skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His point is that our highly dispersed environment is largely of our own making. Particularly low density suburbs, where you have to drive to get milk and eggs, you have to drive to go to school, you have to drive to work. Literally nowhere to walk - if you're relatively wealthy, you might have a neighborhood pool and tennis courts.

There's no good reason these suburbs can't be more walkable, it's mostly adding sidewalks that link to other places. And possibly smaller schools (and the 4000+ pupil high schools we get are a whole different problem).
Outside of the obvious privacy and security concerns. Wouldn't the cost of tracking this heavily eat into the revenues from taxation? I can't see the government pulling this kind of operation without it costing a lot of money.

So the question is - is the difference between what the new net benefits be greater than the current system. And then you need to add both the political anger from security + privacy into the equation.
Even if taxation is the current sole honest intent of those proposing this (which I doubt), the reality is that any kind of data collection that can be abused will be abused. We've seen this worldwide, in pretty much every country. Don't give them an inch on this because of the dystopian hellhole it will continue to enable.
I don't mind getting a "good morning" message. Why does that bother people?
> While Rogan’s views on vaccination are regrettable and profoundly unhelpful to America’s attempts to battle the pandemic, his podcast is also a near-perfect simulacrum of the books burned by the firemen in Fahrenheit 451.

Writing about dystopian societies, I find it pert how gingerly the author tiptoes around the Joe Rogan's podcast topic. He makes his point well, yet makes sure he sprinkles in the required disclaimers lest he gets attacked, demonstrating exactly what he is writing about.
> It’s the opposite of the situation in the US

It varies by city/state, as some other comments noted. In any case, in a few smaller towns I've been to in the UK, there are numerous crossings that seem incredibly unsafe to me from both a US and western European perspective. In much of the latter regions, marked crossings that aren't full-on zebra crossings with pedestrian-priority are incredibly rare, while these crossings (in which pedestrians yield to vehicles in a marked path) seem the norm here. With neither a pedestrian signal nor a priority marking, I find them rather alarming and pointlessly confusing given that vehicles sometimes have a signal for these same intersection, leaving pedestrians to just... guess?

I've slowly grown accustomed to accepting the priority of vehicles over pedestrians here compared to in the US and continental European cities I lived in, but London seemed far more pedestrian-friendly and there are certainly US cities that are even worse than the above.
And when it's possible to track what they think, they won't be allowed to think.
Did Huxley or Bradbury write essays about contemporary politics? Orwell wrote some fascinating ones that I think are more worth reading than 1984, and cover much of the same ground. In particular I'd recommend the essays "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" and "You and the Atom Bomb".
It's not quite the opposite of the US. AFAIK in most states there are laws saying drivers must take all reasonable measures (or some such wording) to preserve pedestrian safety. For example, in my own state there are actually two such laws, plus a third specifically requiring drivers to yield in parking lots and driveways. So it's not the same as giving pedestrians general right of way, but it's not quite "take your chances" either. There are situations in which both a driver and a pedestrian could theoretically be cited, though I doubt that ever happens.

BTW I'm not saying whether those laws are right or wrong either way. Just clarifying what the status quo actually is.
Ironically, the idea that books lead to social disharmony by perpetuating unequal "bourgeois privilege" was taken quite literally by some in China, and it became the basic tenet behind their 'Great Cultural Revolution'. As is well known, the same mindset was taken to outright murderous and even genocidal extremes in Khmer Rouge Cambodia. But it's far from dead even today, as many people even in the U.S. like to conflate education, book learning and bourgeois values more generally with a supposedly pervasive "Whiteness" or even "White supremacy", thereby implying a sort of privilege that can only be described as so extreme as to constitute ipso facto violent, racist oppression. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
If they implemented it using only external tracking like cameras or actual people then I could be ok with it, but hell no trackers (or mandatory software) that I have no control of in MY car.
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I'm not sure the preceding comment was actually rusophobic. To me it seems you're mostly in agreement in that this content needs to be hosted somewhere safe from the US. It's just that you are proud - because it's hosted in your country - and the previous person is annoyed, because it cannot be hosted in theirs.
Others are downvoting you, but this is a perspective I appreciate as it is something I have been thinking about. Although I don't think selling out to MS is a large concern for me at the current time. I do think in the future it is important to become more independent and versatile.
Totally anecdotal, but I have noticed a huge uptick of drivers running red lights and stop signs in my area in NY. I have been wondering the reason.
Torrent links are a viral vector and I'd expect them to be censored for the same reason the "hot pics" site would be censored... Potential compromise of user machines.

