skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Autopilot only works in the easiest of driving situations.

Oh no no no, this is not accurate at all. I’ve used Autopilot over 60k miles across the entire US, even in the worst of weather through steep mountain grades at night at speeds up to 85mph (both the Rockies and TN/KY/NC). I disagree with your assessment. It has occasional disengagements during challenging scenes (road lines disappear suddenly, heavy construction causing sharp lane changes) but is an extremely robust system overall.

Your average human’s driving ability is not so great, in comparison.
You may not be a founder, whereas I am a merely temporarily embarrassed founder, I'll have you know.
I don't appreciate the condescending attitude, and I'm well aware of the extensive use of slippery slope fallacies to attack policies or legislation.

It's cheap fear-mongering, getting people to associate an extreme outcome with a much more moderate proposed action.

"If you allow bike lanes in our city, in a few years these bike commies will be trying to spend tax dollars on buying everyone bikes, and then make it illegal to drive your car in the road!"
>No, it didn't, at least in any way which anyone who is qualified for even an entry-level position in any diplomatic service on Earth would mistake for a binding commitment even on the then-current administration, much less indefinitely into the future.

Oh yeah? From the former Ambassador to Soviet Union (1987-1991), Jeff Matlock [1]:

>One persistent U.S. demand is that Ukraine’s territorial integrity be restored. Indeed, the U.S. is party to the Budapest Memorandum in which Russia guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in return for Ukraine’s transfer of Soviet nuclear weapons to Russia for destruction in accord with U.S.-Soviet arms control agreements. What the U.S. demand ignores is that, under traditional international law, agreements remain valid rebus sic stantibus (things remaining the same).

>When the Budapest memorandum was signed in 1994 there was no plan to expand NATO to the east and Gorbachev had been assured in 1990 that the alliance would not expand. When in fact it did expand right up to Russia’s borders, Russia was confronted with a radically different strategic situation than existed when the Budapest agreement was signed.

What annoys me about this discussion is that people continue to say none of this matters because there wasn't a treaty signed with Soviet Union - an entity that does not exist anymore - and this somehow means that anything said in the past also doesn't matter. It certainly matters in the minds of people escalating things in Eastern Ukraine right now. So it certainly isn't "moot". How in the world is that question "moot" if it's the driving reason behind Russia's perspective in this? You can disagree with Russia's security perspective, and that's fine. But to just toss out the NATO expansion as "moot" is both historically inaccurate, and borders on deliberately ignorant as if Russia is not allowed its own security concerns in the first place.

There's several other dimensions of this discussion that aren't happening at all - e.g. what NATO is even supposed to be doing in the 21st century 30 years after its raison d'être evaporated, what continued maintenance of American Empire in Europe means for both Europe and the United States and whether that's really in everyone's best interest, and how the alliance actually stacks up against a recalcitrant China in the Pacific Theater or if it is really even charted to do that - because we're so obsessed with Russia for reasons that are probably best left unstated for now. Inb4 I get accused of "apologizing" for Russia's actions here, I'm not. What they're doing is imo a long-term strategic blunder that will cost lives in the near-term. It's also wrong that the default position in the West right now is "Russia's concerns aren't legitimate QED".

[1] https://www.krasnoevents.com/uploads/1/1/6/6/116679777/krasn...

edit: grammar
96 virtual cores is a popular choice on AWS, being cost effective in some industry scenarios. I'm certain the analysis of the piece applies
I'm really not trying to blame anyone here. Perhaps I should have qualified that I think the architecture of Windows 10 results in an incredibly hostile environment to a naive user who isn't sufficiently aware of the risks of the open internet.

I don't think Linux would be a good solution for her and I'm the most pro-Linux evangelist I can think of. In my estimation, she needs familiarity most, which got me thinking of a Chromebook or a Chromebox even.
My goto source is the text version of NPR, much of which is directly from the AP: https://text.npr.org/
I'd be more inclined to see the CIS as the successor.

The Fifth French Republic may be the successor to the Fourth, but that doesn't mean Algeria is still French.
It wasn't a witch hunt, it was an orchestrated attempt to shift blame for what is ultimately his responsibility. His behavior is unethical, immoral and costly to taxpayers. Why people still keep wearing political labels is beyond me.
Can I ask you something? How come the Russians never smile? I’ve never seen them smiling.”

“They’re at work. They're Russians.”

"Is it normal for them to eat without talking to one another?”

“This is their job. They get 20 minutes to eat.”

“Yeah, but they never smile. Are they happy?”

