skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people should know that EVs come with the same risks as ICE cars. It's old news that ICE cars catch on fire. They've been around 100+ years in one form or another, why would we report on it? I mean there's a tank full of volatile fuel in the car.

EVs are new still. They're hyped and covered like crazy by the media in a lot of positive ways, so why should they not get equal press coverage when there is negative news? Once EVs hit a certain mass, they won't be novel anymore, and nobody will care.
Ambitious first target! A worthy purpose! Good luck!
Clearly not optimized for mobile. I love it.
Tesla isn't going to take the vehicle back, nor would I sell the car to someone else, so I am left to complain loudly to regulators, which I admit is a guilty pleasure (especially when I have lucked into having standing).

I also opted out of arbitration for all of my vehicles [1], for obvious reasons. I am simply attempting to make lemonade from lemons.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8vxnz0/psa_for...
What does that even mean? Running closed source software is a life goal?
Enjoy ;) https://rsk0315.github.io/playground/passwordle.html
The problem with this approach is that the average human driver includes teenagers, very old people who shouldn't be driving, drunk drivers, distracted drivers, speeders, reckless drivers and lots more categories whose accident risk is a LOT higher than the baseline. As someone who doesn't fall into any of these, I wouldn't accept a self driving system that's merely better than average, it has to be better than ME.
I agree, but that was beside the point. The SC ruling was lousy. But there is no evidence that the election was clearly and convincingly won by Gore. The AP recount afterward demonstrated otherwise, anyway (edit: by which I mean the standard of recount requested by Gore's camp: Bush still would have won). It was a lousy expression of democracy and you can even say it was a corrupt SC ruling, but it wasn't a coup.
Hey, hey, they got paid a fat 6 figures each to betray the rest of the human race.
I love how half of the top10 replies here (including #1) is about Firefox not being supported.

See Google, cross-browser compatibility is important.
>> My 2019 Subaru Crosstrek has adaptive cruise control, and i've had it hit the brakes pretty hard when there's nothing in the way. Luckily it doesn't happen often.

> Sadly, Subarus don't make headlines though. A Tesla does just about anything and it's local news and Facebook fodder.

Why sadly? Subaru hasn't been loudly making empty promises about self-driving capability and hasn't been aggressively pushing not-fully-cooked self-driving software onto the road.
Mollusk not likely to give it up, unfortunately.
It's too late to edit the above comment, but let me clarify:

When I ask, Why do people always use the term "private company", this is somewhat of a rhetorical question. I'm not asking for an explanation of what "private company" means, as if I were an ignorant simpleton. That's the uncharitable reading of my comment. Rather, I'm asking for the justification of the use of "private company" as a rhetorical term in the defense of the actions of corporations. I see this rhetorical usage constantly.

Everyone knows that Twitter is a company. That Apple is a company. That Google is a company, etc. And everyone knows that these companies are not run by the government. None of this ever needs to be explained in an argument. So the question is, what rhetorical force do people think the term "private company" gives them in defense of corporate actions? Or maybe the question is, what's the psychology behind the use of this form of rhetoric?

There are various government regulations that do or could be applied to these companies. Antitrust is very relevant for the tech giants. Communications Decency Act. Whether these regulations actually will be applied to these companies is another question, but it's a legitimate debate that can't be simply dismissed by "private company, anything goes".
Because Ford is shipping somewhere between 50k and 100k of the Mach-E, while Tesla is doing closer to 500k? They have their faults, but they are a long way from "no idea what they are doing".
This made me look it up because you’re right, that should also be possible. It looks like some indeed are capable of that, while others are not.

My experience with induction cooktops is admittedly mostly with portable ones, because I’m renting for now and can’t install my own stove. I suspect mine’s just not sophisticated enough. :)
Thank you! I had a feeling the name had something to do with anime, but I couldn't remember what.
There is nothing reasonable about the public expectation of safety when it comes to nuclear energy.

Coal plants cause orders of magnitude more premature deaths, but since they happen in hospitals and cancer treatment centers rather than homes, nobody cares. You can't make a 'Chernobyl' miniseries about cancer and emphysema patients scattered over an entire country (or planet.)
What behavior are you referring to? We are talking about autopilot, and possibly FSD, neither of which are engaged by default (obviously!) What do you mean they can't be turned off?

> When this "feature" triggers you have a short window in which to do _something_ to tell the car that you are paying attention. Your options are either: accelerate or brake. If you do nothing the car may apply full brakes and bring you to a full stop, regardless what is behind you.

Again, what is this? I have a Tesla, and I'm not aware of any feature that requires me to accelerate or brake to prevent the car from stopping itself.
Or have both people flip a coin secretly, then reveal the coins and XOR the results :D
Two big differences are that Uber sets the price, and the customer doesn't pick an individual driver since they're a commoditized supply.

