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> the reality I've observed, especially in unlimited speed sections of the Autobahn, can be quite different.

My experience is that it depends on where in Germany you are. I drove from France to Norway this week so I went through northern Germany and the autobahn was great, where it wasn't restricted because of the more or less permanent roadworks that is. I drive on Tesla Autopilot when I can which has a maximum speed of 150 kph and only once in the 600 km from Venlo to Flensburg did I notice someone get too close behind me even though many were travelling considerably faster.

It's a different story further south around Munich for instance.

I agree though that road safety in Europe has a lot to do with road design, vehicle standards, maintenance, driver education, etc.
Though thanks to the likes of Disney, not temporary enough to matter.
How to Prevent AI Catastrophe – Nick Bostrom [video]
Slightly off topic.

But I feel for a lot of "knowledge work" what is proclaimed to be the fundamentals and what the actually fundamentals are diverge quite a bit.

E.g. if automata theory a fundamental of (generic) software development. IMHO it's not. Sure it's a fundamental of many things you use for software development (e.g. programming languages, compilers, various "foundation libraries" like regex etc.). It's also a neat tool to have from time to time. But definitely not a fundamental for most software development jobs.

Through it's also a bit a question about what you define as "fundamentals". E.g. there are "fundamentals somewhat needed to understand at least somewhat to _effectively_ improve yourself" at least if you want to improve above a certain (often medium skill level) point. E.g. how colors work (physically and mentally) for painting and/or graphics design. And "fundamentals the science is technically based on but it kinda doesn't matter much for using it". E.g. a lot of things related to Chomsky-Hierarchie and grammars is for most software developers most times irrelevant. Not always, sure. But most times you end up needing this stuff at work you should pause and wonder "is that a good idea?". Because lets be honest while it's often fun, most times you are reinventing a wheel or making things more complicated then it should be or less maintainable etc. Sometimes in a subtle way. (E.g. custom config file format instead of leveraging existing formats like json, toml, etc.).
professional managerial class
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Relevant YouTube Video:

NotJustBikes: These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202168
> Normies normally don't do stuff like that.

Maybe this attitude needs to stop. Get people more engaged with their health while collecting data so they can show up to their doctor with more information.

We don’t shut down the sale of car parts because Normies don’t normally do their own car repairs. Even if only a small
But passionate group takes control of their health data collection, why stop them?
Funny, it's the same in Germany.
> It violates the golden rule: don't create a role with two bosses.

Right, but on the other side, in the military they told us: "You can delegate authority, but you can't delegate responsibility." If part of the CEO is to be a manager for the C-suite, then he needs to be able to evaluate how the CxO is behaving as a manager; and that would seem to imply looking 2 or 3 levels down to see what's going on beneath them.

That's not to say the CEO should go around randomly countermanding orders and giving new ones. The CxO can't do their job that way. But it does mean that the CEO should have a clear picture about what's going on, form their own opinions, and either give guidance / constructive criticism or fire where appropriate.
Germany is barely the size of New Mexico. Talk about an apples to orange comparison…

Broken down by state, I’m sure there are states that are safer than Germany.
Legos Quality in the last decade has been on a steady decline to an absurd degree. Most of their sets now are substandard in part count, part quality, full of stickers and it's all star wars and other tie ins while the prices skyrocketed. Meanwhile the Competition has stepped up significantly and there are now multiple manufacturers selling lego compatible pieces and sets of equal or higher quality for significantly less.
> If you go to an optician to get a prescription for eyeglasses, assuming you pay via your insurance, if the optician believes that you will not be ordering glasses from the optician, the optician intentionally and vindictively gives you an erroneous prescription that is off by 0.5 in one eye

You state this like it is standard practice, like all opticians do this. What evidence do you have?
All of this. Plus the exhaust gasses and tire wear pollutants causing early deaths. The noise (bigger) cars make disrupting quiet places like parks and porches, balconies, bedrooms causing stress. The waste of used cars, often being transported to third world countries.
Cars kill in so many ways, especially big cars.
Can you explain what it's showing? I clicked the "About" link but there's no README, and all I see is a Clickhouse query. What is the data?
Garnishment can be too slow to deal with the victim's liabilities, and even still has no guarantee of ever repaying the loss.
tig?
So much gatekeeping is upheld by regulations, which are in turn written by the professional organizations these medical practitioners belong to. It is a silent violation of our liberties but also a silent driver of costs. Glasses are a great example. CPAP machines are another, forcing people to take expensive sleep studies that cost thousands (before insurance) all to get machines that are freely available in many other countries.
They make all of the cars you want except for the electric Miata which would sell in such low quantities that it would have to be priced higher than the Taycan to be viable. Nobody's spending $180k on a Mazda.

