skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably this is why the permit is being suspended:

"The AV detected a collision, bringing the vehicle to a stop; then attempted to pull over to avoid causing further road safety issues, pulling the individual forward approximately 20 feet."

First of all, I find it ironic that the human driver is still at large. I'm sure the Cruise car recorded the plate and they passed this to the police.

Second, the corporate speak on the Cruise release is very good. Notice how it says "pulling the individual forward", in other words, the car dragged the person while it attempted to get out of the way. I guess nobody thought about that edge case. And they released a completely irrelevant simulation showing that if the other car had been an AV this wouldn't have happened. Yet, the real issue with the Cruise AV is that after a collision it just blindly tried to pull over and it dragged the person. The same thing would have happened if the person had simply collided with the car on their own.
Except...

They won't reduce congestion and traffic, because people won't have to drive they'll be OK with being on the road longer. You just hang out in your living room on wheels.

Parking... Where are the cars going to park exactly? How far from the restaurants and homes etc? Won't the extra trips from/to parking lots create more traffic?

Reduced income requirements, that's a new one to me. These cars will have more tech that's more expensive to build and maintain. How does that make them cheaper?

50%+ of car trips are less than three miles... as a society what we need is a way to make those trips without cars.
Heart-warming! :D
Pedantic but my advice is that properly stated you would ask “any advice?” We never say “advices.”
> The C extension was an after thought

I understand that "afterthought" can be more of a subjective comment on the design than a concrete claim about the order of events, but still I'll quote directly from the RISC-V Instruction Set Manual:

> Given the code size and energy savings of a compressed format, we wanted to build in support for a compressed format to the ISA encoding scheme rather than adding this as an afterthought
therefore for consistency I assume you expect the same behavior for "taiwan" ?
I haven't taken a Cruise, but I've used Waymo several times and my experience mirrors yours. I've seen Cruise cars on the street get confused and back up traffic enough times not to trust them.
> The common abbreviation of accessibility is a11y.

What?

> We take the A and Y from the beginning and end of accessibility, and 11 for the number of letters in between. This abbreviation also creates a pleasing homophone for ‘ally.’

It took me way to long to figure out what this story is about and that it's not about feminism "allies" as men who align with feministic view are often called. It's all very confusing and the overtures on how clear it is feel out of touch with reality.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in full support of this. Of course I am, as it could happen to anyone with no fault of their ownm, to find themselves in a situation needing help.

A11y, really? This reeks of marketing. But we're talking about it, so it's effective.
The image text detection in Preview/Files has been working pretty good for me.
If a cousin, aunt, or uncle used this service, does that automatically mean my DNA is visible/accessible?
It seems the title has automatically been mangled. It should be: "How David Beats Goliath".
Microsoft Project Silica, long term storage
imo a simple normal vpn would solve any issue (well, it costs, but still may be cheaper compared to legal alternative)
The rest of us (humanity) are working hard at that.
The criminals don't even need to build it. They can just repurpose a DDoS network...
If Israel would stop illegally occupying Palestine then this would all be solved. Instead world powers are allowing this conflict to spin up in order to put more money in the pockets of the military industrial complex, no matter the humanitarian cost.
Everybody needs accessibility features sometimes:

> Say you’re designing for someone with one arm. There are roughly 20,000 people in the US with one arm. But if you add up the numbers of people with one arm, people with a temporary wrist injury or a broken arm, and folks with one free hand in a specific circumstance (like new parents lugging a baby around), you’re at 20 million in the U.S. alone.

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/kill-your-personas-1c332...
This is the same mistake gun control advocates who want to take away guns make. Yes, Americans want to reduce death. But they want freedom more.
I think that would qualify as ethnic cleansing to some extent, and don't think it would be moral. At the very least countries should be very upfront about their intentions if that is their plan. Imagine if you had to emigrate to China and was forcefully interned in a re-education camp...

Looking at the US, it does just fine integrating different cultures from all over the world. All the problem ethnicities in Europe are gainfully employed model citizens in the US. One should maybe ask what is going wrong in Europe before resorting to extreme measures.
Oh certainly, sunk cost, the industries entirely dependent on cars, etc. But we regularly have to rebuild those roads anyways, and how much money is being thrown away trying to make cars less awful?

There's a rural cost/benefit that ensures we will never not need cars, probably. But I can't fathom why eight lane interstates exist. If we can justify that many lanes of road traffic, we can certainly replace six of them with a train.

