skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fastest way to do that is to put size limits on personal vehicles. There has been study after study showing that the larger and heavier cars get the greater the risk to pedestrians. Pedestrian fatalities have almost doubled over a decade.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/how-cities-can-stem-the...
Eyes and ears open in the city... I think a lot of humans would have spared the skater too.

Waymo vehicles impress me, I've seen them perform skillfully like you describe.
If you use a sufficiently potent airborne toxin, you'll achieve results even sooner.
The same applies to regular drivers. We do not track accidents they prevent.
You really believe their promise to leave, and that they won't, say, bump the threshold to 1500 and keep posting?
It’s so painfully obvious to me that the solution here is to not having flying humans because of bad drivers that hit and run and not “actually let’s ban autonomous driving” (the city will inevitably come after Waymo next)
It's a super nice feature to have system wide on iOS and macOS. Its presence in Safari lets the built in translate feature even translate text in images which is particularly useful for Japanese websites where it's common for half the site's text to be in images.
>Diversified away from ad revenue

Ad revenue diversified away from Twitter, and Musk is desperately trying to get any cashflow he can while refusing to pay bills

>Introduced breaking changes to accustom the user base to faster development

Why is this a good thing, on any planet? "We broke shit on purpose so that you would be used to us breaking shit regularly"

>Shrunk a bloated team to die-hards via whaling-and-culling

This is a weird way to say "fired anyone who told him that he was being dumb"

>Not least, open sourced some recommender system code

No he didn't. This one irks me so much. I work with machine learning models every day, and if you were familiar with working with ML, you would easily recognize what was "open sourced" (it's just source available) as just the basic scaffolding code AROUND the model. It would be like if you said you were going to open source your excel spreadsheet of important data, and you just put up the code for OpenOffice on github. You didn't "open source" anything that matters, and certainly not "the algorithm"
> We have the regulations. What we need is enforcement of existing regulations.

In the case of headlights, I disagree. Many other countries have laws that require always on headlights, or at least daytime running lights (DRLs) in some cases.

For example, I work in the auto industry and the cars that we distribute in America have different light programming than the cars we send next door to Canada. It's stupid. We should at least require DRLs in America and then we'd be on par with countries like Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, etc. who recognize it's safer when every moving vehicle is lit up. There's no day-to-day enforcement needed, the car turns on the lights automatically every time the vehicle is started.
3.5 can't browse. Only 4
https://warpcast.com/ is the best alternative yet
I disagree. I've always thought that "i18n" was pretty much the worst abbreviation option. At least with acronyms and more traditional abbreviations, the text of it gives you a mnemonic or clue to remind you of its meaning. These sorts of things give you nothing.
In principle, I agree.

It's just that, in practice, it's almost certainly impossible to reach safe self-driving cars without a period of 'public beta testing', you'll just never get enough data and experience.

Not entirely unlike how there's a period for new drivers where they really aren't safe, but there's no way for them to become safe without going out onto the regular roads and gaining more experience.
Having single men pay for other men's children, incentivising single motherhood seems inequitable, no?

Lions are smarter than us.
> Steam decks just don't have the capacity to last very long on the move. The G cloud, which is either doing light emulation or streaming games from someplace else doesn't need to do much.

I mean, you can do light emulation or indie games with low demands and the battery will last a long time. I don't have the power cord nearby when I'm playing with it.
Are we sure the flagging is actually false? I never got a Samsung phone because the default install seemed to be pretty intrusive.
Ouch, it's localization!

It took me 2 pages of DDG to find that word by searching the acronym(?). Now I know it's an L and not an upper-case I.
Compared to ordinary IP transit, yes; but most people who need to send inordinate amounts of data settled for massive peering links with every major ISP. There's various reasons as to why - everything from the privacy risks of using P2P technology[0], to ISPs who refuse to act as Someone Else's CDN and heavily throttle BitTorrent traffic, to people in the industry who refuse to touch BitTorrent because it has too much of an association with piracy.

