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> are - by selection of being able to afford a Tesla - in average more qualified then the minimum wage test driver.

You think having money qualifies someone for being a good test driver? This is one of the most classist comments I've ever read.

A responsible company would hire people based on some criteria of competence before putting them in the "supervisor" seat for an AI driving assist. Even an irresponsible company like Tesla or Uber will still do more due diligence for the competency of their test drivers than for their customers, whose only qualification is a wallet.
Re your anosmia, please consume this information with a pinch of salt, and deliberation:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-we-make-of...
If they were bailed, what would've changed? Even car manufacturers weren't disfunctional to the point of not being able to turn a profit on a line of product that when sold to another company took only 9 months to be profitable?

Not only that, but from what I'm understanding it seems like the entire company was compromised so deeply that almost every email/document seems to have found its way back to China. And it took years after their bankruptcy to finally get an accurate idea of how wide the breach was because Nortel itself seemed to really not care about that at all. Why then would the Canadian government bail out and finance Nortel when it amounted to bankrolling Chinese research?

I think the real mistake was to let the expertise go to complete waste, it's just mind-boggling that only Huawei was smart enough to take advantage of such a concentration of talent. The Canadian government could've let Nortel die but financed a successor to replace them, or done something to help out the engineers left in the dust

But I guess Canada has a very long history of losing every single cutting edge tech hubs it has, while doing very little about it. Because why even bother when you are a petrostate?
Obviously not. In such a case, a much better option would be to fall back to the camera system or, worst case, force the car to go into manual mode with a human driver if it detects that nearby systems are unresponsive
Slight alternative: let smart people who design rock-solid software handle serialization for you, use SQLite to get the benefits of files-on-disk, portability, and make it easier if you use different datatypes in your scripts.
Overblown. Horn and turn signals work OK but online activation of these from the app does not work.
Just do x never accounts for time spent doing x. Many times x is possible but does not meet time constraints. If you add another hour plus to your kids school commute then another hour to your own you might never actually see your kids
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." — Max Planck; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
If that's the case this title is incredibly misleading.

Randomly being logged out is a problem so universal it's to be expected with any service or app. You may as well make an angry Twitter post about a random pothole that made you spill your coffee.

requires 15 minutes of entering.

How? At one point my Google password was 63 characters long and I had to enter it on a one inch smart watch screen using a letter wheel. It took about five minutes. How has this guy managed to make his entry process take longer than that?
Those are also, incidentally, the hardest places for autos to exist in.

It's much, much easier to navigate a lonely highway in the middle of nowhere without much traffic than it is to navigate the perilous labyrinth of the suburbs and downtown traffic.

It can also be done much more simply by laying down copper in the road and making it a part of infrastructure so that the cars can sense it and figure out that it's the road. Stop signs, traffic lights, and interchanges can be marked using changes that the car can detect. The rest can be collision avoidance.
The Federal government in the United States does not require tax revenue to fund road construction. The only tax actually earmarked for this purpose is the gasoline tax, which is less than 2% of the Federal government’s appropriations for highway construction. Federal taxes are largely punitive and coercive (we want you to do this thing like have children, or live here, or not get too rich doing that thing because otherwise Lockheed lobbyists get upset).
The headline is simply wrong. The feature that got disabled is the remotely controled horn and turn signals.
If you’re ok with typecasting then it’s relatively straight forward. I think postgres has some convenient utility around that.
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Thank you for the excellent explanation. Do you know why CD players went through a phase advertising “1 bit!” after a lengthy time advertising 16-bit? What does or even mean you have a 1-bit depth? (Perhaps marketing)
Wonder if she peer reviewed some Sokal-esque papers some day
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It took 400 days to construct the Golden Gate Bridge in 1933. It took six years to build a new offramp for it in 2000.
A centrally automated system could — and certainly would — be backed up by per-vehicle AI. Exactly the same way that self-driven cars are backed up by human intelligence.

(Note, I’m not advocating for either approach. I think personal automobiles should be banned, in fact. But I’m at least willing to be honest about how such systems would obviously be designed.)
For https://biokeanos.com (biomedical data catalog and discovery tool), keeping things on disk and versioning by pushing to repo saved me months already on dubugging and maintenance only.
FWIW, the core thing to me is that if I hide a reply to one of my tweets, it should actually not be seen by people who started from my tweet... certainly not by people who didn't even follow the person who left the reply. This is the feature that is really needed to help deal with horrible people, not a centralized filter mechanism for "offensive content" that will result in some weirdly-biased censorship.

