skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about "sentient", but yes, cars "have been driving without drivers" for decades. Those are limted demos, not actual, useful self-driving cars. Big difference!

Extract from [1]:

The basic navigation problem has been "solved" for decades. Back in Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, I watched a NavLab van rolling down a trail in Schenley Park behind my graduate student office. Since then, every few years we've been hearing announcements about how self-driving cars were just around the corner.

But between demos and actual products lies a huge chasm. Today, not only do self-driving cars still not exist after billions of dollars and decades of investment, but the experts admit that they are at least a decade away.

And no, you don't get to nit-pick what "self-driving car" means. It still means that I can get in, tell it to go to a destination that I would normally drive to, and then I can go to sleep. That's what's known in the trade as "Level 5" autonomy. Anything less than that is not the life-changing promise that attracts all this investment and press.

If your car can operate only on a few roads, then it's no better than one of those people-mover trains at airports. Those are driverless, too.

[1] https://www.robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2021-08-29-humanoid.h...
What are the chances of convincing a regulatory body to overturn laws mandating hard-coded hardware identifiers on a privacy basis? Probably not very good
I'm sad to see this go, a remnant of another web which could have been. I spent a fair bit of time playing with Beaker and hacking it up for my own purposes.

We actually had a discussion a few years ago where I made a suggestion about change to the default behavior. At the time, you made a perfectly valid response and declined my suggestion, but I'm curious if your thinking is the same today, given how things played out: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/1444
I did a little side project where I tracked the partisan lean of each state over the years. I wanted to do a thing where I plot markers for every year where there was a major law passed that affected voting access in some way

I was SHOCKED how difficult it is to access public law in the majority of states. And even more shocked about how little academic research and resources there are about this particular study. I found it difficult to find studies that compared laws in multiple states in general. I assume the reason for this is mostly to do with lack of quality databases and resources for this.
This method used by Ukrainian radio amateur operators to jam radio channels used by Russian military and counter fight propaganda in the first months of full-scale Russia invasion of Ukraine.[0,1]

[0] https://rurik.us/files/

[1] https://ur8lv.com/1621773881
I wonder if this is the same issue? https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/dock.html
Bouncing off a geosynchronous satellite makes the latency awful, but it is an option. Fiber, copper, or point to point wireless are better options, though.

Latency for bouncing off LEO satellites isn't too bad though.
Thanks for the correction. It looks like it was the longest siege ever against the British. Certainly a massive qualifier there I forgot.
I ignore macOS updates as a self preservation technique until something forces my hand such as buying a new computer or Xcode complaining it only runs on a particular release.

Between macOS, cpu architecture changes, and the fast pace of Electron’s release cycle (node ABI vs native modules), I’m constantly terrified about keeping builds running. Each upgrade … I’m just clenching my chest waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I never thought I’d become a late adopter of technology. But here we are.
I abstained for 6 months last year and it really had no effect in any way, mental or physical. Don't mean to be a contrarian, just wanted to supply a different data point
Yep, thanks! I really need to update the post with zotero
Not exactly because the 4% rule allows you to increase your withdrawals throughout time to track inflation. That would it be true if the treasuries.

Also worth noting that the 4% rule is not designed for principle preservation. So you end up with zero after 30 years.

I’m contrast, your approach would preserve the principle.
s/Cakes/values/
Ask HN: Tricks to enjoy your job more?
I love to code, but the pressure of work makes me dwindle both physically and mentally.

After lots of conscious effort, I’m back in a good physical and mental state trying to not let work take me down this year.

What tips would you give to someone to avoid getting drained by work and politics/human emotions?
> Digging a bit deeper, is your concern that “if there’s a tool, people will use it”?

That is a big part of what software industry does to society, isn't it? If there's a tool, people will use it, and when enough people use it, it becomes expected or even required to use it.

I expanded on that phenomenon a bit in a different HN thread today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34155487.
I was politically conscious for his presidency (and a few more before it), and you make a good point or two, but I’d take issue with this characterization of the Bush years. His presidency was dynastic. He was a member of the political establishment, and a governor of Texas. He campaigned as a compassionate conservative, “a uniter, not a divider”. He (clumsily) spoke Spanish. “Global sourcing” accelerated during his presidency and he was a proponent of free trade. He was “a guy you’d want to have a beer with,” but his populist appeal didn’t extend beyond a superficial level, being photographed in cowboy clothes clearing brush on his ranch. His administration was made up of radical Nixon-era neocons with a handful of moderates who lent it credibility (Rice and Powell particularly). 9/11 of course radically altered history and enabled their worst excesses. A costly illegitimate war, naked cronyism, and a massive curtailing of civil liberties that remains to this day. Without a doubt the most destructive presidency I’ve witnessed.

