skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the unconvincing argument for the (extremely) undemocratic Senate. The House is supposed to reflect the will of the people which is why we apportion representatives according to the states' populations; the only compromise was that no state would receive less than one representative.

Really though, appealing the logic used 250 years ago is not very convincing. We have different concerns today than we did in in the 18th century. We are not trying to convince a ragtag group of states to form a union, the union has formed and is unlikely to disintegrate. Today we have a problem of bad representation in Congress, and it has been getting worse and worse with each passing year. It is not just about state borders, it is also a problem of how districts are drawn within states, and a proportional system would address that as well (why should we ever talk about gerrymandering? it is an artificial problem that can easily be solved). Year after year a majority of Americans have watched as people the party they voted against somehow took power, kept power, and received just enough power to prevent widely supported initiatives from going anywhere. The trend has been getting worse and worse as Republicans from sparsely populated states have become more and more aggressive at pressing their structural advantage. That needs to be addressed before people start questioning the value of democracy itself.
If improving granularity is the goal, wouldn’t it make even more sense to have fractional votes? After all, there’s no real reason why each representative’s vote should count equally...
this one really stuck with me: “The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.”

heck. that's just true. really put into words something i've taken a while to learn (and am still learning).
How many of the 100 daily fatalities on the roads in the US do you think are caused by drivers not "seeing clearly"?

The goal of an AI driver isn't no crashes. The goal is less crashes than human drivers.
> * If you're detained or mugged you have other problems to worry about.*

Did it ever cross your mind, that being detained for nothing is exactly the reason why don’t want the detainers to also get your digital identity?!

Unlocking your phone against your will is exactly what the Communist ruled HK police thugs did to Hong Kong protesters before COVID made us all forget about their struggle.
Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M
It goes back even further, actually, and provides another data-point for this aphorism. The Teutonic Order, a sort of ... indirect relative/precursor [0] to the German Empire/Republic which the Nazis grew in was notorious for doing some really horrific things in the name of God, and in trying to force convert the lands north of Prussia/Poland. The surrounding Christians states didn't really approve of this, and eventually pushed them back. They seemed to be pretty obsessed themselves with the idea that other Christians were backstabbing and betraying their cause.

It seems their cause was, originally, in good intentions. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt at least. But it's clear by the end they fulfilled this aphorism, and became a great evil by trying to fight evil.

[0] The Teutonic Order held land, the "Deutschordensstaat". When Martin Luther convinced the then-Grand-Master Albert to convert, he turned that land into a secular state, the Duchy of Prussia, which became the Kingdom of Prussia, which became the leading state of the German Empire.
What's he supposed to do? Rant about the government? Making the best of it and moving on is probably the best move, since it doesn't sound like a big hit to their business.

Also, it looks like you get out of Lambda School debts via bankruptcy, which you don't with regular college, so that's... an improvement?
>What makes you think a vehicle vision system will handle "blinded by sun" any worse than humans already do?

Self driving software tends to have very poor object permanence.
I briefly checked Nominatim against Google head to head a few months ago, and except for messes like Spain, most cities of Western Europe and North America have similar accuracy, with no clear winner. Google results that are wrong are very wrong, whereas Nominatim has weirder results more often.

But that's for cities, in anything rural/mountain Nominatim takes the lead. Google seems not to care for addresses that aren't residential or a business. Arguably most geocoding uses are shipping things and business info, so most commercial efforts go that way.

Then some areas are just abandoned by Google. When I lived in Ukraine I tested some addresses and about 1/10 of the requests didn't work or were just wrong, and that's leaving aside the fact that it always showed 01001 as postal code on every reverse geocoding within Kiev city that I threw at it. The only information that was reliable was business data, and mostly because of businesses themselves updating it. The transliteration was software based and often wrong. Russia and Central Asia are also a big mess, though big cities tend to have OK data, but my feeling is that Google dropped the ball against Yandex and they just don't care anymore; not their turf.

It might have changed for Ukraine since, since there has been a push to drive away all Russian techs, maybe someone can shed some light on the subject.
How to Sink an Industry and Not Soak the Rich (1993)
That, and construction, detours and city driving. In the latter, driving contexts can change without a second's notice, without any signs, markings or signals denoting the change. You learn what those contexts are from experience and understanding of what are ultimately complex social situations, and a shared understanding between you and the people around you.
And yet in the real world small businesses still frequently operate on handshake deals between people who have known each other for years. Most of the time it works out.
hey swyx! a "UVC camera" simply refers to a camera that connects to your device over USB. most "typical webcams" are actually UVC cameras. the ones that are not, are the fancy SLR set-ups that you have to jerry-rig to your computer with multiple connectors and hubs. these are the setups that typically cost at least $1k.
I'm happy to see unmuzzled reporting from US government funded scientists again. Welcome back!
Also 6 electoral college votes.
Unsolicited advice? Fair enough. Unsolicited comment- the ones related to money are spoken like someone who has never actually been poor, and are, frankly, insulting.

