skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Politics is also a means for idea exchange, collective weighing of priorities, debate, the proposal and then choice between competing visions, etc.

That's what happens in a political community which has already established itself as such. That's not the fundamental character of the political. Collective weighing of priorities, debate, and so on can happen on a factory floor, or a science lab, or a lecture hall. It is not a distinguishing feature, but just a process. In fact a bunch of computers can weigh priorities and evaluate proposals.

What actually defines the political domain is the distinction between friend and enemy, that is to say who can exist within the group you deliberate with in the first place, and who is out, it's always a matter of identity. So not only is power, as in reserving the right to eliminate who isn't part of the community part of politics, it's the precondition for any community to actually have a political life.
It's called "The Volume" and it's a true game-changer.

Because the environment projects its own lights, reflections are automatically correct and don't need to be added in post. It also gives huge freedom to the DP for shots because they don't really have to light anything specifically.

And the best thing is that it's comparatively cheap so they can punch way over their budget effects-wise.
>> "average driver" who just bought $40-50K NEW car.

Driver and buyer/owner are different things. Few teenagers ever buy a Tesla, but they certainly drive them. A car cannot only be safe in the hands of the rich initial buyer who lives in a nice climate. It must be safe in all the other people who that owner may let drive. It must also be safe for subsequent second and third owners, people who might not be wealthy enough to stay home when it rains or when the autopilot thinks conditions are too rough. (It was -35c on my drive to work this morning. Dark. Ice fog then blowing snow.)
Yeah they can. If you practice defensive driving you are less likely to kill someone
By AI programming I mean the AI doing programming, not programming the AI. Though soon enough the first will be doing the second and that's where the loop really closes...
Also feel they compare Tesla with autopilot vs. other cars. Instead of Tesla with autopilot vs. Tesla without autopilot. As Teslas have way better crash tests but doesn't mean autopilot is safer.
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It got the value of the sixth and seventeenth bits, moved them into the right positions, and inserted them into the original value. Off a one-line description written in English! I really cannot empathize with the idea that this is not a meaningful capability. If intelligence only means to you “equal in all capabilities to an experienced human”, you are never going to be able to see anything coming ever.
5 y/o but it's been good all the time, hope it goes on like this :)
> There are places that do employ such monitoring, but they're a corner case.

Don't amazon warehouses already monitor workers in this much detail? Just yesterday I read someone talking about how managers get reports containing, amongst other things, how often a person was standing still. Lots of companies squeeze their employees like this, especially low paid employees.
Sure, some countries are doing better but why? That's what the article is asking, is it because Japan/Australia's citizens are better behaved, something else? That's the question behind the obvious but wrong conclusion "good country A is doing X this so X must be good"
Good Cop/Bad Cop-Ing Engineers
I am sorry but I cannot give a good recommendation as some years have passed since I have last searched for chemistry books in this domain.

If you go to Amazon and you search, e.g., for "Polymer Chemistry" and for "Materials Chemistry", you will find much more than 100 books. However I do not know which are the best among the recent books.

A less risky way than ordering such a book, and finding after paying for it that it is a dud, would be to go to an online site like Library Genesis, search there for such books (there are plenty), browse through them and maybe, if you find what you need, choose one or more to buy in printed form.

Alternatively, you can read the Amazon reviews for such books, to determine which would be worthy. The Amazon reviews for such specialized items as a science book are usually more trustworthy than for items of general interest.
> several other risky groups that most people buying Teslas aren't part of.

This is a fallacy. Ask any demographic you like if they're road ragers, drunk drivers, etc... and they'll deny it. Everyone is sure that rare and terrible outcomes will never happen to them because of their own behavior, including the people to whom it happens!

It's probably true that middle aged premium car owners are safer on average, but you don't get to rule that stuff out by fiat. In fact there have been a few "Autopilot Saves Passed Out Driver" stories over the past few months, where Tesla drivers were clearly impaired.

As for this particular paper: this is just P-hacking folks. You can't take a vague dataset[1] and then "correct" it like this without absolutely huge error bars. Why correct based only these variables? Why did they all push the results in one direction? Why not gender? Why not income? Why not compare vs. like cars?

This isn't good statistics, it's just more statistics. If we want the real answers we should get a better data set (which, I'll agree, would likely involve some regulatory pressure on manufacturers).

