skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla themselves publish data on this, and cars get in fewer accidents with AP engaged

This is false, or at very best misleading, considering that Tesla's Autopilot is responsible for more than 10 fatalities. Or in other words, Tesla's AP has killed more people than the entire rest of the domestic auto industry's smart cruise control features. Combined. (And Tesla's "safety" data conspicuously fails to mention any of these fatalities.)

And that doesn't even include all the times that AP ran into stationary emergency vehicles, or the many slow-moving accidents in parking lots, or the many near-misses that were avoided because the other driver was able to avoid the suicidal Tesla in time.
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The PC Engines site says ALIX is EOL, and recommends using apu2 instead. Is there a particular reason you would recommend ALIX over apu2?
> Will Ruby Get a Comeback?

Probably not anytime soon, depending on your definition of "comeback", though ruby is still chugging along just fine IMO. There are more IPO'd ruby-based companies out there now than there ever have been before. (edit: and many non-ipo successful exits where ruby usage is maintained)

> However, I see some attractive features in Ruby 3, do you think that's enough to get a comeback?

No, just a few nice additions to the language won't create any pop in popularity in any language.

> My main concern is jobs availability, as an employer I find it harder and harder to find good RoR developers and they become super expensive.

This is just a problem with tech jobs in general. I've had the same problem hiring JS devs, and they're the most plentiful. I also had the same problem 10 years ago staffing up RoR teams. Its not a new problem. It largely just depends on your definition of "good".
> even if the value goes up, they need a place to live in, and the high prices are pretty much everywhere, people actually want to live. The only ones profiting from baby boomers are their kids when they inherit the houses.

This leaves out one major factor: they need somewhere to live but that doesn't mean it needs to be the same real-estate market or size. Someone who sells a house large enough to have a family in a major market and retires to a cheaper market can see a very comfortable return. Probably nowhere near enough to make up for the other impacts of the policies people voted for to drive up their home value but it's harder to get people to give equal weight to different factors when one of them will show up directly in their personal bank account.
Some things that are paid by employers, such as health insurance, are that way partly because those benefits are not counted as taxable income. I assume employer-paid housecleaning would be counted as taxable income and therefore not be attractive. Furthermore, many individuals evade taxes by paying their cleaning ladies under the table. An employer would want to avoid that legal risk and would have to pay payroll taxes of the cleaners. What about equity issues? Do employees in large homes get a larger benefit than apartment dwellers?
When an institutional investor like Blackstone or Blackrock or Colony Capital calls your phone to express interest in an asset you own, I can all but guarantee you that you are in a distressed position and looking to sell.

They have enough experience, data, and skill to time the market cycle. Companies like Zillow do not.
To be fair, they did, and many things have improved. And this video was used as an uncomfortable reminder to make some of those changes.
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no actually, many people do work on "difficult problems" and do their work, while the City described, has an army of workers who are well paid, yet do not keep up with basic tasks. It seems that fixing roads is one of the oldest jobs in the civilized world, and that the city workers have found a way to get paid, and also do less and less. Their pay is quite good compared to other forms of work, while "gig work" and other abuses increase. Medical coverage is a massive shortcoming in the current US system and very much in California, so the medical benefits paid to the very same workers are an obvious sore point. What part of that is not clear?
You can send a small, semi-official "thanks for a job well done" to someone else and it comes with a few bucks attached. People joke about using them nefariously (as people tend to joke), but I've only seen them used appropriately.
Authoritarian dysfunction. Killing the messenger.
Very relatable reverie. I'd add to this that, while the author focuses on the genius of von Neumann, most of the smart people around you aren't actually like that. They too have limitations, strengths and weaknesses, and the fact that you're working with them is already a good signal that you're clustered fairly close together in capacity.
Browns are a bit better in that regard, but also really loud. I personally am a pretty aggressive typer and really can't use mechanical keyboards around other people because of that. Which is a bummer because I find them to be much more pleasing to type on than other kinds of keyboards.
> You can't wear-level against blocks that are in use, only blocks that are free.

