skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Like Helios" maybe, but I think in Helios's case the 'chariot of fire' is carrying the Sun across the day's sky. As I recall from the myth, at night he sails (on water) from West to East to prepare for the next day. The story doesn't fit well with a fast-moving night-time meteor(ite).
Same with FSD beta and it's even more dangerous. It's "closed beta", but driving on public roads with everyone else.
Mumbles something about collectivists and squatting
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Has the term ‘wooden language’ fallen out of use these days?
Yeah, I was kind of blueballed by the page. Maybe the author expected pull requests for other languages?
I think you misunderstand the scale at which I’m thinking.

This guy has amused me for, say half an hour of reading the article, and for a bunch more while replying to the comments.

It’s possible I would have been as amused by a corporate drone’s story, but it’s doubtful. I read enough of those, so the marginal utility of one extra story is very low.

That said, I’ve met philosopher poets on the street before, and the encounters are always memorable.
I have two kids, currently 3 and 6. I've shown them some of the videos of Autopilot freaking out and doing nonsensical things (like "braking at the moon" because it can't tell the difference between a low, yellow moon and a yellow light).

Both of them have quite a bit of experience with Power Wheels and other random wheeled vehicles around the property.

I think I'd trust my six year old on the road over Autopilot, given "weird things." At least her vision processing system is capable of going "... huh, that's weird..." instead of "I know what that thing is!" when nonsensical. And she has object persistence, combined with a sense of road speed.

We occasionally see weird optical illusions and have to work through them, but she understands the difference between a stoplight and random lights in the night sky (which, around here, are often enough crop dusters).
Don't ever go to a bar in the evening, you will be very uneasy when you see people 5 drinks deep pull out their keys.
Innovation always precedes regulation/safety. Look at the early automobile and the road marker[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface_marking
I'm pretty sure PDO doesn't support escaping WHERE/IN(...) because MySQL prepared statements don't support it. In theory, PDO could support it in emulation mode, but supporting something like that only in emulation would be an antipattern.

Similarly, PDO doesn't support dynamic table names. You're expected to roll your own precisely because it demands more situationally specific escaping than regular parameters would, e.g. testing a list of allowed tables.
This very much seems like TACC needs some more training to match up to .uk drivers and roads.
You end up writing code with 16 ? parameters and filling the empty ones with -1 or something ;)
"Everything that doesn't work is allowed to not work if it is still a work in progress"

Next: "It's Agile, so it's always allowed to not work."
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Maybe the solution is an ecosystem of supplemental AI that you can pick and choose from to compensate for the undesirable characteristics of Autopilot. Call it “Driveware”.
What's your point? Last time I checked drunk driving was illegal.
Many do, but not necessarily. For a one-(elderly-)person shop with lots of inventory collected over time the hassle isn't necessarily worth it.
There are plenty of other uses of Bopomofo:
1) as a faster electronic input method for Mandarin and other Chinese languages
2) in casual or abbreviated writing
3) in overseas education
James Risen of the NY Times exposed 10x more salient and embarrassing abuses of power than Assange and Snowden combined. When he was prosecuted to reveal his sources he stayed in the US, attended every hearing, continued reporting and was eventually cleared.
> Definitely the US, UK, and the whole EU have more vaccinations than people who want to get a vaccine.

This isn’t correct; while EU countries with low to medium demand have more vaccines than demand, countries with high demand still have a few weeks to go.
Not clear if one needs to buy >your< kit, or any kit.
>The agile manifesto was the problem. It's a vague as hell set of proscriptions that everybody could project their own ideas on to that got turned into a pseudo-religion.

thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!

It is a useless set of vague platitudes which offered nothing but a sense of seeming aphoristic depth. How so many people fell for it is still a mystery to me. Instead of focusing on the core problem of Requirements gathering and Software Specification, well known trial-and-error approaches were dressed up as something profound and a whole industry was created out of thin air. People seem to have forgotten the works of Fred Brooks/Barry Boehm and that their iterative "Spiral Model" IS Agile. There is nothing new i could find in the "modern" Agile/Scrum movement except mindless emphasis on Processes/Tools which is insanity, eg; The position of "Scrum Master" is the very definition of a "Bullshit Job" and should be abolished forthwith.
If you’re just chatting with the recruiter, not much to prepare… Just be a genuine person, and try to learn more from the recruiter as well. Don’t take rejection too hard at this level. There’s so many factors at play, ranging from recruiter quality to how this company hires that may preclude a more junior person.

