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When my wife learned to drive in Norway she was instructed never to swerve to avoid a collision regardless of whether it was an elk, a dog or a human being in front of the car, just to stamp hard on the brake.

The rationale being that swerving most likely puts more people at risk more of the time. Especially true here where leaving the road often means either colliding with the granite cliff wall or ending up in the fjord or lake.
Is it? Tesla is still alive because they're selling cars.

It's just that the companies that are NOT doing incremental approaches are largely at the mercy of some investors who don't know a thing about self-driving, and they may die at any time.

I agree with you that it is technically flawed, but it may still be viable in the end. At least their existence is not dependent on the mercy of some fools who don't get it, they just sell cars to stay alive.

That's one of the major problems of today's version of capitalism -- it encourages technically flawed ways to achieve scientific advancement.
I played Total Annihilation back in the day. One thing that I remember standing out about it was the ability to automate production and tactics to a significant degree. I had factories pumping out drone ships with preprogrammed flight paths, which would engage any hostiles they encounter then resume flights. Then so long as I kept factories supplied with metals, I ensured air superiority and was able to focus on moving land forces, or other things.

Whereas most RTS devolve into micromanagement matches, TA seemed to be more about high-level strategy since automation really let you focus on theatre management.
> Before everything started changing in 2020 (Ford is pulling out of the car market in the US except for select models), what models were UK specific?

The Puma is Europe-specific and was launched in 2019.

I don't understand the case you're making, as you say Ford is killing off in the US almost all the vehicles that make up their existing market share in Europe. The point I was trying to make is the company is fundamentally split because of the different nature of the markets. FCA had the same issue.
I keep seeing such articles since Larrabe, better wait and see if this time it is actually any better.
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One problem I have with plaid is that the most common use for them that I see is a company using them in order to setup direct deposit. It's also really hard to figure out how to manually set it up (I usually have to click deny on plaid and then I can input it myself)

I'm not interested in handing over all my info when I can copy and paste two numbers instead
I would not lightly send ultrasounds to the brain, especially the prefrontal cortex...

The magnetic method seemed much safer.
Here in Germany "Mein Kampf" is illegal to sell. I was always amazed that it was available in the US (or so I heard). I guess they took "free speech" serious.

I guess the public opinion has changed on that one by now.

Personally I think it is better if such things can be accessed and discussed, so that their arguments can be properly refuted.

(Facebook is a private company and can do what they want, of course).
Hey, CTO from Plaid here. We don’t, and have not, sold data.

https://plaid.com/legal/#consumer-support

As someone who has overseen our consumer privacy team over the past few years building out products like Plaid Link and Plaid Portal, I can attest this is a foremost priority for the company. FWIIW, I don’t agree with the allegations, and you can read our POV on this blog post.

https://plaid.com/blog/plaids-commitment-to-consumer-privacy...
> No source code? No tech details? No reason to trust you with my browsing? For all I know, this could be MITM'ing my sessions and exfiltrating my data.

If open-source is what instills trust, then Chromium would be the most trusted browser. Instead, in practice, we should look at actual 'phoning home' habits and browser's business model to tell us what it real agenda is.

Luckily we do need source code at all to check if any browser is sending data anywhere. A simple network proxy will do and is much easier and more accurate than supposedly going through millions(?) lines of code.

In case of SigmaOS, at least the business model is more likely to not create privacy-related friction. I haven't checked it with network proxy, but somebody pointed out that crash logs are automatically sent to Microsoft which is not a good sign. Those are the things I would focus on.
Might be a British thing, we call them beer mats. It's the mats they leave on tables in a pub for you to put your (imperial) pint on.
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Makes zero sense. Installing spyware and compromising everybody’s iPhone does a million times more harm than whatever governments can achieve with complete access to people’s iCloud account. At least before we could protect our privacy by turning off all iCloud sync, but now your only option is to switch away from iOS.
I'm sure putting one's head in the microwave oven at the right settings would be even more efficient.
So they say 12cents per kwh, they say they're mining ETH, according to [1] the hash rate of ETH on a RTX 3090 is max 150MH/s (realistically lower) at 300W. According to [2] that means 1 RTX 3090 is giving you about $350/month. Yet they say their old gaming rig made 3x that? Somehow they're also buying up 3090s like there are no supply issues?

>So far, they’ve sold small amounts to pay for expenses such as the electric bill, graphic cards, software and the data center.

This also seems really weird, surely they're selling off all their ETH to buy more hardware? They've got 94 "mainly rtx 3090" rigs - probably around 2k each, so they've spent probably >$200k just in pure GPU costs, they started mining in March so even if they were making their 32k per month, every penny would've gone into new rigs, so how have they not sold all the ETH to reinvest in hardware?