It only takes a bit of arithmetic to prove that this cannot possibly be true, or else all of those 95%-full drives would have long since failed, and QLC SSDs would have been a disaster and never would have been adopted by system OEMs that provide multi-year warranties. (And if it were true, then SSDs prior to TRIM wouldn't have been viable.)

You can include static data in wear leveling, and all SSDs do. It does lead to some write amplification, but that's already factored in to a drive's endurance specs.
I have a Chinese brown clone keyboard because the noise of my model M disturbs my family. The model M is far better to type on in my opinion.

Of course it is all about what you like. The problem I have with the keyboard tester idea is you really need to spend a few days trying a keyboard before you know if you like it. You can't know with just 6 different keys how they will work after a full day of typing. If it weren't for that I'd endorse the idea.
I've also seen arguments (unsourcable at the moment) that the Tigris and Euphrates used to drain separately, and that the adjustment when they merged could have come at approximately the same point in pre-history. Given the proximity to the origin points of both stories, (and seen from within their flood plains where people were already living) that would have looked like a huge flood, after which the local geography would have looked very different.
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Maybe not so much[1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1125159/reddit-us-app-us...
Animal Crossing is my wife's Multiverse.
I'm having trouble tracking it down, but a few years ago congress set up an investigation into why costs are high. The investigation, which basically consisted of calling up various experts, asking them to talk for free, and compiling what they said, reported that the issue was so complicated it needed a better funded study. To my knowledge, that better funded study has not occurred.

At a very broad I recall some of the items identified were:

- Illegal collusion between contractors capable of expensive jobs

- Illegal collusion between contractors and consultants hired by cities to help pick winning bids

- No expertise in government due to cutbacks, so no ability to vet a proposal or understand the progress made (see above)

- No accountability in government

- No accountability for contractors in in contracts

- Poorly thought out legislated process on choosing bidders

- Inefficiencies in mandated working conditions (think multiple people sitting around watching a hole)

- Government/private enterprise corruption

These are all over simplified high level points. The dynamics here get quite complex. For example, local government often signs a contract with a local contractor wherein they are able to put in stop work orders as desired without owing payment for the time. This is very expensive for the contractors, they must pay to move heavy machinery to another job or wait while paying their workers. Delays can add millions in cost/lost revenue for the contractor. The contractor thus has to drastically increase prices to hedge against these delays.

These issue touch every level of government: city, county, state, and federal. Sadly we no longer have a functional body politic capable of addressing issues of that scale.
This can be easily proven by disclosing the paper trail for this decision.

The paper trail should be public anyway since it is a public policy.

Until this is proven, we shall continue crediting the Flexport CEO for this change.
I, singularly, make far more than $48/hour ( which is 96k / year ); and, a 400k home is barely in _my_ price range, with the HOA and property taxes included.
I use Eloston's ungoogled-chromium installed from flatpak from time to time. Mostly for google while I navigate the internet with FF.

Don't know safe/clean it really is, but for now seems to be working as intended.
I just took a look at the FAQ:

https://fluidframework.com/docs/faq/#can-the-fluid-framework...

I think you have to consider your use case. If you want to build pure online collaboration tool it is fine. But if you want to build something that supports offline collaboration it seems not to be ready yet:

> Clients do have to be connected to the Fluid service. Fluid can tolerate brief network outages and continue operating but eventually the promise of being able to merge local changes weakens. We are investigating ways to improve this using other merging techniques designed to reason over large deltas but no final solution is in place today.

However, what I do like about their approach that they support multiple modern front-end frameworks from React to Vue to Web Components.
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typically because its possible these "security" updates will break something unintended. IT teams usually locally test any updates before deploying to an entire infrastructure
It should be noted that this version has considerably poorer video quality.
> Canada also has a number of programs that make property purchase for new homeowners more affordable by waving some taxes and allowing interest free borrowing from your retirement fund

Some further flaws in the system: I was shocked to find out that the new home buyers tax credit only applies to homes under $500k - which in vancouver means it only applies to a handful of small condos. It's also not poolable, so two first-time buyers going in on a $501k condo are disqualified.
Said another way, don't get nerd snipped by people who are trying to weaponize your professional scepticism for ulterior motives.

This means that most of the time when dealing with adversaries you have to go against your usual scientific instincts, assume your position is correct, and reframe the conversation at a higher level about power, money, etc. Controlling where attention goes in these conversations is critical.

