skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Wells is leaving out, when writing the following, is the testimony of the journalists who reviewed the Twitter files:

>>When the authors characterize internal company communications as reflecting a progressive point of view and provide a couple of screenshots as examples, the reader has no way to check that the characterization is fair.

The authors claim that the content removal requests came primarily from people who leaned left and supported the Democratic party:

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598829996264390656?s=20&...

Regarding Wells' characterization of facts surrounding the moderations actions taken against Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya, there are a few problems:

>>Now, Bhattacharya is not the guy who got the pandemic right. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed in March, 2020, he claimed that covid was only one-tenth as deadly as the flu;

He did not claim this. He said that one very preliminary finding could suggest that, but by no means staked his position on that:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as...

He also got the damage that the lockdown would do, and their minimal effectiveness in reducing the spread of COVID, right:

"lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, while they have imposed enormous economic and social costs."

Report: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...

https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.197605...

So Wells' claim that:

"We should be glad that most governments did not take this advice."

Is misinformation.

He tries to downplay the signficance of the trends blacklist here:

"You could also make a case that declining to include a tweet in the “trending” section is a pretty mild course of action, amounting to a decision not to promote: if the Times opinion editors had passed on Bhattacharya’s op-ed before the Journal accepted it, no one would accuse them of suppressing free speech."

The trends curation is typically done via algorithms, base on user behavior data, unlike the Op-Ed section of a newspaper. This was meddling with the organic functioning of the trends algorithm to suppress an entire viewpoint.
I for one welcome our fictional conspiracy theory overlords.
You know what else is "semi-automated driving"?

A six year old behind the wheel sitting in your lap.

That's also known plainly as "illegal".

I have no fucking idea why this is being tolerated on our public roads, nor why SAE has even classified these child-equivalent levels of autonomy as if they're acceptable.
> Imagine what kind of society humanity could have if people didn't constantly allow incompetent and corrupt leaders to take over.

I think part of it is the “power corrupts” aspect and another is the likelihood that the kind of people who seek power generally aren’t the kind of people who should be put in power. We haven’t really figured out a solution to that problem that works at scale.
it can also be the angle. subtle change in your car height relative to taller cars and it gets a lot worse. my lifted tundra is much nicer at night relative to my nissan leaf.
I guess people have no business being on the roads then, because all of the actual crashes in that video were vehicles driven by humans. If they had been following the rules of the road with proper spacing between vehicles, they wouldn't have gotten in this collision after all.

I think you're overestimating human drivers frankly. Collisions like this one happen between humans every day, multiple times per day across North America, you just don't hear about it because normal human error is at fault.
>The hyperventilating about this on tech YouTube is getting a bit ridiculous.

This is a $1000+ product. What is the appropriate amount of outrage I am allowed to express as a consumer?
> The average, casual user isn’t going to do that on a regular basis.

So? Plenty of successful products aren’t for the average, casual user. HOTAS controllers aren’t for instance. So what? Not everything is universal adoption or nothing. Also, predictions about the “average, casual user” will want tend to be…unreliable. Trends driven by the kind of non-average, non-casual users that tend to be early adopters can shift this in surprising ways.
To be fair most people who are driving cars aren't towing caravans, so this seems like an extreme edge case.

I heavily use adaptive cruise control and I've never had any issues with it, though I'm always ready to take over in case anything complicated starts happening. It's a nice feature because it saves a lot of energy when the driving is very easy, and then you just drive normally otherwise.
The Tesla cut into the lane with 3 car-lengths or less behind it and rapidly decelerated. The two cars behind are going to collide because the first one, who was safely positioned before the Tesla changed lanes, didn't have time to react and the second car was probably not able to either, because the brake lights in front didn't come on until too late. Then, there was a couple cars that were probably tailgating, and finally the whole thing is a snafu.

I can't tell if the people making these comments about the drivers behind the Tesla being responsible are such defensive drivers that they never leave less than 6 seconds in front of them, or they're tailgaters themselves, or just being mendacious.
MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram – Lex Fridman Podcast
>Can someone explain why every single thread about Indians—whether it be here, on Reddit, or on Quora—is somehow allowed to become insidiously racist?

Covert Racism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_racism (see also "Casual Racism")

When a easily-identifiable group rises in the World and challenges/changes the status-quo, those who have profited from it so far and feel "entitled" to it in perpetuity, will feel threatened and thus resort to "Racism" to simply deflect from their waning importance in the "New World Order".

But Everybody needs to stand up against this; here is a how-to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/smarter-living/how-to-be-...
Methylated gases could be an unambiguous indicator of alien life
Reading this was hard because having failed a few years ago, after 7 years and $3m raised for a B2B content marketing startup, it all rings so true.

