skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree on the conclusion that damage to a nuclear reactor is a 'slow risk'. The Chernobyl explosion and open rector core fire, which spewed vast quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere, occurred within a few hours and minutes of the mistakes that triggered them. It's plausible to imagine a few artillery shells into a plant's cooling system could lead to a similar chain of events and a catastrophic explosive contamination event.
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'x' is just intended as a generic character I think. Its use in digraphs is straight from Esperanto. You're right that canonically it connotes "harshness" as opposed to "softness", but clear alternatives are kinda lacking and it's better than nothing.
Musk invites UAW union to hold vote at Tesla California factory
Pretty sure Serbian swapped vs- > sv-, the word is not related to "svit" (it's a folk etymology).

Russian vs'ak "everyone" = Serbian svak "everyone"
I find three components of this very interesting:

They’re requesting an LHR unlock over a ransom, surely you could get $100m out of nvidia with this stuff, how many 3 series cards do you need for LHR to be more equitable, especially when everyone gets the unlock. Maybe it’s about reputation?

The fact that they’re ransoming data instead of crypto locking isn’t something I’ve seen before. It’s inevitable once targets start backing up, but interesting it’s the first move they made.

The fact that they changed their ransom to include open sourcing drivers. This surely reduces reputation, and makes them look amateur. IANAL but blackmail coercion surely invalidates any otherwise legally binding obligations, right?
Private schools select their students. Public schools don’t. So naturally the former perform better than the latter.
which, of course, is dependent on perspective, or zoom level.
> they slacked off like crazy and never got in trouble for it.

The heirs receiving dividends from the New York Times company slack off to the extent of never working a day in their life, yet receiving massive amounts of money from those doing the work and creating the wealth at the New York Times company.

The union works so that the workers creating the wealth send less of it to these lazy, slacking "job creator" parasites.
Maybe but in case something like MUH or MWI is correct the above doesn't apply.
But isn't that the whole point? What's "safe stopping distance"? Enough to react to the vehicle in front of you slamming the breaks at what speed? It all changes based on road visibility, if there are turns, if there are other cars, etc.

It's completely different to drive behind a vehicle going at 100 km/h on a empty, well maintained (yeah, 3rd world where I live has this variable too), straight, ascending, dry road; vs behind a sinuous route downhill on a mountain, with less lanes, under some weather condition, etc.

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. In the second? Totally different.

"Safe stopping distance" is not a fixed number. And I doubt any car can properly calculate that because there's just too much context to be accounted for.
I think these stats aren’t very useful because 1) Tesla drivers are different than other drives as they are rich. Comparing miles driven by rich people to all miles driven isn’t useful for knowing if Teslas are safer; 2) Tesla has really low numbers so it’s hard to compare a small sample to a huge amount. It would be like comparing walking accidents by 7th Day Adventists. They may walk a million miles among the whole population but that’s nothing compared to the trillion miles of the entire population.
The idea that Canada or Mexico would want Russian or Chinese bases is so counterfactual it doesn't make sense at all. The USA doesn't interfere in Mexican elections. Some of Mexico's governments are quite anti-American. None of them are crazy enough to want to become a satellite of Russia or China.

Cuba's an interesting case. Note that the USA didn't invade and subjugate Cuba. (There was the Bay of Pigs, but that wasn't the US military and isn't comparable to Russia in Ukraine.) And NATO hasn't positioned nukes in the newer NATO members.

The argument that Ukrainians can't have self-determination because, say, some parts of Cyprus don't have it, is simply ludicrous.
> This happens with people who are deeply insecure. They need to climb the ladder to secure themselves. Greed, power greed, malice comes from insecurity.

> If you grow up in a world where everyone is respected and everyone feels secure, your parents didn't hurt you, you were not bullied at school, etc., then the only reason for you to strive to secure yourself at the expense of others is if you have grounds to believe others have such issues and will take advantage of you.

The world is insecure by itself. Security is ensured through working institutions and organizations. And that, sadly, happens way more rarely than people in developed nations think.

In most countries in the world, the institutions are not strong, and the rule of law is relative. Specially to the rich and powerful.

In a society where institutions can't give you security, where there are no ladders to become respected in a legit and ethical way, then malice will be rampant. Because, in that context, that's the only way.
Probably only up to a point.

