skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> safer than not lane splitting

The study itself explicitly states that they don't have the data to reach any conclusions about the relative safety of splitting vs not.

What the study shows is that riders who were lane-splitting at the time of an accident sustain fewer injuries than those who weren't. It mentions some differences between the two groups -- lane-splitters are more likely to be commuting and have better safety gear -- but glosses over how that impacts the injury rates.

I don't have another study to cite but motorcyclists who commute are likely a much less injured group than recreational riders. For a host of reasons, from not engaging in as much risky behavior -- who wants to die on the way to work? -- to being more skilled on average due to experience.
In my country knives are heavily restricted. They are not for sale to young people, and having a blade in a public place without a good reason is a crime. (And no "for self defence" isn't a good reason)

I was literally sat in a Crown Court on Wednesday for a trial where two guys were on trial for knives and GBH. Cops chased one and he had a blade in his back pocket when they caught him. Why? Well based on the call to the police and the witness evidence I expect if I'd spent a couple more days in court the story would be that he'd just stabbed somebody and so that's why - but even if he'd been caught on his way to stab somebody and never got there it's the same story. Nobody who'd come to play PS4 needed a knife. Nobody who'd come to play hide the sausage, or watch TV, or just sit around and get drunk needed a knife. They had knives so they could "defend themselves" when shit kicks off, which is why shit kicks off, which is why we have a law so they get locked up before they kill each other. Among the witnesses I didn't miss (because they refused to say anything) were the stabbing victims. Code of the streets see, it's OK to try to murder one another, but you mustn't tell the cops anything, this massive slit in my stomach must have been from being clumsy with nail scissors. (The medics unsurprisingly take the view that wounds are instead consistent with getting stabbed by somebody with a bladed weapon...)

The calculus for knives probably looks pretty different if the majority of nearby large mammals are Starbucks employees versus if they're Grizzly bears, or indeed Sheep, and so I don't pretend to think these laws make sense everywhere.

But the calculus for encryption is the same everywhere. We definitely don't want most people to be able to attack this stuff. But it turns out "Not most people" wasn't on the menu. "Nobody" and "Basically any motivated bad guy" are our available options, so let's pick "Nobody" and deal with the social consequences of that.
If the team struggles, the org does not need to be changed. However, from my point of view, companies should increase support for their teams when transitioning to agile. Training would be a good start. I have taken a few agile trainings, and they have been among the best I had in my career.
> I don't think the "remote vs. local workplace" dichotomy is going to last for long. Eventually we're going to figure out how to integrate both approaches into the same companies.

That should be the goal. Some people like full local, some like full remote, some (like me) like a mix. I would guess the majority fall into the later.

Companies should cater to all three, because A) its not hard to do, B) its cheaper for them, and C) they don't eliminate great employees.
Do bicyclists have an organization like the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)?

Most of what I understand about motorcycle safety was taught by various MSF courses. In many states, the MSF is the most direct way to get your motorcycle endorsement. This makes them fairly sticky in the community.
FWIW, I've never had a problem with my kindle, which has never been connected to the internet.

Even the 'special offers' dissipate after being in airplane mode for a certain length of time. I see no value in using any online feature—I've never taken my kindle off of airplane mode, and use Calibre to load all content.
unfortunately even the article states the same. you need the official press release to understand what was decided.
I think it would be entirely reasonable to have communications between a person and their bank end-to-end encrypted (isn't that the goal of SSL?) as well as communications between a person and a vendor or a vendor and their bank. Wouldn't this cut down on the instances of credit card information and other data being intercepted while in transit?
It's a little hard to measure it by yourself but with a friend it's easy. Just make sure your looking far off into the distance and not at the persons face who is taking the measurement.
Isn't CCTV bad at identifying faces though?
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We'd strayed off topic and were discussing an issue in nginx. Basic per-instance subscriptions for that are $2,500/yr each for small numbers of instances which is somewhat more than a couple of salaried hours.

Still not a large amount for a company with a profit making product, of course, but companies with profit making products are fewer and farther between than companies would like, and for a one-man-band or other small business trying to boot-strap something bigger, there isn't the same drop/ocean ratio.

Also, the implied problem (this still needs confirming/contradicting, so I might be barking up the wrong end of the stick) that it may not be updating name->address resolution regularly during normal operation (otherwise why does this only cause failure on start-up?) might not by fixed by the extra modules enabled by the paid licence.
> The bug is a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows for a full compromise of a vulnerable device. If the exploit is delivered via the web, it only needs to be paired with a renderer exploit, as this vulnerability is accessible through the sandbox.

