skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The commission lists a whole load of reasons why this is an issue (loss of connection, cyber attack, etc.). But these are all just as much a problem if someone is remotely driving a car from Gdansk or from Brighton. Possibly connection errors and response times would become an issue at much greater distances and that'd mean you couldn't have someone in Saigon driving a car in London. But there's no technical reason it couldn't be done from Eastern Europe.

However, they do list one reason that matters a lot: criminal liability. What happens if the overworked, underpaid driver in a Hertz sweatshop in Hyderabad breaks traffic laws, or crashes and injures someone? Which will happen.
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Atomic Heart gameplay looks INSANE [video]
When I saw "100 children" in the title, immediately the Indian king Dhrutarashtr came to mind. Didn't know he had a competition from Egypt :)
There is no explicit legal norm, but that doesn't mean it's legal...there is § 168 StGB.
Well, apparently all the means of obtaining, they, ugh, ingredients, are more or less illegal and covered by various laws. Voluntary donations so....

Dear me, I shouldn't have brought it up before lunch... I hope there is something vegetarian on the menu today...
like speaking we have awkward pauses, we go on tangents and repeat our words.

But we deliver the message more or less.

If we had to have perfectly rehearsed sentences,

We'd never talk
Maybe for you, but tell that to the bank that gladly gave me a mortgage thanks to all the income I've made consulting in the past years. This web site is teeming with successful consultants and contractors.

When Silicon Valley was less toxic, less exploitive, and not so riddled with useless frat boy brogrammers, there generally didn't used to be any stigma attached to being laid off.

I was loyally working at Kaleida (a joint venture of Apple and IBM) for a long time, and then applied for my dream job at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation, but they took a while getting back to me with an offer. But in the meantime Kaleida announced they were shutting down and laying off all employees (after having been steamrolled over by the Java Juggernaut).

Apple and IBM allowed Kaleida to pay out generous layoff packages (even converting worthless "KVAR" virtual stock options to cash) and gave job offers to most of the technical staff (which I turned down, because Interval was much more fun and interesting to me).

I told Interval that I wanted to delay accepting their job offer by a month or so, until after the Kaleida layoff, so I could qualify for the financial compensation in the Kaleida layoff package, and they understood completely and were just fine with it.

During that time period and before, Apple would even lay off batches of employees for a while to downsize, then eventually hire some of them back again, restoring all of their accumulated benefits and seniority.
There are also funds (secondary funds) in the business of buying entire portfolios of GPs in case of distress or fraud. Buying cents on the dollar in some instances.
It's massively complex once you start digging down into the details, and the bulk of it really is unknown. I used to work in biomedical research and the enormity of just how much we don't know became more apparent the more I learned about the topic.

That said, I agree with you on how nonsensical gender ideology is. I find it particularly irksome because of how unscientific the whole thing is, there is a huge amount of bullshit being passed off as facts.
> If this were true, those roles wouldn't exist to begin with.

Oh sweet summer child.

Though to be fair, HR expansion was triggered by the constitution replacement called the civil rights laws and the associated need to shield against discrimination lawsuits, so there is a real need for that.
It's crazy that we're doing "innocent until proven guilty" with food additives. Should be the other way around.

What's the risk/benefit?

You can see how crazy it is when you compare it with drugs that we eat in doses smaller by orders of magnitude.
> I wanted a cheap travel laptop I could replace without blinking an eye at the price. I live in Europe, Thinkpads are the most common enterprise laptops I see while travelling. I might even slap an asset tag sticker on the cover to make it even more inconspicuous.

Fair enough - this seems like the key rationale.

But given the amount of effort tinkering to get to an acceptable machine, I’d wonder if there isn’t a machine that can be replaced at short notice ‘on the go’ that would represent a better compromise?
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Got inspired by sites like https://www.konjer.xyz/ and wanted to enable anyone to build websites like these. Launching this today so any feedback is more than welcome!

I'm currently reading the almanack of Naval Ravikant and used it to chat and reflect about the book. Here's my demo: https://ask-my-book.steamship.com/?dbId=cafff4af7828a4436d08...
Straight into the soup
Many people in this thread are suggesting that this evil will not be gotten rid of anytime soon.

But I can tell you that casteism in India, and the degree of it, is not uniformly distributed throughout India.

There are some states and regions where marrying outside your caste is signing your own death warrant, and people from so-called upper castes don't even share tables with lower caste people.

But there are some areas where casteism is non-existent, and inter-caste marriage is rampant, and a small fraction of inter-caste relations are even arranged marriages.

Northern states are the hotbed of castiesm where it is overt and violent and there are honor killings. In South, it is covert, and appears in form of virtues signalling, power sharing, not intermarrying, etc.

The western regions have some lower form of casteism. And in the eastern regions, it is quite non-existent.

