skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only the US government can allow corporations to beta test unproven technology on the public.

Governments should carry out comprehensive tests on a self-driving car's claimed capabilities. This is the same as cars without proven passenger safety (Euro NCAP) aren't allowed to be on roads carrying passengers.
What do you mean by everyone? The MDs sound fine, as soon as a breath is seen they drop the scalpel and refuse to murder anyone.
> Only the US government can allow corporations to beta test unproven technology on the public.

China and Russia do it too. It's not an excuse, but definitely not just the US.
Awesome. I have been recommending in my organization, 24 Hrs. Prime95 Stress Test as part of acceptance protocol for all new servers ! Happy to see it find another record Mersenne Prime.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41880649
Even that is not good enough, because the "autopilot" usually is not engaged in challenging conditions making any direct comparisons not really reliable. You need similar roads in simila weather and similar time of the day for approximating good comparison.
I remember traveling to the US from South Africa when I was 14 in 1990 and my dad renting Cry Freedom on VHS so we could watch it, since it was banned in South Africa. The long roll of peoples' names and how they died "accidentally" or "falling from window" in prison at the end was haunting and the experience of watching it has stayed vividly with me ever since.

It's hard to stress how normal _anything_ can seem when you grow up with it. I often wonder whether, if we'd stayed (we moved to the US permanently in 1992) and if apartheid had continued, whether I'd have woken up to the reality of what was going on and become more politically active in my college years. I have no confidence my sense of right and wrong would have been strong enough to escape the stifling blanket feeling of "Well, yes, it's not right, but let's not go tooooo crazy" that pervaded political feeling in those days.

Thanks for doing this, JGC. (And now that I think of it, you might enjoy the historical spelunking in the "Georg Nees" entries on my blog at zellyn.com. Code archeology is tremendously satisfying, and getting an email from one of his sons out of the blue was a delight!)
those things are dogshit. It's really incredible how terrible and difficult Kinkos has made the process of printing. The email service has also never worked for me.
I don't think the intent is to compare it to normal human drivers, although having some level of estimate of accident/injury/death rates (to both the driver, passenger, and people outside the car) with FSD enabled/disabled would be very interesting.
Those are good questions. We should investigate to find out. (It'd be different from this one but it raises a good question. What is FSD safe compared to?)
Digg just wasn't big enough. Once these networks get to a certain size they're unkillable. Look at all the turmoil reddit went through, a hated redesign, killed 3rd party apps, a whole protest movement, none of it mattered. People bring up digg and friendster but that was 20 years ago when these networks were way smaller. No top 10 social network has died since then.
I don't think public funding necessarily means that the output should be publicly available. The benefits and risks should be evaluated, as they were in this case.

The results of public funding of weapons programmes and surveillance satellites are understandably concealed, this museum situation is analogous despite the risks being significantly less consequential.
Berry's Phase
Certainly the one plane is aware of the other, however, I wonder if the algorithm takes into account the physical characteristics of the planes. For example, a 737 descending would take longer to pull up on and there would be a period of time where the engine are spooling up that it continues to descend before it gains altitude. Would it be smart enough to figure out that the 737 is going to end up below it before gaining altitude and thus should actually descend faster? Does it just go, that plane is blow me, so pull up? It's a fascinating problem to think about the different edge cases and how it could possible handle it.
This is awesome, because most CLI tools for this don't seem to work anymore (at least in my experience). I need to talk to my employer, but I'd like to open source some work I've done for generating static redirects/rewrites in IIS format (still able to be used by open source .NET), as well as a tool that will take those redirects and visit the original URL, then check that a 301 redirect occurred, with the Location header set to the appropriate new URL. I work with a digital marketing agency, and we do a lot of SEO work, including making sure old URLs match up with new URLs. I got pulled into the creation of 301 redirects, so built tooling to take care of it for me.
In all their docs they now have links directly to the source for the method you are looking at, for example https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string.s...

As for source for nuget packages, it's easy to enable source link to make that happen too, it's just that this is all pretty new so not every package is doing it.
Did you install malware on my computer ;) How did it manage to predict so much of what in my collection with just 3 names ?
It might be sacrilege but I find Apple Maps is better now.
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I’m afraid issues like debt and macroeconomics are outside my expertise. I can only describe my own personal experience: I worked as a freelance translator and copywriter in Japan from 1986 to 2005, and almost all of my clients were Japanese companies. While that period saw the rise and bursting of the bubble economy and what has since been called the Lost Decade (or Decades), I personally felt no effect. My income grew steadily throughout that period, and I experienced no impact from the bursting of the bubble. Superficially, the Tokyo and Yokohama areas where I have lived never looked like they were suffering from economic stagnation. Just yesterday, on the train from Tokyo to Yokohama, I was struck by several large new office buildings going up just north of Shinagawa and the many construction cranes visible elsewhere.
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Ah, so the actual issue is that the approach path is inexplicably not controlled airspace? That seems like a different version of bad :-/
We tried a free market airline industry. We rightfully second guessed that for the huge safety problems it created. We then recognized that the skies belong to the public, collectively, and access to it must be licensed as such and commercial activity within it strictly regulated.