We hired a VP of Sales (who was previously VP of Sales at a public company) when we had $20k MRR (avg deal size was $3k/mo), non of the four founders /wanted/ to lead sales, we hired a $5k/mo PR firm… we blew so much money trying buy our way out of figuring out repeatable GTM motions. Realistically, as founders, we were not up to the task.
The point is 2022 installs have been business as usual rather than in response to spiking energy prices.

This crisis was predicted 11 months ago with the invasion and they are already forecasting issues next winter that’s a long time fast track stuff.
The bump crack issue with MacBooks was in the open in 2008.

Apple used AMD GPUs for the MacBook Pro 2011.

4 years after bump crack, they switched back to using Nvidia GPUs for the trusty old mid-2012 MacBook Pro that's still my daily driver, with excellent keyboard, and for the late-2013 MacBook Pro too.

If there's anything that, I don't know what it is.
I think if you did a Roth IRA/401k and then retired, you'd be angry because you're effectively paying double taxes on consumption.

Same with money that you already took out of a regular 401k and paid taxes on it.

Same with money that was already taxed for the past 5 years.

Etc.
> 22 cubic meters

This doesn't sound right. 22 cubic meters could be represented as a cube with an edge length of roughly 2.8 meters.

There is no way there is less gold on the entire Earth than there is in every single bank heist movie that features gold bars.
sorry I meant it was an UNSIGNED integer back then
Yea, for self-hosted I've got 15 year old Perl scripts on cron still doing their thing.
I believe this is meant to be used in combination with a low-bits pointer tagging scheme. One of the low-bits tags represents a float value, and you insert this tag into the NaN-space of a IEEE-754 single-precision float in the full lower 32-bits. The upper 32-bits contains the single-precision float you are interested in.

The optimization is only for single-precision floats. Other types just follow the low-bits tagging scheme.
billionaires as well. look at an interview woth a famount billionair when they jusy made their wealth, and 10 years later. The dofference is plain to see.

Oower gets to your head. Human psycology is notndesigned to cope with like a million people qued up to kiss ass and suck your dick
people are expecting and wanting at least AirPod level success here. I can't think of a mainstream product that's direct to consumer that's "niche", perhaps inherently so
Yes, the Tesla was possibly at fault for the first collision. It was not at fault for the 7 subsequent collisions.
The problem with point 1 is that it's just not good at convincing people. If you have a situation where automation fails but a human would have done better, then it doesn't matter unless the statistics are overwhelmingly in your favor, which I doubt they are in this case.

This is a discussion that comes up a lot in medical technology, and if I had to guess why this form of rhetoric fails is not just because it's easier to empathize with a human, but also because when the failure case seems "simple", the issue seems a lot more like an oversight and systemic issue. That in turn makes the probability of failure probably look much higher than it really is, while also implying further undiscovered oversights.

That also kinda addresses point 2, in that, specific failure case or not, it implies a weak system with obvious oversights. That definitely doesn't help the political case for complete FSD approval.

I'm generally skeptical of this utilitarian, rationalist form of rhetoric, if only because it's overly optimistic about the ability to overcome issues in some amorphous future. Sure, a future with full FSD is probably a net good, and we can even say it's probably in within our lifetimes, but the claim that future mitigated harms outweighs all current harms of live-testing FSD won't win enough people over, and drowns out other possible policies like advocating for adapting our infrastructure to support FSD rather than having cars attempt to read signs and signals designed for humans.
> . The Tesla indicated for a very long time

3 seconds is a very long time? Also: 3 seconds of turn signal is a clear indication of "i am going to change lanes and fully come to a stop"? And then turning off all signals and coming to a full stop without hazards on is a clear indication of "i am stopping"?
RPG fans irate as D&D tries to shut its “open” game license
Solar is being rolled out like crazy and the main constraint is not the available sunlight but rather getting a connection to the grid. In fact if you look at where there's the most solar power in Europe, it's north western Europe (Benelux + Germany) even though one might expect it would produce more in Southern Europe
Who kills more citizens: govt or other citizens?

No, the "govt has a monopoly on violence" is repeated by the same people that don't read the entirety of links they post, and who use the word "literally" when it is not literally.

https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+government

The word "violence" appears in zero actual definitions of government among the first 200 on google (at which point I stopped searching).

Weber's popular phrase has been vastly superseded by political philosophy in the century following his phrase. Read more.
Essentially the value is in not having to set up your own SSH server. Or for providing you with 'throwaway' domains for any developer who wants to temporarily expose some locally running service.

One use-case I had was connecting an Android app over 4g to a backend service running on my development machine, for some ad-hoc debugging. Using a tool like this was more straightforward than setting something more permanent up manually (spinning up a server, certificates, DNS, etc). Especially for someone not super familiar with how to configure the tools involved.
Solar installations are limited by production capacity of the panels. There may be no significant options available for fast tracking.

