skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only speak from my experience; I’ve driven over 100k miles with Autopilot (2.5 rev hardware, ‘18 Model S) over the last 4.5 years, sometimes at speeds upwards of 70mph-80mph through mountainous terrain in driving rain at night (both in Appalachia and the Rockies). Disengagement is rare, and I will purposely push the vehicle harder to find its limits. Fully safe? Hardly, nothing is risk free, but 38k people a year die in accidents caused by humans, so the bar is not perfection. It’s your average human, which is fairly terrible at the task. They get tired, they don’t pay attention, they drink too much and get behind the wheel, and so on.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/

Tesla Deaths Total as of 12/21/2022: 335

Tesla Autopilot Deaths Count: 19 (my note: this total death count is 1/5th the amount of people who die daily [104] from human caused auto accidents)

I trust the vehicles and Tesla engineers enough to put my family in them. The evidence is clear how well they stand up in an accident, receiving highest crash test marks both in the US and Europe (with the Model Y with the Vision only stack receiving some of the highest Euro NCAP scores ever), which I can confidently decision with versus emotion about its leadership team. I really don’t care what Musk says, as long as my family is going to walk away from the worst accidents they might encounter, and the data shows they likely will.

> Euro NCAP Secretary General Michiel van Ratingen issued a statement praising the Model Y for its stellar safety scores. “Congratulations to Tesla for a truly outstanding, record-breaking Model Y rating. Tesla has shown that nothing but the best is good enough for them, and we hope to see them continue to aspire to that goal in the future,” van Ratingen remarked.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-s-receives-5-star-euro-ncap...

https://evannex.com/blogs/news/tree-falls-on-a-tesla-model-3...

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-vision-model-y-highest-euro-...

(No experience with the “full self driving” software stack, so I apologize if your questions were scoped specifically to that constraint)
Really. Apple Photos has been a dumpster fire for my wife. It randomly freezes, she can’t get her photos back out to upload them, etc. It’s almost to the point that she’s done with MacOS because of it.
yeah I have known about this for a while, but no one I've spoken to personally believes me. to them WASM is pure win and there are no downsides.

when I mention performance, they kinda waffle a bit, saying "CPU is cheap" or something similar, and they start to show a hint of understanding when I say that cloud resources are billed by unit of CPU time, and by amount of RAM used. then I say that our mutual employer invokes lambdas hundreds of trillions of times per year and I think they briefly understand before being caught up in "new stuff is awesome" technology fetishism again.

it's exhausting.

everyone should live overseas for a couple years because it changes how you view the world... everyone should be a game developer for a couple years as well, because you will quickly notice just how unbelievably slow modern software is. more people need to see that.

security is important! portability is important! other things are important, always, and when you gain a sense of just how slow software is today in comparison to how unbelievably fast modern hardware is, it becomes very hard for me to think positively of anything that lowers performance further for almost any reason.
the US central bank's dual mandate is not universal, most central banks care about price stability

and most central banks are small and most currencies/economies are a lot more vulnerable to exchange rate changes.

because when an economic downturn starts in export oriented smaller economies the following happens. the reversal of a lot of capital/money flows (investment projects put on hold, sovereign and corporate bond market slows/halts), and then as a consequence of this exchange rate drops (the currency of the smaller economy depreciates) ... and at the same time, basically as the other side of this is that everyone buys US assets (reverse flow!), which pushes up the price of the dollar, which is an extra problem for developing economies, makes raising new debt a big problem (servicing rollover debt is a must at least, and developing economies want to outgrow their debt, so they have a high debt load usually), makes everything instantly more expensive.

central banks act as dampers, and there are a bunch of papers about profitability of them, and they detail that by them buying assets when they are undervalued and selling when they are overvalued is their way to dampen these swings and make a profit. which in some cases gets sent to the government budget (eg. in case of Mexico).

so yes, while there are asset bubbles that are a consequence of low interest rates, they are not the purpose, nor they are the main consequence of low interest rates, the main effect is economic growth, which helps to lower unemployment, and to avoid recessions (which easily leads to an unemployment spiral).
I believe that's why it would be phrased 'could ... if' instead of 'will ... as'
Anyone who wants to use grep will just keep ignoring nim. Case insensitivity is pretty silly, and underscore insensitivy is just really silly.

The way that modern languages force a single style is great, and it's a big strike against nim, which is an otherwise nice language.
What we need is, organized flags into meaningful -standardized- taxonomy.
How about no food coloring? Don't you want to see the actual color of your food, or would you let a factory disguise it? Or let's use natural coloring. It seems like the risk benefit ratio is high for consumers, but mundane considering the increase in revenues.
Imagine what would happen in a crash

Obviously there’s energy from batteries or gasoline or whatever in regular cars
It depends on your risk tolerance and financial goals. Do you buy individual stocks? Would you buy stocks in your employer if you had the equivalent in cash? Even if you can't sell them some times during the year and there's some correlation between your employment income and its price (considering slowdown and layoffs)?
I couldn’t agree more. And you are right that it has nothing to do with peoples intelligence or education.

