skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID must be an exception then as 1000s died in different places but the public was obsessed. Or the media was at least.
You're unfortunately either more vulnerable to other cars, less able to take action to avoid them or some combination of both. A motorcycle for example is nimble enough to attempt to avoid a collision but is more vulnerable if a collision occurs, while a bus might be sturdier/larger but your presence can't avoid a collision at all.

As a group the safest option would be smaller vehicles, but individually each person is better off (in terms of safety during a collision) with something larger.
>Give me the salary up front or p#$$ off.

Good to see someone do this. I do this.
They've become more valuable than ever because they've become a services company that doesn't need to sell software licenses to stay afloat.
> Always interesting to see outsiders writing papers about this, using anecdote and unrelated data (mostly political and real world purchase data in this case) to argue that ML doesn't make useful predictions. Meanwhile I look at randomized controlled trial data showing millions of dollars in revenue uplift directly attributable to ML vs non-ML backed conversion pipelines, offsetting the cost of doing the ML by >10x.

I regularly buy the same brand of toilet paper, socks, and sneakers. Machine learning can predict that.

But, machine learning can't predict that I spent the night at my parents house, really liked the fancy pillow they put on the guest bed, and then had to buy one for myself. (This is essentially the conclusion in the abstract.)

Such a prediction requires mind reading, which is impossible.
Yeah, "we" don't ignore them at all. I'm not sure I'm able to articulate all the costs and efforts around road safety, but I'm quite certain it's... real high. Not just the directives of the NHSTA and the effort required to comply with them (crash testing and research, etc.), but most law enforcement activity (and the support laws and codes restricting driving activity), driver education and licensing (on passenger and carrier levels), road maintenance including pervasive safety features like guardrails, breakaway posts, collision barriers, road re-grading, safety signals.

Maybe the reason it could seem to someone like "we" do is exactly because it is so pervasive. It's second nature to get used to all the safety measures that surround us on the road. It's not that we ignore the danger of road accidents or their consequences: it's that the attention we pay to it is so constant it becomes background noise--humans notice novelty, not stuff we're used to.
Conspicuous consumption can be rational, or at least beneficial in the evolutionary sense.

If you are a lawyer with a good practice, you are expected to drive a nice large car. If you drove a battered old economy-class car, your clients might see it as a sign that something is wrong with you (there are several plausible ideas) and shun dealing with you. There go fat fees and investment savings.
Who cares if you kill yourself through your own negligence? There shouldn't be a fine at all for seatbelts. DUI, OTOH, should be treated even more harshly than it is.
If you want to start writing code, https://flipper.atmanos.com/docs/overview/intro worked really well for me. If this was the free sample on the kindle store, I'd buy the rest of the book.

I encourage you go to this young man's main page and buy him a coffee (not me nor anyone I know, apparently I was the first person to actually use that button)
Electra Meccanica Solo Electric Commuter Vehicle
Yep. We don’t fear things under our control. Do I fear driving my car? No, because I can control my safety (to an extent, anyway). I can drive defensively. I can stay focused. I can avoid dangerous intersections. I wear a seat belt and have a big safe SUV.

Mass shootings are terrifying because there’s no sense of control.

Animals are scary (spiders, snakes) because we can’t control them.

Disease is scary when we can’t control it (cancer); less scary when we can cure it, even something like appendicitis seems tame because most hospitals can get it under control. It’s also why COVID is less scary to the general public, as it gets more under control (via vaccines and treatments and prior infection immunity).
Glad it is not just me. I did a clean install and follow the examples on the web site step by step:

debugger invoked on a QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1004BF80A3}>: System "plot/vega" not found
You have a cynical view. I have a humanitarian service medal from rendering assistance to Indonesia after their earthquake in 2009. While I was deployed my friends got theirs helping Japan after their devastating tsunami.

What about police and firefighters? They don't "produce" anything but you need them.
HCF is awesome.
In general I always felt bit weirded out by whole crypto "market cap". So there is X million tokens and they are worth this number... But how much money has there actually ever been invested into it?

Not that stock market and "wealth" loss there makes much sense to me either. Or that they own what ever, power plants, ships, factories. And they sell whatever they make. Ir I get point that company makes this much money and is expected to make it going forward. Still, if the number they are traded for drops something is lost? It wasn't there in first place.
Also, to recruiters: non-desperate candidates are not interested in your semi-coherent description of what 'the stack includes' if you don't mention the company name.

(Maybe if it's something really niche? But I receive things like 'you seem like a great fit for this python position'.. yeah, maybe, but that could be anywhere. I'm not interested 'because python'.)
There are plenty of crazy, dangerous people on the road too. Psychologically, you feel more separated than them, even if they may be statistically be more dangerous.
How different is this from using pg’s jsonb field type? Which is also queryable.

