skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are just two cities in two countries but you're ignoring Spain (Barcelona, Seville), France (Paris, Lyon), England (London), Italy where there are pretty extensive plans in cities like Milan, Germany which would be perfectly fine for cycling, ditto for the Nordics, and people also cycle a lot in Finland despite the cold. Also cities in NA like Montreal which are dramatically expanding their cycling network and already have fairly good ridership on the protected routes.

Yes, in places like Montreal they face a lot of opposition from car owners who literally seem to ignore that the only reason you can drive in heavy snow is because the snow gets cleared by pretty major logistics networks.

I've rarely been to a city that couldn't be a good cycling city at least for huge parts of the year, even if not a complete solution - does anyone who is pro-bicycle argue against extensive and effective public transport?
As per tradition, Germany and beyond will switch to electric and the diesel/gas cars will flood the Easter European markets.
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Private jets will still be allowed and they'll still export gas-guzzling Ferraris to Saudi Arabia and Moscow.
Wind and solar will go stale once in a while. Tidal may be stable enough I guess.

Nuclear is the only, well, nuclear solution
It's not. The big plane fly area at airports.is a hard area to life in due to all the noise.

But small air taxies would first of fly much lower, always in the city and if it is cheap enough for all of us, you need more than just one.

And if it's not affordable for us, than there is no real reason for us to accept this at all.

And yes the big planes when they travel very high you can not hear them but it's also totally valid to have the discussion about air pollution and sky visual pollution.

But air transport for goods is actually something were we all benefit. Airmail as well.
Artificial Stupidity (or Idiocy - if we want to keep the acronym)
Very. Too much CO2 is deadly.
In London it's common for people to take 25y~30y loans that are fixed for only 2y~5y. 5 years ago interest rates were 2.5%. If rates go above 10% this year, does that mean a sudden influx of houses in the market because people can't pay their houses anymore?

Edit: Wrong fixed interest rate.
Sounds like today is the worst day to sell my 1.6l diesel, but tomorrow will be worse.
All vehicles, no matter how old, or what form of propulsion, are tracked via the ANPR systems which have been built over the last three decades.

This is certainly true in Europe, though I understand that those networks aren't as mature in the USA yet (anecdotal, and I could be very wrong about that).

I've yet to hear about any vehicles with 'kill switches'. Is there any evidence of this, or is it just a possibility?
You also have cities on the coasts (especially west) with weather very compatible with biking. Also no need to tear everything down, just add a few floors and shops at the ground level on existing houses, with maybe larger sidewalks. As long as shops are not all required to be concentrated along a big non walkable road it will work.
If you're living in a city without a private driveway then do you need a car?

If you live in a rural area just park on your drive and plug in to your wall.

Motorways have long corridors, no reason they can't have long power feeders to rapid chargers at service stations. At 40kW and 4 miles per kWh that's 160 miles per hour to charge. Assuming you start off with a full tank of 300 miles, you drive for 2.5 hours at 70mph (175 miles), stop for half an hour as recommended (topping up 80 more miles), drive for another 2.5 hours, and you've done 350 miles before you reach your destination.

Or maybe you should use the train to do the long distance part and hire a car at the far end, certainly what I usually do.
I tried it from my phone. A lot of the times, trying to sexpand the select list moved me to the previous question.

After answering all of the questions, I came to a black and empty section, scrolling down from there gave me an option to do the test again.
Is it easily sandboxable, i.e. can you block or virtualize any file system and other non-memory resource access?
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As far as double decker trains go, that's Caltrain. I'd love the continuous windows, as well as full glass sun roof though.
You don’t have to live in an ultra-urban area, but 80% of Americans live in an urban area already. [0]

When we have discussions like this, the “normal case” is actually that people live in cities, so that’s obviously what the conversations gravitate around.

I grew up in a small town (4k pop), and there’s no reason bikes shouldn’t be extremely effective in town. It’s tiny! There’s no true need to drive a large, inefficient vehicle .5mi to the rite aid or McDonald’s. Nearly everyone in this tiny town is within quick walking distance of what used to be a passenger train station. It could become a passenger train station again with the right investment.

People living in truly rural areas is an edge case where cars obviously make sense. Even then, the majority of car trips are local. 60% of trips are fewer than 6mi.

0: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...
1: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1042-augu...
The Fed pushed a trillion or so of free money into mortgage markets. That is why house price went up. They have stopped. Prices will likely come down.

While there are likely supply constraints at the margins, the house price gains have been a result of the amount you can borrow at a certain monthly payment being abnormally high.
What you say about electric cars is also true for new fossil cars.
If they're cheap and good we'll buy them :) Germans make *some* great cars
This all seems a bit backwards but I guess we're just looking at a visualisation of the algorithms.

