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by dredmorbius | 2025-11-14 03:54:52+00:00
The automobile's net effect on behaviours has (as others have noted) evolved over that period, as has its net effect on transportation and urbanisation patterns.

Up until the end of WWII, automobile ownership was relatively limited. It was just beginning to accelerate at the beginning of the war (in the US), but rationing and war-time defence manufacturing curbed that trend, and sustained rates of alternative transport, particularly rail.

Post-war, there was a mass-consumer blitz, much of it revolving around automobiles, and changes such as commuter suburbs (based around automobiles), superhighways, self-service grocery stores, shopping malls, and strip-mall based retail development began, all trends which evolved over the next 50+ years.

In the 1970s and 1980s, it was quite common for children to walk or ride bikes to school, or take a school bus (which involved walking several blocks to a nearby stop). Since the late 1990s, far more seem to be ferried in private cars, usually by parents, who spend a half-hour or more in pick-up lines. It's not uncommon for children walking along neighbourhood streets to be reported (and collected) by authorities by concern for their safety, and their parents subject to investigation or worse. Suburban, and even urban development patterns have been to ever-lower-density and far more bike- and pedstrian-unfriendly modes.

Recreational, occupational, educational, and other transport and activity patterns are largely away from self-powered movement (walking, cycling, etc.) and toward motorised options (sometimes including e-bikes, electric scooters, or equivalents, though most often automobiles).

Societal change and consequent impacts take time and have long lags.
by peacebeard | 2025-11-14 03:55:01+00:00
To answer your question honestly, the reason is because "healthy" isn't a binary. There certainly are dogs that are so unhealthy they should not be bred. But on the other hand, there is no world in which all dogs are 100% healthy: if your goal is to say animals should not be bred unless they are 100% healthy, they'll go extinct! Making progress reduces suffering.

Efforts to breed healthier dogs should not be mutually exclusive with efforts to empty shelters. I envision a world where the shelters are empty too: I don't believe it's necessary to stop the efforts to have healthier dogs until after the shelters are empty. You can make progress on two fronts at once!

When you say dogs are beings, not toys or decorations, you run the risk of sounding accusatory. I believe we have goals in common and could learn from each other without resorting to villainizing.
by waltbosz | 2025-11-14 03:55:07+00:00
Your comment makes me wonder how well SIMA 2 could do at playing Minecraft and discovering how create things like iron farms and villager trading halls.

Think of all the steps required for it to learn iron farms. First it would need to observe that iron golems drop iron when killed. Then it would need to learn about water physics. Then spawning rules for iron golems. Then how hoppers and chests work. Etc etc.

But would it even bother to learn it in the first place? To be motivated to build one it would need to first learn that iron is valuable. And if its goal is to simply win the game, it would probably skip right to fighting the ender dragon as soon as possible.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-11-14 03:56:04+00:00
I have noticed author uses values 0-255 for shades of grey. When 0-255 range is used, this is usually nonlinear scale with average gamma 2.2. And de facto there is a standard function that maps 0-31 to linear function and the rest to power 2.4. Average power 2.2. Checkmate black 0 and white 255 is equavalent to uniform grey shade 185 or 186 as opposed to 127 or 128. Proper calculations should be done in linear space, and 16 bits per channel is desired at least.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-14 03:57:09+00:00
You said:

> The state has no law about me connecting to the electric grid without any building plans, drawings, or inspection. In fact I did so. That's more connected to others than solar panels are.

But since your house is (presumably) not a generator, no, that's still less connected to others than even a single solar panel would be.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-11-14 03:57:40+00:00
The Sims was a great idea in a sandbox. I honestly hoped it would lead to other games having more intelligent/immersive NPCs.

I want my silver-spooned Sir Charles to cry at the sight of blood and be beheaded by Gazza, the self made, born-of-the-streets gang boss who has an arrangement with Prince Harry, the younger brother.

I then want to be able to challenge Gazza, take his criminal gang and rule the underworld of "Fantasy Kingdom XYZ". Perhaps "come to an understanding" with King Harry, maybe work my way up to spymaster and orchestrate neighbouring kingdoms to go to war with each other via a series of covert operations leaving selective evidence - say like the Princess Bride story but the bad guys(me!) win. Or maybe I don't win because I create a nemesis or fail to keep King Harry in check, get my gang wiped out, and have to seek a new way to the top.

I don't want the Sims obviously. But I want something... more than what we have now. Like the Sims mixed with Dwarf fortress but I get to be part of the story and influence it in outsized ways.

Edit: snipped to keep to a point, I did mention that most every game quest is based on violence.
by stephen_g | 2025-11-14 03:57:50+00:00
> It’s just outright grift and corruption.

