skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a little bit of the loopy stuff early on, but vastly less than friends who went to religious schools got. For my daughter she has been exposed to less of that crap that when she was in a state funded school.

Reading is taught later in a Steiner school than at most schools, but not to any detriment measurable later in schooling.

I’m not sure how one would accurately quantify the final outcome as demographics etc come into it. From my time at school there are surgeons, physicists, engineers (or various types), lawyers, mathematicians, accountants, tv producers, teachers etc. We had our share of dropouts too.

I also don’t believe that the early years are the most important for what is learned, and that they are more important for learning how to learn and how to enjoy the process.
I have similar situation at home. I am from guess culture and always think about what the guests might need and offer them ahead. But my wife expects them to ask and doesn't bother much or ignores them. I see people from guess culture tend to be more empathetic as they think from others POV but the downside is they have anxiety of what others might judge and be more stressed. Ask culture people tend to be more situationally unaware and don't bother much and are relaxed.
I'm really curious about your story. Two years ago your posts were seeking business tips because your efforts weren't working. One year ago you were looking for a way out of web dev. What did your path look like between then and now?
Even to execute the most minimal binary fork/execve takes a not insignificant amount of time. Thats one of the reasons why CGI fell by the wayside.
The Ukrainians played it down and claimed it was because of fires and Russian military vehicles driving around in the area were stirring up the radioactive top layer of soil.

Why would they have faked the sensor data?
Altho there's a couple ways to define an atomic radius, molybdenum's and silicon's empirically measured covalent atomic radii are 145 and 110 picometers respectively [1]. So 50pm is a very small bump indeed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius
I stumbled on his channel by chance and profoundly dislike the guy (albeit I'm seemingly in a minority). It seems clear to me that he wants to bully people first and that the cart thing is just a convenient justification for doing so. He is also disingenuous about his motives. When questioned about the camera, he invariably claims that it is there only for his protection, whereas it's primarily there for YouTube views and revenue. Finally, misplaced carts are not that big of a deal and simply a cost of doing business for supermarkets.
I don't have the reference for it here, but in the first year Windows Vista was out >50% of crashes were due to buggy nVidia drivers. Microsoft assumed (incorrectly) that their ecosystem would get their shit together automatically. That nVidia would make solid drivers for the new Windows WDDM driver model.

The year before Windows 7 came out I was working at a company (DivX ;-) making Windows software. We were getting contacted by different testing groups at Microsoft constantly. Some weeks three different people might contact me. Somehow they found my phone number? It didn't seem very efficient, but it was clear that they were allocating huge resources to this.

They found unbelievably nuanced bugs (their QA was better than ours...). They wanted to know when we were going to have a fix by. They wanted to make sure they didn't have a Vista repeat. Vista SP1 was actually quite stable, but it was too late for the Vista brand already.

With Windows 7 it seemed clear that the thing they cared about was: the software their users actually use still works after the update. Right or wrong, it was very user centric, because what user likes for their software to break? Nobody cares why.
It's probably as close to optimized as it can get for web.
Rumbler sirens can be felt, in addition to the tonal difference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbler_siren
Local governments don’t care if their regulations keep out fiber, just like they don’t care if their regulations keep out housing development. When I lived in Baltimore, Verizon was trying to wire it up with fiber. The city wanted Google to come in and it wouldn’t. A decade later, there’s still no fiber in Baltimore. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/snubb...

Raising prices doesn’t work, because the other customers won’t pay that much more for fiber versus cable. My parents just switched from fiber to cable because they liked the TV packages better.
I don’t agree at all that they needed the extreme behavior to make progress. They did need to bail on their bad plan and implement a better one.

> Somebody needs to pick some date to see if something gets done by that date.

Right. What you don’t need to do is say “I am going to hold my team to the arbitrary date I ballparked because I staked my reputation on hitting it no matter what”. That’s a miserable way to work.
It seems unlikely to me, if China invaded, that the TSMC facilities would survive intact.
I've said it before when a self-driving Uber killed a woman, and I'll say it again:

I don't understand why authorities allow self-driving cars to beta test out in public. I thought Waymo was the best with something like millions of hours on the road but when they started accepting passengers, it failed to proceed past a traffic cone:

https://youtu.be/zdKCQKBvH-A?t=742

I wouldn't trust any of the others like Tesla and Uber that think self-driving is as easy putting it out on the road. And Tesla with their cost-saving no LIDAR nonsense.

These companies should be fined hefty amounts and barred from testing out in public.
My own magic-wormhole relay, for zippier transfers
Ummm when you are driving and hear a EMT vehicle you as a driver have to immediately pull to the side and out of the way.

