skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those big cars are the kind of "perverse market incentive" I'm talking about.

Why do you need a big car to transport your children? Because:

- you can't walk anywhere useful with your kids (so you must get in a car)

- public transportation is inconvenient or expensive

- biking is dangerous

- the big car makes you feel safer because all of the other cars are big

Why are those things the way that they are? Because people chose to drive cars, live far from useful things in the suburbs, and that eroded the ability to bike or provide useful and affordable public transportation.

I grew up in a car-centric place. The "big SUV" as your only gateway to the outside world is effectively a prison. You can't do things on your own. You don't build a mental map of the world you live in. You don't get to do things outside unless it's in your yard or at some structured activity accessed by car. Why do you think the "teenagers hate the suburbs" trope is so common?

I know raising a kid is difficult, even though I have not raised one myself. I know that they require all kinds of stuff to take out into the world. But somehow in NYC people get around with a single stroller and a backpack with kids, frequently taking public transit.

> Taking them on public transport is a huge pain. Even if you don’t have kids, I’m sure you’ve been annoyed by a stroller on the subway.

Maybe at rush hour. But I largely just appreciate the fact that a parent is trying to raise their kid to walk places and live in the world, instead of isolating them in a car in a suburban hellscape. Again -- perverse incentives have made the world this way. It doesn't have to be this way.
I'm with you, but to play devil's advocate...

1. Heroku already has most of the features on Render's roadmap

2. It's clear Heroku (well, Salesforce) is going all-in on Enterprise, and Enterprise doesn't reward cool new features. They like stability (and jargon-y words).
Why do you think nobody has been able to fully emulate this experience?

It seems to me like there’d be a big market for an identical feature by feature Heroku “clone” with a more dedicated (from the outside looking in) team. No more features, no less, just exactly what Heroku did but without the intent to shut down. What’s preventing that from existing?
> In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication.

I see a counterfactual claim ("may outweigh") and therefore an opportunity for some causal identification, i.e. a scientific answer!

An RCT would be ideal, but we might also look to the literature on attitude change in general to see how new information impacts discourse and attitudes. Here's a few things off the top of my head:

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692739

* https://alexandercoppock.com/graham_coppock_2021.html

* https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-...

I think that in general, researchers find racial/prejudicial attitudes very resistant to change, either in an anti-prejudicial or "confirm my existing biases" direction...
it's like that simpsons episode. last one to the cabin gets fired.

I would hurry up and fill it out if i were you.
Yes, the article mostly assumes that the initial effects of AI generated fake content will be the same as the final effects. This is silly.

People will change what they do in response. Though at the very end, he does say "We should learn to be skeptical of content", that belongs near the beginning, before an analysis of what the effects of increased skepticism will be, rather than what the effects of blindly believing fake content will be (since that won't happen, after a short initial period).

Smaller communities are one possible response. But just more critical assessment of arguments and reported facts is another. For arguments, it doesn't really matter whether or not the argument was AI generated - if it's valid, it's valid, if it's not, it's not. For factual reports, critical assessment might be more difficult, though I think it will be a while before AI generated fake facts have the the right sorts of connections to common-sense reality to withstand critical examination.
We are doing more than keeping the lights on. Purpose of the public roadmap (which just launched, we'll need some time to really get it right, I'm sure) is to show what we are working on. Any comment on the work around github integration safety as an example?

Watching for feedback here, but it's nice to know when I'm getting reachouts on product feedback directly who is touching base. Linked-in is great for that. But also, if you want to provide feedback we launched the roadmap on github if that's your preference. Trying to cover both kinds of customers.
People thinking about and discussing issues is exactly how political change happens.

Or possibly we are all just being blown around by the best propagandists.
Exactly. What happens when some research may feel socially dirty but is actually a huge boon to some group? I can’t stand the privilege required to say you know better for some other group. Let groups of people stand up for themselves and call out BS when they see it. How can the hegemony possibly understand the feelings of minority groups?
Scientists turned dead spiders into robots
>Selfishly, I really want the USA to bring city centers back to livable levels by banning most cars and redesigning them for humans.

Sadly though this doesn't help the millions of people who also aren't within walking distance of said city centers. We'd need to rebuild our public transport as well which is also desperately needed.
Protestant readyness to suffer as a martyr for a imagined supressed cause, same is to be expected from iranian universities and israeli universities.

