skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if something suddenly appeared in your drive path, and if you are paying attention you can press the accelerator within a second or so.

So if something appears in your path, the right course of action is to accelerate into it?

within a second or so is great but not if you have 1/4 second time to respond.

> If the person behind you has adequate following distance it shouldn't be a problem.

Nice assumption.

> If the car loses power entirely then it gives you a few seconds warning in which you may or may not be able to cross to the shoulder before the car coasts to a stop.

may or may not indeed.
There's been a number of occasions where I would have been in an accident had it not been for the software saving me. Obviously it is possible that one day the software will result in an accident that would not have happened had I been driving alone, but thus far that has not happened, and so, thus far, I can conclude that the combination is better than me alone.
Phantom braking in the Tesla Model 3 is very real and can be scary, I've experienced it several times. I've noticed that it seems to occur if it sees shadows when going under bridges on the highway.

If you're alert you can override it pretty quickly by hitting acceleration. The problem is when using driving assists you get a false sense of security, you put too much trust in the system, relax, pay less attention - unfortunately this can be fatal.
Russia's neighbours wanted to join NATO because they were afraid of being invaded by Russia (again) --- and Putin's invasion of Ukraine shows they were exactly right to be thus afraid.
https://archive.ph/8k4xU
This is exactly the short-sighted mindset that torpedoed the deal. It was explicitly designed to deal with nukes not make Iran behave in general. I think the hawks want to keep the dream of regime change alive. It was a win thrown away for ideological reasons.
If you listen to interviews with Honnold, he’s very clear about the fact that he still feels fear. If you watch the clip of his first free solo of Half Dome, you can even see him have a little freakout moment standing on one of the ledges during the climb.

The only abnormal thing about his brain scan was that his amygdala activated less than usual when he looked at frightening or disturbing images, which would be entirely compatible with deliberate desensitization (perhaps through ~20 years of practicing climbing with no protection?)
The headline emphasises the vehicle make, and we assume this is another criticism of Tesla’s autopilot tech. But that determination has not been investigated yet.

If the headline instead emphasised that the driver of this vehicle was seventy-four years old, we might assume it was a different criticism entirely.
My comment was not meant as criticism. I'm not sure why anyone would interpret it as such.
By reading that book he might find out how Swiss fought on the side of Napoleon, Habsburgs, French kings, or made economic arrangements even with Adolf... all this while being "neutral".
What's up with Russia's internet (2019)
Yes, a unified political and cultural counterweight to Russian authoritarianism (with the inherent advantage of having massive links to highly developed and democratic Western Europe) would be very helpful indeed. A Pan-Slavic interlanguage can usefully contribute to that goal. It's not a "bad" effort at all.
Its fairly normal to despise governments. As a left leaning European exiled by Brexit, I despise the UK government. Blaming the govt is arguably not blaming the victims.
That said, I don't think the Ukrainian govt did anything wrong here myself. Times of war are times when we should try hard to be understanding of people's opinions.

And not call names.
I've had several over the years; I'm currently on a GTX 1060 (this machine is getting old, but I don't game anywhere near as much as I used to, especially not AAA).
Muscles will choose the path of least resistance
Thank you so much for your support! Every little donation or even retweet helps.
>You can develop only for android if you want. Good luck developing for only linux in 1990.

Don't pretend you are a retard, if you are a government or business that provides a website or mobile app you HAVE no REAL choice then to also target iOS.

If the local factory poisons the air you should move if you don't like it right?
IF society(probably in EU and Asia) decides that Apple damages the "environment" they will be free to force Apple to do better or Apple will be free to exit.
I'm sure many people would agree with your diagnosis. What's the treatment, though?
Oh, didn't know that, thanks! That's a fairly recent development ( dated January of this year), and is only for the old Belugas, not the XLs, which will remain exclusive for Airbus. I don't see why they can't build a few more for charter.
Is there an easy way to make canvas always fill parent while retaining 1:1 pixel size (no blur). Currently I need to use various hacks.

Basically just like normal div, it currently cannot be done in canvas because once you set c.width=c.clientWidth it starts interfering, so the only solution is extra div (relative, canvas absolute) and on resize update width and height). Also it should work in flexbox.
It's not the counting that's hard. it's that others will merge in front of you constantly.
I think (but don't know if i am correct) that the original commenter was referring to the custom software running on top of Linux?

If they just run "stock" Linux then they can point their users towards that? Or maybe they just don't care until they get sued, also an option of course.
How about when you compare a Tesla in driver assist mode per-mile with a human driver per-mile?
> We're up to the point were it wouldn't seem crazy to go with the Microsoft suite, to be honest.