[1] And, to be fair: Tesla's safety report is hardly comprehensive and provides no data other than the aggregate numbers.
A lot depends on the founders. There's plenty VC funded, OSS-originated businesses that don't suck. GitLab comes to mind. There's no reason to immediately assume httpie is going to be the Postman story repeated, although I agree that with VC funding it's more likely than without.
Maybe a stupid thought, but could a carbon-based building material be the best possible news for carbon sequestration? I mean, we humans need a lot of buildings.
Probably thinking if Apple can sell a connected watch for $400, why not give it a shot.
I think one can make problem "differentiable" via some heuristics and if you have NN trained to rate code quality and some understanding what should be used for type of problem, memory and speed and than can classify problem to group then rate solution it should be able to guide the process (in competitive programming).
Recently tried the markdown+pandoc route but couldn't get pdf rendering to look decent or for document links to work, or for a multitude of other things to work... Which is a shame because markdown is great for everything else
I get your point but I'd like to be a little more optimistic and flexible about how I see the future playing out. I think at this point writing off Israel as being Zionist and never anything but is a bit like doing the same with the USA around the time of its inception, saying it'll never be anything but a slaveholding colonial fief to the British.

I'd like to think there are possible futures where things change for the better, and those are the thoughts that give me hope for Israel and for Palestine as well.
Do you want your neighbors to have flying cars?
I am tired of not typing.

All the touchscreen keyboards, mouse-only interfaces and other ways (like voice recognition) to avoid a perfect tool (once adjusted to it) which easily, with some minor practice, nets you perfectly precise 60-100 wpm (or more), and allows switching between languages in a pinch.

I am not a native English speaker, but does anyone not switch to stressing words out differently when hoping for good accuracy?
For those clueless as to the importance of "sigh generation" (as I was), here is a paper that goes into it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427060/
Unfortunately I think the debate over universal healthcare in the US has probably been setback years _if not decades_ due to all the renewed mistrust in the media and government over its handling (or mishandling) of the pandemic response.

We are at the point now where ~50%-ish of the US population has almost zero trust in government or media at all, and they are not going to look favorably on handing full control of healthcare and health decisions to the government.

My feeling is that universal healthcare in the US is going to be impossible to pass right now, and difficult to even talk about seriously for the forseeable future until trust is rebuilt.
I don't know. My wife does not have those experiences. She happily buys stuff at Amazon, chats with relatives and friends on social media, and is active in some subreddits.
I don't know of a single harassment issue so far.

maybe less generalisation would help?
Would the castle doctrine apply to your digital residency?
I ran email servers for my personal domains in the 90s and early 2000s. What eventually caused me to move everything to gmail was the massive pain of dealing with spam and trying to keep up with the latest spam filtering, which is essential.
This isn't "proper statistics", this is P-hacking. Tesla's data is incomplete and bad. But going out and finding confounding variables to confirm your priors isn't the treatment.
> "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to vote" or "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to due process".

Not the same thing at all, because a firearm is directly and irrevocably more dangerous while under the influence of drugs.

You can debate the tradeoff of "right to bear arms" vs "right to regulate arms" (just as voting has gone through lots of regulations, some terrible (black people, women), some OK or debatable (showing proof residence or citizenship somewhere in the process), but it's not obvious simply by analogy to other rights.
There are also other metrics that are often confused with strength but have distinct definitions such as toughness, hardness, and wear resistance.
Wow, the 'Reds' is a term which I had not seen in a while, feels like I'm watching an early 80's cold war movie.
Ten dead, 14 hospitalised from 'cocaine intoxication' in Argentina
I mean... I am "Tesla Hater" in that I don't like the direction they're proceeding in; but every human being I ever met in real actual life does rolling stops under some conditions. Last time I can confidently state that "I never rolled through a stop at very slow speed" is when I was 17, and only NOW do I realize how much of an annoying bum I was :P. So if a car does a rolling stop through a stop sign when there are no other cars obstacles or people, my thought is 1. yes that's a breach of law as written 2. It's what everybody else safely does.

Kind of like in many jurisdictions, police will gently talk to you if you drive 60kph on the freeway, or even if you're doing 90kph in the left lane. Yes it's legal, no it isn't safe.
Not if they're Cleric spells :)
Being safer in a crash doesn't make it okay to crash.
Hm. So I actually like the form of north korean websites, if these two in this thread are representative of the norm. :) No ads, no trackers, 0 resources blocked in uBlock, no CDNs, clean design not jumping around, to the point without useless stock photos... No modern "design", with thin grayed out unreadable fonts. No webfonts, clean html code. Interesting. :)
And we thought spaceships would be built out of transparent aluminum ;-)
Very interesting study. I really like the very detailed list of data sources in table 1.

But. Look at the corrected confidence intervals for predictors on page 18.

There are almost no (!) significant predictors at all. Yes, trust (in government and interpersonal) is a predictor for absolute fatalities, but practically all the other variables are not significant. There are also no significant predictors of infection fatality ratio.

The primary message of this study - to me - is that it's really, really complicated. Even if you look at this many countries over this long period of time, it's impossible to come up with a single easy explanation.

