skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not going to refute those EV claims! To be clear, you are talking to a person who is in a brand new sector of the transportation industry. I have somewhat of an interest in seeing people not drive in major metropolitan areas anymore. I am coming from a biased position where I believe people should not be driving as a first choice, unless they live in an area where its not economically viable to provide large scale public transit or bike lanes, like rural & suburban areas.

You are saying, why not ban cars? But not all SUVs are created equal. They aren't all RAV4s or CRVs. If you look at the new land rover defender, its unclear how people can even see out of that monstrosity. Its enormous and has insanely bad visibility and is HEAVY. That thing would destroy other SUVs, let alone cars. A ford explorer from the early 2000s is flimsy compared to these new SUVs.
To certain people.
Why? You can kill a pedestrian, bicyclist, or motorcyclist just as easily with any of them. Why not improve the drivers test to actually test people? That should cut down on accidents across the board.
If it's all about pedestrians, then we should also ban EVs (all cars, really).

You've opened yourself up to the same absurd reduction, saying if even one farmer is disadvantaged then the standard should be towards the heavy pick-up/SUV instead of the sedan. You talk about "systems" and you say you are not ignoring the pedestrian portion of the system but you have not spoken to it. I would like to hear your position on the energy mismatch between pedestrian vs heavy vehicle as compared to energy mismatch between sedan and pedestrian. What is your perception of the pedestrian, their agency, their right of way in regards to the roads, etc... in the system you have in your head?
An article titled politization of science that doesn’t mention global warming or the pandemic is hard to take seriously, especially because the same political side that has gone against the scientific consensus on both of those things is the same one protesting about what they term “cancel culture”, which this article is objecting to. It really makes the article come off as a one sided political piece.

Are these not valid criticisms of the article?

I don’t buy in to the “cancel culture” thing that this article is about, but to use that terminology I made an earlier comment critiquing this piece along the same lines I state here and it was cancelled, first downvoted and then flagged.

So should any critique of the theory of “cancel culture” be itself cancelled?
Interesting hearing Dan Ariely explain how he broke the shredder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTIm9nmurRm96kWKwxrl5dI3t7e...

Anybody with a good talent for picking up liars from a voice recording willing to share an opinion?
Ooooh, countersinking a tree to get its roots below the pavement, with a metal grating to keep people out.. thanks, I used to wonder about this and had no idea why some one would do that.
Someone made a website to demonstrate how bad user experience it is nowadays
I thought that paper about morality did?
Monumental Timekeepers
"We're going to have a more private internet. It's either going to be through tech or regulation, or through users making choices with what they download or the extensions they use or how they interact with publishers through subscriptions or other mechanisms."

https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journal...
Cool, basically the same as most other database companies that share the same name as their product.

I do wonder why more commercial companies didn't form around redis the same way as postgres.
> 20 years ahead of the public.

When the DoD was deeply involved with SV instead of just purchasing top binned COTS? At that time they basically were operating with hardware that far ahead, but that was always relative to the general consumer, it didn't stop companies from paying insane prices for marginal improvements that only HFTs and research labs would care about. Nobody would have bothered trying to bring something so expensive to the broader market - remember the multi-core games Intel played for years before AMD started knocking bread off their table?

Also, are you implying that the lack of leaked supercomputing documents is evidence of a commercial technological parity, or did I miss a big reveal (totally possible, haven't been paying attention)? Because as I recall he didn't pull a Manning style dump of operations-level intel (regardless of legality) - he instead coordinated with Greenwald to expose illegal strategic programs (and occasionally a debatable legal one that the DNI lied about in the prior news cycle - which was pretty funny). So I didn't expect any leaks about bleeding edge crypto hardware - because most domestic communication wouldn't need space age tech to break (A5/1 has always been hobbled).
The latest flavour of “fuck you” on the roads in Australia are the grotesque SUV Coupes from Mercedes and BMW.

They’re like huge versions of the normal sized cars. It’s as if both companies execs set down and brainstormed how could rich people display wealth and selfishness more pornographically.

The answer: enormous German tanks that occupy twice the road and go just as fast.

I’ll never be rich because in my reality only very few people would be so childish to buy something like it. They’re everywhere in Sydney.
They contacted him and he apparently claimed that he broke the teeth on a shredder with a screwdriver. The teeth on shredders exist only to make "cross cuts". The previous generation of shredders did not have them, and cut the paper into long strips instead of confetti; which is fine for most purposes. So a claim that removing teeth prevents shredding is bogus.

