skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit funny how the article states that the systems are unobtrusive as to be essentially useless, which ignores the fact that these systems are defanged to appease entitled speeders.

Governments around the world impose various requirements on vehicle speeds, most notably ebikes being capped at 20mph for "safety reasons". Meanwhile private cars can travel at over 100mph for no apparent reason other than to not upset drivers at the expense of everyone else on the road.
This is terrifying. I routinely cross a bridge with a 30ton weight limit, which my car mistakes for a 30km/h speed limit sign. I would cause an average of 2 accidents per month if I suddenly slowed from 70 to 30 and the people behind me weren't paying attention.

The technology is _not_ there and this won't save lives, potentially it will cause deaths.

(Yes I read the article, this is initially only "for the driver's information" and not (yet) a hard limit.... but it's the first step in a very wrong direction)
Is it rent seeking if the author owns those rights?
And another nail in the coffin of the EU. Annoying your voters, great way to salvage your sinking popularity.
Man I really hate the idea of "Let's make a thing that works shittier so that people switch to the new thing". If you're in a situation where you have customer's just be honest about the changes coming and give them enough runway to get the changes made.
Not OP, but I can hazard some guesses:

* Very few people drive the speed limit, so you're now stuck at being the slowest car on the road. (This will still be a problem under this law because new vehicles are the only ones affected.)

* Inaccurate/out of date speed limits.

* Impossible to pass anyone on a two lane road.

* Having the car take over control is very disorienting for a skilled driver who expects the machine to function as an extension of their body. See the number of people who prefer manual transmission and who eschew cruise control.
And on the derestricted section of the autobahn it will do nothing, given that there is no speed limit.
Other companies are also trying to make their product better. If other products are not able to compete this can become a problem for the users.
Nobody follows the speed limit that closely, in the US at least. If my car was hard-capped at the posted limit I'd have a mile-long line of honking tailgaters behind me in no time
This decision was to the benefit of users if it got videoconferencing off the ground before Zoom came along.

(I swear, sometimes I think the Internet has goldfish-memory. I remember when getting videoconferencing to work in a browser was a miracle, and why we wanted it in the first place).
Well that one's from Adafruit, so probably 10x the price of what's commonly sold.
I have almost the same problem. With Poetry, I managed to work around it using this technique, involving a combination of groups and extras: https://github.com/lucaspar/poetry-torch

It's a hacky workaround, but it seems to work so far. It would be much nicer to see this solved in a better way, though!
Ah, duh
If you have relatives who got killed by a speeder you may think differently.
BC's housing costs and doctor availability are bad yes, but they were also bad 10 years ago. But they have improved significantly compared to Ontario. Vancouver used to be ~2X as expensive as Toronto, now they are comparable. Doctor availability used to be worse in BC than it is in Ontario, now it is better. Not so much because BC has gotten better but because Ontario has gotten far worse.
I don't think so. Look at what Lattice is doing
This thread seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a Mercury account for a now defunct/non-existent company, but Mercury refused to close my account. Unfortunately that means I was exposed in this breach. What is the best way to get them to actually close my account? I no longer even have access to the account because it's tied to a domain and email that no longer exist. The business entity was shut down correctly, so it legally no longer exists. Should I just let this ride?

My original plan was just to ignore it, but thanks to this breach I guess I can't continue to ignore it.
220 comments and no "Bob Wehadababyitsaboy"? Surprising!
Well this is going to be interesting if they rely on GPS. Possibly due to gps jamming by our neighbour country i have had to disable the feature where the car tries to predict the road ahead and suddenly brakes on the motorway because it thinks it is on a side road 10s of kilometers away.
It's not like that simple 50 line Python script taking stuff from API A and stuffing them to API B is a full ass project with a JIRA project ID and a Product Manager.

It works, people forget it exists.

