skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my Tesla I've had the experience a couple times of trying to hit the break, but accidentally pressing both petals at once. When this happens, a notice appears on the dashboard saying both petals are being pressed and so the car has decided you intended to brake.

I don't think I've ever had this problem in another car (though admittedly, probably no other car I've driven would alert me if I did). It seems like the petals are placed a little differently from most cars and this makes it easier to accidentally hit both petals. I wonder if the computer's detection of this condition and decision to prioritize braking is a new feature since 2018...
I wish this was made impossible by browsers. It's like making a user chase their tail; they won't ever catch it. They just keep going in circles until they explode with frustration. You can't even cancel the requests to load more data.

I have come across a couple of these (I think blogs & news sites do this) and it is so annoying.
The accelerator is actually two sensors, each independently sampling the pedal position.

So, yes, not that likely that both fail simultaneously.

In fact, the pedal is not even a Tesla part.
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Honestly, it used to be far more of an issue when going away for more than one or two weeks at some times of the year resulted in a mailbox full of stuff--meaning you really had to get your mail held. These days I find far fewer catalogs--and certainly thick catalogs--get sent.

I did get a larger mailbox, mostly for packages. And I still get a fairly high junk to organizations I do business with to actually important mail ratio. But I can mostly ignore my mailbox for a week at a time easily.
Yup. I also have the feeling that this is just the beginning.
It's happening in China, it's happening in arguably the most 'well-mannered' 'Western' country - at this point it's naive to assume mass data collection won't be coming to your country (and they might not always be as well-mannered as Norway currently is).

Some might say 'I don't care' or 'only those who have something to hide have anything to worry about', but I respectfully disagree. For the same reason that I have curtains in my bedroom I want to have agency over my data.

What baffles me is that I'm fairly sure that similar views are shared by many in the HN community, yet the 'crypto/web3' communities receive almost undivided scorn. Yes, it's ridden with scams, but those are still the communities that do the most overall to push zero knowledge and similar privacy-preserving technologies (and contrary to the popular claim here that 'web3 doesn't do anything innovative', some of the zk stuff like STARK/SNARK/PLONK... they already put in production are pretty cutting edge).
that would be good enough to apply to cars
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Anybody who lives on a major street could have told you that. That fine black dust gets everywhere.
They are nowhere near taking Odessa. It is extremely unlikely that they will achieve that in the foreseeable future.
Seems that the 'generic name' for this concept is "inverted bow":

> In ship design, an inverted bow (occasionally also referred to as reverse bow) is a ship's or large boat's bow whose farthest forward point is not at the top. The result may somewhat resemble a submarine's bow. Inverted bows maximize the length of waterline and hence the hull speed, and have often better hydrodynamic drag than ordinary bows. On the other hand, they have very little reserve buoyancy and tend to dive under waves instead of piercing or going over them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_bow
It's not just the scams and counterfeits.

It used to be easy to tell which items are from third-party sellers, now often that's hidden.

It used to be that I could trust Amazon to have a reasonable price, so I didn't have to price-shop every item every time. Now, many common items are only available from third-party sellers with wildly inflated prices. Now I feel like I have to comparison-shop everything to ensure it's not a rip-off.

It used to be that third-party sellers would be listed in descending order by total cost (price plus shipping). Now they're in seemingly random order, and you can't see the shipping cost until it's in your cart. Many sellers game this by listing a low price with ridiculously high shipping.

Really feels like Amazon is going backward at a remarkably fast pace.
There was a big Tesla quality and safety problems story yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610950

And there's one every week or two. The repetition kills interestingness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31487646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31398021
Here’s my Amazon purchase count by year. Each * is 5 items, nearest neighbor rounding. I’m not a big consumer, I peaked at buying a few items every month in 2016, then scaled back and haven’t bought anything in 2022.

2009
2010
2011 *
2012 ***
2013 ***
2014 ****
2015 ****
2016 ******
2017 ***
2018 ***
2019 ***
2020 *
2021 **
2022

The reason, I think, is that there’s just too much crap to sort through. I’ve gone through the dance a few times where I want to buy something so I check Amazon, and the results are all overpriced junk, then after about an hour of comparing items and scanning reviews to understand the problems with the junk I give up. It’s no surprise, but I’ve replaced Amazon with box stores and ordering directly from businesses online.
True, but that doesn't account for the speed at which the minority is growing, up to over a third now, nor the impact on public opinion of Charles vs Liz.

They may end up being caught offside quicker than expected.
> If you don't want your chats to end up in the hands of law enforcement

don't use chats

meet in person

like all respectable criminals do

Anyway it would still mean that you're being investigated for something and the court authorized the request

Now imagine what would happen if US law enforcement got hands on the chats of the Texas shooter.

