skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only time I've gotten false positives on the collision avoidance was when I was going too fast for the situation.

I may have been going too fast for the collision avoidance system, but not for the situation: cars are parked on both sides, and frequently one or two cars will stick out a bit more than the others (by eg. 70cm) — I wasn't going faster than 30km/h (20mph) in dry, daylight conditions. If you avoid a pothole that turns your car into that parked car sticking out which is a bit ahead (at least 50m), it could signal a collision. At least that was my guess what was happening, I never felt at any risk whatsoever.

> I haven't experienced this personally, but a false positive here doesn't really have any downsides.

Oh, it does. When it happens, I worry if there's something I missed, so I spend another few seconds re-evaluating the situation around the car. As I didn't miss anything, cars do show up behind me in the lane I was entering into, and since my car is stopped only third of the way into the lane, most drivers coming up behind me start "overtaking" my protruding car, and I am in a much worse position. In city driving in traffic-heavy streets, one's got to use any time they've got available or impatient drivers around you start making even worse situations for themselves and you.

> This situation sounds like you may be driving faster than the flow of traffic, or the follow distance is not set far enough.

The situation I am describing is actually from a very low traffic situation on the highway, so there was no "flow of traffic". When a truck going 100km/h decides to overtake another truck going 95km/h on the highway, my car going at the speed limit of 130 km/h seems unable to see that from way ahead like a driver does, and it maintains the speed until way too late.

Contrary to that, if you are driving 130km/h and approach a car driving 125km/h, it starts slowing down probably at the same distance, which is now too soon.

Not to mention that my experience on European highways is that the when there's a lot of traffic, the "flow of traffic" speed is ~140km/h on roads with 130 limit (when I was driving 110-130km/h, I'd be constantly slowing down and speeding up, making for a much more exhausting drive — you can probably go down to 95 km/h to achieve a similar "flow" behind a slow-moving truck). Pilot Assist, however, only works up to exactly 139km/h even on really well-marked roads — this is perfectly fine if you ask me (the limit might be too high even), but we are talking about the state of assistive tech.

> You can also do the simple stay-at-this-speed cruise control, or adaptive cruise control without the automatic steering capabilities.

FWIW, the behaviour I was describing is part of the adaptive cruise system that seems to behave the same whether Pilot Assist is turned on or off.

But sure, you can still turn most of these off. I was just commenting on how bad the current implementation is in my car (2019 high-specced Volvo sedan), and that I can understand why someone might not want any of these today.
Thanks a lot of the link. If anything else comes to mind, would really appreciate hearing about it.

Edit: wow yes, the telecommunication section contains some sentences I might have written myself over the last 6 months:

> The allowable time would depend on the context: in some cases, a second would be too much, while in some others, even several days would be fine. ... The exchange of messages and information would be slow and contemplative rather than fast and reactive.

Also the via HN post is very interesting too. I remember seeing that but I didn't check it out then.
>> How little life must have changed in the past 3000 years in the deep ocean?

Plastics. There are plastics down there, mostly fishing nets, that are making huge changes. And whales. There are far fewer whales alive today, and fewer dead whales sinking to the depths, which radically changes the amount of nutrients arriving on the bottom.
Government is not a magic box that just solves problems. It is full of people who are just as flawed and selfish and short-sighted as those running corporations. Look no further than the gaping fiscal hole that is Social Security for evidence of government’s ability to “provide security for society”.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29280935 which is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29278184
Apple Tells Employees They Can Talk About How Much They Make
An anecdote retold from a book is not meaningful, even if true. And if Beria couldn't accomplish that without threatening their lives, it's again a massive failure on Beria's part.

In addition, any bad manager can scream at and threaten people about some individual issue, but there is a lot of evidence that it's very counterproductive overall. What people learn to do is to avoid the danger, not to get anything done - including taking no initiative or responsibility, or even accomplishing something that might attract attention.

Nobody models themselves on Soviet management; it's almost the epitome of bad management, the picture in the dictionary. The Soviet space program performed poorly compared with the US.
This is really interesting.

My https://datasette.io/ application offers features to export relational data, using Python asyncio under the hood. It can currently stream an arbitrarily large table out as CSV, which is a great format for this because it can be generated without buffering the entire thing in memory.

I wrote a bit about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jun/25/streaming-large-api-re...

zipfly makes me think that maybe I could do things like "stream all of the tables from this database as a zip file full of CSVs" - and have it work for giant databases again without using a great deal of memory.

