skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an absurd concern. Children are already the most at-risk on our roads right now, with humans behind the wheel. We're already living your nightmare. The rise of autonomous vehicles isn't going to increase the likelihood of basketballs accidentally bouncing into the street. Nor will it cause a wild swing in the demographic mix of people using pedestrian crossings.

By the time they're widely deployed, autonomous vehicles aren't going to be a little bit safer than the average human driver. They will have to be superior by at least one order of magnitude. As in, the number of deaths per million miles at least 10X lower than the human average.

I think one order of magnitude is the least we should demand. I would consider it a rather low bar. I suspect that it'd need to be more like two orders of magnitude in order to retain sufficient community consent.

So if that's the threshold of acceptability, then we'd be talking about slashing deaths by 90% or possibly even 99%. Either way, autonomous vehicles could kill children exclusively and they'd still be safer around children than human drivers.
Yes. That’s what “expert” means.
Engineers should ideally be working directly with in-house counsel or external specialists under these circumstances.

This isn't just applicable to some niche organisations working within e.g. finance (though there's likely to be a higher regulatory burden there), engineers need a basic understanding of something like GDPR to do their job because it impacts every organisation handling personal information in any form.
The positive part of this is that at least in some degree this will lead to more people going off-grid and the companies losing customers, a win both for general survivability and the need to legitimize unreliable centralized poo you have dependence on.
2.5 years of effort but the author certainly didn't spend even 2.5 mins writing code for more descriptive outputs. Meanwhile I'm also training in order to find how well it works but I only have a small GPU. I would appreciate if someone could provide a trained model.
A Wire Across the Ocean
Next UK election is set to be most unequal for over 60 years, finds IPPR
In extremely regulated environments you would typically have someone with legal background to boil down the requirements into their absolute essence and give them to the dev team.
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> In that scenario, who is driving product requirements?

The developer teams, who else? You build it, you need to know what you are building, right? I find it fascinating that the dev community that gobbled so easily "You build it, you run it", doesn't question why we are not being trusted with knowing and determining what to be built in the first place.

> For example, in an area with strict financial/regulatory compliance laws...

How often do you have a Product Manager who is an expert in regulatory/compliance laws and has contacts with government agencies?

Usually the Product Manager is Josh, who just finished uni, and a two weeks product manager course. They will have to ask experts, and then translate that to the devs. It's much more efficient to let the devs ask the experts, which will let the devs themselves become well versed in the domain over time.

I happen to work in a highly regulated industry, and we have an in house law expert, and an in house medical compliance team.

None of these roles are embedded in the development teams though, they are simply asked for advice rather than manage the engineers (which would be insane).

That is how it should be.
Talk to a tax attorney where you live, ideally someone well versed in such constructs. It can get very complicated if you don't live where your company is incorporated. When opening a company in Austria, I read about fun EU edge cases when the seat of the company (where the leadership resides) is abroad in respect to the incorporation country and the company needed to register a branch office where the seat is. This had weird tax implications. The place where the services are rendered and the potential VAT you need to pay can also change due to this. Again, talk to a/multiple tax attorneys.
Tangent, but I just finished a wiki rabbit hole from this link you provided, very interesting read, but also found out that there is one species of millipede that actually has 1000+ legs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumillipes
"...is due to the law not catching up to technology..."

Tragically, it's not only in this area that governments are woefully behind. Smart operators and Big Tech are so far ahead in the IT/communications game that dismantling many of the most egregious aspects of it will be nigh on impossible. Users are now addicted to so-called free services etc. to such an extent that weening them off them just isn't practical.

Even if governments were now 100% committed to fixing the problems—which they aren't by a long shot—then it'd still take many decades to fix.
This is a piece of trolling parodying that old video about the electric company big-wig defending his right to profits right?
This is an involved party in my analysis.
I agree with the point you’re making. I wonder if there’s a disconnect here based on the size and complexity of some of the businesses different commenters are working in.
Every time I’ve worked on financial aid, HR, or financials, the PM has been an expert in those areas. I couldn’t do my job otherwise (or, I have to fill their shoes).
Lovely. Imagine someone trying to explain why a radio station is named C*T lmao, it would get changed so fast.
Most people who dislike political people are failing to place the blame on the right actor. Sounds like this engineer has recognized how to get rewarded at their job and has adjusted their behavior to fit. The actual root problem is that this reward system fails to recognize the quiet everyday progress required to make something great.
As someone living in Texas, I can assure you Texans do not take kindly to the idea of one of our radio stations being called 'small'
It works well, for example with Monero's proof of work algorithm that is purposely designed for consumer hardware. There was an irrational turn against it because some websites did it without consent. I would so much prefer to mine to view a site than have to be exposed to ads and captchas...
Only for those logged in, because we bypass caches/cdn. Logout helps both you and HN in these cases.
I was hoping for an evaluation of Radicle--the only forge that seemed to be doing something exciting and "new", and one I haven't had the time to really analyze yet--but... no such luck :(.
So you DO have a product manager. You might not call them that, but that’s exactly what they’re doing.
The population density is a bit of a factor. Like I live in a region in the US that is about the same size as Netherlands by area and has about 1/50th the population. And then if you go out west the difference gets starker than that.

