skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of whom guarantee global free trade, which is awfully expensive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23434640
I do like using Tesla's Traffic Aware Cruise Control, but autopilot takes over enough of the driving I know I can't pay meaningful attention for more than 10 or 15 minutes. I just did a 1600 km round trip with traffic aware cruise control on the vast majority of the time, but I didn't turn on autopilot once.

Autopilot bothers me for a number of reasons. Fundamentally it's a poor driver, spending time in people's blind spots unnecessarily, braking and accelerating in rather abrupt ways, and just generally acting like a teenage driver who just got their license. It simply doesn't practice defensive driving.

I also spend a lot of time driving on undivided rural highways. These are highly dangerous roads, with closing speeds in excess of 200 km/hr at times. In those situations autopilot drives far too much according to the strict rules of the road and can't adjust to the situation. It doesn't use the lane space to leave additional room and it doesn't give a wide berth to cyclists.

It also bothers me deeply that one of the ways to override autopilot is to make steering input and that's also the indicator Tesla uses to determine the user participating. I haven't used autopilot much for the reasons above, but the few times I did active it the steering input required to tell the car I'm there is also enough steering input to move the car several feet in the lane due to very direct steering. It feels like I'm just fighting the car. That is deeply unnerving since the force required to override autopilot feels like enough to jump nearly half a lane and cause a collision.
Yes and it is quite obvious that comedic, meme-packed, popular culture nostalgia driven YouTube videos do not gratify anyone’s intellectual curiosity, ever! It clearly gratifies something else! Is this not obvious?
> What is unsatisfactory about the patents that other commenters have repeatedly pointed out to you

The same thing that I said in my past replies. See below.

"
And I have to point out that just googling for E Ink patents doesn't help us understand what point you are making. It is the equivalent of me claiming that Microsoft is blocking operating system progress and then justifying it by giving you a set of Microsoft patents. I hope the analogy is clear.
"

> Perhaps these are avoidable, but could you elaborate how, as someone who works in the display industry?

This is the equivalent of someone claiming "patents are blocking progress" and then when I ask "why is that?", they reply "elaborate how patents are not blocking progress".
in what way is nazi-china different from fascist neo-cons/neo-liberals. it is all a projection of power - and the victims are uncounted and faceless
Not sure how this relates to what I wrote? Apparently USA voters do think the spending is adequate... or do you have a better way to decide on this? On a tangential: We can also try to compare the cost of 1 mile of subway in NY vs 1 mile in Shanghai. I didn't check but I would assume NY cost would be more than double. Services in US cost a lot. US innovates and a lot of other countries copy... while it seems that China spending is not that far behind US.
My problem with those crashes is that they are entirely explicable: The car is blind to stationary objects in the road. (My best guess at the logic is they assume that "anything stationary cannot possibly be in the road, right?")

To me, that blindness is simply unacceptable. If there is anything in the road, whether identified or not, it should automatically be flagged as a hazard. That flag should only be removed if it is detected to be moving in a way such that it will be somewhere else when you get there.

I have Subaru EyeSight. It has no problem seeing stationary objects. What's Tesla's problem?
Not exactly. The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury do a dance where the Treasury tells the Fed how many dollars it needs and then creates notes, bills, and bonds in the desired amount. It then performs a simple asset swap with the Fed to receive reserves in exchange for those bonds. This is slightly obfuscated by the primary dealer auction process, but in extremis the Fed can and will just buy the bonds itself. This never happens because for some reason the private banks that are primary dealers don't choose to give away free seigniorage money.
I bought a Handspring Visor Deluxe when I was 10-11 (when they first came out) and loved it. My favorite game was by far Space Trader. I remember waiting patiently for the vaporware sequel Picoverse but I stopped checking Peter Spronck's site long ago after it seemed basically abandoned.

Somebody also re-implemented it in .NET if I recall correctly. I'd love to build a TUI re-implementation but there's other stuff on my plate at the moment that precludes me from doing so.

EDIT: From his site, "I I have been working on a sequel to the game, named "Picoverse", since 2003. I still haven't given up on that one, though it probably will not be for the Palm computer, as this brand is rather dead at the moment." There is hope yet!
> Not even talking about things for software development specifically

In 199x we had straightforward visual RAD IDEs like Delphi and C++ builder. IMHO this was the pinnacle of apps development productivity, what have now (Electron + a soup of web front-end frameworks) is nightmare, postapocalyptic chaos following the golden age.
"Paying designers instead of paying Facebook Ads" sounds good! What kind of rates are you paying the people who're actually doing the work, though? And what's your plan for when the funding runs out - are you gonna follow Uber's path and start shaving more and more out of what the designers get?

Aaand... if a client and designer who you matched up decide they would like to pursue a working relationship outside of your app, without paying you your cut for future work, do you consider this a success, or a failure?
There are ways to specify schemas for JSON and XML. However, for APIs, XML's gone and schemas for JSON never caught on.

