skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've personally come to see this as a more complicated issue. Often, rational priorities contradict and overlap in scope - for example, discrepancies between moral reasoning and instrumental reasoning. Although I try to be reasonable about these, it's not always possible or preferable to side with one over the other.

However, the drive for total and pure consistency is also misguided in my judgement. One reason why we usually feel so motivated and conflicted (to the point where it can lead to depression) with inconsistency is the psychological effect of cognitive dissonance. It's not clear to me that the only way to quieten cognitive dissonance is to resolve the dissenting thoughts.

Another way is to accept that not everything needs to be resolved. This can be great for mental health - again, just in my experience. Don't let the (sometimes irrational) effects of cognitive dissonance override your decision making. Resolution can work, but so can acceptance.
Cool concept, I wonder removing the price from the website will help with conversion (a la superhuman). A lot of people are probably not even trying it because they haven't see the value of the product yet.
Changed the title!
Maybe a fairly small sample size but I don't know the last time I've been in a car where the driver has turned on cruise control. But it probably varies by area of the country. In the Northeast, there's just enough traffic in general that it's not worth it for me.
Pour infinite money into AI-magic engineering projects.
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There are likely many factors. In terms of civilian supporting the invastion, or at the very least, being neutral on invading was very much a popular opinion. Patriotism was extremely high following the attacks, and whether it was correct or not, many folks would see not supporting the invasion as unpatriotic. So likely do to social norms and group dynamics, it was unpopular to be against the war.

It might be hard to understand for folks that didn't live in the US during that time. A time when TV and print media were very much king. To paint the picture more clearly. Imagine a 24-hour news cycle on nearly every single TV channel. Even non-news channels discontinued normal programing to broadcast one of the big news stations. Every newspaper has massive headlines covering the content. For days and weeks there was no escaping the media barrage. It definitely warped folks perception.

Bonus: Anthrax scare directly after didn't help either.
https://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/93170200/timeline-how-the-ant...
better source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/9994/public-opinion-war-afghani...
The surviving Iraqi citizens may or not be better. Once you are dead doesn't matter if things got better anyway.

There are pretty big numbers in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War and then you should start counting the millions that were displaced, which situation may not be the best.
Interesting that they would have used old-school CGI in 1997. Netscape invented NSAPI, which was basically FastCGI before that existed. It had been around 2-3 years prior to 1997.

Edit: There's an online disassembler here that can grok the downloaded file: https://onlinedisassembler.com/
I see a lot of comments here postulating how autopilot is a terribly designed feature from people who appear not to be speaking from first hand experience and now I feel compelled to comment, exactly following that HN pattern someone posted about how HN discussions go. That said thanks for keeping this discussion focused & framed as a system design one, doesn't feel like a Tesla hate train so I feel comfortable hoppin' in and sharing. This is a little refreshing to see.

Anyway, perhaps I'm in a minority here, but I feel as though my driving has gotten _significantly safer_ since getting a Tesla, particularly on longer road trips.

Instead of burning energy making sure my car stays in the lane I can spend nearly all my time observing drivers around me and paying closer attention farther down the road. My preventative and defensive driving has gone up a level.

> I just don't understand how you can have a "self driving car but you must but be ready to put your hands back on the steering wheel and your foot on the pedal(s)".

I've not hit animals and dodged random things rolling/blowing into the road at a moment's notice. This isn't letting autopilot drive, it's like a hybrid act where it does the rote driving and I constantly take over to quickly pass a semi on a windy day, not pass it on a curve, or get over some lanes to avoid tire remnants in the road up ahead. I'm able to watch the traffic in front and behind and find pockets on the highway with nobody around me and no clumping bound to occur (<3 those).

To your suspicion, it is a different mode of driving. Recently I did a roadtrip (about half the height of the USA) in a non-Tesla, and I found myself way more exhausted and less alert towards the end of it. Could be I'm out of habit but egh.

Anyway, so far I've been super lucky. I don't think it's possible to avoid all car crashes no matter how well you drive. But I _for sure_ have avoided avoidable ones and taken myself out of situations where they later occurred thanks to the extra mental cycles afforded to me by auto-pilot. My safety record in the Tesla is currently perfect and I'll try and keep it that way.