[1] - https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-m...

[2] - https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth?HashingP...
Its weird, because the quality of the product has fairly low correlation to the production costs associated with the product (including even the marketing budgets!), whether it is distributed as a cartridge or 2 DLLs over Steam.
What is this "naive rationalism" and "post-rationalism"? And how is rationalism dead in the first place? Did science and logic suddenly stop working without us noticing?
It was posted that there was only one employee at snopes who was responsible for their answers, and that they were very questionable....

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=snopes+has+only+one+fact+ch...

But then again - in these trying times for Truth - I don't know who to trust.
Kindle sadly does not yet support books with extensive math typesetting.
This seems to be exactly the definition given in the article?
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Yeah, because networks without moderation have gone over pretty well. Srsly, FB is not the solution for everything.
I have a separate battery powered device that does LTE backhaul and VPN and provides wifi, on which I have root and iptables/tcpdump.

This way the VPN can't be bypassed on the phone, and I can inspect and filter traffic.

Uber can be used by entering an address (eg one a block down from my house) with location services off. The only things I really miss out on are things that don't work at all without location, like the snap map or tinder.
I'm pretty sure they still can't make a car that doesn't fall apart[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pg7JmKElUw
I really don't think people appreciate the fact enough that for developers to care to learn about building software for your platform, you need to make it accessible for them to run that software. That means "run on the hardware they will already have". AMD really need to push to get ROCm compiling for RDNA based chips.
That was done in Somalia, and was a large part of why Black Hawk Down happened, IIRC. As the sister comment says, drone strikes seem like a simple answer, and people are never simple.
The default installer offers an option to encrypt the disk, meaning LUKS + LVM. (iirc, LUKS requires LVM, but correct me if I'm wrong).

The only main shortcoming of the installer is, in 2021 it really needs to also offer btrfs as an option for automatic installation. Basically four options for automatic install: Ext4, btrfs, LUKS+Ext4, and LUKS+btrfs.

Having recently migrated to ZFS, and quickly become accustomed to the immense flexibility of datasets/subvolumes, snapshotting, and checksumming, I can't imagine using anything other than ZFS or btrfs now. And btrfs is standard on Fedora 34 and Garuda, probably some other distros too.
"They started mining in March with an old gaming computer, making $1,000 in their first month."

This is completely BS, in March even a 3090 was at absolute best making $250/mo
In the original sense "that's a big ask" has implications that the ask is not practical and is received with a raised eyebrow.

A bit like the quote from yes minister

"That's very brave of you, minister. An extremely courageous decision,"

followed up by the explanation

"Oh, yes! "Controversial" only means "this will lose you votes". "Courageous" means "this will lose you the election"!"
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Cause all they do is laugh at incompetent people. Whats to respect about it?

Incompetent people are people who dig themselves into deep holes because they are clueless or crazy. They are not capable of digging themselves out.

Now what happens if such people yank a whole bunch of others into that deep hole? What do you do?

If you are not capable of pulling all of them out sure you can make a big noise and hope grandma or someone shows up to help. But for some problems no one is coming.

And these two fools sell to their fan clubs that grandma will show up if the right noise is produced. For all their giggling and raging, count the number of times that has happened.
Prop. The difficulty is getting the job in the first place.
Steam will hardly change the 1% status of GNU/Linux desktop.

Many forget that most studios don't bother to port their Android games to GNU/Linux, which are mostly written using the NDK, so plain ISO C and C++, GL, Vulkan, OpenSL,..., yet no GNU/Linux, because the market just isn't there.
> cannot detect stopped objects in the road,

Neither can Volvo or VW.

Actually my 2015 Ap1.5 Model S does detect stopped vehicles, unfortunately not reliably.
>to the the default ZFS shell

Correction: ZSH shell.
I did this recently (well not all my data, but one bank account). I had to go through customer support, and they had some trouble with it but eventually figured it out.

I'm not a fan of Plaid. The core concept is great, but training users to enter credentials (much less banking credentials) into third-party sites is nuts. Nowadays, it would be easy for someone to pivot from a compromise of a random company's web server to impersonating Plaid and pwning most of their customers' bank accounts.

This would be trivial to fix by deprecating their current UI and switching to a small popup or redirecting to a different URL.
That’s awesome, thanks for the kind words and keep the feedback coming!
Some past related threads (I think there have been others too?)

A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676384 - Dec 2019 (51 comments)

On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18642481 - Dec 2018 (24 comments)

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579076 - Dec 2018 (214 comments)
The "Used by people at..." bit is curious and suspicious, especially in relation to their privacy claims.

