skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: people used to pay for news.

Households would subscribe to daily or weekly newspaper deliveries and monthly magazine delivery; people would buy newspapers from stands on their way into the office in the morning.

I grew up in the UK in a household that subscribed to a daily local newspaper, a Sunday national, a weekly TV guide magazine, and several monthly magazines. This in a country where we also had free over the air access to BBC nightly television news and local and national news radio.

Did news used to have more impact on people's lives? Or are people now simply able to pick up the same ambient awareness they desire about the state of the world (or at least the subjective impression of something that feels like it) from free internet sources?
Same here, it works fine except for the cookie banner which doesn't matter lol
I actually now append the word reddit to Google searches. I never did do the Reddit front page for some reason so I have never understood why Reddit is classed with other social media. I always used Reddit for the subreddits. Apart from HN and Stackoverflow and one or two other sites like instructables.com I don't think there is many other sites with better curated useful information on specific subjects.
If sex worn was “mainstreamed” more women would feel pressured to do it, and they don’t want that pressure. It’s like OSHA and minimum wage laws. It puts a floor on what workers in a market economy are expected to do. To avoid a race to the bottom, it’s not enough to simply avoid working in a dangerous workplace yourself (or working below minimum wage or doing sex work), you have to make it illegal for everyone.
Agreed, it makes sense in some contexts. The issue with asset forfeiture is that the state pretends not to know who the owner is so they can move forward in rem.

[edit] Well, two problems: frequently the entity seizing the property gets to keep it and add it to their budget - or split the proceeds. This creates an incentive for them to move forward this way.
Their video on the autopilot page has a person in the driver seat not touching the wheel the entire time. I know your response is going to be oh but they never "actively said" you should take your hands off the wheel but they sure as hell very very strongly imply you should.
Yeah, I have a hard pass on anything that offers an "Open Source" version, but actually meant to be a "Try it and be my Guinea Pig".
And if it destroys people's lives, then those people probably aren't prioritizing writing online to tell others.

Survivorship Bias?
I'm from a medium-sized city on the US midwest, so my experience is that bus drivers sometimes decide "Fuck it, I'm not coming today," on a route where the schedule says they should be there every 30 minutes. I think most Americans outside of large cities have a similar experience. I was really struck going on vacation to San Francisco how together the bus schedule was, compared to how "meh" laid-back the city institutions I interacted with were about everything else.
“The Town” sounds like “citizens”?
> a doctor who was supposedly so prestigious that she didn’t accept insurance.

It seems like there's a problem right up front: prestige.

My main doctor doesn't accept insurance though she will give you a form with the diagnosis codes marked if you want to submit it yourself. She simply doesn't want to deal with the paperwork. There's none of the fancy "concierge" and "membership" bullshit, much less "prestige". She just has an ordinary doctor's office, and doesn't own a lab or anything.

But in exchange for filing the insurance form if I remember to: the longest I've had to wait to see her when I was sick was a couple of hours, I can bring my dog with me to my visits, and she and I pass scientific papers back and forth when determining treatment. But the main advantages of "no insurance" are that we have lots of time for a visit (if needed) and nobody looking over her shoulder for prior auth or such. It's a much more collaborative model.

Unfortunately I don't think this model scales, but my exposure to the more formula-driven mass medical system has been discouraging.
It seems the author gave a talk about it in August 2021. It looks alive :)
I'm not telling you to get rid of plastic. I'm trying to highlight the hypocrisy of your comment

Just because you think you don't use much plastic in your everyday life, you do. Let's say (god forbid) you go to the hospital or need other health services. Plastic.

Let's say you go to Starbucks amd order a croissant. The croissant is handed to you in a paper bag that to your eyes isn't plastic, but is in fact Coated on the inside with a layer of plastic making the paper not recyclable. That croissant came to that Starbucks in a plastic bag that was thrown away before it was handed to you.

On and on, if you choose to live in our modern world, not as a hermit in the amazon, you are dependent on plastics weather you realize it or not.
on one hand, free travel for millions of citizens, on the other, higher profitability for a handful private bus operators.

Its surprising to me that someone would even consider bringing this up as a valid counter argument. Interesting to see how deeply Neoliberalism has seeped into western culture.
Yes?

There's signs for miles back. The speed limit progressively slows down to surface street speeds. If a Tesla can't prepare for a freeway ending then it shouldn't be on the road.
In rem jurisdiction over property is the exact basis of civil forfeiture - this isn't a solution, it's the problem.
According to the article, an 0.1% by-weight addition of concrete reduces the need for concrete by about 30%. (Extrapolating a little, based on the 30% strength increase, may not be exact.)