Then something breaks and I need to start fixing it. And the amount of work it takes to just update the packages is more than it'd take me to rewrite the whole thing in a language with a sane distribution mechanism (Go).
What makes you think that this is old technology? That the boosters don't land upright for re-use?
Kids are more naive, are learning monkeys, so they will test the limits and commit mistakes. Is part of being a kid.

But giving your kid a magic device so criminals from each coin of the planet have a door that leads directly to your children, is not part of being a parent.
Locking pliers (aka vise grips) are a good tool for it, since you can set how wide the jaws will close

https://youtu.be/poM423pewRE?t=147
Agreed that the general case is hard to solve.

I think you could at least make a case for solving a simpler problem. What's the highest legal speed limit in the country in which the car was sold? Set a global speed limit to that.
A cascading vibration warning sounds like it would make going fast feel more exciting.
Hardly because they didn't exist widespread before.

Speed limits on the other hand are proven to reduce accidents.
Jujutsu has Git as a supported backend, so it does not need network effects to succeed. I was using it full time at Oxide for many months before anyone else was aware of it.

More generally: I am more knowledgeable about version control than 99% of people (having worked on it full time for many years). The Git UI is well beyond papercut bad. Many advanced users use the rebase-interactive workflow, which is broken in numerous ways.

See my testimonial (top one on the page) for an example where Jujutsu's rethink of VCS basics leads to an incredibly coherent interface. Jujutsu is built by world-class developers who have spent many years working on other systems and drawing lessons from them, and it shows! https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/testimonials/

If I were introducing version control to someone new, I would not be proud of introducing Git and would constantly apologize for it. I'd be proud of introducing Jujutsu.
I make sure to enroll in projects which scrape Google/Amazon en-masse just for the satisfaction.
Grokking the Sequent Calculus (Functional Pearl)
This uses GPS data, not optical recognition
As a 1970s kid, a tiny brilliant red LED 7-segment digit is the most nostalgic display possible!
Transit serves billions of people all over the world.
Why Some Physicists Think We Are Living Inside a Black Hole
> Any kind of additional competition is worthwhile.

Agree with the sentiment, but is Ariane actually competitive with SpaceX

And if so, how ? Pricing for payload maybe ?
Great to see more projects actually battle testing WebGPU.
I've been working on porting an existing engine to WebGPU and personally I think it's one of the worst GPU APIs I have had the pleasure of working with. Perhaps if we see more practical real-world use-cases with real feedback we'll see some improvement in a later update.
I would have to guess you can't speed up to pass another vehicle (think bus or truck, or maybe a dangerous situation) and then you will piss off anyone in the fast lane who does not have these limiters.
It won't stop reckless driving on roads where the legal limit is way above the practical limit.

Although I have absolutely zero stats to backup my argument, I'd say deaths on twisty country roads where the vehicle was under the legal speed limit far exceeds those on straight motorways breaking the limit.
You can also turn it off every time you start your vehicle.
About time. Why have rules for cars if they can’t be enforced
Precisely, just as, God intended.
Until gps fails and it starts repeatedly braking because it thinks it is somewhere else
Given that the tech doesn't actually work reliably I'd remove it even without any intention to speed.

It's the same reason why I keep lane keeping assistance off in my car - not because I disagree with the idea, but because the implementation is so bad it's actively dangerous.
I’m in the process of reading this article, but I recently read Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife (which is a great book) so I feel like I can explain:

The Greeks were ideologically opposed to the number zero. Aristotle outright refuses to acknowledge the existence of zero and of infinity. The Greeks were aware of the idea of zero, and they even used zero when they calculated using the Babylonian number system (which used zero as a placeholder number,) but they always converted the numbers back into their own system, and stubbornly refused to acknowledge its existence.

The fact that the Greeks saw geometry and math as interchangeable was their weakness here. There’s no way to represent the number 0 geometrically, but the Greeks weren’t gonna give up their belief in Geometry because it provided them with social and political power.

