skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are worried about people’s safety then why don’t you stand in the back of a bar at closing and try to stop a few people in the mob of drunk people drunkenly stumbling into their cars? You would save more lives that way than protesting self driving. Do any of the Tesla detractors take any action about or even comment about the tens of thousands of deaths caused by people craning over their phones, doing their makeup or intoxication? No, because tesla alarmism is not a rational position and it is not based in objective assessment of public safety.

I’m so tired of the media and the mob taking these select issues out of context. The media plasters FSD accidents across every screen in the world, even when later it turns out the driver was drunk, but it doesn’t mention the zillion miles of uneventful riding. You see clips of FSD doing something weird, “diving toward pedestrians,” shooting straight to the top of reddit/HN (is there any distinction nowadays?) but videos of FSD doing amazing things, negotiating the Berkeley hills without intervention, never reach the front page.

If you showed a person from the 90s two hours of v10 FSD in various environments, mistakes and interventions and all, that person would say with astonishment “that car basically drives itself.” And anyone who denies that is being intellectually dishonest.
> "marry your equal" is incredibly important advice. Marry someone of similar earning power, with similar career and life accomplishments. This helps ensures a equal relationship that has the greatest chance of success.

Eh. You should marry someone you love and respect, but you are defining "equal" like "clone."

Personally, I am driven by knowledge, growth, ambition, etc. I used to think these are my values and looked for the same in women I dated. So I ended up dating a bunch of CEOs, a famous professor, etc. But while it was very interesting, it wasn't additive.

The woman I actually married is no slouch in earning and intelligence but the things she values are very different from mine. She values creating a home, family connections etc in a way that I didn't know to, but benefit from. It does mean we have a different natural division of labor at home etc but the bigger deal is that we both bring a lot that the other person needs to the table. Life is not without it's conflicts but it's working out much better than if I was stuck with another me
People aren’t consistent though. The argument for vaccine mandates is 100% consequentialist and more or less identical to the argument for pushing forward with self drive: net fewer people will die. The antivaxxers are deontological, arguing that a few vaccine reactions and deaths should halt the whole thing.

Most of the SF folks you are describing lean toward the pro-vaccine-mandate position. They should therefore also be for self driving cars.
Do you qualify Florence as a place with great public transit? I lived there for a few months ages ago (2006) and my only memorable experience with transit there was literally getting hit by a bus (and then arguing with the driver about whether it was my fault or not) :)

I loved it there. I hope you do too!
The only reason for the GDPR is to get more government control on your daily interactions.

People are out of their mind to think that governments are working to "protect" them - hello? Govern ment means to rule the mind, mind control, that's the word, and the main mind control governments are interested in perpetuating is to make you believe you need them.

If people didn't think they need their government, there would be no more governments - and they couldn't control us.

Logically, if I was the government, I would mainly work on making sure that people think they need me. I would have every incentive to create catastrophes, pandemics, wars, in fact I would have every incentive to create any problem that has, as its solution, more governmental control.
Takes at least gcc-10 to compile, but other than that it was pretty easy to get going.
I think you're probably joking, but although we don't know where this stool comes from exactly (at least it's not stated in the british museum's website), it's far more common for furniture that used to ornate palaces and sacred places to survive rather than common household items. So, I think it's likely that no children were playing around such objects.
You’ll still very likely end up with dozens of http REST calls that could be one GraphQL query, hence one http call.
Bias alert (I’m the founder), but I believe you should have a look at GraphQL edge caching: https://graphcdn.io
If anyone has a good book about writing as simple programs as possible instead of as flexible as possible, I would appriciate it.

Because the problem today is complexity and abstractions. It prevents us from changing code easily, deleting code easily, and understanding the full program flow easily.
Sure, I don't necessarily agree, but that's what I felt was his point in the article.
Yeah, I also think GP is right, but used the wrong word. He probably means: infatuation, limerence, obsession, thrill, animal magnetism, etc.

Lots of people never who never really "knew" successful long-term relationships only associate love with those, and that's indeed somewhat immature.
By your logic we should allow the coronavirus to thrive too.
Her full tweet (https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1441569388289609728) says:

Medicine, like all of science, is political:
- which questions get asked
- which projects get funded
- how debates get framed
- who the researchers are
- context of data (what categories, what labels, which biases, what is left out)
- whose suffering is counted 1/

Seems obviously correct to me. Certainly research allocation decisions at the level of grant funding are political.
So basically what you're saying that people's preference for different types of coffee depend on their genes?
About half-way in, the author even admits that the article is a bit long-winded and not really getting to the point. Unfortunately, it then still doesn’t get to any point.

