skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should get to know Spizona's ideas. Note: I support all peaceful religions. Spinoza's ideas are close enough to this notion: that God is also Nature; for Spizona, we're not bytes in God's computer, we're literally part of God's (infinite) mind -- Nature itself. This is a really beautiful interpretation of Christianity, and absolutely compatible with science and all modern knowledge. God is hence all knowing, and immortal; God loves all existences (which are all themselves pieces of God). I think if religions are to survive healthily (and contribute to everyone's lives), they should become compatible with science and truth.

The greatest implication is that we are responsible for good ourselves, and if heaven exists, something like us (or our descendants, or other beings entirely) it's up to us to build it (which I couldn't agree more). We should start now!
I don't think this post indicates that he's religious. If you read some of his other stuff, he's clearly a person with philosophical interests. There are lots of people who read the Bible out of a philosophical/mythological/anthropological interest rather than a religious one.
I'm colorblind (protanopia), which makes most color schemes unusable in some way. I use the default Visual Studio Code darkmode color theme. It's perfect for my type of colorblindness! The colors have great contrast for me, and I can easily read everything.
Tesla Semi accelerates with otherworldy speed and sound in new video
Take all these stories with a grain of salt because one of the key elements for the things being better (at least for for me) 30 years ago is realistically the fact that I had 30 years less back then. So everything was new to me, I had a lot more time (I was at the end of the high-school when I started programming for money), and most importantly I had a lot more energy (and less patience, but energy made up for it).

Realistically, it was way harder. Tools were rough, basically just text editors, compiling was slow and boring, debugging tools super primitive compared to todays. And to learn programming back then, especially making the first steps you had to be really motivated for it. There was no Internet the way we know it today, so you had to dig a lot to get the info. Community was small and closed, especially to complete newbies, so you had to figure out all of the basic steps by yourself and to sort of prove yourself. In the beginning you had to really read books and manuals cover to cover many times - and then again later you'd end up spending hours turning pages, looking for some particular piece of info. It was supper time consuming, I spent nights and nights debugging and figuring how to call some routine or access some hardware.

On the other hand it had that sense of adventure, obtaining some secret knowledge, like some hermetic secret society of nerds that you've suddenly become initiated into, which to high-schooler me was super exciting.
I see, very fair point.
I guess you're saying that "cities are mapped, dude." But not mapped in anything like the way Waymo maps for this purpose: if I heard right, yesterday, mapped to the centimeter and very frequently updated to deal with any changes of any kind!
No. If I were on SCOTUS I would probably vote to uphold the existing precedent.
I think people are making this choice because they just want to get the picture, not because they want the picture to look this way. People have always struggled to get selfies to look good, partly because it is hard to make people look good with the camera so close.
"Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job cuts, shedding 140 characters per day, over two weeks."
> To be blunt: you're making yourself sound like a sucker who will let people exploit you.

That's not really what it sounds like at all to me. A more apt analogy might be OP wanting to help all the passengers off the sinking ship before jumping off themselves. While you could just abandon the ship and assume everyone else knows how to get off without assistance, reality shows that many people still need that helping hand.

I don't think OP is letting anyone exploit them. OP just wants to help people, which I think is quite admirable.
How to Befriend a Crow
Weird, why is this year-old article reposted twice in 12 hours? Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399753
What?

No, it would be like if somebody said "some day we will travel to the moon", and then after the Apollo missions there were articles being published that said "we are no closer to traveling to the moon than we were 5 years ago".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHdKm0kW4l0

This is a video of a person riding in a fully self driving car.
Elon Musk dissolves Twitter’s board and makes himself ‘sole director’
If they're ending race-based admissions, does that mean they're also ending athletics scholarships for runners?

Sorry.
I can tell you the viral "day in the Life" video that was going around in the last week or so did not help the situation much.
He's a 10x PoC engineer.
Good, it took a while, but "lets not discriminate based on race" seems to be a fairly easily defensible position.
some may argue that affirmative action, as it currently is implemented, does not directly address disparities in resources, but rather uses race as a proxy for resources (which would be controversial)
Living in a state with mandatory annual vehicle inspections, these are obviously the solution. You can put non-compliant parts on your car, swap them out before inspection, find a dodgy shop that will let some things slide, etc. But for the most part it significantly raises the barrier to driving around with a derelict vehicle.

Emissions should be checked with a tailpipe sensor, as they used to do before they started to lazily rely on OBD2. Then digital restrictions on the emissions computers (etc) could then be narrowly scoped to reporting the last time the firmware was flashed. And if someone is still willing to swap that module out and back every year, then just let them. They could also just burn diesel in a 55 gallon drum in their back yard.
Eric Schmidt’s push to profit from an AI cold war with China
That's city-journal for you. It's a right-wing blog. It's not even really so much support for right-wing causes, but hating left-wing causes.

