skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are ignoring my claim.

Let's assume that these screens eliminate 100% of all deaths and accidental injury from backing up.

My point is that does not outweigh the number of deaths that are caused when the screen distracts the driver and causes a crash. This happens frequently, at higher speeds, and with worse consequences. Worse, I bet these crashes are grossly under-reported because no-one is going to admit being distracted by a screen, and so accepting liability.

As for gut instinct, mine has nothing to do with it. I have been in enough close calls with other distracted drivers, and I have seen the PSAs about not driving distracted, to know that it's a 10 kdeath/yr issue, not a 100 death/yr issue.

I'm going to disengage because there's something about this whole interaction that doesn't sit right with me.
This was the best paper I've read on this topic because it had many videos to go with it, but I suspect Youtube has since atrophied, but it was very well documented (Love Parade disaster, 21 deaths, Germany)

Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster? - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5856.pdf

It talks about crowd quakes, and how models are more fluid dynamics. Obviously the media will try to pin things to individuals and singular events because that gets clicks so it is a topic that's hard to move forward.
Restoring HP7475a Plotter
Our civic religion is contrary to taking notice of those factors.

Probably for the best, given history.
Personally I find it trite but whatever floats your boat.
It's not hard to get a visa if you get a job or for study. The thing is, it's hard to get those while being outside the country.
In the USA a layoff is usually a euphemism for termination with cause that can’t be supported in court. Because of the general litigiousness and at-will nature of most employment contracts here it usually means the employer offers a token severance payment in exchange for signing a general release.
10mbps? Seems pretty low and a bit pointless unless you preload the SSD, even then, why?
Neat, it’s a server-side implementation of the browser API for tab-to-tab communication.

https://deno.com/deploy/docs/runtime-broadcast-channel/
A question to ExaMesh, in case someone from there happens to be reading: could you publically offer a guarantee and promise that not a single byte will be read off of (or written to) customers' SD cards or SSD drives before being installed, or after being uninstalled from your racks?
> Yes, without question. Just because something is the right thing to do doesn’t mean it should be the law, backed with threat of violence.

I thought your argument was about autonomy. If you had pulled them back, it would have been the result of thinking that you know better than the person about to accidentally walk off the cliff and acting on it.

I can see you have a strong distaste for moral busybodying, but I think there is an argument for discouraging people from wandering into unforeseen circumstances (not necessarily by the state).
> He (Abbot) proposed instead an alternative framework called Merit, Fairness, and Equality (MFE) whereby university applicants are treated as individuals and evaluated through a rigorous and unbiased process based on their merit and qualifications alone

I am in full support with this, though it seems to me this is too idealized to be practical in practice. How can one reach a fair judgement of a student only based on a 1000-word essay in his/her application (which might not even be written by him/herself)?

However, I'm still saddened by that the MIT response to this incident is simply "it is Abbot's right of free expression to say whatever he wants", but nothing about what he actually said, or whether it at least makes some sense. It's as if MIT treated Abbot as an unknowing child whose nonsense words shall be tolerated, which is disturbing. Below is part of the mail list letter I received:

> Freedom of expression is a fundamental value of the Institute.

> I believe that, as an institution of higher learning, we must ensure that different points of view – even views that some or all of us may reject – are allowed to be heard and debated at MIT. Open dialogue is how we make each other wiser and smarter.

> This commitment to free expression can carry a human cost. The speech of those we strongly disagree with can anger us. It can disgust us. It can even make members of our own community feel unwelcome and illegitimate on our campus or in their field of study.

> I am convinced that, as an institution, we must be prepared to endure such painful outcomes as the price of protecting free expression – the principle is that important.
Smell is more complicated in a straight-forward way. Each distinct chemical sensor needs its own genetic coding, while eyes get by with a handful of distinct sensors, repeated spatially. Spatial patterns don’t need much coding.
That's a typical BBC mess of statistics. "Some" diesel trains as as high as 90g, but you haven't quoted the "some" electric trains being as low as 6g.
A lot of it is nerves driven. They want to look smart, so they just rip through the question even though they probably know better.

(I have been a victim of this myself.)
> So it’s not true anymore and yet you seem to be claiming it is,

I was just giving them the benefit of the doubt to be charitable since it seems like the kind of thing that is fixable with years of technical development. I have no evidence.

> Do you? Is there any evidence or a link to a credible source? Seems like a weird racist trope. Given how popular iPhones are in China, we’d likely know if there was anything to this.

https://www.newsweek.com/iphone-x-racist-apple-refunds-devic...

