skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we really want to turn this into a numbers game?

The reality is lots of people die on the road and the numbers show this sad fact.

Now the reality is some of those who are killed, die from no fault of their own. They die at the hands of the other driver.

The sooner we can take away that human element from driving the better, because that one act will end up saving lots of lives.

> Humans who cause accidents will have remorse and learn never to do it again

That is so untrue, at least for what happens here in Australia.

Here in Australia we have many hundreds in not thousands of repeat drink driving, speeding offenders on the roads, and short of locking them up there is no way to keep them off the roads.

Taking away their license makes no difference as they just drive without a license.
There are lots of decentralized alternatives. People just don't use them much yet.
It doesn't even guarantee compile-time evaluation; it only guarantees that it can be evaluated at compile time. There is no guarantee for the compiler to actually do so --and some compilers will barf on complex constexpr. Future editions of C++ add consteval to ensure that it is evaluated at compile time.
>As an example, I tried a reverse DNS query for the IP address of matrixssl.org. All I got was a subdomain at gandi.net.

While the gp is wrong in saying that it's as simple as a reverse DNS lookup, his general idea is correct. It's trivial to crawl the internet to find all the ip -> domain mappings for all public domains. It's even easier if the attacker is an ISP because they can log DNS queries/responses.
You can count from a still picture or a video segment and use that to test or calibrate. So it may just be inaccurate reporting to give the impression that the calibration depends on humans surveying live action, which is exactly what they are working to replace. If the researchers publish their results the exact methodology used will tell but I assume they are competent.
"When it rains,it pours"

In my experience this is so true! The opposite applies as well,for some reason everything behaves quietly all at once and I turn up every leav and look under every carpet for a "problem" with the monitoring or something worse.

Probability is funny, for example I don't think anyone has explained exactly why numbers that start with '1' are so common. I think it's just geometric symmetry if complex event chains.
Regular reminder: paper bags are less environmentally friendly than plastic bags

>It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag. [...] The majority of paper bags are made by heating wood chips under pressure at high temperatures in a chemical solution. The use of these toxic chemicals contributes to both air pollution, such as acid rain, and water pollution. These chemicals can pollute waterways; the toxicity of the chemicals is long-term and settles into the sediments, working its way through the food chain. Further toxicity is generated as both plastic and paper bags degrade. Paper bags generate 70% more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.

http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/pu...

Paper bags have to be reused 3 times in order to be as environmentally friendly as a single-use plastic bag; if you reuse your plastic bags as trash can liners, that number increases to 7 reuses.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350554
According to your analogy, YouTube is no different from a news paper. All they do is collect content and publish it. The content can be user generated, it can written by people who don’t work for the news paper, it can be written by journalists from other papers. All they’re doing is decided what is and is not published, right? When I read it for free on their website, there is also no transaction taking place.

So if I start a news paper, and begin to publish completely false and libellous information about people, I should be entitled to a common carrier immunity? All I did was decide what was published.

> Free expression online in any form would be impossible without it, even now.

Free expression would be protected by removing the Good Samaritan clause, it’s not a necessary element of the law.

> To say that the moment I put a blog online with comments that suddenly I have to host, with my own money, any comment that gets posted there is ludicrous.

That’s not what I’m saying at all. If you wanted to moderate them you could create a moderation queue. But otherwise what you are trying to do is act as a publisher, but you simply don’t want the liability associated with it.

> And yet there is literally nothing stopping you from posting a video to your own website

There’s nothing stopping me from making my own ISP and running it however I like. Yet we still cherish regulated net neutrality principles as being an essential element of a free internet.

You haven’t really made an effort to refute my underlying claims here, which are:

Section 203 protections are not consistent with any other form of common carrier protections.

The law is currently having the opposite of its intended effect at the time of legislation. It has simply allowed a very small number of companies to exert editorial control over most of the worlds internet traffic, without having to accept any of the liability that should have come attached to that.
> Of course we all want a safe and responsible rollout of this tech, but people too easily forget how ABSURDLY dangerous driving is already.

I don't really understand how this meme gets so much traction. It just ignores the enormous number of miles driven by Americans every year. Last year, Americans drove 3.22 trillion miles. There were about 6 million accidents, or 500,000 miles between accidents. (Or about 37 years of driving at typical rates). Driving results in a death every 85 million miles traveled.

Driving is actually very safe. Conversely, because it is so safe, it wouldn't take much to dramatically increase accident rates from driving.
What? That... one time they took down a site? That site which claimed it was endorsed by cloudflare?

