skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False V2V inputs could cause a car satnav to divert to an alternative route. If the data fusion is done wrong, or if external visibility is very poor, it could rely on single source data (V2V without confirmation from an on-board sensor) and swerve or engage emergency braking. If an attacker has access to disable/deceive, e.g., the microwave sensors (via software attacks, or by jamming) then it becomes quite possible.

There is lots of research in the topic though, so I'm fairly confident most V2V systems will be robust, but it depends on regulation. If they froze capability at a specific 'approved' version then attacks could become serious. Especially for systems using lots of ML, at higher levels of autonomy. At the moment it seems like Looney Tunes attacks (draw a picture of a tunnel with the word TUNNEL on it, paint the road markers towards it) work amazingly well.
Lol. Some brokers allow you to vote on fractional shares, and technically you don't own the share, but why would they care if you do or not, it's about the voting rights.
You mean Yucca Mountain, that sits largely unused to this day?
Nuclear waste handling is a non-issue. The volume are totally manageable, and future generations of nuclear plants won't product much (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor)
"as scientists are flocking to newer languages such as Python or Julia."... well, guess what? SciPy is partly written in... Fortran (and C/C++)! By its own nature, Python can't be as fast as Fortran. That's why most Python libraries doing heavy computation are implemented in Fortran and/or C/C++...
Im always amazed at the ability of people to make stuff up and just state lies as facts.
Dogecoin continues its scarcely believable surge
https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
Having state-owned utilities also removes the profit motive, which is always at odds with safety and reliability.
The current strategy in many countries is to first generate as cheap energy as possible, and then subside alternative sources to be ready when the cheaper energy can't fulfill demand. The cheapest energy source get determined by market forces, while the alternative is about the government buying stability.

I would suspect that the nuclear subsidies is taken from the later strategy and not the former. Companies can still compete on the market to produce the cheapest possible energy, while the government are moved away from fossil fuels and into alternatives that are clean and provide the desired stability for which existing subsidies are paying for.
It's probably time to abandon the 90s mental model of the military as effective and efficient. The cultural rot has reached them too. The officer corp will virtue signal all day about paying for sex changes for their soldiers, but the affirmative action hires that run the place can't get anything right anymore. And no one is dumb enough or courageous enough to try to fire them. The wastefulness of the military budget is at this point legendary. Consider the comical flop of the F35 and other such boondoggles.
I'm missing the reference to foot and mouth disease. FMD is a viral infection and is not caused by prions.
When you say "It's typical that most people will tell you their grandpa was in the resistance, rarely they will tell you that they collaborated." - do you mean that people lie about being in the resistance or do you mean that they only talk about the war if they were part of the resistance?
I disagree. Fewer characters != simpler or even more readable. Map/filter/etc are certainly more clever, and I enjoy writing clever code, but I reserve it for my personal projects bprecisely because it isn’t so clear. Note that Python has these first class functions as well as various kinds of comprehensions and still it’s frowned upon to use anything more complex than the simplest comprehensions.
Because many people in this discussion, on the internet and in our country do see it as an acceptable response.
I have more faith in the military chain of command versus a contractor who isn’t going to give AF if they lose a contract and the US gov has to pay out to rehabilitate a facility that wasn’t properly maintained.

Contractors have less fear than someone who can be jailed (and let’s be honest, contractors and other commercial entities are never held accountable when they cut corners for profit and pollute with wild abandon leaving us with Superfund sites).
Coming up, the designer of the 'Survival Capsule' is placed in the path of a hurricane to demonstrate his concept.

Hilarity ensues.
Wow so you are basically linking people to depictions of teen and child pornography.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049474
At least this is a 5B without the hypergolic third stage and the potential to poison people on the ground.
In general I oppose subsidies, but I think it's a good idea here. Nuclear solves some major problems with other types of clean energy - it's just prohibitively expensive. I'm all for exploring all alternatives to fossil fuels in parallel - I think the seriousness of the climate situation warrants it.

But that cost is largely a function of strong regulations and lack of innovation. If the government gets the ball rolling with subsidies it might get to the point where it doesn't need them anymore. Reducing regulation where appropriate could help too - but in general there are risks and regulation is warranted.