Also line up more calls :). The recruiter themselves is probably playing a numbers game for the role. There’s a lot of opportunity out there. The other career switcher I knew hunted for some time before finding a role somewhere that explicitly mentored and grew people in an academy of sorts.
I wouldn't expect "driving assistance" to slam on the brakes abruptly like that either.
I guess I had a different reaction to his no-money thing, kind of putting it into the context of my own recent experiences, feeling drowned in the rat race sometimes, and seeing that happening to other people I know. Have we made things better in the last 50 years? The culture in the U.S. seems to be very focused on money, keeping the gdp growing, counting on consumers to keep consuming, etc. Isn't money supposed to be just a means to an end?

So I took this guy's stance on money as making a statement. Are we hating on the guy who doesn't want to play the game so many of us feel stuck in? Is he worse then the rich who dupe the rest of us, plundering the common good for their profits?

I think it's great that there's people out there dedicated to exploring different ideas. That seems to be inevitable, there's billions of us, and we're not evolved to be the same, for good reason. The majority shouldn't need to be scared of the minority, right? And we're all equal, aren't we?

Also, unrelated to the idea of no money, I liked his taking a stand on allowing people to sleep in parks. Many homeless people want to work and need to be near cities, where the jobs tend to be, and have nowhere secure to sleep. Maybe lockers, porta potties, showers, cheap boarding houses, camps for the better behaved, camps for the crazies, etc. What we're dong now isn't good enough. I'd like to think if we got all opinions in a room we could work something out. They're people, too.

Anyways, that's what was running through my mind when I read the article. I've also thought of stuff like this from the van life perspective, like you mentioned. In the past I've railed against welfare, but lately I wonder more about the burdens we place on the poor more than the money we give them. I don't think I've ever thought it was immoral to be poor.
At least English speakers often try to pronounce names correctly, for example celebrities and well known sports stars. Not that we always succeed, and many people don’t care! Bach, Cézzane, Jesus, Jahn etcetera.

I notice Spanish people don’t seem to try, I think in part because there is a one-to-one correspondence between words and pronunciation in Spanish. The common Spanish pronunciation of Michael Jackson is unintelligible to a native English speaker for example. Pirata Drake was another I didn’t recognise, but should have.

If I had more examples of the pronunciation of pinyin names, I would naturally start to pronounce those names more correctly given pinyin.

I suspect many native English speakers grok some of the rules associated with foreign languages without specific training.
What's considered "truly independent"? Aren't scientists at the various drug companies "independent" from each other, given that vaccines are mostly zero-sum and so drug companies have strong financial incentives to invalidate their competitors' tech? Aren't governments independent from drug companies, given that rolling out an unsafe vaccine would be political suicide? Aren't the scientists who actually work for the government regulators independent from the governments themselves, given that they aren't political appointees and have nothing to gain politically from getting a bunch of people to take an unsafe vaccine (and presumably are motivated by public health, given their career path)? Aren't the academic scientists doing COVID-related research and peer-reviewing COVID-related publications independent from all of the above?
I'll hijack you to drop the radiolab episode on this while I'm here, I remember it being fairly interesting.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-...
I agree with your point that government regulation is fundamentally reactive to private sector innovation, hence lagging. That being said, this particular issue of autonomous driving has been a hot topic for the better part of a decade now and I would like our governments to tackle it.
I saw this article shortly before a trip to Berlin in 2019 and went by the button shop. It definitely felt like the guy was some kind of button philosopher, or lord of a button empire.

I hadn't brought a picture, but I told him I was looking for some square buttons and he seemed upset - "buttons should be round, you might as well have a square wheel!"

I didn't find the buttons I was looking for but it an amusing experience.
I have no doubt that some people want to see others worse off. Some people seem to get angry about just about anything. Yet I suspect that most people respond negatively for other reasons. A common case is they perceive it as a loss to themselves, even when there is no justification to that perception.

To choose a concrete example from pedestrian safety: curb extensions are often proposed to make crossing pedestrians more visible and to slow turning traffic. A common criticism is a loss of parking. That criticism ignores that curb extensions rarely impact parking since people are not supposed to park within a certain distance of a crosswalk.
Except for obvious cases I go for the French or Alsatian pronunciation and let the person correct me. This is what English speakers are doing too after all. Conversely I don't take it personally when people mispronounce my names (given and family) the first time, especially since the family name is problematic even in France. That being said, it pisses me to no end when someone doesn't make any efforts after a given period of time (like my thesis director who still mispronounce it after 3 years, or can't align few letters properly).
The lowest level improvement: make the default query interface support placeholders, use that everywhere in the documentation, and examples. Don’t use string concatenation anywhere except examples marked as high-risk.

More advanced, 90s Perl style: setup something like a taint bit on outside variables which has to be cleared using an escape function to avoid an error.

OOP variant: A class system could be used to make something like execute() only accept a SqlQuery instance and that class throws a fatal error if you concatenate a regular string. That still allows someone to run arbitrary strings through whatever marks strings as safe but that requires doing additional work rather than forgetting and is easier to audit.