Self-driving trains? Easy. And no matter how hard you try, even the most efficient electric car will never end up greener than a train on a per user basis.
>A Cruise AV named Panini

This sort of nonsense where you take a serious statement and tell me the cutesy "name" of the autonomous vehicle really detracts from the seriousness of the issue. Also, the last paragraph where they try to talk about how their vehicle wouldn't have made the same mistake as the human driver, glosses over the actual issues the cruise car had which a human driver would have known not to do.
Lots of people griping about Thunderbird! Can someone recommend an e-mail client which does the following:

1. Supports GPG signing and decryption

2. Allows plain text views and composition to be set as default

I use ThunderBird for those two specific reasons, and I'd be fine trying something new too.
We need more of this, so yes absolutely, publicize it. Start a movement. Set an example. Be a leader.
> The AV detected a collision, bringing the vehicle to a stop; then attempted to pull over to avoid causing further road safety issues, pulling the individual forward approximately 20 feet.

Jesus Christ! Good riddance, I'm glad their permits are revoked. Can you imagine witnessing this and watching an autonomous vehicle slowly crushing and dragging someone underneath? That 20 ft must have felt like forever to witness. Let alone experience.
I can't access the article, but since median household wealth is much lower, the Fed estimate must be imputing the value of future Social Security and Medicare benefits. If you are credited with future government benefits, shouldn't you reduce that by an estimate of future taxes you will pay? Otherwise the federal government announcing that Social Security benefits are being doubled would drastically raise the net worth of households, which is unrealistic.
Google shows TridentKV
Yeah. This is essentially a safety recall; that behavior needs to be fixed.
How is being stuck in a small box for an hour "getting that hour back"? Most people don't want to read a book during their commute, they want to have less commute, so they can do actual things they want, like play with their kids or cook dinner or enjoy a movie in the comfort of their own home.

"Fixing" commutes by making everyone sit alone in their car while it does the driving part as if that's the problem with an hour long commute, is the single dumbest way to make cities better.
Its a bit of a fence sitter response, yet the activities support each other, and are not necessarily 1/0 better/worse.

If I read historical novels (or nearly similar like medieval fantasy) then my experience of playing Civilization is enhanced, because I can consider all the little stories that might be going on in Civ. Founding a city by the sea vs founding a city by a great chain of mountains is a very different consideration (beyond just "numbers").

If I play Civ, then my novel reading experience is enhanced. I might read something like a Bourne novel, yet never ask questions like "what is the world beyond the immediate story locality?" "What are the politics, or continents, or logistics, or military situation like?" Its just popcorn action plus names.

If I read something like the Hunger Games, I might ask "what Civ result would have caused such destitution that everyone is playing PUBG for food?"
I assume you're speaking about the quality of the content, which would be subjective, but I think platform quality is relevant here. My personal use for twitter was following some bands and artists I like, I followed them there because I knew it was them or someone authorized to represent them. Once God Emperor Elon took over that went out the window and the quality of the platform, for me (and others), went to 0.
> lashing out at their condition.

This may be part of it but in the end it is a gross mischaracterisation. They want Israel removed from the face of the earth. Remember their slogan: from river to the sea Palestine will be free.

Here is a lesson worth imbibing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
I said, "You can't control what your relatives do, unfortunately."
Technology might 'solve privacy', Cloudflare says. But will it?
I always thought this was kind of a very stupid in-joke.
Similar to tipping culture. Why does someone make an order of magnitute more in tips at one place over another? Is the work THAT MUCH DIFFERENT based on the price point?
> You cannot get a warrant without probably cause that a crime has been committed. So asking for a warrant to search your computer is literally asking to be charged with a crime.

That is just completely 100% wrong. Warrants are not (or at least, shouldn't be, your mileage may vary based on your local authorities) issued like candy. Prosecutors and judges issue warrants when there is probable cause to search in the event of a crime being committed by you, or simply being committed within an area to which you have access that the public does not. That does not mean you are being charged with a crime. I would agree that more often than not, if you are having warrants issued for searches of your home or business, a criminal prosecution for you is probably not an unreasonable thing to be concerned about, but these are not the same thing. One absolutely happens without the other all the time.

> If you can just agree with their legal team on the stipulations of the search and confirmation, you can't be charged with further crimes if they find anything

This is the same fallacious thinking as "If I've committed no crime I have nothing to fear from being searched," and that's not the point: the point is it is your right to privacy that they are demanding they now have the right to encroach upon to ensure the secure and to-their-satisfaction destruction of data they erroneously sent you which cannot be performed without some element of highly invasive search, and also cannot be requested without the implication that they don't trust you to have deleted it.

