skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> knowing where the moon is happens to be an extremely solved problem.

It's true... but I don't think that's how Tesla would solve it. Their goal is to create a neural network "driver" which can drive in any place even if it has never seen it before. They'd rather teach their neural network that the moon and stoplights are not to be confused visually. Thought I suppose in searching for training examples they could use the known position of the moon for approximate labeling.
Well, I don't quite get it, but anything is welcome in this part of healthcare.

I'm looking for a psychiatrist and am being told they're not taking on new patients or that I need to wait 3 months for an appointment.

I just need a prescription for a medication that I had before. While being forced to pay for health insurance, being told that this country has great healthcare, losing my voice (literally), and trying hard to get myself to jump off a bridge, I can't help but find the whole thing a bit ridiculous.

Best of luck to you, and try looking into an European expansion. Things aren't as good as they might seem.
I've definitely driven through places where there is only one light. Blinks red for stop (no stop sign). Many times, for cross traffic you'll have the one light but blinking yellow as a warning at the intersection.
> I watch a funny Bill Burr comedy clip, and YouTube knows there is some overlap between "Bill Burr fans" and "men's rights advocates", and now I get a bunch of recommendations for Jordan Peterson stuff and if I click one of those then its next recommendations want to take me down the MRA/incel rabbit hole.

I do not think it is productive to a healthly discussion to link wanting to end discrimination against men with incels or Jordan Peterson
They still do, and the quality of discourse on Slashdot is about as bad as it has ever been.
This blog is amazing. I currently find myself in some sort of a conflict with management over the classic "new-features vs make the thing stable" situation. Management openly admits to valuing tech debt repayment, reliability etc. but I can clearly tell that it is not what is actually valued.

And why shouldn't I just skip code reviews, skip analyzing failure scenarios. Just churn out new shit at an "amazing pace" with little regard to fulfilling the harder part of the target objectives of the system.

http://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.h...

We'll try to fix it when shit actually hits the fan, when the harder to achieve properties of the system are considered urgent again :)

(Just to make it clear: I am not working on medical devices or power plants or anything of this sort).
It's sort of like how it's better to be a firefighter than a maintainer, which is guess is the point. The ease may be similar, but coming in to save everyone from an explosion gets you more points than oiling the valve every day so pressure doesn't build up in the first place. It's a cultural issue that is very hard to combat.
This works until your boss understands software development
Radar isn't sensitive enough. LIDAR is.
A good friend of mine from Southern California was also "afraid" due to misinformation.

Few weeks ago he asked when he could come up and visit, with my response of course being two weeks after he was fully vaccinated. Guess who has an appointment scheduled for this week.

They can keep believing dumb shit from Facebook over educated friends and medical experts as long as it doesn't inconvenience them.
There's a possibly or partially apocryphal story about the moonrise causing a false alarm of a Russian ballistic missile attack from the BMEWS system in 1960 when they first turned it on in Thule. Anyway the idea that there are certain kinds of bugs which reoccur from one generation of system to another is amusing or sobering depending on the consequences.

http://taihendaro.cynic.net/2010/01/moon-as-soviet-missle-at...
it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
the industrial revolution
has flipped the bitch on evolution
the benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
the world keeps getting dumber
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

darwin's rollin over in his coffin
the fittest are surviving much less often
now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
and im startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
stranded on a primate planet
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them
followers following fables
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

what are we left with?
a nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
pass on traditions
how to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture

the idiots are takin over [x8]

