skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting; when did this happen? From my experience, ~2017-era cars had it only as part of cruise control.

Keeping it on at all times sounds like a terrible idea for cars used in the US, because it's a developing nation with extremely poor road quality. In developed nations, it's probably OK because you can count on the road markings being good almost everywhere, but not in the US.
Golly gee, someone that realizes software engineering isn't entirely just sitting down and pumping out code? Why aren't you in management? (don't tell me... it's because you're honest with yourself)

I do wish this becomes more popular (and the graphic does help for those without imagination ;).

All venting aside, if you're familiar with a system, its development and deployment environment, and all the quirks of the tools you're using, you can easily "feel" around for how much "dark matter" work you're going to have to do -- and your estimates become a lot more tight, and close to reality. That is, once you throw away -- as you said -- "happy path" optimism and get down to business. An extra padding of cynicism will make sure you never miss a deadline; and if it turns out you were too cynical, you can always under-promise and over-deliver and wow everyone.

But padding is necessary, and I wish it didn't have this air of dishonesty associated with it. Realistically, shit happens. Stakeholders can huff and haw because it gets in the way of their aggressive plans, but it's not dishonest to say it's going to take another 3 months, because you're asking me to dig you a hole with a plastic sand-castle shovel. Yes, I can actually pound Red Bulls and wear myself down to the bone digging that hole as fast as humanly possible -- but I'm not going to.

If that's not good enough, the next best is to ship in phases (what little "A" agile tries to do, but fails in practice): a group of features will be guaranteed to ship at some date. At that point, we'll reassess and estimate the next batch -- until the project is done. We can even do soft estimates on all the batches, but using ranges (e.g. 3-6 months, rather than something concrete -- because they'll become de-facto deadlines), to give a rough "total project estimate." I like the month-by-month "sprint" model more than the 2 week model. Analysis and planning isn't free. It costs time, effort, and mental resources. Doing it every 2 weeks is absolutely ridiculous. Monthly strikes a nice balance between giving you enough time to actually do the "The work" and give stakeholders a feeling that they're "on top of things."
> the NHTSA is a pretty cautious organization, and they like numbers.

They may be cautious but they're not necessarily smart. Their vehicle safety ratings only measure the safety of occupants in that vehicle. Result? An arms race where cars keep getting bigger, heavier, and taller to do better in crash tests against bigger, heavier, and taller cars. These "safer" vehicles are now more deadly to everyone else, especially pedestrians and bicyclists.

McNamara fallacy in action.
I disagree. I've been a licensed driver for over 40 years. I had one minor fender-bender at 16 years old, learned my lesson, and haven't had another accident since. I'm an exceptionally good driver as evidenced by this, plus the fact that I've taken performance driving classes, simulators, and so forth.

I, personally, am a much lower risk than the typical driver. Putting a drivers' aid device in my car may well increase the danger to me and those around me, even while having it in other cars decreases danger.

BTW - my car's traction control is evil. It's a rear wheel drive car, without limited slip. So when I pull out onto the road from a driveway, if there's the slightest bit of sand on the road, I get enough spin to engage the traction control. The car deals with this by vastly cutting engine power. In Texas, where the regular surface road I'm pulling out to is commonly 60mph, and often faster, I need to accelerate quickly to avoid the guy approaching - yet the traction control has just left me wallowing, dead in the water, unable to accelerate strongly. Except in wet conditions, disabling the traction control is always the first thing I do when I sit in the car.
The human moat is mostly physical labor, but also socialization - that’s really most of the executive’s duty, in my experience the slide decks are created by junior staff or consultants and often end up serving as a coffee table book to the discussion.

A high paying job that might be diminished greatly by AI are clinical doctors. In modern medicine, a large part of the job becomes interpreting test results and prescribing accordingly. How long before an Urgent Care diagnosis can be done by an LLM? Surgeons will of course not be replaced and an LLM can’t do even a blood draw, but writing a prescription? That seems within reach (if medical LLMs can be tamed of hallucinations)
>It is akin to saying losing a leg is not a disease

Well, it's not. Losing a leg is losing a leg. It is not a disease.

It is, however, a disability, which is something ADHD may be.

But, unlike losing a leg, ADHD is not just a disability. It comes with a different set of abilities. Understanding that is key for a fruitful life and relationships - and that applies to both people with ADHD and without.

>ADHD is executive function disorder where person is unable to manage time and memory which is required for basic living. It may also come with issues in emotional regulation and other problems.

Note that we are not in disagreement here.

A disorder is not a disease. And executive dysfunction and time (mis)management are not the only ADHD traits. There are many others.

ADHD traits become symptoms when they impede one's life. Those can be treated and managed, but not cured (unlike diseases).

>It is NEVER an asset.

This statement is patently wrong and harmful.

