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> While science is more rigorous, it is easier to build consensus, and it can be done with minimal human contact.

Agreed, which is why I believe we should take a more scientific approach to discussions. For example:

>>> Those adults watch a few conspiracy YouTube videos and Fox News and consider themselves educated and informed.

Is this statement True? At best, it has some truth. But this type of language and thinking is incredibly common right here on HN, a place we consider to be a place of quality discussion. For sure, things are better here than most other places, but it is still chock full of objectively incorrect statements and erroneous thinking, much of it being very nuanced and easily dismissed by "don't be pedantic", "you know what I meant", etc.

Science does not operate by ignoring details or requiring listeners to infer things from vague messages, and this is why it produces successful results. The way we manage and discuss affairs on planet earth however, is almost entirely operated in this non-scientific, error-riddled form.

To be clear, this is my personal opinion (an estimate) about reality. What matters is what the true state of reality is, and almost no one seems to care about that, at least based on discussion and voting patterns here.

I wonder if some sort of a browser addon that added a metadata layer to forums would be helpful in surfacing these things, such that patterns could be recognized over time, which might bring to mind ideas of how we could improve our thinking and discourse.
Yeah this is why I avoid Teslas on the highway when I'm driving. Their owners are more often than not on their phones not looking at the road while autopilot has their lives (and others) in its hands.
Yep, the whole Trustworthy Computing initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing There was a huge investment in training, tools, and creating security specialists. It took a long time to turn the ship around but security issues started trending down a few years after that.
Tidy. Thanks. It needs an extra line to properly establish what the next day is, but this is much more robust. For a larger set of reasons related to how data is being stored, the base date variable is a string in format yyyyMMdd.

dateNext = sprintf(‘%s’, datetime(date, ‘format’, ‘uuuuMMdd’) + days(1));
I couldn’t agree more - for better or worse, the expectation for a perfect “it just works” solution (of course, being relative to the exact use case) is at an all time high ( in my opinion anyway) - I’m very interested to how incumbents respond (or don’t respond) to this dynamic in the coming few years...
Ironic how on his own blog the night mode feature doesn't work correctly (the embedded videos are not affected)
While trying to find information about my own post-COVID symptoms I stumbled upon a myriad of facebook groups.

I quickly discovered that my, at the time, main problem of extreme insomnia seemed to be a very common one. I lingered in the groups, but it became apparent that it was a gathering of superstition and unscientifical ideas.

It reminded me of the same kind of groups for stuff for things like ME, MS and other things people tend to self diagnose.

2 months after first symptoms I am finally back to normal. The first month was dominated by debilitating fatigue, then debilitating insomnia. And I had COVID light.
One time years ago, I was driving on a four-lane highway when I observed a plastic bag flapping around the road ahead of me. Other cars were slowing or swerving to avoid it, which I thought was peculiar, so I also slowed a little bit but (admittedly) mostly to avoid hitting the other cars.

As I passed, I learned that the plastic bag was actually a dog that was (for unknown reasons) trying to cross the highway in moderately heavy traffic. It was pure luck on my part that I didn't hit the dog as it ran right behind my vehicle.

Sometimes even humans aren't the best judges in a split second of an object's estimated mass and/or whether it might contain some sort of soul. (I was around 30, and neither my cognition nor vision were noticeably impaired)
On the other hand I don't want to go back to the time where I had to re-install Windows every 6 months because the registry was falling over or watching macOS kernel panic because I unplugged a USB stick.
I found this incredibly interesting. A series of old potential IBM prototypes with no records of ever existing? It’s amazing the things that have been built and forgotten already.
>When a new programming language comes out, he buys the book, and reads it, and then he's fluent in that language.

The next human evolution should be synthesized to traject towards this prototype.
But I think we're getting off track from the original discussion here. I strongly suspect Taiwanese disease control experts would identify a quarantine policy applying only to a specific 4 year age bracket as what a commenter upthread described as "half-ass measures"; a serious attempt to control the virus would have to apply to everyone, since everyone can spread it.
I was not aware of that. On the other hand, I am mainly looking at static text with opaque background (including PDFs). At least there, the subpixel hinting would benefit the keen readers' eyes.
This is what I thought as well. The article highlights some differences in game structure and how that impacts strategies, but the whole cut off between perfect information and imperfect information seems fetched since in both cases it's humans responding to stimuli and computers being able to do that more effectively. And what I took away from poker in the early '00s was that even bluffing is optimization albeit under uncertainty. Counting the outs etc. to make informed bluffs, not random ones. Well it got me a year of tuition but it was boring as hell playing six screen no fold'em holdem. What was more interesting looking back was the building of databases of hands to spot regular fishes at tables and waiting for a seat there.
Apple sandboxes each thing granularly. Even with photos you can choose to only let the app see just the photo you pick.
> But "Open Source" means no field-of-use restrictions — so although any of you are free to craft your own licenses excluding X, Y, or Z, you don't get to call those licenses "Open Source".