Germany did complete some energy projects in record time, such as the construction of a new LNG facility to enable more gas imports by ship.
False - they get unelected, overthrown, beheaded, or a host of other things when the people don't like those representing them.
I think the new F-150 lightning (and I would think equivalent ICE models) can handle that scenario.

I would think the manual likely said not to use it while towing. I’m not sure why one would be afraid of it when used correctly because it didn’t handle something it wasn’t designed to well.
It is a US thing. California doesn't allow NDAs to cover harassment, discrimination or illegal behavior, but even with obviously-illegal clauses the company can still try to make you sign illegal documents. How enforceable it is could depend on where the lawsuit involved gets filed, and where they sue.
This is awesome! Man, really amazing to see how linux has spawned an entire forest of different lineages. Wow!
I think it wouldn't take much to make it useful for work use, too, and I suppose that's a much bigger market. I use Itsycal too, to get an overview of what's coming up (I think Grila can do that already) and as an easy way to jump into calls (it parses Teams/Zoom links and shows a little button to open them). That but with better keyboard navigation, like jump into upcoming meeting with 1-2 keystrokes, that would be pretty enticing, and a pretty good Outlook replacement when combined with Apple Calendar for those who don't really need Outlook.
US official warns of risks posed by heavy electric vehicles
Agreed. I find the SQLite diagrams very helpful. They are generated with Pikchr, which itself was created by the SQLite developers I believe:

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/sqlitesyntax.md
Maybe I'm wrong but I had the impression that in France pastry shops had legit pastry chefs who had to go through apprenticeships whereas in America for example, pastry shops give a baker a recipe to follow and that's pretty much it (for the ones that bake in-house I mean)
If you were hiring a human chauffeur would you insist they be better than your current driver in all conditions (rain, night-time, snow, off-road)? Or would you more likely ask that they be minimally competent in all likely conditions, and that his driving style in aggregate, for your current driving profile, be an improvement?

Insisting on not replacing a driver until every subcategory of driving type is strictly improved seems too stringent.

You still have an out here by saying that you're willing to accept more net risk due to "meta" factors like "driver not meeting minimal competence factors". But it would still be more honest in that case to fully admit that this reasoning requires knowingly accepting likely real-world increased fatalities.

And as an aside, for humans, "minimal competence" testing is reasonable - but at large scales & in statistical realms, such metrics value in protection from false claims are of less value since we already have millions of miles of real-world performance tests.
Such a downgrade is probably warranted, and would be both deserved and amusing.
I think of this one:

https://archive.org/details/unix-magic-poster-gary-overcare-...
If it caused a crash it stopped too quickly. Unless there was an immediate, life-threatening need to stop it should simply not have stopped and continued until it was safe to stop. Any halfway competent driver could plainly see there is no safe place to stop there and you should never stop there unless your car is literally on fire or the road bed is missing.
Locale also bites people all the time with simple shell commands like sort or grep. A giant speedup can be had by setting LC_ALL=C.

https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/speed-up-gre...
> I can’t think of a mainstream product that’s direct to consumer that’s “niche”

Well, yeah, that’s kind of trivially true; “mainstream” and “niche” are antonyms.
https://archive.ph/uCA9T
I think it is proprietary. Other cars have similar features, but I don’t think they run the same system.
I can't tell from the header file, but does your MSB radix sort use threading? I have a pure C implementation that speeds up radix sort by about 5-6x on my M1 Pro using all 10 cores. I'm struggling to find a way to use SIMD intrinsics to improve upon it, but will be working on Metal and Cuda versions (for my x86 system) to see if that helps.

FYI - all I'm doing is changing the algorithm attributed to HH Seward in AoCP 5.2.5 to be MSB, counting the number of elements in each bucket and allocating an equal(ish) number of elements (via entire buckets) to each thread, which then act in the normal recursive manner as described.
Put it this way. If C and C++ stop being popular, they'll still survive anyway. Same with Fortran. You just don't see Fortran as often because it's not a general-purpose language like the other two. You'll also never see Fortran as often because people who write Fortran don't share.
Is this really the case? Can you link to anything or an example on go.dev/play/ ?

I can find a mention of "cmp.Equal" having that behavior, but that's just a third-party package panic.
You sir understand our great city.
Some games compromise on this by having the character sitting in the pilot's seat of a ship or a mech, making the interaction with the joystick make sense. I haven't tried them, but it seems like a good way to go, particularly for a game with fighter jets or something like that.
Testing Freedom
> Burning less gas in July let’s you have that gas to burn in January assuming you have storage capacity.

Britain has bulldozed all of ita gas storage, we are all neoliberal just-in-time supply chains believe in the market.

