skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The car behind who rear ends the car in front has a presumption of being at fault, but if there is evidence to show the car in front caused the accident (say, by brake checking them) then that can change the outcome.

Before dash cams, it was very rare for the car behind to be able to show any proof otherwise, so they were usually at fault unless there were credible witnesses of the brake checking.

But no, you can't just randomly threshold brake in the middle of the highway for no reason and expect to blame the car behind for your actions (or the actions of your car).
>It’s not “blame”, it’s looking at causality to try to understand how to get us out of this mess. I’m looking at why race ideologies (and violence) have exploded over the last decade in the same way we would look at the causes of a crime surge.

If that's the time frame you're predicating your analysis of race politics in America on, you're not the non-partisan analyst you think you are. Racist mobilization of white Americans started well before Obama's 2nd term, well before Ferguson, MI and Baltimore, ML.
Personally I would be emotionally and in other ways devastated but nothing from a financial system perspective would change in the initial month/year timeframe. Business as usual.

What happens over the 10 year timeframe as the wheels of power are spun in potentially radically different directions is impossible to project with any fidelity but I would be receptive to predictions of a "slowly then all at once" variety.

[edit] Will also say that I think there is a bright line difference between a "coup" and a corrupted election process.

We saw an attempt at a coup on Jan 6. We have had corrupted election processes in the small since there have been elections, and in a couple of cases potentially in the medium.

A successful coup, despite Jan 6, to my jaundiced eyes, is very unlikely, but would accelerate the slowly-then-suddenly shift, tho in what directions would take a book to discuss. (Trump stood down the US military in ways that were totally counter to US power/national interest and instead revealed his own corruption, etc).

A corrupted election process is likely, but would not cause much in the way of external disruption, again not until the intent of the exercise of power was more evident.
Jacques Patarin[1], my cryptography teacher at university introduced us with zero-knowledge proofs with a simple real-life zero knowledge scheme for this exact purpose. All you need is 5 cards, 3 identical red and 2 identical blacks.

You give one black and one red to each person (Alice and Bob), and keep the last red.

The scheme is the following:

Alice will puts her two cards ON TOP of the remaining red card: to say yes, she puts her black card on top of her red card, to say no she does the opposite (red on top of black).

Bob will put his pair of cards BELOW the remaining red card, and to say yes he puts his black card at the bottom, with his red card in between, and to say no he does the opposite.

Then you cut the deck enough times to obfuscate who've done what, and you know that they've both day yes if you have the two blacks cards next to each other (or both at each ends of the deck). If anyone (or both of them) said no, you'd have black cards separated by one red card.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Patarin
Is that true for Safari? I think the "Prevent cross-site tracking" option is enabled by default, which deletes cookies unless they're from the site you're actually visiting.
> The markings here seem to be some sort of dense plastic material and don't wear much.

I think those markings might be the epoxy based "golden oatmeal" this article mentions (https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-hunts-for-a-dur...) Durable but expensive.

> Meanwhile, the province does have an alternative it has been using on roads where visibility, geography and weather make for dangerous conditions, such as parts of the Coquihalla Highway. Crews grind out a line-sized trench in the pavement and pour a clumpy epoxy-plastic paint nicknamed “golden oatmeal” that bonds to the asphalt using the same material as dentures. Because it sits just below the rest of the pavement, it better withstands wear. “The problem is to do that is extremely cost prohibitive,” said Stone. “It’s very pricey.”
A bit ironic when your default search engine is Google, leading users to the dragon mouth by default.

Also when most if not all telemetry from mozilla firefox is opt out.

Including stuff like phoning home by default when you search, bookmarking something, delete anything from your history[1] and having a unique download token to track each install.[2]

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html
[2] https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...
If only there were a saying about not jumping to conclusions based on a small amount of information that was somehow related to books!
> Men would copy and paste virtually every woman they know into the system as a "crush," so they can find which if any of their female acquaintances might be interested, and then they would decide who to pursue.

Smart men would, who know their place in the world. Any of them are good enough for you, really. Take the one that you like the most out of the ones who like you. Is this a problem? If it weren't asymmetric, it would be hopeless. Instead, most men get the choice between one or more interested women, and most women get a response from one or more of the men they were interested in.

It's better if one side isn't as picky as the other. The other options are that only a couple of people match up at all, or everyone getting a response from everyone i.e. no signal at all.

edit: I mean, isn't that Bumble?
>Vision+Radar

I would imagine that multiple systems with a majority wins type of thinking would be ideal. Would probably need another system for it to be an odd number.
What kind of waste do fast reactors produce?
Summary: Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung
Franchise is to my mind quite different. They are a business and setup those and usually hire their own workers as real employees. Now I wonder how well it would go if someone attempted to hire line cooks as contractors with some piece rate or something as pay...
>They don't think you're brake checking them, you ARE brake checking them.

