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full self driving would far easier if they weren't all trying to cover all cases at once. I, along with others, have mentioned that a far simpler problem to solve is freeway travel.

HOV and Express lanes make this easy. They have well established markings, limited access, and traffic goes in one direction. So industry and regulators would work together to solve standardization of markings for travel and entry and exiting.

Then you take it to the rest of the interstate system and then to limited access highways. Eventually you get down to the neighborhoods and city driving.

I see real promise in Tesla's beta system which has a few thousand drivers. What it tracks is far more advanced than what my current software does in my 3. They finally went to a persistent model and far better labeling. Now where my car shows cones around a parked vehicle they show the vehicle as well. They show all parked and stationary objects. Something the current software does not always do if at all.

Just within the US the lane markings, signage, and even signaling, is not consistent from state to state. Worse the rules for what is an acceptable lane is not consistent either. So the first step there is to standardize it all across the nation.
> Emphatically, yes. The best startups in their early stages do not want thousands of mom&pop cheques and investors to manage, they want a small number of smart money, value-added investors. The need for public investors to have transparency into their investments is in conflict with an early stage startup's need to keep competitive information to themselves.

That is probably true, but that's also the only option startups have during their early stages, so there's nothing to compare it to.
Yes you are correct and it probably is unenforceable if it exists. My mistake. It just reeked of that.
yeah this was one of the most mind-blowing things i ever watched when it first came out
The advancements in AI tend to happen in intermittent large leaps, but people tend to make linear projections based on the most recent leap. That’s why there’s always a big hype cycle followed by disillusionment and some sort of AI winter. I personally think 2100 is extremely pessimistic, but all those projections of full self-driving by 2025 were certainly even more extreme in their optimism.
I don't like the xenophobic tone of the parent, but you are incorrect.

> This would have entailed no one working at grocery stores, no deliveries, no travel, no global trade. I just don't buy that this was ever plausible for however long people suggest: 3 weeks, 6 weeks whatever.

The experiences of (at least) New Zealand and Australia are clear evidence it is absolutely possible, without the absurd extremes you are talking about.
The Garmin Autoland is not equivalent to full self driving? That's like self parking which has existed for a while now. In any case planes are inherently orders of magnitude safer than cars to begin with due to the lack of obstacles/chaos.
Is there a possibility that Crystal could be used on MCUs? What would be its advantages over Micropython, C/C++/Rust or Zig?
honestly, we hadn't thought of that. I'll talk to my cofounders about setting up a typeform or something
> I’ve at least upped the prior that the answer is “incredibly different”.

How so? Care to elaborate a little?
Why blame the guy trying to make the process easy for everyone? He gave the dealership a sweetheart deal and he still got screwed.
Previous discussion (10 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545082
> In a republic, law must be public

Let’s say you’re a volunteer firefighter and you want to buy a copy of the California fire code and copy it for your fellow volunteers.

By doing so, you’re breaking the law, according to the state; each of them would have to buy it separately from a national fire safety organization, for a couple of hundred dollars a shot.

[...]

When Malamud asked the Office of Administrative Law to provide an up-to-date electronic version of almost the entire Code of Regulations, it responded that it didn’t have such a version in its possession.

The office said it could provide Malamud with a paper copy of the code’s 38 volumes, at 20 cents a page. There are 29,000 pages. If he required a digital version, the office would scan its own paper copy into a digital file for a much higher, albeit unspecified, price, payable in advance.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-18/state-laws...
My understanding is that John can take a picture/jpg of the Mona Lisa, mint an ERC-20 token and sell his picture/jpg on a NFT marketplace. Jane can also take a picture/jpg of the Mona Lisa, mint an ERC-20 token and sell her picture/jpg on a NFT marketplace. I think the difference shows up when Jack Dorsey mints a screenshot of his first tweet and sells it, it's worth $2m because it's sold by Jack. Whereas I could screenshot Jack's first tweet, mint it and sell it for $0.01 because it's sold by me.

Very happy to be corrected if this is incorrect.
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer.

- Bill Vaughan (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/07/foul-computer)
Hah, I had a similar experience. Got kicked out of one class, changed to a keyboarding class because I could already type fast. Easy A, right? Well, the computers didn't work very well and I'd fix them, and leave a signature where I'd been. Teach was a little flabbergasted when I'd be sitting at a "broken" computer but no matter.