The issue is that when people reply to my tweets, they are trying to use my audience to push their message. If they have their own followers, OK: that's them talking to their people. But they want to talk to my audience. And they might have something shitty or spammy to say, and their coming back to my threads to say it hurts my ability to communicate with my audience.

So, Twitter finally gave us a feature to hide these replies, which was almost great... except somehow it does the opposite?! It takes the message, which might have, in practice, been semi-buried in a pile of a hundred replies, and elevates it by giving the hidden replies a special icon and their own panel. I wanted to hide the hate speech, not feature it!

To make it even more ridiculous, users often get a pop-up a box to remind then "hey you can find the hidden replies here"... it frankly totally undermines the point of the feature. If I hid it, it should be hidden... at least from people who started from my tweets, and at least if they don't follow the person who posted the message (I don't want to limit the ability for people to communicate with their own followers).

(FWIW, I hopefully-clearly totally feel for the premise that Twitter should be something of a utility and that people should get to communicate with people who opted-in to what they had to say, but this ability to reply to someone else's message isn't that. If you have further consistency issues with my premise, I will note that in a system I would personally design, all replies would be hidden by default and users would have to manually mark them as visible to their audience, at which point they would take on the moral responsibility for the content, at which point I believe you could have truly uncensored follower-to-user and user-to-follower interaction, which I think should be a goal. I only really say any of this, though, to make my complaint consistent with my past complaints: I currently consider the premise of this complaint to stand-alone and be consistent with itself given the reason this feature theoretically exists, which it seems to not satisfy... it was like a half-assed mistake of a mitigation, and now we are seeing them start to play whack-a-mole.)
I've been thinking about a bare metal Forth system and one of my goals for it would be that anyone could recreate it without having any specific dependencies to build it. Something fully explained like jonesforth but without a linux and assembler dependency. Part of my motivation for that is when I try to learn bare metal programming, the tutorials are rapidly outdated because of changing dependencies/tools, broken links, outdated information, etc. Maybe just some hex codes of the machine language which you could use xxd to convert to a binary, or if you didn't have that you could use any programming language that can write a binary file to create it, or a hex editor. The ultimate step would be that the system would be able to compile the next version of itself. (Self-hosted forth implementations are really common; you can find a bunch by googling that.)
Look, if 85% retail investors loosing money does not convince you that they can't judge financial performance, then I probably can't convince you that Earth is round.

Replace TSLA with in your post Bitcoin and you sound like a 'true believer'.

I am perfectly happy with people believing/cheering on TSLA/Crypto, just let's clearly tell that apart from an independent, unbiased assessment.
The 'priesthood' mostly isn't interested in telling you what to believe and how to behave. The vast majority of the 'priesthood' would much rather just return to their lab and do exciting research.

You're writing this on a device developed using physical insight into quantum mechanics. I am sure you can, without understanding the theories (neither do I), verify, that your device does, indeed, work. Surely, you are able to verify that your GPS works, without understanding the intricacies of neither general relativity nor literal rocket science to make this happen.
I’m not American, I felt the word liberal referred to an American democrat party, centre-left line of thinking more so than classic leftist views - is that wrong?
I like this approach, a lot.

I strongly believe developers should spend extra labor to ensure users and runtimes don’t waste cycles. I also believe labor or toil that repeats and can be automated, should. This marries both those ideas.

Finally, while thankfully you don’t say “we take security seriously” on your home page (buzzy but in practice usually a security red flag), your docs and baked-in approach show you genuinely do.

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2. Practical Common Lisp

3. A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics

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Sure. And wast majority of people don't enjoy vacuum cleaning and other routine household chores. Most people, when they actually end up being at home whole day, doing those same routines every day end up depressed and demotivated.

People who loose their jobs, even if partner earns enough for them to not be in major stress, are unhappy after a week or too. They don't tend to be happy in the long term.

Many jobs and bosses sux. And people in them generally want better job rather then no job. They feel bad when being unemplyed long term.

Most employed people don't enjoy coming home to household work. No one, actually. That is why those are such frequent strain of relationship - cause people rarely like then.
Yeah that’s also important math folks miss taking a family downtown it’s often cheaper to pay parking than bus fare both ways for a family of 4. Even at 2 it’s basically break even with 3$ fares
This is how things have worked in the JS community for a long time. It's easy to say that new library X "is already used by Y and Z" which have millions of downloads, when you're the author of X, Y and Z and have a following. The library gets instant adoption, collaborators and good search rankings.

