skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does happen, but I find it doesn't result in me getting to my destination any slower.

If someone merges close in front of me, I reduce my speed by 5 mph or so for as long as I need, probably usually around 10-20 seconds, until there's an adequate gap again. Often someone will pull into that gap within a few mins, and I do the same thing. Overall it reduces my average speed by an imperceptible amount. It might add up to a couple minutes over a several hour journey, but I take that as worth it for being less likely to rear end someone.

Additionally, it really only happens in dense traffic when in the outside lane to exit the highway. When you're in the fastest moving lane and keeping up with traffic, few drivers are going to over/undertake you just to get into the gap. More typically they'll overtake the car in front of you too so it's not a problem.

Admittedly most of my driving is in UK and NW Europe rather than the US. US drivers seem a lot more suicidal and US highways tend to be less predictable by design.
Slavs don't use these AFAIK but that would also be preferable to sx etc.
The world is not insecure by default. I can't even understand the semantics of that statement. We are talking about actors in human society.

Humans are insecure, not the world. Humans are insecure, because humans are hurt. (By other humans, who are trying to secure themselves because they were hurt once, and so on the cycle goes.)
Isn't drawing & redrawing it part of the process?
> The Chernobyl explosion and open rector core fire, which spewed vast quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere, occurred within a few hours of the mistake that triggered them.

Chernobyl was a very unique situation though. They almost engineered that disaster to happen with the mistakes that they made. We've learned a lot since then too. That all said, you do make a very strong argument with your next sentence:

> It's plausible to imagine a few artillery shells into a plant's cooling system could lead to a similar chain of events.

Indeed. That is a very good point.
It comes down to your driving style. Defensive drivers will not like how AP drives, and it makes driving much more tiring, not less. If you are comfortable with the way AP drives, though, I could see it being relaxing. Hell, some people sleep when AP is cruising down the highway, so clearly there is a spectrum.
My response was to your statement that China's prosperity is due to the vision and execution of their government. I dispute that. Every nation that has ever industrialized experienced similar leaps in prosperity, irrespective of their government. Britain, the US, Japan, Russia, Korea, etc all had different forms of government, but similar leaps in prosperity when their societies moved from agriculture to industry. China became prosperous despite their government, not because of it. The economic failure the Chinese endure now is directly due to the extractive policies of their government, however. This is clear.
In chart.js we have a very complex solution for dealing with this. We've gone through a number of iterations, but settled on a using ResizeObserver. You also need to listen to `window.resize` to get notified about DPR changes which can happen when a browser window is dragged from one screen to another.

https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/src/platform...
>ill-gotten gains

I've personally given some of that money in return for MS Windows, Office, Excel etc. I'm not sure what's ill gotten about that?
> I don't see why they can't build a few more for charter.

I guess they could but then again, not sure how their customers feel when you enter their very own segment long term.
Right. I suspect that the net effect is that the Tesla software transforms these what would have been close calls into…still close calls where the Tesla software gets credit for a “save”.

If a Tesla “saved” a driver 5 times in 20K miles, my first question is always going to be “how many collisions did they have in the prior 20K miles in their other car?”
I assure you, it is not.

Many Slavs feel the same.
HL1 had AI waypoints manually made by the level designer. If I remember correctly the human grunts were smarter, like covering eachother and stuff.

