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The article took 1491 words to say what you conveyed in 8. A 99.5% verbosity excess in the original.

Even the headline took 11 words to fail to provide that information.

Thank you, kind soul.
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> It does all this with zero input from the driver, who Honda says can "watch television/DVD on the navigation screen or operate the navigation system to search for a destination address."

So another batch of dangerous "half-self-driving" cars is hitting the streets, encouraging drivers to disengage from the wheel but ignoring the fact that distracted people tend to remain distracted much longer than their automated car desires.

There is no such thing as "Level 3 automation", because driving is a wholesome intelectual endeavor that cannot be compartmentalized. You cannot drop a distracted driver in a life or death trafic situation, an expect them to correct course efficiently.

Driving includes route planning, optical recognition of static and dynamic road conditions, trajectory prediction of other trafic participants, as well as being aware of the dynamic parameters of your own vehicle and predicting how your inputs will reflect into future trajectory. The brain is essentially a giant prediction machine, as explained yesterday by an article here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341218

This is a continuous loop where an attentive driver maintains state information from a large time period, from seconds to hours: this is slippery and curvy road section, a certain road sign was spotted a mile ago, the gray Honda following drives erratically, there is a kid with a ball and a cat on the sidewalk, the wheel is slightly tilted to right to match trajectory.

There is no way to partition this activity into "simple" self-driving tasks that can be automated and "complex" things a man can drop in and do. It's all or nothing. Once the man looks away from the road for half a minute, he has lost critical state information that affords him human level driving accuracy, and it would take minutes to warm up again, including gradual increase of control authority. His role in a "Level 3 self-driving car" is essentially that of the monkey to take the blame.
Could you link one of these? Would love to relive the sentiment.

There is a distinction: the birth of the Internet saw many seriously useful improvements for its users - instant information, infinite retail stores, unlimited selections, connecting to others effortlessly, and so on. As far as I’ve seen, there isn’t any companies I can think of achieving similar improvements because of the blockchain other than speculation with cryptocurrencies.

I try to be very open minded and search for contrarian opportunities, but I really don’t see where those are here. I hear “decentralized” and “trustless”, but these are cultural terms like “privacy” that matter only when people want them to matter. If the culture doesn’t value “decentralized”, then the technology isn’t very useful. By contrast, all the skepticism in the world couldn’t stop the fact that Amazon.com was a massive improvement.
It's been in the newspaper for the last year or so that the woke crowd is reevaluating his legacy. He had a number of writings that today are considered anti-gay. In one very public letter to a gay teen (published in a newspaper, IIRC) he told the teen that he needed mental health counseling to correct himself.

It's a pretty famous letter. Should be an easy Google search.
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Blacklists's first known usage in English comes from England in the 1600's, specifically referring to a list of people who were involved in the execution of Charles I. Its origin literally has nothing to do with race.
> It’s more about the wage gap.

Perhaps things differ outside of software circles, but at least here this isn't true. People used to have larger families on much lower incomes. It is that with do much opportunity now, the opportunity cost of having kids keeps increasing.
I hate articles like this. Or maybe it's just the headlines but it follows a set formula:

1)Person X finds a way of doing something that works for them.

2)Person X writes an article either saying outright, or implying, that this is how it should be done for everyone

About the only universal statement I've every found useful is the one that says "Universal statements should always be treated with skepticism".
Well there are two different arguments here. One is that eBay is free to take down whatever they want. That's true. The other is that a publisher can request that something be taken down in the used market, which I think isn't true, ...maybe?
I think the idea a change is "for nothing" is subjective, and that the people most likely to say a given a change is "for nothing" are the people who don't benefit from it.

Again, I go back to my example.

Were LGBT activists "forcing me" to change the way I used the word "gay"? Sort of. Did doing so hurt me? No. Did it benefit them? They say it did. Was it for "nothing"? They say it wasn't.

Language changes. I'm not going to waste a lot of energy worrying about it.
It’s a nice story about rockstars: when the mythical 10x engineer gets stuck, PMs fucking PANIC.
Why is it the only remedy that we seem capable of considering is exclusion? Pushing people and ideas away is a punishment that hurts both sides and offers little chance of redemption or learning.

Is exclusion even a remedy? And if it is, aren't there almost always better ones? I grew up pretty conservative, but the liberals I knew were always very welcoming. And I have a much more balanced outlook now. How will that kind of personal growth happen if our first reaction is to exclude?
I can already use autopilot on a traffic jam without having to touch the wheel all the time. It seems to me the difference here is purely legal/regulatory and not the technology.
It depends. I would think of SCRUM as Getting Things Done for teams?

