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by surfpel 3y ago
> I've seen ambulances with sirens blaring stuck in traffic Yet another reason to accelerate the transition to self driving cars. The weirdness around emergency vehicles will be transitory. Once we hit critical mass, ambulances will
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by surfpel 3y ago
That’s a narrow view of where refugees come from. Also doesn’t consider that they can become a talented rocket scientist after becoming a refugee.
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by surfpel 3y ago
> safe assumption that professional researchers thought of it too Research should be able to stand up to scrutiny. The scientific process depends on it. Given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and plethora of garbage research coming o
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by surfpel 3y ago
For me it says "There are 0 other users online. The sky has fallen 0 times." which is less believable right after I refresh the page
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by surfpel 3y ago
> This feels a bit like diet clickbait... This is fun clickbait. Straight to the point, totally random quirky trivia, and most of the page is nice pictures. Love it.
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by surfpel 3y ago
> > If a one brick thick straight wall can't stand Caveat there is quite significant. > There are many practical cases for a straight wall of bricks Indeed the vast majority of cases yes.
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by surfpel 3y ago
If a one brick thick straight wall can't stand, then you don't have a wall you have a pile of bricks. It's pointless to consider the impractical case.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Amusingly the driver also mistook it for green initially. Indeed a confusing intersection
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by surfpel 3y ago
I love solvespace. I basically only use solvespace now. It’s very lightweight and minimalistic, but it’s not the easiest to use and very bare bones. I often have to find new ways of building things to account for the lack of functions, such
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by surfpel 3y ago
Maybe we do it to babies to amplify the signals we’re giving them, since they can’t interpret most information yet. That could explain why we do it to dogs too, since we can hardly communicate with them. I’ve also noticed something similar
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by surfpel 3y ago
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by surfpel 3y ago
Thinking of something like this? https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/nature’s-antifreeze-hol...
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by surfpel 3y ago
I thought of this too but the high throughput of fluid to get fast cooling would require a pressure so high it would destroy the organ. Running micro tubes through the capillaries would require significant advances in materials science.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Maybe one could build an apparatus made of a bunch of narrow expanding tubes that pierced the organ without really damaging it then carried coolant to freeze the organ quickly. Could heat it back up quickly via frozen-in-place the tubes as
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by surfpel 3y ago
Those animations are there to help people maintain a spacial understanding of their GUI. Most people are not highly technical power users who get annoyed by the small delays, this is a bias I see a lot on HN. I do agree that their accessibi
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by surfpel 3y ago
Indeed. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
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by surfpel 3y ago
The irony of this comment is that HN is written in Lisp.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Not sure what the last paragraph is saying, but it is regrettable how consumers were led to believe that this problem would be quickly solved. In their defense, the whole AI industry was convinced of this. It’s known as the long tail. An ab
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by surfpel 3y ago
Exactly this. You can find so many videos of various self driving vehicles safely traversing the roads, highlighting the truly incredible work they’re all doing. It’s gross how many people ride the bandwagon of anti-Tesla or anti-self drivi
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by surfpel 3y ago
> It doesn't matter what advanced driving systems you compare It doesn’t matter? Sorry, but this is absurd. There are no other advanced driving systems on any production vehicles that is comparable to what Tesla is doing. This kind
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by surfpel 3y ago
You start with the easy case then gradually make the model more robust by increasing the difficulty. What you’re suggesting is akin to trying to develop a jetliner before building propeller aircraft. Too hard too soon and you don’t really k
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by surfpel 3y ago
Tesla announced a 25k car. All of the numbers so far from every company are just speculation, though. We’ll see how things actually pan out.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Indeed. Ultimately humans do it remarkably well with just vision, too, when they’re not intoxicated, distracted, or falling asleep.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Waymo is the autonomous driving division of Alphabet. Alphabet has 190k employees Tesla’s autopilot team has ~300 people. Both teams have done incredible work.
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by surfpel 3y ago
Do you have a source for these claims? > Toyota's or GM's advanced driving systems What advanced driving system? Do you mean lane assist with adaptive cruise control? That’s not even remotely comparable.
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by surfpel 3y ago
> Bay area also has historically mild climate Bay Area yes. San Francisco less so. Sure it doesn’t get snow but it is often rainy and foggy. Beyond that, the drivers are very aggressive along with pedestrians and cyclists. It is not a ve
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by surfpel 4y ago
> No, because those exceptions become the new rule I disagree that this necessarily sets the new rule. Sure, sometimes it creates new precedents, but the necessity for an exception should go on to inform new hard set rules to prevent the
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by surfpel 4y ago
> It's not good to make it up as we go during emergencies Complicated, fragile emergencies are precisely the time to consider exceptions to hard rules. After all, if all our rules were perfect, we wouldn’t have an emergency to begin
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by surfpel 4y ago
> about obesity like alcohol consumption: not "healthy", but potentially part of a sustainable approach to life I would not classify alcoholism as a sustainable approach to life. Obesity, like alcoholism, isn’t sustainable beca
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by surfpel 4y ago
I find this* graph most helpful. In one graph it displays all of Californias reservoirs with their current level, their historical average, and their level 1 year ago vs their capacity. It also shows the relative sizes to one another. The r

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