I don't think autopilot is perfect either but I do think it's a good tool and I'm a better driver for it. Autopilot has definitely helped me spend better focus on driving.
I'm afraid pro drop isn't technically right either, for a couple of reasons :D First, English doesn't have pro drop. Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...". If you read it as elliptical of a sentence, then the sentence is something like "I am a former emergency response driver...". If English had pro drop, pro drop would give you "Am a former emergency response driver..."
You've never really "lived" until you realize that your document with the different sections, etc. that you've painstakingly setup is broken because of a copy paste issue when adding a new section. LaTex maybe a pain, but at least the output is consistent. There is no magic where the formatting bleeds over due to something you can't see on screen.
Bash just sort happened to be the lowest common denominator in most unix style environments. Because it just sorta ended up being the default. Unix ended up being this different thing where each distro seems to be kind of unique. Then on top of that they are very easy to customize. So while one distro you can assume a particular python level the next disto python is totally optional. Mix in containers and docker images and you have a new level of 'what may or may not be there'. Ah but you may say 'oh just use tech XYZ' that may or may not have the exact same issue as using python in its place. So either 'deal with it' and install what is needed and keep it up to date. Or 'play the LCD game' you use only the bare min and hope you can build something useful enough in bash when another lang may be more appropriate.
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Because there is no middle ground between sucking up to Putin and going to nuclear war with him.
Is a lane change without signal always illegal? I know that it almost certainly make you liable for any resulting accident, but I'm not sure that it is universally illegal.
Which is ironic because the pursuit of knowledge only continues to increase the landscape of unknowns towards infinity - the branches of the tree of undiscovered and unknown knowledge continues to grow exponentially. It's as-if today we thought the choices were A or B, yet tomorrow we discover there was a C, and the next day D and so forth. If anything we are only discovering we are "more wrong" every day.
In order for it to be a willful intent to injure, they have to believe it's not you and report that is is in order to knowingly tarnish your reputation. Generally if they publish bad data about you it's because the data they have is bad. It's not because out of all the accounts at JP Morgan Chase or Wells Fargo or wherever some faceless drone decided your faceless account needs to be specifically and maliciously lied about.
The passenger side is where the booger is sitting.
I think the honest answer is that, like most claims about others, it's true for some, but probably not for all.

It's hard to make the claim that every Iraqi is better off. That claim is obviously baloney.

But we can say that some are better off. It's clearly debatable by reasonable people whether or not a war was needed to make that group of people better off? Trying to be objective myself, I'm willing to concede it may not have been. But others might disagree.
No, your point is valid. I agree that the user experience is not the only factor. But I just wanted to highlight the real impact of the Horizon IT disaster on individuals.
Since I was 13, I was told it was a chemical imbalance, and that chemistry was to blame.

I was lucky enough to live in the brief epoch where any substance can be delivered to any door, for a reasonable price.

Having worked my way through the Erowid vault, through all the domains of types of drugs, it wasn't until external life changes outside of neurochemistry that the chemistry was "balanced"

It wasn't internal chemistry that was at fault, but external social interactions, richer than what 3-MEO-PCP, 4-ACO-DMT, 25i/b/c, ketamine, or MDMA/MDA/MXE could achieve in isolation.

We aren't just biological computers in a vat, we are social animals. Drugs have different interactions with people based on expectations, which is cultural.

Sometimes it's not the drugs, it's the circumstances. We didn't evolve to stare, eat, and be entertained from a series of ever-rounding rectangles.
> revenge for 9/11, none of all that makes any sense

Attacking al-quaeda after 9/11 didn't make sense?
I believe we should have safety probes. Lots of people who have taken money from the auto industry want this specifically for Tesla. There is a strong possibility this is political punishment for wrongthink.
Value judgements exist in a separate domain than pure rationality.

I like chocolate ice cream more than vanilla ice cream, and you're not gonna convince me otherwise by debating the flavor with me. It entirely could be the case that my preference is from cultural conditioning, but it's not my concern.

If your friend has a mindset of "to each his own" there's no problem.
Yes, with the difference on how to present the time to the system, just a PHC
If your kid struggles to wake, is it possible they need more sleep? Is their sleep restful enough? Do they snore or have a tongue tie? (If so, you should have a sleep study done, they may have sleep disordered breathing and need corrective surgery like I do. sleep disordered breathing is highly underdiagnosed, almost everyone who snores has it to some degree.)

In my view, waking up in the morning should never be a struggle. It shouldn’t even require an alarm clock. If you go to bed early enough, so you’re asleep 8.5h before you need to wake up, and you wake up at the same time every day, and you’re still tired, you probably have something affecting your sleep quality or nutrient balance (iron deficiency, hypothyroidism, etc) you need to fix.
Take a look at GNU Parallel. It’s magnificent.
This is oh so true. Any time I buy a gadget I make sure to read the warning labels. This is only because of its comedic value. I try to imagine every mishap and threatened lawsuit that caused the labels to be justified. Hilarious, and as you say, quite tragic. It's just useless letter clutter at this point.
I believe it is also an evolutionary advantage. Let's assume with all information available it looks like the rational best decision to do something. Then unexpectedly that thing kills you. There is only a species left if not everybody did it.
Is it just me, but my mind immediately relaxed and I started to have good feeling vibe after seeing the Netscape logo and all this simple blue background and text...
I guess I just came back to my childhood and the simple sense of wonder and exploration. Nowdays the internet is mostly stress inducing FOMO feeling of another tech article, new languages/framework, bad news everywhere...
Democracy gets oversold a lot as magic pixie dust that when sprinkled on any society results in inevitable progress, which history clearly shows is false.

