skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but there’s a counterpoint here too. If the autopilot takes all of the “easy miles” then you should expect to see a spike or accidents concentrated on the non autopilot “hard miles”.

Since we don’t see that spike, I’m inclined to believe that the effect size of the highway driving preference is relatively small.
Yes, expensive soda is the problem of our times.
Really? Easy to steal, definitely not cheap or simple to replace, and usually wouldn't be covered by insurance.
> Sports: Chess cheating aside, if you don’t got it, you don’t got it.

He forgot about aids such as steroids.
"Conclusion: Do Brake Lights Activate During Regenerative Braking? Yes, but Stay Alert"

Seems pretty obvious, the idea is that engine braking would also cause your car to slow down without lighting up the brake lights so any kind of slowdown at that level would not normally engage the brake lights. But as soon as you slow down more than that the lights will come on, making its behavior pretty close to what you'd expect from a regular car with and ICE lacking regenerative braking.

Or would you suggest that a normal car should engage it's brake lights when you let go of the accelerator and engine brake? (I can see a case for that.)
As that page makes clear, SES can hand off incoming mail to a Lambda, or to S3 – or to SNS which can deliver it to any HTTP endpoint, or e-mail address, or text it to your phone for that matter.
I think most people would rather have modern working hours and a modern quality of life, than have pre-industrial working hours and a pre-industrial quality of life.
> I predict EV road trips will be economical in the US when McDonalds installs chargers at their locations along the interstates, as a convenience to customers rather than a primary revenue source.

I've been offering it as free advice for a while that the company wanting the most to be the next McDonald's for the All American Road Trip will be the fast food chain that goes all in on electrifying their parking spaces.

(I think one of the businesses that could most easily push into that is actually the Sonic chain. They already electrify most of their parking spots, they just need to add charger cables. There's some interesting retro irony in how their outdated/outmoded throwback diner style becomes relevant in a new way there.)

> IMHO this will require next-gen DC fast chargers as well, as the current models are still rather clunky and expensive for McD's.

Expense seems to be a matter of scale. A chain making a big enough (risky enough) bet at a large enough national scale would have all manner of power to bring in economies of scale with current models.

I think a lot of the same applies to clunkiness. I think a lot of the clunkiness is "intentional" by the current purchasers of chargers. They aren't pushing back hard enough on the user experience because they win a little by chargers still seeming "exotic" and "new" and "exciting" and the clunkiness seems to me as much an accident of charging still trying to compete with old business models and new early adopter customers rather than just being boring parts of everyday life than an inhereent technology problem. Something like a restaurant making a big bet on charging, wanting to roll it out to every parking lot they own, with as few maintenance/OpEx costs as possible, and wanting to make sure that it is the least hassle possible to their customers to encourage even more money to be spent inside on food: that would have a lot of incentive power to eliminate a lot of clunkiness really quickly.
"Most internal documentation only begins to make sense to a developer after they’ve developed an internal mental model of how it all hangs together. Most code documentation becomes useful after you have built the theory in your mind, not before. It operates as a mnemonic for what you already know, not as a tool for learning."

This reveals the secret goal of documentation: To build that model, not to document every last detail. The code can do every last detail, it's the model that is hard.

Set out with that goal and... yeah, I can't guarantee success for you either. It's a fundamentally challenging task. But at least you'll be off to a better start than if you think the primary purpose of documentation is to document what happens if you set this combination of flags. That has its place too, certainly, but if I can only pick one, I'd take the high-quality high-level overview over the stuff I can read the code for in 30 seconds.
Sure the current management team is full of bean counters that aren't doing great at understanding product, but don't give the old management much credit.

They completely missed the transition to cloud, they missed AWS, and they laughed when I told them that we (DigitalOcean) wanted $100MM if they were serious about any acquisition talks. This was in 2013 so startup economics were different back then.

They were early to a massive market that is growing and they basically botched their lead repeatedly and every transition since then has been a comedy of errors.

They would have been better off following Equinix's model of just acquiring and managing datacenter space instead they ran their own DCs, didn't have great support, couldn't build product, and ultimately were acquired by PE and saddled with debt along with no road towards innovation.
it was foxconn, they had some capacity :)
Also, many countries broke annual records of hollow promises made to address greenhouse gas emissions.

(And the US doesn't even make hollow promises)

BTW, for reference, see this chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_Worldwide_CO2_Emissi...

which indicates both total and per-capita emissions.
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class):

> The modern usage of the term "middle-class", however, dates to the 1913 UK Registrar-General's report, in which the statistician T.H.C. Stevenson identified the middle class as those falling between the upper-class and the working-class.

