skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That piece reports that the note in question was not taken down by a central authority in Twitter, and was instead voted down. You gotta read the correction at the bottom.
Good. C++ is discouraging. It combines huge complexity with readily available footguns, and the prevailing attitude is that all developers must be able to write perfect code with a full understanding of the language. Otherwise any security holes or runtime crashes are their fault.
Do you really think any fine this trial could create would ever be enough? Trials like this tend to spur political action..but my point is clear. Tesla will pay some rounding error fine, the US Gov will do nothing to stop it. This trial cannot possibly generate an actual smackdown without political intervention. This isn't the EU.
90% of the article is about HOW the ratings are taken into consideration...
If you aren't using the scripting language enough for it to get in the way, you're probably not using it enough for it to make things easier either.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying it's impossible to strike the balance where it makes sense. I'm just saying I've yet to see it work, and I would, therefore, not assume such a balance is given by default, or even easy to achieve.
The government mandates adding rear view cameras to all cars at a cost of like $1 million dollars per life saved.

There is no rational basis for vehicle safety standards and the outcomes (deaths per passenger mile) show that we are doing a horrible job at it.

Regulating the addition of LIDAR based object detection to all vehicles will have no basis in safety until domestic manufacturers can't compete with imports and they need another expensive component to tack on to every car to narrow the price gap in their incompetence to compete globally. Then there will be a PR campaign, funded by Detroit, about how necessary it is for "safety" to add LIDAR or whatever to every car.
I lived in a fraternity that had (approximately) 20 people living there. We went through multiple gallons of milk in bags.

Probably about half of the people living there were alcoholics, (although I didn't recognize it at the time.)

I distinctly remember one brother casually drinking a glass of milk in the middle of the day. He was one of the bigger boozers, too.
Buy her a smart speaker or teach her how to use Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa on her phone. MyCroft is also an open source alternative. If she can speak english he is in luck . I am hopeful that there will be chatGPT integration and support for other languages too. Please give love to Mycroft's opensource github page: https://github.com/MycroftAI

Teach her how to text you and listen to audiobook and podcast using smart speaker.
It's cheating to help a 7 year old understand how to do basic math? Because the alternative is them staring at a paper and writing random numbers down.
This is the guy that thought that a simulated(on traditional CPU) quantum algorithm could be faster than a traditional algorithm.

This is the guy that thought of Ethereum because he disagreed with a balance patch in an MMO and thinks that in a blockchain mmo you could just fork it.

Every take he has is about cryptolibertarian ideology and should be treated as such.
I have tried this but never got it to work. I only recently got the update that limited my charging to 80% so maybe I was behind.
I wish the Python<->Rust interop story was a little better. I learned to write some C++ for an embedded thing (smart flashlight, story for another time) and immediately started writing the Python extensions I struggled to write with Rust.

(The average data science/ML-ish person encounters/figures out custom algorithms maybe three or four times a year, and three of these are fast enough with vectorization contortions. I've had two cases that were recursive and 25X faster in $fast_lang than I could possibly make in Python.)
> I'm curious if somebody is working on a flavor of the modern C++ that abandons backward compatibility ?

This is just Rust. You can't really deprecate bare pointers in C++ without completely wrecking the language.
How do you conclusively attribute diabetes to agent orange 40 years after the fact? What test do you run, and what scientific methodology do you employ?

We are real bad at connecting dots that take more than a few years to happen. So many other things happen to us every day. Even if some bad action doubles your odds of a certain outcome.. that means it is still 50/50 if the original thing "caused" your bad outcome.
That's a very rosy view of humans. The average person gets older, not wiser; they see the consequences of their actions and find someone else to blame. Real social and cultural change comes from new generations.
tesla is free to release their correspondence with him, provided they don't have a sketchy company policy to avoid communicating about such matters in retainable form

> The Tesla Files episode revealed that the BEV maker instructs its technicians always to provide feedback orally. Internal documents obtained by Handelsblatt stated: "Do not copy the report below into an email, text message, or leave it in a voicemail to the customer."

oh... never mind.
Nope. I am not a programmer, except for that time I got paid to write common lisp. The only thing except that I have done for money is some data processing using python.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News becoming more medical/health related?
I'm not sure when this trend started but it seems to me that a lot of articles that hit the front page are more medically or health related, especially on the weekends.

Just this morning I see:

Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues

Ask HN: My mother is slowly looking her eyesight, how to prepare?

A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells

Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in worldfirst discovery

On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream

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Is anyone else seeing this trend?

