skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that they were build for cars, it's that they were built for consumption. The car is just one of the key things the paradigm requires.

Got a yard? Now you have to mow it. Add shrubs? Gotta trim those.

Got more living space? Now you have to fill it with more stuff.

Wanna buy a lawn mower and stuff, then get a car.

It's why we're no longer citizens. We're merely consumers, and apparently more than happy to live up to the insulting title.

Neighbors could and would connect, if they weren't so busy running like a rat in the endless wheel of consumption.
"In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication."

I'm sure our demigods will gladly enlighten us with their wisdom to distinguish between misthoughts and correct thoughts.

So that when journalists claim to be following the science there will be no dissenting voice in research to disagree.

Those who defend opposing ideas will have no leg to stand on and will rightfully be labeled science deniers
there's no mention of sex here, the main charge is giving the drugs to students which they had agreed not to do

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1973/1/24/the-crimson-tak...
Oh, the harassment laws are perfectly up to date. The problem is that we then have to rely on...

1. that being the case literally everywhere; otherwise, it's just a matter of moving the harassment sources to a friendly jurisdiction

2. the police to enforce them, although the police are known to often be complicit in similar conduct (harassment of minorities)

3. this enforcement to actually cause positive changes in people's behavior, which, given the current state of the US "criminal justice" system, won't happen

The legal system is ill-equipped to handle this not because of a lack of laws, but because the legal system is full of humans who often don't treat the safety of vulnerable people as a priority.
This is all very depressing. Even without explicitly malicious intent, the AI generated stuff is the equivalent of content gruel. The ability to produce it en-masse and effectively flood distribution channels does not bode well for the future of human culture. Indeed, what is "human culture" if 90% of what one sees is generated by machines trying to attract attention to ads? And of course the potential uses of this technology for propaganda are terrifying.

Finally, the fact that most users on HN could not distinguish AI generated blog posts from the real thing means that the average "not terminally online" human has no hope of doing so.
Well, I respect them for formally stating as policy what was presumably being done informally for a long time.

It gives their audience something specific to disagree with, rather than a vague feeling that some kinds of research were being buried.
Just so you know, surveys are rarely truly anonymous at companies. Feedback may be anonymized, so, for instance, a manager can receive more honest feedback from their direct reports. But if you include a racist tirade in your feedback, it's very likely HR will be able to track you down.
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Politicians and populists pushed out false information, and then squashed anyone that tried to argue against the state as "radical", "harmful" and "against progress and science" at the point of a gun, refused to let people ask questions or have dissenting views which led them to the next step of being allowed to exterminate undesirables because no one was allowed to argue because "The Science was settled"

We could of course also talk about how the centralized control of the science of genetics in the Soviet Union led to mass famines that killed millions and anyone who disagreed was put to death.

It seems to me the problem isn't and never has been science, it is when a single institution, society, or government gets to dictate what "truth" is and "the science is settled" at the point of a gun, not that science gives us answers we don't like.
KF is not right wing, it's just a troll farm. It's more or less apolitical - they make fun of crazy terminally online people, some of which are trans.
> starting an idiotic xenophobic/racist campaign in Europe

Today, Asians are fighting for equality in US educational system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

This is most likely going to lead to striking down Affirmative Action. I suggest leaving emotions out of this and read the actual case materials. There is a lot of intellectual discourse, nuance and vigorious debate in those materials as well as amicus briefs. I love reading high profile lawsuits and this is one of them.
Blasphemy is a crime in many countries. Let's burn all of the books and block all of the websites that are guilty of it (without going through courts because that is too slow) so that the people, who we do not trust to make judgements for themselves, are not exposed to it!
The proposed medication is worse than the disease. Fight fascism/racism/whatever with state supported lies (of omission). What could go wrong?
I'm not sure how to provide a non-tracking link to Amazon's help page, and I'm not saying they're the authority, but they put a lot of work into "Help Topics" "Amazon Community" "Customer Reviews" and they have a roughly one page essay/checklist defining a fake review.

To massively paraphrase and summarize, a fake review is one created for the author's personal gain, or its a review where the author falsified their assumed to be distant relationship to the seller.

Its well written, although in practice it's unenforced and as a shopper, Amazon reviews are almost useless.
3 of them killed by the same orca.

My ex was friends with one of them. They were biology students together at the University of Victoria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Keltie_Byrne
>they're not happening in cities.