He was not at all pugnacious, although, like Trump, the outrage he inspired was partly due to his lack of presidential decorum and sophistication. He put his foot in his mouth. He was a national embarrassment. But his image was that of a born-again Christian, with an upright moral posture. Quite a distance from the verbal pugilist who made ridiculous threats to celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell.

The Democratic opposition saw his election as illegitimate—the Pat Buchanan vote, hanging chad Florida controversy. Worth remembering. Not the first and certainly not the last disputed election.
I don’t have any, other than maybe look in general chat to make sure it’s active. I’ve also struggled with this, often a promising new server is disappointing after I get to know it over a couple days.
https://medium.com/@tabithawasserman/the-complete-saying-was...
Fitting Words Puzzle by Hcs64
I dunno, to me Edge feels just like Chrome with an addition of a bunch of Microsoft crap that I will never use, which makes sense because that's exactly what it is. I stopped using Chrome around 2016 and since that time I only use Safari on Mac and Firefox on Windows.
Bookmark Manager is the best bookmark management tool, easy to use, cross-platform
Practically speaking, even if self-driving technology was widely available today, it would take decades for manual cars to get off the road.
A summary of the dissenting opinions is in the Wikipedia article linked above.
You could have just used the self-contained borg binary (download from github releases page).

It contains everything needed (python, python libs, other libs) except glibc and related libs which must match the OS / kernel and therefore are intentionally not included.
I promise you they use the feature. It’s quite nice. People want it enhanced, but it is useful.

But as a sibling comment pointed out it’s limited for a reason. It’s carefully locked to areas Ford has mapped and verified and believes the software/hardware is capable of performing safely. It will disengage for anything more complicated.

Tesla’s “you can run it almost anywhere, good luck” attitude could easily help explain a large chunk of the discrepancy. The Ford won’t engage where it’s unlikely to work while AP very well might.
My wife worked in one such company several years ago. The interesting thing is that while hiring her, she couldn't even anticipate that the company was a scam. The company described itself as a certified technical support service. They showed her such a rosy picture of the work they did. It was only after a couple of weeks, when they had explained the processes, that she realized it was a scam.

She left soon thereafter. By the way, they were ready to pay whatever she asked for (up to a reasonable limit of course). The tragedy is that people in countries like India need to survive, and values take the back seat.

Two more such companies offered her the same kind of job but she declined.
I really needed to see this post right now. I was just about to go to the store, wherein I will be confronted with the very tempting possibility of a cheap bottle of wine. Of course I will need to walk past my glass recycling bin, which is full of identical empty wine bottles, each (shamefully) marking a singular night of drinking, 1 for each night of the past week. Before the pandemic, I could make a bottle of wine last several days. As of now, I can handily down 2 bottles over the course of a Sunday.
I wonder why there aren't more devices to give you an insurance discount for following to close. Or just to make an unsilencable beep if you try.

In any case, some of those cases were probably due to lack of rear sensors, or lack of any sensors at all besides cameras, and lack of any deterministic code able to override the AI.
Indeed, many people induce unnecessary stress upon themselves spewing vitriol. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading... I spoke in general on purpose, to avoid getting into the weeds on statistics like this. Of course we are aware of modern medical techniques. But the general divide between holistic and allopathic medicine is well known. Perhaps a deep breath is in order.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Southwest kept hitting the jackpot with fuel price hedging and futures trading. People used to say that they were a hedge fund with an airline attached. They were far and away the cheapest. Now, not so much, unless you regularly check multiple bags.
Thx, if you want to add it to your home screen as an icon on your device, I posted the instructions https://merrysky.net/faq
I just had a kernel panic when copying files to an smb mount.

Apple rewrote the SMB code to make it closed-source starting with 10.12, I believe; the immediately noticeable effect was that it became far buggier.
Single pieces of evidence, such as this passage from Tacitus, need to be critically evaluated in their context.

Tacitus writes aprox. 90 years after the event. What were his sources? Christianity seems to have already achieved a certain notoriety, from which Tacitus quickly distances himself ("a most mischievous superstition"). But the story fits well to support his anti-imperial and specifically anti-Neronian stance. Therefore we do not need to expect a lot of deep research on his side before including this little remark into his Annals. And the mentioning of Pontius Pilatus sounds suspiciously canonically Christian. The most likely conclusion is that Tacitus is just repeating what his contemporary Christians have told everyone about the origin of their cult.

This does not mean that what he tells us is incorrect, but that is account is probably based on a Christian and not an independent tradition.
New religious movements commonly make up all kinds of extraordinary claims about their founders. However, most of the time, the founder is a real person. While religions with entirely mythical founders are not unheard of, that appears to be significantly less common than a real founder whose life becomes heavily embellished. Given that, it seems reasonable to assume that for any religious founder, in the absence of more specific information, their real historical existence is more likely than not. Therefore, Jesus of Nazareth more likely than not existed.

