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https://youtu.be/NSDTZQdo6H8?t=391

In the above video Andrej Karpathy claims that LIDAR required previously compiled maps, the creation of which is not scalable. Do you disagree with that point of view?
You already got a very solid reply. I'll add only one prescription that I found true in all my ~20 years of career:

Write code in a way that everybody can understand it, even managers.

That's it. There's no magic. Code is read MUCH more often than it's written. You have to optimize for it being readable.

This does NOT mean the shortest possible code. I've seen people go to that extreme and it never ends well. But it also doesn't mean every variable has to be called "user_in_a_context_of_private_temporary_login" either.

Truth is, writing understandable and readable code as a skill goes well beyond programming. You will find the same skill in well-articulated presenters, book authors and lawyers.

So just this one advice should be your guiding star: write your code as if you will have a stroke tomorrow and will suffer amnesia and you would still be able to understand your own code very quickly afterwards.
In addition to the sibling comments, humans are also terrible drivers. They almost universally confuse confidence with ability.
Sounds like you’ll end up with something 3x as hard for future engineers to maintain also.
Exactly, the original title was misleading PR speak [1] focused on Rio Tinto's bullshit apology instead of the magnitude of the site that they destroyed.

Odd to see such dogmatic reverence for pg's rule to the extent that you actively remove the key information which drives interest in a post initially.

How does condemning titles to bland, irrelevant, uninteresting "original" statements fit with on-topic posts meant to be "anything that good hackers would find interesting"?

1. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I wonder if we knew the Neanderthals were a different species. It seems weird that we would have chosen to breed with them if they were obviously not the same species as us.
Comorbidities?
FWIW the objects looking large is talked about quite a bit by epileptics and can be a ‘focal awareness seizure’. I got these as a kid and my family has a history of epilepsy but I’ve never had an adverse affect.

https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seiz...
So they could put PS5-level gaming rigs in their cars? How logical https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22462660/amd-tesla-model-x...
Specifically these vaccines protect you from having severe covid if you catch it.

You can still be contagious, though less so, since you're having less severe symptoms
> There's a difference between a job that literally wears your body down (construction, for instance), and a job that can lead to health problems because of a lack of physical activity.

You don't think of yourself as a person who works with their hands, but you do. I had a bad habit of hitting keys on a keyboard really hard (due to a few early keyboards I had to work on). That can wear your body down, too - especially your fingers.
You need vision to determine it is or isn't a traffic light.

Lidar would be able to tell you if the object should even be evaluated.

A light hanging from a cable would still get a lidar ping back. The moon would be a void with no lidar ping.
We have no idea that the spike protein causes long covid. It's much more likely that damage from the viral infection and immune response is at least an equal cause.

Beyond that, the virus causes orders of magnitude more spike protein response, so even if that was true, which it probably isn't, then it is still very unlikely that the vaccine could cause long-covid.

Also, all vaccines introduce spike proteins in the body, not just mRNA vaccines.
“How to make this work within constraints” and “When to suggest alternatives with better constraints that require smol tweaks in requirements” is the whole point of engineering.

“Build whatever they ask” is … eh it’s not what engineering is about. You have to be a partner, an expert. Can’t expect the suits to know everything, that’s what they hired you for.
> People should be able to decide for themselves what risk tolerance they want to be apart of.

If you decide that you accept the risk of cancer from smoking, should you be allowed to smoke at your desk?
Fascinatingly, we do have a vaccine for Lyme disease but no one manufactures it because of a poorly-informed media frenzy.

Further reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
My niece has had swim lessons since she was 6 months old IIRC and she is an awesome swimmer now at 3 years old.
They are guidelines, not prescriptions. Guidelines can be violated when the need calls for it. Almost no rule is universal.
How about the arseholes that want people back in offices or at school? Having to lecture in a lecture hall that seats 250 students is just asking to catch COVID, and while the current vaccine will keep you out of hospital you may still get a rough case of the disease. We need a change in behaviour and in architecture. But unless there's a wave of dead schoolchildren this fall, nothing will change.
I've never hit this with GMail, but I've hit this repeatedly with outlook.com/hotmail.com accounts. There's a persistent 20% chance of any given email to my accounts being dropped silently.