And because it makes so much sense - implement a carbon tax that ramps up slowly to the full cost of the externalities of fossil fuels. It's the most effective thing to fight climate change, but instead of doing that we actually subsidize fossil fuels?!? I don't get it.
> law-enforcement agencies undermining civil rights by forcing Tesla or other self-driving car-makers to redirect cars against a customer's will

Seems safer for the customer than a spike mat or a shot to the tyre.
I think the most under-hyped tech news of the past year was that protein folding was baaasically solved: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4

This could allow us to predict in silico what a given gene might do.
cheers! i love Timescale
Please take your partisan shenanigans elsewhere or maintain a civil tone.
Proteins do eventually break down in the environment. If you hugely multiply the number of humans and population density, you are creating a situation where prion diseases can become endemic where they couldn't have been before.

This is probably exactly what happened with CWD - deer overpopulation plus the random protein misfold created the conditions for a contagious disease where it didn't exist before.
Maybe they could replace the windows with giant screens and adjust the horizon?
Why does it need to be run by a commercial operator at all? What advantage does that confer?
Used TimescaleDB in one of my first real DE projects – huge fan. Happy to see this!
I hear about regulatory cruft, but have never heard of examples of what would be changed.

We have two recent build sites in the US, one failed entirely, and the other is hobbling along. I've read lots of analyses and postmortems, and the only regulation-related criticisms I've found are that the NRC doesn't regulate enough. By only looking for safety of the design, Westinghouse was able to submit designs that were safe, but not particularly buildable. If the regulators had checked the work of Westinghouse to include basic build ability in addition to safety, tens of billions of dollars might have been saved, and we might have been building more nuclear reactors.

But I would like to hear more specific complaints about how regulations could change, if it has the chance to improve nuclear.
I think they are only moderating against bots that solely retweet everything posted to the site. A real user can post the statements and pundit in whatever direction they want.
In a free market perhaps, but nuclear power comes with loads of government oversight and regulations (and therefore costs) due to the inherent risk factors. Given that, subsidies seems appropriate.
There's a reason the statement "acting presidential" exists. We generally hold people in power to a higher standard in this country, and rightly so. "We need to fight against special interests" has no context. If the preceding 10 minutes was talking about the civil war - then yes I would be extremely concerned that the President went from talking about war to starting a "fight" with someone.

If the previous 10 minutes was talking about financial reforms, then IN CONTEXT, the president is talking about a very different kind of fight.

I have no time for people who try to dodge responsibility by claiming the context of a statement doesn't matter, on the flip side I have no time for someone who takes a one-sentence snippet out of context to try to hang someone out to dry either.

IMO that's the problem with what I can only describe as the 'twitter generation' we're currently experiencing. Everything is a 140 character snippet and context is completely lost or discarded.
The formal C semantics are defined in Isabelle/HOL, checked, and then the compiler output is also checked. They use standard GCC compilers for all of this.

See https://riscv.org/blog/2021/05/sel4-on-risc-v-verified-to-bi...
In some ways, it still isn't great. You can't create font rules in CSS in shadow DOM; they are ignored.

WC + Shadow DOM are great for using 'new' components in, say, a legacy web application that has leaky style rules (e.g., the main app has style selectors like `button`), which would bleed into your new component.
There's been at least one car[1] where hackers gained access to the car electronics through the infotainment system.

Not sure about the Tesla, but several other cars[2] have their infotainment connected to the rest of the control systems. So in general, it's not "just" the infotainment system.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs

[2]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/volkswagen-an...
Calling it a subsidy makes it seem like it's something governments are doing on purpose. That they can easily say "this subsidy has expired, we're not giving it to you anymore". That is not the case.

Implementing a new tax for CO2 emissions is a much, much bigger political endeavour than simply letting a subsidy expire and not renewing it.

That's why there's not much value in perverting language to somehow argue that fossil fuels are subsidised. They are not, there's no way to "remove subsidies from their dirtier competitors", as the parent poster suggested.

There is a way to tax CO2 emissions, but that's a different discussion altogether.
That's not a suspension.
tl;dr: Basecamp decided to ban political/societal talk not related to work on its web internal group chat. Some people where outraged. 18 of their 56 employees resigned. This post is the aftermath of all of that.

For more details read the latest posts at https://world.hey.com/jason, https://world.hey.com/dhh, and the last article about it in The Verge.
"The majority hold the power (minority mobs can't cancel users)"

What if the minority mob becomes the majority mob one day? Suppose 51% majority are cancel mob and 49% are others, what happens then?
I really like chaining array methods but you should also never forget it's incredibly easy to introduce crazy computational complexity with them.
LLVM, KDE Gear, Gnome Update in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Very happy with our choice to use TimescaleDB. The idea to simply make it a Postgres extension was brilliant. The compression release was one of the cooler features I've seen in recent times. Row database for recent transactional data, columnar compressed database for historical OLAP workloads - pretty much automagically.
It really does differentiate. I just checked, and the input box you have to tap on to type says "Unsecured SMS". Now, some folks might not know what that means, but I think it's a stretch to say is not clearly marked.
> (I remember posting a huge thing on slashdot when this article was originally posted)

Appropriate that _this_ comment is buried who-knows-where in slashdot's archives.
https://youtu.be/N8zcfalougY
We switched to MongoDB Atlas which was awesome but I didn't want to sound like a stealth corporate shill. Atlas rocks!
There are actual direct subsidies for fossil fuels in the US mostly as preferential tax treatment.

