skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention cruise control has the same "vulnerability": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1q0FihkTfk

Is there any evidence that drivers are abusing Autopilot etc. any more than cruise control and causing a higher rate of accidents due to inattentiveness?

I was especially disappointed in Consumer Reports, which insinuated that these methods of "fooling" Autopilot were somehow connected to a fatal crash in Texas. https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/cr-engine...

You have to get 11 paragraphs in before you get to this:

> Our evaluation does not provide specific insight into the Texas crash, but safety advocates and researchers at CR say that it does show that driver monitoring systems need to work harder to keep drivers from using the systems in foreseeably dangerous ways.

By this standard, cruise control should never have launched in any vehicle until technology was capable of verifying driver attentiveness with eye tracking.
The privacy violation here is smaller than the one we all used to have to go through to get photos developed at all.
P.S. I implemented Structured Exception Handling for Win32, with help from a couple very smart people. Microsoft completely changed it for Win64, and the documentation on it is completely unhelpful to nonexistent.[1] I simply gave up on it. D on Win64 uses the exception handling mechanism I invented for the 32 bit DOS extender from the old Zortech days. It works fine, except that it cannot interact with C++ exceptions thrown by VC++ code.

[1] I attended a presentation on it by MS soon after Win64 came out. All I could think of at the end was "what's a cubit". I understood exactly nothing about it.
One only needs to look to other diseases (SARS, ebola) to show that your logic is not sound.
OPs argument heavily suggested the only way to not die of COVID was to get the vaccine. Which is demonstrably false.
No, its a whitelist. There are plenty of abandoned apps that haven't been updated in years, which I would like to run on M1, but aren't available.
My point is even if hospitals were closed completely, it still seems unlikely that 20% of people who catch COVID would die from it.
I know many people from Vasishta clan married to Vishvamitra clan, so I guess it doesn't matter these days.
My 22 month old son wakes up at 5am, and doesn't stop running, climbing, singing and dancing, any possible "activity" you can think of until 7pm when we have to wrangle him for about an hour during "quiet time" until he eventually decides it's time him to sleep. The description "different species" seems apt because I really don't see how it's possible for such a tiny "human" to just have so much energy.

All in jest of course. My son is my world.
It would be interesting to have a VAX/VMS cluster as my daily driver. I'm not sure what I'd do for a GUI, as I only used VT100s back in the day.

Alternatively, I could probably live in Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 7 forever.
Stuff like that has happened before: probably via stupid algorithm. Douglas Lain got a strike on his channel for "medical misinformation" because he referenced footage of Alex Jones being foolish.
Your numbers are way off. The CDC estimates that since the start of the pandemic the hospitalization rate has been 5% and the fatality rate has been 0.6%. Of the hospitalized patients only a fraction needed high-end medical intervention such as mechanical ventilation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

The hospitalization and fatality rates are far lower now for vaccinated people.
"The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no reasonable expectation of privacy.""

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Except it's not a government agency; it's a private non-profit with strong governmental ties.

https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2020/four-ncmec-myths
> Who cares if a driver can deliberately defeat these things? That's not the threat model!

Faking a "malfunction" and then suing could be part of the threat model to the car maker and/or the insurance companies that provide liability coverage.
What about South Korea? Mask mandates? In addition to lockdowns. I mean it’s multiple things that politicians and officials had to get right of course. Unfortunately >90% really failed us on that practically everywhere.
It was discovered at some point that a thin film of oil would protect the explosion-facing side of the plate. There was something about the skin oils of a fingerprint leading to that discovery, but I don’t remember details.
is this like the digital tobacco equivalent of getting a sore throat and a cough from not being able to get your usual brand?
Rust is one such language. I wrote a bit about exception safety in Rust here: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/c-pitfalls-hard-to-avoid-that-...

In short, while the problem is mitigated somewhat compared to C++, it's still one of the most common causes of bugs in unsafe Rust code.

Rust programs can choose to abort on all panics, rather than unwind. Firefox does this, for example.
"Stop using the website in the way it was intended; you must learn the bias of each subs or get banned. And by the way criticizing the bias of mods will also get you banned"
Thanks for giving me an idea: I'll name each of my project I don't want to be used in professional setting with outrageous names for Americans. Btw Coq will be soon free to use for another project.
you're commenting on a public screenshot of that "guaranteed-private channel"
I agree with your analysis -- I also think it was probably meant to mollify law enforcement without sacrificing encryption. The same thought occured to me independently right when it was announced.
> When the personality function doesn't know what to do it will invoke the default exception handler, meaning that in most cases throwing from a nothrow method will end up calling std::terminate.

