skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The equation will be f(x) = 5x + 3x^2

You mean the function? It could just as well be something like:

f(x, y) = 5xy + 3x^2 + 4y^2
Apples to oranges. Stopping distance of a 16-wheeler is magnitudes larger than that of a typical sedan, so in their case it makes sense.

For specific numbers (after subtracting reaction distance being the same for both):

55mph: car 165ft, 16-wheeler 225ft.
65mph: car 245ft, 16-wheeler 454ft.

As you can see, the gap between a car's stopping distance and a 16-wheeler's stopping distance increases with speed increasing, and non-linearly at that. Not even mentioning the destructive potential of a car vs. a 16-wheeler.

I would agree with your point if majority of the roads were occupied by 16-wheelers, but it isn't the case (at least in the metro area that I commute to work in).

Source for numbers used: https://trucksmart.udot.utah.gov/motorist-home/stopping-dist...

Note: I agree that it would be safer if everyone drove the exact speed limit, as opposed to everyone going 10mph above the speed limit. However, in a situation where everyone is driving 10mph above the speed limit, you are creating a more dangerous situation by driving 10mph slower instead of driving 10mph above like everyone else.
While I'm glad to see someone experimenting with what browsers can be, I feel like this particular featureset is underwhelming.

- Tab groups – common in other browsers and extensions.

- Split screen - OS feature.

- Share integration – OS feature.

- Snoozing tabs, neat. My task list does this, but this is handy.

- Keyboard shortcuts, are they that much better than other browsers?

- Sync – how many people have multiple Macs? how many of those want to sync state between their personal life and work life? I don't.

- Doesn't sell data – typical for most browsers, usually funded by Google search (Chrome/Firefox/Safari).

- No ads – typical for most browsers.

I don't really know what the sell is here. Having slightly better keyboard shortcuts just isn't worth $15 a month. There are free browser extensions that do all of this, or if you want fancy tab management then something like Workona will do it for $7.

Browsers aren't perfect, but as a browser power user this solves none of my problems.

As for subscription pricing, I can understand that for a browser engine where staying up to date is critical to the web usability, but for a browser shell, it's a push, even with a good feature set.
I’m pretty skeptical of this statement, do you have a source I could check out?
I've seen at least 4, all different colors. Not crazy numbers but it's clear they're showing up.
It was convenient that people like Mitchell and Jessen was around with the ideas they had, but even more important to know the names of are Bush and Obama. They could have ended these ideas with the stroke of a pen.

What makes this a delicate problem for the democratic institutions is that 50+% of the voters voted in Bush for a second term even in the light of the paying for prisoners and tales of torture and worse, from survivors like the three British citizens just months before the election who went on to make a movie about it.

If we still want to make sure something similar doesn't happen again, it is necessary to have a juridical institution specifically to protect human rights with the power to veto these decisions, if neither the military institutions or the democratic populace will. Otherwise history has a tendency to repeat itself.
Except Tesla bunches their orders so that they can claim improving numbers every 3 months (with 2-months having crap numbers), rather than averaging out their deliveries like everyone else.

Having 2-crap months per quarter + 1-good month is 100% Tesla's decision. They could just smooth out the numbers like everyone else instead and be comparable on apples-to-apples terms. But Tesla prefers to be funky with numbers.

It probably would be a lot less stressful for Tesla's employees if Tesla stopped doing this "Quarter-end push" all the time. Its unnecessary. Its like watching a Marathon runner sprint every few hundred meters rather than pacing himself from beginning to end so that he can gather the excitement of the crowds.
The problem would be intent: my understanding is that in the U.S. at least you would have to show that they knew it was false when they published it or refused to correct it. If they simply say “technical error, we fixed it” I think your odds of reaching that bar would be quite daunting.
I have an X1 yoga and have had a similar experience. Everything from touchscreen and pen to the fingerprint reader works well on Ubuntu.
Of course I didn't pick it to intentionally start a flamewar. The things you guys come up with!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
They did have a lease/buy program. It was demonstrably worse than just leasing a vehicle directly (Uber would take a cut) and there were ugly questions around what happened if you stopped driving for Uber.
You're right, tho I believe that was only intended as a halfway step (so even more breakage, yay!).
That could also explain why they didn't bother to provide in the notification to the user why they're requesting this access: because they weren't intending to request it (yet).

I find the conspiracy theories more compelling, but less likely.
Many container base images won't have perl by default (e.g: alpine).

For servers it's less common, but enterprise systems never cease to amuse me.
Given that timeline and their years of existing production history with Thunderbolt, Intel could also feasibly beat both of them to shipping USB4 on a graphics card.
Generating User-Configured UI in React Using the Visitor Pattern
The quality of our evidence is easy to misjudge in retrospect.

