skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have models. The models we use are the most pessimistic (linear no-threshold). The dispute is about whether we should use the more optimistic models (threshold).

There are many subjects disputed, to begin with the way assessments are conducted, check for example http://csrp.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2013-UNSCEAR-Repor...

More fundamentally check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...

> Coal fly ash. It's full of uranium and thorium

Nobody here advocates coal. Renewables (wind, solar... power) don't emit such stuff.

> In my opinion, the deaths from the evacuation are attributable to the tsunami, not to the power plant

Most of those victims were attributed to the tsunami, the estimation quoted (2202 victims) quoted is only the small fraction of the victims (about 10%) which was attributed to factors (panic, effect on infrastructures of the evacuation...) induced by the nuclear disaster.
It's somewhat a case of "they almost went there"; around the time that MCX (Managed Client for Mac OS X) and Apple Remote Desktop (the central management tool, not the built-in one) peaked, they also had the option of selecting or starting a new user session over VNC. This was the foundation of concurrent desktop sessions in Mac OS X (now macOS) and was pretty much one step away from Terminal Services style multi-user computing.

Right then and there, the choice flipped the other way: instead of taking the management approach to remote computing they made management go the MDM route, and made remote computing more of an application-specific detail; if you need something 'remote', it's probably just data so remote data access could cover that. If you need a piece of software, the idea was that you'd simply run it locally instead of remotely over a stream, and if you need something specific to the remote location (i.e. the network) you'd use a VPN connection.

The biggest benefits of terminal-style computing is that you can lock away special software on a server or use computing resources that aren't available locally. That second part was something Apple probably never wanted to have to deal with, either you get the 'big fat expensive machine' for your heavy workload, or you get the Mac mini for your ligher workloads. If you want to have one big machine shared by two people, that wasn't really something they cared about, and you'd just have to buy two of them. This makes sense from their perspective: you buy the machine for a specific task or purpose, and that makes remote computing a bit redundant because you'd have bought the machine that fits your needs.

In a way they are right; nearly every device they make can do the same tasks and only heavy resource eaters really need more hardware than a base configuration can deliver.

For Linux it's different; you can just install an RDP client and server and do the same thing windows does. The only thing you need to do yourself in such a setup is configure the desktop environment so it doesn't do weird things like wobbly window animations over RDP which don't translate well. Microsoft doesn't write RDP clients or servers for Linux, and only has a client for macOS, so not much of a commercially validated option on Linux. There is NoMachine's NX which essentially does what RDP does, and on Linux you'd also not actually transmit the entire application; most of the window chrome can be handled by the local window manager instead, like with X11 forwarding.
Location correlates with a lot of other stuff. I think people underestimate the relevance of that other stuff.

If you have US education and experience, you can be living somewhere else and have access to the same remote opportunities (for the most part, baring admin stuff) as someone in the US.

If you don't have "western" experience and education, you don't have a leg up.

These are just simple examples. The point is everything else being equal, physical location almost certainly matters less. But everything else is not equal, and so location still strongly predicts opportunity.
Apple - like every corporation incorporated here in the United States - would literally not exist if it wasn't granted recognition as such by at least one nation-state. God forbid there be some conditions on that massive privilege.
I think dumpsterlid is proposing to focus on commuter-dense-metro systems rather than inter-city.
I live in Kansas City, MO. They're everywhere around here. Have found them in my house several times and even been bitten by them. I guess I'm just lucky but I never had an overly bad reaction to their venom. (knock on wood)
Every high speed rail in history has come in way over budget

I'm gonna have to go digging through some stuff to see if I can find a source but I'm pretty sure that's not the case (even if you ignore authoritarian style countries like China). California government is fairly dysfunctional and that makes things more expensive, and I say this as a proponent of CAHSR.

The biggest problem with CAHSR though is that the rich suburban fucks (especially on the SF peninsula) are trying to kill HSR with death from a thousand paper cuts^W^W lawsuits. That's how you get things like cities (coughathertoncoughbelmontcough) wanting underground sections built on someone else's dime. They'll cite things like noise while ignoring that a.) electric trains are quieter than diesels and b.) grade separation eliminates the need to sound the horn.

