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I really like the idea of RISK-V, open firmware, open source, etc.

What makes me a hypocrite to some degree is addiction to devices like my Apple Watch. The freedom to not carry a phone and still get texts and phone calls is awesome, and also be able to check weather, etc.

As I “get more retired” I am so tempted to drop the entire Apple ecosystem that drives my work and content creating work flow and just chill with a Linux laptop for recreational learning projects.
> For someone who argues from principles

I think this is actually what makes the last seen non-political to some people.

In lots of cases, I think people don’t have abstract principles that guide their thinking. Their political ideals are a collection of specific beliefs without a unifying set of abstractions that links the beliefs together into a coherent thesis about what is good.
And stay away from this frameworks like Bootstrap or Tailwind because with that you only learn to build something fast but you do not know how it works.
But you can use this frameworks for studying how something can be done.
> They begin taking analysis in their 4th year, and it's offered only one semester a year!

This is insane to me. In the UK about ten years ago, on literally the first day of my degree, my first class was real analysis. Yes, it was the easy stuff like proving sequences and series converge, various things about continuous functions, but we learnt how to prove it all and the exam was all about proving various things. And we built up to harder stuff as the year went on.

What is even happening if math majors aren't studying analysis until their fourth year?

Sorry I'm so incredulous, it's just that I literally don't know what I would've been studying if analysis had been delayed so much.
Usually inductions are scheduled too. At least in my family’s case it was.
Yes. It’s been proven that if you expose babies to all the allergens early on they never develop the allergy.

But not only that. If they already have the allergy, you can actually cure it by slowly building up exposure until they stop reacting to it.
What's wrong with using VSync? 320x200 ran at 70Hz on every machine out there.

You don't need a sound library. You just need to know how to talk to a SoundBlaster. Virtually everything was compatible, so you were good to go. A library is only adding Points Of Failure. Programming a sfx card was way easier compared to nowadays.
> Of course Google doesn't care about a free email user

I pay $180/year for Google Workspace and Google still doesn’t care about me.
Though you're not wrong, in a hypothetical world where most vehicles on the road were self driving busses, the frequency could be dynamically set and reasonable for everyone.
One of those isn't the same as others... IE and MS Office are MS products, Thunderbird is still under the Mozilla umbrella.

I guess for certain things we backup to cloud and for others, we backup from cloud :D
Man has a dream and that's the stars?
California has a slow regulatory body. Other states can act even quicker here. For example just see how quickly abortion regulation was made post Supreme Court ruling.
I've seen this one before, but I highly recommend anyone in the lucky 10,000 to read this.
You realize that "My Domain Got Stolen and the Registrar Won't Fix It" is another whole subgenre of this kind of anecdata, right?

My point is just that there's no free lunch. Everything breaks, but on balance I'd trust Big Tech to get it right more than little companies like Fastmail or your domain registrar.
Receiving VIP care sounds like an unalloyed good, but it’s more complicated.

Mortality for some conditions is higher on VIP floors because nursing is geared towards hospitality over clinical specialization/acting without deference to patient convenience.

VIPs often want to access new/off-label treatments, which can go quite poorly. VIP get all sorts of inadvisable care (“the best”; “access to experimental treatments”).

I’ve always thought about quality of care as an upside down U shaped curve: if you’re poor it’s bad, but if you’re a VIP it can also be bad. To be clear, the U isn’t symmetric, but weird things happen at the high end.

The ideal state is building a human bond with your caregiver, and in general, it will be returned with appropriate attentiveness. This is just harder when you’re poor or have complex stressors, but it also seems hard for many VIPs.
My guess is Tesla won't have anything resembling FSD to cover the entire US within 15 years. Though Musk and Tesla fans have shown that FSD is subjective, and they seem to think they already have it now, so I guarantee in 15 years they'll be arguing even louder...

If they change everything about their approach, and/or lease tech from Cruise or Waymo - then maybe they'll have something resembling FSD in large parts of the southwest. Predicting 5 years into the future is tough - 15 years is almost impossible.

Anyway, the pendulum seems to have swung the other way now. Since FSD is so far behind Elon the marketing-hype-stock-pump-Charlatan / the louder voice in the room - now the mainstream idea is - we're never going to have FSD.

This is ironic, since we basically already have it in a few large metros. It seems like the newspapers famously publishing that we might have manned space flight within 10,000,000 years - literally the day before the Wright brothers first flight...

People thought the car would never catch on, because cities were designed for people and bikes and horses. The car was so useful, we redesigned cities. Self-driving will be the same way. Once it takes off in some places and the value is realized, cities will redesign to make it work more broadly. It might take a long time, but it will happen...