Sounds like your giving the robot guinea pig AI car a pass when clearly it did not and will not act like a human does.
Can you explain your comment? NP-completeness to my understanding simply means that there exists a polynomial time reduction to SAT. How can SAT constructively get a P algorithm implementation merely from proving that an NP-complete problem has a solution in P without the algorithm itself?

I don’t want to accuse you of being incorrect if you’re alluding to something I’m ignorant of, but since it’s certainly possible in my mind that an NP-complete problem could be non-constructively proven to be in P, what you wrote doesn’t sound right.
Yes, we discussed this with the architect and builder (both of whom build radio studios with some frequency), and they said it could help a little, but would not be a large issue for spoken word-only, and is more of a concern when you have more sound sources, and less control over mic locations and the interior treatment.

It would've been nice, but would've added a little cost to the project (not much, but not worth it if I could allocate it to resilient channel or neoprene, instead).
> “Over one hundred people lose their lives every day on American roadways, and countless others are badly injured, Cruise said in a statement sent via email.

I’m so tired of this angle being accepted at face value. Current driverless cars are not even capable of safely navigating situations that below-average human drivers rarely struggle with, like avoiding driving into clearly marked wet concrete, or not crashing into an emergency vehicle that has its sirens and lights blazing.

Nobody should trust their evidence-free assurances that they will also be better at the less routine, more complex situations that human drivers (who almost universally have better sensors and better cognition) currently fail at.
Meta always finds a way to be the worst they can be. Always.
determining what is to be built and precisely specifying it

Interesting. What makes you think this is more difficult than writing code?
As someone else commented, a lot of times extra layers of drywall are added to add mass to a wall (this is a fairly effective solution). But there are complications to 'thickening' the wall like this (at least, if you want it to look professional in the end!).

There's a great document from the US HUD on the topic: https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_16419.PDF
Well, that's a way of knowing when we are dreaming, there can be fantasy elements but when something doesn't make sense or contradicts the rules/knowledge of the dream that's when we wake up. Maybe the dream is like GPT and there is another module catching those hallucinations that wakes up consciousness.
Okay so we can generalize to music theory outside of the western canon but then aren't we also allowing in "the theory of the music made by not learning western theory but rather by listening to lou reed riffs and copying his hand movements"? At this point everyone can have their own music theory and the argument that musicians need to learn theory seems a little vacuous? Or do you draw the line at certain branches of established theory greater then just the western canon?

For the record I am very much in favor of musicians learning music theory (of whatever sort). However it seems odd to say that a musician can not learn music without first learning theory. Did we have music theory before musicians?

Perhaps you can make the case that given the systemic biases in our modern taste for music it is _hard_ to break away from modern music theory, but that doesn't make it impossible.

See the extended technique of Fred Frith, John Zorn, Bob Ostertag, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, etc as an example.
The big one too is noticing everyone else slow down so you start trying to figure out why and look around more.
I remember using Matt's Script archive to setup cgi-scripts on my college web page.

Going on IRC to chat. Everyone was polite and easy to talk with. There were not any scammers I could see.

We still have open protocols, we could still use things like that. If it were challenging technically to use, then only those that understood would use it.
> It sounds like Baltimore's problem is, as you said, having no money

That’s true of most municipalities. And they have higher priorities for infrastructure expenditures. Cities and states need to spend $745 billion just to bring water infrastructure up to existing health and environmental standards. Broadband is way behind lead pipes or crumbling bridges on governments’ list of priorities.

> Regardless of density, infrastructure has an intrinsic capital cost that needs to be accounted on the order of a decade, and moribund dinosaurs based around short term revenue extraction aren't capable of doing that.

I heard this a decade ago, when Google was going to show up the “dinosaurs.” How is that going?
Lots of comments here talking about general „gamer culture“, while this seems to be much more region-specific to me. For example Turkish servers/players are insanely toxic in my experience, while Japanese are not. Especially Japan-exclusive communities are very different from what’s described here.
Floods, Forest fires, fossil fuel emissions: yet oil consumption rises
Iphones are more tailored for younger creatives. Its sleek look curates a modern, sophisticated, as well as efficient interface makes it an easier choice for most people. It is simple, yet efficient, as well in its own category when it comes to its IOS features.
Compared to the android, which features a lot of gadgets, software updates, and constant change. Its not really on brand, and usually outdated, losing its value within a year or less.
Teens will either choose androids, by either its software, or by its cost. That's it marketing ploy. When it comes to choosing, people will either pick and choose by their own bias, nit pick each other, and then go home and scroll happily by their choice. At the end of the day, I perfer iPhones because of its long standing value, as well as its minimalism.
I went for a haircut in the US once and I didn't know you were supposed to tip. I still remember the offended look on the barbers face when I held out my hand for my change. That was 20 years ago.

