skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't need the robots to be perfect to get them on the road. We just need them to be safer than human drivers.

> That is a much lower bar to meet.

First, maybe.

I don't doubt that auto-autos will be able to handle anything that's "in the book", and that, if we set it up right, "the book" will be constantly expanding and becoming more comprehensive as each machine in the fleet shares its history in near-realtime and offline processors integrate the data into new stimulus-response patterns or whatever. Etc. Handwave.

But I also suspect that driving safely IRL requires GAI. (After all, we evolved GAI to deal with the world, eh? If the world were simpler we would be dumber, no?)

Anyhow, let's grant the point for the sake of discussion:

> We just need them to be safer than human drivers.

Okay, fine... How do you know when they pass that point?

Until we are sure that's the case, don't test them on the public roads with moms and dads and kids and old people and cats and dogs, eh? eh?

- - - -

And what about the nerf golf cart?

I would love to have a machine into which I could confidently place my mother, who is suffering from dementia and can no longer drive or even ride the bus by herself, and have it transport her safely to and from, say, an appointment with her doctor.

That machine doesn't have to travel more than 5-10 kph.

One of the basic principles of safe auto-autos is that they should never travel faster than they can stop. Meaning, whatever the conditions, the aa should be 100% "confident" that it could stop before a collision, even if that means traveling at a walking pace. (If this isn't the case then you have built a killer robot whatever else it is. And it won't even protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space.)

That's what I mean about self-driving cars being a techno-fetish. We could build something tomorrow that wouldn't be able to kill people and sell it, but we're obsessed with speed and don't even realize it. We're blinded by visions of driving Knight Industries Two Thousand.
In addition to what the others said there's another point: async fn's implement Future, otherwise you wouldn't be able to use them. So it's essential for Future to be in the standard library so that async fn can work.
You’re just comically wrong. Progressives control the universities. Right wingers are poor and disempowered. A right winger punching a progressive is punching up.
>> Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard?

> Yes

No. I like it. To me it feels precise enough for a laptop keyboard, and better than the good but mushy previous version, with which I could have tactile feedback but no key event from time to time.

The only issue I have with it is the Damocles sword of reliability (crossing fingers here, it's been perfectly fine for now) and the up/down arrow keys but I'm a liberal user of vim as an editor and generally emacs shortcuts so it doesn't bother me too much.
> This article repeats the claim that the MCAS software was faulty, but is there any evidence of coding-level errors?

No, there isn't. The Verge (and IIRC other sources) have reported that the crashes were due to failures in the angle of attack (AoA) sensors. No program in the world is going to give you correct output with garbage input.

Verge link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18518176/boeing-737-max-cr...
The MCAS is a good example, why certain software must not be outsourced. Implementing the software correctly to spec isn't enough, you need enough understanding of the application to question the spec itself.
I wouldn't say you need to reject capitalism, just the form of catastrophy captalism that has become so popular.
I'm not comparing platonic ideals of connectors, I'm talking about the actual physical product that shipped. Magsafe was a proprietary connector attached to a fixed, non-removable cable. That cable had noted flaws.

Whereas USB-C is a standard connector on a removable cable.
Reading some of the comments right here, it’s interesting watching some eat it right up and go right along with it.

Facebook is doing a lot with user data I have serious problems with. An accessibility feature like his probably ranks dead last or close to it.
How about self hosted, open source Countly? It’s for both web and mobile: https://github.com/countly/countly-server
Allowing home searches without warrant, mass surveillance without limitation, limits on free speech with criminal penalties, arresting reporters and torturing them to reveal sources - these are all things that may save just one life.
Sometimes it’s an enterprising vet at fault: oh, your pet has ______ and needs a special diet containing _____, which we just happen to sell and you can’t find at a big box store.

Now the vet has turned your pet into a recurring revenue source beyond labour-intensive checkups.

