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Not only that, the time to take public transport is way worse than driving. If it were a 5-15 minute difference to get from point A to point B, OK, I would do it. But for me, I can get to/from work in ~20 minutes. I could also take the bus and it would be 50 minutes one way. That means an extra hour out of my day to take public transportation. I have too much going on to lose an hour a day. The extra time spent in traffic is obviously not as bad as the extra time spent on public transit, so why would I take it?
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I guess the real question is, is autopilot a service (i.e. requiring realtime use of remote infrastructure) or is it a feature that functions independently? In the second example, Tesla would be just arbitraging legal curiosities surrounding EULAs, which is kind of shitty.
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,,it'll likely take the better part of a century to produce enough storage to power the globe on intermittent sources''

We're talking about 20-30 years, and sure, I don't see the will from people (especially poor people who elect politicians, but can't afford renewable energy) for going faster.
I live in West LA and have been commuting by bus for the last year after ditching my car. I think it's actually been a significant improvement to my life as it's a lot less stressful to sit in a bus for an extra 10 minutes rather than spend my commute worrying over how slow everything is moving in traffic.

Everyone here seems to want everyone else to use public transit for all the right reasons, but isn't willing to adjust their own behavior to accommodate that.

The city needs to actively make it harder to use cars with bus lanes, road diets, removing parking, etc. It's moving in that direction bit by bit, but takes a long time and the NIMBYs fight for every inch of asphalt.
IIRC that project was ultimately a failure. The plankton didn't sink to the bottom as expected, instead they were eaten by fish and failed to sequester much carbon.
Consciousness is probably the only thing that _cannot_ be an illusion. Whatever you may think, the fact that you are having an experience is the only thing you can know for sure (all the content of your experience could be planted into your mind, but you at least know that you are experiencing it). You really can't know if anyone else really exists and is having an experience, or if its all a dream filled with impersonators created by your own mind, but you know first hand that at least one experience is happening (your conscious experience).

Perhaps "the self", or "the idea that I am a being with a consciousness separate from all the universe" is an illusion.
I cannot think of a more trivial reason to fundamentally restructure the economy.
That's FUD.

The phones absolutely did not behave like that when new. And, if the battery is replaced, they go back to their original performance.
My experience has been quite different from yours, so I figured I'd share mine as well.

- Yep touchbar just sucks, I've spent too much time messing around with with the default version, bettertouchtool, and pock, and I cannot find anything its good at. Worse yet, the volume slider often will freeze the touch bar completely.

- The screen size and format is wonderful. I hate how Dell and Thinkpad laptops I've used in the past, have these widescreen formats, where very few lines of code can be visible at a time due to the limited vertical space.

- I didn't realize this until you pointed it out, but it's definitely very heavy compared to my 15-inch 2018 model and thinkpad x230. This haven't bothered me at all, however.

- It feels significantly faster than my 2018 model, and the CPU temperature stays much lower under the same workloads.

- I know a lot of people have trouble with this, so if you've previously had this problem the 16 inch doesn't change that. Both my hands rest on the touch pad while typing, and I have not had this problem once. Your mileage may vary.

- I got mine discounted down to roughly 2k. Pretty ridiculous yeah!

- The battery life is insane. On a simple workload it will last me an entire day. On my full workload (Flutter development with android and ios simulators open) it lasts about half a day.

In the end I'm very happy with my purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still using this laptop 8 years from now.
If people have seen the IT Crowd - that’s how developers are seen in the UK by the other social classes.
> What do you do if you find yourself inside a maze?

> Quit. Seriously. Go do something else. Ideally, do it today.

That's it, right there. The whole article could have been replaced with just that.

I've heard people express the opinion that they have absolutely "no choice" but to work at McKinsey, or some random hedge fund. I don't understand how anybody can reasonably come to that conclusion. The worst case for people like this is making only medium six figures.
It can be looked at like if you buy Final Cut Pro from apple, when you trade in the MacBook they reset it thereby removing that application

The next owner doesn't get final cut pro just because you purchased it
im super lazy; can you link to the docs that cover this?
That's because the trade-offs are worth it. Taxis are usually slower than the subway except for late night and early mornings.
It is still really cool. As a physicist, with a lot of contacts to nuclear physics, I can't recall hearing about any biological systems (aside from humans) making deliberate beneficial use of gamma radiation.

