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It’s too much of a hassle to use public transportation.

With your own car you can bring as much stuff as you want, stop where you want, leave when you want, go wherever you want at your destination, bring whoever you want, listen to what you want on the radio, stop where you want for side trips/tourist things along the way etc.

Like for instance with my own car instead of a shared train, I can bring my golf clubs, my dog, and my drone with me, and call my friend on the way out of town to see if he’s up for a spontaneous trip to San Diego to see what fun we could get up to there for the weekend. That’s not really possible on a train/airplane.

It’s just a totally different experience than arriving to a train station with some limited set of your things, possibly being late, then arriving somewhere else again without a car, and having to return again by doing all of this in reverse.

It also means spending time forced to socialize with people you don’t know, and almost definitely in a seat that is less comfortable than the one in your $100k luxury car.
The linked welt.de article's headline is 7€/h.

Minimum wage in Germany this year is 9.50€. Median wage in 2018 was about 16.50€.

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2020/10/PE20_416_623.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_w...
The Teaching of Arithmetic I: The Story of an experiment (1935)
No offence, but I think you are extremely wrong.

Creating an AGI is the endgame for everything. Who cares about ads when you have an AI that can learn to do anything and improve upon itself continuously?
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> Well, in this case, you're renting access to VW's autonomous driving service which presumably comes with constant updates and improvements

Yes, which can be bought elsewhere, which was the entire point.

> and humans behind to intervene in case of necessity ( à la Waymo).

I have no idea, does it?
What is "elaborate" here? I write out personal work docs in a wiki complete with links for cross reference and a semantic search engine. Is that elaborate?

I like that I often only need to ask a question once, and that I can delegate answering questions to the docs (where I've published subsections for the rest of the team).

Moreover, as someone with a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science & Computer Science, I know from the literature and experience that writing things down improves your memory.

If I'm doing it to save my time and expand my memory, then it doesn't matter who else might read it.
Did you also have a super-dry cough and/or an irritation in the lungs bordering on a burning feeling? That was like no other illness in my experience.
It's not about health, it's about being considered a high-IQ person by Paul Graham, who'd like to only have vaccinated people at conferences: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1359577831236378627
Naw. Not dismay. Those expectations on on you, not them.
Documenting everything they do is a requisite for everyone on my team. Doing it "beautiful" is not. You can do it just drawing in paper, scanning it and linking the document, fast, almost inmidiatly.

That is very important. You confuse something that is basic with something that is an accessory. Document how software works is essential, writing beautiful diagrams is not. Diagrams must be drawn, just like a teacher does on a blackboard, but they don't need to be perfect.

If you demand beautiful diagrams you require designers with art skills or spending too much time on diagrams software or learning the diagrams' domain specific language.

Either way, spending too much time drawing something could be very bad idea.

If something is important you should demand it on your team, but it is a good idea that you have documented those reasons too and for people on your team to contribute too. You will be surprised how easy is for people to accept them when there are real reasons behind and it is not about another tyrant imposing his will on them with whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy.

But you need to do work too, you must be open to the possibility that it is you who is mistaken, putting your ego (or someone else's ego) to the side. Usually there is very dominant people on the team that constantly fight for dominance, being them right or not.
Ok, if I understand this properly:

They have a core library that other projects use.

They want to release a new version of this core library, and upgrade all the projects to use the newer version.

If the CI breaks for the projects using the library, they want to catch it.

This still depends on the projects using the library having enough and good enough testing for something to break in the CI when this core library does something bad. That is a huge investment (having those high quality tests). The rest of this is just a script that runs the tests from those projects when people merge code into the core library, which seems like very much not a big deal.
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> our immune systems are effective against covid

When you say "our", who do you mean? 30yo with no underlying health conditions? A leukemia patient? An HIV-positive person? A 50yo diabetic? 40% of the adult obese Americans?

Yes, healthy immune system can be effective at fighting covid. But vaccination is a matter of public health. You aim to eradicate the disease so that everyone is safe.
> In the fall of 1929 I made up my mind to try the experiment of abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite - my new Three R's.

> I was so delighted with the success of the experiment so far that in the fall of 1930 we started six or seven other rooms along the same line. The formal arithmetic was dropped and emphasis was placed on English expression, on reasoning, and estimating of distances.

