skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow what a circular response - people who buy the Mini have no problem with its stupid features. Of course they don't - they bought the car so you know that already.

That Mini rep response sounds like a lame rationalization.
It would not match the Union Jack pattern.
"It just needs to be taught properly."

So just like all miracle solutions, .i.e. communism, every time we tried it, we just weren't doing it right.
Holy shit that guy looks insufferable. At this point having PostCSS as a dependency just looks like a liability
It only seems non-sensical because you seem have shifted the bar from "sane" to "wise, prudent and good judges of character". This is the original hyperbolic claim that was being responded to.

> Surely nobody sane would never trust his word on anything for any purpose ever again after that display.
If I were behind that I would not be perpetually confused. But I’d sure as hell have a split second of confusion, and generally we try to avoid those sorts of situations when driving.
This is from the same person that wrote The Art of PostgreSQL.
I'm ready and willing to accept that Assange is by no means unbiased, thing is, I don't really care.

I know that Russia has enormous corruption, as a matter of fact I don't even try to understand the degree and inner workings of said corruption and I very much doubt that it being public would really improve anything, that is, sadly, par for the course regarding Russia.

I care that when confronted with some ugly truths, a good deal of the American public immediately sided with authoritarianism because it was inconvenient for them to do otherwise, going all the way to conspiracy theories (pee tape, Russian prostitutes etc) and deep into propaganda, It's not "blackmail", it's now "kompromat", it's not "geopolitics" it's "realpolitik", it's not just "the elite", it's "Russian Oligarchs", there is this effort of antagonization, of alienation that both disgusts and scares me, and I think that's a way bigger problem than anything related Assange himself.
Sure, but the conclusion of the post was something like "we can't test these things enough". Which seems like a deliberate misrepresentation of the math as well.
I see what you mean, and I think it's about expectations.

1.) Most of us are trained to have to expect to defer to authority, because that's what today's school teaches, due to the commodification and artificial scarcity of science, and to the division of labor of our profit-seeking economic system.

2.) They expect not to be able to understand things in depth, because capital controls the amount of knowledge workers that are 'allowed' to reach expert status, so as to control the labor supply of knowledge workers.
Inigo Quilez has a ton of great material: https://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

It's not printed on dead trees but there's easily enough covered there for a book or three.
> Like, why don't we just let projects be "done"? Things don't need to be maintained and updated for eternity.

This is generally why I opt for "single-file" libraries that do one simple task well. The smaller the library, the more likely it is "done". For example, do I want some insanely complex image library that handles every file format under the sun, or do I just want some basic one that allows me to output a simple JPEG?

I often find myself referring to "single_file_libs" repository: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs

Looking at the open issues, it doesn't appear to be actively maintained but it's still an incredibly good resource for "completed" projects.
Does that account for multiverses?
My usage of Git is a mix and I have learned/developed this habit with experience over the years.

Push, merge, pull, status, etc - those quick things from command line - preferably from the IDE terminal or sometimes standalone terminal (with quick CMD+TAB switch). Seeing quick diff before staging or committing from a pure feature rich (while not becoming overwhelming) GUI app like Sourcetree (again with window switch).

What I do not like is to do everything code and Git from command line alone. Nope, it's simply not worth it. It's like saying I want to talk using a string telephone and not a mobile or not even just speak out aloud because I need that retro feeling and that's perfectly fine if someone wants that (or if someone doesn't have an option, or it's a specific need).

I don't even want to begin to try CLI for code review. As of now the best I can get are web interfaces (and I hope it gets better - a bigger screen definitely helps), if I need to get more involved I try locally inside my IDE.

I do get that though. I really do. But I don't want to even try. Just like some of my friends get me reading paper books (only) and doing analog photography but they don't even want to try.
There was a study at Carnegie Mellon University with 500K respondents which would seem to corroborate what you write. The most hesitant in the US were the least educated (basic formal education) and the most educated (PhD's).

Journalistic summary : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-P...

The original publication : https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
> What had been a common signal for “you’re a little too close”

I've never seen or heard of this.

But seeing cars that flash their brake light under heavy/emergency braking is common (typically high-end European brands)
What would you suggest otherwise? Allow an update to be rushed?

The cars should be grounded anyway (or self-driving should be disabled). This can be done remotely in a safe way.

Any new update to the software should be tested by the DoT for at least X miles and Y hours before it can be installed.

The installation of the update should be done by an agency of the DoT to prevent car manufacturers from cheating (and we know they will cheat when they can find a way, see VW scandal).