It’s kinda like Luxxottica: a lot of their brands are only available through brick and mortal clinics. You can’t buy them through an online provider because they won’t sell to them.
eGPU most likely... With Sierra even NVidia worked fine, from High Sierra it's a disaster.
Almost half of my Apple cords are frayed, in the same spot, right next to their poor excuse for strain relief. Apple has a chronic problem with proper strain relief, and seem unwilling to fix it. Every other cord manufacturer on Earth has solved this problem with designs like this: [1]. Why Apple won't follow suit is beyond me. Maybe the appearance of it offends the sensitivities of one of their ID artists.

1: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Jg9AjCdOL...
That might guarantee that the company remains a money-loser, dependent on the government forever.
Through my genius I've come to the conclusion that primes are related to entropy. There is no hope.
"I" of IoT literally means internet. How does barring your IoT devices from communicating over the Internet make sense? Wouldn't it make total sense to get rid of all your IoT devices instead?
There is an article on freakonomics[1] from 2017 analyzing the Wikipedia entries to see how many of the US's years of history the country has been at war.

Regardless of whether you want to agree or disagree. The wikipedia article[2] is pretty accurate on the active/inactive wars. So yes, whoever said this is pretty Euro/Westerncentric is right.

[1] https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
> WWII was the last attempt to capture the wealth of developed nations by invading them

What about Russia invading Ukraine?
Make sure they don't fry your power adapter - some USB-C magsafes like to do that upon disconnecting the cable from magsafe area.
> "Can you help me understand why you believe that Apple needed to move to USB-C to on the computer end in order to make a cable removable at the power supply end?"

The thing is, once you make the cable detachable at both ends, it eliminates the need for MagSafe in the first place.

A USB-C laptop will not go flying across the room if someone trips on the cable, because the cable will detach at either or both ends before that happens.
Trick to Find Your Lost Cell Phone
Ctrl + F "China", 0 results

Oh? How can you talk about Boeing's current financial state and the trade tension between US and China?

https://fortune.com/2019/03/26/china-airbus-order-boeing/
Well,... for some people that seems to be the easiest way to distribute it to the whole (widely dispersed, extended) family.

What would you suggest as an alternative?
You can buy cords with USB-C on one end and USB-A or USB-B on the other end. No need to dump all of your devices.

> Also, try to find a true USB-C hub.

I don’t understand why USB-C hubs and USB-C on power strips don’t really exist yet. They would be very useful.
"a communication can be retained by CIA for longer than 5 years if it is enciphered"

nice, so basically all communications through popular chat apps these days.

no wonder they are asking for "backdoors" :)

what happens when quantum computing decrypts these all? if it's 15 years from now, do they just throw us all in prison retroactively for something we said 15 years ago?
https://usefathom.com/

At the moment only offers basic traffic analytics, but it's very simple and has a docker image if you want to host your own instance.

There is also a one click image for digital ocean, you can set this up on the smallest droplet ~$5 a month I think.

As for ethical, I have no idea
I have a friend who has done the "just get the cheapest thing" for the past few years. Unfortunately, the cheapest has been Rachel Ray Nutrish in the clearance bin, which is on the list.
Tesla's chance to be allowed to sell in WI is stopped at last second
Not that I want to brag, but, you can get past the captcha. You just have to mindlessly click everything (at least it worked for me. And yes, I should probably get a life, but I made this passed as UX research.)
look up BARF food, it's the best for the dog IMO, barely processed. we buy it in deep frozen big packs (essentialy frozen whole meat, not just some meat pasta) 1-2 times a month. The brand is Graf Barf, dunno if it's in the US.
>what happens when quantum computing decrypts these all? if it's 15 years from now, do they just throw us all in prison retroactively for something we said 15 years ago?