-- Idiots Are Taking Over, NOFX, 2003
I mean, it's gotta be style and complexity too. LIDAR are quite ugly on test vehicles. Cameras are much simpler and easier to hide among the body.
```recalculating route...driving to: moon```
What kind of solo work do you mean? It seems to me like anything without some local client is getting into a global competition for peanuts, but I would be happy to be set straight!
Don't really use it for trading, but TradingView has top notch charting and their screener ain't half bad either.
People can read their manager's mind (2015)
Using all the senses would not solve the problem. Vision is the only one with enough resolution to matter.

That said:
- way cheaper
- more reliable
- less power hungry
- simpler and easier to debug.
1. That's literally not true, you're just making stuff up: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102915/are-irs-pena...

2. Even if it was, do you understand what a deduction is? You still lose money; you'd be changing the base on your federal income payments, but since your income tax is at most 40% or so, you're still paying at minimum 60% of the penalty (even if it was deductible, which it is not).
It's hard to build alll those things you mentioned in a deep enough fashion to make it something people would use (Which is where I think this template lands). Entire companies are dedicated to each vertical.

These all things we wanted to tackle at Clerk (https://www.clerk.dev) as a SaaS. The first thing we hit down that path is user authentication -- and that opened up an entire can of worms we're still working through. User authentication alone has been tough enough because you can't just build yet another Auth0 clone and brand it "passwordless"... you'll have a tough time competing against the incumbents. This has led us to session management, which proved tricky to get right across local development and production environments, and has led is to the disparate ways people authenticate, which is a massive API design challenge. However, we think it could be a game changer, especially with all the Next.js / React advancements as of late. Especially the component-ization of the frontend in conjunction managed backends, session management feels like something that ties it all together.

I'm certainly excited for the next decade of developer tools :). Things will get dramatically easier with all these commoditized verticals.
A random employee's laptop? Probably has all sorts of goodies. Don't get complacent.

Like a PASSWORDS.txt file on the desktop which said employee uses as a password manager.
Nicely done! This should be a good reminder to everyone who utilizes a pre-logon VPN to treat that environment as if it were already compromised. I've set up a ton of these, and never in my wildest nightmares would I give the pre-logon user access to anything they could use to move laterally in the org.

For those who aren't familiar with this, (for Palo Alto at least) there is a specific user assigned to pre-logon tunnels, and that user is supposed to be locked down - tight. Once a user authenticates fully to AD/okta/whatever, then the userID on the tunnel is swapped for the correct one, and your permissions become what they should be. Worth nothing that this is set up with firewall rules based on LDAP/AD user groups/UserIDs, so it's easy to configure, but probably easy to make mistakes.
It's because scientific evidence for a novel theory is often spotty and incomplete, and without any inertia, we'd be jumping from one fad to another, only to discover that the hot new thing is just a statistical anomaly, or a failure in experiment design.

See: the Pons cold fusion nonsense.

Yes, this does sometimes mean that correct novel theories, that don't have an insurmountable body of experimental evidence behind them have a harder time getting adoption. It's a tradeoff. It's the kind of tradeoff that anyone who actually wants to get any work done is constantly making.
Lidar can't tell a streetlight from a traffic light, so this has to be resolved by vision anyway.
OP said the other way around. We all know encrypted data does not compress well, but why would you need to disable compression when encrypting? Compressed data should actually be a smaller dataset hence encrypting it should be even faster.
Don't turn it off, get something like the little Caffeine application. It simulates an F15 keypress every 59 seconds to keep it awake.

The idea is that basically very few keyboards have an F15, let alone applications that rely on the F15 key.
A reasonable court would put duty on the guest to inform the host of known allergies.
These are the kind of problems that make me think we’re not right about how to solve automated driving - we’re not even wrong.
>> > 292 (26%) of 1,141 fatal cases reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.

> So you're saying 1,141 - 292 = 849 or 430% increase over 160 deaths recorded before.

No, I was comparing apples to apples. If you want to do it this way, you need to also note:

> 28 (18%) decedents were asymptomatic or died from a cause unrelated to COVID-19.[1]

Therefore, (1,141 - 292)/(160 - 28) corresponding to 543% increase.

Either way, the baseline went from 100 million fully vaccinated to 160 million fully vaccinated meaning a 60% increase in the population in question resulted in either 543% or 713% more deaths after breakthrough infections.

Further,

>> Beginning May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections

this is only relevant insofar as we now have no measure of how many fully vaccinated individuals get infected, don't feel sick, and walk around with high viral loads.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm
Pipes to flush your shit into aren’t there because it’s a good idea to have them. They’re there because somebody made a political decision to require them.
That's my point exactly, the buy the EV to be dimensioned for the occasional weekend trip, but could often be much better of with a car with EV dimensioned for the daily commute and use ICE for the couple of long trips. This would likely be more cost efficient and ecological.

Don't get me wrong I like EVs, but the current crop's design is not such a straight forward winner in terms of ecological footprint over PHEV as many EV fanboys believe.