But I have sympathies for the author here. It’s sometimes really hard to verbalize conceptual ideas. You “feel” them, but any explanation sounds trivial. It’s likely there’s a bit more to it than your summary suggests.

Not sure what the author could have done better, I struggle with this myself.
This has been my take on it. Not that GMOs will poison your body or anything woo like that. Rather, it's an enormous amount of power to give to an industry with tight margins and few scruples. I can't help but envision vegetables full of simple sugars, pesticides, and so forth in their very DNA. It's a complex picture and there are no doubt great cases for its use, e.g. golden rice. But this is the same industry that sprays RoundUp on wheat just to ripen it[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
Why can't they just let fast.ai be fast.ai?
To be fair, a pride of lions is also more dangerous to wildlife than a nuclear accident.

Lions, like humans, have intent and will happily track down and kill the last deer.

A nuclear accident on the other hand will only kill at random and will “let go” of many animals it could kill but didn’t happen to incidentally radiate as it disapated.
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> As such, it is at the root of all other sciences, all of which are sciences of the actual, i.e. that which really exists.

I once read somewhere that theology is the science of the unknowable. So for how much theology is a science then is discussed within theology itself ie one cannot know how much of the unknowable is existing in an ontological sense.
I think a lot of people do expect this though, and it's why so many people believe that there is "one person" for you. A lot of times, it foments resentment, and this is an indicator that the resentful person probably has some internal growth to do. There are also just plain jealous people.
> It's amazing how little has been written on the subject (of what logic is.)

I’m not sure that’s the case. Just searching “philosophy of logic” yields oodles of resources. It’s an entire field of study.
You could do that or directly cache at the edge [0] - makes it much faster for the user and is cheaper.
https://graphcdn.io does that.
SQLite is a solid solution, can't believe I didn't think of it. Thanks!
> Would you be ok with a strip club and liquor store next to a elementary school? I wouldn't, and appreciate zoning laws for that reason.

Not in your backyard indeed. Others don't want multi-family low-income housing in their neighborhood either for presumably similar reasons.
And the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas, although it doesn't belong to the same category as Fukushima and Chernobyl. But it's a biodiversity hotspot.

Lesson for humans: All we need to do is get out of the way.
I spent a few days experimenting with recent open source p2p and anonymizing networks (tor and i2p). I'm impressed the thing still works well. Some networks became much smaller (kad and gnutella2), but given they're distributed/decentralized, they still work. SoulSeek is alive. Tribler allows to find torrents without needing trackers, it also adds a anonymization layer. I2p gives some intuitive names to hidden services while tor has never been so easy and fast to use.

On the web, personal blogs and sites, planets and fora still exists. Neocities is incredibly cool. There are a number of alternatives to google and they're constantly improving.

We still have IRC and a few newer services like xmpp and matrix.

Ad blockers take some time to configure but work well and there are good interfaces for annoying services like youtube and twitter.

The bad internet exists mostly for commercial, news sites and streaming services, but there are alternatives and there's enough people using them to keep them alive and sustainable. It is not like the good internet stopped existing, it is more like the bad internet became more popular.
My understanding is that the skateboard would have to be too thick to fit within the shorter wheelbase, substantially raising the occupants, etc. I think this also plays into the chassis design since they say they can build the "chest" design as part of the chassis. I think the skateboard requires more of a traditional body on frame. This is sort of a guess though, but slightly based off of the explanation of how they designed the chassis of the C7 Corvette to be light and more rigid.

Edit: thanks for the additional link
Snowden yes. Are you confusing Assange with Snowden?
The real issue is that other members of your group have seriously damaged its credibility. If you fail to remedy that then the frustrations you describe are sure to increase.

Sure it’s ego-preserving to instead blame the rubes and look down on them, but it’s also counterproductive. The “uneducated“ masses may not understand the scientist’s field, but they easily comprehend condescension and contempt and it amounts to efficient anti-persuasion. Also plenty of non-scientists have considerable subject matter expertise in bullshitting. They may not understand the science, but they know when a scientist is communicating with the intent to persuade rather than inform.

Then of course there’s the possibility that an inability to explain something to lay people indicates a deficiency in the scientist’s understanding. Feynman certainly thought so and he was probably the most publicly trusted scientist of his generation. His QED[1] is a shining example of explaining a very difficult subject to the lay audience.