> It works on Pixel 1 and 2, but not Pixel 3 and 3a.
A couple of years ago I had my vision test done (in Texas) and at the end I asked for my prescription. The PD measurement wasn't on there so I asked for it and was told that is measurement is taken when I buy glasses. I offered the person $20 to just do the measurement and give me the number and they wouldn't do it.
I understand all that, and you didn't answer my question. Why do you push the narrative that 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver protects user privacy (by hiding originating IP / subnet) whereas 1.1.1.1 VPN gladly reveals that data? In both cases, the destination is hidden to any eavesdroppers, but in the latter case (VPN) the source IP is visible to the destination website, whereas you keep insisting how vital it is to hide source IP in the former case (DNS).
Videos appear similar to YouTube embeds in toots when viewed through Mastodon.

Put Blender's PeerTube account in Mastodon's search for an example: https://video.blender.org/accounts/blender
People will be less happy though
> Yes, but the value of benefits is highly dependent on the employee. 30% off international flights might be an awesome deal, but unlikely for someone who cannot even afford a car.

Sure but that's a strange point to make given that they know what the benefits of the job are in advance. It's not like summer vacation is something that's sprung on teachers after they've taken the job.

> Vacation has great value, but usually only after basic needs are met. Cutting someones hours is often used as a punishment for a reason. At the same time it also makes total sense that other companies don't want employees reducing their working hours.

Most teachers are not incapable of meeting their own basic needs. They may be paid less than comparable private sector workers, but they're not literally starving. Given that, vacation is unequivocally a benefit. They may prefer the opportunity to work more...but if they preferred that, then they should have taken a different job.
Don't forget biological brain "neural architecture search" has also had a significant time and energy cost - billions of years of evolution, powered by a pretty large fusion reactor for those billions of years.

That's the reason brains are so energy efficient today. Though you are right, energy constraints are built in with biological evolutionary search
I have never seen such memory mamagement tricks employed in Unity scripts. I'm not saying that they don't exist. They are only rarely required. To be honest, I expected things to be much worse from previous experiences.
Sure, there are straight up sociopaths driving around and I agree that it would be good to get such people off the roads, but I am claiming that is not really all that important in the long run. We need to stop thinking that the problem is some bad drivers and move on to the idea that all drivers are to some extent irresponsible.
As a fellow motorcyclist (middle aged, and still alive) I completely agree with you. NEVER rely on anyone seeing you. Nobody does see you, and nobody cares. It's your responsibility to see and anticipate what everyone else is doing.

In fact you should know if a car is about to change direction before its driver does. It gets easier with experience; a human driver gives many hints.

In the future, AI-powered cars may not give any hint, or different ones. Just like we advertise new drivers we should absolutely signal self-driving cars.
Politicians propose to forbid all buildings from having doors. After all "bad people/stuff etc." could lock the doors and hide behind them. Anyone arguing against that is obviously against safety.

Counterpoints:

- Do we currently have a big door problem?

- Wait, don't doors also serve an important function?

- Won't that make everybody much more insecure and basically do nothing against "bad stuff"?

- What if I put a wooden plank in front of the hole in my building? Wouldn't that be a "door"? Making doors illegal is not going to stop people from making "doors".

Now, people like to spin this analogy further and revise their proposal and say "Fine, keep your doors, but I get a spare key for every door made".

Problems with this:

- Yes, you and everyone in your office can grab the spare key and steal all my stuff (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).

- Remember the wooden plank above? That guy will not give you a spare key and can still hide "bad stuff".

- Fine, we will just use magical (blockchain) keys that nobody can steal and not make things insecure, but have an officer visit and inspect every room you have every 5 minutes. You have nothing to hide, do you?
BREATHE!!

Take a deep breath. Get a sense of your surroundings. Make an alarm/calendar schedule to remind you to take a breath.
Massive. Wifi only goes on when it's needed for something.
Magic numbers to limit undecidability are incredibly fragile. You think you have all the cases covered and another comes up, or the numbers need to be enlarged because of some reasonable code being rejected.

Better to have this problem in the parser than the type checker, at least.
It works fine for me in chrome v77
Great idea! Let's lock people in those cages instead, transplant a prostate tumor in them and feed them human chow with 1 mg/ml Amphotericin B (with 0.5mg/ml on the side to drink). Do you volunteer?
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Or that employee could just stop engaging in selfish behavior. Company cohesion matters more than one toxic employees fixation on a bubbly drink.
The current generations of VR are, to me personally, one of the most exciting things in technology since wireless internet.

As mentioned in my other comment below, for disabled people VR is a huge huge deal. Until now it hasn’t really been good enough to truly give you that feeling of “experiencing” something, but playing with the current generation is awe inspiringly good and you can actually get lost in it and feel like you’re there.

