skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely unclear to me what to do if a person is trapped under a tire. Driving more may cause more injury or allow more bleeding from the existing injury. I guess a human driver would call 911 and the dispatcher may provide advice on what to do or suggest to wait for emergency services.

I think the bigger issue is the decision to move the vehicle after a collision involving a person not in a car. I've not had the misfortune to be in such a collision, but in the collisions I've been in, I would get out, and inspect the situation before taking any further action. Moving out of traffic is a good thing to do, but especially if there's a person, it's important to consider the situation before further movement. Even if it were just a vehicle to vehicle collision, I'd want to check if someone needed urgent medical attention, and acknowledge the collision with the other driver, make a plan for where to stop to discuss, and check for and clear any obviously sharp debris that may pierce tires of my vehicle or others' vehicle. A lot of that is outside the capability of an automated vehicle... but maybe human review before pulling to a safer place is a good choice especially if a person outside of a car is involved in the collision.
> It was pretty great actually, I got far better service from airlines via Twitter (RIP) than I did by phone.

Oh, I totally believe it, and that is exactly my point. X offering the best-in-class UX for customer service is great for users but (in my opinion) an egregious failure for the companies affected.

Companies are choosing to operate a critical portion of their business using somebody else's infrastructure with no contractual obligations! X is not responsible for architecting their platform to suit a service they do not offer and that nobody pays for.

> Not in my experience, they just moved to DMs.

I'm horrified but unsurprised that people are willing to share their personal info such as trip itineraries (hopefully not credit card info) with X. I am surprised (still horrified) companies choose this too.

To be clear, I am not a Musk apologist. I will never have an X account, and that's yet another issue with the current system. I can now expect to be treated as a second class citizen to airlines unless I opt to share my details with Musk.
From my perspective, as a relatively early adopter of Waymo (60+ rides). I have zero gripes with the driving itself. In fact I've seen Waymos do things that no human would be able to do*. Drop-offs and pickups I'd like to see improvements made like getting a bit closer to the curb. Occasionally the route selections make no sense at all.

* Waymo made a right turn up a steep hill. Two lanes each way. It then pulled a bit into the left lane abruptly and I didn't get why until a split second later a skateboarder was crouched down and went by on my right against traffic. There was zero chance a human would pull that off. Not enough time for a head check or mirror check. There wouldn't have been an accident but the Waymo clearly has insane reaction time and vision advantages - and uses them.
> I'm sure this will be the unpopular opinion but ...

The article you are commenting makes this point quite eloquently, so I'm not sure why you think this would be an unpopular opinion?
Totally agree, I hate abbreviations.
Let us avoid tilting at strawpersons. The author does not claim industry professionals shouldn’t know jargon. From tfa:

So for general use, I recommend against using a11y, yet I’ve named this site with this acronym. There are a few reasons I made this decision. Firstly, WCAG 3.1.1 does permit domain-specific jargon so long as it we define it. So, take this post as a definition. Additionally, I expect most people who have found this site will have found it because they are specifically looking for something accessibility related.
> This is a political problem though, it's not something businesses can solve.

correct. there's no easy answer, there's no silver bullet. it's on all of us to demand this of our local policymakers.
If you were taken a hostage by terrorists, the government is trying to free you, would you prefer them to:

- kill the terrorists and you OR

- stay with the terrorists until the government figures out a peaceful way to free you first before attempting to kill the terrorists?

Another Q:
If you were living in a certain city, they found out that there are terrorists around your house, maybe they dug a tunnel close to you, would you prefer:

- the army carpet bombing the area?

- the army attempty by other means to get rid of the terrorists?

* A hypothetical questions, not wishing you any harm
Examples 1, 2, and 4 are value based statements, nothing about morals at all. Examples 4 comes close, but it's really just saying "women value form over function" using different words, so it's a repeat of example 2.

Claiming that a group values good looking pants over pants with pockets isn't an appeal to morals.
Snapdragon Oryon, faster than Apple's M2 chip at 30% less power
I guarantee you every serious self driving car company (at least in the US) was looking at exactly this scenario after this happened with Cruise.
While I don't disagree, this is also a city that has whole lanes on major streets reserved for cable cars. The city isn't exactly known for making decisions that drive efficiency.
Why would it be weird?

