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They are in fact executioners when they deem it necessary for public safety and we have given them that option by law. Brandishing a weapon or acting violently doesn't seem like a "perceived" threat to me, it seems like an actual threat. I guess debate comes down to whether you want police to be useful or not.

"And "we" do talk about diabetes, mostly in the form of universal healthcare and drug costs. Why can't people get proper healthcare? Why does insulin cost hundreds of dollars a month?"

This is the same logic again. Focusing on what happens after someone gets in to such a bad state they need to take insulin. Why are they becoming so fat and eating such bad things that they need insulin at all? I'm so tired of the band-aid fixes. Healthcare doesn't fix shitty lifestyle choices.
Show HN: Melange – Bet on Anything
I have noticed a lot of the downvotong of things critical of YCombinator and it's bias against topics it doesn't like. I even have emails where the moderator or employee refuses to acknowledge or explain why I was downvoted and not others. It was eye opening that experience and reading this list doesn't surprise me. Everyone has an agenda.
Car companies need to stop fucking around with door handles. All door handles should be physically connected to the latch mechanism.

The time someone really needs a mechanical door latch will be an emergency situation where they are not in the frame of mind necessary to understand why the handle they've successfully used a million other times is suddenly not functioning.

Imagine getting into a fist fight, only to realize that when you go to cover your face, your brain instead decides that your arms should cover your ass instead. "Well, the human manual says that during a fist fight, stomping your feet will cause your arms to cover your face." is hardly what someone wants to hear.
Reading is reading and thinking is thinking.

Stop reading and find time to think.

Also start doing or it remains theory and there's no reward, nothing gained. Can be writing, can be implementing stuff, can be teaching. Doesn't matter. But without doing there's no feedback on the validity of your thinking.

Reading for pleasure is something else. That's the reward.
In my first job, the ancient VMS system for timesheets required you to select a password out of a list. You could refresh it as many times as you wanted, but you had to type one of the passwords provided by the system.
>>The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road.

How did the car not stop recognizing no one was at the driver seat who could put hands on the steering wheel in case of an emergency?
> What can cause high acceleration with no one in the driver's seat?

Hypothesis: the driver stepping on the accelerator caused the high acceleration.

After crashing into the tree, the driver tries the front door (which was damaged and fails to open). When the fire starts, the driver then moves to the rear seats, hoping to escape through the back doors.

Then the driver dies to the flames, unable to open even the rear doors. (Either due to ignorance to the back-latch, or due to the damage the rear-doors took during the crash).

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Remember, the Model S is a complicated electronic lock on both the front and rear doors. The safety issues associated with messing with door handles are well known, but you know... Tesla's want to be special.

> This was in a quiet residential cul-de-sac, too.

EDIT: So was Tiger Woods's car. But rich people with fast cars like to go 87mph on residential roads. Its an unfortunately common situation.
For the past three months, my friends and I have been building a social betting app called Melange, and today we’re launching it to the public.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/tt/app/melange-bet-with-friends/id155...
Android Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.melange.mel...

We got the idea after my friends and I kept losing track of all the bets we made. We wanted a more convenient way than pen and paper to record our own bets, and we thought it would be cool to see what all of our friends were betting on too. So, we learned how to code and started building!

The app lets you send bets to other users on the platform. You can specify the amount, odds, and settlement criteria you want, at which point your counterparty will have the choice to accept or reject it. Any bet you participate in appears on your profile, as well as the feed of any user following you (think Venmo, but for bets). Currently, users handle the payment of their bets off platform, and we are working to add real money transactions within the app. We also have a lot of other features in the pipeline (predictions, standard bets with automated resolution and Vegas odds, etc.) that we’re working around the clock to implement.

We’d love for you to download the app and try out with your friends. We’re always looking for feedback, and if you have any, you can respond to this post, send me an email at team@melange.io, or use the “Feedback” form within the app :)
If the syntax were &3, you could use it to obtain a *int, but not a *int32, *uint64 or such.
I think it would be good to have mandatory password changing when it is discovered that you have reused a password. Password reuse is a major security breach waiting to happen.
Option 2 sounds very plausible. It seems the authorities on the scene were pretty convinced no one was in the driver's seat when it crashed, so maybe there's some convincing evidence that they haven't divulged.

As far as exiting the vehicle goes, hand-crank windows seem like they'd be a lot safer, as they continue to function even if there isn't any power. I don't know if it would have mattered in this particular case, but I think it's a good idea to maximize the number of ways one could exit a potentially-burning car, whether it's powered by gas or batteries. Strange that society (car buyers, manufacturers, and regulators) make this trade-off of decreased safety because window cranks seem cheap, dorky, and old-fashioned.
Typing stuff, interacting at a virtual terminal, sure.