Edit: Einstein is another example of a publicly trusted scientist who made every effort to clearly and completely explain his work to lay people. In his Relativity[2] he mostly succeeds, and where he falls short he acknowledges it and still communicates the concepts of general relativity pretty well.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5552.QED

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15852.Relativity
Cascade of attention deficit[0]?

JS is a vast ecosystem with little barriers to entry, and

> Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again.

I don't think there's anything malicious going on, except a lot of people doing JS.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Depends how fast your data changes.
SWR can be very effective for that.
I suggest having a look at GraphCDN (bias alert, I’m one of the founders, so take it with some salt ;)
Stamping Out Overflow Checks in Ruby
> should be doing only stuff you enjoy

The vast majority of people don’t genuinely enjoy their 40 hours plus 6 hours of commuting to their income-generating job.

We do it because we like food with our meals.
ytop is nice rust based one if you like the rust ecosystem, it's still good even if you don't but I think you need to install cargo/rust in most cases to build it, I don't think anyone packages it. "cargo install ytop" -> .cargo/bin/ytop
If I was animal, I'd like Japanese people to stay away from me as far as possible, too.
The financial analysis is a little peculiar, even dangerous.

The author spends effort calculating the return on the investments they could make if they sold the home, but doesn't consider that the home itself is also an asset.

It also neglects the impact of tax policy. The investment returns made would be taxable from the first dollar, but the first $250K ($500K if married filing jointly) of capital gains on a home are not taxable.

It might be that the author is really doubtful about the prospects for the real estate market but it seems like that's an important assumption to document for this analysis.

The author also makes a significant error in conflating the average long-run returns on an investment with a safe draw-down rate. If, over a 20 year horizon (for example), you plan on withdrawing 7% of the initial investment annually against a 100% stock portfolio, you have a 50% chance that your investment is going to be completely gone before that point.

This is because of the volatility of stock returns and, in particular, the risk of substantial losses early in the investment period.

N.B. none of the above is financial advice, YMMV, consult a registered investment advisor etc. etc.
The epistemology in that logic section is terrible enough for HN to love this article.
I've seen this argument before, when someone copied a piece of software (by me) and, when caught, advertised the replacement of the copyright statement and reattribution as significant "improvements and extra functionality" to his fan base. This attitude has been around for a while.
It wouldn’t matter if the training computer were on the moon. Training data is collected by Tesla owners all across the country including the Eastern United States. Regardless of how well you think it can drive, it can drive equally well in New England as it can in California. And there may be an unequal number of Tesla’s on each coast but that’s irrelevant.
>Those records show that child mortality remained high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today: from 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years

If you dig further you can see that these numbers are about male aristocracy in England between 1200 and 1745:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIMHCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=...

The vast majority of people didn't witness their 70th birthday before modern times.
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We are waiting for a new variant of covid to be produced, so more booster shots are needed, so the pharmaceutical companies can continue to push for health passes into citizen passes with citizen security scores etc.

It's all going along nicely.
Redacted is still very good.
Sadly spotify makes it too easy so I stopped pirating music.
Agree. Recordings of compositions in the public domain should never be eligible for copyright protection at all.
Reddit is still pseudonymous.
You don't know what you don't know, and now you won't
I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about
Exactly. Dithering creates a lot of noise and PNG is poor choice to compress that.
I think at Fukushima it would have enabled the hydrogen to be vented to a stack in a controlled manner, not into the buildings where it exploded.
I don’t your argument here is very strong. By your original logic, allowing coronavirus to thrive will be beneficial for the planet by killing off humans, thus restoring the natural equilibrium.

I dunno, but if your first principle is “it’s okay for all humans everywhere to die since ______” then you will end up with some really odd inferences.
> my understanding of async/await and promises in JS is that they create threads under the hood to solve the problem the author is talking about.

No, that is wrong in multiple ways. Javascript is fundamentally designed around an event loop processed by a single thread. The only multitreading facility it has are web workers, which don't share memory with the main thread.

> I'm afraid I just don't quite understand why async/await don't solve the problem and instead sweep it under the rug, could someone explain it?

Both are really only syntactic sugar over callbacks. Under the hood, async/await splits the await-ing function and passes the second part as a callback to the await-ed function. And it requires the await-ing function itself to be async.