I asked a simple and genuine question in the midst of my longer comments. If you think that qualifies as sealioning, then I imagine no discussion forum is a safe place for you.

If you have anything to contribute, I'd actually like to hear it.
> Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen

Am I the only one who thinks it is 100% wrong that companies can give politicians hundreds of millions of dollars?

Politicians are supposed to represent people. Real breathing people.

Sampling a handful of other countries, like Canada, Germany, Japan, etc. I found that they all pretty much banned (or drastically curtailed) donations form companies, unions, and trade associations. Most of them had some combination of publically funded campaigns and incentives and limits for personal donations. In a couple of the countries I looked at there were limits on how long campaigns lasted.

The corporate lobbying that goes on in the U.S. would be illegal in many other countries and counted against them in corruption indexes.

We need an amendment to reverse the supreme court on this. Once we get rid of corporate money from politics we might have a shot at fixing a lot of other problems.
What that Google Drive “security update” message means
So looking at the site, this seems to be only client code? If nothing needs to be installed or run on a server, then this will be huge!

Looking forward to trying this out later today.

Nice work!
Humans do fine with only 2 cameras
you are confusing spam filtering with blocked emails.

The issue people have trying to send mail is with the latter, where the email won't even show up in the spam filters, it will either be blocked by the mail system or silently ignored.
They didn't go exactly the same testing phases; the serialization doesn't work like that, you cannot replace time with parallelism (the 9 pregnant women is a suitable analogy).

So, the timeline is:

- Corminaty; currently doing phases 3 and 4; assumed end is december 2023;

- Spikewax: currently doing phases 3 and 4; assumed end is december 2022;

- Vaxzevria: currently doing phases 3 and 4; assumed end is second quarter 2022;

- Janssen: still doing phases 1/2a, 2a, 3; assumed end december 2023;
This is IMO a browser bug. Browsers should allow users to choose "always open in new tabs" or "always open in the same tab" as a default, with modifier + click performing the opposite action, in a way that websites can’t override.

The underlying issue is that tabs were bolted onto existing browsers at some point, and no mainstream browser was designed from the ground up with tabs in mind. As a result, the details of many previously existing features which interact with tabs were never revisited.
Karpathy's latest talk says they have 6000 tests cases(video clips) that each new version of the model has to predict the right answer on, for it to be released.
And VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt
Been pretty happy with them over the years. Pricing is good. They have a presence in Germany and in Finland, so uptime is usually excellent. The physical hardware has been an excellent experience, we've had two (!) broken drives in ~8 years. Both times the drive was replaced within half an hour. We replace most physical machines after 3 years just to be on the safe side.

We've experienced some networking issues, usually not on the Hetzner network, but there have been some peering issues with some ISPs over the years. Generally nothing too bad.

Their Cloud API is a joy to work with. It obviously isn't anywhere near as future rich as AWS, but it's got everything we need, and we can spin up VMs with a couple of simple HTTP requests.
So if I buy a truck and paint a big traffic light on its back and maybe even put a red light there I will be fooling all Teslas? Count me in!

Edit: this also reminds me of those Road Runner episodes where Road Runner paints a rock wall like it's the continuation of the road so that Coyote can smack his head on it.
Yeah, then they could never ever ship like every other Lidar company
Replit Python Framework with Built-In Database and Auth Support
Well, yes, but in addition to that each instance also has a public IP.
True, but at least it's got another data point it can consider. Without knowledge of moon's position, any traffic light could be the moon.
An even harder case: https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-autopilot-bamboozled-tru...
> So would you rather have your taxes increased so that it is from the government?

It will increase my taxes anyway; who do you think is paying for all this?

The difference is, that in this way, my taxes pay for privately-held know-how. I want my taxes to pay for public know-how.
>the central nervous system, which isn't legal for human consumption.

Source? I've seen calf brain on the menu plenty of times.
10AM standup kills me. I have repetitively asked for that time to be changed but no one wants it to be earlier.

8-8:30 I check on all my chats, emails, plan my day

Usually something comes up that I need to address, look at etc...so suddenly it's 9:15-9:30. If I start, 10am will break my flow right when I go deep, if I don't I feel like I wasted 30 minutes.

Then 30m-1hr standup....anything out of the standup affects my 11 to 11:30...but then lunch is starting in 30 minutes. So again at the same problem start and break flow or don't start at all?

Combine that with a 1:30 meeting or something like that I can't do any deep work till 3pm.
> Unpopular ideas may be ahead of their time, but they may equally be just stupid or deliberately proposed in bad faith.

It is more than an idea being ahead of time or stupid.

People need to take a lot of cognitive shortcuts in their model of the world to be able to compute it, which is evidently imperfect. But getting poked holes in one's model is nonetheless painful. Being told you might be wrong, and the realizing you were wrong is painful and scary.

Most people do not use up/down votes, blocks, bans this heavy-handedly because of the expected truthiness of the ideas in question; they primarily do it based on the idea's conformity to their sense of identity and to protect themselves from the anxiety of having been wrong.