UPDATE: Actually it looks like zipfile wouldn't work here, because the library is designed to work from files that are already on disk - it doesn't look like I could feed it a few lines of CSV data at a time, I'd have to write the entire CSV out to disk first.
A lot of people think this - but most of Europe has been like this for a while. Why will it be so interesting when it happens in the US?
These are all good points. Perhaps it is time to inquire why did SU run an inefficient state-run economy for 40 years after the manic dictator was gone. Without going into too many details, the justification, even the imperative, for said policies was made in the moral dimension. As tragically exemplified by SU, there are policy systems that feed on failure. The more the policy fails to deliver the desired results, the more it's taken as evidence that the moral problem the policy purports to fix is actually deeper rooted and requires even more radical policies. Until you get to the point where the entire economic activity is controlled by the state because individuals, full of moral failings as they are, can't be trusted with charting their own course.

I have to say that my American friends have a much higher confidence in the pendulum theory. Coming of age near the end of a 40 (70?) year historical tailspin, I have a somewhat less optimistic view.
My implication with "rapid audit" was that crates.io would provide a nice code preview, so that people can get the feature that they currently go to GitHub for, while actually viewing the code from the same source they're depending on the crate from rather than from GitHub where there is no guarantee it's the same code.

Of course the best thing to do would be to look locally at the source of the crate that was actually downloaded by cargo. That's what I do. But you have to recognise that most people are going to weight convenience quite highly, and are going to be lazy when they should be thorough, and so on, so if you want to improve the security and trust in the ecosystem as a whole, you should try to make the safe path as low-friction as possible.

The docs.rs code browser is currently the most "convenient" way to see the code for a specific crates.io release, so improving that would also be worthwhile. Right now I think there's no way to see the source of build.rs in that browser, and the formatting & navigation is nowhere as nice as on the likes of GitHub.
Rights already guaranteed by the NLRA. If your employer ever violates these rights they’ll be forced to put up a notice listing out these rights somewhere like the break room. The norm (based on what people commonly believe) is that employees have a total of 0 rights (other than to leave) so it’s kinda funny when an employer gets caught by surprise with this. Especially when blanket-threat Tweets from snarky managers get the company in trouble.
This comment adds no additional justification for then claims. A lot of people think it’s exactly about tulips, and nobody is making a good argument why it isn’t.
The Great Men behind Tesla were named Tom Gage and Alan Cocconi
Is the sewage from the Burj Khalifa transported away by trucks?
A little late here, but here's a list I keep. These aren't strictly normal people, but I do consider all of their "cancellations" terribly wrongheaded:

- Keith John Sampson (11/2007)

- Adria Richards (3/2013)

- Justine Sacco (12/2013)

- Nicholas & Erika Christakis (5/2016)

- Justine Schwarz (2/2017)

- Bret Weinstein (5/2017)

- James Damore (8/2017)

- Ben Frisch (3/2018)

- Jonathan Friedland (6/2018)

- No Winegard (3/2020)

- Colin Wright (4/2020)

- David Shor (5/2020)

- Emmanuel Cafferty (6/2020)

- Gordon Klein (6/2020)

- Stephen Hsu (6/2020)

- Elisa Parrett (6/2020)

- Norman C. Wang (8/2020)

- Will Wilkinson (1/2021)

- Lauren Wolfe (1/2021)

- Chris Harrison (2/2021)

- Donald Mcneil (2/2021)

- Alexi McCammond (3/2021)

- Sandra Sellers (3/2021)

- Paul Rossi (4/2021)

- Ryan Singer (4/2021)

- Antonio Garcia Martinez (5/2021)

- Emily Wilder (5/2021)
> World of Warcraft is fun for most until the end-game where discovery and imagination is ripped away and all that is left is actuarial tables and dice rolls.

Going to add this to my quote rolodex, thanks
True, dental offices use Windows. But I don't know many people who like computers who use Windows.
Ask HN: How do I hire an initial developer for an earnest undertaking?
I am a novelist by trade, but I began a coding project at the outset of the pandemic. My failed stint as a student of physics included courses in programming. I had a good base to work from when I discovered I needed tasks with a shorter feedback loop than writing to occupy my time. The project consists primarily of tools meant to make explicit the implicit boon that reading is to writers, as well as facilitate the rehearsal and dramaturgy of plays, all by providing a group of contributors and collaborators another place to turn to regularly as part of their methodology. Although it began amateurishly, I was happy to find that my efforts, often fraught, but always enthralling, gradually produced a product that is truly useful and a code base that is mostly clear and concise. I have also been working on other programs that help make my publishing, e-commerce, and retail operation easier to manage. I also have a raspberry pi side project that I would like my hire to scale up.