I ride a motorcycle and carry my phone in a pocket that's outside the thermal lining. I absolutely see the difference in how much it discharges when it's ~5ºC vs above 15ºC. And I'm thinking of the trip to my parents' house, so same duration, speed, and phone station locations.
Like an iPhone?
The search through algolia at the buttom at the page is quite good. You can filter for popular topics or search for topics/comments. It even anticipates your spelling mistakes.
Like triangular wheels are an improvement over square wheels, one less bump!
Didn’t Putin get his term limits removed? He did stick to them initially when his PM Medvedev was President.
This makes battery the primary differentiator for me when I evaluated EVs. As a resident of Vermont, where there aren’t a ton of super chargers the the winters were harsh, range is important. Higher rated mileage in fair weather carries over to winter, even with degradation from cold. We opted for a Model Y, and after a year of ownership it’s still offering the best range for a vehicle we’d consider affordable. Would love to see other manufacturers catch up to Tesla in this regard.
Buzan was my hero. I started with speed reading and used mind maps extensively for college notes in the 1980's. I've dabbled with mind maps on and off ever since. On paper with multi-color pens they really help you explore an idea or information space, and they definitely help with retention.

OTOH I've never found a software implementation that worked, at least for me. There's something too tactile, unconstrained and creative about the pen-on-paper model.
I understand that things are different in Britain, but in this country "society as a whole" doesn't get to run roughshod over the free speech rights of individuals.
Actually stopping on the highway is not allowed in the Netherlands. So no, you're wrong.
By the time under discussion Epstein had been convicted in a US court for a crime involving sex with an underage girl, and was a widely famous and notorious media figure.
There’s no luxury in space
Bend over, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye.
I do not see the point of conversing about full self driving when it is nowhere close to existing yet.
> If you have to wear earplugs or whatever at a venue, the problem is that it's too loud.

It's a little more complicated than being "too loud" though. The problem for venue sound is that everything is being projected from a single stereo source at the stage, meaning it generally needs to be at the very least 6dB "louder" at the source to reach the back row, and it usually ends up being more like +12dB for a larger venue -- due to both natural air resistance and bodies soaking up sound. So if it's a high energy gig and people want to dance, they need to be hearing it at a minimum of ~95dB (and we're more accustomed to over 100dB at this point), which means the front row levels may already be upward of 112 or 118, which nobody should be listening to for prolonged periods.

But that's just the average SPL. The bigger problem this all leads to, is when things aren't hard-limited properly and every single snare hit for the entire night is spiking to 130dB and over. It would be nice if it were as easy as slapping a limiter on the master and calling it a day, but it takes some pretty intense math to do it properly, because there may be dozens of speakers even in a small venue, and all of those sound waves are intersecting with each other and bouncing off walls and people. And that's presuming the venue was properly sound treated in the first place -- if it wasn't, then all of those compounding sound wave situations are made so much worse and unpredictable.

Ultimately, the problem is laziness and greed. Venues absolutely need to invest in supplemental systems to provide reasonable SPL at the middle and back, rather than trying to push it all out of two speaker columns on the stage.
Java projects always get me excited when I see a pom.xml file.
It also doesn't take account how much the average is skewed by a minority of really terrible drivers.
There is a commonly repeated claim that Trump advocated drinking bleach. He didn't.
I’m dubious that the equation is so simple.

> Road capacity is a function of number of lanes, the velocity of the vehicles traveling in those lanes, and the density of the vehicles traveling in those lanes. If you reduce the latter, you reduce road capacity.

And yet study after study shows that increasing the number of traffic lanes only worsens congestion.
This isn't how driving works in practice. Suddenly stopping on a fast freeway isn't a reasonable thing to do unless it's absolutely necessary, and it's not reasonable to expect the following driver to constantly be considering the possibility that the driver in front will slam on the brakes for no reason.
Insurance companies (at least in some parts of the world) have a standing agreement to just hold the following driver responsible when there's a collision like this, because in the majority of these collisions, the following driver is at fault. It's efficient for them to agree to this convention to avoid the cost of investigating each collision individually. This has led to the common misconception that the following car is necessarily responsible if there is a front-to-rear collision.
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One of the things a human does when emergency braking is consider what's behind them. Perhaps Tesla's software doesn't do that?
This language is very similar to my mother tongue Slovenian.

There was even a theory in the 19th century that Slovenian was the ancestor of Old church Slavonic (Panonian theory).
and paying $10k for it, too. I imagine a number of customers paid for it, so they want to use it, no matter the state it is in.
Even at a save distance, if the car was at a complete standstill, thats something completely unexpected on the highway. Having to react in such a short timeframe is close to impossible for a human, even when you keep a "safe distance"

The "safe distance" is only "safe" if all the traffic is moving at least.
This is a dup, but only by topic...the dup stories have similar headlines, but are different stories on different domains.
To me it's a tool and it depends on what role your hiring for. If your looking for new grads and they've had an algorithm class recently why not to see if they've paid attention in class. It probably isn't a bad idea if your hiring for an algorithm based role. optimizing a large scale proprietary search or database.
But, if your hiring a crud dev there going to get bored with the job, be annoyed your organization puts customers over technology, and probably pissed their under paid.
It's my understanding there is no independent peer reviewed scientific study showing Tesla cars are safer.
So a union would have stopped Carl Icahn from killing Blockbuster? It would have stopped Viacom from spinning off Blockbuster and saddling it with debt?