And this is not their fault. Polarization is ultimately a failure in integration and having a complex model of the world. But it is work, and it is painful. The more that work is postponed, the more the drift between our models and the reality, making it even more painful to catch up. The tools of discourse we have been given give us the perfect mechanisms for facilitating this avoidance, because they feed on engagement and not the truth. It is like saying "I'll keep telling you sweet lies as long as you don't leave me, doesn't matter how much that hurts you on the long run".

> Consider a farmer's market or flea market. If you go there with a bad product and it fails to sell, or previous customers tell you it turned out to be bad

Or they could be diverting you from mere hard truths. When it comes to ideas, "comfort" is the wrong metric to optimize for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse#Lunar_eclipse_ap...
> As far as I can tell, the only reason to treat Covid differently basically boils down to partisan politics...

A difference is that COVID is much deadlier, no?
Not OP, but yeah, that was the point. Humans are social, thus political, animals.
Most of the parent's list comes across as "don't live your life, basically", which is not going to convince a majority of people. It could have read as a recommendation to reduce your environmental footprint. "Eat less meat, fly less often, drive an electric car if you can afford to, or bike when you can", etc. But everyone isn't going to just give up all that and go live in a small apartment in the big city.
10x More Selective (2013)
That's a really good way to put it!
States cutting unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work, study finds
I actively try to avoid to do anything the easy way, because I know ill get bored if do. Motivation is the most valuable resource in programming. I rather do something over engineered that I find interesting, then something simple and boring. Even if it takes 3 times the effort, I know ill put more than 3 times the effort in if I'm motivated, and ill end up learning something and ill end up with something I'm proud of, something worth talking about.
https://ericdraken.com/usb-mouse-jiggler/
Two things that I took away from this:

1) Physical access = Pwned

2) Determined attacker = Pwned
Lara Croft?
He explicitly says this in the article. I think the majority of commenters only read the title.
Not sarcasm. I've been a gym rat for the past 30 years, working out with dozens of people in serious fashion over that time spam. If you want to attribute the following to bro-science or small non-scientific study samples (this would be about a N=45) go right ahead, it's not going bother me. I started using IF around 15 years ago after a workout partner recommended it to me. I had great success with it and have been a big proponent of it since. I have never seen anyone lose muscle mass which would be counter to their efforts in the gym (worked mainly with strength athletes and bodybuilders). Bodybuilders will frequently use IF when on a cut but not prepping for a competition (that's usually a different protocol). Strength athletes will use IF to lose excess fat making them faster and more explosive. I've seen it work too many times. Some of these guys competed in their varying sports so any sign of counterproductive output would have resulted in them immediately abandoning it.

I think the confounding factors are quality of the diet, level of exercise, sleep patterns, and overall health state. None of these as far as I can tell are accounted for in the study. Going further there are countering studies (for example https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20300080/) that show that fasting (TR, ADF, etc.) are muscle sparing. This only makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint since the human race would no longer exist at the first major famine, which we've managed to survive a few times over. So, I think there's more to the story here than what the good doctor presented.
I chose exactly this strategy and I retired.
Easy things appear hard to upper management. Hard times appear to be easy. Then you see a bunch of people getting promoted by working on "hard" things while you are left dealing with "easy" things. Good leadership senses this dichotomy. There are also things you cannot tell anyone in sufficient detail how difficult they are and no matter what you do - they always appear to be easy. Everytime I pickup a hobby, I underestimate it. By a lot. The depth and endeavor for human expertise never ceases to amaze me. You're alone a lot of times and I find solace in the fact that my brain is a machine that takes calories as input and produces heat + code. Might as well try to take on hard things regardless of what others think of it. I'll be left with a real kick of pleasure by solving problems than fake titles obtained by excessive misuse of vocal cords.
You can have a system that is understandable (to someone not at that layer), or you can have a system that is robust (not crash all the time) and functional (more than just a bare-bones feature set). It's the things you have to do to make it robust and functional that make it hard to understand.

As time goes by, the understandable version and the useful version diverge further and further.
I bought an old Griswold cast iron skillet. It’s not my go-to pan for eggs, but for most everything else it is.

Excellent to sear meat from the sous-vide and surprisingly easy to clean compared to what I expected.

I did do a full strip with lye then intense heat and season essentially from scratch, but in retrospect I probably didn’t have to. (I was operating under the misconception that I had to in order to get a good low-stick surface.)
Going to traditional agriculture or agroforestry would involve a lot more people being involved with food production. Not necessarily a bad thing, but that would inherently raise costs (although it may be paid for some by time not money).

Another alternative is to stop subsidizing absurdly inefficient things like factory farming. If someone is selling beef produced by grazing semi-wild land, great! But intesively cultivating land to harvest it to fed it to cows locked in a pen sucks.

It's obviously not simple to redirect some of that to human food (e.g. wheat with low protein is fed to livestock, high protein is used for bread) but still, worth having the conversation.