> In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill
I'm afraid the single model market is the way of the future. Why wouldn't VW bank on the same enslaving system all other corporations so easily get away with? Other commenters talk about going to the competition if we're unhappy - except the entire competition does exactly the same so there's no alternative. A market opening, would say some? No there's none, the subscription model is too profitable for any CEO to even bother imagining an alternative.
ScreenTime is very useful when you have young kids, are working at home due to Corona, and want to give them a limited time of Among Us / TV.

I had never even considered it as a self-care system - but now that I do think about it, I agree with you.

I have my Mac announce the time every hour, which is very useful to make sure I don’t lose track of time - no matter what it is I’m doing
> This is just taking advantage of the poor-middle class' inability to pay a larger upfront cost, to extort them for more over a larger period of time.

At least you still have a choice. In the software world, this freedom of choice is coming to an end, with Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk and many others discontinuing "pay once own forever" products.
Define "think". And then prove it can be done without the kind of nervous system you say we don't need.
We did. they just didn't have the same computation abilities back then.
Jared Diamond talks about it in his books (don't remember which ones specifically). OK, granted, he is not officially a biologist, I guess, but at least a prominent writer on Evolution Theory.
That’s interesting. Maybe the duration of the trial was too short or sample size too small, because I know two people personally who were re-infected pre vaccination.
HN shows 30 stories on front page. If they reduce it to 5 your usage may decrease so are they following a dark pattern? or if they increase the no. to 50 will it become a dark pattern?
Well, to share some of my favorite morbid findings:

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Melanotan is a peptide that increases skin pigmentation. Some people have tested it to the extreme, and the pictures are some combination of funny, terrifying and "at what point is this racially offensive blackface?". Also supposedly causes erections similarly to sildenafil .

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3gxjem/before_and_afte...

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The etizolam not wokrign meme
https://www.google.com/search?q=etizolam+not+working+reddit

Unfortunately can't find the original post, but when this benzo was easy to buy, there were frequent threads for a while from different users who were complaining that they weren't feeling the effects... often with many spelling errors that led many commenters to be pretty sure that it was working just fine and the posters are just not aware of how intoxicated they are. Became a bit of a meme.

Kind of like the 'roofie circle' Gob story arc from arrested development, it seems very common that people will take some, forget they took it once it kicks in, take more, forget, and so on. When you can order 1000 doses for the price of a paycheck, it leads to very bad outcomes. Often these stories end up with people blacking out for weeks or months at a time, destroying personal relationships, property and their careers, and only regain awareness after weeks in jail or a hospital. Pretty scary stuff.

Also, several stories from people buying time locked safes so they don't redose, blacking out, and finding their timelocked safe destroyed and empty.

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Cops arrest guy with RCs, etizolam and a mescaline derivative. Cop "accidentally" gets some on his lips (probably thought it was heroin and had a dip?) and gets sent to the infirmary tripping. Suspect is released when the substances turn out to be legal (but not for long - possibly in part because of this incident)

https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/fpery3/c...

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The stories about "bath salts" pyrovalerones like aPVP and MDPV are quite insane. Extremely potent and addictive. These are like the fentanyls of the stimulant class and propel users into psychosis with relative ease. Like, compressing the effects of a 2-week meth binge into a single weekend, with all of the negatives that come along with that. I believe the report of the florida man who ate someone's face off was under the influence of one of these.

https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=101129

http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2011/05/man-high-on-bath-salt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack
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For a communications device they will take into school, that they rely on for school work, communicating with parents and teachers, and with each other on social media and contains a lot of private information, that is probably the right choice. An open system with zero security and no guard rails is simply not appropriate for that use.
I suppose that's my point. I was being a bit sarcasitic, but if we're going to use oil, we should transport it in the safest and most environmentally friendly way possible. If we don't want to use oil, pass lass preventing or limiting its use. Making oil transport be worse helps nobody.
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Keep in mind that vaccine is not 100% effective.
Why is a liter of milk worth 1$?
There’s the occasional engineer who works this way, but I find it exceedingly rare.

A much more common pattern (though still not that common) is the mentality that they’re focused on high impact work, and documentation isn’t it. Selfish, maybe, but not outright malicious.

An even more common scenario (that covers the vast majority of cases in my experience) is an internal culture that values shipping above all else, and makes engineers feel harried. Even if documentation would reduce busywork and improve productivity long term, management is too focused on the short term challenges to see it.
Thanks for sharing.

A lot of people on this board have experience with prescription stimulants. How would you say the experience of "doing meth" differs from taking amphetamine orally? Was a typical experience for you "smoke meth, study or write code all night"?