This is an interesting tidbit that cost me a week of debugging recently - a try/catch block at the top of the call stack wasn't catching an exception.

We set up an exception handler that calls main in a try/catch block, so that any thrown exceptions can be caught, processed, and dispatched to our crash-logging system.

But destructors are marked nothrow by default. So we had a case where an object was destroyed, and about 10 levels down from its destructor some other system threw an exception, intending it to be caught by the top-level catch block.

But during stack unwinding we passed through the nothrow destructor and std::terminate got called before unwinding got to the top-level try/catch.
Yeah, I know someone who did the exact same thing. I guess it's similar to a pyramid scheme in that the more people you "coach" or "mentor", the bigger your personal brand will get and the more opportunities you will get.
Because it has been vetted by trustworthy FBI agents who don't make any mistakes.
It’s viral vector which isn’t a traditional vaccine.

Viral vector has only been used before for Ebola. All US vaccines execute custom RNA code that was spliced from the real virus. Viral vector just gets that code in the cell by a different method.
Calculations at the time (late 1950s-early 1960s) were that the radiation released by Orion in the earth’s atmosphere would lead to a single additional death from cancer each year. And isn’t there already a great deal of radiation in space?
And it looks like a butter knife.
The thing is YouTube likely would not have survived without being acquired or continuously raising huge amounts of capital. Bandwidth is absurdly expensive and they have to store exabytes of data and make it available all around the world in a reasonable amount of time, and make it all load quickly. I don’t think YouTube would be profitable today if they didn’t get to piggy back on the massive infrastructure Google built.

There are just some services that are simply not profitable until you reach a massive scale.
> There was no realistic chance of keeping this under control once it spread beyond Wuhan.

This is probably our main point of disagreement then. Given that many governments did quickly get it under control, I would contend that with proper testing and quarantine during travel, it could have been extremely different.

There was a lack of global coordination, and with that coordination I think this could have turned out very differently. And I fear that we are not learning the lessons to prevent another incident precisely like this one.

That said, I'm not fatalistic, and think there still may be a chance for wiping out this disease, but I think it's only going to get harder with time.
If you become known as a hub for this stuff Congress probably won't see it that way.
Crypto giant Circle could create a U.S.-backed digital currency
Really wish we could see a reduction in rape culture reenforcement language.
The Woman Who Created an App to Save Her Endangered Language
> regenerate a ton of SSH keys for every computer I own and link them to my account

You could do a single one per computer. You could even do a shared single one across all computers (it’s recommended against but not strictly worse than a shared password)

> disable 2FA because my phone number is in another country

Don’t use SMS for 2FA. Use TOTP (Google Authenticator or similar app. There are alternatives that let you sync) or U2F (hardware key)
It's 13 years since Nissan released the GT-R with a speed limiter that only disables itself if the car GPS reports that it's on a racetrack:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2008-nissan-gt-r-uses-gps-to-d...

Trucks have tachometers which track drivers aren't driving too long, and are taking sufficient breaks.

> "It will then connect to a DMV database that verifies the information is correct and then to the insurance database to verify coverage."

Wouldn't it be nice to know that if you're in an accident, the other party can't simply say "I'm not insured lol" and drive away and leave you and your insurance to pick up all the costs?
For a while I was getting contacts from AWS pretty regularly. I was mostly ignoring them but they got annoying enough that I started replying with links to articles about Amazon's terrible labor practices. One recruiter replied that he would put me on his do-not-contact list. A couple of days laters I got another contact from the same recruiter, and I replied with the same links.

It's been a while since them and I have hardly heard a peep from them, but I suspect it's just a matter of time before I'm back on their lists.
Because VC loves giving money to companies with no real plan.
Thanks. New URL works for me.
Perhaps they can spend some of that money making the app not completely suck
Racoon Logic faces backlash for lack of diversity in staff photo
To me the issue is that it makes no sense: if it's just scanning iCloud photos, ___why does this feature need to exist at all__?

Apple is saying this: "we need to scan your phone because we need to look for this material, and by the way, we're only scanning things _we've been scanning for years already_"

Basiclaly, everything else aside, in the current state of things, this feature makes no sense. They are not scanning anything they weren't scanning already (literally, everything on iCloud) so why did they bother?

A bunch of people are making speculative claims that Apple is doing this to enable encryption of data in iCloud, but there's no reason to believe that's true. Apple certainly hasn't mentioned it.

So .. why?
Where can I find some of this evidence? I haven't been following this closely
I was very close to getting a VAXstation recently but I just can’t stand to pay for freight shipping.

