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> This is still very much a thing: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train

I used to commute from Bay area and Colorado on the Amtrak to visit family back in SoCal, it has it's charm: I had thought about doing a cooking tour show with a private couch/kitchen model highlighting local produce and cuisine all over the US.

but to be honest, after the 2nd time it was incredibly loathsome experience: it takes way longer than is worth if you value your time and it's incredibly prone to delays that might make your transfers not be there. I got stuck in New Mexico with 20 other people because of some issue with the bus we needed to take to get to the next train and we sat in a run-down town in Raton for 11 hours waiting for someone from Amtrak to sort out our itinerary. Suffice it to say, I'll take Frontier's cramped flight any day unless I seriously have nothing else going on for a few weeks and can enjoy the leisurely pace than trains were meant to be enjoyed as.
That process has existed since before America has, find probable cause someone is committing a crime, detain the suspect (you can get a warrant first but this is more common), get a warrant (can be done over the phone in a couple of minutes), put the cash away somewhere safe until the trial is over. If they are guilty of that crime and that cash was involved, great! If not you have to return it.

What we are talking about here is just taking the cash, sending you on your way and spending it, sidestepping your legal rights like access to a court provided attorney or a jury trial. It probably doesn't do much to prevent crime even, the fentanyl runners would much prefer you just take the cash they have on them and let them go.
I can relate.
I was 10x, that was a decade ago. Now approaching ~100x.

I've studied. I learned every language, I know too many app patterns, framework, protocols, blablabla.

I study the tricks of every role. I sense bugs before I even realize, its subconsciously unsettling. I feel like neo in the matrix.

I don't have answers for you other than I can relate.

Try to work on harder things and you will only keep getting better.

When you are the person who gets all the hard problems, you are forced to keep getting better, faster, and you take on and consume all the experience for the entire team.
The question that needs to asked though is: what would you do with that information? Would you be willing to undergo biopsy (which is the standard for diagnosis) knowing there is a non-zero risk of complication. What if the biopsy is not conclusive? Do we then do a major surgery which includes risk of death? Imaging is NOT diagnostic for tumors. For most lesions, you have to take tissue samples.

Disclosure: I'm a pathologist.
Generally firefighting, dealing with emails and various minor requests that all take less than half an hour but involve a lot of task switching.
While interesting, it doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

Luxembourg has more tax evading corporations registered than actual people. I'm sure i can make a public transport system work well for free given those conditions.
There is actually proof that this works. Using Felony Probation and Parole in a particular state as an example, at one point it went to the department that ran Probation/Parole. So the Probation/Parole Officers were encouraged to aggressively pursue getting the fees for probation/parole. Then it was changed to go to the states general fund (so the department stopped getting it effectively). MAGICALLY the officers only got encouraged to care about restitution payments and started being very blaise about failure to pay fines and fees.
Another YouTube channel I watch on this type of stuff is SEA [1], and the channel even has a curated list of their videos to help sleeping [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/SEAmedia

[2] Space Sleep playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoaIad9k4NIlsG6g-alm...
If you take actions that you know for a fact will lead to negative consequences for the people you are responsible for you should share the punishment.
Maybe in GitHub Markdown, backslashes have to be escaped only if they could be interpreted as an escape character?
There is support for this idea across MPs of multiple parties, from Conservatives, Liberals, Greens and Labour/Left. It appears to be a comparatively cheap measure to reduce CO2 footprint (I am not an expert here, though, so this might be incorrect, but one hears this argument a lot) and at the same time an easy measure to improve mobility for the poor. (Thousands of people went to jail in Germany every year because they repeatedly travelled without a ticket and could not or prefered not to pay the panalty fee.) So the zeitgeist is very much in favour of it, and ecological topics (in the wider sense) are becoming more and more important for people's decission what party to vote for. So what initially were niche topics of the Greens are becoming increasingly popular and more so, when they coincide with goals of other parties, such as social policy ideas from Labour/Left and the trade unions or the administrative simplifications ideas of the Liberals. Note also that Germany is already heavily subsidising its local puplic transport, with the effect that everyone pays taxes for tickets that only a minority uses.[1]