The "forwards" part would be to look at risk factors and how to mitigate or improve those points. Of course together with the unemployment office.
I've not heard of Canada having a dystopian regime, can you elaborate what you mean by that?
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many areas will have an 'official unofficial' public bus that coordinates its route to transfer students to the school bus and vice-versa at the end of the day. in effect this means having to wake up even earlier though.
Does anyone (UK) even offer fixed rate more than 5 years ahead?
What kind of instability have you had? Maybe some of them aren't listed in their repo and could benefit from your experiences

For me it's mostly been usability problems like not really undestanding seasons with more than 99 episodes or the text desyncing if rotating the phone
And others, like me, lack the ability to visualize or recreate music/sounds outside of our own voice in our mind.
In lack of any evidence, you can and actually must rely on your priors. There are things that were a-priori unlikely but are still considered true. However, we believe that they are true because solid evidence has been provided to override our priors. In the present case, there is no such evidence.
Are you conflating respect (treating someone with human decency) with respect (treating someone as an authority)?
The EU is the most unintentionally hilarious confederation. It's completely inside out.

Coordinate foreign affairs? Nope

Able to police external borders? Nope

Credible military deterrence in its near abroad? Not even remotely

But banning IC engines, mandating dongle size, and giving the world cookie popups? You bet!
Not sure why you mention Intel extending their instruction set, the addition of stuff like SIMD never changed the behavior of anything that existed before.

Very few programs ran on non-x86 back then anyway. Some people used to argue that writing assembly is more portable than using OS functions. I’m not saying I fully agree with that view, but it’s a discussion one can reasonably have.
Don't most UK houses also have earth bonded to all the water and gas pipes in the house?

There may be no earth spike, but if earth connects to a copper pipe going into the ground, you'd expect them to be at the same potential.
If it's in this direction, at least add jquery.
There may be a faster fall-off than you'd think, because of feedback effects. Same way film cameras stopped being popular and then you couldn't get the films, or get them developed, so they got more unpopular, repeat until extinct. If fuel stations start closing down and you can't get the parts, it won't matter if fuel cars have decades of good service life ahead.
Sounds like the premise to a South Park episode.
Well, you know by seeing that the component is located in the special `islands` folder.
thanks for detailed response! how big is your org? My concern is that there is a cost to magic of adding deps like that. Complexity goes up and it is harder to understand what went wrong and where are the performance bottlenecks. I guess my question is at what org scale the tradeoffs are right
Environment aside, this is not realistic with just aim to ban combustion engines.

You need to fund groundbreaking infrastructural changes at national level.

The last mile of logistics channels will not work with mythical electric trucks. Those does not exist because they make no sense. So how are we going to flow all those goods to markets?
What is ME/CF? Why would you not write out the full name?
Unlikely that wind drops in the north sea, bay of biscay and med at the same time.

Nuclear also goes stale once in a while, when plants are taken offline for maintenance.

Solar is predictable, it generates in the day (when demand is highest), not at night. With connected vehicles you have massive battery banks of power that can be bought back from people, and as you've used the excess energy when you have been producing more than the demand from those resources to create green hydrogen, you reverse the process.
Wow, that comment must have hit a nerve.
I wonder how many examples it would need to respond with "hah, trick question!". I wonder how it would do if you managed to frame the question more neutrally. To be fair you might trick a 7 year old into responding with a fantasy answer as well.

I tried to get GPT-3 to tell me the most popular forums on some topics, and I noticed it would never include subreddits. So I prefaced my question with "given that subreddits are also a type of forum.." and it would give me a list that would include subreddits. I have to admit that in that new list it would then fail to mention some forum that was in the previous list, so it didn't have a super reliable ability reorganize information.
> It costs 20€ just to get a Taxi go come out here, and the total cost of taking a taxi to the closest bus stop is about 40€.

What is unrealistic to me is your expectation to live in a remote area but still get easy access to other areas. Why don't you try to live closer to your job, or work closer to your home?

I don't understand why I should also pay (breathing your pollution is paying for me) for your desire to live away from a city. If it's your choice, you should pay the full cost of it.
They're not saying what the "vehicle adapter" spec is. I'm very curious.

I know that CHAdeMO is spec'd to allow vehicle-to-house, but good luck finding an inverter device that has a connector for. My 2018 Mitusbishi Outlander PHEV has a CHAdeMO outlet, it would be handy to take backup power from it as a generator. (I use the 12Amp outlet package on it for that, but that's only good for 1 appliance really).

If other people are right about it being NiMH this could actually be a really interesting product.
"Buy now, pay later" and a "location data broker" CEOs. They probably are the dream team for good ideas. Sorry if sarcasm is not desired.
It could also be possible that he doesn't really believe that LaMDA is actually sentient, but that he wants to cause some type of trouble for Google because he was disgruntled or indirectly shed light on something they are doing. With the press and public being aware of LaMDA, he might hope that other things that Google is doing might come out.