I live in the state of West Bengal, and I have never seen overt casteism. Inter-caste relations and marriages are rampant.

What led to this change?

Buddhism had a very strong foothold here historically.

Then ~500 years ago Bhakti movement that does not recognizes caste but only one's devotion was very popular.

Then Calcutta and Bengal was the seat of British rule for decades.

Then three decades of Communist rule up to 2010 destroyed the state's economics, but communality and casteism is low.

And there are places in India, where castiesm is lower. Like Kerala.

There was very popular anti-caste movement in Tamil Nadu: look up Periyar.

So, casteism isn’t uniformly present in the same degree in India, and it can be gotten rid of, through effort.

Some news of castiesm:

Denial of entry to temple:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/clash-ov...

Honor killing for marrying:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/clash-ov...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/clash-ov...

Dalit killed for KEEPING A MOUSTACHE:

https://article-14.com/post/killed-for-sporting-a-moustache-...

Dalit killed for sitting in a chair in a wedding:

https://article-14.com/post/killed-for-sporting-a-moustache-...

Dalit killed for riding a horse:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/for-riding-horse-upp...
> potassium bromATE KBrO3 needs temperatures of 370° Celsius before it splits off its oxygen atoms

Easy enough to hit in a frying pan, which as a sidenote is the major problem with non-stick pans as well because their Teflon coating disintegrates when heating them too high
it may well be fear mongering, but food additives in general are just not a good thing. it barely matters what they are. barring a few well-studied exceptions, in the first place, we shouldn’t be synthesising chemicals and adding them en masse to food which you otherwise wouldn’t expect to contain them

obviously this is a rule of thumb and quite a generalisation. I’m sure a fair few counter-examples can be given, but is it better to generally follow this rule, or not? I say better
Sounds like one where somebody does pretty well out of finding an interesting example from the internet and tweaking it slightly. They might not survive an interview asking them to expand upon it in an interview, but they could still succeed in passing the screening better than people recounting boring bugs they actually fixed...

(If ChatGPT wasn't busy I'd be tempted to see whether it can manage that, or whether your phrasing throws it off)
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Thanks.

Ti-po, I guess :)
I really don’t understand the point of this. It sounds like trying to rebut YouTube whack jobs, except instead of being too unbearably slow to watch (vs read) and quote, there is just an infinite stream of incorrect gibberish.

Correcting other students’ homework makes much more sense to me. Similarly, researching a topic and being graded on the quality of the citations you pick makes much more sense.
There is no consensus on truth, happiness, or the reality of the universe we live in though, so nothing to accept there "as a layperson".
That website is fantastic. Cutting edge expression, difficult, well realised. I wish that were what modern art is.
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Early morning classes are such a bad idea. Hopefully, this bad practice can change in the future.
I did see click-repl when I was searching but I had no idea what click is and assumed it had something to do with mouse.

Naming is hard. Thanks for your reference, it looks pretty cool.
Isn't this just cargo culting and then realizing when you're cargo culting vs when changes are actually necessary? I also don't like fawning over good code, or what makes good code, but I think it's actually a good thing to anticipate certain architectural changes. Idk, but I don't think you can tell a stakeholder that you can't implement a feature X because you didn't give enough of a shit about architecture and ran out of flexibility to change something.
is there a theory on why those inclinations exist? why would someone strongly prefer to wake up at 6am versus someone else at 10am - but "prefer" not as "I'd like that better" but as "it's impossible for me to adjust to it without mental and physical harm"? as far as my observations go it's not really a hard wired neurological fact but rather a result of psychological resistance and self-reinforcing circumstances:

I don't like my job -> don't want to go to bed yet (need to do sth I enjoy and also b/c I want to artificially stretch time until having to work again) -> I don't want to get out of bed (because I don't like my job and I also happen to sabotage my sleep by avoiding it at night and hence I didn't sleep enough) -> apparently I'm an owl ...

one question would be ... are there owls who enjoy whatever forces them to get out of bed early?
"technically true" -- The best kind!
hopefully it shows that. the concern, whether well-founded or not, is that it shows the influence of lobbying
> Enhanced summon isn’t safe or production ready. Tried in my empty driveway. Car went forward and ran into the side of garage. Love the car but saddened.

You'd think a company with upwards of 100k employees would figure out avoiding static obstacles.
Thank goodness I went to a traditional uni. in the UK in the mid 70s. In the physics department there were no classes, only lectures and tutorials. Lectures were optional. and the class of your degree depended only on the finals and final year dissertation/project report.

We were able to arrange our own working patterns and were responsible enough to do it.
Did you... just quote my favourite car of all times, the GT-Four?!
Probably due to the freaking fructose in everything they eat, including their bread.