You just don't want them.

I have a Fiat Spider for fun, and a Volvo V60 wagon for utility. My wife is 5'3" and is taller, barely, than the V60.

The Spider is dead and the Miata is dying because global sales have tanked and Mazda's only selling 6-8,000 per year in the US.

The V60 is dying because almost everyone who says they want a station wagon is lying, either outright or to themselves, and they buy a compact SUV instead. Commenters will shout in all caps on the internet that NOBODY MAKES A STATION WAGON ANYMORE, walk onto a Volvo lot, right past the V60 and drive off in an XC60.

I imagine the A4 Allroad (also a station wagon that doesn't exist!) is also on life support.

And before you go on about price, Mazda, Honda, and Toyota all sold inexpensive wagons in the US until past the point that it became financially negligent for them to do so anymore.

Nobody wanted them.

Consumers weren't tricked, brainwashed, hoodwinked, scammed, or flabbergasted-- customers did not want them so they didn't buy them so manufacturers stopped selling them-- in the US at least, you can still buy inexpensive wagons, with manual transmissions, all over the rest of the world.
Nope, not true at all. Go to eyebuydirect.com, enter any random prescription and buy those glasses. I've done this like 20 times, mostly because my prescriptions were from doctors outside United States.

It's an American company. AFAIK there is no regulation in the US that requires prescription from a doctor to get the glasses.
Everywhere! The article says the staff have to cover tables and desks with leather sheets because of raining guano.

A big downside to indoor pest control with bats, to be sure.
Yeah, I think the primary difference is the geometry - the SUVs and trucks present an almost flat surface and cause much more head and neck trauma - and in the visibility and controllability of the vehicle.
Classic American answer to everything. What does size have to do with anything? Besides well understood economies of scale which clearly would favor the US?
> Humans have tens of millions of RPG rounds in stock.

What is this, Horizon Zero Dawn? Will we have to steal parts from the mammoth's cauldron facilities for our survival, while the mammoths continue to get stronger and stronger in an unstoppable paperclip optimizing loop?
Get this! We got TWO whole car seats in it!

Two children fit in the back of the Focus until we got rid of it. They were 6 and 9. By that point it got leas squishy because the car seats get smaller with age.

Littlest kid went behind the driver because it was stick.
George Orwell has entered the chat

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

... one should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round.
I miss „ta-ba-dum-tss” at the end of the story. Yeah they all played us for fools as they don’t have to do any real work and I also seen such folks here and there hired for friends startup…
I have used Zenni and several other online stores, and all of them will require you to upload a current doctor ordered prescription (one that has not expired). You cannot just take the numbers you already know and order a pair for yourself on any of these sites, as far as I know.
Where are the vtables coming from if you use no inheritance and no memory allocation?
Just imagine this 2034, and the NewStream service is competing with a bunch of newspapers selling their own news streams. The original NewStream is hiring reporters to make its own news, and some people like them.
How do you test this “at home”?
Americans drive more, so if you want to compare the safety of the two systems it is better to look at deaths per vehicle-km. Germany has 4.2 deaths per billion vehicle-km. The United States has 6.9.
If you don't have enough manpower who can control and collaborate on the development of the environment, the project will not succeed to be adopted.

Programming language-specific dependency tools succeeded due to their user friendliness, however abysmal they are in multi-language / OS dependent environments (and I despise them for that reason). Cargo.toml, go.mod, conan.txt, Dockerfile etc. all are can be understood by basically all members of a dev team. You cannot say the same for Nix for most devs in a team.
Thanks for the link. Very important research and I’m thankful for the scientists taking it on.
I just saw it on the frontpage and very much enjoyed it.
Growing up in the 90s, our family sedan for four people was a Dodge Spirit for awhile. I saw one a couple of years ago, and it's smaller than my Honda Fit.

Now people think they need some ridiculous GMC Yukon for their one kid they sometimes have in the car, though 90% of the time they're just commuting by themselves. Then they whine about gas prices.
You’re absolutely right that most people don’t need to measure this data. That said, most people didn’t need to measure step count or heart rate or sleep and we’ve found utility in that.

Realistically, the medical community is extremely gate-keeper oriented. The doctor shortage is entirely fabricated by organizations run by doctors. Some barrier to providing medical care is good, of course.