I should add that I don't think asian people look alike and that it's racist to make those claims.
> how to make education equal? Instead of setting up quotas maybe we should simply switch teachers. Let the teachers rotate among schools so that every kid gets a random selection of teachers and every teacher gets a random selection of students.

The lottery came back and you are moving from a school in Florida to Alaska.
I would expect it to work properly with the word oatmeal.
It talks a lot about the lack of zoning, which (combined with lots of low-rise) leads to convenience stores on every corner. This makes living a lot easier (you don't need to drive to get basic groceries), reduces crime (eyes on the street discourage crime) and creates a local social network (people from the street will meet there).

The downside is that Japan's lack of planning makes it kind of ugly and boring. I love the utilitarian look, and a functional city is one that can have other priorities, but the physical city fabric is treated mostly as a disposable commodity.
> As long as your philosophy of what a desktop is matches exactly to what the core devs view gnome is, then I am sure your fine.

Well, yes. They are the devs. It's their project and so they get to decide what goes in. That not different with any other project.

> obtuse nature of the gnome team

That has been often repeated, but has not been my experience. Yes, the Gnome developers, such as any good team - has a clear vision of what their product should be and a process they are following. Most of the time, there are excellent reasons for their decisions. Sometimes technical, sometimes pragmatic. In some cases it's just aesthetics. But that's not different from any other free/open source projects. There are dozens of projects that are forked and forked again because of aesthetic, technical, social or idealistic differences.

> as was highlighted above, System76 ships a forked version of gnome with popos because none of their changes, their contributions, were not accepted by gnome.

Well, that's .. good, I guess? I mean, that System76 have forked version of Gnome that confirms more to their vision of a desktop.

That's the beauty of free/open software; no one is beholden to a single company calling the shots.

> From my point of view gnome devs do not build gnome for the gnome community gnome devs build gnome for themselves, and if others use it ok, but they do not really care if they do

I would argue that the Gnome developers very much are a part of the Gnome community. Yes, they build it for themselves, or for the companies paying them to build it.

The primary commercial contributors to Gnome - companies like Endless, Redhat, Ubuntu, SuSE - are not single-mindedly interested in Gnome's market share. They have larger offerings, of which Gnome is only a part. They have nothing to gain from - say - Gentoo switching to Gnome (except maybe additional developers, but that's not a given). Why should
East-Asians have an average IQ of 105/106 vs 100 for Europeans.
Some of the most creative artwork you'll ever see exists in warez groups' nfo files.

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-document...
_have way more having fun writing.._ - pretty much seems to be the culprit here.
Tokyo is nice but the commute no shangri la. Trips longer than 10km are usually a hour because of so many train stops. Average commute to work is ~50min in a crowded train standing up.

Meanwhile on my social feed my Japanese friends will admire the large living spaces in the US. I think most people are just convinced it is always better somewhere else.
The answer and the future is kids will be raised by the state and given an equal playing field. This frees parents to work/spend and ensures the only advantage exists at the gene level. We can selectively breed those traits away .

The problem is we sent kids to school in the first place and ask them to follow a system designed for the average student but not the most typical.
Regressions galore if you do and happen to be on hardware that is not that common, though.
I'm a trash python programmer. I duct tape tutorials and stack exchange answers together. I started working through SICP (stuck on pascal's triangle atm; don't help tho) to address this.

Do you think that's a reasonable way to become a more confident and employable programmer?
Yes

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...

Now think about places and cities with good quality of life…
And check ranking
grow up, NFTs are idiotic and useless
code for pepe is now available: https://gist.github.com/mishushakov/eb281f8edbb7e2bd2e6580de...
> Just another data point to support presumption of no credibility when businesspeople testify to Congress?

In the best case.
Could platelet-rich plasma injections help avoid knee surgery?
https://archive.ph/P8QnU
Considering the well documented biases inherent in IQ tests, he means "no brown people".
Tobacco farming also exhausted soils.

https://bsc.poole.ncsu.edu/news/remembering-john-vollmer-a-c...
You can fix the delay for which key using by modifying the following variable:

(setq which-key-idle-delay 0.1)
Then why wouldn't they call it remote code execution?
oh no. this is the same mistake that Ubuntu made with unity. Their current additions to gnome are perfectly usable and stable, I don't understand why they would change.
Also vaccinated (and I feel ridiculous having to start discussions with that). What I see is that this has been an unprecedented opportunity for people to rub their ideology in the noses of others. So as long as they can get away with it, they are pushing hard to basically humiliate their opponents. This kind of political opportunity does not come along very often, and they (far left Democrats, and their equivalents in other countries) are making hay with it. Its really the equivalent of a border wall or abortion ban or these kind of things that are not right, but have majority support, and so get rammed through. The point of a liberal democracy and constitution is to protect against this (and thus the court decision) but we're in a time where populist leaders ignore democratic norms
Pumpkin is for pigs, in some countries. Turnips for sheep, in others.
The New Gilded Age
There are no CPUs that have no pauses; who knows, you may have to wait a microsecond for that cache line to come in from RAM.