National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard made the announcement in remarks prepared for a White House event later Tuesday focused on the so-called "right to repair," calling on Congress to pass legislation requiring such action across the country.
Not sure what you mean by pretty quiet, his podcast is still going strong and is quite popular. I don't know what your personal grudge against him is, but it doesn't sound like it's doing you any good.
I expect to see one every few minutes in San Francisco. When I counted in August, 4 of 100 vehicles going past my house were self-driving (https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/16873429948135628... ). I don't recall the exact time period, but believe it was just under half an hour.
> I've toyed with a couple of 256-register ISAs, and the moment you hit function calls/parameter passing you realize that to utilize those efficiently

Very revealing, thanks, this had never occurred to me
It is limited to San Francisco, rather than the whole of California, but they do just drive around the city, especially after 9pm. As a rider, the future is here. Instead of just checking Uber and Lyft for prices to get somewhere, now I check the Cruise and Waymo app for prices too. (Well, not Cruise anymore.) But yes, it's a thing. I call a car, sometimes it doesn't have a driver, and it takes me to where I need to go in the city when I'm unable, or don't want to drive. Or more likely, don't want to deal with parking. I'll take the bus when I'm going that way but the bus doesn't always go in the right direction.

Can't wait for them to be able to take freeways over to Oakland and down to Cupertino.
There are some in LA as well, although at a smaller scale.
The biggest issue for me is search, gmail spoiled me.
Openpkg – Cross-Platform Unix Software Packaging
You make good points but judging but by the march of progress I doubt it’ll be optional in the future to digitize your id.
It always was slow with larger mailboxes, taking a few seconds to react to a click (and sometimes freezing for minutes to move a bunch of emails ti a different folder).

I can’t tell if it’s any slower with Supernova or not. Feels about the same, to be honest. I suspect its bottlenecks are somewhere else.
We have the regulations. What we need is enforcement of existing regulations. The only thing that seems to get enforced around where I live is speeding, and very unevenly: one time a month or so you see them out giving tickets like gangbusters. On all other days and for all other laws, it seems like the highway is a free-for-all: Stop sign rolling, running red lights, playing with your phone while driving, weaving in and out of traffic, burnouts, excessive noise, coal rolling, go right ahead--nobody is stopping you.
> but because it's stupid as hell.

You are disputing the article with "because it's stupid". Do you have a better reason?
Where can I see videos (in the wild, not corporate) of this? I've never seen one in my life, though I'm in LA.
the passengers in the cruise were never in danger. The pedestrian dragged by the cruise, unfortunately, cannot say the same.
That's a fine baseline if your plan is to otherwise eliminate cars.

Otherwise "it's better than humans" is in fact a win.

When I had Hodgkins, I found out there is no baseline data for untreated patients. Scientific medicine was invented after the first cures for Hodgkins, so by the time anybody knew "We should measure properly what happens if you do nothing so we know whether we're improving on that outcome" it would be unethical because you're giving people a death sentence in order to do science, which, you know, we outlawed that because of the Nazis.

We can assume not treating Hodgkins is extremely bad but we don't have scientific data, because all the untreated people in a civilised country self-selected - they said "No" having been told that means they'll almost certainly die, and right soon if they say "No". That's not a normal sample, that's... crazy people maybe? Very religious people? Not normal. But we don't have actual baseline numbers.

However, although we don't have a baseline, we do run trials, they compare against what we're currently doing, called the Gold Standard, in my case ABVD. When I was treated, trials were investigating Stanford V, the fifth attempt by a team at Stanford to improve on the existing treatment regime. It was similarly effective at curing Hodgkins, but the side effects were, if anything, worse, so, no dice.

For cars that "Gold Standard" in the US is basically every adult except the very poor and the blind. If an AI can do better than the Gold Standard, even if it's not as good as you'd like, it's an improvement.
They had the balls to write "pulling the individual forward"
Yeah, but I as a man do not need to wear cargo pants to fit a phone in my pocket.

If you can get skinny jeans with room for a phone for men, you should be able to get skinny jeans with room for a phone for women.
Testing Compilers – The Fuzzing Book
Certainly it's fair to mention it, though. As a person who has never used a Steam Deck, reading about these experiences alongside the positive ones helps paint a fuller picture for me.
Yep, can recommend systemd in this case, really easy to apply basic hardening to services that just works.
All Natural Numbers Are Either Happy or Sad. Some Are Narcissistic, Too
“Screwing up publicly”

How else are they supposed to screw up?

If the city needs more information from the cars, they should sue for it not indefinitely suspend operations.

The city is looking to regulate all this like it regulates new housing (ie out of existence), there has to be consequences for it.
Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash His Rented Car's Windows
> Cars sometimes kill children, shall we ban them too?

Yeah if they sold cars with 0-star zero safety rating claiming that it's just too hard to do anything about making cars safer when you sell cars at scale.

If Meta was a low-margin business, we might buy their argument that "it's just too hard".
Nintendo Community Tournament Guidelines (2023)
Check intfiction.org!
> fixing all humans is impossible

Sounds like a good argument to ban almost all human drivers.
I agree that this is the best possible solution in the american healthcare system for any chronic issues.

