skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the developed world.

Not even close, really. A bit under 1%. You are more likely to die from an overdose, or suicide. And much, much, much more likely to die from cancer or heart disease.

And that is without getting into the trade-offs. Cars at least have a significant utility value, which is not true of suicide, opiate addiction, cancer, or heart disease. We should try to reduce traffic deaths, but we should not lose perspective.
This is why they always tell startup founders to study how Hollywood pitches are done.

Putting together a good collection of these would be valuable to founders.

Not just for tech startups by anyone selling ideas... Writers selling novels, governments pitching policy ideas, lawyers defending clients, corporate workers pitching new ideas internally, etc etc
>I hate that it's impolite to wave waiters over as well though.

Depends where you are. In a lot of restaurants in Singapore, not only do you have to wave at waiters, you have to go to extremes to get their attention.
There's a big difference between a trained and certified counselor who has a professional clinical detachment, and a bartender that you can really talk to.
I'm not the OP, but I was around for this stuff at the time (my first exposure to ~Unix was Andrew at CMU in like '88) and while I definitely look back at some of it nostalgically, most of my nostalgia is for the contemporaneous Mac OS. Open Look and the various X11 systems were pretty primitive, in comparison. And slow, for the most part, at least with the class of workstation I got to use.

A lot of the idiom of what we see today was actually developed by Microsoft, for Windows 95. That's fine, but it's also pretty monocultural. The classic Mac OS had a different set of assumptions than Windows did, but the industry has chased that Cairo dream.
Make it easy.

Payment connects you to a payment identity.

Ban payment identities that fraudulently pretend to be someone else on their name and profile.
Every HN discussion about this protocol contains a huge subthread about this name collision :(
My fault, your “also” should have tipped me off to what you meant.
Dangerous mentally ill people belong somewhere that isn’t on the streets. Bring back flop/workhouses and sanitariums.
My pop turned me on to PKD years before he was all that jazz. He gave me a copy of "Man In The High Castle". That was also my introduction to the I-Ching.
> but my expectation is around 20% of fatal accidents can in some way be prevented by automation.

Assuming, of course, that automation does not introduce its own failure modes.

That's a strong assumption.
> the real issue, which is...

One problem I have with claims, sincere as they may be, about "the" issue is that there are many, many thousands" of "the issues" in circulation. It's a lot like God(s): how shall we tell which "the one" is THE "the one" (is there only one?). And, I suspect the underlying epistemology/cognition of each resembles that which underlies religion more than a little.

> This has nothing to do with whether America should be a democracy or not. It’s all about whether we should normalize a toxic culture of scummy power jockeying.

I think it may be worth noting that for any given issue, whether it has "nothing/anything to do with" something else is often subjective (such as in this case), and also that the mind has a tendency to render subjective matters as objective at runtime (more so with some topics than others).

I am not opposed to democracy per se, I am opposed to fake democracy (or fake anything for that matter), where "fake" means approximately "what it says on the tin does not match the product inside"....kinda like the picture of a Big Mac on a poster vs what you get when you actually buy one.
Oh, I see the misunderstanding; this is fully intentional and by specification. Think "please don't encrypt SNI we need to spy on people" but much more sinister.

The whole 2G thing in this article is really outdated, though. So much so that they featured this kind of tracking in The Wire (remember "Stingrays"). But that only really matters for external actors; if the government controls the mobile providers, all of this and much more remains possible.
Spending money reinforces that the event is important. It's a secular version of the ancient rite of sacrifice.
I only have to curate maybe 1/200 shows or movies. Radarr/Sonarr do that for me, and very well. Filebot works out that 1/200 for me, I just have a folder I dump to, and a containerised version sees it and fixes it.

I spent many hours previously curating, but as a human it's very inefficient when IMDB, TheTVDB, etc all have the info you need and can almost always get it right.
The Navy isn't really replacing the F/A-18E/F with the F-35C. Carrier air wings will continue to contain both types until the Super Hornet is replaced by the F/A-XX currently under development (assuming it doesn't get cancelled).

By the end of its service life the F-14D had decent availability rates. And while the F/A-18 was certainly superior in terms of logistics and maintainability, that doesn't help if it lacks the range to reach the target.
same -i'm an extremely heavy user, now i'm investigating what alternatives are out there
Yeah that's just one user, they seem to have spammed things a bit. Not really typical of the node.

TBH indieweb rose to the top for me simply because "web3 is going just great" is publishing off there :-)
Ah, debug. I used debug extensively for machine code programming on DOS. I couldn't afford MASM and certainly didn't have access to free assemblers. My first hello world program was almost exactly this.