So each gram of graphene reduces about 300 grams of concrete.

Concrete looks like it costs about 5-10c per kilo.

Graphene costs around $200 per kilo.

So yeah, we're about an order of magnitude off, even if some of my numbers above aren't precise. It will either require a large price fall in graphene, or serious carbon taxes on concrete.
It's a combination of the cosmwasm (Rust->WebAssembly:https://github.com/CosmWasm/cosmwasm) library being popular for writing smart contracts, and the Rust specifically being chosen for its great type safety and error tooling, which can help people writing smart contracts to better guarantee the behavior of their smart contracts ahead of time. This is important because once it's deployed it's essentially a bounty program with a direct payment mechanism for the entire value of the funds that the smart contract can manage.
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excuse me; i commented on the legislature's allergic reaction to actually making changes to the law in this area, noting the difficulty of the task which you have chosen.
I live in suburban America, and hear fire sirens go off several times a day since they are also 911 first responders for every medical emergency, there are fire stations about two-three miles from me in three different directions which might be a regional specific thing.
Usually it would float to tabletop concepts and whatnot, but lately I feel like I've been stricken with some serious intrusive thoughts and anxiety and now I find it floats to death and mortality (the inevitability to be precise).

It's honestly a huge issue, I've lost sleep some nights because of it. It's sort of changed how I structure things to try and keep myself busy, but if anyone has tips on coping with this let me know!
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
Funny but also disrespectful and manipulative. In general I’d prefer to decide on my own how much time I should spend on a particular class.
LinkedIn, Instagram, OnlyFans, Facebook, face tattoos. How it happens that this niche American cesspool gained global attention?
And Tesla should not allow setting autopilot above the speed limit...
I agree, if the speed limit was below 74.
People point to the US, but every country in the world is struggling with healthcare costs and how to contain them. As technologies develop, costs will only continue to rise - the question is how to control costs and get the maximum benefit.

From my own experience it's typically done a few ways: 1) the government decides what treatment will be paid for and which ones won't [this works pretty well since patients don't know what they're missing], 2) the government simply caps a budget and pushes treatment decision down - doctors and hospital are forced to make trade-offs. Countries that do #2 often have long wait times for elective procedures - that's the cost control mechanism.

The US does neither one of these very well (but does them to some extent, but it's unevenly applied), so costs are very high (in addition to other factors). But if one wants universal care and a manageable healthcare budget, you need to say "no" to some things that would otherwise still benefit the patient.
> I'd say it's gross negligence to drive that fast at all on any surface street

Agreed, but Riad set that speed when he was driving on a freeway, and Autopilot failed to slow down when the freeway became a surface street.

I think Riad was negligent for not maintaining control of the car (Tesla even warns drivers to "pay extra attention to the road" when using Autopilot or FSD), but I wonder if Tesla has any liability for marketing Autopilot and FSD capabilities that don't always work.
The zoning change came after I moved in and after I got my chickens. If I had the time, money, and inclination I might have been able to find a lawyer willing to appeal on ex post facto[0] grounds, but it wasn't a battle worth fighting. I had had a year's worth of free eggs by then, and the chickens themselves didn't go to waste.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
As it should be if the public wants the assets sized.

Someone should have to pay for the collateral policy damage. It seems that the burden should to those who voted for the policy opposed the innocent victims.
Can someone please explain how weighlifting figures into this ? It is rated ahead of Ritalin .. so does that imply lifting heavy weights will improve focus during doing non-physical tasks?
The U.S. is a common law jurisdiction, which (among other things) means that when there is a novel factor involved, usually the courts are first to decide how much it matters. Autopilot was a very novel factor at this time, so the courts need to decide if it matters enough to reduce the criminal penalties. In the absence of an explicit law, that's just how it works. The driver doesn't become responsible -- responsibility becomes an open question.

In civil law jurisdictions, this works differently.
That's false as evidenced by one of the other comments. That line is a new addition to that page. They also say in the video that the person is only there for legal reasons.
As someone with zero formal education in physics, I’ve always felt like they do a pretty good job. While there might be some parts that I have to dig into to understand or just accept going over my head, for the most part I come away from each video feeling like I understand both what they were talking about and what parts of what they were talking about were just surface level explanations.
I'd bet a lot of money that someone related to, friends with, or owed a big favor by, one of the officials that would have had to sign off on this is deeply involved in the local weed industry.