Refusing to engage adversaries at the technical level seems wrong, but is the only way to defend against the fact that science operates by default at a level of doubt that the normal population simply cannot sustain without being driven to apathy (which is the objective of the adversaries).
I have respect for Brendan Eich and his work, but I'd rather rely on uBlock Origin and my PiHole than pay micropayments and see ads that Brave shows.

In fact, I'd be fine with paying $10/month to support all the sites I regularly visit... but BAT tokens are weird.
tbh i think i prefer the web based versions
They aren't in the market to flip in the short term though.

They genuinely believe that these assets will appreciate in the coming years.
Sure, but, while presumably very similar, isn’t the source for chrome slightly different from the open-source chromium, and not public?

(Does chrome have a setting to disable all DRM plugins like firefox does?)
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> the clone emperor thing feels like a pointless overcomplication

This and other adaptations were made to keep the same actors for the thousand years of chaos. Some were ludicrous, like Gaal being forcefully put in hibernation for 30+ years, but the Cleon clones idea was well done in my opinion. It transmits that Cleon is the Empire. If only their interactions took less screen time...
It seems like fairly standard CBT-I recommendations, which AFAIK is the gold standard for effective interventions for disordered sleep.

I've enjoyed CBT-I content from @erichsendaniel, especially since he (a fellowship-trained sleep physician) has been happy to share relevant medical literature that supports his practice.
>CDE is still developed and modern in 2021

I read the article and while I see a pretty good installation guide, I'm left unconvinced that CDE is either currently being developed or that it is "modern".

Anyone else?
I think it was a practical decision. The room was so loud that even if you could hear normally you wouldn't be able to hear someone talking anyway.
It's a social thing. When you know the service might be down when you need it at the last moment, you just plan and do things quite some time before the deadline so you don't get caught.

In the twenties century, trains in Spain where completely unreliable: they could leave one hour early, or 3 hours late, yet people would get fired if they couldn't get to work in time. But it still worked: people just didn't run into the train station 5 minutes before departure.
“Should”. But how do you actually move towards doing that? I’ve never worked anywhere that was the case. It might be that there is no way to make that happen if it goes against human nature.
I'm using Xubuntu and it seem to work well on a slow computer. There could be better options but my specific usecase was easier to implement with Ubuntu packages.
Gerald Farin has written many books, articles, publications on Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) stretching back a long way, here's a sample of books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Gerald-Farin/s?rh=n%3A283155%2C... ... had a stint at Mercedes-Benz

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HN is bizarre sometimes. When this feature first appeared, everyone acted like it was the coming of the Antichrist. Now it’s going away and people have “mixed feelings”. I think people just love to hate big tech no matter what they’re doing.
> So sad that we can't have nice things.

Privacy is also a nice thing.
This monotonous speech synthesis is annoying to listen to. The delivery of the jokes is awful. Who can sit through a 3 min video like that?
Nice. But I searched for 'Aluminium'. It gave me results for 'Aluminum' (American English).
Please don't post insinuations like this—there's a site guideline explicitly against it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't look to anything other than the simplest, most obvious explanation for why people post these things: it's a hot, divisive topic. (Posts on hot, divisive topics are usually also bad submissions for HN, but that's another issue.)
It was called VRML[0] and was superseded by X3D[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D
> but over time these policies tend to settle in a place where thing are more affordable.

Could you point me at some more reading that talks about this? The increase in prices makes perfect sense to me, but I don't really have a good handle on why things would come back down.
Does anybody know where I can read more about that picture specifically? It looks suspiciously good, what kind of processing did it go through?
In change management they argue that companies tend to purposely slow down change over time to become more predictable and lock in on the "successful route". That certainly mirrors my experience. The only thing I don't understand is why you hire so many people when you let a few handful people gate everything. You might just as well fire 80% of the workforce.
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In my team, we often deploy internal "services" as cronjobs on an EC2 service. This hasn't run into any issues in 24 months.

One of these we decided to move to a more serious infrastructure (a set of AWS lambdas). It's failed three times in 6 months since, and we're moving it back to be a good old cronjob on a server.