Let's not allow the car industry to be run like the software industry (!!!)
Oh wow, you raised 150k without them? Nice work!
Thanks for posting this! I’m the guy behind the project, and I’ll try to answer any questions about the project here.
The article talks about this: "Now, I think the vast majority of drivers will understand what’s going on and treat them as normal blinking turn indicators, but these indicators hurt your brain, at least a little bit"

I think you are interpreting "confused" as "I can't tell which way the car is turning", while everyone else is talking about "This UX forces me to use my brain when I shouldn't have to".
```Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains.
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How is it 'equality' if one of the sides is majority?
But they do love to follow “experts“ who recommend malaria medication and horse dewormer as cure against COVID. At the same time, blindly following a different group of people is somehow branded as being “independent thinking” and “not being a sheep”. Brillant!
In terms of end result, yes, but not in terms of means.
If it is so dark that your headlights are not able to illuminate the car ahead's reflectors and numberplate adequately for you to see them, even if it has defective lights, and react in time, then you are traveling too fast for the conditions.

The correct response to something weird or potentially hazardous ahead is to slow down and try to determine what is going on.
Zillow Isn’t Big Enough to Manipulate the National Housing Market (Yet)
Establishment Democrats hate Assange. Assange published things that hurt the Hillary / 2016 Democrat elections.
Influencer marketing done well is scary effective because audiences often have a parasocial relationship with these influencers. The main downside with influencer marketing is that you have less control over how your brand is presented. That is why influencer marketing works best with small brands that can easily track the effects of their marketing. Naturally, this is a good fit for the mobile app (games) market and small e-commerce brands.
>People can be used as tools. It's ridiculous to suggest anything else.

This is a dehumanizing viewpoint.
Yeah, someone stole my video and posted it on LinkedIn and it just blew up over there. I got super lucky to be honest…
I don't know what to tell you. I have tested this feature on my own car, and its behavior matches the public documentation (c.f. https://www.tesla.com/blog/more-advanced-safety-tesla-owners). It will scream at you as it departs the lane, but it will depart the lane. It will correct only if it detects an object or barrier it needs to avoid. It does not do what you think it does. Tesla does offer a product to do that. It's called "Autopilot" and it absolutely works great. For example it prevented a collision (or even lane departure) entirely in that DUI case we're discussing.
Thanks! As a Michigander I look forward to a day trip to Mackinac Island, or a dinner date to put-in-bay, and so much more. But first I have to fix some things.
Even in the event of failed lights, the clusters have reflective sections that will illuminate in response to your own lights.
"rest of the government"

No need to steer away from "deep state" so hard you go hyperbolic.

Maybe use "Multiple competing power cabals", if you prefer?
That type of design is called a Charpoy style. You can find these quite commonly in India and neighbouring countries.
https://www.google.com/search?q=charpoy+stool
I’d rather chew my own leg off than be “an influencer”
I had to just laugh at your comment. It’s either brilliant sarcasm or you just might be the guy that designed this.
> conceptual content and the patterns it considers are so deep that no amount of illustration could convey that depth

My experience is different - for me category theory abstracts / generalizes / encodes ideas that we understand well in a particular setting. Intuition comes from particular examples and is then "categorified" to make more general arguments. Of course some times it goes the other way ("hey you really need to do X because the category you are working with doesn't have property Y").

And sometimes the imported understanding is not quite accurate, like always there are issues. I don't think that impacts the main line of this argument, though it may be an example of the depth that category theory brings.
> and how are SUVs not safer, given they have more mass and a larger crunch zone?

That helps in a head on collission with a smaller car. But it's even safer if you don't collide with anything in the first place.

SUVs have longer breaking distance because of their mass, and because they are higher they don't corner as well and are at higher risk of tipping over.

These factors increase the risk of dangerous accidents versus a normal car.

Also, around 50% of lethal accidents don't involve a second car at all. If you crash into a concrete wall, or if you run off the road, it doesn't matter that your car is bigger, you are still screwed.

The safest car is the one that doesn't get into an accident in the first place, and bigger cars are not necessarily better in that regard.
So, a curiosity.

Could you have, literally, a gallery of eInk art, where all of the panels have no power. Aren't even plugged in. Someone grabbed a bunch of displays, plugged them in to a machine, rendered the picture, yanked them out and framed them and stuck them on the wall.

Will they last? As I understand it eInk is a "no power" display. Could this be done?
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I guess I don't know what the author thinks they mean about 'hurt your brain'.
“ and is the finest quality (and highest caffeine content).”
If is of the finest quality, means is arabica or other sort, which do not have the highest caffeine. Robusta type, which is cheaper to produce, has double the caffeine, (one of the reasons resist bugs) . Robusta has typically all the unwanted flavours of coffee, earthy & rubberish. Italians have traditionally added robusta to their blend for expresso shots because of the extra smack they get from the added caffeine (and probably to save money/make more money, this is my opinion)