I.e. a popular set of productivity tools with a cottage industry of people trying to teach it behind it.

If you look at it as a set of tools, you can make something really tailor-made for your team and on occasion it lead to creating a truly bespoe process that fits our team needs and doesn't have anything to do with scrum anymore :-)

With things like standups, backlog refinements, storypoint estimation, based on my experience this works for team of 3 to 10 people, with a clear responsibility that work together on a project for at least 6 sprints (usually 2 weeks/sprint), where new work can wait for new sprint to start.

It helped us focus, storypoints started to work for estimating stuff after ~3 sprints, our managers got used to "no, we won't start working on it right away, put it in the backlog, you will join for prioritization anyway".
A daily newsletter about art: https://randomdailyart.com/

I feature random artists from around the world, plus a lot of classic art.
Because in practice/empirically it is safer than the alternatives even when things do go wrong.

And they go wrong very rarely.
(Disclaimer: I've been working in adtech for over 15 years.)

Advertisers and publishers don't really want tracking and data collection. It carries huge costs (technical as well as social) with very little benefit for advertising. Advertisers want statistically significant and unbiased population samples, and that's not something you can arrive at by blindly throwing more data at it.

Data collection by Google et al., is really because they eventually want to pivot from adtech to govtech - think "social credit" or "Minority Report". From their vantage point of course it's a much more lucrative and advantageous place to be than a mere seller of internet clickbait.
So if the network can recognize species by their rear view you would consider it also multi-modal? Because that is what I am trying to tell... there are probably no higher level concepts here, just various different pixel soups that happen to need the same label.
Cough, cough, Ashton Tate. Would someone like to fix the headline?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate
Perhaps.

Before civilization, it used to be that the most violent person in the group could simply take whatever they wanted. At some point we managed to "civilize violence" by creating a special caste -- police officers -- whose career is the use of violence in a controlled way, to prevent the violent from having whatever they want. Although the police abuse this "violence license" they haven't managed to subvert it into supreme dictatorial power. The fact that almost everybody knows what the phrase "police state" means, and that it's a bad thing, is probably part of this.

I imagine there is some similar recursive trick with power-thirst, getting the political schemers to spend their lives chasing each other instead of the rest of us, the way the DEA spend their lives chasing drug lords but never make any real progress. Note that the drug lords are generally pretty happy that the DEA exist, or else their trade would not be nearly so lucrative. And the DEA are happy that the drug lords exist, or else they'd be out of a job.

It might take us a few more millenia to acquire the vocabulary needed to describe the recursive trick, let alone discover it.
I quickly read through Mulberry Street a few minutes ago, and there is a depiction of a Chinese man "eating with sticks." He is wearing sandals, a straw hat, a robe, and holding chop sticks. His facial features are not exaggerated or like a caricature in any way. To me, it's clearly a mistake.
There is a general pattern of plagues originating in the large population centers of Asia and then being carried to Europe by the "population pump" of the steppes. E.g. when there is a period of good rains the livestock and people swell in size and then when drought comes they migrate westward. This creates waves of people, often bringing diseases. The mongols were just one example.

There is evidence of the plague in Neolithic europe:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/did-new-form-plague-...

And some believe that there are references to the bubonic plague in the old testament, which recounts the story of a plague of "tumors" (e.g. boils) hitting the Phillistines and then they put gold rats in the ark and sent it away to be rid of the plague:

https://biblehub.com/1_samuel/6-11.htm
It's still more than the literal zero evidence presented by the person I replied to.
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I agree with most of your points. However, I'm interested in knowing - what are the valid reasons for Islam propagation in India?
People who believe removing power from central banks is a good way of avoiding bad monetary policy are a tiny minority of lunatics. This will never be the motivation behind a widespread adoption of a bitcoin by governments, corporations and the general public.
Then "nobody" should be complaining about those downsides when they are freezing their butts off on winter days like these or when they yet again have to throw away all their freezer contents because an autumn storm blew the power lines in all of their neighborhood away. My Twitter feed has those complaints of friends-of-friends quite regularly.
Is there _anything_ that you wouldn't ban because it could offend some paper-skinned postgraduates? Am I still allowed to read Asterix?
>That's not a paper. It's a pre-print. It isn't peer-reviewed. It isn't published. Literally anyone can push a document to a pre-print server.

I stand corrected.

> but saying "this is a paper, and therefore it is likely to be correct" is not a standard of evidence that exists.