If the rest of the world stops supplying Britain with energy snd food there will be frostbite and famine in 1 week

Ge5ting planning approval for a wind turbine takes 5 years.

During the energy crisis, conservative government has moved to make solar illegal on agricutural land
Side note: This is why backend validations are necessary. When the frontend validations are crappy, it does help if the backend doesn’t validate, but when the validations are good, they can usually easily be bypassed if the backend doesn’t validate (not to mention the potential security vulnerabilities that can exist because of this). But I digress . . .
My point is that as an end user, there is basically no difference between autopilot and FSD if the FSD beta is enabled on the car. It's a technical detail that doesn't seem significant.

If the end user said they were driving on FSD, it likely means they are enrolled in the FSD beta and were using autopilot - in the car there is no distinction between autopilot and FSD. They are the same thing in the car if the FSD beta is enabled.
>Do they prefer governments and civilization? Would they not be better off if they could take your things?

Would they be better off if idiots could beat them without fear of police?

If they don't prefer civilization, why do they go where civilization exists? Why don't they wander off into some deep national forest land and build their own place?

Because they prefer civilization.

>Why do you assume

Why do you put assumptions in my writing that are not there? Need a strawman?

> In order for it to be legitimate, it must, at the very least, beat disorder for most people.

It does by the simple proof that most people don't just wander out of civilization and create chaos in some wasteland. In fact, only a tiny, tiny minority of people actually do that, so it must be working pretty well for nearly all people.
A visualization of the basis functions for the discrete cosine transform by Brian Hayes in his American Scientist post a long time ago [0].

For some reason, Fourier transforms just didn't click until I saw that picture.

[0] http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/AmS...
> I really wish we had other tools than the Fed at our disposal.

The fed is basically a team of scientists when it comes to monetary policy, and meanwhile congress is essentially warring factions of drunk, catty sorority girls when it comes to fiscal policy. It's unfortunate.

If instead of the massive tax cut passed in 2017 we had passed a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure spending bill (and I'm talking 2 trillion in additional infra spending, not the watered-down "1 trillion" that included routine spending) we could've been on a solid footing for supply capacity that could've fought inflation without targeted killing of the working class.
in a sense, yes, but something popular enough could border on mainstream despite the product category being niche, like apple watches.
Many, many people are still rushing to enter med schools, despite numerous comments like yours and essays like mine: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n...
Have you watched the video? Its freeway speeds, a decently busy freeway, at a tunnel entrance that’s curving. Plus the car switched to the passing lane and abruptly stopped.

This wasn’t going straight on a highway stopping in the same lane the driver was already in.

I can understand how the conditions probably made it worse.
Except for 2016-2019. Those have issues with keyboards, trackpads, and power management. if you deploy them in large enough numbers, you’ll have a not so subtle percentage encounter these issues.
Riight. This does present a conundrum though.

If god exists, then he may have chosen to make the wather warm, but then it also means that he chose to not stop the killing of innocent civilians in the war.

So, if god exists, he is an a*hole.
FWIW I don't consider VSCode to be a particularly good example of native integration, either, although at least it tries. But, well - Electron.

As for CL itself, I dabbled in it in my time, and I found it more interesting to broaden the mind than useful for practical applications. The dearth of quality, well-maintained libraries is the main stumbling block for serious use. It's not that it's impossible - it's just that the effort involved in putting everything together exceeds whatever benefits accrue from the language itself being more powerful than usual.

That aside, though, the discussion was about how getting started with CL for someone new is more complicated than it needs to be in part because the ecosystem is so centered around Emacs for code editing. In general, people who get interested in CL are already devs - but Emacs isn't all that popular even among devs these days; I see Sublime far more often, for example. But all CL tutorials actively push Emacs - and for good reason, since it really is the best option available! - which makes the barrier of entry that much higher for people coming from, say, JS or Python.
Good luck building and cleaning that. Dorks don’t make good engineers.
Mostly through sites like hackingwithswift.com

Those are generally enough to get you to the point where you can make sense of Apple’s documentation.
To add to people's experiences in this thread, there's also some selection/sampling bias to consider:

- Indian immigrants are selected from the top 0.1% of Indian society (often urban, educated Indians with significant social, economic, and knowledge capital who speak English growing up).

- Most Indian american immigrants are knowledge workers/students (Medicine, Tech, Science) coming to the US through the two govt blessed visa routes of University and Business.
Global production capacity is on the order of 200 GW, that dwarfs the deficit from reduced natural gas imports from Russia.

And that LNG facility was my point, that’s far less useful once Russia’s pipelines open up again. It’s a massive investment with limited long term gain on top of also paying higher natural gas prices.
I wear my sunglasses at night.
This seems like it has less to do with homes and more to do with public infrastructure.