"Middle" literally stands for "between" working-class and upper-class. What do you think it's in the middle of?

You can also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Academic... for a comparison of different contemporary models of the American middle-class specifically (all of which place the middle class in the middle of working-class and some other class, obviously).
We used to huck 'em at each other when I was a kid, novel strategy but it might work...
> First Law

> A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Hmmm I wonder about trolley problems
But do they spread the seed or do they eat the seed?

The seed seems rather large, and the fruit is uselessly huge by comparison, it doesn’t seem much like the sort of things which would be adapted to being spread by squirrels.
>Well, if you want to know why some people are rear ending a Tesla, it's because it's far more unpredictable than a human driver.

How unpredictable is a solid 5 seconds of the Tesla signaling it's lane change then slowing down? I blame the asshole that was in the far left lane going way too fast and not slowing down (just letting off the accelerator when the Tesla signalled would have prevented the accident) when someone is trying to enter. Then they brake way too late. Everyone behind that first vehicle is also to blame for following too closely at too fast of a speed.
Seems trivial for MS to buy another 2% from another investor
> Thing is, documentation is great to capture static knowledge, and a evolving software is not static by any means

There are many open source projects with great documentation and they manage to keep abreast of changes.

This attitude among programmers that documentation is hard, so don’t bother is just that - attitude.
FCC Agrees to Form Space Bureau to Keep Up with Growing Satellite Industry
The portal is mist.com, so I'd assume it's using a form of MPSK - https://www.mist.com/documentation/multi-psk/
Alas, ChatGPT will be a bullshit generator extraordinaire for the sociopath / politicker / bullshitter with juuuust enough knowledge.
Here's a version of the app you can play with:

https://etedward-gptzero-main-zqgfwb.streamlit.app/
What is "bad software"? It is not software that has bugs. It is software that does not do the right thing. Any amount of money and effort invested in SW quality and process quality is simply wasted if the software does not do what its users need it to do.

Now tradition prioritizes quality. Do it the right way, like it always has been done. Tradition is not a good ingredient for software industry. If your motto was write software "like it has always been written" you are missing the boat because there is no need to write the same program again and again.

There's no reason to write the same software again - because then you could just use old existing code instead of retyping the same characters again in your editor. Déjà vu. Groundhog day.
It'd probably be hard to source parts and equipment - I think farmers are likely to be restricted by emissions regulations/requirements - wouldn't be easy to put a school bus engine into a tractor without some serious carbon/emissions capture, etc. (as an example)

I seem to recall (though can't be 100% sure) that farmers are eligible for certain subsidies based on their emissions, etc. - basically shoehorning you into buying these expensive tractors/equipment as they're the only companies that can afford to follow those emissions standards - it sucks for farmers, but I can understand the benefit to the planet.
You can’t throw a great party without people showing up. You need good people for good parties. The party is the proof of existing value
You have a relatively poor attitude. You’re a principal engineer and sharing things online isn’t just for the ego. I learn from the internet and who creates the things I learn? Well, principal engineers and experienced professionals.
On the other hand, I'm going to bet that the richer you are, the more likely it is you have an accountant making sure you dot every i and cross every t, including all the legal loopholes they can find for you.

People get upset because they think the IRS should be auditing millionaires that used loopholes to pay less than them, but that's a feature, not a bug.
It doesn’t make sense at all. Why choose to be insanely expensive? I guess by the time you’ve signed a contract there’s a lot of sunk cost ($1000 to be exact) but I can’t understand that strategy long-term.
Middle-class literally stands for "in the middle" of working-class and upper class. You can disagree on who's in there, how many are in there, etc but disagreeing about what it means is futile. The middle class is not the working class, by definition.

See also sibling subthread.
Did copyright work?

Did it promote the betterment of knowledge in any way?

Did it kill Aaron Schwartz?
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback [pdf]
Looking for someone to post this. The outro after 46:30 is reminiscent of mondo 2000 and verbum magazine.
If you are interested in Mansfield's writings, the short stories The Fly and The Garden Party are a good place to start.

https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ManDove-t1-bod...

https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ManGard-t1-g1-...
Having lived through like 5+ of these downturns now, here's what I tell my kids:

-- These cycles are part of the sickness of our system. Prepare for it.

-- When times are good, hoard money. IE: save it, don't spend it. Put it in the market, in assets, in something for when you need it.

-- Always have a side hustle. It doesn't have to be much, but some little side thing where you are making a little money can make a difference when times get tough if you lose your main income source.