> Are 'influencers' that much different from 'celebrities'? Some are famous purely for their looks, some for their talent, some for both, occasionally some for their lack of both

Most people here probably follow and respect some influencers, but we don't like to admit that our own personal favorites are influencers. We only see them as respected authorities on certain topics while we pretend to ignore the ads and product pitches.

Matt Levine of the Money Stuff newsletter is a great example. His articles are widely shared across the internet and here on HN. He also places advertisements in his newsletters, using his reach and influence to promote products. He almost certainly engages with one of these marketing firms that finds and negotiates these influencer deals. Yet few people here would likely consider him an influencer at first brush simply because we like and respect him.

It's easy to be dismissive of influencer when you're only looking for them in distant topics that you don't personally enjoy or understand. But most of us are blind to the presence of influencers that hit close to home. Nobody likes to think that they're engaged with influencers or capable of being influenced. It's viewed as a negative trait, so we only project it on others and make up excuses as to why our influencers aren't actually influencers.
My disbelief of you is from my own experiences writing them, and talking to dozens of colleagues across different companies.

Every single company has to heavily parallelize their e2e tests, and pays a huge CI bill on top of effort maintaining an overly complex CI config.

Even after this, every company has to have a retry mechanism for their e2e tests because at least one fails at least every test run. It’s also the first thing I ask on interviews. I have many dat points on this one, across many teams and companies.

It’s an abomination.

Maybe you’re not talking about interactive web applications. Or maybe you’re not talking about the scale where you have thousands of e2e tests written over multi-year projects. If you’re talking about a toy project, sure you might not run into nondeterminism. These problems present themselves in aggregate.
Wow, yeah, how could women constituting a majority of a wealthy country’s government possibly be a step in the pursuit of gender equality?
Good search queries.
It's weird I just had this conversation last night. My wife asked if I could be 17 again, would I want to go back in time or be 17 now. I immediately blurted out back in time, and reminisced about how everything seemed simpler. No smartphones, no social media, no constant fear and hate mongering. Made me really sad for some reason. But part of that could just be getting old and resistant to change, as people are known to do.
Dont ask, or you will be downvoted...
I know one ridiculous oped was written but I haven’t seen much debate.

This argument would have some legs if it asserted that these men, you know, committed a crime.
@OP: Show HN is for things you (i.e. the person submitting) made, and also explicitly not for crowdfunding: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Elite Underproduction: Why We Can’t Solve Hard Problems Anymore
Yeah, this hadn’t really occurred to me when I initially designed it. But it’s now my largest concern as well.
I can imagine that they are on Facebook simply because the audience is very big compared to gab. They can (unfortunately) reach more people on fb
> People will nitpick a little around the edges

Sorry what? That is a comparison of highway miles with Autopilot (driver felt comfortable activating autopilot in that stretch) vs all miles in any situation. That's not a nitpick, it's a completely apples and oranges comparison.

And that's autopilot. If you watch a video with FSD beta you can't honestly say it's better than any sober humans who have driven for longer than a week.
Re: dependencies, for "low-upkeep" projects I also like pinning specific patch numbers instead of doing any kind of semver pattern

Also +1 to using files as a DB for small-scale projects. Something I've done a few times is keep a single in-memory JS object as the source of truth, and just write it to disk as JSON on a certain cadence/read it from disk at startup. It's wonderful having your little one-off server not need to be a distributed system from day 1.
In Psychology there is Stroop Effect. Remember the funny game when asked to name the color of the word it takes longer and is more prone to errors when the color of the ink does not match the name of the color?
I guess this design can only happen because no regulator thought that a car manufacturer could be THAT dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
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> Instead, the "influencer" label has become synonymous with "fake person I don't like who shills products for money"

I think the distaste for the word influencer is because it assumes influencing is the thing, where it is actually the output.

Marques Brownlee is… a reviewer, who also makes money by doing sponsored spots.

Mr Beast is really a director/producer/videomaker and makes interesting and fun videos, and “influences” by using his name to market burgers to make some extra money, but he does that because he is a video maker not because he is an “influencer”.

While teens say they want to be influencers growing up, I think it would be more healthy for them to think about what they will do to become influential first. It’s like saying you want to be famous without deciding if you want to be a musician, actor or famous scientist - fame is the output not the title and shouldn’t usually be the goal.
Is your premise institutional investors are not bullish on TSLA? Short interest is under 4%, and the company is one of the largest by market cap in the world.

