skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That first part puts it really well.

I almost never know what an auto will do if I put my foot to the floor. And often just 50% it interprets as you wanting to floor it and shifts down 2 gears which is often an overreaction given the car's torque and power.

I dislike the gamble at roundabouts too. They're everywhere in the UK and they're busy - you often pull out in front of cars where there is a gap and you need to know your car will do exactly what you need it to do.

Also start-stop is trickier to control in an auto and it's linked to how hard you brake rather than the clutch pedal (it's getting harder to disable start-stop in cars these days). I never want the engine to turn off at the entry to a roundabout but if you brake too hard, it will

That said if I am regularly doing 100s of miles on motorways I absolutely love an auto
Jaywalking is any crossing in a wrong / illegal way, not about intersections specifically. Mostly it's about not using crosswalks, so I don't see how it collides with what Europe does.

In Europe you also have differences with some countries where crosswalk lights are as a mandate from God and nobody will cross even at 2am deserted road. And then you have countries where the crosswalk lights are mere decorations.
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It's even more fun driving a stick when you put the machine together yourself, and know every nut, bolt, shaft and gear.
> I think about what other people (or future versions of myself) will struggle with when interacting with the code.

This feels like the sign of a good developer!

On the other hand, sometimes you just need executable line noise that gets the job done by Thursday so you can ship it and think about refactoring later.

As far as AI code goes, more often than not, it will read as something very generic, which is not necessarily a bad thing. When opening yet another Java CRUD project, I’d be more happy to see someone copy and pasting working code from tutorials or resources online (while it still works correctly), as opposed to seeing people develop bespoke systems on top of what a framework provides for every project.
>But then you go refactor something and oops you broke it without realizing it, some boring obvious edge case, or the like

I will start to care when integration tests are failing, because that is an actual bug. Then I will fix the bug and move over.
A cool idea. But will the additional hops reduce latency or increase it?
>This is also why English-Mandarin is often poorly translated, in my opinion.

Shockingly, this is something that Yandex Translate absolutely excels at.
I have a hard time understanding what Wasmer does from their landing page. I understand it runs everything everywhere, unbound and above the cloud, but what does it do? From the name it seems like a very dev oriented product, and I can’t find a single technical word, just buzzwords
Just started reading this. Interesting to see it pop up here!
Been driving manual all my life and having now a DSG automatic.

I love it, fuel efficiency is on par with manual. There are things that I don’t like, specifically:
- Driving in traffic: If I’m inching forward, transmission suffer because it does continuously half-clutch. Much more control with a manual.
- Mountain driving: I usually set it again to manual to be able to brake with the engine when going up and meeting a curve. Interestingly, it does fine going downhill.
- tricky terrain: it changes wildly depending on the traction you are encountering, so manual mode helps keeping a constant rhythm and speed when traction is not optimal (snow, mud, etc)

I have to admit though that the automatic is way faster than me at changing gears, which helps keeping a constant acceleration and avoid head bobbing.
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A fun point in the article: Burton got into the industry via Rollercoaster Tycoon experience:

> Curiosity became an obsession in his teens, when he started to play RollerCoaster Tycoon, a computer game that allowed him to devise his own rides. [...] In the end he won the job, he said, on the strength of those speculative rollercoasters he had made in a video game.
I used cars with automatic and manual transmissions and I prefer manual. I just don't see any benefit of using automatic transmission. Manual transmission is cheaper. Manual transmission is simpler and drastically cheaper to repair. Cars with manual transmission can be towed. Automatic transmission often makes a wrong choice, so I often need to override the selection of gear. Using manual transmission is not hard or exhausting. Also automatic transmission for some reason does not want to use engine as a brake, so I need to push my brakes more often, with manual transmission I rarely have to reach brake because I can just release acceleration and it'll slow down well, I only need to brake to make a full stop.
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You means something like HEMS. A controller to connect everything in house ?
Using an auto feels like using a mobility aid. It's not fun so therefore it's something I'm forced to use. I don't transport heavy goods and I'm not disabled, why would I be using a mobility aid? Wall-E made a whole lot more sense the first time I drove an auto.

Having said that, manuals are harder and I have noticed people are less willing to give up something that took time and effort to learn, so take my thoughts with a pinch of salt.
> How some people prefer manual is probably one of the mysteries I'll take to grave with myself.

Fun facts, the new high performance Toyota GR Corolla has a new automatic gear that's proven faster than the manual version.