Promises are just a nicer way to do callbacks. It's impossible to get a result from a promise (or an ansync function) synchronously. If there were a way, it would block the main thread and kill performance completely.
I feel like you are not following the plot. The entire idea now is for covid to come back. Otherwise covid is over and we don't need health passes and subscription vaccinations.
Yup. This is one of the reasons I generally just avoid city centers altogether. Finding and paying for parking is just not worth the hassle.
There's also the factor that Musk is a high-profile 0.01%er who tweets a lot.
Totally agree. Premature abstraction is just another way to say premature optimization and it is the root of so many problems. YAGNI (you aint gonna need it).
How can you laptop use it? Use the mobile as an hotspot?
In fairness here, the comment said:

allowing THE REST of the planet to recover and thrive.

Which to me meant that humans are a part of the planet, and if you cut them out the other parts of the planet do "better" by the poster's definition of "better".
The article specifically mentions the async/await feature of C# and explains how it does not solve the problem, just make it less ugly to deal with.
It is generally illegal to cycle while intoxicated.
Daniel Kahneman: How Companies Can Improve Their Hiring Process
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An app to send yourself a note or a link for later use
If email is your way to manage and gather info, this app may be useful. I use it on HN to mark something to read later.
Maybe among the very rich, but I worked with plenty of middle-upper class Singaporeans (~$100 to 150k SGD incomes) who spent money on cars.

Keep in mind despite the rail lines, it's much cheaper to own a place that isn't within easy walking distance. For the same amount of money you'd get a much bigger place.

But regardless, it was mostly just due to the demands of family. The train makes sense when it's you alone. When you're paying $20-30 per day for a family's transit costs (4 rides at $1.50 each times for 2 adults and 2 teens), then suddenly the $700-$1000/month to own a car doesn't seem so silly.
Signalling that you can get away leaking embarrassing secrets to the outside world, mostly. I'd reckon there'd be a lot more Snowdens, Assanges and Mannings out there if the American government didn't grossly abuse its power to make their lives a living hell.
>>>None of these stereotypes have any guidance for nonbinary people

Isn't that tautological though? Why would a simplified characterization applicable to the mass of normies contain guidance equally suitable for the small percentage of divergent edge cases?
| To me, this is just a classic case of a husband who doesn't realize that he can never let boredom creep in and isn't keeping things fresh and having enough sex.

I mean, personal knowledge of the person aside, it this truly the typical case? I think more often than not if there's something missing, both parties are culpable. Sure, there are situations where one person's sex drive is lower and this causes friction, but the truth is that it's harder still to have two problematic personalities capitulate at the same time to resolve the issue. In other words, in my experience there is a lack of communication from both sides.
The Bible says "We are given 70 years, or 80 if we are strong" (psalm 90). Sounds like pretty strong evidence that old age (>50 years) was not that exceptional.
Please keep in mind that people can change, sometimes in significant ways.
I don't understand the downvotes. Whenever you find out that an institution you interact with was used to enable a child prostitution scheme, it should cause a moment of reflection, not a reflexive downvote.
> and that you should be doing only stuff you enjoy

This seems like quite the assumption.

My baseline assumption for a functional relationship would be that the partner that has the least time to help with housework would try to pick up the parts of it that the other partner least enjoys.
The absolutely crazy thing is the person who caused this doesn't even think they did anything wrong: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783#issuecomment-92724...

And there are people supporting their position.

I think because JS is such a large tent, there are folks not familiar with licenses and general norms in this space. I don't think it's something that being reasonable and pointing things out wouldn't fix.

As an aside I'm now extremely uncomfortable if I find any of ai's work as a transitive dependency for my company's own work because of their attitude towards adhering to licenses.
> The idea that natural systems reach an equilibrium is a fiction

There's a middle ground.

a) We invented modern medicine and now live 2-3x as long as evolution selects for.

b) We have effectively no predators. Most apex predators are limited in number based on availability of prey. We figured out how to intensively farm our prey. Therefore there's a very high bar that our population has yet to reach, which is unusual.

c) While an equilibrium observable in a short period of time may be rare in nature, over longer periods oscillations in population size correlated with availability of resources are common.

d) Since the entire system of our planet is dynamic and has had parameters changing relatively rapidly over our lifetimes (both directly and indirectly mostly caused by us), it would be unexpected to find a static relationship between species populations. Everything is adapting.
>The best way to invest is to pick individual stocks in companies you have carefully evaluated.

Only if you're able to guarantee a priori that you're an outstandingly good stock picker. A substantial majority of retail stock pickers lose out significantly to broad-based index funds.
https://archive.md/wawKb
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