(I am not 100% sure though. Was my initial thought when playing HL2)
Yes, "The Alpinist" — on Netflix in the U.S.:
https://www.netflix.com/watch/81500204?trackId=13752289&tctx...
I think you should look at Apache License that is explicitly talking about contributions.
artificial limits, on bandwidth and energy could be one way to both foster innovation and decrease resource usage
We left most of our stuff behind and are now staying with wife and kids in a tiny hotel room, mostly glued to the terrible news, calling to our friends and family and seeing where we can help. Running to the bomb shelter during an air raid siren about 3–4 times a day, sitting in the basement for 10–60 min at a time. But we're glad to have a roof, a place to sleep and shower, power for devices, an Internet connection and food and water — many in Ukraine including some of our extended family don't have those luxuries.
Nathan Myhrvold is already building a business plan around this license's faults. i.e. reversibility of grant in perpetuity.
I think I was rolled by a min-maxxer: 20 INT and probably around 18 CHA (based on the fact that I could get 100 10 year olds to cooperate as one of them), but damn my CON and STR are so low I have constant pain debuffs to all my rolls. It's BS.
yeah I use it and it works quite well but then people use footnotes and they look weird there; disallow footnotes and make that dotted grey line go away and I'm sold
Many people enjoys EVs in extreme cold, you just either don’t do winter road trips in them, or live with lots of charging stops when you do (or wear a coat and dont heat the cabin much!)

A 250 mile range cut in half is still more than enough for daily use.
Are there Slavic words with separately pronounced "s" and "z"? It's quite a tongue-twister.

As for "X" it exists in some Slavic alphabets, for example in Slovak (but apparently only in loan words). In Polish it theoretically doesn't, but actually does (loan words use x when the word is new, and with time it's replaced with ks).
There's an academic field called "historical linguistics" [0]. What laypeople believe about language is called "folk etymology" [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_linguistics

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology
Why do people want public domain software licenses? Just use a proper licence and die at some point. End result is the same without the uncertainty.
The GitBook issue you describe is annoying because it seems so simple to fix.

But there’s also plenty of compatibility issues where the effort required to make it work in a divergent browser is months instead of days. I ran into such an issue with ContentEditable in November. Despite wanting to be a good web citizen and ship in all the browsers, the costs were just too high to build a complicated work-around code path. We cut the feature for that browser.
Ah thank you, didn't even notice. Funnily enough, the karma doesn't count for my reply on the shadow banned comment. Strange
That's an option, but the big question is about "where it means sht".

Considering we're talking about constructed languages, whether "it's supposed to read `sh`" or "it's supposed to read `sht`" is defined by the author of the language.

On top of that, even coming to a conclusion on what it's supposed to read like means extrapolating it from present-day languages or from the now-dead languages. In a lot of cases, different languages will just have different readings. I.e. consider these words:

Group 1 - BG reads sht, RU reads shch

BG щипя - RU щипаю
BG щастие - RU счастье
BG ущърб - RU ущерб
BG щит - RU щит
BG вещ - RU вещь

Group 2 - BG reads sht, RU reads sht

BG нещо - RU нечто (Russian reads as "cht" here, but close enough)
BG що - RU что (Russian reads "shto", at least in modern reading)

Group 3 - loaned words mostly try to mimic original

BG щора - RU штора
BG поща - RU почта
BG щанга - RU штанга

Plus there's the weird separate word [BG "sht" щателен - RU "tshch" тщательный].

Barring the loaned words from mostly Germanic origin, it looks like one language just sticks to "sht", while the other prefers "shch" and considers the "t" redundant. The interesting exception is the "що - что" pair, which is seems to preserve the T sound.
They seem to be most popular in Norway, despite all this.
I'm still using the first Android device I bought in 2010, an Ainol Novo 8 Advanced tablet. I bought it back then for my wife to use while preparing for her specialist exam because of the high-res screen which made it a good fit for reading PDFs. It still works fine for that purpose, it still plays movies just fine. Someone is still releasing "new" software releases for the thing (where "new" means "new rehashed Android 'Gingerbread', but still). After that I bought a Motorola Defy phone which is still in use as well. Then my whole family jumped on that train when they got similar phones, all of which are in use in some way or another. Even my daughter's phone which she left in her pockets when she put her clothes in the washing machine and was washed a full cycle still works - I had to replace the ear piece (cost: $0.50 so I bought 10) but for the rest it kept up. Since the Defy (released in 2010) never went beyond Android 'KitKat' (4.4) I had to get a newer device in 2019 when the Swedish electronic ID provider "BankID" ceased support for that release. Had they not I would still be using a Defy as "daily" phone since the things keep up remarkably well. Now I'm using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, again running a custom ('Google-free') distribution like I've always done. I do not know for how long I'll keep on using this device but I see no reason to change as of yet.