[0] As evidenced by millions of John Doe lawsuits against IP addresses. Imagine getting sued because you watched a YouTube video someone else is trying to take down!
Monsters in the Middle Ages
Settlers of Catan would like to have a word with you.
That is outdated information.

It may have been true at the time, but now Tesla uses the interior camera to make sure you are paying attention to the road.

If you don’t want to use the FSD beta, you don’t have to activate the camera, or you can put tape over it. With either of these actions the user can opt out but will not have the ability to use the beta.
I think the lawsuit in the article draws a reasonable, if not conservative, line at knowingly exploiting vulnerable people to boost profits, which a whistleblower is saying Meta is doing. It's not just that the product is harming people, but that it is going out of its way to harm people. Is open decentralized social media doing this?

There are restrictions around advertising for cigarettes, I think for the same reason. To take it a step further in discussing around cars, I think companies who sell certain sized trucks are aware of the blind spots that make it hard to see people in certain spots. Reasonably, these trucks should be banned, or at least more conservatively, no new trucks with this flaw should be built or sold or require a commercial license.
I think the point is more that just because you can do something undetected doesn't make it legal.
The article:

> Some people with disabilities such as autism can struggle to understand non-literal language.

Your paraphrase:

> autistic people are extremely represented in tech.

You made a switch-a-roo. The author mentioned one group, and you took a subset of that group who don’t have the problem and conclude it’s not a problem.

I had never heard of a11y; I assumed it was some kind of gender identity.
Regardless of when you swing your arms, by doing so you're introducing additional energy into the system so is kind of beside the point. The relevant comparison (in the context of their paper) is how fast you can convert chemical energy into kinetic through your gait, not how much chemical energy you can load into the springs. Jumping stilts are a 4-step cycle:

1a. LOAD (Foot-ground contact, foot is descending)

2a. UNLOAD (Foot-ground contact, foot is ascending, optionally arms swing to boost upward force)

3a. WAIT (No foot-ground contact, foot is ascending)

4a. WAIT (No foot-ground contact, foot is descending)

Their proposal is 3-step:

1b. LOAD (No foot-ground contact, foot is descending)

2b. UNLOAD (Foot-ground contact, foot is ascending, optionally arms swing to boost upward force)

3b. WAIT(No foot-ground contact, foot is ascending)

Step 1b performs the same function as both Steps 1a and 4a, but is closer to Step 4a alone in terms of duration. By reducing the overall time one cycle of gait takes you're able to convert the same amount of energy from chemical to kinetic in a shorter amount of time (ie. achieve a more powerful gait cycle). This presumes that you can achieve equivalent levels of energy input with both methods, but this doesn't seem like a huge reach to me since both methods rely on springs so presumably you could fiddle with the spring constants until the overall energetics are the same.

It's kind of like how an 18-wheeler can produce tons of torque (which it needs to move something heavy), but has less horsepower than a Porsche. Torque is what determines how much weight you can haul (or in the case of jumping stilts, how high you can go), but horsepower is what determines how much time it takes to go from 0-60MPH. Swinging your arms is like adding more torque, but the paper is about maximizing horsepower.
Cheap? Based on what metric? It's a significant donation if you ask me. Also remember Sentry isn't a FAANG.
How do you know they're not doing it and that it's unreasonable to ask more considering the difficulty of the task? His point is that there's no excuse for not doing it, even if the task is impossible. We don't ask the impossible to car manufacturers, why should it be different with Meta? who's to decide?
I had a Cruise driverless car here in Austin, TX blow through a cross walk and get really close to me. I had a broken leg at the time and was using a walker. I almost hit the cruise car with my walker.

Before this, I was really impressed by Cruise and actually bought shares in General Motors because I was so blown away. But yeah those cars aren't perfect. However, maybe a human was controlling the car when it blew threw that cross walk? I would not be surprised if a person were to do something like that because people drive horrible all the time, but I would expect better from a computer.

