skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a minuscule chance of making it in pro sports.

I’ve asked this question of some acquaintances that prioritize sports above all else. Their kids play different sports all year around and are on all these traveling teams. I’ve asked them if they seriously think their kids will be good enough to get a college scholarship or play pro sports (I’ve seen them, they won’t be). They just shrug. I have to presume this is how they were raised and so they are doing it to their own kids.
You know, they do the math in the video. You aren't in the lower atmosphere to loose a significant amount of your initial velocity. I have lots of other questions about the feasibility and cost competitiveness, but this just isn't a credible one.
I hate developers like this. This is the attitude of every weirdo developer I've had to work with who thought they were brilliant instead of just using the stupid tool as it was intended.
This is my take and why I’ve never owned one. I’m in process of buying 2 new “luxury” cars for our family and Tesla’s not even in the realm of consideration.
Cross references like that article are sort of the basis for a lot of what I'm talking about.

You're citing it as an examination of using the scientific method on religious, but it's making religious claims that don't exist with metrics that it's made up. To but it mildly, nothing in this article holds water.

Simple points: The article discusses belief in free will while using the basis of it to cite societal outcomes from hard work creating wealth or success. This is a regular topic, but it has no basis at all in Christianity. I certainly can't speak for all religions.

Free will: You are responsible for making your own choices and decisions.

Reality: Your circumstances will sometimes force you to make choices that you don't want to make to survive.

If you read the Bible, you will find pretty quickly that it repeatedly reinforces contentment, humility, charity, love and above all else: faith. It does not equate any of these with material wealth aside from the prosperity of Israel itself.

Every person has the free will to be thankful for what they have. They have the free will to have faith in God. They have the free will to love their neighbors and to be kind. They have the free will to give of themselves, whether it be their time and skills or their money.

Reading the Bible is eye opening specifically because you get beaten over the head with themes that are discussed over and over, through centuries while your eyes are also opened to topics that are barely mentioned at all yet amplified in culture to attempt to make a point.

Free will is ultimately a big part of the discussion of what people often call God's plan. It's where questions like "why do bad things happen to good people?" come from...because the Bible never says bad things aren't going to happen. There's also never a point where it describes God as some type of puppet master who is in constant control of every detail that happens in the world.

What you do see, is God periodically intervening. If you read, you'll eventually notice a pattern to the circumstances where God intervenes.

That revelation is best left for people to discover themselves.
I actually started down the path of saying "Scientism has the same ego-maximizing problem as religion," but couldn't really find demonstrable patterns. Some isolated cases for sure, but nothing you wouldn't find in business or high school cliques or anywhere else with a power gradient.

I really do think there's something special about religion which allows things to go radically, international-child-abuse-scandal-level wrong.
This argument is silly. How many people are using text-based e-mail clients who are also using etsy?

And the article also ignores the problems with the mailto:// link. cmon. The solution likely has more issues than the problem it solves.
The Myth of Mass Collaboration
Thanks. I've heard of the movie but never made the connection.
What the hell is that & how is it relevant to satellites?
> So what is going on? Experts believe decisions taken by the Government in the earliest stages of the pandemic may now be coming back to bite.

Policies that kept people indoors, scared them away from hospitals and deprived them of treatment and primary care are finally taking their toll.

That's in the first couple of lines. Those sounds unintended. Those are resulting in collateral damage.
Hopefully, that went down like a bribed prizefighter.
I’m a physician, medical oncologist and researcher with a previous background in software engineering. I happen to hear your points often and always reply the same way: if it is that easy and cost-saving, why don’t you build a tool that does this? The healthcare market is huge, the knowledge basis is more or less the same for all countries and almost all information is available online for free. There is a plethora of startups developing symptom checkers, supportive tools, clinical decision support systems and much more.
I’m testing a lot of these systems and helping companies to realize their wishes, still in my opinion those systems are ages from what doctors are able to do.
The argument has been made before, that physicians make up only a fraction of the total cost of healthcare. There is plenty of data supporting the fact that physicians even save money for healthcare systems and serve to avoid unnecessary, expensive and possibly harmful diagnostics.
So if you are able to develop a tool that is competent enough to talk to you for 2 minutes, perform 20 secs of auscultation and correctly diagnose and treat your common cold while excluding signs of potential worse underlying conditions, you will make millions of dollars.
But because the problem of turning all the available medical literature into data that can be acted upon, bridging the gap between a device and a human being with more than cameras and voice recognition whilst being ridiculously cheap and easy to maintain I’m quite confident even my grandchildren can be doctors (if they want to) and almost all of their responsibilities will still be performed by them.
I assume you are a healthy human being and luckily you weren’t forced to consult doctors for severe healthcare problems, but I assure you, once you happen to touch problems we assume to be even slightly more complex than the healthy population has to deal with, you will be happy that a human doctor is making the decisions, answers your questions, performs diagnostic tests and treatments on you and talks to your relatives. And if your are able to develop a tool that frees me from even 50% of the administrative bulls… I have to deal with, I will more than happily buy it.
TLDR: medical problems are more complex and inaccessible by non-human objects than it is commonly acknowledged by the layman. If you have a credible solution to a fraction of the problems we face and are able to sell it, you will be a millionaire.
Even then, a phrase like this "people take their metaphysical beliefs seriously, and use them to guide their behavior" is so terribly unempirical, and completely undefined, starting with the weird description of "ego".