Realistically, we don’t have a lot of data on the blood glucose levels of healthy people. The explosion of Fitbit’s and Oura rings and similar products gave us an explosion in data on basic vitals of millions of people during sleep. This can inform a ton of research, even if the quality of data is not as high as in a clinical setting. The difference between collecting 40 hours a week of data on 5 people vs 40k hours on 5k people (or more!) is huge in a research setting.

I used to work doing ML to measure and improve athletic performance, and to measure and detect physiological strain and risks during physical exercise. Our limitation was always access to enough data to not overfit. Compared to data corpus’s using in “generative AI” or image recognition models, or any other number models that are now standard in industry, we’re still in the Stone Age.
I don't think it is. A NFL player is hired to perform well for just a few hours a year, the rest doesn't matter. A live musician needs to play well during the few hours of concert they have each year, what they do when the public is not there doesn't matter.

It means all of their job is concentrated in a few hours per year, so they have to be damn good at it. In order to do that, they need training, which is most of their working time. For most other jobs, there is much less time to train, and it doesn't matter as much because what counts is the average performance, not just a few key moments.

For programming, the parallel would be competitive programming. A competitive programmer will spend days studying algorithms like no one else, because it will matter for the hour or two of the competition. For typical programmers the loss of productivity for not knowing the algorithms is less than the time spent studying them.
You do need to hire great people and give them room - but that doesn't mean you ignore them and let them operate their business unit like a separate organization... You need to be involved as a CEO or other key decision maker.

This philosophy of involvement follows through the entire org structure not just from CEO to the farthest position down the org tree.

Let's not let this be a rug to sweep poorly-behaving founders behavior's under, as there are plenty of those out there (key: successful founders).
> apprently it’s nearly 5 meters long,
???

3 inches longer than a Camry
Story of a friend . Working 7 day weeks , big deadline. Poop. Faint. wtf? Job ends. Years later never happens again.

Working 7 days a week makes your vagus nerve sensitive and under stress can shut you down as a defence mechanism.

Never knew this, have always advised friends to be very careful when under stress for long periods of time.
This thread was a reminder that I needed some prescription sunglasses.

There was an option to upload my prescription, so they could auto-detect the values from it. But there's a button just below that for "manually enter". I never saw any other prompts, on the way to checking out.
I don't get a page for something that is not under my control, that is an organisational problem if you get that. But how is it relevant here?

In my example, I will get a page for large replication lag. But not for an unplanned failover. That will be an alert, but not a page.
Pip has gone down the shithole with its preaching about venvs. It's my computer. I'll install to site-packages if I damn well want to.
Excellent read, thank you. Just wanted to note that the author of Pasteboard Manager[0], Sindre Sorhus, is also the maker of Actions[1] shortcut library as well as other cool iPhone and Mac apps. Not sure if he is on HN.

- 0. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pasteboard-viewer/id1499215709
- 1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actions/id1586435171
He talks about lack of discoverability of long press, like if you long press on a feature you get a different result vs if you short tap.

One way this could be addressed can be borrowed from video games: animated pie charts, growing as you hold down the button, activating the secondary function only after the pie completes a full circle.
I think the marketing term is 'line extension'. It very rarely seems like a good idea. As you say, even if it makes money in the short term, it almost certainly loses money by damaging the brand in the long term.
In that sense pass is no different from other password managers. What prevents the user of an "online" password manager from storing the passwords offline, remembering them, or not logging out and reusing cookies? You have to rotate the credentials themselves anyway.
Possibly more humiliating to see an opponent mind be completely wiped out, possibly living the rest of their lives as a vegetable and to need the care of someone. When one is killed for their ideas they become a martyr of sorts.
With a very thick glass, you definitely can crack it with boiling water. I didn't know if earthenware is similarly susceptible, but anything that is both brittle, and has a high enough rate of thermal expansion would be.
I wonder if there are any big companies paying for kagi for their workers.
This is a great question IMO. For those saying "just don't share passwords", consider that many of the vendor accounts you might need to use in business don't have team accounts, and there is no option but to share accounts. It's a legitimate thing that comes up rather often.
>a good webhooks system will queue things up for re-delivery with an exponential backoff and try a few more times before giving up completely.

Microsoft's Graph API also requires consumers to re-register webhooks every N days, a kind of "heartbeat" to make sure the webhooks aren't sent to a dead server forever.
When I try to model out an all-renewable grid I think of it this way: capital cost is the sum of generation capital cost + storage capital cost + transmission capital cost.