Pythagoras and Aristotle believed in a religious philosophy with logos at the center. Logos can be translated as “thought” or “word” (as it is in the Bible) or it can be translated as “ratio.” This is because they saw all these things as one (the Latin translation of the Greek word “logos” is “ratio.”) The ratio of numbers was thought the be the underlying mechanism that proved the order of the universe (which naturally saw the nobility as orderly and the peasantry as chaotic). This was a profoundly powerful sociopolitical tool that ended up spreading all across the world because Aristotles student just happened to be the greatest conqueror of the era: Alexander The Great.

Anything that threatened the philosophy of logos was suppressed, violently. Hippassus and Zeno were both murdered for the crime of talking about irrational numbers and infinity. Zero was one of these threats. 1:0 = infinity, 10:0 = infinity, anything:0 = infinity. This was not logos and therefore it was suppressed.

This philosophy extended beyond mathematics into the realm of astronomy and, weirdly enough, music (at the time, Pythagoras was actually most famous for his discovery of the golden ratio using an instrument called the monochord, which is a legend that seems to be false but nonetheless made him very famous.) This astronomical belief system was then later attributed to Ptolemy. This philosophy then was transplanted into Christian theology, and it took centuries for the monks to accept the existence of zero and infinity as a result. We even have cases of religious figures persecuting mathematicians about zero and infinity as late as the 1800s.
Yea, yea, people are going to get into accidents and maybe die, but think about all the shareholder value that will be created by companies as they try to make these systems barely work and sell them to car manufacturers who are mandated to buy them! Won't someone please think of the shareholder value for a change?

EDIT: Jeez, nobody gets sarcasm unless you end your post with /s
Personally I think there's no chance
Ebikes go where bikes go, that's why. They can mingle with pedestrians. They don't require a licence to operate.
From TFA:

> Cars have been able to figure out when they're speeding for a while, thanks to GPS as well as traffic sign recognition
It uses both, AFAIK.
EU.
Actually, the functions referred to in the question don't make any use of their inputs at all. They could just as well have been defined as functions from the empty set to {0, 1}. The "f" in the question is not a function, it's a label, such that the referent of f if God exists is the function f1, that always outputs 1, and the referent of f if God does not exist is the function f0, that always outputs 0. The question is actually not about computability at all, it's about labels.
This looks amazing. However sending each discussion to myself as an email or having to download it as an epub is really really tedious.

It would be so much more seamless as an app. I'm surprised Amazon never opened up an app ecosystem on the kindle.
An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost sncient Maya treasure
Literally everything causes death.

The question is: will this prevent more deaths from speeding than it causes from mistaken slowdowns?
I would have liked to see them focus on less well-known companies. It seems quite possible that the reference human responses (from exponent) were already present in the training data.
There's always the reset to factory defaults button. The vast majority of WiFi users have never adjust any of the settings anyways.
I swear i remember my old TomTom device having something like this built in but maybe im remembering wrong.
Much maligned Google Flu Trends service gets an AI reboot
The first doesn't really win any sympathy from me lol. People should drive the speed limit, and I have no sympathy for people who tell me about getting pulled over by cops
It doesn't brake for you, not even in the most hardcore version of this law proposed by the EU.
But it isn't a fight. They want to beat the gravity well ("PvE", in video game terms), not SpaceX ("PvP"). And when they do have the capability to use their own expensive launch system in a pinch, they are free to buy launch capacity from the lowest bidder without becoming too dependent.
Exactly my sentiment. The only people I've met who are anti-TS are one of the following:

* Extremely opinionated people that are difficult to work with.

* Engineers who have only worked on smaller projects or codebases, and therefore haven't seen firsthand the real benefits of a typed codebase

* Non-FE engineers who just generally hate all JS-related stuff, and frequently opine that FE engineers aren't real engineers and have to re-learn the "latest fad framework" every year.