That said, in the most trivial sense, religion does alter your behavior. The rest is the kind of reasoning that gives philosophy a bad name.
Tesla promised Level 5 autonomy in all conditions by 2020. People paid a lot of money based on that promise.
I thought this was going to be about older children’s programs not conforming to current mores. Like Cookie Monster promoting obesity or Oscar the Grouch being bullied or something. This is a straightforward business decision. I’m not sure why it’s especially interesting. HBO presumably has the data to make the right business trade offs.
Side question: how do you deal with authentication/registration for small projects? Doing it myself sounds like a lot of work. But alternative services are either expensive or don't give users good privacy. What do you guys use?
> "I'm not reading your site if you paywall it. There are too many other free resources that are just as good if not better."

This really indicates what our economy has become. Everybody talks about the two business models companies employ; ad-supported or fee-based. These are the selling models Occasionally, piracy is discussed. While it may be a business model, piracy obviously isn't a selling model. It is a consumer consumption model though.

We do have another consumption model that is more difficult to see because it does not include any explicit agreement between a company and a consumer. This emerges from companies that begin using loss-leading (money-losing) models to gain customers, initially. They then expect that they will generate a network effect or be able to rely on inertia (what Malcolm Gladwell generalizes as "sludge") to retain those customers when they later change their model to something profitable. This fails because there is always another business trying something similar. Each of these companies has the same global reach and customers can switch easily between them so they just hop from one unsustainable bargain to the next optimizing their own costs. They are disloyal leeches. I don't say that to be derogatory; it just seems the best description.
My target audience is not normal people though, and I don't mean this in the "edgy" sense. The fact that we are having this discussion is very abnormal to begin with, and I think it's great that there are some deviants from the norm who care about the longevity of such projects.

I can imagine many students and researchers hosting a mirror of LibGen for their fellows for example.
If you want to know if this has any chance of working, you should probably ask somebody who is an expert in this field and ignore the youtube videos. This goes for both Real Engineering and Thunderf00t
Tangentially related to the, as usual, insanely biased/political Vox pure propaganda piece, it's kind of interesting to note how fast society went from "there's no war on cars, you stupid conspiracy theorist" to just fully, openly, calling for replacement of cars, being fully open in their hate of cars. It's a pattern to remember - how they gaslight you at first about their position until they've made enough inroads to more securely support their true intentions.
It's not like the hotas joysticks represent typical airliner controls anyway.

It's just a game... and the console controllers have analog sticks and throttles, along with gyros and a dpad that could double as a hat switch. They're fine for casual sims and some prefer them :)

Certainly a lot more couch friendly than a hotas on your lap
Truly inspiring! The author Bryan Greene has done a great job of writing this article in a gripping narrative. I am curious whether there are any courses where I can learn this writing style. My writing is academic and quite dry, which I hate.
Also, the justification seems to be

> And you will never again pull your hair out because some editor swapped a tab for four spaces and made Make do insane things.

Which... I guess that would be annoying, but maybe fix your horribly broken editor rather than mutilating the Makefile?
The necessity of cars is dependent exactly on population density.

If you want private land
(house, yard), you will always need a private car.
One thing I wonder is if teachers are in such high demand, why do they put up with crap from their administrators and politicians saying that this is what they have to teach and how they have to teach it. Why don’t they just teach whatever they want to teach and do it however they want to do it? The worst that can happen is they will be fired, but they can probably find a new teaching position easily since there is such a high demand.
Back in the 90s when I was doing graphic design work, you had to use a Mac. Windows wasn’t up to the task. Windows postscript support was bad and service bureaus wouldn’t guarantee output. I recall watching three it guys struggling to get a scanner to work right on a pc. Probably a lot of younger folks don’t remember just how crappy Windows used to be. There’s not as much of gap now.