If so, why do we think this is happening?
There’s been numerous articles in nearly every field of science about this!
You get less than 7 hours of sleep a day?
"Some people" including both the founder (pg) and the main moderator (dang) of HN (and me too, though my opinion doesn't matter much outside the bounds of this comment).

The thinking I've seen explained before - and personally agree with - is that it's better for people to be able to disagree with a downvote than to have shallow "I disagree" replies.

edit: pg @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

Although every time it gets discussed there are people on both sides of whether it's good or bad for downvoting to disagree to be encouraged, eg recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37251926
The fervor over this is unwarranted.

When cars first debuted, they were incredibly dangerous and killed lots of people. Yet we persisted.

Airplanes, too.

Fully autonomous cars are on the streets of San Francisco. They run into trouble, yet the experiment persists.

We should allow for civil suits, especially when negligence is found, but the only way to progress forward is to make real world attempts.

The promise of autonomous driving is worth trillions of dollars for all of the opportunity it will unlock. And as macabre as it may be, there will continue to be deaths along that development path.
No, it's just an opinion - the point of the comments section of this site.
https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_optimize ?

If SQLite feels that performing database optimizations (such as running ANALYZE or creating new indexes) will improve the performance of future queries, then some database I/O may be done.
It's funny to think that the cause of the bug could have been this actual mistake by actual humans sneaking through into their training data.

One of the things they talk about in the video is the hoops they had to jump through to get the car to make a complete stop at stop signs, since almost no human drivers actually do that.
I think the standard for using a chemical that never breaks down and exists forever is that you to the best of research ability have shown it to be safe. It's crazy that we allowed companies to just make this stuff and we are stuck with it forever. How do you realistically expect to compensate someone who gets some adverse health effect from these chemicals in 2000 years long after the life of whatever company made them? We make it far too easy for companies to create massive negative externalities and it should be harder.
> But what interests me most about Community Notes is how, despite not being a "crypto project", it might be the closest thing to an instantiation of "crypto values" that we have seen in the mainstream world.

Huh? I didn’t see any MLM or pump-and-dump in the community notes
Stoic philosophy covers a lot of this, I particularly enjoyed listening to Marcus Aurelius Meditations[0].

Live life, be nice to everyone around you, enjoy the now and be humble. Strangely those ideas are 2000 years old and yet we still don't understand them.

[0] https://archive.org/details/meditations_0708_librivox/medita...
IIRC you can even spoof the URL, so the URL on screen is not what you will be directed to. It is a perfect ground for phishing attacks. PS: Skype and Teams share parts of the same XML message format, you can have some fun there too :)
There were no close to impossible/missing features.
Even regular car has cracks what’s new?
What does -w do? This works without it, no?

Edit, found it, "use whitespace as the delimiter"

https://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/1/cut/

For most cases like the OP you'd know the delimiter anyway so I don't think the absence is a big deal, and if not it would be easy to use tr or sed to make it consistent
Yes, basically at least one lane either side of you in normal driving unless someone is overtaking, or you are. I like the extra reaction time this gives.
Paywall alert
Something I’m not seeing yet in these comments is a discussion of the other automakers’ implementation of the same features.

Nearly every other luxury automaker has an automatic steering and lane change feature as well.

I think that other automakers will be hit with similar lawsuits regardless of what the driver assist system is called, because it will be easy to argue that the driver assistance systems assume some percentage of responsibility while active, and because you don’t have to win a lawsuit to reach a favorable settlement.

Tesla may pay out more than other automakers due to its optimistic marketing.
Promises are cheap - even if made by researchers and engineers deeply believing that they can beat OpenAI. Let alone any assurances given by PR or marketing departments. And don't fool ourselves - everything announced publicly is prepared or at least approved by such.

Computational power alone is not the only resource. It is also the training process itself (see this talk by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQun8Y4L2A, at 1 min) and, obviously, data and its quality.

I will be convinced only after Google demonstrates that Gemini is better than GPT4 (in some, or all, tasks).
> Kitchen knives are also unsafe and dangerous yet with their correct use we can create wonderful meals.

This is very well put and mirrors my sentiment as a long-term C++ swe.

I also think that the following quote is rather misrepresentative:

> C++ is a great programming language. The complaints are just from people who aren’t up to it. If they were better programmers, they’d appreciate the C++ way of doing things, and they wouldn’t need their hand-held. Languages like Rust are not helpful for such true professionals.

C++ is a great language and a lot of complaints do come from people who aren't up to learn it properly. This isn't elitism, and this state of things has been true for every skill-based discipline in history. I am not saying that I am better than people who refuse to learn C++, or that C++ is a better language than others - I don't think there are many C++ programmers at all who do, it would be a very ridiculous stance.

