skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This sort of 'gotcha' culture is frankly more destructive than the some supposed 'cancel' culture.

gotcha? This isn't jaywalking, she unilaterally decided to implement a citywide mask mandate as Mayor via executive order and she goes out partying and singing without one. Do you think that is setting a good example and building trust in civic institutions?
"Parked Teslas Keep Catching on Fire Randomly, And There's No Recall In Sight"

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catch...

Article list 9 cases. None involved accidents. Several were during charging, one during transport (on a flatbed truck).

All are of
ok, so sounds like ukraine is in the subset of the world with fast internet, or at least your mum's town. But I don't see how that answers the question -- what about rural south america, rural africa?
I will go take another look at UNO then.
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I agree with this in principle, and would have agreed even prior to the accident, but in reality, after the period where I was forced into a "no car" lifestyle, yes, you actually do need a car in the meantime, at least while waiting for society to transform itself.
If your concerns are correct, shouldn’t we see a lot MORE collisions among the millions of current tesla drivers using the existing, less advanced system than we do among comparable vehicles and drivers? Wouldn’t we expect to see higher insurance premiums for tesla drivers with FSD than for comparable drivers and comparably expensive cars? That doesn’t seem to be the case for the most numerous tesla vehicles[1]. In which case this sounds like a “it works in practice, but does it work in theory?” kind of situation :)

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/features/how-much-are-tesla-insur...
LA, where i live, is so perfect for these two changes (given the mostly mild year-round weather and relative flatness) that it pains me every day looking at how poorly we’re using our limited land and air resources (including the relative dearth of dense mixed-use along major corridors).
The LTT videos on them are great. Extra screws in the case, colour coded to prevent long screw damage, QR codes on everything as well.

I'm way too excited about this company, it's all the changes I've been hoping for.
Isn’t there already a popular Magneto plugin for Varnish called Turpentine? Seems odd they chose the same name...?

https://www.nexcess.net/magento/plugins/turpentine/
I wonder how it deals with any migrations? What if I decide to connect different components later? Or add a new attribute / column?
>Unless we take Occam's razor, and assume it's just grift and snake oil to drive valuation and investment.

I think there's some of that. Some overconfidence because of the advances that have been made. General techno-optimism. And certainly a degree of their jobs depending on a belief.

I know there is a crowd of mostly young urbanites who don't want to own a car and want to be driven around. But I agree. Driving to the grocery store is not a big deal for me. Driving for hours on a highway is a pain. I would totally shell out $10K or more for a full self-driving system even if it only worked on interstates in decent weather.
> We didn't need Sinclair to show us that was possible.

No. Nigel Searle, Sinclair's programming and math whiz, actually did it.

Steve Wozniak actually did it.

Archimedes actually did it.

Etc.

I'm not a big fan of Great Person narratives. And yet it's also true that some minds seem adept at finding shortcuts to previously seemingly intractable problems.

How many persons have the actual willingness to defy conventional wisdom, forging progress faster than the mortality rate of the old guard?
> less ugly than a nest of null checks or the equivalent err != nil mess in Go

"null checks are ugly and error handling is messy" are your opinions, not objective facts. I actually prefer Rust-like enums, but short of that, I think Go's error and nil handling seems quite a lot nicer in practice than Java's `Optional` facilities. Note that these are my opinions, and I'm not posing them as objective facts.
> and they have done nothing but pocket the money.

Oh what slander. Verizon, for example, has been paying that cash out as dividends.
> but it's provably false to say it would have run over the pedestrians...

You can't prove something like that, I mean consider the irony that you typed this statement right after

> It certainly shouldn't have made this maneuver at all

How can you prove that it wouldn't have made another unexpected maneuver?

It's all speculation, and that's OK. I wish OP used a different title, because everyone seems to be getting hung up on it, when the lede is certainly the FSD being unable to maintain a straight line.
You don't even need a cap on allocation rate, GC can have during allocation w/o fully blocking, it'd 'gracefully' degrade the allocation, itself. It'd be limited by CPU/memory latency and throughput.
"Camel Rock" is a pretty good marketing asset. If it wasn't some sort of religious icon, maybe it was an early tourist trap (or both)?
I sympathize with the guy who had line-of-sight issues. Or anyone who lives in a multi-unit building, or far from the Big Antennas.

However, I just got an antenna ($80) and had it installed on my roof. 40 miles or so to Twin Peaks' antennas, no obstacles. Boom: 800 channels (some paywalled), many in languages other than English.

Next is to roll my own DVR. Should be easy, right?
Interesting decision. The mailing list is usually full of "things are better served by third party packages" and divesting core of stuff like this.

Ive not been following the mailing list, however, so I'll have to go back and see what the justification was...
Hospitals, Casino, and couple arguing really makes the anxiety peak. 10/10.
If I recall, it was the "micro penis". The 28 days to come was based of then then rather standard 28 day (4 week) delivery time for much of this mail order stuff.