Truth is they didn't do anything even though he posted publicly about what he was going to do.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/texas-school-shooting-u...

So maybe the idea that anyone is spied and controlled by law enforcement or governments is not exactly true.
> Short of what OP wanted…

(That wasn't what I wanted to post; I should have waited.)

More like stop the flow of time, fix whatever went wrong, fix why it went wrong, go back before it happened, and then restore time flow, as if nothing had happened (so more restart before than resume after).

I don't know if that's what the OP wanted or not, I'll leave you to explain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361845
I’ve seen some of these bows on seismic survey ships out the window where I live.

I assumed the funky bow shape was due to them being ice breakers/science ships, but looking the ships back up they’re indeed examples of this X-BOW design.

I wonder what the downsides are? The site does the classic thing of listing the advantages but not the opposite.
Not to mention upwards of 75 years of science fiction literature that discussed the inevitability of this.

The only solution that I can see: Exploit the system….
Bolide events are turning out to be far more common than had generally been accepted.

For example, it turns out a strike only 12,800 years ago wiped out cultural development in North America, along with 30+ genera of large animals including horses, camels, and mammoths, with direct effects proven as far as Chile, South Africa, and Syria, and triggering the 1200-year Younger Dryas return to Ice Age conditions.

The fact was hotly disputed by geologists for decades until the smoking-gun layer of platinum-enriched dust was demonstrated.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/695703

Google Earth has been instrumental in revealing numerous newly-identified impact craters.

Wholly modern humans are known to have been on earth for hundreds of thousands of years (was 200k, latest evidence 300k). The great mystery is why it took until just a few thousand years ago for civilization to arise and stick. Our ancestors were not less intelligent than us, or less bold. We know people were sailing deliberately out of sight of land 50,000 years ago, because they colonized Australia. We find evidence of common cultural elements spanning thousands of miles and tens of thousands of years.

We don't actually know how old many of the megalithic constructions we inherit were built; we know only that they are at least as old as known people who used them.

There are literally 1M+ square miles of what was rich bottom land during most of that time now deep under the sea. We don't have any idea what was built there.
This has been the absolute biggest surprise from me switching to MacOS after years in windows land. I can hit enter on my spotlight search results before they’re rendered and be confident. I don’t event need cmd+tab anymore. MS on the other hand STILL doesn’t have a search right, and they have a search engine. FYI this was a running joke at MS when I worked there, there is no search in any MS product that is functional. If you’re lucky you’ll get exact string matching, sometimes not even that?
For the most part. Tens of millions of people voted, a few hundred (maybe a few thousand) people rioted, and the rest are mostly just complaining. All in all, I'd say the current system is working pretty well.
From the polling it does indeed seem like the general population believes the monarchy is good for Britain. But that opinion is changing[1]. I certainly wouldn't call those promoting the view of the UK becoming a republic "cranks".

1 - https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/tzluoaf4hh/YouGov%20-%20Jubilee%...
Charles isn't very popular, but William is.
Brave used an official USPS mass market program to distribute mailers.

The USPS allows these mailers to be mailed to every address (by route) in a zip code. The USPS also allows you to filter by such things as "age, household size, and income" (again the route is the granular level), but there's no indication Brave used this filtering.

To use the program, you have to print your own mailers. Naturally, the mailers have to be addressed, or they cannot be mailed. The vendor Brave used to print the mailers included the resident's name, which is typical but not mandatory.

Some people saw this and got freaked out, thinking that Brave was tracking them or had bought their data, the implicit thought being it was from some company dedicated to that. Instead, the USPS just used the USPS EDDM program that anyone can use. Brave apologized, destroyed the unsent mailers, and reprinted new ones without names.

Basically, it looked bad to some people, but it's not clear to me that Brave did anything bad except from a publicity perspective. Most people regularly get such mailers through the same program. (Someone else says in this thread that they don't get them, but they also mention having a PO Box, which is a filter in the EDDM tool most people are going to use.)

The EDDM program website is here, and it walks you through the process:
https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm

You choose a vendor to print your mailers:
https://printerdirectory.usps.com/listing/#/

Likely Brave did not communicate to their printer vendor the necessity of not printing names. But the vendor has them anyway. It's possible through the EDDM program to see your physical mail pieces (if you're doing the drop off), so hypothetically I suppose Brave could have collected this information.
you would have to pass it on.
Querying human genomic data becomes more powerful with the release of Beacon V2
I believe that's what the kids call "cringe ".
Also the power. Juno does not have nuclear power, only solar panels. The Sun is quite dim at Jupiter’s distance.