With sufficient evolution, one could imagine a biological system that could sustain itself for long durations in spaceflight with only a gamma source for "food". Such an organism could travel far and wide.
Yes, and it's mentioned in the post that the C code was also brought into parity.
Congratulations, you just re-invented Schrödinger's cat thought experiment [1]. One interpretation of this phenomenon is that the universe exists in a superposition of states until an observer causes the collapse through observation. What you dismiss as "such a stupid theory" is an idea/paradox that has confounded quantum physicists for decades.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
Is it really the future? The very term soap opera was coined because soap advertising was done as sponsoring entire shows. It's 1950 advertising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera
Because absent a near halt on CO2 emissions they are worthless. We will keep emitting past the point where they are useful and will have a much steeper cliff to fall off. If you have ever seen Futurama's "Crime of the Hot", think of dropping the increasingly large ice cube as the analogy.

If we solve emissions, then I think everyone agrees we can look at accelerated weathering and other sequestration strategies.
Python dicts are not ordered maps, they are dicts preserving insertion order.
The one thing that I've learned by being surrounded by incredibly talented people is that you can't compare yourself to others in a singularly dimensional way. If you do, the odds are against you that you are the best in the world (1 in billions, in fact). This is the quickest path to defeat and nihilism.

What I've chosen to do instead is compare myself across all dimensions that I have interest and passion for. The beauty of this is that the combinatorics of genetics normalized for individual circumstance leads to only one meaningful comparison, yourself. Internalizing this just leads to a more fun game.
There's also the option to spray sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight, similar to volcanic eruptions. I think the main problem is that the effects are hard to predict, so you really only want to do it as a last resort.

If we fail to restrict our release of greenhouse gases and CO2 sequestration doesn't get economical and funded in a sensible way, our best option is probably solar shades in low earth orbit (giant sheets of ultra thin foil). It's more expensive than dumping iron in the oceans or sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, but it's predictable and easy to undo.
But... if you resist the temptation of shiny bullshit, we're so productive now that you could stay home from work on Fridays and the gears that provide that food and hut would keep turning. Why do people have to be motivated then? it just so happens that the excess of that extra work goes into someone's pocket.
So how can you access, say, the third element of your ordered map in PHP ?
I just don't see why consciousness would require any sort of special physics. We live in a world full of emergent phenomena, and consciousness seems like it should just be another one of them.
Companies should really get a grip on how long things last under normal conditions... They issue warranties on a lot of their goods. Software rarely comes with useful or valid warranties because it is often updated, but for business users they have fixed periods of support, where the company pays a subscription fee for membership. Developing something like that (reasonably) into the price of software could bridge the gap. Someone has to do something firm in terms of policy now that so many software makers are actively playing with the loopholes.
"Who coached the majority of Michael Jordan's championship winning teams?"

(the name is actually on the tip of my tongue, surprisingly)

- whether or not the hiring manager knows the answer:

"You're not him"
That's an excellent point and it sounds very easy to implement.
Unfortunately, I don't.
JWZ Problem? (now you have two problems...)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/05/so-this-happened/
This article doesn't mention that there is good evidence that publicity surrounding high profile suicides often leads others who are at risk to attempt suicide too. Thats why (along with respect for families) suicides are often described more obliquely as 'x has died' when the deaths are reported.

Ensuring that these types of incidents have as low a profile in the press as possible may well have saved lives.
Not satire, just hacker news.
What does it say? That Python is willing to spend more computation time for simplicity, without waiting for the programmer to ask for it? That Python will make semantic changes in minor version bumps of the language?
> They disregarded a SACROSANCT policy among airline crews by not initiating a go-around when they hadn’t achieved a stabilized approach by 1,000 feet.

I was on a Lufthansa flight that did not have a stabilized approach from 5000 feet all the way down to the runway, right until the left hand wingtip came within a meter or so of brushing the ground to the side of the plane.

Then, and only then did they initiate a go-around. Crappiest flight I've ever been one, I sent a message to LH and zero response. It is quite possible this rule is indeed sacrosanct but here you have at least one violation. In case anybody is interested in looking it up, LH2310, 14 Feb.
Not to mention how much of that market is being bled off by Apple. Obviously, specialty tools are always going to have a market. But companies like Apple are going to capture more and more of the “mainstream” market with their own fitness offerings.
As somebody who has played a lot of different board games with a lot of different random people, its a huge time investment to learn a game, especially a complex one, that you might only end up playing one time.
If you read the article they linked to the source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677413/

Also, it's shocking to me, did you already know about this?