C++ is a great language, it is also a somewhat dangerous language. It is not a language for everyone and every purpose. And that is fine. Just like knives are great instruments even if they are a bit dangerous and unsafe to those who do not wish to learn it properly and where it makes sense.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how many people who just don't see a problem with C++ one calls "elitist" or other things, not everyone is obsessed with micro-improving a language that clearly works very well.
You are free to feel offended I guess.
AC dumps hot air _up_, not down.
Farms that thought they were organic were getting free wastewater sludge -- recommended by the EPA -- and applying it to the land as fertilizer. The tiny fraction of land that they test gets reclassified as permanently unusable for agriculture now. But it was an extremely common practice and they barely test any farms. So do the math. It's everywhere. Particularly in the meat and veggies.
Yeah--- seven days a week. I do the same routine on the weekend.
PHP Doesn't Suck (Anymore)
American build quality "documented" in the movie "Gung Ho"
In the absence of IDE features, you also can't differentiate between a function taking a pointer and a const pointer. You must be aware in all cases that the value that you pass to the function may be modified. Yes, the function would not be modifying the pointer itself, but the outcome is exactly the same. A reference is pretty much equal to a non-nullable pointer in this context.
Nor as an investment.
To be honest I think this is more an issue of an org that can be constructed nearly whole cloth by one or more corporate entities and be basically designed from the word go to misinform the public, somehow. Be it the more Machiavellian end of the spectrum where you want to convince people a bad thing is good actually (a lot of climate stuff fits this, looking at you Koch) all the way to this kind of thing. The scale of the lie is an interesting data point, but nevertheless, we as a society have apparently decided we're okay being lied to at scale. That's... weird, right?

Like even if you say companies should have the right to lobby (which frankly I'd disagree with but I digress), why are they allowed to do it like this? Where they astroturf a "citizens" group to trick people into parroting their propaganda?
These are church orgs. Not churches
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. This seems like it would also hold true for Slack, Teams, Discord -- any app that would make another request to render the "card" for the URL unless those apps are proxying those requests.
The first thought that occurred to me when I saw how much "charity" Bent organized in the form of tools to keep them making hats was "how many of these people wouldn't become lawyers or business people if they were being being paid fairly?"

They make the hats, but it's clear who wears the crown.
Someone alluded to this in the comments here, but this does strongly remind me of the Slashdot moderation method but much more sophisticated. That was my favorite site moderation method. Giving meta judgement/commentary on things felt like a privilege and not a given.
You’re right. But the alternative might be bash + perl or just bash. Or none of them. Perl is anyway the first one to go.
I've heard other cases like this in Asia, where some people ate raw snake meat (ie sushi style), which was considered delicacies, and one man ended up with parasite in his lungs and was on TV news. Another case was in US where a boy ate pork that was not fully cooked and ended up with parasite in his brain. Since then, I'm very careful to make sure all pork are fully cooked (especially at barbeque).
I think the following excerpts make a nice juxtaposition:

> the Autopilot system caused owner Micah Lee’s Model 3 to suddenly veer off a highway east of Los Angeles at 65 miles per hour, strike a palm tree and burst into flames, all in the span of seconds. The 2019 crash, which has not been previously reported, killed Lee and seriously injured his two passengers, including a then-8-year old boy who was disemboweled.

> Wins by Tesla could raise confidence and sales for the software, which costs up to $15,000 per vehicle.
Sound Card EEG (ScEEG) Technology
Multi-factor authentication fatigue attack
It's such a bad book. Why would you continue to recommend it? It doesn't follow its own advice. It doesn't have any clue of how language actually functions. The style it purports to offer up is old and crusty. There are far better books that take a more correct view of the differences between style and correctness (Pinker's, King's).

There's a reason linguists hate S&W. It's really not good.
It does have Rust like borrowing in SPARK subset of the language.

There was attempt to have it in Ada 2022 Standard, but it came late. Committee decided it's best not to rush and let compiler vendors implement how they think is best and go from there.

>It’s safer than C, but I’m not quite sure where recent specs line up against C++.

Ada allows to return objects of variable size, so it's not that common that you actually need to explicitly allocate stuff. The general guideline for dynamic memory allocation is:

1) Use Second stack (this is how Ada allows to return object of variable size)
2) If cant use containers
3) If cant use controlled types (RAII)
4) Only then use New.
The smartest person I know would drink an entire bottle of vodka in an evening when he was a freshman.

He quickly stopped that behavior, though. (I think I told him he made a fool of himself and he didn't need to do that to impress people.)