I really hope similar things happening for programming languages with GC since D language got a lot of flak by making GC as the default.

To rephrase your perplexity, how some people prefer manual memory management is probably one of the mysteries I'll take to grave with myself.
I learned to drive with a manual transmission so I'd feel comfortable driving any car in Europe, where manual transmissions are far more common. The transition was stressful but after a few hours it became easier and after a few days, it became second nature—just as easy as driving an automatic.

Today, my own car has a manual transmission, which I prefer for the added control. It lets me use different levels of engine braking on downhill stretches (very useful depending on where you live) and manage my speed more precisely in heavy traffic.
I have no data to back it up, but this is why a lot of people living in the Alps supposedly still drive cars with a manual gearbox, although generally sales of new, automatic cars are now ahead of manual ones, even in Germany.
I kind of thing a half hour daylight savings difference instead of an hour is a pretty low bar for the weirdest timezone. Almost any of the others are weirder: Antarctica/Troll definitely sounds weirder. The Moroccan and Gazan timezones that can't be expressed by the system as it was written because at least that means that they have some different kind of a rule, even if lunar time is well known. Same with the ones that are in Apple's naughty list because they're transitions the day before some day - again, not very weird, but at least it's weird enough to break things.

But I do agree with leap seconds: it's absolute trivia, not a useful thing for a programmer to know. Your computer smears them and you don't even know when they happened. You could completely forget them. Except that countries transitioned from ignoring leap seconds to considering them, so the switch in Australia from "GMT+x" to "UTC+x" a couple of decades ago was the transition from ignoring leap seconds to incorporating them. The fact that this is almost universally ignored is probably for the better.
>Some people write tests that are tightly coupled to their particular implementation.

That is not due to people choice but due to what actual code being tested does.

I think integration tests and end to end tests are much better.
Frankly the blocking is a radius around the start and stop points. If they are both at your doorstep, all your rides will extrapolate to points on a circle with a center very easy to determine. The feature as it is, is snake oil for someone determined enough. I started to start and stop my rides some distance out, just to add some variation.
The game designers did a truly fantasic job with botw. Think how much time is invested in creating game assets these days and often the designs merely replicate cliches which have been seen a million times. Doing some reseach and drawing inspiration from ancient cultures adds a whole new dimension to the game.
I implemented `DateTime` in Dart and Toit and wrote a blog post about the things I noticed: https://medium.com/@florian_32814/date-time-526a4f86badb

Timezones are fun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandringham_time was a crazy one
The only thing I am truly desirous of in life is that Honda E! Am so bummed they won't actually mass produce it. The next best thing would be plopping a Tesla powertrain into a Nissan Figaro. China has some adorable small EVs right now, but that Honda E is the whole package.
This is not the case anymore with modern transmission having 8 to 10 gears available. See https://www.theautopian.com/heres-exactly-when-automatic-tra...

I drive a BMW with a 8 gear automatic, it's always in the gear I want it to be, and I was a stick advocate for many years, no need for it anymore.
Note that SmartTube is compatible with the cast button on the official YouTube app. You can configure it so that when you tap the cast button on your app, you can select SmartTube. It casts with no ads and no sponsors :)

It’s in the settings of SmartTube under the name "remote control"
At least in Europe there have been cases where automatic transmission costs an extra 20% in the price of the car.

For several people this is an important decision.

So some people don't "prefer" manual. It just made sense at the time they bought the car.
And certainly it would require active cooling. TV with audible fans could be a hard sell!
ReVanced is patched up original Youtube (which has among other things the benefits of not showing ads), but the equivalent to SmartTube would be NewPipe, which is a new YouTube replacement app.
Sounds like it could be a candidate. Any system which can't be expressed in standard software is stranger than every system that can be.
Do you not have pedestrian crossings/stoplights for pedestrians in your country?
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Doesn't that mean it's just inevitable what will happen.

The question is not longer IF machines are capable, the question is WHEN. And the when is no longer decades away.
I’m convinced learning on an automatic first and moving to manual from that is the right way to learn. Clutch control and gear shifts are extra mental load for new drivers, and pretty natural for experienced drivers.

In a car I learned manual first and it was a mission, on a bike I learned automatic first and switched to manual from that, and it was much easier.
Attention heads existed before Transformers, they where used in recurrent neural networks (RNN) to improve their performance. The paper is called “Attention is all you need” because transformers keep the attention head while discarding the RNN part entirely.