This is the important part. Doesn't matter what the intent was, the fact of the matter is that the people behind you nearly rear-ended you because of your car's actions. And you, as the driver, never know when you might piss off the wrong driver - brake check the wrong person and suddenly you're in trouble with someone who might not care if you say, "But my car did it, not me! Honest!".
Sounds more like Dead Poets Society with the tearing out of the introduction to the book of poems.
Pet theory, as someone who falls into the "Loves Rust; avoids Async and generics" alluded to in the beginning of this article, the one it's replying to, and comments on the latter's thread here:

Is the Async crew mostly writing web servers and other things that operate using TCP and HTTP? Lower level (eg IP, Eth, network hardware drivers) isn't well supported by rust libs. Nor is higher - we have Flask analogs, but no Django analogs.

As Async ingresses in Embedded Rust, I seek answers to "is this worth the viral qualities, and API rift?".

For the adjacent question re generics by default, I ask "Is the flexibility and type checking worth the API complexity, and documentation dead-ends?"

Does anyone here use Async Rust in domains outside those sections of network and web programming?

I've found rust to be a great fit as a cleaner, more explicit C alternative.
What does Rust's compiler tell you that C#'s doesn't? You still have guaranteed memory safety in C#, and the type checker will verify against all type errors.

I realize that Rust's compiler might catch more concurrency problems, but your comment is written as if you feel "blind" even writing single threaded code.
I worked at companies that survived both the 2008 and 2001 crashes, and indeed perhaps were overall helped by those crashes. Nobody was having "the time of their life." It may be true that businesses with good underlying economics are ultimately helped by these crashes, but they're tense, uncomfortable experiences all around.
I really don't understand the love people have for ${literally anything}.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
One general concern that's bubbled around the FB's and SaaS's of the world. It's unclear how much of these very sound businesses revenue is due to profligate spending by startups. Smart SaaS businesses may find their top customers vanishing. It's easier to right size a smart business than a bad business, but we may see a (small) contagion.
> It infrequently phantom brakes, and more often brakes hard and late and sometimes people think I'm brake-checking them.

Honestly, it sounds to me like this technology should be made illegal until it's fixed. "Infrequently" isn't good enough, especially if it brakes as aggressively as you say. I want self driving to succeed, but Tesla's self-driving tech is just too immature to use on public roads.
Huh, I've never used an induction one, and I've been to a bunch in Chicagoland and LA. Even at home we use a butane grill.
That's not why I stopped working on Rust. Given that Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others all employ people to work on Rust, lack of money is certainly not the problem. There has never been more money in Rust development.
This single quote from Wittgenstein might just be the dumbest statement ever made. How would we ever make progress if we did not discuss what we don't understand, and critique and debate new creative ideas?
No, safepoints are added to your code by the JVM automatically.

When bytecode is being interpreted, every bytecode instruction has a safepoint after it. In compiled code polls are scattered thoughout the code, for example on method entries and loop back edges (so the comment above about needing to add code in tight loops to help the GC is wrong).
I have seen bad hiring in Cisco, which seemed to be based on membership in some sort of clique centered on Pune. I don't know if it was normal "friends hiring friends" or something else.
they did a piss poor job of making a reference then
vehicles from 2019 being referred to as "legacy" is the most infuriating thing I've read today.

Of course no offense to OP, i've heard it referred as such by others and I know it's not literal. But it's maddening to me though that a vehicle that is still under warranty has a moniker that traditionally means end of life/support in software.
There's much more trivial ways (and less funny ones) like just dropping a name from: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
> I can see how it might be easy to get nerd-sniped trying to get rid of every last allocation

Honestly, this is a really good way to put it, and that one minute rule sounds like a pretty good rule (ignoring cases where performance requirements led to profiling, which pointed you at some specific piece that you need to optimize, obviously)
The MPS wasn't 'conservative' in any way IIRC, it was precise? Are we talking different terminologies perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection#Pre...
The netblock thing has happened to me. My Linode that I’ve had sending mail for 6 years gets blacklisted now purely for being on the netblock that it’s on.
I'm going to be totally subjective and please accspt I'm not being judgmental.

I have not read through all the list but by skimming, there's a really huge majority of nonfiction books.

I love nonfiction and I'm reading quite a lot myself, but I can't imagine to not have a novel or any fiction book to balance it out.

The lack of fiction in this list also makes it indigestible to me.