But then, I think the Mac has been in decline since OS 10.6 at least. It’s just more closed, more bloat, less reliable since. Now I prefer to use Linux at home, thought I have a Mac for work.
The Autopilot visualization is different than the FSD visualization, and the FSD UI shows significantly more detail. Go search YouTube for some FSD videos and you’ll see what it looks like.
It's not going to work. I happen to be friends with a top AI researcher and he laughs it off completely. "No way." He referred me to this:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tesla-self-dr...

"It's all hype," said Steven E. Shladover, a retired research engineer at the University of California, Berkeley who has been involved in efforts to create autonomous driving for 45 years. "The technology does not exist to do what he is claiming. He doesn't have it and neither does anybody else."

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It's not close to working at all. Musk must know it.
macOS networking is closer to BSD/Linux and is more able to be secured against any tunneling into Apple Network Infrastructure.

There is some pseudo netdev being used for tunneling into Apple Network infrastructure and they are blockable.
One thing that's always been confusing to me is this:

I assume that Sesame Street must have received a significant amount of public funding over the years, from governments, while it was being broadcast on public television.

As such, it seems like there should be some kind of legal obligation to keep it public.

This is one of my pet peeves — when a project receives significant public funding and then it is just essentially reverted into an entirely private benefit. It shows up in a number of domains of activities (telecommunications, research grants, and so forth) and always seems to me that there should be significant legal consequences for not maintaining public benefit or access in some way.

I might be wrong in this particular case though — maybe the public funding was always indirect, through the broadcasters?
What part of the original “being able to kick students out” are you claiming is happening here?
There's only one sane outcome of the current shifts in privacy that I can see.

Something like FLoC, with

- The data stored-in and served-by a neutral, not-for-profit, regulated entity

- With user primacy and control of their own data (opt-out, wipe, request copy, etc)

You're never going to drag tracking out of Chrome, because Google is revenue addicted at this point. So at least you can keep it out of Google's control.
That might be why sesame street tweeted that they are still available on YouTube
https://mobile.twitter.com/sesamestreet/status/1560746048922...
It’s important to take Steam DRM in context. In a world where DRM was becoming more intrusive by the day, and you had to contend with every game having its own unique way to mess your system up in its fight against piracy, Steam provided one single DRM system that almost everybody agrees to use. For consumers, worse than no DRM, but miles ahead of the status quo it replaced.

Also, Steam does have an offline mode. You just have to ping the mothership every few weeks iirc.
If trains are involved, someone is sufficiently nerdy to have uploaded it to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxw8p7oo_3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PpUsoIPBsc (much better recording but not Scotland).

I think they're all nicely understandable, and the slight robotic-ness aids comprehension, and makes it easier to ignore the routine announcements (once on the train) but still notice an unusual one.

Also note the usual announcement on the station is something like this:

> The next train at platform [1] will be the [delayed] [16:40] service to Airbles, calling at Hamilton Central, Hamilton West, Blantyre, Newton, Cambuslang, Rutherglen, Dalmarnok, Bridgeton, Argyle Street, Glasgow Central, Balloch, calling at Anderston, Exhibition Centre, Partick, Hyndland, Jordanhill, Scotstounhill, Garscadden, Yoker, Clydebank, Dalmuir, Kilpatrick, Bowling, Dunbarton East, Dunbarton Central, Dalreoch, Renton, Alexandria and Balloch. [We apologize for the delay to this service, which was caused by] [the recorded announcement not being ready.]

Then you get "The train now approaching platform 1 is the ..." and "This is the ..."

On the train itself, you get "This is the ..."
The goal wasn’t to get the post possible summary, which could be done with a more elaborate prompt detailing exactly how the summary should go. I was just demonstrating that it can get to the end of 14K chars of text and still remember both the task at hand and enough information to solve it.
Maybe they’d introduce a car that not only drives itself, but also cleans itself? :P
Given the explicit choice to use GNUisms and promptly overriding the SHELL to explicitly use bash, I'm quite confident that this author is not concerned with portability concerns.
> There’s a lot that comes from people who claim to be Christian that’s not supported by the Bible at all.

I think this may be too reductionist. The Bible contradicts itself on a lot of topics (ie, the age-old dichotomy between the fire-and-brimstone Old Testament God vs the turn-the-other-cheek New Testament teachings). It's hard to reconcile God telling the Israelites to murder the women and children of Canaan with "love thy neighbor as thyself" unless you adopt a pretty cold-hearted standard for who your neighbors are.

That's the problem with religious fundamentalism: there's text available to support all sorts of terrible stuff.
>And it's impossible to buy a dumb TV in 2022, so you're stuck with the official Android/Roku YouTube apps that have no ad-blocking capability.