They're only gonna decrypt your messages if they want to throw you in prison. Welcome to arbitrary enforcement.
Probably cuz Walmart refuses to use AWS...
I have a Logitech MX Master 2S and it's actually gorgeous over Bluetooth. At least for work, haven't tried gaming.
I actually think that ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo is now much more innovative than recent MacBooks and I'll likely get one next year for a "travel Deep Learning" workstation with a great design (resembles classic 8-bit computers a bit).
More people die from choking on food every year in the USA than die from terrorism AND police.
France's Mersen raided by India's antitrust body – sources
Your comment prompted me to look at Rust's release history. In the whole of the history, I can spot maybe a handful of changes that made the language non-trivially harder for a beginner. Everything else either makes the language easier (by making things more predictable), or is a net neutral. Most of the language-level changes are about enabling current features to work in more scenarios, such that coming across new features tends to feel more like "oh I hadn't realised I could do this" than "what does syntax thing mean?"
We can already do this approximately (asymptotically): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

"The prime number theorem is equivalent to the statement that the nth prime number p_n satisfies

p_n ~ nlog(n)

the asymptotic notation meaning, again, that the relative error of this approximation approaches 0 as n increases without bound. For example, the 2^1017th prime number is 8512677386048191063, and (2^1017)log(2^1017) rounds to 7967418752291744388, a relative error of about 6.4%."
Are they losing money on it? Lowering prices to compete isn't a crime.
And waste 20 minutes.
I don't see anything in the linked article showing that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets, much less an intention on their part to exclude non-leftist content as a matter of policy.

What I do see here is an assumption of a political agenda based on what may not even be an exhaustive list of Scroll's list of publisher sites, likely based on a single graphic on their frontpage which contains 12 logos, of which four companies were mentioned here. Their about page[0] shows 24. Are all of these "leftist" outlets? Is their only relevant commonality left-wing political ideology?

Show me some evidence of non-crazy non-leftist publishers being rejected by this partnership due to their ideology and I'll agree it's odd. Until then it just looks like confirmation bias to me.

[0]https://scroll.com/about
They will work fine today, too.
The alloc crate stabilization should provide serde with improved options. Currently they maintain two json modules, one that does heap allocation and one that does not.

https://serde.rs/no-std.html

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/07/04/Rust-1.36.0.html#the-a...
Initially reading your response I was going to argue no way in hell there are that many coincidences in a short period of time. But the argument isn't about coincidences, it is a cause and effect argument, which does make sense to me. Whether it is slack or just internet accessibility for someone and they decide to take off that day so they miss a log entry that normally would've been caught and fixed immediately. Or pagerduty failed and didn't notify a few teams about things that normally wouldn't cause downtime because people would be responding quickly to them. Totally make sense to me thinking of it that way.

I am super curious to read any after action reports that get published on these failures though. I always love learning even if I don't have a relevant situation.
Mughal-E-Azam Plus Capsule
If a person discharges very early at the time of sexual play, it is called ‘Premature Ejaculation’. It would be true to say that sexual capacity varies from person to person. It can be from two minutes to ten minutes. If one ejaculated before the wife is fully satisfied, it should be deemed that he is suffering from ‘Premature Ejaculation’. There are many symptoms to know whether a person is suffering from this disease or not. For instance, to ejaculate at the very start of sexual act, to feel immediately excited when a person is besides a woman, to ejaculate at the very touch of private parts, or to discharge when a person gets a touch of women in the crowed. All these symptoms denote ‘Premature Ejaculation’, which may ultimately lead to impotency. That person who is suffering from ‘Premature Ejaculation’ should not take opium and other intoxicants for enjoyment. Undoubtedly, these intoxicants are of momentary use, but after some time he gets addicted and every time he has to take these intoxicants. In the long run these do not work and he becomes Impotent forever. A person who has done masturbation in excess may suffer from ‘Premature Ejaculation’.
Facebook Was Down and America Is Great Again
Yeah I was going to say that but I definitely don't think it would have stayed in the market this long if the CEO was a product person rather than ops.

