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This is potentially precedent as a legal blocker for public adoption of self-driving cars. If I am to serve a 1 year prison sentence for faulty code or a deprecated LIDAR sensor, I don't see in what scenario I would be willing to leave my fate in the hands of a self-driving car manufacturer. Just as in the case of a chauffeur, if they are driving and commit vehicular manslaughter, I would not expect to be deemed guilty.

It seems to me that it would be the benefit of self-driving car companies to own up to liability as it is to their benefit of achieving widespread adoption. For example, Volvo is in line with this idea and has publicly stated that they would accept full liability in fully autonomous operation modes[0].

In this case, I do think that some liability lies with the driver - as they were tasked specifically with prevent situations like this. What is not clear is whether or not this task is even humanly feasible given reaction times, and based off of this, whether or not Uber has been criminally negligible. Given this, I am surprised that the prosecutor seems to have absolved Uber of any blame.

[0] https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...

Not to be too pessimistic, but there's no reason that there should only be one "Great Filter". There could easily be multiple astronomically improbable events barring interstellar civilizations from bearing fruition. It might be just as improbable for unicellular life to form as it is for unicellular life to beget multicellular life, so on and so forth.

From a friend, I've heard great things about the treatment they got as part of The Animation Guild, and I imagine that that demographic of artists and creators is quite similar to the "young starry eyed people" going into the game industry. In fact, there's likely a good amount of overlap of artists that have worked in both (supported slightly by anecdata of friends who are 3d artists).

I recall reading some of his unpublished writings after they were leaked on what.cd, and I'm sure if you dig around some you'd be able to find mirrors somewhere on the web. Included in the leak was "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", the supposed prequel to "Catcher in the Rye". The leaker claimed something like a 6TB(!) bounty for leaking it too.

It's not an uncommon tactic to give homeless one-way tickets to other cities. In fact, San Francisco actively does it as well [0]. It doesn't seem like San Francisco and cities like it are particularly targeted for this kind of activity. The only case I can recall is in the case of Nevada intentionally sending mental patients to SF which was settled out of court[1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

[0] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18375280

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa...

Somewhat related to smell, here's a fun chemical that you might not have heard about: thioacetone. Thioacetone (and some other organosulfur compounds) are extremely malodorous. During distillation of this chemical in the German city of Freiburg, it resulted in vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness within a radius of 0.75km of the laboratory. It's also reported to smell worse when diluted and the odor is referred to as "fearful".[0]

[0] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2009/06/11/thi...

Check out other works in Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With series for other similarly dangerous chemicals. I first learned of thioacetone from him and have seen other articles of his floating around HN as well.

Per whockey's comment here[0], it doesn't seem like Plaid is selling your data directly to 3rd parties - though it doesn't prevent the developers you're giving your data to from selling it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655507

This seems intuitively incorrect especially if insomnia is linked "with illnesses such as dementia and depression". If they are controlling for these "confounding factors", it's highly possible that they're just eliminating the side effects of insomnia that result in an early death. It would be intuitive that someone that suffers from insomnia but suffers none of the major side effects probably wouldn't have a higher mortality rate. If they remove these controls, the results might look very different. If anyone can find the full text of the study, it'd be nice to look at.

This also flies in the face of things like Fatal Familial Insomnia and Sporadic Fatal Insomnia where patients soon die after suffering though months and months of insomnia[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia

This article was written by K&J Magnetics.

I remember seeing this in the Wild Wild West[0] movie from 1999. It's curious seeing the history behind it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8

I don't know much when it comes to audio amp design, but this reminds me greatly of the O2 headphone amp[0] - that anecdotally a few of my friends have soldered for their personal use.

[0] http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html

A great book on this subject is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. His theory of the archetypal hero and the theory of the monomyth is a great influence on anlyses like this one (and also on some artistic works - including a small film series known as Star Wars). It's fantastic to see these natural language processing techniques applied to this topic.

This reminded me of a YouTube channel where a maker crafts knives out of various substances (including one made from Lignum Vitae [0]). He recently began measuring the Mohs' hardness of the different knives he makes - though I'm not sure exactly at which video that starts.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKH63_r0OCA

I would say that your mind already looks for fictitious narratives naturally. Cause is not so correlated with effect in reality, but we still attempt to apply myth and storylines (this especially applies with histories as they are usually told).

I also find that there is deeper meaning in analyzing fiction as to how its mythologies can be applied to personal growth and the journey towards it. I recommend reading Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces to help engender this critical view of thought when thinking about the templating of fiction.

I recommend you read "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker. It is at length a book on death anxiety and how humans attempt to cope with the subject.

No, it succeeded in confirming the existence of the Higgs boson. In fact, that's largely the reason Higgs and Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.

I highly suggest installing f.lux[1] on your computer and using a similar app on your phone like Twilight[2]. They've done absolute wonders for my sleep schedule and I actually feel noticeably sleepier as the night goes on when using them. And occasionally when I do turn them off (when working late at night), I feel more awake and alert which was an unexpected plus for when I'm under crunch but an unwanted side effect when I'm trying to get a good night's rest.

[1] https://justgetflux.com/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...

Seconding this. The first thing that came to my mind when reading this article was Hanabi - which is a fantastic game.

There's also a number of fun papers out there about Hanabi:

Hanabi is NP-Complete, Even for Cheaters Who Look at Their Cards : http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/5864/pdf/4.pdf

Playing Hanabi Near-Optimally: http://www.mi.parisdescartes.fr/~bouzy/publications/bouzy-ha... (Though maybe skip this one if you intend to play the game for fun with friends)

I highly recommend reading gwern[1] if one is interested in the current state of what nootropics are being used/considered significant. It is anecdotal, but also includes many references to literature to those more inclined.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics

It's already happening. After Google Glass bombed as a consumer product, they relaunched focusing on industrial applications[1].

[1] https://x.company/glass/

Link to previous HN discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651510

Here is the original article from The Washington Post (this appears to be a rehost by Mercury News): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...

It contains more charts and graphics, but also makes use of parallax scrolling that some may find annoying.

I was authenticated when I archived the page.

Link to the paper: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/Ag...

Brickplayer[1] is the closest product that matches your description that I can find. If anyone is interested in a similar product, I also stumbled upon Teifoc[2] which seems to be a more modern analogue produced in Germany.

[1]https://www.brickplayer.co.uk/Photos/The-Kits/1

[2]http://www.eitechtoys.com/teifoc/

This reminds me of a particular article[1] I read on HN on how doctors themselves prefer to approach end-of-life care and the disconnect between the treatment patients and their families usually opt for.

[1] http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...

The technique is known as "parallax scrolling". Not sure on the exact tech, but here's an example library: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr

This was posted two days ago and discussed extensively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107

If you set up Google Voice on your phone, it satisfies that specific feature that you mention.