I'd be interested in what anarchist propaganda has been censored. Anecdotally, I see a ton of it on FB (a side-effect of being friends with anarchists), but I wouldn't be surprised if some things get dropped.

I've gotten smacked for sharing nudity (including, hilariously, reshares of my own Facebook posts from the past) and after January 6th, the service got very skittish about talk of violence and government (for I think obvious reasons... One of the few things that could end the party for Zuckerberg would be landing in prison for the very ambiguous charge "aiding sedition"). I have no doubt they engage in politically-related censorship... But we have no evidence that's what happened here, because (like any large public-facing messaging service that doesn't have a "user beware" attitude) they have those systems anyway for dealing with scammers and trolls.
I like Old Spice. I actually go out of my way to import it. Am I a shill by virtue of my preferences?
> Worth baring in mind we in the UK have one of the most extensive ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera networks in the world.

Second only to China actually. That goes for cameras in general.

What a worthy adversary for #1.

Not to mention the enormous abuses with ANPR. It seems like it's mostly used to harass political dissidents. Tommy Robinson was routinely stopped and questioned by police.

Sure, nobody in their right mind likes Tommy Robinson, but targetted harassment by the police definitely isn't okay either.
2. More people walking who rarely walked before.

The point being, when possible, you should walk facing into traffic. I see people, often enough, walking in the road with traffic. Experienced walkers tend to know this.
re flat earth, not as harmless I'd say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrAdayUh6-4
I agree. It has been a while since I read the article through, but as far as I can recall, no-one is arguing against Bach's genius.
I agree. It is an excellent article. Text systems are weird.

There's an entire book about strings, in Swift: https://flight.school/books/strings/
I don't understand any of this. Why would it subtract from your culture if you were to hire someone who is remote?

How would that impact you? It is difficult for you to work with them?
You're renting it for a few minutes at a time while not caring what it is other than "at least a generic sort of car" or whether it's the same one each time? Sure.

You're renting it long term? That's like leasing a very specific car, so no not really.
Their tactic is worse than being compelled by the government. If you want the money you worked hard for you better sign, it's more akin to blackmail than anything else.
In theory, you're supposed to use crosswalks where they exist and obey Walk/Don't Walk signs. In practice, people adhere to this most places about as frequently as never exceeding the speed limit by even a little bit in a car. I think I've maybe heard on one person in my life getting a ticket for jaywalking. (On the West Coast I think which at least historically paid more attention to this sort of thing than in the East.)

Can't imagine getting a ticket for jaywalking in New York although the city has cracked down on cyclists running lights from time to time.
I would consider someone a moron if they cited something tried in the 70s and provided no contemplation for why circumstances may have changed over the past 50 years. That is just not a real answer. It might be correct, but that is absolutely unacceptable team behavior.

I'd also be pretty pissed if someone tried to dump book references on me if it's their job to be the expert on that subject. My gut reaction to that sentiment is that this person is going to refuse to actually discuss content.

This hypothetical dinobaby is immediately one of my least favorite people.
Not all the generated is with the sophisticated software. And they leave some trail of their source in their exif information. And images generated with popular software can be identified too.

I think that is the starting point.
It's difficult to read sentiment and know whether you're being sarcastic or not so please take no offense from my tone, but this is the complete opposite of "beautiful" - it is the first steps in turning humans into units of production with every action being optimized for you and leaving little to no individual freedom.

It's communism 2.0 except the government doesn't only dictate production quotas but also "life quotas." It's an absolute nightmare and seeing what a spectacular failure communism 1.0 was, everyone should be more than freaking out about this.
Exactly this.

Product/market fit has more to do with functionality and the minimum quality design aesthetic required by the customer.

In our case, we disrupted a rather boring, traditional field. Our UI/UX was never great neither did we hire “frontend” people until post-acquisition but performance and data security were huge to our clients thus testing.
I'm not sure what the artists want Spotify to do here.

Per the article, Spotify sends 2/3 of revenue to whoever has the rights. If an artist sold their rights and/or has a shitty contract with the label, what can Spotify do here?
Yeah, cute to spin it this way but it's more like the military kills a terrorist and also a large number of civilians surrounding that terrorist and then half of the media play apologetics for an operation that essentially caused the deaths of innocent people - with terrorist deaths as a rounding error.

The last problem the American people have is that they're too anti-war. It's literally the opposite.
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I think that - in theory - each case is unique and was individually tested at a trial where the evidence was weighed and judgement delivered. For each case lawyers need to prepare a case for appeal. Then the prosecution [1] has an opportunity to assess the case and to decide whether to contest it. If they don't contest the case then the subsequent court hearing (once it happens) should be quick.