Sounds like public domain. What’s the difference between the two then?
IMHO most languages are fairly similar to one another. Once you understand the underlying concepts and paradigm-level ideas, syntactical differences are pretty trivial to pick up.

What slows you down is when new ideas are introduced, like when you go from multi-paradigm languages like Python & Typescript to a more purely functional language like Haskell, or learning about ownership in Rust where there may be no equivalent in other languages. But ideally you only need to learn them once, and in a way that allows you to identify and apply them in a variety of contexts.
From what I hear booming is a little strong.

More like sleepy peaceful town that is expanding. Which is an achievement (given SA’s crime situation) but hardly taking the country by storm.

It also rests on some fairly unique historic concessions. So you can’t exactly start a Orania v2 next door.

So it’s really closer to the Amish in a way. Closed hardworking community that has chosen to isolate themselves to some extent
The problem is not with radiation. It's cost. There's no efficient way of "trying out" a design. Even if we would allow anyone to build almost anything with constant NRC monitoring, the cost would kill the project. (And we wouldn't really gain much insight, because of complexity. This is basically the same problem that we have with the FDA. Yes phase I-II-III clinical trials are expensive, but biology is complicated.)

Now, that said, the whole problem is that of scale. There's no real money in building nuclear power plants. It's basically a few fanatics doing it at new and old companies.

If the US would announce a 2T USD new plant budget, there would be competition.

And even then, probably we would need to build a few very similar plants to have some sort of efficient design.
Are we really going to assume that nation-state entities can't send agents to buy burner phones in other countries or just downright spoof the phone numbers entirely?

I can go buy thousands of American phone numbers on Twilio right now, the only thing stopping me is my wallet.
Take in mind that the family structure is different in South and North Europe. Southern Europe homes are often multigenerational. Having gransons and grandpas living together increases the risk. Many granpas live alone in Swedden. Their results would be even worse if we remove this structural difference.

If we can't compare Swedden With Norway, maybe you would prefer Denmark?

645 danish killed versus 5875 Sweddish. Even if we correct the difference in population, is still much lower (around 1290 versus 5875). They are not much different populations genetically. Do you have any hypothesis that would explain the difference?
I really have to push back against your point that Tesla “vigorously communicates” that driver attention must be maintained at all times, when in fact, they really seem like they want to occupy a gray space in-between:

- They advertise and sell full autonomy under the name “autopilot”, which carries all sorts of connotations

- Correct me if I’m wrong, but they don’t actually prevent a driver from falling asleep behind the wheel, even if they vibrate the steering wheel. New Subarus have driver eye tracking built in - it would be trivial for Tesla to make sure the driver is paying attention, but they don’t really want to.

It might say it somewhere in the manual to cover them legally, but all signs point to them wanting the market to think their cars drive themselves.
The converse conspiracy theory holds equal validity: that China might have an incentive to generate poor test results for non-Chinese autonomous / electric vehicles. An industry they've publicly stated is a national priority.
I am not a military expert, but the analyses I've seen suggest that Taiwan is a key piece that makes or breaks the US' "first island chain", which is crucial in containing China.

Yes China can control the narrative to some extent, and historically they did. For example all of outer Mongolia was ceded to Russia. If you check Taiwan's official claims, you will see that it's much bigger than the People's Republic of China today.

The CCP has a history of ceding land (that is strategically not too valuable) in order to setup peace. I'm guessing that the military significance is the biggest reason why they're not giving up Taiwan.
This happens consistently with me. Reload the window where Twitter is appearing and it always loads on the second try.
An anecdote: I play a “home” online poker game with friends every Friday since quarantine started. It has been a great way to have some weekend fun and hangout (we zoom while we play). I love the “all-in” moments when you see the odds displayed for each hand and there’s still at least a turn/river left to watch. Watching the odds play out and seeing the occasional 3% chance win is so fun. I’d love to see odds annotations on more things, maybe it would be a cool AR feature.
Stupidity, self-interest, and self-loathing.

Every day I see the mainstream news scream about war, death, famine, poverty, etc. etc. etc. - when it's clearly not as bad as they're portraying it. People eat it up because it's all they see on the internet now.
The performance seems pretty impressive! I'd like to see comet being added to techempower's benchmark, to see how it competes against other frameworks.
I completely agree. I was responding to this:

> It's a very profitable waste of resources.

Which implied that someone was profiting from the war on drugs, and my point was that many people lose in the war on drugs.
Your attitude seems pretty bad.

I don’t think that was the point I was making at all.

