skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VW's problem is the EU: the EU decided (corruption? incompetence? both?) to hand over the EU market to non-EU companies, like the chinese ones.

They way they did that was to come up with the craziest green agenda ever: no more sales of ICE vehicles in the EU by... 2035. They decided that a few years ago and this was the beginning of the end for all the EU car manufacturers.

There's no way the EU car manufacturers can be competitive with Tesla on one hand (better batteries) or the chinese (way, way, way cheaper vehicles) by 2035.

So EU politicians, in their usual idiocy, decided to destroy the economy of the biggest country in the EU, Germany.

Seeing this as an EU citizen makes me sick.

I understand that it's great to take ESG postures but... At the cost of destroying your entire economy? All the while the EU is a measly 400 million people and there are billions of people in, say, China and India who don't give a fuck about destroying the planet.

Insanity. 2035 was way too early: this left no time to german car manufacturers. A sad state of affair.
Congrats to Mercedes but I wonder if we could have had autonomous interstate travel in the 90s.
So 55 needed for passing and 60 voted for. Closer then I thought it would be.
Yeah, but you generally need the money from the businesses and employment to grow the other amenities. For example, TX is almost the opposite of CA in many political areas, yet it seems they have been successful in attracting businesses and people to migrate to them. The amenities and infrastructure has been increasing in many of those cities.

"That’s (part of) why the places that are emptying are emptying, and then they’re surprised when only trying to be attractive to businesses doesn’t work out."

I'm not sure I understand you. Places like TX, FL, AZ, etc are actually growing populations while being hailed as business friendly. Yet places like CA and NY are losing population while considered being tought for business and progressive (rights, social atmosphere fron your prior comment?).
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> that fundamentalists use philosophical arguments to justify their positions doesn't mean philosophy is largely transparent cover for religious apologetics, does it?

Not in and of itself. But I don't see many other applications. Do you?
That hardware cost will drop eventually as it becomes commoditized and competing providers emerge. We're still pretty early in the game.
Level 3 actually lets you take a break while driving. L2 systems don’t and therefore IMO don't provide significant benefits.

More range and more driving conditions just don’t matter here if I can’t read a book on the way to work then it’s not self driving just advanced cruse control.
Not in the situations that Mercedes is allowing L3: some roads in traffic. The Tesla does really well there.
It's not that easy. Russia has been trying to build their own competitive chips for decades with no luck. All their attempts lag modern chips by multiple generations.

You would need to duplicate TSMC to create enough ASICs.
Individual audio volume per app is one of the simpler things you can do with Tasker.
Actively programming? At age 12. We didn't have a computer at home so I had to use the one at school and wrote my programs on paper by hand them typed them into the computer at lunch time as fast as I could to see if it would work! I was so happy to finally get a computer but it was kind of fun to look forward to lunch time.
Custom of the Sea
They were hyped up as a more 'mature' version of Twitter, focused on real conversations instead of engagement-bait and virality.

Looks like they went the clickbait route.
Glass Microbiology Sculptures
Does this generally satisfy accessibility needs too?
flaggers be flaggers
Whether it matters depends on how much your hosting costs make up of your burn rate. I agree it's a distraction for some startups, but I've also done startups where using AWS would've meant the company wasn't viable at all.
Why is it not circular reasoning to justify empirical reasoning via empirical reasoning?

(The formal problem of induction argument with its charge of circularity is best and most simply put here https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/#Reco)
Well, I must post this (stronger than me):

https://www.marriedtothesea.com/122607/pulled-over-in-canada...
I’m so glad I didn’t fall for it. Nearly bought one, then took it for a test drive at the dealership and it couldn’t even make a left turn correctly. Then I rented one on another trip because I wanted to test it more extensively and the car locked up because I activated some stupid easter egg that started playing a song with an animated gif all over the screen…even getting out of the car and locking it didn’t stop the damn thing and I literally just had to sit on the side of the road and wait it out. The weird thing is I haven’t been able to find that easter egg mentioned anywhere.
Higher rents inflate asset prices, but higher asset prices also inflate rents because buying becomes too expensive and rents can safely grow because people who can't buy must rent.

Direction of causality goes both ways. It's positive feedback loop that's barely contrained by any reality. That's why it seems to run away towards infinity despite only small changes in supply and demand.

There's no good solution to your example because there's simply too few properties. Some people will become homeless. The same number in each scenario. It hard to tell how much total rent will be transferred in each scenario because competition for rentals is harder in second one but 0.5N properties have zero rent.
Very cool project. I noticed in the dependencies section its using its own JS interpreter: https://mujs.com/
Bootcamps typically focus on a single tech stack, i.e. web apps made with Ruby on Rails. While a degree focuses on all aspects of software development and could delve into hardware depending on the school.
Americans' new TV habit: Subscribe, watch, cancel, repeat
AFAIK all the well-known proxies/load balancer support automatic failure in one way or another - Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy.