Of course higher density parts of the US also don't really match up with the infrastructure that exists in Netherlands, but it's not unreasonable to expect the infrastructure in a given area to scale with the number of people in that area.
Familiarity breeds complacency. The longer people do something without having an accident, the sloppier they get.
You better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.
Same as in Canada! Older neighborhoods have mail delivered to the door, whereas newer neighborhoods have cluster boxes.
That doesn't work when you need dialysis. You can't simply walk into a shuttered clinic with a generator and demand they open up for business
There are plenty of reasons organisms die other than aging.

Accidental death as being cited here is certainly one, but also predation, disease, and intentional killing or maiming that leads to death from other organisms competing for the same resources, whether that be humans waging war, male oxen fighting for breeding rights, lions killing hyenas and cheetahs to maintain dominance over hunting territory, or plants that strangle out other plants to hoard scarce sunlight.

There are also plenty of animals that more or less die on purpose to make way for the next generation. A fair number of insects are designed to only ever go through one breeding cycle, including some that don't even have mouths because they come into adult form with the energy they need to reproduce and no more and that's all they'll ever get. The giant octopus spends a season fattening up so she can stay in the nest tending to her clutch while all of her eggs mature, never leaving and starving to death as she does so.

Life on the larger scale depends upon individuals themselves continually being born and dying to maintain the level of dynamic adaptability that allows life to flourish as local ecosystems and the planet at large change. A programmed maximum lifespan via aging is only one of many ways that happens.
Reference materials are very useful when you have problem and need solution. Books and articles do help lot in those cases. And being able or learning from the times you can't solve something and need support is what makes you an expert.

And then there is also keeping up with the current trends and best practises. You could be expert in some obsolete version of technology. And it could have been replaced in wide spread use with new version or different thing.

So some time spend on following podcasts or news articles or documentaries is useful, but I would say this is minor compared to actually doing the thing.
Submissive Developers
Navigating the behavioral dynamics within a software development team is as crucial as managing the technical aspects. Among these dynamics, you might encounter developers who tend towards submissiveness.
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Thank you. Could you give summarize the main differences in approach between dinit and S6? I find S6 a stellar init system, so I'm interested.
You can install other browsers on ChromeOS in the Linux VM.
Would’ve been curious for the authors take on OneDev as well.
How do you usually install software? Always building from source?

It's interesting to say that it's "just another UNIX flavour" when the most common flavours today all have some form of package management.
They're one brighter
you can upload 750GB a day, you can download 10TB a day.

in about 2 months, I was able to get out over 100TB a data (using a 500mbps connection, wasn't downloading 24/7 but close to somewhere in the 25-50% of the time, and that math does check out).
Nice

Does this require expertise in typescript/react?
Probably. My employer has >5000 employees, ~2500 of whom are in the CTO org. We serve an international market, so there’s simply no way for a team of engineers to deeply understand all the regulations that impact their area.
Another key factor: NASA has no control over its funding (and thus vision) it’s at the mercy of congress each year which makes planning and financing large projects hard. They have projects and designs imposed from above regardless of the scientific or engineering benefit.
What founders, managers, and engineers share is the team responsibility for founding, managing, and engineering the product and its value proposition. A product's value proposition may be mostly subjective but is easily made objective by cost/revenue ratio.
It can play movies. You need software that supports playback. This is true of DVD too although for awhile MS bundled one with Windows and Apple with Mac OS X. These days MS doesn't and you need to download one separately. A program like PowerDVD or WinDVD will let you play both.
There are lots of government programs for kids if you don't work. Medicaid and SNAP for example.
I work in one of those environments and we do have those people (lawyers). The next question is how should we prioritize solving for potential legal risk vs reliability risk vs new feature work. You’d expect it’s black and white, I promise you it’s not. The PM has to figure that out.
Each time a woman gave birth she had something like a 1-2% chance of dying. This suppressed the life expectancy of adults.
The site looks fantastic and I love the logo. Crisp and clever.
Best of luck with the site (great domain name)
Typically where you have your tax residence (where you live), but that also depends on the treaties between the two countries.
> OLVID App by the French Government

Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.
Well you see, this wouldn’t be a problem at all if we just didn’t have the humans involved. No need for concern!
"In the history of Western culture no legal system has ever made a more valiant effort to perfect its safeguards and thereby to exclude completely the possibility of mistaken conviction"

Reminds me of a law that was repealed recently in Germany.