After some research we don't seem to know everything about this fungi and it seems to have amazing potential for possible nuclear waste disposal.
I got killed by the YC... dern generator functions. ;'<

(Actually, it's θ, but suspension of disbelief and all.)
It doesn't help that he seems to mix up practice, participate, and try. I got lost trying to re-read it for comprehension, then just closed the window when he went off about video games.
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This is all neatly sidestepped by many-worlds: the wavefunction collapses that you observe send you down one trouser of time. It may look like you're influencing the world, but you're really just being dragged along by it. Non-sentient things are doing the same thing in the same way.
Now I'm going to annoy my friends by telling them Star Wars is just an advertisment built around products, like Peppa.
Dirtbikes, ATVs are better at traversing the terrain and we wouldn't need roads. If you want to get anywhere you need to go fast. The problem is speed kills. Even with all of the gear it's significantly safer to be a two ton steel cage. Personal helicopters would be ideal but that seems cost prohibitive and amateur flight isn't legal. The allure of the car is independent transportation. I suppose self driving cars would help the safety issue if they work but they still need roads.
The article completely misses the point of public transit.

Transit is NOT about reducing congestion. Induced demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand) clearly means that some people will driving so long the congestion is within their tolerance level.

Public Transit is all about giving choices to people AND enabling people to get to jobs that they couldn't get to otherwise because of congestion.

For my family, I have been fortunate enough that the last 15 years or so I have been able to take public transit to my jobs. This has enable my family to use a single car and save tens of thousands. This is significant money for me and even more significant for someone making less than I do.

Public transit enables workers to keep more of what they earn because they don't have to spend money on gas, car repairs, and they don't have surprise expenses related to driving all the time.

Public transit is NEVER about congestion.

If the goal is "solving" congestion then:

* ban cars (Market Street in SF, 14th Street in NYC (https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/18/20919729/new-york-transport...)

* have an economic collapse

* reduce parking options

* congestion pricing

... etc...
This is not an effective analogy. Apple slowed down processors when the battery was not producing enough voltage to run the processor at the normal clock rate. This can happen due to old batteries. It can also happen in cold weather, or any other circumstance that results in lower voltages.

It's more like, "Imagine if for reduced horsepower when your engine was at risk of overheating, and would not function properly at the standard horsepower".
> and immediately messed it up by mixing ordered maps with arrays into a big soup, but hey, PHP

And here I thought Lua was the only language insane enough to do something like that.

Just realized Lua tables aren't ordered, but it still mixes arrays and maps / tables into a single data structure.
When my child (5) was learning about commercials, I explained that they are a company's way of trying to convince you to buy something. A lot of times they are misleading or don't tell the whole story, so you shouldn't believe what you see in an advertisement.

We have yet to have been hit by a "daddy buy me X" plea based on TV ads. We did get them based on simply seeing things on a shelf in a store, so it's not that the child is immune to this sort of desire.
There are many books that would dispute your second sentence.

I'll just note that what most people consider capitalism really consists of three components:

1) "free markets" in which what is sold and for how much is not (heavily) regulated
2) an entrepeneurial environment in which starting (and stopping) commercial enterprises is relatively easy and happens often
3) preferentially biasing the distribution of the rewards of commercial enterprises towards those who invest capital, rather than those who invest labor or IP.

There's no rule that says you couldn't have a system with just 1 or 2 of those 3. Either way, they interact to create a social system which does indeed tend to drive a society in certain directions, and inhibit its ability to move in others.
I do weekly 1:1s with all my reports. We have a google doc that we maintain that has notes from every one of our 1:1s. We use the same format every week, asking the same 4 questions of each other.

- How are you feeling?

- What are you excited about?

- What do you have the most anxiety about?

- What could we do better?

Then we discuss any administrative things, blockers, and there's a "What else" section at the end.
Lee Smolin’s book, “Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution” is largely about particle/wave duality and an alternate theory that never caught on: the Pilot Wave theory. It’s a Realist alternative to the Anti-Realist school of Heisenberg, etc.

As Feynman used to say, “nobody understands quantum physics”. I really don’t have a clue which theory is more “correct”. But the book’s interesting, and I recommend it.

Also, an exploration of consciousness and quantum physics is central to the Dalai Lama’s, “The universe in a single atom”. Another book I highly recommend. He’s passionate about science, and it’s a thought provoking book. In “The Profound Mind”, he goes further into various philosophies, and has some really interesting things to say on consciousness, subjectivity, etc.

Quantum Mechanics attracts a lot of “woo”. I didn’t find the Dalai Lama’s books to fall into that category — more philosophical than anything else. Just worth mentioning.

