skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Finally someone did some studies.

I recall reading an EPA study from the mid 2000s that compared the total fossil fuel emissions from gasoline, hybrid, and hypothetical electric vehicles. They included power usage for battery heaters and even the emissions from fossil fuel heaters in all electric heaters. I can't find the study now.
Agreed - edited to include my assumption
>What's "safe stopping distance"?

At least 2-3 seconds, minimum. Did you not take any driver's ed classes?

>Enough to react to the vehicle in front of you slamming the breaks at what speed?

Time, not speed. It will take the average person around 1.5 seconds to react, and a car at least a second to break. Time is not hard regardless of distance, you can see when somebody in front of you passes literally anything, a sign, a tree, a rock, a road market, whatever, then just count. FFS.

>If a car in front of me SLAMS the breaks in the first scenario, I'm certainly not responsible for not being 3km away from him

Not responsible for being 3000m away? Sure. ABSOLUTELY RESPONSIBLE for not being 50-80m way? Yes. Both legally and morally. Maintaining at least 2-3 seconds of distance just isn't a big fucking ask. And yes that's just as true if it's an "empty, well maintained" road, well why the fuck are you tailgating in that case? Shit happens. Animals suddenly leap across the road, a pothole has opened up, someone has collapsed in weird places etc. I literally was walking with a friend along an empty straight road in a rural area a few weeks ago and they suddenly just blacked out while walking and collapsed directly into the road. Scared the crap out of me. They'd had a pulmonary embolism not too long ago and their lung function was badly affected and while they're trying to build back up sometimes they just... black out. And if you're in a car you won't see someone lying down until you're fairly close. Low probability event? Absolutely. But over hundreds of millions of people it happens.

People sometimes need to stop as fast as possible. It is in every single way your job not to rear end them if they do. Period.
Tweet from a Journalist to Apple because Apple did not approve an app update
Obviously this is just my opinion. Apologies if my answer seems vague or waffly – I think our ability to analyse these kinds of things with words is limited.

I think our personality and memories didn't prexist our birth, and they don't exist anymore once we die. However, I think we are something more than our body, memories, personality and mind. The analogy that makes most sense to me is the idea that the universe is a kind of actor, and people are characters it's playing. The universe takes the form of people, with memories and so on, and it will do so again after my body dies. So I don't think there's 'nothing' on either side of life.

Perhaps somebody can better word this if they have similar views. My skills at writing are too limited here.
I can't draw at all. Skills stopped evolving at age 6 :P Is it really something you can learn, or do you think there is some pre-requisite innate "gift"? I can't get my head around it.
I drove a rental a year or so ago, and it had adaptive cruise control. This is where it would be like cruise control, except it would slow down if a car in front of you was going slower, and adjust the car speed to match their speed.

I'd never seen this before. I found that I couldn't really use it, because the distance you could set for it to follow the car in front of you was too close for my taste. I found you could decrease the distance by quite a bit, but I wasn't able to increase it to what I wanted.
Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics (2021)
I think I get what you are saying, but I think it’s less of a social problem, and more of a resource scarcity problem that humanity isn’t used to solving.

As much as people are aware of resources being limited on our planet, rarely anybody actively thinks that it’s already becoming a reality, yet it seems like extreme addiction to technology has only just started.
I agree that the name is atrocious.

I was running `npm init` recently on a new private project, I meant to write UNLICENSED which means "all rights reserved", but I accidentally missed the "d" at end and it got marked with "Unlicense" license.
Remembering nothing doesn't mean there was nothing.

As I see it, there is the experience of reality from a certain frame of reference, from which the experience of "you" that makes up you (body, mind, perceptions, memories, ...) is observed and a story about that "you", an Ego, is inferred. Upon death, the "you" that is observed (incl. memories and the general identity you hold) dies, dissipates, and is transformed. However, how can the experience of reality itself "end"? The absence of "your" existence always passes unnoticed from your frame of reference, because by definition there is no way to observe not existing.

Therefore, to assume there is nothing after death makes no sense IMHO. It logically makes more sense to assume there will be some form of existence after this life, and although we might have no recollection of this life, it seems most optimal to assume and act as if what you do in this life will impact the next somehow, through mechanisms we might be still ignorant of.
I cannot respond without looking into what grounds are there to believe svet in proto-slavic is not related to sve.

No one speaks proto slavic, so it is all conjectures based on languages that were spoken more recently.

