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Having all been in high school, I think we can all agree that lack of trust is warranted. Not for every kid, but for enough of them that blanket rules make sense. We also don’t allow students to use the calculator app on their phone for tests, and instead make them buy the “old school technology fallback” version.

An MP3 player seems like a good compromise, and far cheaper than the phone they’re replacing.


They are saying that was a bad strategy and not the usual one. I have no idea to what extent that’s true.

It's the same strategy they used in 2024 to a great effect: if you are against the crypto industry we will attack you. Not support the other candidate, but just attack you.

The intention is to not waste money on supporting candidates, but to attack those that challenge the crypto industry.

It's a very unique strategy in US politics that has been deployed quite successfully at varying times (Bill Clinton, uber, airbnb). Now with the elites being so brazen about their opulence they're taking it to the extreme.


For your link [1], many of those issues have been addressed with pandas 2.0 (which I believe Wes Mckinney [pandas' original author] contributed to). So it's a bit disingenuous to point to that post and say "See? Even Wes disowns it!"

That being said, if I were to start a new project requiring that kind of work today, I would probably try Polars first. Their greenfield implementation allowed them to get rid of many of the crusty edges of pandas.


Yeah I had to ask it to stop doing that as well && chaining commands that it could split. I got tired of having to manually give permissions all the time (or leaving it to churn, only to come back after a while to see it had asked for permissions very early into the task)

When you say personally responsible, do you mean legal repercussions? Because, yes, that is definitionally what the law is. Or do you mean some extra-judicial responsibility? Because GP (and this whole chain, for the most part) is only talking about law.

Why wouldn’t a strict keto diet not be a cure for those cancers?


Because the cancers cells adapt! (fast reproduction and high mutation rate of the cancerous cells make that process quicker than antibiotics resistance)


the body will actually turn protein into glucose, so the body will never be completely glucose free.

many people try it, but the results are mixed.


I assume the goal isn't to generate Korean names but to learn GPTs.


Sure, but use the tool for the job IMO. GPTs are much more complex so should demonstrate a much more complex task.


But how many of those crashes not caused by inattention could have been avoided with less idiocy and more defensive driving? I mean, yes, we can’t see as well in fog, but that’s why you should slow down


Again, I'm still not saying that humans don't make bad decisions. I'm saying that, unequivocally, they also get into accidents while paying attention and being careful, as a result of misinterpretation or failure of their senses. These accidents are also common, for example:

* someone parking carefully, misjudges depth perception, bumps an object

* person driving at night, their eyes failed to perceive a poorly lit feature of the road/markings/obstacles

* person driving and suddenly blinded by bright object (the sun, bright lights at night)

* person pulling out in traffic who misinterprets their depth perception and therefore misjudges the speed of approaching traffic

* people can only focus their eyes at one distance at a time, and it takes time to focus at a different distance. It is neither unsafe nor unexpected for humans to check their instruments while driving -- but it can take the human eye hundreds of milliseconds to focus under normal circumstances -- If you look down, focus, look back up, and focus, as quick as you can at highway speeds, you will have travelled quite a long distance.

These type of failures can happen not as a result of poor decision making, but of poor perception.


> But how many of those crashes not caused by inattention could have been avoided with less idiocy and more defensive driving?

Most of them.

We can lump together "inattention" and "idiocy" for the purposes of this conversation, because both could be massively alleviated by a good self-driving car without lidar.

If you look at the parallel comments, you'll see that the majority of accidents and fatalities indeed come from these two factors combined (two-thirds coming from distraction, speeding, and impaired driving), and that kube-system is having to resort to ridiculous fallacies to try to dispute the empirical data that is available.


I didn’t claim vision was responsible for the majority of accidents anywhere in this thread.


> I've always wondered if Tesla's issues with FSD were a sensor problem or an intelligence problem

Even if it’s an intelligence problem, it’s possible that machine intelligence will not get to the point where it can resolve anytime soon, whereas more sensors might circumvent the issue completely. It’s like with Musk’s big claim (that humans use camera only to drive); the question is not if a good enough brain will be able to drive vision-only, but if Tesla can make that brain.


It’s probably a better indicator of a good business idea than if you get slapped in the face…


A raise is random noise, not signal, based a confidence game within the VC ecosystem. LP capital call->GP gamble based on waves arms around considering VC underperforms as an asset [1] [2] class even when accounting for the grand slam returns. It's 0DTE options gambling dressed up as skill and an art. But, you know [3] [4] [5], lottery still pays out sometimes.

TLDR A raise is not robust signal in this regard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260137

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peterjameswalker_most-venture...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias


I mean, juicero got the money instead of the slaps in the face it deserved. And there's thousands of startup like that. I think VCs are terrible at picking and a dice would probably do a better job.


And yet, who would you trust more - a CEO that raised 100M on their "vision" or someone who got slapped in the face?


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