This seems exactly like a case where computer algorithms would function worse than humans. It is not surprising (to me) that those exist.

For instance, put a sign that flashes “Skydivers will land 100m in front of you in about 5s, break now” and human beings will have 100% success rate in avoiding it, and computers will not. (Or any other situation that relies on written communication that is not usually used on the road).

There’s plenty of situations where human ability will perform better than computer models (and vice versa).
On the other hand, after 9 months on-boarding an engineer is likely to operate much more productively than the "best practice" would allow.

Even more importantly, the engineer is likely to stick with a truly high tech workplace with much less "churn" than in yet another dime a dozen startup with the same fashionable tech stack as the slightly better competition.
Microsoft boots apps out of Azure used by China-sponsored hackers
Being grateful for technology that didn't exist 20 years is not incompatible with criticizing real, large, and avoidable failures that are infused with all the tech we use. Likewise, I can criticize a car model that is constantly breaking down because of owner-hostile choices made by the manufacturer even though it's better to live now than 200 years ago when there were no cars.
Tesla marketing claims they have a self driving car.

Tesla legal says you couldn't possibly think Tesla has a self driving car.
Honest question, if the driver accelerates does it overdrive the AI?

In other words, if the autopilot would break, but driver accelerated, what would the car do? Also, what SHOULD the car do?

I'm asking this because we have no idea how the tests were done: we're given a video of a moving Tesla hitting a dummy and breaking after.

I don't know how people can take any conclusions from this information, other than what is shown.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Tesla stock, neither I have any Tesla products.
Try updating Firefox? I've been having this trouble with Nightly Firefox and Twitter for a few days. On desktop, clearing Twitter-related site data fixed it, but on mobile it was only fixed in this morning's build.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/feeding-crows-death-ritua...

From the atlas obscure article:
> Hindus believe that crows are the link between the worlds of the living and the dead; ancestors, it is said, visit the living in the form of a crow.
Count your blessings. It gets a lot more confusing than that.

The Wikipedia community, the people that write stuff on Wikipedia wikis, isn't the same as Wikimedia, and the various different language Wikipedia communities even divide themselves up from one another. The Wikimedia Foundation, conversely, doesn't just provide the Wikipedia wikis, but it also provides wikis for projects like Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikisource. It even has its own wiki, the foundation wiki, not to be confused with "Meta", the wiki that I just pointed to. The Wikimedia Foundation also allows, as aforementioned, use of its name by chapters and thematic organizations.

And of course, "wiki" is not the abbreviation for "Wikipedia". It's a word for something else.

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don't_abbreviate_as_...

Then there's a piece of computer software, that one runs on a computer in order to provide a wiki, that is called MediaWiki …
Part of the problem is it's not the "same elites" with the level of consistency that phrasing implies.

A group of people with some vaguely common perceived status are lumped together as "elites".

Some of them have lied, obfuscated, concealed so many times.

Others are trying to do good things in the world, and are consistent about that to the best of their ability in a difficult world.

But we reason about them all as if they are single unit.

Same problem as any other kind of lumping people together into a named group - men, woman, white, black, etc.

It leads to false conclusions. But we love doing it, because it's a simpler model of the world than reasoning about the complex interplay of individuals.
Did you create this account specifically to make this unfunny comment? It and a duplicate of it are your only comments at all. What's your usual username, just post it under that.
Getting the first visa was pretty difficult and required a lot of paperwork. The renewal process was much easier as you just had to prove your studies are progressing on time and that you have a source of income and private healthcare (you're not eligible for public healthcare). It takes a few months for them to process the decision, which makes it pretty stressful.
Only the best journalistic sources can be trusted even when it's a live video because the entire thing can be completely fake!

I mean who knows, if it's not from a "best" journalistic resource than it could be some random dude in his moms basement spending millions of dollars to create several computer generated videos of a Tesla failing to stop for a dummy. People these days will believe anything.
If you wake up one day and decide, "I want to learn Evolutionary Algorithms with Python", then you're in luck... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1-idlHUzg
I've found it's not so much the distribution, but the desktop environment, combined with an HiDPI display. I think I haven't had the need for any special changes in years, other than maybe changing the hinting style based on personal preference.
Unit testing don't check for the obvious.
They do participate in Olympics as a separate entity but have to use the name 'Chinese Taipei'
Well Android has 80% market share, but there’s too many confounding factors to know why.

I’m certain there would be a new generation of startups especially focused on selling digital goods.

Further, you need to look at incentives. Apple would almost certainly respond by lowering their fees as a move to stay competitive. That extra cash trickling downstream would enrich many more people, who then would go on to create new things.

