I can think of one example where something similar works. The requirements from insurance companies on airline pilots are considerable tougher than the government ones because they are on the hook for ~$200m if they crash.
A big reason car companies don't worry much about killing pedestrians at the moment is it costs them ~$0.
About half our road fatalities are pedestrians. About 80% of those are intoxicated with alcohol. When you're driving at 40mph, at night, and some drunk guy chooses to cross the road, no amount of safety features or liabilities can save him.
Sure, cars can be safer for light collisions with pedestrians where the car is going slowly. Especially in the US where half the cars have a very high hood. But where I live the problem is not safer cars, it's drunk pedestrians.
I wonder how a Waymo would do with your drunks? Really the answer for that is probably more a different road layout so the drinking is separate from the traffic. I live near Soho in London which is full of drunk people in the streets but most traffic is blocked off there or doing 10 mph.
I’ve been paying more attention to Waymos recently.. and noting that it stops to let people cross that i didn’t even see first.
And sometimes at places that aren’t even a cross walk.
Im in DTLA frequently and I am almost even developing a secondary instinct to cover my brake and have an extra look around when a Waymo stops in a street.
Because it may be dropping off or picking up a rider or it saw something or someone I didn’t. Just happened Saturday in fact. I saw it do an abrupt stop when I was yielding to it at a “T” intersection and expected it to have the right of way and keep going. I didn’t proceed until I could figure out WHY it had just stopped, like “okay WHERE’S the passenger”
and then five or so people started running across the street in front of it that I would not have seen if that Waymo wasn’t there and I was clear to turn left.
As an added bonus it stayed stopped after they all crossed and I decided to be a jerk and turn left in front of it. It stayed stopped for me too. There’s no driver in it. It ain’t mad. XD
I have a good eye for spotting uber drivers who are about to load or unload too,
Especially if they have some common sense and are trying to line up to do that so their passenger can get on or off curbside. A Waymo is just.. way more immediately identifiable that I can react that much faster to it or just be like.. alright. I’ll take a cue from it, it’s usually right.
And hell even if it’s wrong, maybe this isn’t a good time to pull out in front of it anyway!
I haven't done it in a while, but you can do cubes (and more) too. Cubes would be the L3 norm, something about the distance between circles (spheres?) in 3d space? I need to read about norms again to tell you why or when to choose that, but I know the Googlable term is "vector norms"
I remember one is Manhattan distance, next is as-the-crow-flies straight line distance, next is if you were a crow on the earth that can also swim in a straight line underwater, and so on
Remember when the R developers would ask and answer their own basic questions about R, essentially building up a beginner tutorial on stack overflow? That was a cool time
Human psychology is fascinating. If I say I'm cool, I'm full of myself. If someone else says that I'm cool, that hits different. So is reverse psychology.
I think it exists to power this easter egg?: https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678 The value I guess depends on whether its appropriate to put up decorations ie a 'celebratory' holiday. It looks like the only non-bunting holidays on there right now are Good Friday (which is more solemn) and Orangemens' Day (which is pretty sectarian), but apparently in the past the Queen's funeral was another non-bunting holiday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789437
>People will buy a Steam Machine who would not buy a Linux desktop.
I have a Linux desktop and a mental block around playing games on a computer. The computer is supposed to be where I work or write code, etc. If I have leisure time, I "should" do something away from the computer.
Getting a steam deck let me shake some of that. I'd be very tempted by a box that is a Linux computer, but for fun use only.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the sloppy/lazy redacting going on here?
> ______ and husband, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, arrive on the red carpet at the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gee, I wonder who that could be without a difficult investigation.
Note that this particular document was made public before the 2016 election, much less the 2020 election.
As usual with Trump, nobody who cared had any power, and nobody who had any power cared. I expect that's how it'll play out this time... just another missed swing at the mad king.
Eh I disagree. This is breaking through to more and more MAGA.
It doesn’t feel like it because with each fracturing off of the moderate end of MAGA (insofar as that exists), the core gets more committed, more extreme, and therefore more vocal.
This is on its way to being a very small but extreme group of citizens and a fairly large and extreme group of politicians (since backing up isn’t as easy as removing a yard sign and avoiding the topic in social engagements).
Even having so much clear evidence why this is so absent from national discourse (namely, so many people from such a wide swath of society have been named, even if not in a directly incriminating manner), I'm shocked that there hasn't been more if a push to discuss the potential implications. The kind of money that could be made just speculating outside of partisan discourse is.... jaw-dropping.
But it's really just independent people here and there, and mostly framed around some (typically partisan) polemic. Really leaves me scratching my head.
The chilling effect of the executive. The current admin leverages government agencies against the corporation who will report on this if not to their liking.
Those moderate Trump voters are a big deal, regardless of their numbers. If two out of a hundred Trump voters had gone the other way, we'd have a different president right now.
Hopefully you're right. Assuming that the rift that just opened up between Trump and MTG isn't just a bunch of kayfabe, it may actually hurt Trump more than Greene. It'll make it easy for others to break with him.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump's order to open an investigation into Democrats named in the documents, in a blatantly-transparent attempt to get them back under seal, turns out to be a bridge too far. At some point, maybe even the most diehard MAGAs will realize that he's insulting their intelligence.
Meanwhile, reports say that he has been cowering in the White House all day, blasting show tunes at high volume, as he is apparently wont to do when stressed.
That's from 2016 and it's widely accepted as being a hoax. She may or may not even exist as she's never been seen publicly or by reporters trying to verify the claim.
The court documents referencing Johnson were filed in California and New York but were dismissed or withdrawn due to lack of credibility and proper legal standing. The plaintiff provided false contact information, including the address of a foreclosed home, and repeatedly failed to appear for scheduled press conferences despite promises to do so.
The claims were tied to Norm Lubow, a former producer for "The Jerry Springer Show," who used the pseudonym Al Taylor to promote the allegations.
Lubow admitted to Snopes in 2024 that he was behind the Al Taylor persona and had helped draft the initial lawsuit and publicize the claims, though he maintained the story was true.
It’s pretty demoralizing to see how many people accept at face value a totally anonymous lawsuit backed by Norm Lubow. The plaintiff never made any court appearances and the suit was withdrawn or dismissed each time, in the first case because nobody even lived at the address “she” gave.
Ultimately Lubow recruited a patent lawyer to run the case who also apparently never met her. Then a real lawyer set up a press conference for her. This was the first time any journalist got to meet her in person - and it was the Daily Mail. They reported it was all made up and the case and “Katie Johnson” disappeared forever.
But still it keeps coming up again and again, because people really want to believe their political enemies are evil. I guess it’s no different than the conspiracy theories Clinton was killing people. I just hope we as a country get better.
Cooks and similar supporting roles are often preformed by civilians without firearm training. Preforming background checks on people beforehand makes sense, but there’s little point in firearms training if they aren’t expected to carry a weapon.
This is an extremely optimistic view on how companies work