ALT I mentioned Elon Musk in a tweet and now my notifications are being bombarded by bots tagging me in posts almost non stop. This site is absolutely infested with bots. My notifications are full of bots following and tagging me. I've had to turn off notifications and am honestly just thinking of deleting my account at this point. Is this just how the site is going to be from now on?
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![vgatherps 3 hours ago | prev | next [–]
Seems like a ploy to fire employees who don’t work over the weekend?
Otherwise it just seems tremendously idiotic.
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chitowneats 3 hours ago | parent | next [–]
No need for a ploy. Employment in the U.S. is at will, and this type of thing would not be enough to fire European workers.
Once again, HN is biting hard on Elon clickbait. Hook, line, and sinker.
Unsurprising to see this was posted by a salty ex-employee like Dan Luu.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkA57CLagAAom0H.png?name=orig)
ALT vgatherps 3 hours ago | prev | next [–] Seems like a ploy to fire employees who don’t work over the weekend? Otherwise it just seems tremendously idiotic. reply chitowneats 3 hours ago | parent | next [–] No need for a ploy. Employment in the U.S. is at will, and this type of thing would not be enough to fire European workers. Once again, HN is biting hard on Elon clickbait. Hook, line, and sinker. Unsurprising to see this was posted by a salty ex-employee like Dan Luu.
![Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports (electrek.co)
405 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 391 comments
sanedigital 4 hours ago | prev | next [–]
When our Model 3 got access to FSD, my 6 year-old desperately wanted to try it out. I figured a low-traffic Sunday morning was the perfect time to test it out, so we headed out to grab Mom a coffee downtown.
The car almost caused an accident 3 separate times.
The first, was when it almost drove into oncoming traffic at an intersection where the road curves north on both sides.
The second, was when it failed to understand a fork on the right side of the road, swerved back and forth twice, and then almost drove straight into a road sign.
The third, in downtown, was when a brick crosswalk confused it on a left turn, causing it to literally drive up onto the corner of the intersection. Thank God there weren't pedestrians there.
When we upgraded to a Y, I turned down FS...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj947KBaYAAOsjL.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports (electrek.co) 405 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 391 comments sanedigital 4 hours ago | prev | next [–] When our Model 3 got access to FSD, my 6 year-old desperately wanted to try it out. I figured a low-traffic Sunday morning was the perfect time to test it out, so we headed out to grab Mom a coffee downtown. The car almost caused an accident 3 separate times. The first, was when it almost drove into oncoming traffic at an intersection where the road curves north on both sides. The second, was when it failed to understand a fork on the right side of the road, swerved back and forth twice, and then almost drove straight into a road sign. The third, in downtown, was when a brick crosswalk confused it on a left turn, causing it to literally drive up onto the corner of the intersection. Thank God there weren't pedestrians there. When we upgraded to a Y, I turned down FS...
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![xu_ituairo 4 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]
He fumbled bad (in my opinion) in this recent Munk debate, "Be it resolved, don't trust mainstream media," against Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OgH9EfxuM
chitowneats 4 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]
Not just in your opinion. The 39% swing away from Gladwell's position, in favor of the affirmative, is the largest swing in the history of the Munk debates.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fjm3T3gaEAAotk9.png?name=orig)
ALT xu_ituairo 4 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] He fumbled bad (in my opinion) in this recent Munk debate, "Be it resolved, don't trust mainstream media," against Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OgH9EfxuM chitowneats 4 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] Not just in your opinion. The 39% swing away from Gladwell's position, in favor of the affirmative, is the largest swing in the history of the Munk debates.
ALT An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring. He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “saggital plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra). In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong. In support of creative lexicography, I plan to be on the look-out for future opportunities to refer to the Igon Value Problem. Gladwell uses "igon value" in an inessential way, to provide some local color in the chapter of What the Dog Saw called "Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster int
ALT On the other hand, part of the rhetorical arsenal of those who get hysterical about Pit Bulls is to pretend that every dog bite is a medical catastrophe. And that just isn't true. If you look, in fact, at emergency room statistics, you'll see that more people are admitted every year for non-dog bites than dog-bites—which is to say that when you see a Pit Bull, you should worry as much about being bitten by the person holding the leash than the dog on the other end. Janis Bradley's book, which i mentioned in a previous post, is awfully convincing on this point.
ALT Tyler Cowen does not have a formal rating system for how he views each episode. With that said, Tyler has an informal rating system that goes something like this: "Definitely recommended" = 5 stars "recommended" = 4 stars "interesting throughout" or some other positive endorsement = 3 stars a description of what the conversation discussed = 2 stars nothing = 1 star Often in life, people don't like to publicly share formal ratings of things. It can be seen as demeaning or rude to those who receive low scores. Using illegible rating systems like Tyler does ensures none of his guests will be offended when he gives their interview a 1 star endorsement. Even when people do provide formal ratings, it can be skewed. My favourite Goodreads book reviewer is economist Jason Furman. Jason writes intelligent and detailed book reviews about lots of books I'm interested in. Unfortunately, since Jason interacts/is friends with many of the authors of the books he is reviewi
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