The last opportunity to study the effectiveness of mandating low-quality masks in preventing community spread during a pandemic was around a century old. (Literally, the Spanish Flu epidemic.) In the meantime a lot of new and untried modeling tools were in use, as well as updated disease models, and lots of reasons to question old data.

See https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/ppih/if-ppi... for an idea of what was reasonable for educated specialists in public health to believe. Note phrases like, "There was agreement that although the evidence base is poor, the use of masks in the community is likely to be useful in reducing transmission from community based infected persons, particularly those with symptomatic illness."

So it is accurate to say that we had reason to believe that masks work. But it is easy to overstate how much we "knew" it to be true at the time.
What you buy at a grocery store can reveal a lot about you:

- Personal care products: gender

- Medications: age/health of you and family members

- Magazines/media: political affiliation, social class

The list goes on.

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Never visited that shop because I could fix my own stuff, but I am from the area and frequented many other electronics shops. The only one still standing is Torrance Electronics (3 miles away from where Acme was). Torrance Electronics opened around the same time as Acme.

https://torranceelectronicsinc.com/
I did find that kind of odd. Even the old C64 would set bits to tell you which sprites collided.
We should note the limitations of Bayes as well. I already responded to another comment in this thread that giving an update procedure based on seeing new evidence is necessarily bounded in how quickly it can get you to beliefs more likely to be true by your ability to actually gather that evidence or possibly even to generate it if it doesn't already exist. We don't have any perfect algorithms for doing that, and it is of course not a purely computational problem anyway. Take general relativity. It was proposed in 1915 and only confirmed in the very strong gravitational field limit in 2016, because that was our first opportunity to observe a black hole merger, which is not something we have the ability to recreate in a lab.

Even beyond the hard process bottleneck on creating or lucking upon events that produce the evidence we need, however, there is also the limitation that Bayes only gives you a probability. It doesn't give you a decision theory or even a thresholding function. For those, you need a whole lot of other things like utility functions, discount rates, receiver operating characteristics and an understanding of asymmetric costs of false positives versus false negatives, that are often different for each decision domain.

And, of course, to get a utility function meaningful for humans, you need values. There is no algorithm that can give you values. They're just there as a basic primitive input to all other decision making procedures, yet they often conflict in ways that cannot be reconciled even within a single person, let alone across a society of many people.
They don't have the hands free stuff out yet (Blue Cruise is what they have named it). The current Mach-E does have a very nice advanced cruised control system though. I have a Mach-E and while you do have to keep your hands on the wheel, it will completely handle steering around curves and following distance from vehicles in front of you. I've only used it on the highway though.
China has secret jail for Uighurs – in Dubai
Fascinating to hear that an outside firm analyzed all the employees, using age and tenure, to figure out which terminations could reduce payroll the most. Have we confirmed AI takes ALL things into account when making these decisions? If a an older contributor makes more than his younger colleague, can we be sure that his contributions are less than the younger colleague? Color me skeptical that an outside firm would figure this out correctly.
Very cool! I’ve been an ABC user for years, but always missed being able to make full scores with multiple instruments or a whole orchestra. This is what I’ve been looking for
My understanding is that sh is a specification, not an implementation.

Most images will either have bash or ash installed. ash, being lightweight, is the choice of alpine and related distros.
But devices would join and leave the network in a household - especially phones. Maybe you could have a listening period, e.g. a week, where you build a set of witnessed devices and then hash that for a household id?
Hm interesting, so I guess like all things in security/privacy it boils down to an economic war :-/ How much effort are you willing to put into masks vs. how much effort an adversary is willing to spend to defeat it.

It says that there is no single face mask that can defeat every system. That's an interesting point, but what about the converse? There's probably no single recognition system that can defeat every mask.

edit: I also think it's not that unacceptable to wear a mask and sunglasses anymore either, though I've never tried. Maybe you have an eye issue and don't want to get COVID :)
I'm guessing this is why many grocery stores don't allow NFC payments, except for (in my area at least) Safeway, whose non-club pricing is so punitive that most people just knuckle under and get the card.

Though I just use 867-5309 anyway. Works in every area code, AFAICT.
afaik apps can detect patterns on the pasteboard without triggering the notification (i.e. check if the URL is a TikTok URL or not), but they can't actually access the contents without triggering the notification. it's enforced by the pasteboard API on iOS.

so they probably updated their apps to perform this check before doing anything.
> It's a model not a fact. As a model, it can't really be correct only more or less accurate.

