skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP talks about heading towards the trucks and SUVs, they will, in that scenario, eventually be behind the trucks, so yes they can do that. But they (and the rest of us) still have to deal with vehicles with bright lights right at eye level for a typical sedan-sized vehicle heading towards us at night.
I recall debating this on Slashdot back in 2002. (I was a Bertrand Meyer OO convert back then). Good memories.

Functions and data are like spacetime and gravity. Beneath the emergent behavior in any software system, they are the things you find lurking underneath.
I did an MRI a while ago, and waited for 20 minutes for the images to be burnt on a CD so that I could physically bring it to my doctor. I thought that was archaic.
Yeah the goal is obviously harming people.

There's a reason some people don't tell you what they're thinking even if you connect them to a car battery until they talk.
My house is built on an island in a sea of streets. If I cannot afford a car, should I be legally confined to this block?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739029
You can use Authy and install it on multiple devices/computers
> The outcome is not positive for any party.

The outcome for the buyers of those vehicles is estimated by those buyers to be positive. I don't know if it is or isn't, but it seems at least a little presumptuous to conclude that a third party (you or I) knows more about the buyer's preferences/value function than the buyer themself.

If the outcome were known to be negative for everyone, it would be a lot less common.
Let's say antigenic sin fears became a reality. Then the short term solution is mass production of a next gen regeneron regencov? Or a different enough vaccine that causes a response?

What leads you to believe long-term effects are possible?
No matter how safe you make a car when a 3000lb vehicle hits a 100-200lb human at any speed, the human loses. Cars are not the problem.
Putting aside gripping strength versus traditional wheels for a moment, it would be interesting to see if this would enable more efficient street geometries. For example, due to the reduced turning radius, could this open up additional safety buffer space for pedestrians at city crosswalks?
Andotp or aegis authenticator are both great open source 2fa apps that let you export and backup your 2fa to cold storage somewhere incase of these situations
These are oncoming, so unless you drive with welder's goggles, all you can do is glance away from the road in pain. I know that some hi/lo-beams now use LCDs to shape the beam, what I want is a whole windshield covered with them to selectively blot out just the searing headlights.
This idea is just weird. The author has proposed a list of things he likes (bakeries, breweries, fresh food) and wants to institute some kind of plan to completely decimate the existing small bakeries, breweries and farmers that already exist in smaller communities.

It conveniently ignores the real problem that makes an underclass of the unemployable: automation. You can see this most starkly in small towns across the first world. Once prosperous small communities of 5,000 to 25,000 people used to have masses of low-skilled labour jobs in the post offices, banks and small businesses. All of those paper shuffling jobs disappeared with the computer.

The masses of labourers that used to be required to make roads: gone to heavy equipment.

The masses of labourers that used to be required for farming: gone to heavy equipment.

Small factories and local assembly of equipment: gone to global shipping.

Nobody really mourned those jobs, they were tough, dirty, boring or a combination of all three at the same time. Yet here we are, despite massive advances in education, with a section of the community which is frankly ill-suited to any kind of "knowledge work" or whatever BS we were all sold when the factories disappeared under neo-liberalism and that "new jobs in new industries" would be created. They somehow failed to realise that the ratio would be 1:25 or so of new jobs vs. the old labouring.

Yet we have this strange idealisation of the protestant work ethic that pervades all the levels of those lucky enough to have escaped automation (so far at least). We stupidly work long hours, get subjected to increasingly absurd surveillance by employers and drop to our knees in thanks that we aren't left behind, and foster resentment at the idle poor.

We have had our UBI experiment here in Australia thanks to Covid and it was unreservedly a massive success. It's time to just ignore the noise and clamour of big business trying to keep everybody enslaved and flip the script so that they must treat everybody better to keep them. UBI might not be forever once it's instituted, it might turn out that in particular parts of our history it is the correct thing to do to subsidise the living of ordinary people rather than corporate interests.

edit: One other thing that is decimating communities the world over is the direction of where our money is going. As an example, gaming is a massive industry that simply hoovers money out of communities and returns none. Online shopping does something very similar - it used to be that your local electronics store sold you something at a fat markup, but employed half a dozen people to deliver your expensive TV so more of that money stayed local. I am hoping that the trend to working from home doesn't fizzle out as that is the only way most communities are going to be able to survive the giant international money hoover.
What does this have to do with capitalism at all? The idea that im allowed to own and exchange money means big cars bad?

Given that there are what maybe 1 or 2 command economies on the planet, are they somehow automotive paradises? Im going to say probably not given that cars are a privelege for a small elite class in those places.
Thus spake someone who has never actually had influenza.
Never actually been able to work up the experimental controls or nerve to do that one, but I'll take your word for it.
One of the VMs that I have on a system in colocation is my own customized OpenVPN setup, where I also run the openssl CA for it. My phone, laptop, etc all have their own keys.

