skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me you're a bad driver without telling me you're a bad driver.

You need to not care about that, and you're actually supposed to let people change lanes into your lane. You're getting into a mental competition with other drivers and sacrificing the safety of yourself and everyone around you.

And if anyone believes that longer following distance causes more traffic, that is also false and the reverse is actually true. It is the poor reaction times of tailgaters that cause traffic slowdowns.
Exactly this.

The company had actually banned new uses of ORM and was in the process of eliminating existing usage of it while I was there. We had discovered that teams that used ORM had much higher production incident rates than teams that didn't, and it was fairly directly attributable to lack of understanding and predictability of what was happening in the database.

Maybe not a huge deal if you're in a low-load situation. But HFT requires the A game at all times because you never know when some exciting news that causes trading volume to increase 50-fold almost instantaneously might happen.

For the record, I was a dev and not a DBA. But I did work closely with the DBAs. And I was pretty irritated when I found out ORM was banned, because it definitely made the "writing new code" part of the job more laborious. But, hey, learning experience - it turns out that it was the right move. In the long run we were able to move faster once we stopped having to deal with the blowback from breaking things quite so often.

It's a little bit like when I play Mario Kart with my kids. Why do I go so much faster than them? Mostly because they are constantly pushing hard on the accelerator button, while I ease off the gas and even hit the brakes sometimes. They think speed management is annoying. I think that I spend a lot less time bouncing off of walls and giving precious coins to Lakitu.
I recall reading that SAL was patent encumbered but I can't for the life of me find the actual patent. I remember it coming up in the llvm forums though..
It's got the number 1 spot by a small margin and Toyota has spot 2, 3, 4 and 5 (https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best...).
Ain't it amazing how powerful the left is and yet we can't even raise the debt ceiling?
This is infuriating and would have led me to start a smear campaign against the leadership ultimately leading to a vote of no confidence.
Seats are soft but uncomfortable at the same time, almost impressive.
I wonder what the Vietnamese would think of your argument or the Ukrainians. I wonder if the people in Tiananmen wish they had had guns. I wonder if people in Hong Kong wish they had had guns. I wonder about the people in Myanmar or the educated class in Cambodia, or Afghani, or Iranians wish they had more guns.

"Who are the 2nd amendment protected guns theoretically meant to be used against? When are they supposed to be used? Can the 2nd amendment ever be used to protect a free state within the bounds of the law?" are pretty major critical thinking questions that it are probably worth meditating on, especially for liberal people.

What would have happened if Trump won is a question every liberal person needs to contemplate.

When the rule of law (the idea that powerful people cannot arbitrarily exercise their power) fails, it becomes might makes right. Would you rather be in a might makes right society where you have a gun or where you don't? I think that answer is obvious.

> Even if it sometimes is.

If you want peace prepare for war.
Both of them are trying to make as much money as they can from hardware and ads. Currently Apple is doing better at one and Google is doing better at the other, but that seems like a contingent fact rather than a deep difference.
>> Truman, Johnson, Clinton, Obama, etc.

The Carter presidency is in the running for the most peaceful modern presidency. He did start arming the rebels in Afghanistan, and ordered what I guess amounts to a brief invasion of Iran, but overall, pretty peaceful. It's either him or Trump.
To make your argument symmetric, we need to imagine Mexico inviting Russia after we 1) poison their President with polonium, 2) seize the Baja peninsula and 3) arm and support border incursions from Texas separatists and 4) have those separatists shoot down a civilian airliner.

So kinda not the same.
I'm A1 in French and got there primarily with Duolingo, a little Pimsleur... and lots of beginner audiobooks. Also a fan of RFI's "Easy French Newspaper" daily podcast, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to have a tech-focused version of the concept.

On that note, another suggestion: Offering a mobile-friendly readable transcript to go along with the audio. (RFI does this.) Reading along with the audio is my preferred way to "listen" to French audiobooks.

Also, presenting the transcript in a readable form is another way to gate content behind a log in and/or upsell. Of course, yeah, would rather it all be free, but your costs are real!
They were very intentionally weird, not ugly.
It helps that the Colorado Republican party is about as ineffective of a political group as I've ever seen. If they were even moderately competent Boebert's district, Colorado Springs, and to a lesser extent the new district (Caraveo's) would be much redder than they voted the past cycle.
US involvement in the Vietnam war started with Eisenhower, who last I checked was a Republican...
Yes, as everyone knows only the CEO contributes to a company's success!
If the global auto market outcome doesn’t send strong signal, I don’t know what does. Consumers are willing to overlook what you mention for status and experience. This should be no surprise, as a vehicle purchase is highly emotional. If you build a sexy brand, people will buy your brand. “S3XY”. Tesla spent two decades ramping manufacturing, a global fast DC charge networks, and the mentioned brand. It’s simply paying dividends now.