Also, sugar and fructose increases appetite levels.
It's meant to show them they shouldn't be using it for their own essays.
> I'm tired of Apple's ecosystem, Apple ID, not being able to change any individual part of my laptop, being charged $200 USD for 8GB of RAM, being charged $200 for 256 GB of SSD, and so on

aleluya
I think the fallacy is to treat knowledge of redness as a "fact" about the world.

In general, when you learn a fact, you acquire information about the world that previously you lacked. But when you first experience redness, your knowledge of the world is exactly the same as it was when you were stll Monochrome Mary. The old Mary knew which things were red, like tomatoes; she was fully-informed about the nature of light and colour. The experience of redness has added nothing to her knowledge of tomatoes and their colour.

If that's correct, then familiarity with any qualia fails to be a kind of knowledge.
I did some VRML at uni. We thought it was the future :)

Having said that, I think what you're saying is some very superficial pattern-matching. I found it a fantastic experience, and I'm not a particularly arty person.
>> If you found an expert willing to claim it and ran a fearmongering story "Covid vaccines 'almost certainly' making people sick" despite safety requirements from the FDA, I think it would get a very different response here. At the very least calls for actual evidence of claims would not be down voted.

If his opinion on said vaccine was also accompanied by trade ban in Europe, India and China, he would also see a different response than if it was his claim alone. It's not juste an expert, it's multiple foreign agencies.
I’m not sure how this article landed in HN but I’m glad it did. Great read!
I'm getting old; I can't tell if trail is a typo for trial or if it is a new meaning for the word trail.
I use my M1 pro to play Dota 2 all the time. On medium settings I get between 60-100fps at 1440p.

I probably game on it more than my gaming PC and consoles at this point.
Also, Type 1 fonts have been on the decline for a long time, so announcing their end is a likely thing to do.
But... Steve Jobs... Think different... Aluminium with laser holes!
99.999% of people on this planet have lived fulfilling lives and died at peace in their bed without doing any of that.
I really don't get it with titanium dioxide. It only has a cosmetic role, why take the gamble...

If it turns out to be bad we fucked millions of people for... having something slightly whiter

If it turns out not to be bad we just get things slightly whiter
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My understanding in the US is that in many states the process to get a driving license is barely more than

"Can you show me your car"

"Yes, it's that one"

"OK, here's your license"
Good to see PDF viewers will at least keep supporting it.
> Even with async/await it's still single-threaded.

That doesn't mean anything. V8 is single-threaded but Node.js I/O is non-blocking. The reason Node became popular in the first place is that companies started adopting it to fill the gaps in their existing infrastructure (e.g. Java) to offer "realtime" (i.e. web sockets or its experimental equivalents) communication.

> IMO async/await is error-prone and isn't an ideal programming model.

What's the point of unsubstantiated statements like that (btw "x is error-prone" is an empirical claim, so prefixing it with "IMO" just means "I can't back this up and don't care if it's true") other than stirring up pointless language rivalries?

Just acknowledge that your off-hand comment about "callback hell" was anachronistic and don't try to come up with excuses to justify your preferences. I think Elixir is neat and hope it can see sufficient adoption for me to justify getting invested in it but that doesn't justify poopooing other languages, especially ones you admit not to have up-to-date knowledge about.
Puff piece, an ad for her services. I guess it shows something of her media chops that she can get something like this published. Or maybe the article was the payment for something she did for the writer or magazine.
>"type" is a very common and overloaded word

Yes. Just not in the audience of that publication.

You're just not their type of reader (pun intended)
This combined with a password manager is what I do.
This is the way!
The best things in life can't be bought ready and require thought and even sacrifice.
Blindly trusting someone because they're "experts" is no different from worship.

Healthy skepticism is the root of all things science, if you forfeit that for any reason you are anything but being scientific.
Oh, I thought it was Type 1 Fun:

https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
money is the root of all Evil. Allow me to Protect you from the Evil by taking the Money from you...
Perhaps it would be cheaper to hire somebody in the call centre to drive your car than to get the license to do it yourself.
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> Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust

Now that is a quote for the ages.
ok and who bakes their bread in a frying pan? at 370° CELSIUS?

have you ever been to a kitchen?
Does anybody even use the trackpad on a thinkpad?
> MBP doesn't have a trackpoint. Still can't run Linux as well, lacks USB A so still requires constant dongles despite improved port selection.

I've never wanted a nipple mouse, but to each their own and I know some people love them. What I have wanted is a giant 6" diagonal multi-touch trackpad.

Linux is very much a non-goal for me, and if I want to, I can always SSH into a remote instance or run a VM.

I don't miss type A at all, and the 14/16" M1/2s have a much broader variety of ports which largely solves the dongle issue. [edit] the only place I have a lot of Type A devices I also have a thunderbolt dock with gigabit ethernet too.

> The machine doesn't go from frigid to boiling in 3 minutes either.