(Edited to add) thinking about it, this could be an honest mistake. You could "remove the teeth with a screwdriver" by disassembling the shredder and removing some blades from the axle, which corresponds to how the shredder in this paper was supposed to work. If Dan Ariely got a grad student to modify the shredder, he could simply have misunderstood their explanation of how they did so. How the shredder was modified was not, after all, important to the experiment.

(Edit 2) Although, those who ran the experiment would need to keep the missing teeth out of the line of sight of the subjects.
The manual transmission ones have been pretty reliable.
That's a good point, but it could be that the person tasked with gathering the numbers had something to gain (their own time, if they felt they could fudge and still get paid), and nobody checked the work. Still seems like a long shot. Typically we ask, "Cui bono?"
I don't know if it's intentional, but it feels like you're implying these people are actively looking to cause crashes.

Safety, storage, terrain capabilities, and "command position" are all going to be factors.
Every piece of wood at Home depot has a staple in it for the upc code.
theres a github app you can download. I imagine the note editing experience on the mobile app is a bit subpar.
That's not how it works. The light source and steppers are important, yes, but there's much more to a fab. Think of all the chemistry, for one thing.

What you claim is basically like saying a robotics company could just build their own trucks, because the truck companies use their robots for the truck factories.
> There are additional effect that are wrought on a nation when it's experiencing mass death - mass grief and loss has effects.

1 out of 695 people have dies from covid in Sweden since the start of the pandemic [0], two thirds of them over 80 years old, 96% over 60 [1]. I would not call that mass death.

> People can't be simply reduced down to a number and happiness isn't an 'x' that we can solve for in a mathematical calculation.

I don't have a problem doing that for myself. I have a limited amount of time left in this world and some of the things I most enjoy are impossible to do with the restrictions that have been imposed over the last 18 months. Last I checked, before vaccines, was that I had a 1 in 15,000 chance of dying from covid. I personally don't think that's reason for me to curtail living my life. The numbers look even worse for younger people and those who have had more of their lives upended by lockdowns.

These are population decisions, involving millions of people, people dying all the time, suffering one way or the other. Lockdowns have costs and downsides, too. If you are not using math to look at this then what are you doing?

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107913/number-of-corona...
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> [..] it is as if you went from the street to under AC. I don’t know how they do it, but my guess is that photosynthesis [...]

My guess would be evapotranspiration, not photosynthesis.
Kia has a 10-year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty. I’d rate that as effectively equivalent to Tesla’s.
It's not just a problem that he's discussed before- it is the central motivation behind his approach of "person-on-the-street interviews".

His view (supported by his grad research) was that the default approach of presenting information allows viewers to gloss over how the video's information differs from their pre-existing mental models. After the video is done, they can go back to their pre-existing models without actually updating with info from the video, because as far as they're concerned, there wasn't conflict between the pre-existing model and the video's info.

His hope in showing interviews with people off the street is to get people to think about how they might answer the interview question. Get people to remember their pre-existing model. Then hit them with the contrast between their pre-existing model and the truth, so the viewer hopefully makes an attempt to incorporate the truth.

Now, this doesn't say anything about the information density of his videos. I don't think they're very information dense. This reply is just about his attempt to increase the viewer's retention of the information that is presented.
The original headline of the article was:

Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
I'm Australian. Never seen "practise", only "practice".
Yeah… in cases like this it always seems to be the PI doing something shady. Notwithstanding your personal hatred for the insurance industry, I would bias my prior towards malfeasance on the PIs part, especially since his defense is basically the equivalent “I totally have a girlfriend, she just goes to a different school… in Canada. You don’t know her”. This is a smart CYA response and nothing more. When you hear the totality of the evidence (primarily that he kept promoting this study after he 100% knew it didn’t replicate, he was investigating other similar kinds of effects that would have to be dead ends), it paints a clearer picture of him as a researcher.
And also ban walking and bikes you mean?
There's been a recent uptick in murder (not crime) [0] rates in the US, which can skew the numbers, depending on how you choose to source your per-year stat.

However, the US does tend to drop the ball on homicides [1], with some of the lowest clearance rates in the Western world. Though that's skewed by some states being utterly atrocious, and some being more average.

> Across the country, North Dakota has the highest solved-murder rate among U.S. states for homicides reported from 1976 to 2019. It also has the fewest reported murders, according to the Murder Accountability Project. Its 94 percent solved rate dwarfs New York state’s 55 percent solved rate.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/30/us-crime-rat...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/track-solved-murder-rat...
Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees
I think this is a badly written article and missing the point.

There are so many corrupt government but they are not falling like sand. What US is doing is to injecting money into a failed company without inspecting if the company is well organized and growing. As we all know, a failed company fails for a reason, and the reason is the most important.
There are a lot of inventors out there who can afford the fees.