How much negotiation does a union have in a company that is bankrupt?

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/review-blockbusters-de...

How would a union have helped? Retail was the cause of BlockBuster’s problems. Forcing stores to stay open wouldn’t have helped.

How much did unions help employees at automakers get jobs?
I wonder which politician has the cojones to first stand up and declare the autopilot features illegal as security threats cant currently mitigated.
It's explained in the article. Batteries work by means of chemical reactions, which go faster at higher temperatures.

Vehicle batteries are designed for the same sorts of temperatures that humans like, say 10 to 30 °C.

In cold weather, energy has to be taken from the batteries to heat them up so that they work better. More energy is taken to heat the cabin of the vehicle for the occupants' comfort. This reduces the energy left in the battery for moving the vehicle.
No it does not. It is a view expressed by Private Citizen Hillary Clinton, after she conceded the election, which she is free to do.
Exactly. RTF has been around for ages.

Also, it's pretty shocking that people forgot the term "rich-text".
I think if a Toyota’s ebrake triggered on a Highway and caused a fatality, we’d hear about it in the national news.

But it doesn’t happen, so we don’t.

I could be wrong, but I think the interest of this article is that this type of accident never occurs with other cars, thus the newsworthiness.
> It actually has the effect of helping to smooth traffic, reducing traffic jams.

I hear this a lot from people who practice this sort of driving, but don't the simulations suggest that the opposite is true, traffic actually improves when drivers are more aggressive?
> Until you realize being cut off doesn’t actually impact you much

I keep a long distance, and I drive fast. Germany, so fast means actually fast. My large safety margin means I have to keep braking because slower cars move past me and into my safety margin. Then, once the original blockage in front of me is cleared, I have to pass all those slower idiots who just overtook me again.

If driving wasn’t such a rare occurrence (usually 3-4 times a year) for me, I’d probably stop keeping a large safety distance like every other asshole.

Granted, race car drivers who think distance is measured in centimeters are even worse.
What a terrible graph.

They should have normalized everything as reduction relative to their actual warm-weather range, not relative to 100% of the EPA stated range.

Alternatively, they could have discounted the warm weather range to the 100% EPA number.

As is, it's a mess. The point of the article is that cold weather reduces range, and an explanatory graph should support that directly.
You are also reducing throughput, and causing more congestion behind you. There is no having our cake and eating it too. Once a road hits maximum capacity at the safest distance gaps between cars, the only way to increase the road capacity is to reduce the distance gaps between cars.
Your title would conventionally be prefixed with "Ask HN:". Your chances of getting a useful answer might improve.
The canvas element is great for basic fingerprinting because it's practically impossible to stop it without breaking legitimate use cases. Shortly explained, there's differences between text rendering in different operating systems, browsers, and between browser versions as well. A simple fingerprint would be then to render some text, convert the canvas to an image and then hash it. Modern fingerprinting approaches combine this with a number of other sources of data (such as WebGL, available fonts, etc) to uniquely identify users.
I would guess at some temperatures, chilly wind acts to cool any motors, well motors that move and prouce heat from their actions...But at some lower temperatures, stuff physically just slows down movement. I think the article states why here...

> ...Cold temperatures slow down the chemical reactions in battery cells, which saps range and increases charging times.
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The argument is "It's embarrassing"

Outsiders are irrelevant - if something makes you feel embarrassed, it's embarrassing.
Please dont make conclusions from this article. It is missing a lot of info.
Even if it was FSD... If you are in a car that start stopping you take over right? This is just a very weird situation that needs more context.
There are a number of things that PurgeCSS can't safely remove, so this tool looks like it is intended for code review.
And the issue is the numbers are fake: different population, different car types are compared. Dis-engagements are not noted as "20K dis-engagements = 20K times the human saved himself from the bad AI.

