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Is this not a slam-dunk libel case?

Anyone have the source for the three Waymo serious injuries or deaths? I feel like I would have heard about these on HN. Only thing I've heard of is one feline fatality and a school-aged pedestrian who was bumped, but appeared not to be injured.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29

Seems like:

https://github.com/J-jaeyoung/bad-epoll

...is the source material. I'm not a kernel guy; I'm not following how this works:

"With that control, the exploit gains an arbitrary read of kernel memory through /proc/self/fdinfo ."

Is there a source of average price per wedding over time, since say 1800? $12,000 still sounds over the top, even accounting for inflation.

Decompiling binary blobs is a strong suit for LLM AI, right? Maybe progress on this will be faster than I expect? Does the FSF spend money on non-free AI services? That is, do they have ethical issues with that? Or do they only use AGPL licensed services (or similar)?

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/millstone

Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails

https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...

If you only care about the two surfaces matching each other, you don't even have to worry about your indicator. Just grind them against each other, or use some lapping compound to speed up the process. If you want to get the surfaces truly flat, then you use three surfaces that you successively grind against each other.

https://www.ericweinhoffer.com/blog/the-whitworth-three-plat...

We have centimeter (10 mm) then decimeter (100mm)

Does anyone actually use those? I think I would throw up a little in my mouth if I saw either of those on a mechanical drawing.

They plow the mountain passes in the winter time in at least Montana and Idaho. I'd be very surprised if they don't in Colorado or Utah.

Couldn't you make most of these arguments about the early days of most medical interventions? You don't need an x-ray to determine that patient A has a broken arm; it hurts when you twist it in this manner. Anyway, this seems like a way for rich people to subsidize up and coming technology for the rest of us. Maybe in ten years it will be meh and we can ignore it. Or maybe it will become cheap enough that everyone gets it with a yearly checkup. And maybe in 20 years some Star-Trek like body scanner will be in almost every gym in the country. And the hypochondriacs can get a scan every day.

but still not quite enough to go one way on my most frequent "long drive"

...without a charging stop.

The current Chevrolet Silverado EV has a 200 kWh battery option. Even with towing reducing the range to say 200 miles, you could do a lot of pickupy things with that.

Or you own more than vehicle. Plenty of families own multiple vehicles, and they don't all need to have tons of range.

charge it every single day.

That's pretty much standard operating procedure for any EV. That's one of the perks of owning an EV. Plug it in when you get home from work, and have a full "tank" every morning. Plus you get the cabin preheating using the wall electricity.

That's pretty much the plot for one of the latter Terminator movies, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Mach...

Aren't there plenty of countries which aren't exactly super-stable anyway? Might not take much to have select countries pushed over the edge. Especially if you have territorial disputes with neighboring countries looking to take advantage. For the U.S., what if Social Security payments suddenly stopped for 6 months? What if the U.S. lost records of Treasury Bills, and they couldn't be redeemed for a while? What if electricity went out for 30% of the population for three months? I would think it pretty cold comfort that the government didn't topple, because the next election results were a mix of democrats and republicans.

Hopefully they'll be coming soonish. Seems like we are getting back on track with the popularization of drones.

https://alef.aero/

Raise your hand if you still have a UV eraser at the bottom of a cabinet somewhere.

Think of GrapheneOS as being a set of patches on top of the Android Open Source Project that Google releases:

https://source.android.com/

They've ported the patches to work on top of the latest release.

From the eighth sentence:

"The U.K. plans to follow the same model for a social media ban as Australia, which last year became the first country to bar under-16s from holding social media accounts."

...what counts as "using"? Is viewing a YouTube video considered "using"?

For the "Our World In Data", it looks like the charts all end at 1972-1974?

Anyone have the stats on the distribution of children per woman? And does it vary by country? For instance, in a country with a TFR of 1.0 (say South Korea), is that generally each woman has one child? Or is it the case that about half the women have 2 children, and about half has no children? Seems like that could have societal implications if your society was essentially raised as only-children, vs having siblings growing up. Maybe someone has studied this in relation to China's One-Child policy? Also it seems like if you had the case where half of the women were having two children, you'd be on a glide path to something sustainable long term.

Well my Hercules graphics card was only monochrome, but it was relatively high resolution.

Banned from creating accounts? Or banned from viewing altogether?

Esther Ghey, whose 16-year-old daughter Brianna was killed in 2023 by two teenagers who had accessed harmful content online, said the ban would "potentially save so many children's lives,"

The lack of specifics here presumably implies that most reasonable people would disagree with this conclusion? (Betteridge's law)

What is the liability situation if you have an issue and cause damages to someone else's stuff in space? Are there treaties covering this? Is space pretty much considered international waters?

Let's check:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www-cse-public/ugrad/curr...