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Spare_accounton Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed that.

>I'm not going to trust a system that isn't as good as a normal attentive driver.

As I understand it, we're not expected to trust the current incarnation of Tesla Autopilot. We're supposed to be ready to intervene in case it screws up.

I'd be interested to know how long the drivers of the 12 Teslas in these accidents had to intervene but didn't (how long was it obvious Autopilot had screwed up before the impact).

Spare_accounton Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

>It's also 12 more than any normal attentive human has gotten into

Can you clarify this please? Are you asserting that prior to the 12 Tesla incidents, there weren't any crashes into stationary emergency vehicles?

Spare_accounton Swiping left on magnetic stripes

It's a real-world solution that is widely-known but not widely understood.

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1ycw61/e...

No idea if this explanation is legit, but I can anecdotally confirm that the trick has permitted a purchase in one case in my own direct experience.

Spare_accounton Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

As I understand it, the body's self-regulation systems maintain blood sugar within a range that doesn't typically permit a 'sugar high'.

If you regularly experience a 'sugar-high', I wonder if it might be indicative of problems with your body's blood sugar regulation.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324896#Acute-sugar...

Spare_accounton Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

Can you explain what you mean by a sugar rush? I thought that was a myth

Spare_accounton For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

The reasons you've cited ought to be reasons for an employer to require office attendance. If employees are less efficient when working from home, then they shouldn't be offered full-time wfh.

As I understand it, the rationale behind offering pay-cuts to full time wfh employees is that the pay cut is relative to the employee's lower cost of living. The employer sees an opportunity to avoid including the cost-of-living salary-uplift that is required to attract people to San Francisco etc.

Spare_accounton How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)

Presumably a bunch of people could book sessions in one simulator at the same time and simulate multiple simulators inside the simulation, massively increasing the capacity of the top-level simulator.

Spare_accounton Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

VPN to the UK and watch BBC coverage?

I'll admit that I don't know if that works or not, I'm in the UK so I'm spoiled by wall-to-wall BBC coverage.

Spare_accounton 4.6B-year-old meteorite found

Rocks formed on earth have been dated as old as 4 billion years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks

It is unusual, though, you're right.

Spare_accounton Restaurant workers quit at record rate

That's a good deal. I'm in the UK and I've never had anything like that. I currently have ten paid sick days per year and after that it is Statutory Sick Pay (SSP, £96.35 pe week) for an additional 26 weeks. SSP is better than nothing but it's not great.

Looking back, all of me previous jobs have offered 10 days sick pay and I've always assumed it is a de-facto standard over here.

Spare_accounton Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Presumably Google devices will just resolve DNS queries through a tunnel, if you block 8.8.8.8

Spare_accounton This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

This gives me food for thought. I have young children, all under 10. The challenge is learning how to inspire them; you found a crutch that made learning less of a chore: converting the syllabus into chunks of code.

I can already see that the my two eldest will both need very different answers, but if I can figure out what theirs is, I can hopefully help them focus where my childhood mind would wander during study sessions.

Spare_accounton This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

You accidentally prepared for the test while thinking that you were cheating.

Spare_accounton I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)

It's also from 2015, which usually merits a mention in the title round here.

Spare_accounton I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)

I wondered about this, but I didn't know if it would really happen. Do we have any evidence for it?

Spare_accounton Cool URIs don't change (1998)

>I know Microsoft will move or even outright delete important content because chasing shiny new ideas will get somebody promoted. And so I direct people away from Microsoft

Do the other providers that you recommend in place of Microsoft have a better record of not changing/removing URIs on their website?

Spare_accounton Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?

>that time the us military got those ridiculous fake bomb detectors that did literally nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Are you referring to the ADE 651? I wasn't aware that it was sold to the US military.

Spare_accounton Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software restriction policy

>They were deprecated in 1803.

For a few moments I thought you were being sarcastic about the fact that Software Restriction was deprecated ages ago by mentioning a date two hundred years in the past.

Then I realised it's a Windows 10 version number.

Edit: For reference, 1803 was released in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history#Ver...

Spare_accounton Eric Carle has died

Hackernews comments can't be edited or deleted after a few minutes. There's nothing he can do about it

Spare_accounton ‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After

>The communist leader of Georgia at the time wanted to make an example of them and gave death sentences, even despite their ages. The parents didn't find out they were executed by the state for five years (nor did the media obviously).

These two sentences appear to contradict each other. Why would their executions be low-key if they were to be made examples of?

Spare_accounton FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices

There are a lot of walls to upgrade then, who should pay for that?

Standing in someone's garden, peering through their window is dealt with via legislation.

Since the invention of video recording devices, rather than having everyone upgrade their windows, legislation was reinterpreted and updated to govern the recording of people in private places vs public places.

It doesn't seem unreasonable for the same to be done to keep up with other forms of technology.

Spare_accounton Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

Thanks for this

Spare_accounton Amazon Sidewalk

Thanks!

Spare_accounton Amazon Sidewalk

>I hope they inform their customers that filming and recording public spots or other people's houses in Europe requires advertising the presence of CCTV and adhering to data protection laws.

I live in the EU and have a camera on the front of my garage, pointing at the street and partially covering my opposite neighbour's house. I'd like to understand more about which rules I need to adhere to, I was unaware of this. Can you point me towards some resources on the subject?

Spare_accounton Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

>but it's because we update them every year.

OK, this is the part I wasn't aware of. I assumed (dangerous, I know) that each year's 'new' flu vaccine was really just a new 'blend' of existing proven vaccines, for the most prevalent strains that year.

Edited to remove badly conceived question. New Question: How often do we have to develop novel vaccines for new Flu variants?

Spare_accounton Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

I considered that, but as I understand it (this could wrong) the variants that are more prevalent each year are pre-existing and we just don't know which ones will be 'popular' ahead of time.

Another way of looking at this is that they're not new mutations that we scramble to develop and test vaccines for, we just roll out the same tried and tested vaccines, but we have to cobble together a different blend some years.

If the above is correct, then I guess the Flu example to answer my question would be: How often is a new variant of Flu (HxNy) discovered that necessitates a new vaccine being developed?

Spare_accounton Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

This has me wondering: Are there any events in history (with any other viruses) where this hasn't proven to be the case?

Viruses that we've developed vaccines for, that have eventually been rendered inneffective due to a mutation? Is it a common occurence?

Spare_accounton Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send

Great idea, do you have any suggestions that will help?

Spare_accounton Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

https://www.google.com/search?q=suspicious+cases+of+pneumoni...

This URL searches Google for your phrase "suspicious cases of pneumonia in china" filtered for results between Oct 1 and Nov 30 2019

Spare_accounton Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

Not the same guy, but perhaps you can help me understand if this event is related?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/world/asia/plague-china-p...

Date: November 13 2019

>Li Jifeng, a doctor at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital where the two people sought treatment, wrote on WeChat, a social media platform, that the patients sought treatment on Nov. 3

>“After so many years of specialist training, I’m familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of most respiratory diseases,” wrote Dr. Li. “But this time, I looked and looked at it. I couldn’t guess what pathogen caused this pneumonia. I only knew it was rare.”