It's been enough of a headache that I haven't been able to migrate off GMail and that's frustrating as hell. Especially with important medical emails..
I use a chain mail scrub, and if things get bad, a razorblade. Just be sure to dry it over a flame with some coconut oil after each wash.
Any reason why you require a full week long trial week.

Unless you're offering 200k+ most people won't do this ( unless your targeting entry level )
lol no.
business decisions are driven by economic incentives. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong but that’s the way the world works today.

you have the authority to decide only to the point of electing politicians that push what you consider to be the right thing. This takes time.

How would you feel if you would personally be targeted in an effort to reduce global warming? While at the same time other actors (that basically do the same thing and/or are protected by regulations do way worse? https://thedigitalmomentum.com/the-top-five-co2-emitting-ind...)

That EV you dream of as stopping global warming may overall be responsible for more CO2 emission that my “normal” car depending on how the power you use has been generated.
Schools have required vaccines for a long time.
Can you elaborate a bit? I don't remember hallucinating when growing up[1], so I'm interested what this would look like. I don't doubt that it may still be common without everyone experiencing it.

[1] Or ever, really, unless fever dreams when being really sick count. Though, without any reference point to compare to, they really seemed more like intense dreams.
That's a great solution, which all of our developers are exploiting.

I feel like since I'm on the security team, I should find a non-exploit method to actually resolve the policy failure.
Ubisoft workers demand company accountability in open letter
We are never going to move past this pandemic until anti-vaxxers face inconvenience.

Basic epidemiology and immunology suggests otherwise.

Can you think of any pandemic in the history of human existence that didn't eventually end even in the absence of vaccines?
A classic "easy" thing that appears "hard": write a little bit of assembly. Note, a little bit[1].

Writing assembly, again, in small amounts, is exactly the kind of thing that is difficult to start, and fails spectacularly if you have little experience. Debugging is a pain. But you can totally get the hang of writing assembly, and as long as you are doing it for the right reasons (TM), it's justified, and heroic. The key is you need to write and debug a little at a time.

Case in point, I wrote an entire Wasm interpreter[2] in x86-64 asm over the past few months. I wrote it a little at a time, had lots of unit tests, and am working in an engine that was already completely functional (with a slower interpreter).

[1] If you find yourself writing more than a hundred or so assembly instructions in a sitting, you are going to fail. If you find yourself writing more than a few thousand assembly instructions, total, you have probably have already failed.

[2] https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine/blob/master/src/engi...
>There won't be increased consumption at 7 AM and at 5 PM on a weekday if less people commute. I just don't see it happening. Additionally the tech industry isn't exactly a groundswell of people either -- if all tech workers stop commuting, that isn't going to have enough of an impact to change traffic conditions except literally in silicon valley. There just aren't that many workers in tech.

There's a delayed consumption.Time and money saved will inevitably turn spending time and money later.
Also not only tech workers work in the offices.A lot of other people might demand to work from home (and they already did).That's a lot of people.

>But let's examine the flipside... The average commute distance in the U.S. is 16 miles. The average tech company is located in a densely populated metropolitan area, and the average passenger vehicle in the U.S. emits 411 grams of CO2 per mile. Commuting two ways that's 32 miles * 411g = 13.152 kg (~29 lbs) of carbon emissions for your daily commute. The average American household in total has around 39.8 kg/day (~88 lbs) of C02 emissions. Reducing that by 29 on weekdays is a 1/3 reduction in emissions. That's huge. Also consider that the average person in the U.S. drives 36.9 miles per day. For working people cutting this by 32 miles on weekdays is an enormous change.

I dont think you can make an equation like this.People instead of walking to their favorite restaurant might decide to order more or make longer rides to go to "the better restaurants" instead of just consuming what is withing the walking distance from their apartments / office.

>Consumption isn't going to increase proportionally because everyone is still going to be too busy working. The people who were already "consuming" during the day are going to continue to do so, but that population isn't going to increase. It's fixed. Maybe some will drive more, but it's not going to have the same effect that the people no longer driving 32 miles / weekday no longer having to do so will have.

Except a lot of people will gain time and money to spend later.And that's usually one of the main arguments in these discussions that people hate to spend time and money to commute.

>I'm also ignoring the significant environmental and monetary costs of keeping an office running, and the increased work that needs to be done because of the (being charitable) at least 15% production drain of working in an office.