I’m really excited for the future of VR for people who are stuck at home or in hospital with disabilities.
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You like to focus on extremes. The important question is how a person from poor background can move into middle class. Who becomes a billionaire is pretty irrelevant even if you are from well to do family your chances of making it to ,,, are still extremely low.
Gait detection not likely to be useful in a massive crowd. Clothes are not custom, change over time, and can't be used to identify someone because they aren't linked to an identity (Joe buys John a shirt as a gift; John buys his son a shirt; etc.). I suppose rewinding is possible but the computational cost of doing this for thousands of people is probably immense.
guns have legitimate uses such as defense and hunting.
I went back to C++14 a few years ago after writing D and it was painful. The only addition to C++17 that made my life easier was `void_t`, but even then it's not even close.

Having to deal with headers again and C++'s templates was torture.

Did C++ close the gap? Yes. However, I can still write D 2-3x faster than I can write C++. It's similar to how I'm 2-3x more productive in C++ than in C.
The only antidote is an emotional connection with history and the reality of oppresion around the world today. No one who feels like they "have nothing to hide" can be convinced of the value of privacy until they have made an emotional connection with the oppressed and see themselves as potential victims.

Anything these people think of as "normal" activities has at one point or another been made illegal by a government, but without 1. Knowledge of specific cases 2. An emotional connection to those who suffered / are suffering and 3. A willingness to go beyond the fantasy of perpetual personal exceptionalism there can be no appreciation of the value of privacy over law, or privacy weighed against inevitable concomitant harms.
I would really hope that something as critical as aviation instruments have the capacity to be updated to account for this and that it's been treated like a mini-Y2K with lots of fixes made ahead of time. But I guess we'll see...
A 16 years old who dances half naked to a popular song and rakes in millions of views, to me is wrong. Especially on a platform where you don’t need to register to watch the content.
I’ve never been on tik tok, just saw videos reposted on Reddit
ofc this is 0.1% likely to happen

I think you severely underestimate the power of teamwork.

That's how our family has survived through 90s. This grandma will watch after everyone's kids. That only guy who has a car will buy cheap potatoes in bulk for everyone.
Why shouldn't the other road users expect you to break the law?
I am no lawyer, but I would assume that posting as another person online by filling out their name, en masse, is illegal.

I would imagine it's slander, fraud, and a number of other crimes.
Only half sarcastic:

These blowhard academics are so accustomed to having conversation only to prove they are right and their partner is wrong, when they hit on "normal human conversation" they think it is so novel they name it after themselves!
"They" is plural, using it for one person is just wrong grammar. Seems unbelievable nobody at SE noticed that, makes the complete discussion a non issue.
Can you link some of those interesting developers? I haven't found many interesting devs to follow yet.

Already found Drew here: https://cmpwn.com/@sir
I don't think there's much of a practical difference. With the exception of withholding public knowledge, as in the case of Chernobyl.

If anything nuclear warning systems (in the us, at least) are extensive within the ~30 mile zone (sirens everywhere), and have published plans for a ~60 mile zone, while I've never heard of warning systems for dams. Which isn't too say they're not-existant.

Also, dam failures tend to happen during bad weather where evacuation is greatly hindered. This was an issue with the Oroville dam partial failure in 2017.

Whereas in Fukushima, the warning and evacuation was effective even in the midst of the tsunami aftermath.
Lol agreed!
I agree. Using watts, which are energy (joules) per unit time (second), to measure the energy consumption of training a model is the wrong unit to begin with.

One cannot measure the total energy consumption of something without knowing both the wattage and the time spent running at that voltage. While training a neural network is often done from scratch or a pre-trained model with a known training time, the brain of a human being does not start developing from zero their birth. Measuring the amount of energy spent on a specific human being trained on a task would also have to account for the billions of years of evolution that lead up to the present-day structure of the human brain. It would be very hard but also very interesting to approximate the energy spent on this, but it may not be relevant to machine learning as the processing power scales and time periods are completely different than those involved in the development of the human brain.
Except this study is only demonstrating correlation, not causality. The causality could easily flow in the exact opposite direction: Your family has unstable income because either culturally or genetically you are prone to thinking problems later in life.
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I encountered this in Canada, with an explanation given to me that there was a lawsuit at some point where an optometrist was sued after a client ordered glasses elsewhere based on the provided IPD and got glasses that caused headaches or something like that.

From Wikipedia[1]:

> In both the UK and most of Canada (excluding British Columbia[5]), the PD measurement is classed as a dispensing tool rather than a part of the actual prescription of the person whose eyes were tested, thus there is no obligation for a PD to be provided on patient request.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary_distance
Encryption is just math. You can't outlaw it. If you do, I'll choose (or make) another chat app that uses the same widely known and secure crypto. If you try to pressure Apple to remove any secure chat from their app store, all you do is make the tiny number of people who still need security use jalbroken phones.