I think for a lot of companies not going with Office is crazy, Google docs isn't good enough, and who's wants to have 7-10 different suppliers for different products (email, calendar, sheets, docs, presentations, wiki, chat, video). Far easer to just buy one cohesive system.

There is probably an opportunity for one of the larger players to acquire the others and move back towards a cohesive platform. There would be push back but I suspect it would pay off. Imagine Airtable, Notion and Slack under one operation.
I think this is a transmissible disease.

I emailed a vendor who sells my clients goods through their platform, and asked them questions about their payout report. They don’t read/answer my questions, send incomplete answers when they do, send links to their knowledge base with months old information. I’ve concluded they are either overworked, don’t care, and/or have a parasitic brain fungus which prevents them from using logic.

A few months back I cross posted a programming question to several online communities, and in each got one person answering the question they think you’re asking, rather than the one you actually did ask—literally in words and sentences. And then proceed to answer the easy question—which you provided as context—and ignore the difficult question you brought to the group.

It’s a virus. It’s people optimizing their own successful behaviors and failing to perform in new situations.

In the first case the company says they added features to the report for internationalization. What? 330m Americans is not a big enough group to have a custom payout report without confusing garbage in it? (Like VAT on a receipt for goods bought in US). They bought into their own BS and can’t see.

In the second case, months later I discussed the programming problem at a meetup group and an expert in the domain said what I want doesn’t exist. No wonder the forum peeps answered their own mis-interpretation, because to very high reputation users it’s just a game.
> I always suggest we should make lying or misrepresenting facts while representing a government (from school councils to president), should be considered a very serious criminal offence.

You mean like claiming that Trump advocated drinking bleach? That kind of lying or misrepresentation?
In the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30552570 thread there is consensus among Slavs that InterSlavic is easier and more... Slavic.
He made conscious decisions across decades to disempower the aspects of hardware and software he didn't like, from trying to have the Apple II have two expansion slots for the bare essentials, for throwing the swing of the axe that killed Flash. Consumers still chose to buy it, developers still chose to develop for consumers, but part of the role of developers is to be informed voices when the consumer won't and to communicate complex issues accessibly (consumers didn't _know_ why they want more than two slots, but they used them when they had them!). Jobs had a powerful voice and chose when to use it to meet his own ends at the cost of the wider ecosystem.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
this particular post: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3241517597...
Although a lot of the jobs from Detroit moved to Japan, a country with higher unionisation rates.
yes, i've donated to ukrainian army that is fighting to stop the fascist russian scourge and i'm helping to coordinate delivery of humanitarian aid so that people aren't dying because of fascist russian scourge. all of that hopefully helps ukraine last enough for russia to collapse and become a dead wasteland with no oil or gas exports.

what are you doing again?
Cryptos are transparent; gold is not. I think swiss trusts and fine art are going to be targeted more
Choice of 'x' for softness is very weird.

I get that in the cyrillic alphabet, 'x' is the 'h' character, but once you transliterate to a latin alphabet, it makes no sense to use it in that way...

Especially when the role of 'h' in latin alphabets has been hard-to-soft conversion specifically in most languages (and transliterations) using it.
A significant factor in this is screen capabilities. Look at the battery life test results comparing phones with ~1080p screens and ~720p ones, and those with simply larger screens at the same resolution, and you will see definite patterns. There are other significant factors like the overall screen tech used, so it is far from entirely clear-cut, but the fact the device size and resolutions have increased along with battery capacity goes quite a way to explaining why the extra capacity isn't being well reflected in overall run-time between charges.

We also tend to use our phones a lot more than we used to, so they spend more time in a given day in active modes rather than standby ones, and many people have more background apps checking for updates than they used to, so there are extra short periods of CPU wake time, and radio activity, when the device would otherwise be in a lower power standby state.

SoCs being more powerful will have an effect too, but they are also getting more efficient especially when not in full use, so I doubt that this is significant compared to the factors I mentioned above.
So, the car in front was able to swerve, but from 2 cars back, he couldn’t and ended up killing a person. Somebody wasn’t paying attention. Not they he’s unique in this, but his statement is baloney.
True, but manufacturers can look at aggregate miles traveled and come to some conclusions about the safety of vehicles without any safety systems, with active safety systems like automatic emergency braking, and in Tesla’s case, Autopilot. They publish the statistics regularly and crashes are far less common per million miles driven when autopilot is engaged.
By default, yes. It's stock Chromium with privacy features and an independent sync backend etc.

Chromium has recently added features for a scrollable tab strip a la Firefox, and you can adjust how much tabs compact themselves before the browser starts using scrolling behavior instead. Check a flag called Tab Scrolling.