-- Live way below your means. While I hate the idea of being so frugal that you can't enjoy life, the cycles I've seen tell me that you have to be really on top of this. Drive that used car for 5 more years. Don't go out to eat. Buy clothes only at thrift. Don't expect to be able to vacation every year. Squeeze that budget as tight as you can to make sure that you have cash in the bank to last a year+, and more than that if you have a spouse /house / kids.

-- Even when things are bad, there's someone out there who is making money and doing ok. Health care, for example, at least in the US, is often a safe place to work in bad times. There are stocks that run counter to the rest of the market, etc.

--Try to stay ahead of the curve when things look like there are clouds coming. The market can shift downward quickly and unexpectedly, but it is often a longer, slower improvement. There is no logic to any of this, it is often the whims of forces we don't control.

-- Decide how much risk you are willing to take on in life. Being a self-employed / small-business owner is hard in a downturn.

I'm optimistic that things are going to get better again throughout 2023, because the things that are dragging us down at the moment feel more ephemeral than real, IE: we're in a recession because we all think we are in a recession and we are all following the playbook for a recession. So there will be layoffs and cutbacks etc until such time as we all realize it's probably not armageddon and we all go back to trying to push our respective businesses forward again.
Thanks so much! I'm using Fuse.js: https://fusejs.io/, which parses through a JSON file with all the post titles and descriptions.
Creme de la creme.

I thought that Cloudfare already gives data to US government. What do they need Palantir for ?
Glad to hear. Sometimes a little luck is all it takes.

I've read luck is just opportunity + preparedness. I don't have real control of opportunities, but I have agency to work on being prepared to identify and take advantage of them when they come along.

At this phase in life, I've solved all my material problems, so I have plenty of free time, means, and energy that I can dedicate to solving this last big problem.

Right now I'm dealing with the colossal amount of narcissistic selfishness that the average single adult in this country possesses. Attractive single woman at my age appear highly correlated with systemic selfish behavior and using people as a means to an end. Making it even harder is the material success I've found personally, it's like a magnet for every gold digger out there. Hard to develop trust in an environment full of people you shouldn't trust. I am regularly approached by women online looking for a sugar relationship. When did using people become this normalized? At least I've solved that one, I know it's not me any longer!

That said, any advice on finding decent people to even try with?
What's also egregious about this is that Tesla has now "decided" that if active restraints or airbags are not deployed, that incident "does not count going forward".

And as an automobile manufacturer, I cannot believe in good conscience that Tesla is unaware that active restraint and airbag systems of today are far more nuanced and weigh multiple criteria when deciding to deploy, versus "speed exceeds X mph, deploy" of old. You can have a very significant incident (two that I've witnessed recently involve vehicles into stationary objects at ~30mph) without airbag deployment. But if that was a Tesla in FSD that hit something at 30mph and didn't deploy airbags, well, that's not an accident according to Tesla.

That also doesn't account for "incident was so catastrophic that restraint systems could not deploy", also "not counted" by Tesla. Or just as egregious, "systems failed to deploy for any reason up to and including poor assembly line quality control", also not an accident and "not counted".
> AMD has finite resources, like any company, and they’ve been focusing on CPU/datacenter dominance

Why can't large companies tap the investment market? E.g. they could sell bonds to fund it, borrow, etc.
How is speech to text (speech recognition) not NLP?

I used to work in NLP and the team next to me worked in speech to text. Though this was a decade ago and maybe terms have drifted? But it's listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Co...
Roller Coaster Sequencing Theory
Macro investing.

> Playing the markets is about as real as a game can get. There is, of course, a divergence between expectations and outcomes, but the outcome has an inexorable quality about it. In most social situations---in politics and in personal and business relations---it is possible to deceive oneself and others. In the financial markets, the actual results do not leave much room for illusions. The financial markets are very unkind to the ego: those who have illusions about themselves have to pay a heavy price in the literal sense. It turns out that a passionate interest in the truth is a good quality for financial success.

The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
That's what Tesla is counting. From the methodology section of the safety report:

> To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed.
The lowest hanging fruit on any project is always documentation. Dissemination isn't O(NM) if your docs are well organized. At least, that's been my consistent experience over the years. I feel like our industry approaches documentation today the way it approached testing in the 1980s, before unit testing became widespread and culturally accepted/enforced.

The problem is, just like how at the start you find lots of devs who don't want to write unit tests, you usually have a lot of devs who resist writing (and reading) docs. They'd rather interrupt someone to ask, or thrash around, or move onto the next task the moment some code is written.

What helps:

1. Keep your docs alongside the source, in version control. This lets you gate code reviews/merges on docs being updated. Someone changed the way the code works but didn't update the docs? Then the PR is rejected until it's fixed.