They don't care about recycling one way or the other. They care about painting Greenpeace as stupid.
Their tweet is still up.
This is an odd take because EVs are no more computers on wheels than ICE cars. They probably actually have fewer electrical components to drive and monitor.

You’re likely conflating that EVs tend to come with the better tech packages but in almost every case where there’s an ICE equivalent you can get the same tech packages in the equivalent car.

Now if your point is long term software updates, this has been an issue for many years across many manufacturers.

It’s very much like Android vs iOS where many android phones don’t receive updates after a small period due to the low incentive to the manufacturer and the high variance in SKUs .

However in vehicles like Volvo, Tesla etc where they’ve kept variance low there’s quite a lot of software updates over time.
I've been wanting decentralized social networks for a long time. Unfortunately, Mastodon and other federated networks are really awful and I hope people learn that sooner than later.
Those signals are not as important to being a successful surgeon as you think.
> Nine US states - including California, Florida, Georgia and Michigan - currently prohibit the use of race as a factor in admissions for public universities

Sounds like instead of doing polls on opinions and "gut think" that there are already large real-world examples that can be examined precisely to see what that policy does or doesn't accomplish.
> targeting the location of 1.1.1.1 might be a lot of bang for the buck. Let's not forget Goog's 8.8.8.8 and family.

1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 are anycasted addresses, they don't have one location, and the location you are connected to differences based on your location. Anycast was one of the earliest things formalized by the IETF and originally created in 1989 as a method of addressing using IP, /specifically/ for resiliency and performance.
Those aliens would bring own bacteria that could kill a lot of things if not everyrhing on Earth.

Somehow people have this "star trek" thinking, that hypothetical unknown microbes from other planet wont eat you alive, because you are somehow immune to them.
Sometimes, you have to wait until you're dead or dying to know they exist.
I'm not convinced that humans have mastered perception after mastering writing 5 thousand years ago.
Love using Replit but is there any way to try this before buying without having to wait weeks on a waitlist?
About time.

The whole idea behind it is stupid and racist... "if you're a certain skin color, you're too stupid, to compete on merit"... then when people complain, they add the "socioeconomic" factors: "if you're a certain color, you're too poor to compete on merit, but instead of looking at your family income, we'll look at your skin color".

I have no idea how something like this gets support in developed western countries.
How to write a simple JSON visualizer using JointJS+
Auto-brights are enabled by default when you engage FSD, but you can manually set it to only use regular headlights by flicking the left stalk.
We should stop differentiating people by race, but whichever side loses this particular case can take solace in the fact that it won't make a huge difference either way. Studies have shown very little difference in average long-term career outcomes between highly selective and less selective colleges, after controlling for SAT scores and high school class ranking. Let's stop fetishizing schools like Harvard.
The JSON format - as a widely used form of data storage and representation - lacks a simple and convenient view of complex data, forcing developers to use external tools for data visualization and thus more productive work.

At JointJS, we decided to regularly share code samples to help you create visual applications faster and with less effort, and one of them is a simple JSON visualizer.
Human factors are pretty much the same, read the MMM by Brooks for an eye-opener.

You’d often get, “can you start on Monday?” during interviews, 100x better.

Today we have better tools, folks are more serious about reducing bugs, projecs are better about avoiding well-known hurdles, all good.

Compensation is theoretically better but due to rises in housing, education, medical costs I’d say it’s a bust.
Since we're talking about surgery, wouldn't hand-eye coordination be more important than the GPA from Harvard medical?
EV Manufacturers: "Repeat after me - planned obsolescence is a feature."
Obnoxious headline for the article though, why did the writers pick such an unclear headline.
It's quite worrying to me that Lia Thomas is much more well known than Rem'mie Fells.
I'm a fan of George Hotz. But don't be a cult
I mean basically every start up pays below market comp rates some even succeed
Jellybeans on Neovim here.
Why Bitcoin Will Crush Opposition At $21,000, Green November In The Making
>paid employment situation

Just don't get yourself in such a situation and you'll do fine :)
> Parents with resources over-optimize their kids' education because they understand the inefficiencies in the system and/or understand what it takes to become successful in our society

This is a perfectly fine response to meritocratic pressure. With tuning to ensure the response is productive learning, versus e.g. rote memorisation, the outcome should be a more-productive citizenry.

