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People exercise coordination ability like this all the time.

I got stuck getting out of shoreline after a large concert with abnormal parking conditions, and when we didn't move for 30 minutes I got out of the car and directed traffic so both lots could empty equally. Took another 45 minutes for my family to catch up to me, which was good because that's when someone in a safety vest showed up and told me to stop.

> He is not wrong, but we demand superhuman performance from our machines

I have a model 3 with v3 FSD hardware. FSD is an objectively terrible driver compared to the average human.

It’s not the identical product but it’s fairly similar. Nespresso accepts their used pods back for recycling, and they are made out of metal and not just plastic, but they are owned Nestle and who knows how well they actually recycle that shit.

Only manual transmissions would really cut down on texting and driving.

If you’re going to build a powerful tool for governments don’t you want a constant reminder of how even tools for good can be corrupted by evil?

I haven’t worked there in 8+ years, but when I was there we all understood the object lesson and took it seriously.

Palantir is the Quenya word for far-seeing, it has many uses beyond the seeing stones. Moreover the seeing stones (palantiri) were tools that always told you the truth but were still able to be bent to Sauron’s will.

You may disagree with their moral calculus on Gaza and Israel, but Karp has been very clear about what he thinks about defending Israel and why. He’s not casually entering the conflict for profit.

I might agree with the decision to keep the one person alive, but right now we have limited numbers of machines and medical professionals to run them.

How many people would have to die because this one person is monopolizing the one (if any small N, even of one) ECMO machine before it’s unethical to keep them on it waiting to die of cancer?

0x1d and 0x1e in the ascii standard exist for exactly this reason and don’t need more than one byte unlike this goofy thing.

Because the sensor package isn’t good enough or else they’d be much closer to Waymo’s capabilities.

I’ve used their FSD package for 4+ years. I don’t trust them to deliver level 2 much less 4 or 5.

“All performance benefits go out the window the moment you have to do any computation in a goroutine” probably.

Go is the one language that should never have to suffer the pain of sync/async splits. Why would you want to opt into that?

I recently saw this study, but it's almost 20 years old, I don't know if there's more recent data available.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360393/

"Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial"

If you're raking your yard, a rake isn't so bad. If you're running a service, you can move much faster with a leaf blower.

If you read the article, this is discussed. It’s not a panacea but helping some people is better than shrugging and helping none.

article says 1.4$bn or 3.5%.

So SFO is recovering 3.5% of its annual budget from rideshare apps. Given the absolute massive amount of traffic flow, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. The last two times I drove into SFO the two lanes into the central parking garage were blocked by rideshare traffic. Maybe the rates should be higher.

Especially if the waiting pool is still overflowing the cellphone lot like it was a few years ago. I haven't gone back there, I time my trips to avoid it now because it was worse than pulling over onto the shoulder on 101 to wait.

(What's really a travesty is the surcharge you pay to take BART from Millbrae to SFO. It's $5.20 per person, rather than per group/vehicle).

They didn’t admit they were wrong, they said it was just the appearance of impropriety.

If you don't understand why that's bad, look up the 2009 crash of Air France 447, when a pilot made an error that should have been impossible to make with any kind of flight training and killed 228 people.

Palantir is a Quenya word meaning far-seeing. The last successful king of Numenor was Tar-Palantir for example.

The palantiri were corrupted by Sauron and limited to only show things that he wanted you to see. This was extremely well known inside Palantir and was deliberately talked about as something we should all consider the risk of.

The origin story of Palantir was the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks not being caught. The goal was to prevent the total eradication of civil liberties that would necessarily follow another successful attack of that magnitude.

Palantir’s software was rejected by organizations performing dragnet style mass data collection.

This is the most pointless hn comment I’ll ever leave, but you shouldn’t assume other people are ignorant or acting out of malice.

Also the tshirts were comfy as fuck and extremely well designed.

It’s not just Google. Netflix was kind enough to share microservices with all of us too.

At a small startup you should be able to get everyone in a room and aligned on priorities and methods. It won’t scale, but that’s ok. You have to earn the right to solve scaling problems by solving other problems first.

Uber had huge supporters in Phoenix and that didn't save them there. Cruise did the wrong thing by lying to government regulators.

> The artist formerly known as Prince

Who of course, went back to using the name Prince once his contract dispute was over, which meant he could be the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

I got used to it faster than I thought I would, just setting my phone to show me metric all the time really helps.

20C is room temp. 10C is chilly. 0C is cold, anything below -20C is dangerously cold. 30C is hot. 37C is body temp, anything above 40C is dangerous, 50C is summer in Arizona hot.

Airprint and Mopria are the same thing, IPP + discovery.

--first-parent, and both with git bisect and many other things, is your friend here.

Tolerance is not a moral position, so reasoning about it in moral terms is nonsense.

Tolerance is a social compact and it requires mutuality. "My preference is to punch you in the face, if you claim to be tolerant you must accept that" is obviously foolish, no matter how much you dress it up.

Newer versions of factorio have a per-station limit on the number of trains that can be in + routing to that particular stop. very helpful for this kind of problem.

Honestly, I pay because I'd rather Discord make a business of being paid by users than waiting to see who they end up getting paid by instead.

I'm not super familiar with Elixir, but Erlang uses both tuple error responses and panics, it's actually very similar to Go in that way. An erlang process (very similar to a goroutine) can subscribe to another process and will get a message if that process exits with a panic, and can choose what to do with that.

The standard implementation is called supervisor, which you can read more about here, the Erlang documentation is very good: https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ

I mean, to me this sounds like "some christians are coming around to the fact that cosmology is mostly correct about the shape of the universe, but they want us to say that God created the big bang since you can't explain it yet."

Which is to say, right or wrong, it's a narrative in search of confirmation more than it's an actually rational understanding of what is real.