Even a cursory look at who has developed what over the years shows that people who actually had the resources to do whatever it was that interested them are the ones in the history books. Who knows how many others of equal or greater talent spent their whole lives scraping by instead.
So they A/B tested the kernel maintainers and got banned. What about the kernel security? Is the patch process getting improved?
That does depend on how much area it can cover per day.

If it covers all your land in under a day, sure. If not, then route planning may mean you can have one rather than two or more of these very expensive machines.

It's not a drasticly complex addition, and mapping weeds with drones appears to be a use of them already.
For me, doubt in my ability to know who I could be happy with rose dramatically with a little bit of experience and then fell as I accumulated more and more. Meeting more people made me more and more comfortable with my own judgment about other people and my understanding of what made me happy. I think people who find partners very early in life are very lucky in some ways, though. It's a trade-off, like so many other things. You can have X more years of experience with relationships and with yourself when you choose your partner, or you can have X more years of shared history with your partner.

I do think any doubts you can put to rest in six months or a year, the time is worth it. Couples who divorce take years to do it, and I think they're unhappy for at least half that time.
If you wanted to go down this route you would pay per date, otherwise what are you paying for? Sure, the algorithm may jinx it by sending you on more bad dates than you wanted, but it would get you further than just a message.
> And groups don't even have security as an option.

What do you even mean by this?
have you used these apps before? what's the experience like?
No problems here - I'm on beta cycle so I get new Big Sur updates fairly often (every few weeks) and haven't had any git issues.
I found Bezos' last letter inspiring in this regard. Especially one of the last sections titled "Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical".

link here -> https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/jeff-bezos-releases-final-le...
Doesn't the setting exist? Isn't the setting the one to use whatever app has been set as the default music app?
> Can there ever be a non-work related conversation between employees that is not a "societal and political discussion"?

If you're tendentious enough, you can make anything political. But if you start talking about the post-colonial geopolitical implications of your coworker's son's new chocolate chip cookie recipe, expect everyone to roll their eyes and walk away.
I think most people define premium by the build quality, interior design, options etc. But if you want to only define it by price, then the model 3 is definitely not in the premium segment. It's a very cheap car... So much so that I know a few people that literally joke at a white model 3 company lease as "your consulting job must suck"
Citations, or rather, arguments needed.

I wouldn't claim Java is the best language, but I don't see obvious deficiencies in JVM, in comparison (good, well thought-out comparison) with alternatives. Same for language - not only Java runs a hard task of strong backward compatibility for the third decade, it actually managed to implement some afterthought additions tolerably.

So - while in the end the author might still be correct - arguments needed.
Yeah, 16GB goes fast. I’ve heard from a few others how much they like the older SE.
>Make sure your face is well lit

To do this, make sure you have your window in front of you, and certainly not behind you (backlighting is awful)

If you are on a call at night, or in a dark place, make sure your laptop screen is not your main source of light: if someone shows a red slide, you will look red.
The Influence of Hla Genotype on the Severity of Covid‐19 Infection
In addition to capture, there's also simply efficiency — those same factors cut into how much power is obtained from a particular quantity of fuel and a large professionally-maintained facility which isn't weight/size-constrained should be much better there. If it's going to be burned, we should get maximum value out of it.

The other big win is time: if I buy a conventionally-fueled car now I'm locking in its use of fossil fuels for 15+ years unless there's a major improvement in biofuels whereas if I buy an EV in many states I can at any time switch to 100% renewable electric charging. A non-trivial percentage of EV owners will consider that option over the life of the vehicle and that opens the possibility of policy makers making a substantial change without needing to coordinate with millions of people: bring wind, solr, geothermal, nuclear, etc. capacity online and you have a guaranteed day one reduction in the CO2 generated for transportation.
Why not radar?
I have not found this to be true at all. It's far less than 99%, and would require double checking all your work in IE11 to make sure it works. I tried some basic layouts and found that a lot of unexpected things occurred. If you're supporting IE11, CSS grid isn't worth it.
Standups can help close the short-term feedback loop, but they don't replace long-term management involvement. Teams with standups still need proper performance management and performance reviews from a hands-on manager, along with clear communication of goals and expectations.

> The other issue with standups is if it's not "on the board" then developers are disincentivized from doing certain things (proper testing of code, code reviews, etc.) in favor of things that show up.