Getting rid of RNN vastly improved training scalability and allowed big players to start training enormous models on even more enormous training set in ways that weren't possible with a RNN AFAIK.
Neat, I happpened to rediscover and sort my childhood lego collection two weeks ago, and had good success for the "no so common parts" with the brickowl camera search (I don't know what kind of engine is behind)
I built a rudimentary brick sorting machine with the Lego color sensor many years ago, and I've seen some awesome brick sorting machines pop up over the years [1]. I started planning a sorting machine with a larger array of buckets in CAD but never got around to building it, hopefully the intrepid Lego fans over time will keep advancing the state of the art.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkdHEX3Yk
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That's something I didn't know, but even like that, it narrows down the area.
There should be a book about Java perf / hacks derived from this challenge. I'd buy it fore sure.
> I wonder if other trains have a dedicated timezone?

They used to, railway time is how our timezone system came to be.
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How can it be cheaper than not having a transmission at all in an EV?
Umm，ｊust wondering, do you use any home assistant type systems? Or are you just relying on solar power.
Because manual transmissions are not completely unnecessary, this definition does not fit.
This is tangent, but I’m not in the US so my price perspective might be really different, but first of all that sounds really expensive.

Second of all, I can’t imagine any of my neighbours (live in countryside and have a lot of manual tools in shed) buying these things new. Far better to buy old ones for basically nothing at garage sales.

(I watch a lot of homesteading YouTube from US and am always amazed at how many power tools are purchased just for the one next job (or perhaps for the upcoming monetised video?). Power augers particularly. Far quicker and cheaper to just roll up sleeves than drive to town and back. It’s just a whole different view on consumption.)
I kind of wonder now whether that was the most broken law in history.
I moved to Europe after driving in Australia where automatic is the norm. Most people in Europe should not be driving a manual. Almost daily I'll see and hear people make basic mistakes when driving. It's baffling why they stick with manuals.
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But that difference has nothing to do with technology.

The Stasi could do the same thing from Berlin by calling their IMs in any Hintertupfingen on a squeaky old landline.
Got a pihole a few years ago, works like a charm. The only annoyance is when you actually look for produces and nearly all links in google are dead due to ads.
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It's a truly fantastic car (having only test-driven, not owned one),

but in terms of car-buyer logic the Honda e basically cost SUV-amounts of money, so why not just buy an SUV, which is a much bigger and therefore better car?
Yes, for simple boring tasks like converting a JSON to C# classes, it does wonders.

For everything clever it kind of needs baby sitting which doesn't make it faster than writing the code myself.

Even for the glorified use case of writing unit tests it sucks unless the code is very simple with few dependencies.
Look what Go needs to mimic even a fraction of .NET’s SIMD power… ;)
> It isn't not about baristas, but namely about a parallel between baristas and athletics.

And what is the paralel? That is what i was asking and that is what you are dodging to answer. Why do you feel that the management of baristas can be usefully inspired by lessons from the management of athletes?

> Save it for human interactions.

Thank you for your candor. It is good to know that you don’t characterise our conversation as a human interaction. Puts it into perspective, and explains a lot.
They aren't really available here as refurbished. I think they've sold very few, and even the M1 is pretty overpowered for most people, so there has been little replacement done I think.

Heck I still use my M1 Air for everything, it's fine.
As part of learning zig I did an implementation in zig. It got under 1 second within the contest rules on a 6 year old desktop machine. I need to write up a blog when I get the chance.
> I just don't see any benefit of using automatic transmission

Not having to deal with gear shifting is a huge benefit for me. It takes out one non-trivial element from the whole driving experience and lets me focus more on all the other things you need to do while driving. It’s also more relaxing, especially combined with adaptive cruise control. And I never worry I will mess up the when starting from a full stop and have to restart the car. Especially when starting from an uphill.

