skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least from this video [1], it looks like it has the following features:

- hands-free overtaking of slower vehicles when at highway speeds

- a "traffic jam mode" that is hands-off up to a certain speed, and plays a video on the center display

This seems... not that impressive? I haven't seen many real reviews yet though, just a bunch of press releases filmed on closed courses.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBwmFbpNCA
While it's true that there are a lot of unsafe functions in C, it's not really a mistake. C is a fundamentally unforgiving language. You just have to accept the fact you're driving a naked supercar with no seatbelts.

It's easy to survive: just don't crash. :)

And, functions aside, it's trivial to write a C program that bombs out without calling any functions at all, safe or otherwise.

It's a language from a different era, for sure. Back then no one had the computing power to build Rust. And remember that before C, they were writing Unix in assembly language. So sprintf() was a big step up!
On the off chance you’re one of today’s 10,000.

trans- is a prefix that means on the “opposite side of.” And so that’s where transgender came from. But then people wanted a term for people who aren’t trans and “not transgender” is awkward. So people looked and found that cis- is a prefix that means “on the same side of” and just went with that. Kinda clever honestly.
And yet it keeps coming up at the USA based company i work at as a term many women do not like or consider gender neutral
Let's use a loophole ;) - (strcpy)(a,b)
Your guess is as good as mine. Misdirected hatred at Google services privacy bleeding into this debate?

Anyway, please read GrapheneOS.org in its entirety.
People seem to use it in all earnestness.
On the other hand, $250 was probably way too little money. I question the wisdom of helping people who are professional be-at-the-right-place-at-the-right-timers. That includes people working for giant companies messaging open source maintainers, or any number of total inequities.
Stability of Fixed Points of High Dimensional Dynamical Systems
Solving the Königsberg Bridge Problem with Python
19 takes seven strokes.

19 in Arabic numerals starts at the top left and takes two, maybe three strokes.

Also, a 1 followed by a five needs a lot of kerning to not get confused. And the vertical heights and offsets of the glyphs vary a lot.
A Protocol for Memberships, as NFT
"Just 100 cars will be made available with the technology in Japan, and they will cost the equivalent of $101,900. None of these Legends will make their way to the U.S."

I'm assuming if it won't come to the US it won't come to the UK, Canada or Australia either.

Is 100 units really a "production car"? I don't agree.

Also:

"It does all this with zero input from the driver, who Honda says can "watch television/DVD on the navigation screen or operate the navigation system to search for a destination address."

and yet:

"Please do not overestimate the capabilities of each Honda Sensing Elite function and drive safely while paying constant attention to your surroundings. Please remain in condition where you can respond to the handover request issued by the system, and immediately resume driving upon the handover request."
I had a great discussion about Class with author Sandra Tsing Loh:

https://mattasher.com/2020/09/01/ep-18-sandra-tsing-loh-on-a...

Sandra wrote what is imo the definitive book review of Class.
She is a hero. Please thank her for me.
Actually using HTTP 1xx will trigger hideous bugs, and worse those bugs will be timing-dependent. There is exactly one (non-websocket, which isn't really HTTP just pretends to be) codepath used in the wild: preapproval for a large file upload.

This problem is one reason why success/error should NOT be the first thing to send. It should be a trailer.

(HTTP/HTML tendency to substitute the response body for a human-visible error would require another mechanism to "reset" the response body.)
Thanks for sharing such a great article. I agree that Fintechs have so many opportunities to choose from to build their tech stack. This is especially the case when weighing one’s options when choosing the right open accounting API to get access to SME customer's cloud accounting data.

Having a wide range of accounting platform integrations has its advantages, but it's more important to make sure that the API provides a breadth of data points and complete information that's delivered in a standardized manner so fintech lenders can compare apples to apples. The API one chooses should have the ability to take unstructured data from multiple platforms and convert them into structured data in order to synthesize the data easily. The API should also be quick and easy to implement, with open API docs and developer support.

Last year, the team at Railz launched an API that connects to SMBs’ accounting platforms – providing data & analytics to generate insights for both financial institutions and Fintechs to make quick and better-informed decisions. If you’re curious to learn what we’ve been up to, check out our website!

www.railz.ai?utm_source=Hackernews&utm_medium=Forum%20Discussion&utm_campaign=Railz%20comments
why? the terms do not have racial histories to them.
not that impressive?
Absolutely not. If you are talking about young men, you are stating a statistical fact. As a former young man, I would not be the least bit offended.
Everything they said sounded pretty reasonable to me, I also keep away from people who fall into all of those categories
And yet it keeps coming up at the american based global company i work at as a term many women do not like or consider gender neutral, consider maybe that there are people outside your limited social circle who view it differently and in large companies spanning the globe they need to take into account other cultures and people who are not in america?
LGBT Hispanic people started Latinx.