If I am interviewing someone and they start (likely unprompted) ragging on Typescript, there's a 95% chance one or more of the above bullet points describes them. Safer to move on to another candidate rather than take the chance that they're the other 5%.
Legacy 7-segment displays use LEDs. Specifically, one LED per segment. The LCD version arose when the power consumption of the LED-based ones was an issue.
Also, Canada is an associated member
At least they chose a fun codename; 'SALTO' meaning 'backflip' in French :)
Presumably GPS data and a database of speed limits. The bridge to my neighborhood was closed for two years. It took Lyft over three months to notice it reopened. Why should we trust the speed limit databases?
The Derelict (2015)
I am going to hold on to my 2013 car for as long as possible. Fuck this future where everything “““needs””” to spy on me and everywhere I go.
A commit to Webkits Quirks.cpp was shared last month [0]. Probably not what you are referring to but has a similar vibe.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631439
>The OS doesn't have more information about this than applications

the OP pointed out that this only works if he uses a browser monoculture

the OS does have more information than that, it can know what is being played by any/all apps, and what is being picked up by the mic
Yes every kindle since the very first one had an "experimental" web browser in various stages of usability. All currently supported kindles have a web browser that is fairly usable though very slow.
This is wonderful. Even if it's just a warning, I'd expect this to significantly reduce traffic injury & death.
Our accursed state senator Wiener is trying to bring the same thing to California.
There's a bidirectional benefit to Google at least. That's why SEO exists. People want to appear in search results.
A startup is building custom chips for error-correcting quantum computers
That tip btw isn't limited to LLMs. Blindfolded human translators given single word to translate tend not to do great jobs.
I used to get my laptop out and try to do things. But ever since the seat pitch started shrinking, I find it really hard to get anything larger than a tablet out without it needing to rest on me or risk having the screen broken if the person in front of me leans back. The last one happened to a coworker a few years ago.

So these days I usually just pull out my iPad and noise cancelling headphones and catch up on my movies or TV shows.
Successful launch, booster and stage separation! Good job ESA and Arianespace!!!
That will finally stop the Swiss from speeding in Germany
If that's similar to what Google Maps uses, it's wildly inaccurate. There are three places I drive regularly that it's way, way off on.
I suspect that this is exactly what will happen; not just with code, but also prose and artwork.

Someone is likely to design an LLM that is specifically trained to do exactly that.

Lots of money to be made...
> Is that a valid...

I've no idea - but I figure that adult perps should be treated quite differently from young teens.
Class B and C mopeds in NYC are speed limited and require a license and registration
Apparently you didn't. The most proactive method is "a speed control function in which the speed of the vehicle will be gradually reduced", and "the system can be smoothly overridden by the driver by pressing the accelerator pedal a little bit deeper", so your hyperbolic reaction is overwrought.
My experience of learning to drive in Europe is that there are roads where the speed limit is 90kph but any non-local sane person will drive 60kph (most mountain roads) and there are roads where the limit is 130kph but regular traffic flows at 140kph and many people cruise (safely) at 150kph. The people actually doing 130kph on the left lane (trucks go 90 on the right) can be a safety hazard.

And like others have said, the laws actually say "speed limit unless passing". Because passing is dangerous and should be done as quickly as possible.
Worse off. I have to use Meet for work, and I'm forced to run Chrome for Google's shitty software to run acceptably.

Edit: And for some reason I have a Chrome profile even though I never created one and never "logged into" Chrome. Another thing that's been forced on me by Google's product team.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
Cant speak to europe, but in the US you're not supposed to speed up past the speed limit to pass someone, that's illegal. We also don't have "fast lanes" (ie like how the autobahn has sections with no speed limit), we only have passing lanes, but the speed limit still applies in the passing lane. You're not supposed to stay in the left lane for very long
There is a decent business model. There are several, in fact. I'm asking which Astral has, if any.
Rules like this m, mandated by unelected officials are one of the reasons millions of people in the UK voted for Brexit.
> Speed limits on the other hand are proven to reduce accidents.