(And I don't consider trust to be a simple explanation because it is highly correlated with may other attitudinal, ideological and other factors.)
This has to be some of the worst writing I've ever read
Do you have a blog or a github or something? This sounds really neat.
Design is manipulating people into doing what you want, I don't see how you can get away from that. A designer must make choices on what they want to user to see and do, that's what a default is. Perhaps you're thinking of stuff like r/assholedesign?
This material should produce some interesting surfboard designs
I've arrived in an interesting place I didn't expect.

Mostly, I don't care!! First and foremost, is the story good, compelling?

If so, I'm in! I see some of the effects, there are others I know I don't see, and good on those crews. Did their job. :D

I like to see them, when I see them too. Used to be, looking back, poor effects would stand right out, and it took me out of the experience. But, there was one exception, and that was the original "Star Trek" shows. For some reason, I didn't care on those and all these years later, I think I know why, and it's the story, the people, all of it being compelling.

Also, on that program the music is just awesome! I still use episodes as background when working. The sounds are just great!

Now, I super appreciate real, filmed things. The lack of effects is the special deal now. Cool!!

Finally, makeup:

I love good costumes, makeup, all that tech theatre stuff. The only time it's objectionable is when I do see it, and am not really supposed to, and usually that comes down to some environmental thing, the actor struggling (like sweat or something crappy for them and the makeup), or what seems like excess, like caked on.

Otherwise! Yeah. Decorate the people. Let's check 'em out.
I think CoPilot, etc will be revolutionary tools AND I think human coders are needed. Specifically I love CoPilot for the task of "well specified algorithm to solve problem with well-defined inputs and outputs". The kind of problem you could describe as a coding challenge.

BUT, our jobs have a lot more complexity

- Local constraints - We almost always work in a large, complex existing code base with specific constraints

- Correctness is hard - writing lots of code is usually not the hard part, it's proving it correct against amorphous requirements, communicated in a variety of human social contexts, and bookmarked.

- Precision is extremely important - Even if 99% of the time, CoPilot can spit out a correct solution, the 1% of the time it doesn't creates a bevy of problems

Are those insurmountable problems? We'll see I suppose, but we begin to verge on general AI if we can gather and understand half a dozen modalities of social context to build a correct solution.

Not to mention much of the skill needed in our jobs has much more to do with soft skills, and the bridge between the technical and the non technical, and less to do with hardcore heads-down coding.

Exciting times!
> Does this mean you're abandoning the "custom C frontend inside the D compiler" effort in favor of something like clang?

No. It means the custom C frontend inside the D compiler, with the semantic routines in the D compiler tweaked where necessary to support C semantics.
What happens when it catches fire?
I disagree that programming is dying -- tools like Copilot will lead to a Renaissance in the art of computer programming by enabling a larger population to design programs and explore the implications of their design choices. I wrote a short essay [1] on the history automated programming and where I think it is heading in the future.

[1]: https://breandan.net/public/programming_with_intelligent_mac...
You might be onto something.
>I am not a Tesla-hater though — I just thought it was odd that the company was playing quite so fast and loose with their safety claims.

If you're still surprised by this you've not been paying attention to how Telsa operates.
Coding is just the last step in providing a solution to a need. It arguably should be automated away.

What we humans do which is of great value is understanding problems and needs, considering known and possible unknown constraints, and finding a balanced solution which hopefully best meets the need.

Ironically, since most problems are described by humans (who tend not to be great at communicating), that big phase where we attempt to understand the real need is difficult and likely impossible for a computer to ever do. Just look at how underwhelming and frustrating current digital assistants are…

I look forward to being able to specify a class of need and some details and allowing the computer to code an implementation.
As I recall my material science, it's not so much that steel is weak in compression but, if you have a rod of steel (i.e. much longer than it is thick), if you compress it, it will buckle and shear. As you suggest--I'd have to look up the numbers--but a large cube of steel probably has similar strength with tensile and compressive loads.

ADDED: In fact, if you deform a supported I-beam you get similar amounts of tension and compression on the bottom and top respectively at the mid-point of the beam (given a variety of assumptions).
In all honesty, I think you're right. But I do feel something has happened. I definitely enjoy new blockbuster films a lot less then older ones. I still think fantastic films are made, but they are usually more independent films on smaller budgets, and some of them do have CGI, also obviously so, but it seldom matter.

Is it a problem with how the modern film industry puts together movie? I don't know.
The thing is, Blender 3d shows that an open source project can compete with the big boys. I've not encountered any gimp crashes, although I don't use it in anger enough. LO writer on the other hand crashed several times for me yesterday.
Exactly right. The population has to be compared to people driving new Volvo S90 or M-B C300, cars that have IIHS fatality rates of zero.
Can I ask how you know these things? Materials science is pretty far outside my area of expertise but I'd love to get a basic understanding of it.
> So you’re now agreeing that you need some level of remote support to handle edge cases like this?