But other markets like freight brokers have the same behavior I believe, and no one is saying truckers are employees of Convoy.

It would be interesting to consider what would need to change for Uber drivers to be clearly considered as contractors.
its ok to admit you like warsow
I almost did this in a literature class. I think it was the second day of the class, and we'd read James Joyce's "An Encounter". The prof read aloud sections of a published analysis of the story -- out of some big tome -- and asked us to discuss it. The analysis was so vacuous and absurd that I came inches from simply walking out, which would have been awkward because there were only like 8 students in the class. Mentally, I mapped out my path to the registrar so that I could drop the class and began checking out.

After a bit of classroom discussion, from which I abstained, the professor threw the book in the trash (clang! it was a metal trashcan) and gave a speech about how the analysis was gibberish, and how you can't just make up stuff about what a story says. He then walked us through how you might actually obtain useful insights about what the story means to say. It was apparent he gave that spiel every semester.

I'm glad I stayed; it was a good class.
If the US is no longer able to create nuclear power stations the reason for the failure is to be found in the regulatory overload, not in the technical ability. The solution therefore is to prune the regulators, not in building new gas-firing plants to replace nuclear power stations whose life can be extended while saving billions of dollars while keeping emissions at the same (very low) level as they've done since they were put on-line.

Here in Europe eyes seem to have been wrenched open and the resistance against nuclear power is being seen for what it is by many, a form of Luddism which is partly pushed by fossil fuel industries. Several countries - the Netherlands and the UK among them - are now planning to build new nuclear power stations. France seems to have been saved from the brink of switching their mostly nuclear power fleet to non-nuclear and is now planning to continue its reliance on nuclear power. Then there is Germany, the black sheep (probably due to it grazing next to a coal-fired power station) of Europe where 'die Grüne' (the Green party) and their ideological allies have managed to increase Germany's emissions substantially by forcing the closure of all nuclear power stations. Germany is one of the better examples on how not to manage power production and distribution.
If 90% of the problem is caused by someone else, then spending 99% of the media coverage and legislation on me is just a highly-effective diversionary tactic! Come on, now.
Ah yes, those are the road bikes with thick downtubes that pass me on the MUP. ;-)
Guess sales aren't going so well for the frying-pan manufacturers. Time for HN's annual 3-day cast iron seasoning fest:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I salute you all, from a distance, with my $10 T-fal non-stick frying pan.

"There's a sucker born every minute."

- commonly attributed to P. T. Barnum
> This is the same thing as blaming Climate Change on road vehicles when most of Climate Change is caused by energy, shipping, construction, concrete manufacture, glass making, etc.

Do you have data on how much each of those sectors contributes? IIRC, road transportation contributes a relatively large amount.
Are you really suggesting that winning the electoral college vote but not the popular vote is akin to a coup? This is a very dangerous notion. They followed the rules of the land and there was peaceful transfer of power. Please don't exaggerate in this manner, it is not acting in good faith.
How true is the claim that a hybrid WFH/in-person setup is worse than either pure WFH or pure in-person? I’ve seen many claim that it causes a cultural disconnect. I’ve wanted to defend the hybrid scenario, and yet I’ve also seen many problems with communication in a hybrid setup.
I don't see any mention of active pitch or height control, from that I would guess it's just controlled by the rider position and movement, like a hydrofoil surf board.
Political parties win and lose all the time. If you look at what the winners get done, it’s often not that much.

The bureaucracy kinda runs most of the day to day.

Losing reserve status would be an exception. Look at the strength of the Ruble now. Look at where all the oil tankers in middle east are heading for delivery.
I think that's true for both Ford and GM to varying degrees. They have solid cash flow and existing factories that could be retooled, as well as the critical supplier relationships that are needed.

But so far the results haven't been spectactular. Their goals for 2025 look like Tesla's goals for next year.

That could change, though. Ford in particular has been making a lot of solid moves recently, and unlike GM there seems to be more movement than talk.
Gas stovetops are pretty terrible about transferring heat to the food. Most of it flies away into the atmosphere.
For heaven’s sake just call her!
M1 power consumption is more interesting for the mobile use cases. Once you get to high end desktop the question is more "how fast can I make it go" not "how efficient is this".
Signing the official secrets act is a thing, you don't actually sign anything, at least for jobs I'm aware of (in the UK Civil Service), but your job is predicated on agreement to be bound by it's terms. In the act they call it notification, but you can be guilty of someone leaks to you and 'you should have known' not to disclose it.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/6
I need to start a parody 'religion' of you chaps but be about another data structure.