Maybe that's part of the problem? We have bad drivers who are ultimately writing the software that controls the cars.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. If someone from Cruise happens to read this, try and add some code to prevent these cars from blowing through cross walks with people in them. (I'm not sure what the law says about this, but my interpretation is that if the cross walk sign is lit up, and there's a pedestrian in the cross walk, you should stop. Maybe it's okay to go if they haven't made it to your side of the street yet, but you should never get so close to a pedestrian that they can strike the vehicle out of anger with an object.)
In a city like San Francisco, building self-driving cars is easier than building "safer, more pedestrian friendly infrastructure". Those changes would take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars, and will not address the fundamental social problem: people prefer to travel in a clean, quiet car by themselves. San Francisco does not have the political will to make its public transit effective, let alone clean, quiet, and safe.
There's literally no way in which I expressed it as being known as a fact by me.

Did you make sure to reply like this to poster I replied to as well?
That’s autopilot, an entirely different thing from FSD beta.
Normal drivers stop or proceed slowly through intersections when pedestrians are in the road regardless of whether the person is supposed to be there. With great power comes great responsibility.

Anyone who doesn’t slow down in situations like that is a waiting to be like the Nissan driver: a person a-okay with committing manslaughter.

And two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because some human drivers are negligent and horrible doesn’t mean we have to accept robots varieties that are also bad.
> They were on there for a reason after all

Frankly, because the risk of getting publicly shamed on one of the biggest networks was too high to ignore. As Twitter sheds users and usage[1] some companies are evaluating this differently.

Also worth noting that you could, for a very reasonable price, make a few API queries a day before just to see who was complaining about your company and now to do so directly it costs $42,000 a month. Maybe if there was still a way to programmatically get your data then the calculation would go differently.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend...
A LLM that can use tools is probably going to know it can use tools. Either it's trained to do so or the information is embedded in the context.

3.5 can't browse, only 4 so the above is perfectly correct.
Alphabet Earnings Release FY23 Q3 [pdf]
Just living in a big city for a long time can do this to you. After a while you just learn to tune most stuff out and engage "autopilot", for a lack of a better word.
> migrating a lot of older Objective-C code to multi-platform SwiftUI which explains why Music.app in particular has seen so many regressions

Sorry, but this is objectively not true, having been subscribed to Apple Music for years prior to SwiftUI. It was always extremely bad relative to Spotify and the first regressions started when Apple dropped the standard iTunes UI in favor of embedded webviews.

And to be clear, the issue wasn't "web tech is bad", it was that Apple Music design team has been rudderless and disorganized for years.
I'm just going to point to this blog post by a reputable data recovery company that tested spinrite and found that it "fixed" a bad sector by overwriting it with irrelevant data from elsewhere.

https://www.recoveryforce.com/spinrite-a-data-recovery-progr...
Or we can use existing tech and solve the problem with global nuclear annihilation.
Congratulations! This is really well done - I love the concept and the UX! Beautiful job friend!
Well that coal runs anyway even if you are not consuming electricity from it.
I highly doubt driverless cars will have an actually positive impact with regards to reducing traffic, nor that they can go uninsured, nor that they will be a cheap option for commuting.

They might be safer than human drivers, but there are already superior solutions to that in the form of transportation systems that are not overly focused on cars.
High performance cores use a lot of transistors and take up a lot of space. When you are aiming for high performance, this is a good tradeoff.

The efficiency cores are physically smaller, cheaper, etc. One you reduce the performance expectations to the point where they satisfy the requirements, they are a much better choice. The efficiency core has more perf-per-watt than a clocked-down performance core.