It's set up for my own needs when I want to use a VPN from a weird place. Or simply to bypass artificial restrictions on traffic if I'm on amenity wifi in somebody's office, airport, hotel, etc. Since I can arbitrarily reconfigure it at will, and run multiple openvpn daemons from differnt .conf files listening on different ports with unique configurations (all relying on the same CA), I can do things like have one VPN that pushes a default route for my spouse's need to do internet things on restricted amenity wifi.

Another part of it pushes only routes to a few /24 that are my personal project servers, and the routing table on vpn clients remains otherwise unmodified. Sometimes known as a split horizon VPN.

>95% of the time I am not using it to run all my traffic through there.

It's also the gateway and pushes routing table entries to things that exist for my personal test/project/development VMs that are in private IP space, so I need to be connected to the VPN in order to talk to those.
Reliable and efficient are obviously things that capitalism have made better through competition, see the popularity of Japanese cars in the US. Modern cars are objectively more reliable, safer (for the passengers), and more efficient (see the popularity of the Prius) than any time in history, though obviously emissions regulation is helping here as well. Their exterior size and dimensions are another question that obviously seem to need some regulation.
I left Adobe a long time ago and started using Foxit. It's not perfect, but gets the job done for considerably less money.
Not surprised. I am a SA subscriber, and have been more and more disappointed in it. Very little quality science reporting. What they do spend ink on seems to be more and more like this.

Calling E.O. Wilson names is yet another new low.
I think really hard to remove, thick stickers are the solution to super bright and/or eye level lights like that. Or hammers. Seriously, wtf is wrong with manufacturers. We need safety regulations that rein in headlights, it's becoming ridiculous.
JM Keynes said: “A ‘sound’ banker, alas, is not one who sees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.” and same applies to software managers.

We're had lots of nasty security breaches lately. These breaches overall have nothing directly to do with free software but it's pretty easy to see what they have in common.

Security breaches grow like hardy weeds on the ground of "I don't have to face the consequences of bad security, my customers do". The Solar Winds and Log4j breach/hole came from wildly different software types but each had the quality of paying for security at the rate that it might harm you, not at the rate it might do harm in general. And comes because security is inherently expensive - since "security is a process, not feature", done right costs the entire organization time and money rather than simply involving a purchase.

Which to say: "Everyone is mad there’s no money in writing free/os software, but if there was money it wouldn’t be free/os software. It would just be like what we do at our day jobs." seems totally incorrect.

QT makes money selling open source software. Red Hat makes money selling open source soft. If there was a market for tightly secure, verified open source software, people would be working writing (and especially testing) that. But companies whatever crap onto their machines, whether barely maintained java or dubious closed source stuff.
> The author completely glosses over the social contracts involved in gift giving.

First, social contracts with gift giving vary widely across the world. It's a good reason they should be ignored here.

Second, as made very clear in the book Influence by Cialdini, the common social contract with giving gifts is reciprocity - and it holds even when the gift is crappy and/or unwanted.

So if you're going to invoke social contracts, do address all aspects of that contract.

You will also find significant disagreement on what the actual gift here is. For many, the gift is the code, not the capability. I'm giving the world this code. I provide some information about it. Whoever chooses to take it is expected to evaluate it and see if it fits their purposes.

Finally, regarding the potluck/party scenario, a more comparable example is a community potluck where everyone in the city is invited and can bring dishes, with no constraints whatsoever. People will show up, and happily tell everyone what's in their dish and how they made it. Most of them will openly say "I really can't claim this won't harm you" and "I'm not sure what entails proper cooking." You listen to each one and decide if you want to eat it.

Obviously, no one would ever run a potluck that way. You are using that fact to bash the developers, when you're not realizing the obvious: Potlucks/parties are a very poor analogy! Indeed, if you want to stick to the potluck analogy, then as an organizer, you definitely would put some rules in place - rules that would (and should) preclude most open source SW from being used in your product.
I don't think this is as much of a constraint as you'd expect. Imagine you manage to pull 1 psi over a 10x10" patch of box. That's 100lb of lifting force. If you're worried about whether the cardboard can handle it spread the area and lower the pressure more. I don't think 1lb per square inch of cardboard would be an issue and it looks like they have more surface area for suction than that.
The price of cryptocurrencies seems to have almost no relationship to stability and inflation of fiat currency. One would expect when bad inflation reports come out, and the stock market declines, cryptocurrencies would benefit from being an inflation hedge. But they don't. They often decline as well. It appears the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies correlate with the overall market's appetite for risk and speculation.
That is not a good analogy -- Current and Voltage are related by ohms law.