2. Leading by example. If the TL for the project updates docs with their code changes, and visibly spends time gardening the docs, then they can't be accused of hypocrisy when they demand the same standards of others. Praise quality docs work when done by others.

3. Make the docs beautiful. Let people have pride in their work. It's so easy these days with great static site generators.

4. Answer questions by linking to the docs when possible, not ad hoc Slack/email/ticket discussions. If the docs don't tell someone the answer ask them to hold on for a moment, update the docs quickly and then link to them. Obviously this requires a fast / lightweight turnaround process on review and merge of docs changes, but it can be done.

5. Avoid wikis. Quality requires ownership, someone who is directly responsible and can enforce their will. Wikis don't let you do that so they become a commons, and you end up with a tragedy. Use Markdown or equivalent in a VCS repo so you can refactor docs as they expand, make sure there's someone (e.g. yourself or a trusted lieutenant) who is expected to spend time paying down docs debt every so often.

6. Docs bugs should be a thing. File them. Expect people to fix them.

7. Make it clear that people are expected to read the docs, not just write them. If someone is regularly asking colleagues questions that they could have answered by reading, ensure that's treated like other performance issues i.e. their managers know and the need for improvement is clear to them.

There's more that can be done but these things do work. The biggest problem is always passive resistance. Just like with unit testing or code review, if a culture of avoiding it grows then you'll find it hard to introduce, people will passively resist because it's not as much fun as just banging out more code.

With these approaches the robustness of a program to churn can be improved a lot, you can scale teams up quicker and productivity improves.
> MathML's removal in 2013 in Chrome was a huge deal in the accessibility community

That sounds ahistorical to me. Maybe removal of the (potential) promise of future MathML from Chrome was a huge deal?

MathML support across browsers in 2013 was very spotty and buggy (there's a reason that even back then MathJax didn't prioritize MathML output), but the accessibility story was atrocious.

That's actually slowly changing for the better now. Some background and planning here: https://w3c.github.io/mathml-docs/gap-analysis/
Those are work related injuries, not car accidents. I already agreed with that point.
Musk has repeatedly been called out by regulators for his misinformation. Some claims, like the safety of autopilot have been directly debunked by research. This article has a good literature review if you're interested:

[0] https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/3986

> In independent research, Templeton (2020)compared Tesla’s stated crash rates with Autopilot enabled and not enabled by attempting to control for increased use of Autopilot on relatively safer freeways. To compare human-driven crash rates of freeways and non-freeways, Templeton used fatality rates, which may overestimate crash rates on freeways as higher speeds increase crash severity according to a fourth power law (Evans, 1994). When controlling for road type, the crash rate benefits of Autopilot narrowed significantly. Templeton was unable to fully assess their comparison of Autopilot crash rates with national estimates due to their different definitions of crashes.

> Goodall (2021)investigated struck-from-behind crashes of automated vehicles using age-weighted crash rates from SHRP 2 NDS database as a baseline. Automated vehicles were struck from behind at five times the rate of human-driven vehicles, although much of the difference could be attributed to higher rates of urban driving experienced in automated vehicle testing.

I'm also not sure what percent of level 2 ADAS vehicles are Tesla vs other brands but they're by far the most common vehicles with driver-assist involved:

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23168088/nhtsa-adas-self-...

Google's Waymo was lightyears ahead of Tesla. The reason they didn't go to market was that they knew it wasn't really ready. Elon Musk has lied (as in he knew the truth and lied) about their driver assistant technology's safety and capabilities and has been sued for it[2]. There's no other way to sugarcoat it

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/14/23353787/elon-musk-tesla-...
> instead of actually governing

And what do you suppose should be the priorities for the federal government? What needs actually governing that can't be better done at state and local levels at the moment?
NPSM33 is cited as the requirement guiding the section to require preregistration to use the WiFi network. But skimming NPSM33, it seems to be mostly about research security and disclosure of foreign interests in finding applications.

Out of curiosity, why is MIT (and presumably others) relating this to WiFi access.

I like an open guest network WiFi when I’m visiting a place…

(1) https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/010422...
In a strange twist of events... their massive Series B round was led by SBF

"The [$580M] Series B follows the company raising $124 million in a Series A round in 2021. The Series B round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX. The round also included participation from Caroline Ellison, Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR)."

https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcement
On the contrary, in this analogy, the warehouse scale offices full of low income content mill authors are exactly the monasteries of yore.
It doesn't seem like that would magically protect a business. Otherwise, you could just have an AI write all your terms of service and marketing copy. That way, if you get sued, you can just say "oh, an AI wrote that marketing copy. We never claimed that a human made those promises."