The set of people convicted for stealing from the Post Office could include someone who was caught red-handed with an open till, wearing a stripey shirt and a Zorro mask and carrying a large sack with SWAG written on it in bold letters. Obviously this hypothetical thief shouldn't be acquitted with all the innocent people.

IANAL

Since 2010 there have been large cuts to the police, the courts, the pay of barristers and to legal aid [2]. The result is a massive backlog in cases and covid came on top of that. So it currently takes years to get anything done in the British legal system. There is a lot more broken that just this particular piece of software.

[1] I don't know if the response to these appeals is the duty of the Crown Prosecution Service or the Post Office. The costs will ultimately be borne by the public purse in either case, the PO is financially obliterated by it's liabilities.

[2] The system for paying the legal costs of individuals in court in the UK. Very little of it is left now.

Edit: I don't think anyone is still prison for these convictions. Most sentences were for less than three years and the whole process has been dragging on for a long time.
Man, I hope I never get on that guy's list...
The disadvantage of taxing based on fuel is that it mostly benefits newer cars, generally owned by the richer groups in society. People barely able to afford a car are hit by a pollution tax they can hardly work around, because it's either "pay the fuel tax" or "get another job", and despite the so-called labour shortage, that's not as easy as it seems if you're not educated.

In terms of taxing pollution the Dutch system is actually quite reasonable, because there's barely any green energy being produced in the country compared to the old fossil fuel plants. All that "green" electricity is just a piece of paper that says the joules come from some hydro plant in Norway, but they don't actually come from a green source, of course. If you can charge your car by solar panels, you'll be much better off.

Taxing by distance actually taxes road use rather than fuel exhaustion, which is a much better way to tax for road maintenance in my opinion. The heavy electric cars do a much bigger number on the roads than grandma's city car from twenty years ago.

In an optimal system, both taxes would be combined and balanced. However, the government has shown that it will abuse any data it collects for other purposes, and balancing things isn't one of the government's strong suits either. It's sad, really.
This is not true. The whole discourse around critical theory started in academia, not exactly a bastion of anti-intellectual sentiment.
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This company has the image of helping lift people out of poverty - I think they are doing good work. The article shows though that if nothing else there is a danger of trying to go with a "we're different and better" corporate image because the truth is often murkier
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I thought this quote summed it up nicely:

> Bradbury was right that people would choose self-censorship, led into ignorance by technological innovations that make open discourse and thought unpalatable. Were it a government that imposed such a rule, there would be an uproar, at least in Western societies. But gently coaxed by algorithms, people have voluntarily gravitated towards simple, comfortable ideas and begun to reject complexity, nuance, and the possibility that contrary opinions are not necessarily immoral or even incorrect.

Pretty much captures what I see on just about everywhere that isn't HN. You can't have a sensible discussion on FB anymore, for instance, the place is made just for shouting.
There are many people who argue that even having a discussion about side-loading apps is dangerous.

If you let some authority tell everyone what’s dangerous to talk about you give them absolute power. That’s far more dangerous than people taking some well understood medicine when they might not need it.
> Through this approach we were able to test and analyse the affect of the language and location used to access TikTok, follow- and like feature, as well as how the recommended content changes as a user watches certain posts longer than others. Our results revealed that all tested factors have an effect on the way TikTok’s RS recommends content to its users. We have also shown that the follow-feature influences the recommendation algorithm the strongest, followed by the video view rate and like feature; besides, we found that the location is a stronger influential factor than the language that is used to access TikTok. Of course, this analysis is not exhaustive and includes only the most explicit factors, while the algorithm without a doubt can be influenced by many other aspects such as, for instance, users’ commenting or sharing actions

Subjectively that follows my experience on TikTok: everything you do feeds back into the recommendation algorithm, including how long you watch a video; but the explicit signals (like and follow) have enough weight to make it feel like you have control over where the current takes you.

I assume being able to get at the very least an implicit like/dislike signal out of every view is key to TikTok's Exploration/Exploitation tradeoff, which is what makes the platform feel much less stale than e.g. YouTube (which seems to only recommend things it's very sure about).
Yes, you're right, I was not precise. That's what they used to say about themselves:

“The Vanguard Group is truly a mutual mutual fund company. It is owned jointly by the funds it oversees and thus indirectly by the shareholders in those funds. Most other mutual funds are operated by management companies that may be owned by one person, by a private group of individuals, or by public investors. ... The management fees charged by these companies include a profit component over and above the companies’ cost of providing services. By contrast, Vanguard provides services to its member funds on an at-cost basis, with no profit component, which helps to keep the funds’ expenses low.”
That's why I'm a big advocate for infrastructure changes. The expected behaviour should be the most comfortable one.