However, I always ended my programs with INT 20 instead of RET, or INT 21 with AH = 0. RET worked both for standalone programs or in debug, but there was one exception: if you ran your code repeatedly in debug with G 100. It would work the first time, but IIRC the stack wasn't reinitialized to return to the correct place on subsequent G commands. I spent a lot of time typing, running and patching in a single session and INT 20 always worked correctly.
Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey
This author uses passive voice and doesn’t say what their source is. The engineers “were told” that they would be fired if they missed the deadline. Who told them that? Who even were the engineers? How does the author know this?
Not everyone is removed forever. Also death is irreversible and the justice system does make mistakes.
My understanding is the outstanding grants are guaranteed at the buyout price and are converted directly to cash.

New grants/options/whatever are at the whims of the company.
I always wanted a Toshiba 3200. That sexy screen!
This tracking technique is almost as old as spoofing your imei
Thanks! I won't try the colab just yet, as I think it would be fun if I could locally run this.

I'm now getting different error messages by installing cmake (brew install cmake) before the manual install - it still looks like some odd error caused by Onnx, which is also why the manual install is failing - "fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git" whilst installing onnx.

The Docker solution failing is weird, containers are meant to be hermetic and deterministic, maybe an upstream change broke something..., but given the Docker install error messages and the fact Onnx is a large-scale project I fail to see how that's the case either.

I'll continue to debug and update the top comment if I resolve it :)
Useful how? What am I supposed to do with that information? Is it actionable?
$20 a month... rofl
I grouch about $5 a month for a static IP, not a chance on earth I, or anyone I know would pay $20 a month to twitter for anything they could provide. (and that $20 a month will be USD.. so it'll be like $28 a month for Australians)

not a chance.. if they billed me a few cents per tweet maybe (if they threw in no adverts).
Considering he built and sold software companies for hundreds of millions of dollars I would guess he knows quite a bit more about it than you.
We changed the URL from https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/39... to an article that has (a bit) more background.

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33400436, but no comments there)
It’s not about people being delicate, its about what you value more: saying whatever you feel like saying, or actually getting your point across.
The more inflammatory your tone, the less likely it is that you’ll change anyone’s mind, because they’ll be more likely to dismiss outright whatever you’re saying.
Exactly, loneliness isn’t really a problem for me. You can read in peace and don’t have to deal with any violence.
You could say the same about many other products. There is a social aspect to consumption that is not fulfilled by looking at your brokerage account.
it seems like you are expending a lot of effort looking for reasons he isnt just basically a bad / clueless boss in this case. its much more likely he is just blowing it.
Don’t listen to other people’s advice
The summary is incorrect. The bridge collapse was in Morbi District, Gujarat, not New Delhi.
Same here. 2.5k followers, probably tweet 4x per day. I do not give a shit about being verified. I have never so much as investigated what it would take to get verified. If I had >1M followers I suspect that I would also not give a shit.

Maybe if I were a brand? But... idk. I guess our company account could get verified, not sure I'd bother.

For very large companies it seems like it's in Twitter's interest to have them verified, less so for the company. ex: fake "Coinbase" accounts are all over Twitter telling you to send them a dm to reset their account or whatever, it's in Twitter's interest to reduce that content on their platform. Making it harder to differentiate "real Coinbase" vs "fake Coinbase" seems like it will only increase their problems.

Similarly, everything I have seen from Musk so far has made me consider alternatives. In fact I wonder if the time for Twitter has passed for me. It was excellent for growing my career initially but at this point I'm more likely to network elsewhere, more likely to ask for tech help elsewhere, etc.
Jack's launching Bluesky soon, which is apparently just repurposed Twitter stack.

Tribel looks like another option that many people have been talking about.

Lately, I've been spending more time on Reddit.

Another option is to replacement Twitter with ... nothing.

Food for thought.
Somehow we equate sparkling wine with champagne, but there are so many other sparkling wines in France alone that are at least as good as champagne. If the weather demands it, I am quite happy with a glass of crémant de Bourgogne, Vouvray, a Spanish cava, or otherwise the Italians make delightful prosecco.

If we are speaking in extremes, then yes, the nicest bottle of Champagne blanc-de-blancs might best the lot. However, that would indicate that we have largely fallen for the marketing trick. Champagne as an AOC has paid a lot to keep it exclusive. Meanwhile, neighboring vignerons with terrific bottles are locked out and can't sell their bottles for half what a mediocre champagne goes for.
POTS had massive costs to achieve that low latency. And it's quality over long distances was suspect. It may have also held back innovation because of bad regulation and inertia.
Not the person you’re responding to, but I spent a ton of time using SunView and peers too. I don’t see much lost in terms of usability: I’m pretty happy with modern interfaces compared to the old ones. My biggest complaint about new systems is that I can’t quickly throw together a GUI based program with the ease I could on those systems. It wasn’t a big deal to just write a simple C program to make a program with a GUI, even if it was a bit ugly and crude. These days the few times I’ve tried I just give up: too many abstraction layers, too much complexity, too high of a learning curve wading through poor documentation. The closest I’ve found that feels as easy as those old UI systems are libraries like FLTK, but that adds a dependency versus just writing something that targets the UI that the system provides and has zero third party dependencies.
Verification isn’t/wasn’t (supposed to be) about how often you used the platform.