From wikipedia:

Power: 14 kW at Earth,435 W at Jupiter

Overall the strangth of the signal coming from a solar powered spacecraft in the outer Solar system should go down with the 4th power of the distance.
Not sure what you mean. Not talking about dating anyone, talking about addressing someone online as "dude". Where I grew up, in LA, "dude" is used by both men and women to address each other. And unless you yourself are harmed, or know someone who is harmed by this usage, I'd avoid taking speculative umbrage first because it's bad for your heart, and second because it's a huge waste of everyone's time.
You will own nothing. And you will be happy.
There's a chance, however, that their descendants aren't as ruthless, or as competent.

Doesn't one of the Koch sons sell Hawaiian print t-shirts?
Removing features is the GNOME development power play. By version 69 it's just going to be a shutdown button you can't use without a mouse.
There is some YouTube video of X606F running on Ubuntu Touch as well but I can't tell what exactly works on that one.
A seller offered me a gift certificate if I left a 5 star review. Basically a little note in the box saying if I left a 5 star review, took a screenshot & sent it to their email address, they'd send me the gift certificate.

It was not a 5 star product. It was a 2 star product, at best.

I tried to mention the fact they were paying for reviews in my review (to explain the other 5 stars).

Amazon rejected my review.

It's against Amazon policy to let others know that sellers are buying reviews.
Not exactly the same, but theverge.com has recently decided to shove about 50 Outbrain ads, across 3-4 loads, in between the end of the article and the comment section. It makes me livid every time, yet still I go back :(.
> Do you think that Americans are unusually stupid?

A large minority of them are, yes. There's millions of people in this country that flunked their way through 12 years of math class and never retained anything more than basic arithmetic. 4% of Americans are classified as "functionally illiterate", that's 13 million people who effectively can't even read.

The point of democracy is to placate everybody, not just the smarter portion of society, so the mechanisms of democracy should be simple enough for somebody with a simple mind to understand. "Count votes and pick who got the most" is generally such a system.
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That's awfully wasteful on behalf of the company. Why not just ask for a raise instead, or give them away as gifts?
No, this is about normal footers ("tags near end of document"). The problem is that with infinite scrolling you can never reach the end of the document, it always slips away as new content loads.
It’s not safe to say that at all. They’ve abandoned 2 major objectives and have lost tens of thousands of troops. Morale is at rock bottom. It will be very difficult to pull off a general mobilization in Russia, especially in Moscow.
Make sure you’re making a lot of money before moving to Switzerland (very high cost of living) and forget about buying property.

Make sure you’re making very little money before moving to Slovenia (very high taxes although you can avoid most of them by earning less than 100k EUR)
I'd say this particular loophole has effectively been patched now, given the Supreme Court ruling that declared this incident unlawful. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_contr... is a much more informative link than the NPR one.)
It really doesn't take much for a motivated person to destroy another person's life. People get away with that all the time. Why is it hard to believe there is yet another way to do it?
Maybe. I’ve been involved with ARKit and Google Glass dev and I’m expecting an Apple TV (the device) level of commitment.

The XR community seems to be expecting an sea-change but a lot of that energy seems to be coming from journalists and founders in the space.
As an American who also feels that privacy from the government is more important from private corporations:

I'm not a hard disagree, but I think it's easier (though not easy!) to democratically will your government to regulate private companies than it is regulate itself.
Yeah and with the inflation hitting everything right now 4.50 is really cheap.
>and the results are all overpriced junk

Oh, the funny part is, for most of this junk you can find exactly the same items at Aliexpress with the same pictures and Chinglish descriptions at a fraction of the price...
Why would screen turn on in your pocket? Smartphones have light/proximity sensors to turn off the (touch)screen when you put it near your head so that you don't tap things with your ear. It should not turn on. If it does, it's programmed badly.
Amazon no longer offers in-app Kindle and Music purchases on Android
Certainly, the last year as been absolutely stupid, but I would argue that we've actually, for the first time since 2005, gotten to unsustainable levels. The headline is sensational, but please review the last graph here: https://realestatedecoded.com/real-monthly-mortgage-payment-...

What really matters to people are monthly payments relative to paycheck. Of course, if people also believe that inflation is underestimated, then the current housing situation is perfectly fine.
Remember the issue of Toyota’s with unintended acceleration? That was 100% due to fat feet so this is indeed a very fair starting point. This has happened so so so many times without any technology involved. The tech may have changed but the human behind the wheel hasn’t.
you work there and don't drive one?
You should get your equity award in writing with the rest of the employment and compensation agreement. The rationale you put only favors the company.
Someone has to print the mailers. The USPS lists the EDDM vendors on its website and they work through the USPS.

https://printerdirectory.usps.com/listing/#/results
It’s the two-feet driving scene from breaking bad, but in software.

That’s unsettling.
We'll see what the situation is in 20-30 years then. And if William hasn't already resolved to abolish himself by then. Stranger things have happened. William for President, POTUK.
Not everyone is exactly mid-career?
I’ve tried a lot of ad blockers over the years. Browsing mainstream news on the internet, in particular, highlights the absolute cesspool of pop ups and auto-playing videos that characterize the contemporary web.