This is not true. Models of an external world may be only more or less accurate, but models of other models may be true or false. Mathematical proofs rely on this. Rationality itself is a model so models of rationality may be true or false.
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If it’s just surface design you’re after, there are plenty of other options. Have at it. Personally I’m more interested in the powertrain efficiency and other consequential features.
Good, can't wait... the amount of bloat that webpacker and node in general bring into to projects its unholy.
No, the reason is different. Wheter it makes sense or not, Tesla tries to optimize the deliveries per quarter. That means, it tries to deliver all vehicles built within the same quarter. With most vehicles sold in Europe being built in the US, this means that they are build in the first half of the quarter, then shipped to and delivered in Europe towards the end of the quarter. The consequence is, they barely sell cars in the first month of the quarter and most in the last month.
But, is it better than Datadog’s distributed tracing? In what ways?
True. His ignorance proved fatal.
The US didn't want to send people back to Yemen due to the "unstable" (=war zone) situation there and fears they'd (re-)join terrorist groups, but rather in places that could do some monitoring and rehabilitation (but not US soil of course!). Serbia offered to take a few prisoners on humanitarian grounds.
There are lots of things we can do to eliminate contingencies, things with earnest money, various ways we can accommodate the needs of the seller, etc. Does seller want to close early or do they need a delay? Do they need a little extra cash up front to assist with their move? Every state will vary, but there are a lot of built-in contingencies that many buyers will be glad to scratch and an informed seller will understand removes barriers to a successful sale. Sellers want to know their transaction is going to close on time, with minimal drama. There are lots of ways a good agent can advocate for their client and embody that contractually. Every market is different - the tactics I use are different than those of my peers in other markets.
We own an i3, and when doing longer trips the range anxiety isn't so much if we'll find a charging station, but if we'll be able to charge there.

For some reason charging stations seems to have a very high out-of-service frequency, and very often this status is not accurately reported in the various charging location apps.

It also doesn't help that certain apps tell you that there's an available charger when the reality is that the charging station has both CCS and CHAdeMO, someone is using the CHAdeMO so the CCS is useless. If you plug it in you won't be able to charge until the other one stops, and worse you won't be able to disconnect from the charger until then either. Yay!

Though this is usually just an issue on longer trips, and our car isn't exactly built for that anyway with its ~250km summer range.
Oh, that's disappointing. Intel has three 7nm fabs in the US.

There's a lot of fab capacity under construction. 2-3 years out, semiconductor glut again.
> [Ubuntu] You can still do a lot of fiddling under the hood, it's just not in a manner i'd describe as "the linux way".

I use and like Ubuntu, but I have to agree with this. Even before I finished reading this paragraph I was thinking of update-alternatives. Networking config springs to mind as well for me.
Yes, the next thing we learned was that the internet would catch you lying, even if you aren't.
This reminds me of Hannah Fry’s TED talk on the mathematics of love, specifically point #2 on how to pick the perfect partner. [1] It was basically about not committing to the very first person you meet, but also not searching for the perfect person in perpetuity. To paraphrase, you should pick reject the first two people that come along, and then commit to the first person that is better than everyone you previously dated. It’s not a perfect similarity, but I think the point of making a good faith effort a couple times and then really going for it once you understand a little bit makes sense.

[1] https://youtu.be/yFVXsjVdvmY?t=431
Not super related but note that the Frontiers group of journals has recently been criticised for somewhat dodgy peer review practices, where if a reviewer (or even an editor?) suggests rejection of a paper, their review will be removed and another reviewer called in. See e.g. https://twitter.com/bmwiernik/status/1234247737476030465, there are several such threads now.
I think depending on the rigor of the formal CS education this still may be challenging and worthwhile.
This is pretty much a solved problem in languages with multiple dispatch (Common Lisp, Julia, Raku etc), the behavior lives in the methods which don't belong to a specific class.

You can sort of, kind of get there with free functions and overloading as long as you're not doing anything fancy with the methods.
I don't see how Function(Value) = Value + Value ^ 2 is any easier to read than f(x) = x + x^2. How would you write this function?
> Otherwise it's not even worth $100.

Waveshare's 10.3" E-Ink raw display alone costs ~200 USD, For extra input, compute and most of all open Linux platform extra 100 USD seems very reasonable as with all other Pine64 products.
Interesting that this gets treated as a prepared statement. I wonder if it might have the drawback, among less experienced developers, of encouraging the use of simple string substitution in queries because it looks so much like that's what's happening.
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> Edge is probably sending all kinds of invasive telemetry to Microsoft

I think there's a useful distinction between product analytics, which might include basic details about web usage but likely in a privacy preserving way, and actual web history.

All of the browsers, Sigma OS included, are going to do product analytics. But I'm not sure that any are going to actually track web history. They'll track what web features you're using, and Chrome is known to track domains but I believe in a statistical way that doesn't give perfect info on who's using what. They all sync some state if you sign in, but that's a feature not analytics, if you trust them, and Sigma is no different here.

Apart from browsers like Brave selling ad space or dodgy Android browsers selling full web history, I'm not sure that any of the major players are actually doing anything fundamentally different to what Sigma is here. Firefox and Safari push the privacy side a little harder in their own ways, but are still roughly equivalent I think.
For more context, "geohashing" is a play on geocaching [0].