JSON is a serialized JS object, which itself is untyped, so anything can be in any order. Think NoSQL databases. This simplicity gave JSON the ability to be adopted by a multitude of languages very, very quickly. Foolish, maybe, but you could build Stripe on it.

GraphQL, an emerging API standard, does feature schemas, and its rise is bringing types back to APIs. It can be a bit more work to implement than JSON, though.

It's the classic complex-simple-complex pendulum swing. We're not done, either.
Really, really cool!
The oceans are dying. Solving this problem should be a priority, but the effects are too complex and not immediately visible enough for people to care. I fear that by the time the effects will noticeably endanger humanity, not only will it be too late, people still might not understand the causation.
Can we, for a moment, talk about how evil the very concept of Plaid is? We are literally TRAINING people to turn OFF 2FA on their bank accounts and give someone else their passwords! Yes, you read that right!

And then we wonder why phishing works so well, and why 2FA is not widely used...

I already advised everyone I know against Plaid, and am working with my bank's local branch to disable any and all access from their IPs, and force anyone whose passwords have been compromised (make no mistake, giving your password away is a compromise) to change their passwords and enable 2FA.
https://youtu.be/sUndKrDbgD0

Some military pilots talking about Afghanistan

- drove people out

- airframe lifetimes consumed

- people not wanting to sign up
I don't mind paying high taxes in the US... I mind that it just seems to get pissed away on literally nothing.
Classic case of NIH syndrome
> The "scientific consensus" was that the earth was the center of the universe.

Yes, and then somebody found a better model (that's also still wrong) yet explained more and we used it.
So my question, what's your better model you base your assumptions on?
Any scientific paper is wrong, you can find problems with any of them. Just, critique is easy and often doesn't lead anywhere.

my point: The scientific consensus right now is wearing masks help. This is supported by physics (particle simulations), medicine (respiratory disease and their transmission .. and a lot of other fields.

You say there's little data ... come on than make this
> well-controlled experiment overturning consensus thinking

you can be famous!

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/22/national/scienc...

Check the video, people are trying what would be an experimental setup you would accept? That is also ethically OK.

We have both controlled experiments that have reduced validity in the real world because of the artificial conditions and we have some more messy real world evidence. Seems OK to me.

The people I see on the other side don't offer an alternative model. Also a lot of the criticism comes from people who don't seem to have virology /immunology etc background.

> Usually, it takes 2 -5 years to get a nature paper ready (at least for the labs I know).

Yes, my point was these papers are rushed. It can be bias, it can be also that reviewers have their expertise that tells them the paper fits the evidence.

Change happens over models/explanations. I don't see any new ones from the "Masks don't work" folks. Just criticism (that's easy ... I'm happy to point out all the flaws in any paper you present me. If you want to kill a paper in peer review it's super easy ...)

For policy decisions shouldn't you use the current scientific consesus,however flawed it is? Is there a better solution? Otherwise you are just relying on your gut feeling. Good luck.
My issue is that the phrase “single handedly reshaping America” is in my opinion highly hyperbolic. I find it to be so hyperbolic that I find myself questioning the intent of the author.

If you personally agree with the headline, I apologize for being flippant about this issue, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. It’s also possible, I suppose, that I’m not the one with the axe to grind though. Anything is possible!

Edit: To clarify, yes I think this is completely bad and I do not think any of this is in any way a laudable act. If Bezos had paid taxes, his ex wife wouldn’t have this amount of power! This is an awful example of the worst parts of American excess. I am aware that this is an unpopular opinion on this site.
.IsZero() is a pragmatic solution given the constraints of the system (i.e. Go language).

Go has a notion of "zero value". When you don't assign a value explicitly it'll be set by the compiler to "zero value" of that type.

This is much better than C/C++ of "random value".

For primitive types, the compiler decides what "zero value" is. For structs, each component is set to its zero value.

For good reasons (language simplicity) Go doesn't allow the user to declare what the zero value is (something that you can do in e.g. C++ via a constructor).

Time is a struct. Its zero value is the same as for any other struct and not meaningful time value.

It's a pragmatic necessity to be able to query "is this time value an unset time value?". A pragmatic solution for this need is to provide IsZero() method on Time struct.
You consider countries in which the majority of households lack running water, electricity is available 20 hours a day if you're lucky, or where more than 20-50% of the population work in agriculture (typical for industrialized countries is 1-3%) to be developed?

Clearly they have no major infrastructure left to build and their industrialization is done. Nothing to develop left at all.
This is why we need a corporate death penalty.
I'm late to respond, but I hear you. I mostly work with startups or startup-like projects. The few gigs I had in Finance I found the day-to-day to be lacking any meaningful challenge. The only plus was the higher pay. And it seemed like the less attractive the role, the larger the sum that was placed on the table.