I believe linguist academics are citizens of their countries, and their interpretations of things in the past are influenced by languages they speak.
Is that value-for-money for customers who are only paying $5K per year? I would be interested in what other larger businesses do. Is anything big enough to just refuse to do the questionnaires?
I think it's just large markups - DRM wise I don't think there is any as a simple userscript was apparently enough to simulate the presence of the player to the website and download his latest album.
Blink 15
But think of how much less paper you'd throw away in switching to one of those endless towel rolls.
Turns out it's just inertia, also the last constituent member of USSR to leave (and thus logical successor) is... Kazakhstan
Zavtra <= za utra. What distortion are you talking about? That -u- became -v-?
0BSD is nice as well. As a bonus, it's the only PD-equivalent license allowed in Google.
i've answered. you're dodging. what are you doing to stop putin?
the google one is normal if you haven't logged in in years, especially if you're in a different place now. Google is perfectly happy to lock people out of their accounts with the correct password
They did. In the most cowardly way possible
The problem in education is that it's very hard to separate what works and what doesn't because there are too many subjective factors.

If Tommy diligently practices math every day and does all his homework, but gets worse test scores than lazy Billy, it's impossible to know whether he is studying in a counterproductive manner, has poor test-taking technique, or is just less able than Billy. If the inverse is true, intuition and a desperate desire for justice tell us that Tommy's hard work is what made his performance better (and possibly, that he works harder because he's more intelligent).
Maybe it's an inane question, but what's it like? Which aspects of your life have some normality and which don't?
Awesome, many thanks for the recommendations. I will check it out.
Social Proof and the Bystander Effect (2017)
> 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.

I have this with a Hyundai Palisade with L2.

I still have to watch the road. I still need to identify emergency situations and navigation. I still need to _assess_ many things - just like I would without any support. However, I don't need to take action on everything. This is mentally and physically freeing. On well marked highways, in particular, it means I can just cruise along without much worry.

The problem with Tesla is they set the expectation that you don't have to pay attention. They've set an expectation that the car is capable of _assessing_ every situation when it's clearly not. They further re-enforce this with the car's UI and behaviors such that drivers get lulled into not paying attention.

To me, it almost sounds like Tesla would have better UX and safety if they reframed the capabilities of the self-driving to make it clear that the driver still needs to be assessing.
You don't even have to look at old maps that much, when as in this case a great part of the population didn't migrate elsewhere.

Just look at the ethnic/linguistic distributions in the area.

This would not work that well for example, German population in territories lost during WW I, afaik.
After you've spent another second (and 150 feet) fighting the AP to say, "no, I'm not drifting out of my lane, this is intentional".
I would refer to other declarative constraint languages as scripts.

Something doesn't have to be Turing complete to be a recipe for a computation.
the only one makes more sense is "phantom braking"
That's literally how it works...

You can vote for someone different, if you are unhappy with how the politicians in charge spend money.

You have no say whatsoever, in how billionaires and oligarchs choose to spend theirs.

Not sure how you could even come to any other conclusion?
The National Investment Authority: An Introduction
when people look back at the 2020's, will they be like "Ew gradients?"

That's not to say I don't like them, but I find them to be extremely overused, and making them even easier to use...
Most likely scenarios:

-Driver stopped himself due to medical reason (driver was 74).

-Car's power-train issue caused it to stop. Less likely in dual-motor configuration. Even less likely to happen suddenly.

-Autopilot was on and driver fell asleep - Autopilot is programmed to come to a stop if driver input is not detected.

Because it's Tesla there's great deal of attention given to Autopilot but in this circumstance, where car stopped completely, driver most likely have been unable to make the car go (for medical or technical reasons).
Their Chinese competition would love it. They have a huge need for GPUs in China to run their surveillance infrastructure.
That infrastructure is mostly run on NVIDIA chips. I am sure the CCP wouldn't care about the IP issues. They have fabs that could produce good enough chips (12nm), though not as good as TSMC (5nm).
> The constant hypervigilance is exhausting

This is exactly it, IMO.

Whether you like AP or not largely comes down to how your driving style compares to the computer's. If you are a defensive driver, you won't really care for the kinds of obviously dumb situations AP will happily drive you into. Eventually it reacts, but it takes a lot longer for the sensors to notice what a human brain can easily predict is about to occur.

I found AP to be an interesting toy, but it never made driving more relaxing for me, because I had to be more aware, not less, of everything around me.
Good luck with everything Vladimir! I have fond memories of working together and visiting you and the rest of our team in Kyiv back in 2008 and 2009.
Is it so? I looked up those GPUs at Russian online stores, and they are available for order, although the prices start from $1230 for RTX 3060.

If you think properly, it doesn't make sense to pay such a price just to kill some time playing games. A cheaper card would fit this purpose better.

Also I cannot blame the miners. If I am not missing something, currently a GPU mines cryptocurrency worth 50% of it cost per year (in countries with cheap electricity). I doubt you can get such percent in a bank deposit or other kind of investment.
Ask HN: Where does this mate translate language app get its dataset from?
https://gikken.co/mate-translate/

They have 100+ languages. The user can pick a word, say "Morning" and find it in all 100 plus languages. They also have pronunciation, phrases etc. I checked a few translations and pronunciations in some languages I know, they seem accurate and manual.