I'm on Chromium partly because of the tab management - tab groups are crack.
Also as you adjust to increase the gap in front of you, the person behind starts tailgating, if they were not already.
This is great to hear! I'm an artist and much of my work builds on Canvas2D, it's a simple API and provides a nice balance of features and constraints.

I'd love to see more development on Canvas2D API and standards. There's a few things that are missing and/or not yet standardized:

- Advanced text metrics and more reliable text loading

- More robust high-resolution rendering, for example using Canvas2D to generate large 300 DPI prints

- More control over line rendering, such as placement on polygons ("inside" / "center" / "outside"), stippling, variable thickness
What motive would Putin have to tell Macron that he is more greedy than he actually is?

We know he hates to look weak, so if he "settles" for eastern Ukraine after saying that, he's going to look weak.
> Ukranian president dies in combat.

That presupposes that he joins the armed forces; at the moment, he is a non-combatant. If he is shot, that would make him a victim of assassination, not a combat casualty.

> Ukraine negotiates a ceasefire, then joins the European Union.

Wooh! Just join! It takes a while to join the EU. Ask Turkey.
> we must establish the limits of reasonable debate.

Who is "we", and why do they get to decide?
In California, unfortunately, the answer seems to be "yes." When I moved to the northeast US, drivers were more sane on highways.
Speaking from the UK, if you leave a safe stopping distance on a motorway then, invariably, the gap will be filled quickly with another car.

The willingness of so-called intelligent beings to needlessly risk their lives (and the lives of those around them) for no gain whatsoever is truly astounding.
Once Putin is detained the war will end. At the very least a condemnation/conviction in absence will be another prestige blow, if that's possible. Germany started an independent proceeding btw: Once you violate the sovereignty of other countries and or human rights, you lose your own formal
indefeasibility. It's called "Weltrecht".
This seems like when Windows decides to shut down and apply patches in the middle of a work session. I’ve been in situations where Windows thought it essential and unavoidable to reboot and stay offline for 40 minutes starting at 125pm as I was screen sharing and presenting to 50 people. We all watched the countdown.

It was surreal and an example of such stupid, anti-user design.

I spoke with the “IT” person who set up this policy and they explained that I should have left my computer on to patch overnight. So basically it was ok that I, and my audience, suffered because I forgot to do something I didn’t even know was necessary.

In my case no one died, but I hope Tesla doesn’t apply the same logic to patching.
Chromium has tab scrolling now, check flags.
Was he being serious? Genuine question.
Warren Buffet's son had something interesting to say about this.

> As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the few, the more heroic it sounds to “give back.” It’s what I would call “conscience laundering” — feeling better about accumulating more than any one person could possibly need to live on by sprinkling a little around as an act of charity. But this just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. The rich sleep better at night, while others get just enough to keep the pot from boiling over. Nearly every time someone feels better by doing good, on the other side of the world (or street), someone else is further locked into a system that will not allow the true flourishing of his or her nature or the opportunity to live a joyful and fulfilled life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-in...
It does work, yes.
From my experience, a new instance of a panslavic language is inevitably created once different Slavs end up drinking together.
I think you could also say that people seem to have an irrational obsession with Tesla’s decision to only use cameras. Camera only systems aren’t uncommon among other automakers (Subaru Eyesight, for example.)
crowded expressways have a way of filling gaps
Something like this?
http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
Does Tesla force OTA updates, or can the owner turn they off and accept them manually?
They find us treatening even now.

But yes, cultural exchange can be a good first step.
I am not entirely sure if this is what you mean, on resize/orientationchange you set canvas.width and canvas.height to its clientWidth/clientHeight and redraw. Is that what you mean by hacks?
I worked there as a swim instructor for their summer camp, by far, the best school system I have seen. Its like homeschooling meets institutions. Our publix school system is garbage (Prussian) compared to it.
> Slavs were never for communism

i disagree to some extent. historically slavic culture tends to be much more communal than rest of europe. even in eu you can see this manifested in thr resistance to liberalism that comes from all (?) slavic countries
Who denies covid exists? Cant see anyone in that group.

Who denies the claimed severity of covid19 being equivalent to the spanish flu? Hopefully everyone stands up... because that's completely deniable now. However, that's the claim that justified the unprecedented actions of locking down civilization. As opposed to the established standard of locking down just the sick.

Who has lost faith and trust in the medical professionals turn politician because of the endless lies as proven?

How about the misrepresentation of health measures taken throughout the process? How about the endless human rights violations.

How many people lost their job because they were pregnant and couldn't get vaccinated? The list of medicines allowed during pregnancy is VERY low. A pamphlet would be too big. Business card would suffice. Oh but you want to say the vaccine is safe for preggos? LOL. No... you just wanted to fire all those pregnant nurses. But wait... werent nurses in huge demand before covid... now you fired a bunch? Now you have such a shortage that you are obligating nurses to work insane hours?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-union-submits...