For GUI, I wonder if you could get an X-terminal and use it with NetBSD, which is the only modern OS I can think of that still have a VAX port.
Could they though? An authoritarian government could just as easily say "if you do not implement this feature, we will not allow you to operate in this country" and refuse to entertain legal challenges.
It is already bit rotting. There are some pages that return 500 errors on the old site but work in mobile.
I’m going to write a personal budgeting app and call it <redacted for pearl-clutching Americans> (an archaic word for miser/pennypincher, roughly homophonous but etymologically unrelated to an extremely offensive slur)
The Fuck[1] is a handy tool that I use daily in the office.

Is fsck something you'd avoid because of its name, or is the single letter change enough to make it safe?

[1] https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
What does “easy” have to do with anything?

The fact is that what YT did was legal, so the “easy” thing to do is complain about it, which won’t change their behavior. All of the things that would change this behavior are hard things.
Having 10% stake in a 10b company is often better than having a 15% stake in a 5b one.
> They let all iPad and iPhone apps run unless the developer puts their app on the denylist.

Can we all agree that any developer that decides to do that is doing something that can only be described in civilized culture as being a dick move?
He was opposed to them building social housing
Isn't that because the apps haven't been recompiled for ARM64 though?
So the summary is that humans can still outsmart current technology that monitors drivers attention. Not bad for humans.

But declaring Level 2 as garbage is stretching it. I am driving Level 2 (ACC plus lane assists plus speed sings recognition plus a few other things) for a few years now and I definitely get less tired on long drives. I recently drove coast to coast and it was more boring than tired because of the Level 2.
Sounds like a rather cannibalistic model if you ask me.
I agree with you in general, and when there is purposeful blockage of innovation, that is certainly worth pursuing.

At the same time, though, i'm seeing literal pursuit against innovation.

I'll note WhatsApp specifically. Before WhatsApp, sending an SMS to my grandmothers overseas cost $0.25 per message. Domestic SMS were $0.10. My college networking professor testified to the atrocity of markups by the telcos (http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1921373...) which were something like 5000%

Worse, there was no guarantee the message actually arrived. There was no double-checkmark GD, so you had no idea if it arrived. If it didnt arrive, both carriers would claim nothing was wrong, and just reaching customer service would be an hour on hold; you still got charged. Good luck calling grandma overseas, it would be a $50 for a one hour call unless you signed up for yet more un-cancellable international calling plans.

We could argue that WhatsApp should have worked with the carriers and created something interoperable, but i'd argue that the status quo before WhatsApp was downright criminal exploitation of the masses, especially the poor. WhatsApp created a new system, perhaps not using standard protocols, but it works. It has worked 100% of the time for me AFAIK.

Have you considered that the real opposition here is not from any customer but rather from the status quo of older companies unable to retain monopolies?
what do you mean “what damage was done”?
Yeah, but some of the money printers take time to warm up. Just because they're late doesn't mean they don't deserve to scam people. Now hurry up and buy this ESPN gif with a UUID hot-glued onto it.
The line between private and public has been crossed many times but we're still better off having that line officially there.

Even if the cops and private security along with TLAs are actively spying on people on an extremely regular basis, we're better off if officially they aren't supposed to be, if some court cases can get tossed for this, that they have to retreat sometimes, etc.

This is why having Apple overtly spying on the "private side" is still a big thing even with all the other revelations.
StackOverflow is HEAVILY moderated. And still has lots of garbage. I have questions constantly taken down for being too vague, offtopic, not the right stackexchange, or not technical enough. I've even responded to takdowns with links to questions with hundreds of points that were almost the same, and ... nope. At least mark it redundant.
“These guys are just cynically exploiting the Western, left-liberal agenda of protecting female rights and stuff like that,”

I am very impressed with the ability of Russians to continuously adapt and take advantage of the current "American Insanity". There is no end to the amount of ammunition they are given to tear this country to shreds". We're lucky the Chinese aren't at the same level of shit disturbing and information warfare the Russians are.
Fsck stands for file system check
The paper you linked to says, in its summary section, "For the general public, evidence shows that physical distancing of more than 1 m is highly effective and that face masks are associated with protection, even in non-health-care settings, with either disposable surgical masks or reusable 12–16-layer cotton ones, although much of this evidence was on mask use within households and among contacts of cases."

But I assume you mean that the meta analysis didn't claim masks were useless, those three underlying papers did? I'm not sure what those three were, though, maybe I missed it. I found all the papers used but there were like a dozen in the non-health-care setting.
I can’t tell if the question is whether Jevons’ is in play (i.e., battery efficiency per unit of lithium greatly increasing lithium mining), or whether it’s asking if it’s unleashed a counter-paradox (e.g., electric car popularity may be causing a re-evaluation of driving needs, slowing total vehicle purchases.) There are multiple consumption curves in play.
I couldn't disagree any more, at least in my specific field, where my data is generally static and extremely relational. Writing JS to do what SQL does is... a pain. But having SQL on both the frontend and backend would dramatically simplify the translation abstractions between the two - for a similar reason that node on the backend simplifies translation abstractions. It ultimately means less code and less thinking.
The best source I've seen are the tracing studies in China. Police state meant China could follow exact paths -- from camera footage -- of who caught COVID from whom. If both sides wore surgical masks (imperfect fit, but electrostatic layer), there was almost never any spread.