[1] At a moment's notice, I could only find old estimates from 2008 that amount to 25 billion Euros per year (more than 300 Euros per inhabitant per year) for local and regional transport (not including long distance transport) as of which only 9 billion Euros (35%) were paid directly from tickets or similar. This means 16 billion (65%) were already payed by the public (aprox. 200 Euro per inhabitant per year) -- see: https://www.zukunft-mobilitaet.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/0... (in German).
I would love to hear any alternatives from the city on this one, but we won't. It's hard to conclude for certain that they were wrong (IE they didn't actually believe a large scale illegal operation was being operated), although I do agree most of the presented evidence (which includes an email, in my mind the absolute most damning part of the evidence) suggests that the city (not the police) were conducting a shakedown.
It depends where you draw the complexity lines: some will prefer to do anything otherwise than to depend on those grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex compilers: Rube Goldberg Machine Syndrom.
Wait till it finds a 1970 level of usefulness.
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AFAIK the legal way to limit subsidized tickets is that the specific "membership" required to get the subsidized fare is available to all EU citizens - for example in Warsaw we can get lower fare based holographic stamp available from the city on the basis of paying taxes in the city - i.e. it doesn't matter what passport you hold, it matters that your tax residency is in Warsaw.

And healthcare operates by your local health system reimbursing the system in country you were visiting - you need to have European Health Insurance Card on you, from your healthcare provider, which helps route the payments appropriately.
You'd think, but in fact biochemistry is quite bad at disposing of pure carbon compounds. You can test this: stick a pencil lead into some compost for a week and pull it out.
Rural person here. My personal favorite is when people move to old subdivided farm properties, then bitch endlessly to their township supervisors that the remaining farms around them generate manure smells. Also, they're used to city lights, so they put up dozens of external lights on poles and light up the whole countryside because they're scared of the dark. It's night, people. The deer and the raccoons don't care about you.
From what I remember the auto train is the only profitable long-distance train Amtrak runs (it generates more in fares than it costs to run).

I'd love to see more of those types of options, personally.
How is it not clear? FSD and Autopilot are two very distinct things, please look it up.
It's fair to say that Tesla turned the heat up on electric vehicles and the associated charging network.

So, yes, over the coming years I expect we'll see much more innovation in this area from established manufacturers (or even other new ones). But not sure how Tesla itself will play out.
He was also against having any kind of lambda, and the one line version was the concession he was willing to let in.
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If you're living in the surrounding area of a larger city where you're working, I'd say half an hour to an hour is normal/average. With traffic jams sometimes double that.
IMO-- A few months to arraign, exchange evidence, make procedural rulings before trial, etc, isn't unreasonable.
Being that there are farmlands, trailers, "boonies", smallish towns all over the US, it would be safe to say that rednecks are an American phenomena rather than a southern one.
Do you really think a factory worker doing 996 isn't constantly moving/making something? Because if so, then you've clearly never done any factory work, in the US or otherwise, those jobs are nonstop work, even if it is menial work.
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After years of answers and over 90,000 reputation earned, I recently had my Stack Overflow account banned, with no explanation. I am one of only 70 people on the site with a Go silver badge:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/1665/go?userid=1002260

So Stack Exchange doesn't seem to care about contributors anymore.
And you ignore all public statements from Elon Musk

Tesla can’t have it both ways. Tell everyone that they have autopilot/self driving to sell car and build hype, but then claim that the website says the opposite so there’s no problem.
Japans xenophobia is a problem in that they can’t bandaid their birth rate issues with immigration the way other countries have been able to, but that doesn’t make it not a problem. Immigrants arrive and then have similar birth rates within a generation or so.
Megolamniacal narcissistic right-wing billionaire has behaved inappropriately with women? That's inconceivable.
Right. I believe that they did market it like a proper safety feature in the past, absolutely capable of avoiding crashes. Also, the name is already misleading, as "Autopilot" suggests that the car actually "drives" itself to some extent.

Even if they weren't trying to mislead people in their marketing materials, these points seem enough to make a case.
Saving to copy/paste on every [X workstyle] is best thread…
Kind of. See my other note here. The aligned environment work, but there should a curly braces around that are not shown, not sure the cause.
https://github.com/chazeon/notes/blob/master/docs/notes/ml-p...
I had never even heard of this, and I've watched dozens and dozens of episodes of Spacetime!

I'm shocked YouTube didn't steer me to this sister channel. Thank you!
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To be fair, I find it absolutely absurd that credit card companies siphon off 3% or so of all retail purchases, and then distribute a part of it back to their "most valuable customers" in the form of miles and cash backs and similar time-consuming nonsense. It is redistribution from the poor, those using cash and those not being able to pay off credit cards in full, to the rich.

The EU has imposed caps on these interchange fees [1], which is one reason Europeans are not inundated by junk mail offering credit cards, and may be a reason that credit cards are not ubiquitous. Having said that, I find that I can pay electronically in most places, including Deutsche Bahn ticket machines (or just buy them in the app).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union
took me a second to get it, nice one! (for anyone else not getting it: literally 'fucked' lol)
I think people overestimate the value of 'portable' code. Even with C or other higher level languages you often have to code around platform specific problems or jump through hoops for platform specific optimizations. Regardless, if you understand what the code is doing then re-writing it for a different platform is pretty trivial, and isn't rewriting code the favorite sport of programmers anyway?

