skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What????

Cars already have this! The base model Corolla has had this for half a decade! Hyundai, MB, Nissan, all have this across the board.

If you're impaired for any reason (but mainly assured to be drowsiness), it detects your behavior and gives you a warning:

https://www.autoguide.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ti...

https://di-uploads-pod5.s3.amazonaws.com/sorgnissan/uploads/...

https://www.autotrader.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RT_Dri...

All the bill does is say now those systems should escalate beyond a warning and be able to stop the vehicle.

These cars already have all the info they need, if you "accidentally" drive like an intoxicated person, it's going to be for a reason you need to be stopped over!

Like a medical episode, dangerous lack of sleep, texting and driving.

It has literally nothing to do with being a remote kill switch.

Saying it's a remote kill switch is like saying the mandatory backup camera system is as a mandatory surveillance tool...

It's such a huge leap you can't possibly make it in good faith...
Well most people here are binary.
Killing people and believing in astrology or homeopathy or whatever are not comparable.
It’s not about good or bad. It’s about basic human morals and rights.
Yes, the observer (preferably multiple) is an integral part of the process. The second signing is an interesting idea, though I'm not sure if it would prove more veracity over, say, a newsroom verifying the code.
So wait.. you get your oven when you buy your (new?) house?

Everywhere i've been, you're happy if you get a kitchen, and the oven is just like a washing machine... a standard-sized piece of equipment that fits in a standard-sized hole in your kitchen, that you buy in an electronics store.
It's needlessly wordy, that I agree on, but here's the important part: the actual text of the bill is "equipped with advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology"

I guess one way you could implement that is a remote kill switch, but at least when I first read the text I thought it would just be something like a built-in breathalyzer you had to pass before the car would let you drive.

People claiming this is evidence of a kill switch are hard extrapolating with (as far as I've seen) no evidence that gets you from the bill's text to a kill switch.
Where in the bill does it mention kill switches for cars?

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr3684/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684...
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Can't you just enforce 3D-Secure and be done with it?
Am 100% onboard with this strategy, even though it's important to keep in mind that a solution has to be one that Putin can accept.

Total neutrality for Ukraine seems to be the best he can hope for.
Unfortunately, that was your mistake.

Never buy anything Samsung branded. No phones, no consumer SSDs, no TVs, no monitors, no laptops, no phones and tablets, no fridges and wash machines and driers. Nothing. The entire brand is toxic.

Hell, don't even do business with their fab, ask Nvidia about how that turned out for them.
> Thermocouple-based gas valves immediately extinguish the flow of gas when a pilot goes out in e.g. a pilot fed hot water heater. This has been standard for decades.

Who said the pilot light was out?

> Pilot lights have not been used in gas furnaces in decades. Everything has been electronic ignition since the 80s at the latest. In fact they have been outlawed in some locales for close to 40 years.

And the baby-boom produced how many homes with pilot lights? Thermostats are often upgraded on existing homes without touching anything else, and every single home I've lived in was built decades ago still having original HVAC.
> I’ve rarely seen a need for a front-end framework

I feel the same way about both front-end and back-end frameworks - or at least the sorts of things that call themselves frameworks. Struts was kind of useful in its time, but in the end didn’t save you much effort as code. Usually when people talk about Java server side frameworks these days, they mean Spring, which is worse than useless, because it actively makes development harder.
How did everyone's YouTube recommendations get so eerily specific?
One significant omission from this comparison: the Ukraine:Russia population ratio (~0.285) is almost TWENTY TIMES as large as the Taiwan:PRC ratio (~0.0163). The Ukraine:Russia ratio is almost as large as the ratio between the Confederacy's non-slave population and the Union's population at the time the US Civil War broke out; and I suspect that some overly optimistic Russian military planners did not properly account for this. So, although it is harder for the PRC to invade Taiwan than it is for Russia to invade Ukraine for a number of reasons, I expect it to be more difficult for Russia to keep most of Ukraine pacified even if they do achieve their primary military objectives.
I'm someone you would describe as "anti 2A". I still think the "defense against home invasion" style argument is mostly nonsense. It's super rare, and I don't think the benefits of guns outweigh the downsides for that kind of self defense. (Having been a victim of exactly such a crime, I'm glad neither I nor the burglar had a gun.)

However, seeing Ukrainians take up arms to fight an invasion has caused me to re-evaluate my position in general, and I actually think an armed population is likely better than the alternative. I'm sure Finland isn't unhappy that they're heavily armed right now.
Im guessing you don’t have kids.
I think of this every time someone says “Putin doesn’t even have a phone”
Just throwing cut potatoes into my compost heap yields way more potatoes than I personally need.
If country A depends on the products of country B and vice versa, then a war between A and B may be ill advised. Untangling your supply chain is a prerequisite for successful war.