I was under the impression that offices generally are environmentally speaking better buildings than your average condos and houses.They have to follow specific sustainability standards.
This reads similar to some reading I’ve done on epilepsy and visual/physical “distortions”: https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seiz...
Don't worry about things that aren't under your control. All you're going to do is have a mental breakdown. Focus on what you can control - which is your own carbon footprint. Work on ways to reduce it while living a reasonably "normal" life. Heck, you can even regularly report on it and be a celebrity greenie of sorts. Don't fret though - you simply can't control it.
I’ve been reading it for 10+ years now. Highly recommend subscribing. It’s also depressing because I’m seeing how we are collectively regressing in graphic design and especially logo design.
Safety reminder to test used cast iron cookware for lead contamination, because using them for melting lead is a thing that people do.
As a seasoned Erlang developer, it's really foreign to me that people can go so far as to never need a GenServer since they are everywhere in Erlang. Have you had any experience with ramping up an Erlang engineer to use Elixir? After interviewing an Elixir dev for an Erlang position, it was interesting that so much of what they used in their day-to-day abstracted away the components of OTP and the Beam. Didn't really have a firm grasp of supervision trees, process linking vs monitoring, etc.
US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years
> I think it's a very reasonable position to be skeptical of that claim

And you believe this based entirely on wildly outdated data that tracks deaths per cohort without tracking infections per cohort, despite this same literature showing a 0.01% breakthrough infection rate and the disease itself causing a higher death rate for 2020 than any recent year in spite of massive lockdown & social isolation efforts that almost eliminated flu?

I don't really understand this position even if I do concede that there exist a couple line items from 2020 that show two similarly sized groups with similar death rates despite being on opposite ends of the vaccinated or not spectrum.
AvGas is only used by small, piston powered aircraft.

Jets fly on Jet-A which is basically high-grade kerosene and AFAIK, lead free.

The only airports that could be giving off lead would be very busy, general aviation airports like Van Nuys, not commercial airports like LAX or JFK. Even then, the effect is barely detectable.
Worth engaging on that point, as I think the crux of the disagreement is about boundaries on rhetoric, and whether downvotes are an appropriate enforcement mechanism for a kind of rhetorical social contract. (pls correct if doesn't capture intent)

A billboard (or search results) with false accusations are a good example, as it exploits others' limited ability to reason about them, sort of like propaganda. It's why there are laws about libel, "fighting words," incitement, false advertising, harassment, perjury, and I'm sure others that fall outside free speech guarantees. They aren't great, or even very good, but they are examples of existing legal boundaries on rhetoric, so the "all/any discourse" already has some limits. Then we've got logical fallacies, and civility etc, so these are checks and balances in a dynamic and narrows the scope away from extreme examples.

Regarding "any discourse" being necessarily better than none, I'd very reluctlantly accept that position, but I would certainly say "most, and almost all discourse" is better than none. All and here? No. Most and here (public)? I'd still err on the side of liberality, even though I'd agree there exist a bunch of common systematic tactics designed to destroy discussions, but public discourse has evolved to handle an increasing number of those tacitcs by recognizing them as trolling.

My position is that discourse is hard, it takes practice, and when it's done well, it is a very refined human art that is an honest signal of thoughtful work. Even the "Dumb." comment in the example, if it were comedically timed or in context it might be brilliant, and is way better than a downvote. When discourse is crappy, it also signals the quality of the thought that goes into it, and I think that's a feature. Nobody is born a great thinker, and the only way we get better and create value we can share with others is by testing our ideas, with opposition. I'm saying downvotes subvert and even pervert that by rewarding spoilers.

That said, I'm oddly in favour of flagging as a tool for things completely out of contextual bounds because that's a request for refereeing, but absolutely against flagging on a global scale.

Regarding the busker, I'm saying that if to get a busking permit in a square you had to have a little box people could hit as they walked by that tallied peoples hostility toward you, is just as absurd on the internet as it sounds in real life.

Pleasure to engage! :)
I think one of the main reasons for Tesla to use only vision is that then the mistakes the system makes will be more understandable and thus acceptable to humans. The way radar and lidar systems fail and cause wrecks will seem strange to humans, like running into stationary objects. Even if using these sensors would make system better overall, they might not be worth including if one is shooting for human acceptance of the system as fit for use.