Simple is good.
Is this a case where you know what the CEO does day-to-day and don't find it relevant? Or that you're not sure what the CEO spends their time doing?
It was fulfilled by Amazon, so hopefully at whatever end of this they figure that out and realize they've made an error. I have certainly hit that point, for whatever reason :/
Not just professional equipment, pre-90s every electric/electronic hardware itself larger than a book had at least a high level block diagram on a sticker on the back or on an inside wall, and also more detailed diagrams on manuals. Complexities then went overboard and those diagrams became rarer.

I remember those diagrams also didn't include mechanical drawings, so the last part of your comment is right too. You aren't going to be making magnetic read/write heads or even DC motors from information taken from those diagrams, merely the topology of control circuits - which is an opposite view from how we'd see it today.
This looks great - some more in-depth documentation vs. just a feature list would be helpful.

What's the configuration / deployment story? How do you move a configured Motor Admin configuration from development to staging and then production?
How is shifting the burden to landlords via moratoria different from shifting the burden to landlords via tax increases? Unless you could forego tax increases by printing more money or by generating more revenues by falling towards the inflection point on the laffer curve.
This is a very cool description of what the interior of Jupiter may be like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12eggw/seeing_a...
If by "different things" you mean "a functioning daw at all".

4/4 is not the only time signature... 3/4, 6/8 are really common too. Not to mention 5/4, 7/4, and others. Not supporting other time signatures is like building a car with wheels but without a steering wheel, and then handwaving criticism as "wanting different features".

As a musician/composer it's beyond absurd to have only 4/4 as the option- it's a non-starter. As a software engineer this seems like a fundamental code issue, because it really should be dynamically handled, and time signature is important for other components.
Taxes on unrealized capital gains would force everyone subject to it to make conservative estimates.

Think about it, no more hyping because if you hype and you don't deliver then you'd end up having to pay cold hard cash for what are essentially hyped-up paper gains.

It would essentially force everybody to behave like Bill Gates when Microsoft was emerging. Which is still the gold standard of how the CEO of a publicly traded company which is experiencing growth should behave.

From Paul Allen's book "Idea Man":

"As the company’s chairman and CEO, Bill was never one to hype future earnings. He’d make modest predictions to set the stage for the company to shine if it exceeded projections. But as Microsoft’s stock price rose by a multiple of nearly a hundred in the 1990s, he found those victories harder to pull off."

No wonder Musk is opposed to it, he got here by selling overpriced and overhyped equity to bigger fools. Tax on unrealized gains of billionaires essentially takes away his bread and butter.
> You just have to be damn sure that you back it up correctly.

Most somewhat serious NAS appliances offer being a TimeMachine server which is more than enough for most people.
Xtranormal was a video service that would animate scripts with some stock characters.

Someone made a bit of internal-only snark, and "I just want to serve 5TB" became an in-joke for turning easy problems into exercises in frustration.

Some of these things have, actually, been addressed.
Didn't do a deep dive, but it looks like they have distributed data structures (DDSes) on that layer, which appear different to CRDTs (merging on the client, not on the server).

I can imagine someone could build a multiplayer game on this thing (though I doubt that's what MS designed for).
I am saying the quality of the content of that article is beyond the known capabilities of our current ML systems.

The overview is better than what you might find on stack exchange about using iframes for security sandboxes (Cue joke about intelligence and stack exchange).

Your comment is just saying “if you are responding to something that passes the Turing Test, how can you tell?”.
The coins minted by Liberty Reserve were in fact clearly labeled with their brand and not at all likely to be mistaken for U.S. currency. Their web site, libertydollar.org, was imprinted on the back, and there was no claim of any official endorsement from the Federal Reserve. All U.S. coins in general circulation have "United States of America" around the perimeter on the reverse side, which was not present in the Liberty Dollar design. The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" was also omitted. The obverse designs could be considered vaguely similar, in the sense that most coins share some similar elements, but that's just the word "liberty", the year, and a stylized profile of the Statue of Liberty (which is technically French)—not even a profile that could be mistaken for a U.S. president. If that's considered enough to cause confusion then the Federal Reserve is at least equally at fault for making their obverse designs so generic.