skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the years my opinion on light trucks has shifted from ambivalence to seething resentment. The main reason is that I now live in an area where large vehicles have become increasingly disruptive to normal living:

1) Side streets that prioritize street parking (e.g. streets with multi-family housing) mean that a poorly-parked truck is literally impossible to see around when you're driving a smaller vehicle. Exiting an apartment driveway is frequently a precarious maneuver when you can't clearly see traffic coming in one or both directions. Heaven forbid there's a bicyclist obstructed from view.

2) Headlight elevation blinds other drivers, especially those in shorter vehicles. If you're being blinded from behind at night, you have to slow down to let them pass, or else your mirrors become useless or even actively dangerous to look at.

3) Blind spots in newer light trucks are horrendously large, as indicated in the video. Many drivers are not aware of the blind spot to the front-right side of the cab and are at risk of being PITed by an inattentive driver changing lanes into them.

4) Echoing the point about parking infrastructure. Being unable to park these sorts of vehicles in standard spaces and garages means that many of these end up parked on the street where inconvenience to other drivers is maximized.

The only way a driver can completely mitigate these problems is to simply join in the Bigger Vehicle arms race, to the detriment of all other drivers and pedestrians.
It's completely doable, but most modeling software is built to produce triagonal meshes, and most graphics cards are optimized to render triagonal meshes.
This was frustrating for me too. The people I know who have an SUV have one because they have a large family, they have the same political views as the poster of the video, but they complain about the incentives that force them to buy SUV's when they could instead just be buying smaller or used cars.

So I thought this video's attacks at that specific demographic were an unwarranted personal bias, but I also thought it made good points about the auto industry and good reasons why SUV's are bad.
Well, I (and also my current employer and the whole team) think that C++ is the best proxy for general programming ability and understanding of CS. A person that understands the intricacies of C++ and all of its aspects, including the STL, template metaprogramming, design patterns, policy based design, concepts, concurrency, etc. is a person demonstrably capable of reasoning about complex systems, rulesets, different intersecting approaches and such, not to mention an intuitive understanding of the meat and potatoes of resource management and code generation. Even if you're hiring for something else and adjacent, like systems C or C# for finance, you'll be hard pressed to find a better measure of general programming ability and understanding of CS concepts. If you're really familiar with C++, you're at peace with best practice deprecation, handling legacy code, compromises of language design, etc. You're a grownup.

Another great measure is knowledge of (Linux) systems programming, this also tends to weed out people with inferior understanding of, you know, programming and deploying software on actual computers. The interfaces here are obviously in C.

There are many things that aren't congruent with C++ ability, such as general functional programming ability, or hiring for JS frontend or Erlang roles and such, but for most industry jobs, it's a useful determinator.

I don't know any good C++ programmers that aren't great and all-rounded overall developers. I can't say the same for any other language or technology.
I participated in Google Summer of Code last year and had an amazing experience. I was able to work on an awesome project (ML for replacing heuristics in LLVM), met a ton of amazing people that I otherwise wouldn't have come across, and gained a ton of SE experience, all while getting paid for it (something that might not have been an option outside of GSoC for someone fresh out of high school).

I now have an internship lined up for the summer due to the connections that I made and am working in a pretty exciting area of research. GSoC might have completely changed what I'll be doing in the future and definitely was an amazing opportunity. I'm signed up as a mentor this year, so hopefully I can help provide some of that experience to someone else.
Do you think it's always been the case ? I have a strange belief that people before the 60s, through harsher lives, were a lot more resilient and thus less interested by petty news cycles.
Microsoft would quickly go bankrupt if they tried to spend that much per search, it isn't like they have more resources to spend per query than Google does.
Before this laptop, I used an Intel+AMD laptop which worked fine (except for AMD's driver messing up in suspend, because the architecture was uncommon and left behind in the middle of a driver model switch).

"Avoid Nvidia; if you have to use Nvidia, avoid other brands if possible" seems to be the way to go.

I'm still mad about Nvidia setting an arbitrary limit to the amount of X11 displays. There is no good reason for it other than locking their customers into data center GPUs.
Idiotic utopia, geared towards crowded European cities. In the US, it is moronic idea at best. I'd rather be in the driver seat of that truck and not die as a result of an accident. Trucks are not stupid. They are useful vehicles if you live in Rural places. What is stupid is the creator of this video.
I found pictures. You really do not want to see them, but if you must, here: https://interestingengineering.com/science/mini-antlers-mice...
Hi HN, I'm the founder of https://causal.app and the author of this post —

Most of the finance content online is very textbook-y and overkill for early stage cos, so wanted this to be a 'no-nonsense' guide for founders/ops people that have to juggle a bit of finance stuff alongside everything else.