They wanted to "reopen" cases where people were already found not guilty, when new technology would find new evidence.

In one case, a murderer was found not guilty, and later they had DNA analysis that would have proven his guilt. The new law would have put him behind bars.

However, the federal constitutional court repealed the law, as the constitution forbids to convict someone two times for the same crime. They said legal certainty was more important than finding the truth.
Coincidentally, I've been mulling the same idea for a week now. A self-hostable source forge + registry to serve artifacts would be amazing.

I think the only thing you'd lose is the 'social' aspects of GitHub, but I believe that can be made up with a combination of rss feeds (?), ActivityPub etc.
I completely disagree with this notion. Many cannot afford it, most can easily.

If you are driving a relatively modern car and have no small $350 gas generator at home for emergencies I absolutely question your priorities in life.

Nearly everyone in the nation could come up with $500 over a few years. They simply choose to spend it elsewhere.

Home owners have utterly zero excuses. It should be the first thing you buy after your home.
Fusion 360 Toolbar and Shortcuts Editor add-in
Add-in created by me to map keyboard shortcuts to "any" command in Fusion 360. Combine with Extra Shortcuts add-in to get some more mappable commands. ( https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=89386126... )

OS: Windows
The third part of Neal Stephenson's novel Seveneves [1] has a neat application of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
I think this is _the_ key point. ERCOT not being accountable to anyone except the legislature means that things like this will keep happening.
If you are using cloudflare DNS for accessing archive.is, you will get that too. archive.is name resolution is broken, and even if you pass the captcha you will go back to the same page, giving the illusion that it didn't pass.
Nods in agreement
That's not a product manager. That's a domain expert. You might have to check some regulatory checkboxes:

- financial

- medical

- data protection

and you might need different experts' opinion for that. Do you suggest that they are all product managers?
> The developer teams, who else? You build it, you need to know what you are building, right? I find it fascinating that the dev community that gobbled so easily "You build it, you run it", doesn't question why we are not being trusted with knowing and determining what to be built in the first place.

Absolutely this. And the engineering teams should have visibility of customer support and other functions to understand common pain points, causes of churn and opportunities for additional revenue-generating functionality. That doesn't mean answering run-of-the-mill questions or doing refunds all day, but it does mean talking to prospects, looking at escalated problems and keeping an eye on the wider industry.
This is a great read. It explains in detail the process of enabling debug symbols and using perf to root cause a performance issue.

I've never done this type of work, but probably will in the future now that I have an example to follow.
I don’t think anyone cares about what is the recall’s cost to Tesla owners. They care about the fact there are two million unsafe vehicles driving around at high speed near their loved ones. Especially ones driven by people who respond to such complaints with, “ehrm actually it just updated overnight so it wasn’t even a hassle for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
If I consult a solicitor about data protection regulation and they tell me what I need to build to satisfy the requirements of soft opt-in under PECR, that does not make them a product manager!
Ooh, sounds like what alba- oh here's the section on albatrosses. Super interesting, I was always dubious of those claims of "this bird only lands every 6 months" and the like, then I learned about the spiral glide pattern between two layers of windshear. It's fascinating (if no longer suprising) all the ways that nature has learned to harvest energy from the environment.
It does not suprise me since lately I have a lot of mistakes with CAPTCHAs. Mainly the ones with characters with different colors, superposed, and rotated. I think there are some that we as humans just guess because the final image is not clear enough.

I think in the same way AI can beat us recognizing unfocused photos.
This is not surprising. After Blair/Blunket failed to get the ID card introduced in the late noughties, the voter registration procedure started to require one's National Insurance number (never intended for this purpose), all very handy for a de facto national database. I know quite a few people who stopped registering to vote then. Now the Tories have introduced an ID requirement (passport or similar) in the polling stations in addition to the voting card sent to your address. Obviously intended to dissuade the poor and marginal, but rather backfired in also disproportionately discouraging the old, their natural electoral base.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...
Legal immunity is pretty sweet. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't demanded this of states along with the other tax breaks and free stuff they expect to get when opening a new headquarters or major dist center.