Lets say it is true, there are a few scenario's.

One scenario is harmless: these people work there, are friends and told the makers they use the browser and are happy for them to use this info on the site.

Most other scenario's: they found this out from e-mail addresses or through some other means and are now using this tidbit on the site to sell their product. This isn't selling information, but it is pretty close to it. It shows that they mine your information and use it to their own benefit. It isn't very nefarious, but it isn't exactly super privacy conscious. "Oh… and we don’t sell your data." oh, but we do look through it and see what we can use four ourselves.
The link mentions third party firms:

> Plaid has settled a $58 million class action lawsuit over claims that the fintech firm passed on personal banking data to third party firms without user consent.

and selling transaction histories:

> the plaintiffs alleged that Plaid has “exploited its position as middleman” to obtain app users’ banking login credentials and use that information to gain access to and sell their transaction histories.

For what it's worth I haven't read the actual lawsuit yet, but would love a link if it refutes the article.
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I'm going to suggest an alternative: treat your job like a job and don't derive personal value from your occupation.

I used to work insane hours trying to get ahead and when I was doing that I always thought badly of people who left when the clock struck 5pm. The older I've gotten the more I've realized how much those folks had right.

Work to Live. Don't Live to Work. You'll be a heck of a lot happier.
Two notes:

1. generally speaking the right way to think about accidents/fatalities/hard breaking events is per miles driven given that risk scales with time spent on road (and miles driven is the best proxy we have at the moment, insurance companies use this stat)

2. If wearing a seat belt prevents a ton of fatalities as advertised and generally proven, it would make sense that of the road fatalities that do happen, many are due to not wearing a seat belt.

10% of people not wearing seat belts is still hundreds of millions of miles driven without seat belts.
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> For example, the company argued that it was not specified that the vehicle should be able to land in the dark

This seems like an important bit? Like...launch windows are a thing and when it's time to launch it's time to launch. I guess Blue Origin never thought someone might want to launch at night (implying a night-time abort is a possibility?)
I keep saying the same thing actually whenever people say that manual driving will be outlawed. Like, no, it won't be - because the computers will still save you in most cases either way, autopilot enabled or not.

>>How about a Tesla that is electronically incapable of speeding. Good luck selling that one.

From 2022 all cars sold in the EU have to have an electronic limiter that keeps you to the posted speed limit(by cutting power if you are already going faster) - the regulation does allow the system to be temporarily disabled however.
Not a problem for this kid, she just asks her daddy.
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Unit count and "planning" were the two things that separated TA from others for me.

You could build more units and you could command larger groups of them compared to something like SC where you couldn't group more than 12 per hotkey. The sheer number of units you could crank out also had interesting strategic effects if, say, your opponent had a balanced defense but not quite enough flak cannons, say, to hold up to a giant swarm of air units. I remember having to worry more about the specifics of what they were building than in games where there was a unit cap that increased the relative value of fortifications and defensive structures.

Sequencing was great too. Tell your commander to build a factory, then another factory, then a solar plant, etc, with seemingly no queue size limit. Queue up dozens of things in each of those factories too. Etc.

It always felt less "clicks per minute" dominated because of these things for me - though I was not a high level player or anything, just playing for fun - while the industry went the opposite, way into the Micro side and turned into things like Warcraft 3 and then LoL.

(I forget the name of Cavedog's TA sequel set in a fantasy world, but even that, IIRC, backed away from the giant armies thing.)
"Slandering" would be spreading a potentially untrue assertion without evidence.

Providing precisely the evidence you have, as OP did, is perfectly intellectually hygenic, and is not slandering.

Anyway, my personal sense, as a former scientist, is that most journals have systematic problems.
how's it compare to alpinejs and stimulus?
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It works for me using Pragamata Pro (my trusty default) and some preinstalled ones (at least mac) those being PT Mono, Spot Mono, and Andale Mono. It shouldn't be an issue as long as the "empty braille character", i.e. U+2800, doesn't get kerned to hell and back by the font.
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Thanks for the details!

That opens new questions; for example, what's a "custom" DNS query? One that doesn't use mDNSResponder (or whatever iOS uses right now)?
That would be a "oh dear I have accepted the wrong job moment".
their investment banker father loaned them the money for the rare video cards (which has to be at least ~0.25 MUSD). This article is trash, and does not reflect economic realities.

Where did they get these cards, did they pay $3k+ each?
I was curious to see it in action, here's a random Twitch video https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1118988304
> Here in Germany "Mein Kampf" is illegal to sell.