I'm outside the US political sphere so might have a different perspective looking in from abroad, but how could anybody possibly have expected anything but just grift and corruption from a second Trump term? There was the whole first term to see that he said one thing and then would act only what ever way benefited his, his family's, and his associates' interests...
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by consumer451 | 2025-11-14 03:58:36+00:00
I am sorry to quote myself from another comment, however this is partially the same response:

> This is a lovely idea, it truly is. However, if you don't somehow bootstrap AGI, won't "the money" just use (hijack) it to make more money, in the normal dark ways?

> I always figured that we will begin to see signs of AGI when a quant firm starts making really outsized returns.

> "Hey AGI, how do we avoid being exposed as having implemented AGI?" - Now there is the next trillion dollar and very boring question.

In this seemingly undeniable environment, what will be the timescale for our civilization to recover with the media and inference owners having full control of "AGI" - until the benefits finally trickle down to general humanity? 1 year, 10 years, 5 generations, possibly never? Assuming you accept my priors, what is that timescale in your view?
by jrm4 | 2025-11-14 03:59:14+00:00
For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like, specifically one that was kind of complicated to write once, but afterwards operates in a way such that I don't have to think at all.

I've been using this for years, so perhaps today there may be some voice or AI driven way to do this but -- first I add weekly events. And for one off events, I have a bash script that's like "whats the event?" then "what's the date/time" using standard linux date formatting, and returns an error and loops if wrong. (So e.g. "tomorrow" works, or "monday 4pm"

Then for retrieval, I can have it do notify prompts, and/or be a part of my bash prompt, and also throw up a nice HTML calendar.
by apparent | 2025-11-14 04:00:20+00:00
If you look at the report, it shows the facts support this claim. UCSD has gone all-in on LCFF+ schools (low income, ELL, foster youth) and the explosion in math and literacy remediation is driven by these admits.

One in three LCFF+ admits end up in remedial math, and the total remedial math population is more than 50% LCFF+ admits.

What was the motivator for this post-2020 change? Equity, or the idea that outcomes for all groups should be equal (regardless of time/energy expended, of course).
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-14 04:00:28+00:00
I haven't argued for the federal level to override local variations, in fact I specifically said that it's an important problem to figure out how to avoid this.

The first problem is that city/county/state governments in general have completely inadequate power to confront national or trans-national corporations. The second problem is that some things (e.g. health insurance) really do work better when handled at the largest possible scale.

There are clearly things, like running the municipal rec center, where local government is better positioned than any federal government agency probably ever could be (though I stress "probably"). But there are lots of things where the opposite is true.
by okayjustonemore | 2025-11-14 04:01:23+00:00
The thing is, studios might “offer” it, but designers aren’t likely to go for the new kid on the block with Affinity’s option when Photoshop is sitting right there; and Canva doesn’t play any part in this little software war, really. Canva is not aimed at pro work, professionals do use it if needed but it is not a tool of choice for any serious design work, it’s really just a stop-gap tool to enable non-designers to do some decent design work, but nothing more than that.

The truth is Adobe has a massive upper hand here in both market share and public perception. Affinity’s offerings might be 100x better, but they will never be “THE Photoshop”—that’s how deep Adobe’s claws are buried within this industry.
by shunia_huang | 2025-11-14 04:02:07+00:00
Really user here: Switched from vscode to zed for ~2 weeks entirely in a windows PC, getting back to vscode today, just not feeling good enough: 1. zed updates frequently, but I'm not feeling any update at all. I mean, no new features, not fixing stuff that I'm experiencing that's not good enough; 2. while it put heavy in AI stuff, the ACP thing and the integration of codex and claude code just not working as expected as is. Especially I'm getting really poor outcomes from the same tool in zed compared to the cli itself, which is really frustrating; 3. the terminal in windows zed is barely usable, it's slow and slugish, sometimes the texts or some symbols are not rendering properly, it's just not stable at all. I really like to use the terminal inside the ide especially when I need to start up dev server, but with zed I'm used to open an extra terminal app when I need to start up dev server; 4. I'm a frontend dev, which means the tech stack should have great support in morden editors, but the case is not quite right in zed. I got jetbrain style inline type hints for typescript files with deferred types, but it is so annoying cause it makes a line too long I may even need to scroll horizontaolly more than may screen width to see the content at the end of the line, but the line has only 40 chars. At the same time, I'm not sure how to shutdown this feature after openning the settings. And when I want to set wrap width to 80 chars, I don't know how to do this either. The settings maybe there and are easy to tweak but it is not doing great to make the user understand it and use it; 5. it constantly showing some language servers are down and I don't know why, I do not like to tweak with settings so it could not be my bad, I don't event know how to touch the language servers;

I have more to input here but I forgot some of them, overall, I just want to get back to vscode which is much easier and battle tested. I think zed have a totally different perspectives on feature sets and stuff, that's good, so people could have another choice. Hope zed could do great and I will definitely come back one day.

