skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SLC makes all the difference. It's quite different elsewhere in the state. I've lived and worked in multiple locations and was happiest in SLC but housing prices are absolutely outrageous for what you get.
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We can already have congestion free-cities today, no new technology nor public transport required. We had the technology for quite a while now: congestion charging.

It works really well in Singapore to control congestion, and also worked well in London when they adopted it afterwards.

Public transport also works quite well in many places around the world.

It also used to work really well in North America in the past. A past when the continent was much poorer. (I'm mostly talking about USA plus Canada here.)

Public transport only works when after you step off the bus or train, you can get to your destination on foot. Density is outlawed in much of the USA and Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyeRlMsTgI&t=416s starts a good section about Fake London, Ontario. At great expense, they built a new train line. But approximately no one uses it, because you can't get anywhere when leaving the stations. The video shows an example of a station where the closest other building is about 150m away. And that's just a single building. The next ones are even further.

Land use restrictions and minimum parking requirements are a major roadblock. And just throwing money at public transit directly won't solve those.

Shared car ownership is an interesting idea. Uber can be seen as one implementation of this concept. It can be done profitably, but I'm not sure it has much impact on the shape of cities?

In the grand scheme of things, there's not much money being put into self-driving cars so far. A quick Googling gives a Forbes article that suggests about 200 billion USD.
In practice, first-past-the-post voting is dysfunctional bordering on evil, especially when combined with gerrymandering wherein politicians select their voters rather than vice-versa. The entire result set of this mess - two parties and their primaries - is deeply screwed up. The practical challenge (imo) is to explain alternatives concisely to voters who might want to modify how their voting system works. But there are now experiments going on here and there.
Or the singer himself or one of his agent did it.
Polluter.
The latent-diffusion[1] I've got running at home frequently generates stock image watermarks (e.g. "The London Skyline at night in the style of Carboni"[2], images 1, 2, and 6)

[1] https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion
[2] https://imgur.com/a/8tOI9QU
They aren't because it's the whole idea behind the separation of the executive from the legislative power.
Lessons learned after 10 years in IT (DS and ERP-consulting)
Several years ago, a wrote a blog post about a DS roadmap, which turned out to be useful for many people.

Since that time I got more experience, and many people reached out to me with different questions about career, skills, mindset, etc. Now I decided to write a blog post based on my answers to these questions and my experience. I hope it will be useful
It's nice, but I think the days of writing your own standard data structures are probably best left behind us.

If we use standard libraries, we can benefit from extreme optimization, both in the library but also in the compiler (eg. A smart enough compiler could see you setting an entry in a map and immediately reading the same entry, and it could optimize out the read).

The data structures can be optimized for CPU architectures and cache sizes for example - something that mini implementations like this would never bother with.

Likewise, a smart compiler could see that you never call "delete" on entries in a data structure, and use an implementation that is more efficient, yet doesn't support deletes.
I can highly relate to this. There's also the tax of having too many tasks in queue. Maybe that's just me, but if I have to get done 10 different things in the next couple of weeks, my productivity drops to like 40% as my mind keeps switching between all of them.

Having only one project without interruptions, a closed office door, headphones on with music without vocals and my productivity can even surprise me.
Not sure how you'd define a metric for "better outcome" to be honest
Electric RVs require: parking, charging facilities, sanitary facilities, and maintenance.

A few people with "camp mode" is a complete different proposition to millions of people with mobile homes. Not to say it couldn't be done, but cities would have to become mobile labour camps and the infrastructure costs would be significant - mostly the cost of space formerly used by brick and mortar real estate.

And owners would be charged rent for use of facilities. So that $70k is not going to be rent free.
I'm using mine as an alarm clock. Not network connected, so it can't spy on me.
I think for those who primarily work on AC and do not mind increased power draw, 12th Gen is a good choice. As a software developer, I appreciate a few seconds shaved off here and there. With good thermal design, 12th Gen laptops can be silent and cool (I've never heard my MSI GT77 spin up the fans, unless I tell it to with a dedicated hardware button). I understand that people have different use cases and for lot of customers laptops need to be lightweight. I'm okay with the bulk and weight.

Just ran Phoronix Linux kernel compilation test (defconf), I get 74.68 sec on my laptop, on par with desktop Intel Core i7-12700K, but I can carry my "desktop" around. :) In comparison, Apple M2 result is 416 sec, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX is 103 sec. It's not much, but it's compound gains if you compile and test a lot.
Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i've spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move.

It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.

After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?
Dbt is actually fishtown analytics, and I would add databricks to that list
>50% of PCs which have Steam installed, i.e. are used for gaming. So the statistic is not really representative of all PCs out there...
[1] Social animals want to be social.