Between the insane capital required and level of asinine compliance stuff and box checking you need to do to get into the legal weed industry more or less precludes those people from being "easy targets". Your local dirt mover is going far less likely to be able show up in court with a "and that's exactly where each dollar bill came from" accounting than your local weed grower.
You can just check the Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) to pull the history of serious crashes at any location in California.

https://tims.berkeley.edu/
I read the parent as, slightly sarcastically, saying "it's easiest to reason when the concept of truthy/falsy is completely absent".
Turns out, it's not the creator of OnlyFans, but a "creator" /on/ OnlyFans.

Also, an Instagram /account/ was reinstated, not all of Instagram.
Hah. I agree, but I'll add that his style is more like it's easy to follow for a while, then suddenly the car drives off a cliff and you need upper division college physics to understand.

I really love Anton. He has a way to ELI5 that's really effective and really genuine.
Agreed, especially for the typical "big" news outlets. I do subscribe to my local newspaper because it does make more of an impact on my life. News about changes in our school district or a proposal to make a new bike underpass affect my life significantly more than anything else.

The only other news that I regularly look at is related to my job (aerospace industry). "News articles" (most of them are actually just native advertising) about new products/technologies people are developing, what contracts other companies have won, and company acquisitions are relevant to my job.
I still have a piece of pencil lead stuck in my finger from 24 years ago, though it has gotten smaller. And I know someone with a piece more than twice that old.
This is so true. And I think we need more Bayesian models in Hospital IT systems to help with this. The probability needs to be updated, you shift to a new population with new evidence. It seems so clear, yet somehow it is so intuitive. Why? In many respects, Bayesian reasoning is just what we do, but then sometimes it fails us. We are just not good at accepting risks of any kind I think. Better to not put ourselves into this position seems to be the reasoning. Avoid that "The test told you so!" feeling...
Not really, tweak everything you read to have proper contrast but not pure black on pure white, and keep your monitor with max contrast, it's a pure pleasure. Tone down contrast overall and what you get is mud no matter what, giving fatigue with prolonged time in front of the screen.

I find dark mode to help too. Not a black theme, a dark theme. Full contrast screen at its best.
I had the same experience as you living in a room facing the street in SF in the mission. I still have a form of PTSD from the motorcycles coming down our street at 3AM, people blasting music out of their modded cars, fireworks at the same hours, etc. I’m feeling stressed just thinking about it. I felt like I was being assaulted nearly every evening and it started to feeling like real violence like you mentioned. That experience made me really bitter about how areas of American cities are constructed around motor vehicles with zero enforcement of noise ordinances if they even exist. It also made me really bitter towards motorcyclists with loud tailpipes in general. Just a disgrace all around and a real societal failure for someone even slightly noise sensitive.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527496917579612161

Looks like he has "denied" it on twitter.

I agree he should have denied it to Business Insider _but_, without knowing what Business Insider actually asked to get that response, I'll refrain from judging the answer.
The outcome here will tell us a lot. Mercedes with their entirely different, seemingly more responsible, approach to this, may end up on top in all this.
Will it work for ugly people like me?
Tesla's value comes from a fantasy where they can say the cars drive themselves. Admitting that Autopilot is just a fancy Lane Keeping Assist + Adaptive Cruise Control is bad for that illusion.
They’re rolling out a new pricing plan once Musk takes
over: one handjob and then you choose between a horse or a blue checkmark
You have to stalk them first
No? I'd even argue that Apple is the doomed one here:

- ARM is still a second-class architecture in the world of software. I work with Mac packaging every day, and M1 is still pretty poorly-supported, all things considered.

- Apple has pretty much no way to increase their performance besides horizontal scaling or increasing their silicon density. That puts them in an awkward spot, and it's probably the reason why M1 hasn't been a year-over-year upgraded chip.

- Intel competes with Apple pretty hard on 10nm already. Alder Lake has much better single-core performance, and will beat pretty much everything except the Ultra in raw performance metrics. Keep in mind, that's with silicon that is 4x (!!!) larger than what Apple is working with. Once Intel is on the same node as Apple (estimated to be by the beginning of 2024), I don't really think there will be a contest anymore.

Having used the latest-and-greatest from both camps, I don't think anyone really has bad chips, per se. Like the other commentors suggested though, Apple and Intel don't really occupy the same product space anyways. Both will likely continue to be successful, the real question is "who's going to crack first?" For my money, the answer is Apple. Your mileage may vary.
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They wouldn't have this issue if they allowed (but flagged for children, advertisers, people who don't opt in) NSFW content in the first place. It's allowed on Twitter, so why not on Instagram?
I think any kind of vigorous excercise does this.
What were the hard saefty challenges? Fire proof carriages maybe?
So the defense of violating people's right to be secure from seizurs is some mumbo jumbo about charging objects with a crime? How does charging anyone or anything relate to the 6th amendment?
That tells a lot about your mind.
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You should always strive to understand the context in which something is written, meaning the times, the habits of those times, its biases etc. I don't think we're better off with a group-consensus "historical revisionism" to "guide us". Again, I would call to think for ourselves, read and make up our own minds.
But, as it was expressed to me in a different thread, it's a sacrifice we all need to make to help Musk build the perfect software platform and advance our society. Just like we sacrificed people in plane crashes over the last 100 years to advance the aerospace industry (don't get me started there).