Now days I don't care as much and just do my own with the clippers and save myself $40. Can you believe a hair cut at the barber costs $40 now here in Australia. You know you are getting old when everything seems shockingly expensive.
suppose NP-complete problem X is in NP but not P. From this premise I arrive at a contradiction and conclude X is in P. Thus P=NP with no polynomial algorithm for solving any NP-complete problem provided
I only have a bachelors in EE, but I can try to answer basic questions on the technologies discussed in the PDF of this interview.

More astonishing is the work ethic, and the institutional memory that prevented future mistakes from the learning of past errors.
Show HN: A Mastodon bot that writes poems about AWS status updates
> The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.

It sounds serious. But more importantly, it’s a self driving car and a public emergency vehicle. I expect both to have a high def video of the accident and it should be released soon for the public benefit. The US is one of the most driving countries and it’s one of those rear cases when it’s about a public safety and everyone is an expert.
Most drivers aren’t deaf, and many people who are hard of hearing can at least hear a siren approaching.

If all drivers were completely deaf it would indeed be a problem.
Establish yourself. Specialize. Hire someone to increase delivery capacity. Sales capacity improves; ratchet delivery up with it it (get better at recruiting). Raise rates continuously and aggressively. Give it 2-3 years (once you've got your sea legs).

Be good at what you're doing and steer clear of commoditized work. You can't scale up a generic IT consultancy this way. Or maybe you can! I've never tried.
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Same here. I'm really looking forward to reading more pieces from him.
I know the Roadster and the Taycan have trannies/gears. Don’t know of any others, though.

But I didn’t say EVs don’t have diffs, it’s just that automatic transmission losses are on top of differential losses (and were pretty bad before the modern era of much better ZF and similar/knockoff designs?).

Edit: this link answered my questions on drivetrain power losses: https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/modp-1005-drivetrain-power...
Emergency vehicles in many areas have a strobe light that sends out a particular pattern of flashes, allowing them to turn traffic lights red as they approach. Seems like a fairly obvious step would be to mandate that self-driving cars recognize those strobes.
Perhaps the negativity stems from the all the illegal, immoral, and damaging acts in this era.

Not least of which is pouring millions into a baseless pump and dump scheme laying hallucinated charges of infringement against the entire Linux ecosystem but there are plenty of other issues.

In short people hated them for being shitty people who do shitty things and present leadership were important folks when these shitty things were done everyone just moved up a few rings.

They aren't better people they just have better aligned incentives where illegality and immorality aren't profitable.
How Stephen Wolfram runs his company, and his learning hacks
New, 4.5-hour podcast with Wolfram. Really interesting throughout.
Unregulated investment? Is that why it costs so much to build anything? Or what exactly does it mean?
Is this done by intercepting the API calls made to the GPU, or by directly modifying the game binary instructions?
Just because they have weird failure cases does not mean they fail more often than human drivers.

FWIW as a biker in SF i feel much more comfortable around driverless than actual drivers, especially in areas like the Mission where people don’t check their right before turning onto streets like Guerrero or Valencia. The self driving ones always do
I don't want my cart to get scratched from a cart that could roll into it
Cool, I didn't realize Runescape private servers were a thing still.

I contribute to AzerothCore[0] pretty regularly. There's a lot of improvements that could be made, but it's overall fun and the majority of people who frequent their Discord are friendly enough.

[0] https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk
The act also provides limited liability protection, both civil and criminal, for those who distribute food and groceries, such as food banks.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791
I had to switch to russian version to make sense of it, so it’s probably the article (or translation) quality itself.
I feel like there logically must be a phase where testing in public will have to occur on the path to self driving.
> Finally, misplaced carts are not that big of a deal

They address this a bit in the article, the hypothesis being that such a simple thing is a litmus test for whether someone is a shitty person in other aspects of life.
It adds a module system to nix flakes. I've been using nix every day for 4 years and make heavy use of flakes but TBH i'm not really sure the benefit flake-parts. It looks like a ton of new boilerplate.
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Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to older customer's disgust
You’re good at what you practice and bad at what you don’t. If this bothers you then just go to the salon it until it stops being stressful.
Adam Curtis documentaries (e.g., Century of Self[1], All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace[2], HyperNormalisation[3])

[1]https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s

[2]https://youtu.be/I6EBpLfLHCA

[3]https://youtu.be/VzqDMnUG4kk
The headline is weird. New York Times headlines conveys more information: "Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Car Fleet in San Francisco After Crash" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-d...
It would be interesting to see, but emergency vehicles responding to a call (and with lights and sirens going) clearly have right of way. That said, every emergency driver I know and have seen slows to a near stop at intersections to make sure it's clear before proceeding.