I am ready to hire a programmer, but I am at a loss as to how to do so. I think the project has potential, not great potential, but some potential, and I have capital to invest. I make use of GitHub, but I am inexpert in its intricacies. I am thinking about going to a nearby university and finding an undergraduate to hire. I suppose that I could hire foreign developers, but I would like to develop a relationship with a small team. It is important to me that the software is a creative enterprise and does not lose the esoteric motivation that is literature. Do I need a contract out of the gate? Could I begin a working relationship without too much formality, or is that a bad idea? How do I hire my first developer?
That’s fun to see on here. I started to play parser based if about 2-3 weeks ago and wrote a little infocon-style parser engine as a hobby project last week.

The genre is unbelievably stimulating, I had no idea. I strongly recommend the old classics Galatea and Anchorhead if you have never played these before, they are some of the best games I played in the last 2 years
says Midori is installed by default, which I thought was a webkit browser but apparently they switched over to electron in 2019
Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (2015)
Interesting project, will try this out.

Just wondering, why is that important that the OS is from Switzerland? Does it help that much in their marketing or does it matter?

Also, from the practical proint of view, what does it matter for the opensource project to be originating from specific country? Don't they accept PRs from outside Switzerland or what?
Because that would make llvm a lot less useful and a lot more restrictive on the kind of places the compiler infrastructure could be used in. LLVM would not easily be able to be used in places like mesa if it were under the GPL, for example.
> And you're confusing JSON the format with typical implementations. Open a JSON file and you see decimal digits. There is no limit to the number of the digits in the grammar. Parsing these digits and converting them to binary doubles, for example, is actually slower than parsing them as decimals, because you have to do the latter anyway to accomplish the former.

JSON spec for numbers: integer or float (implemented as a double precision float). JSON libraries read numbers as double precision float because that is the correct type for JSON numbers, not for any other reason.
The doomsday talk is spread by the media but it’s not what the science tells us. The majority of humanity isn’t going to die. That’s utter nonsense.

And no, life without “luxurious crap” would suck hard. I’ll pass.
I don't agree the Android needs more battery part, but I don't have any good sources to back this up.

Since certain things are really different in life and sometimes reversed.
> I bet wokeness could also turn into a dictatorship with the right leader.

What is that based on? The progressive left heavily supports the democratic process, they don't try to prevent anyone from voting, they haven't elected anyone who advocates that. They also control no state or national executive positions and no legislatures, while the GOP recently controlled the White House, regularly controls both houses of Congress, and controls many governorships and state legislatures - and openly use that power to prevent people from voting them out. In many states, the voters cannot choose who runs their legislatures.
The issue with a carbon tax is that it is unpopular for a plurality of voters. There are other types of policies that don't engender the same type of aversion. For example incentivizing banks to make carbon negative projects easier and cheaper to finance.
Robinhood did something that was actually wrong — offering a sell feature, and then taking it away later when they overspent things they didn't actually have.

Only offering Buy isn't too far off from normal for shitty centralized exchanges, e.g. PayPal lets you buy BTC but not sell.
Because the thin ones are all like that. They typically use prismatic cells glued in place.
Think in 3D: I never said the Pogo should be under the chip in one 2d plane.

They could be on the sides at an angle, and the chip in a "hole" cut in the PCB
Thanks so much for this, I always assumed I was bad at stenciling but I see I was just doing it wrong. I was spreading the paste then pulling it up, not heating it first as I assumed the sldier would melt onto the steel stencil. Thanks!
revoldiv.com has a similar feature set
It might be different legally, but it's the same scummy behavior that I'd like to see punished. Maybe it's time for updated laws so having two or three global competitors isn't considered ok.
A point they make that is one I've been surprised by - just how very nice it is to spend all day with my pets nearby. I certainly knew I loved and enjoyed my dogs back when I spent the workday away in the city, but it's been even more fulfilling than I would have thought to really become part of the rhythm of each others' days all day long. Maybe this is a reaction to the isolation of the pandemic, but I think will be grateful all my life for this extra 2+ years of time, especially with my older dog.
That's probably because Stephen Wolfram in the 80s knew little about Lisp. Chances are he still knows little about it today!
When I was at uni I took Steve Yegge's Effective Emacs post to heart (https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs), now my most used tweak is:

"^w" = (deleteWordBackward:);
Maybe they could be, but that doesn't mean they have to be. My intcode computer was written using OOP.
SRM it is. Thanks!

(Alpha) System Reference Manual:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Reference_Manual

Funny thing, for some historic reason, the system terminal attached to cabinet with those memorable Alpha Servers was of the monochrome lineage, but the phosphors color was orange. So the >>> prompt was unmistakably a carrot one! However it would rarely be seen, as bulk of the time the console would busily beep and boop with operator messages, as any respectful Alphas would be on 24/7/365 duty.