An autocar seeing something that looks like a red light and breaking (or breaking for a bit and then continuing after deciding it was not a red light) is going to be acceptable to people because that is how they behave. Phantom breaking due to some radar or lidar input that the human can't perceive is going to be interpreted very negatively. I imaging auditory might be added at some point, if it is not already being used.
Sorry but I have to disagree with the whole tone of this.

I see it this way, the thought hat we have "destroyed a natural ecosystem" is incorrect. Just as incorrect as when a beaver dams a river and creates a flooded meadow. The beaver, and people, are doing what they do, changing the ecosystem to create a habitat in which they can thrive. Those changes, have changed the ecosystem around them.

What Gedge and others in the article are saying, is that it is in human's best interest to support a diversity of habitats that can co-exist with their own. The benefits are three fold, they keep biodiversity higher (balancing other processes in the environment), they can provide benefits for the humans for "free", and they lower the negative impact of humans on the flora that used the space before humans started changing it for their own use.

An example close to home. I live in a typical California 2 story single family home. Because California homes are typically "next" to each other, the walls on the side of my house are blank since there isn't much point of a window that looks at your neighbors wall or worse inside their house at close range. I built a "bat house" which is really just a couple of plywood sheets separated by 1x2s to attach to the eastern wall. Voila, bats come to live at my house. And those same bats are eating pests such as mosquitos which carry West Nile virus in my area. If we could get all the houses on my street to do the same, the city would likely never catch another mosquito on our street.

So what is the "cost" of that? The bat house takes no electricity, its materials are pretty simple. The bats show up for "free" and take care of themselves. There is a guano disposal "problem" but I just dump it into my compost pile and it adds a crap ton of nitrogen to the soil.

So the net of it is that is saves me money on fertilizer, it saves me money on pest control, and it costs nearly zero to maintain.

How is that not a "win" here?
Agreed; it drives unnecessary consumption on a planet with dwindling resources
What about clustering them by upvote/downvotes patterns (I.e. find the bots) and then “shadowban” their votes? (I.e. make them count as one or in any case a fraction of the total)

Maybe they would be hard to distinguish from regular user clustered because of group thinking , but even in that case I wouldn’t consider it a completely bad thing… :-)
I agree, if there is a life skill you need to have, it would be knowing how to swim.
to be fair Apple CarPlay was vaporware until recently. Some may say it’s still not the best experience/integration.
There is an argument that can be made (whether good or not, not sure) that politicians represent the interest of people including whether they want Toyota to flourish or not, and represent the employee of Toyota, etc.

Banning giving money to politicians is fixing a symptom rather than the root cause.

Better is ban government from directing market competition. Why is the gov telling people and companies what to make when? People should do that by their choices. Tesla is a good example of something good is happening by the market. It motivated other companies to innovate in the space.
Martensen called the pandemic on Jan 26, 2020. The WHO called it March 11.

For the next 6 months he produced videos every weekday analyzing the covid news of the day and relevant published papers, always citing the primary sources. Since then his covid videos have been less frequent, but always data and science oriented.

YouTube immediately demonitized his videos, and may have banned a couple. He uses made-up names for 2 notable off-patent drugs because he claims YT will censor him if he mentions them by name. He has a PhD in pathology from Duke University and has published in Nature. You would think he is qualified to discuss this stuff.
Show HN: Google Maps but for Zelda Breath of The Wild
If you want to see how I made it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtB1rkwcfU
I'm sure Joyent used the word also for their Hypervisor [0]

0: https://www.joyent.com/smartos
It may have been both legs in that story. I know another time, she was swimming next to a canoe and they started cramping, and so she had to grab on. In that case, the leg cramp(s?) were less severe, luckily.
LIDAR is so sensitive it can't reliably detect traffic lights in the rains. So you must rely on vision anyway (which is Tesla's).
"Paula Vennells, who took over as Chief Executive in 2012 with, by all accounts, the best of intentions, found herself surrounded by a senior management team desperate to protect their own reputations and that of the Royal Mail. They told her that there simply couldn’t be problems with the IT system on the scale that was being suggested; it was much more likely that the sub-postmasters were colluding, lying about IT bugs in order to escape responsibility for what was at best incompetence and at worst theft."

Hanlon's razor would have been useful here. How could anyone honestly believe that mass collusion amongst a distributed and isolated group of people, that was also perfectly successful, was more likely than an IT failure?