Furthermore, if we look at the more specific information we have, we find information which arguably increases that probability even further. Suppose, hypothetically, that the early Christian sources had disagreed about which century Jesus had lived in-that fact surely would have increased the odds that Jesus was mythical. But, conversely, the fact that all known early Christian sources which explicitly date his life, do so to the same period, give or take a few years at most, has to increase the odds that Jesus was historical. Conversely, Buddhist sources disagree (by decades, even centuries in some cases) about when Siddharta Gautama lived, which implies his odds of being mythical are greater than those of Jesus of Nazareth.

There is nothing religious about these arguments - they are simply treating Christianity as one religion among many, trying to devise general criteria - applicable to any religion - to determine whether a religious founder is likely historical or mythical, and then applying those criteria to Christianity
You may end up using reasoning more often than you think. I run into situations that require my full attention and are very likely un-AI-able once a week or so. (And I live in California.)
Even though there's only a few comments, I learned so much about state law and the way copyright is handled. And I must say, I'm deeply surprised. I would've never expected such a battle being waged in the background. It seems so backwards to put legislation behind a paywall.

I'm also curious as to why so many southern states have been doing this. Is it a relic from something in the past? Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
I recently signed up for a VPN and raised the sails after hitting the limits of frustration while trying to find a few older movies that no streaming service seemed to carry.

I had a Plex server set up around a decade ago and decided not to deal with the hassle of it when I moved to a new city.

But man, it's just crazy how much easier and better downloading your own copy of media is. And with stuff like Sonarr/Radarr out there it's easier than ever before. I need to build up some more storage to really go all in, I've just been doing everything manually thus far. The experience is worlds better than dealing with the various bullshit of streaming.
If something moves far enough away from us that it exits our observable universe, should we assume it still exists, or that physics has a special collapse rule that makes it stop existing at that point? Just like the split universes, it's impossible to directly measure the existence of objects outside of our observable universe.
There is a word the customers have for the bullet-point style of communication. They call it “curt” and they don’t like it. They expect exactly the fluffy speech that ChatGPT generates.

I can also read faster than I can write, so I have no problem quickly reading over what ChatGPT generates before sending it.
I interned at a company called Chartmetric one summer that you may find interesting. Happy to chat if you have any questions!

https://chartmetric.com/
It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
What are you even talking about
The multiball does in fact seem like something I'd enjoy, thanks for the tip! I'll keep that in mind if I run out of sharpies.
https://archive.vn/XlFLE
Around 15% of my apartment building here in Medellín, Colombia are retirees that moved from the US. Cost of living being 1/5 of of the US I would be doing the same.
Majority: Roberts, joined by Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh

Dissent: Thomas, joined by Alito; Breyer (all but Part II–A and footnote 6)

Dissent: Ginsburg, joined by Breyer

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For non-Americans, from most conservative to most liberal:

Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Ginsburg, Kagan, Breyer, Sotomoyor

Woof, if this would've happened in 2022 it would've probably gone the other way since Sotomoyer got replaced with a very conservative justice (Barret)
My personal opinion is that we should acknowledge what was done wrong unto them and do our best to support those that are disadvantaged through no fault of their own.

However I draw the line at ignoring or being more lenient when it comes to crime, poor behavior in schools, vandalism etc. Yes, bad stuff happened in the past but it shouldn't create license to be poor members of society forever.

There have been periods where we have seen this from different socioeconomic/racial groups and usually they moved past it. I remember when I was studying in Sydney there was a lot of angst about Vietnamese gangs in the South-West, over time that gave way to Vietnamese being welcomed and considered some of the most friendly communities in our society.

I hope we are to see similar take place with the Sudanese in Melbourne, currently characterized similarly to what the Vietnamese gangs were and still undergoing difficult integration into Australian society.

At it's core Australia is a multi-cultural nation, almost entirely composed of immigrants from all around the world. It's unfortunate that it came at the cost of the traditional lands of the indigenous Australians but they really should be able to see at this point that it's not race that holds them back, otherwise other disadvantaged and displaced would similarly have the same issues.
One underrated benefit of using Anki is you become a god. In a meeting, when I can recite the Q1 revenue along with the names of everyone working on the project, everyone automatically becomes submissive to me because they think they have just observed a superior intellect.
Most people I know take a few months off weed every year and it’s always much better when returning to it.
Putting my curmudgeon hat on for a minute, no you don't. You imagine a time when things lasted, largely because you were able to ignore all of the byproducts and externalities that went along with them.