Which would all probably work were it not for the obvious pathway to regulatory capture this creates. You need strong regulators that are heavily incentivized towards the American public and not the particular private airlines that happen to currently have a contract.

I wonder, if like banking, it would be smart to separate the companies that own the planes from the companies that actually operate them. A disinterested third party that actually holds the assets might serve as an actual wedge between the FAA and the "major airlines."
People always forget it's "what the market will bear".

Price caps set a very explicit bar and then ask a company to think very carefully if they truly think the drug can't be sold at that price (and surprise: turns out when motivated a ton of them discover that yes, it can be).
My guess is the driver tests it regularly.

How does it do X, Y, ooh Z works, etc...
Right. But full name gives the issue I just mentioned above.

If someone's name is super long "Christopher Alexander Worthington" and I store that as full name.

Or someone enters "S. Smith" as the full name.

I could either put the whole name in emails "Christopher Alexander Worthington requests signature" or "S. Smith requests signature".

But in cases where I just want first name, I have to "guess" and hope that split [0] display makes sense.

"S. is inviting you to ..."

I feel like I'm better off sticking to first/middle/last and having people conform to that, given the limitations.

If I need to do invoicing I can just construct the name. For less formal things, I can just pick the first name which is required anyway (and last name).
“It’s old” is really not sufficient justification for “we know better now”. That kind of thinking led to some very dark places in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It is true. Look at graphs of it.

> Why?

I don't know how other countries manage their health care systems, though I know that the British one is facing bankruptcy, and while health care was free in the Soviet Union patients had to pay for anesthetic for root canals, and bribery was the norm.

Here's a link to what's wrong with the American system:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...
The mobile app used to have a feature to let you type from your phone but Meta removed that because fuck you
Especially where it's a numeric field with a spinner widget letting you go to -1 with one click off the starting page. And assuming no-one outside the US would want to have a look at this.
> making 4 report crashes and 1 reported fatality for 2.4 million vehicles over 8 years look miniscule by comparison,

that's the wrong comparison

the correct comparison is the number of report crashes and fatalities for __unsupervised FSD__ miles driven (not counting Tesla pilot tests, but actual customers)
And the big four more or less quit going hard on price.
So after reading that, and considering even the author says there's probably no system where names are handled right, then I'll just stick to first/middle/last.

If I get customers in the future where enough members have different names, I can deal with it later. Considering 95% or more of my users probably will not have this issue, I think I'll stick to what I have right now. Since my use case revolves around getting names right, I will stick to the country's system. For example, canada also uses first/middle/last.

Thank you! That was a interesting article.
Oxygen deprivation; long term effects.
> I don't think the intent is to compare it to normal human drivers

I think our intent should be focused on where the fatalities are happening. To keep things comparable, we could maybe do 40,000 studies on distracted driving in normal cars for every one or two caused by Autopilot / FSD.

Alas, that's not where our priorities are.
The obvious problem is that it doesn't send your codebase along with it, so you can't tell it to allocate memory for your structs.
https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/hello-world/...

> The very first character at the top left is an @. @ is a special name for "whichever commit the working copy reflects." At first I kind of thought about it like HEAD in git, but that's not correct: HEAD is the most recent commit, but @ represents the working copy, which may be "dirty" from git's point of view. This is our first glimpse into the power of the index-less workflow, though we'll explore that fully in the next chapter. For this moment, just realize that we have one less concept, but haven't actually lost any of its power.
This. I know someone personally who had this exact experience.
Yes, if tesla complies and provides that data
Thank you, exactly. I know names are important, but I don't want to bikeshed on this for longer than I need to. I think I'll stick to my current method.

I'm glad I asked, and got some nice feedback that I can consider for later.
Carry-on might get gate-checked if you're unlucky.
That's an interesting hypothesis, but at least in my experience the flights where skiplagging has been viable have always been between 2 major airports, with a flight to a third major airport as the skipped leg. Looking at some examples on skiplagged.com right now, I see flights where BWI->LAX is cheaper if you book BWI->LAX->SFO but skip the LAX->SFO leg. Same with BWI->CLT by booking BWI->CLT->NAS. But those LA to SF or Charlotte to Nassau legs aren't subsidized flights to East Podunk.