Granted it is not a modern-style piece of software, but look at David Murray's Attack of the PETSCII Robots: originally hand-written in 6502 assembly for the Commodore PET and since ported to something like 20 different platforms, many of which have wildly different video and audio hardware and several of which use a completely different processor.
The modern pro-gun movement has erased the words "well-regulated militia" as well.

The thinking of course is everyone could potentially join a militia, therefore everyone is defacto covered under the second amendment.
Clojure sits on the JVM. Why can't false be false and nil be NULL?

I know of no other JVM-based lisp system which makes this "tradeoff". Indeed Kawa, which is rather faster than Clojure in my experience, does not.
Announcement: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-...

...as a part of its landmark campaign for its 75th anniversary celebrations, ACM is opening up a large portion of its archives, making the first 50 years of its published records—more than 117,500 documents dating from 1951 to 2000—accessible to the public without a login.

* A paper from the inaugural issue of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software in 1975: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/355626.355636

* The UNIX time-sharing system by Ritchie & Thompson. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800009.808045

* A Conversation with Steve Jobs. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/63334.63336

Edit: More info -

In January 2020, ACM launched an ambitious five-year plan to transition the Association into an Open Access Publisher. The foundation of that plan is a new model called ACM Open, which asks research institutions around the world to underwrite the costs of publication for their affiliated authors. Over the past two years, nearly 200 research institutions have already signed on to ACM Open and ACM is fast approaching the first major milestone for the transition, when approximately 20% of ACM's newly published articles are Open Access upon publication in the ACM Digital Library.

Source: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260362-thanks-for-the-...
I have astigmatism. Contrast isn't an issue. Brightness might be.

There are knobs for these on most displays.
I know the TOS for Autopilot require that the driver be fully engaged while using it — i.e. the driver completely accepts liability for everything that happens while AP is on.

But isn't one of AP's selling points is that it's sophisticated enough to mitigate if not outright prevent these kind of crashes? In previous fatal AP-involved accidents, Tesla drivers collided with stationary objects, which apparently are particularly difficult for AP to see. This case seems to involve one of the more common kind of serious head-on collisions: failing to yield to left-turning vehicle which has the right-of-way.

I know AP != FSD, and that AP doesn't necessarily promise it can handle traffic lights. But if it can't detect or react to vehicles slowly moving into the driver's lane...What are the dangerous day-to-day situations that it can confidently and reliably handle? Is it basically just lane control?
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IIUC, this is using Elixir for the orchestration layer, but that layer is spawning processes in other programming languages, communicating with those processes over gRPC, passing state into short-lived requests in those processes, and then getting new state back in the responses. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

IMO, that approach is irreparably inefficient, because state has to be passed back and forth, rather than being stored locally over the length of a longer operation. Yes, one has to checkpoint state to be able to recover from various events, but on the happy path, it should be kept in memory, in the same process as the code that's using it.

I think something like Sandstorm's grains or Cloudflare's Durable Objects (used in conjunction with Cloudflare Workers) is a much better design. Of these two, Sandstorm grains were particularly interesting to me, because a grain could run arbitrary Linux programs. I hope that when Cloudflare finally reveals its edge containers product [1], it looks a lot like Sandstorm grains.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/containers-on-the-edge/
I'm confused - what allows the victims to sue Tesla directly?
Legally the driver bears the responsibility, no? I can see driver suing tesla for a malfunction.

Can my neighbor below sue my washer manufacturer if they got flooded?
That train isn't running since 2020 and last December they have announced that won't be coming back for the foreseeable future.
A compilation of Musk lies on autopilot through the years (starts 2014): Includes claims that you can "fall aleep" and "pay zero attention" , "watch movies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ILRTF_DRSc
It seems like another “standard” that puts an immense burden on everyone else so the big players can save .01% on their bandwidth/power costs.
there's an unspoken rule to appear productive and "committed" while in the office, especially when everyone else - including your engineering manager - is doing it, you feel a pressure to do the same!

same thing for not leaving home at 5pm sharp and waiting 15-30 mins before you allow yourself to leave

it has to start from the top
I think the quality issues might have something to do with US auto manufacturing as well. I bought a new Ford in 2020 and the thing has had so many quality issues I am never buying another American car again. I just don't think the culture values doing quality work and building quality things because it costs too much and takes too much time and the current fiscal quarter is always almost over.
This is less of a "free market" problem than it is an overregulation problem. The article states that the primary issues are state granted monopolies and tariffs on imports, neither of which are "free market".
I don't keep a list, but did manage to remember the following instance. The Fluvio team blogged about sccache benefits and within just a couple months following this blog post [1] removed sccache from their builds [2]. Note the comment in the github issue: "Looks like removing sccache either improve or no impact at all to performance..."