That's a feature of the Intel CPU on the 2018 15" MBP. You will not find the same on an M1/2. In fact I'm not sure it even warms up?
readable but verbose
I too got myself 2nd hand T480 + upgrade (for a 2nd work laptop). Mostly b/c I need the 64GB RAM. Other than that put 4TB SATA SSD + 512GB NVME in the WLAN M.2 slot, new batteries to 72Wh. May change the screen now I read this - the original really is bad. Usually I put Xubuntu LTS b/c "it just works", but may try PopOS next time. Want my laptops cheep & cheerful, don't particularly fancy thinking of/them expensive, irreplaceable and in need of complicated warranties/support.
I solve the issue myself by using duckduckgo and then !ais url.
> What's the point of unsubstantiated statements like that

That's the problem with Software Engineering in general.

> "IMO" just means "I can't back this up and don't care if it's true")

The research study that will either back or refute my claim would be prohibitively expensive and therefore impractical.
>They said if I only care about money I’m not a good fit for their culture of builders

Run, don't walk away from them...
Because in the current system of production that’s swallowing the globe, the only thing that matters is driving sales growth.
The first thing I found is Higgins himself admitting they are funded by NED:

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/828554441485869056

Is he also funded by MI6? Probably, but I didn't find "proof" within 5 minutes of DDGing.
I mean, no, that's hardly a website. It's as much a website as example.com/demoscene.exe. Nobody ever stopped making art and video games, it's just that they don't run in the browser.

If you call it a website, then Unity is a web authoring tool.
France an EU country (just next to germany) where cannilabism happened and then the cannibal was literally walking free in another country for decades until he died naturally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa
Not if the evidence used for the bans was admittedly not based on actual evidence of harm in humans in its use as a food additive but in acute toxicity tests in animals. How do vaccines perform in accute overdose safety in mice, I wonder?

In any case OP's question about evidence for the claims in the article is still reasonable IMO.
No, that was based on a real cannibal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
Do they walk more in Europe? It's fairly unusual for the standard US suburban lifestyle to enable daily activity unless it's in a gym.
And trackpoint. And running your OS of choice, free of "call home" crap if you want.

But apart from that, what did the Romans do for us?
Realism vs idealism, I guess.
It probably is a bit hollow.
Elitism is usually meant as an insult for snobs pretending to have better tastes than anyone else. This is wrong because in questions of taste there can be no criteria other than subjective taste, however in contexts where there are objective criteria of quality elitism is just being a professional good at his job. When you open up a horrible spaghetti codebase that's inconsistent in style and full of nonsensical abstractions with 90% of bloat you should feel digust. Of course all bad code has a reason behind it, some more justified than others, but no reason should ever make a bad codbase feel good.
> Reasoning doesn't enter into this picture.

> So, not only it will not improve in the future, it can not improve.

Clearly, with all of this AI pervading society, reasoning is a very little part of human communication.
This was what reminded me. It was posted here on HN few months ago.
yeah, salt and msg aren’t going anywhere
https://xkcd.com/320/
Can you think of any bug from that last five months that you could talk about for five minutes in a way that makes you look smart for solving it? That's all you need to do here.
> are all still WIP downstream

For full clarity, having observed Marcans socials for a while, a big reason as to why upstreaming into the kernel is slow is because the Linux kernel suffers heavily from having BDFL maintainers.

Basically a specific maintainer can make upstreaming patches to their part of the kernel a process few people want to go through due to how much leeway they have in approving/rejecting patches. Stuff like yelling at merges that also happen to fix bugs in the parts that they modify because "bugs should be upstreamed separately" (even when splitting out the bugfix makes zero structural sense) or getting angry at contributors for lines they didn't contribute but that git diff happened to spit out around their commit to keep the diff readable.

Having watched that for a few weeks really gives you an understanding as to why so few Linux modifications for obscure devices have their patches upstreamed. (Switchroots main project, which is the Linux kernel but modified to run on the Switch for example doesn't bother
upstreaming anything as far as I can tell.)
This is an unhelpful conflation between several different health issues, and a wide range of fashionable paranoias. The article isn't to do with pesticide sprayed on grain crops, nor with seed products, nor with the value of "paleo" diets. It's simply about additives in bread. It's irresponsible to mash all those issues together, because glyphosate is a likely carcinogen and needs to be dealt with separately; hydrogenated seed oils are likely carcinogens and need to be dealt with separately too.

But given a noncarcinogenic grain supply, there's this other issue of adding magical chemicals to everyday bread or packaged foods. That's what this is about, and trying to make sweeping statements about half a dozen other things that are harmful actually helps make the case that this is less important to regulate.
Or they’re just switching away from worse, non deliberate diets and then misunderstanding which changes were the ones that mattered while buying into the popular social media trend of blaming “seed oils” for everything.