skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's when it's appropriate to rage on them, to inflict some small degree of emotional pain on the recruiter or HM or whoever falsely got you to waste your time, both as a little bit of selfish satisfaction and also to hopefully make it better for the next person. Then trash them on social media if you have a following. Maybe send them an invoice for your time. They won't pay it but it might be a fun thing to do.
An individual choice that can endanger others when e.g. you cannonball through your own windshield and hit someone, or cause follow on accidents as people swerve out of your way, etc.
A big part of the problem is things moving so fast that a lot of stuff doesn't have a long run. Covid and its vaccines being an example. In the end the reason to trust them was a mix of "if not this, then what?" and "it doesn't seem to be killing people".
well, because we can. I mean, we have some mental buffer to accept the conseuqences.. check deep inside!

I think reacting to amtrak crash makes sense since it moves on rails! how on earth something moving on rails could possibly crashes? doesn't make sense... but cars are different.. if you be honest with yourself you should always wonder how on earth we can get to a point without an accident with cars! think about that.. sorry this is just harsh reality.
Agreed - I think they mainly get ignored.

I mostly see things downvoted that are factually wrong, or just generally abrasive and tone-deaf.
I think the car deaths vs. gun deaths asymmetry with representation in media can more reasonably be explained by how "terrifying" that news is to viewers, more likely to get web traffic and broadcast viewers, etc.

Healthcare expenses is a similar political wedge-issue that causes tons of deaths (Medicare for all, etc.) and doesn't get nearly as much media coverage because it's less terrifying.

You can see this even irrespective of how many deaths there are, like when there's a really big fire/explosion/storm that gets news coverage but casualties are zero or very low. Those are more likely to get coverage than a single car crash that killed more people
and it’s orders of magnitude higher than 100 drivers on the road with you. you’re doubling down on a misunderstanding of risk. you have no control over most of the situations and circumstances that cause collisions, injury, and death. you not drinking and driving doesn’t make all the other drunk drivers sober up miraculously. your “control” has quite marginal effects at best.
Thanks for the aloe! Yeah, that's how I feel as well.

I was expecting people to not like the new design but it's been surprising to hear how many people prefer the old design and logo. I think the new one is way better, and it's not even close. Not perfect, but certainly an improvement.
> If cars had a max speed limit of 85 mph, and required the seatbelt to be engaged to work

Wait, wearing a seatbelt is not mandatory?
Here's an interesting factoid:

The annualized mortality rate of a US soldier is ~100 per 100,000.

The annualized mortality rate of the average US man between the age of 25-34 is 177 per 100,000. (It's 199 per 100k for ages 18-24).
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> It doesn't really enrage us because we love and celebrate alcohol too much to be capable of villainizing it like guns

I hear a lot more ads on the radio informing me about all the ways a DUI will screw over my life, even if I don't kill anyone, but almost nothing about guns.

Now, at a national level, sure, guns dominate. But I'd say the larger differentiating factor is intent. The killer on a shooting spree sparks terror in a way that a stupid drunk driver does not, even if the latter is more of a risk.
My whole argument is that the demographic change is the source of the issue
I talk about this at the bottom: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/#why-didnt-you-just-fi...
I like your interpretation better than mine, though I'm not sure it changes too much of what I said.

That's in part because what I consider to be "immoral" is likely different than the OP. I could be an anarchist that believes the only moral act is to undermine my employer. Or I could be so dedicated to my employer that I'd consider merely thinking negative thoughts about them immoral.

In the end, it's not about what's "immoral", it's about what's legal. Which, of course, depends on where you live and how smart your lawyers are.
Frankly, if the injured person wasn't wearing a belt, I wouldn't award him medical damages regardless of who was at fault in the collision.
Yes, but the GP wasn't talking about some objective notion of "control" - they were talking about some subjective "feeling" of control and how that translates to perceptions of risk and danger. Driving a car feels like you're in control because you're the one doing the driving and are isolated from your environment even though (as a sibling comment notes) you're at the mercy of a huge number of factors that you don't perceive. That's why folks don't perceive driving as risky. (Consider airplanes as a contrasting example - extremely safe, but you certainly don't feel "in control".) In that context, cycling doesn't feel like you're "in control" because you're surrounded by large multi-ton vehicles moving significantly faster than you. Walking in urban areas feels safe because of the incredible amount of infrastructure that exists to support pedestrians and the normalcy of walking in those areas.
I love sqlite, but if you need just store, and even smaller library - look no further than `lmdb` - https://www.lmdb.tech/
I feel for balance then that I strongly disagree that the guardian is VERY left leaning. It leans left for sure but primarily centre-left.
First, you're welcome to move to New Hampshire if you feel this way and drive around with your seatbelt unbuckled. You're also welcome to ride your motorcycle without a helmet there.