For accute issues like getting in a car accident going through the established system is still the best option.
We're an active market in Phoenix for Waymo, and I live in Central Phoenix and see Waymos every single trip I take now; they're nearly ubiquitous. But I've also taken them several times. They're safe, very capable drivers, and I have a lot of confidence in them, to be honest.
This makes no sense because "Palestine" also refers to the West Bank/Fatah who are not participants in the conflict, and are not sanctioned
Y h8 K8s?
> Do you think Google's main motivation behind starting AV work 14 years ago and incinerating billions on it over the years was really rooted in speculative profit years down the road?

Honest question: why do you think Google funded this?
>this is median not mean. If you check the source data[1], 1m net worth is at roughly 90th percentile

I think you stated it backwards. Median is 50th percentile.
I’d be interested in that stat as well, and love imagining a person sitting in front of dozens of screens showing video of automated cars
yeah, another poster mentioned they would have heard the screaming.

audio is difficult because a human can differentiate a woman screaming from the sounds of construction, etc. And also can tell that it's someone in shock vs someone in pain.

I'm unsure if audio processing is good enough for that yet, but imagine if someone were to try and you could get these vehicles to stop by screaming near them.
> Do you think Google's main motivation behind starting AV work 14 years ago and incinerating billions on it over the years was really rooted in speculative profit years down the road?

yes!!!

imagine if everyone that commutes could watch ads, sorry, use Google's valuable products and services for an extra 3 hours a day
My Thunderbird window is not full screen but it's larger than the mail composition one. I can use that extra screen space to look at other things while I write a message. Short messages go through WhatsApp and Telegram nowadays. Outbound email is for important matters, so it's not uncommon to look at reference material. A tab wouldn't do.

Inbound email is 99.9% notifications. I read and delete most of them with K9 on my phone before downloading what's left with Thunderbird. BTW my mailbox is on a POP3 server. I clear it after downloading the messages.
Vice has the details. Cruise tried to failed to disclose their video evidence of their vehicle nearly killing a pedestrian.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ba3/california-dmv-suspen...

One wonders WTF they were thinking. Were they so sloppy they just forgot to show the video? Were they hoping DMV would never see it? Either way it's a terrible stupid and short sighted mistake. A major problem for Cruise is convincing governments their technology is safe and responsible. Hiding evidence is not going to help that case.
The Cruise statement is what mentions "pulling the pedestrian forward 20 feet" so it's clear she was dragged for at least that distance.
good. the UX of using it on anything but an iPhone is painful, and watching on a small screen is a small subset of usage
It would be interesting to see how the ability correlates with social behaviour. Having one or more siblings and the need to share pie, cake, or vlaai probably creates a modest selective pressure.
Aside from the other comments, pulling over when you detect a collision is definitely not best human practice on an ordinary city street for a human driver. If you detect a collision, you stop the vehicle, access the situation and maybe pull over based on your assessment of the situation.

And this brings a question to me: How did they create, develop, this post-collision routine? Afaik, the overall program/system guiding a self-driving is some combination of trained neural-network routines and more standard robotic feedback loops. But "what to do after a collision" seems like one of those corner cases that neither programming approach would or could deal with so what development created this routine? It would have to be pure ad-hoc-ery and that suggests that in Cruise's approach to the last-mile/endless-corner-cases problem of self-driving cars is just that, a series of ad-hoc fixed. And this approach can neither be safe nor can it scale.

And further, I have to presume Cruise and the others have a bay of human pilots that are called-on to deal with difficult situations. Why didn't the "you've just had a collision" signal not pull a human? (maybe it did and not saying that is their problem but otherwise..) The main explanation I can think of is ... the car's routines are already calling pilots a lot and the team is working feverishly to reduce this. An ad-hoc pull-over routine is intended to reduce those calls back to the pilots. Admittedly this is speculation but if true it reinforces my conclusion above.
Or browse HN for 5 minutes and see the term appear over and over and over.
please stop submitting dailymail links. dailymail is fear-mongering hate-speech dressed up as journalism.
Are Microplastics Causing Upticks in Dementia?
Emerging scientific research is uncovering indications of microplastics penetrating deep into our physiological systems
Reading that table, it sounds like 23AndMe should be classified as a Health Care Clearinghouse. I'm assuming they send samples to a lab for processing, and then convert those results into a standardized data format.
For those use-cases you might just be better off with either contract tests or simply making the payload itself typesafe with something like protobuf.

OpenAPI/Swagger is basically inextricably bound to REST/JSON APIs over HTTP. I also think they're quite abstruse in terms of defining non-trivial interfaces.
If you watch the Windows UI community talks on YouTube, at least on public channels, whoever is in charge doesn't seem to grasp how much all those rewrites killed the ecosystem, and they keep asking people to invest into WinUI/WinAppSDK, which not only is yet another rewrite, the tooling is a joke versus UWP.