A shorter version of this would be "the short life span of Android devices is highly exaggerated". As a bonus you get a mostly surveillance-free device, apart from the overt surveillance which comes with having a radio beacon in your pockets that is. Put the thing in flight mode and you're fine. In this respect Android devices running custom Google-free firmware (an important caveat) are the Linux PCs compared to the bolted-shut "No serviceable parts inside" Apple Mac and the increasingly invasive Windows world. Even the discussion around them is similar:

- Linux is not ready for the desktop... but I've been using it since 1993 on the desktop, from 1996 on exclusively.

- Linux does not support your hardware... while the opposite is true except for the newest hardware which can take a few weeks to months before support arrives.

- Macs just work... until they just don't work and the vendor tells you it's your fault, or the new release suddenly removes support for half of your software.

- Linux is not suitable for gaming... tell all those people running their games on Linux because they run faster/better than on Windows

- Linux users have to spend more time tinkering to get their machines to work... until it becomes clear that the tinkerers tinker because they see it as a pastime while others just install a distribution (in a few minutes) and use the thing as a tool.

- etcetera.

Even shorter because that wasn't very short either: Android devices can be used for a long time. So can Apple devices. Take your pick based on your wants and needs, ignoring the falsities being spread by the true believers.
And I answered. Have troubles with reading comprehension?
Like most engineering problems, smart design and rigorous execution make a huge difference.

Tesla understood that heat management is key to an EV, so they invested in designing a compact and elegant system (Google “octovalve”) to move heat wherever it was helpful to send it.

They also use intelligence to allow the car to optimize itself for charging. For example, you can use the Tesla smartphone app to have your car wake itself up and warm or cool both the battery and cabin while still plugged in. And if you use navigation to plan your charging stops, it will automatically precondition the battery pack as you are getting close for optimal charging speed.

Most of the cars that performed poorly on that graph were because of shoddy engineering by people who don’t understand the problem space.

That’s not a problem with EVs, it’s a problem with bad engineers and management who care about the wrong things.
> Cars fail all the time, but it's only news if it happens to a Tesla...

That's objectively false. Hyundai/Kia recently had a huge recall that was in the news. I think because Tesla may be considered a bit of a "tech" company, there may be some bias here on HN.
This is another reason why I think of commuting as a religion. Where else would you see such zeal and self-righteous behavior?
Peopley usually reach for donuts instead of apples because they need more sugar and farnesoid X stimulation to concentrate effectively. Sure, they could take a physiological hit to stress themselves out for more metabolism instead of eating. But that wears bodies down after a while as surely as chronic overeating.
Thanks for the tip! I just tried it quickly, but will need to try many more combinations. The last name of my Great Grandfather is Khouri, which means Priest, and is very, very common. However, when we found his record in 1925 in Canada, it was spelled "Elkhoui". Note the missing 'r', and they attached "El" to it.

So as you can see, I would never have guessed it, and we found it by manually searching by timeline for anyone from "Lebanon", or "Syria", or even "Turkey", as data entry was usually done by just a person that may have never heard of that language, and just "guessed". Remember, IDs are a modern invention, so back then, it was not standardized.
> First time I ever added a part to a PC, it was to add 256mb of ram, and that was huge deal

I remember the first memory stick I bought (a measly 4mb of RAM) and even wholesale via a friend who worked for a large PC repair shop, it was still $450 give or take.