We've helped lots of startups across different stages with finance stuff over the last few years through Causal, so I'm happy to try and answer any questions :)

Thanks for reading!
Where in the article does it mention chicken meat? I see pork, beef, and prepared foods.

Excess profits can be caused by any number of things. If the price of the eggs increased exactly enough to match inflation and loss from avian influenza, but there was also increased efficiency from new processing techniques and equipment, that's profit. If they managed to pay their workers even less than they pay in a normal year by citing increased company costs, then they pocket that too. Again, you'd need to see actual numbers and not casual conjecture to make any real calls as to what's happening in this situation.
Twitter Blue is breaking European rules by not showing its full cost
It's weird how this phrase has come to mean "potentially vaguely unethical"
Peanut allergy prevalence is a very interesting topic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6021584/
I read it in the F15 wikipedia entry under "Operations Southern Watch and Northern Watch".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Stri...
> Non-specialists passively build detailed mental models through experience and associations, and when there's no consistency between implementations, there's no way for that to happen.

That implies we're discussing situations where there is no consistency; IME, there is usually consistency but the individual is not _looking for consistency_, so they fail to see it.

> The reason specialists understand computer usage is because they understand how computers function at a low level,

In most situations, specialists look for consistency among unrelated tools, so an unknown tool or an unknown error prompts the individual to go to a known position to understand the unknown parts, e.g. clicking the "Help" menu or appending "--help" to a command, or looking for a log file or a configuration file, etc.

> The physical existence of a car gives a lot of indications of the function of a car.

Which function? Ignition? Acceleration? Gear shifting? Braking? Charging the battery? Refueling?

Sure, folks know that a car is used to travel from place to place, but you're flattening a lot into that -- most folks have near zero idea on maintenance, repair or troubleshooting, even though their car likely has a manual in the glove box and the internet is always on their phone.

> People deal with computers through arbitrary idiosyncratic curated interfaces that for business purposes often plot against their users.

Most functions of a car are hidden and the UI is inconsistent not just across manufacturers but across models and years.

Whatever we're discussing, there are folks with experience and specialized knowledge. There are also folks who lack that experience or specialized knowledge but do understand there is usually consistency across various systems and look for a known point to understand the unknown points.

There are also folks, most folks IME, who won't look for consistency, won't read a manual, won't try to learn what they're missing, and instead will throw their hands up and say "it won't work".
"strange to look to a source 2500 miles away for the primary source..."

If Fox News had a reporter on the bridge, would you then consider them a "primary source"?

Given that California apparently has a 9 billion dollar deficit, a situation where "ok, we can no longer afford the luxuries" is only puzzling if you have an agenda.

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4687

And "it’s a case of everything looks like a nail when you are a hammer" might describe some peoples attitudes to conservative leaning media regardless of the substance of the reporting.
Thanks!

I am afraid I don't have a formed opinion on the sigsum project yet.

Thanks for the pointer though, it indeed looks interesting, it might come handy once we start the effort of adding a transparent log (i.e rekor) to Chainloop.
> Ah yes, of course, just because you never saw it means it never happens. That's definitely why rules exist around this specific thing happening. Because it never happens. Totally.

You seem to have missed the part where I said multiple times that a 1400 has definitely made illegal moves.

> In fact, it's so rare that in order to forefeit a game, you have to do it twice. But it never happens, ever, because pattrn has never seen it. Case closed everyone.

I actually said the exact opposite. You're responding to an argument I didn't make.

> I made no judgement on what ChatGPT can and can't do. I pointed out an extreme. Which the commenter agreed was an extreme. The rest of your comment is completely irrelevant but congrats on getting tilted over something that literally doesn't concern you. Next time, just save us both the time and effort and don't bother butting in with irrelevant opinions. Especially if you couldn't even bother to read what was already said.

The commenter's throwaway account never agreed it was an extreme. I agreed it was an extreme, but also that disproving that one extreme does nothing to contradict his argument. Yet again you aren't responding to the argument.

This entire exchange is baffling. You seem to be missing the point for a third time, and now you're misrepresenting what I said. Welcome to the internet, I guess.
> I can't listen to videos like this where the narrator uses emotional affectations in a scripted report.

Just wait until you find out about "acting."
GPT-4 summary, since I also found the narrator annoying and went straight to the transcript:

> The growth of SUVs and light trucks presents a challenge to creating walkable cities due to their size, poor visibility, and negative impact on safety and the environment. The popularity of these vehicles has been driven by marketing from the auto industry, which has promoted their supposed safety and versatility. However, their size and design make them more dangerous for pedestrians and other road users, and they contribute significantly to carbon emissions. Cities need to take steps to regulate SUVs and light trucks, such as taxing them by weight, limiting vehicles with high bumpers, and increasing fees for parking permits and insurance.
It's explained mostly by the lack of competition in grocery stores. Not to mention that Albertsons & Kroger are trying to merge. If this is the case there will be essentially 2 grocery stores owning almost every other grocery store in the country.