But perhaps that's not procedure in California, which would be madness.
The statement was made by Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez.
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I agree 100%. The fact that they let this happen is an affront to the mandate of those safety organizations.

Who is paying whom to clear these hurdles?
Water shortages in Taiwan. That impacts production.

Earthquakes happen in the Taiwan Straights. That impacts production.

Taiwan is not the bottom of the supply chain stack. You can guess where I'm going with this.
Got it, so people who aren't privileged enough to own a device shouldn't use the internet.
I think the best way to address little things like this is with the sort of social judo that Aldi does. It'd be great if this wasn't needed, but here we are.
I’m not entirely sure your point here maybe you can explain
It does bother me that Yahoo News has the more credible headline compared to Reuters.
TIL that this is why I couldn’t configure the Menu Item Swapper or whatever last week when I was leveling Construction with oak larders. I wonder what makes construction a special case here vs, say, allowing one click dropping of collected resources.
What leads you to that conclusion?
Even then it might not work because it could rely on a DBus daemon being there. Even a brand new binary might fail because it needs some external program they forgot to add to the dependencies list in the package, so you have to sift through to find the not at all obvious package that provides it.

Or something was compiled without some option for unknown reasons so you're just SOL unless you want to compile stuff yourself.
Iirc Win32s existed before Win95.
Ignoring ≠ taking action based on

The standard joke is a joke, because it is wrong.
The ones sink because they’re heavier.
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Because they don't have to pay for them?

Yeah sure let me pay money I don't have to impress the people that hate me
Horses don't constantly contact the ground like a chariot/cart wheel
I recently watched a video [1] about “The Villages”, a massive retirement community in Florida with 100k+ residents. One of the things that surprised me was how friendly all the neighbors seemed in the beginning of the video. The lifestyle had a lot more appeal to me than I was expecting.

[1] https://youtu.be/BX4i8qprP2I
This is a good step. Next step is reduce all cars on the road by 50, 75 and eventually 99%.
Mine is about 80. And I never had them piss on me. Of course the amount of the other stuff varies, from person to person, and even with one person. I didn't measure it, but if I had to guess, anything from a small espresso cup, to a small coffee cup is normal. Large coffee cups happen, but are outliers. Even what comes from the urethra doesn't spray like a stream. More like drops ejected by the contractions and secreted into the nonblocked part of the urethra beforehand. Again, didn't ever analyze these, but the points about look, texture, viscosity, smell and taste still stand.
Unless it was already in the intersection and blocked... or the fire truck turned a corner quickly. Or a hundred other things.

There's a reason the emergency drivers don't plow straight through intersections. Let's just see the footage when it comes out rather than making stuff up.
Yeah, I was excluding ABS and traction control because I was only enumerating non-safety features (and including audio systems under infotainment). I’m curious how much weight airbags add – having replaced the modules before, they’re pretty lightweight… though I’m sure the numbers add up.

Incidentally, you might be surprised to learn how localized some of these amenities are. In some other countries I lived in or visited, I know of “brand name” dealerships (ok, I’ll call them out, it was Chevrolet) selling cars (the same models available in the states and in Europe!) without ABS as standard – let alone traction control, automatic transmission, or (on other models?) power windows.

Edit: this link has an absolutely terrific comparison of tradeoffs involved in lowering vehicle weight, compares ICE to EV weight profiles, and puts the current price per kg of weight saved for ICE vehicles at $5/kg while forecasting that EVs will reach price parity on that metric by 2030. Definitely recommend reading!

https://www.lightmetalage.com/news/industry-news/automotive/...
True, but it also seems the fatal occurences are more common in southern Europe.
In Australia we have the worst of both worlds - large numbers of us with northern-European heritage, hence fairer skin, yet very high levels of UV (esp. due to ozone layer thinning).
WGU: $6k/semester. Online. If you already know everything in a CS curriculum and have the practical knowledge (e.g. databases, ds&a, calc/discrete, front-end, back-end, OSes, etc.) you can finish in one semester by testing out.

Low income? Go into sales or work in an oil field or go be a lineman for a year. Save $100k, go to school after.

If you live in Washington state, I know you know linemen are in demand.

If you’re able-bodied: this is a viable path. Risky? Yes, but that’s life.
Filming people without consent, confronting them in a combative way, and monetizing it. There's the litmus test for jerk in 2023.
> in so many ways it invalided anything the author could possibly say after.

that's pretty silly. you can be wrong in some areas while still having good insights in others.
Cruise released a statement which said the car did hear the siren when it was louder than background noise. No indication how close the siren was for that to happen, but it sounds pretty definitive that audio sensors are already part of the kit.