Now 30 years later, my most recent memory purchase was eight 32gb ECC RDIMMs for about the same price. So not only did the amount of ram per dollar increase 64,000x, it’s also WAY faster and more resilient.
"28th Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety"

http://www.aer-web.com/2018
They’re much smaller engines though.
To my understanding this is an issue with pretty much all auto-braking cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-ho...

The Hacker News audience has an extreme hatred of tesla. I think its mostly political personally. Musk disagrees with a couple of the left's untouchable rich elites and all of a sudden you get a million submissions every time a tesla is involved in an accident.
s became za, u became v.
We do use meetup for the Boulder Ruby Group: https://www.meetup.com/boulder_ruby_group/

We also have our own site, but that is more for videos and whatnot, rather than sign ups: https://boulder-ruby.org/

We mostly use the sign up/announce functionality. I suppose we could replace that with a google form and standard website, but we have over 1k members. How many of them would move? We don't have that many twitter followers and no email list. I suppose an email list would be a replacement, if folks would sign up.

I had a friend who was building an alternative (sinking money and time into it for years) and he recently ceased operations. His thoughts: https://twitter.com/coreysnipes/status/1498714532931416070

The tldr: too many good competitors; maybe it is time to look around.
There have been difficulties in independently verifying at least some of these claims. I do not know whether they have been cleared up.

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/quality-control-...

https://jalopnik.com/feds-cant-say-why-they-claim-teslas-aut...
They should be careful. In most cases, a “to the best of our knowledge” should be enough to shield a well-meaning government figure. If, however, if they know, or should have known (as in “they were informed otherwise”) the punishment should be harsh.

In the bleach case, I heard the full recording. While he doesn’t say people should drink bleach, he suggests it could be useful.
w.r.t. 2 this has been a thing with blu-ray and PS3 encryption key leaks [1]. I don't know if courts ever ruled on it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_homebrew
What does resistance to liberalism manifest about being more communal or communist? Is resistance to privatisation a "resistance to liberalism" or "communist"? I don't think so. It is nationalistic, conservative and social democratic.
Interlingua
If everyone slowed down, there would be far more congestion backing up due to reducing the throughput of the road.

I would argue that the people driving at distances closer to the car in front of them are reducing congestion by increasing the throughput of the road. Obviously this is mitigated by decreased throughput due to increased probability of collisions.

But if EVERYONE drove such that they could fully stop if the car in front do them fully stopped, you would have a public uproar over how much backed up traffic there was.

There road is basically constantly in flux and politicians could enforce minimum driving distances very easily with cameras and drive down collisions, but it would be massively unpopular and they would get voted out immediately. I presume that is why we already do not have speed cameras in the US.

It would be trivial to fine everyone breaking the speed limits. Or even driving too close to each other. For a tolled road, you can get go back however many years you want and retroactively fine people for going past the speed limit based on toll time stamps. But I figure the lack of this happening means the public wants to make this risk vs convenience trade off.
yep, though below freezing it will get worse
>There are certainly people who think that Covid is a hoax. There aren't many, but they do exist.

Sure, but there's no point writing an article about such a non-existent position. Unless the point is to strawman. Which we have seen far too much of lately.
DuckDNS is sadly often abused for malware and phishing.
Those are official stats from Ukrainian Armed Forces, and they are absolutely realistic, even if approximate. If you're in doubt, follow Bellingcat, OSINTtechnical and people like Christo Grozev who coordinate open source intelligence / confirmation based on available photos / videos. They mostly confirm those numbers.
It's funny, when Tesla came out I was so excited to have an electric dumb car that looked nice and performed like a top end sport car. I think all this self-driving business could've waited.Why they had to start producing smart cars with inbuilt self-driving AI assistants is the part I don't understand, at least it seems too premature. There was already enough appeal for Tesla, stories like this though juts ruin it.