This institution regardless of your individual opinions on it does not have your interest at heart: their negligence has placed the two of you as legal entities on opposing sides of a legal affair that can incredibly easily escalate to a conflict. Your lawyer is your FIRST call in this situation, and after that, you shut the fuck up and let your lawyer do their job.
> that time sink might feel a bit more bearable if you could relax and do whatever you wanted during that time rather than focus on all the obstacles around you

We could use... trains & buses. Self-driving trains and buses!

But self-driving individual cars, because they will make the time more bearable, will induce even more driving, which is the opposite of what we want.
Cruise picked themselves as a loser by screwing up publicly and then trying to hide their problems.
I get it. But as someone who has worked a lot of helpdesk and customer service roles in my life, all I can do is whinge. These departments clearly do not have the processes or experience to respond correctly, so the brunt of the pain is going to fall on inexperienced and overworked public servants whose whole job is to be harassed by citizens. So please be nice!
From that document what is interesting is that they explicitly avoided the approach that Qualcomm are suggesting:

p. 51

> each RVC instruction must expand into a single RISC-V instruction. The reasons for this constraint are twofold. Most importantly, it simplifies the implementation and verification of RVC processors: RVC instructions can simply be expanded into their base ISA counterparts during instruction decode, and so the backend of the processor can be largely agnostic to their existence. ... This constraint does, however, preclude some important code size optimizations: notably, load-multiple and store-multiple instructions, a common feature of other compressed RISC ISAs, do not fit this template. ... Given these constraints, the ISA design problem reduces to a simple tradeoff between compression ratio and ease of instruction decode cost. ... The dictionary lookup is costly, offsetting the instruction fetch energy savings. It also adds significant latency to instruction decode, likely reducing performance and further offsetting the energy savings. Finally, the dictionary adds to the architectural state, increasing context switch time and memory usage.
Peer review isn't measuring in this context. And often the value is hard to understand. I thought one guy on my team was clearly weaker than the rest... until I realized what he did that no one else did, which turns out freed up the rest of the team to do stuff we were great at.

"Better" isn't linear. It can multiply, and it can be highly dependent on the rest of the team.
The polyfill argument is good, but it addresses a world where you just push html, css and js files. We live in a different one. It is valid, but more on a wishful thinking side rather than practical. And when you avoid calling it “polyfill”, it simply turns into a useful compatibility/extension library. I find it strange to argue about one dependency but then importing few others, with the only difference in taxonomy.
You trying to frame me as radical right wing racist, just for telling you how the asylum system laws work in practice and why it's consistently being broken and abused, is in poor taste, as you don't understand how the asylum laws work but keep harping on a flawed ideology that's not based in any laws.

I repeat one last time then I'm out for good: asylum, by law, is only for those people fleeing war and persecution, not for everyone who wants to come to a nice EU country with a great welfare system, and the asylum applies to the first safe country you reach.

If you come to Germany while having crossed 4-10 safe countries you're basically breaking the asylum laws. Asylum means living in a safe country where your life is no longer in danger from war, not entitling you to living only in Germany/Sweden/UK...wherever YOU choose.

The current German system of "open borders for everyone, come to Germoney please" is not an asylum policy, it's just leftist political madness that's harming the welfare state and the housing market (Denmark is already hard on this), it's harming the EU stability (Brexit was driven by this and other countries are against it as well by voting right wing), it's harming the Schengen system (Austria refuses to let Romania and Bulgaria in due to these migration issues, plus border checks are being introduced all the time harming commuters) and it's harming the migrant entry point countries in EU like Italy and Greece.
My personal theory is that Apple is nervous about how stable their supply chain in China is going to be in the next few years, so they are allowing for more repairable products to ease customers from freaking out about the lack of new product availability.
If you define progress as positive development, sure. But then that's just tautological.

If you mean it more generally, MattY would like to have a word. https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-techno-optimists-fallacy
Funny that this comes up - a lot of times while watching YouTube I'll fidget by trying to highlight exactly half of the title. I check whether or not it's half by dragging the highlighted section over the other half. Glad there's a game for this now!
The DMV (state agency) is pulling their permit, not SF.
Cruise has exactly that. In this case however, the car decided to "pull over" autonomously after the incident, before a remote driver could get involved, and with that pulled the struck pedestrian 20 feet along the ground and pinned them under the vehicle. If it instead alerted a remote driver immediately and waited for their decision before moving again, this would've likely ended much more lightly.
I use PrivateInternetAccess as an always-on VPN and use their DNS servers. I also use AdGuard which is working great (a lot of people here are commenting on Pi-hole which you don't specifically ask about, so thought I'd share this as well).