My favorite in this vein is furniture. Yes, if you use hardwood that is not legal for very valid reasons, it can possibly last longer. Or if you get a worker to use toxic paints and other hazardous repair techniques, it is amazing what you can restore.

Meanwhile, the true irony is that a household going through several modern appliances probably still uses less electricity and other raw materials than the older ones that supposedly lasted longer. All while not poisoning the users.

Don't get me wrong, early adopters still typically get bad products. But one need only look at modern lighting to see an example of how the old way was borderline garbage. Yes, the first led bulbs were bad. Same with early low flow toilets and high efficiency washers. Modern ones, though, are so much better than the older ones that it is hard to believe.

If you want to focus on the infrastructure, the amplifiers needed for old communication were ridiculously expensive and actually somewhat justified long distance fees. The repeaters of modern tech are far superior.
Fly.io production deploys are down
I haven't been able to deploy to production for about 10-15 minutes.

The fly status page doesn't appear to show any outages:

https://status.flyio.net/

Is it just me?
OS X 10.7 (Lion) was the first post-iPhone version of MacOS, released in late 2011.

It was a bumpy release and it's not remembered fondly, but it introduced a number of fundamental features that modern iOS/Mac users depend on, like iCloud.

The previous version from 2009, OS X 10.6, was essentially a maintenance/refinement release with few new features while the rest of Apple was heavily focused on launching the iPhone and the App Store. Many people consider 10.6 to be the strongest OS X release, but it feels positively retro by today's standards.
In the USA, unlimited talk/text with 2GB data is $14/month with Tello. $8/month without data. $29/month with unlimited data.
Atoms aren't anything like that though. There are no little billiard balls, probability densities don't "bump", electrons don't actually orbit, and so on. Atoms just are what they are, and what they are does not admit a good "macrophysical analogy".
> MWI is equivalent to a simpler interpretation that doesn’t require split universes.

That simpler interpretation is also equivalent to a simpler implementation that doesn’t require apparently-arbitrary resolutions of quantum probabilities (MWI). It’s essentially a question of where you hide the “weird”.

It seems likely to me that they’re both wrong, and the in-principle-untestability of all this points to our mental machinery just failing to map intuitive concepts onto this space, but I’m totally agnostic to this. I do find MWI more conceptually appealing.
Are life safety applications allowed to rely on FEA alone?
They may work as advertised, but the problem is that the cables themselves have no indication of what was advertised in the first place.

The ability to know what the cable you’re holding can do is just not there. Unless you have some way of ensuring that all your cables are the same, you need to:

- discard/donate every cable that you can’t identify (as @brookst did) by its eMarker (though they’re required by spec) unless you own a specialized USB-C voltmeter or multimeter

- manually label every cable with all its unique specifications, either after running it through an eMarker reader or immediately after taking it out of the box
Andrew Yang's auto-sunset laws concept does not seem so monumentally stupid now
I always greatly enjoy the posts on this blog. Gotten me through some very slow days.
I don't think it was ever officially in the UI beyond "allowing" certain applications to use the dedicated GPU inside a MacBook Pro. The only reason Apple even added that was as a battery conservation concern.
> people [..] forget the larger picture that it's about trusting the host not to pwn you

It's not about that. It's about pushing back the trust boundary to be as close to the source as possible. Of course your upstream can compromise you if they turn malicious, but having your trust boundary needlessly extend all the way out to the web server is not only unnecessary but also introduces real dangers to users (unless you also consider Transmission's incident to be one of your "Hollywood-worthy" hacks).

I'm glad people are rightfully criticizing this stupid approach. I'm glad most reputable systems use off-line signatures to verify software before running it. Security is not about absolutes. It's about thresholds.
> Seems like the old farts account for more than 50% of all flu-related deaths; the author never mentioned that.

Table 2 in the article breaks down deaths from the flu per 100,000 people by age group. Also, the section “Old people and the flu” says:

Only 4% of older people get the flu (way less than other ages), but for those who do, the rates of hospitalization and death are dramatically higher. Roughly 10% of those who get the flu end up in the hospital and 10% of the hospitalizations result in death! That's a mortality rate of 40 per 100,000… Let's understand the death rate for old people. Yes, it's forty times larger than the rate for most younger people.
Very cool. Care to share more details on setup? What’s the power consumption like?
I recently switched to Windows because I need some performance-intensive windows-only software. I'm convinced that Microsoft lets marketing write the feature bullet list and then tells product managers to assign arbitrary dates to each bullet entry and use that as their project timeline. Quality is absolute garbage. Microsoft 365 Family is shockingly bad. The 6tb of storage you get for $10/mo (spread out over 6 accounts) might not actually be worth it.
I think the precursor to Lyft, Zimride, was a matching service like you describe.