As a bootstrap step yes, after that no just regular updates for new traffic rules and such. You can’t make a purely offline self driving system that doesn’t get updated for 30 years because laws change. But presumably a non geofenced self driving car is going to be tested by driving on every road either directly or via someone’s mapping project.

> What if it misinterprets a one way sign at night when there’s no other signal that it’s turning on to a one way lane and it suddenly finds itself traveling opposite the direction of traffic for a long period before encountering another car? You have to consider all of these edge cases when talking about a generalized solution.

You mean in some location without maps? There are a finite number of roads in the world and they don’t change that quickly. If you’re worried that the AI is going to say end up on an ice road that melts, sure that’s the kind of thing that happens once. But the threshold isn’t perfection it’s ~30,000 dead people per year in the US. Beat that and you win.
It's very funny to imagine picking up a romance novel and making it illegal by scrawling "by the way the girl was actually 16 the whole time" on the inside of the back cover.
That was without counting any work performed by RC and the turnaround.

From for the report:

* Figure 6 shows that the run-up in GME stock price coincided with buying by those with short positions. However, it also shows that such buying was a small fraction of overall buy volume, and that GME share prices continued to be high after the direct effects of covering short positions would have waned.

The SI was 140% of the float. Small fraction of the volume was the short (without counting short volume), you think it was enough volume for both? There's no way to know how much was that. Gabe Plotkin in his testimony even says that short have plenty of time to cover but it didn't seem that was the case. If you look at the SI chart it seems the shorts got closed right away, but the stock manage to have couple of wild runs to 300 and a few to 250. With no retail nor volume to back it up. Why is that? you don't see that with any other company. Maybe some fraud behind?I really don't know.

Anyway, I am not saying there's a 140% short position (nor crazy 1000% like reddit speculate), but the SI is not 10% nor 20%. The price action nor the options market backs those numbers, I may be wrong but I believe there's more to it. It is hard to be sure obviously, but I don't mind to have a few hundred shares and see how it unfolds, long term it is going to be worth more and I am not counting on any squeeze for that. This is not financial advice, it is just my opinion on something I ended up finding fascinating, from the investment side and the human behavior side.
I did. The conversation stated that the cynicism was not warranted. Just because you brought it up, but now don't want to talk about doesn't mean it wasn't part of the conversation. I did not just randomly reply to a comment with spambot level lack of context.
One behavior is discouraged by the manufacturer, the other is encouraged. I'm not sure the analogy works.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. The only difference are the specific insults. For example, no one is calling her an incel (as an insult, not the actual group), but it's likely a man would be called that. I wonder if her use of the term incel was legitimate or an insult.
Putting her last name on her Twitter profile and the pronouns by which she'd like others to address her is picking a fight? By your logic, the only people not picking a fight are those who live in a self-contained box and make no impact in the world.

I suppose that is your point; that someone like her has no right to interact with the world.
> Clearly there's a bit more than that... License problems often appear at convenient times.

Clearly not in this case:

"The broadcaster was blocked from Europe’s satellite network on December 22 at the request of German authorities, less than a week after going on air"
Does DoorDash jack up prices even if your on a subscription?
I noticed the prices of items are higher than when I go to the merchants website.

Isn't it like double billing if your charging me for a monthly subscription and jacking of merchant prices?
I disagree, I don’t think a man would get nearly as much hate for expressing an opinion on the internet. Particularly from the “incel” crowd as they hate women specifically.
I think he should crowd source this so we can all work to disrupt North Korea.
Since the first thing that group protested was telemetry, I don't know how we could possibly know that it's a "vocal but relatively small group of users". In general, though, "you can't please everyone, and not that many people objected" isn't really a compelling argument; the criticism is still valid, and people being unwilling to make the effort to make a fuss, fork, find workarounds, or switch browsers doesn't mean that they're okay with it. For that matter, there's not a lot of feedback in general; how many people objected, and how many said they were in favor, compared to the overwhelming majority who never said anything?

> You can disagree with them as much as you like, but Firefox continues to support the ultimate in user control by releasing their product as open source. Roll your own build that doesn't require those features, sideload your add-ons, and/or fork the product.

By that standard Chrome is a paragon of user control. Firefox, as it actually exists, in the thing that Mozilla offers users to download, claims to care about user empowerment while constantly reducing users' power.
An average person doesn't need to directly access the data. As long as journalists or researchers can, an avg person could rely on their analysis/opinion instead.