Neither is people willingly moving there. Dense urban living might appeal to young people but once you build a family and priorities change to peace & quiet, safety, good schools, and stable property values, dense urban living loses most of its appeal.
The default for a laptop and even for a desktop monitor today is still 1920x1080.
Yes the rage has been extended to way higher resolutions than 10 or 15 years ago but only the higher-end devices actually use them.
If you go in an office building FHD screens are the norm maybe 2 of them. The average user who doesn't care about specs of his laptop and doesn't have a ifruit product as status symbol (or because hes trapped in the fruit ecosystem) will have a 1920x1080 screen laptop.
It entirely unsurprising that an author cannot be found attached to this excrement
I think the key question here is: are you using GS1 identifiers? If not, I don't think it'd make much sense to throw a non-GS1 identifier in there and expect anyone else to be able to use it. Or is this just internal?
It's interesting, I had the opposite experience. When I lived in SF in my 20's, I knew all of my neighbors: some I'd party with, some I'd walk my dogs with, and later, when I was older, we had a nanny share with the family who lived next door. I knew the brothers that ran the corner store and I knew the family that ran the coffee shop next door.

When I lived in smaller town, I didn't know any of my neighbors. People walked from their side door to their cars and would only say hello if they happened to make eye contact. My wife and I prioritized walkabilty and bikability when we chose our house, but even then it was a struggle.

There are exceptions, but now that I'm back in a city I once again know all of my neighbors. I regularly have lunch with another dev who works from home down the street, and we hang out with the family across the street a few times a week. Our neighborhood isn't the "NYC in the 70's" image of an urban area that some people from small towns think of when they think of big cities, it's cute tree lined block with 2k sqft houses.
First, the internet has grown a lot, so the time&cost&hardware for retreiving and indexing it has grown.

Second, the quantity of intentionally fake noise has grown even faster - the spam problem that you have to solve is much harder than 30 years ago, any naive approach will simply fail to notice the needle in the haystack.
you'd probably benefit from reading and thinking about this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

sadly, what is called a fact is a malleable thing in the hands of the ill-intentioned, and all too many bigots are more than happy to pass off pseudo-science as the real deal. "science" isn't some abstract thing, it's composed of people and their actions, and as i think every adult will recognize, people can be turbo-shitty. like every other human endeavor, it deserves a close eye and critical thought. (i say this as a big fan of science in general and a degree-holder in the physical sciences.)
Yes, that was the point of my comment. Seeing that it even got flagged I can sense people here are treading on thin ice for some reason
I worked in an Indian call center decades ago. Being yelled racial abuses was normal and expected part of the job. I got used to it pretty fast.
Hmm. "Tune In. Turn on. Drop out." - Timothy Leary's most famous quote.
> Why does the feedback link on the blog post go to a personal LinkedIn page?

That's how you know they really don't want to hear from you.
I have the same issue, looking forward to some responses.
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TL;DR In the US, primary education is a local matter

An interesting note here is that in the US, federal government dollars are not a major funding component of primary education (k-12). Less than 8% (around $60 billion) of the total cost comes from the federal government; the rest comes from state and local property taxes.

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/how-is-k-12-education-fun...
I have tap water, locomotive engines, industrial factories, electricity, computers, agricultural technology, an abundance of food in supermarkets, pain and drug medication available for ailments and the freedom to earn a living. The capability of buying a litre of oil which has enough energy to do the labour work of 100 people in one day.

The countries that lack these things need some fundamental thing to be sustainable and grow in excess of their inputs. It takes resources to grow resources.

The poverty strucken parts of the world don't have sustainable infrastructure or the capability of building it.

The problem is obvious but nobody wants to talk about it.

If I had responsibility to do something good, it needs to be on my own terms and I decided how it were to be used then maybe I would want to help. But if it is going to be lost to corruption, abuse, drugs then that's not the intended purpose of the investment.

Takes resources to get resources.

Also takes good management. If I'm investing resources, I don't want my resources being pilfered away.
They should also be able to walk. If they can't walk, I suspect assisted living is the only option.

Imagine you were diagnosed with epilepsy today, and it was so severe you lost your license to protect others. You can still walk around, take public transit -- probably even ride a bicycle. Where would you live in the USA today?
Cities in the US with strong public transit have only ended up building moving toilets for the homeless. There are a number of bigger issues that come first before billions more in public funding goes into larger wheeled toilets.
There was plenty of racism before the scientific method, there will be plenty after we ban using it to study anything related to race.