Subversive society streaks exist. Problems often can not be brute forced economically or within a given reference framework, so its interesting having people who "go around the problem" without gaming the system in total. So you want a punk mentality, but not a wallstreet trader to produce real value.
Ah thank you very much! :)
That's correct (I got the grades right but my summary was wrong).
Climate Change Affects Data Centers
Crumbs and pennies I need all of mine
Work on it every day even for just a few minutes
> trying to do his best to make "do the needful" sound like something a Bay Area dude would naturally say, but, it simply wasn't.

I grew up in the Midwest and hadn't encountered this phrase until I moved out to Seattle and started working in tech. Indian folks definitely use it the most, but I also hear it regularly from the American-born guys who did a stint at Microsoft in the Aughts. Given more time, it might end up being one of those West Coast-isms.
> too much noise and too much energy spent looking over your shoulder.

That's the bane of american cities. They're noisy, and sociopathy is tolerated by the authorities. Living abroad has shown me cities, significantly more dense than the US, that are neither noisy or unsafe. Walkable cities can be quiet, almost eerily so. America needs more urban environments like that.
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>This is like people taking roadtrip across the United States who are only willing to go 1/4 mile off the federal highway.

Urban Spoon was an amazing resource for us road warrior types. I found many fantastic places > 1/4 mile off the interstate. Nowadays, I ask employees at worksites for their opinions. If they recommend a box chain, I ask someone else.
I don't understand why the driver is code signed for so long time. AFAIK Genshin Impact receives updates at least once per month and it is always online game. So why don't they limit the drivers lifetime to e.g. 6 months?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms This isn’t a couple of bad takes. It’s coordinated harassment against already vulnerable people where the aim is to get them to kill themselves which they have successfully done on numerous occasions.

Cloudflare doesn’t need to protect them under some vaguely defined free speech argument.
I mean, you just can't have a walkability score for an entire large city. There's a lot of variation. You have to look at specific neighborhoods.

This is especially true in north America where cities all went through a huge conglomeration effort in the second half of the 20th century and absorbed their suburbs.
I keep expecting a droll announcement like this from GitHub, since the Microsoft acquisition. Hopefully, Heroku's cautionary tale will keep them in check.
Plus their thread-safety is limited to the pointer's control block not the actual object it's pointing to.

e: nvm reading hard brain mutex too slow
'Dangerous' and 'dangerous' heat stress to become more common by 2100: study
For us it was. There was a ten-year period when we had young kids and didn't do anything. Once that was over we caught up with tons of movies we hadn't seen, on Netflix.

Maybe they've never had newer releases, but for seeing nearly everything from 4-10 years ago at one point was very much possible.
I speak from a place of compassion. Let’s make it past the Great Filter, our descendants at least, and not wank ourselves to death.
As an American, I happily talk about all those things with my friends.

Come to think of it, that might be why I get along with Western Europeans so well.
Sounds like a nightmare!
Yeah, they really should! And the fact that they are not and never do implies that perhaps we should be looking into alternative solutions to the problem!
I live in Germany. I'm 26. I don't have a driver's license, and neither do many of my friends. It's never been necessary. Between transit and cycling, it's possible to reach everywhere, easily.

That's one of the issues with the US today.
You make a lot of good points.

You're right about demotivating/incentives...it's what in the end kept her from working. She wanted to work part time while raising the kid...we sat down and talked cost of another car, marginal tax rates, etc...and decided we'd lose a ton of money by going that route.

It really depends on your relationship. If I am controlling the money, giving allowances, then yeah that would be bad. I'm not, we both have credit cards we are free to use and is what we pay for everything with. For any large purchases, we discuss together before touching cash.

There are a lot of different dynamics between people and how they set up finances. Doing allowances for both parties is fine, if that's what you prefer. But realize it's just that - personal allowances. In the end, you both own half the total pot, no matter how you pretend to divy it up.
More accurately, no wild Orca's have killed humans. 4 people have died from captive Orca's.

Seems fitting.
I'm curious - I already know I disagree with you, but why don't you like Howl's? I always hear it highly regarded online, and I'd be interested in knowing why you don't like it.
Most car-centric suburban sprawls encourage social isolation.

Dense urban areas - it really depends. YMMV indeed.
How is the comparison to GDP relevant? GDP is the amount of good and services a country produced in a year expressed in some currency. An endowment is an amount of money? Totally different things I would say? But I have seen this type of phrasing a lot in the media. I don’t understand the connection.
Even smaller towns are viable, too. My New England town has around 5,000 people in it. Aside from the early closing times for restaurants and breweries, (8 or 9!?!?!?!), I have access to exactly the same amenities I had in cities before. And lots more outdoor-oriented things as well. Plus... no traffic.
nobody makes perfect lenses as part of the initial manufacturing method. Lenses are always smoothed/polished. In the 3d printer case (hobbyist) you would 3d print a solid object oversized, then sand/polish it down.