One incident isn't enough to become a 'history', and their actions were perfectly justified.
I wish laptop manufacturers stopped carrying about ugly and spent more time on functionality such as ethernet port and easy to upgrade and repair, sell it to me without memory (or memory at a normal price), etc...

I don't buy laptops to look good.
Rented a new Opel GrandX (SUV) - the same issues described in auricle. Whole nightmare as a car for driver.
I'm surprised this didn't mention Collabora/LibreOffice Online, but only the offline version. I've been watching both OnlyOffice and Collabora for a while while deciding what to build into my personal cloud.

That being said, this list looks pretty complete, but there are plenty of others as well with essentially the same content. My preferred source (which seems to stay updated) is privacytools.io, which also has a community around it. I guess I'm not sure why we need yet another "complete" list that still misses some options.
I'll put money on a truly driverless taxi service being available in at least two US cities in under 5 years.

The key with driverless is to stop assuming that it has to work everywhere in all conditions or else it's useless. What's actually happening is that the cars are being trained for and tested in specific conditions and locations where they will roll out first (dry, sunny, well-maintained modern roads, etc.), then as the technology improves, the envelope will expand until at some point in the future they do actually work everywhere all the time.
Some parts of Twitch are still kind of like that. The Classic WoW community especially has been amazing. Met a lot of people there that I play games & just hang out in Discord with pretty much every day.
Meh. I'll risk the downvotes and say that I fully support tracking pixels in emails.

One of the reasons I use WhatsApp heavily is the read statuses. A single checkmark underneath the message means it was sent. Two checkmarks mean it was delivered. When the checkmarks turn blue, it means the recipient read the message.

I love, love this feature. If I could wave a wand and instantaneously make it standard for ALL methods of communication, I would do it in a heartbeat.
That's an non issue because the target domain is in certificate that the server sends back. This happens with or without SNI.
Does this work for anything other than JPEGs? Does it work for PDFs? Does it work for DOCX?

How many other file formats does it work for?
"F5 storms" are easy to handle. Intercept all keypress combinations for refresh and do what you want with it client side. (spread it out over time, use a high-performance endpoint to check if live or a combination)

Most people doesn't use the refresh button in the browser, so only a small amount of traffic will be uncontrolled.
Not bugs but rather design limitations. For example, the basic design limitation of Tesla's autopilot, which causes it to crash into stationary objects: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar.

That's the real risk with self-driving systems. Bugs are sporadic. But design limitations create the risk that you could have mass-accident events if everyone on the road runs into the same edge case at the same time.
And guess what, Uber is just subsiding rides to capture market share. With a monopoly, they'll be worse than the airport ride hustlers.
I’m much more concerned that they might be collecting data and video that is not well secured, and then someone else could come along and use that data for nefarious purposes.

The collector if the data doesn’t need to be nefarious, they only need to be sufficiently careless.
Can HN add wordbreaking css on mobile?

This breaks the width of the page on mobile.
Obama used the Betsy Ross flag at his inauguration.
upcomming next: human triels - kill ethnicity u don't like with aggressive contagious form of cancer
This can be disabled in Ford’a S-MAX as well. (Unsurprising because these systems all we provided by Bosch and co.). I turned it off when it almost ran into the car next to me at the toll booth because of the lines on the roads before the toll booth that nobody follows.
See, this here's what the rest a ya'll foreners won't never unnerstand bout 'Merica. We got what ya'll cain't never 'magine havin' and that there is a lil thing we like to call Freedum.
Well, the Soviet Constitution promised every comrade a printing press...

To speak to your market freedom point, imagine a community of racist business owners who all refused to sell to an outsider. If every business owner was equally racist, the outsider would be forced to leave, even if there was no law stating that they couldn't live in the neighborhood. Markets have an answer to this - any defector will make more money. However sometimes everybody stays racist and no defector emerges. The community is acting like a de-facto evil government even though there is no legal system supporting it nor any democracy legitimizing it.

I'm really not sure what to do when that happens. I'm as against forcing business to do business as you are.
Haha I didn't even think of that. Yes, that's pretty funny.
Same here. I notice it's truncated in the comment dialog, why not also the main page?
I can't count the number of times I've had people tell me I'm doing $activity wrong, and learned long ago to completely ignore them because all that matters is that I enjoy doing the activity enough to not quit doing it daily as part of my routine.

For me, adhering to some kind of rigid protocol or model of perfection just ruins all the fun of it. I always strive towards making whatever it is feel good and fun, so I'm inspired to do it more, not less.

Doing anything physical every day is infinitely better than not doing it at all, even if done "imperfectly".

My $.02.
This isn't "artificial gravity", this is just a centrifuge, and those have been used for decades in High-G training. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-G_training
This isn't artificial gravity, its just rotational force.