I prefer Caddy myself, for it's simplicity. On load balancing, it can detect when an upstream server isn't working, and remove it from the list of upstream until it's working again. Sometimes you want control of this, for example for OS updates - Caddy has an admin API you can use to remove a server from upstreams and wait until all connections are drained, then you can perform the updates and add the server back again. Then do the same for other upstream servers.

(I haven't actually used the Caddy admin API in production yet, but plan to soon).
> some legitimate packages that depend on files uploaded in GitHub comments

I love these one-sentence horror stories.
The (US native, presumably) ATC staff speak worse English than the (presumably) non-native English speaker pilots, at least from all the ATC clips I've heard -- JFK and NY region being about the worst. Combining that with bad recordings and it's often difficult to understand, even as a native English speaker with a fair bit of familiarity with aviation (worked with pilots, although mostly rotary and military, working on a PPL)
Not always a popular sentiment, but I don't really mind treating a country's companies as that country treats ours.

I know this TikTok issue is far more nuanced (who the backers/owners are, how data is treated etc) of course.
I love it. I think it would be even funnier if you made it only scroll in one direction (downwards) to remove any possible semblance of being useful.
There's much more detailed info what was disallowed in Vice City here (German): https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=3867

My memory is fuzzy but I think you couldn't be rewarded for killing people according to the BzKJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_H....

You'll note that the existence of a site dedicated to censorship in video games means this was a big thing in Germany. No longer the case as much.

Manhunt for example was forbidden to be advertised in any way (put on the "Index"), but you could sell it under the counter. Some depictions triggered rules that meant games (or videos, music) could not even present to their corresponding regulatory body, which is USK for games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterhaltungssoftware_Selbstko...) to be rated 18+.

I used to know much more about this topic, but it's 15 years in the past now... Needless to say there were a million ways to circumvent this including specialised shops, uncut patches and more.

Some more: For a brief time ragdolls in Counter Strike: Source were disallowed (defeated enemies lay down instead), blood could not be red in Halo (alien blood was okay), gibs were disabled in TF2 (corpses exploded into toys).

Germany had problems with gore whereas the US had problems with sexuality (Hot Coffee mode removal).
Thank you for your candid feedback on TMS and its implications in psychiatric treatment. You've rightly pointed out the complexities and potential risks associated with such therapies. And I agree with you that addresses the root causes of mental health issues, not just the symptoms.

While acknowledging the side effects of TMS, including those you've mentioned like cognitive effects and headaches, our research focuses on mitigating these through targeted treatment approaches. Severe side effects are relatively rare, and our goal is to further reduce their likelihood through improved predictive accuracy.
Cloud Native Computing in 2024 – feeling the pulse at Kubecon
>He was a part-time propaganda poet of the Soviet regime

Also a prominent futurist and a self-proclaimed proletarian poet. Historical figures such as Mayakovsky shouldn't be perceived as black or white.

By 1925, it still wasn't obvious that Soviet Regime would become what we know about it now. NEP period had something to be excited about in terms of economic development and political/personal freedoms (as opposed to dekulakization and related changes, which happened in the late 20s).
This "spiral type notation" has been acknowledged in K&R 2nd Edition as one of the less fortunate design decisions in C.
That article is from 7 years ago. It seems unwise to make a judgement for today based on it.
Not really new. I’d say ATS was just shittier “AI”
Technical capability with known operating conditions (that can expand over time) > technical capability with unknown operating conditions.

Only one of them allows you to take liability.
Many disagree. “Not even close” is a strong position to take on this.
Whenever I read stuff like this I find it strange that as a species we do this and also kill each other in wars.
Please don't make unfounded assertions.
If rejection hurts you so much I think your life as an entrepreneur will be tough.

The right mindset would I think be to show them that they were wrong if they reject you.

Ultimately fundraising is selling. And in sales, your goal should, funnily enough, be to get as many rejections as possible. To eat "no" for breakfast, as it were.

Easier said than done, I know.
Now that's something I can work with. I don't intentionally spout high rhetoric as a way to chastise or belittle, though I admit I do let frustration leak into my words. I honestly am looking for how I and more people can be a part of a change, I do _want_ productive discussions.

This week has been an interesting one for me, my perspective has shifted quite drastically. Honestly I was bitter, I found that I was unintentionally on a mission to inflate perceived injustices to create bad people in my mind, ostensibly for the purpose of making myself look "good" in comparison. I let that need leak into my interpersonal interactions in an attempt to push that juxtaposition into other people's minds.