It seems counterintuitive. But when your budget for transistors is X and your budget for power draw/heat dissipation is Y, and there is no leeway whatsoever, the big.LITTLE concept gets you more aggregate performance.
Jeez man. Seems like a news story about the EU being on a power trip hits the front page every week now. Thanking my lucky stars I don’t have to live under such a controlling regime.
Turo makes it pretty clear when you rent a car that you can choose from one of three insurance plans through them. https://help.turo.com/en_us/summary-and-cost-of-protection-p...

Most car insurance plans and credit cards don't cover peer-to-peer sharing, and Turo warns you about that too:
https://help.turo.com/personal-insurance-requirements-or-gue...
https://help.turo.com/insurance-or-coverage-via-a-credit-car...

(I've both hosted and rented through Turo, and always chose insurance on both sides because of these risks.)
I know a few people that loved the windows phone, but frankly, I'm glad they failed. We didn't need another walled garden with a closed-source proprietary ecosystem. If they opened up the OS it could have been a good thing but there was no evidence that they had such plans.
I’ve had several low-light situations where my Tesla identified a pedestrian and applied the brakes before I did (typically dark clothing on a dark street).
This article is so bereft of specific details that it could easily pass as a dystopian science fiction short story. Fortunately, it’s just marketing PR for a global logistics company.
I did best when I didn't "overthink". I would briefly reasoned about the geometry, then stop once it felt right
The OSI Deprogrammer
You can ignore what you want, but HOA won't ignore you.
This is the NEW iOS. Before updating to iOS 17, this did not happen to me. With the new 'transformer' autocorrect, it does. Supposedly it is context aware and that is why it is correcting past words as you keep typing.
> Mobile doesn't have 4K screens . . .

The Sony Xperia 1 series does (along with a headphone jack, microSD card support, notification LED, a hardware camera button, no hole in the screen for the front camera, etc.).
Exactly! I so often think about this. I don't know anything about sociology or economics or statistics to even have the words to meaningfully phrase my concern, but can give examples.

First, to make it easier to reason about, assume that with any given thing, what you go along with becomes commonplace and is done by everyone, all the time -- and if you resist, it is not done by anyone. (On smaller scales, especially 1-on-1 relationships, this might be literally true, so)

So, for example, you can increase profits a bit by making your website take 2 seconds longer to load for the benefit of JavaScript fuckery. Never mind privacy, just load times. Now, in the universe where everyone mirrors your actions, now every website you load takes 2 seconds longer to load. In some cases that means going from 20 seconds to 22, so no big deal... but HN goes from 0.1s to 2.1s, hah. Can you imagine how much time that would take up, for maybe not even that big amount money, that can't buy you time?

Or advertising, propaganda, etc. Yeah, you can sell your thing for more, or to people who don't really need it or would be better off without it... but unless you have a huge corporation, you don't even have that many products, yet now you live in a world full of advertising, and the pollution, waste of energy, and bad choices of people you love, or maybe people who end up hurting you because of the shit choices they made based on propaganda.

You can make "sponsored content", sure. But now philosophy and deep thought are dead, because everybody else is lacing whatever they say with a nod to some sponsor.

I really wish I could describe what feels like this hugely important thing that is kind of invisible to us, because we have nothing to compare it to, or the time or resources to carve out a large enough space in which to be different and then compare the results. If we only could see (I can't, it's more like a hunch, something I can't put my finger on but also not shake off) how all these things add up, with a kind of bird's eye view...

I imagine it would look like a local optimum, right next to a HUGE optimum. Like thirsty people fighting over a stone to suck on, next to a lake with clear, fresh water, unbeknownst to them.

I just cannot fucking prove it and that hurts :/
Thanks.

Couldn't see the thread, no account =/ Twitter is so broken these days...
I would guess one difference is that the average distance traveled by car each year is higher in the US. Google results suggest its roughly twice as much.
The Palestinian Authority, purportedly, and Hamas, effectively, in some ways. I am not an expert but I think there is strong consensus that Hamas does not represent regular Palestinian interests. Hamas should be condemned for their actions. But I don't see how regular Palestinian people are to blame.
But SF is a damn rich city (due to all the tech companies and their employees). Why didn’t they solve or at least tackle these problems?

