skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts... and you still bought one.

Sometimes, you have to make tradeoffs. You may want a Tesla for a variety of reasons, and the reputation for unreliability is not enough to tip the scale for another maker. With that in mind, buying the Tesla and thoroughly checking for known issues may be the most rational thing to do.
99.9% of my awk use case is to split a line (a la "cut - d\ - f) while discarding successive spaces.

e.g.:

$ echo "key: value" | awk '{print $1}'
value

Open to a simpler replacement :-)
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about
the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN
abandoned the practice.
-- Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
Nothing as reliable as a Honda Civic or Toyota Prius.
Does IPv6 make this better? I’m not expert on NAT at all but keep hearing differing versions on whether IPv6 helps here.

I have a P2Pish side project of my own where I’m still on non-network fundamentals.
For me its not about finding time, its about finding will to commit and actually do something. Usually I feel burned out and tired after work and just want to relax and do the bare minimum (watch a movie/play some games etc), not sit and learn another tech thing
As someone who has FSD Beta, the improvements lately have been amazing. Driving my other non-FSD car is getting more and more annoying.

If you extrapolate out the progress to around 5 years I see a world that has car insurance companies giving you a huge discount to use self driving. Maybe insurance companies will have a lower deductible while having a crash during self driving vs a high deductible during manual driving.

I see FSD getting so good in 10 years the government would mandate it because it would eliminate a good portion of the 40k traffic deaths a year.
Is Germanwings Flight 9525[0] the worst case of how this can go terribly badly if these pilots are not treated with kindness and assured of a dignified retirement?

[0] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
Secret recording is illegal in Germany. It violates Section 201 of the Criminal Code.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
Let's Stop Making Each Other Feel Stupid
Start by demanding time at work to learn. That’s one of the things Works Councils in Germany secure for workers from what I understand (different from unions)
That seems plausible, and pretty much demands the passive voice. Otherwise they would have had to do something like "The authors intend this book..." which is rather strange when the authors are also the ones who wrote the sentence.
UK air traffic control hit by network-wide failure
How to lay things out is the biggest one I see. Everything crammed into a single function, files that are two thousand lines long for no good reason. Lots of side effects and names that aren't sufficiently descriptive.
Same. Though at least biking the kids to school in a cargo bike helps with exercise (but not as good as lifting).

I understand now how people stagnate in midlife.
They are blinded by greed and don't look very far into the future.
Do you have any actual evidence that muting or blocking an account "trains" the "algorithm" to show you fewer accounts like that, or is this just based on your own observations? If the latter, can you share your data?
Well, they do (figuratively). That is why the entire airspace is not totally shut down, but capacity "just" substantially reduced.
Low Bandwidth CNN Site
As always, I recommend Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Williams and Colomb. Get an old copy if you don’t want to pay for a new edition.

Elements of Style is a classic but there are better alternatives.
There are electronic magnifying lenses that help in using paper (but seen on a screen) which are simple enough to operate (basically they are a camera and a screen).

The small "portable" ones are fine for spot/occasional use, but ot read a book one of the large "desktop" devices is usually working better, though it is inconvenient as the user needs to be sitting at a table.

These help a lot when the (I have to presume the illness is a maculopathy) visual impairment is at a stage when there is a need for high contrast (BTW most of these can change colours of text, as every person might have a different capability with different colours for text and background).

Unfortunately often what the patient sees is also somehow "garbled", horizontal lines may start being not look straight anymore and then reading becomes very difficult as some letters may be "jumped over", the common test is with a "Amsler grid":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsler_grid

the wikipedia article also shows how a patient might see it.

In a further stage, the patient might develop "holes" or black areas right in the middle of the visual field and reading becomes even more difficult, as it is needed to move the eyes and try to catch the letters on a more peripheral area.

That is called "eccentric fixation", and it is part of "visual rehabilitation" programs that attempt, through specific exercises, to train the patient to use their eyes in a "different" way to overcome, at least partially, the central sight issues.

Of course it all depends not only on the specific kind of illness, but also on the specific patient and patterns of vision.

To give you a single personal anecdata my mother for some time had a very good response to simply using specific filter lenses (yellow-red).

Here:

https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/72559

you can find an introduction to the matter, but of course you need to find in your area appropriate medical structures.
This guy seems quite full of himself. I read his book - unfortunately - and it’s so much bragging and not much else. It seems like a guy who wants attention … desperately.
Motivation vs. Discipline: Which Helps You Go Further?
Ah, I had no idea, thanks. Most people on the link seem to say that he criticized a product and was ostracized for it.
From that perspective, indeed, very true - but then that's exactly why you need to be able to have goto labels inside a switch!
Ive come across this behavior probably once, and I recall it happening in a situation where it “didn’t matter much”.