Are the Russians happy? Is anyone happy? Can one ever truly be said to be happy?

I am tempted to go full Slav on Conor, to explain to him how we are all just grains of dust suspended in the howling void, searching for meaning in the fleeting moments before we are yanked back to the oblivion from whence we emerged, naked and screaming. But for all his faults he's just a kid stuck spending his summer microwaving Yorkshire puddings for difficult people. I take pity.

“Russians are formal. It would be weird of them to act relaxed on duty. They are all smiling on the inside.”

-- https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
If you had the all the info, how would you be certain that you are not biased?

I had the unluckiness to be born in a country torched by war. I am still finding out the info about the war, that you won't be able to read anywhere. I am aware that it is not easy for someone that grew up and lives in totally different world to learn and understand all the complexities... But at least take everything with a grain of salt.
The thing about qmail in my experience is that it's no nicer to its own administrators than to anyone else in the world, which checks out given who wrote it but led me to quickly develop a strong preference for Postfix.
Russia probably won't have to pay billions soon as they will own Ukraine. I can see rebels blowing up the gas/fuel lines first thing though.
I just can’t get past the idea that Flutter draws fake versions of native UI components. It feels so Byzantine and wasteful, and I don’t trust Google to not just get bored with it and drop it ( especially outside of Android).
Your original stock option agreement should have a form that you can use to exercise the options. Fill it, attach a check for the exact amount and send it by certified mail. It doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.
Canada doesn't have a direct democracy because rule by opinion poll has well known dangers.
RU actions are against PRC interests in terms of international norms.

They are not and I don’t believe Russia would do what it is doing in Ukraine without Chinese approval. The timing of the recent agreement between Russia and China is pretty much proof that Russia has China’s blessing.

Since 1960 China has had military incursions against Vietnam, Soviet Union, and India. It has blatantly violated norms regarding the laws of the seas and used pseudo naval vessels to blatantly overfish in the territory of other countries. It has told VW that if it wants to sell cars in China then VW must stop doing business with a Lithuanian company. Your views on the subject of China and international norms is weird to me and not supported by history.

I will not convince you of anything and likewise I doubt you’ll be able to convince me of anything. I stand by my assertion that China approves Russia’s actions.
Java's checked exceptions are generally regarded as a mistake. There's a reason no other languages has them, and newer JVM languages (Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Kotlin) treat all exceptions as runtime. Anders Hejlsberg (creator of Delphi, C# and Typescript) also has an excellent article on their problems [1]. In modern Java I see nearly only runtime exceptions used, especially because that's necessary for most Java 8+ lambda API's.

Especially when used as an error ADT they're awful because they mix everything from "you have to handle this 90% of the time" to "the universe physics just changed, sorry" into one construct. Much better to use something like Vavr's Try and explicitly propagate the error as a value.

[1] https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...
I think most people not from DC will not even know where Anacostia is, you can probably just say SE or something.
* Over a thousand donors to the Convoy have been linked to the Jan 6th capitol demonstration and attack.

are you able to provide sources? I’ve heard the exact opposite.
>This is the risk in protesting. Authorities have never been nice to protestors. Protesting has always carried the risk of assault and the loss of livelihood, wealth, freedom, or life. So before protesting, you need to ask yourself if what your protesting for is worth it.

This act has never been used before, it's predecessor was used only during serious war. This act being used against legitimate protest and then going forward banning all protest?

Like say you want to protest the government based on one side of the Ukraine war? You can't, that's illegal.

Say you want to go cover those illegal protests and report on it as a journalist? That's illegal.

>Especially after the perceived police incompetence in the matter (by failing to dole out the standard ass-kicking-jail-fine punishment).

The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our right to protest in order to label the protest illegal.
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Slippery Slope fallacy is one of those expressions that gets thrown around a lot when people want to believe the next logical step forward won’t happen. When it constantly happens over and over again, it’s no longer a fallacy…just the next logical step.
There's an awful lot of uncritical supposition in this article. Sure, the brain MAY be recalling all the best moments of your life before you die, but there's zero evidence that that's what those recordings mean, aside from whimsy and hopefulness. It could just as easily be near-random memory access, similar to when we dream, and that, to me, sounds a lot more likely.

I know I'm the big grumpy curmudgeon here, but I think the question itself is full of sufficient wonder and beauty that we don't need to invent beautiful lies around the meager data we've been able to collect so far.
If you're in Canada (or at least Ontario) huge upticks in property values across a city don't result in higher property taxes. Municipalities set their budget and then divide by the real estate value to arrive at each lot's property tax (the actual formula is more complex, but that's the basic concept, plus MPAC values lag way behind actual sales). When everyone's property goes up by the same amount no one's taxes increase.