No wonder that Windows developer community decided to ignore whatever is related to WinUI, and focus on the stable technologies from the past.
Why would they keep driving at all times with no passengers? How is that ecologically smart or sensible from a business perspective?
>If there was some sure fire guaranteed method we would do it tomorrow, no later the cost

No goal is worth pursuing no matter the cost.
Pretty sure a human driver would have done more than what Cruise did, which was...nothing. They didn't even respond to anyone until firefighters covered the vehicle's sensors.

> Firefighters obstructed the sensors of the driverless car to alert the Cruise control center. He said representatives from Cruise responded to firefighters and “immediately disabled the car remotely.”
I don't think any operator has a 1:1 correspondence between vehicles and remote operators. Remote operation is intended to be used when a vehicle has realised it can't handle the current situation it's in and needs external assistance.
Thank you for calling this what it is - a hack - despite 23andme's strenuous efforts to paint this as the fault of millions of users (see https://blog.23andme.com/articles/addressing-data-security-c...) rather than owning the vast technical or management failure that allowed this to continue undetected for months.

Without the risk of a giant fine or, say, jail time, many tech giants can and do get away with managing their data security badly.

That's right. It's happened before, and will continue to happen as long as there are no consequences.

Note that 23andMe is not the first online genealogy service to get hacked:

- In 2017, MyHeritage had 92 million accounts hacked https://www.hackread.com/dna-testing-website-myheritage-hack....

- In 2020, MyHeritage users were targeted in a separate phishing scheme. https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/07/security-alert-malicious...

- GEDmatch admitted “all user permissions were reset” in a 2020 attack. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-ge...

- Ancestry and Ancestry affiliated companies have had multiple security breaches over the past 10 years (https://www.hackread.com/software-firm-leaks-ancestry-com-us...)

- Ancestry has also destroyed people's archives when it decided it was no longer profitable or important enough to keep them. https://slate.com/technology/2015/04/myfamily-shuttered-ance...

- Last year, FamilySearch belatedly admitted a breach had exposed “users’ full names, genders, email addresses, birth dates, mailing addresses, phone numbers.” https://grahamcluley.com/seven-months-after-it-found-out-fam...

These are incidents that have been made public as required by law. There are surely thousands of other smaller incidents that are not reported, as well as major breaches that the companies themselves don’t even know about yet. And it will continue for years to come until lawsuits or brutal regulations with teeth are enacted.
There's no tracing tool to build policy with pledge? Seems like an obvious area to add functionality if it doesn't exist.

Commercial tools have had it for a long time.. even automatic profiling. Either explicitly profile during a test stage, which is best, or profile-on-first-observation.

In the full automatic mode, which is not optimal but is least effort, any operation performed in the first XX minutes/hours/days are considered 'allowed behavior' and anything after that is denied. Then it will either enforce or 'wait-to-enforce' where enforcement mode only turns on if there are no policy violations in the next XX configurable units of time.
Drizzle seems a bit low level. Reading the docs I see a thin DSL for schema definitions and a query builder, which seems to return plain objects.
Show HN: Cross-border payments on stablecoin rail
Hi guys, long time (for years) lurker of HN. I have a product to show you all. We recently launched in beta.

Not everyone loves crypto and has diamond hands. Not everyone wants to get paid in crypto. We've built Binamite for users who have clients that pay in crypto (all web3 companies), so that the users can receive money in their local fiat. We do the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Moreover, and more importantly, on the same rails, we make fiat-to-fiat cross-border payments at blockchain speed and cost. That means, for instance, Euro from Europe reaches ZAR in South Africa without ever going through SWIFT. All in a matter of hours.

Please check it out if you can. Any feedback is appreciated!

PS: Here's the demo for the lazy: https://binamite.com/demo (INR to NGN in 27 minutes). It'd take 3-5 days with SWIFT.
98% and 6 perfect cuts. I blame sibling rivalry.
Why? Allow enough humans to drive and inevitably some of them will start doing so drunk. It's in our collective nature.
Fitbit moving to Google accounts, but Workspace is incompatible, again
Struggling to understand the shame the author says she feels.

I've fallen a fair number of times in my life--often in full view of other people--and never thought much of it. Even fell a ways down a mountain this summer while trail running at night. Climbed back up to camp, flushed the cuts and scrapes with water and that was it. Shame never entered the equation.
Hah, you think that's bad? The ones for women are half the size!

> On average, women’s skinny jean pockets were 3.5 inches (48%) shorter and 0.3 inches (6%) narrower than men’s skinny jeans.
There's literally no way you know this for a fact.