Other than deliberate situations, no one is passing a red light in a busy intersection like that. Even drunk drivers aren’t going to be passing through that intersection while it’s red.
AI could choke on its own exhaust as it fills the web
Anyone with 2 kids or more can share there experience please
> Whoever is on the other side of all those mortgages should have abandoned ship a long time ago otherwise

they did. they moved a ton of cash into BTC, houses in Vancouver, or African mining holdings, and GTFO.
> ― Socrates

Apparently not:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed
Not defending the buggy FSD in this specific video, but I've seen drivers anticipate a green and jump a bit into a red light. If you are the impatient type who inches forward the entire time you have a red light for no reason, you can easily move into the actual intersection, especially at smaller intersections. I've done it myself from time to time, nobody's perfect.

This is obviously worse because you have to be paying attention and be able to quickly take over, but it's not like this type of thing would never happen with a human driver.
Interesting, I never noticed but I guess you're saying he used 3.5? I've only used 4, which I understand is way better, and I've still had the same kind of problems, but I agree it's disingenuous to equate 3.5 with the current state of the technology.
I have only ever dealt with theory for interviews. One of my jobs is for a leetcoding unicorn and I can’t say I have ever heard the word “data structure” in my two years here.

I view it as something to regurgitate on command when interviewed. It is otherwise worthless knowledge.
You keep going on as if C programmers only use it because they are not as smart as you, who punts C++ all the time.

I wonder if you are unable to understand that for some people and some problems, having fewer footguns is a benefit.
Yes. I agree 100.
PHP has evolved more than any other language. But it can not get rid of the dirt konnte elephant's back
Not to mention that any noise louder than a whisper and they wake up (happily) screaming about how daddy's up and is it time for breakfast and what are we doing today and can we [go to space/get an elephant/move to Paris/...]?
A big reason I'd go back to V would be simply to complete the job I left undone by not learning it.

I'm intrigued that you compared V to D. I'm a huge fan of D, and I'd be interested in hearing why you made that comparison.
> With the right lighting I definitely see things that would confuse a vision only system. Scary stuff.

Have you used the system in these situations?

There's been a ton of construction on the freeway (motorway) near me that's left several visible lane lines, and the car has always been dead set on the actual lane somehow. It still drives (acceleration, steering) like a drunk 10 year old going to the gas station for a Slurpee, but the actual lane recognition aspect of it has been impressive to me.
Because testing this stuff in the real world is the only way. The human in the loop did exactly what they were supposed to do.
> my point is that the power of the police unions is due to the public support for the police, not simply their collective bargaining power.

I would guess there are other factors. The NHS is hugely popular in the UK, and the workers unions are not as powerful US police unions. Like most things, there are probably a lot of small details that make it complex.
The number of calls needs to be lower for a WebGL application. You have to use as much instancing as possible. The security layer makes the calls the slowest part of the pipeline. That's why you see amazing things in shadertoy. When the whole shebang is in the shader it runs smooth.
> I'll still take Tesla FSD over the average earthling driver any day

Sure. As long as Tesla itself, the company and its leaders and its shareholders, are held personally liable for any major autopilot or FSD fuckups.

Be it a monetary ticket or time in jail, have them all serve that responsibility each and every time. And if a long stint in "jail" - i.e. not being able the conduct business of any kind for that period - is too traumatic for the company to survive, then maybe they'd rethink their level of recklessness.

And certainly, if I'm in any sort of roadside screwup nearly regardless of fault, my insurance rates are going up a lot, for a long time. So too should that be the case for Tesla and their products whenever and wherever their software makes a decision that is involved in or the cause of the same.
Mag Pi magazine - free online

Take a MOOC - this is good to explore potential topics

Ask your mom what she needs

Join a tech club
You don't need to use tie and make_tuple. Another person posted a nice example.
Yes, once you apply enough force to the steering it disengages.

Annoyingly, to prove you are in control you must apply slight pressure on the steering wheel. I say annoyingly since it sometimes doesn’t register and you have to give more, which is counterintuitive if it is doing the right thing.

On single carriageways this is worse since you are effectively trying to steer the car into oncoming traffic or off the road to prove that you are watching. That’s one more reason I don’t use it on these types of roads.