The Wikipedia page has a nice breakdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidy
>> Funny. That's the same thing the right-wingers are saying.

Your wording seems to have an unstated but implied meaning to it, but I am not getting what it is.

Could you explain the implied meaning if you intended one?
You can use COM/OLE to script Excel with Python or JS.

I think Microsoft is making JS a first-class scripting language for Excel (and slowly deprecating VBA).
> You've missed the point completely and have created a strawman-based rant.

No. And two phrases don’t a rant make. You’ve written about 3 times as much in response.

> The problem with emoji is that there is no dictionary, no standardised meaning or interpretation guidelines; no unified, context-dependent cues that everyone subconsciously agrees to.

Have you never encountered slangs once in your life? Because not being understood by everyone is quite literally the point.

> When emoji start getting overused to the point where you have to draw meaning from the skin tones involved in a handshake, that's a step too far IMHO.

“Emoji are used a lot therefore emoji are bad” is certainly a take.

> This is precisely why we struggle with deciphering hieroglyphics and precisely why emoji must remain a supplement to language, not a replacement for it as many use.

You seem to understand hieroglyphics about as well as you understand emoji, or slang, or langage in general.

And we actually understand hieroglyphs really really well. Unlike, say, Linear A, or Etruscan (that one is rather interesting because the script is a known alphabet, but since we know nothing of the langage that’s not at all helpful, in the same way English and Romanian both using the Latin script… is not actually helpful to deciphering Romanian knowing only English).
It just occurred to me that the EV transition will also affect food prices, that should be interesting. Big agro and big oil batting against it. Not sure how we are making even the little progress we are.
This very much depends on the Hardware that Forth is running on but the concept is very old. Interpreters of all types are used to encode higher level functions than the hardware supports as a single bytes or integers. Then you write your program using the byte/integer code as instructions and it takes less space for a given program.

Byte code threaded programs are small but less speedy.
(Open-Firmware is byte coded Forth)

Traditional Forth systems encode this virtual machine as lists of addresses. These lists are "interpreted" by a piece of code that is 2 to 3 instructions on modern computers, so it's pretty fast. (slightly bigger on an 8 bit CPU)

This address based VM code "can" be smaller on a 16bit machine but might not be on a 32bit machine until you raise the programming level to very high level functions. This depends on the CPU. On RISC-V it's probably still true based on what I see of the instruction set. (not tested)

The typical Forth development cycle involves extending the language in the direction that one needs, writing higher level functions, combining them into even higher level functions such that at the end of the coding process you are using very few of these application specific functions to write the program. Thus a space saving because each function uses only one byte or integer in your program to reference it.
If they're using something a lot that's non-default, and they have to go out of their way to select it...?

Yeah, it does mean those people want it.

There's literally no other way to interpret it.
I have spoken with friends who work at Netflix and they agree with the culture is fear that Netflix creates. One of my friends knows this particular manager and confirmed the allegations made in the article by A. St. James. I have another friend who had been fired from Netflix a few years back, and from what I heard, Netflix supported his bosses poor decisions as a manager. I wouldn't work at Netflix regardless how much they overpay their employees to keep them in submission.
What is your long term plan for what to do with all of the carbon dioxide we're putting into the atmosphere?

Both are immense problems with immense dangers, but it seems to me that one is clearly easier to solve.
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Sure, you can do with no electronics but with electronics you can do that and more.

These days, even the cheapo cars have stuff like ESP, Crash Prevention, Blind Spot monitoring, Lane assist and more systems that compensate greatly for driver skills and human errors.

The electronics are good at crash prevention and in the pre-electronics, the crash prevention is non existent besides for lightning, markings and the horn.
Then you should read it further as:

"... with the intent to directly harm average citizens."

Which yes, I'd argue is a negligible amount.
I think the next big thing will be how to organize/change society to deal with the lack of good jobs. You can loosely include inequality and recruiting in this. I don't think the outcome will necessarily be a good one. For example, it could result in massive outsourcing and automation.