Parent was suggesting no one should trust Musk, due to a few Twitter lapses.

My premise is that given the breadth, and depth of people investing in Musk's companies, there may be more to the story.
You have risk.

FBI agents - not so much.
> oh, the left hand side indicator is blinking. It's possible they might turn left.

Not hard at all, which is why this isn't a problem if you have enough time to think all that.

This is a problem in the tiny minority of cases where it's night, it's raining, you're either going too fast or maybe blinded by someone's high beams and all your brain can process in a split second is BLINKING ARROW LEFT.
Sure, the reach and scale is much bigger. But I still don't see how that distinguishes an influencer from a celebrity.

We've had celebrities since before electricity. The reach and scale of print was greater than word of mouth, the reach and scale of radio was greater than print, the reach and scale of TV was greater than radio. The internet is just another expansion of scope, but it's the same culture underneath. Never before have we felt the need to come up with a new word for celebrity.

You could have argued at one point that the internet gives everyone an equal chance to become famous and influential. But even that is less true every day as agencies are increasingly required to stand out in an increasingly saturated market.

I strongly dispute that celebrities need talent to get noticed too. That's never been true.
The issue of “per mile” is complicated though, it really depends on the mile you’re driving. A mile on I-280 is not a mile in SF, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot safer than a human on the former but not the latter.
I mean, that’s not a humble take, that’s what the article is about. That the use of the Union Jack has had the side effect of making the lights into arrows, but on the wrong side (when seen as arrows, which is a natural interpretation). Not that they were intended to be arrows.
That's a new one to me. You're arguing that we can't allow autonomous systems in our society because when they have bugs that cause problems... there isn't a moral actor who we can punish?

Do you feel the same way about your gas furnace or the autopilot of the last airliner you flew on?
You're reading a lot into my comment that isn't there.

So in your experience, people don't read movie reviews, don't listen to sports commentaries, don't read amazon comments? People don't listen to TV personalities telling them that malaria medication is good against COVID? In your experience, people read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer all day long, and discuss existentialism, rather than watching Netflix? Etc.
You're unnecessarily narrowing this conversation to focus on a political group you don't like. I'm not interested in that.
> Very nice writing except the python part. Just 2to3 really have been a maintenance pain for me.

I agree. I could have been talked into getting onboard with Python for long-term low-maintenance projects if only they didn't burn everybody with the backwards compatibility. I understand of course why the changes were made, but it doesn't make it any easier. It's not impossible that 3 -> 4 will do the same.

I was wondering the other day whether something that is already dead might make a better scripting language. For example, you haven't got to worry about any random changes to the COBOL language! I suspect something like JS is pretty much at maturity now with WebASM poised to replace it.
> If we can't put speed limiters on cars, we definitely shouldn't be putting highly complicated computers in charge with no humans at the wheel.

This argument makes no sense.

How do obvious edgecases invalidating a simple solution have any bearing on the feasibility of a complex solution being able to handle as many edgecases as a human driver?
Sure, go ahead and play stupid.
No not joking. They seem to follow the same predictable pattern as every other turn signal I've ever seen. Not sure what the fuss is.
In my experience precious few packages on the Ubuntu LTS releases (I'm sure it applies to other distros too) require reboots. It's basically only been kernel upgrades.

There's few user space packages I imagine even benefiting from a reboot. Restarting a long running daemon is pretty painless. Also on a warm running system you've got an active page cache so all the unchanged files that service wants to open are likely cached in RAM rather than read from disk.

While I appreciate the flexibility low effort VMs provide I think they've negatively affected the views of Linux users. Long uptime is fine and restarting a whole machine is rarely necessary. At the same time modern systems with crazy fast SSDs make a reboot take little longer than just restarting a service.
Why do you write years with a preceding zero?
IIRC animals living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have a 20-30% lower lifespan on average with a high variance (some animals lives’ might be cut in half while others may be better adapted and live more or less the same amount).

That’s fine when the alternative is extinction but not when one wants to meet their grandkids.
It seems like you need to focus on just a couple projects. I have been working on just one personal project for 2 years and it's a good feeling. Course the hardest part is finding the fortitude.
> I wonder why there is not a simple math lib

This [0] might be what you are looking for, it has both is-number and is-odd.

[0] https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib
Hahaha Flash abuse by advertisers and spammers is a big reason plugins met their well-deserved end. I really am sorry that you lost your favorite tools, Flash was truly awesome for animators and developers. What you’re talking about is separate and independent from GL APIs, which don’t attempt to compete in the artist-facing tooling space at all.