I would love to see patent fees based on income level, and the more you get; the more they cost.
I would disagree and say that while PowerShell is well...powerful, it's not as pluggable as the Unix shell. Purely due to objects vs plaintext. PowerShell works off of .NET objects thus if I want to take output from one command and send it to another I have to verify that the receiving command can in fact receive the object type I'm sending. This is where the Unix shell to me is more 'pluggable' but it makes it more muddy as well. I can pipe plain-text information to any utility but to ensure that it will do what I want and not error out I may have to slice and dice my initial output a bit.

Maybe to you pluggable means an output object from a utility being the same input object as another utility? In this case, Unix isn't pluggable at all.
The guy who’s now a senior executive at a very large public company making quite good money and was very well regarded in the field for a long time for making a breakthrough discovery?
It's called transpiration. It is how the plants keep their temperature below the point at which photosynthesis no longer is possible.
Isn't HBO owned by AT&T?
Its interesting how Redis-the-company isn't actually founded and owned by Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis. The "from the founders" message we read isn't from the founders of Redis, its from the founders of a company that is renaming itself to Redis. They start a company to piggy-back Redis, eventually hired Salvatore as a coder for a while, and now are naming themselves just plain 'Redis'.

Its interesting to contrast this with how other companies in the space are built by the founders trying to profit from the success of the open-source project they founded. Often, those companies don't have the name of the open-source project, though; I'm thinking e.g. DataBricks for Spark.
yeah that’s very damning, but still roughly the same scandal? ;-)

I think the comments on this page vaguely mention other things, but couldn’t find much concrete last I checked
A side topic: I also find English translation of Japanese locations and names often loses much meaning. It's almost unbearable to live in Japan and uses only English translation. For instance, Miyamasou does not mean a thing for English-speaking foreigners, but the corresponding Kanji or Chinese translation, 美山庄，means a ton.
Thank you. I know what the 150 stands for. But, it is not a heavyweight vehicle. That term refers to a type of vehicle that hasn't been made since the 1920s-1930s.

The conversation I replied to was about deducting "the purchase price of heavyweight vehicles (e.g. a Ford F-150)". A Ford F-150 is not a heavyweight vehicle.
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Booster? Where do you live?
It's not outlandish that climate destabilization could play in favor of those in a precarious region with considerable power. Water wars are an example.
Did anybody use Moderna's patents? As far as I know nobody did because Moderna licensed them for a limited time in which nobody would be able to ramp up a completely new production line.

Almost always those 0 cost licensing agreements are just PR stunts.
> Misery is doing one thing while thinking about another.

That is a great quote!
A bicycle goes downhill faster then that with little to no pedaling involved. Doesn't even need to be a steep hill.
Looks a little like SimpleNote, and also free.
Difference looks like Apple tech only.

It's got end-to-end encryption, which is amazing!

I'm hoping SimpleNote will get end-to-end- encryption soon.
> Are they precise enough to recognize gait? I don't know.

Yes. [0] And that's hardly the only paper on achieving the technique.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25423662/
I'm happy with Things honestly.
https://culturedcode.com/things/
What is there to speak to? Society has already accepted that there will be accidents and fatalities, what the right of way is, etc. So then kts a matter of maximizing utility under the existing constraints. My position is that the underlying premise that was provided for banning large vehicles doesn't pass even a cursory cost benefit analysis in how many lives would be impacted on both sides. It doesn't explore alternatives such as city design, stricter drivers tests, etc. Frankly, the energy between an SUV and a sedan doesn't matter that much when it's against a person because either one is sufficient to cause injury or death based on a number of factors. Not to mention that EV sedans can weigh as much as a pickup, so there might not be much difference anyways.
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If that was possible criminals would just leave their google trackers with a friend, instant alibi.
Or, even better share the data you reference from "this kind of research".
The Holocaust was highly profitable to non-Jewish German people.

"Hitlers Volksstaat", Aly, Götz
While it does seem like the insurance company is most likely "at fault" for the fraudulent data, how did none of the researchers catch this?

My understanding is that even looking at a histogram of the mileages should have raised serious doubts about the data.
Usually you have a thread pool (threads have startup costs too), monitor the server socket and assign incoming connections to one of the worker threads. Nonblocking architectures that do everything in a single thread also exist.