People with ADHD are known to handle emergencies better than neurotypical people, for example. Having an immensely diverse set of skills and interests (which ADHD people are amenable to) is an asset.

So is hyperfocus[1].

There's a reason why you are more likely to find people with ADHD among software engineers and musicians.

It would be wrong to say that ADHD is an asset in today's world. But it can be, if you understand how your brain functions like, and have the right expectations.

What you say is akin to saying that a racecar is NEVER an asset because it gets stuck in the mud, unlike a tractor. Well, duh! It doesn't belong there.

>You-problem becomes me-problem if you want to keep job/friends/partner or simply you want to keep track of the keys and turn off the gas.

Sure, but again, you are not evaluating ADHD from the perspective of the person that has ADHD. Of course if you only look at how it inconveniences others, you will arrive at the conclusion that ADHD only inconveniences others.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Also, your comment is just the example of the society having idiotic/unreasonable expectations that creates a problem. Let's look at it again:

>or simply you want to keep track of the keys and turn off the gas.

Or you can simply install a door with a code lock (or put a spare key in a lockbox) and use an electric stove with auto shut-off (or instant pot/air fryer/microwave) to cook.

Presto! The problem isn't caused by ADHD, it's caused by having an expectation to do things that are hard for ADHDers when other solutions exist.

Which is another perspective of how ADHD is an asset: ADHD-friendly devices, interfaces, and ways of doing things are, in general, more human-friendly.

ADHD makes it hard to remember to switch off the lights, and easy to invent the automatic shut-off sensor. Which, ultimately, is good for everyone.

See my point?

[1]https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Hyperfocus
Not just salary, but TC range would be helpful. How do I interpret a listing that says $X salary + equity?
This is ignoring the very very VERY possible reality of everyone and their dog signing up to get a free 55" TV.

They don't see a loss of privacy and a very easy conduit for constant surveillance; they see free TVs with a decent enough sound bar
Thank you! Comments like this more than make my day.
This sounds exactly like my experience. And speaking as a person who owned the Quest and now Quest 2, both of which barely ever saw/seen the day of light as most times I never had them charged up when I decided to clear a place to play.
> I think this is human nature at play

Without a doubt it played a roll in suppressing what had happened. There is a weird dynamic where my wife won’t say things to upset her mom in particular ways, and this was one of those cases. They kind of mutually pretended the near-catastrophe away by behaving as though it was no different from a speed bump.

This is why I’m pretty sure we’re really not much different from a gorilla or something. We’ve got some sophisticated brain circuits but I have a deep seated sense that most of our brains are still the same old meatballs the other apes are packing around.
The land on which the railroad was built was handled separately. This was land in the vicinity of the proposed railroad, which would increase significantly in value if and only if a functional railroad was completed.
Looks like they raised it this session - glad to see that.
Get an answer the execs don't like? Time to retrain!

Could be AI or human resources, it doesn't matter.
Tesla Quietly Disconnecting Radar in Customer Cars During Service Visits
Thanks!

Indeed, I don't edit it on the phone. I use Google Keep a lot though, and then merge the notes on the desktop.
Yeah. The recent GPT hype reminds me a lot of a Reply All episode on old school text generation using Markov Chains. I think it was haikus. Sooo much ascribed meaning, and equally ignoring the "misses".
There is land throughout the west that encircles (or otherwise makes it difficult to access) public land that it borders that goes for obscene amounts of money for the very reason that it, defacto, has exclusive access to this land. This landowner purchased this land for that reason, and it was almost certainly marketed that way by the real estate listing.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Hope it leads to more self-discovery for you!
The CIA might have promoted jazz, but the precursor to the DEA handcuffed Billie Holliday to a bed and withheld her methadone until she died:

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-billie-holiday-was-t...

> When congressmen expressed worry about [Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics]’s tactics, he assured them his crackdown would affect not “the good musicians, but the jazz type.”
So if each private section erects a square-shaped pillar which has a side of ~3 feet at each corner, would that be both legal, and sufficient to prevent people from crossing?

Alternately, a tall fence?
The more enhancements I see browser vendors making to tabs, the more I think they’re reinventing bookmarks/favorites.

Safari introduced “tab groups” a while back, which to me is an insane mess of complexity. When I think about it though they’re just folders and each tab is a bookmark/favorite.

The vertical tabs in Brave remind me of bookmarks/favorites too.
Also, games grew well beyond what would be reasonable to send over Usenet. There was really only a time in the late 90s when games were small enough to not require you split them into literally millions of parts. This happened to coincide with the maximum popularity of the Usenet, but as a distribution platform today it's just not practical. Still useful for music albums and DVD movies I guess, but as the parent post pointed out nobody carries alt.binaries anymore. The pirates have long since moved on.
Review chapter 2.2 Unicode Design Principles in the Unicode Standard: "Plain text is a pure sequence of character codes; plain Unicode-encoded text is therefore a sequence of Unicode character codes."