I'm not in the trenches like you because I spent a decade focusing on bootstrapping a company because I wanted money, and I selfishly wanted to just ignore everything that bothered me and focus on what I loved doing. In the end it ruined most of what I actually value, and that changed me in ways I hadn't realized; in the end I burned myself and bridges as those things began to crumble.

I will say that I've thought a lot about our conversation this week as I've been trying to find a path to somewhere better, as I do struggle a lot with what you're saying as I have kids of my own, some adult, who are seriously struggling because of the screwed up money obsessed world we find ourselves in.

A pretty big part of the torment I was laying on myself was because I didn't feel like I deserved the monetary success I had worked so hard to find, I felt like liquidating my value as my co-founder had was tantamount to becoming one of those people I so fervently despised. I've instead been trying to prove to myself that I could do it again on my own, with the expected result.

I decided to call our investor this week and negotiated a buyout of my equity. Now I guess I just need to figure out how I can turn that into some good in the world. I'm incredibly grateful at this point actually, I've experienced having nothing, I've experience true hopelessness, and I've experienced how much even a small gesture by someone who cares can drastically change one's circumstances and frame of mind.

If there's anything you could share with me about your experience in advocacy, I would be humbly thankful.

I apologize for how I treated you.
> The house is paid off, and Murray has wanted to downsize for a while, but she says homes that fit what she's looking for – 2,000 square feet, all on one level, in the same suburban area – sell quickly and for a lot of money.

The big challenge here is that bungalows are not meaningfully different in terms of land use. They are only downsizing the house part, not the land part and it is always land where a two storey home could have gone.

If the case of the people in the article, if own an average size house, they would be increasing the land footprint they use.
Capitalism is when congress rides in on a white horse when the communists win in the market place.
It's hard when you are the only TA for 260 students who get 3 assignments per week, you must also hold free hours and you aren't allowed to go over 27 hrs each week so the school isnt breaking federal laws.
Hase the json module api chnged in the past decades?
what a twist
Your calculation is interesting, but I beg you to go outside and look at how Godwits actually fly. Godwits fly in a straight line using rapid powerful nonstop flaps. They are relatively heavy birds with high "wing loading ratio" and their entire body plan is hyper-optimized for this type of flight and no other. This is especially true during migration when they accumulate lots of fat and their wing loading ratio is particularly unfavorable for soaring. Godwits are among the fastest-flying birds in a straight line, and they have never been observed to engage in any other mode of flight, nor can they. They cannot use regular soaring. They cannot use dynamic soaring. They do not fly like seagulls. Their wing area is simply too small to allow any other type of flight. They also typically do not wait for favorable wind to fly. They just take off and go.
Samsung has an app called "Good Lock", with a bunch of sub-apps, that allow a crazy amount of customization. Those for example are just toggles in the "QuickStar" sub-app.

Some of the changes I've made include different icons for the back/home/app switcher buttons at the bottom of the screen and a different layout for the app switcher.
Are there human “watchers” in your waymos? Or are they completely autonomous?

They just started testing in my city and have humans sitting there not doing anything. So it makes for kind of an uncomfortable ride. Chitchatting with the Uber driver is the worst part of my ride, so I’m looking forward to just robots.
> For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

Did they expect that Apple would stop dropping support for old hardware for them?
Unlikely given the computation required for this feature.
It wasn't actually my claim that Dennett had much influence on hacker culture. I was originally disputing the idea that Dennett became well known after 1992.
Went down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole after hearing Biden's claim that his uncle's body was never found because it was eaten by cannibals. It's such a weird topic.
JSON is so much more usable sometimes. Especially when things don't neatly parse into cut -d splits!
FSD ver. 12 is a massive improvement over ver. 11, but not something I'd want to trust my life on. The vision system alone is reason not to trust it (it's just a "multiple choice" image classifier). The actual driving in ver. 12 (now neural net vs C++) looks much smoother.

The continuing problem is that at the end of the day these are just rule-based systems with zero intelligence. They'll work fine 99.9% of the time, and then do something life-threateningly inappropriate in the 0.1% of cases they were not trained to handle.

The only way to make these things as safe as a human driver is to base them on human-level AGI, which is still a long ways off in the future. I don't know if Musk is planning to add his Grok "AI" into the mix, but having a hallucinating chatbot as backup system or driver is not my idea of safety.
True, it's basically indisputable that engineers are better at engineering than philosophers are. But that seems orthogonal to the issues raised in the problem of induction.
Jensen said Moore's Law is dead because of the dichotomy explained a few times -- the free lunches are coming fewer and far between, you can't get a substantial performance boost and power decrease every 18 months, per Moore's Law.

We are reaching the power:computational limits of silicon.