Essential Air Service flights might sometimes play a role here but from what I've seen I think the thing that creates opportunities for skiplagging is just typical airline revenue management doing it's inscrutable magic setting prices between 2 cities without any concern for the prices of the individual legs.
Lesson. Quit at 2 million.

Greed is stupid.
If the airline doesn't want people doing this then stop doing ridiculous pricing.
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I really, really don't understand the airlines' problem with this. The seat was paid for, if nobody is in it, they save a fraction of a penny on fuel. What do they lose if the seat is empty vs the person still sitting in it? They get the exact same revenue. I'm so confused.
Targeted Instagram Ads —> Landing Page —> Email sign up

I wrote on this exact topic (literally - how I got my first 100 paying users) here: https://swiftjectivec.com/The-First-100-Subscribers/
The Class C airspace is sized to contain the approach paths, including a buffer above and to the sides, as controlled airspace. But underneath the approach path and Class C airspace is generally uncontrolled airspace, untill you are very close, within a few miles, of the airport. (Technically it is called Class E or Class G airpspace depending on the area and altitude) Think of the controlled airspace as shaped like an upside-down wedding cake. Oh look, the FAA has a graphic for that:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
I would have expected paths to be an array of string/number (e.g. ["persons", 3, "name"]) because keys can be any string.

Such a document may not be wise, but how would you update something like:

{ "charCounts": { "/": 1234, "a": 100, ".": 99 } }
> My Tesla routinely tries to kill me

> Elon's Unsupervised FSD dreams are a good bit off. I do hope they happen though.

It is very generous that you would selflessly sacrifice your own life so that others might one day enjoy Elon’s dream of robot taxis without steering wheels
Getting killed by animals is an idiotically painful way to die
Neither is tradition a reason that it should be elevated above current thinking.

As an idea, it has the same starting point, not a privileged one, IMO.
You should be very careful with this narrative. It invariably concludes that the market should be flooded with doctors. They are minted by medical schools, so naturally the mechanism to flooding the market involves opening more of them and dumbing down the graduation requirements.

I live in a country where that exact process is happening right now in real time. It's not pretty. The level of charlatanism and straight up incompetence in this country is off the charts. There are people graduating medical school right now who don't know how to diagnose a heart attack, let alone treat it. And these are the people manning the emergency services. Because wages were driven down, no doctor worth his salt is gonna accept that job. Why work in some shithole hospital when you can be a dermatologist? Emergency services turned into "reassigned to Antartica" tier jobs only failed doctors put up with. I don't even want to think about the number of people who are dying as a result of this.
>I don't understand how someone can be barred from an airline because they got a better deal on it.

Because they cause a truly stupid amount of inefficiencies and hassle with their desire to save a buck at the cost of everyone else.

I think American Airlines's marketing and legal teams dropped the ball as far as how they impressed the court of public opinion, as demonstrated by this very thread. "We couldn't make more money" will almost never speak to the common man.

But speaking as someone who's familiar with the aviation industry and flies very often, shenanigans like this cause tremendous losses of time and money when margins are razor thin.

A missing passenger means lost time trying to find that passenger which leads to flight delays. Once a passenger is deemed missing, their checked luggage if any needs to be offloaded which causes additional checks of the flight manifest and the cargo bay, leading to even more lost time and flight delays.

A seat unoccupied-but-occupied means that seat couldn't have been used to deadhead the crew for another flight, which can include crews from other airlines. This makes scheduling logistics even harder than it needed to be, leading to inefficiencies and in the worst case flight cancellations.

This all causes problems for people on the ground: The ground crew at the airports, the flight crew on the plane, the logistics team scheduling everything, and more. It's not just middle management that everyone here likes to flip off.

Also a coup de grace for the audience here: Someone skiplagging means the airline flies an empty seat that should have been occupied, wasting fuel. Skiplagging is bad for the environment.

I am very happy American Airlines won this, and I will say the same with any other airline. If you want to fly somewhere, buy a ticket specifically for that. If you engage in skiplagging, you are sincerely a greedy fucking bastard and deserve every blacklisting you get.
FUBO.tv has a “cancel free trial” button that cancels your free 7 day trial immediately when pressed rather than cancelling the billing subscription.

Also, your subscription there cannot be cancelled from the mobile website nor from the TV.
> am I understanding correctly that you claim that the warping of space-time is just a mathematical trick and that the phenomena are better explained by just postulating they light slows down in a gravity well?

Light slows down in gravity wells because the space-time is "denser" near massive objects. This is not a mathematical trick, this is actually a real effect.