So my argument is: because it's a war that can't be won. The criminals will use secure communication regardless. All we can do is decide on whether we also want to make everyone elses communicastion insecure.

Law enforcement simply have to adjust to a reality where eavesdropping on communication is difficult or impossible.
That's really not that helpful as a point of view. If it were really the case you'd avoid using nights at light because they'd just draw attention from all these bloodthirsty motorists and you'd be better off in a ninja suit.
I don't see why the entire process couldn't be automated. A machine could ask me "which is better A or B or are they the same?"

There are other parts of the exam that are more related to eye health, but I don't see why they vision prescription process and the eye exam have to be combined. How many people that don't wear glasses ever get their eyes examined?
Of course there will always be some issues somewhere. But, ignoring perfect memory safety, the issues are widely overblown, to the extent that I find manually managing memory a lot easier than dealing with GC once a project grows beyond a couple KLOC.

It's all about proper planning and code organization. Use pooling, central manager structures, etc. If it can be avoided, then do not allocate and free stuff in a single function like you would carelessly do with automated GC. Structure the data such that you don't have to release stuff individually - put it in containers (such as vectors or maps), such that you can release everything at once at certain points in time, or such that you can quickly figure out what can be released at central code locations (that's much like automated GC, but it's staying in control and retaining room for optimization).

I don't think "multiple distributed teams" makes the challenge any harder. You certainly want to (and I'm sure you easily can) contain each ownership management domain wholly in one team.
> On the contrary, it seems totally logical. If the difference is so small that you can't assuredly decide between two options, either will do.

A slightly different way to interpret this would be to say that that particular axis of variation is at its limit, given the state of the other axes.

There are several axes, and they aren't perfectly orthogonal. Zeroing in on one can alter the best correction achievable on the other. Not all opticians will go back and iterate other axes, but I think it's a good idea. Lock X, find Y, recheck X given Y, etc.
This isn’t a one sided problem.

There are: owners, the public and law enforcement.

In SF there were (and are) laws against panhandling, being a nuisance, harassment, etc., yet owners and or business people had to pressure for additional laws (known as sit/lie laws) because police were not enforcing existing laws and some people were abusing and taking liberties. Yes there is an aspect of social failing in this, but local businesses and residents should not have to bear the brunt of this.
I'm interested in the opposite actually. There seems to be a ton of resources online for algorithms but what are some good resources for System Design and scenario based questions? I know of Grok the System Design interview and that's pretty much it.
Yes, and of course I have. The big problem isn't that it's "cherry picked" or that it wasn't peer reviewed - it's that the research Bernie Sanders based his claim on doesn't even support his claim that medical bills are what bankrupted those people. (I believe there's also other research that shows medical bills are actually a really small proportion of the vast majority of those people's overall debt load at bankrupcy.)
In public toilets we lock the door. That's dignity.
"Why are nooks and crannies no longer produced? One reason is that their value is not understood, and in any case no longer taught as part of place-making."

Many times they weren't deliberately produced, nor was their deliberate design taught: they were the result of accretion layers built up over time as new structures are built next to & on top of existing ones.

They're not dying out through lack of appreciation, they're dying out because most times it's just plain cheaper to tear down the existing structure and rebuild.
I think the INS in modern airliners is actually accurate enough to not drift to the point of needing correction. INS + GPS exist to back up each other, and usually the pilot can switch between the two.
Someone set up a community directory.

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Linux

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/FLOSS

The list with all the categories: https://communitywiki.org/trunk/
> I try to shy away from politics on this website but...

Who was it that said, "Those who don't do politics will have politics done to them"
As ooposed to what? This is the core of C++, even though feature creep has opened up the language to other coding styles and patterns.
> You are confusing E2E encryption with encryption in transit in the commerce example

I think he meant to do that. E2EE between two people has the same kind of requirements as E2EE between a person and a server. If you're trying to say point-to-point encryption, where the server is just a relay between the points, and it handles the data unencrypted, then I think all the arguments for E2EE apply here as well.
Actually there are ways to install software on many ereaders. About 10 years ago I used PRS+ on Sony's PRS-500. Nowadays Sony's ereaders are pretty much dead, but there is alternative software for Kindle, Kobo and others. By quick googling I just found:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

https://github.com/ccoffing/OcherBook

https://github.com/lgeek/okreader

https://fread.ink/

Also:

https://onyxboox.com/ - this is Android so I guess it's bit more hackable

https://the-digital-reader.com/2015/06/19/is-the-booq-cervan...