You can just do literally the same thing you'd do with dumb TV and connect computer to one of it's HDMI ports. "Smartness" of a TV does not take away any feature from it, unless you're so hurt by software updates - which you can simply disregard by not connecting the TV to the internet.
Spoiler alert: You won't be able to buy one in 2022 even if you wanted to. And it's looking like 2023 is out as well.

https://www.kedglobal.com/automobiles/newsView/ked2022080300...
That was a very interesting question to which you gave a very definite answer, but why do you say kinetic? Maybe I don't understand what potential energy is.

from wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy> "In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors"

but a spinning disc in a vacuum would maintain energy indefinitely, taken as a whole, and the spinning disc is a stress in itself.
When I was teaching I worked a 7am to 6pm job, 5 days a week. That was actually in the school building, so that's 55 hours right there. The two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, when I wasn't looking after 35 teenagers in a small, hot and unventilated classroom, were spent marking, planning lessons and writing reports. Have you ever had a job where you literally have to plan how much you drink, so that you don't have a full bladder in the middle of a double Science lesson?

Most weekends I'd dedicate around 5 or 6 hours to work, so that puts me up to about 61 hours a week. Of course we got those amazing holidays. Holidays when you were still expected to answer emails, mark work, write reports, plan assessments and lessons. One year, I remember working from September through to August, and my total time off was Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. In August the exam results come through, so I was expected to be in school to coach children on their options, and then write a 15 page report on the reasons my department had performed or under-performed.

I appreciate that this has turned into a rant, but don't ever think that your job is harder than a teacher, if you are a software engineer. It's not. I can testify to that. Teaching involves understanding your subject, understanding pedagogy, being a parent, councilor and sometimes prison warden to children who are often going through the most difficult times of their lives. You have to do all of that, while basically performing on stage for 5 hours a day, and your lunch break is spent ramming food down your throat so you can get out to the playground on time to supervise the kids out there.

An ex-colleague of mine has asked me to go back into teaching in his school. My response was "okay" can you pay me 150K, because I wouldn't do it for anything less.
Do Flickr or Dropbox have the features?
What about selling computers that prompts to install ad blockers the moment the user downloads and installs Chrome?
Look at how objectively they treated each individual in the piece. It is pretty clear they are favoring outrage over accuracy.

The hits on Robin Hanson were particularly bad. If you didn't read further you would think they were advocating slavery on the basis of sex and race.
This is a website where people post links and other people comment below them. Most front page discussions don't surpass 50 replies. I don't really think we should care so much about this place to the point that we're willing to employ state of the art data analysis tools just to read a blog post and see if someone has critiqued it in the comments
I wouldn’t have an issue with this if the upgrade went with the car, but the idea that it turns back off when the person whose driveway it lives in changes is too close to IAPs for me.

If it has an ongoing cost for Tesla, I’m happy to pay for a subscription and perhaps an activation fee. If it’s built-in to the vehicle and requires a configuration for how I like to drive, I’d love to pay an expensive, one-time setup fee to configure my specific vehicle and perhaps a (small) upgrade fee when major versions are released.

But this idea that Tesla wants to have the best of both worlds (massive fees that reoccur) while I get the worst of both worlds (massive fees for a value that I can’t sell/transfer) is one of the two big reasons I can’t see getting a Tesla (even though I would love to).
Agree. As I once had it explained to me, "I don't choose parties any more, I just use my best guess as to which one will mean I take home more of my salary".

There's also the European angle. Those who want to work likely faced competition from EU workers and generally feel hard done by when it comes to globalisation. After all, if you worked in coal, steel, car manufacturing or your family did, quite likely you, or a relative, has lost a good portion of that work to cheaper manufacturing abroad. Which is more appealing: Labour, who prevaricated on Brexit, or BoJo, who simply said he'd do it? It isn't all that different to 'America First' in its appeal.

There probably wasn't any way to avoid the demise of coal, especially given our need to combat climate change, but did Labour provide an alternative? During the 2000s, Labour massively expanded higher education but also increased 'student debt', and only paid lip service to apprenticeships. If you're working class and working/aspirational, likely your budgeting is quite strict. Things like 'debt' and 'loans' generally mean 'trouble' and not a solution.

I agree this is broad strokes, but Labour has a problem in that it no longer actually represents its traditional demographic.
This was the school system I went to in a rust-belt city, the teachers were not 'good' on average.
I get a feeling the only way a school can satisfy your standard for "not cherry picking" are those armed with Omnipotence
We know what percentage of children typically need these extra services. If we funded school special education based on how many they should statistically have. And incentivised them to find that many, then they would. If they miss some early amd are full that will be counterbalances by the number of parents who insist on "normal" education despite evidence that isn't what is best. Letting educators give feedback about the effects of medication levelsbwould also help I think.
Or, just use Firefox. It works just as well as chrome, in my experience.