It's not always bad, but it stifles creativity and I believe has caused us to be stuck with libraries just because "they are popular and well-maintained" versus finding the actual ideal solution, the React ecosystem being a strong example of that. Not to mention that, contrary to what you would expect, the larger the company, the more often decisions will be made based on github star count, almost completely ignoring technical merit.

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‘NIMBY’ is usually in reference to low-income housing projects. I think you would get a lot of ‘YIMBY’ in response to a reasonably well-isolated parking development if it came with removing parked cars from the road.
The logic that OP was arguing against is that stereotypes are edifying in terms of gender.

They are right that if you do not match either of the stereotyped genders then you can’t learn from gender stereotypes.

Sure, it’s better to learn from people in a holistic non stereotyped sense but that is not what was being suggested.
The word "soul" has been mixed up with a lot of confusing voodoo, but when I was trying to look up the historic definitions, it was basically equivalent to 'the part of you that thinks and makes choices'

With that definition I feel like a lot of the soul talk makes sense. Like here you 'feed' your soul the information, experiences, and media you seek out, and that influences the 'nature of your soul' by creating the environment it reacts to.

For example, now you've exposed yourself to the idea of a mutually self-giving relationship, and if you keep trying to figure out more about what that means, then your thoughts and choices can start falling in line with that concept.
Think about the fact that behind the great firewall there is probably a big team, of people who are constantly dealing with all the information in the world about what a horrible government they have. They probably know better than us how their government killed people in Tiananmen square, how covid leaked from the lab and got covered up by their government, how their government treats Uyghurs in concentration camps. I can understand people covering up for themselves. But covering up for such a horrible government after having all that information?
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You know, the only reason I've never joined a music tracker was because until this thread I'd forgotten what it was like to have a pure, limitless, non-commercial library of everything audio.

Not that many years before the dawn of BitTorrent, I was making, mixing, and trading APEs and FLACs of self-recorded tapes (dubs, live, local) and record collections in niche communities and channels that no longer exist- bullied off the net because they didn't make money for someone else. I lost everything to hardware failure a few years later and left the scene, but I'd be thrilled to find anything from back then still circulating.
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch is really good. Some of the learnings only apply to Java, but most apply to any language.

All the tips are very focused on how the code, APIs and even the languages evolve, trying to understand how your changes could confuse other developers. Compared to clean code, it's clear that it's written by someone who has done a lot of coding and seen the evolution, with a very pragmatic approach. Not just theoretical like Clean Code
Any such effect would be infinitesmally small at a city, state or nation level, not to mention such effects will not be self-repeating, defeating the purpose of such a book
I do like releasing everything I develop as FOSS, but we all agree that something like this can happen when we do, even though most of us (me included) find it at least distasteful.

Unfortunately this is what happens when any space gets super-competitive, then some people stop caring about spirits and anything else that's impossible to police in a meaningful way. JS is one of the, if not the, most popular programming language in use and it's incredibly accessible. It'd be (and I say this in the most polite and constructive way I could think of) silly to expect that stuff like this won't happen and that there won't be any group of people even cheering this kind of behavior.

We all seemingly live in bubbles, at some point we have to realize that we have the whole world in front of us in this crazy place called internet. Well, wasn't that the idea behind the "Eternal September"[0]? It'll not get better unless the whole world gets better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
Are there any other factors in grant funding other than politics? Scientific value and competency come to my naive mind. Perish the thought.

There is a world of difference between 'sadly, there is a degree of corruption in the system' and 'the system is corruption'.
Ultimately I think the issue is that the government would have to take the lead and deploy the infrastructure to make self drive work better. That US government barely does infrastructure anymore. Nobody wants to take that lead, take the political risk, or pay for it. That leaves private sector cowboys to innovate with no help.
what are the logistics for this? There were 263.6 million cars in the US in 2015 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...), so I'm sure there's even more today. I could see having manufacturers install speed governers in new cars, but how would you coordinate installing in all the "old" cars? There'd be a period (probably years) where some, but not all cars don't have that limitation.
Looks like the perfect book for my toddlers that love light switches. One question I don't see answered is what type of battery is it? We are trying to avoid coin batteries with their curious mouths.
I started drinking coffee only in Mexico. It tasted less bitter than Finnish coffee and did not cause stomach problems. I do not remember the brand, but "ESTO SUAVE" was the blurb.
If this is where you want to go we could just install souped up train tracks instead.
Presumably this could be sussed out long before marriage. And if that deeper love and respect should disintegrate, there would be some sort of catalyst.