Anyone have issues with PIA's dns?
And snake oil salesmen exist everywhere, not sure what your point is.

Are you saying that they should all be equally safe? If so that would require a level of oversight and control (plus knowledge share?) not typically seen in US government, no?

I agree in principle, I’m not defending them at all. However this is exactly what much of the US wants, given how much de regulation and reduced “red tape” is often argued for.

Until then, we’re going to get some companies that put everyone’s lives at risk. Hell Tesla alone has over promised to insane degrees (the Full in FSD). I don’t see companies having less power any time soon.
As I'm writing it got moved to the second page, position #55

Without being flagged, which is the same action but more cowardly.

73 points, 23 minutes ago, 14 comments. Can't even claim it triggered a flame war filter.

It's bad.

edit: it got flagged now, wasn't when I wrote this.
It doesn't really work though. It's like measuring soccer based on goals or passes or some crazy shit. That's not how this works at all.
No one was sold anything yet. These things don't go from 0 to 100 overnight. We've assumed that self-driving cars will be safer than humans in the future, though that's yet to be determined. And even if their safety record is better than humans, they will be more dangerous in different ways than human drivers, much like this recent incident where the woman was dragged and pinned.
This isn't sports, alas. Though I sometimes feel that way in a post-"stonk" society.

Some other factors are in play
I get the need to tie in to a recent big news story for exposure reasons, but I think it would be good to be more explicit about the different problems.

We have businesses that are explicitly built on violating privacy.

We have businesses provide services that require them to collect some private info. I’d put 23andme in this bucket.

We have businesses that have lax security, and actually get their systems broken into.

We have businesses that have fine security, but don’t force users to have good, unique passwords and 2FA. 23andme is in this bucket, right?

The first, we should be happy to run them out of business, like we should actively write laws that try to destroy them.

The third, we should fine them to the point where skimping on security is never a rational decision (and if that runs companies out of business, fine).

The second seems not too bad, every medical-field-related service is going to have some private info necessarily (for example), as long as they don’t exploit it that seems fine.

The fourth seems not so bad, there are all sorts of services that are not so important. I don’t have 2FA on, like, random forums and video games, who cares?

Combining two and four is pretty bad though.
If X is already allowed, Y is a replacement for X, and Y is safer than X, then why wouldn't you want to allow Y?
its not really helpful for split second judgement calls like this. If your pizzabot is stuck behind another pizzabot or can't figure out something, ok. But this happens before anyone can intervene. The switchover + time to comprehend and react remotely aren't going to change anything.
This is my point. We should try to change this. Streamlining clinical trials would be a first step.
I know that the geography of North America and the timing of industrialization basically made this a pipe dream…

Yet, trying to create near-peer artificial human driving intelligence—just so cities can continue to be designed around horseless carriages, minivans, and truck nuts—well, that may not have been the best solution to the problem.

Ideally, autonomous driving would be for “the edge” of a transportation network. Like a house on a dirt road, or a camping site, or the home of a misguided friend who moved to south Gilbert, AZ ;)

You shouldn’t need to be watching for basketballs and red lights on interstate highways. Everyone is going the same direction for long distances between transfers. Cars are often individualism, which I’m certainly not against.

The arrogance of “driving driverless should be easy” probably comes from a lot of people seeing driving as a part of their basic humanity. The car is nearly a cyborg extension of their mobility and physical power.

Me? I just wanna get to the concert. Take the humans out of the equation where it makes sense. I’d rather go with light rail; not my friend who offered to drive, then road rages over a merge, then follows some minivan psychopathically for a few minutes (true stories).

We shot ourselves in the foot because mass transportation in America has failed to impress us as much as a Jaguar XK or Jeep KJ, or whatever your Soul Car is.
Some of the players in this space do this but it doesn't work because driving via streaming video over the internet is nowhere near as effective as a human driver. And is simply not possible in a fast moving emergency, only being helpful if the car gets stuck and won't move
I believe the target demographic for NestJS are spring developers, not native JS/TS developers.

If you come from Java / Spring you would feel right at home, anyone else would feel disgust.