The energy costs are not related to the number of tokens, how often the tokens are traded, who made the tokens or who sold them.
Do they? Tires only have significant contact area because they deform. I would expect that with the right air pressure, these would match the contact area.

I’m more concerned about the fact that the tires have no actual tread, which means they’re going to be unusable in the rain. Of course this whole thing makes no sense so none of this matters.
The OP means cryptographically signed for proof of provenance, not bundled with a scanned copy of a signature.
> Not a very useful framework at all, more of a caricature.

What an odd sentence to be followed by describing the extremely rich as "leeches" and "parasites".

Sarcasm aside, I think the problem with your analysis is that it doesn't account for people who don't benefit from the system being extremely invested in maintaining it, especially those who understand that they have no realistic chances of coming out on top.

There are a lot of hierarchical mindsets that can be deconstructed given the right exposure and sufficient time, but the belief in the necessity, inevitability and moral good of hierarchies themselves is extremely difficult to unlearn and can be found in most parts of the political spectrum (though of course being overrepresented in some groups, e.g. Evangelical Christian conservatives).

Most people therefore take some hierarchies for granted while being in disbelief that anyone could take the ones they reject seriously. You can believe in absolute meritocracy without believing in "race realism" for example.
That’s pretty lazy thinking. Those are the same things. Your “rights” are everyone’s “obligations”.
Because Cars are how the elderly and disabled get around?

Cars are safer and more convenient than any public transportation for most of the world.

Humans interrupt traffic in my city far more than cars do.

Cars are easily contained, humans are not therefore humans are the actual problem.
I don't have a link handy, nor currently familiar with LP's site or extensions:

The part of the site that shows the recent connections to your account, with IP's. People were sharing those IP's and thoughts in the linked thread.

That data came from somewhere; if it's related to this bug then this bug is also pushing incorrect data into other parts of the service. It's also entirely possible that it wasn't a bug, and instead a security issue, and that data is correct, and they're bending words to play it off as just a bug.

I can understand a bug triggering a warning system, but when it's also presenting related data in the account security logs; it's either a complicated bug or there's more to the story.
The Mechanical King
It’s not hard to check and see otherwise.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clinical-trials-h...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alzheimers-attack...
Thanks for the link. I guess it does look roughly like the trends for the flu, though honestly neither one looks like a saddle to me. A saddle is much more symmetrical, and these look more like linear functions with a small blip on the far left side.

I'd still be interested to know if the 0-4 age group has homogeneous risk, or if the real risk is among 0-6 (or 12) month old babies. I have a 2 year old and we have been very cautious, but haven't seen any evidence that kids this age are at much risk for serious illness or death.
The parents should be vaccinated, unless they have medical reason for not being able to.

I'm vaccinated and I'm not particularly concerned about my kids bringing the virus home now. I'm more worried for them.
On one recent project we had a stacking robot arm we nicknamed inserter-zilla.

It was large, powerful (800kg max moved mass), and it killed few bits of industrial machinery before we patched in enough interlocks.
Even if this is true, days in JS still start at 1. It is inconsistent.
OK, I get your point. It's an ideological dilemma then - you'd prefer as many people around you to be vaccinated and boosted to lessen your chance of getting infected (although, even those boosted could transmit). On the other hand, those younger cohorts getting vaccines mostly to protect the others are subjecting themselves to low, but still tangible risk of getting vaccine complications. So there is some altruism at play and this is something which shouldn't definitely be mandated by the governments.
(PS: It's good that very effective pills are now coming to help immunosuppressed).
I read this as a failure of the state for publishing information that "should not be public".
> I don't see a lot of harm from adding this syntax however as people are free to not use it and it relies on an existing strict convention.

This is a good argument I will add to the list.

Also interesting to read about un-enforced foreign keys. I haven't used MSSQL myself, the DB in which I heard it's possible, I've only been using PostgreSQL for the last 20 years, and before that MySQL.

I think the problems you describe is an argument against a WITH NOCHECK feature, since it could be misused. Maybe it's necessary in some databases still, but at least in PostgreSQL, the FOR KEY SHARE lock solved all the issues with concurrent updates we had at Trustly. The FOR KEY SHARE was a huge patch [1] written mainly by Alvaro Herrera. Thanks to it, Trustly has never since had any performance problems with foreign keys, and they have AFAIK not needed to drop any foreign keys up until today due to locking/performance problems.

[1] https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/fixing_foreign_key_deadlo...
Note that this wretched situation is at the very top of Apple's supply / manufacturing chain. (Maximum visibility, maximum risk of bad P.R.)

Think about how workers further down - say, making small electrical connectors - are probably treated.