This is not to be confused with a geohash [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
I couldn't believe it either - when he first got up from the desk to go "talk to his manager" I teased him he'd better not come back with a foursquare. Several trips back and forth and a whole lot of stalling later, he comes back with a pre-printed foursquare form. Guess we've entered the digital age of car buying.
I find myself needing, for the first time ever, a high-end video card for some heavy video encoding, and when I look, they're all gone, apparently in a tug of war between gamers and crypto miners.

At the exact same time, I am throwing out a box of old video cards from the mid-nineties (Trident, Diamond Stealth) and from the looks of it you can list them on eBay but they don't even sell.

Now Intel is about to leap into the fray and I am imagining trying to explain all of this to the me of twenty-five years back.
Pure EV won't work for me.

I still have hundreds+ mile trips. These trips are nominally 2 to 4 hours long, with planned breaks at specific locations that hold cultural significance to my family. (Yeah, its a bit silly, but certain stops, like a Cracker Barrel, hold significance to my nieces and they'll likely want to stop there on the next road trip. No electric chargers in sight yet, but plenty of gas stations)

Even then, changing a 4-hour trip into a 4-hour 30-minute trip for electric charging is just not going to work with kids in the car.
From Insta captions to blog posts, AI is now crunching copy for brands
Except when 20% of the web does that the web as a whole become less decentralized, while your files might still be further spread apart in the world.

What I was thinking about was the web as a whole, not my specific files.
My claim is not that motions and the like are not useful constructs. My claim is that most functionality of this sort, whose use-case is not contrived or trivial, has equivalently low-keystroke solutions in nano; these often tend to be more intuitive as well, and sometimes require even less keystrokes/keyboardtime than vim (especially considering the whole enter/exit edit mode extra keystroke, which tends to be conveniently absent in keystroke wars).

E.g. dfXa -> Mark, Search, X + Enter, Delete
d/foo -> Mark, Search, foo + Enter, Delete
d6w -> Mark, EndOfWord x 6, Delete (or store 'EndOfWord Delete' as a temp macro, and use a predefined repetition command)

To me, '23x' (and to some extent even d6w) is an example of a contrived use-case; while you can come up with ways to minimize keystrokes for such a scenario in nano too, in reality if you have text or code where you need to find the 23rd instance of a character EXACTLY, there's something REALLY wrong with your code/text, in which case '23x' is the least of your problems. In all non-trivial/non-contrived cases, if you need to look up something 23 times, you're probably going to want to walk through those instances as well, and the act of 'counting first then executing the incantation' is likely to cost you far more time spent on the keyboard than what is saved by minimizing keystrokes. And if you really, really need something as arcane as that, and use it often, then you can write a relevant macro easily. No need to bother regular users with that bloat.

Somebody else here already mentioned the ^U^U^U^U^U^K vs y5p comparison: this is a prime example of the above philosophy, and I agree. Keystrokes are saved at the cost of actual time spent on the keyboard. At the end of the day, I'd much rather spend 5 seconds on 10 keystrokes, than 10 seconds on 5 keystrokes. And in practice, most people would use a selection instead anyway, resulting in more keystrokes in vim compared to nano to begin with.
What's some good resources on understanding NAT and udp hole punching that explain it in an intuitive manner?
You’re right, I misremembered the ruling. As with most cases you read in law school, the issues are more important than the outcome.
https://electrek.co/2021/06/18/elon-musk-tesla-employees-go-...

This "end of quarter push" is 100% Tesla weirdness. Its part of Tesla's work culture.

> The consequence is, they barely sell cars in the first month of the quarter and most in the last month.

Or they could smooth it out and cause far less stress for their workforce and customers. This game they play means that customers get cancelled cars and shifting delivery dates and a worse handoff as they pickup their cars.

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As part of their weird "quarter end push" thing, they also time their delivery ships to reach Europe at certain points and "burst" their numbers in an all out sprint, coinciding with the rest of their quarter-end pushes. Its all just number games and "burstiness" to impress the crowds and generate numbers... when the core business should be caring about smooth rollouts and increasing average rates.
Yeah, our mobile phones aren’t helping here. It’s so annoying to see the phone go to 20% and then drop off a cliff per unit time. Cars have to be really good at giving precise and confident range capability, with a safety factor.
I've always been curious about video game pricing. The car dealership comparison was perfect, really shows how wild the market is.
If not funding, how about training and materiel?
The availability of that option depends on your appearance: affluent middle-aged white people can usually do it but if you’re a teenager or match whatever demographic is poor in the area, you have to weigh that versus escalation possibly including armed police response.
They fought for clean air. They didn’t know they were in a gas industry campaign
Using Azure AppCenter and its analytics SDK isn't ideal from a privacy perspective. I think it's reasonable for product development, but if you want to sell based on privacy I think it would need to go.