Maybe one about tries, those are cool
They won't. Armchair generals think that massive losses of tanks would mean that they are going away. In real life it does not mean that. In ww2 Soviet lost 76% of all tanks they produces during the war, 83,500. And they still choose a tank focued strategic doctrine after this fact during the cold war, and they knew better than anyone else how many tank losses they suffered during ww2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_losses_in_World_War_...

So this war, the Yom Kippur, the Syria war, they have no news regarding tank losses. Tanks were never designed to be invulnerable, and their losses have never meant that they don't work. The Soviet and the Russians knows this. The west think that tank's will survive battle fields, but from a historical point of view that is a delusion. Tanks are still the least bad choice, they are faster and hit harder than infantry, which if you think AFV have it though against drone corrected artillery, infantry is a sheit site worse.
Meh, I think it's fine to be honest about weaknesses for that question. It might disqualify you from some jobs, but IMO there's a lot of value in demonstrating you're able to self reflect.

I have a hard time staying enthusiastic about a project I don't understand the value of, for example. It makes me a bad candidate for teams that are siloed and jobs that highly compartmentalized, and I want to make sure the teams I'm working on have the tools they need to get value to the customer.

It would suck if I took a job like that, and my theory is by stating that out loud I can avoid roles that have those kinds of environments.
Not just infinite information but “legitimate” information that directly conflicts with other interpretations of the same thing.

You can now basically find “facts” that support any assertion you wish to make. You can even live in a comfy echo chamber where everybody else agrees with your “facts.” It doesn’t even matter if your “facts” are actually correct because there is a huge body of “evidence” on the internet to fully back you up. It starts to make you question if there is even an objective truth to things.

It’s one reason I get so nervous about labeling things as “misinformation”. Because often times “misinformation” simply means “something I disagree with” and todays “misinformation” will eventually become “information”

We are entering into a post-truth era.
That dual-core 1.2/1.5GHz Scorpio was blazing fast and the 128-bit NEON unit kept them going quite a bit longer than the competing A8 systems.
No, only if the lane markings aren't visible. It's pretty good at identifying where the lanes are.
Agreed this always bothered me about cruise control as well. Particularly for electric cars I am wishing for a dedicated physical toggle or slider to instantly disable or dial-back regen for the times I want to coast.
Where I live (not the US) the only way rear-ending would be the tailing vehicle's fault is if the front vehicle was running in reverse. Otherwise, it's your responsibility to maintain a safe distance form the vehicle ahead, and one should assume this vehicle may stop unexpectedly. You're always at fault if you rear-end someone.
Hah, one time my computer had periodic hiccups where the mouse cursor update rate would slow down and back to normal within a second, it almost turned me into the Hulk... I can't imagine driving a car with that problem.
They are only hiring SwEs that are L7 (maybe L6) and above.
I remember when the plug on developer.palm.com was pulled:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135561
Does the mega65 shipping put a nail in the coffin of the commander x16, which seems to be stumbling?
Natural gas heating is very inefficient (e.g. versus electric kettle). There was recent Technology Connections video about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
Which MUD was this?
It's possible to solve AI’s inequality problem
Power/perf efficiency does not scale linearly though, nor is there any guarantee a chip can take 4x the power.
> 90% of the problem is caused by someone else

Is that true? Or is it true that no factor is more than 10%, so everyone can use this rhetoric and say '90% isn't me!'

Also, if you think about it, though it's a very trendy take (which you can see repeated many times on this page) - think past the trend: it's a transparent, embarrassing abdication of responsibility. As just one person, only a tiny amount of the world is impacted by me, but I still have full responsibility for it. I don't sh-t in the street and say, '99.99% isn't me'. A soldier doesn't go AWOL and say, 'only 0.0001% of the battle is me'.

> 99% of the media coverage and legislation on me

Is that true? And if so, is it only the things you read about, the media coverage covering things that interest their readers and not generally addressing technical regulations of power plants?

There's such an attempt at a victim position - a common rhetorical tactic to disrupt progress and serious consideration of issues. Instead of pointing the finger and using rhetoric, which accomplishes nothing, what are you doing about climate change?
If they had a no-floppy option and an assemble-it-yourself option, I wonder how much the cost might come down? Heck, some people might even want to DIY the case and keyboard.
It probably goes furthest to nearest so that scenario never becomes an issue.
>I wonder what are the particulate emissions of gas cooking? Is it entirely sootless?

Yes. It is entirely sootless[1]. There are no health concerns with gas cooking. There are certainly related concerns, like gas leaks leading to fires or CO poisoning - but of course this isn't the reason for the ban.

[1] Kind of ... all cooking (i.e. the act of applying heat to particles) results in some level of 'harmful' emissions either from the burning of fuel itself, or from the act of heating food particles. In the grand scheme of things, gas stove emissions are just not a big deal.
> Nissan Leaf batteries have some of the worst designs for a car as they're air-cooled instead of liquid-cooled.