Nicer, possibly less safe variation: implement something like Python’s __add__ / __radd__ so query + string has the string escaped automatically.

More advanced: make the query method only accept constants defined at compile time with some escape hatch function which is clearly marked as unsafe: totally_insecure_query(). You need some way to combine predefined fragments for conditionals but that should be possible in most modern languages.

Rust example:
https://polyfloyd.net/post/compile-time-prevention-of-sql-in...
I mean ok, but the parent commenter's claim is that the US is _losing_ standing as a spreader of democracy. This is the premise of my question, and I'm not really interested in a random third-party's view that the premise is wrong, especially when it's as trite a view as this one.
Four years ago it did not exist at all - the crowdfunding campaign to develop it started Aug 2017.

The final revision only started shipping in December 2020 (the first early batches in Nov 2019), but not all orders have been fulfilled yet because of supply chain issues. Shipping is supposed to resume soon though: https://puri.sm/posts/the-ball-and-supply-chain/
Certainly if they are, they aren’t making it known. Which is a shame, because that might persuade me to vote for some of them.
The worst thing about PHP is that the majority of people who visit my website are script kiddies from the third world pen testing for PHP vulnerabilities.
For braking; as a following car, you're technically following too close if you can't come to a complete stop if the car in front of you does.

Every car is capable of doing this; every car is one transmission / differential / electric motor lockup away from stopping its drive wheels immediately.

In an internal combustion engine there are a few other possibilities including a thrown piston or rod, a significant lack of oil
That is literally not the prompt. The prompt is, and I quote, if you agree with the "treatment of Assange". Agreeing with his actions or opinions was never mentioned.
Fantastic ride and if you follower her Twitter she's been doing a lot of very detailed exploration of her endurance limits in preparation.

When the lead group fell to 3 they had an 11 minute lead.

She broke free and went solo with 40km to go.

When she finished that lead had eroded to 2 minutes as the front group she dropped had been caught.

So in those 40km she lost 9 minutes of lead she had built with the help of the breakout group.

This was all strategy and then a tremendous physical performance on her part.

Dutch team needs a serious kick in the ass for underestimating an "amatuer" in this regard. It was obvious she was in it for the gold or nothing; and they fatally assumed it would be the later.

Fantastic win when you consider training, strategy, and performance all came together to pull it off. This is what olympians are all about!
Great article. How should the community fix this problem with bad and dangerous tutorials?

I don’t think fixing Google’s index is enough and probably not you something we can rely on.(there are other search engines)

One problem could be that official PHP documentation only includes examples for using a specific function, not an entire use case from start to end. That would mean that examples would also include lots of HTML, CSS, SQL and JavaScript. But then of course it will no longer be a PHP documentation.

Writing correct up to date examples is very time consuming. Sites like w3schools tries to do this, w3schools was bad in the past but has become better, but it is also a commercial site so nothing you don’t want to contribute to with your own examples. At the same time it is understandable that w3schools wants something in return.

Another idea could be to contact site owners of these tutorials, but then they probably want the correct fix. This can also be time consuming.

Maybe an index of approved tutorials voted by the community and then make sure this index gets high on Google ranking.
I partly agree, but it's also sad that we need to add to the bureaucracy just to insist that professionals act professionally. As you point out, most companies are doing fine. But it wasn't just Tesla playing fast and loose; as far as I'm concerned Uber execs should be doing time for negligent homicide: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/777438412/feds-say-self-drivi...
As I understand, phantom breaking is a result of inconsistent sensor inputs from forward radar, specifically with things like highway underpasses. This is one of the reasons Tesla is moving to a full vision stack. Currently the new vision-only update is only out to FSD beta testers. Hopefully the phantom breaking issue will go away once highway autopilot is updated.
Until recently, non-federal entities weren't allowed to use .gov. So states and municipalities had to actively switch (and advertise that switch).
Nice (very quick) hack.

I was hoping to find something about how he was reading the stored height information from the desk so that he could either automatically or over SSH set the desk to specific heights though.

His hack just moves the desk up for a second approximately every 50 minutes. So I guess he just lets it go to max height when he's away, manually sets the height to where he needs it to stand, and just goes back to sitting whenever he feels like it.
I have a Subaru with assistive braking (EyeSight) and it does the exact same thing on a very specific off ramp. My best guess was that it's detecting the big yellow "turn" sign right before the loop. It's about big enough to be the back of a car to the primitive detection.

That's not a solution for you, just thought I would share commiseration. Your experience with it is slightly worse than mine has been but I leave mine on for the exact same reason.
>But back to pinyin, that was intended as an alphabetic alternative for native Chinese speakers to use instead of pictogram/characters. So it's audience wasn't foreign language speakers and thus will have shortcomings for them.