But if you key in a bootloader via the toggle switches on the console, you quickly learn to think in octal (base-8).

If you live with the console blinkenlights for a while, you get a sense of roughly what the machine is doing as it winds its way through the code.

As with flight simulators, you can learn a great deal with virtual machines and simulators. But without tactile feedback, you won't quite understand how other people experienced these machines.

And much of the programming idioms arise from those experiences.
But this algorithm isn't a FIFO: it's a multi-generational LRU cache. That means, LRU+some extra details (evry well explained in the post) to make it perform even better. There are some metrics in the post, and some in the comments here too.
Prions used to bug me as an idea for quite a while when I was an undergrad. However, since I have worked in a biolab and I actually read material that isn't just fear mongering, I can tell you a ton of stuff that makes this article totally wrong.

Prions don't live forever, they are susceptible to soap and water. Prions are proteins, anything that can break down a protein will work to break down a prion. They are not some form of mystical protein. They will break down naturally over time. This is why regions that have had Kuru outbreaks have been able to stop those outbreaks.

Since prions are literally just a chemical (albeit a complex one), they are not trying to propagate themselves. There have been outbreaks, but no massive ones with prions because that's simply not how they work. As well, since they are proteins and proteins eventually break down when they are removed from a living being, they will also eventually break down.

This article is a whole lotta fear with not a whole lotta valid info.
Not really a scam if they tell you it's plated. Now if they sell it as a real one that's bad.
if you do interesting, fascinating, groundbreakng stuff, then presumably this is something of great value and you should own equity.

thats why I think a lot of people become founders.

so if you work for a startup you will literally get paid whatecer and work on cool stuff, haha
No, just provide it to them. I don't expect lots of them to wear it, but I think it would be better to do so than not.
Take matters into your own hands then. OpenPilot supports this and their firmware is open source, you can flash it yourself if you want. You can also disable uploading driving data to the internet and the driver monitoring camera defaults to not providing them any data.

https://comma.ai/
To extend on what Steve mentioned, `union` in Rust is a C-style union, but because the type carries no information on what variant the underlying bits represent, accessing them is `unsafe`[1]. On the other hand, `enum`s in Rust are tagged unions, they reserve some data for the typesystem to determine at runtime which variant any given instance corresponds to. Because of that you can't interpret the T as an E with an enum, but you can with an union.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/unions.html
> This is a great example of sales and marketing ...

I don’t know if shifting the responsibility from the technology to marketing is the right move here.

It would be very easy for Tesla to do what every other car company already does with lane keeping, which is making sure the drivers hands are on the wheel. If I take my hands off the wheel of my VW for more than 30 or so seconds, lane keep assist turns off and I’ll drive straight into a tree if I don’t put my hand back on the wheel.

...or is Tesla’s philosophy that you shouldn’t need to touch the steering wheel turning a trip from point a to point b, even without level 4 self driving?

How do Tesla’s verify drivers are engaged? And how does the system penalize drivers when they aren’t engaged for extended periods?

There is definitely a problem with their marketing. But the core problem is the technology, IMO.
Beats/Bose were always like this. Selling the branding I mean, at least Beats had lineage of Monster producing a few decent units before they nudged them out of the picture.

Better example in the headphone world were high-end IEM's (Shure/Westone/Etymotics). Most of them were in the many hundreds of dollar range for good multi-driver units. In the past few years though Chinese manufacturers (KZ is one I can think of off the top of my head) sell their own lines on aliexpress/taobab using the same drivers for 10% of the cost.

I can't justify recommending the old names now to people, the value just isn't there (and most of the old big names stopped producing in US/EU since China turned out to have better QC). Why pay $200 for a double-driver Westone when I can recommend a 5-driver KZ unit for $60? I just don't get it.
> has anyone tried assigning randomly generated passwords to the users

We do that. We generate long random-character passwords (both for e-mail, web sites, and other accounts), and we don’t provide any online way for users to change them. If the users need to change a password, they have to contact us to do it (which is reasonable, since a big part of our value proposition is our responsive support). We only very occasionally even get such requests, and even more seldom get requests from users to set their own passwords. So far, everybody has been perfectly satisfied when hearing “No, users don’t set their own passwords. We can generate a new one for you any time you like.”.