I also have given up helping people. It is a waste of time. Most people simply don’t think further ahead than today or tomorrow. And then they turn around and blame their financial difficulties on the system, politicians, greedy rich people, immigrants, white people etc. Anybody but themselves. consistently refusing to take responsibility for their own actions.
Sell immediately when they vest! I have plenty of unvested shares.
The defederation "wars" will end. People who want to be in walled garden instances, with their own sense of community, cut off from unpredictable sets of other users will have what they want. But I think most users will migrate to places where only the truly bad actor instances are cut off. I've already observed this from my old Tweeps. Defederation is way too blunt of a tool for most cases.
Intrigued now, where can I find more about that?
This is a really cool project!

One thought that I have: would there be an issue sending this file in an unsecure context where MITM is a possibility? Alice sends Bob her HTML file over an unsecured medium, and Jane intercepts this traffic, and gives Bob a modified HTML file that will report the password back to Jane. Jane can set it up so that the browser still displays the local file as it's source, but has an HTTP request in the background phone home back to Jane's server.

My scenario only works if Bob doesn't inspect the page source before entering their password, or if the modifications are sufficiently obfuscated.
https://superuser.com/questions/1668807/how-to-disable-jit-c...
Ask HN: What's your favorite technical paper?
I've been working my way through Will Larson's list of his favorite technical papers (https://lethain.com/some-of-my-favorite-technical-papers/). I want to read more interesting papers!

What's your favorite technical paper and why? How did it change your thinking or approach to problem solving?
Yeah, that was kind of the point of them moving to Aura. More details on it: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura-de...
I love pineapple and jalapeño (and ham or pepperoni). The sweet plus spicy is really tasty..
As a (former) regular bike commuter, it was hilarious how some "serious" cyclists would say things like that, and then talk about the best ways to stay fit over the winter because obviously you're not gonna ride your bike when it's -5F out, right? Rather undermined my perception of how hardcore they were.

Similarly entertaining, leaving work one day when a dude in Lycra on a $3000 racing bike blew past me with hardly a glance. ...And then looked completely flabbergasted when I caught up with him and said "Hi!" at a stoplight a few miles down the road, riding my mountain bike and still wearing slacks and a button-down from work. Like, I may be a fatass, but I've been doing this every day for 15 years and my calves are solid rock.
I think this more reflects the complexity of emerging web technologies than Chrome-specific bloat. I think many people would be surprised by the sheer number of new web tech that's been added or is on the horizon. Check out some of the stuff here for an example: https://chromestatus.com/features Web browsers today are more like operating systems than basic document viewers. It really is crazy what a web browser can do now. Eventually all native APIs will be web-based and all software will run in / on a web page.
The most striking one was an injury transference. I had a severe medically diagnosed intercostal rib strain from a botched deadlift. Someone took it from me by touch. Literal laying on of hands. I mean going from so much pain that rolling over in bed is agony to completely fine. Punchline is she got to have a severe rib injury for a few weeks. I’ve still got no idea how that worked.

I’ve also experienced telepathy, seen a ghost (with multiple corroborating witnesses) and witnessed poltergeist activity. The last of those I can kind of doubt though. The mirror falling off the wall could maybe have been some kind of microquake.
> is this marketing wank?

I don’t think so. There are lots of ways to end up with banding even if you try to keep it high bit depth. Photoshop quietly dithers (usually invisibly on a monitor) when going from 16 or 32 bits per channel to 8. Last time I checked, Image Magick didn’t have that option, nor do other non-Photoshop options. I feel like I vaguely recall Image Magick doing blur in 8 bits, even when working in 16 bits? Cameras can sometimes spit out banded images as well. Certainly if you didn’t control the image, someone else might have added the banding. There’s a lot of 8-bit imagery out there, and no reason to assume that everyone in the world is working in 16 bits and is banding aware.

On top of that, removing banding is obviously going to be difficult to do well, since it has to differentiate between which edges to blur and which to leave alone. This will definitely be useful and save time for working design/photography professionals.
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If you or anyone else enjoying pip-tools is a Zsh user and interested in trying out my higher level functions to ease interactive use of pip-tools, venvs, and also isolated app installs (like pipx), I would love some feedback on zpy: https://github.com/AndydeCleyre/zpy

I'm very happy to answer any questions about it right here or as GitHub issues.
I’ve always felt that the actual code writing is the least interesting part of coding. It find it fun, but feel that the real engineering is largely the stuff that comes before (and some after) the code is written.