Yes that makes sense, and is reasonable. But the expectation for all foreigners to be familiar with it is not.
NHS and Boston MBTA both run BEAM in production, and arguably lives are at stake there (mostly indirectly but still) ...
There's a nifty feature on HN called "scrolling up" that allows you to read the parents of the comments you reply to. It's good for workflows you might find useful like "understanding the discussion" and "not looking like an idiot". In this case, it'd reveal that the premise of my question is the parent comment's claim of a _decline_ in the US's reputation as a "spreader of democracy". hth

EDIT: Holy christ, you are the parent commenter. How is it even possible that you forgot what your previous comment in the thread was saying??
But killing old people, past their reproductive years, has no long-term effect on population, except maybe through extremely weak high-order effects like "the availability of grandma to watch the kids may subtly affect reproductive decisions" or "old people come from an old culture which is more productivist, and may influence their descendents ideologically".
If FSD is accurately described as “not always worse than a drunk driver” then please remove it from the roads.
You sound like you have experience with cycling advocacy. If you could point me in the direction of resources, I would appreciate it.

I've identified a need locally. It doesn't require government funding. But I still have a lot to learn about bike rack best practices and I haven't ridden in a lot of years. I pretty much walk everywhere.
I will try to relax and just be inquisitive then, thank you :) I think I have prepared enough today lol
I'm shocked no one else gave this answer earlier in the thread. If you're using PDO directly in 2021, you're absolutely doing it wrong. You don't need to use all of Laravel, or even all of Eloquent for that matter. If you don't want to depend on a framework or use an ORM, you can use "illuminate/database" (https://packagist.org/packages/illuminate/database) for a secure wrapper around PDO. No need to reinvent the wheel.
> For braking; as a following car, you're technically following too close if you can't come to a complete stop if the car in front of you does.

Sure, and have you heard of brake checks? They're (very) illegal despite what you said for a reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_check

Brake testing and tailgating are examples of aggressive driving, and both may be punishable as vehicular assault, careless or reckless driving, or vehicular homicide if death occurs.
> Great article. How should the community fix this problem with bad and dangerous tutorials?

By updating all of the old, insecure tutorials to redirect towards secure answers instead.

Details here: https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/01/our-ambitious-plan-make-i...
Maybe it is my age and millennials or the generation after will trust self-driving cars. I’ve seen computers fail so many times in my lifetime that I just can’t go 70 and trust the car to stay in the lines. Straight is ok but when the curves come…
> Don't make it a moral argument that frames drivers as sinners and pedestrians, cyclists, etc as The Good Guys.

So much this.

I live in a US city that has an atypically large number of people who bicycle as their primary transportation. I do as well, but I also have a car and drive when that's more appropriate.

The years have taught me some things about the car vs bike divide: car drivers tend to be real jerks toward bicyclists, and bicyclists tend to be real jerks toward car drivers.

It's lose-lose, particularly because it's not rare that either the car or the bike (or both) navigate dangerously as a result, increasing the chances that someone's going to have an accident, and reaffirming the negative stereotypes each has toward the other.
you're missing out, they are a lot of fun to drive.
Oh, thanks! Appreciated.
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The other point to add is that while the organic business is waiting to get from $2mn to $3mn, their VC funded competitor can throw 100 people at the problem and eat the entire market.

The point is if you’re in a VC heavy space, you often have no choice but to dance along with the music.
no one in government is qualified to really understand ML and to regulate that stuff. Does the government employ people at the level of Tesla in ML? Its quite the problem... when the best minds are in the tech enclaves are not working for the public interest.
Making deals to get testimony isn't unprecedented at all. The terms of the deal are disclosed and can be considered as an element of credibility. If this guy recanted to the media he can be put back under oath and admit to perjury and get his deal rescinded or admit to pandering the media and keep his original statement on the record.
Data sample of 1, here, but I tapped a link in Google Maps on iOS 15 and it opened using regular embedded Safari, not Chrome or anything remotely Chrome-like. It uses SFSafariViewController and there’s a button at the top to go back to Chrome (Done), it animates in from the bottom, and you can tap an icon in the lower right corner to open in Safari or another browser. Safari is set as my default browser. I changed by default browser to Chrome and the same thing happened, Google Maps still used SFSafariViewController. I like it. :)
You seem to be implying that in the short run it's ok for them to kill some extra people. One, I don't think that's necessary; Waymo is a good example of how a safer approach is also apparently no less effective. Two, you're presuming that we will get to self-driving cars that are economically viable and safer than current human-driven ones, something that is not a given. And three, it's not clear to me who gets to decide exactly how many unwilling people should be sacrificed on the altar of technological progress, but I hope it's not us and it sure shouldn't be Musk.