To add to that: If country A depends on products of country B, then country C could want to attack country B to hurt country A.
I think you're agreeing with the parent.
(astronomer here). Some comments below partially answered the question, as modern optical/ir telescopes are based on mirror designs (i.e. they have primary, secondary, and sometimes the tertiary mirror like the Vera Rubin telescope). But the lenses are still heavily used in the camera part of the instrument or in spectrographs. And there is a lot of know-how there, as well as optimization in terms of minimising light losses, aberrations etc. I think the constraints and goals are clearly different from the cameras in iphones, but I'd think the techniques must be pretty similar (although Apple clearly has a ton of money that astronomers don't so it's possible that there are some big innovations there, that I don't know about).
> Technocrats want to (micro) manage everyone's usage of everything.

You've spelt "Totalitarians" wrong. This is totalitarianism.

This isn't just micromanagement. This is about total control. There's signs of totalitarianism all over the place, including US-culture itself. How kids are being raised. What they're being taught in school. How people behave towards each other.
> None of this matters. What matters is ending this war. It's the best outcome for pretty much everyone who isn't Lockheed, Boeing or Northrop. Or I guess the hawks in Washington who see the strategic value in Russia being mired in Afghanistan 2.0.

You can easily end this war and any war by always surrendering.
That plant is two years away at least.
I see no reason why the Russian people won't agree, they almost universally despise Putin, especially after just sending a bunch of kids to die on the front lines with no supplies or plan.

The only people who worship Putin are a vocal, dangerous, and violent minority that are about to find themselves persona non grata in their own homeland.
I had a roommate who used to do this (thus sending our utility bill up along with some other power wasting habits), and I once asked them the question I'm about to ask now:

other than for moments when you plan on wearing something as soon as it comes out of the dryer, what prevents one from using the normal dry cycle, and then letting whatever garments that don't get completely 100% dried-air dry in the closet or up on hangers on a shower pole or something?
Euh, less educated? Seriously?

Which metrics are you even using? It's not universities for sure.

50% of Russia is under propaganda and can't even talk English. The ones that can speak English and have engineering degrees, a large part of them are currently fleeing Russia. The other halve doesn't even know what is going to hit them ( jobs, economy, ... ).

Favorite destination seems to be Europe, Canada, US, ... According to what I see in preferences of resumees. And I'm seeing a lot of resumees coming in.

Turkeye and Georgia is pretty popular too, but I'd think it's easier to get there too ( flights), could be wrong about this though.

Edit: removed links to 3 GitHub resumees of Russian engineers uploaded within the last 2 hours ( in English). From engineers that worked at zg. Google/Yandex and want to get out of the country.
It was really neat to see the example of the analyzers ability to find issues in cross-language sources (IE D code mixed with C/C++ sources). I didn't know it could do this.

Thanks for writing this =)
The OP seems genuinely concerned about hostile treatment just for being Russian. Trying to look inconspicuous won't help if you're cornered in an alley by an angry mob.

Choose your risk.
Is that why they say "the leading competitor" and show a blank red can? I mean, we all understand who they're talking about, why do they have to be coy?
Really he controls NATO member Latvia? He controls Finland? He controls Poland? All these countries are only a few hundred miles away.
Save the planet for the children!
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I’ll degrease the lenses now, perhaps this was quite a brilliant suggestion :)
I recommend reading some material about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

It's very influential book in Russia that has influenced their policy goals. It was written in 1997. A lot of it feels rather prescient considering the current world situation, which is likely not a surprise.

What they considered for US was that they should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"

UK was to be cut off from European politics and Germany should be the new lead of central Europe. Well, UK did distance itself. And up to few weeks ago Germany was the one most against united front against Russia.

There is plenty of other stuff there. Annexation of Ukraine is just one of them (alongside annexation of Belarus which they have de facto achieved). Annexation of Finland is one of the goals too. Hence I have no doubts that it would happen at some point.
Cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's stalled 40-mile convoy in Ukraine
They succeeded in failing, meaning they are no longer a threat.
> Would it change anything in your eyes ...

Not really. The example I chose was already hypothetical, and not necessarily apropos to the current situation in Ukraine. The additional context you provided doesn't change my basic point that there's a calculation to be made.

> I am firmly of the position that no Nazi is a good Nazi.

I think we may be discussing two different things. I wasn't talking about the moral standing of individual Nazis. I was talking about the moral calculation of temporarily collaborating with them to possibly achieve a better outcome than not collaborating with them.

Extending the earlier example, suppose there's just one neo-nazi, who's offering to go on a suicide mission that will take out 1000 Russian artillery batteries, saving 500,000 Ukranians. And nobody but you would know, so the neo-nazi's actions couldn't even potentially inspire others.