It was so journalists and celebrities and such could be identified and you could tell if you were intersecting with the genuine article or a fake account impersonating them.

90 days to sign up before people lose their check mark. So 90 days until the clones come out.

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitter is now in and desperately needing money. Or getting back at all the journalists (a huge chunk of verified users) who Musk seems to hate.

3 days. It took 3 days to make a colossally stupid official policy change.

Also? Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel.

Oh right. Musk.
> Is Google something to aspire to?

They'll still have better insight on the subject than your average joe blow startup.
It's been available for a very long time from the homebrew app list.

https://rootmy.tv
Isn't that illegal when it comes to hiring employees?
That balance is going great given Elon's recent content on Twitter /s.

"Blatantly left leaning" is a joke. My trans friends wouldn't receive constant drive by harassment if that were the case.
What benefits do you see in PowerShell comparing to things like Bash and Python? Genuine curiosity.
Insufficient adoption is the cudgel that murders most good web work. Another fine effort given an order of magnitude less soak time & exploration time than it deserves.

The web platform cannot be run like an app platform: hockeystick adoption in 18 months or death. But right now we rely on corporate patrons (browser makers) to invest in & support the vast vast majority of progress on the web. The time domains don't match up. Yet there are no examples of alternative ways we might support & fund such core vital human communications.
Don’t mean to be sexist but in my personal experience wives would consider cable conduit across a nicely painted wall in a nicely decorated room a hard no.
It would still be free for you. What's the conflict?
A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo for a blue checkmark is more opening themselves to being shamefully dunked on than anything else.
My first take was to agree with you. But after a bit of thought I'm not so sure. I've been talking to friends and neighbors, and there is a lot of anger building of late about [inflation, crime, government handling of Covid, media aligned with government] that makes me think more people will be supporting alternate voices because the entrenched power is so disliked. Like literally any alternate voice will stand out, even with stumbles and flaws.
Yeah that's fair. A CCD sensor basically converts individual photons to electrical charges. What Tesla has said they've done is thrown away all the traditional image signal processing & post-processing which often includes a lot of exposure-related averaging.

You're right though that we don't typically use real-time neural networks that operate based upon spike rate, so an interval needs to be chosen for photon counting which could be considered a kind of exposure and it is critical that the interval be short enough to avoid saturation.
People who have drunk the musk Kool aid, so to speak.

It’s a dick move by it is also an excellent way to filter out employees who have any semblance of work life balance or don’t think that Musk shits diamonds.
I am excited it seems it'll be official soon, but it's been on the homebrew channel a long time:

https://rootmy.tv/
> Musk is brutally honest - with the people he works with, with the investors, with his followers on twitter and everyone. He is brutally honest by letting them know on their face what he thinks is right and wrong.

He is brutally honest when it benefits him. But he is completely willing to lie when it suits him. See:

https://elonsbrokenpromises.com/

Or search for "Musk broken promise" or "Musk failed prediction" to see many other examples. You might argue that, "Well, he honestly intended these things to pass." But at his level of power, I believe there is a moral obligation to be reliable in one's public predictions.
VeinViewer technology helps physicians and nurses see a patient's veins [video]
This does spark a thought in me - at some point Telsa could create a proper test, with a portion of their drivers being asked to not use self-driving for a month, say. Or a free trial for a month that only half of Tesla users not already subscribed (randomly chosen) are eligible for.
As a Canadian travelling to the US for the first time in 2+ years due to COVID, I had a very odd experience in the Minneapolis airport. My meal was clearly done, I'd said I was ready for the bill, but 10 minutes later... nothing. I flagged down the waitress, and she was equally confused that I was still at my table!

I was expecting a wireless terminal, or at least a "come to the cash when you're ready". Wireless units were probably at 75% adoption in early 2020, and went to 100% when things started to reopen as a (perceived at least) way to minimize intermingling among patrons. When I mentioned I was surprised the credit card wasn't wireless (and also did tipping on paper, not in the terminal), the waitress said she'd never even seen a wireless terminal before!

Growing up, tech in Canada always seemed to lag behind the US, and it's weird to see it the other way around.
It is really a thing for personal and commercial brands. You don't need it, evidently. Considering it's intended to prevent impersonation, making it a paid feature isn't an awesome idea unless there still is a documentation verification step.
I'm pretty sure Twitter software engineers are considered more elite than Tesla engineers in the Valley.
Seems to me he did it to avoid what would come out in the lawsuit.

What was so bad he was desperate enough to take on a $44B boondoggle of a purchase (he’s a bad fit, it wasn’t worth near that) to keep off the official record.