And this guidance won't prevent people from thinking and spreading racist ideas, it'll just keep people from studying anything related race.
Avoid personal accusations of incompetence ("Dave in Marketing is a waste of a coveted cubicle seat!") and give your honest opinions backed up where possible with data ("The attached measures indicate our marketing effectiveness ranks in the bottom quartile per dollar spend compared to similarly sized companies in similar markets"). Reality will exist somewhere between those extremes since you likely don't have extensive data and likely know quite well of personal incompetence.

Treat this as an exercise in clear thinking and expression.
The irony here is that you’d never be considered for an engineering position at any of his companies without an engineering degree AND a good GPA.
Socialism or communism are the alternatives? Or do you imagine a different political system? Which do you strive for? And what are the steps from that to the new state performing the actions that an archipelago of effective charities are already taking?

Genuine set of questions, that is an interesting take!
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I'm the current owner of one, had it since 2013 from New, I absolutely love it. It's a blast to drive when you want to, it gets 30 mpg when you want to, is reliable, and low cost to insure and repair. I wouldn't trade all those plus' for more speed. I'm still refining my driving, learning to drive better. Like they say, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.
I dont think you can call HN users dumb, certainly not Technologically dumb, and it worked on them too, an auto generated posts got to the front page.
Boston has recently closed down major roads for pedestrians to great success. Most businesses ended up selling out entire inventories on those days during the weekend because their walk in traffic literally increased exponentially.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/10/metro/jamaica-plains-...

There's been a growing movement to permanently close down certain roads around Back Bay to encourage this behavior as well because restaurants and local shops love the increase in customers.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/open-newbury-street-returns-aug...
You mean TSMC.

Well, they would be seriously hurt. However, does that matter when almost every tech company (including Qualcomm, MediaTek, AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, Nvidia, Intel, so forth) would also be harmed?

TSMC going down is basically the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) of tech companies. Kind of a single point of failure. Intel would probably weather it best but would still be hurt because they need TSMC for some products. Plus, well, in the event of TSMC's destruction (most likely by a Chinese invasion), Intel might raise prices considerably or even stop sale to consumers especially as their chips would now have major strategic value for government operations. NVIDIA might also survive by reviving older products which can be manufactured by Samsung in Korea, but same situation about the strategic value there, and getting chips from Korea to US might be difficult in such a conflict.
It not so much the prefer thing it’s the fact that it’s backed up by thin rationalizations.
Certain lanes of inquiry that Nazi scientists engaged in were engaged in by many non-Nazi scientists. For example, craniometrics, despite it being now pretty conclusively shown to make no difference, was pursued as a science in both Germany and everywhere else. Just because its claims were untrue does not mean that those who honestly pursued it were not scientists. I mean, the hypothesis that head size affects brain size and thus intelligence makes intuitive sense. Those scientists who pursued such lines of inquiry and did so honestly and truthfully, and arrived at the proper conclusions based on the data (which many did), faithfully engaged in 'science'.

Of course, manipulating data for political ends is wrong, and using any evidence you collect to advocate for the slaughter or imprisonment of innocent people is also wrong, but these are philosophical, ethical, moral, and religious questions, not scientific ones.

There is a place for ethics in science... namely in the means in which one applies the scientific method (especially when experiments concern humans or animals). However, the data generated by the scientific method, if examined without bias, even if they're unpleasant, do not cause harm. The question of what to do with any unsavory facts is a question for ethics, philosophy, and religion.

Facts don't kill people. People do.
David Shor was ostracized for presenting this research:

https://www.vox.com/2020/7/29/21340308/david-shor-omar-wasow...

> Shor, citing research by Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow, suggested that these incidents could prompt a political backlash that would help President Donald Trump’s bid for reelection. At the same time, he noted that, historically, nonviolent protests had been effective at driving political change “mainly by encouraging warm elite discourse and media coverage.”
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Typical oracle product.
If you read carefully I'm actually not proposing any specific course and I think the reality will be nuanced and highly context-specific.

What I am opposing is the idea that researchers should be completely disinterested in, even ignore, what other elements are interested in their work and how they might use it.

The consensus in this comment section is that that sort of ignorance is itself an ideal, and I think that's very wrong and has lead to obvious harms in the past. Research on any domain of human activity is a political act and produces a political product, the researchers need to be aware of that and actively participate in that part of the process as well. Wishing or pretending it were otherwise is dangerous.
I've seen that stores against the road thing in a Food Truck cooking competition TV show. Did a good job of tricking some contestants for a bit until they realized the scale of the area was still large parking lot sized and the street was just the no consumer doors (or very infrequently used 'side' doors) face of strip malls with parking lots.