PS: I don't think collab worth too much effort in an IDE, you have much better tooling out there and have better intergrations.
by noduerme | 2025-11-14 04:03:47+00:00
>> Every year, I ask students in my copyright class why the children’s versions of classic novels in Colting were found to be infringing but a Wikipedia summary of the plots of those same books probably wouldn’t be.

Not a lawyer, but the answer seems to obviously be that one is a commercial reproduction and the other is not. Seems like it would be a tougher questiom if the synopsis was in a set of Encyclopedia Britannica or something.

AI is clearly reproducing work for commercial purposes... ie reselling it in a new format. LLMs are compression engines. If I compress a movie into another format and sell DVDs of it, that's a pretty obvious violation of copyright law. If I publish every 24th frame of a movie in an illustrated book, that's a clear violation, even if I blur things or change the color scheme.

If I describe to someone, for free, what happened in a movie, I don't see how that's a violation. The premise here seems wrong.

Something else: Even a single condensation sold for profit only creates one new copyright itself. LLMs wash the material so that they can generate endless new copyrighted material that's derivative of the original. Doesn't that obliterate the idea of any copyright at all?
by v3ss0n | 2025-11-14 04:04:40+00:00
Zed sounds desperate, nobody in the world would use Zed as office. Zed is a niche. Nobody wants it's multiplayer features since coding id usually asynchronous until crunch happens and nobody wants crunch All the time. All office have their own communication tools , you can't expect all developers just to use zed l, it is missing features and the whole ecosystem which would take one more decade and non development people won't even touch it. Then the office cannot happen inside Zed for the rest of the world, except Zed team.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 04:06:22+00:00
I'm confused. There's an entire paragraph in the article where the author compares the two summaries and finds that they differ only in their structuring. I can't find any part of the article saying that the LLM summary was written "in the style of George R.R. Martin", as far as I understand both summaries are conceptually very similar. That's the main problem. If the scope of substantial similarity to a novel is pushed down from hundreds of pages of writing to a summary that's a couple paragraphs long, then all these summaries are in potential danger. To my knowledge there's no criteria that lets you only find LLM summaries infringing without leaving an opening for the lawyers to expand the reach to target all summaries of copyrighted content.
by bitwize | 2025-11-14 04:06:40+00:00
Dogs have orbital muscles above their eyes that wolves lack. The sole purpose of these muscles is to enable the dog to emote better... to humans. Dogs also cooperate with and interpret physical cues from humans the way wolves might with their packmates only. This also means that dogs can interpret uniquely human physical cues, such as pointing with a finger, which wolves cannot.

The natural social life of the dog is the human world. Humans and dogs co-evolved to live and work together. No other species enjoys this kind of symbiosis with us to this level; the horse probably comes the closest.
by o11c | 2025-11-14 04:06:45+00:00
Another fundamental difference: OpenAI explicitly markets their tool as a replacement for the copyrighted material it was trained on. This is most explicit for image generation, but applies to text as well.

As a reminder, the 4 factors of "fair use" in the United States:

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

2. the nature of the copyrighted work;

3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
by mzaccari | 2025-11-14 04:07:13+00:00
^ I second Envoy Gateway! It has support for HTTPRoute like all the others, but also TCPRoute, UDPRoute, TLSRoute, GRPCRoute backed by Envoy and they have worked great for me on EKS clusters I manage for work. The migration from Ingress API to Gateway API hasn’t been bad, as you can have both running side-by-side (just not using the same LB) and the EnvoyPatchPolicy has been great for making advanced changes for things not covered by the manifests
by chii | 2025-11-14 04:07:27+00:00
> But the ruling is correct. You can't have it both ways, if you invite competition you're not allowed to be anti-competitive

That's just stupid, because being anti-competitive is an emergent outcome, rather than anything specific.

Apple is definitely anti-competitive, but they exploited such a ruling so that they can skirt it. Owning a platform that no other entrants are allowed is anti-competitive - whether you're small or large. It's only when you're large that you should become a target to purge via anti-competitive laws. This allows small players to grow, but always face the threat of purging - this makes them wary of trying to take advantage too much, which results in better consumer outcomes.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-14 04:07:37+00:00
Where I live, it's common for them to not answer when you call 911.

They were out trying to steal my neighbor's car, and my girlfriend called 911, and no one would answer.

She went and banged on the neighbor's door and told them someone was trying to steal their car, she walked right past the car thieves to do this, which was more than I would do, because I was scared of getting shot.

The car thieves noticed and moved down the block to steal someone else's car. My girlfriend stayed on the line, but yeah, 911 never answered.