Is there a gender neutral term your wife likes?
Wait huh? It just means not transgender. That’s is. It’s exactly the same form as heterosexual.

homo- same

hetero- different

trans- on the other side

cis - on the same side
Confusing..Honda wants (ie specifically suggests) you to watch a DVD (???) while also asking you to pay complete attention to your surroundings.

Not sure this messaging is safe, much less the car itself.
Sarcasm noted. As I’m sure you can tell, I’m not that smart. But I figured out I could do if I worked hard enough and smart enough to get the fuck out of the neighborhood/family I lived in and never get abused or beaten again. I managed that much.

I’ve done in-depth studies of successful people since I was a young kid, and the richest ones simply didn’t seem to have time for family. You could probably crack that nut. I can’t. I have a house and a farm and a family close to me, however flawed. I’ll take it.
I hope those same people are looking into the M1 SSD mystery.
The good agile teams I've been on had a LOT of process and were very disciplined.

But it was a process we decided on as a team, not something a consultant had read in a book.
> Usually after this, I take some time just to 'calm down' and think about it, and I usually shoot them an email saying that I appreciate the time and opportunity, but I don't think it will be a good match and wish them luck finding a better suited candidate.

I LOVE sending letters like this. It's the politest middle finger you can give to a douchey hiring manager or organization.
I'm of Chinese descent. I'm much, more more offended by progressives clamoring to take away educational and job opportunities away from Asians because we're "overrepresented minorities" (as if we hadn't earned our place through hard work and education) and then making a mountain out of a molehill like this to pretend that they are actually concerned about Asians as minorities. Compared to two-facedness of that degree, Dr. Seuss's little cartoon doesn't register at all.
i'm not sure how this is the same as asking "please call me x", "please refer to me as his/her/them" compared to "i'm not going to say your name because i can't pronounce it" ?
It’s not that simple, however, since the inherent inefficiency means you have higher transaction costs to operate the network and since there’s no fraud protection you still need trusted third parties to broker any exchange where fraud is a possibility. As an expensive way to transfer money to your drinking buddy it works but if you’re buying or selling with strangers those third parties are necessary and still need to be paid.

Similarly, you aren’t getting rid of trust: power recentralizes in a handful of users who control the most mining power and the developers (Ethereum classic comes to mind). Very few people have the time or skills to audit that constantly so they either end up trusting strangers or relying on a trusted third-party who ends up being a bank in all but name.
The funniest thing of the whole "thou shalt list your pronouns" thing is that the actual trans folks I've talked to tend to be opposed to those policies. It paints them into a corner - either state that you want to be misgendered, or out yourself as trans.

Mandatory pronouns are a pure shibboleth in the culture war. Trans activists don't want it. Anti-trans activists don't want it. The only people who want mandatory pronouns are the folks wanting a cheap signal for how much of an ally they are and an easy way to identify and ostracize people who aren't in-line with their politics.
I have a really hard time of understanding what the differences are between level 2 and 3. The article is short of words relating to the distinction. It claims Tesla isn't there, but Honda is, but they don't really say exactly why or how they were able to surpass Tesla. Is this really believable when they don't have a fleet of cars to test on like Tesla does?
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It works best in bumper to bumper traffic. It basically stays in a lane and follows the car in front, slowing, stopping, or accelerating as needed. It's the closest you can get to being on train tracks.
Most of the people who'd comprise a traditional "intelligentsia", Fussell'd probably put in (by class, but interestingly, not so much by income) the upper-middle (artists, professors, literary figures, editors of "classy" magazines).

Graeber builds on this in Bullshit Jobs by taking a stab at why this is, which is in part because most of these jobs pay like crap and take a ton of time to get into, but are nonetheless desirable, so they're preferentially held by people who have enough family support to earn little or nothing for years and years and still not have to worry much (plus family contacts are a big deal in some of them). Graeber's analysis of the class-dynamics of desirable, seen-as-basically-contributing-to-humanity jobs is one of the more interesting parts of that book, IMO (the military is the equivalent for people who can't afford a PhD plus five years of unpaid internships in a high COL city, travel, etc.)
I think the opposite is true as well. Having office hours will lead to more companies using and paying for support contracts.
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> Is 100 units really a "production car"? I don't agree.

Sounds more like a beta test.
I see some people say they'd like to be called Latinx. I see no one demand it. I see many more people complain it's used at all.