Not sure you have an argument that it would already have happened if it was so much better.
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Exactly - that object could have just as easily posed a mortal threat to the driver of the Tesla, yet it didn’t stop.
Identity politics must be rejected. It's divide and conquer 101.
PG and Jessica
HN thinks science progresses best when led by rich white bros? No surprise from the beneficiaries of meritocracy myths.
And can’t we all get back to the really important work of complaining about the absence of free snacks, the main reason we’re here?
You're pushing back against the wrong part of my comment. You don't believe Tesla is meeting some sort of bar (re: your reference to Subaru), but regulators have approved of Tesla's continued approach regarding driver awareness (periodic steering wheel torque dead man switch versus requiring eye tracking). So what evidence are you using that your approach should be required and would be superior? Drowsy and intoxicated people still drive every day, killing innocent people, without driver assist systems (roughly 100k accidents a year are from drowsy driving, and about 10k people a year are killed due to drunk drivers).

You cannot mitigate away personal responsibility failures with technology bandaids. At some point, the buck must stop with the operator. (On my large shop equipment I let others use in my workshop, there are large stickers that very loudly proclaim "Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you are dying").
His case has already been dropped.

It's not "attempt to get his case reversed/dismissed", the justice department already dropped the case.

The judge overseeing the case is attempting to drag out his final ruling (which is a foregone conclusion, he cannot proceed without a prosecution) until past the election so he can get a different justice department to reinstate the charges, or get the President to pardon Flynn so he can score some political points for his party.
Upvoted for good luck!
That is what I mean by "forces seeking to move away from the de jure reality".

But the fact is, the DPP hasn't officially made this move. Not yet at least.

Anyway, my point is that the person I replied to, said that Taiwan recognizes Beijing. I assert that that's officially not the case. I know, de facto situation is different, but in international relations, and when it comes to international law, the de jure reality matters a lot. Official UN procedures follow the de jure reality, not the de facto one.

And this latter is one of the reason why China behaves like a "grammar nazi" on these matters. They have to, if they want to keep the current de jure reality. It's like a company sending tons of cease and desist letters to all people who produce fan content: it's not necessarily because they want to upset fans, but it's because if they fail to enforce, then they lose the trademark.
Mac OS 10.6, Ubuntu 10.04, Firefox, a pluralistic web based on progressive enhancement, music downloads, even Windows 7, all came to work towards what people actually wanted around that time. Then came the iPhone (not bad per se, but creating the mobile web crisis), AWS, Google dominance, fscking big data
My Tesla Model 3 was in a hit-and-run.Then I learned it recorded the whole thing
https://archive.vn/BeFj2
I don't understand the point of this. Your stay is anyways only authorized for the time period specified in your I-20 (which can be extended by the university). Looks like a strategy to shore up visa fees for USCIS.

The biggest risk here is USCIS processing timelines are long and unpredictable. If you don't get your visa extension approved within 240 days of expiry you would have to leave the country and get your visa stamped in the consulate. Major pain for students from Iran and China.

Instead of having a proper overstay tracking and enforcement system for individuals and universities abusing F1 visa they are punishing entire nationalities of students.
I downvoted because it's painfully clear that GP didn't even click the link before commenting.
I should add: I do appreciate the creativity of the page design (and especially of the switch). But on an article about software UX... well.
The Breonna Taylor decision, violence, and power
If Tesla's have such tunnel vision that they can't react to someone clearly walking into their path, then that capability shouldn't be allowed on the roads. A human driver would be 100% at fault in that situation, self-driving car manufacturers shouldn't get leniency because it's hard to not kill people.
I had a game that made me better at life once.

Back in the 90's, I played a game called Command & Conquer. And if I used all my resources, I could attack an enemy base and defeat it. But on one game, I didn't leave enough resources behind to survive a counter attack. I replayed it over and over each time, to my surprise, making the same mistake. I finally forced myself to have more of a backup.

And I realized that I was living my life that way. I had very little in the way of backup. In my mind, it took away from whatever I was trying to do. "Why have savings? That money could be spent on my project!" It was a good lesson and I owe it to that moment, in that game.
About as interesting as watching a unit test fail without context.
> But this feeds to prison industrial complex

i wish people would stop saying this. it draws attention to wealth and corporatism, which is not in any way the problem.

for-profit prisons are a solution to an _already existing_ problem, which is the government and it's legal system generating record numbers of prisoners.

the war on drugs has caused more harm and destruction in america, mexico, and south american drug countries than everything short of the bloodiest wars in history. the scope is staggering. TWOD has racist roots, it widened the schism between police and policed, it entrenched generational poverty in poor neighborhoods by destroying families for non-violent crimes, exploded the prison population, set back the medicinal research of THC and psychedelics, aided and abetted the homelessness problem, and surely more.

the elevator pitch to fixing BLM issues is ending the war on drugs.

EDIT: oh lets not forget no-knock warrants or civil asset forfeiture.