It’s a shame, in general, how much pseudoscience surrounds Quantum Mechanics — the reality of things is plenty interesting and confounding on its own! [Edit: not at all meant as a judgement on this particular article; just following a train of thought.]
The Romans didn't have paper, and pencils were invented in the 16th Century. I think they had chalk, but they almost certainly would have used playing pieces on a board.
> about a feature we had since Python 3.6, in 2016

No, you had that feature in one implementation. Now it's in the language specification. That's vastly different because only now you can rely on it without fearing it can go away with the next release.
"I'm glad that's working for you, but for anyone else reading, if you think you have some sort of uncontrolled pathological narcissism, please do not have children."
Thank you. This is a wonderful, pitch-perfect example of the type of insanely arrogant thing I would have posted in a forum before I had kids.
...thats the same thing. Maybe youre thinking about "sorted maps"?
The issues surrounding NUMA are addressed extensively in the article.
I wouldn't be surprised if Jalopnik purposefully left out or changed information. I was a reader of theirs for years, but they are CLEARLY anti-Tesla, and honestly anti-electric car.
It is unclear whether this voids the warranty. Tesla, like other manufacturers, leaves open the possibility of voiding a warranty for improper repairs, but I'm not aware of any cases in which Tesla has actually gone that route.

Also regarding your last point, OTA updates can also provide added safety. For example, there have been similar software issues with the anti-lock brakes for both Teslas and Toyotas. Tesla was able to fix that problem and push out the updates in a few days. Toyota also had a quick fix, but actually deploying the update to cars required a recall and for the update to be manually installed by a technician. That extra barrier to getting the update unquestionably resulted in unsafe cars being on the road much longer than if OTA updates were possible.
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I feel like these numbers are skewed by the sex workers on Patreon offering subscription pornography. It'd be interesting to see if there's a difference between the numbers adult content creators see vs. everyone else.
I don't think it is so simple. I live in LA and can't practically use public transport to commute, but I've lived in less dense cities that have far more effective public transport because the routes are designed better. LA's bus routes feel almost randomly placed, I'm used to having bus routes deliberately serving as feeders to train routes, and timing the schedules so that buses arrive for a swift transfer and you are never waiting.

On my commute to work I see buses from half a dozen different agencies, the fact that every individual city in the metro area seems to run its own bus service is probably another piece of the problem.
Even in times of low traffic, patrol cars are known to slow down the flow of cars in order to induce congestion. They do it because when there are so many cars on the freeway, it’s safer if the vehicles move along slowly.

It seems that with our current infrastructure, even if we could reduce the number of car users it would not be by such a margin that it would become safe enough to not have these “traffic breaks”.

https://youtu.be/zOjYQTkrdl8
I live in Orange County and commute to La Mirada (only ~13 miles away). The bus routes are so inefficient that it would take me 1.5 hours to get to work by bus. Biking would be faster (although significantly more stressful and dangerous). Some areas just need to add more and better routes.
>> I have never named and shamed the first company

You should. Does it look like they give a fuck about you? Who are they?
In JS's defense, it really tried as well. Fortunately though they failed harder at it, which is why arrays and objects are probably more different from one another than Eich had intended there in that mad 2 week language design frenzy. Good for us!

Back when JS got popular and the majority of web programmers knew PHP, there were dozens of tutorials out there trying to convince you not to do stuff like this:

var a = new Array();
a["moo"] = "five";
a["foo"] = "six";

After all, well, it works! Like in PHP! So what's the problem? :-) Most people felt the same way about these tutorials as people feel about monad tutorials nowadays.

Good times!
I can't read the article, but am very curious about how they accounted for overall growth.

That new Expo Line tends to be pretty packed at rush hour. But that east/west commute continues to get more crowded overall. There have been ever-more apartments and offices opening up along that line for the past 6+ years, so it's no surprise traffic gets worse too.
This is not always true, most of Shinkansen track is concrete slab track, which is effectively fixed to the ground. And they actually do have special anti derailment guides build into the track to prevent a train from derailing during an earthquake:
https://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/rd/seika/2006/01/safety_E05.html
How's the situation with having to wait for buses? Are the stops shady or covered? Do they give you indicators for when you can expect the next bus or if there are delays?

In my experience those are pretty big indicators of how pleasant a system is to use.
In this assembly code it cannot overflow because N is a 32-bit integer and the multiplication gives a 64-bit result, which is converted to 32-bit only after shifting.

I can't figure out why it doesn't use the simpler formula (other than the optimizer being bad).
https://archive.md/am4n4
> I don't see how the $8,000 (or less, since it's a used vehicle?) that Tesla would get from this would be worth this terrible publicity.

Isn't Larry Ellison on the board for Tesla now? Pretty sure the terrible publicity Oracle commonly gets hasn't bothered them in the slightest.
There is no collapse. One can create pairs of entangled particles and send streams of these in opposite directions - left and right for example. When particles on the left are measured, it causes the so-called collapse of the wave function and that of its paired particle that went to the right. This means one can "collapse" the wave functions of one stream of particles (right) by taking measurements of the other (left). The thing is, the particles on the right behave exactly the same way regardless of weather their wave function has been collapsed. In other words, no one can tell if this collapse has even occurred. Why is it talked about as a discrete event?