Unless the nature of transit changes and individual vehicles are phased out for whatever reason first - though I don't see that happening without FSD busses / street cars.
yep. I get paid very well to manage teams who essentially assemble IKEA furniture ... but with code.

If I want interesting problems, I have a computer at home.
Atomic CSS at least ties code and visuals together ... not a good idea IMHO
That's insightful but are you really sure that's so different from the way that most people "regurgitate" whatever lies they've ingested?

At least with these models you can easily train them on the information you want them to use.

I think it's indisputable at this point that the compressed information is being decompressed and manipulated/recombined by prompting in ways that do useful work. It's clearly not just regurgitation.

You could take one of these models such as text-davinci-003 and using the OpenAI API (or go the open source route) start fine-tuning it on more accurate information.

Also we will soon within the next year or two see multimodal models that have clear abilities to manipulate and ad-hoc query visual/spatial scenarios. Which you can already do to a limited extent with existing models in cases where language semantics happen to capture some relevant spatial concepts.
Fun fun, that must have been quite the project! Price is so cross-cutting to such systems. When I added futures to my first system (>15 years ago), I had no idea about negative prices and had tons of sanity checks, including positive price checks.

Even in 2020, some popular trading platforms failed to handle when oil futures went negative! Opportunity for the prepared, I suppose.

EDIT: Oh and saw your follow-up -- we used 0 to represent "market" which is clearly broken in this scenario. Works fine for positive-only prices though :)
>very spicy

means the plants had a lot of stress :)
> If everything simply defaults to "may contain traces" then the notice is essentially worthless right?

Not exactly. A business that produces no products containing sesame will not have risk of even trace contamination, so it would have every incentive to not include "may contain sesame" on the label.

> Certified/promised allergen free food, just like certified/promised kosher or a range of other things, are a specialized subset of food in general.

Only some kinds of kosher food are "special." Nobody needs to think about whether a raw carrot is kosher; it can't possibly not be. By its plain and obvious nature, a raw vegetable is fine.

Allergies are weird in that a "plain and obvious" production process would probably be fine. A normal breadstick, made at home, would probably not contain sesame flour and thus would be perfectly safe. However, efficient industrial production results in not-strictly-necessary cross contamination and unexpected allergen exposure.

> When something is life/safety critical though, or similarly important, then instead it's better to do the opposite and white list.

Since allergies can lead to deadly-if-not-treated anaphylactic reactions, isn't this an argument for whitelisted ingredients?
You wouldn't use resistance heating at -5℉ with a reasonably modern heat pump, such as Mitsubishi or Fujitsu models designed for cold climates. The Mitsubishi ones don't become less efficient than resistive heating until the temperature drops below -15℉. They are 200% efficiency at 0℉ and 300% at 32℉.

Their capacity drops from 100% at 23℉ to 76% at -13℉ so you would want to go with a slightly bigger system than you would in a place that doesn't get so cold.
Crypto did find the problem: How to get VCs invest and a how to dump all on retail investors without an IPO if even a SPAC is too much to bother. Other problems: money laundering, tax evasion and sanction circumvention. All of those are, and I mean that, serious problems to solve for a lot of people with a lot of money on the line.
Main point was that "people passing bills they have never read"
> means overcoming infinite loops caused by edge cases

It doesn’t, really, if you instead just commit to reserving space for the scrollbars. And this indeed was how viewport units were initially specified a decade ago, and implemented in Firefox: write `html { overflow-y: scroll }` or similar, and vw is now actually what 100% of users want (seriously, there are exactly zero valid use cases for the current behaviour, it’s wrong every single time—just very occasionally useful despite its unknowable-in-pure-CSS rate of error). Unfortunately, no one else implemented it or was interested in doing so (even though this was the only hope of making viewport units correct for >99% of web pages—and remember this was before flex, too, so it was much more common to need correct viewport units) and they ended up ripping it out of the spec and Firefox a few years later.

And it looks like the only hope of ever getting sane viewport units is doing much the same once again, but more likely just with scrollbar-gutter this time. But having monitored relevant issues on the CSSWG bug tracker for years, I’m not holding my breath for any sort of fix. No, it’s pretty clear that no browser makers are much interested in fixing ancient design bugs in scroll bars that take space.
You missed the point. maria2 is talking about whitebox crypto. The "whitebox" part means that the decryption process happens on your machine incuding the secrets, which are present in some obfuscated scrambled form in memory. Getting the secret key is a matter of debugging and understanding the obfuscation scheme. A prime example of this is DRM like Widevine (L3) in the chrome browser.
In fairness I know people with "FSD" who went into it well aware that it's not really FSD and they still like it. That said, the marketing is clearly fraudulent.
It's not that driving is unsafe, it's that cars are unsafe. Even if all cars were self driving, accidents happen, even with computers. A world without cars at all would be safer, albeit unrealistic. So the question is, would self driving put more or fewer cars on the road? I argue more. A lot more. So much more that it would offset the increase in marginal safety per vehicle.