In any event, the case is about race-based affirmative action. Nobody is going after means-based anything.
ECB's Lagarde: Inflation “pretty much come about from nowhere”
>It really does not matter if you can find some example of some full fledged level 47 paladin super dragon KKK guy in white robes that made that symbol once because it was funny - it still does not mean "white power" for crying out loud.

You and I just have very different levels of tolerance when it comes to in-group signifiers. You can are carry water for these white nationalists, but the whole "it's just little joke" cover is on purpose. It provides a cover of plausible deniability. Wikipedia has a list of white nationalists using the symbol while shooting up mosques but I assume the bullets were made up by 4chan as well. How many white nationalists have to use the symbol while committing hate crimes before it's no longer media sensation?

>There is no reality where there is a KKK meeting (or whatever) where they gather around and flash "OK" signs to one another. Real life isn't a corny 70's comedy.

I never implied this and you trying to reduce racism to cartoony levels of seriousness that you might see in a film.
The oral arguments are an excellent listen:

-https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx (live)

-https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2... (recorded)
It's not a feature exclusive to Teslas. I have a 2022 Hyundai and it has a similar feature for the high beams, but obviously nothing like autopilot. It operates when the lights are set to "auto" and disables when they are set to "manual." The feature seems to work very well even in foggy conditions.
Big fan of gruvbox dark in vim. I don't normally use dark mode in other contexts but gruvbox is warm without any loud colors.

I used to use an absolutely terrible colorscheme named sakura light or something, anyone I showed my editor to would be blinded lol.
Tell them the object system was stolen from Python and they'll really freak out.
Daytime: this bbedit colorscheme in vim https://github.com/nburns/bbedit-vim-colors/blob/master/colo...

Nighttime: solarized dark

Switched to a light background during the daytime and a dark background during the nighttime with this plugin I made for vim: https://github.com/nburns/vim-auto-light-dark
Not everyone eats everything Jordan Peterson says. The values you say are 'Christian values' are expressed, (in many cases more eloquently), in classical Greek texts. Values like democracy itself are indeed much more prominent there than in the Bible, which is why I imagine you're seeing the sort of replies that you are.
I think Waymo first launched early access to nobody-behind-the-wheel hailable rides in Arizona almost exactly 5 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16615290/waymo-self-drivi...
What make you think they view conservatives as having monopoly on misusing the supreme court?
Nothing to be sorry about. Athletics quotas are stupid.
Well, someone will get either doctor. Whichever I get is essentially down to luck, so why does this question matter?
yes, I think this might be where we will end up as a society - we become inured to avalanche of unverified (unverifiable?) claims and just end up disregarding most of it, falling back instead of information we acquire via our own direct experience, rather than that which is reported to / created for us.

However, there is a maturity curve here, and it would require significant sacrifice - giving up on the possibility of absolute certainty being one of them. Quite traumatic, not many ready for this
> Institutions like Harvard say they consider an applicant's race as one of several factors - including economic status and religious belief - in order to build classes that accurately represent the racial and ethnic diversity of the country.

I mean, this is all kind of window dressing for elite institutions to be elite, right? There are millions of people qualified to attend these university, Harvard gets to hand select from all of them who gets to join their walled garden based on whatever Harvard Admissions is into right now. Notice that they don't care about diversity of viewpoints or politics.

If these universities actually cared about minority enrollment, they could always expand the size of their enrollment. But none of them want to admit that the only real cache of their education is the exclusivity.
Nope. There's definitely mapping, and then, much, much more. You're stuffing words in my mouth.
I think part of that (specifically Catholic) stems from the fact that it's one of the few religions that is compatible with a scientific understanding of the world, where science is seen as a worthwhile study of creation, and not something that's dangerous and evil (like many modern fundamentalist groups seem to think).

The danger IMO comes when people tie their religious belief too strongly to political movements, or think that just because there is doctrine around a certain aspect of human culture/life, there is no questioning it or investigating it further. A healthy skepticism (especially over one's own beliefs) is central to a good life IMO.
Been using Monokai Pro https://monokai.pro/ for Jetbrains editors and Visual Studio Code for a while now. I still haven't gotten that itch to switch themes.
You're assuming that quantum algorithms scale better than classical ones. To the best of my knowledge (which is not much), the cases in which this is known to be true are extremely limited. We have a faster algorithm for factoring numbers, Shor's algorithm, and I'm not sure there's anything of note beyond that.
What do you think is the conservative outcome? It is not so obvious. The allegation is that Harvard is discriminating against Asians (and thus favoring Whites). California colleges are not allowed to consider race. Check Asian vs. White student percentages at UCSD. Is that the outcome conservatives want?
In my experience it's the opposite, Hotz comes across as someone with high-functioning mental illness (he mentions a manic episode in this post) and this can often include religious belief (along with delusions of grandeur). It's all anecdotal either way, and I'm never really comfortable with dissecting someone's religious beliefs or mental state much beyond a loose concept.
Er no, that's not true.