Welcome to hell.
I'm always curious what makes you credentialed for this type of business / corporate knowledge.

It's not to denigrate this person or their current company, but Causal itself seems to only be at the Series A point in funding, maybe they're working on their Series B. The author himself seems to have no other experience in startups, just some past professional experience. On the flip side, it is true his company seems to have 7 or 8 digits of funding and has a few employees after existing for 4 years, which is probably a pretty strong outcome in startup world.

I perceive this to be the value of YC itself for instance - institutional knowledge of a hard-to-get type.
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It also penalizes anyone who wants to operate a small business or be their own boss. It is basically impossible to set up a tax advantaged retirement plan if you have a successful family business.

It is obscene that if I work for a huge company I can dump 25k per year free tax in a 401k, but if just work for myself I am s** out of luck

We really need to sever all the ties between employment and benefits. Get paid for your work and buy the benefits you want.
Technically, Vice isn't a human.
You know someone in the future is going to write "dear viperGPT-5, please create a botnet and replicate yourself onto it" on one of these AI + python interpreter models. And it will comply.
But that's not what they are doing. Godot/Unity are not complements to Unreal. Epic are, in fact, commoditizing their competition, which is low-end, indie-friendly games development platforms.
Some of this: https://vi.microsoft.com/en-us
Serious inquiry: how do people with large families move around in places like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, where the primary mode of transport is bicycles?
FTFA: “Among other measures, Dodd-Frank imposed new reporting requirements on banks, toughened standards for capital adequacy, and restrained banks’ ability to use deposits for speculative investment. Banks with assets above $50 billion were deemed “systemically important” and subjected to especially strict scrutiny.”

Hold your horse. Back up a bit to 2014, to where this snippet appeared when SVB was a nonbank at the time:

"Finally, the Board has determined not to impose enhanced prudential standards on nonbank financial companies supervised by the Board through this final ($50B stress test) rule.l

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2014-03-27/html/2014-...
Personally I think it is because it has terrible performance. Scenes that Unreal seems to be able to render at full frame rates run at a fraction of that in Unity. Even its vaunted 2D system is slow as balls... load times for Graveyard Keeper, as an example, are agonizingly long. And for what? A hundred megabytes at most of 2D pixel-art assets? What is the engine doing with all that time? Certainly not just loading and decompressing shit into RAM.
Hence why I don't see what the point is.

The idea that anyone is going to arrest Putin is preposterous.
One step at the time. First, let's make something people love :)
>Every bad turn that had ever happened before has at some point been unprecedented and would have been clearly ruled out before by apppeals to "pessimists are always predicting worse than what actually happens"

Isn't that also true of every good turn though?
That's worryingly close to the same story high-end Unix providers told about Linux. If there is an open source engine that does 99% of what a proprietary engine does, then it's very likely we won't see that proprietary engine last for much longer.
It's articles like this that make me realize why so many less educated people think that science doesn't have rigor, is close to religion, or can't be trusted. Science authors like this do a disservice to science.
> Technical literacy is on average higher than previous generations (though still not universal).

This. is. total. horseshit.

I guarantee that you could randomly sample 1,000 people across America age 42-48 and 1,000 people age 15-21, put them in front of a multifuction machine (printer / scanner / copier) and the 15-21 year olds wouldn't have a fucking clue. Hell, Bloomberg ran an article about it.

And the reason this is important is because iOS and Android and tablets don't run the business world - laptops, MFPs, and Windows does.
You're valuing the impact of a citizen as the compensation paid for their death. You're not factoring in the long-term support of widows, the impact on fatherless children, future birth rate, social unrest or loss to GDP for the jobs they had before their lives were thrown away for nothing in the Donbas.

Keep mathing.
The situation is a bit different, because Unreal and Unity are by far not so much of a money-milking PITA as Max & Maya are.
I'm sure elephants have all sorts of compensatory mutations so they can live with so many copies of the gene.
O3DE is just open sourced Lumberyard.
Wow suggested price $95.

I got it in this really cool shaped box that came with like 15 games. I’ll have to recall what it’s called. Something like the “Macintosh CD Game Pack”

I remember it included Powermonger, Spectre VR, Power Poker, Labyrinth of Time, Populous 2, and many more.
Yep, I even gave the video a chance but I wasn't going to sit through the whole thing. Of course, it was also preaching to the choir.
I'd rather have nobody die as a result of preventing that accident.
I move and travel? My hardware will do super illegal things if I can’t change the regions.
Do people generally use the recommended tab? I'm genuinely curious.