It's still a very bad thing property values have gone up so much. This isn't free money; the cost is being extracted from young people and new immigrants trying to enter the market and it's turning our economy into a giant real estate shell game.
If you don't trust what companies explicitly say they are doing, then there is no solution that will satisfy you.
Imagine some kids are talking about stuff from computer games, imagine some other kids talking about memes from tiktok.

If you are not into games or memes you discard it as nonimportant. That is same thing if you dont watch news.

Its like a joke you didnt hear and some people are referencing it.

No big deal.
Excellent reason to move to UTM: mac.getutm.app

Open source, actively updated, and the latest version is very easy to use.
Taxing revenue is silly. Atlassian has made no annual profit, losing money every year by investing gross profit into the Australian economy. This is Australias chance to have power in the global tech environment and you’d be foolish to gimp them by penalizing their investments into hiring employees. Do you want a dollar now or ten dollars in a decade when you’re taxing their big tech profits?

Or you could just tax people buying a used car for 9k, fixing it up, selling for 10k, at 10% of revenue…
The revolution will not be televised.

This is because all the mainstream news sources, even those that appear to be in opposition, are working in tandem. CNN, Fox, BBC, RT, Al Jazeera, etc and papers WaPo, NYT, Guardian, Daily Mail, etc are all providing positions on the same narrative. Using this sources - as if they are stating truth - seems crazy to me. They are all propaganda.

The apparent variety of left or right wing perspective gives the illusion of there being something there, that you have a balanced opinion on. This is by design. Its _all_ propaganda. Its soap opera for the middle classes. It does not relate to the live you experience.

The backdrop to it is that people live such virtual lives, sitting at screens, not engaged with nature and real-life, the virtual has become a de facto reality.
> Why would Putin want to annex a country full of people who hate him?

Because distracting people with a project to restore the greatness of Imperial Russia, repudiating the losses it suffered at the hands of hostile foreign powers (and even Soviet leaders—he’s blamed, e.g., Lenin for “creating” Ukraine from “Russian” territory and Stalin for giving Ukraine control of additional “Russian” territory) is Putin’s central political strategy right now, and he’s already laid out the public case for why Ukraine ought to be Russian on that basis.
https://www.adl.org/blog/adl-finds-1100-people-donated-to-bo...
> "A slippery slope argument (SSA), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is an argument in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

> In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. The slippery slope involves an acceptance of a succession of events without direct evidence that this course of events will happen.

https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...

> The two primary forms of the slippery slope argument are the logical form, (in which acceptance of A must logically lead to acceptance of the undesirable B), and the psychological form, in which it is argued that the acceptance of A will, over time, lead people to be more willing to accept B.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Also: general hand-waving like "based on this government's track record" does not a pattern make. Like most of my cited sources say: "based on little or no supporting evidence."
>The list of things that can affect me and many others and appear in the news is pretty much limitless; new legislation, interest rate changes, changes to my school district, tax rate adjustments, rebanding of my property, changes to what animals are allowed on a leash in local parks, road or business closures, the list goes on and on. We do not exist in a vacuum of one and decisions of others will from time to time affect even the most introverted of individuals

100% agree. As I said, many things can have an impact on you, but that doesn't mean they are worth paying attention to proactively unless you are even slightly likely to do something about them.

>All of these things can be actionable, and all of them require paying attention to a news source of some kind to take that action in time.

Again, 100% agree, assuming you might actually take action. I think most people are not honest with themselves about what might actually lead to action.

My point is not that news cant be actionable, but that for most people it rarely is. People would be better served if they curate their news consumption based on what may actually be relevant and likely to lead to action, and gasp perhaps spend some more time actually taking actions.

If you feel you already do that, then great. Based on my experience, the vast majority of people don't. They spend dozens of hours following local elections for states they will never visit, building "informed opinions" about protests while never attending one themselves. They track stocks they don't own and will never buy and read crime exposes for locations they will never visit.
SkyFi raises $7.15M to develop a satellite imagery app
I figure that worrying about death is something that can, by definition, only torment the living. There will be no blackness, because that implies perception. How are you going to perceive it when you no longer exist?

The closest survivable analog, in my opinion, is the "sleep" you experience when under something like sodium thiopental. When it works, you go from awake to awake again in an instant, from your own perspective. A bit jarring to lose hours or days like that. I assume death is similar but without the waking up part.