Would you entertain the possibility that that is a good trade-off? If yes, then you might be agreeing that there's a calculation to be performed. If no, then I'd wonder why you'd find it preferable to let 500,000 Ukranians die.
(I'm not calling you a moral monster. I'm just trying to lay things out that shows there's an actual dilemma.)
> 2Ghz

Do you mean 2.4GHz?
Oh, I didn't need to. No problem reading the full article.
I invented a “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths
My Toyota Venza's rear camera (2009) won't work, if the Map DVD can't be loaded :(in my case it was just the DVD reader got busted or something), but such critical part as rear camera should not fail the Map Navigator it's not working (at least nowadays there are alternatives you can swap easily - e.g. your phone, not so easy with rear camera).
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>the only one offered by his home builder

Then obviously he's powerless and the corporates have won.

Or, yano just like tell them you want it changed or you'll get someone else to take your hundreds of thousands of dollars to build your house.
Not every Palastinian is in hamas just as not every Ukrainian is part of the Azov group.
Right. Gear churn just seems peculiar.

I think this is also why we see lots of people who own high end full-frame etc., are now adapting old lenses, building extraordinary DIY rigs like the "digital camera obscura" trend of the moment, making entirely custom lenses with surplus optics and 3D printers, etc.

It's the same reason as for why there's so much interest in film.

These things have different strengths. I think mobile phones have liberated photography in a way unparalleled since the time when 35mm film liberated photography.
Agreed. I wonder why?

Maybe professionals prefer the familiar ergonomics?

Or there’s a certain prestige carried by the traditional camera silhouette?

No idea. And I can’t think of another analog-to-digital transition that also maintained its outer form so thoroughly.
Ask HN: How to Get Beta Users?
We've built our MVP. We've kicked it around internally and with friends & family. It seems to work well though it is far from feature-complete. As of now we can probably support at most 100 users. Signup is easy and self-serve (auth with github; this is a dev tool).

We have an initial specific user profile -- individual developers who want to play around with AI/ML requiring GPU support but can't/don't want to futz with laptop GPU's but also cannot afford first-tier cloud GPU (starts at > $300/month).

How do we get beta users for this stage in our journey? How did you do it? We know the standard suggestions (hang out where potential users are; get on the radar of influencers; work on FOSS projects that our users care about...)

These are all great approaches, but frankly we are nerds and not well-versed in the art of social engineering. Any tips the HN community can provide would be greatly appreciated.
mmm, https://github.com/jitsi/rnnoise-wasm looks like it might help. wonder if jitsi actually uses it.
Up until now AMD has benefitted from a great deal of animosity towards Intel by absolutely everyone in Silicon Valley including Google Facebook and Apple. It didn't take much to realize that if you were building a laptop or building a data center intel was ripping you off. I know my employer (Google search) felt this way!

From Haswell (4000-series) to the 12000 series I would say there was maybe one generation of improvement in between and six marketing generations where nothing got better nothing got faster but prices were outrageous -$600 for a slow hot MacBook cpu, and everything got new marketing names!

So the industry has been desperate for an alternative to Intel since 2009 and AMD has finally delivered on the promise by building data center chips and adapting them to laptop use. I was an early AMD investor because of rx480 at $3.50 by the way but I sold out at $10.50.

From here on AMD will truly have to earn its keep and things will be a lot tougher as they are no longer the scrappy underdog anymore!
https://www.swedx.com

I'm not aware of other manufacturers, although Samsung also makes signage displays but it's not clear if they employ any "smart" features. Some also use Tizen which is Linux based and should be open enough to allow rooting.
So do you mean Europeans or Americans are responsible to a larger extent than Russians? I only compared "our" responsibility as lower, but still recognize it and don't intend to downplay it - actually I think I'm being downvoted because I dare to put some responsibility on OP, as if it was a popular idea that an individual means nothing and has no effect on the world... We need to grow up, we do have an effect and what happens in Ukraine just now should prove that avoiding it is worth the effort.
TSMC is actually a Taiwanese company and its most advanced fabs are in Taiwan, a democratic country (more or less, with its own passport, military, government, etc) that is not under the control of China.
I've seen mixed reviews. Some say Reolink is good in certain situations, but others say otherwise.

I have yet to find what I would consider to be a definitive review of them. I may have to try some out myself to find out.
They do the leading competitor thing to avoid advertising for their competition. For example they don't want people saying, "Brand A says they're 25% better than Brand B, but Brand B is half the price..."
Perhaps this?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-us-diplomat-blinken-go-...
You either feed them junk so they waste time filtering out the good intel from the bad, use them as a communications backchannel, or both.
ColonizeD half the world.

There've been empires for many thousands of years, and for a number of decades now (we can't say a century yet), there haven't really been any. There've been foreign interventions and neo-colonialist activities and exploitation, but on the grand scale, and relative to all of the past, you have to be honest and admit the worst is over. There's a complete culture shift in countries like Britain and France which, by the way, have a large number of immigrants, and specifically from their ex-colonies. These folks vote, and without a large amount of propaganda, people don't readily want to bomb other countries.