The automated microscopes I build are mostly 3d printed parts. The precision doesn't matter much- I always have to add additional hardware to adjust the precise positioning (typically screws going through 3d printed threads).

But you are right there are definitely other methods which work faster and cheaper and ten thou is a typical target for a good machinist.
Do not tell your bosses what they want to hear unless it is true or unless you desperately need the job until you find a new one. If you lie and tell them things are great when they aren’t, things will continue to suck. You are enabling poor work environments. But absolutely be humble and diplomatic with your criticism. You also don’t want to hurt their ego because that won’t go well either.
No, science must pursue the truth, no matter where it leads. There is no such thing as a hate fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_attack
Is there an epub format available for download? That would be strongly preferable especially since there doesn't seem to be a way to buy a physical copy.
What percentage of people who are too old and disabled to drive a car are fit to ride a bike instead?
The base level of the tower contains "we should strongly consider how much effort we devote to this". Isn't this the pillar that leads to all the crazy "Kill predatory animals" (I know this particular example is not a widely held position, it's just the one from the article) stuff? I think everyone is on board for the "altruism" part, it's the "effective" part that doesn't seem to be panning out so well. For whatever reason, it seems like a significant portion of people who devote a lot of time to trying to be effective end up being less effective than if they just gave their money to the Red Cross or other big-name charities.
It will within 10 years.
Lets overfish the oceans so they have nothing to eat and lets pollute the oceans so they suffocate to death. That will teach 'em
Part of why L4 took man years to prove is that the proof contains all sorts of stuff like the formal model of ARM machine code. Ideally we'd get to a point where those models can be shared across projects, just like for running software we don't start each project by writing a compiler. There's still work to get there for sure, but just wanted to add context as someone who wants to see more formally proven software.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
IHaskell: A Haskell kernel for the Jupyter project
It kind of depends how in depth you want to go.

I wrote a small but somewhat complete search engine some time ago.

The steps are basically:

Have a queue with urls.

Download a page from the queue

Use a html parser to remove markup and get the links of the page.
Add the links to a queue without the already visited ones.

Use a stemmer to clean up the text (porter stemmer or whatever).

Calculate an inverted index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index

Save the stuff in an appropriate data structure (Hash or Tree).

Write a query engine for AND, OR and (all the words).

Calculate a simple page rank by counting the links to a page.

For just learning purposes it is not that hard but if you want to get all the crazy corner cases of the "real" web you will go insane.

The easy alternative:

Use a lib to crawl a page.

Plonk all the documents text into postgres with full text search or elastic search.
American civilians are being murdered by the police all the time - with complete impunity.

This will continue until (1) the courts eliminate Qualified Immunity and (2) police unions have to carry liability insurance for all its members.

It is easy to get outraged at the military, but the police is way more harmful here.
Air pollution: Caused by what? Probably cars.

Noise pollution: Caused by what? Probably cars. (Sure, some sirens here and there, but rural and suburban living doesn't make you immune to the sounds of train crossings, highways, jake brakes, motorcycles, etc).

Annoying neighbors, smell/hearing through walls:

1. Easily mitigated through smart building design and practices, enforced by building code.

2. You can have completely detached single family homes and still build walkable transit-oriented suburbs just by sticking to some simple development practices:

- Banning subdevelopments that disconnect form the city street grid, requiring residential neighborhoods to fit into a holistic city plan rather than farm parcels being sold where the city greenlights residential development projects without an ounce of thought to how it integrates with the town/city.

- Prohibiting neighborhood designs that increase walking distance, like winding roads and cul-de-sacs.

- Building traffic-separated, safe, pleasant cycling and walking infrastructure that offer a workable alternative to driving

- Building roads with traffic calming measures in mind. For example, unnecessarily wide suburban neighborhood streets encourage speeding.

- Properly funding transit service and removing social stigma against transit usage ("I won't take the bus that's for poor people" - we literally need government ad campaigns to help change minds on the issue just like those used to promote seatbelts.

- Prohibiting parking lots against streets, like in big box store developments. Parking should be required to exist in the back of the lot wherever possible.

- Removing mandatory parking minimums. Believe it or not, real estate developers don't naturally want to build parking lots that can't make a return on investment. They're often required to by the city to make them in order to...you guessed it...help ease traffic!

- Prohibiting excessive dead space/green space/setbacks in developments.