The wikipedia article even suggests that the solution to motion sickness is slower rotation, achievable with larger diameters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_gravity

Says it takes a ~224M radius at 2 rpm to get earth gravity. Given the ISS is 108M wide seems pretty doable with current technology if we really wanted to.

There is also a pretty interesting chart here https://ase.tufts.edu/cosmos/view_picture.asp?id=748
about asteroid size vs rotational speed.
It is downvoted because it is a zero-effort comment that doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

This is not Reddit. (yet)
That isn't how semver is supposed to work though.
Analytics on people at live events via their phone's WiFi scanning
I'm sure it's not. Often, the streamer is reading the chat onscreen while streaming, and it's always identical to the one I'm seeing, except perhaps delayed by some seconds.
Good thing we have the second amendment /snark

Seriously though it is a problem that people are increasingly advocating for limiting or eliminating tools which make an individual powerful (or are ambivalent to change that give away that power)
Fun fact: the U.S. has among the shortest commute times in the entire OECD, because we rely more on point-to-point private car ownership and less on mass transit: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling...
>white supremacists

This obsession with "white supremacists" is a frankenstein leftists have been trying to create for as long as I can remember. It's like you believe your own belief system can't support itself without a manufactured boogie man. Since you're this obsessed with "white supremacists", as to bring it into a conversation about the dissemination of "hacking" information, why are you not trying to uncover reasons people might be swayed by such ideas? I mean if everyone secretly wants to become a "white supremacist" why not let them? Why is this so scary for you? Why are you so obsessed with this? I honestly would like to understand this fear of yours.
Raycasting in the Time of React
I've noticed older videos as well and often they're really good. Not everything new is better.
Getting better at Meditation makes you stop looking for buzzwords like 'Mastery' and enjoying more and more your own personal experience.

The more you get 'out' of your mind, the better you'd feel.
I estimate that I've rented 15 different vehicles in the last 24 months, if I cant figure out how to use the infotainment system within five minutes of getting in the car its an instant fail. Similarly, if I cant figure out the wipers, cruise control within 30 seconds of wanting them, or if the car takes evasive action against my wishes, its also an instant fail. I also shouldn't need to look to anywhere but the gas gauge to figure out what side to fuel it, if I do, also a fail.

We've been building cars for 100 years or more - you don't get to make a car that operates in a fundamentally different manner.

If anyone was curious, the best infotainment system was FCA's uConnect, with the Ford and GM systems tying for second, the worst by far was the one on the Volvo I rented, it took me 10 min to figure out the radio, even longer to turn the AC on.
Good question. I don't believe it is fundamentally bad but in the context of an economy and society where personal advancement and prosperity are strongly connected to employment it doesn't help. There may be other ways such as universal income but I still can't get my head around how that is sustainable.

In Australia we are teetering into our first recession in decades. Retail spending is down, property values are going backwards and increased defaults put the stability of the financial system at risk. Wages growth has stagnated, work has become casualised and the only people getting richer are those who were rich to begin with. In that context having public funds go towards technology instead of giving someone an income seems wrong. The people who made the self driving bus aren't spending at local shops like a driver would.

California may not have the same economic pressures but I would be surprised if people aren't asking some of the same questions. There is a massive number of people employed operating vehicles. They feed families and contribute to local economies. What happens when they lose their jobs?
HN should add the CSS rule "word-wrap:break-word". In fact this rule should almost always be the default for text that might contain excessively long words (such as user-submitted text on forums).
Intel's New Chip Wizard Has a Plan to Bring Back the Magic
Is this just one of those exceptional cases when having a strict variable naming convention doesn't work out?
> Double tap to unlock?

Double-tap park.

> There is a padlock always in the same place at the top of the screen that you can see to get state and touch to change.

That’s newish, embarrassingly. And sorry, but a little tough target in a corner of the screen is nowhere near as ergonomic as a button you can feel.
Tesla’s self driving implementation is very behind Waymo’s, they don’t even use LIDAR. Yes, Musk or Uber could drag the whole self driving reputation in the dirt easily with substandard tech.
Well, there's CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter, which is two letters longer than CNLabelContactRelationElderCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco...

This is my favorite topic.
And it allows manufacturers to see which sellers are skirting their reseller agreements and tighten up their distribution if they so choose.
I think this applies to just about everything except dead lifts. You really don’t want to do those wrong.
Yup, they're working on coreboot support. If you're in Europe Tuxedo Linux is also working on coreboot, and the Purism laptops ship with it out of the box.
Modern day's Cassandra, unfortunately.
Those norms are under attack. A war on developing smart people.
I drove these various rentals for tens of thousands of kilometers, not just short weekend trips :)
I have a membership to Novel Coworking. The space is awesome and the membership costs a fraction of WeWork.