The only forced interruption I witnessed was when the attached storage controller froze. Literally. Someone left a window open in the server room, with -20C outdoors. So with all that circulation there was ICE accumulation on one side of storage controler cabinet. Apparently that put it beyond service temp range. Well, thawed it out - back to bizznizz, so to speak.

It that case, should've been is_system_iced() system call, it could've saved us the trip on such a freezing night. We would've just called HCF... briefly :)
> First, women's rising academic advantages are largely confined to straight women. Although lesbian women historically outpaced straight women, in contemporary cohorts, lesbian and bisexual women face significant academic disadvantages.

> Unlike gay boys, contemporary lesbian girls face a number of academic disadvantages. For example, Mittleman's data indicate that, compared to straight girls, lesbians are twice as likely to report ever dropping out of high school. These stark disadvantages, he suggests, could reflect discriminatory treatment from teachers.

The discrimination against wlw in High School was/is really really real. It genuinely wasn’t until 2015ish that public perception changed from lesbians being “dykes preying on our daughters” to “dawww two girls dating.”
I don't know what it is about it, but having came from Win32 and going to Cocoa (in 2008 or so), it just felt like an amazingly well engineered set of API's. Everything was so fancy and elegant, while Windows felt like hack on top of hack.
Apple concedes that water is, indeed, wet. Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits employers from restricting “collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” This directly includes employees discussing salary / wages. No company can limit you from sharing your pay.
I have the 9310 and it sleeps perfectly. I'd close it and toss it in the felt sleeve I have for it for a while before that warning came out, mine Just Works.
I cooked up a little app that has a UI front-end for these statistics. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/network-quality-test/id1596010...
> it's politically incorrect to analyze it

It's pretty senseless too. The monsters were ineffective at everything but maintaining their own power. The Soviet Union was an economic, social, and political disaster that collapsed. It's a bizarre example to look to, like basing your agriculture on Soviet farming practices.

It's so trendy to embrace hate and cruelty as if it's just unavoidable realism, but it's really just reactionary rhetoric designed to undermine everyone to the left of the far right (i.e., anyone with any compassion or decency). We need to stop playing games with hatred and stand up for - and 'analyze' - something better, something positive that will get done something good.

> Ideally, in a humane environment, we find ways to think outside the box without having to shoot people to make that socially acceptable.

Ideally?
I wish people would just be content making a choice for themselves re: working remote or in office, and stop trying so hard to convince people who have a different preference that are wrong.

The only thing that could make this worse if we somehow managed to make this a Left/Right polarized issue.
I think it was just my pedantic side coming out as well. Probably unnecessary on my part. To be pedantic though, technically all comments here aren't strictly necessary. Though I should probably stop now: non productive hairsplitting is something I have to watch out for as I comment :)
I think it should be illegal. It's more of a stock store than a stock market if you can only buy and not actually trade.
Halo Composer Forced by Court to Tell People to Destroy Music
> The Soviet space program performed poorly compared with the US.

Soviet Moon program was a competitive endeavor - Korolev used Kuznetsov's engines, Chelomey was cooperating with Glushko, Yangel used one of the most modern space factories in USSR and proposed his own plans. And they all were supported.

Contrary to this, in USA NASA was playing strict Gosplan. Parts were doled out to different manufacturers, and the state was controlling everything and writing checks.

No wonder USSR lost :) . Market approach couldn't compete with centralized planning.
That's rather complicated because of its internal architecture. Also because Maxima is skewed towards interactive usage. Some of the routines need to ask you questions about the problem in the middle of the solution (things like "is a zero or non-zero?" and such). Perhaps such questions could be turned into conditions, though.
In PCI Express slot there is indeed a standby power (+3.3 V) pin and WAKE# signal pin, but it works differently than the power button.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Pinout

The main difference is that WAKE# signal only restores power to the system but it does not change the system's power state, after using it the card needs to send an interrupt to the motherboard to properly wake it up. Power button does both things.
> Can we realistically take all that embodied energy that represents our current state and expect/demand that developing nations to pay the same price for carbon as we do, starting now?

It's a false dichotomy.

The US and others can share climate friendly technologies with developing countries on attractive (cheap) terms and at the same time compensate those that developed them out of tax coffers on market terms. Almost all climate related investment can be financed in the capital markets if World Bank, IMF provide guarantees to investors.

In exchange there'd be an expectation that these technologies are deployed on an accelerated timescale and in greater quantities by nations taking up this offer.
I like ideavim a lot, but I really hope they integrate an embedded neovim into the IDE like The VsCode community has. There is an open ticket you can show support on: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-858