If important things are missing from the board, that's a problem with the planning process.

It's easier than it sounds to simply put those things up on the board. If engineers realize something important is not on the board, they need to get it up on the board. Communication needs to go both ways in planning sessions.
Yeah, as we point out in the Checklist.video site, unfortunately only Zoom, Google Meets, and WebEx give you the option to turn off self-view. (Notable lack of this ability in Microsoft teams!)
Thanks! I didn't realize I put the link. Here it is, http://github.com/thomas4019/pgmongo. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and am happy to answer any questions.
Sounds like DolbyNR for cassettes. What high hats?
They'll probably come from TV series instead of movies. They'll also likely never reach the fame of Jack Nicholson or DiCaprio.
Not just money. It's a natural cycle. Modern web stack evolved in the same way. It was just hypertext in the beginning, then it expanded to fill the available volume and now we have Electron.
As an alternative to a daily chat message, a teammate and I have been meeting for ~15 minutes at the end of the day to talk about what we did and how productive we were. It's been pretty helpful a few different ways. First, it forces me to think about what it is I'm supposed to be doing and figure out the next step. Not knowing how to approach my next task is a huge cause of procrastination for me. Second, it's a chance to notice when I've gone astray, and identify factors that lead to low productivity. (Like that I procrastinate when I haven't broken down my next task into small enough pieces.)

I think for this to work well, it needs to be with someone you don't feel the need to impress. Maybe you have a teammate you trust like that, or maybe you can find a coworker on a different team who doesn't impact your performance assessments. If you have that, this feels different than a standup. Standups easily devolve into signaling to the team that you've done work. Instead, a 1:1 meeting with a coworker who you don't feel the need to impress makes it way easier to be vulnerable and admit when you screwed around on the internet for a lot of the day.
> Unless you are fully in the Apple ecosystem already, it's not very welcoming.

This is an answer to the question I was about to ask. Except for a MacBook Air that I used to run Linux on (but is now gathering dust) and a Mac Mini that I currently run Linux on, I own no Apple devices. I hear great things about the Apple TV, but don't really care to buy into that overall ecosystem to the degree that I assume is necessary to get full use out of the ATV. It's bad enough that Google has its fingerprints on so much of what I have, and I'm actively trying to reduce that, not replace it with another corporate overlord.
Not to mention that Lambda School is an attempt to actually align the incentives of school and students, which is the main problem with educational financing today. Wrong target to pile on.
> Agree, it only becomes a conflict when some parties are deliberately weaponizing disinformation.

Agree, it only becomes a conflict when both major parties are deliberately weaponizing disinformation.

I think other commenters have warned about this. It's fairly easy to tell what political allegiances you have. Just understand that your parties spread a lot of disinformation as well. As an independent, it makes me cringe to watch liberals act like they aren't responsible for loads of disinformation, hyperbole, fear mongering, and misinformation too. Much less that it doesn't have Russian origins.
That speech was given in person, in the school building, where other students were required to attend, during school hours.

This speech occurred on snapchat, outside of the school building, outside of school hours, with no requirement that anybody pay any attention at all.

That speech is funny tho.
Re: books. Surprisingly I met such a person recently. She does not read books at all these days, and haven't been in a while (except textbooks in academia years). Got PhD in physics, and doing well for herself.
> Everybody gets the exact same rate of return regardless of how much they have staked.

I don't think that's true. The amount of ETH created per block is determined independently of the amount of ETH staked. So if you stake 100 ETH and I stake 100 ETH, and we're the only stakers, then the protocol gives us each 50% of the ETH minted. But if someone else comes along and stakes 200 ETH, then you and I only get 25% each.

This means that staking rewards are zero-sum. If the total reward stays constant, then my rewards per block increase if your stake decreases and mine stays the same (or if mine increases and yours stays the same). Therein lies the problem -- if I'm going to remain competitive with you, then I need to re-stake as much of my ETH block rewards as you do in order to keep receiving ETH at the same rate as you.
They do it because the A/B test results also matched their revenue improvement results.

I don't think many people involved actually believe this or actively think this way.

That being said, the result does have some similarity to how the physical world operates in large gatherings like primary schools or military, where people of similar attractiveness and few differences in their supportive ability would congregate. People figure out where they are on the consensus-attractiveness scale and match with people in the same range. This doesn't match how the world outside of that works, and therefore almost all guys and unattractive women have the same result on dating apps. For dating apps they haven't figured out a better solution, and don't want to or need to as it is also a perfect frustration feedback loop for them.
Your bizarre grumpishness is offputting, especially when coupled with the fact that Lambda's model that they're understandably excited about here is aiming to improve on the same broken existing model of college financing that you're complaining about.