From what you described you’re the type of person that likes to have full control over the car and how it behaves, and that’s totally fine. But many of us don’t, we just care to get from point A to B with as little friction as possible. Sure, it’s more expensive to get and maintain, but that’s a price I’m fully willing to pay.
Manual transmission is harder to learn, and requires more work, but also gives the driver more control on the car. When driving an automatic car I always feel like I trade driving control in favor of convenience, and that makes me anxious whenever something happens that require driver action.
SmartTube is amazing for many, MANY reasons. The first obvious one is that it blocks ads AND embeds SponsorBlock by default. The second is that ads aside, it has a better UI and UX than the official YouTube app. One single unpaid guy does a better work than Google at making a TV app. The third is that SmartTube comes with tons of useful features:

- remote control to be able to cast on SmartTube, directly from the official YouTube app

- there’s a plugin to use a crowdsourced version of thumbnails

- you can hide Shorts

- and basically everything is configurable

Just install SmartTube, even if you’re a YouTube Premium user it’s worth it.
> I eventually have to come up with the $10

Or you never do that. When you die the cost basis is adjusted and you children don’t have to pay any taxes even if they sell.

But, yeah since it’s not actual income taxing it makes no sense. IMHO a wealth tax above a certain (high) threshold would be far more reasonable
Asking pedestrians to cross streets where cars are stopped and they are mostly protected?

How is that broken?
Have you actually looked into this at all, or are you expecting to be magically "aware" of things that are not your purview? Amazon literally has a Counterfeit Crimes Unit that exists entirely for this purpose.

Any amount of searching the web would've revealed this to you. Here is a video[1] from 6 days before you made your comment about their efforts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_7XarmoDIw
in the real world, this word is mostly used to attack others who disagree with you. "He is so stupid" can usually be interpreted as "he disagrees with me/he can't see things my way". It is true especially in politics 99% of the time. Eg, just google how many times Elon musk is called stupid by people who disagree with him. Trust me, Elon is not stupid.
I assume just not using Ruby would have given the project a few more years of scalability hassle-free runway.
Is there a Game mode? That would turn off almost everything.
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>"better stackoverflow"

I had asked hard questions on SO that only a human with experience can answer. And I found answers on SO that only a human with experience can answer.
That literally has no bearing on the issue.
Surprisingly the word jaywalking comes from jay-driving which was coined to describe drivers driving on the wrong side of the road. Initially the term jaywalking really only applied to poor etiquette when walking on the sidewalk.
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Sounds like something between "Fake controls for car heads" and something to match expectations from some people?

The purely electronic way of having gears is to have a controllable configuration of poles on the engine, for lower gears you have less poles, for more gears you have more poles. But I think you could do something like 2 or 3 gears tops using this
Isn't it an actually American thing to "feel closer to the machine"?
I’m guessing they meant most frequently broken.

But as someone who lives in a country that has never had that law, I’m pretty sure it’s unnecessary.
Yeah I feel you on that. I wonder if this can deal with those difficult cases? This would be killer if so
What I like about the tz database is that's it's technically a diff of a diff. It stores the difference across history, of the difference of each timezone with UTC. Right? So it's a diff^2. But! The tz database gets updates! So those commits are diffs of diffs of diffs, or diff^3.

Can we go further? You bet! It has a changelog, and that changelog is stored in git, so commits to the tz changelog are diff^4: they are changes to the list of changes to the list of changes to the list of changes to UTC.
Broken as in people not respecting it I assume.
Honestly it's still my favourite this day, if you can memorize the mazes and some of the puzzles and you get a good run with the RNG, its still fun from time to time to see how few moves you can complete it in.
32" being (IMHO) too small and 43" too large, I have invested in a rare (and relatively expensive) 38" 4K monitor (Asus/ROG Swift PG38UQ, ~1000€ when I bought it, hasn't gone down much since), and until now I can only say good things about it. It's big enough to use without scaling (except for a few websites with tiny font size), but small enough so you can have a reasonable distance between the bottom and the desk and still see all four corners without craning your head around too much. It has a fixed foot (only the vertical angle is adjustable), and I originally thought I would have to buy an extra fully adjustable monitor stand, but so far I'm happy with the "default" settings. I'm not getting another one because of space limitations (and spouse tolerance issues), but compared to the two WUXGA monitors I had before, it's already almost four times as much screen space, so that should be enough for the foreseeable future.
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I had to replace a handful of clutches, but never had any maintenance done on automatic transmissions (having owned 10+ manual, and 5+ automatic). For just the money I would opt for automatic, let alone the performance that is much better than with manual gear nowadays.
They're more fun. You're actively operating the machinery instead of it operating itself. That probably doesn't sound fun to you, but it is to me, and I'm not alone.

Until recently, manuals were also more efficient than automatics and had more gears. That was a big factor for performance cars and places with high fuel prices, but is no longer true. Now, automatics are more efficient and usually have more gears, so people who want manuals on new cars just want the additional control or engagement.