What are all the things that Google is doing or planning to do with their AI?
> Even if they could pack this much energy on board, flying that much weight 200km is almost certainly going to take more than 300kWh, especially with 7 passengers.

The Pipistrel Alpha Electro can fly 2 people more than 100km today, with an aircraft that's not at all optimised for electric flight. The battery pack is 21kWh. Increasing that to 200km seems entirely reasonable with a more optimised design and newer battery technology. Let's say you could fly 2 people 200km with a 50kWh pack, then you can by definition fly 12 people 200km with a 300kWh pack. Trade 4 people for the trade-offs needed for VTOL, and you're down to 8.

> but they're counting on advancements in battery tech that are unlikely to happen in the timeframe they need

Are they? They're using Zenlabs batteries, which claims to have already been verified their energy/power densities with a third party laboratory. Question is as always if plans for mass manufacturing works out.

Seems like they're assuming numbers that are entirely reasonable for early mass manufacturing within the next 5 years. With the amount of money pouring into battery R&D, and the number of companies now in trial production phase with next generation cells, it seems more or less inevitable to me.

They can afford to pay more for the batteries than mass-market BEV companies. So it's also not unreasonable to assume they'll be able to buy batteries at the early stage of manufacturing.

> This says nothing about how fast they can recharge those massive batteries.

Charging these in 40minutes would take at most 500kW (I'm assuming 250kWh charged at 2C rate). Often it'd be much less (not always going to fly its full range). We have plenty of charging stations around me with way more total power than that. Chargers running at up to 350kW is already being built routinely. So you just need two of those, and they are usually built in pairs already. This is really not going to be a major issue at all in the initial phase. Maybe down the line when they've already built out the easiest locations, it could be a bigger challenge. But nothing bigger than the mass electrification of cars and trucks. The economics of the charging stations will be better than with BEV stations, since they'll be built on fixed routes, and have high utilisation during the daytime.

Doesn't feel like the skepticism passes the back of the napkin calculation tests. It's definitely within the realm of possibility. Hard? Yes, very, but if it was easy someone else would already have done it, as with all new development.

If you're going to be skeptical, at least look at the numbers of what's being done today, and see how far what they require is from that.
Meh, German cars are good as long as you're within the warranty/lease period. Out of warranty, I wouldn't touch any modern German car. Japanese brands tend to be more reliable.
Well, yeah. If you put it like that.
Unemployment sure doesn't seem to be a big issue for front-end developers in Denmark.
Yep, I used to do that when I had a thinkpad and a docking station and didn't want all my ssh sessions to drop.

Before that I was even doing awful things like forcing the same IP onto both eth and wifi :D
Yeah, I too get an abstract concept fully formed in my head and then have to unravel it slowly and describe it in words. Are you bilingual perchance?
Your argument isn’t really that cars are superior to the bus in general, just that your local public transit is poorly designed. When everyone treats this argument as if cars are always superior no matter what, no one wants to invest in making public transit actually better.
I don't know about other parts of the world, but in the UK, helicopters are quite carefully controlled so that they can land safely in such an event.

For example, to fly a helicopter over London requires pilots to fly only over well defined routes - although those with multiple engines are allowed more scope.
German cars aren't what they used to be. I know because my wife owns a Made in Germany Volkswagen that breaks a lot more often than my other car, a US-made Hyundai.
I don't think so, we used a mortgage broker for ours and only 2 and 5 years fixed rates @ ±2.3% were offered in September 2021
ICE cars are replaceable with Electric cars fairly easily.

The EU is aiming to meet its Paris agreement on coal reduction by 2050 (and many other countries before that, UK eliminating use of coal by 2024, Germany by 2030)
https://climateanalytics.org/briefings/eu-coal-phase-out/#:~....

Many people are also reducing their use of cows. Just going after the biggest polluter one by one will take far too long.
No really. Any semiconductor shortage will see the value of existing second hand cars on the road shoot up. Especially those with fewer electronics and high reliability.

In fact, the most desirable second hand cars (in Europe at least) are those form around mid '00s, as they had enough electronics to be relatively fuel efficient and safe, but still be reliable enough to not get you dragged to the dealership because one of the million electronics on board of the cars of today decided to have a bad day (modern cars a reliability nightmares, making out of warranty repairs super expensive, basically pushing people to old cars).
Whatever spins the wheel
Just noting this is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
I'm not an Uncle Bob fan by any stretch of the imagination, but he wrote a somewhat famous article about this phenomenon: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html

With each new wave - we get people that either lack the time, the willpower or the conditions to understand what came before them (the ground they're standing on), and this is how we end up rediscovering things every 2-3 years. It's much more tempting to just discard old knowledge, reinvent from scratch.