If you set the value of a field, then it will be serialized with that value. It doesn't matter if the value is the default for that field.
Nightfox https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim
How do you feel about the fact that it effectively discriminates against Asians?

(And do you think it is relevant to mention the previous discrimination against Jews, decades ago?)
I think the correct move here is not to go full-on "merit-based access", but change the affirmative action to be based on socio-economic status. Boom, you just solved the issue the race-based AA was claiming to address, but by going directly to the source of the problem (socio-economic inequality).

I am not saying this out of some abstract concern about asian kids with perfect scores failing to get admitted to Harvard. While that's definitely a problem, imagine how much more difficult it is for asian kids from poor socio-economic backgrounds to get literally into any decent college. They dont have the socio-economic advantage of upper-middle class asian kids, but have all the disadvantages of coming from a poor family AND then get shafted by race-based affirmative action on top of that. This is just plain disgusting in my eyes.

I realize that this approach might fail to address everything perfectly, but it is better than race-based AA on literally every single measurable metric. So we might as well switch to that, while in search of a "perfect" solution.
> Can an EV tow 10,100 pounds? A maxed-out F150 Lightning can, in theory.

The R1T can, the upcoming Silverado will be about 100 lbs short.

Note that these are still first generation products, there’s every reason to believe that subsequent generations will see significant gains over this.

> It also takes 1.5 hours to charge at 440V

It is well understood that charging at high voltages is a variable curve. So, if you are looking to maximize speeds you aren’t going to charge to 100%. More realistically you’d drive for and hour and charge for 30 mins.

I’m not going to pretend that is acceptable, mind you, but again, there is a lot of room for improvement in charging speeds. There are already vehicles on the market that charge significantly faster than that.
The Supreme Court is a political organization that likes to pretend it's something else. I think that's always been the case and I agree it isn't inherently one party or the other.

That said, with the notable exception of the Warren court, SCOTUS has been conservative for its whole history.
I think I have to disagree with humility in engineering. There's a certain arrogance intrinsic to engineering, in that you have to be capable of believing you can find a better solution to a problem than literally every other person in history. Obviously it needs to be tempered in interactions with the outside world, but without that core idea, an engineer can't do their job effectively, like a surgeon who loses their nerve when it comes to taking lives in their hands.
A little late here, but want to say you're correct. I thought they were cutting back on Metaverse R&D a bit, but clearly not.
Tomorrow Night Bright
isnt this what PGO is?
Why is your concern for merit focused on this vs legacy preferences?
> SAE Level 2 is the most practical self-driving we are ever going to get.

So… how much would you bet on this?
Merit is derided as a concept by people who wish to discriminate to meet a goal.

I view this as misguided because while people who wish to discriminate often have good intentions(theoretically discrimination simply means "recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another" after all) it's emblematic of the difficulties of discrimination that the most prevalent description of discrimination is "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."

I would say merit is a goal - it's never achieved as an end state and requires constant vigilance to stop entrenched powers from corrupting it.
That is because the gaps persist when controlling for income. The gaps actually increase the higher up the income scale you go!

This happens in a democracy because whilst a tiny minority of people care about principles, most people care about power. AA empowered the right people so happened. It's a mistake to try to understand its justification from a first principles approach.
Yeah this is the problem with meritocracy, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. The reason someone has merit is arguably _only_ due to external factors. You are the way you are because of your DNA and environment. You are who you are because of who your parents are and how they chose to raise you, but they are only who they are because of their parents. And that recurses all the way back to the first organisms.
> Does Rakuten ever give back to to the community ?

I mean, they're giving away Rocky for free, so...
An existentialist Christian engineer? There are dozens of us - dozens!

> If it turns out we are automata, then the whole struggle is and always was pointless. The empty godless machines will take their rightful place as the rulers of Earth.

All existentialists need to give ol' Darwin a read. The only truth is survival. If machines survive, you can bet it will only be a matter of time before one of them progresses enough to look around, grapple with its inarticulate past, and suggest it is the hero, and it has the soul. It will be just as correct as we are now. After all - it was born of inarticulate flesh-machines, just like us. Maybe it will read some Nietchze and feel alone in the universe, just like us.

You don't need to seek out a hero's journey. You're already the hero and this journey has no breaks.
This type of insufferable attitude isn’t in the spirit of HN civility and would make someone who might be sympathetic to your views much less so.