None, least of all Stop the Madness, have worked as well and on as many devices as this simple bookmarklet, whose author I don’t know but who has saved me countless aggravations

javascript:(function%20()%20%7B%20var%20i,%20elements%20=%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*');%20%20for%20(i%20=%200;%20i%20%3C%20elements.length;%20i++)%20%7B%20if%20(%5B%22sticky%22,%20%22fixed%22%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position))%20%7B%20elements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D);%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D)();

Edit: credit to the original author [1] and thank you!

1. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
You may technically own Apple hardware, but its not yours in actuality. You have a "license" to use the software on it, bif of you can't change the software, you don't have control over it. It's not yours.

This is how Apple steals from us: They let you buy beautiful, high tech hardware that requires their software. Eventually, they stop supporting that software, so the hardware (mostly) stops working. This is theft. Sure, it may be legal, but morally, it is wrong. So many old iPhones and iPads are languishing, when they could be used as Raspberry Pis (or old laptops) are often used: home servers, learning tools, linux devices etc.
Every year when I file my federal taxes, there's the little box to give $3 to fund presidential election campaigns.

I've never checked it.

However, if there was a box to say "Give NASA $20", I'd check it every time.
That sounds nice. What city were you in? Where did you end up that's rural and near the ocean? Also how did you wean yourself off of tech work?
Crypto/web3 as it is practiced offers absolutely zero protection against any of this. In fact, unless you use privacy chains (of which only few actually work) your Entire Transaction History is Public (!!). This is already a reality in most of cryptoland.

Even if you trade on exchanges your entire order flow is immediately sold to the highest bidder, or if you're unlucky the exchange itself is trading against you. It's pretty horrible for privacy.
Very neat. I didn't know about the folate angle selecting for dark skin in the first place.
Guess they couldn't make it to
Deepwater Horizon oil spill either.
A) commentary on price trends are always hyperbolic

B) outside of crypto assets, 20% downwards in a month is a crash in every asset class
Not the same game, but I used to work as an Android dev for an imaging company. We had to physically test our apps in meatspace with the real device camera and we had to support hundreds of devices.

I had hundreds of Android devices hooked to a dozen or so dev machines in a test farm. A test script would run. The active device’s screen would turn green. Then a QA engineer would have to physically scan a bunch of different things. Then the next active device would turn green and they’d do it again. And again. And again. I probably could have automated more with a moving conveyor belt and a custom lighting system, but I would’ve put a lot of QA people out of work…

This was during the “bridge” period between android.hardware.camera and android.hardware.camera2, so I had to write a wrapper library bridging the two APIs. About half of our users were on the old API, half on the new. It was a mess. There was no CameraX provided by Google at the time.

Obviously Android has way more device diversity, but I can easily see 40 iPads getting accumulated by even a small iOS shop that’s taking their user experience seriously. The company that I worked for was actually quite small, yet we amassed dozens of iDevices and hundreds of Android devices. The CTO would require every camera crash to be fixed, even if it were on a random developing market junk phone. We had so many single-device workaround in the camera wrapper lib it was insane…
I think the monarchy in the UK still has a good 30 years or so. I suspect William will be the last consitutional monarch before the country adopts a presidential system.

The tourism benefits of the monarchy are proven to outlast the monarchy itself — France's monarchy still brings in millions of euros each year, despite not having existed for over 200 years.
> A drawn out conflict favors Russia...

There's a strong argument that "the West" is supporting Ukraine to such an extent that Russia is at the disadvantage in the long game.

The Price of War - Can Russia Afford a Long Conflict? (Perun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpk_yGjn0E
>That was until Boris Johnson got the queen to suspend parliament so he could push through a no-deal brexit in 2019[0]

>Sorry, what kind of bullshit is that? The PM can just do an end-run around the elected members, pause everything to run out the clock, and then come back and force through his version of a highly contentious event for the UK?

Having a non-monarch head of state wouldn't have inherently resulted in anything different.
RAM is an asset class?
They need to make you carefully look through the ads somehow!
> Basic science is the foundation stone of the past 200 years of human progress

I agree, but to nitpick IMHO it's a foundation stone. Others are freedom and human rights (including for basic science: speech, to publish your controversial results uninhibited, religion, when your theory is heretical, etc.), rule of law (to protect your investment in your research from powerful people who want to stop or sieze it), and other basics.
GDP != market cap.
a dark yellowish brown is routinely identified as least popular.

I wonder if that's a subconscious/genetic/evolutionary choice away from the color of shit.
We can’t predict how future humans will use this data, especially considering human’s desire to control the behavior of others.