Disclosure: Early TSLA investor, no current exposure
In the rest of the world, ATC are not permitted to give a landing clearance unless and until the runway is actually clear (hence the term "clearance"). The US is unique in that it permits "anticipated clearance" where the controller can assume the runway will be clear by the time the aircraft arrives and that is sufficient.

In this case "anticipated clearance" was not sufficient.

This is a uniquely US problem.

The last time this came up was 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34703626
You flip through the menu on your phone and then order with a waiter. When done, you pay online via Apple Pay or whatever you want. Instantly and with tips.

And if you don't have a phone -- you starve to death?
What's stopping you from clicking through to the German source and reading the English version of their piece?
The reality is that there was no path to a good exit from Afganistan, and we should condemn Bush for starting it, condemn Obama for doubling down, condemn Trump for not pulling out earlier, and same for Biden.
Great idea! What about fade-away hnstyle with a color teint? Maybe updating à gist with Val Town and referencing that gist from a css file with Stylish? Or another way js only…

Edit: some can hack it to tint people they like.
Please, stop repeating russian propaganda. They wanted to control and reconquer their former imperial colonies. Their claimed Casus Belli were just lame excuses, not actual reasons.
Only one part of this, which we're already talking about, is relevant here.
We won the war on covid though, it was always about hospital capacity.
That is not how the real world works.

If a car kills someone (e.g. it explodes, or burns down, or brakes fail) but the manufacturer took all legally required precautions & followed all the rules & regulations, then they're not legally on the hook. It was "an accident".
Very simple, the market valuation is based on two things:

- Tesla's track record of rapid growth and their credible/plausible plan for growing volumes by about at least 10x And that's just cars. They have a few other rapidly growing business that are already billion dollar businesses. Some of which could outgrow their car market. Even when you consider the expected growth. It's only inflated if you don't believe they can do all of this. The reason the valuation is so high is that lots of investors seem to not agree with that.

- The underwhelming performance of essentially all their competitors; i.e. the next 5 manufacturers that you refer to. With the exception perhaps of Asian companies like BYD that have similar proven track records as Tesla to ship decent EV products in large volumes profitably. These new manufacturers other manufacturers are short term going to cause a lot of headaches for the (former, let's just call that out) top 5. The prospect of millions of dirt cheap good quality Chinese EVs undercutting cheap ICE cars has a high risk of decimating the market shares of the likes of Toyota, GM, etc. that are very dependent on sales of cheap, unremarkable ICE cars. They make most of their money selling products that are rapidly becoming a combination of obsolete, expensive, and undesirable.

Most of the former incumbents like GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, etc. of course have EV strategies of their own but they will need many years more before they match current production volumes and cost levels of their new competitors.

In short, they'll be struggling to catch up for years to come even under the most optimistic scenarios. The more pessimistic scenario is actually that a few of these companies might not survive the transition at all and that the remaining ones might find themselves vastly reduced in size. Tesla and several other new manufacturers certainly seem well positioned to continue to make life miserable for these companies for years to come. Whatever they do, Tesla et al. will be able to do it faster, better, cheaper, and in larger volumes for some time to come.
They spend all their ad budget for personal Musk propaganda, which is even more effective considering how the U.S. is very sensitive to the myth of the 'self made man who pulled up his own bootstraps' .
Neuralink gets FDA approval for first human clinical study
The trick here is that they get to put their own think pieces alongside actually influential work and pretend like the two deserve to share a stage.
How was this country defeated by covid? What could he have done otherwise? Hospitals aren't overwhelmed today, that was the entire concern of the pandemic.
Because maybe there's some advantage to be had by reducing dependencies when you can afford to? And maybe they value SOC expertise, since they do other tech besides cars?
> Not that it makes a big difference, but for accuracy's sake: the only NATO country that had a land border with USSR proper was Turkey, which joined in 1952, three years after NATO was formed.

Norway is a founding member with a land border, and borders don't just happen on land; the US also is territorially adjacent to Russia.
I hear people talk about people brake checking all the time (whether they're the brake checkers or the person tailing). A buddy of mine was tailing a (non-Tesla) car a little too closely on his motorcycle and the driver deliberately brake-checked him and he wrecked. And that's just people deliberately driving erratically, never mind the people who are responding to debris, animals, people, etc darting into the road.
We’re All Shopping Addicts Now
I've definitely had a few instances (over a few decades of driving) when I lost confidence in my knowledge of which pedal was which. Rote knowledge is tricky that way. Fortunately, I was always able to safely test. I was never confidently incorrect, but I can see it from here. It's a scary thought.
Then that's even easier, because a US company's customer accounts are under the authority of US courts.
Train performance is abysmal in the north of England. It’s a joke. The trains can barely be relied upon. It’s managed decline of the railways.
Fair enough.

But if you think this line of reasoning through, cars should have never been admitted on the road in the first place.