Yeah I shouldn't speak for everyone... but I think for one, having a sense of mission contributes to meaning. And for two, having a sense of tribe (e.g. deep collaborators, partners in crime, healthy rivals) contributes to meaning. Both of which are much easier to have in person.

There's another important aspect too which is this sense of lifelong friendship that you may be building. People you know in person, you may feel that they're a "real friend" that you can meet up with in person in the future as well, regardless of what happens with your job. That's important too. I mean a "real friend" you can call or zoom with and it's still good. But it's hard to build a "real friendship" starting from zoom, don't you think? Not impossible, but much harder/rarer (actually phone calls or writing emails is perhaps easier than zoom).
As a tangent... a human being who reads up on websites (that are not explicitly in the public domain) is in essence also "training" themselves on that data. It would be really short-sighted (and impossible to start with) to forbid an AI to read it if a human is allowed..
Looks pretty cool in idea, but the game has crashed every time I've tried to play it. I've also noticed that a lot of my energy keeps getting into negative values ( which look like a overflow to me).

I'm a big fan of 1v1 strategy games like this. but it needs more than 1 unit and 1 structure (I think). - otherwise it's just a matter of who attacks first and who has further to travel.

What's meant to be the balance of the races? triangles seemed to have more units than squares, for instance.. do they travel faster?
Yeah basically. The western halves of wa, or, BC, and most of western/coastal northern ca are all quite temperate. Rarely below freezing in the winter (unless at altitude) and not generally too hot in summer (above 85F). Of course it can “feel” colder with precipitation
If anyone is interested in more in depth treatment of automotive transmissions [1] provides overview of transmission technologies (AT, DCT, CVT) and analysis of their effect on fuel efficiency.
It includes detailed descriptions of power losses and their sources.

Manual transmissions have one of lowest losses but their gear ratio stepping incurs engine operating point inefficiencies.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/21744/chapter/7#200
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I personally run a tor node on an old android phone
I just stumbled across that video 15 mins before this story. Seems the algos are feeding each other :).
It varies a lot by thread, but it's probably just aging of the tech cohort. When HN started, the industry was small and many engineers were young. Those engineers in their 20s are now in their 40s. Regular threads come up here these days about being digital Amish. Reminds me of Slashdot shortly before everyone started leaving (though I don't think it'll happen here as there's no viable competitor.) It's just the old Douglas Adams quote playing out here, tech from your childhood is great/ethical/useful and everything in your adulthood isn't.

And many people thought the Net and the Web was going to be a fad. Who needs a web BBS when you have Usenet, why a forum when there are Fido distributions? Entire BBSes died because they couldn't fathom being on the net. HN's current demographic would probably think most of the Web was a hyped up ruse made to sell more modems.
To be fair, there are two reasons why it's considered a hassle.

One reason, which is a bad reason, is that many people just don't like to document and handle errors. Instead of being happy that the compiler is telling them that they forgot to handle or declare an IOException from this call, they get annoyed that it's yelling at them "for no reason". This is simply lack of understanding/care for how you program.

The other reason, which is actually a problem with the language that could be fixed, is that Java doesn't allow functions to be polymorphic in their Exception types, like it does for argument and return types. This makes higher-order constructs very annoying - for example, `stream.map(Function)` should `throw` the same Exceptions that `function` throws, as should `Arrays.sort(array, Comparator)`. Without this capability, you end up with an extremely ugly and brittle pattern of doing:

//V foo(T x) throws SomeException();

Stream<V> bar(Stream<T> stream) throws SomeException {
try {
return stream.map( (x) -> {
try {
return foo(x);
} catch (SomeException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
});
} catch (RuntimeException e) {
if (e.getCause() instanceof SomeException) {
throw (SomeException)e.cause();
} else {
throw e;
}
}
}

When all you wanted was:

Stream<V> bar(Stream<T> stream) throws SomeException {
return stream.map(Foos::foo);
}

This huge verbosity is obviously unnecessary and ugly, and could be removed with some compiler support (compiler could just insert this), or some more complex runtime support. In my opinion, if Java did this, it would actually have the best error handling mechanism of any language on the market - much better than Haskell or Rust.
How about an AI toaster that can act as therapist and converse with you in the morning, over breakfast, when you are most open/vulnerable ? Naturally it will have zero web access.
> you won't hear that kind of comment from person that tries to share something good with world.

First, not every literary thing worth sharing with the world needs to be at the intellectual level of Donald Duck magazine.

Second, some folks may want to challenge the world to rise above mediocrity.