I mean I'm not trying to downplay how huge it would be to dump that design early, they have an insane amount of machinery and production line set up which they expect to get a few years of usage out of and at the end of the day only the CEO can make a call on if its important enough to go back and retool early and your Ballmers, your Tim Cooks are just never going to make that trade off.

An ops person isn't going to lose any sleep over the MacBook line being downgraded from a great product to an ok product.
As someone with bad writing, I have very fond memories of the Graffiti input system from Palm. I can still remember the alphabet 20 years (it was painful writing that!) later.
The first USB-C MacBook came out four years ago. I've just taken a look at Amazon: the top hits for keyboards are USB-A, the top hits for projectors use HDMI, the top hits for 4K screens have HDMI and DisplayPort ports. Apple's portable devices all ship with USB-A charging cables. Do USB-C thumbdrives even exist?

Yes, some transitions in the past worked really well. That doesn't mean that other transitions are automatically going to be a success.

ThunderBolt 3 is successful as a successor to the niche port that was ThunderBolt 2: for eGPUs, docking stations, some displays. USB-C seems to be doing okay in replacing Micro-USB. But HDMI, USB, and (for what they do) SD cards and Ethernet seem like they're almost in the same categories as wall sockets by now.
Every vet will tell you that Hill's Science Diet is an excellent brand that they don't give to their own pets because it's too expensive.
Wars never really went away. It's just that we managed increase our productivity enough that the old limited resources no longer constrained us.

Farmland is only a limited resource if you are not using artificial fertilizer. The land no longer needs to remain fallow after harvest, you can just plant again.

Because we can now turn energy into food, wars are now centered around energy instead. Russia annexes Crimea, USA goes to war with Iran.
Nature doesn't exists in the modern city, I wouldn't even be surprised if some people born after 2000 haven't seen stars in their entire life.

It's like when you have to do your homework but postpone it until the very last moment. Your profs tell you to work, your parents too, even your friends, and you know deep down that you're wrong, but you don't give a shit until you get the grade and think "if only I ...".

First world countries won't wake up until it gets bad (famines, war and mass immigration bad), until then it's just insects, birds and slightly warmer climate, surely people have bigger problems in their daily lives ...

https://timeline.com/los-angeles-light-pollution-ebd60d5acd4...
Air supremacy is of paramount importance in modern warfare. Look at how thoroughly we were able to dominate the conventional land battles in Iraq and Afghanistan because of it. You can't have an effective national defense (or offense) these days without a good air force. And we're fortunate that ours is home-grown, not bought. Just go ask Iran what it's like having a non-home-grown air force; they have a bunch of F-14s they can't even fly because the necessary replacement parts have been sanctioned for a long time.
That might be just an us thing. Haven't met anyone in europe who didn't know cursive
> what's being done by HN users

Based on my personal experience on this forum, the primary thing HN users are doing about the climate crisis is speculating about how scifi technologies might save us, and using that as an excuse to avoid getting involved in the messy business of mass politics.

There's a strong libertarian and techno-utopian streak here that doesn't take kindly to being told that they're not going to save the world with a webapp, and we need major government intervention.

(And now I've been rate-limited so I won't be able to reply any more)
PGP SKS key network poisoned by unknown hackers
I believe this was also an attempt to address the fraying problem and make the MagSafe cables/connectors last longer. By decreasing the tension needed to release it, it would reduce stress on the cable.
Southerners, Facing Big Odds, Believe in a Path Out of Poverty
I’ve looked at the list and literally all of them are leftist outlets. (Half of them belong to the Gizmodo family.) They are also all US-based.

There’s a clear bias and, honestly, trying to pretend it’s not there is doing a disservice.

Whether that’s because Scroll is not interested in serving right-wing customers or because right-wing outlets are not interested in participating in Scroll, that’s going to remain a mystery I guess.
Evan You – Seeking the Balance in Framework Design with Vue
This seems like the very definition of "derivative work" which would indeed be covered by the original copyright.
I'd recommend Firefox Send (https://send.firefox.com/) or maybe Dropbox.
> My experience is that most bots just hit the usual suspects, /wp-login.php, /phpmyadmin/ etc, regardless whether they are in robots.txt or not.