I’m not yet sold on the idea that it will replace coding. It’s like autonomous cars. 99% is far far too low. But it’s also not to be dismissed. A brilliant tool with many use cases.

I think we have invented the Enterprise “ship’s computer.” It won’t answer “how do I solve this problem?” But it probably will answer things like, “if X and Y and Z, what might W be?” We get to be the big brains standing around a terminal! I can’t wait to have a holodeck where I can construct a world just by asking for things.
Right, 3rd party, not native to the Amiga which the person I replied to was seemingly implying.
The config flags themselves are ad-hoc, informally-specified and bug-ridden in the first place, so what’s the big deal here?
These are solvable problems, no?
Amazing project!
Looks like it needs to control the DOM.
Is there a way to use this with react?
It's an amusing anecdote, but nobody goes to ChatGPT for the truth.
Same question. Why you bury -kill- a thing without a true replacement?
Oh, wow. Thanks! I will totally look at that!! I was even trying to look for strings within the Mac binary, and browsing around the repo for the PWA creation code (which I didn't find). I'm super curious what's in the .desktop file. I'm definitely going to check that out this evening.
I took that article a lot less seriously after seeing that the author just founded an AI startup
I'd have my own share of experiences, so I'll take what you say here at face value. (Though there are a wide variety of experiences).

Given your background, I think you might find Christopher Wallis's Tantra Illuminated -- in particular, the chapter on the View of Tantra -- more sensible. Although it does not talk about wholes, centers, and unfoldings in those terms that Christopher Alexander does.

I think the key is in the non-duality of creator and creation. That within all parts are the Whole. I can't tell from the wikipedia page on Leibniz's monadology if monads are distinct from each other, whereas that stuff about wholes and centers point to apparent distinctions on a continuum that is the Whole.
That doesn’t really apply to software like Chrome modulo backup / restore accidentally confused but the risk of that depends on how that’s implemented (feels unlikely).
https://youtu.be/-aUcvswVJ58?t=2962

"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary bonding process--the childhood, if you will--that has the most far-reaching repercussions."

Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

Accompanies the Digital Sentience technology

Bonus :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUcvswVJ58&t=3852s

"'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Retry.'"

Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

Accompanies the Matter Editation technology
Make sure to read this before using vim for anything crypto related!

https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/638

To sum things up, the Vim maintainers are totally ignorant on the topic of cryptography, but what's worse is that they are highly stubborn and refuse to accept their ignorance while ignoring valid criticism from people who do know. This combination of traits does not mix well with cryptography, where doing things correctly is extremely difficult but also extremely important.

I am not totally sure whether this specific issue has been fixed since I last checked this out, but at the time Vim's encryption was totally broken and should not have been used at all.

I am not too familiar with Vim overall, but Emacs file encryption uses GPG to do all of the important stuff, and just provides a nice interface to that. I imagine Vim has something similar available at least as a third party extension. Letting something like GPG or Age handle the important stuff is a much better way of handling this!
microG (https://microg.org/) is a very cool, important and (it seems like) under-appreciated component of a usable Google-free Android system. They take donations via Liberapay: https://en.liberapay.com/microG/

The whole ecosystem related to this topic deserves support IMO, especially ironing out all the kinks for daily use, starting with the installation (have you seen LineageOS's download page?!).

EteSync enables end to end encrypted cloud storage for calendar and contacts: https://www.etesync.com/
Tips:

1. Wear cycling shorts and pull your boys up so that you're not sitting on them when you ride.

2. Don't put so much weight on the saddle. The saddle is not a seat, it's meant as an extra point of control to lean the frame. Put your weight on the pedals. Also, is the saddle at the correct height?

I ride tires at 115 PSI daily and have never had issues with numbness anywhere on my body.
Unless there is a stop sign, traffic signal, or sharp curve at the bottom before you've gotten to spend all that energy you worked so hard to build up. It's just not a guarantee that you can go full tilt down the gigantic hill you just climbed.
Can't wait for Adam Something to tear this apart.
Windows v3.11 was the most significant... Windows 2000 was the best.
Apple has a history of adding apps like this all the way back to MacWrite, MacPaint. Their strategy has been consistent since the beginning of the Mac; they provide end to end experiences that work out of the box. In the case of collaboration the use case has become so essential to their experience that they needed to build it themselves instead of relying on third parties. They do the work of integration instead of asking the user to do it. The downside is that the cross-Apple experiences are sometimes not great but that's not the problem they are trying to solve.
> You're only commenting on your personal belief of how your ideal static analyzer would magically work to meet your expectations.

This is how sound static analyzers are advertised.