I think it's because Novel actually owns the spaces they lease out so they can lower costs while still controlling quality. They can't grow at the breakneck pace of WeWork, but why should they have to? Unlike Uber there aren't any network effects when you have more spaces. If you provide a cheaper, better space in the same neighborhood it doesn't matter if WeWork is in hundreds more locations. Uber has an advantage with more drivers and market saturation leading to better service, but WeWork has nothing. Sooner or later they'll be completely overtaken by competitors.
Upvote for breaking HN CSS on mobile.
Remote images have always been blocked for me by default in the web client. I've been a customer for a couple years now.
You have any data on most people not using the refresh button in the browser?
Could you get one at another angle? I can’t quite figure out how the 3 handles work.

Also, that plate looks like it’ll drive straight into your chest during some hard braking.

Edit: NVM, I get it now. I see that it’s mounted on the centre column and you basically shove your left hand into it.
What about privacy by default?
Youtube is banning racist videos with no explicit calls to violence. Communism has killed more people than racism. Maybe the truth does not matter though, people are just doing what they can to not get sued...
I would be very surprised if the actual attrition rate was anything close to that high.

People are likley to overstate how they would react, even measuring how poeple say they will react is incredibly difficult - depends on wording of the question, the context, etc.
YouTube’s ‘instructional hacking’ ban threatens computer security teachers
I agree. My only other complaint is the display latency/responsiveness... I don't understand why so many car manufacturers refuse to make their infotainment systems perform well.
> I’m not happy that today’s society wants to monitor and deter everything. It leaves no room for exploration, growth, mistakes and learning.

YouTube isn't even the worst example of this. The digital surveillance in schools really creeps me out the most.
You can still get lyft or uber.
Cognitive Artifacts: Complementary and Competitive [audio]
In India, do yoga, workup great sweat.

There are thousands of path reaching to the same goal - in some you workup sweat, in some not so. All good.

Go to office, raise family, give 100% = Karma Yoga.
If the parent comment is suggesting it is no easier with SNI, then I disagree. Not all domains are "public" and not all users send their DNS queries to ISPs or third party DNS providers. There are alternative sources for IP to domain mappings for TLS-enabled websites besides reverse DNS, crawling the entire internet is not necessary, but sniffing SNI is easier and more reliable than relying on DNS.
This is such an interesting perspective. Though she's never said it, I suspect my grandmother (96! this year) sees vegetarianism the same way— people with means could afford meat, whereas poorer folks simply couldn't. Intentionally choosing to limit or eliminate meat consumption just boggles her mind. This perspective kind of boggles mine.

I hadn't though to extrapolate that position to other topics!
There's also the option of having the government break up the city
I'd agree with you about the uConnect system, its the best, hands down out of all of the infotainment systems I've used.
> But if it's personal, if your next-door neighbor or your weird coworker can suddenly start doing it, then something clicks and people realize, "Oh, this is actually a real problem."

What is "it"? Knowing I read an email they sent me? That's not what criminals and businesses are doing; criminals and businesses build extensive personalised profiles of who you are, what you like, what times you're active, where you go, who your friends, family and coworkers are and what your personal trigger points are all for the goal of exploiting you. They use email tracking as a single metric among dozens of others, and the way they evaluate the metric is completely different to how an individual would evaluate it. That data is usually then sold to other groups that do the same thing.

How is that anywhere even close to an individual with email read receipts?

I don't think anyone would say "this is actually a real problem" besides people manufacturing a problem out of nothing. I'm also willing to bet that 99.9% of the people that are outraged are totally willing to establish, work for, or implement an extensive user tracking system for a company that actually acts on malicious grounds (such as monitoring users or for the objectives of making sales).

This includes you - by the way - a quick look through your resume shows that every single company you've worked for heavily participates in tracking and the first personal website of yours I accessed at reset-hard.com includes Google tracking which is dozens of times worse than a "weird coworker" knowing you read an email they sent. This is literally contributing to a global database of user tracking which we know is used for malicious purposes.

> I understand that sometimes the specific triggers that make people care are stupid, but my response to that is never to ask people to care less. It's already hard enough to make people care about things.

When people care about the wrong things is when we end up with homosexuality being criminalized, prohibition or terrorist groups. So hopefully in this case - just like many others - people would focus their energy into things that actually matter. And personal email tracking is not one of them - and will never be.
Honestly if Target and Walmart get free shipping figured out (like Prime) they could eat away a large part of the Amazon customer base.