It's a really nasty self-fulfilling prophecy.
The only way I could see this working is as an actual subscription for someone who travels a lot. When I was traveling regularly I would have loved to have a subscription package that would have allowed me to bypass the rental counters and just pick up a car and go. What's described here is just an overpriced rental.
This is true. It’s very hard to make a consistent buck these days.
Dang, you can get an older vw tdi and a tank of biodiesel for less than the price of their startup cost - and never pay a monthly fee.
It seems this service works for some people and good for them. Kind of an interesting space Autonomy fills between daily/hourly car shares and a vehicle lease?
Maybe the startup fee should more be considered “club membership” or possibly a buy-in to a cooperative business structure.
This current business model just kind of leaves me feeling the customer is getting fleeced; (vehicle) ownership has many upsides including the opportunity to “add value to” a vehicle along with resale.

Im additionally curious how this sub model works because of the ev infrastructure - sure you can always charge it at a public place (know people who do this) but for convenience a home charging setup seems like a reasonable investment. And if one is going to do that they may as well purchase the vehicle.
I think your response speaks for itself -- and agreed that you (and other systems) have made very different decisions with respect to safety.
I'm not sure what you mean. X can certainly run a full remote desktop, or at least it could, I'm not sure how well it works with current versions of KDE and Gnome.

If you mean connect remotely to a desktop that someone else is using on another machine, yes that is indeed a different use case.
My experience is that if they don't understand the market, they tend to approve. But if they understand the market, the reviewer might make the determination that market is overcrowded, so the appeal they are looking for is "differentiation". Yes, I don't work for Apple.
> MX Linux has been #1 on distrowatch for ages. Do you know anyone using it?

I have always been super confused about MX Linux being number one on distrowatch but have literally never heard of anyone running it in my (probably limited) circle of friends, colleagues, podcasts I listen to, etc.

I was aware that they just measured clicks on websites, but I would be super interested if there is any more info on why MX Linux is always number one on distrowatch? Do they use bots or something to generate traffic? Or do tons of people actually visit their site?
I have a hunch you're right. BTW, I didn't come here to do this, but the company is great, quite large, and has lots of open roles world wide. Also open to fully remote software engineers. I won't share the company unless someone asks though.
Or give people the choice to use zero or more stores. I for one really enjoy consistency when it comes to automatic updates (and would actively seek apps on the Windows store for this reason, before switching to Linux, partially for this reason).
The common current example? A text prompt of "A horse riding an astronaut" without prompt engineering. Though I don't think the successful production of this image will demonstrate intelligence/causal understanding either (but it is a good counter example).

Causal understanding is going to be a bit difficult to prove tbh.
9 requirements, and a low latency high bandwidth link... Compared to RDP which works well across the ocean, is encrypted, compressed, and scalable.

I think you just proved that VNC isn't a good replacement for RDP.
The secretary problem (max odds of best) isn't the only problem in that space.

It's often good to go for a "within 10% of best" solution.
I've been using https://remotedesktop.google.com/ for quite some time now with both Linux and MacOS because it provides the best latencies. Anyone knows what protocols it's using? And is this feature set part of the open source chromium distribution as well?
Nothing is as useless as Faceketeer, and that got approved.
Is 50 year or even 100 year mortgage worse than renting? At least if costs including maintenance are comparable? Depending on location and home maybe. Still, both offer shelter and overall monthly cost might not be different.
I'd say AGI is very very much possible because it already exists (for example: humans) and unless there exists a soul or some other kind of "literally magic" (and I'd be doubtful even then) there is no reason we couldn't one day build AGI.

It also seems like unless something goes very very wrong with the exponential growth curve in computational capacity humanity has had, we'll be able to straight up simulate a human brain (probably well before) 2100.
Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid
The whole thing seems like a self licking ice cream cone for consultants and construction firms. I’ll be amazed if anything useful staggers across the finish line decades from now.
I understood your argument, in the context of the discussion we've been having, that Gato was a good example of us being on a good path towards building intelligent machines. I do not think Gato demonstrates that.
I wonder what the reality would be?

How much would a ticket cost? Would they be easy to obtain or complicated?
I mean, that might be true, but it might be the steady stream of new people who show up and stay for 5 years before leaving that make the city more valuable, and the people who hunker down just kind of gain the windfall. I'm sure you develop some deep, meaningful personal networks after living in the same place for half a century, but at the same time, outsiders probably aren't using that as a factor when deciding whether some place is a desirable place to live.
The community creates the value but the land owners capture the value. This is just exclusively to the degree these are the same groups of people, invested to the same degree. While the scenario you describe could conceivably play out, so too could the opposite scenario, where the value is created by people who did not get in on the ground floor of the land ownership scheme but is captured by the people who did. In that case it would be the land owners who are the bandits.