You live somewhere where the ambulance is too slow when you call 911, be grateful. Here, they just don't answer. You deal with whatever it is personally.

911 never answered. They were busy with something else I guess.

For the woke/progressives among you, I agree, this was not as bad as the crime wave of the late 1980's and early 1990's. I was there for that crime wave. It was fucking epic. This was not as bad as that, so we're all good.

This is fine.
by cameldrv | 2025-11-14 04:07:44+00:00
They’re sort of separate. In a sense you could say that the ChatGPT model is a lossily compressed version of its training corpus. We acknowledge that a jpeg of a copyrighted image is a violation. If the model can recite Harry Potter word for word, even imperfectly, this is evidence that the model itself is an encoding of the book (among other things).

You hear people saying that a trained model can’t be a violation because humans can recite poetry, etc, but a transformer model is not human, and very philosophically and economically importantly, human brains can’t be copied and scaled.
by apparent | 2025-11-14 04:08:04+00:00
Yes, and 1/3 of students admitted from LCFF+ schools (low-income, ELL, foster) are in remedial math. These students make up the majority of remedial math students.

Pretty unbelievable, considering how hard it is to get into UCSD if you're not from an LCFF+ school. It's basically a huge thumb on the scale, from an admissions perspective.
by reactordev | 2025-11-14 04:08:21+00:00
I once forced my D&D group to solve all encounters without violence. Something about blood temple needing sacrifice to reawaken scared them into performing prestidigitations for 12 hours.

I’m with you. The vast majority of the spend on games is in the art and marketing and pennies spent on the story, arcs, quests, and it almost never coincides with the gameplay.

Take The Witcher 3. Dialog heavy, good story, but surely there are other witchers across the lands. Do you have to save everyone, all the time?

The MMO quests are the fucking worst. “Oh noes, boars in the woods” (1,000 boars are spawned just 100vft away) - Quest: Kill 10 boars. Reality: 240 noobs killing boars like it’s the boarpocolypse.
by duskwuff | 2025-11-14 04:08:35+00:00
Good guess, but no. The most salient difference in that case is that an abridged children's version of a novel acts as a direct market substitute for the original, whereas a plot summary does not. (A secondary reason is that an abridged edition is likely to represent a much larger portion of the original work than would appear in a summary.)

For further reading, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
by tom_ | 2025-11-14 04:08:57+00:00
It might be. I can't speak for anybody else, but it's probably the term I'd use myself if I was trying to explain it, even if it's perhaps not exactly the perfect one. The pixel edges just end up not hard enough, and the pixel corners just end up not sharp enough, and my eyes don't seem to like it. Whatever they're looking for when they're looking at text, pixelly text and printed text seem to supply it, and anti-aliased text doesn't.

(Though there must be some cutoff point past which the pixel size becomes irrelevant. I certainly don't mind reading stuff on the iPad.)
by shushpanchik | 2025-11-14 04:10:50+00:00
That's not nearly true, at least for Melbourne as a metro area. I never heard of weeks waiting for GP appointment, and I never waited for more that 2-3 days for GP both in east and west suburbs. Usually you have at least 3-5 GP medical centres in 5 km radius, and in half of them appointments are avaliable same day or next day. That's the case now, and was the case 5 and 10 years ago, with only obvious exception during COVID. 6+ years wait could occur, but it would be ~1% of elective surgeries. Basically, elective surgeries are covered by private healthcare, that's the unofficial limitation of Medicare. I got an elective surgery twice, wait was 4-6 months. Just to stress, that's an elective surgery fo non-life threating condition that just affect your quality of life, so it's reasonable to expect people paying up private insurance/hospitals for getting this done quickly.

Emergency 12+ hours wait is not an ordinary situation - could be when there is a combination of very busy night (like Friday during long holidays) and lowest triage category. Every time I attended emergency I was almost immediately triaged and when things were serious, was admitted in minutes. When it was just a cut with bleeding stopped, I was advised after triage that I can wait for 4+ hours or just come back in the morning. All my friends had the similar experience with Melbourne's public hospital ERs.

2% medicare levy is cheap compared to taxes in other countries with free healthcare.

I'm actually very surprised that someone has such negative impression about Melbourne's medical system. There was a short period several years ago, related to COVID, when ambos ramping time could be hours, but that's not not typical for Melbourne, and was resolved pretty quickly.
by mothballed | 2025-11-14 04:11:22+00:00
What on earth do roof and [structural] building plans have to do with eletrical connectivity to the grid? You're losing the plot and trying to lead us down another sideshow, that is the things i called out as the specific things city dwellers forgot I dont have that they require for the solar permit. 'Society' already decided i don't need those for literally anything else residential but solar.

The most likely explanation is they simply forgot rural folks often don't have roof plans, and should have written an exception in such case that the solar permit could be issued without them.