There's constant talk of not being able to fill positions, but in many cases the pay or working conditions aren't good enough or the company is too picky about some minor attribute on a resume. 30% of millennials are looking to change companies after the pandemic has subsided (I think that's more of an if it subsides). I think this says a lot about how the increasing segment of the working population views work and jobs today. In some areas, it's more lucrative to be on support programs than to work too. I think this will increase as the cost of benefits continues to increase. At the opposite end of the spectrum people would rather hit big on crypto or options and check out of the work force before actually contributing to society. I hate looking at job postings due to the inflated fancy working of the duties section, the pay is usually just about the same as my current job if it's even listed (and the range can be huge - like $80k-120k is a 50% increase. How is that real/helpful?), and they all make it sound like they're saving the world when they're really just going to stick you in a boring app that does some basic CRUD for the business.

These are just my views. Maybe they are wrong. I do think something big will happen in the work force over the next decade.
> That's the problem with all "it won't die, it's more popular than ever" arguments.

That's not the argument I made. Of course Google search can die, my point is that it isn't happening right now or in the near future.
Those scores are not so interesting by themselves in that they were calculated based on votes at the time and aren't meant for comparing comments on different articles. (The top comment on a high-scoring article will automatically beat the top comment on a low-scoring article)

I would rather like to see what Dan did scaled up 1000x or so: that is, have experts pick out a few of the best comments over the very long term with a number of quality criteria in mind.

Like it or not individual people have characteristics that are mostly stable over time: they are more or less smart, mean, wordy, honest, loyal, interested in different things, make different mistakes, etc. Profiling the author is worthwhile.

The article though is a problem not a solution in terms of sampling: consider that people talked about topic A in 200 articles that hit the front page in the last 5 years; if you put the comments from those 200 articles in pool B and rank the articles in pool B and pick up the top ten you would get the "pure gold".
It takes long enough to build a nuclear reactor that it makes more sense to build it somewhere else than on the site of an operating reactor which is still viable to continue operations. Keep all the existing plants that can reasonably be kept operating online until after the last coal plant is shut down, then start retrofitting existing reactors.
To a certain extent, yes thats true
> Maybe I misinterpreted the cause and effect here, but is there a meaningful difference between a Snapchat video with a "speed filter" and a cellphone video of somebody driving fast that includes footage of their car's speedometer? Is any speed gauge likely to make people drive fast, and therefore open to litigation?

The factual contribution is a question for trial; the question here was whether Snapchat was legally immune from suit through CDA section 230, even though the material alleged to be the source of liability was first-party content.
Make your system more predictable by using idempotent interfaces
Isn't that just proving the point? Powerful figures should absolutely be more careful when using words like "fight" out of context because a certain percentage of people may very well misinterpret that as a call to violence. The platform evaluating it in a certain way doesn't change what the rest of the audience is going to evaluate it as.
Might not be from MS, but automating MS Office document generation is a solved problem:

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://www.python-excel.org/

https://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
GlobalFoundries Upgrades for Silicon Photonics in Quantum Computers
A little bit of machine vision goes a long way in many industries!
Chemical agents which cause protein-crosslinking would be the preferred method - you can broadly make every side-group reactive and cause them all to stitch together with anything else organic, which tends to inactivate them (makes them a big blob which can't do much).

But it's nasty stuff to work with, since it also happily does tons of damage to the proteins making up the humans applying it.
This seems a bit like the story with Clojure vis-a-vis Java, to me. Yes, Clojure does a lot to clean up Java's verbosity, flaky implementation of generics, etc. But I don't think that's actually because Clojure is a Lisp; I think it's mostly because Clojure is a dynamic language. For example, Clojure largely resolves Java's generics situation by simply not needing them in the first place.

That worked for Java, where a lot of people are stuck on the JVM for legacy reasons, but yearning to at least be able to work in a more ergonomic language. Go lives in a different social environment, though. Nobody's stuck on Go because they've got 25 years' worth of massive legacy Go monoliths that they can't just chuck out the door. They're on Go because Go is what they want. And I'm pretty sure, given that they're invested in Go, that a dynamic language with a heavy focus on metaprogramming is approximately the opposite of what they want.
If you're on twitter I recommend following Ryan Calo as he's a good gateway to the community discussing these issues.
When was the last time there was a safety incident on a nuclear Navy vessel? Or a loss of radiological material? I am aware of the culture causing loss of life due to overwork and hubris on their non nuclear vessels, but nuke specialists run a tight ship, and reactors on land are stationary and need nuke folks (not sailors).