There have been speed limits on every road in the US for over half a century; how did they conduct a controlled study?
Like a Rumble Pak[1] for your car!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak
Or, just add speed bumps, curves, narrowings in the road, etc, to naturally bring the speed down. Then it works on everyone, whether they have the nanny tech or not, and you avoid the difficult problem of determining the speed limit accurately 100% of the time across every segment of road everywhere.

This is kind of like the (apocryphal) "NASA spent millions on a pen that would work without gravity; russians just used pencil" parable.
> ArianeSpace's insistence on not earnestly working to innovate led to them already having had a gap in domestic capability

Yes and no, there are plenty of EU space startups. What Ariane has done is starve them of government funding to build a competitive EU based market. So I'd say it's drawing the investment into a hole.

Just a quick sample of EU space firms I'm aware of:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyImpulse
Was driving a rental with speed limit indicators and warning beeps this weekend in Germany. Over the course of a couple days, it was maybe 95% correct, but had major issues with what were probably former construction zones on the Autobhan and some limits near towns. There were a few times where it was giving technically correct "national speed limit" answers for .. not fast roads.

On the Autobahn, it wanted me to slow to 80 in a no speed limit zone a few times, when the general flow of traffic was ~ 130 or so. It was increasingly annoying beeping, but had it actually slowed down, it would have been a severe issue.

This is the first time I've been driving a car with lane assist or active speed control, and I'd say that it increased the congnitive load, especially in trickier situations where there were narrow shifting lanes (due to construction). It may have helped in the easy case, but that's the easy case, and I can handle it.

Alerts were definitely distracting, to the point of taking my attention from the road at potentially bad times. I'll also point out that there was a medium screen tilted toward the driver, that had a freaking youtube app on it, and the instrument cluster is basically a video game now. So a couple of alerts are just the tip of the iceberg.

I may be old enough to yell at clouds now, but I really prefered the full analog, numbers only view of the car's instruments. Text is slow.
Leaving aside the concerns about the tech not working well, I'm really not a fan of this pre-crime stuff. This feels very Big Brother, where someone (or some system) is watching over you so you don't break any laws.

Things like this lead to cultural ossification and are a nightmare scenario for me.
> How would you make an API accessible on the browser side but prevent the return values from being sent to the server?

Create an API for starting a "performance-metrics visualization Service Worker", that takes two things from a page as input:

1. the service-worker script URL

2. the handle of a freshly-allocated WebGL Canvas (which may or may not already be attached to the DOM, but which has never yet received any WebGL calls.) This Canvas will have its ownership moved to the Service Worker, leaving the object in the page as only an opaque reference to the Canvas.

The resulting Service Worker will live in a sandbox such that it 1. doesn't have network access, 2. can receive postMessage calls, but not make them; and 3. doesn't have any write access to any storage mechanism. Other than drawing on the Canvas, it's a pure consumer.

Also, obviously, this special sandbox grants the Service Worker the ability to access this performance API, with the metrics being measured in the context of the page that started the Worker.

The Service Worker is then free to use the info it gathers from making perf API calls, to draw metrics onto the moved Canvas. It's also free to change how/what it's drawing, or quit altogether, in response to control messages posted to it from the page.

The page can't introspect the moved Canvas to see what the Service Worker has drawn. All it can do is use the Canvas's now-opaque handle to attach/detach it to the DOM.
Damn, I picked a good time to archive most of the channels and videos I care about ~3 months ago, I guess.
> The if-then part of it is part of the function definition.

No, it isn't. The if-then part of the question is about which of two trivial functions the label "f" refers to. It has nothing to do with the functions themselves or their computability. That, from what I can gather, is supposed to be the point of the question, but I don't think the question gets that point across very well.
Is it though? When has government regulation ever decreased?

Give them an inch...