There are no operating systems that have no pauses; if you don't want to share the CPU, you're going to have to take responsibility for the whole thing yourself. Most people are not even using RTOS.

There are no reference counting implementations that have no pauses. Good luck crawling that object graph. Most people are not even using deferred forms of reference counting.

As far as I know, there is one malloc implementation which runs in constant time. No one uses it.

There are tracing GCs whose pause times are bounded to 1ms. That is enough for soft-real-time video and audio (which is what matters to video games). In general, you are not going to get a completely predictable environment unless you pick up an in-order CPU with no cache and write all your code in assembly.
Not checking for arrays (and nested array recursion) is most likely the biggest performance/feature difference.

Some diff libraries have React specific optimizations, if values might be React elements/components.
I use it frequently. Unit conversions, and the solver.
Absolutely, I should have included a godbolt link or something, and it will vary on a case by case basis - but still, and especially across function boundaries, using const generics makes things more predictable.
If you vote "completely" anything you are part of the problem. I vote for issues, not candidates or parties or political ideologies.
I wonder if the fact that it was not the historical capital of Japan has something to do with it. European and American cities (like London/Paris/NY) started from a center and moved outward by outside pressure for growth. Tokyo seems like a bunch of mini-cities around the bay; and then suddenly it became a capital city.
> future is kids will be raised by the state and given an equal playing field.

This seems dystopian...
I don't like the expectation that all people should approach problem solving in a particular way. Everybody is different.

Personally, I like to continuously implement and clarify in small tight loops.
It might look something like: implement a rough structure with lots of empty functions and very basic control flow. Ask questions. Restructure. Ask more questions. Restructure again and add implementation detail. Etc etc.

This way of working is tied with my thinking. It reveals the problem to me over time instead of all at once. I get a deeper understanding this way.

There is an assumption by some people that my process is wrong. They would argue that I should instead break the problem down on paper, or in my head, or using test driven development, or with design documents etc etc. But this is the process that I've found works best for me.

I can enforce a particular process to please interviewers (and I have). But solving the problem becomes much harder.
> Isn't something being adaptive exactly what it makes it not pathological?

Not at all. Hannibal Lecter thought he was just fine, that it was the rest of us with a problem. And there are plenty of times in history where being what we'd consider a diagnosable monster was a path to success.

> It wasn't an issue of mass psychology.

You haven't demonstrated that at all. Psychology didn't exist until after the Civil War. And even now most of it is focused on helping individuals who voluntarily seek treatment.

Indeed, I think you've created a false dichotomy. After WWII, the victors intervened massively in Germany and Japan. They thought that military wasn't enough. In the words of Field Marshal Montgomery, they had to "win the peace". For him, that included changing how Germans thought and felt: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/456873/Military-legend-...

So was a massive war the only way to defeat the Confederacy once it was formed? Probably. But was that war enough to stamp out the south's culture of racial hatred? Definitely not. You can read the reports from the Freedman's Bureau to see how the racial terrorism of Jim Crow was present during Reconstruction. I'd argue that failure to address the group psychology was one of America's biggest failures.
Built something very similar some time ago when my sister was pregnant.
https://generate-name.net/popular-names
Not impossible, but only if you focus on older generation chips.

Next generation chip manufacturing is insanely expensive. EUV was already a moonshot that started in 1997 and is only really usable for production in 2019. Mainly invested by its customers where only two (TSMC, Samsung) succeeded in getting it ready for production, whereas others (who already paid) are still struggling.

However, building slower chips might be more feasible. But note that in this space there are multiple competitors.
Despite the title, people who have never lived in Japan probably still don’t have a great idea of how it runs after reading the article.

So here’s a quick rundown of how the decentralisation mentioned in the article is structured:
Japan is split into 47 todōfuken (都道府県), their closest analog to a US “state”. You’ll hear these called “Prefectures”, but just like the US has states (Washington) and territories (Washington DC), Japan only has 43 prefectures, the rest are technically different types of district. Tokyo is (the only) “metropolis” region directly under the national government.