There's another problem with Afghanistan and Iraq though, and that's the idiotic idea that a foreign nation that knows little about a culture can "impose" democracy from afar. Just imagine China trying to invade the USA to improve its system of government and you can see how ridiculous this is.

I have trouble thinking of any cases in history where this has worked. The closest I can come is post-WWII Marshall Plan reforms in Germany and Japan, and the former had a democratic tradition already before its fascist experiment. Every other case I can think of has failed, usually dramatically and usually leaving something far worse in place than what originally existed.
> details are so technical that they're hard to explain without "just look at the code type explanations".

> Sometimes the documentation writer can't provide a "plain English" overview of the technology.

So lead your marketing material with the code and explanations or tutorials, or whatever. (But I'm repeating the article now...)

> the details are the proprietary IP / secret sauce of the company

This one isn't reasonable. It's the detail of how to use and how it can be used that are important, not how it works. If you can't tell those, how do people use your product? Do you make your customers sign an NDA before they buy it? (Yeah, some products do require an NDA before you buy them, you can expect those ones to be very hard to sell.)
Terrestrial navigation is also multidirectional.
> Here's the quote with a tiny bit more context:

How about a lot more context:

> One option, more popular each day, is to retreat to the anti-bullshit universe of alternative media sources. These are the podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, newsletters, and Facebook pages that regularly vanish from circulation for violating “community standards” and other ineffable codes of conduct, oft-times after failing “fact-checks” by the friendly people at Good Thoughtkeeping. Some of these rebel outfits are engrossing, some dull and churchy, many quite bizarre, and some, despite small staffs and tiny budgets, remarkably good and getting better. Some are Substack pages owned by writers who severed ties with established publications, drawing charges of being Russian agents, crypto-anarchists, or free-speech “absolutists.” I won’t bother to give a list. Readers who hunt and choose among such sources have their own lists, which they fiercely curate, loudly pushing their favorites on the world while accusing those they disagree with of being “controlled opposition” and running cons. It resembles the old punk-rock scene, but after it was discovered, not early on. Some of the upstart outlets earn serious money, garnering higher ratings and more page-views than the regime-approved brands Apple features on the News screen of my iPhone. (A screen I’ve disabled and don’t miss.) This wilderness of “contrarianism” – a designation easily earned these days; you merely have to mention Orwell or reside in Florida -- requires a measure of vigilance and effort from those who seek the truth there. As opposed to those who go there to relax, because they prefer alt-bullshit to mainstream bullshit. They can just kick their shoes off and wade in.

Does your mind detect any ~disrespect for alt-bullshit in here? For example, what meaning do you think is intended by "They can just kick their shoes off and wade in"?

> Seems pretty clear-cut to me.

That's the thing though: things are not always as they seem (I assume you've seen magic shows & optical illusions, or read to some degree on neuroscience, the numerous forms of psychological bias, etc)?

> The original comment did muddy the waters a bit by taking the inverse of that statement, but the author isn't being ambiguous on their beliefs in that regard.

Here are you referring to shared reality, or your/the author's/my individual highly customized model of reality? It's an important distinction, but one that is rarely made.
The discovery that transformed pi was discovered during pandemic
Seconding this a little. The best way to learn math is to spend a long time with it and see it in as many ways as you can. You have to build an intuition for it so you can move past definitions and theorems and just "get it".

Although I also dont want to discourage anyone from trying this either. Anything that'll get people to learn is better than apathy. :)
That is nonsense, you must have misunderstood what those P's mean. It makes sense if you say those factors determines the success of a marketing campaign, but it doesn't make sense if you say that marketing as a field includes creating those 4 things. Marketing can only directly control promotion and placement and only indirectly price and product. They can't choose to have a bug free high performant product, the quality of their engineering team determines that. Neither can they choose what the price is, the running cost of the company determines a lower bound there.

No sensible definition of marketing includes engineers fixing bugs or optimizing algorithms. It is true that sometimes good marketing teams also doubles as product managers where they ensures that the product is something consumers wants, but that isn't really a part of their field.
Yeah, I remember Arch breaking systems completely back when they moved the entire /bin and /lib, setting python3 as the default python, etc. Took hours of fucking around to fix.