Text elements are an abstract concept whose definition depends upon what is being processed. It might be a grapheme, it might be word, etc...
The article says the defense was funded by local hunters, fishermen and their organizations via a fundraiser.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to snag as many decent GPU's as I can before the Turing Police start shutting down people's cloud accounts if they use too much GPU time, and limiting GPU purchases to "1 per customer per year" or something.
Actually the opposite. The quality of that other big hit (Dalle) has gone noticeably down IMO. I feel like they have over trained it, trying to compensate for the initial shortcomings, and in the process of trying to solve those by throwing more and more data at it the machine has forgotten how to deviate from sterile stock photos and do anything interpretive. For example, I asked it for "Mother of Exiles" (a reference to the inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty), in return it showed 4 generic stock photos of female characters, sometimes with a visual prop to vaguely insinuate motherhood but certainly nothing inspiring and certainly nothing to do with exiles. Compare this to the early days, when people were throwing natural language statements at it like "power bottom dad for the people" and it was spitting back results that felt like it truly understood what any of those words meant.
I mean, the little guy won this particular case, so I’m not sure what you’re on about …
Have you been paying attention to French politics lately?

And incidentally, are you familiar with the atrocities committed during the revolution? The “vertical deportations” of the Vendée region might add some much-needed nuance to what I can only surmise to be your whitewashed, simplistic interpretation of the French Revolution.

People excitedly waiting for revolution often have no idea what a revolution actually is. If they did, they’d be aware that the most fervent revolutionaries are among the first to be executed when the establishment is overthrown. They’d also have some awareness of how the old power structures are often replaced with equivalent ones.

A revolution is a failure mode, not an end to be pursued. Read more history.
Those were the first two dots I was trying to connect as well.
Stanford Golf Phenom Rose Zhang Turns Pro, Vows to 'Never Code Again'
> If the number of crashes goes down, contrived scenarios don't really impact things.

Yes they do impact things.

Consider a pill that, given to a wide population of test subjects, reduces heart attacks by 20%. That's great! But when you look at the data more closely, it strongly reduces the risk for people older than 40, and it increases the risk for people under 40. Should you prescribe that pill to everyone at risk of heart attack? Of course not.

Does AEB have a pattern like this? Who knows! Someone should test or cite a good test!
Interestingly, Firefox on Wayland renders the emoji correctly in the tab title, but the window title renders it as two rectangles and the male symbol. I assume this must be some difference between system fonts vs Firefox's fonts.
There might be something a little imprecise here: code points vs code units vs character codes.

I'm open to being wrong but I would be very surprised if they defined text as a "series of code units" the count of which can vary by encoding even for the same character. IMO in this context 'character codes' would likely be far more consistent with 'code points' and they're just trying to differentiate between styled and un-styled text. Whereas the 1.3 definition appears to be trying to make an authoritative definition of 'text.'

If we read 2.2's "character codes" as code points, then that can be multiple code points as referenced in 1.3

[edit] I originally flipped 'units' and 'codes' - cleaned it up.
> Consensus appears to be 300-400k people saved since 1975.

I don't see where that number is given in the article you referenced.

In any case, I didn't ask for a number, I asked for a percentage of people who didn't wear seat belts who suffered or caused harm because of it.
Big media companies use hosted WordPress with high traffic and to great success.

You can even use WordPress as the backend to a static website (via Jekyll, Hugo, etc) with extremely minimal effort. I did this nearly a decade ago for a webpage with tens of thousands of content pages and a million uniques/day.

I then served it from a trio of $10 AWS boxes serving a very vanilla nginx configuration and a cloud loadbalancer. We didn't even bother paying for a CDN because it was never necessary. WordPress backend was on Pantheon and only accessible by employees via SSO.

The entire migration (from just serving WordPress), redesign, pipelining, setting up Solr for site search, etc was all done by one developer in about 3 months...including training the content writers to use Markdown.
So what's prevented us from passing the laws we'd need to fix this? Yes, in the past the people have managed to make some changes, but none of that prevented this. We managed to get regulatory agencies which should have, but they are either toothless or run by the same industries they are supposed to oversee.

What was the last time legislation was voted on that caused the collapse of one of the largest corporations in the world? When was the last time a corporation that poisoned a massive number of people was held truly accountable and the victims were actually made whole?

Maybe you still think we have the power to make those kinds of changes, but what's your evidence for that?
I don't think anyone rooting for the losing team in that situation likes it though. They want them to go for a play and hope for the miracle turnover.
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Nice! Thank you for you the insight!

It's clear that it's a monorepo that they are packaging up at build time to create a seamless website.

Any ideas on what they are using to accomplish this?