Older Leaf models are worse than >2015-2016 models. They switched to a more heat tolerant and stable battery chemistry.

I would avoid them though in very hot climates like Phoenix or Las Vegas.
Almost every DOS game I played was cracked, so none of those annoyances for me!

The one game which wasn't, MicroProse F-19, thought it would deter me by asking me the names of various shapes of Cold War era aircraft. As if! It only served to teach me those few shapes I didn't already know.
The last time I bought a real brand new floppy drive at a shop was in 2010 and they were really cheap (about US$5). They must have been trying to get rid of old inventory already.
An example I have used a few times to highlight the difference between "understanding how a model gives predictions" and "model uses predictors/features in a way that makes sense" is a linear regression model that Bondarchuk, a famous throwing coach of former USSR.
The linear regression was used to predict the distance expected in one of the throws, given the performances in other athletic tasks, say max squat, max power clean, max long jump and a few others.

Some of the regression coefficients were negative, which means that increasing performance in, say, long jump, leads to shorter shot-put (I don't remember which throw the model was for) distances.

The model and approach looked understandable and "weird" at the same time.
From a purely statistical perspective it makes sense, since that was the results coming from, I assume, maximum likelihood estimation. From a predictive performance, retrospectively it surely worked because it gave good prediction on past data, assuming there were training and test data (most likely, they were not, but let's assume).

But from a future prediction perspective, i.e. the forecasting and thus the manipulation of training to obtain a certain performance, did it make sense? I am very confident it did not, because, among other things, the performances of auxiliary lifts/feats were not independent (you cannot work on a heavier one rep max in the power clean and hope or work toward a shorter long jump performance).

The model by itself might have accurate, but considering that interpretable and thus guiding changes in the training program would have been a quite naive mistake. This kinda mistake is quite common among many who think too much about the machinery of the model and way too little about the domain.
The Russians have all the history they need about tank losses. They suffered 76% tank losses during ww2, 83,500 tanks. You think they are stupid and don't know any better. But they have known all the facts sense ww2, it's just the nature of modern war (from ww2 where AFV were used) that you are going to suffer high losses, that doesn't mean that you don't try to attack.
I can't speak to Swiss courts, but in the US, Uber is losing many of these battles, while Upwork is not.

It seems clear to me that using Upwork doesn't change whether a particular job you farm out is a contract job or employee job. Your primary relationship as a buyer is with the seller (the freelancer).

It's more murky with Uber but it would be nice to have a clearer "test" to understand what makes Uber an employer vs a contract facilitator.
Set up a protocol to identify misbehaving agents and get rid of them. Also guessing that your model does not include an affinity factor. "Certain types of jerks" are attracted to certain types of organizations.

I'm reaching here but maybe some old HP hands can chime in - what sort of people did the original HP attract? I'm guessing like attracts like.

"HP's founders were very remarkable people at all levels, starting with Bill and Dave."

https://hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/stories/Bill&DaveStory1...

Possibly the fish rots from the head? Model that.
Unless things have changed, this isn't an issue with any particular registrar, you can put anyone's contact info in for the WHOIS information. In fact, just not having your name in the WHOIS won't help with the SWAT problem. Someone could just as easily create any website and just say they are you. I haven't talked to a SWAT team member in quite a while, but I still doubt they're very adept at looking up HWOIS information. I think it'd suffice to say that if anyone creates a website that says "I am ..., this is my plan to commit some serious crime". You're probably getting a visit, rather than an assumption that it's a spoof just because the WHOIS info doesn't match.
It is foreign to me, for sure. I have been experimenting with FPGA-based retro systems for years (started with a MIST.) I still consider them "emulators."
Have you tried https://root.cern/cling/ ? It works great in a jupyter notebook for quick prototyping of C++.
Thank you for saying that, I thought maybe I was just bad at choosing doctors.
This sounds like security theater. Imagine thinking that widely used OSS projects are unsafe and MS products are the only acceptable choice.
Inherently gas furnaces pipe their fumes out outside, so air quality should be better for the furnace than the gas stove, even though the furnace uses way more gas.

Exterior though, obviously the furnace is worse since its all going outside.
Having more resources is always an advantage. In every system.
Been a while since I was actively involved in GCC development, but back then most issues like this AFAIR were due to math functions and not basic arithmetic. GCC doesn't control the target libm, and correctly rounded libm's are rare and much slower than ones which permit a bit more slop in the results.
Awkward is the name of the game.
> IP address and then geolocating

IP geolocation is not anywhere near precise enough to get you an address. It can give you a best-guess as to what city you are in (and even that is a guess), but not much better. If you aim to swat someone and you only know the IP you would contact the police who would contact the ISP to get your address connected to the internet subscription.