I personally never had the stomach for that much alcohol. I once drank a single bottle of wine (4-5 glasses) in an evening and I could hardly handle it.
There have been a few times I’ve wrestled the car on the motorway for various reasons. I’m not sure what it would have really done, but it was starting to do things I didn’t like so I took over.
Ask HN: Police use of drones and the 4th Amendment?
I saw a post where police used a drone catching some kids up to some mischief, which sent them running...

It got me thinking about local PDs using drones for whatever, and the 4th amendement:

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>Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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>>and particularly describing the place to be searched

Seems like a drone use is a warrantless search?

I am just curious on the interpretation here - as I am sure we will see police drone use en-mass in the next few years...

And then there will be prosecutions against others who use drones to take out police drones, or anyone destroying a police drone - regardless of if the drone's by the PD is legal.

Anigbrawl thoughts?
That only applies in the US, for Europe (and probably other markets) you need to apply steering input.
You mean that the more people know about something, the more they tend to have certain opinions? That's interesting.

I wonder if I myself should try to align my views with those who know more, rather than those who know less?
The difference of course, is that pilots can squeeze airlines almost infinitely if they want to, because without pilots, the whole operation stops. They're the difference between flights happening and not happening, and they aren't easy to replace, and certainly not easy to replace quickly

Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't flexed this more.
Sounds like those programmers are spending a decent amount of time stuck in meetings :P
I made a SAW filter at university. Mostly in make-shift labs and with old gear our professor collected from industry donations of scraped stuff. We did everything from design to preparing the silicon, lithography, etching and even bonding the chip so we ended up with a nice working filter in a package that is indistinguishable from a professionally made one. I still have it somewhere.

The nice thing about a SAW filter is that you have to basically do all the steps you do for an integrated circuit but many steps are a little simpler. The design is pretty well doable with undergrad math (fourier transform). The lithography can be relatively low-res and you can test it pretty easily with standard electronics lab equipment.
No. And what you posted aren't "theoretical" concepts, either.
I sustained a back injury while on active duty. I have a rating for my back. 90% of the time, I'm able to function normally. Every once in a while, I re aggravate the injury and I'm laid up for a week or 2.

The disability rating ensures I'm able to get treatment from the VA for my service connected condition. I still pay for my own health insurance and see private doctors as the care the VA provides is garbage, but I have it as a back stop if I ever fall on hard times.

Having a disability rating doesn't strictly mean you're disabled, that would be a 100% disability rating.
None of the bugs in the first article are relevant today.
If you think that's a good idea, you don't understand why tools like awk/perl/sed/etc exist and are popular. They are, by design, optimized toward specific kinds of use cases.

In fact, their dynamically typed nature is a perfect example of that since it's much easier to quickly manipulate strings in a language that isn't so strict, as they'll do more heavy lifting for you via automatic coercion while limiting extra syntax/boilerplate (which, granted, is less of a problem with modern type inference). That makes it a lot easier to toss together quick one-liners and glue code, which is where these tools shine in the first place.

Hell, even something like python or ruby is just a little too structured for my taste when doing something quick and dirty, which is why I love perl as it can be unstructured if that's all I need, or I can create a more structured program if that's what the problem requires.
I used to not do that either, used to just slow down a bit - until someone doing that hit me as a pedestrian. Now I stop every time.
Certainly.

Let's say you are centering a 2 1/4" board on a 22" frame.

The edges need to be 8 3/8" apart.

It's a lot more common to divide lengths in halves (and quarters, etc) than tenths.
I guess I stand corrected? Haven't observed it myself. Definitely hear it happen on small planes but Korean Air doesn't really fly them AFAIK.
Arduino Nano ESP32 – It's nice – But probably not for me
I'm also in the New England area. In Boston, there's LibrePlanet, which is in March. I went for the first time this year; it was a lot of fun.

I'm still trying to figure out if I'll fly out to Columbus for OLF this year. I went last year and the year before. It's worth the travel to me, but I have a flexible schedule. The talks are good, but the people are the real reason to go. A lot of the people who go to these conferences work on really interesting stuff. There are of course also big names like maddog and Doug McIlroy.
Try it and maybe you get a dream-come-true.
>You Should Be Working on Hardware

I know, I know, I was just taking a short break like I don't usually do every decade.
I've been working with PHP since the early 2000s, and it has undergone massive changes. I made a video recently called "PHP doesn't suck (anymore)"[0] to try to cover some of the changes from 2012 to now. If you read through the comments you see a lot of people surprised at how much the language has evolved. And a lot of people saying "PHP sucks lol," but it is YouTube afterall.

[0] https://youtu.be/ZRV3pBuPxEQ
There were no solid arguments this was a scam, whatever that means.