I like prescription stimulants, but it's hard for me to imagine anyone wanting to take overdose-levels of stimulants for fun, so I'm probably missing something. If I take too much (~40mg), I feel pretty terrible, physically and mentally. I can't imagine how 500mg/day could produce any desirable effects.

If the supply chain for meth wasn't so poor, I'd probably try it once to see what all the hype is about.
Good question. We have to investigate it. Let's separate. You go into that dark cave, I go by myself into the dark attic. I suggest to wear heels so we cannot run.
I see this comparison often and it is wrong.
Imagine if every driver is suddenly forced to take a breathalizer test every time before driving, even if they never had a DUI case.
how about when you see everyone else is enjoying a beer while driving, or in more advanced versions don't even have driving seat.. ? its starting a trend and the price that Tesla and VW put will become the base pricing
Seems very popular for something so problematic.
I don’t buy on features myself because quite frankly every damn car I’ve hired or bought which has anything other than basic features is chock full of bugs and has to be fixed every two minutes. Auto companies just can’t and shouldn’t write any high level software at all and low level embedded stuff is even pretty awful. They just can’t support it properly. Tesla are a notable exception to this as in they actually offer OTA updates to their vehicles but the general rule is a big stinking thumbs down.

I mean the worst of this is the Range Rover I hired for a wedding to drive the bride in. Headlights gave out due to an electrical problem with CANbus when I was driving it back to the hire return. Just give me some fuses, switches and relays thanks.

My iPhone has 100x better navigation, media and communications support than anything else I’ve used. So I just slave it to the car with BT. I don’t even use CarPlay because bugs (Ford, Land Rover, Citroen in particular).

Keep the software and hardware separate and keep the hardware simple.
True. Planned impediments can help, just like making sure alcohol never enters your front door.

I've used my phone's parental features to limit usage of social apps to one hour. It's protected by a somewhat randomly chosen PIN that I don't memorize but store in my password manager. If I want to override the time limit, I have to go and look up the PIN. Most of the time... too hard, move on to something more productive.
Until we leave in a capitalistic system?
Apple should be scrutinized, but I prefer a world in which a company with strong values polices the ethical limits of technology, to one where companies like Facebook (and Google, to a lesser extent) hypocritically push an open agenda just to exploit such technologies to milk our data.
yes, and people often laugh after a faceplant, but successfully executing a flip is better.
The question was about conlangs, which have the advantage of being designed to be easier to learn.

Esperanto is so easy it can be learned in negative time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Espera....
“Who cares?” Well, the people who need to pay the people developing the endgame for everything you speak of.
What if the FBI is Not being truthful and they didn’t actually confiscate the bitcoin? Who would call them out? Would the cybercriminals tell the world, it’s not actually true!?

Maybe this story was made up to weaken bitcoin and try to take it down by making people think it was vulnerable to tracing and manipulation.

Is this possible? Did the wallet addresses ever get published publicly?
> So you seem to be saying you're against all the ways of reducing dependence on foreign fuels but are sure that dependency will be reduced.

First of all, if foreign fossil fuels are a dependence, and we are striving to remove that dependence, it is worth considering what our new dependence will be on. Is it going to be on local fossil fuels, extracted at great cost to our own quality of life? I'd hope not. The global economy is already interconnected as hell, we don't need to be in such a rush that we make a bad decision rewiring our supply chains. We should implement a superior replacement first, and we're definitely in the R&D phase of that.

Secondly, I'm certainly not against all ways of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and I resent that you present it as a binary. Fracking and nuclear are cool technologies, but it's pretty damn important to scrutinize how and when they're being deployed. Slow is good in this case. I'm very against using "oh no we're dependent on foreign fossil fuels" as a rallying cry to avoid environmental due diligence and to ignore all the negative environmental externalities that occur from the realities of dirty energy. Like, building a long oil pipeline is not externality free. The physics of such an endeavor make it so that spills are basically unavoidable, and often difficult to find before damage is done to the long term health of ecosystems and humans.

In terms of "how will we remove our dirty energy dependence" at large, I think it's fair that nobody has a real answer yet. The problem is not "the US depends on dirty foreign fossil fuels" -- the problem is that "everyone depends on dirty fossil fuels." Most countries understand at some level that they need to fix this.

My money is on a combination of fixing the issues that prevent renewables (including wind/solar/geothermal) from making up the better part of our energy budget (and sure intermittency/storage is part of that story, though if you're that aware you must know that tons of innovation is happening in this space too right), and renewable fuels (hydrogen, ethanol, etc).