Yeah, some Sinclair products were solid, and others were flakey, but all were cheap and seemed very futuristic at the time.
Hmm, that’s a good point - I’d forgotten that I used to have to leave my firearms in safe territory back in Arlington VA before visiting DC proper
On the video - "almost hitting" is a VERY misleading way to phrase it, I see worse driving on a daily basis from human beings. However, I'm glad for the high visibility and scrutiny because we should hold FSD to a higher standard and the pressure will create a better product. (I drive one and use self-driving)

On the DMCA takedown - that's pretty sketchy.
What the restaurant owner isn't mentioning is that employees likely can't afford to live within commuting distance of their business.

Central Florida is seeing the fastest-rising rents in the nation along with an unprecedented shortage of properties to rent. Rental listings typically gets hundreds of applicants per day. Home purchases aren't faring any better.

ref: https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-bay-area-rent-increase-...
Alaska Department of Health reveals data breach potentially exposing residents’
This is what I'd be happy with. Something to get me the 20-50 miles between cities (Atlanta<->Winder<->Athens in particular), or through the closed highway loops around them. Driving within them isn't so boring that my focus wanders before I notice it's wandering.

We could just expand MARTA, but the NIMBY crowd won't allow it. People are still hopped up on 1980s fearmongering about the sorts of people who live in cities and don't want them infesting their nice, quiet suburbs that still have the Sherriff posting about huge drug and gun busts.
That could be selection bias. The [edit, was '99%'] vast majority of the time the car does the boring thing are not click-worthy. Have you driven a Tesla for a reasonably long period of time?

There is a bigger lesson in there: click-driven video selection creates a very warped view of the world. The video stream is dominated by 'interesting' events, ignoring the boringly mundane that overwhelmingly dominates real life. A few recent panics come to mind.
Searched for “chocolate chip cookie recipe”

First result had a recipe I could see both recipe and directions in a single page, no ads, no scrolling, no fake seo anecdotes about kids and grandmas.

(Pls make the search query box fit small mobile devices)

Great project idea!
It is illegal in seattle (and all of washington state), where this video was filmed to enter a crosswalk when there are pedestrians present in the crosswalk.
Because you still need a car in those places if you want to experience them fully. Eg hiking in the East Bay is still pretty inaccessible by public transport from SF. So yes, you can enjoy the landmarks in the city, but if you want to visit adjacent cities and/or nature - you still need to spend a fortune on Uber or rent a car.
Regular bankers dont want to IPO hard tech companies. SPACs are great for hard tech with future revenues.
Highway self driving has been around for decades[1] - and Tesla's general release autopilot can already do all that. As I understand it from ramp on to ramp off, in production vehicles, Tesla can provide an automated experience. I'm not sure how much "better" it can get.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMl97OsH1FQ
There's a mirror of the original video here: https://streamable.com/grihhc. I consider it fairly valuable to study academically, as it shows both how the Tesla autopilot system performs, and how the the driver reacts to the system, with the knowledge that it's a beta, and their manner of movement, operation, and knowledge of the system and what they let it do.

I think the biggest problem I have is that the driver doesn't intervene/even really stop the car. The good autopilot 'test channels' like 'AI DRIVR' will routinely disengage if any safety concern is present.

The monorail test driver, in contrast, knows the monorail is a problem and was criticized for not correcting the car driving under the monorail, which is already illegal behavior.
No, my point is that this is overblown just because it's Tesla and people love drama, so this makes headlines and trending topics.

My comparison with drunken drivers is just with the regards to the odd behavior. If you look at a drunk driver (or even someone that fell asleep in the wheel) with a near crash, many times it would resemble this video. But the outrage from the public differs vastly.
There is a solution, it's called nuclear power. When will the perceived risk of nuclear power be overtaken by the risks of global warming? Why does it seem like we, as a society, are not capable of making grown-up assessments of this issue?
>> What if it's covered in mud, or snow?

That's the entire problem. These systems don't understand anything about the world. If you see a sign covered in snow you're going to recognize it as such and make your best guess as to what it says and weather you care. You probably don't need that information to drive safely because you have a lot of knowledge to fall back on. These things dont, so some folks want to improve GPS accuracy and maps and signage. That's not a viable solution on so many levels.

General AI is the only way forward for fully autonomous cars.
Tesla's system is real time, which means that it makes routing decisions on every frame, and the decisions are independent from previous decisions. It doesn't have memory. It just makes decisions based on what it actually sees with its cameras. It doesn't trust maps, like most other systems. For some reason, it thinks that it must turn right.

Situations like these are sent to Tesla to be analyzed, the corresponding data is added to the training data, and the error is corrected in the next versions. This is how the system improves.