Raised crossings[1] or deliberate narrowing [2] forces people to pay attention and slow down.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raised_Crossing_In_P...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5376862,-0.1105682,3a,75y,19...
“Jaywalking” is rarely enforced in most places, even if it is a law at all, so yes you can probably cross anywhere you want. That doesn’t mean traffic will yield for you when waiting to cross, which is what we’re discussing here. Definitely look both ways before crossing in the US; drivers don’t expect pedestrians to randomly appear in the middle of the street.
To give just a few examples of the legal side of this: Here in NY, killing someone with a vehicle is a misdemeanor (unless you're drunk/high). People avoid this charge by claiming a medical incident while driving, and are often able to drive off from the scene of the crime. Hit-and-runs result in arrest less than 1% of the time. Speed cameras are restricted in number, location (only by schools) and hours of operation (they're off on nights/weekends) by the state. And good luck complaining about illegal/unsafe parking, you might start getting death threats from anonymous phone numbers[0].

It won't shock you to know that people are aware of all of this, and drive accordingly.

[0] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/10/city-hall-condemns-de...
> It's been 20 years or so of applying very basic reasoning

Would note that we’ve been in about a single interest rate regime for almost precisely that amount of time.
Overthinking Kills Your Happiness
> It's a completely trivial problem.

Well yeah - the simplest solution is doing it remotely, which is what they're doing.
> Now you're trying to define the society based on the result you want.

Yes? The whole idea was to think about what sort of world you would need for local solar time to you have persisted.
> New generations of people, even software developers, aren't accustomed to old featureless technologies;

For the sake of retaining information, an old fashioned forum is feature rich, while Discord's offerings are... animated GIFs? Emojis?

> No, they aren't going to tinker with setting up an FTP server

Their loss then.
I agree with you regarding lax enforcement, especially in the last few years. But this is also cultural. We have the technology to enforce traffic laws via sensors but even then they are implemented they are often removed by the next local election or blown to bits with buckshot.

My state has targets for acceptable rates of annual pedestrian deaths when designing intersections. I find the fact that we elect to sacrifice lives in order to bump up vehicles-per-hour stats rather disturbing. Again nothing new but helps explain why the US is an outlier.
The title is an incorrect editorialisation. This is not a government proposal, it's a committee proposal.
And sales have been considered the most sleazy people for the same centuries.
I would think a main benefit would be that fewer roads need to be built and maintained. That’s serious cost cutting. Lower congestion also can be a huge gain.

Also, from what I understand the tracking already is somewhat solved in London.
In fairness a telematic device wouldn't necessarily need to report exact times and locations. Only the summary of journeys within predefined categories / geofences etc.

Would I trust our government to implement this in a privacy preserving way? Not a chance.
I don’t disagree with you, I have a new iPad 13 Pro and a three year old iPad 11 Pro that would be great to have better dev tools on. Pythonista and Juno are fairly good for Python development, LispPad is a nice Scheme dev environment, Raskell used to be pretty good for Haskell but no longer runs or is supported, etc.

I have a new M1 MacBook Pro with a large monitor for programming, but since I usually write using an iPad, having first class development tools for all popular langauges would be very nice.
Some HFT DO front run (after all, they got caught).

But that is not what I was talking about even. I am talking about the firms that do spoofing, layering, etc...

Basically a lot of HFTs that instead of just doing "daytrading" style trades or arbitrage, attempt to influence the market in some way, hopefully making the spreads bigger and whatnot.
Advancement in medevaccing wounded within golden hour reduce body bags. Body bags on evening news end wars. Reduced casualties is how lopsided forever wars go on maintenance mode. For humanity's sake, show the inhumanity of war. Peer warfare is another discussion.
Yeah, right. Older rookies should follow this advice only if they want to invest that money for later generations.
I tried Monica for the reason in the quote - I don't try to be a bad friend, but I'm forgetful, and I was hoping it would make my life a little easier by being a digital memory in the absence of a good meat-based one. I found the learning curve and the way they viewed capturing data to be just a little too opposed to how I wanted to use it, unfortunately. Particularly, I was invested in the idea of moving all of my contacts in to it and letting it be the source of truth on my phone, but the friction to import my contacts was high, and once I did, the way to log interactions with people, specifically colleagues from work, was very challenging.

I'd love to hear of others who are successfully using it, because I'm always game to try twice.