For just rearranging the US energy dependence graph there are potential solutions to be had that are cleaner than fracking like leaning harder on natural gas which is relatively plentiful here. It seems likely that we could do more nuclear, but when you get into the weeds of suitable nuclear sites the story isn't as optimistic as you might naively think. And again, nuclear is not as clean as folks might imagine.

In general I think it's dangerous to look at the picture and be like "okay looks like X, Y, and Z are the only solutions" ignoring the timescale over which you have to solve the problem, the metric by which you measure the gravity of the problem, the total cost of potential solutions including all enumerable externalities, and potential / ongoing technological advancements.
German is my mother tongue and I live in Germany. I can confirm that my first association with MethOps was the drug and nothing related to methods. I assume this would be true for most Germans. Perhaps with the exception of older people, let's say retired ones.
If the discussion was about high density living then sure. It's not, it's about 10 houses per acre, that's decidedly low density - lower than the tipping point where people don't own cars.
Yep. This.

I’m even more sharp with the description. It’s a no brand android tablet with wheels.

My Citroen feels better put together and it’s made of cooking foil.
now you're speaking my language!
There might also be not enough data on how vaccine affects people with rare health conditions.
This also has happened to me multiple times.

And to the comments saying the employer could "replace you any time" - most cases, they just don't know how to do so, or have the time and money to do so.

This strange article teaches you to do your employer's job by making it easier to replace you.
Parent poster actually meant presymptomatic.

> This would mean that if they don't have symptoms, you won't get it
You don't know if an AGI will agree with your profit motives.
>There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought.

Whats your thought on sites like voat that were seen as escapes but immediately turned into cesspools and then ghost towns?
And if you pay rent, where does that go? Especially when renting from a large company?

Better more folks accumulate at least something.
Do you also expect a discount at the super market because you inherently have a higher daily caloric need than someone petite?
If the passenger still needs insurance, then the self-driving is not worth paying for.

Would you pay for or use Uber if you also needed car insurance to be a passenger?
NeuraLink was supposed to learn the mapping, yes, but on the assumption that the mapping was relatively stable, unless I am completely mistaken.

What we learn in this article is that the mapping changes a lot, and quickly.

This is an important difference, as previously it could be enough to converge slowly towards the right mapping, but now it has to be done quickly in order to become good enough before starting again a retraining on it.

(To sum up my remark: the retraining has to be fast enough to not become obsolete before it can be used, given the "representation drift".)
> sounds like it’s similar to Freenet?

https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/freenet

> Can it be used as a CDN for a normal website?

No. It's an independent overlay network designed to give anonymity.

> How well does it perform?

It's slow in comparison to the clearnet, but usable for basic things, including torrents (~100+ KB/s speeds).
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/cnn-poll-voting-...

But the share of Republicans who falsely say there is solid evidence that Biden did not win has dropped from 58% in January to 50% now
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It was a meaningful distinction to the OP...

While TOTP contains a bypass (phishing) SMS contains an additional vulnerability.
I deleted my Facebook account last year. Next week I found myself mindlessly scrolling Reddit. I blocked Reddit on my phone. Next week I was scrolling Linkedin (sic!). Humans just haven't adapted to this new era with endless information in a packets that are designed to be as addictive as possible.

I think I should just get rid of my smart phone, but that's easier said than done.
That is a mathematical model explaining one type of traffic jam - the "phantom" traffic jam. It can explain a traffic jam on a straight section of highway with no entrances or exits -- but imagine what would happen to that model if a second line of traffic with the same density of cars tried to merge in!

According to a 2005 report for the Federal Highway Administration, the leading cause of congestion is bottlenecked infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion#Causes

I used to drive 405 North into Bellevue, WA. In the space of 3 miles, 3 highways merged into 405 North. There was always a traffic jam, every morning. It started at roughly the same spot every morning. It cleared up at roughly the same spot every morning. That was slow traffic caused by the infrastructure.
I 'solved' this by creating a new account, under a different name (yes, I know it's 'against the rules') that is purely a member
of the local groups. It has no friends, no timeline posts, just for staying up to date with community events.

I have no real reason to check it, as there is not really anything posted, but I can hop on once or twice a week to see what is coming up.

Unfortunately, that's the best way I've found to know what goes on in the village vs not actually wanting to participate in Facebook