On the job front, you'd be surprised what you can earn in London NOT doing finance. Start contracting. There is a lot of work, in or out of IR-35. There is a lot of interesting work too.

And the best part - remote work is becoming more and more viable. I have not been in an office in nearly two years.

On the city front - that is harder for me to relate. I love living in London, but I don't live at the heart of the City. I live on the outskirts (within M25), next to the river, two massive parks, yet still a 15 minute walk to a major town and 30 minute train ride to central London. Rents in central London are not reasonable. Here they are more palatable.

Change your job to a place that allows you to remote and you can live anywhere. You're looking at things from a slightly 2018 point of view. We're not there anymore I don't think.
I haven't gotten spam phone calls in 6-12 months. Today, I got 15.
It most definitely is VS Code based.
Accenture denies any impact from LockBit ransomware hit
I really like the world-building that went into this game but I wish it were more challenging.

I think the absence of escape pods is rather telling: they are an unneeded feature, since save-scumming is the default.
Worth noting that this is from 2011 (though still interesting and fun). Nelson passed away in 2014.
two words. basic math. look up how much universal healthcare actually costs. 6.4t will not cover it for 20 years.
I don't drive a Tesla, but the one time I did drive one it read the street signs. In my car I just set the speed manually.

It's true, I don't look at the speedometer all that often when driving manually, but it's just one less thing to worry about.
Intel has talked about Xe-LP which should be a better baseline for Xe-LPG: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15973/the-intel-xelp-gpu-arch...

It's a lot more like the competition, IIRC.
I’m not sure about newer models without radar, but the older ones explicitly discard stationary returns on their radar. As I understand it, without elevation data it can’t know if it’s a bridge you’ll pass under, a soda can in the road, or a stopped car - so just ignore it all.

Of course the vision system is supposed to compensate for this, and it performs poorly on objects it doesn’t see often, like emergency vehicles.
Yes. Most expensive but poor quality overall.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-the-e... (“A dozen facts about the economics of the US health-care system”)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-healt... (“The United States has the worst health-care system overall among 11 high-income countries, even though it spends the highest proportion of its gross domestic product on health care, according to research by the Commonwealth Fund.”)
Why do you say the number is closer to $2T? I found this nice graphic, could you point out what is wrong or bizarre about it? https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2019/budgetary-c...
>The irony to me is that every large company I've worked with takes security very seriously. The only gross negligence I've seen has come from startups that willfully disregard security practices in the name of moving fast.

Couldn't agree more. I've done security consulting for many companies of varying sizes. The large ones almost universally have massive security budgets, constant pentesting, and security audits/processes out the ass. They still get breached because security is fucking hard, no matter how much money you throw at it.

I don't buy in to the whole "if only those evil MBA manager types would allocate more budget to security and take security more seriously, they wouldn't get hacked". Every company I've worked at is scared shitless of being hacked, and have enormous security budgets. The management chain usually takes it very seriously. IME, a huge part of the problem actually ends up being the individual development teams who skip things like encryption because they think it's too onerous or they just think it's frivolous.

I cannot even begin to tell you the amount of time I have had to spend with developers arguing with them that they do need to do things like encrypt PII or enable HTTPS. "But it's only a small database of SSNs, do we really have to encrypt it? We would rather spend the developer time building something else rather than implementing encryption!" they say, and then spend hours/days arguing about it rather than just doing it.
The alternatives aren't very good. Was recently looking at Android options, and of the three things I care about, and which I don't feel are a particularly high bar (1. Non-huge phone. 2. Close-to-stock OS. 3. Good update policy.), as of the next set of Pixel devices (which are all growing bigger), it looks like a "pick two" situation. (ZenFone 8 is small and close-to stock, Pixel 6 is stock with good updates, Galaxy S21 is small with good updates.)
They lied because they knew the penalty would be less than the advantage they gained by lying. Let's have a corporate death penalty and zero out all of t-mobil's investors.
You're not wrong but as a professional mathematician it's not like Tao is exactly stumbling in blind. Logic is the basis of the bases
This resonates a lot with me, looking back at every time I hated what I was doing, one of these was in misalignment
- doing stuff that doesn't matter, or that matters for someone but you don't care about yourself.
- lack of autonomy, be it that you've got a shitty manager, or that the system makes it impossible for you to do anything without 5 teams agreeing first, then receiving stamp of approval from a variety of preventers
- feeling like you're just switching from one feature to the next with no end goal
- not knowing if you're doing a good job - which as an imposter I'm always assuming I'm not.

The thing that _literally_ depresses me is that I have changed jobs 4 times in the last 5 years, and I've found the same everywhere I went.
Godville (https://godvillegame.com) seems inspired by it, but taken to 11.