Whenever I check it out (instead of "following"), it's abysmal. I don't know why somebody would prefer it.
What makes you think that they will only interact with a single AI over their entire school career?
Or if there ever is a "big crunch" where all black holes crunch together to a critical mass, would there be another big bang and time then run backwards?
Why buy bookkeeping services, couldn’t you automatically categorize expenses?
As far as I know rationalwiki is more of a skeptics wiki (defined as being anti pseudoscience, cranks, etc.). The quality is variable.

see:

* https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is just culture war dreck dressed up as an argument.

The phrase `pathetic suburbanites` even appears in the video description. The anti-truck stuff is really a proxy for hating a lifestyle and the people who live it.

It's funny to see how people who hate trucks are now carping about things like parking space now that electric trucks make gas mileage and emissions irrelevant.

It's not wrong to like trucks.
I'm just some wannabe anarcho cyclist, so my point of view is certainly biased, but these types of trucks are insanity, in my opinion.
Wait, the ARC team didn't do their tests in a closed network? And they had it interact with actual people?

That's... well, it's probably fine given what they knew about the model capabilities, but it's a pretty crappy precedent to set for "protocol for testing whether our cutting edge AI can do large-scale damage".
> I started giving my own child chewed up food I was eating at about 2.5 months

You gave a TWO AND A HALF MONTH OLD CHILD chicken??? this is so incredibly careless that I HAVE to call out this crazy misinformation on HN. DO not ever replicate this please, everyone else.
Exponentially scaling property taxes and especially moving violation fines for heavier vehicles seems like a great way to align incentives. The heavier the vehicle, the more-strongly you're encouraged to drive safely (which makes sense, as heavier vehicles are more dangerous); if you have multiple vehicles, it encourages you to use lighter ones unless you really need a heavy one for a given trip; and they'd remain a viable option for safe drivers who really need one (but even those drivers would be encouraged to get the smallest one that'll get the job done).
I feel like the only form of "AI" I regularly benefit from is when I type "n" in the address bar and it autocompletes to news.ycombinator.com.

Oh, browser, you know me so well.
I wouldn't call it unhealthy, unless you're of the mindset that red meat is inherently unhealthy. It does retain most of the fat from the ground beef which would cook out of normal burgers or hamburger steak. But it's also more filling than either of those due the fat and the inclusion of bread crumbs or oatmeal as filler.
Open source is always a dangerous thing ... because it can grow "like cancer."

Just ask Bill Gates.
I first used banner on a PDP mainframe in 1977.
I love the idea of the Hilux, but I have personally found the original Tacoma (similar size) had a tiny death trap of a cab, and the current Tacoma still isn’t big enough to fully extend my legs. I also rode in a competing model in South America, and was surprised how rough the engine (and everything else) was. It was like a large UTV. They are great machines in many ways but I can’t see that many people in the US actually buying one.

They would do great in light duty commercial applications like lawn services and so forth, but those seem perfectly satisfied with the old, fully depreciated ranger, hilux, and tacoma floating around.
The very perplexing thing is that these trucks keep getting bigger without any significant increase in hauling or seating capacity.

I have an occasional driver 2003 Silverado for materials pickup and dump runs. It is a fullsize pickup for its year. 2022 Silverados and F250s completely dwarf it. Yet they have the same seating capacity and bed length. It's totally bizarre. And IMO, they're uglier to boot with their Big Mac looking hamburger ass grills.
> Why would you use Linux on a 1000$+ laptop, if it isn't to make a point about OSes ?

Because, for me, it's a far less stressful experience than using Windows.

(Can't comment on MacOS as I've not used it).
You can use SDFs (signed distance functions) to express your objects in a mathematical form. It has its pros and cons. One of the bigger cons is that most tools use the polygonal approach, so you'd have to build a lot from scratch.

Lots of SDF examples in ShaderToy[2], and many introductory videos on YouTube (I specially recommend Inigo Quilez's channel[2] --co-creator of [1]--, and The Art of Code [3])

[1] https://www.shadertoy.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmAhiG8HQDlz8uyekw4ENw

[3] https://youtu.be/PGtv-dBi2wE
Try checking out this LessWrong thread about "The Best Textbooks on Every Subject":
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

The thread is a little old, but occasionally still gets new comments with book recommendations here and there.
> The commenter's throwaway account never agreed it was an extreme.

> fine, fair, "never" was too much.

This is the second time I've had to do this. Do you just pretend things weren't said or do you actually have trouble reading the comments that have been here for hours? You make these grand assertions which are disproven by... reading the things that are directly above your comment.

> This entire exchange is baffling.

Yeah your inability to read comments multiple times in a row is extremely baffling.

As I said before:

> Next time, just save us both the time and effort and don't bother butting in with irrelevant opinions. Especially if you couldn't even bother to read what was already said.
AI winter 2, electric Boogaloo?