The issue I see is lack of transparency. If the % of accidents that can be avoided is provably much higher than those caused by Tesla's self-driving tech, an informed argument could be made in favor or against.

But with Tesla withholding the information in the leak there is just FUD around the whole issue instead of facts.
I don’t brag on Chattanooga, TN often, but when I do, it’s always about the municipal symmetric gig fiber—CHA/EPB was the first to do it in the US, it’s always been cheap, it’s more reliable than anything else anywhere I’ve been, no data caps or throttling, held off a Comcast lawsuit trying to stop them (so Comcast went to the state to legislate away meaningful competition), and (afaik) there’s no spying on you.

I was lucky enough to build a bunch of the software used consumer-side to enable signing up for and managing fiber internet/tv/phone service, was brought in to establish and run their first internal software team, and built even more cool software to make tech support real-time, improve the lives of CSRs, and more. And they’re now getting into quantum computing. Truly a great group of people trying to take care of their city, and every time I run into anyone, I’m still impressed by what they’re doing.
As others pointed out - let them. On average all lanes move the same, they might even move away once the lane stops moving. You'll have much worse time rearing a car then letting all those cars in.

I also keep additional distance in traffic to minimize slowdowns/stops, which ultimately actually improves/fixes the flow.
>mostly peaceful world

Except it hasn't been. Pinker's "long peace" theory with respect to global conflict is bad statistics - 20th-21st century under US military hegemony had a comparable if not higher number of conflicts, see Max Roser’s work documenting global conflicts over the past 600 years. What has changed is that war now is generally shorter and less deadly especially towards combatants, but that's more reflective of the pace of modern war enabled by modern weapons. High intensity wars don't last for 20+ years anymore because you can pretty much destroy nations in 1-5, and belligerents are quicker to exhaust and forced to settle. In aggregate war fatalities is down, but not # of conflicts. US hegemony didn't stop USSR and RU from warring in their periphery, nor PRC border skirmishes pre 90s when US had vast more naval power asymmetry. When countries want to fight for their interests, especially regional, they still do. His conjectures on QoL indicators around the world are improving, and we can credit some of that to US/western innovation, but it’s also a byproduct of technology disseminating as societies develop.

As for the opinion of your colleagues, consider some sort of self-selection bias happening - I've not met many from PRC that don't think China needs better military and regional hegemony to forward her interests the same way US does hers, especially post Belgrade embassy bombing in 99 by US/NATO. And frankly even among PRC diasporas, most people I know except very liberal types are increasingly unabashedly pro PRC military power - they’re just too polite to say so. See how PRC students in the west generally become more pro China the more they’re exposed to western society. Many are smart enough to not voice "objectionable" opinions.I can't speak for RUs.

Ultimately, US military dominance is good for US+LIO interests, but hard to extrapolate anything more. IMO multipolarity will increase the chance of "smaller" conflicts as poles assert their own interests for sure, but it's going to be around the baseline of conflicts that's consistently been simmering throughout history. The fear is increasing large-scale conflict between poles/blocks - ending the cyclic gap between major wars among major powers - but that's what happens when declining hegemon pushes their interests to the exclusion of others too intensely for too long.
>10 second follow distances are only possible in most metros during very light traffic.

I've usually heard that it's three seconds. Even still, you control your follow distance. Even in heavy traffic, you can give yourself more space between you and the car in front of you than other people do. It's easy to do, and I've been able to do just that even in metro areas with heavy traffic.
It appears adrian_b is a pseudonym, not even linked to a real identity, how can that be a source?
But sometimes there are legitimate reasons for a car to brake hard, which you'd never know from your position one car-length behind them.
This is delusional. "It's fine because I watched some videos and some irresponsible people often drive recklessly anyway."
Crimea does indeed make for a good naval base, but Russia has more options that aren't much inferior - Novorossiysk, for example. More importantly, Black Sea itself is strategically not very interesting for Russia because Turkey (a NATO country) controls the straits, and thus in any big war involving NATO the Russian fleet would be locked in anyway.

No, it is largely a cultural thing. There's considerable evidence that Putin really believes all the tripe about "triune people" that was written in his 2021 essay [0], and genuinely sees independent Ukraine as a deliberately manufactured cultural "anti-Russia" that cannot be allowed to exist for that reason alone.

[0] http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
If you want to make a claim that we won't even see change coming, maybe the large mammals->humanoids transition isn't the greatest example. That took several hundreds of thousands of years.

They did, to some extent, see it coming (in observing a threat becoming more prevalent and dangerous). But they did not have a way to stop humans. Meanwhile, I'm just staring at the power switch on my computer, wondering how we'd stop AI.

(This is not an argument for unrestrained AI - we should safeguard, absolutely. It is a counterpoint to your "we won't see it coming" argument)
Don't bother your legal team.
We're not another SaaS company and we don't have access to your data.