After this situation is fixed, there will be an another edge case that the HN crowd panics over.
35%+ of the US population won't even get vaccinated to save their own lives. The majority of people aren't willing to sacrifice their own standard of living at all to help. 97.8% of cars sold in the US are gasoline-powered even though people could afford to buy EVs. Nearly every house built today is not at passivhaus standard, and probably not a single apartment building.

And even if the US completely changed... there's oil and coal distributed fairly evenly across the whole world. Even if the USA used all its power, it couldn't stop the rest of the world from exploiting every last drop of oil and last chunk of coal. Tell me where I'm wrong, what could any group do to stop every drop of oil in the middle east and Nigeria from being pulled out?
>On my first Tesla, autopilot would regularly try to kill you by running you into a gore point or median (literally once per trip on my usual commute)

And people paid money for this privilege?
cron would like to have a word with you as would init.d
> 3. Do recommendations drive viewers to increasingly extreme content?

> As I’ve explained, we actively demote low-quality information in recommendations. But we also take the additional step of showing viewers authoritative videos about topics that may interest them. Say I watch a video about the COVID-19 vaccine. In my Up Next panel, I’ll see videos from reputable sources like Vox and Bloomberg Quicktake and won’t see videos that contain misleading information about vaccines (to the extent that our system can detect them).

What is Google/YouTube's full list of "reputable sources". Is it even reasonable to maintain such a list given how often sources treated as authoritative can be wrong? Doesn't this amount to artificially converging users' information exposure towards either the reigning authority or towards whatever Google/YouTube favor?

Generalizing my concerns further, I am not comfortable with having a narrow set of monopolistic tech giants serve as king maker in our information landscape. Perhaps what we need first and foremost is a renewed set of anti-trust laws to break up companies with giant market caps and to address the reduced competition faced by widely used platforms built on network effects.
The point is that by all measures decarbonization isn't happening. Mitigations are a critical part of any solution, but expensive and hacky. And geoengineering is exactly the kind of radical new technology we might need, but the key point is that it doesn't exist right now and might not ever be practical.
Yes and society as it exists now is what, at most 200 years old? Your point is moot.

This temperature rise is totally out-of-context for us, and will cause a lot of pain.
> Carving each relief took between 10 and 15 days; the ambitious project was likely a communal effort.

Also, where did this 10-15 day estimate come from? They shouldn’t just drop a detail like that with no explanation!
The key difference is human drivers have independent software, whereas the same software powers all FSD Teslas. One human driver getting drunk/otherwise impaired doesn't affect the software of any other human driver; but if your FSD software is as good as a drunk human, then every single one of your FSD vehicles is a road hazard.
Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections
A/B Street is an open-source traffic simulator that lets you edit roads and intersections, based on OpenStreetMap data. But to even do that, first we have to geometrically represent the transportation network in great detail. This is a second deep-dive into how things work.
> Being able to effectively reason about what the automation is doing is such an important part of why these technologies have been so successful in flight, and examples like this illustrate how far off we are to something like that in cars.

Is that actually the case, though?

I would hope, although perhaps I'm mistaken, that the developers of the actual self-driving systems would be able to effectively reason about what's happening. For example, would a senior dev on Tesla's FSD team look at the video from the article and have an immediate intuitive guess for why the car did what it did? Or better yet, know of an existing issue that triggered the wacky behavior?

Even if not, I'd hope that vehicle logs and metrics would be enough to shed light on the issue.

I don't think I've ever seen a true expert, with access to the full suite of analytic tools and log data, publish a full post-mortem of an issue like this. I'm certain these happen internally at companies, but given how competitive and hyper-secretive the industry is, the public at large never sees them.
What sets Seed apart from other Rust front-end frameworks? Is the Elm-like approach unique in that space?

Unique or not, I bet it makes working with the borrow-checker a whole lot easier
i think we have a different idea of "production ready". but its a cool utility for rapid prototyping, definitely. reminds me of xforms.
My most sincere thanks to the author(s) for “Why Not” section. This level of self awareness and transparency makes me so happy; it takes so much guess work and unnecessary back and forth out of the discourse. Again - kudos!
Aleph.js – The Fullstack Framework in Deno
Does your reusable mask meet ASTM testing criteria? Probably not
Longitudinal Trends in BMI During Covid-19 Restrictions Among Ages 2–19 Years
You have it backwards. With humans driving there is a constant and unending stream of student drivers, because every new human must learn from scratch. There is no silver lining.

With self driving it takes longer for the one individual to learn, but the difference is that there is only the one individual, and it need not ever die. The learning is transferable between cars, regressions between generations need not be accepted. The problem of bad driving can finally be solved.
So much this. "Science" predicts there's a 17% chance you won't survive a game of Russian roulette. It's a fun game, though.
JavaScript vs. JavaScript: Round 2. Fight
LA has more extensive public transit than either sf or portland. you can get around (to basically all of the tourist destinations) just fine by train, bus (gasp!), scooters and bikes, with the occasional lyft to fill the gaps.
Yeah, that makes sense. As much as I try to drag friends/family into more secure communication methods (iMessage(lol), Signal, Matrix, etc.), it's an uphill battle. No one wants to leave the convenience and ubiquity of FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.