Why would you spare yourself from the epic,from the beautiful or from the tragic of a fiction book? This is beyond me, but this is just me as well, so thanks for sharing the list, I'll read some of these :)
I read a story on Reddit of a guy who was banned from CarMax and couldn't figure out why. He was told it was decided by corporate, and that was that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/carmax/comments/cx82v8/carmax_refus...

Kind of reminds me of stories of folks who need support with Google account issues - sometimes things like that just slip through the cracks. Google might have processes for typical cases, but if a weird corner case arises, it can be impossible to get someone to make an exception to help you.

I wonder if things would go the same way with centralized sales and repair processes ... "hey my new car is having this weird issue" ... "sorry the algorithm says everything is within spec, go away", rather than potentially being able to contact multiple independent dealership service departments until someone is able to reproduce/fix your issue.
Does that include the CO2 from power generation?
We're in enough of a climate crisis that we need to be be doing all these climate actions possible immediately all at once in parallel.

At the same time that cities are updating the building code and zoning to phase out CO2 intensive home heating, the state and fed governments can be moving to shift electrical generation away from CO2 intensive methods.
GStreamer is able to play videos backwards. Use "gst-play-1.0", seek to the end, and press "d".
Parents smoked for decades, and now tell me I'm crazy for still using a gas stove.

I'll take my chances.
Commenters' general feeling was that it was a soft layoff, and some speculated that it might amount to constructive dismissal.

Another instance of Tesla violating labor laws, this time to get out of paying unemployment....
Honestly we should be banning new gas hookups (as proposed here) and going even further to incentivise removal of existing ones. Climate change is a life or death situation, and we need to be acting way faster. That alone is reason enough.

The other reason is that it is better! You can actually get an induction stove to heat up faster than a gas stove, if it is wired properly
That's a really interesting design, as it looks like it was inspired by metal broaching tools where each of those rings acts like a cutter to slightly enlarge the hole made by the ring before it.

It makes sense that a penetrator would use that technique as it's designed to clear the chip debris, as opposed to trying to deform the bulk hardened material, allowing far easier penetration and perhaps more energy transfer to the inside of the target.

https://www.iqsdirectory.com/articles/broaching.html
Companies that exited Russia are being rewarded with outsized stock returns
Haven't made it down to Homer yet. It's a popular destination with tourists, for sure.
> Is that really true?

Best I can do is offer my interpretation. GDPR applies to "[...] the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means" [1]. I take "automated means" to include this app. So when this app runs and processes EU citizens' data, the law applies. But to what or whom...

> I don't see how the author of this application is a data processor (or a data controller)

... I understand as follows: things are generally not responsible under the law, their owners and creators are. If I install and use a software, the GDPR entitles me to knowledge of its personal data processing capabilities if it processes personal data, which this app seems to do. As the GDPR evolved from consumer protection law, I'll employ an analogy: if I win a free vacuum cleaner in a raffle, the product still needs to include a safety guide - the manufacturer or distributor can't delegate safety responsibility to me. GDPR is about personal data safety.

> If an email client run by a user on his own machine with no involvement of the vendor of that software requires "a valid data privacy statement"

Conversely, at least one mainstream email client comes with a data privacy statement [2]. Which doesn't prove my point, it might be just ass-covering.

> then so does probably the user's keyboard driver.

Maybe the operating system's data privacy statement covers this? Otherwise that reasoning appears sound.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/thunderbird/
I think what they're saying is that by electing "far right" secretaries of state and governors states are electing sec-states and governors who will be more willing to overturn federal election results by invalidating votes, curtailing registrations, and fiddling with electors. They're probably looking at people like Doug Mastriano[1][2]

[1] https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws...
[2] https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/experts-scorch-pennsyl...
Whilst these are 'classified leaks' they are not exactly strategic leaks.

> Right now we're seeing a lot of real truth's play out in Ukraine about just how great armored vehicles and tanks are.

We're seeing "a lot of real truth's play out in Ukraine," but a lot of that seems to be about Russian organization and tactics, not necessarily "how great armored vehicles and tanks are."

For instance: early in the war I read some (US Marine Corps?) study that was online about the Russian "Battalion Tactical Group" that noted some deficiencies that may have made them far more vulnerable in Ukraine (IIRC too many tanks, too little infantry and support troops, too centralized command and control). My understanding is that it's been essential for a long time that tanks travel with significant infantry support.

> Most of the above seem more in the realm of commercial in confidence leaks, and or embarrassing information for a military than anything that's significant.

The one about the Chinese projectile seems like it could be pretty bad. Wouldn't that be the exact kind of technical information an opponent would want to design armor or develop the right tactics for it? For instance, if you increase your side's armor to neutralize it, then your tanks can fight more aggressively.
I received junk mail for the Brave Browser
tl;dr: people with no marketable skills living in high-cost areas can't afford the rent.
I'm not really saying it can't be done. I'm just saying that, comparatively, this puts the US at a huge disadvantage. It requires a larger investment per rider, and when you're done, you still have a metro area that was specifically designed to be convenient for drivers that your transport system must compete with.