I love it. (even if that's not quite enough to completely ignore legal in my org)
> Tell me you're a bad driver without telling me you're a bad driver.

> You need to not care about that, and you're actually supposed to let people change lanes into your lane. You're getting into a mental competition with other drivers and sacrificing the safety of yourself and everyone around you.

> And if anyone believes that longer following distance causes more traffic, that is also false and the reverse is actually true. It is the poor reaction times of tailgaters that cause traffic slowdowns.

I think that what they're saying is the flow of cars in front of them keeps that distance between them and the 'next car' to a shorter undesirable distance as more cars fill that gap during traffic.
The drum on my washing machine is approved by Underwriters Laboratory and regulated by ADA requirements. The bridge I walk on was designed by a licensed professional engineer. Software is just about the only profession left with absolutely no accountability to anyone.
I think you can still try to be objective.

For example, I like tesla autopilot 1 (mobileye based) and found its behavior to be reasonable. I also know its limitations - it has only one camera - so I don't use it in edge-case scenarios.

I think model S display is good for turning settings on and off, but is bad for controlling any aspect of the car especially critical ones like headlights, climate control, door locks and more.

I think the newer model S/X cars are bad, replacing stalks with touch controls for the headlights, turn signals, horn and wipers. They get in the way of good driving.
5 people.
Aggregate stats are nice when it comes to presidential, but we still have a bunch of reps like Boebert who cause havoc in DC.
How many cars does Uber own? I thought they offloaded all of that pesky "ownership" stuff to their custome.. I mean drivers / coworkers / employees / collaborating business owners / freelancers.
VW was made an example of because they were far and away the biggest diesel passenger vehicle seller in the US. So even if their cheats weren't as egregious as other automakers, said cheats had far wider impact on consumers and the environment.
I regularly achieve this at JFK (having Global Entry certainly helps).
How is supabase a firebase clone? Branding and name aside its just a wrapper on a bunch of open source postgres stuff architected in a way that theoretically has less vendor lock in (but is a huge pain to self host, but is at least self hostable in theory which postgres isnt)
That reminds me, tangentially, of The Song of the Reed, by Rumi.

http://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/n-I-0001.html#1

(think of the 3 meanings of reed: an instrument turning human breath (life) into music, a writing tool (qalam), and of course a living creature itself)
It depends on the scaling nature of the problem being researched. If it's one like the '9 months to make a baby' issue, then you can't really reduce the minimum time. On the other hand if it's studying bacteria with a fast breeding rate, then expanding to hundreds of thousands of AI Petrie dishes is apt to rapidly accelerate the study of the problem.
"If any Russians are listening please hack my political opponent"

How is that diplomacy?
You're right; I didn't even think of Norway because of how insignificant and remote that stretch of border is, but yeah, it's still technically land border.

Either way I don't think it matters. The point ultimately is that NATO expansion is not some kind of Western imperialist creep - neighbors of Russia rushed to join NATO as soon as they could because they wanted security based on their own past experience. It was never a threat to Russia.
Ford to bring Tesla’s charging tech into its future EVs
It's a big seller and it's impossible to argue with that. But I also fail to see their niche. You're a big spender and you want everyone to know it? Lucid. You want the ultimate in efficiency? Hyundai Ioniq is as good as the Y. Don't have much money? Fiat 500e.
You realize I was responding to a comment in which the OP asked why we don't like memory safety? That is exactly what I an talking about. The coder's internet is filled with this type of attitude. You can disavow these types as not real rustaceans or whatever, but this language definitely attracts purists, which makes sense given that its main selling point is a form of purity.
Seems a big part of this is Tesla's minimal and globally available product line (which I commend them for). Other automakers produce a huge number of variants within and between markets. That dilutes the sales of any single model.
> I've been in rush hour (where keep-to-the-right-unless-passing is very strictly enforced) in bumper-to-bumper traffic and the left two (out of 6) are completely empty and everyone is doing 'around' the speed limit.

I've been on interstates in every continental US state and I've never seen this, but I think something has been lost in translation because "bumper-to-bumper" and "everybody doing the speed limit" are mutually exclusive as I understand the terms. If everybody on the road can fit into the right lane with enough space in-between to do the speed limit, that is done but I wouldn't call that traffic "bumper-to-bumper". I would call that light traffic. Bumper-to-bumper is when the space between cars really starts to contract, because everybody is going substantially below the limit, or because people aren't maintaining a safe distance.

Once the road has too many cars to fit them all into the right lane at the speed limit, then in every state I've driven, cars start using the left lane for travel, not just passing. If the right lane is so full that it can only sustain 5 below the limit, then people start driving in the left lane and stay there for as long as the right lane won't support speed-limit traffic. In this kind of traffic you'll start to have cars moving fast alongside each other with low relative velocity.