What are the advantages/disadvantages? Or what am I misunderstanding?
Ouch. That Hertz!
Sorry, I answered the wrong question.

Garage Door openers aren't as easy as they sound. Try the infrared remotes first, you'll have better likelihood of doing something useful in a few minutes.
My main question is: who hires Accenture for this kind of job, for no less than $32m??? They would be my last point of call, literally after my mum, and maybe even after my dog. At least he's cheap.
> The scroll bar has been around since the start of computers ...

Actually not; I first saw a scrollbar on an Alto in the late 70s. Computing had been around for three decades at that point.

Not that I like the scrollbar. The Apple ones appeal to me because 1 - they are only there when I want one (which is almost never) and 2 - even then they are quite small.

Even if you like the scrollbar, this mechanism seems like it would be good when you can scroll different parts of the display, parts that may not even be delineated by a box.
This is a powerful idea. Most problems in science are incentives problems. Sadly there's little or no incentive for journals to adopt this policy.
Wow, could not agree less! In a bike you’re at the mercy of the bikers and drivers around you, with laughable safety features to protect you.
The fact that we rarely if ever see such data sets is a strong data point by itself.

Insurance cost (data is widely available) goes down with age and you can extrapolate from that to safety but it only falls fast initially and the rest is largely a reflection of how driving habits change with age.

Occasionally someone like Tesla or Volvo will trot out some cherry picked data that boils down to "yes the very safe demographics who buy our very safe cars die less than the peasants".

Other than those two there's not much.
I'd love to see the statement of work and bill of materials for this. I feel like this isn't Accenture's first rodeo.
wouldn't it have to be "go through the movements" to count as a pun on bowel movements? Or is there another sense I'm missing?
> It would be easy, trivial almost, to fix this by legalizing building for houses and businesses that don't allow cars, but are served only by public transit.

Is that all? Just move everyone in the country? What do you consider non-trivial?
> templates package

How do you like the template package ? Can you compare it to Jinja/Twig ?
"Not doing what I think should be done for my particular interest and priorities" isn't the same as "Ignoring." At all.

By all means, continue to advocate, but the idea that "we" ignore car crashes is risible.
That's fair. It's definitely fashionable to be hyperbolic. But it might also be wrong to interpret those statements literally or at face-value. See Emotivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism

That is to say, a lot of "nuanced" arguments are just as morally emotive as short punchy ones. The latter might be less persuasive, but I'm not sure many people are changing their minds on moral or ethical debates these days anyway.
As the agency owner, how would you have felt reading this if the author had named the agency?

It really bugs me how people take a "protect the innocent" approach to these articles when in reality they should be saying loud and clear who the offender is.
Agreed, I also live in a location with effectively no drivers and I have the same experience. I'd say based on that, the claim that it is specific to WAV is not the case.
I just sent this to our devops guy with the headline "INVESTIGATE FEASABILITY, I WANT THIS ASAP"
Yes monetisation and ads would attract more people, but I want a YouTube without ads and without monetisation. It's more than them just being annoying, it changes the entire way people produce content and present it.
I saw about 5 between the bart station and Berkeley campus on my way to get a curry, and I wouldn't even consider that dirty relative to driving a few blocks down towards the freeway...(I know it might not technically be "SF" but you know what I mean)
You assure your bus driver doesn't have a habit of popping pills by making them go through rigorous certification, give them decent wages, and punishing them harshly when they do pop pills.

You may object it's not perfect, but nothing is, and it does work. In fact, it works exactly the same way you can assure that your brake pad won't suddenly give way in front of a bus coming from your left.
I expect that in 2030, you will need 3 ppl to write code that now you need around 10. I think more devs will switch to more product owner roles or analysts that talk to ppl and spec but more high level - constraints etc. So basically these entry level coding that’s boring should get automated. Skilled individuals will get up to 10x leverage and be real rockstars.
This is my understanding also. Insurance Cos are aware of this.

I think people assume that they are receiving worse service from a PA vs a MD.

A PA may have more time to research your condition. They have more experience with your particular condition.

I went to a PA recently when my usual MD was not available. They knew of a recently(ish) released test that could be helpful in the situation. I did the test, and the MD reviewed it. The MD wasn't familiar with the test, but it ended up being very important.
Because your death becomes an externality that others have to pay for.
Sounds equivalent to my suggestion (except it works for better for companies currently paying no corporate tax).
Just waiting for someone to come along and argue we shouldn't be providing incentives for people to become disabled...
Which baffles the rest of the world as we see the aggregate number and are dumbfounded that nothing is done.
I think there's another reason too we "ignore" car crashes: loose coupling with politics.