Don't tell, but I knew how to pop into windows and play games, and the machines were networked so I had everybody's classwork sitting right there. They can't catch you cheating when the assignment is to copy the same damned text. Teach lost me on day 1 when I did 65wpm on the 5wpm test, all like "no, you can't skip ahead, you've demonstrated can type at 5wpm, now you need to take the 10wpm test"

But then they taught us how to use macros in a word processor. I don't know how or why, but the computers had a shared namespace for these macros. We were only supposed to use them, but I figured out how to make and edit them. Told a friend about it. The friend promptly changed the macro the class was meant to use. With recursion. And that was Trouble. Who gets the blame? Kid with their name on all the autoexec.bat files, that's who.

Shortly after I got back from suspension, I talked to the IT guy, and became his unofficial TA, and fixed computers during that class period.
Even without a non-compete, taking a couple months off between jobs is nice. But yeah, at that level I imagine non-competes reach to the full legal extent and then some ;)
> I'm not against technology

Neither were the Luddites! The Luddites were a labor movement who wanted to ensure that workers in textile mills were being treated fairly. Many Luddites were highly skilled and happy to work with automated looms, they just didn't want factories to fire all the skilled labor and pay pennies on the dollar to unskilled labor. (While holding cloth prices steady.)
Unanimous? As always in 2021, only one side can speak up publicly.

The SC itself only removed Stallman from the web page, stating that he was really not a member anyway.

The message was pretty diplomatic and crafted to appease the fanatics while not actually doing much.
Would you be OK with putting the reactors on the Moon and beaming the power down to Earth?
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Resoume is a platform where you can create a beautiful website, portfolio and resume for your next job interview. It is also the biggest project I worked on as a solo frontend developer with joy, love, sweat and tears

I have been working on for a bit over a year now. You may know the last post from me (or not).
It started as a resume builder but the bigger picture I had in mind was a platform to build your online presence for the job search.

Here are some of the new features:

- 14 New Beautifully Designed Templates

- A Personal Website Builder

- Analytics For Your Online Applications And Website

- Job Board

- CNAME and A Record Support

- White-Label Solution For Companies

I love to work on Resoume and I think you can tell by just looking at it.
Recently I was thinking if it might make sense to offer an API where other people/businesses could use Resoume to create resumes.

Would love to hear your thoughts :)
Curious what actually defines a tilde site now? This seems to have stylesheets etc, not quite as minimalist as what I remembered the other pages to be like.
Easily outweighed by the savings in emissions over the lifetime of the plant.

Generation 3 and 3 "Advanced" reactors already generate significantly less waste than the Gen2 reactors that make up the majority in operation. Generation 4 reactors are in the design phase (some with proven technology, others with technology that is scientifically sound in theory but need some additional advances made) that reduce it by even larger amounts.

Even Gen2 reactors with all their faults over their lifetime are a huge net win over coal and gas fired power plants.

Producing photovoltaic panels generates tons of waste, as well, much of it quite toxic to humans and generally bad for the environment. Even building wind turbines isn't a perfectly clean task.

Our primary problem at this point is carbon emissions. Nuclear is a very viable option for significantly reducing them even at current technology levels, and with huge strides on the way.
We think we're so smart because we causally understand the world, but it took us a very long time to collectively discover these principles. A human alone would not be so smart.
"...we do not learn these inferences "just by observing the world", we learn these inferences by acting on the world and observing the results..."

The article: "“Machine learning often disregards information that animals use heavily: interventions in the world, domain shifts, temporal structure — by and large, we consider these factors a nuisance and try to engineer them away,” write the authors of the causal representation learning paper. “In accordance with this, the majority of current successes of machine learning boil down to large scale pattern recognition on suitably collected independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data.”"

The key words are "interventions in the world." The article goes on to say, "“Generalizing well outside the i.i.d. setting requires learning not mere statistical associations between variables, but an underlying causal model,” the AI researchers write." The point being that, whether or not acting in the world is an essential condition for learning causality, current machine learning approaches are not even trying for causality.
whoah, that's cool... and he built another demo here that's pretty amazing: http://schemasofuncertainty.com/
I thought this was obvious. The complexity that cars deal with during travel is many orders of magnitude higher than the complexity aircraft deal with, and cars actually have an effect on the complexity of the environment they travel in, unlike aircraft. For the most part, aircraft one have ONE object that they have to avoid hitting, and it's the size of a planet, and engages in zero direction changes. Aircraft are simple.
I don't know why and how authors missed this but they are not factoring in pandemic effect which obviously dictated these movement.
Unfortunately I think it's mostly the association with nuclear weapons. That has added to the not-totally-unreasonable fear of accidents like Chernobyl, but without actually evaluating whether other existing power stations are equally at risk, or if building new (and especially smaller / different designs) would be safe.
IIRC, the company he worked for when he discovered / invented the blue LED was - shall we say - not particularly inclined to give him his dues.
Thanks, so yours and the sibling reply by @worldmaker seem more argument against the email workflow. I honestly think it's just smart people being stubborn; men over 50 finding it hard to relinquish what were core tenets of internet-based development in the 90s.
The SEC does more than just fraud, which is what those links speak to.