Oh wow. Nobody saw that coming /sarcasm.
> Meritocracy

Large corporations who have been around a while are controlled by heirs who have never worked, the purpose of which (according to law) is to extract as much surplus value profit from those doing the work. It sounds like the antithesis of meritocracy.

Unions are organizations where union elections are comprised of those doing the work and creating the wealth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30553675
I use FreeBSD now so it was however many years late for me already. And even when I was using Linux, the benefits seemed extremely marginal - like, sure, in theory I can see some situations where using two screens with different DPI settings would be useful, but it's rarely something I've wanted or needed in practice - when I got a laptop with a 4k screen I did try using it with an old 1080p monitor for a little while but it looked so bad in comparison that I replaced that with a 4k monitor as soon as I could.
I run a Mandarin Chinese meetup with a few hundred members every week in the UK. We've had several new contributing members post pandemic and everything is pretty rosy. Meetup.com still works as a means to get new users
I'm in a similar situation and it's really frustrating. As an individual contributor, the more senior and skilled that I become, the less of a chance I have to actually use my expertise and skills to lead projects or deliver features that make an impact and create value. I'm constantly steered towards absolute time-wasting activities. Recently my company has become convinced Kafka is going to solve all our problems, and executives have OKR's related to the number of queues teams implement and it's impossible to launch anything now without a queue. My boss is making me join this cross-team initiative to gratuitously add queues to services that receive a dozen requests per minute at PEAK throughput. Also, there's no functional benefit to adding queues to these services, if anything it only makes them more difficult to administer.

Sorry, I just needed to vent.
This is one of my major concerns about EV, over the years I had asked about this very issue and all I got was "range will be slightly less" or "no impact". So I decided to stick with fossil fuels. Getting stuck in the middle of no where in the winder is no fun where I live.

I hope this hits the mainstream press, these days, seems all vehicles are only designed for use in Southern Calif.

>AAA found the loss in driving range could be as high as 41% with the heater on full blast.

My main concern was with the heater, in gas engines, heat is "free", I always thought the heater would be a big drain. Finally someone did some studies.
As someone speaking bosnian, I can read & understand it. Feels weird having to replace "y" as "i" in my head as we don't have "y" in our alphabet, and also some cases feel off.
The whole premise of "almost working" autopilot is the logical thing to do from Tesla's business perspective but deeply flawed from a safety one.

The allure of having a car that drives itself is to relax the mind from paying attention to the road, handling 99% of the situations correctly through the software. But the 1% that require human input are made much more dangerous because the driver not only needs to handle the situation, they need to instantly catch up and familiarize themselves with the situation they've found themselves in. What was the car trying to do? Why is it suddenly stopping? What do my blind spots look like? Is there anybody behind me? Was anybody in the process of passing me?

Unfortunately the time it takes to refamiliarize with the situation could exceed the total time budget to respond.

It's similar to not paying attention to the road and being in the passenger seat when a junior driver is driving instead. But there are 2 exceptions:

- Most people increase the attention they pay to the road when a learner is behind the wheel. Preparing to respond and offer guidance to correct.

- Self-driving software is a lot more indeterministic than a new driver. And software updates can easily change the behavior in non trivial ways. As if the driving student had Multiple Personality Disorder, one day being over cautious in certain situation and other days over-confident. Though I contend that MPD is actually more predictable than an opaque algorithm, as there are other human clues about the behavior mode of the moment that could help guide the response of the trainer.
Not just big companies. I have CLA assistant set up on all of my public repos.
Everyone does it because the law isn't enforced, and because nobody is following the law enforcing it is seen as unreasonable.

On the spectrum between charging people for involuntary manslaughter for cases like this and saying "there's nothing they could have done" we are very far on the latter part of the spectrum.
While I think there's a good reason to suspect Telsa's software is at fault, I also note this:

> 74-year-old Terry L. Siegel

Every few years there are reports of a (usually foreign) car manufacturer having problems where the car "just accelerates on its own". But what's strange is that it only affects people over 65. Almost like above a certain age, people occasionally mistake the brake and gas pedals and don't react to the mistake quickly enough.

I think it's worth waiting for the full report on this accident before loudly proclaiming that this is Tesla's fault. It may be, but it also may not be.
Human error does happen, but it results in death an order of magnitude less frequently in buses, trains and airplanes than in private vehicles.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
There’s no need to speculate that Melinda had special knowledge. Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008 and was subsequently a registered sex offender. Bill admits to attending dinners with Epstein until 2011.