This policy has been in effect since before my time, and I have worked here for more than 10 years. During this time, there was one user who really wanted something more memorizable for a specific account, so I set a correcthorsebatterystaple-style password on that account only. One other user had trouble adding the password to their password manager, and I had to help them do that. Otherwise, no problems.
If nobody can buy these displays, who is keeping the E Ink corporation in business?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
HN is probably the only place that maintained its quality somewhat over the last 10 years for me. So many websites and subreddits blew up, grew too quickly, and burned out in quality.

I think a lot can be attributed to strict moderation, but also like you say being pretty niche helps in that the mod team doesn't have to be very big.
This is India we're talking about.
I remember writing OpenGL fragment shader assembly for the Radeon 9600. The hardware had a 32-instruction limit for shader programs, so it was kind of fun trying to do as much as possible in one render pass.

Comparing that experience with the complexity of the instruction set described in this article, it's easy to appreciate how far GPUs have come in 19 years.
Guilty as charged.

It's why mandatory change policies are so stupid. Users will always sacrifice security for convenience.

Even those that know better.
Tried that knot and aside from taking several minutes for me to figure it out, it didn't seem to result in a knot that held very well. I'll stick with the standard way I learned 40 years ago and can do without thinking.
I did it before the patch, but the enforcement is now being done by Fairplay DRM. There are reports that you can extract the iOS app from a jailbroken iPhone, with DRM removed. Then the resulting .ipk will work on M1.
This is how I've been tying my shoes for a while and can recommend! Unfortunately I did not learn it from the inventor's website but rather from this site[1], which may be a total knockoff or may be a case of "parallel thinking".

[1] https://freedomknot.com/
That's been a dream of mine for a long time. I don't think there's anything quite like we want just yet.

However, there is a super cool open source project from the author of GKrellM (remember that from the ancient days of Linux?). He's using the Pi's built-in hardware video coder to get high quality motion detection very cheaply. The basic idea seems to be, when the encoder produced a lot of bits, there must have been some motion in the frame.

https://github.com/billw2/pikrellcam
So if you pretend that the sharps arent there and that they dont make any difference to anything then its all simple?
New U.S. military microchip implant detects Covid-19 in 5 minutes or less
Monetarist concepts have little place in a modern way world.

Bank deposits are insured up to £85k, which means they are as solid and as good as cash.

It’s well known that negative rates only bind on commercial bank deposits - if at all.

Negative rates are just a tax on banks - which they recover by charging more for loans, and paying less for deposits like any other costs.
> Researchers have increasingly come to the consensus that the best passwords are at least 11 characters long, randomly generated, and made up of upper- and lower-case letters, symbols (such as a %, *, or >), and numbers. Those traits make them especially hard for most people to remember.

in other words, the only good password is a randomly generated bitstring (just like a key!) represented as some weird almost but not quite total subset of 8-bit ascii that was based around some weak and wild assumptions that human generated text is not guessable.

this is getting out of hand.
And it also looks like with winget, microsoft wants to push people to use the awful msix, where everything is locked down, much harder to edit and change and patch, much more complex.

It's the opposite of scoop, where everything sits in a single folder, and you can get rid of it easily, and even monkey patch and hack things.
> It doesn't help that the CEO is lying to investors and customers that "full self-driving" is right around the corner and Tesla's are on the cusp of providing robot Taxi services.

Yup

Tesla's Vegas Loop, which is a completely controlled and isolated environment, somehow still needs drivers in those Teslas. I guess that could be a legal requirement, but I'm pretty sure if Tesla actually got the full self-driving to work in the loop then they would have used that at least for PR.

The whole thing is just such a bad joke considering the same tunnel could be used for a self-driving subway/train, which would be a massive improvement in terms of throughput over having people enter and exit cars that are not at all designed for public transport.
> where it's not even a solid 4.

It's not any kind of 4, let alone solid.

It's tech level 2 working on making 3 solid.
They're intended to be laser-cut, which limits the materials.

Those flaps and wheels really want to be injection-moulded from ABS, with round pins at the flap ends. That would be cheap if you were making enough of them.

(I miss TechShop. They even had an injection molding machine good enough to do this.)
Just in case someone didn't know this and finds it useful: the system Files app on iOS can also scan documents to PDF, including perspective correction.
I believe the Notes app can do that too.
Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date
Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
“Never memorize what you can look up in books” (paraphrased) - Einstein
Yes, if Tesla marketing leads people to believe their cars safe just launching with no driver, Tesla technology should probably prevent drivers from just pressing the accelerator peddle from the passenger seat.

I mean, just automatic transmission imposes a few restrictions on the driver that standard doesn't. "Maybe self-driving" is going to create driver behaviors that definitely-not-self-driving doesn't. Cars have been elaborately idiot-proofed for a long time 'cause a lot of idiots drive.
Well I guess Wikipedia is a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_rights_abuses_i...