In a world of increasing inequality and specialization, the latter scenario is going to be increasingly common. For many people, it is already here: the absentee slumlord who charges a king's ransom and can't be bothered to keep the toilets flushing is a staple of high-value locations. This person clearly isn't creating the value that drives people to put up with these circumstances, but by virtue of owning the correct deed they get to capture the value even as they do their best to unravel it.
I spent a month studying AGI on a hobby level and the answer, from what I can tell, is that it isn't possible right now because we can't even model how human level intelligence works. There are also several ways to approach developing AGI and we don't even really have a good idea on which approach is best. I am not convinced current human level intelligence is enough to ever figure out this model, but I believe future genetically modified humans may have a much better chance.
I’m tired of people acting like this $99 entry fee is insurmountable. It should not even be a thought. Easily spend more than that on food every week, half of which probably gets thrown away anyway.
> The reason neighbourhoods get gentrified is because the residents made them attracitve. The reason neighbourhoods decay is because people don't invest themselves in them long enough, or because they don't invest in them at all because they want to get out.

Gentrification isn’t an art project. It’s people with more wealth or income-opportunity coming in and buying up cheap stuff at the prices they can afford. That a prettier coffee shop with gourmet pastries opens up, or that the restaurants have cutesy little parklets, is a second order effect.

In most cases, what makes the neighborhood “more attractive” and starts this in motion is either a growing industry within commute distance or that some other neighborhood got too pricey.

It has very little to do with the prior or new people in the neighborhood, except that the new people have access to more money than the old people and so price them out. Care for community or other forms of moral character have absolutely zero to do with it.
well, you could call the shazam api from CLI
I think covid has helped more than anything else (and there is still congestion)
I wouldn't be too surprised if they simply hire armies of reviewers that simply work through a checklist with limited room for interpretation/personal evaluation.

I a way, they could just publish their internal checklist to make this process better for everyone, but I suspect it might cause bad actors to find ways to comply with the rules and still deliver crap to the store; almost like the rules they currently use are security by obscurity (with the side-effect of rejecting apps for seemingly random reasons).
They’re great for bike packing and if you’re not trying to share a space with someone else/dog. Better than hammocks in my experience and obviously less weight than a tent.
I had an outdoor research alpine bivy that was really nice (goretex) but stolen out of my vehicle - didn’t want to buy another so just kind of tried to mimic that.

The bottom section is duck canvas and the top section just ripstop nylon. They’re basically just a baggy sleeping bag with no insulation and can close however - zipper, cinch string etc
CityNerd does an informative video on SF-LA highspeed rail vs aircraft[0]. Your variables may vary.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cvt8QA4SvY
Good for you. You’re special.
National geographic did a show about it with lidar and everything.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/atlas-of-cursed-...
I'm not sure how you read my previous comment and concluded my objection was to people having fun in a way I don't like. To be super reductive: I think it's better to not play D&D at all if the only way you can see to have fun with it is by lying to your friends in order to provoke a certain emotional response in them.

The relation this has to my top-level comment is that both anecdotally and through "actual play" media, I've noticed that DMs who don't care about the /systems/ of D&D made to enable player choice instead care about using the /vehicle/ of D&D to tell their own story, and that they're willing to steamroll the agency of the characters to do so. I believe /the essential promise/ of D&D is player choice--no one would agree to meet up if they knew you were just going to read your unfinished fantasy novel at them for three hours, they come because they believe they'll get to make choices and have those choices affect things. As such, I'm leery of DMs who (in my experience) are willing to shove mechanics that enable player choice to the side in order to tell the story they want to.

I don't think this is an unreasonable perspective, and I'm a little confused since it seems like you didn't engage with my previous comment at all?
You're missing the point.

The point isn't that we can or cannot extrapolate. The point is that it is worth investigating to see if the trend line holds up.
I might point out Shane Legg invented the term Artificial General Intelligence, and the title of his PhD thesis is "Machine Super Intelligence".

Of course there always, since the beginning, were/are many, many AI researchers who were bullish on AGI... if you think it's possible then you should try to build it. But often people avoid broadcasting such opinions. However, very very few AI researchers are AGI researchers, historically because it's hard to make a small contribution, and to get taken seriously and get funding: I was told at the AGI conference just ~6 years ago there were maybe less than 10 funded -- they weren't counting DeepMind. ALMOST NOBODY at the AGI conference had funding to work on AGI!
I agree. It's a cat and mouse game. At some point Reddit reviews will no longer be trustworthy. I have some techniques to weed out some reviews. For example I was considering a Synology ds220j for home use so I looked for negative reviews on /r/nas /r/synology and /r/homelab.
I really like Shazam for general music, but for electronic music stuff it often identifies the wrong track
There is less than zero political will to fix it, or even honestly address it.

BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes‘ (2017):

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-s...
I doubt Carmack is motivated that much by money. He has way more than he'll ever spend.
> a broken link and weird marketing language that's clearly not coming from Doctorow, it's like that Metal Gear 2 ending when the Colonel starts to speak in gibberish

This was the alt text for one of the images, which I accidentally pasted into the tweet. It's not "marketing language" - it's a blurb. I try to include alt text for all my images, but the thread composing tool I was using (chirr) had a glitch and I didn't see that in the preview.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Our rail systems need to be safe if we want to convince people to use them.
It's not good enough to just send something up and have at it as a customer. Any High school with enough money for an off the shelf kit can do that, snap a picture and write home for the bragging rights. But due to the constraints of energy, volume, distance and other factors you'll just end up with a quality result no better or worse than what you could get from a much cheaper weather balloon just with less logistics to worry about.

Until rockets get a lot cheaper, (come on Starship, deliver on your promise) to get a result that is commercially viable from such a timeshare option, you need to tailor your payload to deliver an outcome that can be actually desired. Everything is a trade off, and until the satellites get 5-10x cheaper to launch again, you're under very tight constraints and you truly have to trade off every other aspect (wavelength, sensor type, resolution, power level, communication budget, mass budget, geographic spread/location, orbital height) to get one good specific outcome in a 10x10x10cm form factor. Yes, you can fit mobile phone electronics in these things. But they are usually 200km+ away from what they need to measure. Until consumer off the shelf electronics can give you the sensor readings you need from an entire country distance away, the requirements is still going to need an act of true cutting edge engineering if your goal is to operate for-profit.

This is not impossible mind you, the industry will continue to mature. But it's a world of the future, not a world of the present.
> The 'can't put old widows out of their homes' scenario is why California's Prop 13 came to be

There’s a better way to handle this, though, than the Prop 13 approach of limiting taxes. You just allow a certain amount of property taxes to optionally go unpaid and accrue as a lien against the property that must be settled when the property changes hands. Old widows never get forced out of their houses, but they don’t get to leave them to their kids without paying the tax.
Same mentality that is downvoting the comment mentioning crime.. :(
Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts
It's crazy how we've rationalized the environmental clearance for a modern electric train dwarfs equivalent trips in lead based fueled jets.
I purchased some waterproof marine fabric today for other projects but that’d probably be good for a bivy/tents. It’s pretty cheap per yard (compared to goretex) and is more waterproof than any of the materials I mentioned above
https://hsr.ca.gov/programs/environmental-planning/project-s...

You cannot forego federal regulations by making a California specific bill in the California legislature.
I've actually had a tough time since 2016.
Haha, that’s excellent. Your coworkers will be happy I am sure. And I love a good debugging story myself.
From experience, Parsec is the best instance of remote desktop I've seen. Another one that is pretty solid is RDP for Windows (it feels as if it uses more information than raw pixels from the display, since it seems to render UI elements accurately).

For macOS, Apple's Screen Sharing is pretty good, using some video compression and diffs to render the frames rather than vanilla VNC.
Not everywhere. Also, one recurring expense doesn't necessarily mean people want another.
Any infrastructure project that touches land is going to be bogged down in a NIMBY quagmire in California. That includes your LA metro rail proposal. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-20/the-landm...

The stupidest part is that now we have politicians campaigning on not doing big infrastructure projects instead of fixing the things that make them fail.
Both Signal and WhatsApp are walled gardens and having watched overlords who control these apps I might consider Zuck & Co to be more flexible if I must pick one.

A lot of those people had actually installed Signal. I had convinced them. When things broke, features were missing I just couldn’t tell them what to do. Never again.

But in the process of trying to bring them to Signal, I actually understood why my friends and family (many of them are from remote villages; educated or barely educated) prefer WhatsApp — because they “can actually use” WhatsApp and connect to others unlike anything else!

You know how big that is? That trumps everything Sugnal has to offer and it doesn’t offer much to begin with. Element/Vector/Riot/or whatever they’ll name it next isn’t even in that league and it’s good it is not even trying to be an usable person to person individual chat app/service.

Though I wish they used Telegram (yeah yeah, E2E is opt-in). It’s just too superior an app! Too good. But they don’t. So WhatsApp it is.
The original article showing Marc Andreessen's comment dropped August 4th.

Since then, the only public statement he's made is this announcement on August 15th, investing in Flow:

https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/

"Our nation has a housing crisis.

The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses..."