Singapore hospitals were good case studies too. Hundreds of COVID19 exposures early in the pandemic, with virtually no spread.

You can do web searches for both.

Million dollar question is how this impacts delta. Delta has higher viral loads, and it's perfectly possible filtering 95% of delta will still result in more virus than the original, unmasked. Things also get more complex with both sides filtering; naive math would place filtration at 99.75% effective, but I don't believe naive math in this case beyond saying "a lot more effective."
Even with a high rate of vaccination it will unfortunately be impossible to eradicate SARS-CoV-2. Unlike smallpox or polio there are animal reservoirs. And while the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths they don't really stop the spread. Any notion of wiping it out is simply wishful thinking not grounded in scientific reality.

The most likely scenario is that almost all of us will eventually be infected no matter what we do.
To add to this:

- Look before you leap.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- Stay silent and have people think you're a fool, open your mouth and confirm it.

I'm sure there are many more common idioms pointing towards the idea of "think before you act".
The inhabitants of Calcutta called it "Calcutta" prior to the Indian government renaming it. Now they call it Kolkata. The people of Madras called it Madras before the government renamed it to Chennai. Now they call it Chennai.

I think it's incorrect to pretend that there's some kind of "objective" scientific reality at play here. Naming geographic locations is an inherently political act, and choosing which of several names to call a place inherently means favoring some interpretations over others.
As far as I can tell the conclusions we're going to have to draw are:

1) We need to keep using all strategies - including masking, social distancing, and targeted lockdowns - to reduce large scale spread of the virus. If we don't, we're going to be playing "new variant whack-a-mole" until the end of time.

2) Vaccination is critical to make the above task easier but it's not enough it itself. There seems to be a lot of evidence that it reduces chance of passing it on and the severity of the cases, but it's clearly not enough by itself (see Israel, although the remaining unvaccinated population is a big factor anywhere in passing COVID on).

We're also going to have to start kicking the asses of the pointlessly vaccine-skeptical through harsh restrictions and denial of things. In Australia, once we have universal access to the vaccine, I would be quite keen to see vaccine refusers not treated for free if they do get COVID - I'd support a "HECS"-like scheme for people who get avoidable diseases like this, including the government getting to sell your house when you die to recoup costs.

3) There's a pile of stuff we don't know about the long-term effects of COVID-19 and some ominous indications that it's Really Not Good. I don't want to get into a case-by-case with a bunch of self-appointed Internet Experts about this but there's a lot of medical opinion out there that long COVID is real and serious (particularly on the neurological side). We don't know how bad it really is because no-one has had COVID for more than 2 years.

Having participated in the care of multiple relatives over the years with dementia, one thing that chills me is the prospect that COVID will lead to even a slight uptick in the chance of getting Lewy body dementia or Parkinson's. That's a fucking public health tsunami.

We also don't know much about the effects of lockdown, etc. but the picture seems to be complex and indecisive. All the anti-lockdown people going on about suicides and depression apparently think the only source of suicide and depression in a massive pandemic where people are losing folks dear to them and are terrified of getting a debilitating disease is because they are locked down. As usual, it's the typical overreach of the Internet Expert.

Normal is a very long way off. The implications of COVID being 'endemic' certainly aren't what most people casually tossing the word around think they are, and magical thinking about 'living with the virus' isn't going to make long COVID go away.
raises hand

Have been whining about big data for and ML recognition systems for years.
Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang to Receive [Noyce Award]
I feel bad for the person that had to deal with obfuscated Python 2.7 bytecode so frequently that they had the itch to write this.
Ah, Zortech C++. That indeed brings back some memories.

Walter, what do you think about Herb Sutter "new" C++ exceptions (which is basically about throwing an int/a word) ?
We can do it, just not with ships flagged in Panama and manned by child labor from third world countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Act_(sailor_rights)

the Jones Act ... requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.

I gladly accept that over yet another race to the bottom using cheap labor and unsafe vessels.
You also have the choice to take action to avoid risk. That choice is not available in the military. You're trading a lot of freedom over those 20 years. (Did I mention how expensive getting divorced is?)
No iPad has ever run intel, and Apple went 64 bit over half a decade ago.