Then consider that Apple's supply chain is probably held to considerably higher standards than those of the great majority of consumer product companies.

:(
If you commit wire fraud through an innocent intermediary, you're still guilty of wire fraud. If you give someone a link that's an attack and they unknowingly run it, then you're the one at fault not the person clicking the link.

I think it's pretty straight forward.
> unloading one truck

The Stretch robot (shown in the article) can't unload a truck. It's not designed to lift itself up and enter a truck. Although, the other robots from BD (shown in the dancing video) might be able to do so.
Thats a bit of a specious argument because we're mostly talking about big cities.

If you walk in the designated areas there is no way you'd be legally confined anywhere.
That's the point though. 27 million people playing on Steam alone is not comparable to 12.5k Ethereum nodes as a direct comparison.

When you think about it, it's kind of wild that a system with only 12.5k nodes (plus other chains with presumably similar sizes) is using comparable levels of energy to an activity that is satisfying (at least) 27 million people simultaneously before we even factor in other platforms like consoles. I don't think that's really a comparison crypto-propononets should be proud of.

It's a bit like if a local restaurant chain cost an obscene amount of money to run, and the owners try to play it off to their stakeholders by saying, "well, the entire global McDonald's franchise costs more to run when we look at the raw numbers."
The claim is correct. COLREGS are not ambiguous about this.

>The term “sailing vessel” means any vessel under sail provided that
propelling machinery, if fitted, is not being used

See pp6-7 (PDF 14-15)
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/navRules/navrules.pdf
I win because I am not distributing your work. You want to sue the off-chain 3rd party who is actually distributing your work. They would then be required to stop infringing, at which point my NFT becomes worthless, as it now points to a 404.
The proliferation of field types has made data more difficult to transfer or share data between different applications and generates confusion. ITOP has only two fundamental data types: numeric and character, and perhaps a byte type for conversion purposes. (I have been kicking around ideas for having only one type.) The pre- and post-validators give any special handling needed by the field. A format string can be provided for various items like dates ("99/99/99"), Social-Security-Numbers ("999-99-9999"), and so forth. (Input formats are not shown in our sample DD.)
Types like dates and SSN's can be internally represented (stored) just fine with characters or possibly integers. For example, December 31, 1998 could be represented as "19981231". This provides a natural sort order.

This is very nineties and I must disagree. The datetime-as-string example shows it most clearly: wanting to sort by full date is only one thing you want to do with calendar data; often you will want to compare, say, things that happened on Mondays vs things that happened over the weekend, or things that happened within so-and-so many hours around a given point in time and so, not to mention the complexities of DST and timezones. You can do all that with text-based strings but you'd have to write quite a bit of logic that will get applied to strings over and over again, or else you can store the results of parsing a date string into separate fields. Dates expressed as text also don't allow you to validate "19990229" or "20020631" in a very straightforward manner.

I think our collective and by now decades-old experience with duck/weakly-typed languages like Python, JavaScript, Ruby and so on clearly shows that what you gain in simplicity you lose in terms of assured correctness.
What you're missing is that each human who used to move heavy boxes will be replaced by 4 robots.

No business wouldn't want to increase their total productivity.
Nonsense.
Read for yourself https://archive.is/tybj9
Yes, the one-fifth is of the increase. But read the rest..

"Overall, nearly 30 per cent of people currently in hospital with Covid are “incidental” cases - 1,813 out of 6,245 - the highest it has been since the NHS started releasing the figures in the summer.

The number of incidental Covid cases has been rising in recent weeks because omicron is far more infectious than delta, meaning that many people will be entering hospital unknowingly infected.
In the previous week, December
7 to December 14 - when the vast majority of hospitalisations were still delta - some 59 per cent of the 289 weekly rise was primarily Covid.

Experts said it was important to treat the current hospital data with caution, while Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said: “This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago.
“The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago – intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely – that is now history in my view and I think…that’s likely to continue.""
Norwegian Health Department sent floppies to doctors until 2016 on a large scale. See https://gundersen.net/functional-floppy-disks-in-2015/
It doesn't seem like the rear view camera problem is that much of a safety issue, thoughts?

The front trunk flying open while driving seems highly undesirable though.
I completely agree, and so do most people and countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#International_prop...

Too bad there are some nutjobs making the false claim that eliminating leap seconds will affect astronomy and appealing to tradition.
"every extra bit of immunity helps" - Agree. But this shouldn't be mandated. Rewarded, yes. But not mandated.
"group by 1,2,3,4,5,6" is at least a little more consise.
What's that old saying about rolling your own crypto? Something about it's definitely always a good idea to do, I think.
Without bottom support, contents might fall through an inappropriately supportive box.

The answer is "no, not all boxes, but yes some boxes".