Second, part of the purpose of the seatbelt is to keep you in the driving position for the entire duration of the crash so that you can maintain as much control of your vehicle as possible until it comes to a complete stop. If the first impact of a crash throws you out of the position required to drive the car, you're no longer capable of controlling the vehicle in such a way that reduces the severity of or prevents further impacts. As some of these further impacts stand to involve persons not involved in the initial impact, it follows that wearing a seatbelt stands to protect them as well as you.

Third, We are in absolute agreement that DUI should be treated more seriously.
Yeah, basically every girl I have ever dated avoids public transit at all cost because of assholes/creeps.
Does this work at any of the big companies? I'm coming up on something like 15 years of experience. I have a leetcode account and I've dabbled, but to be honest I'm just not that interested in playing that game, even for difference in comp it would likely bring.

That said, I am not all that averse to a respectful-of-my-time take home or having a discussion about a particular piece of code with a bit of prep, etc.

I've seen programmers far better than me get chewed up and spit out by the FAANG interview process because they hadn't prepped their leetcode skills enough. Anyway, I'm sure we could debate the interview process to death, but my original question stands: Can you just straight up say no to a coding interview at any FAANG or FAANG-like companies and actually get to an offer without having massive online reputation points?
You could make the argument that it's further a reference back to "Day of the Dolphin"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946
Like covid. THoussands of deaths daily became background noise
Don't feel bad. I paid a consultant over $10,000 a year ago and didn't go live with their code. The reason was not them, it was me. I did something without asking our dev team and it was a bad idea. By the time I got to my senses, I had spent over 10K. The consultant was great though. As founders, we sometimes do shitty and idiotic things.
They are, but cars will function without them being used.
Rats are not humans and observed effects in rats and other animals can only occasionally be replicated in humans. The main thing that this does is make it possible to justify further studies, eventually in humans, at which point the issue can be investigated in more depth.
If you're catapulted through your windshield, you're going to hit whatever you drove into, not traffic.
You have to wonder what proportion of GDP is money sloshing around like this but not providing any real value. The consultants got their paychecks and spent their money in the real economy, but there seems to be a great deal of waste in the B2B space.
It's because self-driving cars have alternatives, like automated trains or streetcars, that are safer and less resource intensive. Self-driving cars aren't just competing against human-driven cars. Unless you think cars are the only form of allowed infrastructure.
Reminds me of that famous paper about Majorana fermions [1] that got retacted because they edited a figure (I'd say with malice) to support their sensationalist claim. In the unedited image the claimed effect is all but gone. The publication of the paper led to a flurry of research funding and a partnership with Microsoft (who were keen on using Majorana fermions for topological quantum computing).

1: https://physicsworld.com/a/retraction-of-nature-paper-puts-m...
I see cheap $4/hr developers, but I don't see anything specific about Fiverrs. Are you lumping them in together?
Better solution might be for the government to just fund reproducibility studies, and even departments of reproducibility. Take the profit motive out of it, find good scientists who are painstaking but maybe not innovative and fund them to reproduce major results. The scientists would never get the credit for major breakthroughs, but could occasionally be wrecking balls that called research like this into question. With consistent and reliable funding from the government their reward could be stability of employment rather than innovative fame (of course these days some partisan politics would probably gut it, which is why we can't have nice things).
> We don’t fear things under our control

yeah, this is it. This is why people will drive through a blizzard in the middle of the night but will have a panic attack trying to board an airplane. In their car they feel in control but in an airplane they feel helpless and at completely dependent on the pilot/crew/airplane.
Quicklisp ships releases once a month (think Debian releases instead of npm), so it is very possible it didn't pick the latest release yet.

Your solution is to clone the repository into ~/quicklisp/local-projects/.

Another one would be to use the Ultralisp distribution, that ships every five minutes. https://ultralisp.org/

(ql-dist:install-dist "http://dist.ultralisp.org/"
:prompt nil)

and now you could quickload plot/vega, except we must ask the author to add it, it takes a couple mouse clicks.
We have a lot of really good evidence that the vaccines are preventing a lot of deaths.
> I once experimented with using SQLite as a file store for small images

Mapbox productionized this with their MBTiles [0] format, to store millions of small vector or raster map tiles in an SQLite database. Much easier to work with than millions of images on disk.

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec
> It is widely recognized that there is an epidemic of suicides among current and former military personnel, especially those who have been on active duty in a combat theater... There were 3,481 combat deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since 9/11, there have been over 30,000 military suicides. Over 20 soldiers a day take their own lives.