In the winter you get less energy from your solar panels, one answer to that is build enough storage to shift energy from summer to winter, another is to build an excess of solar panels. In the latter case you need less storage but you have an excess of cheap energy in the summer you can do something with (e.g. factobattery, desalinating water, making e-Fuels, e-Fertilizers, etc.)

To realize that benefit you need additional investment in transmission (with an option of locating sinks close to sources to minimize transmission cost) Also the capital cost of any facility that you run 50% of the time is effectively doubled.

I have yet to seen a cost analysis of a 100% renewable + storage system as it needs a detailed analysis. One problem is that you occasionally have the bad luck of an extended patch of unfavorable weather. It's going to cost more to build a system that runs out of juice once every 20 years compared to one that runs out of juice every year. Advocates of renewable + storage systems claim to be a lot cheaper than AP-1000, my back of the envelope calculation is that that renewables + storage might be a little cheaper than AP-1000 under favorable assumptions, but I haven't done detailed enough modelling to have much confidence in that and I haven't seen anyone else do it.
For some, it's an ethical imperative. The government is at best wasteful, often what it does with resources is harmful. If you can make sure resources are kept in private hands and used for further capital accumulation then we'll all be better off.
Maybe they are, I don't know what's taught in a CS major, but a shocking number of my coworkers don't seem to understand the basics of statistical sampling which makes me wonder if they even had 2 courses on it.
My kayak fits fine on the roof rack on top of my Skoda Octavia sedan.
"Think of the children" or not, it really doesn't matter the size of the vehicle. A SmartCar, or even a motorcycle, at 30 mph is likely to kill your kid too.
Given what we know about elephant intelligence and community, I'd be morally horrified by any level of systematic and ongoing "farming" of elephants for food. You may rightly accuse my of getting ahead of myself for extending the same feelings towards the mammoth for which we know less, but nevertheless I feel the same about them at the moment.
Once you get to a low carbon electricity, it makes more sense to electrify other things (transport, heating, industry) than to worry about the last few percent of carbon in the electricity mix.

This is the kind of economy wide tradeoff that carbon pricing makes explicit.
"some benefit" meaning, you can hang out with other people who also paid to be there.
Are these trucks are built with cheap chinese steel? Perhaps a tariff on steel would help. Also how can people afford such enormous beasts? People don't seem to realise how much money theor cars cost when paid off via a loan.
As a sibling points out, it’s not explanatory as much as a visualization. Or if it explains something it’s not gravity itself but a less familiar kind of geometry and a new concept of straightness where sometimes the shortest path is what we’d usually think of as curved. Seems fine. Little chance of understanding gravity until you can grasp the prerequisite concepts you’re going to describe it with.

And anyway explaining gravity v2 in terms of v1’s first approximation isn’t that strange when recursive definitions are going to play a part in lots of higher education anyway. When you’re a kid, 5 is just a concept useful to describe every instance of 5 apples, but later, a number N is perhaps best understood as the successor of N-1.
An often repeated idiom without any evidence.
The vultures are there as they always are in such circumstances, what is your point?
This is what I want also (it’s strange it doesn’t exist yet). I’m not going to pay a subscription to a hundred different news sites.
Honestly, Toyota hilux. I'm not a car guy and the utility vehicle I use is not mine and wouldn't be available in the US (it's a 4.5m3, Peugeot I think?), but I've seen Hiluxes everywhere I went, and no matter how old they were, no matter how much miles, dent, missing pieces, they always seems to work. South America, East Africa, Australia but also over Europe, Hilux seems to be a very, very solid light truck, used as one. You should still check reviews, I'm not a car guy, but to me it's the most 'trucky' a light truck can be (unless you want a 2/3 seater).
People need to be ruled to maintain order. The alternative is chaos which leads to suffering until order is restored. The colonists ruled competently and maintained order even if your social justice reflex doesn’t feel good about it. What they left, decolonization, is a soft colonization from afar, managed by entities with no skin in it. This is why it’s disorderly and chaos reigns and suffering is a way of life for the people of those lands.

Colonization is preferable to that. However, because that’s not a palatable form of social order today the next best thing is complete abandonment and true self determination to discover where the borders are and who rules them. This will be bloody, yes, but have an outcome that leads to order if not tampered with. That’s preferable to the last 70 years.
What's wrong with manipulating public opinion? People aren't complete idiots and are still responsible for their own beliefs and how they vote. They'll only believe lies that they want to believe. The Soviet Union used to control all the media and its people famously didn't believe what it told them.