It is still at least showing some work beyond the "making claims with zero supporting evidence", which is what you are doing.
I'd say: The First Sale principle says they can't ban you from selling it second-hand. It doesn't say that can't ask people to not do second-hand sales, nor that people can't choose to comply with that. And barring some other rule, "people" includes eBay here? (Are there examples of people successfully challenging eBay prohibitions? I would assume this has come up before in other contexts, which would give us hints)
Agile indeed.
My dad "had" Morgellons. The disease itself isn't real, but the symptoms were very much a part of other issues he had. The problem with labeling things as psychosomatic is that it can cover up very real suffering brought about by other, related issues.
I’m sure England ran out of authors after 1776
It's not the only reason people voted for him, but it certainly strengthens his position and chances for 2024....not to mention, the first thing the authoritarian left did after CPAC was to ban his speech from Youtube.
I suppose we need more captcha images of overturned trucks rather than a brain behind the wheel.
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The meta is very important in Diplomacy. If the AI always wins when it gets down to 1 human vs 1 AI, then humans will conspire to prevent that situation from arising. If the human-AI team always wins, humans will conspire to prevent other humans from working with the AI. In the end, I think the reason "an AI" can't be a perfect Diplomacy player is because no one entity can be a perfect player. Once it's known that that entity is "too good" at situation X, the other players will prevent it from getting into situation X.
I don’t know if I necessarily agree with deciding to stop publishing books, even those that have images that portray different races in a negative light.

On the one hand, you don’t want children to be easily influenced to adopt behavior that should not be adopted.

However, there are still books out there that do have racist overtones. This is something you just can’t remove from every day life.

I think a better solution would be to continue publishing these books, but prevent children from reading them until they are old enough to understand why the race portrayals in these books are wrong.

Or, at the very least, hold an open discussion about these books.

Banning / removing them entirely isn’t the answer in the long term.
CSS-in-JS is the biggest, stupidest mistake on the web, ever. Do not use it.

Componentize using BEM classes and SCSS and your designers will love you.
Dual boot is probably not typical for people who install rc kernels right away? I remember trying to do kernel dev on a dual-boot laptop in college, and I spent a lot of time trying to repair the bootloader while running off of a live-USB environment.

Besides, most Linux installs by the numbers are probably web servers/data centers, or large enterprises (think movie studios, large tech companies).

I realize this comes from a position of privilege, but these days I'd just have a second computer that runs Windows; the bonus is if I completely mess up I can just use the working computer to generate OS installation media for the broken machine.

Also, depending on your threat model, "buy the next size up of RAM sticks" may be preferable to having a swap file or partition at all. (Although I recognize that may require replacing the entire system if it soldiered on or something.)
They're actually highly efficient. More efficient than screw propellers. They have very large surface areas, and move at uniform speed through the water. Screws spin very quickly at their tips, very slowly at their base, and the sweet spot in the middle is the only prime area for converting energy to propulsion. The fast moving parts generate significant drag, the slow moving parts generate insufficient forward propulsion for the drag they generate. VSPs do not have this disadvantage.

They are, of course, as you pointed out, a goddamned nightmare for maintenance. Lots of moving parts. Lots of seals. Lots of mechanical parts in contact with saltwater.

They're generally only used on tugboats, because tugboats must be able to point in one direction, but apply force in a different direction. And they must be able to change which direction they're applying force on a dime. And if and when tugboats break down -- they're already in a port. If a tugboat breaks down they've by definition not stranded in the middle of nowhere. Which mitigates the maintenance nightmare significantly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOGdxRnfK4 Shekhar Gupta's analyses are generally good. The summary is at 25:30. Overall, rule of law is where India does poorly.

That aside, I am not fond of these "democracy reports" when they are driven by opinions of a handful of people, rather than data-driven.

As for rule of law, India's judicial backlogs are truly atrocious.
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Isn't there a risk that, like feeding pigeons, you end up encouraging minority groups to become over-sensitive, because they become addicted to the power of controlling what other people say?
I'm pretty confident they would not. I've often asked for such courtesy with regards to terms like "male privilege", and the most courteous responses I've ever gotten are attempts to educate me on why the term is not meant to be offensive, much like the response I've offered here. (The most common responses are along the lines that my discomfort is the whole point of using the term, so I'm sure you can see why it's hard to believe there's any symmetry here.)
Where I grew up, that okay gesture was used to insult someone, meaning he is an asshole. So it rated quite high on the offensive scale.
RX580 had a pro version which got ROCm support. It's the newer cards and older cards which aren't supported.
It's not strange.

The amount of satisfaction you have is arbitrary and your own personal opinion. It's valid to you but not a valid part of the discussion because it's so arbitrary.

It could be that in reality the satisfaction I gain from art is worth 999 trillion dollars. If it's true then it's true but is it worth discussing? No.