[1] https://dev.to/infinyon/github-actions-best-practices-for-ru...
[2] https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio/pull/1229
Understood, but we don't want to ship something half-baked in the standard distribution. So we offer it as a plugin first so it can be worked on and polished without being tied to Caddy's versioning. Please try it out and give specific feedback on the plugin. We need to hear if there's any functionality missing or if the design doesn't fit user's needs before we can bundle it.
LOL I originally typed "what" and then realized "how" would be better, and apparently my ADHD kicked in
PBS Digital Studios[0] has a couple of cool deep series like this. See also Eons[1].

[0] https://www.pbs.org/franchise/digital-studios/

[1] https://www.pbs.org/show/eons/
At the heart of the opus audio codec is a maximally-encoding for combinations with replacement and sign[1], which is n-choose-k where n can be reused and there is a sign for each chosen dimension. Or stated another way, n dimensional integer vectors where the sum of absolute values add to k.

This enumeration can be implemented with the same kind of recursion as in the link, with a little bit of elaboration. Though interestingly, it (and the formula in the link) can also be be implemented with recursive table lookups quite efficiently, and for small fixed N with closed form formula (also true for the simpler combination code in the link).

These maximally dense algebraic codes can be designed for a great many possible applications.

For example, for a generational rolling cuckoo filter Pieter Wuille and I came up with an algebraic code for coding 4 sorted generation numbers with the requirement that all 4 are within a window of half the total range[2]. In prior published work on cuckoo filters used a large table of all possible values of combinations with replacement (to efficiently pack small sorted numbers). We found the algebraic code to be faster than a big dumb table, presumably due to cache locality, even though our fastest encoder/decoder still use tables but only tiny ones (at least for the sizes we were considering).

A challenge for implementing these sorts of functions is that their inverses often require operations like integer square or cube roots which are not particularly fast unless the ranges are small enough to implement them with tables.

[1] https://github.com/xiph/opus/blob/master/celt/cwrs.c#L74
[2] https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/blob/202006_cuckoo_filter/sr...
No, it's 1 month (in a 3 month period):

> For 9 euros, you can travel throughout Germany on local/regional trains for a whole month in June, July or August.
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To say 'Au contraire' you have to provide some sort of meaningful counter-argument. You have 'comedy' youtube videos, oddly overwrought bombast ('dictator', 'agenda') and something about a completely different phrase which, unlike 'Karen', is not intended as an insult.

Directing tropey slurs at people is mostly not ok on HN and it's been moderated like that for ages.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It's not super-complicated.
> Just like we were in 2014

> . A Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of autopilot. Like, so 90 percent of your miles can be on auto. For sure highway travel.

I don't see a reference to "full self-driving" and certainly not something that'd stop for stoplights and properly handle traffic signals.
That and right before the pandemic we had a been in a very long bull market (frothy on cheap money) that bad companies were getting funded on huge rounds/due diligence was an afterthought.

I wouldn't be surprised if we look back on crypto and are like, oh yeah the reason crypto took off and became way too snake oily was because there was too much money looking for returns over the last decade.
this isn't an experiment, it's a trial. Companies don't always do trials in Africa; in fact, they expanded into Eastern Europe and Asia moreso. HIstorically, Africa wasnt used for running trials, nor was it a place were lots of 'experiments' were done. Please get facts correct.
I'm sure all the Jan 6 protestor have waved their right to a speedy trial...
I've never seen a speed bump that I would want to hit anywhere near 25 mph. Even speed humps are more like 10 mph max.
If this was really about saving energy, they wouldn't also simultaneously lower gas taxes during the same period as well.
There are degrees to "assembly". There's .s source files. There is inline assembly with varying degrees of compiler plumbing/spilling/automation. There are intrinsics where you delegate register allocation to the compiler and allow it to optimize if it can.

Then, sometimes you write specific C idioms that you know LLVM is going to turn into certain instructions.

For highest performance, you will always think in assembly, and in fact in the internals of your target CPU (as far as they are known), even if you have various layers of software to produce the bitstream in your object files.
As a pilot, wanted to insert a little fun here:

“Terrain, Terrain, PULL UP, PULL UP”

Hopefully you were not sleeping. ;)
Of course, as with all train connections, you have to add the time to get to/from the station and some buffer.