100% of people who say Latinx support universal health care in my experience. But they have more control over what they say than what their government does.
Whole article is confusing and self contradictory on several fronts. Level 3 is described as decision-making, which is not specific enough to differentiate from any other self driving initiatives in production, including Tesla, the supposed anti-example quoted.
I just can't see any connection between RAII and acquire/release. For example both C and the Linux kernel have acquire/release, neither have RAII.

I think the terms "acquire" and "release" came from their connection to locking. Linux even used to call acquire and release fences "lock" and "unlock"; here's where it got changed: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arch/20131217092435.GC21999@tw...
Not really, but as an Android developer, it's a ton. Maybe 80% of the work (including the dread and procrastination). The documentation is pretty bad, or incomplete. Stack Overflow used to be a good substitute for documentation, but it's hostile to all new questions, so the new stuff isn't really covered. I'm considering doing some open source documenting to help make up for this but I suppose none of us could spare the time.
1. We do vet lenders. We focus on bringing on the lenders with the best service, tech and reputation. We don't bring bad actors in the space, and if they don't service the borrowers well they are removed from the platform.

2. There are both recourse and non-recourse options.

3. Stripe released a product with some similarities recently. On the marketplace side we compete with companies like Lendio and Fundera.
Fascinating, seems kind of like a water-bound analogue to the omni-directional wheels used on forklifts and such ( e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DBXuZv38l8 )
It is where I went at least
In the past, population-wide rhetorical power was reserved for politicians and artists. Now the stupid mob has it too. And boy are they stupid. Humorless, tasteless and shallow too. Who needs fascists when you've got twitter? More censoring to come.
That’s not the endgame, because advertisers don’t trust publishers: they need their ads to load from, and phone back to, servers that they control. If they trusted publishers enough to do something like you describe, they’d already be evading adblockers by just serving the ads from the publisher’s page.
What is notable is level 3. Not the features, but the legal aspect of claiming drivers can now be distracted with your mode.

Tesla "auto"pilot does more, while pretending to enforce an always alert driver. This has resulted in a couple wrongful deaths no one at Tesla has been prosecuted for.

Honda meanwhile is taking advantage of the Japanese governments legal changes which make level 3 legally tenable. Drivers need not watch the road, but they must respond when the car asks them to. This means Honda is promising your Honda will not silently drive you into a wall as the Tesla autopilot is known to do.
I highly disagree with this. It may seem to you what I'm saying is pedantic but it is not.

The entire culture of the United States from all the art, to all the technology, to all the food to all the music is sustained by this same energy.

It is not sustainable for everyone in the world to use the same amount of energy that is used by the United States. This is literally the definition of zero sum.

In fact it is well known that entire civilizations have fallen because they've used up all available energy reservoirs. The most famous example is the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Easter Island collapsed because the situation was not only zero sum but even negative as high entropy energy is not useful to any participant in the game.

What people don't realize is that the economy is limited by physical actuality. It is not simply supply, demand and your limitless "imagination" on what you can potentially deem as "valuable". Supply and demand alone is a short sighted measure. The better metric for intrinsic value must include energy/entropy in the equation.

There is a limit and that limit practically effects everything around you.
Samsung hasn't won the droid war in UK. This article seems to be based on the mistaken premise that America is a microcosm of the West.

I have spent time on the Tube here is my personal observation: roughly 40 percent of commuters have iphones. Androids all look similar, but i don't think more then 20 percent of Tubers have samsungs. This is based on dozens of separate observations. I will assume that Tube goers are representative of the whole uk to a large extent.
As someone wiser than me likes to point out, this sort of crap is how Trump gets re-elected.

Ban second hand sales of out-of-print, arguably sort of racist children’s books, or keep that man out of the white house.

Pick one.
I guess, maybe, but that's untrue for a tremendous amount of people, and is that a sentiment that you'd expect me to get behind?
I believe autonomous cars need to communicate with each other for the best results. if the cars could form a mesh network and negotiate passing, exits, and signal to cars behind that they are slowing or stopping, everything would be more efficient.
It sucks that there are over 100 news sites, including the big ones reporting it but none will actually show the offensive images for fear of being offensive themselves or even describe the images.

I'm with you, that is a huge worry.
Proper talk description/abstract: https://codesections.com/presentations/fosdem-2021/

> Many programming languages have been explicitly designed to solve the problems of "programming in the large" – that is, to make it easier for large groups of software developers to work together, despite differences in skill, experience, or history with the project. Languages following this pattern are an excellent fit for the sort of large software companies that typically sponsor their development. However, they are not necessarily a good fit for typical free/open-source software projects, which face different challenges and constraints. If a language were designed from the ground up to fit the free-software usecase, what would it look like? What values would it maximize, what tradeoffs would it be willing to make, and what would it be like to program in every day?