Point is, there is a lot less rampant hawkish nationalism than there was in the middle of the 20th century, where the mores were very different as was the foreign policy. We're not perfect, but we've evolved.
canvas.getImageData() would have gotten a lot slower as GPU acceleration of Canvas2D became increasingly more common. The initial versions of Canvas2D were all software rasterized, which means getImageData() likely didn't involve any IPCs and definitely didn't involve any GPU readbacks. It was just a memcpy if that.
What's your sleeping environment like?

I find that making sure the room is still fairly dark in the morning makes it much easier for me to fall back asleep in case i've woken up "too early".

I also started sleeping with earplugs in the last 2 years or so to make sure morning city traffic noises don't wake me up.

And lastly, don't reach to the phone to look at the time, better have a regular clock which doesn't have all that extra stimuli.
The way these cameras are designed, dust getting in is sadly inevitable in the field - every time you change a lens, there is no helping it, dust will accumulate. As a result there was a small amount of dust inside already when I opened it despite taking very good care of it and regularly cleaning the sensor.

Indeed, the camera is made in a "sandwich" architecture, where the shutter is layered onto the sensor, which is layered onto the IBIS unit, itself layered onto the motherboard.

Since the sensor has to move substantially to stabilize, and that the shutter is connected to the motherboard without any sealing at all, there is more than enough clearance for dust to get into the motherboard, and it will inevitably happen.

Because of that I expect the guts to be very dust resistant (otherwise we'd see them dropping like flies), because there is really no way of protecting against dust ingress through the lens mount.

The electronics itself seemed fairly robust - thick, high quality PCBs. The most sensitive component, the sensor, is encased behind a (removable) glass protective layer. There were no unnecessary cables inside, most electrical connections were done with spring-loaded contacts that would connect to the appropriate PCB.

That being said, the shutter and the IBIS system did look very fragile, like a Japanese puzzle indeed. I wouldn't attempt any repair that required messing with them.
It’s certainly an important lesson.

There were a lot of other ones too though like would WWII have happened if the Allies enforced German disarmament?

The world is different now today though and far more global. Post WWII, West Germany and Japan became Western success stories by integrating them into the global economy.

I suspect future post-war reconciliation will like more like WWII than WWI.
> ways to drive wedges between the US and Taiwan is a part of this strategy.

If that is the strategy, then it is failing.

Taiwan is more anti-unification than it has ever been, and the people there already consider themselves to be an independent country.
Hypothetically, what would you like do with a Chromecast without access to a network?
From reading some of the comments it sounds like the elements for these lenses are plastic?

Is there a downside to using plastic lens elements compared to glass, in terms of image quality?

If there isn't a downside, could lenses for SLRs/mirrorless cameras also use such elements?

Edit: It sounds like aspheric lens elements might be made from plastic in SLR lenses. But also I found that plastic might not be used for outer lens elements as it scratches easily
I don't see how this disagrees with what I said. If you have huge capital expenses because you have your own fabs this will have implications for your future profit potential.
Yup^2. It has ever been thus.

I started in the early ‘80s and of course built up a personal collection of BASIC routines to solve the common problems and get a quick start on the games I made. LOL, I still have to stop myself from calling the symbol to reference the upper left of a drawing surface “L”.

I got to pick the brains of my Mother (RIP), who got her start in the ‘50s, and it was the same. So between us we have three long generations.

I don’t really have illusions about these common frameworks. They are so full of drawbacks and unnecessary complexities, and you need to understand them pretty well to use them effectively in production for even slightly successful projects.

But they solve many of the problems you’d have to solve anyway, and in a way that may already be documented and maybe even well understood by others. Unless you’re really going for something bespoke/unique/different, the advantages are so large it’s usually worth it.

I’m starting a project for a client now, and I’m using a popular framework of today… because it’s a popular framework of today. E.g., if it’s successful, I don’t want to be making tweaks to this 5 or 7 or 10 years from now, and if I’m using a popular framework, maybe I won’t have to. (And if it’s not successful, it doesn’t matter what I used.)
Yikes! I would sort of wonder if it was a test to see if you know scope. But for two hours?

I know its Apple but I'd definitely be prepared to walk out. In that situation that gives you the freedom to clarify the job description -- if they say it is in the description, I'd save everyone time and say I don't have that knowledge, thank them for their time, and wish them luck on their next n months of searching for their unicorn.

If it isn't, I'd probably go full stick-in-the-mud and explain that I could find the answers to those questions but it would be a waste of everyone's time: I'm an A player and I don't focus on irrelevant things that dilute abilities and ultimately the product (basically throw Steve Jobs at them).