Is there like just a form you fill out to get this?
It's so much worse now. Ever tried installing a different browser on Win11 now? Edge tries to dark pattern all your info with 10 sneaky popups when you first open it. Then on Chrome's website Edge will show a popup indicating that Edge is better, and you should use Edge instead. Then setting Chrome to be default is also a pain, as you have to do that manually for each file type and protocol now.
Not understanding why something doesn't work on other machines could eventually bite you in the ass. Masking a potential failure mode rarely leads to good outcomes.
The split between retail and wholesale puts the retail arms at the mercy of wholesale. This went all the way up the line to gas providers, who just decided to declare force majeure and closed up shop. Vistra tried desperately to keep the power on, and wound up losing over $1 billion for their troubles.

Texas has a great system under normal conditions that has incentivized a ton of solar and Panhandle wind, but it is not built for severe conditions.
It feels like your comment is about 10 years too late, most people here are now very sour towards Google. They no longer have their sterling "good guy" reputation.
So basically the blocker is the cost of having a processor and sufficient memory in the printer? Judging from the smartphones the bom of that would be like less than $10?

I saw that a Motorola g play smartphone with MT6765 and 3gb of ram is <$70.
I work in the medical field which is fairly heavily regulated as well. My teams have been able to do our job without having a dedicated medical compliance expert as their PM.

We just have a medical compliance team and ask them for input, but they most certainly don't tell us what to build nor drive the product direction.

In short, I question the need of a PM, not the need for domain experts (law,financials,etc).
And you can even get AirPrint compatibility. My Samsung laser printer driver wasn't working on Apple Silicon anymore (the printer is from 2007) but since CUPS supports it and AirPrint doesn't seem to require too much from a printer I was able to get it working fine with a Pi. And it's handier to use than ever before.

I guess Windows/Android have something similar.
Games in the GPU Shaders (2021)
>Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people.

I wonder what not telling it to avoid altering unseen people does.
That's exactly where we are at now, it's not like you can tell users to use something else whenever Safari breaks something on every new release, you have to use workarounds.
> And the rest as they say, is a parade of horribles

The most ‘fun’ of these was when Microsoft marketing came up with the “Plug and Play” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play), and the engineers had to implement it for this port.

So, you have a port designed so that writing anything to it prints a character, but you somehow have to figure out what (if anything) is attached to it without making a printer attached to it print anything, a CD Writer to write, a hard disk to lock up, etc, with each device possibly having its own devious way of doing two-way communication over that port (by the time Windows 95 came out, how to do that was more or less settled, but users still had tons of old hardware and/or older parallel ports that behaved slightly differently)

If not for the time pressure to ship something, I think it must have been fun to work in the Microsoft department developing that feature with hundreds of obscure parallel port devices.

And of course, it never worked perfectly. How could it? I know people who had a device that erroneously got detected as a tape drive, making ¿Windows NT 4? pop up some dialog for attaching it.
I understand why something doesn't work: They have an incompatible version of some dependency.
Huh? The "last couple of hundred million years" involves all current above sea-level landmass being subducted back into the mantle - probably more than once. We're talking about the Himalayas rising up and going back into the magma of the Earth's mantle and rising up again.

I am really curious what kind of sign you envision will survive that onslaught.
“mainstream metaphysics” what??
Ask HN: Is offshoring to India helping Russia?
I am seeing many tech companies offshore or outsource product development used in critical U.S. infrastructure to India. However, I am concerned that while companies that may support Ukraine may be fueling Indias ability to buy Russian items under sanctions such as oil. Not to mention the country has also abstained from votes to condemn Russia.

Is this true? Can this be stopped?
Having tried GitHub, GitLab, Source Hut, Codeberg, and BitBucket (RIP), I think the only serious options are GitHub, GitLab self hosted, and Source Hut.

GitHub owned by MSFT aside, and also putting their AI push _also_ aside, GitHub has things like Sponsors, Dependabot, and code scanning that you won't find anywhere else. They sure are luring you into ecosystems that require a huge escape velocity, but GitHub serves as less-friction entry point to open source software.

GitLab self hosting is also nice and flexible, but it has a more "enterprise open source" feeling to it. Debian and Drupal can take advantage of it, but I don't see myself hosting mini projects like my mini CSS library that is also used by three other strangers.

Source Hut is really nice too. Admittedly I don't like email based workflows, so I haven't really thought about moving anything there. But Source Hut has "unlisted" repos, which I thought was really clever and missing from other forges.