It's also the reason for gravitational lensing, as the shortest path through a gravity well is not a straight line. Light can avoid the slowdown near the massive object, if it instead "goes around" it. The curved path is longer, but faster lightspeed along it compensates for the additional length.
Well “fuzzy logic” is kind of a dated term. I don’t think it has been used in software development, for twenty years.

TL;DR, It basically means not having “hard and fast” boundaries, and instead, having ranges of target values, and “rules” for determining target states, as opposed to “milestones,” so targets are determined on a “one at a time” basis.
People can and will kill themselves regardless of whether there is legal euthanasia. Regardless of euthanasia there has never been a sufficient level of social support for people in certain situations, and i highly doubt there will ever be. Removing the possibility of euthanasia does literally nothing except force people to die without dignity, alone, in pain, by brutal methods
I’m grateful to have the option if and when the time comes. Even before that age, QoL needs to be of a certain level or possible to improve, else I’m unsubscribing.

Much preferred to, say, ættestup: https://youtu.be/DwD7f5ZWhAk?si=WjwnN7cZC1h7TcJU
It's 4.7 million each for trademark infringement and "disgorgement from the travel site's revenues"

First one is a "So what, just remove the American Airlines trademarks". They can drop them and say all good, and presumably not get sued again.

Second one is about what Skiplag was doing itself; I.E. cutting into AA's profits. If they continue to do this, the next court case will be much more expensive. Most courts don't like it when you get sued for something and treat it like the cost of doing business, and AA is big enough that I'd count on them bringing suit again.
> If the alternative offered by the Palestinian Authority is ethnically cleansing all the Jews out of Hebron, it seems reasonable for the soldiers to be there to keep the peace?

So demanding that settlers who illegally occupied land is “ethnic cleansing”?
And you seem to be ceding my point and agreeing that it is apartheid, but justified.

> The Israeli government is obviously not perfect, but Arab citizens of Israel are generally treated way better than Jewish citizens of Muslim countries.

Whataboutism and irrelevant.

One comment ago you were saying it’s “”Palestinian apartheid”, now you are saying that it may be apartheid but it’s justified and so what, other countries are worse. I’m sorry but this I’m not going to engage any further with this type of discourse.
It'd be nice if they got uploaded to archive.org or somewhere else where the public can get it without handing over a bunch of data.
The prototype device they have near the end - looks like a raspberry pi + GPS receiver? The only possible reason I can think of for that is to get higher accuracy GPS than a smartphone, but is it that much more accurate? And is that accuracy that useful? I can think of a bunch of Bicycle User Groups here in Melbourne (AU) that would help contribute to initiatives like this (while AU is generally better than US for cycling, there's still a _long_ way to go), but I would think an app would make it much more scalable than hardware (also, are there not external GPS receivers available for phones)?

My other thought is, once there's a decent set of data like this, how is it updated? While road alignments don't change that often (so car routes don't need to change often), the small-scale details like this change much more frequently
The issue in question regarding the above comment is not about autonomy its about being persuaded by someone in authority to do something that they are not keen on originally. That something being terminating their life. And its not purely voluntary if someone in authority is trying to steer you into it.
Underrated related show

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Yes, employers during WW2 started offering health care as a fringe benefit because the US had wage caps. Even earlier, the government required licensing of doctors, the original purpose of which was to drive out Jewish and Black doctors.

https://www.amazon.com/Competition-Monopoly-Medical-Care-Fre...

But the big government push into health care happened in the 60's.

Another big driver of American health care costs is the FDA:

https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...
The fact that my CEO in first class and me in economy class pay the same flat fee is still regressive, just not as regressive as, eg. taxing food twice the normal rate
That’s not true. You can hash the truncated version
You are a bad programmer if you think silently doing the wrong thing is not a bug. The right thing to do with unexpected input as the setTimeout library author is to raise an exception.
sorry for the late response, I've used WASD, there's also Max Keyboard, and I've heard some good things about Goblin Techkeys. They'll all do one-offs.

By compromise on accuracy I just mean they won't be the chunky doubleshot ABS keycaps like the originals. You can definitely still make something that looks nice and has the symbols you'd want.
In summary, Smack Studio is a fighting game with a character editor that can rotate any 2D pixel art sprite as if it were 3D by extrapolating a depth map. You can export the resulting sprites for use outside of the game.

The game was released on 2024-07-31.
I also proposed using Bootstrap with https://www.11ty.dev for the templates. It's much easier to update a JSON file than to work with WordPress.

By using relative paths for assets and loading Bootstrap from a CDN, I can zip the website and share it via email.
What is FSD uptake rate. I bet it’s less than 1% since in most countries it’s not even available…