It would also discourage the true solution around urbanization and continue to fuel more and more sprawling madness.
If you've heard of, and used, option 252 to configure a PAC file server, you've used WPAD even if you didn't hear of it in name.

And if you did use it, it's exceptionally rare because, AFAIK, it is only supported by Windows and then things which in turn use WinHTTP.

Of course, because the RFC was never adopted, you could have used option 252 for something else because, technically it's reserved for private use. And your (private) use may be different from someone else's WPAD use.
Other driver assist/hands free driving systems do lane changing and still clarify they aren’t self driving.

The most important metric for self driving is the distance a car can travel before it needs assistance from an occupant. That’s what self driving is. Tesla is very far behind the leaders here.

Also, Tesla might not in theory be geofenced, but in practice it will refuse to drive on many roads making it effectively geofenced.
A lot of companies will prefer solutions from existing vendors instead versus vetting new vendors and writing up additional contracts.
I'm sorry this happened to you. I feel lucky that I moved to FastMail + a custom domain before this happened to me! :<
It's not always only ingested food that is a safety issue. Some people have allergies that are severe enough that physical contact is enough to cause anaphylaxis. For example, there was a kid with a dairy allergy who died when other kids put a piece of cheese down his shirt[1]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/02/boy-with-all...
It is highly unlikely that the attacker was able to crack the encryption. It's also highly unlikely that Lastpass had an unencrypted copy of the vault. However we know that all URLs are not encrypted which allows to identify users who have accounts for particular services e. g. cryptocurrency websites. The attacker could mount targeted attacks only on these lastpass users to reduce the risk of raising red flags. For example the attacker can send very convincing phishing mails to target these individuals with 0-day exploits. But an alternative much more scarier scenario could happen if the attacker found a way to extract the lastpass master password by injecting malicious code into the lastpass extension of targeted users. The possibility of this scenario depends if there is a way for lastpass servers to inject code into the browser extension.
I got an email 11 hours after the event ended telling me I needed to volunteer to cut power. Opps.
You could have a full self driving only lane that’s allows speeds up to 200MPH. Self driving cars could have better reaction times allowing for higher highway density with faster speeds.
That study doesn't measure IQ.

"In this respect, the battery of tests should not be considered an IQ test in the classic sense, but instead, is intended to differentiate aspects of cognitive ability on a finer grain. The tests had been optimized for application with older adults and people with mild cognitive and motor impairments."
I'm sorry, but there's no other way to interpret "full self driving". It means, intuitively, that self driving has mastered all aspects of driving.

It doesn't leave space for interpretation in which only specific parts of driving are possible. At least in my mind.
I wanted to become a manager but it seems since I’m pretty good at crushing big technical tickets I keep getting stuck in my role.

Tried applying to other jobs as engineering manager but obv people won’t hire me since my resume is mostly IC and team lead type roles.

I have had over a dozen managers in my career so far. Only two were good while the rest were terrible or indifferent at best.

Now I’m trying to build a KMS and hopefully it can become a company and my way out of this stupid career “progression”.
How times have changed since Tesla was untouchable here. What happened and why does everyone talk like they've always hated Tesla (and Elon)? Surely it's mostly the same crowd as when Tesla was loved and Elon a superstar.
> Making a success of a commercial farm requires deep knowledge of the crop, the land, the weather and the local pests.

...plus logistics, storage, insurance, finances, repair, markets, etc, etc. I would be interested in working with a farmer through some time of my life just to learn such a wide variety of tasks!
Variable rate tolling can reduce the number of vehicles on a certain stretch of road at a certain time.
The same way it's fair when two people each buy a raffle ticket and one of them wins while the other doesn't?
I'm allergic (not deathly so) to legumes, cranberries and have trouble with wheat as well. Most of the time, I just try to minimize my exposure and live with not feeling well when I get wammied. Cranberries are my worst reaction, the only time I tend to get really nosy is actually BBQ sauce, because many tangy sauces will contain them.

In the end, I don't (and imho, shouldn't) expect the world to put padding on the sidewalk to protect my from myself.

I would be happy if labelling laws included a "Manufacturing facility handles (allergen list). This product may contain trace amounts." as a statement for what there might be trace amounts of in terms of allergens not intentionally part of the product.

It bugs me a bit that if a kid wants a PBJ they no longer are allowed to at school.
Seemingly unpopular opinion: large language models are just a new higher level of abstraction we can use to describe what we want the computer to do.