I'm a tinkerer typically, but it seemed like they were going out of their way to break things and generate maintenance work for me, I've never had that issue with any other distro and I will never run Arch again because of it.
I'm thinking about following the tutorial in Julia or Kotlin, but it would be interesting how the code looks in a different language like F#.
Same reason I switched to Vimium-C.
This will surely help reintegrate former criminals into society.
HN often talks about running your own email server like it's this wonderful example of a decentralized service that anybody can take part in. That's kind of true, but there's this whole other aspect that gets ignored.

Email is not this wonderful, democratic system of equals. Email is more like a school playground where a handful of enormous bullies control everything. You either learn to work with them, cater to their demands, or you'll never be able to visit large sections of the playground.

Gmail is relatively easy to appease, mostly just configuring your nameservers and email headers to Google's standards, then slowly building "reputation". Hotmail will block an entire domain (IP?) randomly every few years, then you fill out one of their infamous forms and pray they unblock you quickly. Yahoo (technically Verizon now) is even more difficult to work with, they block you out of nowhere and I've never figured out how to appeal. Seems like they do some kind of ratelimiting for smaller email servers, I don't know if it's some kind of punishment or just by default.

Then there's the dozen other major email providers. Some easy to work with, others not so much.
The code in the main readme (https://github.com/google/zx) has an example of parallelism (the Promise.all line).
There was an expedition [0] to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. The party's ship was stranded and subsequently destroyed by the ice. I won't spoil the story. Their epic ordeal was retold over and over, but there's a documentary that's really good. I think it's The Endurance (2000) [1]. Watch it if you get the chance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Exped...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/

Edit: I'm mentioning this, because I recognized a photo of a settlement (Grytviken) [2] in the article. The island is part of the story.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa...
Not only they need a "surprise effect" at release, but once you played it enough you get bored and move to something else. Harder to keep contributors engaged.

Unlike tools (i.e. text editors) that you can keep using for 20 years+ and never want to stop using it.
Yes, local directory windows and such were rendered with the IE engine in Windows 98 as I recall. Files and directories became "hyperlinks" and Microsoft made a big stink about how they could be navigated with one click instead of a double click, "just like the web". "Push" was the fad; instead of visiting Web sites, in Soviet Russia websites would come to you. That motivated Active Desktop.

I thought it was stupid and potentially dangerous because it misled users to treat the web and local resources equally, and put the same amount of trust in each. Of course nowadays, not treating local resources with the same amount of distrust we give the web is a major security fail, and that's why we must notarize and sandbox everything.
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The problem is that none of those answers were provided as a reason to instigate a 2nd war and occupation of Iraq.

Its an attempted justification of a pointless war, an excuse. 'We got rid of the bad guy', If someone bombed your cities, destroyed your power and water supply while going on to occupy your country for years leading to the deaths of 100,000s, would you hail them as liberators?

As for Iraq, its completely destroyed. Saddam was peanuts compared to the unholy inferno the US brought down on Iraq. Good guys don't instigate wars and decimate cities. The US spent 100s of billions to 'fight terror'. How do you fight terror? With terror apparently.
This is why I am quitting my full time career in the tech industry to go solo
> and they almost always are

I would suggest that <1% of war crimes (number pulled directly out of thin air) are held to account. There are approximately 200,000 civilians dead as a result of these wars. Some 'legitimate' collateral damage, some because soldiers like to shoot people, some because they were journalists in their office, some because they went to the wrong wedding.

While the investigator, judge, and jury of these potential crimes are the people perpetrating them themselves we have absolutely no idea of what proportion are or are not investigated let alone punished. Certainly, the evidence of cases that have received public attention (see the collateral murder video and 'investigation' as just one such example) shows a pattern of lies and coverups to justify gross incompetence or outright psychopathic behavior.
There have often been buddhist, muslim and other kingdoms or larger military organizations in power in Afghanistan.

It's not that the borders don't make sense, it's that the area as a whole is hard to rule and it's hard to pay for that ruling. Currently one could argue that the medieval kind of "political technology" used by the Taliban is superior to the democratic political technology, for this very reason.
Hey, just want to say good luck and keep at it. Lots of skeptical comments here, but that's always the case for different ideas. Stay positive :)
It's not about oil from Afghanistan, it's about a more solid presence in the region (and in some cases, about preventing an enemy/competitor from having that presence).

Most countries around Afghanistan have oil. If Afghanistan could have been managed (as in, exploited without difficulty or consequence), then the US would have probably been financially wise to attempt what they attempted. But it turns out, after observing two major powers attempt to dominate Afghanistan, that it is just too messy to manage.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23608077