It’s not like Cruise / Waymo could change city planning against the cities will, even if they wanted.
Had an experience recently where I tweeted at booking.com's profile @bookingcom
only to be tweeted back by 5-6 different lookalike profiles all pretending to be customer support and asking for my personal information and a WhatsApp phone number to resolve my issue. All the accounts were something like @Bookingcomx @BookingCom_44 @BookingCom__4

I'm thinking how hard can it be to automatically block this from Twitter's end? They were all using the official booking's profile image and had something in their profile info indicating they were "booking". It's just a few simple checks and then at the very least require extra validation of the account before allowing them any further.

You can go right now and look at everyone sending tweets to the official account, their replies will be full of scammers https://twitter.com/search?q=%40bookingcom&src=typeahead_cli...
Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
"Mail" on Windows notified me that starting with 2024, Outlook will replace it as the new default Mail client on Windows. It also asked me if I want to switch now.

I decided to try it out and during setup of the new free Outlook I got asked how I want to see my ads: As a banner above the mail window or in my inbox.

This took my by surprise since it essentially means, that the default mail client for Windows now will start serving ads.

Tweet for reference: https://twitter.com/Farbklex91/status/1716847430510023000
better driving imo
Most people growing shrooms are not doing it at scale and are generally only selling to friends or acquaintances. For this particular drug- the risk seems pretty low.
That metric is tracked indirectly, by the lower number of accidents that AVs are involved in per distance travelled compared to human-driven vehicles.
I a3e, s2p it!
Waymo is leagues ahead of Cruise. They feel absolutely safe and go at the speed limit.
Walter Bright: Crafting Self-Evident Code with D [video]
"Cruise gives the cars cutesy names" is typical of fast turnaround journalism. The reporter doesn't have the time or resources to investigate the details to determine if this is indicative of a casual culture at Cruise. Instead, they can drop the easily verified vehicle name and let the readers fill-in-the-gaps. It doesn't exactly line up with CA DMV suspending the AV permit, but it adds so-called depth to the story.

I wouldn't expect this offhanded fact in long-form, slower journalism. But I expect this from Reuters.
"The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men; to one it is barren, dull, and superficial; to another rich, interesting, and full of meaning."

- The Wisdom of Life, Arther Shopenhauer.

To enjoy life you have to pay attention to it.
Yes, I have been taking a look at https://github.com/nektos/act which allows running github actions workflow locally. I am investigating if I can integrate it directly in togomak, so that users can reuse existing github action in their pipeline. For the most bit, these pipelines run in node docker containers. I'm hoping to add a concept called "operator" where you can specify or use multiple build backends like Google Cloud Build, or GitHub Actions.
Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans
I’ve been nearly hit by a Waymo as a pedestrian when the thing could see me well before it passed.

I hate that they use giant SUVs, really inappropriate car for small city streets even if people love SUVs.
Node JS caps at less than 10K RPS...
Yes, to be clear, I agree with the author. But I bet the author also thinks it's an unpopular opinion, else they wouldn't feel the need to write a blog post defending their choice.
Weekly? Now, this is nowhere near SF levels, but I live in South Austin, and I probably see at least 1-2 autonomous cars every single day I go driving in town.
Lowering speed limit to 25 mph isn't a magic wand. People will speed what they feel safe to speed.

If we want to reduce pedestrian fatalities, there are a raft of social policies and urban planning decisions we can make that reduces fatalities to a potentially very low level if we decided that's a priority. We don't need to rigorously enforce the speed limit to make that happen.
this is satire right?
> Edit: Where does the notion, that an EU body is behind the campagne come from?

It's literally what the linked article is about.
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“We” have done nothing of this sort. SF is its own trashfire and they just gave up on enforcing any traffic violations except parking which brings revenue. You can look this up in their own stats for this year