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2014-spch033114mjw

"We, for example, often bring cases based on negligence, while most criminal statutes require intent or at least willful blindness. Some of our statutes are also strict liability, which do not require intent, recklessness, or negligence."
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Planes are also substantially regulated. I mean if there was a Vehicular Traffic Control on every intersection the same way there's Air Traffic Control we probably wouldn't have any accidents now, negating the main purported benefit of self driving to begin with.
List of Email to SMS Gateways
Sounds close to my symptoms. Different than a cold because I had no nasal congestion, pain in my throat/neck, cough or the usual weird effects on my ears (sometimes one or the other feels "covered", an imbalance in hearing, when I have a cold).

Shouldn't the vaccine have helped, though? I don't know.
They produce no greenhouse gases.
Do factory floor robots communicate with each other in any meaningful way? I'm under the impression that they mostly just follow pre-programmed paths and all you need for that is clock synchronization.
Update: I resolved this problem by fixing the link line.
I honestly can't imagine that kind of humor being taken any other way by Japanese bureaucrats.

After years of direct, negative experience, I still routinely step in it with my "American humor", and then feel like an ass afterwards. Scarcasm goes over like a lead balloon.
The average lay person knows "radiation is bad" and that Chernobyl blew up. That'll be about it.

People will be genuinely surprised when you tell them it's usually the same old mechanism of most other power plants - heat boils water, which generates steam, which powers a turbine. They're also really surprised to find out a coal plant puts out more radioactivity.

Same phenomenon as vaccines - people know very little about the mechanism, but have very strong opinions anyways.
The problem is what to do with the nuclear waste you constantly produce. And the risks associated with having a new Fukushima in your hands. And the proliferation of nuclear technology.

That said it still seems better than many alternatives
Humans come with their own liability :(
I do think going through a basic textbook is important but imo they shouldn't be a part of your plan once you get through one or two. I learned all the rules of spanish grammar more or less in a few semesters in college, but it's just a stepping stone to help with getting tons of input. Like now that I've listened to hundreds of hours of spanish, i just get the subjunctive. Occasionally youtube will recommend me a youtube video explaining it and hearing the rules people throw around seem pretty useless. You hear them and think about them and go, huh, i guess that is true, but for learning I don't think it helps beyond having in the back of your mind as you consume the language, I wouldn't spend any time doing grammar drills or anything with them.

Something else people should keep in mind (i don't mean for this to apply to you, i just don't want to make a separate post) is that people will give you language learning advice and claim to speak a language when they can't watch tv, listen to podcasts, or read books in it. If you aspire to this kind of level (no judgement if you don't) do not listen to anyone who hasn't reached it.
Either way, it is funny that they claim to have millions of results, yet you can't go past Page 11.
I'd be interested in seeing information that counters the features of the 'Generation IV' nuclear reactors[0]. Among other promises, they purportedly can consume existing waste from Generation I-III reactors, and reduce the total nuclear waste on the planet, rather than increasing it.

Some purported advantages (there are different technologies):

- Nuclear waste that remains radioactive for a few centuries instead of millennia

- 100–300 times more energy yield from the same amount of nuclear fuel

- Broader range of fuels, and even un-encapsulated raw fuels (non-pebble MSR, LFTR).

- In some reactors, the ability to consume existing nuclear waste in the production of electricity, that is, a closed nuclear fuel cycle. This strengthens the argument to deem nuclear power as renewable energy.

- Improved operating safety features, such as (depending on design) avoidance of pressurized operation, automatic passive (unpowered, uncommanded) reactor shutdown, avoidance of water cooling and the associated risks of loss of water (leaks or boiling) and hydrogen generation/explosion and contamination of coolant water.

Any information filling out this picture is appreciated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
Here's the problem as I see it...

Tolerating or even enjoying "make fun of yourself" humour feels important to me. How much sting you can take says something, and you need to build up a tolerance. If "jokes about the boss" are always of the bootlicking variety, those are the only acceptable jokes and decent people will just avoid humour.