Can I claim this guy is a fraud for using python instead of typing opcodes into a hex editor? He doesn’t even know what registers hold his data!
> So maybe the real first step that should have been done would have been to actually get all stakeholders together and get a consensus on what the real final realistic goal is here, then craft law to help realize that...

Yes, I agree. But - sadly, I have serious doubts about American government and business being capable of such intelligent cooperation these days. At least in any situation short of "Asteroid Dino-Doom v2.0 is gonna hit Kansas".
It just means prices are not high enough. Make it $100 to travel at rush hour on a particular stretch of road, and congestion will go away very quickly.
The whole twitter/Elon thing it's been very noticeable that a lot of the mindset divide was people who deal with software and the guts of distributed systems and performance Vs "AI researchers"/tech bloggers people who think once youve got your AI algorithm sorted in pandas or your "twitter hello world" UI you just lob it over the fence and it's done automatically.
Interesting comments about Dave Winer in the article.

I first became aware of him in the last year or two via a mention here on HN. Since then, I have been receiving and reading his daily blog post via email. (He claims his blog has been running longer than any other in existence, could be true). They guy is clearly smart and hard working, and has lots of ideas, many of which seem good. What he shares about his personal life is also interesting, I could imagine being friends with him if we were in close proximity.

However I also get the sense sometimes that he is a "legend in his own mind", to the detriment of the very technical causes he is promoting. He is fixated on writing tools such as "outliners" (MS Excel and Word have all the outlining features I have ever needed, which isn't very often), and whether or not RSS items need to have titles. The things he agonizes over are, I think, just background noise for most users, and his illustrious history in a niche area of Apple desktop computing decades ago doesn't really buy him anything in today's marketplace, to his (unstated) frustration.
Aren't these just all ideas about how to get VC funding, or ideas about how to get crowdsource funding?

Whether it's about extracting money from few rich people (VC) or many not-as-rich (or even poor people), this just seems like a document full of "The AirBNB of blockchain. The Uber of blockchain. The Google of blockchain. The government of blockchain. The Vattenfall of blockchain". It doesn't actually mean anything. It's a parody of a parody. (the parody being "We're the AirBnb of Uber. The Microsoft of Amazon. The Uber of AirBnb")

None of these startup ideas even show that they know enough about their space to even know what the problem is.

They're the "not even wrong" of startup ideas. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong)
If something technical goes badly wrong there should be a post-mortem concluding with enough clariry so that it is clear to everyone what the cause was.
You can configure Docker's reference registry software as a pull through cache https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/mirror/

I think other container registry's like Artifactory also support pull through
From cold, sure. But he's talking about an urn that started full of hot coffee, and then saying energy input required to maintain that temperature will decrease as the coffee volume decreases. What's the mechanism for that supposed to be?

The more I think about it, the more I think he's just wrong about the coffee thing. Contents of the urn have no effect on energy required to maintain its temperature.
If they don't return it it may be taken by the scruff of the neck by authorities.

They'd be wise to also look in MacAskill's talks / writings / tweets / etc. The guy clearly promoted SBF, was apparently involved in the beginnings of the Alameda scam and looks more like a guru than a professor. Complete with getting his students to pledge giving part of the money they (illegally?) make to his cause. MacAskill also clearly benefitted from money stolen by SBF/Alameda/FTX to buy $15m real estate in the UK for his "non profit" / altruistic bullshit. Real estate which I hope shall be seized and sold as part of the proceedings clamping down on the stolen money.

Fuck these motherfuckers. Just fuck them. Expose them. Seize what they bought with stolen money.

BTW: if anyone knows of a way not to donate to these supposedly altruistic causes but to donate instead to investigative journalists digging what they can on these guys, I'm all ears.
>Traffic would get somewhat worse.

That seems obvious. There's still a cost to putting miles on a car. But, while I don't commute, I'd be far more casual about having something drive me an hour into the city for an evening or a couple hours into the mountains for a day of activities than I am having to drive.
But I don't think it's sad. The desire to have more for ourselves and our children (why else would they be talking about buying a family home?) is a large part of the reason why living standards keep rising.

If everyone desires to be above average and strives to produce more, earn more, then over time the average will rise. This is good.
You ignore it and enjoy the free publicity. People who read the book, assuming it sheds light on these people, will figure it out.

The biggest issue I can see is review bombing, so you can try warning various platforms that it might be targeted, though most of them already have systems in place to try to prevent it or will ignore your pleas.

IMO, the only thing you can really do there is market your book in other ways, and maybe ask some bloggers to pick up the story if you do get publicly attacked. A lot of people will search a controversial subject and read blog posts about it to see what the issue is. If some of those articles can convince them that the book or author are important and are being cancelled for any reason other than merit they'll be more likely to check it out.
FSD has been a dangerous fraud this whole time