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811.
by Zak 2y ago
It is atypical for REM sleep where most vivid dreaming occurs to start immediately or shortly after falling asleep. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/stages-of-sleep
812.
by Zak 2y ago
Typed Clojure is available as a library.
813.
by Zak 2y ago
With a REPL-connected editor (and most have a way to do this), you can simply hover over it in your editor as well. Even though most languages can have a REPL today, few integrate it in the development experience the way lisps do.
814.
by Zak 2y ago
To add to the existing comment, the solution I use, and I think the most popular solution right now is called Play Integrity Fix: https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix/ I haven't had to touch it in a
815.
by Zak 2y ago
I use EasySSHFS to mount a backup directory my desktop, then NeoBackup to back up apps to it. Both require root.
816.
by Zak 2y ago
The maximum deceleration is the traction limit of the tires; most braking systems on cars have the mechanical ability to exceed it, which is prevented by ABS on modern cars. If both the motors and the brakes can exceed the traction limit, a
817.
by Zak 2y ago
That seems about right for a child doing that; an adult would probably be fined and kicked off the train.
818.
by Zak 2y ago
> Also passenger might be inebriated and randomly push the button. Modern societies are reasonably able to cope with potential misuse of publicly-accessible emergency equipment. Buildings have fire alarms. Airplanes have emergency exit
819.
by Zak 2y ago
That might be true for some of the extreme performance EVs (Rimac Nevera: 2360 Nm, Lucid Air Sapphire: 1940 Nm), but I think the mechanical brakes can probably overpower the 700 Nm of Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace.
820.
by Zak 2y ago
There's a belief in some circles that because technologies like self-driving have the potential to save lives, any failure to develop that technology as quickly as possible is akin to manslaughter. I don't think it's a mental
821.
by Zak 2y ago
> but it's just going to be the same software It does not have to be the same software. Its task is much simpler, and many situations where the normal software has to look for an optimal resolution can be handled by activating the
822.
by Zak 2y ago
An emergency stop button for a robot car shouldn't immediately disengage all other automation and apply maximum braking as the parent comment seems to be implying. That would, indeed be very dangerous. An emergency stop routine should
823.
by Zak 2y ago
I'd be impatient too if I was in a robot car that suddenly started driving erratically. There's no way to know whether it's going to continue harmlessly driving around a parking lot or suddenly do something dangerous. I proba
824.
by Zak 2y ago
This problem seems to be fairly well known, but insufficiently scandalous for anyone with power to do something about it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
825.
by Zak 2y ago
HN was briefly called "Startup News". I remember the popular prediction of software going service-based, probably delivered via a web browser or something like one in the late 1990s and being disturbed at the prospect of being una
826.
by Zak 2y ago
Algorithms aren't inherently bad. An algorithm that keeps spam out of my email is pretty great if it works. An algorithm that presents a feed of things I actually want to see is also pretty great. I want to see life updates from my fri
827.
by Zak 2y ago
When I was in elementary school, my teachers told me it was very important to memorize multiplication tables because I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket. We know how that turned out. I asked an LLM the first example questi
828.
by Zak 2y ago
Mobile operating systems with remote attestation (that's both Android and iOS) aren't far off from that with regard to native apps. It doesn't affect the web yet , but Google did propose adding an attestation mechanism to Ch
829.
by Zak 2y ago
I see the miscommunication now. It's possible to interpret what I wrote as "no places/activities should require searches", but what I meant was "not all places/activities should require searches". That&#x2
830.
by Zak 2y ago
My position is that it is undesirable for premises liability to lead to an increase in private businesses searching their guests, not that nobody should be searched anywhere for any reason. I do think it should be rare in practice: airports
831.
by Zak 2y ago
I think a better argument here is that common law/case law here is ambiguous enough to create a situation where there's an unreasonable and unpredictable risk for certain kinds of businesses. Another problematic case this sort of
832.
by Zak 2y ago
At least equally important to whether a reasonable person would take it literally is that there's no way to prove it isn't. If I call something the best cookie, the closest thing that has to a concrete meaning is "I like it b
833.
by Zak 2y ago
I will concede the technical point: there is a body of law that sometimes expects business owners to prevent crimes and sometimes doesn't, with a whole lot of ambiguity about exactly what any given owner is actually expected to do. I t
834.
by Zak 2y ago
Is there? In most US states, the concept of premises liability seems to be derived entirely from case law, not statute. Some states appear to have statutes limiting its scope, such as https://colorado.public.law/statutes&#x2
835.
by Zak 2y ago
Yes. In general, business owners aren't expected to prevent crimes against their customers. If someone attacks me at a bar or grocery store, I probably won't get very far trying to sue the owner for failing to check everyone for w
836.
by Zak 2y ago
> The only hard and fast requirement is meeting the contractual security requirements of the venue and promoter's insurance carriers I think it would be a good idea to create an explicit carve out in the law saying that there is
837.
by Zak 2y ago
It is, and has long been illegal to make false statements of fact in marketing materials. Puffery , on the other hand is allowed. That usually entails non-falsifiable statements like "Evolv is the best way to detect guns". &quo
838.
by Zak 2y ago
If a user wants to turn on a clearly labeled setting to share a bunch of data with Meta, it should not be Apple's role to stop them even if you and I might think that's a stupid thing to do. Android's solution for more danger
839.
by Zak 2y ago
It's a bit different when someone is being intentionally deceptive. None of the major social platforms or protocols guard effectively against someone making a deceptively similar username to impersonate someone. I bet the vast majority
840.
by Zak 2y ago
From what I've seen, some niche servers have very detailed and very strict rules intended to address the needs of certain marginalized groups. An example I've seen is requiring a content warning for any image where a person or ani

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