People were doing "SSR" with PHP on the server-side 30 years ago, and still do today (can you imagine just how much progress that platform has made, and how much collective knowledge has been developed around it?). It's just not hip anymore, because it wasn't invented within the past 36 months.
They and the other Japanese manufacturers have been actually actively fighting this trend. Outside of California where they were required to do stuff by law that is. They're heavily invested in ICE and have been pushing FUD on this topic and marketing dead-end stuff like hydrogen fuel cells as alternative but primarily just to avoid doing anything. They're starting to pivot now, but's pretty late. Toyota/Subaru have brought out some meh EVs now that will only sell because of brand loyalty.

It's a shame because they had a head-start with the hybrid drivetrain concept, but seemed to just want to stop there. And honestly GM's "Voltec" drivetrain was better than anything that came out of Toyota or Honda (too bad it's dead).

I drove around Vermont in my friend's PHEV Rav4 this past winter... and it's... ok. But my Volt is the better machine.
An engineer at Google was placed on leave
You must be living under a rock:

Coordinate foreign affairs? => Yes (e. g. Russia sanctions)

Able to police external borders? => Yes, Frontex

Credible military deterrence in its near abroad? => When was the last time anyone attacked an EU country?
OpenFyde – Chromium OS with or without Google
Bad news for Ferrari et al.
Yes, desperately even, but if you join just for the lunch break (where we fix bugs as you saw lol, I haven't eaten during a lunch break for the last few years), it's a bit of a red flag :p

But seriously, look at tier-2 investment banks: we're nicer and less stressed than the Goldmans of the world but still make more money than most. And problems are interesting I find. But you need to like handling money and not "changing the world" in any shape or form.
Isn't adding more panels a better solution? How else are you going to bridge over the winter?
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I have biked year round in Minnesota for my commute since I was a child, not dead yet decades later.
We did… in arguably the dumbest way possible… it’s getting slightly better now as frameworks innovate on various ways to improve SSR … but when SSR first started being a thing it was literally stuff like “how do I run a j entire desktop browser, headless on my web server (or wedged in between with weird reverse proxy setups…) to pre-render the page HTML using the my Client side JavaScript of my single page app because I want to do things that my client side only framework wasn’t designed to do”

It wasn’t universally that bad but at its worst it was totally this bad.
RFC 8375: Special-Use domain 'home.arpa.'
My understanding is that you're using a single codebase for rendering both on client and on server. And, of course, after loading server-rendered page, client code continues to work in the browser as expected.

So it's kind of best of both worlds and it makes perfect sense.
Yeah, fair enough, same with washing machines and fridges. Toyota are good, old Land Rovers from about 1998 to early 2000s were built to last - now, not so much. The good thing is we can see which modern cars weren't built to last and not buy them :)
A reality since at least 2009: OnStar remotely disabled the gas pedal... https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/onstar-g...
I wonder why they didn't use Dropbox.
The points are all well taken, but it's also a bit reminiscent of how we keep shifting the bar for what makes humans supposedly unique among animals with every new paper in behavioral biology (some of which with questionable reproducibility, which is another topic of its own).

We should acknowledge that in a lot of senses it doesn't really matter whether AI experts agree that something most definitely isn't sentient if enough humans falls in love with it.
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> banning IC engines, mandating dongle size, and giving the world cookie popups?

Am I meant to think that: banning one of the biggest contributors to climate change, lessening walled gardens and e-waste, and giving us more control of our own data are bad things?
How about GDPR, obligatory warranty periods, and other consumer protections? Also, there are things like Schengen which are not the same as EU. I always felt like EU is a citizen-centric union while USA is a business-centric union. Also, EU is progressing slowly with integrating various aspects of governing while trying to respect individuality of separate countries.
Since the EU started out as an economic union, it seems on the contrary very logical that its priority is regulating the market rather than military considerations.

Cooperation on military and foreign affairs is developing though, so I think you are just misinformed on the EU and its purpose.
Full circle make it sounds like we’re doing it only once. :)

I like to think of it as a Pendulum! Back and forth it goes.
Well if Porsche can do it, they can try at least! Their logo is a horse, the next one might be a dirty old combustion engine lol
Is the "algorithm" that simple tree at the end? Really confusing
it would be interesting to understand what is different now. Because IMHO it's never 100% full circle. It looks like we're back at the same point, but there are usually crucial differences in the implementation details that makes it quite different.
To take that a step further, why couldn't such an AI periodically generate questions to ask itself?

Being good at generating questions, could become almost as important as answering them.
part of the reason I posted this is there has been some recent controversy as to whether or not the algorithms used are racist
https://www.version2.dk/artikel/styrelse-frikendes-algoritmi...

translated to English

https://www-version2-dk.translate.goog/artikel/styrelse-frik...

on edit: changed where to are, not sure why I wrote where instead of were, but there we go.
I'm interested in the US-made car market. I don't know much but something on my todo list to learn. I've heard good things about the US making good cars