It's very common even to do this: just use Apache `mod_proxy` (or something more specialised) to forward requests to a backend server such as Apache Tomcat.
I don't think the gp is implying that people are actively looking to cause crashes. What they are saying is that a "better you than me" mentality (which is unfortunately quite rational) is definitely a factor in the overall buying decision.
... and end up with something like Node.js or Vert.x.
Open Shading Language – Advanced shading language for production GI renderers
Over the last four years the all cause mortality has been the same for Sweden and Norway [0]. So it would appear more people died in Norway before the pandemic, and more people in Sweden since, equalling out over the last four years.

Maybe this explains the difference during the pandemic - Sweden had more old people.

[0] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-de...
Jeff who?

Oh the guy who has poured billions of dollars into Blue Origin over 20+ years with little to show for it aside from failed legal attempts / overturned patents to attempt to hinder SpaceX, and a penis shaped sub-orbital rocket?
It’s all SUVs and trucks where I live. I was really into cars growing up, then I got over it. It’s so far beyond practicality and well into excess, like most shit around here.
Super interesting, but I wonder if there is a historical accurate account of bootstrapping that is well documented. This jumps into ELF pretty quickly but there were older formats like a.out and OMAGIC? before ELF. Is there good documentation on the bootstrapping of x86 BSD or Minix since they are even older than Linux.
Strong dose of irony that it's posted on reddit.
Anyone can do, or choose not to do, a foolish thing. Encouraging against the foolish thing does not imply anyone is foolish.
A surprise visit it might have been..
Public speaking: don't watch this
How many speakers have you seen who have obviously watched something like this, and who robotically move their bodies in self-conscious "power poses"?

That's the point: no one likes watching a windup doll.

Rule of thumb: you can only think of ONE thing while you're up there and the adrenaline is roaring through your body. That one thing should be the content of your talk. If you get that right, the audience will forgive everything else.
Tendrils of an insidious beast? A bit dramatic?

What are you including in said “insidious beast?” Any mention of a racial past is representative on an evil monster seeking to pervade all culture?

I think you’ve been watching too much hentai.
I agree that there are differences but from outside (at least where Norway, Sweden and Denmark are concerned) a lot of these differences might seem very 'Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.' especially when comparing any of these countries against a southern European, Latin language family one.
Despite the fact that the CA smog test is an absolute joke of an inspection (no inspection of tires, brakes, lights, etc.), it does in fact include an odometer reading.
Vaccination should not be encouraged for people under 25. There is too much muddy discussion about infection outcomes for kids, but basically, if you are young, not malnourished or obese, your outcomes will generally be fine without being vaccinated.

We need to be clear-headed about our health goals here, not just chanting "get vaxxed" in lockstep to all and sundry.
You’re empirically wrong. Leisurely walking is a privilege of affluence.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095595/
I am surprised that massive computation in one place is currently the best performing approach to this.

We are searching for an algorithm which turns camera data into a vector model, right?

This sounds very parallelizable.

Have a lot of computers travel the search space individually. When one finds a algorithm better than the current best solution, have it call the others "Hey guys, this algo works better then what we got so far. Everyone iterate on this one now!".
Sadly your online identity with Apple or Google is essentially mapped to a mobile phone one way or the other. Then the same is indeed linked to your financial accounts, so there is no proper way to disconnect the same.
> never received the information that Mr X promised

If you re-read the above, you’ll notice that Mr X never promised to have the data. He instead said he lacked the data.

One reason a person can end up losing credibility and making lots of excuses is that they are overcommitted. “I do not have time” might sound like an excuse, but it is genuinely possible to work 80-hour weeks on 5 hours of sleep and still be unable to complete ones daily task list or even to remember it.

Solving this requires that they learn to say no and to underpromise so they can eventually have time to overdeliver. This is awfully hard if their “no” to tasks like data collection is reinterpreted as a promise.
My parents had to endure the loss of a child. I'm the melancholy ruminating type, so I often think about that and the stories of other parents who lost children, like the father who came to my school to tell us about his son, who had died from inhalation of butane. It's all terribly heartbreaking, and I can understand to some extent what they want to accomplish.

But I think it's just a combination of suffering and a big misconception. "If I do [some stuff], we won't lose any more children, at least not that exact way." But there's no amount of messing around in the world that's actually going to prevent loss, not in any meaningful way. We just get acclimated to the circumstances, and start overprotecting kids, which is just a way of delaying the harm. We live in a fundamentally unsafe environment. We have a better chance of fixing our own brains that we do of making the environment safe.
> “I did not fabricate the data,” he insists. “I am willing to do a lie detection test on that.”

I imagine a world-famous psychologist probably knows how to beat a lie detector test. Not that it proves he's lying, just that this statement doesn't mean much.
What's the matter with the SUV hate? Semis, vans, work trucks, etc are much bigger.
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