Across Japan every local district is split up into shichōson (市町村), cities, towns, and villages.

“Central” Tokyo is a special area where that standard shichōson system doesn’t apply, except really it does, we just call things “wards” instead.

Every local district, whether city, town, village, or ward, is essentially the face of government in that community. They provide public services like sanitation, education, and community engagement events. When it’s time to vote, you will go to your local [city|town|village|ward] office and do it there.

These local offices have quite a bit of power (and are what people are talking about most of the time when they refer to the “infamous” Japanese bureaucracy. For an excellent film looking at this world, I cannot recommend Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” enough. I believe it’s in IMDbs top 10 of all time), while they are often ridiculed for being slow and stuffy, they are a very real check and balance against the prefectural and national governments.

Tokyo has a city-wide government (analogous to a state government) that is politically important at a national level, an example of the more illustrious institutions run by this level is the famous Tokyo metropolitan police.

As the article stated, Tokyo is rich. 10th largest gdp nation in the world if it was an independent nation, this means there’s a lot of money flowing through that city government. Depending on who you ask, this is the level that shady deals, and blatant corruption happens most. The tabloids are always busy in Tokyo.

The point is, all these powers seem to be quite well-balanced, and the citizenry engaged enough to keep them in check, in other words, like a well functioning democracy. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its downsides, and I’m no fan of Tokyo after living there for four years, but it is a remarkably well-working system. I’d still rather be in Osaka, or better yet, the countryside tbh.
I went back and looked up brain death, and yeah, I made a misunderstanding. Fair enough.

> you have approached this from the perspective of 'prove to me that X doesn't happen'

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. If I'm thinking of buying a power tool, then 'prove to me that <rapid unplanned disassembly> doesn't happen' is an appropriate tone, and exactly the kind of skeptical questioning that should take place: it's my problem if the problem happens.

I don't care what kind of political climate we're in; you don't get to tell me what kinds of questions I'm not supposed to ask.
Mainly because its citizenry and its bureaucracy have a personal attachment to their city and society being run cleanly and efficiently. This is not the case in cities like Paris or NYC, where most people see themselves as guests or even victims attempting to finesse the system by doing the least work possible. Since pretty much every public worker abides by this system there is an implicit agreement to never pursue any offenders (be they lazy or just incompetent), for everyone is used to doing the bare minimum and they like the arrangement.
This source is attributed to a self-identified eugenicist. I think we can do better on here.
Whenever there's a way to disable it, it's usually discovered after the fact, and then next month a new setting is introduced which must also be disabled.

Fool me once, etc.
Learning Lisp gave me perspective on the other computer programming languages that I worked with. Having done a few major projects with Clojure gave me some practical sense of what the advantages might be, especially when combined with Java's broad ecosystem. Above all, it gave me distance from the cult of Object Oriented Programming. It's important to have some perspective about the dominant paradigms of programming. It was only when I had that perspective that I ended up writing what became my most popular essay, "Object Oriented Programming Is An Expensive Disaster Which Must End":

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-oriented-progr...
Apple makes fixing even harder for authorized repair shops, than unauthorized repair shops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6025_yK02U

If Apple laptops internal harddrive gets broken, currently they can not boot from external harddrive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083633
Canada tried that. It didn't go so well. Probably the worst thing you can do for society.
So you're saying that "fat people eat too much" is a statistically inaccurate statement?
There's no free lunch. Cloud services trade performance woes for budget surprises. This may be preferable in some cases but the tradeoff should be recognised.
...or selling a live feed of airline KPI estimates to quantitative hedge funds and market research companies?
Literally every time somebody on HN has to write a comment shaming for curling into bash. We get it. You should download the script, inspect it, and then execute it.
I don't think you are understanding the differences in scale. Ammonia is produced in truly massive quantities, it is one of the highest volume industrial chemicals produced. It is transported around the world in pipelines. The amount of hydrogen used to make steel is a rounding error by comparison.

Making hydrogen via electrolysis requires 50 MWh per ton. Manufacturing ammonia requires tens of millions of tons of hydrogen every year.
I mean, I think designed is a bit strong here. And the long history of labor restriction, including today's tendency toward non-competes, clearly suggests it's not working so well. But to the extent that people do quit jobs, that does certainly help.

But you're very breezy here about quitting jobs. It's easy enough for a young, single guy in a hot industry. It's quite difficult for others, especially given how things like health care are tied to employment.