All-in, it’s not really worth it tbh, and this is just the basic autopilot.
Using math I’d say probably western liberal culture is more likely to survive. Amish culture requires western liberal culture since they can’t defend themselves. If western liberal culture has a successor there’s a lower probability that the Amish are allowed to exist.
Oh Jesus, poor woman. Fascinating case tho. I hope her brain can recover from the damage.
Well, there's no "correct" answer. Depending on the context, the "correct" thing might be 1) to log and swallow the exception and move on; 2) Let the exception percolate up to caller, who can handle and recover; 3) implement your own recovery and handling; 4) kill the process. To know which one to do, one needs to understand the context. Logging and swallowing is not the worst default, but it's also likely not the best.
Tesla has been reckless with their self driving claims and safety for far longer than FSD has been available to the public. The suggestion here is that getting hit for those earlier reckless claims might hopefully get them to be less deceptive going forward.
I guess it's obvious in retrospect but I didn't realize that the Romanian trotuar is also an obvious French import.
Wet-bulb temperature
Nah. Here in the US the religious people worship other people's suffering. It makes them feel better. (I'm serious, there is this whole story of Jesus suffering were it's the point of everything)

You have to come up with your own solution.
Judo Strategy: The Competitive Dynamics of Internet Time (1999)
Have multiple nannies? Boarding school? No idea, let me know if you figure it out.
They've been taking money for a packaged called "Full Self Driving" since 2016.
Be careful of your jurisdiction. In some places, the act itself of secret recording can be a criminal offence. In that case, you will want to include the possibility of prison in your cost-benefit analysis.

E.g., Germany: StGB 201 § 201 Verletzung der Vertraulichkeit des Wortes https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__201.html

In some places, secret recordings are useless as evidence (e.g., two-party consent states in the United States), while in others even illegal recordings may be admissible anyway (e.g., Sweden).
You might consider: https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/cols.md

That's in Nim, though that may not be much a barrier. (There may also be other tools in bu/ of interest.)
"Help with homework",
I have seen this in movies. Is this a cultural thing? I don't know any parents that help there children with homework.
I've seen several do exactly that on Reddit's IdiotsInCars over time.
What about in Rust?

foo: Box<f32> // or &’a f32 or &f32 if borrowing

Multidimensional arrays:

foo: [[f32; M]; N]

(These have flat storage. However I do assume most Rust devs use external libraries, which also have flat storage but the incompatibility issues you mentioned)
How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
Do you seriously think that whenever it was you started in this industry there weren't all sorts of complaints about new engineers not knowing anything?
I don’t see the point of understanding what I am doing. If management knows even less than I do or doesn’t care enough to check and my code runs, my solution is sufficient.
I'm tempted to do this but I also know that the extra hour of sleep is likely a more productive and healthy use of that time. I'd probably take the time from just about any other part of my day.

Of course, YMMV.
Sure, but then they're not trying to get rid of us even if their actions lead to our demise.
If this is supposed to be used in production as open source, then I am a little surprised that it's under AGPL 3.0, especially given there's no mention of commercial version.
At that point, you’re not really using the high level language.
Blending POF- and POF+ Strains with AI
This is their first paragraphs:

Helminth therapy, also known as helminthic therapy, is an experimental therapy in which people intentionally infect themselves with live helminth parasites. As helminths can alter a person’s immune response, some people believe that helminthic therapy may, one day, help doctors treat some autoimmune and allergic diseases.
To be fair, in cool or cold weather, a pedestrian can easily have little or so visible skin — long sleeves, hair, and possibly a hat of any sort can hide skin very well.

Pedestrians (and cyclists) should wear bright clothing and/or retroreflectors at night! (Ideally both. Retroreflectors are mostly useless if a car has its lights off.)
Have you checked whether you can slow down her eye issues? For instance, in many cases of macular degeneration or for glaucoma it is totally possible to get a dramatic slowdown with an appropriate treatment.

These treatments are becoming mainstream, as in approved by regular healthcare providers such as NHS.
Popular culture is also fashion driven, and most programmers are not immune to that.
Yes, people make mistakes and cause accidents.

We have the legal system so an injured party can sue the driver if they are injured or disabled.

In this trial, all they are asking for is that the auto pilot manufacturer be held to the same standard.

You cause an accident by manually driving, you are legally liable.

You release auto pilot software that causes an accident, you are legally liable.

Everyone should be responsible for their actions. Seems like a very reasonable standard to hold everyone to.
the alternative could also be a forged part, or a cast part that was properly made
For the love of God, please no mandatory licensing. Voluntary certificates approved by trusted institutions are sufficient. Businesses should choose which certificates they trust; politicians should have no power to define technical competence.
A mile was originally (in Roman times) 1000 paces, counting left-right as one pace. Normal walking speed is 3mph ish.
For those left behind, there is a piece over at aeon[0] that helped me. It speaks of post grief disorder that can be very real.

[0]=https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-ease-the-seemingly-endless-pai...
>...and more to do with Tesla chasing higher margins

Which is the most American thing you can do.
You're right most engineers are missing core concepts. You're wrong that it was ever different than it is today.

I suspect your observation results from your improvement over time. Plus, your relative skill level monotonically increases as others retire and juniors replace them - even if you stay stagnant.