Are there free dictionaries, datasets, pronunciations they are using? Or did they hire hundreds of people to compile this dataset?
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Newer Teslas with the heat pump do great in 30deg F temps, as the graph shows, but for extreme cold like 0 and below they suffer similar to the other cars, as heat pump efficiency can no longer win at that point.
The tapping back of skull has been reported a few times here and other places. I suspect it is a very common fix (even if temporary) for people on hackernews:

- https://trudenta.com/this-simple-trick-may-help-with-tinnitu...

First time I did it, it was profound. I hadn't realized how much I missed complete silence.
I still wonder, why nobody builds EVs combined with a small Stirling motor. Such a hybrid could charge a car while parked (if needed) and warm up batteries in the cold too.

It would make EVs much more attractive for me, until charging infrastructure is more widely deploid, and allowing for a more gradual move away from oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Shopify's Playbook for Scaling Machine Learning
It is not big cities per se, it is any road that has surpassed carrying capacity. Obviously, this will be seen more in areas more densely populated with cars relative to road capacity.

If you drive in south or east Asia, you will see what naturally happens when the number of vehicles on the path greatly exceed the capacity of the path traveling at a certain speed. You can basically model it as fluid dynamics at a certain point in places like Mumbai and Bangkok.
TikTok under investigation in US over harms to children
The Trans Swimmer Dividing America Tells Her Story
Does anyone have the legal knowledge to say how bad it is when your license can't be distinguished from a simple typo?
seriously, nothing makes me feel more inept that wrestling with a new GPU.
how does WTFPL compare to this?
We play this exact game in my family, but we call it "Oh, hell!", which is what everyone else tells when someone goes out.
Try watching "The Alpinist". Just as good, just as insane.
Did you take the time to read the articles? For many of the evs the range hit WAS minimal
When Offshoring Goes Wrong
Me too! I remember those first OSM mapping parties fondly. Hope we meet again.
Most likely scenarios:
-Driver stopped himself due to medical reason (driver was 74).

-Car's power-train issue caused it to stop. Less likely in dual-motor configuration. Even less likely to happen suddenly.

-Autopilot was on and driver fell asleep - Autopilot is programmed to come to a stop if driver input is not detected.

Because it's Tesla there's great deal of attention given to Autopilot but in this circumstance, where car stopped completely, driver most likely have been unable to make the car go (for medical or technical reasons).
I’m not sure Google can be blamed for the bottleneck since user behavior says that people will only look through so many search results before moving on. That’s not abundance since no matter how many results Google shows the people problem will remain.

Advertisers and marketers fighting for top positions are where the real curse comes from IMO.
Great to see conic gradients! Otherwise, you need to do solutions like https://everttimberg.io/blog/js-circular-gradient/
Well, as always, it's a matter of preparation and technology.

Tesla uses battery heaters if I'm not mistaken.

But IC engines do have problems with the cold. Especially if using Diesel or E85. Most of those issues are now invisible because manufacturers do add fallbacks for those.
> At first, the Independence Police Department speculated that a mechanical issue caused the Tesla to lose power, but officials are now saying they are unsure what made the vehicle stop unexpectedly

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-crash-driver-killed-af...
>They publish the statistics regularly

The data is not transparent, they publish what they want. How many times drivers intervened? Does Tesla or the fans consider those as a +1 for human and a -1 for the AI in the stats? Nope.
porn list?
There are a couple controls. You can opt-in to get releases earlier, or wait until they're a bit more fully baked. And you can refuse the update when it pops up. I don't recall it ever being forced, but I could be mistaken.
This is exactly what people wanted to happen to anyone who questioned covid rhetoric.

We’re not free anymore. Haven’t been for a long time.

Bring back the FCC fairness doctrine.
Is there anyone who enjoys writing XML?
Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning
On the other hand we commonly omit the "I"/"Jaz" in Slovenian - there's more than enough info in the conjugated verb.
Yandex – Russia's answer to Google warns it may not be able to pay its debts
It looks prettier, it allows you to put blocks bigger than the content. For example you can have the content to be fixed sized 800px and then inside the content put a large table or an image that is full width, and it can also feel like a static website. That what Notion does, you can "publish your page to the web" that gives a public URL that anyone can visit, without feeling like they are inside Notion
Tesla's claims of self-driving being more safe was recently debunked:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403...
I believe there is no example of a socialist country that is not also a de-facto dictatorship, and I believe if there is a rule by a minority with no democratic election process then it is indeed unfair.
He's not completely right. Some of those sites have real reasons to use a canvas.