Pet peeve: while I really like the general point of the article, I wish the author had actually provided statistics that support the claim they are making here. 30k suicides sounds like a lot, but what's the base rate in the general population? The numbers provided don't actually tell you whether the rate of military suicides is higher than civilian ones, and that kind of undermines the point. To be concrete I'm looking for something like "the base rate of suicide is X% chance per year, whereas amongst soldiers it's Y% chance per year, suggesting a risk factor of (Y-X)% caused by military service."

A quick search finds some research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran....) that suggests the rate of suicide among veterans is 1.5x the base rate, which is substantial. Using those numbers suggests that 10k of those suicides quoted above were specifically attributable to military service (and 20k would be "baseline civilian risk of suicide").
If you suspect astroturfing, the best course of action is to email the mods. They're very open about this particular topic.

That being said, this is a forum for VC and startup talk among other things, so it would be pretty surprising if there wasn't some astroturfing at play. Self-promotion comes with the territory. The mods are doing their best but to some extent it's in the game.

Finally, there's no irony about this no longer being on the front page. When I first clicked into this thread, I was surprised it was FP still, because it had twice as many comments as votes and that usually trips the flamewar detector. I think folks are generally unaware of the systems that make HN tick, and that can make the experience pretty confusing.
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I have great memories in the downtown Border's Books, reading through the stacks in the ornate former theater. Sadly, it's now a Blue Bottle cafe (not bad) and a coworking space (horrible) with corporate offices upstairs (sigh).
It is impossible to do anything substantial in Scratch because it does not have text-based representation, and so cannot be comprehended by programming tools which are critical to modern programming (or even just programmers). If it had a comprehensible ETL language, it might be possible to use for significant engineering, but the current export format is just a JSON morass, worst in some ways than byte code. As usual with ETL hacking of a primarily graphical representation, there could be significant issues where the VUI is unable to represent changes made "behind its back"...all of which is to say, forget it.
> 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.

It's not always about changing your mind. Nuanced opinions help people understand issues better. If you write a long post talking about value driven at scale at Google vs a predatory advertising market, you can help folks understand, say, what a Google competitor would need to harness to compete effectively. But when you just say "Google is a scourge to this planet", nobody comes away from the conversation better informed and the poster gets tons of HN karma for posting the median view.
> Accenture and Hertz engage in phase 1 of the project, producing a “solution blueprint” that describes the functionality, business processes, technology, and security aspects of the envisioned solution. Fees paid to Accenture for this phase total $7M.

7 million dollars for requirements gathering?

Hertz should have known better. I'd pay just to see these contracts for entertainment value.
any details on how Tiny Pilot KVM works technically? As far as I understand, it's pretty hands-off. No configuring ports or ssh keys.
In my own accident, despite being slammed against the driver's door by the impact, I was able to keep my foot stabbed onto the brake pedal throughout the event thanks to the belt keeping me more or less in the driver's seat.
> No, because I can control my safety (to an extent, anyway).

Part of the problem is that this control is much more of an illusion than most people realize. In any car crash where there's at least two vehicles involved, often one driver is at fault, and the other is (or others are) more or less an innocent bystander, who may have been exercising all the care and attentiveness in the world. That person was certainly not able to control their safety in that situation.

And even when not involved in a crash, I don't think it's reasonable to say that one's safe outcome was caused even mostly due to their control over their vehicle. Much of it can be attributable to luck, traffic conditions, and the imperfect, but often sufficient, control that others were exercising over their vehicles.

But I do agree with you that the perceived threat/seriousness of these various bad things does have a lot to do with the perception of individual control, whether or not individuals actually do have much control over them. I know a surprising number of people who get anxious flying on a plane, but don't think twice about getting in a car, despite there being a higher probability of injury or death from a car trip.

Something I just realized: I feel like passengers in a car are also similarly not that concerned about the possibility of crashes, even though they are not actually in control of the vehicle. My first thought would be that they presumably know and trust the person who is driving, but that doesn't explain why people feel safe in taxis. I guess maybe people do feel less safe in taxis, though.
Even from a general customer serivce prespective, this sucks massively. Working in web development myself, everything is agreed upon before work to start - not with the agency deciding to include additional items.