Edit: come on, at least comment if you're downvoting. What did I say that is inaccurate?
Nah, physics doesn't need to try :D
elite and institutional decadence

What does that mean? I googled "institutional decadence" but am still not clear on the definition. Could you give some examples of elite and institutional decadence?
Intel is already pivoting and opening up their fabs to other businesses. It's been a long time coming but Intel Foundry Services seems like a good move.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/23/22347250/intel-new-factor...
The other maker of Checklist.video here :)

Yeah, definitely agreed with you that it's difficult if your house isn't wired for ethernet. I actually do let a long cable drift along my floor :P Having a strong upload speed is crucial to letting others be able to hear you without any lag - and that's one of the most important factors to having a great video conference. This is why we wanted to emphasize a wired connection, but we also provided the specific upload/download speeds that could get you the high quality call as well.
See also Lambda School’s Misleading Promises: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
I'd agree with you except that in this case it seems like the "deception" was actually working against Lambda school.

Previously -> if you go bankrupt you still owe us.

Now -> if you go bankrupt you don't owe us.

On the face of it this seems like it would make Lambda school _more_ attractive than less.

Note, the clause in question is "qualified educational loan…subject to the limitations on dischargeability contained in…the United States Bankruptcy Code."
Technically logistic growth is locally exponential until it isn't.
Capital Gains Nonsense
Yes I read the article, but I was replying to your comment, not the article’s argument. I replied to that directly in another comment.

You seemed to be arguing for censorship, which is what I was replying to.
Yes, use the #(...) syntax. This has been around since Verilog 2001 and is universally supported. defparam has been deprecated and "might be removed from future versions of the language" (section 23.10.1 of SystemVerilog 2017 spec). They would never actually do this since breaking backwards compatibility is anathema to the industry, but it's not the best thing to use if you can avoid it.

One of the main problems with defparam is that you can redefine anything anywhere. The SystemVerilog spec (weirdly) touts this as a benefit: "The defparam statement is particularly useful for grouping all of the parameter value override assignments in one module". Then gives an example that would strike fear into the heart of both verification AND design engineer, where a lone "annotate" module with just defparams redefines the parameters at multiple levels of a completely unrelated hierarchy of other modules.

In reality chip designs are so much larger these days that it would be information overload to try to define ever parameter in a single module that you would have to update any time the hierarchy anywhere in your chip changed. It is just such a nonstarter, it's kind of astounding that statement is still in there. It probably dates back to the introduction of the feature.
ACLU Again Cowardly Abstains from an Online Censorship Controversy
I have quite the story.

I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to focus. Terrified I’d get distracted by home life. That my productivity would plummet.

But it didn’t happen. In fact, the opposite. I never realised how much commuting and office noise harmed my productivity and energy levels. I was buzzing.

And I did what any ADDer would do.

I got drunk on it. Then burnt out.

In typical ADHD fashion, I thought all that new energy was permanent and I could work insane hours. Sometimes from 7am until 1am.

I was warned. But I didn’t listen - not to my mrs, not to my old man, my sister and colleagues.

And then, once the dust of lockdown settled, I burst.

After making damn sure that the company I worked for and my sisters business didn’t go bust, I couldn’t anymore.

The code I wrote only a few weeks before? Hieroglyphs. But not that I’d lost understanding. I knew I could read it if I wanted to.

But I really didn’t want to. Like my very being rejected any attempt to focus on the task at hand.

I was reduced to attending scrums. And playing video games.

It took a weekend away, a week off and a bit of advice from Dr Feynman.

Thankfully, work was understanding. I was given a project where I could play, and still deliver value. And so I played, got something small done. Then I played some more. And so on.

Now, a colleague works on the project with me. I played so much that I was prone to rabbit holes. My hyperfocus was out of tune.

But then I took stock and was able to focus. We found a way forward, took some advice, got speaking to the users and focused development on fast iteration and feedback.

The past few months have been the most productive of my life. All remote.

I learned a lot of hard lessons in lockdown. The lessons I could not predict.
> make sure your laptop screen is not your main source of light: if someone shows a red slide, you will look red.

Haha, this is such a great point - thanks for noting this!
Well, that's a weird take on things for being a member of a voluntary group activity at school. I certainly wouldn't want someone to be banned from school, expelled or given detention based on what they said, but I don't see why a coach should be keeping people on the team who bad mouth the team, or a music director keeping a tuba player on who continually speaks out about how bad the flute section is on instagram.

Does that difference make sense?
Do you mean this comment?

I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year.

Basic functionality for level five isn't level five.