IMO I feel that NY Post should basically be shut down and banned from publication due to their harmful, divisive rhetoric and blatant lies, but conversely I don't agree with filtering private communication. My personal opinion is that once a given platform allows freeform communication between two people, that communication should be completely private and unable to be filtered or censored. tbh I suppose our exchange has helped me clarify those views a bit ;)
‘It was complete pandemonium’: the towns grappling with bear attacks
What product has better search in your experience? I personally find Slack's search experience to be one of the better I've ever used.
DNS is getting rather long in the tooth and I expect it will be replaced largely RSN. Article assumes we will keep internet address assignment the same as well and not at least move to IPV6 and a less stingy model of effectively static addresses. And the use of VPN today and something rather different tomorrow will likely change this. What happens when you effectively throw an authenticated request into some pool/queue of outstanding request and something else pools it and forwards it then putting response in pool? The assumed direct link of packet IP address to website that is fixed is not likely to last so long imho. Already we are starting to see blockchain mediated DNS like services. I would not be surprised by some kind of NFT registration of sites.
Except for the people walking / driving on the road.
Gitlab S-1
it's sold as an 'autopilot' that means 'automatic pilot' that does not imply hybridization, that implies full automation.
This is a welcome addition but isn't such a big deal... There are great third-party packages (i.e https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis) for whoever needs a redis cache backend in a project.

Myself, I just use good ol' memcached for all my caching needs (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/cache/#memcache...). It is rock solid and has never failed me till now!
The code is terse right now, but all of the ideas are there.

In two years, I fully expect Rust to begin taking off as a major frontend language choice. A framework like Seed will help usher this in.

It'll be faster than Javascript, eventually multithreaded, and produce portable binaries that can run on a wide variety of platforms and architectures.

It'll paint to DOM, but also do immediate mode and other types of rendering.

We'll see incredibly rich applications: games, video editors, IDEs, etc.

Electron will yield to this. We'll have fast, cross-platform apps that run not just on the browser, but natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

If we're lucky, we might even start writing mobile apps this way and ditch the iPhone/Android specific APIs.
Does it seem to anyone else that the global economy was a lot more fragile than we thought?
As a Java developer I'd love to have .NET's value types and runtime generics. Something something grass is always greener on the side :)
What is being cached?

I don't understand what there is to cache in a web framework.

Is it to cache rendered pages without dynamic content?

If so, I think it is better to let a CDN handle that. Instead of the server that runs the web application.

What am I missing?
In theory, that's what the legislature is for.

In practice, the process for this is completely broken, so we have a system where the judicial branch pretends to divinate intent from the tea-leaves of legislation, even when it's clear that there could not possibly have been any informed intent because major relevant details were simply not known at the time.

It's not great, but it's better than a system where the judicial branch just does anything it wants.

All this said, instant communication and computers almost certainly introduced better forms of judicial and legislative process that haven't been experimented with because of inertia. I wouldn't volunteer our system as the guinea pig, but I hope that somebody gets around to experimenting with this, because our system sucks hard in a bunch of ways that seem like they are probably fixable.
Thanks for the example! I'm not so good at sleuthing things from photos, so no bonus points for me :D.

I sort of see what you mean about "unremarkable", at least without context. Knowing its an archaeological site of course raises questions: What does an archaeologist see in those rocks that I don't? What made people settle here 2kya (besides the water source)? Why dig here to begin with (instead of a km either direction, instead of 5m either direction, etc)?

Similarly, if I was reading about the dig (a report or article or whatnot), I'd be asking questions like: what does the place these ancient humans chose look like? What does "near the river bank" mean? etc. This photo would help me understand those.
My first manager at my first job, many years ago, gave me the very useful advice to "write down any task you spend more than fifteen minutes on". It doesn't have to be long, just enough to trigger your memory, or capture the relevant details.

This has consistently been incredibly useful; for my own recall, for quarterly and annual performance review time (easy to scan through and capture my "significant accomplishments") as well as every. single. time. a colleague asks "do you remember X years ago when we ...?"

I tend to break it down by month, with a bullet-point list of tasks. I've migrated from plain text files, to a wiki, to I don't remember what tool my employer at the time provided, to currently OneNote, with a Notebook for "work-tracking" and a page per month. I don't love OneNote, but it is automatically backed up in our corporate environment.

I like the idea of switching to VSCode, as I do most of my work in that, but need to figure out the best way to back it up.
Liked purely for the All Your Base reference.