It's incredibly shameful from this agency - they really owe a massive apology and should refund for the non-requested parts tbh.
Agreed! I timeboxed this, but specifically I would love to see a scatter plot showing number of descendants vs score
That would depend on the collision. The worst I've had, the car I was driving was T-boned by another (their fault). If I'd had no seat belt on I somewhat doubt I would've been able to maintain control of the vehicle and it very likely would have hit other cars.
To be honest, I haven't played around with the jsonb feature of pg enough to know which is better. I do know that the queries of data in my system average about 10x faster than regular pg tables for the same data set. Also my tables do not need a separate indexing step in order to achieve maximum speed for any query. Do you have a data set in pg you created using jsonb? If you want to try my system, the beta is available for free download at: https://didgets.com/download
Relatedly, that's just the fatalities. There are far more none fatal injuries, some of which are permanently life altering without bringing in the costs of health care in this country.
That’s quite ridiculous an answer to be honest, but is a good example of how terrible people are at understanding federal funding, and unfortunately undergraduates are no exception.

How much did they estimate the defense budget at, 150%?
I think the Cambridge Latin Course just updated their textbooks and one of the changes was to change the treatment of slaves to make them less objectified, so this bit seems plausible to me.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-cambridge-latin-cour...

> Enslaved characters were, in earlier editions, sometimes depicted in simplistic terms: as “happy”, “hard-working” or “lazy”. In the new edition, slavery is now depicted through the eyes of its victims, focusing on their anxieties and gruelling lives.
I am a UK college governor, and have bought up the GDPR issues that have come up with Google and Microsoft recently.

Whilst I do get some nonsensical response, that big tech have great security, it does feel really lainful that there is basically no alternative. I really want there to be, but there just isn't a viable alternative.
40 years ago - 1981-1982 was a very bad economic recession: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/recession-of-19...

20 years ago - 2001 end of the Internet bubble, many people lost their jobs. 2003 the US was waisting a lot of government money on an unjustified war in Irak blaming them for 9-11. Bush unnecessarily destroyed a positive government budget for a war that solved nothing.
We have some wrong models but this does not mean we don't have biases.

The simplest way to disprove it:

If we did not have biases but wrong models, fixing models would make us unbiased.

But that works very rarely in real life.
> The threshold should be fewer accidents and/or fewer fatalities per million miles driven than human drivers.

Those of us who drive defensively strongly disagree with this metric. The "average driver" is extremely skewed towards a relatively small subset of drivers who cause most of the wrecks. Not coincidentally, the same people who can't afford a fancy autonomous car anyway.
I think it's perfectly realistic for such a service to exist, but I also think Peertube has the wrong idea. IPFS is a little closer to how I'd prefer videos being hosted, but I also prefer the sharding/peering of a Magnet link. Once someone gets all of that under one umbrella, you'd have a service that is ostensibly both faster than YouTube and more distributed/decentralized.

Now, can we convince Mr Beast to join this platform? No, but I don't think most people will notice a discernible dip in quality. Most exploitation-tubers would probably scuttle off to Facebook or Instagram, but I think most of the Patron-supported content creators would buy-in to a well made alternative. Key operand being well made though...
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Tech consulting, of the type Accenture does, is so weird. I once got staffed on a multimillion dollar project to "predict general macroeconomic activity."

The story described in this article just sounds so classic. I'm consistently surprised that more consultants don't get sued.
Polish count includes millions of vehicles that does not exist but were never "deregistered".

Amount of active insurance policies is slightly below 27 million: https://piu.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubezpieczenia-...

That would rate us below Canada but before France.

What's also interesting is that Poland is absolutely not designed around cars. Most communist blocks were designed for few times less cars. The main cities are still not fully connected by highways. We have perfect size country for high speed trains.
To play devil's advocate, we already employ hundreds of thousands of "cities, planners, and civil engineers" continuously to battle these distributed deaths.
I have never used Jinja/Twig, but I have used handlebars, ERB, JSX and other similar templating systems.

Overall, I find Go's template system to be a bit clunky but it certainly gets the job done. The template system is fairly minimal so it feels mostly like working with HTML, but it gives you a few tools to use.. mainly passing data down the template/sub-templates and the ability to define template functions/helpers. Minimal... but it's all you really need.

I converted my business from Rails 5 to Go about a year ago and the ERB was fairly straight forward to convert to Go's template system.. it felt like I was mostly converting <% .. %> to {{ .. }} and changing <%= render ... %> to {{ template ... }}
If your accident involves more than one vehicle, the other driver shouldn't need to live with your death on their conscience (as it would for most people, regardless of whether or not they were at fault).
Only if you know a VP or above. This isn’t a hurdle that can easily be overcome.
Will the Ukraine war force ESA to pass on Arianespace, use SpaceX?
The sunk cost fallacy is perhaps the most useful thing you learn in business school. eg. Do I want to pay $9,600 to get the job finished. What would it cost if I hired someone else to finish it ?

The same thing if you are going to a concert and lost your tickets, do you want to pay $200 to go to the concert (not taking into account that you've already lost $100, you could have lost that $100 on whatever) eg. you are paying 200, not 200+100.