I worked a job for several years where I could have taken either bus or light rail to work. I still chose to drive because I already had a car, my car had more privacy, I didn’t have to go outside in the weather, and I had more autonomy.

For public transit to compete, it has to be someone’s best option. Being usable is not good enough to cause people to switch.

Yes, you could build it all anyway, and that’s probably the only long-term solution. But it’s not politically popular. If not for budgetary reasons, then because people don’t want construction interfering with their drive.

In the end, I feel like we’re better off just concentrating on public transit in the neighborhoods that want to use it.
> but not a necessary one.

I know, but, a friggin 1 billion fine? They're most likely just pulling out of Switzerland altogether.
> How much better than a human driver does a self-driving system need to be before we as a society will accept fully autonomous vehicles?

If you watch the many selfdriving videos online, it is clear the current state is worse than a drunken teenager on their first week with a license.
There's numerous types of floppy drive and disks and the Commodore ones aren't compatible with modern drives or disks.
A friend pointed this out to me a few weeks ago.

I found it was nearly impossible to enjoy because a single numerical distance metric provides almost no help in figuring out what direction to move to improve your guess, and any change in the distance metric when you're far away from the solution is really just a false signal - i.e. "mother" gives a score of 20, "grandmother" gives a score of "23", but grandmother isn't actually closer to the final word ("malfeasance") in any meaningful way than mother is.

Another issue with it is that the training set comes largely from newspaper articles, which means the semantics it learns sometimes have significant artifacts resulting from associations that are common in news coverage but not the English language in general.

As a result my own experience with it was "think of random guesses endlessly until you end up somewhat close and then be frustrated at what you learn about the embedding when you eventually converge on the answer."
Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage
>It infrequently phantom brakes

>more often brakes hard and late

>people think I'm brake-checking them

>if you're in the right lane when the two right lanes merge- it
is totally unreliable

>I've been sandwiched between an 18-wheeler and the gutter

>once you learn the quirks it is extremely predictable and robust

You're taking it better than I would be
The Supreme Court also had a major role here. That was a 5-4 decision where the wife of one of the jurors was actively working for Bush's campaign/administration; said juror refused to recuse himself. Maybe that's the moment "even the appearance of impropriety" left the political phrasebook.
My family couldn’t afford an Amiga when I was a kid, but we could afford a C64 so that’s what we had.
The Beta does.
Really interesting opportunity to explore TV!
https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvv/tvv
they're definitely not as bright as they think they are
> Its not,

It is.
Tracing an obsession with the Shakespeare authorship question
> There are blood alcohol tests, can't really avoid conviction if you fail the test.

You can't be forced to take (or, even, given additional punishment based on an advance-consent licensing provision, as California has and used to enforce) a blood alcohol test without a warrant under Supreme Court case law, and warrants take time.
The Beta does the job blocking.
Hacked together a quick and dirty shell script to install on my boxes in a repeatable way... Hope this helps others that find themselves in this situation.

https://gist.github.com/noahbailey/0260efa836b4ea67163cbfeef...
This sounds dangerous enough that I'd reconsider even driving the vehicle. I have a 2019 model 3 and I've experienced phantom braking twice. Both times I was on the highway with autopilot enabled and was passing a truck that cast a shadow over my lane. After the first experience I refused to even use autopilot for months afterwards.

Just recently I was driving in the right lane of a suburban road (with no assisted driving features enabled) and some trees on the curb cast a shadow over my lane and the car absolutely freaked out with collision warnings. Thankfully I was accelerating so it didn't force me to stop, but at this point I'm seriously considering going with another vehicle. Having the car scream at you as you're driving down the road is nerve wracking.
Does DALL-E incorporate (or even receive) feedback about which of the pictures it generated were better? It of course does not, and it currently has no function to do so. IF it incorporated this feedback and changed its weights based on it, I would agree with you that the situation could be comparable.

Until then, my point remains: DALL-E is currently like an (extraordinarily good) hat that you can put words in and extract phrases out of. A human chooses what words to put in and which of the phrases they take out are better. Unlike pulling words out of a hat, the network has some criteria by which it produces phrases, but that's not enough to call it an artist.

This is not meant to minimize how good the achievement of this network is. The level of fidelity and even understanding of the prompts is extraordinary. But its purpose is not to be creative, it is to find a point on a hyperplane that matches the input it received. It is currently at the level of a tool - though there are potential advancements that could yet turn it into an artist in its own right.