Yeah, basically what I see in my logs. To be more clear, the disallow is for a non existent path in the document dir. I somewhat expected to find at least one script to actively crawl it, but it makes sense, as no sane people would put secrets on a website and protect them with a robot.txt... ^__^;
> Deleting videos based on their content is.

What about spam? What about nudity? What about content designed to be denial of service? What about content that just isn't related to the purpose of the site?

> They’re a publisher that is deciding what content they want to publish. Expecting them to take responsibility for that isn’t trampling their freedom.

I think I've already clearly expressed why this isn't viable.

> The problem is that this situation has allowed a very small group to control most of the speech that takes place on the internet.

Your logic is that this exception has allowed for this but there is no logical connection here. If all publishers need to vet all user submitted content that doesn't preclude the possibility of there becoming a single large video site or large content site. What it does do is make small sites, like Hacker News, practically impossible.
Apple needs to invest in force field research to ship a flat keyboard with keys simulated by force field, keeping fingers away! That will be the realization of Jony Ive's modernist aluminium/glass plate dreams. No more moving parts!
Raw food spoils. Kibble lasts a disturbingly long time.
To restate bayesian_horse's point: the lack of insulin means the glucose isn't going anywhere to be used. Insulin allows liver and muscle cells to take up glucose (the body's main energy source) from the bloodstream. No insulin -> cells can't absorb glucose from bloodstream -> high blood glucose + coma + wasting away.
YouTube used to be that place.... I remember it, I want that YouTube Back...

YouTube did not become popular with "mainstream stuff" if I wanted "mainstream stuff" I would still be a cable TV Subscriber

YouTube promoting only "mainstream stuff" like CBS, and CNN will kill YouTube
I can write cursive but I can’t read my own handwriting - so now I print.
This is a silly comparison. Terrorist can kill 30 people in one attack or even break down a whole building with a bomb. When did 30 people choke by one piece of food?

And we don't have another 911 may because of mass surveillance. Shall we try removing the surveillance to see whether terrorist attack increases?
Possibly talking rubbish but: a 286 is simple, well understood both in terms of its spec and its performance (no fancy pipelines, no cache, so very predictable performance), is fabbed probably in the order of a micrometer so highly resistant to cosmic rays (assuming CRs do affect circuitry), inerface to memory that is equally 'boring', those 286s are perhaps hardened and quite possibly still produced for this purpose.

All the above is speculation but I can imagine that I'd like very old, boring, predictable and very understood tech rather than the latest. That said, it is a bit unexpected.
This always surprises me. How can you live today not understanding/predicting the vast scale of corporate/social media analytics...?

If major hedge funds are monitoring parking lots with satellite cameras you can bet damn well facebook is using image recognition in its targeting
anything that is connected to the flight controls, is too important to sub out (unless you are subbing it out to someone better that you are).

making an airplane is a huge endeavor that crosses across many domains. you have to have competency up and down the 'stack'. Boeing does.

Maybe this will cause a re-look at outsourcing policies.

(edit. yes, this software was not outsourced. but it may add another dimension other than cost for future decisions)
I have a sneaking suspicion you are right.

They will decrypt all communications, maybe, but go after the average citizen and not the senator or large donor.
You didn't move out of 200 Paul until long after you were acquired though. I always wondered why you were there, as there are better connected facilities and those that had cheaper power. Was TelX a hedge or something?
David Marcus: Libra 2 Weeks In
Vehicle Black Box: A 'Witness' Against You in Court
Might be, I've no idea. Anecdotally I use Safari - faster, I prefer the UI, and I don't trust Chrome.

The only reason I've Chrome around is for the growing number of sites that only work with Chrome. Apps made by Google, in particular, increasingly don't support macOS/Safari. Which I find infuriating, but that's another topic.