My expectation is that it's unlikely in the long-run to fall out of love if both parties still nurture the relationship and invest themselves. But maybe I'm wrong and it happens anyway.
In my experience, to achieve large enough scale most systems have to be used in very simple ways. There isn’t space for additional complexity and the result is usually boring systems that work.
“Code reuse”. There’s your buzzword excuse for that project being a web view.

Edit: I also said it was easier to hire. Which IMO is an organizational anti pattern. Look at all the talks of Clojure shops, who despite having a small hiring pool, usually find passionate, practical developers who quickly pick up the language.

Electron allows you to hire devs who prefer code aesthetics over what the thing actually does to/on your computer.
Then the fallback must be so good that you don’t need primary system in the first place.
The issue with this is that it requires such high capital investment before the first driverless car can be introduced.

What you are describing is actually probably the end game - but I think musk and others have correctly identified that if you wait for infrastructure to be ready then you will be waiting a long time, and if you want to see self driving cars anytime soon you have to assume current infra.
I once read that philosophy and theology are similar to each other, in that “philosophy is seeking answers to questions that do not have answers; theology studies that which does not exist.”

(Incidentally, “science of the unknowable” seems like an oxymoron, because “science” means “knowledge”…)
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One could argue that young drivers are disproportionately likely to get into accidents (inexperience, bravado...) and are also less likely to be able to afford a Tesla.

But even that is not really sufficient for supporting the statement either.
Honorable people are not attracted to politics
Great, but that isn't what LibGNM and LibGNMX use out of the box.
No sarcasm. Many classical music fans shop based on recommendations. A solid recommendation along with hearing a clip increases sales, so it's in labels' best interest to give popular reviewers permission. David Hurwitz on YT is a good example.
Is Tesla still comparing essentially 'highway miles driven' with their self-driving to 'all miles driven in all situations' for regular human controlled autos?
I definitely agree with OP on this and do my best to minimize maintenance burden for most of my projects. This has worked out pretty well in that almost everything I've published[0] can chug along in the background for months or years without me touching them at all (some of them earn a few hundred dollars per month[1])

>On the server I run Ubuntu LTS until it's near the end of its supported lifetime. Every two years I run do-release-upgrade and move to the next one. This cost is shared over many jefftk.com projects, so it isn't too bad.

I was surprised by this part because running your own server seems like a big maintenance burden. I'd expect that you have to regularly upgrade your packages to protect yourself from security vulnerabilities.

I've avoided this by using PaaS solutions like AppEngine or static hosting + cloud functions. The closest thing I have to a VPS is publishing Docker containers, but that's basically my last resort.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/projects/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2021/09/#legacy-projects
No, that would not be a smart approach. Then you can only drive where beacons are installed.

If you have no problem with humans driving by hoping they find the right pixels on their retinas, why would you worry about AI doing the same? If anything, AI has a perfect reaction, is never tired or sleepy or unattentive. It just needs to be taught properly.
I feel this would have been more suitable as a blog post rather than a two-column layout under a "research" subdomain. I wonder if "Tableau Research" has a rigorous peer-review process for its research publications.
Because it’s not very useful to anyone with an ego larger than a common house ant (e.g. sees a sense of self beyond the greater glory of the hive). A world without humans, without any human legacy, is not a future that any normative human wishes for. Is it even worth discussing something that 99% of people hate because it literally is a self inflicted apocalypse?
> I think because JS is such a large tent, there are folks not familiar with licenses and general norms in this space.

It's worth pointing out that this is all about a bunch of packages that decorate strings with ANSI colour escape sequences... I'm not saying it's worthless, or that there is nothing wrong in principle - but it's a lot of noise over something easily replicable from scratch - something simple enough that you may even choose to not bother with a library, (i've always just used ANSI codes directly in JS command line tools, sometimes defined in a few constants and interpolated for readability).

So perhaps the reason why one author is so pissed at misattribution, and the other allegedly doesn't seem to care much about it, is explained by a large difference in perceived value of the code.

To make my point more potent, imagine it was the same debacle over one of the many infamous one line NPM packages like "is-odd" which currently has half a million downloads per day and ultimately consists of the code "return (n % 2) === 1;"... excluding all of the fluff, and even with some unnecessary parenthesis.
Downvoted because the commenter asked for evidence, and you just provided a definition. The statement that it's "obviously true" is not evidence, or even an argument. If I said it's "obviously not true", would you consider yourself refuted? Probably not.