About the US immigration centres --- I am not sure if those who suffered there would had come to those camps if they had knew what's happening in them, especially the children.
This!
Even driving Highway Hypnosis is a major problem in many areas.

It why some roads in deserts curve a lot. Helps keep the mind alert.

Take away any active involvement and it will be far worse.

https://www.healthline.com/health/highway-hypnosis#causes
I work a bit on translation of terminology w.r.t new terms, and my pet theory is that the key factor for predicting whether a proposed translation will catch on and get used is the syllable count; proposed terms that are short to use get used, but proposed longish terms get abandoned whenever there is a shorter alternative - perhaps they get used in official documentation, but in practice everyone tends to use the shorter alternative even if it's worse in all other aspects.

From that perspective; allowlist and denylist are three syllables each; blacklist, blocklist and whitelist are two - so my experience suggests that in the end the latter will be used instead of the former whenever possible.
It is a problem for everyone. Unfortunately just like censorship and political repression was used by the right in the past when they were dominant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) it is now used by the left. There are almost no organizations standing up for those civil liberties now. The ACLU is abandoning this mission (https://reason.com/2018/06/21/aclu-leaked-memo-free-speech/) as they have become explicitly leftist rather than neutrally focused on fundamental civil liberties, so new institutions are needed. Right now, the side with the most motivation to champion this cause is the American right, which I think is why we're seeing sites like this.
META: So assuming a judge rules against/or for, a given case seen before them, What qualifications beyond them simply being a judge, provides them to be the authoritative answer ons [subject]

So, this judge, rules around data, so we have a singular individual who has been given creedence to state how billions of interactions may be viewed, legally...

I am not casting opinion on any of this - I am simply asking; "Is it wise to have a single 'judge' at the helm of transactions that effect billions?
That actually makes perfect sense to me.

I ran into that issue trying to port something else to rust, just didn't realize it was this same issue. In go you just define an interface and then make a slice of that interface and put things in it. In rust I ended up having to do

Vec<Box<dyn Checker>>

I think initially I tried just doing a

Vec<Checker>

and when that failed I ended up putting something like "How do I make a vec of an impl in rust" and found a code sample.

That's where the compiler just saying "The types don't match" is not very helpful.
> Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format.

Agreed. Check out Final Space. It relies a bit on comedy in the beginning but grows into a drama. Give it a few episodes.
One of my favorite language Youtubers, jan Misali, has an interesting video on Dozenal and "Seximal" (base 6) number systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0
What competitors?
I never thought about it that way. So let me first answer your question and then expand on the underlying issue.

You might say "J-Core failed" because of a lack of privilege and because of scope.

J-Core just wasn't pushed by an top university and had multiple big companies invest in it.

J-Core was never ment to be an industry standard covering use cases from embedded to server to super computer accelerators with an ISA designed by a comittee (i don't use designed by compute sneeringly here). J-Core was meant as a patent troll proof way for a small company to design an competitive chip for their use case on a "shoe string budget" (as far as CPU design budgets are concerned). The only reason why the wider world here about it, is because people in the company believe in open source and they didn't want anybody to have to redo this work if it fits someone's use case.

RISC-V was originally created because some greedy company wanted much money for their CPU architecture to be used in the course of an professor at an prominent university.

A CPU architecture is a set of trade offs. RISC-V traded compactness of the instruction set for the flexibility an 32 bit instruction set allowed and to gain back some density by having an optional compact instruction set at the cost of making the encoder slightly more complex. J-Core always has an Multiplier-Accumulator, while this optional for RISC-V. RISC-V traded suitableness for embedded use cases for agreeableness (You don't have to implement some stuff, if you don't need it), flexibility, mass appeal and i think those trade-offs worked out for what they had in mind.

If the team behind J-Core took that route they wouldn't have shipped a product and had a half finished obscure standards document instead.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it seems poorly justified. Tesla autopilot and FSD footage is EVERYWHERE on youtube. If there was really some kind of anomalous acceleration problem surely someone would see it. There are all sorts of other persistent gripes about the system, but AFAIK rapid acceleration and overspeed simply hasn't been observed.
It's often faster to google on stack overflow for python code than write it yourself.
That is indeed the meaning of the verb "to flog". Like you would to a horse in the 17th century, to make it go faster. "Flogging off" goods to make them move faster is a relatively simple leap (and universal British slang).
That looks cool!

Just had the thought that it could be used as a handheld Gemini Protocol reader. Gemini (or Gopher) being lightweight and text-only could fit really well.