The critical point here is that even things of value that people believe to be seemingly abstract are connected to a physical and limited resource.

This is not just pedantry. Art such as Opera or symphonies or blockbuster movies require a huge energy hungry economy to produce.

You can't get most of the art you "enjoy" from human powered economies like tribals still living in the Amazon rain forest. None of the "art" mentioned above can ever come out of economies like that. You can't even get children's drawings (art) like you do from modern economies because tribal economies can't even produce crayons or paper.

There is a huge correlation between the quality of the abstract things you enjoy and the energy required to produce it. It's just a general correlation but it's a correlation nonetheless.

So rather then call it strange. Take it as new insight. You once considered "art" to some abstract concept that you "enjoy". Now you know that art is also a low entropy configuration of paint. Lowering entropy costs energy therefore most abstract things are always related to energy. You can still enjoy a painting, but now you are armed with additional knowledge.

Greater knowledge means things that were previously mysterious can now be viewed in a more technical light. You can call it strange or you can call it learning something new. It's up to you.

Either way you are still free to enjoy your art as if it was worth 999 trillion dollars.
I felt like Tesla did a cash grab when they recently offered an upgrade from "auto pilot" (which I pre-ordered on the forthcoming Cyber Truck) to "full auto". This upgrade raised my estimated delivery price by $10k. I went ahead and did it, but WTF? My initial estimate already included the $9k for "auto pilot" so now I'm paying $19k for self driving?
This is stupid - of the things you can still buy on eBay are Huck Finn, Gone with the Wind, Birth of a Nation and some of the original versions of Tintin in the Congo just to name a few. I'm pretty liberal but this is eye rolling.
Now that major frameworks finally started supporting ROCm, AMD has half-abandoned it (IIRC the last consumer cards supported were the Vega ones, cards from 2 generations ago). I hope this will change.
Denmark, my isp is 40usd pr month 1000/1000Mpbs.
Unlike the Jan 6 crowd, they actually killed people.
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Your point really underscored how idiotically narrow minded and self absorbed these inquisition-like crusades against racial offense sometimes are. The people conducting them in the English-speaking western world seem to not even realize that their entire framing of "inclusiveness" is based on an amusingly simplistic and even unconsciously hypocritical presumption of all linguistic connotations being beholden to English definitions of things. Especially amusing to see this coming from people who otherwise fixate to an insane degree on signalling their embrace for non-western, non-"privileged" cultural values.

Another common example related to yours: in countries with latin languages like spanish or Portuguese, the word for both the color black and black people in a completely generic non-racist way is negro. It literally just means black. A Spanish speaker having said it in the wrong context in an english language setting could easily invite criticism born of the silliness I mentioned above.
Former gambling addict and current mental health advocate here. For anyone with an addiction or a serious mental health problem, targeted advertising can be very dangerous.

Think about the “filter bubble” effect that we experience on platforms like YouTube where we are always being “recommended” content that confirms our pre-existing beliefs.

Targeted advertising is no different except that it follows you across multiple devices and multiple online platforms in order to sell your attention to the highest bidder.

This might be fine if you are a capable, healthy and intelligent individual seeing ads for computer parts or shoes. What about the recovering alcoholic who is being “targeted” by alcohol advertising? Or the homeless schizophrenic girl I worked with a while ago who couldn’t escape a constant barrage of ads for highly addictive online gambling products?

Our brains are all wired differently and not everyone has the same level of “free will” as you do. The entire purpose of the advertising industry is to push you away from reasoned decision making and towards compulsive consumption.

As adtech becomes better at exploiting our psychological weaknesses and influencing human behaviour, I worry that we will not only see an increase in negative outcomes for the most vulnerable among us - but also an increase in mental illness among the general population as our borderline, compulsive and narcissistic traits are enabled and encouraged by soulless algorithms.
"Outside of third world countries, nobody dies from coal. It's not even a health problem."
is not true, see this DOE report: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/Environm...

This adds about 25 points to the AQI if you live in the red zone, data is from 2016.

Even if it doesn't kill you through cardiac effects, how much asthma and QALYs are you losing from that?
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Literally every webpage that has more functionality than links contains a developer-maintained finite state machine.
Legitimate question for liberals of the freedom-and-mild-socialism variety: what do you think about this? Do you find that the current leftists in control of government and media are liberal like you?
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Then we lose ability to develop new services that requires uplink bandwidth. Even now, there are services that need such bandwidth like cloud storages, YouTube.
Denmark its a mix of Urban and rural, but basicly anywhere is well connected, i have 500/500Mpbs in my vacation house, thats basicly on farm land.