Density can't be faked by flipping the lot into the middle of the block. It can be made real at a city level by design and engineered accommodation interfaces. Public owned mega parking venues at the edges that interface between the city core and external regions. A utility layer and isolated areas for vehicles to deliver or traverse the city.
It seems your viewpoint is strongly aligned with the conservative Supreme Court justices so it make sense you’re disappointed with actions of top Californian officials.

In the first case you cite, Americans For Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, all 3 of the more center justices dissented. It was the conservative wing that wrote the judgement.

I’m having a bit of trouble finding the exact details of the second case cited, googling it for some reason was getting a lot of references to the first case. No matter, the other two instances of “abuse” cited are only abuse from the perspective of right wing viewpoints that are more Texas than California: guns and a case where all liberal justices dissented.

It’s natural that one would be dissatisfied with Californian officials if one’s opinions are out of step with the Californian electorate.
Censoring yourself on what some other person may do with your words is folly.
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In contrast to Manhattan, Tokyo apartments are cheap, or, at least, their price has remained flat when adjusted for inflation over decades. That's because of government policy that encourages housing supply. Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho...

If New York could similarly encourage speedier housing construction and replacement, as well as effectively building a similarly expansive and reliable transit network, they could achieve the exact same results as Tokyo. (Note: Even though Japan has had periods of economic stagnation and low birth rates, Tokyo itself has consistently grown in population with few exceptions as Japan has become more urbanized.)

If the suburbs are so great for housing supply, why do suburban Boston/San Jose/Austin/Denver homes cost so much? Why are Chicago's most prestigious zip codes more affordable than living an hour outside of San Francisco?

The truth is that the places with high housing prices don't have high prices based on whether they're suburban, rural, or urban, they have high prices when demand exceeds supply. It's that simple.
The fact that a tool can be used immorally does not make all uses of the tool immoral.
Sure, I’ll also go ahead and find the oldest possible version of Firefox compatible with my operating system, open several hundred tabs, and probably just unplug my router too while I’m at it
You might have missed the last line of my comment :)

> Of course this isn't always true. There are definitely some US call centers that are awful and some stellar offshore ones, but as a general rule of thumb this seems to be true.
This seems uncharacteristically ad-hominemy of Scott, given all of his other work. He's usually pretty good about separating out the discussion of a topic from the personal virtues of who is doing the discussing. I would even say that is a core tenet of his entire project as a writer and a rationalist.

Discussion and criticism of effective altruism, and of any other social movement, is and should be possible separate from the question of whether the people participating in that discussion and criticism are personally doing anything about what they're discussing.

Got a problem with US drug policy? Well, what are you doing to heal addicts and stop international crime rings from funding their activities with the drug trade? Got a problem with mass surveillance from intelligence agencies? What are you doing to keep foreign adversaries from infiltrating and sabotaging public information systems? Got a problem with policing strategies? What are you doing to fight crime?

In case it isn't clear, I think all of these are bad responses. EA, for better or worse, has made itself more or less a public-facing movement. Publicity exposes you to opinions of people who are not personally involved in whatever you're doing. Lots of people critique the athletes, coaches, and management of their favorite sports without ever having any hope or possibility of getting involved themselves. Very few people who vote are ever going to run for office. That's fine. And if people with opinions on EA are not themselves particularly altruistic in a way that involves giving money directly to charitable causes, so what? Maybe that makes them less personally virtuous according to your system of ethics, but it doesn't make what they're saying either more or less correct. Those are independent axes of evaluation.
Tell him: I like how surveys are done in a format that discourages upsetting, time-consuming churn in company policies. Stay the course!
Well shit. After the Heroku Dashboard issues I moved my OSS project demo instances and PR reviews process to Fly.io, then Render.com, then Railway, then back to Heroku because it was the only one that had a truly free and well integrated process.

Sigh.
> a mix of high density houses and low to medium density apartments

Neither of which sounds very nice to me. I don't have a huge yard, but I do have enough yard to raise a few trees and firepit. If I lost that, I might as well be in an apartment.

And that still wouldn't provide enough density to support a variety of restaurants and grocery stores (not to mention things like employment for non-techies).
Wouldn't the exhaust gasses likely be highly fluorinated (and therefore dangerous to either man or the planet)?