Say a DUI driver kills a random family of 5. Is that going to make national headlines? Probably not. Very little to be gained politically. It doesn't really enrage us because we love and celebrate alcohol too much to be capable of villainizing it like guns. So as a result, it doesn't spread very far on social media.

Now say a raging incel shoots 5 people at a mall (2 die, 3 are injured). Is that going to make national headlines? You bet. It easily enrages at least half of us since guns are a wedge issue. Hence, it spreads like wildfire on social media. As it's spreading, it is further coupled to politics whenever people use the story to further political goals like mobilizing peers to go out and protest, drum up support for a preferred candidate, and more.

You won't see a public reaction to car accidents similar to guns until the media decides either alcohol or cars are villains that need to be eradicated from society.
Android has had the ability to disable notifications for at least the last few years.
July 18, 2022: 196 Covid deaths in the USA

2020: 1909 deaths daily from heart disease in the USA
>If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary you are not going to be happy where you work. I promise. Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list. [0] It is important, it makes it possible to pay bills, but it isn't what makes people happy.

Generally when you get people for whom salary is way down on the list, you get morons. But I think you are indeed looking for morons. So your strategy will work.
You can build and set off bombs. It's just heavily regulated.

However, many people haven't really consented to driving. They drive out of necessity. Where they live and work is only marginally in their control and there are no other transport options. When I was poor, I would have loved to not have to pay for insurance, gas, maintenance, and the vehicle itself. I couldn't really afford it. But without it, I couldn't get to work to eat. There weren't other options. When I made a little more money I could finally afford to live close to work and public transport was an option. The trip was 5 minutes by car, over an hour by bus.

I'm on board for heavily regulating driving and shifting that danger assessment as you suggest. But first I think there is a moral obligation to provide alternative modes of transportation. (This should not be interpreted as excusing drivers from their obligation to be skilled and safe.)
Because these societies incentivize individuals to behave and conform for the better of the group, while iterating on their systems. The same way the US has iterated on their car-centric culture.

Take the money and incentives away from building roads, cars, parking lots, traffic safety etc. and stick them into systems which are safer by default, incentives for people to keep things clean and not cause a fuss.
There are "no fly" lists, and I presume there are lists of "if this person shows up at the airport checkin, inform the police" lists. Also, DHS has Passenger Name Record (PNR) for everybody who flies internationally at least. It'd be trivial to put a flag on it for a person, and then just meet him at the gate.
> I've been in areas of Manhattan that would rival SF's dirtiest areas, but I wouldn't claim that NYC is a "dirty city".

I've lived here my entire life, and I would :-)

As much as I'm a booster for NYC (and immensely proud of our public transit), we're also a very dirty city (partially for historical planning reasons, resulting in no alleyways or trash disposal consideration).

It's also gotten worse during the pandemic, in no small part thanks to drivers: people have stopped moving their cars for street cleaning, resulting in accumulations of trash and dirt that then clog the drains, worsening our floods (and damaging the subways further).
I’d say that it is blame rather than control. We tend to focus more in finding the responsible to point the finger at rather than the cause. If 1000 drivers die in car accidents it’s easy to shift the responsibility at themselves but if 2 die on an Amtrak derailment, the responsible is Amtrak or American Airlines, Airbus, Boeing or whatever.
It wouldn't be zero. If you wanted milk but couldn't find it in the store/spent too much, you might just give up on buying it.
I'm an engineer, and I'm motivated by the end product, not the just inventing a machine.
My dad always said, if shit hit the fan, he would go to Brazil. Brazil isn’t exactly lawless, but it’s such a mass of humanity and so many cultures blending together that literally nobody would stick out like a sore thumb there.
Because your body tumbling around in your car during a crash can kill passengers, or be catapulted onto the street causing another accident/injury from someone trying to avoid it
Free websites so valuable they feel illegal
Recommend the title be changed to "Casio F91 smart watch reboot". It's kind of nonsensical as-is.
Given the number of upvotes this has, and I would guess, too, that people who upvote a story don't always comment, I would say there is pretty strong agreement with posting salaries. Like, everyone, just get over yourselves, and post salaries. Then we can go on to debating other aspects of hiring, work culture, work-life balance, etc. I am not saying that to diminish the salary thing, but of all of the issues surrounding hiring and working somewhere, the posting of salaries seems like a no-brainer.
My guess is just because self driving cars are new and rare. Once there are millions on the road, we will stop getting reports about each individual accident involving them.
I love my F91 (I’m wearing it right now!), and I love minimalist smartwatches. So this is right up my alley. I hope it keeps moving forward!
Previous agency hack here of many years (many agencies). Do not take anything communicated to you from businesses like this at face value. Ignore the tone. The Isaac's of this world are not your friend. In fact, they likely personally orchestrated the scenario and tailored the ongoing narrative. I realise how cynical this sounds, but I'm certain your Isaac would agree.