What did he do??? What would be that bad?
It’s waymo able to
I want to derive a Model type with methods from a Row type so I can write something like `const openDiscussions = blockModel.getContent({ where: c => c.getType() !== “page” }).andRecurse().getDiscussions({ where: d => !d.getResolvedAt() })` given an input row type like `type BlockRow = { id: BlockId, type: “page” | “text”, content?: BlockId[], discussions?: DiscussionId[] }; type DiscussionRow = { id: DiscussionId, resolvedAt?: Date }`
Agree on the utility for corporations of having an "official" account to guard against impersonators. But if Twitter becomes a ghost town it probably won't even matter if you're verified or not.
> At first this bugged me, but then it was pointed out that if you could just move your posts you could also potentially violate the moderation rules of the host you were moving to. So it makes some sense.

So moderate it the same as if you reposted everything? I don't understand.
Were you paying for Twitter Blue up until now?
This looks great!

A somewhat tangential question: what are the ways KYC can be made less vulnerable to identity theft? Do people who verify the uploaded document use some automated government services to check for stolen documents?

It seems like a process like the one in this flow (upload a document and a selfie) is useless if a document is stolen (since in most cases you can just look up the person's social account and download their selfie). And even worse, it would give a badge of authenticity to the scammer.

And if the backend people do use some government service to verify the document, then what is the value of submitting a selfie?
https://archive.ph/gVP7I
>A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo is more opening themselves to being dunked on than anything else.

That says a lot about those Twitter users.
PDF menus, as well. In 2006, I built some hardware to scan Bluetooth IDs and published a little appliance to record them at the front of one of our restaurants and push a menu with a coupon to uniques.

Customers were ambivalent at best. I ended up hating it, though. It was a cool idea at the time, people were still wearing Bluetooth earpieces and IR beaming each other their contact cards after all, but it was easy to decide that as non-opt-in data collection, it violated volition.

QR code menus don't all suck, but if you're going to do it, have house wifi, make the codes unique to the tables, and just throw up a captive portal patrons can go ahead and order from. Go "serverless" or not at all.
One the one hand, it seems like a bad deal because people do that for free all the time.

On the other hand, $44 billion is nothing to the extremely wealthy. Money stops having any real value well before you have a net worth in the billions.
I think the end of that paragraph is more interesting.

> She is not dumb; she is very female, disturbingly so.

It is interesting how things change over time. The undercurrent in the character description for both of the women has big "she's real competent for a woman" vibes. I'm sure they were trying to be progressive and just stumbled over the attitudes of the era. Hey, we'll all be there some day, right?
> Is Tesla really optimizing for best performance at any cost or are they optimizing making more money and selling that to us as an improvement?

More likely they had a fixed budget and optimized with that constraint, if they made a rigorous decision at all. But this is guesswork.

I'm not speculating about how Tesla made the decision, just commenting on Karpathy's answer. His answer is correct even if it isn't true, i.e. even if it isn't what Tesla actually did.

There are plenty of well-known analogs, like the mythical man-month. We all know that throwing more x at a problem is routinely counterproductive, even without cost as a constraint.
This is a really awesome application of GPT-3. You should definitely consider turning this into a service and adding the ability to generate Anki decks or flash cards from summary notes.

That coupled with the quizzing capability could be huge for students in medical school for example.
"Elon Musk (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to take seriously the possibility that this will end up being one of the funniest things that’s ever happened."

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-twitter/
I think you’re right about the pressure transfer lettering. Letraset was introduced in 1961, and it looks like their “Brush Script” font. This would have been cutting edge graphic design when Roddenberry wrote it!
> That’s likely overly cautious

I'm not in the country shown on your map. The area of Canada I'm in would be somewhere roughly around the 90" line on that map. It's between the 2000 and 2500 lines on this map [1] (the seasonal property is around a 1500 contour)

The municipalities pay for the main to be installed. They wouldn't spec it to be 8' (2.4m) deep if it didn't need to be.

edit: the contours in my source are not mm of freezing depth, but degree-days of freezing. However, 2500 DDOF corresponds[2] with 70" of frost penetration, while the 1500 DDOF corresponds with 55". So the required bury depths are slightly but not significantly conservative

[1] https://www.urecon.com/applications/images/canadian_map_lrg....

[2] 1962 source: https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/ft/?id=15f6f5eb-...
I'm one of the more anti union posters on HN.

If I worked at Twitter, I'd be trying to organize a union.

First demand: No one gets fired when Musk takes one too many bong hits.

Second demand: 99% of profits go to employee bonuses moving forward + 3x salary cap for execs.

Third demand: Employees get to vote on the new "diverse viewpoints" censorship board membership.
Ask HN: Who Invented CSS?
Google suggests a person who suggested the idea, who was the first to implement it at a decent scale?