> This doesn't correspond to how static analyzers work in reality.

Of course it does not, since a normal static analyzer is not sound. However, a sound static analyzer is sound.

> Unless you can point out a static code analyzer which performs the sort of check that complies with your personal beliefs, it will remain firmly in the realm of practical impossibility.

I already did (and explained that while I have yet to use it, NIST did a positive review). Until you learn better reading comprehension, you will never see it. Here is a hint. Look 6 comments up.

> C is now what? 5 decades old? Wouldn't that be enough time for anyone to roll that out if it was in fact feasible?

The theory was made 5 decades ago:

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

It has already been rolled out in aviation, nuclear power, etcetera. Even NASA is using an implementation of it:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/tech/rse/research/ikos

You, like myself a few months ago, had never heard of it. However, when was the last time you seriously looked for something like this? I have been making a major push to resolve all static analysis reports from Coverity, Clang and others in OpenZFS. I found it when looking into additional static analyzers. If it were not for that, I would still be entirely unaware.

That being said, you have a clear reading comprehension issue, since I already provided links showing that NASA has deployed software implementing that theory and NIST did a positive review of software implementing it. It is absurd to read that and think “this is not feasible”.
Is your photo library on a spinning hard drive or USB drive? I had this problem before which the setup, and it went away when I moved my library to my internal SSD.
He's saying, and I agree, that a casual first time user making a low friction complaint somewhere like here should simply be digested immediately by a team member and ammended onto a perviously created bug in their system. Or a new bug should be created by a team member.

I do this at my job all the time because our Jira setup is fucking balls and I have all kinds of greesemonkey to make it usable and quick for me. Any casual user is going to bounce the fuck off our jira setup. Secondly I know if there is already a bug in our system covering this issue or not, less time for my team to do de-duping etc.
Jacques Lacan: The Best and Least Known Psychoanalyst (2018)
That's a gigantic savings, but not surprising since film grain (or noise generally) is the worst thing to compress. It's hard to think of any other single "feature" improvement that could result in such massive gains.

I've always found it funny that the "HBO" branded intro to all their shows is produced of pure visual static. ([1] for anyone unfamiliar.) They literally couldn't have picked something worse to encode for streaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08PQRA6MLo
My belief is that everyone has 6 or 7 substantial things to say when they meet someone new or have a deeper discussion with an acquaintance. These may be stories, anecdotes, or knowledge that people find interesting. It's likely you've honed them over years.

Write these down and sharpen them. Share them with friends and get their feedback.

This removes the problem of what to write, which can be daunting as a new writer. And you may end up discovering something new in these old conversation pieces!
Interesting, thanks for sharing that
Flash and Actionscript were to interactive and animated apps what Python is to generic coding today. It brought together ease of use and powerful functionality, accessible to mere mortals.
Very cool, and better UX!

Added you to the project README.

(I got a bunch of compliments for this project today, I hope you are enjoying seeing them too given we had the same idea)
As of today the characteristics of flywheels are definitely better for racing and not very useful to consumers. But I believe that they will find a usage if we find a way to miniaturize them enough.

Regenerative braking converts mechanical energy to electrical energy to send into a battery. This energy is then extracted, reconverted into mechanical energy, and then transmitted to the wheels.

A compact and efficient flywheel should remove the energy conversion and could improve the efficiency of EVs. We'll obviously hit a density limit at one point, but we're currently far off.

Williams proved it works, but because F1 cars have to use an ICE in a tight package, they had to pick between batteries or flywheels. We should hopefully start seeing EV race cars implement this soon.
This website is incredible. It blew my mind when I realized it was showing a star map superimposed on a street view image of our actual location.

A question from a very inexperienced stargazer - we went outside to look at the Starlink constellation that was passing overhead, and in the five minutes we spent looking for it, we couldn't see anything moving on that trajectory but did make out three apparent satellites moving on different trajectories, satellites apparently not known to the web app. Is that plausible or is it more likely we were mistaking airplanes or imagining things?
Why? Ukraine is not strategic to US interests. This is a proxy war with Russia. Zelensky owns Uncle Joe and we, the US taxpayers, are paying the extortion payments, some of which is routed back to the ruling class in DC.
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...and yet car-on-car accidents are still a major source of premature deaths, to mention nothing of when the cyclist is the victim. The potential to do great harm has to be the overwhelming factor when assessing road risk.
Just ctrl-c and ctrl-v, that is how you do it in Factorio at least.
So Google Books? [1]

Only problem is that pesky copyright that makes you buy them

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books
No I get what's meant though. The fact that the Amiga apparently had the native ability to sync its PLL to incoming sync signals (and presumably other clocks are derived from that?) is, for the time and for a general purpose micro at least, nothing short of amazing to me.