If not, we'd all still be programming in BASIC with line numbers.
As far as I know vast majority of countries in Europe don't use a jury system and are doing quite fine. Which was what GP stated, that they are managing quite fine without it. Not that they have better outcomes.
Not sure how great constant charging and recharging would be either ;)
E-waste is greatly exacerbated by low level backdoors. Gear cannot be
repurposed if you cannot trust the hardware or embedded firmware. A
skip full of Cisco routers [1] was sitting outside an organisation
once, and I asked about their fate. "Can't you just wipe the OS and
install something open source?", I asked. "Would you trust the
hardware?" they replied.

Unbelievably Cisco are still in business and actually produce
educational cyber-security materials.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/backdoors_in_...
I would honestly be pretty freaked out if my partner wrote me daily poems for 400 days. It would come off as very needy and obsessive, and if it continued after me bringing it up, I could see it as a reason to break things off.

Same. Occasional poem? I'm not necessarily a fan, but it is thoughtful and boy, does that thoughtfulness go a long way. But daily is intense, and I'd much rather daily communication to be fairly direct and daily thoughtfulness being small things that are optional but nice (making me a cup of coffee when I'm groggily heading to the toilet in the morning, for example).
I have been using a 6800U on Linux for the past two weeks. With kernel 5.18 almost everything is supported out of the box. The few issues I have:

- Kernel logs show that the GPU driver crashes from time to time. When it happens the screen freezes for a few seconds but recovers.

- HVEC hardware decoder gives green artifacts on VLC using VA-API.

- It seems not to support advanced power management, on battery the CPU will happily boost to 4.7 GHz which in my opinion makes little sense. AMD has been steadily pushing work related to power management so I expect it to improve. As it stands total power consumption on battery averages 5.1 W.
> I think that's up for the community decide. There have been high school science projects that got published before and were considered significant contributions.

I wrote many science fair projects to mean many in each science fair, not the rare few that produce novel and publishable results in the scientific literature.

Follow the instructions from a book about science fair projects. The result will be "well and honestly done work, with conclusions that may be reasonably drawn from the results" - exactly as you described. How many publications of "I synthesized aspirin from salicylic acid and acetic anhydride" do you want?

> up for the community decide

If this becomes a craze among high school science fair entrants, then the community will be high school science fair entrants. It will then be up to the to decide if tenured professors are allowed.

More to the point, I've long found "community" to be a difficult word to understand. How is it different from "users"? Are there users who aren't part of the community? Why aren't there multiple communities? We know there are multiple types of users (eg, HCI's "persona development".)

With no sense of what you want your community / user base to be, you can't tell if you've ended up with what you wanted.

> my understanding is that ORCID adoption is still limited (growing, but limited)

Last fall ORCID tweeted that many/most of the Nobel Prize winners had an ORCID. https://twitter.com/ORCID_Org/status/1445448209782894592 . One of the comments correctly pointed out "surprisingly a lot of researchers have their ORCIDs only as void placeholders required by their institutions to have."

That includes me.

> The current plan is to initialize the reputation system using citations - 1 citation = 1 upvote, essentially. It's not perfect, but it's the closest analog.

There are a lot of E. Smiths in the world. (This is what ORCID is trying to resolve.) Oh, and my name is $NOBEL_PRIZE_WINNER and email address is minecreeper666@washington-hs.state.us.

(Email addresses change as people move between institution. Someone's current email address might not be on any of their papers.)

Do preprints count as publications?

I tried to get around the publication system by having blog posts which were essentially preprints/publications. That failed - there's a disdain for the grey literature.

> But it's still the system that facilitates matching papers with the appropriate reviewers and referees, it's necessary.

Which is why it seems like you could start as an overlay system over existing preprint servers. They've already resolved issues about user id, audience, etc., which you could use a a starting point.

> That's to prevent small groups with agendas from creating echo chambers.

Real-world example: what PZ Myers refers to as the "panspermia mafia" - "They use their connections to promote a small family of fellow travelers."

> that the average actor is a good actor as I defined it early

Again, I urge you to consider that "good actor" is overly simplistic. If you truly think the system is broken, how are so many good actors not able to change it?
In the south it used to be an entire town of hundreds would show up for a lynching and take pictures and a picnic below the tree.

Emmett Till’s river site memorial plaque had to be replaced by a bulletproof 500lbs one to slow down its vandalism. In 2019. Before that it had to be replaced 3 times, once because it was removed and tosse in the river, and the other 2 times due to damage from being shot at. It had been first erected in 2008.

Jury nullification is very much a two-edged blade, it’s been used against the Fugitive Slaves Act (this sort of acts was a big reason why the south decided to secede) and it’s been used, a lot, to protect racist murderers.
Well I my opinion the one area that Amazon is not doing so well is supplying home decor products. Ikea and other platforms are much bigger, I believe this is the area where Amazon sees a huge market potential. Understanding what size of room does individuals have could give Amazon that edge of supplying so-called "made for only you" furniture. The entire space of personalised products and marketing is growing by leaps, understanding someones home could do wonders for Amazon. And not only in home decor space but I guess this will also help to enhance its current offerings such as improving Alexa's connectivity within the house, smart light illuminance etc.
> It does sound hectic, but it's not hell, because he loves what he does, and clearly loves his wife and kids. That sacrifice (on the part of him and his wife) is for those they love.