Overall, I don't agree that there are downsides to walkable areas that have to exist.
Luckily, this post is hosted on NYT open, not on NYT itself.
Could you be specific about how the urban population is subsidizing the rural? Also, where does most of your food come from?

What do you mean in regards to CO2? I'd suggest that many people living a rural lifestyle completely offset their CO2 footprint due to carbon sequestration. I know I have enough trees and vegetation on my acreage to completely offset my carbon emissions. But, of course, to counter your argument I really only need to offset the extra emissions that come with driving an extra n miles into the city.
I find the 10% amount interesting because it seems to be a simple tithing, coming directly from the Bible. Im not suggesting that there is anything wrong with it, you have to start somewhere. However compared to the amount of discussion I hear about comparing the efficacy of giving strategies, there seems to be little discussion on the 10%.

I wonder if this is because of Moral Relativism, i.e. a moral code that requires 90% is just as valid as a moral code that requires 10%.
Enrico Fermi comes to mind:
“Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

I guess he wasn’t talking about the magazine…
If by short term you mean about 40 years for natural gas and a few decades for everything else, I guess we can agree that it was short-term positive. Although that would make the idea of long-term superfluous :-)

Put another way, if it weren't for USA's hard stance, many large EU economies would have few misgivings about continuing to do business with Russia. And even hardliners like Poland AFAIK are still buying Russian gas through Germany, as do several others including Ukraine.

The reason they're doing that is because they need it, it's there and it's good for keeping their economies and societies in functioning order.

Was there corruption? You bet, former USSR states were and are drowning in it and the West was certainly not spared either. Doesn't change the fact that they need resources though and there's not a lot of alternative suppliers.
I had this experience the other day. I was searching for a #define constant I knew was in the Linux kernel source at least once (I was staring at it from my local clone), but none of the search engines returned anything. It's infuriating.
Yeah, tourist-centric destinations can do things like this. We do it where I live too, in the summer. Closing down a few streets is a world away from banning cars from downtown. How many people can actually live in an area like that?
Count me out! I, for one, will pursue my paperclip maximization without regard to any such trivialities.
This is so general that its either very obvious or nonsense. They should include examples of what they consider "harmful science".
We are not "sort of winding it down".
I've been writing notes on Heroku alternatives (mostly Fly, Railway, Render) at https://croaky-webstack.deno.dev/ Maybe something useful in there for others.
Maybe you mean in the wild? A high-profile death-by-Orca occurred at Seaworld [1] but I think this was more of an intentional revenge rather than accidental playfulness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Brancheau
I've found https://dokku.com to be a great (self-hosted) alternative to heroku. For hobby and small company size a cheap root server will do great. I've been running one at Hetzner for ~5EUR/month for more than a year now and had a very smooth experience.
Parent wrote:

> it's simply not economically viable

You replied:

> t’s just that these small groceries cannot outcompete supermarkets

So you are confirming what he said.
> In the not so distant past, even rural places had (limited) access to public transportation

Actually, rural America has fantastic public transportation - if you're attending public school. Everyone else is SOL.
The astrophysical sciences make me feel vulnerable, insignificant, insecure, and irrelevant relative to the vast expanse of the universe.

I demand an end to this harm.
I've had a lot of fun with my printer. Some days it runs almost 24/7 and then I don't use it for a while. Recently, I wanted to make a sliding barn door. Spent some time looking at the products online, then designed the same thing in Fusion 360, and after a few test prints, I had all the parts to make the door.

Similarly, all my shelf brackets are 3d printed now. THe thing that holds up my custom LED light is 3d printed. Some of the art I have around the house is printed...
Any idea what the “c” parameter is? Tried Googling “parameters stable diffusion” and unable to find anything that is obviously the same.
Well, it's worth asking, how long something like this could remain free. Even that six or seven seconds costs somebody something.
> I understand this grows our economy, in principle, but mostly seeing negative consequences on the lives of my mostly non-tech friends and family is hard to ignore...

Perhaps the positive consequences are just harder to see? If these people grow the economy, then everyone benefits to a degree.
I loved the talk:

https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-273-openran-5g-hacking-just-g...

Inspirational.
I think my "too-spicy-to-publish" comment would be the problem I personally see with it is that it can seem to quickly go from effective altruism -> efficient altruism.

Or rather, in my case — "more effective" -> "most effective" — and that search for how to perfectly save the world has been driving me insane a bit.

So how to keep it at the "more effective" level?
The paper is not open access but there are related papers here [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355095702_Experimen...
You'd think a company the size of Salesforce would have the long-range vision to use a tiny fraction of their resources to capture developer "goodwill" from projects just like this. But apparently you'd be wrong.
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