Regular old sleep doesn't involve that level of unconsciousness.
>Is this actually true? According to [0] "The Declaration expires after 30 days unless an extension is confirmed within specific timelines by both the House of Commons and the Senate.". I don't see how this would grant the government permanent powers unless the Emergencies Act gets renewed in perpetuity.

This is true. They have frozen the bank accounts of hundreds and you cannot do anything about it. You never got due process, there is no redress from the courts because you dont have a bank account to hire a lawyer.
Are you arguing that C++ is unsuitable for massive parallel data processing tasks?
I have always wondered if our last DMT moments were perceived as timeless. People imagine darkness but seem to forget that our minds reconstruct all of reality in real time. So you could conceivably live another life in your last moments.
4-engine airframes are nice, because you can put the test engine as No. 2 or 3 (next to the fuselage), with the rest conventional. If the test engine fails you can continue flying without much issue. Much bigger deal if you use a 2-engine airframe and half your engines fail.
If Taiwan military blows up critical parts of fabs upon invasion, China can promise whatever they want, its just empty words. Also, as we can see here, promises mean less than fart in the wind to states if its lucrative to break them
As with the Constitution DAO, this is basically a play for free money by a bunch of people who didn't do their research.

The NFL does not permit this form of ownership structure for any team, excepting the Green Bay Packers, as their nonprofit ownership structure had been in place for several decades before the ownership restrictions were imposed, and the Houston Texans (partially owned by local governments) as they are also grandfathered in (with respect to being owned by the government).

The NFL currently allows ownership groups of up to 24 people, but at least one individual must own at least 30% of the team. Furthermore, there are liquidity and cash flow requirements for prospective owners. https://web.archive.org/web/20181113100214/http://www.nfl.co...
> Any power given to government will be abused by them.

This assertion that the government cannot do anything good, by virtue of being the government, is kinda why the kids gloves are coming off between the Canadian government and these protestors.

What exactly should the government response be to a group of people who demand the entire government be thrown out, and are going to ruin the majority of the populations lives until it happens? Are they supposed to sit there and accept that they’re a naughty little government who can never do anything right so they need to be quiet and go away?
It is always easy to find places where performance doesn't matter, and even Python is fast enough, including startup code in programs where performance otherwise does matter.

You cannot draw useful inferences from those cases.
I've read the Act. It's quite rich that it proclaims to still be tethered to the Charter, and yet the act allows government to compel people to do a job against their will, ban protest in specified areas, seize/confiscate assets without a court order... it's like when a bully yells "stop hitting yourself!" while pummelling you with your own arm.

I'm sure the rationale for why it's apparently Charter-compliant leans heavily on Section 1, but the courts have been far too generous in deferring to Parliament on use of Section 1 as a justification for "minor" infringements.

It has also never been invoked before, and hence has not withstood the scrutiny of a Charter challenge yet. It may not, in fact, be Charter-compliant.
It's also easy to provide a default factory: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/default/trait.Default.html
My understanding with adrenaline, is that it will open your capillaries to increase blood flow to your extremities. This may be why you didn't get frostbite. The flip side of this, is that it means your body is transferring internal temp to your extremities, which means that you will "die sooner" if you don't have a way to increase body temp at a faster rate. Now it's possible that adrenaline also increases your body's fat burn to allow for this need of higher metabolism. I don't know.

My warning, is that this may be a similar problem to consuming alcohol in the cold. You feel warmer, and even have more calories to burn, but according to myth busters, it tends to be a net loss due to radiative effects. And likely is exponentially worse the colder it gets.
This doesn't pass the smell test for me, for several reasons:

Most of the "new" ideas in computing (neural networks, quantum computing, etc.) aren't new at all. Not to mention that Linux and macOS are basically 1960s-style operating systems.

Knowledge of short-term technical details and skills at dealing with brand new systems are much easier to acquire than deep understanding of core principles as well as engineering experience.

Dismissing senior colleagues as "entitled" and their knowledge and experience as worthless and refusing to work with them as a consequence would be a grave mistake.
Nobody make any strange images based on this data…
The Economist is also like 100+ pages per week. Very hard to consume without significant dedication.
Unfortunately like many areas of medicine (at least in Canada), sleep specialists will do a sleep study, and unless your sleep is sues fall cleanly inside a condition they can treat (cpap for apnea for example) you are on your own except for some one sized fits all advice about sleep hygiene.

If you don’t have restful sleep and don’t have apnea, and you have already tried the basics like melatonin, not using electronics before bed etc, you have few choice but to accept it or try to find your own answers.