Both GPU and CPU.
In my experience Python software is not really nice when it comes to distribution. Hate the venv stuff and pip install hassles. Besides, it is slow. Honestly, if runtime interpretation is a requirement, PHP would be better then in these respects.
If you continue to read that section of the paper you linked, they cite several human studies that all showed how poorly magnesium oxide was absorbed relative to all the other magnesium supplementation options, especially in the Table 4 link in section 4.2.5 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652077/table/T...).

> Siener et al. administered 404 mg/day of magnesium oxide to healthy volunteers and analyzed the magnesium concentration in blood and urine. There was no significant change in blood concentration of magnesium, but urinary magnesium excretion increased by 40% after administration of magnesium oxide. Yoshimura et al. performed a pharmacokinetic study of orally administered magnesium oxide in rats. They showed that 85% of magnesium is excreted in feces, while 15% of magnesium is absorbed from the intestinal tract and excreted in urine. [2]

> A 2017 rat study demonstrated its low absorption rate, concluding that only 15% of orally administered magnesium oxide was absorbed, while 85% was excreted in the feces. Older research suggests the absorption rate is even lower in humans [1,2]

This study puts the absorption at 4%. [5]

It's normally used as an antacid or laxative.

> Magnesium oxide is an inorganic salt of magnesium. Even though it contains high amounts of magnesium, it has low absorbability in the body. Still, it has been shown to offer health benefits like constipation relief. [3]

Oxide is among the least bioavailable form of magnesium, right down at the none-to-almost-none tier with magnesium stearate. Which is what this study comparing various supplements shows, too. [4]

What I meant was that it's a waste of time due to its ultra-low bioavailability. If you're trying to supplement, pick one of the many options that your body can actually use. Unless you're constipated I guess.

Yes, I know it's sold as a supplement, and included in many multivitamins. You should know that doesn't mean much, vitamins and supplements in the US are not FDA regulated and there's no real guarantee they (a) do anything or (b) are in a form that does anything.

Never hurts to be polite ;)

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28123145/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911806/

[3] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/magnesium-oxide

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/

[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11794633/
While this helps the students with names lower down the order, people who are graded later still suffer.
I don't really agree on this distinction between foundational and established. But we can just agree to disagree on that.
If you're using UNIX tools to parse it, it sucks, but generally if I'm reading the output of a command, and the command is more than one word, I'm doing the whole thing in Python.

That's real programming, and for that I want type checkers and debuggers and modern syntax and all that. And the performance is often faster because you're not spinning up subprocesses for each command.
As a private pilot with a level of experience not even in the ballpark of these professional pilots, I can say you get used to it. The “trick” is that most of these phrases are expected, and they come in a certain order, at certain times. It’s a bit like running a decision tree in your head. So e.g. you as the pilot would know that, as you’re taxiing up to the runway for instance, they’re probably gonna tell you to hold short, or to line up and wait. If it’s mumbled that’s fine, you get it.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090341

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38764427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36844866

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421421
Even humanitarian groups such as the UNICEF were targets, there's no doubt now what the program is about
GitHub has githubusercontent.com. Why was this domain not used for these uploads? Or did image uploads in comments predate that domain?

But either way putting the repo in the URL seems completely unnecessary. If you need to track ownership you can still do that in the backing database.
Then Tesla should take liability in those conditions, if they are confident.
https://nautil.us/impossibly-hungry-judges-236688/

> we should dismiss this finding, simply because it is impossible. When we interpret how impossibly large the effect size is, anyone with even a modest understanding of psychology should be able to conclude that it is impossible that this data pattern is caused by a psychological mechanism. As psychologists, we shouldn’t teach or cite this finding, nor use it in policy decisions as an example of psychological bias in decision making.
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What’s the reason the US insists to own this company?

I can imagine they want to control the narrative with the mentioned algorithm. But are they afraid of it that much that they would ban it if they can’t get it? I mean 170 million Americans in the young demographic are quite important.
3.6 is pretty much universally available at this point.
Absolutely. What a sham.
Sony had these on their Clié (Palm OS) devices as well.

I’ve only ever had first-party Palm handhelds, but the scroll wheel (Sony had some nifty name which is eluding me) always seemed very appealing for single-handed use.
> It's easier to think in programming than math.

I think that it depends a lot on background.

My suspicion is that it's not easy for a random, untrained person to think in either. I think that a lot of folks here are programmers, trained (intentionally or just by experience) to think in programming terms, and so find that easier. I'm a mathematician by training, and so find it easier to think in that way—for example, I still sometimes find it hard to force myself to think about the fact that it might matter which of two computationally equivalent formulations of a problem one uses, just because one takes orders of magnitude longer than the other to execute.