Well I love my kids but I still think in retrospect that it was a shitty decision to have kids. Things aren't mutually exclusive.

Having said that I am not saying anyone ought to regret having kids or that it is a shitty decision for everyone.
Most EU countries don't use juries, or only use them for the worst crimes(rape/murder) and only in very narrow set of circumstances.

"and have better outcomes?"

Honesly I have no idea how you'd define what is a "better" outcome.
It's also how cars could be operated - either by overhead or (more likely) inductive pick-up.

The battery concept is kind of dumb and a relic of IC engine thinking. For local urban journeys you could half-size the cars, provide common power, and add automated navigation to optimise density and efficiency.

Getting rid of batteries would hugely lower cost and weight.

Cross-country is a different problem, of course.
A writeup would probably be well-received here
Indeed. A country which fails to follow its own law on privacy would likely be considered a country which does not have appropriate law on privacy.
About #3 - I would like to see a city try this. Standard containers and cheap/free mobility platforms for them. Grannies with groceries ? Check. Exhausted mothers with kids ? Check. Food/grocery/purchases delivery ? Check. Moving day ? Check -from living room to elevator to truck.
Oh. Frankly I've probably never seen a compiler bug in my life. I have to look at the assembly sometimes though when debugging faults of various kinds, and I don't find matching C++ to assembly significantly more complicated than C. There is just a bit of additional knowledge maybe on how vtables work and that's it. Exceptions are probably a pain too, but embedded code doesn't allow them as a rule.
It's already way cheaper than comparable windows machines
Genetically superior humans are a net benefit to all of humanity. Inevitably they will interbreed with arbitrary other people occasionally and the technological advances also benefit everyone. Yes, it will stratify society - all of society is and has always been stratified. It is not a good indicator to inform whether or not you should do something.

> It's crazy to me that we're already approaching Gattaca, and the discussion does not revolve entirely on how to prevent it.

Because the movie has been engineered specifically to make you feel vindicated: Someone is said to be limited, they then overcome this limitation. It is the "american dream" in movie form. Another poster has said it higher up: If genetic determinism is real, the main character is a fraud. Viewed through that lens, it becomes an entirely different movie.
Try this: https://f5bot.com/
Making everything illegal and then selectively enforcing it means that there is no Rule of Law.
check this out: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/bmalloc/li...
The Norwegian dictionary [1] suggests that the expression "lediggang er roten til alt ondt" stems from a merging of two older expressions: "Otium est pulvinar diaboli"/"idle hands are the devil's workshop" and 1 Tim 6,10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil"

Wiktionary [2] refers to St. Jerome

> Proverbs 16:27 may have inspired St. Jerome to write in the late 4th century: fac et aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum, or “engage in some occupation, so that the devil may always find you busy.” This was later repeated by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, which was probably the source of its popularity.

[1] https://naob.no/ordbok/lediggang

[2] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/idle_hands_are_the_devil%27...
Price isn't the thing that keeps most people I know away from Macbooks (after all, it's the employers/business expense). I'm sure many people would like an M1 machine for the efficiency but the software is simply not ideal.

If they invested in contributing Linux drivers they'd probably be able to takeover the market for developers. Asahi is slowly improving, but it doesn't feel ready yet to be someone's sole daily machine.

Ultimately my M1 MBP sits on the shelf collecting dust, except for occasional testing. My smaller and lighter Intel laptop already gets 8 hours of battery life which is more than enough for me, and has perfect Linux support.
If you work for some F500 or other such rich multinational mega corp, you'll see them everywhere, otherwise nobody gets them for private use.
Cool username, but poor comment. Context-less metacommentary isn't for this place.
Articles like this tend to be heavily constrained by space, and have a target audience that's probably a bit more lay than what you would prefer.

I can recommend the author's book 'The Vital Question', which dives into some hypotheses addressing precisely these considerations in much more detail.
>I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes.

I already see a clear path that'd take about 20 years to execute properly. That's assuming low pressure conditions and a very large amount of funding though, both of which aren't typically present in reality.

The result is essentially what GP describes, with a path to AGI in the form of extremely competent tool AI. We're going to hit self-assembling programs before we hit true AGI.

I can't say I'm particularly excited to see such things become reality. Fortunately, humans usually find a way to fuck things up. Our species' collective incompetence is the largest barrier to AGI currently, which may be a blessing in disguise depending on how you look at it.