It's not that simple. (in short, unedited and uncommented reprints are problematic (but not directly established as "illegal to sell" currently I'd say), pre-1945 printings are fine, commented editions exist and are fine)
I think I’d get a remote job and move part time back to the country, an area with direct train to the city. Partner should understand after a good talk. Personally would rather have a part-time happy partner than a full-time miserable one.
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Write an optimizer or route finder.
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cdns are in a unique position (besides google analytics, facebook pixel, webchat services, etc), to track you across the internet and different domains.
Thank you - I've read Ikigai and loved it :) Could probably do with another read!
> You have a PhD in Computer Science, one of the highest academic accomplishments in one of the hottest fields for the last 30-40 years. I want you to know how far ahead you are of people like me who just taught themselves to code and glue web apps together for 6 figures.

Don’t want to be a buzzkill but OP can as well be a mediocre engineer, even with a CS PhD. It’s important to recognize your own strengths and weaknesses.
At the time I had a Tytn II, which had all of those. Guess that's why I never got the iPhone.
There's unofficial support in the rocm-4.3.0 math-libs for gfx1030 (6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT). rocBLAS also includes gfx1010, gfx1011 and gfx1012 (5000 series). If you encounter any bugs in the {roc,hip}{BLAS,SPARSE,SOLVER,FFT} stack with those cards, file GitHub issues on the corresponding project.

I have not seen any problems with those cards in BLAS or SOLVER, though they don't get tested as much as the officially supported cards.

FWIW, I finally managed to buy an RX 6800 XT for my personal rig. I'll be following up on any issues found in the dense linear algebra stack on that card.

I work for AMD on ROCm, but all opinions are my own.
> The observation of the aforementioned seemingly random times 𝜏 might lead one to hypothesise there to be a chaotic effect in the flight of a beer mat. However, it will turn out that this effect comes from the inability of humans to throw the disk reproducibly.

> In principle, the theory of a rotating thin disk moving in air is known. Unfortunately, solving the corresponding equations including effects from turbulence is analytically intractable and even numerically highly demanding.

Isn't this exactly what a "chaotic effect" is? The influence that small changes in initial conditions has on the final outcome, and the analytical difficulty in correlating the two?
I found it weird how the video doesn’t account for the massive economies of scale that AAA companies have access to. The audiences & market size are way bigger now than they were back in the day.
Lex Fridman said they studied this and found that people don’t become “lulled” even after using the system for a long period of time.
" I am not telling that there aren't bad books, but most likely the limiting factor to acquire the skills isn't lack of resources, but the rigor to sit and plod through one ( or couple) of the best resources that you have zero"

Ah, but there are books, just making you want to go tp sleep by just looking at them and some are able to spark passion (in me).

My point being, it is definitely about motivation and discipline, but a good didactic book, helps with that.

And since we are all different (types of lerners), there definitely isn't one book to rule them all. And its been a while since I studied from a book, but I could usually tell from skimmimg over a few pages, of whether this book can help me, or not.
> Perfect is the enemy of good, and rejecting a better system because it isn't perfect seems like an absurd choice.

Nothing absurd about thinking a system which has parity with the average human driver is too risky to buy unless you consider yourself to be below average at driving. (As it is, most people consider themselves to be better than average drivers, and some of them are even right!) The accident statistics that comprise the "average human accident rate" are also disproportionately caused by humans you'd try to discourage from driving in those circumstances...

Another very obvious problem is that an automated system which kills at the same rate per mile as an average human drivers will tend to be driven a lot more because no effort (and probably replace better-than-average commercial drivers long before teenagers and occasional-but-disproportionately-deadly drivers can afford it).
The DG1 isn’t designed for gaming, but it is better than integrated graphics.
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Cruises are international travel, so I'm surprised anyone would be surprised by ID checks.
> CDs

Especially free AOL CDs
Thanks for posting :) Author here, happy to discuss.
The incident I'm referring to was about LG [1]. The report includes network captures, so I'd trust it.

Apparently, some chinese smart TV brands have been doing similar things, but I wouldn't be surprised if most other vendors have caught up and used stealthier techniques.

[edit] Here's the news about those chinese TVs [2] and the original report [3]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/lg-sm...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/skyworth_gozen_smart_...

[3] https://www.v2ex.com/t/772523
They don't seem to mention the thing I most remember TA for: the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDyp__ejco
I agree that this video is very important to archive and make available to view. I don't disagree with Youtube's decision on age restriction. I watched the video, and there are several scenes showing dead bodies. I think making that available, but age restricted, is a fair compromise.