Answer: It'd be Raku (which is kinda clear from the track it appears in)
https://codesections.com/presentations/fosdem-2021/#/raku

Slide summary: In the Free Software language, we don't care about "easy-to-learn", "avoids footguns" and "reviewable code". Instead, we want "powerful", "rewards mastery", and "fun".
Actually, the endgame is just serving you all the content from one machine, and tracking you on the backend.
> Actually, I don't sync my photos to iCloud since I have my local copy.

Do you have an offsite backup solution for your Synology? I do for all my most important data via Backblaze. I also used to use Arq[0] for Mac, but the UI wasn't very helpful when attempting a restore. This was probably 5y ago. I've been meaning to download and review the latest version.

I still find iCloud backups useful because hey, you can't have too many backups of your photos. I pay, I think, $4.99 / month for whatever tier of storage. But I have multiple devices syncing through it, so I understand if that's not a value-add for one phone.

[0]https://www.arqbackup.com
Just because the transaction balances doesn’t mean there wasn’t ‘winners’. If I stroll down the beach and purchase a frozen treat for $4, I am sated and the merchant gets to make a profit, pay their taxes, and sustain their supply chain. Who loses? The other sellers lose a potential customer, I gain some weight, and probably generate waste and carbon in the act. As we plod ever towards our future as dust, we’ll transact a stream of everything, making and taking and leaving our wake along the way. As it goes, it’s hard to ascribe goodness or badness or winners or losers without omission of some part of the transaction. Yet in that moment when my lips meet their first chilly bite, the universe might reveal a shimmer of its majesty, and I’ll call that good.
Twitch received quite a lot of backlash two days ago for using the term womxn. The sentiment was that it isn't inclusive and is instead transphobic, because it separates trans/non-binary women from other women.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56251452
> I'm assuming if it won't come to the US it won't come to the UK, Canada or Australia either.

Since Japan drives on the left side of the road[1], a car manufactured for the Japanese market would have its steering wheel on the opposite side of a US or Canadian vehicle. It would be OK for the UK or Australia, which also drive on the left, but the cars can only be leased for now[2], and the provisions of the lease would probably disallow taking the car to another country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#W...

[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Honda-launches-...
That's fair. I don't think that anybody who says that is thinking much about it, but isn't that the point? To establish the default that nobody thinks about?
Those margins are misleading because they're _multi_ service operators, and accounting standards require that you can only list direct costs.

Revenue is easy: how much did you take in for video? phone? Internet access?

Costs are harder because you can only include business line direct costs. Since the cable plant is used by voice, video and data services it's not a direct cost of any of them. Same thing with the service vehicle fleet, call centers, etc. Most things get saddled in "administration" categories and obscure the true cost of providing the service. As a company overall, their margins been hovering around 8-12%.
Given that is is limited to Japan, I wonder if the Level 3 driving will be limited to highways and major cities that have been 3D mapped by Honda in advance. Self-driving without the kind of data TSLA has is doable if the solution is less generalized.
your comment comes off as very condescending - you could have left out everything after "bad faith" and made a better argument - ever think how exhausting it is for people on the other side day in and out? and your complaining about having to not say a couple words? it's literally the least you can do and one step removed from doing nothing.
Agreed. I recently added my calendly to Dark's contributor docs [1] for people who want to get started. No one has taken me up on it yet, but we'll see how it goes.

[1] https://docs.darklang.com/contributing/getting-started
> In the United States, poverty is used as a cudgel to get people to work.

This is such a bizarre statement. Poverty isn't something that is engineered, encourage, or utilized by "the system" to get people to work. Poverty is the natural result of not working.

Here's some data:[0]

For households in the bottom income quintile, *63% have ZERO income earners.*
For households in the bottom income quintile, the mean household has .4 income earners.

For households in the middle income quintile, 15% have ZERO income earners.
For households in the middle income quintile, the mean household has 1.4 income earners.

For households in the top income quintile, 4% have ZERO income earners.
For households in the top income quintile, the mean household has 2.1 income earners.

[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/explaining-us-income-inequali...
US average wages are about 6x Romania's. My Gigabit Webpass is $60/mo. Seems about right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...
Yes and the person living in my shadow didn't get a sunburn as a result. Zero sum.
Yeah it’s region dependent. In the Midwest it’s super gender neutral to the point where people will “hey guys” or “hey man” to refer to women. Really really jarring.
I remember wondering about exactly this a couple years ago, but I couldn't figure out the answer (I didn't look all that closely into it). Now I want to come up with an excuse to try it out on something. Thanks for mentioning this!