There's other causes too;

- Major tech fads (remind me - is OOP in fashion or not right now?)

- New topical emphases for industry (is is more important to take that second data structures class, or that first LLM class?)

- A changing definition of who is an engineer (should business analysts by deploying pipelines in the data warehouse?)

All this to say: there's probably more people with a fantastic understanding of software engineering today than there ever has been. And the likelihood of working with one of them might still be lower than it ever has been.
That won't happen. Tesla is in a complex legal situation where a reaction twoards it also means a reaction towards spaceX and twitter, both of which have parts of the US government happy with.
TPUs not GPUs.
Wow, Hilderman's quore is just factually incorrect where he says:

"Fuel is 20 times more than the passenger weight"

For most transport aircraft, passenger mass fraction is roughly 12%-18% depending on what's included (cargo, seats, etc.), while fuel mass fraction is around 30% to 40%.

So this ratio is more like 2 or 3, not 20.

Passenger weight is absolutely a huge factor (speaking as an aerospace engineer focusing on vehicle design and flight performance).
Hi Hank! It's nice to see you here. Thanks for helping people learn how to configure the four mumble "hot keys" that work best for LAC.

Here is a brief YouTube video clip illustrating the process as you described it:

https://youtu.be/h7yl3c_Z6Gc

Further background on this subject can be found in this thread from LAC's "Mumble and LAC" forum:

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/mumblean...
Totally agreed.

This was my policy with my staff. I straight up told them they can and should take a couple hours a week (tried to start small to make it achievable) on personal development, whether that's reading books, taking courses, etc. I'd even try and brainstorm with them on ways to spend the time.

Funny thing is, with one or two exceptions, few did it because they always felt something else was more urgent during the day...
You should not. I have Tesla FSD and without constant monitoring by a very cautious human driver it is a murder machine. The choice is not “human vs. Tesla” it is “human vs. dangerous Tesla mitigated by humans of varying degrees of competence.”
So you think cities and villages just magically got built because people would come together and interact like some kind of brownian motion?

I already laid down my arguments from an anthropological perspective. There was something very special about the past 2000~4000 years (since the beginning of stone age 3 million year ago, and anatomically modern humans 300,000 years ago) and that is why at the year 2024AD, things have progressed into the current state. (Or why have we not progressed faster as a civilization/species?)

It's about cost and the sustaining of people's attention and work. Even for communities that started so to speak "organically", they would have dependency on some form of leadership at some points, if not throughout, or it would not be self-sustainable and grow to scale up e.g. into a village/city.
> Do you think "the rich" get together once a year, smoke cigars and discuss what policies to convince everyone of in order to keep the poors down because they are idiots who believe the world is a zero-sum-game?

Sort of. No cigars though, just "how can we solve the poors without giving up what we have?" Notice no public policy or tax increases to actually solve the problems.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30851839

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/republican-do...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/bilderberg-group-me...

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-...
It's very hard to find a source of a radio signal sent from a middle of nowhere (having only a few trains to trinagulate). Of course we should do this, but if someone starts abusing this to raise chaos in the country, we may have no other choice. And we have an enemy country very interested in causing problems nearby.

>Because it isn't possible to make a system both easy to access and secure at the same time

Not right now, but since 2009 we're implementing GSM-R, and we still don't have it. It's not a bad solution, but nobody really cared until the recent abuse happened.
For covering the subject of writing, the typesetting of the PDF is remarkably poor. The mix of serif and sans serif, the font sizes don't match the structure of the document, and enumerations have inconsistent indentation - to point out just a few blemishes.
Boot camps are really great for self taught people that want to level up their knowledge.

About half the people in my boot camp were really into computers and got a lot from the program.
Ehh… not using an IDE is a bridge too far IMO. Be friendly to the casual writer of the code and help them express themselves without having to repeat the obvious.
(Yes, I know, we write less time than read, but maybe that is what is actually wrong with the tools we use?)

Wrote this for myself, I’m a vim user :)
I hope Tesla pays lots in damages and then keeps improving their systems. If they’re truly below the rate of human error when segmented by scenario there’s no reason for a ban.

I also wish they’d knock it off with purposefully misleading marketing. They have a decent product but for whatever reason their CEO feels like compulsively lying about it.
She might find a device like Alexa helpful if reading no longer becomes an option - with it she can get audio books, music etc.

My grandfather was a avid reader (mostly history ww2 and ww1) and went blind in his 70s. We got him a Alexa and he found it fantastic. It was a major improvement to his quality of life in his final days.
I think this is a fair view, but C++ has a lot of flaws. It's good enough that it's very hard to justify switching away from it, and it will be a good resume language for quite a long time, but I would hesitate to start any new project in it.