Recently I drove a friends new Volkswagen with similar driver assist / self-driving features as the Tesla. It was unnerving. The car wanted to drive itself, until the lane makers suddenly disappeared on a remote icy road at night. After about 5 seconds I noticed the car had silently (except for a small icon on the dash) decided it couldn't stay in the non-existent lane anymore. I was actually behind the wheel of a car going 60mph with no one paying attention behind the wheel. It freaked me out.
Hopefully neither Kanye nor Mrs. Kardashian were/are pedophiles. Epstein was a pedophile, Gates was in cahoots with him, Gates has founded and, afaik, is still one of biggest shareholders of one of the biggest tech companies on Earth, this counts. It's about our profession and about us helping us keeping it clean. Having owners in cahoots with certified pedos doesn't help at making the industry remain clean. Again, us being led (and paid) by people who are close contacts with certified pedos is not ok.

This doesn't matter anymore because the post has been flagged, as I had suspected.
I posted this comment on a less popular thread a few days ago:

I had the luck of seeing this plane on approach to IAH airport while driving in Houston.

For the first few minutes, it looked like a normal size plane, but felt too low and too slow. Then for the next few minutes, it kept getting bigger and bigger. Then I saw it had 6 engines. And a tail wing that seemed as large as a normal plane’s wingspan. I was lucky that it crossed right in front of me as I was near the airport (about 2.5 miles from the runway). It looked so low, so slow, and just massive. I went home and figured out what it was by googling it. That time it was transporting part of an oil rig.
I tried to find it to go see again ever since, but I could never get a clear schedule and it didn’t line up with where I was in the world. I was telling my wife the other week that this was something I’d like to seek out. It’s something that anyone on this site, aviation enthusiast or not, would have appreciated seeing.
The question is whether the accident would still have happened, if the second car drove a Tesla, also with the autopilot engaged?
Agree. I struggled to get and keep it running and eventually gave up.
He, in his customarily ambiguous way, kind of did. He was rambling that if it kills covid in walls and floors, then, maybe, if would kill it in people.
> Why can’t Google build me a privately indexed knowledge graph of my internal docs

Not easy to do [1]. But that's what we try to to at Dokkument [2]

And also knowledge is spread around different tools, Github, monday, JIRA, Confluence, Slack. It is not all on Google Docs. And is Google is not the most integrated product

> People like notion because it is easier to structure nested Wiki docs quickly

I don't feel like it is the case. You can't retrieve anything unless you know the title of the document or you have saves the URL. Most people don't prefer Notion and some do, because they are list-addicted people, and it is easier to list documents in Notions than in Google Sheet. Notion doesn't fix any knowledge management problems compared to using Google Drive. And Confluence still makes circles around Notion in that area

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895

[2] https://dokkument.com
I've noticed the difference in my plug-in Prius. In summer I had up to a 30 mile battery range. This winter it's been down to at worst 22 miles.

Overall, I'm very happy with my plug-in hybrid as my commute to work is about 10 miles each way. If I drive anywhere outside the electric range, the car simply switches to burning gas. I find this car extremely pragmatic. Obviously YMMV.
Was he ever serious?
Fable does this pretty well.
But does the new job have everything you want?

Prior to covid, HN basically constantly complained about the dearth of fully-remote positions. Yes, you could get another office job but if you wanted something fully-remote there was only a teeny tiny number of possible companies. Could unions have forced employers to offer this option?

Today, people complain about pay being based on location for fully remote work. Perhaps a union could actually achieve the goal of making your pay unrelated to where you live?
You publish open source code so that others can benefit from it, and if Google uses it maybe billions of people will benefit from it, so I disagree.
Maybe it won't "officially" help, but knowledge of GPU and proprietary driver internals will still help if you're stuck debugging an issue as it'll allow you to focus your search instead of having a complete black box.

Information wants to be free and leaked info will eventually percolate through into the open driver(s) in a subtle way that nobody can prove (or deny) whether it came from the proprietary driver or not, and that's good. Nvidia isn't losing anything here - people are still paying full price for their GPUs and just want to use them on their own terms.