It's a scale though. An ill advised joke can have scary consequences in China.. Poo. At the same time, crass WW2 jokes don't always go down well in Germany... and liberalism or democracy don't change this.

Anyway... MSFT, Amazon & such are heading towards East India Company market caps. At this scale (and at small scale too), I think a thick skin is essential to an open culture.

The concept of "corporate culture" is both bullshit and profound at the same time. OOH, it' the drab topic of dilbert land. OTOH, corporate culture is >51% of total culture. It matters whether or not corporate culture is open.
> but the first thing you get after buying any book is 500 grammar rules before the first word is shown

There's an example of a very different approach: Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, all in the language to be taught, starting from simple language, using pictures, etc. The most like that that I've seen for Spanish or French was this basic French dictionary:
https://www.amazon.com/Mon-premier-dictionnaire-Roger-Pillet...

Anyone know of other books in that spirit?
Isn’t this what turn signals, horns and brake lights are for? Not to mention making eye contact with pedestrians at crossings.
I don't think we have a proven paint-in-space technology but we definitely have proven 'hit with rocket' technology.
People have 99+% irrational fears about radiation.

There are actual challenges with nuclear as well (waste disposal being the primary), but those are distantly trailing the radiation fear (and not obviously-to-me worse on-balance than the fossil fuel alternatives at this point).
Nothing is permanent, certainly not culture; and most ancient cultures are abhorrent by modern standards. Together, the world is creating a new culture with a chance to be better than what made it possible in the past. Onward and Upward, never ceasing to strive for the good!
I'm not sure I understand your keychain point. With iMessage you can message others with just your iCloud credentials if you turn it on, and you have access to full conversation history - without needing any particular device keys.
In Hemingway's case [1] "writing" is equivalent to "coding"/"building", when in your case "writing" is more like "sketching out thoughts and ideas" with pen and paper.

--

[1] “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”

-- Hemingway
I dunno, but that worries me much less than what happens to the thermonuclear warheads so I'd say that ship has sailed.
Absolutely perfect marketing: call it "Rubbee" because that's exactly the target market.

As in "Man, I have to take my welfare cheque to Money Mart and then go all the way over to the liquor store to get my Night Train, I guess I better take my Rubbee".

I wish I had been in the focus group for that one. I would have laughed and laughed.
>You can edit the title back and that is kept.

Aha! That worked. Thanks.
They are shut down and they sit where they are?
Yes. It’s a much more regulated industry that already has mandatory equipment that helps solve the problem (e.g., transponders), there’s often more time to perceive and mitigate a risk (outside of takeoff and landing), less variable environments etc
Fun/Depressing fact: The USA has more floating reactors than reactors on land.
An Old joke.

US scientists were
explaining global warming to Russians in Siberia.

The Russians became very excited and asked what they could do to help speed up global warming.
You are right. Indeed it falls back to QEMU on non-x86_64 https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/73#issuecomment-...

Running QEMU on a modem would be another hack for a day :)
> The problem is what to do with the nuclear waste you constantly produce.

We know what to do with it. Bury it, deep and somewhere remote. The US already has such a place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Sure, 8 light minutes away sounds great. We’ll even get some light out of the transmission of energy to us and the waste is taken care of.
Try to get 350, million different people to pull in the direction of anything and you’ll have the same reaction.
Absolutely delighted that cryptocurrency has spawned this larger conversation of digital ownership and proof of work, proof is stake, etc.

This is great stuff to read other people discuss and curate on the internet now 10 or 11 years in.
The newest version is Microsoft CoffeeX 3D Series 1X .NET.
Highly publicized 80s accidents (Three Mile Island in 79, Chernobyl in 86) coupled with late-Cold War anti-nuclear weapons proliferation protesting resulted in environmentalists lumping everything nuclear together until it reached "No" criticality.

After that, the reaction has been self-sustaining.

It's easy to campaign to tear something down. It's hard to be the one who has to rebuild the replacement. We need people who focus on the latter before the former.
What level of proficiency have you achieved? As a B2 in English, I cannot fully agree with you.

The method you pick depends on your goals of learning the language. If you want to simply read and listen - sure, your method might do.

If you want to actually communicate in a language with native speakers, especially in a business environment where every mistake can cost you good impression, then you'll need some information which can be really hard to take from something else than textbooks. For example, conjugation tables, which can be quite lengthy for languages such as Russian or Arabic. Textbook creators have put some effort to make these tables, and I don't see any benefit to discard this effort.