from counting leaves to biochemical models of photosynthesis). When we say we have an understanding of some phenomenon, it means that we have a model that correlates with observations (simplified).

It's a failure of an education system that leaves its citizens with no conception of what science is, or how 'progress' is made.

That's become very clear with regards to Dr. Fauci and the CDC. They can explain all they want about the current state of understanding (modeling) when they are called out by the public as charlatans when the insight and thus guidelines change.
Do that and I will end my Netflix subscription.
Ahh, the horror of getting this to compile last week in Python :(
I also liked:

"I still get the occasional joke from colleagues about my ‘crackpot consultant business’, but I’ve stopped thinking of our clients that way. They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin."

In some sense, labeling somebody a "crackpot" assigns a sort of malicious wrongness to them. It is interesting to see somebody who's dealt with a significant subset of these people and discovered more actual, honest misunderstanding than we (or at least I) would have expected.
I was right there with you until I started taking college courses again. With four kids, a wife, and a job, being able to knock out school work while talking to my wife or just spending quiet time near her has been a godsend.

This new laptop is the first one I've owned since going to school for my BS which I finished in 2012.
nuclear vs wind energy maybe. just look at it. which do you think is 30x cheaper?

the more interesting question is why the oil and water-energy exporter Norway got so much more expensive domestic energy prizes since it joined the European energy market.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-engineering-at...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLOAS

https://hbr.org/2019/09/what-will-it-take-to-solve-the-stude...

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Debt-Trap/Josh-Mi...

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1089750113/student-loan-debt-...
The chair looks awesome!

Can't wait :)

I digitized my flat with an m1 ipad and that looks already okay.

It's funny to see the flat layout after doing the 3d scan. An interesting way to persistent the flat memory.
I feel like this is not a particularly unreasonable outcome. Riding a scooter has certain inherent risks. I feel really terrible for this guy, but I also am not convinced that he should get a big payday from bird because he happened to be using one of their scooters when he had his crash. Nor the city. Unless these roots were egregiously uplifted and the city had been informed of that fact.
Yeah, maybe. I'm just really lazy.

Edit: Well that was easier than expected, their initial setup daemon is pretty well made, and the "instant prompt" is pretty cool. Feels snappy.
> at least in the USA, they'll do everything they can to deny you medical benefits for injuries suffered in basic training

Explain this please. Are you a veteran? I am and this doesn't correspond with my experience.
Has someone done this sort of analysis" on YouTube? Anecdotal: Even though it claims it's giving me the 1080p resolution, everything still seems blurry. The only time I get actual crisp visuals is when I watch a 4k stream and "down scale" it to 1080p. I feel like they're pulling a fast one on us.
When you feel like whatever difficulties or pain you face are worth it.

For example, if you work hard every day at something that reduces the suffering of others, it can be worthwhile, even if in the moment it’s painful.
I'd consider deploying the military to be a much higher bar of trust than building and maintaining roads and tax policies, providing healthcare and education, etc.

I don't trust the government to use force responsibly, especially on people who are not part of a social contract with it. The government's authority comes from the consent of the governed, not by force
He is absolutely correct. MAD is for deterrence. If your enemy already launched the missiles, there is no point in killing millions just for revenge.

Obviously, you cannot have this benevolent mindset in the first place, because your enemy will know he can destroy you without consequences and thus won’t be very much deterred from it.

Even the name MAD was a reminder to the other country that the US was indeed crazy enough to destroy and kill millions if USSR attacked.
I'm going through this right now after I promised myself for a long time that I wouldn't debase myself with this sort of interview process. The rewards are too much, I sold myself out, whatever.

What I'm finding is that the leetcode isn't a memorization game, it reminds me more of my homework in grad school algorithms. Each of the problems is meant to tease out your practical understanding of an abstract concept.

It certainly doesn't guarantee you'll be a good dev if you can pass leetcode type questions, and you're not necessarily a bad dev if you can't, but I can definitely see where performing well at leetcode is a strong signal about SWE fundamentals.
They’re making it more modular so you can switch out components with what you want. So this is going to drastically change things on the user side?
My guess actually is that iOS/Apple no longer uses this particular list. I found this by intercepting traffic on an older jailbroken iOS 13 device. Given how old some of the domains in the list are, I'd guess that iOS 15 no longer uses it. I also never actually saw my phone fetch this list, I just saw this URL in another configuration response.

tl;dr; I bet it'll never get updated. (but some similar list at a more hidden/protected location likely will be)

p.s. this list of common spelling corrections is interesting too: https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/static_corrections_dict/2...
this kindness and empathetic thinking is at the core of real educational theory, in some cases.. worthy
It's not ideal, but I've done this in BQN and it took about 15 lines. I didn't need to handle comments or escapes, which would add a little complexity. See functions ParseXml and ParseAttr here: https://github.com/mlochbaum/Singeli/blob/master/data/iintri...

XML is particularly simple though, dealing with something like JPEG would be an entirely different experience.
> Americans' satisfaction with the way the healthcare system works for them varies by the type of insurance they have. Satisfaction is highest among those with veterans or military health insurance…

Sounds about right to me. The VA health care system has problems [1] but on the whole doesn't seem worse than the rest of the US healthcare system, maybe better.

Anecdote: when my dad retired, my parents lost their insurance through his work, and my mom wasn't eligible for Medicare yet. They looked around at individual insurance options, which were horrible. My mom ended up using her VA benefits and was very glad to have them. The VA has treated my parents quite well, although the VA doesn't seem used to having a lot of female patients my mom's age.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/veterans-affairs-backlog...