He's only ~99.9% right.
It's an issue to consider when purchasing an EV and one of the tradeoffs.

It varies model to model depending on the presence of heat pump, how the battery cooling/heating system works, etc. I think longterm we will need more detailed mpgE/range numbers for EVs than the old school city/highway EPA numbers.

Something like a grid of 30F/70F/90F x 25mph/60mph/75mph x HVAC on/HVAC off.

As with many things EV, Tesla is still ahead of the competition on this as you can see on the graph. So Tesla generally has more range to spare (300mi++) relative to competition (mostly 250mi-ish), and then performs better in winter against the stated range.

On the plus side if you have a garage you can plug-in at night, schedule charging, pre-warm the cabin, jack up the seat heaters, and pre-condition the battery all on shore power, so cold won't have as much of an impact on the outbound trip. However on the return if the battery is cold soaked you will definitely see an impact.

The other major EV difference is the range vs speed curve is different than for gas cars.

Gas cars the ICE engine has a certain minimum output which is generally wasted at lower city driving speeds (plus no regen braking unless hybrid). This is why ICE have higher mpg/range on highways.

EVs however its mostly a function of wind resistance so the faster you go, the lower the range. This can be quite noticeable at highway speed going 55-60mph vs say 75mph. Porsche Taycan has made some attempts to remediate this with having a 2 speed transmission, but I think we'll see more experimenting in this space.
Yeah sure, you can make up whatever story you want, as everyone who hates Tesla seems to be doing. Not saying phantom braking could cause a similar accident, but lets keep to the facts here.
Had to look that one up.

Seems like you could implement your own in code. It would not be fast though — having to walk each pixel in the canvas buffer, apply the transform to grab a pixel from another buffer, then assign the transformed buffer back to the canvas.
I absolutely sympathize with your situation - and I thank you for talking from the field (as well as for leaflet itself, which powers my daily work !)

However, just to get your opinion, do you feel the figures of Russian casualties are realistic ? (I guess you don't have any privileged information, but is there any "word of mouth" about the figures ?)

Anyway, we'll find out in the future.

Stay safe, thanks again, and good luck to you and your loved ones.
NVIDIA's terrible software (drivers and CUDA) have wasted months of my time. They have what is essentially a monopoly on hardware for "Deep learning" and so this should come as no surprise. Of course to a certain extent this isn't their fault, if AMD or Intel got their acts together they could come up with a much better solution, and if it were free/open-source software people would even pay a premium to be free of NVIDIA's cruel grasp.
Most adults can't even do it reliably. The things we expect from kids that we don't even ask of ourselves....
Arguably allowing your work to be used by anyone except Google is a feature not a bug.
Changing the input medium from a pen and an essentially blank canvas to a keyboard and mouse really changes what happens if your brain. I wonder if something electronic on a tablet with a stylus, that automatically syncs to your computer and is reformatted for that medium, would be closer?
Your concern is vastly inflated and misplaced. The car always tells you an accurate estimate of remaining range whatever the temperature. Also, the Tesla navigation automatically computes charge stops in real time and ads them to the navigation it makes it incredibly slick.
It seems like it’s happening indirectly. I keep hearing stories about places like Coinbase not converting dirty Bitcoin that’s been associated with illegal activity.

Eventually, it seems like this will apply to all of it.
Because then you have a ticking time problem. Some automatic service might just silently start failing deep in your tech stack. And yes, you can monitor that. But then your monitoring software might fail, etc.
Developers are constantly complaining about things. Unions could fight for

* Access to remote work

* Pay that isn't adjusted by location

* Transparency in performance review and promotion processes

* Better leave policies

* Better equity access policies

* Opportunities to fire shit managers

* Elimination of forced attrition policies

Software engineers are paid very very well. We have better working conditions than most. But there are still big things that bother people.
What a Java developer wish he had known about single page applications
The Stem Player would've been nice as a mobile app, but at $200 it's a very expensive piece of e-waste.
VVER Nuclear Reactors Today: Evolution-Design-Safety [pdf]
I flat-out don’t believe feature usage statistics on the web for this kind of reason, because too many numbers are patently absurdly wrong as far as any kind of legitimate use is concerned, and so any time I see an element or attribute occurring more often than I’d expect, I just assume some widely-deployed script like Google Analytics that I almost certainly don’t want is using it, probably for fingerprinting.
> Its almost at par with it.

I found it better for German (though I’ve been using it so long, I can’t remember if Grammarly supported German at all).
A great talk on software licensing made by the creator of the 0BSD license (Rob Landley) and the history behind the license is here https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g
The argument you made is about the importance of nuclear because of russian gas. So the question is - see above. If you already forgot what you wrote I would be extremely happy to quote you.