I'm with you on this. Nobody deserves this and this software should be in a test lab or closed road course until it's done. And others will argue that you can't perfect automated driving in those situations, and that's correct.
This is not that uncommon of an approach. I had a calculus teacher once who pointed out that we, the students, were not being presented with the mathematical proofs that underlie calculus, and so had no real way of determining whether what we were being taught was reliable or not, and this was the case for the vast majority of applied mathematics courses. The point was that 'real mathematics' is all a series of theorems and proofs of theorems.

The same is true for physics, but there it's the experiments that are mostly taken on faith; who has actually seen particles rebound from the dense inner cores of atoms? Yet we all believe in the structure of the atom as presented in intro physics/chemistry courses.

As far as economics, that's more like theological studies than math and physics, so the true / false determination probably just amounts to looking up the relevant passage in the appropriate holy text.
A much smaller in scope but pretty fun introductory game: https://echa.itch.io/pocket-robots-test-chamber
I bet they watch ads too.
Women already feel pressure to perform sexual favors in exchange for things. That is a problem with society and culture, quite separate from what we're talking about here.

All adult women want is the empowerment to make decisions for their own bodies. It is theirs, after all.
He didn't even deny the allegations!
If its the corporate policy, that's fine, no? Its fine to ban or un-ban people. If corporate policy demands that infractions can be revoked by sex, and people agree to do it, I don't see the problem.

This is not a legal issue. Its not a freedom of speech issue, which in any case can also bypassed by corporate policy.
It's "Jevons", and it is pronounced with a "j" sound.
> The demand for efficiency and battery life is only going to grow.

Citation?
you don't need to legalize prostitution in order to make sexual extortion illegal.
Could having doctors refuse to run diagnostics also lead to anxiety? It has for me personally but I may not be the typical patient. Some people want zero information about medical issues. They just want to leave all of it to the doctors, no desire to research their condition or understand the details; just trust the doc. I am the sort of person if my mechanic tells me I need an expensive repair, I want to know why. Once I had a dr tell me that I was wrong to feel less anxiety after getting an abnormal brain scan, than I would have felt had I not had the scan at all. It was an absurd conversation and very clear to me that the dr was more invested in his opinion on the matter than he was in listening to my reasons why the scan was reassuring to me. It was an mri, so no radiation. But he insisted that my anxiety would be worse having had the scan than if I hadn’t. A bizarre moment. Anyway, maybe doctors sometimes get too stuck on their own opinions and don’t fully appreciate that there are more than one type of patient? Some people like to change their own oil, some do not. Doctors may also underrate the anxiety of having no clear diagnosis when life changing problems occur. One size fits all mentality is probably wrong.
France is rolling this out currently. We'll see if it does any good.

I couldn't find any links in English, but here are some pictures of the tech:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=france+m%C3%A9duses+radars+anti-br...
Given how notoriously unreliable even the IC and ICEs have gotten over the last few years ( i rarely travel but the three times I tried, the train was either substantially delayed or worse, canceled) , this is really a good deal.
It seems like an almost-free, unlimited-use ticket would suffer the same way.
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Are they actually reviewed? My understanding is that the agency submits them for review, but doesn't require any action for them to take effect. If congress doesn't like it, they have to submit a joint resolution to overrule it.

The point is, if it were a bill, you'd have to have enough support to make the change, compromise on terms/ammendments, etc. It also means the elected representatives would be held accountable by the voters. As a regulation, they can avoid compromise and most accountability. The regulation would have to piss off the ruling party for the joint resolution to be a viable option.
I think there would be a natural feedback mechanism would develop. If a news source creates low quality clickbaity articles, users are unlikely to click on articles from the news source again. Brand trust would naturally develop it seems.
Small nitpick: that's the impact if the car impacts an immobile structure square-on. Cars don't impact like that; static friction of wheels on road gives out way before the full kinetic energy is imparted to the passenger cabin of the victim vehicle, and then the car is thrown and can clear that energy by skidding instead of further deforming.

But the point stands that it's bad and not something we should be structuring our society to encourage.
I'd argue that poor people in poor countries are even poorer, although being poor is not a nice contest to have.