Agencies (and Isaacs) have a place. They are useful for large orgs where certain expectations and business/operating aesthetics are demanded. Agency workflows and billables have evolved specifically for this climate of largesse. Buyer beware.
Well, those solutions don't really work because of the contagiousness, so they are going out of favor.

What is needed is effective prophylactics (beyond mRNA vaccines) and effective treatment. But the effort spent on that is, sadly, minimal.
Yeah this is exactly what I just went through, from making $70k-ish in a LCOL area to now triple that without moving. My coworkers knew their pay was low but not by how much. I did the best I could to be transparent with them on my way out. I'm curious just how many of them are planning on staying.
It‘s okay to make it hidable as a user preference setting, but the default should be for the scrollbar to be visible (and wide enough to not be a difficult touch/mouse target), for affordance and discoverability reasons.
>> All things considered, it's well past time to stop being so harsh on Redmond. Stop judging Microsoft on what it did a decade ago and judge it by what it's doing today.

You mean like closed sourcing previously open source VS Code extensions?

They recently announced that they are closed sourcing the C# VS Code extension:

"Once the “LSP Tools Host” is complete, this will become the default experience for the C# for VS Code extension. Existing users will be able to choose between the open-source OmniSharp powered system that exists today, or the new “'LSP Tools Host” which will provide access to additional experiences. The “LSP Tools Host” will not be open-sourced, but we plan to communicate with the community along the way to help guide our future plans."[1]

The same thing was done with PyLance which was "extended" from PyRight.[2]

Why would they do this?

Because VS Code can't get good enough to compete with Visual Studio. If it did, they would lose revenue by not selling enough copies of Visual Studio.

It's the same Microsoft, they've just had to adapt since they lost a lot of the power they had in the past.

[1] https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-pylance-fas...
This used to be half of the two-step about every security hole: (1) this hole can only get you root running as an already authenticated user, or (2) this hole only gets an attacker restricted user-level permissions. Thankfully we don't see this so much lately.

This post illustrates the large amount of extra work still needed to counter the depressingly common "this only corrupts unused memory, so it can't be exploited".
It reminds me of how here in the US we often overuse signage and other markings on roads to 'prevent' accidents but roads with less markings that are obvious and direct tend to have less accidents by comparison. I wonder if part of the problem with American roads is the fact we assume people need information they don't need or use. I know that roads here aren't actively calmed by changing the quality of the road (roughness, width) and that often people ignore or outright get confused by whatever signage and markings are put up.
> The hypothetical big announcement that this hypothetical "Log4Go" library has a vulnerability will not include a comprehensive list of all applications that use the library,

Nor should it. A dependency should be encapsulated by its consumers. A vulnerability that leaks to the consumer application is a bug in the consumer application.

> The safest thing would be for every application to dynamically link to a system-provided version of Log4Go,

Unfortunately this means that any application which uses Log4Go cannot make any definitive assertions about the specific code which is executed by their distributed artifact. This is a problem, and the cost of this problem is far higher than the benefits conveyed by dynamic linking. The future of application distribution is absolutely static linking.

> "I have to vendor library X into my application, because I'm afraid that the system copy will get updated to a version that breaks my app". Well then, maybe you shouldn't use a library whose author can't abide by semver and provide a reasonably-strong promise that minor and patch version updates won't break things. Otherwise you are just outsourcing your problems to your users.

As a software producer, it should not be possible for a dependency to impact my users without my knowledge.

It is infeasible to rely on any specific level of versioning stability from my dependencies. Every dependency I adopt represents a risk which I am taking on.
How do these stablecoins work if there is capital controls? Okay you have them on exchange, but how you then actually get dollars out in anywhere with capital coins? Surely some local must do trade, but surely that trade won't be 1:1?
The executive that hired Accenture paid them with OPM (pronounced "opium", known as "other people's money"). Accenture is a safe choice because nobody got fired for hiring Accenture. This executive likely jumped ship to another venture before the project failed, in the interim heralding themselves as a leader of a major strategic initiative. Long gone.
It's more insidious than that. In a field where the core subject is difficult to handle it is nothing unusual if a different lab cannot recreate known experiments on their first try. This doesn't mean anything is wrong with the original research, it might just mean that the second lab didn't control all the variables.

The part that is difficult and annoying is that the variables are not necessarily known, it takes a lot of time and experiments to actually nail down those. And even then for some sensitive stuff every detail can matter, like the exact type of tube you did the experiment in or the vendor, batch and age of every chemical you used. Very often you can control this enough to have consistent results for a set of experiments, but that kind of stuff is really hard to control across different labs.
Taking a large sum of cash would have probably been a trigger for the folks surveilling him, though. Maybe he could get away but that is going to trigger something.