You can play as actively as you want, but you can also close the tab and not return for years, and your character will happily quest/level up/buy/sell/eat/fish/heal/revive/change guilds/get drunk/etc. on its own. IIRC it even allows spending money if that's your thing.

It even has multiplayer duels and dungeons!
Not all recursive algorithms are tail recursive; not all tail recursive algorithms can be correctly identified & tail optimized.
Nethack would like to have a word. It’s a game I d been playing for decades at this point and it’s amazing.
1. Marginal tax rate. Effective is much lower. For example, I am in the 24% marginal bracket(almost in the 32% bracket, but my effective tax rate is below 15%.

2. FICA-SS makes up the majority of FICA tax and caps out at ~$140k which means that it has diminishing effective tax rate beyond that amount. Though Medicare does go from 1.45 up to 2.something at some amount of income.

3. Tax rates generally don't stack the way that you made them. ie: You can't just add tax rates together.

4. Sales and Property taxes are consumption taxes and are choices.

You can play all these games about taxes, but when you actually do the tax math, it's never as much as people think it is. That's not to say taxes aren't high in California: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#vDUUV..., but being single and earning $1MM gets you to like a 47% effective tax rate. Even with a large property tax bill and sales tax, you aren't getting to 55%.
Same experience here. 10 years ago, I wrote a lot of C++, today I write almost exclusively Go.
I think if you look at the history of the worlds current democracies you'll find that most came about through armed revolution.

America, for example, was armed by the French during their revolutionary war. I'd say that result was exceptional.

France's most recent armed revolution also resulted in representative state.
Over simplifications fail to account for scale. It’s easy to point fingers at some fact taken from past events and it’s even easier to compare that number to some hypothetical fantasy.

First, is there any equivalent political will for any of the examples you, or anybody else, mentioned?

Second, it’s hard to imagine mobilizing as many doctors into temporary housing as you can soldiers, continuously for almost 2 decades. From a practical perspective this seems unlikely no matter how well intended.

Third, I haven’t seen any consideration of logistical factors for any counter examples in any of the comments here. This is the one thing that separates fantasy from reality, even more than money or willpower.
Noo, 219 dies in 6 months? That's a lot for grey whale is it not?

I really wish I could help somehow with software..

If only there's something open source like call for code that's being used to help the environment. Would 100% dedicate hours to do that after work
Ponder Net
The editor here is Monaco. https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
The cause is us. This has been in the works for decades, and we’ve been warned about it since the 70s. Governments just haven’t paid attention because they only care about the _now_ not the future.

I’ve seen how fucked our oceans have become since I was young. More debris in areas I never saw plastics before. Snorkeling is more depressing than ever.

We can potentially turn this around, but the oceans that we knew twenty years ago are long gone.

Act now or life is gonna be that much harder in fifty years.

I’m pretty cynical at this point though. I do what I can, but I think we’ve reached the point of no return
IMO that's a complicated political question, for a political debate.
> Learning other languages and cultures is another way to learn about how different societies interact with objective truth. Living other places taught me a lot about how denial works in different places.

This also had a rather frustrating effect. It is true that not just intensely traveling (not in the sight seeing way), but also actual living in several different countries and cultures, changed my horizon a lot. It definitely had the effect you talk about.

But then what? You cannot tell your partner in discussion "you would not think like that if you had traveled/lived outside of your culture", and it's also impossible to send everyone off to travel in order to experience the same. Much less in the US, where for most of the country you cannot just hop into a train for a few hours to encounter a completely different language and culture. (I grew up in Europe and moved to the US as an adult, but I've also lived in several different European countries before, and traveled to far away places like Asia.)
I don't drive a Tesla, I use a different autopilot system. The one I use isn't as aggressive as Tesla, so it doesn't exhibit these behaviors but also requires more manual takeovers. Also it uses facial recognition so you don't have to touch the wheel (but you can touch the wheel and steering manually doesn't disengage it, only the brake and gas do).
Most likely the root cause is acidification of the ocean. Increasing the carbon dioxide in the ocean decreases the ph level of water, making it more acidic. While some animals and plants have evolved to handle highly acidic environments, most have not, and in general acid tends to be bad for living creatures. I know I'm oversimplifying things, but this seems reasonable. I assume if there were giant balls of plastic pollution in the whales belly this would be found in an autopsy and therefore plastic pollution is probably not the root cause.
High Speed Career Sampling
> I always thought he looked at it and thought it was such a ridiculously bad deal for both developers and users that no one would adopt it.

That famous video of him laughing on TV was from the first announcement when there were no plans for an app store at all.
We also literally left giant weapon caches for the Taliban to use. We will pay for that, but in a different way.
If you cancel the card to stop one subscription, or chargeback, you risk losing your whole Apple account and any and all purchases.
Required to use to pay your rent? Don’t think that is enforceable, is it?