Regarding the original topic of this post, I'm 99% confident that Stripe is not using WordPress to write their docs and content either way.

P.S. On another note, I've been leaning on BDC to provide me with insight and feedback on my current project.

I really doubled down on this modern content system idea after I interviewed with Increase for a senior frontend role under Ben. They asked me to critique the frontend and tell them what I would improve. The only improvements I could find was the lack of user docs and marketing content to promote all their development efforts. It's @bdc of course, how am I going to improve his work when he is setting the bar?

Increase lacked content at the time because they hadn't yet found a seamless method of content management with their existing Vue.js codebase.

My current project solves all of this with a simple Next.js app that comes baked with everything a startup could need for content.
The Takeaway; Write better Code!

“We must face a world where AI is already here and transforming our society,” he said.

“AI is also very brittle, ie, it is easy to trick and/or manipulate.

We need to develop ways to make AI more robust,

and to have more awareness on why the software code is making certain decisions – what we call AI-explainability.”
Because you wanted second place, not third or latter? Maybe because you didn’t want the track too chewed up?
I use Stack browser. Not quite what you describe, but a step in that direction. https://stackbrowser.com/
This is where you're getting it wrong. You're expecting a prefect AI writing perfect code and be able to solve any problem you give it. No, AI cannot do that. Instead, if you use it as a tool to quickly get you up to speed with boilerplate code or research, it can at least double your productivity when you learn how to use it effectively. Dude, unless you're a god-like programmer, you will get behind if you ignore any tool that can improve your productivity, even if it is just a tiny bit per day.
A good example of that is Australian Rules Football. Egregious fouls or non-play acts like time wasting or violence used to get a 15m penalty (you just get to walk 15m down the ground unimpeded). But one coach realised that the time gained in awarding and jogging the 15m allowed his team to set up defence which was a worthwhile tradeoff and instructed his players to regularly refuse to give the ball back and concede these penalties when it was necessary.

The league changed it to 50m to even it up. Funnily enough, in modern times the other rules have tightened so much that 50m is way overkill for most things it's awarded for.
Makes sense. And makes sense this plays on HN. "Art is a joke" plays well with engineer types. Scared of what you don't understand?
Anecdotally, I’ve been driving a 2019 Forester for the past few years, and every year or so - I’ve had an experience where taking an exit off the highway, it detects an object that isn’t there, and starts beeping and throwing up red warnings.

From what I can recall, it’s never gotten to the point of engaging the brake, but it’s super unsettling every time it happens.
Keymouse ( https://www.keymouse.com/ ) looked promising, but I wanted to test drive before putting $600 down.
> I'll choose not to use this technology, thanks.

Roads are public.

I have been rear-ended by another driver in a completely unavoidable situation (for me -- the other driver should've been paying attention; I saw the collision coming and honked but had nowhere to go).

I've also been in an accident as a passenger in a Uber. My Uber driver rear ended someone. I screamed at him twice but by the time he reacted it was too late.

I have never activated the emergency braking on my vehicle.
Or parachute in. Not sure how you’d get out though.
I was 100% prepared to believe that the length of empty string in js is 7.

Then upon opening the post I was 100% ready to believe that js has three different string length functions that all handle Unicode differently.
> But it does lead to unsatisfying situations where a person layer intentionally goes down instead of scoring because he doesn’t want to give the ball back to the other team.

I even like this part because it shows situational awareness, and the willingness of a player to put team goals ahead of their own stats. But I could see how it would be disappointing for fantasy football players, for example.
Reddit has roughly the same business model as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Each of those sites are structured differently and come with different bells and whistles, but essentially they all just ingest user content, inject ads and tracking, and shove it in your face. Isn't that social media?

HN, on the other hand, doesn't even have a business model of its own. It's a text-only discussion board running on a couple servers.
Give a good show, keep sponsors happy?
Yes, that was the point of the comment. That isn't how statistics work.
Except most of this art was legitimate capital A Art. Existing in the Art World.

Let's not dismiss all modern art as fake. As popular of a philistine take that is amongst engineer types.
I still remember that Wii ad from when it first aired, which shows how good it was.
Most web frameworks use encrypted cookie storage by now, right? Without the server key those cookies are useless.
> I especially find it frustrating that many PMs think that the instant a system goes into production, the project is finished and everyone should be putting tools down and walking away.

This mentality and Agile mixed together creates monster technical debts. A team is rushed to create an MVP. Since it’s an MVP, things are skipped, rushed and riddled with edge cases. This is fine if the team can now use the customer feedback and deeper understanding of the domain to iterate and polish the product. Write some documentation, refactor rough edges etc.

But of course, this often doesn’t happen and the team begins sprinting to deliver on yet another “top priority”. After a while, management starts to wonder why doing anything takes forever and devs are leaving.