Would people get operated by an AI doctor that is better then the medicine students and the drunk doctors but only when a good doctor is paying attention and intervenes in case the AI shits itself?
This is a good point. There are many elderly people struggling to keep up with technological advances. I’ve seen these poor people get confused by things like WiFi passwords and self checkout kiosks at the grocery store. Of course these same people would likely never step foot in a Tesla. But it is important to think about these drivers when taking into account the safety of these systems.
The unions kept pushing for increased pay. But regardless, what good would unions be to prevent outsourcing?
>502 Bad Gateway

I'm originally from the Detroit area. Naturally you have lots of factory mentality. Wherein workers will not work unless you're standing behind them whipping them. Largely speaking unions got very strong because these middle managers live and die by metrics they themselves dont control and can become brutal to their workers. Like for a long time you couldn't go to the washroom while at work. So what would people do? They took a dump right there on the job.

Somehow this is how managers are trained; and this is how you're expected to operate as a manager. Doesnt matter if you're white collar or any other collar. Your manager is expected and actively trained to micromanage you as often as possible. Your manager will come by hourly or so and look at or ask you what you're working on. They'll often input how you're doing it wrong... even if they have absolutely no chance of knowing how to do it properly. The bikeshedding becomes extreme. It mostly demotivates people to be responsible for everything and often 1 person ends up responsible for everything and that person takes all the heat from the manager.
Do you mean after it sees the shadow up ahead but not under it yet, or once it enters the shadow?

If the latter... Then Tesla is in a tricky situation with camera-only Autopilot.

With the low dynamic range of the cameras, if you make the software ignore big white (overexposed) rectangles, the car drives straight ahead into white trucks. If you make it recognize big white rectangles normally as obstacles, then the car sees overexposed bridge/tunnel exits as obstacles and gets rear-ended.
Afaik, you send bitcoin by radio waves from a transmitter.

To run that transmitter, you will need electricity. The electricity can be made in such situations via a generator/inverter by burning diesel.
Retention and engagement is much higher in mobile apps. Allowing you to get a much higher ARPU. Especially for games with In App Purchases.
Herzog doc about honnold would be dope. Honnold actually reminds me of Grizzly Man in alot of ways- in that you root for him but don't totally understand him. Interesting to think about whether Grizzly Man was more or less naive than Honnold- I think that's what makes them different. Honnold knows the risk he's taking, Grizzly Man didn't.
Czech here. I agree that there's a lot of that southern-slavic vibe in Interslavic, which I don't really mind, it's kinda nice and exotic, but I totally don't find Slovio more aesthetically pleasing, mainly because of the weird "x" thing. My mind keeps pronouncing the Czech "ks" sound.
How does Hemingway compare?
Every Bitcoin helps: why Ukraine is soliciting for cryptocurrency donations
Technically, from an auto liability perspective, this is still the fault of the vehicle that did the rear ending. Traffic comes to sudden stops all the time, no excuse for not being able to stop for a car stopped in the roadway assuming it had lights on.
> As an aside, capitalism does not make a statement what you should or should not be respected for. We are arguing about something else.

Yeah, but some people think that socialist countries are unfair only because they are socialist. They believe that turning those countries into liberal democracies will make those countries more fair.

And Russia is the perfect example of why that doesn't happen.
Did it? Or did it have better scripting?
My car and that of my wife warn audibly, if the distance to the car in front is below a configurable distance. I have to actively ignore that wanring.
I asked what are you doing to stop the world's dependance on russian gas because you brought it up in. Considering you are avoiding the answer in an emotionally charged way I bet the answer is nothing and that you own at least two motor vehicles and heat your home on natural gas (from Russia).
you can do rounded rect in about 50% fewer commands vs the example.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1255512/how-to-draw-a-ro...
I was under the impression the game was built with a game engine thus allowing easy rollout to mobile without having to rewrite.
I'm also of the opinion that automation is not compatible with safe driving. The issue is AI is able to handle the simple tasks first, trusting humans to takeover in outlier scenarios. But then, where does a new driver gain experience to handle the outliers?

We already went through this with airlines and decided to require pilots fly a certain number of hours without the automation, so when automation fails they are able to control the aircraft with some confidence.

As it is self driving cars are a luxury item for experienced drivers but I fear a future where a plurality of people panic when control is handed over to them once the computer determines the situation is too risky to continue on autopilot.

Some great backstory on automation in airlines is 99% Invisible's "Children of the Magenta":

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...
Not entirely true. Some states in the United States have "brake checking" traffic laws, and others that do not have such laws can issue a citation for reckless driving in a case of brake checking. Like a lot of "road rage" stuff it probably goes underreported and under-prosecuted. (brake checking is going to be a lot easier to prove in the near future when cars are littered with cameras)

Neither would seem to apply to an automated system that randomly stomps on the brakes. I would think a system like that might affect fault on the civil, rather than criminal, side, however. For example, it would seem a bit mad for the insurance companies not to blame the vehicle whose screwy brakes caused a multi-car accident.
What part of this is virtual? Isn't this just a 360 video?